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SAN   FRANCISCO,  JANUARY  2.   1904. 


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Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  is  to  write  a  play.     Xo  need 
of  that — Ella  is  a  whole  show  in  herself. 


A  scientist  from  Yale  is  living  at  the  Waldorf  in 
New  York  on  $1  a  day.     Great  is  science! 

Boston  practically  refuses  to  stand  for  a  poultry 
exhibition  in  Faneuil  Hall.  How  about  an  eagle 
show  ? 


A  New  York  infant  is  addicted  to  r.aps  that  last 
twenty-four  hours.  Who  wouldn't  have  a  baby  like 
that?  ' 


The  race  at  Ingleside  is  not  to  the  strong,  but  to 
the  one  who  has  a  proper  understanding  with  man- 
agers and  bookmakers. 

Our  "Happy  New  Year  message"  to  our  sister  Re- 
public, the  United  States  of  Colombia,  will  be  writ- 
ten on  a  thirteen-inch  shell. 


Two  million  dollars  went  to  Europe  this  year  on 
the  "Christmas  steamers."  Santa  Claus  will  soon  be 
trading  his  sleigh  for  an  airship. 

Chicago  has  reached  such  a  point  of  civic  right- 
eousness that  she  has  decided  to  name  no  more  of 
her  public  schools  after  saloon-keepers. 

Snakes  killed  22,810  people  in  India  during  1901. 
How  fortunate  that  the  serpents  most  familiar  to 
the  Caucasian  do  not  bite,  but  merely  terrify. 

Believing  that  it  is  better  to  "boost"  than  to 
"knock,"  Congress  is  getting  ready  to  pry  Livernash 
out  of  the  seat  that  does  not  belong  to  him. 

Parkhurst,  New  York's  purifier,  rises  in  his  pulpit 
to  thunder  that  "Parsifal"  is  blasphemy.  And  godless 
Gotham  goes  right  on  paying  $10  a  seat  for  the  show. 

Though  Chicago  has  raised  $600,000  for  the  perma- 
nent housing  of  its  orchestra,  the  wits  and  wags  of 
X'ew  York  keep  on  poking  fun  at  lakeside  table  man- 
ners. 


That  long-range  prophet  and  philanthropist,  W. 
R.  Hearst,  shrieks  in  anguish  over  a  massacre  of 
Jews  which  he  predicts  for  a  Russian  village  on 
January  7th.  Take  another  peep  behind  the  veil, 
William,  and  see  what  the  Democratic  Conve. 
is  going  to  do  with  you  in  the  early  sumine 


The  artist  who  tried   to  blackmail    Rockefeller  out 

of  $50,000  should  have  reflected  that  he  was  dealing 
with  the  world's  greatest  artist  in  acquiring  and 
hanging  onto  wealth. 

A  Chicago  man,  having  quarreled  with  his  wife 
the  Other  daj  ,  over  the  supplement  of  a  Sunday  news- 
paper, killed  her  and  himself.  This  is  yellow  jour- 
nalism  turned   crimson. 


What  author  would  not  envy  M.  l'A'bbe  Loisy  his 
chance  of  being  listed  in  the  Index  Expurgatorius? 
He  is  sure  of  at  least  a  paragraph  in  future  editions 
of  "Who's  Who?" 


A  despatch  says  that  a  Kentucky  mob  gathered  in 
Jackson  and  fired  hundreds  of  shots  into  the  ground. 
Don't  believe  it :  Kentuckians  don't  waste  amunition 
in  that  way. 

In  this  season  of  "Peace  on  earth,  good  will  toward 
men"  even  the  gentlemen  engaged  in  the  shipbuild- 
ing combine  have  left  off  trying  each  to  prove  the 
other  a  swindler. 


Two  Oregoniaris  tell  of  an  aerolite  that  missed 
them  so  narrowly  as  to  scorch  the  hair  on  their 
heads.  There's  nothing  the  matter  with  the  lying 
industry  in  Oregon. 

Too  bad  that  W.  J.  Bryan  did  not  meet  Emperor 
William.  There  would  have  been  a  "talkfest"  that 
would  make  a  phonograph  parlor  sound  like  a  deaf 
and  dumb  asylum. 

The  Ohio  young  man  who  fell  heir  to  $80,000  and 
carpeted  his  rooms  with  bills  of  large  denomination, 
so  that  he  might  walk  on  money,  will  soon  be  sub- 
sisting upon  the  memory  of  it. 

Ohio  C.  Barber,  president  of  the  Diamond  Match 
Company,  was  among  the  rich  and  prominent  citizens 
who  sawed  wood  in  Akron  for  the  Salvation  Army's 
benefit.  He  is  handier  with  the  coupon  scissors  than 
the  bucksaw. 

Joe  Richardson,  of  Colfax,  Washington,  wagered 
that  he  could  drink  twenty  glasses  of  beer  in  suc- 
cession. He  died  at  the  seventeenth,  thus  avoiding 
payment  of  the  bet  he  had  made.  Some  people  have 
more  luck  than  sense. 

It  is  telegraphed  far  and  wide  and  a  South  Dakota 
man  has  been  set  free  after  serving  a  fifteen-year 
term  in  .State's  prison  for  robbing  a  mail  carrier  of 
a  two-cent  stamp.  An  inconsequential  detail  is  that 
he  killed  the  postman. 

An  Indiana  preacher  is  so  wrought  up  over  the 
indelicacies  of  the  waltz  that  in  grim  sarcasm  he 
suggests  as  a  substitute  sofa  hugging  to  appropriate 
,ic.  He  ought  not  to  be  unpopular  with  the  gouty 
members  of  his  flock. 


.STATE.. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


THE  KISHINEF  BUBBLE. 

It  may  be  that  the  Christians  of  Kishinef  are  mak- 
ing ready  to  celebrate  their  Christmas  on  January 
7th  by  another  wholesale  butchery  of  Jews.  This  is 
the  season  when  the  Hebrew-hating  sons  of  Adam- 
zad  spur  their  souls  to  high  endeavor  with  the  sharp- 
toothed  vodki,  which  a  thoughtful  Government 
manufactures  and  sells  to  them.  The  baiting  of 
Jews  at  this  time  of  year  is  a  seasonal  manifestation, 
to  be  looked  for  in  kussia  as  certainly  as  one  looks 
for  cold  weather  in  January.  Thus  far,  however,  the 
actual  indications  of  a  bloody  Thursday  at  Kishinef 
have  been  visible  only  to  the  jaundiced  eye  of  Wil- 
liam R.  Hearst,  who  is  afflicted  with  visions,  waking 
and  sleeping.  Moved  by  Mr.  Hearst's  interpretation 
of  his  own  bad  dreams  and  by  some  knowledge  of 
Russian  predilections  for  Christmastide  atrocities, 
this  Government  has  made  inquiry,  and  has  found, 
as  was  expected,  that  there  has  as  yet  been  no  trou- 
ble at  Kishinef.  The  information  gathered  by  the 
State  Department  so  far  convinced  the  Jewish  lead- 
ers in  this  country  that  they  decided  at  once  not  to 
trouble  the  Government  at  Washington  nor  that  at 
St.  Petersburg  with  petitions  until  they  had  reliable 
news  that  atrocities  were  in  contemplation. 

And  yet  Mr.  Hearst  keeps  on  affrighting  all  who 
will  give  him  ear  with  tales  of  butchery  already  be- 
gun. He  keeps  on  urging  President  Roosevelt  to 
ride  rough-shod  over  the  courtesies  prescribed  in  the 
dealings  of  nation  with  nation,  and  to  make  it  a  per- 
sonal matter  with  the  Czar.  He  keeps  on  telling  how 
the  Jews  of  all  Christendom  are  begging  himself  and 
President  Roosevelt  to  take  the  Muscovite  bear  by 
the  throat  and  pull  his  teeth.  All  the  time  he  keeps 
on  printing  letters  and  resolutions  of  thanks  to  him- 
self for  what  he  has  not  done  and.  cannot  do,  but 
wants  the  Government  to  do  for  him. 

Mr.  Hearst  would  be  amusing  if  he  were  not  so 
malicious  and  so  fatuously  persistent.  He  has  in- 
sulted and  abused  Roosevelt  as  man  and  as  President, 
missing  no  chance  to  revile  him.  If  there  should  be  a 
massacre  of  Jews  at  Kishinef  during  Roosevelt's 
term  of  office,  Mr.  Hearst  will  say  that  the  blood  of 
the  slaughtered  is  on  the  President's  hands ;  if  there 
should  be  no  massacre,  Mr.  Hearst  will  garland  his 
own  brow  with  new  laurels  and  say  "I  prevented  it." 

When  he  goes  so  far  as  this  in  self-glorification, 
playing  tricks  with  the  sympathies  of  men,  misusing 
the  name  of  humanity  for  his  own  cheap,  unworthy 
ends,  Mr.  Hearst  ceases  to  amuse  his  audience  and 
fails  to  gain  pity.  It  is  highly  probable  that  the 
Democracy  of  the  country  will  before  long  turn  down 
its  thumb  at  him,  and  so  do  its  part  in  suppressing 
him.  This  Kishinef  scare  is  but  one  of  the  many 
contemptible  things  he  has  done  in  trying  to  exalt 
himself  from  the  ranks  of  American  nobodies.  It 
is  hardly  possible  that  even  in  his  most  foolish  mo- 
ments he  hopes  to  be  nominated.  Mention  on  the 
floor  of  the  Democratic  convention  would  overjoy 
him,  since  what  he  is  really  after  appears  to  be  ad- 
vertising and  a  pretext  for  singing  his  own  praises. 
Up  to  now  he  has  achieved  this  purpose  by  posing 
in  his  own  limelight  as  the  champion  of  labor,  the 
protector  of  the  poor.  By  dint  of  preaching  discon- 
tent and  anarchy  he  has  won  a  certain  standing 
among  the  mislead  masses  of  working  men  who 
have  hearkened  to  the  false  gospel  of  unionism.  See- 
ing now  that  the  people,  aroused  at  last,  are  pulling 
down  the  pillars  of  that  temple,  he  moves  on  to  an- 
other, and  sets  up  a  shrine  where  he  may  worship 
himself  as  the  patron  saint  of  the  oppressed  in  all 
lands.  Just  now  he  is  playing  the  part  of  Providence 
in  the  protecting  of  the  Jews  at  Kishinef  from  real 


and  imagined  peril. 

Very  certainly  this  Government  will  protest  as 
strongly  as  any  Government  can  against  barbarities 
at  Kishinef  or  anywhere  else,  but  what  Mr.  Hearst 
says  or  does  in  the  matter  is  of  no  importance  or 
interest,  except  in  so  far  as  it  reveals  him  further  for 
the  pretender  and  charlatan  he  is. 

WATER  GAS   POISON. 

It  is  of  vital  importance  to  the  people  of  San  Fran- 
cisco that  the  gas  company  be  required  to  comply 
with  the  spirit  of  its  franchise  and  supply  consumers 
with  coal  gas  instead  of  the  deadly  water  gas,  which 
the  company  persists  in  doing.  Of  course  water  gas 
is  supplied  because  it  is  very  much  cheaper  to  manu- 
facture, which  in  turn  yields  the  company  enormous 
profits,  as  compared  with  coal  gas,  but  it  is  at  the 
expense  of  the  health,  and  already  of  many  lives,  of 
every  one  who  uses  it. 

Certainly  coal  gas  will  kill  when  inhaled  for  any 
great  length  of  time,  but  if  escaping  coal  gas  is  de- 
tected before  it  causes  asphyxiation,  no  serious  conse- 
quences obtain,  or  at  least  no  permanent  results  fol- 
low. But  it  is  not  at  all  so  with  water  gas,  because 
of  its  deadly  poisonous  substance — a  chemical  com- 
pound so  penetrating  and  disastrous  to  healthy  phy- 
sical conditions  that  to  breathe  it  but  for  a  moment 
is  to  threaten  the  whole  system  with  physical  weak- 
ness, and  permanently  impair  the  brain  cells  more 
especially.  The  law  should  make  the  manufacture 
of  water  gas  for  commercial  uses  a  crime,  for  it  is 
a  continuous  attack  upon  the  lives  and  health  of  every 
one  who  comes  in  contact  with  it,  and  naturally  so, 
for  its  component  properties  are  constantly  at  war 
with  healthy  germ  life,  nor  does  it  need  to  go  to 
the  limit  of  its  death-dealing  power  and  asphyxiate. 
A  mere  whiff  of  the  murderous  stuff  often  so  under- 
mines the  health  forces  in  the  one  who  breathes  it 
that  ever  thereafter  his  health  is  impaired. 

The  reason  why  water  gas  is  such  a  deadly  foe  to 
human  life  and  health  is  because  the  process  of  its 
manufacture  necessarily  makes  it  so.  To  make  the 
vile  stuff,  decomposed  water  in  the  form  of  steam  is 
forced  over  beds  of  red-hot  coke,  resolving  it  into 
hydrogen  and  carbonic  oxide,  the  oxygen  being  ab- 
sorbed. Then  the  hydrogen  and  carbonic  oxide  are 
driven  through  a  retort  in  which  is  vegetable  matter, 
including  the  residue  of  turpentine  distillation,  called 
resin,  going  through  the  process  of  decomposition. 
From  this  mass  of  decomposed  matter  the  "water 
gas"  absorbs  enough  carbon  to  render  it  luminous 
when  burned.  Thus  it  is  that  water  gas  is  a  com- 
pound of  the  deadliest  of  the  poisons  produced  from 
the  decomposition  of  water  and  vegetable  matter, 
and  that  is  why  the  mere  inhaling  of  a  small  quantity 
of  it  is  pretty  sure  to  undermine  one's  health  for  all 
time. 

Coal  gas  is  quite  a  different  article.  It  is  the  pro- 
duct of  dry  distillation  of  coal,  the  residue  being 
coke,  but  it  costs  more  than  water  gas,  and  because 
it  does,  the  gas  company  is  giving  the  city  the  most 
poisonous  of  compounds,  that  its  profits  may  be 
greater.  The  trail  of  this  death-dealing  monster  is 
observable  in  the  daily  reports  of  its  havoc  in  all 
parts  of  the  community.  Of  course,  the  Board  of  Su- 
pervisors could,  if  they  would,  oblige  the  gas  com- 
pany's officers  to  comply  with  the  spirit  of  their  fran- 
chise and  supply  gas  extracted  from  coal,  but  it  may 
take  a  whirlwind  of  public  indignation  to  awaken  the 
Supervisors  to  the  enormity  of  the  crime  the  gas  com- 
pany is  perpetrating  every  day.  If  so,  they  should 
know  that  just  such  a  whirlwind  is  already  in  process 
of  formation. 


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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


and  heartless  animals  in  h„,nan 
fern  wrthonl  on«  tiny  thread  of  human  worth  or 
moral  sentiment  to  cover  their  true  selves.    "Birds 


THE  WAY  IT  IS. 

The  once-convicted  criminal,  Mrs.  Botkitl,  is  given 
a  chance  to  prove  that  the  testimony,  direct  and  cir- 
comstantial,  the  rulings  of  the  court  and  the  con       ',"  ''  ";"!":r  flock  together"  should  he  emblazoned  in 

duct  of  her  trial  generally,  which  convicted  her  of        u,'rs,  '"  Mr°  "ver  '"«  door  through  which  nun  nass 

into  the  arena  of  the  prize-fight.  Figs  do  no  more 
grow  on  thistle  bushes  than  does  the  kecordine  \n- 
gcl  go  to  a  prize-fighl  in  search  of  piety,  moral 
or  self-respect.  And  what  emphasizes  the  brutal  na- 
ture of  the  spectators  is  that  they  will  pay  laree 
sums  ol  money,  and  submit  to  perplexing  inconven- 
iences that  the  lowest  life  principles  in  them  may 
have  a  feast  of  bruises  and  blood. 

At  one  of  these  exhibitions  of  brute  physical  power 
in   Sacramento  quite   recently,  one  of  the  principals 
was  so  seriously  pounded  that  he  died  the  next  day 
and  in  that  act  be  disgraced  himself  in  the  estimation 
01  those  who  saw  him  receive  the  fatal  blows.     He 
should  have  died  in  the  ring,  and  in  bis  last  breath 
made  an  effort  to  kill  his  opponent.     He  cheated  the 
on-Iookers  out  of  that  much  "sport,"  and  he  will  al- 
ways be  remembered  by  them  as  a  defaulter.     The 
man  in  the  ring  who  gave  the  fatal  blows  was  the 
principal  murderer,  but  were  not  the  howling  specta- 
tors who  inspired  him  by  cheers  of  appreciation   to 
redouble  his  brute  force  and  deal  the  fatal  blow  par- 
ticipants in  the  murder?    And  are  the  governing  au- 
thorities of  the  city  of  Sacramento  altogether  blame- 
less for  the  man's  murder?    On  the  face  of  the  fact 
that  the  legally  constituted  authorities  of  Sacramento 
graciously  granted  permission  for  such  an  exhibition 
of   brute   force   and    a   possible   murder,   a   stranger 
would   have   the   right  to   conclude   that   the    moral 
sense  and  standard  ethical  conduct  of  the  authorities 
were  no  higher  nor  no  lower  than  those  of  the  prize- 
ring.    It  is  hypocrisy  of  the  rankest  sort  when  muni- 
cipal authorities  condemn  that  which  they  cheerfully 
permit  the  doing  of.     And  this  applies  to  San  Fran- 
cisco  and   to   every  other   community  that   permits 
prize-fighting;  besides,  legalized  prize-fighting  is,  as 
in  the  case  of  the  man  killed  in  Sacramento,  legalized 
murder,  or  rather  the  privilege  of  committing  murder 
by  a  blow  with  the  fist,  is  granted.  If  prize-fighting 
is  brutal,  then  those  who  permit  it  and  those  who 
patronize  the  business  are  brutes.    That  is  the  logical 
conclusion.    Always  the  social  conventions  of  a  com- 
munity may  be  used  to  determine  the  level  of  moral 
worth  and  integrity  upon  which  that  community  is 
dwelling. 

A  nineteean-year-old  school  girl  of  Chicago  has 
been  selected  to  represent  the  Windy  City  in  a  New 
York  beauty  show.  The  Chicago  press  goes  into  dis- 
tressing detail  in  describing  her  charms  in  terms  of 
linear  measurement,  but  maintains  a  dignified  silence 
concerning  her  feet. 

It  was  a  mighty  mean  man  who  paid  Senator  Till- 
man a  bogus  $100  bill  for  a  lecture  at  Savannah,  Ga., 
on  the  race  question  and  it  was  quite  decent  of  the 
bank  on  which  the  bill  was  drawn  to  make  the 
amount  good  to  the  South  Carolina  satesman. 

The  Dutch  parliament  has  voted  $1,750,000  to  buy 
Krupp  cannons.  Let  there  be  a  prompt  revision  of 
that  lusty  song  whose  refrain  says,  "Down  with  the 
Dutch,  they  don't  amount  to  much." 

An  author  of  the  present  day,  R.  W.  Chambers, has 
bought  him  a  house  in  New  York  for  $55,000.  And 
still  the  great  army  of  literati  wails  in  chorus  that 
there  is  no  money  in  writing. 


murder,  were  all  in  error  from  start  to  finish.  In 
other  words,  she  is  permitted  to  try  to  show  that  the 
court  that  sentenced  her  was  a  combination  of  legal 
stupidity  and  judicial  paresis;  that  the  witnesses 
against  her  were  liars,  and  that  the  jury  was  coin- 
1  of  a  compound  of  putty  and  decayed  brain  cells, 
and  hence  impervious  to  the  goo-goo  eyes  of  feminine 
voluptuousness  in  charming  presentation.  Mean- 
while, or,  rather,  while  her  appeal  for  a  new  hearing 
was  pending,  very  much  of  the  evidence  that  con- 
victed her  has  been  "lost,  strayed  or  stolen."  with 
no  reward  offered  for  knowledge  of  its  whereabouts 
or  its  return.  Great  are  the  technicalities  of  the  law! 
That  is  to  say,  they  are  great  in  the  work  of  defeating 
justice  by  the  hooks  and  by  the  crooks  of  a  sort  of 
alleged  law  or  court  practice  which  annuls  the  pur- 
pose and  intent  of  law  and  paralyzes  the  hand  of  jus- 
tice. 

It  is  under  such  conditions  that  legal  technicalities 
have  brought  convict   Botkin  smiling  and  confident 
into  court  again  to  hear  herself  proclaimed  an  inno- 
cent, virtuous,  charming  and  much  abused  specimen 
of  glorious  womanhood.     But  will  all  this  legal  trick- 
ery and  debauchery  of  the  high  and  honorable  profes- 
sion of  the  law  avail  the  Botkin  woman  anything? 
The  chances  are  that  it  will.     It  is  simply  capable 
lawyers  with   doubtful   codes  of  ethics  on   the   one 
side,  scheming  to  defeat  the  operation  of  law,  and 
public  indifference  on  the  other  side,  with  a  far  too 
low  appreciation  of  the  sanctity  of  the  mission  of 
courts  by  courts  in  the  middle.     The  atmosphere  in 
and  about  most  of  our  courts,  the  criminal  courts 
more  especially,  is  not  surcharged  all  the  time  with 
that  high  sense  of  honor  which  the  laws  of  the  land 
provide  for.    The  elevation  of  a  lawyer  from  the  bar 
to  the  bench  is  often  more  political  than  sentimental 
Not  many  judges  in  this  community  are  able,  seem- 
ingly,  to   understand   that  a  judge  when   upon   the 
bench  is  not  of  politics  nor  of  social  life,  nor  of  friend- 
ship's bonds,  nor  of  any  ties  that  bind  him  to  his 
fellow  human  beings.    He  is  there  as  the  representa- 
tive of  the  best,  the  truest  and  the  loftiest  thought 
of  the  community  as  expressed  in  the  letter  and  in 
the  spirit  of  the  community's  highest  standard  of  con- 
duct of  life  to  see  to  it  that  justice  between  man  and 
man  be  done.     As  to  the  average  jury,  well,  history 
and  experience  does  not  encourage  boundless  faith 
in  the  wisdom  or  in  the  integrity  of  the  average  jury, 
and  because  that  is  true,  and'  because  some  judges 
cannot  rise  to  the  heights  of  separateness  from  per- 
sonal likes  and  dislikes,  and  make  their  court  truly 
and    honestly    and    faithfully   a    court    of   oyer   and 
terminir,  the  Botkin  and  similar  offenses  against  law 
and  order  are  permitted  to  use  the  law  to  prevent  the 
law's  administration. 


A  BRUTAL  AND  MURDEROUS  SPORT. 

At  best,  prize-fighting  is  a  brutal  and  foul  sport. 
However  "square"  it  may  be,  or  however  scientifi- 
cally blows  are  given,  the  whole  business  appeals 
only  to  the  lowest  and  most  depraved  nature  of  those 
who  participate,  either  as  principals  or  spectators. 
But  low  and  beastly  as  was  prize-fighting  in  the  long 
ago,  its  march  has  steadily  been  from  degradation 
to  degradation,  and  now,  in  truth,  it  seems  to  have 
reached  the  very  bottom  where  principals  and  spec- 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


THIEVES   RUN  TO  EARTH. 

County  Clerk  Mahoney  has  been  indicted,  as  have 
a  1  )t  of  his  aides  and  strikers,  for  robbing  the  funds 
of  which  he  was  the  official  custodian.  So  far  so  good. 
Bit  what  will  be  the  outcome  of  it  all?  The  law 
is  quite  ready  to  open  very  wide  the  doors  of  the 
penitentiary  tor  the  entrance  of  these  plunderers  of 
the  public's  money,  but  .Mr.  Mahoney  and  his  fellow 
culprits  only  laugh  when  punishment  for  the  crime 
they  have  committed  is  suggested.  They  seem  to 
think  themselves  superior  to  the  law  of  the  land,  and 
that  it  is  impudence  on  the  part  of  the  public  to  ask 
what  has  become  of  its  money.  It  is  a  reflection 
upon  his  official  and  personal  integrity.  What  if 
he  and  his  fellow  cracksmen  did  absorb  for  their 
personal  use  about  all  of  the  total  receipts  of  the 
County  Clerk's  office.  Did  they  molest  or  try  to  sell 
the  office  fixtures  or  rent  the  room  for  social'  gather- 
ings and  pocket  the  money? 

But  there  is  a  deep  meaning  in  Mr.  Mahoney 's 
laugh  of  derision  and  contempt  when  punishment  is 
intimated  for  his  crimes  and  misdemeanors,  and  the 
meaning  is  that  he  has  the  strings  of  the  "push"  and 
the  "pull"  too  well  in  hand  to  fear  any  adverse  opera- 
tion of  the  criminal  laws  of  the  commonwealth.  It 
means  that  Mr.  Mahoney  believes  that  the  City  Hall 
ring  dare  not  disturb  him  lest  they,  too,  become  in- 
volved. It  means  that  he  believes  in  the  mightiness 
of  thieves  standing  together.  It  means  that  he  and 
his  fellow  plunderers  of  public  funds  believe  that 
the  courts  will  find  it  easy  enough  to  exonerate  them. 
It  means  that  the  City  Hall  gang  do  not  intend  that 
one  of  their  fellows  shall  be  punished  for  robbing  the 
city  or  county  strong  box.  This  makes  the  issue  be- 
tween the  law  of  the  land  and  the  Mahoney  gang,  as 
to  supremacy,  quite  clear  and  plain.  If  the  operation 
of  the  law  may  be  crippled  to  complete  inefficiency, 
why,  Mahoney  must  be  recognized  as  one  who  is 
superior  to  law,  and  one  who  is  not  bound  by  law, 
decency  or  conscience  to  respect  the  property  or 
rights  of  the  body  politic.  On  the  other  hand,  if 
public  sentiment  and  the  courts  insist  on  adminis- 
tering exact  justice,  and  do  administer  it,  Mr.  Ma- 
honey and  his  co-partners  in  crime  will  sojourn  for 
a  number  of  years  in  the  penitentiary.  There  is  no 
middle  ground.  Either  Mahoney  and  his  following 
are  superior  to  the  criminal  laws  or  they  are  subject 
to  them,  and  in  determining  the  matter,  a  big  lot  of 
law-abiding  public  sentiment  most  vigorously  ex- 
pressed will  exert  an  influence  in  criminal  court  cir- 
cles which  no  judge  or  jury  would  care  to  antagonize. 
The  question  at  its  last  analysis  is :  Shall  a  robber 
of  the  public's  money  be  decked  with  the  epaulettes 
of  public  commendation  or  with  the  prison  stripes 
of  honestly  administered  criminal  laws? 


GOOD  MAY  COME  OF  EVIL. 

The  parading  of  several  young  women  up  and 
down  the  sidewalk  before  a  Market-street  restaurant, 
and  appealing  to  patrons  of  such  places  to  boycott 
that  particular  eating  house,  presents  a  spectacle 
that  is  both  disgusting  and  humiliating.  The  young 
women  who  are  making  their  union's  appeal  to  the 
public  in  voices  that  set  nerves  on  edge,  naturally 
draw  crowds  of  curious  and  rough  men,  who  indulge 
freely  in  coarse  wit  and  doubtful  suggestions,  and 
these  crowds  also  block  the  sidewalk  very  much  to 
the  annoyance  of  pedestrians.  Not  one  in  ten-score 
of  such  idlers  know  or  care  to  know  anything  about 
the  merits  of  the  dispute  that  caused  the  effort  at 
boycotting.  An  opportunity  to  exhibit  their  vulgar 
mannerism  is  presented,  and  that  is  all  they  want  to 


know  about  the  trouble.  As  for  the  girls  who  parade 
the  walk  and  sing  of  the  arbitrary  and  cruel  refusal 
of  the  boycotted  restaurant  keeper  to  let  their  union 
run  his  business  for  him,  why,  they  unsex  them- 
selves every  time  they  open  their  mouths.  The  ab- 
sence of  what  is  known  as  "woman's  native  modesty" 
is  conspicuous,  and  more  is  the  pity  that  these  "per- 
suaders" or  "barkers"  do  not  seem  to  mind  putting 
on  the  necessary  bold  and  persistent  facial  expres- 
sion. 

One  good,  however,  is  likely  to  come  of  it  all.  It 
is  beginning  to  dawn  upon  both  organized  employees 
and  associations  of  employers  that  but  for  the  walk- 
ing delegates  of  the  unions  and  certain  members  of 
the  Employers'  Association  it  would  be  an  easy  mat- 
ter, generally  speaking,  to  adjust  differences  between 
employers  and  employees,  with  little  or  no  loss  of 
time  to  either  side. 

The  plan  suggested  is  yet  crude,  but  it  seems  to 
have  the  elements  of  success.  It  includes  the  recog- 
nition of  the  unions  by  the  Employers'  Association 
and  the  recognition  of  the  Employers'  Association  by 
the  unions.  The  next  step  is  to  appoint  a  joint  con- 
ference board  composed  of  an  equal  number  of  the 
two  organizations  in  interest.  This  board  shall  meet 
once  a  month  and  discuss  the  present  and  possible 
future  conditions  of  their  joint  interests.  This  plan 
would,  not  a  few  believe,  so  operate  to  bring  em- 
ployer and  employee  closer  together  in  each  other's 
confidence,  which  in  turn  would  inspire  and  stimu- 
late both  sides  to  work  in  accord  to  suppress  disturb- 
ing influences,  even  before  they  evolved  into  a  force. 
The  idea  is  to  teach  both  sides  that  the  doctrine  of 
"give  and  take"  in  a  spirit  of  earnest  purpose  to  more 
clearly  emphasize  their  independence  and  yet  recog- 
nize the  individual  rights  and  award  just  dues  to 
each  one  in  interest.  The  plan  will  provide  for  the 
complete  elimination  of  walking  delegates — a  class 
of  men  who  encourage  discontent  because  discontent 
is  the  tool  of  their  trade — and  for  a  board  of  appeal, 
arbitration  and  adjustment.  As  is  seen,  the  plan  pro- 
vides for  full  recognition  of  labor  unions  and  of  em- 
ployers' associations  as  the  basis  of  their  mutual 
efforts  to  avert  strikes  by  uprooting  the  cause  before 
it  bears  fruit.  To  this  extent,  then,  good  may  come 
of  the  spectacle  of  young  women  parading  the  side- 
walks as  enemies  of  law  and  order,  and  the  rights  of 
man. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau   has   removed   to   the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


SCHAS.  KLILUS  &  COJJ 
EXCLUSIVE^ 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

It's  the  cut  and  chic  in  clothes  offered  here  that  give  personnel 
to  a  gentleman's  dress,  inculcating  minor  details,  devoting  time 
and  attention  to  men's  clothes  only. 

Consequently,  modestly  claim  that  our  "immediate  Service 
Clothes"  are  superior.  Some  good  dressers  have  been  put  wise 
about  our  shop.    "There  are  others"  that  ought  to  know  us. 


January  a,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A  DEN  OF  THIEVES. 
The  revelatio:--  tlitv  in  tin-  New  York  p 

office  surpass  anything  of  the  kind  in  the  history  of 
VII,  from  the  lowest  cuspidor  scrubber 
to  the  Postmaster  himself,  which  include  about  1 
empli  •  ni   to  have   acted   either   the   role  of 

thief  or  victim.  The  Postmaster  not  only  neglected 
his  duties,  but  permitted  another  man  to  draw  and 
appropriate  his  salary.     A  little  syndicate  of  officials 

ip  a  scheme  to  rob  the  other  employees  by  the 
monthly  assessment  plan.     This  device  alone  netted 

o  a  year  for  the  little  syndicate's  pocket  change 
account.  Sub-stations  were  hired  at  rentals  several 
times  above  the  asking:  price,  thus  securing  a  large 
monthly  rake-off.  In  fact,  the  inspector  rinds  that 
every  department  of  the  office  is  steeped  in  thievery, 
anil  that  scarcely  a  man  holding  a  position  that  could 

■  d  to  increase  his  income  by  dishonest  methods 
was  found  to  have  conducted  his  trust  honestly.  The 
pay-roll  was  found  stuffed  with  hundreds  of  names 
■  >f  people  who  had  no  existence  at  all.  Perfidy,  false 
swearing,  bogus  vouchers,  bills  for  goods  that  were 
never  purchased  and  scores  of  other  devices  and 
methods  to  plunder  the  Government  were  discovered 
everywhere.  And  yet  the  authorities  at  Washington 
have  known  for  years  that  the  Xew  York  Post-office 
had  become  a  den  of  thieves. 


ENCOURAGE    HOME    MANUFACTURE. 

The  News  Letter  has  for  years  advocated  the  pol- 
icy of  patronizing  home  industry,  and  not  without 
results.  If  all  consumers  of  manufactured  articles 
kept  this  fact  in  mind,  California  would  rank  high 
as  a  manufacturing  State.  Mr.  Carl  L.  Schalitz,  pro- 
prietor of  Sanders  &  Company's  Copper  Works  of 
this  city,  gives  us  valuable  information  bearing  upon 
the  much-discussed  and  often-advertised  subject  of 
patronizing  the  home  industries  and  increasing  the 
manufacturing  importance  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  San- 
ders &  Company  have  impressed  this  upon  our  local 
brewers,  and  incidentally  of  the  entire  Coast,  and 
have  succeeded  in  a  marked  degree  in  deviating  a 
large  amount  of  money,  which  in  past  years  went 
East,  to  the  local  firms.  Keep  the  money  at  home, 
and  keep  the  local  manufacturer  busy.  We  quote 
Mr.  Schalitz's  words  in  part: 

"We  very  recently  experienced  a  marked  expres- 
sion of  confidence  on  our  ability  to  manufacture  cop- 
per works  that  compares  favorably  with  (if  it  does 
not  excel)  the  Eastern  product,  when  the  largest 
brewery  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  the  Seattle  Brewing 
and.  Malting  Company,  of  Seattle,  Washington,  con- 
tracted with  us  for  an  exact  duplication  of  their  three 
hundred  barrel  suthaus  now  in  operation  in  the  North. 
When  you  consider  that  a  plant  of  this  size  consists 
of  a  300  barrel  copper  kettle,  mash  tub,  rice  tanks, 
Grant  and  Pfaffe,  and  various  machinery,  you  will 
realize  what  a  great  stride  has  been  taken  in  the  rec- 
ognition of  the  value  of  our  home  industries.  Here- 
tofore the  breweries  on  the  Coast  have  been  equipped 
by  Eastern  manufacturers,  but  in  the  future  we  trust 
this  extensive  work  will  remain  at  home." 

We  wish  to  heartily  endorse  and  congratulate  the 
Seattle  Brewing  and  Malting  Company  for  the  de^ 
cided  steps  they  have  taken  in  the  right  direction, 
and  we  also  wish  to  congratulate  Messrs.  Sanders 
&  Company  for  their  progressiveness  in  undertaking 
the  construction  of  a  plant  of  this  magnitude. 


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January  2,  1904. 


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'<ty  no  wand  but Measure's . 


By  The  Lobby  Ghobt 

If  we  but  remain  patient  we  will  get  all  the  Fitch 
plays.  "The  Girl  with  the  Green  Eyes"  is  another 
frothy  tid-bit  by  this  most  prolific  of  authors.  It  is 
in  the  usual  "smart"  vein,  and  the  genius  for  novelty 
is  shown  at  every  twist  of  the  action.  The  story  is 
one  of  a  jealous  girl,  who  makes  herself  most  un- 
happy. She  is  suspicious  of  her  husband,  and  sees 
every  action  of  his  from  her  own  point  of  view.  Of 
course,  in  the  end,  she  is  changed,  and  when  the 
positive  evidence  against  her  husband  is  explained, 
she  sees  how  silly  she  has  been.  The  dialogue  of  the 
piece  is  interspersed  with  the  brightest  of  sayings, 
and  the  wedding  scene  in  the  first  act  is  prettily 
staged.  Fitch  is  at  his  best  when  picturing  society 
people  and  their  ways  and  "Jinny"  Austin,  her  hus- 
band, and  her  friends,  are  easily  recognized  as  be- 
longing to  the  ultra  "smart  set '  that  they  are  sup- 
posed to  represent. 

Fitch's  plays  lack  weight,  logic  and  argument,  but 
they  are  trimmed  so  prettily  that  they  are  restful. 
They  contain  no  problems  and  are  successful  in  that 
the)'  do  not  compel  people  to  think.  They  are  to 
the  drama  what  William  Dean  Howell's  school  of 
writers  is  to  literature. 

The  re-opening  of  the  Tivoli  in  new  quarters  is 
worth  more  than  a  passing  note.  On  Wednesday 
night  last  week  the  initial  performance  was  given, 
and  the  old  favorites  and  some  new  people  were 
most  enthusiastically  welcomed.  Mayor  Schmitz 
made  a  sort  of  dedicatory  speech  and  expressed  the 
sentiment  exactly  when  he  said  that  if  the  new  house 
but  sustained  the  reputation  of  the  old  it  would  be 
supported  willingly  by  the  music  lovers  of  the  town. 

The  piece  is  a  conglomeration  of  fact  and  fancy, 
by  Ferris  Hartman,  called  "Ixion,"  and  is  redolent 
with  Hartman  atmosphere.  There  is  wit  in  the  lines, 
melody  in  the  songs,  and  the  augmented  chorus  is 
well  trained.  The  picture  afforded  by  the  trans- 
formation scene  is  very  beautiful,  and  the  light  ef- 
fects are  fine. 

The  piece  is  a  typical  Tivoli  extravaganza,  and  the 
people  are  well  suited  to  their  roles.  The  cast  num- 
bers many  old  friends.  Anna  Lichter  and  William 
Schuster  are  familiar  faces,  and  received  a  rousing 
welcome.  Bessie  Tannehill,  one  of  the  new  ones,  is 
more  than  a  singer — she  can  act.  She  has  very  little 
to  do,  but  she  has  the  temperament  that  promises 
something  good  in  the  future.  Wallace  Brownlow, 
the  Australian  barytone,  has  perhaps  the  best-trained 
voice  in  the  company.  With  two  such  fine  voices 
as  his  and  Cunningham's,  we  should  hear  some  fine 
solos  in  succeeding  pieces.  There  is  no  reason  in 
the  world,  with  the  friendly  backing  it  has,  why  the 
Tivoli  should  not  reach  unlimited  success.  The  in- 
fusion of  new  blood  into  the  company  should  work 
wonders. 

A  word  for  the  building  itself:  It  is  an  airy,  cheer- 
ful place,  with  lots  of  room.  The  seats  are  comfort- 
able and  the  acoustics  perfect.  The  decorations  are 
not  prodigal,  but  they  are  good,  and  the  elevator  to 
the  top  floor  is  an  innovation. 
*  *  * 

The  second  week  of  "Blue  Jeans"  at  the  Alcazar 


continues  to  attract  a  large  audience.  The  piece  is 
staged  perfectly,  and  a  more  finished  production 
could  not  be  asked  for.  Eleanor  Gordon,  as  the 
Dutch  slavey,  has  a  perfect  dialect,  and  shows  her 
remarkable  advancement  in  character  work.  Harry 
Hilliard,  as  Ike  the  Hoosier  boy,  throws  his  dignity 
to  the  four  winds,  and  makes  up  as  the  homeliest, 
silliest  person  to  be  found  in  a  day's  travel.  The 
leading  people  all  assume  their  roles  in  excellent 
form,  and  Miss  Starr  is  the  most  womanly  of  in- 
genues. The  scene  she  has  with  her  little  baby  is 
very  affecting,  and  she  is  never  off  key  for  a  minute. 
She  runs  the  whole  gamut  of  emotions,  from  the 
hoyden  to  the  poor  wife  and  mother.  The  villainy 
of  Miss  Block  is  more  convincing  than  most  melo- 
dramatic ones,  and  the  thrill  of  the  buzz-saw  scene 

makes  the  up-stairs  people  happy. 

*  *  * 

The  "road  show"  is  in  its  second  and  last  week 
at'  the  Orpheum,  and  is  greatly  improved  by  Victor 
Moore  and  Emma  Littlefield  in  their  skit,  "Back  to 
the  Woods."  This  same  act  was  seen  last  year,  but 
it  is  so  novel  that  it  is  not  like  a  re-hash.  The  rest 
of  the  bill  is  of  uniform  excellence. 

*  *  * 

A  great  treat  will  be  offered  to  the  patrons  of  the 
Grand  Opera  House  the  week  beginning  to-morrow 
matinee.  It  will  consist  of  the  famous  comedian, 
Joe  Kelly,  the  pipe-dreamer,  and  his  merry  bunch 
of  players,  in  the  musical  comedy,  "The  Head 
Waiters,"  which  for  several  seasons  has  been  one  of 
the  greatest  theatrical  successes  of  the  East.  The 
engagement  is  limited  to  one  week  only.  Sunday  . 
matinee,  January  10th,  "In  Convict  Stripes,"  a  pleas- 
ing play  of  the  people  of  South  Carolina,  will  be  pre- 
sented. 

*  *  * 

"I-O-U"  will  be  presented  another  week  only  at 
Fischer's,  as  the  management  has  decided  to  close 
its  phenomenal  run  on  January  10th.  The  production 
has  met  with  substantial  appreciation  from  amuse- 
ment lovers,  and  seems  to  have  lost  none  of  its 
power  to  please.  The  piece  will  be  succeeded  by 
"The  Beauty  Shop,"  a  purely  local  burlesque,  written 
by  J.  C.  Crawford,  one  of  San  Francisco's  best  new- 
paper  men.  The  presentation  of  "The  Beauty  Shop" 
■will  introduce  several  new  principals,  including  Miss 
Helen  Russell,  a  handsome  soprano,  in  feminine 
leads,  and  John  Peachey,  a  baritone,  who  can  act  as 
well  as  sing. 


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brated English  Carpets. 


CHAS.  M.  PLUM  &  CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


January  a.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Mmc.  i*atti.  the  greatest  songstress  the  world  has    Grar)d  Opera  House— Special 


J mi   II,  llt.mr 

MMc.    ADELINA    PATTI 

(The  Bntoi  rom) 

Direotjun  Rotorl  Orau.  In  Uaoftffemool  Kareua   it. 

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l'n  ■•-  *j.  »j  >t.  a...  »*.  1.  and  m     RaIp  r>|  noat«    will   b«    i>t«ir.n  at 

tin- 1...\  ..ill f  tti.  M     1  ii\  morning.  January  4. 

Oat  of  town  mail  01  m  pan  ted  by  money  order  and  ad- 

dreaaedto  H   H  Qamiibell.  Treasurer Orand  Opera  House,  will 

he  Med  in  1 1 rii.-r  of  their  receipt  and  v.-nt^  assigned  aa  near 

the  desired  location  as  pnaaible     steltiway  piano  used. 


Graod  Opera  hjouse 


ever  known,  will  appear  in  San  Francisco,  which  she 
■  banner  city,  on  the  night  of  January 

7th  and  the  afternoon  of  the   llth.     Manager  Fried- 
lander  has  decided  to  inaugurate  a  scale  of  popular 

prices  .    from   ?i    to  $5   for  the   two  concerts 

of  the  peerless  diva.  When  I'atti  first  began  her 
atic  career  she  had  to  conquer  the  world  city 
by  city,  for  it  has  a  pessimistic  attitude  toward  the 
young  phenomenon.  Now  that  she  has  risen  to  her 
triumphant  position  as  the  world's  prima  donna,  she 
has  been  hrihed  away  from  her  luxurious  castU-  of 
Craig-y-Nos    in    Wales    to   make    a   truly    farewell 

American  tour. 

»  *  * 

The  second  and  last  week  of  "The  Girl  with  the 
Green  Eyes"  will  begin  at  the  Columbia  next  Mon- 
day, January  4th. 

*  *  * 

Novelty  galore  will  abound  at  the  Chutes  this  com- 
ing week.  Mason  and  Filburn,  comedy  sketch  artists, 
will  make  their  first  appearance  here,  as  will  also 
the  Prampkins,  colored  musical  comedians,  said  to 
be  especially  clever  in  their  line.  The  Harrison 
brothers,  whose  sketch.  "A  Matrimonial  Agency," 
is  a  scream  from  beginning  to  end,  will  reappear, 
and  Joe  and  Sadie  Britton  will  sing  new  songs. 
Gardner  and  Stoddard  will  offer  a  new  skit,  and 
Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular  contralto,  will  be  heard 
in  new  illustrated  songs.  The  animatoscope  prom- 
ises a  new  and  amusing  series  of  moving  pictures, 
and  the  amateurs  will  appear  on  Thursday  night. 

"Ixion"  will  run  but  one  week  longer  at  the  Tivoli, 
and  will  be  succeeded  by  "When  Johnny  Comes 
Marching   Home,"    the    most    successful    American 

comic  opera  ever  written. 

*  *  * 

There  will  be  a  complete  change  of  programme  at  ;       cls,,,,G,,„r,.  ,  ,,„„„..  ,,.,„ 

the  Orpheum  this  coming  week,  and  the  features  v^rpneuri).  o'Farreii  st 
announced  are  all  of  a  high  order  of  merit.  Fred 
Hallen  and  Molly  Fuller,  Dumitrescu,  Van  Auken 
and  Vannerson,  Charles  and  Minnie  Sa-Van,  Char- 
lotte Guyer  George,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  E.  Deaves, 
Joan  Haden's  "Cycle  of  Love,"  Ernest  Hogan  and 
Mattie  Wilkes  will  be  the  new  bill. 

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\\  f.-k  H  'k'inninK  lo-m..rr.  >w  Sunil.iv  Dial  Idea,  January  3rd. 
The  pipe  dreamer.  JOE  KELLY,  and  thirty   others  in   the   big 

musical  cul-iii' 

THE    MEAD    WAITERS 

Matin.-.-  Satnnlav 

PrioesHBreolDKB,  I5C,  360,  60c."f»c    Matinees  ice.  2fic.  goo- 
Sunday  Matinee.  January  loth,  the  sensational  drama 

IN    GONVIGT     STRIPES 

Fischer's    Theatre 

"Whence  comes  this  joyous,  happy  crowd?" 

Asked  the  man  of  bilious  hue  ; 
"The  answer's  easy"  said  his  friend, 

I've  just  seen 

1— o— u 

The  record  breaking  musical  comedy  now  in  its  sixth  and  last 
week.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 
Mon-  Jan-  llth 

THE    BEAUTY    SHOP 

An  incomparable  production  of  a  strictly  local  burlesque. 
Nights  25,    50.  and  75c    Matinees,  25  and  50c. 

Columbia  Theatre.  G<™"-  L™^.,,...™. 

Beginning  next  Monday  Jan.  i.    Second  ami  last  week 
Charles  Frohman  presents  Clyde  Fitch's  best  play 

THE  GIRL  WITH  THE  GREEN  EYES 

Great  east  of  favorites.  Only  matinee  Saturday. 

Special-Sunday  night.  Jan.   loth.   ALBERTA    GALLATIN  in 
IBSEN'S    GHOSTS. 

Monday  Jan.  11-MRS.  LANGTBY 


betmiun   SLouktuM   »ml    Powull  streets. 

Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee,  Jan.  s 

A    BIG    NEW    SHOW 

Fred  Hallen  and  Mollie  Fuller:  Dumitrescu,  Van  Auken  and 
Vannerson ;  Charles  and  Minnie  8a- Van ;  Charlotte  Guyer  George 
The  Tobine:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Deaves'  Merry  Manikins; 
Ernest  Hogan  and  Mattie  Wilkes;  the  Orpheum  motion  pictures 
and  re-productions,  for  one  week  only  JOAN    HADEN'S 

GYGLE    OF    LOVE 

Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


WRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISHES 

Removed  by  New  Process  (Guaranteed.) 
Face  Massage  and  Manicuring. 

AT    YOUR    HOME, 

byfappointment 


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EASTWOOD 

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C.   H.   Kehnstrom 

TOKMEBLT    I1KD1BI  *  JOBKIOl 

Tailor. 

PHELAN  BUILDING  ROOMS  1   2,  3 

TELEPHONE    MAIN    B887.    SAN    FRANCISCO 

fjfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen   to   the   matchless    string   band   and   enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe  Zlnkand  Is  society's  Catherine  plasa  after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


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^eijCrai      ineULrB.    Market St.nearEigh{h-Tel. South 335 

Week  of  Monday.  January  4th 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.    The  greatest  of  spectacular 

melodramas. 

MONTE    GRISTO 

By  Alexander  Dumas. 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c    Matinees  10. 15,  25c- 

Week  of  Jan.  llth.  THE    MOONSHINERS- 

A  1  *-*  <*  t  o  v-   TiS  a.r\  f-  v-o  Belasco  &  Mayer.  Proprietors 

AlCaZdi      1  IieULre    e.  D.  Price.  Gen'l.  Mgr,    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees    Saturday    and    Sunday. 

One  week  commencing  Monday  Jan.  4,  a  beautiful   production 

of  the  picturesque  drama  of  romance 

A    LADY    OF    QUALITY 

By  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  and  Stephen  Townsend 
Evenings  25  to  76c.    Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees  15  to  50c 

Mon.  Jan.  11— Clyde  Fitch's  strongest  play  THE    MOTH    AND 
THE    FLAME. . 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  °°rner EdMya8aonndstreets 

IXION    or    THE    WHEELMAN 

A  mythological  musical  extravaganza  in  three  acts,  that  is  the 
talk  of  the  town. 


Beginning  Monday  Jan  11. 

WHEN    cJOHNNY    GOMES 
HOME 


MARCHING 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


Libraryr&able 

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"Tolstoy  and  His  Message,"  by  Er- 

An  Estimate     nest    Crosby,    is    a    small    volume; 

of  Tolstoy.  but  into  it  be  bas  condensed  a  fine 
sketch  of  Tolstoy — not  only  of  tbe 
man,  but  of  his  thoughts,  beliefs  and  aspirations. 
The  following  is  typical  of  the  book : 

"That  the  examples  of  the  success  of  Christ's  teach- 
ings should  be  so  few  is  due  to  the  fact  that  they 
have  been  so  rarely  lived.  Count  Tolstoy  is  making 
the  experiment  to-day,  and  no  one  who  has  visited 
him  at  his  home,  as  I  have  had  the  privilege  of  do- 
ing, and  has  looked  into  his  searching  eyes  under 
their  heavy  brows,  can  for  a  moment  doubt  his  sin- 
cerity. He  has  stripped  his  house  of  everything  su- 
perfluous ;  there  is  not  a  rug  on  the  tloor,  not  an  orna- 
ment on  the  table;  his  dress  is  the  peasant's  blouse; 
he  has  become  a  vegetarian,  and  touches  neither  cof- 
fee nor  tea  nor  sugar  nor  tobacco.  .  That  there  is  a 
vein  of  asceticism  in  all  this  f  am  not  disposed  to 
deny.  A  German  admirer  of  his  bas  called  him  tbe 
John  the  Baptist  of  the  new  religion  of  the  Spirit, 
and  if  sometimes  we  are  inclined  to  criticise  him  for 
denying  himself  unnecessarily  and  for  making  the 
externals  of  his  life  a  little  too  bare,  we  should  re- 
member that  there  was  room  in  the  world  for  John, 
whose  food  was  locusts  and  wild  honey,  and  for  Jesus 
who  came  eating  and  drinking,  and  that  wisdom  is 
justified  of  all  her  children.  There  is  a  place  in 
our  economy  for  the  Tolstoys  as  well  as  for  the 
Ruskins  and  Morrises.  And  if  there  seems  to  be 
little  art  in  the  exterior  appearances  of  Tolstoy's  life, 
it  is  not  because  he  is  not  an  artist  and  has  not  faced 
the  question  of  art  and  answered  it  to  his  own  satis- 
faction. But  he  denies  to  the  art  of  the  day,  the  lux- 
urious plaything  of  the  exploiting  few,  all  claim  to 
be  considered  as  art  at  all. 

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H.  L.  Piner's  "Builder  of  tbe  Beautiful"  is  a  study 
of  physiognomy  and  the  other  kindred  sciences  and 
arts  of  expression.  Funk  &  Wagnalls,  New  York. 
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"The  History  of  the  Atlantic  Cable"  is  a  carefully 
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In  "Consumption,  a  Curable  and  Preventable  Dis- 
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David  McKay,  Philadelphia.     $i.co  net. 


G.  E.  Burgin's  novel,  "The  Shutters  of  Silence,"  is 
a  romance  of  life  in  and  out  of  a  monastery.  Smart 
Set  Publishing  Co.,  New  York.    $1.50. 


Boys  will  delight  in  "Ahead  of  the  Arm}',"  a  war 
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Lothrop  Co.,  Boston.     $1.00  net. 


"Irish  Life  in  Irish  Fiction"  is  a  very  interesting 
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It  is  by  H.  S.  Krans. 

The  Macmillan  Co.,  New  York. 


"From  Empire  to  Republic,"  by  Arthur  Howard 
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A.  C.  McCJung  &  Co.,  Chicago.    $1.40  net. 


Senmas    McManus    is    the   author    of    "The    Red 
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The  rise  and  progress  of  the  speed  of  public  car- 
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Beckles  Wilson. 

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If  you  can  digest  the  sub-title,  "A  Manual  of  homi- 
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"The  Alphabet  of  Rhetoric"  is  "intended  as  a 
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D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York.    $1.25  net. 

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the  Poor,"  though  the  latter  book  is  not  in  any  way 
a  sequel  to  the  former. 

John  Lane,  London. 


"Until  Seventy  Times  Seven"  is  a  religious  story 
published  anonymously. 

Thomas  Whittaker,  Bible  House,  New  York.  $1. 


"The  Art  of  Living  Long"  is  a  new  and  improved 
English  version  of  the  treatise  of  the  celebrated 
Venetian  centenarian,  Louis  Cornaro,  with  essays 
by  Joseph  Addison,  Lord  Bacon  and  Sir  William 
Temple. 

William   F.   Butler,  Milwaukee. 


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"Dramana,"  by  Anna  Arrington  Tyson,  is  a  poor 
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Vernon  Hawtrey  has  translated  "The  Life  of  Saint 
Mary  Magdalen"  from  the  Italian  of  an  unknown 
Fourteenth  Century  writer,  with  an  introduction  by 
Vernon  Lee. 

John  Lane,  London. 

The  carpet   becomes   very   dirty   in   winter,   but  this 

can  easily  be  remedied  by  sending  it  to  Spaulding's  Carpet 
Cleaning  Works,  353  Tehama  street.  There  the  carpet  is 
cleansed  from  every  particle  of  dirt  without  any  injury 
to  the  fabric,  and  is  returned  looking  as  fresh  and  new  as 
when   first   put   down. 

As   long   as   Techau   Tavern   exists,   people  have   no 

need  to  wonder  where  they  will  go  after  the  theatre.  It 
is  the  society  resort. 


Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkish  Baths. 


January  a,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


11 


SHAKESPEARE  OR  DANTE. 


A  communication  lia*  been  received  by  the  editor 

of   this   paper,   poorly    written   and    signed    with    an 
ierl  name.    Thi  -tter  in  this  case  departs 

from  its  rule  not  to  answer  anonymous  communica- 
tor the  simple  reason  that  the  questioner  r< 
the  News  Letter  as  authority  which  is  the  one 

sensible  thing  in  the  letter,  which  is  as  follows: 

"There  is  a  question  before  several  young  men  as 

to  whom  is  greater  and  more  famous.  Dante  or 
Shakespeare'  It  was  decided  to  ask  the  opinion  of  the 
.  and  this  is  the  reason  that  your  judgment  is 
earnestly  requested  on  this  matter.  Kindly  publish 
the  answer  as  soon  as  possible  in  your  paper." 

Dante  is  as  famous  for  his  Beatrice  as  Shakespeare 
is  for  his  Anne:  in  fact,  to  borrow  a  phrase,  "they 
mutually   surpass  each  other."     It   is   the   same  old 


question  in  another  form:  which  i 
wind  or  water ;  or.  which  is  man's  best  friend,  thi 
or  the  gun.     The  1  n  is  only 

equaled  by  the  lac!  on  the  pari  of  the  pro- 

pounders. 

"Render   unto  the   things   which   are   1 

s.ir's."  Those  who  like  polenta  will  still  indulge  and 
smell  of  garlic,  and  swear  by  Dante  to  the  Inferno, 
and  those  who  Swear  by  roast  beef  are  not  in  any 
danger  of  transferring  their  affections  from  the  I'.ard 
of  Avon. 


The  appetising  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moravian's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
fur  I  he  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur 
passed.  More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


Rheumatics   retelved  at   the   Poat  Street   Hamraam. 


If  you  want  to  read  a  story  that  will  tingle  your  nerves  and    make 
you  smell    salt    water,    read 


Ahoy! 

"The  Sea=Wolf " 

By  JACK  LONDON 

Author  of  "The  Call  ol  the  Wild" 

which  begins  in   the  January  number  of    THE 
CENTURY  MAGAZINE. 

It  opens  in  Snn  Francisco  Bay— the  hero  picked  up  from  a 
wrecked  ferry-boat  by  a  schooner  hound  for  the  sealing  grounds 
off  Japan,— and  the  schooner  goes,  and  the  hero  with  her. 
whether  he  will  or  not-  The  captain  is  the  "sea-wolf,"  a  t  «i t^ 
Scandinavian,  Wolf  Larsen,  and  of  all  the  strange  mixtures 
of  brutality  and  self-culture  you  ever  read  about.  Wolf  Larsen 
will  stand  at  the  head.  He  is  one  of  fhe  most  tremendous 
characters  in  fiction,  and  this  novel  "The  Sea- Wolf  is  going 
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Besides   "The    Sea-Wolf"    the 

January  Century  will  give  you 

An  Article  on  Radium 

Written    by    its    discoverer. 
Mme.  Curie. 

An  Article  on  Lhasa,  the  For- 
bidden City  of  Tibet 

Written  by  a  man  who  lived 
there  for  months. 


'Wee  Macg'reeg'or" 


A  Capital ' 
Story 

"Wee  Macgreegor's  New 
Year'd  Eve  at  Grah'paw  Pur- 
die's." 

Elliott  Flower's  Story 

"The  Unexpected  Strike." 
Roy  Rolfe  Gibson's  Story 

"The  Illusionist" 

Ernest     Thompson     Seton's 
Fables 

With  his  own  Illustrations. 
A  Splendidly  Illustrated  Arti- 
cle on  the  French  Chamber 
of  Deputies 

With  pictures  by  Castaigne. 
A  Splendidly   Illustrated  Ar- 
ticle on  "An  American  Palace 
of  Art. 

The  first  complete  authorized 
pictorial  and  literary  record 
of  Mrs.  Gardner's  famous 
Museum  in  Boston. 

A  Remarkable  Study  of  the 
Dog  by  Maurice  MaeterlincK. 

And     Other     Good      Thing's 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


A  MILLION  SAVED  IS  A  MILLION  EARNED. 

The  problem  which  has  been  pored  over  since  the 
days  of  '49  of  saving  flour  gold  from  auriferous  sand 
and  soil  has,  after  years  of  study,  been  solved  in  a 
scientific  manner  by  Mr.  C.  A.  Peer,  an  expert  chem- 
ist residing  at  Watsonville,  Cal.,  U.  S.  A.  The  per- 
fection of  the  invention  at  once  interested  the  lead- 
ing financiers  of  that  wealthy  city,  the  result  being 
the  formation  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Chemical  Gold 
Mining  Company  of  Watsonville,  Cal.  Its  origin 
was  unheralded  by  any  notoriety,  but  the  merit  of 
the  invention  forced  it  into  notice  so  promptly  that 
outside  of  plants  in  the  United  States  its  fame  has 
spread  abroad,  and  negotiations  are  about  closed  for 
the  erection  of  a  large  number  of  plants  in  Guate- 
mala, C.  A.  In  January,  Mr.  C.  A.  Peer,  the  inventor 
and  president  of  the  company,  accompanied  by  Mr. 
George  W.  Sill,  Consulting  Director,  will  sail  for 
Australia  to  close  negotiations  with  a  wealthy  syn- 
dicate which  owns  an  invaluable  concession  granted 


hour.  The  gross  average  of  the  gold  saved,  which 
has  hitherto  been  unavailable,  is  95  per  cent,  which 
at  once  stamps  this  process  as  being  practically  per- 
fect. 


Watsonville  plant  of  Pacific  Coast  Chemical   Gold    Mining   Co., 
Watsonville,  Cal.,   U.  S.  A. 

it  by  the  Australian  Government  giving  it  the  sole 
privilege  to  mine  for  gold  along  some  forty  miles  of 
beach  gold-bearing  sand,  the  tests  and  assays  of 
which  demonstrate  that  it  will  pay  a  fabulous  profit. 

One  machine  handles  fifteen  tons  daily,  and  the 
output  can  be  increased  indefinitely  by  the  erection 
of  additional  machines.  The  wonder  lies  in  the  ex- 
treme simplicity  of  the  invention.  The  sand  is  fed 
directly  upon  the  first  apron,  where  a  stream  of 
water,  regulated  in  force  and  quantity,  carries  the 
sand  successively  over  three  chemically  treated  can- 
vas aprons,  each  placed  in  a  frame  with  an  inclina- 
tion of  fifteen  inches  in  six  feet.  A  succession  of  bur- 
lap-covered sluice  boxes  carries  the  tailings  away 
and  across  especially  constructed  riffles.  These 
sluices  have  a  declination  of  eight  feet  in  twenty- 
four,  much  more  abrupt  than  that  of  the  ordinary 
sluice,  but  the  flow  of  water  and  sand,  as  stated,  is 
so  regulated  that  even  the  most  microscopic  particles 
of  gold  must,  in  its  course,  come  in  contact  with 
a  detaining  surface. 

The  corporation  is  peculiar  in  the  one  fact  that  it 
evidences  its  confidence  in  its  process  to  perform  all 
it  claims  by  refusing  to  sell  outright  its  machines. 
They  can  be  leased  on  royalty  only.  Further,  it  will 
on  submission  to  it  of  samples  of  sand  make  tests 
and  assays  free  of  cost  for  responsible  parties  who 
own  sufficient  material  bearing  enough  gold  to  war- 
rant a  profit  in  its  working.  In  a  series  of  tests  on 
sand  that  assayed  $3.80  a  ton,  the  highest  loss  was 
13  cents. 

The  fact  that  this  process  can  and  does  save  gold 
of  microscopic  fineness  is  being  demonstrated  every 
day,  and  that  this  corporation  affords  a  mine  of 
wealth  for  mine  owner  and  capitalist  is  proved  every 


Pleasure's     Wand. 
(Continued   from   Page   9.) 

The  Alcazar  has  selected  'A  Lady  of  Quality"  for 
the  first  week  of  the  New  Year.  It  was  in  this  pow- 
erful and  picturesque  drama  of  romance  that  Julia 
Arthur  kindled  a  blaze  of  enthusiasm  at  Wallack's, 
New  York,  six  years  ago.  'A  Lady  of  Quality," 
with  its  romantic  costuming,  clash  of  steel  and  tragic 
intensity,  will  also  give  capital  opportunity  to  the 
members  of  the  cast.  For  January  nth  there  will 
be  a  beautiful  production  of  "The  Moth  and  the 
Flame,"  a  play  which  has  not  been  equaled  for  genu- 
ine power  and  feeling  in  any  of  Clyde  Fitch's  other 
efforts. 

It  is  gratifying  news  that  arrangements  have  been 
made  for  the  appearance  in  this  city  of  Miss  Alberta 
Gallatin,  in  "Ghosts,"  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  on 
Sunday  night,  January  10th.  The  special  tour  is  a 
great  success,  and  the  only  regrets  is  that  it  is  to  be 
allowed  only  one  performance. 

*  *  * 

The  great  society  theatrical  event  of  the  season 
will  be  the  engagement  of  the  "Jersey  Lily,"  Mrs. 
Langtry,  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  commencing  Mon- 
day evening,  January  nth.  It  will  be  her  first  appear- 
ance here  for  many  years,  and  she  will  be  supported 
by  the  Imperial  Theatre  Company  of  London.  The 
first  of  the  repertoire  of  plays  to  be  presented  is 
Percy  Fendall's  modern  comedy,  "Mrs.  Deering's 
Divorce." 

*  *  * 

Alexander  Dumas"s  immortal  drama,  "Monte 
Cristo,"  with  Herschel  Mayall  in  the  great  role  of 
Edmond  Dantes,  and  the  accomplished  actress,  Eu- 
genia Thais  Lawton,  in  her  favorite  part  of  Merce- 
des, will  be  presented  at  the  Central  Theatre  next 
week.  The  production  of  "Monte  Cristo"  will  be 
complete  in  every  detail,  and  it  will  undoubtedly 
take  rank  as  one  of  the  popular  triumphs  of  the  Cen- 
tral Theatre. 


The  best  bit  of  realism  on  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
House  stage  yet  is  to  be  credited  to  the  donkey  that 
was  assigned  to  draw  the  cart  for  Sembrich.  Instead 
of  which,  the  animal  simply  squatted  down  on  the 
stage  and  refused  to  budge.  So  the  curtain  had  to 
be  rung  down.  And  yet  some  of  the  ill-humored 
critics  say  the  donkey  failed  to  come  up  to  the  level 
of  the  other  artists  in  the  cast.  What  a  lack  of  ap- 
preciation of  the   real  thing! 


Co-incident  with  the  coming  of  Tammany  into 
power,  religious  revivals  on  a  big  scale  for  young 
men  will  be  held  in  Manhattan.  But  Tammany,  in 
spite  of  the  plain  inference,  cares  not  who  holds  or 
attempts  revivals,  as  long  as  it  handles  the  revenues 
and  the  jobs,  for  Tammany  relies  on  the  practical 
superiority  in  the  moral  line  of  interest  over  princi- 
ple. 

Connoisseurs  of  wine  are  unanimous  in  the  fact 
that  G.  H.  Mumm  Champagne  is  the  acme  of  perfec- 
tion.   It  is  to  be  found  at  the  leading  clubs  and  cafes. 


The  holiday  goods  displayed  by  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  224 

Post  street,  are  the  most  tasteful  In  town.     Everything  In  Jap- 
anese art  and  brlc-a-brac. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO 

Sa  n  Francisco.  eighth 
city  In  point  of  ,«ize  In  the 
Union,  the  door  to  the 
Orient,  the  metropolis  of 
the  Pacific  Coast,  des- 
tined to  In*  the  world's 
greatest  city,  occupying 
the  eno  of  a  peninsula  by 
the  famous  Golden  Gate, 
entrance  to  the  world's 
greatest  harbor,  flanked 
hi  and  bay,  ia  con- 
tinually growing  south- 
toward  SAN 

BRUNO  PARK. 


ALL  EYES  TURN  TO  REAL  ESTATE  WHEN  SPECULATIVE  INTERESTS  FAIL 


SAN  BRUNO  PARK.  Junction  "S.P.  Bay  Shore  Cut-off."  facing  San  Mateo  Electric  Railway  and  S.P.  Depot 

S&n  Bruno  Park  is  now  the  scene  of  the  greatest  Real  Estate  activity  upon  the  Pa- 
cific Coast.  Since  November  17th,  the  day  upon  which  sales  were  first  made  in  San  Bruno 
Park,  over  ISO  lots  have  been  sold,  and  the  value  of  our  property  in  that  time  has  in- 
creased  25   per   cent. 

Several  owners  of  property  in  San  Bruno  Park  and  vicinity:  L.  F.  Swift,  Pres.  of 
Swift  &  Co.,  Chicago;  p.  O.  Mills,  New  York  and  San  Francisco;  Ogden  D.  Armour,  Pres. 
Armour  &  Co.,  Chicago;  Daniel  Meyer,  Banker,  San  Francisco;  W.  A.  Irwin,  Vice-President 
Federal   Trust  Co.,   San  Francisco;   George  R.  Sneath,    Jersey    Farm    Co.,    San    Francisco. 

George  C  Brooke,  Director  Federal  Trust  Co. 

DON'T  DELAY.     Write  us  at  once— to-day— for  full  particulars. 

HENSLEY=GREEN  CO.,    Dept.  A    Mills  Bldg.,  S.  F.  Cal. 

References:  Bankers  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce;  South  San'Franciseo  Land  and  Improvement  Co., 
which  numbers  among  its  Directors  the  Presidentof  the  Crown  Distilling  Co.,  the  manngerof  the  Anglo- 
Califnrnia  Bank,  and  the  following  gentlemen :  L.  F.  Swift  of  Chicago ;  President  Leroy  Hough.  General 
Manager  Western  Meat  Co. ;  Vice-President  Jesse  W.  Lilienthal.  Attorney.  Henry  J.  Crocker;  Daniel 
Meyer,  Banker;  also  the  California  Safe  Deposit  Co.,  and  W.J.  Martin,  President  South  San  Francisco 
Railroad  and  Power  Company.    Federal  Trust  Company. 

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addressing  as  above. 

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"Young  man,  buy  real  estate  In  the  out- 
lying boroughs,  and  then  work  hard  at  your 
usual     avocation.      Tour    real     estate    bur- 
chases  will  make  your  old  age  comfortable." 
—RUSSELL,    SAGE. 


"Few  large  fortunes  can  now  be  made 
in  any  part  of  the  world  except  from  one 
cause— the  rise  In  the  value  of  REAL,  ES- 

lATE  -ANDREW  OAKNEGIE. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


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'Hear  the  Crier'Mat  Vie  devil  art  W 
"  One  that  will  play  the  devil \  jir,  with  you  ' 


Some  of  the  stores  instituted  a  reign  of  terror  dur- 
ing the  holiday  season  in  their  well-meant  but  ill- 
directed  efforts  to  suppress  petty  larceny.  I  was  in 
one  of  the  largest  of  these  stores  a  few  days  ago, 
when  a  lady  carried  a  piece  of  dry  goods  away  with- 
out its  being  wrapped  up,  the  crush  being  so  great 
at  the  counter  that  she  could  not  afford  the  time  to 
wait.  She  was  immediately  pounced  upon  by  a  floor 
walker,  who  accused  her  point  blank  of  stealing,  and 
demanded  that  she  proceed  to  a  certain  room  to  be 
searched.  All  her  denials  were  met  by  the  most  bru- 
tal and  coarse  rejoinders.  Finally  she  bethought  her- 
self to  show  the  salesman  the  check  for  the  goods 
which  she  had  taken  half-unconsciously.  He  was 
not  satisfied  with  this,  but  haled  her  to  the  clerk  who 
had  made  the  sale,  and  who  fortunately  enough  re- 
membered her.  Of  course,  my  friend  vows  that  she 
will  never  put  foot  in  the  store  again.  There  is  a 
tremendous  amount  of  stealing,  that  is  true  enough, 
but  there  is  also  such  a  thing  as  reasonable  discre- 
tion. 

It  seems  that  every  crazy  scheme  can  find  people 
ready  to  help  it  out  for  the  sake  of  a  little  personal 
advertising.  It  is  this  human  weakness  upon  which 
Hearst  and  the  yellow  papers  rely.  They  can  start 
any  idea,  however  absurd,  and  find  prominent  citi- 
zens to  help  it  along.  Look  at  the  list  of  distin- 
guished Jewish  leaders  who  have  fallen  into  the 
trap  and  been  used  to  make  space.  Dr.  Voorsanger, 
however,  does  not  bite  as  easily  as  the  others,  and 
reading  between  the  lines  of  his  contribution  one  can 
find  a  piece  of  very  delicate  irony  at  the  expense  of 
the   International   Gamboge. 

"The  first  wife  to  the  rescue!"  Such,  I  opine, 
would  be  a  good  title  for  the  sort  of  farce  comedy 
which  is  being  played  with  one  Dr.  J.  A.  Fritz  in  the 
leading  part.  His  wife  Lizzie  Fritz  had  sworn  out 
a  warrant  against  him  for  threats  against  life.  There- 
upon his  first  wife,  Mary  Fritz,  from  whom  he  had 
been  formerly  divorced,  went  on  his  bonds.  Now, 
why  did  Mary  do  this?  Was  it  for  love  of  the  doc- 
tor, or  to  mark  her  approval  of  his  threats  against  the 
life  of  her  supplanted?  In  any  case,  it  would  seem  to 
show  that  the  doctor  made  a  bad  exchange,  and  that 
love's  young  dream  may  still  have  some  actual  cash 
value. 

Here  is  a  new  crime  which  owes  its  origin  to  the 
imagination  of  the  attorney  for  the  Western  Miners' 
Federation.  John  D.  Ackerman,  attorney  and  agent 
for  the  Yellow  Aster  Mining  Company,  is  accused 
of  the  direful  act  of  importing  laborers  into  the 
Randsburg  district  under  false  pretenses.  He  has 
been  charged  once  before  with  the  same  offense  and 
released  on  habeas  corpus  proceedings.  Surely  an 
action  for  malicious  prosecution  should  lie  against 
the  union. 

What  is  going  to  be  done  about  that  turn-table 
at  the  foot  of  Market  street?  As  things  are,  it  is  a 
hideous  nuisance.  The  cars  are  stopped  for  two 
blocks  and  a  half,  very  frequently,  and  people  are 
obliged  to  get  out  and  walk  in  the  wet  and  slush  over 
some  of  the  worst  pieces  of  street  in  the  city.  The 
whole  management  is  an  outrage  and  would  not  be 
tolerated  in  any  less  easy-going  community  than  this. 


I  dropped  into  Department  Two  of  the  Superior 
Court  the  other  afternoon,  and  there  were  no  less 
than  five  attorneys  all  busily  engaged  in  trying  a 
case,  the  value  of  which  to  the  victor  in  the  suit 
would  be  about  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  dol- 
lars. Do  you  think  that  all  these  disciples  of  Coke 
were  eagerly  endeavoring  to  get  at  the  rights  of  the 
matter?  Not  they!  They  were  trying  to  get  law- 
yers' fees  allowed  on  the  three  thousand  dollars 
for  which  suit  had  originally  been  brought,  which 
suit  has  offered  to  be  compromised  at  the  rate  of 
ninety  cents  on  the  dollar.  A  more  disgusting  com- 
mentary on  the  morals  of  the  local  bar  would  be 
hard  to  find. 

The  force  of  habit  or  of  instinct,  it  would  be  hard 
to  say  which  in  this  case,  was  never  more  clearly 
shown  than  in  Market  street  this  holiday  season.  A 
number  of  peddlers  had  mechanical  toys  vhich  they 
were  showing  off  on  the  pavement,  among  them 
some  mice.  It  was  no  uncommon  thing  to  see  a 
woman  jump  three  or  four  feet  to  one  side  away 
from  the  imitation  rodents.  I  heard  several  scream 
during  a  stay  of  a  few  minutes,  and  a  boy  told  me 
that  one  had  tried  to  climb  the  store  window  in  her 
fright.  The  boy  had  red  hair  and  squinted,  and 
upon  cross-examination  would  not  state  positively 
whether  the  woman  ran  from  him  or  the  mouse. 

Will  somebody  explain  why  a  charge  of  disturbing 
the  peace  is  not  brought  against  the  raucous-voiced 
females  who  clamor  outside  of  the  boycotted  restau- 
rants ?  Picketting  is,  I  believe,  allowed  by  the  laws 
of  this  State,  but  violent  and  abusive  language,  even 
when  uttered  by  a  woman  on  the  public  streets,  is  a 
misdemeanor.  Why  does  not  one  of  those  people 
who  are  insulted  when  entering  the  restaurant  swear 
out  a  complaint?  It  is  our  abominable  laziness  which 
makes  the  violation  of  the  law  so  easy  and  so  profit- 
able. One  arrest  followed  by  a  conviction,  and  the 
trouble  would  be  at  an  end.  But  would  the  arrest 
be  followed  by  the  conviction?     There's  the  rub. 

There  is  evidently  more  wrong  at  the  University 
than  is  generally  admitted  by  the  authorities.  The 
President  appears  to  have  lost  his  hold  upon  the  in- 
stitution. Even  the  attitude  of  the  students  when 
they  meet  him  on  the  cars  or  in  the  street  shows  that 
very  plainly.  A  President  who  does  not  keep  the 
ungrudging  respect  of  his  students  cannot  accomplish 
much,  and  somehow  or  other  this  respect  seems 
to  be  lacking  to  the  President  of  our  most  important 
institution.  Why  is  it?  Is  it  possible  that  ghosts 
can  really  queer  people? 

There  is  no  end  to  the  resolutions  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors,  but  I  should  be  glad  to  see  them  set 
to  work  really  to  abolish  the  masher  nuisance.  It 
has  been  more  obvious  this  year  than  for  some  time, 
and  country  girls  here  shopping  for  Christmas  have 
been  subjected  to  all  sorts  of  annoyances  which  they 
resent  but  do  not  know  how  to  show  their  indigna- 
tion. Unless  the  police  intervene,  male  relatives  will 
have  to  do  so,  though  it  is  not  to  be  expected  that 
citizens  should  do  their  own  scavengering. 

Father  Wyman  says  that  the  cure  for  this  world's 
ills  is  matrimony  and  a  large  family.  The  good  father 
is  in  no  danger  of  trying  his  own  medicine,  and  pre- 
scribing for  other  ptople  is  not  at  all  disagreeable. 
Let  the  reverend  gentleman  be  confronted  with  an 
overworked  wife  and  a  group  of  little  ones  whose 
need  for  shoes  is  more  apparent  even  than  their 
need  for  Christmas  gifts,  and  he  will  find  that  mar- 
riage and  t  family  may  be  good  discipline,  but  not 
altogether  joy.  Priests'  marriages  are  very  like  old 
maids'  children — too  ideal  for  practical  existence. 


January  2,  1904. 
How    San 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 
Francisco 

Looks 


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to     Me 


By  Fernauld  Travers,  Tourist. 

Editor  News  Letter     I  have  traveled  somewhat  in 
in  many  countries,  and  tarried  in  many  cities, 
for  a  chaotic,  non-conglomerate  mass  of  men, 
women,  and  customs.  San    Francisco  appeals  to  me 
next  besl  or  worst  to  Port  Said  or  one  of 
those  pTa<  f  the  Suez  on  the  road  to  Mande- 

lay.    The  main  charm  of  the  Occident  is  the 
you-|  stoms  of  the  fair  sex  and  devil-may-care 

habits  of  the  men,  neither  of  which  are  overburdened 
with  extra  scruples  regarding  morality  or  virtue. 
They  both,  however,  like  San  Francisco,  aim  to 
maintain  the  outward  decorous  form  of  an  inward 
and  spiritual  grace  by  conforming  as  strictlv  as  may 
he  to  the  forms  exacted  by  society  at  home  in  Lon- 
don or  in  my  birthplace.  New  York. 

Since  I  have  been  here  I  have  noted  one  thing  in 
San  Francisco's  incongruities  thai  appeals  to  a  trav- 
eled man.  I  refer  to  the  hospitality  offered,  some  of 
which  I  found  to  be  genuine  and  some  of  which  was 
pure  and  simple  toadyism.  In  the  one  case  it  was  a 
compliment  to  the  gentleman  and  the  scholar;  in  tin- 
other  case  it  was  a  sort  of  morbid  desire  to  capture 
and  display  me  as  a  social  lion. 

I  do  not  object  to  being  lionized;  it  is  due  me;  I 
am  used  to  it.  My  position  in  the  social  world  war- 
rants it,  but  I  claim  the  right  to  choose  the  cage  in 
which  I  shall  be  shown.  I  have  been  put  up  at  the 
clubs.  I  trust  I  shall  not  be  inflicted  by  being  com- 
pelled to  register  at  any  more  of  some  of  the  rooms 
I  have  been  taken  to,  which  I  was  gravely  informed 
was  the  So  and  So  Club.  Of  course,  you  have  one 
fairly  decent  club  which  approaches  my  own  best  in 
London,  but  you  also  have  some  that  are  the  comic 
operas  of  true  clubdom.  One  chap  who  lives  at  his 
club  asked  me  to  dine  and  spend  the  night  with  him 
at  the  jinks.  I  did  so,  and  enjoyed  it  somewhat,  but 
when  he  sent  his  man  to  attend  me  in  my  room  be- 
fore retiring,  the  beggar  had  a  mustache!  Think  of 
a  gentleman's  man  being  allowed  to  cultivate  a  mus- 
tache !  It  is  such  bad  form  that  it  positively  shocked 
me.  The  same  fellow  added  insult  to  injury  by  ap- 
pearing in  my  room  with  my  peg  next  morning  in 
his  slippers — beastly  bad  manners.  I  thought  of  my 
Alexandria  and  Said  experiences,  where  such  things 
are  not  too  common,  and  at  once  made  up  my  mind 
that  San  Francisco  clubmen  needed  a  few  hints  in  the 
art  of  culture. 

The  most  amusing  experience  I  have  had  for  many 
years  came  to  me  at  the  opening  of  your  opera  house, 
the  Tivoli.  I  was  invited  to  be  one  of  a  box  party. 
J  was  told  that  San  Francisco's  hall-mark  of  the  se- 
lect set  is  to  go  late  to  the  theatre  and  make  a  noise 
while  you  are  being  seated.  That  this  at  once  stamps 
you  as  being  comme  il  faut,  and  also  intimates  that 
your  coat  is  a  good  fit  and  the  frocks  of  the  gentle- 
women are  imported. 

The  Mayor,  not  a  bad  looking  fellow,  made  a  "few 
remarks,"  in  which  he  said  he  had  been  called  a 
"musical  Mayor"  by  some  one  who  had  opposed  his 
election  I  am  sorry  for  the  bad  taste  displayed  by 
the  nominator,  but  horrified  at  the  worse  taste  shown 
by  the  nominee  in  commenting  on  it.  The  remarks 
of  the  speaker  were,  however,  in  tone  with  the  actions 
of  the  audience.  There  was  nothing  but  gabble, 
chats,  and  over-tone  remarks  all  through  the  evening. 
It  called  to  mind  one  of  my  great-aunt's  charity  ba- 
zars  which   she    holds   occasionally   at   Beechwood, 


York,  England,  The  gentlewomen  flock  there  in 
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apartments,  and  then  I  expert  I  shall  have  to  educate 
the  incongruous  how  to  do  things  as  things  should 
be  .lone.  My  letter^  and  credentials  arc  ample.  :i>. 
has  been  proven  by  the  attentions  afforded  me  since 
my  arrival,  and  I  am  BO  much  amused  and  delighted 
that  I  want  to  show  you  your  idiosyncrasies,  your 
bad  manners,  and  I  want  I"  do  it  in  good  faith. 

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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


LcokorVn 


Of  all  the  notable  New  Year's  Eve  entertainrr  ents 
given  by  Mrs.  de  Young,  that  of  this  year  take-  the 
lead.  It  was  enjoyed  by  a  large  company  of  young 
folks  and  a  few  married  friends  of  the  hostess.'  The 
ballroom,  with  its  handsome  stage,  partially  de- 
stroyed by  fire  a  few  months  ago,  was  restored  in 
good  time  for  the  festivities  of  the  holiday  time. 

When  Mrs.  de  Young  returned  from  the  East  earlv 
in  December  she  brought  copies  of  a  number  of  the 
latest  songs,  the  catchy  things  that  New  York  is 
humming  and  to  which  it  is  keeping  its  toes  tip- 
tapping.  To  introduce  them,  Ernest  S.  Simpson  and 
Will  H.  Irwin  wrote  a  play  called  "My  Colorado 
Belle"  that  has  proved  a  most  satisfactory  setting. 
Charles  H.  Jones  of  Fischer's  Theatre  staged  the 
performance;  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart  had  the  direction 
of  the  music,  and  Miss  Alice  Duffy  wrote  words  for 
the  New  Year's  song. 

The  play,  with  its  specialties,  served  to  bring  out 
a  lot  of  first-class  talent  among  the  society  folk.  Airs. 
.Mark  L.  Gerstle,  who  took  the  part  of  the  heroine, 
gave  a  performance  that  the  professional  world  would 
have  regarded  as  above  par.  Equally  successful  was 
Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels,  Jr.  Her  singing  of  "Cora" 
and  "O!  Isn't  It  Perfectly  Lovely  to  be  on  the  Stage" 
were  the  cleverest  kind  of  imitations  of  the  singers 
who  have  made  such  success  of  them.  The  cast  in 
full   follows: 

Gentle  C.  Breezy,  Belle  of  Cripple  Creek,  Mrs. 
Mark  L.  Gerstle;  B'ella  Donna,  a  Prima  Donna,  Mrs. 
J.  D.  Spreckels,  Jr.;  E.  Z.  Breezy,  a  Colorado  Mil- 
lionaire, Mr.  Adison  Mizner;  Jasper  Green,  a  Dra- 
matic Author,  Mr.  Frank  L.  Owen  ;  I.  Collier  Down, 
a  Broken-Down  Actor,  Mr.  W.  H.  Smith,  Jr. ;  Sudden 
Smith,  Owner  of  the  Tin  Bucket  Aline.  Mr.  [.  C.  Wil- 
son ;  Reginald  Fitznoodle,  That's  All.  Mr.  Joseph 
Rosborough  ;  Tottie  Tiptoes,  a  Front  Row  Favorite, 
Miss  Ethel  Hager ;  Dottie  Dimple,  Miss  Pearl  Lan- 
ders; Sarah  Mony,  Miss  Constance  dc  Young;  Allie 
Mony.  Miss  Helen  Wagner;  Consie  Quentlv,  Miss 
Mabel  Cluff;  Apple  Sisters  (Cora),  Miss  Kathleen 
de  Young,  (Seedy)  Miss  Jane  Wilshire  ;  Evva  Dent- 
ly,_  Miss  Lucie  King;  Cora  Spond,  Miss  Ardella 
Mills;  Cissy  Rhinestone,  Miss  Frances  Stewart; 
Eddy  Fie,  Mr.  Charles  A.  Shea;  Benny  Fitt,  Mr. 
Charles  de  Young;  Tommy  Hawk.  Mr.  Paul  Jones; 
Jay  Byra,  Mr.  J.  D.  Spreckels.  Tr. ;  Tack  Pott,  Mr.  Roy 
M.  Pike;  Dan  Deligne.  Mr.  Burbank  G.  Somers; 
Dickie  Bird,  Mr.  Power  Hutchins;  Ouess  Knott, 
Mr.  Emerson  Warfield ;  Si  Clone.  Mr.  Leslie  Hark- 
ness;  Chauncey  Footlight.  Mr.  X.  T.  Messer. 

The  new  songs  introduced  were  "The  Maid  of 
Timbuctoo,"  "I'm  On  the  Water  Wagon  Now," 
"Egypt,"  "Cora."  "Little  Street  in  Heaven,"  "Ma- 
mie O'Hooley,"  "On  the  Boulevard,"  "Drinking 
Song,"  "O!  Isn't  it  Perfectly  Lovely  to  be  on  the 
Stage,"  "Say,  You'll  be  a  Friend  of  Mine,"  "Mr. 
Breezy,"  and  "Hoop  La." 

When  the  New  }Teai'  arrived  it  found  the  guests 
at  supper  waitng  to  give  it  a  rousing  welcome. 


holds  the  unique  record  of  seeing  "Dolly  Varden" 
the  most  times.  The  history  goes  back  to  the  wonder- 
ful nights  at  "Herald  Square"  two  winters  ago.  At 
that  time  Lulu  Glaser  was  singing  herself  into  a 
new  immortality  with  the  New  York  public.  "Dolly 
Varden,"  a  go  from  the  first,  was  not  of  the  hurri- 
cane sensation  sort.  "She  stole  into  the  hearts"  of 
the  inhabitants  of  Manhattan.  The  tales  of  her  win- 
some charms  appeared  to  be  a  story  that  was  passed 
on  personally  by  the  public.  And  one  day  the  town 
woke  up  to  the  knowledge  that  Lulu  Glaser  had  made 
good  with  the  great. 

Early  in  the  game,  young  Curtiss  and  his  chum 
drifted  into  the  Herald  Square.  They  were  struck 
with  the  utter  daintiness  of  Dolly.  After  that,  not 
a  week  passed  without  the  pals  present  in  front  seats. 
Members  of  the  company  began  to  observe  the  punc- 
tuality. The  young  men  were  easily  able  to  repeat 
large  sections  of  the  book.  The  attendance  was  the 
more  remarkable  for  being  a  devotion  to  the  ever- 
recurrent  melody  of  the  opera. 

After  the  expiration  of  the  New  York  season, 
Curtiss  saw  Dolly  Varden  for  runs  in  Philadelphia, 
Baltimore,  return  to  the  Victoria,  New  York,  again 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  that  city,  west  to  Denver, 
and  out  to  this  Coast.  On  the  opening  night  here 
he  and  his  friend  were  invited  in  by  the  company's 
representative  in  recognition  of  long  and  honorable 
attendance.  Thursday  the  two  men  from  the  East 
saw  dainty  Doll)'  on  the  boards  for  the  twenty-fifth 
record  time. 

Curtiss  thinks  it  significant  that  the  big  Sunday 
stories  which  are  devoted  to  every  phenomenally 
successful  show  in  New  York  did  not  come  out  about 
"Dolly  Varden"  immediately  after  its  first  night,  but 
following  shortly  the  time  he  and  his  companion  be- 
came regular  attendants. 

*  *  * 

Oakland  society  has  rebelled  against  the  new  fin- 
ger-bowl fad,  or  rather  what  was  supposed  to  be  new. 
Recently  a  swell  dinner  was  given  in  that  "Athens  of 
the  Pacific,"  and  instead  of  the  usual  finger  bowl  at 
the  plate  of  each  guest,  there  was  nothing.  A  large 
howl  of  scented  water  was  handed  round,  and  each 
one  dipped  fingers  into  it  with  some  misgivings.  Yet 
no  one  balked  at  this  unusual  ceremony,  not  know- 
ing whether  it  was  intended  as  a  joke,  a  new  fad, 
or  whether  the  servant  girl  had  broken  the  finger- 
bowls  and  this  was  used  as  a  make-shift.  But  after 
discussing  the  matter,  the  ladies  have  decided  that 
this  innovation  is  not  in  good  form,  that  it  is  de  trop, 


"WOLF" 


BRAND 


Harold  S.  Curtiss  is  a  young  New  Yorker  at  pres- 
ent in  this  city,  who,  in  company  most  of  the  time 
with  a  young  man  near  his  own  age,  in  all  probability 


BLOOD,  WOLFE  &  CO'S. 

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January  a.  1904. 


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and  ■  ■•  objectionable;  that  it  is  t<»>  promiscu- 

>f  all,  it  is  a  Chinese  custom.  Ii 
it  is  more  promiscuous  than  the  Chinese  custom  from 
which  it  was  evidently  borrowed.  At  the  high 
dinners  in  the  Chinese  quarters,  there  are  no  individ- 
ual finger  howls,  but  several  large  howls  are  placed 
near  the  door,  where  each  departing  guest  dips  his 
fingers  into  one  of  them.  But  all  of  them  do  tlOl  use 
bowl,  as  was  the  ease  in  the  modern  Athens,  and 
perhaps  that  is  one  reason  why  the  esthetic  have  ta- 
booed the  fad. 

*  *  * 

I  find  that  the  average  Alamedan  is  not  ungrate- 
ful, and  that  the  citizens  of  the  Island  City  are  thank- 
ful for  the  action  taken  by  the  Board  of  Harhor 
Commissioners  at  the  instance  of  the  News  Letter. 
The  wires  are  now  connected,  and  there  is  a  splen- 
did arc  light  in  the  Southern  Pacific  waiting  room  at 
the  Ferry,  and  Alamedans  read  their  papers  in  peace, 
and  there  is  no  more  groping  around  in  the  dark  in 
an  effort  to  recognize  friend  or  relative. 

*  *  * 

The  President  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Commercial 
Travelers'  Association  is  picturesque  in  language, 
if  not  in  figure.  In  regard  to  an  assessment  for  a 
free  bed  at  hospitals,  he  uses  the  following  verbal 
flow : 

"If  a  traveling  man  will  not  spare  the  small  sum 
of  50  cents  a  month,  the  association's  dues,  with  few 
exceptions,  he  is  either  a  nickel-in-the-slot  artist,  a 
natural-born  miser  or  a  high-born  aristocrat,  whose 
cowardly  nature,  in  places  where  he  cannot  be  de- 
tected, scorns  joining  an  association  where  religious 

lines  are  not  drawn." 

*  *  * 

Professor  Sir  William  Ramsay,  L.  L.  D.,  D.  Sc, 
Ph.  D.,  F.  R.  S.,  who  has  been  invited  to  visit  Cali- 
fornia next  year  and  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  on 
chemical  subjects  at  Berkeley,  is  sure  to  become  very- 
popular  here.  He  is  one  of  the  greatest  living  scien- 
tists, a  man  of  splendid  character,  and  is  extremely 
affable.  The  writer  for  several  years  had. the  honor 
of  studying  chemistry  under  him  in  his  laboratories 
at  University  College,  London,  and  knows  him  inti- 
mately. His  visit  will  draw  great  attention  to  the 
University,  and  in  the  course  of  his  lectures  he  will 
most  probably  make  public  the  results  of  some  re- 
markable experiments  he  has  been  conducting  for 
some  months  past. 

Sir  William  is  the  son  of  the  late  William  Ramsay, 
a  distinguished  civil  engineer  of  Glasgow,  and  the 
nephew  of  Sir  Andrew  Ramsay,  the  celebrated  geolo- 
gist. He  graduated  as  a  doctor  of  philosophy  at  the 
University  of  Tubingen  in  1872.  For  many  years  he 
was  an  assistant  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Glas- 
gow University.  In  1887  he 'was  appointed  Profes- 
sor of  Chemistry  at  University  College,  London,  and 
holds  that  position  still.  He  is  a  prolific  writer  on 
chemistry,  and  a  great  experimenter.  Recently,  by 
a  series  of  brilliant  researches,  he  discovered  argon, 
helium  and  crypton,  three  new  gaseous  elements,  in 
the  atmosphere,  and  he  is  now  experimenting  on 
radio-active  elements.  He  is  an  officer  of  the  French 
Legion  of  Honor,  a'  Member  of  the  French  Academy 
of  Science,  and  of  the  Academies  of  Berlin,  Holland, 
Bohemia,  Turin,  Stockholm,  Geneva,  and  of  the 
Royal  Irish  Academy.  All  the  leading  scientific 
societies  of  Europe  have  bestowed  their  highest  med- 
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FIRE,    MARINE   AND    INLAND    INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  1792. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF   PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     J3.0CO.0OO 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    5.022,016 

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Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal    Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up,  $3,446,100.  Assets,  $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,93u,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK  W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   501   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,    Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   1850. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..   2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  411  California  St. 

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If  my  memory  serves  me  right,  I  once  wrote  about 
the  Adjuster.  At  that  time  I  had  learned  that  he, 
to  be  successful,  had  to  possess  a  multiple  of  the  gen- 
ius of  a  Hawkshaw  as  a  detective  and  a  lawyer,  to 
say  nothing  about  a  degree  in  chemistry.  The  New 
York  Journal  of  Commerce  a  few  weeks  ago  pub- 
lished in  its  fire  insurance  columns  the  following 
item    which    it   called   a  new   special   hazard : 

"The  manufacture  of  formaldehyde,  extensively 
used  as  a  preservative  by  dairymen,  brewers,  embalm- 
ers  and  others,  involves  a  decided  fire  hazard  as  the 
following  process  will  develop.  In  the  regulation 
plant  wood  alcohol  is  fed  by  gravity  from  a  500  gal- 
lon capacity  steel  tank  to  a  half  dozen  steam-heated 
stills,  capacity  of  each  25  gallons,  temperature  of 
stills  the  boiling  point  of  water  212  degrees.  The 
Alcohol  is  rapidly  vaporized  at  this  temperature,  the 
vapor  is  then  forced  by  air  pressure  through  a  2-inch 
iron  pipe  which  is  heated  by  a  strong  gas  flame  lo- 
cated immediately  above  stills — allowance  being 
made  for  combustion  expansion  by  quadruple  pipes 
fitted  in  the  trunk  line,  also  a  relief  valve  with  a 
weight  counterbalance  connected  with  a  4-inch  pipe, 
leading  to  outside  of  building.  After  combustion  is 
produced  in  the  aerated  alcohol  vapor  by  the  gas- 
heated  pipe,  it  is  condensed  in  a  water  jacketed  con- 
denser; the  resultant  liquid  is  further  strengthened 
by  re-distillation  in  steam-heated  copper  stills  and 
again  condensed,  the  product  being  commercial  for- 
maldehyde. It  will  be  readily  observed  that  vapor- 
ized wood  alcohol  under  air  pressure  in  a  room  with 
open  gas  flame  is  an  extremely  serious  fire  hazard." 

The  information,  if  not  the  article  itself,  was  fur- 
nished by  Inspector  Tolley,  and  while  worthy  of  re- 
production in  the  special  interest  of  fire  insurance 
men  and  adjusters,  shows  how  varied  must  be  the 
knowledge  possessed  by  the  successful  Adjuster. 

*  *  * 

I  do  not  know  why,  but  one  week  I  run  into  a  lot 
of  life  insurance  stories  (some  of  which  I  have  written 
and  some  only),  and  the  next  week  it  is  all  fire  in- 
surance news,  or  news  connected  with  the  agents 
who  devote  their  money  getting  ability  to  that,  end 
of  the  profession. 

*  *  * 

This  week  I  find  the  managers  all  a-buzzing  over 
the  organization  of  the  Special  Agents'  Association 
of  the  Pacific  Northwest. 

The  Special  Agents,  or  most  of  them,  are  in  the 
city  for  the  holidays,  and  if  the  war  paint  which  they 
wear  will  stand  the  Sun  and  Water,  there  will  be 
some  tomahawks  out  in  January  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Pacific  Underwriters'  Association. 

The  Pacific  Underwriters'  Association  has  been 
venerated  on  account  of  its  age;  it  dates  back  to  the 


Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital t3.ooo.ooo-         Gross  CaBh  assets $17,300,000 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Hepre- 
sentatives  before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
may  be  to  your  advantage- 

H.  L.  ROFF.  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
tan Manager. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


January  a,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


«9 


la  fire,  but  in  later  hu  drifted  int.> 

I  the  now  and  younger 

the  continuance 

nc-man  idea, 
in  a  spirit  of  semi-rebellion,  and  in  a  whole 
'dependence,  the  men  behind  the  puns  ii   c. 
the  Special  A|  rganize  their  own  association. 

»  *  « 

It  is  necessary  t..  a  full  understanding  of  the  con- 
dition that  it  shall  he  known  that  several  managers 
red  the  Formation  of  the  new  associa- 
fof  the  simple   reason   that  they   did   not   wish 
their  specials  to  come  to  San  Francisco  from  Seattle 
and    Portland   to   attend    an    annual   meeting  of   the 
iation  when  they  could  do  the  same  thing  at 
half  the  expense  by  being  members  of  the  new 
ciation  of  the  North,  and  they  are  equally  disgusted 
with  the  one-man  state  of  affairs. 

*  *  * 

Fire  insurance  Special  Agents  as  a  rule  are  a  bright 
lot  of  fellows,  and  encouraged  by  their  employers 
they  did  not  need  a  second  bint  to  get  together  and 
organize. 

Their  principal  howl  is  that  their  present  secre- 
tary seems  to  have  a  mortgage  on  bis  position,  and 
that  they  can't  get  any  public  notice  except  through 
him.  On  the  other  hand,  I  learn  that  he  is  a  most 
estimable  gentleman,  engaged  in  the  profession  of 
Independent  Adjusting,  and  also  is  statistician  for 
one  of  the   insurance  monthlies. 

*  *  * 

The  same  monthly  was  chosen  by  the  association 
at  a  poorly-attended  meeting  to  be  what  is  termed 
the  official  journal  of  the  organization. 

Hence  the  war-paint  on  the  faces  of  the  Specials. 
They  are  tired  of  their  affiliation  with  the  older  body. 
They  want  a  new  deal,  and  their  employers  are  will- 
ing they  should  have  it,  and  the  insurance  editors 
are  up  in  arms  about  the  selection  of  an  official  jour- 
nal, so  that  the  true  inside  facts  of  the  case  may  be 
exposed  by  one  or  both  of  the  other  journals. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Underwriters'  Associa- 
tion used  to  be  held  in  February,  but  this  year, 
after  it  was  put  to  a  vote,  it  was  decided  to  hold  it 
a  month  earlier,  or  in  the  middle  of  January,  the 
Northwest  Specials  being  in  the  majority,  ruled  by 
their  votes  that  it  be  held  in  the  first  month  of  the 
year,  which  would  enable  them  to  enjoy  their  holi- 
days in  the  city  and  attend  the  last  meeting  of  the 
old  Fire  Underwriters'  Association,  and  at  one  and 
about  the  same  time. 

*  *  * 

Whether  the  Fire  Underwriters'  Association  can 
get  along  and  exist  without  the  membership  which 
the  new  association  comprises,  remains  to  be  seen, 
but  wagers  are  offered,  I  am  told  on  the  street,  that 
this  is  the  last  annual  meeting  of  the  parent  society. 

*  *  * 

The  objects  of  the  new  association  are,  as  defined 
by  the  following,  identical  in  principle  with  the  ob- 
jects of  the  older  association: 

1.  The  fostering  of  good  and  correct  practices. 

2.  The  upholding  of  the  honor  of  the  profession. 

3.  The  promotion  of  good  fellowship  among  the 
field  men  of  the  Pacific  Northwest. 

4.  The  extension  of  knowledge  of  advanced  meth- 
ods in  the  insurance  business. 

5.  The  maintenance  of  Association  headquarters, 
where  business  and  social  meetings  may  be  held. 

6.  The  keeping  on  file  of  the  latest  and  best  insur- 
ance literature,  and  records  of  value  or  interest  to 
the  members  of  the  Association. 


uspldona 

factory  claims  in  this  field. 

8.  The  general  welfare  of  the  tire  insurance  busi- 

why  the   need  of   two  bodii 

*  *  * 

After  talking  with  many  managers  1  have  reason 
to  think  that  the  move  i-  not  any  more  on  the  part 
of  the  Specials  than  on  the  pari  of  the  Managers; 
that  they,  also,  are  tired  of  existing  conditions  and 
nses,  and  are  going  quietly  to  shelve  the  old  as 
BOCl'ation,  which  has  simply  deteriorated  into  a  ring. 
and  that  they  take  this  means  of  unloading  without 
friction. 

*  *  * 

The  one  unlucky  insurance  publication  which  the 
new  association  elected  should  be  their  official  mouth- 
piece damns  the  now   regime  by   faint   praise   tauto- 
illy,  thus : 

"The  constitution  and  bv-laws  of  the  association 
are  probably  the  most  concise  and  the  most  flexible 
which  were  ever  gotten  up  for  any  society.  This  is 
right.  Tt  has  been  done  on  ourpose.  Their  brevity 
makes  them  elastic,  and  their  elasticity  gives  power 
for  expansion.  Hence,  the  sphere  of  the  good  to  be 
performed  becomes  limitless.  It  encourages  every 
member  to  stimulate  the  activity  of  the  societv. 
Every  member  is  expected  to  take  the  initiative.  No 
one  will  have  to  depend  on  the  action  of  the  officers 
of  the  institution.  Every  one  will  know  that  the 
officers  are  simply  elected  to  attend  to  the  few  ad- 
ministrative duties.  For  real  work,  for  elevating  the 
association  to  its  true  standard,  every  member  occu- 
pies the  same  rank." 

When  it  is  understood  that  this  journal  is  the  or- 
gan of  its  advertisers,  the  fire  insurance  companies 
on  the  Coast,  the  reports  and  views  that  the  old  as- 
sociation is  dead  or  to  be  killed  are  easily  under- 
stood, for  the  journal  in  question  only  writes  phono- 
graphically.  The  new  organization  is  not  the  move 
of  the  Specials  unaided,  but  of  the  Specials  and 
Managers,  and  the  meeting  on  January  10th  will 
tell  the  story.    The  king  is  dead— long  live  the  king! 


No  Dust 
When  Dancing' 


Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax  Bin  s  Into  the  wood  and  becomes  a 
part  or  the  beautifully  polished  dancing  surface.  It  ma  fB  no  duBt. 
does  not  rub  into  lumpaorstlo  to  the  eboea  JnBtBprlnl  e  on  and  the 
dancera  will  do  the  rest.  Doew  not  so!i  dresses  or  clothes  of  the  finest 
fabric 

For  Bale  by:  Mack  A  Co,  Langley  &  MJohaelB  and  Bcd'.ngton  ft  Co., 
Ban  FranciBco,  Kir*.  Geary  &  Co.,  Sacramento,  and  F.W.Braun  St  Co., 

Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax 


AMERICAN  4^  f%    y*    J 

CANNEL  LUAL 

Sold  by  all  Reliable  Dealers 

CenA  DPWADH  for  any  ease  of  Rheumatism  whieh  eau- 
VOVV    KCWrtKU    not    be    eured    with    Dr     Drummcmd.s 

Lightning  Remedies;  restores  stiff  joints,  drawn  cords,  and  Hardened 
muscles.  Proof  from  25  States  sent  on  reauest.  Address  Drummond 
Medicine  C-o.  84  Nassau  Street,  New  York. 

SING     FAT    &     COMPANY 

Chinese   and   Japanese   Bazaar.     We   have    but  on* 
price.    All  goods  marked  In  plain  English  figures. 


514  DUPONT  STREET,  S.  F. 


Next  to  St.  Mary'*:  Church. 


20 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


Financial 


speculators  on  other  mining  and  oil  boards  has  re- 
sulted at  all  times  in  a  flat  failure.  This  may  seem 
strange,  but  it  is  true,  nevertheless. 


The  year  of  1903  about  to  close  has  been  rather  an 
uneventful  one  in  local  financial  circles,  in  the  matter 
of  market  changes.  Business  in  the  Board  has  run 
along  in  the  most  placid  manner,  too  placid  entirely 
to  suit  the  ideas  of  brokers  who  carry  on  a  strict 
commission  business.  The  panicky  conditions  which 
have  shaken  the  money  center  of  New  York  failed 
to  break  the  monotony  of  the  zephyrs  which  breathed 
so  gently  in  the  frequented  haunts  of  the  local  kings 
of  finance.  It  is  years  since  the  severity  of  their  sur- 
roundings has  been  broken  in  so  rude  a  manner,  and 
the  last  financial  shake-up  of  the  kind  seems  to  have 
played  such  havoc  with  the  vitality  of  speculators  as 
to  act  as  a  sure  preventative  of  another  outbreak  of 
a  like  serious  nature.  With  money  so  plentiful  as 
it  is  with  the  savings  banks,  reflecting  the  unprece- 
dented prosperity  of  the  working  classes,  the  vast 
accessions  to  the  corporate  wealth  of  such  corpora- 
tions as  the  Gas  and  Water  companies,  represented 
by  a  new  issue  of  millions  in  bonds,  can  be  accounted 
for  readily.  Had  local  investors  confined  their  opera- 
tion to  the  local  line  of  bonds  and  shares,  instead  of 
patronizing  Wall  street  so  magnificently  as  they  'lid, 
there  would  have  been  a  good  deal  more  money  to 
credit  up  to  this  community  at  the  close  of  the  period 
under  review. 


The  only  real  feature  of  the  year  outside  of  a  pos- 
sible increase  in  the  number  of  banks,  owing  to  a 
brief  repeal  of  the  banking  law,  which  left  the  bars 
down  for  a  while,  and  the  extraordinary  increase  of 
capital  referred  to  above,  was  the  merger  of  the 
big  powder-making  plants  on  the  Coast,  all  of  which, 
with  one  or  two  exceptions,  are  now  controlled  by  an 
Eastern  syndicate.  The  tendency  seems  to  be  in  this 
direction,  and  the  incoming  year  will  likely  see  many 
more  industrial  plants  of  one  kind  or  another  in 
combine,  under  the  manipulation  of  Eastern  capital. 
Viewed  in  a  certain  light,  the  changes  which  will 
certainly  follow  in  business  methods  may  be  gen- 
erally considered  a  blessing  in  disguise.  The  methods 
of  finance  in  vogue  here  at  present  are  a  little  pri- 
meval for  the  rapid  evolution  now  going  on  in  the 
transformation  of  a  provincial  burg  into  a  great  me- 
tropolis. • 


The  Comstock  Market,  which  has  lain  in  a  slum- 
ber for  many  years,  has  given  signs  during  the  twelve 
months  now  about  ended  of  an  awakening,  which 
cannot  come  too  soon.  For  a  long  time  past  the 
management  of  the  mines  at  Virginia  City  have  been 
modernizing  the  system  of  operation  of  leading 
properties  on  a  scale  which  will  permit  them  to  com- 
pete in  regard  to  cost  of  mining  and  ore  reduction 
with  any  of  the  most  progressive  companies  in  the 
world.  The  result  must  be  that  improvements  of 
the  kind  will  eventually  promote  an  activity  in  the 
market,  with  better  prices  for  the  stocks  of  all  the 
leading  companies.  A  good  lively  market  for  Com- 
stock shares  would  be  a  veritable  benefaction  for  the 
city,  and  put  more  surplus  money  in  circulation  in 
a  month  than  the  "securities"  of  the  so-called  legiti- 
mate description  would  in  a  year.  San  Francisco  has 
been  a  slow  place  since  Comstock  speculation  fell 
flat,  and  attempts  to  arouse  the  same  spirit  among 


During  the  past  week  the  Comstock  Market  ex- 
panded a  little  again,  as  if  to  show  its  steam-making 
possibilities  which  all  the  power  the  shorts  can 
bring  to  bear  does  not  seem  qualified  to  interfere 
with.  The  north-end  stocks  as  usual  gave  tone  to 
the  market,  and  the  leaders  have  an  undertone  which 
indicates  a  current  of  strength  which  it  would  not 
take  much  to  develop  into  a  vigorous  vampire  on 
the  up-grade.  The  outlook  in  Ophir  is  generally 
believed  to  be  exceptionally  bright  just  now,  and 
this  would  appear  to  be  amply  justified  by  all  that 
can  be  learned  from  the  mines,  which  is  now  pro- 
ducing a  very  handsome  grade  of  ore  on  a  highly 
liberal  scale.  The  middle  mines  and  the  Alpha-Bul- 
'  lion  group  are  gradually  beginning  to  loom  up  as 
a  powerful  factor  in  bringing  about  and  supporting 
a  more  active  condition  of  affairs  in  the  market.  At 
the  present  moment  indications  are  such  as  to  war- 
rant the  inference  that  this  activity  is  not  so  very 
far  away  as  the  talent  on  the  bear  side  of  the  business 
might  suppose. 


The  California   Gas   and   Elec- 
Local  Securities      trie     Corporation's     statement 
Rule  Quiet  for  November   last     shows     a 

net  surplus  for  the  month  of 
$37,236,  about  the  average  net  monthly  earnings  for 
the  past  nine  months,  which  amount  to  $275,736. 
Trading  in  the  stocks  has  been  light  during  the  past 
week,  and  the  same  might  be  said  of  everything  on 
the  entire  list  of  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange, 
which  is  only  natural,  considering  it  is  a  holiday  sea- 
son, when  only  miserly  souls  keep  up  their  money- 
grubbing.  People  of  means,  who  are  above  the  sor- 
did methods  of  the  hungry-eyed  squad  of  profes- 
sional nickel-chasers,  do  not  pretend  to  take  much 
interest  in  the  ordinary  investment  markets  at  this 
season  of  the  year,  which  accounts  largely  for  the 
dull  times  among  the  stock-broking  fraternity.  An- 
other financial  statement  which  has  appeared  is  that 
of  the  North  Shore  Railroad  for  the  month  of  No- 
vember. It  shows  a  deficit  for  the  month  of  $16,897. 
The  net  surplus  for  nine  months  past  to  November 
3d  amounts  to  $89,608,  an  increase  of  $3,200  over  the 
same  period  last  year. 

The  market  for  Tonopah  shares 
The  Tonopah  shows  more  activity  than  it  has 
Share  Market,  done  for  some  months  past,  on 
the  strength  of  the  assurance  that 
railroad  communication  will  soon  be  secured  with 
the  outside  world,  affording  facilities  for  the  cheap 
transportation  of  ores  which  has  been  lacking  ever 
since  the  mines  were  first  opened  up.  It  will  make 
a  material  difference  when  this  camp  gets  in  touch 
with  reduction  works,  and  the  owners  of  small  mines 
are  placed  in  a  position  where  they  realize  on  their 
ores.  Itwill  enable  them  to  open  up  their  properties 
to  good  advantage,  and  bring  money  into  the  camp. 
The  only  trouble  with  the  share  market  is  the  im- 
mense issue  of  stock  which  nearly  all  of  the  leading 
companies  are  laboring  under.  It  weighs  them 
down  and  will  be  a  bar  to  manipulation  at  all  times. 
At  least  that  was  the  experience  of  the  men  who  ran 
the  Comstock  Market  in  the  years  gone  by.  They 
could  never  have  managed  matters  as  they  did,  had 
the  share  issue  amounted  in  the  millions,  or  to  any 
larger  figure  than  they  now  do.  Just  imagine  a 
company  with  a  million  shares  floated,  in  the  public 


January  2.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


21 


ing  tl»"  "  |Morum  together  to  hold  an 

annual    meeting   or   elect    dil  It    means 

■  ma)  be,  holding  over  \<mt 
in  and  year  out,  whether  nr  not  ii  may  be  desirable  to 

nncip.il  holders  of  the  stock.  The  management 
of  the  mines  ought  to  consider  this  matter  and  judge 
'"r  '■'  -  it  things  would  not  work  to  better 

advantage  1>y  a  reduction  of  the  capital  stock. 


The  Federal  Government  has  knocked  one  mining 
fake  in  good  style,  unfortunately,  however,  not  until 
a  «rcat  deal  of  money  has  been  lost  In-  investors  all 
o\cr  the  country.  The  property  involved  lav  in  what 
i-  known  as  the  Wichita  Mountains,  Okla,  which 
have  been  boomed  for  some  months  past  "as  a  gold- 
bearing  County."  Under  the  direction  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Interior,  a  Government  assayer  visited 
the  ground,  and  after  an  examination,  reported  that 
"none  of  the  assays  showed  ore  in  the  proper  sense 
of  the  word,  and  that  the  region  has  no  present  or 
prospective  value  as  a  mineral  producer." 

IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT. 

Mr.  Paul  Gerson  begs  to  state  that  in  response  to 
numerous  requests  he  will,  on  January  1st,  open  a 
Juvenile  Department  in  connection  with  his  School 
of  Acting,  and  has  secured  the  services  of  a  teacher 
of  experience  especially  qualified  for  this  work,  Miss 
Lillian  E.  Muscio.  One  of  the  features  of  the  de- 
partment will  be  the  dancing-class  in  charge  of  Sig- 
nora  Matildita.  In  order  that  each  one  may  have 
his  or  her  proper  time  and  attention,  the  class  will 
be  limited  to  twenty-five.  Mr.  Gerson  will  give  his 
personal  attention  to  every  pupil.  For  terms,  etc., 
call  or  address  the  Juvenile  Department  of  The  Paul 
Gerson  School  of  Acting,  Native  Sons'  Building,  414 
Mason  street. 

The  fourth  of  the  series  of  matinee  performances 
by  students  of  the  School  will  take  place  Friday  af- 
ternoon, January  29th,  at  Fischer's  Theatre.  A  bril- 
liant programme  will  be  presented.  The  School  will 
be  assisted  by  the  San  Francisco  Conservatory  of 
Music,  this  institution  hereafter  combining  its  artis- 
tic interests  with  the  School  of  Acting. 


A  CHOICE  RESIDENCE  SECTION. 

The  population  of  the  cities  is  showing  more  of  an 
inclination  all  the  time  to  remove  to  the  suburbs. 
Tired  01  the  noise,  the  rush,  and  the  roar  of  town, 
they  are  seeking  places  where  they  may  spend  their 
nights  in  comfort,  and  where  children  may  be  raised 
properly. 

No  better  residence  property  has  ever  been  offered 
the  people  of  San  Francisco  than  at  San  Bruno  Park, 
between  here  and  San  Jose.  The  location  is  ideal, 
with  mountains  on  either  side,  no  fogs,  no  heavy 
winds,  and  plenty  of  soft  sunshine.  Moreover,  the 
train  and  electric  car  service  that  has  been  estab- 
lished makes  it  within  easy  distance  of  the  city.  Now 
that  the  cut-off  is  to  be  built,  and  with  the  splendid 
service  of  the  San  Mateo  Electric  Road,  the  time  to 
San  Francisco  will  be  shortened  to  fifteen  minutes. 
Considering  the  advantages,  the  lots  there  are  selling 
very  cheap.  The  property  is  in  the  hands  of  the 
Hensley-Green  Company,  Department  A.,  Mills 
Building. 


The  Japanese  art  goods  displayed  by  George  T.   Marsh   & 

Co.,  224  Post  street,  are  worth  your  while.    Nothing  more  appro- 
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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


BANKING. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capita),  Surplus  and  Undivided  f$]3  500,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  F.  L.  Llpman,  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King.   Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.  E.  Miles,  Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New  York;  Salt  Lake,   Utah;   Portland,  Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

632    CALIFORNIA    STREET. 

Deposits,    June    30,    1303    J    ,0,1,290 

Paid-up  Capital   .000.000 

Reserve  Fund    247.657 

Contingent    Fund    625.156 

E.  B.  POND.  President;  W.  C.  B.  de  Fremery.  Vice-President; 
ROBERT  WATT.  Vice-President;  LOVELL  WHITE.  Cashier;  R. 
M.   WELCH.   Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— Henry  F.  Allen.  William  A.  Magee.  W.  C.  B.  de 
Fremery,  C.  O.  G.  Miller.  Robert  Watt.  George  C.  Boardman, 
Fred  H.  Beaver,  Jacob  Barth,  E.  B.  Pond. 

Loans  upon  San  Francisco  and  Oakland  real  estate,  and  farms 
and    farming  land   in    the   country. 

Receives  deposits.  Country  remittances  may  be  made  In  checks 
payable  in  San  Francisco  Post-office,  or  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.'s 
money  orders,  or  coin  by  express,  but  the  responsibility  of  this 
bank   commences  only   with   the   receipt  of   the  money. 

No  charge   is  made  for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.t  and  Saturday  evenings,  for  re- 
ceipt of  deposits  only,  6:30  to  8  o'clock. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank;  of  s»n  Francisco 

710  Market  St.  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital     (1,000,000 

Paid-up   Capital   and   Surplus    51X1.000 

JAMES  D.  PrlELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice- 
President;  C.  B.  HOBSON,  Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— Jumps  D.  Phelan,  S.  Ci.  Murphy,  John  A  Hooper.  James 
Muilltt,  Frank  J.  Sulliv;in.  UmIk-it  M./Elruv,  Ku<h>l|i|i  Spreckels.  James 
M-  McDonald,  Charles  Holbrook, 

Interest  paid  on  deposits.     Loans  on  approved  securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co..  or 
exchange  on   city  banks. 

The  German  Savings  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  526  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  (2,397,758.10 

Capital    Actually    Paid-up   In    Cash    1,000,000.00 

Deposits.    June    30,     1903     34,819,893.12 

HOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President.  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-president.  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt.  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary  A.  H. 
Muller;   General   Attorney,   W.   S.   Goodfellow. 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  in  18S9.  OF   CALIFORNIA. 

301   California   Street.   San   Francisco,   Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital    (15,000,000.00 

Paid-in    Capital    3,000,000.00 

Profit   and    Reserve    Fund 450,000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on   term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.  Washington  Dodge,  President;  William  Corbin,  Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 

International  Banking  Corporator) 

No.  1  WALL  ST.,  NEW  YORK. 

Capital    and    Surplus    Paid-in    $7,894,400 

Capital   and    Surplus   Authorized    10,000,000 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  William  H.  Maclntyre, 
Assistant  General   Manager;   Alexander  &  Green,   Counsel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila, 
Hong  Kong,   Yokohama,   Shanghai,    Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon, 
Colombo,  Amoy,  Canton.  Hankow.  Tientsin,  Tansul,  Anping, 
Bakan,  Mojl,  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavia,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,   and   all   parts   of   Europe. 

SAN   FRANCISCO   BRANCH— 32-34   Sansome   Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
,if  deposit  Issued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents    throughout    the    world. 

CORRESPONDENCE  INVITED. 

F.  E.  BECK,  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWICK,  JR.,  Ast.  Mgr 


MOUNTAIN  MEADOWS  MASSACRE. 

The  massacres  in  Turkey  recall  the  infamous  Mor- 
mon massacres  of  a  half  century  ago.  In  this  historic 
massacre,  men,  women  and  children  were  killed. 
When  the  Mormons  were  driven  from  Nauvoo,  Illi- 
nois, for  coveting  their  neighbors'  cattle,  and  because 
of  their  immoralities,  they  settled  at  what  is  now  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  soon  organized  an  independent  Gov- 
ernment, styled  Deseret.  Immigrants  from  the 
States  were  plundered  as  they  passed  through  Brig- 
ham  Young's  territory;  gold-seekers  were  driven  out 
of  the  country,  and  many  of  them  were  lost  in  the 
mountains,  supposed  to  be  the  work  of  that  murder- 
ous band  styled  the  Destroying  Angels.  Brigham 
Young  prohibited  prospecting  for  gold,  prophesying 
that  the  development  of  the  mines  would  cause  the 
country  to  be  overrun  with  the  accursed  Gentiles.  In 
'this  he  foresaw  the  loss  of  power,  and  that  of  the 
Church  authorities,  over  the  ignorant  fanatics.  His 
prediction  was  almost  fulfilled.  Finally,  the  Prophet 
issued  an  order,  so  history  states,  that  no  more  Gen- 
tiles should  pass  through  his  territory  on  their  way 
to  California.  The  Nauvoo  Legion  knew  what  that 
meant. 

Soon  afterwards,  in  the  fall  of  1858,  there  arrived 
at  Salt  Lake  two  trains  of  immigrants — one  from 
Mississippi  and  the  other  from  Arkansas.  They  had 
united  for  protection,  and  numbered  about  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-five. 

The  immigrants  left  Salt  Lake  by  the  southern 
route,  with  the  assurance  from  the  Mormon  officials 
that  they  would  be  given  all  possible  aid.  In  the 
meantime,  a  detachment  of  the  Mormon  militia, 
known  as  the  Nauvoo  Legion,  was  ordered  south- 
ward, under  the  command  of  the  infamous  John  D. 
Lee.  Orders  had  also  been  sent  along  the  road  to 
the  farmers  prohibiting  them  from  selling  provisions 
or  grain,  or  even  giving  water,  to  the  accursed  Gen- 
tiles, the  enemies  of  the  Mormon  Church. 

The  disheartened  and  starving  immigrants  camped 
at  a  beautiful  meadow  about  two  hundred  miles  south 
of  Salt  Lake,  to  graze  their  stock  and  possibly  re- 
plenish their  almost  exhausted  store  of  provisions. 
This  is  a  beautiful  and  picturesque  spot,  about  a  mile 
in  extent,  with  a  spring  at  the  base  of  the  hillock. 
Early  one  morning  the  immigrants  were  attacked  by 
men  dressed  as  Indians.  They  wheeled  their  wagons 
in  a  hollow  square,  and  defended  themselves.  The 
camp  was  surrounded  and  the  supply  of  water  from 
the  spring  was  also  cut  off.  At  the  end  of  two  days 
a  white  flag  was  seen.  The  immigrants  believed  that 
relief  was  at  hand.  The  flag  was  borne  by  Mormons, 
who  informed  the  immigrants  that  they  were  sur- 
rounded by  an  immense  number  of  Indians;  that 
their  condition  was  hopeless,  and  that  it  would  be 
better  for  them  to  surrender.  The  immigrants,  un- 
fortunately, placed  faith  in  the  Mormons,  who  had 
agreed  to  escort  the  Gentiles  out  of  the  country — if 
they  would  also  surrender  their  arms.  This  the  im- 
migrants also  unwisely  did.  The  immigrants  were 
then  formed  in  lines — the  men  in  one  line  and  tin 
women  and  children  in  another.  They  were  marched 
out  of  their  encampment,  with  an  armed  Mormon  on 
each  side.  After  reaching  a  point  in  the  woods  a 
short  distance,  at  a  signal  each  Mormon  turned  upon 
the  man,  woman  or  child  at  his  side  and  fired.  The 
work  was  finished  with  the  bowie-knife.  The  cries 
of  the  women  pleading  for  their  children  and  babes 
were  piteous,  and  would  have  moved  the  heart  of 
any  one  save  a  fanatic.  Mothers  pleaded  that  their 
children  might  be  spared,  offering  themselves  as  a 


January  2,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


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sacrifice    These  pleas  fen  upon  hi  tone.  Chil- 

dren  wore  Stabbed   to  (loath   while  clinging  to   their 

mothers  for  safety,  and  babes  were  taken  from  the 
mothers'  arms  and  their  brains  dashed  out  against 
a  tree.  Women  were  violated,  and  then  murdered 
by  the  same  hrnte,  just  as  the  Turks  are  doing  to-, lay. 
Finally,  the  vengeance  of  tin-  fanatics  was  appi 
and  the  massacre  ended.  (  if  the  on,-  hundred  an.', 
thirty-five  immigrants,  only  seven  or  eight  were 
spared,  and  these  were  babes  and  children  under  ten 
years  of  age.  The  children  were  placed  in  .Mormon 
families,  their  names  changed  and  identity  lost,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  instances.  I  Ine  of  the  eldest 
of  the  children  was  reserved  by  avenging  Justice  to 
appear  as  a  witness  in  the  prosecution  of  the  leader, 
John  P.  Lee.  nearly  twenty  years  afterwards.  Lee 
wa>  convicted,  and  shot  on  the  meadow  where  the 
massacre  occurred. 

The  Mormons  had  disguised  themselves  as  Indians, 
ami  for  many  years  it  was  believed  by  the  outside 
world  that  it  was  an  Indian  massacre.  But  the  accu- 
mulation of  evidence  and  the  confessions  of  some 
of  the  participants,  convict  the  Mormons  of  the 
massacre.  Furthermore,  books  in  which  were  writ- 
ten the  names  of  some  of  the  murdered  immigrants, 
and  Masonic  emblems  belonging  to  them  were  found 
in  Mormon  families.  It  was  charged  by  some  of 
the  assassins  that  the  order  to  slay  the  Gentiles  was 
issued  by  the  Prophet  of  the  Mormon  Church.  Copies 
of  this  order  have  been  printed,  while  others  contend 
that  no  such  order  was  issued,  at  least  in  writing. 
However  that  be,  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  massacre 
was  committed  by  an  armed  body  of  Mormon  fa- 
natics, who  believed  that  they  were  acting  in  the 
interests  of  their  Church  as  the  Turks  are  now  do- 
ing. And  this  in  free  America.  Small  parties  were 
subsequently  massacred  by  bands  of  Mormon  fanat- 
ics, individuals  who  opposed  Church  authority  were 
"blood-atoned,''  and  life  was  unsafe  there,  until  the 
Government  stationed  troops  and  batteries  of  can- 
nons in  this  modern  Turkey. 

It  is  a  blot  upon  the  civilization  of  the  world  and  a 
disgrace  to  that  country  that  can  never  be  effaced. 

Humanity  shudders  at  such  massacres.  It  is  the 
moral  duty  of  the  world  to  prohibit  such  outrages 
among  any  people.  The  vicious  or  half-civilized 
people  should  be  put  under  such  controlling  power 
as  to  render  such   butcherings   impossible. 


The  last  quotation  on  radium  is  $148,835  an  ounce. 
Eastern  people  must  be  reminded  by  this  of  the 
coal  famine  of  last  year. 

"They  are  calling  for  the  author.    What  shall  I  do? 
Stage  Manager — You  had  better  get  out  of  the  back 
door  as  quickly  as  you  can. 

A  Question  of  Construction. 
Bingley — Are  Manila  brides  happy,  as  a  rule? 
Bagley — Well,  they  generally  go  in  transports. 

Many  a  man  receives  the  credit' of  always  having  new> 

clothing,  when  the  truth  is  that  this  appearance  comes 
from  his  suits  being  sent  regularly  to  Spaulding's  Cleaning 
and  Dyeing  Works,  where  they  are  cleaned  and  pressed  in 
model  manner.  They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  laces,  cur- 
tains and  similar  articles. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$6.00  per  ton.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanli- 
ness and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes  are  superior 
to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Goal  Company,  10  ti  and 
Channel.     'Phone  South  95. 


BANKING. 


Tbe  San  Francisco  National  BaQk 

IN    YUKON    TEHRITORT-Dnwion    And    White    Horse. 

in    I  NITKD  STATES-I'arthind.   Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska;. 

Southeast  corner  of  Santiome  and   Pine  Sis.,  oan   Francisco. 

jas.  k.  uii.MjN.  Presiueni;  \\  b\.  rifcHCfc;  j«jilnso*n,  Vice- 
Prosident;  LLUiS  t.  CUWGU,U  Cuanier;  t\  W.  \\  ULKUI,  As- 
slstant  Cut) 

Capital,   *6U0.Q00.     Surplus   and    Undivided   l'rollts,    |196,uoo. 

UlUbtTuKK- \\  imam  J,  nuttun,  C.  S.  Benedlot,  u  iliiam 
Pierce  johnaun.  n.  l.  jiuuungiuu,  George  a.  iNuwii.Hi,  L,«urKe 
A.    Pope,    JumeH    K.    Wilson,    i..    i.    Cuvtgiii. 

AUh,.Vi"y— iNew  Xork—llaJiuVer  N&uuOaJ  uank,  Chase  National 
Bank.  Chemical  iSaiioiiui  liuiik.  not,  inn— iNatiouai  shuvvmui 
Bank.  I'huuueluhla— in.  xtM  6t  Co.  Clucago— CuniiutiUtti  i>a- 
Uunat    Bu.uk.      £>i,     i_rOuia—  1  in-    Mechanics      i>uiik.      ivaiiBua    City— 

t  irsi    ^National    Bank.      JUjuuun— - uruwn,    siuuiuy    oc    Co.      Paris 

iUui-ga.11,     tiurjea    Oc    Co.      Uen\  «r—  ^aliunal     Bank    ut     commerce. 
JolntiuieaburK— Koumaon    toouih    Airican    Banking    Co.,    dinned. 


ltje  CaQadiaQ  BagK,  or  Commerce 

With    which   Is   amalgamated    the   Bank   of    British   Columbia. 
J-ii^AjU    «JJ?'*'iCJU— 'lUltUiMU. 

Paid-Up   Capital,    *&,.uu,uuu.  Reserve    Fund,    W.iwu.uuu 

Aggregate  resources,  over  $<u,uuu,uuu 

tt\jx\.   ciHiUKcii!;  A.    cox,    Presiuent. 

B.  E.   Walker,  c-eueral  Manager.     Alex.  Buiru,  assl  Gen.   Mgr. 

LuiNDciN    uFi-'ick — wj    Lomoaru    si.,    E.    C 

JNi^W     Y.OKK.    OKtTCE— 16    ii,xcnaiige    Place. 

BRAMCHKti      IN      BrtiliSH      Culumuia-aUui,        Cranbrook, 

i?  ernie,    C-ieenwoou,    JLvauiloops,    BauysiuiUi,     an  anal  mo,     iSeiaun, 

iNew     Westminster,     V  ancuuvcr    ana     Victoria. 

Aisu    6U    oilier      uraiiciies,      cuvering      llie      principal      points      In 
Alaniioua,    in.     VV.    Territories,    anu    eastern    canaua. 
i3Ai.Nii.HiJKS    iN    LUiMJUiN-Uio    Baiia    ut    lMigia.11  a,    Xhe    Bank   or 
ocuiianu,  Lioyua  Baiia,  Liu.,  'Hie   union  01  luiiuuh  anu  amitha 
Ban  a,  Bid. 
AutoiMS   xjS    CHICAGO— The   Northern   Trust   co. 
ACrUJJNT'ti  liN   NEW   OJXLEANS— Ahe  Commercial  National  Bank. 
»Atl     l-HMnciaou     urMtc- 


aiio   California   Street. 


A    KA1NB,    Manager. 


London,  Paris  and  American  fcianK  Lllfllte4 

N.    W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  BUTTJfiK  STS. 

Subscribed    Capital,    $u,ouu,uuu  Paia-up    Capital,    ja,uiw,00u 

Keaerve  Fund,  Jl.hw.uuu. 

Head  otiice — w   Tnreauueeuie  ai.t   JLondon,   E.   O. 

AGENTS :  New  fcork— Agency  ox.  ine  LunUuu,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  BuxuteU,  No.  lu  Wail  sireei,  is.  X.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Bazaru  i?'reres  at  Oie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  .Draw  uirect 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credit**  issued. 

SiG.  URj&ENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GHEEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALXaOHUL,  Cashier. 

The  ^oglo-Californian  Bar)k,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— la  Austin  Friars,  .London,  £1,  C. 

Capital  Authorized $tt,uuu,uuu       Paiu-up    *l,500,uuo 

Suoscribed a.uuu.uui)       Keserve    Fund    luu.uuu 

The  Bank   transacts  a  general   banking   business,  sells  Uraiia, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of.  credit  avail- 
able  througnout     the     world.     Sends     bills  for   collection,   loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and   bullion. 
1GN.  STE1NHART,  P.   N.  LlBlENTHAB,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building 
INTEREST   PAID   ON   DEPOSITS.    LOANS   MADE. 
DIRECTOKS— William  Alvord,   William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    B.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Baldwin,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon,  R.  H.  Pease. 


BON  MARCHE  CLOTHING  REN0VAT0RY 

40  Ellis  Street,  Booms  14-15-16. 

SUITS    CLEANED    AND    PRESSED    $1.00. 

Suits  Called  for  and  Delivered  Free.  feUlTS  PKESSED  WHILE  YOD 
SLEEJt-  Kei.aliii.c  mil  Alterations.  OPEb  ALL  NIbU'JL.  We  run 
four  u  aeons,    lelephoue  Drumm  44, 

La  Grande  Laundry     Tel.  Bush  n_ 

Principal  Office— 23  Powell   St.     Branch  Office— 11  Taylor  St. 
Laundry— 12th   St.,    between   Folsom  and  Howard    streets. 

~M)LDEN  WEST  CLOTHING  RENOVATORY 

121   MONTGOMERY   STREET 
Phone  Main  1157. 

Suits    Cleaned    and    Pressed    O-M) 

Monthly    Contracts    LM 


PACIFIC  TOWEL  COMPANY 


No.  I  Lick  Place. 


Furnishes  8  hand  or  roller  towels,  $1  per  month; 
12  hand  or  roller  towels  tl.60  per  month.  Tsl. 
Main  1780. 


SAN 


Bt   The   Autoceank 

A  great  many  drivers  of  automobiles  in  San  Fran- 
cisco have  in  the  past  enjoyed  the  privileges  extended 
them  by  the  authorities  of  the  Presidio.  The  roads 
and  drives  in  the  Government  reservation  are  the 
best  in  the  vicinity  of  the  city,  where  the  lover  of  the 
horseless  carriage  has  been  permitted  to  drive,  but 
this  privilege  will  be  withdrawn  should  the  reckless, 
careless  drivers  continue  to  abuse  the  favor,  and 
thereby  not  only  suffer  themselves,  but  also  place 
punishment  upon  a  number  of  autoists  who  are  con- 
scientious and  careful  while  driving  on  these  roads. 

The  members  of  the  Automobile  Club  are  doing 
all  in  their  power  to  help  the  Government  authorities 
compel  reckless  drivers  to  pay  more  attention  to  the 
speed  limit,  and  it  has  been  suggested  that  an  "auto- 
light-patrol"  be  placed  inside  the  reservation  so  that 
the  offenders  will  oe  unable  to  escape  the  arrest  ami 
punishment  deserved.  A  few  arrests  would  be  the 
most  effective  cure. 


The  Automobile  Club  of  California,  through  its 
president,  Mr.  F.  A.  Hyde,  is  engaged  in  the  com- 
mendable effort  to  stop  reckless  driving  by  automo- 
bile owners  and  chauffeurs.  We  do  not  believe  that 
any  member  of  a  reputable  club  will  indulge  in  such 
reprehensible  practice,  but  it  is  certain  that  unless  it 
is  stopped  automobiles  will  be  barred  from  many 
places,  and  notably  from  the  Presidio.  President 
Hyde  is  sending  out  a  letter  from  Colonel  Morris, 
Commandant  at  the  Presidio,  and  this  letter,  together 
with  President  Hyde's  reply,  will  be  posted  in  all 
salesrooms  and  garages,  and  incidentally  notice  made 
of  same  in  all  papers.  President  Hyde  is  to  be  warmly 
commended  for  the  stand  he  has  taken  in  the  mat- 
ter. Only  irresponsible  and  foolish  people  endanger 
their  own  and  other  people's  lives,  and  some  means 
should  immediately  be  taken  to  restrain  them. 


FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER.  January  2,  1904. 

system.  From  the  engine  to  the  wheel  the  only  bear- 
ings that  carry  weight  are  those  at  angles.  Magneto 
ignition  is  used. 

The  Massachusetts  Highway  Commission  has  li- 
censed 3,872  operators  and  registered  3,206  automo- 
biles in  the  three  and  one-half  months  that  the  auto- 
mobile registration  and  licensing  law  has  been  in 
force.  Professional  chauffeurs  to  the  number  of  678 
have  been  licensed.  The  Commission  anticipates  a 
considerable  increase  after  the  first  of  the  year  when 
people  begin  to  purchase  the  new  models.  Beyond 
a  circular  which  was  issued  some  time  ago  by  anti- 
automobile  forces,  nothing  has  been  done  that  would 
indicate  further  automobile  legislation.  Automobil- 
ists  are  satisfied  with  the  law  and  will  probably  not 
ask  for  changes  this  winter. 

The  gala  performance  given  at  the  Opera  in  Paris 
on  December  16th,  by  the  Automobile  Club,  proved 
a  great  success.  A  novel  feature  of  the  evening  was 
the  ballet  with  automobiles,  which  was  a  gorgeous 
affair.  There  were  four  allegorical  automobiles,  rep- 
resenting the  principal  European  countries.  At  the 
conclusion  of  the  ballet  there  was  a  grand  tableau, 
representing  the  apotheosis  of  the  automobile. 

The  question  of  repairs  has  caused  owners  to  medi- 
tate and  prospective  buyers  to  hesitate  in  making 
a  purchase.  Experience  is  proving  that  much  of  the 
repairs  is  due  to  the  cheap  construction  of  the  ma- 
chines. It  is  the  saving  in  repairs  that  is  causing 
the  American  automobilists  to  buy  foreign  cars.  I  he 
Mobile  Company  is  adopting  a  policy  which  will  be 
welcomed  by  purchasers.  This  company,  which  has 
Coast  agencies  for  French  cars,  the  Arrow  touring 
car,  Pierce  stanhope,  and  the  Decauville,  will  guar- 


Three  entries  of  American  automobiles,  sufficient 
to  form  a  team,  have  been  made  for  the  international 
Cup  race  in  Germany  in  1904.  In  addition  to  the  en- 
tries of  the  Sampson  and  Peerless  machines,  already 
noted,  a  third  was  nominated  last  week  by  Peter 
Cooper  Hewitt,  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  America. 
Entries  closed  at  the. club  at  seven  o'clock,  December 
19th,  without  any  nomination  from  Alexander  Win- 
ton,  who  had  been  credited  with  the  statement  that 
he  would  be  represented  on  the  American  team  if  pro- 
fessionals were  permitted  to  drive. 

The  entry  of  Mr.  Hewitt  came  as  a  surprise,  few 
of  the  club  members  even  being  aware  of  the  fact  that 
he  was  having  a  racer  constructed  from  designs  of 
his  own.  In  his  entry  Mr.  Hewitt  named  the  Trenton 
Iron  Company  as  builders  of  his  machine,  and  its 
conditions  as  practically  completed. 

Mr.  Hewitt  later  described  his  machine  as  being 
not  unlike  the  new  Hotchkiss  in  some  of  its  features, 
though  in  designing  it  he  had  not  followed  any  model. 
It  had  been  built  unusually  low,  and  the  center  of 
weight  is  below  the  hubs.  The  total  weight  of  less 
than  2,200  pounds  is  well  distributed.  The  gasoline 
engine  of  four  vertical  cylinders  is  of  fifty  to  sixty 
horse-power  normally,  but  capable  of  high  develop- 
ment.   The  drive  is  direct  and  similar  to  the  Napier 


IF  IT  ISN'T  RIGHT 


IT  ISN'T  A  WINTON 


When  you  purchase  a  Winton  Touring  Car  you  buy  a  product  pn  ived 

in  the  severest  ,,r  tei-ts  i"  I "■  tnistwort hy. durable, servieeaDie.  iso 
detail.  hoH  eve  rsligh  I.,  siaiies  the  scrutiny  of  our  expert  engineers 
and  testers.  Consequently,  when  the  car  passes  into  your  nanus 
t  is  ready  to  give  hard  and  constant  service. 


Price  com  pi  ete 
with  canopy  top 
full  lamp  equip- 
ment, etc- 

$2,500 

F.  O-  B-  Cleveland. 
Ohio. 


THfc     WINTOn      lOukING     CAR     FOR     1904 

with  its  galaxy  of  improvements  that  mark  a  new  era  in  automo- 
bile construction,  means  a  cessation  or  automobile  troubles  It  is 
simple  in  design  and  operation—  comfortable  to  its  occupants, 
beautiful  in  appearance— the  gentleman's  car. 

PiONLER     AUTOriOBILE     CO. 

901    TO    925    GOLDEN    GATE    AVENUE 

Sole  agents  for  the  following  standard  machines 

Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 

The  J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 

Locomobile  Company  of  America 

Baker  Electric  Motor  Vehicle  Co. 

Demmerle  &  Co.    Leather  Clothing 

WE    HAVE    MOVED. 


January  2,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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antec  purchasers  of  these  cars  that  repairs  will  not 

>l  an  agreed  sum  per  month,  accident-  excepted. 

Should   the  repairs  be  less  than  the  guarantee  the 

owner  gets  the  benefit. 

The  Mobile  Can  !  to  Major  C. 

Men.  president  of  the  1  werfand  Freight  Trans- 
ompany,  a  Tierce  stanhope,  French  type.  Ma- 
jor Tilden  is  an  extensive  dealer  in  horses  and  an 
admirer  of  a  good  driver.  It  was  with  great  reluc- 
tance that  he  decided  to  replace  his  line  stable  of 
carriage  horses  at  his  Alameda  home,  with  an  auto- 
mobile. He  said:  "I  know  that  if  I  buy  that  machine 
I  will  have  no  use  for  my  horses  and  I  hate  to  give 
them  up."  Major  Tilden  is  a  believer  in  the  future 
of  the  auto,  and  he  is  ready  to  adopt  them  in  his 
various  lines  of  business  as  soon  as  the  commercial 
car  appears. 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  opened  its 
branch  house  at  Los  Angeles,  which  will  carry  the 
same  line  of  cars  represented  there.  Their  new  ware- 
rooms  and  garage  are  at  331  to  333  South  Main  street, 
adjoining  the  Van  Nuys  Hotel.  Mr.  L.  H.  Johnson, 
one  of  the  oldest  automobile  men  in  Los  Angeles, 
has  been  appointed  manager  of  the  branch  house. 
It  is  the  purpose  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Company 
to  develop  a  plant  similar  to  the  one  in  San  Francisco. 


Pioneer  Xotes — 

As  predicted  by  some  of  the  automobile  dealers 
in  San  Francisco,  the  standard  touring  cars  are  go- 
ing to  be  very  hard  to  get  this  season.  Several  sales 
of  Winton  touring  cars  have  been  made  in  Boston  at 
premiums  of  from  $200  to  $300  for  early  delivery  on 
1904  machines. 

Mr.  H.  D.  Morton,  a  director  of  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company,  has  just  returned  from  an  extended 
trip  throughout  the  East,  which  included  the  inspec- 
tion of  the  different  factories  represented  by  this 
company.  He  states  that  interest  in  the  automobile 
is  greater  than  ever  before.  All  factories  manufac- 
turing standard  machines  have  been  taxed  to  their 
limit,  and  their  entire  output  has  been  sold.  Mr. 
Morton  particularly  investigated  the  automobile  as 
applied  to  trucking,  and  has  decided  that  the  auto 
is  the  future  vehicle  for  freight  transportation.  He 
states  that  the  Automobile  Show  to  be  given  in 
Madison  Square,  New  York,  in  January,  1904,  will 
probably  surpass  the  annual  show  which  was  held  in 
Paris. 

Mr.  J.  Parker  Whitney,  the  well-known  capitalist 
of  Boston  and  San  Francisco,  has  just  returned  from 
the  East,  and  has  placed  his  order  for  a  1904  Winton, 
to  be  sent  to  his  Spring  Valley  ranch  at  Rockland. 
Mr.  Whitney  stopped  over  at  the  Winton  factory 
in  Cleveland  on  his  return  to  San  Francisco,  and  is 
very  enthusiastic  over  the  1904  models. 


Mr.  M.  L.  Goss,  General  Sales  Manager  of  the 
Baker  Motor  Vehicle  Company,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
is  spending  a  few  days  in  this  city,  and  is  making 
his  headquarters  with  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Goss  says  that  his  company  has  done  a 
very  satisfactory  business  during  the  past  year,  and 
that  the  use  of  electric  vehicles  is  on  the  increase. 

Jesse  E.  Poundstone,  of  Colusa  County,  has  placed 
an  order  for  a  Stevens-Duryea. 


Pacific  Motor  Car  Notes — 

A  sample  of  the  new  Jones-Corbin  car  has  been 
shipped  by  express  to  the  Pacific  Motor  Car  Com- 
pany, they  having  been  appointed  the  Coast  agency  of 
the  Jones-Corbin  Automobile    Company's  products. 


This  machine  weighs    i-''»>  pounds,  has   ta  hi 
power,  and  standard   gearing,  which  enables  it   to 

attain  a  speed  ,if  40  miles  an  hour.  A  carload  of 
these    machines    is    following    the    sample      by      fast 

freight.  The  sample  is  on  exhibition  at  the  Pacific 
Motor  Car  Company's  office,  49  Citj    flail  avenue. 

The  Pacific  Motor  Car  Company  has  also  added  t" 
its  line  of  cars  the  Crest  Manufacturing  Company's 
Runabout ;  also  the  Cresl  ["onneau  Car  of  same  make, 
with  forward  motors.  The  same  will  he  on  exhibi- 
tion at  the  Pacific  Motor  Car  Company's  garage 
shi  irtly. 

The  new  1904  St.  Louis  Tonneau  Cars  are  expected 
daily,  and  the  new  four-cylinder  model  "L"  Packard 
will  arrive  early  in  January. 

With  the  above  line  of  standard  cars  the   Pacific 


NATIONAL  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 

Phone.  South  1 142  134  to  148  Golden  Gate  Ave. 

The  largest  and 
inesl  "Garage"  in 
the  West. 

Our  line  the  highest 
Types  produced. 

RAMBLER;   KNOX,    Waterless;    HAYNES-APPERSON 

AUTOCAR.. ..Touring  Cars 
TOLEDO....Touring  Cars 
PEERLESS....Touring  Cars 

Give  us  a  call  and  we  will  show  you  a  full  line  of 
record-breakers. 


Have  you  seen  the 

BUCKBOARD? 

The  talk  of  the  town. 
Best    Automobile    at  any 

$425 


price. 
Costs 


STRONG-  EASY   RIDING-RELIABLE-GUARANTEED 

ON    EXHIBIT    AT 

SUNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 

1814  MARKET  STREET        ■       -       •        SAN   FRANCISCO 

PACIFIC  riOTOR  CAR  CO. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents. 

Packard 

Motor  Car. 

St.  Louis 

Motor  Car. 

American 

Motor  Car. 

7    )  JONES  C0R8IN 

Motor  Car. 

Cudell  Motor  Car 
The  above  cars  exhibited  at  our  repository, 
49-53  CITY  HALL  AVE. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


Motor  Car  Company  will  certainly  do  an  enviable 
amount  of  business  on  this  Coast. 


The  B.  F.  Goodrich  Company,  of  Akron,  Ohio,  have 
brought  out  a  handsome  little  booklet  on  the  Good- 
rich Clincher  Automobile  Tires— "Six  Thousand 
Miles  of  Triumph."  This  booklet  is  illustrative  and 
descriptive  of  the  first  successful  transcontinental  au- 
tomobile trip  from  San  Francisco  to  New  York  City, 
recently  accomplished  by  Dr.  H.  Nelson  Jackson,  of 
Burlington,  Vermont. 

The  very  excellent  photographs  tell  the  story  of  his 
trip  in  an  attractive  and  amusing  manner.  We  can 
especially  cite  the  picture  called  "A  Soft,  Restful 
Spot  for  the  Tires,"  which  makes  us  wonder  how  on 
earth  the  venturesome  doctor  ever  got  out  of  such  a 
dilemma.  The  "Pictures  of  Roads  Through  Oregon" 
and  "Approaching  the  Rockies"  both  testify  to  the 
splendid  qualities  of  the  Goodrich  Clincher  Automo- 
bile Tires. 


Following  is  a  list  of  names  handed  to  this  depart- 
ment as  being  recent  purchasers  of  Locomobile  cars: 
N.  M.  Brittin,  New  York  City  ;  W.  J.  Kingsland,  New 
York  City;  P.  F.  H.  Eisenmeyer,  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut; Edward  S.  Warren,  Bridgeport,  Connecti- 
cut; Frank  H.  Holt,  Staunton,  Va. ;  Dr.  Stuart  Mc- 
Guire,  Richmond,  Va. ;  M.  Victor  Vallade,  Paris, 
France ;  J.  W.  Thompson,  Yokohama,  Japan  ;  B.  C. 
Wheeler,"  Shanghai,  China;  George  Henning,  Auck- 
land, N.  Z. 


Among  recent  purchasers  of  Oldsmobiles  across 
the  bay  are  Dr.  Lill  of  Oakland  and  Dennis  Diamond 
of  Alameda. 


OBITUARY. 


With  the  passing  of  Judge  Haynes,  who  died  on 
December  22d,  the  community  suffers  a  distinct  loss. 
He  was  a  man  of  wonderful  personal  power,  and  his 
strength  in  this  direction  came  from  his  self-con- 
tained mentality.  In  every  situation  in  which  Fate 
placed  him,  from  adult  days  to  old  age,  he  was 
prominent  and  a  power. 

He  was  formerly  a  law  partner  of  Judge  Holmes, 
former  associate  of  Roscoe  Conkling,  at  Ithaca,  New 
York.  In  1876  he  began  the  revision  of  "Estee's 
Pleadings  ami  Forms."  He  was  then  a  resident  of 
San  Francisco.  His  health  compelled  him  to  remove 
to  Arizona.  Here  he  became  the  attorney  for  the 
Copper  Queen  Mining  Company  of  Biber;  attorney 
for  the  Tombstone  Mining  Company,  the  Santa  Fe 
Railroad,  and  several  other  important  corporations. 
He  was  appointed  County  Judge,  but  declined  the 
honor.  In  1887  he  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  where 
he  practiced  law  until  his  appointment  to  the  Su- 
preme Court  Commission.  He  was  always  an  unas- 
suming  and   approachable   gentleman. 

STILL  INNOCENT. 

"Senator,  what  was  the  nearest  you  ever  came  to 
being  bribed?"  asked  the  girl  who  always  blurts 
everything  right  out. 

"It  was  the  time  I  voted  for  the  postal  box  bill 
and  received  7.000  shares  of  stock  in  the  concern  that 
was  to  make  the  boxes  when  the  bill  gave  it  a  monop- 
oly on  the  business." 

"I  should  think  that  was  a  clear  case  against  you." 

"No.  The  measure  didn't  go  through  and  the 
stock  never  amounted  to  anything." — Chicago  Rec- 
ord Herald. 


San  Francisco  by  Automobile 

RATES  LESS   THAN   CARRIAGES 
CALL 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO 

Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Avenues 
"  Phones:  Larkin  3841— 1*«  »lk  S086.  Downtown  Office.  Lobby 
Palace  Hotel.  Phone  Bush  B69.  Von  can  secure  these  cars  at  any 
hotel  or  cafe  by  asking  for    MOBILE    CARRIAGE    COMPANY- 

SALES  DEPABTMENT  COAST  AGENCIES. 
Pierce  Arrow  Touring  Car  [French)  price  -  -  $2,650 

Pierce  Stanhope  (French  type)  -  $1,350 

Northern  Runabout  (leader  in  New  fork)  -  $800 

Fine  Garage,  expert  mechanics,  guarantee  expenses. 
MOBILE    CARRIAGE    COMPANY 
Golden  Gate  ami  Van  Ness  Av.-s.  '  (pen  all  night 


THE 


White  Garage 

Cor.  Market  &  Franklin 

—Sales  rooms— 
300-302-304   Post  Street.    8.    F 
White      Sewing    Machine     Co 

The  1903  "White"  Largest  and  best  cnuipped  auto- 

mobile garage  on  the  Coast,    Machines  of  all  makes  stored  and  repaired 

ELECTRIC  and 

GASOLINE 
CARS... 

A.  F.  BROOKE  RIDLEY,  ,8  F(«^LM  s™EET 


Telephone  South  394 


San   Francisco,  CaJ. 


VELVET 

LEATHER 

SUITS 

for  Men 

and  Women 


We  have  these  Leathers  in 
all  Colors.  Make  them  in 
any  style  and  guarantee 
satisfaction. 

H.  E.   SKINNER   CO. 

801  MARKET  ST. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 2SS  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1601. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired,  expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa.  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
V»  estern  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany 


WEAK  MEN  AND  WOMEN  sTh££|,  uthe  ^a^Mei^ 

remedy.    Gives  health  and   strength   to  the  eexual   orgmna. 

Send   for  circular,  Kaber,  Aifs  &  Brune,  325  Market  St..  S.  P- 


U/>e  Chocolate  Cream 

WHICH    MADE 

V«     California     Famous     ^» 

Trial  box  will  convince  you.    K>-ni  to  any  address  [OT30c  i  in  Btamps) 


F.  A.  Martin 

No.      11,     320     Sansome     Street,     San     Francisco,    Cal 


January  a.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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COLLINETTE. 
H>  John  Wlowood  m  The  Bmarl  Bel 
My    garret    was    an    empty    place — 
Four   walls   and    nothing   more— 
I'ntil  the  .eet  of  Collinette 

Tripped    lightly    through    my    fioof, 
And  lo!  The  walls  were  hung  with  silk 
And  silken-piled  the  floor. 

My  cupboard  helu  a  beggar's  dole — 

A  crust  and  scanty  wine — 
Till,    ncath  the  hand  of  Collinette. 

My  bread  was  food  divine. 
My  wine  the  nectar  kings  might  sip 

From  carven   cups  and  fine. 

My  Muse  was  but  a  beggar  maid 
Who  whined  for  scanty  fare. 

Till  Collinette  had  drapej  her  robe. 
And  filleted  her  hair; 

And  now,  behold,  a  goddess  stands 
Who  bids  me  do  and  dare! 

I   mocked    at   Love — an    infidel!  — 

With  sorry  jests  and  quips. 
Till  Collinette  upon  my  eyes 

Laid  Love's  own  finger-tips; 
And  smiled  upon  me  with  his  smile, 

And  kissed  me  with  his  lips. 

Oh,  you  who  starve  in  loneliness, 

Beggar  or  king,  my  kin, 
One  prayer  have  I  for  both  of  you, 

One  hope  you  yet  may  win: 
That,  some  uay,  through  your  open  door 

Your  Collinette  trips  in. 


HIS    AMBITION. 

By  S.  E.  Riser  in  The  Cosmopolitan 
She  thought  he  rose  to  make  her  proud, 
To  raise  her  high  above  the  crowd: 

She   thougnt  he   went  pursuing   fame 
And    striving   after   wealth   to   make 

Her  glad  that  she  had  shared  his  name — 
She  thought  he  won  for  her  sweet  sake. 

He  strove  with  all  the  wit  he  had 
To  make  one  who  had  scorned  him  sad; 
.    He  rose  above  the  common  crowd 
That  sorrow  might  eat  out  the  heart 

Of  one  who  had  been  cold  and  proud — 
To  make  her  weep,  he  played  his  part. 

One  day  wnen   Death   stood  near,  he  told 
Them   why  he  won  renown  and  gold, 

She  that  nad  shared  his  wealth  and  fame 
Fled,  broken-hearted,  from  his  side. 

And  she  that  scorned  him  was  aflame 
With  foolish  joy  and  worthless  pride. 


PRESCIENCE. 

By  Rose  Mills  Powers  in  Good  Housekeeping 
Love,  hear  the  burden  of  my  prayer: 

'Twill  not  be  always  thine  to  woo, 
And  lifeless  fingers  have  no  care 

If  laid  therein  ue  rose  or  rue. 

Love,  hear  .ne  burden  of  my  prayer: 
Give  me  to-day  to  hear  thee  vow 

How  dear  my  eyes,  my  lips,  my  hair, 
Nor  wait  for  Death  to  teach  thee  how. 

Love,  hear  the  burden  of  my  prayer: 
Lock  me  to-day  in  thy  embrace! 

Too  late   when   striving   candles   flare 
To  rain  thy  kisses  on  my  face! 

Love,  hear  the  burden  of  my  prayer: 
Walk  with  me  gently  down  the  days, 

Lest  Death  come  on  us,  unaware, 
And  point  the  parting  of. the  ways. 


SEALSKIN 

JACKETS 

To  Order     $125    And  Up 

Artistic  workmanship  and  perfect  fit  njuarantefd 
ltemodHln*:.  repairing  Mid  dyeing  nt  short  notice 

POPULAR.    PRICES 

Siberian  Fur  Co. 

Incorporated 

M.nufartJln*      FURRIERS 

AD.    KOCOVR,    Manager 

Formerly  cutter  with  Revlllon  Freres, 
Paris.  London.  New  York 

121  POST  STREET,  Rooms  7  to  11 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


J  p  LACAZE  &  co. 

French     Laundry    Work    Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 


TEL. 

EAST    615 

829    SVTTER 

ST 

R. 

McCOLGAN 

REAL 

Estate 

and    LOANS 

24 

Montgomery  St.  S. 

Telephone  Main  6516 

F. 

KENNEDY  &  CO.'S  ART   ROOMS 


No.  10  Post  Street,  Directly  opposite  Shreve's 
Contain    a.    Latest    a.nd    Swell    Line 
Creations  for    the    Holidays 


of 


Mavis  Consolidated  Gold 

and  Copper  Mining  Co. 

Capital  Stock  $1,000,000.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County,  Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be .  levied. 

50,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  ralseu  to  50  cents  a  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  of  the  company,  room  205,  713  Mar- 
ket street,  for  prospectus,  which  gives  full  information. 
VINCENT  NEALE,  Secretary. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


^Society 


Dear  Bessie:  How  am  I  to  begin  to  tell  you  of  all 
that  has  taken  place  since  I  last  wrote  to  you?  There 
has  been  so  much  that  I  have  actually  wished  some  of 
it  could  be  placed  in  cold  storage  to  draw  upon  when 
the  dull  times  come  by  and  bye.  There  have  been 
Sunday  teas  and  week-day  teas,  luncheons,  dinners, 
"at  homes,"  theatre  parties,  and  dances — enough  to 
keep  up  going  every  minute  of  the  time. 

The  Hyde-Smith  cotillion  came  off  all  right,  and 
was  one  of  the  pleasantest  affairs  of  the  season, 
which  you  may  believe  when  I  tell  you  I  didn't  get 
home  till  nearly  five  o'clock  in  the  morning.  First 
we  had  dancing,  then  supper,  and  last  of  all  the  co- 
tillion. The  decorations  of  the  ballroom  at  the  Pal- 
ace— where  it  was  given — had  a  decidedly  Christmas 
flavor,  with  its  evergreens,  red  berries  and  green 
lights.  Gertrude,  who  led  with  Ed  Greenway,  wore 
white  crepe  de  chine,  and  the  favors  were  pretty, 
though  nothing  very  wonderful,  and  I  got  so  many 
I  am  thinking  of  starting  a  small  curiosity  shop. 
Kitty  has  done  nothing  but  talk  of  the  lovely  dance 
at  the  Occidental  on  Christmas  eve,  which  was  al- 
most exclusively  military  in  character,  though  all 
the  navy  chaps  that  could  be  mustered  were  there, 
and  just  a  few  civilians  to  top  off  with. 

How  full  this  week  has  been !  So  full,  half  its 
glories  cannot  be  done  full  justice  to  in  this  epistle, 
and  I  shall  have  to  spin  some  of  them  over  to  next 
week's  letter.  Let  me  see  if  I  can  remember  it  all. 
First  on  the  list  comes  the  theatre  party  at  the 
Tivoli — the  new  house — on  Monday  night,  which 
was  the  first  real  big  theatre  party  of  the  season, 
ad  for  its  inception  the  thanks  are  due  to  Baron  von 
Horst,  your  friend  Philip  Paschal  (who  has  come 
quite  rapidly  to  the  front  of  late),  and  Lieutenant 
Fuchs.  The  idea  was  first  started  by  them  for  a 
comparatively  limited  number  of  guests,  but  by  de- 
grees it  grew  and  grew,  till  the  list  of  those  who  took 
part  increased  to  sixty  or  more,  with  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Martin,  Mrs.  Bowie-Detrick,  Mrs.  H.  A.  Huntington 
and  others  as  chaperons.  It  was  a  very  pleasant  af- 
fair, ending  with  supper  at  the  Palace.  For  Tuesday 
night  there  was  the  winter  picnic  at  Mrs.  Bowie-De- 
trick's,  and  we  did  have  the  loveliest,  jolliest  time. 
The  whole  house  was  wreathed  with  evergreens,  lit 
with  electric  lights  and  red  lanterns,  and  we  danced 
in  the  hall  and  dining-room — the  rest  of  the  rooms 
were  for  resting  between  dances — and  iced  lemonade 
was  dipped  from  a  well  placed  in  a  nook  of  the  stair- 
way. Nearly  all  the  guests  were  in  duck,  and  its  de- 
lightful informality  added  greatly  to  the  pleasure  of 
the  evening.  The  Friday  Fortnightly  came  off  on 
Wednesday  evening,  and  we  all  missed  Mrs.  Salis- 
bury, who  was  not  well  enough  to  take  her  usual 
charge  of  it,  her  place  being  filled  by  Mrs.  Pomeroy, 
and  Christine  led  the  cotillion.. 

These  were  the  more  important  events  of  the  week. 
Now  for  the  minor  affairs,  if  one  may  dare  call  them 
so.  Cora  Smedburg  gave  a  little  tea  on  Monday, 
and  it  is  nice  to  see  her  coming  out  of  the  shell  in 
which  she  seemed  to  ensconce  herself  of  late.  Mrs. 
Lansing  had  another  big  luncheon,  and  Maye  Col- 
burne  gave  Polly  McFarlane  a  dinner  on  Tuesday ; 
on  Wednesday  there  was  Mrs.  Adams's  luncheon  of 
a  hundred  or  more  for  Kate  Voorhies  Henry,  and 
Mrs.  Harley  gave  one,  too,  for  Florence   Gibbons, 


with  Mrs.  George  Boardman's  tea  for  her  prospec- 
tive daughter-in-law,  Bernie,  to  wind  up  with.  Mrs. 
Kittle's  tea  on  Thursday  was  for  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Lewis,  who  is  here  on  a  visit  to  her  from  Portland. 
Such  a  lot  of  teas  and  egg-nog  parties  as  there 
were  yesterday,  and  to-day  Mrs.  George  Gibbs  gives 
a  big  tea  for  her  newly-arrived  niece,  Stella  Kane. 

We  are  to  have  two  more  army  weddings  ere  long, 
Kate  Selfridge  and  Ethel  Kent  having  announced 
their  engagements  to  Lieutenant  Kellond  and  Lieu- 
tenant Gilbert  Allen  respectively,  both  of  the  19th 
Infantry.  Both  prospective  grooms  have  been  down 
here  from  Fort  Wright,  Washington  for  the  holi- 
days, and,  with  their  fiancees,  been  much  congratu- 
lated. Then  the  wedding  of  Mabel  Guff  and  Jack 
Wilson,  who  announced  their  engagement  at  the  de 
Young  rehearsal  last  Sunday  will,  it  is  said,  come  off 
very  soon;  Kate  Du  Val  and  Oliver  Dibble  are  to  be 
married  in  February;  and  think  of  Kathro  Burton 
'  being  engaged  to  Lieutenant  George  Lee  of  the  4th 
Cavalry !  But  her  wedding  will,  of  course,  take 
place  in  Washington  City,  where  the  Burtons  are  sta- 
tioned at  present. 

There  have  been  several  gatherings  at  the  Presidio, 
some  exclusively  for  the  wearers  of  gold  lace  and 
their  families;  others  where  the  civilians  were  also 
made  welcome.  There  was  the  jolliest  kind  of  a 
hop  the  same  night  as  Gertrude's  cotillion  (worse 
luck,  for  I  couldn't  go  to  both),  and  the  10th  Infan- 
try gave  a  hop  Christmas  night  for  the  "military 
only."  A  good  deal  of  talk  has  been  going  on  all 
through  the  holidays  of  the  leap  year  party  the  army 
girls  were  to  give  at  the  Presidio  soon  after  New 
Year's,  and  the  date  has  now  been  set  for  the  8th  of 
January.  So  many  innovations  promised,  new  ideas 
to  be  carried  out  were  gossiped  of,  it  has  set  every 
girl  on  the  anxious  seat  to  be  there,  and  I  felt  like 
doing  the  two-step  down  Market  street  when  I  heard 
that  my  name  was  on  the  invitation  list,  so  you  shall 
hear  all  about  it  in  the  fullness  of  time. 

Tessie  Oelrichs  has. come  and  gone  again,  making 
such  a  flying  visit  that  but  few  of  her  friends  saw 
much  of  her,  and  many  entertainments  planned  had 
to  be  given  up.  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  captured  her  for 
a  luncheon  ;  she  dined  at  the  Smiths'  and  also  at  the 
de  Youngs',  and  appeared  in  all  the  glory  of  a  won- 
derful ball  gown  at  the  last  Greenway  dance;  she 
was  one  of  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin's  family  dinner  party 
on  Christmas,  and  she  gave  a  small  dinner  herself 
at  the  Palace,  and  all  is  told. 
There  is  any  quantity  of  things  being  arranged  for 


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January  3.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


the  edification  of  the  I'ctcr  Martins,  who  U1 
here  almost  any  time  now.  A  lot  of  people  have  CODM 
back  again  recently;  the  MacArthurs  and  the  K 
rcttirnei)  from  Honolulu  last  Sunday;  Mrs.  Hunting 
ton  is  home  from  her  visit    Fast,  and   Dr.  and 
Hopkins  arrived   last   week   from   their  long  al 
in   foreign   parts;   the   Harry    Poetts  are  also 
from  their  honeymoon  trip  to  the  Hawaiian   Islands 
The  Jules  Bretts,  who  returned  recently  from  Japan, 
are  off  a^ain.  this  time  for  Cuba,  and  leave  for  til 
Fast  en  route  next   week.     Beatrice   Fife  is   1" 
fine  *incc  her  return   from  her  trip  East,  hut   socnn 
very  glad  to  be  home  once  more. 

But  oh.  dear  me.  isn't  it  too  bad  that  all  our  lovely 
button  beaux  are  going  to  be  sent  off  to  the  wars— 
which,  being  interpreted,  means  Panama.  What  shall 
we  rlo  without  them?  T  do  hope  the  Presidio  dance 
I  told  you  of  will  come  off  before  they  leave — it 
promises  to  be  such   fun.  — Elsie. 

The  delightful  weather  was  a  great  drawing  card 
for  the  Hotel  Rafael.  San  Rafael.  Several  dinner 
parties  were  given  there  during  the  holidays. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  Carnegie  entertained  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  at 
dinner  at  the  Xew  Willard  Hotel  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  on  the  evening  of  December  8th.  Among  the 
guests  were  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel  C.  Gilman,  and 
Judge  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Morrow.  Dinner  was  served 
in  the  Cabinet  room,  and  the  floral  decorations  were 
chrysanthemums,  roses  and  ferns.  Secretary  Hav 
was  unable  to  be  present. 

"A  HAPPY  NEW  YEAR." 

That  is  the  greeting  which  one  hears  on  every  side 
these  days.  Happiness  for  the  year  to  come  is  the 
thing  that  all  desire,  and  the  greater  the  regard  for 
your  friend,  the  greater  happiness  you  wish  for  him. 
Happy  homes  form  centers  for  the  dissemination  of 
happiness.  Several  wise  people  have  discovered 
lately  that  as  happy  a  home  as  one  can  find,  with 
none  of  the  vexations  of  tradesmen  or  of  servants,  is 
the  Hotel  del  Monte.  Under  new  plans  and  new 
management  arrangements  have  been  made  at  this 
resort  for  the  especial  accommodation  of  families. 
Three  San  Francisco  households  well  known  in  so- 
ciety have  gone  down  there  recently  to  spend  several 
weeks,  and  there  are  several  families  from  far  away 
who  have  been  there  several  months.  It  is  getting 
to  be  the  popular  thing — this  life  at  Del  Monte — 
and  the  exercise  and  recreation  that  comes  from  golf- 
ing, driving  and  riding  is  bound  to  bring  health  and 
happiness. 

The    "Theo" — Popular-Priced    French      Corset.     New 

Fall  Models  Dip  Hip  now  on  display.  The  D.  Samuels  Lace 
House  Co.,  Sole  Agent. 


WE  SEND   WEDDING    CAKES 
BY  EXPRESS 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  01  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  tailing  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co..  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont- 
gomery street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters. 


One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N.  E.  Cor.  Sutter 
and  Grant  Ave. 


The  latest  style  iu  shirts  may  be   found   at  John  W.   Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


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MAIL  "■""""—     ■»■.,■— 'nr.i.mr™ 

'035   MARKET  ST.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


MOCHA    CREAM 
TORTE 

nun  Cake  fit  for    ins 
American  Table 

SI.  {1.51,  $2 

Telephone    South    713 


DIVIDE      :    NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  i-ank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  halt  year  endlnn  l> mber  at.  uos,  a  dividend  has  ) n  do- 

olared  at  I  he  rate  of  three  and  twenty  one  hundredths  (n.30)  per  cent 

Ser  annum  on  all  deposits,  fi  s.  juiyable  on  and  after  Saturday 

anuarya,  isai  OEOBOE   \   BTOKY.  Cashier 

Office— 710  Market  st. 


It  is  no  trouble  to  select  holiday  presents  if  you  go  to  George 

T.  Marsh  &  Co. 'a  Japanese  store,  224  Post  street.    The  stock  is 
the  most  complete  in  town.     Exquisite  goods  are  displayed. 


DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 

The  Continental  Building  and  Loan  Association. 

ECas  declared  a  dividend  for  the  year  ending  December  81,  1908,  of  r» 
.  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  G  per  cent  on  term  deposits  :■  n  >  1  B  per 

cent  to  stoekholders,  free  of  tnve-. 

1)11.  WASHINGTON  DODGE.  President. 
N'M.  COBBIN,  See.  and  den.  Manager. 
Offloe— 301  California  St..  San  Franoisco. 

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
Security  Savings  Bank. 

For  the  half  year  ending  December  SI,  1908,  dividends  upon  all  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three  ami  one-iiu:irter  (:!  1-4)  per  cent  per  annum, 
free  of  all  taxes,  will  lie  payable  on  and  after  January  2  mot. 

FRED  W.  HAY  Secretary. 

Office— 222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  hoard  of  directors  of  this  society,  held 
this  dav.  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  three  and  one- 
fourth  (3  1-4)  per  cent  on  all  deposits  for  the  six  months  ending  Decem- 
ber 31, 1903,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after.Tanunry2, 1904. 
ROBERT  J.  TOBIN.  Secretary. 

Office— Cor.  Market.  McAllister  and  Jones  Sts..  San  Francisco,  De- 
oember  28.  1903. 

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
Savings  and   Loan   Society. 

Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  December  31.  1908,  at  the 
rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (31-41  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits 
free  of  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after  January  2.  1904. 

(Signed)       CYRUS  W.  CAR  MANY.  Cashier. 

Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  cor.  Sutter. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  the  31st  of  December,  1903,  a 
dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  per  annum  of  three  and 
one-half  (3  1-2)  per  cent  on  term  deposits,  and  three  (3)  per  cent 
on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Sat- 
urday,   January    2,    1934.  LOVBLL    WHITE,    Cashier. 

Office— 532   California    St.,    cor.    Webb.    San   Francisco. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  December  31,  1903,  a  dividend 
has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3  1-4)  per 
cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and 
after  Saturday.  January  2,  1904.  GEO.  TOUBNY,   Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  Street.  

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company. 

For  the  six  months  ending  December  31,  1903,  dividends  have 
been  declared  on  deposits  in  the  savings  department  of  this 
company  as  follows:  On  term  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  6-10  per 
cent  per  annum,  and  on  ordinary  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  per 
cent  per  annum,  free  of  taxes  and  payable  on  and  after  Satur- 
day January  2,  1904.  Dividends  uncalled  for  are  added  to  the 
principal  after  January   1,    1904.     ^^^  BR0WN,  Manager. 

Offlce_Corner   California   and   Montgomery   Sts. 

WM.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V  V   o 

Scotch_Whisky 

Importers-MACONDRAY  &  CO. 


3° 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


MANUFACTURERS. 


nniir     1)1)  AC         Hay  wards       Bldg.,       California      and 
IlKAY       tlKIIN         Montgomery    Sts.,    San    Francisco. 
UHA*      Mfi\vu.      20B  New  High   Street,   Los  Angeles. 

Concrete  and  artificial 
stone  work. 


ARTISTIC     PORTRAITURE 

Our  beautiful  $12.00  Art  Bromides  will  be 
made  at  $5.00  per  dozen  for  a  short  time 

X5he  Imperial  Studio 

744    MARKET    STREET 

Established  25  Years  and  Always    &  Leader 


BLAKE,  MOFFITT  &  TOWNE 

DEALERS  m 

PATE'R 

TEL.  MAIN  198  -  55-57-59-61  FIRST   HT..  '8AN    FRANCISCO 

Blake,  Moffit  ft  Towne.  Lot  Angeles.   Cal. 
Blake  McFall  ft  Co..  Portland,  Oregon. 


H  i  for   barbers,   bakers,    bootblacks,    bath-houses, 

Krl] SnCS     Dllliard    tables,    brewers,    book    binders,    candy- 
**  makers,  canners,   dyers,    flour  mills,   foundries, 

laundries,     paper-hangers,     printers,     painters, 
shoe  factories,  stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners,  tailors,  etc 

Buchanan    Brothers, 

Brush  flfts.,  609  Sacramento  St,  S.  F.,  Tel.  flaln  561  1 


Our     Holiday      Suggestion 

is  that  you  present  yourself  as  well  as  your  friends  with  a  case, 
containing  12  quart  bottles  of  our  pure  rich  10  year  old  California 
"Wines,  all  of  one  kind  or  a  selection  of  Port,  Sherry,  Angelica 
Muscat,  Tokay.  Zinfandel,  Burgundy,  Riesling  and  Sauterne. 

Price  $5.00.    Shipped  free  within  ion  miles. 

46  ELLIS  STREET.    S.  F. 

Telephone  Main   6171 


RATHJEN  WINE  COMPANY. 


Mantle  f®.  Son,  Inc. 

Haberdashers 

And    Dealers    In    Men's    Hign    Class    Furnishing  Goods 

10    Stockton    St..    San    Francisco. 


J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO. 

Shipping    and    Commission    Merchants. 
General    Agents 
Oceanic  Steamship  Company 

GlUingham   Cement 

Market  Street,  cor.    Fremont  St 


Joseph  Gillott's  Steel   Pens 

THE    AWARD    AT    CHICAGO.   1893. 

"£££$£  P£„1X"  PARIS'  190°-     THE  HIGHEST  POSSIBLE 
AWARD.     These  pens  are   "the  best  In  the  world." 
Sold  by  all  stationers.      Sole    agent      for    the    United    Sta  tp* 
MR.  HENRY  HOE.  91  Joun  Street.  New  York? 


ST.  LAWRENCE  LIVERY  AND 
SALES  STABLES. 

423    Post    street,    between    Powell    and 
Mason,    San   Francisco.    Tel.    No.    1323. 

E.    BRIDGE,    Proprietor. 


Moves     and     Countermoves. 

Politics,  of  course,  like  business,  suffers  from  the 
holiday  dullness,  and  yet  there  is  always  something 
doing.  It  is  only  little  more  than  a  week  now  before 
the  Mayor  will  tell  a  waiting  world  whom  he  pro- 
poses to  place  in  charge  of  the  several  departments 
of  the  city  Government.  The  Governor,  too,  has 
several  prizes  in  his  gift  to  be  awarded  soon.  Presi- 
dent Fitzgerald  of  the  Prison  Board  reaches  the 
end  of  his  term  on  the  12th  ulto,  and  there  are  several 
ambitious  gentlemen  who  are  anxious  for  his  place. 
It  is  said,  however,  that  the  Governor  is  more  than 
inclined  to  re-nominate  him.  It  is  urged  against  him 
that  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  that  the  Boards  should  be 
Republican.  But  though  nominally  Democratic,  the 
fact  is  that  the  Board  has  been  for  years  simply  the 
reflection  of  the  Governor,  and  the  appointments  have 
been  made  from  the  executive  chamber  at  Sacra- 
mento, whether  Budd,  Gage,  or  Pardee  was  Governor, 
and  the  private  political  views  of  the  members  have 
amounted  to  nothing.  Fitzgerald  has  always  done 
what  he  was  told  to  do ;  no  man,  even  if  he  had  voted 
for  Fremont,  Lincoln  and  so  on  down  the  list  to 
McKinley,  could  have  done  more.  Besides,  if  Fitz- 
gerald is  re-nominated,  it  will  not  make  as  many 
enemies  for  the  Governor  as  if  he  gives  the  place 
to  a  Republican  and  thereby  disappoints  a  dozen  othe 
Republicans  who  want  the  nomination  and  cannot 
get  it.  Senator  Belshaw  wants  it,  but  Belshaw  and 
Wilkins  of  San  Rafael,  both  come  from  the  same 
Senatorial  District,  and  were  rival  nominees  for 
State  Senator  in  the  Eleventh  District  in  1902, 
and  to  put  them  both  on  the  same  Board  would  be  to 
create  endless  rows,  and  Pardee  is  a  man  of  peace. 
Some  man  of  experience  in  criminology  ought  to 
be  put  on  the  Board,  and  the  Southern  end  of  the 
State  should  not  be  ignored  if  a  new  man  is  to  go  on, 
and  Belshaw  is  neither  a  student  of  criminology  nor 
from  the  South.  Dr.  Walter  Lindley,  at  present  a 
director  of  the  State  school  at  Whittier,  would  be 
at  once  an  appropriate  and  wise  selection.  Will  the 
Governor  show  his  wisdom  by  naming  him? 
*  *  * 

The  rumor  is  revived  that  Assemblyman  Prescott 
of  San  Bernardino  is  to  be  given  the  position  of 
Adjutant-General.  He  is  anxious  for  the  place,  is 
devoted  to  military  life,  is  a  veteran  of  the  late  un- 
pleasantness with  Spain,  and  is  a  good  disciplinarian. 
The  condition  of  the  National  Guard  is  such  that  a 
change  in  the  office  of  Adjutant-General  is  impera- 
tively demanded.  General  Stone  is  too  busy  selling 
cement  to  give  much  time  to  the  Guard,  and  the 
opposition  to  the  militia  is  such  that  it  cannot  afford 
to  drag  along  as  it  is  doing  now,  or  the  first  thing 
that  happens  there  will  be  no  militia,  and  no  one 
knows  when  it  will  be  needed,  as  troubles  where  it 
might  be  useful  are  not  improbable  in  the  near  future. 
Not  only  is  it  in  bad  shape  from  the  standpoint  of 
discipline,  drill,  etc.,  but  there  are  a  number  of  otlier 
irregularities  that  have  been  allowed  to  creep  in  that 
must  be  suppressed.  Thus  the  officers  of  some  of 
the  companies,  without  a  shadow  of  authority,  have 
borrowed  money  on  the  credit  of  their  companies. 
The  amount  in  some  cases  is  large,  and  in  at 
least  one  incident,  it  is  said,  the  company  could  not 
wind  up  its  affairs  because  a  debt  of  this  character 
hung  over  it.  The  Attorney-General  has  also  held 
that  the  militia  cannot  exceed  its  monthly  allowance 
any  more  than  any  other  State  institution,  and  that 
means  very  serious  embarrassment  if  some  one  who 
understands  business  methods,  and  who  has  the  lime 
and  the  desire  to  put  them  into  practice,  is  not  at 


January  i,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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the  head  of  the  Guard  For  those  and  other  reasons 
a  new  Adjutant-General  is  needed,  and  will  soon  be 
named. 

»  »  * 

Speaking  of  the  illegally  created  debts  in  the  Na- 
il Guard  reminds  me  that  it  is  said  that  the  Re 
the  University,  at  least  those  who  were  re- 
sponsible for  the  auditing  of  the  accounts,  may  be 
asked  to  make  up  what  the  State  has  lost  through  the 
defalcation  of  the  Secretary.     Tin-  Secretary  liad  no 
bond  a-  Secretary  ;  his  bond  was  given  while  he  was 
•ant    Secretary,   and    therefore   does    not    cover 
even  in  part  his  more  recent  stealings.     The  law  re- 
quires him  to  give  a  bond,  and  it  is  held  by  some  at- 
torneys that  those  who  failed  to  see  that  tlie  law  was 
carried  out  should  make  good  the  loss  to  the  State. 
*  *  * 

I  learn  from  Santa  Clara  that  the  possibility  of 
naming  a  candidate  for  Congress  from  that  part  of 
the  Fifth  District  on  the  Republican  ticket  is  caus- 
ing much  discussion,  and  that  among  other  names 
that  have  been  suggested  is  that  of  Dr.  A.  E.  Os- 
borne, at  one  time  the  Superintendent  of  the  Feeble 
-Minded  Home  at  Glen  Ellen.  Dr.  Osborne  has  an  es- 
tablishment at  Santa  Clara  for  the  care  of  patients 
similar  to  the  Glen  Ellen  Home,  and  has  been  very 
active  in  politics  since  he  left  the  State  service.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Santa  Clara  town  council,  was  a 
delegate  to  the  State  Republican  convention,  and  has 
been  for  some  time  more  or  less  prominently  men- 
tioned as  a  candidate  to  succeed  Louie  Oneal  as  State 
Senator.  Oneal  wants  to  go  back  to  Sacramento  as 
Senator;  he  and  his  friends  the  ex-Mackenzieites 
would  tavor  running  Osborne  for  Congress  to  get  him 
out  of  Oneal's  way,  and  as  Osborne  is  persona  non 
grata  with  the  Hayes  contingent,  he  could  probably 
get  the  united  support  of  the  Republicans  of  the 
county.  He  has  strength  in  this  city,  where  he  is 
well  known,  and  those  who  are  booming  him  for  the 
place  think  he  will  make  an  ideal  candidate,  and 
give  Wynn  a  good  run  for  his  money. 

I  was  quite  amused  to  see  Congressman  Wynn,  by 
the  way,  on  the  streets  during  the  holiday  season. 
As  an  opponent  of  the  monopolies  of  the  country  and 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  in  particular,  it  was 
funny  to  see  him,  accepting  a  pass  from  them  to 
come  home  for  Christmas.  A  few  years  ago  Wynn 
would  have  hesitated  to  have  gone  to  San  Jose  for 
Christmas,  but  then  he  had  to  pay  his  fare.  Now 
when  he  has  only  to  ask  to  receive  he  comes  across 
the  continent  in  a  palace  car,  to  eat  his  turkey  in 
San  Francisco  on  Christmas.  I  do  not  blame  him,  of 
course.  He  is  wise  to  get  all  he  can  out  of  his  posi- 
tion while  it  lasts,  but  how  can  his  labor  constituents 
reconcile  traveling  on  passes  with  his  professions  on 
the  stump  before  election?  But  probably  they  do 
not  try  to  reconcile  them.  Consistency  is  not  a  thing 
that  worries  them  much,  as  a  rule. 

Besides  the  position  on  the  State  Prison  Board, 
the  Governor  will  have  the  place  of  Commissioner  of 
Public  Works  at  his  disposal  in  March,  and  the  fight 
for  the  place  is  already  active.  It  is  a  place  in  which 
there  is  nothing  to  do  but  draw  your  salary.  Under 
Budd,  the  brother  of  Sam  Leake  who  is  the  efficient 
editor  of  the  Woodland  Mail,  was  the  Commissioner. 
Frank  D.  Ryan  has  the  place  now.  Usually,  however, 
it  goes  to  editors.  But  the  fact  that  newspapermen 
and  lawyers  can  fill  it  successfully  shows  what  a  sine- 
cure it  is.  W.  D.  Pennycock  of  the  Vallejo  Chronicle 
thinks  that  the  salary  would  help  out  his  editorial 
income  very  much,  and  George  W.  Pierce  of  Yolo 
would  like  the  $3,000  that  it  represents,  also,  and  of 


course  there  are  one  oT-  (WO  Candidates  in  1  lakland, 
but  the  Governor  has  given  no  hint  whom  he  will  ap- 
point. 

*  *  * 
During  the  last  city  campaign,  McCarthy,  the  head 
oi  the  Building  I  rades  Council,  was  very  conspicuous 
m  his  advocacj  of  Henry  J.  Crocker  for  Mayor.  It 
is  now  said  that  he  will  he  rewarded  by  the  Governor 
with  tin-  position  oi  Labor  Commissioner,  a  po 

now  held  In  I'.  V.  Meyers,  Whose  term  expires  in 
April.  .McCarthy,  while  not  a  success  at  swjnging 
bis  followers  in  line  lor  Crocker,  is  nevertheless  a 
Strong  man  in  labor  circles,  and  his  appointment 
would  be  popular  anion--  thai  element,  who  certainly 
should  be  recognized  in  the  naming  of  the  Commis- 
sioner. It  is  said  the  push  and  those  who  represented 
the  Republican  ticket  in  the  late  fight,  will  do  all 
they  can  to  persuade  Pardee  to  give  McCarthy  the 
place. 

If  rumor  be  true.  John  P.  Irish  expects  to  leave  bis 
present  position  very  shortly,  and  ex-Congressman 
Woods  may  get  the  place  he  so  much  desires.  It  is 
said  that  the  Employers'  Association,  which  it  is 
claimed  numbers  several  thousand  members  in  this 
city,  has  offered  him  the  position  of  manager  at  a 
salary  said  to  be  $10,000  a  year,  with  a  guarantee  of 
five  years  in  the  place.  It  is  proposed  to  make  a 
fight  against  the  unions  if  they  become  too  aggressive 
this  summer,  and  Irish  has  been  selected  as  the  best 
man  that  could  be  secured  to  lead  the  fight.  He  is 
considering  the  proposition,  but  as  the  salary  is  much 
larger  than  that  he  is  now  receiving,  and  the  duties 
are  congenial  to  him,  it  is  thought  he  will  accept  the 
offer. 

*  *  * 

The  new  house  bought  by  the  State  for  the  Gov- 
ernor in  Sacramento  nearly  resulted  in  killing  him 
and  his  family.  He  noticed  that  the  house  had  a  very 
bad  odor,  and  concluded  that  it  was  from  sewer  gas. 
Two  Sacramento  plumbing  experts,  however,  exam- 
ined the  premises,  and  declared  it  was  not  sewer 
gas  in  the  cellar,  but  bats  in  the  garret,  but  the  Gov- 
ernor took  no  stock  in  the  bat  theory,  and  sent  for  a 
San  Francisco  expert,  who  at  once  iocated  the  trou- 
ble. The  Governor  and  his  family  narrowly  escaped 
an  illness,  and  if  he  had  not  been  so  persistent, 
there  is  no  question  but  that  he  and  his  family  would 
have  been  stricken  down.  — Junius. 


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During  the  siege  of  Mafeking, 
one  of  the  officers  organized  a 
concert  or  "singsong"  to  keep  up 
the  spirits  of  the  men.  He  discov- 
ered, according  to  the  story  as  it 
is  told  in  V.  C,  that  the  men  had 
cause  enough  for  low  spirits.  Hear- 
of  a  sergeant  in  the  Highlanders 
who  was  a  good  performer,  he 
asked  the  man  to  contribute  to 
the  concert.  "I'm  sorry,  sir,  but 
I  cannot."  "Why?"  asked  the 
officer.  "You  play  some  instru- 
ment, don't  you?"  "I  did,  sir." 
"What  was  it."  "The  bones,  sir; 
but  I've  eaten  'em." 

"Is  there  anything  that  I  might 
do  for  you,"  asked  the  chauffeur, 
after  having  demolished  the  gro- 
cer's store  front.  "Yes,"  came  the 
caustic  reply,  "you  might  give  me 
a  pane." 

"Is  it  true  that  you  act  under 
instructions  from  that  great  cor- 
poration?" "It  is  emphatically 
untrue!"  replied  Senator  Sorghum 
with  indignation.  "I  think  I  can 
claim  by  this  time  to  know  just 
about  what  that  corporation  wants 
without  any  instructions  what- 
ever." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Kippax — And  who  is  your  fav- 
orite author,  Mrs.  Softly?  Mrs. 
Softly — My  husband.  Kippax — 
Pardon  me.  I  didn't  know  he 
wrote.  Mrs.  Softly — Oh,  but  he 
does,  and  so  nicely — checks  ! 

"I'd  like  to  know,"  began  the 
Eden  street  little  boy.  "Well,  what 
would  you  like  to  know?"  asked 
his  mother.  "I'd  like  to  know  why 
sweetbreads  haven't  any  brea<l  in 
'em  and  sweetmeats  haven't  any 
meat  in  'em." 


January  2,  1904. 


"So  you  want  a  divorce,"  said 
the  lawyer.  "Yes,  sir,  and  if  I 
don't  get  it  quick  I'll  land  in  the 
insane  asylum."  "What  are  your 
grounds?"  "My  grounds  are  that 
my  wife  plays  the  piano  from  morn- 
ing till  night.  Week  days  and  Sun- 
days it's  all  the  same,  and  it's  just 
about  enough  to  drive  a  man  crazy. 
Why,  I  haven't  the  nerve  to  look 
the  neighbors  in  the  face!"  "But, 
sir,  vou  could  hardly  call  music  a 
sufficient  cause  for  divorce;  what 
does  she  play?"  "Hiawatha."  "Just 
a  minute  till  I  speak  to  the  judge," 
said  the  lawyer,  making  a  wild 
lunge  for  the  door.  "I'll  get  that 
divorce  while  you  wait." 

"I'm  so  glad  you  chose  the  sub- 
ject of  'Chinese  Women,'  "  said 
Mrs.  Flushly  to  Mrs.  Gushly,  who 


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had  just  finished  reading  her  paper. 
"The  subject  is  so  interesting  I 
never  tire  of  hearing  about  the 
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the  author  of  the  paper.  "I  hope 
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shoes  pinch  me  so  I  can't  stand  it 
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Daughter—  Mr.  Penn  draws  very 
well,  doesn't  he,  papa?     Father 
1  lis  pictures  arc  not   so  bad,  but 
the  checks  he  draws  arc  no  good 
at   all. 

"I  knows  for  sartin'  Christmas 
can't  be  fur  off  now.''  said  the  old 
darkey,  "kaze  I  been  in  Marse 
Tom's  room  clis  niawnin'  an'  de 
jug  wuz  gittin'  mighty  low."  "!  low 
come  you  knowed  dat?"  "Kazc  it 
tilted   so  easy." 

Maud — Every  one  I  meet  says  I 
look  ill.  Ida — It  must  be  your 
new  hat,  dear.  You  don't  look 
well  in  it. 

"It  certainly  is  raining  hard," 
remarked  the  sweet  girl.  "I'll  just 
get  an  umbrella  and  have  it  handy 
for  you."  "But  surely,"  protested 
her  favorite  beau,  "there's  no 
hurry."  'You  can't  tell  when  you 
may  need  it.  Father's  home  to- 
night." 

Tourist— Yes,  I  knew  Bill  "Lif- 
ter before  he  came  West.  He  is 
dead,  you  say?  Cactus  Cal — Yep. 
Tourist — Did  he — er — die  a  natu- 
ral   death    or Cactus    Cal — 

Sure,  he  died  the  natural  death  of 
a  horse  thief. 

Br'er  Johnson — You  is  accused, 
Mistah  Jones,  ob  bettin'  on  t'ree- 
eard  monte  an'  losin'  $90  ob  de  fes- 
tible  money.  What  has  yo'  to  say? 
Br'er  Jones — Well,  we  is  all  hu- 
man, an'  de  game  am  werry  ex- 
citin' ! 

"You're  not  going  to  bar  me  out, 
are  you?"  the  newly-arrived  spirit 
pleaded.  "Oh,  no,"  -replied  St. 
Peter.  "You're  the  street  railway 
magnate,  aren't  you?"  "Yes,  sir." 
"Well,  just  hang  on  to  one  of 
those  straps  for  an  eternity  or  so." 

Ned — Your  Literary  Circle  is 
making  a  study  of  Shakespeare 
now,  I  believe.  Bess — Yes,  indeed. 
Ned— And  what  do  you  think  of 
him?  Bess — Oh,  we  all  think  he's 
just  cute. 

Her  Papa — And  if  I  say  no  ?  The 
Suitor — Well,  I  confess  it  won't 
have  the  same  effect  on  me  as  if 
your  daughter  said  it. 

"They  say  that  he  is  a  fortune 
hunter."  "I  don't  believe  it.  Why, 
he  has  proposed  to  several  girls 
who  are  not  worth  more  than  a 
million   apiece." 

"Faith,  Mrs.  O'Hara,  how  d'ye 
tell  them  twins  apart?"  "Aw'  tis 
aisy.  I  sticks  me  finger  in  Dinnis' 
mouth,  an'  if  ee  bites  I  know  it's 
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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  2,  1904. 


"Good  morning!" 

"Good  morning,  sir,''  I  replied 
to  a  pleasant  faced  man  of  about 
40  years  of  age,  as  he  entered  my 
parlor.  "Something  wrong  with 
your  eyes,  I   presume." 

"No,"  came  the  decisive  answer. 

"Oh,  I  beg  your  pardon,  but  it 
is  natural,  from  training,  for  me 
to  take  for  granted  that  any  one 
who  enters  my  sanctum  has  need 
of  my  services  as  an  optometrist. 
'  If  there  is  nothing  wrong  with 
your  eyes,  what,  then,  may  I  ask?" 

"Glasses." 

"Ah,  for  some  one  else  or  re- 
pair, perhaps,"  I  ventured  glad 
that  at  last  I  had  landed  on  the 
right  track. 

"No,  not  for  some  one  else,  nor 
any  repairing.  I  want  a  pair  of 
glasses — those  that  hook  behind 
the  ears,  and  have  rims  all  around, 
for  my  own  dear  little  self,"  he 
went  on. 

"But,"  said  I,  "you  just  said 
that  your  eyes  needed  no  aid — ■ 
may  I  make  an  examination?" 

"No,  I  know  that  my  eyes  are 
right,  I  tell  you;  I  just  want  a  pair 
of  glasses." 

"You've  got  me."  And  he  had ; 
that   was   true. 

"What  do  you  mean — where  is 
the  trouble?" 

"Well,  your  eyes,  you  say,  are 
perfect ;  you  do  not  need  glasses, 
but  you  want  them  for  personal 
wear.  What  number  shall  I  give 
you?  What  do  you  want  them  for?" 

"To  make   me  look  honest." 

That  settled  it.  I  gave  him  a 
pair  of  riding  bow  frames,  for 
which  he  paid  me  $6,  and  he 
went  away  happy.     I  was  stumped 


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— don't  quite  see  the  point  yet.  He 
was  rational,  I  feel  sure — no  freak, 
but  really  convinced  that  glasses 
would  make  him  look  honest.  I 
dreamed  of  that  chap,  and  in  my 
dream  I  saw  a  great,  magnificent 
concourse  of  men,  each  an  optome- 
trist, each  with  a  fine  physique  and 
bearing,  and  each  and  every  one 
wearing — well,  they  may  have 
been  solid  gold  riding  bow  spec- 
tacles. 


The  goddess  of  liberty  on  the 
American  coin  uttered  a  hasty  ex- 
clamation. "My  land !"  she  ex- 
claimed in  a  shrill  voice.  ''They 
will  be  calling  me  a  Panamamma 
next." 


He  was  a  middle-aged,  rather 
seedy  looking  fellow,  who  stopped 
to  gaze  at  the  casts  of  Greek  stat- 
uary exhibited  in  the  shop  window. 
"That  feller's  likely-looking,"  he 
ventured  to  remark  to  the  stranger 
who  happened,  like  himself,  to  be 
studying  the  statuary.  He  pointed 
to  a  small  discobolus.  Then  he  was 
silent  for  a  moment.  Finally,  as 
he  turned  away,  he  burst  out: 
"Gosh!  What  things  they  do  get 
up  nowadays !" 


Mrs.  Jumpuppe — I  wish  you 
would  stamp  the  world  "sterling" 
on  these  spoons.  Silversmith — I 
can  do  it,  ma'am,  but  it  will  punch 
clear  through  the  plating. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


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SAN  FRANCISCO.  JANUARY  9.   1904. 


Number  2. 


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"Fireproof,"  when  applied  to  theatres,  appears  to 
be  synonymous  with  "fire-trap." 

Canada  wants  to  buy  Greenland.  All  right,  if  she 
will  put  her  torrid  little  temper  on  cold  storage  there. 

Having  heard  the  venerable  diva  in  still  another 
"farewell    concert,"   let   lis   all   pity   Patti. 

An  Oakland  lady  is  criticised  for  marrying  her 
coachman  in  a  season  when  chauffeurs  are  the  only 
fashionable   thing. 

Right  after  Christmas  Pierpont  Morgan  has  the 
hardihood  to  say  that  wealth  is  more  evenly  dis- 
tributed than  ever.    This  is  too  much! 


And  now  the  unblushing  Creelman  is  busy  selling 
all  over  again  eye-witness  stories  of  the  war  in  the 
Orient  which  he  never  saw. 


Only  ninety  lynchings  in  the  United  States  for 
1903  as  against  ninety-six  in  1902.  What  is  this — 
the  work  of  civilization  or  of  the  Cordage  Trust? 

A  Philadelphia  skiographer  has  discovered  that  the 
X-ray  will  bleach  the  blackest  negro.  Farewell, 
then,  to  the  color  line. 


Pennsylvania  boasts  of  a  hen  that  invariably  lays 
double-barreled  eggs.  Pennsylvania  is  also  the  only 
State  that  has  a  Judge  Pennypacker. 

Some  Chicago  statistician  has  figured  out  the 
charitable,  educational  and  similar  bequests  of  the 
United  States  for  1903  at  $76,934,978.  Good !  Now 
tell  us  how  much  we  spent  in  alimony. 

Another  "old  prospector"  has  blown  into  San  Ber- 
nardino with  a  map  of  the  lost  "Pegleg"  mine.  He 
is  being  extensively  "grubstaked"  in  spite  of  his  ad- 
mission that  he  got  the  document  from  a  medium. 

"The  only  girl  switch-tender  in  the  United  States" 
is  the  title  proudly  worn  by  a  young  lady  on  the  his- 
toric "Baltimore  pike."  How  about  the  females  in 
the  hair  stores? 


That  Admiral  Cevera,  over  whose  capture  Samp- 
son and  Schley  displayed  such  memorable  modesty, 
has  sent  Christmas  greetings  to  the  Americans, 
whose  acquaintance  he.  made  while  a  prisoner  at 
Annapolis.  "We  may  outdo  the  Don  at  fighting,  but 
not  in  courtesy. 


Norway's   Parliament   has    "turned    down"    fi 
Suffrage   by    a    unanimous   vote.      Who   was   it    called 
the   Norwegians    "square-heads?" 


Only  drummers  who  are  church  members  can  join 

a  new  order  of  travelers  called  "Gideons,"  and. It- 
voted  to  practical  Christianity  "on  the  road."  What 
would  they  do  to  a  "Gideon"  down  in  Arizona? 

A  mirror  that  pictures  the. faces  of  the  dead  is  in- 
teresting the  good  people  of  Bowdoinham,  Me..  If 
we  were  addicted  to  the  pie-for-breakfast  habit, 
doubtless  we,  too,  would  believe  the  story. 

While  Grand  Army  men  are  objecting  to  the  ex- 
hibition of  Quantrell's  bones  in  a  Kansas  museum, 
the  soul  of  that  man-tiger  keeps  on  burning — that 
is,  if  there  be  any  material  hell. 

The  Pope  has  promulgated  the  somewhat  caustic 
comment  that  there  is  too  much  operatic  singing 
in  the  churches  and  too  little  real  worship.  No  sin- 
ner may  climb  to  heaven  on  the  chromatic  scale. 

A  group  of  estimable  ladies  will  run  for  one  day 
an  evening  paper  conspicuous  for  its  predatory  meth- 
ods. Who  will  have  charge  of  the  "graft"  depart- 
ment? 


An  Alameda  drummer  with  a  feeble  imagination 
tells  of  having  shot  a  hawk  with  four  legs.  Why 
didn't  he  take  one  more  bowl  of  egg-nog  and  make 
it   six? 


Science  tells  us  that  out  of  fifty  skeletons  measured 
the  left  legs  of  twenty-three  were  longer  than  the 
right.  Evidently  there  are  many  of  us  who  contrive, 
to  conceal  our  pulled  legs,  even  after  death. 

The  New  York  Court  of  Appeals  has  decided  that 
a  rich  man  need  not  pay  more  than  a  poor  man  for 
"the  services  of  a  housekeeper,  nurse,  secretary  and 
companion."  Oh,  fudge!  The  poor  man  is  generally 
married   to  his   housekeeper. 

A  Chicago  newspaper  which  does  not  like  Mayor 
Harrison,  jumps  on  him  because  he  was  out  duck- 
hunting  when  the  Iroquois  theatre  fire  took  place. 
Where  it  wanted  him  to  be  was  in  the  theatre,  so 
that  it  might  give  him  a  tender  obituary  notice. 

An  Omaha  girl  paid  a  midsummer  bet  by  sitting  in 
the  snow  in  her  front  yard  on  Christmas  day,  with 
the  mercury  at  zero,  and  eating  a  pint  of  ice-cream. 
There  is  one  Nebraska  girl,  we  make  sure,  who  does 
not  care  for  anything  manufactured  in  a  freezer. 

The  gifted  Henry  Watterson  has  revenged  himself 
upon  Professor  H.  Thurston  Peck  for  a  yellow  jour- 
nal book  review,  by  calling  him  "H.  Tootsey"  Peck 
and  classifying  him  as  "an  ass  and  a  hoodoo."  Go  it, 
Kentucky ! 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


THE  FERRY  NEWS  STAND. 

Public  attention  has  been  drawn  once  more  to  the 
men  and  the  methods  of  the  Harbor  Commission  by 
the  partially  smothered  controversy  over  the  news- 
stand privilege  in  the  Ferry  depot.  The  facts  are 
these:  For  years.  Foster  &  Orear  have  held  the  priv- 
ilege at  a  rental  of  $400  a  month.  Recently  President 
Spear,  head  of  the  Harbor  Board  under  the  Pardee 
administration  of  State  affairs,  notified  this  firm  that 
it  must  get  out.  ft  is  declared  that  he  said  bluntly 
when  pressed  for  a  reason:  "1  want  it  for  Rooney, 
my  brother-in-law."  Rooney  has  never  been  a  busi- 
ness man  farther  than  his  employment  as  a  clerk  in 
a  wholesale  grocery  store.  Foster  &  Orear  are  said 
to  have  offered  at  once  to  pay  for  their  privilege 
whatever  increase  of  rent  the  Board  decreed,  inside 
the  profits  of  the  business.  But  no:  President  Spear 
did  not  want  more  rent.  He  wanted  the  privilege 
for  his  own  family.  Then  the  news-men  offered  to 
sell  brother-in-law  Rooney  a  one-third  interest  in 
the  business.  This  was  declined  on  sight.  At  last 
week's  session  of  the  Board,  President  Spear  offered 
a  resolution  awarding  the  concession  to  his  brother- 
in-law  at  $600  a  month,  and  then  Foster  &  Orear 
bid  $1180  a  month  for  the  privilege.  This  was  not 
accepted,  President  Spear  declaring  the  amount  to 
be  absurd.  He  tried  again  to  jam  the'Rooney  award 
through,  but  this  was  too  much  for  even  the  seasoned 
politicians  of  the  Board,  and  the  matter  went  over. 

Here,  if  we  mistake  not,  is  material  for  a  pretty 
scandal.  Presumably  the  holders  of  the  privilege 
are  responsible  men ;  presumably  they  would  not 
have  bid  $1,180  for  what  is  now  costing  them  $400 
unless  they  figured  on  a  profit  above  the  advanced 
figure.  The  people  will  not  care  who  gets  the  con- 
cession, but  they  will  insist  that  the  person  or  per- 
sons to  whom  it  is  awarded  shall  pay  not  less  than 
$1180  a  month  for  it.  Most  likely,  if  Foster  &  Orear 
continue  to  hold  this  valuable  monopoly  at  the  in- 
creased rents,  they  will  be  nagged  and  harassed  into 
giving  it  up,  and  then  President  Spear's  needy  re- 
lative may  get  his  chance  at  it.  If,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  Board  gives  the  news-stand  to  the  Spear 
family  at  $uSo  a  month,  the  public  will  want  to  be 
assured  that  there  is  no  rebate — that  every  dollar 
of  it  goes  where  it  belongs.  Should  the  Commission 
accept  President  Spear's  novel  view  that  the  high 
bid  is  too  large  and  give  the  privilege  to  his  relative 
for  any  smaller  sum,  we  predict  acute  unpleasant- 
ness for  the  Board,  and  for  the  Pardee  administration 
the  worst  scandal  it  has  had  to  face. 

The  full  and  detailed  truth  about  the  Harbor  Com- 
mission would  make  interesting  reading.  It  is  the 
last  stronghold  of  State  patronage  in  the  metropolis. 
Theoretically,  it  may  be  correct  that  the  State  and 
not  the  city  should  control  the  city's  water-front, 
since  the  State,  as  much  as  the  city,  is  concerned  in 
the  commerce  that  flows  through  this,  California's 
principal  port.  Practically  this  system  has  resulted 
in  making  the  harbor  of  San  Francisco  notorious  the 
world  over  for  its  excessive  port  charges.  It  has 
resulted  in  the  creation  of  a  politcal  machine,  an  asy- 
lum for  the  shelter  of  politicians  and  the  relatives  and 
dependents  of  politicians,  all  at  salaries  far  beyond 
the  value  of  their  services.  It  is  stuffed  with  men 
who  could  not  earn  a  living  elsewhere.  Most  of  the 
vast  revenue  it  squeezes  out  of  our  commerce  is  ex- 
pended in  salaries  for  men  who  do  little  work  <>r 
none  at  all,  and  in  contracts  and  purchases  of  sup- 
plies that  stink  with  fraud. 

Lately,  a  politician  who  never  did  and  never  will 
do  an  honest  day's  work  was  without  a  salary.  The 
Harbor  Board  created  for  him  the  position  of  Audi- 


January  9,  1904. 
tor  at  $200  a  month.  This  farcical  fraud  upon  the 
public  attracted  little  attention.  Now  comes  a  still 
greater  piece  of  jobbery,  revealed  and  checked  only 
by  the  clumsiness  or  boldness  of  the  manipulators. 
We  hope  it  may  serve  to  uncover  the  obvious  rotten- 
ness of  the  water-front  administration. 


SWINDLED  AND  ROBBED. 

A  few  months  ago  the  News  Letter  exposed  the 
working  and  purpose  of  the  so-called  "Yril  Associa- 
tion," and  warned  the  public  to  pass  it  by.  A  great 
many  took  the  advice,  and  now  they  are  glad  that 
they  did.  But  not  a  few,  mostly  women,  went  head- 
long into  the  trap  and  invested  all  their  money — 
poured  all  they  had  into  the  rat  hole — and  now  they 
mourn  as  only  those  can  mourn  who  find  themselves 
penniless  because  they  permitted  themselves  to  be 
inveigled  into  a  glaring  swindle.  They  deeply  regret 
that  they  did  not  heed  the  News  Letter's  warning, 
"the  more  so  because  they  knew  that  it  is  one  of  the 
missions  of  the  News  Letter  to  expose  frauds  and 
ventilate  schemes  that  are  intended  to  hoodwink  and 
rob  unsuspecting  people. 

The  Vril  Association  is  out  of  business.  The  sev- 
eral thousand  dollars  that  went  into  its  "treasury" 
are  exactly  where  the  getter-up  and  manager  of  the 
swindle  intended  at  the  beginning  they  should  find 
their  strong-box.  He  is  not  in  the  city.'  He  does  not 
want  to  be  in  the  city,  nor  has  he  wanted  to  be  in  the 
city  for  several  weeks;  besides,  he  does  not  make 
known  his  whereabouts,  nor  does  he  intend  to.  Sev- 
eral "lone  women"  put  in  their  all — some  of  them 
"investing"  as  much  as  $1,000 — under  an  agreement 
that  they  should  not  only  make  enormous  profits, 
but  draw  a  fat  salary  meanwhile  for  their  services 
to  the  Association.  For  a  while  the  pay  roll  was 
large.  Why  not?  The  dupes  were  simply  being  paid 
out  of  their  own  investments,  but  all  they  received 
in  salary  amounted  to  only  a  small  percentage  of 
what  they  had  invested.  And  in  what  did  they  in- 
vest? In  the  word  of  a  stranger,  who  is  an  accom- 
plished hypnotist,  with  a  tongue  that  can  "wheedle 
with  the  devil"  when  it  comes  to  persuasive  lan- 
guage, promises  and  mannerism.  But  his  work  is 
done ;  he  has  harvested  his  crop ;  he  has  gone  with 
the  golden  sheaves,  and  his  dupes  have  only  the  stub- 
ble as  their  own.  It  is  said  that  the  net  profits  that 
accrued  to  the  "dear,  soulful  and  personally  disinter- 
ested humanitarian"  aggregate  about  $8,ooo.  He  does 
not  like  the  climate  of  California,  so  he  will  return 
to  the  scenes  of  his  conquest  no  more  forever.  The 
scheme  was  born  at  a  spiritual  seance  in  Denver. 


ROUGH  AND  RAGGED  STREETS. 

About  the  only  thing  that  San  Francisco  is  doing 
calls  for  criticism — and  severe  criticism  to  the  point 
of  condemnation — is  indifference  to  the  condition  of 
some  of  the  principal  streets.  Rough  and  untidy 
streets  do  not  really  reflect  the  taste,  culture  or  de- 
sire of  the  city,  but  simply  displays  the  incompe- 
tency of  those  authorities  whose  business  it  is  to 
remedy  the  evil,  and  indirectly  may  be  attributed 
to  downright  neglect  of  the  people  in  general  to  de- 
manding what  is  their  due  in  the  way  of  clean,  well- 
appointed  and  substantial  thoroughfares.  The  streets 
of  a  city  are  the  arteries  through  which  the  currents 
of  business  and  social  life  flow,  and  to  clog  these  cur- 
rents with  holes  and  ridges  and  ponds  of  water  and 
filth  and  stray  cobble  stones  and  dilapidated  and 
straggling  curbings  is  to  commit  a  crime  against  de- 
cency,  self-respect  and   convenience. 

Take,  for  instance,  California  or  Sacramento  or 
Bush  or  Sutter  streets,  say  as  far  out  as  Larkin,  the 


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SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


condition  of  not  one  oi  tl  •  m 

se  public  and  offici.il  business  it  is 

1  and  inconvenient  conditioi 
ibtain.  And  the  wonder  is  thai  property  o 
ing  on  these  thoroughfares  d.>  not  ms 
bunion  to  the  negligent  authorities  until  propi 
pairs  arc  made.  It  the  resident  property  ownei 
these  streets  . I i.l  but  know  it.  they  would  see  an 
that    such    dilapidated    highways    in     front    of    their 

bouses  are  a  reflection  upon  their  taste  for  the  beau- 
tiful and  the  convenient.  Culture  and  refinement 
do  m  .t    book-learning,  nor  at    an   assuring 

bank   account.      It   includes   what   is  p  1   the 

eye.  what  is  not  distressing  to  the  nose  and  what 
does  not  remind  one  of  the  gullies  and  ruts  and  1 
of  a  neglected  mountain  road  when  walking  ,,r  .'ru- 
ing. The  plain  fact  is.  there  is  altogether  too  much 
indifference  displayed  by  residents  on  neglected 
streets  to  stimulate  the  authorities  to  any  active 
sense  of  their  duty.  What  is  needed  is  a  vigorous 
protest  of  increasing  vigor  and  earnestness  until 
these  thoroughfare  evils  are  remedied  by  complete 
and  substantial  renovation.  A  lick  and  a  promise 
should  not  be  accepted.  Let  onlv  smooth,  even  and 
clean  streets  satisfy,  and  since  residents  arc  entitle  1 
to  just  such  highways,  it  follows  that  if  thev  do  not 
have  such,  the  fault  is  largely  their  own. 


THE  FAR  EAST  MUDDLE. 

A  state  of  war  already  exists  between  Jap^n  and 
Russia,  but  no  conflict  of  arms  has  yet  taken  place. 
Russia  is  maneuvering  diplomatically  for  time,  and 
Japan  is  impatient  almost  past  endurance.  Both  sides 
understand  that  the  question  at  issue  must  sooner 
or  later  be  debated  and  settled  by  shot  and  shell. 
Japan  is  ready  and  anxious  to  go  to  the  field  of 
battle,  but  is  restrained  for  the  moment  by  what  is 
called  diplomatic  courtesy,  which  enables  Russia  to 
augment  her  military  and  naval  strength  on  the 
ground.  But  the  inevitable  is  admitted  by  all  ob- 
servers, and  only  a  humiliating  back-down  by  the 
one  or  the  other  could  avert  a  clash  of  arms,  and 
neither  nation  would  submit  to  that.  Wild  rumors 
of  the  movement  of  troops  and  warships  come  thick 
and  fast,  but  no  overt  act  has  yet  been  committed. 
A  black  smoke  is  ascending,  and  where  there  is 
smoke  there  is  fire  close  by;  besides,  neither  side  is 
disposed   to   extinguish   the  fire. 

What  international  complications  are  likely  to 
grow  out  of  it  all  is  now  the  main  question.  Germany 
and  France  do  not  conceal  their  purpose  to  give 
their  moral  support  to  Russia.  The  sympathy  of 
England  and  the  United  States  is  decidedly  with 
Japan.  Of  course,  it  is  not  sentiment  but  commercial 
reasons  that  are  actuating  these  outside  nations,  but 
just  how  far  they  can  be  interested  without  becoming 
involved  to  the  extent  of  armed  participation  is  a 
problem  that  no  one  is  able  to  solve  at  this  time. 
It  is  tacitly  admitted  by  all  concerned  that  Russian 
supremacy  won  by  a  victory  over  Japan  would  mean 
a  serious  handicap  on  British  and  American  trade 
and  traffic  in  Manchuria,  Korea  and  Siberia,  with 
satisfying  advantages  for  Germany  and  France. 
Japanese  supremacy  would  exactly  reverse  this  order 
of  tilings.  It  would  seem,  therefore,  that  Germany, 
France,  England  and  the  United  States  are  almost 
sure  to  become  actively  involved  as  a  matter  of  self- 
protection  in  a  commercial  way. 

Should  China  join  with  Japan,  as  she  is  morally  and 
politically  bound  to  do,  lest  a  victorious  Russia 
should   absorb   still   more  territory  of  the   Celestial 


here  is  no  doubt  that  the  entire  family  of 
lirectly  or  indirectly  im 
he  "Eastern  question"  is  settled  upi 
man'  Hie     Washington     Government's 

;lu-r  with  its  rather 
li  ntification  with  the  "■  >l   the 

rs"  is  likely  to  yield  a  harvest  of  hitter  fruit  at 
an  1  normous  cost. 


CALIFORNIA'S  NEED. 
What  California  is  very  much  in  need  of  is  a  hoard 
ot  fruit  inspection— inspection  that  inspects  and 
classifies  on  merit  without  fear  or  favor.  There  is 
no  doubt  at  all  that  California  fruits  suffer  in  repu- 
tation and  in  market  values  in  the  East  because  the 
packages  arrive  without  any  sort  of  official  cl 
fication  or  marks  to  designate  their  quality.   Fruit 

growing  has  become  an  enormous  business  in  Califor- 
nia, and  it  is  destined  to  multiply  in  volume  many 
times  over  in  the  nol  very  distant  future.  But  un- 
less the  busimss  is  safeguarded  at  every  point  by 
rigid  and  competent  inspection  of  these  products,  the 
general  standard  of  California  fruits  in  Eastern  and 
foreign  markets  is  likely  to  be  low. 

This  is  conspicuously  true  of  grape  fruit.  Some 
oi  the  grape  fruit  shipped  to  the  East  is  pulpy 
and  unfit  for  marketing,  but  they  are  being  used  to 
represent  the  best  product  of  the  State,  nor  can  this 
commercial  dishonesty  be  overcome  by  mere  protest, 
nor  yet  by  asking  that  judgment  be  based  upon  com- 
parison. Outside  consumers  want  satisfying  evi- 
dence that  a  package  of  California  fruit  is  exactly 
what  it  claims  to  be,  and  since  such  guarantee  would 
be  of  little  value  unless  coming  from  a  disinterested 
official  source,  it  would  seem  to  be  clear  enough  that 
if  California  fruit  is  to  command  the  full  confidence 
of  outside  consumers  and  secure  their  patronage  on 
the  merits  of  the  consignments,  growers  should  have 
the  protection  of  disinterested  inspection  by  author- 
ity of  the  State,  which  would  mean  the  separation  of 
the  goats  from  the  sheep;  which  would  mean,  too, 
that  spades  would  be  labeled  spades,  and  that  the  in- 
spector's stamp  on  a  package  would  designate  cor- 
rectly the  quality,  variety  and  quantity  of  its  contents. 
The  importance  of  such  inspection  is  becoming  so 
self-evident  that  fruit-growers  should  move  as  one 
man  to  secure  the  needed  legislation,  for  they  cer- 
tainly should  know  by  experience  that  the  market- 
ing of  the  lower  grades  of  fruit  abroad  as  the  best 
products  of  the  State  is  gradually  creating  shadows 
of  doubt  upon  all  fruit  products  of  California.  This  is 
not  a  surmise,  but  an  actual  condition,  which  will 
grow  in  disastrous  influence  if  not  overcome  by 
proper  official  inspection. 

There  is  another  reason  why  grape  fruit  more  es- 
pecially should  be  amply  safeguarded.  Pulpy  and 
otherwise  low-grade  grape  fruit  from  the  Southern 
States  and  the  Mediterranean  region  is  offered  in 
Eastern  markets  under  the  brand  "California." 
Doubtless  this  is  done  to  discredit  California  grape 
fruit  in  the  interest  of  other  localities;  but  no  such 
misrepresentation  could  be  made  if  California  grape 
fruit  had  the  official  stamp  of  the  State  upon  it.  It 
would  be  a  criminal  act  to  counterfeit  it  or  in  any 
way  palm  off  worthless  stuff  as  the  real  article  from 
California.  It  is  not  denied  by  Eastern  dealers  in 
foreign  and  Southern  grape  fruit  that  the  California 
grape  fruit  is  the  equal  if  not  the  superior  of  offerings 
from  other  countries,  but  they  are  handlers  of  other 
fruit,  and  the  California  article  is  too  strong  a  com- 
petitor. Let  there  be  an  inspection  and  the  official 
stamp  of  the  State  determine  the  quality  and  excel- 
lence of  California's  fruits. 


J  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

WATER  GAS:  A  DEADLY  POISON. 
Since  it  came  into  the  enjoyment  of  a  monopoly  in 


the  lighting  business  the  San  Francisco  Gas  Com- 
pany has  been  decreasing  the  pressure,  as  well  as 
the  quality,  of  the  article  supplied  through  its  mains, 
and  has  been  increasing  the  pressure  in  its  literarv 
department.  While  its  gas  burns  more  and  more 
dim  and  deadly,  it  pours  out  upon  its  patrons  a  flood 
of  cheap  talk  in  printed  form.  Every  few  days  house- 
holders who  use  gas  are  afflicted  with  tracts  from  the 
gas  company,  in  which  they  are  told  with  effusive 
friendliness  how  much  they  do  not  know  about  gas 
and  its  uses,  how  pleased  the  company  will  be  to 
hear  their  suggestions  and  complaints,  how  rejoiced 
it  will  be  to  sell  them  cook  stoves  and  heaters,  and 
how,  to  facilitate  their  visits,  street  cars  will  let  them 
off  at  the  door.  It  is  the  era  of  glad  hand  and  bad 
gas. 

But  the  monopoly's  glad  hand,  like  its  gas,  is  bo- 
gus. The  citizen  with  a  bill  to  protest  or  a  complaint 
to  register,  finds  the  company's  ear  as  deaf  and  its 
eye  as  unseeing  as  ever.  The  purpose  of  its  tracts 
seems  to  be  to  soothe  a  rebellious  people  into  accept- 
ance of  their  lot  without  complaint.  The  gas  pur- 
veyed by  the  monopoly  is  so  wretched  in  quality  at 
all  times  and  so  lacking  in  pressure  at  the  times 
when  people  want  to  use  it,  that  it  would  be  dear 
at  half  the  price.  To  burn  it  is  to  court  blindness;  to 
breathe  it  is  almost  certain  death.  Hardly  a  day 
passes  that  the  Coroner's  men  do  not  gather  in  the 
body  of  a  victim  of  the  lethal  carbon  monoxide,  and 
most  of  these  "gas  cases"  are  accidental.  A  jet  gone 
wrong,  a  heater  tube  worn  out,  a  feeble  flame  blown 
out  by  the  wind,  and  somebody  pays  with  his  life 
for  the  gas  company's  criminal  disregard  of  the  law 
and  of  the  public's  rights — pays  with  his  life  the 
profits  that  the  company  pockets.  Time  was  when  a 
double  asphyxiation  was  an  event  of  sensational  pro- 
portions; now  "gas  cases"  come  doubly  and  even  in 
triples  without  provoking  more  than  passing  interest. 
And  cheap  gas  is  not  cheap,  after  all.  No  rate- 
payer finds  himself  paying  a  smaller  bill  at  75  cents 
or  $1  per  1000  cubic  feet  of  the  detestable  "water 
gas"  than  he  did  when  the  price  was  $2  per  1000 
cubic  feet  and  the  gas  was  honestly  made  from  coal. 
Many  citizens  find  "water  gas"  much  more  expen- 
sive and  far  less  effective.  The  old  joke  about 
lighting  a  candle  by  which  to  see  the  gas  flame  is 
almost  a  reality  these  nights  in  San  Francisco. 

The  gas  company  may  think  that  it  can  keep  the 
people  honey-fuggled  by  its  fool  pamphlets  into  ac- 
quiescence in  its  new  policy,  and  it  may  rely  in  an 
extremity  upon  the  fact  that  it  has  no  competitors, 
and  that  the  people  must  have  gas.  If  it  proceed 
much  farther  on  these  assumptions  it  will  hear  some- 
thing drop.  The  people  know  the  remedy,  and  when 
they  have  made   up  their  minds   it  will  be   applied. 


AN  UNJUST  FINE. 

If  San  Francisco  sinned  when  it  re-elected  Schmitz 
as  Mayor,  its  punishment  has  already  begun. 

This  week  the  three  Union  Labor  members  of  the 
Police  Commission,  Drinkhouse,  Hutton  and  Rea- 
gan, constituting  a  majority  of  the  Board,  found  Pa- 
trolman James  P.  Fogarty  guilty  of  "using  unneces- 
sary force  in  making  an  arrest,"  and  fined  him  $10. 
The  other  member,  Howell,  dissented,  holding  that 
the  charge  of  assault  and  battery  and  of  unlawful  ar- 
rest were  not  sustained,  and  that  the  accused  had 
shown  courage,  coolness  and  fidelity  in  his  conduct 
on  the  occasion  in  question. 

The  Fogarty  case  was  an  outgrowth  of  the  Cloak- 
makers'  strike.     On  the  night  of  December  5th,  Sol. 


January  9,  1904. 

Levitus,  a  member  of  the  striking  union,  was  one  of 
the  principals  in  and  in  front  of  a  Market  street 
restaurant,  into  which  a  man  and  woman,  errone- 
ously supposed  by  the  Cloakmakers'  pickets  to  be 
patrons  of  a  boycotted  shop,  had  been  followed  by  a 
mob  of  unionists.  Single-handed,  Patrolman  Fo- 
garty quelled  an  incipient  riot,  arresting  Levitus  and 
one  other,  after  a  sharp  struggle,  in  which  he  was 
obliged  to  use  his  club  and  to  handcuff  his  prisoners. 
The  case  against  Levitus  was  so  plain  that  a  Police 
Court,  notoriously  tender  toward  unionism,  convicted 
him  of  disturbing  the  peace.  Now  comes  Schmitz, 
and  through  his  tools  in  the  Police  Commission,  con- 
victs the  patrolman  and  fines  him  for  doing  his  plain 
duty. 

The  consequences  of  this  damnable  piece  of  busi- 
ness will  probably  be  serious.  No  policeman  wdio 
wants  to  keep  his  star  will  interfere  with  the  pickets 
and  "wrecking  crews"  and  "Hying  squadrons"  and 
"educational  committees"  of  organized  labor  unless 
he  sees  them  actually  killing  people  or  setting  fire  to 
houses.  He  would  be  a  fool  if  he  did.  From  this 
on,  as  long  as  Schmitz  and  his  pack  are  in  power, 
the  unionists  can  do  as  they  please  so  far  as  the 
police  are  concerned — that  is,  until  the  tornado  of 
public  sentiment  fast  forming  shall  break  and  whirl 
them  out  of  the  way  of  our  peaceful  progress. 

The  police  courts  have  rarely  failed  to  turn  loose 
union  labor  men  arrested  for  violating  the  laws.  The 
police  have  kept  a  semblance  of  order  by  occasional 
use  of  their  clubs  and  by  occasional  arrests.  Now 
that  the  Police  Commission  has  plainly  informed  the 
force  that  there  must  be  no  interference  with  organ- 
ized labor,  even  when  it  assaults  peaceable  citizens 
and  engages  in  riots,  what  will  happen?  We  can 
only  hope  that  while  their  Schmitz  has  his  day  the 
unionists  will  be  too  busy  doing  something  else  to 
take  advantage  of  this  situation.  If  not — well,  for 
a  time  San  Francisco  will  not  be  a  pleasant  place 
for  decent  men  and  women   to  live  in. 

After  we  have  disposed  of  Schmitz  as  Mayor  of 
San  Francisco,  after  we  have  flogged  organized  labor 
back  into  respect  for  the  law  and  for  the  fundamental 
rights  of  men,  let  us  not  forget  the  Drinkhouses  and 
the  others  who  have  snarled  loudest  in  the  union 
pack.  And  let  us  not  by  any  means  forget  Patrolman 
Fogarty.  Let  us  one  day  give  him  back  that  $10 
piece,  and  with  it  a  medal  that  shall  be  at  once  a 
testimonial  of  public  esteem  for  a  good  man  most 
unjustly  humiliated,  and  a  souvenir  of  an  occasion 
when  he  did  his  duty  most  excellently  as  a  citizen 
and  as  an  officer  of  the  law. 


UCHAS.  KLILUS  &  COm 

&£XCL  USfVEM 

mGHGRADE  CLOTHIERS 

It's  the  cut  and  chic  in  clothes  offered  here  that  give  personnel 
to  a  gentleman's  dress,  inculcating  minor  details,  devoting  time 
and  attention  to  men's  clothes  only. 

Consequently,  modestly  claim  that  our  "immediate  Service 
Clothes"  are  superior.  Some  good  dressers  have  been  put  wise 
about  our  shop.    "There  are  others"  that  ought  to  know  us. 


ECJXAKJFW  STTIMEI2.!r 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  9.  1904. 

University    Gossip 

By  the  Undergraduate. 

The  faculty  youngsters  .it  Stanford  have  1  new 
ime  that  is  fascinating  as  well  as  thrilling 
railroad  track  has  been  laid  along  the  back  yards 
of  the  faculty  houses,  and  the  other  da) 
Adams  of  the  History  Department  was  horrified  to 
his  own  youngest-born  and  two  other  midgets 
indulging  in  a  novel  game.  They  were  seeing  which 
one  could  stay  on  the  track  longest  when  the  engine 
»>  coming,  without  getting  run  over.    The  engine 

•nly  a  few  feet  away,  and  Adams  was  alt 
shout   tor  fear  he  would'  distract  the  children's  at- 
tention.    They   scurried  off  at   the  last   minute,  an,! 
when  the  professor  was  through  administering  the 
rod,  he  asked : 

"What  would  you  have  done  if  that  engine  had 
struck  you?" 

"hone?"  exclaimed  the  hoy.  with  a  look  of  fine 
scorn  on  his  small  face,  "I'd  just  'a  laid  down  and  let 
the  thing  pass  over  me.  Shucks!  didn't  you  ever 
see  a  tramp  riding  on  a  brake-beam?" 

And  the  queer  part  of  the  incident  is  that  the  child 
really  had  faith  in  his  ridiculous  theory.  The  fac- 
ulty is  now  petitioning-  the  railroad  to  erect  a  fence 
along  the  track,  and  the  railroad  is  petitioning  the 
faculty   to  hobble  the  babies. 

*  *  * 

The  Berkeley  telephone  subscribers  are  airing  a 
grievance  that  is  not  a  novelty  in  some  other  com- 
munities. They  want  to  stop  flirtations  over  the 
telephone.  Householders,  doctors  and  business  men 
complain  that  often  they  can't  get  the  line  after  seven 
o'clock  in  the  evening  because  a  host  of  sissy  John- 
nies and  baby  AIaryrs  utilize  the  time  in  striking  up 
acquaintanceships  over  the  wire.  Even  "Central" 
has  been  known  to  grow  wrathy  over  some  of  the 
inane  blubberings  that  are  transacted  through  the 
receiver  for  hours  at  a  time — and  Berkeley  "Central" 
does  not  rise  to  action  on  small  bait. 

Telephone  dates  are  quite  the  rage  in  Berkeley. 
"Ring  me  up  at  eight,  sure,  and  tell  me  what  you  are 
thinking  about,"  pleads  Tommy  Traddles  to  Simper- 
ing Sally,  '06;  and  doctor,  lawyer,  merchant  and 
chief  are  forced  to  hold  back  until  Tommy  receives 
voluminous  electric  assurance  of  her  well  being.  And 
for  a  "new  acquaintance"  to  be  struck  up  over  the 
'phone  requires  even  a  longer  period.  One  irate  mer- 
chant established  himself  a  detective  on  the  line, 
and  is  still  at  work.  He  takes  down  the  'phone  num- 
bers of  the  would-be  new  acquaintances,  and  vows 
he  A'ill  make  complaint  to  the  proper  authorities.  No 
other  remedy  has  been  offered  to  abate  the  nuisance. 
Rubbering  over  the  'phone  is  not  a  pleasing  pastime 
for  a  busy  man,  but  the  merchant  swears  he  will  call 
on  the  young  ladies  himself,  and  put  them  to  the 
blush,  and  will  send  a  policeman  to  the  young  men. 
He  wants  to  know  if  he  can't  have  them  arrested  for 
disturbing  the  peace ! 

*  *  * 

During  the  recent  diphtheria  scare  at  Stanford,  one 
of  the  students  packed  up  his  grip  about  examination 
time,  and  appeared  at  the  parental  abode  with  the 
intelligence  that  there  "was  a  fever  scare  at  Stanford 
and  he  thought  best  to  clear  out."  The  old  gentle- 
man was  on ;  he  looked  down  the  youngster's  throat, 
and  announced  to  the  family  that  "he  had  it  sure." 
Therefore,  the  absconding  student  was  locked  up 
and  quarantined,  minus  tobacco,  and  was  put  on  a 
soft  diet.    His  fraternity  brothers  learned  of  his  pre- 


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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  g,  1904. 


That  eminent  statesman  and  perpetual  kicker, 
Sammy  Braunhart,  is  once  more  upon  the  warpath  : 
and  his  little  axe.  which  seems  undulled  by  the  bard 
knocks  of  time,  is  swinging  violently  around  his 
head,  seeking  the  top-knots  of  those  who  have  dared 
to  smile  when  Sammy  has  spoken  of  the  "wices"  of 
this  "vicved"  world.  Samuel's  long:  suit,  he  it  known, 
is  "wirtue" — not  political  "wirtue,"  necessarily,  but 
"wirtue"  as  a  general  theoretical  proposition.  Having 
been  in  public  office  a  decade  or  more,  he  has  <  n 
much  of  it,  no  doubt — in  others — and  thereat  has 
marveled  greatly.  Just  now  he  is  seeking;  to  instil! 
"wirtue"  and  "wigor"  into  the  Civil  Service  Commis- 
sion— and  with  good  reason,  from  his  standpoint. 

For  the  past  four  years  man)'  of  the  Braunhart 
push  have  been  enjoying  life  at  the  public  crib.  It 
majr  not  have  been  a  roisterous  life,  but  it  was  eas- 
ier than  cigar  peddling.  During  the  days  that  are 
gone,  Braunhart  has  seen  no  reason  to  complain 
against  the  retention  in  public  office  of  his  particular 
"temporary  employees,"  but  now  that  his  people  are 
about  to  be  cast  out.  there  is  much  gnashing  of  the 
Braunhart  teeth.  'Tis  not  that  Sammy  cares  whether 
the  mattress-makers,  the  sheet  turners,  the  mush- 
cookers  and  the  others  of  the  army  of  petty  job- 
holders are  classified  and  examined,  or  not,  but  that 
the  new  administration  should  capture  all  the  patron- 
age— there's  the  rub.  So  the  Braunhart  has  induced 
the  Supervisors  to  adopt  a  resolution  demanding  that 
all  the  petty  jobs — worth  from  $5  to  $30  a  month — 
shall  be  classified,  and  all  the  applicants  therefor  be 
required  to  tell  what  they  know  of  the  history  of 
politics  "South  of  the  slot."  and  of  the  men  that  make 
San  Francisco  great.  Sammy  is  a  true  friend  of  his 
country.  Being  unable  to  hold  the  jobs  himself,  he 
turns  reformer,  so  that  if  he  can  prevent  it,  the  Other 
fellow  may  not  have  the  feeding  of  many  mouths. 
List'  to  the  Braunhart  Civil  Service  chorus: 

The  butcher,  the  baker,  the  candlestick-maker. 

Are  all  on  the  classified  list. 
The  watchman  and  fireman,  the  cook  and  I  he  pieman. 

Must  do  just  as  Braunhart  insists.' 
The  porter  and  painter,  the  plumber  and  waiter 

Are   examined  when   he  demands. 
Oh,  he  is  getting  them  all;  they  crime  at  his  call. 

And  he's  right  up  behind  the  band. 

The  kickers  and  knockers,  and  growlers,  you  know. 

May  roast  him  with   greatest  of  ease. 
But  Schmitz  hasn't  a  show  for  municipal   dough. 

List'  to  Sammy:  he  says:  "ff  you  please, 
No  official  nor  clerk,  with  a  shirk  to  his  work. 

Can  bluff  Sam  with  frown  or  glad  hand. 
Oh,  Braunhart's  getting  them  all:  the)    come  at  his 
call, 

And  he's  right  up  behind  the  band. 
*  *  * 

Remember  W.  IT.  1  )aly,  "King  of  the  Dudes,"  who 
used  to  order  six  canvasbacks  for  dinner  at  the  Palace 
Grill,  and  who  incidentally  ran  the  Copper  King 
plant?  Well,  1  understand  he  will  soon  be  headed 
this  way  again,  with  shekels  in  every  pocket  of  his 
many  suits  of  clothes,  ready  to  prove  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  any  court  that  he  is  a  very  much  abused  in- 
dividual, and  that  those  English  stockholders  have 
really  deprived  him  of  his  mess  of  pottage.  Daly  is 
reported   to  be  sojourning  at  the   Waldorf  Astoria 


where,  it  is  said,  ne  has  nearly  succeeded  in  aston- 
ishing the  New  Yorkers — and  that  is  more  than 
enough  saitsfaction  for  the  ordinary  man.  More- 
over, it  seems  he  has  interested  capital  in  his  tale  of 
woe,  and  he  will  precede  quite  a  strong  arrav  of  bank 
books  in  an  endeavor  to  do  things  up  at  the  Copper 
King.  As  the  tale  is  told,  a  number  of  the  water 
rights,  rights  of  way  and  other  easements,  all  of 
which  are  of  great  importance  to  the  mine,  are  in 
I  laly's  name.  When  he  was  superseded,  and  his  at- 
torney transferred  the  title,  deeds  and  other  papers 
to  the  manager  sent  out  from  England,  these  ease- 
ments were  overlooked,  and  Daly  continued  to  hold 
them.  Now,  it  is  said,  he  proposes  to  show  that  the 
lawyer  who  turned  over  the  papers  to  the  new  man- 
ager was  the  personal  attorney  of  one  W.  H.  Daly, 
and  not  the  legal  representative  of  the  corporation  ; 
wherefor,  says  the  famous  interner  of  ducks,  the 
aforesaid  lawyer  exceeded  his  authority,  and  his  ac- 
tions were  illegal.  For  all  these  reasons.  Daly  says 
they  will  have  to  "show  him."  Whether  his  return 
to  town  be  followed  by  a  law-suit  or  not,  the  Daly 
presence  would  do  much  to  cheer  the  hearts  of  those 
who  ardently  admire  the  beautiful  in  nature.  Verily, 
W.  H.  has  not  lived  in  vain,  for  he  hath  done  much 
to  add  to  the  gaiety  of  nations. 

*  *  * 

That  great  and  glorious  institution,  the  Monti- 
cello  Club,  is  on  the  toboggan.  Time  was  when  its 
halls  were  filled  by  those  who  could  not  crowd  into 
the  assembly  room  to  extend  the  glad  hand  to  "the 
canny  Scot,"  and  his  chief  lieutenants.  The  club 
has  really  known  nights  when  even  the  waving  of  the 
Murphy  bandanna  would  not  flag  enough  card  play- 
ers to  get  up  a  three-handed  game.  But  "States  fall, 
arts  fade,"  and  political  fame  passes  as  the  fog  in  the 
night.  Those  wdio  once  were  seekers  at  the  High- 
land court  are  now  running  far  afield,  nosing  out  new 
places  wherein  to  gain  a  foothold  near  the  hearth. 
The  Monticello  halls  are  deserted;  the  faithful  old 
steward  nods  before  the  fire,  and  dreams  of  the 
nights  when  there  was  ever  a  crowd  around  the 
punch  bowl,  and  sighs  wearily.  He  is  gray  and 
scarred  with  the  marks  of  many  battles  (bottles,  too, 
mayhap)  ;  his  years  sit  heavily  upon  him,  and  ever 
and  anon,  in  very  pity  of  his  lonely  old  self,  he  rings 
up  the  bar  register  and  drinks  to  the  "dear  departed." 
Charles  is  about  the  last  of  the  Mohicans. 

*  *  * 

The  turning  of  the  Lane  was  the  beginning  of  the 
end  at  the  Monticellos.  It  was  a  long  Lane — a  mon- 
strous long  Lane — but  it's  a  long  lane,  you  know,  that 
has  no  turning.  This  Lane  of  the  Monticello  turned 
so  suddenly  that  the  deflection  made  a  break  in  the 
road.  Consequently,  many  of  the  so-called  Democrats 
who  had  habituated  themselves  to  the  path,  were 
switched  off  at  an  acute  angle,  and  never  since  have 
they  found  their  way  back.  In  brief,  the  Monticello 
Club,  once  the  home  of  the  high  joints  of  Democracy, 
is  in  the  sere  and  yellow.  Around  its  rooms  are  heard 
the  hollow  rumblings  that  precede  dissolution.  Its 
members  have  apparently  lost  interest  in  the  organi- 
zation, and  of  course  no  longer  have  interest  in  its 
objects— for  both  of  these  latter  were  buried  under 
the  ballots  of  last  November.  It  may  be— it  is  but 
a  surmise— vet  it  may  be  that  the  location  of  the 
club  has  more  than  a  little  to  do  with  its  present  de- 


January  9,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


key  Club,  and  to  reach  its  p 
■  Jockey  Club  door.    Now,  1 
ticularly   when   oil- 
men, and  for  such  to  be  required  to  pass  the  di 
the  headquarters  of  the  easy  money  combinati 
reach  the  quiet  rooms  in  which  the  inost  violent 
11  is  a  picture  of  Judge  Law  lor— oh,  it  w. 
much!     Hence,  to  avoid  temptation,  for  contamina- 
tion may  be  in  a  "touch,"  the  virtuous   Democrats 
gradually  fell  away,  until  now  there  remain  only  a 
n  statesmen  to  uphold  the  power  and  the  name 
Of    the    club;    likewise,    to    stall    off    the    collector    of 
dues. 

*  *  * 

To  a  man  up  a  tree,  it  seems  that  little  Tommy 
Walsh,  recently  Registrar,  knocked  down  the 
persimmon  in  that  tilt  with  the  Mayor  over  the  trip 
to  Washington  with  the  Kahn-Livernash  ballots. 
Walsh  was  not  looking  for  glory;  that  statement  may 
seem  strange,  if  you  know  the  diminutive  Thomas, 
but  this  time  it  is  true,  just  the  same.  He  was  after 
the  mileage  and  the  per  diem.  Your  Uncle  Samuel, 
remember,  lias  plenty  of  money  in  the  bank,  and 
when  he  sends  'way  cross  lots  for  a  man,  he  is  will- 
ing to  have  his  guest  travel  in  state.  For  insisting 
on  answering  that  subpena  from  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, and  standing  boldly  up  for  the  paramount 
dignity  of  this  great  and  glorious  country,  little 
Tommy  Walsh  will  draw  down  at  Washington  some- 
thing like  $1,200.  He  will  get  mileage  both  ways — 
bow  many  miles  is  that? — at  twenty  cents  a  mile — 
say  about  $800  or  $900.  Then  he  will  be  paid  $10 
a  day  while  in  Washington,  and  if  he  can't  manage 
to  drag  that  contest  along  for  at  least  thirty  days, 
why,  then,  Thomas  will  be  a  sore  disappointment  to 
his  friends.  I  think  the  Government  will  also  pay 
his  hotel  bills.  If  it  doesn't,  it  should,  anyhow,  for 
it  is  not  every  day  that  the  law-makers  from  the 
backwoods  of  Maine,  and  the  wilderness  of  Manhat- 
tan can  look  upon  the  likes  of  our  little  Tommy 
Walsh.  A  trip  to  Washington,  $900  mileage,  ten 
per  and  all  expenses,  why  shouldn't  Schmitz  want  to 
beat  Tommy  to  it?     Can  you  blame  him?     Who? 

Why,  either  of  them. 

*  *  * 

The  Public  Works  Commissioners,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  late  Mr.  Manson,  inspected  all  the  lo- 
cal theatres  in  town  during  the  week  to  determine 
for  themselves  just  what  additional  precautions 
should  be  taken  to  prevent  the  repetition  of  the  Chi- 
cago horror  in  this  city.  I  think  they  were  satisfied 
— with  the  exception,  of  course,  of  the  late  Mr.  Man- 
son — that  our  theatres  are  in  good  condition  so  far 
as  exits  and  fire  protection  go.  Speaking  of  fire  pro- 
tection, San  Francisco  should  be  thankful  for  the  fact 
that  it  has  an  honest  man  as  Chief  of  the  Fire  Depart- 
ment. Sullivan's  business  is  to  put  out  fires,  and  he 
does  put  them  out — excepting,  of  course,  that  of  the 
late  Mr.  Mianson,  which  is  unquenchable.  Two 
firemen  serve  every  night  on  the  stage  of  every 
theatre  in  town,  and  if  they  are  caught  trying  to  graft, 
even  in  a  small  way — bounce — to  the  woods  go  they. 
In  Chicago  it  was,  and  is,  different.  There,  graft  is 
King.  But  in  this  city,  so  far  as  Chief  Sullivan's  end 
of  the  fire  business  goes,  graft  is  dead.  Do  you  re- 
member how  Sullivan  refused  to  accept  a  donation 
of  $1,000  from  the  Fire  Commissioners  when  he 
started  on  his  Eastern  trip?  Well,  that's  his  way.  A 
few  months  since,  he  went  to  the  box-office  of  a 
theatre,  accompanied  by  a  friend,  and  put  down  the  . 
money  for  two  seats.  The  manager  of  the  house  was 
in  the  office,  and  recognizing  Sullivan,  handed  him 


k    his    money.       I  be 

hed  up,  thrust  the  tickets  into  the  th< 

the    money    back   at   him,   and 

way.     He   has   never   been   at    thai    bouse 

and   lie   scowls   when   he    sees    that    in  an  a. 

ay,  and   the   manager  cant    make   it   out! 

ially  a  public  officer,  should 

refuse  theatre  tickets  is  too  much  for  his  compre- 
hension. Bui  it  is  that  very  superiority  to  craft  in 
any  form  that  makes  Sullivan  the  man  lie  is.  If  as 
much  could  be  said  for  some  of  the  Fire  Commie 
ers  ,the  town  would  have  occasion  for  even  greater 
thankfulm 

*  *  * 
_  When  old  John  Swett  said  that  the  recent  conven- 
of  school  teachers  was  a  fake,  he  spoke  the  sim- 
ple truth,  and  every  school  teacher  in  town  knows  it. 
1   bank  on  old  John  Swett.      He  knows  bis  business, 

and  he  is  not  afraid  to  call  a  spade  a  spade,  The  trou- 
ble with  the  teachers  of  San  Francisco  is  that  the 
great  majority  of  them  do  not  consider  their  occu- 
pation a  life  work;  they  look  on  it  as  a  hard,  neces- 
sary drudgery,  from  which,  they  hope,  they  will  be 
released  some  lime — by  death  or  marriage.  There 
are  some  who  arc  above  the  crowd — men  and  women 
with  ideas.  But  what  good  are  their  ideas  to  them- 
selves or  to  any  one  else?  If  they  dare  to  publish 
them  in  the  press,  or  even,  forsooth,  if.  uninvited, 
they  should  suggest  them  in  writing  to  the  Board  of 
Education,  wdiat  happens?  Why,  they  are  sent  for, 
taken  into  executive  session,  grilled,  roasted  and  bas- 
tinadoed, kicked  out,  and  told  to  go  away  back  and 
sit  down.  The  result,  of  course,  is  that  the  teachers 
are  in  a  constant  condition  of  terror.  It  it  not  sur- 
prising, therefore,  that  the  recent  convention  was  a 
flat  failure.  Future  conventions,  also,  will  be  fakes 
and  frosts,  unless  the  existing  conditions  change. 
The  martinets  in  the  City  Hall  are  "the  responsible 
parties."  If  they  would  arouse  the  teachers  to  the 
possibilities  of  their  profession,  the  Directors  should 
treat  them  decently,  and  not  like  a  lot  of  empty- 
headed  poll  parrots  who  have  no  ideas  beyond  vaca- 
tion, flirtation,  dollars  and  dress. 

Fine    stationery,    steel    and     copperplate     engraving. 

Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street.  San  Francisco. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping  Bureau   has   removed   to   the 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  g,  1904. 


"Life  of  William   Ewart  Glad- 
Life  of  William      stone,"  by  John  Morley,  is  head 
Ewart  Gladstone,    and  shoulders  above  all  histori- 
cal    and     biographical     works. 
That  the  selection  of  Morley  by  the  heirs  and  po- 
litical legatees  of  Gladstone  to  write  his  biography 
was  a  fortunate  one  was  felt  from  the  first  announce- 
ment of  Mr.   Morley's  appointment.     Some   idea  of 
the   mere   manual   labor   involved    may   be   obtained 
from  the  author's  statement  that  in  the  preparation  of 
the  work  between  two  and  three  hundred  thousand 
papers  have  passed  under  this  review. 

To  attempt  to  review  these  volumes  in  the  space 
at  our  command  would  be  to  attempt  to  summarize 
the  principal  events  of  English  history  lying  between 
the  date  of  Gladstone's  election  in  the  year  1832  to 
the  year  1894,  when  he  retired  from  Parliament  and 
political  life,  the  world's  greatest  citizen  and  Eng- 
land's "Grand  Old  Man." 

These  volumes  exemplify  that  Gladstone  was  all 
things  political.  That  no  single  tribute  to  his  great- 
ness should  carry  more  weight  than  the  fact  that  his 
political  positions  changed  with  the  changes  of  con- 
scientious belief.  How  he  was  able  to  retain  his  fol- 
lowing through  all  those  changes  is  sufficiently  ex- 
plained in  the  letter  from  Spurgeon,  which  we  find 
quoted  here:  "We  believe  in  no  man's  infallibility," 
he  wrote,  "but  it  is  restful  to  be  sure  of  one  man's 
integrity."  We  did  not  need  to  be  convinced  of  Glad- 
stone's greatness,  Dut  we  did  need  an  unbiased  and 
enthusiastic  review  of  his  life.  Mr.  Morley's  gives  us 
a  new  significance  of  the  greatest  political  figure  of 
modern  times. 

P.   N.   P.. 

Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.  have 
Novels  and  Essays     issued    a    beautiful    "Golden 
by  Frank  Norris.       Gate"    edition    in    seven    vol- 
umes of  the   novels  and   es- 
says of  Frank  Norris.    The  publication,  after  death, 
of  the  complete  works  of  so  young  an  author  is  war- 
ranted not  so  much  by  Norris's  literary  worth,  but 
because  he  belongs  to  the  existing  order  of  things, 
and  consequently  still   lives. 

In  these  days  of  the  "get-rich-quick"  methods, 
Norris  is  a  voice  crying  aloud  in  the  wilderness 
against  the  gods  of  Chance  and  Greed.  Believing  that 
the  novelist  is  a  teacher  whose  supreme  obligation  is 
to  the  struggling  men  and  women  around  him,  not 
to  the  "cultured  few,"  he  preached  the  need  of  a  lit- 
erary conscience,  "the  responsibility  of  the  novelist 
toward  the  plain  people." 

"It  is  the  demand  of  the  people  that  produces  the 
great  writer,"  he  declares,  and  "the  attitude  of  the 
novelist  toward  his  fellowmen  is  the  great  thing; 
not  his  inventiveness,  his  ingenuity  or  verbal  dex- 
terity." 

Holding  strongly  to  his  belief  that  an  immoral 
man  could  not  be  a  great  writer,  Norris  lived  up  to 
his  creed  as  a  way  of  proving  it.  That  this  asser- 
tion can  easily  be  proved  a  heresy  mattered  not  to 
him  for  his  ambition  was  to  dwell  upon  the  hill-tops 
of  life.  As  a  critic,  he  was  "a  Spartan  in  morals,  an 
Athenian  in  democratic  sentiment,"  but  as  an  inter- 
preter of  men  and  conditions  he  was  "a  Pagan  domi- 
nated by  the  conviction  of  an  ever-coming  fate."  His 
imagination  was  bounded  by  this  idea  of  the  inevi- 
table, and  his  characters  struggle  hopelessly  against*' 
a  relentless  destiny. 

At  twenty,  his  first  article,  "Ancient  Armor,"  ap- 


peared in  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle,  followed 
seven  years  later  by  a  series  of  letters  from  South 
Africa  concerning  the  Uitlander  insurrection.  Dur- 
ing the  next  five  years  he  wrote  for  the  Overland 
.Monthly  short  stories  and  poems,  besides  contribut- 
ing occasionally  to  Eastern  magazines.  In  1903  he 
published  "The  Octopus,"  a  book  that  caused  much 
contradictory  criticism.  But  Norris  paid  no  heed  to 
the  critics;  he  was  launched  upon  his  life  work,  the 
trilogy  that  he  called  "The  Epic  of  the  Wheat." 

The  second  volume  of  the  trilogy,  "The  Pit,"  was 
under  way  and  went  to  the  publisher  before  his  death. 
The  third  volume  would  probably  have  been  written 
upon  the  same  lines,  for  Norris  had  ever  before  his 
eyes  the  fortunes  of  the  Plain  People,  the  playthings 
upon  this  Chequer-board  of  Nights  and  Days.  Right 
or  wrong,  Norris  felt  that  he  had  a  message  to  give, 
and  it  is  the  living  power  of  the  West  that  has  lost 
an  interpreter. 

Doubleday,   Page  &  Co.,  Publishers. 

In  a  volume  of  172  pages,  Mr. 
French  Faience.      M.   L.   Solon   has   condensed  a 

history  of  French  Faience  from 
its  creation  to  gradual  decay  and  comparatively  re- 
cent revival.  With  great  care  he  has  seached  bio- 
graphies and  records  for  facts  that  may  be  of  his- 
torical value  to  the  lovers  of  ceramics,  but  onlv  where 
beauty  of  form  or  color,  or  the  peculiar  touch  of  the 
potter  warrants  it,  does  he  describe  in  detail.  The 
history  of  Faience  is  a  record  of  failures  and  strug- 
gles, for  as  a  ware  for  the  people  it  could  not  com- 
pete with  the  more  delicate  porcelains.  It  is  an  inter- 
esting fact  that  the  ware  as  it  left  the  hands  of  the 
potter  has  little  that  is  characteristic  of  the  period  or 
the  maker.  Only  in  glazes  and  ornamentation  can 
the  difference  between  the  many  faiences  produced 
in  France  be  detected,  and  only  in  the  color  and  the 
style  of  decoration  can  the  true  be  distinguished 
from  the  counterfeit.  Therein  lies  the  fascination  of 
this  ware  to  the  collectors. 
Cassell  &  Co..  Publishers. 

The  question  has  been  often 

French  and  English  asked:  "Why  is  the  furni- 
Furniture.  ture  of  the  present  day  so 

inferior  in  character  and 
form  to  that  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  cen- 
turies? 

A  satisfactory  answer  is  to  be  found  in  a  book  by 
Esther  Singleton  entitled  "French  and  English  Fur- 
niture." It  divides  the  subject  into  the  following 
periods:  "Louis  XIII,"  "Jacobean,"  "Louis  XIV," 
"Queen  Anne,"  "Earlv  Georgian,"  "Louis  XV." 
"Chippendale,"  "Louis  XVI.""  "Adam,"  "Heppel- 
white,"  "Sheraton,"  and  "Empire."  The  general  his- 
torical and  social  conditions  are  outlined  in  each 
chapter,  and  the  characteristics  of  the  furniture  and 
furnishings  are  described. 

There  are  many  interesting  facts  in  the  book,  which 
is  more  for  the  use  of  people  desiring  to  furnish 
their  homes  correctly  than  for  the  use  of  collectors. 

McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.,  Publishers. 


In  "The  Outlook"  of  December  3d,  Mr.  Jacob  A. 
Riis  begins  his  talk  upon  President  Roosevelt,  with 
the  assertion  that  he  does  not  intend  to  write  his 
"life,"  but  to  speak  of  Theodore  Roosevelt  as  he 
knows  him  "of  his  own  knowledge  or  through  those 
nearest  and  dearest  to  him." 


January  9,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


Dear  Bessie:  This  has  been  another  livel)  week  in 
■  >ur  swim,  and  though  the  dances  have  nol  be< 
numerous  as  those  of  lasl  week,  t ho  younges 
rather,  I  might  say,  the  least  seasoned  of  the  girls 
an-  commencing  to  show  -igns  of  fatigue.  But  ur-i 
lei  me  hark  hack  a  hit  and  tell  you  of  the  festivities 
which  ushered  in  the  New  Year.  I  do  nol  know 
which  of  the  New  Near  teas  I  enjoyed  most,  for  1 
was  at  all  of  them :  that  is  to  saj .  of  those  in  our  set, 
which  included  the  Huntington's,  Gertrude  Dutton's, 
Mrs.  Redding's,  Agnes  Buchanan's,  Mrs.  Ed.  Schmie- 
den's, Amy  Gunn'a  and  Mrs.  George  Martin's,  where 
og  was  the  beverage  dispensed;  the  daj  was 
lovely,  and  every  one  seemed  to  be  having  a  good 

time.  The  most  gorgeous  of  them  all  was  the  Hunt 
ington's,  where  Marion  made  her  formal  debut,  bill 
pOSSlbl)  the  one  1  liked  best  was  that  of  Mrs.  Schmie- 
den, which  she  gave  for  her  sister-in-law,  Mrs.  Geo. 
Howard,  who  looked  just  as  sweet  and  lovely  as 
when,  as  Nettie  Schmieden,  she  was  one  of  the  best- 
liked  girls  of  our  set,  and  oh,  what  a  lovely  gewn  she 
wore!  Amy  Gunn  had  with  her  a  very  pretty  girl 
from  Los  Angeles,  Elizabeth  Gibson  by  name,  who 
is  on  a  visit  to  Amy. 

Just  as  I  knew  it  would  he,  the  New  Year's  eve 
fancy  dress  party  at  the  Navy  Yard  was  just  too 
perfectly  delightful  for  words  to  express.  Christine 
says  she  never  enjoyed  anything  so  much  in  all  her 
life,  and  that  some  of  the  costumes  were  very  pretty 
and  others  were  very  odd.  Betty  Moody's  poppy 
dress  was  much  admired,  and  so  was  Lucy  Coleman's 
flags  of  all  nations,  as  well  as  a  lot  more.  The  girls 
from  town  all  stayed  there  over  New  Year's,  and  as 
everyone  at  the  Yara  kept  open  house  and  received 
calls,  it  must  have  been  very  like  New  Year's  calls 
of  long  ago  that  Aunt  Susie  is  always  talking  about 
nowadays. 

Aunt  Susie  and  I  had  a  fine  time  at  Mrs.  Gibbs's 
tea  on  Saturday.  As  Aunt  Susie  says,  to  think  of 
all  the  years  Mrs.  Gibbs  has  wasted  living  so  quietly 
without  giving  the  faintest  hint  of  what  a  charming 
hostess  she  could  be,  which  she  has  so  delightfully 
demonstrated  the  past  three  years.  Stella  Kane, 
for  whom  the  tea  was  given,  has  been  here  before, 
and  was  much  liked,  so  of  course  she  received  many 
words  of  welcome. 

There  has  been  a  little  of  everything  done  this 
week,  though  of  dancing  not  so  much  as  we  had  in  its 
predecessor.  Mrs.  Grayson  Dutton  had  a  luncheon 
party  of  twelve  at  the  St.  Dnnstan,  to  open  the  week 
on  Monday  afternoon.  Then,  owing  to  the  uncertain- 
ties of  the  weather  at  this  time  of  year,  as  well  as 
the  fact  that  some  of  the  men  invited  would  find  it 
difficult  to  go  up  to  the  Navy  Yard,  the  Gaiety  Club 
decided  to  hold  its  meeting  in  town  instead  of  at 
Mare  Island.  Miss  Stella  McCalla  played  the  hostess 
at  Century  Hall,  on  Monday  evening,  and  a  delight- 
ful time  was  enjoyed  by  all  lucky  enough  to  be  asked. 
Of  course  I  went  to  Mrs.  Horace  Davis's  first  "at 
home"  on  Tuesday  to  greet  her  daughter-in-law,  Nor- 
ris's  wife;  she' will  give  another  party  next  week.  But 
the  great  event  of  Tuesday  wa6  the  gorgeous  dinner 
Mr.  Jim  Phelan  gave  in  the  Red  Room  of  the  Bohem- 
ian Club  for  his  niece,  Alice  Sullivan ;  nearly  all  the 
buds  of  the  season  were  among  the  guests,  who  num- 
bered sixty  or  more.  Mrs.  Joe  Donahoe  had  her 
first  "at  home"  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  and  there 
were  more  there  than  I  anticipated,  while  for  the 
evening  there  were  several  events  on  the  cards.    One 


was  ihe  wedding  of  Carrie  Ayres  ami  Dennis  Searles, 
which  took  place  at  the    Vyres  temporary  home  on 

•nn.i    Street    at    nine    o'clock.       It    was    rather    a 

quiel   .iti'.iir;  onlv   iusl   their  most   intimate  friends. 

with    Ma\    and    Prank    King   as   sole   attendants,   and 
1    Clampett   performed   the   ceremony. 
Thursday  was  full  to  tin-  brim  of  good  things. 
(■us   Costigan   was  one  ol   the   hostesses,   giving  a 

luncheon   at    tin-    St.   Dunstan    for    Margaret    Wilson. 

Bertie  Bruce  Stephenson  gave  a  tea  for  New. II 
Drown,  Maye  Colburne  following  suit  with  one  Eor 
l'olh  Macfarlane.    Dr.  Gibbons  and  [da  gave  a  dance 

at  Cotillion  Hall  in  the  evening  for  the  loveliest  debu- 
tante 01  the  season.  Florence  Gibbons.  Yesterday 
Nellie  Oxnard  gave  one  ol  her  delightful  luncheons 

for    Mrs.    Lewis,   who    is   here    from    Portland    on    a 

visit  to  her  mother,  Mrs.  Kittle,  and  a  gang  of  us 
met  at  Ollie  Palmer's  second  at  home.  1  had  also 
to  give  a  look  in  at  the  reception  at  the  Sketch  Club, 
and  do  the  first  at  home  of  Mrs.  Frank  Sullivan  for 
Alice,  and  Mrs.  Sam  Knight's  first  tea.  and  finished 
up  with  the  dinner  given  by  Mrs.  Irwin  for  the  Nor- 
ris  Davises.  There  is  to  be  a  Leap  Year  tea  at  the 
Presidio,  with  Lieutenant  Lewis  as  host,  and  of 
course  all  are  on  the  qui  vive  as  to  what  it  is  to  he 
like.  There  were  two  card  parties  on  Thursday  of 
last  week.  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker  was  hostess  of  the  six- 
handed  Euchre  Club,  and  Agnes  Buchanan  had  one 
of  fifty  guests  to  play  seven-handed  euchre,  with 
Gertrude  Dutton  as  guest  of  honor. 

Terpsichore  will  have  an  inning  next  week,  as 
Ruth  and  Bessie  Allen  have  a  dance  on  Monday  even- 
ing, which  opens  the  week  famously.  Tuesday  is  to 
be  a  white  letter  date,  for  that  night  Florence  Whit- 
tell  is  to  be  given  a  ball  by  her  uncle  George,  for 
which  the  cards  were  sent  out  last  week.  Among 
other  things  on  the  carpet  is  the  tea  to  be  given  for 
Polly  Macfarlane  by  Mrs.  Chris.  Reis,  on  Thursday, 
and  another  tea  for  the  same  little  lady  on  Saturday 
of  which  Gertrude  Palmer  will  be  the  hostess.  Mrs. 
Frank  Deering  will  also  give  a  tea  on  Saturday  from 
four  till  seven. 

The  Clufr-Wilson  engagement  is  not  to  be  a  long 
one,  for  already  the  wedding  day  is  named  for  the 
10th  of  February.  It  will  be  an  evening  ceremonial 
at  the  Palace  Hotel,  with  Mrs.  Jack  Spreckels  as 
matron  of  honor,  Pearl  Landers,  Carrie  duff,  Helen 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


and  Constance  de  Young  to  officiate  as  bridesmaids, 
and  will  be  quite  an  elaborate  affair.  Preceding  it 
will  come  the  wedding  of  Louise  Harrington  and 
Lieutenant  Leahy,  which  is  named  for  the  6th,  I  be- 
lieve, but  am  not  quite  sure  of  the  date,  and  we  may 
expect  to  hear  of  the  cards  for  Bernie  Drown  and 
Sam  Boardman's  wedding  being  out  almost  any  day 
now. 

The  arrival  of  the  Peter  Martins  will  become  an 
accomplished  fact  next  week,  and  the  gossip  is  that 
one  of  the  grandest  affairs  of  the  season  will  be 
given  by  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin — who  has  been  keep- 
ing it  up  her  sleeve  all  these  weeks — to  give  them 
welcome.  They  are  to  stay  with  her,  and  we  may 
look  out  for  lots  of  good  things  in  every  shape  and 
form  once  they  are  actually  here.  — Elsie. 


The  reception  of  the  Papyrus  Club  on  the  last 
day  of  the  year,  with  an  interesting  programme,  in 
charge  of  Miss  Ella  McCloskey.  was  attended  by 
many.  The  Press  Club  Quartette,  Messrs.  King, 
McMillan,  Hunt  and  Keene.  rendered  "Annie  Lau- 
rie," by  Bruck,  and  Lacy's  "Simple  Simon."  Mrs.  W. 
S.  Leake  and  Mr.  Dorville  Libby  told  some  accept- 
able stories,  while  Alice  Carey's  "An  <  Irder  for  a 
Picture"  was  spoken  by  Mrs.  W.  B.  Buckingham, 
and  Mine.  Caro  Roma  and  Mine,  de  Seminario 
sang  very  entertainingly.  Benby's  "Serenade"  was 
sung  by  Miss  Pearl  Hassock,  with  Miss  Elma  Wood- 
bridge  as  accompanist.  Mrs.  Louise  Battles  Cooper, 
Mr.  Charles  Sweigert,  Jeanne  Morrow  Long.  Mine. 
Tojetti,  Grace  Loring  Williams,  Mesdames  Briggs 
and  Cornwall,  Miss  Flynn  and  Miss  Helen  Suther- 
land, filled  the  balance  of  the  programme  very  much 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  audience. 

Among  the  arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the 
past  week  are  the  Following:  Mrs.  and  Mr.  B.  M. 
Gunn,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Posner,  F.  W.  Young,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  A.  M.  McDearmoth,  Harry  Gerdes,  Mrs. 
Gironard,  Mrs.  Chambler,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Todd  and  sons, 
John  F.  Elliot,  H.  A.  Preston,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wil- 
liamson,  Mort   Lawton,  W.   B.   Moore. 

HOTEL  CLARENDON. 

The  past  twelve  months  have  been  the  hotel  era 
of  San  Francisco.  Many  good,  ami  >omc  very  super- 
ior, apartment  houses  and  hotels  have  been  erected, 
but  the  leader  of  leaders  is  easily  accredited  to  be 
Hotel  Clarendon,  which  opened  in  June,  and  which 
has  steadily  advanced  in  public  favor.  The  appoint- 
ments of  the  hotel  are  so  thoroughly  modern,  and  the 
conveniences  so  many,  that  a  homelike  atmosphere 
pervades  every  floor  and  every  room.  The  cafe  is 
without  exception  the  best  in  California,  and  nothing, 
even  in  best  club  life,  can  compare  with  the  quiet 
elegance  of  the  swim  and  surroundings.  Try  the 
Clarendon,  and  you  will  thank  the  News  Letter  for 
the  suggestion. 

The    "Theo" — Popular-Priced    French      Corset.      New 

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wine  at  all  clubs  and  cafes.  The  importation  of  this  wine 
during  1903  exceeded  that  of  any  other  champagne. 


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Ladies — For  a  good  complexion  try   the   Post  St.    Hammam. 


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&he  WALDORF 

Miss  D.  Honig 

241-243  GEARY  ST.    S.  F 

The  largest  hair  store  ih  the  United  States.  The  best  assort- 
ment <  4  hair  from  Is  mi  the  I'm  id  lie  Coast..     Ladies  ami    gentlemen's 

witrs  "i  al]  description— best  ol  hair  and  finest  workmanship. 
Switches  all  lent.''  lis  and  colors.  Pompadours.  Janes,  Kolls,  etc.  to 
tosuil  everybody  in  color  and  teoture. 

The  in -st  accomodations  by  thirty  expert  help  in  all  branches  of 
our  business-    See  our  specialties  on  facial  and  scalp  treatment. 

Lei  us  examine  your  head  and  i  ■  ■!!  you  the  trouble  w  pour  hair. 

ii:in  dressing,  manicuring',  scalp  treatment.  Facial  treatments, 
shampooinKi  chiropody  etc.,  at  popular  prioes. 


January  9.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 


GREAT  PICTURE  IS  SHOWN  HERE. 

The   celebrated    painting.       I  !>• 
Hul>  11   on   cxhibiti 

:t  will  l>c  shown  for  a  lii 
will  doubtless  attract   much  attention.    Th< 

".  worth  seeing  many  lii 
of  a  master  painter  and  a  piece  of  realism.  I  I 
reputation  would  he  secure  if  lie  had  never  pai 
>thcr  picture  than  tliis. 

"The  Blacksmith"  is  not  a  huge  canvas  crowded 
with  figures  ami  overdone  by  startling  effects:  noth- 
ing hut  a  smithy  of  the  old  style,  with  the  smith 
hen. ling  ever  his  forge,  waiting  for  lite  ir..; 
proper  heat.  He  is  the  old  country  blacksmith  a 
whose  shop  you  used  to  play  when  you  were  a  boy, 
and  he  wears  the  same  old  leathern"  apron.      I 

ire  the  douhle-cttd  anvil,  the  barrel   tilled   with 
scrap  iron,  the  heap  of  old  horse  shoes  and  other 
and  ends,  the  glowing  tire,  shooting  sparks  in   every 
direction  as  the  smith  pulls  on  the  bellows  cor. I. 

Upon  this  simple  background  the  figure  of  the 
smith  himself  stands  out  as  if  alive.  Apparently 
you  might  walk  around  him  as  he  prepares  to  draw 
the  hot  iron  from  the  fire.  You  can  almost  see  his 
hairy  chest  heave  and  the  sweat  drop  from  his  brow, 
so  real  is  the  effect  of  Delormc's  treatment,  and  vim 
find  yourself  waiting  and  wondering  why  he  does  not 
turn  from  the  forge  to  the  anvil  and  take  up  the 
hammer  lying  there  on  the  old  splintered  block.  And 
over  this  homely  and  familiar  scene  streams  the  sun- 
light through  door  and  window,  lighting  up  the  fig- 
ure of  the  smith  and  meeting  the  warm  glow  from  the 
fire. 

Delorme's  great  picture  needs  no  technical  knowl- 
edge of  art  to  enable  the  spectator  to  enjoy  its  beau- 
ties, yet  it  appeals  both  to  the  artist  as  a  master- 
piece and  to  the  layman  as  a  story  told  with  brush 
and  canvas  and  color  in  the  keynote  of  sympathy 
for  human  life.  One  of  the  artists  who  spent  an  hour 
studying  it  said :  "Not  one  painter  in  a  thousand 
could  duplicate  the  fire  reflection  upon  the  face  and 
arms  of  the  blacksmith,  or  the  glow  of  the  flame  it- 
self. Delorme  had  to  battle  with  the  sunlight  effect 
from  the  windows  and  the  firelight  from  the  forge, 
and  his  success  was  genius  in  its  most  perfect  achieve- 
ment." 

The  picture  is  owned  by  F.  F.  Galbraith  of  To- 
ronto, and  is  valued  at  $50,000.  The  painter,  De- 
lorme, was  born  at  Givors,  France,  in  1842  and  died 
in  Paris  in  1874. 


A  5km  of  Hr.iutv    I*  ■   Joy   Forever. 


The  epicure   knows   that  an  oyster  should   be  eaten 

as  near  the  oyster  bed  as  possible,  and  that  the  least  pos- 
sible time  should  ensue  between  the  time  the  oyster  is 
"tonged"  to  the  minute  of  consumption.  Moraghan's  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  M'arket  is  world-famed  as  the  place 
best  to  secure  the  succulent  bivalve.  The  "chef"  is  pre- 
eminent as  a  master  of  the  art  of  cookery,  and'  no  one  seek- 
ing satisfaction  in  oysters  will,  ever  do  aught  but  praise 
Moraghan's. 


One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

good  luncheon,  There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  and  refreshment  atcer 
the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
ice-cream  and  pastry— always  the  best,  and  their  prompt- 
ness can  be  depended  upon. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  -jtn  and!  Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 


D 


R.   T.    MUX   OOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM  OR   MAOICAL   BRAUTIFIER. 


1  Tan.  lMinplc*.  Frrcklaa. 
Moth  HaCoho*.  Hiu>li  an.l  Hkln  IH«- 
<»■<■•.  *■  '■i-milj- 

-..l   I*    P4>  llHM 

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ol  -iii.Uur  name. 

Dr.  I*.  A,  ■  :v  lad j  •  •(  the 

hftnHoD  (•    imlii-nl        "A*    \<.i|   lu-lii'* 

■  ii.'in,  I  raoomiDsnd  ( lour* 
sud'*  Cream' m  Lba  least  harmful  m 

nit  llir  si,  ma."      Pof  (.air- 

by  nil   dranurtii    and    Pmoy-goodi 

Dealers  In  iho  United  States,  Can&ujts 
atiil  I'.urope. 

FKRD.    T.     HOPKINS,     i-r.-i'-r 
37<Srcat  Jonei  ulre^t.  ,N    Y 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Gould  and  Curry  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Co. 

l-ocnlioti  ...f  principal    plnce   1  f  l>USJ  PnnolpQO,  «'iil if 111        Loch 

tion  ..f  works,  Virginia  <  iiy.  Storey  Oou   i  v.  Ni-vn.ii.. 

Notice  in  hereby  elven  Mini  »t  ft  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Director-,  held 
on  the  Blh  day  "i  January,  ISM  an  assessment  -No.  103J  of  ten  cents 
per  flmre  was  u-vied  upon  tin-  enpltal  Rtoek  <.f  the  corporation,  pnynble  im- 
mediately In  United  EltateS  Bold  OOlnj  to  the  Sicrctary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  69,  Nevada  Block.  No.  8<9  Montgomery  street,  Pnn 
Francisco,  Gal, 

Any  slock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE    ftth    D*Y    OF    FEBRUARY.     1904, 
will  he    delinquent,  and  ndverlised  for  *ale  al  public  auction;    and    unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  KKlDAY,  the  2-ilh  day  of  Februarv 
1901,    to     pay     the     delinquent    assessment,    together  with   the    costs    of 
advertising  and  expense*  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

J.  B.  SHAW,    Secretary. 
Office— Room    60  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street, San  Fran- 
cisco, California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.- 
Yellow  Jacket  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

LoL'iHiou  of  works.  Gold  Hill.Sloroy  County,  Nevada.  Principal  place  of 
business.  Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting:  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. of  this 
Company  neld  on  the  121b  day  of  December,  1903, an  assessment  (No.  15)  of 
ten  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital 
stock  of  the  of  SAld  Company,  ay  able  immediately  to  the  -ecrelary,  at 
the  office  of  the  Company,  or  to  lames  Newlands  Jr..  Transfer  Secretary, 
Room,  35  Mills  Building;,  third  floor,  Mai)  Pranuisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
SATURDAY  THE  16th   DAY    OF    JANIMRV.  1904, 
will    be  deemed     delinquent,     and      will    be    ouly   advertbed      for    sale 
at      public      auction;      rimI      umet-s     payment     Is      made      before,     will 
be      sold       on      SATURDAY,       the      20lb     day      of     February     1904.    at 
4     o'clock     p      m.     in     front     of    the    of  lice     of     the     Company,     to 
pay       the     delinquent      assessment,      toeether       with       the       cost       of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELT,   Secretary. 

-      ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  **an  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works—  Virginia  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
'  d  on  the  llth  day  of  December,  1903,  an  assessment  (No,  83}  of  ten 
( 10)  cants  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stonk  of  the  corporation 
Payable  immediately,  in  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
offioe  of  the  Company. 
Any  stook  upon  which  this  aaie^sment  shall  rem  tin  unpaid  on 

THE    15th   DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1904, 
will    be     delinquent,    and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and    miles 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  5th  day  of  February 
1901,     to    pvy    ihe     delinquent     assessment,    together     with     oosts  of  ad- 
vertising and  "expenses  of  sale. 

By  orJer  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE,,  Secretary. 
Location  of  Office— Room  31,  Nevada  Blook,  31)9    Montgomerystreet,San 
Franoisjo'  Cal. 


Goodman — Do  vou  ever  think  of  the  good  old  say- 
ing that  it's  more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive? 
Pugsley — Yes;  when  I've  got  the  boxing  gloves  on 
I  do. 


The  Japanese  art  goods  displayed  by   George  T.   Marsh   & 

Co..  224  Post  street,  are  worth  your  while.     Nothing  more  appro- 
priate could  be  selected  for  Christmas  gifts. 


WRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISHES 

Removed  by  New  Process  (Guaranteed.) 
Face  Massage  and  Manicuring. 

AT    YOUR    HOME, 

by  appointment 

MME.    H.    EASTWOOD 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


>own  L,rter 

'ffear  the  Crier')'. What  the  devil  art  thou 
"One  that  will  play  the  devil,  Jl'r.  withyou  ' 

It  is  well  known  and  to  be  regretted  that  dishon- 
esty is  rampant  among  the  university  students. 
Scandal  after  scandal  has  come  and  gone;  the  library 
has  complained  of  stolen  books;  the  students  ol 
stolen  money,  clothes  and  books,  and  the  lack  of 
straightforward  manliness  has  become  such  a  prob- 
lem that  the  introduction  of  the  honor  system  is  be- 
ing seriously  debated.  In  other  words,  the  college 
authorities,  despairing  of  disciplining  the  student-. 
are  asking  the  latter  to  discipline  themselves.  What 
is  the  reason?  Partly  the  lack  of  a  strong  head.  A 
President  who  calls  on  the  Lord  publicly  whenever 
he  has  to  face  an  emergency,  and  tells  twenty-year- 
old  boys  that  he  feels  as  if  he  could  cry  every  time 
that  he  is  called  upon  to  reprove  them,  cannot  in- 
stil any  robust  manliness  into  those  whom  he  is 
supposed  to  lead.  Just  imagine  the  head  of  a  great 
firm  who  has  been  obliged  to  administer  a  warning 
to  a  careless  clerk  adjuring  him  to  be  good,  and 
wringing  his  hands  over  the  sin  of  the  youth  and  the 
painfulness  of  the  situation?  It  is  small  wonder 
that  our  college  men,  on  the  completion  of  their 
course,  are  less  manly  than  their  brothers  who  went 
to  work  in  the  world.  Robust  leadership  of  a  strong 
man  would  clear  things  up   morally  at   Berkeley. 

The  days  of  the  lazy  student  are  coming  to  an  end. 
The  standard  is  being  raised  at  both  the  Universi- 
ties, and  henceforward  men  must  work  for  their  de- 
grees. It  is  none  too  soon.  For  several  years  the 
University  students  have  had  a  disgracefully  eas) 
time.  The  competition  between  the  two  Universities 
has  degenerated  into  the  merest  advertising  and 
scramble  for  numbers.  Methods  of  touting  which 
might  have  been  justifiable  in  the  case  of  a  small  auc- 
tion, but  were  absolutely  out  of  place  in  university 
matters,  had  become  more  and  more  the  rule,  till 
a  line  had  to  be  drawn  somewhere,  for  the  reason 
that  the  depths  of  vulgarity  had  been  sounded.  Now 
the  heads  of  the  colleges  appear  to  have  awakened 
to  the  fact  that  scholarship  may  serve  as  well  as 
foot-ball  games  and  glee  clubs.  Henceforward,  the 
class  room  will  be  of  more  importance. 

It  is  not  often  that  pathos  troubles  the  hard  heart 
of  the  Town  Crier,  but  in  the  case  of  the  death  <>i 
Professor  Paget,  which  was  followed  so  soon  by  that 
of  his  wife,'  his  voice  cannot  be  altogether  silent. 
Their  love  is  a  lesson  to  all,  and  a  comfort  in  these 
hard  times,  when  the  villainies  and  the  hypocrisies 
of  our  would-be  leaders  and  exemplars  take  up  too 
much  of  our  notice.  The  professor  devoted  his  life 
to  the  payment  of  a  debt  which  he  voluntarily  as- 
sumed, and  died  poor,  as  fools  count  poverty,  but 
richer  in  all  that  good  men  respect  than  most  ol 
those   whom   nearlv   everybody   envies. 

There  is  much  disgust  in  virtuous  Oakland  over 
the  fact  that  white  girls  have  been  discovered  in  a 
notorious  Chinese  place.  There  is  a  whole  lot  "t 
bosh  talked  about  the  girls  being  lured  there  by  a 
Chinaman.  Any  girl  who  could  be  lured  into  that 
sort  of  thing  by  a  Celestial  photographer  is  not  worth 
much  of  a  fuss.  There  is  very  much  jubilation  in 
the  city  across  the  Day  that  the  girls  were  from  San 
Francisco.  For  once  in  a  chequered  career,  ( lakland 
is  entitled  to  congratulations. 


When  a  policeman  does  his  duty  as  did  •Fogarty, 
the  community  will  not  stand  by  and  see  him  pun- 
ished. The  judges  are  afraid  of  the  unions,  and 
henceforward  it  will  be  impossible  to  secure  any 
justice  for  the  officials  who  stand  for  public  order 
in  tlie  face  of  violence  and  abuse.  The  most  that 
can  be  done  is  to  pay  their  fines  for  them,  and  see 
that  their  good  deeds  do  not  entail  any  suffering.  Let 
it  be  known  that  wherever  a  peace  officer  is  punished 
by  the  local  Dogberries  for  carrying  out  his  duty  and 
protecting  the  citizens,  the  money  will  be  forthcom- 
ing to  pay  his  fines  and  to  keep  him  from  suffering, 
and  we  shall  be  able  to  maintain  the  outward  sem- 
blance of  decency,  at  all  events,  in  spite  of  the  efforts 
•  if  our  officials  and  the  perjured  cowardice  of  the 
I '"lice  Court  Judges. 

There  is  a  report,  probably  malicious,  that  Mrs 
Schmitz  makes  her  children  call  their  father  "Mayor." 
\t  any  rate,  something  must  be  filling  his  musical 
soul  with  swelling  waves.  His  idea  that  he  could 
successfully  grapple  with  the  Federal  authorities 
could  only  have  been  born  of  colossal  vanity  or  an 
equally  enormous  ignorance.  Probably  both  had  a 
share,  for  the  Mayor  is  a  handsome  man,  and  has 
been  a  little  spoiled  in  his  time  .  It  is  a  pity  he  did 
not  persevere.  To  have  lined  up  against  Congress 
would  have  taught  him  his  limitations,  as  it  has 
many  abler  and  bigger  men.  It  is  getting  time  that 
our  local  politicians  began  to  learn  that  there  is  a 
] lower  in  the  country,  and  that  their  little  schemes 
do  not   include  the   whole  universe. 

We  are  to  be  treated  to  another  exposure  in  the 
matter  of  the  Clunie  estate.  It  is  a  queer  thing  that 
our  attorneys  cannot  put  through  a  simple  piece  of 
business  without  making  everybody  who  has  any 
connection  with  the  deceased  ashamed  and  annoyed. 
The  pettifogging  which  is  spreading  like  a  malignant 
disease  through  the  bar  of  California  and  particularly 
of  San  Francisco,  will  yet  destroy  the  profession. 
The  sharp  practices  which  were  formerly  confined 
to  the  shyster  part  of  the  profession  are  too  generally 
invading  the  better  class  of  law  officers,  and  the 
whole  structure  of  the  legal  profession  is  weakened. 
All  this  is  of  comparatively  recent  growth,  for  it  is 
not  many  years  since  our  local  bar  was  one  of  the 
finest  and  cleanest  in  the  world. 

The  Town  Crier  would  like  to  know  how  so  many 
professional  men  of  standing  can  find  time  to  be  al- 
ways at  the  race-track.  If  you  are  at  the  Ferry 
Building,  you  can  see  them  dropping  off  the  cars  one 
li\  one  and  making  their  way  to  the  boats.  Watch 
them  at  the  races,  and  they  are  hanging  about  the 
bookmakers'  stands.  When  these  races  can  have 
such  a  disturbing  influence  upon  men  who  have  suffi- 
cient balance  to  have  acquired  a  certain  standing, 
what  must  be  the  effect  upon  the  callow  and  the 
weak?  There  is  something  unhealthy  in  our  make- 
up when  the  racing  microbe  can  get  so  strong  a  hold; 
and  the  racing  is.  generally  speaking,  not  straight, 
cither. 

What's  a  restaurant?  An  eating  place.  What's  a 
French  restaurant?  The  answer  may  be  found  in 
the  list  of  things  to  be  sold  on  account  of  the  closing 
of  the  Maison  Riche  for  running  illegal  gambling 
games.  There  are  a  few  pots,  pans  and  kettles  in  this 
inventory,  but  it  consists  mostly  of  bed-room  suites, 
mattresses,  sheets,  pillow-cases  and  like  fittings.  All 
of  which  proves  what  I  have  always  maintained — 
that  French  restaurants  are  indecent  places,  unfit 
for  the  patronage  of  respectable  people. 


January  g.  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


>3 


How     San     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


Bv    rnnKuld     Travprs.     Tovitlal 


It  s  awfully  jolly  to  me  to  be  able  to  saj  something 
which  I  know  to  be  right  and  whichMhe  other  fellow 
says  is  wrong.     Wrong  only  because  the  stati 
Im*  tin-  objector  in  a  spol   which  is  tender  I 
touch.    I  mean  pressure  and  not  "touch"  in  thi 
Macular  of  the  Coast,  which  I  learn  is  a  slang  syno- 
nym  for  asking  a   temporary   cash   accommod 
From  a  fellow  clubman  or  a  friend.    In  my  mingling 
with  San  Francisco's  best  of  clubmen  I  learned  to  my 
the  definition  of  "touch."  1  did  not  know  it  be- 
fore, but  I  do  now.  1  have  acquired  a  collection  ,,1"  au- 
iph  cards  that  in  event  of  anj   one  of  the  artisl 
signers  becoming  famous  I  shall  recoup  tin-  u hat  to 
me  looks  like  a  loss.    1  am  really  only  out  a  few  hun- 
dred dollars,  and  have  had  sufficient  'fun  studying  the 
various   methods   used   by   the  autograph   sellers   to 
compensate  me  tor  the  expense.     F  am  not,   I    Batter 
myself,  as  simple  as   I   look,  and  I  expect  the  "auto- 
graphs" to  be  purchased  by  the  San  Franciscans  who 
made  them  at  cost  prices.     If  not  redeemed.   I   shall 
treasure  them  as  mementoes  of  my  visit,  and  as  an 
evidence  of  poor  judgment.     My  man  has  not  as  yet 
been  able  to  find  apartments  which  suit  me,  and   I 
am  terribly  unsettled.     It  is  bothersome  to  a  man  to 
be  compelled  to  put  up  with  the  unhomeness  of  the 
hotel  and  the  perfunctory  "Good  evening,  sir,"  of  the 
waiters  and   hall   hoys  at  the   clubs.     l'"  hope   to   get 
settled   quickly,  and   my  own   establishment  started, 
and  then  I  shall  be  better  able  to  enjoy  the  funny 
things  I  see  done  by  the  barbarians  of  societv  at  this 
place. 

I  had  quite  expected  to  have  a  lonesome  New 
Years.  I  was  a  stranger  in  a  strange  land,  and  had 
been  taken  in.  A  cablegram  from  the  pater,  which  I 
received  in  the  evening,  set  me  on  my  feet.  I  called 
Roger,  my  valet,  dressed  and  thought  T  might  per- 
chance find  some  friend  at  the  club  who  would  dine 
with  me  and  help  to  drown  my  solitude  and  end  the 
year.  I  had  barely  handed  my  hat  and  stick  to  the 
hall-boy  when  I  was  greeted  by  a  "Hello,  Travers !" 
from  a  chap  whom  I  met  in  Scotland,  and  who  is  a 
Girist  Church-Oxon-Man  and  an  Honor  man.  We 
dined  at  my  expense,  and  then  called  a  cab  and  went 
down  to  Market  street  to  see  the  old  year  die.  The 
cabby  would  not  drive  fast,  and  the  horse  walked  up 
one  side  of  the  beastly  street  and  then  down  the 
other.  When  we  finally  got  to  the  hotel,  I  said,  "Pay 
him,  and  let's  foot  it  for  a  while." 

We  did.  The  experience  was  anything  but  pleas- 
ant— the  men  were  so  illy-bred  that  they  made  vul- 
gar remarks  because  two  gentlemen  in  evening  dress 
were  taking  a  walk.  I  resented  it  once,  and  called 
a  "bobby."  I  repeated  to  him  the  insulting  language 
of  the  man  who  had  made  himself  offensive,  and  re- 
quested his  removal.  But  all  the  satisfaction  T  re- 
ceived from  the  peace  officer  was  a  remark  which 
sounded  like  "G'wan !"  I  have  formed  my  ooinion  of 
San  Francisco's  constables,  and  T  think  they  need 
some  of  England's  Scotland  Yard  Inspectors  to 
sharpen  them  up.  I  also  formed  my  opinion  of  the 
young  women  I  saw.  They  are  not  a  bad-looking 
lot  in  this  city,  but  I  fear  that  the  most  of  the  com- 
plexions I  noted  would  not  stand  a  rain-storm.  The 
women  were  athletic  enough  in  appearance,  rather 
too  much  so,  but  their  gowns  were  neither  fit  for  ket- 
tledrum, tea  or  dinner,  and  much  less  for  the  street. 
I  think  they  were  all  good  women.  I  think  this  in 
spite     of    their    high-heeled     shoes     and     high-held 


-kirr-  They  were  not  the  class  to  raise  a  nation  ot- 
to make  a  wife.  Tin-  lack  of  suggestion  in  either  look 
or  action  pleased  me.  hut  the  la-te  displayed  in  their 
iming  was  simply  perdition.  1  was  told  by  my 
Chum  that  New  Year's  eve  in  your  city  i-  a  -'<r\  of 
Mardi  Gras.  I  found  out  later  that  It  was  v 
My  pocket  was  picked  of  a  pair  of  Dent's  and  a  cou- 
ple Of  silk  handkerchiefs,  while  my  friend  was  re- 
lieved of  a  diamond-studded  locket  which  he  wore  on 
his  fob.  Aft,,-  we  got  hack  to  the  hotel,  through  the 
horn-hlo«ing.  confetti-throwing  mob,  and  sat  down 
to  discuss  a   bottle  "frapped."    I    even   confessed   that 

I   had  enjoyed  myself.     1   had  seen  an  innumerable 

lot  of  prettj  girls  "en  passant":  I  noted  their  car- 
riage anil  gestures,  and  they  were  girls  with  stride  and 
action,  with  trim  hands  and  ankles,  such  as  I  am  con- 
vinced is  indigenous  to  San  Francisco  and  Califor- 
nia. I  realize  that  they  were  not,  of  course,  the  kind 
or  class  that  1  could  know,  and  I  do  not  desire  to 
meet  them.  1  may  look  at  them  and  admire  them 
as  I  do  my  horse  for  his  points,  or  my  dog  for  his 
affection — but   nothing   more   for   Travers. 

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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  TO  YOU  ON  THEATRICALS. 

COLUMBIA— Last  week.    "The  Girl  With  the  Green  Eyes,"    Good 

FISCHER'S— "I.  O.  n, "    Last  w k     Not  up  to  usual  standard- 

TFV0L1— "Ixion."    Last  week.    Mystical  extravaganza,    Entertaining 
ORAND— .Toe  Kelly,  "the  Pipe  Dreamer,"  in  "The  Head  Waiter." 
GRAND— Special— r.-itii.  January  nth. 

ORPHEUM— Joan  Haden's  "1  pole  of  Love."   New  1 am     )d. 

alcazar-"A  Lady  of  Quality."    Enjoyable.    Well  put  on. 

CENTRAL— "Monte  Cristo  '    Spectacular. 

California— "Hai'i'v  Hooligan."    Cartoon  play.    Amuses  children. 

lvric  HALL— Burton  Holmes,    illustrated  lectures. 

CHLTES-Tle-  BrittOns. 


Patti  did  not  attract  a  fashionable  crowd  al  the 
( irand  Opera  House  Thursday  night.  The  audience 
did  not  show  disappointment  in  the  weakness  of  her 
— the  voice  that  once  demanded  recognition 
from  the  world — lint  it  was  weak  nevertheless.  The 
"wise  old  owl,"  as  Ferris  Hartman  would  say,  makes 
no  attempt  at  the  higher  or  lower  notes,  and  sings 
only  in  the  middle  scale.  There  was  nothing  grand 
nor  nothing  sweet  in  her  rendition  of  the  programme, 
and  yet  the  aduience  applauded — applauded  Patti, 
not  her  voice. 

Although  the  possessor  of  a  repertoire  numbering 
thirty-odd  roles,  it  is  a  fact  that  fvfme.  Adelina  Patti 
has  never  turned  her  attention  towards  the  classic 
operas,  as  "Zerlina,"  in  Mozart's  "Don  Giovanni,"  is 
the  only  classic  role  which  she  ever  essayed.  Masters 
of  singing  will  point  out  that  her  avoidance  of  the 
heavier  roles  in  grand  opera  is  the  cause  of  the  long 
preservation  of  her  marvelous  voice.  Mme.  Patti  will 
be  heard  for  the  last  time  in  San  Francisco  at:  the 
Grand  Opera  House  Monday  afternoon,  January 
nth,  at  2:15. 

*  *  * 

Adele  Block  as  Clio  in  "A  Lady  of  Quality"  is  a 
very  pleasing  personation.  The  carpingly  critical 
might  say  that  there  is  a  dead  level  in  the  voice  of  the 
Wildan's  Diana,  but  I  find  on  consultation  with  many 
of  those  on  the  foreside  of  the  footlights  the  "eternal 
feminine"  and  the  rhapsodical  youth,  that  a  i 
levelism  and  intense  earnestness  are  supposed  to 
possess  consanguinity.  Adele  Block  is  sweet,  win- 
some, tragic  and  tantalizing.  She  has  a  magnetic 
temperament,  which  is  easily  transferred  to  her  au- 
dience. 

Durkin  is  such  a  villainously  good  villain  that  you 
sorrow  at  his  demise. 

Harry  Hilliard  is  but  a  poor  Lord  Osmonde.  He 
lacks  vim,  and  his  dialogue  lacks  the  btibl.l 
brightness  necessary  to  make  it  interesting.  "The 
Lady  of  Quality"  has  been  presented  here  on  two 
other  occasions,  and  the  Alcazar  Company's  version 
is  as  good  as  any  we  have  seen. 

*  *  * 

Clyde  Fitch  might  have  written  "The  Girl  with  the 
Green  Eyes"  for  Ida  Conquest  and  companv.  it  is 
so  well  given  at  the  Columbia.  Mrs.  Thomas  Whif- 
fen  easily  shares  honors  with  Miss  Conquest,  ami 
Robert  Drouet  is  an  associate  of  wdiich  any  star 
might  be  proud. 

*  *  * 

"Ixion"  still  holds  the  boards  at  the  Tivoli  to  large 
houses.  The  staging  and  scenery  are  excellent.  The 
Bothwell  Brown'-  .lancing  class  might  well  be  dis- 
pensed with  in  favor  of  a  professional  chorus.  The 
dancing  class,  although  well  trained,  did  not  give 
satisfaction  at  the  Grand,  in  "Cleopatra."  It  does 
not  take  an  audience  long  to  feel  the  difference,  and 


this  is  because  of  the  lack  of  professional  swing.  The 
performance  is  a  generally  pleasing  one,  however, 
and  fills  the  house  nightly. 

".Monte  Cristo."  at  the  Central,  pleases  the  lovers 
of  the  1-2-3  drama,  and  Herschel  Alayall  received  the 
plaudits  of  a  breathless  audience.  Eugenie  Thais 
Lawton  gave  a  fairly  good  piece  of  stage  work.  Her 
transition  from  youth  to  old  age  shows  much  pains- 
taking study.     The  setting  is  good. 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  Theatre,  with  "I-O-U"  in  its  last  week. 
lias  bet  n  well  patronized.  The  play  is  not  up  to  tin 
standard  of  this  house,  and  the  company  seems  to 
be  suffering  from  a  sundering  of  relations.  The  new 
my,  or  rather  the  old  company,  with  a  few 
new  faces,  will  take  up  "The  Beauty  Shop."  This  is 
announced  as  a  roaring  local  farce,  with  a  plot,  and 
was  written  by  Mr.  J.  C.  Crawford,  a  San  Francisco 
newspaper  man.  The  only  evidence,  and  the  best  at 
hand,  of  the  taking  qualities  of  the  play  is  the  en- 
thusiasm of  all,  from  scene-shifter  to  manager.  Helen 
Russell  will  make  her  first  appearance,  and  judging 
by  her  photographs,  the  title  of  Madame  Voluptia. 
the  Beauty  Doctor,  fits  her  well.  Mr.  Dill  will  per- 
sonate the  president  of  the  Pretzel  Trust.  Mr.  C. 
Schwabber  Pilsener,  while  Kolb  becomes  Mr.  Jay 
Bierbump  Culmbacher.     The  names  in  the  play  bill 

should  be  enough  to  fill  the  house. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Central,  "The  Moonshiners"  will  be  put  on. 
This  is  a  melodrama  with  impressive  scenes  and  mag- 
nificent scenery.  The  play  is  located  in  Virginia, 
and  it  is  said  to  have  had  great  runs  in  the  the  East 
and  South.  A  new  comedian  will  make  his  initial 
appearance  as  "Eph,  the  African." 

A  story  of  cross  purposes  and  conditions  gone 
awry  is  afloat  about  Fischer's.  It  is  said  Barncv  Ber- 
nard undertook  to  obtain  a  raise  in  salary  that  would 
have  enabled  him  to  own  a  string  of  horses.  He  was 
signed  for  a  Los  Angeles  house,  and  report  says  the 
Angeleno  audiences  gave  him  the  frozen  face.  He  re- 
signed, and  was  looking  longingly  toward  Fischer's 
again.  He  knew  the  public  wanted  him,  and  he  knew 
Fischer  wanted  him.  Fischer  knew  this,  too,  but  he 
had  the  Actors'  Union  on  his  hands.  Amber,  Dill, 
Kolb  and  Winfield  filake  were  all  howling  for  a  raise. 
There  should  be  a  Hague  Tribunal  of  Arbitration  for 
disgruntled   actors   and      managers     with      Flashton 

<  irievance,  he  of  the  interviews,  as  chief  arbitrator. 

*  *  * 

"Als  ich  Wiederkam,"  a  sequel  to  "At  the  White 
Horse  Tavern,"  will  be  presented  at  the  Columbia 
by  the  Alameda  Lustspiel  Ensemble.  The  cast  is 
large,  and  the  very  acceptable  manner  in  which  "The 
White  Horse  Tavern"  was  presented  is  a  guarantee 
of  a  satisfied  patronage.  "Als  ich  Wiedenkam"  is 
said  to  be  a  very  amusing  comedv. 
*'  *  * 

"The  Moth  and  the  Flame,"  one  of  Clyde  Fitch's 
earlier  works,  a  social  problem  and  a  play  of  polite 
manners,  is  to  be  the  attraction  at  the  Alcazar.  This 
play  is  a  strong  one,  and  it  should  receive  excellent 
treatment  from  the  unusually  intelligent  company. 
Durkin  will  essay  the  juvenile,  and  Mr.  Conners  will 
take  up  the  part  of  the  villain.  The  rest  of  the  com- 
pany is  nicely  cast,  and  should  give  a  good  account 


January  9,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


-I'll-    This  Irs.  Jack"  in  prepan 

r  nearly  the  v. 

■.I  other  1 
Alberta  Gallatin  .:  tour"  will  be  | 

January   10th  at  the  Columbia  in   lbs 

«  *  * 

Hoyt's  "Trip  to  1  hinatown"  is  the  bill  for 
week  at  the  California. 

*  *  * 

Stanislaus  Stange  and  Julian   Edwards  have 
laborated  to  write  "When  Johnn 
Home."  and  this  is  to  be  the  next  Tivoli  bill.    This 
distinctly  American  work  is  said  to  have  scored  greal 
success    in    the    East.      There    is   a    splendid    pi 
climax  and  anti-climax.     The  music  is  a  blendii 
the  themes  .if  the  North  and  the  South. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Deaves  will  present  their 
"Merry  Manikins  "  for  the  entertainment  of  the 
Chutes'  audiences  this  coming  week,  and  young  and 
olil  alike  will  have  ample  opportunity  for  laughter. 
I. a  Drew  and  I. a  Zone.  "The  Daffy  Dame  am 
Tad."  promise  an  amusing  act,  and  the  Girdollers, 
ty .acrobats  and  equilibrists,  will  contribute  the 
athletic  portion  of  the  entertainment;  Luce  and  1  UC 
will  otter  a  comedy  sketch,  and  Mabel  Lamson  will 
be  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs.  Joe  and  Sadie 
Britton,  the  colored  dancers,  will  appear  for  the 
fourth  and  last  week  of  an  unprecedented  engage- 
ment, and  the  animatoscope  will  complete  the  pro- 
gramme with  interesting  and  amusing'  moving  pic- 
tures. The  amateurs  will  appear  on  Thursday  night. 
The  babies  in  the  life-saving  incubators  are  thriving, 
and  the  collection  of  animals  in  the  zoo  is  constantly 

in  receipt  of  rare  additions. 

&  #  * 

The  Orpheum  bill  shows  a  new  company,  with 
Henry  Thurston,  "the  man  who  mystified  Hermann," 
played  up  strong.  Wallno  and  Marinette,  Austrian 
grotesques,  and  Asra,  the  juggler.  Asra  is  a  spec- 
ialist with  billiard  balls.  Fred  Hallen  and  Molly 
Fuller,  in  their  last  appearance,  will  give  Cohen's 
successful  comedy,  "His  Wife's  Hero."  The  bill 
throughout  seems  good,  in  the  advance  notes,  but  it 
will  have  to  be  more  than  good  to  beat  the  "Road 
Show." 


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Week  of  Monday,  January  11th 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

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Regular  matinees    Saturday    and    Sunday 

One  week  commencing  Monday  Jan.  11,  first  Alcazar  presenta- 

TME    MOTH    AND    THE    FLAME 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


Click,  click,  click,  went  the  typewriter.  Marion 
Wesley  paused  and  pushed  back  her  hair  from  her 
forehead  with  a  tired  gesture.  Office  hours  were  over, 
but  she  was  clearing  up  work  in  connection  with  the 
employment  agency  in  which  she  was  part  manager. 
Suddenly  there  came  a  sharp  rap.  The  door  opened, 
and  a  girl  whirled  in  all  flying  laces  and  chiffon,  ami 
flung  her  arms  round  the  neck  of  the  soberly-clad 
figure  behind  the  desk. 

"You  dear  old  thing,"  cried  the  apparition  in  a 
slightly  high-pitched  voice,  "I've  found  you  out  at 
last.  I'd  given  it  up  as  a  bad  job  when  a  cute  young 
policeman  gave  me  the  cue.  Fancy  if  I'd  had  to  re- 
turn to  New  York  without  seeing  you.  Not  that  I 
should  have  returned.  My  dear.  1  cut  myself  adrift. 
Behold  a  pauper." 

And  the  girl  in  a  peach  and  gray  confection  swept 
her  friend  a  deep  curtsey.  By  this  time  Marion  had 
recovered  her  presence  of  mind  and  touched  the 
electric  bell.  A  grimy-looking  office  boy  appeared 
in  answer  to  her  ring. 

"Jones,"  she  said,  pulling  nut  her  purse,  "go  across 
to  the  A.  B.  C.  shop  and  bring  over  tea  fur  two  an  1 
bread  and  butter,  and  do  not  forget  the  cream." 

"YVahn't  you  'ave  no  kyke?"  inquired  the  youth, 
with  an  amazed  stare  at  the  dainty  vision  in  the  chair 
opposite. 

"Yes;  cake,  of  course,  and  strawberries."  promptlv 
responded  the  newcomer.  "Nasty  little  boy!  Why 
do  you  keep  him,  Marion?"  asked  the  vision,  other- 
wise Pauline  Augusta  Yanderheim.  step-daughter  of 
Jabez  D.  Barnes,  of  New  York. 

Marion  Westley  smiled  at  the  question.  "1  think 
I  keep  him  for  the  same  reason  that  T  bought  these 
office  chairs — both  are  cheap.  Employment  agencies 
«lo  not  run  into  wildly  extravagant  dividends  at  the 
end  of  the  year." 

"So  times  are  bad.  eh?  Well,  it's  lucky  T've  come 
along  to  bustle  them  up."  remarked  Miss  Yander- 
heim. "Now,  little  boy,  you  will  spill  that  cream. 
Ah  !  1  knew  it."  She  started  up  and  rescued  the  tray. 
"I  will  pour  out  for  you.  Sugar  ami  cream,  dear? 
As  I  told  you,"  she  resumed.  "I've  burned  my  boats 
— cut  the  painter — that's  the  English  expression, 
isn't  it?  And  now  I'm  on  my  own.  You  see,"  she 
continued,  sipping  her  tea  serenely,  "poppa  tried  on 
what  I  hear  is  a  common  dodge  with  parents  this 
side.     He  wanted  to  fix  me  up  with   a  husband.." 

"And  you  did  not  like  his  choice?"  asked  Marion, 
edging  in  a  word  with  difficulty. 

"My  dear.  I've  never  seen  him.  It  was  some  rich, 
stuck-up  Englishman — begging  your  countryman's 
pardon.  I  was  just  to  he  packed  off  like  a  bale  of 
dry-goods.  I  declined  even  to  be  introduced  to  him 
under  the  circumstances.  I  told  poppa  he  would  cer- 
tainly object  to  my  choosing  a  new  mamma,  and  I 
had  equally  strong  objections  to  his  selecting  a  son- 
in-law." 

Marion  Westley  laid  her  hand  on  her  friend's  arm. 
"I  will  do  my  best  for  you,  dearest,  you  may  be 
sure,  in  memory  of  the  happy  days  we  spent  to- 
gether in  America.  But  I  used  to  think  that,  perhaps. 
there  was  some  one  else.    Are  you  sure?  Quite  sure?" 

The  young  visitor's  lace  flushed  crimson  and  she 
snatched  her  hand  away.  "You  are  altogether 
wrong.  There  never  was  anything  between  us."  she 
said  hotly.     "As  for  earning  my  own  living,  I  never 


.bought  it  was  so  stupid,  but  I  guess  there  are  only 
two  things  I  can  do  well — ride  a  bicycle  and  drive  a 
motor  car." 

Marion  laughed.  "Yes,  I  know  your  qualifications 
as  a  chauffeusc.  I  have  them  all  recorded  here,  and 
the  races  you  have  won  for  your  father.  He  was 
proud  of  you,  Paula,  as  proud  as  though  you  had 
been  his  very  own  daughter.  Can't  you  forgive  his 
ambition  for  you?" 

Marion  was  doomed  to  interruptions  that  after- 
noon, for  hardly  bad  Pauline  Yanderheim  driven 
away  (her  ideas  of  pauperism  not  being  precisely 
practical)  than  there  was  another  knock  at  her  in- 
ner  door. 

"Come  in,"  she  called  somewhat  impatiently.  "( >h, 
Donald,  is  it  you?"  and  her  voice  changed.  "Come  in. 
I  am  glad  to  see  you." 

"So  it  would  seem,"  answered  her  cousin,  Donald 
Mainwright,  discontentedly.  "You  have  taken  pains 
enough  to  avoid  me,  I  think,  shutting  yourself  up  in 
a  poky  little  hole  like  this.  Pray,  how  long  is  this 
farce  to  continue?" 

"Farce?"  timidly  echoed   Miss  Westley. 

"Yes.  farce,  Marion.  What  is  the  good  of  hum- 
buggng  about  with  an  employment  agency  when  you 
know  I  am  only  longing  to  give  you  anything  you 
want?" 

"Now,  Donald,  do  give  up  prowling  around,"  she 
continued,  smiling.  "My  work  is  quite  respectable, 
I  assure  you.  Lots  of  women  do  this  sort  of  thing 
nowadays.  Sit  down  and  tell  me  about  yourself. 
Who  is  the  latest?  A  little  bird  whispered  that  you 
were  very  nearly  annexed  in  the  States." 

"Nonsense!"  he  protested  angrily.  "People  will 
talk.     It  was  all  a  mistake.     She  never  cared  for  me." 

Marion  looked  at  him.  smiling  at  the  ingenuous 
confession.  What  a  boy  he  was,  after  all!  So  she 
encouraged  him  to  talk,  and  soon  had  drawn  out  the 
whole  of  his  pitiful  tale.  "She  was  the  most  charm- 
ing being  in  the  world.  But  she  would  have  nothing 
to  --ay  to  him.  "I'm  not  good  enough  for  her;  she  i- 
so  clever  and  all  that."  he  concluded  sadly.  Marion 
listened  patiently  to  the  end.  "You  shall  go  in  for 
some  hobby,"  she  counseled.  "Why  not  .cultivate 
your  tenants?  The  proper  study  of  man  is  man,  not 
woman." 

"There  now,  Marion.  That's  too  bad  to  hit  a  fel- 
low when  he's  down.  As  it  happens,  I  have  taken 
up  motoring.  I've  just  got  an  electric  car,  a  real 
beauty,  but  I  can't  find  a  decent  driver.  I've  adver- 
tised and  hunted  around  for  a  week.  All  the  fellows 
who  apply  are  such  awful  cads  that  I  should  hate 
to  ride  with  them.  I  suppose  now  that  sort  of  thing 
is  not  in  your  line?" 

Marion  laughed.  "Well,  hardly,"  and  then  she 
paused.  A  wild  idea  had  flashed  into  her  brain.  "It 
happens  strangely  enough,  though,  that  I  have  beard 
of  a  driver  only  this  very  afternoon.  The — the  person 
has  won  several  races  and  has  qualifications  that 
are  quite  unexceptional." 

"What   is   the  fellow's   name?" 

"Yanderheim." 

"Oh!  American,  I  suppose?  Well,  so  much  the 
better.  I  wish  vent  would  send  word  to  him  to  come 
up  for  a  trial  trip  to-morrow.  By  Jove,  Marion,  what 
a  brick  you  are!" 

"For   finding  you   a   chauffeur?     Well,   I   hope   it 


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SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


mav  pr 

*  •  •  .  , 

"Please,  sir.  the  oar's  al  the  door." 
Donald  Mainwrighl  looked  out  on  a  dense  fog  de- 
pressing to  every  sense.     But   he  was  anxious  to 
try  Ins  new  toy.      "All  right.  I'll  come.''  lie  answered. 
"Is  the  new  chauffeur  here?" 

The  valet  coughed  discreetly.     "The  new ?  (  >h 

sir!  if  that  is  the  name.  sir.  An. I  a  rummy 
name  it  is.  and  the  rummicst  go  I  ever  knew."  he 
added  in  a  scandalized  aside  as  he  helped  his  master 
into  his  big  fur  and  coverall. 

The  electric  light  was  switched  en  in  the  hall,  and 
as  Donald  Mainwrighl  stumbled  out  into  the  gloom 
he  felt  almost  blinded  by  the  sudden  transition.'  -am 
right:  go  ahead."  he  said,  and  away  they  rushed. 
"I  say.  do  you  think  it's  safe  to  make  quite  such  a 
pace  in  the  darkness?"  he  inquired  anxiously. 
"Quite  safe." 

I  he  words  were  simple  enough,  but  he  started  and 
peered  anxiously  across  at  his  companion  on  the 
driving  seat.  He  could  make  out  nothing  hut  a  dark- 
mass  surmounted  by  a  white  peaked  cap.  "You  have 
won  three  races  in  America,  I  understand." 
"Yes." 

"And  you  feel   quite  competent  to  drive   in   Lon- 
don J" 
"Quite." 

The   machine   swerved  by   a   hair's  breadth,   thus 
just  avoiding  a  lumbering  'bus,  and  pursued  its  rapid 
course.      They    were    leaving    the    crowded    streets 
behind  them  and  the  fog  was  lifting. 
"What  nationality  are  you?" 
"American." 

"How  long  have  you  been  a  chauffeur?" 
There  was  a  perceptible  pause,  and  then,  "I  don't 
know!" 

"You  don't  know!     Whom  have  you  driven  for?" 
"My  father." 

"Your  father?     Why,  then,  how  old  are  you?" 
No  answer. 

"How  old  are  you?"  he  repeated  impatiently. 
"Come,  I  have  a  right  to  know,"  and  he  laid  his  hand 
on  the  driver's  arm. 

It  nearly  cost  him  an  accident,  for  the  jerk  of  the 
hand  on  the  wheel  caused  the  machine  to  swerve  sud- 
denly aside  and  nearly  sent  it  against  the  curb-stone. 
The  driver  righted  it  in  the  very  nick  of  time  and  sent 
it  flying  ahead  at  an  increasing  pace.  Both  were 
trembling,  but  not  from  fear.  In  that  instant  they 
had  run  under  an  electric  light  and  caught  a  glimpse 
of  each  other's  faces. 

"By  Jove!  It's  little  Lena,"  muttered  Mainwright, 
and  then   fell   silent  in   sheer  amazement. 

She  slowed  down  the  machine  and  turned  to 
him.  "Let  me  tell  you  how  it  came  about,"  she  said. 
"It  was  Marion.  She  sent  me  your  address.  I  did 
not  know  who  you  were.  Oh,  you  must  believe  that." 
"Of  course  I  believe  It.  You  always  did  avoid  me," 
he  answered  ruefully. 

She  nodded  in  a  gratified  manner. 
"Well,  I  saw  you  under  the  electric  light  as  you 
came  out  of  the  hall,  but  you  did  not  see  me  in  the 
fog,  and  I  hoped  to  get  back  before  you  found  out." 
"But  now  I  have  found  you,  and  you  cannot  pos- 
sibly escape,  and  leave  me  in  the  lurch.  I  cannot 
drive  myself.  Lena,  do  you  remember  those  days  in 
the  mountains?" 

"I  can't,"  she  said.  "Not  now.  I'm  too  busy," 
but  the  car  was  slowing  down  and  was  almost  at  a 
stop.  "There  is  something  wrong.  The  battery  is 
giving  out.  I  wish  I  had  looked  at  it  before  we 
started." 


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I   don't,"  said  ho.  "for  nO«    you  will  have  to  wait 

until  you  have  answered  my  question,  and  tl 

why,  there  is  a  fresh  charge  in  my  1 

She  sighed  resignedly.  "Well,  what  is  it  you  want 
to  askv" 

"Do  you  remember  those  days  on  the  mountains?" 

"I'm  not  likely  to  forget  them.  I  should  think." 
she  answered,  demurely,  "considering  whom  I  met 
there." 

"Ah.   you    mean " 

"Marion  Westley,  of  course." 

"Oh,  Marion!  Yes,  she  is  a  dear,  good  creature: 
still   I  do  wish  vnii  had  sairl " 

"Who?" 

"Why,  me  I" 

"You?    The  idea!    Why  should  1  remember  you?" 

"Ah.  why  indeed?"  he  sighed.  "1  dare  say  you  for- 
got  all  about  me  long  ago.  But  I  never  forgot  you. 
Lena,  and  I  wouldn't  even  look  at  any  of  the  New 
York  belles.  Why,  there  was  one  old  fellow-  he'd 
heard  I  was  heir  to  a  title.  I  suppose,  for  he  was  a 
millionaire — wdio  actually  proposed  to  me  for  his 
daughter.     I  would  not  even  meet  her." 

"What    was    her    name?"    asked    the    chaurfeuse, 
trembling. 

"His  name?  Oh,  Barnes;  Jabez  Barnes.  What  is 
the  matter?" 

Lena  had  grown  very  white.  "Then  it  was  you 
whom  he  meant,"  she  gasped.  "I — I  never  asked 
your  name,  but  I  did  not  want  to  meet  him — the  En- 
glishman— and  so  I  ran  away  and  came  here  and 
asked  Marion  to  find  me  work,  and  I  couldn't  be  any- 
thing but  a  chauffeuse,  and  Marion  sent  me  to  you." 
"By  Jove,  she  did!  Well,  I  always  said  she  was  a 
brick,  but  I  never  knew  just  what  a  brick  she  was!" 
exclaimed  Donald.  "And  now,  let's  get  in  a  new 
charge,  and  ride  along  and  tell  her." 

Half  an  hour  later  the  fog  had  lifted.  Marion 
Westley,  glancing  out  of  her  office  window  in  Little 
Portland  street,  saw  a  motor  car  glide  up  and  stop 
at  her  door.  There  was  a  girl  on  the  driving  seat 
dressed  in  a  big  coat  and  a  white  peaked  hat.  A  man 
sat  beside  her. 

Marion  sighed  and  then  smiled.  "It  is  quite  right," 
she  said  to  herself.  "She  will  steer  the  car  for 
Donald  now  and  always,  but  he  will  not  know  it.  So, 
best  for  both." — Sunny  South. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


January  g,  1904. 


The  inevitable  has  come  to 
The  Sweepstake  Deal  pass  again.  Eastern'  folk 
Winds  up  in  Court.  get  a  California  mine  hand- 
ed out  to  them  for  $6,000,- 
000,  and  they  snap  it  up  as  a  bargain.  The  fact  that 
mines  of  this  value  are  tew  and  far  between  in  any 
part  of  the  world  did  not  serve  to  render  them  at 
all  shy  of  the  proposition,  and  the  sale  of  a  practi- 
cally undeveloped  claim  at  such  an  extraordinary 
price  was  heralded  all  over  by  that  portion  of  the 
press  which  would  undertake  to  defend  Satan  him- 
self if  he  paid  for  it.  Now  they  are  inclined  to  tin- 
belief  that  the  mine  was  salted.  Tricks  of  this  kind 
have  been  played  before  in  California,  which  is  no 
saying,  of  course,  that  the  Sweepstake  property  was 
salted.  The  ruin  of  the  Frenchmen  who  bought  the 
old  Succor  Flat  mine  one  day  and  found  that  it  was 
salted  within  the  next  twenty-four  hours,  is  sti'l 
fresh  in  the  minds  of  a  good  many  people.  Again, 
the  late  Melville  Attwood  had  his  samples  salted  on 
him  at  the  time  they  were  doing  up  the  bankers  of 
Narbonne,  building  flumes  upside  down  and  playing 
all  sorts  of  pranks  down  at  the  Quartz  Mountain 
mine.  Fortunately,  Mr.  Attwood  was  too  clever  to 
be  caught  napping,  placing  little  trust  in  the  locks 
and  bars  on  doors  and  windows  of  a  newly  built 
assay  house,  even  although  every  precaution  was 
taken  in  the  way  of  sealing  them  up  for  the  night,  lie 
took  pains  the  next  morning  to  run  the  samples 
through  the  same  mesh  sieve  he  had  used  the  night 
before,  and  to  his  astonishment  found  particles  of 
the  yellow  metal  which  would  not  pass,  on  account 
of  coarseness,  and  yet  the  seals  were  intact  on  doors, 
window  and  chimney.  How  these  samples  were 
salted,  under  the  circumstance,  was  something  which 
puzzled  the  distinguished  geologist  of  over  50  years' 
experience,  until  the  day  after  his  death.  Strange 
things  do  happen  in  mine  promotion  sometimes. 

The  market  for  Comstock 
Pine-St.  Market,  shares  is  beginning  to  develop 
a  tone  which  suits  everybod3 
in  the  business  except  a  few  short  sellers  who  would 
"bear"  a  stock  for  the  possible  profit  of  a  copper  cent. 
These  people  are,  as  a  rule,  outside  of  the  pale  of 
legitimate  speculators.  No  one  will  attempt  to  deny 
the  right  of  an  operator  to  play  any  side  of  the  mar- 
ket he  may  choose.  There  could  be  no  "bulls"  on 
'Change  were  there  no  "bears;"  the  one  is  of  as  much 
vital  importance  to  the  market  as  the  other.  It  would 
not  be  proper,  however,  to  include  the  so-calle  I 
"bears"  of  Pine  street  in  the  same  category.  They 
are,  as  a  rule,  wreckers,  pure  and  simple,  striving 
eternally  to  tear  down  what  others  are  working  to 
build  up  with  the  recourse  always  open  of  laving 
down  their  cards  when  the  financial  strain  becomes 
too  heavy,  and  then  it  is  a  case  of  "'What  are  von  g.,- 
ing  to  do  about  it?"  in  so  far  as  the  men  on  the  otfier 
end  of  the  string  are  concerned.  The  end  of  a  num- 
ber of  these  people  is  in  sight,  and  the  street  will 
be  cleared  of  them  in  a  few  short  mouths.  Ophir 
is  now  giving  evidence  of  the  reserve  force  in  store 
in  the  Comstock  market,  backed  by  something  that 
money  on  the  short  encl  cannot  beat,  and  that  is  ore. 
During  the  week  the  news  that  the  ledge  has  been 
widening  on  the  1800  level,  two  of  the  last  cars  of 
the  ore  shipped  to  Selby's  giving  returns  in  gold 
equivalent  to  $111  per  ton.  "This  is  the  same  vein 
that  has  produced  so  well  in  the  Con. -Cal. -Virginia 


mine,  and  which  is  working  north,  through  the  Ophir 
ground,  opening  out  jn  size  and  value  all  the  time. 
Active  trading  and  higher  prices  along  the  entire 
list  may  be  anticipated  for  months  to  come,  with  a 
marked  increase  in  the  output  of  bullion  from  mines 
along  the  lode,  many  of  which  have  been  idle  for 
years. 

Business  continues  dull  in  the  local 

Local  Stocks     market    fur   stocks   and   bonds,   the 

and  Bonds,      only  feature  of  the  week  being  an 

overplus  stock  for  sale  of  the  S.  F. 
1  las  and  Electric  and  a  decidedly  weak  tone  in  Alaska 
Packers.  The  stockholders  of  the  Gas  Companv  do 
n6t  seem  to  have  profited  much  from  the  recent 
manipulation,  which  struck  the  Board  of  Directors 
as  such  a  capable  bit  of  work  that  they  rewarded 
.Mr.  President  Brown  with  a  small  fortune  and  a 
raise  in  salary  of  $25,000  a  year.  Without  attempting 
to  enter  into  the  controversv  now  going  on  between 
the  Company  and  its  clients  over  the  quality  of  the 
gas  it  sells,  it  would  strike  a  man  up  a  tree  that  there 
is  more  heft  at  the  managerial  end  of  the  business, 
and  that  perhaps  trouble  may  result  from  a  retrench- 
ment in  wages  to  counterbalance  the  high  salaries 
paid  the  men  who  fill  leather-backed  chairs  and  travel 
in  Europe  on  leave  of  absence.  One  would  naturally 
ei  insider  that,  after  undertaking  the  contract  to  pay 
interest  on  about  three  times  in  excess  of  wdiat  a 
good  serviceable  plant  would  cost,  that  it  would  be- 
hoove all  concerned  to  devote  their  energies  toward 
the  conclusion  of  work  which  was  far  from  being 
finished  by  the  operation  of  tagging  on  a  number  of 
millions  to  an  already  immense  capitalization.  All 
facts  considered,  the  wonder  is  that  the  stock  holds 
up  as  it  does.  As  a  combination,  our  re-constructed 
Gas  Company  is  anything  but  a  success,  and  a  ques- 
tion suggests  itself  as  to  what  the  majority  of  the 
present  management  knows  about  gas  making  any- 
way. In  bonds  there  was  little  done  during  the  week 
and  prices  show  no  particular  change. 

California  ranks  second  in 
American  Production  the  annual  statement  of 
of  Precious  Metals,  the  approximate  distribu- 
tion by  producing  States 
and  territories  of  the  yield  of  gold  and  silver  of  the 
United  States  for  the  calendar  years  of  1902  and 
1903.  The  output  of  California  for  this  term  is  esti- 
mated at  $16,535,525  in  gold  and  $407,6^4  in  silver, 
trailing  along,  after  the  heels  of  Colorado,  which  is 
credited  with  a  yield  during  the  same  period  of  $22,- 
000,000  in  gold  and  $7,517,812  in  silver.  Utah  comes 
third  with  a  yield  of  $5,036,599  in  gold  and  $8,000,000 
in  silver;  then  Montana,  with  a  record  of  $4,134,367 
in  gold  and  $5,400,000  in  silver.  Alaska  is  only  cred- 
ited with  an  output  of  $6,921,157  in  gold  and  $16,- 
540  in  silver.  The  Stales  which  show  an  in- 
crease for  the  year  in  the  production  of  gold  are 
Idaho,  Nevada,  Utah  and  Washington.  Alaska.  Colo- 
rado, Montana,  South  Dakota  and  Oregon  show  a 
decrease.  The  total  output  of  gold  for  the  period 
under  review  was  $74,425,340.  and  of  silver  $30,520,- 
688.  This,  in  comparison  with  the  previous  year, 
shows  a  total  net  decrease  in  the  gold  production  oi 
$5,575,000  and  a  net  increase  of  $i,tro.ooo  in  the 
production  of  silver.  The  Klondike  produced  in 
round  numbers  $12,000,000  in  gold  against  $14,000,- 
000  during  the  previous  year. 


January  9.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


«9 


The  «!«•■  taction  in  Alaska  i 

tributed  t..  a  short  season  of  water  supply.    In  I 

tributed  to  the  mini  1 
which  interfered  with  production.     It  is  not  difficult 

ssign  a  cause  for  the  decline  in  the  California 
yield.     Mining  has  been  practically  at  a   - 
all  over  the  Stair  owing  t.>  labor  difficulties,  and  it 

robable  that  the  production  will  be  still 
before  the  trouble  i*  definitely  settle.!.  \<  ii  now 
stand-,  it  is  ridiculous  to  expect  thai  capitalists  will 
risk  an  investment  with  the  chance  of  finding  them- 
selves tied  up  some  day  by  tlie  miners,  who  aim  to 
dictate  in  all  things  the  management  of  the  mines. 
Tyranny  is  the  only  term  to  apply  to  the  action,  of 
the  men.  who,  if  tlie  truth  were  told,  are  mostly  for- 
eigners, with  views  upon  the  subject  of  American 
liberty  bordering  so  close  upon  license  that  they  will 
have  to  be  toned  down  considerably  before  they 
will  make  the  more  desirable  cla-s  of  citizens,  ft 
only  requires  a  modicum  of  success  upon  the  part  of 
a  company  or  proprietor,  and  the  screws  are  promptly 
applied,  as  at  the  Royal  mine  in  Calaveras  County 
and  the  big  copper  mines  at  Keswick.  Such  a  con- 
dition of  affairs  cannot  last  for  all  time,  that  is  cer- 
tain. 


The  annual  statement  of  the  financial  condition  of 
of  the  Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Association  at  the 
close  of  business  December  31,  1903,  appears  in  this 
issue  of  the  News  Letter.  It  shows  another  progres- 
sive year,  and  a  continuance  of  the  prosperity  which 
has  ever  attended  the  operations  of  this  powerful 
financial  institution,  and  its  sagacious  management. 
The  total  assets  are  now  increased  to  $61,466,590, 
representing  a  gilt-edged  holding  of  property-  in  the 
form  of  real  estate  and  high-class  stocks  and  bonds. 
Itemized,  the  assets  consist  of  $29,237,007  in  promis- 
sory notes  secured  by  first  mortgages  on  real  estate : 
$1,151,400  in  promisory  notes,  secured  by  bonds  and 
stocks ;  $19,776,933  in  bonds  of  the  United  States ; 
$8,282,700  in  miscellaneous  bonds ;  $324,686  in  inter- 
est accrued  on  bonds ;  $763,000  in  real  estate ;  not  in- 
cluded in  the  land  and  office  building  valued  at  $517,- 
199,  with  cash  on  hand  amounting  to  $1,960,012.  The 
reserve  fund  now  amounts  to  $3,283,914.80.  With 
such  a  financial  showing  and  a  reputation  for  conser- 
vative, while  at  the  same  time  liberal  management, 
it  is  little  wonder  that  the  Hibernia  Bank  maintains 
the  confidence  of  the  public  as  it  does. 


MONEY 

Part     of    Marconi     Certificates.       Let 
Your  Money  Work  for  You 

MARCONI   CERTIFICATES    will    not  you  from  100  to  1000 
p»r  c»r\t  better  result*  than  any  labor  of  yours  can  produce. 

ACT  NOW— DO  NOT  DELAY 

in v  ->i for  rot  u  m  i  -  v-'H 

wish  to  the  uniforafffne*.  than  $'(*>.    Price  par 

i  :     price  ni.i  v  ;i.|\  Knee  nny  d.-.v 

Tli.'  Btock  "f  the    British    Marconi  Oompni  ■  and 

and  is  now  selling  at  *«  nr  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advanne  ol 

I  tics  ol   the    Lmeiinnn  « Sompanj   are  modi 

in.-  Marconi  9 r stem  Is  Indorsed  bj  buoI 
and  Thomas  \    Edison  and  by  thenrdftsot  the  entire  world.    1   I 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting   Engineers  --f  the   Ann 
.  , n\ 

itus  anon  application  and  poui  licited- 

F.  P.  WARD  &  CO.,  Bankers 

CROSSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.  :  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati. 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


The  gross  earnings  of  the  United  Railroads  for  the 
month  of  November,  1903,  show  an  increase  of  $44,- 
367,  or  9.07  per  cent,  while  for  the  eleven  months 
to  November  30th,  the  gross  earnings  increased 
$659,209,  or  12.12  per  cent. 

The  German-speaking  element  in  our  community 
have  suffered  a  distinct  loss  in  the  death  of  Freder- 
ick W.  Barkhaus.  He  was  one  of  our  best-known 
citizens  and  well  beloved  by  all  who  ever  came  with- 
in the  circle  of  his  genial  influence.  He  came  to  Cali- 
fornia around  the  Horn  in  1853.  The  first  few  years 
of  his  life  in  California  were  spent  in  mining.  His 
store  was  a  center  for  a  long  time  for  all  the  culture 
of  San  Francisco.  His  great  specialty  was  books  in 
the  German  language,  and  by  this  means  many  of 
the  German  citizens  were  thus  brought  to  more  than 
a  passing  acquaintance  with  the  old  gentleman.  He 
was  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  German  Benevo- 
lent Society,  besides  being  a  director  of  the  German 
Hospital.     He  was  67  years  of  age  at  his  demise. 

-Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 


I  Mavis  Consolidated  Gold 

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and  Copper  Mining  Co. 

Capital  Stock  $1,000,000.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County,   Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be  levied. 

50,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  is  practically 
unlimited.  "When  the  present  issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  raiseu  to  50  cents  a  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  ot  the  company,  room  205,  713  Mar- 
ket street,  for  prospectus,  which  gives  full  information. 
VINCENT  NEALB,  Secretary. 


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'California  Safe 


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Deposit  and 
Trust  Co. 

Corner 
California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San     Francisco,   Cal. 


Capital  &  Surplus    $1,233,723.76     f 
Total  Assets  6,914,424.59 


Interest  paid  on  deposits,  subject 
to  check,  nt  the  rate  of  two 
per  cent,  per  annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savinsrs  deposits 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  six- 
tentbs  per  cent,  per  annum. 

Trusts  executed.  We  are  author- 
ized to  ttct  as  the  cruardian  of 
estates  and  the  executor  of 
wills. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented  at  86 
per  annum  and  upwards. 


J.    Dalzell  Brown 


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H.  ISAAC  JONES,  M.  D.    Eye,  Ear,  Nose  and  Throat 

Offlee-Starr  King  Building.  121  Geary  St.,  San  Francisco.  Booms 
303,304.305.  Hours  10  a.  m.  to  1  p-  m.,  2  to  1  p.  m.  Sunday  by  appoint- 
ment. Telephone  Private  Exchange  216.  Besidence,  comer  5th  avenue 
and  16th  St.,  Oakland.    Telephone.  East  36. 


BANKING. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 
Moves     and 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital.  Surplus  and  ^divided    j  £13,500,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  F.  L.  Lipman,  Cashier;  Prank  B 
King,   Assistant   Cashier;    Jno.    E.    Miles,    Assistant   Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New    York;    Salt   Lake.    Utah;    Portland,    Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savinqs  Union 

512  Calif'  imia  St..  cor.  Webb  St,,  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President:  W.  C.  B  De  FREMEKY.  ROBERT  WATT. 
Vice-Presidents;  Lovell  White.  Cashier;  It.  M.   Welch,  Assist.  Cashier 

Dire-tors— E.  B.  Pond.  W.  C.  B.  de  Freniery.  Henry  F.  Allen.  George 
C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Earth.  C  O.  G.  Miller.  Fred  H.  Beaver.  William 
A   Magee.  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Countrv  remit- 
tances may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  <>r  by  checks  "f  reliable 
Sanies,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  thisSnvings 
ank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipl  or  the  money.  The 
signature  of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No 
charge  is  made  for  pass-book  or  entrance  lee. 

Office  hours:    o  a.  m.  to  :t  p.  m.    Saturday  evening.  6:80  i, ,  8. 

Deposits.  December  :il.  1008 138,292  '.ins 

Guarantee  Capital.  Paid  up 1.000,000 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds 899,616 

Mutual  Savinas  Bank  of  «=«,  F«r.oi9oo 

710   Market   St..   Opposite   Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    j,j  ,,,,. 

Paid-up   Capita]    and   Surplus    500  01)0 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY.  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER  Vice- 
President;   C.    B.    HOBSON.    Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphv.  John  A.  Hooper 
James    Moffltt.     Frank    J.     Sullivan.     Robert    McElroy.     Rudolph 
Spreckels.  James   M.    McDonald.   Charles   Holbrook. 
Interest    paid   on    deposits.      Loans    on    approved    securities 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells.    Fargo   &   C ■ 

exchange  on  city  banks. 


The  German   Savinqs  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  526  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SA.y    FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed     Capital    and    Surplus     la  4M.7B1  m 

Capital    Actually    Paid-up    In    Cash    '  1000  000  00 

Deposits.   Dec.  al,  19U3   Wo4940118 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS-Presldent,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  II.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Steinhardt.  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ.  X.  iihlandt  1  X  Wal- 
ter and  J.   W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herr- 
mann;    Secretary.     George    Toimiy;      \wsi-- l:i  in     S.nvt,,,,      \       |[ 

Muller:  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow 


Continental  Building  &  Loao  Association 

Established   in   1SS9  OF   CALIFORNIA. 

=    v.       ■,     ,"1,  California    Street.    San    Francisco.    OBJ. 

Paid-7n     CarJtai1     '     J15.000.000.03 

r^dia-in      Lapnai      ■>  nru,  ,M.,,  ,  n 

ProHt    and    Reserve    Fund     "..' 4500*10  00 

interest  paid   on   deposits  at   the  rate  of  6  per  cent   per  annum 

on   term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposils 
Dr.   Washington   Dodge,    President:    Wimam    Corbin,    Secretary 

and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporator; 

NO.  1  WALL  ST..    NEW  YORK. 
Capital    and   Surplus    Hfitujan 

Cnnital     and     Sumli,.      A,,»i,~..: i  ...  i .  ^.m,  n>  i 


Capital    and    Surplus   Authorized 


.111.11(111, 000. i  II 


Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wightman Assistant  ici 
President;  John  Hubbard.  Treasurer;  Jant's  H  Rogerf  Secre- 
Aar>,':,      ,  ?.   B'    V5?;   GeneraI    Manager:    William    H.    Maclntvre. 

,*l*\"-l'1.    y.'-'lr'"'    JI-M,:,ger:    Alexander    &    Ore,.,,.    Counsel. 
BKAiV  HES-. London,    San    Francisco,    City   of   Mexico.    Manila. 
Hong   Kong,    lokohama,    Shanghai.    Singapore 

™£SiCI?S_Bon!bay;  Ca'c,utta'  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon. 
Colombo  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow.  Tientsin.  Tansui.  Annlng 
Bakan,  Moji,  Saigon,  Kobe.  Bangkok.  Batavla,  Samarang.  Bou- 
rabaya,    and    all    parts    of    Europe 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH-32-34    Sansome    Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  so.iclted.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates' 
of  deposit  isued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us.  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout   the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK,  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWICK,  JR..  Ast.  Mgr. 


January  9,  1904. 
Countermoves. 

The  Secretary  of  State  lias  issued  a  very  excellent 
volume,  or  Blue  Book,  that  will  be  of  interest  to 
politicians  all  over  the  State.  It  is  very  well  gotten 
up,  and  though  it  is  very  "fat"  matter  from  the 
printer's  standpoint,  that  is  the  business  of  the  State 
Printer  and  not  of  the  Secretary.  It  is  a  veritable 
directory  of  Who  is  Who,  in  the  political  line  in  this 
O'liiiuonwealth,  and  except  the  employees  of  the 
State  Printing  Office,  who  for  some  reason  have  not 
appeared  in  the  pages  of  any  Blue  Book  for  several 
years,  it  contains  the  names  of  all  the  State,  Federal 
and  Municipal  employees,  from  the  President  of  the 
United  States  to  the  driver  of  the  police  van  in  San 
Francisco.  As  a  rule,  the  addresses  of  the  office 
holders  are  given ;  that  is  to  say,  the  place  from 
which  they  were  appointed,  but  as  the  printer  evi- 
dently had  not  enough  type  to  set  up  the  words 
"<  oakland"  or  "Alameda"  any  more  frequently,  they 
were  omitted  when  the  lists  of  Harbor  Board,  State 
institutions,  and  some  federal  employees  were  given. 
The  list,  however,  contains  138  names  with  the  resi- 
dences in  Oakland,  Berkeley  and  Alameda,  not  count- 
ing, of  course,  those  connected  with  the  University, 
and  their  salaries  and  wages  reach  the  very  hand- 
some total  of  $197,540.  When  the  employees  of  the 
Harbor  Board,  of  the  Customs  House,  etc.,  are  added, 
no  doubt  those  figures  will  be  very  nearly  doubled. 
Xot  only  does  Alameda  County  figure  in  the  list  of 
persons  holding  positions,  the  work  of  which  is  to 
be  done  in  this  citv,  but  she  has  proven  a  perfect 
octopus  in  grasping  offices  all  over  the  State,  north 
of  the  Tehachapi.  Thus  we  have  Alamedans  on  the 
Board  of  Trustees  at  the  Mendocino  State  Insane 
Asylum,  and  at  Napa  they  are  the  only  managers  of 
the  Blind  Asylum,  and  of  the  Deaf,  Dumb  and  Blind. 
The  State  University  would  appear  to  be  a  mere  local 
institution,  as  there  is  only  one  Regent  south  of 
the  Tehachapi.  and  only  two  for  the  San  Joaquin 
Valley.  All  the  rest  are  either  San  Franciscans  or 
Alamedans.  Berkeley  is  represented  on  the  Board 
of  the  new  Polytechnic  School  at  San  Luis  ( ibispo, 
and  the  Superintendent  of  that  institution  hails  from 
the  same  classic  town.  Now  as  the  distance  from 
Berkeley  to  San  Luis  Obispo  is  generally  supposed 
to  be  about  the  same  as  the  distance  from  San  Luis 
Obispo  to  Berkeley.  I  would  respectfully  request 
the  powers  that  be  to  explain  why  tin-re  is  not  a 
single  man  from  the  Coast  cities  on  the  Boards  of 
any  institution  except  the  Polytechnic  School?  Why 
not  put  some  Southern  men  on  the  Adult  Blind 
Board?  Why  not  put  some  representatives  of  the 
great  Sacramento  and  San  Joaquin  Valleys  on  that 
Board,  or  on  the  list  of  Regents  to  the  XTniversity? 
Certainly  they  would  not  prove  themselves  any  more 
incompetent  than  the  distinguished  gentlemen  who 
have  allowed  the  Secretary-  of  the  University  to  walk 
away  with  what  is  now  said  to  be  $140,000. 

I  beg,  also,  to  call  the  attention  of  the  Governor 
to  the  fact  that  the  terms  of  three  of  the  Trustees 
of  the  Home  for  the  Feeble  Minded  have  expired. 
His  friends  say  that  the  Governor  has  been  only 
waiting  for  a  chance  to  straighten  things  out  there. 
Here  is  his  chance.  He  cannot  pass  the  responsibility 
to  any  one  else.  Let  him  put  men  in  there  who  will 
give  their  attention  to  the  work,  who  will  not  pass 
over  in  silence  the  suicide  of  its  inmates,  who  will 
protect  poor,  unfortunate  girls  wdien  they  are  unlaw- 
fully removed  from  the  institution. 
*  *  * 

The  defalcation   at   the  State  University  is   likelj 


January  9.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


thai  was  originally 
named.     Dozens  of  persons  have  paid  the  Secretary 

•  •I  never  bothered  about  it  since,  and  to 
even  if  tnej  recall  the  tact,  do  1  ,  M3   any- 

thn.K  about  it,  because  they  object  to  the  notoriety 
th.it  would  result  While  ever>  effort  is  being  made 
to  mid  out  what  the  loss  is,  the  investigation  is  ham- 
IH*r'  »«ic«  of  records.    Everybody    who  has 

anj  known  financial  transactions  with  the  Univer- 
sity is  being  questioned,  but  even  that  laborious 
method  is  proving  tar  from  satisfactory. 

*  *  * 

The  appointment  of  George  Adams  in  the  place 
"i  Registrar  \\  alsh  was  not  unexpected.  A. lams  was 
Assistant  Secretary  of  the  United  Republican  League 
but  left  that  organization  when  the  municipal  cam- 
paign began  carrying  with  him  the  records  of  the 
primary  league.  He  became  nominally  Vssistant 
Secretary  oi  the  Schmitz  Club  on  Ellis  street,  but 
really  its  chief  executive  officer.  He  is  an  energetic 
man.  an.l  should  make  a  good  officer  in  his  new  place 

*  *  * 

The  conflict  that  I  predicted  between  the  Governor 

and  the  .Mayor  over  the  appointment  of  a  successor 
to  Justice  of  the  Peace  Percy  Y.  Long  is  on.  and  the 
courts  will  have  to  decide  whether  Walter  E.  Dorn, 
whom  the  Mayor  appointed,  or  Isadore  Golden,' 
whom  the  Governor  named,  is  the  rightful  incum- 
bent of  the  place.  Incidentally,  the  court  will  de- 
cide the  question  whether  the"  Justices  are  city  or 
county  officers.  The  Mayor  relies  on  a  late  decision 
of  the  Supreme  Court  to  sustain  him,  the  decision 
which  practically  gave  him  the  right  to  remove  the 
Health  Board.  The  Governor  claims  that  he  has 
the  right  to  name  the  Clerk,  Justices  and  so-called 
county  officers  as  he  is  entitled  to  do  in  other  coun- 
ties where  a  vacancy  occurs. 

*  *  * 

Long  has  named  Partridge  and  Brobeck  as  his 
chief  deputies,  as  was  announced  shortly  after  his 
election  in  this  column.  His  other  deputies  are  all 
men  who  have  not  been  very  prominent  in  politics, 
and  who  have  to  a  large  extent  their  spurs  to  win. 
It  is  understood  that  they  were  his  personal  choice, 
and  that  the  "push"  had  nothing  to  do  with  the  se- 
lections, although  Long  offered  them  the  right  to 
name  their  men. 

*  *  * 

Ex-Deputy  Clerk  Deane  is  to  be  the  chief  deputy 
of  Clerk  Grief.  There  will  be  a  number  of  other 
changes  in  the  office  of  County  Clerk,  though  Casey 
will  remain  at  the  Probate  desk,  and  several  of  the 
court  clerks  are  to  hold  over.  Grief  expects  all  his 
men  to  work  over-time  until  the  books  are  up  to 
date,  and  no  one  will  be  appointed  who  only  wants 
a  place  to  draw  the  salary.  — Junius. 

The  Old  Camper 
has    lor   forty-five  years   had   one    article   in   his    supply — 
Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk.    It  gives  to  soldiers, 
sailors,    hunters,    campers,    and    miners    a    daily    comfort, 
"like  the  old  home."    Delicious  in  coffee,  tea  and  chocolate. 


BANKING. 


The  San  Francisco  National  Book 

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m.n.       ,:-v   'M-':1"1'-:   A.   COX,    President. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    SI      i 

y",,!l^.,.',."''F"''': ~";   Exchange    Place. 

BHJ  I  i.sii      COLUMBIA-   Atlln,      Cranbrook 
-    rnle.   Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmlui,    Nanaimo 

New    Westminster,    vai iver  and    victoria. 

her    branches,    covering     tie     orlnclnal     nolntii 

v  ,vv!v:x  '";^'?I|:|:,":V-"— •" -"'  wffiSBoVwf 

\r,   -I   i       v    wAa.EST.P2.r0and'  B??""«  •">■•  Bkagway  (Alaska.) 

5r?H  "':"■   -v    "■    territories,  and   Eastern   Canada. 

BANKERS    IN    LO.VDUN-The    Hank    of   England,    Ihe    Bank    of 

Scotland.  Lloyds  Bunk,   Ltd..   The   Union  of  London  and  Smiths 

yank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS   IN   CHICAGO— The   Northern   Trust  Co. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS-The  Commercial   National  Bank. 
SAN     FRANCISCO 


NEW 
BRANCHES      l.\ 


in 


Oi-Hut- 

325  California  Street. 


A.    KAINS.    Manager. 


Limited 


London,  Paris  and  (American  Bank 

N.    W.    COR.    SANSOME  AND   SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital.     J2.50O.000  Paid-up    Capital.    $2,000,009 

Reserve  Fund.  ?1, 100. 000 
Head  Office— 10  Threadneedle  St..  London.  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London.  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank.  Limited.  No.  10  Wall  street.  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits   issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM.  Manager;  „.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;   R.    ALTSCHUL,    Cashier. 

The  ^oglo-Californian  Bank,  Limitea 

HEAD   OFFICE— 18  Austin   Friars.   London,   E.   C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid  up   $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000       Reserve    Fund     700,000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and   bullion. 

1GN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  L1L1ENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery   St.,    Mills   Building 
INTEREST  PAID   ON   DEPOS.-o.     LOANS   MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock.  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Baldwin,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon.  R.  H.  Pease. 


ANNUAL   MEETING. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  No- 120  Stockton  St., 
at  12  o'clock  noon,  on  Wednesday,  the  13th  day  of  January,  1904.  for  the 
election  of  directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  for  the  trans- 
action of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 

PELHAM  W.  AMES,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  Cal-,  December  30.  1903. 


Many  a  man  receives  the  credit  of  always  having  new 

clothing,  when  the  truth  is  that  this  appearance  cornea 
from  his  suits  being  sent  regularly  to  Spaulding's  Cleaning 
and  Dyeing  Works,  where  they  are  cleaned  and  pressed  in 
model  manner.  They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  laces,  cur- 
tains and  similar  articles. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

?6.00  per  ton.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanli- 
ness and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes  are  superior 
to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Goal  Company,  lOt.i  and 
Channel.     'Phone  South  95. 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  December  31,  1903,  a  dividend 
has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3  1-4)  per 
cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and 
after  Saturday,  January  2,  1904.  GEO.  TOURNY,   Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  Street. 

Mrs.  Railing — You  haven't  got  that  splendid  but- 
ler now?  Mrs.  Parvenu — No,  he  was  a  fraud.  Mrs. 
Railing — Indeed?  Mrs.  Parvenu — Yes,  he  forgot 
himself  once  and  neglected  to  drop  his  "h's,"  so  we 
discovered  he  wasn't  English  at  all. — Philadelphia 
Ledger. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


Bt   The    Autocrank 

The  Governors  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Cali- 
fornia held  a  meeting  on  January  5th,  and  matters  of 
interest  affecting  the  club  were  discussed.  Mr.  C. 
C.  Moore  was  appointed  a  committee  of  one  to  inves- 
tigate and  report  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board 
the  desirability  of  holding  an  automobile  exposition 
at  the  Pavilion  some  time  in  the  spring.  Before  any 
definite  action  is  taken,  the  Club  desires  to  know 
whether  sufficient  interest  will  be  taken  therein  by 
the  dealers,  and  must  be  assured  that  sufficient  space 
will  be  rented  to  render  it  profitable.  The  exhibition 
will  include  all  kinds  of  sporting  goods,  launches  and 
automobile  accessories.  It  is  proposed  to  hold  the 
exhibition  during  the  whole  of  one  week  some  time 
within  the  next  three  months. 

The  question  of  good  roads  was  discussed,  and  the 
Governors  passed  a  resolution  endorsing  the  restora- 
tion of  the  ancient  highway  known  as  El  Camino  Rial 
or  the  King's  Highway,  from  San  Diego  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. Southern  California  is  very  much  interested 
in  this  project,  and  a  convention  will  be  held  in  Los 
Angeles  on  the  30th  inst.  to  discuss  the  matter.  The 
convention  has  been  called  by  the  Los  Angeles 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  consists  of  the  Board  E 
Trade,  County  Surveyors,  the  Landmarks  Club 
the  Los  Angeles  Highway  Commission.  Their  ef- 
forts will  be  to  build  a  grand  boulevard  from  San 
Diego  to  Santa  Barbara,  and  it  will  lie  left  to  North- 
ern California  to  continue  the  road  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  Automobile  Club  of  California  is  taking 
an  active  interest  in  the  matter,  and  a  similar  conven- 
tion will  undoubtedly  be  called  in  San  Francisco. 
There  is  strong  hope  that  the  Brownlow  Bill  appro- 
priating $22,000,000  to  aid  good  roads  throughout 
the  United  States  will  be  passed  at  this  session,  and 
if  so,  it  is  expected  that  the  Legislatures  of  the  vari- 
ous counties  through  which  this  road  will  pass  will 
lend  assistance  and  hasten  the  completion  of  the  road. 
The  old  Mission  Fathers  not  only  selected  their  loca- 
tions with  wisdom  and  foresight,  but  they  chose  the 
easiest  route  for  building  the  roads  from  Mission  to 
Mission.  In  the  desire  for  straight  lines,  these  routes 
have  not  since  been  followed,  and  if  El  Camino  Rial 
is  restored,  it  will  afford  the  most  delightful  tour 
from  San  Francisco  to  San  Diego,  avoiding  mam  of 
the  hills  that  are  now  en  route. 

If  such  a  road  is  completed,  there  will  be  stopping 
places  all  along  the  route  for  tourists,  and  the  road 
will  be  used  not  only  by  automobilists  but  by  vehi- 
cles of  all  kinds.  An  Eastern  traveler  coming  to  San 
Francisco  can  by  easy  stages  see  the  most  delightful 
parts  of  California,  and  carry  back  with  him  favorable 
impressions  of  the  country  between  San  Francisco 
and  Los  Angeles. 

Another  interesting  subject  discussed  by  the  Gov- 
ernors was  the  matter  of  a  club  badge.  It  was  sug- 
gested by  the  President  that  there  ought  to  be  some 
way  of  identifying  the  members  of  the  club  wbile 
touring.  An  esprit  de  corps  among  them  is  in  many 
ways  beneficial.  While  there  is  generally  a  friendly 
feeling  between  automobilists,  there  should  be  a  sort 
of  free  masonry  among  the  members  of  the  club.  It 
makes  club  membership  more  desirable  and  a  spirit 
of  sociability   is   created.      Mr.   R.   P.   Schwerin   left 


for  New  York  Wednesday  morning,  and  while  East 
he  will  decide  upon  a  suitable  design  for  a  club  badge, 
the  same  design  to  be  used  for  a  plate  to  be  attached 
to  each  automobile.  Members  meeting  on  the  road 
will  thus  be  able  to  identify  each  other,  and  will  be 
expected  to  render  assistance  in  case  of  trouble. 
There  will  be  three  badges  of  the  same  design,  but 
differing  in  size,  one  for  the  cap,  one  for  the  lapel  of 
the  coat,  and  one  for  the  automobile.  Over  a  year 
ago  a  committee  was  appointed  to  select  a  club  badge 
and  submitted  several  designs  therefor,  but  the  club 
did  not  seem  to  be  sufficiently  interested  in  the  mat- 
ter at  that  time.  The  Governors  are  now  taking  it 
up  seriously,  and  some  design  will  be  adopted  in  the 
near  future. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Automobile  Club 
have  presented  Mr.  J.  Kruttschnitt  a  petition  asking 
him  to  modify  the  present  rule  which  prohibits  the 
transportation  of  automobiles  on  the  regular  ferry 
boats.  This  petition  has  not  as  yet  been  acted  upon, 
but  strong  arguments  have  been  brought  to  bear,  and 
it  is  confidently  believed  that  increased  privileges 
will  be  granted  in  the  near  future,  and  as  soon  as  the 
Southern  Pacific  lines  act  in  the  matter,  there  is 
no  doubt  but  that  the  other  ferry  lines  will  make  the 
same  concessions.  This  will  be  an  important  gain 
to  automobilists,  for  at  present  there  is  no  way  to 
reach  San  Francisco  from  Oakland  between  4  p.  m. 
and  8  p.  m. 


An  automobile  without  a  front  axle,  giving  the 
greatest  possible  speed  with  the  least  possible  weight, 
so  simple  in  operation  that  a  child  might  drive  it  and 
consuming  less  fuel  than  any  other  type  of  vehicle 
of  its  power,  would  seem  to  be  almost  revolutionary 
in  construction  methods,  yet  all  this  and  more  is 
claimed    for  a   machine   recently   completed   by  the 


OLDSMOBILE 

1904    ANNOUNCEMENT 

3  MODELS  TO  CHOOSE  FROM. 


1st — Regular  Standard    Runabout,     Price 

F.    O.    B.    Factory    $650.00 

2d — Large  Motor,  new  style,  Metal 
Hood,  French  Design,  Powerful  Light 
Car,  Price  F.  O.  B.  Factory $750.00 

3d — Four  Passenger  Tonneau  Touring 
Car,  Roomy,  Luxurious,  Strong  and 
Fast    $950.00 

WATCH  THIS  SPACE  FOR  FURTHER  PARTICULARS  AND  CUTS 


PIONEER    AUTOHOBILE     CO. 

901  Golden  Gate  Avenue, 

Opp-  Jefferson  Square. 

We  handle  only  standard  Automobiles — Win- 
ton,  Oldsmobile,  Locomobile  (steam  and  gaso- 
line), Stevens-Duryea,  Baker  Electric,  Vehicle 
Equipment  Company. 


January  9,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


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■ 

more  ii<  >\ 
ban  anvil 
that  has  been  turned  out  in  this  country   for  a  long 
time.  Equipped  with  a  thirty-five  horse-power  ■ 
[r.  Christii  iction.  the  machine  has 

timed  over  a  measure. I  straightaway    mile  in   ; 
seconds,  which  is  at  the  ra'  .five  mill 

hour.    The  remarkable  feature  "i  this  will  be  b 
appreciated  when  it  is  understood  that  the  machine. 
in  racing  trim,  weighs  only   1,250  pounds. 

Mrs.  Henry  Meyers,  of  1802  Pacific  avenue,  gave 
an  automobile  luncheon  Sunday  in  honor  of  her 
daughter.  The  party  consisted  of  20  young  ladies 
and  gentlemen,  who  assembled  at  the  residence  about 
11  o'clock  and  awaited  the  arrival  of  the  cars  of  the 
Mobile  Carriage  Co.,   which   were   use]   for   this 

).  The  trip  included  the  Park.  Ocean  Boule- 
vard, Ingleside,  Cliff  House  and  Presidio,  the  party 
returning  about  1  .30.  when  luncheon  was  served. 


James  Whltcomb  Riley   in  ;i   Haynes  Apperson  surrey. 


We  quote  the  following  from  a  local  contemporary : 
"Jack  Winter,  the  well-known  express  agent  at 
Truckee,  Cal.,  has  purchased  and  installed  the  first 
auto  in  Truckee,  Cal.  The  town  has  suddenly  become 
auto  struck,  and  more  machines  can  be  sold  tnere. 
No  light-power  cars  need  apply,  as  the  district  is 
mountainous."  Now,  this  is  all  very  well  except  for 
the  interesting  fact  .that  Mr.  Winter's  machine  is 
the  very  lightest  that  is  made,  being  no  other  than 
the  Orient  Buckboard.  It  might  almost  be  said  that 
nothing  but  light  cars  need  apply,  as  Mr.  Winter's 
success  has  led  to  a  number  of  orders  for  Buck- 
boards  being  taken  in  that  vicinity. 


Mr.  Byron  Jackson,  of  this  city,  has  just  returned 
from  a  visit  to  the  Olds  Motor  Works  at  Detroit  and 
Lansing,  Michigan.  He  says  that  the  company  has 
doubled  the  capacity  of  their  factory,  and. will  be 
in  a  position  to  turn  cut  forty  machines  a  day.  They 
will  offer  to  the  public  three  models.  First :  the 
regular  runabout.  Second:  another  runabout,  which 
will  be  larger  and  have  more  horse-power;  and  third  : 
a  tonneau,  which  has  a  carrying  capacity  of  five  per- 
sons. 


Mr.  Max  L.  Rosenfeld  is  a  late  purchaser  of  a  1904 
Winton. 

Mrs.  V.  L.  Clement  has  just  returned  from  a 
week's  trip  to  Santa  Barbara,  making  the  trip  both 
ways  in  her  new  Winton. 


Mr  Mr.  John  F.  Mil. am.  of  the 

I'ioni  hure- 

••    N  'irk.     It   is  their  intention  to 

the  different  fa  vhich 

the    Pioneer   Automobile   Company   represents,  and 

arm  for  the  opening  of  the  automobile 


The  Northern  Manufacture  1  >ot r. «it ,  builJ- 

orthern  runabout,  state  that  their  new 
ir   will   he   ready   for  shipment   about 
February  isth. 


The  Mobile  Cam  as  been  advised  by  the 

George   X.   Pierce  Co.,  manufacturers  of  the   tour- 


San  Francisco  by  Automobile 


KAlhS  LESS  THAN  CARRIAGES 

IT.  t    1>  I 1   AI.I 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  COMPANY, 
Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Avenues. 


Phones:  Larkin  3841;  Polk  3086.  Down-town 
office :  Lobby  Palace  Hotel,  Phone  Bush  859. 
You  can  secure  these  cars  at  any  hotel  or  cafe 
by  asking  for  MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO. 


SALES  DEPARTMENT  COAST  AGENCIES. 
Pierce  Arrow  Touring  Car  (French)  price  $2650 

Pierce    Stanhope    (French    type) 1350 

Northern  Runabout  (leader  in  New  York)       800 
Fine    Garage,    expert    mechanics,    guaranteed 
expenses. 


MOBILE     CARRIAGE    CO. 

Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Aves.  Open  all  night. 


NATIONAL  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


Phone.  South  1 142  134  to  148  Golden  Gate  Ave. 

The  largest  and 
inest  "Garage"  in 
the  West. 

Our  line  the  highest 
Types  produced. 

RAMBLER;   KNOX,    Waterless;    HAYNES  -  APPERSON 

AUTOCAR. ...Touring  Cars 
TOLEDO. ...Touring  Cars 
PEERLESS.. ..Touring  Cars 

Give  us  a  call  and  we  will  show  you  a  full  line  of 
record-breakers. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Vv  estern  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  g,  1904. 


cylinder  Arrow  (French  type)  touring  car,  that  these 
cars  will  be  shipped  to  them  about  the  first  of  May 
This  car  has  four  cylinders,  which  will  develop  35 
horse-power  and  a  speed  when  loaded  of  over  sixty 
miles  an  hour.  It  is  the  purpose  of  the  manufac- 
turers to  turn  out  a  car  which  will  come  up  to  all 
requirements.  The  price  will  be  $4,200  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  Mobile  Carriage  Co.  says  it  will  be  in  a 
position  to  put  up  races  during  the  coming  season 
which  will  be  well  worth  the  price  of  admission. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Moore,  Jr.,  have  returned  from 
New  York,  and  their  beautiful  four-cylinder  Locomo- 
bile is  at  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company's  new 
garage.  They  made  a  trip  to  Haywards  Sunday. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moore  will  leave  shortly  for  a  trip  to 
Santa  Barbara  in  their  auto. 


Tl.e  following  list  of  names,  recently  handed 
to  this  department,  are  purchasers  of  1904  Locomo- 
bile gasoline  touring  cars:  Dr.  A.  E.  Hansen,  Salem, 
Mass.;  George  P.  Brown,  Chicago,  111.;  J.  D.  Mac- 
Calmont.  Franklin,  Pa. ;  C.  C.  Warren,  Waterbury, 
Vermont;  C.  R.  Hooker  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Pier- 
pont  B.  Foster,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

JEAN'S  REVENGE. 

An  avenger  need  not  necessarily  be  a  naturalist, 
but  there  are  cases  where  he  would  take  his  ven- 
geance more  to  the  purpose  if  he  knew  the  habits 
of  his  victim.  Lippincott's  Magazine  tells  a  story  of 
Jean,  the  French-Canadian  gardener  who  was  found 
stamping  on  a  little  mound  of  fresh  earth  and  chuck- 
ling to  himself. 

"Ah,  m'sieu,"  he  cried  triumphantly,  "I  am  not  a 
one  to  be  trifled  with  !  I  am  a  cr-r-r-uel  man  when 
once  I  am  arouse.  M'sieu  will  remember  the  mole 
that  has  long  time  ravage  the  strawberry  beds  of 
madame?  Every  morning  madame  she  say,  'Jean, 
why  catchest  thou  not  that  mole?' 

"But  the  mole  was  wise ;  'e  was  queek.  Always  I 
look  and  look,  but  never  can  I  find  heem.  But  at 
last,  thees  very  morning,  I  catch  heem.  I  hold  heem 
tight  in  my  hand — so — and  I  say :  'Aha-a-a !  Is  it 
thou,  then,  that  has  vexed  madame,  and  ravaged  her 
beds  of  the  strawberry?  Aha-a !  You  shall  repent 
of  thees  wickedness.' 

"Then  I  wonder  how  I  shall  kill  heem.  He  must 
be  punished  as  well  as  killed.  I  wonder  and  wonder, 
but  at  last  I  have  the  grand  idea.  Ah,  it  was  cr-r-uel, 
m'sieu,  that  way  I  kill  heem!  But  what  would  you? 
Did  he  not  deserve  of  the  worst?  But  he  will  vex 
madame  no  more.    I  fix  heem.    I  bury  heem  alive !" 

The  New  Year's  edition  of  the  San  Francisco 
Chronicle  is  at  hand  this  week,  and  it  is  better  than 
ever — which  is  saying  a  great  deal.  For  a  quarter  of 
a  century  the  Chronicle's  has  been  the  standard  an- 
nual of  the  Pacific  Coast,  but  this  number  is  the  best 
on  record.  It  is  devoted  to  a  consideration  of  the 
future  of  California,  showing  ways  and  means  by 
which  the  State  may  gain  a  population  of  twenty 
millions  in  a  century.  On  this  theme,  some  of  the 
most  thoughtful  men  of  the  State,  including  several 
profesors  of  the  University  of  California,  have  con- 
tributed interesting  and  seasonable  articles.  In  art 
work,  in  typography,  in  make-up,  in  all  the  mechani- 
cal factors  of  a  newspaper,  it  is  undoubtedly  the  best 
thing  of  its  kind  ever  issued  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 


Few   come   to   San   Francisco  without  paying  a  "visit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     It's   t.ne  favorite   after-the-theatre   resort. 


Have  you  seen  the      •m? 

BUCKBOARD? 

The  talk  of  the  town. 
Best    Automobile   at  any 


price. 
Costs 


$125 


STRONG -EASY    RIDING-RELIABLE-GUARANTEED 


-ON    EXHIBIT    AT- 


SUNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 

1814  MARKET  STREET       -       -       •        SAN    FRANCISCO 

PACIFIC  riOTOR  CAR  CO. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents. 

Packard 

Motor  Car. 

St.  Louis 

Motor  Car. 

American 

Motor  Car. 

JONES  CORBIN 

Motor  Car. 

Cudell  Motor  Car 
The  above  cars  exhibited  at  our  repository, 
49-53  CITY  HALL  AVE. 

THE 


White  fiarage 

Cor.  Market  &  Franklin 


— Sales  rooms— 
300-302-304   Post  Street,    8.    F 
"White     Sewing    Machine    Co 

The  1903  "White"  Largest  and  best  equipped  auto- 

mobile garage  on  the  Coast.    Machines  of  all  makes  stored  and  repaired 


ELECTRIC  and 

GASOLINE 
CARS... 


A.  F.  BROOKE  RIDLEY,  ,8  "gfcSi.XS™1, 


Telephone  South  394 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 


VELVET 

LEATHER 

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for  Men 
and  Women 


We  have  these  Leathers  in 
all  Colors.  Make  them  in 
any  style  and  guarantee 
satisfaction. 

H.  E.  SKINNER   CO. 

.     801  MARKET  ST. 


$500    RE^VARD    for  anyt,aseof  Rheumatism  which  ean- 
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Lightning  Remedies;  restores  stiff  joints,  drawn  cords,  and  hardene 
muscles.    Proof  from  25  States  sent  on  request    Address  Drummond 
Medicine  Co.  84  Nassau  Street,  New  York. 


WEAK  MEN  AND  WOMEN 


Should     use     DAM1ANA     BIT- 
TERS,      the      great       Mexican 
remedy.    Gives  health  and  strength  to  the  sexual  organs. 
Send  for  circular:   Naber,  Alts  &  Brune.  325  Market  St..  S.  P. 


January  9.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


*5 


THE  PURPLE  ROSE. 

•  in 
of  the  purpla  petals   I  won]  I  know 

The  secret  that  has  darkened  every  vein 
And  fibre  of  thi  •  the  doll  pain 

Of  some  strange  passion   in  the  lone  ago? 

Was  there  some  boon  the  wind  would  not  b 
Some  nightingale  who  never  came  again 
Into  thy  garden?  blossom,  thou  hast  lain 

All  night  against  the  dark,  in  nameless  woe. 

r  of  mine,  O  Rose.  I  know  Ihou  art! 
As  thus  I  hold  tnee  with  caressing  hand. 
I  feel  thy  being  with  perfume  expand. 
1    kiss    thy    quivering    petals    wide    apart 
And  lay  my   lips  upon   thy  golden   heart; 
For  I  perceive  thy  soul  and  understand. 


A   VISION. 
Iiv  William  Canton  in  Chamber's  Journal 
Grasp   my   hand! 
Hold  me  fast: 

For  I  stagger  and  reel 
At  the  tumult  and  splendor  of  life  rushing  past 
In  a  whirlwind  of  fire.  dust,  vapor,  and  thunder; 

For  above   me   and   under. 
Upon  this  side  and  that,  all  the  sea  and  the  land. 
All  the  skies,  and  the  gods'  starry  seats  in  the  skies. 
Spin  and  spin  on  tne  axle  of  time  like  a  wheel. 

O  my  soul  in  what  region  unknown, 
Far  removed   beyond   thought,  did   I  see 
The  vast  shape  of  a  Woman  who  sat  all  alone 

With  the  wheel  at  her  knee! 
And  I  saw  that  the  wheel  was  ro.ation  of  time, 
And  the  wool  of  her  spinning 
Was  life — but  the  fleece 
Was  a  secret  withdrawn  beyond  winning. 


HOPE. 
By  J.  S.  Redmayne  in  Chamber's  Journal 
No  wintry   silence — be   it  e'er   so   long — 
But  springtime  wakes  it  with  the  birds'  sweet  song. 
No  day  so  drear  but  after  frost  and  snow, 
E'en  in  far  North,  the   sweetest  roses  blow. 
No  night  so  long  but  daylight  comes   at  last. 
And  the  pink  dawn  forgets  the  darkness  past. 
No  work  so  toilsome  but  the  task  begun 
On  earth  is  finished  with  the  Morning  Sun. 
No  way  so  rugged   out  the  wanderer's   feet 
Shall  walk  unweary  in  the  golden  street. 
No  parting  ever  but  the  God  of  Love 
Shall  join  the  parted — in  the  land  above. 


TO-DAY. 

By  Yenita  Seibert  in  McClure's 
O  thou,  close-wrapped,  a  goddess  in   disguise! 
It  needs  but  one  determined,  fearless  stroke 
To  tear  aside  thy  gray  and  homely  cloak, 
When  lo!  like  splendid  lamps  shine  thy  deep  eyes 
On  him  who  has  the  gift  to  recognize. 
To-morrow's  beauty  pales  beside  thy  face 
And  Yesterday  sinks  to  her  rightful  place, 
Forgotten  stars  that  fade  at  thy  sunrise! 

To-morrow  is  a  dream,  she  is  not  mine, 

Ano  Yesterday  is  dead  and  tear-wet  clay — 

But  thou,  born  new  each  morn,  deathless,  divine, 

ihou  rulest  life  and  fate,  O  great  To-day! 

For  to  the  door  of  Opportunity 

Thou  and  thou  only  uoldest  forth  the  key. 


A    MAXIM. 

By  Fannie  Herron  Wingaie 
Live  for  to-day!     Wlhy  anxious  for  the  morrow? 
Why  load  to-day  with  burdens  that  you  borrow? 
Each  day,  yea,  and  each  hour  its  own  work  brings; 
That  work  well  done  may  lead  to  better  things. 

A  simple  rule  I  give  to  you, 
Though   simple,   good   and    true: 
"Just  do  your  best  and  trust  the  rest" — 
That's  all  God  as^s  of  you. 


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Siberian  Fur  Co. 

Incorporated 


Manufacturing 

AD.    KOCOVR.    Manager 
Formerly  (ratter  with  Itevillon  Freres, 

Paris,  London.  New  York 

121  POST  STREET,  Rooms  7  to  11 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


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French     Laundry    Work    Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 


TEL. 

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R. 

McCOLGAN 

REAL     ESTATE    and     LOANS 

24  Montgomery  St.  S.  F" 

Telephone  Main  5516 

KENNEDY   &  CO.'S  ART   ROOMS 

No.  10  Post  Street,  Directly  opposite  Slime's 

Contain     a.    Latest    and     Swell     Line    of 

Creations  for    the    Holidays 


|  Mavis  Consolidated  Gold 
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Capital  Stock  $1,000,000.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County,   Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be  levied. 

50,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  ralseu  to  50  cents  a  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  of  the  company,  room  205,  713  Mar- 
ket street,  for  prospectus,  which  gives  full  information. 
VINCENT  NBALE,  Secretary. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


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Insurance 


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The  remarks  in  last  week's  Insurance  Department 
of  the  News  Letter  about  the  organization  of  the 
Special  Agents'  Association  of  the  Northwest  has 
been  characterized  as  untimely  and  indiscreet,  and 
the  objectors  are  mainly  members  of  the  old' asso- 
ciation. The  younger  blood  in  both  the  managers' 
chairs  and  in  the  field,  are  ready  either  to  fight  or 
secede  at  the  early  annual  meeting  of  the  parent  as- 
sociation, which  is  to  be  held  on  the  12th  and  13th. 
It  is  safe  to  prophesv  that  the  Special  Agents  will 
carry  more  than  one  point,  and  that  the  new  asso- 
ciation will  keep  growing. 

*  *  * 

It  seems  that  the  News  Letter  is  the  only  insur- 
ance journal  in  the  city  that  had  the  courage  to  give 
the  inside  facts  of  the  organization  of  the  new  asso- 
ciation, the  so-called  insurance  journals  up  to  this 
writing  have  been  silent.  It  appears,  after  further  in- 
vestigation, that  the  fight  is  not  alone  amongst  the 
Specials,  but  that  the  real  secessionists  are  a  coterie 
of  managers  who  desire  to  storm  the  Sumpter  fort 
of  the  ring  power  which  controls  the  Fire  Underwrit- 
ers' Association,  and  fired  their  first  shot  by  the  or- 
ganization of  their  respective  Specials  into  an  inde- 
pendent  body. 

These  insurgents  say  the  rule  of  the  big  five  must 
be  broken,  and  if  not  broken  in  California,  the  new 
organization  will  smash  it  in  Oregon  and  Washing- 
ton. 

The  News  Letter  is  not  taking  up  either  side  of  the 
what  has  hitherto  been  a  private  fight,  but  since  it 
has  been  the  means  of  giving  publicity  to  the  affair. 
it  is  willing  to  give  both  sides  of  the  story. 

If  vou  talk  to  some  of  the  managers,  there  is  noth- 
ing in  the  shape  of  friction  ;  the  sand-paper  element 
is  eliminated,  and  conditions  in  the  Association  are 
as  smooth  as  the  surface  of  a  mirror.  Talk  to  the 
next  lot,  and  they  tell  you  that  there  will  be  some- 
thing doing  at  the  annual  meeting. 

*  *  * 

The  row  is  loud  and  deep.  It  seems  to  be  a  care- 
fully well-laid  plan  to  burst  what  is  termed  a  ring, 
and  the  insurrectionists  are  matching  their  younger 
brains  and  diplomatic  methods  against  the  en- 
trenched power  of  the  older  men  and  managers,  who 
for  years  have  dictated  the  policy  and  practice  of  the 
old  association. 

The  outcome  may  create  some  feeling,  but  if  it 
does,  the  finality  will  be  a  settlement  of  the  smoulder- 
ing differences  between  the  ins  and  outs,  which  has 
finally  flashed  up  into  the  twinkling  blaze  of  the  new 
organization. 


To  quote  last  week's  News  Letter: 
of  two  bodies?" 


'YVhv  the  need 


Mr.  Stephen  D.  Ives,  vice-president  of  the  Home 
Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  Company,  has  been  con- 
fined to  his  home  for  some  days  with  an  attack  of 

La   Grippe. 

*  *  * 

If  there  be  any  Special  Agent  whose  manager  is 
in  San  Francisco  who  is  not  in  town,  it  is  because  he 
is  adjusting  or  out  of  mileage. 


The  Maryland  Casualty  Company  of  Baltimore 
has  re-insured  all  of  the  Accident,  Health  and  Plate 
<  rlass  business  of  the  Union  Casualty  and  Surety- 
Company  throughout  the  United  States,  and  thus 
added  a  large  volume  of  business  to  that  which  it 
already  had  on  its  books.  The  Union  Casualty  and 
Surety  Company  has  liquidated  and  is  winding  up  its 
affairs  as  rapid!)'  as  possible.  The  Union's  busi- 
ness in  California  is  of  a  favorable  character,  and 
under  the  management  of  the  Maryland's  energetic 
president,  can  be  relied  upon  to  make  a  profit.  The 
deal  was  made  very  quietly  between  President  Stone 
of  the  Maryland  and  President  Halls  of  the  Union, 
not  a  breath  of  it  getting  to  the  public  until  New 
Year's  day,  when  arrangements  had  been  completed. 
and  all  the  Union  policyholders  and  the  agents  of 
both  companies  were  officially  notified  of  the  change. 

The  news  came  as  a  surprise,  and  the  sudden, 
though  not  unexpected  ending  of  the  Union  made  a 
flurry  in  insurance  circles  on  California  street. 

In  1899,  a  similar  re-insurance  deal  was  effected  be- 
tween the  two  companies,  whereby  the  Maryland 
took  over  all  of  the  Liability  business  of  the  Union. 

Among  insurance  men  it  is  generally  believed  that 
the  second  coup  would  not  have  been  so  long  defer- 
red had  not  the  Union  found  that  it  took  more  time 
than  they  bargained  for  to  settle  the  outstanding 
claims  on  their  old   Liability  business. 

Just  what  the  "consideration"  paid  amounted  to  in 
the  recent  deal  is  a  matter  of  conjecture,  but  it  is 
understood  that  the  Maryland  received  a  neat  sum 
For  extending  its  protection  to  the  policyholders  of 
the  involved  Union. 

These  policyholders  should  congratulate  them- 
selves upon  having  behind  them  the  resources  of  the 
Maryland,  a  company  with  two  and  a  half  times  the 
surplus  of  the  Union.  It  is  learned  that  it  is  the  in- 
tention of  the  Maryland  to  push  for  a  large  business 
in  all  its  lines.  It  is  well-equipped  for  the  effort.  Its 
individual  Health  policy,  the  "Acme,"  is  a  popular 
favorite,  and  its  "combination  accident"  policy  is  so 
liberal  that  it  is  the  best  of  sellers.  The  office  of  the 
company's  General  Agent  in  the  Hay  wards  Build- 
ing is  a  busy  center  just  now  in  taking  care  of  the 
excess  business  caused  by  the  Union's  re-insurance. 


The  News  Letter  prophesies  a  change  in  the  man- 
agement of  a  big  life  insurance  company.  The  pres- 
ent incumbent  has  done  well  in  the  war  of  furnishing 
his  offices,  but  failed  in  the  way  of  furnishing  busi- 
ness. The  real  active  life  man  can  get  a  chance  now 
for  a  State  agency  of  a  life  company,  which,  while 
not  being  one  of  the  three  giants,  is  a  right  close 
fourth. 

*  *  * 

D.  Myers,  one  time  president  of  the  Manhattan 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  which  was  known  on  Cali- 
fornia street  for  a  brief  time,  has  been  acquitted  by  a 
jury  in  New  York  of  the  charge  of  larceny  from  the 
company  of  some  $40,000.  Another  indictment  hangs 
over  him,  and  better  luck  is  hoped  for  in  the  next 
trial. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Fred  Bennion  has  been  at  the  top  of  the  list 
for  four  consecutive  months  as  a  producer  of  busi- 
ness  for  the  Conservative   Life. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Harry  A.  Hunsaker  has  been  appointed 
manager  for  California  for  the  Travelers  Insurance 
Company,  Mr,  Haskell  will  remain  with  the  com- 
pany. 


January  9.  1904. 


UNNECESSARY   REMOVAL. 

Dr.  H.  A.  L.  RyfkogeU  well  known  u  a  bacter- 
ia* written  an  exhaustive  brochure  on  the 
ndition  .>f  Laurel  Mill  Cemetery."     It 
should  not  have  been  necessary  tn  call  in  the  aid  "i 
■!tar\  expert  of  I  >r.  Ryfkogel's  standing  to  prove 
a  self-evident  fact.  Any  one  conversant  with  the  con- 
dition of  the  soil,  the  situation   above  sea-level,  the 
fact  that  there  are  no  springs  in  the  neighborhood, 
the  water  .if   which   is   used   for  drinking  purposes: 
that  the  cemetery  is  exposed  to  strong  wind-.,  knows 
the  impossibility  of  contagion  or  infection. 

The  conditions  of  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery  .ire  en 
tirely  different  from  most  Uurial  places.  When 
a  body  is  buried  in  a  grave  at  Laurel  Hill,  ample 
space  is  left  hclow  for  drainage  and  above  for  aera- 
tion, reduction  and  absorption  of  escaping  gases.  Re- 
peated visits  were  made  to  the  cemetery  for  the  pur- 
pose of  detecting  odors  of  putrefaction,  hut  at  no 
time  could  any  such  be  detected. 

Disinterment  of  bodies  that  have  been  buried  from 
one  month  to  twenty  years  were  witnessed,  and 
odors  were  only  detected  when  the  coffin  was  ex- 
posed. Decomposition  in  the  sandy  soil  of  the  ceme- 
tery is  usually  complete  in  three  years. 

To  meet  and  refute  the  charge  against  Laurel  Hill 
Cemetery,  contained  in  the  Preamble  of  said  Ordi- 
nance, its  Trustees  have,  at  considerable  expense. 
had  a  careful  examination  of  the  cemetery  lands,  its 
methods  of  burial  and  disinterment,  its  location  and 
drainage,  its  soil  and  water,  its  atmosphere  and  pre- 
vailing winds,  and  obtained  a  full  report  thereon. 
The  examination  by  the  expert  and  his  assistants  ex- 
tended over  a  period  of  ten  months,  and  they  were 
upon  the  cemetery  lands  at  all  hours  of  day  and 
night,  and  had  full  and  free  opportunity  to  make  a 
thorough  and  unbiased  examination. 

Altogether,  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery  is  ideal,  and, 
further  than  this,  it  cannot  be  said  that  there  is  any 
popular  clamor  for  a  change.  The  action  of  the  Su- 
pervisors in  passing  Ordinance  No.  25  is  not  above 
suspicion,  and  there  are  those  who  claim  that  some 
expert  on  "cinch"  measures  has  picked  out  the  Lau- 
rel Hill  Cemetery  people  as  proper  prey. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER.  a? 

INSURANCE 
FIRE,    MARINE   AND.  INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 


Phoenix  Assurance  Company 

OF  LONDON 


PROVIDENCE     WASHINGTON    IN- 
SURANCE   COMPANY 


GEO,  E.  BUTLER,  Gen.  Agt. 

413  CALIFORNIA  ST.  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL 


Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  If 53 
Capital .*3,ooo,ooo-         Gross  C'uBh  Assets .sn.3oo.ooo 

Liberal  contracts,  Favor.'ihle  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Iteprp- 
sentatives  before  confhuliL^  shore  time  yeaily  or  long  ume  contracts 
may  he  to  your  advantage- 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  SI.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
tan Manager. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  17K. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADEI.rHIA.    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     tt.OOO.ODO 

Surplus    to    Pollcy-lloldcrs     6]o22,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  8.  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated    by    Royal   Charter,   A.    D.    173). 
Capital   raid-up    J3.44C.10O.  Assets.   J2t.6C043.36 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  J8.33o.431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  J13l.000.000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

PRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601    Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local    Mgrs. 


Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF   HARTFORD.     Established   I860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .    2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,    Manager  Pacific  Department 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  411  California  St. 

Unexcelled  Tor  liberality  and  security, 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 


DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $1,250,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $20,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  company.     Agents  Wanted. 
Fair  Building.  230  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign    Marine    Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital     

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


J67,000,00O 

316  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.    GERMANY 

Capital  $2,250,000  Assets  $10,934,246 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:   204-208   Sansome   St.,   San   Francisco. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 
of  Hamburg,  Germany. 

N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  g,  igo/j. 


STATEMENT  OF  THE  CONDITION  AND  VALUE  OF  THE  ASSETS  AND  LIABILITIES  OF 

THE    HIBERNIA  Savings  and  Loan  Society 


A      CORPORATION 


And  Where  Said  Assets  ire  Situated,  Dated  December  31,  1903. 


ASSETS. 
1 — Promissory    Notes    and     the     debts     thereby 

secured,  the  actual  value  of  which   is $29,237,007.58 

The  condition  of  said  Promissory  Notes 
and  debts  is  as  follows:  They  are  all  existing 
Contracts,  owned  by  said  Corporation,  and 
are  payable  to  it  at  its  office,  which  is  situ- 
ated at  the  corner  of  Market,  McAllister  and 
Jones  streets,  in  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  State  of  California,  and  the  pay- 
ment thereof  is  secured  by  First  M'ortgages 
on  Real  Estate  within  this  State  28,720,007.58 
And  the  States  of  Oregon  ($242,000.00)  and 
Washington  $275,000.00).  Said  Promissory 
Notes  are  kept  and  held  by  said  Corporation 
at  its  said  Office,  which  is  its  principal  place 
of  business,  and  said  Notes  and  debts  are 
there  situated. 
2 — Promissory  Notes  and  the  debts  thereby  se- 
cured, the  actual   value   of  which    is 1,151,400.00 

The  condition  of  said  Promissory  Notes  and 
debts  is  as  follows:  They  are  ail  existing  Con- 
tracts, owned  by  said  Corporation,  and  are 
payable  to  it  at  its  Office,  which  is  situated 
as  aioresaid,  and  the  payment  thereof  is  se- 
cured by  "Northern  Railway  Company  of  Cali- 
fornia First  Mortgage  5  per  cent  Bonds." 
"Northern  California  Railway  Company  First 
Mortgage  5  per  cent  Bonds."  "Pasadena  and 
ML  Lowe  Railway  Company  of  Los  Angeles, 
California,  4  per  cent  Gold  Bonds,"  "San 
Francisco  and  North  Pacific  Railway  Com- 
pany First  Mortgage  5  per  cent  Bonds."  "San 
Francisco  and  San  Joaquin  Valley  Railway 
Company  5  per  cent  Bonds."  "Southern  Pa- 
cific Branch  Railway  Company  of  California  6 
per  cent  Bonds,"  "Southern  Pacific  Company 
4%  per  cent  Gold  Bonds,"  "Sou. hern  Pacific 
Railroad  Company  of  Arizona  First  Mortgage 
6  per  cent  Bonds,"  'Southern  Pacific  Railroad 
Company  of  California  Series  'A'  6  per  cent 
Bonds."  "Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Company 
of  California  Series  'F  and  G'  6  per  cent 
Bonds."  "Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Company 
of  California  First  Consolidated  Mortgage 
Series  A  and  B'  5  per  cent  Bonds."  "Sierra 
Railway  Company  of  California  6  per  cent 
Bonds."  "California  Street  Cable  Railroad 
Company  5  per  cent  Bonds."  "Market  Street 
Railway  Co.  First  Consolidated  Mortgage 
5  per  cent  Gold  Bonds."  "Los  Angeles  Rail- 
way Company  of  California  5  per  cent 
Bonds."  "Los  Angeles  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany 5  per  cent  Bonds,"  "Pacific  Electric 
Railway  Company  of  California  5  per  cent 
Bonds."  "Park  and  Cil!  F'.tise  Railway  Com- 
pany 6  per  cent  Bonds."  "Powell  Street 
Railway  Company  6  per  cent  Bonds."  "The 
Park  and  Ocean  Railroad  Company  First 
Mortgage  6  per  cent  Bonds,"  "United  Rail- 
roads of  San  Francisco  4  per  cent  Bonds,' 
"United  States  3  per  cent  Bonds,"  "Contra 
Ccsta  Water  Company  5  per  cent  Gold 
Bonds,"  "Hawaiian  Commercial  and  Sugar 
Company  5  per  cent  Gold  Bonds,"  "Oakland 
Water  Company  5  per  cent  Gold  Bonds."  "Pa- 
cific Light  and  Power  Company  of  Los  An- 
geles. California,  5  per  cent  Bonds,"  "Pacific 
Gas    Improvement    Company    First    Mortgage 

4  per  cent  bonds."  "San  Francisco  Dry  Dock 
Company  5  per  cent  Bonds,"  "Spring  Valley 
Water  Works  First  Mortgage  I3  per  cent 
Bjnds."  "Spring  Valley  Water  Works  Second 
Mortgage  4  per  cent  Bonds,"  "Spring  Valley 
Water  Works  Third  Mortgage  4  per  cent 
Bonds,"   "United   Gas   and   Electric  Company 

5  per  cent  Bonds."  "Forty-two  Shares  of  the 
Capital  Stock  of  the  Bank  of  California,"  and 
"One  Hundred  and  Thirty  Shares  of  the 
Capital  Stock  of  the  California  Street  Cable 


8,282,700.^6 


Railroad  Company,"  the  market  value  of  all 
said  Bonds  and  Stocks  being  ($1,451,759.50.) 
Said  Notes  are  kept  and  held  by  said  Corpora- 
tion at  its  said  Office,  and  said  Notes,  Bonds 
and  Stocks  are  there  situated. 
3 — Bonds  of  the  United  States,  the  actual  value 

of    which    is    19,176,933.67 

The  condition  of  said  Bonds  is  as  follows: 
They  belong  to  said  Corporation,  and  are 
kept  and  held  by  it  in  its  own  Vaults  and  are 
•  there  situated.  They  are  "Registered  4  per 
cent  of  1907  ($16,000,000.00)  and  4  per  cent 
of  1925  ($2,000,000.00)  United  States  Bonds." 
and  are  payable  only  to  the  order  of  said  Cor- 
poration. 
4 — Miscellaneous    Bonds,    the    actual    value    of 

which     is     

The  condition  of  said  Bonds  is  as  follows: 
They  belong  to  said  Corporation,  and  are  kept 
and  held  by  it  in  its  own  vaults,  and  are  there 
situated.     They  are: 
"Market  Street    Cable     Railway 
Company  6  per  cent  Bonds". ..  .$1,121,000  00 
"Market-street  Railway  Company 
First  Consolidated     Mortgage     5 

per   cent    Bonds"      340,000  no 

"Sutter-street   Railway   Company 

5  per    cent      Bonds" 150,000  00 

"Powell-street  Railway  Company 

6  per  cent  Bonds"    158,000  00 

"The  Omnibus  Cable  Company  6 
per    cent    Bonds"      

"Presidio  and  Ferries  Railroad 
Company  6  per  cent  Bonds".. 
"Ferries  and  Cliff  House  Railway 
Company  6  per  cent  Bonds".. 
"Los  Angeles  Railway  Company 
of  California  5  per  cent  Bonds". 
"Pacific  Electric  Railway  Com- 
pany   5    per    cent    Bonds" 

"Northern   Railway   Company   of 
California   6    per    cent    Bonds"... 
"San  Francisco  and    North     Pa- 
cific   Railway   Company     5     per 

cent  Bonds"   

"Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany  of   California   6    per     cent 

Bonds"    1.326,000  00 

"San  Francisco  and  San  Joaquin 
Valley   Railway   Company   5   per 

cent    Bonds"    

"West  Shore  Railroad  Company 
of  New  York  4  per  cent  Bonds" . . 
"Spring  Valley  Water  Works 
First  Mortgage  6  per  cent  Bonds 
"Spring  Valley  Water  Works 
Second     M'ortgage    4     per     cent 

Bonds"     

"Spring  Valley  Water  Works 
Third      Mortgage     4     per     cent 

Bonds"     1,020,000  00 

"Citv  of  San  Luis  Obispo  5  per 

cent  Bonds"    18,000  24 

"The    Merchants'     Exchange     7 

per    cent   Bonds" 400,000  00 

"San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric 

Company  4M>  per  cent   Bonds"..      500,000  00 

5 — Interest  on   Miscellaneous  Bonds  Accrued  to 

January    1.    1904     $324,686.77 

6 — (a)  Real  Estate  situated  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco  ($391,420  95),  and  in 
the  Counties  of  Santa  Clara  ($186,982.69),  Ala- 
meda ($159,966  15)  and  San  Mateo  ($24.- 
630  23)    in   this    State,    the    actual    value    of 

which   is    

(b)—  The  Land  and  Building  in  which  said 
Corporation  keeps  Its  said  office,  the  actual 
value   of   which    is    

7_Proportion  of  Taxes  for  the  Fiscal  Year  1903- 


S2.ii 10 


26,000  00 


6,000  00 


145.000  00 


300.000  00 


.584.000  00 


f.V.MHHI     III! 


111.000  00 
500.000  00 
123.000  00 

462.000  00 


763,000.02 


517,199.24 


January  9.  1904.  SAN    FRANCISCO 

1904   chargeable   to    next    half    year  S3.649.92 

■  ht>  condition  "f  said  Una]  Brtati    la  that 

il.l  Corporation,  and  part  "f  It 

Is  productive. 

8 — Cash   In  United  States  Gold   and   Silver  Coin 

nelne  ti>  sal  !  rorporatlon.  and  In  It: 

MSSlon.  and  sltiiau-d  at  its  said  (Mil.  ■  .  m-itial 

ralno  i.960.012.61 

Tot.i  61.466.590  27 

LIABILITIES. 
1 — Said   Corporation    owes    Deposits   amounting 

to  and   the  acmal   value  of   Willi  b    l«  $58,182,675.47 

The  rendition  of  snid  Deposit!  is  that   the] 
an-   payable   only   out   of  said   nssels   an. I 

fully  secured  thereby. 

2— Reserve    Fund.    S.CIUQ]    Value 3,283.914.80 

Total    Liabilities     61,466.590.27 

THE   HIBERNIA   SAVINGS    AND    LOAN    SOCIETY. 

Bv  JAMES  R.  KELLY,  President 
THE   HIBERNIA   SAVINGS   AND   LOAN   SOCIETY, 

By  ROBERT  .1.  TOBIN.  Secretary. 
State  of  California.  Citv  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  ss, 

,1AM ES    R.    KELLY  and   ROBERT  .T.   TOBIN.  being 
separately   duly   sworn,   each   for   himself,   says:    Thai    Bald 
JAMES  R.   KELLY  is  President,  and  that  said  ROBERT  J. 

tobin  is  Secretary  of  the  hibernia  sayings  and 

LOAN  SOCIETY",  the  Corporation  above  mentioned,  and  that 
the  foregoing  statement  is  true. 

JAMES   R.   KELLY.  President. 

ROBERT    J.    TOBIN.    Secretary. 


NEWS    LETTER. 


10 


Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  2d  day  of  Janu- 
ary. 1904. 

GEORGE  T.  KNOX,  Notary  Public. 

In  and  for  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State 
of  California.  

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  half  rear  ending  December  31, 1903.  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
elared  at  1  he  rate  of  three  and  twenty  one  hundredths  (3.20)  per  cent 
iipr  annum  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Saturday 
Januarys  19m.  GEORGE  A.  STOBY.  Cashier. 

Office— 710  Market  St.  

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  Continental  Building  and  Loan  Association. 

Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  year  ending  December  31,  1003.  of  5 
per  ceut  on  ordinary  deposits.  6  per  cent  on  term  deposits  and  8  per 

cent  to  stockholder,  free  of  taxes.  •     ,_ _      .,     . 

DR.  WASHINGTON  DODGE.  President. 
\VM.  COHBIN,  Sec.  and  Gen.  Manager. 
Office— 301  California  St.,  San  Francisco- 


DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
Security  Savings  Bank. 
For  the  half  year  ending  December  31.  1903.  dividends  upon   all   de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3  1-4)  per  cent  per  annum. 
Free  of  all  taxes,  will  be  payable  on  and  after  January  i.  1904. 

FRED  W-  RAY  Secretary. 
Office— M2  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building.      

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  this  society,  held 
this  day.  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  three  and  one- 
fourth  (3  1-4)  per  cent  on  all  deposits  for  the  six  months  ending  Decem- 
ber 31,  1903,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  alter  January  %  1904. 
ROBERT  J.  TOBIN.  Secretary. 

Office— Cor.  Market,  McAllister  and  Jones  Sts..  San  Francisco.  De- 
cember 28,  1903. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
Savings  and   Loan   Society. 

Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  December  si.  1903,  at  the 
rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3  1-4)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits 
free  of  taxes,  and  payable  on  aad  after  January  %  1904. 

(Signed)       CYRUS  W.  CARMANY.  Cashier. 

Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  cor-  Sutter. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  the  31st  of  December,  1903.  a 
dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  per  annum  of  three  and 
one-half  (3  1-2)  per  cent  on  term  deposits,  and  three  (3)  per  cent 
on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Sat- 
urday,   January    2,    1904.  LOVELL    WHITE,     Cashier. 

Office— 532   California    St.,    cor.   Webb,    San   Francisco. 

~  DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company. 

For  the  six  months  ending  December  31,  1903,  dividends  have 
been  declared  on  deposits  in  the  savings  department  of  this 
company  as  follows:  On  term  deposits  at  the  rate  of  „  6-10  per 
cent  per  annum,  and  on  ordinary  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  per 
cent  per  annum,  free  of  taxes  and  payable  on  and  after  Satur- 
day January  2,  1904.  Dividends  uncalled  for  are  added  to  the 
principal  after   January  1,   1904.     DALZEljL  BR0WN,   Manager. 

Office—Corner   California   and   Montgomery    Sts. 


MANUFACTURERS. 


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is  that  you  present  yourself  as  well  as  your  friends  with  a  case, 
containing  12  quart  bottles  of  our  pure  rich  10  year  old  California 
Wines,  all  of  one  kind. or  a  selection  of  Port,  Sherry.  Angelica 
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Price  $5.00-    Shipped  free  within  ion  miles- 

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10    Stockton    St..    San    Franclsoo. 


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Shipping    and    Commission    Merchants. 
General    Agents 

Oceanic  Steamship  Company 

GUllngham   Cement 

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Chinese    and    Japanese    Bazaar.      We    have    but    one 
price.     All   goods  marked  in  plain  English  figures. 

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SALES  STABLES. 

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Mason,    San    Franelseo.    Tel.    No.    1323. 

E.     BRIDGE,     Proprietor. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thieves) 

Young  Physician  (excitedly) — 
How  did  you  know  about  me? 
Messenger — Rang  all  the  doctors' 
bells  till   I   found   one  at  home. 

Stella — Cholly  hasn't  any  origi- 
nality. Bella — Not  the  slightest. 
Why,  I  submitted  his  love  letters 
to  three  publishers  and  they  all 
refused   them. 

"Is  it  possible,  Miss,  that  you 
do  not  know  the  names  of  your 
best  friends?"  "Possible?  Why,  of 
course  it  is.  I  do  not  even  know 
what  my  own  name  may  be  a 
year  or  so  hence." 

Inspector — What  do  you  see 
above  your  head  when  you  are  in 
the  open  air?  Scholar — The  sky. 
Inspector — And  what  do  you  see 
when  the  sky  is  covered  with 
clouds?    Scholar — My    umbrella. 

"Didn't  I  order  two  portions  ol 
chicken,  waiter?  "  "Yes,  sir." 
"Then  why  is  there  only  one  cock- 
roach ?" 

Deacon  Jones — Did  Mr.  Skrim- 
per  say  anything  about  a  donation 
for  the  cause?  Deacon  Brown — ■ 
Oh,  yes,  he  talked  beautifully 
about  it.  Deacon  Jones — It  is 
almost     as     gratifying     to     hear 


Brother  Skrimper  talk  about  the 
duty  of  doing  a  thing  as  to  have 
him  do  it.  Deacon  Brown — I  have 
sometimes  thought  that  to  him  it 
is   an   even   greater  pleasure. 

"I  owe  my  success  in  life  to  hard 
work,"  said  the  great  magnate. 
But  he  neglected  to  add  that  it 
was  largely  the  hard  work  of  other 
people. 

The  Parson — Dis  am  mos'  posi- 
tively de  mos'  'streemly  juiciest 
chicking  I  eber  put  in  mah  mouth, 
Brer  Jackson.  Brer  Jackson — 
Yes,  sah,  pahson ;  dat  chicking 
wuz  raised  an'  brung  up  on  water- 
millions,  sah. 

"Gracious,"  sighed  Mr.  De  Spep- 
sey,  "I  wish  I  could  acquire  an  ap- 
petite." "For  goodness  sake!"  ex- 
claimed his  wife,  "what  do  you 
want  with  an  appetite?  It  would 
only  give  you  more  dyspepsia." 

Bracer  (tentatively) — No,  We's 
hard.  Now,  with  a  good  friend 
like  you  it's  different.  If,  for  in- 
stance, I  should  tell  you  I  needed 
a  dollar,  I  know  I'd  be  welcome  to 
it.  Newitt — Well-er-I  don't  know 
that  you'd  be  as  welcome  to  it  as 
it  would  be  welcome  to  you. 

Lucile — Were  you  not  embar- 
rassed when  young  Dr.  Jones 
asked  you  for  your  hand?  Ethel — 


January  9,  1904. 

Bad  grocer 
confesses  his 
badness  by  sell- 
ing bad  lamp- 
chimneys. 

Macbeth. 

You  need   to  know  how  to  manage  your 
lamps  to  have  comfort  with  them  at  small  cost. 
Better  read  my  Index;  I  send  it  free. 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 

Dear  me,  yes!  I  hardly  knew 
whether  he  wanted  to  take  me  or 
my  pulse. 

"Doesn't  that  cook  scare  you 
when  he  looks  this  way?"  asked 
the  Belgian  hare  of  the  young 
chicken.  "No,"  replied  the  Broiler, 
"but  later  on  I  have  no  doubt  he 
will  make  me  quail." 

"Isn't  that  young  Mr.  Cleriker 
a  clever  talker,  Laura?"  "Do  you 
think    so,    dear!      I    couldn't    help 


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January  9,  1904. 


overhearing  a  part  of  what  he  said 
last  night,  and  it  struck  me  a-* 
being  idiotic."  "If  you  overheard 
what  he  was  saying  last  night 
then  you  know  that  he  was  prais- 
ing mc."  "Well,  yes,  dear,  I  gath- 
ered as  much." 

Willie — Mamma,  I  told  Aunt 
Helen  she  grew  homelier  each  day. 
Mrs.  Slimson — You  didn't  tell  her 
1  said  so,  did  you?  "I  had  to  or 
she  would   have   whipped   me." 

"I  wonder  why  Katherine  wears 
three  veils  wrapped  around  her 
hat  and  none  over  her  face?"  "You 
wouldn't  ask  if  you  saw  the  hat. 
She  trimmed  it  herself." 

Mother — Why  don't  you  behave 
better  to  your  teacher?  Tommy — 
Why,  I'm  as  kind  to  her  as  I  can 
be.  Mother — You  are  ?  Tommy — 
Yes'm.  Every  time  she  licks  me  I 
cry  out  as  loud  as  I  kin  so's  to 
make  her  believe  she's  hurtin'  me. 
A 


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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

PARABLES    IN    SLANG. 

A  very  discriminating  and  ■ 
cal   professor  at    Harvard  hat 
cided    that     slang    is    pernicious 
"onlj    whin  it  is  used  \>>  pose  vul 
garity."    For  example,  we  ma 
sumc,  when  an    English   girl 
Mirrs  ln-r  Canadian  sister  thai  she 
bats    in    her   belfry,"   she   is 
uMti!,'  language  at    once     "strong 
and   poetic."     Certainly   ii   is 
vulgar  i"  have  bats  in  one's  belfry, 
'    «  e   should   think   it  would 
be    very   unpleasant.      The   pr>  >tVs 
sor   warmly    commends    such    ex 
pressions  as  the  glad  hand  and  the 
marble    heart,   and    asserts   that    if 
such  phrases  had  been  used  in  the 
story  of  the  prodigal  son,  the   lit- 
erature  of   the    Bible   would    have 
been   even   more  highly  commend- 
ed.   Let  us  see  how  the  conclusion 
of    the    parable   would    have    been 
touched  up  in  up-to-date  English, 
according   to   the   latest   approved 
Harvard   methods : 

"But  the  father  said  to  his  ser- 
vants: Bring  forth  the  glad  rags 
and  put  them  on,  and  put  a  spark- 
ler on  his  hand  and  shoes  on  his 
feet. 

"And  hustle  up  that  fatted  calf 
and  kill  it,  and  let  us  feed  our  faces 
and   have  a  jamboree." 

As  for  the  "elder  son,"  he  might 
have  been  pithily  disposed  of.  We 
may  picture  him  standing  moodily 
in  the  background  ejaculating 
"Rats!" 

"I  don't  know  now  exactly  how 
it  happened,"  Reggie  was  telling 
his  best  friend  over  a  game  of 
billiards.  "I  never  meant  to  pro- 
pose, you  know — that  is,  not  just 
yet.  I  wanted  to  knock  about  a 
little  more.  But  after  we  got 
home  from  the 'theatre  and  sat  in 
the  parlor  discussing  the  plot  of 
the  play  I  ventured  out  on  thin 
ice  and  broke  through  before  I 
knew  where  I  was.  It  came  as  a 
deuce  of  a  shock,  just  as  I  should 
imagine  breaking  through  real  ice 
would  be. 

"But  Jessie  was  all  ready  for 
me.  She  was  expecting  it.  First 
thing  I  knew  she  had  me  by  the 
collar  and  'landed  me  on  safe 
ground  again,  but  I  was  engaged. 
No  doubt  about  that.  Anyhow,  I 
am  glad  I've  got  her.  Might  haye 
lost  her. through  some  slip  if  I'd 
waited.  But  I  don't  want  to  read 
any  more  stuff  about  bashful  fel- 
lows stammering  out!  proposals. 
It's  all  too  easy" 


3« 


The 

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0/  the 

PRESIDENT 
Suspender 

I  overcomes     every  | 

I  objection     of     the 

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Yeast — Did  you  ever  notice 
that  when  the  question  about 
obeying  is  put  to  women  in  the 
marriage  ceremony  sumc  of  them 
answer  louder  than  others?  Crim- 
sonbeak — Oh,  yes;  I've  noticed  it. 
The  ones  who  say  "Yes"  the  loud- 
est are  the  ones  who  know  their 
husbands  will  never  dare  to  ask 
them   to  obev. 


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32 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  9,  1904. 


An  evening  paper  stated  last 
week  that  some  years  ago  a  "Tory 
orator"  attacking  a  speech  of  Mr. 
Chamberlain's,  "repelled  the  alle- 
gation and  scorned  the  alligator." 
This  slip  was  really  made  some  70 
years  ago  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons by  Joseph  Hume.  There  is 
something  marvelous  in  the  ef- 
frontery with  which  such  vener- 
able anecdotes  are  now  raked  up 
and  presented  to  the  credulous 
public  with  a  new  dressing. 


John  C.  Sheehan  employs  a  large 
number  of  laborers.  Most  of  his 
foremen  are  Irishmen,  but  the  un- 
derlings embrace  men  of  all  nation- 
alities. The  other  dav  one  of  the 
foremen  had  use  for  a  maul  on  a 
certain  piece  of  work.  He  said  to 
a  green  Irish  laborer  who  was 
near:  "Go  up  where  that  other 
gang  is  working  and  bring  the 
maul."  In  a  few  minutes  the  Irish- 
man returned  with  about  twenty- 
five  laborers.  "What  did  you  bring 
these  men  here  for?"  asked  the 
foreman.  "Sure,  you  told  me  to 
bring  'thim  all'  and  I  brought  ivery 
mother's  son  of  thim  I  could  find,  ' 
was  the  reply. 


"Yes,"  asserted  the  admirer, 
"she  is  an  advanced  woman.  She 
is  a  credit  to  the  age.  None  of  the 
fads  and  foibles  of  latter  day  fe- 
males attract  her.  Why,  she  is 
head  and  shoulders  above  dresses 
and  bonnets  and  matinees,  and  all 
that  sort  of  thing."  "I  don't  know 
about  the  bonnets  and  matinees, 
but  I  saw  her  last  night  at  the  thea- 
tre and  she  was  head  and  shoulders 
above  her  dress,  just  as  you  claim." 

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Steamrr  Ticket*  Include  Rertb  ai,d  Meala 

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Tourist  Excursion  Trips 
Excellent    Service,    low     Rates     Including 

Berth  and  Meals 

Loa  Aneelei",  San  Dleeo,  Santa  Cruz 

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Eurea-a  Seattle,  Tacoma. 

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And  to  those  deslrlne  longer,  trips  to  Alaska 
and    Mexico* 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates,  etc 
obtain  folder 
SAN    rRANCISCu    TICKET    OFFICES 
4   New  Montgomery    St.    (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St..  and  Broadway    vt  harres. 

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10  Market  street.  San  Franotso 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC 

TraiiiH  leave  mitl  are  due  t ..  itrri  ve  at 
SAN     FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line.   Koot  of   Market  Street  > 

LBAVK       —      FKuM    DttCEMHKIi  M.    V.'OS.       —       A  Kit  I  V  K 

7.00a    V'iCHVllUr.  Wiiilern.  Kuni*e>'    75 a p" 

7-OJa  Renlcla,  Sulsuu.  Elinlra  and  Sacra- 
mento          7.25p 

7.30a   Vallejo.    Napa.     t'Hllfiton-i,    Ssxta 

I.-.M..   Martinez,  San  .{union b  25 1- 

7-30a    NlleB,  Llverinore,  Tracy,  Latnrop. 

Stockton 7  25p 

8.00a  Shasta  ExpreBH—  (Via  Din-In,, 
Wltllaim  (lor  Barilett  Sprlutfs), 
Wlllowe       tKruto.      Bed      lUuff. 

Portland,  Tacuuia,   Seattle 7-55p 

8.00a    Davis.  Woodland.  KdIkIub  La  .ding, 

MaryBVtllc.  Orovllle 7-55P 

8.30a  Port  ..-fin,  Martinez,  Amlocb, 
ByroD,  Tracy.  Stockton.  New- 
man.  Los  Banos,  Mendota, 
ArmoDli,      Hanford        V  I  ■  a  1 1  a, 

Portervlllc 4.25p 

8-30*  Port  Costa.  Martinez.  Tracy,  Latn- 
rop. Modesto,  Merced.  Fresno, 
i ,  ■.■■ii"n      Junction,     liau  ro  rd, 

Vlsalla    Bakerstlcld   4.55* 

8.30a  KMcb.  San  .lose,  Llvurmore.  Stock- 
ton, (tMlltuu),  lorn-,  Sacramento, 
Placervllle     Marysvllle,    Cblco, 

Red  BlufT 4-25p 

8.30a  Oakdate.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  8o- 

norn.  Tuolumne  and  Ann.' In    4  25  P 

9  00a    Atlantic  Kxpress— Ogdenand  But.    11.25a 
9.30a   Richmond,     Martlm-z      mid      Way 

Stations 655p 

1000a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha.  Chicago G.25P 

10.00a   Vallejo 12.25P 

10.00a  Los  Angelas  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa.  Martinez.  Byron.  Tracy, 
Latnrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  GoBhcn  .Junc- 
tion. Hanford.   Letnoore,  Vlsalla. 

Bakersfleld.  Los  Annelea 725'* 

1200m  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3  25p 

tl-OOP   Sacrnmeoto  Blver  Steamers M  1  .00p 

3-301'  Benhda,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
M  ary b  v  1 1 1  e,     O  ru  v  1 1 1  e    and    w  ay 

stations 10-55  a 

3.30p  Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      765P 
3  30c  Port     Costa,     Martinez      Myron, 

Tracy,  Latnrop.  Modesto. 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Uosta 1225p 

3.30p   Manlnez.Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl...    10.25a 
4-OOp  Marilnez.Snn  Ramon,  VnlleJo.Napa, 

CallBtoga,  Sun  In  Rosa 925  a 

400p  Nlles,  Tracy.  Stockton,  Lodl  4.25p 

4,3Dp    Hayward.    Nlles,    Iritntflou.  Sanj     18.B5a 

Jose.  Llverinore )  til  66* 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Newm  n  Los 
lUmirv  \liiii|niu  Fre«no.  I  ulare. 
Bakers deld.  Lob  Angeles 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  Angele»,  for  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R  I    &P 8.55* 

6.00r  Port  Coata.  Tracy.  Stockton 122  jp 

t6  30p  Hayward.  N1Icb  and  San  Jo«e 725* 

6.00i'    Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  -lose 9.j6* 

6.00p  Eastern  ExpreBH— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Cbleago  and 
East.  Port  Co^ta,  Bcnlcta.  Sul- 
'■uri  Elinlra,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Rock  1 1  o.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckec,  Bocn,  Reno,  Wade- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca  . 6.25p 

8.00p    Vallejo  dally,  except  Sunday...,  I       -  -».- 

7-OOp  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  6oP 

7.00p   lilebmund.  ->au   Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11.25* 

8.06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,     Redding, 
Portland,  Paget  Sound  and  Bait.     8-55* 
8.10P   Hayward,  Nile*  and  San  Jose  <  mjii- 
, day  only  i 11.66* 


COAST  LINE    (Narrow  (iausreJ 

Fool  of  Market  street) 

8-15*  Newark,  CettlervlIIe,  San  Jobo. 
Felton,     Bouluur     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-55p 

t2-15»'  Newark,  Ceuterville,  San  Jobb, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gal.o&.F'elton. 
Boulder  Creek,  Sanra  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Station-    1 1 0  55* 

<  16p   Newark.  San  Jose,  LosOatos  and  1     tg.BS  * 
Way  stHtlonB 1  :10  55a 

09  30p  HunterB  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
JoBe  nnd  Way  Stations.  Rcturn- 
Ing  from  Lqh  f.ntr.s  Siin'iny  only.    t7  25p 

OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

rroniSAIs  FRANCISCO,  Fool  ol  Market  St.  (Sllpo 

-t1:15    y-.vo    11:UUa.m.      100    3  00    5.1&P.M 

trom  OAKLAND.   Foot  of  Broadway—  ftiiWl    fi:»i 

18:03    10:011  a.m.       12  00    200    400p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Hroail  Hange). 

t&~  '  I'blrd  ami    t'mTiiHCiid   StreetB.) 

8  10a    BanJOBeand  Way  Stations 6  3  Op 

7  00a    San  Jo»c  and  Way  Stations 5-36p 

8  00*    New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld.,  only),      4.1Qp 
8  00a  The  Coaster— Stops  only  Sar  Jose, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis- 
ter), Pajaro,  Castrovllle  (con- 
aectton  to  and  from  Monterey 
and  I'm  ID''  Grove),  Snllnas  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Rolileh  Santa  Mar- 
garlra.  San  LuIh  OblBpo.  prluclpal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lornpoc).  prlnct|ial  -lutlimn 
thence  Santa  Bar  barn.  Sun  Muena- 
venitira.  SauKus  Lob  Angeles.,,  10. 45^ 
9.00a  San  .Iobc  Tres  Plnos,  Caidtola, 
Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Salinas, 
San  Lille  Obispo  and  Principal 
Way  StatlonM    4-1  Op 

10  30a   tan  Jose  and  Way  StalloiiB 120p 

11  30*  Santa  Clara,  ban  Jose,  l.."-  Gatos 
and  Why  atai Ion*  7.30p 

1-30p    ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8.j6* 

OXOp  Del  Monie  JCxpreas— Smiia  Clara, 
San  Jope.  Del  Monie.  Monterey, 
pRdlle  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clam  lur  Sanla  Crnz.  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  tor  Hullleter,  Tres 
Plnon.  at  Castrovllle  for  Snllnas.  12-15P 

3-30p  TresPlrmsWav  Passenger lOd'iA 

4  30p  nan  Joae  and  Way  St  itlona ta.OO* 

t5  00  ban  Josv.  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatus.  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions fexcepi  Runday) ..    i-9.00a 

t  30i  ban  Jose  and  Principal  Way  Stations  jg  40* 
6-COp  bnnsei  Limited.— Redwp  d.  San 
JoHL-.Gllroy.sallnns,  Paso  Roliles, 
Sao  Luis  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles.  Homing.  El  Paao, 
New  OrlennR.  New  Vork.  Con- 
ner!- at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Critt 
and    at    Castrovllle.    for     Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7  10* 

t8   16*  ban  Mateo.Bere8ford.ltelm.ini. San 

CarloB.     Id'ilw 1.     Fair     Oaks. 

Men lo  Park.   Pal"  Alto t6-43* 

6  ?fi    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  38* 

9-OOp   Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 1J.1&A 

11  30i*  SuUtfa  miii  Francisco.  Mllll>rae.  Bur- 
llugatiie.  San  Mateo,  Belmon' 
San  Carlos.  Redwood,  Fslr  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park   and   Palo  Alio 9.45p 

o11-30p  Maylleld.  Mountain  View,  sunny- 
vale.  Lawrenie.  Santa  Clara  and 

S»n  Jose , ....     19.45P 

A  foi  Morning  P  for  Afternoon. 

1  Sunday  excepted  X  Mioday  only 

a  Saturday  only 

i  bto|>B  at  all  statlonB  on  Sunday. 
I*    Only  trains  slopping  at  Valencia  St.sourhhoand 
rtr-      HI  a.m., 7:00a.m.,  I1:3Ua.m.,  3:30 1'.M.,  6:30  p.m.  and 

8:00  p.m. 

ID.  UMO*.  lit  ANSI-  Hi;  COM  I' A  XI 
■  Ml  cab  tor  and  i  be.  k  nnggage  from  tiotela  and  resl 
^ences.     Telephone.  eJxcbanire  s!3.     Inquire  of  Ticket 


"Hasn't  the  baby  bad  the  mea- 
sles  yet,  Air.  Popps?"  "Sh-sli ! 
Don't  speak  so  loud.  Whenever 
lie  hears  anything  mentioned  that 
he  hasn't  got  he  cries  for  it!" 

"Say,  pa/'  queried  little  Billy 
Bloobumper,  "what's  an  echo?" 
"An  echo,  my  son,"  replied  the  old 
man  with  a  sigh  long  drawn  out, 
"is  the  only  thing  that  can  flim- 
flam a  woman  out  of  the  last 
word." 


The  Lady — T  gave  you  a  piece 
of  pie  last  week,  and  you've  been 
sending  your  friends  here  ever 
since.  The  Tramp — You're  mis- 
taken, lady.  Them  was  my  ene- 
mies. 


Miss  Youngbud — Did  you  enjoy 
the  play?  Miss  Elderlcigh — Yes, 
indeed — especially  the  third  act. 
Miss  Youngbud — Oh,  yes,  that 
was  the  act  in  which  the  heroine 
told  how  she  induced  her  husband 
to  propose. 


"Yes,"  said  the  sharper  who  had 
just  succeeded  in  obtaining  change 
for  a  bad  ten-dollar  bill  from  a 
guileless  old  clergyman,  "if  there's 
anything  I  like  it's  pastoral  sim- 
plicity." 


Crabshaw — Miss  Purseproud 
has  taken  up  philanthropy.  Craw- 
ford— Does  she  really  associate 
with  the  poor?  Crabshaw — Well, 
of  course  she  draws  the  line  at  her 
poor  relations. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


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Number  3. 


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ursday  previous  to  day  of  Issue. 


So  Patti  and  Langtry  bad  a  quarrel.    At  their  age, 


Soon   after   the    House    Committee   on    Contested 

Elections   gets    to    work,    it    will    be    Kahngressinan 
Kahn  again. 

Bryan  is  home  again,  and  the  Eastern  press  re- 
cords the  interesting  fact  that  highwater  mark  on 
the  Atlantic  seaboard  is  no  higher  than  usual. 

Panama's  unit  coin,  the  50  cent  piece,  is  made  of 
tin  alloy  and  is  worth  16  cents  in  gold — and  the  peo- 
ple are  cheaper  than  their  money. 

Picture  cards  and  candy  are  used  to  lure  Indiana 
people  into  revival  meetings.  It  will  need  more  at- 
tractive bait  than  that  to  catch  grown-up  sinners. 

Only  wicked  and  abandoned  men  will  preface  a 
spicy  story  with  'Here's  one  that  comes  from  the 
Papyrus  Club." 

Tar  and  feathers,  liberally  applied  by  an  outraged 
Oregon  community,  turned  the  leaders  of  the  "Holy 
Rollers"  into  pickers  and  scrapers. 

What  matters  it  whether  Joan  of  Arc  was  French 
or  Italian?  Saintship  has  nothing  to  do  with  citizen- 
ship. 

While  the  Government  is  shooting  live  dogs  out 
of  torpedo  tubes  from  its  submarines,  permit  us  to 
suggest  that  the  men  responsible  for  the  Chicago 
theatre  fire  are  still  on  earth. 

Kentuckians  are  exercised  over  what  they  think  is 
a  young  volcano  blowing  chunks  out  of  Sugar  Loaf 
Mountain.  "Moonshine"  will  make  a  man  see  more 
alarming  things  than  that. 

Max  Nordeau,  who  is  a  specialist  in  the  matter  of 
national  consciences,  sees  dark  days  ahead  for  the 
United  States.  Did  somebody  sell  the  venerable 
philosopher  a  block  of  U.  S.  Steel,  Common? 

The  Housemaids'  Union  of  Orange,  N.  Y.,  does  not 
ask  much — only  eight  hours'  work  a  day,  Sundays 
off,  and  a  half  holiday  Thursday,  use  of  the  parlor 
three  nights  a  week,  and  use  of  the  piano  at  all  times. 
The  family  may  be  permitted  to  receive  company  in 
the  basement  and  get  its  music  from  a  phonograph. 


J.  S.  Parry,  we  learn,  has  pui  $5,000  int"  a  San 
Jose  hotel  project.  If  this  be  our  Parry,  it  might 
be  pertinent  to  inquire  what  was  the  matter  with  the 
colt-peddling  industry. 

Out  of  70  violent  deaths  in  San  Francisco  during 
December,  ij  omplished 

tal  and  5  suicidal.    Very  well  might  the  monopoly's 

poisonous    product   be   called    "The   Silent   Slayer." 

Mr.  Hearst,  learning  that  the  Democrats  of  Massa- 
chusetts wanted   Olnev   [or    their     standard-bearer, 

threw  tits  in  all  of  his  newspapers,  shrieking  treason 
through  the  foam  on  his  lips. 


His  Holiness,  Pius  X,  says  his  remark  to  the  dean 
of  the  diplomatic  corps  about  not  admitting  to  the 
Vatican  women  in  low-cut  gowns,  was  largely'  a 
jest.  Even  Popes  do  not  care  to  dictate  what  mila.li 
shall  or  shall  not  wear. 


"Prince  Cupid  of  Hawaii,"  whose  real  name  sounds 
worse  than  it  looks,  spent  a  night  in  jail  at  Washing- 
ton trying  to  convince  the  police  that,  as  a  delegate 
to  Congress,  he  was  exempt  from  arrest.  Not  "Prince 
Cupid"  hereafter,  if  you  please,  but  "Prince  Stupid." 

Here  are  the  women  of  France  offering  us  a  bust 
of  Washington  and  the  Germans  grumbling  because 
we  are  a  little  slow  in  accepting  the  Kaiser's  gift  of 
a  statue  of  Frederick  the  Great.  Speak  up,  Russia 
and  Japan. 

A  German  editor  is  doing  three  months  in  jail  for 
saying  that  the  Kaiser's  sole  function  was  to  draw 
$10,000  every  time  he  signed  a  law.  What  an  evil 
day  it  will  be  for  the  press  of  the  Fatherland  when 
the  Emperor  hires  him  a  mind  reader ! 

A  Federal  court  has  decided  that  Stratcon's  Inde- 
pendence mine  at  Cripple  Creek  was  not  "salted"  be- 
fore it  was  sold  to  an  English  syndicate.  The  in- 
vestors, however,  still  suffer  from  that  briny  taste 
in  the  mouth. 


Missouri  is  all  puffed  up  over  the  fact  that  she 
stands  first  as  a  careful  steward  in  handling  public 
money  last  year,  having  a  postoffice  shortage  of  only 
$10.31.  In  our  last  war  Missouri  was  proud  of  her 
lone  white  mule. 


A  Portland  paper  has  a  touching  article  about  "the 
evening  grosbecks,  the  pretty  little  birds  which  usu- 
ally visit  this  city  during  the  winter."  That's  noth- 
ing. Every  winter,  especially  when  there's  racing, 
a  lot  of  birds  visit  us — jailbirds. 

William  Randolph  Hearst,  having  devoted  much 
time  and  type  to  pointing  out  his  own  likeness  to 
Andrew  Jackson,  now  disinterestedly  advises  the 
American  people  to  choose  as  President  that  one  of 
themselves  who  most  resembles  Jackson.  Whom  can 
Mr.  Hearst  mean? 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


THE  NEW   CITY   ADMINISTRATION. 

Less  than  ten  days  of  our  new  city  administration 
have  passed  and  already  the  Mayor  whom,  in  our 
inscrutable  folly,  we  re-elected  to  the  headship  of 
the  municipality,  is  defending  himself  against  a 
Board  of  Supervisors  whose  first  official  act  was  to 
notify  him  and  the  public  that  there  would  be  no 
more  charter-smashing,  no  more  "grafting"  in  the 
Mayor's  office.  And  already  Schmitz  is  in  a  bad  way. 
His  attempt  to  fill  the  Health  Department  with  his 
henchmen,  calling  the  move  "re-organization  for  the 
sake  of  economy,"  is  likely  to  cost  him  dear  in  politi- 
cal prestige.  The  Supervisors  took  prompt  cogni- 
zance of  the  charter  violations  involved  in  this  greedy 
grab  for  patronage,  and  followed  up  a  vigorous  de- 
nunciation by  an  order  for  an  investigation,  which 
the  Civil  Service  "Board  was  not  slow  to  obey.  At  the 
same  time  the  Supervisors  adopted  a  report  which 
virtually  convicted  one  of  the  Mayor's  pets,  the. 
Pound  Keeper,  of  out-and-out  crookedness,  and  then 
rode  at  a  hand-gallop  over  his  veto  and  took  away 
from  him  the  Public  Pound,  which  had  long  been 
for  him  and  his  following  a  prolific  source  of  dirty 
money.  Schmitz  had,  perforce,  to  sit  in  his  high 
place  as  presiding  officer  of  the  Board  while  all  this 
was  doing.  He  lost  his  head  and  his  temper,  and 
through  his  whiskers  shouted  "Liar!"  but  to  no  avail. 

And  this  is  but  the  prelude.  The  Supervisors  may 
or  may  not  be  acting  wholly  with  a  view  to  protect- 
ing the  city  from  the  rapacity  of  Schmitz,  but,  at 
all  events,  the  public  will  accept  the  result  and  ask- 
no  questions  about  the  means.  For,  in  truth,  the 
Supervisors  and  nobody  else  can  saddle  and  bridle 
the  city's  broncho  of  a  Mayor.  The  charter  which 
he  professes  to  revere  and  proceeds  to  reverse,  borne 
out  by  the  reasoning  and  ruling  of  the  Supreme  Court 
gives  him  power  ample  enough  to  please  the  most 
extreme  advocate  of  one-man  authority  in  munici- 
pal Government.  The  Mayor  has  shown  no  delicate 
hesitancy  about  using  that  power.  For  political  pur- 
poses he  may  truckle  to  organized  labor,  but  in  real- 
ity the  unionism  which  he  practices  is  based  on  a 
union  of  which  he  is  all  the  officers  and  all  the  mem- 
bers as  well.  Save  for  such  checks  as  the  Super- 
visors may  put  upon  him,  he  may  do  pretty  much  as 
he  pleases  for  the  next  two  years. 

And  the  strength  of  the  Supervisors  in  this  issue 
is  at  once  simple  and  irresistible.  It  has  no  hand 
theoretically  in  the  spending  of  the  city's  money,  and 
yet  it  has  the  first  and  the  last  word  in  making  the 
appropriations.  Early  among  the  effects  of  that 
strength,  applied  in  the  right  place,  will  be,  we  pre- 
dict, a-  transfer  of  allegiance  in  the  Commissioners 
from  the  Mayor  to  the  Money-voting  council,  since 
without  money  no  man  and  no  Board  will  try  to  do 
the  city's  business.  It  will  not  be  long,  we  repeat, 
before  the  Mayor,  having  filled  all  his  places,  will  be 
able  to  devote  most  of  his  time  to  curling  his  beard 
and  rehearsing  the  speeches  that  his  able  attorney, 
Ruef,  writes  for  his  public  appearances. 

CONCERNS  SAN  FRANCISCO  MOST  OF  ALL. 
How  much  does  San  Francisco,  or  indeed  any 
American  city,  profit  by  the  annexation  of  the  Phil- 
ippine Archipelago  to  the  United  States?  The  ques- 
tion is  pertinent  because  this  country  is  spending 
good  money  and  sacrificing  the  lives  of  many  of  its 
people  to  hold  these  islands.  The  query  is  not  pro- 
pounded at  this  time  because  any  objection  is  made 
to  the  policy  of  expansion,  but  because  it  seems  we 
are  neglecting  to  secure  such  benefits  as  ought  to 


United  States  is  getting  trade  with  the  Philippines 
amounting  to  about  50  cents  per  head  of  the  popula- 
tion of  the  island,  and  the  reason  why  it  is  not  more 
is  that  we  have  built  a  tariff  wall  around  our  new 
possessions  that  makes  of  them  a  foreign  country. 
We  are  putting  ourselves  to  all  the  expense  of  admin- 
istration, defense  and  policing  of  the  islands,  and  at 
the  same  time  we  shut  ourselves  out  from  the  ad- 
vantages and  profit  that  ought  to  flow  from  the  in- 
vestment of  the  national  funds. 

This  is  the  most  ridiculous  policy  that  could  well 
be  devised.  We  have  given  to  Porto  Rico  free  trade 
with  the  United  States,  and  the  result  was  that  our 
business  with  that  island  at  once  jumped  to  $15  a 
head  of  the  population.  We  have  given  Cuba  import- 
ant tariff  concessions,  and  the  same  results  are  sure 
to  follow.  But  the  Philippines  are  left  to  stay  out 
in  the  cold,  and  San  Francisco  is  the  greatest  suf- 
ferer from  these  unreasonable  restrictions  on  trade. 

Now,  this  is  a  most  important  matter  for  consid- 
eration of  all  the  Pacific  Coast  delegations  in  Con- 
gress. Oregon,  Washington  and  California  are  all 
interested  equally  in  creating  the  trade  with  the 
Philippines  that  properly  belongs  to  us.  It  is  a 
matter  for  united  action,  and  a  statement  of  the  case 
should  carry  conviction.  We  do  not  doubt  that 
Congress  will  act  in  this  regard,  and  follow  the 
precedents  established  for  Cuba,  Hawaii  and  Porto 
Rico  the  moment  that  a  united  demand  comes  from 
the  Pacific  Coast  for  a  more  enlightened  policy,  es- 
tablishing more  liberal  relations  with  a  territory  of 
such  vast  potentialities. 


THE   SUPERVISORS'   DREAM. 

The  memorial  addressed  by  the  San  Francisco 
Board  of  Supervisors  to  Congress,  asking  for  water 
rights  on  the  Tuolumne  river  in  the  Yosemite  Park, 
is  based  on  a  falsehood.  The  assumption  on  which 
the  whole  process  of  reasoning  rests  is  contained  in 
the  following  paragraph :  "Whereas  it  has  become 
manifest  that  the  water  supply  of  this  city  must 
sooner  or  later  be  increased  by  the  addition  of  a  sup- 
ply from  the  Sierra  Nevada  Mountains,  and  the  se- 
curing of  this  supply  should  not  be  delayed." 

In  what  way  have  these  facts  been  made  manifest? 
If  any  such  demonstration  has  ever  been  made,  the 
people  of  San  Francisco  have  never  been  advised  of 
it.    What  does  "sooner  or  later"  mean? 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  every  householder  in  the  city 
knows  that  the  present  water  supply  is  good  and  suf- 
ficient. The  Supervisors  know,  because  it  has  been 
proved  to  them  and  their  engineers  that  the  Spring 
Valley  Water  Company  has  made  provision  to  in- 
crease the  existing  supply  so  that  when  occasion 
arises  there  will  be  sufficient  for  all  the  needs  of 
2,000,000  people.  The  Calaveras  Valley  watershed 
in  Alameda  County  comprises  600  square  miles. 
The  water  from  that  source  is  of  equal  quality  with 
any  to  be  found  in  the  Sierra.  It  comes  into  the 
reservoirs  filtered  through  gravel — cleansed  and  puri- 
fied in  Nature's  filter.  This  source  of  supply  is  close 
at  hand  and  materially  lessens  the  chances  of  failure, 
owing  to  the  bursting  of  pipes  carrying  the  supply 
more  than  two  hundred  miles  under  heavy  pressure, 
as  must  be  the  case  if  brought  from  the  Tuolumne. 

Congress  is  petitioned  by  the  Supervisors  to  set 
aside  the  ruling  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  re- 
fusing to  grant  water  rights  in  the  National  Park 
to  the  city  of  San  Francisco.  For  many  reasons  that 
ruling  of  Secretary  Hitchcock  is  wise,  and  the  Super- 
visors in  their  memorial  failed  to  meet  his  reasoning. 


flow  from  that  policy. 

Under  the  present   system   of  administration   theln  fact,  Congress  is  petitioned  to  act  on  vague  and 


January  i6.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


•    or  latci 
allcK  iual  examination  demon- 

be  false 

There  is  another  and  a  higher  reason  why  ■ 
should  refuse  the  petition.     The  water  of  the 
utnne  is  needed  for  a  more  beneficial  use  than 
hich  San   Francisco  can  put  it.     Half  a  m 
acres  of  semi-arid  but  fertile  land  in  the  San  Joaquin 
Valley  are  dependent  on  the  Tuolumne  river  supply 
for  their  development.      That  land  is  worth  compara- 
tively little  in  its  present  condition.     Under  a  pro  ier 
irrigation  system  its  value  will  increase  at  least  ten- 
fold, and  twenty  acres  will  support  a  family  in  com- 
fort where  now  they  find  it  difficult  to  scratch  a  liv- 
ing on  300. 

The  scheme  contemplated  by  the  Supervisors  calls 
for  the  investment  of  at  least  $50,000,000.  Engineers 
estimates  may  be  something  less,  but  the  city  would 
be  fortunate  if  that  sum  were  not  exceeded.  It  is 
therefore  proposed  to  duplicate  without  improving 
the  present  supply  at  a  cost  greater  than  the  Spring 
Valley  Water  Works  has  invested.  That  would  be 
a  criminal  waste  of  capital  to  which  a  practical  peo- 
ple like  the  citizens  of  San  Francisco  will  never 
give  their  consent. 

The  whole  scheme  is  politics — a  political  dream 
of  half-baked  socialists  and  fanatics  working  in  com- 
bination with  others  who  have  axes  to  grind  or  pri- 
vate revenges  to  satisfy. 

NOTHING  WILL  GET  AWAY. 

Mayor  Schmitz  announced  with  a  flourish  of  trum- 
pets that  he  meant  to  reduce  current  expenses  of  the 
Board  of  Health  by  $30,000  a  year.  The  manner  in 
which  this  promise  was  carried  out  offers  an  instruc- 
tive example  of  present  administration  methods,  and 
based  on  the  theory  that  the  people  are  all  fools. 
Schmitz  has  simply  cut  off  $2,500  a  month  in  one 
place — that  makes  $30,000  a  year — and  has  added 
$1,800  a  month  in  another.  If  there  has  been  any 
saving  whatever  it  is  only  the  difference  between 
$1,800  and  $2,500  a  month.  But  when  the  end  of  the 
fiscal  year  comes  it  will  be  found  that  the  appropria- 
tion is  exhausted,  just  the  same,  to  the  last  dollar. 
If  the  Mayor  allows  anything  to  get  away  it  must  be 
like  the  razor-backed  hog  of  the  South — able  to  out- 
run a  nigger. 

LONG-RANGE  "AUDITING." 
As  the  daylight  filters  into  the  dark  and  dusty 
places  in  the  management  of  the  State  University, 
matters  grow  less  and  less  pleasant  for  the  gentlemen 
and  others  concerned.  It  is  apparent  that  "pull"  and 
politics  have  played  an  important  part  in  the  affairs 
of  the  Board  of  Regents.  Otherwise  so  ordinary  a 
thief  as  the  miserable  McKowen  would  not  have 
been  able  to  go  on  stealing  for  years,  until  he  had 
'transferred  from  the  funds  of  the  institution  to  the 
leather  coin-sacks  of  the  race-track  bookmakers  a 
sum  admitted  to  be  in  excess  of  $50,000.  One  of  the 
convincing  proofs  of  improper  influences  at  work  in 
the  handling  of  the  University's  business  has  come 
out  in  the  development  of  the  McKowen  scandal. 
It  is  the  employment  as  auditor  of  one  J.  J.  Herr, 
who  has  kept  on  living  in  Southern  California  while 
drawing  a  salary  of  $300  a  year  for  keeping  his  ex- 
pert eye  and  hand  on  the  University's  finances.  Long 
range  "auditing"  of  that  kind  does  not  seem  to  ac- 
complish much,  somehow.  It  is  not  of  record  how 
such  a  place  as  Herr  holds  came  to  be  given  to  a 
man  living  five  hundred  miles  away.  This  smells 
obtrusively  of  practical  politics.     Even  the  Regents 


Herr   while   checking   up   the   turn   of    M 

stealings,     \\ . 

have  shut  down  on  his  salarj  warrant 

This  much,   measured   against    McKo 

stealings,  but  it  will  ike  the  S,...t|i- 

allfornia  man  move  carefully  in  dealing  with  the 
next   job  lie  p 

Meanwhile,  it  is  no  scent  that  there  is  a  Swarm  of 
applicants    for   the    place    that    McKowen    tilled    with 

such  profit  to  the  race  gambling  ring.  The  delay  of 
the  Regents  in  making  tin-  appointment  would  seem 
to  point  plainly  to  more  politic-..    Let  the  gentli 

of  the  Board  be  advised:  the  public  is  taking  a  lively 
interest  in  the  affair--  of  the  University  which  its 
money  supports,  and  it  will  not  hesitate  10  censure 
them  if  they  fail  to  put  tin-  right  kind  of  a  man  in 
the  place  of  the  one  now  in  jail.  It  will  not  9tand 
for  the  bestowal  of  the  job  on  any  mere  poll  ii  iatl 
or  politician's  pet  Neither  will  it  take  kindly  to  the 
appointment  of  any  man  who,  having  failed  to  earn 
a  living  by  independent  toil,  subsides  on  patronage 
from  friends  or  relatives  with  political  influence. 
What  is  wanted  is  a  man  young  enough  to  lie  keen 
and  energetic,  old  enough  to  have  been  proved  in  his 
honesty.  The  salary  is  not  large,  but  it  is  big  enough 
to  secure  a  man  of  that  kind.     No  other  will  do. 


A  MESSAGE  OF  IMPORT. 

No  sounder,  saner  text  for  a  sermon  can  be  found 
in  all  the  gospels  of  all  the  world's  religions  than  the 
New  Year's  resolution  of  a  Chicago  woman's  club. 
Here  it  is:  "There  is  so  much  of  good  in  the  worst  of 
us  and  so  much  of  bad  in  the  best  of  us,  that  it  does 
not  behoove  any  of  us  to  say  anything  bad  of  any  of 
us." 

A  trifle  more  of  polishing  and  this  pregnant  sen- 
tence might  have  been  brilliantly  epigrammatic  in 
form.  As  it  stands,  it  comes  near  to  being  a  highly- 
condensed  composite  of  the  Golden  Rule,  the  Ten 
Commandments,  and  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount.  The 
more  we  read  it,  the  less  we  think  of  the  wits  who 
joke  and  the  philistines  who  sneer  at  the  Lakeside 
City  for  its  crude  modernity  and  its  imperviousness 
to  refining  influence.  A  creed  like  this  bespeaks  a 
culture  moving  itself  aright  in  the  place  whence  all 
culture  must  proceed — the  heart.  Lived  up  to,  it 
would  eliminate  from  organized  society  most  of  its 
malice,  much  of  its  lying;  it  would  deliver  us  from 
the  scarlet  sin  of  hypocrisy  and  commit  us  to  gentle 
speaking  and  gentle  doing;  it  would  send  to  the  limbo 
of  fashions  forever  laid  aside  the  meaningful  lift  of 
the  eyebrow  and  the  shoulder-shrug  which  is  even 
more  wicked  than  the  spoken  word ;  it  would  banish 
the  sting  and  the  stab  of  the  false  compliment  and 
the  polite  double  entendre  through  which  many 
women  and  some  men  wreak  their  ill-will ;  it  would 
be  the  end  of  the  "one  hears"  and  the  "they  says" 
tittle-tattle  compound  of  venom,  envy,  spite,  conceit, 
and  all  uncharitableness. 

We  know  nothing  of  what  this  particular  women's 
club  does  with  itself  from  year-end  to  year-end.  Quite 
possibly  it  is  no  better  in  its  actual  achievements 
than  any  other  of  the  leisured-class  organizations, 
but  we  shall  thank  it  for  at  least  this  one  uplifted 
moment  when  it  was  above  all  pettiness  and  gave 
concrete  expression  to  what  stirs  vaguely  in  the 
breasts  of  us  all  at  holiday  time  and  then  is  so 
swiftly  forgotten.  Even  if  it  be  by  now  no  part  of 
this  club's  propaganda,  yet  it  cannot  have  failed  ut- 
terly of  good.  Messages  of  such  import  are  certain 
of  delivery  to  somebody  somewhere. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


A  PAIR  OF  PROFESSIONALS. 

The  State  Federation  of  Labor  in  session  at  Fresno 
fought  shy  of  politics  and  of  the  plan  to  entangle  the 
organization  in  the  schemes  of  ambitious  politicians, 
but  at  the  same  time  the  body  stultified  itself  by  first 
voting  down  the  minority  report  permitting  officials 
of  the  Federation  to  accept  political  preferment  and 
then  electing  Harry  Knox,  of  the  Carmen's  Union 
of  this  city,  to  be  State  President  of  the  Federation. 
This  action  was  taken  in  the  face  of  a  distinct  state- 
ment made  on  the  floor  of  the  convention  by  Knox 
that  he  expected  to  receive  a  political  appointment 
under  the  municipal  administration — an  appointment 
which  has  since  been  given  him  by  Sheriff  Curtis. 

Apart  from  this  stultification  of  the  Federation, 
the  choice  of  Knox  serves  to  illustrate  the  present 
temper  and  spirit  of  organized  labor  in  this  city. 
Knox  is  the  disturbing  element  of  the  Carmen's 
Union,  and  almost  persuaded  his  union  to  go  1  in 
strike  at  the  time  the  question  of  wages  and  hours 
was  raised  with  the  United  Railroads  last  spring. 
It  was  only  by  the  strongest  representations  urged 
by  men  in  other  unions  who  were  convinced  that  the 
strike  would  have  been  unreasonable,  unjustifiable 
and  without  public  sympathy  that  the  Carmen  were 
persuaded  to  reject  the  counsels  of  violent  action  and 
accept  the  plan  of  arbitration  offered  by  the  street 
car  company.  It  is  an  open  secret  that  a  strike  on 
the  local  transportation  lines  was  narrowly  averted 
at  that  time,  and  it  might  have  been  better  had  it 
come,  because  Knox  and  other  extremists  like  him 
would  in  that  case  have  been  taught  a  lesson  that 
they  seem  to  need. 

The  choice  of  Knox  for  President  is  fitly  supple- 
mented by  that  of  G.  B.  Benham  for  Secretary-Treas- 
urer. Benham  is  a  professional  labor  agitator  who, 
as  President  of  the  local  Labor  Council,  attempted 
to  use  his  position  for  his  personal  political  advance- 
ment. Last  year  he  incurred  a  vote  of  censure  from 
the  Council  of  which  he  is  President,  by  writing  a 
letter  recommending  Mayor  Schmitz  for  re-election. 
Of  course,  he  expected  to  get  his  reward  in  the  shape 
of  an  easy,  well-paid  job  under  the  city  Government, 
but  this  attempt  to  use  his  position  for  personal  gain 
was  too  much  even  for  his  associates,  who  are  not 
usually  squeamish  in  such  matters.  In  consequence 
of  this  episode  and  others  of  which  mure  will  he  heard 
later,  Benham  became  so  much  discredited  among 
the  professional  labor  crowd  that  Schmitz  could  not 
see  his  way  to  appointing  him  to  anything.  Never- 
theless the  Federation  saw  fit  to  elect  him  to  the 
second  office  in  its  gift.  Knox  and  Benham  are  an 
interesting  pair. 

GREAT  SAN  FRANCISCO. 
San  Francisco  does  no  blowing,  no  spectacular  ad- 
vertising, no  "what  great  things  I  am  going  to  do," 
but  goes  right  along  in  commercial  expansion,  indus- 
trial growth  and  financial  strength  upon  a  solid,  last- 
ing and  profitable  basis.  And  in  this  mighty  upward 
and  onward  movement  the  machinery  and  conven- 
iences of  business  life  are  correspondingly  improved 
and  enlarged  so  that  every  new  demand  of  the  con- 
stantly widening  channels  of  trade  expansion  is  an- 
ticipated and  the  needed  facilities  ready  for  employ- 
ment. That  is  the  reason  why  San  Francisco  is  the 
recognized  commercial  and  financial  center  of  the 
Pacific  Coast.  To  be  sure,  nature  has  given  San 
Francisco  extraordinary  advantages  as  to  geographi- 
cal position  and  boundless  harbor  limits — the  one 
natural  point  on  all  the  Coast  for  the  accumulation 
and  distribution  of  goods  and  wares  from  and  to  all 
parts  of  the  commercial  world — and  to  all  this  has 


been  added  the  required  accessorial  factors  such  as 
transportation  facilites,  both  inland  and  oceanic,  that 
"reach  around  the  world''  and  return  to  the  common 
centre — San  Francisco. 

But  how  little  is  there  being  said  about  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  and  picturesque,  as  well  as  perma- 
nent, additions  to  San  Francisco's  expansion.  What 
we  mean  is  the  multiplying  of  mighty  business 
houses  and  palatial  dwellings.  The  growth  in  what 
some  call  "sky  scrapers"  is  marvelous,  and  what  is 
more,  they  are  coming  to  be  as  common  and  as  nu- 
merous as  one  and  two-story  business  houses  used 
to  be.  In  fact,  San  Francisco  may  already  be  called 
a  "city  of  sky  scrapers,"  for  they  are  everywhere, 
either  in  a  state  of  completion,  occupied,  or  under 
construction.  And  wdiat  is  more,  tenants  are  ready 
to  move  in  the  moment  they  are  readv  for  occupancy. 
But  the  city's  expansion  in  building  is  by  no  means 
confined  to  business  houses.  Upon  every  hand  all  over 
the  city,  dwellings,  apartment  houses,  hotels  and  flats 
of  unusually  large  proportions  may  be  seen  looming 
or  climbing  skyward.  And  the  architecture  of  these 
additions  to  the  city's  house  facilities  is  as  pleasing 
and  attractive  as  their  foundations  and  superstruc- 
tures are  strong,  permanent  and  convenient.  In 
short,  San  Francisco  is  a  worthy  rival  of  the  best  of 
the  commercial  centers  of  the  East  in  the  matter  of 
noble  and  commanding  edifices  for  business,  resi- 
dence and  pleasure,  and  she  proposes  to  keep  right 
on  growing  in  that  as  well  as  in  all  other  directions 
of  supremacy. 

BUILDING   THE   POLITICAL   MACHINE. 

It  is  not  very  long  ago  since  Mayor  Schmitz  told 
one  of  the  officials  of  the  city  Government  that  he 
was  convinced  that  the  people  of  San  Francisco  did 
not  believe  in  the  enforcement  of  the  merit  system  of 
appointments  under  civil  service  rules.  Mr.  Schmitz 
gives  a  pregnant  example  of  action  based  on  this 
belief  by  his  appointment  of  Williams  to  be  one  of 
the  Civil  Service  Commissioners.  Williams  has  no 
fitness  for  this  special  function.  In  fact,  his  train- 
ing lias  been  such  as  to  unfit  him  for  a  position  that 
demands  a  wide  know-ledge  of  men  and  affairs.  Wil- 
liams is  doubtless  an  excellent  book-binder,  but  he 
knows  nothing  else.  This  appointment  is  simply  a 
political  job,  and  was  inspired  by  the  fact  that  he 
happens  to  be  President  of  the  Book-binders  Union. 

This  appointment  is  simply  a  flagrant  example  of 
the  use  of  administrative  powers  to  build  up  the  po- 
litical machine.  In  the  operation  of  such  a  system 
it  is  not  surprising  that  men  like  Mershon  get  on  the 
Municipal  Commission. 


Jfc&CHAS.  KLJLUS  &  COM 

&£XCL  US/VTM 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

It's  the  cut  and  chic  in  clothes  offered  here  that  give  personnel 
to  a  gentleman's  dress,  inculcating  minor  details,  devoting  time 
and  attention  to  men's  clothes  only. 

Consequently,  modestly  claim  that  our  "immediate  Service 
Clothes"  are  superior.  Some  good  dressers  have  been  put  wise 
about  our  shop.     "There  are  others"  that  ought  to  know  us. 


1 


January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    I.KTTKR. 


Notes     From     tHe     Opera 


IS  v      HrvrMd     Knnild 


Whatever  pro  and  omi  opinions  people  may  hold 
•   Mme.   Patti's  farewell  tour,  there  can  iic  but 
■pinion    about    tier   singing   of   that    outrai 
farewell  song.    The  fact  that  she  sings  it  . 
pitiable  acknowledgment  "i   the  commercial  si 

journey    throughout    the    United    State:-.      It   is 
an  open  secret   that   when   .Madame   l'atti   - 

the  liner  bound  for  home  that   she  will  be  just 
OO  richer  than  when   she   landed.     The  1 
for  her   -inking  the   "Last   Farewell"   has   not    been 
told,  but   there  could  be  no  doubt   about   it  in  the 
minds  of  any  one  who  saw  .Madame  l'atti  len\ 
after  singing  it  last  Monday  afternoon.   I' 
she  was  out  of  sight  of  the  audience,  she   held   her 
hands  up  to  her  ears,  as  if  to  shut  out  the  applause 
the  people  considerately  gave  her  for  it,  and   w  hen 
she  had  reached  the  wings  her  hands  wefe  over  her 
eyes  as  if  for  very  shame.     Those  who  bought 
on  the  stage  saw  this,  and  those  near  the  wings  heard 
her  say:   "There!"   as  she  threw  the   music  on    the 
director's   table. 

The  words  are  inane,  and  the  music  worse,  and 
Madame  Patti  sings  them  horribly.  How  could  she 
do  otherwise!  Why,  oh  why!  did  she  keep  to  her 
contract? 

Here  is  the  story  of  the  outrage.  The  man  who 
wrote  this  atrocity  also  wrote  "After  the  Ball."  He 
has  money,  plenty  of  it,  and  is  in  a  measure  backing 
the  management  of  the  Patti  tour. 

He  wrote  a  letter  to  himself,  asking  himself  to 
write  a  song  for  the  tour.  Then  he  sat  down  and 
wrote  as  vapid  a  thing  as  ever  passed  through  the 
press.  Madame  Patti  agreed  to  place  the  farewell  in 
her  repertoire,  thinking  that  surely  nothing  could 
be  written  so  bad  that  she  could  not  put  something 
into  it  to  make  it  acceptable.  In  holding  to  the  agree- 
ment, she  has  made  one  of  the  mistakes  of  her  life — 
a  petty  one,  to  be  sure,  but  one  that  even  she  cannot 
afford  to  do — particularly  when  she  is  three-score 
years  old.  The  author  should  be  sentenced  to  life 
imprisonment.  He  need  not  think  that  Madame  Patti 

can  sing  him  into  fame. 

*  *  * 

The  story  of  Duss  and  his  decoration  has  not  been 
told  until  now.  When  the  New  York  millionaire 
raised  his  baton  over  the  New  York  Metropolitan 
Orchestra  in  this  city  every  one  wondered  at  the  dec- 
oration he  wore  on  a  gay  ribbon  in  place  of  his  neck- 
tie, after  the  fashion  of  an  ambassador  from  France. 
The  critics  took  a  shy  at  it,  but  no  explanations 
were  forthcoming,  and  the  decoration  remained  a 
mystery.  Well,  it  belongs  to  Duss  all  right,  because 
he  helped  to  pay  for  it ;  the  remainder  was  collected 
among  the  musicians  who  play  under  him  and  who 
rest  contented  en  route  because  they  know  that  their 
salary  is  always  as  good  as  paid.  Duss  always 
squares  accounts. 

The  decoration  came  about  in  this  way.  One  of  the 
"first  violins"  in  the  orchestra  came  to  him  and  said 
that  the  men  were  desirous  of  making  their  leader  a 
present,  and  he  thought  that  it  might  be  well  to  make 
it  something  that  Director  Duss  would  really  appre- 
ciate, and  it  was  thought  that  the  best  way  to  find 
out  was  to  go  directly  to  him.  When  the  question 
was  put  to  Duss,  he  said  that  above  all  he  would 
like  to  have  a  decoration.  The  messenger  from  the 
men  was  dismayed ;  there  was  not  money  enough  in 
the  purse  to  get  the  ornament   of  distinction,  and 


the  man  knew  full  well  that  his  confreres  had  already 
I   themscl  limit   of  their  purse-.      I  lu-- 

.  mm.  ami  said  promptly 
and    _.  "If   tin  rtOUgh   oil 

hand,  I  will  make  up  the  difference."     This  the  mil- 
lionaire  lender   did,   and   as   h  ran    to   line   de- 

adequately  jeweled,  lu-  had  to  draw  his  1 
for  several  hundred  dollars.     Who  says  that   Muss  i-. 

vscar  the  elegant  thing ': 

*  *  * 

tin  signals  are  up  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  Hoi 
Annie   Myers,   the   peppery   SOUbrette   of  certain 

does  not  see  why  the  management  had  to  en 

•iia  Darker  to  sing  the  role  of  Cordelia  Allen  in 
"When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home,"  and  is  not 
afraid  to  say  so.  She  insists  that  she  was  already  of 
the  company  and  quite  willing  and  capable  to  take 
the  part.  As  her  contract  does  not  admit  of  talcing 
issue  in  the  matter,  she  has  had  to  swallow  the 
lumps  of  indignation  in  her  throat  and  put  on  the  lit- 
tle white  breeches  that  Robert  Pemberton,  the 
Southern  lad.  must  wear.  At  any  rale,  the  plump 
Annie  may  comfort  herself  with  the  thought  that 
very  few  women  of  her  age  or  any  other  could  don 
a  boy's  tight-fitting  wdiite  suit  and  look  like  anything. 
In  it,  she  is  "Just  too  Sweet  for  Anything,"  and  no 
one  will  deny  her  the  title  of  the  fat  little  l'Aiglon  of 
ci  miic  opera. 

*  *  * 

It  is  not  an  original  thing  to  say  that  an  actor  re- 
sembles a  soldier  on  the  firing  line.  In  this,  more 
than  any  other,  professional  duty  claims  many  a  sac- 
rifice. George  Osbourne,  of  the  Alcazar  Stock  Com- 
pany, exemplified  the  old  Spartan  when,  on  last  Mon- 
day night,  after  receiving  notice  of  the  death  of  a 
son  in  an  Eastern  town,  he  went  on  with  the  rehearsal 
and  at  night  nerved  himself  to  give  the  audience  the 
best  piece  of  acting  even  so  finished  an  actor  as  him- 
self could  give.  The  company  extended  full  measure 
of  sympathy,  but  a  sense  of  responsibility  to  the 
public  olid  not  allow  the  audience  to  see  the  immense 
cloud  of  grief  under  which  each  member  swayed 
like  storm-swept  ships. 

Next  door  to  the  Alcazar,  at  Fischer's,  Mr.  Kolb 
had  been  under  a  doctor's  care  all  night  and  all  day. 
from  nine  in  the  morning  until  five,  with  a  doctor 
in  the  dressing  room,  he  heroically  went  through  his 
lines.  He  said  afterwards  that  when  the  public  gave 
such  a  generous  reception  to  the  work  of  his  team 
in  "The  Beauty  Shop," — he  said  to  himself:  "Work, 
damn  you,  work,  if  you  die  for  it!" 

Get  the  dust  out  of  your  carpets.     But  don't  do  it 

with  a  club,  because  it's  a  slow,  laborious  and  very  unsatis- 
factory way.  You  will  find  it  more  profitable  and  satisfac- 
tory to  have  the  work  done  Dy  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Clean- 
ing Company,  353  Tehama  street.  With  their  improved 
machinery  they  make  an  old  carpet  look  as  bright  and  fresh 
as  a  new  one. 

WM.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V   V   o 

Scotch_Whisky 

Importers-MACONDRAY  &  CO. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  i6,  1904. 


T5he    Minister    of    Foreign    Affairs 


The  situation  in  the  Far  East  is  more  complicated 
than  a  week  ago,  yet  it  is  easier  of  solution.  Tn  the 
face  of  Russia's  opposition,  China  lias  signed  a  treaty 
of  commerce  with  the  Uniterl  States  and  also  with 
Great  Britain,  in  which  those  two  Anglo-Saxon  coun- 
tries are  placed  upon  an  equal  basis  with  the  most 
favored  nation,  particularly  so  in  Manchuria.  The 
signing  of  these  compacts  by  China  is  the  equivalent 
of  the  repudiation  of  Russia's  claims  to  either  owner- 
ship or  protectorate  of  Manchuria.  This  in  the  face 
of  the  fact  that  Russia  is  in  possession  of  Manchuria 
with  a  large  army  upon  the  ground  to  emphasize  her 
presence  is  significant.  But  what  is  still  more  auda- 
cious is  a  recent  declaration  of  the  St.  Petersburg 
Government  that  the  Manchurian  ports  would  not 
be  opened  to  the  commerce  of  the  nations.  The  situa- 
tion, therefore,  is  this:  China  claims  the  ownership 
of  Manchuria  and  lias  granted  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  commercial  rights  therein,  but  is  un- 
able to  deliver  the  goods,  so  to  speak,  by  herself.  If, 
then,  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States  want  the 
great  commercial  advantages  which  the  treaty  grants 
they  will  have  to  strengthen  China's  arm  against 
Russia.  But  it  so  happens  that  Japan's  interests  in 
Corea  are  so  important  and  valuable  that  she  is 
obliged  to  lead  in  the  dislodgment  of  Russia  in  Man- 
churia. In  assuming  leadership  Japan  can  count 
upon  the  moral  support  of  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  and  a  more  or  less  active  support  fn  im 
China.  But  these  allies  of  Japan  will  be  obliged  to 
stand  ready  with  something  more  substantial  than 
moral  support  if  she  is  likely  to  fail  in  the  conflict 
against  Russia,  for  Japan's  failure  to  bring  Russia 
to  terms  would  mean  the  annulment  of  the  new 
treaty  of  commerce  and  the  shutting  of  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain  out  of  Manchuria  at  once, 
and  out  of  other  Chinese  territory  in  the  future.  War, 
therefore,  between  Russia  and  Japan  is  inevitable 
unless  Russia  backs  down  and  retreats  from  every 
diplomatic  and  military  position  she  has  taken  upon 
Chinese  territory.  Meanwhile,  the  United  States 
and  Great  Britain  will  have  to  keep  close  to  Japan 
with  plenty  of  moral  support,  and  ready  to  substi- 
tute shot  and  shell  for  moral  support  should  occa- 
sion require  it. 

Germany  has  officially  announced  that  she  will 
maintain  strict  neutrality  in  the  event  of  a  Japanese- 
Russian  war,  but  the  German  war  lord  is  too  anxious 
to  see  himself  marching  away  to  war  at  the  head  of 
a  great  armv,  and  Germany's  commercial  and  terri- 
torial interests  in  the  Far  East  are  too  extensive 
and  valuable  to  be  left  to  the  tender  mercies  of  the 
uncertainties  of  war  to  make  the  declaration  of  neu- 
trality effective  more  than  one  day  at  a  time.  In  fact, 
it  is  believed  by  many  of  the  most  astute  statesmen 
of  Europe  that  a  Japanese-Russian  war  would  bur)' 
the  animosities  of  centuries  between  France  and  Ger- 
many, and  that  they,  with  Russia,  would  form  a 
tripple  offensive  and  defensive  alliance  against  the 
Anglo-Saxon  nations  in  every  field  of  commerce, 
even  to  the  extent  of  armed  conflicts,  if  need  be.  For 
the  present,  and  probably  for  some  years,  the  Far 
East  is  the  battle  ground  for  commercial  competition. 
After  that  South  America  will  be  the  bone  of  conten- 
tion. Already  Germany  is  quietly  establishing  col- 
onies in  Argentine  and  other  Latin-American  States 
for  a  purpose  that  no  one  could  mistake. 


The  Senate  has  ratified  the  Panama  Canal  treaty, 
and  there  is  now  nothing  to  hinder  the  French-Amer- 
ican canal  ring  calling  at  the  Treasury  Department 
and  pulling  out  $40,000,000  for  division  among  them- 
selves. The  work  of  construction  of  the  canal  may 
be  undertaken  at  any  moment  the  syndicate  decides 
to  go  ahead  with  a  Government-backed  business  en- 
terprise that  can  be  made  to  last  for  thirty  years  with 
millions  and  millions  of  dollars  flowing  annually  from 
Uncle  Sam's  strong  box  to  the  syndicate's  pocket. 
The  Panama  Canal  job  is  the  most  gigantic  Govern- 
ment swindle  that  history  gives  any  account  of.  In 
this  connection  it  may  be  observed  that  the  inside 
history  of  the  "uprising"  of  the  people  of  Panama, 
which  culminated  in  the  founding  of  the  "Republic 
of  Panama,"  has  been  revealed.  The  "uprising"  was 
confined  to  eight  political  agitators  out  of  a  job,  and 
the  mass  meeting"  and  subsequent  "convention  of 
the  people,"  which  proclaimed  Panama's  independ- 
ence, were  composed  of  those  same  eight  patriots. 
They  put  the  machinery  of  Government  in  place  un- 
der the  protection  of  the  guns  of  a  conveniently  pres- 
ent United  States  warship,  and  in  just  three  days 
from  the  eight's  declaration  of  Panama's  independ- 
ence, President  Roosevelt  recognized  the  new  Re- 
public and  immediately  despatched  a  minister  pleni- 
potentiary thither  to  represent  the  Washington  Gov- 
ernment at  the  seat  of  the  new  nation.  But  there  is 
more  to  follow  if  Roosevelt  is  elected  next  Novem- 
ber. Panama  is  to  be  declared  a  territory  of  the 
United  States  upon  substantially  the  same  basis  that 
Porto  Rico  enjoys.  The  "manifest  destiny"  wedge 
will  then  have  entered  the  Central  American  States 
to  split  off  other  territory  as  President  Roosevelt's 
appetite  may  crave  more  outlying  possessions.  How- 
ever the  ides  of  November  may  change  the  pro- 
gramme. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Foraker's  attempt  to  excuse  the  President 
for  his  haste  in  aiding  and  abetting  the  Panama  revo- 
lutionists is  lame,  weak  and  impudent.  He  says  the 
President's  quick  interference  was  to  "prevent  the 
horrors  of  a  civil  war,"  but  the  assertion  is  an  insult 
to  the  intelligence  of  the  people,  and  the  President 
should  not  feel  like  thanking  his  Senatorial  mouth- 
piece for  his  monstrous  perversion  of  facts.  The 
Republic  of  Colombia  had  a  large  standing  army  at 
the  time  of  the  "uprising"  of  the  eight  revolutionary 
leaders  quartered  in  the  other  States  of  the  Republic. 
The  entire  military  strength  of  Panama  then  under 
arms  was  less  than  200  men,  and  only  a  small  percen- 
tage of  them  sanctioned  the  revolution.  Senator 
Foraker,  therefore,  either  deliberately  falsified  the 
affair  or  was  densely  ignorant  of  the  facts.  Now,  as 
a  matter  of  fact,  and  the  evidence  justifies  the  asser- 
tion, the  Panama  rebellion,  the  declaration  of  inde- 
pendence, and  the  officering  of  the  new  Government, 
were  all  planned  and  started  in  their  execution  at  the 
Waldorf-Astoria  hotel  in  New  York  under  the  pro- 
tection of  the  police  of  that  city.  All  the  prelimi- 
nary work  was  done  in  that  hotel  by  agents  of  the 
Washington  Government  and  three  or  four  Panama 
"Generals."  Haste  was  then  made  to  issue  the  pro- 
clamation from  Panama  soil,  but  not  until  United 
States  warships  had  reached  the  spot  to  force  Colom- 
bia into  the  background.  In  fact,  the  first  sect  of 
the  Panama  Government  was  at  the  Waldorf-Astoria 


January  16,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


kcr  knew,  and  ho  knew 
that  not  more  than  100  of  the  Panama  "am 
men  would  have  taken  up  arms  for  the  new  Rcpnh- 
nd  that  public  sentiment  in  Panama  w 

f  preserving  the  integrity  of  the  United 
mbia,  and  Senator  1  "raker  knew. 
that  the  Panama  revolutionar)  leaders  were  after  the 
•o.OOO   bonus    which    tin-    United  had 

pay  for  concessions;  he  knew  furthermore 
lie  whole  scheme  was  concocted  in  Washington 
official  circles,  perfected  in  the  Waldorf-Astoria  ho- 
tel in  Xew  York,  and  put  into  execution  in  Panama 
under  the  protection  of  United  States  warships.  The 
wonder  is  how  Foraker  dared  to  utter  such  a  hare- 
face    falsch 


AN    UNFAIR    BOYCOTT. 
The  spectacle  of  one  businessman   calmly   lacing 

the  concentrated  fire  of  unionism  would  be  enough 
to  stir  the  Americanism  in  any  breast,  one  would 
think.  Add  to  it  the  spectacle  of  uniformed  officers 
of  the  law  standing  by  while  crowds  of  ruffians  do 
their  vilest  to  keep  business  away  from  the  single- 
handed  champion  of  free  labor,  and  it  is  almost 
enough  to  make  men  doubt  the  efficiency  of  our  insti- 
tutions. 

These  things  are  to  be  seen  daily  and  nightly  on 
Market  street.  The  one  man  pitted  against  all  union- 
ism is  M.  Johnson,  keeper  of  a  restaurant.  His 
offense  against  organized  labor  is  not  that  he  pays 
less  wages  than  it  demands,  not  that  he  refuses  to 
employ  union  men,  but  that  he  has  put  above  his  door 
the  placard  ''This  is  an  Open  Shop,"  and  declares 
that  he  has  the  right  to  employ  and  will  employ 
union  and  non-union  help  without  discrimination. 
For  this,  raucous-voiced  men  and  women  "picket" 
his  place.  "Picketing"  means  shrieking  lies  about 
the  victim  and  his  business,  jeering  his  patrons, 
threatening  them,  jostling  them,  assaulting  them  if 
the  police  do  not  interfere — and  often  there  is  no  in- 
terference. 

The  following  was  one  of  the  statements  posted 
in  Johnson's  window : 

First — Closed  shop  agreement  forced  from  indi- 
vidual restaurants  by  Waiters,'  No.  36;  Cooks',  No. 
44;  Helpers',  No.  no.    No  Asiatics. 

Second — Partial  open-shop  agreement  between 
Restaurant  Keepers'  Association  and  Waiters',  No. 
30;  Cooks',  No.  44;  Helpers',  No.  no,  sacrificed;  can 
employ  Asiatics. 

Third — Complete  open-shop  agreement  between 
the  five  Tavern  and  Louvre  restaurants,  Waiters', 
No.  30;  Cooks',  No.  44;  Helpers',  No.  no.  Can  em- 
ploy union  or  non-union. 

Fourth — No  agreement  with  hotels,  boarding- 
houses  and  many  restaurants.     Not  molested. 

Fifth — Johnson,  standing  for  his  constitutional 
rights,  is  boycotted. 

Labor  union,  thy  consistency  is  great. 

M.  JOHNSON. 
Mr.  Johnson  declares  he  will  not  discriminate  in 
favor  of  nor  against  any  union,  neither  will  he  com- 
pel his  employes  to  join  any.  A  comparison  of  condi- 
tions shows  that  he  pays  better  than  union  wages 
by  an  average  of  15  per  cent,  also  gives  better  than 
union  hours,  six  days  constituting  a  week's  work, 
and  claims  that  this  all  proves  the  statements  of  boy- 
cotters  on  the  sidewalk  to  be  malicious  falsehoods. 

All  fair-minded  people  ought  to  show  their  disap- 
proval of  the  boycott  as  un-American  and  contrary 
to  the  principles  of  the  United  States  Constitution 
by  patronizing  his  boycotted  open-shop  restaurant 
at  725  Market  street. 


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January  16,  1904. 


It   is   unfortunate  for   Mr.   Ches- 

Varied  Types.  terton  that  he  made  a  reputation 
as  a  journalistic  critic  through 
his  epigrams,  which  happened  to  catch  the  public 
taste  as  they  appeared  in  the  columns  of  the  Daily 
News.  His  Life  of  Browning  in  the  "English  Men 
of  Letters"  series  proves  that  he  is  not  merely  a 
writer  of  glittering  paradoxes,  but  a  critic  with  imagi- 
nation, of  all  critics  the  rarest  type.  His  new  book 
is  not  only  filled  with  stale  epigrams,  but  the  same 
ones  are  used  again  and  again.  The  man  who  makes 
epigrams  should  have  a  long  memory. 

Mr.  Chesterton  is  extrcmelv  modern,  and  adores 
his  own  century  and  abhors  any  one  who  woul.l 
fain  live  in  any  other.  It  would  be  well  for  him  to 
acquire  a  more  finished  style — and  to  get  rid  of  the 
haste  that  has  caused  him  to  allow  so  many  typo- 
graphical   errors   in    this    present   volume. 

"Varied  Types,"  bv  G.  K.  Chesterton.  Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.  " 

"Borlase    &    Son,"    consid- 

"Sweater"  Literature,  ered  as  a  novel,  is  dull, 
but  as  a  treatise  on  Lon- 
don's poor,  the  sweat-shops  and  the  chicanery  of 
commercial  life  in  the  neighborhood  of  South  Cam- 
berwell,  it  is  an  accurate  and  valuable  contribution 
to  "sweater"  literature.  Borlase  &  Son  is  the  firm 
name  of  a  drapery  emporium  which  stands  as  a  type 
of  a  shopping  institution  known  all  over  London, 
where  the  employees  board  on  the  premises.  The 
conditions  of  life  portrayed  are,  the  author  declares, 
absolutely  veracious.  Several  of  the  characters 
made  their  first  appearance  in  a  book  entitled  "A 
Guardian  of  the  Poor,"  and  published  in  1R67  at  the 
Sign  of  the  Bodley  Head  by  Mr.  John  Lane,  but  there 
is  no  connection  between  the  two  volumes. 

Part  of  this  little  volume  is 
Ponkapog  Papers,      devoted  to  short  studies   for 

essays,  or  mere  suggestions 
that  leave  the  reader  to  fill  out.  Here  is  one  that 
opens  the  door  to  wildest  conjecture  :  "Imagine  all 
human  beings  swept  off  the  face  of  the  earth,  except- 
ing one  man.  Imagine  this  man  in  some  vast  city. 
New  York  or  London.  Imagine  him  on  the  third 
or  fourth  day  of  his  solitude  sitting  in  a  house  and 
hearing  a  ring  at  the  doorbell."  There  is  a  charming 
study  of  Herrick,  and  a  criticism  of  Emily  Dickinson, 
to  which  her  admirers  will  not  agree.  Through  all 
these  Papers  runs  a  vein  of  humorous  leisure  that  re- 
minds one  of  the  gentle  Elia  who  would  have  en- 
joyed the  thought  that  out  of  Ponkapog  could  have 
come  so  good  a  book. 

"Ponkapog  Papers.'  bv  Thomas  P.ailev  Aldrich. 
Houghton,  Mifflin   &  Co.' 

Those  who  read  W.  R.  Lighton's 
The  Ultimate      story,    "The    Ultimate    Moment." 
Moment.  during    its    serial    publication    in 

Harper's  Bazaar,  will  remember 
it  for  its  unique  point  of  view  of  the  value  of  sim- 
plicity in  living.  The  best  portions  of  the  book  are 
the  descriptions  of  life  on  the  Nebraska  farm,  but 
the  Omaha  scenes  are  not  so  well  drawn,  although 
some  of  the  incidents  are  stirring  and  pathetic.  The 
inequalities  of  the  story  perhaps  add  to  its  charm  by 
pointing  out  the  beauties  more  effectively,  and  its 
style  is  refreshing  throughout.  The  illustrations  by 
A.  I.  Keller  are  exceedingly  well  drawn  and  appro- 
priate to  the  text.    It  is  published  by  Harper  &  Bros. 


"The  Daughter  of  a  Magnate," 
The  Daughter  of     by  Frank  H.  Spearman,  has  al- 
a  Magnate.  ready  appeared   in   serial   form 

in  a  popular  magazine,  and  is 
so  good  that  it  is  welcome  in  book  form.  In  this 
latest  and  best  story  of  Mr.  Spearman  the  founda- 
tion is  real  railroading  on  the  largest  and  most  ex- 
pensive scale,  and  in  it  the  author  shows  his  intimate 
knowledge  of  the  great  problems  of  engineering,  tun- 
neling mountains  and  filling  valleys,  and  tells  of  the 
skill  of  the  men  whose  brains  have  planned  the 
bridges  and  the  trials  and  daring  of. those  at  the 
lever  and  the  throttle.  Through  the  story  runs  the 
love  romance  of  a  typical  American  hero  and  heroine; 
but  Mr.  Spearman  knows  more  of  bridge  building 
than  he  does  of  love-making. 

He  paints  the  picture  of  a  railroad  man's  life  in 
the  following  terse  sentences:  "A  hundred  times  and 
in  a  hundred  ways  we  gamble  with  death  and  laugh 
if  he  cheat  it,  and  our  poor  reward  is  only  sometimes 
to  win  where  far  better  men  have  failed.  So  in  this 
railroad  life  two  men  stand  *  *  *  luck  or  ill-luck, 
storm  or  fair  weather,  together.  And  death  speaks 
for  one;  and  whichever  he  calls  it  is  ever  the  other 
must  answer.     And  this  is  duty." 

Charles  Scribners  Sons,   Publishers.   Xew  York. 

The  novel  of  letters  is  unques- 
Letters  Home,  tionably  the  most  difficult  nar- 
rative form,  yet  Mr.  Howells 
manages  it  with  delightful  ease  and  vivacity.  The 
individuality  of  each  writer  is  well  defined,  without 
confusion  of  point  of  view  or  style.  Each  one,  be- 
sides keeping  up  the  story,  liberally  contributes  him- 
self glimpses  of  his  past  experience,  observations  on 
the  world  about  him  ;  so  that  from  these  self-revela- 
tions the  reader  enters  sympathetically  into  half  a 
dozen  stories.  In  life,  people  are  always  coming  tem- 
porarily together  through  common  interest  in  an  ac- 
tual drama,  while  at  the  same  time  all  are  busy  about 
their  own  affairs  and  ready  to  drift  apart  as  soon  as 
the  play  that  has  attracted  them  is  over.  The  rep- 
resentation of  this  perpetual  movement  of  life  is  so 
difficult  that  few  novelists  ever  dream  of  trying  it. 
Mr.  Howells  has  shown  himself  accomplished  in 
such  representation  over  and  over  again,  but  has  per- 
haps never  come  so  near  perfection  as  in  "Letters 
Home."  From  the  purely  outside  standpoint  this  is 
the  best  study  of  New  York  that  has  ever  been  given 
in  fiction,  and  perhaps  Mr.  Howells  is  the  only  author 
who  could  give  it. 

"Letters  Home,"  by  W.  D.  Flowells.  Harper  & 
Brothers. 


In  "Barbe  of  Grand  Bayou"  Mr.  John  Oxenham 
has  written  a  thrilling  melodrama,  and  has  thrown 
an  atmosphere  of  reality  around  it  so  that  the  story 
stands  out  as  one  that  is  exceptional  in  more  ways 
than  one.  It  is  the  best  novel  yet  from  the  pen  of 
Mr.  Oxenham. 

Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  New  York,  Publishers. 


Albert  Lee's  latest  novel,  "The  Baronet  in  Cordu- 
roy," is  of  the  usual  style  of  historical  romances. 
The  story  is  in  the  time  of  Queen  Anne,  and  Addi- 
son, Steele  and  Defoe  are  introduced  to  give  an  air 
of  reality  to  the  tale. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  Publishers,  New  York  and 
Boston. 


January  16.   1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  TO  YOU  ON  THEATRICALS. 

CPU  hbh    I  ktra   Ocarina     ■  tide. 

Fi>*.ms>      1      B      ■    ~ 

mtftiEin    Good  show.    T.11  goo 

tivmii    >;  tondld  staffing  nnd  cnti'hy  mnalc. 

cmihwmi    'A  Trii.  to  Chinatown."   Van  funny. 

UXAtta— >  •  ■  '■  nl  performaoca,  "Tha  atoth  and  the  Flame 

ii»«M>   "Ini  A  melodrama  ol  th<  - 

CBRUL— The  Moonshiner."    Ordinary. 

OWIBS— '  Deari    Many  Manntkins."    Excellent 

l»bic  HAU-Biirt'iii  Holmea'  Lectures.   Oood. 


The  Jersey  Lily  lias  improved.  I  lor  acting  is  so 
iar  superior  to  her  attempts  in  the  same  direction 
when  she  was  here  before  that  there  is  no  compari- 
son. Mrs.  Langtry,  while  she  does  not  effectually 
hide  her  age,  is  really  better  looking.  If,  as  one  writer 
has  put  it:  "One  grows  to  look  like  the  things  one 
looks  upon,"  Mrs.  Langtry  must  look  upon  things 
that  are  good  and  wholesome. 

The  English  appreciation  of  what  makes  for 
crushing  beauty  was  never  an  American  estimate, 
and  yet  Mrs.  Langtry  is  certainly  a  very  attractive 
woman,  and  may  to-day  be  classed  as  a  splendid  ac- 
tress. A  French  philosopher  has  it  that  "women 
never  learn  anything  that  they  have  not  learned  ere 
thirty-five."  Mrs.  Langtry  certainly  has  learned 
much  more  than  anyone  could  expect,  and  yet  she 
has  not  mastered  the  art  of  graceful  locomotion.  She 
walks  in  as  charmingly  an  ungraceful  manner  as  of 
yore. 

It  is  said,  in  extenuation,  that  to  walk  with  mis- 
mated  feet  is  an  English  prerogative.  The  Lily 
made  a  splendid  Lady  Deering,  and  Mr.  Truesdell's 
Captain  Deering  leaves  little  to  be  wished  for  in  his 
version  of  Fendall's  lines.  The  rest  of  the  company 
is  as  good  as  we  have  seen  for  many  a  day. 

*  *  * 

Patti  has  come  and  gone,  and  the  poor  old  song- 
bird is  only  a  memory.  The  pity  of  it  is  that  the 
hist  for  money  should  permit  the  exploitation  of  this 
really  nice  old  lady  of  pleasant  memories.  People 
went  to  see  Patti,  not  to  hear  her  sing.  And  they 
were  not  disappointed,  for  she  did  not  sing  at  all. 
The  New  York  syndicate  will  be  raking  over  some 
old  ladies'  home  next  in  an  attempt  to  discover  a 
great  attraction. 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  was  crowded  to  the  doors  on  the  first 
night  of  "The  Beauty  Shop,"  and  I  will  predict  a  con- 
tinuance of  the  same  good  business.  The  new  star, 
Miss  Helen  Russell,  is  of  the  first  magnitude,  and,  as 
a  vocalist,  easily  outshines  Amber.  Mr.  Peachey's 
rendition  of  "Obstinate  Lizzie  May"  was  good,  and 
the  chorus  work  excellent.  Kolb  and  Dill  are  ex- 
cruciatingly funny  throughout  the  new  play,  and  the 
prize-fight,  with  Ben  Dillon  as  Professor  Brannagan 
and  Carl  Yoho  as  Pugsy  McGenk,  is  a  corker.  Miss 
Russell's  entrance  in  her  automobile  costume  is  as 
stunning  a  thing  as  can  well  be  imagined.  She  is 
a  statuesque  woman,  and  good  to  look  upon.  At  the 
same  time  Pll  give  her  a  tip  to  change  dressmakers. 

Her  song,  "Navajo"  and  Strauss's  Waltz  Song- 
are  things  that  stay  with  you.  Miss  O'Ramey  gave 
a  highly  artistic  and  finished  performance  as  Sapho 
Sweeney.  The  music,  by  Miss  Adah  Clement,  is 
quite  pleasing,  and  the  "Matutinal  Medley"  beyond 
the  ordinary.    Mr.  Crawford,  the  playwright,  is  to  be 


congratulated  on  the  great  success  ol  a  play  produced 
under  the  stress  of  tin-  most  trying  circumstam 

*  *  * 

At  the  Tivoli,  "When  Johnnj  Comes  Marching 
Home"  is  a  generally  good  performance,  From  a 
musical    standpoint    we   find   splendid   chorus   work 

and   stirring   words,   but    the   solos    are    weak.      As   a 

play,  it  is  better  than  the  usual  run  of  operas.    The 

scenery   is   magnificent   and   "worth   coining   mile-,   I" 

see."  "When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home"  will 
have  a  lony  run.  because  it  touches  the  "humanities." 
What  it  lacks  in  the  music  1  in  spot  si  it  makes  up. 
and  gives  you  measure,  overflowing,  elsewhere. 

*  *   * 

Howard  Thurston,  at  the  Orpheum,  advertised  as 
"the  man  who  mystified  Hermann,"  does  some  aston- 
ishing stunts  in  the  line  of  prestigiditation.     All  the 

tricks  are  well  done,  and  there  is  an  astonishing 
smoothness  in  his  work.  There  is  a  black  face  turn 
in  which  White  and  Simmons  are  the  laugh-makers. 
The  Tobin  sisters  are  very  attractive  young  persi  11s. 
and  the  Viennese  dancers.  Walno  and  Marinette. 
are  clever  in  their  own  specialty.  There  are  ten  good 
numbers  in  this  week's  programme. 

The  Grand  (  )pera  House  management  has  a  num- 
ber of  good  things  in  preparation.  "(  )ne  Night  in 
June,"  which  is  the  next  bill,  tells  a  beautiful  story 
of  Vermont.  As  there  is  a  large  contingent  of  the 
Green  Mountain  people  in  San  Francisco,  there  ought 


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January  16,  1904. 


to  be  a  good  attendance.  Laughter  and  tears  are 
closely  intermingled,  and  there  is  an  interesting  plot. 
The  scenic  effects  are  especially  fine.  There  is  a 
church  scene,  a  Vermont  farm  scene,  and  a  beautiful 
June  night.  The  play  will  be  interpreted  to  the  pub- 
lic by  Miss  Grace  Turner  and  company.  This  will 
be  followed  by  W.  H.  Turner  in  "David  Harum." 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Langtry's  engagement  at  the  Columbia  Thea- 
tre will  have  a  change  of  bill  during  the  latter  part 
of  next  week,  as  it  is  announced  that  only  the  first 
three  nights  will  be  devoted  to  "Mrs.  Deering's  Di- 
vorce," and  on  Thursday,  Friday  and  Saturday 
nights  and  at  the  matinee  on  Saturday,  "The  Degen- 
erates" will  be  staged.  It  will  be  the  first  presenta- 
tion here  of  Sydney  Grundy's  modern  society  com- 
edy, and  as  many  have  inquired  as  to  the  possibility 
of  Mrs.  Langtry  appearing  in  it  here,  a  series  of 
crowded  houses  may  be  expected. 

*  *  * 

The  next  Columbia  Theatre  attraction  will  be  "A 
Chinese  Honeymoon."  It  has  the  biggest  record  as 
a  musical  piece  of  the  present  epoch.  The  company 
is  large,  and  there  is  a  galaxy  of  good  names  in  the 

cast. 

*  *  * 

The  Central  is  producing  one  of  the  old-time  piff- 
bang-bing  shows  that  goes  with  a  vim.  "The  Moon- 
shiners" does  not  lack  in  noise  and  powder  smoke, 
and  the  interest  does  not  wane  from  start  to  finish. 

"In  Convict  Stripes,"  at  the  Grand,  is  drawing  a 
crowd.     It  is  a  well-acted  play,  and  the  staging  is 

especially  good. 

*  *  * 

The  Alcazar  keeps  up  a  rattling  Gatling  fire  of 
good  plays.  San  Francisco  has  rarely  seen  a  com- 
pany giving  a  more  finished  performance.  Next  week 
"Mrs.  Jack"  will  be  presented.  This  is  a  wildly  far- 
cical frivolity  by  Grace  Livingstone  Furniss,  odd 
in  device,  and  compelling  laughter  by  sheer  absur- 
dity. Those  who  like  George  Ade's  slang  and  Hoyt 
types  of   farce  comedy  characters  will  grow   merry 

over  "Mrs.  Jack." 

*  *  * 

Theatre-goers  of  San  Francisco  will  enjoy  a  sur- 
feit of  things,  if  advance  agents  are  to  be  believed. 
Among  the  new  attractions  for  the  Central  for  the 
week  beginning  next  Monday  night  will  be  that  tre- 
mendous New  York  success,  "A  Bowery  Girl,"  with 
its  great  scenic  environment  and  its  multitude  of 
Gotham  street  characters.  If  you  want  to  know  how 
politics  is  done  on  the  Bowery,  a  liberal  lesson  is 
afforded  by  the  boss  of  the  Fourth  Ward,  who  is 
also  the  father  of  the  leader  of  Bowery  society.  The 
cast  introduces  the  heir  to  a  Dutch  brewery,  with 
foaming  ambitions ;  the  unscrupulous  lawyer,  with 
an  eye  peeled  for  questionable  business ;  the  Italian 
padrone  and  the  Bowery  Chinaman  ;  the  lost  heir- 
ess, the  plug-hatted  villain  with  a  neglected  wife  and 
child;  the  tough  girl,  with  original  packages  of  slang, 
and  the  street  gamins,  with  their  Bowery  vernacular. 

A  magnificent  spectacular  production  of  "Quo 
Vadis"  is  in  preparation  for  the  week  of  January 
25th. 

*  *  * 

"When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home"  has  cap- 
tured the  community,  and  the  Tivoli  holds  large  and 
well-pleased  audiences.  The  music  has  caught  on, 
and  "My  Own  United  States,"  "Kate,  my  Southern 
Rose,"  and  "My  Honeysuckle  Girl"  is  puckering  the 
lips  of  those^hat  whistle.    Ferris  Hartman  continues 


the  great  favorite,  and  his  song,  "I  was  Quite  Upset," 

is  a  great  hit. 

*  *  * 

Barr  and  La  Salle,  who  are  said  to  present  a  most 
amusing  skit  in  "The  Expressman's  Reception,"  will 
make  their  first  appearance  at  the  Chutes  this  com- 
ing week.  Natalia  Delgado,  a  daughter  of  sunny 
Spain,  will  be  seen  in  the  fascinating  and  sinuous 
dances  of  her  native  land,  and  the  Girdellers  will 
continue  their  wonderful  acrobatic  and  equilibristic 
performance.  La  Drew  and  La  Zone,  "the  daffy 
dame  and  the  tad,"  will  introduce  new  eccentricities 
in  their  act;  Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular  contralto, 
will  be  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs,  and  Deaves' 
.Merry  Mannikins  will  continue  to  amuse  both  young 
and  old.  The  animatoscope  will  show  many  interest- 
ing and  novel  moving  pictures,  and  the  amateurs  will 
appear  on  Thursday  night.  There  is  no  more  pleas- 
ant place  in  San  Francisco  in  which  to  spend  an  hour 

than  in  the  zoo  at  the  Chutes. 

*  *  * 

Although  there  is  no  safer  house  of  its  size  in 
America,  the  management  of  Fischer's  Theatre  has 
leased  at  a  big  rental  an  entire  store  on  Powell  street 
in  the  rear  of  the  house,  and  will  cut  through  to  have 
a  large  exit  from  the  stage  and  auditorium,  as  well  as 
from  the  main  entrance.     This  will  make  Fischer's 

Theatre  one  of  the  safest  houses  in  America. 

*  *  * 

The  Stein-Bretto  family,  comedy  hand-jumping 
acrobats,  who  created  a  sensation  on  their  first  visit 
to  this  country  two  years  ago,  will  reappear  at  the 
Orpheum  this  coming  week.  They  perform  many 
novel  feats,  not  the  least  of  which  is  accomplished  by 
the  woman  of  the  troupe,  who  carries  the  three  male 
members  of  the  organization  off  the  stage  at  one 
time.  Harry  C.  Stanley  and  Doris  Wilson  will  pre- 
sent  their  little  sketch,  "Before  the  Ball."  Mr.  Stan- 
ley does  clever  character  work  and  imitates  a  clario- 
nette  to  perfection,  while  Miss  Wilson  is  talented 
and  pretty.  Kelly  and  Violette  will  return  with  a 
new  lot  of  songs  and  a  wardrobe  that  is  simply  daz- 


"  BAB'S  " 


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nishing goods.  Patentees  and  sole  manuiacturers  of  "THE 
NEVER-RIP"    OVERALL.     The  best  In   the  world. 

Gloves,  suspenders,  laces,  ribbons,  dress  goods,  velvets, 
silks,  flannels,  oil  cloths,  cottons,  linens,  etc.  Blankets, 
calicoes,  umbrellas,  cutlery  shawls,  notions,  smokers' 
articles,    stationery,    underwear,    hosiery,    white    goods. 

Cor.   Sansome  and   Bush   Sts.,   San   Francisco,   Cat. 

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January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 


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lin>r  in  its  beauty.     This  popular  tluo  of  San  I  r  . 

have  been  iiiectiiiK  with  great 
cuit.     Irving  Jones,  the   unique   little  colored   indi- 
vidual who  writes  and  sings  Ins  own  songs,  will  be 
i  the  contributors  t"  the  (unmaking.  Howard 
Thurston  promises  new  surprises.     White  and  Sim- 
s,  the  giMxl  old-fashioned  negro  minstrels,  will 
nt  a  new  act  in  "A  Pleasant  Evening's  Rest." 
and  Wallno  and  Marinette  will  vary  their  terpsichor- 
ean  evolutions.     Asra,  the  European  comedy  juggler, 
and  the  <  irpheum  motion  pictures,  showing  the  latest 
novelties,  will  complete  an  unusually  interesting  pro- 
gramme. 

*  *  * 

On   the  occasion  of   the   third   anniversary   of   the 
death  of  the  great  Italian  composer,  ( iiuseppe  Verdi, 

a  commemoration  under  the  auspices  of  the  local 
Italian  "Daily  l'ltalia,"  will  be  held  at  the  Alham- 
bra  Theatre  on  the  evening  of  Saturday,  January  23d, 
the  proceeds  of  which  will  be  entirely  given  to  the 
fund  for  the  Verdi  monument  to  be  erected  in  our 
city.  The  main  attraction  will  be  the  first  appear- 
ance of  the  Rjvela  Royal  Italian  Band,  directed  by 
the  distinguished  leader  after  whom  the  band  is 
named. 


Grand  Opera  hjouse 


OF  BENEFIT  TO  CALIFORNIA. 
The  Chronicle  Annual  for  1904  has  met  with  an 
enthusiastic  reception  by  the  public,  and  the  mails 
to  the  East  are  burdened  with  the  weight  of  copies 
going  to  far  away  friends  and  intending  settlers. 
This  number  of  the  Chronicle  has  the  merit  of  be- 
ing timely  despite  the  passing  of  time,  and  it  is  the 
best  exposition  of  the  advantages  of  California  we 
have  yet  seen.  Mr.  Isidor  Jacobs  contributes  one  of 
the  best  articles  in  the  number,  "How  Canning  of 
California  Products  has  Grown  into  a  World- 
Famous  Industry."  This  article  is  statistical,  and  yet 
not  dry,  and  it  is  divided  under  various  heads  in 
such  a  way  as  to  make  it  intelligible  to  any  reader. 
The  Chronicle  Annual  should  be  sent  to  all  Eastern 
friends  at  the  earliest  opportunity. 

William  McMurray,  who  for  many  years  has  occu- 
pied the  position  of  agent  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Information  Bureau,  has  just  resigned  in  order  to 
accept  the  appointment  of  representative  of  the  new 
St.  Francis  Hotel,  which  opens  March  1st.  Perhaps 
few  men  in  the  West  have  come  in  contact  with  a 
wider  range  of  travelers  of  all  nationalities,  and  he 
has  warm  friends  in  every  part  of  the  world.  While 
not  a  native  son,  Mr.  McMurray  is  as  enthusiastic  a 
Californian  as  any  man  who  has  been  born  and  bred 
in  the  Golden  State.  Through  his  efforts  many 
large  and  important  conventions  have  been  held 
in  San  Francisco,  including  the  recent  Bankers'  Na- 
tional Conventional.  Mr.  McMurray  has  always  been 
very  popular,  and  his  genial  spirit  and  natural  abil-. 
ity  insure  his  success  in  his  new  position. 

Few   come  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  \isit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     If s   tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 

One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies.for  biliousness  »5p'o;»H' 
ache,  is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tome 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  «•  *..  cor,  outici 
and  Grant  Ave. 

The  latest  style  in  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 

A.  rub  at  the  Post  St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good. 


11   KM  11 
ny   in  th«  l«'flutlful   i 


ONE    NIGHT    IN    cJUNE 
smuiav  Mm;'  ■■.  \s    h    Tamer  In 


Denial  1  1 


DAVID     l-IARUM 


Fischer's    Theatre 

Trie    BriaUTY    SHOP 
A  -l.-lik'Mfni  and  Brer  Intereetlrui  musical  oomedy 

■i"ti;il  humor,    ivlitrhthil  music     Beautifully  staged. 
Our  ■     Oor   Popular  Prices." 

Hath s  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Columbia  Theatre.  °° 


Ctottluli,  Marx  A  Co, 

Lfrtees  hmiI  M»n*errp. 
Beginning  DOXl   Monday.    2nd    and    last    «crk. 

MRS.     LANGfRY 
Rrel  three  nights 

MRS.     DEERING'S    DIUORGE 

Thursday,  Friday  and  Saturday  nights  and  Saturday  matinee. 

First  times  hero  of  Sydney  i  inindy's 

Tl-lb    DEGENERaTES 

Sunday  .Tan.  M— German  performance,  "Als  ieh  Wiederkam." 

Jan.  25 — The  musical  hit.  "A  Chinese  Honeymoon." 


\~/l  \Jl  ICUIIJ.     O'Fmrrell  St.,  between   Stockton  and  Pownll  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  Jan.  17 

ENTICING    UaUDEl/ILLE 

Stein-Bretto  Family :  Stanley  and  Wilson;  Kelley  and  Tiolette; 
Irving  Jones;  Wallne  and  Marinette;  Asra;  White  and  Sim- 
mons; Orpheum  motion  pictures  and  last  week  of 

MOWaRD    THURSTON 

Prices,  loc,  26c  and  soc. 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

P.onhrnl    Th^rt  +  r^         Belasco  &  Mayeb,  Proprietors 
V-»«IJLrUI      I  IltJULTtJ.    Market  St  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  533 

Week  of  Monday.  January  lath 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

The  tremendous  Eastern  hit 

a    BOWERY    GIRL 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c-    Matinees  10. 15,  26c- 
Week  of  Jan.  26th,  magnificent  production  of 

quo  uapis 

^1^517^1-    Th an  I-  re*  Belasco  &  Mayer,  Proprietors 

MJCaZar     ineuCre    E.  D.  Pbice,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 
Regular  matinees    Saturday    and    Sunday. 
One  week  commencing  Monday  Jan.  18,  first  San  Francisco  pro- 
duction of  the  cyclonic  American  comedy 

MRS.    dAGK 

By  Grace  Livingstone  Furniss. 

Played  for  months  at  Wal  lacks' "New  York. 

Evenings  25  to  75c    Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees  15  to  60c 

Jan.  25— Henry  Arthur  Jones'  great  play 

THE    MaSQUERaDERS 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  CornerEdfcnndstreeta 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Beginning  Monday  Jan  18, 
Second  week  and  tremendous  success  of 

WHEN  dOMNNY  GOMES  MaRGMING 
HOME 

A  three  act   military  comic  opera  by  Stanislaus  Stange   and 

Julian  Edwards. 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  750-    Box  Seats,  $1. 

fllhambra   Theatre  Eddy T0dnes sts. 

Saturday  evening  January  23rd.  1004,  at 8  o'clock. 

Extraodinary     entertainment  in   commemoration    of    Verdi's 

death.    (Under  the  auspices  of  the  Daily  "L'lTALIA,") 

RIV/ELA'8    ROYAL    ITALIAN     BAND 

assisted  by  the  soloists  F.  Avedano,  Domenico  Russo,.  G.  S. 
Wanrell,  G.  Cortesi  and  Mrs.  Lydia  Sterling.  Selections  from 
Aida.  Ernani,  Nabucco,  Lombardi.  Trovatore,  Rigoletto,  Lucia, 
Tannhauser  and  Mascagni's  William  Ratcliff. 
Popular  prices:  Reserved  seats  50c  and  $i.  Sale  of  seats  will 
begin  Monday  Jan.  18th  at  Sherman,  Clay's  Music  Store. 

er  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen    to    the   matchless  .string1   band    and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The    Cafe   Zlnkand   is    society's   gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16,   1904. 


The  soldiers  at  the  Presidio  arc  trying  the  new, 
ready-made  army  hash,  warranted  to  keep  in  all  cli- 
mates, to  be  appetizing  and  filling,  and   to  be    ! 

for  jaundice  and  sore  eyes.  The  Germans  have  a 
playful  way  of  marching  their  soldiers  scores  of  miles 
on  a  vest-pocketful  of  pills,  chemically  concentrated 
food,  and  even  if  a  few  men  die  under  the  strain. 
the  course  of  science  and  army  reform  is  considered 
vindicated.  We.  with  our  vestiges  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  appetite,  demand  a  more  rilling  diet.  It  must 
not  be  forgotten,  however,  that  the  rations  are  sam- 
ple rations,  and  so  of  extra  fine  quality.  When  war 
comes  and  the  soldier  absolutely  requires  his  rations, 
they  will  in  all  probability  be  found  to  be  just  as  rot- 
ten as  was  the  famous  preserved  beef.  Unfortunately, 
neither   the    Russians   nor  the   Japanese   eat   hash. 

A  minister  earns  his  fee  so  easily  by  performing  the 
marriage  ceremony  that  he  might  be  expected  to  see 
that  be  conforms  to  the  statute.  In  the  Pederson  case 
at  (  lakland  it  appears  that  the  license  for  marriage 
was  issued  in  Oakland  and  the  ceremony  performed 
by  Reverend  J.  Fuendeling  of  the  German  Lutheran 
Church  in  San  Francisco.  It  should  be  well  known 
to  a  minister  that  a  marriage  can  only  be  performed 
in  the  county  in  which  the  license  is  issued.  It  is 
gross  professional  negligence  on  the  part  of  a  min- 
ister to  allow  any  woman  to  run  a  risk  of  this  kind, 
when  a  mistake  may  have  such  terrible  consequences 
for  her. 

In  one  of  Gelett  Burgess  and  Will  Irwin's  latest 
stories  there  was  the  account  of  a  San  Francisco 
woman  who  paraded  Kearny  street  on  Saturday  af- 
ternoon as  the  advertising  agent  of  a  certain  women's 
suit-house.  Quite  a  number  of  young  men  must  be 
following  that  occupation  in  the  city  at  present.  The 
street  corners  and  the  cigar-stores  abound  in  flashily- 
dressed,  insolent  youths,  without  visible  means  of 
subsistence,  who  insult  women,  and  seem  to  have  a 
pull  with  the  police.  1  wonder  if  any  promises  were 
made  to  this  class  of  loafer  prior  to  the  election. 
Every  worthless  element  in  the  community  seems 
to  have  been  seduced  in  some  way. 

What  a  strong  lot,  full  of  personality,  were  those 
old  Californians.  Tin-  death  of  the  old  colored  woman, 
".Mammy"  Pleasaiice,  with  all  her  force  and  origi- 
nality, recalls  some  of  the  most  prominent.  Senator 
Sharon,  Sarah  Althea  Terry,  Judge  Terry,  Justice 
Field,  even  Dave  Neagle,  they  were  all  typical  West- 
erners, fiery  and  ill-balanced,  perhaps,  most  of  them. 
but  endowed  with  that  most  uncommon  of  qualities, 
independence.  The  old  colored  woman  who  began 
life  as  a  cook  was  a  remarkable  character.  Overbear- 
ing, self-willed  and  exceedingly  charitable,  she  was 
quite  a  person  in  her  own  queer  wa\ ,  one  of  the  char- 
acters of  a  California  which   is  passing  very  fast. 

It  would  be  just  in  accordance  with  the  way  in 
which  we  manage  our  affairs  if  the  bill  for  the  cre- 
ation of  a  new  Federal  Judge  for  the  Circuit  of  the 
United  States  Couris  should  fail  because  the  Califor- 
nians are  unable  to  settle  on  what  they  want.  Four 
separate  bills  from  four  separate  California  legisla- 
tors dealing  with  the  creation  of  one  office  for  the 
good  of  the  State  are  a  little  too  many.  Some  agree- 
ment will  have  to  be  reached  or  the  scheme  will  fall 
through  again. 


Mayor  Schmitz,  it  strikes  me,  is  having  a  hard  time 
of  it  trying  to  serve  two  masters.  The  case  of  John 
Partridge  is  one  in  point.  The  Mayor's  statement 
regarding  the  Pound  Master,  as  vouched  for  by  Mr. 
Partridge,  cannot  for  a  moment  be  doubted  by  any- 
one who  knows  that  gentleman.  The  Mayor  in  his 
haste  to  find  jobs  for  every  Tom,  Dick  and  Harry 
who  peddled  tickets  for  him  at  the  last  election,  has 
put  his  foot  in  it.  lie  is  credited  with  calling  Par- 
tridge a  liar.  When  it  is  remembered  that  Mr.  Par- 
tridge had  witnesses  to  the  conversation  referred  to, 
and  that  Mr.  Partridge  is  a  respectable  business  man, 
well-known,  and  that  his  word  is  as  good  as  his  bond, 
and  that  the  Mayor  is  practically  unknown  save  for 
broken  political  promises,  a  politician  under  the  in- 
fluence of  professional  politicians,  the  public  will  not 
be  slow  to  judge. 

Nobody  hates  humbug  worse  than  1  do,  but  there 
is  a  limit  in  the  mater  of  a  wide-open  town,  or  there 
should  be  one.  even  under  the  regime  of  the  present 
Mayor.  It's  all  very  well  to  re-tore  the  side  doors 
and  to  rebuild  the  partitions.  The  people  who  go 
to  those  place-  generally  know  why  they  go  and 
whither:  even  the  resurrection  of  the  old  gambling  is 
not  a  matter  to  weep  Over.  Hut  some  limit  ought  to 
be  placed  upon  the  cinematographs  and  picture 
shows.  ()ne  of  these  on  Kearny  street. makes  the 
I  lalveston  Hood  an  excuse  for  showing  a  picture  of 
scon-  of  men  and  women  in  a  disgusting  state  of 
nudity.  The  thing  is  utterly  devoid  of  art  value,  and 
should  be  stopped. 

Why  should  the  tradesmen  on  California  street 
cho-e  the  particular  time  when  the  crowd  of  com- 
muters is  greatest  to  run  their  wares  out  of  their 
stores  upon  the  sidewalk?  It  is  funny,  but  not  other- 
wise agreeable  to  see  elderly  gentlemen  and  demure 
typewriters  dodging  barrows  and  trucks,  and  being 
genially  abused  by  hurried  workmen.  Of  course,  it 
must  be  said  in  defense  of  the  tradesmen  that  the 
blocks  are  stupidly  left  unprovided  with  an  alley. 
Still,  one  would  think  some  other  time  might  be 
chosen  for  trundling  their  wares,  along  the  sidewalk. 

Major  Charles  L.  McCawley,  "star  dancing  man" 
of  the  Marine  Corps,  has  tripped  his  way  merrily  into 
the  social  service  of  the  Government,  being  relieved 
of  all  duties  except  helping  President  and  Mrs. 
Roosevelt  at  entertaining.  There  may  be  no  heroism 
about  the  two  step,  but  it  leads  to  soft  snaps. 

Having  been  buncoed  by  an  astute  bank  agent  into 
buying  a  sixty  volume  set  of  historical  works,  "Uncle 
Joe"   Cannon   paid   the  money,  but   indorsed   on    the 

check:   "The   1 ks   are   not  worth   a  ,   and   are 

high  at  that."  Which  didn't  help  his  bank  account, 
Inn  eased  his  mind. 

That  high-priest  of  fakers,  John  Alexander  Dow  ie, 
is  on  his  way  to  Australia,  via  San  Francisco.  The' 
Antipodeans  are  welcome  to  him  and  to  all  the 
money  he  is  suspected  of  having  sequestered  before 
his  "Zion  City"  was  turned  over  to  a  receiver. 

Some  of  our  local  men  would  give  much  for  the 
ability  of  William  F.  Brown  of  Oakland,  who  was 
arrested  for  begging.  He  is  described  as  a  beggar 
and  a  gentleman.  It  is  remarkable  how  often  the 
two  things  seem  to  go  together. 

They  are  going  to  decorate  the  streets  of  Oakland 
with  palm  trees,  and  the  Call  rejoices  thereat  and 
claims  all  the  credit.  It  would  be  just  as  we'd  for  the 
Call  to  wait  and  see  the  palm   trees  first. 

And  so,  men  arc  to  receive  at  leas.  Farewell,  then. 
to  the  tea-party  am!  hail  the  he-party. 


January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


»3 


How     tSan     Francisco     LooKs     to     Me 


Bv     F*»rn  r\  old     Triv^T^.      Tovtilsl 


Really.  I  am  quite  proud;  there  are  three  of  us  in 
just  now,  all  attracting  a  deal  of  at- 
11.     VVe  arc  all  from   England,  and  m 
rn  there.     I  am  here,  Raroness  Cedarstrom  anil 
Mr-.  Langtry,  and  what  a  sensatii  n  we  are  creating 
and  how   we  are  toadied  to!     It   is  awfully  flatter- 
ing; still  the  American  always  r. 
as  well  as  genius. 

I  was  lii|>|H'.l  the  morning  after  New  Year's  even- 
ly man  Roger  had  also  been  out,  and  when  I 
rani;  for  him,  my  tnli  was  not  ready,  my  linen  w. 
laid  out.  my  tweeds  were  not  forthcoming,  and  my 
-  were  Mill  on  tin-  tree.  I  would  have  dispensed 
with  Roger  on  tin-  spot,  but  1  did  not  know  if  1  could 
replace  him.  IK-  is  an  excellent  servant.  Hi-  once 
was  man  for  an  officer  in  tin-  Guards;  and  let  me  tell 
von  that  is  the  onl)  school  for  a  gentleman's  man.  So 
far  as  1  allowed  him.  Roger  begged  me  to  pardon 
him.  and  said  1  had  dismissed  him  for  the  night  after 
I  dressed,  lie  then  took  a  walk  and  some  American 
Scotch  whiskey,  and  added  that  it  hail  overcome  him. 
My  hails  were  off  when  I  learned  this,  and  1  ex- 
plained to  him  the  awful  effects  of  drinking  American 
h  whiskey,  which  is  on  the  average  as  much 
like  Scotch  as  paratnne  is  like  ean  de  cologne,  espec- 
ially in  places  where  Roger  would  buy  it.  I  found 
out  by  my  headache  next  morning  that  tippling 
American  Scotch  is  had  for  a  chap's  stomach.  1 
finished  my  hreakfasl,  and  then  took  Roger  to  exam- 
ine some  apartments  at  which  he  had  looked.  Things 
went  wrong  again,  and  I  told  him  I  ought  to  kick 
him.  He  did  not  resent  it.  That  is  where  army 
training  shows.  He  stands  it  because  he  knows  that 
if  I  did  kick  him  it  would  not  hurt  him  very  much, 
and  would  afford  me  a  small  amount  of  mental  pleas- 
ure combined  with  a  slight  sensation  of  physical 
exercise. 

He  caused  me  to  waste  the  entire  morning  viewing 
impossible  cubby  holes  with  higgledy-piggledy  en- 
trances, dark  halls  and  passages,  and  low  ceilings — 
really  admirable  places  for  one's  nieces  to  play  doll's 
House  in,  but  hardly  suitable  for  a  Draper's  Clerk  and 
his  wife. 

The  tub  room  of  the  best  out  of  the  lot  was  there 
for  ornament  and  suggestion  only,  and  no  sane  ar- 
chitect ever  dreamed  of  any  one  reallv  bathing  in  it. 
It's  rather  a  reproach  on  San  Francisco.  It  looks 
as  if  your  citizens  regarded  their  morning  tub  as  a 
task  and  not  an  enjoyment.  There  was  not  a  wine 
closet  in  the  whole  of  the  places  we  visited,  nor 
was  there  a  Mews  within  easy  distance.  There  was, 
however,  attached  to  each  place  an  impossible  fellow 
who  called  himself  janitor.  Not  one  of  them  knew 
their  places.  They  all  knew  what  I  wanted  better 
than  I  did  myself,  and  when  I  explained,  to  them 
that  Roger  would  attend  to  me  they  seemed  to  think 
their  prerogatives  were  being  usurped.  I  can't  un- 
derstand why  the  need  of  a  janitor  in  bachelor  apart- 
ments occupied  by  gentlemen  who  keep  their  own 
men.  The  apartments  I  viewed  all  seemed  to  be 
gotten  up  for  appearance,  being  adapted  to  the  wants 
of  those  persons  who  desire  to  convey  the  impression 
that  they  receive  a  good  income  while  having  a  very 
small  one.  The  same  shoddy  effect  which  I  have  no- 
ticed so  much  before.  There  must  be  correct  apart- 
ments here  somewhere  with  the  conveniences  needed 
by  a  gentleman,  a  room  to  wash  in,  a  room  for  exer- 
cising, a  dressing  room',  a  place  for  Roger,  a  spare 


room  for  a  friend,  .1  sitting,  bid  and  smoking  room 

for  me — and  without  the  attachment  oi  a  fellow   with 

shiny  knees  and  over-run  heels,  and  smells  of  onions, 
who  calls  himself  in  three  or  four  disgusting  bro 

anitor.  <  Ine  of  tin-  nicest  chaps  1  have  met  at 
your  clubs  says  he  can  put  me  on  to  the  right  thing 
in  a  short  while,  a  house  complete,  which  is  owned 
h\  a  friend  of  his  who  is  going  to  Europe  for  a  run. 
Really,  if  what  I  have  seen  in  the  way  of  places 
land    I   am   tired   looking  at    them  1    he  a   specimen   of 

1  he  whole  lot.  I  am  impressed  that  the  San  Francisco 

gentleman  either  does  no1  know  how  to  live  or  can't 
afford  it  if  he  does.  Whefl  I  get  settled  and  find  a 
right  servant  1  >r  two.  things  will  be  different.  <  >f 
course,  select  society,  as  I  know  it  at  home  in  Eng- 
land or  New  York,  is  limited  here,  but  I  have  met 
some  gentlewomen  that  are  peerless  by  their  own 
right  of  beauty  and  grace,  only  lacking  the  ancestry, 
and  I  have  met  some  men  who.  riding  in  the  Row. 
would  make  the  chaps  on  the  walk  pause  and  stare. 
'Von  have  some  good  horsemen  here.  The  merchant 
.lass,  1  imagine,  is  more  or  less  transient.  At  home 
my  tradespeople;  keep  to  their  shop  generation  after 
generation.  Here  I  notice  in  the  papers  and  know 
by  the  signs  on  the  shops  along  your  principal 
streets  that  about  one  in  three  is  holding  a  closing- 
out  sale.  Really  it  looks  bad.  The  classes  can't  get 
used  to  their  shopkeepers  in  a  day  or  two,  and  if  the 
shopkeepers  are  a  flit-by-night  lot,  it  seems  there 
would  not  be  much  confidence  between  the  seller  and 
ourselves.  I  can't  understand  it.  Do  they  not  do 
enough  trade?  Are  their  bankers  hard  on  the  poor 
chaps?  Or  is  it  a  game?  If  it  is  a  game,  it  is  in  had 
taste:  it  causes  one  to  doubt  the  honesty  of  the 
tradesman  and  the  stability  of  the  city.  Maybe  the 
fellows  who  are  retiring  from  business  are  going  to 
start  again,  or  maybe  they  desire  to  get  a  fresh  loca- 
tion. 'Port  my  word,  I  don't  blame  any  of  them  much 
for  wanting  to  get  off  your  main  street.  It  is  disgust- 
ingly dirty  and  wretchedly  paved,  and  the  stone 
walks  are  half  wood  and  it  is  always  dusty  if  not 
muddy.  Maybe  that  this  is  caused  by  the  lack  of 
attention  of  your  Aldermen,  but  that,  as  my  friend 
Kipling  says,  is  another  story. 


Master  of  House  (to  applying  butler) — Can  you 
open  a  bottle  of  beer  neatly?  Applicant — Urn,  not 
so  very,  sir.  You  see,  I've  lived  mostly  in  cham- 
pagne families. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


Dear  Bessie:  Do  you  bowl?  If  so,  I  am  sure  you 
will  envy  us  the  new  club  which  was  opened  this 
week  and  promises  to  be  a  success.  It  is  on  the  Gol- 
den Gate  avenue  side  of  Jefferson  Square,  and  only 
the  wives  and  sisters  and  daughters  ot  the  members, 
who  are  all  clubmen — and  I  suppose  their  cousins 
and  their  aunts — are  eligible  for  the  privilege  of  play- 
ing the  game.  Greer  Harrison  is  the  President  of 
the  Club  and  Ed.  Greenway  is  one  of  the  directors, 
so  you  see  it  is  to  be  very  swell.  And  now,  having 
the  place  to  play,  parties  are  being  made  up  to  enjoy 
it,  and  before  long  there  will  be  one  or  more  clubs  in 
full  swing  for  every  day  in  the  week. 

When  1  bunched  up  all  the  Thursday  teas  last 
week  I  omitted  to  tell  you  what  a  charming  little 
hostess  Bertie  Bruce  made  as  Mrs.  Ferd  Stephenson, 
and  her  home  on  Sterner  street  is  such  a  pretty  one. 
Newel  Drown  was  the  motif  for  the  pleasant  affair, 
and  helped  her  to  receive.  Another  thing  I  omitted 
to  enlarge  upon  was  the  Gibbons  dance,  which, 
though  not  large,  was  an  exceedingly  pleasant  one; 
just  enough  to  make  dancing  comfortable,  and  the 
supper  was  delicious. 

Bridge  was  the  game  selected  by  Mrs.  Hinckley 
Taylor  for  her  card  party  on  Wednesday,  and  the 
forty  ladies  who  played  it  seemed  to  take  to  it  as 
naturally  as  ducks  take  to  water ;  it  will  be  all  the 
rage  soon,  you  take  my  word  for  it.  The  buds,  at 
least  quite  a  number  of  them,  were  given  a  luncheon 
by  Mrs.  Sullivan  and  Alice  on  Thursday ;  Norma  Cas- 
tle gave  a  large  card  party  in  the  afternoon.  I  went 
out  to  make  my  tea  call  at  Mrs.  Swift's,  and  found 
her  rooms  crowded.  What  a  lovely  woman  she  is, 
in  looks  one  of,  if  not  the  handsomest  of  all  our 
society  dames.  Pretty  little  Helen  Bailey  is  having 
a  good  time  and  enjoying  herself  thoroughly.  Mrs. 
Austin  Sperry  holds  her  first  large  "at  home"  to-day  ; 
and  to-night  Susie  Kirkpatrick  gives  a  "kid  dance" 
at  the  Palace — something  like  what  La  Jeunesse  used 
to  be  when  first  started. 

The  newly-engaged  couple,  Mabel  Guff  and  Jack 
Wilson,  are  going  the  usual  round  of  being  enter- 
tained by  their  friends.  Mrs.  Guff  gave  them 
a  big  dinner  last  week;  the  Blacks  a  Patti  concert 
and  supper  party ;  the  Warfields  a  dinner  and  theatre 
party;  and  Airs.  Jack  Spreckels  a  luncheon  and  mati- 
nee party  to  Mabel  on  Saturday.  Their  dinners  this 
week  included  one  at  the  Alexander  Wilson's  on 
Monday;  Pearl  Landers  gives  one  next  Thursday, 
and  Ed.  Greenway  one  on  the  2d  of  February,  while 
Jack  himself  will  play  the  dinner  host  to  thirty  of  his 
friends  on  the  third.  Mabel  Hogg's  tea  last  Fridaj 
was  the  medium  chosen  for  the  formal  announcement 
of  Florence  Callanghan's  engagement  to  Vincent  ile 
Laveaga,  which  has  been  suspected  for  some  time. 
It  was  quite  a  pleasant  tea,  and  the  floral  decoration> 
which  were  chief!}'  red,  among  the  prettiest  of  the 
season. 

Miss  Carrie  Gwin  had  only  married  ladies  at  her 
card  party  last  Saturday ;  there  were  three  tables, 
and  at  the  game  of  seven-handed  euchre  Mrs.  Mayo 
Newhall,  Mrs.  Smedburg  and  Mrs.  Casey  won  the 
first  prizes  at  each  of  them.  I  devoted  half  an  hour 
— all  I  could  spare — on  Saturday  to  the  20th  Century 
Club  Concert  at  Lyric  Hall,  and  missed  hearing  Car- 
rie Little  sing,  which  I  regretted,  for  I  hear  she  has 
improved  very  much  during  her  stay  in  Paris.  She 
was  obliged  to  postpone  the  recital  she  was  to  have 
given,  but  I  believe  it  will  take  place  before  long. 


Gertrude  Smith  crops  up  again  as  the  "entertained" 
at  a  luncheon  to  which  I  have  been  asked  by  Mrs. 
Eugene  Lent  next  Tuesday  ;  Mrs.  Ritchie  Dunn  gives 
a  luncheon  at  the  University  Club  on  Wednesday  for 
Polly  Macfarlane,  and  Maud  Mullins  Clarke  has  a 
card  party  for  Polly  on  the  21st,  all  married  folks  of 
the  younger  set.  Belle  Smith  gives  a  tea  on  Friday, 
and  there  will  be  the  Friday  Fortnightly  dance  in 
the  evening,  and  Fanny  Harris  a  big  luncheon  on 
the  28th.  The  last  of  the  Assembly  parties  comes 
off  on  the  29th,  so  you  see  there  is  plenty  to  do  all 
the  time. 

I  told  you  I  thought  the  wedding  day  of  Louise 
Harrington  was  to  be  the  6th  of  February,  but  in- 
stead it  is  to  be  on  the  2d,  and  will  be,  I  hear,  even 
quieter  than  was  her  sister  Mary's.  By  the  way, 
the  new  appointment  of  Commander  Niblack  will 
entail  a  four  years'  residence  in  Honolulu,  so  it  will 
be  some  time  ere  we  see  Mary  again. 

It  has  been  quite  a  fad-  here  of  late  to  entertain 
members  of  the  "Girl  with  the  Green  Eyes"  com- 
pany; the  Jolliffe  girls  had  a  tea  for  two  of  them, 
Miss  Emmett  and  Miss  Bell,  and  Miargaret  Mee  had 
Frank  Deklin  as  her  guest  at  a  small  dinner  of  eight. 
There  was  regret  that  Patti  could  not  accept  any  in- 
vitations, but  Mrs.  Langtry  is  here  now,  and  she  may 
be  induced  to  take  what  the  other  was  obliged  to 
decline,  as  her  stay  here  is  to  be  for  some  little  time. 

Don't  you  remember  all  the  nice  affairs  Mrs.  Gir- 
ard  was  so  constantly  planning  when  she  was  at  the 
Presidio,  and  what  pieasant  parties  she  gave?  Well, 
I  am  so  glad  she  is  back  again,  and  as  her  husband 
is  to  be  the  new  chief  surgeon  when  he  comes  back  ' 
from  Manila,  we  may  look  forward  to  lots  more 
pleasant  times.  She  and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Bush, 
are  here  already,  and  are  at  Fort  Mason,  where  Kitty 
and  I  are  going  out  to  see  them  to-morrow.  Katli- 
erine  and  Edith  Bull  came  back  from  their  Oriental 
travels  by  the  transport  Sheridan  which  arrived  this 
week,  and  which  brought  the  new  regiment  that  is 
to  be  stationed  at  the  Presidio,  the  28th  Infantry, 
and  about  the  officers  the  girls  feel  no  end  of  curi- 
osity. 

Bessie  Ames  has  gone  from  our  gaze  for  awhile; 
she  and  Mr.s  Jack  Casserley  left  for  New  York  last 


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SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


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•  lay.  an. I    Bessie  at   least   will   not   l>c   back   for 

-hc  will  spend  February  with  her 

r,  Mrs.  Woocl,  in  Baltimore 

The  Peter  Martins  are  here  at  last.     They  arrived 

last   Monday,  and  now   we  shall  Bee  what  we  shall 

The  chatter  is  that   they  are  to  remain  lure  .1 

long  time — perhaps  for  good  and  all. 

1  inly  think  of  my  nearly  forgetting  to  tell  von  that 
the  long  suspense  is  ended,  an,!  after  main  false 
alarms  the  cards  for  the  wedding  of  Bernie  Drown 
and  Sam  Doardman  are  out  at  last.  It  seems  that 
Bernie  was  awaiting  the  arrival  of  Stella  Kane,  who 
he  one  of  her  bridesmaids,  the  other  three. 
Susie  Blanding,  Charlotte  Ellinwood  and  Linda  Cad- 
wallader,  with  her  sister  Newell  as  maid  of  honor. 
The  marriage  will  take  place  at  St.  Luke's  Church 
at  high  noon  on  Saturday,  the  30th,  and  a  reception 
afterwards  at  the  Drown  residence  on  Jackson  street. 
Constance  de  Young  will  make  her  formal  debut 
at  a  tea  to  he  given  by  her  mother  next  Saturdav  af- 
ternoon, the  23d. 

—Elsie. 


The  Art  Association  of  San  Francisco  will  hold  its 
annual  masked  ball  at  the  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art, 
on  Mardi  Gras.  which  comes  this  year  on  Tuesday, 
February  Kith.  A  beautiful  invitation  has  been  de- 
signed by  Albertine  Randall  Wheelan,  and  is  now  in 
the  hands  of  the  engraver.  A  preliminary  meeting 
of  the  decorating  committee,  which  is  composed  of 
Mr.  John  M.  Gamble  and  Harry  W.  Seawell,  has 
been  appointed  for  next  week  to  lay  out  the  scheme 
of  color  treatment,  in  ornamenting  the  halls  and 
dancing  rooms  ;  while  Henry  Heyman  has  been  given 
charge  of  the  music. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Anita  Claire  Walsh  of  this 
city  and  John  T.  Tyner  of  New  York  took  place  in 
the  Swedenborgian  Church  Wednesday  night,  and 
was  one  of  the  prettiest  affairs  of  the  season.  The 
bride  is  a  very  popular  young  lady  and  has  partici- 
pated in  many  charitable  affairs  in  this  city.  The 
groom  is  a  son  of  J.  R.  Tyner,  and  nephew  of  As- 
sistant Attorney-General  Tyner  at  Washington,  and 
is  a  junior  member  of  W.  L.  Growall  &  Company. 
Miss  Marie  Aline  Walsh,  the  bride's  sister,  acted  as 
maid  of  honor,  and  James  E.  Knauss  as  best  man. 
The  ushers  were  Dr.  William  Ellis  and  Dr.  Harry 
Sohr.  The  wedding  reception  was  held  in  the  par- 
lors of  the  Colonial  Hotel,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tyner 
will  reside  on  their  return  from  Southern  California. 

Tlie  little  daughter  of  Albert  L.  Farr,  the  rising 
young  architect,  passed  away  on  the  night  of  the  13th 
inst.  The  sympathy  of  all  who  know  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Farr  is  with  them  in  their  sad  bereavement.  The 
child  wes  one  year  old  and  one  of  the  sweetest  and 
most  loveable  of  children. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  past  week 
were:  A.  Feist,  W.  L.  Dreyfus,  Dr.  W.  L.  Louisson, 
M.  A.  Bremer,  Louis  Ferrari,  R.  M.  Burgess,  O. 
Holmquist,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  F.  Hale,  M'rs.  F.  H. 
Stout,  Mrs.  E.  Smith,  Mrs.  Shimer,  Mrs.  Farr,  G. 
F.  Simonds. 

The  California  Polo  and  Pony  Racing  Association 
will  hold  a  meet  at  Hotel  Del  Monte,  February  16th 
and  22d.     The  Southern  Pacific  will  place  Pullman 

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Del   Monte  from  the   16th  to  aad,  in  order  I 
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coupled  with  the  certainty  that  San   Francisco  will 

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January  16,  1904. 


Jim  Smith — he  of  the  coal.  coke,  and  pig-iron  trade 
— now  rests  from  his  labors  within  the  aristocratic- 
precincts  of  the  Pacific-Union  Club.  And  thereby 
hangs  a  tale.  Smith,  be  it  known,  is  one  of  the  big 
men  in  the  commercial  world.  When  the  steamship 
companies,  the  big  hotels,  or  the  large  manufactories 
want  to  increase  their  visible  stock  of  fuel,  they  have 
to  consider  the  wishes  of  this  quiet,  athletic-looking 
gentleman,  who.  in  his  California-street  office,  holds 
not  a  few  of  the  strings  whereby  the  output  of  the 
coal  mines  is  controlled,  lie  has  devoted  SO  much 
of  his  time  to  acquiring  fame  and  fortune  in  the  busi- 
ness world  that,  although  a  member  of  the  Bohemian 
and  other  organizations,  he  has  had  but  little  leisure 
in  which  to  enjoy  the  comforts  of  club  life.  But  most 
of  his  intimates,  men  like  Jack  Wilson,  R.  I'. 
Schwerin,  A.  B.  Spreckels  and  others  are  enthusias- 
tic club  men.  For  a  long  time  they  importuned 
Smith  to  permit  them  to  post  his  name  in  the  Pacific- 
Union.  He  demurred,  for  he  cares  but  little  for  the 
artificialities  of  life. 

Finally,  however,  he  consented,  and  his  name  was 
put  up.    Xow,  that  eloquent  orator  and  reformed  poli- 
tician, Horace  Piatt,  is  one  of  the  leading  lights  in  the 
big   club   at   Union   Square,   and   he  considers   it  his 
bounden  duty  to  scrutinize  carefully  the  list  of  pro- 
posed members,  and  to  investigate  to  the  smallest  de- 
tail the  character,  reputation  and  social  standing  of 
all  men  that  appear  asking  admittance.     In   the  old 
days,  when  Horace  and  Chris  Buckley  ran  the  town 
together — that  was  before  Piatt  discovered  the  gross 
iniquities  of  Democracy  and  switched — the  blind  boss 
impressed  upon  all  his  followers   the   importance  of 
finding  out  everything  possible  about  newcomers  in 
the  arena,  and  the  necessity  of  barring  those  who  did 
not  bear  the  ear-marks  of  subserviency.     Piatt   saw 
nothing  in   the   Smith   physiognomy  to  indicate  that 
the  coal  dealer  would  fall   clown  and   worship  when 
Horace  appeared.     It  is  said  the  arbiter  of  the  club 
also  feared  that   Smith  lacked  that  full  appreciation 
of  polished  humor  and   graceful   wit   that  is  needed 
to  appreciate  the  subtlety  of  the  Plattonian  bon  mots. 
Then,    again — frightful    discovery — it    was    learned 
that  once  in  the  aforetime  Smith  had  had  his  habitat 
south  of  the  slot.      That  was  enough.     Piatt  instituted 
a  campaign  against  the  unsuspecting  dealer  in   pig- 
iron. 

"Fate  tried  to  conceal  him  by  calling  him  Smith. 
Ha!  Ha!"  said  Piatt.  "He  is  fuel  in  which  I  shall 
temper  the  bright  blade  of  my  a\  it." 

Put  Smith's  friends  are  cold,  ha-a-rd  men.  When 
they  start  in  on  a  proposition  they  usually  see  it 
through.  So  they  told  Mr.  Piatt.  They  also  said 
something  about  society  dudes  not  being  the  whole 
works.  Piatt  simply  shrugged  his  shoulders  and 
answered:  "I  fear  me  your  friend  is  not  to  be  of  the 
select.  He  has  lingered  so  long  in  the  marts  of  trade. 
it  is  now  too  late  for  him  to  be  an  ornament  to  this 
organization.  We  want  clubable  men.  He  is  only  a 
delver  after  dollars." 

Then  the  trouble  began.  The  Smith  forces  girt 
up  their  loins  for  battle;  Piatt  threw  off  sarcasms 
and  witticisms,  but  they  glanced  from  the  armor  of 
the  enemy.  The  day  for  the  vote  of  the  directorate 
approached.  By  this  time,  it  was  understood  that 
one  blackball  against  Smith  would  be  considered  a 
very  serious  affront  by  his  friends;  and  those  same 
friends  are  not  men  who  may  be  affronted  with  im- 
punity.    Piatt  commenced  to  take  counsel  with  him- 


self. It  was  apparent  to  him  that  he  had  started  a  . 
losing  game,  for  Horace,  remembering  the  instruc- 
tions of  his  political  teacher,  quietly  quit.  Smith  was 
elected  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  eleven  directors. 
Now,  the  question  is:  What  constitutes  a  club- 
man? If  education,  good  manners,  good  taste  and 
business  success  do  not  make  a  man  eligible  to  join 
the  elect,  what  does?  Mr.  Piatt,  it  is  said,  will  write 
an  essay  on  the  subject.  It  will  be  put  in  the  box 
under  the  cornerstone  of  the  new  club  house,  so  that 
in  the  years  to  come,  future  historians  may  learn 
something  of  the  advanced  condition  of  cultured  so- 
ciety of  the  present  day,  from  the  standpoint  of  one 
who  has  walked  along  every  level  in  the  social  struc- 
ture. 

I  was  looking  over  a  copy  of  Addison  Mizner's 
"Cynic's  Calendar."  the  other  day.  In  my  humble 
opinion,  it  is  the  poorest  apology  for  what  it  was  evi- 
dently intended  to  be  that  was  ever  perpetrated  on  a 
confiding  public.  Xot  an  original  idea  is  between  the 
two  covers.  Most  of  the  stuff  is  as  flat  as  stale  beer. 
"It's  a  strong  stomach  that  has  no  turning,"  says 
Mr.  Mizner.  You  can  see  him  look  around  with  a 
modest  smirk ;  you  can  see  him  pause  for  applause. 
"A  little  widow  is  a  dangerous  thing."  he  says  in 
another  place,  with  the  calm  complacency  of  one  who 
is  working  off  a  gold-brick.  If  the  sylph-like,  gentle 
Addison  would  own  up  and  acknowledge  how  much 
of  his  stuff  he  first  stole,  and  then  spoiled  by  bad 
handling,  it  might  make  interesting  reading  under 
the  title:  "How  I  tried  to  be  funny,  and  failed,"  by 

"One  of  the  many  Mizners." 
*  *  * 

What  has  come  over  Judge  John  Hunt?  Once 
upon  a  time  he  turned  a  pretty  phrase,  and  his  bright 
things  illuminated  a  club  room  with  a  brilliancy 
that  rivaled  "the  bright  and  the  balmy  effulgence  of 
the  morn."  But  1  fear  tongue  or  pen — or  both — 
have  lost  their  cunning.  He  is  responsible  for  the 
Family  Club's  invitation  to  its  Christmas  feast.  Those 
invitations  to  Christmas  jinks  are  usually  stilted 
things  at  best.  They  are  forced,  the  humor  is  flat, 
and  the  idea  is  unprofitable.  But  these  facts  do  not 
explain  Hunt's  failure  in  this  game  of  forcing  wit. 
In  a  wild  endeavor  to  give  a  flavor  of  Christmas-tide 
to  the  club's  invitation,  he  dragged  in  that  poor,  un- 
fortunate little  fellow.  "Tiny  Tim."  Xot  once,  but 
thrice,  was  reference  made  to  the  diminutive  Timo- 
thy, and  "green  banks"  also  appeared  four  or  five 
times  in  as  many  lines.  As  a  wind-up.  the  card-writer 
said:  "And  as  "Tiny  Tim  says  in  'The  Christmas 
Carol,'  'Cod  bless  us  all,  every  one." 

Now,  did  Hunt  think  the  members  of  the  Family 
Club  were  unaware  that  Tim  may  be  found  in  the 
"Christmas  Carol?"  If  he  did  think  so,  why  didn't 
he  add  some  information  about  the  Carol?  Did  he 
mention  the  "green  banks"  so  frequently  because  he 
is  a  fisherman,  or  did  he  want  to  go  a-caroling  over 
them  ?  As  a  friend  of  young  unfortunates,  as  a  pro- 
tector of  children,  doesn't  John  Hunt  think  Tiny  Tim 
has  suffered  long  enough?  If  so,  why  pull  him  out 
at  every  opportunity?  I  think  it  would  be  a  fitting 
punishment  if  Hunt  were  assigned  to  conduct  the 
luvenile  Court — unless  he  can  satisfactorily  answer 
my  questions  and  explain  his  fall  from  grace. 
*  *  * 

Did  you   know   that   no  licenses  for  new   saloons 
have  been  issued  for  the  past  three  months?     And 


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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


'•"I  3  that  .1"  a  saloon  keeper  rx 

for  a  man  under 
is  liable  t..  lose  his  license?    The 

u\U  there  arc  about  enough  saloons  in  - 
and  they  have  decided  to  call  a  halt.     II 
wants  loon  business  these  daj 

must  buy  an  interest  in  an  established  place,  or 
until  some  liquor  seller  loses  his  license.     None  ol 
them  ever  quit    The  Commissioners  have  also  -lint 
down  on  the  straw  bond  business.     Years 

■n  keepers  in  the  Tenderloin  made  large  sums  of 
money  l>_\  Furnishing  bail  bonds.  None  of  the  pro- 
fessional criminals  remained  in  jail  more  than  an 
hour  or  two  after  arrest,  so  complete  was  the  machin- 
ery .if  the  bail  bond  bureau.  But  now,  the  saloon 
keepers  have  been  given  a  quid  tip  that  the  appear 

ance   of   their   names   upon    bail    bonds    will    be   taken 

by  the  Police  Commissioners  as  an  evidence  that  they 
are  trying  to  interfere  with  the  successful  operation 
of  the  Police  Department — a  reason  sufficient  lor  a 
refusal  to  renew  their  licenses.  There  is  much  com- 
plaint ill  the  Tenderloin,  but  the  Police  Commiss 
era  are  on  the  right  track. 

*  *  * 

I  have  been  waiting  for  some  of  the  daily  papers 
to  tell  that  Old  tale  about  the  flight  of  John  Benson 

to  Denmark,  years  ago.  He  was  mixed  Up  in  some 
kind  of  a  land  fraud,  and  suddenly  decided  that  a 
trip  to  Europe  would  be  very  beneficial.  He  wan- 
dered around  in  Europe  for  some  time,  and  while  he 
was  quietly  resting  in  the  Kingdom  of  the  Danes, 
some  Government  sleuth  came  along,  tapped  him  on 
the  shoulder  and  said  Uncle  Sam  was  anxious  to  see 
him  in  Washington.  Benson  appreciated  the  good 
intentions  of  his  Uncle  Samuel,  but  he  said  he  liked 
Denmark  so  much  he  did  not  wish  to  move — just 
then.  The  usual  extradition  proceedings  followed, 
ami  Benson  came  back.  That  must  be  over  ten  years 
ago.  Benson  was  then  in  business  in  this  city.  He 
beat  out  the  case,  and  came  back  to  San  Francisco. 
He  knows  the  land  laws  backwards,  and  it  is  probable 
that  the  present  charge  against  him  will  fail  of  proof. 

*  *  * 

The  principal  of  the  Berkeley  High  School  is  out 
against  the  deadly  cigarette.  More  power  to  him  ! 
Now,  if  the  University  authorities  would  start  a 
crusade  against  tippling,  all  the  school  men  would 
be  afforded  protection  against  the  temptations  that 
beset  those  that  go  down  into  Egypt.  Benjamin  Ide 
is  an  authority  on  the  manners  of  the  ancient  Greeks  ; 
likewise,  he  knows  things  about  the  old  Romans ; 
therefore,  he  is  well  aware  that  "ill  fares  the  land, 
to  hastening  ills  a  prey,"  where  the  students  of  the 
humanities,  the  leaders  of  the  thought  of  to-day,  the 
coming  apostles  of  the  "isms"  of  to-morrow,  cannot 
carry  home  a  proper  load  of  rich  Falernian  without 
attracting  the  notice  of  their  less  learned  brethren. 
Knowing  that  the  Benjamin  of  Berkeley  is  held  in 
high  esteem  in  this  land  of  his  adoption,  I  am  con- 
fident that  an  edict  issued  by  him  upon  the  evil  ef- 
fects of  promiscuous  indulging  would  attract  wide 
attention.  As  a  student  of  men  and  manners  he 
knows  that  bad  examples  may-  be  set,  unwittingly, 
by  instructors  in  the  schools  who  are  not  able  to 
cope  as  bottle  men  with  the  hard-headed  men  of  com- 
merce whom  they  may  meet  at  the  festal  board,  and 
it  is  shocking  and  sad  to  see  one  filled  with  dead  lan- 
guages, ancient  roots  and  fizz,  spilling  things  as  he 
makes  geometrical  designs  in  an  endeavor  to  catch 
a  train.     Not  that  such  things  have  happened.     Oh, 

Fine    stationery,,  steel    and     copperplate     engraving. 

Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street.  Stib  Francisco. 


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■    then,    the)    might,   you    know,    and 
warning  m  time  ma)   prevent  a  multitude  of  p 
bilitii 

«  •  • 

"Mammy"  Pleasance  ha-  passed  to  the  I 
Beyond.     She  was  one  of  the  shrewdest  women  of 
her  race.    For  decades  in  this  city,  she  was  more  than 

a  match  for  lawyers,  detective-,  newspaper  men.  ami 

all  whose  business  it  was  to  trv  to  ferret   out  the 

many  deals  in  which  her-  was  the  hidden  hut  di 

ing  hand.  She  was  as  close-lipped  as  a  double-barred, 
burglar-proof  sale:  in  habit  of  life  she  was  retiring, 

and   the  many   women,  now   prominent    in   society,  1  r 

who-,-  mother-  may  have  been  prominent  during  the 

past    thirty   years,  who   may   haw   been   aided   bj    the 

keen  colored  woman,  need  have  no  fears  of  what  -he 

might  have  told.     Her  secrets  went  with  her  to  the 

jrave.  Thai  she  befriended  more  than  one  fair  slivg- 
gler  in  the  social  swim,  both  with  money  and  influ- 
ence, is  well  known.    To  sonic,  she  gave  generously 

in  the  days  of  her  wealth,  but  to  others  she  was  like 
a  leech,  draining  their  very  last  dollar  in  pursuit  of 
what  she  considered  her  rights.  To  the  present 
generation  she  was  best  identified  as  the  mistress  of 
the  unfortunate  household  of  the  late  Thomas  Bell. 
To  the  men  and  women  of  twenty-five  and  forte 
years  ago  she  was  a  bright,  ready-witted,  sharp,  bold 
manipulator  of  anything  fr.nn  a  clam-hake  to  a  stock- 
deal  ;  from  a  small  tea  in  a  lodging  house  to  an  at- 
tack upon  a  millionaire's  stronghold  in  the  Palace. 
Withal,  she  was  one  of  the  most  unusual  characters 
San  Francisco  has  known.  Certain  it  is,  we  shall 
never  see  her  like  again. 

Pears' 

Pretty  boxes  and  odors 
are  used  to  sell  such 
soaps,  as  no  one  would 
touch  if  he  saw  them  un- 
disguised. Beware  of  a 
soap  that  depends  on 
something  outside  of  it. 

Pears',  the  finest  soap 
in  the  world  is  scented  or 
not,  as  you  wish ;  and  the 
money  is  in  the  merchan- 
dise, not  in  the  box. 

Established  over  100  years. 

A  Revelation. 

If  there  are  doubting  Thomases'  or  Maidens  fair.or  those  unfair,  who 
fain  would  he  fair,  let  them  use  Dr.  T.  Felix  Gouraud's  Oriental  Cream 
and  prove  the  efficacy  of  what  the  proprietor  has  so  long  tried  to  im- 
press on  the  minds  of  all.  in  nearly  every  dart  of  the  World.  As  a  Skin 
Purifier  and  Beautifler  it  has  no  equal  or  rival.  If  the  reader 
would  prove  the  virtues  of  Oriental  Cream,  use  it  where  .a  Scratch 
or  slight  Cut,  or  where  a  Black-head  or  Pimple  is  troubling  you,  then 
vou  see  its  healing  and  'purifying  qualities — if  it  does  its  work  well, 
then  read  the  advertisement  again  for  further  testimony  of  its  virtues, 
and  by  using  Oriental  Cream  senew  both  Youth  and  Beauty. 
Feud.  T.  Hophins.  Esq.: 

I  would  like  to  know  the  price  of  One  Dozen  bottles  of  your 
Oriental  Cream,  as  I  use  it  and  like  it.  Would  like  to  get  a  supply  to 
take  on  my  tour,  soon  as  possible-    Answer  and  oblige. 

Mhs.  Jambs  Beowm  Pottee,  Brevoort  House,  New  York. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


Inflation  seems  to  be  the  or- 
The  Western  Type  rler  of  the  day,  and  the  in- 
of  Financiering.  fection  has  evidently  spread 
to  San  Francisco,  which  can 
now  point  out  a  financier  or  two  to  visiting  strangers 
as  additional  evidence  in  substantiation  of  the  allega- 
tion thaE  this  city  has  at  last  outgrown  the  swaddling 
clothes  of  infancy,  and  is  now  bounding  over  the 
sands  of  time  full  of  the  redundant  spirits  of  youth 
in  its  spring-time.  We  can  now  point  to  quite  a  num- 
ber of  daring  efforts  in  the  line  of  finance  achieved 
here,  even  if  we  cannot  boast  of  a  right  to  file  a  pa- 
tent upon  the  original  conception  process.  Our  lead- 
ing industrials  have  suddenly  assumed  the  attitude  of 
the  fabled  frog  who  wished  to  attain  the  proportions 
of  an  ox.  Take  San  Francisco  Gas  for  example :  it 
has  been  inflated  with  enough  air  to  swell  its  prop- 
erties from  $9,000,000,  in  itself  a  pretty  steep  figure 
for  a  time-worn  plant,  up  to  thirty  millions  of  dol- 
lars. Why  was  this  done?  The  new  management, 
gathered  from  many  different  walks  in  life  to  become 
full-blown  gas  experts  at  a  moment's  notice,  will 
possibly  account  for  this  undue  excess  of  hot  air  by 
an  explanation  that  the  money  is  to  be  utilized  to 
acquire  an  additional  supply  of  plants,  etc.,  and  for 
what?  To  supply  the  place  of  a  plant  which  could 
be  installed  to-day  of  modern  type  at  first  hand  for 
less  than  the  over-valued  old  rack  of  patchwork 
which  formed  the  nucleus  of  a  transaction  which 
must  make  the  ordinary  man  of  affairs  pause  and 
ponder  over  the  ways  of  the  great  local  financiers. 
Supposing  some  one  now  starts  in  to  erect  a  new 
nine  million  dollar  plant,  what  would  become  of  the 
hot  air  in  the  thirty  million  dollar  San  Francisco 
Gas  and  Electric  Light  Company.  It  is  not  particu- 
lar!}' strong  on  its  pegs  now,  as  the  market  shows  for 
itself,  and  the  fact  that  the  whole  public,  outside  of 
the  few  who  have  some  slock  and  confidence  in  a 
management  which  has  so  far  been  accredited  with 
nothing  outside  of  a  $25000  a  year  President,  who  is 
now  earning  it  by  doing  the  grand  in  a  distant  land  ; 
a  list  of  high-salaried  officials,  and  an  output  of  gas 
which  in  point  of  quality  does  not  speak  much  for 
the  reputation  of  the  management  as  gas-makers. 
Would  it  not  have  been  better  to  have  thrown  the 
weight  of  expenses  into  the  practical  end  of  the  busi- 
ness, instead  of  putting  it  out  in  salaries  at  a  juncture 
in  the  history  of  a  concern,  weighted  clown  with 
financial  responsibilities  like  this  $30,000,000  local 
exhibit  in  the  art  of  unsatisfactory  gas  making  is 
now,  after  passing  through  the  hands  of  the  Western 
financier? 

The  volume  of  business  for  the 
Local  Stocks  w'^ek  has  shown  some  improve- 
and  Bonds.       ment  in   bonds,    and     considerable 

trade  has  been  done  in  Spring  Val- 
ley and  Southern  Pacific  issues.  In  the  share  list, 
Gas  and  Electric  and  Alaska  Packers  have  had  the 
floor.  The  former  is  in  poor  condition,  evidentlv. 
When  the  inside  props  are  withdrawn,  down  go 
prices,  and  when  a  rally  comes  under  the  stimulus 
of  inside  buying,  enough  stock  pours  in  to  convince 
one  that  if  higher  prices  prevailed,  outside  holders 
would  not  take  any  chances  on  the  city  standing  the 
raise  of  interest  on  the  inflated  capitalization  of 
$30,000,000.  If  such  a  very  transparent  artifice  upon 
the  part  of  financial  jugglers  were  allowed  to  pre- 
vail,  any  bogus   scheme   masquerading   as   a   public 


utility  could  build  up  its  capital  to  any  extraordinary 
pitch  by  the  inflation  of  prices  and  expect  permission 
to  collect  a  certain  rate  per  cent  upon  the  amount  of 
the  alleged  investment.  As  for  the  Alaska  Commer- 
cial, the  vagaries  in  that  stock  are  not  easily  ex- 
plained. Nothing  has  happened  to  warrant  a  decline 
in  share  values,  and  the  following  reactions  are  only 
natural,  only  on  a  minor  scale.  Spring  Valley  has 
shown  a  stronger  tone  during'the  past  week  under  a 
very  light  demand.  Other  securities  show  few 
changes,  and  they  are  only  nominal. 

The  following  dividends  by  lo- 
Dividends  Paid       cal  corporations  were  paid  on 
and  Declared.        the    nth   inst. :    First   National 
Bank  of  San  Francisco,  regular 
semi-annual,  at  the  rate  of  10  per  cent,  amounting  to 
$75,000:    Marin    County    Water    Company,    regular 
quarterly,  75  cents  per  share;     Giant     Consolidated 
Powder   Company,   regular   monthly,    50     cents  per 
share;  California  Wine  Association,  regular  monthly, 
60  cents  per  share.    The  Spring  Valley  Water  Coin- 
pan)'  has  declared  a  quarterly  dividend  of  63  cents 
per  share,  payable  on  and  after  January  20th.     The 
People's   Home  Savings   Bank   (on   liquidation)   has 


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declared   a   dividend   t"  dec  two  per 

This  payment  will  make  a  total  of  4'> 

returned  to  thi  ra  since  the  1 

'd  the  institution:  there  arc 
are  in  litigation,  from  which  it  is  hoped  ll 
to  10  per  cent  more  will  be  pai  I. 


At   the   annual   meeting   of   the    Nevada    Xa 
Hank  the  following  directors  were  re-elected:   I 
I..   Flood,  H.   I".  Allen.   I".  W.  Van   Sicklen,  C.  de 
Guigne,   Loon   Sloss,   C.   II.    Mackay    Robert    Watt, 
Isais  w.   Hellman,  William   Haas,  1.  \Y.   Hell 
Jr.,  and  John   F.   Bigelow.      The  net   profits   for  the 
year  were  $339,384,  out  of  which  dividends  amount- 
ing   to   J    per    cent    were    paid,    amounting    to   Is-M   >. 
000.     The  balance.  $129,384  was  carried  forward   to 
undivided   profits.     At   the  close  of  business,   Decem- 
ber 31.  1903,  the  total  assets  amounted  to  $17,392,573. 
The  following  officers  were  re-elected  to  serve  1  r 

the  ensuing  year:  Isais  \Y.  Hellman,  president:  Jol  11 

F.  Bigelow,  vice-president:  I.  \Y.  Hellman.  Jr..  vice- 
president;  George  Grant,  cashier:  \Y.  \Y.  Gavin,  as- 
sistant cashier. 


At  the  recent  annual  election  of  the  San  Francisco 
Chamber  of  Commerce  the  following  Board  of  Trus- 
tees was  elected:  George  A.  Newhall,  president;  E. 
R.  Dimond,  vice-president :  C.  H.  Bentley,  second 
vice-president:  Frank  L.  Brown,  W.  J.  Dutton,  J. 
A.  Folger.  William  L.  Gerstle,  Rufus  P.  Jennings. 
H.  D.  Loveland,  William  H.  Marston,  Thomas  Rick- 
ard,  James  Rolph,  Jr..  Henry  Rosenfeld.  James  B. 
Smith,  William  R.  Wheeler,  trustees. 


At  the  first  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders  of 
the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company  the  following  di- 
rectors were  re-elected  :  Charles  Webb  Howard,  A. 
H.  Payson,  A.  Borel,  Homer  S.  King,  J.  M.  Quay, 
F.  J.  Symmes.  Frank  B.  Anderson  was  elected  to 
fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Samuel  C. 
Bigelow. 


At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders  of  the 
San  Francisco  National  Bank  the  following  Board 
of  Directors  was  elected  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year:  C.  S.  Benedict,  William  J.  Dutton,  H.  E.  Hunt- 
ington, William  Pierce  Johnson,  George  A.  Newhall, 
George  A.  Pope,  W.  H.  Talbot,  James  K.  Wilson, 
L.  I.  Cowgill.  The  Board  subsequently  organized 
by  electing  James  K.  Wilson  president ;  William 
Pierce  Johnson,  vice-president,  L.  I.  Cowgill  cashier, 
and  W.  W.  Wolfe  assistant  cashier. 


The  Columbian  Banking  Company  has  made  a 
further  call  on  its  shareholders  of  $10  per  share.  This, 
with  the  $10  assessment  recently  collected,  will  make 
the  stock  $50  per  share  paid  up. 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


BANKING. 


January  16,   1904. 
Countermoves. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital,  Sun.ius  and^ndivlded    }$|3500,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President:  F.  L.  TJpman,  Cashier;  Frank  B 
King,  Assistant  Cashier;   Jno.    E.   Miles,     \  ssl  ■■>. i,; 

BRANCHES— New    York:    Salt    Lake,    Utah;    Portland.    Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

532  California  St., Webb  St,,  San  Francisco. 

E.  1!.  POND,  President;  W.  C.  B  DeFREMERY.  ROBERT  WATT. 
Vice-Presidents;  Lovell  White.  Cashier;  K.  M,   Welch,  Assist.  Cashier 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond.  W.  C.  B.deFremery.  Henry  F.  AJlen,  George 
C  Boardman.  Jacob  Barth.  C.  0.  (i  Miller.  Fred  H.  Beaver,  William 
A.  fiffagee,  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.    Country  remit- 
tances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  i  a  checks  of  reliable 
girlies,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  out  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
auk  commences  only  with  the  actual  r ipl  of  the  money-     The 

signature  of  the   depositor  should  accompany  the  Aral   deposit.    No 
charge  is  made  for  pass-book  or  entrance  ree. 

OfB.ee  hours:    9  a.  m.  to  3  p,  m     Saturday  evening,  8:80  to  a. 

Deposits.  December  si,  1903 139  2a a 

Guarantee  Capital;  Paid  up  1,000,000 

Reserve  and  1  Sontmgenl  Funds -  fl.eie 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  s*n  Francisco 

710   Market   St..    Opposite   Thin], 

1     ; SI. 

Paid-up  Capital   and  Surplus   5i«i  i»io 

JAMES    D.    PHELAN.    President;    S.    G.    MORPHT,    Vice-Pi 
dent;  GEORGE  A.   STORY,   Cashier;  JOHN    \     'ER    Vice- 
President;  ('.    B.    HOBSON.   Assistant  Cashier 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  s.  G.  Murph      John  A    hooper, 
James     Mofhtt.     Frank    J.     Sullivan.     Robert     McElroy,     Rudolph 
Spreckels,   James   M.    McDonald,   Charles    Holbrook 
interest   paid   nn   deposits.     Loans   on    approved   securities 
Deposits  maj    be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,    Fargo  &  Co     or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 


The  German   Savinqs  8>  Loan  Society 


I    I;  \XiTSCl  '. 


NO.   526   CALIFORNIA   STREET. 

al    and    S  irplus    

Capital   Actually    Paid-up   In    fash    

Deposits.    Dee.  31.   1903    

i;n  OF  DIRECTORS— President,  Join,    Lloyd:    First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel   Meyei     Second   Vice-President.  H     Horstmann 
Ign.  .steinhar.it.  Emil  Rohte,  II.   B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,   I    N    Wal- 
(1  J.    W.    Van   Bergen. 
Cashier,   A.    II.   R.  Schmidt;   Assistant    Cashier,    William   Herr- 
Secretary,    George   Tourny;    Assistant    Secretary,    A     n. 


man  a  ; 

Muller; 


General  Attorney,  W.  s.  G ifellow. 


Cootinental  Building  &  Loan  aSMcIM,„„ 

Established  ,,,     CALIFORNIA 

_  ,       .,     ■■"'    '  am  Street     San    Fn 31 ...    Cal 

lu5fc,ribeJ ''    P6.000, 

Profit    and     Reserve    Fund    45011011  on 

Interest   paid  on  deposits  ...    thi    rate  pel    ce c  annum 

on   term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 
Dr.  Washington   Dodge,   Presid.ru;    Wiulam    Corbln,    Seen 

and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporation 

NO.   1  WALL  ST.,   XEW  YORK. 

al   and  Surplus   S7  894  100 

Capital    and    Surplus    Authorized    '.'.". 10  000  000  00 

OFFICERS— William  L.   Moyer,    President;  Charles  D    Pi 

Assistant     to     President;     William     P..     Wightman,     Assistant     to 
President;   John   Hubbard.   Treasurer:   James    II.    Rogers     Secre- 
tary;  John    B.    Lee.    General    Manager;    William    II 
Assistant  General  liana:  .   .    ,v  Green    Counsel 

BRANCHES— -London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila. 
Hong  Kong.  Yokohama.   Shanghai.   Singapore 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras,  Penang.  Rangoon. 
Colombo.  Amoy,  Canton.  Hankow,  Tientsin.  Tansul,  Anping 
Bakan.  Moji.  Saigon,  Kobe.  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang  Sou- 
rabaya,   and  all   parts  of    Europe. 

SAX    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34   Sansome   Street 

A  general  banking  business  transacted  n.. ts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bo 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposil  [sued  Cor  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  cun                    balai s.    Special                         to  banks  kei 

ci ..I-     with    us.    and    drawing    direct    or r    branches    and 

throughout  the  world. 


Moves     and 

The  first  evidences  of  the  effort  that  the  Honor- 
able Mark  Hanna  is  making  to  secure  the  Republi- 
can Presidential  nomination  For  himself  reached  this 
city  last  week.  Letters  have  been  received  by 
a  number  of  prominent  Republicans,  some  of  'hem 
members  of  the  Union  League  Club  and  others  hold- 
ing federal  offices,  asking  what  the  feeling  is  inwards 
Hanna's  candidacy,  and  expressing  the  hope  that  the 
delegation  to  the  National  Convention  would  go  un- 
instructed.  Copies  of  an  Ohio  paper,  containing 
bitter  attacks  on  the  President  and  glowing  eulogies 
of  Mark,  have  reached  every  newspaper  office  in  the 
State,  and  private  letters  have  been  sent  to  men 
prominent  in  the  financial  world  asking  them  to  use 
their  influence  to  defeat  Roosevelt  on  the  ground  that 
he  was  ;m  enemy  of  capital  and  the  great  money  in- 
terests nf  the  country.  So  far,  however,  there  is  no 
sign  of  any  break  in  the  solid    Republican  column  in 

California.     Reports  sent  back  to  the  Hanna  1 mers 

are  that  the  people  of  this  State  demand  Roi  sevelt, 
ami  that  it  would  be  political  suicide  to  attempl  to 
elect  an  anti-Roosevell  delegation  to  Chicago.  A 
prominent  member  of  the  Union  League  told  me  that. 
while  there  might  be  some  of  its  members  for 
Hanna.  that  lhc\  were  very  few  and  were  not  con- 
spicuous in  their  advocacy  of  him.  The  country 
papers  have  paid  no  attention  to  the  literature  sent 
them  from  Ohio  in  Hanna's  interests,  and  the 
moneyed  men  say  that  Hanna  could  not  be  elected, 
and  that  the  election  of  a  Democrat  would  unsettle 
the  business  interests  for  years. 

The  failure  of  the  National  Committee  to  call  for 
In  election  of  delegates  to  the  National  Convention 
is  delaying  the  issuance  of  a  call  for  a  State  Conven- 
tion, and  it  will  not  now  be  held  until  late  in  May, 
and  probablj  no1  until  June.  Every  one  must  regis- 
ter to  vole  at  the  primaries,  and  since  Hanna  is  an 
avowed  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  the  primaries 
are  of  much  more  interest  and  importance  than  they 
promised  to  be  when  Roosevelt  had  no  opposition. 

The  Democrats  are  at  sea  as  usual.  They  do  not 
seem  to  know  whom  tbcv  want  for  President,  and 
the  fight  in  their  lines  will  be  pro  and  con  Hearst. 
Ex-Governor  Budd  is  to  be  the  leader  of  the  Hearst 
forces,  and  he  is  a  very  shrewd  politician,  fust  who 
will  bad  the  opposition  is  not  vet  decided. 
*  ♦  ♦ 

The  Minnesota  Secretary  of  the  new  Board  of 
Corrections  and  Charities  has  already  distinguished 
himself  in  a  very  remarkable  way  for  an  expert  who 
was  imported  to  teach  the  good  people  of  California 
the  principles  of  economy  in  their  public  expendi- 
tures. The  curious  will  see  in  the  Blue  Hook  that 
he  is  put  down  as  of  "St.  Paul,  Minnesota,"  an  ex- 
traordinarv  confession  of  the  incompetency  of  all 
Califnrnians,  since  they  had  to  go  SO  far  to  get  a 
man  for  the  place.  Having  been  elected  to  the  place 
through  his  Chicago  pull,  as  previously  explained  in 
this  column,  he  proceeded  to  bring  his  family  out 
here,  and  then  was  about  to  present  a  bill  to  the  State 
Treasury,  amounting  to  some  $500,  for  their  rem  ival. 
But  the  Board  refused  to  allow  that  expense  bill,  al- 
though they  agreed  to  allow  another  for  bis  personal 
expenses,  amounting  to  $104.05.  It  will  be  noticed 
that  he  must  have  come  around  by  the  Horn  or  via 
Siberia,  as  most  people  could  make  the  trip  from  St. 
Paul  to  San  Francisco  For  much  less  than  that  fig- 
ure. However,  the  cruel  Hoard  of  Examiners  would 
nol   even  allow  him  the  personal  account  bill,  and  he 

lias  been  fi  reed  to  bear  bis  own  traveling  expenses. 
(  onsidering  the  way  in  which  this  expert  has  starte 


CORRESPOXDENCE    INVITED. 

f.  e.  it.  1     -J  inager.  p.  g.  eastwick.  jr..  Ast.  Mgr  oui  to  save  the  State  money,  it  might  be  well  For  the 


January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


'1  pet  ml  of  ..!',  hi« 

*  *   » 

The  readers  o(  !iu-<   columns  will  1 
"I   R  the  |MM,r  girl  who  was 

the  Feeble  Minded  Hon  vvho 

refused  to  return  her  when  she  pleadi 
and  how    she  finally   in  despair  committed   sui 
They    will   remember  that   no   investigation   of   the 
matu-r  was  ever  held  by  the  trn- 
and  that  one  of  them,  the     Reverend     Mr.   liainc, 
charged   the  Attorney   General's  office  with  hi 
delayed  t ■  •  inform  the  Board  if  it  could  gel  the  girl 
back  by  habeas  corpus  a  charge  which  the 

ral  absolutely  denied  and  showed  thai  the  un- 
fortunate  >;ir!  was  the  victim  of  the  neglect  of  ilu- 
Board  of  Managers  to  perform  their  duty.  I 
pears,  however,  that  the  King  sirl  anj  another  who 
was  taken  out  by  the  same  trustee  arc  not  tin-  only- 
girls  that  have  been  taken  out  of  the  Home  l>\  per- 
sons who  had  no  legal  right  to  do  so.  Annie  Kalla- 
way,  a  Honolulu  maiden,  is  another  case  to  which  I 
respectfully  call  the  attention  of  the  Hoard  of  Trus- 
f  the  Home  for  the  Feeble  Min  led,  and  especi- 
ally of  its  two  clerical  members — the  Reverend  [1 
Lyons  ami  the  Reverend  .Mr.  Baine.  This  girl  had 
been  removed  some  time  ago  by  an  employee  of  the 
Kip  orphanage.  Her  utter  unfitness  for  outside  life 
is  known  to  Air.  Holbrook  formerly  of  the  Society 
for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children,  and  Sister 
Julia,  who  is  well  known  to  the  charitable  persons  in 
this  city  as  the  manager  of  an  Episcopalian  Magdalen 
Home.  I  presume  also  that  Dr.  Osborne  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Superintendent  of  the  Home,  and  Dr. 
Lauder,  can  give  some  information  about  the  girl, 
since,  if  I  am  correctly  informed,  they  both  refused 
to  allow  the  girl  to  leave  the  institution.  Do  the 
trustees  know  Where  she  is  now  or  what  has  hap- 
pened to  her  since  she  left,  or  who  authorized  her  to 
be  taken  out?  If  they  do  not,  they  should  inquire  at 
once. 


Unless  all  rumors  are  untrue,  there  is  another  scan- 
dal worse  than  any  charged  against  Dr.  Lawler  that 
needs  their  investigation.  Why  should  not  the  Gov- 
ernor himself  give  some  time  to  this  matter?  Is  it 
not  his  interest  and  duty  as  Chief  Executive  of  this 
State  to  look  after  the  welfare  of  the  wards  of  the 
State,  and  he  can  easily  ascertain  the  details  of  the 
case  from  the  persons  named  above  even  if  the  daily- 
papers  do  not  publish  them  before  this  article  appears 
in  print. 

*  *  * 

If  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Home  will  not 
act,  the  Governor  can  remove  them  and  should  re- 
move them.  Their  terms  have  expired,  and  he  is 
the  principal  person  to  blame  if  proper  trustees  are 
not  now  managing  the  institution.  We  believe  the 
Governor  is  too  humane  a  man,  and  loves  his  own 
children  too  much  not  to  protect  the  unfortunate 
children  indirectly  confided  to  his  care.  This  is 
more  important  than  finding  out  why  a  Sacramento 
plumber  did  not  know  the  difference  between  sewer 
gas   and   bats.  — Junius. 


Testa  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 

factory  for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Use 
Briquettes  for  cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at 
least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co., 
South  95,  and  your  order  will  receive  prompt  attention. 


BANKING. 


The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 


iblnaon 


I~be  Canaaiao  BanK  of  Commerce 

With   whi,  h  is  amalgamated   tha   Bank   ,,i    Britiah   Columbia 
,  HEAD    OFFICE    TORONTO. 

1  aid-up  1  apital.  j-. 

Aggl 

,,        ■-        ...      ,  lR0E       A         ' 

1..    K.    Walker.   General  Vlex.    Laird  Mar. 

LONDON    OFF1C 

,.,,   ,  .,      ,,,Nl-"       VoliK     oil'., 

BRANCHES       IX       BRITISH       COLUMBIA-Atlln,       Cranbrook. 

bernle,    Orcein 

New    Weatmlnsler,    Vancouver  and    vlot, 

principal     polnta     in 
I.N    1TUKON    TERRlTi  IR1  -D  i    w  talte    Hoi 

in   1  Mil-..    STATES-  Portland,  Seattle  anu  Skagwe 
Manitoba,   X.    w.   Territoriea,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS    ix    LONDON— The   Bank   of   England,    the    Bank   of 

Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  rninn  <>i  London  and  Smiths 
Ltd. 

AGENTS    IX    CHICAGO    The    Northern   Trust   Co. 
AOENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Hank. 
Son    fhanusuu    iiHw- 


325  California  Street. 


A.    KAix.s,    Manager, 


London,  Paris  and  (American  BanKUuiW 

X.    W\    COR.    SANSOME   AND   SUTTER   STS. 

Subscribed    Capital,    $2,E Paid-up    Capital,    $2, ,003 

Reserve   Fun, I.   (1,100, 

Head  Offl« — 1«  Threadneedle  si.,   London,  10.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agencj   ,,i   the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can   Bank.    Limited,    No.    Hi   w.ui    street,    X.    v.:    Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard    Frcres    &.   Cie,    17   Boulevard    Polssoniere.      Im.iw    direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of   the  world.     Commercial   and   Trav    li  < 
credits   issued 

S1G.  GREE'nEBAUM,  Manager;  ...  S.  GREEN.  Sub-Mana- 
ger J   R.    ALTSCHUL,    Cashier. 

The  flnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD   OFFICE— 18  Austin   Friars,   London,   E.   C. 

Capital  Authorized Sti.lmO.i .nu       l'aid   up   Jl,r,im. i 

Subscribed 3,uu0,ili>tl        Reserve     Fund     ....      700,000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,    buys   and   sells   exchange   and    bullion. 

IGN.  STE1NHART,  P.  N.  LIE1ENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery    St.,    Mills   Building 
INTEREST  PAID  ON   DEPOSi.o.      LOANS   MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,    William  Babcock.   Adam   Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Baldwin.     F.    Monteagle.    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon,  R.  H.  Pease. 


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Corner 
California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San     Francisco,   Cal. 


Capital  &  Surplus    $1,233,723.75 
Total  Assets         -        5,914,424.59 


Interest  paid  on  deposits,  subject 
to  check,  at  the  rate  of  two 
per  cent,  per  annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  deposits 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  six- 
tenths  per  cent,  per  annum. 

Trusts  executed.  We  are  author- 
ized to  act  »h  the  guardian  of 
estates  and  the  executor  of 
wills. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented  at  85 
per  annum  and  upwards. 


Dalzell  Brown, 

Manager 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


Bx   The   Autocrank 

In  my  search  for  automobile  news  I  dropped  in  to 
see  President  Hyde  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  asked  him  how  the  club  was  prospering. 
His  remarks  were  as  follows : 

"As  to  membership  we  are  doing  very  well,  indeed, 
as  we  now  have  over  180  on  our  rolls,  and  it  will  soon 
be  200.  We  are,  however,  somewhat- particular  whom 
we  receive,  and  it  is  not  every  applicant  who  is  suc- 
cessful. While  we  are  not  a  social  club,  we  ought 
not  to  have  any  in  our  ranks  with  whom  we  cannot 
associate  on  terms  of  equality.  The  main  purpose 
of  our  club  organization  is  to  promote  the  cause  of 
automobiling  and  to  protect  ourselves  against  hostile 
legislation,  but  incidentally  we  can  enjoy  a  club  run, 
or  a  dinner,  now  and  then. 

"There  are  not  many,  even  in  the  club,  who  realize 
what  a  powerful  agency  for  the  protection  of  auto- 
mobilists  this  club  has  been.  When  the  new  ma- 
chines were  first  introduced,  there  was  a  universal 
prejudice  against  them,  and  the  first  impulse  of  the 
public  was  to  demand  legislation  against  their  use 
on  the  country  roads.  Transportation  companies 
were  afraid  of  them,  and  even  the  country  hotels  dis- 
couraged them.  Against  these  discouragements  our 
club  has  made  a  battle.  We  have  employed  attor- 
neys to  defend  our  rights  before  Supervisors  and  in 
courts,  and  many  an  enemy  of  automobiling  has 
been  turned  into  a  friend  by  a  little  judicious  atten- 
tion at  the  proper  time.  A.  person  traveling  on  the 
county  roads  can  maintain  a  comfortable  rate  of 
speed  because  this  club  has  been  vigilant  and  made 
his  fight  against  four  miles  an  hour  when  such  legis- 
lation was  threatened.  He  can  travel  in  our  el. 
streets  at  8  and  12  miles  an  hour,  can  ride  through 
Golden  Gate  Park  and  travel  on  the  ferry  lines  mai  1- 
ly  because  there  has  been  a  strong  club  organization 
to  look  after  his  interests. 

"Ten  men  organized  as  a  club  and  working  in  1'.  e 
name  of  the  club  can  do  more  effective  work  than  a 
hundred  men  can,  working  singly.  I  have  seen  the 
Legislature  led  to  a  radical  departure  in  legislation  in 
a  certain  case  at  the  demand  of  a  so-called  "club,  ' 
which  was  formed  in  the  interest  of  one  person,  and 
numbered,  all  told,  not  more  than  four. 

"Any  person  who  owns  an  automobile  or  is  in  any 
way  interested  in  the  sport,  ought  to  belong  to  the 
Club.  The  dollar  a  month  is  the  smallest  considera- 
tion. It  is  numbers  that  gives  influence,  and  we  will 
need  powerful  influence  during  the  next  few  years 
to  protect  our  rights  and  accomplish  the  objects  of 
our  organization.  We  ought  to  have  a  State  automo- 
bile law,  but  it  would  be  folly  to  attempt  it  until  we 
can  feel  sure  that  we  would  "not  fare  worse  than  we 
do  now. 

"It  is  a  sad  fact,  but  it  is  true,  that  our  worst  ene- 
mies are  among  the  automobilists  themselves.  It  is 
the  conduct  of  a  few  that  makes  trouble  for  the  ma- 
jority, and  the  influence  of  the  club  is  more  powerful 
than  the  law  to  prevent  the  reckless  speeding  and 
handling  of  automobiles. 

"I  want  to  see  250  members  in  our  club  within  the 
near  future.  They  are  here,  and  if  the  present  mem- 
bers will  exert  themselves,  we  can  have  the  desired 
number." 


OLDSMOBILE 

1904    ANNOUNCEMENT 

3  MODELS  TO  CHOOSE  FROM. 


1st — Regular  Standard    Runabout,     Price 

F.   O.    B.    Factory    $650.00 

2d — Large  Motor,  new  style,  Metal 
Hood,  French  Design,  Powerful  Light 
Car,  Price  F.  O.  B.  Factory $750.00 

3d — Four  Passenger  Tonneau  Touring 
Car,  Roomy,  Luxurious,  Strong  and 
Fast    $950.00 

WATCH  THIS  SPACE  FOR  FURTHER  PARTICULARS  AND  CUTS 


PlONtiER    AUTOHOBILE    CO. 

901  Golden  Gate  Avenue, 

Opp.  Jefferson  Square. 

We  handle  only  standard  Automobiles — Win- 
ton,  Oldsmobile,  Locomobile  (steam  and  gaso- 
line), Stevens-Duryea,  Baker  Electric,  Vehicle 
Equipment  Co  npany. 


We  have  just  received  our  first  car  load  of  the 
1904  model  KNOX  (waterless)  Touring  Cars,  both  single  and 
double  cylinder  types  which  are  now  on  view  at  our 
show  rooms  where  we  would  be  pleased  to  receive 
you  and  demonstrate  their  superior  qualities  and 
simplicity. 

The  KNOX  (waterless)  GOSOLINE  AUTOMOBILES  are 

known  the  world  over  for  their  simplicity,  easy 
operation,  durability  and  easy  riding.  We  are  al- 
ways glad  to  demonstrate  the  above  to  any  one. 


THE  NATIONAL  AUTOMOBILE  &  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

|3<-H8  GOLDEN  GATE  AVENUE.    SAN  FRANCISCO. 


January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


*3 


The  Mobile  Carriage  Company,  automobile  hous 
den  Gate  Avenue,  120  feet  on  Gough  and  Jefferson 

This  is  considered  one  of  the  largest  and  finest  ex- 
clusive automobile  houses  in  America.  Great  care 
has  been  taken  and  much  expense  incurred  to  secure 
model  construction  in  every  way.  The  salesroom 
occupies  a  space  of  45  feet  on  Gough  street  and  90 
feet  on  Golden  Gate  avenue.  Posts  are  placed  in  the 
dividing  line  between  the  salesroom  and  the  garage, 
and  the  whole  roof  is  trussed  on  these  posts.  This 
arrangement  gives  the  garage  space  an  L  shape  of 
50x137:6  feet  and  50x90  feet  without  a  post  or  ob- 
struction of  any  kind.  The  building  is  being  con- 
structed of  glass  so  far  as  possible,  using  only  posts 
and  columns  on  the  outside  sufficient  to  support  the 
roof  and  windows.  The  color  of  the  exterior  is  to 
be  of  pure  white.  The  offices  are  to  be  surrounded 
by  brass  railings  and  the  posts  dividing  the  sales  de- 
partment from  the  garage  are  to  be  connected  by  ar- 
tistic chains.  The  ladies'  and  gentlemen's  parlors 
and  waiting  rooms  are  to  be  provided  with  the  most 
artistic  equipment  and  furniture. 

The  building  will  be  completed  and  occupied  be- 
tween February  15th  and  March  15th.  The  directors 
are  as  follows:  J.  A.  Marsh,  president;  H.  C.  Tilden, 
Livingston  Jenks,  C.  K.  Harley  and  C.  L.  Tilden. 


e  and  garage,  having  a  frontage  of  137  :6  feet  on  Gol- 
Park,  and  137:6  feet  on  Elm  avenue. 

and  latest  models  of  fire  arms,  sporting  goods,  etc. 
Mr.  Skinner  has  been  identified  in  this  city  for  many 
years  in  the  sporting  goods  line,  and  is  well-known 
throughout  the  Pacific  Coast,  being  one  of  the  most 
popular  men  in  this  line  of  business  in  the  city.  Dur- 
ing the  past  30  years  Mr.  Skinner  has  mack-  many 
friends  among  sportsmen,  always  ready  and  willing 
as  he  is  to  give  them  pointers  as  to  the  different  quali- 
ties of  ammunition  and  fishing  tackle,  used  in  differ- 
ent sections  of  the  State  for  various  species  of  game 
and  fish. 

Many  of  his  friends  have  not  heard  of  the  change 
which  has  taken  place,  and  will  be  informed  through 
these  columns  in  the  near  future  as  to  location  of 
his  new  establishment.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  Mr, 
Skinner  is  one  of  the  best  posted  men  in  the  country 
on  game  laws  and  the  different  materials  used  for 
hunting  and  fishing  in  the  various  lakes  and  hunting 
reserves,  and  has  always  been  ready  to  impart  infor- 
mation valuable  to  the  sportsman. 


Mr.  H.  E.  Skinner  has  severed  his  connection  with 
the  H.  E.  Skinner  Company.  The  company  will  dis- 
incorporate and  start  under  a  new  name,  while  Mr. 
Skinner,  with  his  two  sons,  intend  opening  up  a 
new  establishment  under  the  firm  name  of  H.  E. 
Skinner  &  Sons.    The  new  firm  will  carry  all  makes 


An  interesting  exhibit  at  the  automobile  show  in 
Paris  was  the  Renard  trackless  train,  consisting  of 
a  number  of  passenger  vehicles  drawn  by  a  60  horse- 
power tractor.  The  tractor  is  not  exhibited,  but  the 
method  by  which  the  rear  wheels  of  the  cars  are  me- 
chanically driven  is  shown.  An  overshaft,  univer- 
sally jointed  wherever  necessary,  runs  the  entire 
length  of  the  train,  and  communicates  the  drive  to 
under-inclined      and      universally-jointed      propeller 


The  Renard  Automobile  Train 


Latest  type  of  Freak  automobile  construction. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  g,  1904. 


snafts  on  each  vehicle.  The  drive  is  through  spur 
gearing  contained  in  a  gear  box  set  in  the  frame  of 
each  car. 


The  Flexbl 
Another  machine  exhibited  at  the  Paris  show  was 
the  Flexbi.  This  car  lias  four  steering  wheels  car- 
ried on  spindles  set  at  the  ends  of  a  cambered  frame 
rocking  centrally  on  the  fixed  driving  axle  of  the  car. 
The  steering  spindles  arc  connected  to  an  articulated 
steering  gear,  so  that  when  the  wheels  are  deflected 
each  takes  the  angle  necessary  to  the  curve  desired. 
The  longitudinal  rocking  of  each  side  member  per- 
mits of  any  wheel  passing  over  obstacles  without 
lifting  the  car.  The  steering  center  of  the  wheels 
are  in  the  hub  centers. 


Ormond-Daytona  Beach,  Florida,  has  the  reputa- 
tion as  the  fastest  speed  course  for  autos  in  America. 

Nestman,  in  a  Stevens-Duryea,  clipped  off  a  mile 
i'1  57  I_5  seconds,  making  a  new  world's  record  for 
cars  of  1,000  pounds  and  under.  He  also  drove  'his 
machine  five  miles  in  4:57  3-5. 

Cliarles  Schmidt,  on  the  Packard  Gray  Wolf,  cov- 
ered the  mile  in  50  2-5  seconds,  and  five  miles  in 
4:21  3-5- 

Schmidt  also  covered  a  mile  on  this  course  (wind 
blowing)  in  46  2-5  seconds,  <>r  two  fractions  from  the 
world's  record  on  a  straight-away"  track,  same  be- 
ing held  in  France. 

The  times  developed  at  the  meet  were  the  fastest 
yet  made  in  America,  and  it  is  expected  that  before 
the  Florida  tournament  is  over  the  world's  records 
from  one  to  five  miles  will  be  held  in  this  country. 


RATES  LESS  THAN  CARRIAGES 

CALL 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  COMPANY, 
Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Avenues. 


Phones:  Larkin  3841;  Polk  3086.  Down-town 
office:  Lobby  Palace  Hotel,  Phone  Bush  859. 
You  can  secure  these  cars  at  any  hotel  or  cafe 
by  asking  for  MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO. 


SALES  DEPARTMENT  COAST  AGENCIES. 
Pierce  Arrow  Touring  Car  (French)  price  $2650 

Pierce    Stanhope    (French    type) 1350 

Northern  Runabout  1  leader  in  New  York)        800 
Fine    Garage,    expert    mechanics,    guaranteed 
expenses. 


MOBILE     CARRIAGE     CO. 

Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Aves.  Open  all  night. 


THE  NEW  JONES  CORBIN 


The  sportiest  and  highest  powered 
car  on  the  market.  Arrange  for 
immediate  demonstration. 

PACIFIC    MOTOR.    CAR   CO. 

49    CITY    HALL    AV£.  SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL 


Have  you  seen  the       ■jfr-r 


BUCKBOARD? 

The  talk  of  the  town. 
Best    Automobile    at  any 


price. 
Costs 


$425 


STRONG-  EASY    R1DING-RELIABLE-GUARANTEED 


ON     EXHIBIT     AT- 


SUNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 

1814  MARKET  STREET       -       -       •        SAN   FRANCISCO 

THE 


White  Garage 

Cor.  Market  &  Franklin 

—Sales  rooms— 
300-302-304   Post  Street.    S.    F 
White      Sewing    Machine    Co 

The  1903  "White"  Largest  and  best  equipped  auto- 

mobile garage  on  the  Coast.    Machines  of  all  makes  stored  and  repair*  d 

ELECTRIC  and 

GASOLINE 
CARS... 

A.  F.  BROOKE  RIDLEY,  ,8  *g*MSS™* 

Telephone  South  394  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


We  have  these  Leathers  in 
all  Colors.  Make  tljem  in 
any  style  and  guarantee 
satisfaction. 

H.  E.   SKINNER   CO. 

801  MARKET  ST. 


VELVET 

LEATHER 

SUITS 

for  Men 
and  Women 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 28S  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
\\  estern  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


January  16,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


*5 


ALL  SAINTS  NIGHT. 

It  was  the  nlshi    the  v.  1 

aints.  that    I    foi 
Bark  to  mo  i  .11110  my   little  son. 
And    woo!      I    know    liim    not. 

How  could  I  dream  thn  small  (eel  bare 

Wore  those  that,  snowy  .-> 
We  shut  from  out  the  Ughl  and  air 
To  find  their  way  to  God? 

The  randies  that  I  pave  to  llgl  1 
That  darksome  road   for  him. 

He  did  not  bring  with  him  U'.st  night. 
And  my  reft  eyes  were  dim. 

I  shut  the  door  against  the  child 

I  would  have  died  to  USB; 
What  if  those  feet,  by  earth  defiled. 

Their   backward    way   should    111 

If  any  child  again  might  come. 

Though  he  in  tatters  dressed, 
I'd   take   him   in   my   empty   home 

And  rock  him  on  my  breast. 


A   SOUTHt_..N    TWILIGHT. 
By  Clinton  Bcollard  in  Smart  Set 
A  little  shallow  silver  urn, 

High  in  the  East  the  new  moon  hung; 
Amid  the  palms  a  fountain  flung 
Its  snowy  floss,  and  there,  above, 
With   its  impassioned   unconcern, 

A  hidden  bird  discoursed  of  love. 

I  felt  your  hand  upon  my  arm 
Flutter  as  doth  a  thrush's  wing. 
Then  tighten.     Sweet,  how  small  a  thing 
Draws  kindred  spirits  heart  to  heart! 
More  was  that  hour's  elusive  charm 
To  us  than  eloquence  or  art. 


THE  TRUANT. 

By  Charlotte  Becker  in  the  Smart  Set 

0  moonbeam,  tell  me,  have  you  seen, 
Upon  your  ghostly  way, 

Perchance,  a  little  flower  o'  Jream, 
That  I  lost  yesterday? 

"Aye,  I  have  seen  your  treasure,  child. 
And  safe  from  harm  it  lies. 

1  met  young  Love  within  the  wood, 
Your  dream-bower  in  his  eyes!" 


A  SONG. 

By  Louise  Mack  in  Pearson's 
My  heart  is   empty,   empty, 
Swept   clear    of   love    and    pain. 
I'll  hie  me  to  the  lilac, 
I'll   woo  the   rose   again. 

I'll    wander    in    the    starlight 

And   lie   among   the    leaves, 

And  dream  to  the  night-raindrops 

That   beat   about   the   eaves. 

My  heart   is   empty,   empty. 
Swept  clear  of  love,  and   you, 
Who  stole  me  from  my  lilacs, 
Stole  stars   and   lilies,   too. 
You    stilled   the    sighing    forests. 
You  broke  the  wind's   control, 
And   I   forgot  the  sunsets 
Wlhen  you  were  in  my  soul. 

My   heart  is   empty,   empty, 
It  holds  no  more  of  you. 
Oh,    enter,   wdnds   and   sunsets, 
Starlight  and   rose  and  dew. 
Ah,    faithful    ones,    forgiving, 
You  bend  to  me  once  more. 
Though  you  have  guessed  the  secret 
That  hides   in  my  heart's   core. 


SEALSKIN 

JACKETS 

To  Order     $125     And  Up 

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Remodeling*,  repairing  and  dyeing  al  «h<-rt  notloe 

POPULAR     PRICES 

Siberian  Fur  Co, 

Itlfnri 

Mmu'.MuM  re     FUR.R.IER.S 

AD.     KOCOUR,     Manager 
Formerly  cutter  with  RevMon  Freree, 
Pnris,  London,   New  York 

121  POST  STREET,  Rooms  7  to  11 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


J  p  LACAZE  &  Co. 

French     Laundry    Work    Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 


TEL. 

EAST    61S                                                        829    SVTTEK    ST 

R. 

McCOLGAN 

REAL     ESTATE    and     LOANS 

24  Montgomery  St.  S.  F* 

Telephone  Main  5516 

$500  REWARD 


for  any  case  of  Rheumatism  which  can- 
,not  be  cured  with  Dr.  Drummond'g 
Lightning  Remedies;  restores  stiff  joints,  drawn  cords,  and  hardened 
muscles.  Proof  from  25  States  sent  ou  reuuest  Address  Drummond 
Medicine  Co.  84  Nassau  Street,  New  York. 


WEAK  MEN  AND  WOMEN 


Should     use     DAMIANA     BIT- 
TERS,     the      great      Mexican 
remedy.    Gives  health  and  strength  to  the  sexual  organs. 
Send  for  circular:  Naber,  Alts  &  Brune,  325  Market  St.,  S.  F. 


and  Copper  Mining  Co. 

Capital  Stock  $1,000,000.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County,  Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be  levied. 

50,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  Is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  Issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  raiseu  to  50  cents  a  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  of  the  company,  room  20FUp  '^13  Mar- 
ket street,  for  prospectus,  which  gives  Jjjjfl  information. 
VINCENT  -ivfEALE,  Secretary. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


^^^m*^^T^? 


Insurance 


The  twenty-eighth  annual  meeting  of  the  Fire  Un- 
derwriters' Association  of  the  Pacific  is  now  history. 
It  was  called  to  order  Tuesday,  the  12th  inst.,  at  10 
a.  m.,  and  concluded  its  business  affairs  on  Wednes- 
day, the  13th,  at  5  p.  m.  The  following  was  the  pro- 
gramme : 

10:00  a.  m.  Tuesday — 1.  Reports:  Secretary- 
Treasurer,  Calvert  Meade ;  Executive  Committee, 
W.  H.  Gibbons;  Library  Committee,  Arthur  Brown. 
2.  President's  address:  Whitney  Palache.  3.  Our 
Library:  J.  P.  Moore.  4.  Petroleum  and  its  Relation 
to  Fire  Underwriting:  Albert  W.  Gunnison. 

2  :oo  p.  m.  Tuesday — 5.  Is  the  Rate  Adequate : 
Herbert  Folger;  6.  Manufacturers'  Cost  of  Replace- 
ment :  William  Maris ;  7.  Adventures  of  a  Daily  Re- 
port: R.  C.  Medcraft. 

10:00  a.  m.  Wednesday — 8.  Safeguards  in  the 
LTse  of  Statistics :  Professor  Carl  C.  Plehn  ;  9.  The 
Theatre  Hazard:  W.  S.  Duval;  10.  The  Fire  Hazard 
of  Electricity :  Prof.  C.  L.  Cory. 

2:00  p.  m.  Wednesday — 11.  (a)  University  Work 
in  Insurance,  (b)  Co-Insurance  Clause:  A.  W.  Whit- 
ney; 12.  The  Fire  Hazard  of  San  Francisco:  H.  Mc- 
D.  Spencer;  13.  Reports  of  Special  Committees;  14. 
California  Knapsack:  George  F.  Grant,  Edward 
Niles ;  15.   Election  of  Officers. 

The  papers  read  were  of  more  than  ordinary  merit. 
Herbert  Folger  was  thoroughly  in  touch  with  his 
subject.  Medcraft's  Adventures  of  a  Daily  Report 
was  a  thoroughly  interesting  contribution,  and  the 
papers  of  Mr.  Duval  and  Mr.  McD.  Spencer  both 
evidenced  that  an  enormous  amount  of  study  and 
care  had  been  expended  in  preparation.  The  Knap- 
sack, as  usual,  was  full  of  good  things,  and  Messrs. 
G.  F.  Grant  and  Edward  Niles  as  editors  are  justly 
entitled  to  all  the  encomiums  passed  on  the  result 
of  their  efforts. 

The  principal  officers  elected  to  serve  for  the  en- 
suing year  were:  Mr.  J.  L.  Fuller,  president;  Mr.  A. 
W.  Thornton,  vice-president;  and  Mr.  Calvert  Meade 
was  re-elected  secretary.  Mr.  Palache,  the  retiring 
president,  becomes  in  the  usual  order  of  things  the 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee.  Grant  and 
Niles  retain  their  editorship  and  business  manage- 
ment of  the  Knapsack.  The  attendance  of  the  mem- 
bers was  large  and  their  attention  in  proportion. 

The  smouldering  fires  of  conflict  were  successfully 
banked  by  a  thin  coating  of  the  ashes  of  policy,  and 
only  in  one  or  two  instances  did  it  threaten  to  leap 
into  flames.  The  Association  departed  from  its  cus- 
tom, which  it  has  been  understood  for  years  should 
pertain,  in  not  electing  any  officer  to  any  position 
in  the  direct  line  of  promotion  unless  he  resided  in 
San  Francisco.  This  time  it  took  Mr  Thornton 
from  the  Northwest  and  made  him  vice-president, 
with  an  alacrity  that  bespoke  a  programme.  This 
verifies  the  intimation  given  in  a  previous  edition 
that  the  Northwestern  Specials  were  here  and  pre- 
pared to  vote  ;  and  their  vote  and  their  numbers  re- 
sulted in  Mr.  Thornton's  advancement.  It  is  a  wise 
[■-'-"Hon,  and  was  caused  by  a  desire  on  the  part 
'-'e  association  for  amity.  The  Northwest 
MO  b» -.ignition,  and  Mr.  Meade  his  re-elec- 
Golden  Gate  anct^  the  Cerebus  of  the  Northwest's 


The  course  of  this  paper  was  criticised  in  the 
meeting,  and  that  vigorously  by  one  of  the  most  re- 
spected members  of  the  Association,  who  is  as  posi- 
tive in  his  nature  as  he  is  forceful  in  his  remarks. 
The  correctness,  however,  of  the  remarks  objected 
to  was  corroborated  by  the  before-mentioned  elec- 
tion of  Mr.  Thornton,  and  the  further  fact  that  it 
caused  the  Association  to  get  out  of  the  old  rut  and 
called  forth  the  liveliest  speech  of  the  session. 

*  *  * 

The  more  sober  business  of  the  meeting  was  cap- 
ped by  the  regulation  banquet  at  the  Maple  Room 
of  the  Palace.  The  dinner  committee  in  the  dis- 
charge of  its  duties,  covered  itself  with  glory  and 
filled  some  of  the  guests  with  indigestion.  There 
was  a  friendly  spirit  (other  than  that  in  the  bottles) 
around  the  board,  and  as  the  glasses  clinked,  one 
could  feel  rates  higher,  losses  lower,  and  business  im- 
proving. The  remarks,  the  jokes,  and  the  guests 
were  all  in  perfect  good  taste,  even  if  some  of  the 
latter  were  not  dressed  for  the  occasion.     It  was  a 

love  feast,  with   the  sad   experiences   cut  out. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Palache  made  an  ideal  toast-master,  and  kept 
the  gathering  full  of  life  in  a  manner  which  compels 
the  acknowledgment  of  his  ability  as  a  presiding  offi- 
cer. 

*  *  * 

The  Indiana  Appellate  Court,  says  an  exchange, 
has  declared  that  the  Northwestern  Insurance  Com- 
pany must  pay  three  checks,  each  for  $10,000,  to  Mrs. 
Kate  Kidder,  and  one  which  the  company  stopped 
payment  when  the  creditors  of  the  milling  company, 
of  which  her  husband  had  been  president,  made  a 
claim  to  the  insurance  money  on  the  ground  that  the 
premiums  had  been  paid  with  the  money  of  the  mill- 
ing company.  The  court  held  that  as  the  company 
had  issued  checks  and  taken  up  the  policies  it  was 
stopped  from  refusing  payment  because  the  issu- 
ance of  checks  was  an  independent  transaction.  This 
is  republished  because  it  is  a  point  which  is  novel 
and  is  worthy  of  note  by  the  profession. 
'*  *  * 

C.  A.  Mills  has  left  the  Union  Central. 

*  *  * 

Thomas  H.  Bowles,  at  one  time  general  agent  of 
the  Mutual  Life  in  Wisconsin,  and  who  tried  to  bur- 
glarize himself  into  a  position  with  that  company, 
in  an  official  capacity,  is  reported  to  be  now  State 
agent  for  the  Equitable  for  Michigan. 

*  *  * 

The  directors  of  the  Royal  Exchange  Assurance 
Company  declared  an  interim  dividend  of  4  per  cent, 
tax  free,  payable  on  January  6th. 

*  *  * 

The  insurance  press  states  that  another  effort  has 
been  made  by  outside  parties  to  secure  a  controll- 
ing interest  in  the  Hanover.  The  company's  stock- 
holders received  letters  from  one  F.  E.  Baker,  who 
signed  himself  "Syndicate  Agent."  It  has  been  hint- 
ed that  Theodore  H.  Price,  who  at  one  time  tried 
to  secure  a  controlling  interest  in  the  company,  is 
behind  Baker  in  the  present  move.  There  seems  to  be 
little  chance  that  the  outsiders  will  win. 


Dr.  Decker, 

Dentist,   806   Market.     Specialty   "Colton   Gas"   for   painless 
teeth  extracting. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau   has   removed   to   the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont 
gomery  street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters, 


January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


OBITUARY. 


John  A.  Muir.  one  of  the  best-known  r.ii'- 

•  ■■A  away  at   Loa    Vngeles  "n  the 
Sth.     Muir  held  standing,  in  the  opinion  of  the  r.nl- 
world,  only  second  to  II.  E.  Huntington.     Il<- 
began  his  railroad  career  as  a  telegraph  opera) 
Rocklin.   now    famous   as   the   cradle   of   many   cele- 
brated railroad  men.     He  made  rapid  strides  in  In-, 
-ion.  finally  succeeding  to  the  position 
of  Division  Superintendent  of  the  Southern   Pacific 
ipany.     This  he  held  until   1902.     Upon  the  ac 
cession  of  Mr.   Hays  he  severed  his  connection  and 
hecame  associated  with  Mr.  H.  E.  Huntington's  Los 
Angeles  Railway  System.     He  leaves  a   widow  and 
six   sons. 

When  Samuel  Cutler  Bigelow,  a  well-known  han- 
ker of  San  Francisco,  died  the  other  .lay  (Januarj 
7th)  one  of  the  old  school  of  financiers  was  lost  to 
the  world.  Mr.  Bigelow  had  reached  the  ripe  old  age 
of  80  years.  He  still  looked  forward  to  longer  life, 
and  a  pathetic  incident  in  his  taking  off  was  that  he 
had  just  finished  a  fine  new  mansion  which  he  did 
not  live  to  enjoy. 

In  their  1904  calendar  just  received,  N.  W.  Aver 
&  Son  have  adhered  to  their  popular  conception  of 
a  business  calendar,  but  have  changed  the  design  and 
coloring.  The  size  is  the  same,  about  fourteen  by 
twenty-eight  inches,  with  large  readable  dates,  hut 
the  clay  modeled  design  printed  in  sepia  tints  gives 
more  prominence  to  their  well-known  motto,  "Keep- 
ing Everlastingly  at  it  Brings  Success"  ;  not  a  bad 
thing,  by  the  way,  for  business  people,  and  most 
other  people,  to  have  before  them  throughout  the 
year.  It  is  generally  conceded  that  this  advertising 
agency  annually  expends  more  money  for  advertis- 
ing than  any  other  concern  of  the  kind,  which  fact 
lends  interest  to  their  utterances  on  the  subject.  Re- 
quests for  this  calendar  addressed  to  their  Philadel- 
phia office,  accompanied  by  twenty-five  cents  to  cover 
cost  and  postage,  will  be  taken  care  of  for  the  present. 
Last  year  the  supply  lasted  barely  ten  days. 

If  Your   Physician 

prescribes  a  milk  diet,  for  its  easy  digestibility,  it  will  be 
well  to  use  Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream  to 
get  a  ricb,  deliciously  flavored  milk  food,  perfectly  steril- 
ized, according  to  latest  sanitary  methods.  For  general 
household  uses.     Prepared  by  Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


The  epicure  knows   that  an  oyster  should   be  eaten 

as  near  the  oyster  bed  as  possible,  and  that  the  least  pos- 
sible time  should  ensue  between  the  time  the  oyster  is 
"tonged"  to  the  minute  of  consumption.  Moraghan's  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  Market  is  world-famed  as  the  place 
best  to  secure  the  succulent  bivalve.  The  "chef"  is  pre- 
eminent as  a  master  of  the  art  of  cookery,  and  no  one  seek- 
ing satisfaction  in  oysters  will  ever  do  aught  but  praise 
Moraghan's. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  -jtn  andl  Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St.  Turkish  Bath. 


Fire,  Llghtni' 

The  Home  Insurai. 

Orga. 


-New  York 


Capital $3,000,000.         Gu 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms. 

sentatives  before  concluding  short  time  > 

may  be  to  your  advantage. 
H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  t 

tan  Manager. 

210  Sansome  St., 


\    -£>     ,.*17,300,000 

%,  %  %.     r  Eepre- 
^     ^   <t         .^ntracts 

ST         ipoli- 


-v 

■  St.  « 


NEWS    LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


*7 


FIRE,    MARINE    AND    INLAND    INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded   A.   D.  17*1. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     (3,000.000 

Surplus    to    rnllrj -Holders     6]ok]oI6 

JAMES  I).  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  &  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Cnpltol    raid-up    R.44G.100.  Assets,  t24.662.043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders.  JS.93u.431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  1131,000.000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch : 

FRANK    W.    DICKSON.    Manager,  601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 


Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF   HARTFORD.      Established   I860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .    2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  411  California  St. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,250,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $20,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Fair  Building.  230  Montgomery  Street.  San  Franolsco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital     187,000,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  316  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    EEFtTET.    GEEM-ANY 

Capital  {2,250,000  Asset*  $10,934,240 

VOSS,    CONRAD  &  CO.,   General  Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:   204-208   Sansome  St.,   San   Francisco. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


26 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16,  1904. 


^ajW 


Insurance 


The  twenty-eighth  annual  meeting  of  the  Fire  Un- 
derwriters' Association  of  the  Pacific  is  now  history. 
It  was  called  to  order  Tuesday,  the  12th  inst,  at  10 
a.  m.,  and  concluded  its  business  affairs  on  Wednes- 
day, the  13th,  at  5  p.  111.  The  following  was  the  pro- 
gramme : 

10:00  a.  m.  Tuesday — I.  Reports:  Secretary- 
Treasurer,  Calvert  Meade ;  Executive  Committee, 
W.  H.  Gibbons ;  Library  Committee,  Arthur  Brown. 
2.  President's  address:  Whitney  Palache.  3.  Our 
Library :  J.  P.  Moore.  4.  Petroleum  and  its  Relation 
to  Fire  Underwriting:  Albert  W.  Gunnison. 

2  :oo  p.  m.  Tuesday — 5.  Is  the  Rate  Adequate : 
Herbert  Folger ;  6.  Manufacturers'  Cost  of  Replace- 
ment: William  Maris;  7.  Adventures  of  a  Daily  Re- 
port :  R.  C.  Medcraft. 

10:00  a.  m.  Wednesday — 8.  Safeguards  in  the 
Use  of  Statistics:  Professor  Carl  C.  Plehn  ;  9.  The 
Theatre  Hazard:  W.  S.  Duval;  10.  The  Fire  Hazard 
of  Electricity :  Prof.  C.  L.  Cory. 

2:00  p.  m.  Wednesday — II.  (a)  University  Work 
in  Insurance,  (b)  Co-Insurance  Clause:  A.  W.  Whit- 
ney; 12.  The  Fire  Hazard  of  San  Francisco:  H.  Mc- 
D.  Spencer;  13.  Reports  of  Special  Committees;  14. 
California  Knapsack :  George  F.  Grant,  Edward 
Niles;  15.  Election  of  Officers. 

The  papers  read  were  of  more  than  ordinary  merit. 
Herbert  Folger  was  thoroughly  in  touch  with  his 
subject.  Medcraft's  Adventures  of  a  Daily  Report 
was  a  thoroughly  interesting  contribution,  and  the 
papers  of  Mr.  Duval  and  Mr.  McD.  Spencer  both 
evidenced  that  an  enormous  amount  of  study  and 
care  had  been  expended  in  preparation.  The  Knap- 
sack, as  usual,  was  full  of  good  things,  and  Messrs. 
G.  F.  Grant  and  Edward  Niles  as  editors  are  justly 
entitled  to  all  the  encomiums  passed  on  the  result 
of  their  efforts. 

The  principal  officers  elected  to  serve  for  the  en- 
suing year  were :  Mr.  J.  L.  Fuller,  president ;  Mr.  A. 
W.  Thornton,  vice-president ;  and  Mr.  Calvert  Meade 
was  re-elected  secretary.  Mr.  Palache,  the  retiring 
president,  becomes  in  the  usual  order  of  things  the 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee.  Grant  and 
Niles  retain  their  editorship  and  business  manage- 
ment of  the  Knapsack.  The  attendance  of  the  mem- 
bers was  large  and  their  attention  in  proportion. 

The  smouldering  fires  of  conflict  were  successfully 
banked  by  a  thin  coating  of  the  ashes  of  policv,  and 
only  in  one  or  two  instances  did  it  threaten  to  leap 
into  flames.  The  Association  departed  from  its  cus- 
tom, which  it  has  been  understood  for  years  should 
pertain,  in  not  electing  any  officer  to  any  position 
in  the  direct  line  of  promotion  unless  he  resided  in 
San  Francisco.  This  time  it  took  Mr  Thornton 
from  the  Northwest  and  made  him  vice-president, 
with  an  alacrity  that  bespoke  a  programme.  This 
verifies  the  intimation  given  in  a  previous  edition 
that  the  Northwestern  Specials  were  here  and  pre- 
pared to  vote;  and  their  vote  and  their  numbers  re- 
sulted in  Mr.  Thornton's  advancement.  It  is  a  wise 
_  ;^~"fion,  and  was  caused  by  a  desire  on  the  part 
i  the  wiiov^e  association  for  amity.  The  Northwest 
°  cured  its  tW'-Qgnition,  and  Mr.  Meade  his  re-elec- 
!vy*  bv  this  sop  t^  the  Cerebus  of  the  Northwest's 


The  course  of  this  paper  was  criticised  in  the 
meeting,  and  that  vigorously  by  one  of  the  most  re- 
spected members  of  the  Association,  who  is  as  posi- 
tive in  his  nature  as  he  is  forceful  in  his  remarks. 
The  correctness,  however,  of  the  remarks  objected 
to  was  corroborated  by  the  before-mentioned  elec- 
tion of  Mr.  Thornton,  and  the  further  fact  that  it 
caused  the  Association  to  get  out  of  the  old  rut  and 
called  forth  the  liveliest  speech  of  the  session. 

The  more  sober  business  of  the  meeting  was  cap- 
ped by  the  regulation  banquet  at  the  Maple  Room 
of  the  Palace.  The  dinner  committee  in  the  dis- 
charge of  its  duties,  covered  itself  with  glory  and 
filled  some  of  the  guests  with  indigestion.  There 
was  a  friendly  spirit  (other  than  that  in  the  bottles) 
around  the  board,  and  as  the  glasses  clinked,  one 
could  feel  rates  higher,  losses  lower,  and  business  im- 
proving. The  remarks,  the  jokes,  and  the  guests 
were  all  in  perfect  good  taste,  even  if  some  of  the 
latter  were  not  dressed  for  the  occasion.  It  was  a 
love  feast,  with   the  sad  experiences   cut  out. 

Mr.  Palache  made  an  ideal  toast-master,  and  kept 
the  gathering  full  of  life  in  a  manner  which  compels 
the  acknowledgment  of  his  ability  as  a  presiding  offi- 
cer. 

*  *  * 

The  Indiana  Appellate  Court,  says  an  exchange, 
has  declared  that  the  Northwestern  Insurance  Com-, 
pany  must  pay  three  checks,  each  for  $10,000,  to  Mrs. 
Kate  Kidder,  and  one  which  the  company  stopped 
payment  when  the  creditors  of  the  milling  company, 
of  which  her  husband  had  been  president,  made  a 
claim  to  the  insurance  money  on  the  ground  that  the 
premiums  had  been  paid  with  the  money  of  the  mill- 
ing company.  The  court  held  that  as  the  company 
had  issued  checks  and  taken  up  the  policies  it  was 
stopped  from  refusing  payment  because  the  issu- 
ance of  checks  was  an  independent  transaction.  This 
is  republished  because  it  is  a  point  which  is  novel 
and  is  worthy  of  note  by  the  profession. 

C.  A.  Mills  has  left  the  Union  Central. 

Thomas  H.  Bowles,  at  one  time  general  agent  of 
the  Mutual  Life  in  Wisconsin,  and  who  tried  to  bur- 
glarize himself  into  a  position  with  that  company, 
in  an  official  capacity,  is  reported  to  be  now  State 
agent  for  the  Equitable  for  Michigan. 

*  *  * 

The  directors  of  the  Royal  Exchange  Assurance 
Company  declared  an  interim  dividend  of  4  per  cent, 
tax  free,  payable  on  January  6th. 

*  *  * 

The  insurance  press  states  that  another  effort  has 
been  made  by  outside  parties  to  secure  a  controll- 
ing interest  in  the  Hanover.  The  company's  stock- 
holders received  letters  from  one  F.  E.  Baker,  who 
signed  himself  "Syndicate  Agent."  It  has  been  hint- 
ed that  Theodore  H.  Price,  who  at  one  time  tried 
to  secure  a  controlling  interest  in  the  company,  is 
behind  Baker  in  the  present  move.  There  seems  to  be 
little  chance  that  the  outsiders  will  win. 


Or.  Decker, 

Dentist,   806   Market.     Specialty   "Colton   Gas"  for  painless 
teeth   extracting. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau   has   removed    to   the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont- 
gomery street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters, 


January  16,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


OBITUARY. 

John  A.  Muir  ■m«n  rnilro.nl  men 

•if  t!  -,|  aw. iv  at    I  ..-    \ngcles  on  tlic 

8th.    Muir  held  standing,  in  the  opinion  of  the  rail- 
world,  only  second  t.>  II.  I".  Huntington.     Il<- 
began  his  railm.nl  career  as  a  telegraph  opera) 

lin.   now    famous   as   the   rraillc    of   many   cele- 
brated  railroad   men.      He  made  rapid  strides  in  his 
sion,  finally  succeeding   to  the  position 

of  Division  Superintendent  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company.  This  he  held  until  tijoj.  Upon  the  ac- 
cession of  Mr.  Hays  he  severed  his  connection  and 
became  associated  with  Mr.  H.  I".  Huntington's  Los 

les  Railway  System.  He  leaves  a  widow  and 
>ns. 
When  Samuel  Cutler  Bigelow,  a  well-known  han- 
ker of  San  Francisco,  died  the  other  day  (January 
jlh)  one  of  the  old  school  of  financiers  was  lost  to 
the  world.  Mr.  Bigelow  had  reached  the  ripe  old  age 
of  80  years.  He  still  looked  forward  to  longer  life, 
and  a  pathetic  incident  in  his  taking  off  was  that  he 
had  just  finished  a  fine  new  mansion  which  he  did 
not  live  to  enjoy. 

In  their  1904  calendar  just  received.  X.  W.  Ayer 
&  Son  have  adhered  to  their  popular  conception  of 
a  business  calendar,  but  have  changed  the  design  and 
coloring.  The  size  is  the  same,  about  fourteen  by 
twenty-eight  inches,  with  large  readable  dates,  but 
the  clay  modeled  design  printed  in  sepia  tints  gives 
more  prominence  to  their  well-known  motto,  "Keep- 
ing Everlastingly  at  it  Brings  Success"  ;  not  a  bad 
thing,  by  the  way,  for  business  people,  and  most 
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ing than  any  other  concern  of  the  kind,  which  fact 
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quests for  this  calendar  addressed  to  their  Philadel- 
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Last  year  the  supply  lasted  barely  ten  days. 

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NEWS   LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


The  epicure  knows   that  an  oyster  should   be  eaten 

as  near  the  oyster  bed  as  possible,  and  that  the  least  pos- 
sible time  should  ensue  between  the  time  the  oyster  is 
"tonged"  to  the  minute  of  consumption.  Moraghan's  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  Market  is  world-famed  as  the  place 
best  to  secure  the  succulent  bivalve.  The  "chef"  is  pre- 
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ing satisfaction  in  oysters  will  ever  do  aught  but  praise 
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To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St.  Turkish  Bath. 


Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital $3,000,000.         Gross  Cash  Assets $17,300,000 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Repre- 
sentatives before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
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FIRE.    MARINE    AND    INLAND    INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  1792. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF   PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

I'aid-up    Cn  pi  tat     33,000.000 

Surplus    lo    Policy-Holders    6.022.01G 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  8.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,    A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  raid-up.  33.446.100.  Assets,  324. 662,043.36 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  18,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  3131,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,  601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   1850. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .   2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
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Unexcelled:  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 


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British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital     

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


367,000,000 

316  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF  EEFtJBT.   gebmant 

Capital  $2,250,000  Asset*  310,984,246 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  204-208   Sansome  St.,   San  Francisco. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


28 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER." 


January  16,  1904. 


X5he     Greater     Love 


They  had  been  school  chums,  and  unlike  most  i^irl 
friends',  their  regard  for  each  other  had  outgrown 
their  short  frocks.  Hetty  Lester  was  the  daring 
spirit  of  the  two.  Tall,  dark-skinned,  black-eyed — 
like  Susan  in  the  play — with  hair  bluey-black  as  a 
raven's,  she  looked  like  a  Spaniard,  and  was  know.' 
to  all  the  pupils  at  Chilcote  High  School  as  "the 
Gipsy."  She  was  the  leader  in  mischief  and  the 
mouthpiece  in  complaint.  Whenever  an  expedition 
was  planned  or  a  difficulty  had  to  he  faced.  Gipsy 
was  always  in  demand.  .Most  of  the  girls  feared 
Gipsy,  but  all  of  them  liked  her;  she.  on  the  other 
hand,  held  their  likes  and  dislikes  in  cool  indifference. 
When  she  accepted  the  role  of  leader — which  was 
pretty  generally  whenever  a  leader  was  required — 
her  orders  were  issued  without  the  slightest  refer- 
ence to  their  wishes,  and  they  had  to  obey  them,  or 
Gipsy,  with  a  grin  of  her  gleaming  teeth,  left  them 
to  shift  for  themselves. 

Out  of  the  whole  school  she  formed  but  one  attach- 
ment, and  this  was  more  like  the  passive  acceptance 
of  a  blind,  dog-like  worship  than  a  warm-blooded  re- 
turn of  the  attachment  which  pretty  Alice  Mar- 
chant  bestowed  on  her.  Alice  was  a  contrast  to  Gipsy 
in  every  way.  She  was  as  decidedly  blonde  as  Gipsj 
was  brunette,  and  she  was  as  timid,  trustful  and 
yielding  as  Gipsy  was  strong,  self-willed  and  self-re- 
liant. 

The  affection  which  Alice  bestowed  on  (  iipsy  was 
a  source  of  wonderment  to  the  other  girls,  who  would 
have  thought  it  much  more  natural  bad  she  been  re- 
pelled by  Gipsy's  brusque  and  wayward  manner,  But 
friendship  of  a  strong  and  lasting  character  is  most 
frequently  found  between  those  of  contrasting  dis- 
positions, and  this  well-known  fact  must  be  held  as 
accounting  for  the  fast  and  firm  friendship  which  had 
sprung  up  between  them. 

Gipsy's  relatives  were  much  better  off  than  those 
of  Alice,  and  after  the  school  days  were  over  her 
time  was  mainly  devoted  to  holiday  making.  She  re- 
membered her  little  friend  with  sufficient  interest  to 
write  her  lengthy  accounts  of  her  continental  wander- 
ings and  her  many  holiday  jaunts.  They  w  1  n 
sources  of  the  greatest  delight  to  Alice  during  the 
period  while  her  parents  were  anxiously  debating  the 
question  of  her  future:  for  Alice's  father  was  but  a 
poor  country  parson,  and  it  was  necessary  that  she 
should  choose  a  profession. 

The  choice  was  at  length  made,  and  Mire  opened 
a  "Translations,  Correspondence  and  Typewriting 
Bureau"  in  Leicester  street.  It  was  a  decision  ar- 
rived at  in  accordance  with  her  own  wishes,  and 
when  she  was  fairly  installed  as  proprietress  of  the 
two  rooms  which  constituted  the  bureau,  she  pluckily 
set  herself  to  work  up  a  clientele.  In  this  endeavor 
she  was  loyally  assisted  by  all  her  old  school  chums 
who  had  connections  in  London,  for  they  recom- 
mended the  new  venture  to  their  acquaintances,  and 
by  this  means  helped  "Gipsy's  friend,"  as  she  was 
generally  called,  to  a  promising  start. 

Gipsy  wrote  to  the  bureau  several  lengthy  letters 
in  the  few  months  following  its  starting,  and  then 
there  was  silence.  A  silence  for  nearly  a  twelve- 
month, during  which  Alice  prayed  for  her  wayward 
friend,  and  wondered  what  she  was  doing.  And  then 
one  day  a  stranger  called  at  the  bureau  and  asked 
to  see  Miss  Marchant.  Alice  had  succeeded  so  well 
by  this  time  that  she  employed  two  lad}'  clerks,  and 


did  not  see  callers  herself  unless  by  appointment. 

"The  lady  said  her  business  was  personal,  Miss. 
and  she  has  sent  in  this  message."  The  clerk  handed 
a  scrap  of  paper  as  she  spoke.  .Mice  looked  at  the 
paper.    On  it  was  scrawled  in  pencil : 

"Gipsy." 

A  moment  later  her  quondam  friend  was  shown  in, 
and  Alice  impetuously  rushed  into  her  arms.  It  was 
the  old  dog-like,  blind  devotion,  the  old  unthinking 
gladness  at  her  presence.  It  was  the  same  ecstasy  a 
faithful  dog  might  show  at  the  return  of  a  loved  mas- 
ter. And  then,  when  the  first  greetings  were  over, 
Gipsy  had  a  terrible  story  to  tell,  which  sent  her  poor 
little  friend  into  a  shiver  of  apprehension  and  dread. 

"I  have  no  one  to  rely  on,  Alie,  but  you,"  she  said, 
when  her  story  was  told.  "It  is  no  use  advising  now, 
for  it's  all  done  and  over,  and  it's  no  use  blaming 
either,  for,  God  help  me!  I  should  have  to  do  it,  if 
the  past  year  had  to  be  lived  all  over  again.  I 
wanted  to  make  a  sacrifice  for  his  sake  to  prove  how 
passionately  I  loved  him." 

There  was  a  moment's  silence. 

"Where  is  it?"  asked  Alice,  in  a  terrified,  husky 
whisper. 

"At  my  rooms." 

"And  you   want  me  to  keep  it?" 

"1  can  think  of  nothing  else,  Alie,  and  I  can  think 
of  no  one  but  you  to  help  me.  My  people  have  no 
idea  of  what  has  happened.  You  know  what  they 
are,  and  1  simply  dread  to  think  what  exposure  would 
mean." 

"Oh,  Gipsy,  Gipsy,  how  sorry  I  am.  I  could  blame 
you  very  much,  but  that  I  pity  you,  my  poor  Gipsy, 
so  much  more.     But  he " 

"He   loves   me,   Alie.      We  are   simply   injured   by 

fate.     If  be  could  he  would  marry  me.     If  I  could  only 

marry  him,  heavens!  how  happy  I  should  be.     You 

will  help  me,  Alie?" 

"Yes,  Gipsy,  I  will." 

***** 

Business  grew  apace  at  Alice's  bureau,  and  then 
came  the  great  story  of  her  life. 

He  was  a  lawyer  with  a  growing  business,  and  he 
made  her  acquaintance  by  a  chance  visit  to  the  bu- 
reau when  he  brought  some  documents  to  be  copied. 
The  work  was  rather  particular,  and  he  saw  Miss 
Marchant  about  it.  Conversation  drifted  from  the 
work  in  hand  to  topics  in  general,  and  Alice  chanced 
to  mention  Chilcote  High  School. 

"My  sister  was  at  school  there,"  said  he. 

"Your  sister!"  exclaimed  Alice;  and  then,  remem- 
bering his  name,  "Not  Gipsy,  surely?" 

But  it  was  Gipsy.  The  fact  led  to  a  closer  ac- 
quaintance, the  acquaintance  to  intimacy,  and  inti- 
macy to  love;  and  then  the  demon  "Rumor"  inter- 
posed his  poisonous  head. 

"God  knows,  Alice,"  said  he,  "I  love  you  as  I  do 
my  life,  but  I  love  my  honor  even  more.  I  have  writ- 
ten to  my  mother  about  you,  but  I  have  only. written 
what  my  love  for  you  dictated.  Why  cannot  you  see 
yourself  the  anguish  this  is  causing  me,  and  com  to 
my  rescue  by  telling  me  everything?" 

"Show  me  the  letter."  she  said,  stonily. 

It  was  an  anonymous  letter,  the  poignard  of  the 
civilized  assassin.     It  read: 

"Has  Miss  Marchant  confessed  to  you  that  she  has 
a  child  nearly  two  years  of  age?  Is  she  a  widow? 
Who  is  its  father?    Ask  her." 


January  16.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


ao 


.  '.hen 
at   hi 

r.iril."  she  said,  "it  is  true  thai  I  am  rearii 
child,  but  its  '  and  I  cannot  tell  it 

wear 
>u  that  it  is  not  my  child,  and  that  I  have  not 
you  suppose  in  act  or  thought" 
"But  you  must  tell  me  the  truth." 
"I  canni 

"liven  though  it  parts  us  forever:" 
"Even  though  it  pan-  us  forever^" 
be  it." 

***** 

A  month  passed — a  month  of  such  aiiuni~li  and  suf- 
fering as  Alice  never  thought  the  human  heart  could 
endure,  and  she  had  to  face  all  the  terrible  years  to 
come  without  a  hope  <ir  consolation,  save  in  the 
Jit  that  she  had  spared  her  friend,  and  saved  her 
lover  the  humiliation  of  learning  his  sister's  -hame. 
And  men  one  morning  she  had  a  visitor;  a  dear, 
white-haired  old  lady,  in  whose  sweet  features  the 
traces  of  recent  suffering  appeared  to  be  ineffaceable. 

"1  am  Gerard's  mother."  sai.i  she.  "and  I  have 
come  to  ask  you  to  forgive  him.  Hetty — Gipsy  you 
call  her — could  not  bear  to  see  you  and  him  suffer 
for  her  sin,  and  she  has  confessed  the  truth  to  us. 
How  noble  of  you  to  suffer  so  much  for  a  friend! 
God  has  taken  one  daughter  from  me,  but  He  has 
given  me  another.  I,  his  mother,  beg  you  to  forgive 
my  son." 

"And  you  will  forgive  Gipsy,  too.  Ah,  yes,  you 
will ;  together  we  will  read  the  stories  of  sin  and  for- 
giveness in  the  old  Book,  and  learn  something  from 
them.  Perhaps  we  shall  learn  there  the  lesson  of 
mercy,  which  is  greater  than  all  the  wisdom  of  the 
world." — London  Free  Lance. 


If  you  want  to  eat  the  best,  drink  the  best,  and  be 

among  the  best  people,  go  to  Teehau  Tavern,  which  is  sec- 
ond to  no  restaurant  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  the  favorite 
after-the-theatre  resort,  and   deserves  its  fine  reputation. 

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
The  Continental  Building  and  Loan  Association. 

Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  year  ending  December  31.  1903,  of  5 
pel nt  on  ordinary  deposits,  i;  per  cent  on  term  deposits  and  8  pet- 
cent  to  stockholders,  free  of  taxes- 

I)];.  WASHINGTON  DODGE.  President. 
WM.  COliiSIN,  See.  and  Gen.  Manager. 
Office— 301  California  St.,  Sau  Francisco. 

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 
Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  this  society,  held 
this  day.  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  three  and  one- 
fourth  (3  1-4)  per  cent  od  all  deposits  for  the  six  months  ending  Decem- 
ber 31,  1908,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  od  and  after  January  2, 1904. 
liOBERT  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 

Office— Cor.  Market.  McAllister  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco,  De- 
cembers, 1903. 

DIVIDEND   NOTICE. 

Savings   and   Loan  Society. 

Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  December  si,  1903,  at  the 
rate  of  three  and  one-auarter  (3  1-4)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits 
free  of  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after  January  2,  1904. 

(Signed)       CYRUS  W-  CARMANY,  Cashier. 

Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  cor.  Sutter. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  December  31,  1903,  a  dividend 
has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3  1-4)  per 
cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and 
after  Saturday,  January  2,  1904.  GEO.  TOURNT,   Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  Street. 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company. 

For  the  six  months  ending  December  31,  1903,  dividends  have 
been  declared  on  deposits  in  the  savings  department  of  this 
company  as  follows:  On  term  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  6-10  per 
cent  per  annum,  and  on  ordinary  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  per 
cent  per  annum,  free  of  taxes  and  payable  on  and  after  Satur- 
day, January  2,  1904.  Dividends  uncalled  for  are  added  to  the 
principal  after   January  1,   1904.  „„_,„    „, 

J.  DADZBLD  BROWN,  Manager. 

Office— Corner   California   and   Montgomery   Sts. 


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30  SAN 

SHE  READ  MY  PALM. 

She  read  my  palm,  and  from  her 

eyes 
I  would  have  sworn  that  she  was 

wise. 

"Fear  not,"  said  she,  "though  long 

you  drop, 
Some  day  you'll  shine  way  at  the 

top." 

For  weary  years  I  toiled  away ; 
I   worked    by    night,    I    strove    by 
day. 

Yet  fame  and  wealth  seemed  just 

as   far 
Ahead  of  me  as  any  star. 

All   else    I    bore,    nor    thought    to 

grieve, 
Until  my  hair  began  to  leave. 

Oh !  then   I   wept  and   cursed  the 

day 
That  palmist  maid  had  crossed  my 

way. 

When   at  the   glass   I    chanced   to 

stop — 
Behold!   I   shone  upon  the   top. 
— Chester  Firkins. 


FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 

SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thieves) 

Mamma — Tommy,  didn't  I  tell 
you  the  other  day  never  to  let  me 
hear  of  you  playing  with  those 
naughty  boys  again?  Tommy — 
Yes,  mamma ;  but  you  needn't 
blame  me  if  you  heard  it ;  1  didn't 
tell  you. 

Teacher — Johnny,  why  can't 
you  lift  yourself  by  your  boot- 
straps? Johnny  (promptly) — lie- 
cause  I  wear  shoes. 

Little  Margie — I  have  a  new- 
changeable  silk  dress  to  wear  next 
Sunday — Little  Elsie — Pooh,  that 
is  nothing.  All  my  dresses  are 
changeable. 

Little  Dot — The  paper  says  they 
are  going  to  build  more  sky-scrap- 
ers   in    Chicago.      What's    a    sky- 


January  16,  1904. 


scraper r 


Smill     Willie— Oh, 


It  is  love  of  virtue,  not  fear  of 
law,    that    makes    civilization. 


sky-scraper  is  a  machine  the 
weather  man  uses  to  scrape  the 
clouds  off  the  sky. 

Sharpe — I  wonder  why  it  is  that 
minstrel  shows  are  always  so 
prominent  in  autumn  ?  Whealton 
— 'Because  autumn  is  the  chestnut 
season. 

Somehow,  it  is  hard  to  look  up 
to  and  admire  a  man  who  takes 
little,  short  steps. 


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January  16.  1904. 


COMPAHYi 
EXTRACT 

OF   BEEF 


Solemn-faced  Man  (with  news- 
paper)— 'Well,  I  see  there  was  a 
singular  accident  at  one  of  the 
slaughter-houses  out  at  the  stock- 
yards yesterday.  A  man  who  was 
leaning  out  of  an  upper  story  win- 
dow let  go  and  dropped  sixty  feet, 
and  wasn't  hurt  a  particle.  Eager 
Listener — Dropped  sixty  feet 
without  getting  hurt?  Marvelous. 
I  don*t  understand  it.  Solemn- 
faced  Man — They  were  pigs'  feet. 

"Her  death,"  they  say  of  a 
woman  who  died  lately,  "was  a 
tragedy."  That  is  nearly  true  of 
every   death. 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 

"No.    Mr    Spoonamore.    I    ni 
could    be    happy    with    a    man    <>i 
your   l'.iliit>        "My   habit*,    Miss 
I  immi  you  km  1 

m\  habit-.,  may  I  askr"  "You  hav< 
nol  been  in  1  hi~  room  more  than 
half  an  hour,  and  in  that  tune  y  iu 
have  -at  on  mj  sofa  pillows,  lean  'd 
your  head  back  against  my  1 
mg  chair  tidy,  and  put  you  feel  1  n 
my   embroidered   foot-st 

"Don't  you  think  that  woman's 
clever?"  "Clever?  Why,  she's  so 
clever  she  can  make  all  her  clothes 
without  other  women  knowing  it!" 

Mr.  Sparks — 1  have  a  terrible 
pain  in  my — aw — head.  Miss  Snif- 
fer-— There!  I  knew  Sallie  Mifkins 
had  wronged  you.  Mr.  Sparks — 
Aw.  beg  pardon.  What  did  she 
say  about  me.  Miss  Sniffers — 
She  said  your  head  had  nothing  in 
it. 

She — When  you  ask  papa,  the 
first  thing  he  will  do  will  be  to  ac- 
cuse you  of  seeking  my  hand 
merely   to   become   his   son-in-law. 

He — Yes?     And     then She — 

And  then  you  must  agree  with 
him.  He's  a  lot  prouder  of  him- 
self than  he  is  of  me. 

"It  was  one  of  the  most  pa- 
thetic plays  I  ever  saw,"  said 
young  Mrs.  Torkins.  "I  don't  see 
why  you  go  to  the  matinee  if  it 
makes  you  cry."  "Just  because  I 
feel  bad  is  no  sign  I  haven't  had 
a  good  time,  Charley,  dear.  You 
know  how  much  you  enjoy  going 
to  the  races  and  coming  back  with 
the  blues." 

"Now,"  said  the  lecturer,  "sup- 
pose you  had  been  called  to  see  a 
patient  with  hysterics — some  one, 
for  instance,  who  had  started 
laughing  and  found  it  impossible 
to  stop — what  is  the  first  thing  you 
would  do?"  "Amputate  his  funny 
bone,"  promptly  replied  the  new 
student. 

"Well,"  said  Mr.  Polk,  for  the 
fourth  or  fifth  time,  "I  must  be 
going."  "What  a  queer  delusion," 

1; 1     T\/rr„.-    "D n*-A  •    "irnii't-o    t-o-alltf 


3' 


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replied  Miss  Bord;  "you're  really 
quite  stationary." 

Husband — You  don't  appear  to 
like  Mrs.  Sweetie.  Wife — The 
horrid  thing!  I  hate  her!  Next 
time  we  meet  I'll  kiss  her  only 
once,  and  I  shan't  ask  after  her 
baby. 

A  woman  thinks  she  is  having  a 
real  good  time  when  she  can  find 
something  to  cry  over  without  ac- 
tually feeling  bad. 

"You  say  you  saw  my  sister  at  a 
recent  wedding?"  "Yes.  It  wasn't 
very  long  ago."  "But  I  don't  re- 
member that  she  mentionel  seeing 
you."  "Very  likely.  I  was  only 
the  groom." 


"I  suppose  a  fellow  ought  to 
have  a  good  'leal  of  money  saved 
up  before  he  thinks  of  marrying." 
"Nortsensel     1  didn't  have  a  cent 

when  I  started,  and  I'm  getting 
along  fine  now."  "That  so?  In- 
stallment plan?"  "Yes;  and  we've 
only  been  married  and  keeping 
house  for  a  year,  and  I've  got 
the  engagement  ring  all  paid  for 
now." 

Tommy  Tucker  had  been  hurt 
while  performing  the  act  he  called 
flipping  a  freight  train.  "Will  he 
get  well,  doctor?"  distractedly 
asked  Mrs.  Tucker ;  "is  he  out  of 
danger?"  "He  will  get  well,  mad- 
am," replied  the  surgeon,  "but  I 
can't  say  he  is  out  of  danger.  He 
will  probably  do  the  same  thing 
again  the  first  chance  he  has." 


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32 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


"Who's  that  man  you  bowed 
to?"  "Judge  Brown."  "He's  a 
judge,  is  he?"  "Yes,"  said  the  law- 
yer bitterly,  for  he  had  just  lost 
a  case  in  that  court,  "he's  a  judge 
all  right,  but  not  a  jurist." 

Bookkeeper — That  new  messen- 
senger  spends  all  his  time  reading- 
such  books  as  "The  Boy  Bandit," 
The  Proprietor — I  can  see  his  fin- 
ish. The  Bookkeeper — Where. 
The  Proprietor — CTn  Wall  street. 

Nurse — You'd  better  not  go  out 
of  the  house  after  dark  again. 
Johnny.  The  bears  mighl  get  you. 
Broker's  Son — Huh  !  I  ain't  afraid 
of  'em.  My  pa  says  it's  the  bulls 
what  are  making  the  trouble  now. 

"How  did  your  nephew's  wed- 
ding pass  off?"  "Just  splendid." 
"Were  there  any  contretemps?" 
"I  don't  think  so.  I  didn't  see  any. 
You  see,  we  had  the  church  thor- 
oughly cleaned  up  just  before  the 
wedding  took  place." 

Ernie — No,  she  isn't  going  to 
marry  Claude,  after  all.  Ida — 
But  they  say  he  can  quote  Emer- 
son and  Browning.  Ernie — Yes, 
but  the  other  man  can  quote  sugar 
and  steel. 

"They  say  that  Henry  was  aw- 
fully frightened  when  he  reached 
the  altar."  "I  don't  wonder.  Did 
you  see  the  way  the  bride  had  her 
hair  dressed  ?" 

Cumso — Well,  voting  Frisbie 
will  make  his  way  in  the  medical 
profession.  Cawker — Has  he  got 
a  good  start?  Cumso — I  should 
say  he  had.  He  was  such  a  prime 
favorite  in  the  college  that  thev 
made  him  surgeon  to  the  football 
team. 


January  16,  1904. 


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SOUTHERN   PACIFIC 

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7.25? 
6.25)' 
7  25r 


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4.55* 


7.00*    Vacavlllc.  Winters,  Kumucy 

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7.30a   Vallejo.    Napa, ' '  CallVtoea.  'skxtJi 

Koaa,  Martinez,  San  fiainon 

7.30a   Nllea.  Llvennore,  Tracy,  Lathrop, 

Stockron  ..  

B-OOa  Shasta  Express—  (Via  Davla), 
Wllllame  (for  liartlelt  Springs). 
Willows.     tFruto.      Ked      muff, 

Portland,   Tacoma,   Seattle 7-5ji 

8  00"    Davis.  Woodlaud.  Knights  Landing, 

Marysvllle.  Orovllk- 7-55 

8.30a  port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch. 
Byron,  Tracy.  Stockton,  New- 
man. Los  Baooa.  Meodota. 
Armona.      Hnnford.       Vlsalla, 

Porti-rvllte 

8.30a  Port  Costa.  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop. Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen     Junction.     Han  ford. 

Vleslia.  Bakerafleld  

8.30a  Nlles,  Sail  .lose,  Llvennore.  Stock- 
ton. (t.MHton).  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervllle,     Marysvllle.     Chlco, 

Red  BlufT 4. 25? 

8.30a   Oak'lalf.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  So- 

norn.  Tuolumne  and  Angels  ....  4  25? 
900*  Atlantic  Kxpressr-Otfden  in. I  Kast.  11.25* 
9.30a  Richmond,    Martinez     ami      Way 

Stations  6  55p 

1000a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ugden, 

Denver.  Omaha.  Chicago.  6.25'* 

10.00a   Vallejo 12.25p 

10.00a  Los  Anu'iN-s  Passenger  -  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byroa.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
RaymonJ.  Fresno.  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Ihtnfonl.  Lemoore,  Vlnalla, 

Bakcr*flftld.  Los  Angel. -h 7-25«* 

1200m  Haywnrd.  Nllea  and  Way  Stations,     3.25p 

tl-OOi*  Sacramento  Rlvor  StQameri Ml.OOr 

3-30 1-  Ben  Ida,  Win  tern.  Sac  ram  onto. 
Woodland,  K  nights  Lauding, 
Marysvllle,     Orovllle    and    way 

stations I0-55a 

3-30p  Hay  ward.  Ntles  and  Way  Stations..,     755p 
3  30 1    Port      Costa,      Martin--/,       |{>  ron. 
Tracy.       Lathrop,       Modesto. 
Merced,   Fresno    and     Way    Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  CoBta 12.2)P 

3-30p    Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockion.  Lodl...    10.25a 
4.00p   Marlluez.Sau  Itmnou.  VtilleJo.Napa, 

Callstoga.  Santa  Itoaa. 923* 

4. 00p   Nlles.  Tra.-.v.  Stockion.  Lodl  4.2jp 

4.30p   Hayward.    Nlles,   Irvlnston,  San  J     18.55a 

Jose.  Llvennore j  111.55a 

5-OOp  The  Owl  Limited— New tn  n.  Loa 
Banus,  Uendota,  Fre-no.  Tulare. 
Bakerslleld.  Los  Angeles. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Lob  Angele",  for  Chi- 
cago. vlaC.  R  I    &P 8  55» 

B.OOp   Port  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockfm 12  25p 

t6  30p  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  .to*e 7. 25a 

600p  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Sun  JoBe 9.j6a 

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Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Heulela,  Sul- 
sun.  Elmlra.  Davfg,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckce,    Boca.    Ueno,   WadB- 

worth,  Wtnnemucca 5-25p 

B.OOp   Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday. 

7  00p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only 

7.00p  Klchni'iud,  San  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 


8-16*  Newark,  Oeulervllle.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder     Creek,     Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6-65? 

t2-16»"  Newark,  Centervllle,  £-an  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Lo^  Guiot-. Helton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Station*    tlO-55*. 

4  16p   Newark,  Sao  Jose,  LosUatos  and  I     '  8  5  S  \ 

way  stations ~l  110  55  a 

OS  30p  Hunters  Train.  Saturdny  only.  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.  Return- 
ing from  Los  Gatos  Sunday  only.    17  25p 


OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

umSAN  FRANCISCO.  Foot  o!  Market  St.  (SUpd 

-  t;:15    9:00    11:W)a.m.      100    300    5-15  f.m 
uiii  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  t^:U0     (8:01 
IS:Q3     10:00  a.m.       12  00    2-00     4-00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Broad  Jiauue). 
I*- (Third  and  Townxeud  Streets.) 


630p 
536p 

4-IOp 


6  10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations. 

7  LOa    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

8  1.0a   New  Almnden  (Tues..  Frld.,  only), 
8  00*  The  Coaster— Stops  only  Sup  JoBe, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hollla- 
ter).  Pajaro,  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  RobleB,  Santa  Mar- 
garita, San  Luis  (Jt)lBpn.  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lonipoc).  principal  stations 
thenct  Santa  Barbara, San  Mnena- 
ventnra,  Bangns.  LoB  Angeles..,  10-45p 
9- 00*  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnoa.  Capltola, 
Sail  I  a  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Sal  I  nae, 
San  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 
Way  Stations 4.10p 

10  30a    f-an  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1.20p 

11  30a  Santa  Clara,    sun   .lose.  LOS  Gatos 

and  Wav  Stallone  7.30p 

1-301-   San  Jose  and  Wny  Stations 9.46a 

S-liOc  Del  Monte -Repress— Santa  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monie,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  HolllBter,  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.  12-15p 

3-30p  TreB  Plnos  Way  Passpiiper 10  45a 

4  30p  san  Jose  and  Way  Stiltons 18.00a 

t6  00  -;'"  Jose,  (Via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatos,  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) '9.00a 

L  iOl  san JoseandPrlnclpalWayStatlons  5940* 
6  LUi  buneel  Limited,—  Redwo  d,  San 
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6an  Lnl*  Obispo,  Snnta  Burhara, 
Los  Angeles.  DemlnfT.  E£l  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crux 
and    at    Castrovllle    for     Pacific 

Gn've  and  Way  Stations 

tfl  Iti  fcaij  Mateo.BereBford.Belmont.San 
Carlos.     Redwood.     Fair     Oaks. 

McnloPark.  Palo  Alto 

6      1       Sun  .lose  and  Way  Stations 

600p   Palo  Alto  and  Wav  Stations 10.16a, 

11  oQf  South  .-an  Francisco.  MUlhrae,  Bor- 
HnKame.  San  Mateo.  Belmon' 
San  Carlos.  Redwood.  Fair  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park,  and  Falo  Alto 9.45P 

»11  30p  Mayfield,  Mountain  View.  Sunny- 
vale, Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 
San  Joae J9.45p 


710i 


6.4Sa 
636a 


7.6Bp 


A  for  Horning.  P  for  Afternoon, 

Sunday  excepted  1  Sunday  only. 

o  Saturday  only. 
[■  Stops  at  all  sutlons  on  Sunday. 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11-25a    i'     Ooly  trains  Biopplng  at  Valencia  St.  soutbhound 

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raraento,     Harrsrllle,     Bedding.  8:00  p.m. 

Portland,  Pugel  Sound  and  Kust.     8.55a    — 


8-IOp   Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jnae  c-nn- 
day  only ) 


1 1.56a 


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encea.    Telephone,  ifixcbange  83.     Inquire  of  Ticket 

UHiiH    Inr      I'm        fn-H-sn-l    otn»r      n'n-'Ttatlon 


"You  have  spinal  trouble,"  said 
the  physician  at  the  conclusion  of 
his  examination  of  the  able  editor. 
"Well — ah — h'm — doctor,"  return- 
ed the  journalist,  "how  much  do 
you  charge  per  column  for  treat- 
ment in   such   cases?" 

Nodd — There  are  times  when  a 
man  has  to  lie  to  his  wife.  Todd — 
And  that  isn't  the  worst  of  it.  Nodd 
— What  is  ?  Todd — There  are 
times  when  he  has  to  tell  the  truth. 

Mrs.  Crawfoot — Ain't  you  got 
an  old.  torn-up  suit  to  put  on  the 
scarecrow?  Mr.  Crawford — No; 
I'll  wait  till  Hiram  gets  through 
the  cane  rush  up  at  college  and  let 
him    send   down   one   of   his  suits. 


A  four-year-old  youngster  while 
at  supper  the  other  evening  re- 
quested his  brother  to  help  him 
in  something  and  was  told  that  he 
should  say,  "If  you  please."  So 
he  said:  "Pass  me  some  of  that  if 
you  please." 

"Long  hair  on  a  man  used  to  be 

considered  a  sign  of  strength " 

"Well,  long  hair  on  some  men  in- 
dicates that  they  are  too  strong  to 
work  and  earn  the  price  of  a  hair- 
cut." 

Owenlotts  (coughing  forcedly) 
—  I've  been  advised  that  a  trip 
abroad  would  be  greatly  to  my 
benefit.  Sharpun — Who  advised 
you — your  lawyer  or  doctor? 


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"Citizen"  Train  has  pulled  out  for  the  other  shore. 

The  book  trade  notes  a  falling  off  in  the  Japanese 
demand  for  bear  stories. 


Friction    among   the    directors    is    making    things 
warm  in  the   National  Ice  Trust. 


With  the  Boers  colonizing  Montana,  there  will  be 
even  better  times  for  Oom  Clark. 


It's  a  lucky  town  that  has  managed  to  escape  a 
Carnegie   library   and   a   Hearst   newspaper. 

If  you  think  it  true  that  "the  soft  answer  turneth 
away  wrath,"  just  ask  the  telephone  girl. 

In  this  tough  season  for  actor  people  everybody  in 
the  "perfesh"  is  walking — except  the  ghost. 

Hetty  Green's  rent  is  $19  a  month.  The  luxurious 
tastes  of  the  very  rich  may  well  alarm  the  socialo- 
gists. 

"High  finance"  in  the  gas  monopoly  has  caused  it 
to  fill  its  stock  with  hot  air  and  its  pipes  with  cold 
poison. 


William  J.  Bryan  is  crouching  right  next  the 
Hearst  barrel,  gripping  firmly  a  brand-new  bung- 
starter. 


Governor  Vardaman,  of  Mississippi,  says  the  ne- 
gro's curse  is  education.  We  thought  it  was  the 
color  of  his  hide. 


"Flinch"  is  the  latest  ladies'  game  at  the  East.  We 
hear  that  it  is  not  played  with  a  hat  pin,  and  leaves 
no  black-and-blue  marks. 

There  is  no  ground  for  alarm  in  the  report  that 
the  eyeglass  trust  has  advanced  prices — the  an- 
nouncement is  entirely  spec-ulative. 

When  he  faces  more  than  four  of  his  fellowmen, 
Hearst  is  tongue-tied  arid  his  knees  knock  with 
fright.    He  proposes  to  let  his  money  do  the  talking. 

Professor  Gayley  of  Berkeley,  sometimes  called 
"Gayley,  the  Troubadour,"  has  slapped  co-education 
on  its  pretty  wrist,  barring  out  women  from  some 
of  his  lectures.  Having  read  some  exemplars  of  the 
Gayley  English,  we  congratulate  the  ladies  in  the 
case.  ' 


Duke,  the  tobacco  magnate  wears  a  celluloid  col- 
lar— probably  tor  tlu-  same  reason  that  he  puts 
chopped  Straw  into  some  of  his  brands  of  cigarettes. 

A  boycotted  restaurant  man  has  been  arrested  for 
kicking  a  camera  out  of  the  hands  of  a  pestiferous 
union  picket,  lie  should  be  fined  for  not  kicking 
the  picket 


An  anxious  mother  wants  the  Oakland  police  to 
find  her  son  whom  she  describes  as  "very  polite  and 
red-headed."  Come  to  think  of  it,  that  is  an  unusual 
combination. 


It  is  not  surprising  to  learn  that  a  woman  figures 
largely  in  the  Mountain  Copper  litigation.  There's 
always  a  woman  in  it— even  at  the  bottom  of  a  cop- 
per  mine. 


Mayor  Schmitz's  choice  for  the  head  of  the  City 
and  County  Hospital  may  not  wipe  out  the  evils, 
but  his  presence  will  tend  to  subdue  the  newspaper 
critics.     He  is  an  unreformed  prizefighter. 

"Elijah"  Dowie  came  to  town  in  a  palatial  private 
car,  sought  the  seclusion  of  the  best  rooms  of  the 
Palace  and_  ate  a  lunch  that  cost  $7.50  a  plate  while 
"those  devils"  of  reporters  cooled  their  heels  outside. 
Now  we  understand  why  the  press  loves  Dowie  so. 

That  sad  wag,  Colonel  J.  "Ham"  Lewis,  greeted 
Perry  Heath  merrily  at  Washington  the  other  day 
with  "Hello!  You  rascal."  The  postofnce  and  the 
telegraph  companies  refuse  to  let  us  know  Heath's 
reply. 

A  linguist  with  a  Teutonic  name  is  suing  million- 
aire Charles  T.  Yerkes  for  $300  for  translating  a 
Persian  prayer  woven  into  a  $150,000  rug.  He  had 
to  stand  on  his  head  to  earn  the  money,  and  now  he 
must  get  down  on  his  knees  to  collect  it. 

That  West  Virginian  professor  of  literature  who 
killed  himself  because  a  newspaper  criticised  his 
writings  harshly,  did  not  know  when  the  gods  were 
being  good  to  him.  Many  an  author  pays  for  all  the 
"roasts"  he  gets. 

A  fly-by-night  sheet  of  New  York;  devoted  to  so- 
cialism and  labor  unionism,  describes  "Big  Bill" 
Devery  as  "a  calm,  cool,  collected,  firm,  dignified, 
courteous,  frank,  bright,  intelligent  a  sturdy  and  ear- 
nestly patriotic  American."  Devery  can't  talk  much, 
but  evidently  his  money  can. 

The  regeneration  of  wicked  New  York  goes  for- 
ward a-whooping.  Now  come  the  "Daughters  of 
the  Faith,"  including  women  of  the  best  families, 
who  will  not  stand  for  low  gowns,  divorcees,  bridge 
whist,  or  any  of  the  joyous  beverages.  And  they  do 
say,  too,  that  the  Tammany  tiger  is  as  meek  as  a 
reformed  tom-catj 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


THE  WATER-FRONT  SCANDAL. 

Governor  Pardee  will  do  well  to  give  his  early  at- 
tention to  the  scandals  that  are  ripening  in  the  State 
Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners.  Politically  the 
Governor  is  responsible  for  this  Board's  management 
of  the  city's  waterfront.  Personally,  as  well  as  po- 
litically, he  is  responsible  for  Commissioner  Spear, 
now  President  of  the  Board.  Governor  Pardee  ap- 
pointed Spear,  and  he  has  tolerated  "Johnnie"  Mac- 
kenzie, whose  appointment  was  one  of  the  worst 
things  charged  up  against  the  Gage  administration. 
Both  of  them  are  professional  and  practical  politi- 
cians. Both  seem  to  be  working  the  waterfront  for 
all  it  is  worth,  and  if  there  is  anything  in  the  way  of 
"graft"  that  they  do  not  know  about,  it  is  a  thing 
with  no  prospect  of  profit  in   it. 

The  News  Letter  has  already  called  attention  to 
President  Spear's  proposition  to  take  away  the  ferry 
news-stand  privilege  from  a  firm  which  has  held  it 
for  nearly  twenty-five  years  and  give  it  to  his  brother- 
in-law,  John  F.  Rooney,  whose  best  job  heretofore 
has  been  a  clerkship  in  a  wholesale  grocery  store. 
Spear  suffered  a  set-back  when  the  tenants  offered 
$1180  a  month  for  the  concession  against  $600  bid 
by  brother-in-law  Rooney.  He  refused  to  permit  the 
introduction  of  a  resolution  of  acceptance,  crying 
out  that  the  bid  was  "absurd" — that  nobody  could 
afford  to  pay  such  a  sum.  At  last  week's  meeting 
Spear  put  in  and  then  accepted  Rooney's  bid  of 
$1200  a  month,  blocking  a  higher  bid  from  the  ten- 
ants by  notifying  them  that  there  could  be  no  auc- 
tion of  the  privilege.  It  is  plain  that  though  there 
really  is  a  brother-in-law  Rooney,  he  is  only  the 
figurehead  for  Spear  and  Mackenzie. 

Another  dirty  piece  of  business  begins  to  show  it- 
self with  regard  to  the  public  scales  on  the  water- 
front. Nominally  the  holder  of  this  privilege  is  one 
Lorentzen,  better  known  in  crooked  politics  as  the 
"Banjo-eyed  Kid."  He  is  not  big  enough  to  hide 
the  figures  of  the  "business  men"  of  the  Board — 
Spear  and  Mackenzie. 

Yet  another  putrid  spot  in  the  Harbor  Board's 
affairs  is  in  the  handling  of  the  "privileges"  granted 
to  fruit  hucksters,  whose  wagons  were  driven  off  the 
down-town  streets  by  the  Board  of  Public  Works. 
How  much  they  pay  for  being  allowed  to  do  business 
on  the  State's  property  and  to  whom  they  pay  it  are 
matters  upon  which  the  Governor  might  enlighten 
himself  and  the  public. 

Beyond  these  things  is  the  fact  that  the  Harbor 
Board's  payroll  is  stuffed  with  useless  employees — 
men  who  would  not  know  how  to  work  if  they 
wanted  to,  men  who  know  nothing  about  the  water- 
front except  where  the  secretary's  office  is,  and  that 
only  because  it  is  the  place  where  they  get  their  pay 
for  doing  nothing.  It  is  significant  that  a  number  of 
the  men  who  draw  fat  salaries  for  little  or  no  work 
are  Democrats,  kept  in  their  places  by  the  sinister 
influences  that  have  made  the  Harbor  Commission  a 
refuge  for  active  and  broken-down  job-hunters.  Per- 
haps the  most  flagrant  case  of  all  is  that  of  Percy 
Henderson,  for  whom  was  created  the  snug  berth 
of  "Auditor"  at  $200  a  month.  The  grim  humor  of 
this  appears  when  it  is  understood  that  after  the  al- 
leged stuffed  salary  roll  is  paid,  after  supplies  that 
are  not  needed — and,  as  claimed  by  some,  often  not 
delivered — are  bought  at  a  stiff  percentage  above 
the  highest  market  price,  after  the  favored  contrac- 
tors have  had  their  rake-off,  there  is  so  little  left  for 
permanent  improvements  that  they  can  be  had  only 
by  discounting  the  Board's  revenues.  Moreover,  if 
there  were  any  real  auditing  to  do,  no  sane  person 


would  select  a  man  like  Henderson  to  do  it.  The  in- 
timation is  strong  along  the  front  that  Henderson's 
activities  are  confined  to  keeping  shippers  and  ship- 
masters and  holders  of  privileges  from  overlooking 
the  fact  that  the  "business  men"  of  the  Board  must 
live  somehow. 

When  Spear,  Mackenzie,  et  al.,  are  questioned 
about  these  things  on  behalf  of  the  public,  they  reply, 
"What  are  you  going  to  do  about  it?" 

Now,  speaking  for  the  people  of  the  State,  the 
News  Letter  asks  Governor  Pardee:  "What  are 
YOU  going  to  do  about  it?" 

BEMIRED    RESPECTABILITY. 

It  is  time  somebody  told  to  the  California  Club 
ladies  who  are  going  to  run  the  Bulletin  for  a  day, 
to  their  husbands  and  to  the  public,  a  few  unpleasant 
truths.  This  "woman's  edition"  scheme  is  quite  in 
keeping  with  the  policy  of  the  most  depraved  of 
newspapers.  It  is  a  bad-faith  bargain  by  which,  in 
exchange  for  a  cloak  of  respectability  to  hide  its 
naked  vileness,  the  Bulletin  promises  out  of  its  ill- 
got  revenues  a  small  sum  toward  building  the  ladies 
a  clubhouse.  The  victims  of  this  piece  of  trickery 
might  with  equal  propriety,  take  charge  for  a  day 
of  almost  any  uptown  bar-room  on  a  similar  guar- 
antee. There  are  few  drinking  places  that  do  not 
stand  higher,  in  point  of  morals,  than  the  Bulletin ; 
there  are  few  saloon-keepers  who  are  not  of  better 
repute  than  the  Bulletin's  owners.  We  can  under- 
stand how  a  group  of  respectable  women  might  be 
imposed  upon  in  this  fashion,  because,  happily,  such 
women  know  little  about  the  baser  things  of  the 
city's  life.  But  what  are  their  husbands,  fathers  and 
brothers  thinking  of  that  they  permit  their  women- 
kind  to  be  deluded  into  such  a  contaminating  alliance, 
even  for  one  day? 

Harlotry  is  too  polite  a  term  for  the  Bulletin's 
business.  In  politics,  in  public  and  private  affairs, 
where  there  is  a  corrupt  dollar  to  be  had,  it  is  now 
on  the  one  side,  now  on  the  other — it  has  not  even 
the  decency  to  stay  bought.  The  merchant  who  re- 
fuses to  advertise  in  it  knows  what  measure  of 
abuse  and  obloquy  to  expect;  the  candidate  for 
nomination,  election  or  appointment  who  will  not 
pay  its  price  is  sure  of  it  rancorous  hostility ;  its  un- 
clean and  itching  hands  are  laid  upon  every  citizen 
who  has  a  lawsuit  to  prosecute  or  defend,  whose 
business  or  private  life  has  been  touched  by  scandal 
or  misfortune. 

It  is  a  matter  of  common  knowledge  that  no  sport- 
ing event  of  consequence  comes  off  here,  no  prize- 
fight is  conducted,  without  either  substantial  pay- 
ment to  the  Bulletin  or  endurance  of  its  malignant 
attacks. 

Besides  payment  in  cash,  there  is  only  one  way  for 
people  of  standing  to  get  even  fair  treatment  from 
the  Bulletin,  and  that  is  by  personal  association  with 
and  consequent  social  advancement  of  its  managers. 
Most  people  who  are  forced  to  this  alternative  prefer 
to  pay  the  money.  Bad  as  the  Bulletin  is,  according 
to  the  not  too  exalted  standard  of  newspaper  morals, 
it  is  no  worse  than  the  men  who  make  its  policies. 
They  are  of  the  kind  who,  for  money  or  for  social 
advantage,  rejoice  over  the  wanton  assaulting  of 
law-abiding  citizens  and  fulsomely  bepraise  the  cow- 
ardly wielders  of  pistol  and  "black  jack";  they  are 
of  the  class  who  make  heroes  of  adulterers  and  mar- 
tyrs of  women  caught  at  their  scarlet  sinning.  And 
it  is  into  an  office  which  houses  a  policy  like  this, 


January  23.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


which  is  infested  by  men  like  these,  that  a  company 
table  women  is  to  g 
1  me  man,  husband  of  a  lady  prominently  men- 
tioned  in   connection   with   the   "woman's   edition" 
me,  is  reported  to  have  withheld  Ids  permission 
until   it   was   promised   that   her  portrait   would   not 
he  published  with  those  of  the  others  trapped  by  the 
Bulletin's  bunco  game.    This  was  a  mere  compromise 
with  conscience.     A   braver,  wiser  man   would  have 
refused  altogether,  inasmuch  as  no  woman  who  re- 
spect-  herself  or  wishes  others  to  respect  her,  can 
afford  to  have  anything  to  do  with  the  disreputable 
Bulletin  or  the  disreputables  who  run  it. 

NO  HEREAFTER  FOR  THE  SINNER. 

A  reverend  gentleman  of  this  city.  Dr.  John  Phil- 
lips, addressing  his  brethren  of  the  cloth  at  the  Con- 
gregational Association,  announces  that  there  is 
no  future  place  of  punishment  for  the  wicked.  Their 
souls,  if  indeed  they  have  souls,  are  simply  extin- 
guished, blotted  out,  annihilated.  Obviously  this 
is  a  comfortable  belief  for  the  sinner,  but  it  does  not 
appear  commercially  sound,  or  part  of  the  platform, 
shall  we  call  it,  of  the  church.  If  the  wicked  are  per- 
mitted to  believe  that  there  is  no  hereafter  for  them 
the  inducement  to  hire  a  pew  becomes  slender  and 
not  persuasive. 

Twenty  years  ago  his  brethren  would  have  tried 
the  reverend  gentleman  for  heresy,  and  would  have 
almost  torn  him  limb  from  limb  in  the  name  of  God. 
To-day  they  smile  with  tolerant  patronage  of  an 
amiable  weakness  which  cannot  do  any  harm  and 
may  amuse  an  idle  moment.  Why  this  change? 
Simply  because  the  churches  no  longer  base  their 
appeal  on  the  nameless  terror  of  the  Great  Perhaps. 
They  have  become  clubs  and  places  of  entertain- 
ment. 

"Our  guess  doll  netted  us  over  $400.  No  one 
guessed  the  name  and  I  still  have  the  doll,"  said  the 
Reverend   Mr.    Scaddleberry. 

"It  must  have  had  an  odd  name.     What  was  it?" 

"I  didn't  name  it  at  all,"  returned  the  reverend 
gentleman,  with  a  face  that  beamed  with  pious  re- 
gard for  its  owner's  clever  business  sense. 

With  such  harmless  diversions  do  the  descendants 
of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  amuse  themselves.  There  is 
just  as  good  money  in  guess  dolls  as  in  preaching 
hell-fire. 


FUNCTIONS  OF  THE  MERCHANTS'  ASSOCI- 
ATION IN  POLITICS. 

The  people  of  San  Francisco  have  been  given  in 
the  current  month  an  inside  view  of  the  methods  of 
building  a  political  machine.  They  have  seen  the 
political  ring  at  work  without  the  smallest  disguise 
and  in  direct  violation  of  law,  creating  that  machin- 
ery by  which  they  hope  in  the  future  to  manipulate 
and  control  the  primaries  that  will  constitute  the 
delegates  to  the  party  conventions.  The  clean  sweep 
of  minor  officials  made  by  the  Board  of  Health  in  di- 
rect contravention  of  the  charter  was  candidly  de- 
scribed under  oath  by  the  President  of  that  body 
as  simply  "a  turn  of  the  political  wheel."  It  did  not 
appear  to  Dr.  Ward,  so  far  as  his  testimony  showed, 
that  he  considered  it  a  matter  of  much  importance 
that  the  charter  in  letter  and  spirit  positively  pro- 
hibits the  use  of  municipal  offices  as  wheels  in  the 
political  machine.  In  fact,  Dr.  Ward  testified  that 
he  had  not  concerned  himself  about  the  charter  pro- 
visions in  this  regard  at  all. 

As  we  have  said,  there  is  no  disguise  about  the 
methods  in  use  other  than  the  petty  and  transparent 


subtcrfugi  lishing  certain  offices  classified  by 

the  civil  service  ride,  and  re-creating  the  tame  offices 
under  other   1  I    •    «huh   no  classification   has 

yet  been  the  Gvil  Service  Commission. 

rhe  only  possible  conclusion  from  ihis  action  is 
that   the    I  Health   had   a   guilty   knowledge 

that  they  wen  breaking  the  law.  and  sought  to 
screen   themselves   behind   a   quibble   "ii   nanus. 

\\  e  rejoice  to  -ee  that  the  Merchants'  Association, 
acting  through  its  President,  Frank  \j.  Symmes,  has 
taken  advanced  ground  in  this  matter.  The  Associa- 
tion is  fully  aware  that  the  spirit  of  civil  service  ride- 
and  the  merit  system  has  not  been  honestly  observed 
in  the  past,  but  the  body  has  waited  in  a  conserva- 
tive and  temperate  manner  until  some  definite  ex- 
ample of  lawbreaking  was  afforded — one  that  could 
be  proved  beyond  question  in  a  court  of  law.  That 
example  is  given  by  the  Board  of  Health  in  making 
a  clean  sweep  of  civil  service  employees  with  the 
single  purpose  of  creating  a  political   machine. 

Directly  and  indirectly  there  are  something  like 
2.000  workers  dependent  on  the  Board  of  Public 
Works.  The  Board  of  Health  controls  some  30a 
active  political  partisans.  These  form  the  nucleus 
of  the  machine.  With  these  and  the  police  and  fire 
departments  under  general  control,  it  can  be  seen 
how  formidable  may  become  the  organization  that 
is  now  being  built. 

It  is  this  kind  of  politics  which  the  charter  was 
expressly  framed  to  prohibit  and  prevent,  and  that 
is  the  sense  in  which  the  Merchants'  Association  has 
acted. 


AN  OFFICIAL  CENSOR  OF  MORALS. 

Mayor  Olney  of  Oakland  has  directed  his  police- 
men to  raze  out  from  the  billboards  of  that  charming 
city  the  written  "damn."     He  will  not  even  permit 

the  half-hearted  d n  which  is  a  sort  of  whisper  in 

print.  It  appears  that  the  Oakland  bill-boards  are 
for  the  moment  emblazoned,  or  shall  we  say  painted 
red  with  a  high-toned  picture  showing  a  scene  from 
the  forthcoming  performance  of  the  "Fatal  Wed- 
ding" at  one  of  the  local  theatres.  Under  this  pic- 
ture was  inscribed  the  words  of  the  heroic  policeman 
who  appears  as  the  protagonist  of  the  scene,  and  he 
is  saying:  "I  am  damned  if  I  will  arrest  that  man." 
It  was  a  noble  sentiment,  but  the  official  censor  of 
morals  could  not  stand  for  it  all.  To  satisfy  the 
Mayor's  nice  sense  of  propriety,  strips  of  white  paper 
were  pasted  over  the  wretched  policeman's  profan- 
ity, and  Mrs.  Grundy,  who  votes  in  Oakland,  is  ap- 
peased. It  must  have  been  some  man  like  Olney 
who  edited  American  history  and  made  it  look  fool- 
ish in  the  case  of  Ethan  Allen  and  the  surrender  of 
Ticonderoga.  The  amended  version  says  that  when 
the  English  Governor  demanded  of  Allen :  "In  whose 
name?"  the  American  commander  reprlied  in  the 
stilted  and  ornamental  phrase  so  appropriate  on  the 
battlefield :  "In  the  name  of  the  great  Jehovah  and 
the  Continental  Congress."  What  Allen  really  said 
was :  "Come  out  of  there,  you  damned  old  rat."  That 
is  convincing.  The  other  is  absurd.  But  Mayor  Ol- 
ney may  take  consolation  with  Bishop  Taylor,  who 
said  when  he  was  reproached  for  his  violent  treat- 
ment of  plain  English :  "My  verb  has  lost  its  nomi- 
native, but  I'm  bound  for  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven 
just  the  same."  Mr.  Olney's  nominative  has  lost 
its  verb,  but  his  calling  and  election  is  assured. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


BARTERING  THE  PRESIDENTIAL  NOMINA- 
TION. 

"Seeking  the  Presidency  with  cheek  and  check 
book"  is  the  way  a  Democratic  statesman  is  quoted 
as  hitting  off  William  R.  Hearst's  impudent  preten- 
sions to  this  high  office.  That  Hearst  has  actually 
named  the  price  he  will  pay  for  the  Democratic 
nomination  is  the  conclusion  of  one  of  the  ablest  and 
fairest  observers  of  national  affairs.  This  critic  states 
the  figure  at  $2,000,000 — nominally  his  contribution 
to  the  Democratic  campaign  fund  in  case  of  his  nomi- 
nation, really  his  bid  for  the  privilege  of  leading  the 
party  which  he  has  done  and  is  doing  his  utmost  to 
destrov.  Sometime  in  1900,  it  is  reckoned,  Hearsts 
Presidential  campaign  was  conceived — about  the 
time  he  discovered  his  middle  name  and  began  to 
blazon  it  in  his  own  newspapers  and  in  such  others 
as  would  sell  him  space.  And  $2,000,000  is  only  part 
of  the  price  Hearst  would  pay.  Already  he  must 
have  spent  a  sum  running  into  at  least  six  figures 
in  organizing  "clubs,"  buying  endorsements  and 
erecting  and  maintaining  an  immense  bureau. 

Incidentally  Hearst  has  been  trying  hard  to  live 
down  the  odium  that  came  to  him  for  his  share  in 
the  Buffalo  crime.  The  hand  of  the  disciple,  Czol- 
gosz,  struck  the  blow  that  made  McKinley  a  martyr, 
but  the  hand  of  the  prophet,  Hearst,  still  drips  with 
the  blood  of  the  murdered  President.  Since  then 
his  ensanguined  talons  have  been  carefully  gloved. 
He  has  touched  men  and  things  with  rare  delicacy. 
His  papers  have  breathed  unctuous  good  will  to  all 
men.  He  has  stopped  preaching  the  gospel  of  der- 
ringer and  dynamite.  He  has  paraphrased  Roose- 
velt's epigrammatic  advise  so  thpt  it  reads:  "Speak 
softly  and  carry  a  big  purse." 

Hearst  has  the  money.  He  has  been  so  successful 
in  buying  the  brains  and  bodies  of  men  and  women 
and  all  else  that  his  caprice  fancied  that  he  has  come 
to  believe  that  there  is  nothing  that  is  not  for  sale 
— not  even  the  honor  of  the  nation.  He  seems  to 
have  had  assurances  that  his  $2,000,000  will  buy 
whatever  honor  the  leaders  of  the  Democracy  own. 
That  may  be  so.  It  took  some  diplomacy  to  keep 
the  convention  from  going  to  Chicago,  which  Hearst 
had  selected  as  the  place  for  the  delivery  of  the 
goods.  When  St.  Louis  was  named,  Hearst  shrieked 
in  his  papers:  "Aha!  They  were  afraid  of  me!"  He 
will  send  his  millions  and  his  mercenaries  to  St.  Louis 
the  White  House.  All  his  money  will  not  be  enough 
Democracy.  If  the  convention  name  Hearst  then 
and  there  will  be  an  end  of  a  party  that  has  stood 
always  against  all  that  Hearstism  signifies;  if  it  shall 
tell  him  to  go  home  and  devote  himself  to  the  joys 
of  his  numerous  firesides,  Democracy  will  once  more 
symbolize  the  national  aspirations  of  a  vast  body  of 
intelligence  and  patriotic  Americanism.  The  virtue 
of  Democracy  will  be  the  issue  at  St.  Louis. 

Hearst  may  be  able  to  buy  the  nomination,  and 
then  begin  his  march  at  the  head  of  his  rabble  of  pur- 
chasable labor  leaders,  bridge-burners,  bomb-throw- 
ers and  boycotters.  But  he  cannot  buy  his  way  into 
the  White  House.  All  his  money  will  not  be  enough 
to  purchase  national  forgetfulness  that  he  is  still  the 
Hearst  of  the  Sausalito  orgies,  the  Hearst  who  for 
all  these  years  has  given  his  days  to  public  and  his 
nights  to  private  debauchery,  busy  polluting  the 
spirit  of  the  press  and  the  morals  of  the  people 
when  he  has  not  been  cuddling  amorously  with  such 
as  the  "Sassafras  Sisters."  He  cannot  gild  himself 
so  thickly  as  to  hide  the  leprous  immorality  of  his 
life  as  man  and  boy.  No  amount  of  gold  will  make 
an  eagle  of  this  vulture. 


AN  EXAMPLE  OF  LABOR  UNION  METHODS. 

The  evidence  produced  in  the  United  States  Cir- 
cuit Court  in  support  of  the  petition  for  an  injunc- 
tion to  restrain  the  striking  miners  at  Hodson,  Cala- 
veras County,  from  committing  acts  of  violence 
against  men  in  the  employ  of  the  Royal  Consolidated 
Company,  offers  a  striking  example  of  union  meth- 
ods. The  testimony  produced  shows  that  a  reign 
of  terror  exists  at  Hodson,  the  creation  of  the  miners' 
union,  and  there  is  so  little  concealment  about  this 
condition  that'  the  affidavits  filed  on  behalf  of  the 
strikers  show  but  little  respect  for  the  court.  It  is 
in  evidence  that  Charles  Wilson,  a  teamster,  was 
forcibly  taken  from  the  barn  of  the  company  by  25 
of  the  strikers,  who  led  him  to  a  pond  and  there 
ducked  him  by  way,  presumably,  of  "peaceful  argu- 
ment," to  convince  him  that  it  was  not  healthy  to 
work  for  a  boycotted  employer,  in  reply  to  this 
testimony  the  strikers  have  'filed  an  affidavit  depos- 
ing that  Wilson  went  voluntarily  with  his  captors 
and  adding  that  "thereupon  one  of  the  affiant's  com- 
panions suggested  to  Wilson  that  inasmuch  as  he 
had  opposed  his  fellow-workingmen,  he,  Wilson, 
could  show  his  sincerity  better  by  washing  himself 
clean  of  all  past  acts  by  walking  into  an  adjoining 
pond  of  water,  which  Wilson  thereupon  did,  without 
any  force  or  threat  made  toward  him  whatsoever." 

Comment  is  unnecessary  on  this  sort  of  evidence. 


ON  DANGEROUS  GROUND. 
It  seems  to  the  impartial  observer  that  the  Senate 
of  the  United  States  is  venturing  on  dangerous 
ground  in  the  case  of  Reed  Smoot,  the  Senator  from 
Utah.  The  action  of  the  body  is  obviously  inspired 
by  a  loud  popular  clamor,  which,  on  examination, 
does  not  appear  to  be  intelligent.  It  is  not  alleged 
in  any  part  of  the  indictment  that  Smoot  has  com- 
mitted a  crime.  It  is  proposed  to  make  him  an  out- 
law on  moral  grounds  because  he  is  believed  to 
hold  opinions  favorable  to  polygamy.  It  is  not  clear 
how  those  opinions  are  to  be  brought  home  to  Smoot 
and  if  it  should  prove  that  he  is  guilty  in  this  regard 
it  is  scarcely  in  accord  with  American  ideas  that  a 
man  should  be  punished  for  the  opinions  he  holds. 
In  fact,  if  Senators  are  to  be  excluded  from  their 
seats  on  purely  moral  grounds,  it  may  be  feared 
that  the  exclusion  act  might  cover  many  besides 
Smoot.  The  Senate  has  involved  itself  in  the  old- 
fashioned  confusion  between  sin  and  crime,  which 
has  caused  thousands  to  be  burned  at  the  stake  be- 
cause of  their  heretical  opinions.  But  it  seems 
rather  late  in  the  day  to  go  back  to  that. 


KCHAS  KLILUS  &  COM 

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correctly  styled,  with  progressive  ideas.  Being  "  MEN'S 
CLOTHIERS  ONLY"   we  fit  accurately. 


January  23.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTKR. 


Retrospect     on    William     the     Witless 


Editor  News  Letter — According  to  1  be  revel. r 
lady-in-waiting  at  the  German  Court,  a  Mine. 
ppingboven,  those  that  dubbed  the  present  Em- 
of  Germany  "William  the  Witless,"  were  not 
wide  of  the   mark.     He  is  described  as  a  man 
who  is  almost  afraid  of  his  shadow,  a  man  haunted 
by  the  fears  of  hereditary  disease  and  cursed  with  the 
of   ancestry.     The   Hohenzollcrn   blood   shows 
its  Divine  origin  in  many  ways.    "They  that  the  I 
love  they  first  make  mad."     There  is  a   Divine  run- 
ning ear  and  a  Divine  shriveled  arm.  a   Divine  tem- 
per which    swears   at   the   "help"   and   damns   all   re- 
publics.    This  divinity  calls  himself  "the  annointed 
of  God"  and  the  German  Empire  the  "ally  of  God." 

In  one  of  his  prolonged  llights  in  the  realms  of  the 
daffy  it  seems  that  William  conceived  the  brilliant 
idea  of  forcible  and  armed  interference  in  Cuba,  in 
behalf  of  Spain,  just  prior  to  the  late  unpleasantness 
between  the  United  States  and  the  Dons.  This  was 
prevented  by  the  cool-headedness  of  the  Chancellor 
of  the  empire.  The  revelations  of  Mine,  von  Epping- 
hoven  throw  a  new  light  on  the  movements  of  Ad- 
miral Von  Diederichs  of  Manila  fame.  It  can  easily 
be  conceived  where  the  Admiral  obtained  the  cour- 
age to  insult  so  repeatedly  the  Americans  in  general 
and  Admiral  Dewey  in  particular.  "Like  master 
like  dog!"  A  Chancellor's  well-timed  interference, 
it  would  seem,  saved  us  the  trouble  and  expense  of 
administering  a  lesson  to  the  Teutonic  race,  for  it 
was  well  known  in  Austria  and  in  Germany  that  the 
Kaiser  did  look  with  disfavor  on  our  policy  in  Cuba 
and  the  Philippines. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  an  Austrian  corvette 
arrived  in  the  harbor  of  Manila  at  a  time  when  rela- 
tions between  Dewey  and  Von  Diederichs  were  just 
a  little  strained.  The  corvette  was  a  training  ship, 
and  instead  of  stopping  to  secure  anchorage  from 
the  ranking  Admiral  (Dewey)  it  passed  on  up  the 
bay  until  it  had  attained  a  position  opposite  the  only 
Austrian  war  vessel  in  the  harbor,  and  there  pro- 
ceeded to  anchorage. 

In  a  few. minutes  an  officer  from  the  Olympia  pre- 
sented the  compliments  of  the  Admiral,  and  this  was 
the  message  which  brought  the  corvette  back  to  sa- 
lute the  Olympia  and  the  American  flag: 

"Was  it  intentionally  that  the  usual  salute  was 
omitted  or  was  it  through  ignorance  of  custom?" 

No  explanation  was  expected,  and  the  only  possible 
apology  was  made.  The  corvette  received  her  in- 
structions as  to  anchorage  from  the  American  rfaval 
commander,  and  it  was  "damn  the  republic"  from 
the  Kaiserin  Augusta  down,  and  the  Austrian's'  and 
the  Germans  drowned  their  sorrows  in  Teutonic 
beer. 

Mme.  Von  Eppinghoven's  stories  are  classified  as 
lies  and  as  lese  majeste.  There  are  many,  no  doubt, 
that  have  doubted  the  truth  of  the  statements  made 
by  those  that  have  returned  from  Manila.  There 
are  but  few  who  are  willing  to  believe  that  the  Ger- 
man Admiral  placed  his  best  gunners  at  the  disposal 
of  Jaudenez,  and  that  the  guns  at  Malate  were  placed 
in  position  by  German  officers.  There  are  but  few 
willing  to  believe  that  the  German  Admiral' landed  a 
whole  ship-load  of  flour,  on  the  pretense  or  helping 
his  starving-  countrymen,  and  then"  sold  the  flour 
through  a  Swiss  firm  to  the  Spaniards  at  the  rate' 
of  twenty-seven  dollars  a  sack.  ..     . 


Further  than  this,  thrre  are  but  few  who  would  be 
willing  to  believe  that  when  an  American,  a  Mr. 
Brown,  agent  nf  .1  Milwaukee  beer  firm,  having  ob- 
tained leave  1  through  Mr.  Wildman,  then  Consul- 
General  at  Hong-Kong)  to  travel  on  the  Kaiserin 
Augusta  from  Hong-Kong  to  Manila,  be  was  subject 
to  all  sort  of  indignity,  and  told  that  he  must  remain 
in  the  limit  of  bi>  cabin,  as  the  United  States  and 
Germany  were  on  the  verge  of  war. 

There  are  few  of  us,  if  the  records  were  not  in  ex- 
istence, that  would  give  credence  to  the  story  that 
Von  Diederichs  despatched  the  Kaiserin  Augusta  to 
Hong-Kong,  after  the  fall  of  Manila,  against  the  ex- 
press  wish  of  the  American  Admiral  and  contrary 
to  all  the  rules  of  international  courtesy.  And  this 
was  why  Berlin  had  the  news  before  it  reached 
Washington. 

There  are  some  people  who  will  deny  all  these 
things,  but  there  are  thousands  of  men  who  will  re- 
member them,  and  these  are  the  men  who  took 
Manila  and  the  men  who  marched  to  Pekin. 

There  are  but  few,  even  in  the  army,  who  have 
access  to  the  "dossiers"  of  the  Intelligence  Depart- 
ment. It  is  in  these  confidential  reports  that  our 
relations  with  a  country  that  has  no  love  for  us,  and 
that  is  ruled  by  an  Emperor  who  has  a  mania  for  de- 
vouring republics  when  he  is  not  busily  engaged  in 
throwing  a  fit  or  making  some  compact  for  the. 
amusement  of  himself  and  God,  are  to  be  found. 
Hoch  der  Kaiser!  — Bec-de-Fer. 


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guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


Ufye    Minister    of    Foreig'n    Affairs 


Events  in  the  Far  East  the  past  week  have  given 
birth  to  peace  rumors  that  seem,  at  first  glance,  to 
be  founded  in  fact,  but  since  all  of  them  come  from 
St.  Petersburg  or  other  Russian  sources,  there  is  a 
suspicion  in  military  and  diplomatic  circles  that  the 
Russian  Government  is  merely  presenting  another 
side  of  her  accustomed  perfidy  and  hypocrisy.  The 
signing  of  a  treaty  of  commerce  with  the  United 
States  and  England  by  China  was  a  severe  jolt  to 
Russia's  plans,  for  the  treaty  recognizes  China's  and 
not  Russia's  ownership  and  jurisdiction  of  and  over 
Manchuria.  For  months  Russia  had  fought  against 
the  signing  of  this  convention,  and  the  belief  was 
pretty  general  that  China  would  yield  to  the  St. 
Petersburg  pressure.  But  in  that  Russia  received  a 
greater  defeat  and  a  more  severe  diplomatic  shock 
to  her  ultimate  purpose  than  the  sinking  of  a  whole 
squadron  of  her  battle-ships  would  have  inflicted,  for 
the  compact  openly  and  positively  binds  England  and 
America  to  China's  cause  in  Manchuria.  Naturally, 
Russia  would  scheme  for  more  time,  and  she  is  do- 
ing it  under  the  guise  of  a  "peace  sentiment"  pro- 
claimed from  the  throne,  but  all  that  is  contradicted 
by  the  rushing  of  troops  to  the  disputed  ground,  and 
the  "rush"  orders  for  commissary  stores  from  the 
United  States  and  other  countries  to  Port  Arthur 
for  inland  distribution.  The  Japanese  Government 
is  placing  little  or  no  faith  in  Russia's  peace  prom- 
ises, and  is  rushing  preparations  for  an  armed  con- 
flict, which  all  nations  admit  is  inevitable,  unless 
Russia  backs  down  and  relinquishes  her  hold  upon 
Manchuria.  That  is  the  situation  at  this  writing. 
Certainly  Russia's  new  diplomatic  play  is  likely  to 
postpone  an  overt  act  on  her  part  until  Viceroy 
Alexieff's  demand  for  300,000  troops  and  more  than 
100  warships  is  complied  with,  which  the  Russian 
war  and  naval  departments  are  hurrying  to  do.  But 
will  Japan  be  inclined  to  wait  for  the  arrival  of  Rus- 
sia's re-inforcements?  That  is  the  one  great  ques- 
tion of  the  hour. 

*  *  * 

A  Mexican  high  in  official  and  social  life  is  anxious 
about  his  country  because  of  Yankee  aggressiveness. 
He  reasons  that  at  the  present  rate  of  absorption  of 
the  agricultural,  commercial,  industrial,  mining  and 
transportation  agencies  of  the  nation  by  Americans, 
together  with  the  steady  increase  in  marriages  be- 
tween Americans  and  Mexicans,  the  time  will  come 
when  Mexico  will  be  so  thoroughly  Americanized 
that  it  will  become  a  part  and  parcel  of  the  United 
States  as  naturally  as  it  is  natural  for  an  apple  to 
fall  to  the  ground  when  ripe.  Well,  our  Mexican 
friend  reasons  logically,  but  because  Mexican  Texas 
became  an  Ameriacn  State  with  more  than  3,000,000 
in  half  a  century,  it  does  not  follow  that  the  same 
results  are  likely  to  obtain  in  old  Mexico  at  the  same 
or  one-tenth  that  ratio  of  "Americanization,"  as  he 
calls  it.  Still,  should  such  results  as  he  fears  ever 
obtain,  Mexico  would  be  the  gainer.  There  is  no 
doubt  about  that. 

*  *  * 

Some  time  ago  the  powers  ordered  the  Sublime 
Porte  to  pour  a  lot  of  the  oil  of  peace  upon  the 
wild  human  billows  in  Macedonia,  Bulgaria  and  the 
other  troubled  waters  in  the  Near  East,  but  the 
troubled  human  waters  refuse  to  be  quieted.  They 
want   war — bushwacking   war — and   they    announce 


that  they  have  no  notion  of  letting  up  on  the  Turk 
until  he  relinquishes  all  authority  over  them.  But, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  relinquishment  of  Turkish 
authority  is  exactly  what  they  do  not  want.  They 
are  essentially  a  people  who  love  the  life  of  the  free- 
booter, the  highway  robber,  and  the  all-round  crimi- 
nal, and  Turkish  rule  is  the  excuse  for  keeping  up 
bands  of  wandering  robbers.  No,  the  life  and  the 
salvation  of  most  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  region  is 
Turkish  rule  and  Turkish  brutality.  It  is  their  stock 
in  trade  in  their  "national  independence"  business. 
Law,  order  and  honest  avocation  do  not  appeal  to 
them.  This  every  missionary  who  has  preached  to 
those  people  knows  well ;  so  do  the  powers,  and  that 
is  why  the  powers  do  not  interfere.  It  is  dog  fighting 
dog,  and  in  time  both  dogs  will  be  killed  by  their 
own  teeth. 

*  *  * 

The  creditor  nations  of  Colombia  have  recognized 
the  Republic  of  Panama  because  the  United  States 
has  agreed  that  Panama  shall  pay  her  pro  rata  of 
Colombia's  national  debt,  and  also  settle  with  indi- 
vidual creditors.  The  $10,000,000  which  Panama  gets 
for  canal  concessions  are  not,  however,  to  be  diverted 
from  the  pocket-books  of  the  patriot  revolutionists. 
Money  for  debts  abroad  will  be  raised  by  taxation. 
Boiled  down,  it  simply  means  that  the  United  States 
agreed  to  become  collector  for  foreign  creditors  of 
Panama,  and  in  part  of  Colombia,  in  consideration 
of  recognition  by  foreign  nations  of  the  independence 
of  the  Republic  of  Panama,  and  give  her  a  small 
horn  to  toot  in  the  concert  of  the  powers. 

*  *  * 

Fully,  if  not  more  than  half  of  the  Jews  in  the 
world  are  Russian  subjects,  and  like  the  Armenian 
subjects  of  the  Sublime  Porte,  they  are  the  bankers 
and  the  force  behind  the  great  commercial  enter- 
prises. They,  as  well  as  the  Armenians,  are  the  busi- 
ness brains  of  their  country,  and  it  is  jealousy  of 
their  thrift  and  business  sense  that  is  at  the  bottom 
of  their  persecution,  and  not  because  they  are  Jews 
or  Armenians,  but  that  is  the  excuse.  It  so  happens, 
too,  that  when  the  Czar  or  the  Sublime  Porte  wants 
to  float  a  loan,  the  Jew  or  the  Armenian  is  the  first 
one  to  be  invited  to  finance  the  scheme.  Ingratitude 
is  the  basest  feature  of  the  human  heart,  and  Russia 
and  Turkey  have  more  of  it  than  all  the  other  nations 
together. 

*  *  * 

The  Transvaal  country  is  enjoying  a  degree  of 
prosperity  and  internal  tranquility  that  is  not  only 
surprising  but  exceedingly  satisfying  to  the  Boers. 
In  fact,  the  Boers  now  fully  realize  that  British  ad- 
ministration of  their  national  concerns  means  na- 
tional protection,  national  as  well  as  individual  pros- 
perity, and  the  development  of  the  country's  vast 
resources  with  the  Boers  themselves  the  chief  bene- 
ficiaries. Unlike  our  treatment  of  the  Filipinos,  the 
Boers  were  given  prompt  protection  from  land 
sharks  and  wandering  "promoters,"  and  every  proper 
encouragement  was  given  to  them  to  build  up  their 
country  upon  a  solid  basis  for  their  own  good  and  ad- 
vantage. The  consequence  is  that  practically  the 
entire  Boer  population  is  glad  that  events  brought 
them  to  the  high  level  of  identity  with  Great  Britain's 
mighty  family  of  colonies. 


January  13.  1904.  SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

A  CONDITION  OF  ANARCHY. 


Readers  of  the  daily  press  ol  San   Francis* 

nv  idea  of  ttu-  conditions  of  anarchy  and 
flat  rebellion  that  prevail  in  Cripple  t'reck,  TeOuride 
ami  other  Colorado  towns,  whose  population  is 
chiefly  made  up  of  members  of  the  Western  Federa- 
tion of  Miners.  We  do  DOt  get  the  facts  from  a 
cowardly  press,  because  the  newspapers,  so-called, 
fear  to  give  those  facts  lest  they  themselves  should 
undergo  the  terrorism  exerted  by  organized  labor 
everywhere,  terrorism  that  is  the  chief  and  almost 
the  only  method  in  use  by  the  unions  to  compass 
their  ends. 

Some  of  these  facts,  however,  are  given  in  a  state- 
ment issued  by  the  Colorado  Mine  Owners  Associa- 
tion and  printed  in  the  Congressional  Record  of 
January  13th  as  part  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Senate 
on  a  resolution  calling  for  an  investigation  of  indus- 
trial conditions  in  Colorado.  These  facts  are  suffi- 
ciently striking  and  even  astonishing,  as  to  call  for 
notice.  The  conditions  in  the  mines  for  a  period  of 
ten  years  are  summed  up  in  the  following  paragraph  : 

"No  parallel  can  be  found  for  it  in  the  labor  history 
of  the  world  unless  it  be  in  the  Molly  Maguire  or- 
ganization, which  maintained  a  reign  of  terror  in 
the  Pennsylvania  coal  fields  prior  to  1877.  During 
times  of  comparative  peace  the  career  of  this  organi- 
zation has  been  marked  by  nocturnal  assaults  and 
secret  assassinations,  while  now  and  again  they  have 
broken  out  into  open  warfare  amounting  to  insur- 
rection. Whenever  a  mine  owner  has  assumed  to 
stand  against  their  aggressions  or  to  employ  as  la- 
borers men  not  members  of  this  organization,  his 
life  and  his  property  have  been  forfeit.  Criminal, 
cruel,  untiring,  militant,  political  parties  have  obeyed 
their  behest,  honorable  judges  have  been  retired  to 
private  life  for  decisions  to  them  obnoxious,  courts 
have  yielded  to  their  dictates,  and  sheriffs  and  other 
peace  officers,  often  selected  from  their  own  number, 
have  been  their  willing  agents.  When  an  executive 
has  been  found  big  enough  and  brave  enough  and 
patriotic  enough  to  rise  above  political  expediency 
and  take  a  firm  stand  in  favor  of  law  and  order  and 
the  preservation  of  those  rights  guaranteed  by  the 
Constitution,  as  did  Governor  Steunenberg,  in  Idaho 
in  1899,  and  as  Governor  Peabody  is  doing  in  Colo- 
rado to-day,  protests  such  as  that  embodied  in  the 
resolution  under  consideration  have  gone  up  from 
certain  quarters,  either  inspired  by  sympathy  with 
the  acts  and  purposes  of  this  organization  or  with 
the  hope  of  obtaining  some  political  advantages 
through  them,  or,  as  we  trust  is  the  case  with  the 
present  resolution,  by  ignorance  of  the  facts  which 
have  engendered  the  condition." 

By  way  of  further  specifications  in  support  of  these 
general  charges,  the  statement  goes  on  to  tell  how  in 
1901  during  the  strike  at  the  Smuggler-Union  mine 
in  Telluride,  an  armed  body  of  union  men  attacked 
the  mine  and  killed  and  wounded  several  persons, 
taking  forcible  possession  of  the  property.  Manager 
Collins  of  the  mine  was  shot  in  the  back  and  killed 
as  he  sat  at  his  library  table  with  some  friends. 

This  cowardly  assassination  does  not  by  any 
means  stand  alone.  On  November  21,  1903,  while 
Charles  McCormick,  superintendent,  and  Melvin 
Beck,  shift  boss,  of  the  Vindicator  mine  were  going 
into  the  sixth  level,  an  infernal  machine  was  ex- 
ploded, by  which  both  men  were  killed. 

If  space  permitted,  these  specifications  of  crime 
could  be  extended  at  considerable  length,  but  for 
the  present  these  will  suffice  by  way  of  indication  of 
the  alleged  law-abiding  and  peaceful  methods  of  or- 
ganized labor. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


Lord  Wolseley  tells  the  story 
The  Story  of  a  of  his  early  military  career 
Soldier's  Life.  from  1853  to  the  conclusion  of 
the  Ashantee  campaign  in 
1873.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  in  time  he  will  write 
of  the  more  recent  events  and  of  his  connection  with 
the  Boer  war.  In  writing  of  the  Crimea — that  end- 
less succession  of  blunders — Lord  Wolseley  asks : 
"What  about  that  civil  government  of  ours  which 
sent  an  army  to  the  Crimea  without  any  means  of 
carrying  either  food  or  wounded  men?  If  the  curses 
of  brave  men  affect  the  future  life  of  those  who  have 
injured  them,  many  members  of  the  cabinet  that  sent 
us  to  the  Crimea  must  now  have  uncomfortable  quar- 
ters somewhere."  Neither  does  he  spare  the  Gener-' 
als  and  their  aides  who,  in  the  battle  of  Inkerman, 
showed  their  incompetency:  "I  was  shown  the  graves 
of  many  gallant  leaders  who  had  fallen  at  Inkerman, 
the  battle  where  we  were  surprised  and  our  army 
only  saved  from  destruction  by  the  timely  arrival 
of  French  troops  to  help  us.  Good  heavens !  What 
Generals  then  had  charge  of  England's  only  army, 
and  of  her  honor  and  fighting  reputation!  Thev 
were  served  to  a  large  extent  by  incompetent  staff 
officers  as  useless  as  themselves !  Almost  all  our 
officers  at  that  time  were  uneducated  as  soldiers, 
and  many  of  those  placed  upon  the  staff  of  the  army 
at  the  beginning  of  the  war  absolutely  unfit  for  posi- 
tions they  had  secured  through  family  or  political 
interest.  There  were,  of  course,  a  few  brilliant  ex- 
ceptions, but  they  made  the  incompetence  of  the 
many  all  the  more  remarkable." 

The  work  is  full  of  entertaining  personalia,  and 
while  not  a  great  military  biography,  is  a  straight- 
forward view  of  a  soldier,  vigorous  and  ingenuous ; 
the  language  is  dignified  and  the  narrative  is  stamped 
with  patriotic  fervor  and  the  enthusiasm  of  military 
glory. 

"The  Story  of  a  Soldier's  Life"  (Scribner's") ,  by 
Field  Marshal  Viscount  Wolseley. 

This  is  not  a  tale  of  the  sea, 
The  Sailor  King,     but  a  moving  panorama  of  the 
courtiers,  poets,  writers,  play- 
ers, women  famous  for  beauty  or  talent,  beaux,  wits 
and  club  gossips  of  Great  Britain  in  the  time  when 
William  the  Fourth  was  king. 

One  chapter  deals  with  the  theatre — Macready, 
Fanny  Kemble,  Edmund  Kean — and  the  first  produc- 
tion of  "The  Hunchback."  Another  tells  of  the  strug- 
gle in  the  House  of  Lords  before  the  passage  of  the 
"Reform  Bill,"  that  saved  the  country  from  the  revo- 
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and  the  lack  of  an  index  is  a  serious  defect,  there  is 
not  a  dull  page  in  the  work. 

"The  Sailor  King :  William  the  Fourth :  His  Court 
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Dodd,  Mead  &  Company,  New  York. 


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is  also,  by  means  of  a  published  correspondence,  a 
record  of  personal  opinion  by  the  sage  of  Yasnava 
Polyana.  Needless  to  say,  the  opinion,  as  expressed 
in  this  compilation,  does  not  agree  with  the  published 
reports   of  the   Russian    Government. 

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of  it,  indeed,  most  of  it,  is  good.    Witness  ye: 

September  in  a  warring  mood 
Has  hung  a  signal   in   a  wood — 

A  maple  branch  as  red  as  blood. 
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"The  Testimony  of  the  Suns  and  Other  Poems"  is 
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the  quicker  the  reviewer  reads  him  out  of  business 
the  better.  The  tale  is  an  impossible  one,  loosely 
put  together,  and  will  give  boys  a  wrong  impression 
of  life.  It  is  poorly  printed  on  poorer  paper,  and  is 
no  credit  to  the  publisher's  discrimination  or  work- 
manship. 

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"Proverbs  of  the  People,"  by  Lorenzo  Sosso,  is  at 
hand,  and  the  reviewer  is  disarmed  at  the  outset  by 
the  preface  of  the  author,  in  which  he  lays  no  claim 
of  originality.  Marshall  Douglass  is  the  designer  of 
the  ornamental  pages,  and  A.  M.  Robertson  is  the 
publisher.  It  is  a  bundle  of  aphorisms  and  proverbs 
charmingly  modernized,  and  the  book  is  a  bibelot 
that  will  ornament  any  study  table. 


The  News  Letter  is  in  receipt  of  "Municipal  Re- 
ports 1901-1902,"  from  Charles  W.  Fay,  Clerk  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors.  This  report  is  exhaustive  in 
detail,  and  is  of  inestimable  value  to  any  one  inter- 
ested in  the  city's  welfare.  The  binding  of  this  vol- 
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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Dear  Bessie:  How  on  earth  all  the  dances  U 
l>o  enjoyed,  as   they   deserve   to  be,  next   woo'.   i~ 
something  of  a  problem,  for  there  will  be  one  every 

night,  and  then  there  are  a  lot  of  Other  affairs,  such 
as  luncheons  and  teas,  to  .till  in  the  hours  of  the  af- 
ternoon. Wontil  you  believe  it  is  six  years  since  the 
"P.orel  hall."  which  some  people  talk  about  as  though 
it  were  the  only  one  which  hail  ever  taken  place  in 
this  little  village?  Well,  it  was  a  pleasant  affair. 
and  the  reason  why  it  has  not  since  been  duplicated 
is  that  the  family  spent  two  years  in  F.urope  soon 
after,  and  since  then  have  been  in  mourning.  But 
now  there  is  another  one  on  the  tapis,  this  tim  ■  to 
be  given  in  the  new  ballroom  at  the  Palace,  and  of 
course  all  who  are  asked  are  delighted,  and  will  be 
on  hand,  you  may  be  sure.  But  let  me  begin  at 
the  beginning  and  tell  you  a  little  of  what  is  on  the 
bills  for  next  week. 

Frances  Harris,  whose  engagement  to  Mt.  Stunt 
is  considered  an  assured  fact,  though  not  yet  for- 
mally announced,  gives  a  tea  on  Tuesday,  and  in  the 
evening  the  Barry  Colemans  give  a  dance  in  Century 
Hall  for  Lucy,  and  Christine  Pomeroy.  On  Wed- 
nesday night  there  is  the  Borel  ball  at  the  Palace. 
Mrs.  John  Simpson  will  give  her  first  large  entertain- 
ment this  season  on  Thursday,  and  instead  of  a  tea 
as  usual,  it  is  to  be  a  euchre  party," and  a  large  one: 
and  in  the  evening  takes  place  the  ball  which  Mrs. 
Homer  King  is  to  give  in  honor  of  Miss  Herrick. 
On  Friday  night  comes  the  AssemBly  dance,  and  on 
Saturday  the  two  weddings.  Don't  you  think  we 
shall  be  tired  by  Sunday? 

I  managed  three  of  the  teas  last  Saturday.  At 
Gertrude  Palmer's,  which  was  given  for  Polly  Mac- 
farlane,  Hattie  Currier  announced  her  engagement 
to  Walter  Hale,  and  was  of  course  the  center  of  a 
congratulating  throng  all  afternoon.  From  there  I 
went  to  the  Livermores,  which  was  a  telephone  gath- 
ering and  extremely  pleasant.  Then  Betty,  Mollie 
and  I  finished  up  at  Mabel  Craft  Deering's,  where 
we  had  a  jolly  time,  and  shall  I  tell  you  why?  She 
had  a  lot  of  men  to  help  in  receiving  and  doing  the 
agreeable  to  the  women,  and  you  should  have  seen 
some  of  those  dear  fellows  how  they  did  lay  them- 
selves out  and  seemed  delighted  to  do  it,  too.  And 
now  mark  my  words,  her  example  will  be  followed, 
and  hereafter  men,  when  they  can  be  got,  will  be  a 
feature  of  the  receiving  parties  at  teas,  and  how  much 
more  pleasant  it  will  be  for  all  concerned. 

We  have  all  been  kept  pretty  busy  this  week  with 
functions,  both  large  and  small,  and  "at  homes" 
nearly  every  day  in  the  week,  which  take  up  much 
of  one's  time  to  do.  Theatre  parties  have  also  been 
quite  the  vogue  during  Mrs.  Langtry's  engagement, 
and  I  have  had  to  refuse  becoming  an  item  in  several 
from  sheer  inability.  Did  you  ever  know  such  dear 
people  as  the  Huntingtons?  They  do  so  love  to  en- 
tertain, and  they  do  it  so  delightfully.  This  week 
they  had  a  lovely  dinner  dance  on  Monday  night  for 
Helen  Bailey — a  dozen  to  dinner  and  about  fifty 
more  for  the  dance  afterwards.  There  is  to  be  an- 
other in  two  weeks,  when  Margaret  Newhall  will  be 
the  honored  one. 

Then  on  Tuesday  there  was  Mrs.  Lent's  luncheon 
for  Gertrude  Smith.  Julie  de  Laveaga  Welch  made 
her  initial  bow  as  a  hostess  on  Wednesday,  when 
she  gave  a  tea  at  the  Welches ;  it  was  quite  a  large 
affair.     Mrs.  Ritchie  Dunn  gave  a  luncheon  at  the 


Univei  ib    for    Polly    Macfarlane,   and    Mrs. 

<    was  also  .1  luncheon  hostess  on  Wednesday, 

and  in  the  evening  the  Gaietj  (  lub  hail  their  dance 

at  Christine  Pomeroy's.  I  ho  card  patty  given  by 
Maud  Mullins  Clarke  on  Thursday  was  for  Polly 
Macfarlane,  and  yesterday  Belle  Smith  had  a  tea. 
I  was  asked  to  join  a  party  to  go  to  Del  Monte  last 
night  for  the  hall  which'  tin-  officers  of  the  15th 
Infantry  gave  there  in  honor  of  their  Colonel,  and 
Mrs.  Warae,  hut  had  to  decline,  and  oh,  was  I  not 
sorry!  But  I  had  promised  to  go  to  the  Friday  Fort- 
nightly. To-day  Constance  do  Young  has  her  C  m 
ing  out  tea,  and  for  to-morrow  Mrs.  Jack  Casserley 
is  to  treat  her  friends  to  a  musical  tea,  something 
a  little  out  of  the  common  run  of  such  affairs,  and  no 
doubt  it  will  be  enjoyable.  There  has  only  been  one 
wedding  this  week,  that  of  Caroline  Rixford  and  Cov- 
ington Johnson,  and  it  was  a  very  quiet  home  affair, 
on  Monday  afternoon,  only  relatives  and  connections 
being  among  the  guests,  but  those  of  Mr.  Johnston 
were  quite  numerous,  including  all  the  Pringdes. 
Campbells,  Averys,  Mrs.  Meezes,  etc.  Bishop  Nich- 
ols officiated,  and  the  bride,  who  was  robed  in  white 
satin,  had  her  cousin,  Katherine  Rixford,  for  her 
sole  attendant ;  Covington  Pringle  was  his  uncle's 
best  man.  But  next  week  there  are  to  be  two,  and 
both  on  Saturday — Bernie  Drown's  at  St.  Luke's 
and  Jacqueline  Moore's  in  Oakland,  and  as  luckily 
the  hours  do  not  conflict,  I  shall  be  able  to  do  them 
both.  Jacqueline  is  to  be  married  at  the  Church  of 
the  Advent  at  three  o'clock  ;  it  will  be  a  lavender 
wedding,  with  a  whole  string  of  attendant  maids — 


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tween good  and  bad. 
trial  is  the  test  and 
taste  the  umpire. 


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mended to  women  be- 
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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


.January  33,  1904. 


eight  in _ all.  Bernie's  is  to  be  at  noon,  and  I  hear 
the  churbh  decorations  are  to  be  something  exceed- 
ingly hne,  but  the  home  reception  will  be  very  lim- 
ited .in  size. .  '\YJiat  *  stunning  bride  she  will  mike! 
She  is  so  popular,  and  has  such  hosts  of  frienrls,  I 
hear  that  the  presents  are  so  numerous  they  com- 
pletely fill  a  large  room. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  has  been  doing  the  honors 
for  Mr§.  Peter  in  what  she  calls  a  quiet  way,  but 
you  know  what  her  quiet  way  means.  Her  telephone 
tea  last  Friday  had  all  the  elements  of  a  more  formal 
affair,  and  the  coming  dinner  will  be  a-  fine  one.  I 
understand  Mrs.  Peter  has  been  favorably  impressed, 
;  and  thinks  life  here  for  awhile  may  not  be  so  bad  af- 
ter all — but  not  for  a  continuance;  oh,  dear,  no! 

Among  other  dinners  of  the  near  future  is  the 
one  which  Mrs.  George  Boardman  gives  next  Mon- 
day night  for  her  son,  Sam,  Bernie  and  the  whole 
•of  their  bridal  party.  By  the  way,  I  wonder  if 
Frank  Winn  will  arrive  in  time  for  it?  You  know 
he  is  coming  down  to  be  Sam's  best  man,  and  Sophie 
told  me  at  the  Woods'  tea  last  Tuesday,  which  was 
a  very  pleasant  one,  that  there  were  to  be  a  whole 
lot  of  them  before  the  dances  next  week.  Apropos 
of  dances,  the  Chesebroughs  are  to  have  one  on  the 
third  of  February;  the  last  of  the  Greenway  dances 
comes  off  on  the  twelfth,  and  is,  I  hear,  to  be  even 
better  than  either  of  its  predecessors,  if  that  can 
possibly  be.  Mrs.  Joe  Grant,  who  is  spending  the 
winter  at  the  Palace,  gives  a  big  dinner  that  night, 
so  that  all  her  guests,  of  whom  yours  truly  expects 
to  be  one,  will  have  to  do  will  be  to  walk  from  the 
dining  room  into  the  ball  room.  Won't  that  be 
grand?  Mrs.  Tim  Hopkins  is  also  to  have  a  big 
dinner  early  in  February. 

Alice  tells  me  that  Mrs.  Horace  Hill,  who  gave  a 
luncheon  party  last  week — her  first  appearance  as  a 
hostess  since  her  return  from  her  long  visit  East — 
intends  to  have  a  dinner  dance  ere  the  season  ends, 
which  is  pleasant  news  to  hear.  Mrs.  Coolidge,  who 
gave  so  many  pleasant  parties  at  the  Presidio,  and 
later  at  her  home  on'  Van  Ness  Avenue,  last  year, 
has  again  entered  the  field  with  a  card  party  given 
last  Monday  afternoon,  when  the  popular  bridge  was 
played. 

There  have  not  been  many  arrivals.or  departures 
of  late  to  note  ;  Miss  Jennie  Flood  has  gone  East  on 
one  of  her  periodical  trips  over  the  road;  and  Elea- 
nor Davenport  is  back  from  her  rambles  in  Oriental 
countries,  and  will  have  so  much  to  tell  of  all  she 
saw  and'evrjoyed,  of  which  she  gave  a  faint  taste  in 
her  letters,  I  am  impatiently  waiting  for  time  to  get 
to  see  her.  — Elsie. 


Automobile  'parties'  are    very    numerous    at    Del 

Monte,  enjoying  the  beautiful,  oiled  roads.     A  few 

of  those  present  last  week  were :  L.  F.  Douglass  and 

party,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L. 

J.  Holton  and  Mrs.  Harry  P.  Miller,  San  Francisco; 

.    Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Chase,  San  Francisco ;  Mr.  and 

,    Mrs.  C.  C.  Moore,  San  Francisco.     Special  trains  with 

tourists   from   the   East  have  commenced   to  arrive. 

■    One  very  fine  party  reached  Del   Monte  last  week, 

-    consisting  .of    Corrljijipdore    and    Mrs.    E.    T.    Gerry, 

I    Mr.   Peter   G.    Gerry,   Miss   Gerry,   Newport,   R.    I.; 

Dr.  Robert  C.  James,  New  York  City. 

List  of  arrivals  this  week  at  Hotel  Rafael :  A.  Feist, 

W.  N.  Drown,  A.  McBean,  W.  A.  Sexton,  Mrs.  F. 

'    D.   Madison,   Mrs.   John    Partridge,   W.   Detring,  J. 

E.   Tomin,  A.   F.   Chamont,  A.   Cavalar,   E.  J.   Mc- 

.    Laughlin,  J.  J.  Garland,  H.  H.  Rosseau,  Harold  Bolle, 

.    M.  Welcker  and  wife. 


MERIT  WHERE   MERIT  IS   DUE.. 

The  American  public  is  very  slow  in  givi'ng'praise 
to  its  officials  and  very  quick  and  unstinted  in  it- 
denunciation.  It  is 
always  the  excep- 
tion that  proves  the 
rule.  The  public 
has  long  ago  ac- 
knowledged t  h  e 
sterling  merit  of 
United  States  Dis- 
trict Attorney 
\\  oodworth,  but  it 
remained  for  the  So- 
licitor General  of 
the  Treasury  De- 
partment to  give 
this  praise  in  official 
form.  In  his  report 
fur  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June,  1903,  it 
is  found  that  Minne- 
Marshall  Woodworth.  sota  heads  the  list 
for  the  year,  the  United  States  District  Attorney's 
office  having  collected  $34,000  in  fines,  forfeitures 
and  penalties  in  cases  wherein  the  United  States  was 
plaintiff.  The  Northern  District  of  California,  Mr. 
Woodworth's  office,  stands  second,  with  $29,000  col- 
lected. During  the  fiscal  year  1901-1902  Mr.  Wood- 
worth  collected  $70,000.  The  Seventh  District  of 
New  York  com'es  third,  with  $28,000. 

During  the  fiscal  year  ended  June  30,  1903,  the  vol- 
ume of  business  in  Mr.  Woodworth's  office — that  is, 
the  number  of  cases  disposed  of — trebled,  notwith- 
standing that  the  collections  fell  below  those  of  1901- 
1902. 


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nny  and  Emma  Ray,  popular  entertainers,  will 
begin  a   limited  engagement   at   the   <  >rpheum   this 
coming  week.    Thej  promise  something  entire!)  new 
ami  a  I  of  .1  rousing  welcome;  Cordua  and 

Maud,  who  give  a  most  wonderful  exhibition  of  hand 
balancing  on  the  double  wire;  Duffy,  Saw  telle  and 
Duffy  will  appear  here  for  the  first  time  in  a  comedy 
sketch  entitled  "Papa's  Sweetheart";  I  >li\er  T.  Hol- 
den,  lyric  tenor,  formerly  with  the  Castle  Square 
Opera  Company,  ami  Miss  Winifred  Florence, 
prano,  who  is  a  niece  of  the  late  W.  J.  Florence,  will 
present  a  romantic  comedy  operatic  sketch.  "The 
Fairv  of  Killarnev." 

*  *  * 

In  next  week"s  offering,  "'The  Masqueraders."  at 
the  Alcazar.  Henry  Arthur  Jones  has  contributed  a 
vital  and  virile  drama  of  the  emotions  even  more 
convincing  than  his  "Dancing  Girl,"  "Judah"  and 
"The  Middleman."  He  has  torn  the  mask  from  fash- 
ionable English  society  and  revealed  the  people  of 
his  story  all  very  real  and  human,  in  the  nakedness 
of  their  natural  impulses  and  passions. 

*  *  * 

What  promises  to  be  the  most  brilliant  of  the  series 
of  professional  matinee  performances  yet  given  by 
the  students  of  the  Paul  Gerson  School  of  Acting, 
will  take  place  at  the  California  Theatre  Friday  af- 
ternoon, February  12th.  Among  the  many  novelties 
to  be  offered  will  be  the  first  performance  in  the  West 
of  the  third  act  from  Ibsen's  "The  Doll's  House," 
and  which  will  serve  to  introduce  the  gifted  young 
California  actress,  Miss  Mabel  Duffey  in  the  part  of 
Nora.  "The  Jade,"  a  one-act  comedy  by  Ada  Lee 
Bascom,  will  have  its  first  presentation  in  this  coun- 
try. This  little  playlet  made  a  genuine  success  in 
London,  where  it  was  played  all  of  last  season.  "The 
Mouse  Trap,"  a  one-act  comedy  by  William  Dean 
Howell,  is  another  offering;  also  the  first  presenta- 
tion in  the  West  of  a  scene  from  Lord  Lytton's  beau- 
tiful play,  "The  Rightful  Heir."  A  fantasy  in  one  act 
by  Ada  Lee  Bascom,  entitled  "Bacchante,"  will  have 
its  first  performance  in  this  country,  and  will  prove  a 
decided  novelty.  Owing  to  the  length  of  the  pro- 
gramme, the  curtain  will  rise  promptly  at  two  o'clock. 


There  is  joy  in  the  camp  of  the  automobilists,  and 
among  those  who  drive  good  horseflesh.  This  joy- 
ful feeling  has  been  brought  about  by  the  opening 
of  a  new  hotel,  The  Anona,  at  2910  San  Bruno  Ave- 
nue. The  opening  occurred  on  the  evening  of  De- 
cember 19th,  and  was  attended  by  many  lovers  of 
good  cheer.  Among  those  present  at  mine  host  Gil- 
let's  board  were:  Colonel  A.  H.  Crane,  Harry  Pat- 
rick, C.  S.  Lahanier,  R.  D.  Kennedy,  Harry  Corbett, 
A.  L.  Schubert,  M.  A.  Miller,  E.  K.  Earl,  D.  L. 
O'Brien,  Major  J.  Bean,  A.  L.  Crane,  Fred  Purdy, 
W.  G.  Long,  George  Shaw,  C.  W.  Muller.  There  was 
speech  making  an  address  by  the  Honorable- Harry 
Mulcreevy  and  a  good  supper  and  dancing.  Dr.  Milo 
J.  Gillete  deserves  all  the  success  promised  the  house. 

One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

good  luncheon.  There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  and  refreshment  atcer 
the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
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SAN  FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


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The  news  that  the  conduct  of  the  United  States 
Marines  at  Seoul  is  unsatisfactory  will  not  come  as 
any  surprise  to  those  who  have  observed  the  deterio- 
ration in  the  conduct  of  all  arms  of  the  service  in 
San  Francisco.  I  am  a  friend  of  the  United  States 
Army  and  Navy,  but  as  such  am  obliged  to  state  that 
the  condition  of  the  streets  leading  to  the  Presidio 
from  the  city  is  disgraceful  in  the  early  hours  of  the 
morning.  It  is  no  excuse  to  say  that  garrison  towns 
are  always  so,  for  they  are  not.  Soldiers  may  be 
expected  to  get  drunk,  but  not  to  go  straggling  over 
the  streets  after  midnight.  Their  resorts  are  wall 
known,  and  a  corporal's  guard  to  gather  them  in 
before  midnight  would  confer  a  favor  not  only  on 
the  citizens  but  the  soldiers  themselves.  Much  more 
might  be  said  on  this  subject,  but  it  will  be  taken 
up  later. 

The  eternal  feminine  must  be  plotting  some  new 
mischief.  These  constant  collisions  with  burglars 
are  getting  to  be  monotonous,  and,  as  the  professors 
would  say,  are  rising  to  the  importance  of  social  phe- 
nomena. Two  school-teachers  find  a  burglar  in  their 
room  and  let  him  go — happy  burglar.  An  attorney's 
wife  catches  a  burglar  in  the  house  and  swats  him — 
happy  attorney,  for  he  gets  an  ad.  Free?  I  don't 
know,  but  I  have  my  doubts.  A  singer,  engagements 
perhaps  slack,  whacks  a  highwayman  with  her  um- 
brella in  classic  Berkeley — again  an  ad.  and  her  pic- 
ture. All  this  happens  in  one  week.  When  we  seek 
for  the  common  factor  in  these  cases  by  eliminating 
the  variables,  we  find,  we  blush  as  we  find,  advertise- 
ment.    Can  this  be  it? 

In  Oakland  they  are  troubling  their  heads  about 
the  disposal  of  the  city  garbage.  I  fancied  that  that 
question  had  long  been  settled,  and  that  most  of  the 
Oakland  garbage  found  its  way  into  the  Oakland 
restaurants.  Such  an  aggregation  of  poison-shops 
were  never  collected  under  the  term  restaurant.  Am- 
brose Bierce  used  to  say  that  one  could  never  get 
anything  decent  to  eat  in  the  town,  and  things  have 
not  improved  since  his  time.  There  are  an  everlast- 
ing number  of  people  in  Oakland  who  are  keen  to 
look  after  the  souls  of  its  people.  Won't  some  one 
pay  some  attention  to  a  less  dignified  but  very  neces- 
sary part  of  the  ordinary  human? 

A  certain  Robert  Goldman  of  Oakland  has  been 
acting  as  Governor  of  Bockloc  in  the  Philippines.  He 
went  out  to  the  islands  intending  to  farm,  but  has 
returned  dissatisfied.  Quite  right,  Mr.  Goldman. 
The  only  thing  worth  farming  in  the  Philippines  is 
the  revenue,  and  that  can  be  done  better  here: 

Our  island  possessions  it's  useless  to  roam — 
For  real  paying  graft,  there  is  no  place  like  home. 

Mrs.  Martha  E.  Bowers,  who  is  charged  with 
murdering  her  husband,  has  either  too  great  a  sense 
of  humor  or  too  little.  She  testifies:  "Mv  husband 
and  I  were  like  two  big  kids.  I  always  loved  him. 
He  was  always  a  sickly  man,  suffering  from  liver 
and  kidney  troubles.  He  had  bad  night  sweats."  This 
is  just  the  sort  of  man  that  a  young  woman  could 
love.  The  amount  of  affection  producible  by  means 
of  liver  and  kidney  troubles,  not  to  speak  of  night 
sweats,  should  be  of  a  quality  which  the  muse  of 
Swinburne  would  toil  painfully  to  describe. 


The  Stanford  students  do  not  like  good  music. 
Only  about  two  dozen  of  them  turned  up  to  a  classi- 
cal concert  and  the  long-haired  are  wailing.  Of 
course  the  vast  majority  of  healthy,  husky  young 
animals  which  constitute  the  student  body  of  the 
University  do  not  care  for  the  classical  concert.  It 
would  be  the  merest  humbug  on  their  part  to  pretend 
that  they  did.  If  we  subtract  from  the  ordinary  con- 
cert audience  the  fashionable,  the  pretentious  and  the 
merely  imitative,  we  shall  find  that  the  Stanford  two 
dozen  were  after  all  a  pretty  good  average,  and  there 
is  nothing  really  to  complain  about.  Who  would  ex- 
change a  healthy  kid  for  a  Grosvenor  Gallery  esthete? 

Professor  Gayley  is  holding  separate   classes   for 
men,  but  declares  that  he  is  not  opposed  to  co-edu- 
cation, whereupon  the  wise  spinster  remarks: 
Too  much  you  protest,  doctor  dear, 

'Tis  all  prevarication. 
No  boys!     It  surely  must  appear 
There's   no   co-education. 

Trades  unionism  has  still  further  terrors  in  store 
for  us.  According  to  an  affidavit  presented  by  Judge 
Maguire  in  the  Circuit  Court  a  non-union  man  volun- 
tarily gave  himself  a  bath  in  a  pond  to  purge  himself 
of  the  sin  of  non-unionism,  and  as  a  pledge  of  future 
good  behavior.  If  all  the  trades  unionists  turn  Bap- 
tists, the  prospect  will  be  appalling.  The  walking 
delegate  as  a  minister  of  grace  would  be  the  crowning 
touch  of  American  humor.  There  is  one  thing,  how- 
ever, to  be  said  in  favor  of  the  innovation — it  will 
necessitate  an  occasional  bath. 

"Easy  come,  easy  go,"  must  be  the  idea  of  Mrs. 
Gardner  Howell,  who  has  howelled  herself  into  no- 
toriety because  her  husband  stayed  away  one  night. 
Now  everybody  knows,  and  the  lady  must  be  im- 
mensely pleased  with  herself.  But  her  husband? 
Four  days'  courtship  was  all  the  work  he  had  to  do.' 
Now  he  must  recognize  the  truth  of  the  proverb 
which  the  Germans  sum  up  so  tersely  in  the  expres- 
sion  "billig  und  schlecht." 

I  wonder  what  is  getting  into  the  youngsters.  The 
pilfering  at  the  Berkeley  High  School  has  grown  to 
such  an  extent  that  strong  measures  have  to  be  taken 
to  put  it  down.  I  have  already  called  attention  to 
the  same  feature  in  the  State  University,  and  our 
political  life  shows  the  same  tendency.  The  Forty 
Thieves  are  here  all  right,  but  where  is  Ali  Baba 
with  his  boiling  oil?  An  imprisonment  or  two  might 
straighten  matters  out. 

Professor  George  Lemuel  Ayres  will  go  down  in 
California  history  as  a  pedagogue  who  could  not 
stand  punishment.  His  wife,  a  Santa  Rosa  society 
girl,  practiced  physical  culture  upon  his  corpus  vile, 
and  used  a  spoon  with  such  effect  that  she  cut  his 
scalp.  This  latter  action  would  serve  to  show  that 
it  was  scientific  curiosity  rather  than  vindictiveness 
which  impelled  her.  She  was  looking  for  the  pro- 
fessor's brains. 

The  Actors'  National  Protective  Union  has  re- 
sorted to  egg-throwing  as  a  re-inforcement  of  the 
genial  boycott.  The  ready  employment  of  this  par- 
ticular missile  shows  at  once  the  sort  of  offering  best 
known  to  the  trades  union  actors.  They  have  all 
been  recipients  of  the  like  in  their  time,  and  their  use 
of  the  missile  in  question  springs  from  a  personal 
knowledge  of  its  effectiveness. 

Reverend  Mark  Guy  Pearse  of  London  says  that 
we  in  San  Francisco  do  not  know  what  poverty 
means.  When  the  new  bond  issue  is  done  with,  and 
the  Mayor  has  retired  satisfied,  we  shall  be  convinced 
in  the  words  of  the  late  laureate,  "that  a  sorrow's 
crown  of  sorrow  is  remembering  happier  things." 


January  23.  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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How     5an     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


■v     F«r^*\\ild     Ttivpfi.     Tourist 


No.  4 


One  of  my  friends  at  the  club  said  to  mc  the  other 
evening  that  I  was  correct  in  my  opinion  of  the  un- 
speakable badness  of  your  principal  thoroughfare. 
and  that  the  residents  of  San  Francisco  also  ob- 
jected to  its  ramshackle  condition.  This  caused  me 
surprise,  as  from  what  1  had  noted.  I  was  convince. i 
that  the  San  Franciscan  will  put  up  with  anything 
if  he  can  do  as  he  pleases. 

The  next  day  my  friend  escorted  me  to  the  City 
Hall.  I  met  some  of  your  Aldermen,  and  saw  some 
which,  thank  heavens.  I  did  not  meet.  Then  I  un- 
derstood the  whys  and  wherefores  of  manv  things. 
You  people  do  things  in  a  manner  which  is  not  an 
improvement  on  the  manner  with  which  I  have  been 
familiar  in  the  larger  places  in  England.  There  the 
men  who  go  in  for  being  Aldermen  do  so  for  the 
>ake  of  the  honor,  and  because  they  are  well  educated 
and  desire  to  help  to  govern  their  city  in  a  manner 
which  will  reflect  credit  on  themselves  and  on  the 
town  or  city  in  which  they  live.  Here  I  learn  that 
it  is  quite  different.  The  better  classes  do  not  care 
to  go  in  to  be  elected  for  any  position,  since  there 
is  not  any  honor  in  it,  but  only  abuse,  and  the  other 
class  not  appreciating  this  element  go  in  on  the  make. 
The  sums  of  money  which  have  been  spent  on  muni- 
cipal street  improvements  in  your  city  have  cost  a 
great  deal  too  much,  and  the  result  is  plainly  and 
painfully  noted  by  a  stranger.  Here  the  beautifying 
of  your  city  is  no  one's  business,  and  hence  the  rag- 
ged tatterdemallion  appearance.  In  your  shopping 
district,  little  one-floor  affairs,  with  tumble-down 
back  parts  and  plate  glass  fronts,  exist  right  next 
door  to  brick  and  stone  buildings.  Ragged  sunshades 
over  the  windows  of  your  stores,  with  glaring  adver- 
tisements on  them,  spoil  the  appearance  of  the  street. 
Horrible  piles  of  planking,  nailed  up  like  a  wall 
around  vacant  premises  covered  with  the  most  un- 
sightly kind  of  nightmarish-colored  advertising  bills, 
show  how  a  place  can  be  ruined.  Old  men  on  the 
street,  sweeping  up  the  trash  with  a  broom  and  scat- 
tering mud  or  dust  in  every  direction,  makes  one 
feel  sorry  for  the  poor  beggars.  I  saw  a  butcher's 
wagon  full  of  beef  the  other  morning  following 
along  behind  an  ash  wagon,  and  the  smell  of  the 
wagon  and  the  dust  blowing  back  over  the  beef 
behind  was  simply  a  lesson  on  vegetarianism,  with 
an  emeticy  sort  of  feeling  added.  Among  the  duties 
of  the  modern  and -semi-parental  form  of  city  Gov- 
ernment is  the  education  of  the  masses  as  well  as  the 
protection  of  the  classes. 

If  your  citizens  do  not  know  any  better  than  to  tol- 
erate this  kind  of  thing,  they  should  be  taught  bet- 
ter. I  followed  the  wagon  for  two  or  three  squares 
and  expected  to  see  a  plain-clothes  man  at  least  put 
the  beef  ahead  of  the  ashes,  but  no,  and  the  people 
going  down  to  their  shops  and  offices  never  noticed 
it  at  all.     Awful,  isn't  it? 

I  have  talked  with  some  of  your  policemen,  and  I 
find  them  quite  a  decent  lot,  but  not  up  to  the  Eng- 
lish force  in  point  of  politeness  or  desire  to  ac- 
commodate the  questioner,  but  far  ahead  of  any  in 
London  in  point  of  brogue.  I  tried  one  chap,  an  Ital- 
ian, and  he  spoke  the  language.  Another  addressed 
me  in  good  French,  and  I  offered  one  man  a  quarter 
of  a  dollar  in  return  for  his  directions,  and  he  refused 
it.     Maybe  I  should  have  offered  him  a  half. 

There  is  a  similarity,  however,     in     one     point. 


The  prett\  fjlrl  i>  most  carefully  escorted  across  the 
street  here,  tin  same  as  elsewhere,  and  the  others 
are  allowed  t"  shift  for  themselves. 

Y<>u  are  giving  up  your  time  here  to  making 
money,  and  that  is  a  bad  habit  to  become  fixed  upon 
a  growing  city.  It  takes  all  the  attention  from  other 
things  which  go  to  make  the  life  of  a  gentleman 
pleasant.  Here  you  don't  breakfast  or  lunch  or  dine 
— you  just  eat.  Sour  residences  are  in  family  hotels, 
and  the  occupation  of  Gardener  is  forgotten.  No  one 
keeps  a  (  rardener,  so  110  need  of  Gardeners.  The  hotel 
life  and  the  money  making  craze  detract  from  the 
appearance  of  those  who  acquire  it,  and  the  city 
and  its  men  put  on  a  makeshift,  slovenly  air,  and 
your  better  growth  ceases.  You  make  money,  but 
you  don't  have  homes,  and  when  you  make  your 
pile  you'll  go  abroad  or  to  Xew  York  to  spend  it, 
which  you  wouldn't  do  if  you  buildej  homes  and  a 
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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  TO  YOU  ON  THEATRICALS. 

COLUMBIA— "The  Degenerates."    An  excellent  performance. 
ALCAZAR— "Mrs.  Jack."    A  splendidly  enacted  farce. 
ORPHEUM— A  very  good  show.    Many  attractive  acts. 
CENTRAL— A  good  performance  of  "A  Bowery  Girl." 
FISCHER'S— "The  Beauty  Shop."    Continued  crowded  houses 
1  GRAND— "One  Night  in  June,"    Good. 

TIVOLI— "When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home."    Continued  success. 
CALIFORNIA— "A  Fatal  Wedding."    Very  ordinary  and  uninteresting. 
CHUTES— Deaves  Manuikins.    Good. 
LYRIC  HALL— Burton  Holmes.    Entertaining  Lectures- 


"The  Beauty  Shop"  continues  the  attraction  at 
Fischer's,,  and  the  management  and  company  are  to 
lie  congratulated  on  the  visible  improvement  made 
in  "an  already  smooth  production."  The  pruning 
that  has  been  going  on  since  the  first  performance 
is  appreciated  by  the  public,  lor  the  attendance  con- 
tinues very  large  and  enthusiastic.  Little  Dorothy 
Crawford  is  to  be  credited  with  the  suggestion  that 
Dill  kick  Kolb  on  their  emergence  from  the  "thin- 
ning" and  "fleshing"  works  of  Madame  Voluptia's 
shop.  Miss  Crawford  is  a  charming  maid  of  twelve 
yeaxs,_.and  is.  .the  playwright's  daughter.  Her 
brother  disputes'  the  idea  with  her,  and  it  may  be 
,that  the  scheme  of  retributive  justice  came  from 
both    of  them. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alcazar,  the  best  stock  company  ever  or- 
ganized in  San  Francisco  is  giving  a  finished  and 
levenly  balanced  performance  of  "Mrs.  Jack."  Miss 
'felock  is  the  personification  of  the  author's  ideal,  and 
the  rest  of  the  company  are  so  nearly  letter  perfect 
that  there  is  room  for  praise  only,  and  that,  unstinted. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Langtry,  at  the  Columbia,  grows  on  on^ 
with  further  acquaintance.  You  find  yourself  catch- 
ing little  intonations  in  the  rich  voice,  something  to 
admire  in  the  awkward  walk,  the  set  of  the  head 
crowned  with  her  lovely  way  of  dressing  the 
hair,  allures,  and  take  it  altogether,  she  becomes  to 
you  the  embodiment  of  an  English  beauty.  There 
is  a  subtle  magnetism  about  her,  a  feline  attractive- 
ness, that  captivates.  Mrs.  Langtry  has  one  quality, 
imd  indeed  this  entire  company  possesses  the  same 
attribute,  a  clearness  of  enunciation  that  it  is  a  never- 
ending  pleasure  to  the  audience. 

The  widow  of  Windsor's  son  has  risen  in  my  esti- 
mation. I  used  to  think  he  had  execrable  taste.  This 
was  hecause  of  some  male  friends  of  his  "that  I  have 
met."  There  are  other  men  who  have  raved  over  the 
Lily  of  Jersey  in  time  that  is  past,  and  I  sat  back, 
half  closed  my  eyes  in  a  retrospect  of  nearly  twenty 
years,  and  I  am  gray  and  old,  and  I  open  my  eyes 
and  before  me  is  a  woman,  fifty  at  least,  and  looking 
the  ideal  of  Balzac's  woman  of  thirty.  And  it  was 
she  who  looked  much  the  same  so  long  ago.  Mrs. 
Langtry  is  certainly  a  wonderful  woman. 

Mrs.  Langtry's  company  deserves  the  thanks  of 
theatre-goers  for  their  conscientious  work.  The  per- 
formance of  Mrs.  Deering's  Divorce"  was  excellent, 
and  the  same  good  swing  and  splendid  acting  per- 
vades "The  Degenerates." 

*  *  -* 

At  the  Central  "The  Bowery  Girl"  is  being  given 
ito  good  audiences,  and  there  is  fun  a-plenty,  a  fire 
scene,  and  the  usual  powder  smoke.  This  time  it  is 
a  dynamite  explosion. 


The  Stein-Eretto  family,  Stanley  and  Wilson, 
Kelly  and  Violette,  Irving  Jones,  Howard  Thurs- 
ton, Wallno  and  Marinette,  Asra  and  White  and  Sim- 
mons continue  to  entertain  the  Orpheum  audiences. 
There  is  a  vast  amount  of  entertainment  in  the  acts 
of  this  goodly  company,  and  the  house  is  crowded 
nightly. 

»  *  * 

"When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home"  has 
marched  to  some  good  purpose  for  the  management 
of  the  Tivoli.  The  house  is  packed  with  enthusias- 
tic audiences.  Whatever  shortcomings  there  may 
be  in  the  music  are  made  up  in  the  acting  and 
in  the  swing  of  the  martial  airs.  Anna  Lichter's 
solo,  "Fairyland,"  is  a  hit,  and  the  magnificent  tab.- 
teaux  and  scenery  are  a  constant  source  of  gratifica- 
tion to  the  theatre  goer. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Grand  Opera  House,  "One  Night  in  June" 
is  giving  pleasure  to  large  audiences.  It  is  a  pretty 
play  of  the  old  "Green  Mountain  State,"  and  Mr. 
Holmes  and  his  company  give  a  very  acceptable  per- 
formance. 

*  *  * 

After  weeks  of  preparation,  "Quo  Vadis"  is  to  be 
put  on  at  the  Central.  The  large  stage  of  this  house 
lends  itself  easily  to  spectacular  effects,  and  it  is 
expected  that  the  performance  will  give  the  admirers 
of  Herschell  Mayall  and  Thais  Lawton  scope  for  hys- 
terics. 

*  t  * 

At  the  California  the  "Eternal  City"  will  be  put  on.. 
Fortunately  this  play  is  under  the  management  of 
Liebler  and  Company  of  New  York,  and  this  surely 
is  a  guarantee  of  improvement  over  the  lamentably 
miserable  work  that  lias  been  heretofore  presented  to 

the  public  by  the  local  management. 

*  *  * 

A  magnificent  programme  will  be  rendered  at 
the  Alhambra  to-night  by  Rivelas'  Royal  Italian 
Band,  assisted  by  a  few  vocalists,  under  the  auspices 
of  "L'ltalia,"  in  commemoration  of  the  death  of 
Verdi.  The  proceeds  of  the  fund  will  be  given  in  its 
entirety  to  the  Verdi  monument  fund.  The  monu- 
ment will  be  donated  to  the  city  of  San  Francisco, 

and  will  be  an  additional  beauty  in  one  of  the  parks. 

*  *  * 

The  Alameda  Lustspiel  Ensemble  is  making  elabo- 
rate preparations  for  Sunday  night's  production  at 
the  Columbia,  and  there  is  every  reason  to  believe 
that  the  comedy  will  make  one  of  the  biggest  hits 
ever  known  here.  The  lines  are  bright  and  the  situ- 
ations highly  complicated  and  amusing.     Seats  are 

selling   very    rapidly,    and    a   big   house   is    assured. 

*  *  * 

"A  programme  filled  with  novelties  is  announced 
at  the  Chutes  for  the  coming  week,  one  of  the  acts 
of  importance  being  Montague's  Cockatoo  Circus 
birds  that  do  everything  but  talk — and  some  of  them 
do  that.  Koplin,  Fowler  and  Koplin,  society  acro- 
batic marvels,  will  make  their  first  appearance  here, 
as  will  also  Dealy  and  Shean,  very  clever  and  origi- 
nal singing  and  dancing  comedians.  Barr  and  La 
Salle  will  present  a  comedy  paper  tearing  act,  and 
Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular  contralto,  will  be  heard 
in  new  illustrated  songs.  The  marionette  entertain- 
ment provided  by  Deaves'  Merry  Manikins,  and  new 
moving   pictures   shown    by   the   animatoscope,  will 


January  33.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LKTTF.R. 


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Honeymoon,"  which  rives  its  initial 
performance  in  San  Francisco  at  the  Colombia  Thea- 
tre next  Monday  evening  is  a  clean  musical  comedy, 
different  from  musical  comedies  that  have  been  seen 
here  this  season.  It  does  not  depend  wholly  on  one 
or  two  characters  for  its  success,  as  the  company  con- 
tains about  twenty  principals  and  carries  a  chorus 
of  over  eighty  voices.  The  costumes  and  scenery 
are  said  to  be  the  handsomest  seen  on  the  stage  to- 
day. The  music  of  "A  Chinese  Honeymoon"  is  the 
of  Howard  Talbot,  and  the  books  and  lyrics 
are  from  the  pen  of  George  Dance.  A  feature  is  the 
grand  ensemble  numbers,  particularly  the  finale  of 
the  first  act,  which  is  the  wedding  scene,  and  the 
finale  of  the  second  act,  "The  Feast  of  Lanterns." 
*  *  * 

Frederick  Belasco.  who  is  now  in  New  York  secur- 
ing plays  for  his  stock  companies,  wires  the  import- 
ant announcement  that  he  will  shortly  make  the  first 
San  Francisco  production  of  "Parsifal,"  a  dramatic 
version  of  Wagner's  great  religious  opera,  originally 
produced  at  Beyrouth  and  recently  such  a  sensation 
at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House  in  New  York. 
The  dramatization,  he- adds,  is  nearly  completed.  As 
Mr.  Belasco  is  in  daily  touch  with  his  brother,  David 
Belasco,  it  seems  probable  that  the  project,  when 
fully  announced,  will  prove  one  of  exceptional  im- 
portance. 

Kolb  and  Dill  remain  first  favorites  with  San 
Francisco's  lovers  of  stage  fun,  and  the  work  of  the 
two  comedians  in  "The  Beauty  Shop"  has  immeas- 
urably enhanced  their  popularity.  Ben  T.  Dillon 
has  also  strengthened  his  hold  upon  the  admiration 
of  the  folk  who  appreciate  artistic  versatility.  His 
impersonation  of  Professor  Hercules  Brannigan  is 
one  of  the:  cleverest  low  comedy  bits  ever  witnessed 
in  this  city.  Georgia  O'Ramey  loses  none  of  her 
artistic  charm  in  the  unenviable  make-up  of  Sapho 
Sweeney,  and  the  Althea  sisters  are  better  than  ever 
in  their  songs  and  dances.  It  is  the  general  belief 
that  "The  Beauty  Shop"  will  equal,  if  it  does  not 
eclipse,  the  longest  run  ever  scored  at  Fischer's. 

The  Tivoli  management  announces  the  production 
of  Strauss's  "Gypsy  Baron,"  after  "Johnny"  will 
have  made  his  farewell  march.  The  stage  in  the  new 
house  will  lend  itself  admirably  for  this  opera.  The 
"Gypsy  Baron"  will  prove  a  treat  to  the  patrons  of 
the  Tivoli. 

„  "Davjd  Harum,"  with  its  New  York  production 
and  an  extremely  strong  cast,  will  be  presented  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House  the  week  commencing  Sun- 
day matinee.  All  of  the  scenes  are  laid  in.Homeville, 
New;.  York,  and  the  play  is  divided  into  three  acts. 
From  appearances  it  is  not  unlikely  that  the  play 
will  meet  with  a  warm  reception  here,  and  its  presen- 
tation will  be  largely  attended.  Sunday,  matinee, 
January  31st,  Joseph  Arthur's  latest  success,  "Lost 
JRiver,"  will  be  elaborately  presented. 
*  *  * 

.  Another  new   and   well-known   girl   is   coming,  to 
Fischer's  Theatre  shortly.    She  is  Nellie, Lynch,.. one 
of -the  cleverest  soubrettes  in  America. 
(Continued,  on.  page  _iiO 


Grand  Opera  House 


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LOST    RIVER 
Usual  popular  pi 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Third  week  <>f  the  enormous  success  1  • 

THE    BEAUTY    SHOP 

Cpmmei s  Monday  Ninlii  Jan.  Kbh.    The  beat  musi.-.il  oomedj 

pi  the  year.    Ileplete  With catchy  songs;  r.iisk  and  funny  dia- 

logYie, 

Uoa.l  original  specialties:  Beautiful  costumes  and  stage  effects 

our  "All  Star"  east.    Ever  Popular  Prices. 

Matin.-.--  Sat  nr- 1  ay  and  Sunday. 


Columbia  Theatre.  avmM'-%£.\S'iltbtga< 

Tw'i  Weeks  beginning  Monday,  January  25. 
Matinee  Saturday  only-'  Messrs.  Shubert  and  Nixon  and  Zim- 
merman's  gorgeously  beautiful  presentation  of  I  he  International 
Musical  Comedy  Tridmph 

A    CHINESE    HONEYMOON 

The  biggest,  best,  brightest  of  them  all.    100  people. 

Sunday  Jan.  24— German  performance.  "AIs  ich  Wiederkani.1' 

.     ■■—, — . — , 

0„— .!__.  1  rT\       SiuvrranclKJO'sGrt'arcm  Mufrjc  Hall. 
I  J_>.  ICUI  I).     oFarrell  St..  Uetwcoii  Stockton   uud   Powell  itreets. 

Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  Jan.  24 

A, PRODIGIOUS    PROGRAMME! 

Johnny  and  Emma  Ray;  Cordua  and  Maud ;  Duffy,  Sawtelle  and 
Duffy:  Oliver  T.  Holden  and  Winifred  Florence;  Stanley  and 
Wilson;  Kelly  and  Violette;  Irving  Jones;  Orpheum  Motion 
Pictures  and  last  week  of  the 

STclN-ERETTO    FAMILY 

Prices,  loc.  25c  and  soe- 

Matiness  every  Wednesday.  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Cor\t  ml    Th^irr  rf=>         Belasco  &  Mayek,  Proprietors 
v^feJIJLrU]     1  ntJUUe.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  533 

Week  of  Monday.  January  25th  ■ 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday- 
The  magnificent  dramatic  spectacle. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


A  veteran  police  official  was  discussing  crime  with 
me  the  other  day.  Every  man,  you  know,  talks  shop, 
more  or  less.  The  conversation  had  wound  around 
from  the  city's  remarkable  growth  during  the  past 
decade  to  the  numerous  crimes  of  high  degree  re- 
cently committed. 

"Men  in  our  business  notice  the  city's  growth," 
said  the  policeman.  "We  know  that  criminals  are 
flocking  here,  and  that  high-grade  malefactors  are  in- 
creasing in  San  Francisco.  This  is  no  longer  a  vil- 
lage. It  is  a  great  city,  and  our  population  is  not 
less  than  340,000.  It  is  on  the  increase,  too.  For 
this  very  reason,  there  is  immediate  need  for  new 
laws  giving  the  police  department  greater  power  for 
the  suppression  or  detection  of  crime.  I  have  been' 
engaged  in  a  number  of  cases  of  mysterious  murder, 
and  I  have  found  that  so  many  opportunities  for  es- 
cape are  afforded  assassins,  that  it  is  very  difficult  to 
prove  their  guilt.  The  hard  cases  are  those  in  which 
people,  not  of  the  criminal  class,  remove  others  on 
whose  lives  they  may  have  insurance,  or  by  whose 
death  they  will  be  benefited  financially  in  some 
other  way.  These  murderers  take  very  good  care  to 
destroy  all  evidences  of  their  crimes,  and  their  very 
first  act  is  to  destrov  the  body  of  the  dead.  This  is 
most  easily  done  by  cremation  in  one  of  the  local 
crematories. 

"The  papers  referred  the  other  day  to  the  Hume 
case.  I  know  nothing  about  this  affair,  except  what 
I  read ;  but  as  I  recall  it,  it  was  alleged  that  an  in- 
vestigation into  the  cause  of  death  was  demanded. 
The  body,  however,  had  been  cremated,  and  an  au- 
topsy was,  therefore,  impossible.  The  ease  with 
which  it  is  possible  in  this  city  to  cremate  bodies  is 
of  great  assistance  to  persons  who  may  commit  mur- 
der by  the  administration  of  poison,  for  instance,  or 
by  some  other  means,  which  would  leave  no  marks 
of  violence.  It  is  easy  enough  to  get  a  death  certifi- 
cate from  a  physician  looking  for  a  fee.  The  issu- 
ance of  a  permit  from  the  Health  Office  is  a  mere  for- 
mality, and  it  takes  not  more  than  a  day  to  remove  all 
possibility  of  discovery  by  causing  the  body  to  be 
cremated.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  Supervisors  should 
pass  an  ordinance  requiring  that  all  bodies  about  to 
be  cremated  should  be  subjected  first  to  medical  in- 
spection, and  to  an  autopsy,  except  in  cases  where 
physicians  of  good  standing  have  been  in  attendance 
for  some  time  prior  to  death,  and  are  able  to  vouch 
personally  that  death  resulted  from  natural  causes. 
Cremation  is  altogether  too  popular  with  heirs  to 
large  estates,  and  with  others  who  desire  an  urn  of 
ashes  to  remind  them  of  the  rapid  passage  of  those 
who  left  their  coin  behind.  It  presents  an  avenue 
through  which  the  most  dangerous  kind  of  criminals 
may  practically  foreclose  the  possibility  of  detection. 
Some  of  the  prominent  men  in  the  police  department 
and  some  of  the  private  detectives  who  have  been 
engaged  in  famous  murder  cases,  have  given  this 
matter  considerable  attention,  and  do  not  be  sur- 
prised if  an  ordinance  along  the  lines  suggested  is 
soon  introduced  in  the  Board  of  Supervisors.  The 
certainty  of  detection  and  punishment  is  the  most 
valuable  deterrent  in  the  prevention  and  suppression 
of  crime.  We  must  have  legal  proofs  before  we  can 
hang  a  man,  and  those  proofs  must  be  obtained  be- 
fore the  door  of  the  incinerating  chamber  is  closed 

upon  the  bodies  of  the  dead." 
*  *  * 

The  Democrats  now  have  absolute  control  of  the 


Board  of  Supervisors.  They  have  the  fourteen  votes 
necessary  to  pass  bills  over  the  Mayor's  veto,  and 
they  intend,  therefore,  to  make  Schmitz  as  unhappy 
as  possible  during  his  second  term.  The  test  vote 
was  on  the  pound  business.  The  fourteen  votes 
developed,  and  it  is  said  one  more  might  have  been 
had  if  necessary.  Sanderson,  Eggers  and  Alpers  are 
now  counted  with  the  Democrats,  and  Baxton  may 
join  the  bunch.  Sanderson  is  a  life-long  Republican, 
the  son  of  former  Mayor  Sanderson  and  brother  of 
the  late  Supervisor  Sanderson.  The  Democrats  did 
not  have  to  ask  him  to  come  in.  He  joined  them  only 
too  willingly.  Eggers  is  a  Crimmins  man.  He  was 
opposed  to  the  Primary  League  during  the  recent 
campaign,  and  trained  with  the  regular  organization. 
He  was  placed  on  the  Police  Committee,  which  han- 
dles all  the  big  prize-fight  permits.  Knowing  he  can 
get  nothing  from  Schmitz,  Eggers  has  joined  the  op- 
position. It  is  said  that  Alpers  has  been  promised 
some  sort  of  patronage  to  keep  him  in  line.  He  is 
playing  a  more  desperate  game  than  Eggers,  for  Al- 
pers has  a  couple  of  saloons,  and  the  Police  Commis- 
sioners could  shut  him  down  almost  any  time  if 
he  became  too  objectionable  in  the  Board.  Baxton 
is  inclined  to  the  Democratic  majority,  because  it  is 
also  a  question  of  patronage  with  him.  He  can  get 
what  he  wants  only  through  the  majority. 

Brandenstein  will  be  the  majority  leader  in  the 
Board.  Braunhart  wants  to  be,  but  the  others  pre- 
ferred Brandenstein.  Braunhart  is  a  good  parlia- 
mentarian, and  he  has  many  excellent  ideas,  but  his 
unfortunate  and  frequently  offensive  manner  makes 
him  impossible  for  leadership.  When  Brandenstein 
announced  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  Board  that  the 
Supervisors  were  the  whole  thing,  and  that  they 
would  take  no  back  talk  from  the  Mayor,  he  outlined 
a  policy  that  will  make  the  coming  two  years  very 
strenuous  for  the  Supervisors  on  the  one  hand  and 
the  Mayor  and  all  his  appointees  on  the  other.  Bran- 
denstein would  not  hesitate  to  cut  off  the  supplies 
by  reducing  the  appropriations  for  all  the  Schmitz 
boards,  if  by  doing  so  he  could  control  the  Mayor 
and  the  Commissions.  It  will  be  a  very  vigorous 
fight.  One  object  will  be  to  discredit  Schmitz,  so 
that  his  re-election  as  Mayor  will  be  next  to  impos- 
sible. That  result  would  cut  him  out  as  a  possible 
candidate  for  Governor.  Brandenstein  refused  the 
Democratic  nomination  for  Mayor  last  year,  but,  it 
is  said,  he  now  thinks  he  sees  a  chance  to  make  the 
Democratic  nomination  in  1905  equivalent  to  an  elec- 
tion.    He  certainly  has  a  great  opportunity  to  show 

what    he    can    accomplish. 

*  *  '* 

District  Attorney  Byington  has  not  yet  made  those 
changes  in  his  staff  ordered  by  McNab  on  the  first 
of  the  year.  The  Democratic  office  holders  are  sur- 
prised. They  did  not  think  Byington  had  as  much 
backbone  as  he  has  shown.  He  has  withstood  Mc- 
Nab for  at  least  three  weeks,  wherefore  men  marvel. 
The  Scotchman  demanded  the  heads  of  Porter  Ashe, 
little  Johnny  Greeley,  Hanley  and  some  others.  He 
wanted  them  all  served  with  the  blood  of  decapita- 
tion hot  upon  them,  but  the  axe  has  not  yet  swung. 
Byington  sharpened  the  edge,  but  he  cannot  make 
up  his  massive  mind  for  the  delivery  of  the  blow. 
He  is  in  the  usual  Byington  condition — funk.  His 
safety  is  in  delay,  he  thinks.  Therefore  he  delays. 
But  McNab  urges  danger  in  delay.  Then  Byington 
promises    the    heads   on    the    morrow.     He   gathers 


January  13.  190a. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


fresh  courage  one  night,  and  so  far  no  heads  have 

fallen.      Meanwhile,    the    District    Attornc)    and    his 
staff  maintain   a  state  <>f  armed    neutrality. 

*  •  • 

Grief,  the  new  County  Clerk,  deserves  more  than 
a  little  praise  for  his  fortitude  in  withstanding  the 
demands  made  for  the  restoration  of  Mahoney,  Pren- 
dergast  and  others  of  the  barnacle  type.  Crimmins 
could  do  nothing  with  him  in  behalf  oi  the  discred- 
ited men.  Grief  has  a  splendid  opportunity  to  make 
a  pv.d  record.  He  knows  the  business;  he  has  com- 
petent assistants,  and  he  can  give  a  business  admin- 
istration. Hut — remember  this  prophecy — he  will 
wander  hack  to  Crimmins  before  the  year  gets  very 
old,  or  I  am  much  mistaken. 

*  *  * 

The  Union  League  is  getting  to  be  a  big  organi- 
zation. If  it  takes  over  the  old  Pacific  Union  build- 
ing it  will  have  the  finest  quarters,  and  will  be  the 
most  pretentious  of  all  the  political  clubs  of  the 
Coast.  George  Pippy  has  been  very  successful  as 
President,  and  deserves  his  re-election.  Pippy,  it  is 
said,  is  in  training  for  a  big  Federal  job  in  the  event 
of  Roosevelt's  re-election.  You  remember,  he  was 
quite  close  up  when  Teddy  was  here.  Either  Col- 
lector of  the  Port  or  Postmaster  will  satisfy  Pippy. 
Of  course,  Fisk  has  just  taken  the  latter  job,  but 
that  does  not  concern  Pippy's  calculations.  Fisk 
would  rather  go  to  Congress  from  the  Fifth  than 
continue  in  his  present  place,  and  now  that  Loud 
has  been  killed  off  and  Wyfln  has  been  lost  in  the 
shuffle  at  Washington,  a  trade  might  easily  be  ar- 
ranged whereby  the  Postmaster  would  get  into  the 
Congressional  fight  and  leave  the  Postmastership 
for  some  one  else.  "That  some  one  else  is  me," 
says  Pippy.  The  rise  of  the  President  of  the  Union 
League  should  be  an  example  to  young  men  in  poli- 
tics. It  is  not  so  long  ago  when  Pippy  was  a  court- 
room clerk  at  the  City  Hall.  He  was  not  a  remark- 
ably brilliant  clerk;  in  fact,  he  is  not,  in  any  respect, 
a  remarkably  brilliant  man.  But  he  did  his  work 
well  enough  and  held  his  job.  Then  he  got  into  the 
law,  but  I  have  not  heard  much  about  him  as  a  bar- 
rister. He  was  at  first  Secretary  of  the  Union 
League,  and  was  re-elected  a  couple  of  times.  Then, 
finally,  he  became  President,  and  is  now  in  his  third 
term.  Pippy  is  a  genial  fellow,  and  by  giving  the 
club  a  good  deal  of  his  time  has  made  himself  strong 
and  popular  in  the  organization.  But  it  is  not  all 
for  the  greater  glory  of  the  "Grand  Old  Party."  Not 
if  George  knows  it.  Everything  comes  to  him  who 
waits.  He  has  been  waiting  about  long  enough,  he 
thinks,  and  when  the  big  loaves  and  big  fishes  are 
next  distributed,  you  will  see  Pippy's  name  promi- 
nently mentioned  among  the  names  of  those  that 
are  claiming  rewards  for  long  and  gallant  service. 

*  *  * 

The  Jefferson  Square  Club  is  the  very  latest.  It 
seems  to  be  a  private  corporation  organized  for  the 
purpose  of  showing  the  newly  rich,  who  can  afford 
to  ride  in  automobiles,  just  how  and  when  to  do  the 
proper  thing.  It  occupies  the  upper  floors  of  a  new 
building  out  on  Golden  Gate  avenue,  and  it  has  all 
the  appointments  of  a  swell  club.  William  Greer 
Harrison  appears  as  President,  and  among  the  offi- 
cers are  Colonel  Jo.  Howell,  Judge  Kerrigan,  Henry 
J.  Crocker  and  Eddie  Greenway.  There  are  no  dues 
and  no  initiation  fees,  but  cards  of  membership  have 
been  issued  to  many  hundreds  of  men  who  are  con- 
sidered what  Horace  Piatt  might  call  "clubable." 
It  strikes  me  that  the  "club"  must  be  a  private  busi- 
ness enterprise.    I  regret  to  see  my  old  friend  Green- 


'7 

■     In-    linir    ..(    life. 
I'atti  may  not  have  hecn  children   to- 

gather,  bi  bow    plainly  v 

the  passing  years   have   exposed   the   bald   scalp  of 
lime     II'  tat  young  as  he  used  to  be,  ami  it  is 

more  than  passing  jaj  to  s,-,-  him  chasing  the  elu 
sive  dollar  down  a  bowling  alley.  or  from  a  kitchen 
to  the  cashier's  desk,  when  he  might  In-  so  much 
more  pleasantly  engaged.  This  new  club,  you  know. 
has  a  grill.  ..  ,\  all  sort  of  appointments.  It  ma\ 
be  all  right,  Eddie,  but  the  selling  of  chops  looks  verj 
much   like    "trade." 

•  •   • 

Every  month,  in  the  Maple  Room  at  the  Palace, 
.1  score  or  two  gentlemen  gather  at  an  informal  din 
ncr  to  discuss  current  events.  They  form  the  Com- 
monwealth Club.  They  do  not  parade  their  sayings 
or  doings  in  the  press,  but  every  now  and  again  they 
issue  pamphlets  in  which  are  published  some  of  the 
best  papers  read  at  the  monthly  dinners.  This  club 
numbers  some  of  the  most  progressive  men  in  town. 
Among  them  are  Mr.  Weinstock,  of  Weinstock,  Lu- 
bin  &  Co.,  James  D.  I'helan.  Professors  Wheeler  and 
Jordan,  Dr.  Burke,  Dickie  the  shipbuilder.  William 
Greer  Harrison.  John  McXaught.  William  R. 
Wheeler,  and  others.  For  the  men  composing  it. 
and  the  topics  they  discuss,  it  is  the  most  modest 
organization  of  the  kind  the  town  has  ever  known. 

*  *  * 

"Elijah"  Dowie  has  "came."  Dowie  was  here 
years  ago.  In  fact,  upon  his  arrival  from  Australia, 
he  builded  in  San  Francisco  his  first  stepping-stones 
to  fame  and  fortune.  He  lectured  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
and  succeeded  in  interesting  a  few  professional 
Christians  in  his  scheme*  for  reformation,  with 
Dowie  as  chief  reformer,  selling  tickets  at  the  gate. 
He  has  been  repeatedly  denounced  as  a  faker,  but  as 
a  business  man  he  could  give  a  year's  start  in  a  new 
field  to  most  of  our  local  merchants  and  then  beat 
them  out.  During  the  past  few  months  either  he  has 
been  losing  his  grip  or  he  has  been  calmly  preparing 
for  a  grand  coup.  He  has  sent  his  family  to  Eu- 
rope ;  his  great  settlement  near  Chicago  is  in  finan- 
cial distress,  and  it  is  said  he  is  headed  for  Australia, 
where  he  expects  the  fatted  calf  to  be  killed  upon  his 
return  home.  His  successors  will  be  that  new  sect 
in  New  England,  reported  in  the  papers  this  week, 
whose  basic  principle  is  to  grow  long  whiskers. 
Why?     So  they  may  "raise  the  wind." 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


A  new  Richard  has  entered  the 

The  Unpopular      field,  ambitious  to  control   the 

Gas  Corporation,     destinies  of  the  San  Francisco 

Gas  and  Electric  Company.  A 
change  of  any  kind  could  only  be  for  the  best,  and 
there  is  one  thing  to  be  said  for  the  new  aspirant, 
Mr.  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  that  his  experience  has  been 
such  as  to  justify  the  belief 'that  he  knows  some- 
thing about  the  business  and  would  be  a  practical 
manager.  Mr.  Miller  expresses  himself  as  opposed 
to"  the  p61icy  which  allows  a  President  of  the  cor- 
poration $25,000  per  annum  and  grants  him  the  priv- 
ilege of  touring  Europe  at  a  time  when  the  services 
of  every  officer  of  the  corporation  is  particularly 
needed.  He  evidently  does  not  favor  the  introduc- 
tion of  men  as  heads  of  departments  from  other 
walks  in  life,  which  certainly  do  not  suggest  the 
most  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  manufacture 
of  gas,  even  if  the  results  of  their  highly-paid  labors 
up  to  date  had  not  shown  that  very  clearly,  to  con- 
sumers of  a  product  which  is  the  wcrst  ever  turned 
out  from  the  gas-works  in  this  city  since  they  were 
constructed.  Any  citizen  who  is  forced  to  wend  his 
way  home  late  at  night  from  his  business  will  cor- 
roborate this  statement,  if  he  has  not  already  com- 
mented upon  the  subject,  after  one  glance  at  the 
dismal  little  glare,  "greenery  yallery"  in  color,  which 
only  serves  a  turn  in  making  the  murkv  darkness 
visible,  and  the  surroundings  doleful  in  the  extreme. 
The  statement  of  the  company's  financial  claim  for 
public  support  will  be  of  interest  when  it  is  filed 
with  the  Board  of  Supervisors  in  due  course.  The 
extent  to  which  the  late  inflation  of  capital  will  be 
utilized  to  tap  the  public  purse  will  be  interesting, 
outlining,  as  it  doubtless  will,  the  intentions  of  the 
promoters  to  define  a  valuation  of  a  concern  which 
is  only  really  worth  what  it  would  cost  to  replace 
the  present  plant  by  new  and  modern  machinery, 
allowing,  of  course,  for  the  wear  and  tear  of  years. 
No  one,  of  course,  can  attempt  to  take  the  figures  of 
$3.0,000,000  as  a  basis  of  valuation  seriously,  a  bubble 
which  will  collapse  on  the  first  indication  of  a  bona 
fide  proposition  to  establish  a  new  plant.  That  this 
will  come  in  due  time  may  be  confidently  expected, 
owine  to  the  very  marked  unpopularity  of  the  new 
management  of  the  old  concern.  The  only  thing 
that  can  possibly  cheek  a  movement  of  the  kind  will 
be  a  clean  sweep  of  the  present  officials  at  the.  forth- 
coming election,  and  the  shareholders  will  see  that 
this  takes  place  if  they  have  a  due  regard  for  their 
own  pockets. 

-  ■  The  Federal':-" authorities  are 
Wild-Cats  Begin,  doing  some  good  work  in 
to  Peter  Out.  rounding  up  the  promoters  of 
wild-cat  mining  schemes  all 
over  the  country.  The  postal  authorities  have  just 
put  und?r  arrest  the  Jaegers  of  Chicago  on  a  charge 
of  using  the  mails  to  defraud.  According  to  the 
papers,  more  than  $800,000  is  involved,  which  will 
give  an  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  the  financial  scoops 
of  some  of  these  opeiators.  Irrespective,  however, 
of  the  Government  action,  money  is  not  coming  in 
so  rapidly  now.  It  only  takes  time  and  rope  enough 
for  a  wild-cat  concern  to  hang  itself,  provided  its 
members  do  not  decamp  too  hurriedly  in  the  belief 
that  the  jig  is  up.  A  mine  that  has  no' ore  developed 
nor  ore  to  develop,  cannot  pay  dividends,  a  proposi- 


tion which  will  not  require  much  verification.  They 
may  materialize  for  a  time,  by  robbing  Peter  to  -pay 
Paul,  the  money  received  from  sales  of  stock  being 
used  to  bait  the  trap  for  a  constantly  growing  crop 
of  fools.  When  this  source  of  supply  is  stopped,  the 
stockholders  can  whistle  for  their  capital,  let  alone 
talk  of  dividends.  There  are  a  number  of  the  wild- 
cat flotations  nearing  this  stage  in  their  career,  if 
they  have  not  arrived  at  it,  and  from  now  on  there- 
is  likely  to  be  music  in  the  air.  Quite  a  number  of 
complaints  are  now  heard  from  stockholders,  who, 
filled  with  alarm  at  intimations  of  coming  disaster, 
are  now  writing  the  papers  from  all  over  the  country 
inquiring  whether  or  no  this  proposition  or  that  is 
safe,  and  if  the  management  can  be  trusted. 

Business  on  the  local  Stock  and 

Local  Stocks  Bond  Exchange  was  particularly 
and  Bonds.  active  in  bonds  during  the  past 
week,  an  indication  that  the  appearance  of  the  tax- 
collector  is  about  to  make  his  annual  passage  across 
the  local  stage.  Many  transactions  took  place,  as 
will  be  found  on  reference  to  the  list.  An  upward 
tendency  is  noted  in  the  Gas  Company's  shares, 
which  suggests  the  approach  of  the  election,  and  also 
that  money  is  likely  to  cut  quite  an  important  fac- 
tor in  determining  the  'result.  In  other  quarters, 
the  market  showed  some*  strength,  and  the  spirits 
of  operators  have  risen  somewhat  above  the  zero 
mark.  On  Wednesday  last  Spring  Valley  paid  its 
quarterly  dividend  of  63  on  the  capital  stock  of  the 
company,  and  the  California  Powder  Company  its 
regular  monthly  dividend  of   50  cents   per  share. 

Ophir  came   within   an   ace   of 

Pine-St.  Market,  touching  $10  during  the  past 
fortnight  and  the  balance  of 
the  market  showed  a  material  improvement.  The 
advance  was  too  much  for  the  ubiquitous  "knocker." 
However,  one  thing  that  no  so-called  "knocker," 
singularly  or  collectively,  has  ever  been  able  to  do",  is 
to  block  the  Comstock  market  for  long  when  its  ac- 
tivity is  based  upon  a  genuine  ore  development.  Ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Clarence  Sharon,  one  of  the  ultra 
conservative  mining  men  on  the  Comstock  lode,  who 
recently  examined  the  improvement  on  the  i,Q6o- 
level  of  Ophir,  says  that  tie  ore  tody  had  a  breadth: 
of  14  leet  in  the  face  of  the  drift,  and  that  values  ran 
as  high  as  $400  per  ton,  the  average  value  being  $100 
per  ton.  As  it  now  stands,  the  ore  body  by  measure- 
ment is  said  to  exceed  in  value  the  Hardy  vein  in 
1878,  when  Ophir  was  quoted  at  $60.  It  has,  now, 
greater  dimensions  than  that  found  in  Con.-Cal.- Vir- 
ginia in  1886,  which  sent  that  stock  up  to  $65  and 
Ophir  to  $35.  This  statement  appears  in  the  Vir- 
ginia Report,  which  is  edited  by  men  who  have 
grown  up  with  the  lode  and  know  whereof  they  talk. 


This  would  indicate  that,  so  far  as  Ophir  is  con- 
cerned, dividends  are  more  likely  in. the  near  future 
than  assessments,  and  it  would  not  B'e  surprising 
should  one  be  declared  within  the  coming  week.  The 
price  of  the  stock  has  declined  recently  to  more  nor- 
mal figures.  There  is  nothing  unusual  in  the  flare- 
up,  which  carried  the  price  on  a  spurt  to  the  recent 
high  figures.  When  a  stock  reacts  sharply,  as  Ophir 
did,  from  a  low  basis,  the  public  is  apt  to  jump  in 
and  send  prices  kiting,  taking  the  market  for  the 
time  being  out  of  the  hands  of 'inside  operators  who 


January  33.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    I.KTTER. 


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arc  generally   - 
will  be  rcmernl 

cyond  all  control,  aciiup  tn  such 
an  ungovernable  manner  that  the  wealthiest  broker 
firms  on  the  street  were  placed  in  such  ■  position 
that  some  of  the  most  solvent  of  them  would  have 
been  forced  to  the  wall,  while  the  weaker  concerns 
went  down  like  nine-pins,  owing  t<>  the  panicky  con- 
ditions. AffaiTs  eventually  worked  into  such  a  State 
that  the  late  James  (J.  Flood  had  to  be  recalled  from 
a  visit  to  New  York  to  restore  the  equilibrium  of 
business  by  the  weight  of  his  personal  and  financial 
influence.  Had  it  not  been  for  his  prompt  and  skill- 
ful action  at  that  time,  there  would  have  been  few 
of  the  most  powerful  operators  on  the  street  who 
would  have  survived  the  crisis,  and  that,  too,  on  a 
"bull"  market.  ■  Of  course,  as  the  leader  goes,  so 
follows  the  smaller  fry.  and  the  balance  of  the  list 
now  shows  a  corresponding  decline  in  sympathy 
with  f.iphir.  The  development  in  Ophir  justified  a 
sharp  advance  in  the  price  of  that  stock,  and  now 
that  the  market  has  steadied,  it  will  undoubtedly  re- 
spond in  turn  to  the  showing  in  the  mine,  and  be 
regulated  in  its  fluctuations  by  the  appearance  of  the 
mine  as  the  work  of  opening  up  the  new  and  prom- 
ising ore  body  proceeds.  The  find  in  itself  is  one  of 
the  greatest  importance,  and  there  is  no  telling  what 
it  may  yet  develop  into  in  the  course  of  exploration 
in  the  lower  levels  of  the  mine.  One  would  natu- 
rally conclude  that  a  discovery  of  the  kind  would 
be  one  of  congratulation  on  the  street,  instead  of  be- 
ing an  object  of  attack.  Friends  of  the  Comstock 
will  naturally  hope  that  in  dimensions  it  will  yet 
open  out  into  a  veritable  bonanza. 

IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT. 
Mr.  Paul  Gerson  begs  to  state  that  in  response  to 
numerous  requests  he  will  on  January  1st  open  a 
Juvenile  Department -in  connection  with  his  School 
of  Acting,  and  has  secured  the  services  of  a  teacher 
of  experience  specially  qualified  for  this  work,  Miss 
Lillian  E.  M.uscio.  One  of  the  features  of  the  depart- 
ment will  be  a  dancing  class  in  charge  of  Signora 
Matildita.,  In  order  that  each  one  may  have  his  or 
her  proper  time  and  attention,  the  class  will  be  lim- 
ited to;  twenty-five.  Ms-.  Gerson  will  give  his  per- 
sonal attention  to- every  pupil.  For  terms,  etc.,  call 
or  .address  the  Juvenile  Department  of  the  Paul  Ger-- 
son  -School  of  Acting,  Native  Sons'  building,  414 
Mason,  street.  The  fourth  of  the  series  of  matinee 
performances  by  students  at  Paul  Gerson's  School 
of-  Acting  will  take  placeat-the  California  Theatre 
on:  Friday  afternoon,  February  12th.  A  brilliant  pro- 
gramme will  be  presented.  The  school  will  be  as^ 
sisted-.by.  the  San  Francisco-  Conservatory  of  Music,, 
this  institution  hereafter  joining  its  artistic  interests- 
with  the  School  .of  Acting. 

•   Alj  Seamen  r 

know  the  conjforts  of  having  on  hand  a  supply  of  Borden's. 
Eagle.  Brand  Condensed  Milk.  It  can  be  us,ed  so. agreeably, 
for  cooking,  in  coffee',  tea  and  chocolate.  Lay  in  .'a  supply, 
fot'ali  kinds 'of  expeditions.     Avoid  unknown'  brands.' 

,,-r — (Jet  the  dust  .out  .of ;.  your .  carpets.-  But  don't  do  it- 
with  a  club,  because  it's  a  slow,:  laborious  and  , very  unsatis- 
factory way. '  You  will  find  it  more"  profitable  and  satisfac-, 
tbry  to  tia.ve 'the  Work  done  by  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Clean- 
ing;. Company-,  ■  353  Tehama,  street.-  With- their  improved: 
machinery  they  make  an.^old  carpet  look  fas, bright  and'jfresh; 
as  a  new  one...   .     .  .  ,n?,Ci  s  -  '   V.-...I 

In  decol-ating  the  home  tfr  cniircrj'for  a  wecldmg'for  dinners.  [Iuri- 
che6n  or  receptions'the'  three  'ta'aies-eottipbsifig  the  firm-gf  Manning's. 
<fedorat'o-rs-aiitLBoristS,'-24e«tooktc*''  St"  sKo'w  the  greafWt<Miginali(y 
in-their  artistic  work.     -  -  ;,    ;...'.:    51SW    5tf!i'M"  A 


The  rapidly   tncrea-ing  bu."  '  '.    F.   Willcy 

!oalers   in  and 

'heir    having    ni'ire 

:\    the)    W  ill  open  a  branch 

on  thi  1  cbruary,  1904;  at  11-22  to  1638  Market 

he  St.  Nicholas  Hotel.     This  firm  has 

the   .  .  or  the   best    makes  of   vehicles   manu- 

\mcrica.      Their  recent   importations  are 

the  swcllcsi   and  mosl   stylish  that   have  ever  been 

brought  in  >an  Francisco. 


One  of  the  onfwi  and  liwg  rgmedlsa  for  bltloniinei  head" 

n.-li...  1    1  ..-'ihit'.r     [t  U  ao  excellent  nlt«rfitiv(Min)l  tonid 

to  the  riiaeetl  Pots&lebyL  ^    E.  Cor.  Sutt^f 

-Hi- 1  (irrint  Ave. 


3    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW-DO     NOT     DELAY 

Bend  yotir  cheek  or  money  order  for  as  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  *loo.  Price  par 
ftirj5.ni rtiii'-at-'s.    Tiif  price  ma  v  advance  any  day. 

ThestOckof  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  Jr>.no.and 
and  is  now  Belling  at  $29  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance,  of. 
an*  percent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much' 
greater.  ' 

Tue  Marconi  avstem  Is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Otfrfiegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world  t .  Edisonl 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American* 
Company-  -       .    ■     ■ 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CROSS  LEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century   Building,   St.   Louis,   Mo.;   Farmers'   Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia,   Pa.;    Union   Trust    Building,    Cincinnati, 
Ohio ;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111.      ' 
Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  $3,000,000.        Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve,  $1,726,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor.  Administrator;  Gjuardian  or  Trustees 
Check  accounts  solicited-  Legal  depository  for  money  in  Probate 
Court  proceedings-  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and  Savings-  Ittt 
vestments  carefully  selected. 

Officers— Frank  J.  Symmes.  President.  Horace  L,  Hill,  Vice-Presi- 
dent: 0-  A.  Hale.  Second  Vice-President:  H.  Brunner,  Cashier. 


|  Mavis  Consolidated  Gold 

i 


and  Copper  Mining  Co. 

Capital  Stock  $1,000,000.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California, 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  Distriot,  ■  Yuma 
County,   Arizona. 

No  assessments  will 'be  levied. 

5i),000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for' 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  'is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  raiseu  to,  50  cents  a  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  of  the!  company,  room  205,  713  Mar- 
ket street,  for  prospectus,-  which  gives  full  information. 
VINCENT  NEALE,  Secretary. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO      • 

Capital,  Surplus  and  Undivided    I  <fc  I  Q  Knfl  n(l[) 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  F.  L.  Lipman.  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King,  Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.   E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New    York;    Salt    Lake,    Utah;    Portland.    Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

532  California  St..  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President:  W.  C.  B  De  FBEMERY.  ROBERT  WATT. 
Vice-Presidents:  Lovell  White.  Cashier:  R.  M.  Welch.  Assist.  Cashier 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond.  W.  C.  B.  deFremery.  Henry  F.  Allen.  George 
C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Barth.  C.  O.  G-  Miller.  Fred  H.  Beaver,  William 
A.  Magee,  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country  remit- 
tances may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  thisSavings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The 
signature  of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No 
charge  is  made  for  pass-book  or  entrance  fee. 

Office  hours:    9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m-    Saturday  evening.  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits.  December  31. 1903 $33.232908 

Guarantee  Capital.  Paid  up 1,000.000 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds 899,510 

Mutual  Savirjqs  Bank;  of  s.„  ftumum. 

710  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capita!    il  000  000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   .'.' 500'(X>0 

JAMES  DPHELAN.  President:  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent: GEORGE  A.  STORY.  Cashier:  JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice- 
President;   C.    B.    HOBSON,    Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan.  S.  G.  Murphy.  John  A.  hooper. 
James  Moffltt.  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,    James   M.    McDonald.    Charles    Holbrook. 

Interest   paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German  Savinqs  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  52S  CALIFORNIA   STREET,   SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    $•■>  i->q  7ki  at 

Capital   Actually   Paid-up   In   Cash '    1  000  000  00 

Deposits,   Dec.  31.  1903  aeW.Ml'.M 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS-Presldent,  John  Llovd;  First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel  Meyer:  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann; 
lgn.  Stelnhardt.  Emll  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow 


Political 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  In   1889  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

c  v.       ...  J„  California    Street.    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital    tl5.000.000.03 

Paid-in    Capital     3,000,000.00 

Front    and    Reserve    Fund     450  000  00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  "cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,    President;  Wiiilam   Corbln,    Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  CorporatiOQ 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital   and   Surplus    $7  894  400 

Capital   and   Surplus  Authorized   ...'.'.'.*. io  00(1 '000  no 

OFFICjiRS-Wllllam  L.  Mover,  president:  Charles  D. 'Palmer, 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee.  General  Manager;  William  H.  Maclntyre, 
Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila, 
Hong  Kong.  Yokohama,   Shanghai,   Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay.  Calcutta,  Madras.  Penang,  Rangoon, 
Colombo,  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansui,  Anplng, 
Bakan,  Moji,  Saigon,  Kobe.  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,   and   all   parts   of   Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH-32-34   Sansome    Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposit  isued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE   INVITED. 


F.  E.  BECK,  Manager. 


P.  G.  EASTWICK,  JR.,  Ast.  Met 


W.  R.  Hearst  has  telegraphed  Gavin  McNab,  ask- 
ing him  to  come  to  Washington  to  consult  about  the 
delegation  from  California  to  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention,  and  he  has  gone  East  accord- 
ingly. It  is  understood  that  when  he  returns  he  will 
will  bring  with  him  a  list  of  who  are  to  be  delegates- 
at-large  to  the  Convention,  and  also  the  list  of  dele- 
gates from  this  part  of  the  State.  He  will  not  be 
back  for  several  weeks. 

*  *  * 

The  announcement  that  Boss  Murphy  of  New 
York  is  going  to  try  to  force  Mayor  McCIellan  on 
the  Democratic  party  as  its  Presidential  candidate 
raises  a  very  interesting  point  of  constitutional  law. 
McCIellan  was  not  born  in  this  country,  but  in  Ger- 
many, though,  of  course,  of  American  parents.  The 
Constitution  says  only  Americans  by  birth  are  eli- 
gible to  the  Presidency,  and  makes  no  mention  of 
those  who  are  Americans  by  virtue  of  the  nationality. 
When  Crisp  was  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Congress 
he  was  talked  of  as  a  Democratic  candidate  for  the 
Presidency,  but  he  was  dropped  as  soon  as  it  was 
pointed  out  that  he  was  born  in  England.  His  par- 
ents were  Americans  also.  There  is  not  much  chance 
of  McCIellan  being  nominated,  and  still  less  of  his 
being  elected,  as  the  people  of  the  country  are  hardly 
prepared  to  hand  over  the  Government  to  Tammany, 
but  if  he  were,  the  question  of  his  eligibility  might 
have  to  be  settled  by  the  Supreme  Court,  and  for 
months  would  be  a  subject  of  excitement  all  over 
the  country. 

The  latest  news  of  the  Hanna  boom  is  that  it  has 
not  been  a  success,  and  that  the  Ohio  Senator  has 
concluded  to  keep  his  word  and  remain  out  of  the 
fight.  The  efforts  to  get  votes  for  him  in  the  Na- 
tional Convention  have  disclosed  the  solidity  of  the 
West  for  Roosevelt,  and  even  in  his  own  State  it  is 
said  he  cannot  get  the  delegation.  The  only  votes 
he  could  secure  would  be  those  from  the  South, 
which  once  more  raises  the  question  whether  the 
system  of  electing  delegates  is  not  all  wrong,  since 
it  gives  the  South  too  much  power  in  naming  can- 
didates to  whom  she  never  gives  a  vote.  That  the 
South  should  have  302  votes,  or  nearly  one-third  of 
the  convention,  is  creating  great  dissatisfaction,  and 
a  representation  based  on  votes  cast  and  not  on 
Congressional  representation  will  be  demanded  by 
many  of  the  Western  States  at  Chicago  this  vear. 

*  *  * 

While  Mr.  Rooney  is  securing,  by  grace  of  his 
brother-in-law,  the  right  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the 
depot  news-stands,  his  brother-in-law  and  Johnnie 
McKenzie  of  San  Jose,  also  a  Harbor  Commissioner, 
have  formed  a  company  with  ex-State  Senator  Percy 
Henderson,  who  has  been  wharfinger  to  do  all  the 
weighing  of  freight  on  the  State  wharf  property. 
They  have  formed  two  companies:  the  North-side 
and  the  South-side  Scale  Companies,  and  are  col- 
lecting six  and  one-quarter  cents  for  every  ton  of 
freight  that  goes  over  the  scales.  They  have  as  man- 
ager of  the  company  a  thrifty  politician  from  the 
last  regime  known  to  local  fame  as  the  "Banjo-eyed 
Kid,"  but  who  in  private  life  is  H.  Lorentezen.  Every- 
body wondered  when  Welch  was  given  Henderson's 
job  why  the  latter  was  kept  on  the  payrolls,  and  a 
new  place  created  for  him  at  $200  per  month.  Hen- 
derson is  a  Democrat,  and  there  seemed  no  good  rea- 
son why  Republicans  should  give  political  jobs  to 
Democrats.  But  now  the  cause  of  the  extra  $2400 
added  to  the  State  payrolls  is  evident.  Charlie  and 
Johnnie  were   taking  care  of  their  partner.     It  is 


January  33,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


said  that  they  make  nearly  Sjoo  per  month  each  ool 
of  the  scale  company,  after  paying  the  kid  fur  hi*. 
services. 

•  *  • 

My  Democratic  friend  who  edits  the  Oakland  Tri- 
hiine  is  angry  with  me,  and  takes  me  t'>  task  for  say- 
ing that  Metcalf  wa-  Gage's  candidate  for  chairman 
of  the  last  State  Convention,  and  declares  that  he 
loyal  to  Pardee,  The  two  statements  are  nol 
as  inconsistent  as  they  might  seem  to  he,  because 
loyalty  to  Pardee  seems  to  have  meant  disloyalty 
to  every  one  else.  Pardee  himself  set  the  example 
when,  after  pledging  himself  to  Flint.  Edson  and 
Preston  in  the  Palace  Hotel,  to  stand  against  Gage, 
the  latter  threw  them  down  and  formed  another  Jeal 
with  the  then  Governor.  Metcalf  was  Gage's  candi- 
date, and  every  one  knows  that  had  he  beaten  Neff 
for  the  chairmanship  Gage  would  have  been  nomi- 
nated. Perhaps  he  did  not  want  to  be  chosen  chair- 
man for  that  reason,  and  the  Pardee  forces  secretly 
defeated  him.  That  is  a  new  version  of  what  hap- 
pened behind  the  scenes  at  Sacramento,  and  as  it 
comes  from  an  Oakland  paper,  deserves  attention 
both  by  the  Gageites  and  their  opponents.  It  would 
appear  from  the  Tribune  statement  that  Metcalf  was 
put  forward  to  prevent  the  Gage  men  selecting  a 
candidate  for  chairman  who  could  win,  but  with  the 
secret  understanding  that  he  was  to  be  defeated,  so 
as  to  hurt  Gage's  prestige.  That  is  the  only  possible 
explanation  of  the  Tribune's  statement  that  Metcalf 
was  true  to  Pardee  and  really  wanted  to  defeat  Gage. 
Metcalf  ought  to  pray  to  be  delivered  from  his 
friends  and  their  explanation  of  his  conduct. 


BANKING. 


CULLED  FROM  "THE  MOTH  AND  THE 

FLAME." 
Katy — Marian  looks  charmingly,  but  then  she  isn't 
so  old. 

Ethel — Perhaps  not  so  old  as  she  usually  looks. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Lorimer  (thrice  divorced) — I've  a  perfect 
duck  of  a  lawyer!  He  made  up  every  bit  of  evidence 
about  my  last  husbands,  and,  my  dear,  it  just  hap- 
pened to  turn  out  to  be  true. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Lorimer — It's  an  awful  care  having  a  pos- 
thumous child ! 

Marian — A  what? 

Mrs.  Lorimer — Why,  one  born  after  its  father's  di- 
vorce. 

*  •  * 

Mrs.  Lorimer — Which  of  the  ushers  were  you  en- 
gaged to? 

Ethel — I  forget.  I  flirted  with  them  both  so  long ; 
but  I  think  it  is  the  right-hand  one ! 


The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 


i*orn«   And    IMne   Su.,   San    Kranclnco. 
■  I.Mit,    WM.   P1KB<  K  J'HNSo.N.    Vlcc- 
Alill.l..   Cannier.    K.    W.    wi.H.FK.    A»- 


801 

•lalanl 

Capital.   kAD.OO*.     Burplua   nn.l    Undivided   Proflta,  1196.000 

illam    J.    Dulton,    C.      S       Benedict.      William 
II.    K.    llutitltiRti.'n.    Qturn    A.    Nowhall.    Ueurae 
v     '"  K     Wllaon,   I.    1    i-owKiil.   \\ .  H.  TalboL 

rork— Hanover  National  Hank.  1  baaa  .National 
"ank-  National      hank.       himton— Nullonal     Shawmut 

hank.  I'hllaii  ;>hla-l>rcxcl  A  Co.  Chicago— C'onlln.-iiiul  .\a- 
tlonal  Bank,  .si  I.ouli»— The  Mechanics  Bank.  Kansas  Clly- 
1  irM  Natl.-nal  hank.  London— liruwn.  Shipley  &  Co.  ram— 
Morgan.  Ilarjcs  &  Co.  I'.nv.r  National  Bank  of  Commerce. 
Johannesburg—  Robinson  South   African    Banking   Co.,    Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

with    which   Is  amalgamated   the    Bank  of   British   Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up  Capital,  fc.7uo.u00  Reserve   Fund,   $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  Ji0.uu0.000 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President. 
Walker.   General   Manager.     Alex.    Laird,   Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St..    E.    C. 
NEW     YORK    OFFICE— 16    Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN       BRITISH       COLUMBIA— Atlin.       Cranbrook. 
Fernle.    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    LadysmHn,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New    Westminster.    Vancouver  and   Victoria. 

Also  Su  other  branches,  covering  the  principal  points  In 
IN'  YUKON  TERRITORY'— Dawson  and  White  Horse. 
IN  UN1TE~  STATES— Portland.  Seattle  anu  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Manitoba,  N.  W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS  IN  LONDON— The  Bank  of  England,  the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  Northern  Trust  Co. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS-The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
SAN     FRANUISCO    Ot-Hut- 


B.    E. 


325  California  Street. 


A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


London.  Paris  and  American  Bank.  Llullte4 

N.   W.    COR.    SANSOME  AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office — 10  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS — New  York — Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank.  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris — Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  issued. 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  *..  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.   ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  ^nglo-Califomian  Bagk,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00        Paid   up    $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000       Reserve    Fund     ....     7UO.O00 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells   exchange   and   bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LILlENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery  St.,    Mills   Building 
INTEREST  PAID  ON   DBPOC.o.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,   William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Bclowln,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. 


-You've 


*  *  * 
lost     two 


Servant 
ma'am? 

Mrs.  Lorimer — Not  exactly;  another  kind  of  epi- 
demic— the  law ! 

*  *  * 

Marian  (disposing  of  her  wedding  gifts) — It's  like 
the  death  of  some  one,  isn't  it?  And  after  they  are 
buried,  you  have  to  sort  out  and  put  away  their 
clothes.    This  is  the  death  of  my  marriage  and  these 

gifts  are  its  clothing! 

*  *  * 

Fanshaw — Oh!   never   mind 
means  what  she  sounds  like! 


husbands— Gnppc,  t  Calif  on.  ia  Safe 


Deposit  and 


Ethel.     She     never 


Few   come  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  i  isit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     If s  tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort 


Trust  Co. 


Corner 
f  California  &  Montgomery 
Streets 
San     Francisco,   Cal. 


Capital  *  Surplus    $1,233,728.75 
Total  Assets  5,914,424.69 


Interest  paid  on  deposit*,  subjeot 
tu  check,  at  the  rate  of  two 
per  cent,  per  annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  deposits 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  nix- 
tenths  per  cent,  per  annu  jo. 

Trusts  executed.  We  are  author" 
ized  to  act  as  the  guardian  of 
estates  and  the  executor  of 
wills. 

Safe-depclt  boxes  rented  at  8ft 
per  annum  and  upwards. 


J.    Dalzell  Brown.   « 

Ma-rvo^ger  p 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


January  23,  19Q4. 


OLDSMOBILE 

1904    ANNOUNCEMENT 

3  MODELS  TO  CHOOSE  FROM. 


"1st — Regular  Standard    Runabout,     Price 
F.   O.   B.    Factory    $650.00 

2d — Large  Motor,  new  style,  Metal 
Hood,  French  Design,  Powerful  Light 
Car,  Price  F.  O.  B.  Factory $750.00 

3d: — Four  Passenger  Tonneau  Touring 
Car,  Roomy,  Luxurious,  Strong  and 
Fast •  •  .$95°-°° 

WATCH  THIS  SPACE  FOR  FURTHER  PARTICULARS  AND  CUTS 


PIONLER    AUTOHOBILE     CO. 

901  Golden  Gate  Avenue, 

ppp-  Jefferson  Square. 

We  handle  only  standard  Automobiles — Win- 
ton,  Oldsmobile,  Locomobile  (steam  and  gaso- 
line), Stevens-Duryea,  Baker  Electric,  Vehicle 
Equipment  Co  npany. 


KNOX  (Waterless)  2  Cylinder  Touring  Car 


We  have  just  received  our  first  car  load  of  the 
1904  model  KNOX  (waterless)  Touring  Cars,  both  single  and 
double  cylinder  types  which  are  now  on  view  at  our 
show  rooms  where  we  would  be  pleased  '  to  receive 
you  and  demonstrate  their  superior  qualities  and 
simplicity. 

The  KNOX  (waterless)  G0S0L1NE  AUTOMOBILES  are 

known  the  world  over  for  their  simplicity,  easy 
operation,  durability  and  easy  riding  We  are  al- 
ways glad  to  demonstrate  the  above  to  any  one. 


THE  NATIONAL  AUTOMOBILE  &  MANUFACTUfiING  CO. 

134-148  GOLDEN  GATE  AVENUE.    SAN  FRANCISCO. 


By    Tin-:    Autockank 

America  again  possesses  the  mile  straightaway 
record  for  automobiles.  Henry  Ford  on  the  famous 
(remodeled)  999  Ford  machine,  covered  a  mile  over 
the  cinder  path  on  the  ice  of  Baltimore  Bay  in  the 
fast  time  of  139  2-5  seconds,  which  was  official.  He 
also  made  an  unofficial  record  for  a  mile  in  130  llat. 
The  former  world's  record  of  46  seconds  was  made 
over  a  year  ago  by  M.  Augieres  on  the  Dourdan 
Course  in  France. 


The  Park  Commissioners  have  at  last  decided  to 
extend  further  privileges  to  automobilists,.  Although 
it  has  not  yet  been  officially  announced  just  what 
these  privileges  will  be,  nevertheless,  whatever  they 
are,  they  will  be  greatly  appreciated  by  owners  of 
the  horseless  vehicle.  The  Automobile  Club  of  Cali- 
fornia is  determined  to  see  that  these  privileges  are 
not  abused.  The  privilges  extended  automobiLsts 
at  the  Presidio  for  some  time  were  about  to  be  with- 
drawn, but  through  the  efforts  of  President  F.  A. 
Hyde  and  the  Governors  of  the  Club,  and  the  sys- 
tematic way  in  which  they  brought  pressure  to 
bear  upon  the  reckless  drivers,  saved  many  a  lover 
of  the  sport  from  losing  the  "greatest  pleasure  in  and 
about  San  Francisco — that  is,  driving  along  the  ex- 
cellent  roads  of  the   Government  reservation.  . 


Much  interest  among  automobilists  is  being  taken 
in  the  coming  Automobile  Show  to  be  given  by  the 
Automobile  Club  of  California  this  spring.  Main 
members  of  the  club,  non-members  and  prospective 
buyers,  are  waiting  to  see  what  improvements  are 
to  be  'exhibited,  and  the  new  1904  models,  before 
purchasing. 

Pie  "Autoc'rank"  has  inquired  of. a  number  of  pros- 
pective buyers  as  to  which  automobile  he  prefers, 
and  from  every  one  the  answer  is  the  same:  'We  are 
waiting   for  the  show." 

The  "Autocrank"  suggests  to  those  anticipating  a 
future  purchase,  and  to  those  now  owning  machines. 
not  belonging  to  the  club,  that  they  make  application 
for  membership  to  the  club  at  their  earliest  conven- 
ience, as  much  valuable  information  and  materia]  as- 
sistance is  given  a  member  by  a  brother  member. 
This  is  invariably  the  case  where  one  is  unacquainted 
with  the  automobile,  and  desires  to  obtain  informa- 
tion from  those  who  know  and  are  not  in  the  busi- 
ness. The  Automobile  Club  is  the  place  where,  one 
can  meet  enthusiastic  automobilists,  and  receive 
many  valuable  details  which  would  be  of  great  help 
to  the  prospective  purchaser.  Besides  this,  material 
assistance  can  be  given  the  inexperienced  owner 
when  he  is  unfortunate  enough  to  meet  with  an  ac- 
cident on  the  road,  or  is  unable  to  remedy  a  fault  in 
the  working  of  his  machine.  This  assistance  will  be 
largely  increased  when  the  new  club  emblem  (which 
will  be  introduced  shortly)  is  attached  to  each  mem- 
ber's machine,  permitting  the  tourist  to  recognize 
another  member  on  the  road  who  has  met  with  an 
accident. 


Foreign  cars  are  gradually  entering  San  Francisco, 
and  ere  the  summer  begins,  San  Francisco  society 


January  33,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


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ll-known  ; 
•  men  driving  their  ' 

Thomas   Magec.  Jr..  ha»    recently     purchasi 
French  Renault,  wl  n  ro\itc  to  tin- 

\\  alter  Hobart  will  return  from     Europe     v. 
,  rful   Mors,  such   a>   is   driven   l>\    Mr.   G 
Whittcll.  Jr. 

Mr.   Peter   Martin   lias  ordered  a     big    Panhard, 
which  will  also  be  here  shortly. 


I  did  not  hear  whether  Mr.  Hobart  intends  starting 
an  auto-polo  team  or  will  drive  his  machine  a  the 
next    race   meet. 


Ex-Governor  James  H.  Budd  has  just  received 
his  j8  horse-power,  four-cylinder  French  Mors.  Ac- 
cording to  American  standard,  this  car  will  rate  at 
least  45  horse  power.  Fx-<  iovernor  Budd  was  an 
early  automobile  enthusiast.  He  has  owned  several 
machines  and  has  given  much  attention  to  the  auW- 
rriobile.  As  a  result,  he  decided  to  pay  the  high  price 
necessarv  to  secure  a  French  machine.  He  speaks 
highly  of  the  Renault  and  De  Dion-Boutong,  which 
are  precisely  the  same  car  as  the  French  Arrow.  Ex- 
Governor  Budd  has  also  imported  a  French  chauf- 
feur. 


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The  new  White  Touring  Car  equipped  with  limou- 
sine body. 


Mr.  J.  A.  Marsh  purchased  from  the  Mobile  Car- 
riage Company  last  week  a  French  Arrow  touring 
car,  two"  cylinder,  25  horse-power,  American  stand- 
ard. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marsh  were  among  the  first  au- 
tomobilists  on  the  Coast.  When  the  little  steam  run- 
about appeared,  they  secured  one  of  them.  When  it 
served  its  usefulness,  it  was  replaced  by  a  large 
stearrr  touring  car.  "  Mrs.  Marsh  became  proficient  in 
"the  handling  of  both  cars,  making  trips  to  the  Santa 
Cruz  Mountains,  to  the  Yosemite  and  to  Nevada 
City.  It  was  an  object  of  interest  in  the  early  days 
to  see  an  automobile,  and  especially  when  skillfully 
handled  by  a,,  lady.  San  Francisco  can  rightly  claim 
for  Mrs.  M'arsh  the  distinction  of  being' the  most 
skillful  lady  operator  on  the  Coast.  It  is  predicted 
that  during  the  coming  season  there  will  be  many  a 
spirited  "brush"  between  the  French  Arrow  and 
other  cars. 


■'  E.  J.  Phelps,  President  of  the  Minneapolis  Automo- 
bile Club,  sailed  from  Boston  on  the  White  Star 
liner   "Republic"   on  January  2d,   taking  with   him 


Mr.    Phelps   will   join 

ind  from  there,  with  his 

Idrcn.  will  make  .1  lour  "i  Europe 


Mr.  E.  I'  I'.rincgar  and  I.  F.  I  ane  "f  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  1  ompany,  and  Mr.  F.  T.  Dorman  ol 
the  Pacini    Motor  Car  (ompany.  Courtney  Ford  >>f 


THE  NEW  JONES  CORBIN 


The  sportiest  and  highest  powered 
car  on  the  market.  Arrange  for 
immediate  demonstration. 

PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR   CO. 


49    CITY    HALL    AVE. 


SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL 


ONE  MILE  IN  39  2=5  SECONDS 


THE    WORLD'S     RECORD 


Breaking  the  previous  mark,  held  in  France  by  G  3-5  seconds. 

This  wonderful  official  record  was  made  011  January 

12,  l'.ioi,  with  the 


FORD 


FASTEST.  BEST  and  CHEAPEST  AUTOMOBILE  in  existance 
1904    MODELS    ON    EXHIBITION    AT 

HIENE    (SL    CO'S.    HALL, 

235-237    GEARY  ST.      .  SAN    FRANCISCO 


'   ■  ■'  . 

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LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  OILLETT,  Prop. 

2910     SAN     BBUNO    AVENUE 
Tel.  Cap  560 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


the  National  Automobile  Company,  C.  A.  Hawkins 
of  the  White  Automobile  Company,  and  Cuyler  Lee 
of  the  Cadillac,  are  now  in  the  East,  where  they  went 
to  attend  the  big  shows  at  New  York,  Detroit, 
Chicago,  Philadelphia  and  Cleveland,  and  also  the 
race  meet  at  Daytona,  Florida.  They  will  undoubt- 
edly make  arrangements  with  the  various  companies 
they  represent  to  make  large  exhibits  at  the  San 
Francisco  Automobile  Show.  It  is  not  the  club's 
intention  to  give  this  show  as  a  money-making 
proposition,  but  rather  for  the  purpose  of  interesting 
non-owners  and  affording  opportunities  of  studying 
the  various  makes  and  types  of  cars. 


A  gentleman  of  Salinas,  who  already  has  several 
automobiles  in  his  stable,  recently  purchased  a  four- 
cylinder  Franklin  runabout,  in  which  he  left  San 
Francisco  on  Thursday  of  last  week  for  his  home. 


The  National  Automobile  Company  reports  a  very 
satisfactory  business  for  the  week  past  in  Knox, 
Toledos  and  Franklins.  They  also  report  that  they 
have  a  car  of  four-cylinder  Pope-Toledos  (the  mile- 
a-minute  car  on  the  road),  which  they  expect  to  re- 
ceive the  latter  part  of  this  month. 

Mr.  Norman  W.  Church,  of  Los  Angeles,  repre- 
senting this  company,  has  received  the  first  two- 
cylinder  Knox  touring  car,  and  reports  several  sales. 


The  Mobile  Carriage  Co.  has  contracted  with 
the  St.  Francis  Hotel  for  the  exclusive  right  for  all 
automobile  business  in  connection  with  their  hos- 
telry. In  addition  to  the  large  passenger  service  for 
the  accommodation  of  guests,  a  buss  line  will  be  run 
from  the  St.  Francis  to  all  trains  and  boats  for  the 
accommodation  of  guests. 

Another  carload  of  Pierce  Arrow  touring  cars  have 
been  received  by  the  Mobile  Carriage  Company. 
These  are  in  every  sense  the  1904  model,  having  the 
Mercedes  hood  and  honycomb  radiators.  The  finish 
is  automobile  red  with  black  stripings,  and  makes 
a  very  handsome  appearance. 


"The  Anona,"  a  new  hotel  at  2910  San  Bruno 
avenue,  recently  opened  by  Doctor  Gillete,  is  becom- 
ing the  rendezvous  of  the  owners  of  automobiles.  It 
is  easy  of  access,  and  there  are  all  sorts  of  conven- 
iences. It  is  a  fine  auto  ride  to  this  resort;  the  best 
of  care  is  taken  of  machines,  and  there  is  an  ex- 
perienced mechanic  always  at  hand  to  attend  to  the 
wants  of  the  public.  The  accommodations  in  the 
hotel  itself  are  very  comfortable,  and  all  who  have 
tasted  of  his  viands  speak  very  favorably  of  the  gen- 
ial doctor  as  a  bomface. 


• The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


If  you  want  to  eat  the  best,  drink  the  best,  and  be 

among  the  best  people,  go  to  Techau  Tavern,  which  is  sec- 
ond to  no  restaurant  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  the  favorite 
after-the-theatre  resort,  and   deserves  its  fine  reputation. 


PROMPT    SERVICE 

CENTURY     ELECTRIC    COHPANY 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 

Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.       Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 
House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 

16-18  SECOND  ST.  TJnder  Grand  Hotel.         TEL.  BVSH  352 


RATES  LESS  THAN  CARRIAGES 

CALL 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  COMPANY, 

Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Avenues. 


Phones :  Larkin  3841 ;  Polk  3086.  Down-town 
office :  Lobby  Palace  Hotel,  Phone  Bush  859. 
You  can  secure  these  cars  at  any  hotel  or  cafe 
by  asking  for  MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO. 


SALES  DEPARTMENT  COAST  AGENCIES. 
Pierce  Arrow  Touring  Car  (French)  price  $2650 

Pierce    Stanhope    (French    type) 1350 

Northern  Runabout  (leader  in  New  York)       800 
Fine    Garage,    expert    mechanics,    guaranteed 
expenses. 


MOBILE     CARRIAGE    CO. 

Golden  Gate  and  Van  Ness  Aves.  Open  all  night. 


Have  you  seen  the 

BUCKBOARD? 

The  talk  of  the  town. 
Best    Automobile    at  any 
price. 


"-  r.«3S 


Costs 


$425 


STRONG-  EASY    RIDING-RELIABLE-GUARANTEED 


ON    EXHIBIT    AT- 


SUNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 

1814  MARKET  STREET        -       •       •        SAN   FRANCISCO 

ELECTRIC  ...d 

GASOLINE 

CARS... 

A.  F.  BROOKE  RIDLEY,  ,8  fell  street 


Telephone  South  394 


(Nr.   Usrk.t) 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 


VELVET 

LEATHER 

SUITS 

for  Men 

and  Women 


We  have  these  Leathers  in 
all  Colors.  Make  them  in 
any  style  and  guarantee 
satisfaction. 

H  E.  SKINNER  CO. 

801  MARKET  ST. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1(61. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
\*  estern  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


January  33.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LKTTER. 


Only   tw.i  lives  dividing 

More  and  moro  every  day; 
Only    one    soul    from    another    soul 

Steadily    drifting    away 

Only   a   man's   heart   striving 

Bitterly    hard    with    its   doom; 
Only   a  hand,  tender  and   bland. 

Slipping    away    in    the    gloom 

Nothing   of  doubt   or   wrong. 

Nothing   that   eitner   can   cure; 
Nothing   to  shame,   nothing  to   blame. 

Nothing  to  do  but  endure. 

The  world  cannot  stand  stilJ, 

Tides    ebb.    and    women    change; 

Nothing  here  that  is  worth  a  tear. 

Nothing   between   but   the   cold   world's   screen, 
Nothing   to   lose   but   a   heart. 


"THE  HEAVY  MISTS  TRAIL  LOW   UPON  THE  SEA." 
By  51-  J-  Savage  in  The  Century 
The  heavy  mists  trail  low  upon  the  sea, 
And  equally  the  sky  and  ocean  hide. 
As   two  world-wandering  ships   close  side   by  side 
A  moment  loom  and  part;    out  o'er  the  lee 
One  leans,  and  calls,  "What  ho!"     Then  fitfully 
A   gust   the  voice    confuses,   and    the   tone 
Dies  out  upon  tne  waters  faint  and  lone. 
And  each  ship  all  the  wide  world  seems  to  be. 

So  meet  we  and  so  part  we  on  the  land: 
A  glimpse,  a  touch,  a  cry,  and  on  we  go 
As  lonely  as  one  single  spar  in  space. 

Driven  by  a  destiny  none  understand, 

We  cross  the  track  of  one  'twere  life  to  know, 
Then  all  is  but  the  memory  of  a  face. 


SONNET  TO  SILHOUETTE. 
By  Harvey  Peake  in  the  House  Beautiful 

O  Ancient  Dame  of  high,  degree, 

Grandmother   many   times    removed, 
What  is  your  story?    Has  it  proved1 

A  blessing  or  a  curse  to  me? 

Was   happiness   your   legacy? 

Or  did  you  sin  and  woe  bequeath? 

Did    Passion    poisoned    tendrils    wreathe 
About  my   noble   ancestry? 

What  disposition  did' you   make 

Of  Heart?     And  in  long  hours  of  night 
Heard   you,   at  times,   Soul's   bitter   cry? 

Speak  you!     And  my  dimmed  senses  wake! 
Bare  all  the  past  and  make  it  light! 

*  *  *  *  *  * 

By  mocking  Silence  you  reply. 


THE  KiVAL. 

By  Dorothea  Moore  in   Century 
To  the  church,  on  her  flowery  way, 

She  tossed  me  a  coin   in  the   throng. 

0  white  little  bride,  do  you  think  to  pay 
With   this  for  a  woman's   wiong? 

1  picked   her  gift  from   the   dust, 

Kept  it  close  night  and  day; 
O   white  little   wife,   you   can  trust 
.  My  hate  to  find  out  a  way. 

A  baby's  fingers,  aye, 

His    baby    upon   her    breast, 
-Have  stolen,  all  my  hate  away — 

Rest,   little   motner,   rest. 


vie  may  he  1  in  his   w 

but  •  ni  at  lca.-t  lie  baa  changed  his  mind 

telegraphs  the  <  h 
1  Sun,   "Howie  was 

railing  al  tlie  I  ivs,  declaring  them  unclean  ami  unfit 
ti>  help  r«  - '  ire  Jerusalem.  To-day  (December  13), 
in  a  scrim  hi  in  Shiloh  Tabernacle,  he  praised  tliem 
and  said  tli.it  among  tlie  best  peopl 

earth."  \  possible  explanation  of  this  change  nf 
opinion  is  indicated  !>y  a  check  for  (82  sent  by  the 
rseer  of  Zion  to  the  publishers  of  the  "Jewish 
Encyclopedia"  for  a  copy  of  that  work,  which  gives 
a  record  of  the  tremendous  service  rendered  by  the 
Hebrew  race  from  the  days  of  Abraham  to  the  pres- 
ent. Dr.  Dowie  received  the  five  volumes  so  far  pub- 
lished a  few  days  before  his  change  of  view  was  pro- 
claimed. 


Visitor — Your  church  is  a  beauty.  That  handsome 
house  next  door  is  the  parsonage,  I  presume?  Dea- 
con De  Good — X-o.  Fact  is,  the  parsonage  is  some 
distance  up  town,  but  we  intend  to  make  an  offer  for 
one  of  these  near-by  residences  soon.  "The  price 
will  be  high,  no  doubt."  "Urn — I  think  not.  We 
shan't  try  to  buy  until  after  our  new  chimes  are  put 
in." 


CIvICQUPT 
None  Other!' 


yellow  Label 


BRyT 
Gold  Label 


AVignier  Qo.DhtfibMn 

Jan  Francijco,  Cat. 


I  Mavis  Consolidated  Gold 
I  and  Copper  Mining  Co. 


Capital  Stock  $1,000,000.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County,  Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be  levied. 

50,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  Is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  raiseu  to  50  cents  a  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  of  the  company,  room  205,  713  Mar- 
ket street,  for  prospectus,  which  gives  full  information. 
VINCENT  NBALB,  Secretary. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


The  fire  business  of  California 
for  1903  is  given  in  the  accompany- 
ing table.     These  figures  speak  for 

ihemselves. 

*  *  * 

The  December  number  of  the 
Conservative  says  another  claim- 
ant for  the  original  idea  of  Com- 
bination Life  Insurance  has  been 
heard  from.  There  is  enough  to 
go  round  for  all  the  companies,  so 
it  resolves  itself  into  the  question 
of  which  can  get  the  most  of  the 
combination  pie.  Mr.  Tupper  may 
not  or  may  have  originated  the 
idea  for  the  Conservative  Life,  but 
whether  he  did  or  not,  he  applied 
it,  and  the  result  is  that  the  com- 
pany of  which  he  is  the  manager 
came  pretty  nearly  leading  the  list 
for  business  written  in  California. 

*  *  * 

It  will  be  remembered  that  Mr. 
Tupper  was  the  author  of  a  splen- 
did advertising  scheme  which  he 
floated  by  the  publication  of  a 
pamphlet  on  Rebate,  and  about 
which  he  was  vigorously  compli- 
mented and  as  vigorously  assailed 
by  the  insurance  press. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Tupper  is  too  brainy  a  man 
in  the  life  insurance  business  to 
care  what  was  said  about  him  indi- 
vidually, but  he  enjoyed  what  was 
said  about  the  Conservative  Life, 
and  next  to  Mr.  Torbell  of  the 
Equitable  he  has  demonstrated 
himself  as  good  as  they  make  them 
in  working  the  press. 

*  *  * 

The  fire  at  the  Iroquois  Theatre 
in  Chicago  closed  up  the  theatres 
until  they  were  inspected  by  the 
authorities  and  found  safe.  San 
Francisco  theatres  are  being 
looked  after,  and  it  may  be  that  on 
some  of  them  the  insurance  com- 
panies will  cancel  their  lines  and 
then  they  will  be  made  safe  for  the 
public. 

*  *  * 

While  the  resorts  of  the  ungodly 
are  under  the  glare  of  the  limelight 
of  municipal  inspection,  why  not 
go  a  little  further.  There  are 
churches,  concert  halls  and  other 
halls  in  San  Francisco  which  in 
event  of  a  panic  in  a  crowded 
house  would  cause  a  deadly  dis- 
aster. It  is  better  to  waste  an 
ounce  of  prevention  than  adminis- 
ter a  pound  of  cure,  and  while  the 
mood  of  "safety  for  the  public"  is 
on,  make  a  clean  sweep  and  make 
every  place  of  public  gathering, 
secular  or  religious,  Jews  or  Gen- 
tile, safe  for  those  gathered  or  close 
them  permanently. 


.s'lA     COMPANIES. 
Sa 


Company.  Agent. 

Firemans  Fund Louis  Weinmann. 

Home  Fire  and  Marine Stephen  D.  Ives.. 

Pacific  Underwriters G.  W.  McNear. . . 


Francisco 
Premiums. 


California  Business. 


Amount 

Written.     Premiums. 


Lo^es 
Pai-l.     Ratio 


69,527  $  24,064,972 
39,898  11,176.400 
14,012  4,196,684 


•    421,124    $    200,134    47.6 


199,137 
74,344 


97,838    49.1 
27,021     36.3 


Totals t   123,437    139,438,056    t   694,605    S  325.293    46.8 


FOREIGN    COMPANIES. 


Aachen  &  Munich 

Alliance 

Atlas ; 

Austrian  Phoenix 

British  America 

Jaledonian. 

Commercial  Union • 

Hamburg-Bremen 

Law  Union  &  Crown 

Liverpool  &  London  &  Globe. 

London  

London  &  Lancashire 

Manchester. . .  .'. 

Netherlands 

New  Zealand.. 

North  British   

N oi tli  German 

Norwich  Union 

Northern 

Palatine 

Phoenix  

Prussian  National ■ 

Royal   

Royal  Exchange 

Koine  &  Maselle 

Scottish  Union  &  National  . . . 

State 

Sun  Insurance  Office 


Cesar  Bertheau 

C.  F.  Mullins 

F.  J.  Devlin 

Dickson  &  Theime 

Watson.Taylor,  Sperry 

T.  J.  Conroy 

C.  F.  Mullins 

R.  Herald,  Jr 

Catton,  Bell  &  Co 

C.  D.  Haven 

W.J.  Landers 

Wm.  Macdonald 

T.  J.  Conroy      

Wm.  Macdonald 

Clinton  Folger 

Tom  C.  Grant 

Walter  Speyer  

W.  H.  Lowden 


Transatlantic. 

1'huringia 

Union 

Western 


W.  I.  Wilsoi 
C.  f.  Mullin 

Geo.  E.  Butler 

W.  J.  Loaiza 

Rolla  V.  Watt  

Frank  Dickson 

Syz&Co 

T.  J.  A.  Ticdeman.... 

Wm.  Macdonald 

C.  A.  Henry  St  Co.... 
Edward  Brown&  Sons. 

V.  C.  Driffield  

Voss,  Conrad  &  Co.  .. 
Catton,  Bell  St  Co.... 
Watson, Taylor,  Sperry 


*  49,869 
40,816 
32.465 
3,6_>8 
21,269 
29.201 
49,560 
68,8.58 
9,899 
63,656 
81,646 
70,606 
35,981 
'21.024 
21,170 
32,148 
44,673 
27,341 
40,187 
33.075 
43.845 
19,559 
62,653 
68,071 
48,714 
18,869 
12,182 
39.SSS 
22.358 
66,044 
76.683 
20,772 
24,902 


I  8.594,380 
6,278,984 
6,282,750 
4«,865 
4,007,719 
4,906,015 
9,618,121 
7,368,244 
2,705,220 
15,419,864 
10,652,240 
18,505,826 
5,799,895 
3,418,816 
4,133,373 
7,085.313 
6,168,915 
6.133,756 
6,100,163 
6,821,641 
7,968,010 
•4,827,043 
18,207,619 
9,334,354 
6,281,147 
4,792.373 
2,219.703 
7,464.690 
6.114,285 
9,016,955 
11,834,311 
6.363,402 
7,151.085 


141,637 
93,777 
97,46) 
7,026 
74.31! 
79  412 
153.131 
111,932 
40,467 
204,655 
162,206 
19,7,289 
90,819 
46,112 
68,836 
109,624 
87,363 
109,543 
97,767 
92,491 
:82.814 
67,397 
220,143 
134,692 
85,246 
74,067 
33,  10 
126,636 
94,464 
130,830 
183,969 
81,470 
125,051 


49.4 
50.8 
55.3 


69,163  48.8 

63.182  67.4 

63,018  64.0 

1.000  14.2 
30,732 
4  ',394 
84  728 

47,040  42.7 

23,021  50.9 

113,993  56.7 

89,808  65.3 

97,986  50.1 

64, 256  59  7 

28,940  62.7 

68,038  84.4 


52,059 
41,007 

42,807  .39.1 

71,705  73.3 

38.617  41.8 

98,930  74.4 

25,624  37  9 

120,091  .i4.6 

68,005  50.4 

23,133  27.1 

82,233  43.5 

20,070  59,8 
76.779 
64,403 


47. 
10.9 


6 

Os.2 


66,8-7  M.4 

106,029  57.6 

45,532  56!, 

42,472  33,o 


Totals 81.272,242    8228,584,213    $3,653,956    81,898,409    63.4 


COMPANIES 


/Elna  

American,  Boston 

Agricultural  

American,  N.J 

American  Central 

-  American,  Pa 

Assurance  Co.,  of  America  .... 

Caledonean  American 

Citiz.  ns  

Connecticut 

Continental 

Commercial  Union  

Colonial  Underwriters 

Concordia 

Delaware 

Dutchess 

Equitable 

Firemans,  Baltimore 

Fire  Association 

Franklin 

German  American 

German  Alliance  Ins.  Ass'n... 

Germania  

German,  111 

Glens  Falls 

Greenwich 

Globe-Rutgers 

German,  Peoria 

Hanover 

Hartford 

Home 

Indemnity  Fire 

1  ns.  Co.  of  N  orth  America  .... 

tvings  County ... 

Mercantile,  Boston  

Michigan 

Milwaukee  Mechanics 

National 

New  York  Fire 

Niagara 

New  York  Underwriters  Ag'cy 

Northwestern  National 

National  Standard 

North  German   

New  Hampshire 

National  Union 

Orient 

Philadelphia  Underwriters 

Pelican 

Phenix  of  Brooklyn 

Pennsylvania 

I'hccnix,  Hartford  

Providence  Washington 

i.lueen 

Rochester  German 

Springfield 

St.  Paul 

Spring  Garden 

traders 

1'eutonia     

Union 

United  Firemans 

Victoria   

Westchester 

vVilliamsburg  Citv 

Western  Underwriter  


Boardman  &  Spencer.. 

I   39,455 

10,374 
13,563 

Edward  Brown  &Sons. 

Christensen,  Edw.  St  G 

13,090 

Christensen,  Edw.  &G 

11,598 

Edward  Brown  &Sons. 

18,588 

C.  A.  Henry  &  Co.... 

1,527 

6,875 

Palache  &  Hewitt,.... 

7,119 

24.627 

23,150 
2.613 

G.  W.  McNear 

7,393 

Frank  W    Dickson.... 

536 

Edward  Brown  &Soos. 

9,161 

12,664 
4  134 

C.J.  Stovel 

9,898 

21,300 

17,620 

42,965 

4.460 

W.  H.  Breeding 

36.344 

42,569 

3,962 

Edward  Brown  &  Sons 

5,381 

4,194 

27,479 

Palache  &  Hewitt 

55,473 

H.  L.  RolT 

38,229 

W.  H.  Lowden 

6.213 

Jas.  D.  Bailey 

28,409 

Christensen,  Edw.  &G 

10,613 

C.  A.  Henry  Si  Co 

7,349 

L.  L.  Bromwell 

24,755 

27,375 

C.J.  Stovel 

5,535 

40,099 

43.323 

16,091 

C   A.  Henry  Si  Co 

287 

8,717 

7,278 

11,996 

9,967 

5,765 

Geo.  E.  Butler 

5,006 

A.  C.  Olds 

20,809 

Russel  W.  Osborn.... 

48,493 

24,439 

8,849 

20,810 

10,146 

26,305 

Christensen.  Edw.  &  G 

18,602 

Frank  W.Dickson 

3.089 

50,737 

10,808 

Russel  W.  Osborn.... 

9,351 

7,406 

1,100 

E.  E.  Potter 

18.314 

14,425 

C.  H.  Ward 

9,122 

OF  OTH 
89,861.243 
2,609,385 
2,263,805 
2,568,628 
2,844,124 
4,374,403 

296,788 
1,017,678 
2.712,324 
6,652,855 
10,822,728 

401 ,653 
2,230,797 

427,357 
1,585,147 
2,930,993 
1 ,600.528 
2,887,788 
8,991,273 
4,130,136 
9,653,321 
2,444,742 
6,815,825 
9,293,398 
4,504,614 
1,177,659 
1,348,979 

453,363 
4,405,769 
14,804,193 
15,316,578 

999,967 
7,381,161 

332,771 
1.834,976 
1,414,096 
8,796,510 
5,985,976 

947,439 
6,266,010 
6,883,303 
6,313,751 
87.283 
1,876,412 
1,877,273 

2,020,299 
1,480,903 

902,642 
3,300,090 
8.845,978 
5,776,680 
1,886,672 
6,684,551 
1,747,998 
4  903,612 
3,128,172 

596,782 
8,978,641 
1,561,284 
1,160,608 
1,108,121 

295,521 
4,452,127 
4,122,610 
2,424,489 


ER     STATES 
8    156,202    8 

40.601 

88,234 

38,699 

45,927 

81,213 
4,731 

18,043 

42,599 

111,697 

142,199 

5,686 

39.827 
7,665 

25,657 

49,204 

30,261 

41,885 

63,785 

71,494 
148,961 

38,741 

90,130 
136.928 

69,138 

21,387 

23,482 
6,946 

72,669 
231,016 
271,543 

14,729 

117,164 

3,840 

27,621 

26.M8 
121,959 
113,810 

14,974 

96,800 
107,779 

89,225 
777 

19,059 

29,541 

28,351 

26,295 

15,745 

60,108 
153.501 

93,067 

36,387 

94,946 

27,461 

91,397 

61,699 

9,630 

116,692 

26,254 

17,908 

15,837 
4,331 

70,143 

66,541 

82,777 


87,641 
22,884. 
19,964 
20,925 
22,319 
37,932 

1,966 

7,269 
29,588 
51,721 
86,741 

8,112 
14,603 

1,558 
11,121 
28,827 
22,127 
16,111 
20,299 
66,982 
65.101 
19.804 
15,260 
80,840 
44,695 
15,4-3 

6,367 

4,6.54 
37,165 
84.542 
133,036 

8,188 
73,032 

4,388 

9,455 
18,310 
50,878 
75,637 

8.131 
49,495 
67,-544 
49,320 
216 

6,613 
10,815 


56.0 
56.2 
52.2 
54.0 
48.5 
46.6 
41.5 
40.2 
69.4 
46  3 
60.0 
142.7 
36  6 
20.3 
43.3 
68.5 
78.1 
38.4 
41.2 
79.7 
43.7 
51.1 
16.9 
59.0 
64.6 
72.2 
27.1 
67.0 
51.1 
36.6 
48.9 
55.6 
62.3 
114.2 
84.2 
68.1 
41.7 
6C.7 
54.3 
51.1 
63.8 
55.2 
27.7 
34.8 


61.1 
65.6 
56.1 
45.1 


10,617  38  1 

18.183  6.1.7 

11,930  75.7 

40,616  77.2 

85,278  55.5 
47.580 
23,243 
52,2-6 

12,409  - 

56.209  61.5 

25,521  49.3 

1,679  17.0 

68,964  50.5 

19,281  73.4 

18,826  77.2 

8,029  60.7 

2,982  67.7 

45,487  64.8 

55,776  83.8 

6.591  20.0 


Totals. 


81,086,034    8251,177,477    $3,987,341    *2,106,?05    52.8 


January  23.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


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*    •    * 

The  statement  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Casualty  for 
the  first  year  of  its  business  shows  how  a  California 
company,  hacked  with  ample  and  unimpeachable  as- 
iinl  managed  with  ability  and  energy,  can  be 
made  to  prow.  The  Pacific  Coast  Casualty  Company 
had  a  premium  income  for  the  year  of  almost  $103,- 
000.00.  This  business  was  secured  at  full  rates,  and 
the  secret  of  its  acquisition  is  the  influence  brought 
to  bear  through  and  by  its  stockholders,  who-, 
names  are  synonymous  with  wealth,  financial 
strength  and  business  success.  The  company  com- 
menced operations  with  a  capital  of  $200,000  and  a 
surplus  of  $50,000.  It  has  added  to  the  latter  $8,715 
as  the  result  of  the  first  year's  business.  When  it 
is  considered  that  this  is  in  addition  to  the  extraordi- 
nary expenses  necessary  to  organization  and  to  the 
placing  of  a  new  company  in  the  field,  and  that  it 
is  carried  to  surplus  as  the  net  after  setting  aside 
an  ample  reserve  for  losses  which  may  arise,  and  pay- 
ing losses  incurred,  it  is  a  truly  remarkable  feat,  and 
one  which  stamps  President  Green  as  among  the 
leading  financiers  and  Casualty  Underwriters  of 
California.  The  admitted  assets  of  t'~e  company  ag- 
gregate $315,098.00,  or  $65,098.00  over  and  above  the 
capital  and  surplus  paid  in.  It  is  evident  that  the 
new  coiner  in  California's  Casualty  companies  is  not 
to  be  overlooked,  as  good,  straight,  hard  competition 
by  the  older  companies  doing  business  on  the  same 
lines. 

*  *  * 

The  New  York  Life,  in  continuance  of  its  efforts 
to  secure  federal  recognition,  has  asked  Secretary 
Cortelyou,  of  the  Bureau  of  Commerce,  to  join  with 
the  Insurance  Department  of  New  York  in  an  exami- 
nation of  its  affairs. 

*  *  * 

There  are  several  Accident,  Casualty,  Surety  and 
Life  companies  which  failed  to  file  their  preliminary 
statements  with  California's  Insurance  Commis- 
sioner on  the  date  prescribed  by  the  California  law. 
The  penalty  is  a  fine  of  one  hundred  dollars  per  day. 

*  *  * 

The  News  Letter  regrets  to  chronicle  the  death 
of  the  respected  father  of  Insurance  Commissioner 
Wolf.  As  a  tribute  of  respect,  the  office  of  the  Com- 
missioner was  closed  for  two  days. 

*  *  * 

The  Fireman's  Fund  held  its  annual  election  of 
officers  on  the  19th.  There  was  but  one  ticket,  and 
the  officers  were  all  re-elected.'  The  usual  congratu- 
lations were  extended,  the  usual  increase  of  surplus 
and  assets  shown. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 

Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital $3,000,000.  Gross  Cash  Assets $i7,soo.ooo 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Ileprr- 
sentatives  before  concluding  short  tame  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
may;  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent  f  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
tan Manager. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


INSURANCE 


FIRE.    MARINE   AND    INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco.  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets.  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.   D.   I7W. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

raid-up    Capital     JJ.000.0O8 

Surplus    to    Pollry-Holdera    6[o22.016 

JAMES  D.  UAILET.  General  Agent.  412  California  St.,  8.  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up    J.1,446.100.  Assets.  J24.M2.043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  IS.93u.431 .41.  Losses  Paid,  over  1134,000.000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK    W.    DICKSON.    Manager,   601    Montgomery    Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON.    Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established    1880. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .   2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.  SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD.  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  411  California  St. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $1,250,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $20,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Fair  Building.  230  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital     

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


J67.O0O.0OO 

31t  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT,    GERMANY 

Capital  12,260,000  Assets  J10,»S4,24« 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  204-208  Sansome  St,   San  Francisco. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N,  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


Whispering's    from  Alameda 


Isn't  it  a  caution,  as  our  grandmothers  used  to  say, 
that  every  one,  or  almost  every  one,  is  suspected  of 
stealing,  in  the  virtuous  cities  across  the  bay?  It  is 
not  many  days  since  the  society  women  of  Oakland 
instituted  a  crusade  against  those  who  stole  purses 
and  baubles  from  the  guests  at  fashionable  functions 
among  the  elite,  and  now  the  principal  of  the  Ber- 
keley High  School,  Professor  M.  C.  James,  calls  the 
students  together  and  rakes  them  over  the  coals  for 
stealing  from  each  other.  It  does  look  as  if  no  good 
thing  could  be  expected  to  come  out  of  Alameda 
County.  Mr.  James,  after  a  lecture  upon  the  heinous- 
ness  and  vulgarity  of  such  a  crime,  said  in  plain  and 
unpoetic  language  that  it  had  to  stop.  What  the 
worthy  professor  proposes  to  do  is  not  said,  but  it 
is  unfortunate  that  you  cannot  go  either  to  school, 
if  you  are  growing  up  to  know  something,  or  to  a 
party  after  you  have  "developed  into  a  charming 
belle"  without   losing  all  your  traps   and  fripperies. 

*  *  *  . 

Consternation  reigns  among  the  members  of  the 
School  Board  in  Alameda.  They  are  unable  to  keep 
a  woman  teacher,  even  until  the  end  of  the  first  term 
after  she  takes  her  seat  in  the  chair  of  authority. 
And  it  is  all  their  own  faults.  It  is  not  long  since 
they  heartlessly  and  arrogantly  dismissed  every 
woman  teacher  who  had  passed  twenty  years  of  age. 
They  held  that  a  woman- over  twenty  had  developed 
a  hard  expression  and  was  not  up  in  the  latest  fads 
of  education.  The  Board  said,  too,  that  education 
signifies  "to  lead  out,"  and  that  the  more  settled 
"school-ma'ams"  had  grown  to  imagine  it  meant  to 
"drive  forth."  But  they  are  meeting  a  just  retribu- 
tion, or  the  old  teachers  say  they  are,  and  of  course 
they  know,  for  they  themselves  gave  that  as  a  rea- 
son why  they  should  have  been  retained.  They  sav, 
calmly,  and,  I  am  sure,  impartially,  that  they  "knew 
everything  there  was  to  know  about  teaching  and 
teachers." 

It  is  said  that  every  young  girl  teacher  in  Alameda 
is  engaged  to  be  married,  and  there  is  a  prospect  of 
empty  benches  staring  the  School  Board  in  the  face 
long  before  the  Easter  vacation.  The  youngsters 
are  enjoying  the  fun  immensely.  And  they  know  all 
about  it.  You  can  trust  therrt  for  that!  Every  time 
dainty  little  Miss  Smith  blushes  as  Johnny  Green 
hands  her  the  letter  that  she  has  dropped  when  she 
heard  the  Superintendent  of  Schools  coming,  don't 
you  suppose  the  whole  infant  class  sees  it?  I  do. 
And  there  is  a  ripple  of  merriment  among  the  par- 
ents, too.  It  is  not  so  long  since  many  of  them  were 
young,  and  some  of  them  were  teachers,  too. 

*  *  * 

Oakland  society  is  in  a  fever  of  apprehension.  The 
exclusives  across  the  bay  fear  that  they  may  be 
asked  to  associate  with  Miss  Mary  Agnes  Red  ford, 
a  little  telephone  girl  who  has  lately  fallen  heir  to 
a  fortune  of  $3,000,000,  through  the  death  of  a  griz- 
gled  old  miner  of  British  Columbia.  The  miner,  deep 
in  his  tough  old  heart,  held  the  sentimental  memory 
of  a  courtship  between  the  girl's  lovely  mother  and 
himself  many  years  ago  in  the  wooded  wilds  of  the 
British  territory  upon  the  Sound.  There  was  a  quar- 
rel, and  the  woman,  in  petulant  anger,  married  an- 
other and  came  to  California.  Here  she  sickened  and 
died,  leaving  the  baby  girl  to  the  care  of  a  cousin, 
a  Mrs.  Mary  Hallahan  of  Oakland.  In  the  simple 
home  with'  the  three  young  daughters  of  her  foster 


mother,  the  child  grew  to  girlhood.  She  is  now  six- 
teen years  of  age  and  as  pretty,  dainty  and  innocent 
as  it  was  her  mother's  dying  prayer  to  the  good  Lord 
to  keep  her.  She  is  the  picture  of  what  the  mother 
was  when  she  turned  her  back  on  the  faithful  lover 
in  the  woods  of  British  Columbia.  And  that  is  why 
she  will  be  an  heiress,  for  the  miner  never  mar- 
ried and  had  cherished  the  memory  of  a  boyish  love 
affair  through  all  the  dreary  years,  and  his  dying 
wish  was  to  endow  the  girl  with  money  enough  to 
make  the  world  her  playground  if  she  wished. 

Now  that  the  Roman  Catholics  and  Episcopalians 
■  are  both  down  on  the  Reverend  Ernest  E.  Baker, 
pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Oakland, 
it  seems  that  his  stay  in  that  clannish  town  is  only  a 
matter  of  time  and  endurance.  Already  the  pews  of 
his  church  are  more  often  empty  than  full,  I  am  told, 
and  I  also  hear  that  the  evening  special  services  that 
used  to  be  so  popular  and  on  which  occasions  the 
big  church  was  wont  to  be  crowded  and  made  as  light 
as  dazzling  electric  bulbs  could  make  it,  is  now  as 
dreary  as  a  tomb.  It  is  whispered  among  the  naughty 
ones  that  the  lights  are  left  low  so  that  the  shadows 
may  look  like  people.  Well,  you  cannot  blame  him 
for  that.  Mr.  Baker  was  always  a  great  one  to  put 
the  best  possible  light  on  everything,  and  a  dark  lan- 
tern would  be  the  best  in  that  event. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 

factory  for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Use 
Briquettes  for  cooking  and  neating,  and  you  will  save  at 
least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co., 
South  95,  and  your  order  will  receive  prompt  attention. 


Rheumatics  relieved  at  the  Post  St  Hammam 


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Wny  ill  men  lhcmld  drink 
RUIN ART: 
Good  wioe— ■  triced— 

or  bring  dry, 
Or   lot    you   ihould  be 

Ctt  my  olher  icuuu  "hy. 

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Ruinart 
Cham- 
pagne 

Established     1729 

The  President's  Wine 

"Dry,  Fruity — 
ffo   Headache 


VtLinoy     W.    Gcskfll, 

Speoial  Agent 


Hllbert  Mercantile  Co. 

Sole  Agents 


January  23.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Prop 

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IO.OOO 

To'" 


PROPOSED   RAID   ON  THE   PUBLIC 
TREASURY. 
"We  the  undersigned  respectfully  petition  tl 

•  !•<  fix  the  salaries  of  the  following  Govern 
ment  officers  at  the  amount  indicated  under  thi 
umii  headed   "Proposed   Salary,"   to  take   effect   1  >c- 
ccmbcr  1st,  1904: 

Present 

President   $50,000 

Vice-President    8,000 

Each  Cabinet  Officer   8,000 

Chief  Justice    10  500 

sociate  Justices  10,000 

United  States  Senators   5,ooo 

Members  of  House  of  Rcp'sent's.     5,000 

The  above  is  a  petition  being  forwarded  to  every 
newspaper  and  magazine  in  the  United  States  l>y 
an  Eastern  advertising  firm. 

The  name  of  a  publication  is  used,  "The  Sentry 
Box,"  to  foster  this  raid  on  the  public  treasury.  The 
claim  is  made  that  our  federal  officials  are  too  mod- 
est to  make  a  demand  for  a  raise  of  salary,  but  that 
they  must  perforce  appeal  through  the  medium  of 
a  third  party  to  the  people  of  the  United  Slates.  It 
is  presumed  that  a  certain  success  attained  by  the 
proponent  of  this  extraordinary  graft,  in  securing  pa- 
tronage for  a  cereal  food,  is  tantamount  to  equal  suc- 
cess in  obtaining  a  raise  in  salary  for  our  public  ser- 
vants. One  of  the  main  arguments  used  is  that  liv- 
ing in  Washington,  forsooth,  is  double  in  cost  to  any- 
where else  in  the  United  States.  Let  those  who  set 
this  rapid  pace  curb  their  aristocratic  desires.  Let 
the  public  servant  live  within  his  income.  The 
agency  which  is  backing  this  propaganda  for  the 
over-modest  officials  is  using  a  club  over  the  publi- 
cations addressed  in  the  shape  of  advertising  patron- 
age. The  inference  is  that  this  patronage  will  be 
withdrawn  unless  they  get  in  line  behind  the  raiders 
and  push  the  good   (?)  work  along. 

CUBA  AND  SENATOR  PERKINS. 

The  speech  of  the  Honorable  George  C.  Perkins  on 
Cuban  Reciprocity  has  been  received  at  this  office. 
Senator  Perkins  has  been  the  recipient  of  congratula- 
tions of  those  of  all  shades  of  politics  for  his  consis- 
tent and  continual  advocacy,  and  the  splendid  speech 
made  by  him  on  this  subject. 

It  may  be  said  of  him  that  while  many  may  doubt 
the  wisdom  of  the  policy  advocated,  there  are  none 
who  doubt  his  integrity  and  his  support  of  any  meas- 
ure is  a  tower  of  strength. 

The  Savage  Arms  Company  of  Utica,  New  York, 
is  sending  out  a  beautiful  art  calendar  which  is  a 
fine  replica  of  an  oil  painting  by  Rungins.  It  repre- 
sents a  hunter  and  horse,  with  a  stag  in  the  fore- 
ground. It  is  one  of  the  best  examples  of  repro- 
duction we  have  ever  seen.  In  the  same  line  the  J. 
Ayer  &  Son  advertising  firm  have  issued  a  calendar 
which  calls  for  commendatory  mention.  This  is 
done  in  the  colors  of  bronze,  and  represents  work 
in  relief,  showing  the  two  sides  of  a  medal. 

Dr.  Decker, 

Dentist,   806   Market.     Specialty  "Colton  Gas" 
teeth  extracting. 


for  painless 


Allen's  Press   Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San   Francisco,    Cal. 


L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont- 
gomery street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters. 


MANUFACTURERS. 


(iRAV  BROS 


IUi»iril<      IIUIk  .      California 

Kh  sir.<  1    I  ■•«  Anirelea. 

Concrete  and  artificial 
stone  work. 


ARTISTIC     PORTRAITURE 

Art    BromldM   win   be 
•  r  dottn  for  a  Rh<>n   Unit 

15he  Imperial  Studio 

744    MARKET    STREET 

Established  25  Years  and    Alwava  r»  Leader 


BLAKE,  MOFFITT  &  TOWNE 

DEALERS    IX 

^^PAPE'R — «a> 

TEL.    MAIN    138.     66-OT-68-O   FIRST   ST..    SAN   FRANCISCO 
Blake,    M..IHt   &  Towne.   Los  Angeles.   Cal. 
Blake.    McFall   &   Co.,    Portland,    Oregon. 


nMPL„.  ' ••"'  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses. 
IllUMlcS  '"""dries,  paper-hangers,  printers,  painters. 
"  "  billiard   tables,   brewers,   book  binders,   candy- 

makers,   canners.    dyers,    flour-mills,    foundries, 
shoe  factories,  stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners,  tailors,  etc. 

Buchanan    Brothers. 

Brush  rifts.,  609  Sacramento  St,  S.  F.,  Tel.  flain  561 1 


Old  Rose  Bud  Whiskey 

Absolutely  the  purest  on  the  market. 
APPLEGATE      fit       SONS,      Distillers 

Louisville,  Ken.    Pacific  Coast  Agents 


RATBJEN  WINE  COMPANY. 


46  ELLIS  STREET.    S.    F. 
Telephone,  Main  5171. 


AMERIJAN 

CANNEL 


COAL 


Sold  by  all  Reliable  Dealers 


J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO. 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants. 
General  Agents. 

Oceanic  Steamship  Company 

Gilllngham   Cement. 

Market  Street,  cor.    Fremont  St 


SING     FAT     &     COMPANY 

Chinese  and  Japanese  Bazaar.    We  have  but  one  price. 
All  goods  marked  In  plain  English  figures.  . 

614  DUPONT   STREET,   S.   F.   Next  to  St.   Mary"s  Church. 


ST.  LAWRENCE  LIVERY  AND 
SALES  STABLES. 

423    Post    street,    between    Powell 'and 
Mason,   San  Francisco.     Tel.  No.  1323. 

E.    BRIDGE,    Proprietor. 


3° 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thieves) 


"What's  the  matter?"  asked  the 
rooster ;  "more  absentminded- 
ness?"  "Yes,"  replied  the  hen; 
I  can  never  find  things  where  I 
lay  them." 

Doctor— Well,  Pat,  did  you  take 
the  box  of  pills  I  sent  you?  Pat — 
I  did  that,  yer  honor,  but  I  don't 
feel  any  better;  I  expect  the  lid 
hasn't  come  off  yet. 

Ethel's  mother  told  the  grocer 
to  send  her  a  dressed  turkey,  and 
when  it  arrived  the  litte  miss  said: 
"Mamma,  the  turkey  isn't  dressed 
at  al;  it's  perfectly  nude." 

Johnny — They  must  have  an 
awful  big  baby  over  at  Meeker's 
house.  Pa — What  makes  you 
think  so?  Johnny — Why,  I  heard 
ma  say  to-day  that  every  one  in 
the  house  was  wrapped  up  in  him. 
She — Isn't  it  lovely?  Papa  con- 
sents. He — Does  he,  really?  She 
— Yes.  He  wanted  to  know  who 
you  were,  and  I  told  him  you  were 
tape  clerk  at  Shrimp  &  Co.'s,  and 
he  seemed  real  pleased.  He — I 
am  delighted.  She— Yes,  and  he 
said  we  could  be  married  just  as 
soon  as  you  were  taken  into  the 
firm. 

Schoolmaster  (to  Smith  Major, 
who  has  paid  a  visit  to  his  old 
school) — Yes,  you  big  men  are 
sometimes  successful,  but  it  is  of- 
ten a  case  of  froth  rising  to  the 
top.  Smith  Major  (seizing  the  op- 
portunity to  pay  off  old  scores) — 
But  the  dregs  always  remain  at 
the  bottom. 

The  minenium  won't  get  here  in 
our  time,  but  that  is  no  reason 
why  we  shouldn't  try  to  hurry  it 
along. 

"Why  did  you  let  him  get  away 
from  you?"  thundered     the     chief. 
'  He — er — took  a   mean  advantage 
f   me,"    replied    the    green    detec 


of 


tive.     "He  ran  across  the  grass  in 

the  park,  and "  "Well?"  "Well 

there  was  a  sign  there,  'Keep  Off 
the  Grass.'" 

She— Oh,  Dr.  Pillsbury,  I'm  so 
anxious  about  poor  Mrs.  Perkins. 
She  is  in  your  hands,  is  she  not. 
Dr.  Pillsbury— She  was,  but  I 
have  left  off  attending  her,  for  the 
present.  She— Oh,  that's  good! 
Shes  out  of  danger,  then! 

The  Suitor— They  say  that  Love 
is  blind.  The  Heiress— But  now- 
adays he  has  a  marvelous  sense 
of  touch. 

The  true  poet  has  a  lively  imagi- 
nation, and  so,  too,  has  the  mere 
verse  writer,  for  the  latter  is  apt 
to  imagine  that  he  is  a  poet. 


Again  we  hear  of  the  incorpora- 
tion of  a  railroad  company  for  the 
construction  of  a  line  from  Hud- 
son's Bay  to  Argentina.  There 
will  be  a  branch  line  to  Mars  via 
the  moon. 

"Josiah,"  said  Mrs.  Chugwater, 
"have  you  ever  seen  a  bureau  of 
information?"  "Yes."  "What  does 
it  look  like?"  "You've  seen  a  ta- 
ble of  contents,  haven't  you?"  re- 
plied Mr.  Chugwater,  somewhat 
irritably.  "Well,  it  looks  like  that, 
only  it's  larger." 

Young  Ardup  was  looking  over 
his  accounts.  "I  find,"  he  mut- 
tered, "I  spent  last  year  $165.45 
for  beer  and  cigars  and  $75  for 
clothing.  1  must  'try  to  get  along 
with  tewer  new  clothes  this  year! 
"You  don't  mean  to  tell  me  you 
rescued  a  young  lady  from  drown- 
ing and  didn't  stop  to  learn  her 
name."  "That's  what  I  did.  My 
wife  was  there  when  I  got  the  girl 
ashore." 

"Bridget,  did  you  hear  the  bell?" 
"Yessum."  "Wliy  don't  you  go  to 
the  door,  then?"  "Sure,  mum,  I'm 
not  expectin'  anny  one.  It  must 
be  somebody  to  see  you." 

"But  you  don't  think  he's  mer- 
cenary, papa?"  "Why,  yes,  I  do! 
I'm  afraid  he  regards  marriage  as 
a    get-rich-quick    scheme!" 

"This,"  smiled  the  fond  young 
wife  as  she  passed  a  plate  of  des- 
sert to  her  husband,  "is  cottage 
pudding.  I  made  it  myself."  The 
man  tasted  of  it.  "I'd  have  known 
it  was  cottage  pudding,"  he  as- 
serted. "You  would?"  she  asked 
delighted.  "Yes.  I  can  taste  the 
plaster  and  the  wall  paper.  What 
did  you  do  with  the  shingles  and 
the   bricks  for  the  chimney?" 

"Ah,"  she  sighed,  "the  great  men 
are  all  dead."  "But  the  beautiful 
women  are  not,"  he  answered. 
Then  she  looked  up  soulfully  into 
his  eyes  and  told  him  she  had  said 
it  just  to  be  contrary,  and  not  be- 
cause she  thought  it  for  a  mo- 
ment. 

Benedick— A  man  naturally  re- 
quires a  helpmate.  I  tell  you,  the 
young  man  in  business  who  is  not 
married  is  seriously  handicapped. 
Sharpe— Quite  so!  He  is  at  the 
mercy  of  his  creditors,  being  un- 
able to  put  his  property  in  his 
wife's  name. 

Towne — I  could  scarcely  refrain 
from  laughing  at  Dumley's  fiancee 
when  she  remarked  that  he  was  so 
versatile.  Browne— Well,  he  is 
rather  versatile.  Towne — What? 
He's  a  regular  idiot.  Browne — Yes, 
but  he's  so  many  different  kinds' 
of  idiot. 


January  23,  1904. 

You  pay  five 
times  too  much 
for  lamp-chim- 
neys. 

Buy  good  ones. 
Macbeth. 

If  you  use  a  wrong  chimney,  you  lose  a 
good  deal  of  both  light  ai:d  comfort,  and 
waste  a  dollar  or  two  a  3-ear  a  lamp  on 
chimneys. 

Do  you  want  the  Index  ?     Write  me. 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 


Husband — I  really  think  you 
you  might  have  had  that  ball  dress 
made  a  little  higher  in  the  neck — 
to  say  nothing  of  the  back.  Wife — 
I'll  have  it  changed  if  you  wish, 
but  this  stuff  costs  $10  a  yard. 

"Then  the  reverend  gent  wanted 
ter  know  if  we  wuz  a  law-abidin' 
community."  "And  what  did  you 
say  to  that?"  "I  said  of  course  we 
wuz  law-abidin'  and  we'd  lynched 
many  a  feller  that  wasn't." 

"What's  the  crowd  doing  down 
at  the  courthouse?"  inquired  the 
stranger.  "Oh,  they're  trying  the 
case  of  Mose  Johnson,"  replied  the 
Southerner.  "Why,  that  was  the 
man  they  lynched  yesterday,  was 
it  not?"  "Yaas,  but  to-day  some  of 
the  boys  got  teched  with  a  foolish 
curiosity  to  know  whether  he  was 
innocent   or  guilty,   suh." 

Gull — That  man  you  introduced 
me  to  was  telling  me  how  rich  his 
people  are.  Newitt — Who?  Hot- 
tayre?  Oh,  that's  his  way.  Gull — 
He  says  they'll  be  famous  in  the 
financial  world  if  they  don't  suf- 
fer a  change  of  fortune.  Newitt — 
Well,  there  won't  be  any  change 
in  their  fortune  unless  he  changes 
his  mind. 

"I  spent  a  week  in  New  York 
recently,  but  it  was  a  disappoint- 
ment to  me."  "Why  so?"  "Was 
not  in  a  subway  explosion  accident 
all  the  time  I  was  there."  "Shake! 
I  was  in  Chicago  for  three  days 
and  wasn't  held  up  once.  These 
big  towns  aren't  what  they  are 
advertised  to  be,  by  a  long  shot." 
Mr.  Occident — Was  there  any 
conclusive  reason  why  the  Vigi- 
lantes should  have  hanged  that 
poor  negro?  Quick-Drop  Dan — 
I  should  say  there  was!  There  was 
a  tree  just  outside  the  coon't  cot- 
tage and  one  of  the  committee  had 
brought  a  rope  with  him. 


January  23.  1904. 


ENNE1NS 


BO  RATED 
TALCUM  . 


Toilet 

fiPWDER 


»»<"10  M»»o«.  Cuiri.r. 
-I  d  dfcta.  J  *t  *fc.    -At* 


/»«."    IV 

Mv  Mtb|.    SoM  mryvrtov.  ar 


Knicker — Do  you  believe  in  a 
college  education"'  Bocker — Yes; 
it  teaches  a  boy's  father  how  to 
take  care  of  his  money. 

Lena — What  made  Fred  act  so 
funny  when  I  accepted  him. 
Emma — Oh,  he's  just  in  love  with 
you.  dear.  He'll  soon  get  over  that. 

"And  she  said  there  was  worse 
to  tell,  but  she  wouldn't  say  what 
it  was."  "Oh,  I  don't  believe  there 
could  be  anything  worse — if  she 
wouldn't  tell  it." 

Mabel — Did  Gladys  have  a  fash- 
ionable wedding?  Maude — Very. 
Why,  her  wedding  dress  was  near- 
ly torn  off  before  she  got  inside  the 
church. 

Mother — Now,  Bobby,  you  must 
not  get  into  any  fights  with  the 
neighbors'  children.  Bobby — But, 
mamma,  I've  got  to  get  acquainted 
with  them  some  way. 

Gyer — I  hear  there  is  to  be  an- 
other postal  investigation.  Myer — 
What's  the  matter  now?  Gyer — It 
is  reported  that  a  man  in  one 
branch  of  the  department  had  a 
chance  to  acquire  a  few  extra  dol- 
lars and  didn't. 

"And  when  you  have  got  the 
number  of  hours  in  a  working  day 
down  to  the  minimum,  what  then?" 
asked  the  manufacturer.  "Oh, 
then,  we'll  go  in  for  a  thirty-min- 
ute hour,"  remarked  the  walking 
delegate. 

"I  have  looked  over  the  whole 
field,"  said  the  young  author,  "and 
the  only  thing  that  pays  is  a  good 
novel."  "Wrong  again,"  said  the 
philosopher.  "What  pays  better?", 
said  the  author.  "A  bad  novel," 
said  the  philosopher. 

"When  an  enemy  smites  me," 
said  the  pious-looking  hypocrite, 
"I  always  turn  the  other  cheek." 
"Why?"  asked  the  man  who  knew 
him,  "do  you  want  your  enemy  to 
go  around  with  both  hands  dis- 
abled?" 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    I  l.TTER. 

Weary     Waggles     11. 

won't    git    nothm'   decent    in 
Don    i  I  Hil- 

ary   1  lank 

\\  aggies — Ych,  and  l<\  pot  ,1  il,,g 
w'at  ain't. 

How  many  ways  can  you  Serve 

meat?"  "Three,  mum."  "What  are 
they?"    "Well  done,  rare,  and  raw." 

"How  does  the  new  cook  strike 
\ou,  my  dear?"  asked  the  he 
the  house  as  he  sat  down  to  dinner. 
"She  hasn't  struck  me  yet,"  replied 
the  weary  other  half,  "but  1  be- 
lieve she  would  if  I  gave  her  any- 
back  talk." 

Elmer  (aged  five) — Mamma, 
my  stomach  says  it's  time  for  din- 
ner. Mamma — Well,  dear,  go  and 
see  what  the  clock  says.  Elmer  (a 
moment  later) — The  clock  says  my 
stomach    is   ten   minutes   fast. 

"Pa,"  said  the  boy,  looking  up 
from  his  book,  "what  does  a  man  s 
'better  half  mean?"  "Usually,  my 
son,"  replied  the  father  from  be- 
hind the  evening  paper,  "she 
means   exactly   what  she   says." 

Applicant — And  if  we  want  cer 
tain  changes  made  in  the  flat- 
Janitor — Well,  when  people  want 
'em  very  bad  they  generally  move. 

Nobody  had  any  idea  that  germs 
were  so  good  to  eat  until  it  was 
learned  that  more  than  sixty-mil- 
lion of  them  are  to  be  found  in  an 
adult  oyster. 

"Well,  Freddy,  how  do  you  like 
your  dinner?"  asked  the  hostess  of 
a  small  guest.  "Oh,"  replied  the 
little  fellow,  "we  don't  have  any 
better  at  home,  but  there  is  more 
of  it." 

"Madam,"  said  the  facetious 
boarder  to  the  landlady,  "are  these 
storage  eggs?"  "I  think  they  must 
be,"  replied  the  lady;  "you  appear 
to  have  stored  away  five  of  them." 

"Say,  pa,"  began     little    Willie 

again,      "why "       "Now,     see 

here,"  his  pa  interrupted.  "I  told 
you  I  wouldn't  answer  any  more 
questions.  Let  this  be  the  last, 
now.  What  is  it?"  "I  just  wanted 
to  know,  pa,  why  you  don't  want 
to  answer  my  questions.  Is  it 
because  you're  ignorant,  or  jest 
because  your  indigestion's"  coining 
on? 


31 


Critic^No,  Mr.  Smearly,  you 
will  never  succeed  as  an  artist. 
You  can't  draw.  Smearly— Can't 
draw?  What's  that  got  to  do  with 
it?  Ain't  I  in  society. 
.  .  "Did  you  say  there  were  acci- 
dentals in  that  music?"  asked  Mr. 
Cumrox.  "A  great  many,"  ans- 
wered his  daughter,  who  has  mu- 
sical ambitions.  "Well,  it's  a  great 
comfort  to  know  that  you  were  not 
doing  it  intentionally." 


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Stylish  $ 
Suits 


15 


50 


K  Samples  Sent 
i  Free.... 


Dressy  Suits  $20 

Pants  $4.50 
My  $25.00  Suits  are  the* 

best  in  America.  5 
i\  r  Per  Cent  Saved  by  get-g 
Z  0  ting  your  suit  made  by» 

JOE  POHEIM      g 

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cer-        g  r""""  201-203  Montn'v  St..  S.  F.3 

S0Z0D0NT 

TOOTH  POWDER 

For  S3  years  the  Dentifrice  of 
Quality.     Absolutely  Non-Acid 

No  Waste.  No  Grit        <,- 
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TWOMBV    &    MIHOLOVICH 

THE  YELLOWSTONE 

22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  U¥l 

"How  old  does  you  reckon  dat 
mule  is?"  "Lawd  knows.  We  quit 
celebratin'  his  birthday  w'en  Gin- 
rul  Lee  surrendered." 

Panama  has  an  army,  but  only 
half  of  it  is  standing.  The  other 
three  soldiers  are  permitted  to  sit 
down. 


HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Delicate  enough  for  the  softest 
skin,  and  yet  efficacious  in  removing 
any  stain.  Keeps  the  skin  in  perfect 
condition.  In  the  bath  gives  all  the 
desirable  after-effects  of  a  Turkish 
bath.  It  should  be  on  every  wash- 
stand. 

ALL  GROCERS  AND  DRUQQISTS 


32 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1904. 


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rop,  Modeato,  Merced,  Fresno. 
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Visalla.  Dakersfleld  4.55/ 

8-30a  NIleB,  San  .loBe,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton, (tMllton),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervllle,  Marysvllle,  Chlco, 
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6.30a  Oakdnle.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  8o- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Aiil"'K 4  25? 

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9.30a  Richmond,    Martinez     and      Way 

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Bakersfleld,   Los   Angeles 726p 

1200m  Hayward,  Nlleeand  Way  Stations.     3.25p 
tl.OOP  Sacramento  River  Steamers IH.OOp 

3-30p  Benlcla,  Winters.  Sacramento, 
Woodland,  Knights  Lauding, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
stations 10-55a 

3.30p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-6&P 

330''  Port  Costa,  Martin. -z.  Byron, 
Tracy,  Latbrop,  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 12-25p 

3-30p    Mnnfnez.  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl...    10.25a 

4.00p  Martlnez.SauUhimun.ValteJo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  Santa  ISuaa 9-25 a 

4.00p  NIleB,  Tracv.  Stockton.  Lodl 4-25p 

4.30p   Hayward,   Nlles,    lrvlnRtou.  San)     I8.55\ 
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6.00p  Port  CoBta.  Tracy.  Stockton 12.25P 

t630P  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7  25*. 

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8.00p   Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday... .  I      ,  eB_ 

7.00p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  ot,F 

7.00p   Ulchmond,  *an  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11.25a 

6.06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, Marysvllle,  Red  ding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  EaBt.     8.65a 

8.10p  Hayward,  NIleB  and  San  .1    Be  (Sun- 

day  only) .     11.66  a 


COAST  LINt   (Narrow  Gauge) 

Foot  of  Market  Htreet) 

8.16a  Newark,  Cenlervllle.  San  Jobo. 
Felton.    Boulner     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-55P 

12-16*'  Newark,  Cenlervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almadeo. Los  Gntob. Felton. 
Boulder  Creek,  Sama  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    110  55* 

4  16p  Newark,  San  Jose,  LosUatos  and  \     18-55  \ 

way  BtatloDB....  ...;.     .'. 1110  55  a 

09  30 v  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Statlona.  -  Rcturn- 
Ing  from  Los  Gatos  Snn-lny  only*   17  26p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

I- rum  SAN  t  RANClsuO,  Fool  oi  Murket  St.  (Slip <i 

—  tt:15     «:00     U:0Ua.».      100     3.00     5-15  km 

from  OAKLAND,   Foot  or  Broadway  --  t^Od    W:(W 

18:05    10:00  a.m.       12  00    2-00    4-00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE     (Kruuil  Usage). 

Z3/T  (Third  mul    Town -end    Streets.) 

GIOa    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations G30p 

7  00a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 5.36p 

800a  New  Almadcn  (Tues.,  Frltl.,  only),     4.10p 

8  00a  The  Coaster— Stops  only  Sap  Jose, 
Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis- 
ter), Pajaro,  Castro vllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  SallnaB.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Robles.  Santa  Mar- 
garita, San  I. nl:-  OblBpo.  principal 

.  stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc).  principal  stations 
thence.  Santa  Barbara, Sun  Buena- 
ventura. Saugus.  Los  Angeles...  10-45p 
8.00a  San  Jose.  Trea  PlnoB,  Capltola, 
SautaCruz.PaclQc  Grove,  Salinas, 
San  Luis  oblBpo  and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4.10p 

10.30a  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1-20p 

11-30a  Santa  Clara,    San  .lose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Wav  Stations  7.3 Op 

I  -30j-  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations R.jQa 

O.uOp  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  nt  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  Holllster,  Tres 
Plnos,  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.   12-15p 

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"Jane,  you  vex  me  dreadfully: 
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Thursday  previous  to  day  of  Issue. 

The  San  Francisco  Gas  Company  goes  right  along 
relieving  the  fears  of  those  who  worry  about  over- 
population. 

Men  who  wear  No.  6\2  hats  are  rejoicing  over  the 
announcement  that  "Citizen"  George  Francis  Train's 
brain  weighed  six  ounces  more  than  the  average. 

Administrationists  who  applaud  the  Panama  gob- 
ble return  thanks  to  the  Creator  who  made  Hay 
while  the  sun  shone. 


Leap  year  may  be  the  open  season  for  hunting 
bachelors,  but  the  huntresses  should  not  forget  that 
there  is  still  a  "bag  limit"  law. 

Senator  Hanna  ate  two  big  dinners  in  one  evening, 
and  then  sent  for  the  doctor,  who  politely  called  it  a 
case  of  grip,  instead  of  gluttony. 

Statistics  show  that  the  tendency  of  mankind  to 
fall  off  the  water-wagon  is  the  chief  cause  of  grass 
widowhood. 


Mirza  Ali  Asgar  Khan,  lately  Grand  Vizier  to  the 
Shah  of  Persia,  is  traveling  for  his  health  in  any 
country  where  his  royal  master  can't  catch  and  bow- 
string him. 

Now  that  the  bills  are  coming  in  for  Langley's 
lame  duck  of  an  airship — a  contraption  that  could 
neither  fly  nor  swim — the  statesmen  at  Washington 
have  decided  that  he  hypnotized  them. 

A  device  by  which  you  can  look  down  the  throat 
and  into  the  stomach  has  been  invented  by  a  Chicago 
man.  Let's  hope  that  it  will  help  to  check  the 
"breakfast  food"  habit. 

Lieutenant-Governor  Willard  of  Virginia  has  out- 
run a  rabbit  in  an  impromptu  footrace.  It  will  be 
a  rapid  office  that  gets  away  from  him  after  this  ex- 
ploit. 

While  we  rejoice  over  the  dying  out  of  the  feud  that 
kept  the  Crocker  spite  fence  standing,  let  us  also 
bear  in  mind  that  thereby  we  lose  one  of  our  too  few 
historical   landmarks. 

An  estimable  Kansan  named  Hoch  has  put  away 
the  crown  of  the  Republican  nomination  for  Governor 
with  such  firmness  that  the  papers  of  the  Sunflower 
State  with  one  accord  said  of  him  :  "Hoc  der  Caesar. 


Two  Kentuckians  have  upheld  the  honor  of  their 
country  by  thrashing  four  footpads  in  Paris  so  effec- 
tually that  only  two  of  the  Gauls  were  able  to  run 
away. 


An  out-of-town  scribe  abuses  shamefully  an  urban 
Colonel  because  of  his  ton-abundant  locks  and  whis- 
ker-. We  suspect  the  scribe  of  hairlessness  as  well 
as  malice. 


A  Chicago  woman  has  been  adjudged  insane  and 
there  is  incidental  mention  of  the  fact  that  for  years 
she  had  smoked  a  package  of  cigarettes  a  day.  Cause 
or  effect? 


Hearst's  New  York  papers  have  been  awarded  the 
city  printing.  In  San  Francisco  this  is  a  job  that 
only  the  poorest  sheet  of  the  lot  will  accept. 

President  Roosevelt  and  his  admirers  are  said  to 
be  anxious  to  get  rid  of  M.  Bunau-Varilla  as  Minister 
from  Panama.  By  all  means.  We  never  did  care 
for  these  black-and-tan  diplomats,  with  names  that 
sound  like  some  kind  of  flavoring  extract. 


Andrew  Carnegie  offered  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers  $1,500,000  for  a  new  building,  but 
when  the  Engineers  said  that  there  was  a  condition 
'with  every  dollar  they  sidestepped  adroitly.  Poor, 
rich  old  Carnegie! 

A  scientist  with  a  microscope  has  found  6,000,000 
bacteria  on  a  $1  bill.  A  Morganized  public  is  not 
interested  in  the  bacteria,  but  it  clamors  to  know 
where  he  got  the  bill,  not  believing  that  there  is  so 
much  money  in  general  circulation  since  the  bottom 
fell  out  of  the  Steel  Trust. 


The  bright  lads  of  a  Pennsylvania  district  school 
tied  their  woman  teacher  hand  and  foot  and  threw 
her  into  a  shed,  where  the  temperature  was  around 
zero  while  they  wrecked  their  temple  of  learning. 
Mercifully,  the  teacher  escaped  alive;  and,  unmerci- 
fully, so  did  the  boys. 

The  "Sage  of  East  Aurora,"  who  has  become  rich, 
if  not  respected,  and  notorious  if  not  famous,  by  an 
impudent  manner  of  criticising  the  morals  of  his  bet- 
ters, has  married  the  lady  who  was  named  as  co-re- 
spondent when  he  was  sued  for  divorce.  They  will 
honeymoon  in  Timbuctoo  to  avoid  souvenirs  from 
his  disciples  in  the  shape  of  eggs  and  brickbats. 

An  evening  paper  is  fussing  about  an  unnamed 
lady  who  is  accused  of  trying  to  break  into  society  * 
by  inviting  to  her  "functions"  people  who  do  not 
know  her.  Why  not?  It  is  thinkable  that  the  peo- 
ple who  do  know  her  might  not  come.  And,  again, 
society  can  always  adjourn  and  call  the  meeting  to 
order  somewhere  else — a  practice  not  unknown  in 
politics. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


GRASPING  FOR  CITY  PATRONAGE. 

That  tin  angel  which  tops  the  City  Hall  dome 
should  be  thankful  for  the  fact  that  hers  is  a  job  with- 
out a  salary.  Otherwise  she  would  have  been  pulled 
down  and  somebody  else  re-classified  and  re-tilled 
into  her  exalted  place.  The  marionette  who  executes 
the  will  of  the  Mayor  is  not  permitted  to  overlook 
anything  that  looks  like  patronage.  As  the  News  Let- 
ter foretold,  the  Supervisors  have  put  the  Schmitz 
combination  on  record  as  deliberate  charter-smashers. 
It  has  exposed  their  rapacity  and  their  chicanery, 
and  with  the  same  movement  has  done  its  best  to 
keep  them  out  of  reaching  distance  of  the  public 
treasury.  What  these  pilloried  pillagers  have  had 
to  say  in  their  own  defense  has  not  helped  them. 
It  is  no  excuse  for  the  Health  Board  foray  to  say 
that  this  Supervisor  who  opposes  it  has  a  mother- 
in-law  in  the  pay  of  the  city  or  that  this  other  one  has 
found  municipal  jobs  for  a  bunch  of  cousins  and 
friends.  And  if  the  ingenuity  of  Ruef  has  devised 
any  better  apology  than  that  for  what  his  creatures 
hav3  done  in  their  scramble  for  the  trough,  he  has 
not  divulged  it. 

The  crux  of  the  situation  is  the  order  of  the  Super- 
visors to  the  Auditor  and  Treasurer  holding  up  the 
pay  of  those  henchmen  of  Schmitz.  found  to  have 
been  unlawfully  appointed  by  the  Health  Board. 
Auditor  Baehr  has  already  shown  his  distrust  of  the 
Mayor's  shifty  Civil  Service  Board,  and  we  believe 
that  he  will  not  be  coerced  or  cajoled  into  aiding 
Schmitz  in  his  scheme  of  misrule.  The  order  of  the 
revenue-voting  body  should  and  probably  will  suffice 
for  him.  This  will  throw  the  burden  of  proof  upon 
the  charter-wreckers. 

While  the  city  awaits  the  untangling  of  the  puzzle 
it  need  fear  no  damage  through  lack  of  an  active  and 
efficient  Health  Board.  The  illegally  appointed 
crowd  will  go  through  the  motions  even  if  they  draw 
no  pay,  partly  for  the  prospect  of  a  decision  favorable 
to  them  and  partly  because  of  the  promises  of  the 
administration,  and  going  through  the  motions  is 
about  all  any  Health  Board  ever  does.  The  poor 
devils  of  men  and  women  whom  necessity  drives  into 
the  City  and  County  Hospital  cannot  fare  worse 
than  the  inmates  of  that  foul,  mismanaged  rookery 
have  fared  for  years.  The  unregenerate  prize-fighter 
to  whom  Schmitz  handed  the  office  of  "deputy  war- 
den and  custodian"  will  hardly  dare  to  make  punching 
bags  of  the  helpless  and  poverty-cursed  patients  who 
come  under  his  authority  while  his  chance  for  a  salary 
hangs  in  the  courts. 

Whatever  the  courts  may  do  in  the  premises,  the 
people  look  to  Auditor  Baehr  to  stand  fast.  If  he 
pays  any  attention  to  the  threats  and  persuasion  of 
the  charter-wreckers,  it  will  be  as  bad  for  him  as 
for  them  when  the  time  for  reckoning  comes. 

A   LESSON   FOR   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

According  to  the  Customs  House  returns,  tabu- 
lated by  the  Treasury  Department  in  Washington, 
the  exports  from  the  port  of  San  Francisco  in  1887 — 
a  fairly  average  year — were  valued  at  $32,711,507, 
and  in  1903  they  were  worth  $33,502,616.  From  the 
same  source  of  information  it  is  learned  that  the  ex- 
ports from  the  Puget  Sound  district,  including  Seat- 
tle, Tacoma,  and  some  minor  ports,  in  1887  were 
$1,770,429  and  in  1903  they  amounted  to  $32,499,828, 
or  nearly  as  much  as  the  export  business  of  this 
port  in  that  year. 

Making  comparison  of  the  import  trade,  a  some- 
what similar  condition  is  observed.  In  1887,  the  Pu- 
get Sound  import  trade  only  footed  up  $347,818,  while 
in  1903  it  had  mounted  to  $12,177,243.    In  San  Fran- 


cisco the  imports  in  1887  were  valued  at  $40,707,708, 
while  in  1903  they  were  reported  at  $36,454,283. 

These  figures  are  misleading  in  some  degree,  for 
the  reason  that  for  the  past  three  years  the  Customs 
House  has  not  included  in  its  returns  for  this  port  the 
Hawaiian  export  and  import  business,  which  is  done 
almost  exclusively  here.  It  is  estimated  that  $6,000,- 
000  in  round  figures  should  be  added  to  the  total  of 
San  Francisco  exports  in  allowance  for  the  Hawaiian 
export  business,  and  that  the  import  trade  from  the 
islands  amounts  to  about  $10,000,000  annually.  Thus, 
in  1900,  before  Hawaii  became  domestic  territory, 
the  exports  from  San  Francisco  were  $40,368,288  and 
the  imports  $47,869,628. 

Making  all  these  allowances,  we  submit  that  the 
figures  still  present  a  startling  showing,  and  one 
that  should  be  matter  of  grave  concern  to  the  mer- 
chants and  shipping  men  of  San  Francisco.  If  the 
■  treasury  returns  are  true,  the  port  of  San  Francisco 
has  made  a  comparatively  insignificant  growth  in 
export  and  import  trade  since  1887,  while  in  the  same 
period  Seattle  and  Tacoma  have  advanced  from  a 
negligible  quantity  to  a  position  where  they  nearly 
equal  our  business.  This  city  is  doing  a  splendid 
business.  Of  its  prosperity  there  is  no  question,  but 
our  good  fortune  has  come  to  us  almost  without  effort 
of  our  own.  It  should  be  far  greater  if  our  people 
would  put  more  work  and  energy  in  it.  San  Francisco 
is  the  spoiled  child  of  fortune,  and  has  ever  been. 
Long  ago  Bret  Harte  wrote  that  the  city  stands  by 
the  gateway  of  two  continents,  "serene,  indifferent 
to  fate,"  waiting  for  trade  to  come  her  way,  but  not 
putting  out  her  hand  to  grasp  it.  Seattle  is  different. 
That  city  is  nowise  indifferent  to  fate,  and  is' a  natu- 
ral born  reacher.  Therein  San  Francisco  may  learn 
her  lesson. 


THE  INFINITE  VARIETY  OF  GRAFT. 

The  infinite  variety  of  official  graft  was  illustrated 
by  a  recent  debate  in  Congress  on  an  amendment  to 
the  legislative,  executive  and  judicial  appropriations' 
bill  offered  by  Representative  Charles  B.  Landis,  with 
a  view  to  preventing  the  abuse  that  has  grown  up 
in  the  departments  of  providing  for  the  use  of  sub- 
ordinate officials'  horses,  carriages  and  liveried  coach- 
men, which  are  employed  not  on  Government  busi- 
ness, but  for  social  purposes.  In  offering  his  amend- 
ment, Mr.  Landis  said  that  if  "the  horses  and  car- 
riages," with  their  coachmen,  paid  for  out  of  mc.iey 
appropriated  by  Congress,  were  lined  up  on  Penn- 
sylvania avenue  (Washington)  they  would  extend 
possibly  from  the  White  House  to  the  Peace  Monu- 
ment." 

Of  course,  no  specific  appropriation  for  any  such 
purpose  has  ever  been  made  by  Congress,  but  Mr. 
Landis  explained  how  the  thing  was  done  in  these 
words : 

"The  expense  that  is  now  borne  by  the  Govern- 
ment in  this  regard  has  attracted  the  attention  of  the 
country,  and  unless  Congress  puts  some  limitation 
upon  the  expenditure,  it  promises  to  became  a  na- 
tional scandal.  I  am  informed  that  in  the  estimate 
made  by  the  head  of  one  of  the  Departments  for  the 
coming  year,  the  estimate  being  made  by  a  gentle- 
man who  had  not  in  that  capacity  made  an  estimate 
before,  there  was  a  provision   for  seven   coachmen. 

"Had  he  been  onto  the  ropes  he  would  have  had 
the  estimate  specify  'seven  laborers,'  and  after  he 
got  them  would  have  assigned  them  to  do  duty  as 
coachmen.  This  is  the  way  it  has  been  done  by  the 
heads  of  other  departments  for  years — 'laborers' 
have  been  metamorphosed  into  'coachmen,'  have 
been   equipped   with   silk   hats   and   with   boots   and 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


placed  upon  the  box,  where  they  have  done  service 
in   approved   fashion   for   persons  other   than    I 
mentioned  in  my  amendment;  and  unless  th« 

:11c  action  in  this  matter  it  is  only  a 
tion  of  time  when  all  the  assistant  - 
all  the  chief  clerks,  all  the  clerks — 111  [act,  .ill  people 
on  the  Government  pay  roll,  except  Senators  and 
Representatives,  will  he  riding  in  carriages  guided 
and  directed  by  coachmen,  and  all  the  expenses  paid 
by  the  <  iovernment." 

Seven  coachmen  tor  one  department  is  a  pretty 
fair  allowance.  In  these  stylish  equipages,  paid  for 
by  Uncle  Sam.  it  was  stated  on  the  floor  of  Cong 
that  the  wives  of  subordinate  officials  might  be  seen 
any  day  in  Washington  making  their  round  of  social 
calls. 


NEGLECT   OF   PACIFIC   COAST   INTERESTS. 

We  have  had  occasion  more  than  once  in  these 
columns  to  dwell  on  the  need  of  united  action  among 
the  Pacific  Coast  delegations  in  Congress  touching 
questions  that  affect  the  industrial  life  of  the  great 
region  west  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  The  resump- 
tion of  the  duty  on  coal  offers  an  instance  in  point. 
The  coal  output  of  the  Pacific  Coast  States  is  compar- 
atively insignificant,  and  what  we  use  we  are  com- 
pelled to  carry  long  distances.  As  if  the  cost  of 
transportation  of  this  fuel  were  not  a  sufficient  bur- 
den on  our  industries,  we  are  now  compelled  in  ad- 
dition to  pay  a  duty  of  67  cents  a  ton  on  every  pound 
we  use.  We  say  advisedly  on  every  pound,  because 
that  part  of  our  fuel  which  is  mined  in  the  United 
States  pays  the  duty  just  the  same  as  that  which 
comes  from  British  Columbia  or  Australia,  for  in- 
stance. The  only  difference  is  that  the  67  cents  goes 
into  the  pockets  of  the  mine  owner  instead  of  the 
national  treasury.  The  duty  is  added  to  the  price 
of  the  home  product,  because,  being  sold  in  competi- 
tion with  the  foreign  coal,  any  cause  which  increases 
the  cost  of  one  has  a  similar  effect  on  the  other. 

This  is  a  matter  of  very  considerable  importance 
to'  the  industries  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  yet  there 
was  not  a  word  of  protest  in  Congress  from  any  of 
our  Representatives.  What  they  need  is  a  steering 
committee  to  watch  the  interests  of  this  region  as 
they  are  affected  by  legislation,  and  call  for  united 
action  when  occasion  demands.  As  things  are  man- 
aged, Pacific  Coast  interests  are  permitted  to  go  by 
default  for  want  of  concerted  action.  Under  the 
present  system  or  lack  of  system,  the  Pacific  Coast 
delegation  in  Congress  is  nothing  better  than  a  for- 
tuitous concourse  of  jarring  atoms. 

NATIONAL  PEACE  (?)  ASSOCIATION. 
There  seems  to  be  something  queer  about  the  latest 
element  to  inject  itself  into  the  local  industrial  situa- 
tion. It  was  incorporated  on  January  6th,  and  chris- 
tened the  "National  Peace  Industrial  Association. 
Some  excellent  and  prominent  citizens  stand  as  spon- 
sors for  it,  but  there  is  a  suspicion  of  the  syndicate 
about  its  begetting.  Nominally  the  responsible  par- 
ent is  P.  H.  Scullin,  who  came  here  unbidden  from 
Seattle  three  months  ago.  He  has  described  himself 
•  as  being  vice-president  of  the  Carpenters'  Union  in 
the  town  he  hails  from,  is  the  author  of  a  labor  ar- 
bitration bill  which  failed  of  passage  in  the  last  ses- 
sion of  the  Washington  Legislature,  and  is  the  self- 
appointed  eliminator  of  boycotts  and  sympathetic 
strikes  from  the  arsenal  of  organized  labor. 

The  aims  of  the  Scullin  scheme  are  beyond  cavil. 
No  sensible  man  will  object  to  any  bona  fide  endeavor 
to   bring   about   peace   between   employer    and   em- 


I.     Hut  it  is  the  good  faith  of  th  ttion 

do  not  like  the  manner 
ent ;  we  do  not  like  the  readiness  with 
which   Mayor  Schmitl  has  endorsed  his  "Peace    Vs 
not    like   the   choice   for   its   1 

dencj  il.    Foulks,   Attorney-at-Law 

the  •  ription  Of  the  gentleman   who  heads 

Scullin  scheme.    Now,  this  Mr.  Foulks  is  more  of 

a  teacher  in  a  public  school  than  he  is  a  lawyer,  lie 
nerally  known  to  be  one  of  the  smaller  of  those 
bandy  men  who  do  the  odd  jobs  of  the  Sehmitz  re- 
gime. We  suspect  strongly  that  this  "Peace  Asso- 
ciation" is  a  clever  device  of  the  false  prophets  of 
unionism;  that  their  real  object  is  to  use  it  for  the 
splitting  of  the  Citizens'  Alliance  to  which  the  indus- 
try of  the  country  has  turned  for  relief  from  its  d.rc 
affliction.  Organizer  Scullin,  with  his  union  labor 
credentials,  and  his  invisible  means  of  support,  looks 
to  us  like  a  gift-bearing  <  ircek.  When  we  see  in  the 
chair  of  his  praiseworthy  "Peace  Association"  a 
factotum  of  that  Mayor  who  has  so  bitterly  de- 
nounced the  Citizens'  Alliance  for  daring  to  organize 
against  organized  labor,  we  are  reasonably  certain 
that  the  gift  he  is  preparing  to  hand  us  is  a  hot  one. 

DANGERS   OF   THE   EIGHT   HOUR   LAW. 

The  address  issued  by  D.  M.  Parry,  president  of 
the  Citizens'  Industrial  Association  of  America  on 
the  eight-hour  law  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  the  labor  question,  thoughtful,  temper- 
ate and  judicious.  Mr.  Parry  sees  in  the  agitation  for 
a  law  pledging  the  Government  to  an  eight-hour  day 
on  all  work  done  for  the  national  administration  not 
only  an  attack  on  the  liberty  of  the  citizen  but  like- 
wise a  menace  to  the  industrial  supremacy  of 
America. 

The  most  telling  argument  against  the  legisla- 
tion demanded  by  the  labor  unions  in  this  regard  is 
stated  by  Mr.  Parry  in  the  following  paragraph : 

"I  wish  also  to  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  to  the 
degree  eight-hour  legislation  is  effective  to  that  de- 
gree is  the  ability  of  our  industries  to  compete  abroad 
diminished.  This  means  less  production  in  this 
country  and  therefore  the  employment  of  less  labor. 
Again,  the  artificial  tampering  with  hours  of  employ- 
ment in  private  enterprise  inevitably  means  higher 
prices  for  commodities  for  general  consumption.  The 
cost  of  production  cannot  be  increased  without  a 
corresponding  advance  in  prices." 

In  a  word,  the  unions  demand  that  American  labor 
shall  be  shorn  of  20  per  cent  of  its  productiveness, 
and  at  the  same  time  they  desire  to  add  20  per  cent 
to  the  cost  of  production.  That  is  the  spendthrift 
fashion  of  burning  the  candle  at  both  ends,  and  it 
must  prove  disastrous  to  American  opportunities  for 
foreign  trade.  This  country  has  got  beyond  the 
point  where  the  home  market  was  all  sufficient  to 
absorb  the  national  output  of  manufactures.  We  are 
already  selling  goods  all  over  the  world,  but  the 
prime  condition  of  that  business  is  that  we  can  pro- 
duce as  cheaply  or  more  cheaply  than  our  competi- 
tors. How  long  will  that  condition  continue  if  we 
increase  the  cost  of  production  by  20  per  cent?  There 
never  was  a  business  in  the  world  that  could  stand 
such  waste. 

If  it  be  urged  that  the  bill  only  affects  work  done 
for  the  Government,  the  answer  is  that  the  undis- 
guised endeavor  of  organized  labor  is  to  extend  the 
restriction  to  all  classes  of  work. 


Hearst  will  never  have  any  difficulty  in  determin- 
ing who  was  his  original  and  most  enthusiastic  sup- 
porter for  the  Presidency. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


SPARE  NEITHER  MAN  NOR  WOMAN. 

Molly  Maguire  rules  in  Colorado.  Not  since  the 
days  when  that  name  of  terror  carried  its  mysterious 
menace  of  violence,  outrage  and  assassination  to  the 
people  of  Pennsylvania  has  a  like  condition  pre- 
vailed  in   any  American   commonwealth. 

We  had  occasion  recently  in  these  columns  to 
enumerate  a  few  of  the  crimes  of  violence  and  as- 
sassination committed  by  agents  of  the  Western  Fed- 
eration of  Miners  in  Colorado.  In  these  outrages  the 
victims  were  men.  In  the  latest  instance  the  agents 
of  the  Miners'  Union  have  attempted  to  assassinate 
a  woman. 

Mrs.  Leonel  Ross  Anthony  is  the  publisher  of  a 
weekly  paper  in  Denver.  She  is  outspoken  and  fear- 
less, and  is  quite  as  ready  to  tell  the  truth  about 
capital  as  about  labor  when  she  believes  that  either 
is  doing  wrong.  But  it  seems  that  in  Denver  no  man 
and  no  woman  is  free  to  write  or  print  the  truth  about 
the  crimes  of  organized  labor.  The  penalty  is  death, 
to  be  carried  out  by  the  hand  of  the  assassin. 

Mrs.  Anthony  had  received  numerous  threatening 
letters — anonymous,  of  course,  as  is  the  cowardly 
habit  of  the  slinking  assassin — and  in  these  she  was 
warned  that  if  she  continued  to  expose  and  condemn 
the  crimes  of  the  Colorado  strikers,  her  life  would 
pay  the  penalty.  To  these  warnings  Mrs.  Anthony 
paid  no  attention,  and  continued  to  tell  the  truth  in 
her  fearless  way. 

Mark  the  sequel.  On  Sunday  night,  January  10th, 
Mrs.  Anthony  answered  the  doorbell  of  her  house  in 
Denver.  It  was  quite  dark,  and  when  she  opened 
the  door,  the  unknown  agent  of  the  union,  who  came 
there  with  murder  in  his  heart,  fired  two  shots  at  her 
from  a  forty-five  calibre  revolver.  Fortunately  the 
shots  missed  their  mark,  and  less  fortunately  the 
murderous  agent  of  the  strikers  escaped  in  the  dark. 

That  was  in  Denver,  the  principal  city  of  Colorado. 
The  police  report  on  the  crime  says :  "From  all  the 
evidence  we  can  gather  from  the  surroundings,  we 
are  of  the  opinion  that  the  man  who  did  the  shooting 
was  some  one  not  known  to  Mrs.  Anthony,  and  that 
it  was  done  for  revenge  with  intent  to  murder." 

In  the  issue  of  her  paper,  the  "Polly  Pry,"  follow- 
ing this  attempted  assassination,  Mrs.  Anthony  ex- 
plains the  causes  that  led  up  to  the  crime,  and  she 
says: 

"I  do  not  know  who  shot  at  me.  Aside 
from  the  antagonism  these  articles  may  have 
caused,  I  have  no  personal  enemies  that  I 
know  of.  I  have  never  tried  to  injure  any 
man,  woman  or  child? 

What  is  my  crime? 

I  have  dared  to  tell  the  truth  about  some 
of  the  labor  leaders  who  are  trying  to  keep 
Colorado  in  a  ferment. 

That  is  all. 

I  believe  that  the  plain  American  work- 
ing man  wants  to  know  and  ought  to  know 
the  truth  about  the  leaders  who  own  him 
body  and  soul.  The  truth  is  not  always 
pleasant  either  to  him  who  hears  or  him 
who  tells,  but  I  am  going  to  tell  it,  Mr. 
Workingman,  and  if  you  are  the  honest,  sen- 
sible, self-respecting  man  I  take  you  to  be 
you'll  thank  me  for  it. 

There  is  not  one  daily  paper  in  Colorado 
that  dares  to  tell  the  truth  about  the  labor 
situation  in  this  State." 
The  News  Letter  may  add  that  there  is  not  one 
"daily  paper"  in  San  Francisco  that  dares  to  tell  the 
truth  about  the  labor  situation  in  California. 


UNSANITARY  RESIDENCES. 

How  little  the  public  gets  for  the  $60,000  a  year  it 
spends  on  sanitation  may  be  learned  from  the  testi- 
mony of  any  one  who  has  done  his  own  "house  hunt- 
ing." Sinks  that  sicken  with  their  stench,  bath-tubs 
too  filthy  to  wash  a  dog  in,  conveniences  too  profane 
in  odor  and  appearance  to  be  described,  are  to  be 
found  in  outwardly  decent  houses  in  decent  neigh- 
borhoods where  the  "To  Let"  sign  invites  inspection. 
Basements  dank  and  mouldy,  with  rotting  boards 
and  the  refuse  of  unclean  years,  and  back  yards  that 
seem  never  to  have  been  dry  or  clean,  are  even  more 
common  than  defective  plumbing. 

Much  of  the  responsibility  for  this  state  of  affairs 
belongs  to  careless  agents  rather  than  penurious 
owners,  since  there  are  many  non-resident  holders 
of  rented  property  and  many  who  live  here  but  do 
not  take  the  pains  to  inspect  what  they  own  unless 
it  remain  too  long  unoccupied.  The  one  class  must 
depend  and  the  other  chooses  to  rely  on  others,  gen- 
erally real  estate  firms,  to  take  care  of  the  houses, 
looking  to  them  to  keep  the  income  up  and  the  ex- 
penses down.  Not  unnaturally,  the  renting  agent  is 
content  to  "let  things  slide,"  as  long  as  he  can  keep 
premises  rented  a  reasonable  part  of  the  time,  and 
as  long  as  the  Board  of  Health  does  not  bother  him. 
And  Boards  of  Health  are  generally  too  busy  with 
doing  politics  and  drawing  salaries  to  nose  around 
in  houses  about  which  there  has  been  no  complaint. 

An  easy  remedy  for  what  is  an  evil  growing  worse 
as  houses  grow  older  occurs  to  the  News  Letter:  Let 
the  Supervisors  by  ordinance  make  it  obligatory  upon 
the  Health  Board  to  inspect  every  vacated  house  or 
other  building  as  soon  as  it  is  empty,  and  prohibit 
its  further  occupancy  until  it  shall  have  been  put  into 
such  sanitary  condition  as  will  satisfy  the  Board's 
inspectors.  Prospective  tenants  will  not  hesitate  to 
take  advantage  of  such  a  regulation,  either  by  in- 
sisting upon  compliance  with  it  before  they  move  in 
or  by  reporting  dereliction  on  the  part  of  the  Health 
Board. 

This  suggestion  we  offer  not  by  any  means  as  a 
full  or  satisfactory  solution  of  the  civic  problem  in- 
volved, but  as  a  half-way  measure  that  will  help  to 
make  this  a  better  city  to  live  in  while  it  is  thrash- 
ing out  its  domestic  difficulties.  It  seems  to  be  fea- 
sible, and  we  think  would  be  acceptable  to  all  people 
who  rent  houses  and  most  of  those  who  own  them. 

If  you  want  to  eat  the  best,  drink  the  best,  and  be 

among  the  best  people,  go  to  Techau  Tavern,  which  is  sec- 
ond to  no  restaurant  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  the  favorite 
after-the-theatre  resort,  and  deserves  its  fine  reputation. 


KCHAS.  KLILUS  &  COM 

®*£XCL  US/VTM 

HIGH  GRAPE  CLOTHIERS 

We  put  that  Seventy-five  and  Eighty  dollar  Effect  in  our  "IM- 
MEDIATE SERVICE  CLOTHES,"  at  moderate  prices.  Cor- 
red  smart  dressers  Know  that  our  garments  are  properly  balanced  , 
correctly  styled,  with  progressive  ideas.  Being  "MEN'S 
CLOTHIERS  ONLY"  we  fit  accurately. 


7^ ~ itr/oit^&Jocfcj 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


AS   TO   OFFICIAL   INSPECTORS. 

The  Iroquois  Theatre  fire  at  Chicago  Ins  called 
the  attention  of  municipalities  all  over  the  country 
to  the  various  detects  in  citv  Government.  The  lack 
of  protection  to  the  public  is  apparent  in  manv  direc- 
tions, and  in  San  Francisco,  as  in  other  cities,  atten- 
tion has  been  called  to  the  lack  of  proper  safeguards 
to  protect  the  thousands  who  daily  use  the  public 
elevators.  It  is  true  there  is  a  company  engaged  in 
insuring  owners  of  buildings  against  loss,  through 
damage  suits  induced  by  accidents.  And  in  these 
particular  buildings  there  is  a  rigid  inspection  of  the 
service.  This  is  a  voluntary  act  on  the  part  of  the 
landlord  and  is  a  measure  of  self-protection. 

There  should  be  a  municipal  inspector  of  elevators 
whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  inspect  all  of  these  public 
conveyances.  This  appointment  should  be  at  the  dis- 
posal of  insurance  companies  and  elevator  contrac- 
tors. A  mere  politician  would  do  more  harm  than 
good,  but  an  honest  and  energetic  person  who  is  thor- 
oughly acquainted  with  insurance  and  buildings 
would  be  invaluable. 

A  step  in  this  direction  is  sure  to  be  taken  after 
a  terrible  accident  has  occurred,  and  many  have  been 
maimed,  crippled  or  killed.  The  city  of  San  Fran- 
cisco is  guilty  of  gross  carelessness  in  many  direc- 
tions in  the  care  given  the  public.  Hundreds  of  our 
elevators  have  not  been  inspected  since  first  in- 
stalled; many  depend  on  the  strength  of  one  flimsy 
Manila  rope,  while  others  are  utterly  unacquainted 
with  any  attempt  at  a  safety  clutch.  It  is  high  time 
that  those  whom  the  public  have  entrusted  with 
their  welfare  took  so  important  a  matter  in  hand. 

There  is  a  law  on  the  statute  books  of  this  city 
making  it  mandatory  on  boarding  house  and  hotel 
keepers  not  to  turn  off  the  gas  at  the  meter  during 
the  night.  The  force  of  gas  should  remain  on  all  the 
time,  and  the  only  protection  afforded  the  consumer 
is  to  see  that  his  gas  fixtures  do  not  leak  and  that 
the  gas  is  used  in  moderation.  This  law  was  revived 
not  long  ago,  just  long  enough  to  obtain  "back- 
sheesh" from  a  few  of  the  owners  of  second  or  third 
rate  lodging  houses  in  the  poorer  part  of  the  city. 
Many  of  the  fashionable  apartment  and  boarding 
houses  "north  of  the  slot"  are  managed  and  owned 
by  men  and  women  of  such  avaricious  nature  that 
they  hold  life  cheap  and  gas  high,  and  to-day  the  law 
is  a  dead  letter.  This  practice  has  been  the  cause 
of  many  deaths,  and  the  law  should  be  impartially 
and  strictly  enforced.  Who  is  it  that  is  so  lax  in 
his  duty  toward  the  public  that  one  fashionable 
house  after  another  flagrantly  breaks  the  law  and 
boasts  of  it?  Surely  some  officer  of  this  city  is  re- 
sponsible for  these  deaths.  Surely  some  one  is  cul- 
pably conniving  with  these  proprietors  of  fashion- 
able boarding  houses  to  circumvent  the  plain  intent 
of  the  law.  Let  each  one  pass  it  up;  let  us  finally 
get  to  the  Mayor,  and  ask  him,  in  these  measures 
devised  for  the  public's  safety,  to  see  that  the  Czar- 
like power  given  him  by  the  charter  is  enforced. 

Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  |4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  -jtn  and  Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 


Few   come,  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  \isit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     It's  tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


Defense     of    Raiser    WilHelm 


The  editor  of  the  News  Letter  regrets  that  the 
following  letter  was  not  accompanied  by  the  name 
of  the  writer.  Anonymous  communications  are  not 
as  a  rule  accepted.  The  subject  matter,  however, 
renders  a  departure,  in  this  case,  possible.  However, 
the  editor  is  not  responsible  for  the  statements  of 
the  contributor. 


Editor  News  Letter:  The  appearance  in  your  paper 
last  Saturday  of  a  certain  article  entitled  "William 
the  Witless,"  by  a  certain  somebody  hiding  his  little- 
identity  under  the  pseudonym  of  Bec-de-Fer,  speaks 
for  the  free,  wide-open  policy  of  the  News  Letter. 
Therefore,  we  trust,  there  can  be  no  objection  to  the  • 
admission  of  an  answer  to  the  poor  scurrilities  of  the 
aforesaid  Bec-de-Fer. 

Taking  for  his  stock  of  "spit-balls"  the  sensational 
slanders  of  an  angered,  disgruntled  "Countess."  pub- 
lished by  a  renegade  German  in  New  York,  and  the 
slight  unpleasantness  between  Dewey  and  Dietrichs 
at  Manila,  this  paretic  peasant  expectorates  stream 
after  stream  of  venomous  abuse  upon  the  German 
Kaiser,  whom  he  evidently  considers  as  a  personal 
enemy.  It  has  been  long  since  we  have  read  so  dis- 
gusting a  display  of  the  inflated  ignorance,  the  nar- 
row conceit  and  brutal  blackguardism  of  the  great 
American  jingo.  As  a  true  American,  in  the  name 
of  true  patriotism,  we  protest.  We  call  for  the  mer- 
ciless suppression  of  Becs-de-Fer  and  those  of  his 
kidney,  clamorous  creatures  who  have  too  long 
made  us  ridiculous  in  the  eyes  of  enlightened  nations. 
How  long  this  herd  of  the  Know  Nothings  still  sur- 
vives on  the  kindly  soil  of  our  country! 

Germany  and  Kaiser-baiting  have  been  a  particular 
sport  of  late  with  certain  English  and  American 
papers.  The  reasons  for  this  we  need  not  discuss — 
they  are  obvious  enough  to  all  who  can  see  beyond 
a  newspaper — trade  jealousies,  misunderstandings, 
lying  telegrams  forged  in  London  or  Paris,  and  so 
on;  but,  as  one  interested  in  the  good-feeling  that 
should  exist  between  these  three  great  nations,  we 
sincerely  deplore  it.  It  is,  however,  not  the  fault  of 
the  Germans — a  kindly,  peaceful  people.  If  we  have 
lost  their  respect  and  esteem  it  is  due  to  our  yellow 
press  yelpers  and  the  frenzied  fanatics  they  inocu- 
late with  their  virus — the  Becs-de-Fer.  We  know 
about  this  thing.     We  have  studied  both  sides. 

We  know  about  that  Manila  madness  and  the  rab- 
ies it  engendered  in  the  minds  of  the  mob.  Now  and 
then  it  breaks  forth,  as  in  this  case.  The  truth  of  the 
matter,  seen  from  three  sides,  American,  German  and 
Spanish,  and  not  through  the  hot  haze  of  the  high- 
strung  hysteria  of  the  time,  was  as  follows: 

Dietrichs  did  not  "insult"  the  Americans,  nor  af- 
terwards concede  to  them  any  "omitted"  form  or  cere- 
mony. The  Germans  stood  firmly  upon  their  rights 
— they  were  there  to  protect  the  interests  of  their 
countrymen  from  perils  incident  to  war.  After 
Dewey's  cheaply-won  victory  over  the  ancient  tubs 
of  Spain,  the  victor  Americans,  jubilant,  drunk  with 
gore  and  overbearing,  as  is  usual  with  victors,  made 
themselves  very  disagreeable  to  the  foreign  vessels 
in  the  bay,  particularly  to  the  German.  This  was  to 
have  been  expected  from  the  usual  American  boast 
of  being  able  to  "lick  anything  afloat";  the  everlast- 
ing "chip  upon  the  shoulder,"  etc.  But  here  Greek 
met  Greek;  Dietrich  was  not  to  be  bullied;  he  acted 


within  the  law.  Uprises  on  his  haunches,  daft  and 
delirious,  every  howling  newspaper  hyena  in  the  land, 
foaming  for  war  with  Germany — and  the  small  rats 
and  vermin  of  the  press  cease  not  with  the  cry.  Is 
it  a  wonder  that  the  Germans  have  lost  their  liking 
for  us,  that  they  are  "a  nation  that  does  not  love 
us?"  There  is  just  reason  for  that;  we  have  met 
their  kindly  courtesies  and  international  tenders  of 
friendship  with  the  most  ill-bred  ruffianism  and  the 
outrageous  sneers  of  our  delectable  journals.  We 
tolerate  our  unutterable  Becs-de-Fer  when  they 
mount  upon  their  hind  legs,  and,  waving  great  lengths 
of  ear,  give  vent  to  their  brays  and  battle-yawps! 
Let  us  be  fair,  let  us  divest  ourselves  of  provincial- 
ism ;  let  us  be  just ;  let  us  be  Americans.  We  can- 
not afford  to  despise  the  good  opinion  of  Germany, 
that  land  that  has  given  us  so  great  and  so  good  a 
part  of  our  own  blood. 

Our  foaming  friend's  idea  of  Dewey's  administer- 
ing a  thrashing  to  the  Germans  at  Manila  arouses  a 
pitying  smile.  There  we  have  the  jingo  in  all  his 
hideousness,  his  base  and  brainless  belief  that  other 
nations  would  calmly  allow  themselves  to  be  whipped 
for  the  increase  of  his  glory.  Does  this  festive  tooth- 
Tartar  think  that  in  the  unfortunate  event  of  a  bat- 
tle between  the  American  and  German  ships  that 
Dewey  would  have  got  off  so  easily,  if  at  all,  as  with 
the  degenerate  sons  of  Spain  in  their  helpless  hulks? 
Does  he  think  that  the  Germans  shot  their  guns 
with  apple-dumplings  or  cabbages — or  heads  of  Becs- 
de-Fer?  Does  he  think  that,  like  the  poor  Spaniards, 
they  cannot  shoot  straight?  Does  he  know  that  the 
German  navy  is  as  good  and  as  large  as  ours,  and 
that,  despite  jingo  belief,  its  men  are  better?  Does 
he  know  that  our  ships  are  manned  by  the  depraved 
and  vice-eaten  riff-raff  of  all  nations,  who  desert  by 
scores  at  every  opportunity?  Does  he  know,  on  the 
contrary,  that  the  German  vessels  are  manned  by 
clean,  sturdy,  healthy  and  patriotic  sons  of  the 
Fatherland,  trained  and  inured  to  the  sea  from  early 
boyhood,  with  true  German  thoroughness?  But 
why  speak  of  thinking  and  knowing  with  this  fine 
specimen  of  the  genus  jingo? 

It  is  tough  truth,  but  in  every  port  of  the  world 
the  American  sailor  has  the  bad  name  of  a  bluster- 
ing rowdy  and  ruffian.  As  for  Teuton  fighting  quali- 
ties, the  last  great  modern  war,  we  believe,  is  not 
forgotten,  when  German  arms  triumphed  so  com- 
pletely over  the  greatest  military  nation  of  that  time 
— France.  We  rejoice  that  both  Dewey  and  Die- 
trichs controlled  their  tempers;  yet,  had  they  not,  an 
impartial  critic  could  not  but  have  held  the  outcome 
doubtful. 

As  for  the  launching  of  his  hinder  hoofs  at  the 
Kaiser,  that,  too,  would  cause  a  contemptuous  smile, 
were  it  not  so  sad  a  sign  of  the  dense  prejudice  and 
infantile  ignorance  concerning  the  personality  of  that 
much-misunderstood  monarch.  A  monarch  who. 
says  Ray  Stannard  Baker  fa  real  American)  in  his 
"Seen  in  Germany,"  "is  not  only  a  great  king  but  a 
great  man."  We  might  cite  Poultney  Bigelow,  or 
other  Americans  who  have  left  their  native  ant-hills 
and  come  in  contact  with  this  wonderful  and  versatile 
ruler,  or  whose  education  extends  to  a  knowledge  of 
the  German  tongue. 

The  reference  to  scandals  in  the  Emperor's  house- 
hold, to  his  designs  on  Cuba,  etc.,  read  like  the  maun- 


January  30,  1903. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


dermis  of  a  feeble-minded  Maun,    The  inti  | 
purity  of  the  K  tic  life  caun.it  ). 

with  truth;  it   i>  t'>o  well-known;   it   1-  the 
wholesome  life  of  the   true   German   family.     Wil 
helm  the  Second  is  indubitably  a  genius  among  kings 
— he  is  truly  the  father  of  his  people,  and  hia 
sympathies,  his  culture,  his  I  keen  intellect. 

ispirations,  hut  above  all  the  tremendous  per 
SOnal  example  of  the  man.  have  done  more  to  make 
modern  Germany  the  great  nation  it  lias  become, 
than  the  influence  of  any  other  man  save  that  of  the 
Titan — Bismarck!  It  is  not  too  late  to  recall  tin- 
snapping,  snarling  things  that  were  wont  to  dart  and 
dash  about  the  feet  of  that  great  man.  as  now  the) 
spit  and  snap  around  the  heels  of  Wilhelm. 

We  hold  it  the  duty  of  every  one  who  knows  bet 
ter,  of  every  American  worthy  the  name,  to  let  in 
the  light,  to  suppress,  where  possible,  "this  coward 
brood  who  mangle  as  they  prey" — who  villify  the 
great  ones  of  the  earth  and  engender  animosities  and 
hide  their  craven  heads  behind  a  Gallic  pseudonym. 
Bec-de-Fer !  We  suggest  that  henceforth  our  furi- 
ous maligner  call  himself  P.ec-de-Gaz,  if  he  knows 
what  that  means  in  French.  Excepting  its  allusion  to 
light,  it  would  indeed  be  appropriate.  We  delight  in 
pricking  these  gas-bubbles,  in  destroying  their  bad 
odors  of  ignorance  and  tribal  intolerance;  it  is  a 
duty,  a  delight. 

Let  us  clear  away  this  rubbish  and  have  air  for  a 
free  breath  or  two.  Let  us  reach  out  and  rescue  our- 
selves from  the  horrible  brain  disease  of  Bec-de-Fer, 
from  provincialism,  hatred  and  intolerance. 

— A  Countryman  of  Bec-de-Fer. 


Mr.  George  A.  Newhall's  report  to  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  as  President  of  that  institution,  has  been 
rendered.  It  is  a  long,  interesting  and  exhaustive 
document.  Mr.  Newhall  does  not  give  himself  due 
credit  for  many  of  the  achievements  of  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  Among  the  many  benefits  accruing 
to  San  Francisco  through  his  efforts  individually, 
may  be  mentioned  the  retention  of  the  transport  ser- 
vice for  the  United  States  Government,  the  decision 
to  build  a  new  customs  house,  and  the  agitation  in 
favor  of  a  merchant  marine.  Mr.  Newhall  is  the 
style  of  citizen  who  is  a  benefit  to  the  community, 
and  his  example,  in  strenuous  public  effort,  should 
result  in  other  men  attempting  the  same  course  in 
public  affairs.  There  are  too  few  really  good  men 
who  concern  themselves  seriously  with  affairs  muni- 
cipal. 

Statements  have  been  published  that  H.  Lorent- 
zen,  who  has  a  concession  from  the  Harbor  Commis- 
sioners for  a  public  scales  at  Filbert  street  wharf,  is 
in  collusion  with  others  for  the  purpose  of  graft.  Mr. 
Lorentzen  says  no  one  is  interested  with  him  in  the 
weighing  on  the  city  front.  He  pays  $20  per  month 
rent  for  space  scales  occupy,  and  all  the  business  done 
on  the  scales  is  obtained  through  personal  solicita- 
tion. He  does  not  divide  the  receipts  with  Speai  or 
McKenzie.  It  costs  $100  per  month  for  a  clerk  to 
attend  the  scales,  while  Mr.  Lorentzen  is  out  hust- 
ling for  orders.  The  average  weighing  done  over 
the  scales  when  foreign  shipping  is  moving  averages 
ioo  tons  per  day,  so  that  a  fair  living  is  about  all  they 
produce.     Mr.  Lorentzen  is  a  well  known  politician. 

To  those  of  us  "who  know,"  the  following  story 
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Senator  Foraker  to  Senator  Lodge  in  the  lobby  Mon- 
day, "strange  how  sensitive  Morgan  is  about  the 
Panama  ditch."  "Yes,  very.  He  couldn't  be  more 
so  if  it  were  his  own  alimentary  canal." 


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January  30,  1903. 


The    Macmillan     Company      will 
The  Dynasts,      bring  out  next  week  the  first  part 

of  Mr.  Thomas  Hardy's  dramatic 
triology  upon  the  career  of  Napoleon.  This  volume 
begins  with  the  threatened  invasion  of  England,  and 
ends  with  the  deaths  of  Nelson  and  Pitt,  and  the 
triumph  of  Napoleon  at  Austerlitz.  The  second  part 
will  cover  the  zenith  of  Napoleon's  power;  and  the 
third  his  decline  with  the  restoration  of  the  old  dy- 
nasty. The  English  papers  have  had  much  to  say 
upon  this  ambitious  drama,  with  its  formidable  cata- 
logue of  19  acts,  130  scenes,  and  a  cast  of  historical 
characters  too  numerous  to  mention.  The  deep 
thought,  the  patient  research,  the  dignity  and  power 
of  the  Dynasts  will  appeal  to  those  readers  who  have' 
a  natural  love  for  the  philosophy  of  history  and  a 
genuine  interest  in  the  great  Frenchman's  meteoric 
career,  but  it  is  too  profoundly  metaphysical  to  be 
generally  popular,  or  to  lend  itself,  even  in  a  modified 
form,  to  stage  production.  Indeed,  the  author  ex- 
pressly states  that  it  is  intended  simply  for  "mental 
performance."  Nevertheless,  there  are  passages 
which  might  be  rendered  with  fine  oratorical  effect. 
Such,  for  instance,  is  Pitt's  soliloquy  after  the  news 
of  Austerlitz : 

"Defeated — the  Allies — quite  overthrown 
At   Austerlitz — last   week." — Where's    Austerlitz? 
— But  what  avails  it  where  the  place  is  now ; 
What  corpse  is  curious  on  the  longitude 
And  situation  of  his  cemetery !  .  .  . 
The   Austrians  and  the   Russians  overcome, 
That  vast  adventuring  army  is  set  free 
To  bend  unhindered  strength  against  our  shores  .  .  . 
So  do  my  plans  through  all  these  plodding  years 
Announce  them  built  in  vain  ! 
His  heel  on  Europe,  monarchies  in  chains 
To  France,  I  am  as  though  I  had  not  been  ! 
***** 

Roll  up  that  map !     'Twill  not  be  needed  now 
These  ten  years.    Realms,  laws,  peoples,  dynasties, 
Are  churning  to  a  pulp  within  the  maw 
Of  empire-making,  Lust  and  personal  Gain  !" 

"The  Dynasts,"  by  Thomas  Hardy.  Macmillan 
Company,  Publishers. 

Although  Macaulay,  in  his  re- 
Fanny  Burney.  view  of  the  "Diary  and  Letters 
of  Madame  D'Arblay,"  left 
comparatively  little  for  the  gleaners  who  came  after 
him,  yet  Mr.  Dobson's  monograph,  admirable  in 
every  respect,  gives  us,  surely,  the  last  word  upon 
the  subject,  while  at  the  same  time  it  demonstrates 
the  excellence  of  the  great  essayist. 

It  is  for  what  she  represents,  more  than  for  herself, 
that  Fanny  Burney  deserves  a  lasting  place  in  the 
muster-role  of  English  letters.  So  well  does  Mr. 
Dobson  tell  his  story  that  we  can  see  the  book  grow 
under  our  eyes,  and  the  career  of  its  author  unfold 
before  us  like  the  plot  of  a  well-thought-out  novel. 
"Evelina"  is  a  novel  that  will  never  grow  old,  so 
vitally  does  it  touch  upon  the  clash  of  classes,  and 
so  keen  is  its  satire  upon  those  who  try  to  shine  in 
the  social  variety  show  in  inverse  ratio  to  their  abil- 
ity to  do  so.  But  whether  the  reader  is  attracted  or 
not  by  "Evelina,"  he  will  delight  in  Mr.  Dobson's 
monograph,  for  its  own  sake,  and  will  thoroughly  en- 
joy Mr.  Hugh  Thomson's  illustrations  in  this  hand- 
some edition. 

"Evelina,"  by  Fanny  Burney.     With  an  introduc- 


tion by  Austin  Dobson,  and  illustrations  by  Hugh 
Thomson.     Macmillan  Company,  Publisher. 


"The  Mother  of  Washington,"  by  Mrs.  Roger  A. 
Pryor,  is  a  beautifully  written  and  magnificently- 
bound  volume.  It  tells  the  story  of  life  in  colonial 
and  revolutionary  times  in  an  entrancing  manner. 
There  are  numerous  pictures  not  before  published 
and  the  reading  is  exhaustive,  well  written  and  in- 
teresting withal. 

The  Macmillan  Co.,  New  York.     $2.50. 

"Character:  A  Model  Text  Book"  is  a  compilation 
of  epigrammatic  inanities.  It  is  intended  "For  the 
use  of  preachers,  Sunday  School  teachers,  parents 
and  teachers  in  training  youth  in  the  principles  of 
conduct.  Also  for  the  use  of  young  people  them- 
selves in  acquiring  a  comprehensive  basis  for  true 
living."  The  publisher  says:  "It  will  be  impossible 
for  any  boy  or  girl  who  studies  this  book  understand- 
ingly  to  become  a  bad  man  or  woman,  although  they 
may  not  become  great."  There  is  a  danger,  however, 
that  the  reader  may  make  a  sudden  break  for  an  in- 
sane asylum  after  reading  three  or  four  pages,  and 
the  author  and  publisher  should  be  restrained  by  the 
courts. 

Hinds  &  Noble,  New  York.     $1.50. 


"What  is  a  Kindergarten,"  by  George  Hansen,  is 
a  brochure  which  explains  the  idea  of  the  modern 
school  for  "littlest  tots."  He  calls  it  "the  battlefield 
of  man"  and  "the  underground  of  patriotism."  The 
book  is  a  thorough  study  and  should  be  of  interest 
to  all  mothers  and  to  all  teachers. 

D.  P.  Elder  and  Morgan  Shepard. 


The  reviewer  is  in  receipt  of  a  leaflet,  author's 
copy,  "Poems  of  Joy,"  by  Alice  Kingsbury  Crolev. 
The  outer  cover  bears  the  title  "Crickets  Chirping'." 
It  is  a  delightful  little  volume  of  verse,  and  should 
meet  with  a  ready  sale.  It  is  published  bv  the  Owl 
Press,  San  Francisco,  and  is  dedicated  to  Ina  D. 
Coolbrith. 


.  Bibliographists  will  be  especially  interested  in  the 
reprint  of  a  medieval  romance,  "The  History  of  Oli- 
ver and  Arthur,"  in  a  quato  edition  of  300  numbered 
copies  by  Houghton,  MifHin  &  Co.  (Special  Riverside 
Press  series.)  The  translation  by  William  Leigh- 
ton  and  Eliza  Barrett  is  made  from  a  rare  German 
version  of  the  early  sixteenth  century,  which  was 
made  from  the  old  French,  and  that  in  turn  from  the 
Latin  original  of  an  earlier  date.  In  the  year  1518  a 
translation  in  English  was  printed  by  Wynkyn  de 
Worde,  but  no  copy  has  been  preserved.  The  new 
edition  follows  the  chief  characteristics  of  the  ori- 
ginal, being  printed  in  double  columns  of  black  letter 
with  rubrication  throughout,  and  is  illustrated  with 
numerous  engravings  re-drawn  from  the  old  wood- 
cuts of  the  original.  It  is  printed  on  hand-made 
paper  and  bound  uncut,  with  paper  label. 

Get   the  dust  out  of  your  carpets.     But  don't  do   it 

with  a  club,  because  it's  a  slow,  laborious  and  very  unsatis- 
factory  way.  You  will  find  it  more  profitable  and  satisfac- 
tory to  have  the  work  done  oy  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Clean- 
ing Company,  353  Tehama  street.  With  their  improved 
machinery  they  make  an  old  carpet  look  as  bright  and  fresh 
as  a  new  one. 


Ladles— For  a  good  complexion  try  the  Post  St.  H 


January  30,  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


i^T: 


L/car  Bessie:  Uhl  what  a  week  tins  baa  been,  and 
I  do  not  hesitate  to  connJe  to  you  the  iact  that  I  am 
on  the  verge  01  that  complete  exhaustion  winch  the 
pursuit  01  pleasure  sometimes — but  not  so  very  often 
111  San  trancisco — entails.  \\  e  who  are  harden* 
tO  SpeaK,  have  lound  it  difficult  to  keep  the  pace,  but 
some  01  the  poor  little  buus  have  lallen  in  the  race 
and  been  compelled  to  retire  lor  much  needed  rest. 
1  he  business  ol  tlie  week  began  with  the  musicale 
at  Mrs.  jack  Lasserlcy  s  on  Sunday  alternooii  ;  1 
took  111  an  hour  ot  it,  Having  hrst  had  a  cup  ot  tea 
and  chat  with  i\aie  Vbornies  Henry.  Her  leas  are 
very  nilornial,  but  extremely  pleasant.  Alice,  who 
was  there  with  me,  went  on  to  Airs.  Harry  Bates's 
tea,  which  she  has  since  told  me  was  the  jolhest  thing 
out — siangy,  but  very  expressive.  1  he  liender  gins 
gave  a  lea  lor  Polly  Mactarlane  on  Monday  aiter- 
noon — who  talks  01  going  home  next  week. 

Next  111  line  ol  chanty  aitairs  comes  the  perform- 
ance at  the  Alhambra  next  Wednesday,  which  Mrs. 
McLalla  is  arranging  lor  the  benent  ot  her  pet  naval 
club   nouse  at   \  aliejo. 

Frances  Harris  s  tea  was  the  chief  event  of  Tues- 
day alternooii,  when  her  engagement  was  formally 
announced,  so  there  is  another  big  wedding  to  Iook 
forward  to.  Gastronomy  was  helped  along  by  the 
luncheon  Mrs.  Gordon  Blandmg  gave  at  the  Univer- 
sity Glub,  and  the  one  Mrs.  Ired  Tallant  had  for 
Elsie ;  and  in  the  evening  there  was  something  of  a 
division  of  attraction  between  the  hop  at  the  Presidio 
with  the  new  set  of  officers  on  view,  and  the  Cole- 
man dance  at  Century  Hall,  where  Christine  Pome- 
roy  and  Lucy  Coleman  shared  the  honors.  There 
were  several  luncheons  on  Wednesday,  among  them 
that  given  by  Mrs.  Ryland  Wallace  tor  Alice  Sulli- 
van, and  Jennie  Blair  at  the  Richelieu  for  Gertrude 
Smith  and  Margaret  Newhall,  who  seem  to  run  in 
couples  as  motifs  for  entertainments,  and  later  in  the 
afternoon  came  the  reception  given  Mrs.  Taft  at  Cen- 
tury Hall;  the  J.  D.  Spreckels  had  a  big  dinner  in 
the  evening,  from  which  the  girls  and  their  guests 
went  to  the  Borel  ball  at  the  Palace,  which  was  one 
of  the  best  given  this  season. 

Thursday  was  seemingly  a  card  day,  for  there  were 
several  parties  of  them,  including  Mrs.  John  Simp- 
son's, Gertrude  Palmer's  and  the  one  which  Bessie 
and  Delia  Mills  gave  at  the  Cecil  for  Polly  Macfar- 
lane,  and  the  pleasures  of  the  day  wound  up  with  the 
dance  at  the  Homer  Kings.  Mrs.  George  Pope's 
luncheon  that  day  was  for'  Mrs.  Peter  Martin,  and 
was  Mrs.  Pope's  first  appearance  as  a  hostess  this 
season. 

Mrs.  Irwin's  card  party,  which  materialized  yes- 
terday, was  for  Mrs.  Pacheco,  who  is  here  on  a  visit 
to  her  daughter,  Mabel  Tevis,  and  yesterday  was 
Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin's  second  at  home  for  her  new 
daughter,  Mrs.  Peter;  there  were  dinners  galore, 
with  the  Assembly  dance  at  night  for  a  finish,  and 
to-day  there  are  the  two  weddings.  And  just  here 
let  me  tell  you  something.  I  think  I  shall  soon  be 
telling  you  of  another  announcement,  and  probably 
the  wedding  of  one  of  the  sweetest  and  best-liked  of 
last  year's  buds;  in  this  instance  it  will  take  her  away 
from  us,  and  army  circles  will  be  the  gainers  by  our 
loss. 

Aunt  Susie  was  among  the  elderly  ladies  invited 
to  Mrs.  Butler's  card  party  last  Friday,  which  she 
gave  at  her  daughter's,  (Emmf   Breedon)  pretty  lit- 


'h-  In  ;.,,  1  [eights.     1  la\  e  you 

has  the  Imelicst  view  of  the  bay  from 

•■  - '    I  should  love  to  git  iii  them  all 

l  ln\    played   seven-banded   euchre,  ami   the 

prizes   were   quite  handsome.   The   Wagner  house  "ii 

Jones  street  has  been  taken  by  the  recently  arrived 
Mr.  and  Mr-.  Chanslor,  who  have  decided  to  remain 
an  1  as  Mr-.  Chanslor  is.  I  hear,  fond  of  enter- 
taining, she  will  he  a  welcome  acquisition.  She  gave 
a  big  card  party  this  week  at  the  Palace,  where  they 
are  at  present.  Apropos  of  cards,  they  are  increas- 
ing in  popularity  as  the  season  draws  near  its  close; 
among  the  parties  on  the  tapis  are  Mrs.  1  lopkin- 
the  Richelieu,  two  that  Kate  Dillon  is  to  give  on  the 
third  and  thirteenth  of  February,  and  Mrs.  Ed. 
Dimond  gives  one  on  the  eleventh.  There  are  yet 
"thers  tii  be  announced,  and  when  one  hears  of  them 
one  is  apt  tn  think  the  cards  have  it,  then  luncheons 
pop  up  and  seem  to  be  in  the  ascendant.  Among 
Milurs.  Mrs.  Peter  Martin  is  in  line  for  the  usual  run 
of  them  ;  Mrs.  Walter  Martin  has  had  one  already  for 
her  sister-in-law;  Mrs.  Pope,  also,  had  one  for  her 
sister-in-law,  and  Jennie  Blair  is  to  give  one  for  her 
next  Friday. 

Mrs.  Casey  and  Kate  Dillon  give  luncheon  parties 
on  the  ninth  and  eleventh  of  February.  Music  is  not 
being  neglected  in  the  crowd  of  other  affairs,  and  the 
Twentieth  Century  Club's  second  concert  conies  off 
at  Lyric  Hall  on  the  fifteenth. 

There  was  much  disappointment  felt  at  Secretary- 
of  War  Taft's  decision  to  hurry  on  East  and  not  wait 
here  for  the  review  of  the  troops  which  had  been 
planned  in  his  honor,  because  reviews  are  always 
exciting  affairs,  and  they  are  so  very  rare  hereabouts. 
Then,  too,  there  had  been  several  invitations  to  little 
luncheons  and  "cups  of  tea"  at  quarters  in  the  Pre- 
sidio contingent  upon  the  review  which  of  course 
turned  to  Dead  Sea  fruit  upon  our  lips  when  it  was 
given  up.  Amy  Long,  who  was  at  Piedmont  during 
her  mother's  absence  in  Honolulu,  has  gone  back  to 
her  home  in  Washington  City,  but  I  understand 
that  both  she  and  Colonel  Long  are  to  be  here  in  two 
or  three  months  on  their  way  to  a  tour  in  the  Orient 
and  the  Philippines.  Millie  Ashe  Sewell  is  here  on 
a  visit  to  her  mother,  Mrs.  Ashe,  and  is  already  the 
motif  for  entertainment.  I  have  not  seen  her  yet, 
but  hear  she  is  looking  fine.  The  Hobarts  are  coming 
back,  I  hear,  and  it  is  said  will  soon  be  with  us  again. 

—Elsie. 


The  ladies  of  the  Commandery  Euchre  Club  will 
give  a  dinner  and  card  party  at  the  Occidental  Hotel 
on  February  12th,  at  which  they  will  entertain  their 


SHREVE     &    COMPANY'S 

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will  be  opened  on  Monday,  February  1  st. 
It  will  have  in  its  work  rooms  complete 
facilities  for  the  production  of  Fine  Stationery 
in  all  its  branches.  Exclusiveness  will 
characterize  the  products  of  this  Department 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


husbands  and  a  few  other  guests.  The  affair  is  in 
charge  of  Mrs.  E.  O.  Rieser,  the  President  of  the 
Club,  who  will  be  assisted  in  receiving  by  Mrs.  A. 
W.  Scott,  Mrs.  A.  P.  Woodward.  Mrs.  John  Bennett, 
Mrs.  A.  McFadyen  and  Mrs.  C.  L.  Haskell. 

List  of  arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael:  J.  T.  Bowers, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Ciprico,  Miss  F.  D.  Pratt.  Dr.  G  S.  Mill- 
burv  and  wife,  L.  M.  Upton,  Mrs.  S.  Phillips,  Miss 
M.  Phillips.  Mrs.  E.  Bass,  Mabel  Bass,  Mrs.  E.  Stark, 
Miss  Stark,  Dorothy  Wood,  Bernardine  Becker,  John 
Porter,  wife  and  daughter.  Miss  Bool,  \Y.  M.  Bool, 
A.  L.  Stearns  and  wife,  Mrs.  George  Riddell,  Vir- 
ginia Braston,  S.  1).  I'.raston,  Mrs.  F.  P..  Cranston, 
George  H.  Cutts,  E.  Herrick  Brown,  W,  A.  Allen, 
Mrs.  M.  Grogan,  Miss  E.  McGuipre,  Miss  M.  A.  Mc- 
Guire,  W,  A.  Gates  and  wife,  Frank  R.  Wehe,  Henry 
Gage,  N.  J.  Pickle. 

Edward  F.  Burns  and  family  are  registered  at  the 
Holland  House,  New  York. 

The  California  State  Conference  of  State  Charities, 
and  Corrections  will  hold  its  third  annual  session 
in  San  Francisco  February  21st,  continuing  for  three 
days. 

Mrs.  H.  N.  Cook,  now  on  a  visit  to  the  Orient,  was 
in  Yokohama  on  the  ~th  inst. 

It  was  like  the  gaiety  of  mid-summer  at  Hotel 
Del  Monte  last  Friday  evening,  when  the  officers 
and  their  ladies  of  the  15th  I'.  S.  Infantry  gave  a  re- 
ception to  Colonel  Henry  C.  Ward  and  Mrs.  Ward. 
The  attractive  halls,  parlors  and  ballroom  of  the 
hotel  were  elaborately  decorated  with  greens  and 
the  flowers  that  grow  the  year  round  in  the  sur- 
rounding grounds.  The  very  elaborate  evening 
gowns  of  the  ladies  and  the  striking  uniforms  of  the 
army  men  combined  to  form  a  most  charming  spec- 
tacle. Over  eightv  officers  were  present,  coming  not 
only   from   the   army   barracks   at    Monterey,    where 


Colonel  Ward  commands,  but  from  all  the  army  posts 
about  San  Francisco.  The  music  was  excellent  and 
the  special  arrangements  made  by  Manager  Snell 
for  the  occasion  were  the  cause  of  favorable  com- 
ment from  all  guests.  The  affair  was  under  the  gen- 
eral direction  of  Captain  H.  A.  Smith,  Adjutant  15th 
Infantry.  Among  the  officers  and  ladies  in  attend- 
ance were  Colonel  Henry  C.  Ward  and  Mrs.  Ward, 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  E.  B.  Pratt,  Major  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Lieut.  St.  J.  Chubb,  Major  and  Mrs.  Win.  Lassiter, 
Major  and  Airs.  Van  Vliet,  Chaplain  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
Clemens,  Captain  and  Mrs.  Schorffel,  Captain  and 
Mrs.  Edward  Lloyd,  Captain  John  Cotter,  Captain 
and  Mrs.  William  N.  Blow,  Captain  and  Mrs.  Willis 
Uline,  Captain  and  Mrs.  H.  A.  Smith,  Captain  and 
Mrs.  William  Brooke,  Captain  F.  M.  Savage,  Captain 
C.  H.  Bridges,  Captain  and  Mrs.  T.  R.  Harker,  Cap- 
tain Bryan  Conrad,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  F.  Johnson,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Sargent,  Mr.  Francis  McComas. 

The  illuminated  cover  of  the  invitation  to  the 
Mardi  Gras  Bal  Masque  (at  the  Hopkins'  Institut  of 
Art  on  Tuesday  evening,  February  16th)  is  a  dainty 
affair.  It  represents  Art  in  the  guise  of  a  butterfly 
coquetting  with  a  Pierrot.  The  Pierrot  carries  the 
tradiional  guitar.  The  colors  are  a  pale  lavender 
and  yellow.  The  third  page  gives  a  list  of  names  of 
the  Executive  Committee,  Music,  Decoration,  Floor 
and  Reception  Committees. 

The  bal  masque  will  be  a  magnificent  array  of  the 
chivalry  and  fashion  of  the  city. 

The  S'ar  Hair  Remedy — best  01  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.    Star  Remedy  Co..  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


The    "Theo" — Popular-Priced    F-ench      Corset.      New 

Fall  Models  Dip  Hip  now  on  display.  The  D.  Samuels  Lace 
House  Co..  Sole  Agent. 


ALL  DAY  FOR  ONE   DOLLAR 

SightseeiQg  in  Beautiful  Alameda  County 

A  DELIGHTFUL  EXCURSION 

Including    visit    to    flL^MEDA,    HAYWflRDS,    OAKLAND,     BERKELEY 

and  the  great 

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With  a  Substantial  Lunch  at  Hotel  Metropole 
Special  Electric  Car  Service.     Personally  Conducted 

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January  30.  1903.  SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 

BRUTE     FORCE    IN     FICTION 


ii>  1 

After  reading  Mr.  Millard's  review  o!  Jack  Lon- 
don's last  book,  "The  Sea  W  "It"."  one  gets  the  impres- 
sion thai  brutality,  sledge-hammer  language,  and  ele- 
mental force,  arc  the  characteristics  one  hopes  and 
for  in  modem  fiction.  I»  it.  then,  m>  much 
worth  while  to  >;ct  back  to  primitive  man?  1  >■>  cen- 
turies of  Hard  endeavor  to  get  away  ir"in  li i ill  count 
for  nothing?  At  the  best  lie  is  lure,  close  under  t lie 
skin,  ready  to  reveal  himself  in  all  his  primeval  at- 
tributes, at  the  first  unguarded  moment.  Why  hark 
back  to  the  animal?  Is  the  creature  SO  inviting,  SO 
in  his  magnificent  brute  strength  that  one 
must  admire,  owing  to  the  feeling  of  kinship  overly 
strong  at  the  moment  ? 

It  is  conceded  willingly  and  with  enthusiasm  that 
London's  speech  is  powerful,  that  he  goes  straight 
to  the  point,  that  he  deals  with  men  and  things  as 
they  are.  Could  he  not  give  us  that  force,  that  vir- 
ility, without  the  brutality  which  seems  a  salient 
part?  Other  writers  have  written  strong  books,  their 
intensity  carrying  one  breathlessly  from  cover  to 
cover;  their  strength  and  directness  calling  upon 
the  keenest  emotions  of  the  reader. 

Do  we  want  an  American  Zola  to  show  us  the 
unlovely  side  of  ourselves?  Granted  that  "women 
squealing  like  pigs  under  the  butcher's  knife"  is 
strong,  is  that  the  kind  ot  strength  we  want  that  our 
fiction  may  be  enjoyable?  It  is  true  that  London's 
style  has  "the  force  and  directness  of  Kipling's,  the 
writer  who  never  wastes  a  word,  who  gives  you  a 
chapter  in  one  sentence.  Kipling's  strength,  how- 
ever, does  not  degenerate  with  brutality.  He  has, 
what  London  has  not  yet  developed,  a  saving  grace 
of  tenderness  in  the  inmost  soul  of  him,  which  reads 
human  nature  to  the  core.  The  reasons  for  reading 
books  are  many;  but  certainly  the  book  has  not 
failed  in  its  mission,  whether  an  intentional  one  or 
not,  which  leaves  the  reader  with  better  courage  to 
make  the  desperate  fight  between  good  and  evil  which 
most  of  us  wage  in  this  warring  experience  called 
life.  Brute  force  does  not  triumph  at  the  end;  the 
man  in  his  primitive  strength  falls  back  helpless  be- 
fore the  unconquered  soul,  whose  indomitable  spirit 
will  not  down,  though  body  be  broken. 

It  were  a  thousand  pities  if  the  "divine  spark" 
which  is  undoubtedly  Jack  London's  birthright 
should  be  dimmed  in  the  lower  levels.  His  strength, 
directness  and  purity  of  style  will  avail  him  nothing 
later  on  unless  he  finds  the  heart  that  beats  in  the 
midst  of  humanity.  The  analysts,  who  dissect  one's 
innermost  emotions  and  pry  into  the  thoughts  which 
might  have  been  thought,  are  not  the  writers  who 
appeal  to  full-lived  men  and  women.  They  write 
for  the  introspectives,  the  motive-seekers,  whose 
blood  runs  thin  and  cold  in  their  veins. 

Books  have  been  written,  and  Gilbert  Parker's 
"Right  of  Way"  is  one,  where  the  interest  holds  to 
the  last  page.  The  desired  qualifications  are  there, 
strength,  directness,  and  more  than  all,  a  knowledge 
of  the  weakness  and  aspiration,  the  despair  and  hope 
of  a  man's  soul,  which  catches  at  one's  heart-strings 
and  brings  the  tribute  of  a  sigh  and  wish  for  some- 
thing better  in  one's  own  ongoing. 

Here  is  a  man  deliberately  throwing  away  his 
soul,  and  then,  given  the  chance,  of  fighting  des- 
perately against  overwhelming  odds  to  regain  it. 
He  comes  from  the  battle  broken  and  shattered,  but 
triumphant,  though  victory  is  dearly  won,  and  no 
reward  follows.    With  such  a  book,  the  "red  blood" 


'..    opportunity  to  (brill.  bu(  beyond 

stimulus  which  conns  from  following 

fellow -being   through    the   storm 

ami  si  ntl)   human  to  be 

find  tin'  right  thing  ami  hold  fast  to  i(, 

to  iace  the   "bludgeoning*  of  chance,"  and  not    to 

Mini   linn   against   all   opposition,   is   to 
strength  and  force  which  is  the  best  of  in- 
centives.    It  is  a  courage  far  greater  than  the  brute 
we  are  told  is  so  admirable,  and  the  man  who 

1^  close  to  the  animal  shows  us  no  way  out  of 
ditious  with  which  we  in.'i\  be  hopelessly  struggling. 
The  book  which  comes  closest  to  us.  thrill  or  no  thrill, 
is  the  one  which  shows-  human  nature  as  it  is,  and 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Poor   San   Francisco   made   her   prayer, 

With  a  diffident,  tremulous  sigh, 
To  a  man  who  had  promised  to  treat  her  fair, 
A  big,  dark  man  whom  she  called  her  Mayor, 
But  he  answered  her  plea  with  a  vacant  stare, 

And  he  winked  the  other  eye. 

Oh,  the  years  we  waste  and  the  tears  we  waste, 

And  the  excellent  things  we  planned, 
Belong  to  the  trickster  who  knew  how  to  lie, 
And  now  we  knew  that  he  knew  how  to  lie, 
And  we  thoroughly  understand. 

The  case  of  Attorney  Hanlon,  against  whom  one  of 
the  morning  papers  brought  wrongful  accusations, 
is  a  welcome  variation  of  our  usual  lorensic  proceed- 
ings. The  attorney  is  vindicated  (that  is  very  good 
news)  for  most  of  them  are  badly  in  need  of  vindica- 
tion ;  the  yellow  press  is  sufficiently  condemned — 
confusion  to  the  yellow  press!  But  Judge  Troutt, 
delightful,  urbane,  rhetorical  Judge  Troutt!  He  may 
be  a  little  shaky  on  probate,  but  in  smooth  oratory 
of  the  later  classical  or  post-Ciceronian  variety  he 
has  "few  peers  and  no  equals,"  as  the  Irish  toast- 
master  said  of  the  late  General  Barnes.  "Your  re- 
spect for  the  honorable  profession  to  which  you  be- 
long, your  respect  for  the  Courts  of  Justice,  as  well 
as  your  innate  moral  sense,  would  restrain  you  from 
violating  the  solemn  obligation  you  assumed  when 
you  were  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  our  State  many  years  ago,"  said  Judge  Troutt, 
and  he  never  winked  once. 

One  Gratiano  managed  to  get  himself  shot  in  Oak- 
land last  week,  and  ended  his  life  miserably  in  the 
Fabiola  Hospital.  Gratiano  managed  very  badly.  He 
should  not  have  had  the  bad  taste  to  possess  a  name 
of  such  merry  significance  if  he  could  not  make  bet- 
ter use  of  it.  A  Gratiano  dead  and  in  Oakland.  Why, 
the  thing  is  absurd.  He  should  be  alive,  fat,  with 
creases  of  good  humor  in  his  cheeks.  As  well  talk 
of  a  thin,  teetotal  Falstaff  as  of  a  dead  Gratiano.  It 
is  an  absurdity,  a  travesty  not  to  be  tolerated,  and 
the  Health  Officer  should  be  enjoined  from  signing  a 
death   certificate  under  that  name. 

Why  should  a  professor  of  mechanics  receive  any 
more  consideration  than  other  people,  and  why 
should  the  President  of  the  State  University  inter- 
fere and  save  a  member  of  the  faculty  from  the  pun- 
ishment which  he  would  have  had  to  undergo  had 
he  been  merely  an  ordinary  person?  These  questions, 
which  are  agitating  the  public  mind  at  Berkeley,  are 
not  capable  of  a  satisfactory  answer.  It  appears  to 
be  another  case  of  gross  favoritism.  If  Professor 
Wright  had  not  commonsense  enough  not  to  practice 
shooting  in  such  close  proximity  to  the  college 
grounds,  a  little  education  will  do  him  no  harm  in 
spite  of  his  training  as  a  specialist  in  mechanics.  How 
unfortunate  it  is  that  the  present  regime  at  the  Uni- 
versity should  always  give  the  impression  that  there 
is  one  sauce  for  the  goose  and  another  for  the  gan- 
der? 

So  vermilion  is  to  be  the  color  of  the  buildings  at 
Berkeley.  It  is  a  good  idea.  The  place  needs  lots 
of  blushing  for,  and  as  the  President  won't  do  it,  it 
is  just  as  well  that  the  buildings  should. 


January  30,  1903. 

High  doings  in  the  Oakland  literary  set  engage  the 
attention  of  the  public  nowadays.  Herman  Whitaker 
has  managed  to  get  himself  arrested  for  carrying 
concealed  weapons,  and  his  case  furnishes  a  beautiful 
example  of  the  consistency  of  the  local  police.  The 
road  which  Whitaker  had  traveled  is  notorious  for 
the  number  of  violent  attacks  made  on  pedestrians; 
in  fact,  its  reputation  is  so  bad  that  the  policeman 
who  made  the  arrest  declined  to  leave  his  beat  to 
investigate  the  origin  of  a  cry  of  murder  which  he 
had  heard  a  few  minutes  before.  He  had  no  hesita- 
tion about  arresting  the  writer,  however.  The  moral 
appears  to  be  that  in  traveling  Oakland  roads  you 
must  chose  between  being  beaten  to  death  and  ar- 
rest. 

.  .And  so  we  are  to  have  a  combination  of  undertak- 
ers, grave-diggers,  hack  drivers,  florists,  and  Metho- 
dist ministers,  all  for  the  purpose  of  putting  an  end 
to  funerals  on  Sundays.  A  glance  at  this  formidable 
"list  of  employments  shows  the  economic  importance 
of  the  Grim  Reaper.  To  abolish  death  would,  like 
the  abolition  of  alcohol,  go  a  long  way  towards  up- 
setting our  trade  arrangements.  There  seems  to 
be  some  reason  in  this  restriction  of  funerals  on  Sun- 
days, apart  from  the  fact  that  Sabbath  burials  tend 
to  curate's  sore  throat. 

Why  do  the  Presbyterians  build  their  new 
churches  to  look  like  financial  institutions?  Dr. 
Hemphill's  Church  would  make  an  excellent  Stock 
Excnange.  It  has  all  the  qualities  of  squareness  and 
solidity  which  should  inspire  confidence.  The  solid- 
ity of  the  Doctor's  discourse  may  be  epitomized  in 
the  structure,  but  a  touch,  a  slight  touch  of  grace 
would  not  be  amiss  in  either.  The  new  First  Presby- 
terian church  at  Alameda  is  being  constructed  on 
similar  lines,  and  would  pass  for  a  substantial  bank. 
It  is  somewhat  of  a  pity,  for  we  have  architects  cap- 
able of   beautiful   work. 

If  ever  a  man  deserved  good  luck  it  is  George 
Sterling,  and  the  fact  that  he  has  gained  applause  for 
his  first  volume  of  poems  is  one  of  those  events 
which  occasionally  happen  to  brighten  the  gloom  of 
this  miserable  world.  He  is  a  prince  of  good  fellows, 
kind  and  modest,  and  possessed  of  genuine  poetic 
force  withal.  It  is  pleasant  to  get  away  from  the 
dirt  and  slime  of  our  local  life  and  find  some  quality 
which  will  give  us  a  position  in  the  world  of  men. 
If  every  one  did  as  well  for  the  State  as  its  authors 
and  artists,  we  should  need  no  advertisement. 

"We  are  carrying  out  the  rules  of  the  Civil  Ser- 
vice, we  are  striving  for  purity,"  said  the  genial 
Mayor,  as  he  flung  out  a  number  of  trusted  old  ser- 
vants of  the  public  and  thrust  in  his  satellites.  "Yes 

you  are,  like  "  said  the  Devil,  as  he  looked  up 

wistful  and  eager.  Seeing  how  fat  the  Executive 
was  growing,  and  noting  regretfully  the  evidences 
of  his  robust  constitution,  Satan  retired  discomfited, 
and  worked  off  his  feelings  in  banking  his  fires. 

A  diamond  thief  is  said  to  be  operating  on  the 
Oakland  theatre  boats.  He  must  be  a  pretty  bold 
sort  of  a  thief,  but  I  don't  believe  he  can  make  any- 
thing. The  Oakland  theatre-goers  travel  in  couples, 
and  sit  so  close  together  that  not  even  a  pickpocket 
could  get  his  hand  between  them.  As  for  stealing  a 
diamond  stud  out  of  a  man's  shirt  bosom,  that  is  pure 
nonsense — there  is  always  something  else  in  the  way. 

Oakland  has  passed  its  garbage  ordinance.  Amid 
a  scene  of  confusion,  such  as  that  which  marked  the 
entrance  of  Charles  I  into  the  House  of  Commons, 
Citizen  Evans  protested  against  the  rule  of  stinks. 
Dornin,  however,  as  champion  of  the  smells,  set  a 
policeman  on  Evans,  and  the  latter  talked  back.  Lan- 
guage and  odors  alike  were  worthy  of  the  occasion. 


January  30.  1903.                              SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

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to 

Me 

No.  3 

Really,  don't  you  know,  1  am  feeling  finite  flatt 
•od  in  to  tell  you  what  1  think  of  San  Franc 
and  San  Franciscans,  and  how  they  could  both  be 
improved,  and  it  seems  to  me  that  every  one  tumbles 
over  the  next  fellow  to  follow  out  my  ideas.  I  don't 
think  that  it  is  so  much  the  News  Letter  as  it  is  I. 
Travers.  Even  the  public  press,  vulgar  as  it  is.  has 
accepted  my  ideas.  The  better  class  of  Americans. 
if  there  is  such,  to  say  nothing  of  the  residents  of 
your  town,  always  recognize  quality  and  follow  it 
and  adore  it,  and  since  1  am  the  better  class.  I  think 
I  may  take  some  credit  and  allow  the  Xews  Letter  a 
little,  that  I  have  started  the  movement  for  the 
beautifying  of  your  city.  As  soon  as  I  had  explained 
what  my  ideas  were  as  to  making  your  city  pretty, 
your  people  got  together  and  held  a  meeting,  and 
really  their  zeal  is  commendable  and  most  highly 
praiseworthy,  and  if  I  remain  here  a  sufficiently  long 
period  of  time,  I  think  I  can  wake  you  chaps  up.  Of 
course  they  will  call  me  into  their  councils  and  I 
shall  tell  these  advocates  of  a  city  beautiful  just  what 
they  should  do.  I  can"t  say  that  I  want  to  pose  as 
a  missionarv  out  here,  but  really  you  have  so  many 
untamed  Ingomars  in  your  so-called  social  circles 
that  I  am  doubtful  if  even  English  Parthenia  could 
tame  them  to  the  point  where  they  would  recognize 
the  necessity  of  not  wearing  fair  leather  shoes  with 
a  Tuxedo  coat.  It  is  all  a  question  of  ancestry.  The 
forebears  tell !  I  find  out  here  amongst  you  folks 
scrupulous  regard  for  the  ancestry  of  horses  and 
dogs,  but  when  I  trv  to  find  out  who  is  who,  why,  no 
one  knows.  You  have  form,  books  and  pedigree 
books,  but  I  failed  to  make  one  of  your  prominent 
bankers  understand  the  other  day  the  value  of  De- 
bretts.  Of  course,  I  know  that  everything  out  West 
is  crude  and  new.  You  have  no  antiquities,  no  good 
old  families,  and  no  halls  or  country-seats.  Ivy  on 
the  walls  out  here  is  as  much  a  stranger  as  is  a  fel- 
low in  decent  society  who  eats  his  fish  with  his  knife. 
By  and  by,  if  you  will  only  settle  down,  I  really 
think  your  charming  women  will  make  men  out  of 
you.  Over  in  England,  we  say  it  takes  four  genera- 
tions to  breed  a  gentleman.  I  think  in  my  own  mind, 
I  do  really,  that  you  ought  to  do  it  here  in  two  gen- 
erations. The  first  lot  of  youngsters  should  be  learned 
that  they  can't  eat  with  a  knife  or  bite  off  the  end  of 
their  soup  spoon  or  call  for  champagne  with  the  fish, 
or  smoke  on  the  streets  when  with  ladies,  or  carry 
their  gloves  in  their  hands,  or  masticate  gum  in 
public,  or  leave  the  opera  between  acts  to  mingle 
the  dram  with  the  drama,  or  that  a  top  hat  can't  be 
worn  with  a  sack  coat,  and  that  Oxford  shoes  with 
ribbon  bows  is  not  the  proper  caper  for  full  dress. 
That  a  Tuxedo  coat  is  solely  for  a  bachelor  affair, 
and  that  a  dress  coat  is  imperative  when  you  dine 
where  ladies  are  present.  That  there  is  a  holy  com- 
mandment that  you  cannot  wear  jewelry  with  an 
evening  suit  any  more  than  you  could  get  Roger  to 
give  me  my  patent  leather  shoes  in  a  squeaking  con- 
dition ;  that  cigarettes  are  simply  an  abomination  for 
the  smoking  room,  and  only  about  two  whiffs  is  per- 
missible then;  that  scent  on  a  man  is  unpardonable, 
and  that  the  odoriferous  effect  of  the  hired  barber 
chap  is  disgusting.  When  the  first  lot  of  your  young- 
sters have  learned  these  things,  they  will  know  a 
whole  lot  more  than  their  fathers  do,  and  I  think 
that  they  would  learn  the  second  generation.    Do  you 


Anil  the  seconders  would  be  half  decent  then. 
anyhow.  <  >f  course.  I  have  not  noted  all  the  bad 
manners  I  have  Been  among  your  men.  but  I  have 
suggested  that  the  boy  children  be  taught  better,  and 
I  have  noted  a  few  of  the  coarsest,  most  obtrusive 
and  anorderly,  as  well  as  the  most  common,  breaches. 
The  really  finer  manners  of  my  class  can  only  be 
acquired  after  a  long  association  with  well-bred  per- 
sonages. I  think  you  are  a  hopeless  mess  in  this 
respect.  You  are  too  old  to  learn,  don't  you  know ! 
And  I  can't  learn  the  whole  lot  of  you,  anywav. 
I  am  charmed  with  your  San  Francisco  women.  They 
are  far  ahead  of  your  men  in  style  and  manners,  and 
I  am  really  half  afraid  of  some  of  them,  but  the  ques- 
tion of  ancestry  would  save  me  anyway,  and  if  I 
married  an  American,  my  ancestry  would  cut  me  off 
with  a  shilling.  No,  nothing  serious,  don't  you  know, 
in  the  matrimonial  line  about  Travers. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ALCAZAR— The  Masqueraders.    A  splendid  show. 

CENTRAL— Quo  Vadis.    Good  scenic  effects. 

FISCHER'S— The  Beauty  Shop.    Continued  success. 

GRAND— David  Harum.    Quaint,  pleasing. 

ORPHEUM— Vaudeville.    Strong  program. 

TIVOLI— When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home.    Excellent. 

COLUMBIA— A  Chinese  Honeymoon.    Enjoyable. 

LYRIC  BALL— Bivela's  Band.    Good  music. 

CALIFORNIA-Eternal  City.    Fine  production. 

CHUTES-Vaudeville.    Excellent. 


At  the  Columbia,  the  "Chinese  Honeymoon"  is 
having  a  good  run.  The  music  has  been  likened  to 
that  of  a  three-ringed  circus,  and  it  is  presumed  that 
the  author  intended  to  be  heard  in  all  parts  of  the 
house.  The  loudness  of  the  orchestration  makes  it 
necessary  for  the  vocalists  to  strain  themselves  to 
be  heard.  Occasionally  one  of  them  gets  the  best 
of  the  orchestra.  This  must,  under  the  circumstances, 
be  a  source  of  great  satisfaction  to  the  entire  com- 
pany. Fi  Fi,  the  diminutive  waitress  at  the  hotel, 
is  the  life  of  the  show.  Mr.  W.  H.  Clark  (the  Em- 
peror Hang-Chow)  has  a  voice  in  keeping  with  his 
stature.  It  is  a  cross  between  a  megaphone  and  the 
baser  notes  of  a  syren.  The  stage  setting  is  fine, 
and  the  Chinese  elements  in  this  plav  lend  themselves 
very  happily  to  beautiful  effects.  The  "Samuel  Pine- 
apple" of  Mr.  Henshaw  is  good. 

"The  Masqueraders,"  as  given  by  the  Alcazar  Com- 
pany, is  the  strongest  piece  of  acting  in  the  city  this 
week.  The  first  and  second  acts  lead  up  to  the  cli- 
max in  the  third,  and  the  fourth  is  an  anti-climax.  The 
third  act  is  tremendous  in  power.  The  play  is  one 
that  makes  for  good  moral  tone,  and  there  is  just 
enough  of  the  salacious  in  the  dialogue  to  give  zest 
to  the  performance.  I  have  rarely  seen  anything  bet- 
ter than  the  scene  between  David  Remon,  Sir  Bricc 
and  Dulcie  Larondie.  Volley  after  volley  of  applause 
greeted  this  gifted  trio,  and  it  was  well  deserved 
praise.  Harrv  Hilliard's  "Montague  I.ushington," 
a  most  difficult  part,  was  well  carried.  In  the  part 
of  Eddie  Remon,  Mr.  Maher  showed  a  wonderful 
faculty  for  character  work.  Mr.  Maher  is  a  constant 
surprise.  He  is  most  versatile.  The  work  of  Miss 
Block  (Dulcie)  wdiere  she  arraigns  the  immorality  of 
man,  is  a  piece  of  sustained  emotional  acting  that 
stamps  her  as  a  star  of  the  first  magnitude.  Tn  the 
last  act  (which,  by  the  way,  is  an  incongruous  end) 
Mr.  Durkin  falls  a  little  short  of  the  character.  He 
is  slightly  too  lachrvmose.  This  should  not  be  sub- 
ject to  great  criticism,  as  the  part  calls  for  unusual 
emotional  power  and  it  is  doubtful  if  the  lines  will 
permit  any  other  construction. 

*  *  * 

David  Rossi's  dramatization  of  Mr.  Hall  Caine's 
"The  Eternal  City"  is  the  go  at  the  California.  Any 
of  the  Liebler  productions  may  be  depended  upon 
as  first  class.  It  is  a  pity,  however,  that  the  stage 
limitations  are  such  that  this  play  cannot  be  given 
better  setting.  The  California  is  a  poor  place  for  a 
good  show. 

*  *  * 

"The  Beauty  Shop"  continues  a  prime  favorite  at 
Fischer's  Opera  House.  Miss  Helen  Russell's  sing- 
ing is  appreciated  by  the  large  audiences.  Peachey 
is  singing  into  popularity,  and  Georgia  O'Ramey  is 
a  great  favorite.    This  little  girl  is  very  clever.  Allan 


Curtis's  enunciation  is  improving,  and  it  is  hoped 
that  by  1905  he  will  be  able  to  speak  plainly  enough 
to  be  heard  in  the  fifth  row,  back.  Kolb'and  Dill 
continue  to  excite  the  risibilities  of  enthusiastic  au- 
diences. It  occurs  to  me  that  it  is  a  mistake  to  sub- 
stitute a  new  play  for  "The  Beauty  Shop"  while  it 
is  still  enjoying  such  prosperity. 

*  *  # 

"David  Harum"  and  its  quaintness  as  a  story  or 
play,  still  holds  large  audiences  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House.  While  this  play  is  not  given  witli  much  ar- 
tistic finish,  yet  it  is  most  enjoyable,  and  Mr.  X.  H. 
Turner  is  a  conscientious,  painstaking  actor. 

At  the  Orpheum,  the  Rays,  Johnny  and  Emma, 
are  easily  the  king-pins.  They  hold  their  friends,  and 
are  making  new  ones  daily.  There  is  a  roar  of  laugh- 
ter from  first  to  last.  The  rest  of  the  company  is  a 
fine  one  and  very  evenly  balanced. 

*  *  * 

Rivelas  Band  at  Lyric  Hall  should  draw  a  large 
crowd  to-night.  The  Sextette  renders  Lucia  in  a 
fine  verve,  eliciting  salvos  of  applause.  San  Fran- 
cisco has  an  unusual  opportunity  of  showing  its  ap- 
preciation of  fine  musical  talent.  Rivela  was  formerly 
Ellery's  leader,  and  has  culled  the  best  of  talent  from 
the  aggregation  formerly  under  Ellerv. 

*  *  * 

Johnny  keeps  right  on  marching  at  the  Tivoli  with 
no  abatement  in  popularity.  The  house  is  crowded 
nightly,  and  there  is  the  usual  enthusiastic  audience 
to  welcome  Hartman  and  the  rest. 

*  *  * 

Wiltqn  Lackaye  has  scored  an  enormous  success 
with  "The  Pit"  in  Chicago.  The  receipts  at  the  Gar- 
rick  Theatre  have  averaged  over  $1300  a  performance 
and  the  length  of  the  engagement  has  been  extended 
from  the  four  weeks  originally  booked  to  nine.  Wil- 
liam A.  Brady  will  form  a  second  company  to  tour 
other  large  cities,  while  Mr.  Lackaye  divides  his  time 
between  Chicago  and  New  York.  "The  Pit"  is  com- 
ing to  San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

Following  "Quo  Vadis"  at  the  Central  will  come  a 
revival  of  "East  Lvnne."  Herschel  Mayall  will  have 
the  part  of  Archibald  Carlyle,  George  P.  Webster 
will  portray  Sir  Francis  Levison,  and  Eugenia  Thais 
Lawton  will  sustain  the  dual  role  of  Ladv  Isabel  and 
Madame  Vine. 

*  *  * 

Again  the  Alcazar  offers  a  plav  new  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  romantic  comedy,  "A  Colonial  Girl,"  to 
be  given  next  week,  is  by  Grace  Livingstone  Furniss 
(author  of  "Mrs.  Tack"),  and  Abbey  Sage  Richard- 
son. It  was  originally  played  with  great  success  at 
the  Lyceum.  New  York,  with  Virginia  Harned  and 
E.  H.  Sothern  as  the  central  figures  in  its  delightful 
love  story. 

"When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home"  will  enter 
upon  the  fourth  week  of  a  most  successful  run  at 
the  Tivoli  Opera  House  Monday  evening.  During 
the  extended  run  of  "When  Johnny  Comes  Marching 
Home,"  the  full  strength  of  the  Tivoli  company  is 
preparing  for  an  elaborate  revival  of  "The  Gypsy 
Baron."  This  romantic  comic  opera  by  Johann 
Strauss  will  be  staged  in  a  manner  hitherto  unpar- 
alleled   in    San    Francisco. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 

inroe,   Harry    Mack   and    Nellie    Lawi 
will   reappear   at    the   <  >rpheum   this   comil 
They    will   open    in   their   sketch    entitle. I    "  The 

by    Charles    Howitz.      The      t\\' 
Stuart   Barnes,  Robertus  and  Wilfredo,  Johnny  ami 
Emma  Ray,  anil  "Casey,  the   Fireman,'    will  com 

plcte  the  bill. 

*  •   * 

"Quo  Vadis"  holds  the  boards  at  the  Central  to 
crowded  houses.  The  scenic  effects  are  exceptionally 
fine. 

*  *  * 

(iuv  Wilson  and  Nellie  Daly-Moran  promise  an 
amusing   comedy    skit    at    the   Chutes   this   coming 

week  in  "Who — Me?"  Thej  are  said  to  he  ver\ 
clever  entertainers.  Herein  a  renowned  ventrilo- 
quist and  mimic,  will  make  his  first  appearance  here, 
as  will  also  a  juvenile  soprano.  Florence  Ray  field, 
known  as  "the  little  l'atti."  Mabel  Lamson,  the  popu- 
lar contralto,  will  he  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs, 
and  Montague's  Cockatoo  Circus,  and  Koplin.  Fowler 
and  Koplin,  society  acrobats,  will  appear  for  the  last 

times. 

*  *  * 

"Roly  Poly."  a  new  musical  comedy  and  a  satire 
on  local  society,  is  to  follow  "The  Beauty  Shop"  at 
Fischer's  Theatre  on  February  8th.  It  has  an  inter- 
esting and  cleverly  executed  plot,  with  an  atmosphere 
of  jocality  and  song  that  drifts  fro  mthe  race  track 
and  south  of  Market  to  the  final  act  on   Nob  Hill. 

Joseph  Arthur's  latest  melodrama,  "Lost  River,'' 
will  be  the  programme  at  the  Grand  Opera  House 
the  week  beginning  to-morrow  matinee. 

*  *  * 

Weber  and  Fields  and  their  entire  New  York  com- 
pany, which  includes  Lillian  Russell,  Ross  and  Fen- 
ton,  Louis  Mann,  Peter  F.  Dailey,  will  commence  a 
two  weeks'  season  Monday  night  February  8th.  Dur- 
ing this  engagement  there  will  be  Sunday  night  per- 
formances and  Wednesday  and  Saturday  matinees. 
The  prices  will  be  $2,  $1.50,  $1,  75  cents  and  50  cents. 

*  *  * 

The  next  Columbia  attraction  will  attract  much 
attention,  as  it  is  a  joint  starring  engagement  of 
Louis  James  and  Frederick  Warde.  These  welcome 
players  will  appear  in  an  enirely  new  vehicle  under 
the  title  of  "Alexander  the  Great."  It  is  a  spectacu- 
lar drama,  and  six  massive  scenes  are  utilized  as 
settings  for  this  story  culled  from  the  history  of  an- 
cient Babylonia. 

IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT. 
Mr.  Paul  Gerson  begs  to  state  that  in  response  to 
numerous  requests  he  will  on  January  1st  open  a 
Juvenile  Department  in  connection  with  his  School 
of  Acting,  and  has  secured  the  services  of  a  teacher 
of  experience  specially  qualified  for  this  work,  Miss 
Lillian  E.  Muscio.  One  of  the  features  of  the  depart- 
ment  will  be  a  dancing  class  in  charge  of  Signora 
Matildita.  In  order  that  each  one  may  have  his  or 
or  address  the  Juvenile  Department  of  the  Paul  Ger- 
her  proper  time  and  attention,  the  class  will  be  lim- 
ited to  twenty-five.  M'r.  Gerson  will  give  his  per- 
sonal attention  to  every  pupil.  For  terms,  etc.,  call 
son  School  of  Acting,  Native  Sons'  building,  414 
Mason  street.  The  fourth  of  the  series  of  matinee 
performances  by  students  at  Paul  Gerson's  School 
of  Acting  will  take  place  at  the  California  Theatre 
on  Friday  afternoon,  February  12th.  A  brilliant  pro- 
gramme will  be  presented.  The  school  will  be  as- 
sisted by  the  San  Francisco  Conservatory  of  Music, 
this  institution  hereafter  joining  its  artistic  interests 
with  the  School  of  Acting. 


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THE    BEAUTY    SHOP 

But  for  tin*  tit-w  law.  standing  i"  mm  would  be  bJ  ;i  premiam< 
Beyond  dnubl  the  bout  musical  comedy  ever  presented  upon  any 
stage  In  "Frisco  "    Change ol  ^■•\\u>  and  spool  a' ties  every  Mon- 
day night  'lurinji  1  he  run     <>ur  remarkable  "Ail  st;ir"  oast 
Nexl  sensation  "U<  >LY  l'<  >LY"  with  tin-  first  appearance  ..r 
KISS  mi  III.  I  YHOH 

Hatlnees  Saturday  Bad  Sunday. 


Columbia  Theatre. 


CoTTLitH.  Makx  a  Co, 

Li\i**"c§  and  Manager!. 

Tonight,  Sunday  night  and  all  next  weak.    Matinee  Saturdays 
only.   The  International  mnstaal  comedy  triumph 

A    CHINESE    HONEYMOON 

Company  or  100. 

Feb.  8.-J  AMES  and  WARDE  in 

ALEXANDER    THE    GREAT 


OrTlhPH  1  YT\        San  Fraoclsco'eGrcaTost  MupIc  Halt 


Farrcll  St..  betwcua   Siockluu  unit   Towcll  street*. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  Jan.    81 

A    BOUMTEOUS    BILL 

Monroe,  Mack  and  Lawrence;  The  Two  Silvas;  Stuart 
Barnes:  Robertus  and  Wilfredo;  Cordua  and  Maud:  Duffy. 
Sawtelle  and  Duffy;  Holden  and  Florence;  Orpheum  Motion 
Pictures  and  last  week  of 

cJOHNNY    and     EMMA    RAY 

Prices,  loc.  25c  and  50c- 

Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Cent 


ml    TH*=»ri+r*=»         Belasco  &  Mayer,  Proprietors 
I      1  NcULrc.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  8outh  533 
Week  of  Monday,  February  1st 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 
The  matchless  emotional  drama 

EAST    LYNNE 
Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c    Matinees  10, 15,  26c- 
Week  of  Feb.  8.  IN  SIGHT  OF  ST.  PAUL'S. 

AlroTdi-    TKci/-tt- vd  Belasco  &  Mayer,  Proprietors 

MlCaZar     ineutre    e.  D.  Pmce.  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees    Saturday    and    Sunday. 

One  week  commencing  Monday  Feb.  1, 

First  San  Fruncisco  production  of 

A    COLONIAL    GIRL 

As  originally  played  by  "Virginia  Harned  and  E.  H.  Sothern 

"The  Alcazar  is  presenting  splendid  plays  in  rapid  succession." 

—Post 

Evenings  25  to  75c    Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees  15  to  50c 

Mon.  8-Broadhurst's  famous  farce  THE  WRONG  MR.  WRIGHT 

Firsttime  by  a  stock  company 


Tivoli  Opera  Mouse.  0ornerEdfcdstreets 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Beginning  Monday  Feb.  1. 
Fourth  week  of  the  phenomenal  success 

WHEN    cJOHNNY    GOMES    MARCHING 

HOME 

A  three  act   military  comic  opera  by  Stanislaus  Stange   and 
Julian  Edwards.    Secure  seats  in  advance.    Next 

THE    GYPSY    BARON 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c    Box  Seats,  $1. 


fifter  the  Theater 


Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen    to    the    matchless    string    band    and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The    Cafe   Ztnkand   Is   society's   gathering    place   after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


Emile  Bruguiere  is  a  militant  knight.  A  wanderer 
from  Germany  casts  a  too-admiring-  glance  upon  his 
lady  love,  and — smash  ! — another  haughty  foreigner 
has  been  rolled  in  the  dust.  Whether  the  result  will 
be  an  exchange  of  cards  and  a  meeting  in  the  early 
morn  beneath  the  cypress  trees,  remains  for  time 
to  develop.  Bruguiere's  action  is  of  course  highly 
justifiable.  Any  man  who  looks  too  long  or  with  too 
much  open  admiration  upon  what  is  another's  is  apt 
to  get  into  trouble.  Especially  is  this  so  at  Mon- 
terey, where  everything  should  be  done  with  so  much 
circumspection. 

And  as  for  Miss  Shortridge,  only  the  greatest  sym-- 
pathy  can  be  expressed.  Some  unkind  people — there 
are  always  the  envious  ones — have  said  they  think 
she  purposely  egged  on  the  row,  so  that  she  might 
be  able  to  be  in  the  reflection  fr(5m  the  lime-light. 
Such  a  thought  is  unkind  and  unchivalrous.  More- 
over, it  is  so  much  the  opposite  of  the  inclinations 
of  those  who  have  heretofore  made  famous  the  young 
lady's  family  name  that  it  is,  of  course,  unworthy 
even  a  passing  thought.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bru- 
guiere and  Miss  Shortridge,  it  is  now  said,  will  be 
celebrated  at  an  early  date. 

The  young  man  is  a  very  talented  fellow.  He  will 
have  a  comfortable  fortune,  even  if  he  is  not  inter- 
ested in  the  hotel  St.  Francis,  as  was  reported.  Bru- 
guiere's money  comes  from  his  mother's  interest  in 
the  Sather  estate.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Pedar 
Sather,  the  banker. 

*  *  * 

No  one  has  expressed  particular  surprise  over  the 
discovery  that  Lunstedt,  Grand  Secretary  of  the 
Native  Sons,  is  a  defaulter.  His  defalcation  was  in 
the  very  nature  of  things.  He  was  repeatedly  re- 
elected to  office ;  he  kept  his  end  up  among  the  boys, 
and  thereby  spent  more  than  he  could  afford;  he 
was  a  good  fellow  to  country  members,  and  he  was 
endowed  by  nature  with  a  very  weak  character.  No 
one  ever  thought  of  subjecting  his  accounts  to  rigid 
scrutiny,  and  he  was  enabled  to  continue  his  thefls 
undiscovered  for  years.  The  trouble  with  manj'  fra- 
ternal societies  is  that  they  seem  to  consider  it  a 
reflection  upon  a  financial  officer  to  expert  his  books. 
The  way  to  crime  is  made  easy,  so  that  the  de- 
faulter's tender  feelings  may  not  be  hurt.  Of  course, 
Lundstedt  will  not  be  prosecuted,  and  thereby  an 
additional  premium  will  be  placed  on  defalcation.  I 
wonder  if  the  Native  Sons  will  risk  hurting  the 
haughty  financial  honor  of  other  fiduciary  agents,  and 
will  actually  insist  on  balancing  their  accounts?  If 
anything  wrong  is  discovered,  "mum"  will  be  the 
word. 

The  Lundstedt  affair  is  so  similar  to  McKowen's 
and  McKowen's  was  so  similar  to  Widber's,  and  his 
was  so  similar  to  Billy  Vice's,  and  his  was  so  similar 
to  Billy  White's  of  the  Board  of  Works,  one  could 
but  string  out  the  names  of  the  town's  defaulters 
until  a  column  was  filled.  All  of  them  were  "good 
fellows";  all  of  them  went  the  pace;  in  every  instance 
they  were  implicitly  trusted ;  and  in  every  instance, 
also,  the  very  last  men  to  suspect  them  were  those 
from  whom  they  stole.  In  all  of  these  instances,  also, 
it  was  shown  that  the  defaulters  had  followed  the 
very  same  plan.  They  kept  false  accounts,  made 
forced  balances,  and  thus  imposed  upon  those  who 


were  supposed  to  watch  them.  Their  books  were 
experted  in  perfunctory  fashion,  and  it  was  not  until 
long  continued  escape  from  discovery  had  made  them 
careless  that  they  were  found  out.  Were  not  their 
superiors,  or  the  people  whose  duty  it  was  to  watch 
them,  almost  as  culpable  as  the  thieves,  in  making 
the  thefts  possible  by  long-continued  neglect  of  duty 
in  carelessly  passing  over  doctored  accounts,  or  tak- 
ing for  granted  what  should  have  been  proved  be- 
yond peradventure?  Let  me  give  you  a  tip.  Always 
watch  the  man  who  handles  the  money — particularly 

when  he  is  a  "good  fellow." 
*  *  * 

The  press  reports  say  Livernash  will  hold  his  seat. 
That  is  characteristic  of  Livernash.  He  certainly 
tries  to  hold  anything  he  ever  gets  his  hands  on.  But 
what  has  become  of  our  little  Willie  Wynn?  He  is 
said  to  be  in  Congress,  representing  the  Fifth  Dis- 
trict of  California,  but  no  one  out  here  can  prove  it. 
A  terrible  suspicion  has  spread  in  political  circles 
that  old  man  Cannon  has  suppressed  our  little  Wil- 
lie. There  may  be  some  truth  in  the  rumor,  for  any- 
one who  has  met  Wynn  when  his  talking  machinery 
was  in  prime  condition  knows  that  he  could  not  be 
suppressed  with  anything  less  than  a  cannon. 

The  Supervisors'  "roast"  of  the  Board  of  Health 
fell  rather  flat.  It  deserved  a  conservative  reception. 
Law-abiding  citizens  will,  of  course,  support  the 
Supervisors,  or  other  public  officials,  when  they  are 
honestly  trying  to  prevent  or  undo  something  ille- 
gal, but  the  Supervisors  failed  to  point  out  anything 
illegal  in  the  actions  of  the  Board  of  Health.  The  lat- 
ter Board  acted  in  violation  of  the  law  in  making 
some  appointments  but  the  Supervisors  did  not  dis- 
cover the  illegalities.  They  simply  made  a  general, 
condemnatory  statement.  I  wonder  if  it  is  possible 
that  because  Supervisor  D'Ancona's  mother-in-law 
lost  her  job  as  matron  ;  that  Supervisor  Payot's  son- 
in-law  lost  his  job  as  Sanitary  Inspector ;  that  Super- 
visor Braunhart's  protege  lost  his  job  as  patrol- 
driver  ;  that  Supervisor  Alpcrs  expects  to  get  his 
brother-in-law  appointed  to  poundmaster,  and  that 
Supervisor  Brandenstein  is  in  training  for  the  office 
of  Mayor — I  wonder  if  these  separations  of  relatives 
from  the  public  crib  really  had  anything  at  all  to 
do  with  the  righteously  indignant  attitude  of  the  con- 
trolling elements  in  the  Board? 
*  *  * 

Martin  Egan,  late  of  Oakland,  will  be  heard  from 
again  soon.    He  is  out  in  Japan  or  China  somewhere, 


RAMSAY" 

ISLAY 
SCOTCH   WHISKY 


UNEXCELLED  FOR  BODY    AND 
FLAYOE 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


camped  at  ■  telegraph  station,  waiting  for  Ihini 

happen.     Martin  was  down  in  Manila  for 
ciatcil  Press,  bat  was  ordered  to  the  front  a-  s.>..n  as 
the  rumors  of  war  began  to  assume  the  tone  of  proh 
abilities.     He  should  prove  a  valuable  news  -man    in 
the  event  of  hostilities.     During  the  China-Japa 
war,  Egan,  who  was  working  on  a  local  paper,  wen 
to  the  Orient  on  a  venture,  and  sent  hack  some  ol 
the  best  stuff  printed  about  the  war.     Upon  his  re 
turn   home,  he  went   to   New    York,   where   he   was 
given  a  splendid  position  with  the  big  news  company. 
Then  he  went  to  Manila  to  relieve  a  correspondent 
who  fell  out   with   the  army  push   down   there,  and 
now    Egan  is  again  at  the  cannon's  mouth.     Yet   it 
is  said  that  nothing  good  comes  out  of  Oakland. 

*  *  * 

Another  man  bound  for  China  and  Japan  is  Har- 
old Bolce,  who  was  also  a  local  newspaper  man.  His 
purpose  is  to  discuss  commercial  conditions  in  the 
Orient  for  several  Eastern  publications.  The  eves 
of  the  world  are  now  turned  toward  the  great  and 
mysterious  East,  and  any  man  who  can  tell  an  inter- 
esting tale  of  that  wondrous  land  may  find  a  ready 
market  for  his  wares. 

*  *  * 

Under  the  new  regime,  the  City  and  County  Hos- 
pital will  be  under  the  direction  of  an  interne,  electe.l 
as  resident  physician  by  the  other  internes.  This  is 
the  most  impracticable  scheme  ever  devised  in  the 
interests  of  "economy."  It  has  caused  astonishment 
among  the  medical  fraternity,  and  those  acquainted 
with  conditions  at  the  hospital,  and  with  the  man- 
agement of  large  hospitals  in  other  cities,  criticise  it 
as  being  next  to  criminal  in  the  opportunities  it  pre- 
sents for  errors  that  will  result  in  the  deaths  of 
those  unfortunates  whose  lives  will  depend  upon  the 
judgment  of  a  lot  of  medical  students.  It  is  the  duty 
of  a  resident  physician  to  give  personal  attention  to 
every  case  in  a  hospital,  by  directing  the  nurses  and 
the  assisting  physicians  to  continue  the  course  of 
treatment  prescribed  by  the  visiting  chiefs.  The 
"resident"  is  also  frequently  required  to  undertake 
capital  surgical  cases  arising  from  errors  of  other 
doctors,  or  that  may  be  brought  in  from  the  streets. 
The  County  Hospital  receives  hundreds  of  emer- 
gency cases  every  month.  All  these  patients  need 
the  immediate  care  of  competent  physicians  and  sur- 
geons. With  a  competent  medical  man  at  the  head 
of  the  institution,  the  unfortunates  may  have  some 
chance  for  their  lives.  But  what  will  happen  when  a 
hospital  with  500  patients  is  absolutely  controlled 
by  a  lot  of  boys  just  out  of  college,  without  any 
experience  whatever,  and  who  are  empowered  hv 
the  Board  of  Health  to  elect  their  most  popular  fel- 
low as  resident  physician?  Will  physicians  of  any 
standing,  who  may  assist  at  the  hospital,  submit  to 
the  direction  of  a  youngster  who  is  always  overcome 
by  sickness  at  the  sight  of  blood,  anl  who  loses  his 
nerve  when  he  knows  he  has  a  hard  case?  The  sur- 
prising thing  is  that  a  man  of  Dr.  Ward's  executive 
ability  should  have  ever  consented  to  the  new  plan 
of  running  the  hospital.  But  that  is  not  the  onlv 
surprising  thing  at  the  City  and  County  Hospital. 
Elbert  and  McQuade  are  also  surprises.  The  former 
was  superintendent  once  before.  Those  who  were 
forced  to  meet  him  in  that  caoacity  have  not  forgot- 
ten it.  In  a  few  months,  at  the  longest,  Dr.  Ward's 
Board  of  Health  will  certainlv  have  cause  to  remem- 
ber that  they  were  responsible  for  reinstating^  him. 
As  to  McQuade!     Language  is  powerless  in  this  in- 

Fine    stationery,    steel    and     copperplate     engraving. 

Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street.  San  Francisco. 


»7 

Mis  is  the  most  inexc  pointmeat 

cbarj  ■  the  present  administration.    He  was 

known  f<  idow  an. I  bodyguard  of 

Martin  Kelly.     He  deserted  his  old  protector  t"  fol 
low   Schmitz;  nol   that   he  loved    Kelly   less,  bnl    that 
he   wanted   a   job    more.      It    jv   .,„   cv,.n   |,ct   that    Mr. 

Ward  never  saw  McQuade.    If  be  did.  ami  then  » 
tor  his  appointment,  further  comment  is  use). 

Dollmann's  Cafe,  at  328  Pine  street,  has  hern  re 
•  •pened  by  Mr.  A.  Dollmann.  This  popular  place  has 
been  completely  refitted  and  is  hcing  run  in  first- 
class  style.  It  is  conveniently  situated,  opposite  the 
Stock  Exchange,  and  enjoys  the  patronage  of  all 
lovers  of  good  cheer.  Mr.  Pollinatm  is  a  caterer  of 
ability,  and  his  main  claim  to  popularity  is  the  exqui- 
site knowledge  of  pleasing  his  patronage.  A  feature 
of  the  new  place  is  a  mercantile  lunch  served  from 
1 1  a.  m.  to  2  p.  m.  Here  for  25  cents  one  can  have 
the  best  the  market  affords,  including  refreshment. 
In  fact,  a  better  quick  lunch  could  not  be  desired. 

Pears' 

Why  is  Pears'  Soap — the 
best  in  the  world,  the  soap 
with  no  free  alkali  in  it — 
sold  for  15  cents   a  cake? 

It  was  made  for  a  hos- 
pital soap  in  the  first 
place,  made  by  request, 
the  doctors  wanted  a  soap 
that  would  wash  as  sharp 
as  any  and  do  no  harm 
to  the  skin.  That  means 
a  soap  all  soap,  with  no 
free  alkali  in  it,  nothing 
but  soap;  there  is  nothing 
mysterious  in  it.  Cost  de- 
pends on  quantity;  quan- 
tity comes  of  quality. 

Sold  all  over  tt  e  world.  


Hotel 
f  ^Roof    Belleclaire, 


Broadway   &   77th   St. 

NEW   YORK 

Luxuriously  furnished  room! 
fur  permanent  and  transient 
guests,  at  moderate  prices. 

Orchestra  of  solo  playorfl,  6  p. 
m.  till  l  a.  m. 

Restaurant,  Palm  Boom  and 
Cafe  gems  of  artistic  perfection. 
Cu'elne  and  service  really  de- 
lightful.   You  will  say  bo. 

A  special  feature  li  our  after 
theater  suppers 

Billiard  parlor  for  ladles  Is 
another  pleasant  feature. 

Original  with  the  Belleclaire  Is 
the  refined  vaudeville  every 
Thursday  evening. 

Our  gallery  of  beatlful  paint- 
ings, valued  at  $50,000,  la  open 
evenings  to  visitors. 

Affability  and  courtesy  guar- 
-  anteed  from  every  Belleclaire 
employo. 

Milton  Roblee,  Prop. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


It  is  hardly  correct  to  allude 
The  Passing  of  to  the  ill-fated  Whitakef 
Whitaker  Wright.  Wright  as  a  "notorious  pro- 
moter of  wild  cat  enterprises" 
in  connection  with  his  tragic  death  in  London,  follow- 
ing on  the  heels  of  his  conviction  and  sentence  to 
penal  servitude.  "Wild  catting"  was  a  sin  of  his 
early  life  when  operating  in  California  some  twentj 
years  ago,  at  a  period  when  the  (  rolden  State  was  just 
far  enough  away  front  the  Eastern  financial  centers 
to  afford  safer  opportunities  for  milking  the  public 
than  it  does  in  these  days  of  more  rapid  communi- 
cation. There  was  nothing  of  the  wild  cat  1  rder  about 
the  Lakeview  Consols.  These  Wcstralian  mines  were 
inordinately  rich,  and  for  years  their  bullion  product 
was  sufficient  to  justify  the  high  prices  which  ruled 
for  the  shares.  Where  Wright  and  his  associates 
make  the  mistake,  ending  with  a  smash  in  the  market 
which  enriched  a  bear  clique  and  brought  financial 
ruin  and  disgrace  upon  the  management,  was  in  not 
keeping  as  closely  in  touch  with  conditions  in  the 
mine  as  he  should  have  done  for  the  protection  of 
himself  and  friends.  For  months  before  the  end  he 
was  operating  over  a  loaded  magazine  and  unwit- 
tingly went  to  his  fate.  His  pride  doubtless  kept 
him  silent  upon  matters  which  would  have  done 
nothing  to  help  him  out,  and  would  only  have  made 
him  a  target  for  the  sneers  of  a  class  wdio  never  for- 
give some  phases  of  the  manipulator's  art  which, 
when  ignored,  lead  eventually  to  ruin  for  all.  swift 
and  irretrievable.  The  break  in  the  Lakeview  Con- 
sols which  demoralized  the  shares  was  brought  about 
by  a  steady  and  powerful  bear  movement  of  weeks 
in  duration.  That  Wright  was  the  chief  sufferer 
showed  that  he  was  not  in  the  bear  camp,  and  that 
the  bear  raid  was  successful  showed  that  its  manipu- 
lators knew  more  about  the  true  condition  of  the 
mine  than  he  did,  until  too  late,  and  then  all  the 
money  he  and  his  friends  could  raise  was  insufficient 
to  bolster  up  the  concern  tottering  upon  its  Founda- 
tion. The  financial  frauds  which  are  treated  judi- 
cially on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  do  not  prevail  in 
(ireat  Britain,  wdiere  justice  strikes  all  the  harder 
when  the  accused  belongs  to  a  class  the  members  of 
which  are  expected,  from  their  wealth  or  position,  to 
know  more  than  the  criminal  sprung  from  a  lower 
grade  of  humanity.  There  was  something  "f  the 
heroic  about  the  death  of  this  man,  dying  as  he  did 
without  a  word  of  recommendation  and  with  sealed 
lips  in  regard  to  matters  concerning  his  latter  day 
experiences  in  London,  which  bore  so  heavily  against 
him.  These  will  now  lie  buried  in  the  secrecy  of  his 
tomb.  The  attempt  to  implicate  other  members  of 
the  directorate  in  criminal  conduct  by  a  portion  of 
the  English  Radical  press,  can  only  be  regarded  as 
a  disgraceful  exhibition  of  a  discount  to  the  low- 
methods  of  pot-house  politicians,  which  some  years 
ago  would  have  been  quickly  suppressed  by  an  out- 
raged public  opinion. 

The    majority    of    the    directors 
The  Local  Gas       of  the   San    Francisco   Gas  and 
Muddle.  Electric   Company   do  not  like 

tiie  attitude  assumed  by  .Mr. 
Miller,  who  lias  the  laudable  ambition  to  preside  over 
the  affairs  of  the  company.  We  do  not  know  Mr. 
Miller  personally,  bul  from  the  fact  that  he  at  least 
can  boast  of  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  manu- 
facture of  gas,  and   that   his  general   reputation  for 


business  probity  and  experience  is  good,  his  election 
should  certainly  be  ensured  by  a  large  majority  of 
votes  at  the  coming  election;  that  is,  if  they  have 
any  regard  for  their  pockets.  There  is  every  evidence 
now  on  hand  to  convince  the  most  skeptical  that 
any  change  in  the  managerial  department  will  not 
be  for  the  worse.  After  permitting  the  impression 
to  get  abroad  by  the  publication  from  time  to  time 
in  all  the  leading  papers  of  the  city  that  the  Presi- 
dent's salary  was  $25,000  per  annum,  they  now  con- 
descend to  enlighten  people  on  the  subject,  to  the 
effect  that  it  is  only  $18,000  per  annum.  This  reduc- 
tion in  figures  is  satisfactory  even  if  only  in  a  small 
degree,  being  enough  to  keep  the  wolf  from  the  door 
of  the  lucky  incumbent.  That,  however,  has  no  bear- 
ing upon  the  promised  contest  for  control,  and  the 
hope  can  only  be  reiterated  that  the  coining  election 
will  result  in  a  sweep  which  will  put  the  right  men 
for  once  in  the  right  place.     ■ 

The  Comstock  Market  is  a 
Pine-St.  Market,      puzzle  to  dealers  just  now,  its 

actions  being  diametrically  op- 
posed to  the  news  from  the  mines.  It  looks  very  much 
ns  though  the  bears  were  being  rounded  up  for  more 
punishment,  although  the  growling  element  on  the 
street  will  escape  as  usual.  Talk  is  their  capital,  for- 
tunately for  the  market,  and  talk  is  but  a  slow  method 
of  depressing  prices  when  it  is  not  backed  by  money. 
That  the  market  is  guided  by  a  strong  hand,  working 
toward  some  definite  issue,  is  apparent  to  all  ac- 
quainted with  the  ways  of  old-time  manipulators. 
They  are  evidently  working  some  coup,  encouraging 
as  they  are  in  every  way  bear  attacks  which  are  work- 
ing as  usual  into  their  hands,  and  to  the  injury  of  the 
unfortunates  on  the  outside  who  swallow  anything 
they  hear  as  Gospel.  Probably  some  light  will  he 
thrown  upon  the  matter  before  long.  During  the 
week  Ophir  was  placed  again  upon  the  list  of  divi- 
dend payers,  after  a  lapse  of  twenty  years.  The 
amount  paid  was  25  cents  per  share,  with  more  to 
hear   from. 


At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders  of  the 
French  Savings  Bank  the  following  officers  and  di- 
rectors were  elected:  Charles  Carpy,  president;  A. 
Legallet,  vice-president;  Leon  Bocqueraz,  J.  A.  l'.er- 
gerot,  J.  B.  Clot,  J.  S.  Godcau,  Leon  Kauffman,  J.  J. 
Mack  and  A.  Roose.    John  Ginty  was  elected  cashier. 


At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Giant  Powder  Com- 
pany the  old  officers  and  directors  were  re-elected  as 
follows:  C.  C.  Bemis,  president;  L.  F.  Monteagle. 
vice-president;  C.  FT.  Phillips,  T.  B.  Pheby,  T.  B. 
Bishop,  lames  Smith,  and  C.  H.  Crocker.  During 
the  past  year  twelve  dividends  of  50  cents  per  share 
were  paid,  amounting  to  $120,000.      Profit  and   loss 


"BAB'J"' 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


5/><?    James    H.   Ba.bcock    Centering    Co. 

212.214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


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now 

!"K  profits  over  and  above  dividend! 
I  feature  of  the  n 
in  the  corporation's  indcbtedi 


At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  S;i\  in tr-  and  I 
ty.  the  following  officers  wore  elected  to  serve 
for  the  ensuing  year:  Arthur  A.  Smith,  president; 
Horace  Davis,  vice-president;  Cyrus  W.  Carmany, 
cashier  and  secretary;  Edwin  Bonncll,  assistanl 
cashier:  lames  I".  McGauley,  auditor.  Directors: 
Arthur  A.  Smith.  Horace  Davis,  A.  X  Drown, 
E.  Goodman,  Willis  E.  Davis,  Edmund  C.  Burr,  Chas. 
K.   Bishop,  William  B.  Dunning,  Vandcrlynii  Stow. 


At  the  recent  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders, 
of  the  <  Iceanic  Steamship  Company,  the  followin  ; 
directors  were  elected:  Claus  Spreckels,  J.  I ».  Spreck- 
els.  A.  B.  Spreckels,  Fred  Tillman,  Jr.,  W.  D.  K.  (,il>- 

SOn,  E.  F.  Preston  and  H.  E.  Bothin.  The  financial 
statement  showed  that  the  expenses  for  the  past  year 
were  $228,930  in  excess  of  the  receipts.  The  total 
deficit  now  amounts  to  $1,734,259. 


The  Bank  Commissioners  have  called  for  a  report 
of  all  the  State  hanks  at  the  close  of  business  on  tl.e 
23d  of  January.  Fifteen  days  are  allowed  in  which 
to  make  their  reports. 

DEATH  OF  CHARLES  LYONS. 

The  business  community  of  San  Francisco  has  suf- 
fered a  distinct  loss  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Charles  Lyons 
of  San  Francisco.  Mr.  Lyons  was  a  gentleman  of 
splendid  presence,  and  was  well  liked  by  all  who  had 
the  advantage  of  his  acquaintance.  He  was  a  native 
of  London,  and  he  had  the  cultured  manner  of  the 
best  citizens  of  the  English  capital. 

Mr.  Lyons  leaves  a  large  family,  and  thousands  of 
friends  who  will  mourn  his  loss.  Although  sixty- 
four  years  old,  at  his  demise,  he  had  the  appearance 
of  a  man  much  younger  in  years,  and  his  end  is 
mourned  as  an  untimely  one. 

AN  OPEN  SHOP. 

All  fair-minded  people  should  patronize  Johnson's 
Open-Shop  Restaurant   (boycotted),  725  Market  St. 

One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excel  lent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N-  E.  Cor,  Sutter 
and  Grant  Ave. 

4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L.  Association 

Pays  4  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  G  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFORNIA    STREET.    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital M.OOO.OOO 

Paid  in  Capital l.ooo.con 

Guarantee  Capital 2rn>,i)i:o 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
■  payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A.  A-  Watkins.  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop.  Vice-President  Bank  of  California. ...Vice-President 

S.  Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S-  &  L.  Association. 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  jEtna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

Chas.  T£.  Ladd.  Banker,  Portland,  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab,  Attornev-at-law Attorney 

Walter  K.  Smith Cashier 


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3    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Mtrconi  Certificates.  I  et  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO     NOT     DELAY 


Send yonroh'-i-k  or  iTinnt'y  m-der  for  a.s  many  blocks  of  90  as  you 
wish  i"  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  lees  than  lioo.  Price  par 
for $5.oo certificates.    Tin*  price  may  advance  any  day. 

The  stock  of  the  British  DfarconJ  Company  was  put     ar    le.oo  and 

and  is  now  sellinir  at  I'M  nn  the  London  stock  Exchange,  an  adva i  if 

34o  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  a,mertcan  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Tne  Marconi  svstem  is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  hy  the  prdss  of  the  entire  world-  Edison . 
Marconi  and  Pupiu  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 
Company- 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CROSSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa. ;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. ;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  III. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


ARE  A  NECESSARY  FEATURE  OF  MODERN  ARCHITECTURE 

The  Otis  Antomatic  Electric  Elevator 

is  the  latest  development  of  the  art  of  home  com- 
fort. It  will  pay  architects  to  investigate  its 
merits  before  completing  specifications  for  a 
modern  house.  It  is  operated  by  pressing  a  but- 
ton and  will  not  respond  to  an  interfering  call. 
Correspondence  invited. 

OTIS    ELEVATOR.    COMPANY 

Pacific  Coast  Department:  509-511   Howard  St. 
San  Francisco. 


AfiPWTSI       Drop  slow  goods.    We  have  the  beat  sellers  on  the 
/WJCI^l  I  31       market,     l'rollts  immense.     Sample  nev,    inven- 
tion.   10C    Catalog  free.  -MONARCH    V>VELT\    CO. 
Unit  I!..  Commercial  Bldg.,  Springfield,  Ohio. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER.  January  30,  1903. 

BANKING. Sfce  Minister    of  Foreign  Affairs 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital,  Surplus  and  Undivided    J$|3¥500,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  F.  L.  Llpman.  Cashier;  Prank  B. 
King,   Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.   E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New    York;    Salt   Lake.    Utah;    Portland,    Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savinqs  Union 

532  California  St.  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B    POND.  President:  W.  C.  B  De  FREMERY.  ROBERT  WATT. 

Vice-Presidents;  T.ovell  While.  Cashier:  R.  M.  Welcb.  Assist.  Cashier 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond  W.  C.  B.  de  Fremery.  Henrv  F.  Allen.  George 
C.  Roardman.  Jacob  Barth.C.O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H.  Beaver,  William 
A.  Magee.  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country  remit- 
tances may  be  scnl  by  Wells.  Fargo  A  Co..  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
Parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
ank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The 
signature  of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No 
charge  is  made  for  pass-book  or  entrance  fee. 

Office  hours:    9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evening.  0:30  to  8. 

Deposits.  December  31.  1903 t33.23-2.floa 

Guarantee  Capital.  Paid  up  1,000,000 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds 699,516 

Mutual  Savinas  Bank  „f  san  Francis™, 

710  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    H.ooo.000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   500  000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President:  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent: GEORGE  A.  STORY.  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President;   C.    B.    HOBSON.   Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphv.  John  A.  hooper. 
James  Moffitt.  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  McEIroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,   James  M.   McDonald.   Charles   Holbrook. 

Interest   paid   on    deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German   Savinqs  cK  Loan  Society 

NO.   526  CALIFORNIA   STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    S-M'1^  "fil  go 

Capital   Actually   Paid-up   in   Cash    f.'ooo.'oOO.OO 

Deposits,    Dec.   31.    1903    ,..36.049.49118 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President.  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt.  Emll  Rohte.  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann: Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;  General  Attorney.  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  ASSoci«ion 

Established   In   1S89.  OF   CALIFORNIA. 

301    California    Street.    San    Francisco.    Cal. 

Subscribed     Capital     $15,000,000.00 

Paid-in     Capital     3,000.000.110 

Profit    and    Reserve    Fund     450.000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,    President;   Wiiilam   Corbln,    Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporatior) 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus   J7.894.400 

Capital   and   Surplus  Authorized    10,000.000.00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer.  president:  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wightman.  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard.  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee.  General  Manager:  William  H.  Maclntyre, 
Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel. 

BRANCHES— London.  San  Francisco.  City  of.  Mexico,  Manila, 
Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,   Shanghai.   Singapore. 

AGENCIES — Bombay.  Calcutta.  Madras.  Penang.  Rangoon. 
Colombo.  Amoy.  Canton.  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansui,  Anping, 
Bakan,  Moji,  Saigon,  Kobe.  Bangkok.  Batavla,  Samarang.  Sou- 
rabava.   and   all   parts   of   Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34   Sansome    Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers*  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposit  isued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK.  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWICK.  JR..  Ast.  Mgr 


The  more  recent  of  the  foreign  and  domestic  en- 
tanglements which  our  self-sufficient  President  has 
involved  the  United  States  are  a  purpose  in  high 
political  and  commercial  life  to  enjoin  the  Treasury 
from  paying  to  the  alleged  Republic  of  Panama  the 
bonus  of  $10,000,000  on  the  ground  that  it  would  be 
illegal;  evidence  that  negotiations  were  deliberately 
broken  off  with  Colombia  for  a  Panama  Canal  treaty 
so  as  to  accomplish  a  pre-arranged  scheme  for  the 
secession  of  Panama  and  the  disruption  of  the  Colom- 
bian Republic ;  the  creation  of  the  office  of  Minister 
Plenipotentiary  to  the  Republic  of  Panama,  and  the 
despatching  of  such  representative  to  Panama,  before 
Congress  had  conferred  the  necessary  legal  author- 
ity ;  the  setting  of  unlawful  precedents  in  all  direc- 
tions; the  severe  rebuke  and  vehement  denuncia- 
tion of  the  President  by  Yale  professors  and  leading 
citizens  of  New  Haven  for  being  false  to  his  great 
trust  and  defying  law  and  trampling  upon  the  rights 
of  the  weak;  the  insult  to  the  Chief  Justice  and  Jus- 
tices of  the  Supreme  Court  by  obliging  them  to  play 
second  fiddle  to  representatives  of  obscure  and  unin- 
fluential  foreign  Governments  at  the  President's  re- 
ception given  in  honor  of  the  court;  the  order  from 
the  President  that  hereafter  representatives  of  for- 
eign powers  will  be  required  to  appear  at  White 
House  receptions  decked  out  in  all  the  gold  lace  and 
glittering  uniforms  that  they  are  permitted  to  wear 
by  virtue  of  their  office,  and  the  announcement  in 
spirit,  if  not  in  words,  that  the  Constitution  and  laws 
of  the  United  States  were  never  intended  to  circum- 
scribe or  tie  the  hands  of  a  wise,  brave  and  far-seeing 
statesman  as  is  President  Roosevelt.  But  these  are 
not  all  the  "strenuous"  things  our  go-as-you-please 
Chief  Executive  has  accomplished  recently  for  his 
subjects  abroad  and  at  home. 
*  *  * 

The  situation  in  the  Far  East  is  as  dangerous  to 
the  peace  of  the  nations  in  interest  as  a  pine  mansion 
would  be  with  a  dozen  children  playing  with  matches 
and  gunpowder  in  the  rubbish  room.  That  war  is  in- 
evitable no  observer  of  events  doubts,  but  where  the 
first  shock  of  battle  will  be  felt  is  a  problem  which 
may  be  solved  at  any  moment.  Diplomatic  negotia- 
tions between  Japan  and  Russia  have  reached  the 
point  of  honest  pretention  of  the  one  candidly  telling 
the  other  that  it  hasn't  a  particle  of  faith  in  the  word, 
promise  or  integrity  of  the  other.  And  a  foolish 
Russian  Prince,  who  is  in  a  position  of  official  and 
social  life  at  the  Czar's  court,  observed  some  days 
ago  that  "it  will  never  do  to  recognize  Japan  as  a 
really  civilized  nation  and  establish  corresponding 
relations  with  her  as  are  maintained  between  the  na- 
tions of  Europe."  This  insane  thrust  at  Japan  has 
stirred  all  classes  of  Japanese  to  a  pitch  of  indigna- 
tion that  only  war  will  satisfy.  Meanwhile,  Japan 
and  Russia  are  rushing  preparations  for  armed  hos- 
tilities. China  is  exerting  all  her  influence  to  post- 
pone, at  least,  an  armed  conflict  until  her  own  internal 
affairs  are  upon  a  stronger  footing.  However,  the 
Peking  Government  has  given  Russia  to  understand 
that  in  the  event  of  war  China  will  immediately  place 
200.000  of  her  best  soldiers  at  Japan's  disposal.  Eng- 
land and  the  United  States  hav*  assured  Russia  that 
they  shall  expect  all  the  advantages  in  Manchuria 
that  their  treaty  of  commerce  with  China  provides 
for,  and  the  unqualified  position  of  these  two  Anglo- 
Saxon  nations  in  the  premises  is  the  one  thing  that 
is  causing  Russia  to  hesitate  to  cross  swords  with 
Japan.     On   the   other   hand,   by    accepting   such    a 


January  30,  1903. 


:'c    United  and    England    recognise 

t's  jurisdiction  over  Manchuria,  but  whicl 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  Ru< 

.  the  United  States  an, I  Eag- 
land  have  pur  imething  o(  China,  l>ut  which 

on  ,.f   Russia,      lap. in   1 

rnething  quite  foreign  to  the  com- 
mercial interests  of  the  two  great  A  n  na- 
tions, but  such  war  would,  if  Japan  won.  reinstate 
China  in  Manchuria,  and  allow' the  Peking  Govern- 
ment to  deliver  the  goods  to  the  United  States  and 
England  as  per  commercial  treaty.  It  follows,  hence, 
that  the  sympathy,  if  not  something  far  more  sub- 
stantial, of  America  and  ( ireat  Britain  will  he  found 
on  Japan's  side.  for.  and  only  for  the  reason  that  there 
will  be  •money  in  it"  for  them.  It  is  pretty  well 
understood  in  diplomatic  circles  that  for  the  last 
month,  anyway,  every  move  of  Japan  had  the 
approval  of  the  Washington  and  London  Govern- 
ments before  it  was  made.  And  it  is  also  believed 
that  it  is  up  to  Russia  either  to  fight  or  agree  to  with- 
draw from  Manchuria. 

*  *  * 

A  new  issue  has  arisen  in  far  Eastern  affairs.  Japan 
has  adroitly  taken  possession  of  the  Strait  of  Korea, 
and  under  more  favorable  circumstances  the  move 
would  be  considered  a  sufficient  cause  for  a  declara- 
tion of  war  by  Russia.  The  Strait  is  so  located  that 
shore  and  island  batteries  will  give  Japan  immense 
strategic  advantages  in  a  general  way,  and  in  particu- 
lar as  to  a  long  stretch  of  Chinese,  Korean  and  Man- 
churian  coast  line;  besides,  with  the  Strait  in  pos- 
session, or  rather  commanded  by  Japanese  guns, 
Port  Arthur  loses  much  of  its  offensive  and  defensive 
importance  to  Russia,  to  say  nothing  of  coaling  and 
commissary  stations  for  Japan,  which  the  Strait  will 
afford  close  to  and  between  the  main  land  of  China, 
Korea  and  Manchuria  and  Japan.  Japan  has  not  taken 
possession  of  the  Strait  as  a  temporary  military 
necessity,  but  to  hold  for  all  time.  No  doubt  Japan 
would  not  have  made  such  a  move  had  it  not  been 
secretly  approved  by  at  least  China,  if  not  by  Korea 
as  well,  and  if  by  Korea  it  becomes  very  clear  that 
reports  of  Korea's  hostility  are  put  out  to  mislead 
Russia.  In  this  connection  it  should  not  be  forgot- 
ten that  there  is  a  racial  and  religious  thread  running 
through  Japanese,  Chinese  and  Koreans,  and  that 
blood  is  thicker  than  water  in  Asia  as  well  as  in  Eu- 
rope and  America. 

*  *  * 

Advices  from  the  Latin  American  States  through 
commercial  avenues  are  not  reassuring  as  concerns 
the  future  of  our  trade  and  traffic  with  those  coun- 
tries. The  bitter  feeling  against  the  United  States 
which  the  shabby  treatment  of  the  Republic  of 
Colombia  by  the  Washington  Government  engen- 
dered, is  growing  and  spreading  to  all  classes  of 
people.  Even  in  high  social  life  the  "Yankee"  feels 
a  coldness  and  stiff  politeness  which  is  irritating,  if 
nothing  less.  It  is  said  that  Spanish  and  German 
influences  are  adding  fuel  to  the  fire  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  the  commerce  hitherto  flowing  to  the 
United  States.  It  is  reported  also  that  European 
creditors  of  the  South  and  Central  American  Re- 
publics, as  well  as  of  commercial  companies,  have 
given  assurance  that  great  leniency  would  be  ex- 
tended if  the  major  portion  of  the  trade  interchange 
with  the  United  States  is  diverted  to  Europe.  The 
policy  of  the  Washington  Government  in  the  Panama 
affair  seems  to  be  a  breeder  of  anything  but  favor- 
able commercial  relations  between  us  and  our  sister 
Republics  of  Spanish  America. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

BANKING. 


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BRAN!  BBS      IN       BRITISH      Col.U.M  LilA-Atlin.      Cranbrook. 

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New   Westminster.   Vancouver  and   Vlctor.a. 

Also    SO    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     In 
IN.    YUKON    TERRITORY-Dawson    and    White    UorseT 
I.N    UNITE*.  STATES— Portland.  Seattle  am,  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Manitoba.    N.    W.    Territories,   and   Eastern   Canada. 
BANKERS    IN    LONDON— The    Hank    of   England,    the    Bank    of 

Scotland.  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 

Bank,    Ltd. 

AGENTS   IN   CHICAGO— The   Northern  Trust   Co. 
AGENTS  IN   NEW  ORLEANS-The  Commercial   National  Bank. 


325  California  Street. 


A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


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London.  Paris  and  American  Bank  L|I 

N.   W.    COR.    SANSOME  AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paid-up    Capital.    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund.  Jl.luO.000 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London.  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank.  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  .-.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.   ALTSCHUL,    Cashier. 

The  flnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars.  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid   up   $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000       Reserve    Fund     700, OuO 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and   bullion. 

1GN.  STE1NHART.  P.  N.  LILlENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery   St.,    Mills   Building 
INTEREST  PAID   ON   DEPOSE -o.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord.  •.Villiam  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Rclowln,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  Bt.,  San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  sa.ooo.ono.  Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve.  $1,725,000 
Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator.  Guardian  or  Trustee. 
Check  accounts  solicited  Legal  depository  for  monev  iu  Probate 
Court  proceedings  Interest  paid  ou  Trust  Deposits  and  Savings.  In- 
vestments carciully  selected- 
Officers— Frank  J.  Synimes,  President.  Horace  L.  Rill,  Vice-Presi- 
dent; O.  A.  Hale.  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner,  Cashier. 


Sir  Conan  Doyle  is  renewing  his  attempt  to  enter 
Parliament  through  a  Scottish  constituency,  having 
accepted  the  Unionist  invitation  to  contest  the  Haw- 
ichburghs.  Three  years  ago  he  tried  for  Edinburgh 
and  was  beaten — by  a  publisher,  too.  He  has  a  stiff 
fight  before  him  against  one  Thomas  Shaw,  a  good 
scrapper.  I  suggest  he  call  on  Shedlock  Bones  and 
have  him  crack  the  combination.  Conan  Doyle's 
latest  stories  are  so  flat  that. the  infusion  of  politics 
might  gingerize  them. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


1904  WINTON  TOURING  CAR 


Sample  1904  Winton  just  received.  Orders  now 
taken  for  two  weeks'  delivery  on  same.  Several 
hundred  sold  last  week  in  New  York  at  National 
Automobile  Show.  Delay  in  placing  your  or- 
der means  a  very  material  delay  in  the  receipt  of 
a  car.  Call  in  and  examine  sample  and  ride  in 
the    foremost    up-to-date    American    automobile. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 


901-925  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Sole  agents  for  the  following  standard  machines 

Olds  Motor  Works. 

Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 

Locomobile  Co.,  of  America. 

The  J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 

Baker  Electric  Molor  Vehicle  Company. 

Demmerle     »V     Co-— Leather     Clothing 

WE    ARE    IN    OUR    NEW    QUARTERS 


KNOX  (Waterless)  2  Cylinder  Touring  Car 


We  have  just  received  our  first  car  load  of  ihe 
1904  model  KNOX  (waterless )  Touring  Cars,  both  single  and 
double  cylinder  types  which  are  now  on  view  at  our 
show  rooms  where  we  would  be  pleased  to  receive 
you  and  demonstrate  their  superior  qualities  and 
simplicity. 

The  KNOX  (waterless)  GOSOLINE  AUTOMOBILES  are 

known  the  world  over  for  their  simplicity,  easy 
operation,  durability  and  easy  riding  We  are  al- 
ways glad  to  demonstrate  the  above  to  any  one. 


THE  NATIONAL  AUTOMOBILE  &  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

I34-M8  GOLDEN  GATE  AVENUE.    SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Bt    The   Autocbank 

There  has  been  so  much  talk  about  beautifying 
San  Francisco  that  it  is  time  the  Autocrank  should 
have  a  word  or  two  to  say.  The  gentlemen  who  in- 
tend to  improve  the  appearance  of  San  Francisco 
could  make  a  good  beginning  by  introducing  a  little 
of  their  influence  with  the  Board  of  Public  Works 
and  get  them  to  pave  Market  street  from  the  Ferry 
ti  1  Second  street.  Our  main  entrance  to  the  city  is 
a  disgrace;  with  immense  cobble-stones  projecting 
in  uneven  layers,  ruining  many  fine  horses,  and  wear- 
ing on  the  axles  of  expensive  vehicles — horseless  and 
otherwise,  and  giving  our  visitor  the  impression, 
as  he  rides  up  Market  street  for  the  first  time,  that 
the  whole  city  is  in  the  same  condition.  A  few  dol- 
lars expended  on  this  particular  street  would  be 
greatly  appreciated  by  the .  down-town  merchants, 
as  well  as  by  those  who  have  the  best  interests  of  the 
city  at  heart,  and  wish  our  guests  to  attain  the  best 
impression  possible. 

Automobiles  as  well  as  carriages  are  now  being 
used  in  great  numbers  by  sight-seers,  and  the  routes 
covered  by  the  chauffeurs  on  their  "seeing  San 
Francisco"  trips  are  over  certain  streets  and  avenues. 
Invariably  the  visitor  is  taken  along  Golden  Gate 
avenue  from  Market  to  Van  Ness.  In  this  locality, 
and  even  further  on,  the  avenue  is  in  a  frightful  con- 
dition. Then  again  out  Van  Ness  avenue,  the  visitor 
is  driven  'to  view  our  grandest  boulevard ;  here, 
again,  especially  between  Eddy  and  Geary,  the  ave- 
nue is  simply  frightful ;  at  the  street  crossings  one 
is  compelled  to  be  strapped  to  the  seat  of  his  carriage 
or  automobile  to  prevent  being  thrown  out.  The 
above  are  only  three  instances  which  1  care  to  men- 
tion at  this  writing,  but  they  are  the  most  import- 
ant for  the  street  department  to  consider  for  repairs 
— which  certainly  ought  to  be  attended  to  immedi- 
ately ;  if  not  for  the  benefit  of  citizens,  then  it  should 
he  done  to  change  the  impression  that  is  being  taken 
abroad  by  the  visitors  of  San  Francisco. 


To  think  that  the  demands  for  space  in  the  enor- 
mous Madison  Square  Garden  could  not  be  met,  at 
the  greatest  of  all  shows  given  to  one'particular  line 
of  industry,  seems  incredible,  but  such  was  the  case 
ai  the  big  automobile  show  held  in  Xew  York  this 
week.  Every  available  foot  of  ground  in  the  big  col- 
osseum  was  occupied,  and  the  show  was  one  of  the 
grandest  successes  ever  held  in  America. 

The  big  manufacturers  could  not  show  one-quar- 
ter of  their  models,  and  the  majority  less  than  half 
of  them. 

(die  hundred  and  eighty-five  exhibitors  made  dis- 
plays (15  of  which  were  foreign)  showing  the  enor- 
mous growth  of  the  trade  in  the  United  States. 

The  attendance  was  the  largest  of  its  kind  ever 
congregated  at  any  exhibit  given  in  Madison  Square, 
the  gate  receipts  far  surpassing  all  expectation,  and 
over  $30,000  was  taken   in  for  rent  of  floor  space. 

The  daily  press  of  New  York  devoted  several  pages 
daily  to  it.  greater  space  even  than  has  ever  been 
given  a  famous  horse-show,  and  has  done  everything 
possible  to  promote  this  industry. 

The  big  hotels  of  the  metropolis  were  filled  with 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    I.KTTER. 


*3 


from  .ill  part-  ..i   tl\<-  couiltl 

■  'linjj   them    an   opportunity 
.1  machine  to  their  likr 

iii  San  I  ■    on  a  sn 

would  afford  the   Western  puhlic  an  op| 
nitv  to  become  acquainted  with  the  hoi  hide 

anil  undoubtedly  increase  the  profits  ol  local  dealers 
r  cent  tin-  year  over  that  ol  last. 
The  New  Ynrk  Sun.  in  speaking  of  the  show,  lia> 
the  following  to  -ay  : 
"Having   started   from   'scratch'   about    five  years 
allowing  the  mechanics  in  other  nation-  of  the 
world  handicaps  of  from  1  to  4  years'  prior  -tart,  the 
automobile  industry   of  the  United  State-  has  quite 
caught  up.    It  has  closed  all  intervening  gaps  and  i- 

DOW  running  with  the  'leading  bunch'  on  terms  of 
even  competition  in  the  race  for  commercial  suprem- 
acy. The  fourth  annual  automobile  show  that  opened 
in  Madison  Square  Garden  last  night  leaves  no  doubl 

about  this.  The  great  exhibition  building  is  al 
most  packed  with  big  and  little  motor  vehicles  thai 
equal  in  up  to  date  appearance,  general  st)  le  and  fin- 
ish, the  best  of  the  foreign  made  cars,  and  that  the 
American  machines  are  the  equal  in  efficiency  ha- 
been  amply  demonstrated.  This  fact  of  the  Ameri- 
can manufacturer  having  caught  up  with  the  leaders 
in  the  industry  abroad  is  the  most  prominent,  import- 
ant and  interesting  one.  revealed  by  the  fourth  annual 
show.  The  American  manufacturers  are  no  longer 
at  scliool  in  the  college  of  the   European  industry — 

1903  was  their  senior  year.  The  present  show  is  their 
commencement  exercise.  They  have  learned  the  for- 
ign  methods  and  the  ideas  that  inspire  them.  Thev 
are  employing  them  to  a  considerable  extent,  but 
there  are  abundant  signs  that  the  American  industry 
has  entered  upon  an  independent  career,  which  will 
no  longer  be  hampered  by  servile  imitation." 

*   *  * 

.Mr.  Fred  A.  Jacobs,  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
popular  automobilists  on  the  Coast,  who  for  the  past 
two  years  has  been  connected  with  the  National  Au- 
tomobile Company,  has  secured  the  exclusive  agency 
for  the  Rambler  automobile  in  Northern  California. 
.Mr.  Jacobs  has  leased  the  large  building  at  10th  and 
Market  streets,  formerly  occupied  by  Thomas  H. 
I!.  Varney  6k  Co.,  and  will  use  these  handsome  quar- 
ters  for   salesrooms   and   garage'  of   the    "Rambler." 

1904  models,  of  the  Rambler  touring  cars,  delivery 
wagons  and  runabouts  will  be  exhibited  at  these 
quarters  on  and  after  February  15,  1904. 


The  4-cylinder  Toledo  of  1904— "The  Mile  a  Min- 
ute car." 


A  large  number  of  automobile  enthusiasts  took 
advantage  of  the  nice  weather  last  Sunday  and  made 
runs  along  the  Bay.  A  party  consisting  of  Mr.  Rich- 
ard Mier,'  Mr.  J.  J.  Spieker,  Mr.  Charles  C.  Moore, 
Mr.  E.  E.  Stoddard,  Mr.  George  Cameron  and  Mr. 
H.  B.  Taylor  and  guests,  in  their  Winton  touring  cars 


—  WILL     BE     HERE     IN     A     WEEK- 

THE     NEW     1904— Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST.  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  a.e  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR   CO. 

49    CITY    HALL    AVC.  SAN     FRANCISCO.    CAL 


TheOldsmobile 

is  Built 
on 


'J' he  llrst  successful  automobile 
runaboui  wda  mode  Id  our'factory 
in  18HT-  Building  on  this  founda- 
ti'-n.  1  he  experience  of  each  suc- 
ceeding year  has  brought  the  Olds- 
mobile  to  a  higher  Standard  bf'ex- 
cellent'e. until  to-day  itstands  alone 
asthe  world's  standard  runahout. 

Ask  our  nearest  selling  agent,  or 
write  direct  for  full  information 
;mil  booklet  to  Dept.  ifi 

OLDS  MOTOR  WORKS 

DETROIT,    MICH.     U:  S.    A. 

Member  Of  the  Association  of  Li- 
censed Automobile  Manufacturers 
LOCAL  AGENTS-PloneerAutoCo.,991 

Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Oldsmoblle  Company,  243  West  6th  St. 

Los  Angeles,  Calif. 


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LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  I  i  si  Clns>  Result 


Mea's  at  al:  hours.  Peis  luble 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  :  nd 
Liquo's. 


MILO  J.  QILLETT,  Prop. 

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Tel.  Cap  Slid 


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SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Marsh  made  a  trip  to  San  Jose 
last  week  in  their  French  Arrow.  \\  hile  this  was 
largely  in  the  nature  of  a  trial  for  the  new  machine, 
the  course  was  covered  in  an  unusually  short  space 
of  time.  The  return  trip  was  made  in  less  than 
record   time,  although   the   road  was  very   heavy. 

On  Sunday,  Mr.  H.  C.  Tilden  and  family  joined 
a  large  number  of  automobilists  with  their  Prencli 
Arrow,  in  the  usual  Sunday  trip  to  San  Jose. 

Mr.  Thomas  Magee  has  just  brought  to  this  city 
his  French  Renault  Touring  Car.  Mr.  Magee  is 
one  of  the  well-known  drivers  of  San  Francisco,  but 
when  he  went  East  and  took  a  few  rides  through  Cen- 
tral Park  and  around  New  York  City  in  Peter  Mar- 
tin's Renault  Touring  Car,  he  immediately  possessed 
himself  of  this  fine  car.  The  Renault  has  the  same 
engine  as  the  Pierce  Arrow  Touring  Car,  both  manu- 
facturers purchasing  their  engines  irom  the  De  Dion 
people.  Air.  Magee  will  make  his  headquarters  with 
the  Mobile  Carriage  Company,  the  French  automo- 
bile house  on  the  Coast. 


Mrs.  Langtry,  during  her  stay  in  the  city,  took 
man\'  automobile  rides  in  one  of  the  elegant  gaso- 
line cars  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Company.  While 
this  lady  appreciates  speed  when  driving,  yet  she 
frequently  reminded  the  chauffeur  to  "go  a  little 
slower,  please,"  in  viewing  the  sights  of  the  Golden 
Gate. 


In  a  letter  recently  received  by  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company  from  Mr.  E.  P.  Brinegar,  who  re- 
cently attended  the  New  York  Automobile  Show,  we 
are  apprised  of  the  fact  that  several  hundred  Win- 
tons  were  sold  at  the  Show  during  the  week.  Mr. 
Brinegar  visited  the  Winton  factory  at  Cleveland, 
on  his  way  to  New  York,  also  the  Oldsmobile  fac- 
tory at  Detroit,  and  in  speaking  of  these  plants,  Mr. 
Brinegar  seemed  confident  in  the  belief  that  the  Olds- 
mobile  and  Winton  people  are  in  a  position  to  make 
immediate  deliveries,  owing  to  their  late  improved  fa- 
cilities. Mr.  Brinegar  expressed  himself  as  being 
more  than  pleased  with  the  appearance  of  the  two 
new  models  of  Oldsmobiles,  which  will  be  on  exhibi- 
tion at  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company's  new  gar- 
age sometime  between  the  1st  and  15th  of  March. 
A  new  1904  Winton  Touring  Car  has  arrived  at  the 
Pioneer  Automobile  Company's  Garage,  where  it  is 
attracting  considerable  attention. 

Mr.  Douglas  Watson,  who  for  the  past  eight 
months  has  been  running  a  St.  Louis  Runabout,  has 
just  purchased  a  new  1904  St.  Louis  tonneau.  Mr. 
Watson  stated  that  he  is  very  much  pleased  with 
this  car,  having  completed  several  successful  runs 
around  the  Bay,  and  on  account  of  its  extra  light 
weight  and  great  power  has  decided  to  take  i;  t" 
Europe  with  him  next  month.  A  carload  of  these 
new   machines   has   arrived   here. 


The  Jones-Corbin  car  which  arrived  a  few  days 
ago  by  express,  has  created  a  great  deal  of  favorable 
comment,  it  being  unquestionably  the  Frenchiest  lit- 
tle car  on  the  market.  It  is  equipped  with  forwar.l 
motors  and  double  chain  drive,  and  other  French 
features.  It  is  said  this  sporty  little  machine  has 
wonderful  power,  and  is  one  of  the  swiftest  light 
cars  on  the  market. 


The  well-known  automobile  experts  and  repairers, 
Lew  T.  Andrews  and  James  Kuwan,  have  taken  tem- 
porary quarters  at  18  Fell  street,  phone  South  394. 
They  expect  to  have  one  of  the  best  equipped  repair 
shops  in  the  West,  when  they  are  permanently  lo- 


cated, and  will  notify  the  automobile  public  as  soon 
as  they  are  fitted  up.  Until  then  they  can  be  found 
at  the  above  address,  and  will  give  all  work  intrusted 
to  them  full  attention.  They  are  skilled  workmen, 
and  have  had  experience  with  all  prominent  makes 
of  American  and  many  foreign  cars,  and  will  undoubt- 
edly do  well  in  their  new  venture. 

Scawksby — That's  a  great  divorce  !  Snawksby — 
What  divorce?  Scawksby — Why,  that  of  Fischer's 
star,  Amber,  from  her  husband,  the  foot-race  expert. 
Snawsby — Yes,  the  separation  of  Amber  from  Mere- 
Sham  ! 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  (French)  $2,650. 

1.    It  has  a  French  engine  and  is  essentially  a  French  car- 
ta.   The  manufacturer  in  France  pays  a  revenue  on  each  horse 

power  of  engine,  conscinicntly  all  French  engines  are  underated. 

The  Arrow  Touring  Car  1C  H,  P.  French  will  develop  25  H.  P. 

American  standard. 
3.    A  horse  power  for  each  75  pounds  weight.    It  has  lightness 
and  strength.    Easy  on  tires- 

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Costs 


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AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired,  expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
U  estern  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com. 
pany. 


January  30,  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


»5 


Political 

The  nominating  of  a     Presidential     candidal 
creating  hut  little  excitement  in  Republican  cii 

but  the  Democrats  are  excited,  and  warring 
though  they  had  some  chance  of  electing  the  man 
they  may  name,  ami  would  all  gel  Cabinet  positions 
result.  While  Hearst  is  getting  the  politicians 
in  line  very  satisfactorily,  he  is  having  .1  hard  time 
with  the  Labor  vote,  and  even  if  he  holds  it  until 
after  the  St.  Louis  convention,  it  will  cost  him  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  dollars.  The  Engravers*  and 
Printers'  Unions  threaten  him  with  a  strike  unless 
he  consents  to  have  his  comic  supplement  re-en- 
graved in  every  city  in  which  he  publishes  a  paper, 
and  although  he  established  the  Los  Angeles  paper 
to  help  them  fight  Otis  of  the  Times,  they  insist  thai 
he  shall  concede  their  demands,  which  means  a  1"-- 
of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  a  year  to  him.  If 
he  abandons  the  supplement  the  unions  will  charge 
him  with  being  an  enemy  of  labor  equallv  as  well  as 
if  he  refuses  to  have  it  re-engraved,  and  Hearst,  leasi 
of  all  the  candidates  for  the  Presidency,  can  afford 
to  be  charged  with  beinp-  an  enemy  of  labor,  since 
his  friendship  for  labor  unionism  is  his  sole  stock 
in  trade,  and  his  only  claim  for  being  a  candidate 
at  all. 

*  *  * 

Another  embarrassment  is  the  fact  that  the  lead- 
ers of  the  unions  have  practically  unanimously  re- 
fused to  go  into  politics  as  a  body,  or  in  other  words 
to  extend  the  Union  Labor  Partv  to  the  whole  State. 
Hearst's  plan  was  to  have  a  State  labor  convention, 
I  am  told  by  one  of  his  managers,  to  be  held  some- 
time in  June,  and  indorse  his  candidacy  for  the 
Presidency.  Such  an  action  would,  it  is  thought, 
force  him  on  the  Democratic  party  so  far  as  Cali- 
fornia is  concerned,  and  be  a  strong  card  to  play  be- 
fore the  National  Convention.  But  all  the  leaders 
here  say  very  sensibly  that  they  do  not  believe  in 
the  unions  as  unions  getting  into  politics,  because 
if  they  do  it  would  disrupt  the  organization  beyond 
question,  and  the  union  strength  is  not  enough  to 
accomplish  anything  alone,  without  outside  aid.  The 
plan  of  a  State  Hearst  labor  convention  has  there- 
fore been  perforce  abandoned. 

*  *  * 

The  scandal  in  connection  with  the  news-stand  at 
the  Ferry  Building  grows  instead  of  disappears,  and 
the  public  is  now  asking  why  the  Commissioners 
do  not  call  all  bids  off  and  ask  for  competitive  bit's 
from  any  one  who  cares  to  bid?  One  thing  is  cer- 
tain, and  President  Charles  Spear  might  as  well  un- 
derstand it  now  as  later,  that  if  his  brother-in-law 
gets  the  contract  under  existing  circumstances,  the 
public  will  believe  rightly  or  wrongly  that  he,  Spear, 
is  personally  and  financially  interested  in  the  con- 
tract. Is  Spear  willing  to  stand  in  that  position  be- 
fore the  public  of  California?  Does  he  want  the 
Legislature  to  investigate  the  matter,  as  it  surely 
will?  Can  George  C.  Pardee  afford  to  have  his  po- 
litical manager  connected  with  a  scandal  such  as  this 
promises  to  be.  — Junius. 

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Capital  Stock  $1,000,090.    Shares  1,000,000 

Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County,  Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be  levied. 

50,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  at  35  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  in  sight  is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  issue  of  stock  is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  be  raiseu  to  50  cents  a  share. 

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VINCENT  NEALE,  Secretary. 


36 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


Mr.  Faymonville,  vice-president  of  the  Fireman's 
Fund  Insurance  Company,  is  about  to  leave  for  the 
Philippine  Islands  to  investigate  the  conditions  there 
from  the  point  of  view  of  an  expert  fire  underwriter. 
If  found  favorable  the  Fireman's  Fund  will  enter 
that   field. 

*  *  * 

An  item  in  the  daily  press  on  the  question  of  fire 
insurance  protection,  but  serves  to  call  attention  to 
the  unreliability  of  the  Bulletin's  knowledge.  The 
item  is  as  follows:  "Ex-Fire  Commissioner  M.  H. 
Hecht  has  sent  a  communication  to  the  Fire  Super- 
visors, calling  attention  to  what  he  considers  one 
of  the  city's  greatest  needs — a  salt  water  system  for 
extinguishing  flames.  During  the  four  years  Mr. 
Hecht  was  on  the  board  this  was  one  of  the  things 
he  continually  advocated.  His  plan,  is  to  have  a 
pumping  station  at  the  foot  of  Market  street,  with 
mains  running  up  that  thoroughfare  for  ten  or  twelve 
blocks.  Cross  pipes  could  carry  the  water  on  each 
side  of  Market  street,  as  nesded.  Such  a  system 
would  be  inexpensive,  and  in  time  of  fire  would  be 
a  great  help  to  the  Fire  Department.  Were  such 
a  fire  as  the  one  that  destroyed  the  Baldwin  to  start 
the  conflagration  could  be  easily  extinguished,  easily 
paying  in  a  few  minutes  the  cost  of  construction  and 
operation.  The  water  could  be  used  for  flushing  the 
sewers  and  sprinkling  the  streets  when  not  used 
for  protecting  property." 

This  idea  of  using  salt  water  or  ocean  water  for 
fire  extinguishing  purposes  and  for  flushing  sewers 
and  sprinkling  streets  has  been  tried  so  often  in  other 
cities  that  experience  has  condemned  it  as  undesir- 
able. A  scheme  to  provide  a  sufficient  volume  of 
water  that  is  pure  and  not  salt  to  fight  conflagrations 
with  would  be  endorsed  by  the  Fire  Underwriters 
to  the  last  man. 

*  *  * 

Whether  they  would  endorse  a  salt  water  scheme 
for  fire  protection  is,  in  the  light  of  past  experience, 

verv  dubious. 

*  *  * 

Salt  water  has  the  corroding  elements  within  itself 
which  destroys  mains,  hose  and  machinery,  and  plus 
this,  will  do  more  injury  to  a  stock  of  merchandise 
by  the  gallon  than  fresh  water  will  do  by  the  tun. 

*  *  * 

After  the  report  of  Fire  Marshall  Towe,  in  which 
he  says  that  conditions  are  ripe  for  a  conflagration 
in  San  Francisco,  the  question  of  a  sufficient  amount 
of  water  is  timely. 

*  *  * 

It  is  not,  however,  within  the  province  of  the  lay- 
man to  discuss  this.  It  belongs  to  the  Fire  Under- 
writers and  the  Fire  Department,  and  when  they 
demand  added  facilities  the  public  will  see  to  it  that 
they  are  provided. 

*  *  * 

These  discussions  and  suggestions  are  healthy  at 
all  times  to  the  body  corporate,  for  the  sole  reason 
that  an  ash  pile  represents  so  much  lost  material, 
and  material  being  the  product  of  labor,  is  wealth, 
and  insurance  onl)-  reimburses  to  the  extent  of  the 
financial  loss  to  the  individual.  The  true  loss  is  the 
labor  and  cannot  be  replaced. 

*  *  * 

It  follows,  then,  that  any  proposition  calculated  to 
reduce  the  fire  waste  is,  whether  perfect  or  not,  in 
the  line  of  advancement. 


The  change  predicted  in  the  News  Letter  in  the 
local  affairs  of  the  Conservative  Life  has  been  made. 
Mr.  Fred  Bennion  has  been  promoted  to  the  position 
of  the  Montgomery  street  branch  of  the  company. 
It  is  understood  that  the  promotion  was  granted  to 
and  won  on  merit. 

The  Adjuster,  in  its  initial  issue  of  the  year,  pays 
the  News  Letter  insurance  department  a  merited 
compliment,  it  quotes  and  credits  almost  an  entire 
article  published  in  the  News  Letter  columns. 

The  question  of  national  supervision  of  insurance 
is  again  up.  H.  R.  7054,  introduced  on  the  nth  ult. 
by  Representative  Morrell,  is  a  bill  for  establishing 
a  National  Bureau  of  Insurance,  and  so  forth.  "Be 
it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress 
assembled,  That  there  shall  be,  and  is  hereby  estab- 
lished in  the  office  of  the  Director  of  the  Census  and 
under  his  supervision  a  National  Bureau  of  Insurance. 
The  Director  of  the  Census  is  authorized  and  directed 
to  appoint  a  superintendent  of  insurance  at  an  annual 
salary  of  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  and  two 
clerks  at  an  annual  salary  of  one  thousand-  four  hun- 
dred dollars  each.  The  said  superintendent  and 
clerks  shall  devote  their  services  exclusively  to  the 
business  of  said  bureau.  Said  superintendent  shall, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Census,  have  supervision 
of  all  matters  pertaining  to  insurance,  insurance  com- 
panies, and  beneficial  orders  and  associations  doing 
business  in  the  United  States,  or  in  any  State,  Terri- 
tory, District,  or  insular  possession  thereof." 

The  part  which  is  most  interesting  to  fire  and  life  • 
insurance   men   is   found   in   Sections   4   and   5,   and 
which,  stripped  of  verbiage,  is: 

"Sec.  4.  That  after  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  nine- 
teen hundred  and  four,  no  person,  firm,  or  corporation 
shall  be  allowed  to  transact  the  business  of  insur- 
ance within  any  State,  District,  Territory  or  insular 
possession  of  the  United  States  until  he  or  it  shall 
have  previously  filed  with  the  superintendent  of  in- 
surance aforesaid  a  duly  authenticated  certificate 
from  the  proper  officer  or  Department  of  Government 
of  such  State,  District,  Territory  or  insular  possession 
or  of  some  foreign  Government,  showing  that  he  or 
it  has  lawful  authority  to  engage  in  and  carry  on 
such  business  under  such  Government  and  within  its 
dominions. 

"Sec.  5.  That  no  letter,  postal  card,  circular,  pam- 
phlet or  publication  concerning  the  business  of  insur- 
ance shall  be  carried  in  the  mails  outside  the  State 
wherein  the  same  is  issued,  or  delivered  by  any  post- 
master or  letter  carrier  outside  the  State  wherein 
the  same  is  issued,  unless  the  transaction  of  such  busi- 
ness of  insurance  by  the  concern,  person  or  persons 
professing  or  proposing  to  operate  the  same  is  au- 
thorized by  the  laws  of  the  State,  District,  or  Terri- 
tory in  which  is  located  the  principal  office  or  place 
of  business  in  and  from  which  the  same  is  issued. 
Any  person  who  shall  knowingly  deposit  or  cause 
to  be  deposited,  or  who  shall  knowingly  send  or 
cause  to  be  sent  anything  to  be  conveyed  or  deliv- 
ered by  mail  in  violation  of  this  section,  or  who  shall 
knowingly  cause  to  be  delivered  by  mail  anything 
herein  forbidden  to  be  carried  by  mail,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  hun- 
dred dollars  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than 
one  year,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  for 


January  30,  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


»7 


each  -  >ii  violating  any  of  tbr  pro- 

tion  may  be  proceeded  against  l>\ 

nation  or  indictment  and  tried  and  punished 
in  either  the  district  at  which  the  unlawful  publica- 
tion was  mailed  or  in  the  one  to  which  it  i-  carried 
by  mail  for  delivery  according  to  the  direction  tlien- 

r  at  which  it  is  caused  to  be  delivered  by  mail 
to  the  person  to  whom  it  is  addressed, 

"Sec.  6.  That  any  person  who  shall  cause  to  be 
brought  into  the  United  States  tor  the  purpose  1  f 
disposing  of  the  same,  or  who  shall  cause  to  he  car- 
ried from  one  State  to  another  in  the  United  States, 
any  letter,  postal  card,  circular,  pamphlet  or  publi- 
cation  concerning  any  contract  or  policy  of  insurance 
issued  by  any  concern  or  person  which  or  who  is  not 
authorized  to  issue  the  same  by  the  law-  of  any  State. 
District  or  Territory,  and  which  or  who  has  not 
procured  a  certificate  of  authority  to  transact  such 
business  from  the  proper  officers  of  any  State.  Dis- 
trict or  Territory  shall  be  punishable  for  the  first 
offense  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  two  years 
or  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  thousand  dollars. 
or  both,  and  for  the  second  and  after  offenses  by  such 
imprisonment  only." 

This  bill,  if  it  becomes  a  law,  will  be  the  knell  of 
fraudulent  insurance  schemes,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted 

that  it  is  only  aimed  at  this  branch  of  business. 

*  *  * 

The  Fireman's  Fund  Insurance  Company  has  de 
clared  a  regular  quarterly  dividend  of  $3  per  share, 
being  at  the  rate  of  12  per  cent  per  annum.    On  Mon- 
day ten   shares  of  this  stock  sold  on  the  street  at 

$35°  Per  share. 

*  *  * 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders  of  the 
California  Insurance  Co.,  the  old  officers  and  direc- 
tors were  re-elected  as  follows:  L.  L.  Bromwell, 
president;  M.  A.  Newell,  vice-president;  J.  H.  An- 
derson, secretary;  A.  Herman  and  F.  W.  Van  Sick- 
len.  A  dividend  of  fifteen  cents  per  share  was  de- 
clared, payable  January  25th,  amounting  to  $900. 

*  *  * 

The  forty-first  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders 
of  the  Fireman's  Fund  Insurance  Company  was  held 
on  the  19th  inst.,  and  the  following  directors  elected : 
William  J.  Dutton,  Thomas  S.  Chard,  ].JZ.  Coleman, 
John  Bermingham,  F.  W.  Lougee,  John  T.  Wright, 
Charles  R.  Bishop,  Bernard  Faymonville,  John  H. 
Gardiner,  W.  H.  Brown,  and  Arthur  A.  Smith.  The 
statement  of  the  condition  of  the  company  as  of  De- 
cember 31,  1903,  shows  that  the  past  year  has  been 
most  successful.  Assets  increased  $656,232.77 ;  re- 
insurance reserve,  $255,087.93 ;  and  net  surplus  $355,- 
396.98.  In  1900  total  premiums  received  amounted 
to  $1,900,000;  last  year  they  increased  to  $3,300,000. 

The  Board  of  Directors  organized  by  re-electing 
the  following  officers:  William  J.  Dutton,  president; 
Bernard  Faymonville,  vice-president;  J.  B.  Levison, 
second  vice-president  and  marine  secretary;  Louis 
Weinmann,  secretary;  F.  W.  Lougee,  treasurer; 
George  H.  Mendell,  Jr.,  assistant  secretary;  Robert 
P.  Fabj,  general  agent. 

Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital $3,000,000.         Gross  Cash -Assets $17,300,000 

Liberal  contracts,  Favorable  Terms.  Conference^  witn  our  Repre- 
sentatives before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
may  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MlTCHELL^Metropoll- 
tan  Manager. 

aio  Sansome  fit.,  San  Francisco 


NSURANCE 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets.  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  1711. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

raid-up    Onpllnl     W.000.000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6.023.016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  a  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charttr,    A.    D.    1720. 
Capital  raid-up    $.1,440,100.  Assets.  J24.SK,04';.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $131,010,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch : 

FRANK    W.    DICKSON.    Manager,  501    Montgomery    Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,    Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established    1850. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..   2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH.    Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  411  California  St. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 
Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative    Life   Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $1,250,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $20,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Fair  Building.  230  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital     »67,000,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  316  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.    GERMANY 

Capital  $2,250,000  Asset*  $H>,»:4  21(1 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:   204-208   Sansome   St.,   San   Francisco. 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1903. 


University  Gossip 


By    the    Undergraduate 


A  bran-new  fish  story  is  going  the  rounds  at  Stan- 
ford University.  It  has  the  merit  of  being  true.  A 
fish  of  bulky  size  and  of  presumed  healthy  appear- 
ance, was  shipped  to  the  campus  the  other  day  with 
a  polite,  written  request  that  the  thing  of  scales  and 
fins  be  added  to  Dr.  Jordan's  already  famous  collec- 
tion. The  fish  had  been  captured  in  strange  waters, 
and  was  without  a  title,  but  it  was  earnestly  expected 
that  the  learned  Doctor  would  be  able  to  name  the 
species.  Dr.  Jordan  happened  to  be  en  route  from 
the  East  at  the  time,  and  in  some  unaccountable 
manner  the  specimen  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Chi- 
nese cook.  Hop  bing  took  the  note  of  explanation 
for  a  bill.  He  preserved  that,  but  smothered  the 
fish  in  gravy,  and  served  it  to  the  Jordan  family  for 
dinner.  A  few  hours  later,  Professor  Jenkins  of  the 
Zoology  Department,  who  had  been  rofified  by  card 
of  its  arrival,  came  to  inspect  the  specimen.  Investi- 
gation brought  out  the  truth,  and  the  Chinese  cook 
was  called  upon  to  provide  a  solution  of  mustard 
and  water  for  each  member  of  the  Jordan  household. 
Professor  Tenkins  carried  off  the  bones,  but  the  spe- 
cies is  still  undetermined. 

*  *  * 

The  Stanford  Glee  and  Mandolin  Clubs,  which 
have  been  touring  throueh  twenty  northern  towns,  at 
a  considerable  loss  to  individual  pocketbooks,  as  it 
turns  out,  are  back  on  the  campus  with  a  deficit  of  a 
cool  thousand  to  their  credit.  The  boys  stand  good 
for  several  hundred  of  this  sum,  through  their  de- 
posits, and  a  final  concert  to  be  given  at  San  Jose 
in  February  will  probably  supply  a  few  extra  dollars. 

*  *  * 

The  faculty  edition  of  the  Chaparral,  the  Stanford 
comic  bi-weekly,  is  to  be  brought  out  on  February 
10th.  This  is  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the 
university  that  Dr.  Jordan  has  stepped  from  the 
thorny  path  of  literature  to  be  a  real  live  editor-in- 
chief  of  a  funny  paper.  Dr.  Jordan  has  been  sojourn- 
ing in  the  East,  but  he  appointed  his  staff  before  leav- 
ing, and  they,  it  is  presumed,  have  most  of  the  copy 
on   file. 

*  *  * 

R.  W.  Smith,  from  the  engineering  department, 
who  has  gained  some  fame  as  a  writer  for  the  Ladies' 
Home  Journal,  is  a  crackerjack  at  children's  verse. 
Kellogg  and  Jenkins,  from  the  zoology  laboratories, 
are  famed  in  fish  lore.  Professor  Kellogg  has  a  scin- 
tillating sense  of  humor  that  mav  produce  some  start- 
ling effects.  Newcomer  and  Alden,  from  the  Eng- 
lish Department,  are  purists  in  style,  and  are  consid- 
ered in  anything  but  a  jocular  light  by  the  stu- 
dents. Gark,  from  the  Drawing  Denartment,  will 
be  in  his  element  in  the  illustrating  line,  and  Snod- 
grass,  despite  an  entomological  correction,  is  a  car- 
toonist of  considerable  abilitv.  The  art  staff  is  to 
be  assisted  by  Miss  Mary  Wellman,  a  professional 
artist,  who  is  fortunately  emploved  at  the  Univer- 
sity. Registrar  Elliot  and  Dr.  Angell  bring  up  the 
van-guard,  good  for  almost  anything. 

*  *  * 

Some  of  the  students  at  Berkeley  have  been  beating 
the  street  car  companies  recently  by  working  rather 
an  old  dodge.  It  is  in  the  "no  change''  racket.  A 
student  will  hop  on  a  car  and  hold  out  a  ten  or  a 
twenty  dollar  gold  piece  to  the  conductor.  In  the 
majority  of  cases  the  conductor  pleads  no  change, 


and  the  student  maintains  his  rights,  argues  his  case 
and  generally  rides  free.  But  the  other  day  a  twenty 
dollar  man  was  held  up  by  a  nifty  young  conductor, 
paid  back  in  his  own  coin,  so  to  speak.  The  student 
held  out  the  gold  piece,  as  usual ;  the  conductor  shook 
his  head  and  requested  him  to  get  off,  change  the 
money  and  take  the  next  car.  The  student  grew 
loudly  abusive  at  this  point,  and  insisted  on  his  rights. 
The  conductor  argued  for  awhile,  then  changing  his 
tactics,  made  a  lunge  at  the  twenty  and  captured  it. 
"I'll  change  it,"  he  said,  reassuringly.  It  was  a 
long  time  coming.  The  conductor  hailed  several  cars 
on  the  down  grade  and  made  exchanges.  He  finally 
handed  the  now  thoroughly  incensed  student  nine- 
teen dollars  and  ninety-five  cents  in  dimes,  nickels 
and  pennies.  The  student  was  forced  to  ride  ten 
squares  out  of  his  way  in  order  to  count  it.  The 
conductor,  in  telling  the  story  afterwards,  said : 
"And  I  shoved  in  all  the  queers  I  had.  too." 

Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 

factory  for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Use 
Briquettes  for  cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at 
least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co., 
South  95,  and  your  order  will  receive  prompt  attention. 


The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont- 
gomery street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St  Turkish  Bath. 


Rutnart 
Cham- 
pagne 

Established     1729 

The  President's  Wine 

"Dry,  Fruity — 
JVo    Headache 


Ve.rr.ey     W.    G&skill. 

Special  Agent 


Hllbert    Mercantile  Co. 

Sole  Agents 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


•9 


TO   IMPROVE   THE   PRESIDIO. 

The  bill  introduced  l>y  Senator  Perkins  providing 
nsiderabte  appropriation  for  the  improvement 
of  the  Presidio  reservation  is  one  in  which  every  citi- 
zen of  San  Francisco  should  feci  a  personal  inter- 
Naturally  the  reservation  i>  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  parks  included  within  the  limits  of  any  city 
in  the  world,  but  little  has  been  done  to  improve  1  'ii 
nature's  handiwork.  Senator  Perkins  proposes  that 
this  neglect  shall  cease,  and  that  the  national  I 
eminent  shall  undertake  to  beautify  and  develop  the 
indubitable  potentialities  of  this  picturesque  ground 
which  so  long  has  been  suffered  to  lie  fallow  and 
grow  up  wild.  The  action  of  Senator  Perkins  is 
right  in  line  with  the  movement  undertaken  by  a 
number  of  our  public-spirited  citizens  to  beautify 
and  improve  the  natural  capabilities  that  belong  to 
this  peninsula  that  stands  by  the  gate  of  two  worlds 
on  a  site  that  for  picturesqueness  has  no  equal  in  any 
part  of  the  world. 

THE  FATHEADS'  CONUNDRUMS. 

Asked  to  explain  what  a  buttress  is,  one  boy  re- 
plied, "A  woman  who  makes  butter,"  and  another 
"A  female  butcher." 

Teacher's  dictation :  His  choler  rose  to  such  a 
height  that  passion  well-nigh  choked  him.  Pupil's 
reproduction :  His  collar  rose  to  such  a  height  that 
fashion  well-nigh  choked  him. 

A  Job's  comforter  is  a  thing  you  give  babies  to 
soothe  them. 

A  sky-scraper  is  an  over-trimmed  hat. 

Political  economy  is  the  science  which  teaches  us 
to  get  the  greatest  benefit  with  the  least  possible 
amount  of  honest  labor. 

An  emolument  is  a  soothing  medicine. 

In  the  United  States  people  are  put  to  death  by 
elocution. 

Gravity  was  discovered  by  Isaac  Walton.  It  is 
chiefly  noticeable  in  the  autumn,  when  the  apples. 
are  falling  from  the  trees. 

ANOTHER  ABSENTEE  PUBLISHER. 

James  Gordon  Bennett,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the 
New  York  Herald,  is  about  to  give  for  public  use  all 
of  his  property  which  lies  between  Broadway  and  the 
•Boulevard  Lafayette,  north  of  i82d  street,  Fort 
Washington.  To  make  arrangements  for  this  park, 
which  is  to  be  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  his  father 
and  which  will  contain  a  monument  of  James  Gordon 
Bennett,  the  elder,  he  made  his  recent  visit  to  New 
York.  There  is  already  a  public  monument  on  the 
property  to  commemorate  one  of  the  last  important 
battles  engaged  in  by  Washington  before  he  left 
Manhattan  Island.  The  American  Scenic  and  His- 
toric Preservation  Society  started  to  raise  funds  for 
this  monument  and  asked  Mr.  Bennett's  permission 
to  erect  it  on  his  property.  He  replied  by  offering  to 
pay  for  the  monument  and  since  then  has  taken  con- 
siderable interest  in  that  section. 

The  park  as  proposed  will  be  just  across  the  Bou- 
levard Lafayette  from  the  upper  end  of  Fort  Wash- 
ington Park,  which  lies  west  of  the  Boulevard  La- 
fayette and  extends  from  171st  to  183d  streets. 

The  monument  now  on  Mr.  Bennett's  property  is 
at  183d  street,  and  faces  Fort  Washington  avenue. 
With  the  exception  of  Fort  Tryon,  the  highest  point 
on  Manhattan  Island  is  at  this  point. 


Dr.  Decker, 
Dentist,  806   Market.     Specialty  "Colton  Gas" 
teeth  extracting. 


for  painless 


MANUFACTURERS. 


GRAY  BROS. 


Mirnrdi     Dlils.     <"allfornle     and 
MonlRniDTj-    His  .    Ban    Francisco. 
XB  New  Hl(h  Street,   l-os  Angelas. 

Concrete  and  artificial 
stone  work. 


ARTISTIC     PORTRAITURE 

beautiful    |i:.oo    Art    Iimmldes    will    be 
made  at  J6.0O  per  dnien   for  a  short  time 

£f/>e  Imperial   Studio 


744    MARKET    STREET 
Established  25  Years  and    Always  ex   Leader 


BLAKE,  MOFFITT  &  TOWNE 

DEALERS   IN 

VAlVESR 

TEL.    MAIN  198.     65-57-59-61    FIRST   ST.,   SAN   FRANCISCO 
Blake,    Moffit   &  Townc,    Los  Angeles,   Cal. 
Blake,    McFall   &   Co.,    Portland,    Oregon. 


r>    M~L«,      For  barbers,   bakers,   bootblacks,    bath-houses, 
firUSrlwS   laur"3rles,    paper-hangers,     [Timers,      painters, 
**  billiard    tables,    brewers,    book  binders,   candy- 
makers,   canners,   dyers,   flour-mills,   foundries, 

shoe  factories,  stable  men,   tar-roofers,  tanners,  tailors,  etc. 

Buchanan    Brothers. 

Brush  rifts.,  609  Sacramento  S(,  S.  F.f  Tel.  Plain  561 1 


Old  Rose  Bud  Whiskey 

Absolutely  the  purest  on  the  market. 
APPLEGATE      ®.       SONS,      Distillers 

Louisville,  Ken.     Pacific  Coast  Agents 

RATDJEN  WINE  COMPANY.     «  EL¥5ef™2w&  &. 


AMERICAN 

CANNEL 


COAL 

Sold  by  all  Reliable  Dealers 


J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO. 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants. 
General  Agents. 
Oceanic  Steamship  company 
Gilltngham  Cement. 

Market  Street,  cor.    Fremont  St 


SING     FAT    &    COMPANY 

Chinese  and  Japanese  Bazaar.    "We  have  but  one  price. 
All  goods  marked  in  plain  English  figures. 

614  DUPONT  STREET,  S.   F.  Next  to  St.  Mary's  Church. 


ST.  LAWRENCE  LIVERY  AND 
SALES  STABLES. 

423    Post    street,    between    Powell    and 
Mason,  San  Francisco.    Tel.  No.  1323. 

E.    BRIDGE,    Proprietor. 


30                                                    SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER.  January  30,  1903. 

SUNBEAMS  ^ou  can  JU(^Se  a  woman  pretty          "So  you  think  it  is  an  advantage 

well  by  the  pictures  she  hangs  on      to  a  boy  to  be  reared  in  the  coun- 

(Stolen    from    Thieves)  .                   in                                                            ?■>      ..t         i.                    •>                         j 

her   parlor   wall.  try?         To     be     sure,       answered 

Michael  Joseph  Barry,  the  poet.  Mistress— I  should  like  to  know      Farmer  Corntossal ;  "a  boy  has  a 

Was  appointed  a  police  magistrate  whit  business  that  policeman  has      heap  better  chance  in  the  country, 

in    Dublin.       An      Irish-American  in  my   kitchen  every  night  in  the      for  instance,  when  a  boy  is  sur- 

was  brought  before  him,  charged  week'?       Cook— Please,     mum,     I      rounded    by    orchards    and    melon 

with   suspicious   conduct,   and   the  think    he's  suspicious  of   me   neg-      patches  he  can  have  the  stomach 

constable,    among     other     things,  lectirg  my  work,  or  something.          ache   without  the  doctor  jumping 

swore  that  he  was  wearing  a  Re-  "We  get  along    excellently     to-      t0  tne  conclusion  that  he  s  got  ap- 

publican   hat.     "Does  your  honor  gether,"  he  explained.     "You  see,      pendicitis. 

know  what  that  means?"  inquired  he  never   borrows     anything     but          Congressman   Cannon,   white  in 

the  prisoner's  lawyer  of  the  court.  U cable,  and  that's  all  1  ever  have      Park  Row  recently,  stopped  to  in- 

"I  presume,"  said   Barry,  "that  it  to  loan."                                                     spect    the    work    on    the    subway, 

means  a  hat  without  a  crown."  "See  here,"  exclaimed  the  stran-      His  attention  was    especially     at- 

Doctor— I  know  just  what  will  ger  as  he  stumbled  into  his  twen-  tracted  by  the  large  iron  cylinder 
help  you.  You  must  drink  two  tieth  puddle,  "1  thought  you  said  which  is  kept  constantly  turning 
cups  of  very  strong  tea  every  you  knew  where  all  the  bad  places  over  a  fire  for  the  purpose  of  heat- 
morning.  Patient — I  have  done  were  on  this  road?"  "Well,"  re-  ing  gravel.  "What  do  you  make 
that  for  years.  Doctor— Then  you  plied  the  native  who  had  volun-  of  it,  Joe?"  asked  a  friend.  "Rolled 
must  stop  at  once.  tec-red   to   guide   him   through   the      pebbles,"   murmured   Mr.   Cannon. 

If  you  ask  a  man  for  the  date  darkness,     "we're     finding     them,      "Must  be  some  kind  of  new  break- 

of  his  birth,  he  tells  you  only  the  ain't  we?"                                                    fast  food  adapted  for  those  Italian 

year;  if  you  ask     a     woman,  she  "After  all,  it  takes  a  woman  to      immigrants, 

never  tells  you  more  than  the  day.  urive  a  bargain."  "Unless  the  bar-          At  the  age  of  21   a  man  knows 

Young  Woman   ( in     a    draper's  gain  should  happen  to  be  a  horse. '      a  lot  more  about  women  than  he 

shop; — How  much  is  this  muslin?  "Huh!     Did   you   ever   hear  of   a      ever  will  at  any  subsequent  stage 

The     Shopman     (gallantly)— One      horse  that  was  a  bargain?"  of  his  career. 

kiss  the  yard.     Young     Woman —  i(                •  ■    ,              ,       »/!                   .1     .  •        c    •   ,.         ,.£ 

Very  well  give    me    ten    yards  "  V°u  Wlsn  to  reac'  a  Magazine  that  is  or  interest  from  cover 

arwI"^S.1:nMd  to  coverread  the  Feb™«-y  overland  monthly 

the  bill  to  my  grandmother.  CONTENTS:                                                                                    SEE  PAGE: 

A  judge,  pointing  with  his  cane      Frontispiece    Photo  Miss   Blanche   Cumming.  .88 

ic   a  prisoner  before  him,  remark-      California  Women  and  Artistic  Photography    

ed:  "There  is  a  great  rogue  at  the  Henrietta  S.   Breck    89 

end  of  this  stick."     The  man   re-      A   California   Venice Tom    S.    Rice    99 

plied :      "At      which      end,      your      The  Plaint  of  the  Passing  Peoples.  .  Vincent  Harper 101 

honor?"  Colombian    Barbarity    Arthur    H.    Dutton 107 

"The  longer  I  live,"  sighed  the      Hygienic  Conditions  of  Colombia.  .  Henry   Bailey  Sargeant    108 

sage,   "and  the   more' I   learn,   the      In   Calm  and  Storm Edna   Kingsley   Wallace 109 

more   firmly  am   I   convinced  that      The  Far  Eastern  Situation Edwin  Maxey   ill 

I   know   absolutely   nothing!"     "I      McKinley    Road    E.    T.    J 114 

could  have  told  you  that  twenty-      A  California  Minstrel  Virginia   Garland    118 

five  years  ago,"  said  his  wife,  "but      Thro'  the  Golden  Gate Lucius  L.  Wittich   120 

I  knew  it  would  be  of  no  use"  Curious  Facts  and  Statistical  Truths   (New  York's    Historic     Land- 

Kitty-So   you    have     been     to      -  mark„s)f  "V"  '_    "  '  V- R   M-    RiSeky    Ill 

Paris.     You  must  have  had  a  nice      fom£  Cahf°™an   Curiosities 123 

time   there,     you     understand  the      An  Egyptian  Enigma   ?,lean?Je  £ '  cLe^S   "! 

language  so  perfectly,  you   know.      A  J8^1*"1'     T ,K f\l  MWP>Snll       « 

Bessie-Well,  the  fact  is,   though      John  Rlchard  Lee'    6z Arthur  D    Coulter   133 

you'd  hardly  believe  it,  they  speak      ° fesPair    ■  ■ ' : Charles  W.  Stevenson  36 

such  queer  French  there  it's  quite      A  r      °  "21  Will-i '  • ' James  M-  F,ellopm   "  " \fa 

impossible  to  converse  with  intel-      £  Cry  on.  *?  ^  '  \  *  '  rr  " ' '  %       °/gr  ?/     ■  4 

ligence  The  Greek  Theatre  at  the  University  of  California    

„.„.'        ,.  ,  Clotilde  Grunsky  Fisk    142 

Visitor— You  haven  t     got     half      Resoive    Robert   B.    Grant    145 

as  nice  a  cemetery  here  as  we  have      The   Gold   Lad        Josephine    Coan 146 

in     Elmvil  e      Prominent     Citizen      Sonnet    J0rvfre    y.    Stapp    147 

it  wawvniej— .\0,     I  ve     always      Sweet   Content    Alice  MacGowan  Cooke 148 

heard  that  the  cemetery  is  the  only      Men  and  Women I49 

part  of  your  town  that  holds  out      My  Valentine    M.   H.   W 153 

rensWenceCementS  Permanent      The  Unfortunate  Third    Guy  Raymond  Halifax   154 

«Kr    »  L""'--  Whence    Came   the   Anglo-Saxon.  .  H.  L.  Chamberlain 157 

No,     he  said,   "I'm     not     sure      Washington's   Birthday    William   F.   Crane    160 

whether  my  wife's  Christmas  gift      Mount    Mazama    Julia  P.  A.  Prather   165 

to  me  was  meant  to  please  me  or      A   Honolulu   Banyan   Tree l66 

to  humble  my  pride."     "What  did      Book    Reviews    167 

she   give  you?"   asked   the   friend.      Kditorialism    169 

"She  had  a  crayon  portrait  of  me  „                    .  .         .  .         ,                           ...            r      1         i\/i 

made  by  an  amateur  artist."  Compare  this  table  or  contents  with  that  or  other  Magazines 


January  30.  1903. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


3» 


COCKTAIL 
FACTS 


About  W  of  the  Cocktails  now 
drank  arc  cither  .Manhattans  or 
.Martinis:  no  good  bar-keeper  uses 
any  bitters  but  ••KnRllsh  Orange" 
In  making  them.  1  he  "CUB 
COCKTAILS,"  Manhattans  and 
Martinis,  arc  made  as  they  should 
be  with  English  "Orange  Hit- 
ters." are  properly  aged  and  are 
better  than  any  fresh  made  cock- 
tail possibly  can  be.  A  fresh 
made  cocktail  Is  like  a  new  blend 
of  any  kind,  unfit  for  use.  Age 
is  what  makes  a  good  Punch, 
age  Is  what  makes  a  good  Cor- 
dial,  age  is  what  makes  a  good 
blended  whiskey,  age  is  what 
makes  a  palatable  sauce,  and  above 
all  age  Is  what  makes  a  good 
cocktail.  These  statements  can  be 
verified  by  any  reputable  blender. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEIN"  &  BRO.,  Sd.  mpriaon 

SO  Broadway,  New  York,  N".  V. 

HAirrrotD,  C.)**.  London 


SPOHN-PATRICK  COMPANY 

BftD  FrtoclMO.   Lot  ADgelei. 
Denier.   B.ll   Lake  CUT.   Sr.ltlr 


"Yes,  he  fooled  me  completely. 
He  had  such  a  smooth  way  with 
him."  "Which  proves  that  the  way 
of  the  transgressor  is  most  suc- 
cessful  where   it's  smooth." 

"Why  do  you  still  call  her  a 
fin  de  siecle  'girl?"  "What's  the 
matter  with  that?"  "Why,  since 
that  means  literally  the  'end  of  the 
century  girl,'  is  was  only  used  in 
speaking  of  girls  towards  the  close 
of  the  last  century."  "Well,  that's 
when  she  was  a  girl." 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Miabouii Kiver  aud  Chicago- 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Cblcazo 
and  Northwestern  Rys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  lu.00  a-  in-  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking  ears 
with  barber  and  bath.  Bookloveis  Li- 
brary. Dining  Cars,  standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  attl-uo  p.  111.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicttgo- 
Diuing  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Exnress.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  o.uua.m.Slandai'd  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays,    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  o(  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Bys. 
617  Market  St.      (Palace  Hot  el)      San  Francisco 


He    -Think   tv. 
you  n 
I    think   tu 

the  same. 

"I  see  that  Planns.  wl 
chitect,  1-  buildi 

himself  now."    "Is  I  time  I 

the   victim,   "I'll   bet     he'll 
himseli." 

Arthur  Nelstonc  ells  .1 
yam  about  Umtali.  It  was  on  his 
last  visil  about  the  end  of 
Happening  to  enter  the  first  morn- 
ing a  well-frequented  bar,  a 
man  came  up  to  him  and  said: 
"Hollo,  Arthur,  how  are  you,  old 
boy."  Well,  after  he  had  chatted 
about  old  times,  he  said:  "Things 
are  awful  had  here.  1  don't  know 
what's  coming  to  this  place;  we 
are  all  broke — a  large  bottle  of 
champagne,  Miss."  Champagne 
was  50s  a  bottle  then  in  Umtali. 
We  talked  on  for  some  time  of 
how  poverty  stricken  they  all  were 
and  1  was  just  thinking  of  closing 
the  conversation  when  he  said: 
"Miss,  another  bottle,  please."  And 
that's  how  it  was  during  my  stay. 
They  were  all  broke,  but  they 
drank   champagne   every   morning. 

Nodd — How  is  your  orange 
grove  in  Florida  getting  on?  Todd 
— First  rate,  old  man.  Why,  in  a 
couple  of  years  from  now  I  expect 
to  have  enough  oranges  to  supply 
my   table. 

"What  makes  you  think  they  are 
such  rich  Americans?"  "Because 
they  know  so  much  more  about 
other   countries   than   their   own." 

Mother — Johnny  Jones,  did  you 
get  that  awful  cold  out  skating? 
Son — Mother,  I  think  I  caught  it 
washing  my  face  yesterday  morn- 
ing. 

"Persons  who  are  complaining 
that  they  had  no  good  luck  last 
year,"  remarked  the  Observer  of 
Jb-vents  and  Things,  "may  console 
themselves  with  the  thought  that 
the  figures  in  1903,  added,  make 
thirteen." 

Junior  Partner  (a  few  days  after 
Uiristmas) — I  don't  think  we 
ought  to  mark  these  goods  down 
to  such  a  figure  as  that.  It's  less 
than  half  cost.  We  can't  replace 
them  for  double  the  price.  Senior 
Partner — We  won't  have  to,  my 
boy.  Nobody  has  any  money  now. 
.  Ascum — Some  people  are  saying 
that  you  made  most  of  your  money 
in  politics.  Leader — But  others 
are  saying  that  I  made  most  of 
my  money  out  of  politics.  So  who 
are  you  going  to  believe? 

No  man  has  the  heart  to  say 
"No"  when  a  girl  asks  if  he  really 
and  truly  loves  her. 


Silent  men  seldom  contradict 
themselves. 

Many  a  girl  shatters  her  ideal 
when   she   marries   him. 

Two  often  cease  to  be  company 
after  they  are  made  one. 

It  is  twice  as  easy  to  fool  your- 
self as  it  is  to  fool  other  peo- 
ple. 

"How  did  the  parrot  come  to  be 
fined  for  contempt  of  court?" 
"Why,  when  Judge  Owl  asked  him 
if  he  knew  the  nature  of  an  oath 
he  burst  into  a  perfect  roar  of  de- 
risive laughter." 

A  man  is  sometimes  known  by 
the  things  he  might  have  done 
but   didn't. 


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best  in  America.      'n, 

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THE  YELLOWSTONE 

22  MONTGOMERY  ST- 

Tel.  Main  14« 

HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Fingers  roughened  by  needlework 

catch  every  stain  and  look  hopelessly 
dirty.  Hand  Sapolio  removes  not  only 
the  dirt,  but  also  the  loosened,  injured 
cuticle,  and  restores  the  fingers  to 
their  natural  beauty. 

ALL    GROCERS    AND    DRUGGISTS 


32 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


January  36,  1903. 


Double  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,  KAN5AS  CITY 
&  ST.  LOU  15 

Through  PuUman  Sleeping  ears  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Eleetrie 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  Fortickets.  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc..  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

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(Palace  Hotel) 


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And  Short  Rail  Line  from  Portland  to  all  Points 
East.  Through  Tickets  to  all  Points  all  Hail  or 
Steamship  and  Hail  at  Lowest  Hates. 

Steamer  Tickets  include  Berth  and  Meals. 

SS  OKEGOM  Sails  Jan.  2H.  Feb.  7  17  "7 
Man.-h  9.  29. 

SS  GEO.  W.  ELDER  Sails  Jan.  23.  Eel..  2 
12,22.    March  4,  14.  to. 

SS  OREGON  is  temporarly  in  service  instead 
of  the  COLUMBIA. 

Guest — This  beaksteak  is  so 
tough  the  knife  won't  go  through 
it.  Head  Waiter — Another  kniie 
for  the  gentleman. 


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York  City.  Limited  trains 
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evening,  with  through  equip- 
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Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

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Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC 

1  mi  hi  leave  ami  are  due  (.<■  am  ve  ai         - 
SAN     FKANClJSCO. 
(MulD  Line,   Koot  of   Market  Street  i 


COASTLINE   (Narrow  Uauce) 
Pool  of  Market  street) 


LEA 


—    Fkuu  Dkckmhkk  ^9.  1U03. 


AKRTVK 


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7.uJa    i:-Til>;la,  Sulsun.  Eliiilrn  and  Siicra- 

tru'Qtu 7.25? 

7.30a   Vallejo,     Napa,     Callstog.i.     Saxta 

Itosa,   Martinez,  Sua  iiainon B-25P 

7  30a    Niii',-,  Llvennore,  Tracy,  Littbrop, 

Stockron 725p 

8.00*  Shasta  Express  —  (Via  Davis). 
Wllll.iim  (for  Itartlett  Sprlugs), 
Willows       tKruto.      ICet]      BliiO, 

Portland,  Tacoma,   Sfiutlo 7.55p 

800a    Davis.  Woodland.  Knights  La  i  ding. 

MaryBvIlle.  Orovlllu 7-55p 

8  3 3 a    Port    Costa,     Martinez,     Aiilloch, 

Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton.  New- 
man. Los  Banos.  Mend  ota, 
Armona,  Hnufurd  Visalla. 
Portfrvflle 4.25p 

B-30a  Port  Costn.  Martinez.  Tracy.  Lath- 
rop,  Modesto,  Merced,  Kreso.0, 
Goshen  Junction,  Haurord. 
Visalla    Itakerafleld  4.55* 

6.30*  Nlles,  San  .lose,  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton. (tMlILou),  lorn-,  Siicriuip-nto, 
Placervllle  Marysvllle,  Culco, 
llud  BlulT 4.25P 

8  30*   Oakdnle.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  So- 

nora.  Tmdtimtie  and  Angels    4  23 i' 

9  00*    Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  P;ant.    11-25* 
8.30*   Rkhmi.nd,    Martinez     and      Way 

Stations 6  55? 

1000*   The    Overland    Limited  —  Ugden, 

U'-nver.  Oinalin.  Chicago 6-25p 


8  16a  Newark,  Centervllle.  San  Jose, 
Feltoo.    Boulder     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-55? 

11.16*'  Newark,  Centervllle,  fran  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Lox  Gato&.  EM  ton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    tl055* 

4  I5»j   Newark,  San  Jose,  LosGatos  and  t     1855  * 

way  stations )  110  55* 

09  30p  Hunters  Train.  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.  Return- 
ing from  Lou  Gatoa  Snn-iay  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

MombAN  UtANCJSCO,  Koot  ol  Market  St.  (Slip <i 

-tf:15    «:U0     1I:(K)a.M.      1.00     3.00    6-16  P.M 

rrom  OAKLAND.  Koot  of  Broadway  -•  t«:00    te):0) 

18:0J    1O:0ua.m.       12  00    2  00    400  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Broad  «aug«). 

|3T*  M'lilrd  and    rowtmeiid   StreetB.) 


12.25p 


Sta- 


.  l.odl... 
i.V'alleJo,  Napa, 


4  00i- 
4.30p 


6.00  h 


6.OO1 
t6  30> 
6.001- 
6.00 1- 


6  00. 


1225p 
1025* 


9  25* 
4.23P 


Sun  |      18  5 
.1  Ml  " 


55* 


10-OUa    ValleJ. 

10. UO*  Los  Anpi>li!B  Passenger-  Port 
Costa.  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy, 
Lfttbrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno.  G<mb<'D  Junc- 
tion. Hanford,   Lemnorn,  VlMatla, 

Bakoraflcld.   L->»   Angela    7  25p 

1200m   Hayward.  Nlles  nnrt  Way  Stations.      3-2JP 

HOOp   Sacramento  Rlvi-r  St''am.-r«.. '  1  1  JJp 

3.30c  Benlila.  Wlnt'-rs.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  it  nigh ra  I.  m  ling, 
Marysvllle,     Oroville    and     way 

stations 10-55* 

3-30c  Havward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      755p 

3  30'     Port       Costa.      Martin   z        Ihrmi, 

Tracy,      Laibrop, 

Merced,   Fresno    i 

tfons  beyond  Purt 

330i-    Mnrtlnez.  Tracy.  St. 

4.00c  Martinez, San  ICamoi! 

Callatoga.  Smii"  |{i 

NlleB.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodt  . 
Hay  ward.    Nlles.    Irvln 

.loBe,  Llvermore 

The  Owl    Limited— Ve  v-m    n    L< 
n.n.e    M-ndMNi  Fre-nn.  Tulare, 
Bakersueld.  Lob  AugeleB 
QoldeQ     state     Lluiiioi     sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  Angele-,  u>r  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R   I    &P 8.55a 

Port  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 12-2  iP 

Hayward.  N 1 1 ««  ami  San  Jo«e 7  25a 

Hay  ward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose.  9.j5a 

Sua  tern  Exprefln— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Co»ta.  lieulcla.  Sul- 
Bun  Eliulra,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Rocklln,  Auburn.  Colfax, 
Truckee,    Boca,    ICeno.    Wada- 

wortb,  Wlnoemucca 6-25p 

Vallejo  dally,  except  Sunday...    I 

7.09P   Vallejo,  Sunday  only f 

7.00'    I'lebmond,  -an  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Station*     

8-C6c  Oregon  &  California  Kxpremt— Sac- 
ramento,    Marynvlllc,     Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East. 
9.10c  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Ji>se  (bun- 
day  only) 11-55a 


631p 
636P 

4-IOp 


1045- 


7.60p 


6  10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

7  C0a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

8  00*    New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld..  only), 
B  00a  The  Coaster— Slops  only  Sar  Jose, 

Gllroy  (connection  fur  Hollla- 
ter),  Pajaro,  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove).  Salinas  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Rohlet.  Santa  Mar 
garlta.  San  Luis  oblspo.  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (Connection 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
tbenciSauta  Barbarn.San  Buena- 
ventura. Saugus  Los  AugeleB... 
9.00a  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Catdtola, 
SautaCruz.PaclOc  Grove, Saltnaa, 
San   l.nih    Obispo   and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4-10p 

I0-30a   tan  Joee  and  Way  Stations.. 1.20P 

11  30a  Santa  Clara,    >tm  Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations  

1  30i    Aan  Jobc  and  Way  Stations 

6-LUc  Del  MoQte  Kxpress— Santa  Clara, 
San  Ji'sn.  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Gmve  (eonuects  at  Santa 
Clara  lor  Sauta  Cruz.  Boulder 
(reek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  HoiiMcr.  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.    1215p 

3-30p  Tres  Plnos  Wav  Passenger 10  45a 

4  30p     an  Jose  and  Way  St  tlons +8. 00a 

1600  ->m  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatos,  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  "tindav)  . t-9.00* 

i  £0j  oan  JoBeand  Principal  WayStatlons  {9  40* 
G.lOi  bunset  Limited.— Uedwo  d.  San 
Jose, Gllroy, Salinas, Paso  Kobles, 
San  I. nis  tjblspo,  Siuita  Barliara, 
Los  Angi'leB,  Denting.  Kl  Paso. 
Kew  Orleans.  New  rork.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
and    at    Castrovllle    for     Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7  10* 

t6  It!  tau  Maieo,lleresror.J.Be1inont.San 
CarloB.     Redwood.     FHlr     Oaks. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto 'B-43a 

6     (i    Snn  .lose  ami  Wa>  Stations 6  38* 

8  00p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 1j.15a 

11  &Qr  3L.uib  Min  Francisco.  Mlllbrae.  Bur 
Mngame.  San  Mateo.  Retmon' 
San  Carlos.  Redwood.  Fair  Oaka, 

Menlo  Park  and  Palo  Alio 9.45c 

"11  30c  Mayneld,  Mountain  View,  sunny- 
vale.  Lawrence.  Santa  Clara  and 

San  Jose 19-45P 

A  for  Morning  P  for  Afternoon. 

Sunday  excepted  X  milhIa.s  only 

a  Saturday  only 

(  Stop*  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
1 1  25a    *  r    Only  trains  itroi-ping  at  Valencia  St.  Bonrhhound 
dr.      in  *.m„ 7:00*. k.,  11:30a. n.,8:30p.M.,6:30P.M.and 
8:00  p.m. 
8.55a 


765P 


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An  Irishman  was  brought  be- 
fore a  Justice  of  the  Peace  on  a 
charge  of  vagrancy,  and  was  thus 
questioned :  "What  trade  are 
you?"  "Shure,  now,  your  honor, 
an'  I'm  a  sailer.  "You  a  seafaring 
man  ?  I  question  whether  you 
have  ever  been  to  sea  in  your  life." 
"Shure,  now,  and  does  your  hon- 
or think  I  came  over  from  Ireland 
in  a  wagon?" 

Maid  (to  her  young  mistress, 
who  has  written  a  love  letter  for 
her  at  her  request) — Oh,  thank 
you  so  much,  Miss!  The  letter  is 
beautiful.  But  please  don't  for- 
get to  put  a  postscript:  "Excuse 
bad  writin'  and  spellinM" 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,  FEBRUARY  6.  1904. 


Number   6. 


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LETTER  should  be  sent  to  this  office  not  later  than  5  p.  m. 
Thursday  previous  to  day  of  Issue. 

In  England  the  problem  is  not  "How  old  is  Ann?" 
but  "Where  is  Mrs.   Maybrick?" 


By  punching  a  dramatic  critic,  the  husband  of  an 
actress  has  justified  his  existence. 

Hands  across  the  sea?  Certainly,  but  if  they  wear 
boxing  gloves  we  will  know  which  pair  to  bet  on. 

Consignees  complain  that  Russian  wheat  is  dirty. 
The  inference  is  plain — the  Russians  must  garner 
their  cereals  by  hand. 

An  unmarried  woman  in  Des  Moines  has  inherited 
$3,000,000,  but  the  fortune  hunters  need  not  trouble 
themselves — she  is  a  nun. 


Profound  regret  is  expressed  over  the  suicide  of 
VVhitaker  Wright,  the  London  swindler — regret  that 
it  did  not  happen  about  seven  years  earlier. 

Ninety  per  cent  of  the  missing  men  in  London  are 
married.  And  yet  they  talk  of  the  down-trodden 
British  female! 


Footbinding  is  going  out  of  fashion  in  China,  but 
highbinding  in  Chinatown  continues  to  keep  the 
Coroner  busy. 

Young  Mr.  Vanderbilt  is  doing  the  mile  in  35  sec- 
onds in  his  automobile.  We  recall  that  long  ago  he 
was  spoken  of  as  a  speedy  youth. 

The  ballet-girl  always  has  been  age-proof,  and  now 
they  are  putting  her  in  asbestos  tights  to  make  her 
fire-proof. 

Meat-eating,  according  to  a  leading  vegetarian,  is 
the  cause  of  appendicitis.  We  always  thought  it 
was  due  to  a  congestion  in  the  bank  account. 


"Fighting  Bob"  Evans  suggests  canteens  on  men- 
of-war  as  a  means  to  keep  the  "jackies"  from  drink- 
ing deadly  wood  alcohol  from  the  ships'  paint  stores. 
Now  just  watch  what  the  W.  C.  T:  U.  does  to  Fight- 
ing Bob. 

A  foolish  man  in  Connecticut,  named  Gillespie, 
wrote  a  letter  to  the  press  venting  his  disgust  over 
seeing  a  woman  kiss  a  cat.  The  lady  president  of 
the  Connecticut  Cat  Club  came  back  with  the  crush- 
ing rejoinder  that  there  were  worse  things  than  kiss- 
ing cats-^kissing  Gillespies,  for  example. 


"Silver,"  *nys  Col,  William  J.  Bryan,  "i-  no  longer 
the  paramount  issue."    Somebody  must  have  told  the 
gifted  Nebraskan  thai  Hearst's  campaign  fund 
bo  passed  out  in  paper  money. 

Congress  is  asked  to  provide  a  summer  residence 
for  the  President,  and   Representative   Hearst   yells 

that   Roosevelt  wants  a  palace.     What  would   Hearst 
prefer — a  harem,  with  silver  bath-tubs  in  it? 


Emperor  Menelik  is  sending  President  Roosevelt 

two  lions  as  a  gift,  and  in  the  seclusion  of  one  of  his 
flats  Hearst  is  learning  how  to  say  "sic  'em"  in  the 
language  of  the  Abyssinians. 


Jo-Jo,  the  Finn,  whose  beard  grew  all  over  his 
face,  is  dead,  and  now  Id's  forget  to  mention  him 
when  we  see  a  fellow-being  with  whiskers  of  the 
lambrequin   type. 


A  yellow  newspaper  prints  a  picture  of  a  lady 
whom  a  too  gay  army  officer  is  accused  of  trying  to 
kiss.  If  it  is  a  fair  likeness  the  officer's  sanity  is  in 
doubt,   not   his   morals. 


Twelve  thousand  kegs  of  beer  were  poured  into 
the  North  river  at  New  York  as  the  result  of  a  brew- 
ery deal.  The  Schuetzen  clubs  marked  the  occasion 
by  putting  on  deep  mourning. 


"Prize-fighter  Jeffries  stops  runaway  and  saves 
woman's  life,"  say  the  newspapers  in  big  headlines. 
Credit  where  credit  is  due :  raise  his  press  agent's 
salary. 


Ten  thousand  women  of  Massachusetts  have  peti- 
tioned the  Legislature  in  opposition  to  woman  suf- 
frage. Why  should  the  privileges  of  the  ballot  be 
forced  on  anybody? 

A  political  function  of  Republican  job  seekers  at 
Springfield,  Illinois,  was  announced  as  a  "love  feast," 
but  when  it  was  over  the  survivors  agreed  to  call 
it  a  "cannibal  island  free  lunch." 


A  Quartermaster's  clerk  at  Chicago  has  been  sus- 
pended for  refusing  to  spell  a  word  the  way  his  chief 
wanted  it,  and  his  fate  is  in  the  hands  of  the  general 
staff  of  the  army.  If  only  the  shade  of  Webster 
could  know  about  this ! 


■  New  York  attorneys  had  a  race-track  bookmaker 
on  the  stand,  and  were  prodding  him  about  his  busi- 
ness, when  he  crumpled  up  the  proceedings  with  the 
declaration :  "I  get  my  money  as  honestly  as  you 
lawyers  do!" 

Cities  like  New  York  and  San  Francisco,  which 
are  fretting  about  which  side  of  the  street  cars  should 
stop  on,  should  remember  that  problem  of  St.  Louis, 
where  they  didn't  stop  on  either  side  between  ter- 
minals. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


February  6,   1904. 


BURNING  HIS  BRIDGES. 

Is  Hearst — William  Randolph  Hearst — as  bank- 
rupt in  fortune  as  in  honor  and  decency?  If  not, 
then  he  is  doing  some  things  which,  if  observed  in 
the  conduct  of  a  man  engaged  in  a  more  reputable 
business,  would  indicate  an  intention  to  commit 
fraudulent  insolvency,  so  to  say. 

Hearst's  inheritance  from  his  father  was  the  San 
Francisco  Examiner,  and,  we  may  suppose,  enough 
money  to  freak  it  into  its  present  state  of  journalis- 
tic unworth.  The  other  properties  of  the  same  class 
which  he  has  established  or  acquired  in  New  York, 
Chicago  and  Los  Angeles,  have  been  run  on  the  same 
plan  of  brag  and  bluster  on  the  editorial  side  and 
plain  piracy  in  the  counting  room.  Hearst's  repu- 
tation as  a  prodigal  spender  of  millions  got  by 
birth,  and  his  parent's  death,  is  as  false  as  his  repu- 
tation for  anything  mentionable  in  a  mixed  company. 
It  is  true  that  he  has  paid  big  salaries  to  little  men, 
has  bought  all  manner  of  thinly-gilt  bricks,  and  has 
made  a  great  noise  in  newspaperdom,  but  a  little 
money  goes  a  long  way  in  that  kind  of  a  fake  exhibi- 
tion, and  without  doubt,  his  yellow  head  has  earned 
a  good  deal  by  dint  of  cajolery  and  cudgeling  the 
business  men  and  corporations  of  the  four  afflicted 
cities.  But  what  of  his  revenue  he  nas  not  spent  in 
making  the  people  believe  him,  the  Croesus  of  the 
press,  he  has  squandered  in  trying  to  play  the  big- 
ger game  of  national  politics.  How  much  it  has  cost 
him  trying  to  tow  to  port  the  unfortunate  Bryan,  the 
derelict  of  the  Democracy,  no  man  but  himself  may 
say,  but  unquestionably  the  amount  is  a  large  one. 
From  time  to  time  he  may  have  wrung  more  money 
out  of  the  Hearst  estate.  It  has  been  said,  with 
seeming  authority,  that  his  paper  has  been  taken  up 
in  this  quarter,  on  occasion,  just  in  time  to  spare 
him  exposure  that  would  have  tumbled  down  his 
house  of  cards. 

Some  time  ago,  it  will  be  recalled,  this  inheritor 
of  not  much  else  besides  a  newspaper,  put  the  Ex- 
aminer into  the  hands  of  a  corporation  headed  by  an 
employee  of  the  business  office — a  move  which  was 
not  regarded  at  the  time  as  anything  more  serious 
\than  one  more  of  the  queer  practices  of  a  queer 
young  man.  Now  he  has  done  the  same  thing  with 
his  New  York  sheet,  and  here,  again,  the  corporation 
has  for  directors  two  of  his  employees  and  his  at- 
torney. The  capital,  in  this  case,  is  placed  at  $i,oco 
In  Chicago  he  is  at  the  same  business. 

What  does  it  all  mean?  Is  Hearst  bankrupt,  or 
does  he  expect  to  be?  Assuredly,  if  he  owed  the 
News  Letter  any  money,  it  would  be  looking  for 
something  attachable  to  levy  on.  Possibly  he  has 
gone  so  far  in  his  policy  of  extension,  has  so  added 
to  his  obligations,  has  so  many  and  so  heavy  credi- 
tors that  he  is  past  the  point  of  retreat  and  retrench- 
ment, and  has  adopted  this  plan  of  incorporation 
to  help  stave  off  commercial  ruin.  Perhaps  he  has 
so  far  discounted  his  expectancy  in  the  Hearst  es- 
tate that  he  has  been  compelled  to  this  course  for 
its  better  protection.  It  may  be — and  this  seems 
to  us  more  likely — that  his  foolish  scramble  for  the 
Presidency  is  the  last  card  he  has  to  play,  and  that 
he  is  getting  ready  for  the  utter  defeat  that  will 
inevitably  be  his  portion. 

Hearst,  we  are  informed,  has  offered  the  Demo- 
cratic national  managers  $2,000,000  for  the  nomina- 
tion. This  is  a  jug-handled  proposition,  inasmuch  as 
what  he  offers  is  to  spend  that  sum  in  trying  to  elect 
himself  if  nominated.  We  would  suggest  that  the 
gentlemen  to  whom  he  promises  this  great  sum  in 
exchange  for  the  virtue  of  their  party  see  first  of  all 
how  much  property  really  stands  in  his  name,  how 


much  money  he  actually  has.  This  incorporation 
scheme  means  something  unpleasant  for  somebody's 
interests,  and  we  would  not  suspect  Mr.  Hearst  of 
trying  to  pick  his  own  pocket. 

A    NEEDLESS    SACRIFICE    OF    LIFE. 

The  ever-lengthening  roll  of  men  and  women  who 
lose  their  lives  through  one  form  or  another  of  care- 
lessness in  the  use  of  illuminating  gas  imperatively 
calls  attention  to  one  special  cause  of  danger  in  this 
regard  by  which  considerable  numbers  of  the  resi- 
dents of  San  Francisco  are  made  to  undergo  a 
wholly  avoidable  risk. 

We  refer  to  the  practice  of  turning  off  the  gas 
at  the  meter  in  the  lodging  houses.  This  practice 
is  pursued  as  a  measure  of  economy  to  prevent  pos- 
sible waste  by  lodgers.  It  is  not  an  uncommon 
thing  for  residents  of  these  houses  to  do  a  little  cook- 
ing on  a  small  gas  stove,  but  this  practice  is  frowned 
upon  by  landlords,  and  so  they  cut  off  the  flow  of 
gas  all  over  the  house  during  a  large  part  of  the 
twenty-four  hours.  This,  of  course,  is  a  measure  of 
self-defense  on  the  part  of  landlords,  but  it  imports 
a  danger  of  very  serious  character,  and  for  that  rea- 
son ought  not  only  to  be  prohibited,  but  the  prohi- 
bition must  be  enforced  by  adequate  means. 

The  danger  from  this  practice  lies  in  the  fact  that 
lodgers  frequently  leave  jets  burning  low  while  they 
sleep,  and  when  the  flow  is  cut  off  at  the  nieter  the 
stop-cock  of  the  burner  remains  open,  with  the 
result  that  when  the  gas  is  once  more  turned  on 
the  room  becomes  filled  with  the  poisonous  fumes. 

It  is  useless  passing  an  ordinance  prohibiting  this 
practice  unless  means  are  provided  to  see  that  the 
prohibition  is  enforced.  That  means  is  easily  within 
the  reach  of  the  municipal  machinery.  It  should  be 
made  the  duty  of  policemen  on  patrol  to  inspect  the 
gas  fittings  at  all  lodging  houses,  and  see  that  the 
law  is  observed.  It  is  useless  filling  the  city  law- 
book with  ordinances  which  presumably  are  sup- 
posed to  work  without  human  agency.  To  be  effec- 
tive the  law  must  itself  specify  the  means  of  its 
enforcement. 


IMPOSITION    UPON    CLUB    WOMEN. 

In  the  appearance  of  the  so-called  California  Club- 
women's edition  of  the  Bulletin,  the  News  Letter 
finds  much  to  make  it  believe  that  the  warning  to 
,the  excellent  ladies  of  that  excellent  club  about 
the  bunco  game  that  was  all  set  for  them  came  in 
good  season.  It  is  plain  that  many  of  those  whose 
names  were  used  in  booming  this  stupid  humbug 
drew  out,  and  that  others,  unable  to  do  so,  merely 
sent  in  contributions  and  allowed  their  names  to  be 
used  in  signature.  For  weeks  this  delectable  sheet 
had  been  announcing  the  names  of  its  staff  of  lady 
editors  and  gatherers  of  news,  telling  with  verbose 
reiteration  which  of  them  would  report  the  day's 
happenings  on  the  city's  waterfront,  among  the  la- 
bor unions,  and  wherever  else  news  was  to  be  had. 
Most  of  the  departments  thus  advertised  were  con- 
spicuously omitted.  Obviously,  the  ladies  whom  the 
Bulletin  had  tried  to  delude  into  association  with  it 
for  these  purposes  declined  the  tasks  assigned  them, 
and  the  managers  of  the  slimy  sheet  did  not  dare  to 
go  too  far  in  passing  off  the  work  of. its  own  under- 
paid hacks  as  the  output  of  the  clever  clubwomen 
whose  names  it  had  used  so  freely. 

That  there  .was  some  degree  of  this  substitution 
swindle,  however,  we  make  sure.  Inspection  of  the 
issue  shows  errors  of  language,  of  fact,  and  of  judg- 
ment that  cannot  possibly  be  attributed  to  any 
woman  of  the  California  Club,  so  we  may  infer  that 


February  6.   1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


the  Bulletin's  man 

the  regular  pi 
until  like  their  estimate  "i  what  clubu 

I   write.     And  11   v  In 

they    boldly    snatch 
handful   fn>ni   obscure    -  nd   published 

if  one  or  another  of  the  clubwomen, 
muring,  though,  i>>  attach  - 
ample,  there  was  a  yard-long  editorial  about 
anybody   believe  that  any  woman 
nected   with   the   California   Clu1>   could   have   been 
guilty  of  such  vapid  idiocy  as  tliat?     This  ineffabl) 
dull  article  read  like  the  theme  of  a  half-baked  fresh- 
man in  a  fifth-rate  college,  ground  <>ut  with  infinite 
labor  from  the  resources  of  .1  meager  library  and  a 
meager  intelligence,  spraddling  splay-footed  when  it 
would   he   philosophic,  and     galumphing     painfully 
when  it  would  be  light  and  gay.    Tins  i...  lisli  ; 
for-the-paper  essay,  of  the  kind  that  all  editors  know 
so  well  and   loathe   so  heartily,  a   tiling   with   neither 

premise  imr  conclusion,  with. mi  bowels  or  bones, 
may  be  the  Bulletin's  idea  of  what  a  clubwoman 
would  write:  it  is  not  ours.  We  suspect  that  it  was 
quarried  whole  out  of  some  weekly  in  Northern  Ne- 
braska by  an  unscrupulous  man  with  a  big  pair  of 
Scissors. 

As  to  the  business  side  of  this  affair  we  hope  sin- 
cerely that  those  ladies  who  did  participate  took  the 
precaution  to  have  somebody  watch  the  cash  drawer 
all  the  time. 


111    .1 


1  ill-. 


A  SHAMEFUL  ATTACK. 

Once  more  the  highbinders  and  head-hunters  are 
trying  to  get  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company  by 
the  throat.  It  is  not  beset  this  year  by  the  jackals 
of  Newspaper  Row  alone.  The  Mayor  and  his  hun- 
gry henchmen,  who  throng  the  City  Hall,  are  busy 
whetting  their  knives  for  the  slashing.  All  the  indi- 
cations are  for  a  season  of  corporation-baiting  and 
capital-harrying,  a  season  of  attempted  "hold-ups," 
more  daring  and  more  numerous  than  have  marked 
any  of  the  annual  periods  of  rate-fixing.  Such  a  con- 
dition of  things  does  not  exist,  and  would  not  be  en- 
dured anywhere  else  in  the  United  States. 

Yearly  the  Spring  Valley  Company  is  compelled 
to  fight  tooth  and  nail  for  a  rate  that  will  enable  it 
to  pay  the  interest  on  the  money  it  has  borrowed 
in  order  to  maintain  its  business  and  to  render  a 
reasonable  return  to  the  holders  of  its  stock.  Often 
it  has  been  forced  to  seek  the  refuge  of  the  courts, 
which  have  not  thus  far  failed  to  shield  it  from  the 
attack  of  wolves  in  office.  Last  year  it  carried  to 
the  Federal  courts  its  contention  for  a  reasonable 
return,  and  found  no  difficulty  there  in  getting  the 
protection  it  asked.  This  year  it  is  called  upon  to 
face  not  only  the  assaults  of  a  predacious  and  rapa- 
cious press,  but  the  onfall  of  an  administration  whose 
slogan  seems  to  be  "For  Revenue  Only." 

The  stranger  among  us  might  think  that  this 
was  a  company  of  the  robber  barons  of  finance — a 
handful  of  men  grown  inordinately  and  insolently 
rich  through  control  of  a  public  necessity,  defying 
the  law  and  defrauding  the  people  by  excessive  and 
extortionate  charges.  The  fact— and  it  is  within 
the  knowledge  of  every  citizen — is  that  Spring  Val- 
ley's stocks  and  bonds  are  held  by  thousands  upon 
thousands  of  investors,  rich  and  poor,  high  and  low, 
most  of  them  San  Franciscans.  In  it  are  invested  the 
patrimony  of  many  and  many  an  orphaned  family, 
the  estates  of  widows,  the  slow  savings  of  working- 
men.  No  other  corporation  in  San  Francisco  is  so 
widely  and  fully  representative  of  all  conditions  and 
classes  of  the   city's  people  in   its   security-holders. 


Il\     gr»W 

immunity  "Pplv.    II 

natural  difficulties  in  finding  pure 

•   111  the   bare,  brOWIl   lulls  that   lie  all  about   the 

nd  in  bringing  it,  clear  and  pure. 

'.huh    no   man   can 

justly  complain.    All  the  while,  too,  it  has  bad  t" 

light   for  us  very   life,  ceaselessly  attacked  bj 

incuts  as   \iei"iis  as  those   which   now   menace   it. 

No  one  will  be  surprised  to  in  He  the  rancorous  hos- 
tility toward  Spring  Valley  of  those  newspapers 
which    regard   a   vested   interest    as   a   stage-robber 

.1  heavy  expreSS-box.  Nor  is  it  disappointing 
to  find  the  Mayor  and  his  merry  men  lined  up  with 
th^sc  who  prey  upon  corporations  and  individuals, 
for  the  last  municipal  campaign  involved  n 
with  respect  to  motives  or  intentions.  But  it  will 
be  a  distinct  disappointment  if  there  shall  prove  to 
be  not  en. nigh  fairminded  and  honest  men  in  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  to  give  the  Spring  Valley  a 
chance  to  earn  for  its  bondholders  their  interest 
and  for  its  stockholders  a  lawful  return  upon  their 
investment. 


WHERE   SAN   FRANCISCO   LAGS. 

George  A.  Newhall,  president  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  writes  a  thoughtful  letter  on  the  several 
proposals  now  mooted  for  the  improvement  and 
beautifying  of  San  Francisco.  Mr.  Newhall  is  a 
traveled  man,  who  has  seen  and  noted  what  other 
cities  the  world  over  are  doing  in  the  same  lines, 
and  he  thinks  that  what  we  most  need  in  this  city 
is  improved  and  modern  streets.  There  can  be  no 
doubt  that  we  have  neglected  our  opportunities  in 
this  regard,  and  Mr.  Newhall's  criticism  is  needed 
and  to  the  point.  In  his  letter,  printed  in  the  Bul- 
letin, Mr.  Newhall  writes: 

"My  personal  opinion  is  that  the  first  thing  to  do 
is  to  give  us  good  streets,  well  paved.  If  the  muni- 
cipal authorities  feel  that  they  cannot  do  this  at 
once,  the  work  should  be  proceeded  with  a  little 
at  a  time,  but  do  it  well.  Without  criticising  any  one 
I  must  say  that  we  have  no  well  paved  street  from 
the  Western  Addition  into  the  city.  Post  'street, 
the  natural  channel,  was  at  one  time  in  comparative- 
ly good  condition,  but  at  present  the  paving  is  so 
bad  that  the  average  citizen  when  going  by  carriage 
receives  nothing  but  jolts. 

This  is  the  eminently  practical  advice  of  a  man  of 
wide  experience  who  is  largely  interested  in  the  fu- 
ture of  San  Francisco.  It  should  be  heeded.  We 
have  here  the  most  splendid  site  for  a  great  city  that 
the  world  affords  situated  at  the  gateway  of  two  con- 
tinents and  blessed  with  the  finest  cnmate.  People 
may  say  what  they  please  about  the  fogs  and  winds 
that  play  over  this  peninsula,  but  the  fact  remains 
that  for  working  purposes  there  is  no  other  such 
climate  on  the  round  globe,  because  in  no  other  part 
of  the  world  can  a  man  pursue  his  business  and  his 
work  with  so  little  discomfort  or  with  less  adjust- 
ment to  his  surroundings  as  in  San  Francisco.  There 
is  no  other  place  in  the  world  where  the  extremes  of 
heat  or  cold  do  not  hamper  industry,  and  increase 
the  cost  to  the  producer.  But  to  get  the  full  value 
of  our  natural  advantages  we  must  not  neglect  ap- 
pliances and  means.  In  this  category,  nothing  is 
more  important  than  well-paved  and  well-kept 
streets,  and  we  rejoice  to  see  men  who  hold  the  po- 
sition of  Mr.  Newhall  taking  an  active  and  intelligent 
interest  in  bringing  the  citizens  to  a  realizing  sense 
of  the  needs  of  the  time. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


February  6,  1904. 


URGENT  N^ED   OF  FIRE  PROTECTION. 

The  conditions  prevailing  in  what  is  known  as  the 
"boarding-house  district,"  and  the  danger  of  fire  that 
threatens  so  much  valuable  property  as  well  as  life, 
make  the  subject  a  timely  report  filed  with  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  by  Fire  Marshall  Towe,  rep- 
resenting the  Board  of  Fire  Wardens.  These  dan- 
gers have  long  been  obvious  to  everybody,  and  the 
brain  reels  in  contemplation  of  the  catastrophe  that 
may  at  any  moment 'strike.  We  all  know  those  tow- 
ering structures  of  wood  that  almost  resemble  the 
character  of  explosives,  so  inflammable  are  they  and 
so  impossible  to  be  saved  once  a  fire  gains  headway 
in  them.  Not  only  are  they  dangerous  to  the  in- 
mates, but  they  threaten  their  neighbors,  for  these 
buildings  are  mostly  huddled  in  one  quarter  of  the 
town.     We  quote  from  the  report : 

"Many  buildings  have  been  constructed,  under  pre- 
vious laws,  wholly  of  wood,  even  as  high  as  seven- 
stories.  They  adjoin  and  abutt  together  in  some 
cases.  Many  of  them  are  centered  on  one  of  the  hilly 
districts  of  our  city.  It  has  been  the  study  of  this 
Board  and  of  the  Fire  Department,  whose  officers 
comprise  this  Board,  how  to  check  a  fire  once  started 
and  extending  from  the  building  in  which  it  origi- 
nated in  what  may  be  termed  the  boarding  house 
district,  where  the  buildings  range  from  three  to 
seven  stories,  and  are  constructed  wholly  of_  frame. 
Should  a  fire  start  on  a  windy  day  it  is  possible  for 
burning  embers  to  be  carried  blocks  away.  The  de- 
partment would  be  taxed  to  its  utmost  and  leave  a 
valuable  portion  of  the  city  at  the  mercy  of  a  con- 
flagration. This  risk  is  with  us  every  day,  and  in 
answer  to  your  resolution,  we  say  the  danger  from 
fire  is  great — too  great  to  be  put  in  a  written  report." 

"Too  great  to  be  put  in  a  written  report" — that  is 
a  significant  phrase,  but  we  all  know  the  dangers  at 
which  it  hints.  By  way  of  remedy  the  Fire  Wardens 
declare  that  in  future  all  buildings  outside  of  the  fire 
limits,  as  well  as  within  those  limits,  should  be  "con- 
structed wholly  of  brick  or  stone." 

Must  the  city  wait  for  a  disaster  involving  the 
lives  of  hundreds,  of  the  destruction  of  some  great 
block  of  buildings,  before  these  reasonable  precau- 
tions are  enforced? 


A  QUEER  TRANSACTION. 

That  is  a  very  strange  transaction  by  which  the 
State  commission  for  the  California  exhibit  in  the 
St.  Louis  Exposition  has  granted  an  exclusive  con- 
cession for  advertising  to  a  Los  Angeles  firm.  Un- 
der this  concession  it  appears  that  the  grantees  are 
just  now  engaged  in  holding  up  the  several  counties 
and  cities  of  the  State,  the  Boards  of  Supervisors, 
the  municipal  governing  bodies  and  the  commercial 
organizations,  under  threat  that  if  they  do  not  pay 
for  notice  they  will  be  shut  out,  or  at  best  given 
some  sort  of  perfunctory  showing  among  the  stere- 
opticon  pictures  that  are  to  constitute  the  vehicle  of 
advertisement. 

The  State  has  appropriated  $130,000  for  the  pur- 
pose of  advertising  resources  and  industries  and  nat- 
ural features  of  California.  If  that  money  is  not 
sufficient,  more  can  be  had,  and,  in  fact,  a  great  deal 
more,  but  only  on  the  understanding  that  it  will  be 
applied  for  the  advantage  of  the  contributors,  and 
that  no  considerable  part  of  it  shall  be  diverted  into 
the  pockets  of  private  individuals. 

This  is  the  objection  to  the  scheme  that  originated 
with  Commissioner  Wiggins  of  Los  Angeles,  that  it 
puts  the  most  important  feature  of  the  whole  enter- 
prise in  the  hands  of  a  couple  of  smart  advertising 


solicitors — his  friends — to  be  worked  for  their  own 
profit.  The  chief  purpose  of  every  exhibit  is  to  ad- 
vertise the  State.  It  was  to  this  end  that  the  Legis- 
lature appropriated  $130,000,  and  for  the  same  pur- 
pose Boards  of  Supervisors  are  ready  to  add  contri- 
butions from  their  county  treasuries.  But  undoubt- 
edly the  most  effective  form  of  advertisement  is  an 
illustrated  lecture  showing  industrial  and  natural 
features.  It  is  this  concession  that  has  been 
granted  exclusively  to  Mr.  Wiggins'  friends.  The 
$130,000  exhibit  and  the  California  building  at  the 
World's  Fair  will  be  used  as  the  background  and  base 
of  operation  for  the  thrifty  schemes  of  Mr.  Wiggins' 
friends  from  Los  Angeles.  We  are  told  that  San 
Francisco  will  be  permitted  by  these  astute  opera- 
tors to  appear  on  the  map  of  California,  but  appar- 
ently only  by  sufference. 

The  whole  proceeding  cannot  be  called  by  any 
other  name  than  "graft,"  and  it  is  up  to  Governor 
Pardee  to  ask  the  Commissioners  for  an  explanation. 

A   DECAYING   MONUMENT. 

The  old  church  of  Mission  Dolores  and  the  ceme- 
tery at  the  rear  do  not  seem  to  be  given  that  atten- 
tion and  care  which  our  few  remaining  historical 
monuments  should  have.  The  burying  ground  be- 
hind the  church  is  overgrown  with  weeds,  and  the 
tombstones  and  other  memorials  of  the  dead  are  suf- 
fered to  fall  into  decay.  We  realize  fully  that  this 
neglect  is  no  fault  of  the  custodians,  the  authorities 
of  the  parish,  but  is  due  to  lack  of  funds.  We  feel 
that  money  for  the  patriotic  duty  of  maintaining 
in  good  condition  this  interesting  monument  of  the 
life  of  pastoral  California  "before  the  Gringo  came" 
falls  on  citizens  of  California,  out  of  San  Francisco 
more  particularly,  and  some  of  our  public  spirited 
native  sons  or  the  Society  of  the  Pioneers  might  do 
well  to  take  the  matter  in  hand.  It  is  a  pious  duty 
to  conserve  the  few  remaining  memorials  of  the 
California    on   that   romantic   period. 

No;  that  low,  sad  sound  from  the  East  is  not  the 
echo  of  a  distant  storm.  It  is  Uncle  Russell  Sage 
grieving  because  another  man  who  worked  for  him 
has  sued  him  and  got  a  judgment. 


We  have  known  about  radium  for  only  a  little 
while,  yet  it  is  claimed  that  it  will  turn  lead  into  gold, 
solve  the  problem  of  perpetual  motion,  determine 
the  sex  of  children  and  cure  everything  from  corns 
to  cancer.  This  is  good — as  far  as  it  goes,  but  dare 
we  hope  that  it  will  rob  green  onions  of  their  odor 
and  prevent  trousers  from  bagging  at  the  knees? 


r    CHAS  KLILLS  &  COM 

h.£XCL  US/VEM 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

We  put  that  Seventy-five  and  Eighty  dollar  Effect  in  our  "IM- 
MEDIATE SERVICE  CLOTHES,"  at  moderate  prices.  Cor- 
rect smart  dressers  Know  that  our  garments  are  properly  balanced, 
correctly  styled,  with  progressive  ideas.  Being  "  MEN'S 
CLOTHIERS  ONLY"  we  fit  accurately. 


DCEAKJMy  STTI^JXISir 


February  6,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


How     5an     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


Bv     F«rrtfivj1d     Travft).      Tourist 


Positively  your  climate  here  drops  the  t'.,. 

w  York,  and  is  almost  as  pood  as  that  of  dear 
nil.     If  yon  only  had  the  roads,  the  drives, 
the  halls,  the  ancestral  home-  and  the  society,  I  think 
truly   I  could  make  up  my  mind  to  live  among 

-  ly  as  much  as  six  months  each  year.  It  will 
take  lots  of  things  to  make  a  life's  residence  endur- 
able here  for  a  man  of  my  refinement  and  culture. 
Yon  are  a  picture  without  a  frame.  You  need  finish- 
ing up  or  toning  down.  You  have  no  drive  in  San 
Francisco  that  is  used  and  retained  solely  for  the 
better  classes.  You  need  a  Rois  de  Bologne.  a  Row. 
or  a  Paseo.  You  really  ought  to  attend  to  this.  Make 
your  Aldermen  men  set  aside  an  avenue  where  we 
can  ride  and  drive,  and  not  be  annoyed  by  a  COS 

,er's  cart  or  some  red-shirted  bounder  astride 
a  wheel.  Make  it  the  proper  thing  to  show  your- 
-  there  in  the  proper  style,  so  that  the  lower 
s  can  see  the  correct  thing;  educate  the  beg- 
gars to  a  higher  ideal.  If  you  do,  they  will  really, 
I  assure  you,  train  into  better  footmen,  coachmen, 
tigers  and  butlers  for  you  than  they  do.  I  don't 
bother  a  bit  now  about  your  poor  service.  The  chaps 
you  have  here  have  not  had  any  chance  at  all ;  the}' 
don't  know  the  glamour,  honor  and  pleasure  of  serv- 
ing persons  of  high  degree,  and  I  will  bet  a  pony  that 
your  wealthier  classes  as  a  rule  don't  know  how  to 
either  train  or  treat  a  servant ;  so,  don't  you  know, 
your  servants  are  rather  more  of  a  bore  than  an  as- 
sistance. I  really  am  sorry  for  them,  for  I  have  come 
in  contact  with  some  of  my  friends'  men,  who  look 
real  likely  if  they  had  not  been  spoiled  in  the  break- 
ing. If  you  would  get  together  and  import  an  Eng- 
lish coachman  or  two,  a  few  footmen  and  half  a  dozen 
butlers,  the  others  would  copy  their  ways,  and  I  am 
sure  you  would  find  things  much  nicer.  Then  guar- 
antee a  good  livery  maker  from  Bond  street  enough 
to  open  a  shop  here,  and  have  your  liveries  properly 
done.  The  liveries  I  have  noted  mostly  on  your 
streets  suggest  uniforms  more  than  livery.  This  is 
too  bad,  don't  you  see !  A  proper  livery  discloses  at 
once  to  a  gentleman  the  owner  of  the  equipage.  By 
all  means  get  some  liveries.  Your  bootmakers  are, 
I  think,  a  fairly  good  lot,  and  you  can  get  along 
without  importing  a  bootmaker.  Get  the  proper 
coachman,  and  he  will  know  all  about  the  boots.  A 
coachman  is  necessary — if  you  can't  get  a  coachman, 
give  up  your  carriage,  or  drive  a  cart  or  gig  with  a 
tiger.  A  coachman  is  a  bally  lot  more  than  a  driver. 
You  can  spot  the  right  chap  at  once  by  the  way  he 
holds  the  ribbons,  the  angle  at  which  he  carries  his 
whip,  and  his  seat  on  the  box.  Roger  smiled  the 
other  day  when  he  told  me  about  a  coachman  he  saw 
lean  half  over  the  seat  and  get  his  instructions  as 
to  where  to  drive,  holding  his  ribbons  and  whip  in 
one  hand,  and  then  he  drove  off  without  touching  his 
hat.  Simply  wretchedly  bad  form.  Take  my  ideas, 
won't  you,  and  then  when  you  do  things  proper,  you 
will  be  noticed.  I  can  spare  some  time,  and  don't 
mind  going  in  for  a  turn-out  or  two  myself,  if  the 
the  rest  of  us  do. 

Of  course,  don't  you  know,  I  can't  criticise  your 
valuable  paper,  but  the  bad  form  shown  in  the  paper 
in  speaking  of  his  Imperial  Majesty  William,  the 
Emperor  of  Germany,  and  the  poor  taste  displayed 
by  the  boor  who  replied  to  it,  compels  me,  my  dear 
News  Letter,  to  ask  you  to  cease  these  comments 
on  people  like  the  Emperor,    The  next  thing  I  note 


some  person  will  be  publishing  some  slighting  criti- 
n  about  me. 

I  feci  lh.it  I  am  appreciated,  as  I  should  he,  in  my 
ideas  in  trying  to  improve  you,  since  I  was  compli- 
mented by  Roger  bringing  to  my  apartments  a  let- 
ter which  had  been  sent  to  me  in  care  of  the  office 
of  this  paper.  It  asks  my  judgment  in  a  gentle- 
manly sort  of  manner  on  the  following  question:  "Is 
a  beefsteak  considered  good  form  to  serve  at  dinner?" 
Certainly  the  gentleman  who  consults  me  could  not 
have  asked  any  better  authority,  but  honoring  me  by 
asking  my  advice,  he  should  have  enclosed  his  card. 
This  is  another  evidence  of- the  lack  of  form  among 
your  men.  Any  well-bred  man  should  know,  and 
would  know  had  he  mixed  in  polite  society  and  dined 
out,  that  serving  a  beefsteak  with  dinner  would 
strip  his  visiting  list,  and  cross  him  off  every  other 
invitation  list  in  the  better  circles,  if  he  has  ever 
moved  there.  I  am  sorry  the  gentleman  who  wrote 
the  question  did  not  call  on  me.  I  would  have  made 
an  exception  and  seen  him.  By  enclosing  his  address 
or  name  of  his  club  he  would  have  enabled  me  to  ad- 
dress him  personally.  I  am  not  brutal  by  nature,  and 
don't  wish  to  wound  any  feelings,  but  a  beefsteak  at 
dinner  would  be  about  as  bad  form  as  pouring  your 
coffee  or  icing  your  Burgundy — and  those  are  two 
pretty  bad  facers.  If  I  saw  a  fellow  doing  these  things 
at  a  table  at  which  I  was  a  guest  I  should  make  up 
my  mind  that  he  was  there  by  mistake,  or  else  that 
I  was;  one  of  us  would  send  regrets  the  next  time 
to  that  hostess.  I  am  not  familiar  with  the  abomin- 
able laches  of  good  breeding  perpetrated  in  the  pub- 
lic dining  rooms  of  public  restaurants,  and  it  may  be 
good  form  to  serve  beefsteak  for  dinner  in  such 
places.  Some  one  else  must  judge.  It  is  shocking 
here  to  note  the  irreverence  with  which  people  eat 
their  dinner.  Dinner  is  a  function.  I  think  it  should 
be  approached  with  formality.  It  is  the  expression 
of  the  physical  poetry  of  life.  I  think  those  poor 
persons  who  have  not  known  the  delights  of  dressing 
and  dining  should  pray  to  get  it  in  heaven.  Some 
blooming  poet  says:  "Life  blooms  to  its  richest  and 
best."  I'll  bet  that  was  written  after  a  well-appointed 
dinner.  It's  most  expressive,  really.  I  assure  you, 
'pon  honor,  that  no  other  gentleman  appreciates 
dining  (used  in  the  most  formal  sense  'of  the  word) 
any  more  than  does  Fernauld  Travers. 


"BAB'J"" 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


V>he   James   H.    Bibcock    Cantering    Co. 

212-214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


WM.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V  V   o 

Scotch_Whisky 

ImporterS'MACONDRAY  «e  CO. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February    6,    1904. 


Z5he    Minister    of    Foreig'n    Affairs 


Events  in  the  Far  East  the  last  few  days  have  re- 
vealed a  great  deal  of  Russian  dinlomatic  cunning, 
but  it  dees  not  come  as  a  surprise.  For  several  weeks 
Japan  has  been  fully  prepared  to  throw  an  army  int 
Korea  and  make  that  little  kingdom  a  base  of  sup- 
plies and  operations  against  Russia;  what  is  called 
"diplomatic  courtesy"  has  prevented  a  foreward 
movement.  But  all  this  time  Japan,  as  well  as  all 
the  rest  of  the  world,  has  been  satisfied  that  Russia 
was  complicating  the  diplomatic  prelude  to  gain 
time  to  put  her  Far  East  upon  a  strong  war  footing. 
All  that  is  now  accomplished,  and  the  Czar's  reply 
to  Japan's  last  note  may  be  expected  at  any  moment. 
Of  course,  it  will  be  an  adroitly  drawn  document, 
overflowing  with  "distinguished  consideration,"  but 
its  meaning  will  be  that  Russia  has  no  idea  of  giving 
up  an  inch  of  Manchuria,  and  that  she  will  not  per- 
mit Japan  to  dominate  in  Korea.  Then  it  will  be  up 
to  Japan  to  make  a  formal  declaration  of  war,  which 
she  will  make  haste  to  do,  and  which  she  may  do 
before  this  issue  of  the  News  Letter  goes  to  press. 
It  is  a  mistake  to  suppose  that  the  "peace  party"  in 
Russia  has  at  any  time  been  willing  to  give  up  Man- 
churia or  let  Japan  have  a  free  hand  in  Korea  for  the 
sake  of  peace.  It  has  been  the  plan  all  along  of  the 
peace  party  to  wear  out  Japan  in  a  war  of  diplomatic 
hair-splitting,  and  thus  secure  for  Russia  a  still 
firmer  hold  in  the  Far  East,  but  all  Russia  is  a  unit 
on  the  question  of  holding  on  to  Manchuria,  and 
gradually  weaving  a  dominating  influence  in  Korea, 
for  such  dominating  influence  is  necessary  to  secure 
the  Strait  of  Korea,  for  the  Strait  is  the  Hermit 
Kingdom's  Gibraltar.  But  it  so  happens  that  a  week 
ago  Japan  practically  took  possession  of  the  Strait, 
which  gives  her  a  far-reaching  advantage,  for  the 
time  being  anyway.  The  forthcoming  note  from 
Russia,  therefore,  in  reply  to  Japan's  last  diplomatic 
effort  to  secure  a  permanent  footing  on  the  mainland 
will  pledge  Russia  to  give  up  Manchuria  or  a  posi- 
tive refusal  to  comply  with  Japan's  wishes.  I  H 
course,  Russia  will  not  move  out  of  Manchuria  un- 
less forced  to  do  so. 

*  *  * 

The  Czar  has  quit  masquerading  behin  1  a  satisfied 
smile  over  the  recently  signed  commercial  treaty  be- 
tween the  United  States  and  China,  and  he  now  in- 
timates that  he  regards  the  transaction  as  a  "mean 
trick"  on  the  part  of  the  Washington  Government, 
especially  in  attempting  to  establish  consulates  at 
the  Manchurian  treaty  commercial  centers.  But  his 
Majesty  is  willing  to  let  the  treaty  become  operative, 
though  between  the  lines  the  fact  is  seen  that  the 
Czar  does  not  recognize  the  right  of  China  to  make 
a  treaty  for  Manchurian  commercial  privileges.  It 
should  not  be  forgotten,  for  it  may  cut  considerable 
of  a  figure  later  on,  that  the  United  States  and  Great 
Britain  utterly  ignored  Russia's  alleged  jurisdiction 
in  Manchuria,  and  officially  recognized  Cbina  as  the 
only  authority  that  had  the  right  to  negotiate- such 
a  treaty.  It  was  a  slap  at  Russia's  pretentions,  and 
.an  implied  pledge  to  stand  by  the  Peking  Govern- 
ment in  the  premises.  Meanwhile  it  must  not  be 
supposed  that  America  and  England  are  inclined  to 
forego  the  commercial  advantages  granted  to  them 
in  Manchuria  by  China  simply  because  Russia  does 
not  like  it.  Nothing  could  be  further  from  their  pur- 
pose.    They  propose  to  establish  consulates  at  the 


Manchurian  treatv  commercial  centers  without  ref- 
erence to  Russia's  likes  or  dislikes.  Manchuria  is 
too  rich  and  too  extensive  a  field  for  British  and  Yan- 
kee commercial  and  industrial  exploitation  to  run 
away    from    because    of    the    gnashing   of   a    Bear's 

teeth. 

*  *  * 

What  Germany  and  France  are  to  secure  to  them- 
selves from  the  spoils  for  practically  avowing  their 
sympathy  with  Russia  and  an  implied  threat  that 
under  certain  circumstances  something  more  sub- 
stantial than  moral  aid  will  be  given  to  Russia,  will 
develop  later  on.  But,  on  the  other  hand,  the  Ger- 
'raan  Government  is  confronted  by  a  powerful  and 
steadily  increasing  socialistic  party  that  does  not 
hesitate  to  denounce  Russia's  aggressive  and  land- 
grabbing  policy  in  the  Far  Fast,  and  its  unyielding 
opposition  to  the  Kaiser's  political  relations  with  the 
Czar  may  oblige  the  Government  to  at  least  be  ab- 
solutely neutral. 

*  *  * 

The  Republic  of  Colombia  is  still  bent  upon 
thrashing  Panama  back  into  the  federation,  but  blus- 
ter and  the  tramp  of  soldiers  on  dress  parade  is  as 
near  to  a  hostile  demonstration  as  the  powers  that 
be  have  thus  far  made  in  a  public  way.  There  is  a 
suspicion  that  some  sort  of  negotiations  are  going 
on  between  the  Colombian  Government  and  Ger- 
many, more  particularly,  which  contemplate  a  joint 
interest  which  will  be  almost,  if  not  quite,  the  equiv- 
alent of  a  European  protectorate.  If  it  be  true  that 
such  is  the  fact,  it  is  made  clear  that  Colombia  in- 
tends to  trade  her  independence  for  a  wedge  to  split 
the  Monroe  Doctrine  wide  open,  and  turn  all  the 
Latin-American  States  into  so  many  fields  for  exploi- 
tation of  European  nations  by  running  streams  of 
immigrants  into  them  for  future  political  govern- 
mental use.  Evidently  the  Colombian  political  lead- 
ers are  willing  to  bit  off  their  nose  to  spite  their  face, 
if  only  the  Washington  Government  can  be  involved 
in  dangerous  complications. 

*  *  * 

The  Philippine  Commission  reports  it  does  not 
consider  the  future  of  our  Asiatic  possessions  at  all 
promising.  That  is  exactly  how  all  foreign  nations 
have  "considered""  the  matter  ever  since  the  United 
States  extended  its  jurisdiction  over  the  islands.  As 
an  English  statesman  puts  it:  "Your  Uncle  Samuel 
is  trying  to  make  a  silk  purse  out  of  a  pig's  ear  with- 
out first  having  acquired  some  knowledge  of  the 
business."  However,  if  the  United  States  should  be- 
come involved  in  the  Japanese-Russian  muddle  the 
Philippines  will  come  handy  for  a  military  and  naval 
base,  a  "base"  that  costs  several  hundred  million  dol- 
lars is  pretty  expensive  for  a  Republic  that  stands 
for  peace,  human  liberty  and  individual  sovereignty 
to  indulge  in.  But  be  it  said  to  the  credit  of  the  Fil- 
ipinos, the  Commssion  announces  that  progress,  civ- 
ilization, decency,  thrift  and  proper  deportment  on 
the  part  of  the  native  men  and  women  are  discour- 
aged, handicapped  and  weakened  by  vagabond 
Americans  who  are  swaggering  all  over  the  islands 
as  moral  pestilence,  commercial  rottenness  and  in- 
dustrial thievery.  The  colonial  experience  of  the 
United  States  is  amusing  to  our  fellow  members  of 
the  Concert  of  Powers. 


February  6.    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Political 


So  far  a-;  tl-  I  nominations  art 

I.    the    names   that    will    app 
this   fall   arc   practically   decided   in    the    !<• 

■    with  the  exception  of  the  Second,   Fifth  and 
Eighth  Districts,  in  which  matters  are  still  left 
Gillett  will  be  nominated  again  in  the  First,  and 
calf  goes  hack  from  the  Third.     Kahn  wants  t 
his  hick  again  in  the  Fourth  against   l.ivcrnash.  who 
e  renominated  by  the  Democrats,  ami 
Needham  anil  MacLachlan  are  both  certain  of 

heir  party  indorsement.  There  was  some  talk 
nt  MacLachlan  for  Senator,  hut  he  has  effectually 
put  a  quietus  on  that  idea  by  declaring  that  he  could 
not  afford  to  make  the  race  for  the  Senate  and  that 
he  preferred  to  return  to  the  Lower  House.  In  the 
Second  District,  the  Republicans  must  pick  out  a 
man  with  more  care  if  they  want  to  win  than  in  am 
other  district  in  the  State.  In  the  first  place,  the 
district  has  the  unpleasant  habit  of  going  Demo- 
cratic. Jim  Budd  was  a  Congressman  from  the  Sec- 
ond. Caminetti  was  elected  three  times.  Miron  Dev- 
res  came  from  the  same  district,  and  now  Bell  rep- 
resents it.  It  is  true  that  the  district  has  been 
changed  several  times  since  Budd  ran,  but  neverthe- 
it  always  contains  Sacramento,  and  that  is 
where  it  gets  its  Democratic  majority.  Frank- 
Coombs  would  like  to  get  the  nomination  again,  hut 
Dr.  Mathews  killed  off  Coombs  politically  when  he 
called  the  Congressman  "Gloomy  Gus."  A  man  may 
survive  opposition  and  bitter  enemies,  but  he  never 
can  overcome  ridicule,  if  it  once  sticks,  and  ''Gloomy 
Gus"  has  stuck  to  Coombs  ever  since  Mathews  sug- 
gested its  applicability  to  Coombs.  Besides,  it  needs 
an  active  campaigner,  and  Coombs  is  not  active. 
Senator  Devlin  of  Sacramento  has  also  been  men- 
tioned, and  the  Bee  of  that  town  interviewed  him  on 
the  subject,  and  printed  a  column  of  talk  from  the 
statesman,  but  no  definite  conclusion  as  to  what  he 
would  do.  Those  who  know  best  say  that  it  would 
be  very  hard  to  elect  Devlin  because  of  his  record  on 
the  Prison  Board.  Everything  the  Board  has  done, 
and  everything  it  has  failed  to  do,  and  its  sins  of 
omission  are  even  more  numerous  than  its  sins  of 
commission,  would  be  loaded  upon  Devlin  if  he  ran, 
and  with  a  popular  man  like  Bell  on  the  other  side 
it  would  be  almost  impossible  to  elect  him.  Then 
there  is  Charley  Curry,  Secretary  of  State.  He  has 
been  talked  to,  but  Charley  claims  to  hail  from  San 
Francisco,  though  he  now  lives  in  Sacramento. 
Hearst  was  elected  to  Congress  from  New  York 
while  he  claimed  to  be  a  Califronian.  This  State 
is  more  particular  about  such  things  than  New  York, 
and  then  there  is  no  tenderloin  in  California  as 
there  is  in  the  Empire  State,  that  elects  a  Congress- 
man by  itself,  for  Curry  to  buy  even  if  he  had  the 
means  and  the  inclination,  both  of  which  he  lacks. 
Besides  Curry's  eye  is  on  the  Governorship  rather 
than  Congress.  Duncan  McKinley  of  Santa  Rosa,  at 
one  time  Presidential  elector,  now  assistant  U.  S. 
District  Attorney,  is  another  candidate.  McKinley 
is  a  good  campaigner,  and  would  certainly  make  it 
lively  for  Bell  .  He  is  popular  as  a  speaker,  and  hav- 
ing risen  from  the  ranks  (he  was  originally  a  painter) 
he  ought  to  stand  well  with  the  labor  vote,  which  is 
a  strong  factor  in   Sacramento. 

In  the  Fifth  District,  the  nomination,  now  that 
Fiske  has  accepted  the  San  Francisco  Postmaster- 
ship,  will  probably  go  to  Santa  Clara  County.  Loud 
has  been  appointed  a  delegate  to  the  International 
Postal   Congress   in  Rome,   which   meets   sometime 


• 
sim- 

1!  grounds      The  district   was  tit 
him,   the   postal   employees   were   opposed    to  him    to 
in,  and  he  wou  >\  eak  in    o 

by  a 
'"■nt  losii  .-.  but  he  canm 

beaten  on  purely  personal  grounds  and  hold  his 
own.    and    -,,    f,,r    Bg    CongTI  errned,     Lotld 

ii  of  it.    As  San  Francisco  has  had  the  honor 

of   naming  the   (  ongTCSStnan   so  often   it    is   only   fair 

that  the  nomination  should  go  to  Santa  tiara,  and 

there  seems  110  great  opposition  to  that  idea.  If  the 
candidate  is  selected  from  down  the  country.  Mr.  A. 
E,  '  Isborne  will  probably  be  the  man.  The  condi- 
tion in  Santa  Clara  is  peculiar.  There  has  been  a 
very  bitter  tight  waged  there  for  years.  There  have 
been  the  McKenzie  gang  and  the  Hayes  anti-gang, 
and  neither  faction  seems  able  to  gain  such  a  de 
cisive  victory  that  their  opponents  are  put  com 
pletely  out  of  the  fight  for  good.  Unless  they  stand 
together  the  Democrats  will  carrv  the  county  or  an 
independent  ticket  will  be  elected,  as  happened  two 
years  ago  when  the  independents  carried  everything 
from  Sheriff  to  Charlie  Shortridge. 

In  the  Eighth  District  there  was  a  very  bitter  fight 
two  years  ago.  Every  county  in  the  district  had  a 
candidate  for  Congress,  and  a  dead  lock  resulted  that 
lasted  for  weeks.  Daniels  was  finally  nominated 
through  the  manipulations  of  his  friend  and  partner 
in  the  banking  business,  Hays  of  Riverside,  who  was 
a  very  shrewd  political  wire-puller.  But  Hays  got 
mixed  up  in  a  land  scheme  involving  the  right  of  way 
of  the  Salt  Lake  road,  in  which  he  was  accused  of 
doing  up  the  company,  and  was  forced  to  make  res- 
titution, so  he  is  no  longer  on  hand  to  help  Daniels, 
and  the  other  candidates  in  the  district  hope  to  profit 
by  that  fact,  and  prevent  the  latter's  renomination. 
Ex-Senator  Smith  of  Bakersfield  is  probably  the 
strongest  anti-Daniels  candidate.  He  has  served 
several  terms  in  the  Legislature,  has  friends  all  over 
the  district  and  put  up  a  good  fight  2  years  ago.  His 
friends  say  that  this  year  he  can  win  out,  as  Daniels 
has  done  nothing  particularly  for  the  District  since 
he  went  to  Washington.  The  trouble,  however,  is 
that  Kern  County  is  Democratic,  while  Riverside 
is  largly  Republican,  and  naturally  the  men  who  elect 
the  Congressman  feel  that  they  should  have  the  right 
to  name  him.  Prescott  of  Redlands,  who  was  a  very 
active  member  of  the  last  Assembly,  is  also  a  can- 
didate for  Congress  from  the  Eighth,  but  he  prob- 
ably would  be  willing  to  take  the  nomination  for 
State  Senator  to  succeed  the  late  Senator  Hubbell, 
and  wait  until  1906  for  his  Congressional  nomination. 
Senator  Caldwell,  of  Riverside,  would  also  like  to 
go  to  Congress,  but  for  personal  reasons  is  not  in  a 
position,  I  understand,  to  fight  Daniels,  and  he,  too, 
will  be  sent  back  to  the  Senate.  That  leaves  the  fight 
practically  between  Daniels  and  Smith,  with  Daniels 
now  in  office,  which  is  a  big  help  to  get  a  nomina- 
tion. — Junius. 

AN  OPEN  SHOP. 

All  fair-minded  people  should  patronize  Johnson's 
Open-Shop  Restaurant   (boycotted),  725  Market  St. 

If  you  want  to  eat  the  best,  drink  the  beat,  and  be 

among  the  best  people,  go  to  Techau  Tavern,  which  is  sec- 
ond to  no  restaurant  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  the  favorite 
after-the-theatre  resort,  and  deserves  its  fine  reputation. 


Dr.  Decker, 

DentiBt,  806  Market.     Specialty  "Colton  Gas"  for  palnlesi 

teeth  extracting. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


February  6,  1904. 


J.  J.  Bell  won  a  certain  amount 
Mrs.  McLerie  of  popularity  and  means  with 
his  first  book,  "Wee  MacGregor," 
but  it  cannot  be  truthfully  said  that  he  has  kept  his 
advantage  in  "Mrs.  McLerie."  There  is  no  doubt 
of  the  cleverness  of  much  of  the  dialogue,  but  just 
another  touch  would  have  made  the  little  work  the 
success  which  it  really  deserves  to  be.  As  it  is, 
"Mrs.  McLerie"  is  not  convincing — the  characters 
lack  probability.  The  work  is  too  evidently  made, 
the  construction  too  palpable.  Mrs.  McLerie  is  a  sort 
of  Scotch  peasant  variety  of  Mrs.  Malaprop,  and 
some  of  her  mistakes  in  the  use  of  words  are  very 
engaging,  particularly  when  her  friend,  Mrs.  Munro, 
sets  out  to  correct  her  as  she  always  makes  a  point  of 
doing.  A  typical  instance  of  the  style  of  the  book 
may  be  found  in  the  following.  Mrs.  McLerie  is 
dwelling  upon  her  husband's  aversion  to  gambling. 
She  says:  "Mony's  the  time  I've  heard  him  say  he 
wad  as  soon  pit  money  in  a  horse  race  as  intil  a  dis- 
ruption sale." 

"Subscription  sale."  Mild  correction  by  Mrs. 
Munro. 

"Aweil,  it's  a'  yin.  An'  whit's  a  rattle  (raffle)  but 
a  disruption  sale." 

This  is  a  fair  sample  of  the  book,  and  the  reader, 
of  this  can  judge  for  himself.  There  is,  however, 
a  certain  quality  in  the  stories  which  shows  that  the 
author  has  possibilities,  for  he  is  able  to  produce  a 
certain  amount  of  sympathy  and  even  affection  for 
his  uncouth  Scotch  characters.  It  is  a  fairly  good 
book,  which  might  have  been  a  very  good  book. 

The  Century  Co.,  New  York. 

This      is      the      fourth 

Steps  in  the  Expansion       volume  of  a  series  is- 

of  Our  Territory.  sued  by  Appleton,  the 

said  series  being  called 
"The  Expansion  of  the  Republic"  series.  Oscar 
Phelps  Austin,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics, 
Treasury  Department,  is  the  author.  The  story  of 
national  development  is  well  told,  without  any  nota- 
ble variations  from  the  account  usually  given  in  the 
school  histories.  In  fact,  the  history  of  the  revolt 
of  the  colonies  is  stated  in  terms  less  broad  than  those 
usual  in  the  later  school  histories.  The  expansion  of 
the  country  and  its  marvelous  development  commer- 
cially and  as  a  manufacturing  community,  is  as- 
cribed largely,  and  no  doubt  within  certain  limits 
correctly,  to  the  liberal  land  policy  which  has  been 
possessed  by  the  United  States  Government,  as  well 
as  to  the  advantages  which  a  Democratic  State  with- 
out military  conscription  possesses  over  countries 
which  are  so  hampered.  The  book  will  be  found  a 
readable  and  reliable  text-book  for  those  who  are 
desirous  of  studying  the  main  outlines  of  the  national 
growth.  The  situations  are  well  chosen  and  may  be 
accepted. 

D.  Appleton   &  Co.,  New  York. 

This  forms  a  volume  in  the  series 

Extinct  entitled    "The    Library     of    Useful 

Civilization.      Stories,"  and  is  a  very  interesting 

and  informing  little  book.  The  au- 
thor is  Robert  E.  Anderson,  who  has  written  a  finer 
book  on  "The  Extinct  Civilizations  of  the  East."  The 
Aztecs,  the  early  Mexicans,  and  the  prehistoric  Pe- 
ruvians are  considered,  and  a  fairly  complete  ac- 
count of  their  mode  of  life  and  curious  customs  is 
presented.  An  interesting  feature  of  the  work  is 
the  proof  adduced  in  support  of  the  fact  that  many 


symbols  which  we  are  accustomed  to  regard  as  ex- 
clusively Christian  were  employed  by  several  prehis- 
toric American  nations  whose  remains  testify  to  this. 
The  Cross,  for  example,  the  author  states,  occurs 
frequently,  not  only  in  Mayan  sculptures,  but  in 
the  ceremonials  of  the  Aztecs.  These  people  also 
calculated  the  time  with  such  accuracy  that  their 
calendar  was  superior  to  that  existing  in  Europe  at 
that  period,  so  that  when  the  Spaniards  visited  them 
the  reckoning  of  the  latter  was  in  error  eleven  days 
as  compared  with  that  of  the  nation  which  they  con- 
quered. There  are  many  other  interesting  facts  of 
a  like  nature  in  this  little  volume. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

In  a  story  of  the  Rome  of  Nero, 
Lux  Cracis.  one  is  sure  to  find  a  persecuted 
Christian  maiden  who  is  roughly 
wooed  by  a  Roman  noble  whom  she  finally  converts, 
and  a  powerful  slave  whose  gladiatorial  feats  in  the 
arena  win  the  favor  of  the  populace  and  save  the 
damsel.  "Lux  Crucis"  is  "Quo  Vadis"  in  a  minor 
key.  Its  chief  faults  are,  first,  the  exaggerated  im- 
portance, from  the  Roman  point  of  view,  that  at- 
taches to  the  whole  New  Testament  story.  As  you 
read  the  book,  you  get  the  impression  that  the  events 
in  far-off  Galilee  are  of  paramount  importance  in  the 
world  of  Rome — whereas,  the  plain  truth  of  the  mat- 
ter was  that  to  the  Roman  official  world  the  whole 
New  Testament  story  was  only  too  prevalently  re- 
garded as  a  mere  surface  ripple  in  a  distant  province. 

Secondly,  while  Mr.  Gardenhire's  book  could  be 
put  indiscriminately  into  the  hands  of  "the  young 
person,"  yet  to  just  this  extent  it  is  false  to  the  at- 
mosphere of  the  time.  Nero's  court  and  Nero's  age 
were  essentially  unclean.  It  is  impossible  to  treat 
of  the  history  and  conditions  of  that  period  with- 
out coming  in  contact  with  much  that  is  repellant. 
The  social  condition  of  the  women  was  far  more 
complex  than  it  could  possibly  be  to-day,  ranging 
through  the  numerous  different  forms  of  marriage, 
to  the  successive  stages  of  freed  woman  and  slave, 
forming  altogether  a  complex  maze  in  which  even 
the  most  careful  student  of  manners  may  pardonably 
lose  his  way.  Mr.  Gardenshire,  however,  cannot  be 
said  to  have  lost  his  way,  for  he  has  chosen  to  skirt 
around  the  maze  instead  of  penetrating  it.  Neverthe- 
less, it  is  a  book  which  will  undoubtedly  enjoy  a 
popularity  of  considerable  extent,  and  will  be  read 
with  genuine  pleasure  by  a  large  proportion  of  the 
readers  who  enjoyed  the  volumes  of  Sienkiewicz 
and  General  Lew  Wallace. 

"Lux  Crucis."  By  Samuel  L.  Gardenhire.  Harper 
&  Brothers,  New  York. 

Mr.  Jack  London's  novel,  "The  Call  of  the  Wild," 
and  Mr.  James  Lane  Allen's  "The  Mettle  of  the  Pas- 
ture," have  been  placed  on  the  Navy  Department's 
List  of  Books  approved  for  Issue  to  Ships'  Libraries. 

The  Macmillan  Company,  Publishers. 

The  Macmillan  Company  has  published  Mr.  Ed- 
mund Gosse's  biography  of  "Jeremy  Taylor"  in  the 
English  Men  of  Letters  Series.  They  promise  for 
some  time  in  February  the  second  and  fourth  vol- 
umes of  Messers.  Garnett  and  Gosse's  "Illustrated 
History  of  English  Literature."  Mr.  Gosse  is  one 
of  the  most  eminent  English  men  of  letters  of  the 
present  day,  and  a  man  of  singularly  varied  talents, 
noted  for  his  versatility  of  knowledge  and  his  charm 
of  style. 


February   6.    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


\  - 


Dear  Bessie:   ["he  question  on  ever) 
the  Mardi  <  Iras  ball? 
5  1  have  said  all  along  there  would  In 
invitations  are  quite  pretty,  and  the  men  I 
made  happy  with  the  knowledge  that  th< 

-  they  should  always  have  been  a'llowi 
I  have  not  yet  made  up  my  mind  what  costume 
to  wear,  but  either  of  the  two  I  have  under  consider- 
ation will  be  worthy  of  note. 

But  let  me  tell  you  about  Bernie's  wedding,  for 
I  know  you  want  to  hear  all  about  it.  It  took  place 
at  noon  on  Saturday  at  St.  Luke's,  which  is  such  a 
bright,  pretty,  warm  church  it  does  not  need  much 
sing  to  make  it  attractive.  Green  and  white 
was  the  color  scheme  the  whole  way  through — 
(lowers,  costumes,  etc. — and  the  decoration  was  con- 
fined to  the  chancel,  which  was  a  mass  of  terns  and 
St  Joseph  lilies.  To  say  the  church  was  full  is  to 
put  it  mildly,  and  the  usual  Lohengrin  strains  her 
aided  the  coming  of  the  bridal  party  prompt!  . 
time.  Will  Page.  Percy  King  and  John  Lawson, 
who  were  the  ushers,  were  of  course  the  first  to  de- 
light our  vision,  and  they  had  seated  us  all  so  grace- 
fully and  with  such  seeming  good  humor  we  were 
to  see  them  again.  Then  followed  Newel 
Drown,  as  maid  of  honor  who  looked  lovely  in  white 
crepe  de  chine  and  a  hat  made  of  lilies  of  the  valley. 
After  her  came  in  couples  the  four  bridesmaids. 
Charlotte  Ellinwood,  Lide  Cadwallader,  Stella  Kane 
and  Susie  Blanding,  also  gowned  in  white  crepe  de 
chine,  but  their  hats  were  trimmed  with  green  silk 
and  white  ostrich  tips,  and  they  carried  pretty  little 
green  and  white  muffs.  Bernie  and  her  father  came 
last,  and  I  never  saw  her  look  better  than  in  her 
bridal  robe  of  white  chiffon  satin,  and  tulle  veil, 
wreath  of  white  orchids  and  bouquet  to  match.  Sam 
and  his  best  man — his  brother  Chauncey  (as  Captain 
Winn  couldn't  get  leave  to  come  down  for  it,  as  he 
sails  with  his  regiment  for  Manila  next  month) — 
met  them  at  the  chancel,  and  Bishop  Nichols,  with 
the  assistance  of  Mr.  Weeden,  the  rector,  performed 
the  ceremony.  After  the  church  service  quite  a  num- 
ber went  out  to  the  Drowns  for  the  reception  and 
the  dejeuner  which  followed,  and  then  nearly  every 
one  went  out  on  the  front  porch  to  see  the  happy 
pair  depart,  and  to  pelt  them  with  rice.  Do  you 
know,  f  never  go  to  a  wedding  that  I  do  not  think 
what  a  senseless  proceeding  that  is,  and  far  from 
being  fun  for  the  bride  and  groom.  Well,  Sam  and 
Bernie  were  so  active  they  were  soon  hidden  in  the 
depths  of  the  carriage,  which  was  all  dressed  out 
with  tulle  and  long  branches  of  fruit  blossoms,  and 
they  were  in  such  a  hurry  to  get  away  the  horses 
fairly  slid  down  the  hill.  You  will  note  by  this  that 
I  did  not  go  over  to  Oakland  to  see  Jacqueline  Moore 
and  Jack  Valentine  joined  in  wedlock,  but  Mollie, 
who  did,  told  me  all  about  it,  and  you  shall  have 
the  benefit  of  her  observations.  She  said  St.  Paul's 
church,  where  the  ceremony  took  place,  was  profuse- 
ly dressed  with  ferns  and  flowers,  and  the  bridal 
party  was  one  of  the  prettiest  she  lias  ever  seen  in 
Oakland.  Jacqueline,  who  made  a  very  handsome 
bride,  wore  white  embroidered  satin  trimmed  with 
duchesse  lace,  and  the  bridesmaids,  Marian  Good- 
fellow,  who  was  the  first,  Anita  Oliver,  Florence 
White,  Edna  Barry,  Marion  Smith,  Ethel  Valentine 
and  fsabelle  Hooper  were  all  gowned  alike  in  lav- 
ender chiffon  cloth/and  wore  lavender  picture  hats; 


ire,  who  was  maid  of  h 

1  lavender,  but  she  won    -  >n.    of  whlti 

his  daughter  away,  and 
Bishop  !  1  t«\   the  Rc\  erend 

•11  Shaw,  officiated.     Then  followed  the  ri 
tion  at  the  home  of  the  Moores,  which  was  .1  verj 

large  One.     <  Ih,  1  forgot  I     lames  Ki  una.  Ir.-.l  Dieck- 

man,   Philip  Clay,    Ed    Hume.   Arthur  Goodfellow, 

Whipple    Hall   and   Stanley    Moore   were   the   ushers. 

and  Hugh  Goodfellow  best  man:  and.  by  the  way, 

the   engagement    of    Isabellc    Hooper   to   WiggingtOn 

Creed   was  announced  at   the  wedding. 

I  went  out  last  Friday  afternoon  to  the  charity 
tea  given  by  the  ladies  at  the  Presidio;  it  took  plac< 
in  the  hop  room,  which  was  so  prettily  decorated 
and  filled  with  the  pleasantest  kind  of  a  crowd. 
Nearly  all  the  army  girls  were  in  evidence;  Miss 
Bessie  Rawles  and  the  recently  arrived  Miss  M 
had  charge  of  the  musical  part  of  the  affair,  and  I 
never  saw  Lily  "Tiara  look  prettier  than  she  did 
as  one  of  the  attendant  maids  who  looked  after  the 
guests.  La  Jeunesse  Assembly  dance  at  the  Palace 
in  the  evening  was  the  last  of  the  season,  and  was 
very  pleasant,  but  I  tell  you  there  were  a  lot  of  foot- 
sore girls  there  after  all  the  dancing  they  had  done 
during  the  week.  Mrs.  Voorhies  did  the  principal 
receiving  act,  and  most  of  the  gowns  were  either 
black  or  white,  with  pink  or  a  blue  here  and  there 
to  give  tone  to  the  picture:  but  you  never  saw  the 
way  Mrs.  Peter  Martin,  who  was  one  of  those  who 
wore  blue — was  followed  about  to  see  how  her  gown 
was  made  and  take  a  few  hints  therefrom.  Sunday 
was  rather  an  off  day  in  the  tea  line  ;  that  is,  there 
were  no  formal  large  affairs  on  hand;  the  Dickens 
girls,  Edna  and  Helen,  had  a  small  one  for  Miss 
Hollister,  wdio  is  here  from  the  south,  and  Kitty 
tells  me  she  met  quite  a  number  at  Kate  Henry's  who 
had  just  dropped  in  for  a  chat  as  she  did.  Philip 
said  he  had  a  cup  of  tea  with  Mrs.  Martin,  but  did 
not  see  Mrs.  Peter  who  was  one  of  the  house  party 
Mrs.  Frank  Carolan  gave  for  her  down  at  Burlin- 
game.  Mrs.  Martin  gives  two  dinners  instead  of  one 
as  first  intended  for  Mrs.  Peter;  one  came  off  on 
Thursday  and  the  other  will  take  place  next  Tues- 
day; feasts,  both  of  them,  you  can  wager  a  small 
amount.  Mrs.  Peter  has  been  the  guest  of  honor  at 
several  spreads  of  late ;  Mrs.  Monte  Wilson  had  a 
big  luncheon  for  her  on  Wednesday;  yesterday  Mr. 
Jim  Phelan  gave  one  of  his  handsome  dinners  in  her 
honor  at  the  Bohemian  Club,  and  Mrs.  Rudolph 
Spreckels  gives  her  a  dinner  next  Wednesday. 

Such  a  pleasant  little  dance  as  we  had  at  Margaret 
Postlethwait's  on  Monday.    They  have  a  very  pretty 


SHREVE     &     COMPANY'S 

STATIONERY 

Invitations  to  Weddings  and  all  other  social 
occasions.  Marriage  announcements,  Re- 
ception and  Visiting  Cards.  Correspon- 
dence papers  embellished  with  monograms, 
crests,  et  cetera. 

POST    &    MARKET   STREETS 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February   6,    1904. 


home  on  Pacific  Avenue,  and  Mrs.  Postlethwait 
first  had  a  dinner  party  of  a  dozen  young  people,  and 
then  a  lot  more  came  from  the  dance,  which  was 
"awfully  jolly,  don't  you  know."  Jack  Wilson  and 
Mabel  Guff  were  responsible  for  two  of  the  dinners 
this  week.  Ed.  Greenway  feasted  the  groom  elect 
at  the  Bohemian  Club  on  Tuesday  night,  and  the  fol- 
lowing one  Jack  Wilson  played  the  host  in  honor  of 
his  bride  to  be,  to  thirty  of  their  mutual  friends.  I 
had  all  I  could  do  to  rush  home  from  Kate  Dillon's 
card  party,  snatch  a  bite  of  dinner,  and  off  to  take 
in  the  Naval  charity  benefit  at  the  Alhambra  before 
going  to  the  dance  at  the  Cheesebroughs',  which  was 
a   charming   affair. 

Louise  Harrington  and  Lieutenant  Leahy  were 
very  quietly  married  on  Wednesday  at  her  home 
on  California  street;  and  to-day  is  the  wedding  day 
of  Mary  Kip,  whose  marriage  to  Doctor  Ernest 
Robinson  will  take  place  at  the  Cathedral  in  Omaha 
at  noon,  with  Bishop  YVilberforce  to  pronounce  the 
nuptial   blessii1'- 

The  Hobarts  are  here  already,  coming  sooner  than 
expected.  They  arrived  last  Friday,  and  of  course 
Mary  Eyre,  who  went  abroad  with  them,  is  back  too. 
Charlie  Baldwin  is  here  on  a  visit,  and  looks  the  same 
as  he  did  before  he  was  married — just  a  bit  quieter, 
perhaps;  Mrs.  Allen  Lewis  has  gone  home  to  Port- 
land, and  Sam  and  Bernie  to  Honolulu  for  their 
honeymoon.  Mrs.  Nokes  has  gone  to  join  Jean  at 
Fort  Russell,  as  I  told  you  she  would  some  time 
ago,  and  will  remain  with  her  indefinitely.  Anna 
Sperry,  who  went  with  her,  will  spend  February 
there  and  then  return. 

Bessie  Ames  did  not  get  off  as  soon  as  expected, 
but  has  really  gone  now,  leaving  for  the  East  last 
Saturday.  Ad.  Mizner  has  gone  off  on  an  automobile 
trip  to  Los  Angeles  with  Jack  Baird — hope  they  11 
get  back  safe.  The  Whitelaw  Reids  will  soon  be  here 
on  their  annual  visit  with  D.  O.  Mills ;  I  heard  yes- 
terday that  Lillie  Lawlor  was  coming  with  them, 
but  doubt  it;  she  is  having  too  good  a  time  in  New 
York.  —Elsie. 


the  scent  of  the  burning  incense  and  the  aromatic 
odor  of  the  punk,  gave  a  faint  idea  of  the  charm  of 
the  Orient.  Assisting  the  hostess  in  receiving  were 
Miss  Helen  Weidersham  and  Miss  Vera  Allen. 

Railroad  Row  is  congratulating  Mr.  W.  W.  Web- 
ster of  the  Missouri  Pacific  and  the  Denver  and  Rio 
Grande,  on  his  engagement  to  Miss  Elise  G.  Hage- 
dorn,  daughter  of  Mr.  Alec.  Hagedorn.  The  young 
people  will  be  married  some  time  in  June. 

Miss  Ivy  M.  Bunker,  sister  of  Lieutenant  L.  C. 
Bunker,  is  visiting  him  at  San  Juan.  Miss  Bunker 
has  been  entertained  on  several  occasions  at  the 
Palace,  and  at  other  functions  given  in  her  honor. 
She  will  remain  with  the  Lieutenant  until  his  re- 
turn to  the  States. 

List  of  arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  for  week  ending 
February  2d :  B.  M.  Gunn  and  wife,  Miss  Hawkins, 
Miss  McNally,  Baroness  Von  Meyerinck,  Dudley 
Gunn,  W.  H.  Mills  and  wife,  Miss  Corey,  A.  Viginer 
and  wife,  Miss  M.  Taliferro,  H.  P.  Sonntag,  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Mohun,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Bigelow,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  S.  M.  Rosenbaum,  Lewis  S.  Rosenbaum,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Fritch,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  A.  Hirsch- 
man,  A.  E.  Barrett,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Grow,  Mrs.  F.  P. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Dr.  J.  D.  McGowan,  J.  W.  Ferguson, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Brooke,  J.  A.  Jackson  and  wife, 
G.  B.  Morris  and  wife,  Mrs.  Harold  Bolce. 


FOR  SALE. 

This   superb   instrument,   in   use  but  a 
Apollo        short  time,  will  be  sold,  on  account  of 
Grand       owner's  departure,  for  a  very  low  figure. 
Player.        Cost    new    $300.      Address    for    further 
Piano        particulars,  Owner,  Room  66,  320  San- 
some  street. 


In  decorating  the  Itorae  or  church  fora  wedding  for  dinners,  lun- 
cheon or  receptions  the  three  ladies  composing  the  Him  of  Manning's 
decorators  and  florists,  24C  Stockton  1st.  show  the  greatest  originality  . 
in  their  artistic  work. 


One  of  the  safest  and  hesr  remedies  for  hiliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Kegulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N.  E.  Cor,  Sutter 
and  Grant  Ave. 


The  Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art  is  in  the  hands 
of  the  transformer.  All  the  pictures  have  been  taken 
out  of  the  Searls  gallery,  and  its  sombre  walls  are 
blossoming  into  the  most  gorgeous  color  effects. 
Lavender  and  gold  is  the  scheme  of  tints  that  is 
to  transform  the  dignified  institute  into  a  palace  of 
delight.  All  of  the  boxes  are  sold,  and  as  many  more 
would  find  eager  purchasers  if  they  were  to  be  had. 
Following  are  the  fortunate  possessors  of  these  cov- 
eted places:  Mrs.  James  L.  Flood,  Mrs.  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  Mr.  James  D.  Phelan,  Mr.  William  Bab- 
cock,  Gen.  M.  H.  De  Young,  Colonel  M.  H.  Hecht, 
Mr.  Mountford  S.  Wilson,  Mr.  H.  P.  Hussey,  Mr. 
Joseph  D.  Grant,  Mr.  Willis  E.  Davis,  Mr.  Frank  J. 
Sullivan,  Mr.  J.E.-  De  Sabla,  Mr.  Thomas  J.  Barbour, 
Mr.  George  H.  Lent,  Major  Darling,  U.  S.  A. 

Among  the  distinctively  original  society  functions 
of  the  week  was  the  afternoon  affair  given  on  Wed- 
nesday by  Mrs.  Edgar  L.  Wakeman,  at  her  home, 
Hill  and  Noe  streets.  The  invitations  read  from  2 
to  5  p.  m.,  and  some  twenty  acceptances  were  re- 
ceived. The  scheme  of  decoration  was  severely  Ori- 
ental ;  the  daylight  was  excluded,  and  the  light  fur- 
nished by  numberless,  many-sized  and  variously 
colored  Japanese  lanterns.  The  flowers  were  aca- 
cias and  lilies.  These,  together  with  the  fine  collec- 
tion of  rare  Japanese  prints  and  exquisite  embroid- 
eries collected  by  Mrs.  Wakeman  during  her  last 
year's  tour  of  the  Orient,  made  a  riot  of  color,  and 


CROWN   CAKE 

A  DELICIOUS  BREAKFAST 
CAKE 

25  Cents 

Beats  all   other  breakfast    cakes 


TEL.  SOVTH  713 


Artistic 

Flower 

Decoration 

MANNING'S 

246    Stockton    St.,   cor.     Post 

VALENTINE  NOVELTIES 
For    Home    and     Church    Weddings. 
Receptions.  Dinners  and  Luncheons. 
Novel    ideas.      Original    conceptions. 

Phone  Mala  847 

iVRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISBFS 

Removed    by    New    Process    (Guaran- 
teed.)     Face      Massage,      Manicuring 
and   Scalp   Massage 

AT     YOUR     HOME, 

by  appointment 

MME.    H.     EASTWOOD 

307  Larkln  St.,  S.  F.  Tel.  Larkln  2646. 

February    6,    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER 


THE  RETORT  COURTEOUS. 
The  rector  of  a   fashionabl  ;>.il  church  in 

the  Western   Addition   was  intoning   during 
It  was  lime  for  the  censer-bearer  t.>  come  fon 
In    vain    the    minister   looked    for   him — he   did 

"Where,  oh,  where  is  the  incense-pot?"  lie  intoned. 

lit  in  the  vestibule,  too  darn*d  hot,"  intoned  the 
-cr-boy  after  him. 


Judge   Colt   of    the    Circuit    Court   of    the    United 
-.  district  of   Massachusetts,  deserves  the  con- 
gratulations and  thanks  of  the  American  people  for 
the  broad  and  sweeping  decision  rendered  November 
9th,   1903.  restraining  Adams.  Taylor  Company 

m,  Mass..  from  using  the  word  "Club"  in  o  n- 
Dection  with  bottled  cocktails.  The  complainants. 
1 1.  F.  Hcublein  &  Brother,  have  spent  much  time  and 
money  in  introducing  the  celebrated  Club  Cocktails. 
which,  like  all  well-known  and  staple  articles,  have 
been  more  or  less  imitated.  This  decision  means  not 
onlv  protection  to  the  maker  of  the  goods,  but  af- 
-  equal  protection  to  the  purchaser,  and  simpli- 
fies the  matter  of  getting  what  you  want  and  pay 
for.  We  trust  the  courts  will  continue  in  this  good 
work  and  protect  known  and  established  brands 
from  the  piracy  to  which  they  so  long  have  been  sub- 
ject. 

Mrs.  Alvinza  Hayward  has  placed  ten  building 
lots  on  sale.  These  lots  adjoin  the  Strathmore  Ho- 
tel and  are  situated  in  a  section  of  San  Francisco 
that  is  rapidly  increasing  in  value.  Messers.  Bald- 
win and  Hammond  are  the  agents,  and  the  sale  is  to 
occur  on  February  nth,  and  they  will  be  disposed 
of  at  auction.  This  is  an  unheard-of  opportunity 
for  some  one  to  obtain  valuable  property  at  his  own 
price.  We  predict  a  large  attendance  at  this  sale. 
The  terms  are  easy,  40  per  cent  cash  and  the  balance 
on  time.  Those  who  are  looking  for  excellent  invest- 
ments in  property,  which  is  bound  to  increase  in 
value  rapidly,  had  better  attend  this  sale. 

To  an  already  large  business,  with  many  depart- 
ments, Messrs.  Shreve  &  Company  have  now  added 
the  interesting  feature  of  stationery.  Rumors  of 
further  extensions  are  in  the  wind.  This  house  is 
often  called  the  "Tiffany's"  of  the  Pacific  Coast — this 
statement  may  be  all  well  enough  in  the  way  of  an 
average  tribute,  but  we  can  pay  them  no  higher  com- 
pliment than  to  say  that  this  concern  stands  alone 
as  "Shreve  &  Company,"  and  needs  no  "Tiffany" 
comparison  to  add  to  its  repute  as  a  business  house. 

Land  on  the  historic  site  of  Washington's  winter 
camp  at  Valley  Forge  has  been  appraised  at  only 
$353  an  acre.  The  blood  that  oozed  from  the  shoeless 
feet  of  the  Continental  army  did  not,  apparently, 
make  the  soil  any  better  for  farming. 

Many  Beverages 
are  so  vastly  Improved  by  the  added  richness  imparted  by 
the  use  of  Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk.  The 
Eagle  Brand  is  prepared  from  the  milk  of  herds  of  well- 
fed,  housed,  groomed  cows  of  native  breeds.  Every  can  is 
tested  and  is  therefore  reliable. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  01  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


A  publisher  ith  all  kinds  of  adv. 

•dill. 

■.   the  mcr  Hunter  Baltimore  ! 

.ititiful   picture   in   1 

rs,    a  reproduction  mi  an  i' 

'iblcinatic  "f  the  whiskey  it 
self — Grst-clasa   and  clean. 

A  Sllln  of  Beauty  1*  a  Joy  Forever. 

kR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 
OR  MAGICAL  BEAUTIFIER. 

1:. 11  Ptmplaa,   Freck- 

M..tti    I'Mti  h«B,    Ramh    and 
Skin  PIU'Ihwb.  and  every  blem- 
ish on  beauty,  and  delta*,  detec- 
tion.    11   baa  stood   tbe   leal  of 
and  Is  90  harml' 

anra  ii  is  properly 
made.  .\'  1  apt  ti"  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  I..  A.  Savr<- 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  naiit  ton 
(a- patient):  As  you  ladles  win 
is.'  them,  1  recommend  'Gour- 
aud'a  Cream'  us  tin-  least  harm- 
ful of  all  the  skin  preparations." 
For  sale  by  all  druggists  and 
fanoy-SOOda  dealers  In  the 
United  States.  Canadas  and  Eu- 
rope. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop. 
37  Great  Jones  St.,  New  York. 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOMI 

The  comfort  of  the  sleeping  apartment 
should  be  the  first  consideration. 

Our  MATTRESSES  are  made  of 
the  PUREST  South  American  HAIR- 
Our  PILLOWS  of  the  BEST  Live 
Geese  FEATHERS  and  DOWN. 


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sortment of  hair  goods  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Ladies  and 
gentlemen's  wigs  of  all  description — best  of  hair  and  finest 
workmanship.  Switches  all  lengths  and  colors.  Pompa- 
dours, Janes,  Rolls,  etc.,  to  suit  everybody  in  color  and  tex- 
ture. The  best  accommodations  by  thirty  expert  help  in 
all  branches  of  our  business.  See  our  specialties  on  facial 
and  scalp  treatment.  Let  us  examine  your  head  and  tell 
you  the  trouble  of  your  hair.  Hair  dressing,  manicuring, 
scalp  treatment,  facial  treatments,  shampooing,  chiropody, 
etc.,  at  popular  prices. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping  Bureau   has   removed   to   the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


C.    H.   Hehnftrom 

FORMHHLT  SANDERS  &  JOHNSON 

Tailor. 

PHELAN  BUILDING  ROOMS  1   2,  3 

Phone  Main  5887.    San  Francisco. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


They  strolled  up  Market,  and  then  strolled  down, 

And  looked  into  a  window  together. 
His  eyes  were  blue,  and  her  eyes  were  brown, 

It  was  really  the  finest  of  weather. 

But  her  eyes  were  dark  with  an  absolute  frown. 
As  she  tugged  at  her  marital  tether, 

And  the  cost  of  the  paper  the  judge  handed  down, 
Was   the   price  of  a   new   ostrich   feather. 

The  method  adopted  by  a  sheriff's  officer  in  Oak- 
land to  make  service  on  an  order  of  court  on  Mrs.  Eric 
Lindblom  savors  of  the  barbaric.  It  may  be  neces- 
sary at  times  to  force  service  by  breaking  into  a 
man's  house,  and.  even  then,  the  right  should  be  ex- 
ercised with  the  greatest  discretion,  for  the  sanctit) 
of  the  domicile  must  be  respected.  Our  genial  ami 
courteous  officer,  however,  not  content  with  that, 
broke  his  way  into  the  bathroom  in  which  Mrs.  Lind- 
blom was.  Such  outrageous  treatment  should  not 
be  permitted  to  the  vilest  convict,  and  that  a  lady, 
whose  only  offense  was  at  the  very  worst  contempt 
of  court  should  be  subjected  to  such  an  indignity  is 
simply  intolerable.  It  places  privacy  and  decenc) 
at  the  mercy  of  any  hoodlum  official.  The  Deputy 
Sheriff  is  in  the  wrong  place.  He  might  get  well  paid 
by  an  irregular  Turkish  regiment  to  do  the  dirty1 
work. 

Mrs.  Partington's  wel. -meant  and  industrious  ef- 
forts to  sweep  back  the  Atlantic  have  their  counter- 
part in  the  action  of  the  State  Grocers'  Association 
of  California.  These  worthy  but  backward  gentle- 
men are  getting  up  an  agitation  against  the  Parcels' 
Post,  chiefly  upon  the  ground  that  it  will  bring  them 
into  closer  competition  with  Eastern  firms.  This  is 
ridiculous.  We  cannot  be  expected  to  submit  to 
higher  rates  of  postal  delivery  simply  to  keep  up  the 
price  of  retail  groceries,  and  the  agitation  is  doomed 
to  go  to  pieces  on  that  rock.  "It  is  a  hard  world, 
and  we  are  up  against  organized  capital,"  said  the 
field  mouse  as  the  plough  went  through  its  nest, 
but  it  is  not  on  record  that  the  ploughman  stopped. 
Gentlemen  grocers,  you  have  one  remedy — cease  to 
adulterate,  and  be  satisfied  with  a  reasonable  profit. 

Who  will  clean  the  sewers1  This  is  the  triumphant 
challenge  which  has  been  hurled  by  the  reactionary 
against  social  progress.  In  Berkeley  there  is  actual 
competition  for  that  particular  work.  The  students 
want  to  undertake  some  next  month,  and  the 
Sewer  Workmen's  Union  objects.  It  is  too  bad  that 
there  should  be  any  discussion.  The  question  might 
be  solved  by  some  of  the  faculty  taking  a  hand  when 
the  appropriateness  of  the  occupation  would  strike 
even  a  trades  union. 

There  is  a  rush  of  maids  and  widows  anxious  to 
wed  Hiram  Cronk,  aged  104  and  the  sole  survivor 
of  the  war  of  1812,  who  has  a  pension  of  $25  a  month 
and  a  prospect  of  $72  more  from  the  State  of  New 
York.     Times  must  be  getting  harder  at  the  East. 

Talk  about  luck!  Here  is  Jack  London  on  his  first 
trip  as  a  correspondent,  and  he  manages  to  get 
locked  up  and  more  talked  about  than  all  the 
rest  of  them  put  together.  It's  good  luck  and  well 
deserved. 


February   6,    1904. 

Judge  Mogan  said  the  other  day  with  more  truth 
than  one  is  accustomed  to  hear  from  the  Bench : 
"There  are  many  charitable  organizations  in  this 
city  which  pretend  to  care  for  unfortunate  women, 
but  none  of  them  does.  The  latest  proposition  ap- 
pears to  me  to  be  exactly  what  is  needed,  and  I 
hope  you  will  receive  whatever  support  you 
need."  Whether  the  Samaritans  to  whom  the  Judge 
referred  will  come  up  to  his  expectations,  it  is  im- 
possible to  say.  There  is,  however,  no  doubt  about 
the  general  correctness  of  his  strictures.  There  ap- 
pears to  be  a  tendency  to  exploit  these  women  all 
round,  and  the  charitable  organizations  which  pre- 
tend to  succor  them  are  by  no  means  above  making 
profit  out  of  them. 

The  Dreyfus  case  seems  to  possess  the  same  fas- 
cination for  the  Examiner  as  the  head  of  Charles 
I  did  for  the  famous  Mr.  Dick.  The  paper  is  sure 
that  it  caused  the  revision  of  the  verdict  in  the  ease 
of  the  French  officer,  just  as  it  is  possessed  of  the 
hallucination  that  it  saved  the  lews  from  massacre 
in  Russia  on  January  7th.  It  Mings  Dreyfus  at  us 
on  every  chance,  and  does  not  disdain  to  bring  sweep- 
ing and  absurd  charges  against  the  United  States 
army  in  connection  with  a  small  scandal  in  local 
army  circles.  For  a  philanthropist,  the  taste  of  the 
Examiner  runs  too  much  to  filth. 

Henry  Weinstock  tried  to  do  a  good  thing  when 
he  founded  the  "Morals  of  Trade"  lectureship  at  the 
University.  But  the  lecture  as  a  means  of  cultivating 
trade  ethics  would  appear  a  little  inadequate.  How 
many  lecturers  will  it  take  to  offset  one  discover}' 
of  Iraudulent  dealings  among  our  commercial  mag- 
nates? Modern  commerce  is  war  in  another  guise, 
and  war  is  not  a  matter  in  which  ethics  play  any 
great  part.  Meanwhile,  the  lecture  course  endowed 
by  Mr.  Weinstock  will  at  least  have  given  a  pleasant 
Western  trip  to  Dr.  Albert  Shaw. 

The  genial  highwayman  who  has  been  making 
things  merry  across  the  Bay,  more  than  met  his 
match  in  the  person  of  Miss  Sigma  Larsen.  The 
lady  with  the  Swedish  name  is  endowed  with  true 
Scandinavian  thrift,  for  as  soon  as  she  was  challenged 
to  produce  her  money  she  stuck  a  five-dollar  gold 
piece  in  her  mouth,  leaving  the  thief  fifteen  cents, 
which,  for  one  of  her  nationality,  was  remarkable 
generosity.  (  )ne  cannot  help  speculating  as  to  what 
would  have  happened  if  Miss  Larsen  had  swallowed 
the  coin,  for  she  would  never  have  let  it  go. 

There  is  nothing  better  being  done  for  athletic 
sports  on  this  coast  than  the  work  of  the  Association 
foot  hall  Team.  These  young  fellows  play  a  straight 
game  for  the  love  of  the  sport  and  the  training,  and 
without  any  consideration  of  money  or  even  popular- 
ity. It  is  an  exhibition  of  pure  amateur  sport  which 
we  do  not  see  sufficiently  often,  and  must  have  its 
effect  upon  the  tone  of  local  athletics.  I  like  to  say 
a  good  thing  for  local  sport  when  I  can,  but  dear 
Heaven  !  there  is  usually  very  small  opportunity. 

John  McNaught  struck  the  right  note  in  his  speech 
on  journalism  to  the  students  at  the  University.  He 
indulged  in  no  mouthings  or  platitudes,  and  gave 
his  audience  to  understand  that  a  newspaper  is  just 
what  the  public  wants  it  to  be.  That  is  correct;  but 
the  question  still  arises — which  public?  One  can 
pick  a  public  of  the  slums  and  write  for  that,  turn 
one's-self  into  a  hyena  and  eat  garbage,  like  the 
"Monarch  of  the  Dailies."  Is  that  journalism?  Call 
it  what  you  like,  but  it  appears  to  pay. 

Wireless    telegraphy    under    government    ausp 
in  Alaska  is  also  wordless. 


February  6.  1904.  SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

Tricou's   Trousseau  TriumpHant 


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Fairy  tales,  like  miracles,  are  -till  happening 
lay  lie  a  little  more  prosaic  than 
away  time  when  the  suitor  for  the  hand  »f 
had  to  go  in  quest  of  "plum  jc\v<   - 
■date   talc   involves   a   heart    anil   a   "Prim 
by  brevet,  also  a  gallant  young  knight  from  tin   I 

>t,  ami  plenty  of  perseverance.  The  "plum  jewel" 
in  this  ease  was  the  securing  of  a  position  befitting 
the  husband  of  a  "daughter  and  a  granddaughl 
the  United  States  Navy."  All  of  which  i-  about 
Sarah  Randolph  Colhoun,  daughter  of  Pay- 
director  and  Mrs.  S.  K.  Colhoun,  I".  S.  X..  and  Vs 
•it  Paymaster  Eugene  H.  Tricou,  son  of  Henry 
P.  Tricou  of  this  city,  who  were  married  January 
15th  at  the  Xew  York  Navy  Yard,  and  who  hid  fair 
"to  live  happy  forever  after." 

The  young  people  met  about  four  years  ago,  and 
no  mistaking,  theirs  was  a  case  of  love,  intense  and 
picturesque  from  the  very  start.  Miss  Colhoun. 
beautiful  and  petted,  with  everything  for  the  mere 
asking,  was  <jtiite  willing  to  lay  her  Heart  and  what 
fortune  she  had  at  the  feet  of  her  adoring  swain,  hut 
her  fond  parents  reminded  her  that  a  "daughter  and 
a  granddaughter  of  the  Navy"  must  wed  fitting  posi- 
tion. This  appeal  to  her  pride  of  navy  ancestry 
brought  the  young  Miss  to  a  round-about-face.  Forth- 
with she  presented  her  ultimatum  to  young  Mr. 
Tricou.  Knowing  that  conditions  precluded  the  pos- 
sibility of  his  getting  into  the  navy  via  Annapolis, 
Miss  Colhoun  said : 

"Go  forth,  study,  pass  a  successful  examination 
for  the  Paymaster's  Department,  get  a  commission, 
and  then  you  may  claim  me  for  your  bride." 

"For  a  poor  young  man  who  had  not  traveled  over 
all  the  paths  that  lead  to  higher  education,  and  who 
was  not  the  happy  possessor  of  very  influential  con- 
nections, the  conditions  were  about  as  hard  as  the 
next-to-impossible  ones  that  made  life  miserable  for 
the  story  book  heroes. 

Well,  the  young  people  parted,  Miss  Colhoun  go- 
ing where  the  Lord  and  the  navy  took  her  father. 
Brave  Mr.  Tricou  was  here  in  San  Francisco  trying 
to  find  the  exceedingly  definite  "x"  in  the  love  prob- 
lem his  sweetheart  had  given  him  to  find.  There 
were  clays,  plenty  of  them,  when  his  studies  went 
along  with  leaden  feet,  for  he  would  receive  letters 
from  Miss  Colhoun,  whom  he  called  "The  Princess," 
(telling  of  the  interesting  men  she  was  meeting  in 
foreign  climes,  and  of  the  wonderfully  good  times 
she  was  having — always  assuring  him  that  "Poll's 
heart  was  ever  true."  Tangible  evidences  of  de- 
votion were  not  withheld.  Once  a  beautiful  watch 
inscribed  "From  the  Princess,"  and  with  her  minia- 
ture painted  on  the  inside  of  the  case,  came.,  and 
was  as  much  of  a  tonic  as  a  summer  in  the  coun- 
try. 

Tricou  found  a  young  man  who  had  successfully 
passed  the  examination  for  the  Paymaster's  Service, 
and  told  him  of  his  plight,  with  the  result  that  he 
received  a  copy  of  the  examination  that  had  brought 
success  to  one  young  man.  In  this  way  Tricou  found 
out  the  kind  of  knowledge  required,  and  was  able 
to  direct  his  studies  accordingly.  In  due  time  he 
passed  the  examination,  was  fortunate  to  get  an 
appointment,  and  so  was  eligible  for  the  hand  of  a 
"daughter  and  a  granddaughter  of  the  Navy." 

The  Tricou-Colhoun  wedding  was  a  notable  affair, 
but  very  few  knew  that  it  was  one  more  proof  that 
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February   6,    1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

COLUMBIA— A  Chinese  Honeymoon.    Finely  mounted.    Enjoyable. 
ALCAZAR— A  Colonial  Girl.    A  well  played  play. 
ORPHEUM— Vaudeville.    Unrestrained,  continuous  laughter. 
CENTRAL— East  Lynne.    Vast  Improvement  over  previous  plavs. 
TIVOLI— When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home.    Crowded  Houses. 
GRAND— Lost  River.    Good  of  its  kind. 
PISCHER"S— The  Beauty  Shop.    Continued  success. 
CHUTES— Montagues  Cockatoo  Circus.    Avery  fine  bill. 


The  theatres  this  week  have  done  a  rushing-  busi- 
ness, although  in  most  instances  the  bills  were  hold- 
overs. At  Fischer's,  the  interest  in  "The  Beauty 
Shop"  does  not  wane.  This  is  the  last  week  of  this 
hodge-podge  of  amusing  nonsense.  At  the  Grand 
there  is  the  play  called  "Lost  River."  There  is  -a 
pretty  little  story  running  through  the  lines,  but  the 
acting  does  not  merit  extraordinary  mention.  The 
audiences,  if  one  is  to  judge  by  the  opening  night, 
are  well  satisfied  with  the  production,  and  the  critic 
is  relegated  to  a  back  seat.  There  is  no  telling  where 
the  good  public  is  going  to  land  you  in  this  matter 
of  expert  criticism.     "Lost  River"  may  therefore  be 

considered  a  popular  success. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alcazar  the  company  is  cast  in  a  play  which 
does  not  come  up  to  the  preceding  productions  by  a 
long  margin.  Miss  Block  makes  the  most  there  is 
in  the  part  of  Molly  Heddin,  and  strange  as  it  may 
seem,  this  is  the  best  we  have  seen  of  Durkin.  His 
conception  of  the  part  of  Godfrey  Remsen  admits 
of  little  or  no  criticism.     It  is  simply  excellent. 

I  had  occasion  last  week  to  remark  on  the  versa- 
tility of  John  B.  Maher.  In  the  part  of  Giles,  the  old 
servant  devoted  to  Godfrey,  Mr.  Maher  shows  up  to 
great  advantage.  Miss  Frances  Starr  is  fast  becom- 
ing one  of  the  most  popular  actresses  in  the  city. 
She  is  greeted  with  that  indulgence  the  public  al- 
ways grants  to  those  they  love.  She  has  beauty  and 
a  pretty  little  innocent  manner  that  is  taking,  and 
more  than  once  in  this  play  the  risible  quality  of  her 
lines  is  brought  out  by  her  mannerisms  rather  than 
by  the  lines  themselves. 

Conness  is  very  good  in  spots,  and  in  others  he 
rants  to  an  extent  that  is  reprehensible.  Mr.  Con- 
ness is  a  splendid  actor,  and  his  work  heretofore  has 
not  called  for  criticism.  Eleanor  Gordon  is  at  times 
too  strenuous,  but  the  part  of  Lady  Danvers  is  one 
which  is  most  difficult  of  portrayal,  and  it  may  be 
said  of  Miss  Gordon  that  there  are  parts  in  this  con- 
ception in  which  her  work  is  well  clone.  At  other 
times  she  is  too  tragic. 

The  Jack  Osborne  of  Mr.  Hilliard  is  good,  al- 
though at  times  there  is  a  note  of  insincerity  in  the 
voice  which  he  should  overcome.  Mr.  George  Os- 
bourne's  "Colonel  Carteret"  is  fine.  The  little  scene 
between  himself  and  Lady  Ketletas,  in  which  the 
Colonel  finally  capitulates,  brings  down  the  house. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Central,  Mr.  Herschel  Mayall  is  winning 
new  laurels,  and  Eugenia  Thais  Lawton  has  added 
another  play  to  her  repertoire.  The  audience  follows 
the  play,  keenly  alive  to  every  change  in  the  lines 
and  quickly  showing  its  disapproval  of  the  villain  or 
its  approval  of  the  hero.  The  Carlisle  of  Mayall  is 
a  good  performance,  and  Miss  Lawton's  Mme.  Vine 
meets  an  unqualified  approval  from  the  public. 

*  *  * 

"Caro  Roma  as  Miss  Pemberton  in  "When  Johnny 
Comes  Marching  Home"  is  a  vast  improvement  over 


Anna  Lichter,  and  when  it  is  remembered  that  Anna 
Lichter's  rendition  of  the  part  was  most  acceptable, 
those  who  have  not  seen  Caro  Roma  will  realize  the 
pleasure  that  is  in  reserve.  Soon  we  will  sav  fare- 
well to  "Johnny,"  and  it  is  but  fair  to  the  Tivoli 
management  to  give  them  credit  for  making  a  comic 
opera  immensely  popular  that  was  a  part  failure  all 
over  the  East.  It  is  all  in  knowing  how  to  do  things. 
Ferris  Hartman's  "Jonathan  Phoenix"  is  a  wonder- 
ful piece  of  character  work,  and  he  deserves  praise 
for  the  original  conception.  The  walk,  the  leer  and 
the  general  make-up  stamps  our  old-time  friend  as 
an  actor  of  resource  that  is  far  and  away  above  the 
ordinary. 

»  ■*  * 

The  last  week  of  the  "Chinese  Honeymoon"  is 
being  given  to  large  houses  at  the  Columbia.  The 
scenes  are  a  drawing  card. 

*  *  * 

I  wish  to  put  up  an  earnest  plea  for  those  unfortu- 
nates who  disturb  audiences  by  leaving  before  a  per- 
formance is  finished.  These  poor  people  are  not  ac- 
tuated by  malice.  By  investigation  I  find  that  they 
are  generally  servants  to  rich  people  who  make  it  a 
rule  that  they  must  be  at  home  before  the  clock 
strikes  twelve.  It  is  an  unfortunate  thing  that  some 
employers  are  so  stringent  with  their  help.  It  pre- 
vents them  from  obtaining  many  pleasures.  They 
may  not,  under  this  rule,  spend  more  than  an  hour 
at  the  fashionable  restaurants,  before  taking  the  cars 
for  the  residences  of  the  wealthy.  Then  they  have 
to  spend  considerable  time  preparing  the  fires 
for  the  next  moiling,  attending  the  usual  duties  of 
hired  help,  and  they  retire  too  tired  to  come  up  to 
the  scratch  in  their  next  day's  dish-washing.  I  hope 
that  employers  reading  this  little  plea  will  treat  these 
early  risers  at  the  theatres  with  more  leniency  and 
that  it  may  lead  to  a  sensible  extension  of  their 
hours  of  leisure.  This  is  a  case  for  the  Amalgamated 
Dishwashers'  Union. 

*  *  * 

Fastly  furious  and  frivolous,  "The  Gay  Parisians" 
ought  to  keep  the  Alcazar  patrons  in  a  merry  mood 
next  week.  This  play  is  funny  enough,  for  it  kept 
all  New  York  on  the  broad  grin  for  two  hundred 
nights  at  the  Madison  Square,  with  Sadie  Martinot 
as  the  flighty  wife. 

Maher  is  cast  for  a  good  part,  and  I  am  told  that 
the  rest  of  the  company  will  have  an  opportunity 
to  show  everything  there  is  in  them.  Following  this, 
February  15th,  comes  "The  Charity  Ball,"  a  most 
powerful  American  comedy  drama,  by  David  Belasco 
and  H.  C.  De  Mille. 

*  *  * 

Klaw  &  Erlanger  announce  the  coming  of  Rogers 
Brothers  at  the  Columbia,  beginning  Monday  even- 
ing, May  20th.  Their  "The  Rogers  Brothers  in 
London"  is  said  to  be  the  greatest  production  in 
which   these   comedians   have  been  seen. 

*  *  * 

The  first  act  of  "Harriet's  Honeymoon,"  the  new 
Ditrichstein  comedy  in  which  Mary  Mannering  is 
at  present  successfully  appearing,  shows  the  prome- 
nade and  springs  at  an  obscure  German  watering 
place.  The  second  act  is  played  in  another  portion 
of  the  promenade,  and  in  the  Kursaal.  The  third 
has  for  its  local  scene  a  charming  bit  of  forest.  Man- 
ager McKee  will  present  Miss  Mannering  in  this  city 


February    6.    1904. 

in  her  new  play  in  the  near  future.     Her  - 
any   is   an   exceptional!) 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

Grand  Opera  Mouse 


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•"lay  next.   February  8th.  the  pati 
Theatre  will  witness  the  t > r ~ t  pcrfori 
Roly   Poly."  and  it  gives  fair  promise  of  I 
the  crowning  glory  of  an  unusually  • 

>k  and  lyrics  of  "Roly  Poly"  art  from 
the  "pencil,"  not  pen,  of  Will  Carleton,  which  fact 
in  itself  puts  forth  a  strong  argument  for  an  un- 
precedented success. 

»  *  • 

Louis  James  and  Frederick  Wardc  are  to  give  us 
the  original  and  spectacular  drama.  "Alexander  the 
Great,"  at  the  Columbia  for  two  weeks,  commencing 
Monday.  Scenically  concerned  this  is  said  to  be  a 
great  play.    The  names  of  Wardc  and  James  should 

be  great  as  drawing  cards. 

*  *  * 

There  arc  many  who  will  remember  the  visit  here 
of  Billv  Van  and  Rose  Beaumont,  season  before  la-t . 
and  they  will  remember  that  Billy  Van  is  as  funny 
as  can  be.  and  that  Miss  Beaumont  is  good  to  look 
upon.  They  will  give  us  "My  Busy  Day."  by  Geo. 
Totten  Smith,  for  "their  first  week.  John  T.  Thorne 
and  Grace  Carleton  will  endeavor  to  amuse,  and  their 
record  as  fun-makers  is  a  great  one.  Looking  over 
the  rest  of  the  programme,  I  find  that  it  will  be  one 
of  the  best  the  Orpheum  has  ever  given  us. 

*  *  * 

There  will  be  many  new  acts  at  the  Chutes  this 
coming  week,  and  the  bill  abounds  in  novelty.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  D.  M.  Hall,  the  original  "Bowery  Boy  and 
Girl,"  and  Winstanley  and  Sullivan,  said  to  be  one 
of  the  best  dancing  teams  before  the  public,  will 
make  their  first  appearance  here,  as  will  also  Han- 
Ion  and  Zanfrella,  sensational  aerial  acrobats,  and 
McCarver  and  Garey,  a  singing  and  dancing  comedy 
duo.  Guy  Wilson  and  Nellie  Daly-Moran  will  pre- 
sent a  new  comedy  skit  entitled  "The  First  Quar- 
rel;" Florence  Rayfield,  "the  little  Patti,"  will 
change  her  selections,  and  Mabel  Lamson,  the  popu- 
lar contralto,  will  be  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs. 
The  animatoscope  will  show  the  latest  novelties  in 
moving  pictures,  and  the  amateurs  will  appear  on 
Thursday  night.  The  Zoo  has  received  an  important 
addition  in  "Hannibal,"  a  magnificent  specimen  of 
the  African  lion,  and  second  alone  to  "Wallace,"  the 
handsomest  "king  of  beasts"  in  captivity. 

*  *  * 

The  Weber  &  Field's  Company  commence  at  the 
Grand  next  week.  The  company  includes  Lillian 
Russell,  Peter  F.  Dailey,  Louis  Mann,  Charles  Ross, 
Mabel  Fenton,  John  T.  Kelly  and  Weber  and  Field. 

"Life,"  of  New  York,  says,  regarding  the  Weber- 
fieldian  productions:  "Last  week  of  the  season.  The 
Goose  has  ceased  to  lay  the  golden  eggs."  The  man- 
agement, at  an  initial  expense  of  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars, has  succeeded  in  changing  the  breed  of  goose. 
It  remains  to  be  seen  if  the  Pacific  Coast  article  is 
as   prolific  as  the   New  York   domesticated   aquatic 

fowl. 

*  *  * 

"East  Lynne,"  at  the  Central,  will  be  followed 
by  "In  Sight  of  Saint  Paul's,"  an  English  melodrama 
replete  with  powerful  scenes.  

farter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

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finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zinkand   is   society's   gathering   place  after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


February   6,    1904. 


The  Supervisors  have  appropriated  $5,000  to  clean 
Chinatown.  The  object  is  commendable,  but  the 
manner  in  which  it  is  to  be  attained  seems  to  me 
open  to  criticism.  The  unsanitary  conditions  extant 
in  Chinatown  are  found  in  cellars,  entryways,  back 
yards,  on  roofs  and  in  other  places  within,  or  imme- 
diately surrounding  the  buildings.  Now,  if  a  resi- 
dent of  the  Western  Addition  permitted  garbage  to 
accumulate  in  his  back  yard  until  the  smell  thereof 
arose  unto  the  heavens,  what  would  happen?  Why. 
he  would  be  warned  to  remove  it,  failing  to  do  which 
he  would  be  promptly  jugged,  and  heavily  fined  for 
organizing  and  perpetuating  a  public  nuisance.  The 
garbage  would  be  also  suppressed,  and  the  cost 
would  be  taxed  against  the  tenant  or  the  owner  of  the 
property.  In  no  event,  however,  would  the  Super- 
visors appropriate  public  money  to  clean  up  private 
premises.  Why,  then,  should  they  draw  $5,000  from 
the  city  treasury  to  clean  up  private  property  in 
Chinatown?  Why  should  not  the  property  owners 
be  compelled  to  do  this  necessary  work  at  their  own 
expense?  If  they  refuse,  why  should  they  not  be 
jailed?  Is  there  anything  in  the  ownership  of  prop- 
erty in  Chinatown  which  makes  one  immune  from 
the  local  ordinances,  or  the  penal  code?  Moreover, 
where  do  the  Supervisors  get  authority  to  expend 
public  money  for  this  purpose?  They  propose  draw- 
ing the  sum  appropriated  from  the  Urgent  Necessity 
Fund.  This  expenditure  is  certainly  not  within  tin- 
scope  of  "urgent  necessity,"  as  contemplated  by  the 
charter.  "Urgent  necessity"  is  sometimes  unfore- 
seen, arising  from  a  public  calamity  or  from  other 
causes  that  no  prudent  man  could  forecast.  Cleaning 
the  property  of  the  owners  of  land  in  Chinatown  is 
certainly  not  an  unforeseen  necessity.  Tt  is  a  per- 
ennial necessity,  but  it  lies  at  the  door  of  these 
owners,  and  not  at  the  door  of  the  city  treasury. 
There  is  plenty  of  law  to  compel  recalcitrant  land- 
lords to  have  respect  for  the  health  of  their  neigh- 
bors. The  law  sadly  needs  enforcement.  I  wonder 
if  the  patronage  question  has  anything  to  do  with 
the  appropriation  so  generously  made  by  the  Super- 
visors? They  have  appointed  at  least  a  dozen 
"wreckers"  for  the  Chinatown  work.  These  men 
average  over  $4.00  a  day.  Their  wages  alone  amount 
to  about  $1,200  a  month.  The  patronage  is  distribu- 
ted among  the  Supervisors.  That  is  enough  to  give 
us  pause — isn't  it? 

*  *  * 

Sheriff  Curtis  says  he  intends  to  clip  off  some  of 
the  privileges  enjoyed  during  the  past  four  years 
by  favorite  prisoners  in  the  local  jails.  Among  the 
first  to  suffer,  it  is  said,  will  be  Mrs.  Botlcin,  who 
was  convicted  some  time  ago  of  poisoning  the  wife 
of  Dunning,  a  newspaper  man,  by  sending  her  doc- 
tored candy  through  the  mail.  For  three  years  or 
thereabouts  Mrs.  Botkin  has  been  confined  in  the 
old  Industrial  School,  now  known  as  the  Branch 
County  Jail.  Here  she  has  a  private  suite  ;  she  has 
been  given  unusual  privacy:  she  has  had  her  "day 
at  home,"  if  you  please,  and  she  has  been  given 
every  opportunity  to  win  sympathy  from  a  public 
which  was  convinced  at  the  time  of  her  trial  and 
conviction  that  she  was  a  soulless,  debased  and 
hardened  criminal,  who  should  have  been  hanged. 
She  will  have  a  new  trial  and  may  escape  the  gal- 
lows, for  many  of  the  former  witnesses  against  her 
cannot  be  obtained  again.  Before  her  final  escape, 
the  Sheriff  will  do  some  good  by  giving  her  a  taste 


of  real  prison  life.  Why  women  poisoners  should 
receive  so  much  maudlin  sympathy  is  past  my  under- 
standing. There  is  Mrs.  Maybrick,  for  instance. 
Her  mother's  indefatigable  efforts  during  the  past 
fifteen  years  have  manufactured  a  certain  public 
sympathy  for  her.  Yet,  does  any  man  who  followed 
her  trial,  and  who  is  aware  of  her  character,  and 
the  character  of  her  mother,  doubt  her  guilt?  This 
same  maudlin  sympathy  saved  her  from  the  gallows, 
and  caused  her  sentence  to  be  life  imprisonment. 
And  now  she  is  free.  The  law  should  deal  equal  jus- 
tice to  man  and  woman  alike.  A  woman  poisoner  is 
certainly  a  far  more  debased  and  dangerous  char- 
acter than  a  footpad.  She  has  a  far  worse  effect  on 
public  morality  than  has  the  highwayman.  Yet  short 
shrift  is  made  of  the  latter  if  be  kills  his  victim. 
Why  should  the  stealthy  female  assassin  be  spared 

the  noose? 

*  *  * 

Mayor  Schmitz  is  "coming  on."  Three  weeks  ago 
he  administered  a  well-deserved  rebuke  to  Fire  Com- 
missioner  Parry  by  deposing  him  from  the  chairman- 
ship of  the  joint  Board  which  controls  the  Depart- 
ment of  Electricity.  Parry  may  not  have  embezzled 
that  colt,  but  he  made  a  bad  mess  of  bis  horse  trad- 
ing, and  the  .Mayor  thought  he  should  be  set  down 
a  peg  or  two.  If  Parry  had  only  called  on  prize- 
fighter McQuaide  for  aid  the  public  would  never  have 
beard  of  the  colt.  Horse-trading  and  "bronco  bust- 
ing" is  McOuaide's  ostensible  business  when  he  is 
not  engaged  as  a  plug-ugly  to  scare  timid  opponents 
of  Martin  Kelly.  It  must  have  been  the  prize- 
fighter's success  as  a  horse-trader  that  commended 
him  to  Dr.  Ward  as  a  good  man  for  the  position  of 
Assistant  Warden  at  the  County  Hospital.  But  the 
Mayor's  sense  of  political  obligations  was  not  suffi- 
ciently strong  to  hold  McQuaide  in  his  job.  So  the 
horse-trader  has  been  thrown  out  of  the  hospital. 
Now,  if  Schmitz  will  only  turn  his  attention  to 
Police  Commissioner  Hutton,  he  may  do  the  present 
administration  more  credit  by  causing  another  va- 
cancy. Hutton  was  the  attorney  for  the  notorious 
Baroness  Twickheim  of  unsavory  memory.  Some 
months  ago  Hutton's  wife  sued  him  for  divorce,  and 
the  complaint  was  rich  in  detail.  Wonder  what  be- 
came of  that  case? 

*  *  * 

This  Lieutenant  Hector  Robichon  is  doing  consid- 


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&    CO. 

Agents  Pacific  Coast 
SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL. 


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February   6.    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


atch.      If 

it  needs  immediately  an  instructor  in 
ntleman."    Both  of  them  an 
and  as  noisome  ;i-  a  couple  of  drunken  tislu-rw ■ 
each  endeavoring  to  ruin  the  other's  reputation 
do  the  women  in  t lie  case  seem  to  be  much  abot 
level  of  the  men.     It  is  a  new   thing  for  a  lady  to  rush 
into  print  with  an  affidavit  to  the  effect  that  "a  gal- 
lant son  of  Mars"  tried  to  ki--  her.     Were  the  poor 
things  afraid   no  one  would   believe  a  man  trii 

them?  Therefore,  did  they  make  their  solemn 
"affydavvs"  to  the  extraordinary  tact?  The  whole 
affair  is  a  dirty  mess,  and  everybody  engaged  in  it 
should  be  suppressed  by  the  police. 

*  *  * 

So  Reuben  Wolf  wants  to  tret  back  into  the  1'olice 
Department.  He  has  sued  the  Commissioners,  and 
has  set  up  a  very  loud  cry  of  unfair  trial,  prejudice 
and  mistreatment.  Wolf  is  a  nephew  of  the  late 
Chief  Lees,  through  whose  influence  Wolf  was  made 
a  Sergeant  of  Police.  When  Lees  was  Chief.  Wolf 
was  Commissary  of  the  city  prison.  He  was  not  dis- 
missed from  the  department  at  that  time,  nor  \va- 
he  sent  to  jail.  As  soon  as  Lees  passed  away.  Wolf 
was  left  without  a  protector.  Exceeding  success  in 
his  peculiar  way  had  made  Wolf  bold,  and  it  was  this 
very  boldness  that  worked  his  ruin.  The  Police  Com- 
missioners found  him  guilty  of  taking  bad  money. 
and  dismissed  him.  Now,  he  is  trying  to  beat  his 
way  back  through  the  courts.  Some  men  are  never 
satisfied.  Has  he  forgotten  that  he  was  once  Com- 
issary  of  the  City  Prison? 

*  *  * 

Miriam  Michelson  has  the  best  short  story  in  one 
of  the  current  magazines.  She  is  doing  good  liter- 
ary work.  Her  brother  is  also  doing  good  work 
in  Xew  York.  It  is  a  talented  family  in  a  literary 
way.  That  eccentric  genius,  Arthur  McKewen,  mar- 
ried one  of  the  Michelson  girls. 

*  *  * 

A  friend  of  mine  saw  Colonel  Isaac  Trumbo  at 
Kearny  and  Post  streets  last  Monday  talking  to  a 
lady  in  blue.  An  hour  later  he  again  saw  the  gallant 
Colonel  talking  to  a  lady  in  grey;  half  an  hour  later 
the  Colonel  was  again  observed  with  two  ladies  in 
black,  and  ten  minutes  after  that  he  courteously 
handed  two  other  ladies  into  a  carriage  in  front  of 
a  Kearny  street  confectionery  store. 

"The  Colonel  has  all  the  rest  of  us  beaten  a  block- 
when  it  comes  to  being  the  real  thing  with  the 
ladies,"  said  my  friend.  "Say,  I  wonder  if  he  is  act- 
ing as  a  Mormon  apostle  out  here,  and  is  making 
converts  to  the  cause?  You  know,  Salt  Lake  City  is 
much  nearer  now,  since  that  short  cut  was  made 
across  the  Lake." 

*  *  * 

Jim  Budd  is  buying  up  street  car  lines,  and  riding 
around  in  automobiles  these  days.  He  takes  rank 
now  among  the  real  moneyed  men  of  the  San  Joa- 
quin, and  when  he  returns  from  his  quest  for  the  pot 
of  gold  at  the  foot  of  the  rainbow,  in  which  is  the 
document  certifying  Hearst's  nomination  for  the 
Presidency,  the  gentle  James  will  be  a  bigger  man 
than  ever — financially.  He  may  not  find  Hearst's 
title  to  the  nomination,  but  he  will  find  the  pot  of 
gold  all  right.  Trust  Budd  for  that.  He  has  not  been 
Governor  of  the  Golden  State  without  being  able  to 
tell  gold  whenever  and  wherever  he  sees  it.  It  was 
Charley  Fair's  contest  of  his  father's  will  that  put 
Jim  Budd  on  the  way  to  fortune.     It  is  said  Budd 

drew  down  $100,000  from  Charley  Fair.     Of  course, 


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the  Governor  Ihej  would  find  the  latch-string  on  the 

.  and  .ill   they   would   have   to  do  would  be 
to  pull  it.  and  yell:  "Hello,  Jim!''     No,  Janus.  is  now 

of  slower  gait,  of  more  conservative  mien  and  n 

of  thought   bin    ever,   as   of   yore,   his   weather  eve   i^ 
peeled    tor   those    that    "are   born    every    day."    Since 

"Smiling  Patsy"  Carroll  passed  away,  it  is  safe  to 

hat    |.   Budd   i--  the  "best   ever." 


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ARE  A  NECESSARY  FEATURE  OF  MODERN  ARCHITECTURE 

The  Otis  Automatic  Electric  Elevator 

is  the  latest  development  of  the  art  of  home  com- 
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merits  before  completing  specifications  for  a 
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Correspondence  invited. 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


February   6,    1904. 


A      more     cheerful      community 

Leading  Mines     can  hardly  lie  found  in  any  part 

of  Tonopah.       of   the    United    States    than    now 

exists  at  Tonopah.  The  railroad 
which  has  been  discussed  for  two  long  weary  years 
and  construction  of  which  has  been  expected  almost 
any  month  during  that  period,  is  at  last  being  built. 
By  the  1st  of  June  tons  of  high-grade  ore  will  be 
shipped  to  the  smelter  at  a  price  many  times  cheaper 
than  it  costs  at  present  freighted  over  the  alkali  des- 
ert by  horse  and  mule  teams,  taking  frequently  a  week 
to  cover  what  the  railroad  will  do  in  a  few  hours. 
The  enormous  sum  which  will  be  saved  on  freights 
bv  the  Montana  Tonopah  and  the  Tonopah  Mining  , 
Company  will  be  sufficient  to  pay  two  large  divi- 
dends. These  mines  can,  with  the  large  amount  of 
high-grade  ore  in  sight,  extract  a  million  dollars  a 
month,  and  some  phenomenal  returns  may  be  ex- 
pected as  soon  as  the  railwav  is  operating  and  the 
mines  are  being  worked  to  their  full  capacity,  with  a 
large  force  of  miners.  The  largest  ledge  discovered 
so  far  at  Tonopah  is  the  Macdonald  vein  of  the  Mon- 
tana-Tonopah  mine,  32  feet  in  width.  12  feet  of  which 
is  high-grade  smelting  ore  and  the  rest  a  high-grade 
milling  ore.  A  block  of  this  ore,  100  feet  long  and  12 
feet  wide,  contains  9230  tons,  which  at  $50  a  ton, 
about  one-fourth  the  value  of  most  of  the  shipments 
so  far  made  from  this  mine,  it  would  net  $461,500.  It 
is  most  certainly  a  significant  fact,  worthy  of  note 
by  those  wdio  are  anxious  to  be  in  on  a  rising  mar- 
ket that  the  management  and  its  friends  are  buying 
in  heavily.  A  great  deal  of  stock  of  the  North  Star 
mine,  which  is  now  connected  with  the  Montana  on 
the  500  foot  level,  is  also  being  acquired  bv  the  Mon- 
tana Company's  management.  Some  of  the  richest 
ore  yet  discovered  in  Tonopah,  assaying  as  high  as 
$3,000  a  ton,  has  been  taken  out  of  the  North  Star 
mine,  and  there  are  a  number  of  carloads  of  high- 
grade  ore  ready  to  be  shipped  in  June  by  the  railway. 
The  general  impression  in  the  camp  is  that  Montana- 
Tonopah  will  shortly  declare  another  dividend.  About 
$100,000  worth  of  ore  now  is  being  shipped  monthlv, 
and  there  is  enough  money  in  the  treasury  to  pay  for 
a  mill  and  increase  of  machinery  and  a  fat  dividend 
besides.  The  Montana-Tonopah  Company  is  the 
most  popular  in  the  camp.  Mining  operations  arc 
conducted  in  an  expert  and  thoroughly  business-like 
manner,  and  the  books  of  the  company  are  at  the  ser- 
vice of  the  shareholders  whenever  they  wish  to  see 
them.  This  policy  contrasts  so  favorably  with  the 
secretive  and  mysterious  air  asumed  bv  the  Philadel- 
phia people  who  control  the  destinies  of  the  Tonopah 
Mining  Company.  In  another  twelve  months  it  is 
more  than  probable  that  the  Montana-Tonopah  stock 
will  be  selling  higher  than  that  of  anv  other  mine 
in  the  district,  for  it  has  the  largest  high-grade  veil 
in  the  district,  besides  having  four  others,  any  one  of 
which  would  make  a  valuable  mine.  The  number  of 
shares  issued  is  much  less  than  that  of  the  Tonopah 
Mining  Company,  and  the  management,  as  so  far 
demonstrated,  is  more  than  usuallv  shrewd  and  re- 
liable. •'I'MYI 
The  Midway  Mill  will  shortlv  be  running  full  blast. 
The  late  stoppage,  being  caused  not  by  any  defect  in 
the  mill  itself,  which  has  given  the  most  splendid 
results,  but  on  account  of  the  blowing  out  of  one 
of  the  big  cylinders  of  the  engine,  caused  either  by 
extreme  carelessness  or  by  malicious  intent  of  some 


one  having  access  to  the  engine  house. 

The  principal  feature  of  the  week  on  'change  has 
been  the  gradual  but  sure  rise  in  the  Montana-Tono- 
pah stock,  there  being  ready  buyers  at  $i-45- 

The  announcement  of  the  sus- 
A  Regrettable  pension  of  the  well-known  stock- 
Incident,  broking  firm  of  Bolton  and  De 
Ruyter  took  the  street  by  sur- 
prise. The  firm  was  one  of  the  highest  respectabil- 
ity in  its  line,  and  its  clientele  numbered  most  of  the 
substantial  men  in  town.  The  trouble  which  has 
brought  about  the  present  embarrassment  is  due  to 
the  failure  of  a  big  New  York  firm  some  months 
ago,  for  which  Bolton  &  De  Ruyter  acted  as  West- 
ern correspondents.  The  firm  is  deserving  of  much 
sympathy  among  the  local  financial  coterie,  and  it 
will  be  hoped  that  the  suspension  is  only  of  a  tem- 
porary nature,  and  that  the  firm  will  emerge  stronger 
and  more  successful  than  ever  out  of  its  present  diffi- 
culties. 

Tn  the  local  security  market 
Stocks  and  Bonds  business  has  been  rather 
Quiet  and  Dull.  quiet  during  the  week  in  all 
lines.  Bonds  have  been  in 
light  demand,  and  the  industrial  shares  have  been 
dull  as  a  rule.  Gas  and  Electric  has  a  rather  sloppy 
tone,  but  of  course  no  one  is  surprised  at  that.  The 
only  wonder  is  that  in  view  of  the  existing  situation 
outside  shareholders  have  the  nerve  to  hold  on  to 
their  stock,  and  risk  the  possibilities  for  much  lower 
prices,  which  seem  inevitable.  It  mav  be  that  they 
are  in  hopes  that  a  clean  sweep  will  be  made  in  the 
present  unpopular  management,  which,  if  main- 
tained, will  certainly  end  in  the  organization  of  a 
new  company,  which  would  have  little  difficulty  as 
things  are  going  of  raising  the  necessary  money  for 
a  new  and  effective  plant  bv  public  subscription.  Tt 
is  coming  to  this  prettv  rapidly,  and  if  the  people  in- 
terested in  the  late  bond  inflation  attempt  to  force 
the  present  high-salaried  officials  upon  an  already 
outraged  community,  thev  will  succeed  in  toppling 
their  already  tottering  edifice  over  their  ears  in 
quicker  time  than  perhaps  they  may  imagine. 

The  stock  market  on  Pine 
Pine-St.  Market  street  rules  steadv,  with  fluc- 
tuations enough  in  the  North- 
end  shares  to  enable  an  operator  to  pick  up  a  few  dol- 
lars during  the  week.  Preparations  are  now  being 
made  to  open  up  the  2350  level  of  the  Con.-Cal. -Vir- 
ginia mine,  but  work  has  been  slow  recently,  owing 
to  changes  going  on  at  the  C.  &  C.  shaft,  caused  by 
the  installation  of  a  new  blower  for  the  Ophir.  Latest 
news  from  that  property  is  to  the  effect  that  the  de- 
velopment of  ore  of  good  grade  continues,  and  the 
shipments  substantiate  the  statements  made  of  min- 
ing conditions.  At  the  Andes  mine  work  on  the 
shaft  is  about  completed,  and  an  increase  can  be  ex- 
pected in  the  ore  yield  from  this  time  forward.  Work- 
is  going  on  to  good  advantage  in  other  quarters 
along  the  lode,  and  the  future  in  general  promises 
well. 

A  correspondent  who  seems  pretty 
Bad  Gas  and     well  at  home  with  the  inside  run- 
Economy,        ning  of  the  S.  F.  Gas  and  Electric 
Company,  vents  his  wrath  upon  the 
Lawless-Bourne   administration    for   the    manner   in 
which  they  have  swung  the  axe  and  the  decapitation 
which  has  resulted  among  the  employees  of  the  com- 


February   6.    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


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nerly  connected  with  the  Ptcifii 

mpany,   under    Mr 
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their  fellow  em| 

workmen  in  the  pr>  '-capitalized  institi 

They  are  Mid  t"  have  done  their  work  faithful! 

under  the  new  control,  and  wei 
no  way  responsible  for  the  opinions  and  utter 
of  Mr.  Miller.  Possibly  the  writer  has  some  gt 
(or  complaint  in  the  matter,  viewed  from  the 
standard  of  morality  which  ruled  in  \ears  gone  by, 
when  a  man  stood  upon  his  own  behavior  and  was 
not  held  responsible  for  the  action  of  others  or  liable 
to  discharge  on  account  of  a  personal  antipathy  upon 
the  part  of  an  employer  to  a  member  of  the  firm  lie 
worked  for  at  some  prior  period.  Judging  from  all 
that  is  said  of  the  new  combine  and  the  quality  of 
the  gas  on  the  streets  at  night,  which  they  have  the 
gall  to  ask  the  city  to  pay  for.  it  would  he  idle  work 
to  expect  any  consideration  for  the  plain,  ordinary 
deck-hands,  when  high  salaries  have  to  be  main- 
tained for  the  favored  few.  The  explanation  for 
the  discharge  of  these  P.  G.  Improvement  Companv's 
employees  would  naturally  be  accounted  for  on  the 
ground  of  an  attempt  to  reduce  operating  expenses, 
although  effective  men  in  the  works,  judging  from 
the  quality  of  the  output,  cannot  be  spared  to  the 
same  advantage  as  the  high-priced  gentility  now  oc- 
cupying upholstered  seats  in  the  head  office.  It  will 
be  hoped  that  the  Supervisors  will  look  into  the 
question  of  the  company's  reduction  of  expenses  as 
to  its  bearing,  if  any,  upon  the  miserable  quality  of 
the  gas  now  furnished,  at  what  are  claimed  to  be  ex- 
tortionate rates  by  unfortunate  citizens  forced  to  do 
business  with  this  miserably  disposed  concern. 

Some  time  ago  the  News  Letter 
A  Paradise  remarked,  in  face  of  the  impudent 
for  Thieves,  effrontery  of  a  set  of  wild-cat  pro- 
moters, who  flaunted  their  fraudu- 
lent wares  in  the  most  bare-faced  manner  in  the  col- 
umns of  Eastern  papers  and  magazines  which  were 
ready  to  rob  their  readers  for  the  sake  of  a  little 
dirty  money,  that  it  was  only  necessary  to  give  the 
thieving  scalywags  rope  enough  and  they  would 
hang  themselves.  The  sheep  have  now  turned  on  the 
wolves,  and  from  all  over  the  country  comes  the 
news  of  prosecutions  of  swindlers  who,  in  other 
lands,  where  justice  acts  without  fear  or  favor,  would 
have  been  convicted  and  jailed  months  ago.  Whit- 
aker  Wright,  had  he  not  taken  the  law  into  his  own 
hands,  would  have  stepped  from  the  dock,  when 
convicted  and  sentenced  after  a  trial  which  lasted  a 
few  days,  into  his  striped  suit  and  a  convict  prison  ; 
here  time  is  given  for  appeal  after  appeal  to 
a  higher  court  to  grow  old  in  years,  while  witnesses 
drop  out  of  sight  by  removal  from  one  locality  to  an- 
other or  by  death.  A  case  was  mentioned  in  the 
papers  this  week  of  a  man  convicted  of  stealing  $80, 
who  had  been  confined  in  jail  for  six  years  pending  a 
decision  upon  appeals  as  to  what  shall  be  done.  An- 
other item,  in  announcing  the  fact  that  the  appeals  of 
no  less  than  seven  murderers,  many  of  them  taken 
red-handed,  had  just  been  presented  to  the  Supreme 
Court,  concludes  with  the  edifying  remark  that 
many  months  must  elapse  before  action  will  be 
taken  upon  any  of  their  cases.  When  capital  crimes 
•  are  treated  in  this  careless  manner,  what  can  be  ex- 
pected in  the  way  of  punishment  for  plain,  ordinary 
theft.  And  yet  we  will  persist  in  vaunting  an  ad- 
vanced civilization  over  and  above  all  the  enlight- 
ened sections  of  the  globe. 

L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont- 
gomery street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters. 


AN    INSPECTOR    OF    ELEVATORS. 


The   News  Letter  hat   no  intention  'i"g 

the  .  •  another  chance  lo  graft     \n  In 

at   hand   to  prevent   a   terrible  accident.      It   is  01 

ils   in   municipal   misgoverament  that 
no  protection  i-  offi  •   v.  ho  .ire  compelli 

travel  in  1  A  municipal  Inspector  of  Eleva- 

should  not  hi-  selected  in  the  same  uav  that 
other  inspectorships  are  Selected,  Ibis  officer 
should  he  well  paid,  and  he  should  be  a  thoroughly 
competent  man,  well  versed  in  mechanics  and  in 
knowledge  of  elevator  machinery  particularly.  This 
inspector  should  not  receive  the  appointment  as  a 
political  reward.  He  should  not  be  one  of  ibose  that 
hang  around  the  Mayor's  office  with  dripping  fangs 
waiting  to  pounce  On  anything  that  ofl 

He  should  receive  bis  appointment  from  the  three 
parties  in  interest — the  public,  as  representee!  by  the 
city  authorities,  in  the  person  of  the  Mayor;  a  dele- 
gate from  the  accident  insurance  companies,  and  a 
third  commissioner  from  the  makers  of  elevators. 
The  insurance  companies  and  tin-  elevator  men  are 
interested  in  seeing  a  thoroughly  honest  man  ap- 
pointed, as  any  accident  means  damage  suits  and 
1  — ,  and  the  authorities  should  see  that  politics  cut 
no  figure  whatever.  Let  us  have  an  Inspector  of 
Elevators,  and  the  quicker   the  better. 

ALVIN2A  HAYWARD. 
That  rugged,  stalwart  figure  in  finance  and  mining, 
Alvinza  Hayward,  is  bending  to  the  blast  of  age.  He 
is  said  to  be  stricken  with  a  fatal  paralysis.  Those 
who  know  him  at  close  range  credit  him  with  a  kind- 
ly, cheerful  personality.  At  the  San  Mateo  home 
there  will  be  deep  grief  should  he  die,  and  that  grief 
will  extend  to  the  quail,  the  peacocks  and  the  deer, 
who  will  wait,  day  after  day,  for  the  sight  of  the 
kindly,  tall  old  man's  outstretched  hand  with  food. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 

factory  for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Use 
Briquettes  for  cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at 
least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co., 
South  95,  and  your  order  will  receive  prompt  attention. 


3    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO     NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  check  or  money  order  for  as  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  $100.  Price  par 
for  $5.uocertiilcates.    The  price  may  advance  any  day. 

The  stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  $5.00  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  $22  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance  of 
3io  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Tne  Marconi  system  is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Ellison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.  Edison. 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 
Company. 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CR0SSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa. ;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. ;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Capital.  Surplus  and  Undivided 
Profits, 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER.  February    6,    1904. 

A  YELLOW   LIE  THAT   HURT   DEEPLY. 

When  the  Examiner,  some  three  months  ago,  with- 
out investigation,  published  an  account  of  the  death 
of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Saunders,  the  well-loved  veteran 
actress,  it  brought  many  troubled,  uncertain  days 
to  the  dear  little  old  lady  whose  life  is  fluttering  out 
n  her  little  apartment  in  Capp  street.    As  she  is  still 


!$I3,500,000 


Homer  S.  King.  President:  F.  L.  Llpman.  Cashier;  Frank  B 
King.  Assistant  Cashier:  Jno.   E.   Miles.   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New    York;    Salt   Lake.   Utah;    Portland,    Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savinqs  Union 

532  California  St..  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B  POND.  President:  W.  C.  B.  DeFREMERY.  ROBERT 
WATT.  Vice-Presidents:  I.OVELL  WHITE.  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH.    Assistant   Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond.  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery.  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Bartn.  C.  O.  G.  Miller.  Fred  H. 
Beaver.    William   A.   Magee.   Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country  . 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.   m.    to  3  p.   m.     Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits,    December   31.    1903    $33,232,903 

Guarantee    Capital.    Paid-up     1,000.000 

Reserve    and    Contingent    Funas    899,616 

Mutual  Savinas  Bank  »f  san  rnnoi«» 

710  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee   Capital    $1,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   500,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President:  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent: GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice- 
President:   C.    B.    HOBSON.   Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan.  S.  G.  Murphy.  John  A.  hooper, 
James  Morntt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreekels,   James   M.   McDonald.   Charles   Holbrook. 

Interest   paid  on    deposits.     Loans   on    approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German  Savinqs  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  526  CALIFORNIA   STREET.   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    £3,428.7151-61 

Capital   Actually  Paid-up   in   Cash    1.000, 000.00 

Deposits.    Dec.  31.   1903   30.049.491.18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel  Meyer:  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt.  Emil  Rohte.  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt:  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;  General  Attorney.  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established   In   1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301    California    Street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Subscribed    capital    J15.ooo.ooo.oi 

Paid-in     Capital     3,000,000.00 

Profit    and    Reserve    Fund     450,000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,   President;  William   Corbln,    Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 


Internotional  Banking  Corporation 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus   $7,894,400 

Capital    and    Surplus   Authorized    10,000,000.00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer.  president;  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee.  General  Manager;  William  H.  Maclntyre. 
Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico.  Manila, 
Hong  Kong.  Yokohama.   Shanghai,   Singapore. 

AGENCIES — Bombay.  Calcutta.  Madras.  Penang,  Rangoon. 
Colombo.  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow,  Tientsin.  Tansul,  Anping, 
Bakan.  Moil,  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang,  Bou- 
rabaya,   and   all   parts   of   Europe. 

SAN   FRANCISCO   BRANCH— 32-34  Sansome   Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposit  lsued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  .throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE   INVITED. 

F.  E.  BECK,  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWICK,  JR..  Ast.  Mgr 


a  notable  figure  in  the  histrionic  world,  the  an- 
nouncement of  her  death  was  promptly  sent  East 
by  the  Asssociated  Press.  Denial  was  made  of  the 
statement,  but  not  by  the  Examiner.  At  any  rate, 
the  truth  about  Mrs.  Saunders  did  not  travel  upon 
the  heels  of  the  false  report  in  time  to  undo  the  mis- 
chief wrought. 

The  first  statement  reached  Joe  Jefferson,  Mrs. 
Saunders'  cousin,  who  with  characteristic  generosity 
has,  for  many  years,  sent  a  check  to  her,  which  has 
meant  not  extravagances,  but  necessities,  for  the 
charming  old  lady.  He  wondered,  perhaps,  that  no 
personal  word  had  been  sent  him  by  those  who  must 
know  of  their  relations,  but  the  check  did  not  come, 
and  worry  was  added  to  the  helpless  days.  Proud 
in  the  extreme,  Mrs.  Saunders  would  not  sanction 
any  letter-writing,  because  .she  feared  that  at  last 
the  day  had  come  when  Cousin  Joe  regarded  her  as  a 
burden,  no  longer  to  be  borne.  Friends  in  San  Fran- 
cisco saw  to  it  that  Mrs.  Saunders  did  not  need  for 
anything,  but  the  sorrow  that  comes  of  apparent 
neglect  was  a  constant  one.  Finally  friends  wrote 
and  soon  Joe  Jefferson  knew  that  his  beloved  little 
cousin  was  still  alive,  and  the  check  came  immedi- 
ately. As  there  must  always  be  a  nurse  now  for  the 
invalid,  the  money  was  never  more  needed. 

If  Mrs.  Saunders  had  been  wise  in  the  ways  of 
real  estate  and  building  corporations,  she  would  not 
have  been  in  need  in  her  last  years  of  the  bounty  of 
any  one.  About  fifteen  years  ago  she  had  to  walk- 
out of  the  home  for  which  she  had  worked  so  long. 
She  did  not  understand,  that  was  all.  When  she 
made  her  payments  on  the  house,  she  thought  that 
she  was  paving  on  the  full  amount.  Instead  of  that, 
after  the  ways  .if  such  things,  there  was  a  mortgage 
standing;  she  had  been  paying  off  on  one-half  the 
purchase  amount,  and  interest  on  the  remainder. 
It  was  too  late  then  to  save  her  home.  Her  work- 
ing days  were  over.  Fifty  years  on  the  stage  had 
made  up  the  sum  of  them.  That  chapter  was  closed. 
Mrs.  Saunders  sorrowfully  walked  out  of  the  shelter 
for  which  she  had  worked  and  saved.  Since  that 
time  she  has  been  where  she  is  now.  Joe  Jefferson 
and  a  few  others  have  contributed  cheerfully. 
Friends  have  kept  the  larder  from  being  bare;  they 
have  gone  religiously  to  her  for  the  kindly  minis- 
trations, and  in  turn  she  has  been  a  benediction  upon 
every  life  that  has  touched  hers.  Now  she  is  85, 
helpless,  physically,  hut  mentally  a  sweet  companion. 
The  tree  is  still  green  at  the  top. 


ON  PLEASURE  BENT. 
It  is  becoming  quite  the  fashion  for  business  men 
and  their  families  to  take  a  trip  to  San  Jose  for  sur- 
cease from  business  cares.  The  Livery  and  Hack 
Company,  at  18  San  Fernando  street,  will  furnish 
excellent  and  well-informed  drivers  to  tour  parties 
in  and  about  the  Garden  City. 

The  epicure  knows   that   an  oyster  should   be  eaten 

as  near  the  oyster  bed  as  possible,  and  that  the  least  pos- 
sible time  should  ensue  between  the  time  the  oyster  is 
"tonged"  to  the  minute  of  consumption.  Moraghan's  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  M'arket  is  world  famed  as  the  place 
best  to  secure  the  succulent  bivalve.  The  "chef"  is  pre- 
eminent as  a  master  of  the  art  of  cookery,  and  no  one  seek- 
ing satisfaction  in  oysters  will  ever  do  aught  hut  praise 
Moraghan's. 


February   6.    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


it 


CAN   THE   ETHIOPIAN   CHANGE  HIS  SKIN? 

"Can  the  Ethiopian  change  his  skin 

which  tin-  port  propounded  in  the  full 
that  the  answer  i>  necessarily  in  the  1 

in  .1  la i r  wa  mint   in  the  affiri 

with  the  help  of  radium,  which,  n  one  ma] 
our  scientific  folk,  appears  t"  be  the  long  losl   uni- 

il  cure,  and  solvent  for  all  the  troubh 
afflict  our  mortal  state.     A  young  man  at  the  Univcr- 

California   is   engaged   in   making  a   ni 
white  by   subjecting  him   to  the   purifying    ra; 
this   modern   wonder-worker,   and   an    Eastern 
patch  tells  us  that  the  attention  of  the  scientific  world 
will  be  fixed  on  South  Bend  (Ind.)  during  the  next 
few    month.-    because    a    physician    of    thai    town — 
hitherto  not  suspected  of  scientific  activity— is 
gaged  in  working  out  a  scheme  to  prevent  pigmen- 
tation of  the  negro  babies  of  the  future. 

What  it  the  race  question  that  has  perplexed  so 
many  generations  of  statesmen  should  be  solved  b) 
the  simple  process  of  whitewashing.  If  the  Ethio- 
pian change  his  skin,  shall  he  therefore  live  up  to 
the  obligations  of  his  new  color?  The  possibilities 
of  contusion  that  may  result  from  the  prevalence  of 
the  whitened  negro  are  alarming.  <  >r  if  the  trans- 
formation should  be  incomplete,  and  we  should  be 
confronted  with  a  breed  of  speckled  niggers,  that 
possibility  seems  to  add  a  new  terror  to  that  con- 
dition which  the  newspapers  are  pleased  to  describe 
as  the   "  complexity  of  modern  life." 

Hitherto  the  efforts  to  civilize  the  negro  have  been 
mostly  confined  to  the  spread  of  whiskey  and  mis- 
sionaries. The  work  of  neither  of  these  agents  lias 
met  with  any  very  gratifying  success.  It  is  up  to 
the  scientists  now  to  try  what  they  can  do  with  their 
chemical   whitewash   brush. 


BANKING. 


IMPORTANT    ANNOUNCEMENT. 

Mr.  Paul  Gerson  begs  to  state  that  in  response  to 
numerous  requests  he  will  on  January  1st  open  a 
Juvenile  Department  in  connection  with  his  School 
of  Acting,  and  has  secured  the  services  of  a  teacher 
of  experience  specially  qualified  for  this  work,  Miss 
Lillian  E.  Muscio.  One  of  the  features  of  the  depart- 
ment will  be  a  dancing  class  in  charge  of  Signora 
Matildita.  In  order  that  each  one  may  have  his  or 
her  proper  time  and  attention,  the  class  will  be  lim- 
ited to  twenty-five.  Mr.  Gerson  will  give  his  per- 
sonal attention  to  every  pupil.  For  terms,  etcv  call 
or  address  the  Juvenile  Department  of  the  Paul  Ger- 
son School  of  Acting,  Native  Sons'  Building,  414 
Mason  street.  The  fourth  of  the  series  of  matinee 
performances  by  students  at  Paul  Gerson's  School 
of  Acting  will  take  place  at  the  California  Theatre 
on  Friday  afternoon,  February  12th.  A  brilliant  pro- 
gramme will  be  presented.  The  school  will  be  as- 
sisted by  the  San  Francisco  Conservatory  of  Music, 
this  institution  hereafter  joining  its  artistic  interests 
with  the  School  of  Acting. 

The  latest  style  in  shirts   may  be   found   at  John  W.   Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St..   San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  K.000,000.     Paid-up  Capital  and  Rescrve.ETA 

Authorized   Capital    J3.000.000 

Paid-up   capital   and  Reserve    $1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor.  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes.  President:  Horace  L.  Hill.  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


The  San  Francisco  National  Book 


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ranbrook. 
Nelson, 


Tbe  Caoadiarj  Bank  of  Commerce 

with   which   Is  amalgamated   the   Hank  of   British   Columbia 
,.   ...  HEAD 

Paid-up  capital.  Jis.?uo.uoo  erva  Fund.  J3.000.000 

'\*:.  lurces,  over  J.iu»a.uO0 

„      „     ,  HON.    GEORGE    A.    i  OX.    President. 

U.   K.   Walker.  General   Manager      Alex.   Laird.   Asst.   Oen.    Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 00    Lombard    St.    I 
NEW    YORK    OFFICE-  16    Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— AUIn,      Cr 
enwood,     Kamloops.    Ladysml.n.    Nanalmo. 
NVw    Westminster,    Vancouver   and    VI,  I 
Also    n    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     In 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    Whin-    Horse. 
IN   UNITE.     STATES— Portland.  Seattle  anu  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Manitoba,    N.    W.    Territories,   and    Eastern   (a 
BANKERS    I.N    LONDON— The    Rank   of  England,   the   Bank   of 
Scotland.  Lloyds  Rank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS    IN    CHICAGO— The   Northern  Trust  Co. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS-The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San    FKaNui!ii.u    UrMt»e 

325  California  Street. 

A.    KA1NS.    Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  BanK 

N     W.    COR.    SANSOME   AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital.    S2.500.000  Paid-up    Capital,    J2.oo0.000 

Reserve  Fund,  Jl.  100,000 
Head  Office— 10  Threadneedle  St..  London.  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank.  Limited.  No.  10  Wall  street.  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie.  17  Boulevard  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers" 
credits  issued. 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM.  Manager;  ...  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;   R.   ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  flnglo-Californian  BaQk,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin   Friars.   London.   E.   C. 

Capital  Authorized J6, 000.000.00       Paid   up   Jl. 500,000 

Subscribed 3.000,000       Reserve    Fund     700.000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and   bullion. 

IGN.  STBINHART,  P.  N.  LILlENTHAL,  Managers. 


Ll..,itrd 


Security  Savings  BanK 

222   Montgomery   St.,    Mills   Building 
INTEREST  PAID  ON   DEPOE.-o.     LOANS   MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Bclawln,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. 

4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L.  Association 

Pays  i  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  tioo  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually, 

610    CALIFORNIA    STREET,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

^f^dCaPital $8,000,000 

1.000.000 

200.000 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property-Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A.  A.  Watkins.  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop.  Vice-President,  Bank  of  California. . .  .Vice-President 

S.Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &,  L.  Association. 

_  .Portland....- Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  .Etna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S    F 

^       „  T8?IiD^S  Union Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd,  Banker.  Portland,  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab.  Attorney-at-law Attorney 

Walter K.  Smith .'..'.'.'..Cashier 


Paid  in  Capital.. 
Guarantee  Capital. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER 


February   6,    1904. 


1904  WINTON  TOURING  CAR 


Sample  1904  Winton  just  received.  Orders  now 
taken  for  two  weeks'  delivery  on  same.  Several 
hundred  sold  last  week  in  New  York  at  National 
Automobile  Show.  Delay  in  placing  your  or- 
der means  a  very  material  delay  in  the  receipt  of 
a  car.  Call  in  and  examine  sample  and  ride  in 
the    foremost    up-to-date    American    automobile. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 


901-925  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


Sao  Francisco,  Cal. 


Sole  agents  Cor  the  following  standard  machines 

Olds  Motor  "Works. 

"Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 

Locomobile  Co-,  of  America. 

The  J-  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 

Baker  Electric  Motor  Vehicle  Company- 

Demmerle     &    Co— Leather     Clothing 

WE    ARE    IN     OUR     NEW    QUARTERS 


THE    MILE    A    MINUTE    CAR 


WILL     ARRIVE    THIS     WEEK 

ON    EXHIBIT    SATURDAY 

The  National  Automobile  Co. 

134    GOLDEN    GATE    AVE. 

AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 2SS  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Western  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


By   The    autocrank 

The  automobile  is  taking  a  new  place  in  the  world. 
It  is  assuming  a  position  that  will  command  the  at- 
tention of  business  men  not  alone  in  the  line  of  manu- 
facturing this  new  mode  of  conveyance,  but  in  every 
branch  of  trade  where  distance  must  be  covered  out- 
side of  the  channels  controlled  by  the  railroads.  The 
saving  of  time  traveling  from  one  place  to  another 
within  the  confines  of  the  business  world  is  a  factor 
which  everyone  who  has  large  commercial  interests 
at  stake  must  consider. 

Official  figures  show  that  there  are  3,039  purely 
commercial  automobiles  used  in  France,  against  234 
three  years  ago,  the  greatest  increase  being  in  the 
last  year. 

Here  we  have  the  key  to  a  new  situation — the 
unqualified  recognition  of  the  automobile.  The  op- 
position that  has  been  met  with  in  the  past  must 
now  fade  away.  It  was  but  the  other  day  that  I 
was  talking  with  a  member  of  a  firm  which  at  the 
present  time  uses  twelve  buggies.  He  said :  "We 
are  seriously  considering  replacing  our  horses  with 
runabout  automobiles.  We  know  that  we  will  save 
over  a  thousand  dollars  in  keep  alone,  not  to  men- 
tion the  immeasurable  saving  there  will  be  made 
in  time.  I  think  it  will  easily  double  the  working 
capacity  of  our  force.  This  not  alone  effects  a  sav- 
ing in  salaries,  but  concentrates  our  business  so  that 
the  responsible  heads  of  departments  are  able  to 
keep  in  closer  touch  with  our  trade.  You  can  easily 
see  what  that  means  to  us.  The  only  thing  that  pre- 
vents us  making  the  change  at  once  is  doubt  as  to 
whether  the  modern  vehicle  is  to  be  depended  upon ; 
whether  it  will  always  be  there  when  we  want  it. 
If  the  automobile  can  answer  the  question  satis- 
factorily, we  will  make  the  change." 

Here,  then,  right  at  our  own  doors,  we  see  what 
the  commercial  automobile  means.  When  it  once 
becomes  a  conveyance  in  business,  all  opposition  to 
it  will  cease,  and  its  rights  will  be  recognized  by  all 
legislative  bodies.  There  will  be  no  more  passing 
of  ordinances  to  bar  its  advancement.  It  will  cease 
to  be  a  thing  purely  of  pleasure. 
*  *  * 

That  the  automobile  is  past  the  experimental 
stage  is  a  question  that  has  already  been  settled. 
The  manufacturers  know  just  what  may  be  expected 
of  their  vehicles  and  can  in  cases  of  standard  makes 
guarantee  satisfaction.  The  present  trouble  is  not 
caused  so  much  by  defective  machines  as  it  is  by 
the  inexperience  of  the  handlers  and  care-takers. 
It  is,  to  my  mind,  more  surprising  that  the  average 
machine  runs  as  well  as  it  does.  Just  compare  the 
care  that  the  average  automobile  gets  with  that  of 
the  locomotive  or  engine  on  a  vessel.  Most  of  the 
bearings  and  parts  of  a  locomotive  or  engine  are 
more  massive  than  those  of  an  automobile,  and  are 
better  able  to  stand  the  wear  and  tear  of  travel 
than  the  delicate  parts  of  the  modern  chariot,  but 
you  do  not  find  the  railroad  officials  allowing  their 
engines  to  run  a  whole  week  without  a  thorough 
cleaning  or  being  thoroughly  tested  for  a  loose  bolt 
or  screw.  The  ordinary  locomotive  travels  on  an 
average  about  thirty  miles  per  hour  when  under  way 
on  smooth  rails,  while  the  average  automobile  make's 


February   6,    1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    I.K  ; 


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111  oil  the  lornniotn  c,  ntxl  yd 

icr  >hoci 

re,  than  the  latter. 

The  makers  from  nine  t..  time  pub! 
from  customers  relativi 

machines  give,  an.i   how   long  thq    run   without 
pairing.     In  most  01  tli.  ■  will  lie  found  th.it 

the   testimonials   come   from    those   who  under 
machinery. 

What   is  needed   in   every   automobile  center  is  a 
1   where  owners   and   handlers   may   be   taught 
all  that  there  is  pertaining  to  the  workings  of  an  au- 
tomobile engine. 

Until  that  time,  the  home  offices  of  the  different 
makes  should  insist  that  all  the  branch  officers 
representatives  should  report  all  and  every  kind  of 
repairs  to  the  machines,  and  give  the  cause  of  mis- 
hap.  These  data  should  then  lie  compiled  and 
to  those  who  have  purchased  from  them.  It  will  re- 
duce the  income  from  the  machine  shop,  but  the 
difference  will  be  made  up  in  the  increased  sales. 
for  many  who  are  not  convinced  that  the  experi- 
mental stage  is  past  will  have  better  examples  before 
them  than  are  to  be  seen  at  the  present  time. 

*  *  * 

The  Automobile  Club  of  California  is  seriously 
considering  a  meet  to  be  held  in  this  city  next  May. 
The  meet  last  year  was  a  great  success  for  the  first 
attempt,  Barney  Oldfield,  of  course,  being  the  chief 
attraction,  but  it  was  easily  seen  that  the  other 
events  would  not  have  held  the  public  a  second  time. 
In  the  coming  event  the  officers  of  the  club  will 
have  to  supply  more  than  one  man  of  the  calibre  of 
Oldfield  if  they  expect  the  gate  receipts  to  be  a  suc- 
cess. Another  feature  that  should  receive  attention 
this  year  is  the  racing  of  touring  cars.  The  two 
special  events  on  the  last  day,  the  contest  of  the  Win- 
ton  cars  and  the  Autocars,  brought  out  more  en- 
thusiasm from  the  visiting  public  than  any  of  the 
other  events  outside  of  those  in  which  Oldfield  took 
part.  There  ig  nothing  gained  by  trying  to  convert 
touring  cars  into  racers  and  then  sending  them  off 
from  scratch.  The  classifying  of  races,  by  weight 
only,  is  not  a  satisfactory  way.  It  is  as  unequal 
and  as  uninteresting  as  trying  to  race  a  cruising 
yacht  with  racing  canvas  against  a  racing  machine 
without  time  allowance. 

What  would  horse  racing  be  if  it  were  not  for  the 
weight  handicap.  If  the  trade  will  strip  down  its 
'touring  cars  to  try  and  make  racers  and  the  meet 
officials  will  insist  on  giving  the  events,  then  let  a 
handicap  be  devised  that  will  not  only  take  weight 
into  consideration,  but  also  horse-power  and  every 
other  factor  of  speed.  Then,  and  then  only,  will  you 
have  contests  that  will  not  be  processions  and  fin- 
ishes that  will  bring  the  people  to  their  feet  in  the 

grand  stand. 

*  *  * 

When  Barney  Oldfield  was  in  the  city  last  fall  he 
asked  for  a  straight-away  piece  of  ground  three  miles 
long,  as  he  wanted  to  make  a  world's  record  for  the 
mile.  There  was  not  a  piece  of  '  roadway  in  the 
vicinity  of  San  Francisco  on  which  he  would  attempt 
to  open  up  the  Bullet  No.  2.  In  Los  Angeles  he  re- 
peated the  request,  and  was  unable  to  find  what 
he  wanted;  but  the  request  fell  on  fertile  soil,  for  the 
members  of  the  Automobile  Club  will  start  within 
the  next  thirty  days  one  of  the  finest  speedways  in 
the  world.  It  will  be  seven  and  one-half  miles  long, 
with  only  a  drop  of  fifteen  feet  in  the  whole  distance. 


which  t.> 
It  will  run  from  1  t,, 


TheOldsmobile 


The  Aral  successful   nutoniol  lie 

.;'.  WOS  made  in    OUt  f.i<-t<iry 

in  is*;-  BnildinK  on  this  founda- 
tion, the  experience  of  each  suc- 
ceeding year  1ms  brouirhr  thi 
mobileto  a  higher  standard  of  ex- 
oellence,unl  ii  to-day  It  stands  alone 
as  the  world's  standard  runabout. 
■  11  uea  reel  selling  agent*  i  >r 
writ-'  direct  for  full  Lnli irmal  ion 
and  booklet  to  Dept.  Lfl 

OLDS  MOTOR  WORKS 
DETROIT,    MICH.     U.    *.    a. 

Mem  her 'if  the  Association  of  Li- 

censed  Automobile  Manufacturers 

1 ,(  h  JAL  A(  i  ENTS— Pioneer  Auio  Co.,  901 

Golden  Gate  Ave,  Sun  Francisco.  Calif 

Oldsmobile  Company,   243  West  6th  St 

I. us  Angeles,  Calif. 


Have   you  -seen   the 

Buckboard? 

The  talk  of  the  town 

Best     Automohi'e     at 
any  priee.    d-sly 


$425 


ON  KXniBIT 


Stong— Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

SUNSET  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 

1814  MARKET  STREET,  SAN   FRANCISCO 


18  Fell  Street. 


ELECTRJC, 
GASOLINE 

CARS 

A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley 

(Near  Market)  Tel.  South  394 


CENTURY 


-PBOJU'T    SEEVICE- 

ELECTRIC 


COHPANY 


Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

Mouse  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BUSH  3S2 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February   6,    1904. 


Playa  del  Rev. 

Los  Angeles  has  the  track  record,  and  it  looks 
as  if  it  would  also  take  the  record  for  the  straight- 
away sprints. 

W.  C.  Gliddon  of  Fruitvale  toured  to  San  Jose 
last  Sundav.  During  the  day  he  covered  over  a  hun- 
dred miles,  which  is  the  longest  distance  he  has 
traveled  in  his  new  White  car. 

John  H.  Spring  was  another  of  the  Fruitvale  au- 
tomobilists  who  was  on  the  highway  Sunday.  He 
made  the  trip  to  Irvington  and  return  in  his  White 
touring  car. 

John  D.  Spreckels  had  both  of  his  White  touring 
cars  out  last  Sunday.  Miss  Grace  Spreckels  handled 
one  of  the  machines,  while  the  Commodore  operated 
the  other.  Among  Mr.  Spreckels'  guests  on  the  trip 
to  San  Jose  and  return  were  Miss  Lillie  Spreckels, 
Miss  Dolbeer,  Eugene  Murphy,  Dr.  Zeile  and 
brother. 

Manager  Hawkins,  of  the  White  Company,  has 
just  returned  from  the  New  York  automobile  show. 
He  states  that  the  show  was  a  great  success  and 
most  interesting,  but  there  was  nothing  remarkably 
new  to  be  seen.  He  reports  that  the  White  Com- 
pany made  the  most  sales. 

F.  A.  Moore  of  San  Rafael  is  one  of  the  latest 
purchasers  of  a  ^\'hite  touring  car. 

Douglas  Watson  made  a  trip  to  San  Jose  last  Sun- 
day in  his  new  St.  Louis  touring  car. 

C.  S.  Middleton  and  wife  are  back  from  the  New 
York  show.  They  had  a  most  delightful  time  and 
enjoyed  everything  but  the  weather,  which  hastened 
their  return  to  California. 

Mrs.  J.  A.  Marsh  ran  her  Pierce-Arrow  touring 
car  to  San  Jose  last  Sunday.  On  the  trip  home 
she  had  the  pleasure  of  passing  every  machine  on 
the  road. 

Five  Winton  touring  cars  made  the  century  run  to 
San  Jose  and  return  last  Sunday.  The  owners  who 
took  the  ride  were  Colonel  Lally,  Mr.  Spieker,  Geo, 
Hammond,  Robert  White  and  Richard  Mier. 

Mr.  F.  M.  Stewart  toured  the  Berkeley  Hills  in  liis 
Winton  last  Sunday. 

Colonel  Lally,  George  Hammond,  William  Rogen, 
and  Parker  Whitney  have  just  received  their  new 
Winton  touring  cars. 

Mr.  I1.  T.  Moore,  of  Elmira.  has  just  purchased  a 
Stevens-Duryea  from  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Com- 
pany. He  made  the  trip  to  his  home  in  quick  time 
last   week. 

Twelve  orders  for  the  new  Oldsmobile  touring  car 
have  been   received  by  the   Pioneer  Automobile  Co. 

Dr.  A.  H.  Giannini  has  placed  an  order  for  an  Olds- 
mobile  touring  car. 

May  Teubrock,  John  Henshaw,  Kathryn  Beres- 
ford,  of  the  "Chinese  Honeymoon"  Company,  were 
out  with  a  part}'  of  friends  in  two  Toledo  touring  cirs 
for  a  drive  through  the  Presidio  and  the  Park  last 
Sunday  and  reported  a  very  pleasant  drive. 

The  National  Automobile  Company  report  that 
they  have  two  cars  of  two-cylinder  Knox  (water- 
less touring  cars  on  the  road,  which  they  expect  to 
receive  the  early  part  of  next  week. 

Mr.  E.  D.  Merchant,  who  was  one  of  the  first  in 
this  city  to  purchase  a  four-cylinder  Pope-Toledo 
I  "Mile-a-Minute")  touring  car,  expects  to  have  his 
heart  gladdened  by  the  receipt  of  his  car  by  the 
time  this  goes  to  press. 

W.  H.  Talbot  was  seen  in  the  Park  on  Sunday  last 
in  his  Pope-Robinson  touring  car,  which  he  brought 
from  the  East  some  short  time  ago. 

W.  K.  Knowles  and  a  party  of  friends  went  to  San 


Jose  on  last  Sunday  in  his  Toledo  touring  car,  and 
report  the  roads  in  fine  condition,  and  that  they  had 
a   very   enjoyable  time. 

The  National  Automobile  Company  will  have  sev- 
eral Pope-Toledo  cars  on  exhibition  at  their  show- 
rooms, 134  Golden  Gate  avenue,  immediately  upon 
their  arrival. 


One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

good  luncheon.  There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  and  refreshment  alter 
the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
ice-cream  and  pastry — always  the  best,  and  their  prompt- 
ness can  be  depended  upon. 


—     WILL     BE     HERE     SHORTLY     — 

THE    NEW    19  04 — Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  '04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST.  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  ate  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR   CO. 


49    CITY    HALL    AV£. 


SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  (French)  $2,650. 

1.    It  has  a  French  engine  and  is  essentially  a  French  ear. 

2-  The  manufacturer  in  France  pays  a  revenue  on  each  horse 
power  of  engine,  consequently  all  French  engines  arc  underated. 
The  Arrow  Touring  Car  iu  H.  1'.  French  will  develop  25  H-  P. 
American  standard. 

3<  A  borse  power  tor  each  76  pounds  weight.  It  has  lightness 
and  si  rength.    Easy  on  tires. 

MOBILE    CARRIAGE    CO.      San  Francisco. 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  QILLETT.  Prop. 

2910      SAN     ISUUNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Cap  MC 


February  6,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


■ 


THE  PASSING  OF  LOVE. 

By  Tl  lltao 

Holt)    Lor«  a  little  day  and   that   Is   wall; 

Hold  l-ove  an  hour  and  mat  is  better  still- 
It  takes  not  long  for  Love  hi.*  tweets  to  toll. 

Bttter   the  afterword   h--   Rives   to   fill 

b'nc  years  and  when   his  saddened  face 

lost   Joy— the    pulse's    olden    thrill. 

Why    bid    him    stay,    a    sorrow    In    the    plfl 

The  best  of  him  was  ours   too  long  ago— 
ighter  and  the  pleasure  and   the  grace. 

there  is  no  sweet  thing  left  for  us  t«»  know. 

Loatag    the   substance,    shall    we   hold    a   ghoc 
Losing  a  friend,  must  we  retain  a  foe? 

Why    f.»r   a    guest    unthankful    play    the    host? 

be  door  wide  and   toll   the  passing  bell; 
He  takes  not  from  us  what  we  prize  the  most. 

Hold    Love  a  little  day  and   that  Is  well; 

Hold  Love  an  hour  and  that  is  better  still— 
It  takes  not  long  for  Love  his  sweets  to  tell. 


VALENTINE. 

By  Clinton  BeoUard  in  The  Reader 
If  you   were  here,  sweet,   what  would   my   song  be? 
Ah,    It   would  happiness  all    the  day  long  be! 
Now  it  Is  sadness,  and  now  it  Is  sorrow; 
Go,  and  bid  Granther  Time  hasten  the  morrow! 
Hasten  the  morrow,  aye,  hasten  the  minute 
When    this  drear   emptiness   love  shall   have   in   it; 
When   my   two  arms,    that  so   fain  would  enfold   thee. 
Tightly  shall  clasp  thee  and   tenderly  hold  thee! 
Then  do  you  ask,  sweet,   what  will  my  song  be? 
Ah,  it  will  happiness  all   the  day  long  be! 


LOVE'S  QUEST. 

By  Charles  Hanson  Towne  in  The  Header 
When  all  the  clamor  of  the  world, 

Its  noise  and  wild  alarms 
Has   wrapped  me  pitilessly  round 
And  in  its  web  my  heart  has  bound, 

I  crave  your  sheltering  arms! 

When  all  the  brazen  crash  of  swords 

The   silence   rends   apart; 
When  I  am  steeped  in   toil  and  strife. 
I   crave,.  O  great  love  of  my  life, 

The  stillness  of  your  heart! 


A  MEMORY. 

By  Ella  Barker  in  The  Smart  Set 
When  fades  the  glow   from  sunset  skies, 
And   darkness  comes  apace, 
With  eyes  half  weary  of  the  light, 
Dreaming,  again   I  see  thy  face, 
Calm  with  the  peace  of  those  that  see 
Through  all  life's  transient  mockery 
The   vastness    or    eternity. 


ABSORPTION. 

By  Nona  Oliver  Archer  in  Everybody's  Magazine 
Beloved,   in   the  still   deeps  of  thine  eyes 
Absorb  my  soul,   that  I  may  know  no  more 
The  pain  of  separation!     I  implore 
Thy  Self  to  take  me  in,  and  solemnize 
My  union  with  thee  in  some  mystic  wise. 

I   would   no   more  be   I,    but   would   explore, 
As  thee,  thy  soul's  dim  temple,  and  adore 
1  herein,    as   thee,    with   secret  sacrifice. 

Oh,  let  me  die  to  Self,  and  find  rebirth 

In  some   fair  body  as   one   soul   with   thee! 
There  are  no  purposes  in  life  for  me, 
But  as   thy  complement;   nor  any  worth 
In  all  the  fame  and  splendor  of  the  earth— 
Unless  one  perfect  spirit  we  may  be. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 
NSURANCE 


FIRE,   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  17»2. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    $3,000,000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6.022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital   Paid-up.   $3,446,100.  Assets.   J24.662.043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders.  $S,93u.431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $131,030,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601    Montgomery    Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL   F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established    1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    4,734,791.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .   2,202,635.00 

BENJAMIN  J.    SMITH.    Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  411  California  St. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 


The  Pacific  Mutual 

Life   Insurance    Co. 

Home  Office: 
Pacific  Mutual 
San  Francisco. 

of  California. 

Building, 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance   Company 

Assets,  $1,250,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $20,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  company.     Agents  Wanted. 
Fair  Building.  230  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign    Marine    Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital     $67,000,000 

Balfour.  Guthrie  &  Co..  Agents.  316  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.    GERMANY 

Capital  $2,260,000  Assets  $10,954,246 

VOSS,    CONRAD  &   CO.,   General   Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:    204-208    Sansome   St,    San   Francisco 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,   Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


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February  6,   1904. 


Insurance 


The  twenty-ninth  annual  report  of  the  Under- 
writers' Fire  Patrol  for  the  year  1903  is  as  full  erf  in- 
teresting information  as  a  Swiss  cheese  is  full  of 
holes.  On  account  of  a  threatened  increase  in  rent 
at  the  expiration  of  the  lease  on  the  premises  occu- 
pied by  Station  No.  1,  at  Nos.  106  and  108  Jessie 
street,  a  committee,  says  the  report,  consisting  of 
Messers.  Spencer,  Faymonville  and  Bromwell  was 
appointed  to  see  what  could  be  done  in  the  matter 
of  securing  a  new  location.  We  have  the  pleasure 
to  report  that  the  committee  succeeded  in  making  a 
contract  with  the  Bothin  Estate  Co.,  by  which  they 
agreed  to  build  and  equip,  in  accordance  with  plans 
submitted  by  the  board,  a  house  on  lots  Nos.  12  and 
14  Natoma  street,  near  First,  the  rental  being  the 
same  as  formerly  paid  on  Jessie  street.  We  are  now 
in  possession  of  the  new  premises,  which  are  far 
more  comodious  than  our  former  station  and  more 
conveniently  situated,  being  in  close  proximity  to 
the  wholesale  district.  Our  lease  is  for  ten  years. 
We  have  also  to  report  that  lease  on  No.  2  Station 
lias  been  renewed  for  five  years  at  the  same  rental 
as  heretofore  paid.  The  directors  have  again  the 
great  pleasure  of  thanking  Chief  Sullivan  and  the 
members  of  the  San  Francisco  Fire  Department,  as 
well  as  the  Chief  and  employees  of  the  Department 
of  Electricity,  also  Fire  Marshal  Towe  and  Chief 
Wittman  ami  the  members  of  the  Police  Department 
for  the  valuable  assistance  rendered  the  Patrol  dur- 
ing the  year.  We  are  likewise  indebted  to  the  Pa- 
cific Telephone  and  Telegraph  Co.  for  the  use  of 
telephones  in  our  three  stations  without  charge. 

*  *  * 

The  service  performed  by  the  force  during  the  year 
is  as  follows:  Hours  in  actual  service,  687  hours,  50 
minutes;  number  of  stock  covers  spread,  2,401 ;  num- 
ber of  roof  covers  spread,  151:  number  of  fires  ex- 
tinguished, 23;  barrels  of  sawdust  used,  290;  cov- 
ers destroyed,  46. 

*  *  * 

The  same  authority  shows  that  the  losses  on  build- 
ings in  San  Francisco  for  the  year  amounted  to 
$399,512.59,  and  the  losses  paid  $294,585.74. 

The  loss  on  contents  for  the  year  amounted  to 
$1,252,389.49,  the  losses  paid  being  $802,239.64. 

*  *  * 

The  losses  on  buildings  and  on  contents  not  in- 
sured amounted  to  $555,076.  showing  that  there  are 
still  a  few  unwise  folks  left  in  this  city  who  prefer 
to  carry  their  own  insurance  and  lose  rather  than 
pay  their  premium  and  be  protected. 

*  *  * 

There  have  been  in  the  city  during  the  year  four 
fires  that  burned  up  property  to  amounts  over  $30,000 


Fire.  Lightning  and  Tornado  insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organ  ized  If  63 
Capital...'. t3.ooo.ooo.  Gross  Cash  Assets $n.300.ooo 

Liberal  contracts.  FavornWe  Terms.  Conference  with i  our Bepre. 
BentativeB  before  eom-luiiiuKishorC  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts. 
may  he  to  your  advantage.  

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent:  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoll 
tan  Manager.  _        _        _ 

2io  Sansome  fU.,  San  Francisco 


'ebruary  6,    1904. 


nd  un.'  ;  six  fires  ranging  between  twenty 

ml   thirty    thousand,   and    seven   between    •• 
•renty  thousand. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER.  t7 


The  Conservative   Life  Insurance  Company   - 
a  banquet   at    Delmonico's    Restaurant   <>n   Tin 

ing,   which   was   in   tlie   nature   of  a   celebration 
Ihe    company's    success    in    Northern    Calid 
There  were  present   Vice-President   Wilbur   I.  Tup- 

ind  Assistant  Actuary  Herman  A.  Behrcns,  and 
the  managers  ami  assistant  managers  of  the  com- 
pany's various  Northern  California  branch  ol 
There  were  also  present  several  policyholders,  men 
prominent  in  financial  circles,  anil  whose  judgment 
is  regarded  as  safe  in  other  matters  than  the  selec- 
tion of  tin-  Conservative  to  carry  their  life  insurance. 

rs  were  laid  for  ninety  guests,  all  of  whom  were 
present.  The  speech  of  the  evening  was  made  by 
Vice-President  Tupper,  and  the  remarks  made  by 
the  other  officials  of  the  company  denoted  a  fund  of 
energy  and  a  (low  of  enthusiasm  in  favor  of  the  Con- 
servative. Among  the  leading  policyholders  who 
spoke  were  Reverend  William  Rader.  E.  E.  P.ancroft 
and  Isador  Jacobs.  Assistant  Superintendent  of 
Agencies  J.  R.  Russell.  Jr.,  acted  as  toast-master, 
and  under  his  guidance  there  was  not  a  dull  moment 
during  the  evening.  Regrets  were  freely  expressed 
by  the  guests  over  the  coming  departure  of  Mr.  Rus- 
sell to  new  fields.  He  goes  to  organize  the  State  of 
Oregon,  and  thence  to  Washington.  He  carries  with 
him  the  best  wishes  of  the  agents,  all  of  whom  are 
his  friends.  His  ability  to  make  friends  may,  per- 
chance, account  for  his  success  as  an  organizer  of 
territory.  The  key-note  of  the  evening  was  struck 
when  the  toast-master  said:  "We  meet  to  celebrate 
the  success  of  the  Conservative  Life's  business  in 
Northern  California,  which  in  January,  1903,  was 
S2.000,  and  the  December  business  of  the  same  year 
amounted  to  $615,000."  There  are,  it  is  understood, 
more  changes  to  be  made  in  the  working  and  field 
force  of  the  Conservative,  which,  it  is  believed,  will 
be  productive  of  a  still  further  increase  in  business. 

*  *  * 

The  Legallet  Hellwig  Tanning  Company's  fire 
carried  off  the  blue  ribbon  prize  at  the  figure  of 
$206,835.  The  Theatre  Republic  and  the  Studebaker 
Bros,  ran  almost  a  tie  for  second  place,  amounting 
to  about  $139,000  each,  and  the  Cunningham,  Cur- 
tis &  Welch  fire  cost  over  $100,000. 

*  *  * 

The  total  alarms  received  during  the  year  amount- 
ed to  1,394.  There  was  only  one  alarm  rung  in  from 
a  theatre  during  the  year,  but  the  quality  of  the  fire 
made  up  for  the  lack  of  quantity. 

*  *  * 

The  officers  and  directors  are:  William  MacdonalJ, 
president;  John  Scott  Wilson,  vice-president;  Ru- 
dolph Herold,  Jr.,  secretary  and  treasurer;  V.  Cams 
Driffield,  L.  L.  Bromwell,  George  W.  Spencer,  Ber- 
nard Faymonville. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  James  H.  Washburn,  president  of  the  Home  Fire 
Insurance  Company  is  so  far  recovered  from  his  two 
months'  sickness  that  he  is  again  at  the  office  of  the 
company  where  he  was  the  recipient  of  numberless 
congratulations. 

W.  C.  Cree,  who  has  had  North  Dakota  for  the 
Phenix  of  Brooklyn,  will  become  State  agent  for 
both  the  Dakotas,  with  headquarters  at  Sioux  Falls ; 
K.  C.  Klemme,  who  had  South  Dakota,  acting  as 
his  assistant.     Mr.  Cree  was  for  years  in  the  Rocky 


Mavis  Consolidated  Gold 

and  Copper  Mining  Co. 

Capital  Slock  SI,NMM.     Shares  I.Mf  HO 

In<  >f  'he  laws  of  the  State  of  California. 

Location  of  works,  Seneca  Mining  District,  Yuma 
County.   Arizona. 

No  assessments  will  be  levied. 

60.000  shares  c.f  sto.k  for  sale  at  3T,  cents  a  share  for 
development  purposes.  The  ore  In  sight  Is  practically 
unlimited.  When  the  present  Issue  of  stock  Is  exhausted, 
the  price  will  he  raJMu  to  SO  cents  n  share. 

Apply  to  the  office  of  the  company,  room  205,  713  Mar- 
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February  6,  1904. 


Another    View    of    the     Case 


Editor  News  Letter — Allow  me  to  quote  my  dear 
old  friend,  Jack  Myers: 

"Der    Kaiser   of   das   Vaterland, 
Und  Gott  und  I  all  things  command, 
We  too,  ach,  don't  you  understand? 
Meinself — und  Gott. 

Vile  some  men  sing  der  power  divine, 
Mine  soldiers  sing  "Die  Wacht  am  Rhine" 
And  drink  der  health,  in  Rhenish  wine 
1  If  Me— und  Gott. 

There's  grandma  dinks  she's  nicht  schmall  bier 
Mit  Boers  und  such  she  interfere. 
She's  learn   none  owns  dis  hemisphere 
But  me — und  Gott. 

In  dimes  of  peace  brepare  for  wars, 
I  bear  der  helm  und  sphear  of  Mars, 
And  care  not  for  ten  thousand  czars, 
Meinself — und  Gott. 

In  fact,  I  humor  every  whim, 
Mit  aspect  dark  and  visage  grim. 
Gott  pulls  mit  me  and  I  mit  him — 
Meinself — und  Gott." 

From  the  dawn  of  civilization  to  the  present  time 
controversialists  have  made  reputations  by  dealing 
in  glittering  generalities  and  by  an  array  of  brilliant 
abuse  of  polemical  opposition.  Let  us  take  "A  Coun- 
tryman of  Bec-de-Fer"  as  an  example  of  a  brilliant 
mind  gone  wrong.  With  him  I  have  no  quarrel,  ex- 
cept that  he  is  garrulous  and  that  he  masquerades 
as  my  countryman. 

First — He  is  not  an  American. 

Second — He  is  either  a  German,  or  his  early  life 
was  spent  in  a  German  home  and  under  German  in- 
fluences.    He  cannot  help  his  views. 

Third — He  is  a  professional  man,  and  probably 
writes  poetry. 

Fourth — His  name  is  not  an  unknown  one. 

Now,  you  will  ask,  how  do  I,  Bec-de-Fer,  know 
this?  Simply  by  deduction.  lie  is  not  an  American, 
because  "it's"  a  foul  bird  that  defiles  its  own  nest." 
Let  me  quote:  ''Does  he  know  that  the  German  navy 
is  as  good  and  as  large  as  ours,  and  that,  despite 
jingo  belief,  its  men  are  better?"  *  *  *  "our  ships 
are  manned  by  the  depraved  and  vice-eaten  riff-raff 
of  all  nations"  *  *  *  "the  American  sailor  has  the 
bad  name   of  a  blustering  rowdy  and   ruffian,  etc." 

I  could  go  on  almost  indefinitely  bringing  out  the 
little  shades  of  contempt  in  which  this  gentleman 
holds  his  alleged  nationality.  Having  established 
the  fact  that,  as  an  American,  he  is  a  renegade 
or  that,  as  a  German,  he  has  no  regard  for  truth,  let 
us  go  on  dissecting  what  remains  of  his  personality. 

He  is  a  German — "ancient  tubs  of  Spain,"  "stood 
firmly  on  their  rights,"  "Dewey's  cheaply-won  vic- 
tory," "Americans,  drunk  with  gore  and  overbear- 
ing," "Dietrich  was  rot  to  be  bullied."  These  have 
always  been  the  Berlin  ideas.  Your  correspondent 
is  most  likely  a  poet,  for  two  reasons:  He  writes 
copiously  and  without  an}'  regard  for  truth.  He  is 
sentimental !  It  is  German  sentimentalism,  it  is  true, 
but  none  the  less  sentimentalism ;  heavy,  doughy, 
unleavened,  dogmatic  and  squareheaded.     He  has  no 


regard  for  truth,  for  he  purposely  mixes  the  Austrian 
incident  with  the  German. 

He  gives  a  general  denial  of  the  events  of  Manila 
Bay  from  the  standpoint  of — a  man  conversant  with 
the  German  tongue! 

My  alleged  countryman  alleges  further  that  I  made 
some  statement  reflecting  on  the  private  life  of  "Wil- 
lie the  Witless."  I  protest.  Here  again  he  travels 
afar  in  the  fields  of  romance.  I  made  no  remarks 
on  this  matter  at  all.  I  might  have  quoted  Mme. 
Eppinghoven  (by  the  way,  she  is  not  an  American 
Jingo),  and  told  of  the  cruel  way  in  which  this 
•  "model  Emperor,"  this  "genius,"  denied  his  old 
mother  the  poor  charity  of  a  palace  room  to  end  her 
days.  My  alleged  countryman  "protesteth  too 
much  !"  Will  he  kindlv  inform  a  waiting  world  as 
to  what  it  is  he  fears  will  be  divulged?  Does  he  think 
I  am  going  to  show  up  the  Kaiser's  weakling  legs? 
Does  he  believe  that  I  will  lift  the  richly  broidered 
scarf  that  hides  the  rictus  of  uncontrollable  anger 
making  difform  and  hideous  the  face  of  the  An- 
nointed?  (Vide  Mme.  Von  Eppinghoven).  Has  he 
forgotten  Bebel's  arraignment  of  the  German  army 
or  the  revelations  of  Lieutenant  Bilse?  Is  the  West 
African  misgovernment  so  far  from  his  ant-hill  he 
has  forgotten  it?  Not  one  of  the  statements  in  my 
letter  have  been  disproven.  I  purposely  refrained 
from  mentioning  the  "Irene  incident,"  because  I 
was  not  on  Subig  Bay  at  the  time.  I  was  present 
on  Manila  Bay.  I  speak  and  write  German.  French, 
Italian  and  Spanish,  and  have  traveled  some  little 
distance  from  my  ant-hill — sixty  thousand  miles  on 
sea  and  land  in  the  last  ten  years.  My  name  was 
withheld  from  publication  because  of  my  official 
position,  but  it  is  registered  with  the  editor  of  the 
News  Letter.  In  this  I  have  the  advantage  of  any- 
one who  is  too  craven  a  coward  to  use  even  the  poor 
shield  of  a  pseudonym,  but  who  stabs  at  Americans 
from  behind  the  American  flag. 

—Bec-de-Fer. 


Editor  News  Letter — Let  me  butt  in.  I  am  not 
surprised  that  the  anonymous  defender  of  Emperor 
William  in  your  issue  for  January  30th  should  con- 
ceal his  name,  for  he  is  cither  a  menteur  (if  he  knows 
what  that  means  in  French),  or  else  he  is  a  traitor. 
If  he  is  an  American  citizen,  as  he  claims  to  be,  it 
is  evident  that  he  committed  perjury  when  he  took 
out  his  naturalization  papers,  since  at  that  time  he 
foreswore  all  foreign  allegiance  in  general  and  to 
Emperor  William  or  his  predecessors  in  particular, 
and  promised  to  stand  by  this  country  as  against 
any  nation  in  the  world,  especially  Germany.  Evi- 
dently he  would  not  keep  his  oath  if  a  war  broke  out 
between  the  United  States  and  his  native  land  : 
therefore,  he  committed  perjury  when  he  was  natur- 
alized. If  he  is  not  naturalized,  then  he  made  a  false 
statement  in  his  letter  when  he  speaks  of  himself 
as  an  American.  His  boastfulness  of  what  the 
Germans  would  do  in  a  naval  battle  is  amusing,  when 
one  recalls  that  the  entire  naval  history  of  Germany 
consists  in  the  sinking  by  one  of  her  cruisers  of  a 
gunboat  belonging  to  San  Domingo  a  year  or  two 
ago.  Whether  German  sailors  can  "shoot  straight" 
no  one  knows,  considering  that  they  have  never  been 
rtied  ;  and  as  for  their  patriotism,  it  is  an  equally 
unknown  quality,  since  there  has  never  been  an  op- 


February  6,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


*9 


portunity  to  test   it.      Hut  judging  by  the 
the  famous  German  soldiers  when  they  were  1 
ing  on   Peking  with  the  allii 

tity,  for  the  Germans  on  that  memorable 
fell  behind  in  discipline,  behavior  and  \.i 
the  Japanese,  British  and  Americans,  and  hardly 
equaled  the  Russians.  If  the  German  army  makes 
such  a  poor  showing  away  from  home,  with  all  the 
time,  money  and  energy  that  have  been  spent  on  it 
for  a  century,  what  can  be  expected  of  a  navy  that 
has  not  yet  reached  the  age  of  maturity? 

When  the  German  navy  has  a  record  that  will 
duplicate  that  of  the  United  States,  even  in  the  recent 
war  with  Spain,  it  will  be  time  enough  for  the  Ger- 
mans to  talk  of  "the  riff-raff  of  all  nations  who  com- 
the  American  navy,"  and  who  "desert  by  the 
score."  They  would  have  to  desert  en  masse  to  bal- 
ance the  army  desertions  alone  from  Germany  annu- 
ally to  this  country: 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  ex-Secretary 
Long's  "The  Xew  American  Navy": 

"On  the  eve  of  war.  the  Navy  Department  was 
able  to  make  the  following  comparison  of  the 
strength  of  the  naval  forces  of  the  United  States  and 
Spain  in  the  East: 


Spain 


11 

25 
20693 

44 
81 

3000 


United    States 

Vessels :  Cruisers 4 

Gunboats    3 

Mosquito    Craft    o 

Armed  Tqnnage   20619 

Guns  in  Main  Battery 53 

Guns  in  Secondary  Battery 84 

Broadside   Discharge    Main     Battery 

Guns    3700 

"Afloat,  the  United  States  was  superior,  but  Spain 
was  stronger  so  far  as  material  was  concerned,  tak- 
ing her  land  and  naval  forces  together.  The  batteries 
defending  Manila  Bay  were  capable  of  firing  at  a 
single  discharge  3,750  pounds  of  metal.  It  is  the 
testimony  of  experts  that  guns  ashore  are,  by  reason 
of  steadiness  of  platform  and  protection  afforded  to 
the  gunners,  capable  of  more  effective  results  than 
guns  installed  on  men-of-war." 

At  Samoa,  Germany  acted  in  bad  faith,  and  caused 
the  death  of  both  English  and  American  sailors  by 
her  intrigues.  In  Venezuela,  she  tried  the  part  of 
a  bully  again,  and  she  would  attempt  to  interfere 
in  San  Domingo  to-day  if  she  dared.  Her  army  would 
give  her  no  strength  in  a  combat  with  this  country, 
which  God  forbid,  and  her  navy  would  find  its  match, 
if  nothing  more,  if  it  had  to  try  conclusions  with  the 
successors  of  Paul  Jones,  Decatur,  Porter,  Farragut 
and  Dewey. 

— A  Native  American. 


Get  the  dust  out  of  your  carpets.     But  don't  do   it 

with  a  club,  because  it's  a  slow,  laborious  and  very  unsatis- 
factory way.  You  will  find  it  more  profitable  and  satisfac- 
tory to  have  the  work  done  Dy  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Clean- 
ing Company,  353  Tehama  street.  With  their  improved 
machinery  they  make  an  old  carpet  look  as  bright  and  fresh 
as  a  new  one. 


— — Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 
$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  ?4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  -jtn  and1  Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 


Few  come   to   San  Francisco  without  paying  a  visit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     It's  tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort. 


MANUFACTURERS. 


GRAY      BROS  Monuonwnr    8U.V  8 


California      ami 
San    Franrlxco. 
Loa  Angela*. 


Concrete  and  artificial 
stone  work. 


A  rub  at  the  Post  St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good. 


artistic   portraiture: 

<<t,r    beautiful    J12.00    Art    ltr<>ml<les    will    be 
made  at  $5.00  per  dozen   for  a  short  time 

&/>e  Imperial  Studio 

744    MARKET    STREET 
Established  25  Years  and    Always  n.   Leader 


BLAKE,  MOFFITT  &  TOWNE 

DEALERS   IN 

VA  TEH 

Blake.   Mofflt  &  Towne.   Los  Angeles,   Cal. 
Blake,    McPall    &    Co..    Portland,    Oregon. 
TEL.   MAIN  m.  66-CT-69-S1  FiRSi'  ST.,  SAX    FRANCISCO. 


n^^-L..*  For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses. 
nriiSnGS  laundries,  paper-hangers,  printers,  painters, 
"  J  billiard   tables,    brewers,    book  binders,   candy- 

makers,  canners,   dyers,   flour-mills,   foundries, 
shoe  factories,  stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners,  tailors,  etc. 

Buchanan     Brothers. 

Brush  rifts.,  609  Sacramento  St,  S.  P.,  Tel.  {Iain  561  I 


Old  Rose  Bud  Whiskey 

Absolutely  the  purest  on  the  market. 
APPLE-GATE      <a       SONS,      Distillers 

Louisville,  Ken.    Pacific  Coast  Agents 


RATBJEN  WINE  COMPANY. 


46  ELLIS  STREET.  S.   F. 
Telephone,  Main  5171. 


AMERICAN 

CANNE 


COAL 

Sold  by  all  Reliable  Dealers 


J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO. 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants. 
General  Agents. 

Oceanic  Steamship  Company 

Gllllngham   Cement. 

Market  Street,  cor.   Fremont  St 


5ING     FAT     &     COMPANY 

Chinese  and  Japanese  Bazaar.    We  have  but  one  price. 
All  goods  marked  In  plain  English  figures. 

614  DUPONT  STREET,  S.   F.  Next  to  St.  Mary's  Church. 


ST.  LAWRENCE  LIVERY  AND 
SALES  STABLES. 

423    Post    street,    between    Powell    and 
Mason,  San  Francisco.    Tel.  No.  1323. 

E.    BRIDGE,    Proprietor. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


February  6,   1904. 


ENNENS?Kemd, 
&QWDER 


CHAPPED  HANDS,  CHAFING, 

ini  all  afflictions  of  the  skin.     "A  tittle 
higher  in  price,  perhaps,  than  worthless 
substitutes,  but  j  reason  for  it."    De- 
lightful »fter  ituving.     Sold  everywhere,  or 
miiW  00  reedpt  of  25c. 
OEttrURD   MENN6N   CO..   Newark.  N.  J. 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thieves) 

"I  notice,"  said  Mrs.  Skrappy, 
"that  you  never  call  me  'dear'  anv 
more."  "No,"  replied  Mr.  Skrap- 
py, "I  couldn't  consistently." 
"Why  not?"  "Well,  talk  is  cheap, 
you  know." 

"What's  become  of  that  politi- 
cian, Blufferington,  who  used  to 
have  the  undivided  support  of  this 
community?"  "Oh,  he's  still  get- 
ting it.     He's  in  the  poorhouse." 

"Do  you  have  any  trouble  sup- 
porting your  family,  Sambo?" 
"No,  indeed.  Why,  boss,  I'se  got 
one  ob  de  best  wives  in  dis  'ere 
town." 

"What  sort  of  money  will  you 
have,  Mrs.  Munn?"  said  the  cash- 
ier when  that  lady  presented  a 
large  check  for  payment.  "Ster- 
ilized," replied   Mrs.   Munn. 

Mrs.  Buggins — I  don't  feel  at  a'.l 
comfortable  in  these  new  shoes. 
Mr.  Buggins — What's  the  matter? 
Don't  they  hurt? 

Mr.  Simpkin— Oh,  Miss  Mabel, 
this  scenery  makes  me  think  of  a 
Shakesperian  passage.  -  Miss  Ma- 
bel—Which  ?  Mr.  Simpkin— Well 
— er — I    don't    quite    remember! 

Daily  Guide  to  Flattery — If  you 
meat  a  woman  who  strongly  sus- 
pects that  she  is  a  beauty,  ask  her 
earnestly  if  all  her  family  are  beau- 
tiful. 

"Did  you  see  the  Dardanelles 
while  you  were  in  Europe?"  "No,  ' 
answered  Mr.  Cumrox.  "You  see, 
we  were  so  bus)'  sight  seeing  that 
we  didn't  have  time  to  call  on  any 
of  our  friends." 

Husband— What!  A  hundred 
dollars  for  an  opera  cloak?  Why, 
it  is  perfectly  ridiculous,  my  dear. 
Wife — Yes,  I  know  it  is;  but  you 
said  you  couldn't  afford  an  expen- 
sive one. 


The  Empress  of  China— What 
is  that  strange  noise  I  hear?  The 
Minister  of  the  Interior — It  is  the 
bottom  dropping  out  of  the  New 
York  stock  market,  your  majesty. 

Future  historians  are  going  to 
have  a  hard  time  determining 
whether  Wos  y  Gil  was  a  hero  or 
a  college  yell.  Furthermore,  some 
of  them  may  even  incline  to  the 
belief  that  he  was  a  health  food. 

Miss  Howjames  (at  the  opera) 
— Hasn't  she  a  marvelous  tech- 
nique? Mr.  Cahokia — Yes;  but 
she  doesn't — er — seem  to  know 
how  to  manage  it  gracefully.  She 
gives  it  a  sort  of  kick  when  she 
turns  around. 

Tramp — Please,  mum,  I  don't 
want  nothing  but  the  privilege  of 
sittin'  here  and  listenin'  to  Madam 
Patti,  the  great  primma  donna, 
sing.  Mrs.  Youngwife — Goodness 
me!  She  isn't  here  Tramp — Par- 
ding,  mum,  but  I  hear  her  now. 
Mrs.  Youngwife — Why,  that's  my 
baby  crying.  But  don't  go.  Din- 
ner will  be  re,ady  soon. 

"Hasn't  the  baby  had  the  mea- 
sles yet,  Mr.  Popps?"  "Sh-sh!  Do 
not  speak  so  loud.  Whenever  he 
hears  anything  mentioned  that  he 
hasn't  got,  he  cries  for  it." 


For  Long  Journeys 

To  invigorate  and  fortify 
the  system  for  exertion  use 

LIEBIG 
COMPANY'S 
Extract  of  Beef 

Far  better  as  a  refresher 
and  stimulant  than  alcohol. 
A  Bracer  without  reaction. 


Customer — So  you  think  you 
won't  be  able  to  sell  this  stock  for 
me?  Broker — Why,  say,  old  man, 
I  couldn't  sell  that  stock  if  I  of- 
fered a  box  of  dyspepsia  tablets 
and  a  bottle  of  pepsin  with  every 
share. 

"Bridget,  did  you  get  the  flowers 
that  I  am  to  wear  in  niy  hair  to- 
night?"    "Yes,     mum;     but " 

"But  what?"  "I  have  mislaid  the 
hair,  mum." 


SAN  FRANCISCO 

—CHICAGO 


— in- 


LESS     THAN     THREE      DAYS 

when  you  travel  on 

Overland  Limited 

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Compartment,  Observation,  Dining  Cars.  Club  and  Draw- 
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EVERY    GOOD    THING 


Talk  it  Over  at  613   Market  Street 

SOUTHERN  PACIFIC 


ebruary  6,   1904. 


Lamp-chim- 
neys that  break 
are  not 

Macbeth's. 

If  you  iifc  a  wrong  chimney,  you  lose  a 
good  deal  of  both  light  and  comfort,  and 
w.*>tc  a  dollar  <>r  two   a   year  a   lamp  on 

Chimneys. 

Do  you  want  the  Index  ?     Write  me. 

Macbeth.  Pittsburgh. 

S0Z0D0NT 

TOOTH  POWDER 

There  /s  no  Beauty 

that  can  stand  the  disfigurement  of  bad 
teeth.    Take  care  of  your  teeth.    Only 


one  way—  ^ 


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HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

It  makes  the  toilet  something  to  be  en- 
joyed. It  removes  all  stains  and  roughness 
prevents  prickly  heat  and  chafing,  and 
leaves  the  skin  white,  soft,  healthy.  In  the 
bath  itbringsa  glow  and  exhilaration  which 
no  common  soap  can  equal,  imparting  the 
vigor  and  life  sensation  of  a  mild  Turkish 
bath.    All  Grocers  and  Druggists. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NKWS    LKTTKR. 

"A  tall  bri  l<  ,„K 

don't  you   think  Well 

the    titled 

caught  on  to  ..     ;mlc     American 
slang,     so  far  .^   I   am  p 
concert  mil>  am  n.>t 

ing  for  one  w  I  ■ 

McJ'gger-  Hi 
traorainary  fellow.    \\  e  n 
ing   al>.. ut    .1    multi  millionain 
day.     Thingumbob     Yes?    Mcjig- 
ger— Yes,  and  he  didn't  onci 
mark.  'Well,  with  all  his  mil! 
I  don't  think  he's  any  happier  than 
1  am.' 

Mr.  Stubbs—  Yes,  that  Mr-. 
Richrocks  attended  the  missionary 
meeting  and  contributed  even  her 

jewelry  to  the  poor  heathen.  Mrs. 
Stubbs  (enviously) — Well,  only  a 
heathen  would  wear  such  jewelry 
as  Martha  Richrocks  lugs  around. 

Mrs.  Newitt — Mr.  Feeder  is 
coming  to  dinner  this  evening,  is 
he  not?  Mr.  Newitt — No;  he  must 
be  sick  or  dead.  I  told  him  we 
dined  at  6:30  and  it's  6:35  now.' 

"Why,"  said  the  punctilious  per- 
son, "1  got  a  letter  from  the  per- 
son you  have  been  praising  and 
there  was  actually  a  capita!  in  the 
wrong  place."  "Maybe  so,"  ans- 
wered Mr.  Cumrox.  "But  he  never 
gets  his  capital  in  the  wrong  place 
in  the  market.  And  that's  more  im- 
portant." 

Mr.  Misfit — Xo  use  trying  to  ex- 
plain things  to  a  woman ;  she  can- 
not understand     scientific     terms; 

now   here's Mrs.    Misfit — Oh, 

yes,  I  can,  Charles !  Heredity  is 
what  a  man  blames  his  father  and 
mother  for,  and  environment  is 
what  he  blames  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren for. 

"I  hope,"  said  Mrs.  Oldcastle, 
"that  you  didn't  feel  that  you  were 
de  trop  when  you  called  the  other 
day  and  found  Mrs.  Beezum  pres- 
ent." "Oh,  no,"  replied  her  host- 
ess. "That  was  just  of  the  back  of 
my  waist  that  I  kept  feelin'  of.  One 
of  the  hooks  was  loose,  and  some- 
how I  couldn't  help  bein'  kind  of 
nervous  about  it." 

"I  beg  your  pardon,"  said  a  man 
who  had  approached  another,  ap- 
parently a  stranger  to  him.  "I 
saw  you  lift  your  hat  to  the  driver 
on  that  wagon  at  the  crossing.  Of 
course  it's  none  of  my  business, 
but  just  to  satisfy  my  curiosity,  I 
wish  you'd  tell  me  why  you  did  it." 
"With  pleasure.  Didn't  you  see 
that  he  pulled  up  his  horse  and 
gave  me  a  chance  to  cross  instead 
of  trying  to  run  me  down  ?" 

"What  is  an  assassin  band?" 
"An  assassin  band,  my  son,  is  one 
which  murder  good  music." 


11 


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a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where else,  for  whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo  have,  call  at 
this  office  and  let  us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with  us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 


[Rock  island! 
fc  System 


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623  Market  Street, 
San  Francisco. 


THREE 


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with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
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partment Sleeping  Oars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change- 
Eastern  Express.  Vestlbulcd.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  coo  p.  in.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.  Free  Kecliniug  Chair  Cars. 
Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbulcd.  Leaves  San 
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February  6,  1904. 


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East  via 

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&  ST.  LOU  1 5 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  ami  Ob- 
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through  Colorado.    For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
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SS  OREGON  is  temporarly  in  service  instead 
of  the  COLUMBIA. 

Englishwoman — Have  you  been 
to  Westminster  Abbey  yet?  Fair 
American — No ;  but  I  hear  it 
highly  spoken  of. 


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ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

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Paciflc  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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sAN     PitANCltCO. 

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Fk.'ji    FkphUaKY   1  "li'QL      -      AI.HIVK 


700* 
7  00* 

7.30* 

7  30* 

e.oo* 

8.00* 
8.30* 


Vallejo.     Niipn,     (ullst. ii-ii.     Santa 

ICoea,   Martinez,   s  m  l!;n 

M1i*b,  Llvermore.  Tracy,  Latbrop. 


BCui 


9  00- 
9.30' 


10.00* 
1000, 


12.00m 
iVOOi' 
5  30< 


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330' 


3  30i- 

4  00.' 


4  OOr 
4.301' 


6.00f 
t6.30p 

6.OD1 
6.00  v 


6. 00r 
700p 
7.00p 


Kxprosn—  (Via  Davis). 
WlllUmt  {for  lljirt  Jot  I  Springs). 
Willows       t-Krillo.      ICOtl      I M  u  IT. 

Portland.   Taeoinn,    Seattle 7 

Da  vlB.  Woodland   KdIkIiu  LinidlUg. 

Marysvllle,  OrovlUe  7 

Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch, 
Byron.  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man  Loo  lia  Dos.  Menduta. 
Arinonn.      Man  Turd        V  I  sal  I  a. 

Port'-rvlHf 4 

Port  O'sia,  Marttiii!/.,  Traey,  Laih- 
ri.|i,  rioacsto,  MiTcud,  Fresno, 
Goshen     -I  UDCtlon,     linn  lord, 

Vlsalla    BakersAcld  4 

Nlles.  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Block 
ion.  i"  M  iit-.ii  j.  Inn.-,  Sacrum  en  to, 
Placer  villa     Marysvllle,    Cbleu, 

Hud  BIHIT 4 

Oitkfltile.  Cblnnse,  Jamestown,  So- 

norn.  Tin'lin ■  and  Angela    4 

Atlantic  i'.ii"'-      i  'mien  and  Rasi,   11 

Kh  h ml.     MarlllICZ      and      Way 

Stations 6 

The    Overland    Limited  —  (Jgden 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 6 

Vallejn 12 

Los  Angelea  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Marline/..  I'.yron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Uayinond.  Fresno.  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Hanford.   Lcmoore,  Vlnaim. 

Bakersflcld.   Lo»   Angelep     7 

Hay  ward    Mies  ami  Way  Stations.      3 

Sacra     Pn[0  Wver  Steamers til 

nenfcla,      Winters.      Sacramento 

W Maud.     Knights        Lamllng, 

Marysvllle,     Orovllle    and     way 

Btatlona 10 

llayward.  Nlles  and  Way  StatlonB..      7 
Port       Costa,      Muriimz        ll>  run, 
Tracy,      Lathrop,      M  0  d  es  tu. 
Merced,  Fresno   and    way    st»- 

(lons  beyond  Port   Costs \2 

Martinez, Tree;,  Stuck: on,  Lodl...    10 
Martlnez.Sim  Ramon.  Vallcjo. Napa. 

Calls  tuga,  San t»  Rosa 9 

Nit. 's,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodl  4 

llavwiirtl.    Nlles.    Irvtngtun.  Saul     18 

J  nee.  Ltvermore I  111 

The  Owl  Limited— Newman  Loa 
Bitnus.  Mcnduta.  Fresno,  Tulare, 
linkers  tlcld.  Lob  Angeles. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  An^cle-,  for  Chi- 
cago, vlaC.R    I    A:  P 8. 

Port  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 12. 

liny  war.!.   Nile*,  ami  San  Jowe 7 

1 1  ay  ward,  Nlles  and  San  -lose 9 

Eastern  Express  —  Ogdeo.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
Bast,  Port  Costa,  Heolcla,  Sul- 
Bun.  Elinlru,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln.  Auburn.  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,    Reno,  Wads- 

worth,  Wlnnemucca 6 

Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday I      7 

Vallejo,  Snuday  only f      ' 

Mcbmond,  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11, 

Oregon  *  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,    Redding. 
Portland,  Paget  Sound  and  East .     8- 
Haywar<1,  Nlles  and  Sau  .lose  (Sun- 
day only  i 11 


COASTLINE   (Narrow  Gauge) 

Foot  of  Market  street) 

816*  Newark,    CentervlHe.    Sao    Jose, 

Felton,     Hon  I  (i  er     Creek,     Santa 

Cruz  sod  Way  Stations 5-55* 

t2.1&>  Newark,  Centervtlle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almnden.  Loa  Gutos. Felton, 
Boulder  Creek.  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  StatlonB   flO  554 

4  IBp  Newark,  8anJoee,  LosGatos  and!     '855* 
way  stations. )  110  55  a 

09  30p  Hunters  Trnln,  Saturday  only,  Sao 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 

log  from  Liis'fiiuos  Sundny  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

IrombAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  ol  Market  St.  (Silp<» 

-fl:15    tf:00    11:Wa.h.     100    3  00    6.15  p.*. 

l-rom  OAKLAND.   Foot  or  Broadway  —  tfi:00    18:0-) 

18:03    1u:0ua.m.       12  00    200    4-00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Broad  flange). 

gar  M'hlrd  un.l    Imvnacnd   Streets.) 

6  10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations.  ...  6  30p 

7  00a  Ban  Joae  and  Way  stations.  . .    .        5  36p 

8  00a    New  Almaden  (Tuee.,  Frill.,  only),      4-10p 
8  00a  The  Coaster — Stops  only  star  .lose, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis- 
ter). Pojaro.  Castrovilie  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pad  tic  Grove),  Salinas  Sao 
Ardo,  Paso  Rubles  Santa  Mar 
garlta.  San  Luis  oblspo.  principal 
stations  thenee  Surt  [Connection 
for  bompoc),  pr I nf  I  pal  stations 
thence  Santa  Itiirlmra.S  n  Buena- 
ventars  Saugut  Los  Angeles..,  10-45^ 
9,C0a  6au  Jose.  Trei  Plnos,  ''Mdtola, 
B  an  taCruz.PaclflrGrove,  Salinas. 
S"Q  Lola  Obispo  and  Principal 
Way  Station*  4-10p 

10.30a  Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stallone T20p 

1130a  Santa  Clara,    Sun    lose    Loi  (iatos 

and  Way  Stations  7.30p 

1.30k   bun  Jose  ami  Way  Btatlona 8  36a 

3  LU>    Del  Monte   (Express— Santa  Clara, 

San  Juse  Del  UoDte,  Monterey, 
PaclDe  Gl  rt  -■  '  ri.iLn.Tt-  si  Santa 
Clara  "ir  Santa  Cruz.  M"iiider 
tr.'-k  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
nt  Gllroy  for  Hulllster,  Tres 
Plnos.  nt  CnBtrm-IHe  for  Salinas.  12  15e 
3-30p  Tree  Plnos  Way  Passenger 104Sa 

4  33p  .*an  Jose  nnd  Way  Stations +8. 00a 

*5  0D      s"n   Jose,    <\  |a    Santa  Clara)    Los 

tiat.'s.  ami  Principal  Waj  Sta- 
tions* ffxn-Dt  S lay  I '9  00* 

(.  cOi    San JoseandPrlnctpalWayStiitlonn    (9  40* 

6.L0»-  Bansel    Limited.— Bed  wo  d.  San 

Jose. Gllroy, Salinas, Paso  RoUIes, 
San  Lull  Oblapo,  Santa  Itarhnra, 
Los  Angeles,  Dem lot:.  Kl  Phbo, 
New  Orleans.  New  York  Con- 
nectn  at  Pnjnrn  for  Santa  Cruz 
nnd    at    Castrovflle    for     Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stotlous 7  10 » 

'6  Hi  i-iu.  Mateo,  Bi-r.-s-lonl. Belmont. San 
Carlos.     Bedwiwd,     Fair     Oaka. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto '6.43* 

6  30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  3Sa 

8. 00p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10.16a 

11  3Qi-  South  Ban  Francisco.  MHlbrae.  Box- 

Dgaine,   Bad     Mateo     Belmont, 

San  Carlos.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks. 

Menlo  Park    and    Palo  Alio 9.45r 

1130p  Mayfleld.  Uountaln  View.  Sunny- 
vale. LawrcDie.  Santa  Clara  and 

San   Jos-e l9.45e 

A  foi   Morn i no:                     P  for  Afternoon. 
Bunda)  excepted                 J  Sunday  only 
ii  Saturday  only. 
J  Btops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
,'  r    Ouly  trains)  »i  •>•  |nnj  ni  Valencia  St.  sonthrionnd 
nr-       lo  »  m..7:UUa.m..  ll:Hu a.m.. 3:o0 p.m.. 6:30P.M. and 
1:00  p.m. 

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Bennie,  where's  the  theatre  tick- 
ets I  sent  you  after.  Bennie — I 
forgot  'em.  City  Editor — Bennie, 
where's  that  paste  I  sent  you  for? 
Bennie — I  forgot  it.  Sporting  Edi- 
tor— Bennie,  what  was  Jack  Glass- 
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"He's  absolutely  loyal  to  the  or- 
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Why,  he'd  follow  he  organization 
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Public  opinion  is  in  a  fair  way  to  beat  Harbor  Com- 
missioner Spear  into  a  pruning  hook. 

The  last  of  our  army  has  come  home  from  Cuba, 
its  bands  playing  "The  Boodle  I  Left  Behind  Me." 

Boiled  down,  the  Oriental  war  news  is  that  Japan 
has  finally  decided  that  this  is  good  weather  for  a 
bear-hunt. 


The  earnings  of  the  Match  Trust  for  1903  were 
away  below  normal,  but  the  stockholders  are  basing 
high  hopes  on  1904,  remembering  that  it  is  leap  year. 

The  Kaiser  has  officially  talked  into  a  phonograph 
at  the  instance  of  Harvard  University.  It  is  under- 
stood that  he  mentioned  the  Almighty  first. 

Peanuts  have  gone  away  up  in  price,  but  pink  lem- 
onade remains  at  the  old  figure,  so  the  circus  industry 
is  not  completely  wrecked. 

A  local  newspaper  is  sending  a  long-haired  theoso- 
phist  to  report  the  Russo-Japanese  war  by  wireless 
telegraphy — and  this  is  the  limit  of  fakery. 

Coincident  with  Hearst's  borrowing  of  a  million 
dollars  comes  Colonel  Bryan's  public  proclamation 
that  he  is  for  Hearst  for  President. 


Senator  Gorman's  candidate  for  the  other  Mary- 
land toga  was  turned  down  with  a  thump.  Four 
days  later  came  the  Baltimore  fire,  but  we  shall  not 
ask  anybody  for  an  alibi. 

Mayor  McClellan  of  New  York  declares  that  the 
word  "obey"  in  the  marriage  service  is  "obsolete  and 
not  binding  in  law."  We  know  ;  we  know.  But  why 
destroy  all  our  myths  ? 

Seven  Russian  warships  put  out  of  business  in  the 
first  three  days  of  fighting — now  we  begin  to  under- 
stand why  the  Czar  was  so  active  awhile  back  in  ad- 
vocating universal  disarmament. 

The  sister  of  railroad  president  Cassalt  has  won  a 
prize  in  Philadelphia  for  a  painting  of  the  "plein  air" 
school.  Her  brother's  financiering  belongs  to  the 
plein  water  school. 

A  male  beauty  doctor,  lecturing  at  the  East,  rec- 
ommends Rhine  wine  as  a  cure  for  dandruff.  This 
is  an  old  remedy,  generally  applied  by  putting  the 
cork  in  the  hat  and  the  wine  under  the  belt. 


Official  announcement  has  just  been  made  of  a 
"Historj  "i  Woman  in  America."  to  be  published  by 
the  Government.  Why  nol  save  words  and  call  it 
"Herstory." 


The  distinguished  detective  in  charge  of  the  Sneder 
case  caught  his  breath — and  then  let  it  go  again,  hiss- 
ing between  his  clenched  teeth  :  "Fooled  agjain  !  The 
newspaperman  detected   you  long  agn!" 

"O  Reporter"  was  suspected  in  the  heat  of  the  mo- 
ment of  starting  a  run  on  an  Oakland  bank.  The 
Press  Club  may  wash  off  its  war-paint,  for  this  is 
merely   the   name   of  a   Portuguese  weekly. 

Mayor  Sam  Jones  of  Toledo  declares  that  "the 
criminajl  courts  are  the  most  criminal  things  in 
America."  which  is  so  near  the  truth  that  we  could 
wish  somebody  more  important  had  said  it. 

Yale's  football  song,  "Boala  Boala,"  is  now  the 
war-cry  of  the  Macedonians.  The  name  seems  too 
suggestive  of  the  dance  du  ventre  for  anything  but 
an  opera  bouffe  battle. 

President  Harper  of  Chicago  University  has  ap- 
pendicitis, but  we  do  not  believe  the  report  that  it 
was  caused  by  John  D.  Rockefeller's  eating  some- 
thing indigestible. 

An  eminent  Eastern  educator  says  the  ideal  col- 
lege professor  is  the  one  who  has  the  most  children. 
This  might  be  called  the  Belgian  hare  theory  of 
higher  education. 

A  Berkeley  savant  earns  the  envy  of  men  less  cour- 
ageous by  announcing  that  the  woman  of  to-day 
has  not  improved  in  a  single  essential  upon  her  sis- 
ter of  2,000  years  ago. 

As  the  truth  about  Senator  Hanna's  illness  comes 
out,  we  learn  that  he  began  it  by  laughing  at  the 
Gridiron  Club's  dinner  "until  his  sides  ached," 
many  of  the  jokes  being  on  himself.  It's  a  mean  germ 
that  would  take  advantage  of  geniality  like  that. 

Out  of  the  bitterness  of  his  heart,  Alderman  Sloan 
of  Chicago  cries  that  "the  political  club  is  a  relic  of 
the '  stone  age,  when  man  was  still  barbarous  and 
preyed  upon  his  fellows."  We  listen  eagerly  for  a 
Chicago  corporation  opinion  of  Chicago  aldermen. 

The  Cook  County  Democracy  was  frigidly  refused 
by  Mayor  Harison  when  it  wanted  to  keep  a  Chicago 
bar  open  after  midnight  for  a  "celebration,"  and  now 
he  is  being  measured  for  a  suit  of  asbestos  to  wear 
while  the  torrid  language  flows. 

An  inventor  of  South  Bend,  Indiana,  is  making  a 
bullet-proof  vest  for  the  President.  Over  this  might 
be  worn  an  editorial-proof  duster,  and  a  ballet-proof 
sombrero,  the  whole  to  be  our  national  uniform  for 
the  Presidential  rank. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1964. 


SOCIAL  THIEVERY. 

Intermittently  one  hears  and  reads  of  the  success 
or  non-success  of  this  or  that  person  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  business  of  "breaking  into  society" 
— a  business  no  more  creditable,  however,  it  is  con- 
sidered, than  that  of  breaking  into  the  houses  of 
society  people.  Much  has  been  said,  and-  much  there 
is  to  say,  upon  the  snobbishness  of  the  Smart  Set — 
our  own  or  any  other — but  what  shall  be  said  from 
that  viewpoint  about  the  vulgarity  of  one  who  es- 
says social  burglary  in  order  to  gain  the  coveted 
cachet  of  snobdom? 

The  motive  of  the  house-breaker,  the  porch- 
climber,  the  sneak-thief,  is  to  get,  without  working 
for  it,  a  share  of  the  ease  and  comfort  enjoyed  by 
those  who  have  worked  for  and  won  it ;  the  motive 
of  the  social  "breaker-in"  is  desire  to  mingle  on  any 
terms  with  those  holding  themselves  a  cut  above 
their  fellow  men  and  women,  to  call  them  by  name, 
to  eat  their  food  and  drink  their  wines,  to  sit  among 
them  at  the  play,  no  longer  unknowing  and  un- 
known, and — acme  of  delights! — to  be  mentioned 
with  the  elect  in  the  society  columns  of  the  papers. 
The  housebreaker  risks  arrest  or  death  ;  the  social 
"breaker-in"  risks  only  a  snubbing,  and  to  the 
"breaker-in"  that  is  as  often  boon  as  bane,  in  that, 
after  all,  it  implies  recognition.  Once  in,  the  burglar 
seeks  to  get  out  again  as  quickly  as  may  be ;  once  in, 
the  "breaker-in"  seeks  to  stay  as  long  as  can  be.  It 
needs  courage  of  a  sort  to  be  a  house-breaker;  it 
needs  essentially  a  meanness  of  soul,  a  poverty  of 
spirit  to  be  a  social  "breaker-in." 

To  be  a  "breaker-in"  argues  either  a  past  of  shady 
places,  a  reputation  with  spots  which  refuse  to  be 
washed  out  or  powdered  over,  or  a  presence  and  a 
personality  too  unpleasant  for  the  endurance  of  those 
who  have  and  exercise  the  power  of  choosing  their 
associates.  It  argues,  too,  that  thickness  of  hide 
which  is  the  outward  sign  of  an  inner  littleness,  in- 
asmuch as  no  man  or  woman  ever  forced  the  doors 
of  society  without  suffering  insult  enough  to  wound 
the  sensibilities  of  a  rhinoceros.  Pointed  reference 
to  the  maculate  reputation,  the  shady  past  or  the 
offensive  personality,  floutings,  sneers,  the  cut  direct 
— these  be  the  portion  even  of  the  successful  "breaker 
in."  And  the  "breaking  into  society"  is  a  matter 
varying  in  its  degrees  of  unpleasantness.  Most  polite 
is  that  plan  of  campaign  which  noiselessly  buys  a 
way  within  hailing  distance  of  the  elect,  lays  lines 
and  spreads  nets  of  entertainment  for  unwary  feet, 
and  then  demands  entertainment  in  return  under  the 
law  of  hospitality.  Less  polite  is  that  procedure 
which  begs  and  begs  for  a  place  at  stranger  boards, 
claims  acquaintanceship  from  the  chance  smile  or 
nod  and  intimacy  from  the  reluctant  introduction. 
Least  polite  of  all  is  the  "breaking  in"  which  is 
achieved  by  force  and  intimidation.  This  is  the 
method  of  the  invader  whose  pen  or  tongue,  skilled 
in  the  uses  of  libel  or  slander,  serves  him  as  the  bur- 
glar is  served  by  his  "jimmy."  Of  such  a  one  it  is 
whispered :  "He  is  dangerous ;  dont'  offend  him," 
and  society,  no  less  vulnerable  than  the  people  never 
listed  as  "among  those  present,"  not  infrequently  en- 
dures such  an  unwelcome  presence  for  fear  of  what 
true  or  untrue  word  of  evil  its  owner  may  say  or 
write. 

Society  is  doubtless  a  pleasant  place  for  those 
who  dwell  in  it  by  right  of  birth  or  breeding  or 
achievement,  but  in  spite  of  Yale  locks  and  doors 
difficult  to  be  carried  away  at  the  hinges,  it  would  ap- 
pear to  have  its  drawbacks,  and  among  them  must  be 


the  struggles  of  those  who  are  "breaking  in"  and  the 
presence  of  those  who.  having  broken  in,  contrive  to 
remain. 


THE  ELEVATOR  DANGER. 
The  public  is  fully  awakened  to  the  necessity  that 
calls  for  the  appointment  of  a  public  inspector  of 
elevators.  This  is  such  a  serious  question  that  it 
demands  the  immediate  attention  of  the  Mayor  or 
the  Board  of  Supervisors.  One  of  these  days  a  rope 
will  break,  a  cog  will  slip,  a  safety  clutch  may  fail 
to  do  its  duty,  and  we  will  have  another  horror  to 
chronicle;  men,  women  and  perhaps  little  children 
will  lay  in  a  mangled  heap,  a  monument  to  the  in- 
capacity and  lack  of  foresight  of  our  municipal  offi- 
cers. The  excuse  is  made  that  the  insurance  com- 
panies inspect  the  elevators.  They  do.  Those  that 
are  insured.  The  elevator  companies  also  make  an 
occasional  inspection.  But  this  is  not  enough.  There 
are  many  elevators  that  are  never  inspected,  and 
these  are  used  for  freight  and  passenger  purposes. 
Many  of  them  are  operated  with  rotten  ropes,  while 
others  are  of  obsolete  and  unsafe  pattern.  It  is  high 
time  that  some  action  was.  taken  by  the  solicitous 
gentlemen  "at  the  Hall,"  who  talk,  talk,  talk,  and  who 
never  do  anything,  but  somebody. 


AGENTS   OF    DISHONESTY. 

Powerfully  at  work  making  our  weak  men  into 
dishonest  men  are  the  race-track,  which  tempts 
them  to  steal,  and  the  surety  company  which  helps 
to  shield  them.  It  is  true  that  the  bond-furnishing 
security  companies  specify  in  their  agreements  that 
the  employer  shall  prosecute  in  case  of  detected 
criminality  on  the  part  of  the  insured,  but  is  there 
on  record  a  case  of  any  such  agreement  being  en- 
forced? The  presence  of  this  clause  in  the  bond 
serves  merely  to  show  that  the  security  companies 
recognize  their  moral  responsibility  and  seek  to  shift 
the  burden  of  the  employer.  In  his  turn,  the  em- 
ployer, reimbursed  by  the  guarantor,  leans  to  gen- 
erosity, and  passes  it  up  to  the  courts  and  the  prose- 
cuting attorney  if  recourse  to  the  law  has  proved 
necessary,  with  a  motion  or  a  suggestion  to  dis- 
miss. It  is  only  when  the  bonded  thief  has  no  money 
or  no  relatives  with  property  to  save  him,  that  he 
is  published  and  prosecuted ;  otherwise,  discovery  of 
the  crime  to  the  public  is  purely  fortuitous. 

Admittedly,  the  security  is  a  business  convenience, 
as  necessary  to  easy  and  economical  commerce  as 
fire  insurance  or  life  insurance,  the  directory  or  the 
telephone,  but  it  has  contributed  much  toward  bring- 
ing about  a  state  of  business  morality  in  which  the 
compounding  of  a  felony  is  regarded  as  no  crime  at 
all.  Embezzlement  has  come  to  be  so  common  a 
thing  in  San  Francisco,  with  its  long  racing  seasons 
and  its  facilities  for  turf  gambling,  that  the  security 
companies  do  business  with  a  view  to  a  high  per- 
centage of  losses.  With  judges  and  public  prosecu- 
tors as  pliant  as  those  who  make  a  mockery  of  jus- 
tice in  our  police  courts,  with  hired  guarantors  in 
the  shape  of  security  companies  to  make  losses  good, 
with  relatives  finally  to  bear  the  loss,  the  crop  of 
crime  is  harvested  daily.  The  security  company  fur- 
nishes rapid  transit  from  the  employer's  cash-drawer 
to  the  pocket  of  the  book-maker. 

It  is  hard  to  say  how  this  cancerous  condition  can 
be  cured.  The  palliation  that  first  suggests  itself 
is  certainty  of  publication  of  every  embezzler's  of- 
fense and  prosecution  of  every  offender,  whether  he 
or  his  relatives  pay  up  or  not.  It  would  be  easy  for 
the    security    companies    to    assume    the    burden    of 


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fn,  and  if  thcv  will  not  assume  it.  the  I  ■  A  STARTLING  CONDITION, 

ily  fasten  it  upon  them.     They  par  Wfi  make  no         ,          ,„  rotur|„        ,,,  „,. 

antee   .he    employer   against    loss;    why    should  not  ,„•  „u.  (.             trSToTthe  port  of  San   Francs,. 

they  guarantee  the   Mate  agains    corruption  of  it?  ^p.^'  with  „u.  ,lll>im.J  ,,,,„,  from  Puget  Sound 

th  -     Hut  this  does  not  touch  the  root  ,„  the  evil  ^    |u.f  au>i.  tl))s  .       inam,r  of  paramou*t  ;          ,. 

-the  race  track  where  crime  is  bred.    \\  e  make  bold  £        „,  ,hc  f(|t        ,)f  „ljs  dt      an(|  i(           ars'tbat 

,y  that  in  three  cases  out  of  four  where  surety  U(.  ^  [M       behind  fa  „     {^  where«*e  snoul(1 

.ing  business  in  San  Francisco  are  called  w  f,,r(.,n„st   '  „  wlll  ,„„  ,,,,  to  shlIl  our           to  this 

pay  back  the  stealings  of  employees,  those  ,,„„,„„,„      lt  imlst  ,R,  faced  aI1(,  ,„,,.     y/e  are  con_ 

have  gone  into  the  betting  rings  ol  the  New  vinced  „)at  .,          ]u.      ^  ^  ,,v,R,„m.  if  ,,„C(,  „„. 

California  Jockey  Uub.     I  hanks  to  this  incorporated  lm.ri.aMtil,  communjty  0f  San  Francisco  is  aroused 

villainy,  ours  has  the  reputation  of  the    widest  open  „,  a  realization  of  lm.aMS  .,„,,  end9. 

town   m  the  United  Mates.     That   is  not  a  pretty  We            nizc  „,c  fact  fuU    that  t|lc  p       t  Souml 

phrase,   but   it  sounds  much   better   than   the   truth.  have  certain    natural   advantages   in  handling 

I  his  truth  is  that  the  California  Jockey  Club  is  mak-  „K,  lrad(,  wi(h    Uaska      Fof  Qne  thf      t,        have  * 

.1    our  young  men   and   harlots  of  our  considerable    geographical    advantage  in     point     of 

young  women,  filling  our  police  benches  with  sleek.  in,,f     to  thc  £anadian  mining  territory  and  other 

smug    rascals,    debauching    the    public    and    private  '    mtg  rcached  b     wa     of  the  £         canaIj  but  tllis 

morals  of  this  community.  advantage  over  San  Francisco  scarcely  applies  to  the 

The  News  Letter  invites  the  attention  of  the  next  American    territory    of   Alaska.      For    instance,    the 

Legislature  to  the  security  companies,  and  also  calls  (,iffcrence   ;n   cost'o{  shipment  to   Nome  from   San 

upon  it  to  check,  if  it  will  not  crush,  the  spreading  Francisco  or   SeattIe   is   a   negligible   quantity.  The 

e\il  ot  the  race  tracks.  most    nnp0rtant   enterprises    in    that    region    are    in 

the  hands  of  San  Francisco  capital.    Why  should  we 

WILL  HELP  CALIFORNIA.  I10t  be  able  to  hold  our  own  in  point  of  trade? 

The  figures  in  regard  to  the  Alaskan  trade  corn- 
In  the  line  of  pure  food  legislation  which  Congress  piieci  by  the  Customs  House  are  startling  enough. 
las  undertaken  to  handle  on  a  comprehensive  plan,  During  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1903,  the  value 
nothing  is  more  important  to  California  than  the  of  shipments  from  the  Pacific  Coast  to  Alaska 
making  of  adequate  provision  to  secure  protection  amounted  to  $9  266  504,  and  of  this  trade  Puget 
.  &  .....  ,  ,.,.,■  *  Sound  secured  $6,138,089;  San  Francisco  $2,955,341, 
against  chemical  imitation  and  sophistication  of  and  Columbia  River  ts  $I73)I24.  That  is  to  say, 
wine.  This  State  practically  has  a  monopoly  for  p  Sound  did  mQre  than  twke  the  San  Francisco 
this  continent  of  the  raw  material  for  making  wine  business  with  Alaska. 

It   is   true   that   considerable   quantities   of  so-called  This  seems  bad  enough    but  the  story  toM  by  the 

wine  is  made  from  grapes  grown  in  the  States  on  the  fi            of  the  Phili     ine  trade  is  even  worse>  for  the 

other  side  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  but  the  fruit  is  .  reason  that  jf  there  ;s           geographical  or  natural 

so  sour  that  the  must  will  not  ferment  without  the  advantage  in  this  commerce  it  lies  with  San  Fran- 

addition   of   large   quantities     of     sugar.     This    of  dsco      The  folIowin     table  shows   how  the  export 

course,  is  a  legitimate  industry  m  the  sense  that  the  busmess    was    distributed   during   the    nine    months 

product  is  wholesome,  so  long  as  no  sophisticating  ending  on  September  30th,  in  1902  and  1903: 
ingredients   are   used    other   than    sugar.      But   this 

sort  of  wine  will  never  constitute  a  serious  competi-  From 10,02  iqc? 

tor  for  the  California  product. 

The  object   of   legislation   should  be  to   stop   the      Humboldt,    Cal    $20,167  $12,315 

manufacture    of    chemical    wines,    filthy    decoctions      San  Francisco 827,537  479>°4n 

compounded  in  secret.    Much  of  this  poisonous  stuff      Puget  Sound    ' 306.876  1,128,999 

is  made  in  this  country,  but  more  comes  from  France.      Portland   and   Astoria    188,303  87,977 

The   town   of   Cette,    a   very   considerable   place,   is 

wholly  supported  by  the  making  of  spurious  wines,  Our  trade  is  growing  less ;  that  of  Puget  Sound  is 

and  its  export  trade  reaches  large  proportions.  There  advancing  by  leaps  and  bounds.     This  condition  is 

is  no  doubt  that  the  greater  part  of  what  people  in  not  due  to  natural  causes,  and  it  calls  for  energetic 

this  country  drink  out  of  bottles  carrying  a  French  work  and  concerted  action.    We  are  convinced  that 

label  comes  from  this  identical  town  of  Cette,  and  is  the  figures  and  the  tendency  shown  in  these  returns 

nothing  better  than  a  chemical  compound.  can  be  reversed,  if  only  the  mercantile  community 

The  wines  of  California  are  genuine,  and  this  is  will  wake  up  and  get  a  move  on. 
something  that  cannot  be  said  with  certainty  of  the 

professed  product  of  some  other  regions.  It  is  in  the  MORE  LETTER  CARRIERS. 
interest  of  consumers  almost  as  much  as  producers  The  gratifymg  intelligence  comes  to  us  that  we 
that  a  genuine  manufacture  should  be  encouraged  ,  _nnmber  of  letter  carr;er=  added  to  the 
and  this  industry  especially  is  more  than  usually  are  to  nave,..a«tfiumber  ot  letter  carriers  added  to  the 
beneficial,  for  the  reason  that  in  its  prosecution  the  locaI  force-  There  are  two  very  g°od  reasons  why 
man  who  makes  his  living  from  the  soil  is  enabled  the  Government  should  increase  the  force.  The  pres- 
to bring  to  market  an  article  that  is  not  mere  raw  ent  force  is  overworked,  and  while  it  is  one  of  the 
material,  but  has  been  advanced  in  his  hands  to  the  most  competent  of  all  the  offices  in  the  service,  it  is, 
quality  of  a  finished  product.  In  a  word,  the  grape-  at  the  same  time,  the  most  strenuously  worked.  It 
grower  is  not  only  an  agriculturalist  but  a  manufac-  is  but  simple  humanity  to  relieve  the  present  force 
turer  besides,  and  should  be  enabled  to  make  a  profit  of  the  extraordinary  labor  they  are  performing.  It 
from  each  of  his  industrial  functions.-  is  but  justice  to  the  merchants  of  this  city  to  give 
It  is  in  view  of  these  considerations  that  the  bill  them  even  a  better  service  than  the  one  now  in 
introduced  by  Representative  Bell  in  Congress  should  vogue.  The  carriers  will  lessen  the  labor  of  their 
have  the  active  support  of  all  Californians,  whether  brethren  and  earn  the  heartfelt  thanks  of  the  business 
directly  interested  in  grape  growing  or  otherwise.  community. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


PATRIOTISM   FOR  PROFIT. 

There  is  a  newspaper  published  in  New  York 
called  the  "Political  Liberty  Herald."  It  is  full  of 
the  wildest  stuff  regarding  Great  Britain,  "our  hered- 
itary enemy."  It  opposes  retention  of  the  Philip- 
pines, and  wishes  to  grant  full  citizenship  to  all 
1'orto  Ricans  and  Hawaiians,  and  besides  this,  has 
a  violent  desire  to  admit  Cuba  into  the  union  as  a 
full-fledged  State.  Here  we  have  the  names  of  the 
executive  committee:  C.  B.  Luclekins,  J.  G.  Lazarus, 
Sigmund  Horkimer,  C.  V.  McConologue  and  Daniel 
O'Callaghan,  chief  organizer  and  secretary.  We 
suspect  that  Ludekins,  who  is  an  ex-Confederate, 
a  fire-eater,  formerly  a  Cuban  Insurgent,  is  the  angel 
who  is  putting  up  the  necessary  coin  to  educate  the 
American  people.  He  is  about  the  only  American 
in  the  bunch,  and  he  once  tried  to  cut  the  country  in 
two,  and  helped  try  pull  down  the  flag.  The  others, 
judging  by  their  names,  are  suspender  and  collar- 
button  peddlers  from  the  New  York  ghetto  and  un- 
reconstructed Fenians.  Let  us  see.  A  Confederate, 
three  expatriated  Polish  Jews,  and  two  ex-Fenians. 
That  ought  to  make  a  prettv  good  committee  to  re- 
form the  American  people,  regulate  their  morals 
and  their  politics. 

In  order  to  become  a  full-fledged  American  patriot, 
blown  in  the  bottle,  none  genuine  without  signature, 
send  on  one  dollar  for  26  copies  of  a  newspaper, 
Your  $1.00  will  furnish  a  20-cent  meal  to  each  of  the 
army  of  "Political  Liberty"  and  the  genial  General 
Doctor  ( ?)  Ludekins  will  pay  for  his  own  provender. 

Here  is  the  way  this  modest  gent  speaks  of  him- 
self: "Dr.  Ludekins  is  a  descendent  of  the  Norsemen, 
those  wild  rovers  of  the  deep,  who  swooped  down 
upon  their  enemies  like  a  hurricane,  those  daring 
spirits  who  knew  no  fear  but  believed  that  the  weak- 
ling and  the  coward  went  to  hell."  Whoop-la!  There 
will  be  the  devil  to  pay  when  the  next  invasion  of 
Canada  begins,  and  Dr.  Ludekins.  "the  eminent  mili- 
tary tactician,  the  dashing  and  redoubtable  staff 
courier,  who  had  borne  all  hardships  without  a  mur- 
mur, and  for  whom  no  danger  had  had  terrors," 
storms  Toronto  or  Timahoo.  If  the  "eminent  mili- 
tary tactician"  could  induce  Willie  Hearst  and  Har- 
rison Gray  Otis  to  join  him,  on  Lieutenant's  com- 
missions, we  might  give  them  all  a  pension  and  a 
nice  little  island  near  Borneo,  where  they  could  all 
live  together  and  never  quarrel  and  never  come  back. 
How  thankful  we  should  all  be  to  the  dear  Doctor. 


THE  CONDUCTOR  MAN. 

The  street  car  service  in  San  Francisco  would  be 
greatly  improved  if  conductors  would  refrain  from 
ringing  the  go-ahead  bell  until  passengers  had 
reached  the  ground  with  both  feet.  A  somersault  or 
a  hop-skip-and  jump  upon  alighting  from  a  car  is 
not  conducive  to  dignity,  convenience  or  pleasure, 
however  amusing  it  may  be  to  the  conductor  and 
other  observers  of  the  performance.  Of  course  the 
"rules"  provide  for  a  full  stop  of  sufficient  length  of 
time  to  enable  the  passenger  to  alight  in  a  comfort- 
able and  safe  sort  of  a  way,  but  so  many  conductors 
suspend  the  rules  at  times  that  one  wonders  why  the 
company  bothers  itself  to  formulate  them,  seeing 
that  conductors,  like  the  aspiring  anarchist,  insist 
upon  being  a  law  unto  themselves. 

Then,  again,  it  would  conduce  to  the  pleasure  and 
information  of  strangers  more  especially  if  conduc- 
tors would  not  feel  and  look  bored  when  a  question 
of  location  or  distance  was  asked.  They  should  see 
that  it  is  asking  too  much  of  a  passenger  to  know 
as  much  about  anything  as  they  know,  and  for  that 


reason  they  should  at  least  condescend  to  be  com- 
municative when  questions  of  great  importance  to 
the  passenger  are  asked.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
conductor  should  not  feel  it  incumbent  upon  him  to 
force  a  passenger  into  a  discussion  of  the  weather, 
of  politics,  of  religion.  These  are  questions  of  not 
sufficient  general  interest  to  make  subjects  of  unin- 
vited opinion  ;  besides,  most  people  are  pretty  well 
grounded  in  their  beliefs  and  the  length  of  the  jour- 
ney does  not  give  sufficient  time  to  the  conductor  to 
present  a  logical  and  convincing  argument.  But  all 
that  sort  of  thing  can  be  borne  in  more  or  less  com- 
placency if  he  will  only  keep  his  hands  off  the  go- 
ahead  bell-cord  until  the  passenger  has  planted  his 
second  foot  upon  solid  ground. 

CONCERNING   THE    RIGHT   TO    DIG. 

The  protest  of  the  Sewer  Workers'  Union  of  Ala- 
meda County  against  the  undertaking  of  students  of 
the  University  of  California  to  grade  the  campus,  im- 
plies and  even  formulates  a, new  sort  of  divine  right 
No  others  but  these  heaven-sent  and  God-given 
sewer  workers  may  dig  or  grub  in  the  bowels  of 
Mother  Earth.  They  have  assumed  by  solemn  reso- 
lution of  the  union  a  proprietary  right  in  the  work 
of  shoveling  sand.  They  do  not  say  what  dire  con- 
sequences may  follow  should  any  heedless  person 
or  persons  assume  to  invade  that  right,  and  the  pen- 
alties that  may  be  inflicted  upon  the  heads  of  the  in- 
vaders are  left  to  the  imagination,  but  if,  as  we  judge, 
the  sewer  workers  regard  their  monopoly  as  a  divine 
dispensation,  doubtless  they  should  call  on  Provi- 
dence to  visit  pains  and  penalties  on  the  invaders. 
"When  Adam  delved  and  Eve  span, 
Where  was  then  the  gentleman?" 
Possibly  the  sewer  workers  of  Alameda  County 
can  answer  this  historical  question  in  their  accus- 
tomed method — by  resolution.  Like  their  brother 
unions,  they  have  undertaken  to  regulate  the  uni- 
verse on  a  plan  which  is  their  exclusive  property 
by  right  of  discovery.  Every  shovelful  of  sand  must 
carry  the  union  label,  and  no  sort  of  work  may  be 
undertaken  until  the  horny  fist  of  the  walking  dele- 
gate, thrust  out  behind  his  back,  is  filled. 

Professor  MacDowell,  eminent  as  a  composer  and 
as  head  of  Columbia  University's  Musical  Depart- 
ment is  resigning  his  chair  with  the  sorrowful  com- 
ment: "As  far  as  general  culture  is  concerned,  college 
graduates  are  the  merest  barbarians."  Are  we  to  in- 
fer that  Columbia  has  a  glee  club  and  that  Professor 
MacDowell  has  heard  it  sing? 


KCHAS  KL1LUS  &  CO£*J 

&£XCL  US/V£.m> 
HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

We  put  that  Seventy-five  and  Eighty  dollar  Effect  in  our  "IM- 
MEDIATE SERVICE  CLOTHES,"  at  moderate  prices.  Cor- 
rect smart  dressers  Know  that  our  garments  are  properly  balanced, 
correctly  styled,  with  progressive  ideas.  Being  "  MEN'S 
CLOTHIERS  ONLY"  we  fit  accurately. 


T^/ii/r/oH^BJocMs 


February  13.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


How     .San     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


lv    Ferr%e.\jld     Trtven.     Tourist 


Really.  pood  people,  yon  positively  overwhelm  me. 
In  tin-  mail  which  Roger  brings  me  I  find  no  less  than 
letters,  each  of  them  propounding  a  different  sill) 
lion.  I  beg  '"  assure  yon,  my  dear  News  Loiter. 
that  I  am  not  a  bureau  of  information,  and  because 
descended  to  settle  the  beefsteak  question  in 
•eek's  number,  it  is  no  reason  I  should  be  fa- 
1  by  answering  a  lot  of  correspondence  which 
inly  originate  from  the  lower  classes,  t  >ne  in- 
sulting letter  asks  the  question:  "Is  it  right  to  talk 
idy  and  have  your  hands  in  your  pocket?"  Now. 
c  me — any  chap  who  is  half  way  decent  or 
quarterly  decently  bred,  knows,  or  should  know,  in- 
tively,  that  a  man  must  not  retain  his  hands  in 
his  pockets,  gloved  or  ungloved,  while  talking  to  a 
an.  Of  course,  some  persons  among  you  are 
sinful  enough  to  be  indecent  to  the  extent  of  going 
ungloved,  but  better  gloveless  than  pockets  full  of 
hands.  I  am  trying  to  educate  you.  The  balance  of 
the  letters  are  really  unkind  and  vulgar,  and  I  refuse 
to  pay  any  attention  to  the  contents  or  the  writers. 

Still,  I  want  to  justify  myself  to  the  extent  that  if 
any  person  who  writes  me  a  letter  is  to  the  manor 
born,  be  will  disclose  his  identity,  or  if  he  will  call  on 
me  personally,  I  will  tell  him  the  proper  thing  to  do. 

I  decline  to  answer  any  questions  about  the  pin- 
ning of  a  mackintosh,  the  use  of  a  nail  cleaner  in  pub- 
lic, or  the  other  questions  propounded,  or  about  the 
taking  out  of  the  sweetheart  and  shuttling  the  chap- 
eron.    The   writers  are  among  the   unmentionables. 

Amongst  the  nine  letters  I  received  is  one  from 
some  person  who  has  the  consummate  audacity  to 
question  my  lineage.  This  individual  I  spurn  and 
refer  him  to  the  Debrett,  or  if  he  prefers  it,  to  that 
miscellaneous  publication  published  in  New  York 
entitled  "Who's  Who?"  The  investigator  will  find 
that  Travers  is  there  all  the  time,  and  1  trust  an  apol- 
ogy from  the  letter  writer  will  be  forthcoming,  or  I 
shall  have  to  cut  nim  when  I  meet  him.  Of  course 
you  chaps  out  here  don't  know  much  so  far  as  correct 
dressing,  or  gloving  or  booting  is  concerned,  but  if 
you  would  follow  me  you  would  learn,  and  as  to  the 
ordering  of  a  correct  dinner  one  of  your  best  fellows 
here  has  in  my  presence  ordered  sparkling  wine  with 
the  soup !  There  were  women  present,  and  while  he 
paid  the  bill  afterwards,  or  owed  it,  I'm  blamed  if 
he  could  do  the  same  order  in  England  or  even  in 
New  York  without  being  ostracised.  The  women 
present  failed  to  call  his  attention  to  the  bad  form, 
and  I  truly  think  that  the  amount  of  his  bill  made 
him  think  he  was  doing  the  proper  thing.  He  did  in 
cash,  but  the  correct  method  was  not  a  very  near 
relation  in  his  family. 

In  my  innermost  self  even  I  am  sorry  to  think  that 
I  can't  do  you  persons  very  much  good.  It  seems  to  be 
bred  in  your  bones  to  do  the  wrong  thing  at  the 
wrong  time.  Take  the  theatres.  Your,  people  will 
dutifully  listen  to  Patti  or  Langtry  until  the  curtain 
drops,  and  then  wait  a  few  seconds  beyond.  But  in 
other  than  star  performances  here,  your  folks  make  a 
rustle  and  a  noise  and  disturb  the  finish  of  the  play 
in  a  sort  of  a  mad,  crazy  endeavor  to  get  out  first. 
Their  rush  is  to  show  their  frocks,  and  secure  a  back 
seat  in  some  cellar  restaurant,  where  one  can't  get 
anything  decent  to  eat,  and  only  indecent  things  to 
drink.  Your  people  would  listen  to  a  star  to  the 
finish,  but  you  forget  that  the  other  stars  of  greater 
or  less  magnitude  are  doing  their  best  to  entertain 


you,  and  are  a-  artists  worthy  your  consideration. 
If  not.  why  do  you  go  to  bear  them?  It  is  '  nl\ 
,1  sign  of  ill  breeding  when  a  person  reaches 
for    garments    before    the    climax.      Among    the    nine 

letters  you  sent  to  me  by   Roger,  the  following,   I 

think,  is  the  only   really  decent  one.  and   il    touches 

on  this  very  subject  of  the  ill-bred  manner  and  bad 
form  of  the  late-comers  and  early-goers  of  your 
city's  theatre  patrons: 

"My  Dear  Travers:  I  am  unknown  to  you.  but 
won't  you,  through  the  News  Letter,  beg  the  indul- 
gence of  audiences  for  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  on 
the  stage  of  the  various  theatres  of  San  Francisco. 
For  those  poor  people  who  have  to  leave  before  the 
fall  of  the  curtain  on  the  last  act  I  have  only  com- 
miseration. Those  early-risers  are,  for  the  most 
part,  people  who  are  employed  as  domestics  in  the 
homes  of  the  rich,  and,  if  they  did  not  return  at 
stated  hours,  would  be  in  danger  of  summary  dis- 
charge." 

I  withhold  the  name  of  the  gentleman  who  sent  me 
this  communication.  He  is  a  clubman  and  a  thea- 
tre patron.  I  really  think  he  is  correct  in  charging 
the  early-rising  to  the  servant  women.  If  any  other 
should  rush  and  disturb  the  finish  of  an  artistic  per- 
formance, I  but  judge  that  the  thirst  for  a  peg  or  a 
mug  is  greater  than  their  love  for  the  play,  and  even 
if  they  are  not,  they  would,  judging  from  their  rude 
manners,  be  counted  serving  maids.  No  other  class 
would  be  low  enough  in  even  the  imitation  of  good 
breeding  to  disturb  the  audience,  and  mar  the  effect 
of  the  actors'  last  efforts  to  the  extent  of  spoiling  the 
climax.  I  may  be  wrong,  but  this  is  the  opinion  of 
Travers. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


Z5f>e    Minister    of    Foreig'n    Affairs 


What  diplomacy   failed   to   do  to 

War  Settling       settle     the    differences     between 

Differences.        japan  and   Russia,     armies     and 

warships  are  now  trying  to  ac- 
complish. Japan  committed  the  overt  act  by  attack- 
ing Russian  ships  of  war  and  seizing  ships  of  com- 
merce, but  Russia  invited  the  attack  by  acts  of  per- 
fidy and  hypocrisy.  The  varying  fortunes  of  the  con- 
testing forces  are  flashed  over  the  world  almost 
hourly,  with  such  coloring  as  news  censors  deem  fit 
to  give.  But  what  the  nations  are  most  concerned 
about  is  possible  complications  that  may  involve 
them  as  allies  of  one  or  the  other  of  the  belligerents. 
Before  the  acute  point  in  diplomacy  was  reached, 
the  News  Letter's  analysis  of  the  situation  and  of 
the  several  factors  that  were  entering  one  by  one 
into  the  controversy,  together  with  a  forecast  of 
coming  events,  has  been  verified  almost  in  detail. 
War  between  Japan  and  Russia  is  an  actual  fact. 
And  now  what  will  the  outcome  of  it  all  be?  Will 
other  nations  become  involved?  What  will  be  the 
effect  of  the  war  upon  other  nations?  When  peace 
comes,  will  the  map  of  Europe  and  Asia  have  to  be 
changed  so  as  to  conform  to  new  national  boundary 
lines?    These  are  vital  questions  just  now. 

Predictions  verified,  the  News  Letter  has  insisted 
that  Russian  occupancy  of  Manchuria  and  not 
Japan's  demand  for  a  paramount  voice  in  Korea's 
affairs  was  the  real  bone  of  contention,  and  now 
Japan  herself  has  confirmed  it.  Japan  is  sure  of 
Korea.  That  is  admitted  on  all  sides.  It  follows, 
then,  that  Japan  is  waging  a  war  to  crush  Russian  su- 
premacy in  Manchuria,  and  it  would  he  a  cowardly 
shutting  the  eyes  to  a  glaring  fact  to  refuse  to  see 
that  Japan  is  not  only  waging  a  war  to  protect 
her  own  commercial  interests  in  Manchuria,  but  is 
voicing  the  "amen"  of  China,  Great  Britain  and  the 
United  States  in  every  roar  of  her  muskets  and  ar- 
tillery, for  these  nations  are  equally  interested  with 
Japan  in  the  purpose  to  be  accomplished,  except  as 
to  China,  whose  interest  is  far  greater,  for  upon  the 
success  of  Japan's  arms  depends  China's  title  to  Man- 
churia and  her  right  to  extend  her  authority  over  it. 
The  United  States  and  Great  Britain,  with  Japan, 
recently  signed  a  commercial  treaty  with  China  that 
fully  recognized  the  Peking  Government's  owner- 
ship of  and  rightful  sovereignty  over  Manchuria, 
and  utterly  ignors  and  repudiates  Russia's  preten- 
sions in  that  region.  These  nations  went  so  far  as 
to  establish,  on  paper  at  least,  consulates  in  Man- 
churia against  an  implied  protest  of  Russia. 

Now  that  Japan  is  at  war  with 
Natural  Allies.  Russia  to  re-establish  China's 
ownership  of  Manchuria  and 
make  the  commercial  treaty  between  China  and 
Japan,  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain  effective 
and  operative.  To  acomplish  that,  Russia  must  be 
defeated  and  driven  out  of  Manchuria.  If  Japan  can 
do  that  alone,  so  much  the  better  for  her  and  all  con- 
cerned, for  such  a  victory  would  at  once  place  her 
high  up  on  the  list  of  the  world's  greatest  nations; 
besides,  then  the  question  of  her  influence  being  para- 
mount in  Korea  would  never  be  questioned  nor  her 
equal  trade  rights  everywhere  "with  the  most 
favored  nations." 


But  if  Russia  defeats  Japan, 
Consequence  of  China  will  lose  forever  Man- 
Japan's  Defeat.  churia,  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  will  be  denied 
satisfactory  commercial  rights  in  Manchuria,  Japan 
will  be  set  back  half  a  century,  Russia  will  absorb 
still  other  Chinese  territory,  Germany  and  France  will 
have  the  Czar's  consent  to  increase  largely  the  boun- 
dary lines  of  their  spheres  of  influence"  in  China, 
all  of  which  will  finally  result  in  reducing  the  Chi- 
nese Empire  to  a  small  nation  of  little  consequence 
and  less  influence.  The  whole  question,  then,  re- 
solves itself  into  this:  will  the  United  States,  Great 
Britain  and  China  sit  idly  by  and  see  Japan  defeated 
and  the  supremacy  of  Russia  extended,  not  only  in 
Manchuria,  but  in  other  territory  of  China,  which 
would  mean  that  the  Anglo-Saxon  had  passed  over 
the  heights  of  commercial  and  industrial  and  finan- 
cial mightiness,  and  was  going  down  to  the  valley 
of  a  "has  been?"  But  the  United  States,  Great  Brit- 
ain, Japan  and  China  know  exactly  what  Russian 
success  on  the  battlefield  would  mean  to  them,  and 
hence  it  may  now  be  recorded  a  fact  that  when  peace 
is  sued  for  the  Anglo-Saxon  will  be  there  to  draw  up 
the  declaration,  and  in  the  articles  of  agreement  his 
interests  will  be  amply  protected  then  and  provided 
for  in  the  future. 

Turning  to  Europe,  the  influence  of 
The  Far  and  the  war  in  the  Far  East  is  distinctly 
Near  East.  seen  in  the  Near  East.  The  unrest- 
in  Bulgaria  and  Macedonia,  which 
has  been  the  source  of  alarming  threatenings  against 
the  peace  and  integrity  of  the  Turkish  Empire  di- 
rectly and  all  Europe  indirectly,  is  rapidly  assum- 
ing proportions  that  is  almost  certain  to  blaze  up 
into  a  revolution  in  all  the  Balkan  region  against 
kingly  rule  of  any  kind.  Notwithstanding  the  people 
of  the  Near  East  have  an  unsavory  reputation  for 
honesty  and  decency — freebooters,  highway  robbers 
and  the  like — their  leaders  have  become  imbued  with 
the  notion  that  a  Balkan  Republic,  to  include  most 
of  the  Near  East,  would  be  conducive  to  the  better- 
ment of  the  conditions  of  existence  of  their  people, 
and  the  word  has  already  gone  forth  that  the  war  in 
the  Far  East  will  be  taken  advantage  of  to  make  their 
declaration  of  independence  and  to  defend  it  to  the 
utmost  of  the  people's  military  strength.  Hitherto 
Russia  has  kept  a  hand  raised  to  crush  any  mani- 
festation of  the  kind,  and  also  has  in  one  way  and 
another  given  the  Sultan  sufficient  moral  aid  to  keep 
his  backbone  pretty  stiff  in  dealing  with  the  Balkan 
people.  But  for  awhile,  at  least,  the  Czar  will  have 
both  his  hands  too  full  of  trouble  in  Manchuria  to 
attempt  any  crushing  of  young  and  aspiring  repub- 
lics in  the  Near  East.  Reports  from  Constantinople 
are  to  the  effect  that  in  anticipation  of  such  an  up- 
rising in  the  Balkans  the  Sultan  has  about  decided, 
under  Russian  influence,  to  send  an  army  against 
Bulgaria,  ostensibly  to  avenge  certain  insults,  but 
in  reality  to  crush  the  Republic's  bud  before  it  blos- 
soms out  into  a  federation  under  the  significant  name 
of  "United  States  of  the  Balkans." 


If  you  want  to  eat  the  best,  drink  the  best,  and  be 

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February  13.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


THE  FERRY  NEWS  STAND. 

Harbor  Commissioner  Kirkpatrick  did  exactly 
•  was  expected  of  him  at  the  last  meeting  of  the 
-  I.  He  is  the  one  member  of  the  Board  who 
ilways  been  held  by  the  public  as  above  suspi- 
His  training  has  always  been  with  gentlemen, 
and  he  shies  at  anything  that  savors  of  jobbing  and 
nepotism.  There  is  no  one  who  could  dispense  the 
's  money  to  relatives  or  friends  with  a  more 
lavish  hand  than  Kirkpatrick,  except  that  Kirkpat- 
rick is  an  honest  and  conscientious  citizen.  Spear 
is  providing  for  a  needy  relative  and  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  Kirkpatrick  will  stand  pat  and  refuse 
in  a  questionable  transaction.  Colonel 
Kirkpatrick  has  done  just  what  any  faithful  State 
officer  should  do,  and  it  is  with  pleasure  we  record 
his  words: 

"Is  it  not  about  time  to  advertise  for  bids  with 
a  view  to  ascertaining  definitely  what  this  privilege 
is  worth  to  the  State  ?  Is  it  not  our  duty  to  advertise  ? 
The  matter  has  drifted  into  an  unfortunate  condi- 
tion. The  rental  is  from  month  to  month,  but  no  one 
can  do  business  unless  there  is  some  permanency. 
We  cannot  go  along  giving  A  the  privilege  one  month 
and  allowing  B  to  come  in  with  another  bid.  There 
should  be  a  definite  settlement.  I  have  been  asked 
if  a  higher  bid  than  $1,500  would  be  accepted.  Per- 
haps we  have  not  been  offered  the  amount  the  State 
ought  to  receive.  I  understand  that  a  large  sum 
of  money  is  paid  for  a  similar  privilege  on  railway 
trains." 

It  must  be  galling  to  a  sensitive  nature,  such  as 
Colonel  Kirkpatrick's,  to  have  to  associate  with  such 
a  burly  wit  as  Spear  and  such  a  discredited  impor- 
tation as  Mackenzie.  The  latter  remained  in  San 
Jose  just  long  enough  to  become  a  stench  to  the  sen- 
sitive nasal  organ  of  Jim  Rea,  and  then  he  had  to 
leave.  The  authorities  had  to  provide  him  with  an 
office,  because,  in  any  event,  he  is  a  public  charge, 
so  they  made  him  Harbor  Commissioner.  What  was 
San  Jose's  gain  was  our  distinct  loss. 

The  matter  of  the  ferry  news  stand  privilege  was 
left  in  abeyance,  with  the  legal  bid  of  $1,500  on  file, 
and  the  $1,200  bid  accepted  by  the  two  conscienceless 
politicians,  who,  it  is  said,  are  exploiting  every  priv- 
ilege on  the  water  front,  from  North  Beach  to  the 
Potrero,  to  their  own,  their  relatives  and  their 
henchmen's  advantage. 

The  situation  calls  for  investigation  by  the  Gov- 
ernor. He  surely  has  no  estimate  of  the  enemies 
Charley  Spear  is  making  for  the  administration.  In 
every  direction  this  antipathist  extraordinary  goes 
right  on,  and  unlike  Midas,  turns  all  cleanly  things 
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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


BTe 


Any  one  who  wishes  to  know  Who 

Who's  Who?  is  Who  has  hut  to  turn  to  the  an- 
nual biography  under  that  title 
which  has  again  been  published  by  the  Macmillan 
Company.  This  is  the  fifty-sixth  issue  of  this  con- 
venient dictionary.  In  order  to  make  it  more  com- 
pletely a  Biographical  Annual,  and  also  for  reasons 
of  space,  the  tables  which  formed  the  first  part  of 
"Who's  Who"  are  this  year  issued  in  a  separate 
book  called  "Who's  Who  Year  Book." 

"Who's  Who."  An  Annual  Biographical  Diction- 
ary.   The  Macmillan  Company,  New  York. 

Funk   &    Wagnalls     Coin- 
Sevastopol  and  parry  have  chosen  well  the 

Other  Military  Tales,    time    to    bring    before    the 
English      reader      a      new 
translation   of   "Sevastopol"    (the   first  volume   of  a 
complete  series  of  Tolstoy's  works.) 

Aside  from  the  historical  records  these  tales  are 
interesting  because  of  their  psychological  element. 
Tolstoy  makes  you  see  into  the  souls  of  his  charac- 
ters ;  you  walk,  talk,  eat  and  drink  with  them  in  an 
atmosphere  of  smoke,  shot  and  shell  until,  standing 
in  that  terrible  Fourth  Bastion,  you  realize  the  "spirit 
of  these  defenders  of  Sevastopol." 

No  translation  is  ever  absolutely  perfect,  but  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Maude  have  vastly  improved  upon  the 
methods  of  those  who  before  them  have  attempted 
to  reproduce  the  thoughts  of  the  great  Russian.  Tol- 
stoy says  of  the  present  translators : 

"Better  translators  both  for  knowledge  of  the  two 
languages  and  for  penetration  into  the  very  meaning 
of  the  matter  translated  could  not  be  invented." 

"Sevastopol  and  Other  Military  Tales."  By  Leo 
Tolstoy.  Translated  by  Louise  and  Aylmer  Maude. 
$1.50.     Funk  &  Wagnalls  Company,  New  York. 

When   in   '97     Miss     Glasgow 

In  Deliverance.  gave  us  her  first  book,  we  were 
willing  to  overlook  the  crudity 
for  the  sake  of  the  promise  lying  underneath.  Since 
then  we  have  tried  to  see  in  each  succeeding  novel 
an  improvement  that  gave  us  hopes  of  a  truer,  more 
natural  view  of  life;  but,  alas!  this  last  book  has  all 
the  defects  of  its  predecessors,  with  a  few  of  its  own. 
What  manner  of  men  can  Miss  Glasgow  know  that 
her  heroes  are  all  of  the  unpleasant  type  of  Christo- 
pher Blake?  Miss  Glasgow  has  imagination,  and 
there  is  romance  of  a  high  quality  in  the  figure  of 
old  Mistress  Blake,  blind  and  crippled,  sitting  in  the 
overseer's  house,  and  supposing  it  to  be  her  old  home, 
while  her  devoted  children  go  hungry  and  in  rags 
that  she  may  lack  nothing,  and  be  kept  in  merciful 
ignorance  of  the  defeat  of  the  beloved  South  and  the 
loss  of  a  great  estate. 

"The  Deliverance."  By  Ellen  Glasgow.  Double- 
day,  Page  &  Co.,  New  York. 

This  is  a  new  edition  of  Pierce 

Life  in  London.  Egan's  book  dedicated'  to 
"His  Most  Gracious  Majesty. 
King  George  IV."  The  sub-title  is  "The  Day  and 
Night  Scenes  of  Jerry  Hawthorn,  Esq.,  and  his  ele- 
gant friend,  Corinthian  Tom,  accompanied  by  Bob 
Logic,  the  Oxonian,  in  their  rambles  and  sprees 
through  the  Metropolis."  It  is  a  beautiful  re-print, 
containing  a  number  of  designs  and  etchings  by  the 
Cruikshanks. 

Concerning  the  book  itself  but  little  need  be  said. 
Il  is  written  in  the  almost  punctiliously  correct  prose 


of  the  beginning  of  last  century,  and  abounds  in  the 
ostentatiously  and  pugnaciously  vigorous  patriotism 
of  that  age.  It  is  brimful  of  interesting  and  suggest- 
ive notes  on  the  morals  and  manners  of  the  period, 
and  is  infinitely  more  useful  from  a  historical  point 
of  view  than  twenty  volumes  of  sober  essays  dealing 
with  the  period.  As  an  instance  of  the  social  and 
convivial  habits  of  the  British  aristocracy  at  that  per- 
iod, the  following  quotation  may  he  made:  "'It  will 
not  do,'  says  Tom,  "to  spend  more  than  a  single  day 
at  his  Lordship's  seat,  for  there  the  remedy  would 
prove  worse  than  the  disease.  His  Lordship  is  a 
fine  bottle  man,  at  least,  and  his  principal  enjoyment 
consists  in  challenging  his  company  to  keep  pace 
with  him,  glass  for  glass,  till  he  sees  the  whole  of 
his  guests  drop  under  the  table,  or  otherwise  disposed 
of,  and  then  exulting  in  the  words  of  Hippocrates : 
"The  only  health  to  people  hale  and  sound 
Is  to  have  many  a  tippling  health   go  round." 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

This    is    another    re-print    of 

National  Sports  of  an  old  hook  in  the  same- 
Great  Britain.  series  as  the  preceding.  The 
issue  is  founded  on  the  edi- 
tion published  by  Thomas  M'Lean  in  1825.  There 
are  no  less  than  fifty  plates,  colored,  dealing  with 
racing,  fox-hunting,  shooting  wild  fowl,  dog-fighting, 
cock-fighting,  bull-baiting,  bear-hunting,  badger- 
baiting,  etc.  The  preface  contains  a  very  naively 
written  defense  of  sport,  most  of  which  is  very 
humorous  when  regarded  as  an  apology  for  much 
which  is  considered  intolerably  cruel  at  the  present 
day.  and  which  would  not  be  endured  even  by  the 
lowest  of  the  populace,  although  these  amusements 
formed  the  regular  diversion  of  the  upper  classes  a 
hare  hundred  years  ago.  A  quotation  from  this  pre- 
face runs:  "Man  was  not  intended  by  the  Creator  to 
pass  a  life  of  inaction  and  idleness ;  on  the  contrary, 
the  most  active  duties  have  been  imposed  upon  him, 
by  nature  and  necessity.  The  pursuit  of  wild  ani- 
mals must  be  necessary  to  human  subsistence  in  the 
early  stages  of  society,  hence  man  is  naturally  a 
sportsman,  and  from  this  source,  with  the  stimulus  of 
native  curiosity,  and  desire  of  action  and  diversion, 
originated  the  system  universallv  designated  as 
sport." 

Too  much  praise  cannot  be  bestowed  upon  the 
manner  in  which  this  edition  has  been  prepared. 
The  plates  are  admirable,  the  print  and  paper  exceed- 
ingly good  in  so  cheap  a  work,  the  price  being  hut 
a  dollar  and  a  half.  This  series  should  make  a  very 
valuable  addition  to  any  library,  and  if  the  present 
standard  is  maintained,  must  of  necessity  become 
very  popular  with  those  who  are  not  led  away  by  the 
passing  fads  of  the  hour.  It  is  instructive  and  at 
times  very  humorous  reading. 

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February  13,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Dear  Bessie:  Do  you  know,  there  i-  a  positive  sigh 
of  relief  that  this  is  tin-  hist  week  of  the  season,  and 
that  society  will  have  a  chance  to  do  a  little  resting. 
1  say  little,  for  of  course  every  one  is  not  goil 
wear  sackcloth  anil  ashes,  ami  things  will  continue 
to  be  given  even  if  it  is  Lent  ;  but  they  will  be  fewer 
and  farther  between,  and  of  less  formal  character. 
But  rest  is  sadly  needed,  ami  that  it  is  coming  makes 
me  feel  inclined  to  give  special  thanks  in  the  sanc- 
tuary  to-morrow. 

there  are  some  who  think  this  has  not  been  so 
strenuous  a  week  as  either  of  the  two  just  gone  be- 
fore. Perhaps  not,  so  far  as  dancing  goes,  though 
even  of  that  there  has  been  no  lack,  but  certainly  in 
the  way  of  dinners  and  luncheons  there  were  more 
than  enough  for  many.  To  begin  with,  Mrs.  Frank 
Carolan  gave  a  tea  in  her  rooms  at  the  Palace  on 
Monday  afternoon,  which  was  a  gorgeous  affair.  1 
wish  you  could  have  seen  some  of  the  gowns,  and 
what  a  liberal  education  it  would  have  been  to  my 
dressmaker  if  I  could  have  smuggled  her  in  without 
being  noticed.  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin's  dinner  in  the 
evening  was  another  fine  affair,  and  the  Huntington 
dinner-dance  was  just  such  another  as  the  one  two 
weeks  ago,  and  was  of  course  delightful. 

There  was  no  end  of  luncheons  on  Tuesday,  and 
the  J.  D.  Spreckels  dinner  in  the  evening  was  large 
and  elaborate.  Mrs.  Hyde-Smith  gave  a  luncheon 
for  Mrs.  Garceau  on  Wednesday ;  Mrs.  Peyton  had 
an  "at  home" ;  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels's  dinner  was 
for  Mrs.  Peter,  and  the  Wilson-Cluff  wedding  came 
off  at  the  Palace  at  9  p.  m.  Ethel  Hager  was  also  a 
hostess  on  Wednesday — the  first  big  function  she 
has  given  this  season — a  dinner  for  Constance  de 
Young.  On  Thursday  was  the  young  folks'  luncheon 
of  Mrs.  Casey  and  Kate  Dillon ;  there  was  a  bridge 
whist  party  at  Mrs.  Ed.  Dimond's,  with  several  thea- 
tre parties  in  the  evening.  On  Friday,  Mrs.  Peter 
was  again  feasted  at  a  luncheon  given  by  Sallie  Wins- 
low,  and  I  went  to  Mrs.  Harry  Mendall's  second  at 
home,  as  well  as  to  the  Huntington's,  and  last  night 
there  was  the  last  of  the  Greenway  dances  for  this 
season,  preceded  by  Mrs.  Joe  Grant's  big  dinner.  El- 
sie Gregory  gives  a  luncheon  to-day,  and  to-morrow 
Helen  Pettigrew  has  a  St.  Valentine's  tea — there, 
don't  you  think  that  is  a  pretty  good  showing  for 
one  week? 

There  will  be  only  two  real  days  of  the  season 
next  week,  but  there  will  be  no  lack  of  affairs  crowd- 
ed into  them — for  instance,  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  gives 
a  "bridge"  party  on  Monday  in  honor  of  Millie  Ashe 
Sewell,  and  the  postponed  Gaiety  Club  dance  is 
named  to  come  off  at  the  Aliens'.  Mrs.  Lansing  has 
drawn  first  blood,  if  I  may  use  such  an  expression, 
in  being  the  first  to  entertain  Frances  Harris  as 
bride-elect,  giving  her  a  luncheon  on  Tuesday.  I 
hear  she  and  Ernest  Stent  are  to  be  married  directly 
after  Easter,  and  will  then  tour  Europe  and  possibly 
the  Orient  if  the  war  does  not  interfere  with  their 
movements.  Mrs.  Francis  Sullivan  gives  a  big 
luncheon;  Beatrice  will  have  a  tea,  and  in  the  even- 
ing there  is  the  Mardi  Gras  ball.  A  whole  lot  are 
going  down  to  Del  Monte  next  week  to  rest  after 
the  ball  and  other  pre-Lenten  gaieties,  and  to  inci- 
dentally take  in  the  polo  tournament  to  be  there 
played  by  the  British  and  Californian  teams. 

The  marriage  of  Vesta  Shortridge  and  Emile  Bru- 
guiere  is  at  last  an  accomplished  fact,  only  that  in 


place  of  the  large  wedding  that  was  rather  expected, 
the  ceremonial  was  an  extremely  quiet  one.  taking 
place  at  Monterey  last  Tuesday.  There  will  be  an- 
other benefit  next  week  for  the  Sailor's  club  house 
at  VallejO,  when  on  Saturday  there  will  be  a  sort 
of  musical  tea  at  Mrs.  Lowetlberg's  on  Van  Ness 
avenue.  There  are  to  be  candy,  cake  and  tea-cups 
for  sale  and  several  articles  are  to  be  raffled. 

I  forgot  to  tell  you  last  week  of  Mrs.  Horace  Hill's 
musicale,  which  was  most  enjoyable.  Carrie  Little 
was  the  chief  attraction,  so  many  were  anxious  to 
hear  her.  The  Parrott  dinner  dance  in  the  evening 
was  small  but  very  pleasant;  the  De  Guigne  girls 
are  much  liked,  and  have  been  among  the  popular 
of  the  season's  buds.  Mrs.  Peter  Martin  was  fairly- 
surfeited  with  the  good  things  of  the  table  last  Friday 
between  Jennie  Blair's  luncheon  at  the  Richelieu, 
where  thirty  guests  were  asked  to  meet  her,  and 
Mr.  Jim  Phelan's  dinner  in  the  Red  Room  of  the  Bo- 
hemian Club,  which  was  followed  by  a  sort  of  vau- 
deville entertainment — music  and  monologues.  The 
last  of  the  Friday  Fortnightlies  that  night,  though 
much  smaller  than  usual,  was  as  pleasant  as  it  could 
be.  You  have  no  idea  how  many  of  the  buds  declare 
they  have  been — to  them — the  most  enjoyed  dances 
of  the  season,  and  weary  as  they  evidently  are,  re- 
gret to  see  the  last  of  them.  The  piece  de  resist- 
ance, so  to  speak,  was  the  officers  of  the  Italian  man- 
of-war,  then  in  harbor,  for  though  their  dancing  was 
not  much  to  brag  of,  they  were  not  at  all  a  bad-look- 
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ing  lot,  and  wore  very  showy  uniforms.  Mabel 
Toy's  tea,  which  was  one  of  the  events  of  last  Sat- 
urday, was  given  for  two  girls,  Duffy  by  name,  who 
are  here  on  a  visit  to  her. 

I  have  just  got  Mary  Kip's  announcement  cards, 
and  hear  she  looked  just  too  utterly  sweet  as  a  bride 
in  far  away  Omaha.  The  pity  of  it  was  that  her 
friends  here  could  not  have  seen  her  that  day.  Two 
engagements  were  announced  during  this  week,  those 
of  Charlotte  Moulder  and  Charles  Carter  Nichols, 
and  of  Olive  Hamilton,  over  in  Sausalito,  and  Winn 
Breedy,  so  you  see  there  are  more  weddings  to  look 
forward  to.  Charlotte's  sister,  Mrs.  Covode,  is  an 
awfully  nice  little  woman,  and  she  has  been  missed 
a  good  deal  this  winter,  as  being  in  mourning  for  her 
brother,  she  has  taken  no  part  in  the  gaieties  of  the 
season. 

Polly  Macfarlane  has  departed  for  her  Honolulu 
home,  leaving  on  the  Ventura  yesterday.  She  was 
kept  on  the 'jump  most  of  the  time  she  was  here  with 
all  kinds  of  entertainments.  Among  the  most  re- 
cent were  the  dinner  of  Mrs.  Grey,  Bertie  Bruce 
Stephenson's  lovely  little  tea,  Mrs.  Scott  Wilson's 
tea,  Mrs.  Dutton's  card  party,  and  she  was  a  noted 
guest  at  Mrs.  Currier's  luncheon.  Lily  wants  me 
to  go  over  with  her  to  Fort  Baker  to  call  on  two  new 
arrivals — the  sisters  of  Captain  Wilson,  who  have 
come  out  to  spend  some  time  with  their  brother,  who 
is  stationed  there.  She  says  they  are  very  nice,  and 
sure  to  be  liked  when  known.  Another  pretty  girl 
here  just  now  is  Miss  Mamie  Langhorne,  who  is  vis- 
iting her  sister-in-law,  Mrs.  Jim  Langhorne,  who 
gave  her  a  tea  last  Friday.  Lucy  informs  me  it 
was  a  regular  Southern  gathering,  and  that  Millie 
Ashe  Sewell,  who  was  there,  told  her  the  cold  in  the 
East  is  something  awful,  and  she  thought  she  would 
never  leave  New  York  alive;  so  to  hear  us  complain 
of  cold  weather  must  sound  like  a  farce  to  Eastern 
people.  The  Oscar  Sewells  are  also  here  on  a  brief 
visit,  and  Mrs.  Sewell  has  been  lunched  by  Alice 
Wilkins  and  by  Mrs.  Jim  Robinson,  who  is  at  the 
Knickerbocker. 

The  Doctor's  Daughters  are  going  to  make  a  new 
departure  this  year,  and  instead  of  a  doll-show — 
which,  to  tell  the  truth,  had  begun  to  pall — they  will 
have  one  of  living  beauties  this  time — a  horse  show, 
no  less — which  will  be  given  at  the  new  Riding  Club 
house  in  March,  and  they  promise  all  sorts  of  won- 
derful things.  I  daresay  they  will  all  be  carried  out, 
for  Jennie  Blair  is  back  again,  and  she  is  wonderfully 
energetic  when  there  is  anything  to  be  done  to  bene- 
fit her  beloved  organization.  The  new  bowling  club 
house  has  caught  on,  already  the  clubs  for  practice 
are  in  full  swing,  and  when  Lent  comes  you  will  see 
they  will  be  considered  the  correct  thing.  Then,  be- 
sides playing  bowles,  there  is  a  cafe,  where  one  can 
lunch,  dine  or  sup — for  instance,  Greer  Harrison  had 
a  dinner  and  the  Shotwells  a  supper  there  this  week, 
and  they  are  but  two  of  many. 

The  Rawles  have,  I  hear,  commenced  to  build, 
so  there  will  soon  be  another  pleasant  army  house 
opened  to  the  swim.  Mrs.  Rawles  is  a  charming 
1  o  fcss,  and  Bessie,  the  only  daughter,  is  very  musi- 
cal, singing  remarkably  well.  The  Gaston  Ashes 
have  gone  to  housekeeping  in  an  apartment  on  Van 
Ness  avenue  and  Green  street. 

Fred  Greenwood  has  actually  gone  at  last,  after 
ever  so  many  threatenings,  but  he  takes  in  Europe 
first,  instead  of  Japan,  which  may  come  later — it  all 
deoends  on  the  war.  . — Elsie. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


Thursday,  February  18th,  and  extends  until  Mon- 
day, February  22d.  The  polo  matches  will  bring  on 
the  field  the  very  cream  of  the  crack  players.  The 
pony  races,  which  perhaps  appeal  to  and  interest 
more  kee'iWy  the  average  spectator,  are  scheduled 
for  the  18th  and  20th.  The  prizes  offered  are  most 
liberal,  and  consist  of  purses  and  handsome  silver 
cups.  Among  the  probable  competitors  may  be  in- 
cluded such  well  known  miniature  racing  machines 
as  .Messrs.  Frank  Carolan's  "Fusillade,"  "Bonnie" 
and  "Florodora" ;  Mr.  Walter  Hbbart's  well  known 
speed  marvel,  "Silver  Dick,"  and  Mr.  Clagstone's 
"Miss  Miller."  Mr.  Rudolph  Spreckels'  "Becky"  and 
"Peghome,"  and  the  stables  of  Messrs.  Tobin,  Dun- 
phy,  Driscoll,  Bettner  and  a  very  strong  contingent 
from  the  southern  portions  of  the  State,  will  be  rep- 
resented. The  15th  Infantry  band  will  be  in  daily 
attendance.  A  large  exodus  of  society  people  is  al- 
ready assured.  The  succeeding  week  the  association 
moves  to  Burlingame,  where  polo  matches  and  one 
afternoon's  racing  on  Mr.  Frank  Carolan's  private 
track,  are  programmed.  Mr.  Thomas  Driscoll  is 
secretary  of  the  Association,  with  offices  at  Room 
39,  fifth  floor,  Mills  Building. 

The  arrivals  this  week  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  are :  C. 
A.  Grow  and  wife,  Mrs.  H.  A.  Tubbs,  A.  H.  Smith. 
Mr  and  Mrs.  S.  M.  Rosenbaum,  Lewis  S.  Rosen- 
baum,  Ralph  S.  Rosenbaum,  Fraulein  Flach,  E.  Sat- 
slow,  Miss  Schreiber,  Dr.  Ed.  Bowers  and  daughters. 
Miss  Adelaide  Lewis,  Miss  Etta  Steinman,  F.  W. 
Wolfe  and  wife,  R.  B.  H.  Collier,  Alexis  T.  Lanze, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  Belmont,  Mrs.  G  P.  Simpson,  R. 
W.  Simpson. 

Guests  at  Del  Monte  last  week  included:  S.  S. 
Howland  and  family,  New  York;  Mrs.  N.  L.  Wallace, 
New  York;  C.  A.  S.  Wood,  Portland,  Ore.;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  Sherman,  Cleveland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Percival,  Covington,  Ky. ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  S. 
Markay,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abe  Meier, 
two  children  and  governess,  Portland,  Oregon;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Eising,  New  York ;  -Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Kirkpatrick,  Porma,  Idaho;  Harold  Perkins,  Eng- 
land :  General  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Harbeck,  U.  S.  A. ; 
Robert  C.  Laighton,  Vancouver,  B.  C. ;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  M.  Vole,  New  Jersey,  A.  D.  Shepard,  San  Fran- 
cisco ;  J.  S.  Wall  and  O.  G.  Orr,  Chicago ;  F.  F.  Arr- 
mann,   New   York;    Mr.   and    Mrs.   William    Irvine, 


The  inaugural  meeting  of  the  California  Polo  and 
Pony  Racing  Association  takes  place  at  Del  Monte 


Polo  and  Pony  Racing 

UNDER  THE  AUSPICES  OF  THE 

CALIFORNIA   POLO    and    PONY 
RACING  ASSOCIATION 

TO  BE  HELD  AT 

Del  Monte-Feb.  18  to  22,  both  inclusive 
Burlingame— Feb.  26  to  28,  both  inclusive 

VALUABLE  CUPS  OR  PRIZES  FOR  EACH  EVENT 

Those  desiring  to  participate  In  either  or  both  meetings  can  ob- 
tain entry  form  blanks  and  particulars  by  applying  to 


THOS.    A.     DRISCOLL 

Secretary  of  tbe  Association 

Room   39,   5th  Floor,  Mills    Building,    San    Francisco 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Chippewa  Falls.  Wi>.;  I.  1  i.  Fordharn,  London,  Eng. ; 

Joseph  Hadlav,  New  York;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  C.   5 
ford,  Portland,  I  >rc. ;  Mr.  ami  Mrs.  C.  F.  HiggUn  and 
child.   Minneapolis;  C   B.   Smith.  Seattle;   Mr.  and 

Mrs.   Carl   \V.   Lathan,  Chicago;   Mrs.  J.  K.   Wil 
Miss  Clarisse  Wilsey,  Miss  Margaret  Wilsey,  Miss 
Catherine  McGinn,   Portland. 

A  large  Raymond  &  Whitcomb  party  arrived  at 
Del  Monte  this  week  in  charge  of  C.  <  '<.  Smith.  An- 
other large  party  is  expected  next  week  in  charge  of 
\\  .  1  >.  Jones.  Engagements  are  coming  in  very  fast. 
and  there  will  be  soon  few  vacant  rooms  in  1  >el 
Monte.  Special  attention  is  called  to  the  polo  tour- 
nament to  be  held  at  Del  Monte  February  18-22. 

An  elaborate  luncheon  was  given  by  Mrs.  Clinton 
Jones  at  the  Colonial  Hotel  on  Wednesday,  Febru- 
ary 10th.  The  decorations  were  the  subject  of  great 
admiration,  and  were  of  yellow  tulle,  and  the  can- 
delabras  were  covered  with  yellow  shades.  Daffo- 
dils and  Marie  Louise  violets  diversified  the  scene 
and  lent  a  delightful  perfume  to  the  air.  The  ser- 
vice was  a  beautiful  gold  and  wdiite  china  from  Li- 
moge,  and  was  the  cause  of  many  little  exclamations 
from  the  guests.  Those  partaking  of  the  luncheon 
were  Mrs.  Frank  Latham,  Abner  S.  Mann,  Mrs.  E. 
O.  McCormick,  Mrs.  Laura  B.  Roe,  Mrs.  Maurice 
B.  Casey,  Mrs.  Edward  G.  Schmieden,  Mrs.  Seward 
McNear,  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young,  Mrs.  John  G.  Barker, 
Mrs.  Robert  J.  Davies,  Mrs.  James  B.  Stetson,  Mrs. 
Edward  W.  Newhall,  Mrs.  Winfield  S.  Davis,  Mrs. 
Frederick  W.  Thompson,  Mrs.  Vanderlyn  Stowe, 
Mrs.  A.  W.  Foster,  Mrs.  Theodore  Savage,  Mrs. 
Charles  G.  Lathrop,  and  Mrs.  L.  M1.  Hickman. 

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February  13,  1904. 


I  'Hear  the  CrierKWhat  the  dertart  UtuJ 
'  One  that  wilt  play  the  devil,  Jir,  with  you  • 


own  \~rier 


The   scores  01   folks  you   meet 

Jn  the  office  or  the  street, 
That  know  by  heart  the  technique  of  the  sea! 

They  can  estimate  the  chances 

And  forecast  the  circumstances 
When  the  Russian  fights  the  nimble  Japanee. 

Their  logic  is  enthralling 

And  their  earnestness   appalling — 

You  would  fancy  that  they  savvied  the  whole  lot ; 
But  when  you  come  to  test  'em. 
You  can  nearly  always  best  'em 

By  enquiring  if  they  ever  sailed  a  yacht. 

Mrs.  Botkin  is  going  to  get  off,  and  justice  will  call 
for  its  due  in  vain.  The  woman's  photographs  show 
that  imprisonment  has  been  a  sort  of  luxury  to  her, 
a  place  where  for  five  years,  at  all  events,  she  has 
been  obliged  to  lead  a  sane  and  regular  life.  She 
wants  to  go  home  to  her  mother,  like  Kipling's  mar- 
ried man  who  "wants  to  finish  his  little  bit,  for  he 
wants  to  go  home  to  his  tea."  But  Mrs.  Botkin  has 
not  yet  by  any  means  finished  her  "little  bit"  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  public.  She  may  read  the  reports 
concerning  Mrs.  Maybrick  and  then  thank  her  lucky 
stars  that  she  lives  in  a  community  where  the  fact 
that  she  is  a  poisoner  does  not  weigh  against  the 
other  fact  that  she  is  a  comely  woman.  The  advan- 
tage which  beauty  has  over  virtue  should  go  far 
to  convince  a  doubting  world  of  our  esthetic  sense. 

Judge  Hebbard  has  issued  a  temporary  restraining 
order  which  will,  for  the  time  being,  put  an  end  to  the 
continual  raids  which  are  being  made  against  that 
element  of  city  life  which  parsons  and  policemen  con- 
sider themselves  entitled  to  hound  and  maltreat  be- 
cause of  the  very  helplessness  of  the  women.  As  soon 
as  they  separate  themselves  from  the  rest  of  the. com- 
munity, some  clerical  Sir  Galahad  who  forgets  char- 
ity in  the  pursuit  of  virtue,  proceeds  to  drive  them 
all  over  town,  when  they  promptly  avenge  themselves 
by  polluting  the  good.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  these 
black-coated  vultures  and  a  blackmailing  police  may 
leave  them  in  peace  for  awhile. 

The  good  luck  of  Jack  London  passeth  understand- 
ing. It  was  a  sure  thing  that  war  would  break  out 
if  he  were  sent  as  a  war  correspondent,  for  the  stars 
their  courses  fight  for  him.  It  is  equally  certain  that 
he  will  distinguish  himself,  for  to  his  remarkable 
natural  ability  he  adds  perseverance  and  unflagging 
industry.  It  falls  to  very  few  men  to  be  imprisoned 
in  an  Oriental  fortress,  and  then  get  clear  with  all  his 
property  intact.  In  fact,  I  should  say  this  is  the  first 
case  on  record.  He  has  gathered  enough  material 
lor  a  new  book  already,  and  will  doubtless  make 
Japanese  jails  as  interesting  as  he  succeeded  in  mak- 
ing Whitechapel. 

Our  criminal  population  must  be  troubled  with 
paresis.  A  few  weeks  ago,  attention  was  called  to  the 
stupid  tricks  of  trans-ferry  highwaymen,  and  now  a 
burglar  party  paid  a  surprise  visit  to  a  sign-painter's 
shop  in  this  city.  I  thought  that  university  students 
were  the  only  people  who  stole  signs.  It  is  said  that 
the  burglars  took  gold  leaf.  Judging  by  the  quality 
of  that  article  with  which  we  are  usually  supplied, 
they  must  have  made  precious  little  out  of  it. 


There  is  a  charming  inconsistency  about  the  col- 
ored girl  who  has  come  all  the  way  from  Kentucky 
to  California  to  study,  of  all  things,  logic.  There  is 
a  touch  of  pathos  in  the  picture,  too.  A  poor  woman, 
who  has  to  earn  her  own  living,  traveling  two  thou- 
sand miles  to  swallow  the  sawdust  of  a  course  in  mod- 
ern philosophy.  We  might  put  it  down  to  the  child- 
ish lack  of  practical  sense  of  the  colored  race  but  for 
the  fact  that  there  are  some  hundreds  of  white  girls, 
and  boys,  too,  wasting  their  time  in  pursuits  just  as 
unpractical.  Of  all  the  farces  of  modern  life,  the 
most  heart-breaking  illusions,  recommend  me  to  the 
higher  education. 

"Cucullus  non  facit  monachum."  The  old  proverb 
receives  a  resurrection  from  the  fact  that  two  young 
men  have  been  making  collections  in  clerical  garb, 
and  pocketing  the  proceeds.  It  is  an  old  trick,  and 
generally  successful.  Unfortunately,  however,  there 
are  too  many  people  who  are  entitled  to  use  the  cler- 
ical dress  who  do  not  make  much  better  use  of  it. 
What  shall  we  say  of  local  clergymen  who  use  their 
ministerial  position  for  the  purpose  of  getting  social 
or  political  position?  The  dress  is  there,  but  the 
clergyman  is  no  more  in  it  than  were  the  two  frauds 
just  mentioned. 

"It  is  a  just  world,"  says  Rev.  C.  R.  Brown  of  Oak- 
land, complacently.  The  reverend  gentleman  has 
every  reason  to  think  so,  but  very  little  reason  in 
stating  the  grounds  for  his  belief.  He  speaks  of  the 
twenty  thousand  consumptives  in  the  tenement  dis- 
tricts of  New  York,  and  says  that  such  things  are  a 
retribution  upon  society  for  its  carelessness.  That 
may  be  all  very  well,  but  it  is  not  so  easy  for  the 
individual  consumptive  to  see  where  the  justice  comes 
in.  Mr.  Brown  is  a  very  useful  clergyman,  but  he 
comes  no  nearer  than  the  rest  of  us  when  he  begins 
to  guess  at  the  reason  of  things. 

It  is  wonderful  how  a  tradition  lingers  in  the  mind 
of  the  common  or  garden  reporter.  That  story  about 
the  members  of  the  Weber-Field  Company  feeding 
the  gulls  with  pate  de  fois  gras  will  be  repeated  in 
New  York,  and  the  tale  will  be  told  of  every  leg  show 
that  comes  here  until  it  will  be  believed  as  an  article 
of  faith.  Three  weeks  from  now  it  will  be  seriously 
whispered  in  London  as  proof  of  the  riches  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  goodness  knows  how  much  money  it  will 
put  into  the  hands  of  those  Englishmen  here  who 
swindle  their  countrymen  at  home  by  bargains  in 
orange  ranches. 

Some  people  have  no  sense  of  humor.  The  Ala- 
meda High  School,  for  example,  is  to  give  Margaret 
Cameron's  "Kleptomaniacs."  The  high  school  people 
are  either  very  mischievous  or  very  dull,  for  it  makes 
a  very  pretty  satire,  as  regards  the  title,  at  all  events, 
on  the  Berkeley  High  School  and  the  State  Univer- 
sity, where  the  genial  habit  of  appropriation  contin- 
ues in  full  sway. 

Mrs.  John  Martin  is  to  the  fore  again,  this  time 
with  an  ax.  "I  did  not  pull  her  hair,  nor  did  I  chase 
her  with  an  ax,"  she  indignantly  says  of  the  prose- 
cuting witness.  I  can  very  well  believe  that  she  did 
not  pull  Mrs.  Bernadou's  hair — she  is  not  feminine 
enough.  The  ax  is  much  more  in  her  line,  and  she 
ought  to  get  it. 

With  his  usual  ponderosity  and  originality,  Presi- 
dent Wheeler  stated  solemnly  the  other  day:  "Every- 
one must  learn  to  do  something  in  order  to  be  [ire- 
pared  for  life."  Splendidly  stimulating,  is  it  not?  It 
has  the  usual  merit,  however,  of  not  being  true.  It 
is- a  much  better  guarantee  of  success  to  learn  to  "do 
somebody." 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


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Japanese     Fan     Etiquette 

"You  want  a  fan?"  echoed  the  smiling  Japa 
merchant.     "What  kind?" 
The  man  looked  around  helplessly. 

"Oh,  any  kind  that's  bit;  and   give  a   great  deal  of 

wind.    I  want  to  get  half  a  dozen  For  the  office  while 
I  think  of  "it. 

The  Japanese  gave  him  six  big  fans.  There  was  a 
certain  amount  of  pity  in  his  unfading  smile. 

"You  are  so  queer  about  fans,  you  Americans."  he 
said,  in  his  soft  precise  little  fashion.  "You  want 
them  only  to  make  von  cool." 

'•Why  not?" 

"Oh,  it  is  all  right;  it  is  all  right.  You  do  not  un- 
derstand. A  fan  is  nothing  to  you,  but  to  us — why, 
in  Japan  and  China  a  fan  is  a  thing  of  importance." 

"To  cool  one — yes,  that  is  one  use,  but  only  one 
use.     A   fan   talks,   with   us.     It  tells  many  things. 

"You  look  at  a  Japanese  fan.  It  means  nothing  to 
you.  You  think  the  color,  the  pictures  are  pretty, 
perhaps ;  that  is  all ;  but  to  us  who  know,  the  color, 
the  shape,  the  decoration  hold  meaning. 

"You  think  the  landscapes  are  funny.  We  know 
they  are  pictures  of  real  places  and  we  can  name 
the  shrines  and  temples  and  mountains  and  rivers. 
The  men  and  women  all  look  alike  to  you,  but  they 
usually  represent  historic  characters  or  characters 
in  our  romance  and  poetry. 

"Fusiyama  is  just  a  mountain  to  you.  It  is  sa- 
cred to  us.  You  don't  know  our  flowers  and  birds 
and  their  symbolism. 

"I  could  give  you  this  little  paper  fan  with  white 
storks  flying  over  it  and  you'd  never  know  that  I 
was  wishing  you  long  life,  and  you  wouldn't  under- 
stand that  this  cobweb  design  is  for  mourning. 

"I  can't  look  at  a  Japanese  fan  in  any  one's  hands 
without  having  a  whole  swarm  of  associations  and 
fancy  and  sentiment  spring  up  and  buzz  in  my  head 
and  sometimes  I  wonder  why  you  foreigners  don't 
feel  enough  interest  to  wonder  what  your  Japanese 
fan  says  and  look  up  the  meaning.  I  should  think 
it  would  be  an  interesting  fad,  and  you  love  fads. 

"There  are  so  many  kinds  of  fans  in  Japan,  and 
each  kind  has  its  own  use.  Even  the  dolls  have  their 
own  fans,  and  the  children  have  theirs. 

"There's  a  tea  fan  used  only  at  solemn  tea  feasts. 
The  little  cakes  are  handed  with  it,  but  one  doesn't 
use  it  to  fan  with. 

"Our  dancers  and  geisha  girls  have  their  own  type 
of  fan,  decorated  appropriately,  and  our  jugglers 
carry  fans  that  suit  their  trade.  There  is  a  kitchen 
fan,  to  be  used  for  bellows,  and  a  bamboo,  water 
fan  that  is  dipped  in  water  often  while  being  used, 
so  that  it  makes  the  air  it  stirs  cooler. 

"Almost  every  political  event  of  importance  in 
Japan  has  been  pictured  on  fans,  and  very  often  the 
rulers  have  to  forbid  the  carrying  of  certain  fans 
because  they  spread  trouble  and  rebellion.  You  could 
have  a  whole  history  of  Japan  on  fans,  if  you  could 
find  the  right  fans. 

"Some  of  the  old  fans  are  not  used  now.  The  an- 
cient court  fans  were  folding  fans  of  wood,  and  each 
noble  family  had  its  own  flower  that  no  one  else 
dared  use. 

"The  war  fan  is  of  iron,  covered  with  lacquer,  and 
the  Generals  have  silk  fans  with  iron  sticks.  Have 
you  ever  seen  a  dagger  fan?  The  mobsmen  in  Japan 
carry  them,  but  it  is  against  the  law  to  take  them 
into  China.    Chinamen  have  them,  all  the  same. 

"Everybody  carries  a  fan  in  China.  It  is  even 
more  general  there  than  in  Japan,  and  there's  so 


much  fan  etiquette  among  the  Chinese  that  1  don't 
see  how  they  have  time  to  learn  anything  1 

"You  know  what  the  fan  stands  for  in  Japan,  don't 
you'  Xo?  Why,  it  is  the  emblem  of  life  and  the 
rivet  is  the  sword  of  the  god  Kashima. 

"Me  received  orders  to  subdue  the  world,  so  he  ran 
his  sword  straight  through  the  earth  and  left  it  there. 
The  world  would  fall  to  pieces  if  the  sword  rivet 
were  pulled  out.  That  story  suggested  the  making 
of  the  folding  fans,  but  there's  an  old  legend  that 
says  the  widow  of  a  famous  Japanese  patriot  in- 
vented the  folding  fan.  She  went  into  a  convent 
in  Kioto  after  her  husband's  death  and  when  a  great 
saint  was  dying  of  fever  she  cured  him  by  folding  a 
piece  of  paper  and  fanning  him  night  and  day.  The 
nuns  copied  the  paper  fan  and  the  order  is  famous 
for  its  fans  even  now. 

"Some  day  I  will  show  you  all  my  fans  and  tell 
you  what  each  one  means,  but  I  don't  see  how  you 
can  buy  fans,  and  buy  more  fans,  and  never  ask, 
'What  do  they  say?  what  can  they  tell  me?'  We 
Japanese  always  ask  'Why?  What?  Where?'  about 
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February  13,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

COLUMBIA— Good  actors  and  u  poor  play.    Alexander  the  Great. 
GRAND— We  have  seen  better  shows  for  less  money.    WTebberfteld. 
CALIFORNIA— Back  again  to  the  woods.    Murray  and  M;uk. 
FISCHER'S— A  performance  that  is  highly  enjoyable.    Holy  Poly. 
ORPHEUM— A  good  bill.    An  entire  comedy  menu. 
ALCAZAR-The  (lay  Parisians.    Very  funny,  that's  all. 
TP70LI— When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home. 
CENTRAL— A  fairly  good  show.    In  Sight  of  Saint  Paul's. 
CHUTES— High  class  specialties.    New  attractions  in  /<>'•■ 


At  the  Columbia,  Alexander  the  Great  becomes 
Alexander  the  Insignificant  at  the  hands  of  a  play- 
wright named  iKemper.  Ward  and  James  waddle 
through  the  performance  in  a  mad  endeavor  to  make 
something  out  of  nothing.  Spectacularly  considered 
this  is  a  good  play.  The  scenic  attachment  is  in 
good  hands.  Mr.  Warde  and  Mr.  James  are  to  be 
conplimented  on  their  work  in  Alexander  the  Great. 
They  have  become  so  inured  to  it  through  repeated 
rehearsals  that  they  have  come  to  believe  it  a  great 
play.  Somebody  ought  to  change  the  dope  in  their 
pipes,  and  give  them  an  opportunity  to  wake  up. 

The  best  of  actors,  and  Ward  and  James  are  of 
the  best,  could  not  make  a  good  play  of  a  la- 
mentably poor  one.  Why  do  the  critics  refrain  from 
the  truth  when  dealing  with  the  stage?  Why  not 
tell  the  truth?  When  an  avalanche  of  bestranded 
and  bankrupt  Eastern  companies  are  landed  on  San 
Francisco,  why  not  take  them  out  to  the  Old  Peo- 
ple's Home?  It  would  be  much  cheaper  and  in  the 
end  a  more  profitable  venture  for  the  managers.  Take 
the  Weber  &  Field  production  at  the  Grand,  as  an 
instance.  This  show  bears  comparison  to  a  circus  in 
more  ways  than  one. 

As  the  prime  attraction,  the  "'piece  de  resistance." 
yon  have  the  perennial  Russell.  Her  singing  is  me- 
diocre. She  can  be  considered  beautiful  but  from 
one  standard — the  standard  of  preservation.  For 
that  matter,  there  are  men  who  consider  mummies 
beautiful.  Joking  aside,  she  is  a  wonderfully  pretty 
woman  for  her  age.  No  one  was  ever  so  rash  as  to 
aver  that  Lillian  could  act.  I  have  questioned  gray- 
bearded  gents  of  the  last  century,  and  they  tell  me 
that  it  didn't  take  an  astronomical  telescope  to  dis- 
cover this  fact  as  long  ago  as  1812.  Louis  Mann  is 
the  only  redeeming  feature  of  the  show,  and  his  good 
work  is  spoiled  by  the  team  of  Weberfields.  To  any 
possessed  of  a  hide  less  thick  than  that  of  a  rhinoc- 
eros, the  coarse  jokes  and  unveiled  references  to  the 
Russell's  many  marriages,  are  disgusting.  The  mob 
follows  the  fashions  and  the  mob  thinks  it  is  aping 
New  York  in  its  mad  rush  for  seats  at  the  Grand. 
Y\  eber  &  Fields,  my  dear  masters,  have  been  dead 
ones  in  New  York  these  many,  many  moons.  There 
is  no  more  coherence  to  the  Weberfields  productions 
than  there  is  to  a  circus.  It  is  a  hodgepodge  of  bald- 
headed  and  ancient  jokes  that  some  clever  antiquar- 
ian dug  from  the  pyramids.  There  is  only  one  ex- 
cuse for  the  infliction,  and  that  is  the  same  excuse 
which  is  given  by  the  gentlemen  who  run  three- 
ringed  shows — they  need  the  money  and  they  are  go- 
ing to  get  it.  And'  so,  they  charge  $2,  while  many  a 
better  show  has  been  played  in  San  Francisco  for  $1. 

It  is  a  fact  that,  with  that  rare  provincialism  that 
obtains  in  Gotham,  the  usual  run  of  witticism  at 
the  New  York  playhouse  of  the  Weberfields  people 
has  been  a  rehash  of  jokes  at  the  expense  of  all  cities, 
except  New  York.  Any  one  who  heard  the  produc- 
tion of  Patti's  "Farewell  Song"'  will  gauge  the  in- 


tellectual profundity  of  the  Weberfield  twinzes. 
Weber  &  Field  are  quoted  by  the  Eastern  critics  as 
losing  money  on  the  diva. 

*  *  * 

The  girls  in  "Whoop-dee-doo"  are  all  pretty,  their 
dancing  is  good,  the  scenery  is  beautiful,  and  there 
are  a  few  fine  groupings  in  the  chorus.  Now,  as  I 
am  not  an  habitue  of  green-rooms,  and  as  I  prefer 
an  acquaintance  from  the  forefront  of  the  footlights, 
I  cannot  enthuse  over  the  principals  in  "Whoop-dee- 
doo."'  The  second  Whoop,  "Catherine,"  was  such  an 
infliction  that  I  fled  in  terror.  In  the  first  part  there 
is  a  fat  gentleman  who  does  the  head  Amazon  act. 
He's  great,  in  his  way,  but  if  he  ever  strays  as  far 
as  Burlingame,  somebody  down  there  is  sure  to  snare 
him  for  a.  coachman.  That's  the  place  for  him. 
He  was  certainly  never  cut  out  for  an  actor  or  singer. 
It  was  a  novel  idea  to  cast  a  fat  man  as  leader  of  an 
Amazon  march,  and  they  tell  me  it  took  like  wildfire 
in  New  York.  We  are  not  up  to  that  sort  of  thing 
yet. 

The  show  this  week  at  the  California  does  not  de- 
serve mention.  It  is  poor  of  its  kind,  and  when  it  is 
remembered  that  the  kind  spoken  of  is  usually  poor, 
a  comprehensive  opinion  of  the  whole  performance 
may  be  had  in  very  compact  form.  Miss  Sarah 
Truax,  the  clever  actress,  allows  herself  to  be  inter- 
viewed by  the  rising  star  of  the  world  of  critics,  the 
only  worthy  opponent  of  He  of  the  Many  Inter- 
views, and  says  that  she  considers  the  California 
Theatre  a  sort  of  hoodoo.  Then  she  and  the  clever 
critic  set  about  to  find  a  good  reason  for  the  apathy 
of  San  Franciscans.  All  kinds  of  reasons  are  sug- 
gested, but  never  the  real,  simon-pure  reason  comes 
to  the  surface.  Diogenes  would  throw  away  his  lan- 
tern, grope  around  unerringly  in  the  dark,  get  a  full 
grasp  on  the  collar  ot  the  management,  and  say  witli 
the  glee  of  the  righteous:  "I  have  it;  here's  your  hoo- 
doo." Somebody  ought  to  establish  a  "School  of 
Politeness  and  Tact  for  the  Exclusive  Patronage  of 
Box  Office  Employees  and  Theatrical  Managers." 
Hard  times  are  upon  the  ilk  in  New  York,  and  hard 
times  and  empty  houses  are  liable  to  descend  upon 
their  pretentious  brethren  of  San  Francisco.  The 
press  is  the  only  protector  the  poor  public  has,  and 
the  News  Letter  with  its  Confidential  Tip,  is  looked 
upon  as  an  obstacle  to  the  exploitationists.  Give 
us  good  shows  and  we'll  give  you  good  praise,  my 
masters. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alcazar  there  is  a  laughable  skit.  "The 
Gay  Parisians,"  which  does  not  pretend  to  be  more 
than  it  really  is.  It  is  to  laugh  from  beginning  to 
end.  A  harmless  farce.  It  skates  around  on  thin 
ice,  but  never  falls  into  coarseness,  nor  is  it  ever 
open  to  criticism  because  of  horse-play.  Miss  Block 
as  the  wife  of  Pinglet,  loses  much  of  her  charm  when 
capped  with  a  red  wig,  but  looks  thorough  Iv  Paris- 
ian. Osbourne  is  splendid,  and  the  work  of  Francis 
Star,  Maher  and  all  the  rest  is  above  criticism.  The 
make-ups  are  excellent. 

*  *  * 

At  Fischer's  "Roly  Poly"  is  good  without  being 
extraordinary.  The  music  is  pleasing.  Helen  Rus- 
sell sang  well,  but  there  is  that  haunting  suspicion 
of  a  misfit  about  her  clothes.  There  is  a  constant 
fear  that  some  particular  part  of  her  costume  is  go- 
ing to  drop  off.    Where,  O  where,  is  Amber's  dress- 


February  13,  1904. 


maker?  Russell  might  to  be  chloroformed  ami  then 
fitted  by  this  artist.  I'll  bel  a  simoleon  of  the  realm. 
a  golden  One  of  twenty  ducats,  that  she  can  show  up 
to  better  advantage  than  the  Amber  in  a  snug  and 
well-made  gown.  The  lines  are  all  there,  but  you  arc 
only  allowed  to  guess  at  them.  Mores  the  pity,  if 
my  suspicions  are  well-founded.  They  used  to  pour 
Amber  into  a  dress,  and  then  melt  her  out  of  it  for 

the  next  change. 

*  *  * 

Is  there  any  good  reason  why  smoking  should  not 
be  abolished  at  Fischer's?  It  was  a  welcome  change 
at  the  Tivoli.  At  Fischer's  it  is  a  constant  and  grow  - 
ing  offense.  This  theatre  aims  at  productions  of  pre- 
tension, and  it  is  patronized  by  the  very  best  people 
in  San  Francisco,  and  yet  ladies  are  subject  to  this 
annoyance.  I  am  very  glad  to  see  that  the  mention 
in  this  paper  last  week  about  an  extension  of  time 
and  a  little  more  leniency  in  the  treatment  of  ser- 
vants has  resulted  in  a  reform.  There  are  vastly 
fewer  people  who  rise  and  disturb  the  audiences  and 
the  ladies  and  gentlemen  on  the  stage  than  hereto- 
fore. This  was  especially  noticeable  at  Fischer's, 
at  the  Orpheum,  and  at  the  Alcazar.  I  am  per- 
fectly willing  that  a  servant  girl  and  her  lover  should 
have  a  good  time,  but  not  at  my  expense. 

*  *  * 

Close  association  with  Chinatown  has  given  the 
public  of  San  Francisco  a  deep  and  abiding  venera- 
tion for  old  age.  This  is  the  only  way  in  which  I 
can  account  for  the  kindly  reception  accorded  Patti. 
Langtry,  and  the  rest  of  the  old  ladies  who  have  re- 
cently visited  us.  This  deference  to  the  aged  is 
really  an  admirable  quality,  when  you  come  to  think 
on't.  It  takes  away  the  suggestion  from  us  of  fol- 
lowing the  fads  of  less  cultured  communities.  Our 
dear  theatre-goers  may  pat  themselves  on  their  re- 
spective backs  and  make  a  virtue  of  their  idiosyn- 
cracy. 

At  the  Orpheum  there  is  an  excellent  company,  and 
Billy  Van,  Rose  Beaumont  and  the  rest  continue 
giving  an  hour  or  two  of  rollicking  fun. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Tivoli  we  still  have  "Johnny"  marching  on 
and  off  to  continued  applause  and  crowded  houses. 
Ferris  Hartman's  legs  get  more  and  more  crooked, 
and  they  tell  me  the  management  has  consulted  a 
physician.  There  '  is  a  danger  that  they  may  be- 
come permanently  incapacitated,  and  if  that  is  true, 
it  would  disable  him  in  other  plays.  He  has  become 
so  enamored  with  the  part  that  he  walked  up  to  a 
bar  the  other  day,  with  the  leer  and  the  walk,  and  the 
bartender,  mistaking  him  for  a  bum  lawyer,  threat- 
ened to  throw  him  out. 

At  the  Central,  "In  Sight  of  St.  Paul's"  never  gets 
any  nearer  sanctity  than  the  title.  The  play  is  of  tht 
sensational  melodramatic  style,  and  is  well  rendered 
by  the  company.  The  company,  by  the  way,  deserves 
a  better  fate.  The  audience  seems  pleased,  and,  as 
I  remarked  before,  this  relegates  the  critic  to  a  seat 
in  the  rear  and  way  down. 

The  Weber  &  Field's  company  will  leave  soon 
after  the  performance  of  the  21st  (Sunday  night.) 

*  *  * 

"Roly  Poly"  at  Fischer's  will  continue  the  bill. 
Dillon  is  growing  into  a  great  favorite  with  _  the 
Fischer  audiences,  and  he  is  clever  and  conscientious 
enough  to  curb  many  of  the  mannerisms  that  jarred 
on  us  at  first.  Nellie  Lynch  is  a  cute  little  girl,  and 
very  clever. 

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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

Grand  Opera  house 


is 


is,  Wednesday  ami  Battuda]  >i  fl  shan) 
Beginning  Honda*  nlKht.  last  week   WKBBB    ft     fields 
All-Sl.-ir  ('"inpany  In 

WHOOP-DEE-DOO    and    CATHERINE 

Prloea:    12;  ti  so;  »i:  76o:  sue. 

Curtain  rises  at  *  sharp 

Monday.  Feb.  w,  Thomas  .1.  Smith  in  "The  Game  Keeper." 


Fischer's    Theatre 


Seal  delight,  a  gale  "f  laughter,  a  distinct  triumph 

Universal  verdiet  «>f  publiu  and  press  of 

ROLY    POLY 

Abounds  in  wit.  novelty  aud  the  beHt  music  and  fun  ever  seen 
or  heard  here.    Ten  actual  hits. 

Magnificent  scenery  and  costumes.    Our  "All  Star"  cast, 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Columbia  Trjeatre.  GoTT'-"-  %Z.\£-Umm. 

2nd  and  last  week 

LOUIS   cJAMES  and   FREDERICK    WARDE 

in  the  following  repertoire-  Monday  and  Sunday  nights  and 
Saturday  matinee 

cJULIUS    GAESAR 

Tuesday  and  Friday  nights  -  OTHELLO 

Wednesday  and  Saturday  nights        -         -  MACBETH 

Thursday  night  -  -  ALEXANDER  THE  GREAT 

Feb.  22— Denman  Thompson  and  "The  Old  Homestead." 

O  mh^i  ir*r\     San  FraQCl8C0*BGreateBt  Mueic  Han. 

V^I  ^Jl  lGUllj.    o'FarreU  St.,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  Feb.  14. 

ASTOUNDING    VAUDEVILLE 

Eight  Vassar  Girls;  The  Werner- Amoros  Troupe:  Ziska  and 
King;  Harry- Thomson;  Thome  and  Carleton:  Snyder  and 
Buckley ;  Kice  and  Elmer ;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  last 
week  of 

BILLY    WAN,    ROSE    BEAUMONT    X    GO 

Prices,  loc,  25c  and  60c 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

("tont-rnl    Thpntrp         Belasco  &  Mayeb,  Proprietors 
V-»«L)LrUI     1  MCULre.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  633 

Week  of  Monday.  February  iffth 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday- 
Greatest  of  Frontier  dramas, 

THE    MEN    OF    cJIMTOWN 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c    Matinees  10, 16,  25c 
Week  of  Feb.  22.  KING    OF    THE    OPIUM    RING- 

Alra7ar    TK*on  f-  ro  Belasco  &  Mayeb,  Proprietors 

AlCazar     1  neutre    e.  L\  Pbioe,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees   Saturday    and    Sunday. 

One  week  commencing  Monday  Feb-  15, 

The  powerful  American  play 

THE    CHARITY    BALL 

by  David  Belasco  and  H.  C.  De  Mille. 

"The  Alcazar  has  the  best  stock  company  ever  in  San  Fran- 
cisco."—News  Letter. 

Evenings  25  to  75c    Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees  26  to  500 
Mon.  Feb.  22— Broadhurst's  famous  farce. 
THE   WEONG    ME.    WEIGHT. 
In  Preparation— PAESIFAL. 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  Coiner EdML^dstreets 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Beginning  Monday  Feb.  15. 
Sixth  week  of  the  sensation  of  the  city 

WHEN  JOHNNY  GOMES  MARCHING 
HOME 

A  three  act  military  comic  opera  by  Stanislaus  Stange  and 
Julian  Edwards.    Secure  seats  in  advance.    Next 

THE    GYPSY    BARON 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50e,  76c    Box  Seats,  $1. 


flfter  the  Theater 


.  Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'8 
Listen    to    the   matchless   string   band   and   enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The    Cafe   Zlnkand    is   society's   gathering    place   after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


I'd  love  you  for  a  Valentine — 
Your   beauty   rare   and   stately, 

Your  genial  lieart,  your  grace  divine, 
Should  triumph  so  sedately. 

But  then  your  hats,  which  I  adore, 

Are  really  so  extensive 
That  all  my  hopes  fall  to  the  Hour, 

For  von  are  too  expensive. 

Jack  Clunie  is  the  mystery  of  the  day.  Who  is 
he,  where  is  he,  and  why  did  Tom  Clunie  leave  him 
over  half  a  million?  These  are  questions  that  many 
acquaintances  of  the  late  millionaire  would  like  to 
have  answered.  D.  M.  Delmas,  who  is  one  of  the  at- 
torneys for  the  boy,  says  he  has  never  seen  his  client, 
nor  does  he  know  where  he  may  be  found.  That 
statement  was  attributed  to  Mr.  Delmas  several  days 
ago.  Since  then  his  knowledge  may  have  been  in- 
creased. 

*  *  * 

Tom  Clunie,  former  Congressman  from  the  Fifth 
District,  was  not  a  man  of  many  confidences.  It  was 
known  that  he  was  wealthy,  but  that  his  estate 
should  develop  over  a  million  and  a  quarter  was 
cause  for  astonishment.  Even  greater  was  the  sur- 
prise when  it  was  learned  that  he  had  left  an  adopted 
son,  now  a  chubby  youngster  in  his  ninth  year. 
Nothing  of  this  lad's  parentage  is  publicly  known. 
Those  who  knew  Tom  Clunie,  though,  think  the 
boy  must  have  had  a  very  strong  claim  upon  him, 
for  he  was  hardly  the  man  to  give  a  fortune  to  a 
stranger. 

Six  years  ago  the  little  fellow,  who  was  then 
known  as  Jack  Clairing,  passed  the  summer  at  a 
resort  in  the  Santa  Cruz  Mountains,  in  charge  of  Miss 
Ada  Edgerton.  who  has  evidently  had  him  in  charge 
ever  since,  and  who  has  him  now.  The  boy  was  then 
over  two  years  old.  Miss  Edgerton,  who  was  a  quiet 
young  lady,  kept  very  much  to  herself,  devoting 
nearly  all  her  attention  to  the  child.  She  was  ac- 
companied by  a  lady  who  was  said  to  be  her  aunt, 
and  who.  it  was  also  said,  was  a  sister  of  Charles 
Warren  Stoddard.  Miss  Edgerton  said  the  boy  was 
the  son  of  a  distant  relative,  and  that  she  was  caring 
for  him  temporarily.  Though  she  was  very  happy 
with  the  child,  it  was  evident  to  the  other  sojourners 
at  the  resort  that  Miss  Edgerton  was  not  completely 
happy.  At  times  the  traces  of  grief  were  upon  her 
face.  Upon  one  occasion,  her  aunt  explained  that 
the  young  lady  had  been  disappointed  by  the  non-ar- 
rival of  expected  friends,  and  had  given  way  to 
tears. 

'  *  * 

It  was  during  this  summer — that  of  1898 — that 
Tom  Clunie  was  stricken  with  paralysis.  He  went 
to  the  Santa  Cruz  resort,  accompanied  by  Burrell 
G.  White,  who  now  appears  as  one  of  the  three 
trustees  for  the  estate  left  to  Jack  Clunie.  White 
seemed  to  act  not  only  as  Clunie's  friend,  but  also 
as  his  attendant  and  nurse.  Even  at  that  time  it 
was  evident  that  Clunie  set  great  store  by  the  boy. 
Miss  Edgerton,  the  child  and  the  invalid  took  drives 
every  morning  over  the  mountain  roads,  the  lady 
holding  the  reins,  and  the  millionaire  dividing  his 
attentions  between  her  and  the  lad.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  the  summer  season,  Miss  Edgerton  and  her 
charge  returned  to  this  city.    She  and  Clunie  and  the 


boy  were  then  to  be  frequently  seen  driving  in  the 
Park,  or  at  the  beach. 

It  now  appears  that  Clunie  did  not  adopt  the  boy 
until  his  separation  from  his  wife  in  1901.  Miss  Ed- 
gerton appeared  as  sponsor  for  the  child  at  the  time 
of  his  adoption.  She  said  she  had  had  charge  of  him 
since  he  was  six  months  old.  From  all  accounts, 
she  seems  to  be  the  only  person  possessed  of  the 
secret  of  his  birth.  As  it  is  evident  from  the  num- 
ber of  lawyers  arrayed  around  Tom  Clunie's  will  that 
the  battle  over  his  estate  will  be  a  hard  one,  it  is 
more  than  probable  that  unless  present  differences 
are  settled  by  compromise,  the  history  of  the  lad 
will  become  public  property  before  the"  estate  is  dis- 
tributed. 

'  *  * 

The  Supervisors  have  a  way  of  ourning  up  a  few 
thousand  dollars  every  year  by  publishing  the  "Mu- 
nicipal Reports,"  heavy  volumes,  filled  with  statis- 
tics, which  no  one  reads.  Some  few  favored  citizens 
are  presented  with  copies  bound  in  morocco,  their 
names  being  printed,  like  Abou  ben  Adhem's,  in  let- 
ters of  gold  across  the  front  cover.  One  of  these 
gorgeous  and  gilded  tomes  was  sent  last  week  to 
Reuben  Lloyd.  The  other  day  he  acknowledged  its 
receipt  in  a  letter  in  which  he  said  the  pleasure 
aroused  in  him  by  the  receipt  of  the  book  would  have 
been  greatly  enhanced  if  the  intelligent  compiler  of 
the  golden  letters  had  only  remembered  that  his 
name  is  spelled  "Reuben,"  and  not,  as  the  gleaming 
legend  shows  it,  "Rewben."  Lloyd  will  put  the  book 
in  his  cabinet  of  curios. 

*  *  * 

The  romantic  alliance  of  Thor  O.  Haydenfeldt 
and  Josephine,  his  wife,  has  ended  in  the  divorce 
court.  Thor  was  one  of  the  sons  of  that  remark- 
able old  Californian.  Judge  Solomon  Heydenfcldt. 
and  the  boy  did  not  fulfill  the  bright  promise  of  his 
youth.  He  and  his  wife,  who  was  a  pretty  Sacra- 
mento girl,  went  to  the  Klondike  during  the  height 
of  the  gold  excitement  several  years  ago,  and  when 
they  returned,  they  were  filled  with  experience  and 
yearnings  for  the  land  of  sunshine  and  flowers.  Thor 
lingered  in  town  a  few  months,  trying  to  raise  the 
wind,  and  then  went  to  Arizona  on  a  business  specu- 
lation. Leaving  the  Southern  territory,  he  again 
headed  for  the  (Klondike.  But  in  his  search  for  gold 
it  seems  he  lost  the  way  to  domestic  happiness.  In 
her  complaint,  his  wife  says  that  Thor,  like  the  an- 


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cient  Scandinavian  god  whose  name  he  bears,  "just 
raised  thunder."  The  combination  was  too  strong 
for  the  girl  from  Sacramento,  and  she  wants  to  dis- 
solve partnership. 

*  *  * 

Boh  Bolton's  failure  may  he  attributed  t>>  just  one 
fact — he  is  a  victim  of  misplaced  confidence.  Bolton 

is  personally  a  splendid  fellow,  lie  is  quiet  in  his 
demeanor  and  a  thorough  gentleman.  According  to 
the  stories  told,  he  entrusted  everything  to  his  man- 
ager, and  of  course  was  one  of  the  very  last  men 
on  the  street  to  suspect  there  was  something  wrong 
with  his  own  business.  Tf  the  manager  had  done 
anything  criminal,  he  should  be  prosecuted,  hut  Rob 
Bolton  will  never  send  him  or  any  other  man  to  jail. 
That  is  not  his  way.  The  fact  is.  he  does  not  suffer 
from  that  absolute  absence  of  sympathy  and  fellow- 
feeling  for  a  wrong-doer  which  is  so  characteristic 
of  the  men  that  make  great  successes  in  the  business 
world.  Incidentally,  the  Bolton  failure  causes  me 
to  revert  for  but  a  moment  to  a  remark  I  made  a 
week  or  two  ago  in  commenting  upon  the  large  num- 
ber of  defalcations  the  town  has  known  recently, 
with  no  prosecutions  following  them.  I  said  at  that 
time :  "Watch  the  man  that  handles  the  money."  In 
these  days  of  wide-spreading  poolroom  and  race  track 
gambling,  more  than  one  firm  on  the  street  would  do 
well  to  keep  tab  on  their  cashiers  and  their  financial 
managers. 

*  *  * 

Sam  Davis,  of  Carson,  is  in  town,  settling  up  the 
estate  of  old  "Mammy"  Pleasant.  Sam's  friends  say 
he  stands  to  win  about  $38,000  by  the  death  of  the 
old  colored  woman.  It  seems  that  some  time  ago, 
fearing  that  the  hand  of  death  was  then  upon  her, 
"Mammy"  deeded  to  Davis  and  young  Fred  Bell 
several  pieces  of  property  said  to  be  worth  from 
$35,000  to  $45,000.  Upon  her  death,  they  placed  the 
deeds  upon  record.  She  left  a  will  by  which  she  be- 
queathed everything  of  which  she  died  possessed  to 
the  people  in  whose  house  she  passed  away.  They 
thought  they  had  come  into  a  fortune,  but  the  filing 
of  the  deeds  to  Davis  and  Bell  upset  their  castles  in 
Spain.  It  is  more  than  probable  that  "Mammy" 
Pleasant  left  a  good,  healthy  law-suit  behind  her. 
It  is  said  that  her  friends  will  bring  suit  against  the 
bank  in  which  she  deposited  $100,000  worth  of  jew- 
els years  ago.  The  jewels  were  in  a  sealed  package, 
marked  "To  be  delivered  only  to  Mrs.  Pleasant,  in 
person.  Value,  $100,000."  When  "Mammy"  had  a 
severe  spell  some  time  ago,  she  wrote  an  order  on  the 
bank  to  give  the  jewels  to  Mrs.  Bell.  It  is  said  she 
put  the  order  in  her  desk,  thinking  to  give  it  to  Mrs. 
Bell  if  her  illness  became  very  serious.  But 
"Mammy"  recovered.  Now  it  is  said  that  the  order 
on  the  bank  was  presented,  although  "Mammy"  did 
not  hand  it  over,  and  it  is  further  charged  that  the 
bank  gave  up  the  jewels  '  on  the  order.  If  these 
statements  can  be  borne  out,  there  is  plenty  of  ground 
work  for  a  big  law  suit  in  which  the  heirs  or  grantees 
of  Mrs.  Pleasant  will  appear  as  plaintiffs. 

*  *  * 

That  representative  of  the  Kelly  clan,  who  was 
recently  superintendent  of  the  Alms  House,  has  man- 
aged to  get  himself  into  something  of  a  scrape.  Kelly 
was  a  protege  of  James  D.  Phelan,  and  was  given 
his  job  at  the  Alms  House  when  Phelan  was  Mayor. 
It  was  a  good  position,  carrying  $200  a  month  sal- 
ary and  board  and  lodging.  The  two  latter  items 
are  by  no  means  small  ones,  for  the  superintendents 
of  the  Alms  House  and  the  County  Hospital  live  like 
petty  rulers  in  their  principalities.  But  Kelly  was  ■ 
never  suited  to  his  job,    The  place  was  too  big  for 


Pears' 

The  skin  ought  to  be 
clear  ;  there  is  nothing 
strange  in  a  beautiful  face. 

If  we  wash  with  proper 
soap,  the  skin  will  be  open 
and  clear,  unless  the 
health  is  bad.  A  good 
skin  is  better  than  a 
doctor. 

The  soap  to  use  is 
Pears';  no  free  alkali  in  it. 
Pears',  the  soap  that 
clears  but  not  excoriates. 

Sold  all  over  the  -world. 


him.  He  swelled  up  and  tried  to  fill  it,  but  as  big  as 
he  made  his  chest,  he  could  not  reach  the  necessary 
dimensions.  Then  he  took  to  drink,  and  things  were 
at  sixes  and  sevens  for  a  long  time.  The  Hearst  fund, 
which  was  for  distribution  among  the  inmates  of  the 
Alms  House,  he  used  liberally,  aiding  the  poor  peo- 
ple in  many  ways.  He  put  tags  against  himself  in 
the  drawer,  but  while  charging  himself  with  taking 
the  money  he  made  no  accounting  of  the  manner  of 
its  distribution.  Last  week,  one  of  his  friends  of- 
fered to  return  to  the  Board  of  Health  about  $70, 
which  should  have  been  to  the  credit  of  an  inmate. 
I  believe  the  Board  refused  to  accept  it.  They  want 
to  have  a  quiet  little  talk  with  Mr.  Kelly.  He  is  re- 
ported to  be  taking  the  rest  cure  in  a  sanitarium. 

W.  M.  Cubery,  that  veteran  Democratic  war-horse 
and  battle-scarred  Iroquois  brave,  is  out  with  an 
open  letter  to  John  P.  Irish.  Cubery  wants  to  know 
how  Irish  can  reconcile  his  claims  to  Democracy  with 
the  awful  fact  that  he  is  drawing  down  $5,000  a  year 
as  Naval  Officer  of  this  port,  under  a  Republican  ad- 
ministration, and  with  the  even  more  terrible  fact 
that  he  is  on  the  pay-role  of  the  Citizens'  Alliance  at 
$7,500  a  year.  The  answer  of  Irish  is  easy  enough. 
He  is  drawing  down  two  salaries  because  he  has  two 
hands.  John  P.  will  not  notice  the  indignant  Cubery. 
A  gentleman  named  Roosevelt,  now  in  Washington, 
told  Senator  Perkins  and  Billy  Ralston  the  other 
day  that  John  P.  Irish  had  been  of  great  service  to 
the  Republican  party.  With  that  statement  in  the 
record,  it  is  not  apparent  why  the  patriot  from  Ala- 
meda should  worry  over  the  screed  of  the  Iroquois 

brave. 

*  *  * 

No  further  increase  in  the  bid  for  the  news-stands 
at  the  ferries  was  reported  this  week.  Has  Charley 
Spear  come  to  his  senses?  Has  McKenzie  counseled 
wisely?  It  is  a  serious  thing  to  run  counter  to  an 
almost  unanimous  public  opinion. 

Fine   stationery,    steel   and   copperplate   engraving.     Cooper 

&  Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St.  Turkish  Bath. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


The  depositors,  large  and  small, 
The  Work  of  of  the  Oakland  Bank  of  Savings, 
of  a  Dastard.  are  very  justly  incensed  at  the 
action  of  the  daily  papers  of  this 
city  in  lending  themselves  to  the  vindictive  attempt 
of  siime  malicious  individual  to  wreck  the  hank.  1  M 
course,  no  paper  of  standing  would  intentionally  do 
such  a  thing,  and  it  can  only  be  ascribed  to  careless- 
ness upon  the  part  of  some  one,  which  seems  in  this 
case  to  have  been  very  general,  considering  that  all 
of  the  great  metropolitan  journals  were  worked  to 
the  advantage  of  a  blackmailer.  The  reputation  of 
a  hank  is  as  delicate  a  subject  to  handle  as  that  of 
a  woman.  It  takes  little  to  blast  it,  and  even  a 
mere  insinuation  is  apt  to  arouse  suspicion  which  in 
the  case  of  a  bank  means  the  creation  of  distrust,  and 
every  one  knows  what  that  is  apt  to  lead  to  in  the 
way  of  financial  trouble.  Had  the  run  on  this  Oak- 
land institution  not  been  checked  by  the  prompt 
support  rendered  by  its  friends  and  the  good  sense 
of  the  majority  of  its  depositors,  a  panic  might  have 
ensued,  spreading  like  the  flames  of  a  great  confla- 
gration, with  results  of  the  most  disastrous  char- 
acter the  limits  of  loss  not  being  perhaps  confined 
to  the  small  territory  across  the  bay.  Of  course 
there  was  nothing  wrong  with  the  financial  standing 
of  the  Oakland  Bank  of  Savings.  Its  financial  con- 
dition is  sound  in  every  particular,  and  fully  prepared 
to  meet  all  demands  upon  it,  with  an  able  manage- 
ment, business  men  whose  integrity  has  never  been 
questioned.  It  will  be  hoped  that  the  rascal  who 
perpetrated  the  vile  work,  which  should  he  placed 
in  the  same  category  in  the  criminal  code  of  the 
State  as  train-wrecking  and  murder  in  the  first  de- 
gree, will  be  caught.  Should  this  happen,  the  out- 
raged depositors  of  this  worthy  institution  should 
be  presented  with  his  worthless  carcass  in  a  pack- 
age marked  "Not  to  be  returned,  and  no  questions 
asked." 

There  is  little  to  say  of  the  local 
market  for  stocks  and  bonds. 
Business  in  all  lines  has  been 
quiet  during  the  week,  with  few 
Attention  is  centered  upon  the 
approaching  election  of  directors  in  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Gas  and  Electric  Company.  A  clean  sweep 
there,  which  will  mean  the  retirement  of  a  lot  of  high- 
priced  managerial  ornaments,  and  the  introduction 
of  practical  men  acquainted  with  gas-making  to  the 
extent  of  producing  a  marketable  article  to  meet  the 
public  demand,  while  extending  at  the  same  time 
courteous  treatment  to  the  company's  customers. 
This  will  restore  confidence  in  the  future  of  the  stock, 
which  only  an  over-sanguine  and  facile  temperament 
can  possess  under  existing  conditions.  Any  one  who 
deals  in  the  stock  now  takes  chances  with  his  money, 
for  the  reason  that  it  is  impossible  to  predict  what 
may  yet  evolve  from  the  chaotic  situation.  The 
abominable  service  of  this  over  capitalized  corpora- 
tion does  not  appeal  to  the  sympathies  of  an  out- 
raged public,  and  the  right  class  of  promoters  never 
had  a  better  opportunity  than  that  which  now  pre- 
vails to  interest  the  great  army  of  householders  in 
this  city  in  a  new  enterprise  to  supply  a  decent  sys- 
tem of  lighting  at  moderate  rates.  The  corporation 
now  in  the  business  has  just  gone  about  far  enough 
in  its  impudence  and  greed  to  be  called  down  from 
its  high  horse  and  brought  to  a  due  recognition  of  the 


Local  Stocks 
and  Bonds. 

changes  in   prices. 


fact  that,  after  all,  it  is  but  a  servant  of  the  public, 
•and  not  its  master,  as  one  might  suppose  from  the 
high  and  lofty  airs  its  management  now  assumes. 

Business  is  quiet  on  Pine  street 
Pine-St.  Market,  and  probably  will  be  until  work- 
begins  on  the  2350  level  of 
Co:i.-Cal. -Virginia.  Should  the  ore  be  found  there, 
which  some  people  in  the  swim  expect,  the  market 
will  not  require  any  material  support  from  Ophir, 
which  is  oil  the  dividend  paying  basis  for  some  time 
to  come.  Ore  discoveries  always  boom  prices  on  the 
Comstock,  but  strange  to  say,  the  very  minute  that 
it  opens  up  in  sufficient  quantity  to  warrant  the  pay- 
ment of  dividends,  the  speculative  element  on  the 
street  immediately  is  on  the  look-out  for  new  worlds 
to  conquer,  or  in  other  words,  for  some  other  propo- 
sition where  the  quest  for  an  ore  body  is  still  a  gam- 
ble. This  peculiar  condition  on  Pine  street  will 
doubtless  surprise  new  comers,  who  prefer  to  put 
their  money  on  a  certainty,  rather  than  on  an  uncer- 
tainty, but  the  history  of  the  Comstock  will  estab- 
lish the  fact.  This,  however,  supplies  a  factor  re- 
sponsible for  the  wide  fluctuations  in  the  market, 
when  some  mining  operation  is  in  full  blast,  and 
changes  from  time  to  time  in  the  formation,  suggest 
the  near  approach  to  a  ledge  which  eventually  proves 
of  high  value  or  absolutely  worthless.  History  also 
shows  that  there  never  has  been  a  period  of  depres- 
sion, continued  no  matter  how  long,  that  the  day  has 
not  arrived  when  the  patient  investor,  who  has  seen 
his  shares  pass  out  of  sight  and  borne  the  brunt  of 
assessment,  has  not  had  an  opportunitv  to  retrieve 
all  losses  and  clean  up  with  a  handsome  profit  if 
prudent  enough  to  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity. 
Some  of  the  work  now  going  on  along  the  lode  is 
of  a  highly  interesting  character,  and  bound  to  bring 
about  active  times  and  higher  values  in  the  near  fu- 
ture. The  bear  tribe  who  have  suffered  so  heavily 
within  the  past  few  weeks,  and  are  now  attempting 
to  even  up  their  losses,  are  in  a  fair  way  to  get 
cinched  again,  with  the  chances  that  upon  the  next 
occasion  they  won't  get  off  so  lightly. 


The  foreign  capital  now  invested  in  Japan  in  vari- 
ous enterprises  amounts  in  all  to  1,404,465,840  yen, 
of  which  all  but  28,334,406  yen,  or  twenty  per  cent., 
is  paid  up.  This  in  round  numbers  amounts  to  $700.- 
000,000  in  American  money.  Perhaps  Russia  will  be 
allowed  to  gobble  all  this  with  the  pugnacious  lit- 
tle Jap — perhaps  not! 


The  Central  Pacific  Railroad  Company  has  just 
made  a  payment  to  the  Government  last  week  of 
$2,800,000.  The  amount  represents  one  of  the  notes 
given  to  the  Government  in  1899  in  settlement  of  the 
Central  Pacific  subsidy  debt.  Two  notes  were  taken 
up  each  year  on  August  1st  and  February  1st.  The 
last  half-yearly  payment  of  $2,940,000  matures  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1909,  at  which  time  the  debt  of  $58,812,714 
will  have  been  cancelled. 


At  the  second  annual  meeting  of  the  shareholders 
of  the  Union  Trust  Company,  the  following  direc- 
tors were  re-elected:  Isaias  W.  Hellman,  Henry  F. 
\lleu.  Antoine  Borel,  Charles  de  Guigne,  William  1.. 
Gerstle,  I.  W.  Hellman.  Jr.,  J.  L.  Flood,  Timothy 
Hopkins,  George  T.  Marye,  Jr.,  John  D.  Spreckels, 
Robert  "Watt,  Henry  E.  Huntington,  George  A.  Pope, 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


and  Jacob   Stern.     Subsequently   the   board  organ 
ized  i>y  re-electing  the  following  officers:  President, 
[saias  W.   Hellman;  vice-president,   Robert   Watt; 

vice-president  and  manager,  I.  W.  Hellman,  Jr.; 
cashier  and  secretary,  Charles  J.  Deering;  assistant 
cashier  and  assistant  secretary.   I.   .\I.  Israel. 


NEWS   LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


19 


At  the  recent  annual  meeting  of  the  Pacific  Light- 
ing Company  the  old  officers  and  hoard  of  directors 
were  re-elected  as  follows:  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  presi- 
dent: George  II.  Collins,  vice-president :  A.  Schil- 
ling. Charles  Holbrook  and  F.  AY.  Van  Sicklcn. 
Horace  II.  Miller  was  elected  secretary. 


The  State  Board  of  Rank  Commissioners  has  just 
issued  the  statement  of  the  aggregate  condition  of 
the  nine  savings  banks  doing  business  in  San  Fran- 
cisco as  of  January  23,  1904,  at  the  close  of  business  : 
Total  resources,  aggregating  $166,466,774,  have  in- 
creased $2,963,096.60  since  the  statement  of  Septem- 
ber 8.  1903,  and  $11,703,983.17  since  December  31, 
1902.  Deposits  have  increased  $3,485,489.59  since 
September  8th,  and  $10,611,667.41  since  December 
31,  1902. 

The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


Allen's  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO    NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  check  or  money  order  for  as  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  $100.  Price  par 
for  $5.00  certificates.    The  price  may  advance  any  day. 

The  stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  $5.00  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  $22  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance  of 
340  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Toe  Marconi  svstem  is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.    Edison. 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the   American 
Company- 
Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CROSSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa. ;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. ;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio ;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 

Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

.    Organized  1853 
Capital $3,000,000.  Gross  Cash  Assets S17.300.000 

Liberal  oontraots.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Repre- 
sentatives before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
may  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
tan Manager. 

310  Sansome  !>*-,  San  Francisco 


FIRE,   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  1713. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA.    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     $S,00».0M 

Surplus    to     rolicy-IIoldcrs     6,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  $3,446,100.  Assets,  }24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and  PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,    Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF   HARTFORD.     Established  I860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    2,202,635.00 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..    4,734,791.00 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,     2KSsneo    eStreet. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life  Insurance  Company 

Assets,   $1,500,000.     Insurance   in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  "Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St-  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital    $67,000,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  316  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    EKFUET,    GERMANT 

Capital   $2,250,000  Assets  $10,934,246 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &   CO.,   General  Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:   204-208   Sansome   St.,    San   Francisco. 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Political 


|$l  3,500,000 


Capital,  Surplus  and  Undivided 
Profits, 

Homer  S.   King.  President:  P.   L.   Lipman,   Cashier;   Frank  B. 
King.  Assistant  Cashier:  Jno.   E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 
BRANCHES— New   York;    Salt  Lake.    Utah;    Portland,    Or. 
Correspondents   throughout   the  world.     General    Banking   busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

532  California  St..  eor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President;  TV.  C.  B.  DeFREMERT.  ROBERT 
WATT.  Vice-Presidents;  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH,  Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremerv,  Henrv  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman,  Jacob  Bartn,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H 
Beaver.   William   A.   Magee,   Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  securitv.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  check's 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits.    December  31,    1903    i'a  "n-  90s 

Guarantee    Capital.    Paid-up 1000000 

Reserve   and   Contingent    Funas    \\Y.\       S99|oi6 

Mutual  Savinqs  Bank  of  sM  f™,,,is«, 

r,,a,..„,       r>     i.71,0  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee   Capital    n  nnn  nnn 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   *   ™sS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President;  S.  O. " MURPHY"  vice-PresI 
dent:  GEORGE  A.  STORY.  Cashier:  JOHN  A  HOOPER  vfce- 
Pr?,Sld£?.U^ioBVHOBSON'   Assistant  Cashier.     nuui^K'   vlce 

DIRECTORS-James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphy  John  A  hooner 
James  Momtt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroV  r3^ 
Spreckels    James  M.    McDonald.   Charles  Holbrook  tiuaolPh 

r?i^e?f    pald  Jn   deP°sits-     Loans   on   approved   securities 
e*I&^cT,ybebInnks.by  P°Stal  °rder-  WeUS'  FarS0  &  C0-  or 


The  German  Savinqs  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  528  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAN  FRANCISCO 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    j,  ■„, ...  ... 

Capital   Actually  Paid-up   in   Cash    ToMom 

Deposits,    Dec.  31.  1903   i,,J;Z,l 

pfe?^?  £F  PJRBCTORS-Presldent,  John' LloydY'rim  Vice. 
?j^Sld?n,tVDa,nlel.Meyer:   Second  Vice-President    H    Horstmann- 

K'rrvfHee6' H- B- Russ-  n-  ohia"dt  °  n™  a": 

mS^'^cri,^  R:,  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
™-a,n  •  Secretary  George  Tourny:  Assistant  Secretary  AH 
Muller;  General  Attorney.  W.  S.  Goodfellow       ocl-'cl'"^    •«••    «• 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  ASSOc,»,lon 

Established  In  18S9.  np  pumnm,,. 

SubscHbed^CapTt'a.0™'*    Street'    San    Franc'-°    "caf^0™1*' 
Paid-i"     Capital  J15.000.noo.00 

profit  a?a Reserve  puna".:.:.:;;;;;;:;:; 3SK 

ana'GSal'Tan'ag??^6'    *"■"««:   Wll.tam   Corbln.   Secretary 


International  BaQking  Corporatior; 

NO.  1  WALL  ST..   NEW  YORK 

Capital  and  Surplus  „ ..,  ... 

Ca,p^La,na   Surplus  Authorized".'.'.'.'.'. iomniiTm 

^i^C^l^L'oni^l"  AJeISnaleerr'&'G,releanmc^unSe?Clntyre- 
^S^ofe  ^n^aT^ng^0'  MeX'C°'  Ma"ila' 
Col^bo01  AnTo^^Son^Skow113?  £   ^Su.  Ri3„"g' 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH-32-34  Sansome  Street 
A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
»^a2SirHOVeT  secu.rlti?s-  fore'S"  and  domestic  e«han|e  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificate 
of  deposit  isued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to "bank! 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE   INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK,  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWICK,  JR.,  Ast.  Mgr 


I  was  glad  to  learn  at  Santa  Rosa  last  week  that 
the  Governor  is  very  wisely  about  to  take  the  ad- 
vice of  the  News  Letter,  and  make  a  change  at  the 
Home  for  the  Feeble  Minded,  which  might  not  in- 
appropriately be  styled  the  Home  of  Scandals  dur- 
ing the  past  three  years.  It  appears,  if  what  the 
officials  at  the  Santa  Rosa  Court  House  tell  me  is 
correct,  that  Dr.  Dawson,  Superintendent  at  the 
Home,  is  to  be  sent  back  to  his  St.  Helena  drug  store, 
and  Dr.  Fred  Hatch,  at  present  President  of  the 
Lunacy  Commission,  is  to  be  appointed  in  his  place. 
The  change  is  one  that  will  be  applauded  all  over 
the  State,  and  I  hasten  to  congratulate  the  Governor 
on  the  contemplated  change.  Dr.  Hatch  is  one  of  the 
best-known  authorities  on  insanity  in  the  State, 
and  those  who  know  him  intimately  say  he  is  kind- 
hearted,  a  good  administrator,  and  just  the  man  to 
make  a  success  of  the  Home. 

The  trustees  of  the  Home  are  not  willing  to  be 
responsible  for  the  mismanagement  of  Dr.  Dawson 
any  longer.  It  will  be  recalled  by  readers  of  the 
Xews  Letter  that  it  was  under  Dawson  that  all  the 
scandals  in  connection  with  allowing  girls  to  leave 
the  institution  have  occurred.  It  was  due  to  him, 
and  his  neglect  of  duty,  that  Rosa  King,  the  unfor- 
tunate girl  wdio  committed  suicide  at  ex-trustee 
Gould's  residence  in  this  city,  was  allowed  to  leave 
the  shelter  of  the  Home.  The  trustees  naturally  ob- 
jected to  being  blamed  for  these  scandals,  especially 
trustees  Bane  and  Lyons,  who  have  often  found 
their  political  duty  of  standing  in  with  the  Governor 
very  difficult,  and  they  are  delighted  to  know  that 
Dr.  Hatch  is  going  to  take  Dr.  Dawson's  place. 

My  attention  was  called  while  at  Santa  Rosa  also 
to  the  plain  violation  of  the  law  which  the  State 
Board  of  Examiners  and  Controller  Colgan  are  per- 
mitting when  they  allow  Dr.  Dawson's  son  to  draw 
salary  as  his  secretary.  The  Lunacy  law,  T  am  told, 
directly  forbids  members  of  a  Superintendent's  fam- 
ily holding  office  under  him,  and  therefore  all  the 
payments  are  illegal.  I  am  sure  the  Controller,  who 
is  very  careful,  and  who  is  the  most  popular  man  in 
Santa  Rosa  when  he  is  there,  need  onlv  have  his 
attention  called  to  this  matter  to  insist  upon  the  law 
being  complied  with.  Secretary  Mellicktoo  is  a 
stickler  after  the  law.  and  he  should  explain  why  he 
allows  its  plain  provisions  to  be  violated. 

Naturally,  I  asked  who  was  likely  to  take  Dr. 
Hatch's  place  as  President  of  the  Lunacy  Board, 
and  it  appears  that  Dr.  J.  D.  Young  ot  Stockton  In- 
sane Asylum  is  considered  the  man.  Dr.  Young  had 
figured  lately  a  good  deal  as  an  expert  in  insanity 
in  criminal  matters,  and  has  the  confidence  of  the 
Governor.  Only  a  few  persons  are  eligible  For  tin 
place,  as  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Lunacy  must 
have  several  years'  experience  in  the  asylums  before 
he  can  be  appointed.  Unlike  the  State  Board  of 
Corrections  and  Charities,  he  cannot  be  imported 
from  Minnesota  at  State  expense  for  moving  his 
family.  Of  those  eligible,  Dr.  Clarke  is  too  old  to 
care  for  the  place;  Dr.  Stocking  has  only  recently 
been  appointed  in  charge  of  the  Agnews  Asylum  ; 
Dr.  Stone  is  not  even  eligible  to  the  place  he  now 
holds  as  Director  at  Napa  Asylum,  and  Dr.  King  is 
too  much  of  a  litigant,  not  to  speak  of  his  connections 
with  the  Anderson  outfit  and  its  college.  There  is 
another  Dr.  Campbell  in  Southern  California  who  is 
eligible,  except  that  he  is  a  homeopath,  and  the  doc- 
tors would  never  consent  to  be  ruled  by  that  branch 
of  the  profession.  Dr.  Young  is  looked  upon  as  the 
probable  successor  of  Dr.  Clarke  at  Stockton, 


February  13.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


31 


The  most  interesting  subject  of  discussion  in  po 
litical  circles  at  present  is  who  will  go  t"  Chicago 
and  St.  Louis.  The  Republicans  have  candi 
galore.  For  delegate  at  large.  Governor  Pardee 
would  like  to  head  the  delegation;  s>>  would  ex 
rnor  1  Jage  and  editors  Otis,  Spreckels  and  De 
Young  are  also  willing.  Senator  Tom  Flint  thinks 
that  lie  has  presided  over  the  Senate  with  abiliti 
enough  to  entitle  him  to  be  one  of  the  delegates  at 
large,  and  ex-Senator  Felton,  who  has  started  into 
political  life  again  since  he  was  appointed  upon  the 
Prison  Board,  would  be  willing  to  help  nominate 
Roosevelt.  George  Knight  wants  to  be  delegate  at 
large,  by  virtue  of  the  fact  that  he  has  a  splendid 
voice,  is  a  good  talker,  and  has  attended  conventions 
before.  U.  S.  Grant  is  a  candidate  from  the  South, 
and  Abe  Ruef  is  the  choice  of  a  good  many  persons 
from  this  city.  All  of  those  gentlemen,  with  the  two 
United  States  Senators  and  Congressman  Metcalf, 
want  to  be  delegates  at  large,  although  there  are  only 
four  places.  Of  course  there  are  several  names  on 
the  list  that  could  be  dropped,  and  no  one,  except 
the  droppee,  would  care.  There  are  possible  combi- 
nations that  would  make  the  delegation  as  inharmon- 
ious as  the  two  Kilkenney  cats.  Take,  for  instance, 
Gage  and  Otis ;  they  don't  speak,  and  could  not 
travel  on  the  same  train  even  if  one  rode  on  the  cow- 
catcher and  the  other  held  the  green  flag  on  the  rear 
platform.  Then  there  are  Gage  and  Spreckels — 
that  would  be  worse  than  Gage  and  Otis.  There  are 
Pardee  and  Gage,  or  Gage  and  Flint,  or  Pardee  and 
Flint.  In  fact,  Gage  would  find  it  difficult  to  manage 
with  any  one  else,  and  so  would  Otis,  who  always 
fights  the  Republican  ticket  anyway.  So  both  of 
them  had  better  be  left  at  home,  and  probably  will 
be.  Besides  those  I  have  mentioned,  Hayes  of  San 
Jose  and  Short  of  Fresno  would  like  to  be  delegates 
at  large,  and  both  are  strong  men,  and  have  none  of 
the  antagonisms  that  the  other  men  who  have  been 
prominent  in  politics  for  years  have  engendered. 

The  Democrats  are  even  more  at  a  loss  whom  to 
choose  than  the  Republicans,  and  with  them  it  is 
not  simply  a  question  of  who  shall  go  to  a  conven- 
tion, but  who  shall  have  the  vote  of  the  delegation 
for  President.  They  have  Mayor  Snyder  of  Los 
Angeles,  ex-Governor  Budd  of  Stockton  or  San  Fran- 
cisco, ex-Mayor  Phelan  of  San  Francisco,  William 
Alford,  Ed.  Leake  of  Woodland,  Congressman  Bell, 
Dick  Bemer,  Franklin  K.  Lane,  Gavin  McNab,  J.  V. 
Coleman,  Joseph  Slye,  Will  Green,  ex-Congressman 
Caminetti,  and  a  dozen  others,  but  the  great  fact 
must  be  ascertained  in  their  camp,  "Who  will  you 
support  for  President?"  Budd,  of  course,  is  for 
Hearst,  and  Phelan  is  not;  Ed.  Leake  and  Will 
Green  ditto.  McNab  is  now  said  to  be  for  Hearst, 
but  neither  he  nor  Lane  would  be  very  enthusiastic, 
and  the  Hearst  managers  are  afraid  of  them;  they 
might  be  gotten  away  from  the  omnipresent  editor 
at  St.  Louis  too  easily.  Alford  and  Snyder  are  for 
anybody  and  anything  that  will  help  them  along  in 
their  political  ambitions,  which  tend  toward  Sac- 
ramento and  the  Governor's  chair,  and  Dick  Bemer 
is   traveling   in   their   company. — Junius. 


BANKING, 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  $3,000,000.     Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve.ETA 

Authorized   Capital    !?'™'2SS 

Paid-up   Capital   and  Reserve    Sl.725.uuo 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes.  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  Sts..  San   Francises. 

•IAS.  K.  WILSON.  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON,  Vlce- 
lr.sid.nt;  LEWIS  I.  COWGILL.  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant  Cashier. 

Capital,    $500,000.      surplus    and    Undivided    Profits,    $200,000 

1>. tvECTORS—  William    J.    Dutton,    C.      S.     Benedict.      William 
Johnson,   11.   E.    Huntington,   George  A.   Newhall,   George 
A     lope,  James  K.  Wilson,  L.  I.  Cowglll,  W.  H.  Talbot. 

.'is -Now  York— Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
It.  x.i  a  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
II..-  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— urown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  llarjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up   Capital,   $8,700,000  Reserve   Fund,   $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  $70,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President. 
B.   E.  Walker,  General  Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW    YORK    OFFICE— 16    Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlin,      Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmlln,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New   Westminster,   Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
Also    SO    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
IN   YUKON   TERRITORY— Dawson   and  White  Horse. 
IN  UNITEo  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Manitoba,   N.  W.   Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS  IN   LONDON— The  Bank  of  England,   the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  Northern  Trust  Co. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 

SAN     FRANCISCO     OFFICE- 

325  California  Street. 

A.   KAINS,    Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  Bank^.^ 

N.   W.    COR.    SANSOME  AND   SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Offlce-40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS — New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can  Bank,    Limited,    No.   10  Wall   street,    N.   Y.;   Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard    Freres    &   Cie,    17   Boulevard    Poissoniere.     Draw    direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.     Commercial  and  Travelers' 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  ~.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.   ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  (3ngIo-Californian  Bank,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— IS  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid   up    $1,500,080 

Subscribed 3,009,000       Reserve    Fund     ....     700,000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  BanK 

222  Montgomery  St.,   Mills  Building 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOEjt^d.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  'William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Bt.lo.win,    F.    Monteagle,   Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    B.  H.  Pease. 

4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L  Association 

Pays  4  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

516    CALIFOENIA    STEEET.    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital $8,000,000 

Paid  in  Capital loooooo 

Guarantee  Capital .'.'.'.'.'.............'..... .'200000 

Keal  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICEES    AND    DIEECTOES 

A.  A.  Watkins.  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  E.  Bishop.  Vice-President  Bank  of  California. . .  .Vice-President 

S.Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &  L.  Association. 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  .ffitna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  P. 

Savings  Union Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd,  Banker,  Portland,  Oregon Director 

Gavin  MeNab,  Attorney-at-Iaw Attorney 

Walter  K.  Smith Cashier 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


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Sample  Machines 
on  Exhibition. 


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Corner  luth. 


WE  HAVE  ARRIVED  THE  mUnaute  car 


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134-148    GOLDEN    GATE    AVE. 


Have  you  seen   the 


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The  talk  of  the  town 

Best    Automobi'e     at 
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$425 


Stong-Easy  Riding— Reliable— Guaranteed 
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The  Automobile  Club  of  California  has  been  turned 
down  by  the  Park  Commissioners.  The  request  made 
by  the  club  for  extended  privileges  has  been  denied. 
At  the  last  meeting,  a  committee  composed  of  some 
of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  city  appeared  be- 
fore the  Board  and  asked  that  the  overlook  drive 
and  a  certain  part  of  the  great  highway  be  opened 
lo  automobiles.  The  latter  part  of  the  request  was 
made  so  the  Cliff  House  might  be  reached  without 
.coming  back  to  the  Park  entrance  or  to  take  the 
Cliff  House  hill  road.  But  their  endeavors  were 
without  avail,  and  the  matter  was  laid  over  until  the 
next   meeting. 

It  is  strange  that  such  an  intelligent  body  of  men 
as  the  Board  of  Park  Commissioners  should  for 
one  instant  withhold  rights  that  belong  to  the  auto- 
mobilists.  It  is,  however,  a  repetition  of  what  had  to 
be  encountered  when  the  club  received  the  privil- 
edge  to  use  the  South  Drive.  Unlike  that  time,  the 
Board  cannot  deny  the  request  on  the  ground  that  it 
would  be  dangerous,  as  this  modern  mode  of  convey- 
ance might  frighten  horses  and  thereby  tend  to  the 
loss  of  life.  That  time  is  gone,  and  the  horses  of  the 
city  are  not  frightened  by  the  horseless  one. 

But  now  some  of  the  Commissioners  are  using  the 
pretext  that  the  automobiles  are  being  driven  beyond 
the  speed  limit,  and  if  any  more  drives  are  opened  to 
them  it  may  cause  accidents.  If  this  is  the  only  rea- 
son why  the  drives  are  not  opened,  the  Commission- 
ers have  placed  themselves  in  a  sorry  light,  for  they 
acknowledge  they  are  unable  to  enforce  the  laws  they 
make. 

Let  it  be  granted  for  the  sake  of  argument  that 
there  are  some  automobilists  who  go  through  the 
Park  at  a  speed  greater  than  that  set  down  by  the 
law.  Is  that  any  reason  why  the  automobilists  as  a 
body  should  be  prohibited  from  the  extension  of 
the  privilege  now  enjoyed.  There  is  no  one  who 
would  appreciate  more  the  arresting  of  any  one  break- 
ing the  laws  than  the  average  automobilist.  It  has 
been  suggested  that  this  is  not  the  true  reason ;  that 
behind  it  all  is  a  strong  pressure  being  brought  to 
bear  to  keep  the  drives  of  the  Park  closed  as  long 
as  possible,  as  with  the  opening  of  the  main  chan- 
nels through  the  pleasure  ground  the  cabman  and 
those  who  hire  out  carriages  would  have  quite  a 
source  of  revenue  cut  off. 

If  this  is  the  case,  San  Francisco  is  in  just  as  bad 
position  as  New  York  City  was  before  the  State 
law  was  enacted,  which  made  it  possible  to  enter 
Central  Park.  It  was  the  cabmen's  association  of 
that  city,  a  strong  political  organization,  that 
brought  a  strong  pull  into  play  and  kept  the  park 
closed.  But  there  were  too  many  progressive  men 
interested  in  automobiles,  and  a  State  law  was  passed 
that  cut  down  the  barriers. 

Some  such  measure  will  have  to  be  worked  out  in 
this  city  before  relief  comes. 
*  *  * 

When  the  Park  Commissioners  insist  on  prohibit- 
ing the  local  automobile  owners  from  using  the 
Park  drive  it  might  be  well  to  give  a  few  facts  about 
the  automobile  industry,  to  see  if  that  will  not  con- 
vince them  that  it  is  time  for  them  to  become  alive 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


*3 


to  the  times  and  not  allow  Eastern  visit   r-  1..  - 
at  their  out-of-date  methods  of  controlling  il-e  Pari 

1  M10  of  the  tinns  In  the  Now  York  Automobile 
Show  announced  thai  its  output  up  t>>  December  31st 
had  been  S2.500.ocw.  and  future  orders  coul  I  not  be 
tilled  until  a  late  date. 

The  production  in  the  United  States  prior  to  1898 
consisted  of  a  few  experimental  machines,  By  1900 
the  annual  output  was  about  800,  with  an  average  cost 
of  Si.ooo.  1901  saw  an  increase  to  3,000  machines, 
valued  at  $2,400,000,  or  about  $800  apiece.  In  [902 
the  number  had  increased  to  8,000,  with  a  value  of 
S< i.i^oo.ooo,  an  increase  of  $50  per  machine. 

In  1903  the  actual  sales  were  estimated  at  11,000 
cars,  with  a  value  of  $12,000,000. 

Last  year  about  200  foreign  autos  came  into  the 
country,  valued  at  about  $4,000  each.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  exports  of  American  automobiles  have  in- 
creased with  wonderful  rapidity.  Prior  to  July  1, 
1901,  these  exports  were  not  classified  separately, 
and  so  cannot  be  ascertained,  but  from  that  date  to 
November  30,  1902.  For  the  first  eleven  months  of 
1902  these  exports  amounted  to  $1,026,083,  and  for 
the  corresponding  period  of  1903,  $1,419,481.  From 
this  showing  it  is  evident  for  the  entire  year  the  ex- 
ports will  reach  the  imposing  total  of  a  million  and 
a  half.  The  British  trade  returns,  which  give  the 
number  of  motor  cars,,  including  motor  cycles,  im- 
ported into  the  United  Kingdom  for  the  eleven 
months  ending  November  30,  1903,  at  5,892,  valued 
at  $8,020,093.50,  or  an  increase  over  the  preceding 
year  of  2,315.  machines  and  more  than  $2,500,000  in 
value. 

With  this  ever  increasing  demand  for  the  modern 
chariot,  it  is  not  likely  that  the  Commissioners  will 
think  it  safe  for  their  reputations  to  hinder  such  an 
industry  and  destroy,  or  at  least  block,  a  local  mar- 
ket. 

*  *  * 

The  coming  June  will  see  another  attempt  to  go 
from  the  Pacific  to  the  Atlantic.  This  time,  how- 
ever, it  will  not  be  a  question  of  whether  the  destina- 
tion will  be  reached,  but  how  quickly  the  distance 
may  be  covered. 

B.  B.  Holcomb,  who  drove  a  Columbia  car  from 
Chicago  to  New  York  in  76  hours,  thinks  he  -can 
make  the  transcontinental  journey  in  400  hours  by 
running  the  car  day  and  night. 

*  *  * 

Some  one  has  been  writing  to  the  Motor  Age  about 
a  scheme  in  California  to  restore  Mission  roads  for 
the  use  of  automobiles.  The  writer  states  that  the 
Southern  owners  will  build  as  far  as  Santa  Barbara, 
and  then  will  leave  the  rest  of  the  distance  to  the 
Northern   men. 

The  writer  should  wake  up.  San  Francisco  owners 
cannot  open  their  own  park,  let  alone  restoring  "The 
King's  Highway." 

The  Rambler  Automobile  Agency  will  open  in  its 
new  quarters  at  1331  Market  street,  corner  10th,  on 
Monday,  February  15th,  with  a  complete  stock  of 
Rambler  automobiles.  The  Rambler  Company  are 
the  second  largest  manufacturers  of  automobiles  in 
the  United  States,  and  make  eight  models  of  ma- 
chine. The  machine  has  earned  a  splendid  reputation, 
as  many  owners  here  in  San  Francisco  can  testify, 
and  The  News  Letter  extends  its  best  wishes  for  a 
prosperous  year  for  the  new  agency,  which  is  owned 
by  Fred  A.  Jacobs,  formerly  vice-president  of  the 
National  Automobile  Company.  It  is  a  coincident 
that  the  quarters  formerly  occupied  by  the  Rambler 


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runabout  was  made  in  our  factory 
in  18H7-  Buildine  on  this  founda- 
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ceeding year  has  brought  the  Olds- 
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as  the  world's  standard  runabout. 

Ask  our  nearest  selling  agent,  or 
write  direct  for  full  iniormation 
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DETROIT.    MICH.     TJ.    M.    A. 

Member  of  the  Association  of  Li- 
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LOCAL  AGENTS-PIoneerAiitoCo.,901 

Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Oldsmobile  Company,   243  West  6th  St. 

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Three  Models. 

Olds  Regular  Light  Runabout. 

Olds  French  Type  Touring  Runabout. 

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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


Bicycle  Company  for  the  past  ten  years  should  be- 
come the  home  of  the  Rambler  Automobile  Com- 
pany,  especially   as   Thomas   B.   Jeffery   established 

both  concerns. 

*  *  * 

The  following  are  names  of  recent  purchase!  s  of 
Locomobile  gasoline  touring  cars:  Mr.  Bliss,  presi- 
dent Boston-Albany  Railroad;  W.  A.  Vogel,  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y. ;  E.  S.  Cole,  Bridgeport,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Pills- 
bury,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  Carl  Fisher,  Indianapolis, 
Tnd. ;  D.  K.  Paddock,  Newark,  N.  J. ;  W.  I.  Martin, 
1.  ..'cago,  111.;  William  Clark,  Chicago,  111.;  W.  I.  Ful- 
ler, Chicago,  111. 

The  Pope-Toledo  Mile-a-Minute  touring  cars  ar- 
rived at  the  National  Automobile  Company's  place 
last  Saturday  afternoon,  and  created  quite  a  sensation 
for  their  beauty  and  quiet  running.  It  seemed  from 
the  expressions  of  the  visitors  who  called  to  'ook 
tb.se  two  cars  over  that  they  were  the  handsomest 
things  in  the  automobile  line  that  have  ever  come  to 
San  Francisco. 

Mr.  B.  D.  Merchant  received  his  four-cylinder 
Pope-Toledo  from  the  National  Automobile  Company 
last  week. 

The  National  Automobile  Company  shipped  a  blue 
Pope-Toledo  Mile-a-Minute  four-cylinder  car  to  El- 
licott  Evans  of  Pasadena  the  past  week.  Mr.  Evans 
of  Pasadena  came  to  the  city  on  the  day  of  the  arrival 
of  the  Pope-Toledos,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  view 
them  after  their  arrival  at  the  National  Automobile 
Company's  garage.  Mr.  Boyer  of  the  National  Au- 
tomobile Company,  accompanied  by  Mr.  Riley  and 
Mr.  Spears,  were  out  through  the  Park  in  Mr.  Evans' 

blue  Toledo  on  last  Sunday  afternoon. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  just  received  advice 
that  another  shipment  of  Arrows  will  leave  the  fac- 
tory about  the  10th  of  February.  These  will  be  of 
different  type,  some  with  square  and  slanting  hoods 
and  canopy  tops. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Company  closed  a  contract  witli 
Weber  &  Field's  to  provide  them  with  automobiles 
during  their  two  weeks'  stay  in  San  Francisco.  This 
company  has  had  the  patronage  of  all  the  leading 
theatrical  people  visiting  San  Francisco,  and  their 
service  has  been  such  that  they  are  well  known 
throughout  the  East.  When  the  theatrical  people 
come  to  the  Coast,  they  apparently  place  their  orders 
with  the  Mobile  Carriage  Company  without  inquiries. 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  been  advised 
by  the  George  N.  Pierce  people  that  their  carload  of 
the  French  Arrows  has  been  shipped,  and  will  reach 
the   Coast  at  an  early  date. 

*  *  * 

With  a  blare  of  trumpets,  Chicago's  fourth  annual 
automobile  show  was  opened  to  the  public  at  the 
Colisseum  February  6th.  Covering  the  great  expanse 
of  floor  space  are  displayed  man's  most  modern  ma- 
chines of  locomotion,  these  hundreds  of  vehicles  be- 
ing valued  at  more  than  $2,000,000.  In  every  detail 
Chicago's  show  is  the  most  diversified,  the  most  com- 
prehensive that  has  been  attempted.  There  are  more 
than  600  various  types  of  machines  on  exhibition. 
These  kings  of  the  show,  dotting  the  floor  on  raised 
platforms,  are  hedged  in  by  exhibits  of  hundreds  of 
accessories  to  these  modern  time-annihilating  de- 
vices. 

*  *  * 

Fournier's  American  one-mile  record  of  51  4-5  sec- 
onds, made  with  his  60  h.  p.  Mors,  remained  intact 
for  more  than  sixteen  months.     It  resisted  every  at- 


tack until  on  January  3d  the  Packard  Voiture  Le- 
gere  racing  car  "Grey  Wolf"  broke  it  fourteen  times 
in  two  days,  and  finally  came  within  2-5  seconds  of 
the  world's  record  for  heavy  cars. 


—     WILL     BE     HERE     SHORTLY     — 

THE    NEW    19  04 — Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  '04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST.  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  are  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR   CO. 


49    CITY    HALL    AVE. 


SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  (French)  $2,650. 

1.    It  has  a  French  engine  and  is  essentially  a  French  car. 

2-  The  manufacturer  in  France  pays  a  revenue  on  each  horse 
power  of  engine,  consequently  all  French  engines  are  underated. 
The  Arrow  Touring  Car  lfi  H.  P.  French  will  develop  25  H-  P. 
American  standard. 

3.  A  horse  power  for  each  76  pounds  weight.  It  has  lightness 
and  strength.    Easy  on  tires- 

MOBILE    CARRIAGE    CO.      San  Francisco. 


LIKEIBEINQT/AT^HOME 

The  "ANON A" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  OILLETT.  Prop. 

2910     SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Cap  566 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 2SS  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Western  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


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KENEWAL. 
By  norenee  Barta  Coateeln  Harper's  nfnsa 

Those  sounds  sonorous  rolling!  — 
These  vibrant  tones  ami  clear! 

Listen!      The   hells  are  tolling 
The    requiem    of   the    year: 

The  year  that  dies,  as  mute  it  lies 
Midst  fallen  leaves  and  sere; 

Now   by  the   fading  embers 
That  on  earth's  hearthstone  glow. 

How   sadly   one  remembers 
The  things  o."  long  ago: 

The   wistful   things,    with    flamebright   wing 
That  vanished  long  ago. 

The   self-effacing  sorrow. 

The  generous  desire, 
The  pledges  for  the  morrow, 

Enkindled  at  this  Are! — 
Enkindled  here,  O  dying  year! 

Where   smoulders   low   thy   pyre. 

What  hope  and  what  ambition, 

What  dreams  beyond  recall! 
And  look  we  for  fruition, 

To  find  them  ashes   all? 
Is  life  the  wTaith  of  love — of  faich? 

Then  let  the  darkness  fall! 

The  sparks — how  fast  they  dwindle! 

How  faint  their  being  glows! 
Quickly!  the  fire  rekindle — 

Ah,  quickly,  e'er  it  goes! 
Woo  living  breath  from  the   lips  of  death !- 

From  ashes  bring  the  rose! 

Kind;  God!      The  bells,  in  gladness! 

The  rose  of  hope  hath  bloomed! 
For,  consecrating  sadness, 

Life  hath  its  own  resumed, 
And   welcomes   here   the   new-born   year — 

A  phoenix,  unconsumed! 


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OPPORTUNITY. 

By  Blanche  Trennor  Heath  in  Lippincott's 
"I  have  no  skill  to  lead,"  he  cried, 

"But  see,   the  breach  within   the  wall!" 
He  grasped  a  bugle  at  his  side 
And   blew   a  battle   call. 

They  followed  where  the  bugle  rang; 

They  smote  the  crumbling  wall  to  ground- 
Foremost  within  the  breach  he  sprang, 

The  man  the  hour  had  found! 


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WISDOM. 

By  Theodorsia  Garrison  in  Harper's  Weekly 
I   never   knew   what  sorrow  meant 

When  I  had  tears  to  shed. 
The  tears  that  washed  out  bitterness 

And  left  content  instead. 

I  know  at  last  what  sorrow  is 

Who  have  no  tears  to  fall, 
But  only  for  life's   tragedies 

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By  Agnes  Lee  in  Lippincott's 
In  the  soul's  cnamber,  reft  and  bare, 

When  the  soul  may  not  weep, 
Comes   stealing  in   the  Nurse,   Despair, 

And  drugs  ft  off  to  sleep. 

But  in  some_  watch,  ere  night  be  dead. 

Another  takes  her  place; 
At  dawn,  above  the  soul's  dim  bed, 

Hope   bends  her  beaming  face. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO 


The  Baltimore  fire  is  unique  in  more  than  one  par- 
ticular. It  has  not  cost  any  lives  ;  it  is  about  the 
largest  fire  of  recent  times,  and  it  has  afforded  the 
daily  press  an  opportunity  to  display  its  crass  ignor- 
ance. 

According  to  the  reports  published  by  the  daily 
press,  the  stock  market  (i.  e.,  the  insurance  stocks) 
fled  way  down  into  the  basement  of  the  Stock 
Exchange  building,  and  was  so  much  waste  paper. 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  managers  of  fire  insur- 
ance companies  on  California  street  did  not  seem  to 
be  flurried  in  the  least. 

It  is  conceded  that  the  local  Baltimore  Fire  In- 
surance Companies  will  go  out  of  business,  but  there 
are  Baltimore  companies  which  will  undoubtedly 
keep  on  doing  business  at  the  old  stand. 

The  newspaper  talk  about  a  slump  in  the  stocks 
of  fire  insurance  companies  is  all  bosh.  Here  in 
California  we  have  two  local  fire  insurance  com- 
panies, and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  they  had  achieved 
their  share  of  Baltimore  business. 

In  an  interview,  the  officers  of  each  company 
seemed  not  to  be  worried,  and  were  not  in  the  least 
upset.  Their  losses  were  not  definitely  known,  but 
if  they  had  lost  the  gigantic  amount  charged  to  them 
by  the  daily  press,  it  might  rattle,  but  still  would  not 
phase  them. 

California  fire  insurance  companies  are  habituated 
to  meeting  losses  caused  by  conflagrations.  The 
Boston,  the  Chicago  and  the  Pittsburg  fires  are  old 
exceptions.  They,  have  been  through,  as  it  were, 
the  fire  before,  and  the  Fireman's  Fund  and  the 
Home  Fire  and  Marine  are  among  the  Baltimore 
losers  who  are  the  least  disturbed. 

There  are  justl}'  grounTled  fears  that  some  of  the 
Maryland  Companies  will  be  wiped  out,  but  as  be- 
fi  ire  said,  it  is  expected  that  these  will  be  only  the 
companies  which  have  transacted  a  purely  local  busi- 
ness. 

The  two  or  three  Maryland  companies  doing  an 
agency  business  are  expected  to  survive,  and  if  per- 
chance they  should  fail,  they  will  only  make  a  riffle 
in  the  pool  of' the  insurance  world.  The  dailv  press 
to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

It  would  be  futile  for  the  News  Letter  to  quote 
figures  as  to  the  amount  of  loss.    It  is  too  early,  and 
figures  at  this  writing  can  onlv  be  guess  work. 
*  *  * 

This,  however,  the  News  Letter  may  say,  that  like 
the  theatre  disaster  this  Baltimore  fire  calls  atten- 
tion to  the  rubbish  on  our  own  door-step. 

The  business  district  of  Baltimore,  which  is  burned 
was  comprised  of  a  few  A  and  of  many  B  build- 
ings. Baltimore  had  a  fairly  good  fire  department 
and. 'plenty  of  water,  and  yet  these  brick,  stone  and 
granite   structures  burned    like   tow. 

How-afire  would  act  in  San  Francisco  can  be  bet- 
ter imagined  than  described.  If  it  commenced  south 
of  Market,  in  the  vicinity  of,  say.  Third  and  Howard, 
or  north  of  Market,  in  the  hotel  district ! 

These  localities,  not  forgetting  the  lumber  district 
and  the  freight  yards  (of  which  we  have  already  had 
a  taste)  are  a  menace  to  the  city.  When  the  fire 
comes,  and  come  it  will,  there  will  be  a  wild  time 
both  among  firemen  and  tire  insurance  companies' 
stocks. 


NEWS   LETTER.  February  13,  1904. 

Fire  Marshall  Towe  agrees  with  this  prognostica- 
tion, as  is  evidenced  by  his  report,  made  to  the  Board 
of  Supervisors,  in  which  he  says: 

"Many  buildings  have  been  constructed,  under  pre- 
vious laws,  wholly  of  wood,  even  as  high  as 
seven  stories.  They  adjoin  and  abut  in  some 
cases.  Many  of  them  are  centered  in  one  of  the  hilly 
districts  of  our  city.  It  has  been  the  study  of  this 
Board  and  of  the  Fire  Department,  whose  officers 
comprise  this  board,  how  to  check  a  fire  once  started 
f.nd  extending  from  the  building  in  which  it  origi- 
nated in  what  may  be  termed  the  boarding-house 
district,  where  the  buildings  range  from  three  to 
seven  stories  and  arc  constructed  wholly  of  frame. 
Should  a  fire  start  on  a  windy  day  it  is  possible  for 
burning  embers  to  be  carried  blocks  away.  The 
department  would  be  taxed  to  its  utmost  and  leave 
a  valuable  portion  of  the  city  at  the  mercy  of  the 
conflagration.  This  risk  is  with  us  every  day.  and, 
in  answer  to  your  resolution,  we  say  the  danger  from 
fire  is  great — too  great  to  be  put  in  a  written  report. 

"This  is  no  new  subject  to  this  board.  Its  members 
have  often  talked  it  over  at  meetings  and  wished  it 
were  possible  to  pass  an  ordinance  causing,  here- 
after, all  buildings  outside  of  the  fire  limits  erected 
over  three  stories  in  height,  attics  and  mansard  roof 
included,  to  be  constructed  wholly  of  brick  or  stone, 
with  no  frame  additions  on  the  roof." 

This  strong  language  from  an  expert  like  Towe  is 
worthy  of  note,  and  if  Baltimore's  business  district, 
built  of  non-combustible  material,  burns,  what  would 
happen  if  "it  got  a  start"  in  San  Francisco?" 

*  *  * 

The  Insurance  Commissioner  of  California  may  be 
relied  on  to  take  prompt  action  in  case  of  any  of  the 
smaller  Eastern  fire  insurance  companies  being  bard 
hit  in  the  Baltimore  fire.  He  would  at  once  revoke 
the  authority  of  the  company  to  do  business  in  this 
State.  When  the  flurry  is  over,  it  will  be  found  that 
there  was  a  good  deal  more  smoke  than  fire  so  far 
as  the  failure  of  insurance  companies  is  concerned. 
The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Maryland  companies, 
showing  their  capital  stock  and  net  surplus: 

Surplus  as 
to  Policy- 
Oapital  Gross  Holders 

Stock  Assets         December  31, 

linn 

Baltimore    $     200,000     $     610,712     $    499,133 

Balto.   Eq.  S'ty.  .  2,960.211        2,317,637 

Firemen's    400,000        1,240.367  812.3511 

German    500,000       1,542,135        [,376,083 

German-Am.    ...       200,000  524.422  413,4113 

Home    200,000  466,147  295.4211 

Maryland    100,000  128,496  1 17,474 

Old.  Town    100,000  134,924  127,540 

Peabody    127,500  304,688  265,015 

Security    100,000  144,683  125.527 

Total   $1,927,500     $8,056,785     $6,349,651 

*  *  * 

lieerge  H.  Tyson,  the  well-known  general  agent  of 
the  Phoenix  Insurance  Company  and  other  good 
companies,  states  in  an  interview  that  the  losses  of 
his  companies  in  the  Baltimore  conflagration  will 
be  about  one  and  one-quarter  million  dollars,  less 
than  one-tenth  of  their  policyholders'  surplus  held 
for  such  disasters.  Now  is  the  time  to  press  forward 
for  desirable  business  from  the  insuring  public  and 
demonstrate  to  them  the  advantage  of  insuring  only 
with  companies  that  are  conflagration  proof.  Total 
hisses  paid  in  fifty  years,  including  the  great  Chicago 
and   Boston  conflagrations,  over  fifty  millions. 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


•7 


The  Firemans  Fund,  following  its  old  habit,  sent 
to  its  Massachusetts  general  agent  the  following 
telegram  : 

"Charles   W.   Kellogg,   Mason    Building,    Boston, 

Mass. — Telegrams  received.  Congratulations  al 
learning  that  your  original  estimate  was  sufficiently 
liberal.  I  remit  you  $100,000.  More  as  fast  as  need- 
ed. Make  prompt  and  liberal  settlement  without  dis- 
count, realizing  that  now.  in  the  hour  of  their  dis- 
tress, our  Baltimore  policyholders  are  entitled  to  nol 
only  justice  but  liberality  at  our  hands. 
"WILLIAM  .1.  DUTTON,  Pres.  Firemans  Fund." 

This  is  sufficient  to  establish  the  strength  of  Cali- 
fornia fire  insurance  companies.  It  is  a  safe  guess 
that  the  $100,000  will  come  pretty  near  settling  the 
total  losses  of  the  Hremans  Fund,  the  daily  press  to 
the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

The  Home  Fire  and  Marine  and  the  Firemans  Fund 
have  been  noted  for  years  for  their  conservatism  in 
lines,  and  they  have  not  been  caught  in  this  fire  to 
any  extent  which  will  deplete  dividends. 

George  E.  Butler  received  the  following  cablegram 
from  the  Phoenix:  "Baltimore  losses  will  be  paid 
with  funds  from  London  office,  leaving  United  States 
assets  untouched."  '  No  one  ever  doubted  the  strength 

of  the  old   Phoenix. 

*  *  * 

The  Royal  and  Queen  received  the  following  tele- 
gram :  "Rolla  V.  Watt,  manager  Royal  Insurance 
Company:  All  funds  needed  in  payment  of  Baltimore 
losses  will  be  drawn  from  home  office  without  dis- 
turbing United  States  investments.  We  are  author- 
ized to  subscribe  $10,000  to  relief  fund  if  such  fund 
is  found  necessary  to  assist  the  poorer  sufferers  by 
this  terrible  calamity. — Edward  F.  Beddall,  General 
Attorney  for  United  States."  The  Baltimore  losses 
of  the  Queen,  the  associate  company  with  the  Royal, 
were  $450,000,  or  about  15  per  cent  of  the  company's 
annual  premium  income. 

*  *  * 

Edward  Brown  &  Sons'  Agency  reports  the  fol- 
lowing wires.  The  Almerican  of  Philadelphia  says : 
"Our  interest  in  the  Baltimore  conflagration  approxi- 
mately $150,000." 

Agricultural  Insurance  Company  of  New  York: 
"Baltimore  losses  between  $100,000  and  $200,000." 

Delaware  of  Delaware:  "Loss,  Baltimore  nearly 
$100,000." 

The  Globe  and  Rutgers  has  no  agency  in  Balti- 
more, and  has  sustained  very  little  loss. 

*  *  * 

Mann  &  Wilson,  managers,  report:  "The  Balti- 
more Fire  is  the  greatest  of  modern  times,  with  the 
exception  of  that  of  Chicago.  This  conflagration  oc- 
curred on  Sunday  morning,  the  7th  of  February.  On 
the  afternoon  of  the  succeeding  day  we  received  a 
telegram  from  the  Home  Office  reading:  'Following 
the  honorable  course  pursued  by  the  New  York  Un- 
derwriters' Agency  in  all  previous  conflagrations,  it 
is  already  adjusting  and  paying  Baltimore  losses.' 
This  day  we  are  in  receipt  of  the  following  tele- 
gram: 'Combined  losses,  New  York  Underwriters 
and  Hartford  will  not  exceed  $750,000.'  "    - 

*  *  * 

The  old  Hartford,  Palache  and  Hewitt  managers, 
are  not  worried  over  the  Baltimore  loss,  and  base 
their  confidence  on  the  following  wire:  "The  Hart- 
ford's premium  income  is  far  greater  than  that  of 
any  other  company  on  the  business  of  this  Coast, 
but  knowing  full  well  the  conflagration  dangers  in 
the  great  centers,  the  company  has  always  regulated 
its  lines  accordingly,  and  the  result  is  that  while 
the  Hartford  does  the  third  largest  business  in  the 


State  nf  Maryland,  her  estimated  net  losses  in  the 
enormous  tire  waste  of  Baltimore  are  the  compara- 
tively conservative  amount  of  $750,000.  The  fire  was 
not  extinguished  until  Monday  night,  but  on  Tuesday 
we  received  the  following  telegram  from  President 
George  L.  Chase:  'Following  the  honorable  course 
pursued  by  the  Hartford  Fire  Insurance  Company 
in  all  previous  conflagrations,  it  is  already  adjusting 
ami  paying  Baltimore  losses.'  In  a  time  of  such 
overwhelming  disaster,  promptness  on  the  part  of  the 
insurance  companies  in  meeting  their  obligations  is 
the  tiii  1st  effective  aid  to  the  sufferers.  Such  treat- 
ment on  the  part  of  the  Hartford  is  precisely  what 
policyholders  in  this  great  company  are  guaranteed, 
even  though  the  amount  involved  was  very  much 
greater  than  the  immense  sum  mentioned  as  involved 
in  the  Baltimore  disaster.  Such  a  terrible  visitation 
always  stimulates  people  to  a  new  recognition  of  the 
value  of  insurance." 

*  *  * 

The  other  companies  have  been  heard  from  to 
some  extent ;  the  L.  &  L.  &  G.  are  in  receipt  of  a 
telegram   estimating  its  losses  at  one  million. 

*  *  * 

The  changes  spoken  of  in  last  week's  News  Let- 
ter in  connection  with  the  Conservative  Life,  have 
been  announced.  The  Montgomery-street  branch  is 
amalgamated  with  the  Geary-street  branch,  and  Mr. 
Fred  Bennion  is  again  promoted  and  is  now  the  man- 
ager for  San  Francisco  of  the  Conservative. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


Korea    as    the     Prize    of    War 


J.  Sloat  Fassett  has  contributed  an  excellent  article 
to  the  American  Review  of  Reviews  discussing  the 
Korean  situation.     He  says,  in  part : 

"Behind  the  collision  between  Russia  and  Japan 
over  Manchuria  and  Korea,  the  world  sees  the  shad- 
ows of  far  greater  questions — the  mastery  of  the 
Pacific,  the  control  of  its  commerce,  the  political  su- 
premacy in  Asia — and  in  these  questions  no  nation 
is  more  vitally  interested  than  the  United  States. 

"In  fact,  Americans,  so  far  as  business  enterprises 
and  the  money  invested  in  them  are  concerned, 
have  larger  interests  in  Korea  than  all  the  other 
nations  combined.  Americans  constructed  and  sold 
to  the  Japanese  the  Chemulpo-Seoul  railroad.  Ameri- 
cans constructed  for  the  Korean  Government  (and 
have  not  yet  been  entirely  paid  for  the  same),  the 
electric  railway  in  the  city  of  Seoul  itself,  and  some 
eighteen  or  twenty  miles  of  suburban  roads.  Ameri- 
cans have  also  constructed  lighting  plants  for  the  city 
of  Seoul,  and  are  investing  in  the  development  of 
a  water  system  for  the  capital.  Americans  import 
into  Korea  immense  quantities  of  kerosene  oil,  of 
canned  goods,  and  of  cotton  cloth.  Americans  own,  in 
association  with  English  and  French  capitalists,  the 
largest  single  enterprise  in  Korea,  and  one  of  the 
largest  in  Asia — a  mining  concession  in  the  northern 
part  of  Korea.  American  missionaries,  also,  arc  do- 
ing a  magnificent  work  in  Korea.  So  that  American 
interest  is  not  alone  the  interest  which  attaches  to 
exciting  and  important  events,  but  is  based  upon 
the  actual  conditions  of  existing  trade  and  property 
in  Korea,  as  well  as  upon  the  future  possibilities  of 
the   entire    Asiatic    commerce. 

"The  exciting  causes  of  war  are  Manchuria  and 
Korea,  and  the  relations  of  Japan  and  Russia  to 
these  countries.  Manchuria  is  one  of  the  richest 
provinces  of  China.  It  is  three  times  as  large  as  the 
island  empire  of  Japan.  It  has  an  excellent  climate, 
a  fertile  soil,  and  abounds  in  rich  mines  of  gold 
and  coal,  and  iron  and  copper.  It  has  fine  harbors, 
which  are,  however,  not  ice-free.  The  larger  portion 
of  Manchuria  was  overrun  and  conquered  by  the 
Japanese  in  the  war  of  1894-95. 

"Korea,  however,  is  the  bone  of  contention.  It 
is  the  key  to  the  present  situation  in  the  East.  The 
strategic  importance  of  Korea  arouses  a  great  inter- 
est in  herself  and  her  people,  and  in  her  relations  to 
China  and  Russia  and  Japan.  It  is  very  difficult  to 
convey  to  people  who  have  always  lived  in  the  midst 
of  our  Occidental  civilization  anything  like  a  realiz- 
ing sense  of  the  conditions  prevailing  among  an  Ori- 
ental people  like  the  Koreans,  who,  until  within  a 
very  few  years,  have  been  living  in  the  atmosphere 
and  in  accordance  with  the  customs  of  life  and  the 
habits  of  thought  of  the  centuries  before  Christ. 

"The  form  of  government  of  Korea  to-day  is  in 
name  imperial.  In  1897,  after  the  close  of  the  Chi- 
nese and  Japanese  war  of  1894-95,  the  Korean  king 
assumed  the  title  of  "Emperor."  so  as  to  enforce 
upon  the  attention  of  his  own  people  the  fact  that 
he  stood  on  the  same  basis  as  the  ruler  of  Russia, 
the  ruler  of  China,  and  the  ruler  of  Japan.  His 
power  is  unlimited.  He  has  a  cabinet  of  ministers, 
which  constitutes  his  council.  The  members  of  this 
cabinet  are  changed  by  the  imperial  will,  and  the 
imperial  will  changes  oftener  than  the  phases  of  the 
moon.    The  empire  is  divided  into  districts  and  mag- 


istracies, which  are  governed  by  governors  and 
magistrates  appointed  by  the  Emperor.  These  offi- 
cers, in  their  turn,  are  not  responsible  to  any  but 
the  sovereign,  and  are  not  affected  by  constitutional 
lets  or  hindrances  of  any  kind.  They  have  the  power 
of  life  and  death,  and  of  the  confiscation  of  property, 
subject  only  to  the  possible  inquiry  of  the  Emperor, 
whose  attention  may  be  brought  to  their  acts  by 
his  professional  spies  and  informers,  who  everywhere 
are  passing  up  and  down  among  the  people.  The  en- 
tire government  is  based  upon  a  system  of  squeeze, 
and  the  poor  coolie  is  ground  into  the  earth.  He  has 
no  constitutional  or  legal  protection.  He  must  find 
his  protection  under  the  wing  of  some  neighboring 
officer  or  nobleman  of  rank  and  power. 

"The  ideal  solution  of  the  Eastern  question,  as 
at  present  it  manifests  itself,  would  be  to  put  Korea 
in  commission,  with  her  integrity  and  independence 
guaranteed  by  the  great  powers.  .For  many  centur- 
ies, she  was  the  vassal  both  of  China  and  Japan.  She 
paid  homage  to  them  both,  and  she  paid  tribute  to 
them  both.  She  was  the  pretext  and  occasion  for 
many  a  contest  at  arms  between  the  Chinese  and  the 
Japanese  people.  This  contest  over  Korea  culminated 
in  1894,  when  China  violated  her  treaty  obligations 
and  sent  troops  into  Korea.  Japan  resented  this,  and 
after  an  engagement  in  which  the  Kowshing,  a  Chi- 
nese transport,  was  sunk.  Japan  formally  declared 
war  against  China.  This  war  was  prosecuted  by 
Japan  with  great  vigor,  both  on  sea  and  on  land,  and 
resulted  in  an  uninterrupted  series  of  victories  for 
Japan.  She  drove  the  Chinese  armies  out  of  Korea, 
destroyed  or  captured  all  the  Chinese  navy  that 
ventured  into  the  Yellow  Sea,  invaded  Manchuria 
and  Shangtung,  and  captured  the  fortresses  of  Wei- 
hai-Wei  and  Port  Arthur.  She  was  thus  in  control 
of  the  Gulf  of  Pe-chi-li  and  the  Yellow  Sea.  The 
world  looked  on  with  wonder  and  admiration  at  the 
fine  discipline  of  the  land  and  sea  forces  of  Japan, 
and  the  vigor  and  efficiency  with  which  the  entire 
campaign  was  executed.  Peace  was  declared  in 
April,  1895,  and  a  treaty  was  negotiated  at  Shimono- 
seki  by  Li  Hung  Chang,  aided  by  John  W.  Foster, 
an  American,  for  the  Chinese,  and  Count  Ito  and  Vis- 
count Mutso,  for  the  Japanese.  By  this  treaty,  the 
independence  of  Korea  was  recognized  by  both 
parties.  All  of  that  part  of  Manchuria  which  had 
been  overrun  by  the  Japanese  armies,  including  the 
Liao-Tong  peninsula,  known  as  the  Regent's  Sword, 
and  Port  Arthur,  was  ceded  to  Japan.  Japan  also 
received  a  heavy  indemnity  in  money  and  many  other 
concessions  which  do  not  enter,  into  the  present  diffi- 
culties. Japan  thus  came  into  possession  of  a  rich 
territory — one  of  the  richest  in  China — larger  than 
her  entire  empire. 

The  immediate  cause  of  the  present  difficulty  be- 
tween Russia  and  Japan  is  the  failure  of  Russia  to 
evacuate  Manchuria,  and  Japan  is  determined  to 
know,  if  possible,  what  Russia's  future  purposes 
are  with  reference  to  Manchuria  and  to  Korea;  for 
while  Russia  has  been  busy  strengthening  herself  in 
Manchuria,  she  has  been  equally  busy  in  endeavoring 
to  strengthen  herself  in  Korea,  and  in  view  of  the 
centuries  of  continuous  expansion  of  Russia,  Japan 
may  well  be  excused  for  being  nervous.  Japan  has 
proposed  that  Russia  shall  recognize  her  interests 
in  Korea  as  paramount,  in  return  for  the  recognition 


February  13.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


I>>  Japan  of  the  paramountcy  of  Russian  rights  in 
Manchuria,  agreeing  that  Russian  rights  in  Korea 
shall  be  as  liberally  recognized  as  Japanese  rights 

in  Manchuria.  Russia  insists  that  she  will  inn  .lis 
cuss  Manchurian  questions  with  Japan,  hut  thai  she 
will  consider  a  practical  division  of  Korea.  This 
proposition,  naturally,  is  wholly  unacceptable  to 
Japan. 

"The  reason  for  Russia's  persistent  aggression 
toward  Korea  must  be  sought  in  her  commercial  in- 
terests. Russia  desires  Korea  in  order  to  open  a 
way  by  land  to  seaports  which  shall  he  open  the 
year  round.  Xeither  Yladivostock  nor  Daln)  nor 
Port  Arthur  are  such  ports.  The  very  improvements 
at  Dalny  have  made  it  easier  for  the  sea  to  freeze 
up.  At  enormous  expense,  Russia  has  almost  com- 
pleted a  railroad  across  Asia,  only  to  find  herself 
with  its  termini  in  winter-locked  harbors.  To  find 
an  open  harbor,  Russia  must  either  take  possession 
in  China  of  some  harbor  as  far  south  as  Chefu,  or 
she  must  take  possession  of  Korea  as  far  south  as 
Chemulpo.  Russia's  only  need  of  Korea  is  military 
and  commercial.  She  does  not  need  Korea  as  an 
outlet  for  her  surplus  population.  She  does  not 
need  the  mitres  of  Korea,  nor  does  she  need  any 
power  which  might  come  from  the  accession  of  the 
Koreans  to  the  Russian  throne.  She  needs  an  outlet. 
Russia  is,  by  reason  of  the  very  expenditures  she  has 
made  in  Manchuria,  more  determined  than  ever  to 
be  free  to  find  open  access  to  the  waters  of  the  Pa- 
cific Ocean. 

"Japan  desires  Korea  because  her  population  is 
crowding  the  home  island,  and  must  have  a  place 
in  which  to  overflow;  because  the  climate,  the  soil, 
the  products,  the  environment  generally,  are  little 
different  from  those  at  home,  and  hence  would  make 
an  attractive  place  for  this  overflow.  Also,  she  wants 
Korea  because  she  cannot  afford  to  have  Korea  in  the 
possession  of  her  arch  enemy,  Russia.  If  Russia 
should  take  Korea,  it  would  bring  the  Northern  Bear 
to  the  very  portals  of  the  household  of  Japan.  On  the 
other  hand,  if  Japan  should  take  Korea,  it  would 
bring  the  little  yellow  man  to  the  borders  of  Man- 
churia." 


«9 


CARNEGIE   AT   HOME. 

That  Scotch  varlet,  Andrew  Carnegie,  had  finished 
reading  the  formal  statement  of  the  new  Commis- 
sioner of  Police  of  New  York  City.  "McAdoo,  Mc- 
Adoo,"  he  ruminated  slowly.  "Wonder  if  he's 
Scotch?" 

"What  of  it?"  interposed  Mrs.  C. 

"Everything,  my  dear.  If  he's  Scotch,  his  name  is 
a  combination  of  'muckle'  and  'ado' ;  and  'muckle' 
means  'much.'  " 

"Now,  what  are  you  driving  at,  Andy?" 

"I  was  thinking  of  the  way  a  friend  of  ours  near 
Skibo  pronounces  the  title  of  my  favorite  Shakes- 
pearean comedy.  He  calls  it  'McAdoo  About  Noth- 
ing.' " 

"For  heaven's  sake,  don't  work  that  off  publicly 
in  New  York.  It  would  never  be  appreciated — not 
even  by  the  Commissioner,  and  we  may  wish  to  ask 
him  to  dinner." 


Few   come   to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  visit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
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Montgomery    Sis..    San    Francisco. 
206  New  High  Street,  Los  Angeles. 

Concrete  and  artificial 
stone  work. 


ARTISTIC     PORTRAITURE 

Our    beautiful    $12.00    Art    Bromides    will    be 
made  at  $5.00  per  dozen  for  a  short  time 

U/ye  Imperial  Studio 

744    MARKET    STREET 
Established  25  Years  and    Always  c  Leader 


BLAKE,  MOFFITT  S  TOWNE 

DEALERS  IN 

Blake.   Mofflt  &  Towne,   Los  Angeles,   Cal. 
Blake.   McFall  St.  Co.,   Portland,   Oregon. 
TEL.    MAIN   199.    55-57-59-61   FIRST    ST.,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 


fj  L         For  barbers,   bakers,   bootblacks,   bath-houses, 

nrUSritS  laundries,    paper-hangers,     printers,      painters, 
"    *•"■"'»»  billiard   tables,   brewers,    book  binders,   candy- 
makers,  canners,  dyers,   flour-mills,   foundries, 
shoe  factories,  stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners,  tailors,  etc. 

Buchtxnan    Brothers 

Brush  lifts.,  609  Sacramento  St,  S.  P.,  Tel.  (lain  561 1 


Old  Rose  Bud  Whiskey 

Absolutely  the  purest  on  the  market. 
APPLEGATE      ©       SONS,      Distillers 

Louisville,  Ken.    Pacific  Coast  Agents 

RATHJEN  WINE  COMPANY. 


46  ELLIS  STREET.   S.    F. 
Telephone,  Main  5171. 


AMERICAN 

CANNEL 


COAL 

Sold  by  all  Reliable  Dealers 


J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS-  CO. 


Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants. 
General  Agents. 

Oceanic  Steamship  Company 

Gillingham   Cement. 

Market  Street,  cor.   Fremont  St 


SINQ     FAT    &     COMPANY 

Chinese  and  Japanese  Bazaar.    We  have  but  one  price. 
All  goods  marked  In  plain  English  figures. 

C14  DUPONT  STREET,  S.   F.  Next  to  St  Mary's  Church. 


ST.  LAWRENCE  LIVERY  AND 
SALES  STABLES. 

423    Post    street,    between    Powell    and 
Mason,  San  Francisco.     Tel.  No.  1323. 

E.    BRIDGE,    Proprietor. 


3° 


SAM   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


THE   "AUTOCRANK"    IN   CHICAGO. 

The  automobile  editor  of  the  News  Letter,  now  vis- 
iting Chicago  and  New  York,  writes  from  Chicago 
a.    follows: 

Chicago,   February  7.   1904. 

Chicago's  big  automobile  show  opened  its  doors 
at  the  Coliseum  last  night.  Several  thousand  persons 
crowded  the  immense  pavilion  to  see  the  great 
$3,000,000  exhibition.  Society  was  there  in  all  its 
glory,  and  many  of  the  wealthy  enthusiasts  from 
New  York,  and  even  San  Francisco,  were  there  to 
see  the  greatest  show  of  its  kind  in  the  Middle  West. 
Many  who  had  visited  the  New  York  show  expressed 
their  opinion  that  this  show  surpassed  it.  Even  the 
noted  horse  shows  which  have  taken  place  under  the 
same  roof  were  put  in  the  shade.  The  Four  Hundred 
did  not  have  their  private  boxes,  but  there  was  not 
a  big  tonneau  on  exhibition  that  was  not  crowded 
with  fashionable  women  who  viewed  the  scene 
through  their  lorgnettes.  My  first  impression  on  en- 
tering the  pavilion  was  that  it  was  a  beauty  show 
or  a  show  in  which  the  Four  Hundred  alone  were  on 
exhibition.  Perched  high  on  the  various  machines. 
their  cloaks,  furs  and  robes  covered  the  machine  in 
which  they  sat.  thereby  obstructing  the  enthusiast's 
view  of  the  particular  machine  and  which,  of  course, 
he  desired  to  examine  thoroughly. 

Many  of  the  "autophiles"  of  the  most  enthusiastic 
type  were  not  pleased  by  the  action  of  the  first  night- 
ers,  and  I  understand  that  for  the  balance  of  the  show 
the  ladies  will  be  requested  to  leave  their  lorgnettes 
at  home,  and  only  those  who  desire  to  "try"  a  luxu- 
rious seat  for  a  minute  or  so — as  a  prospective  pur- 
chaser—will be  allowed   to  climb   in   and  out. 

Among  the  exhibits  were  great  touring  cars  built 
to  hold  eight  to  twelve  persons,  little  autolets  for  one, 
gasoline  broughams,  electric  runabouts,  cabs,  trucks. 
surreys,  stanhopes  and  phaetons,  not  to  speak  of  the 
mosquito  fleet  of  motor  cycles.  Record-breaking 
machines  were  also  on  exhibit :  The  Columbia,  which 
holds  the  record  for  the  run  from  New  York  to  Chi- 
cago, 1,177  miles  in  76  hours;  Web  Jag's  big  White 
steamer,  winner  of  the  endurance  contest,  New  York 
to  rittsburg;  and  the  Packard  Grey  Wolf,  a  record 
breaker  of  light  rigs. 

Among  the  exhibits  which  attracted  much  atten- 
tion were  those  of  the  Winton,  Oldsmobile,  Packard, 
White,  Jones-Corbin,  Knox,  Haynes-Apperson,  The 
Cadillac,  Pierce,  Northern.  Rambler,  Stevens-Duryea, 
Locomobile,  and  many  others. 

San  Francisco  certainly  ought  to  give  a  show..  The 


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18  Fell  Street. 


ELECTRIC^ 
GASOLINE 

CARS 

A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley 

(Near  Market)  Tel.  South  394 


public  need  to  be  educated  as  to  the  possibilities  of 
the  horseless  carriage,  and  a  show  such  as  this  one 
certainly  does  the  work. 

— The  Autocrank. 


Apollo 
Grand 
Piano 

Player. 


FOR  SALE. 

This  superb  instrument,  in  use  but  a 
short  time,  will  be  sold,  on  account  of 
owner's  departure,  for  a  very  low  figure. 
Cost  new  $300.  Address  for  further 
particulars,  Owner,  Room  66,  320  San- 
some  street. 


One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  LeipnitzLivcr  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N.  E.  Cor,  Sutter 
and  Graut  Ave. 


THE  FAD  FOR  1904 


Search  Lights 


FOR- 


Automobiles 


The  best  articles  for  the  money  ou 
the  market. 

All  lights  on  your  machine  from 
one  generator. 


BOESCH    LAMP     CO. 

585    MISSION    ST.    S.  F. 


February  13,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


3» 


COCKTAIL 
FACTS 


About  90'.  of  the  Cocktails  now 
drank  arc  either  Manhattans  or 
.Martinis;  no  stood  bar-keeper  uses 
any  bitters  but  "English  Orange" 
in  making  them.  The  "CLUB 
COCKTAILS,"  Manhattans  and 
Martinis,  are  made  as  they  should 
be  with  English  "Orange  Bit- 
ters," are  properly  aged  and  are 
better  than  any  fresh  made  cock- 
tail possibly  can  he..  A  fresh 
made  cocktail  is  like  a  new  blend 
of  any  kind,  unfit  for  use.  Age 
is  what  makes  a  good  Punch, 
age  is  what  makes  a  good  Cor- 
dial, age  is  what  makes  a  good 
blended  whiskey,  age  is  what 
makes  a  palatable  sauce,  and  above 
all  age  is  what  makes  a  good 
cocktail.  These  statements  can  be 
verified  by  any  reputable  blender. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEFN  &  BRC  SoU  Proprietors 

29  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn.  London 

pacific  coast  agents 
THE  SPOHN. PATRICK  CO. 

San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles. 
Denver.  Salt  Lake  Citv.    Seattle. 


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Suits 

Dressy  Suits  $20     $ 
Pants  $4.50  g 

My  $25.00  Suits  are  thejg 
best  in  America.  S 
'  Per  Cent  Saved  by  get-g 
I  ting  your  suit  made  byg 

JOE  POHEIM      § 

TBE  TAILOR  R 

1110-1112  Market  St.        § 

n  201-203  Montg'y  St..  S.  F.g 


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TWOMEV    t    MIHOLOVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 

22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


"CLE.ANL,INE,SS" 

is  the  watchword  for  health  and  vigor,  com- 
fort and  beauty.  Mankind  is  learning  not 
only  the  necessity  but  the  luxury  of  clean- 
liness. SaPOLIO,  which  has  wrought 
such  changes  in  the  home,  announces  her 
sister  triumph — 

HAND 
SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

A  special  soap  which  energizes  the  whole 
body,  starts  the  circulation  and  leaves  an 
exhilarating  glow.  Allgroccrs  and  druggists 


SUNBEAMS 

from     Tt    - 

"Do  you  smoke  cigarel 
asked  tin-  business  man.  "I  don't 
n-<-  tobacco  in  any  form,"  replied 
the  applicant  fot  a  i<>l>.  "I  didn't 
sa\  anything  about  tobacco,"  ex- 
claimed the  business  man,  testily. 

First  Financier — \\  e  are  going 
to  cut  the  dividend  on  Hoop  stock. 
Second  Financier — Why,  I  had 
no  idea  that  you  had  disposed  of 
it  all. 

"What  did  you  think  of  my 
death  scene?"  asked  the  actor. 
"Well,  it  seemed  to  me  it  came  a 
little  too  late  in  the  piece,"  was 
the  reply. 

Mrs.  Misfit — Charles,  do  you 
think  I  am  gowned  well  enough 
for  the  reception?  Mr.  Mitfit — 
Yes ;  how  am  I  coated  and  panted  ? 

"This  is  a  dilution  and  a  snare," 
remarked  the  man  with  the  im- 
pressionistic complexion,  as  he 
realized  that  his  whiskey  had  been 
watered. 

"Gentleman,"  said  the  impas- 
sioned orator,  "I  cannot  tell  a  lie." 
"Then  what  are  you  doing  in  poli- 
tics?" interrupted  ,  a  man  in  the 
audience. 

Rodrick — I  see  some  one  has  in- 
vented a  niusical  automobile.  Van 
Albert — Indeed !  Wonder  what 
tunes  it  will  play?  Rodrick — 
Breakdowns,    I   guess. 

Dr.  Ketchum — By  Jove  !  These 
cab  companies  certainly  know  how 
to  charge.  His  Wife — Never  mind, 
dear!  It's  lucky  that  the  presi- 
dent of  the  company  is  a  patient 
of  yours. 

"You  say  that  Lord  Fucash's  so- 
cial position  has  improved  since 
he  married  a  rich  American  girl?" 
"Yes,  indeed.  Formerly  he  was 
only  a  nobleman ;  now  he  belongs 
to  our  heiresstocracy." 

The  Visitor — It's  heartrending 
to  hear  your  baby.  He  has  been 
crying  for  the  last  hour.  The  New 
Mother — Oh,  yes.  But  it's  a  strict- 
ly scientific,  hygienic,  lung-expan- 
sive and  non-tissue-destroying  cry. 

Dimpleton — In  the  absence  of 
the  nurse,  can't  young  Willie  take 
care  of  the  baby  while  we  are  out? 
Mrs.  Dimpleton — I  should  say  not. 
Why,  I  would  as  soon  think  of 
leaving  the  baby i  with  you. 

Returned  Traveler — What  has 
has  become  of  Jordie?  When  I 
went  away  from  here  ten  years 
ago  he  was  a  budding  politician. 
Old  Resident — Well,  he's  more 
than  that  now.  He's  a  grafting 
politician. 


BRIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York'  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  .is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  Market  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Double  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a   ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  j^leotrio 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

625  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

{Palace  Hotel) 


Illinois  Central  Railroad 

Tickets  to  all  points  in  the 

United  States  and  Europe 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  fien.  Agt. 


639  Market  St. 


Palace  Hotel  Bldg. 


32 


SAiST   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


"I  wonder,"  said  Mr.  Pshucks, 
the  gifted  tragedian,  "who  that 
man  was  that  came  to  me  after 
the  play  was  over  and  told  me  my 
acting  in  the  final  scene  had  made 
him  shed  tears."  "I  think,"  replied 
the  manager,  "that  was  the  new 
dramatic  critic  of  the  "Daily 
Bread."  The  roast  Mr.  Pshucks 
got  in  next  morning's  issue  of  the 
"Daily  Bread"  seemed  to  indicate 
that  the  manager's  impression  was 
correct. 

"Goodness!  How  those  two  men 
are  swearing  at  each  other!"  "Yes, 
it's  pretty  fierce."  "What's  the 
matter  with  them?"  "They're  ar- 
guing about  their  respective  reli- 
gious beliefs." 


Have  you 
a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where else,  for  whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo  have,  call  at 
this  office  and  let  us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with  us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 


Rock  Island 
1  System 


F.  W.  Thompson, 

Gen'l  Western  Agt., 

623  Market  Street, 

San  Francisco. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

TbeOaly  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  Ihc  Southern  Pacific.  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Lys, 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  10.00  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smokingears 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change- 
Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.  Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 
Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a.m.Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 

•17  Market  St.      (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


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9  A.N      Kii.lNCIMd. 
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^  iicuvillf,  W  inter*,  Uiini-fy. 

I'.i-iil'lii,  S11I  sim.  Blitilrn  mill  Sucra- 
tnrntt. 

Vnllejo,  Nitpa,  CallatOKa,  SaittA 
Kobh,   Miirtluez.  Sun  Itninoii 

Nlles,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Latlirop. 
Stockton 

Simula  Kx  press  —  (Via  Davis). 
Willi. mi-  (tor  It.1n.iri1  Springs), 
Willows  iKrm.i.  |(etl  I U  u  IT. 
Portland.    Tiw-oiini,    S. tittle 

I'ii\  Ifl.W Inn.il    Knl-hl-  Lantllog, 

MHryBvlMe,  Orovlll.- 7-60 

Port  Costa.  Marti  m-z.  Am  Inch. 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stocktou.  New- 
mini  Lott  ItuDos,  M  >■  n  <l  ii  r  a. 
Armiinn,  M  and  ml  V  1  au  I  la, 
Forttrvllle 

Port  C'.ata,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Lmh- 
rop.  ModeMto,  Merced.  Freauo, 
Oosben  Junction.  Kan  lord, 
Vtsalla    liftkernllold   4.50* 

Nlles,  San  June,  Llvermore,  Stock 
ton.  (t Milton),  lone,  SacrtilitflitO, 
Placervllle  Maryevllle,  Chlco, 
Ited  BlufT 4.20' 

Oakdale.  Oilnpse,  .InincHtown,  So- 
nora.  Tuolmniie  ami  AngelB 4  20'' 

Atlantic  Kxpnis-t-Ok-ilenHml  Ra«t.    11.20  > 

Richmond,  Martinez  and  Way 
Stations 6  50 

The  Overland  Limited  —  Ogden. 
Deliver.  Oinaba,  Chicago B20e 

Vallejo 12.2Qp 

Lob  Antreles  PaeBeiiger  —  Port 
Costa.  Martloez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Latbrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno.  Goshen  Junc- 
tion. Han  ford,  Lemoore,  VlBaim. 
Bakeraflcld.  Loc  Angelep    7.?0> 

Haywarcl    Mies  And  Way  8tatlons.      3.£0p 

Sacra    f>nio  Hlver  Steamers tll.Ojp 

ni'Dii'lii.  Wlnu'ih,  Sacramento 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Maryavttle.  Orovllle  and  WAy 
Btntlons — 

llnv  wiir.i  NIleB  and  Way  Stations., 

fort  Costa,  Martinez  Hyron, 
Tracy,  Latbrop.  Modeetu, 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tlotiu  lieyond  Port  Uostu 

Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Loril... 

MArtlnez. San  Itaii ion,  ValleJo.Napa. 
CalUtoea.  San tn  Uona 

NIleB.  Tracy.  Stork  ton.  Lodl 4.20P 

Hay  ward.    NIleB,   lrvlogton,  San  J     18.50a 
Jose.  Llvermore )  n  1.60* 

The  Owl  Limited — Nf*wm-u,  Los 
Biin»H  Meiidoia.  Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakersrield.  Los  Angeles. 

Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  An^elc*.  for  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R  I    &P 8.50a 

Port  Cob ta.  Tracy,  Stockton 12.20p 

Hay  ward.  Nt;en  and  San  Jose 7. 20* 

Hay  ward.  Ntles  and  San  Jose 9  J0* 

Eastern  ExpreB*—  Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Loula.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  llcnlcla.  Sul- 
Bun,  Elmlra,  UavlB.  Sacramento, 
Rovklin.  A ui-urri.  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  lie  no.  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca 5  20'' 

Vallejo  dally,  except  Sunday...    I       ,  cn_ 

Vallejo.  Sunday  only f      '  °gp 

i.Klnuond.  nan  Pal.lo.  Port  Costa. 
Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11-20* 

Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, Marysvllle,  Redding, 
Portland,  1'uget  Sound  and  Bast.     8-50* 

Hay  ward,  Nile*  and  San  .lose  (Sun- 
dayonlyi 11-60* 


1050* 
7  50p 


1220p 

1020a 


9. 20' 


COASTLINE  (Narrow  ftauceJ 

F....I  ^1  Market  -tfe-t) 

8  1  6a  Newark,  CentervIIIe.  San  Jose. 
Felton.     Itoulder     Creek,    Saota 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-65 f* 

t2.1Bp  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gaton. Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  SLatloua    1 10-55* 

«t  16p  Newark,  Ban  Jose,  LoBGatoa  and  1     18-65  * 

way  stations I  $10  66a 

a9  30p  Hunters  Train.  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
Ing  from  Los  Galon  Sunday  only.    17  26p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

rrom  bAN  b  KAN  CI  SCO,  Fool  ol  Market  St.  (Slip*. 

-fl:15    a:(X)    11:00  a.m.     100    300    6-16  p.B 

rrom  OAKLAND.   Foot  of  Broadway  —  t6:U0    tS:t>l 

18:03    1U:I»a.h        12  00    2  00    4.00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Hnind  i.aiute). 

tJT  (Third  mid    lowiiHeud  Streets.) 

6  10a    San  .lose  and  Way  Stations.   ...  G  30p 

7  00*    San  Jose  and  Way -statloiiR.   ..     .  6  3Sp 

8  00*   New  Almaden  (Tuea.,  Frtd..  only),      4.1Qp 
8  00*   The  Cna»ter— Slops  only  Sat'   .lone, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  TIol  lis- 
ter). Pajaro.  Casirovllle  (con- 
nection* to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas  San 
Ardo,  Paso  IC.ul.le*  Santa  Mar 
garlta  San  Luis  iihlepo  principal 
stations  thence  Surr  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  prl net  pal  m  in  Moris 
.  thence  Santa  Jlartmrii.S-  n  Buena- 
ventura .  Sniigus  Los  Angeles...  10.45p 
9. CO*  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnos.  Capltola, 
6aiii.iCruz,PiKl(l<  Grove.S-.llnas, 
San  I  in-   oit|s|>o  and    Principal 

Way  8(.atlona  4-10r 

10. 30*   tanJose  and  Way  Stations 1  20p 

11  dO*   Santa   Clara,    San   Jose,  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Sta  I  Ions  7.,70p 

130»-  bun  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  36* 

3  tbt    Del  Moote    Kxpress— Simla  Clara. 

6aii  J'  Be..  Del  Monie.  Monterey, 

Pacific  Grove  ( ecu  at  Santa 

Clam    iur   SmiLii    Cruz.     Boulder 
t'rr.-k  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at    Gllrov    for    H--I  lister.    Trea 
Plnos.  at  C.ielP.vllie  for  Salinas.    1215e 
3-70P  TresPlnoB  Wav  Pa-KenE'-r 10  45* 

4  33p  -an  Joae  nn*i  Way  StMtt'.ns t8.00* 

+5  00      ••"D   Jose,    (vl«    Santa  Clara)    Loa 

Gatos.    and    Prlnei|.ai    Way    Sta 

lions  (except  Sundav  i t9.00* 

t  iOi  tan  Joseand  Principal  Way  station!*  59  40a 
6.101'  Sunset  Limited.-  UVdwo  d.  San 
Jose. Gllroy, Salinas, I'as. i  Boliles. 
San  I. ulc  Olil-j.u.  Sunt n  IVirl.ara, 
Lob  Angeles.  Iteming.  Kl  Paso, 
New  OrlennB.  New  York  Con- 
crete nt  Pajaro  for  Snnta  Cruz 
nml    at    Castruvl  le    for     Paclnc 

Grove  and  Way  Slalloua 7  10* 

t€  IE  J  Mil  Mateo.Ber---tor.l.lteIinont.San 
Carlos.     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto t6.4"?A 

6  30p  ?"'ii  Jose  and  Way  Stifions 6  35a 

8  00p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10.15* 

11    30l-    .-..illbSaiiFraiKls.oMllll.n.e.  Bur 

llngaine.  San     Mateo     Belmont. 
San  Carlos.  Redwood,  Fnlr  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park  and  I'ni..  Alto 9.45f 

oil  30p  Mayllsld.   MoQlitaln    View.   SuDny- 
vale.  Lawrence.  Santa  Clara  and 

S-P   Jose 19.45P 

A  to    \loril  in:  P  for  Afternoon 

bunda>  excepted  t>unda>  only 

n  Saturday  only. 

9  Stops  al  all  stations  on  Sunday. 

fcr   Ouly  trains  -io|  ping  at  Valencia  St.  aouthhouod 
nr-      pi  »  m..  7:00a.M..  11:30 A  M.  3:^0  P.M..  6:30P.M.  and 

S:Q0p.M.        

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33 


THINGS   THEATRICAL. 

Announcements  of  the  wondrous  tiling  coming  to 
the  <  iraml  Opera  House  Follow  the  release  from 
bondage  oi  some  really  wise  old  owls  in  local  theatri'. 
cal  circles.     When  Morgenstern  and  Ackerman  and 

the  others  who  stand  behind  one  of  the  local  com- 
panies, got  possession  of  the  big  house  on  the  south 
side,  they  put  it  into  the  syndicate  pot  which  in  this 
city  is  stirred  by  the  Columbia  Theatre  people.  Be- 
fore long  Morgenstern  and  his  associates  saw  that 
they  were  going  to  play  Indian  in  the  turkey,  and 
the  turkey  buzzard  story.  In  the  plain  vernacular 
of  the  day,  they  were  sroing  to  get  left.  They  saw- 
that  a  few  boards  had  been  knocked  out  of  the  syndi- 
cate fence,  and  that  some  of  the  best  attractions  were 
crawling  out,  but  they  could  not  avail  themselves 
of  the  good  things,  even  though  they  had  the  house 
to  play  them  in.  They  realized  that  they  had  made 
a  big  mistake  in  tying  up  with  the  Columbia  people, 
and  went  to  work  to  get  free.  They  let  money  talk. 
The  Columbia  management  added  a  sum  or  two  on 
the  right  side  of  its  ledger,  but  the  Grand  Opera 
House  people  will  not  be  long  making  up  that.  Third 
and  Mission  streets  will  soon  look  as  though  grand 
opera  was  happening  every  night. 
*  *  * 

Colds  and  internal  disturbances  have  been  mixing 
things  again  at  the  Tivoli.  Anna  Lichter — Katy, 
the  Southern  Rose  of  "When  Johnny  Comes  March- 
ing Home"  is  out.  Caro  Roma  has  taken  her  part. 
"For  the  good  of  the  service,"  says  the  management. 
Unofficially,  report  has  it  that  there  has  been  a 
scrap.  At  least  that  is  not  the  cause  of  Brownlow's 
temporary  retirement.  He  is  too  hoarse  to  sing. 
Cunningham  has  taken  his  part,  and  Fogarty  has 
climbed  the  ladder  and  is  perching  on  Cunningham's 
round.  The  doctor  and  the  peace-maker  are  at  work 
straightening  things  out. 


The  friends  of  Ex-Senator  John  P.  Jones,  and  they 
are  legion,  will  be  sorry  to  learn  that  he  accidentally 
fell  on  a  sidewalk  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  suf- 
fered a  severe  strain  of  the  ligaments  of  a  lower  limb. 
It  is  reported  that  the  Senator  will  be  confined  to  his 
apartments  for  some  time  as  a  result.  His  daughter, 
Miss  Georgiana,  who  was  in  New  York  at  the  time, 
hurried  to  Washington.  Mrs.  Jones,  however,  is  in 
Bermuda,  where  she  has  been  visiting  for  her  health, 
but  is  expected  to  arrive  in  California  in  a  few  weeks. 
In  referring  to  Miss  Georgiana  Jones  it  will  be  re- 
membered that  the  June  Munsey  Miagazine  printed 
a  delightful  rondeau  from  her  pen.  A  number  of  lit- 
erary productions  by  this  talented  young  lady  have 
been  printed  of  late  which  give  promise  of  a  suc- 
cessful future  in  literary  circles. 

We  are  in  receipt  of  the  prospectus  of  the  Liege 
Universal  and  International  Exhibition.  This  will 
open  at  Liege,  Belgium,  in  April,  1905.  Liege  is 
especially  well  situated  for  such  an  exhibition.  Its 
population  is  a  cordial,  jolly  one,  and  Belgium  is 
yearly  consuming  more  and  more  American  goods. 
The  Belgian  Consul  at  San  Francisco  will  furnish 
intending  exhibitors  and  engineers  with  all  neces- 
sary data. 

There's  only  one  right  way  to  clean   a  carpet,   and 

that's  the  way  employed  by  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Cleaning 
Co.,  353  Tehama  street.  By  their  improved  machinery  they 
clean  a  carpet  thoroughly  and  quickly  without  injuring  the 
fabric.  You  have  no  fuss,  bother  or  anxiety.  Simply  have 
the  Spauldings  call  for  your  carpet,  and  in  a  short  time 
it  will  be  returned  looking  like  new. 


A   NOTABLE  CONFERENCE. 
Mr.  Frank  A.  Symmes  has  just  issued  the  'all  for 
the  meeting  of  the   State  Conference  of  Charities 
ami  Corrections.     M  is  to  be  held  in  San  Francisco 

lining  Sunday,  February  -'1st,  and  continuing 
ior  three  days.  Mr.  Symmes  is  President  of  the  As- 
sociation, and  Mrs.  E.  C.  Tallant  of  Santa  Barbara 
is  vice-president.  Mr.  James  I'  Taylor  of  Oakland 
is  one  of  the  directorate;  Miss  Katharine  C.  Felton 
of  San  Francisco  is  the  secretary  and  treasurer.  The 
Honorable  B.  Lindsay  will  speak  and  Judge  Frank 
Murasky  is  also  scheduled  to  give  his  views  on  "The 
Child  and  the  State."  There  are  to  be  a  number  of 
other  speakers,  inclusive  of  Dr.  Rixford,  Dr.  Kerr, 
I  >r.  Ward,  Dr.  Clark,  Mr.  John  Chetwood,  Dr.  Hecht, 
1  )r.  Hoisholt,  Dr.  Dawson,  Mr.  Andrew  M.  Davis, 
Dr.  Smith  of  St.  Paul,  Dr.  Gates,  Mr.  Osgood  Put- 
nam, Reverend  J.  K.  McLean,  and  Mr.  Herbert  W. 
Lewis.  Dr.  Smith  of  St.  Paul  has  quite  a  reputation 
as  a  speaker,  and  those  who  go  to  hear  him  will  not 
be  disappointed.  Mr.  Davis  will  tell  us  about  the 
"Charity  Endorsement  Committee  and  its  Aims." 


At  this  season  the  housekeeper  and  the  business 
man  is  casting  about  for  the  most  efficient  house 
cleaner  obtainable.  The  San  Francisco  Compressed 
Air  Cleaning  Company  offers  a  mechanical  means  of 
getting  over  this  annual  difficulty.  To  be  able  to 
clean  houses  or  business  premises  without  disturbing 
the  existing  order  of  things,  without  dust  or  the 
thousand  and  one  annoyances  that  are  incidental  to 
the  task  is  certainly  a  great  achievement.  It  saves 
the  nerves  and  the  pocket.  It  is  sanitary.  It  offers 
the  quickest  means  of  accomplishing  a  practically 
perfect  result.  It  is  cheap  and  it  is  rapid.  Your  car- 
pets remain  on  the  floors,  and,  take  it  altogether,  it 
is  one  of  the  greatest  labor  saving  inventions  of  the 
age. 


AN  OPEN  SHOP. 

All  fair-minded  people  should  patronize  Johnson's 
Open-Shop  Restaurant   (boycotted),  725  Market  St. 

The  latest  style  in  shirts   may  be  found  at  John    W-   Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


34 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 

Pleasures     Wand 


February  13,  1904. 


(Continued  from  page  15.) 

Thomas  J.  Smith,  Irish  comedian,  will  follow  at  the 
Grand  with  a  six  nights'  engagement  in  "The  (lame- 
keeper."  He  is  announced  as  having  a  strong  com- 
pany. 

*  *  * 

We  arc  promised  a  treat  at  the  Columbia,  with 
Ward  and  lames  in  Shakespearean  roles.  They  will 
give  us  "Julius  Caesar,"  "Othello."  and  "Macbeth." 

*  *  * 

Denman  Thompson  is  announced  as  following 
Ward  and  James;  then  Mary  Mannering,  and  then 
'The    Silver    Slipper."      "The    Silver    Slipper"    is    a 

musical  comedy  production. 

*  *  * 

The  Tivoli  people  are  putting  in  a  lot  of  work  on 
"The  Gypsy  Baron,"  and  this  masterpiece  of  Johann 
Strauss'  should  have  an  unprecedented  run  at  the 
hands  of  the  fine  talent  at  the  Eddy-street  house. 

The  bill  at  the  Orpheum  for  next  week  promises 
to  be  the  best  of  the  good  bills  presented  this  year. 
Billy  Van  will  still  be  with  us.  and  there  is  an  ad- 
dition of  eight  Vassar  girls,  who  will  give  us  an 
idea  of  the  versatility  that  may  be  attained  on  musi- 
cal instruments.  We  are  promised  a  treat  in  this 
act.  Harry  Thomson,  "Mayor  of  the  Bowery,"  Ger- 
man comedian,  will  be  with  us  again.  There  are  many 

other  attractive  features  in  the  bill. 

*  *  * 

The  next  attraction  at  the  Central  will  be  a  Fron- 
tier drama.  It  is  called  "The  Men  of  Jimtown."  The 
action  of  the  play  is  laid  in  Oklahoma,  on  the  borders 

of  the  Cherokee  nation. 

*  *  * 

The  Alcazar  Company  will*  appear  in  "Charity 
Ball"  next  week,  and  we  may  expect  something  good 
from  this  company.  "The  Charity  Ball"  is  a  drama 
of  New  York  society,  and  is  the  joint  work  of  H. 
C,  de  Mille  and  David  Belasco.  Following  "The 
Charity  Ball"  will  come  "The  Wrong  Mr.  Wright," 
and  then  the  dramatic  rendering  of  "Parsifal." 

*  *  * 

Kelly  and  Violette,  the  "Fashion  Plate  Singing 
Duo,"  and  universal  favorites,  will  appear  al  the 
Chutes  this  coming  week,  as  will  also  Irving  rones, 
the  diminutive  colored  individual  who  writes  his  own 
SOngS.  Winstanley  and  Sullivan  will  continue  their 
interesting  dancing  act;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  1).  M.  Hall 
will  change  their  specialty,  and  Hanlon  and  Zan- 
frella.  the  living  aerialists,  will  offer  new  surprises. 
Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular  contralto,  promises  new 
illustrated  songs,  and  the  animatoscope  will  complete 
an  unusually  interesting  performance.     The  amateurs 

next  Thursday  night  will  be  droll. 

*  *  * 

The  management  of  Fischer's  claims  to  have  se- 
cured the  two  highest-salaried  and  best-known  com- 
edians in  America,  who  will  come  here  in  about  a 
month  and  will  open  in  a  musical  production  which 
had  a  whole  season's  run  in  New  York  alone. 


When    you   get   your   fall   clothing   made,   also   make 

arrangements  to  have  it  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Pyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  it  well  cared  tor.  They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


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ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment... No.  13t 

Amount  per  share lOcenis 

Levied February  10.  1904 

Delinquent  In  office March    15  1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stuck Apiil     4.1904 

E.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office — Room    14,   Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco, 
California. 


ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 
Potosi   Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business,  Han  Francisco,  California-  Lo- 
cation of  works.  Storey  County,  Nevadn. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  loth  day  ■  f  February,  Lt(04,  an  assessment  (No.  69)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gotd  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  Room  79  Ne  vada  Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran* 
olsco  California 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  lemain  unpaid  on 
THE     16th     DAY     OF     MAR<  H.    1001 
will  be  delinquent,  and  adve  Used  for  Bale  at   public    auction    and    unless 
payment  Is  made  before,  will  be  pold  on  Thursday,    the  7th   day   of    April 
1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79.  Nevada  Block  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 
Cal. 


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Edward  Gould  is  a  director  of  forty-nine  corpora- 
tions, and  every  week  he  runs  a  tape  measure  around 
his  waist  to  make  sure  that  it's  now  an  even  fifty. 

General  Miles  is  at  the  head  of  a  big  oil  syndicate 
with  lands  in  Oklahoma.  Is  this  a  flank  attack  on 
Rockefeller's  pet  monopoly? 

Ten  thousand  lithographers  threaten  to  strike.  Let 
'em ;  we  ought  to  be  able  to  take  our  canned  goods 
for  awhile  without  three-color  labels. 


A  Pennsylvania  boy  of  eighteen  has  gone  crazy 
from  over-study.  It  seems  hardly  worth  mentioning 
that  he  smoked  ioo  cigarettes  a  day. 

A  school  of  matrimony  is  proposed  in  a  bill  pre- 
sented to  the  Iowa  Legislature  by  a  medical  mem- 
ber.   A  latch-key  should  go  with  each  diploma. 

Young  Mr.  Morgan,  returned  from  the  Orient  with 
a  Japanese  bride,  says :  "It  is  not  true  that  I  bought 
my  wife;  I  won  her."    Ah,  poker  or  razzle-dazzle? 

Viceroy  Alexieff  is  reported  to  be  "bottled  up"  in 
Port  Arthur.  His  staff  is  admitted  to  have  been 
"tanked  up"  when  the  Japanese  opened  the  siege. 

"Hell,"  remarks  a  Minneapolis  newspaper,  "hath 
no  fury  like  a  teacher  fired."  Is  it  possible  that  the 
Twin  Cities,  too,  have  had  their  Kate  Kennedy  case? 

The  name  of  Japan's  chief  sea-fighter,  Admiral 
Uriu,  may  sound  to  Western  ears  like  some  kind  of 
kidney  disorder,  but  to  the  Russian  it  spells  yellow 
fever. 


Now  that  a  genius  has  dramatized  the  query: 
"How  old  is  Ann?"  we  marvel  that  no  playwright 
ever  thought  of  the  possibilities  latent  in  "Who 
struck  Billy  Patterson?" 

While  war  rages  in  the  Orient,  let  us  not  overlook 
the  fact  that  the  editors  of  the  New  York  World 
and  Journal  are  in  deadly  conflict — of  ink-pots  and 
stink-pots.  One  of  the  mildest  terms  yet  employed 
in  this  affair  was  "Mr.  Peewee." 


It  was  highly  fitting  to  temper  with  mercy  the  jus- 
tice measured  out  to  Mrs.  Bowers,  the  husband-pois- 
oner, by  sending  her  to  prison  for  life,  and  not  to 
the  gallows.  She  might  have  given  her  spouse 
pounded  glass,  but  instead  she  merely  filled  him  with 
arsenic. 


A  Missouri  university  student  has  fractured  the 
college  bucksaw  record  with  a  performance  of 
twelve  cords  of  wood  sawed  in  three  days.  If  the 
fates  shall  spare  him,  what  a  politician  he  will  make! 

."Who,"  asks  a  Republican  editor-orator  in  Utah, 
"shall  drive  the  Democratic  hearse?"  Anybody  but 
the  young  man  whose  name  mention  of  the  dead 
wagon  suggests. 

The  Board  of  Education  of  Des  Moines  has  gone 
in  for  dress  reform,  and  ordered  a  cut  in  the  length 
of  schoolma'ams'  skirts.  Iowa  takes  everything 
hard — except  its  liquor. 

Russia  expects  to  be  too  busy  fighting  to  take  part 
in  the  St.  Louis  Exposition,  but  if  Turkey  keeps 
faith,  the  Midway  will  still  be  a  place  of  delight  to 
the  unregenerate. 

Until  the  Hawaiians  are  through  rounding  up  the 
wild  jackasses  of  the  islands  and  converting  them 
into  smoked  beef,  it  will  be  prudent  for  Congressman 
Livernash   to   remain   in  Washington. 

From  the  finding  of  a  roulette  wheel  and  other 
gambling  arrangements  in  a  Trenton,  N.  J.,  prepara- 
tory school,  we  might  infer  that  secondary  educa- 
tion at  the  East  includes  teaching  the  young  idea 
how  to  shoot  craps. 

A  telegraph  operator  at  Helping  Hand,  Kansas, 
hiccoughed  steadily  for  fourteen  days.  He  attributes 
his  recovery  to  the  fact  that  he  was  too  busy  with 
his  malady  to  try  any  of  the  seventy-five  remedies 
suggested  to  him. 

Since  Standard  Oil  controls  the  asbestos  supply 
on  earth  and  the  Rockefeller  family  voice  is  the  loud- 
est that  is  heard  from  the  "amen  corner,"  it  need  not 
worry  about  the  question  whether  hell  belongs  to  the 
here  or  the  hereafter. 


Mayor  Harrison  of  Chicago,  reading  that  the 
Capitol  at  Washington  was  ringing  with  political 
speeches  full  of  poker  talk,  at  once  swung  into  line 
with  a  published  essay  on  "Four-flushing:  An  End  of 
American  Cities." 


A  captious  press  criticises  Mayor  McClellan  of 
New  York,  who  is  accused  of  hiring  a  megaphone 
tooter  to  shout  his  public  and  private  virtues  at 
tourists  while  they  gaze  upon  his  house.  Was  it 
ever  suspected  that  modesty  ran  in  the  McClellan 
family? 

Congressman  Shafrath  of  Colorado,  finding  that 
there  had  been  fraud  in  twenty-nine  of  the  precincts 
that  gave  him  majorities,  voluntarily  announced  that 
fact  and  relinquished  his  seat  to  the  contestant.  If 
there  were  no  tacks  in  the  seat,  Shafrath  should  be 
presented  with  a  halo  at  Government  expense. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


AN  ABUSE  OF  CONFIDENCE. 
The  United  States  Government  is  in  the  same  posi- 
tion as  a  newspaper  when  it  is  seeking  information 
for  the  protection  of  the  public.  No  blame  can  at- 
tach to  the  methods  employed  to  best  subserve  the 
public  interest.  If  a  trusted  employee  through  care- 
lessness or  spite  gives  out  information  which  leads 
to  the  uncovering  of  criminal  acts,  the  Government 
officers  are  justified  in  making  the  most  of  such  in- 
formation. No  one  but  a  fool  would  think  of  accus- 
ing a  newspaper  of  unfair  methods  when  it  uses  the 
same  method  in  the  protection  of  the  public's  inter- 
est. On  the  other  hand,  any  Government  official 
whose  duty  it  is  to  uncover  crime  and  any  newspaper 
whose  duty  it  is  to  purvey  news  to  the  public  would 
be  guilty  o'f  almost  criminal  neglect  in  failing  to  take 
advantage  of  any  and  all  means  to  reach  the  desired 
end.  Failing  to"  do  this  would  earn  the  derision  of 
competitors  "and  the  blame  of  superiors. 

It  is  a  different  proposition  with  the  trusted  agent, 
and  any  penalty  cannot  be  too  severe  for  such  crimi- 
nals. Any  stenographer,  transcribing  notes,  and 
then  in  a  spirit  of  revenge  or  with  a  view  to  making  a 
pecuniary  profit  selling  same  to  interested  parties, 
commits  a  crime  for  which  there  can  be  absolutely 
no  palliation. 

We  have  the  case  before  us  of  the  investigation 
now  going  on  in  Washington,  in  which  several  prom- 
inent citizens  figure  together  with  Mr.  John  A.  Ben- 
son. A  stenographer,  said  to  be  pretty,  is  also  said 
to  have  been  discharged  because  of  alleged  flirta- 
tious conduct  with  a  male  employee.  The  lady  in 
question  is  credited  with  being  a  widow.  She  and 
the  gentleman,  who  is  said  to  have  devoted  too  many 
hours  of  their  employer's  time  in  the  pleasure  of  love 
making,  were  discharged  by  the  chief  clerk.  The 
man  in  the  case  then  drops  from  the  scene,  but  the 
woman  does  not.  The  statement  comes  from  Wash- 
ington that  the  agents  of  the  Land  Department  hold 
her  transcription  of  notes  and  a  copy  of  her  steno- 
graphic work  while  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Hyde. 
While  we  doubt  the  story  that  Mr.  Hyde  has  ever 
been  engaged  in  any  questionable  transaction,  this 
article  will  not  pretend  to  discuss  that  side  of  the 
question.  The  gentlemen  involved  by  the  action  of 
the  petticoated  Nemesis  are  amply  able  to  take  care 
of  themselves. 

Our  business  is  with  the  trusted  employee.  He  or 
she  occupies  an  enviable  and  indefensible  position. 
If  the  business  man  is  to  be  the  prey  of  every  mis- 
erable wretch  who  chooses  to  sell  the  information 
which  is  given  in  absolute  confidence,  it  is  high  time 
some  special  legislation  relegated  the  informant  to 
long  residence  in  a  State  penal  institution.  In  a 
case  before  one  of  our  local  judges,  not  long  ago, 
a  young  lady  stenographer  gave  a  very  good  defini- 
tion of  the  duties  of  a  trusted  clerk.  Being  pressed 
by  the  attorney  who  had  called  her  on  the  stand  for 
information  regarding  certain  work  that  she  had 
been  employed  upon,  she  made  answer  as  follows: 
"I  cannot  remember  anything  about  it,  except  that 

I  was  employed  by  Mr. .    A  stenographer  should 

have  no  memory  of  her  work  any  more  than  a  ma- 
chine has.  The  only  thing  I  am  interested  in  is  the 
finished  product,  and  the  material  that  goes  to  make 
up  the  product  is  none  of  my  business.  Fifteen  min- 
utes afterward,  except  for  the  use  of  my  employer, 
whose  trust  I  will  not  abuse  even  after  quitting  his 
employ,  my  mind  and  memory  are  a  blank.  I  cannot 
remember  well  enough  to  commit  a  breach  of  trust." 
The  confidence  reposed  in  a  stenographer  should 
be  as  sacred  as  the  confession  given  a  priest  or  the 
trust  reposed  in  a  doctor. 


SQUEEZED  BY  THE  MILKMAN. 

Between  a  more  or  less  effective  milk  combine 
and  a  long-eared  union  of  milkwagon  drivers,  led  by 
a  long-headed  labor  agitator,  the  man-in-the-middle 
is  in  for  another  squeeze.  The  combine,  known  as 
the  Dairymen's  Association,  has  operated  thus  far 
only  to  make  its  product  thinner  and  bluer  and  more 
costly.  Seeing  its  field  invaded  by  a  new  company 
selling  better  milk  at  a  lower  price,  the  combine 
turns  to  one  who  has  served  it  well  before — turns 
to  the  long-headed  leader  of  the  long-eared,  Alexan- 
der Dijeau,  one  of  whose  "grafts"  carries  the  title 
of  "business  agent"  of  the  Milkwagon  Drivers' 
Union.  Dijeau  responds  promptly,  notifying  the 
new  concern  that  unless  its  prices  are  advanced  to 
the  combine  schedule  he  will  call  out  his  union 
drivers.  The  Labor  Council — be  this  recorded  to  its 
credit — warns  Dijeau  that  it  will  endorse  no  such 
strike.  This  petty  jobster  and  small  grafter  replies 
that  when  he  says  "strike"  the  drivers  will  strike, 
Council  or  no  Council. 

This,  we  submit,  is  pretty  near  the  limit.  Dijeau  is 
of  the  Sam  Parks  stripe  of  walking  delegate,  and 
the  sooner  organized  labor  jettisons  him  the  better 
for  organized  labor.  Such  a  man  never  brings  any- 
thing but  discredit  upon  all  that  he  touches.  And 
Dijeau  is  not  only  the  "handy  man"  of  the  milk  com- 
bine, by  grace  of  his  connection  with  the  Drivers' 
Union,  but  he  holds  the  Scavengers'  Union  in  the 
same  predatory  hand.  Incidentally  he  draws  a  salary 
for  the  pretense  of  working  in  the  Tax  Collector's 
office.  If  he  enjoys  any  other  sources  of  questionable 
profit,  they  are  not  known  to  the  police. 

In  this  milk  squeeze,  the  prospective  sufferers  were 
so  many  of  them  workingmen  that  the  central  or- 
ganization of  local  unionism  could  not  well  do  other- 
wise than  refuse  to  fall  in  with  the  contemplated 
iniquity,  but  even  the  obviousness  of  that  fact  failed 
to  move  Major  Schmitz,  that  ornamental  "friend  of 
the  people,"  when  complaint  was  made  to  him,  based 
on  the  ground  that  the  public  had  a  right  to  insist 
upon  better  conduct  from  a  civil  service  employee 
like  Dijeau.  What  the  Mayor  did  was  to  do  noth- 
ing at  all,  as  was  to  have  been  expected. 

We  do  not  hope  that  this  strike  may  be  averted. 
Let  it  come,  and  then,  if  organized  labor  fail  to  meet 
the  situation  with  a  remedy  sufficiently  drastic,  per- 
haps a  community  that  has  shown  signs  of  having 
suffered  long  enough  from  outrages  of  this  kind  will 
deal  according  to  his  merits  with  the  greedy  Dijeau 
and  redeem  his  followers  from  a  state  of  ignorance — 
or  pignorance.  New  York  put  up  with  Sam  Parks 
for  a  time  and  then  put  him  up — in  Sing  Sing. 


"FIXING"  THE  GAS  RATES. 

The  thousands  of  citizens  who  have  felt  the  heavy 
hand  of  the  lighting  monopoly  will  do  well  to  watch 
closely  the  annual  rate-fixing  inquiry  now  being  con- 
ducted by  the  Supervisors.  That  proceeding  has  not 
yet  reached  the  stage  where  the  gas  trust  tells  what 
more  it  wants  from  its  victims,  but  the  amount  of 
the  extortion  proposed  may  be  guessed  at  from  the 
figures  already  submitted.  Before  the  deal  which 
put  an  end  to  competition,  the  largest  and  oldest 
corporation  in  the  field,  the  San  Francisco  Gas  and 
Electric  Company,  had  paid  no  dividends  in  months 
and  its  stock  was  being  offered  at  about  half  its  par 
value,  with  few,  if  any  takers.  The  trust  statement 
filed  with  the  Supervisors  shows  net  earnings  for 
the  last  year  of  $574,956.60,  dividends  paid  $396,- 
210.83,  a"d  a  surplus  of  $178,745.77.     The  stock  is 


February  20,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


currently  quoted  at  58.    Apparently  things  havi 
gun  to  look  up  for  the  gas  trust. 

This  carefully  cooked-tip  statement  is  modestly 
silent  about  the  "present  value"  of  the  monopoly's 
plants,  but  gives  its  present  cost  as  $25,704,944.84. 
Call  it  $26,000,000,  and  note  that  down  a-~  the  amount 
of  alleged  investment  upon  which  the  trust  will  de- 
mand a  "reasonable  return."  This  "present  cost" 
includes  the  price  paid  by  the  monopoly  for  the  In- 
dependent Company,  which  was  between  $6,000,000 
and  $7,000,000,  covering  the  cost  of  that  establish- 
ment, plus  a  royal  profit  to  its  owners.  It  includes, 
also,  the  cost  of  and  profit  upon  two  other  rivals, 
the    Equitable   and   the   Pacific. 

Brushing  aside  the  sophistries  and  the  bald  decep- 
tions that  are  called  "high  finance*"  it  is  plain  that 
the  gas  trust  wants  the  people  to  pay  to  it  the  vast 
sums  which  it  paid  to  others  for  the  exclusive  light- 
ing privilege  of  San  Francisco,  and  a  handsome 
profit  beside.  It  may  be  conjectured,  with  no  further 
information  than  is  now  at  hand,  that  the  monopoly 
will  demand  rates  that  will  yield  not  less  than  6  per 
cent  net  on  its  present  cost,  or  $1,560,000,  as  against 
its  stated  net  income  of  $574,956.60  for  last  year. 
We  shall  not  be  surprised  if  its  hired  "bluffers" 
boldly  call  for  a  ra%  in  excess  of  $2  per  thousand 
cubic  feet,  but  we  shall  listen  with  attention  while 
they  try  to  explain  a  rate  of  50  cents  a  thousand 
while  the  competition  was  at  its  keenest.  We  shall 
insist  on  knowing,  also,  what  they  are  doing  with 
the  purchased  plants,  duplicating  and  triplicating 
that  which  sufficed  prior  to  the  big  deal,  before  we 
submit  to  the  saddling  upon  us  of  the  monopoly's 
"present  cost." 

Already  the  inquiry  has  borne  some  fruit.  The 
trust  has  admitted  that  it  purveys  practically  no  coal 
gas,  selling  instead  a  "water  gas"  which  it  confesses 
is  23  per  cent  carbon  monoxide.  In  a  word,  it  pleads 
guilty  to  the  charge  that  it  is  responsible  for  a  death 
role  that  grows  appallingly.  With  all  the  sang  froid 
of  a  highwayman  caught  in  the  act,  it  admits,  also, 
that  when  citizens — it  calls  them  "kickers" — have 
complained  about  poor  light,  it  has  so  arranged  an 
increase  of  pressure  as  to  hoist  the  bills  20  per  cent. 

Here  is  a  chance  for  a  Board  of  Supervisors  in 
which  a  community  too-often  deceived  has  still  some 
confidence — a  chance  to  put  itself  brilliantly  on  rec- 
ord as  opposed  to  corporate  greed  in  its  most  out- 
rageous form.  After  that  will  come  the  trust's  ap- 
peal to  the  courts,  and  then  months  of  delay,  while 
the  monopoly  goes  on  plundering  those  of  its  victims 
who  escape  its  deadly  carbon  monoxide.  Biding  its 
time,  however,  the  public  will  bear  in  mind  that  it 
has  learned  how  to  issue  bonds,  and  that  it  has  an 
expert's  word  for  it  that  for  $1,000,000  it  can  have 
its  own  lighting  plant. 

CIVIL  SERVICE  IN  THE  POLICE  DEPART- 
MENT. 
It  is  not  saying  too  much  in  praise  of  civil  service 
to  note  that  already  it  has  worked  a  distinct  im- 
provement in  our  police  department.  It  is  to  be  ob- 
served that  the  newcomers  on  the  force  are,  in  ap- 
pearance, at  least,  superior  to  the  passing  generation 
of  patrolmen — cleaner-cut,  more  alert,  more  intelli- 
gent. Under  the  old  system  of  "pull"  and  petty 
politics,  this  department  was  the  asylum  of  middle- 
aged  ineptitude  and  laziness.  Its  favorite  type  -was 
thick-fingered,  thick-witted,  paunchy,  short  of  wind 
and  illiterate  to  an  unbelievable  degree.  Reasonable 
physical  tests  and  competitive  mental  examinations 
have  eliminated  that  class  of  applicants,  and  the 
merit  system  applied  to  promotion  will  mean  shortly 


the  predominance  of  only  the  fittest  among  the  old- 
timers. 

But,  apparently,  it  will  be  some  time  before  we 
have  a  detective  department  with  intelligence  enough 
to  make  it  anything  but  a  grim  joke  on  the  taxpayers 
who  support  it.    This  will  probably  be  the  last  place 

to  be  touched  by  the  rule  of  physical  and  mental 
fitness.  As  it  is  constituted  now,  this  branch  of  tin- 
public   service,   which    should    represent    the   best    the 

police  department  has  of  brains,  resourcefulness 
and  experience,  is  a  Bureau  of  Incompetence.  A  cer- 
tain low  order  of  cunning  it  may  boast,  a  certain  fa- 
miliarity with  the  ways  of  "crooked"  people,  but 
notoriously  it  cannot  make  even  a  pretense  of  un- 
raveling the  mysterious  or  of  matching  wits  with  any 
but  the  least  shrewd  of  criminals.  Judged  by  results, 
the  detective  department  of  the  city,  with  all  its  au- 
thority, resources  and  records,  is  far  less  effective 
in  the  ferreting  out  of  crime  than  any  modern  news- 
paper office,  working  without  system  or  authority 
in  such  matters,  employing  men  generally  young  and 
inexperienced. 

For  proof  of  the  statement,  which  comes  from  bad 
citizens  as  well  as  good,  that  the  police  are  always 
twenty-four  hours  behind  the  press,  one  needs  only 
to  turn  to  any  one  of  the  important  criminal  affairs 
of  recent  years.  Most  of  us  will  recall  with  readi- 
ness how  practically  all  the  evidence  on  which  Dur- 
rant  went  to  the  scaffold  was  obtained  first  by  the 
newspapers.  The  mystery  that  lay  thick  about  the 
death  of  hapless  little  Nora  Fuller  would  be  mystery 
still  if  it  had  been  left  for  the  detectives  to  solve. 
Still  before  the  public  is  the  case  of  Soeder,  charged 
with  the  killing  of  his  brother-in-law.  This  man  has 
been  held  for  trial  after  an  examination  at  whose 
close  a  police  judge  swept  aside  the  bulk  of  the 
police  testimony  as  valueless,  and  declared  that  the 
evidence  of  certain  witnesses  alone  would  justify 
him  in  sending  the  defendant  to  the  trial  court.  These 
certain  witnesses  were  those  brought  forward  by 
the  newspapers. 

Argument  is  not  necessary  to  convince  the  think- 
ing mind  that  such  matters,  involving  the  lives  of  hu- 
man beings,  are  not  the  business  of  newspapers  or 
newspaper  reporters.  These  agencies  are  inherently 
irresponsible,  always  liable  to  perversion.  They 
should  have  no  part  in  the  detection  of  criminals  and 
the  doing  of  justice.  They  could  have  no  such  part 
under  an  efficient  police  administration  at  the  center 
of  which  must  be  an  intelligent  and  skillful  bureau 
of  inquiry,  call  its  agents  what  you  please.  The 
quality  of  brains  in  the  present  detective  department 
is  obviously  poor,  and  it  has  not  been  improved  by  a 
long  course  of  pickling  in  whiskey. 

It' was  only  necessary  that  a  most  deplorable  ac- 
cident should  occur  to  point  a  moral  to  the  tale  the 
News  Letter  has  been  telling  for  weeks  to  focus 
public  attention  on  the  matter  of  elevator  inspection. 
The  Colonial  Hotel,  in  this  city,  at  the  corner  of  Pine 
and  Jones  streets,  was  the  scene  of  a  terrible  man- 
gling and  death  of  a  poor  human  being;  the  direct 
result  of  the  criminal  negligence  of  our  city  officials. 
William  Hill,  a  worthy  young  man  and  an  employee 
of  an  express  company,  was  busily  engaged  remov- 
ing a  trunk,  when  without  any  apparent  reason  the 
elevator  shot  up,  and  the  unfortunate  expressman's 
brains  bespattered  the  car.  Proper  inspection  would 
have  prevented  this  terrible  accident.  Another  hu- 
man being  has  been  sacrificed  to  the  negligence,  the 
culpable  carelessness,  of  our  city  authorities.  It  is 
understood  that  an  investigation  is  being  made,  and 
it  is  hoped  the  investigators  will  make  a  suggestion 
that  a  municipal  inspector  be  appointed  immediately. 


4  SAN  FRANCISCO 

TO  PROMOTE  TRADE  WITH  MANILA. 
Congress  is  preparing  to  deal  with  a  condition  of 
very  considerable  moment  to  the  commerce  of  ports 
on  the  Pacific  Coast.  This  is  the  question  of  extend- 
ing, under  certain  modifications,  the  United  States 
navigation  laws  to  the  Philippine  archipelago.  It  is 
contended  that  to  bring  the  Philippines  within  the 
full  operation  of  the  navigation  laws  and  compel  all 
their  commerce  with  this  country  to  be  carried  in 
American  bottoms  would  be  to  destroy  important 
industries  that  have  grown  up  between  this  country 
and  the  islands  since  they  became  part  of  the  national 
domain.  The  most  important  of  these  is  the  trade 
in  .Manila  hemp,  which,  under  the  rebate  of  the  ex- 
port duty — equal  to  35  cents  per  100  pounds— on 
hemp  destined  for  the  United  States,  has  increased 
enormouslv  in  the  past  five  years.  A  glance  at  the 
figures  of  this  trade  in  that  period  will  demonstrate 
this  condition.  The  following  figures  were  submitted 
to  Congress  by  Representative  Morrell  of  Pennsyl- 
vania : 

jgoo    $6,666,886 

1900    n.398.943 

iqoi     14.453.no 

1902    15,841,316 

1903    21,701,575 

During  the  same  years  the  hemp   exports  to  the 

United  States  have  been : 

1899    $2,492,274 

1900    3.446,141 

1901    2,402,867 

1902    7.26i,459 

1903    12.314.3t2 

At  the  same  time  the  importations  of  hemp  into 

the  United  States  from  other  countries  have  de- 
creased as  follows: 

1899    $2,817,137 

1900  2,147,59s 

1901    2,870,812 

1902    4,236,802 

1903   982,837 

This  trade  is  all  carried  in  foreign  bottoms,  and  is 

chiefly  done  between  Atlantic  Coast  ports  and 
.Manila.  There  are  at  present  no  American  ships 
available  for  this  commerce. 

The  policy  of  this  country  has  always  been  to 
encourage  the  growth  of  American  shipping,  and  this 
is  the  line  that  Congress  is  likely  to  take.  At  the 
same  time  precautions  will  be  taken  to  prevent  the 
destruction  of  an  important  and  growing  industry. 
With  these  objects  in  view,  Representative  Morrell 
is  preparing  a  bill  that  provides  for  a  rebate  of  15 
per  cent  of  existing  duties  on  all  goods  transported 
to  the  United  States  from  the  Philippines  in  Ameri- 
can bottoms  and  that  on  all  goods  carrying  no  duty 
or  a  duty  of  10  per  cent  or  less  ad  valorem  there 
shall  be  levied  a  discriminating  duty  of  10  per  cent 
if  such  goods  are  not  carried  in  ships  of  American 
register.  It  is  obvious  that  a  measure  of  this  char- 
acter offers  inducements  that  must  operate  in  favor 
of  commerce  with  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  measure 
proposed  by  Mr.  Morrell  likewise  provides  that  all 
vessels  of  foreign  nationality  carrying  passengers 
from  the  islands  to  the  United  States  shall  be  subject 
to  a  tax  of  ten  per  cent  on  passenger  fares. 

The  present  law,  which  makes  no  restrictions  in 
favor  of  American  shipping,  expires  by  limitation  on 
July  1st.  If  in  the  meantime  Congress  shall  adopt 
some  such  measure  as  that  proposed  by  Mr.  Morrell. 
there  is  every  probability  of  the  establishment  of  a 
steamship  line  carrying  passengers  and  freight  di- 
rect between  San  Francisco  and  Manila. 


NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


THE  HARVEST   OF  A    WIDE-OPEN    TOWN. 

The  natural  and  logical  corollary  of  a  wide-open 
town  is  demonstrated  in  the  object  lesson  furnished 
by  the  robbery  with  violence  of  the  Colonial  Club. 
This  place  is  not  a  club  in  the  usual  sense,  but  sim- 
ply a  gambling  hell  frequented  by  race-track 
habitues  and  the  customary  fringe  of  touts  and  va- 
grants that  prey  on  the  unwary. 

Some  of  these  latter  gentry  appear  to  have  con- 
ceived the  idea  that  the  Colonial  Club  was  an  easy 
place  to  hold  up,  and  it  appears  their  conclusion  was 
well  founded.  Although  well-known  to  the  police 
as  a  gambling  den,  the  patrolmen  on  duty  pass  it  by 
on  their  blind  side.  Whatever  happens  there,  they 
take  no  notice,  and  they  would  never  think  of  intrud- 
ing on  the  privacy  of  such  a  club. 

There  are,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  half  a  dozen  other 
such  "clubs''  in  full  operation  on  the  tenderloin.  The 
police  know  them,  but  the  administration  of  Mayor 
Schmitz  is  probably  under  obligations  in  the  gam- 
blers, and  the  patrolmen  will  not  molest  them  with- 
out orders. 

No  Government  can  encourage  one  form  of  crime 
and  expect  to  confine  it  within  the  limits  of  that  par- 
ticular form  of  vice.  If  you  take  down  the  bars  for 
the  gamblers,  murder  and  robbery  will  surely  follow 
in  their  train.  They  discovered  that  in  Seattle  some 
time  ago.  San  Francisco  is  now  in  a  fair  way  to  reap 
the  criminal  harvest  that  inevitably  follows  the  con- 
duct of  a  wide-open  town. 

AN  ENTERPRISING  MAGAZINE. 
Thirty  days  ahead  of  the  daily  press  the  (  Iverland 
Monthly  published  the  names,  armament,  torpedo 
equipment,  tonnage,  speed  and  number  of  men  of 
all  available  Russian  and  Japanese  vessels  in  Asiatic 
waters.  The  February  number  of  this  fine  old  maga- 
zine contained  a  full  account.  There  are  a  few  copies 
still  to  be  had  at  news-stands. 


A  Baltimore  fire  incident  was  the  affecting  scene 
when  the  employees  of  a  burning  bank  kissed  its 
granite  pillars  good-bye — so  much  for  the  sentimen- 
tal South. 


New  York  complains  of  gas  so  poor  that  after 
dark  the  careful  house-holder  asks  his  wife  for  a  grip 
and  password  to  make  sure  that  he  has  not  got  into 
the  wrong  flat. 

A  cross-eyed  city  administration  in  New  York  has 
chosen  this  time  of  flattened  wallets  to  chase  the 
money-lenders  off  the   Island  of   Manhattan. 


UCHAS.  KLILUS  &  CO 

&£XCL  US/VH 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

We  put  that  Seventy-five  and  Eighty  dollar  Effect  in  our  "IM- 
MEDIATE SERVICE  CLOTHES,"  at  moderate  prices.  Cor- 
rect smart  dressers  Know  that  our  garments  are  properly  balanced , 
correctly  styled,  with  progressive  ideas.  Being  "  MEN'S 
CLOTHIERS  ONLY"  we  fit  accurately. 


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February  20,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


How     vSan     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


By     Fernntvjld     Tr»v©r».      Tovirlst 


Editor  News  Letter — I  have  been  quite  amused 
during  the  later  few  rainy  days  in  noting  the  absence 
from  the  streets  of  what  you  f •  >  1  k ^  call  your  car- 
riages. It  seems  to  me  that  the  owners  arc  afraid 
of  having  the  varnish  washed  off  their  cabs,  nr  it 
may  be  that  the  owners  thereof  are  afraid  of  the 
identity  of  their  filched  monograms  or  their  fore- 
bears, being  disclosed  by  their  being  subjected  to 
a  washing  with  a  little  clean  rain.  Anyway,  the  San 
Francisco  family  turn-outs  are  kept  in  the  car- 
riage house  in  wet  weather,  according  to  my  obser- 
vations. Your  better  class  of  men  here,  I  note  in 
nasty  weather,  have  the  crudest  ideas  in  regard  to 
storm  attire.  1  see  the  clarks  and  working  men 
wearing  all  kinds  of  funny  coloured  storm  coats. 
Checked  things  and  coats  of  abominably  noisy  col- 
ours. It  really  can't  be  done  by  a  man  who  desires 
to  do  things  in  good  form.  These  tweedy-looking 
affairs  called  rubber-lined  in  your  stores,  and  the 
Cravenette  things,  are  simply  impossible  to  a  man 
who  is  a  correct  dresser.  Let  me  tell  you.  An 
eight  or  ten  ounce  English  silk  mackintosh,  cream 
white  in  color,  Albert  cut  (down  to  the  ankles),  a 
deer  stalker  hat  of  color  to  match  the  mackintosh, 
a  pair  of  castor  gloves,  a  heavy-soled  English-made 
pair  of  laced  walking  boots,  well  treed  and  boned, 
trowsers  turned  up  at  the  bottom,  and  there  you  have 
it.  Good  form  for  either  walk,  drive  or  covert,  if 
afoot.  These  mackintoshes  can  be  had  for  five  or  six 
guineas,  and  they  are  so  light  that  a  chap  can  carry 
them  in  his  pocket,  and  $30  or  $40  is  in  reach  of  any 
gentleman.  You  know  that  your  fellows  don't  really 
seem  to  know  how  to  shoe  themselves  for  stormy 
weather — you  seem  scared  of  the  wet,  and  you  wear 
goloshes.  These  things  make  one's  feet  look  like 
monstrosities,  and  give  you  coughs  and  colds,  and 
among  persons  of  pretensions  are  impermissible.  No 
wonder  when  your  belles  of  the  Coast  see  you  ac- 
coutered  like  you  are  they  prefer  to  go  abroad  and 
marry  a  well  dressed  and  well  bred  Englishman.  It 
shows  their  good  taste,  even  if  sometimes  they  do 
pay  for  their  enjoyment.  Goloshes  are  as  much  a 
part  of  a  gentleman's  wardrobe  as  are  pattens.  I 
am  also  annoyed  by  the  manner  in  which  you  chaps 
carry  your  umbrellas.  You  let  them  flop  around  and 
turn  itself  inside  out  in  the  wind ;  you  poke  people 
in  the  face  and  stomach  with  its  ferule,  and  finally 
and  worst  of  all,  you  carry  it,  dripping  water  all  over 
the  steps  and  halls  of  every  building  or  apartment 
you  enter.  Now,  an  umbrella  to  a  well-bred  and 
properly-clad  man  is  useless.  He  does  not  need  one. 
It  is  a  nuisance  of  the  worst  kind.  .  There  is  always 
a  place  to  hang  your  mackintosh  without  ruining 
the  floor,  but  San  Francisco  nor  London  furnishings, 
outside  of  the  establishment  that  maintain  a  hall 
man,  make  no  providing  for  a  nasty  wet  umbrella. 
With  a  lady,  of  course,  you  need  one,  only  to  save 
her,  and  in  the  name  of  gallantry  you  can  flood  rugs 
and  polished  hall  floors  ad  nauseam  if  the  hostess 
does  not  call  the  footman  to  eject  you.  Without  a 
lady,  carry  your  umbrella  closely  rolled;  let  it  be 
of  silk,  and  it  takes  the  place  of  a  stick  in  your  storm 
dressing.  Don't,  in  the  name  of  all  that  is  correct, 
extend  it  to  shelter  yourself.  Your  wear  should  do 
that.  I  really  desire  to  give  you  men  another  hint, 
I  think  your  behavior  when  acting  as  escort  to  a 
lady  is  not  proper.     I   note  the  gentlewomen   here 


permit  you  to  grasp  their  arms — to  almost  lift  them 
into  the  carriage.  You  presume  on  their  good  na- 
ture or  your  relations  less.  A  gentleman  always  of- 
fers a  lady  his  arm  and  assists  her  into  the  carriage 
or  elsewhere  by  just  touching  her  hand.  You  chaps 
here  assume  an  air  of  possession  over  the  lady  \\h<< 
has  favored  you  with  her  company.  This  is  permis- 
sible only  in  the  happing  that  you  are  escorting  the 
one  woman  who  is  other  than  wife,  near  relative  or 
fiancee.  The  attentions  given  to  the  sweeter  sex 
by  your  men  here,  as  a  general  thing,  savor  too  much 
to  me  of  a  relationship  that  is  not  disclosed  to  the 
public  or  a  caress.  Both  are  objectionable.  The  one 
thing  the  well-bred  gentleman  hides,  and  the  other 
thing  he  reserves  for  privacy.  Gentlemen  owe  to 
gentlewomen  in  public  the  utmost  deference,  the 
most  formal  courtesy,  and  the  greatest  care  that  no 
act  on  their  part  shall  be  susceptible  of  the  littlest 
misconstruction  or  wrong  comment.  The  honor  of 
a  woman  is  builded  by  a  life  time,  and  I  know  where 
life  times  have  been  wrecked  by  some  cad  who,  ow- 
ing to  his  lack  of  what  was  good  form,  compromised 
the  lady  who  was  foolish  enough  to  be  seen  with 
him.  Really,  good  form  is  doing  the  right  thing  in 
the  right  place  at  the  right  time.  We  gentlemen 
chaps  can  take  care  of  ourselves  among  ourselves, 
but  my  lady  mother  and  my  teachers  taught  that  it 
was  the  hall  mark  of  a  well-bred  man  to  always  take 
care  of  the  lady.  I  learned  this,  and  learned  it  hard, 
or  I  would  not  be  signing  this  TRAVERS. 


Mr.  D.  M.  Lord,  of  the  firm  of  Lord  &  Thomas, 
advertising  managers  of  New  York  and  Chicago, 
has  retired  from  the  firm.  C.  R.  Erwin  and  A.  D. 
Lasker  have  acquired  the  interest  of  Mr.  Lord.  This 
firm  does  an  extensive  newspaper,  magazine  and 
out-door  advertising  business. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


T5he    Minister    of    Foreig'n    Affairs 


Nothing  has  surprised  and 
Japan's  Rapid  Pace,      astonished     the     world    so 

much  in  recent  years  as 
Japan's  perfect  preparedness  for  war  and  the  rapid 
pace  in  executing  her  plans  of  both  attack  and 
defense.  Her  army  is  like  a  flying  column,  and  her 
warships  sail  hither  and  yon,  and  both  striking  fatal 
blows  upon  the  Russian  front  with  almost  mathe- 
matical precision.  The  Russians  are  dazed  and  be- 
wildered, and  the  other  nations  amazed  at  the  thor- 
oughness of  the  "little  brown  people's"  plan  of 
campaign,  and  the  whirlwind  like  swiftness  of  its 
unfoldment  by  land  and  by  sea.  From  the  initial 
shot  Japan's  war  establishment  has  moved  directly 
upon  the  objective  point  with  a  degree  of  audacity 
that  only  perfect  confidence  in  its  own  prowess  could 
engender.  And  it  can  be  said  that  the  gage  of  battle 
was  announced  to  Russia  with  so  much  vehemence 
and  self-confidence  that  the  Bear  has  not  yet  re- 
covered from  the  shock.  Japan's  first  broadside 
gained  her  the  admiration  of  the  world,  and  the  right 
to  full  membership  in  the  family  of  nations.  But 
the  game  is  not  yet  finished.  The  staying  qualities 
of  Japan  are  yet  to  be  tried,  though  the  indications 
are  that  they  will  grow  in  strength  and  determination 
as  new  demands  are  made  upon  her  spirit  of  sacrifice. 

But  however  furious  and  self-con- 
Nearing  the  fident  the  armed  hosts  of  Japan 
Firing  Line,     may  be  sweeping  away  Russian  re- 

sistence,  the  fact  still  remains  that 
several  of  the  spectator  nations  are  getting  danger- 
ously close  to  the  firing  line,  notwithstanding  their 
proclamations  of  neutrality.  Before  a  shot  was  fired 
the  News  Letter  pointed  out  how  it  would  be  almost 
impossible  for  certain  outside  nations  to  help  becom- 
ing involved,  if  war  ensued,  through  their  commercial 
interests,  and  already  signs  may  be  seen  in  the 
United  States  and  Great  Britain  of  hasty  prepara- 
tions for  eventualities.  And  what  is  intensifying  the 
strain  is  that  complications  have  arisen  that  involve 
contradictory  views  of  national  integrity  and  honesty 
of  purpose.  There  is  too  much  open  expression  of 
sympathy  with  Japan  and  too  much  rejoicing  over 
Japanese  victories  in  the  United  States  and  England 
to  please  Russia.  And  there  are  too  many  experi- 
enced officers  of  the  American  navy  on  board  Jap- 
anese warships,  and  Great  Britain  is  winking  too 
loud  at  Japan  to  use  her  harbors  in  her  Chinese  ter- 
ritory as  a  base  of  naval  operations  for  Russia  to 
place  much  faith  in  the  sincerity  of  the  neutrality 
of  the  Anglo-Saxons.  It  is  a  little  spark  as  yet.  but 
it  is  capable  of  starting  a  great  fire,  especially  that 
it  is  being  housed  by  willing  tinder.  Then,  again, 
a  Japanese  ambassador  to  a  European  court  made  the 
diplomatic  mistake  early  this  week,  while  "feeling 
good"  over  his  country's  victims,  of  publicly  say- 
ing that  Great  Britain,  and  the  United  States,  by  in- 
ference, were  Japan's  passive  allies,  but  were  pre- 
pared to  become  very  active. allies  if  occasion  should 
require.  This  foolish  utterance  has  angered  Rus- 
sia greatly,  so  much  so  that  the  Russian  Viceroy  in 
the  Far  East  has  already  refused  to  recognize  cer- 
tain United  States  Consulates.  To  put  it  in  plain 
words,  the  St.  Petersburg  Government  believes  that 
the  United  States  and  England  are  hunting  for  an 
excuse  to  blend  their  battle-flags  with  those  of  Japan 
on  promises  of  great  commercial  and  industrial  ad- 


vantages in  Korea  and  Manchuria,  which  two  coun- 
tries, it  is  already  settled,  will  become  a  part  of  the 
Japanese  Empire  in  the  event  of  Russia's  defeat. 
It  may  be  observed  in  this  connection  that  the  Czar's 
surmises  as  to  the  Anglo-Saxons  are  not  altogether 
of  the  imagination.  Practically  all  the  people  of 
the  United  States  are  openly  and  generally  vehe- 
mently patting  Japan  on  the  back,  mataphorically 
speaking,  and  this,  too,  angers  the  autocrat  of  Russia. 
These  complications  are  very  volcanic  in  their  nature. 
What  game  France  is  trying  to 
Other  Serious      play  no  mortal  could   tell.     Cer- 

Complications.  tain  officials  of  State  are  demand- 
ing that  the  ties  which  have 
bound  that  nation  and  Russia  in  close  bonds  of 
friendship  for  so  many  years  be  broken  without 
ceremony.  They  claim  that  the  Czar  has  played 
France  for  a  fool  long  enough,  and  now  that  the  point 
has  been  reached  where  France  is  asked  to  pull  the 
Dear's  chestnuts  out  of  the  fire,  it  is  time  for  dis- 
solution and  annulment  of  the  ra'pproachement.  An- 
other faction  of  French  State  officials  want  the  na- 
tion's war  establishment  put  in  complete  prepared- 
ness to  strike  England  a  terrific  blow  in  the  event 
of  her  being  involved  in  the  Russo-Japanese  war. 
But  all  France  is  agreed  that  if  there  is  to  be  a  cut- 
ting up  of  China,  the  Paris  Government  must  be 
there  prepared  to  demand  and  take  a  big  slice.  Thus 
is  France  trying  her  best  to  mix  in  all  along  the  line. 
( ierman  influence  is  busy  urging  French  statesmen 
to  go  back  on  Russia.  It  is  to  Germany's  interest 
to  weaken  France  by  complications  at  this  time,  for 
Frenchmen  of  all  walks  are  hoping  that  the  Russo- 
Japanese  war  may  involve  Germany  so  much  that 
Alsace  and   Lorraine  will  be  easy  to  retake. 

While   China   is   assuming  a 

Further  Dangerous     policy  of  strict  neutrality,  it 
Complications.  is  very  clear  that  there  is  an 

understanding  with  Japan  to 
the  latter's  liking.  This  is  seen  in  the  admission  of 
the  Peking  Government  that  so  angry  are  Chinamen 
everywhere  at  Russia's  brutal  and  murderous  treat- 
ment of  their  fellow  countrymen  when  the  Bear  was 
taking  possession  of  Manchuria  that  the  authorities 
are  utterly  powerless  to  restrain  them  in  their  pur- 
pose to  aid  Japan.  The  consequence  is,  thousands 
of  Chinamen,  of  the  worst  class  generally,  are  flock- 
ing to  the  front  to  seek  revenge  for  Russian  barbar- 
ities, but  they  go  as  "irregulars,"  and  we  all  know 
that  that  means  a  great  mob  of  irresponsible  cut- 
throats playing  upon  the  Russian  flanks  and  destroy- 
ing Russian  towns  and  settlements.  Still  it  will  help 
Japan.  Of  course  Russia  understands  the  game  of 
treachery  China  is  playing,  and  she  will  have  to  take 
cognizance  of  it  by  adopting  retaliatory  measures  by 
invading  China,  but  in  doing  that  she  will  run 
square  up  against  Secretary  Hay's  pronunciamento 
that  neither  one  of  the  belligerents  shall  enter  Chi- 
nese territory  for  any  purpose. 

The  prediction  of  the  News  Let- 
Still  Other         ter   that   the    Balkan    States   and 
Complications.     Turkey  would  take  advantage  of 
Russia's  engagements  in  the  bar 
East  to  settle  their  difficulties  has  materialized  a  lit- 
tle ahead  of  time.     The  Sultan  has  already  invaded 
Bulgaria  with   the  advance  guard   of   a   large  army 
that  is  to  follow  immediately.     But  as  the  Sublime 


February  ao,  1904. 


]''<rt  has  intimated  it  to  be  his  purpose  to  extend  the 
nan  Empire  in  Europe  by  conquering  the  Eu- 
ropean Near  East,  he  is  likely  to  find  every  civilized 
nation  willing  and  ready  to  send  a  contingent  of 
soldiers,  who  would  act  in  harmonj  against  him. 
It  is  one  thing,  he  is  likely  to  ascertain,  to  thrash  the 
Bulgarians  for  offenses,  but  quite  another  thii 
extend  his  vile  and  monstrous  system  of  government 
over   Christian   lands   in    Europe. 

In  his  rage,  or  during  a 
A  Small  Complication,      fit  of  insanity,  the   Czar 

issued  a  proclamation  a 
few  days  ago  extending  his  jurisdiction  over  Thibet. 
For  years  the  suzerainty  of  the  Empire  of  China 
over  Thibet  has  been  recognized  by  all  the  nati 
and  at  this  minute  llritish  soldiers  are  camped,  in 
Thibet,  by  the  consent  of  the  Peking  Government, 
for  the  purpose  of  eventually  changing  the  suzerainty 
from  the  Emperor  of  China  to  the  King  of  England. 
Evidently  the  Czar  meant  his  proclamation  of  suz- 
erainty as  a  notice  to  King  Edward  to  countermarch 
his  soldiers  out  of  Thibet.  Of  course,  King  Edward 
will  reply  by  augmenting  the  strength  of  the  garrison 
already  located  there. 

THE   DUKE  OF   NORFOLK'S  WEDDING. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  luck  of  the  Premier  Duke 
of  England  will  change  with  his  wedding.  Of  all 
men  his  is  one  of  the  most  pathetic  of  modern  figures. 
The  representative  of  one  of  the  greatest  and  oldest 
families  in  the  modern  world,  for  the  "blood  of  all 
the  Howards"  is  proverbial,  a  most  estimable  gentle- 
man, kind  and  benevolent,  and  filled  with  a  passion 
for  civic  duty  although  politics  are  distasteful  to  him, 
he  has  by  a  curious  and  inexplicable  decree  of  Provi- 
dence been  compelled  to  suffer  to  an  extent  that 
falls  to  the  lot  of  few  men.  He  had  but  one  child 
heir  to  the  Dukedom,  and  that  child  so  painfully 
afflicted  that  death  came  as  a  merciful  release.  His 
wife  died.  At  an  age  when  most  men  would  have 
considered  their  services  to  the  State  at  an  end, 
and  that  they  were  entitled  to  pass  the  remainder  of 
their  days  in  well-earned  leisure,  he  equipped  a  force 
at  his  own  expense,  and  led  them  to  war  in  South 
Africa,  where  he  met  with  a  painful  accident  which 
laid  him  up  for  a  considerable  time.  He  is  the  best 
representative  of  that  old  English  Catholicism  which 
has  suffered  so  much,  and  which,  by  reason  of  its 
steadfastness,  has  a  great  hold  upon  the  sympathies 
and  respect  of  Protestant  England. 

His  beautiful  wife,  the  Honorable  Gwendolen 
Mary  Maxwell,  is  the  daughter  of  Lord  Herres,  who 
belongs  to  an  ancient  and  devoted  Catholic  family 
which  has  suffered  much  for  its  devotion  to  princi- 
ple and  faith,  and  has  always  been  found  fighting 
for  ideals  rendered  obsolete  by  the  transition  of  time 
and  the  change  in  sentiment. 

There  is  something  very  old-world,  yet  charming, 
about  this  marriage,  and  the  greatest  enemies  of  the 
old  British  aristocracy  cannot  but  have  the  best 
wishes  for  the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  the  pair. 

The  Infant 
takes  first  to  human  milk;  that  failing,  the  mother  turns 
at  once  to  cow's  milk  as  the  best  substitute.  Borden's 
Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  a  cow's  milk  scientifically 
adapted  to  the  human  infant.  Stood  first  for  forty-five 
years. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER.  ? 

THREE  STALWARTS  GONE. 


The  past  week  has  been   of   note  as  recording  the 

ng  of  many  stalwart   figures  in  national  as  well 

as   local    history.      Senator    1  lamia's   taking   off   is   a 

distinct   loss  to  the  nation,  and  the  full  effect  of  his 

demise  will  not  come  until  his  counsel  is  needed  in 

the  deliberations  of  the  Republican  party.  lie  was 
one  of  the  few  men.  who  make  history,  who  was  able 
to  live  down  in  a  very  few  years  the  calumnies  oi  1 
yellow  press.  No  one  man  was  ever  more  persist 
ently  calumnated,  caricatured  and  cruelly  lied  about 
than  Marcus  Alonzo  Hanna.  And  yet  lie  died  hold 
ing  the  respect  of  all  men.  and  most  of  all,  the  labor- 
ing element.  The  labor  leaders  of  the  Kast,  the 
Americans  among  them,  had  come  to  look  upon 
Senator  Hanna  as  their  best  friend  when  in  difficulty. 


Alvinza   Hayward     is      dead, 

Hayward  Crosses       and  with  his  passing  Califor- 

the  Divide.  nia  has  lost  one  of  its  best 

practical  miners  and  repre- 
sentative mining  men.  He  was  endowed  with  a 
spirit  of  enterprise  which  failure  never  seemed  to 
daunt,  and  an  indomitable  will  power  which  carried 
him  over  all  difficulties.  There  are  very  few  men 
of  his  class  left  in  the  State,  and  the  younger  genera- 
tion of  men  will  do  well  if  they  only  aspire  to  emu- 
late the  example  of  the  old  regime  to  which  Hay- 
ward belongs  in  their  methods  and  practical  knowl- 
edge of  how  to  open  up  a  mine  and  carry  on  work- 
underground.  Mr.  Hayward  has  left  a  number  of 
friends  who  have  been  attached  to  him  for  nearly  a 
life  time,  and  who  will  deeply  regret  his  rather  un- 
expected demise.  He  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  82 
years  of  age.  He  came  to  California  in  1850.  and  has 
seldom  been  out  of  the  State  since  then,  devoting  all 
his  time  and  energy  to  the  developing  of  the  indus- 
trial interests  with  which  he  was  connected.  He  left 
a  large  fortune  behind  him  in  real  and  personal 
property. 


Allen's  Press   Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


W.  W.  Foote,  bon  vivant,  and  general  all-around 
good  fellow,  is  also  gone.  He  died  at  the  home  of  J. 
V.  Coleman.  Foote  was,  as  a  lawyer  and  man,  an 
ornament  to  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  He 
came  from  a  stock  of  gentlemen  born,  and  with  him 
it  was  always  a  case  of  "noblesse  oblige."  His  was 
a  rugged  personality,  and  he  was  possessed  of  a 
keen  sense  of  what  should  constitute  rectitude  in 
life.  Some  years  ago  he  announced  that  he  should 
never  again  take  a  criminal  case.  He  could  not 
reconcile  himself  to  defending  one  he  suspected  of 
guilt,  and  he  had  suffered  tortures  at  having  freed 
men  he  thought  guilty  from  the  toils  of  the  law. 

He  said  to  a  friend :  "I  shall  never  again  under- 
take the  defense  of  a  criminal.  There  is  only  one  con- 
tingency that  will  tempt  me,  and  that  is  the  defense 
of  a  friend  or  of  some  poor  devil  who  may  have 
unwittingly  committed  a  crime."  Those  who  re- 
member the  brilliant  future  Foote  had  before  him  as 
a  criminal  lawyer  will  realize  the  prize  he  lost  when 
he  gave  up  criminal  practice.  It  is  only  an  instance 
of  the  great  force  of  character  in  the  man. 

We  who  are  of  a  younger  generation,  and  who  will 
not  have  the  opportunities  to  try  us  as  by  fire  that 
was  birthright  of  these  three  men,  men  of  iron  and 
red  blood,  may  well  wonder  whether  there  is  among 
us  the  material  to  take  the  place  of  departing  stal- 
warts. 


Kaeumatlcs  relieved  at  the  Post  St  Hammam 


Dr.  Decker, 

Dentist,  806   Market.     Specialty  "Coltoa  Gas"  for  painles* 
teath  extracting. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


as 


Irish  Fiction 
and  Poetry. 


The  Ambassadors. 


.Mr.  Yeats  has  started  the  ball  to 
clear  the  ground  for  the  Celtic 
Renaissance,  and  now  comes  Lady 
Gregory  and  Mr.  Krans  to  give  it 
further  impetus.  Mr.  Krans.  in  his  essay  of  335  pages 
makes  an  exhaustive  survey  of  Irish  fiction  up  to 
the  middle  of  the  last  century.  The  volume  is  one 
of  the  Studies  in  Comparative  Literature  issued  un- 
der the  auspices  of  Columbia  University. 

Lady  Gregory  gives  the  English  reader  a  cha.nce 
to  estimate  the  poetic  activity  of  the  nineteenth 
century  Celt  by  translating  the  poems  of  the  blind 
bard  Rafferty,  who  died  about  sixty  years  ago.  In 
addition,  Lady  Gregory  gives  translations  of  ballads 
that  she  collected  on  the  Arran  Island  off  the  coast 
of  Galway. 

The  future  of  the  Gaelic  revival  in  the  history  of 
the  literature  of  this  century  depends  on  the  answer 
to  this  question  :  Will  the  Irish-speaking  Celts  ever 
produce  poets  who  will  transform  these  exquisite 
phrases,  these  half-articulate  yearnings,  into  lyrics 
that  will  make  it  necessary  for  the  Anglo-Saxon  to 
learn  Irish  as  he  must  now  learn  Greek  in  order 
not  to  miss  some  of  the  finest  poetry  in  the  world? 
"Irish  Life  in  Irish  Fiction."  By  Horatio  Sheafe 
Krans,  New  York.  The  Macmillan  Co.  The  Colum- 
bia University  Press. 

"Poets  and  Dreamers."  Studies  and  Translations 
from  the  Irish.  By  Lady  Gregory,  .Yew  York.  Chas. 
Scribners  Sons. 

James's  books  have  been  lik- 
ened to  a  Persian  carpet — 
which  appears  to  be  a  form- 
less mixture  of  lines  and  colors — until  standing  at 
the  right  angle  and  in  the  right  light  one  perceives 
the  figure  running  through  the  whole  design.  In  his 
latest  work,  James  has  added  a  new  tint  to  this  fig- 
ure. This  time  it  is  the  effect  of  European  life  upon 
the  standard  of  thought  and  conduct  of  a  group  of 
Americans.  First  upon  Chad  Xewsome,  then  upon 
Shelter,  and  only  the  fixed  Puritan  scruf'rles  of 
Sarah  Pocock  enabled  her  to  sweep  the  cobwebs 
from  their  eyes,  and  make  them  see  the  irreconcilable 
difference  between  Woolett  and  Paris. 

"The  Ambassadors."  by  Henry  James.  Harper 
&  Brothers,  Publishers. 

Mr.  Robert  Barr  has  just  com- 
"The  O'Ruddy."  pleted  an  unfinished  novel  of 
Stephen  Crane.  It  is  under- 
stood that  after  a  considerable  part  of  this  story  was 
written,  Mr.  Crane  went  over  his  plans  for  the  rest 
with  Mr.  Barr;  consequently  there  is  a  degree  of  con- 
sistency in  style  and  plot.  "The  (  1'Ruddy"  is  the 
story  of  an  audacious  Irishman  who  goes  to  England 
with  certain  documents  which  involve  the  ownership 
of  a  great  English  estate.  He  becomes  involved  in 
a  feud  with  the  family;  the  papers  are  stolen  and 
returned  to  him  ;  he  gives  them  to  the  daughter,  but 
they  are  mysteriously  returned  to  him.  He  wins 
renown  as  a  swordsman,  and  caps  his  career  by  seiz- 
ing the  castle  over  which  there  is  dispute,  and  finally 
compromises  by  marrying  the  heroine.  It  is  a  lively 
tale,  well  worth  the  reading. 

"The  O'Ruddy."  by  Stephen  Crane  and  Robert 
Barr.  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Co.,  Xew  York,  pub- 
lishers. 


The  International  Studio  for  February  opens  with 
an  article  on  the  paintings  and  etchings  of  Sir  Chas. 


Holroyd  by  A.  L.  Baldry,  with  a  number  of  beauti- 
ful reproductions  in  color  and  black  and  white,  both 
of  the  artist's  figure  drawing,  etching  and  landscape 
painting.  There  are  few  modern  artists  more  indi- 
vidual and  less  conventional  than  Sir  Charles  Hol- 
royd, at  the  same  time  showing  themselves  the  pro- 
duct of  scholarly  and  well-trained  intelligence.  A 
subject  that  will  be  of  great  interest  to  Americans 
will  be  that  treated  by  Professor  Hans  W.  Singer, 
entitled,  "Recent  German  Lithographs  in  Colors," 
with  illustrations  which  are  of  a  beauty  to  which 
only  a  magazine  of  the  Studio's  pictorial  quality  can 
attain.  An  interesting  study  of  the  French  Pastel- 
lists  of  the  18th  Century  is  contributed  by  Armand 
Dayot.  There  is  something  specially  attractive  about 
the  consideration  of  a  school  of  Pastellists  when  one 
remembers  the  fragility  of  this  particular  field  of 
art,  and  the  consequent  brevity  of  existence  of  its 
sparkling  masterpieces.  Mr.  A.  S.  Levetus  publishes 
an  interesting  article  on  Modern  Austrian  Wicker 
Furniture,  than  which  nothing  could  be  more  de- 
lightful for  American  summer  homes,  being  both 
cool  and  artistic,  and  in  keeping  with  their  luxu- 
rious rusticity. 

"The  World's  Almanac  for  1904,"  issued  by  the 
Press  Publishing  Co.,  Xew  York,  is  the  most  com- 
plete almanac  and  encyclopedia  published.  The  1904 
number  is  an  officially  compiled  guide  to  the  Loui- 
siana Purchase  Exposition,  and  is  a  valuable  refer- 
ence book  for  business  and  professional  men.  Sent 
by  mail  for  35  cents. 

"Who's  Who  in  America"  is  a  valuable  book  for 
those  who  are  interested  in  the  men  and  women  of 
the  United  States,  whose  position  or  achievements 
make  his  or  her  personality  of  general  interest.  It 
tells  the  things  every  intelligent  person  wants  to 
know  about  those  who  are  most  conspicuous  in  every 
walk  of  life.  The  present  edition  contains  about 
4,000  new  names,  making  a  total  of  14,443  names. 
Published  by  A.  X.  Marquis  &  Co.,  Chicago.  Price. 
$3-50. 

In  the  latest  volume  of  the  American  Sportsman's 
Library,  Mr.  Graham  tells  us  that  the  regular  breeds 
of  sporting  dogs  are  British,  and  all  others  rubbish. 
The  American  dog.  however,  becomes  faster,  brighter 
and  more  enduring  than  his  English  brother,  show- 
ing the  effect  of  environment  and  conditions — for 
Americans  will  forgive  all  defects  in  their  dogs  ex- 
cept the  "inability  to  stand   the  pace." 

"The  Sporting  Dog,"  by  Joseph  A.  Graham.  Mac- 
millan Co.,  Publishers. 

The  February  number  of  "For  California,"  the 
monthly  publication  of  the  California  Promotion 
Committee,  contains  some  interesting  statistics  upon 
the  growth  of  the  State,  showing  that  California  has 
developed  more  rapidly  since  the  census  of  1900  than 
in  the  previous  decade.  The  estimates  of  the  com- 
mittee are  based  upon  the  returns  from  the  County 
Clerks  of  the  various  counties  and  from  other  re- 
liable sources. 

"Agnosticism"  is  a  little  book  written  in  a  charm- 
ingly simple  style,  and  is  among  the  best  of  Mr. 
Dole's  books.  Published  by  James  H.  West  Com- 
pany. Boston.  Price,  postpaid,  in  cloth,  30  cents:  in 
paper,  12  cents, 


February  20,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Dear    Bessie — It    was   quite   the   correct    thin 

attend  the  Manli  (Iras  this  year,  and  I  had  what  a 
young  English  friend  insists  all  Americans  describe 

as  "a  real  tall  time."  Hut  do  not  for  a  moment  think 
I  am  going  to  give  you  a  description  of  it.  I  was 
never  very  good  at  that  sort  of  tiling,  but  1  can  say 
that  the  decorations  were  beautiful,  pale  gold  and 
violet  the  color  scheme  of  all  four  rooms,  with  red 
and  yellow  lights — how  I  wish  you  could  have  seen 
them  !  There  were  canopies,  festoons  of  evergreens, 
red  and  yellow  lanterns,  and  the  yellow  lanterns  and 
the  boxes  were  hung  with  Oriental  draperies  and 
huge  red  poppies.  Of  course,  Ed.  Greenway  was  boss 
of  the  floor  arrangements,  and  was  very  much  in  his 
element.  There  was  no  Carnival  Queen  nor  regu- 
lar Canival  King,  such  as  there  used  to  be,  but  in- 
stead the  grand  march  was  headed  by  an  Egyptian 
pageant  with  Newton  Tharp  as  a  king  of  the  Pha- 
raoh period,  and  Isis,  the  Egyptian  goddess,  persona- 
ted by  a  pretty  girl  from  Los  Angeles  named  Good- 
rich, born  on  a  platform  by  six  priests,  surrounded 
by  maids  in  waiting  and  other  attendants.  Prominent 
among  those  in  costume  were :  Mrs.  Peter  as  Cleo- 
patra;  Ethel  Hager  as  a  danseuse;  Olga  Atherton  as 
Dolly  Varden ;  Jane  Sweigert  as  Columbia;  Mrs. 
Frank  Carolan  as  an  Egyptian ;  Julia  Buckbee  as 
an  old  English  countrywoman ;  Mrs.  Rudolph 
Spreckels  as  a  Colonial  Dame ;  Maye  Colburne  as  a 
dancing  girl ;  Mrs.  Monte  Wilson  as  a  Dutch  girl ; 
Helen  de  Young  as  a  Dresden  shepherdess ;  Pearl 
Landers  as  a  Scotch  girl ;  Mrs.  Jack  Spreckels  as  a 
Russian  peasant;  Elsie  Sperry  as  a  pool  table;  Grace 
Spreckels  as  a  devil. 

Of  course  there  were  heaps  of  other  pretty  cos- 
tumes, but  I  have  no  space  to  enumerate  them  all, 
and  this  will  give  you  an  idea  at  least  of  what  a 
pretty  sight  it  must  have  been  once  the  ball  got 
well   started. 

We  had  a  glorious  time  at  the  last  of  the  Green- 
way  dances,  and  extra  efforts  were  made  to  have  it 
the  success  of  the  season.  The  decorations  were  ex- 
cellent, and  such  heaps  of  American  beauty  roses 
everywhere,  while  the  supper  was  way  up,  of  course. 
Mrs.  Peter  wore  lavender  this  time,  with  the  inevi- 
table spangles  which  seem  to  be  a  part  of  all  her  ball 
gowns,  and  Hannah  Hobart,  who  was  seen  for  the 
first  time  since  her  return,  looked  lovely  in  white 
satin  and  pearls.  Most  of  the  girls  wore  white, 
and  among  those  who  preferred  colors  were  Celia 
Tobin,  Christine  Pomeroy,  Bessie  Mills,  Lucy  King 
and  Susie  Blanding  in  pink;  Gertrude  Dutton  and 
Genevieve  King  in  yellow,  and  Gertrude  Smith  and. 
Helen  de  Young,  who  wore  red.  There  were  a  lot 
of  dinners  prior  to  the  dance,  but  all  seem  to  think 
that  Mrs.  Joe  Grant  carried  off  the  palm.  Mrs.  Tim 
Hopkins  gave  a  St.  Valentine  luncheon  at  the  Palace 
on  Saturday  to  a  lot  of  the  buds ;  it  was  very  pretty, 
pink  roses,  pink  lights  and  pink  hearts  being  a  combi- 
nation hard  to  beat.  Mrs.  Ofecar  Sewell  also  gave  a 
luncheon  at  the  Palace  that  day,  and  Elsie  Gregory 
had  fourteen  at  her  pink  luncheon;  while  both  Mrs. 
Runyon  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Casey  had  fifty  guests 
at  their  seven-handed  euchre  parties  that  afternoon. 
St.  Valentine  has  been  highly  honored  this  year,  so 
many  entertainments  being  named  for  the  little  (rod 
of  Love.  Helen  Pettigrew  called  her  tea  a  St.  Val- 
entine, and  really  it  best  deserved  the  title,  for  it  was 


given  on  Sunday,  and  was  very  jolly,  and  mi  Monday 
there  were  a  lot   more  bearing  that  name. 

The  damp  weather  did  nm  appear  to  have  much 
effect  upon  the  size  of  tin-  gatherings  at  either  Mrs 
Will  Tevis's  bridge  party,  which  sin-  gave  on  Mon- 
day for  Millie  Ashe  Sewell.  nor  tile  luncheons  at 
the  University  Club,  given  by  Mrs.  Andrew  Welch 
for  Florence  Callaghan,  and  by  Mrs.  Drysdale  for 
a  lot  of  the  season's  buds;  her  table  decorations, 
which  were  Valentine  in  character,  were  extremely 
pretty.  Mrs.  Greyson  Dutton's  seven-handed  eu- 
chre party  at  the  St.  Dunstan  on  Monday  was  very 
pleasant.  I  asked  Marjory  if  she  did  not  have  some- 
thing intensely  interesting  to  confide;  she  blushed 
very  prettily  and  looked  conscious,  but  said  nothing. 
The  Gaiety  Club  had  its  last  dance  on  Monday  night 
(and  oh,  how  it  did  rain),  at  Margaret  Newhall's,  as 
Frances  Allen  was  not  yet  equal  to  the  excitement  of 
having  it  there,  and  Lucy  told  me  it  was  likely  they 
would  have  another  dance  after  Lent. 

Tuesday  was  a  great  one  for  weddings — three  of 
them,  no  less — and  all  of  them  at  high  noon.  The 
one  which  came  as  rather  a  surprise,  for  it  was  not 
expected  until  after  Easter  at  earliest,  was  that  of 
Helen  Walker  Tay  and  Judge  Henshaw,  which  took 
place  at  the  Walker  home  on  Broadway,  where  Judge 
McFarland  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  It  was  a  very  quiet 
affair,  with  only  just  relatives  at  the  ceremony,  and 
the  wedding  breakfast,  which  followed  it.  In  decided 
contrast  to  this  was  the  wedding  of  Elsa  Cook  and 
"Teddy"  Greenfield,  as  his  friends  usually  call  him, 
which  came  off  at  St.  Stephen's  Church  on  Fulton 
street,  where  the  Rector,  the  Rev.  E.  Bradley,  per- 
formed the  ceremony.  The  church  was  very  prettily 
decorated  in  green  and  white ;  Helen  Cook,  who  was 
her  sister's  maid  of  honor,  Quita  Kerby  and  Bessie 
Gowan,  the  bridesmaids,  wore  gowns  of  white  chiffon 
cloth  and  white  lace  hats  trimmed  with  green  leaves. 
Elsa's  gown  was  of  white  crepe  and  lace,  and  Louis 
Beedy  was  best  man.  The  third  wedding  was  that 
of  Kitty  DuVal  and  Oliver  Dibble  at  St.  Mary's 
Cathedral,    where      Father      Prendegast     officiated. 


Polo  and  Pony  Racing 


Under  the  Auspices  of  the  California 
Polo  and  Pony  Racing  Association  to 
Be  Held  at 

Del  Honte-Feb.  18  to  22,  both  inclusive 
Burlingame-Feb.  26  to  28,  both  inclusive 

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THOS.    A.     DRISCOLL 

Secretary  of  the  Association 

Room    39,  5th  Floor,  Mills    Building,    San    Francisco 


io  SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 

There  were  no  fuss  or  feathers  here  either,  no  attend- 
ants, only  a  few  relatives  present  at  the  ceremony, 
ami  Kitty  wore  a  pretty  brown  cloth  costume  with 
a  hat  to 'match,  and  looked  the  very  picture  of  hap- 
piness. Between  luncheons  and  weddings  almost 
every  one  was  kept  on  the  move.  Among  the  for- 
mer were  Mrs.  Lansing's  luncheon  at  the  Univer- 
sity Club  for  Frances  Harris;  Mrs.  George  Board- 
man's,-  which  she  gave  at  home,  as  did  also  Mrs. 
Frank  Sullivan,  with  Mrs.  l'eter  for  chief  guest,  and 
Mrs.  Bailey  Norris,  whose  luncheon  was  for  Miss 
Herrick,  who  is  here  on  a  visit  to  the  Homer  Kings. 
Beatrice  Fife's  tea  in  the  afternoon  was  quite  a  pretty 
affair,  though  the  girls  did  not  exert  themselves  to 
any  great  degree,  afraid  of  tiring  themselves  for 
the  evening,  I  daresay. 

Margaret  Burnett,  who  at  last  formally  announced 
a  few  days  ago  her  engagement  to  Fritz  Jewel,  which 
had  been  suspected  for  some  time,  was  very  quietly 
married  at  St.  Brigid's  Church  on  Monday ;  only 
the  family  were  present  at  the  ceremony,  which  was 
performed  by  Father  Wyman,  so  you  see  quiet  wed- 
dings have  been  the  rule  of  late,  and  after  all  is  it  not 
the  better  way? 

—Elsie. 


February  20,  1904. 


YY/EDDING  invitations  and  mar- 
"     riage  announcements. 

Reception  and  visiting  cards. 

Heraldic  and  Bookplate  engraving. 

Exclusive  styles  in  Monograms  and 

writing  paper. 

SHREVE     &      CO. 

POST  and  MARKET  ST. 



■  The  usual  monthly  programme  of  sacred  music 
will  be  given  at  St.  Dominic's  church  Sunday  even- 
ing, February  21st.  Litany  and  sermon  at  7:30. 
Offertory,  Ave  Maria,  Shelley,  Mrs.  Camilla  Buer- 
germeister;  Benediction  of  the  Most  Holy  Sacra- 
ment, "(J  Salutaris,"  Wagner;  "Tantum  Ergo," 
Cluck;  Jubilate  Deo,  Stewart;  After  Benediction, 
Organ  Solo,  Fantasia,  "O  Sanctissima."  Lux;  "Ave 
Maria,"  Calliera ;  solo,  "O  Thou  Afflicted"  (St. 
Peter),  Benedict,  Miss  Ella  V.  McCloskey;  soprano 
solo,  with  chorus,  "Hear  My  Prayer,"  Mendelssohn, 
Miss  Camille  Frank;  tenor  solo.  Mr.  T.  G.  Elliott; 
quartette,  "Sub  Tuum,"  Dubois,  Miss  Frank.  Miss 
McCloskey.  Mr.  Elliott  and  Mr.  Charles  B.  Stone'. 
Motett,  "Tata  Pulchra,"  I'erosi.  Organ  prelude, 
March  in  B  flat,  Silas.  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  organist 
and  director  of  the  choir. 

A  large  crowd  was  down  to  the  steamer  to  witness 
the  departure  of  Mrs.  Katherine  Trevailian,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  J.  T.  Boyd,  and  Mrs.  Clara  Swan  Short,  on 
their  way  to  New  York  via  Panama.  They  will 
visit  the  principal  cities  of  the  East,  and  remain  for 
the  St.  Louis  Fair. 

Prominent  guests  at  Hotel  Del  Monte  last  week 
inch-led  Mr.  and  Mrs.  \Y.  [.  Burns,  Portland,  Ore.; 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Lockerby,  L'iica,  New  York;  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Seaver,  Malone,  New  Yory;  Mrs.  Thomas 
YVh'trm,  N.  Y.;  Mrs.  George  Hixson,  Chicago;  Miss 
Clark  San  Francisco;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Turner. 
Mrs.  M.  J.  Turner  and  maid,  Miss  Rebecca  Tur- 
ner, J.  J.  Turner,  Jr..  Anna  C.  Turner,  Pittsburg;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  E.  H.  Anderson.  Mr.  Turner  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Pennsylvania  Lines,  visiting  Del 
Monte  with  his  private  car,  where  he  intends  to  make 
quite  a  stay.  H.  Tyrrel  lames.  Win.  Mortimer,  H. 
M.  Howard,  England;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  S.  Sel- 
fridge,  Chicago;  W.  C.  Burrows,  New  Orleans;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Albert  Myers,  Springfield,  111. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending  Feb- 
ruary 16th:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alex.  G.  Mitchell,  Dudley 
B.  Gunn,  Mr.  and  Airs.  E.  H.  Conklin,  Mr.  C.  A. 
Grow,  George  C.  Holberlet,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dexter 
Fairbanks,  W.  E.  Weed,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  J.  Erback, 
Mrs  H.  0»  Thomas.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oscar  Foss,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  B.  McLane,  Mrs.  L.  Charest,  Mrs.  S.  A. 
Caldwell,  Miss  S.  R.  Bailey. 

The   patronesses   of   the   concert   to   be   given   by 


Donald  DeV.  Graham  are  as  follows:  Mrs.  J.  D.  Ar- 
nold, Mrs.  H.  B.  Chase,  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan,  Mrs.  S. 
G.  Cutter,  Mrs.  W.- L.  Dean,  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young, 
Mrs.  J.  A.  Folger.  Mrs.  Jerome  A.  Hart,  Mrs.  C.  Os- 
good Hooker,  Mrs.  William  Irwin,  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Martin,  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Tobin, 
Mrs.  Joseph  S.  Tobin,  Mrs.  William  Tevis,  Mrs.  A. 
P.  Whitted,  Mrs    S.  M.  Wilson. 

Hemry  W.  Bradley,  of  the  well-known  law  firm  of 
Bradley  and  McKinstry,  and  Miss  Leonora  Beatrice 
Cusick  were  married  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  the 
10th  inst.,  at  the  Church  of  the  Advent  by  the  Rev. 
Chas.  N.  Lathrop.  Thr  groom  is  the  eldest  son  of 
the  late  H.  W.  Bradley,  of  the  old  photographic 
firm  of  Bradley  &  Rulofson.  He  was  supported  by 
his  brother  Giles,  and  the  bride  by  her  sister  Mary. 
The  bride  is  a  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Cusick,  and  an 
old-time  and   intimate  friend  of  Harry  T.   Creswell. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker  of  San  Francisco 
were  guests  at  Del  Monte  last  week.  Miss  Frances 
Carroll,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Holland  and  Mr.  Rob- 
ert Heyneman  were  also  noted  as  having  enjoyed 
the  hospitality  of  that  famous  hostelry. 

Monterey  is  seeing  large  crowds  of  the  socially 
elect  on  the  occasion  of  the  California  Polo  and  Pony 
Racing  Association.  About  three  hundred  people 
went  down  from  San  Francisco  for  the  opening  meet 
and  these  were  augmented  by  the  regular  guests  and 
citizens  from  Monterey  and  the  officers  from  the 
Presidio.  Tom  Driscoll's  team — the  Whites — as 
they  are  known — carried  off  the  first  match  in  the 
Polo  contest.  The  "White"  team  is  composed  of 
such  crack  players  as  Walter  Hobart,  Mr.  Lawson, 
Mr.  Garland  and  Mr.  Driscoll.  The  track  is  said  to 
be  in  prime  condition.  On  Friday,  Saturday  and 
Sunday  of  next  week  the  same  ponies  and  the  same 
players  will  participate  at  the  Burlingame  meet. 
Special  trains  will  be  run  and  every  accommodation 
secured  for  those  who  attend,  and  all  indications 
point  to  as  successful  affair  as  that  held  at  Del 
Monte.  Late  trains  will  bring  San  Francisco  people 
home  at  a  reasonable  hour. 

The  California  Camera  Club  of  San  Francisco  will 
give  a  snow  outing  to  the  Sierras  at  Truckee  and 
Ltonner  Lake,  Saturday,  20th,  6  p.  m.,  to  Monday, 
February  22d,  6  p.  m.  There  certainly  can  be  no 
more  delightful  sport  at  this  time  of  year  than  a 
day  spent  amid  the  snow.     A  special   Pullman   car 


FOR  LENTEN  TEAS  we  have  an  endless 
variety  of  small  cakes,  at  40  to  60  cents 
a  pound.  P  WESTEHFELD  A  CO.. 
LOSE  Market  St..  S.  F.      Tel.  South  713. 


February  20.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


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will  l>o  chartered  for  the  occasion.  The  fare,  includ- 
ing Pullman  sleeper,  will  b  The  Sierras 
have  had  an  unusually  heavy  snow  fall  during  the 
storm,  and  iliis  outing  promises  \<<  be  a  grand 
trii>. 

Tickets  may  be  procured  from  II.  B.  Hosmer,  538 
Market  street,  »r  Miss  Voy,  at  the  chili. 

The  next  board  meeting  of  the  California  Inter- 
national Sunshine  Society  will  be  held  at  the  home 

of  the  State  President.  [622  (.'lay  street.  011  Thursday 

morning,  Februarj    18th.  at  eleven  o'clock.     Besides 

the  reading  of  reports  and  letters  from  various  parts 
of  the  country,  the  subject  will  be  discussed  as  to 
the  advisability  of  obtaining  a  room  or  rooms  for 
public  headquarters.  The  rapid  growth  of  the  work 
demands  such  a  place  if  funds  can  be  obtained.  Miss 
Cecile  Rogers,  who  has  just  been  appointed  to  the 
office  of  corresponding  secretary,  has  just  returned 
from  an  absence  of  five  years  spent  at  Leipsic.  Miss 
Meta  Stofen,  who  is  now  the  recording  secretary 
of  the  board,  is  the  business  secretary  of  the  Alden 
Club,  and  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  workers  in 
Sunshine. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  McCormack  have  announced 
the  marriage  of  their  daughter,  Genevieve  Claire,  to 
Mr.  John  F.  Sullivan,  on  Monday,  February  15,  1904. 
The  newly  married  couple  will  be  at  home  Tuesdays 
after  March  1st,  at  El  Monterey,  1224  Pine  street. 

A  RUN  ON  THE  BANKS  IN  THIS  CITY. 
For  the  last  few  days  there  has  been  a  run  on  the 
banks,  which  puzzled  bankers.  It  looked  like  the 
uncalled  for  run  they  had  on  the  Oakland  Bank.  By 
looking  into  the  matter,  the  bankers  found  out  that 
the  public  has  been  drawing  rather  heavy  to  buy  Fur- 
niture and  Carpets  at  the  big  RETIRING  SALE  of 
PATTOSIEN  COMPANY.  The  depositors  claim 
they  can  now  make  more  money  by  buying  carpets 
and  furniture  at  the  SALE  than  they  can  save  on  in- 
terest in  five  years. 

The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


When   you   get   your   fall   clothing   made,   also  make 

arrangements  to  have  it  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it,  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  if  well  cared  for.  They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  01  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


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A  SKin  of  Beauty  is  a  Joy  Forever. 

hR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 
OR  MAGICAL  BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freck- 
les, Moth  Patches,  Rash  and 
Skin  Diseases,  and  every  blem- 
ish on  beauty,  and  defies  detec- 
tion. It  has  stood  the  test  of 
K6  years,  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladies  will 
use  them,  I  recommend  'Gour- 
aud's  Cream'  as  the  least  harm- 
ful of  all  the  skin  preparations.'' 
For  sale  by  all  druggists  and 
fancy-goods  dealers  in  the 
United  States,  Canadas  and  Eu- 
rope. 

FF.RI).  T.  HOPKINS,  Prop. 
37  Great  Jones  St.,  New  York. 


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Ever  since  the  opening  of  the  GREAT  RETIR- 
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the  store  has  been  continually  crowded  with 
Bargain  Seekers,  fitting  out  their  lovely  homes. 
It  is  a  positive  fact  that  out  of  every  Hundred 
Dollars'  worth  of  Furniture,  Carpets  and  Dra- 
peries bought  now  at  the  big  sale,  Forty  Dollars 
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Here's  an  episode  in  rhyme, 
(Most  appropriate  to  our  time), 

Of   an   Oakland   judge   that's   somewhat   of  an   ass, 
With  a  criminal  before  him. 
Said  the  judge  as  he  looked  o'er  him, 

"You're  a  member  of  the  law-abiding  class." 

Well,  not  exactly  that; 

But  he  said  right  plain  and  pat 
He  was  not  of  those  called  "criminal"  by  name, 

But   he   doubtless   stole   the   money, 

And  his  moral  code  was  funny. 
So  he  sent  him  to  San  Quentin  just  the  same. 

More  breach  of  trust  and  embezzlement :  This 
time  a  man  whose  natural  strength  of  character  has 
led  to  his  promotion  to  a  good  position  in  the  business 
world  and  a  captaincy  in  the  National  Guard.  Much 
pity  will  be  wasted  on  Ballinger,  but  the  time  has 
come  when  these  constant  breaches  of  trust  are  a 
menace  to  the  stability  of  business  life  and  an  un- 
mistakable detriment  to  public  morals.  There  is 
something  very  rotten  somewhere.  Of  course,  the 
first  instinct  is  to  cry  out  for  severe  punishment 
upon  the  offenders,  and  they  should  be  severely  pun- 
ished, but  will  that  stop  the  condition  of  things? 
Suppose  McKowen  had  got  the  ten  years  which 
the  law  imposes  in  such  cases,  would  it  have  been 
any  real  deterrent  to  others?  It  is  true  that  seven 
years,  really  not  five,  appears  a  ridiculously  small 
penalty,  in  view  of  the  enormity  of  the  offense,  but 
would  the  additional  years  have  done  any  real  good  ? 
The  fact  is,  we  have  lost  our  heads  in  the  money 
scramble  and  the  dishonesty  of  some  of  our  firms 
has  its  effect  upon  the  morals  of  the  subordinate. 
One  Eppinger  makes  numbers  of  Ballingers. 

"The  pulpit,  drum  ecclesiastic"  is  being  beaten 
again.  It  is  wonderful  how  bellicose  our  parsons 
are.  Here  is  the  Reverend  William  Rader  giving 
reasons  why  America  should  not  favor  Russia.  Can 
we  not  escape  politics  even  in  church  ?  Are  our  min- 
isters of  State  so  incapable  that  the  ministers  of 
religion  must  come  to  their  assistance?  We  go  to 
church  for  quiet  and  thoughtful  contemplation  of 
matters  removed  from  the  din  and  discord  of  the 
street,  and  are  treated  to  an  amateur  discussion  of 
international  politics.  Will  the  clergy  never  learn 
that  the  occupation  of  a  pulpit  is  no  proof  of  om- 
niscience, and  that  such  minor  matters  as  economics, 
jurisprudence  and  diplomacy  require  a  certain 
amount  of  specialized  study? 

The  legal  authorities  in  Oakland  should  now  be 
satisfied,  seeing  that  Mrs.  Lindblom  fainted  on  the 
stand.  Inhabitants  of  wild  and  barbarous  districts 
are  inclined  to  torture  their  prisoners.  The  method 
of  procedure  favored  by  this  particular  tribe  seems 
to  consist  in  catching  a  female  prisoner  in  her  own 
bathroom,  and  then  teasing  her  into  unconsciousness. 
Incidentally,  a  recent  occurrence  in  the  same  town 
shows  that  it  is  not  safe  to  indulge  in  epileptic  fits 
within  the  city  limits,  for  you  may  be  robbed. 
Above  all  things,  however,  it  must  be  borne 
in  mind  that  Oakland,  having  too  many  writers 
within  its  borders,  local  authors  are  forbidden  the 
right  of  self-defense. 


There  is  no  such  a  thing  as  decent  reticence  in  the 
daily  press.  We  are  informed  with  all  manner  of 
embroidered  description  that  the  miserable  murderer 
Labrousse  cries  incessantly.  Not  a  sob  or  sigh  is 
spared  to  our  gaze,  our  feelings  are  lacerated  and 
our  tranquility  disturbed  by  the  gratuitous  inflic- 
tion upon  us  of  the  physical  infirmities  of  this  in- 
dividual. The  scavenger  work  of  society  must  be 
done,  and  there  are  officials,  from  the  Coroner  to  the 
hangman,  who  are  well  paid  to  do  it,  but  why  the 
press  should  insist  on  unloading  all  the  filth  upon 
our  breakfast  tables  is  one  of  those  incomprehensible 
mysteries  which  only  the  brain  of  a  managing  editor 
can  grasp. 

The  co-eds.  of  the  State  University  furnish  a  very 
good  instance  of  the  feminine  estimation  of  the  mas- 
culine appetite.  They  taxed  themselves  fifteen  cents 
each  for  the  lunch  which  they  gave  to  the  mere  men. 
Suppose  each  co-ed.  imagined  that  she  was  providing 
for  a  particular  male  student ;  otherwise  there  would 
have  been  no  fun  in  the  proceeding,  she  considered 
that  fifteen  cents  represented  his  lunching  capacity. 
That  accounts  for  the  worn  look  on  the  faces  of  the 
male  commuters.  Everybody  knows  that  the  Oak- 
lander  is  obliged  to  turn  his  pockets  out  every  even- 
ing, and  life  is  a  constant  struggle  between  lunch 
and  the  slot  machine. 

The  ranch  swindle  proposition  is  up  again.  Last 
week  I  called  attention  to  the  schemes  by  which 
young  Englishmen  are  brought  here  and  victimized. 
In  face  of  the  numerous  examples,  one  almost  feels 
inclined  to  say:  "Serves  them  right."  They  cannot 
seem  to  believe  that  work  is  worth  having  unless 
they  pay  for  it.  Lots  of  them  in  Canada  are  paying 
five  hundred  dollars  a  year  for  the  privilege  of  work- 
ing as  farm  hands.  For  a  successful  people,  they  are 
remarkably  slow  to  learn.  The  worst  of  it  is  that 
most  of  these  young  fellows  are  the  sons  of  clergy- 
men and  professional  men  who  can  ill  afford  the 
money. 

L.  F.  B.  Goodrich,  who  embezzled  a  gasoline 
launch,  appears  to  be  rather  a  doer  of  good  deeds 
than  a  criminal.  The  Supreme  Court  sententiously 
repeats  the  legal  definition  that  embezzlement  is 
the  conversion  of  other  people's  property.  If  any- 
thing is  in  greater  need  of  conversion  than  the  or- 
dinary gasoline  launch,  I  should  like  to  see  it.  It 
is  to  be  hoped  that  the  imprisoned  missionary,  when 
he  comes  out  will  not  give  up  the  good  work,  but  will 
forthwith  turn  his  attention  to  the  gasoline  motor 
car. 

There  is  already  some  lively  investment  in  contra- 
band of  war.  Collector  Stratton  allows  ships  to  clear 
at  their  own  risk,  and  this  is  in  accordance  with  the 
policy  pursued  at  Vancouver.  The  delight  consists 
not  only  in  the  profit  but  in  the  gambling.  Many  a 
staid  old  baldhead,  who  shudders  at  cards  and  fancies 
the  Stock  Exchange  wicked,  will  have  a  try  at  pork, 
beef  or  flour  for  the  war.  The  sport  might  almost 
tempt  a  Quaker,  were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  Japan- 
ese cruisers  are  not  easy  to  dodge. 

I  notice  that  repeated  attacks  upon  amateur  sport 
are  being  made,  and  that  the  Olympic  Club  so  far 
has  been  able  to  maintain  a  fair  standard.  Greer  Har- 
rison has  about  as  good  an  idea  of  what  constitutes 
sport  as  any  man  alive.  Unfortunately  he  also  has 
the  idea  that  he  is  a  judge  of  literature.  On  that 
proposition  I  side  with  Ambrose  Bierce. 

Is  it  not  a  little  indecent  to  describe  the  results 
of  Professor  Loeb's  experiments  in  fertilizing  eggs 
as  "the  practical  bearing  of  scientific  theory?" 


February  20,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»3 


An  Objection  to  Tourist  Travers 


Editor  News  Letter — How  much  longer,  may  I 
ask,  do  you  intend  to  inflict  the  babblings  "f  Mr. 
Fernauld  Travers  upon  your  patient  and  long-suffer- 
ing  readers? 

Granted  that  there  is  some  foundation  for  the 
criticisms  he  makes  on  our  manners  and  methods, 
we  do  not  care  for  this  "seeing  ourselves  as  others — 
especially  tourists — see  us"  literature  for  our  Sunday 
reading.  Plain  speech  and  "frankness  for  your  own 
good"  is  a  dangerous  thing,  but  "Fools  rush  in" — 
you  know ;  and  one  could  hardly  call  Mr.  Travers  an 
"angel,"  could  one? 

If,  as  he  persistently  tells  us,  he  is  accustomed  to 
the  elegancies  and  refinements  of  life,  which  he  does 
not  find  here,  why  does  he  not  return  to  his  native 
land  and  enjoy  its  "halls  and  ancestral  homes." 

Who  is  he,  and  what  is  he,  that  he  should  foist 
his  personal  opinions  upon  us?  Such  a  stickler  for 
good  form  should  know  that  a  constant  use  of  the 
first  personal  pronoun  is  extremely  bad  form.  Also, 
while  on  the  point  of  diction,  in  what  hall  or  ances- 
tral home  does  one  learn  a  servant  his  duties.  Not  be- 
ing entirely  unfamiliar  with  the  aforesaid  halls  and 
homes,  I  can  state  with  authority  that  English  ser- 
vants are  taught,  not  learned.  Trades-people  may 
learn  their  clerks — I  do  not  know  the  custom  prevail- 
ing among  that  class. 

His  arrogant  presumption  in  telling  us  we  are  all 
wrong,  according  to  his  ideas,  would  indicate  Eng- 
land for  his  birthplace.  It  takes  an  Englishman  to 
be  thoroughly  satisfied  with  all  that  appertains  to 
himself,  and  furthermore  to  sit  in  judgment  on  the 
rest  of  the  world  not  so  favored  as  he  in  being  born 
in  the  "tight  little  island." 

May  one  inquire,  if  the  question  is  not  too  awk- 
ward, why  the  gentleman  remains  in  a  city  where  his 
feelings  are  so  constantly  lacerated  by  our  crudity 
of  manners?  How  San  Francisco  looks  to  him  is  not 
at  all  interesting  to  us.  Does  he  know  of  the  un- 
written law  which  makes  it  a  breach  of  good  manners 
to  criticise  where  one  has  received  hospitality;  even 
if  no  names  are  mentioned? 

If  "beefsteak"  for  dinner  is  so  unpardonable,  ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Travers's  ideas,  he  probably  has  never 
enjoyed  the  privilege  of  dining  in  that  exclusive  lit- 
tle place  on  Fleet  street,  down  by  the  Strand,  where 
a  sirloin  and  tankard  of  ale  is  considered  the  thing, 
even  for  titled  personages. 

Bah !  Mr.  Tourist  Travers,  we've  had  enough 
of  your  views  of  San  Francisco.  They  bore  us  ex- 
tremely. We  can  dispense  with  your  valuable 
society,  even  for  six  months  of  the  year,  and  I  am 
sure  the  benefit  therefrom  would  be  mutual. 

Good-bye,  Mr.  Travers.  I  trust  the  editor  will  see 
to  it  that  it  is  not  au  revoir.  — Resident. 


One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

good  luncheon.  There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  and  refreshment  after 
the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
ice-cream  and  pastry — always  the  hest,  and  their  prompt- 
ness can  be  depended  upon. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

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guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
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among  the  best  people,  go  to  Techau  Tavern,  which  is  sec- 
ond to  no  restaurant  in  San  Francisco.    It  is  the  favorite  t 
after-the-theatre  resort,  and  deserves  its  fine  reputation. 


Orange  Judd's  Opinion  of  Dr.  Oneal. 

"The  editor  of  the  Orange  Judd  Fanner  has  just  received  a  copy  of 
Dr  Oren  Oneal's  new  book— 24th  edition— entitled  Eye  Diseases 
Cured  Without  Surgery."  It  is  printed  in  colors,  containing  new 
pictures  oi  the  doctor  and  much  valuable  information  regarding  the 
care  of  the  eyes,  diet,  exercises,  baths,  etc.  Dr.  Oneal  writes  us  that 
he  will  be  pleased  to  send  this  book  free  of  charge  to  any  reader  of  our 
>aper  who  is  interested  enough  to  write  for  it.  A  postal  card  will  do. 
if  you  or  any  of  your  frienus  have  any  form  of  eye  disease  or  trouble, 
the  book  will  be  interesting  and  a  valuable  aid.  The  doctor  will  also 
go  a  step  further  and  write  you  a  personal  letter  of  advice,  entirely  free 
of  charge,  if  you  will  write  him  a  history  of  your  case  in  your  own 
words  as  you  understand  it.  We  know  the  doctor  personally-  He  has 
been  advertising  in  our  columns  for  years,  and  we  can  vouch  lor  his 
entire  reliability.  Ordinarily  our  guarantee  would  cover  this  point, 
but  we  wish  to  state  for  the  satisfaction  of  any  who  are  m  doubt,  that 
we  have  never  had  a  single  complaint  regarding  Dr.  Oneal.  He  treats 
patients  all  over  he  world,  and  thousands  of  our  readers  have  placed 
their  cases  in  his  hands.  Of  course  he  does  not  guarantee  to  cure  all, 
but  he  always  fulfills  every  promise,  and  will  not  take  a  case  unless 
there  is  hope  of  benefiting  it  and  he  certainly  does  cure  when  others 
say  there  is  no  hope.  Write  for  the  book  to-day.  Dr.  Oren  Oneal.  buite 
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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

COLUMBIA— Warde  ami  James— Shakespearan  roles,  good. 
ORPHEUM— Highly  entertaining  vaudeville. 
CENTRAL— "Men  of  Jimtown"   Very  amusing. 
TLVOLI— Johnny  marches  himself  out  this  week.    Great  success. 
GRAND— Weherflelds— The  goose  has  stopped  laying. 
FISCHER'S— "Rolv-Poly"— Entertaining  good  houses. 
ALCAZAR— The  Charity  Ball— A  splendid  performance. 
CHUTES— The  best  of  the  year.    New  attractions  in  Zoo. 


The  fourth  matinee  of  the  "Paul  Gerson  School  of 
Acting."  at  the  California  Theatre,  was  a  great  suc- 
cess. There  was,  as  usual  on  such  occasions,  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  trepidation  and  hesitancy  among  the 
participants,  but,  on  the  whole,  the  performance,  as 
rendered,  was  a  highly  successful  and  creditable  one. 
Indeed,  it  may  be  said  that  some  of  the  young  as- 
pirants for  histrionic  laurels  displayed  a  talent  that 
was  superior  to  much  of  the  professional  ability  dis- 
played in  the  California  for  many  moons. 

The  programme  was  pleasantly  interspersed  with 
music  by  Bonelli's  orchestra  and  by  students  of  the 
same  master.  The  first  number,  as  an  introductory, 
was   by   the   mandolin   orchestra. 

Following  this  came  the  comedy  in  one  act.  by 
William  Dean  Howells,  "The  Mouse  Trap."  Miss 
Blanche  Marlin,  Miss  Marie  Thompson,  Miss  Helen 
Harrison.  Miss  Maud  Neil,  Miss  Maud  Baxter  and 
Miss  Beatrice  Magdalen  are  deserving  of  great  praise 
fur  their  conscientious  work.  Mr.  Campbell,  as 
portrayed  by  Mr.  Nat  Phillips,  was  a  good  piece  of 
work. 

*  *  * 

"The  Rightful  Heir,"  one  of  Lord  Lytton's  pro- 
ductions, claims  from  the  actor  an  extensive  power 
in  the  emotional  line,  and  was  well-nigh  impossible 
of  rendering  by  Miss  Decker  and  Mr  Phillips.  Mr. 
Phillips's  stature  is  against  him,  but  his  work  is 
good,  and  was  a  far  better  conception  of  the  charac- 
ter than  that  of  Lady  Beaufort,  by  Miss  Decker. 
This  character  was  entirely  beyond  the  young  lady. 

Little  Ruth  Schwab  was  unfortunate  enough  to  be 
cast  in  one  of  Harris'  songs,  "Always  in  the  Way," 
and  the  diminutive  little  lady  made  the  most  of  a 
very  mawkish  song. 

"The  Jade,"  by  Ada  Lee  Bascom,  was  an  improve- 
ment over  "The  Bacchante,"  and  the  stage  work  of 
the  Cerson  school  was  good  throughout.  The  par- 
ticipants were:  Mr.  Redmond  Flood.  Mr.  Ernest 
Llewellyn,  Mr.  Allen  Stanford,  Mr.  Victor  Ferran. 
Miss  Gladys   Gordon.   Miss   Anita   Murray. 

*  *  * 

It  was  a  triumph  for  the  Alcazar  Theatre  to  pos- 
sess a  company  of  ladies  and  gentlemen  that  could 
produce  so  good  a  performance  of  the  "Charity  Ball." 
Every  member  of  the  company  had  his  or  her  part 
of  the  play  letter-perfect  on  the  first  night.  Marie 
Howe  was  a  revelation.  She  carried  the  part  of  the 
Rector's  mother  to  perfection.  Luke  Conness,  as 
the  scheming  stockbroker,  finally  won  over  by  the 
entreaties  of  his  brother  (Mr.  Durkin).  carried  his 
part  exceedingly  well,  and  to  Miss  Frances  Starr 
all  praise  is  due  for  a  splendid  conception  of  the 
part  of  "Bess."  She  is  a  great  favorite  with  the 
audience,  and  they  are  indulgent,  but  once  awav 
from  the  Alcazar  she  will  meet  with  unmerciful  hand- 
ling by  critics.  She  has  a  few  mannerisms  she  should 
study  hard  to  curb.  Mr.  Durkin  invested  the  charac- 
ter of  John  Van  Buren,  the  rector,  with  a  repose  that 
even   Herbert  Kelcey  could  not  match.     Mr.   Harry 


Milliard's  "Alec.  Robinson"  was  good,  but  was  open 
in  places  to  the  same  criticism  we  have  indulged  our- 
selves in  before;  his  voice  has  at  times  a  note  of  in- 
sincerity that  jars  on  his  audiences.  Miss  Belgarde 
had  a  chance  to  display  her  beautiful  shoulders  and 
an  opportunity  to  show  a  very  clear  conception  of  the 
average  New  York  society  woman. 

*  *  * 

"Macbeth"  will  be  given  by  Warde  and  James  on 
Saturday  night  at  the  Columbia.  As  a  performance 
and  an  example  of  fine  acting,  the  Shakespearean 
revival  has  been  a  great  success,  but  the  audiences 
have  been  very  light.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  there 
will  be  an  improvement  in  the  last  days  of  the  en- 
gagement. 

"The  Men  of  Jimtown"  is  a  very  enjoyable  farce, 
as  given  at  the  Central,  and  is  a  relief  from  the 
drearv   monotony   of  the  preceding  plays. 

*  *  * 

"Johnny"  will  keep  right  on  marching  at  the 
Tivoli,  as  a  phenomenal  success,  until  the  29th  of  the 
Month.  Monday,  when  "The  Gypsy  Baron"  will  be 
put  on. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Grand,  Weber  &  Fields  still  continue  ex- 
tracting the  shekels  of  the  unwary,  through  the 
charm  of  the  superannuated  Russell  and  the  anti- 
quated jokes  of  imported  fat-headed  men  and  women. 
The  audiences  are  getting  thinner  and  the  receipts 
smaller  and  smaller. 

'  *  * 

"Roly  Poly"  goes  on  drawing  good  houses  at  Fis- 
cher's, and  it  is  a  credit  to  the  discernment  of  the 
San  Francisco  theatre-goers  that  it  was  not  neces- 
sary to  hit  them  with  a  club  to  make  them  realize 

that  the  show  at  Fischer's  is  a  good  one. 

*  *  * 

The  Kilties  are  coming,  and  they  will  show  up  at 
the  Alhambra  next  week. 

*  *  * 

The  Vassar  girls  at  the  Orpheum  have  been  the 
meat  of  the  show,  and  it  is  with  genuine  regret  the 
people  will  see  them  go.  There  are  two  numbers 
on  the  Orpheum  programme  that  fill  me  with  lassi- 
tude. One  is  "The  King  of  the  Bowery."  The  King 
should  join  Murray  &  Mack,  and  get  back  to  the 
Bowery  as  quick  as  the  trio  could  jump  the  ties.  The 
other  offending  attraction  is  Ziska  and  King.  There 
is  no  good  reason  why  they  should  ever  have  been 
allowed  to  destroy  crockery  which  might  have  been 
put  to  better  use. 

$  *  * 

In  musical  circles  the  farewell  concert  to  be  given 
at  Steinway  Hall  by  Donald  DeV.  Graham  is  the 
talk  of  the  town.  Society  is  sure  to  turn  out  and  give 
one  of  its  favorites  a  fine  send-off.  Lovers  of  music 
are  sure  to  have  a  treat.  The  concert  is  to  occur  on 
February  27th,  and  those  to  assist  Mr.  Graham  are 
Mesdames  Camille  D'Arville  and  Beauchard,  with 
Harry  Gillig,  and  Nathan  Landsberger  as  the  violin- 
ist. The  list  of  partonesses  ensures  a  magnificent 
array  of  gowns,  and  the  success  of  the  concert.  Mr. 
Donald  DeV.  Graham  goes  to  England  for  the 
purpose  of  settling  some  highly  important  family 
matters. 

*  *  * 

It  was  at  a  recent  performance  of  "A  Doll's  House" 
in  Brooklyn,  and  in  a  certain  quarter  of  the  theatre 


February  20,  1904. 


there  was  Mime  violent!}  persistent  applause  for  .1 
bil  of  particularly  bad  acting.  A  man  turned  a 
frowning  face  around  to  l'">k  curiously  at  the  center 
of  this  disturbance.  That  center  happened  to  be  i 
woman,  who.  replying  to  the  silent  reproof,  said 
with  a  snap  in  her  voice:  "Well.  I  i^ness  1  can  ap- 
plaud  mv  own  husband,  can't   1  :" 

*  *  * 

An  "all  star"  feature  hill  is  announced  at  the 
Chutes  this  coming  week,  all  of  the  acts  being  of  a 
high  order  of  merit.  Ziska  and  King,  renowned  ;i~ 
"the  magician  and  his  valet,"  will  make  their  first 
appearance  here,  as  will  also  Tippel  and  Klement, 
novelty  musical  comedians,  direct  from  New  York. 
The  Melnotte  Sisters,  stunning  singing  and  dancing 
soubrettes,  promise  to  create  a  sensation,  and  Irving 
Jones,  the  little  colored  man  who  writes  his  own 
songs,  will  appear  for  the  last  times. 

*  *  * 

There  should  be  intense  joy  in  the  select  circles 
that  patronize  the  Central.  There  will  be  a  real 
vacht  operated  on  the  front  of  the  stage,  and  "The 
King  of  the  Opium  Ring"  is  sure  to  be  a  success.  A 
steam  tug,  full  of  the  handy  officers  of  the  law,  will 
be   found   an   interesting  feature,   and  there  will   be 

smugglers  of  opium   and   "heathen    Chinee"   galore. 

*  *  * 

The  Pasmores  and  the  Brodea  Ladies'  Quartette 
will  give  a  souvenir  musicale  in  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  Auditorium  on  Monday  even- 
ing, under  the  auspices  of  the  Pi  Psi  Sigma  Club. 

Thomas  J.  Smith,  the  favorite  young  Irish  singing 
comedian,  in  his  new  drama,  "The  Game  Keeper," 
will  be  the  attraction  at  the  Grand  Opera  House 
the  week  beginning  next  Monday  matinee  (Washing- 
ton's birthday). 

*  *  * 

Lee  Errol  and  Al  Filson  will  present  Judson  Bru- 
sie's  "Black  Cat"  at  the  Orpheum  next  week,  and 
there  is  a  bushel  of  fun  promised.  George  Day, 
monologist,  will  convulse  the  audience,  and  there  is 

a  dearth  of  good  things  to  follow. 

*  *  # 

Leahy,  of  the  Tivoli  is  back  again,  and  he  prom- 
ises a  number  of  great  surprises  as  a  result  of  his 
efforts  during  the  coming  year.  "Mr.  Pickwick," 
based  on  Dickens'  masterpiece,  music  by  Manuel 
Klein,  words  by  Charles  Klein,  and  lyrics  by  Grant 
Stewart,  will  be  the  first  of  these  novelties  to  be 
given.      "Mr.    Pickwick"    will    fdllow    "The    Gypsy 

Baron." 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  most  successful  farce  comedies  ever 
written,  "The  Wrong  Mr.  Wright,"  by  George  H. 
Broadhurst,  will  have  its  first  production  at  the  Al- 
cazar next  week.  The  opening  performance  will  be 
at  the  special  matinee  on  Washington's  birthday. 

*  *  * 

"The  Rounders,"  the  greatest  success  that  the  Ca- 
sino in  New  York  City  ever  experienced,  will  be  the 
musical  comedy  to  follow  "Roly  Poly"  when  that 
piece  is  taken  off  at  Fischer's  Theatre. 

The  attraction  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  for  the 
two  weeks  commencing  next  Monday  night,  Febru- 
ary 22d,  will  be  the  famous  author-actor,  Denman 
Thompson,  in  his  celebrated  rural  drama,  "The  Old 
Homestead."  This  is  the  eighteenth  annual  tour  of 
the  play. 

One  of  the  safest  and  besr  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Begulator.  Itis  an  excellent  alterative  and  tome 
to  the  digestive  organs-  For  sale  by  Leipmtz  &  Co.  N.  E.  Cor,  Sutter 
and  Grant  Ave- 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 

Grand  Opera  House 


«s 


Weok  befflnnlna  mntlnoo  HomlAy  I  Washington's  Birthday  I 

Tin-  7' mi  hi:  singing  Irish nodlan 


ThOMHS    cJ. 


SMITH 
beautiful 


\n. 1  ..  companj  of  ixoal  ability  in  th<- 
dtmma 

THE    GAME    KEEPER 

A  touch  <>f  oal  are.    Regular  matinee  snt unlay. 
1  Baal  popular  prta 


rish  comedy 


Fischer's    Theatre 


Was  it  ;m  emphatfo  success? 

Sou  would  acr.f  if  you  had  seen  the  crow-In. 

Packed  :ti  <-very  perionnanoe 

ROL.Y     POLY 

A  witty,  beautiful  niiiMcal  i-omody. 
Magnificent  costumes  and  scenery,    our  "All  star' 
Special  matinee,  Monday,  Washington's  birthday - 
ttatlnees  Saturday  anil  Sunday.    36a  and  BOO. 


cast. 


Columbia  Theatre.  °'m""^^1„|m 

2  week.    Beginning  Monday,  Feb.  22.    Matinee  Saturday  only. 

DENMAN    THOMPSON 

Uiim.self.)  in  the  greatest  of  all  rural  dramas 

THE    OLD    HOMESTEAD 

Mr.  Thompson  positively  appearing  at  every  performance  dur- 
ing this,  his  farewell  tour. 
Watch  for  "THE    SILVER    SLIPPER" 


KSl  \Jl  1CUI1).     o'Farrell  St..  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  Feb.  21, 
(Special  Matinee  Washington's  Birthday.) 

LOOK   AT   THE    NAMES 

Filson  and  Errol ;  Eddie  Girard  and  Jessie  Gardner;  Geo.  W. 
Day;  Morris  and  Bowen;  Werner- Amoros  Troupe;  Harry 
Thomson;  Orpheum  Moving  Pictures  and  Last  week  of  the 


EIGHT 


VASSAR 

Specutacular 


GIRLS 

Musical  Novelty  Extant 


The    Most  Pretentious 

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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


Sad  is  our  Lenten  fast,  indeed, 

And  laid  aside  our  winter  pleasure, 

We  mar  our  joys,  reduce  our  feed, 

Our  purses  gape  for  heavenly  treasure. 

We've  nothing  left  but  golf  and  such, 
And  scandal,  as  we  sit  and  tea  stir, 

When  self-denial  irks  too  much 

We  plan  some  madder  pranks  for  Easter. 
*  *  * 

Good  stories  drift  up  from  the  Police  Courts  oc- 
casionally. A  practitioner  told  me  one  the  other 
day,  in  which  those  famous  jurists.  Judge  Joachimsen 
and  Judge  Treadwell  were  the  moving  figures.  Both 
have  now  been  retired  to  private  life  by  a  long-suf- 
fering public,  but  at  the  time  of  which  T  write  Joach- 
imsen  was  on  the  bench,  and  Treadwell  was  pleading 
before  him  in  behalf  of  a  hot-tempered  and  hard- 
fisted  politician  who  bad  knocked  out  another  man 
who  had  called  him  a  vile  name. 

The  testimony  showed  that  the  complainant  had 
gone  around  town  for  two  months  applying  to  the 
politician  every  vile  epithet  to  be  found  in  an  exten- 
sive vocabulary  of  cuss  words. 

"And  when  my  offended  client  met  this  man,"  said 
Treadwell,  "he  could  no  longer  restrain  himself  un- 
der this  torrent  of  abuse.  This  prosecuting  witness 
called  my  client  a  name  which  in  this  Western  coun- 
try can  be  resented  only  by  violence.  He  reflected 
upon    my   client's   ancestry." 

"Oh.  tush,  tush,"  Joachimsen  interrupted,  "your 
client  had  no  right  to  take  the  law  into  his  own 
bands.  Every  citizen  must  respect  the  law.  I  see 
no  good  excuse  for  this  assault." 

"I  should  like  to  argue  the  matter,"  said  Tread- 
well. 

"Proceed,"  said  the  court. 

"Your  Honor,"  said  Treadwell,  "you  are  a  low- 
down  blankety-blank,"  and  Treadwell  poured  forth 
enough  violent  language  to  warrant  wholesale  man- 
slaughter. 

"What's  that!  What's  that!"  Joachimsen  yelled, 
white  with  rage  and  horror.  "Mr.  Bailiff,  restrain 
that  man!  Put  him  in  irons!  Take  him  below! 
Never  heard  of  such  an  outrage!  To  assault  the 
court  in  this  manner  is  infamous,  sir!  Infamous, 
sir!" 

The  bailiff  and  several  policemen  rushed  at  Tread- 
well, but  he  calmly  stood  his  ground. 

"Your  Honor,"  he  said,  "I  am  only  quoting  the 
words  used  by  this  prosecuting  witness  in  traducing 
my  client.  Though  the}'  were  not  addressed  to  you, 
even  you,  seated  calmly  upon  the  bench ;  you,  a 
man  of  even  judicial  temperament,  not  given  to  vio- 
lence— even  you,  I  say,  become  indignant  at  hearing 
them,  and  lose  your  usual  self-control.  There  seems 
to  be,  even  in  your  mind,  some  provocation  in  these 
words.  Was  there  no  provocation,  then,  when  my 
client  was  thus  addressed?  What  did  he  do?  He 
knocked  down  the  man  who  had  thus  assailed  him. 
It  was,  sir,  a  justifiable  act,  sir.  You  would  have 
done  the  same,  Your  Honor.  I  ask  the  case  be  dis- 
missed." 

"Hum !  Hum !"  the  Judge  murmured,  as  he  en- 
deavored to  regain  a  dignified  composure.  "Yes, 
there  seems  to  have  been  considerable  provocation. 
The  case  is  dismissed." 

A  week  later  Charley  Ackerman  told  Joachimsen 
that  Treadwell  had  bet  a  Spanish  dinner  for  a  dozen 


that  he  would  call  Joachimsen  a  vile  name  in  open 
court  and  the  judge  would  not  resent  it. 

"I  paid  for  the  dinner."  said  Ackerman. 

But  Judge  Joachimsen  got  even — and  that  is  an- 
other storv. 

*  *  * 

Some  months  later,  Treadwell  appeared  in  Joach- 
imsen's  court  as  attorney  for  a  man  against  whom 
the  police  had  placecl  three  charges,  all  arising  out 
of  the  same  set  of  circumstances.  The  testimony  in 
the  three  cases  was  the  same.  Treadwell  won  two 
of  the  cases,  and  was  addressing  the  jury  in  the  third 
case.  He  was  arguing-  that  his  client  had  been  once 
in  jeopardy,  that  it  was  improper  to  place  him  a 
third  time  on  trial,  after  he  had  been  twice  acquitted 
on  the  same  testimony,  and  that  the  placing  of  the 
third  charge  against  him  was  malicious. 

"Why,  gentlemen,"  said  Treadwell,  "these  three 
cases,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  are  all  the  same  cases 
masquerading  under  different  names.  To  illustrate: 
If  I  should  take  a  monkey,  gentlemen,  and  dress  him 
in  children's  clothes,  his  appearance  might  be  some- 
what changed,  but  he  would  remain  a  monkey,  gen- 
tlemen ;  he  would  remain  a  monkey.  To  again  illus- 
trate:  If  His  Honor,  gentlemen,  should  remove  from 
his  head  that  skull  cap  which  now  adorns  his  dome 
of  thought,  and  put  on  instead  a  tall  silk  hat,  why, 
what  would  remain,  gentlemen,  what  would  remain?" 

"Stop!  Stop!"  Joachimsen  interrupted,  "not  a 
monkey,  sir;  not  a  monkey,  sir.  You  are  insolent, 
sir!" 

"But  you  anticipate,  Your  Honor,"  Treadwell  pro- 
tested.    "I  was  about  to  say " 

"A  monkey,  sir,  a  monkey,  sir,"  Joachimsen 
shouted.  "I  do  not  anticipate.  You  are  insolent,  sir. 
I  fine  you  $100  for  contempt  of  court.  Mr.  Bailiff, 
take  him  away." 

And  Treadwell  was  sent  below,  the  while  the  ruf- 
fled court  removed  the  skull  cap,  rubbed  his  shining 
poll,  and  mused:  "A  monkey,  hey.  I'll  show  him 
this  time.  He  can  eat  all  the  Spanish  dinners  he 
wants  down  in  the  city  prison." 
'*  *  * 

Addison  Mdzner  has  been  at  it  again.  Addie  has 
made  up  his  massive  mind  to  show  an  admiring  pub- 
lic that  San  Francisco  can  produce  just  as  big  a 
clown  as  any  of  the  monkey  trainers  of  the  effete 
East.  He  will  probably  succeed,  for  his  mass  of 
foolishness  tips  the  scales  at  about  300  pounds.     He 


The    Oldest     and     Best 
Known  Brand 

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=  J.  J.  MEDER  &    ZOON 


I^Ajsm^m. 


Imported  into  the  TJ.  6.  since  1819 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


February  20.  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


attired  this  perambulating  mountain  of  flesh  in  the 
latest  style,  down  at  Santa  Barbara,  the  other  day, 
and  then,  on  a  l<ct.  jumped  into  a  tank,  fully  attired! 
<  >f  curse  the  tank  overflowed,  and  Addie  liv< 
boast  of  his  feat.  Unfortunately  he  can't  sink  in 
salt  water. 

*  *  * 

Billy  Foote  was  the  last  of  that  group  of  Demo- 
cratic politicians  who  were  known  some  years  ago 
as  the  "olrl  Hills."  Among  them  were  Bill  English, 
who  has  passed  away:  Warren  English,  Foote.  Mike 
Tarpey.  and  other  residents  of  Alameda  County, 
who  had  much  to  do  with  shaping  the  destinies 
■  if  their  party  in  the  years  agone,  when  that  party 
had  a  destiny  which  could  lie  shaped.  English  was 
For  a  long  time  chairman  of  the  Democratic  State 
Central  Committee;  Foote.  as  Railroad  Commis- 
sioner twenty  years  ago  added  much  to  the  strength 
of  the  Democracy:  Tarpey  was  close  up  "to"  Uncle 
George  Hearst,  and  was  possessed  of  a  forceful  per- 
sonality which  caused  things  to  be  done  when 
there  was  a  possibility  of  accomplishment.  That 
was  all  long  ago,  before  Jim  Budd  came  down  from 
Stockton  with  the  glad  hand  and  the  ability  to  an- 
nex a  fortune,  before  Lane  was  even  heard  of:  be- 
fore McNab  had  come  out  from  behind  the  desk  at 
the  Occidental  Hotel;  before  that  gilded  political 
brick,  Charles  Wesley  Reed,  had  scraped  the  mud 
of  the  prune  orchard  from  his  clothes,  and  discovered 
that,  after  all,  he  was  a  false  alarm;  it  was  before 
the  Examiner,  by  false  cues,  had  led  the  Old  Guard 
out  into  the  wilderness,  and  left  the  remnants  of  the 
forces  that  once  marched  behind  the  banners  of  Jef- 
ferson to  the  Braunharts,  the  Brandensteins,  the 
Poppers,  the  Godchauxs  and  the  D'Anconas. 

Eoote  was  one  of  the  fighting  men  in  his  day.  Pug- 
nacity was  his  chief  characteristic.  He  came  hon- 
estly by  it,  for  he  was  a  veteran  of  the  Rebellion  in 
his  twentieth  year.  He  never  forgot  the  stirring  days 
of  his  boyhood,  and  he  fought  to  the  finish. 

*  *  * 

Carter  Harrison,  Mayor  of  Chicago,  had  an  arti- 
cle in  an  Eastern  publication,  recently,  on  municipal 
"four  flushing,"  meaning  thereby  the  manner  in 
which  City  Councilmen  and  Supervisors  deceive  the 
public  by  playing  to  the  galleries.  Harrison  tells  of 
many  Chicago  ordinances  which  were  never  meant 
to  be  enforced,  and  never  are  enforced.  The  same 
tale  might  be  told  of  our  local  laws.  The  Super- 
visors are  just  now  "four  flushing"  in  Chinatown. 
That  place  has  been  a  plague  spot  for  two  decades, 
yet  the  Supervisors,  instead  of  making  the  property 
owners  clean  it  up,  are  spending  the  city's  money 
and  four  flushing  in  the  game  of  making  the  public 
believe  they  are  genuine  life  savers.  The  anti-ex- 
pectoration ordinance  is  a  good  thing  in  itself,  but 
the  Supervisors  were  four  flushing  when  they  passed 
it.  So  with  the  ordinances  regulating  the  height  of 
awnings,  prohibiting  the  washing  of  steps  or  side- 
walks except  between  certain  hours,  ordering  that 
waiting  horses  should  be  tied  to  rings  or  posts,  and 
a  dozen  others.  Just  now  the  popular  game  is  bait- 
ing the  gas  and  water  companies.  Just  watch  the 
leaders  of  the  majority  in  the  Board  do  their  great 
four  flushing  act. 

*  *  * 

Harriet  Floyd  Gopchevitch  was  ever  of  an  eccen- 
tric nature.  Those  who  knew  her  as  a  girl,  while  as- 
tonished by  her  marriage  to  the  gripman,  yet  said : 
"Well,  it  was  characteristic  of  her."  Hers  was  a 
brief  story  and  a  sad  one.  With  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands at  her  command,  and  in  her  own  right;  with 
all  the  benefits  of  education  and  travel;  with  a  luxu- 


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rioiis  home  and  the  entree  into  good  society,  she  fell 
in  love  with  a  Servian  who  Sent  his  cable' car  daily 
past  her  house.  She  waited  for  her  Milos,  rode  with 
him,  listened  to  loving  words  whispered  in  his  soft- 
esl  Servian  as  the  car  ran  through  the  fog  banks. 
Gopchevitch  said  he  was  a  prince  in  disguise;  that 
"lie  of  his  ancestors  helped  the  founder  of  the  Ser- 
vian monarchy  to  herd  swine,  and  was  ennobled 
after  the  swineherd  had  fought  his  way  to  the  throne. 
His  sweetheart  believed  the  tale,  and  three  months 
ago  they  were  married.  The  eccentric  woman  was 
buried  from  the  Russian  cathedral  last  week.  Gop- 
chevitch, who  was  working  for  twenty-five  cents  an 
hour  this  time  last  year,  is  now,  by  his  wife's  bounty, 
heir  to  a  life  estate  in  her  properties  worth  $2,500  a 
month.  To  her  cousins  and  aunts  she  left  old  pistols 
and  other  curios  and  a  few  hundred  dollars;  to  a 
school  girl  friend  she  bequeathed  $10,000  and  the 
Sacramento-street  house,  but  to  the  cable-car  Prince 
his  loving  wife  left  an  income  of  $30,000  a  year.  The 
Gopchevitches  are  well  known  in  the  Servian  colony. 
Ten  years  ago  the  "Prince's"  older  brother  was  in 
daily  trouble  here  on  account  of  the  many  feuds 
having  their  origin  in  the  rows  over  the  Russian 
cathedral.  The  elder  Gopchevitch  was  a  fighter,  and 
he  has  left  his  mark  on  more  than  one  of  his  enemies. 
Bozo  Radovitch,  the  liquor  dealer,  knows  him  well. 

*  *  * 

John  P.  Young,  of  the  Chronicle,  is  off  to  Europe. 
He  has  earned  a  long  vacation.  Last  week,  in  an 
auction  house  on  Sutter  street,  3,000  books  that  he 
had  collected  during  the  past  twenty  years,  were 
sold  under  the  hammer.  To  one  who  has  followed 
Young's  editorials  on  the  money  question,  the  mass 
of  literature  on  financial  problems  that  appeared  in 
the  auction  catalogue  proved  interesting.  You  know 
ten  years  ago  Young  was  a  staunch  silver  man,  and 
he  wrote  some  of  the  best  literature  published  in  ad- 
vocacy of  the  white  metal.  But  when  the  Republi- 
can platform  came  down  solid  on  a  sound  money 
basis,  he  reached  the  conclusion,  as  he  afterward 
expressed  it,  that  he  had  once  lapsed  "under  the  hal- 
lucination that  tampering  with  the  money  standard 
brings  great  evils  in  its  train."  Therefore,  when  he 
started  on  his  vacation  he  sold  his  books. 

*  *  * 

It  was  stated  in  last  week's  News  Letter  that  Mr. 
Burrell  G.  White  accompanied  the  late  Thomas  J. 
Clunie  to  the  Santa  Cruz  Mountains  as  friend  and 
attendant.  This  seems  to  have  been  a  mis-statement, 
as  the  following  letter  will  explain : 

"Editor  News  Letter — In  the  last  number  of  the 
News  Letter  I  am  credited  with  a  trip  to  the  Santa 
Cruz  Mountains  in  1898  as  'friend,  nurse  and  at- 
tendant' to  my  late  friend,  Thomas  J.  Clunie.  That 
is  an  outing  which  I  missed.  I  did  not  accompany 
him  on  any  such  trip.  I  had  not  even  met  him  at  that 
time,  nor  have  I  since  been  reduced  to  an  attendant's 
position — but  thanks  for  the  advertisement.  Un- 
derstand, however,  that  I  shall  not  pay  for  it. 

In  seriousness,  though,  I  should  like  you  to  cor- 
rect the  statement.  I  have  told  many  people  that  I 
knew  nothing  of  the  adopted  son  until  after  General 
Clunie's  death,  and  they,  seeing  the  article  above 
referred  to,  will  believe  that  I  am  either  a  fool  or  a 
liar.  I  may  be  either  or  both,  but  there  is  no  urgent 
occasion  for  the  determination  of  that  question  at 
the  present  time. 

Very  truly  yours, 
BURRELL  G.  WHITE." 


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SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


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Insurance 


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The  News  Letter  expressed  an  opinion  in  last 
week's  number  that  the  Baltimore  fire  would  not 
create  any  disaster  among  the  insurance  companies 
involved  other  than  the  .Maryland  companies.  It 
was  to  be  expected  that  those  being  local  organiza- 
tions, and  of  small  calibre,  would  have  larger  lines 
at  risk  in  their  own  bailiwick  than  would  be  taken 
by  outside  companies  of  the  same  financial  strength. 
Events  have  proven  this  to  be  true.  An  Associated 
Press  Despatch  from  Baltimore,  under  date  of  the 
15th.  announces  that  a  receiver  has  been  appointed 
for  the  Peabody  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  Bal- 
timore— losses  $700,000.  This  was  a  22-calibre  af- 
fair, having  total  assets  of  but  $304,687.  The  same 
despatch  announces  that  the  Firemens  of  Baltimore 
was  also  an  applicant  for  the  shelter  of  the  protect- 
ing arms  of  the  usually  friendly  receiver.  The  ap- 
plication was  not  granted,  but  is  to  be  adjudicated 
on  the  22d.  Now  the  case  of  the  Firemens  is  dis- 
tinctly different  to  that  of  the  Peabody,  although  the 
same  theory  of  overloading  in  a  company's  native 
town  still  follows.  The  Firemens  had  gross  assets 
of  $1,240,366.  That  amount  was  understood  to  be  be- 
hind the  insurance  policies  issued  by  the  company. 
It  had  a  cash  capital  of  $400,000,  and  it  looks  to  a 
man  up  a  tree  that  the  application  for  a  receiver  is 
made  to  save  this  part  of  the  million  and  a  quarter 
assets.  The  London  and  Liverpool  and  Globe  lose 
a  million,  and  it  is  hardly  in  reason  to  suppose  that 
the  Firemens  would  carry  as  much  in  a  congested 
district  as  would  a  company  like  the  London  and 
Liverpool  and  Globe.  If  it  did,  its  stockholders  de- 
serve to  pay  the  policyholders  for  their  foolishness ; 
if  it  did  not,  it  is  trusted  that  the  courts  will  see  to 
it  that  the  stockholders  pay  as  far  as  they  are  able. 
The  method  of  escaping  liability  by  the  receiver- 
ship route  should  not  be  made  too  easy.  The  assets 
of  the  Firemens  will  be  depleted  by  a  rapid  cancel- 
lation of  all  its  outstanding  insurance,  and  its  local 
office  here  was  promptly  made  a  run  on  for  cancel 
lations.  Then  followed  the  reassuring  telegram  of 
the  company's  president,  and  later  one  from  the 
secretary,  and  an  examination  of  the  detailed  state- 
ment lent  courage  to  the  opinion  that  the  Firemens 
would  weather  the  storm,  and  it  is  thought  now  that 
in  honesty  it  could  if  it  would.  The  origin  of  the 
fire  still  remains  a  mystery,  but  Maryland  is  a  State 
which  employs  a  Fire  .Marshal.  His  duties,  as 
defined  by  the  Act  of  1889,  of  the  Maryland  Legisla- 
ture, Chapter  248,  which  created  the  office,  are  to 
examine  into  the  causes,  circumstances  and  origin  of 
all  fires  occurring  in  the  State  to  which  his  attention 
may  be  called,  and  which,  in  his  judgment,  require 
examination,  and  it  may  be  that  he  will  develop  the 
cause  and  reveal  another  hazard  to  the  underwriters. 

*  *  * 

Up  to  this  writing  there  has  been  no  rumors  of  any 
other  than  Baltimore  companies  being  crippled; 
on  the  contrary,  a  nation  has  had  paraded  before  it 
such  an  aggregation  of  millions  for  the  security  of 
fire  insurance  contracts  as  was  never  placed  in  evi- 
dence before. 

*  *    * 

The  companies  represented  in  the  Stovel  agency 
have  come  through  the  fire  all  right,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  Firemens,  and  since  the  outside  business 


of  that  company  has  been  re-insured  in  the  Provi- 
dence-Washington and  the  Firemans  Fund,  the  only 
effect  on  the  agency  will  be  to  reduce  its  carrying  ca- 
pacity. It  is  safe  to  say  Mr.  Stovel  will  not  have 
much  difficulty  in  finding  another  company  to  re- 
place the  Firemens. 

*  *  * 

( )ne  satisfaction  to  all  Californians  is  the  fact  that 
the  Firemans  Fund  of  San  Francisco  was  among  the 
first  on  the  ash-pile  at  Baltimore,  following  the  same 
lines  that  it  pursued  in  the  conflagrations  of  Chicago, 
Virginia  City,  Nev.,  Boston,  Seattle  and  Spokane. 
All  names  to  be  remembered,  and  each  of  which  is  a 
laurel  leaf  of  solidity  and  a  jewel  of  public  confidence 
in  the  old  Firemans  Fund.  In  spite  of  passing 
through  all  these  conflagrations,  the  Fund  has  grown 
until  it  is  now  the  largest  American  company  west 
of  New  York — a  company  doing  a  national  business, 
with  its  home  office  in  San  Francisco,  with  assets 
of  about  $6,000,000,  and  a  net  surplus  of  $2,156,118. 
The  careful  underwriting  of  the  company  is  shown 
by  the  fact  that,  while  other  companies  with  less 
loss-paying  ability  are  involved  in  the  Baltimore 
fire  to  the  amount  of  a  million  or  more,  the  total 
loss  of  the  Firemans  Fund  in  that  great  conflagration 
will  not  exceed  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars. 

*  *  * 

Gordon  &  Frazer,  managers  of  the  Trader's,  glee- 
fully sent  out  a  circular,  of  which  the  following  is 
an  excerpt:  "The  Trader's  Insurance  Company  of 
Chicago's  losses  in  the  Baltimore  fire  were  $170,000. 
At  that  time  there  was  in  bank  $264,000  cash  ;  there- 
fore, it  was  not  necessary  to  sell  any  securities  to 
promptly  pay  their  losses.  The  company's  assets 
on  December  31,  1903,  were  $2,777,358.09,  an  increase 
of  nearly  $200,000  over  their  1902  statement,  and  its 
net  surplus  over  all  liabilities,  including  capital  stock, 

was  $1,079,462.61." 

*  *  * 

Cesar  Berthau,  manager  of  the  Aachen  and  Munich 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  published  to  his  policy- 
holders and  agents,  under  date  of  February  12th,  the 
receipt  of  the  following  cablegram  from  Aachen, 
Germany: 

"Bertheau,  San  Francisco:  Remitting  Baltimore 
loss  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  thousand  in  full,  leav- 
ing   American    funds    undisturbed." 

With  assets  of  $7,500,000  and  surplus  to  policy- 
holders of  $5,000,000,  the  Aachen  &  Munich  Fire 
Insurance  Companv  stands  among  the  leading  com- 
panies of  the  world,  and  its  policies  offer  to  its  pa- 
trons absolute  security  and  prompt  indemnity. 

*  *  * 

C.  H.  Ward,  manager  of  the  old  German  of  Free- 
port,  passed  a  few  pleasant  congratulations  around 
among  the  older  managers  of  the  street,  and  then 
produced  a  telegram  from  Mr.  William  Trembor, 
secretary  of  the  German  of  Freeport,  which  was  as 
follows : 

"C.  H.  Ward,  Manager,  No.  337  Pine  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. :  No  losses  in  Baltimore.  We  were 
just   preparing  to   enter    Maryland." 

The  German  has  assets  of  $4,910,606,  with  net  sur- 
plus of  $1,503,595.  Its  business  for  the  year  1903 
showed  an  increase  of  assets  of  $546,499.57;  an  in- 
crease in  re-insurance  reserve  of  $313,515.80;  an  in- 
crease in  net  surplus  of  $249,685.48,  and  it  has  since 
organization  paid  losses  to  January  1,  1904,  $17,- 
759W707. 

The  Home  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York 
has  evidently  not  thought  it  worth  while  to  issue  any 
circular  about  the  Baltimore  fire,  or  if  it  has,  it  has 


February  20,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


nut  reached  this  office.  It  relies  ""  its  well-known 
strength  of  $18,040,793,  with  a  surplus  to  policy- 
holders of  S-1.574.751.     This  is  enough   in  itself  to 

maintain  confidence. 

•  *  * 

Tin-  Ocean  Guaranty  and  Accident   [ns.  Co.,  the 

-t  liability  company  in  the  world,  i-  looking  over 
this  territory,  with  a  view  of  appointing-  an  agent. 
Mr.  Duncan  A.  Reed,  the  manager  of  the  company, 
has  been  soon  on  the  street  several  times  with  Mr. 
F.  B.  Lloyd,  and  if  it  is  his  intention  to  have  this 
gentleman  represent  the  company,  he  could  not  do 
hotter  it  he  tried.  Mr.  Lloyd  took  the  American 
Bonding  and  Indemnity  Company  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  last  year,  and  increased  the  business  too 
per  cent.  He  also  represents  the  Xew  Amsterdam 
anil  increased  their  business  to  $40,000. 

*  *  * 

The  M/aryland  Casualty  Company,  one  of  the 
strongest  accident  and  liability  companies  in  the 
world,  passed  through  the  great  Baltimore  conflagra- 
tion practically  unscathed,  and  afforded  a  striking 
illus*-ation  of  indomitable  energy  and  business  abil- 
ity. Although  the  home  office  was  reduced  to  ashes. 
the  securities  of  the  company  were  unharmed.  Busi- 
ness proceeded  without  a  single  day's  intermittence. 
and  plans  are  already  in  preparation  for  the  erection 
of  a  new  building,  which  will  be  ready  for  occupancy 
within  a  year.  The  Maryland  is  well-known  in  San 
Francisco,  and  its  accident  policies  have  the  reputa- 
tion of  being  the  most  liberal  issued.  Its  career  has 
been  marked  by  conservative  business  foresight  and 
unexcelled  executive  ability. 


NEWS    LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


19 


A  WASHINGTON'S   BIRTHDAY   OUTING. 

Many  will  take  advantage  of  the  extraordinary 
low  rate  offered  by  the  Southern  Pacific  railroad  to 
go  to  Monterey  on  Washington's  birthday.  The  ten 
dollar  rate  is  good  to  return  Monday  night,  and  in- 
cludes board  at  the  Hotel  Del  Monte.  These  tickets 
are  on  sale  to-day.  There  is  a  low  railroad  rate 
($4.50  for  round  trip)  with  tickets  good  until  Tues- 
day night. 

Trachoma  is  Granulated  Eyelids. 

Murine  Eye  Remedy  cures  this  and  other  Eye  troubles,  Makes  Weak 
Eyes  Strong. 


L.  &  M.  Alexander  &  Co.  are  located  as  before,  110  Mont- 
gomery street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters. 

PIre,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital $3,000,000.         Gross  Cash  Assets $18,040,793.99 

Liberal  contracts,  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Beprc- 
sentatives  before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  lime  contracts 
may  he  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoll  - 
tan  Manager. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

Savage   Mining   Company. 

Location  o!  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Virginia  City ,  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meetlne  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  6th  day  of  February,  1904.  an  assessment,  (No.  112)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
P'T  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  paya- 
ble immediately  In  United  states  told  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  rooms  21-22,  Nevada  Block,  No*  809  Montgomery  st ., 
San  Franolsoo,  Oal 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
11th  DAT  OF  MARCH  1904. 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  publlo  auction ;  and  unless  pay* 
ment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  FKIDAY,  the  1st  day  of  April* 
1904  at  1  o'clock  P.  M...  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of 'advertising  and  expenses  of  sale .  By  order  of  the  Board  of 
Directors, 

JOHN  W.  TWIGGS,  Secretary. 

Office— Rooms  21-22  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran 
isco,  Cal 


FIRE,    MARINE   AND    INLAND    INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  17W. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     13,009,000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated    by   Royal   Charter,    A.    D.    1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.   $3.44G,100.  Assets,   $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $131,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch : 

FRANK  W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   501   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF   HARTFORD.     Established  1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .     2,441,485 
BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,    2icSan  o    eStreet. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 
Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital    I67,0W,0»0 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  316  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFUBT.    GERMANY 

Capital  $2,250,000  Asset*  J10.SS42I6 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific    Coast   Department:   204-208    Sansome   St.,    San   Francisco 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital,  Surplus  and  Undivided    }SI3,500,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  P.  L.  Llpman,  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King,  Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.  E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New   York:   Salt  Lake.   Utah;   Portland,   Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

532  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President;  W.  C.  B.  DeFREMERY,  ROBERT 
WATT,  Vice-Presidents;  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH.  Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond,  W.  C.  B.  DeFreraery,  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Bartn,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H. 
Beaver,   William   A.   Magee,   Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits,    December   31,    1903    $33,232  90S 

Guarantee    Capital.    Paid-up    1000  000 

Reserve   and   Contingent   Funds    8991516 

Mutual  Savinas  Bank  of  s.n  Frandso. 

710  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee   Capital    $1,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   500  noo 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President:  C.   B.   HOBSON.  Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphv.  John  A.  hooper 
James  Moffltt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  James  M.   McDonald.   Charles  Holbrook. 

Interest   paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German   Savinqs  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  520  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    Es  4i<i  7ki  ri 

Capital   Actually  Paid-up   In   Cash    1000  M0  oo 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1903  36.049.491.18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel  Meyer:  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt,  Emll  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H 
Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established   In  1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301    California    Street.    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital     $15,000,000.00 

Paid-in    Capital     3,000,000.00 

Front    and    Reserve    Fund    450  000  00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,   President;   William   Corbln,    Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporation 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus  $7  894  400 

Capital   and   Surplus  Authorized   .....10,000  000  00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Mover,  President:  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman.  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer:  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee.  General  Manager;  William  H.  Maclntyre 
Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila 
Hong  Kong.  Yokohama,   Shanghai,  Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon 
Colombo.  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow.  Tientsin,  Tansul,  Anplng 
Bakan.  MoJI,  Saigon,  Kobe.  Bangkok,  Batavia,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya.   and  all  parts  of  Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34   Sansome    Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers*  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposit  lsued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE   INVITED. 


Political 


F.  E.  BECK,  Manager. 


P.  Q.  EASTWICK,  JR.,  Ast.  Mgr 


Although  it  is  eight  months  before  the  members 
of  the  next  Legislature  will  be  nominated  by  the 
different  parties,  the  crop  of  candidates  is  already 
very  large,  and  as  there  is  a  United  States  Sen-ator 
to  be  elected  next  January,  the  assortment  is  likely 
to  be  still  more  varied  before  the  ides  of  November. 
The  Senators  from  the  odd  numbered  Senatorial  dis- 
tricts go  out  this  year,  and  the  first  name  on  the  list 
alphabetically  is  Charles  M.  Belshaw.  There  are 
a  whole  lot  of  men  who  do  not  like  Belshaw,  and 
who  prefer  some  one  less  aristocratic,  for  Charles 
is  a  good  deal  of  an  aristocrat,  and  so  when  it  comes 
to  a  re-nomination  he  will  have,  in  fact  is  having,  a 
hard  time  to  get  the  prize  he  seeks. 

*  *  * 

J.  D.  Byrnes  of  the  29th  District,  is  dead,  and  as 
he  came  from  San  Mateo,  his  successor  niay  be 
named  from  the  other  county  in  the  district,  Santa 
Cruz,  although  H.  W.  Brown,  member  of  the  Assem- 
bly from  San  Mateo  would  like  the  nomination,  but 
Brown  is  like  Belshaw,  a  good  deal  of  a  reformer, 
which  means  a  great  deal  of  a  kicker,  and  no  one 
knows  where  he  will  stand  on  any  given  topic. 

*  *  * 

Bob  Devlin  of  Sacramento  is  spoken  of  for  Con- 
gress, and  although  he  has  treated  the  suggestion  as 
gingerly  as  a  maiden  with  her  first  proposal,  no  one 
doubts  that  he  will  take  the  nomination  if  he  can 
get  it,  and  he  has  the  reputation  of  being  a  very 
sharp  politician.  Of  course  he  will  have  to  make 
a  fight  because  of  the  deeds  or  misdeeds  of  the 
Prison  Board,  of  which  he  is  a  member,  but  he 
shrewdly  managed  to  be  in  Europe  when  the  out- 
break at  Folsom  occurred,  and  in  that  way  escaped 
some  of  the  blame  that  the  other  members  incurred 
by  keeping  Wilkinson  in  office.  If  he  runs  for  Con- 
gress, of  course  he  cannot  run  for  the  State  Senate, 
and  then  Greer  of  Sacramento  and  Grove  L.  Johnson 
would  like  the  place,  and  Hatfield,  a  prominent  law- 
yer of  the  same  town,  would  also  be  willing  to  serve. 

*  *  * 

Tom  Flint's  term  is  also  up,  and  it  is  said  he  wants 
to  be  returned,  although  it  was  announced  when  he 
was  a  candidate  for  Governor  that  he  would  not 
ask  to  be  sent  back  to  the  Upper  House.  His 
district  now  includes  San  Luis  Obispo  County, 
and  that  means  that  the  Assemblyman  from  that 
county,  Warren  John,  probably,  will  be  a  candidate 
for  Senator.  John,  who  is  now  employed  in  the 
office  of  Collector  of  Internal  Revenues  in  this  city, 
is  a  very  popular  young  man,  and  the  foreign  element 
in  that  section  is  particularly  devoted  to  him. 

Greenwell,  Santa  Barbara,  is  one  of  Senator  Bard's 
employees,  the  manager  of  a  ranch  or  something  of 
the  kind,  and  went  to  the  State  Senate  to  help  elect 
Bard  Senator  on  the  distinct  understanding  that  he 
was  to  be  given  the  place  of  Collector  of  Customs 
at  Los  Angeles.  In  the  Senate  he  made  the  unique 
record  of  not  introducing  a  bill,  nor  making  a  sin- 
gle speech,  and  Bard  did  not  keep  his  promise,  but 
allowed  John  C.  Cline  to  retain  the  Collectorship 
at  the  suggestion  of  ex-Senator  Bulla,  so  Greenwell 
retired  in  disgust,  and  it  is  understood  wants  no  more 
Legislature  in  his.  Ex-Assemblyman  C.  W.  Merritt 
wants  the  place,  and  says  he  can  get  both  the  nomi- 
nation   and    the    election,    which    of    course    settles 

the  matter  if  he  is  correct. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Hubbell  of  the  30th  district,  who  was  one 
of  the  most  brilliant  members  of  the  last  Senate,  and 
who  possessed  the  unique  record  of  being  a  member 


slstanl  Cashier 


South  African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 


February  20,  1904.  SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER 

of  the  Senate  of   Indiana  while  he  was  a  member 

elect  of  the  Senate  of  California,  died  last  April,  and 

cesser  has  to  be  elected  to  till  his  place.  Frank 

1  .  Prescott,  Assemblyman  in  the  last  session  from 

San  Bernardino,  is  a  candidate,  and  as  he  made  an 
excellent  record,  has  a  stront,'  backing.  Another  can- 
didate is  \Y.  T.  Leeke  of  Ontario.  Leeke  was  Su- 
pervisor of  Indian  Schools  for  California,  1  >i 
Washington,  Idaho,  and  Nevada,  under  President 
Harrison.  He  is  now  the  President  of  the  San  An- 
tonio Water  Company,  and  is  a  representative  man 
in  his  community,  although  not  nearly  as  well  known 
as  Prescott.  Senator  Lardner  expects  to  come  hack 
from  Placer  and  El  Dorado  Counties  and  the  chances 
are  that  his  expectations  will  he  realized. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Lucksinger  of  Vallejo  is  now  the  post- 
master of  that  town,  so  he  cannot  he  a  candidate  for 
his  old  place,  and  no  definite  successor  has  yet  been 
selected,  although  the  editor  of  the  Vallejo  Chronicle 
is  understood  to  be  willing  to  add  the  duties  of  law 
making  to  those  he  now  fills. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Lukens  of  Alameda  and  JMuenter  of  Stock- 
ton both  want  to  come  back,  and  probably  both  will. 
Lukens  was  the  mouthpiece  of  the  State  adminis- 
tration, the  California  Lodge,  in  the  last  session,  and 
whenever  he  spoke  the  knowing  ones  always  heard 
the  voice  of  Pardee.  The  Governor  will  try  to  see 
that  he  goes  back,  and  as  nearly  all  the  voters  in 
Alameda  hold  office,  and  the  few  who  don't  expect 
to  secure  places  very  shortly,  there  should  be  no 
trouble  in  nominating  him  and  electing  him  almost 
without  opposition.  In  Santa  Clara  Louis  Oneal  is, 
of  course,  a  candidate  for  re-election,  but  there  is 
some  question  whether  he  can  make  it.  Mr.  Lyons, 
a  brother-in-law  of  the  Hayes  brothers,  also  wants 
the  place,  and  if  Dr.  A.  E.  Osborne  is  not  nominated 
for  Congress  he  may  be  chosen  as  Senatorial  candi- 
date. The  nomination  of  either  Oneal  or  Lyons 
would  be  a  renewal  of  the  old  fight  between  Johnnie 
MacKenzie,  represented  by  Oneal,  and  Lyons  rep- 
resenting the  Hayes  brothers,  and  as  nobody  knows 
which  of  those  factions  is  now  on  top,  it  is  an  open 
question  which  of  them  would  be  able  to  secure  the 
nomination. 

Tom  Selvage  wants  to  come  back  from  Humboldt 
to  fight  the  administration,  which  turned  him  down 
for  Code  Commissioner,  and  if  he  succeeds  he  will 
make  it  very  unpleasant  for  the  Governor.  Assem- 
blyman George  T.  Rolley,  also  thinks  that  he  would 
like  to  be  Senator  from  the  First.  Editor  Tyrell  of 
Grass  Valley  thinks  he  can  be  returned  easily,  and 
those  from  his  district  to  whom  I  have  talked  agree 
with   him. 

San  Francisco  will  have  an  extra  Senator  to  elect, 
owing  to  the  death  of  Senator  G.  H.  Williams, 
and  if  the  cards  are  propitious,  I  am  told  that  the 
private  secretary  of  Mayor  Schmitz  will  be  the  can- 
didate. Senators  Nelson  and  Wolf  will  be  both  can- 
didates for  re-election,  as  Wolf  has  given  up  his  de- 
sire to  go  to  Congress,  and  Nelson  made  a  phenome- 
nal run  in  a  Democratic  district.  — Junius. 


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BANKING. 


The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  SanBomo  and  Pine   Sis.,   San   Francises. 

■.JA?j  'V  ^i.',-3V\N'  "■'■■*">"";  wm.  1'iekce  Johnson,  vicc- 

Ir.sldcnt;    LEWIS   1.    COWOILL.    Cashier;    P.    W.    WOLFE,    A«- 


Willlam 
George 


AGENTS-  New  York— Hanover  National  Hank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel&CO.  Chicago-Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank 
London-urown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris-Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co 
L>enverrNatlonal    Bank  of  Commerce.     Johannesburg-Robinson 

fn  1    lmlln.1 


Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
_  ,  „      ,  HEAD    OFFICE-TORONTO. 

Paid-up   Capital,   $8,700,000  Reserve   Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  $«0,000,000 
„  ^  t,,  „  H9,N-  GEORGE  A.  COX,  President. 
B.   E.  Walker,  General  Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 

LONDON    OFF1CE-60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
_,   ,  .  NEW    YORK    OFFICE— 16    Exchange    Place. 

BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH       COLUMBIA-Atlin,       Cranbrook. 

Jernle,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmiin,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 

New   Westminster,   Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  anu.  Skagway  (Alaska.) 

Also    80    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,   N.  W.   Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN    LONDON— The   Bank  of  England,   the  Bank  of 

Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 

Bank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
SAN     FRANUISUO    OfFlut- 


Callfornla  Street. 


A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  53,000,000.     Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve,  ETA 

Authorized   Capital    K-SiS'SS?, 

Paid-up  capital  and  Reserve   $1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes.  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier, 


London,  Paris  and  (American  Bank  Llulltea 

N.   W.    COR.    SANSOME  AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office— H)  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  **.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.   ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  flnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  B.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid  up   $1,600,080 

Subscribed 3,008,000      Reserve    Fund    ....     700,000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHAKT,  P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery   St.,    Mills  Building 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSi.o.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L..    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Btlawin,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    H..  H.  Pease. 

4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L  Association 

Pays  i  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFORNIA    STREET,    SAN    FBANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital ss.ooo.ooo 

Paid  in  Capital.    .  „„„ 

Guarantee  Capital - mom 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A.  A.  Watkins,  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop,  Vice-President  Bank  of  California. . .  .Vice-President 

S.Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &  L.  Association. 

„  „  ronlana Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  .Etna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 

™.       ^  TSfings  Union Director 

Ohas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker.  Portland.  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab.  Attorney-at-law Attorney 

Walter  K.  Smith Cashier 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


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V*       MODEL  K.    16  HORSE  POWER.    2  CYLINDERS       V* 

V-rira    <I1    1Z(\  Sample  Machines 

rriLC    «]7l)(jC/tl.        on  Exhibition. 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.  IM1  oSSM™ 


WE  HAVE  ARRIVED  THE  M '^W  CAR 


ON    EXHIBITION    AT 


The  National  Automobile  Co. 

134-148    GOLDEN    GATE    AVE. 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

The  talk  of  the  town 

Best    Automobile     at 
any  price.    Costs 


$425 


Strong',  Easy  Riding— Reliable— Guaranteed 

o„«™,    SUNSET  Al/TOMOBILE  CO. 

1814  MARKET  STREET,  SAN   FRANCISCO 


Br    The    Autockank 

The  outlook  for  the  restoration  of  the  King's  High- 
way through  California  is  assuming  a  more  pleasing 
aspect.  The  local  automobilists  have  received  the 
support  of  the  California  Associated  Cyclers,  a  body 
that  governs  the  amateur  wheeling  in  the  State.  This 
gives  a  color  to  the  proposition  that  has  changed 
the  whole  complication  of  affairs. 

It  is  possible  for  the  cyclers  to  call  to  their  aid 
the  great  army  of  noiseless  steed  enthusiasts,  and 
when  it  is  taken  into  consideration  how  many  wheels 
there  are  in  use  at  the  present  time,  one  can  easily 
realize  what  a  voting  strength  is  at  command. 

W itli  the  present  legislators,  nothing  can  be  ac- 
complished, but  if  the  automobilists  and  cyclists 
work  hand  in  hand  at  election,  men  may  be  chosen 
who  will  go  to  Sacramento  pledged  for  good  roads. 
There  should  be  no  party  cry  but  the  watch  word 
of  good  roads. 

Elect  men  to  power  for  such  an  object  just  for 
one  term,  and  the  good  they  will  do  will  force  both 
the  Republicans  and  Democrats  to  make  it  a  plank 
in  the  platforms  adopted  at   the   conventions. 

Good  roads  will  never  be  achieved  any  other  way 
than  at  the  polls,  except  out  of  the  individual  pockets, 
and  that  would  be  impossible  when  a  road  from  San 
Diego    to    the    (  Iregon    line    is    contemplated. 

*  *  * 

A  committee  on  Automobile  Traffic,  appointed  in 
Paris,  has  made  a  series  of  experiments  in  the  Bois 
de  Boulogne  for  the  purpose  of  comparing  the  quick- 
ness with  which  horse  vehicles  and  automobiles  can 
be  stopped.  The  macadamized  road  was  muddy,  and 
it  was  to  be  expected  that  the  hoofs  of  the  horses 
would  find  a  better  hold  than  the  rubber  tires  of  the 
motors.  The  latter,  however,  showed  themselves 
superior  in  this  respect. 

Two  vehicles  with  one  horse  each,  two  with  two 
horses  each,  and  one  with  a  pony,  competed  with  an 
automobile  of  6  and  40  horsepower. 

At  a  speed  of  y)A  miles  per  hour,  the  horse  vehicles 
could  only  be  completely  stopped  at  30  feet;  the  two 
motors  at  10  feet.  At  a  speed  of  10  miles  per  hour 
the  one-horse  vehicle  stopped  at  40  feet ;  the  motors 
at  13^  feet.  At  a  speed  of  \2y2  miles  per  hour,  the 
distance  increased  to  43  1-3  feet  and  i6j4  feet  respec- 
tively. As  the  horses  were  overworked,  the  automo- 
biles made  further  tests  alone,  resulting  in  stopping 
at  33  I_3  Ieet  at  a  speed  of  16  miles  per  hour,  and  at 
Oo  feet  at  a  speed  of  25  miles  per  hour. 

Here,  then,  we  have  some  data  which  it  would  be 
well  for  the  Park  Commissioner  to  consider  when 
they  raise  a  barrier  to  the  drives  of  the  Park  on  the 
chances  of  accidents. 

The  automobile  has  always  proven  to  be  far  safer 
than  the  horse  in  competent  hands.  That  those 
who  use  the  Park  drives  are  competent  only  rests 
with  the  official  examiner.  And  that  person  has  been 
the  right  person  in  the  right  place,  as  has  been 
proven  by  the  fact  that  up  to  the  present  time  no 
accidents  have  happened  on  the  South  Drive. 

*  *  * 

\Y.  K.  Vanderbilt  did  the  trick  to  a  nicety  in  the 
races  at  Ormonde,  Fla.  He  is  quoted  as  saying  that 
he  "might  have  made  the  mile  in  $7  seconds,"  and  in 


February  20,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


fact  lie  claims  thai  he  did  it  in  35  seconds  in  prac- 
tice. He  worked  harder  than  most  of  the  men  who 
took  part  in  the  race--.  <  (n  the  day  of  his  arrival  he 
nt  for  a  three  hours'  drive  up  and  down  the 
beach  before  breakfast,  going  out  again  before  and 
after  dinner.  Always  ready  on  call,  always  ready 
to  go  right  out  to  race,  offering  no  suggestions  at 
all  and  riding  his  best  at  all  times,  Mr.  \ 'audcrhilt 
gained  friends  by  the  hundreds  at  this  meet.  His 
every  victory  was  popular,  for  every  one  was  his 
friend.  His  car  was  always  ready — he  caused  not  a 
moment's  delay,  and  jumped  for  his  seat  the  very 
moment  a  race  was  called. 

*  *  * 

The  V.  M.  C.  A.,  of  Boston,  has  established  the 
first  automobile  school  in  the  world,  in  which  ilu 
pupils  secure  a  practical  as  well  as  a  theoretical 
knowledge  of  all  kinds  of  automobiles. 

*  *  * 

On  April  26,  1901,  the  first  license  was  issued  to 
an  automobilist  in  New  York,  and  by  January  1. 
1904,  the  number  had  reached  8,835.  Up  to  January 
I,  1903,  only  2,037  permits  were  issued,  which  shows 
what  an  increase  there  has  been  in  the  sport  in  the 
last  year  in  New  York. 

*  *  * 

During  the  past  week  a  new  company  for  the  hire 
of  automobiles  has  been  formed,  which  is  known  as 
the  "Scott-Blakeslee  Winton  Automobile  Rental 
Co."  They  have  taken  offices  with  the  Pioneer  Au- 
tomobile Company,  and  have  put  into  effect  a  ser- 
vice which  consists  of  four  of  the  latest  model  Win- 
ton  Touring  Cars.  Owing  to  the  strong  demand 
for  Winton  cars  by  people  taking  drives  through  the 
city,  Messrs.  Blakeslee  and  Scott  intend  to  use  noth- 
ing but  Winton  Touring  Cars. 

*  *  * 

George  Roos  was  out  in  his  brother's  White  tour- 
ing car  last  week.  Mr.  Roos  also  had  two  other 
White  cars  in  commission.  It  was  a  special  invita- 
tion of  Mr.  Roos  for  a  day's  outing  through  the  Pre- 
sidio, Cliff  House  drive  and  through  the  Park.  These 
special'  outings  are  becoming  very  popular  with 
those  who  entertain. 

The  National  Automobile  Company  report  that 
during  the  past  week,  notwithstanding  the  bad 
weather  they  have  closed  several  sales  for  the  Mile- 
a-Minute  Pope-Toledo. 

B.  D.  Merchant  and  wife,  and  party  of  friends, 
were  out  through  the  Park  last  Sunday,  for  a  ride 
in  his  new  Pope-Toledo  car. 

*  *  * 

The  Weberfieldian  Company  now  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  did  the  Park  and  races  last  week  in 
Wintons. 

Young  Corbett,  the  fistic  debater,  has  purchased  a 

Winton  Touring  Car. 

*  *  * 

J.  A.  Marsh,  president,  and  Frank  E.  Hartigan, 
manager  of  the  Mpbile  Carriage  Co.,  were  guests  at 
a  banquet  at  the  Hotel  Metropole  in  Oakland;  given 
by  the  Alameda  County  Automobile  Club. 

*  *  » 

J.  A.  Murray,  a  banker  of  Butte,  Mont,  has  ordered 
a  specially-painted  White  Touring  Car.  Mr.  Mur- 
ray will  receive  his  car  in  this  city,  and  will  then 
tour  the  State  as  far  south  as  San  Diego. 

*  *  * 

Another  carload  of  Wintons  arrived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco last  week,  and  some  were  delivered  to  custom- 
ers according  to  the  booking  of  their  orders.  Messrs. 
S.  C.  Hammond,  L.  G.  Rowell  and  R.  C.  Kirkwood 


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are  the  happv  possessors  of  these  ears  now.  This 
makes   nine    1904    Wintons   already   delivered   on    the 

.  and  another  carload  will  be  received  within 
the  next  few  days.     Mrs.  ,\.  Hochheimer  last  week 

a  little  Winton  automobile  part]  to  her  daugh- 
ter and   friends,  when  a  delightful  drive  through   the 

Park  and  Presidio  was  very  much  enjoyed.  Mrs. 
Hochheimer's  home   is  in    willows,   Glenn   County, 

although  she  is  spending  the  winter  at  Hotel  Riche- 
lieu in  this  city,  and  she  is,  perhaps,  one  of  the 
strongest  Winton  advocates  of  the  automobile  in  this 
eitv . 

*  *   * 

Thomas  II.  White,  head  of  the  White  Company, 
is  about  to  tour  California.  At  the  present  time  Mr. 
White   is   in   San    Diego   with   a   party  of   friends. 

Samuel  Hammond  made  a  trip  from  Oakland  to 
San  Jose  and  return  last   week. 

*  *   * 

Max  Rosenfeld,  of  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Co., 
toured  Alameda  last  week. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Automobile  Company  report  that 
they  had  a  letter  from  Mr.  Ellicut  Evans,  of  Pasa- 
dena, to  whom  they  shipped  a  Pope-Toledo  Mile-a- 
Minute  Car  last  week,  and  he  says  that  those  in 
Pasadena  who  have  seen  it  are  very  enthusiastic. 

*  *  * 

The  Jefferson  Square  Club  is  becoming  very  popu- 
lar. The  proper  thing  is  a  luncheon,  auto  drive  and 
back  to  the  club   for  dinner. 

*  *  * 

William  Letts  Oliver,  who  for  years  has  been 
noted  as  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  yachtsmen, 
has  given  up  his  old  love  and  has  taken  to  the  modern 
chariot.     Mr.  Oliver  has  purchased  a  White  Touring 


1904  WINTON  TOURING  CAR 


Sample  1904  Winton  just  received.  Orders  now 
taken  for  two  weeks'  delivery  on  same.  Several 
hundred  sold  last  week  in  New  York  at  National 
Automobile  Show.  Delay  in  placing-  your  or- 
der means  a  very  material  delay  in  the  receipt  of 
a  car.  Call  in  and  examine  sample  and  ride  in 
the  foremost  up-to-date  American  automobile. 

PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 

901-925  Golden  Gate  Ave.  San  Francisco,  Cai 


Sole  agents  for  the  following  standard  machines 
Olds  Motor  "Works. 

"Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 

Locomobile  Co-,  of  America. 

The  J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 

Baker  Electric  Motor  Vehicle  Company. 

Demmerle    &    Co.— Leather  Clothing. 

WE    ARE    IN    OUR    NEW    QUARTERS 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1904. 


Car.     His   son,  O.   Letts   Oliver,   has   given   up   the 
good  yacht  Wave  for  an  Oldsmobile  runabout. 

*  *  * 

E.  B.  Brinegar,  President  of  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company,  has  just  returned  from  the  New 
York  show.  While  East  he  spent  a  month  visiting 
the  different  factories.  After  looking  them  over 
thoroughly  he  did  not  try  for  any  new  lines.  He  is 
satisfied  with  the  standard  machines  which  his  com- 
pany is  handling. 

*  *  » 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  just  sold  Mr. 
H.  C.  Tilden  a  French  Arrow  touring  car,  which  is 
of  special  design,  built  on  the  order  of  the  purchaser, 
color  being  red,  slanting  hood  and  canopy  top, 
which  will  be  delivered  about  March  1st.  Mr.  Til- 
den is  expecting  much  pleasure  from  the  long-dis- 
tance  tours   he  will   take   during  the   spring. 

*  *  * 

Ex-Governor  Moore,  of  Washington,  who  is  at 
present  in  San  Rafael,  will  shortly  start  for  Los  An- 
geles in  his  White  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

R.  C.  Kirkwood  and  Hector  Bradford,  of  San 
Jose,  have  bought  new  1904  Winton  touring  cars. 

*  *  * 

The  Pacific  Motor  Car  Company  report  the  sale 
of  three  St.  Louis  touring  cars  this  week.  They  were 
purchased  by  Otto  turn  Suden,  Joseph  Geary  and 
Harold  T.  Armstrong. 

*  *  * 

Perhaps  one  of  the  most  conspicuous-looking  ve- 
hicles seen  on  the  driveways  in  the  Park  and  Pre- 
sidio is  the  racy  looking  little  French  rig  belonging 
to  Mr.  De  La  Montanya.  This  machine  the  Marquis 
sent  over  to  Paris  for,  and  after  having  same  set  up 
at  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company's  new  garage, 
has  been  using  the  same  extensively  in  the  city.  The 
machine  is  a  very  neat  but  odd-looking  vehicle,  ow- 
ing to  the  natural  wood  finish  of  the  tonneau  and  rear 
parts,  and  the  flaring  mud  guards  and  coat  of  yellow 
paint.  The  Marquis  stables  his  machine  with  the 
Pioneer  people,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  being  strong- 
advocates  of  the  game  of  bowling,  find  unlimited 
pleasure  in  enjoying  the  privileges  of  the  Jefferson 
Square  Club  over  the  garage  in  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company's  new  building. 
»  *  * 

One  of  the  members  of  the  Pacific  Motor  Car  Com- 
pany has  left  for  the  East  to  try  and  secure  more 
of  the  St.  Louis  touring  cars,  as  the  demand  for  them 
has  been  so  great  in  San  Francisco. 

*  #  * 

G.  W.  Starr  of  Grass  Valley  is  another  enthusiast 
who  will  tour  to  Los  Angeles  this  .summer  in  his 
White  touring  car. 

On  last  Thursday,  Mr.  Riley  and  Mr.  Peabody  of 
the  National  Automobile  Company,  took  one  of  the 
new  Pope-Toledo  four-cylinder  touring  car  out  for 
a  run  to  San  Jose.  They  found  the  roads  in  good 
shape — no  dust — but  when  returning  a  heavy  rain 
made  the  roads  very  muddy.  They  say  they  had  a 
very  pleasant  trip,  in  spite  of  the  rain,  and  Were 
very  well  satisfied  with  the  riding  and  the  running 
of  the  car. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company,  in  order  to  supply 
the  demand,  is  placing  in  passenger  service  French 

Do  Your   Eyes   Itch   and  Burn? 


Arrow  touring  cars,  which  will  be  used  as  private 
cars.  A  great  many  tourists  from  the  East  are  own- 
ers of  high-grade  French  cars,  and  when  they  come 
to  the  Coast  they  naturally  demand  a  service  similar 
lar  to  that  which  they  have  at  home.  It  was  one  of 
these  cars  that  was  chartered  by  Weber  &  Field's. 


—     WILL     BE     HERE     SHORTLY     — 

THE    NEW    1904 — Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  '04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST.  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  are  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR   CO. 


49    CITY    HALL    AV£. 


SAN     FRANCISCO.    CAL 


&&? 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  (French)  $2,650. 


1.  It  has  a  French  engine  and  is  essentially  a  French  ear. 

2.  The  manufacturer  in  France  pays  a  revenue  on  each  horse 
power  of  engine,  consequently  all  French  engines  are  underated- 
The  Arrow  Tonring  Car  ic  H,  P.  French  will  develop  26  H.  P. 
American  standard. 

3-  A  horse  power  for  each  76  pounds  weight.  It  has  lightness 
and  strength.    Easy  on  tires. 

MOBILE    CARRIAGE    CO.      San  Francisco. 


^C'  lllilillli  ■■■    ■  W*B 


LIKE    BEINOTAKIIOME 

The  "ANONA" 


A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  OILLETT,  Prop. 

2010      SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Cap  506 


Murine  Eye  Remedy  is  an  Eye  Tonic.     Cures  Sore  Eyes. 
Tired  Eyes. 


Resls 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Western  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


February  ao,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


as 


Several  advance  orders  are  now  booked  from   1 
ern  people,  and  the  company  anticipates  a  consider 
able  business  from  tliis  source.     San   Francisco  peo- 
ple desiring  the  service  of  the  French  Arrows  should 

place  their  order.-  as  early  a>  possible.  The  price, 
of  course,  will  be  greater  than  that  charged  for  the 
ordinary  car. 

*  *  * 

Max  Rosenfeld  had  the  members  of  the  Federal 
Grand  Jury  as  guests  at  the  Jefferson  Square  Club 

at  luncheon  last  week.  'The  afternoon  was  spent 
driving  through   the    Park. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Parker  of  Portland  has  received  a  11)04  White 
touring  car. 

*  *  * 

I'".  A.  Garbutt,  the  enthusiastic  Los  Angeles  an- 
tomobilist,  has  sold  his  touring  car.  which  he  has 
raced  for  the  last  two  years,  and  has  ordered  a  [904 
model   White  touring  car  specially  painted. 

E.  O.  Lindblom  of  Dawson  has  purchased  a  White 
touring  car. 

*  *  * 

J.  D.  Spreckels,  William  Tevis,  President  F.  A. 
Hyde  and  C.  A.  Hawkins  will  tour  Yosemite  Valley 
as  soon  as  the  road  is  open. 

Miss  Lillian  Russell  visited  the  races  at  Ingleside 
last  Tuesday  in  a  1904  model  Winton  touring  car, 
with  which  she  expressed  herself  as  being  much  de- 
lighted, and  being  an  automobile  owner  herself  and 
a  strong  advocate  of  the  sport,  her  expression  natu- 
rally pleases  the  Pioneer  people  immensely.  Miss 
Russell  owns  and  drives  a  20  horse-power  Decau- 
ville  French  machine  in  New  York  City.  This  ma- 
chine cost  about  $10,000  laid  down  in  New  York,  and 
when  Miss  Russell  was  apprised  of  the  fact  that  a 
20  horse-power  Winton  is  procurable  at  $2,650,  she 
seemed  very  much  surprised. 

*  *  * 

J.  C.  Ainsworth ,  president  of  the  United  States 
National  Bank,  Portland,  has  just  received  his  sec- 
ond White  touring  car. 

W.  B.  Ayre  is  another  Portland  purchaser  who  has 
received  his   1904  White   touring  car. 

*  *  * 

Frank  Pitts,  of  Healdsburg,  has  purchased  an 
Oldsmobile  runabout. 

The  Pacific  Motor  Car  Company  expect  the 
4-cylinder  Packard  daily.  This  is  one  of  the  latest 
creations  of  the  East. 


THE  TROUBLES  OF  ELIJAH  DOWIE. 

Honolulu,  January  27th,  via  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Speicher,  Zion  City,  Illinois. 

Praise   God.     Arrived  all  right  at  Honolulu. 

Weather  too  rough  to  do  anything. 

Love. 

Mizpah.  DOWIE. 

The  above  eloquent  cablegram  tells  of  the  trou- 
bles encountered  on  the  high  seas  by  Elijah.  It  is 
told  by  his  companions  on  the  journey  that  more 
than  once  Dowie  tried  to  emulate  the  whale  in  the 
story  of  Jonah.  The  Prophet  succeeded  in  spoiling 
his  whiskers,  and  managed  to  lose  much  of  his  dig- 
nity. He  only  recovered  his  equanimity  when  a 
stranger  in  Honolulu  mistook  him  for  Sanford  B. 
Dole.    Then  he  swelled  well-nigh  to  bursting  point. 


Few   come  to   San  Francisco  without  paying  a  \isit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     Ifs  tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort 


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Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
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Capital  and  Surplus 
1  M  Assets 


$1,233,723.75 
5,914,424,59 


Interest  paid  on  deposits, 
subject  to  check,  at  the  rate 
of  two  per  cent  per  annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and  six-tenths  per  cent,  per 
annum. 

Trusts  executed.  We  are 
authorized  to  act  as  the 
guardian  of  estates  and  the 
executor   of  wills. 

Safe  Deposit  boxes  rented  at 
$5  per  annum  and  upwards. 


J.    Dalzell  Brown. 

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R.  McCOLGAN 


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24  Montgomery  St.  S.  F. 

Telephone  Main  5516 


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French    Laundry    Work   Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 

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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


The  local  market  for  stocks  and 
Local  Stocks  bonds  has  been  exceedingly  dull 
and  Bonds.       during  the  past  week,  and  in  bonds 

business  has  been  much  lighter 
than  it  usually  is  at  this  season  of  the  year.  As  for 
the  share  market,  speculation  is  practically  dead, 
which  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  when  such  staple  in- 
dustrials as  Metropolitan  Gas  stock  has  been  juggled 
with  like  a  veritable  wild-cat  by  a  set  of  ambitious 
wire-pullers,  whose  skill  as  promoters  is  evidenced 
by  a  combination  which,  if  exploited  to  the  core, 
would  be  the  laughing  stock  of  all  creation.  An 
over-weighted,  over-capitalized,  top-heavy  concern, 
erected  upon  the  basis  of  an  old-time  structure  which, 
to  prove  effective,  in  itself  stands  sorely  in  need  of 
being  modernized.  When  an  official  explanation  is 
required  in  apology  for  the  meanest  quality  of  pro- 
ducts, that  the  conduits  are  in  such  miserable  con- 
dition through  age  that  a  powerful  air  pressure  must 
be  introduced  in  order  to  improve  the  volume  of 
service,  things  must  be  in  a  bad  condition  indeed. 
It  is  not  surprising,  under  the  circumstances,  that 
consumers  complain  of  exorbitant  bills  in  which  they 
are  paying  largely  for  air,  nor  that  the  death  rate 
has  been  largely  increased  by  asphyxiation,  caused 
by  the  poisonous  fumes  of  cheap  water  gas,  dis- 
pensed in  lieu  of  the  old-fashioned  and  comparatively 
innocuous  product  of  coal.  It  certainly  is  not  the 
public  demand  for  the  shares  which  keeps  the  shares 
propped  up  at  present  prices,  nor  is  there  any  evi- 
dence that  investors  are  scrambling  wildly  for  stock 
in  this  much-vaunted  combine.  A  new  and  modern 
gas  works  would  sweep  the  present  institution  off 
the  earth,  and  the  sooner  this  matter  is  taken  up  the 
better.  It  is  useless  wasting  time  over  discussing 
rates  with  the  combine  inflated  as  it  is  beyond  all 
reason.  What  figure  do  rates  cut  with  an  institution 
which  can  readily  even  matters  up  with  helpless  con- 
sumers by  the  introduction  of  more  air  pressure  at 
the  sweet  will  of  a  management  which  doubtless  has 
little  love  for  an  already  rebellious  public.  The 
stock  of  this  company  has  shown  a  light  advance 
during  the  week  as  the  purchase  of  a  very  small 
amount  of  stock.  In  other  descriptions,  the  shares 
of  Spring  Valley  Water  ruled  steady'  and  firm  at 
from  38  to  38 yA. 

The  news  that  the  Ham- 
Prominent  Miners  mond-Wiltsee-Doolittle  min- 
in  Legal  Fray.  ing  clique  had  sued  the 
Bradley-Crocker  combina- 
tion, came  upon  a  large  number  of  people  in  this 
city  like  a  thunderbolt  out  of  a  clear  sky.  The  trou- 
ble arises  over  the  ownership  of  some  dredging  land 
near  Oroville,  which  the  plaintiffs  say  they  should 
control  had  not  the  defendants  managed  to  increase 
their  holding  of  shares  by  the  issuance  of  company 
stock  in  a  way  which  is  deemed  improper.  The 
strangest  .part  of  the  business  is  to  find  Bradley  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the  fence  to  Hammond  after  the 
intimacy  which  has  prevailed  between  them  for 
years.  On  the  former's  part,  a  belief  exists,  it  would 
appear  from  the  published  statement  of  the  case,  the 
land  in  question  is  of  little  or  no  value,  and  that  the 
vendors  had  had  the  best  of  the  bargain.  It  is  likely 
that  owing  to  the  relations  between  the  leading  par- 
ties to  the  suit,  on  both  sides,  that  the  litigation  will 
be  cut  short  by  compromise  of  some  character  which 
will  settle  the  question  in  dispute  without  widening 
the  present  breach. 


The  firm  of  Bolton,  de  Ruyter  & 
An  Honorable  Co.  have  made  a  settlement  with 
Settlement.  their  creditors  on  a  basis  of. 100 
cents  on  the  dollar,  payable  as 
follows:  Fifty  per. cent  cash,  payable  immediately; 
25  per  cent  in  thirty  days,  and  the  balance  of  25  per 
cent  payable  in  or  before  six  months,  without  inter- 
est. This  is  a  proposition  out  of  the  ordinary  run  in 
up-to-date  failures.  It  speaks  well  for  the  firm,  and 
suggests  a  possibility  that  an  extension  of  time  upon 
the  )>art  of  the  creditors  would  have  enabled  the  firm 
to  have  pulled  through  the  temporary  financial  em- 
barrassment and  continued  business.  As  it  is,  the 
general  impression  prevails  that  the  firm  will  re- 
tire from  the  field,  Mr.  Bolton  taking  up  again  his 
original  business  on  the  floor  of  the  local  stock  and 
bond  exchange. 

William  B.  Ewing,  the  promoter 
Unwhipped  of      convicted    the   other   day    in    the 
Justice.  United   States   Court     of    swind- 

ling, widows  and  orphans  being 
his  favorite  prey,  is,  at  latest  accounts,  walking 
around  on  bail.  Whitaker  Wright  would  probably 
have  been  alive  to-day  had  not  the  law  of  the  country 
where  he  was  tried  ordained  that  conviction  is  fol- 
lowed by  immediate  transmission  to  the  penitentiary. 
It  seems  difficult  work  for  even  the  powerful  arm  of 
the  Federal  Government  to  assert  itself  against 
the  criminal  backed  with  the  means  to  put  up  a 
light.  Such  a  condition  of  affairs  is  truly  deplorable. 
The  market  for  North-end 
Pine-St.  Market.  Comstock  shares  firmed  up 
considerably  during  the  week, 
and  the  bears  suffered  again.  A  most  important  dis- 
covery on  the  2,000  level  of  Ophir  knocked  a  lot  of 
their  pet  theories  about  the  extent  of  the  ore  body 
now  being  developed,  and  they  are  likely  to  suiter 
a  still  further  demoralization  from  this  time  forward. 
Within  the  next  six  months  there  will  not  be  one 


3    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates,.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO     NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  check  or  money  order  for  as  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  $loo  Price  par 
tor  $5.00  certificates.    The  price  may  advance  any  day 

The  stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  $5  00  and 
rind  is  n.  ■  w  selling  ;il  >'2-2  on  thr  J.,  m  <  I.  hi  Si.o.-k  Ex.  -h  an  gi'  an  advance  of 
U0  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
Rival  cr. 

Tne  Marconi  svstem  is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world-  Edison 
Marconi  and  Pupiu  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 
Company. 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CR0SSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


February  so,  1904. 


of  the  clique  left  on  the  street  worth  a  brass  farthing, 
judging  from  present  indications  in  the  deep  levels 
of  the  leading  North-end  mines.  The  movement  in 
prices  for  some  time  past  has  enabled  a  Rood  main 
people  to  make  money,  and  no  fault  will  be  found 
with  what  can  only  be  a  good  trading  market,  by 
any  one  outside  of  the  disgruntled  dogs-in-the-man- 
ger,  who  have  infested  the  street  for  months  past. 
From  all  points  along  the  lode  the  news  is  favorable 
enough  to  warrant  a  buoyant  market  and  higher 
prices  for  a  long  time  to  come. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 


The  Mission  Bank,  which  opened  for  business  in 
July  last,  has  just  held  its  first  annual  meeting,  at 
which  the  following  directors  were  re-elected :  Jas. 
Rolph,  Jr.,  president ;  Frank  B.  Anderson,  vice- 
president ;  Stuart  F.  Smith,  cashier,  and  James  M. 
Allen,  secretary;  Frank  S.  Andrews,  assistant  cash- 
ier, and  Wm.  Babcock,  A.  Borel,  E.  W.  Hopkins,  W. 
H.  Crim  and  George  L.  Center,  directors.  The  total 
assets  of  the  bank,  according  to  the  financial  state- 
ment presented  at  the  meeting,  aggregated  $396,390. 


It  is  reported  on  excellent  authority  that  the  net 
earnings  of  the  Hawaiian  Commercial  and  Sugar 
Company  for  1903  amounted  to  about  $878,000.  The 
company  has  now  practically  paid  off  all  the  floating 
debt,  and  the  outlook  for  the  future  is  considered 
excellent.  This  year's  crop  is  estimated  at  about 
35,000  tons  of  sugar;  at  present  the  cane  being 
crushed  is  producing  about  five  per  cent  more  sac- 
charine matter  than  at  the  same  time  last  year.  If 
this  continues,  the  output  of  sugar  will  be  over  the 
estimate. 


At  the  recent  annual  meeting  of  the  members  of 
the  San  Francisco  Clearing  House,  the  following 
officers  were  elected :  William  Alvord,  president ; 
Homer  S.  King,  vice-president ;  and  Fred  W.  Zeile, 
secretary.  William  Alvord,  as  president,  is  chair- 
man of  the  Clearing  House  Committee,  and  the  fol- 
lowing were  elected  members  of  that  committee : 
I.  Steinhart,  S.  G.  Murphy,  James  K.  Wilson,  and 
A.  Kains,  the  latter  being  elected  secretary.  Charles 
Sleeper  was  re-elected  manager,  and  J.  T.  Burke 
assistant  manager. 

A  CASE  OF  GRAFT  REFUSED. 
Casey  of  the  back-stretched  hand,  boss  of  the 
Board  of  Works,  coarse  and  unlettered,  grasping 
politician  and  pot-house  statesman,  has  lifted  his 
burly  and  ponderous  fist.  He  hath  spoken,  and  the 
flower  vendors  must  go.  It  was  not  to  be  expected 
that  Casey  possessed  enough  of  the  love  of  the  beau- 
tiful to  prevent  the  projection  of  his  unsavory  per- 
sonality into  our  everv-day  lives.  First  the  Hand 
was  Back-Stretched  and  the  boot-black  had  to  seek 
other  quarters,  and  now  it  is  the  poor  flower-seller, 
whose  baskets  have  been  the  glory  of  the  town,  a 
sight  for  the  traveler  and  a  lasting  advertisement 
of  our  winter  climate  that  must  go.  Casey  of  the 
Back-Stretched  Hand  saw  his  chance.  He  would 
make  a  virtue  of  his  rapacity.  Is  the  indignation  of 
an  entire  community  to  be  of  no  avail  against  the 
acts  of  this  water-front  vulgarian,  whelped  by  the 
accident  of  politics? 

There's  only  one  rignt  way  to  clean  a  carpet,  and 

that's  the  way  employed  by  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Cleaning 
Co.,  353  Tehama  street.  By  their  improved  machinery  they 
clean  a  carpet  thoroughly  and  quickly  without  injuring  the 
fabric.  You  have  no  fuss,  bother  or  anxiety.  Simply  have 
the  Spauldings  call  for  your  carpet,  and  in  a  short  time 
it  will  be  returned  looking  like  new. 


Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Loeatl>>n  of  prliiotual  nla«e  "I  ^nellies*.  Hail  Kraiiolfoo,  California,  U- 
cutlnn  I'f  »o  k«,    Htorej   <<'tinl>.  Nevada 

NottfM  l«  b.rtbj  irlvr-n  llmt  si  a  met  line  <>f  the  Hoard  of  Director.,  held 
on  thr  Mh  day  of  r,  }■<  oh  r>  hi  t  art  ■  ■-€■-■  tnent  (No  77)  (f  fifteen  (15) 
tenUper  «hHrc  wftft  levied  upon  the  capital  ft t or k  of  the  ooiporallon,  pe>  • 
ft'-le  liiniir.JlHi  rl>  In  I*  lir<l  Hift'c  sold  coin  to  tie  Secretary,  at  the  offloe 
of  <he  toitit  ftnv  room  79  Nevnda  Blnolr,  No.  S09  Montgomery  street.  Ban 
KrftnofftCO.  California, 

Any  -took  upon  which  thin  ift«eftftment  fthnll  remain  unpaid  on 
Hlh    DAY    OF  MARCH    I90< 
trill    be    delinquent    and    adverllfted     for    sale    at    publlo   auallon:    nnd 
unlees     payment    lit    made   before,    will    be    sold    on     I  uctday,    the     6th 
day  of    April.   1901.   to   pay  the  delinquent  aaseaflment,  toeether  wltb  the 
cost  of  adverllftlne:  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  Hie  Rosrd  of  Directors. 

CHA8.  E   ELLIOT,   fecretary 

Offloe  — Room  79.  Nevada  Block.  30)  Montgomery  street,  San  Franolsco 
California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  plaue  of  business,  -an  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  work-*  -  Virginia  District,  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  12th  d-iyof  February.  I904,an  assessment  (No.  84)  of  ten 
(lo)o-nts  per  share  was  levied  upon  Ihe  capltsl  Ptork  of  the  corporatit  n 
pay  able  Immediately,  In  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  Ihe 
offloe  of  the  Company.  Room  S3.  Nevada  Block  No.  309  Montgomeey  Ht(1 
San  Frinctsco.  Cal. 
Any  stook  upon  which  thl«  as^etsraent  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE    ISth   DtTOF  MARCH,  1904, 
will   be     delinquent,    and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auotion:  and  unless 
payment  U  madebefore,  will  be  sold  on    Friday,    the  8th   day  of    April 
1904,    to    pay   the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  or  er  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE.,  Secretary. 

Location  of  Office — Room  33,  Nevada  Blook,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Frauols'  o'  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Occidental    Consolidated    Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  plane  ff  business.  San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works,  Silver  Mar  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting*  of  the  Board  of  Director*,  held 
on  the  6<h  day-  of  February,  1904  an  assessment  tNo.  44)of  five  (■"»)  cents 
per  share  was  1-  vied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  57.  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
T5E    10th    DAY    OF    MARCH,    1904, 
will  be   delinquent  ,and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  31st  day  of  March 
1904,    to     pav     the    delinquent    assessment,    tog-ether  with  the    costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

ALFRED   K.  BURBROW,  Secretary. 
OFFICE— R«om   57.  Nevada  Blook,  No.  3U9  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Potosi  Mining  Company. 


Lo- 


Localion  of  principal  place  of  business,    San  Francisco,  California- 
cation  of  worts,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  lOlh  day  i  February,  I'M,  an  assessment  (No.  69)  of  ten  (10)  cento 
per  share,  wan  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediati  ly  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office  of 
the  '  oinpany.  Room  79  Ne  vada  Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco California 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  lemain  unpaid  on 
THE     16th     DAY     OF    MARCH,   1904 
will  be  delinquent,  and  adve  tised  frr  sale  at  public    auction    and    unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  Thursday,   the  7th  day  of  April 
1934,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  <  rder  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79.  Nevada  Block  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

A  sessment No.  132 

Amount  per  share 10 cents 

Levied February  10. 1904 

Delinquent  in  office March  15  1904 

Day  cf  sale  of  delinquent  stock April    4,  1904 

E.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room   14,  Nevada  Blook,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

FOR  SALE. 

This  superb  instrument,  in  use  but  a 
short  time,  will  be  sold,  on  account  of 
owner's  departure,  for  a  very  low  figure. 
Cost  new  $300.  Address  for  further 
particulars,  Owner,  Room  66,  320  San- 
some  street. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


Two    Valentines 


1. 

"Uncle  Jack,  do  you  know  anything  about  hearts?" 

Uncle  Tack  raised  his  head  from  the  arms  on  which 
it  had  been  pillowed  in  that  most  despairing  of  all 
masculine  attitudes  and  looked  down  on  the  troubled 
fact  at  his  elbow. 

"Do  you  know  anything  about  hearts?"  repeated 
the  little  boy,  anxiously. 

"Wish  I  did,"  growled  Uncle  Jack;  "what's  the 
matter,  youngster?" 

"Does  that  look  anything  like  a  heart?"  A  pair 
of  scissors  was  clasped  in  one  rough  little  hand  and 
the  other  held  up  a  three-cornered  bit  of  paper,  in 
the  center  of  which  had  been  pasted  the  head  of  a 
smiling  lady. 

Uncle  Jack  took  the  paper  in  his  own  hand  and 
contemplated  it  thoughtfully.  "Well,  well,"  he  mur- 
mured, "I  don't  know  that  it  looks  like  a  heart — 
exactly — but  it  looks  very  much  the  way  mine  [eels 
— all  jagged  around  the  edges  and  a  girl's  face  in  the 
center.     What  do  you  want  it  for,  sonny?" 

"It's  a  valentine  for  Celia,"  replied  the  little  boy, 
leaning  confidingly  against  his  uncle's  knee.  "1 
thought  yesterday  1  wouldn't  give  her  any — 'cause 
I  was  mad  then  ;  so  I  didn't  buy  the  pretty  one  in 
the  window — the  one  I  meant  to  buy  for  her,  'cause 
she  choosed  it  every  time  when  we  looked  at  'em  on 
our  way  home  from  school.  And  now.  to-day,  you 
see,  I  am  not  mad,  and  I  wish  I'd  got  it,  'cause  she 
liked  it  so  much." 

"Bless  his  heart,"  growled  Uncle  Jack:  "does  il 
begin  so  early?"  and  he  lifted  the  small  buy  on  his 
knee. 

"And    this    is   St.    Valentine's    Day?""    he    asked. 

"Yes,  and  the  stores  are  shut  up  'cause  it's  Sunday 
and  I  can't  go  and  buy  the  pretty  one:  mi  you  see  I 
must  make  a  valentine  and  take  it  round  to  her  this 
afternoon." 

"Of  course,"  said  L'ncle  Jack.  "You  wouldn't 
want  her  to  keep  on  thinking  you  were  mad." 

"<  >h,   no — and    I    hope   she   didn't   cry." 

"Do  little  girls  cry  when  you  are  'mad'  with 
them?" 

"Celia  does." 

"Celia?  Is  she   Miss  Burroughs'  little  niece"" 

"Miss  Burroughs  is  her  aunty — our  aunty,  'cause 
Celia's  things  are  mine,  too — when — when  we're  not 
mad." 

"Oh!"  said  l'ncle  Jack.  "And  are  your  things 
Celia's?     Am    1    Celia's    L'ncle   Jack?" 

"Course."  was  the  decided  answer. 

"Well,  that's  very  nice,  I'm  sure.  I'd  rather  have 
Celia  for  a  niece  than  any  little  girl  1  know.  You 
can  tell  her  so  if  you  like,'  Stuart." 

Stuart  took  the  valentine  from  L'ncle  lack's  hand 
and  regarded  it  critically.  "Couldn't  von  help  me 
make   a   better  one?"   he'  asked,   wistfully. 

"Perhaps  so,"  said  l'ncle  Jack,  opening  a  drawer 
in  his  desk.  On  the  top  lay  a  sheet  of  thick,  creamy 
paper.  Borrowing  Stuart's  scissors.  L'ncle  fack 
at  last  succeeded  in  cutting  out  a  very  presentable 
heart,  and  to  the  center  of  this  the  face  of  the  smiling 
lady  was  transferred.  Then  Stuart  laboriously 
printed  around  the  edges:  "I  love  you.  Be  my  val- 
entine.     I   am   not   mad  any   more." 

"Why  were  you   'mad'?""  asked  Uncle  Jack,   mus- 


ingly, as  he  watched  the  slow  progress  of  the  letter- 
in-.' 

"<  )h,  'cause."  said  Stuart  shyly,  "she  forgot  to 
keep  a  promise." 

"That  was  bad,"  said  l'ncle  Jack,  sympathetically. 

"I  asked  her  to  march  with  me  in  dancing-school 
and  Billy  Hart  got  there  first  and — she  took  him.'' 

"You  shouldn't  let  Billy  gel  there  first."  observed 
L'ncle  Jack,  a   little  bitterly. 

"But  she  ought  to  have  waited,"  declared  Stuart. 

"Then  why  are  you  sending  her  a  valentine?" 
went  on  his  curious  uncle. 

"  'Cause  I  can't  slay  mad."  admitted  the  little  boy  : 
"it's — it's  too  gloomy." 

"Just   my  case  exactly,"  muttered   l'ncle  Jack. 

Stuart  looked  up  quickly.  Il  was  his  turn  now. 
"Do  you  ever  go  to  dancing-school?"  he  asked, 
searchingly. 

"I  go  to  dances  sometimes,"  replied  his  victim. 

"And  did  a  little  girl  forget  you?" 

Uncle  Jack  nodded  gloomily. 

Stuart   drew   nearer,   his   big  eyes   very   wide   open. 

"Mas  she  got  soft  yellow  hair  and  does  she  wear 
it  curled   when  she  goes  to  dancing-school." 

"Yes,"  said  LTncle  Jack. 

"Are  her  eyes  big  and  blue  like  Celia's?" 

Again   Uncle  Jack  nodded. 

"Is   she   as   pretty   as   Celia?" 

"Prettier." 

"Does  she  give   you  half  her  cookies?" 

"No-o." 

"Celia  does."  with  an  air  of  triumph.  "Does  she 
kiss  you  when  you  make  up?" 

"She  won't  let  me  kiss  her." 

"Is  she  mad." 

"1   don't  know."  groaned   L'ncle  Jack. 

"Are  you  mad  ?" 

"Not   now." 

"Do  yon  have  all  her  aunts  and  uncles  and  mothers 
and  fathers  and  cousins  for  yours?" 

"1  wish  ti  1  gnc  idness   I   did  !" 

"Then" — Stuart  drew  nearer  and  looked  up  in 
l'ncle  Jack's  face — "then  why  don't  you  send  her  a 
valentine?"  he  asked. 

l'ncle  Jack  seemed   to  meditate  on   this  advice. 

"Do  you  think  it  would  be  a  good  idea?"  he  asked 
at    length. 

"Yes;  we  can  cut  out  another  heart  and  put  a 
picture  on  it,  and  I'll  make  the  letters  for  you  if  you 
like." 

"Thanks  awfully,"  said  l'ncle  Jack,  "but  I  would 
not  dare  do  that.  I  tell  you  the  kind  of  valentine  I'd 
like  to  send  my  little  girl.  I'd  like  to  get  a  big  bunch 
of  violets;  but  it's  Sunday,  you  see,  and  1  can't." 

Stuart  was  all  attention,     l'ncle  Jack  had  helped 


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make  his  heart   for  Celia;    he  hail  listeni 
hi-  nephew's  troubles  and  given   manlj    sympathy, 
ami  he  had  n.>t  laughed.     He  had  even  exchanged 
confidences.    Should  Stuart  prove  the  deserter  now? 

"You  can  get  some  violets,"  he  declared  eagerly. 
"1  know  the  flower-man  and  he'll  get  'em  for  me.  I 
sometimes  buy  a  little  hunch  for  Celia  <>r  teacher. 
I'll  go  now.    1  lot  five  cents?" 

"Bless  yon,  hoy,''  cried  Uncle  Jack.  "[  want  a 
hunch  as  big  as  your  head  !" 

Stuart  started.  "That'll  lie  more  than  five  cents," 
he  objected. 

"Can't  help  it.  Bring  the  hill  to  me.  A  hunch 
as  hit;  as  your  head,  remember." 

Stuart  was  quite  overcome  by  the  magnificence 
of  this  order,  but  still  he  lingered. 

"Say.  Uncle  Jack,  don't  you  believe  she'll  he  sorry 
when  she  sees  'em  ?" 

"1   hope  so."  saiil  Uncle  Jack,  sighing. 

"Say.  will  you  go  to  take  'em  to  her  when  I  go  to 
Celia's?    Does  site  live  near  Celia's?" 

Uncle- Jack  hesitated  a  moment,  then  he  laughed. 
Acs.  I'll  go  with  you,"  he  said.  "Come,  youngster, 
get  a  move  on  !" 

II. 

It  was  late  in  the  afternoon  when  I'ncle  Jack  and 
Stuart  set  out  on  their  tender  errand.  Uncle  Jack 
carried  a  violet  box,  and  Stuart  held  carefully  a  large 
vvhive  envelope. 

"Where  does  your  little  girl  live?"  was  Stuart's 
first  question. 

Uncle  Jack  smiled.  "That's  a  secret,"  he  said. 
"I'll  tell  you  by  and  by,  though." 

There  was  a  pleasant  mystical  flavor  about  this 
that  pleased  Stuart,  but  when  they  reached  Celia's 
gate  l.'ncle  Jack  turned  in  with  him.  "Are  you  go- 
ing to  wait  for  me?"  asked  the  little  boy. 

"Of  course,"  said  Uncle  Jack,-  with  a  pleasant  air 
of  conv-adeship. 

Stuart  rang  the  bell,  and  in  the  interval  of  waiting 
peered  anxiously  in  at  the  side  lights.  "I  wonder 
if  she's  come  herself,"  he  whispered,  excitedly;  but 
when  the  door  was  opened  it  was  not  Celia,  but 
Celia's  aunty  who  stood  before  them. 

She  was  a  very  pretty  aunty,  with  blue  eyes  like 
Celia's  and  soft  golden  hair,  and  a  happy  face  that 
"looked  like  it  loved  you,"  as  Stuart  and  Celia  had 
often  agreed.  She  wore  a  soft  blue  gown,  a  little 
darker  than  her  eyes,  and  she  looked  herself  like  a 
lady  on  a  valentine  as  she  stood  framed  in  the  white 
doorway. 

Stuart  was  disappointed,  but  Uncle  Jack  did  not 
seem  to  be. 

"Why !"  said  Celia's  aunty,  as  if  she  were  surprised 
and  then  her  cheeks  turned  a  soft  rose-color.  "Won't 
you  come  in?"  she  said  in  a  soft  voice. 

"I  will,"  replied  Stuart,  promptly.  "I  want  to  see 
Celia ;  and  he  said  he'd  wait  for  me — but  you  won't 
have  time  to  stop,  will  you?"  he  added,  turning -to  his 
uncle.  In  truth,  Uncle  Jack  had  intended  merely  to 
leave  his  valentine  at  the  door,  but  the  glimpse  of 
Celia's  aunty  had  made  him  change  his  mind. 

"I  think  I  can  stop  for  a  little  while,"  he  said,  re- 
turning his  nephew's  confidential  glance,  so  they  fol- 
lowed Miss  Burroughs  into  the  dim,  pleasant  parlor. 

There  was  a  cheerful  fire  in  the  hearth,  with  com- 
fortable chairs  drawn  up  about  it — a  pleasant  stop- 
ping place  on  a  February  afternoon.  Celia's  aunty 
sank  into  one  of  the  chairs,  and  Uncle  Jack  took 
another,  but  Stuart  looked  about  restlessly. 

"Where's  Celia?"  he  asked. 

"In  the  nursery,  looking  at  her  valentines,"  replied 


1  r  lias  aunty.  "But  wait  a  minute,  dear.  What 
have  you  in  that  big  envelope?" 

She  lilted  Stuart  on  her  knee  and  bent  her  pretty 
head  close  to  his.  for  she  knew  that  Uncle  Jack  was 
watching  her  and  she  did  not  want  to  look  in  his 
r\  cs. 

Stuart   displayed   his   treasure.      "It   isn't    as   pretty 

as  the  valentine  in  the  window."  he  said,  regretfully, 
"hut  I  couldn't  get  that  on  Sunday.    "Do  you  think 

she'll    like    it?" 

"(  )f  course.     Did  you  make  it  all  yourself,  Stuart?" 

"No.  Uncle  Jack  cut  the  heart  out  for  me;  he 
knows   more  about   hearts  than  I  do." 

"Oh!' 

"I  made  one  first,"  went  on  Stuart,  "but  it  wasn't 
just  right.  Uncle  Jack  said  it  looked  like  his  heart, 
though." 

"Really!  What  does  Uncle  Jack's  heart  look  like, 
Stuart?" 

Celia's  aunty  was  very  rosy  again,  but  she  was 
looking  very  straight  at  the  little  boy  in  her  lap.  Stu- 
art thought  she  had  forgotten  that  Uncle  Jack  was 
there. 

"Oh,  it  was  all  crumpled  and  snipped  up,"  he  re- 
plied. 

"And  with  a  girl's  face  in  it — don't  forget  that, 
youngster,"   said   Uncle  Jack,   softly. 

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February  20,  1904. 


she  pretty?"   said   Stuart   pointing   to     the   picture. 
"And  see  the  printing !    I  did  that,  myself." 

Celia's  aunty  read  it  carefully.  "And  why  were 
you  'mad'  with  Celia?"  she  asked  gravely. 

"Oh,  'cause  she  didn't  dance  with  me  when  she'd 
promised." 

"Really?  I'm  sorry,"  was  the  gentle  reply.  "I 
will  tell  Celia  so.  Now,  you'd  better  run  and  find 
her,  and  kiss  and  be  friends  again." 

But  Stuart  lingered  to  look  up  in  her  face.  Then 
suddenly  his  arms  went  about  the  pretty  neck.  "I 
wish  you  were  my  aunty  really !"  he  exclaimed. 

The  lad}'  drew  him  close  with  a  gentle  shake.  "Oh, 
you  foolish  little  boy!"  she  said,  laughing. 

Stuart  was  slipping  from  her  lap  to  the  floor,  when 
he   was  seized  with  another  inspiration. 

"Uncle  Jack,"  he  said,  "can  I  show  her  your  val- 
entine?" 

"I  don't  mind,"  said  Uncle  Jack,  carelessly.  He. 
was  lounging  back  in  the  easy-chair,  his  hands 
clasped  behind  his  head,  and  his  eyes  twinkled. 

Stuart  took  up  the  violet  box  and  opened  it  with 
great  care.  "They're  for  the  little  girl  Uncle  Jack 
likes  best,"  he  explained.  "Uncle  Jack  was  mad  with 
her,  too,  but  he  isn't  any  more,  and  so  he  got  these 
for  a  valentine.     My!  Ain't  the}'  sweet!" 

"Very   sweet,"   said   the   lady,   softly. 

"Don't  you  think  she'll  like  them?" 

"She  ought  to." 

"Uncle  Jack  says  she's  an  awful  pretty  little  girl — 
prettier  than  Celia — but  I  don't  believe  that,  do  you?" 

"No,  indeed,"  said  Celia's  aunty,  warmly.  Then 
she  lifted  the  great  bunch  of  violets,  and  a  paper 
heart  was  discovered  on  the  bottom  of  the  box. 
"What  is  this?"  she  smiled. 

"Hush !"  exclaimed  Stuart  in  a  stage  whisper. 
"Uncle  Jack  doesn't  know  about  that.  I  did  it  for 
him  'cause  he  was  afraid  to.  I  made  it  just  like  mine, 
only  it  isn't  cut  so  nice.  But  I  guess  she'll  like  it.  It 
seems  more  like  a  valentine  than  flowers  do." 

"But  I  don't  believe  Uncle  Jack  wanted  to  say  that 
in  his  valentine,"  whispered  Celia's  aunty. 

Stuart  nodded  vigorously.  "Yes,  he  did;  he  was 
just  scared.  But  I'm  not.  That  little  card  down 
there's  the  one  he  put  in.  Doesn't  Uncle  Jack  write 
funny?     I  can't  read  it,  can  you?" 

Evidently  Celia's  aunty  could  read  it,  for  the  pretty 
color  rushed  over  her  face  again  and  she  brushed  the 
cool  violets  across  it.  Uncle  Jack  was  leading  for- 
ward, one  of  his  big  hands  on  the  arm  of  the  chair, 
his  eyes  full  of  tender  beseeching. 

Stuart  looked  from  one  to  another;  then  the  light 
of  understanding  dawned  in  his  wondering  eyes. 

"Are  big  girls  like  you  little  girls  to  fellows  Uncle 
Jack's  size?"  he  questioned,  solemnly. 

Celia's  aunty  did  not  answer,  but  Stuart  knew  he 
was  right.  "Well,  then,"  he  said,  philosophically, 
"if  you're  Uncle  Jack's  little  girl,  why  don't  you 
kiss  and  be  friends  again,  like  you  told  Celia  and'nie 
to?" 

Celia's  aunty  laughed  and  hid  her  face  in  the  vio- 
lets. "Big  little  girls  don't  make  up  that  way,"  she 
murmured. 

Stuart  looked  at  her  a  moment  thoughtfully.  "Un- 
cle Jack  said  you  wouldn't  let  him  kiss  you,  but " 

he    touched    her    cheek    caressingly   with    one   small 
brown  hand — "you'll  kiss  me,  won't  you?" 

"Of  course,  you  dear  little  goose!"  exclaimed 
Celia's  aunty,  and  she  bent  down  her  pretty  head 
and  kissed  him  with  her  warm  red  lips. 

Stuart  received  the  kiss  gravely.  Then  he  slipped 
from  her  lap  and  turned  to  the  young  man  opposite. 


"Here,  Uncle  Jack,"  he  said,  "here's  your  kiss. 
I  don't  need  it.  Now  you  can  be  friends  again.  I 
guess  she  liked  your  valentine."  This  last  in  a  sat- 
isfied whisper. 

Uncle  Jack  stooped  and  kissed  the  upturned  lips. 
Then  he  laid  a  gentle  hand  on  Stuart's  shoulder  and 
turned  him  toward  the  door. 

"Thanks,  little  fellow,"  he  said.  "Now  you'd  bet- 
ter run  and  find  Celia."— Kate  Patch  in  Cosmopoli- 
tan  Magazine. 


Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkish  Baths. 


3 


DON'T    FORGET 

THAT    YOU    HAVE    YOUR    CHOICE    OF 

FINE    LIMITED    TRAINS 
ROUTES  EAST 

Over  the  Lines  of  the 


3 


Southern  Pacific 


GOLDEN    STATE    LIMITED 
OVERLAND    LIMITED 
SUNSET    LIMITED 

Will    Take  You  by    Way  of  Portland,  Oregon; 
Ogden,      Utah;     or     New     Orleans,    Louisiana; 

THE    QUICKEST    TIME 
THE    BEST    SERVICE 

EACH   WAY   EVERY   DAY 


February  ao,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


Without 
Macbeth  on  it 
what  can  yon 
expect  of  a 
lamp  chimney! 

You  need  to  know  bow  to  manage  jrom 
lamps  to  have  c  rnifort  with  them  at  small  co>t. 
Better  reui  my  Index;  I  send  it  free. 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 

HAND 
SAPOLIO 

Is  especially  valuable  during  the 
.summer  season,  when  outdoor  occu- 
pations and  sports  are  most  in  order. 

GRASS  STAINS,  MUD  STAINS 

and   CALLOUS   SPOTS 

yield   to   it,  and   it   is   particularly 

agreeable  when   used   in   the   bath 

after  violent  exercise. 

ALL  GROCERS  AND  DRUGGISTS 

S0Z0D0NT 

TOOTH  POWDER 

The  best  that  Money  and    « Co 

Experience  can  produce.    L 9 

At  all  stores,  or  by  mail  for  the  price. 
HALL  &  RUCKEL,  New  YORK,     i 


ENNEJfS  BEHF& 
^TPILET 


£IiSJiH*«si5r 
■  chapped  hands,  chafinc, 

'/and  all  afflictions  of  the  skin.  "A  little 
higher  in  price,  perhaps,  than  worthless 
substitutes,  tut  a  reason  for  it."  De- 
lightful after  shaving.  Sold  everywhere,  or 
nufled  on  receipt  of  25c. 
GERHARD  MENNEN  CO..  Newark.  N.  J. 


Mr.  Dudeley — Excuse  me,  Miss 
Sharpe,  I  had  quite  forgotten  you ; 
I  am  so  absent-minded.  Miss 
Sharpe — Yes;  I  have  noticed  the 
absence  of  mind. 

First  Writer — My  next  story 
will  be  in  dialect.  Second  Writer 
— What  for?  First  Writer— I'm 
all   out  of  plots. 


SUNBEAMS 

(Sioii-n    from    Thlava) 

Mother— Ni iv. .  Bobby,  if  you're 
good  for  ten  minutes  I'll  gi>  • 
a  penny.  Bobby-  Can't  do  it, 
mother.  <  >ur  1  li  s'  Be  •  iood  Un- 
ion 1ms  fixed  the  amalgamated 
scale  at  a  penn)  for  thre  min- 
utes. 

"I  should  think,"  said  Mrs. 
Flighty,  "that  the  criticisms  your 
husband  receives  on  his  books 
would  fairly  make  him  smart." 
Mrs.  Writealong  smiled  sadly. 
"Yes,"  she  replied,  "1  guess  they 
do,  but  they  don't  make  him 
smarter." 

Mrs.  Ascum — But  why  didn't 
you  buy  the  material  if  you  liked 
it?  Mrs.  Nurich — The  salesman 
said  it  was  domestic  dress  goods. 
Mrs.  Ascum — Well?  Mrs.  Nurich 
— You  don't  suppose  I  would  wear 
anything  meant  for  domestics,  do 
you? 

"I  suppose  there  is  such  a  thing 
as  kleptomania."  "Yes,"  answered 
the  physician.  "A  man  steals  be- 
cause he  can't  help  it."  "That  is 
the  theory.  But  in  the  majority 
of  cases  he  does  so  because  he 
thinks  the  other  fellow  can't  help 
it. 

City  Editor — See  here  !  In  your 
account  of  Congressman  Crookit's 
funeral,  you  continually  refer  to 
his  "premature  demise."     Reporter 

— Well,  he  was  a  young  man 

City  Editor — But  that  scamp's  de- 
mise couldn't  possibly  be  too  pre- 
mature. 

"What  do  you  think  of  the  py- 
rography  craze  ?"  „asked  Mrs.  Old- 
castle.  "Oh,  I  really  don't  care 
much  for  it.  Josiah  wanted  to  get 
one,  but  I  just  told  him  a  pianola 
was  plenty,  and  they  say  the  other 
thing  don't  play  the  Holy  City 
very  well,  anyway. 

At  a  recent  school  exhibition  of 
colored  children  one  of  the  deacons 
arose  and  announced  that  the  next 
thing  would  be  "a  quartet  sung  by 
sixteen  little  girls." 

"Do  you  know  that  Dr.  Cutter 
will  operate  for  appendicitis  for 
only  $50?"  asked  Mrs.  Askin. 
"Good,"  replied  her  husband.  "He 
brings  a  fashionable  disease  with- 
in the  reach  of  all." 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon,  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Doable  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a   ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
throuch  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  uii  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

625  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


TWOMEY    A    MIHOLOVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


Have  you 
a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where else,  for  whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo  have,  call  at 
this  office  and  let  us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with  us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 


F.  W.  Thompson, 
Gen'l  Western  Agt., 
623  Market  Street, 
San  Francisco. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestero  1  vs. 

Overland  Limited.  Vest. hu led.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  10.00  a.  ni.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking ca is 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary. Dining  Cars,  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change* 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  600 p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

At  la  at  tc  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a.m.Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

"Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  R itchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 

«7  Market  St.      (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


Illinois  Central  Railroad 

Tickets  to  all  points  in  the 

United  States  and  Europe 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  Gen.  Agt. 

639  Market  St.  Palace  Hotel  Bide- 


O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND,  ORE. 

And  Short  Rail  Line  from  Portland  to  all  Points 
East.  Through  Tickets  to  all  Points  all  Rail  or 
Steamship  and  Rail  at  Lowest  Rates. 

Steamer  Tickets  include  Berth  and  Meals. 

SS  OREGON  Sails  Feb.  17.  27.  March  a, 
18.  28.    April  7.  17.  27. 

SS  GEO.  W.  ELDER  Sails  Feb.  ... 
March  :i.  13.  23.    April  2.  12.  22.  "*■ 

88  OREGON  is  temporarly  in  service  instead 
of  the  COLUMBIA. 


bUUlhtHN    PACIFIC 


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3.30*- 
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4-30p 


6.00r 
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6  00i 

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V:i  i  ;i  ,■  Nh [hi,  CullatOieil.  Santa 
Ituan,    Marlines.  Sun  Itnmun 

Nlles,  Llvcruiore,  Tracy,  Lalbrop. 
Stockton 

shiiHta  ICxpreBs  —  (Via  Dnvls), 
WlllUiru  (for  Bartlelt  SprlDRs), 
Wlll.iwrt  rKruiu.  Iti'.l  UlutT, 
Portlaml,  Taciima.  Scuttle...... 

DavlB,  n Iiili.i1.  Kni^iii-  Lnudlog. 

MaryBvllle.  Orovllle 

Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Antlucb. 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stockton,  New- 
man LOS  I  in  Dos,  Mt'DtlutU, 
Armona,  Hanfonl.  VlsaHa, 
Portervllle 

PortCoatn,  Martinez,  Tracy.  Lnih- 
rop,  Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno. 
Ooelieii  Junction,  Han  lord, 
VIsaMa    Uakerullelil 

NlleB,  Ban  ,Iu»e,  LIvennore,  Stock 
ton,  (tMlltou),  lone,  Sucriiiin-nto. 
Placer*' 1  lie  Marysvllle.  C-ulco, 
lied   111  urT 

Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 
tiora.  Tuidumiie  and  Angels 

Atlantic  ftxpres-*—  Oydi-n  soil  Rant. 

Bleb d,     Martinez      and      Way 

Stations 

Tbe  Overland  Limited  —  UgUen. 
Denver.  Oinaba,  Chicago 

Vallejo 

Lob  Aneeles  Passenger —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron.  Trucy. 
Latbrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  Gosben  Junc- 
tion, Hmiford.  Lemoore,  Vlaatta. 
Bakerefleld.  Lo*  Angelep 

Hay  ward     Ntlesand  Way  Stations. 

Sacra    ,.„!,,  River  Steamers 

m*nlt:lA.  Winters.  Sacramento 
Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
MaryevlUe,  Orovllle  and  way 
stations 

Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.. 

I'ort  Costa,  Martinez  B>  roo, 
Tracy,  Latbrop.  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  port  COtitU 

Martinez. Tracy.  Stockron.  Lodl... 

Martinez. San  Uamon.ValleJo.Napa. 
Callstopa,  Santa  Roaa 

Nlles.  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl 

Harvard.  Nlles,  Irvlngton.  San  I 
Jose.  Llvermore J 

The  Owl  Limited — Newm-n.  Los 
Bases  Mendota,  Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakers ileld.  Los  Angeles. 

Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  Angclc*,  for  Chi- 
cago, vie  C.  R   I    &  P 

Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton 

II  ay  ward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

II  ay  ward.  Nlles  and  San  Jobb 

Eastern  BxprcSa— Ogdeti.  Denver, 
Omaba,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa.  Beulcle,  Sul- 
eoo.  Etnilra.  Daris,  Sacramento, 
Rock  1  In,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno.  Wada- 
worth,  Wlnnemocca 

Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday...    » 

Vallejo,  Sunday  ooly f 

Klcbmond,  ^.an,  Pablo.  Port  Coeta. 
Martinez  and  Way  Stations  

Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, MaryBVllle,  Roddlng. 
Portland,  I'uget  Suund  and  EaBt. 

Haywnrd,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun 


7  50 
7.20p 

6  20- 
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7-50* 
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4?0. 
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6  2d 
12.20p 


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1050* 
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12  20P 
1020a 

9  20* 

4.20p 

!85Cu 

111.60a 


8-50a 
12.20p 
720a 

9  .0a 


620p 

7  50p 

11.20  a 

8.50a 
11.50a 


COAST  LINE   (Narrow  Gauss) 

Foot  nt  Market  street) 

8-16*    Newark,    Cenlervlll.-.    San     Jose. 

F*- 1  ti'ii.     If. .ni  i u it     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5Jj5p 

+  2-151-  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatos.  Fetton. 
Boulder  Cr«ek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations   f  10  55* 

4  16p  Newark,  San  JoBe,  LosGatos  and  1     '855  i 
way  stations 1110  55a 

09  30f*  Honters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.  Return- 
log  from  Los  Gatos  Snnday  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

rrouiSAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  ol  Market  St.  (Slip** 

—  +7:15    9:00     11:00  a.m.      100     300     6.16  p.m 

trom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  t6:00    $8:<W 

18:05    m:Qt)A.M.       12  00    200    4  00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (KniaiMiftuir*). 

%JT  i Third  an. I    I'.iwnweud   Streets.) 

6  10a    Sao  Jose  nnd  Way  Stations.  ...  6  30p 

7  00a   8an  Jo^e  and  Way  stations.  ..     .         5  36p 

8  00a   New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld.,  only),      4.10r 
8  00a  The  Coaster— StopB  only  Sap   Jose, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  Ha- 
ter), Pajaro,  Castroville  (con- 
nection to  and  tm in  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  Snllnas.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Routes  Santa  Mar- 
garita. San  Luis  ohlBpo.  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc).  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara. Si  n  Buena- 
ventura. BAUglU  Low  Angeles...  10  46" 
6.00a  gan  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
6hu t h  Cruz, Ptu- Mir  Grove, Salinas, 
Shu  l.ulx    oi.i-i"'   and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4-10> 

10-30*   ban  Jose  and  Way  StatlotiB 1.20p 

11  30a  Santa  Clara.    Sail  Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Whv  Staiioin.  7.30p 

!  30i     San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 836a 

3  bin    Del  Monte   Kxprenn— Sania  Clara, 

San  Jose.  DelMonie.  Monterey. 

Pacific  Grove  (c tecta  at  Santa 

Clam    (or   Santa    Cruz.     Boulder 
<  ri.k  »nd  Narrow Oaage Points) 
at    Gllrov     for    Hnl  lister,     Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrov  llle  for  Snllnas.    12-1  *»»' 
3-30p  Tres  Plnos  Wav  Passenger 10  4"»a 

4  30p  "an  Jose  nnd  Wav  Stations.. +8-00a 

+5  00       -"(i    Jose,    (via    Santa  Clara)    Los 

G  aloft,    nnd    Principal    Way    Sta 

tlons  (except  Sumlavi rS.PO* 

t  30i  &an  Jose  and  Principal  Way  Station"  59. 40* 
6.t0i  Sunset  Limited.—  Redwo  d.  Sao 
Jour,  Gllroy.Sallnns.  Paso  Uobles, 
San  l-iilc  Obispo,  Bantu  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles.  Demlng.  KI  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
necte  at  PnjHro  fnr  Santa  Crux 
and    at    Cnstrovl'le    for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7  10- 

r6  1 1 1  fau  Mateo. Bereetord.ltelmont. San 
Carlos.     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks. 

M.-nloPark.  Palo  Alto t6.4>* 

6  30P    !*■  'I'  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  3}* 

8 -00p   Palo  Alio  nnd  Way  Stations 10.15a 

11   30j-   >..utliSanFianelseo.  MIllbrae.Bur 

Dgmme.   San     Mateo.    Belmont. 

San  Cariws.  He.lwnud.  Fair  Oaks. 

MjUllo  Park    and    I'aio  Alto 9-46- 

"II  30p  Ma> field.  Mountain  View.  Sunny- 
vsle.  Lawrenci'.  Santa  Clara  and 

Snn  Jose 19.45' 

A  foi   Morning  P  for  Afternoon 

Sundnt  excepted  1  suuday  only 

a  Saturday  only. 
i  stops  at  all  sinuous  uu  Sunday. 
iw  Only  i  mi  n  -  -toi  ping  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
*r«      in  \  h..7:0Ua.h..  11:^0  a.m.,  8:  JO  p.m.,  6:30 P.M.  aud 
R:0QP.M. 

The    UMO'      hmxsiei:     rOMi'AM 

ill  cull  tor  and  uhe<  k  baggage  rrom  hotels  and  resl 
ences     Telephone.  ..xchaiitfe  S3.     Inqulreof  Tick  ■ 


Girls  have  a  way  of  getting  a  lot 
of  special  scenery  on  when  they 
wait  on  table  at  a  church  social. 

sStylish^r  so  * 
Suits 

Dressy  Suits  £20 

Pants  $4.50 
My  $25.00  Suits  are  the*j 

best  in  America.  g 
O  F  Per  Cent  Saved  by  get-g 
d,  0  ting  your  suit  made  byK 


15 


JOE  POHEIM 

TBE   TAILOR 


1110-1112  M«rket  St       g 


■XMKKMtWji/tyi-/tyzy!  yiwAfiAJiyi-jiyii 


*3 


Why  Don't  You 

Travel  by  Sea? 

Special  vacation  and  Short 

Tourist  Excursion  Trips 


[xcellent      Service,     LOW      Rates       Including 

Berth  and  Meals 

Los  AntreleP,  San  Dieeo,  Paula  Cruz 

9anta  Barbara,  Monterey, 

Euresa  Seattle,  Taoonis, 

Victoria,     Vancouver,      etc. 

And  to  those  deslrlne  longer  trips   to   Alaska 
and   Mexico* 

Tor  Information  regarding  sailing  dates,  etc 
obtain  folder 
SAN    t-RANCISCO    TICKET    O'FICES 
4    New   Monta;omery    8t.     (Palace    Hotel} 
10  Market  St..  and  Broadway     Wharves. 

C.     D.     DUNANN,  General  Pass.  Aeent. 
10  Market  Street,  San  Pranolso 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  WarWar. 

Sohraer  Piano  Agency 

308-312  Post  St.3an  Francisco 


February  20,  1904. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


33 


Baltimore's    Part    in    History 

The  recent  great  fire  in  Baltimore  lias  destroyed 
nearly  all  of  the  historical  portion  01  the  city.  With 
the  exception  of  the  Cathedral  and  the  Washington 
Monument  there  is  little  left  of  the  Baltimore  that 
one  reads  about  in  history. 

Pratt  street,  for  instance,  which  lay  right  in  the 
burned  district,  was  the  scene  of  the  first  blood  shed 
in  the  Civil  War.  Along;  that  street  in  ante-tielluin 
days  it  was  customary  to  ptdl  the  railroad  cars,  on 
their  way  from  Xew  York  to  Washington.  The  cars 
arrived  at  the  Philadelphia,  Wilmington  Depot, 
north  of  the  town,  and  were  dragged  by  long  teams 
of  a  dozen  mules  strung  out  tandem  to  each  car,  and 
driven  by  a  man  who  ran  beside  them  cracking  a 
long  whip  and  blowing  a  tin  horn.  On  April  19, 
1 861,  the  Massachusetts  militia,  on  their  wa\  to 
Washington,  in  response  to  the  call  of  President 
Lincoln,  were  being  pulled  through  the  city  along 
Pratt  street  as  above  described,  when  a  mob  of 
Southern  sympathizers  attacked  the  cars  and  a  riot 
ensued. 

The  Holiday  Street  Theatre,  which  seems  to  have 
been  destroyed,  was  one  of  the  historical  playhouses 
of  the  country.  The  elder  Booth  and  many  cele- 
brated actors  first  made  their  debut  on  its  stage.  All 
the  old-time  actors  have  played  there — Mrs.  Drew, 
Forrest,   Booth,    Barrett,   etc. 

The  Marsh  Market,  as  it  was  called  in  early  days, 
or  the  Maryland  Institute  as  it  was  known  in  later 
years,  was  an  historical  building  that  stood  on  lower 
Baltimore  street.  It  was  in  that  building  that  the 
second  Democratic  convention  of  i860  assembled. 
It  was  in  this  hall  that,  during  the  war,  Artemus 
Ward  created  great  excitement  during  a  lecture 
which  he  was  delivering  in  the  presence  of  a  number 
of  Union  Generals.  It  was  just  after  Stonewall 
Jackson's  Northern  raid,  and  Ward,  in  the  course 
of  his  remarks,  said :  "We  have  very  many  able 
Generals  among  us."  Of  course  all  the  Generals 
present  smiled  and  straightened  up.  "There  are," 
said  Ward,  for  instance,  and  he  named  several  Union 
Generals,  and  then  added,  "and  Stonewall  Jackson." 
Everybody  was  astonished,  and  several  cried  out 
"Treason!  Treason!"  while  the  officers  arose  to 
leave.  Just  then  Ward  said  quietly :  "But  the  trouble 
with  him  (Jackson)  is  that  he  is  with  us  a  little  too 
often."  Everybody,  of  course,  laughed,  and  the  dis- 
affection was  changed  into  applause. 

The  Sun  building,  which  was  blown  up  in  a  vain 
effort  to  stop  the  flames,  was  the  first  iron  building 
erected  in  America,  and  I  think  in  the  world.  I  do 
not  mean  interiorally  of  iron,  but  outside.  The  Sun 
was  founded  by  George  William  Childs  and  John 
Abel  in  a  small  house  on  Light  street;  that  has  evi- 
dently been  destroyed  also.  The  Sun  was  for  a  time 
suppressed  by  the  Government  during  the  Civil  War 
and  Abel  imprisoned. 

Next  to  the  Sun  building  was  the  Third  National 
Bank,  the  scene  of  one  of  the  most  extraordinary  rob- 
beries in  the  history  of  the  country.  Several  months 
before  the  robbery  a  man  well  dressed  and  of  good 
appearance  hired  an  office  on  the  ground  floor  of  the 
adjoining  building  to  the  bank.  He  had  a  number 
of  boxes  brought  to  the  room,  and  when  some  one 
asked  him  what  he  was  going  to  do,  he  said  he  had 
not  decided,  but  that  he  might  open  a  bank.  One 
of  the  national  holidays  that  year  occurred  on  either 
a  Saturday  or  a  Monday,  and  consequently  the  bank 
remained  closed  two  days.  When  it  was  opened 
again  it  was  discovered  that  some  one  had  burrowed 
under  the  intervening  wall  and  entered  the  safe  from 


the   Moor,   robbing  it   of  a   very   large   sum   Of   money. 

Another  building  that  seems  to  ha\  e  In  en  burned 
stood  on  Lexington  and  St.  Paul  streets,  and  was 
for  years  the  home  of  Mrs.  Jerome  Bonaparte,  the 
first  wife  of  King  Jerome,  the  famous  Betsy  Pat- 
terson. She  was  the  grandmother  of  Charles  Jer- 
ome Bonaparte,  who  has  recently  attracted  atten- 
tion as  special  counsel  in  the  Postal  investigations. 
Mrs.  Bonaparte  boarded  in  the  house  referred  to  for 
many  years,  and  died  there. 

On  the  edge  of  the  burned  district  stood  the  Battle 
Monument,  erected  to  commemorate  the  battle  of 
Fort  McHenry,  immortalized  by  Keyes  in  "The  Star 
Spangled  Banner." 

Facing  the  monument  was  the  former  residence 
of  Revedy  Johnson,  later  occupied  by  a  club,  but  now 
of  course,  burned  down.  Here  the  great  lawyer  lived 
and  from  there  he  left  when  he  went  as  American 
Minister  to  England.  When  he  left  for  his  mission, 
in  a  fit  of  absent-mindedness  he  pinned  a  note  on  his 
door,  as  he  was  in  the  habit  of  doing  when  he  went  to 
dinner  every  day:  "Gone  to  dinner — will  be  back  in 
an  hour,"  and  there  on  the  door  the  notice  remained 
until  several  years  later  he  returned  and  took  it 
down  himself. 

Across  from  the  Johnson  residence  was  Barnum's 
Hotel,  one  of  the  famous  hotels  of  the  country  in  its 
day.  It  was  the  rendezvous  of  Southern  statesmen 
before  the  war.  Barnum,  the  owner,  became  very 
rich,  leaving  a  million  dollars  to  one  of  his  sons  on 
condition  that  he  would  not  become  a  Catholic 
priest.  Young  Barnum,  however,  entered  the  Jesuit 
order,  gave  up  his  great  inheritance,  and  for  many 
years  was  a  missionary  in  Northern  Alaska. 

The  Maryland  Institute  was  also  the  place  where 
the  body  of  Lincoln  was  laid  out  when  it  was 
brought  through  Baltimore  after  his  assassination, 
on  its  way  to  Springfield. 


AN  OPEN  SHOP. 

All  fair-minded  people  should  patronize  Johnson's 
Open-Shop  Restaurant   (boycotted),  725  Market  St. 

The  latest  style  in  shirts  maybe   found   at  John    W.   Oarmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


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SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    LETTER. 


February  20,  1904. 


WINTER,   WHEN    THE    NIGHTS    ARE    LONG. 
By  Francis  H.  Lee  in  The  Book  Lover. 

In  winter,  when  the  nights  are  long, 
I  sit  and  ureara  before  the  fire; 

M"y  heart  is  light,  my  love  is  strong 

For  books,  dear  friends  that  never  tire. 

In   winter,   when  the  nights   are   long. 

I  read  from  eve  till  midnight  comes; 

I  stir  my  soul  with  history; 
My  spirit  then  with  heroes  roams; 

I  quaff  of  poets'  mystery 
From  out  the  worn,  beloved  tomes. 

In   winter,  when  the  nights   are  long. 
When  lamp  burns  bright  and  fire  burns  low, 

I  hear  again  full  many  a  song, 
And   voices  out  of  the  long  ago, 

In  winter,  when  the  nights  are  long. 

Loved  poems!     Ah!   how  sweet  you  seem, 

Ballade,   rondeau,   anu   villanelle; 
Before  the  glow  I  sit  and  dream. 

Your  music  casts  o'er  me  its  spell. 
As   shadows   dance   and   embers   gleam. 

In  winter,  when  the  nights  are  long, 
I  revel.     Some  the  summer  praise. 

Its  gentle   breeze,  its  sunlight  strong; 
But  let  me  dedicate  my   lays 

To  winter,  when  the  nights  are  long. 


DUST. 

By  Virginia  Woodward  Cloud  in  Smart  Set 
Spurned  by  the  foot,  its  mystery  blows, 

Dust  of  the  galley,  dust  of  a  king. 
Of  lover  who  sang  love's  deatnless  rose — 

The  laughter  01  Time  is  a  silent  thing. 

Dust  of  the  lute  and  of  lips  that  are  dead ; 

Golden  lily  and  flowering  quince. 
Pain   forgotten  and   passion   fled, 

Hearts  that  have  loved  and  wept  long  since. 

Seed  of  the  mold  and  of  winding-sheet. 

Grain  of  gold  from  a  crumbled  crown. 
Myrrh  and  aloe  and  time-spent  sweet — 

Dust,  on  a  breath  of  the  East  blown  down. 

Snared  in  a  web  o,  wind  and  of  sun. 

Mingle  and  mis  they,  serf  and  king. 
Stripe  and  scepter  at  last  are  one — 

The  laughter  of  Time  is  a  silent  thing. 


TRAGEDY. 
By  MeCiea  Pickering  in  Smart  S<-t 
Only  a  simple  woman  she,  whom  Love 
In  some  sad,  listless  way,  grew  weary  of. 

So  plain  the  fact,  so  commonplace  the  thing, 
Empty   and    cheap   and   void    of   coloring. 

Yet  all  the  tragedies  of  earth,  I  wis, 

Have  nothing  in  their  wounds  that  hurt  like  this. 

No  grand1,  sharp  blow,  sudden  to  ease  the  pain; 
Only  the  ceaseless  ache  of  heart  and  brain. 

The   uselessness  of  toil  and   life  and   soul — 
A  causeless  journey  to  a  dreary  goal. 
Only   a  simple   woman   she,   whom   Love 
Waxed   weary  of. 


GENESIS. 

By  Arthur  Gibsjn  Hull  in  The  Keader. 
Between  his  palms  the  Potter  twirled 

The  patient  clay, 
Damp  with  his  spittle,  lightly  hurled 

It  then  away. 
Far  down   me   void  of  black  breasted   Night, 
Betwixt  the  lean  Moon  and  the  sodden  light 
Of  a  chill  dead  dawn,  it  fell.     Behold,  the  world! 


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"Elijah  Dowie,"  according  to  a  cablegram  from 
Australia,  won  out  by  a  mere  whisker  in  a  footrace 
with  a  Sydney  mob  which  liked  neither  the  man  nor 
his   doctrines. 


Pity  the  poor  newspaper  publisher  with  a  war  in 
progress  and  a  famine  in  white  paper ! 

Cleveland  for  President?  At  the  first  suggestion 
William  J.  Bryan  pops  up  from  behind  the  Hearst 
campaign  barrel  and  shrieks  "Ridiculous !" 

Chicago  club  women  have  resolved  to  wear  only 
union  corsets.  This,  we  should  explain,  is  not  a 
fashion,  but  a  labor  item. 


"Stand-patters,"  let  it  be  known,  is  the  technical 
term  for  those  Iowa  Republicans  who  do  not  care 
for  tariff  revision. 


Michael  Davitt  has  given  President  Roosevelt  a 
stout  blackthorn,  and  the  minor  statesmen  who  fre- 
quent the  White  House  are  wishing  that  he  had 
chosen  a  slap-stick  instead. 

Captain  Richmond  Pearson-Hobson  is  syndicating 
for  a  credulous  herd  of  newspapers  what  he  does 
not  know  about  the  war  in  the  Orient.  In  fine,  the 
free-kisser  has  become  a  paid  guesser. 

The  crew  of  a  Government  dredger  at  Astoria,  Ore., 
has  struck  because  hash  was  served  to  it  seven  days 
in  succession.  Consider  the  poor  soldier  who  gets 
it  every  day  in  the  year,  and  is  so  bound  by  discipline 
that  even  his  stomach  dare  not  revolt. 


A  newly-discovered  race  of  pygmies  in  Africa  is 
civilized  enough  to  select  its  wives  by  drawing  lots 
for  them,  instead  of  hunting  them  like  wild  game. 

Water  with  a  "stick"  in  it  may  cause  a  cancer  of 
the  stomach,  which,  we  hear  with  gratitude,  may  be 
cured  by  water  with  a  dash  of  radium  in  it. 

For  Hanna  alive,  Hearst  had  nothing  but  obscene 
reviling;  for  Hanna  dead  he  sheds  tears  and  rhetoric. 
Puzzle:   Find  the  hypocrite. 

The  most  ominous  thing  about  the  Russo-Japanese 
war  is  the  protracted  silence  of  Rudyard  Kipling  and 
Alfred  Austin  on  the  subject. 

Maine  will  send  an  exhibit  of  big,  red  apples  to  the 
St.  Louis  Fair,  the  season  being  a  little  late  for  a 
display  of  that  State's  equally  famous  chill-blains. 

"Rapid  transit  has  killed  chivalry  in  New  York," 
announces  an  owlish  observer  from  Boston,  where 
the  women  prefer  their  privileges  to  their  rights. 

With  scarce  a  dissentient  voice,  the  Keystone 
Press  calls  Matt  Quay's  Governor  Pennypacker 
"Penny" — and  a  bad  penny  at  that. 

While  he  rubs  the  frost-bite  out  of  his  ears,  the 
down-East  editor  writes  paragraphs  more  plaintive 
than  pungent  about  the  wickedness  of  the  ground- 
hog.   

That  Presbyterian  preacher  of  Germantown,  Pa., 
who  mailed  to  his  flock  Lenten  cards  for  which  bad 
boys  substituted  en  route  comic  valentines,  labeled 
"Adipose  Alice,"  "Skinny  Sal,"  and  the  like,  is  sub- 
scribing anew  to  the  doctrines  of  total  depravity 
and  infant  damnation. 


Chicago,  according  to  the  President  of  her  Real 
Estate  'Board,  'has  been  fairly  called  "a  filthy,  over- 
grown country  town."  For  the  sake  of  the  nation's 
internal  peace,  we  are  glad  it  was  not  a  St.  Louis 
man  who  said  it. 


.  .A  bill  before  the  Kentucky  Legislature  does  away 
with  the  secret  ballot,  substituting  a  system  of  viva 
voce  voting.  Too  long,  it  seems,  has  a  foolish  law 
interfered  with  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  Ken- 
tucky, making  delivery  of  goods  impossible. 

"The  Fighting  Priest  of  Hexton,"  an  English  anti- 
ritualist,  has  landed  in  New  York  and  called  Bishop 
Potter  "a  drawing  room  bishop  and  a  social  Sad- 
ducee,"  which  explains  Gothan's  reported  lack  of  in- 
terest in  what  is  going  on  at  Port  Arthur. 

The  impressionists  of  Germany,  whose  school  the 
Kaiser  said  produced  only  "gutter  art,"  has  retali- 
ated by  calling  his  pet  group  of  statuary  in  the  Sieg- 
esallee  "a  monumental  marble  quarry."  The  Em- 
peror's retort  is  apt  to  be  the  German  equivalent  of 
"six  months — hard." 


An  Evanston,  111.,  man,  just  dead,  weighed  112 
pounds,  was  five  feet  nine  inches  tall,  and  cherished 
the  delusion  that  he  was  a  giant  in  size  and  strength. 
The  explanation  is  that  he  was  a  woman-hater;  any 
member  of  the  down-trodden  sex  can  cure  a  delusion 
like  that  within  a  week  after  marriage. 

Where,  in  this  hour  of  conflict,  when  the  roar  of 
cannon  rends  the  firmament,  when  the  sabres  of  Japan 
are  flashing,  when  the  sons  of  the  Czar  clothe  their 
necks  with  thunder — where,  we  ask,  is  our  valorous 
fellow-townsman,  Captain-Major-Colonel-General 
Emanuel  A.  Lorenzo?  Where  is  that  legion  of  San 
Franciscans  which  he  so  gallantly  led  through  the 
columns  of  the  newspapers  against  the  embattled 
front  of  our  Spanish  foe? 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


THE  ARROGANCE  OF  OFFICE. 

Abolition  of  the  free  flower  market  on  the  city's 
most  conspicuous  corner  was  a  piece  of  unadulterated 
S:hmitzism.  The  member  of  that  office-hungry 
tribe,  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  municipal  Govern- 
ment, has  kept  in  the  background,  but  another  blood- 
brother  of  the  Mayor,  pushes  into  public  notice  his 
insolent  person,  grown  sleek  and  fat  in  two  years 
of  job-holding,  accepts  responsibility  for  this  mean- 
ness, and  tells  the  citizens  who  protest  against  it 
that  their  objections  are  only  laughable;  that  their 
protests  merely  strengthen  his  determination  to  keep 
his  order  in  force. 

The  pretense  that  the  flower-peddlers  were  chased 
away  from  Market  and  Kearny  streets  because  they 
obstructed  the  sidewalk  will  not  be  seriously  urged. 
As  we  understand  it,  the  civic  bodies  which  went 
through  the  motions  of  asking  the  Board  of  Public 
Works  to  break  up  this  flower  market,  did  not  at- 
tempt to  base  their  action  and  request  on  this  ground. 
They  called  it  a  violation  of  the  charter,  inasmuch  as 
the  vendors  in  question  held  no  permits  from  the 
Board  of  Public  Works.  Now,  such  permits  cannot 
be  granted  over  the  objection  of  the  owner  of  abut- 
ting property,  but  in  this  case  it  is  well  understood 
that  the  public-spirited  citizen  whose  property  is 
affected  not  only  permits  but  desires  the  peddlers  to 
remain.  It  is  equally  well  understood  that  the  Board 
of  Public  Works  will  not  grant  permits  for  the  use 
of  these  particular  sidewalks,  but  that  it  will  gladly 
extend  such  privileges  in  other  parts  of  the  city.  The 
civic  bodies  interested  make  no  secret  of  the  fact  that 
this  move  is  based  on  alleged  damage  to  the  trade 
of  the  shop-keeping  florists  done  by  these  licensed 
basket-merchants.  This,  too,  is  a  false  pretense.  It 
is  notorious  that  these  peddlers  in  all  the  years  they 
have  hawked  their  fragrant  wares  on  the  Kearny- 
street  corner  have  never  touched  the  high-grade  pa- 
tronage of  the  shopmen,  that  their  customers  are  and 
always  have  been  the  poor,  who  spend  dimes  on 
flowers  where  the  well-to-do  spend  dollars,  or  the 
casual  buyer,  whose  impulse  would  not  carry  him 
to  any  shop,  however  near. 

The  real  reason  for  this  detestable  revelation  of 
the  Schmitz  family's  mean-mindedness  is  to  be  found 
in  its  grudge  against  the  citizen  who  has  done  most 
to  keep  the  free  flower  market  in  existence,  the  citi- 
zen on  whose  corner  the  peddlers  stood  until  the 
Schmitz  brothers  chased  them  away.  His  one  motive 
in  permitting  and  desiring  them  to  remain  was  for 
the  good  of  San  Francisco.  Apparently  his  fellow- 
citizens  are  overwhelmingly  of  his  mind,  believing 
with  him  that  here  was  the  best  advertisement  we 
could  have  of  our  vaunted  climate — a  bright  spot  of 
beauty  in  the  midst  of  sordid  ugliness,  an  odorous 
proof  of  California's  unending  spring,  so  set  down 
against  the  roar  of  traffic  as  to  drive  itself  home  to 
the  mind  of  the  busiest  passer-by,  a  telling  argument 
to  the  stranger  from  arid  lands  or  shores  heat-cursed 
when  they  are  not  blizzard-smitten,  a  thing  of  daily 
pride  and  comfort  to  our  own  people. 

The  grudge  is  due  to  this  citizen's  intelligent  and 
patriotic  opposition  to  the  municipal  shame  and  dis- 
grace that  have  come  upon  us  with  the  Schmitz  fam- 
ily. It  would  be  hard  to  figure  out  a  revenge  more 
senseless,  more  petty  in  its  malice  than  has  been 
accomplished  in  the  driving  away  of  the  flower-ven- 
dors. The  man  at  whom  it  was  aimed  is  unhurt  ex- 
cept in  his  civic  pride.  A  few  poor  men  have  been 
robbed  of  their  chance  to  earn  a  scanty  living.  Down- 
town San  Francisco  has  been  robbed  of  the  one  thing 
it  boasted  of — California's  fragrant,  colorful  fairness. 

And  this  is  Schmitzism. 


A    STUMP    SPEECHIFYING    EXPERT. 

As  an  example  of  official  bad  manners,  Russel  L. 
Dunn,  the  so-called  expert,  employed  at  the  instance 
of  Mayor  Schmitz  to  appraise  the  property  of  the 
Spring  Valley  Water  Company,  easily  takes  first 
place.  Mr.  Dunn  is  traveling  around  the  city  ad- 
dressing public  meetings,  in  the  course  of  which 
he  loses  no  opportunity  to  make  slighting  remarks 
concerning  the  City  Engineer,  Mr.  Grunsky,  whom 
the  people  of  San  Francisco  know  to  be  a  competent 
man. 

The  value  of  Mr.  Dunn's  services  remains  to  be 
demonstrated.  He  has  filed  a  long  and  windy  report 
which  contains  almost  everything  but  the  one  thing 
he  was  asked  to  ascertain.  It  is  something  like  the 
report  of  an  inquest  that  omits  the  verdict.  The 
expert  in  his  report  instructs  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors in  almost  every  conceivable  topic  except  the 
single  one  at  issue,  which  is,  of  course,  the  value  of 
the  property.  In  view  of  these  facts,  an  inquiry  into 
the  value  of  Dunn's  services  seems  pertinent.  It  is 
no  part  of  the  duty  of  an  expert  to  travel  about  the 
city  making  stump  speeches,  and  if  he  would  spend 
more  time  ascertaining  that  for  which  he  is  paid  it 
would  be  more  to  the  purpose. 


ONLY    A    LITTLE    ONE. 

In  line  with  the  infinite  variety  of  graft  that  has 
grown  up  under  our  somewhat  confused  and  scram- 
bling form  or  forms  of  Government,  there  is  noth- 
ing quite  so  grotesque  as  the  annual  distribution  of 
seed  by  the  Agricultural  Department  and  members 
of  Congress.  It  is  amusing  enough  to  find  this  queer 
function  of  Government  make  the  inspiring  cause  of 
floods  of  eloquence  that  occupied  the  time  of  Con- 
gress for  the  period  of  about  one  business  day,  and 
it  is  not  less  grotesque  that  the  sum  and  substance 
of  all  this  storm  and  tempest  of  oratory  is  that  after 
all  the  steal  is  only  a  little  one — only  a  matter  of 
$200,000  a  year,  or  perhaps  something  more. 

Of  course  it  is  only  a  little  one,  and  for  that  reason 
perhaps  no  one  cares  to  object  very  strenuously,  but 
by  way  of  comment,  it  developed  in  course  of  the 
debate  that  certain  constituents  of  Southern  mem- 
bers were  not  content  with  seed.  One  had  written 
to  his  Congressman  for  a  pair  of  trousers.  Another 
wanted  a  hat  for  himself  and  one  for  his  wife.  Con- 
gress thought  these  requests  excruciatingly  funny, 
but  in  fact  these  simple  Southerners  are  more  logi- 
cal than  the  supposedly  enlightened  body  that 
laughed  at  them.  It  is  considered  a  proper  function 
of  Government  to  give  away  to  its  people  a  package 
of  seed  there  is  equally  good  reason  why  they  should 
be  supplied  from  the  same  source  with  boots  and 
shoes  and  breakfast  food. 

It  seems  worth  while  to  quote  what  the  reporters 
doubtless  would  characterize  as  "a  magnificent  burst 
of  oratory,"  tha't  flowed  from  the  lips  of  Hon.  Ezekiel 
Candler,  of  Mississippi,  who  is  the  inspired  prophet 
of  free  seed.    Thus  Mr.  Candler: 

"It  is  the  farmer  who  in  time  of  peace  brings  the 
balance  of  trade  to  our  shores,  and  it  is  the  farmer 
who  in  time  of  war  stands  ready  to  go  to  the  front 
and  bare  his  breast  to  defend  the  country  that  he 
loves.  It  is  the  farmer's  wife  who  kisses  her  bright- 
faced  boy  good-bye  and  faces  the  loneliness,  difficul- 
ties and  dangers  of  isolated  country  life  and  tells 
him  to  go  and  remain  so  long  as  his  services  are  nec- 
essary in  the  defense  of  his  country  and  for  the  good 
of  his  people.  It  is  she  who  under  like  circumstances 
gives  her  husband  to  the  same  cause,  and  whether 
it  be  in  success  or  in  difficulties,  whether  it  be  in 


February  37,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Funeral     Flowers 

Oh,  those  glorious  nights  I  What  crowds  of  gaily 
dressed  women  and  fashionable  loungers  strut  up 
and  down  before  the  glittering  cafes  on  the  Boule- 
vards and  the  popular  resorts  for  ices  mi  the  ter- 
races. Here  comes  the  flower-girls  with  their  has- 
kets  circulating  among  the  crowd. 

The  beautiful  young  idlers  accept  with  delight 
these  gathered,  mysterious  (lowers.  Mysterious! 
Are  they  not:  Know,  gentle  reader,  that  there  ex- 
ists right  in  the  heart  of  Paris  a  certain  questionable 
agency  having  an  understanding  with  the  leading  un- 
dertakers and  even  with  the  grave-diggers  which 
permits  them  to  take  away  all  the  magnificent  bou- 
quets, wreaths  and  roses  by  the  hundred  which — 
through  a  sentiment  of  filial  or  conjugal  affection — 
arc  daily  placed  on  the  newly-made  graves  and  cata- 
falques which  bend  beneath  their  weight. 

These  flowers  are  usually  forgotten  after  the  fun- 
eral services  and  never  thought  of  again.  People  are 
in  a  hurry  to  get  back;  that  is  easily  understood. 
Then  it  is  that  our  amiable  croquc  mors  (hired 
mourners)  give  themselves  up  to  the  pleasure  of 
gathering  these  flowers,  for  they  have  no  idea  of  for- 
getting them.  These  gentlemen  do  not  live  in  the 
clouds;  they  are  practical  people.  Silently  they 
gather  them  up  by  the  armful  and  hurriedly  throw 
them  over  the  wall  into  a  conveniently  open  tomb ; 
it  is  but  the  question  of  a  moment,  and  it  is  all  done. 
Then  some  of  the  quickest  and  most  shrewd  among 
them  bear  off  their  precious  cargo  to  their  flower 
girl  friends,  who,  with  the  deft  and  light  touch  of 
their  fairy-like  fingers,  transform  these  melancholy 
spoils  into  many  a  graceful  corsage  bouquet,  hand 
bouquet  and  single  spray  of  roses. 

In  the  evening,  with  the  first  rays  of  artificial  light 
come  our  jaunty  young  flower  girls  each  gracefully 
carrying  her  basket  of  flowers  up  and  down  the 
Boulevards,  on  the  Terraces,  into  a  thousand  pleas- 
ure resorts,  and  the  well-dressed  loungers,  anxious 
to  win  the  favors  of  certain  fashionable  women 
who  have  inspired  them  with  a  tender  sentiment, 
buy  these  flowers  at  exorbitant  prices,  and  offer  them 
to  these  ladies,  whose  faces  are  white  with  paint. 

They  accept  them  with  a  smile  of  indifference, 
sometimes  holding  them  in  their  hands  or  wearing 
them  on  their  bosoms,  and  the  reflection  of  the  gas- 
light on  their  faces  gives  them  a  wan  and  death-like 
look. 

So  it  is  that  these  pallid  spectral  beings,  decorated 
with  these  funeral  flowers,  wear  without  knowing  it 
the  emblem  of  that  love  which  they  give  and  which 
they  receive. 

(From  the  French  of  Comte  de  Villiers  de  l'lsle 
Adam. — By   Elisabeth   Aubrey.) 


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the  Spauldings  call  for  your  carpet,  and  in  a  short  time 
it  will  be  returned  looking  like  new. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


T5he    Minister    of    Foreig'n    Affairs 


Events    at    home    and    abroad    the 
Events  and      past  week  reflected  several  new  in- 

Probabilities.  ternational  tangles  in  the  near  fu- 
ture. Perhaps  the  most  important 
of  the  several  probabilities  to  this  country  is  the  an- 
nexation of  San  Domingo.  Our  warships  and  marines 
poured  shot  and  shell  into  the  gathered  hosts  of  the 
revolutionary  party  a  few  days  ago,  but  not  until 
there  was  very  much  more  than  a  reasonable  cause. 
The  rebels  fired  first.  But  the  significant  thing  about 
our  recently  taken  position  in  the  affairs  of  San  Do- 
mingo may  be  found  in  a  semi-official  statement 
from  Washington,  which  is  to  the  effect  that  so  soon 
as  the  Panama  Canal  treaty  becomes  operative,,  a 
rapid  movement  will  be  made  to  acquire  San  Do- 
mingo under  the  "manifest  destiny"  unwritten  law. 
Following  in  the  footsteps  of  this  act,  Panama  will 
be  gathered  into  our  territorial  expansion  basket. 
These  events  are  considered  as  certain  actualities 
by  the  Washington  Government,  and  the  argument  is 
that  San  Domingo  is  needed  to  complete  the  chain  of 
naval  stations  between  Porto  Rico  and  the  Pacific 
Ocean  via  Panama.  Public  opinion  seems  to  approve 
of  the  plan  because  we  already  have  Porto  Rico,  a 
base  of  operations  in  Cuba,  and  as  good  as  a  strip  of 
land  ten  miles  wide  across  Panama.  But  to  com- 
plete the  chain,  the  whole  of  Panama  and  San  Do- 
mingo are  needed,  so  that,  with  the  several  fortified 
harbors  on  the  north  coast  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  a 
hostile  force  would  have  to  run  a  gauntlet  of  fire  for 
1,500  miles  to  reach  the  canal.  This  is  not  sentimen- 
talism  on  the  part  of  American  public  opinion,  but  a 
precautionary  measure  suggested  by  clear  foresight 
into  possible  national  needs. 

Perhaps  a   better   idea  of   the 

In  the  Far  East,  territory  that  Japan  is  trying 
to  acquire  on  the  mainland  and 
what  Russia  is  trying  to  retain  possession  of  will  be 
had  when  it  is  known  that  in  square  miles  Korea  and 
Manchuria  combined  have  nearly  three  times  as 
many  as  the  whole  of  California,  or  nearly  a  third 
greater  than  Texas.  Korea  has  a  population  of  about 
9,000,000,  and  Manchuria  had  a  population  of  over 
3,000,000  when  Russia  took  possession.  Japan  has 
become  master  in  the  waters  of  the  Far  East,  and  the 
scene  of  strife  will  soon  be,  if  it  is  not  already,  trans- 
ferred to  land  engagements.  A  great  battle  between 
land  forces  has  not  yet  been  fought,  but  when  the 
contact  is  made  it  will  not  be  decisive,  no  matter  how 
disastrous  it  may  be  to  the  one  or  the  other.  Neither 
side  is  disposed  to  yield  short  of  such  victories  as 
will  make  the  one  or  the  other  unqualifiedly  supreme. 
Japan  is  really  fighting  for  national  existence,  and 
Russia  is.  fighting  for  the  retention  of  a  territory 
whose  possibilities  in  wealth  development  are  beyond 
measurement;  besides,  if  Russia  conquers  even  more 
square  miles  than  Manchuria  and  Korea  contain,  still 
more  land  will  be  required  of  China,  nor  could  China 
alone  prevent  it.  It  is  easy  enough  to  see  that  in  such 
an  event  France  and  Germany,  in  fact  all  the  nations 
of  Europe  save  Great  Britain,  would  have  commercial 
advantages  in  Russia's  possessions,  and  in  the  then 
dominated  China  by  Russian  influence ;  nor  would 
the  United  States  come  in  for  a  share.  In  short,  the 
United  States  and  England  would  be  barred  out. 
Now,  when  it  is  understood  that  the  commercial  and 
industrial  future  of  the  United  States  and  Great  Brit- 
ain must  rely  upon  open  doors  and  unrestricted  course 


in  the  regions  that  Russia  is  trying  to  absorb  for 
much  of  their  growth,  it  should  be  easy  enough  to 
see  that  as  a  mere  business  proposition  it  would  be 
idiotic  for  these  two  Anglo-Saxon  nations  to  sit  idly 
by  while  Russia  was  fencing  them  out  of  Asia's  most 
extensive  and  richest  fields  of  trade  interchange, 
which  would  then  include  Japan  as  well.  Russia's 
triumph  over  Japan  would  weaken  England's  hold 
in  India  and  America's  footing  in  the  Philippines. 
Thibet  would  have  to  yield  to  the  Bear,  and  together 
with  Russia's  present  population,  the  Czar's  direct 
and  indirect  dominion  would  include  a  good  deal 
more  than  one-third  of  the  entire  world's  population, 
with  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain  always  un- 
der the  ban  of  a  commercial  and  industrial  boycott. 
In  fact,  a  victorious  Russia  would  mean  a  backward 
movement  for  the  wheels  of  civilization,  for  the  theo- 
ries, customs,  economic  philosophy  and  science  of 
Government  of  Russians  are  so  at  war  with  the  pro- 
gressive thought  and  activity  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
that  no  pains  would  be  spared  by  the  Czar's  Govern- 
ment and  his  vast  dominions  to  check,  if  not  crush 
out  the  progressive  spirit  of  these  two  promoters  of 
good  Government,  of  trade  expansion,  of  law  and  or- 
der, and  of  a  high  individual,  national  and  world 
standard  of  political,  social  and  business  ethics — the 
United  States  and  Great  Britain.  No,  Russia  will 
not  be  allowed  to  sweep  Japan  out  of  her  line  of 
inarch  towards  her  Asiatic  grab,  which  is  degradation 
for  the  people  and  absorption  of  all  wealth  procur- 
ing and  civilizing  opportunities  and  agencies.  The  god 
of  Justice  and  human  rights  will  not  permit  such  a 
visitation  of  dire  calamity  upon  Asia  and  the  world. 

All   Europe   knows   that   it   is  just 

Situation  in      now  dwelling  far  up  on  a  volcanic 

Europe.  mountain,   and    it   knows   that   the 

smoke  it  sees  comes  from  fires 
just  below  the  crust,  and  a  lot  of  prayers  and  suppli- 
cations are  being  sent  up  for  a  hand  to  smother  the 
fires.  But  meanwhile,  lest  the  prayers  are  not 
granted,  there  is  great  stir  and  activity  everywhere 
in  military  and  naval  circles.  And  it  would  seem 
that  the  demon  of  war  is  getting  willing  ears  to  hear 
his  song  in  all  countries.  Probably  before  this  issue 
of  the  News  Letter  is  off  the  press  the  Russian  Black 
Sea  fleet  will  have  passed  the  Dardanelles  en  route 
to  the  Far  East.  This  it  could  not  do  without  the 
consent  of  Turkey,  and  as  Russia  is  so  sorely  pressed 
by  Japan's  navy,  no  doubt  she  will  have  the  Porte'.s 
consent  in  exchange  for  a  free  hand  for  the  Turks 
in  the  Balkans.  But  against  this  possibility  England 
is  augmenting  her  naval  squadron  in  the  Mediterran- 
ean to  the  dimensions  of  a  fleet.  Russia's  Baltic 
fleet  is  making  a  pretense  of  going  to  the  Far  East, 
but  it  is  not  likely  that  the  Czar  would  leave  his 
capital  without  a  water  defense.  But  there  is  no 
doubt  that  Russia  is  pushing  the  Siberian  Railway 
to  its  utmost  capacity  to  carry  reinforcements  to 
Manchuria.  She  realizes,  as  all  the  world  does,  that 
she  is  already  practically  out  of  the  game  so  far  as 
war  craft  is  concerned,  and  that  she  must  win  or 
lose  on  land.  It  is  reported  from  St.  Petersburg  that 
more  than  600,000  of  Russia's  troops  are  under  orders 
for  the  Far  East.  It  may  be  said  that  the  real  war 
has  not  yet  begun. 

Dr.  Decker, 

Dentlit,   806   Market.     Specialty   "Colton   Qu"  for  palnlsil 
ia»th   extracting. 


February  27,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A    Great    Achievement    in    Science 

Ponce  de  Leon  was  a  dreamer.  He  sailed  in  quest 
of  the  Fountain  of  Everlasting  Youth  and  found  it 
not.  Still  his  quest  resulted  in  the  discover] 
beautiful  land.  Ponce  de  Leon  did  not  live  in  vain. 
Science  has  followed  the  navigator  and  adventurer, 
and  it,  too,  has  discovered  beautiful  perspectives. 
Until  recently  the  "Fountain  of  Youth"  was  as  far 
away  as  ever.  Of  course,  no  one  will  grant  the  pos- 
sibility of  everlasting  life,  but  the  great  majority  of 
humanity  is  sighing  for  immunity  from  disease  and 
a  preservation  of  the  faculties  of  youth  until  that 
time  when  it  shall  please  God  to  let  us  into  a  gentle 
decline,  into  a  green  old  age,  and  a  fading  into  the 
infinite    without    attendant    pain. 

The  world  at  large  and  the  world  of  Science  has 
sighed  for  a  discovery  that  would  prolong  the  vigor 
of  mankind,  retain  the  ambitions  of  youth,  the  vir- 
ility of  adolescence  in  man  beyond  the  years  now 
given  him. 

It  has  remained  for  Science  to  make  efforts  that  in 
a  measure  were  nullified  by  the  methods  used. 

By  the  aid  of  an  humble  animal,  the  butt  of  jokes 
and  jibes,  looked  upon  by  the  unobservant  public  as 
a  useless  cumberer  of  the  earth,  a  great  discovery  has 
been  made.  Goat  lymph  is  the  triumph  of  modern 
animal  therapy.  This  lymph  is  extracted  from  the 
live  goat.  It  is  a  singular  fact  that  the  goat  is  about 
the  only  four-footed  animal  known  to  be  absolutely 
free  from  the  bacterial  taint  of  tuberculosis.  The 
story  is  told  of  a  tubercular  man,  suffering  in  an  ad- 
vanced stage  of  consumption,  taking  charge  of  a 
flock  of  goats,  in  one  of  the  back  counties  of  Cali- 
fornia. His  experience  unfolds  a  story  of  wonder- 
ful interest.  He  slept  in  the  open,  he  followed  his 
flock  day  by  day,  and  his  main  sustenance  was  goat 
milk.  This  and  exercise  in  the  open  air  had  been  pre- 
scribed him  by  his  physician.  The  man  recovered, 
and  in  grateful  remembrance  of  his  friend,  the  Goat, 
gives  us  an  insight  into  the  characteristics  of  this 
most  useful  animal. 

He  found  that  the  goat  is  the  most  intelligent  of 
all  animals  and  that,  under  circumstances  when  most 
animals,  notably  cattle  and  sheep,  would  lie  down 
and  die  from  sheer  lack  of  courage  in  the  battle  of 
life,  the  goat  will  go  right  on  in  its  endeavors  to  sus- 
tain existence  and  generally  win  out.  It  will  travel 
a  thousand  miles  in  search  of  salt,  and  will  find  it  in 
crevice  and  in  desert  lake,  but  salt  it  will  find. 

It  is  the  only  four-footed  animal  that  takes  scru- 
pulous care  of  its  health.  In  our  State,  where  there 
are  large  flocks  of  goats,  it  has  been  found  that  the 
goat  places  itself  in  the  hands  of  Nature  every  spring 
and  then  begins  a  wild  scramble  for  the  medicaments 
that  Nature  offers  at  this  particular  season  with  in- 
creased dynamic  energy. 

Cascara  Sagrada  is  the  main  subsistence  of  the  goat 
at  this  period,  and  the  goat  fasts  and  lives  mainly 
on  this  bark,  leaf  and  berry,  and  undergoes  a  protrac- 
ted cleansing  through  this  and  other  agencies.  This 
may  last  for  several  weeks,  and  the  result  is  a  remark- 
able thinness,  and  from  the  frantic  exercise  in  search 
of  the  shrub  the  animal  develops  every  muscle  in_  its 
body  to  perfection.  It  is  from  this  wonderfully  active, 
clean  animal  that  an  obscure,  though  talented,  Ameri- 
can physician,  obtains  the  lymph  that  is  doing  so 
much  for  the  depleted  energies  of  strenuous  man- 
kind. This  physician  was  the  logical  successor  of 
Hammond,  Pasteur,  Brown-Sequard  and  Koch.  He 
did  not  evolve  an  anti-toxin  nor  did  he  attempt  to 


create  a  new  vaccine.  He  did  not  extract  a  lymph 
from  a  dead  animal,  but  his  plan  provided  for  the  ex- 
traction of  the  lymph  from  the  goat  while  alive,  and 
then,  by  chemical  means,  prolong  the  existence  of 
the  little  life-cells  and  strengthen  them  to  the  fullest 
1  stent  before  using  them  as  a  lymph  in  the  applica- 
tion of  the  greatest  triumph  in  animal  therapy  to  the 
use  of  mankind. 


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GREAT  RETIRING  SALE 

Ever  since  the  opening  of  the  GREAT  RETIR- 
ING SALE  of  the  PATTOSIEN  COMPANY, 

the  store  has  been  continually  crowded  with 
Bargain  Seekers,  fitting  out  their  lovely  homes. 
It  is  a  positive  fact  that  out  of  every  Hundred 
Dollars'  worth  of  Furniture,  Carpets  and  Dra- 
peries bought  now  at  the  big  sale,  Forty  Dollars 
is  saved. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


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The  Century  Company  has  is- 
Mrs.  M'Lerie.  sued  the  latest  work  of  J.  J.  Bell, 
author  of  "Wee  Macgregor."  a 
volume  called  "Mrs.  M'Lerie."  Not  since  J.  M.  Bar- 
rie  tickled  our  sense  of  humor  with  "A  Window  in 
Thrums"  has  there  been  any  Scottish  writer  who 
could  claim  to  rival  him  in  subtle  insight  and  gentle 
wit  as  does  Mr.  Bell.  Mrs.  M'Lerie  is  a  quaint  and 
delightful  old  soul,  a  Scotch  Mrs.  Partington  in  her 
misuse  of  familiar  words  and  inclined  to  be  talka- 
tive. So  is  her  neighbor  and  daily  visitor,  Mrs. 
Munro,  and  between  sups  of  "dishes  of  tea,"  they  gos- 
sip over  the  happenings  in  the  neighborhood  and  give 
occasional  glimpses  of  the  homely,  simple  life  in  the 
M'Lerie  and  Munro  households.  Mrs.  M'Lerie's 
unconscious  bulls  and  her  placid  remarks  to  all  cor- 
rections, "Awheel,  it's  a'  yin,"  are  deliciously  funny, 
as,  for  instance: 

"Ay,  it  was  a'  that — a  shock  to  ma  nervous  cis- 
tern, as  the  doctor  said  to  Mistress  Scott  when  she 
fell  down  the  washin'  house  steps  intil  a  byne  o' 
sopey  watter."  When  Mrs.  M'Lerie  returns  from  a 
visit  to  the  coast,  she  receives  a  call  from  her  friend. 
"An  ye  gaed  doon  the  watter  yer  lane,  Mistress 
M'Lerie?"  "Ay,"  returned  Mrs.  M'Lerie,  laying 
down  her  Cup,  "but  if  I  wis  leevin'  to  be  a  centurion 
I  wud  never  gang  ma  lane  again."  "Ye  mean  a 
centenary — yin  that  leeves  to  be  a  hunner  year  auld." 
"Awheel,  it's  a'  yin."  On  one  of  her  visits  Mrs. 
Munro  finds  her  old  friend  ill  and  depressed  and  try- 
ing to  cure  herself  by  a  patent  medicine.  "I've 
tooken  seeven  boaxes  of  the  pills,  and  I'm  nae  bet- 
ter," she  observed  with  a  sigh.  "An'  the  paper  says 
sax  boxes  is  sufifeecient  to  effect  a  cure  in  the  maist 
convex  cases."  "Eh?  Oh,  ay;  ye  mean  complex 
cases.  Complex  is  anither  word  for  confused." 
"Awheel,  it's  a'  yin.  *  *  *  It's  a  wunner  I'm  leevin' 
yet.    It  maun  be  whit  they  ca'  a  spayciael  dispensary 

o'    Providence    that "      "Ye    mean    dispensation. 

Mistress  M'Lerie?"  "Aweel,  it's  a'  yin."  When  Mrs. 
M'Lerie  brought  a  raffle  ticket  she  expresses  doubts 
as  to  her  "man's"  approval.  "Mony's  the  time  I've 
heard  him  say  he  wud  as  shin  pit  money  on  a  horse 
race  intil  a  disruption  sale."  "Subscription  sale," 
interpolates  Mrs.  Munro.  "Aweel,  it's  a'  yin.  An' 
whit's  a  rattle  (raffle)  but  a  disruption  sale?"  Mrs. 
Dumphy,  while  calling  on  Mrs.  M'Lerie,  tells  her 
sympathetic  friend  of  a  recent  illness.  Mrs.  M'Lerie 
— "Sirs  the  day!  Wis  the  cauld  in  yer  kist?"  Mrs. 
Dumphy — Na.  The  doctor  said  there  wis  some  infor- 
mation aboot  ma — ma — ma — 'deed,  I  furget  whit  he 
ca'ed  it.  It's  the  wee  rid  wagglin'  thing  at  the  back 
o'  yer  mouth.  Mrs.  M'Lerie — I  ken  what  ye  mean, 
Mistress  Dumphy,  though  I  furgit  the  name  o'  it.  It's 
the  wee  thing  that  keeps  the  meat  frae  gaun  doon 
the  wrong  wey.  Whit's  this  they  ca'  it,  noon?  *  *  * 
I  ken  fine  if  I  cud  just  mind  it.  Mrs.  Dumphy — I  had 
it  on  the  pint  of  ma'  tongue  the  noo,  but  it  slippt 
awa'.  Mrs.  M'Lerie — I  ken!  It's  alluvial  yee're 
thinking  o' !     Yer  alluvial,  Mistress  Dumphy. 

The  recital  of  Mrs.  M'Lerie's  trials  with  her  hus- 
band during  his  convalescence  after  a  slight  illness 
is  very  amusing.  He  will  take  neither  medicine  nor 
the  nourishment  ordered  by  the  doctor.  "Sirs  the 
day!"  she  sighed  to  herself.  "Whit  am  I  to  dae  wi' 
him?  I'm  thinkin'  he's  maybe  a  wee  thing  better 
the  nicht,  but  he's  needin'  saft  nourishment,  an'  he'll 
no'  tak'  it.  *  *  *  Dearie  me!  An'  he  ca'ed  ma  bew- 
tifu'  tapioca   hens'   meat — hen's   meat!  *  *  *  I   can- 


not thole  ony  longer,"  she  thought.  "I'll  awa'  oot 
an'  see  if  I  can  get  Doctor  M'Haffie  to  come  the  noo, 
an'  see  whit's  to  be  dune.  Rubbert'll  no'  come  to 
ony  hairm  his  lanesome."  The  doctor  arrives  and  af- 
ter a  visit  of  five  minutes  pronounces  her  husband 
better.  On  Mrs.  M'Lerie's  return  to  the  kitchen, 
Mr.  M'Lerie  sat  up  in  his  chair.  "I  tell't  ye  I  wis 
better,  Sarah  !  Did  he  say  I  wis  to  get  the  toasted 
cheese?"  "Na,  no,  the  nicht,  Rubbert.  But  he  said 
ye  cud  get  a,  wee  chope  if  ye  wis  wantin'  it."  "A  wee 
chope?  H'm.  Weel,  that's  better  nor  hen's  meat 
onywey.  Ay.  I'll  tak'  a  chope — no'an  awfu'  wee  yin, 
ye  ken."  Mrs.  M'Lerie  almost  flew  to  the  butcher's. 
and  less  than  half  an  hour  later  the  chop  was  before 
her  husband.  "Dod,  Sarah,  but  that'  guid !"  he  said, 
as  he  mopped  up  the  gravy  with  a  chunk  of  bread. 
It  was  not  till  he  had  finished  that  he  noticed  she  had 
eaten  nothing.  "Ye  maun  ha'e  yer  supper,  wum- 
man,"  he  said,  looking  genuinely  distressed.  "I'm 
gaun  to  ha'e  tapioca,"  she  returned,  going  over  to 
the  oven.  "Na,  na,"  he  cried  excitedly,  "ye  maun 
ha'e  somethin'  else.  Ye'll  be  ower  hungry  fur  tap- 
ioca.    Here,  Sarah,  here !     Never  heed " 

But  Mrs.  M'Lerie  was  gazing  in  amazement  at  the 
pudding  dish,  which  did  not  contain  a  vestige  of  tap- 
ioca. Her  husband's  face  was  fiery,  and  he  looked 
like  a  child  taken  in  a  fault.  "Aw,  Sarah !"  he  mur- 
mured foolishly.  But  Sarah  had  dropped  into  a  chair 
and,  with  the  dish  in  her  lap,  was  rocking  to  and  fro 
in  a  paroxysm  of  laughter.  "Aw,  Sarah,  I  cudna — 
I  cudna  help  it,"  he  stammered.  "Ye — ye've  left  me 
the  m-medicine  onyway,"  she  cried,  and  laughed 
again.  But  soon  she  saw  that  her  partner  of  nearly 
half  a  century  was  shamefaced  and  miserable.  She 
rose,  put  the  dish  aside,  and  brought  down  his  pipe 
and  tobacco  from  the  mantelpiece.  "Ye'll  be  wantin' 
yer  smoke,  noo,  Rubbert  *  *  *  I'm  rale  gled  ye're 
better."  Perhaps  it  was  because  of  his  failing  sight 
that  he  took  her  hand  along  with  the  pipe  and  to- 
bacco. 


He  who  has  laughed,  loved  and  fought  with 
"Handy  Andy"  will  rejoice  to  meet  him  again  in  his 
new  garb,  and  he  who  has  never  met  the  lovable 
scamp  should  hasten  to  make  his  acquaintance,  for  it 
is  worth  his  while.  Should  any  one  cry  out  against 
the  reprint  of  Andy's  adventures  in  the  first  number 
let  him  remember  the  old  saying:  "Sure,  hasn't  an 
Irishman   lave   to   spake   twice." 

"Handy  Andy:  A  Tale  of  Irish  Life."  By  Samuel 
Lover.     D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York.    $1.50. 

Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  has  told  in  her  clever  way 
a  charming  little  love  tale  called  "Sylvia's  Hus- 
band," that  will  while  away  an  idle  hour.  Print, 
paper,  binding  and  story  all  combine  to  make  this 
book  a  "novelette  de  luxe."  Published  by  D.  Apple- 
ton  &  Co.,  New  York.    $1.25. 

Paul  Elder  &  Co.,  of  San  Francisco,  have  published 
"Mosaic  Essays"  for  Easter,  1904.  The  leaflets,  en- 
titled "Happiness,"  "Success,''  "Nature,"  and  Friend- 
ship," are  dainty  bits  of  literature  printed  in  origi- 
nal schemes  of  typography  and  richly  and  tastefully 
bound. 

Other  volumes  in  press  are:  "Psychological  Year 
Book,"  compiled  by  Janet  Young;  "The  Simple 
Home,",  by  Charles  Keeler;  "Fairy  Tales  Up  to 
Now,"  by  Wallace  Irwin  ;  "Impression  Broadsides  " 
by  W.  S.  Wright. 


February  27,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


HowSan  Francisco  Looks  to  Me 

By     Ferr\n.vi1d     Travera.     Tourlal.      No.  9 


I  feel  quite  gratified  at  the  attention  paid  me  by  the 
communication  you  published  in  your  last  News 
Letter,  and  signed  "Resident."  Any  one  who  causes 
a  laugh  is  really  doing  a  clever  thing,  and  how  my 
man  Roger  did  laugh  when  I  made  him  read  to  me 
the  Resident  letter.  I  told  him  I  would  permit  him 
to  reply  to  it,  but  he  begged  my  pardon,  and  said 
he  did  not  care  to  do  so,  since  in  his  opinion  it  was 
not  worth  it.  Roger  is  really  developing  under  my 
training  into  being  a  critical  fellow,  but  I  had  to 
tell  him  I  could  not  allow  him  to  have  any  opinions 
in  future.  I  pay  him  to  do  other  things  than  have 
opinions.  I  permitted  it  this  time,  since  his  idea 
agreed  so  perfectly  with  mine.  I  find  here  identically 
the  same  condition  of  affairs  existing  as  exist  at  home 
— one  may  be  insolent  to  their  superiors,  but  must  be 
polite  to  those  below  them  in  the  social  scale.  My 
position — who  I  am  and  what — I  have  tried  hard  to 
tell  before.  I  am  a  tourist.  I  have  told  wdiere  to  find 
the  genealogy  of  a  Travers,  and  I  stay  here  because 
I  like  to,  and  if  my  criticisms  bore,  they  may  go  un- 
read by  the  bored,  and  "plain  speech  and  frankness," 
while  not  being  always  dangerous,  is  generally  un- 
pleasant to  those  whose  shortcomings  are,  don't  you 
know,  sort  of  rasped.  No !  I  don't  dine  in  Taverns 
in  Fleet  street,  or  elsewhere — persons  of  Roger's 
class,  and,  in  fact,  others  of  the  lowlier  classes  may. 
My  class  may  take  a  bite  and  a  wet  out  of  curiosity, 
but  we  don't  dine  in  such  places ;  and  since  we  are 
the  only  personages  who  know  the  distinction  be- 
tween dining  and  eating,  the  tavern  question  is  truly 
not  worth  a  farthing.  I  have  tried  to  dine  at  some 
of  your  so-called  French  restaurants  here  in  the  past 
week,  and  have  acquired  a  beggarly  case  of  dys- 
pepsia. Beastly  places,  wretched  food,  ill  mannered, 
drinking  and  loud  costumes.  Maybe  these  places 
are  in  part  the  reason  that  you  folks  here  go  in  so 
heavy  for  patent  stomach  and  liver  medicines.  I 
have  seen  fairly  nice^lobking  youths  and  misses 
here  dining  in  cellar  establishments  and  the  police- 
men did  not  raid  them.  I  have  found  a  place  or  two 
that  looked  and  felt  clean,  but  not  the  places  with 
the  suggestive  lift  or  the  kind  with  the  New  York 
French  names.  I  don't  really  think  I  care  about  any 
more  of  these  experiences,  even  with  Roger  to  "chap- 
eron" me.  The  more,  don't  you  know,  you  gild  the 
unmentionable  things  of  life  the  more  noticeable  you 
make  them.  It  seems  to  me,  that  trying  too  hard  to 
hide  anything  sort  of  calls  attention,  as  it  were,  to 
the  effort.  I  have  sown  my  crop  of  oats;  they  were 
sown  quietly,  by  gad,  and  I  shall  harvest  them  in 
secrecy.  My  opinion  really  is  that  in  seeding  your 
crop  of  oats,  one  of  these  establishments  is  deucedly 
poor  ground.  The  lift  man  knows  what  your  game  is 
when  he  takes  you  up,  and  any  'one  who  sees  you 
come  down  guesses  what  crop  you-  have  been  sowing. 
A  gentleman  should  avoid  even  the  appearance  of  in- 
discretion if  he  desires  to  associate  with  people  of 
gentle  breeding  and  good  manners.  He  owes  this 
much  to  his  position.  I  am  inclined  to  regard  indis- 
cretion, and  maybe  something  worse,  as  being  a  close 
family  relation  to  the  places  that  gave  me  and  Roger 
our  disgust  and  indigestion. 

Eating  is  at  best  a  rather  vulgar  and  offensive 
thing,  and  among  those  people  whose  sensibilities 
are  easiest  shocked,  the  greatest  delicacy  in  choice  of 
food  and  manners  of  consumption  obtain.  It  is  the 
gourmand  who  feeds  in  public  in  these  places.  He 
is  usually  not  a  gentleman.  It  is  the  gourmet  that 
dines  in  privacy  and  with  delicacy. 


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Seed  time  and  the  Cox  Seed  Co.,  of  San  Francisco, 
is  doing  a  rushing  business.  This  house  deals  in 
seeds  that  are  sure  to  germinate. 


Ladies— For  a  good  complexion  try  the  Post  St    Hammam. 


Exceptionally 


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In  quality  and  flavor  it  is  the  finest 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


The  humble  agriculturist  is  chortling  in  his  glee. 
He's  as  merry  as  a  cricket,  and  as  noisy  as  can  be. 
For  the  rattle  of  the  raindrops  signifies  as  sure  as 

beans, 
The  rattle  of  the  eagles  in  the  pockets  of  his  jeans. 

And  we,  poor  city  people,  can't  afford  to  dance  and 

shout — 
There  is  trouble  with  the  larder,  and  an  air  of  painful 

doubt, 
For  we  contemplate  with  worry  and  a  trouble  that's 

intense, 
Ihe  farmer's  pleasing  market  at  a  dollar  sixty  cents. 

Teachers  want  higher  wages  in  Alameda  County. 
Dear  me,  I  always  fancied  that  the  teaching  profes- 
sion was  its  own  reward.  To  judge  by  the  beautiful 
altruistic  sentiments  expressed  at  teachers'  institutes 
the  lovely  pedagogues,  for  of  course  they  are  almost 
all  lovely,  pursue  the  raw-nosed  offspring  of  the  com- 
mon or  garden  citizen,  for  the  sole  and  exclusive 
purpose  of  doing  them  good.  These  demands  for 
cash  returns,  therefore,  are  somewhat  discouraging. 
When  the  teachers  ask  for  remuneration,  however, 
to  put  them  on  an  equality  with  lawyers  and  physi- 
cians, they  make  a  great  mistake,  for  neither  of  these 
professions  offer  anything  like  corresponding  re- 
wards to  the  young  practitioners,  and  the  teachers 
have,  moreover,  always  ahead  of  them  the  lucrative 
and  seductive  profession  of  matrimony. 

Dr.  Jordan  is  a  strong  and  in  some  respects  almost 
a  great  man,  but,  sad  to  tell,  he  posse-ses  the  almost 
boundless  capacity  of  the  college  president  for  pure 
and  unmitigated  twaddle.  These  gentlemen  all  wor- 
ship at  the  shrine  of  the  commonplace,  and  the  gen- 
ial commercialist  in  whose  hands  lie  the  present  des- 
tinies of  the  State  University  is  particularly  gifted 
as  an  apostle  of  the  ordinary.  Just  imagine  a  man 
of  Dr.  Jordan's  ability  going  all  the  way  to  Xew 
Haven,  Connecticut,  in  mid-winter,  too,  to  say,  "For 
those  students  who  have  no  serious  interest  in  their 
studies  it  is  a  matter  of  little  consequence  what  the 
college  does."  Any  old  maid  would  have  sat  on  the 
piazza  in  sunny  California  and  done  just  as  well. 

The  Supreme  Court  decision  relating  to  the  taxa- 
tion of  the  franchises  of  banking  corporations  in  San 
Francisco  means  a  great  increase  of  income  to  the 
municipality.  Ever\-  member  of  this  gang  goes 
about  with  the  look  of  a  terrier  before  a  rat-worry. 
The  extra  cash  might  be  of  some  value  to  the  city, 
but  it  won't.  Such  of  it  as  does  not  find  its  way 
into  the  hands  of  the  race-track  crowd  will  go  into 
the  pockets  of  the  masters  whom  the  anger  of  Provi- 
dence and  the  enthusiasm  of  a  virtuous  mob  in- 
flicted upon  us  last  November.  Whatever  may  be 
said  as  to  the  results  of  the  decision,  no  exception 
can  be  taken  to  the  opinion  of  Justice  Angellotti, 
which  was  the  clearest  and  most  logical,  as  well  as 
the  best  written  summary  I  have  read  for  some  time. 

The  Board  of  Fire  Commissioners  reports  that 
they  are  in  need  of  more  horses  for  the  department. 
The  Board  strikes  me  as  being  slightly  mistaken. 
What  is  really  wanted  is  fewer  donkeys. 


Griffiths'  barber  testified  that  his  actions  were 
peculiar.  That  should  be  sufficient  testimony.  Any 
man  who  can  afford  to  be  peculiar  to  his  barber  must 
be  either  non  compos  or  exceptionally  daring.  To 
most  of  us  a  barber  is  a  potentate  in  whose  presence 
we  are  obliged  to  put  on  a  bated  breath  and  whis- 
pering humbleness.  A  man  that  can  be  autocratic 
and  peculiar  with  his  barber  would  face  any  peril 
without  the  slightest  hesitation.  Such  a  one  would 
even  venture  to  ask  a  local  policeman  the  way  or 
demand  a  transfer  from  a  car  conductor  without  ray- 
ing "Please !"  Griffiths  was  mad — his  barber  says 
so.  Should  the  verdict  be  otherwise,  shaving  will  be 
dangerous  for  the  jury. 

Up  goes  the  price  of  wheat,  and  bread  will  jump 
still  higher.  This  is  the  way  that  the  deus  ex  machina 
of  modern  commerce  teaches  us  that  we  cannot  get 
away  from  one  another.  There  will  be  a  scarcity  in 
some  of  the  families  in  Tar  Flat  because  Japan 
chooses  to  make  a  row  in  the  Far  East.  The  various 
charities  will  demand  more  money  from  each  of  us, 
individually,  because  the  Muscovite  and  the  slant- 
eyed  Asiatic  have  a  private  bone  to  pick.  This  mat- 
ter of  war  will  lose  in  interest  and  gain  in  point  if 
we  are  to  be  thus  afflicted,  and  the  futile  efforts  of 
benighted  humanitarians  at  The  Hague  will  receive 
a  little  more  attention. 

It  is  one  thing  to  provide  the  local  artists  with  a 
room  at  the  Park  Museum  in  which  to  exhibit  their 
pictures ;  it  is  another  to  compel  the  public  or  any 
part  thereof  to  buy  pictures.  There  is  much  talk 
about  encouraging  local  art ;  the  only  effective  way 
is  to  buy  the  pictures  of  local  artists,  and  unless  this 
is  done,  all  the  pink  teas  and  amateur  criticism  will 
only  make  more  evident  the  importunate  facts  of  a 
slack  waist  belt  and  an  urgent  landlord.  If  we  want 
to  make  San  Francisco  an  art  center,  we  must  either 
buy  pictures  or  convert  the  painters  and  sculptors 
into  Christian  Scientists. 

A  certain  individual  was  before  the  courts  lately 
on  a  charge  of  not  supporting  his  family.  This  gen- 
tleman not  only  did  not  work,  but  he  actually  de- 
voured the  food  with  which  his  neighbors  supplied 
his  children.  This  is  a  humanitarian  age,  one  in 
which  the  back  of  the  brute  is  held  to  be  sacred.  Thr- 
eat o'  nine  tails  would  outrage  our  moral  sense,  but 
we  allow  a  monster  to  practically  devour  his  own 
offspring.  This  sort  of  humanitarianism  is  written 
more  briefly  and  truthfully  as  "humbug." 

What  untrustworthy  guides  these  spirits  are! 
Fritz  Solomon's  sister's  ghost  persuaded  him  to  the 
purchase  of  two  thousand  shares  of  worthless  oil 
stock  and  queer  medicine,  number  of  bottles  not 
mentioned,  at  ten  dollars  a  bottle.  He  grew  tired  of 
the  advice  at  the  end  of  three  years.  I  should  like 
to  have  heard  Fritz's  remarks  if  his  sister,  when  alive, 
had  ventured  an  opinion  either  on  oil  stock  or  medi- 
cine. 

Mrs.  John  Martin,  who  recently  won  her  case  in 
the  Oakland  courts,  and  who,  while  not  the  most 
dignified,  is  perhaps  the  most  eloquent  of  her  sex  in 
the  State,  says  of  the  Oakland  police :  "The  whole 
police  department  from  top  to  bottom  is  corrupt." 
This  sounds  so  suspiciously  like  the  truth  that  one 
wonders  how  on  earth  Mrs.  Martin  found  it  out. 

Commissioner  Reuben  Lloyd  has  proposed  to  fix 
the  maximum  age  of  employment  in  the  Park  grounds 
at  forty.  What  would  the  distinguished  Commis- 
sioner suggest  should  be  done  with  the  obsolete 
quadragenarians,  and  as  one  who  comes  within  the 
proscribed  age  limit,  will  he  be  the  first  to  resign  his 
commissionership  ? 


February  2j,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dear  Bessie:  The  first  week  in  Lent  is,  as  you 
know,  always  verj  dull,  especially  if  the  season  has 
been  a  gay  one,  which  having  been  the  case  this  year, 
those  who  wore  left  in  town  seemed  only  i'»>  thank- 
ful for  the  rest  and  quiet  it  lias  brought.  1  say  those 
in  town,  for  tlu-  smartest  of  the  smart  set  were  all 
down  at  Del  Monte  for  the  polo  games  and  the  pony 
races,  and  having  an  exceedingly  good  time  among 
themselves,  and  many  arc  still  away.  Julia  tells  me 
there  was  such  a  crowd  that  the  house  was  uncom- 
fortably full,  and  that  aside  from  the  interest  in  the 
polo  tournament,  which  seemed  to  center  in  Tom 
1  (riscoll,  a  man  named  Ezra  from  British  India,  and 
the  Englishman,  Captain  Neil  Haig,  the  succession 
of  gorgeous  gowns  most  of  the  women  wore,  was  the 
grandest  sight :  while  to  see  the  wearers  in  the  ball- 
room one  would  think  they  had  none  of  them  done 
the  two  step  for  a  month  at  least.  It  was  too  bad 
that  so  many  of  the  polo  players  came  to  grief,  for 
Tom  Driscoll  and  Mr.  Ezra  will  be  laid  up  with  the 
injuries  they  received  for  some  time  to  come. 

The  father  of  his  country  came  to  the  front  on 
Monday,  when  several  things  were  given  in  his 
honor.  The  Press  Club  women  made  merry  in  the 
costumes  of  colonial  days  at  Century  Hall  on  Mon- 
day night,  and  at  the  Presidio  the  ladies  of  the  28th 
Infantry  had  a  George  Washington  reception,  while 
across  the  bay  Mills  College  appeared  upon  the 
scene  after  a  long  rest  from  social  pleasures,  and 
gave  a  reception  colonial  in  character,  the  receiving 
party  wearing  costumes  of  the  18th  century.  So,  you 
see,  George  Washington  was  not  forgotten,  even  if 
the  weather  was  about  as  disagreeable  as  it  could  be. 
Other  events  of  the  week  can  be  very  briefly  summed 
up ;  Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller,  who  is  among  the  earliest 
of  the  home  comers  from  Del  Monte,  gave  a  luncheon 
on  Wednesday;  Miss  Palmanter  of  Oakland  had  a 
large  luncheon  party  in  the  palm  garden  of  the  Palace 
yesterday;  last  night  Mrs.  Joseph  Masten  gave  a  re- 
ception at  Century  Hall,  the  first  large  affair  since 
Lent  began,  and  to-night  every  one  is  going  to  Don- 
ald de  V.  Graham's  concert,  which  is  to  be  his  fare- 
well to  San  Francisco. 

Speaking  of  the  Presidio,  the  ladies  of  the  10th 
Infantry  gave  a  hop  last  Friday  night,  and  the  last 
regular  hop  under  the  old  regime  came  off  there  the 
Tuesday  night  before.  Lily  tells  me  that  the  officers 
of  the  lately  arrived  regiments  are  making  arrange- 
ments for  something  on  a  larger  scale  in  that  line 
which  will  materialize  directly  after  Lent,  so  there 
is  something  to  look  forward  to.  Major  Stephenson 
has  his  sisters  here  on  a  visit  at  his  quarters  at  the 
Presidio,  and  I  believe  they  are  to  be  here  some  time ; 
the  Major  is  so  popular  and  has  made  so  many  friends 
among  the  girls  of  the  city  they  are  sure  to  give  the 
young  ladies  a  good  time  while  here. 

Folks  have  not  yet  settled  as  to  what  they  shall 
do  to  keep  themselves  alive  during  the  dull  days  of 
sackcloth  and  ashes,  but  from  all  I  hear  I  think  it 
will  be  cards,  which  have  been  quite  a  factor  in  the 
gatherings  of  the  swim  the  past  few  weeks.  Bridge 
has  sprung  into  almost  instant  popularity,  and  to  ac- 
knowledge that  you  do  not  know  the  game,  you 
might  as  well  go  away  and  take  a  very  back  seat. 
And  what  do  you  think?  We  are  to  have  Sunday 
afternoon  bridge  parties  as  well  as  Sunday  teas,  un- 
til Easter,  at  all  events.  Five  hundred  has  its 
votaries,  too,  but  it  does  not  seem  to  have  caught  on 


to   the    same    extent;    then,    again,   there    are    a    good 

many  so  wedded  to  seven-handed  euchre  they  will 
not  even  look  the  same  way  bridge  i9  being  played, 
as  the}  both  often  .ire  at  the  same  parties.  Apropos 
of  five  hundred,  Mrs.  M .  A.  Newell  gave  a  five  hun- 
dred party  last  week  for  her  sister,  Mrs.  Ed.  Robin- 
son, who,  with  her  husband,  has  just  returned  from 
the  Philippines.  Lieutenant  Robinson  is  in  the  28th 
Infantry,  and  is  stationed  at  the  Presidio.  The  three 
Bull  girls,  Edith,  Marie  and  Kathleen,  were  among 
the  guests:  they  have  just  got  back  from  Manila, 
and   are  oft"  again   to   Europe. 

The  Doctor's  Daughters  arc  up  to  their  eyes  in 
work  preparing  for  the  horse  show  and  circus  they 
will  give  at  the  new  riding  club  on  the  25th  and  26th 
of  March.  The  boxes  are  all  sold  to  the  very  cream 
of  the  swim,  and  the  attendance  promises  to  be  won- 
derful. But  just  think  of  the  atractions !  Tony  Hell- 
man  is  to  be  the  clown  ;  Billy  Smith  (as  he  is  called) 
will  give  some  feats  of  horsemanship ;  some  of  the 
belles  and  beaux  will  appear  as  waitresses  and  peanut 
sellers,  besides  which  there  will  be  tandem  teams ; 
the  horse  in  all  its  beauty  will  be  on  parade,  and  there 
will  be  no  end  of  side  shows. 

There  is  a  good  deal  of  curiosity  manifested  as  to 
just  how  long  the  Peter  Martins  are  to  remain  with 
us.  Some  say  it  will  be  only  a  few  weeks,  others 
that  they  will  be  here  till  summer,  if  not  longer; 
anyhow,  they  have  taken  a  house  at  San  Mateo,Tmd 
so  will  be  in  touch  with  all  the  gay  doings  at  Bur- 
lingame,  which  little  settlement,  by  the  way,  gives 
promise  of  being  more  like  the  Burlingame  of  for- 
mer years  than  it  was  last  summer.  For  one  thing, 
Mrs.  Henry  Scott  will  be  back  again,  and  she,  as  you 
know,  is  a  whole  team  in  herself,  and  indefatigable 
in  getting  things  going.  I  heard  yesterday  that  she 
and  Laura  McKinstry  were  on  their  way  home  from 
Japan,  where  they  were  when  the  war  broke  out  and 
frightened  them  away,  as  they  did  not  intend  to  come 
so  soon. 

Mamie  has  been  telling  me  of  a  pretty  wedding 
that  she  was  at  last  week  in  Alameda,  which  took 
place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  sister,  Mrs.  I,  Ward 
Eaton — who  I  think  you  know — on  San  Antonia 
avenue.  Miss  Marjorie  Moore  was  the  bride  and 
Hugh  H.  Brown  the  groom,  and  the  Reverend  Brad- 
ford Leavett  officiated  under  a  bower  of  smilax  lit 
up  with  red  electric  bulbs.  I  went  over  to  Oakland 
Saturday  evening  to  the  opening  of  the  Art  Exhibit 
of  the  Starr  King  Frat,  which  being  an  invitation  re- 
ception, was  quite  an  affair.  Oaklanders  always  enter 
heart  and  soul  into  whatever  they  attempt — one  must 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


say  that  for  them — and  the  creme  de  la  creme  were 
on  hand,  of  course. 

J.  W.  Byrne  is  home  after  quite  a  visit  he  and  Mrs. 
Irvine  paid  to  New  York.  Mrs.  Monteagle — Daisy 
Paige  as  was — has  come  back  from  New  York  like 
another  creature. 

Ethel  Cohen  Bent  has  got  off  at  last  and  gone  to 
Fort  Logan  C.  Root,  where  Captain  Bent  is  stationed. 
I  hear  that  "Chalk"  is  very  much  pleased  with  his 
new  station,  which  is  near  Little  Rock,  and  thinks 
Ethel  will  be  equally  so,  for  the  people  are  said  to  be 
hospitality  itself  in  Little  Rock,  and  specially  fond 
of  the  army  folks.  The  De  Youngs,  which  includes 
Helen  and  Connie,  are  off  again  on  their  travels ; 
they  seem  unable  to  stay  at  home  for  any  great  length 
of  time,  traveling  is  to  them  such  a  pleasure,  and  now 
they  are  going  East,  but  will  spend  some  little  time 
down  South  en  route.  Mrs.  De  Young  has,  I  hear, 
something  up  her  sleeve  in  the  entertainment  line 
for  after  Easter.  The  Covington  Johnsons — Caro- 
line Rixford,  you  know — are  going  to  spend  a  year 
abroad,  leaving  here  about  the  middle  of  March ; 
they  go  first  to  Europe,  and  home  by  Asia,  if  the 
war  permits.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill  left  on  the 
steamer  China  yesterday  for  a  trip  to  Honolulu,  ex- 
pecting to  return  early  in  May;  Mrs.  John  S.  and 
Ruth  went  with  them.  Mary  Bailey  is,  I  hear,  hav- 
ing the  time  of  her  life  over  in  China  with  her  aunt, 
Mrs.  Fearon.  Poor  little  girl,  I  hope  so,  and  that  the 
war  will  not  interefere  with  her  fun,  as  it  seems  to  do 
with  the  arrangements  of  so  many.  They  say  Mrs. 
Downey  Harvey  and  her  daughters,  Maud  and  Gene- 
vieve, will  be  here  in  April,  which  I  will  believe  when 
I  see  them — it  has  so  often  been  said  before  that 
they  were  coming. 

What  do  you  think  of  Southard  Hoffman  coming 
back  here  to  settle  down  and  remain?  There's  joy 
for  you.  I  daresay  he  has  had  enough  of  Honolulu 
to  last  him  awhile.  The  Whitelaw  Reids  and  D.  O. 
Mills  will  be  here  in  a  few  days,  but  will,  as  usual, 
spend  all  the  time  of  their  stay  down  at  Millbrae ; 
the  Schroeders  and  Eugenie  Hawes,  who  arrived 
from  their  tour  of  the  world  last  week,  have  been 
down  at  Belmont  visiting  Mrs.  Phelps ;  the  Charles 
Fernalds  have  been  up  for  a  week's  visit  from  Santa 
Barbara ;  the  Watkins  go  back  to  Sausalito  next 
week.  Mabel  has  had  a  good  time  in  town  this  win- 
ter, but  is  not  sorry  to  return  home,  she  says.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Willie  Kip  returned  a  few  days  ago  from 
seeing  Mary  married  in  Omaha ;  they  spent  some  time 
with  her  and  Doctor  Robinson  in  Kansas  City,  which 
is  to  be  Mary's  future  home;  Lilly  McCalla  came 
with  them.  Mrs.  Lansing  has  gone  back  to  her  home, 
Fernside,  Alameda.  You  know,  she  has  been  over  at 
the  St.  Dunstan  all  winter.  — Elsie. 


AT  HOME. 

Monday. — Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins,  Palace  Hotel  : 
Mrs.  Joseph  Grant,  Palace  Hotel;  Mrs.  Frank 
Carolan,  Palace  Hotel;  Mrs.  William  H.  Mills, 
the  Misses  Mills,  Hotel  Cecil ;  Mrs.  Greyson  Dut- 
ton,  St.  Dunstan;  Mrs.  William  James  Shotwell, 
St.  Dunstan ;  Mrs.  J.  B.  Rawles,  Miss  Elizabeth 
Rawles,  Hotel  Cumberland ;  Mrs.  W.  I.  Kip,  Ho- 
tel Richelieu ;  Mrs.  Blair,  Miss  Jennie  Blair, 
Richelieu ;  Mrs.  George  Oulton,  Richelieu  ;  Mrs. 
Garcelon,  Richelieu. 

Tuesday. — Mrs.  J.  V.  D.  Middleton,  1001  Franklin 
street ;  Mrs.  Christian  Reis,  835  California  street ; 
Mrs.  William  Tevis,  1310  Taylor  street. 

Wednesday. — Mrs.  Joseph  A.  Donahoe,  Sutter  and 
Franklin  streets;  Mrs.  Abby  M.  Parrott,  517  Sut- 
ter street. 


Polo  and  Pony  Racing 


Under  the  Auspices  of  the  California 
Polo  and  Pony  Racing  Association  to 
Be  Held  at 


Burlingame-- Feb.  26  to  28,  both  inclusive 

VALUABLE  CUPS  OR  PRIZES  FOR  EACH  EVENT 

Those  desiring  to  participate  in  either  or  both  meetings  can  ob- 
tain entry  form  blanks  and  particulars  by  applying  to 


THOS.    A.    DRISCOLL 

Secretary  of  (be  Association" 

Room   39,  5th  Floor,  Mills    Building,   San    Francisco 


Thursday. — Mrs.  John  Parrott,  noo  O'Farrell  street; 
Mrs.  John  Boggs,  Miss  Alice  Boggs,  Van  Ness 
avenue;  Mrs.  Homer  King,  the  Misses  King,  1898 
Broadway;  Mrs.  Hyde-Smith,  Miss  Gertrude 
Smith,  719  Geary  street. 

Friday. — Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin,  Mrs.  Peter  Martin, 
2040  Broadway;  Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington,  the 
Misses  Huntington,  2840  Jackson  street;  Mrs. 
Robert  Oxnard,  2104  Broadway;  Mrs.  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  Pacific  Avenue  and  Gough ;  Mrs. 
Bowie-Detrick,  1909  Jackson  street;  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Irwin,  2180  Washington  street;  Mrs.  Norman 
McLaren,  2313  Sacramento  street;  Mrs.  Antoine 
Borel,  the  Misses  Borel,  Jackson  and  Gough 
street ;  Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels,  the  Misses  Spreck- 
els, Pacific  avenue  and  Laguna  street ;  Mrs. 
Chauncey  R.  Winslow,  1945  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs. 
Henry  C.  Breedon,  2714  Broadway;  Mrs.  Silas 
Palmer,  1901  Van  Ness  avenue ;  Mrs.  John  Simp- 
son, 2520  Vallejo  street. 

Army  ladies  at  the  Presidio. 
Mr.   and   Mrs.   Oliver   Dibble    (nee   Katherine 
Du  Val)  first  and  third  Friday,  1036  Pine  street. 

LUNCHEONS. 
.    Miss  Kohl,  Palace  Hotel,  Wednesday,  March 

2d. 

WEDDINGS. 

February  22d   (Monday  evening) — Miss  Grace  Cor- 

dell  to  Homer  Henley- 
February  23d  (Tuesday). — Miss  Alice  Conway  Bol- 
ton, daughter  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Bolton,  U. 

S.  A.,  to  Gordon  Hall,  Presidio. 
February    24th    (Wednesday) — Miss    Flora    Meister 

to  Doctor  Daniel  Hazen  Moreton,  Sacramento, 

9  p.  m. 
February  25th    (Thursday) — Mrs.   Blanche   Hubbell 

Smith  to  Alvin  Bacon  Carpenter,  of  the  city  of 

Mexico,  Oakland. 

Married  in  Manila  in  January,   Miss   Egbert, 


FOR  LENTEN  TEAS  we  have  an  endless 
variety  of  small  cakes,  at  40  to  co  cents 
a  pound.  P  WE8TERFELD  A  CO.. 
1U35  Market  St..  S.  F.      Tel.  South  713. 


February  ay,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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daughter  of  the  late  General   Egbert,  U.  S.  A., 
to   Lieutenant   Nates  Sterling,   l7.   S.    X..  son  of 

the  late  Admiral  Sterling. 
April  6th — Miss   Frances  Harris  to  Albert  Stent. 
ENGAGEMENTS. 
Judge  and  Mrs.  \Y.  L.  Pierce  announce  the  en- 
gagement of  their  daughter,    Pearl,  to  William 
R.  Hume,  of  Oakland. 

BIRTHS. 
To  Captain  and   Mrs.   Guy   Scott,  at   Fortress 
Monroe,  a  son. 


Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  last  week  were: 
C.  A.  Grow.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  O.  Swanberg.  Miss  L. 
Swanberg.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rosenblatt,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hunsaker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  L.  Boughton.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  L.  McKee.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  S.  Dickson,  Mr. 
Harry  West,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  W.  Perry,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  E.  Whitney.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Sharp, 
Mr.  John  Walthorf,  Doctor  Stribolt. 

Major  and  Mrs.  Darling  and  Miss  Hastings  have 
departed  for  the  East,  en  route  for  Europe,  for  an  ab- 
sence of  several  years.  Florence,  Italy,  will  be  their 
winter  home. 


The  recent  developments  in  the  Pleasance  will  case 
show  that  the  remarkable  old  negress,  who  in  her  life 
time  was  ever  planning  surprises,  planned  the  great- 
est surprise  of  all  to  afford  food  for  sensations  after 
her  body  was  in  the  grave.  Since  her  death  two  wills 
have  made  their  appearance,  one  willing  everything 
to  the  Bell  children  and  the  last  one  giving  her  all  to 
the  Sherwoods.  It  is  said,  however,  that  the  will 
which  will  be  admitted  to  probate  is  the  one  now  in 
the  possession  of  Senator  Moorhouse,  the  attorney 
of  Sam  Davis  of  Carson  City,  as  it  provides  for  her 
grandson,  Theodore  Stewart. 

Of  course,  under  the  laws  of  California,  a  will 
which  does  not  provide  for  living  descendents  is  void. 
If  the  proofs  are  sufficient  to.  establish  his  claim,  the 
will  in  which  he  is  mentioned  will  bowl  the  others 
over. 

There  also  appears  on  the  scene  Mrs.  Curtis  of 
Washington,  D.  C.  She  has  one-eighth  colored  blood 
in  her  veins,  and  during  her  life-time  was  the  confi- 
dential friend  and  advisor  of  Mrs.  Pleasance.  She  was 
associated  with  Mrs.  Potter  Palmer  in  the  World's 
Fair  at  Chicago,  and  is  in  charge  of  the  Colored  ex- 
hibit of  the  St.  Louis  exposition.  She  is  a  woman 
of  remarkable  attainments,  a  personal  friend  of  Mark 
Hanna  in  his  life-time,  and  a  public  speaker  from  the 
platform  for  the  Republican  party,  doing  her  work 
among  the  negro  element.  She  has  received  letters 
from  Mrs.  Pleasance  ordering  her  to  come  to  San 
Francisco  and  back  the  will  in  which  her  grandson  is 
interested.  She  is  in  possession  of  the  necessary 
proofs,  and  is  apparently  backed  by  liberal  funds. 
It  is  said  that  Mrs.  Pleasance  furnished  her  the 
money  to  collect  the  proofs  and  present  the  evidence. 

When  Miss  Hall  was  married  years  ago  in  this  city 
Mrs.  Pleasance  superintended  the  wedding  at  the 
church,  and  up  to  that  time  it  was  the  swellest  soci- 
ety event  of  the  kind  the  town  had  ever  seen.  Clad 
in  white  silk  at  that  time,  heading  the  bridal  proces- 
sion, was  a  tiny  little  girl  scattering  flowers  in  the 
bride's  path.  The  little  girl,  who  at  that  time  was 
nearly  as  much  in  evidence  as  the  bride,  has  since 
grown  to  be  Mrs.  Curtis,  the  ladv  who  is  now  in  this 
city  establishing  the  claims  of  the  grandson  of  Mrs. 
Pleasance. 


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WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

What  is  more  beautiful  or  ap- 
propriate than  MAHOGANY, 
in  COLONIAL  DESIGNS? 

We  carry  a  complete  line  of 
Parlor,  Dining  Room,  Cham- 
ber and  Living  Room  Furni- 
ture. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


In  speaking  to  the  chaperon 

I'd  use  the  most  entrancing  phrase, 

The  brightest  smile,  the  sweetest  tone. 
The  latest  charm,  the  newest  grace, 

And  all  that  art  can  teach  or  show 
To  win  her  to  my  side,  you  know. 

But  speaking  to  that  other  one 

I  should  not  use  the  slightest  wile, 

The   crudest,   simplest   truth   alone 

Should   grace   my  voice,   should   deck    my 

Then  if  she  chose  to  love,  you  see,  [smile, 

It  would  be  plain  that  she  loved  me. 

*  *  * 

Only  one  of  the  daily  papers  gave  notice  to  that 
banquet  of  Mayor  Schmitz  and  his  appointees,  at 
which  the  political  future  of  the  city  was  consid- 
ered, debated  and  settled.  It  was  a  notable  gathering, 
at  which  the  guests  fall  with  salaries  drawn)  were 
required  to  exercise  much  diplomatic  finesse  to  the 
end  that  they  should  not  honor  the  Mayor  more  than 
Abe  Ruef,  nor  Ruef  more  than  the  Mayor.  Having 
had  considerable  training  to  this  end,  they  all  acquit- 
ted themselves  creditably.  The  motif  of  the  gather- 
ing, it  is  said,  was  the  presentation  of  a  gold  badge 
to  Fire  Commissioner  Boyne,  who  had  just  been 
elected  President  of  his  board.  Whether  there  was 
more  satisfaction  in  honoring  Boyne  than  in  "pass- 
ing up". Parry  is  questionable.  It  is  my  own  opinion 
that  the  real  object  of  the  banquet,  and  the  real  rea- 
son for  the  hilarity  and  general  good-fellowship  there 
displayed  was  "the  passing  of  Parry."  He  was  there, 
to  be  sure,  but  he  was  as  a  death's  head  at  the  feast. 
His  mental  state  and  political  condition  may  be  com- 
pared to  the  appearance  of  a  chicken  during  the 
moulting  season.  All  his  tail  feathers  had  been 
plucked,  his  crest  had  fallen,  and  his  appearance 
was  woe-begone,  and  but  a  sorry  reminder  of  his 
former  pomp  and  glory.  Parry  had  planned  with  all 
his  cunning  to  be  elected  president  of  the  Fire  Com- 
mission, but  he  rode  to  political  discomfiture,  if  not 
disgrace,  upon  that  colt  which  he  "gave  away."  The 
Mayor  could  neither  forgive  nor  forget  the  colt ; 
hence  the  downfall  of  Parry.  The  opponents  of 
Schmitz  may  blame  him  for  many  things,  among 
which  are  several  appointments  for  which  he  is  re- 
sponsible. He  will  do  much,  however,  to  re-establish 
himself  in  the  good  graces  of  his  critics,  if  he  will 
now  bury  Parry  so  deep  that  he  will  never  be  heard 
from  more.    As  the  French  sav,  Parry  is  impossible. 

*  *  * 

The  report  comes  from  Chicago  that  Andy  Law- 
rence has  lost  some  of  his  peacock  feathers.  Hearst 
has  found  it  necessary  to  hand  over  the  management 
of  his  Chicago  paper  to  Foster  Coates,  formerly  of 
New  York.  Coates  is  now  down  at  Del  Monte,  thaw- 
ing out  after  a  hard  winter  in  the  city  by  the  lake. 
His  main  object  in  directing  the  American  will  be  to 
win  back  some  of  the  friendship  and  esteem  his  em- 
ployer may  have  enjoyed  in  Chicago  before  Law- 
rence turned  the  editorial  rooms  of  the  American  into 
a  bureau  for  the  creation  of  enemies.  Andy  fell  out 
with  Carter  Harrison,  and  with  several  other  big 
Democrats,  and  Hearst  found  that  his  chances  of  sup- 
port from  the  Cook  County  Democracy  were  growing 
slimmer  in  direct  proportion  to  the  personal  interest 
taken  by  his  editor  in  political  affairs.  So  Lawrence 
was  relieved  from  his  editorial  duties,  and  now  he 
is  on  what  is  known  as  "the  Presidential  staff."  That 
is  composed  of  men  who  may  be  permitted  to  submit 


suggestions,  but  who  are  not  permitted  to  hammer 
them  into  the  heads  of  Democratic  leaders  with  an 
editorial  hammer.  It  is  said  that  when  Coates  was 
sent  to  relieve  Lawrence,  Hearst  remarked :  "I'm 
lired  of  running  a  manufactory  for  the  creation  of 

enemies.    I  tried  that  in  California.     It  doesn't  pav." 

*  *  * 

Little  Tommy  Walsh  is  back  from  Washington, 
a  couple  of  hundred  dollars  to  the  good.  When  he 
went  to  the  Capitol  as  Special  Deputy  Registrar,  and 
guardian  of  the  ballots  in  the  Kahn-Livernash  con- 
test, he  drew  mileage  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  a  mile, 
and  pocketed  about  $350,  which  was  presented  to 
him  by  Uncle  Sam.  During  his  attendance  before 
the  House  Committee,  lasting  about  three  weeks,  he 
.was  allowed  $25  a  day  for  expenses.  When  it  was 
all  over,  he  had  enough  money  left  to  visit  New  York. 
Boston  and  other  places,  get  his  return  ticket  and  ar- 
rive here  with  some  $200  left.    Walsh  is  a  financier. 

*  *  * 

The  press  reports  regarding  the  probabilities  of  a 
contest  in  this  city  between  Jeffries  and  Sharkey  re- 
minds me  of  a  good  story  on  the  sailor  lad.  Sharkey 
opened  a  saloon  in  New  York  some  years  ago,  and 
fitted  it  up  without  regard  to  expense.  He  put  in 
nickel-in-the-slot  machines,  electric  banjos,  grapho- 
phones,  a  piano,  automatic  organs  and  other  noisy 
appliances.  One  evening  he  was  showing  a  friend 
around  the  place,  boasting  of  its  many  attractions, 
and  said:  "Isn't  it  all  right?  Haven't  I  got  here 
everything  a  man  could  think  of?" 

"Well,  Tom,"  said  the  friend,  "I  would  suggest 
just  one  addition." 

"What's  that?"  said  Sharkey;  "if  it's  all  right,  I'll 
get   it." 

"I  think  you  should  have  a  great  big  chandelier, 
bigger  than  any  other  in  New  York,"  said  the  friend. 

"Yes,  that's  so,  that's  so,"  said  Sharkey.  "I've 
thought  of  that,  too.  The  trouble  is  I  don't  know 
any  one  who  can  plav  the  thing." 

*  *  * 

To  Mr.  Burrell  White,  my  apologies.  His  note  to 
the  editor  last  week  is  clear  in  its  denial  that  he  did 
not  accompany  Tom  Clunie  to  the  Santa  Cruz  Moun- 
tains in  the  summer  of  1898.  Of  course,  then,  it  is 
apparent  that  I  was  mistaken  in  the  identity  of  Mr. 
Clunie's  companion  at  that  time.  Yet,  the  mistake, 
I  may  say,  was  excusable.  Mr.  Clunie's  companion 
at  Jeffreys  was  a  Mr.  White.  No  one  there  knew 
him,  nor  do  many  of  the  old  friends  of  Clunie  know 
Burrell  G.  White.  The  sameness  of  the  family 
name  led  me  to  the  conclusion  that  the  White,  of  the 
mountains,  and  the  White,  of  the  denial,  were  the 
same.  Executor  White's  protest,  however,  shows 
that  the  man  at  Jeffreys  was  "the  color  of  another 
horse." 

*  *  * 

That  note  of  denial  gives  food  for  thought.  Mr. 
White  says  he  did  not  accompany  Clunie  in  1898, 
and  that  he  had  not  even  met  the  millionaire  at  that 
time.  Clunie  went  to  the  mountains  again  in  1899 
or  1900,  and  again  he  was  accompanied  by  a  friend. 
Of  course,  Mr.  Burrell  G.  White  was  not  the  man, 
then,  for  he  says  he  never  heard  of  Jack  Clunie  until 
after  the  death  of  his  father  by  adoption,  and  Jack 
was  at  the  resort  on  the  occasion  of  Clunie's  second 
visit.  To  those  who  knew  Clunie  for  years,  it  seems 
passing  strange  that  he  should  have  chosen  as  an  ex- 
ecutor of  his  will  and  as  a  trustee  for  the  fortune  he 
left  the  boy,  not  one  of  his  old  friends  and  associates, 


February  27,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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like  Judge  Bridgford,  but  a  man  who,  from  his  own 
statement,  had  never  met  him  a>  recently  as  1898,  li 
also  seems  strange  that  Mr.  White  should  have  been 
made  a  trustee  for  a  minor  of  whom  he  ha<l  never 
heard,  until,  after  Clunie's  death,  his  will  showed  that 
he  had  left  a  fortune  to  the  lad.  Mr.  White  has  had 
an  honor  thrust  upon  him. 

*  *  * 

To  those  who  have  watched  the  progress  of  affairs 
in  connection  with  the  settlement  of  the  Fair  estate. 
the  announcement  that  Charley  Xeal  has  "passed 
out"  does  not  come  as  a  surprise.  The  firm  hand  of 
Mrs.  Herman  Oelrichs  has  been  apparent  for  some 
time  past  in  arranging  the  disposition  of  the  dollars 
left  by  her  father  and  her  brother.  It  was  rumored 
some  time  since  that  she  had  withdrawn  the  power 
of  attorney  given  her  husband,  and  gossips  also  tried 
to  spread  the  story  that  the  domestic  relations  of  the 
Oelrichs  were  not  ideal.  Prompt  denials,  however, 
laid  low  both  these  tales.  No  denial  was  made  of 
the  statement  that  Mrs.  Oelrichs  was  taking  more 
than  a  passive  interest  in  the  settlement  and  develop- 
ment of  her  properties.  As  Tessie  Fair,  she  was 
known  as  a  girl  of  firm  character. 

Like  her  father,  she  is  willing  to  put  a  fortune  in 
an  investment,  but  she  wants  to  know  what  becomes 
of  the.  money.  She  expects  her  managers  to  show 
good  reasons  for  the  expenditures  charged  to  her  ac- 
count. That  was  one  of  the  causes  leading  to  a  feel- 
ing of  discontent  with  Neal  about  the  time  of  the 
presentation  of  the  accounts  against  Charley  Fair's 
estate.  Joe  Harvey  was  allowed  $100,000;  Neal  put 
in  a  bill  f^r  $50,000,  which  was  allowed;  Seymour 
was  given  a  goodly  sum,  and  the  lawyers  also  got 
a  big  slice.  All  these  demands  went  through  without 
protest,  after  the  return  of  Mrs.  Oelrichs  to  the  East. 
She  was  dissatisfied.  And  now  comes  the  story  that 
Neal  had  been  relieved  from  his  position  of  manager 
of  the  Fair  properties.  It  is  said  a  New  York  man 
will  be  sent  here  to  take  charge  of  Mrs.  Oelrichs'  in- 
terests. Mr.  Oelrichs,  it  is  also  said,  contemplates  a 
trip  to  Paris  during  the  coming  summer. 

*  *  * 

The  hill  residents  at  Sausalito  have  formed  a  club 
for  their  especial  and  exclusive  entertainment.  They 
have  hired  a  house  on  one  of  the  upper  roads  over- 
looking the  bay,  have  installed  a  steward  who  knows 
his  business,  and  now  they  don't  care  whether  it  rains 
every  night  or  not — for  they  have  their  own  little 
house  and  their  own  congenial  crowd,  and  it  is  no 
longer  necessary  to  catch  the  after-dinner  boat  for 
a  flying  trip  to  town,  whenever  the  desire  arises  for 
mild  dissipation,  such  as  a  club  affords. 

*  #  * 

Among  the  evidences  of  the  greatness  of  California 
to  be  exhibited  at  the  St.  Louis  Exposition  will  be 
a  photograph  of  a  number  of  Olympians  swimming 
in  the  surf,  and  parading  the  ocean  beach  in  their 
bathing  suits  on  Christmas  day.  Now,  as  I  remember 
the  original  print  of  that  photograph,  the  most  at- 
tractive feature  in  it  were  the  noble  legs  of  William 
Greer  Harrison.  William  Greer  was  the  leader  of 
the  crowd  of  clubmen  at  the  beach.  He  wore  a  bath- 
ing suit,  over  which,  the  photograph  shows,  he  had 
thrown  an  overcoat  for  a  saunter  up  the  strand.  The 
overcoat  flapped  in  the  wind,  exposing  to  a  wondering 
world  the  pedestals  upon  which  William  Greer  has 
mounted  to  fame.  You  talk  about  the  pillars  that 
uphold  the  house  of  Hager !  Well,  they  may  be  ex- 
hibits of  what  is  indigenous  to  the  soil,  but  when  one 
conies  to  consider  what  may  be  developed  in  this 
land  of  wonderful  things,  then  the  Harrisonian  pe- 
dometers stand   second  to  no  man's — or  woman's, 


either.  They  are  sui  generis.  That  is  to  say.  they 
are  "the  limit."  No  man  with  that  pair  of  legs  could 
help  being  great.  Hence  the  greatness  of  William 
Harrison.  By  the  nay,  1  wonder  if  any  one 
ever  had  the  temerity  to  call  him  "Billy." 
♦  *  * 

Horseback' riding  is  becoming  a  very  popular  pas- 
time among  professional  ami  business  men.  Occa- 
sional visits  to  Burlingame,  during  the  hunting  sea- 
son, have  aroused  the  ambition  of  many  men  of  heavy 
girth,  and  now,  on  any  pleasant  Saturday  or  Sunday, 
and  frequently  during  the  early  hours  from  Monday 
to  Friday,  one  may  observe  in  the  Park,  or  at  the 
beach,  the  coming  cavaliers  of  society  galloping  along 
with  those  who  find  satisfaction  enough  in  the  exer- 
cise, and  yearn  not  for  anise  seed  bags  for  the  adorn- 
ment of  their  mantels.  Among  the  regular  riders 
are  Charley  Hanlon,  Sam  Leak,  George  Knight,  Reu- 
ben Lloyd,  Jim  McNab,'  Bob  'Bolton,  Field  the  jew- 
eler, and  several  members  of  the  Concordia  Club. 
Every  man  of  them  knows  all  about  saddlery,  all 
have  become  first-class  farriers,  and  no  student  of 
pedigrees  could  tell  more  about  Hambletonians  and 
other  stock  than  they.  Sam  Leak  says  he  has  the 
best  and  most  intelligent  pacer  that  ever  came  down 
the  pike.  To  prove  it,  he  will  tell  his  animal  to  call 
for  a  drink,  and  the  horse  will  hammer  on  the  steps 
of  the  road  house  with  his  right  fore-foot.  But  then, 
along  will  come  Charley  Hanlon,  and  he  is  ready  to 
make  affidavit  before  Judge  Troutt  that  his  particu- 
lar sugar-eating  equine  is  the  only  thing  on  hoofs 
that  knows  his  business.  The  disputation  may  be 
interesting  until  George  Knight  gallops  up,  and  in  his 
trumpet  tones  announces  that  the  other  fellows  really 
don't  know  what  they  are  talking  about,  and  insists 
that  he,  and  he  alone,  and  his  favorite  saddle  horse 
are  the  real  thing.  Of  late,  Knight  seems  to  be  de- 
voting nearly  all  his  time  to  driving.  He,  Reuben 
Lloyd  and  Jim.  McNab  are  the  finest  figures  on  horse- 
back known  to  the  Park.  If  there  are  others,  send 
in  their  names,  and  no  doubt  we  can  get  up  a  voting 
contest — for  all  the  girls,  you  know,  dearly  love  a 
handsome  cavalier. 


Pears' 

Agreeable  soap  for  the 
hands  is  one  that  dissolves 
quickly,  washes  quickly, 
rinses  quickly,  and  leaves 
the  skin  soft  and  comfort- 
able.    It  is  Pears'. 

Wholesome  soap  is  one 
that  attacks  the  dirt  but 
not  the  living  skin.  It  is 
Pears'. 

Economical  soap  is  one 
that  a  touch  of  cleanses. 
And  this  is  Pears'. 

"Established  over  300  years. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

GRAND— The  Game  Keeper. 

COLUMBIA— Denman  Thompson.    The  Old  Homestead.    Good. 

ORPHEUM—  Splendid  vaudeville. 

CALIFORNIA— The  management  still  disregarding  the  interests  of  the 
public. 

ALCAZAR— Clever,  amusing,  presentation  of  The  Wrong  Mr-  "Wright. 

FISCHER'S— Continued  success  of  Roly  Poly,  —last  week. 

T1V0LI— Last  week  of  When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home.  Crowded 
houses. 

CHUTES— One  of  the  best  shows  ever  seen  at  this  house. 


Denman  Thompson  comes  to  us  as  an  old  friend, 
and,  as  such,  he  should  have  been  welcomed,  but  the 
houses  are  poor,  while  the  performance  is  good.  The 
"Joshua  Whitcomb"  is  as  well  played  as  ever,  and 
like  old  wine,  it  increases  in  value  with  the  age  of 
the  portrayer.  Added  years  but  help  this  actor,  and 
the  sweetness  and  simplicity,  the  helpful  old  man 
in  homespun  is  enhanced. 

Mr.  Fred  Clare  as  "Happy  Jack"  is  the  only  other 
character  deserving  special  mention,  although  the 
rest  of  the  support  is  fair.  The  parts  in  which  the 
various  ladies  anl  gentlemen  are  cast  are  not  such 
as  to  bring  out  any  brilliant  latent  powers  that  may 
dwell  in  the  actor  or  actress. 

"The  Old  Homestead  Double  Quartette"  is  a  de- 
light to  the  audience,  and  as  of  old,  the  scene  show- 
ing Grace  Church  at  night  is  a  triumph  of  the  scene 
painter's  art.  The  mechanical  effects  in  lighting  are 
fine. 

It  is  probably  the  last  time  we  shall  see  old  Den- 
man Thompson,  and  when  he  is  gone,  we  may  as 
well  mourn  Joshua  Whitcomb,  for  it  will  be  many 
a  day  before  we  are  given  the  opportunity  of  again 
seeing  so  true   a   portrayal. 


.  Another  surprise  was  given  the  habitues  of  the 
Alcazar  in  the  presentation  of  "The  Wrong  Mr. 
Wright."  The  entire  company  showed  an  astound- 
ing degree  of  versatility.  The  work  of  Mr.  Durkin, 
as  the  erratic  Seymour  Sites,  who  assumes  the  name 
of  Wright,  and  who  becomes  entangled  with  a  fe- 
male detective,  was  easilv  the  best  we  have  seen  on 
the  Alcazar  stage.  Miss  Block's  "Henrietta  Oliver" 
was  an  excellent  piece  of  mimicry,  and  I  suspect  the 
lady  is  a  flirt.  The  part  seems  to  come  to  her  so 
naturally.  Maher  as  the  degenerate  Lord  Brazen- 
face,  captured  the  house,  and  whenever  he  and  Dur- 
kin held  the  boards  the  fun  was  fast  and  furious. 
Miss  Gordon  and  Miss  Starr  divided  honors  in  two 
very  pretty  parts,  in  which  mistress  and  maid  alter- 
nate. Mr.  Walter  Belasco's  detective  was  not  as 
happy  a  piece  of  work  as  some  of  the  parts  he  has 
been  cast  in.  He  makes  a  splendid  French  waiter, 
a  good  old  butler,  and  an  ideal  confidential  servant, 
but  when  it  comes  to  him  to  be  a  grenadier  of  the 
guard  or  a  detective,  his  work  is  rank. 

He   is  the   funniest   soldier  that  ever   stepped   on 
any  stage,  and  as  a  detective  is  defective. 


"Roly-Poly"  has  had  a  good  run  at  Fischer's,  and 
the  one  more  week  it  has  to  go  will  probably  show 
up  as  well  in  the  matter  of  tickets  sold  as  any  preced- 
ing it.  Next  Sunday  night.marks  the  farewell  appear- 
ance of  Kolb  and  Dill,  and  the  house  is  sure  to  be 
crowded  to  its  fullest  capacity  by  those  who  desire 
to  bid  farewell  to  these  two  popular  mummers. 


It  has  been  a  lucky  thing  for  these  gentlemen  that 
San  Francisco  was  given  a  chance  to  render  judg- 
ment between  Weber  &  Fields  and  themselves,  and 
that  judgment  is  an  almost  unanimous  verdict  that 

the  "imitation  article"  far  surpassed  the  "original." 

*  *  * 

The  California  runs  right  along  the  uneven  tenor 
c  > f  its  way  dishing  out  barn-storming  melodrama. 
Some  bright  day  some  individual  may  bring  suit  for 
obtaining  money  under  false  pretenses,  and  assas- 
sination of  the  finer  sensibilities,  and  if  it  is  a  jury 
trial,  there  is  sure  to  be  some  heavy  damages  as- 
sessed. 

*  *  * 

Thomas  J.  Smith  is  doing  stunts  at  the  Grand  in  a 
play  called  "The  Gamekeeper."  It  is  an  indifferent 
proposition  indifferently  done. 

Smith  gives  us  an  imperfect  Irish  brogue  for  half 
the  play,  and  for  the  rest  lapses  into  English.  The 
innovation  of  a  cake-walk  by  Baby  Patti,  while  Smith 
is  singing  an  Irish  song,  is  an  original  idea,  but 
rather  shocking  to  our  ideals.  O!  for  another  Scan- 
Ian  or  a  Katie  Emmet!  The  only  star  in  "The  Game- 
keeper" is  the  dog,  the  Irish  setter  Barney.  He  does 
his  part  to  perfection.     Ed.  Van  Murmel  sings  well, 

and  gave  small  audiences  much  pleasure. 

*  *  * 

"The  King  of  the  Opium  Ring"  awakens  ^he  enthu- 
siasm of  the  classical  audience  at  the  Central,  and 
that  house  is  doing  fine  business.    The  scenic  effects 

are  fine,  and  the  plav  will  have  a  good  run. 

*  *  * 

The  tramp,  tramp  of  marching  feet  and  the  martial 
music,  the  excruciatingly  funny  make-up  of  Hartman, 
will  cease  at  the  Tivoli  with  the  ringing  down  of 
the  curtain  on  Sunday  night.  "When  Johnny  Comes 
Marching  Home"  has  had  a  phenomenal  run,  and 
there  are  many  who  will  deplore  its  going  as  an  un- 
timely end. 

*  *  * 

"A  Break  for  Liberty"  is  the  next  attraction  at  the 
Central.  It  is  said  to  be  a  very  strong  pity,  founded 
on  the  escape  from  jail  of  two  burgling  brothers, 
through  the  connivance  of  the  jailor's  wife,  who  has 
fallen  in  love  with  one  of  the  above  named  gentle- 
men. The  play  has  an  additional  merit.  Both  bur- 
glars are  finally  killed. 

*  *  * 

"Miss  Hobbs" — a  play  full  of  dainty  drollery — 
will  be  given  by  the  Alcazar  Stock  next  week.  It 
was  written  by  Jerome  K.  Jerome,  and  that  is  a  guar- 
antee of  good,  clean,  quiet  fun.  There  is  a  subtle 
stream  of  sentiment  through  the  play,  and  the  Alca- 
zar Company  should  achieve  one  of  its  greatest  tri- 
umphs  in   the   whimsical    skit.      I    predict   crowded 

houses. 

*  *  * 

"The  Silver  Slipper"  begins  a  two  weeks'  engage- 
ment at  the  Columbia  on  the  night  of  March  7th. 
The  authors  of  "Florodora"  achieved  a  triumph  in 
their  first  play,  and  many  Eastern  critics  agree  in 
saying  it  is  eclipsed  by  their  second  attempt.  The 
company   numbers   one   hundred   and   twenty-five. 

*  *  * 

Coleman  and  Mexis,  who  give  a  marvelous  and 
interesting  exhibition  of  sharp-shooting,  will  present 
the  act  that  has  won  fame  on  two  continents  at  the 
Chutes   this  coming  week.     James   Hennessy,   "the 


February  27,  1904. 


monologue  man."  said  to  be  very  amusing,  will  make 
his  first  appearance  here,  and  Kelly  and  Violent-, 
the  "fashionplate  singing  duo,"  will  change  their 
songs  and  costumes.  Tfppel  and  Klimet,  the  novelty 
musical  comedians,  and  the  Melnotte  sisters,  the 
dashing  singing  and  dancing  souhrcttes,  will  vary 
their  specialties,  and  Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular 
contralto,  will  be  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs.  The 
animatoscopc  will  show  a  complete  change  of  mov- 
ing pictures  ami  the  amateurs  will  appear  on  Thurs- 
day night.  New  and  interesting  attractions  are  to 
be  found  in  every  nook  and  corner  of  the  Chutes,  and 
the  zoo,  which  is  one  of  the  sights  of  San  Francisco, 
is  constantly  in  receipt  of  rare  and  curious  animals 
from  all  quarters  of  the  globe. 

*  *  * 

The  Orpheum  promises  something  new  with  the 
coming  week.  Nirvana  and  her  trained  horse, 
"Loki,"  have  been  imported  from  Germany.  The 
two  will  appear  in  a  series  of  wonderful  tableaux. 
Besides  this,  there  are  many  new  faces  and  a  gener- 
ally entertaining  bill. 

*  *  * 

"The  Gypsy  Baron*'  will  fill  the  Tivoli  to  fullest 
capacity,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  it  will  reach  the  run 
made  by  "Johnny."  The  scenery  for  "The  Gypsy 
Baron"  is  of  elaborate  design,  and  the  costuming  is 
gorgeous.  This  is  one  of  the  immortal  operas,  and 
if  Strauss  had  never  written  anything  else,  this  alone 
would  have  sent  his  name  thundering  down  the 
aisles  of  the  temple  of  fame. 

Messrs.  Kolb  and  Dill  will  be  replaced  at  Fischer's 
by  F.  Carroll  and  John  P.  Kennedy,  two  well  known 
comedians.  The  next  play  to  be  put  on  at  this  house 
is  "The  Rounders,"  one  of  the  great  musical  suc- 
cesses at  the  "Casino,"  New  York.  Mr.  Carroll  will 
play  his  original  role  in  "The  Rounders,"  that  of  the 
Irish  Pasha,  and  Mr.  Kennedy  will  assume  the  role 
made  famous  by  Dan  Daly.  The  management  prom- 
ises a  lot  of  fine  scenic  effects,  and  the  lyrics  and 
music  show  up  splendidly  in  rehearsals. 

It  is  announced  that  Helen  Russell  will  appear  as 
a  ballet  girl  when  "The  Rounders"  is  put  on.  Now, 
I'll  have  a  chance  to  see  if  I  am  right.  I  have  main- 
tained that  her  figure  was  as  good,  if  not  better,  than 
Amber's.  I  hope  the  management  doesn't  mean  a 
ballet  girl  in  skirts.     God  forbid !     Make  it  tights, 

please! 

*  *  * 

Frank  Bacon  will  open  to-morrow  at  the  Grand 
with  "The  Hills  of  California."  For  the  public's  sake, 
for  the  sake  of  Mr.  Bacon,  and  because  the  critic  is 
tired  of  poor  shows,  we  hope  Mr.  Bacon  will  lift  us 
all  out  of  the  slough  of  Despond.  The  advance  no- 
tice gives  us  the  idea  of  something  good. 

*  *  * 

William  A.  Brady  has  been  known  so  long  in  con- 
nection with  his  theatrical  enterprises  that  most  peo- 
ple suppose  him  to  be  much  older  than  he  really  is. 
"I'm  a  former  friend  of  Mr.  Brady's,"  a  gentleman 
remarked  to  Grace  George  recently  in  Washington. 
"I  had  a  chat  and  a  drink  with  him  thirty-five  years 
ago  in  San  Francisco.  "Indeed !"  replied  Miss  George. 
"Then  the  drink  must  have  been  milk.  Thirty-five 
years  ago  Mr.  Brady  was  just  four  years  of  age  I" 

*  *  * 

Here  is  one  of  the  jokes  in  "Girls  Will  be  Girls," 
the  musical  farce  in  which  Al  Leech  and  the  three 
Rosebuds  are  starring:  Teacher — What  animal  sup- 
plies the  food  you  eat  and  the  boots  you  wear?  Stu- 
dents in  Chorus — Father! 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Grand  Opera  House 


17 


\\>.-k    l.^giiining    tO-IDOROW 
Man 


mtttn-M    thfl    delightfully    droll 

FRANK  BACON 

Ami  his  own  company  in  (ho  eorm-dy  drama 

THE    HILLS  OF  CALIFORNIA 

Keirular  matinee  Sarunlay. 

500  and  75e :  Matinees.  16c.  26c  and  60c 
ComiuK-MllS.  l'ISKE. 


Fischer's    Theatre 

The  tim.'  t.>  :irt  is  lo-<lay.    Monday  begins  the  lust  week  of 

ROLY     POLY 

And  farewell  appearance  of  KOLB    <fe    DILL. 
spI'X'IAL— Commencing  Monday  March  7th. 
Entire  change  of  plays. 

THE     ROUNDERS 

The  great  musical  comedy  success  from  the  Casino,  New  York. 

First  appearance  or  the. star  comedians,  RICHARD  F.  CARROLL 

and  JOHN  P.  KENNEDY,  and  "Our  All  Star"  Cast. 

Seats  now  on  sale. 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.    25c  and  50c 

GOTTL.HI,  Marx  &  Co, 

LetiBees  and  Managers. 

Matinee  Saturday 


Columbia  Theatre. 


To-night.  Saturday  night  and  all  next  week 
only.  • 

DENMAN     THOMPSON 

(Himself),  in  the  greatest  of  all  rural  dramas 

THE     OLD     HOMESTEAD 

Maroh  7.-"THE    SILVER    SLIPPER" 

Omhf^l  1  rT\       San  Frandsco'sGreatestMuBtc  Hall. 
\-/l  ^UCUIIJ.    O'Farrell  St.,  between  Stockton  and  Powoll  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  Feb.  28. 

VALUABLE     VAUDEVILLE 

Nirvaua.  and  her  statue  horse,  "Loki ;"  Carlin  and  Otto ,  Ander- 
son and  Briggs;  Girard  and  Gardner;  Geo.  W.  Day;  Morris  and 
Bowen;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  last  week  of 

FILSON     aod    ERROL 

Presenting  "A  Daughter  of  Bacchus." 

Prices.  10c.  25e  and  60c 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thureday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

C or\Y  rn\    Thpntrp         Belasco  &  Maybe.  Proprietors 
0«[}LrUJ      1  ntJULre.    Market  St  nearEighfli-Tel.  South  683 

Week  of  Monday,  February  29.  Matinees,  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  Eastern  dramatic  sensation 

A    BREAK    FOR    LIBERTY 

Week  of  March  7th-RIP  VAN  WINKLE. 
Prices— Evenings  10  to  60c    Matinees  10, 16,  26c 

AlrQ^ai-    TV»  £*n  h  vcl  Belasco  &  Mater,  Proprietors 

MlCaZar     ineatre    E.  D.  Pbioe,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees    Saturday    and    Sunday. 
One  week  commencing  Monday  Feb-  29, 
Jerome  K-  Jerome's  delightful  comedy 

MISS    HOBBS 

Annie  Russell's  Greatest  Success 

Evenings  26  to  76c    Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees  26  to  60c 

Monday,  March  7th— The  Popular  Comeuy 

THE  WHITE  HORSE  TAVERN 

Monday,  March  Hth— Wagner's  Mystic  Music  Drama 
"TFAL 


Magnificent  Effects. 


PARSIFA. 
Enlarged  Orchestra- 


Tivoli  Opera  House.  Corner EdML^dstreets 

Matinees   every  Saturday.    Last  times  of 

Wr^en   Jor^noy  Comes   Marchirjg   Home 

Beginning  Monday.  Feb.  29,  magnificent  revival  of 

THE    GYPSY    B0RON 

A  romantic  opera  in  three  acts  by  JOHANN  STRAUSS 

First  appearance,  in  English,  of  SIG.  DOMENICO  RUSSO,   the 

favorite  tenor.    Next— MR.  PICKWICK. 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  76c    Box  Seats,  $1- 


flfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKKND'S 

Listen   to    the   matchless   string   band   and   enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The    Cafe    Zlnkand   Is   society's   gathering    place   after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
BANKING. 


February  27,  1904. 

Parsifal 


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BRANCHES— New   York:    Salt  Lake.    Utah;    Portland.    Or. 

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WATT.  Vice-Presidents:  I.OVELL  WHITE.  Cashier;  R.  M. 
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Written  Especially  for  the  News  Letter  by  Fitzgerald 
Murphy,  Dramatizer  of  the  Work. 

"A  stupid  sacrilege.  It  would  weary  a  heathen 
and  to  a  Christian  it  is  disgraceful." — Rev.  Dr.  Park- 
hurst. 

"A  strange  mixture,  this,  of  Christianity,  Bud- 
dhism, morality,  immorality  and  vegetarianism,  all 
spun  into  a  mystic  fabric  that  it  brilliant  with  imagi- 
native gloss." — Rev.  Bishop  Potter. 

Now  that  San  Francisco  is  soon  to  witness  a  pro- 
duction of  this  great  musical  classic  in  dramatic 
Eorm,  the  conflicting  views  of  the  eminent  authorities 
quoted  above,  will  be  of  especial  interest  to  local 
theatre-goers.  Only  a  work  of  colossal  proportions 
could  produce  such  a  commotion.  This  general  hub- 
bub Minplv  demonstrates  that  the  scope  of  this  great 
art  work  is  encyclopedic — that  it  runs  the  gamut  of 
religious  emotion.  There  is  no  creed,  cult,  ism,  fad 
or  hobby  whose  adherents  do  not  discern  in  this 
drama  either  the  endorsement  or  antagonism  of 
their  pet  ideals.  The  vehement  fashion  in  which  all 
sorts  of  people  find  in  this  work  something  that  im- 
pinges on  their  special  way  of  looking  at  things, 
makes  it  clear  that  the  ideas  embodied  in  "Parsifal" 
move  along  the  central  plane  of  being.  It  awakens 
those  chords  of  emotion  that  vibrate  through  the 
vital  centres  of  human  consciousness. 

•'Parsifal"  I  consider  an  art  work  pure  and  simple. 
It  is  an  intellectual  ocean  into  which  Wagner  poured 
all  the  rivers  of  thought.  It  is  the  ripened  and  mel- 
lowed fruit  of  bis  genius.  A  many-sided  diamond 
flashing  its  variegated  rays  would  be  an  excellent 
metaphor  to  describe  this  marvelous  miracle-play. 
Different  people  see  differently-colored  rays.  Some 
see  i  be  blue,  some  see  the  red,  some  see  the  yellow, 
some  see  the  violet,  ad  infinitum — hence  the  conflict 
of  opinion  and  controversy  that  lias  arisen  regarding 
this  masterpiece. 

All  the  aspirations  of  Germany's  national  poets 
and  svmphonists  from  Bach  to  Beethoven,  from 
Weiland  to  Goethe,  are  summarized  in  "Parsifal."  If 
it  is  to  be  construed  as  a  sermon,  it  preaches  purity 
through  ignorance,  chastity  through  seclusion,  rc- 
demption  by  pity  and  sacrificial  atonement.  It  re- 
flects the  spirit  of  the  Middle  Ages. 

So  much  for  its  ethics.  Now  for  its  history.  The 
mow  of  "Parisfal"  is  not  new.  Wagner  neither 
created  it  nor  did  it  originally  grow  out  of  Chris- 
lianitv.  The  legend  of  a  youth  who  is  reared  far 
away*  from  the  world's  affairs,  who  first  meets  them 
in  a  state  of  ignorance  and  innocence,  who  ripens  in 
knowledge  by  prodigious  adventures,  and  who,  tri- 
umphing ove'r  all  obstacles,  at  last  gains  a  throne, 
in  one  form  or  another,  has  been  woven  into  the  folk- 
lore of  everv  European  people  since  the  heroic  age 
of  the  Greeks.  In  the  Middle  Ages  this  story  was 
used  by  monks  and  poets  and  warriors  as  a  setting 
lor  the'  myths  of  the  Holy  Grail  and  its  quest,  and 
what  Wagner  has  done  was  to  gather  into  a  heap, 
as  it  were,  all  the  varying  versions  of  the  legend, 
and  select  bits  from  each  of  them,  and  fashion  the 
material  into  an  epic  of  medieval  Christianity,  col- 
ored by  his  own  conception  of  religion  and  ethics. 

Now",  the  quest  of  the  Grail  is  the  greatest  theme 
that  has  come  down  to  us  from  the  early  Middle 
Ages,  and  it  can  be  regarded  as  a  mirror  of  thought, 
the  chivalry  and  the  manners  of  that  period.  Poets 
wrote  about  the  Grail,  and  bards  extolled  it.  It  was 
the  vision  of  the  asetic  and  the  golden  goal  of  knight 


February  27,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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errant  Tradition  said  that  the  Grail  was  the  chalice 
out  of  which  Christ  and  his  disciples  drank  at  the 
last  supper,  and  in  which  the  blood  from  the  Savior's 
wounds,  when  pierced  by  the  Roman  spear,  fell  as 
he  hung  upon  the  cross.  Joseph  of  Arimathea  was 
supposed  to  have  taken  the  cup  to  prison  with  him, 
where  it  miraculously  sustained  him  for  years,  and 
he  afterwards  carried  it  to  England  and  bequeathed 
it  to  his  descendants.  Tennyson  treats  of  it  in  his 
"Idols  of  the  King."  Chretian  de  Troves  sang  of 
the  Grail  even  before  Wolfram  von  Eschenbach, 
from  whose  "Parsifal"  Wagner  borrowed  much  of 
the  material  for  the  present  work. 

The  opera  was  first  produced  at  Bcyreuth  in  1882, 
and  received  its  first  presentation  in  this  country  at 
the  Metropolitan  Opera  House.  New  York,  on  last 
Christmas  eve,  and  created  the  art  sensation  of  the 
decade.  I  felt  that  the  theme  was  a  proper  one  for 
the  dramatic  stage,  and  would  be  infinitely  more  in- 
teresting when  spoken  in  chaste  English  in  blank 
verse  form  than  sung  in  German,  and  appreciated  by 
the  musically  cultured  few.  I  feel  that  my  attitude 
in  this  matter  has  been  vindicated  by  the  recent  an- 
nouncement of  Mr.  Richard  Mansfield  that  he  would 
appear  in  a  dramatic  version  of  bis  own  making  next 
season.  I  prepared  my  version  especially  for  Mr. 
Fred  Belasco,  and  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  in  this 
city  on  the  14th  of  next  month,  "Parsifal"  in  dra- 
matic form  will  receive  its  first  presentation  on  any 
stage. 

One  of  the  strangest  characters  in  the  play  is  Kun- 
dry,  a  beautiful  incarnation  of  good  and  evil ;  Kling- 
sor,  the  magician,  in  his  incantation,  calls  her,  and 
thus  describes  her: 

"Arise !     Draw  near  to  me ! 

Thy  master  calls   thee,  nameless  woman — 

She-Lucifer !     Rose  of  Hades ! 

Herodias  wert  thou ! — " 

The  characters  are  all  symbolic.  Amfortas  rep- 
resents erring  Humanity.  Parsifal  is  Salvation. 
Kundry  is  the  eternal  woman,  a  mixture  of  good  and 
evil.  The  entire  play  is  medieval  Christianity  sym- 
bolized by  art. 


BANKING. 


Dr.  Emma  L.  Merritt,  executrix  of  the  estate  of 
the  late  Adolph  Sutro,  has  authorized  Baldwin  & 
Howell  to  sell  at  peremptory  auction  several  choice 
pieces  of  real  estate.  The  lots  to  be  sold  comprise : 
Ocean  Boulevard  lots,  fronting  on  48th  avenue  and 
Ocean  Boulevard,  between  O  and  P  streets ;  lots  25X 
T30  feet,  with  double  frontage,  adjoining  a  magni- 
ficent $7,000  residence.  Park  and  Marine  View 
block;  in  50  subdivisions,  25x100  and  25x120  each, 
fronting  on  Fulton  and  C  streets,  46th  and  47  aves. ; 
two  blocks  to  the  boulevard  and  car  lines ;  superb 
view  of  Golden  Gate  Park  and  ocean.  Eight  unsold 
lots  on  high  sightly  elevation  in  block  225,  on  Cliff 
ave.,  Clement  street,  44th  and  45  aves.  Entire  block 
on  Ashbury  Heights  or  in  subdivisions ;  double  front- 
age lots  on  Clarendon  ave.  and  Ashbury  street,  on 
electric  car  line ;  transfer  privileges  to  all  parts  of  the 
city;  Masonic  ave.  and  loth  street  cars  passing; 
splendid  view  of  city.  The  sale  will  take  place  at 
the  office  of  Baldwin  &  Howell,  25  Post  street.  The 
terms  of  sale  will  be  for  cash,  and  subject  to  confir- 
mation by  the  Superior  Court. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  -jtn  andi  Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 


Tbe  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine   Sis.,   San   Franclsc*. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON.  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON.  Vlcc- 
l'resldent;  LEWIS  I.  COWOILL.  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE.  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital.    Jim.nno.      Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits.    $200,000 

DIKECTultS-Willlam  J.  Dutton,  C.  S.  Benedict,  William 
Pierce  Johnson.   H.   E.    Huntington,   George  A.   Newhall,   George 

A.  Pope,  James  K.  Wilson,  L.  I.  Cowglll,  W.  H.  Talbot. 
AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drcxel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— lirown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 

HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 

Paid-up  Capital.  18.700,000  Reserve  Fund,  $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  $x0, 000.000 

HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President. 

B.  E.  Walker.  General  Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 

LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 

NEW    YORK    OFFICE— 16    Exchange    Place. 

BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlln,      Cranbrook, 

Fernle.    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmlth,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 

New   Westminster,   Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN   YUKON   TERRITORY— Dawson   and  White   Horse. 
IN  UNITEju  STATES— Portland.  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska.) 

Also    80    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,  N.  W.   Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN    LONDON— The   Bank  of  England,    the  Bank   of 

Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 

Bank,    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
SAN     FRANCISCO    0FFICE- 


325  California  Street. 


A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 


Ltuiited 


N.   W.    COR.    SANSOME  AND   SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    82,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund.  $1,100,000 
Head  Offlce^lO  Threadneedle  St..  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS — New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  ...  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  floglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid  up  $1,500,010 

Subscribed 3,008,000       Reserve    Fund     700.000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,  buyB  and  sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery   St..    Mills  Building 
INTEREST  PAID   ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord.  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Baldwin,    F.    Monteagle,   Warren    D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  $3,000,000.    Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve.ETA 

Authorized   Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve    $1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.    Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Importers  of  staple  and  fancy  dry  goods.  Manufacturers  of 
furnishing  goods.  Patentees  and  sole  manufacturers  of 
"THE  NEYER-RIP"  OVERALL.    The  best  in  the  world. 

Gloves,  suspenders,  laces,  ribbons,  dress  goods,  velvets, 
silk,  flannels,  oil  cloths,  cottons,  linens,  etc.  Blankets, 
calicoes,  umbrellas,  cutlery,  shawls,  notions,  smokers' 
articles,     stationery,    underwear,     hosiery,    white    goods. 

Cor.  Sansome  and  Bash  Sts.,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


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A.   M.  Best  &  Company,  of   New  York,  recently 

issued  the  following  bulletin  in  connection  with  Bal- 
timore losses :  "The  report  that  claims  filed  with  the 
committee  on  adjustments  amount  to  $80,000,000  is 
again  confirmed.  It  is  not,  however,  an  official  an- 
nouncement by  the  committee,  but  we  have  no  reason 
to  doubt  the  accuracy  of  these  figures.  The  total 
admitted  losses  of  the  companies  which  have  fur- 
nished us  estimates  of  the  amounts  for  which  they 
were  involved  aggregate  only  about  $22,000,000,  so 
that  an  immense  discrepancy  exists,  and  it  is  evident 
that  many  of  the  companies  must  have  lost  many 
times  as  much  as  they  admit." 

*  *  * 

As  the  smoke  and  excitement  clears  away,  it  begins 
to  be  seen  that  the  original  estimates  as  to  the 
amount  of  insurance  losses  were  far  in  excess  of  what 
the  adjusted  losses  will  amount  to.  and  that  while 
the  loss  is  a  big  one.  it  will  need  a  much  larger  one 
to  shake  the  financial  strength  of  the  insurance  com- 
panies. 

*  *  * 

There  have  been  no  failures  outside  of  the  Balti- 
more companies  and  the  Greenwich  and  one  or  two 
little  ones.  The  smaller  companies,  which  it  was 
expected  would  topple  over  like  nine-pins,  do  not  up 
to  the  present  seem  to  have  been  severely  injured. 

*  *  * 

The  raid  of  cancellations  on  California  street  on  the 
lightweights  died  almost  as  soon  as  it  was  born. 

*  *  * 

The  non-boarders  kept  on  and  are  keeping  on,  and 
the  regulars  are  not  sorry  that  such  is  the  case,  for 
as  matters  stand  now,  the  confidence  of  the  local  agen: 
and  the  insurer  remain  undisturbed. 

*  *  * 

State  supervision  has  done  away  in  a  great  measure 
with  the  possibility  of  a  conflagration,  causing  a 
holocaust  of  companies.  In  this  dav  fire  insurance 
companies  must  have  assets  which  consist  of  other 
than  chips  and  whetstones  before  they  can  do  an  ex- 
tended business.  There  may  be  Manhattans,  but 
they  fail  anyway,  losses  or  no  losses,  but  the  general 
average  of  fire  insurance  companies  to-day  licensed  in 
California  are  good  for  the  amount  of  their  con- 
tracts. 

»  *  * 

The  failure  of  the  Firemens  serves  simply  to  point 
the  danger  of  insuring  in  a  small  company  just 
branching  out  to  do  an  extended  and  a  general  busi- 
ness. One  of  the  methods  of  which  at  no  time  have 
been  approved  by  the  more  conservative  underwriting 
element. 

*  *  * 

Fire  underwriting  is  reduced  almost  to  a  science, 
and  the  company  that  writes  lines  within  its  legiti- 
mate carrying  capacity  and  gets  tariff  rates  can 
weather  a  worse  fire  than  that  of  Baltimore. 

*  *  * 

The  Millers  ano  Manufacturers  Insurance  Com- 
pany, a  Minnesota  concern  of  a  hybrid  mutual  and 
capital  breed,  and  also  the  Hamilton  Fire  of  Xew 
York,  have  ceased  doing  b-^iness  on  account  of  Bal- 
timore losses.  For  the  first  time  these  two  get  their 
names  well  before  the  public. 


In  a  measure  the  fire  insurance  companies  are  like 
banks.  Good  management  being  conceded,  they  will 
help  each  other.  They  do  this  for  more  reasons  than 
the  one  of  the  question  of  raising  doubt  in  the  minds 
of  policy-holders  as  to  the  stability  of  insurance.  They 
know  that  insurance  capital  is  needed,  and  that  the 
field  is  not  too  tempting  to  enlist  it. 

The  careful  company,  managed  by  an  insurance 
man  who  has  the  confidence  of  his  competitors  as 
to  lines,  rates  and  practice,  is  not  permitted  to  be 
killed  by  an  over-dose  of  losses.  The  mutual  interests 
are  too  closely  allied. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  J.  H.  Lenehan,  general  agent  of  the  Western 
Department  of  the  Phenix,  is  in  the  city. 
«  »  » 

Mr.  Paul  M.  Xippert  has  received  the  appointment 
as  general  agent  in  California  for  the  British  Amer- 
ica of  Xew  York. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  M.  F.  Rohrer,  Deputy  Insurance  Commissioner 
of  the  State  of  California,  has  been  confined  to  his 
home  for  some  time  with  a  severe  attack  of  sick- 
ness. 

*  *  * 

There  are  evidently  no  amenities  among  the  men 
who  write  for  insurance  periodicals.  In  an  exchange 
is  found  the  following,  which  is  entitled  "Peewee  the 


"STRONGEST^  IN    THE    WORLD" 

The    Equitable    Life 
Assurance  Society 

OF  THE  UNITED   STATES 


HENBV  B.  HYDE.    Founbcf 


Outstanding  Assurance 

Dec.  31.   1903  .     . 

New  Assurance  issued 

in  1903     .... 
Income       .... 
Assets  Dec.  31,    1903 
Assurance     Fund    and 

all  other  liabilities 
Surplus 
Paid  Policyholders    in 

1903       . 


$1,409,918,742.00 

322,047,968.00 

73,718,35093 

381,226,035  53 

307,871.897.50 
73,354,138  03 

34,949.672.27 


JAMES  W.  ALEXANDER.  President 
JAMES     H.      HYDE.    Vice-President. 
A.   M.   SHIELDS.   Manager. 
H.  C.  DONNELS.  Cashier. 

CROCKER  BUILDING,  S.  F.  CAL. 


February  27,  1904 

Worm":  "IVewee ,  brevet  editor  of  the 

and  late  iiliot-in-chiet  of  a  paper  called 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


31 


-,  which 


INSURANCE 


died  from  lack  of  brain  food,  imagines  lie  has  evoluted 

into  a  glow  worm.'  Perhaps  he  has.  for  he  has  long 
given  evidence  of  being  buggy,  and  he  has  about  the 
same  intellectual  development  as  the  object  of  his 
aspirations.  And  he  shines?  Of  course:  where  the 
lightning  bug  carries  his  shining  apparatus." 
±  *  * 

The  Park  Museum  had  a  fire  in  the  basement  with 
but  fortunately  little  damage.  Is  it  insured— and 
what  is  the  tire  protection  outside  of  the  city  depart- 
ment, are  pertinent  questions. 

*  *  * 

The  San  Bernardino  County  Hospital  at  San  Ber- 
nardino, and  the  Loma  Prie'ta  planing  mill  fire  at 
Santa  Cruz  are  a  couple  of  rather  hard  starters  in  the 
loss  column. 

*  *  * 

Colonel  L.  L.  Bromwell,  manager  of  the  old  re- 
liable Milwaukee  Mechanics,  reports  the  receipt  of 
a  telegram  from  President  Jones,  which  states  that 
the  Baltimore  losses  will  not  exceed  $200,000,  and 
also  that  the  claims  are  being  handled  by  the  com- 
pany's own  adjusters  and  are  being  paid  in  cash. 
This  course  only  harmonizes  with  the  ever  sturdy 
and  steady  record  of  the  old  "Double  M,"  in  its  treat- 
ment of  losses,  large  or  small,  from  the  Atlantic  to 
the  Pacific.  Conflagration  losses  are  always  provided 
for  by  the  conservatively  managed  insurance  com- 
pany by  ample  reserves,  and  a  large  net  surplus,  both 
of  which  made  the  company  absolutely  fire  proof. 
In  addition  to  Chicago,  Boston  and  minor  wholesale 
conflagrations,  the  Milwaukee  Mechanics  now  adds 
Baltimore  to  its  list  of  costly  experiences  in  the  line 
of  its  profession,  but  undaunted  and  unruffled,  it 
goes,  is  pressing  its  claims  upon  both  agents  and 
insuring  public  for  increased  confidence  and  en- 
hanced premium  receipts. 

Furniture  at  Your  Own  Prices. — To-morrow  com- 
mences the  fourth  week  of  the  GREAT  RETIRING 
SALE  of  the  PATTOSIEN  COMPANY.  The  store 
was  closed  on  Monday,  and  all  the  hands  were  kept 
busy  during  the  morning  hours  replenishing  the 
stock  of  Furniture,  Carpets  and  Draperies  from  the 
Big  Warehouse  of  the  Company,  corner  16th  and 
Harrison  streets.  The  assortment  of  Furniture, 
Carpets  and  Draperies  is  again  as  complete  as  on  the 
opening  day  of  the  sale. 


AN  OPEN  SHOP. 

All  fair-minded  people  should  patronize  Johnson's 
Open-Shop  Restaurant  (boycotted),  725  Market  St. 

Allen's  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the- 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San   Francisco,    Cal. 


One  of  the  safest  and  besr  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  ton  ic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N.  E.  Cor,  Sutter 
and  Grant  Ave. 


The  latest  style  in  shirts .  may  be  found  at  John  W-  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 

Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Capital *3,000.000.  °rBaGross  Cash  Assets $18,040,793  99 

Liberal  oontracts,  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with 1  our  Kepre- 
eentatives  before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
may  be  to  your  advantage.  „ 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
tan Manager.  '     " '        _ 

aio  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 

Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  17M. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    $3,008,000 

Surplus    to    Pollcy-Holders     6,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  3.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated  by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital   Paid-up.   $3,446,100.  Assets,   $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $131,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK  W.   DICKSON,    Manager,   601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .    2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.  SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOTD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 
Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life  Insurance  Company 

Acsets,   $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

Fr  ii'  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
M.inon  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital    $67,000,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  S16  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    EKFTJBT.    GEEMANT 

Capital  $2,250,000  Assets  $10,934,246 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General   Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:   204-208   Sansome   St.,   San   Francisco 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


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By   The   Actocrank 

It  is  to  be  presumed  that  half  a  loaf  is  better  than 
none,  and,  therefore,  the  local  automobilists  should 
feel  themselves  thoroughly  thankful  to  the  Park 
Commissioners  for  their  generosity  at  the  last  meeting 
in  passing  an  ordinance  allowing  the  use  of  the  great 
highway  north  to  the  road  that  runs  back  of  the 
Sutro  property  so  that  the  Cliff  House  may  be 
reached  without  coming  back  to  Stanyan. 

The  Park  Commissioners  are  giving  up  slowly 
even  curtailing  the  modest  requests  made  by  the 
officers  of  the  local  club  at  this  time. 

The  new  ordinance  will  go  into  effect  next  Wed- 
nesday, and  every  one  who  holds  a  permit  to  the 
Park  should  note  the  new  regulations  that  are  re- 
quired. 

One  of  the  most  important  is  that  numbers  must 
be  carried  on  both  ends  of  the  autos.  This  is  not  a 
hardship,  and  will  tend  to  make  those  who  are  in 
the  habit  of  speeding  to  keep  within  the  law. 

Now  the  Automobile  Club  of  California  must  turn 
its  attention  to  the  main  drive ;  that  must  be  the  next 
and  last  concession  granted,  for'  with  that  will  come 
the  free  use  of  the  Park. 

*  *  * 

The  victories  of  Vanderbilt  at  Ormond,  Fla.,  has 
stirred  up  the  American  makers.  It  is  said  that  there 
is  a  syndicate  being  formed  in  the  East  among  the 
builders  to  turn  out  a  machine  that  will  give  all  the 
records  to  the  United  States.  That  they  will  be  suc- 
cessful is  not  at  all  impossible,  when  it  is  considered 
how  many  records  are  already  held  by  American  ma- 
chines. 

The  Winton  Bullet  holds  all  the  world's  track 
records,  and  scored  the  fastest  single  mile  ever  made 
in  competition.  The  Ford  "999"  made  the  straight- 
away mile  in  392-5  seconds  on  the  ice  at  Lake  St. 
Clair. 

The  Packard  Gray  Wolf  holds  the  world's  straight- 
away mile  record  of  46  2-5  seconds  for  machines  un- 
der 1800  pounds,  and  the  Stevens-Duryea  the  record 
°f  57  I_5  seconds  for  cars  under  1200  pounds. 

The  Baker  electric  "White  Mouse"  has  the  electric 
record  of  I  :00  3-5  for  the  mile,  and  the  Winton  Bull 
Pup  all  track  records  for  cars  under  1800  pounds  up 
to  10  miles. 

The  Oldsmobile  Pirate  has  been  a  world's  straight- 
away record  holder,  and  still  holds  the  track  record 
in  its  weight  class. 

Details  of  the  great  automobile  tour  to  be  held  in 
August  was  discussed  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Automobile  Association  held  last  week  in 
Chicago. 

The  tour  is  to  be  from  the  east,  west,  north  and 
south  to  St.  Louis,  including  tributary  runs  from 
towns  en  route. 

Boston  tourists  will  meet  the  New  York  and  Phila- 
delphia owners  at  Albany,  New  York,  and  continue 
the  journey  together.  These  will  be  joined  by  auto- 
mobilists from  Rochester,  Buffalo,  Cleveland  and 
other  cities,  thus  forming  a  procession  that  will  be 
a  continuous  march  to  the  Louisiana  Exposition. 

Minneapolis,  St.  Paul,  Milwaukee  and  other  cities 


February  27,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


in  the  Middle  West  will  semi  delegations  to  join 
the  Chicago  enthusiasts  at  that  city. 

The  most  direct  route  will  be  taken  by  the  many 
processions   from   different   sections. 

Here  is  a  chance  for  some  of  the  local  enthusiasts 
to  distinguish   themselves.     Why   would   it   not   he 

for  the   sports  here  and   the   name  of  the   State 

for  a  contingent  from  California  to  take  part  in 
this  run  ? 

*  *  * 

Hubert  von  Ilerkoner,  a  Bavarian  artist,  has  do- 
nated a  $2,500  trophy  to  the  Bavarian  Automobile 
Club  for  an  annual  international  challenge  contest 
for  touring-  cars.  It  will  be  a  challenge  trophy  to  be- 
come the  possession  of  the  club  winning  it  three 
times. 

In  accordance  with  the  donor's  wishes,  the  first 
year's  contest  is  to  be  held  in  Bavaria,  the  second 
in  England,  and  the  subsequent  competitions  in  the 
country-  holding  the  trophy.  The  touring  car  is  de- 
scribed as  a  vehicle  which,  in  construction  and  op- 
eration is  capable  of  covering  long  distances  over 
all  classes  of  roads  at  a  relatively  rapid  pace.  It 
must  be  of  pleasing  design  and  comfortable. 

Los  Angeles  has  the  good  road  habit.  The  latest 
scheme  is  what  is  called  the  Pacific  Boulevard  from 
Huntington  Park  to  Long  Beach.  This,  with  the 
speedway,  will  give  the  southern  men  two  good 
roads  to  the  ocean.    . 

,       *  .*  * 

An  actual  practical  test  is  to  be  made  of  commer- 
cial vehicles  by  the  Automobile  Club  o  fAmerica, 
April  4th  to  9th.  The  awards  will  be  made  for  each 
class  in  the  competition,  the  amount  of  fuel  consumed 
and  general  reliability  being  taken  into  consideration. 
The  following  classes  have  been  established : 

First — To  carry  a  dead  load  of  1,000  pounds  or  un- 
der. 

Second — To  carry  a  dead  load  of  1,000  to  2,000 
pounds. 

Third — To  carry  a  dead  load  of  2,000  to  3,000 
pounds. 

Fourth — To  carry  a  dead  load  of  3,000  to  4,000 
pounds. 

Fifth — To  carry  a  dead  load  of  4,000  to  5,000 
pounds. 

Sixth — To  carry  a  dead  load  of  5,000     to     6,000 

pounds. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Automobile  Company  report  quite 
a  satisfactory  business  in  Pope-Toledo  and  Knox 
Touring  Cars  during  the  past  week. 

*  *  * 

The  quiet  young  man,  known  as  the  "Czar,"  has 
purchased  a  1904  Winton  touring  car  from  the  Pio- 
neer Automobile  Company,  and  from  all  reports  his 
winning   subjects   will   have   numerous   rides. 

Mr.  J.  A.  Marsh,  president  of  the  Mobile  Carriage 
Company,  made  the  trip  to  Del  Monte  on  Friday. 
They  reported  a  delightful  trip,  which  was  entirely 
free  from  accidents  or  delays  of  any  sort. 

The  Automobile  Transit  Company  placed  an  or- 
der with  the  National  Automobile  Company  for  two 
additional  two-cylinder  Toledo  touring  cars,  to  be 
used  in  their  rental  service. 

The  Pioneer  people  expect  to  receive  a  carload  of 
new  1904  Wintons  this  month,  all  of  which  are  sold, 
and  the  purchasers  of  some  anxiously  awaiting  their 
arrival.  The  Pioneer  Company  also  expect  to  re- 
ceive a  carload  of  the  new  models  of  Oldsmobiles 
within  three  or  four  weeks,  as  they  likewise  will  re- 


ceive  a  carload  of  Stevens  Duryeas  about  the  same 
time. 

The  present  office  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Com- 
pany, in  the  main  office  of  the  Palace  Hotel,  has  been 
removed  to  larger  quarters  formerly  occupied  by  the 
Postal  Telegraph  Company  at  the  end  of  the  main 
entrance  where  it   joins  the  large  court. 

The  Mobile  I  1  expects  this  week 

lo  move  into  its  new  automobile  house  and  garage, 
.Miner  Golden  (late  avenue  and  Gough  streets. 

J.  B.  O'Brien  purchased  a  two-cylinder  20-horse- 
power  Knox  touring  car  from  the  National  Automo- 
bile Company,  during  the  past  week.  Mr.  Harvey 
Dana  and  Mr.  A.  J.  Samuel  are  looking  forward  to 
the  arrival  of  their  two-cylinder  Knox  touring  car. 

The  automobile  'buses  which  the  Mobile  Carriage 
Carriage  Company  is  providing  for  the  St.  Francis 
Hotel  to  convey  passengers  to  and  from  all  trains 
and  steamboats  are  now  ready  for  service. 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  report  the  fol- 
lowing sales  for  the  week  ending  February  20,  1904, 


—     WILL     BE     HERE     SHORTLY     — 

THE    NEW    19  04 — Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  '04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST,  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  are  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR   CO. 

49    CITY    HALL    AVE.  SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL 


1904  WINTON  TOURING  CAR 


Sample  1904  Winton  just  received.  Orders  now 
taken  for  two  weeks'  delivery  on  same.  Several 
hundred  sold  last  week  in  New  York  at  National 
Automobile  Show.  Delay  in  placing  your  or- 
der means  a  very  material  delay  in  the  receipt  of 
a  car.  Call  in  and  examine  sample  and  ride  in 
the  foremost  up-to-date  American  automobile. 

PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 


901-925  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Sole  agents  for  the  following  standard  machines 
Olds  Motor  Works. 

"Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 

Locomobile  Co.,  of  America. 

The  J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 

Baker  Electric  Motor  Vehicle  Company. 

Demmerle    &    Co.— Leather  Clothing. 

WE    ARE    IN    OUR    NEW    QUARTERS 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


viz.:  Baker  Electric  to  Stockton  Automobile  Co., 
Stockton ;  Oldsmobile  tonneau  to  Stockton  Automo- 
bile Co.,  Stockton ;  Oldsmobile  French  type  runabout 
to  Stockton  Auto  Co. ;  1904  Winton  touring  car  to 
Harry  H.  Howlett,  Stockton;  Locomobile  to  C.  B. 
Biggs,  Silver  City,  Nevada;  Stevens-Duryea  to  Dr. 
Cunningham,  Oakland;  Stevens-Duryea  to  Dr. 
Chamberlain,  Oakland;  Stevens-Duryea  to  E.  D. 
Davis  of  this  city ;  Standard  Oldsmobile  runabout  to 
George  Osen,  San  Jose. 

Mr.  H.  C.  Tilden  made  a  trip  to  San  Jose  and  a 
tour  of  the  surrounding  country  in  his  new  French 
Arrow  touring  car.  He  covered  a  distance  of  over 
300  miles  without  leaving  the  seat  to  make  adjust- 
ments of  any  sort. 

The  National  Automobile  Company  closed  an  or- 
der with  James  Flood  for  a  four-cylinder  Pope-To- 
ledo "Mile-a-Minute"  touring  car  for  early  delivery. 
George  A.  Turner,  a  prominent  real  estate  dealer 
of  this  city,  and  Dr.  George  Burke,  of  Sessions,  are 
the  latest  purchasers  of  Rambler  1904  touring  cars. 
The  Rambler  Automobile  agency  of  1334  Market 
street,  expect  a  consignment  of  cars  in  a  few  days. 
They  already  have  one  on  exhibition. 

Mr.  Harry  H.  Hewlett  of  Stockton,  who  last  week 
purchased  a  1904  Witnon  touring  car,  formerly  drove 
a  1902  Winton,  which  he  purchased  from  Mr.  Eu- 
gene Murphy  of  this  city  for  $1500.  After  driving 
this  car  for  more  than  ten  months,  he  sold  same  for 
$1350.  It  is  a  very  noticeable  fact  that  Wintons  sec- 
ond-handed, bring  better  prices  proportionately  than 
any  other  American-built  automobiles. 

Young  Corbett  now  keeps  his  Winton  touring  car 
busy  driving  his  friends  out  to  his  training  quarters 
on  the  beach.     It  is  rumored  that  Mr.  Corbett  is  fig- 
uring with  the  Winton  people  to  build  him  an  eighty  ■ 
horse  power  racing  car. 

The  article  in  the  March  Overland  Monthly  on 
"Shakespeare's  Plays  and  Public  Opinion,"  contrib- 
uted to  that  magazine  by  L.  Ralston  Irving,  has  elic- 
ited much  interest  and  comment,  being  in  line  with 
discussions  that  have  been  had  of  late  on  this  sub- 
ject. The  article  mentioned  is  really  contributed 
by  Mrs.  Samuel  Bissinger,  of  this  city,  who  uses  the 
nom  de  plume  L.  Ralston  Irving.  She  has  for  years 
been  interested  in  literary  subjects,  being  quite  a 
close  student,  and  has  contributed  during  past  years 
under  the  said  nom  de  plume  to  different  publica- 
tions. 


Last  WeeK  of  the   Grand  Closing  Out 


AUCTION 


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Dancing  masters  all  over  the  United  States  recommend 
Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax.  It  makes  neither  dust 
nor  dirt,  does  not  stick  to  the  shoes  or  rub  into  lumps  on 
the  floor.  Sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  the  rest. 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  of  the   finest  fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co..  Langley  &  Michaels  and  Red- 
ington  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk,  Geary  &  Co.,  Sacra- 
mento, and  F.  W.  Braun  &  Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's    Floor  Wax 


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PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  (French)  $2,650. 

1.  It  has  a  French  engine  and  is  essentially  a  French  car. 

2.  The  manufacturer  in  France  pays  a  revenue  on  each  horse 
power  of  engine,  consequently  all  French  engines  are  underated. 
The  Arrow  Touring  Car  ic  H,  P.  French  will  develop  26  H.  P. 
American  standard. 

3.  A  horse  power  for  each  75  pounds  weight.  It  has  lightness 
and  strength.    Easy  on  tires. 

MOBILE    CARRIAGE    CO.      San  Francisco. 


18  Fell  Street. 


ELECTRIC, 
GASOLINE 

CARS 

A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley 

(Near  Market)    Tel.  South  394 


LIKE?  BEINQE  ATI  HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


M1L0  J.  OILLETT,  Prop. 
SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Cap  666 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Western  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


February  37,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


25 


A  WESTERN  PRODUCT. 

The  Overland  Monthly  for  March  amies  to  tin- 
reviewer's  desk  as  a  breeze  from  a  Western  prairie. 
There  is  a  virility  and  a  usefulness,  a  Strength  ami 
saneness,  in  its  pages  that  is  not  to  be  found  in  many 
of  the  best  magazines  of  the  Kast.  It  i>  up-to-date 
and  timely.  From  its  beautiful  frontispiece  illus- 
trations to  its  editorials  the  interest  never  wanes. 

It  is  Californian  to  the  eore,  and  yet  it  has  not  any 
of  the  tiresome  twaddle  about  the  largest  beat  or 
the  finest  orange.  It  does  not  preach  that  California 
is  superior  to  any  and  all  other  States  in  the  Union, 
but  it  sets  forth  the  claims  of  its  State  in  such  a 
way  that  the  reader  always  comes  to  a  favorable 
conclusion  regarding  the  land  of  sunshine  and  flow- 
ers. In  the  March  issue  we  have  been  given  a  num- 
ber of  articles  that  are  purely  Californian.  "Fish 
of  the  Western  Sea"  is  a  splendidly  written  article 
on  the  edible  fish  of  the  Pacific.  This  will  give  the 
disciple  of  Izaak  Walton  untold  pleasure. 

The  next  Californian  article  is  one  that  appeals 
to  the  lover  of  nature,  of  woods  and  flowers,  purling 
brooks  and  leafy  bowers.  "The  Ojai  Valley"  (pro- 
nounced O  high),  will  be  read  with  pleasure  by  all 
intending  visitors  to  California,  and  it  should  be 
a  source  of  pride  to  the  citizens  of  Ventura  in  that 
State,  as  it  is  a  description  of  an  attractive  spot  in  the 
county  of  that  name. 

"Tule  Farming"  appeals  to  the  practical  farmer, 
and  relates  to  the  reclamation  of  the  great  swamp 
areas  of  the  State  of  -California.  It  is  written  by  a 
practical  farmer,  and  as  such  should  be  of  vast  in- 
terest to  the  Eastern  agriculturist,  to  whom  the  ar- 
ticle will  be  a  revelation  of  the  methods  employed. 

Mexico  comes  in  for  an  article  on  "Housekeeping 
in  Mexico,"  and  the-  quaint  ways  of  the  Mexican  ser- 
vants are  described  by  an  American  housekeeper  in 
the  land  of  perpetual  manyana. 

There  are  a  number  of  pages  devoted  to  the  Ori- 
ental question,  and  the  fiction  of  the  March  Over- 
land would  be  very  hard  to  surpass. 

"The  Fortunes  of  the  Midas"  is  a  mining  story 
which  is  an  exposition  of  some  of  the  methods  em- 
ployed by  an  unscrupulous  superintendent  to  obtain 
possession  of  a  valuable  mine.  "Percy,  the  Ranch 
Foreman,"  is  a  true  story  of  the  indomitable  pluck 
of  an  Iowa  boy  and  his  eventual  success  on  a  Wyom- 
ing ranch.  There  is  a  fine  description  of  the  "North- 
western Mounted  Police,"  "The  Big  Butter  Buddha" 
and  the  "Mushalinda  Legend"  are  Oriental  in  char- 
acter, and  come  at  the  right  time.  "The  Coming  Con- 
flict" deals  with  the  Russo-Japanese  war,  and  will 
help  all  who  are  interested  in  this  matter  in  a  clear 
understanding  of  the  conditions  that  face  all  civili- 
zation to-day. 

The  department  of  "World's  Thought"  is  full  of 
information,  and  will  be  of  interest  to  all  who  desire 
to  keep  in  touch  with  the  world's  advance. 

The  editor  has  two  timely  articles,  "Teaching  the 
Filipino"  and  "Wireless ;"  the  latter  is  an  exposition 
of  the  wonderful  discoveries  made  by  the  great 
Italian  electrician. 

The  March  number  of  the  Overland  Monthly  is  a 
notable  production,  but  in  no  feature  more  than  in  its 
illustrations.  The  Overland  Monthly  presses  are 
the  best  that  money  can  .buy,  and  the  typographical 
work  is  fine.  The  advertiser  and  reader  is  always 
grateful  to  the  publisher  because  the  reading  and  ad- 
vertising pages  are  cut.  The  Overland  Monthly,  be- 
lieves  in   giving  its   reader   all  the   comfort   it  can. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


Some  people    are     continually 

The  Niter  Beds      harping  upon   the  niter  depos- 

of  California.         its  of  California,  and  we  have 

been  deluged  with  letters  from 
time  to  time  asking  about  them  and  why  they  are 
not  now  being  operated  in  competition  with  the 
great  beds  of  Chile.  The  niter  beds  of  California 
are  still  in  their  infancy.  In  extent  they  are  large 
enough,  covering  an  immense  area,  but  the  quantity 
of  the  material  and  its  quality  are  still  a  matter  to 
be  settled.  The  examination  of  these  lands  has  so 
far  been  superficial,  so  superficial  in  fact  that  it  is 
scarcely  correct  to  class  their  contents  deposits.  At 
some  points  prospect  holes  have  been  sunk  with 
varying  results,  but  they  only  serve  to  localize  par- 
ticular measurements  on  small  areas,  experience  go- 
ing to  show  that  while  the  material  may  run  four 
feet  in  depth  at  one  point,  it  runs  down  to  a  few 
inches  a  few  yards  away.  This  shows  the  difficulty 
of  arriving  at  reliable  results  in  the  way  of  an  esti- 
mate of  qualities,  and  the  necessity  for  the  expendi- 
ture of  a  large  sum  of  money  in  experting  this  ground 
by  covering  it  in  detail.  This  would  naturally  in- 
volve considerable  time  and  labor,  but  the  proposition 
is  large  enough  to  warrant  an  investigation.  Pro- 
moters are  continually  endeavoring  to  work  off  the 
property  as  a  whole,  on  an  assumption  of  facts  which 
are  not  warranted  by  up-to-date  examinations,  and 
have  so  far  only  succeeded  in  putting  would-be  pur- 
chasers to  the  expense  of  finding  out  for  themselves 
that  nothing  really  definite  is  known  about  these  so- 
called  "deposits."  It  would  be  much  more  sensible 
and  to  the  point  to  promote  a  development  company, 
well  equipped  and  backed  with  sufficient  money  to 
make  a  thorough  examination  of  the  ground,  ami 
thereby  arrive  at  its  true  value.  There  would  then 
be  a  chance  of  doing  some  business,  if  the  quality  of 
material  on  hand  warranted  the  investment  of  capital, 
putting  an  end  one  way  or  the  other  to  the  nonsen- 
sical and  unbusinesslike  methods  adopted  by  people 
in  control  of  this  ground  for  many  years  past. 

A  story  is  now  going  the 
A  Lost  Mine  rounds  of  the   press  about 

Which  Materialized,  the  re-discovery  of  an- 
other lost  mine,  or  more 
correctly  of  the  trail  to  it,  which,  according  to  the 
adventurer,  a  tenderfoot,  was  followed  to  the  bitter 
end  through  impassable  canyons,  and  the  other  sen- 
sational draping  given  to  yarns  of  the  kind,  arriving 
eventually  at  a  cave  filled  with  the  skeletons  of  those 
who  had  in  the  past  taken  up  the  "wild-goose"  chase. 
In  this  case  the  greenhorn  survived,  the  others,  pos- 
sibly veteran  miners,  giving  up  the  battle  with  fate 
in  disgust  at  the  disappointing  termination  of  a 
tiresome  journey.  This  only  serves  to  remind  one 
that  the  "lost  mine"  craze  is  still  as  fierce  as  ever 
in  this  wild  and  woolly  section  of  the  far  West,,  fos- 
tered by  the  ubiquitous  space  fiend,  who  manages  to 
make  a  killing  as  regularly  as  it  is  safe  to  dish  up 
the  time-worn  remnant  of  days  gone  by,  when  ro- 
mance cut  a  figure  in  mining,  as  it  did  in  nearly 
everything  else,  for  that  matter.  Unfortunately, 
the  hunt  after  these  phantom  lodes  is  now  confined 
to  literary  efforts  in  the  way  of  enlarging  upon  the 
mystery  attaching  to  their  discovery  and  magical 
disappearance.  Otherwise,  even  their'memory  might 
chance  to  pass  with  the  closed  careers  of  those  who, 
upon  occasion,  took  up  the  search,  in  manner  like 


unto  the  victims  whose  remains  have  just  now  been 
discovered  in  an  out  of  the  way  cave  in  a  Mexican 
sierra. 

The  market  for  industrial  stocks 
Local  Stocks  and  bonds  on  the  local  Stock  and 
and  Bonds.       Bond  Exchange  is  dull  and  unusu- . 

usually  quiet  for  this  season  of  the 
year.  This  is  not  surprising,  when  the  way  in  which 
it  is  weighted  down  by  an  incubus  like  the  S.  F.  Gas 
and  Electric  combine  is  considered.  Investors  are 
getting  a  lesson  from  it  on  the  ways  of  the  Western 
financier  in  an  attempt  to  make  something  out  of 
nothing  by  the  introduction  of  hot  air.  It  is  the 
old  story  of  building  up  a  tan  yard  out  of  a  shoe- 
string told  over  again  in  a  new  form.  Here  we  find 
■a  number  of  independent  concerns  formed  into  a  com- 
bine on  a  basis  of  stock  payments,  with  an  allowance 
for  immense  profits  for  the  owners  of  the  concerns 
taken  into  the  general  merger.  To  meet  the  cash  re- 
quirements of  the  occasion,  some  millions  of  bonds 
are  issued  and  underwritten  which  means  that  one 
or  two  local  capitalists  feel  so  sure  that  the  public 
will  gobble  up  these  bonds  at  a  premium  that  they 
are  willing  to  put  up  a  certain  amount  of  money  for 
preliminary  expenses  to  be  paid  back  to  them  with 
a  handsome  profit  when  the  bonds  are  disposed  of 
in  due  course.  To  meet  the  interest  on  these  bonds, 
the  consumer  must  be  bled,  while  the  dear  public 
is  expected  to  put  up  the  millions  of  watered  capital 
to  enable  half  a  dozen  men  to  pose  as  owners  of  a 
proprietary  interest  in  the  company  and  draw  down 
immense  salaries  at  the  same  time.  How  much  cap- 
ital of  that  invested  in  the  San  Francisco  Gas  and 
Electric  Company  is  owned  directly  by  the  individual 
members  of  its  Board  of  Directors?  They  are  elec- 
ted by  a  proxy  system,  which  permits  them  to  vote 
one  another  large  salaries  while  they  manage  so  well 
as  to  keep  the  town  by  the  ears  with  their  arrogance 
and  miserable  manufacture.  If  the  stockholders  vote 
at  the  coming  election  to  keep  the  present  manage- 
ment in  office,  they  may  as  well  prepare  to  give  away 
their  stock  for  next  to  nothing  in  the  near  future. 
This  is  no  idle  dream..  There  is  a  field  here  for  a 
new  company  prepared  to  do  the  right  thing  by  the 
people  of  this  city,  and  unless  there  is  a  marked 
change  in  the  way  the  present  concern  is  doing  busi- 
ness, one  will  be  organized  in  short  order.  It  won't 
cost  much  more  to  install  a  new  and  effective  plant 
than  it  will  to  renew  the  old  distributing  system  now 
used.  Under  existing  conditions,  the  stock  of  this 
concern  is  not  a  pick-up  by  any  means,  and  the  mar- 


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LONDON,     ENG 


BOORD'S 

OLD    TOM.    DRY 
(SMSLOE  GINS 

ORANGE  BITTERS,  etc. 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 

Sole  Agents.    3n  Sacramento  St.       S.  F. 


February  27,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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ket  to-day  shows  that  the  people  recognize  the  fact 
and  are  very  sensibly  giving  it  a  wide  berth.  In 
other  lines  of  investment  securities,  prices  during  the 
week  were  generally  firm,  although  the  demand  is 
comparatively  light. 

The  market  for  Comstock 
Pine-St.  Market,     shares   has   ruled    fairly   steady 

during  the  past  week,  and  the 
short-selling  clique  did  not  have  things  their  way 
altogether.  The  new  strike  on  the  2.000  level  of 
Ophir  is  the  latest  development  in  connection  with 
the  recent  ore  discoveries  in  the  North-end  mines. 
These  have  already  put  the  Ophir  mine  on  a  dividend- 
paying  basis,  and  from  present  appearances  there 
will  be  a  continuance  for  some  time  to  come.  A  num- 
ber of  experts  visited  the  new  find  during  the  week. 
and  the  opinion  of  all  is  that  its  importance  cannot 
be  overestimated.  It  is  believed  to  be  the  downward 
continuation  of  the  ore  body  now  being  opened  up 
above  on  the  1800  level.  This  denotes  a  magnitude 
surpassing  anything  discovered  for  years  past  on  the 
Comstock.  Caledonia  at  the  South-end  is  also  look- 
ing up,  while  the  prospects  at  other  points  along  the 
lode  are  bright,  to  say  the  least. 


The  financial  statement  of  the  California  Wine  As- 
sociation, covering  the  operations  for  the  past  year, 
show  that  sales  during  that  period  amounted  to 
$5,131,626,  on  which  profits  amounting  to  $581,114 
were  realized.  The  sum  of  $7.20  per  share  was  paid 
out  in  dividends. 


The  financial  statement  of  the  North  Shore  Rail- 
road for  January,  1904,  shows  a  net  deficit  of  $24,198, 
against  $10,611  for  same  month  last  year.  This  is 
equivalent  to  an  increase  of  $13,587  in  the  way  of  a 
deficit  for  the  month  under  review. 


The  next  meeting  of  the  California  Bankers'  As- 
sociation will  be  held  at  Los  Angeles  on  May  19th, 
20th  and  21st  next. 


The  statistical  reports  of  the  nine  savings  banks 
of  San  Francisco  for  the  year  1903,  made  to  the  Bank 
Commission,  show  in  the  aggregate  that  the  net  gain 
in  new  accounts  for  the  year  was  12,476,  and  $8,413,- 
547  was  deposited  in  excess  of  withdrawals.  The 
cost  of  operation  was  $1,724,426,  or  about  23  per  cent 
of  the  gross  earnings.  The  average  amount  of  each 
deposit  account  on  January  1,  1904,  varied  from  $438, 
the  lowest  average,  to  $1,636,  the  highest.  The  total 
deposits  on  the  same  date  aggregate  $155,776,814. 

The  epicure  knows  that  an  oyster  should  be  eaten 

as  near  the  oyster  bed  as  possible,  and  that  the  least  pos- 
sible time  should  ensue  between  the  time  the  oyster  is 
"tonged"  to  the  minute  of  consumption.  Moraghan's  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  Market  is  world-famed  as  the  place 
best  to  secure  the  succulent  bivalve.  The  "chef"  is  pre- 
eminent as  a  master  of  the  art  of  cookery,  and:  no  one  seek- 
ing satisfaction  In  oysters  will  ever  do  aught  but  praise 
Moraghan's. 


When  you  get  your  fall  clothing  made,  also  make 

arrangements  to  have  it  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  if  well  cared  for.  They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


Few  come  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  \isit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city'g  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     If s  toe  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort. 


}    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO     NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  cheek  or  money  order  tor  aa  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  Ml  he  mulei-signi'il.  No  subscription  for  less  than  tloo  Price  par 
for  55.no certificates.     Tbe  price  may  advance  any  day. 

Tin' stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at.  «5.00  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  139  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange.,  an  advance  of 
340  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Trie  Marconi  system  Is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Tin  unas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.  Edison 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 
Company. 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CROSSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.;  Union  Trust  Building,-  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building, 'Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents— Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Savage   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Loca* 
tion  of  works—  Virginia  City ,  Storey  County.  Nevada, 

Notice  Is  hereby  itrlven  that  at  a  meeting:  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  6th  day  of  February,  1904,  an  assessment,  (No.  112)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
p*>r  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  paya- 
ble Immediately  In  United  states  cold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  rooms  21-22.  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  St., 
San  Franolsco,  Cal 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
11th  DAT  OF  MARCH  1904, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  pay" 
ment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  1st  day  of  April  > 
1904  at  1  o'clock  P.  M-,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising:  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of 
Directors, 

JOHN  W.  TWIGGS,  Secretary. 

Office— Rooms  21-22  Nevada  Block,  No.  319  Montgomery  stree  J  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 


R.  McCOLGAN 


REAL    ESTATE    and    LOANS 


24  Montgomery  St.  S.  F. 

Telephone  Main  6616 


A  rub  at  th.  Post  St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good, 


Hotel 
Belleclaire, 

Broadway   &   77th  St. 

NEW    YORK 

Luxuriously  furnished  room* 
fur  permanent  and  transient 
guests,  at  moderate  prices. 

Orchestra  of  hoIo  players,  6  p. 
m.  till  1  a.  m. 

Restaurant,  Palm  Boom  and 
Cafe  gems  of  artistic  perfection. 
Cuisine  and  service  really  de- 
lightful.   You  will  say  so. 

A  special  feature  Is  onr  after 
theater  suppers 

Billiard  parlor  for  ladles  Is 
another  pleasant  featnre. 

Original  with  the  Belleclaire  Is 
the  refined  vaudeville  every 
Thursday  evening. 

Our  gallery  of  beatlful  paint- 
ings, valued  at  $50,000,  Is  open 
evenings  to  visitors. 

Affability  and  oourtesy  guar- 
anteed from  every  Belleclaire 
employe. 

Milton  Roblee.  Prop. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


Prospective    Legislative    Timber 


I  gave  a  resume  last  week  of  the  political  outlook 
so  far  as  it  has  developed,  for  the  next  State  Senate, 
showing  who  was  going  to  be  a  candidate  again  and 
who  was  likely  to  be  chosen  to  stay  at  home.  As  the 
Assembly  is  twice  as  large  as  the  Senate,  and  can- 
didates are  often  selected  at  the  last  minute  for  the 
Legislature,  it  is  not  easy  to  give  as  full  and  as  accu- 
rate details  of  the  prospects  for  the  personnel  of  the 
lower  house  as  it  is  for  the  upper.  Usually  the 
Senators  have  previously  been  Assemblymen,  and 
are  therefore  better  known  than  their  colleagues, 
and  their  candidacy  is  settled  much  sooner  in  the 
year.  It  may  be  considered,  however,  as  sure  that 
W.  W.  Allen,  Jr.,  will  be  a  candidate  from  the  thirty- 
ninth  district  in  this  city.  He  made  a  very  good 
member,  and  although  it  was  bis  first  session  was  the 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Corporations,  one 
of  the  most  important  in  the  Assembly.  If  Dunlap 
of  Stockton  should  get  the  nomination  for  Senator 
from  San  Joaquin  and  not  return  to  the  Assemblv, 
Allen  is  more  than  a  possibility  for  Speaker.  Amer- 
ige  wants  to  come  back  from  Orange  County,  but 
he  will  not  find  it  easy  sailing,  and  it  is  more  than 
possible  that  McPhee  of  the  Santa  Ana  "Blade"  may 
get  the  Republican  nomination,  which  in   that  part 

of  the  State  is  equivalent  to  an  election. 

*  *  * 

Bangs  is  too  old  to  want  to  come  back  if  he  could, 
and  Fowler,  Secretary  of  the  Madera  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  is  mentioned  as  his  probable  successor. 
Fowler  is  a  young  lawyer,  and  a  very  bright  and 
pushing  fellow.  Barber  and  Boisson  of  this  city 
both  have  Federal  jobs,  the  one  in  the  office  of  Col- 
lector Lynch  and  the  other  in  the  U.  S.  District  At- 
torney's, so  neither  of  them  will  be  candidates  again. 
Brown,  of  San  Mateo,  wants  to  be  Senator  from  bis 
district,  and  Black  of  Santa  Clara  wants  to  succeed 
Shortridgc  as  Senator  two  years  hence,  so  he  is  anx- 
ious to  keep  himself  before  the  public  by  returning 
to  the  Assembly  this  year.  Wright  of  Santa  Clara 
will  also  no  doubt  be  returned,  but  Walker,  of  the 
same  county,  has  no  possible  chance.  He,  it  will  lie 
remembered,  distinguished  himself  early  in  the  ses- 
sion by  talking  about  efforts  that  had  been  made  to 
bribe  him,  and  when  the  reporters  went  to  interview 
him  and  get  the  particulars,  he  fled  and  hid  himself 
in  a  church,  where  naturally  they  did  not  look  for 
him,  as  he  was  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  and 
therefore  he  escaped  them.  His  charges  fell  flat,  and 
he  amounted  to  nothing  during  the  session.  Copus 
is  the  only  Union  Labor  member  who  has  a  ghost  of 
a  show  of  even  being  nominated;  Murphy,  Kerri- 
gan and  Finn  can't  get  the  nominations  of  their 
party,  not  to  speak  of  being  elected.  In  the  Assem- 
bly they  accomplished  nothing  for  the  cause  they 
were  supposed  to  represent,  and  the  best  labor  advo- 
cates were  Walsh  of  Alameda  in  the  Assembly  and 
Leayitt  in  the  Senate.  The  unions  themselves  rec- 
ognized that,  and  are  not  going  to  send  any  more 
sticks  to  Sacramento,  or  even  attempt  to  do  so.  Car- 
ter of  Los  Angeles  wants  to  succeed  Senator  Smith, 
and  if  he  cannot  do  that,  he  will  try  to  get  back  into 
the  Assembly,  and  be  a  candidate  for 'Speaker.  He 
has  been  sued  by  some  client  of  his  in  Los  Angeles, 
who  made  very  sensational  charges,  but  I  am  told 
that  they  are  not  believed  down  there,  and  that  they 
will  not  affect  his  political  fortunes. 


Cromwell  of  Petaluma  likes  making  laws,  and  an- 
nounces that  he  will  be  a  candidate  for  the  Assembly 
again  this  year.  He  was  not  a  very  brilliant  member, 
hut  he  was  very  useful  and  is  popular  at  home,  which 
means  that  he  would  probably  be  re-elected  if  nomi- 
nated. Dorse}'  of  Kern,  who  was  supposed  to  have 
been  the  handsomest  man  in  the  last  Legislature, 
has  married  since  he  went  home,  and  is  now  very 
anxious  to  bring  his  bride  to  the  Capital  City.  He 
was  in  San  Francisco  recently,  and  announced  posi- 
tively that  he  was  going  back  next  winter,  and  I  pre- 
sume   he    knows,    although    Kern    is    a    Democratic 

County. 

*  *  * 

Drew  of  Fresno  and  Traber  of  the  same  county 
both  want  to  be  returned.  Though  from  adjoining 
districts,  they  did  not  agree  at  all,  and  sat  as  far 
apart  as  the  size  of  the  Assembly  chamber  would 
permit,  the  result  being  that  they. did  not  accomplish 
as  much  as  they  might  have  done  for  their  county. 
Drew  hopes  that  Dr.  and  Senator  Rowell  will  get  a 
Federal  position  which  he  has  been  seeking  for  years 
(anything  will  do  if  it  only  has  a  salary),  and  then 
he  will  be  a  candidate  for  the  unexpired  term  of  the 
Senatorship.  Ex-Senator  Pedlar  also  wants  to  come 
back  to  his  old  place  in  the  Upper  House,  and  is  only 
waiting  to  get  a  chance  to  run,  so  Drew  will  not 
have  plain  sailing  even  if  he  gets  rid  of  Rowell. 

*  *  * 

Killingsworth,  a  Democrat,  is  very  popular  at  Va- 
caville,  and  if  he  does  not  conclude  to  make  the  race 
for  Senator  to  succeed  Senator  Lucksinger,  now 
Postmaster  at  Vallejo,  he  wilt  be  a  candidate  for 
Assemblyman.  His  Republican  opponent,  if  he  runs 
for  Senator,  it  is  now  settled  will  be  ex-District  At- 
torney Frank  Devlin  of  Vallejo.  An  effort  is  also  be- 
ing made  to  get  Raleigh  Barcar,  who  owns  most  of 
the  town  of  Vacaville,  to  be  a  candidate  for  the  As- 
sembly if  Killingsworth  runs  for  the  State  Senate. 
but  Barcar  is  not  particularly  anxious  to  run  for  any- 
thing, having  tried  it  several  times  with  but  little 
success,   though   personally   he   is   popular. 

*  *   * 

McKenney  of  Amador  will  be  a  candidate  again  if 
he  does  not  attempt  to  run  for  the  Senate  in  the 
eventuality  that  Ralston,  now  the  Senator  from  Ama- 
dor, gets  Colonel  John  P.  Irish's  place  as  Surveyor 
of  the  Port.  But  that  last  contingency  is  so  remote 
that  McKenney  has  little  hopes  of  being  a  Senator 
for  two  years  hence,  when  he  announces  that  he  will 
make  the  race  for  Ralston's  place.  Frank  Lewis  of 
Riverside  will  be  back  if  he  can  get  the  nomination, 
and  he  thinks  he  can.  Lumley  of  Porterville,  the  po- 
litest man  in  the  Assembly,  where  he  also  enjoyed  (as 
those    who    noticed    the    characteristics    of   the    last 


"BAB' S" 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 

323    LARHIN    STREET 


15he   James   H.    Bibcock    Catering    Co. 

212-214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


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islature  will  remember)  the  largest  nose  oi  any 
member,  expects  to  be  on  hand,  he  tills  me  also. 
Olmsted  oi  Marin,  who  has  a  syndicate  of  half  a 
dozen  papers  along  the  line  of  the  California  and 
Northwestern  Railroad,  wants  to  return,  hut  l'ann 
of  Ventura  will  not  he  seen  around  the  Legislative 
Halls  at  all.  l'ann  was  an  ex-preacher,  whi 
mixed  up  in  a  scandal  in  the  last  Legislature,  and 
who  introduced  only  one  hill,  to  regulate  the  mileage 
of  members.  The  Ventura  people  were  the  only 
county  in  the  State  which  did  not  have  a  single  !'>cal 
measure.  Their  Senator  did  not  introduce  a  hill, 
and  their  Assemblyman  only  one.  Pann  went  into 
the  newspaper  business  after  the  Legislature  closed, 
and  I  believe  remained  in  it  about  six  weeks.  He  is 
now  poorer  and  wiser,  and  has  added  to  his  knowl- 
edge of  the  number  of  things  he  doesn't  know. 

Prescott  of  San  Bernardino  can  easily  get  the 
nomination  for  Assemblyman  again,  hut  lie  wants  i<> 
be  a  Senator  to  succeed  Hubbell,  who  died  shortly  af- 
ter the  session  closed.  If  he  does  not  get  the  Sena- 
torial nomination,  however,  he  will  be  a  candidate 
for  the  Assembly  again.  Roily  of  Humboldt,  who 
asked  the  Assembly  to  make  him  chairman  of  an  in- 
vestigating Committee,  so  that  its  investigations 
would  be  honest,  as  there  was  no  other  man  on  the 
committee  whose  honesty  could  be  relied  upon,  wants 
to  be  Senator,  but  I  am  told  he  will  be  lucky  if  he 
gets  back  to  the  Assembly.  McNeil  of  the  same 
county  can  get  a  re-nomination,  but  is  not  certain 
that  he  wants  it. 

*  *  * 

The  Alameda  crowd  all  want  to  come  back,  and 
probably  some  of  them  will,  but  they  are  getting  so 
broken  up  again  politically  the  other  side  of  the  bay 
that  no  one  can  tell  exactly  how  things  will  turn  out. 
Walsh  made  a  good  member,  and  probably  will  not 
have  much  trouble  returning,  and  Waste  comes  from 
Berkeley,  where  they  think  it  derogatory  to  talk  of 
politics  at  all,  though  they  have  had  some  very  lively 
politicians. 

*  *  * 

I  am  told  that  he  will  have  very  little  opposition 
to  encounter,  but  Bliss  will  find  things  harder,  if  ru- 
mor speaks  true,  and  may  not  get  the  nomination 
at  all.  In  Sacramento,  Grove  L.  Johnson  will,  of 
course,  be  a  candidate  for  the  nomination,  but  it  is 
very  doubtful  if  he  can  get  it.  In  the  last  Legisla- 
ture he  antagonized  the  labor  element,  which  is  very 
strong  in  his  district,  where  most  of  the  car-shop  men 
live,  and  even  if  nominated  it  is  doubtful  if  he  can 
be  elected,  as  he  only  got  through  by  a  shadow  last 
time.  Greer  of  the  same  county  will  be  a  candidate 
again,  and  probably  can  get  the  nomination.  If 
Johnson  does  not  run,  Albert  Elkus,  who  was  re- 
cently defeated  for  Mayor  of  Sacramento,  is  a  possi- 
ble candidate. 

*  *  * 

Colonel  John  P.  Irish  says  very  distinctly  since 
his  return  from  Washington  that  he  does  not  expect 
to  leave  his  present  Government  job,  and  he  inti- 
mates that  he  has  the  President's  assurance  that  if 
Roosevelt  is  re-elected  he  will  not  be  disturbed  for 
another  four  years.  Hie  gave  up  the  offer  of  the  Citi- 
zens' Association  because  he  concluded  that  it  would 
be  poor  politics  for  him  to  take  it,  and  he  doubts  if 
the  Association  will  last  many  years,  as  the  need  for 
it  is  not  likely  to  exist  very  long;  besides  the  Col- 
onel's friends  and  family  thought  it  a  dangerous 
place  in  case  of  a  strike,  and  while  no  one  doubts 
his  bravery,  he  preferred  a  place  where  he  would  not 
be   engaged   in   endless   strife.  — Junius. 


ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 
Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Looallon  ol  prlnotpal  plaae  ol  business,  San  Pranolsco.  California,  Lo- 
cation of  wo  ks.    Mt„rry  t'uinil>.    Novsda. 

Nulloe  Is  hereby  riven  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Hoard  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  *th  day  of  February  1904,  an  aak.s>ment  (No.  Tt)  of  fifteen  (111) 
•enla  per  chare  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  ooiporatlon,  pay- 
able Immediately  In  Ui  lied  Hlaica  Bold  ooln,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  companr.  room  79.  Nevada  Block,  No.  909  Montgomery  street,  San 
Pranolaoo.  California. 

Any  mock  upon  which  till"  taaessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
Nth   DAY    OF  MARCH.  1904 
will    be    delinquent    and    advertised     for    sale    at    public    auction:   and 
unless     payment    Is    mado  before,    will    be    sold    on     lucsday,    the     5th 
day  of    April,  1901.   to   pay  the  delinquent   assessment.  together  with  the 
cost  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Dlreotors, 

CHAS.  K   ELLIOT,  recrelary 

Office  -Room  79,  Nevada  Block.  SO?  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  Han  Franolsoo,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works—  Virginia  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  12th  day  of  February,  1904, an  assessment  (No.  84)  of  ten 
(10)  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation 
pay  able  immediately,  in  United  states  gold  ooin,  to  the  (Secretary,  at  the 
ollioe  of  the  Company.  Room  33,  Nevada  Blook  No.  309  Montgomeey  ht,, 
San  Francisco,  Cat. 
Any  stook  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE    18th  DAY  OF  MAHCH,  1904, 
will   be     delinquent,    and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auction;  and  unless 
payment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on    Friday,    the  8th  day  of    April 
1901,    to   pay  the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE.,  Secretary. 

Location  of  Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Blook,  809  Montgomery  street,  San 
Franolsco*  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Occidental    Consolidated    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works,  Silver  Mar  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting;  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  6th  day  of  February,  1904.  an  assessment  \No.  44)of  five  (5)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  57,  Nevada  Block.  No.  3u9  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE    10th    DAY    OF    MARCH,    1904, 
will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  31st  day  of  March 
1904,    to     pay     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the    costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

ALFRED   K.  BURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office  -Room  57,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Potosi  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  oi  business,  San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  thai  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  10th  day  >  f  February,  ib04,  an  assessment  (No.  69)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  In  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  (Secretary  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  Room  79  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco California^ 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  iemain  unpaid  on 
THE     16lh    DAY    OF    MARCH,   1904 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advetised  for  Bale  at  publio   auction    and    unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  Thursday,   the  7th  day  of  April 
1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79.  Nevada  Block  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

A.  sessment No.  13^ 

Amount  per  share 10 cent's 

Levied February  10. 1904 

Delinquent  in  office March   15  1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock April     4.  1904 

E.  L,  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  14,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

FOR  SALE. 

This   superb   instrument,   in   use   but  a 
Apollo        short  time,  will  be  sold,  on  account  of 
Grand       owner's  departure,  for  a  very  low  figure. 
Piano        Cost    new    $300.     Address   for   further 
Player.       particulars,  Owner.  Room  66,  320  San- 
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SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thl«ves) 

Monroe  was  explaining  his  fa- 
mous doctrine.  "There  must  be 
no  foreign  alliances  or  entangle- 
ments!" he  exclaimed.  "But, 
James,"  whispered  his  wife,  "the 
Irish  cook  says  she  will  leave  if 
we  don't  discharge  the  Swedish 
maid."  Hopelessly  the  great  man 
sank  into  a  chair  and  brought  his 
powers  of  diplomacy  to  bear  on 
the  subject. 

"Wait  a  second,"  she  said,  as  she 
stepped  into  the  store.  "Certain- 
ly," he  replied,  and  when  he  had 
been  uptown  looking  through  his 
mail,  spent  two  hours  on  'change, 
and  taken  luncheon  at  the  club, 
he  returned  and  found  her  just 
emerging  from   the   door. 

"That  man  Hustleup  is  certainly 
the  most  forehanded  individual  I 
ever  knew.  He's  always  ahead  of 
the  rest  of  the  world."  "What's  he 
doing  now?"  "Taking  a  patent 
medicine  for  spring  fever." 

"Don't  you  think  you'd  better 
mark  that  box  "Handle  with 
care,"  John.  All  our  best  china  is 
in  there."  "I  know  it  is,  but  there's 
no  use  giving  the  expressman  a 
straight  tip  like  that.  He'd  be  sure 
to  smash  everything  if  you  did." 


The  Lawyer — I'm  afraid  I'm 
going  blind.  The  Friend — Never 
mind,  old  man.  So  long  as  you 
retain  your  sense  of  touch  you'll 
be  all  right. 

"The  trouble  with  the  average 
American,"  remarked  the  placid 
philosopher  is  that  he  doesn't  stop 
work  long  enough  to  digest  his 
food.  He  doesn't  appreciate  the 
importance  of  the  alimentary  ca- 
nal." "My  friend,"  replied  Sena- 
tor Sorghum,  as  he  hastily  signed 
another  letter,  "there's  no  use  in 
trying  to  ring  in  any  new  ones. 
It'll  be  either  Panama  or  Nicar- 
agua or  none  at  all." 

A  man  came  in  the  police  court 
the  other  day  carrying  a  friend  on 
his  back.  The  judge  said:  "What 
is  the  trouble?"  The  man  said: 
"Judge,  this  man  is  a  friend  of 
mine,  and  his  name  is  Gunn.  Now, 
judge,  Gunn  is  loaded.  I  know  it 
is  against  the  law  to  carry  a  load- 
ed gun  on  the  streets,  so  I  brought 
him  in  here.  The  Judge  said: 
"Gunn,  you  are  discharged,"  and 
the  next  day  the  report  was  in  the 
papers. 


February  27,  1904. 

"Did  papa  have  any  money  when 
you  married  him?"  "No,  dear." 
"How  did  you  come  to  make  such 
a  sorry  blunder?"  "You  mustn't 
call  it  a  blunder,  child.  You  know 
your  father  has  plenty  of  money 
now.  Besides,  I  would  do  the 
same  thing  again."  "Then  why  are 
you  making  such  a  fuss  because  I 
want  to  marry  a  poor  young  man?" 
"Arabella,  if  you  can't  talk  sense 
don't  talk  at  all." 

The  Guide — Well,  here  we  are 
on  the  peak  at  last.  The  Tourist 
— Oh,  guide,  do  you  mean  to  say 
we  can  get  no  higher?  Don't  say 
that  I  can  ascend  no  further.  The 
Guide — Well,  you  can  climb  up 
this  alpenstock  if  you  want  to.  It's 
seven  feet  long. 

"Dees  your  daughter  play  Mo- 
zart?" asked  the  young  man  with 
gold  glasses.  "I  think  she  does," 
answered  Mrs.  Cumrox  affably, 
"but  I  think  she  prefers  whist." 

It  is  better  to  live  rich  than  to 
die  rich. 

Between  two  evils  choose  nei- 
ther. Between  two  goods  choose 
both. 


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AN  ILLUSTRATED  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  WEST 

MARCH,  1904 

CONTENTS:  B-p„ 

Frontispiece   Buddhist  Pilgrims    174 

Fish  of  the  Western  Sea Harry  R.  P.  Forbes  175 

The  Ojai  Valley   F.  W.  Reid   181 

The  Big  Butter  Buddha Minnie   D.   Kellogg    184 

Shakespeare's  Plays  and  Public  Opinion.  .L.   Ralston   Irving 187 

Teaching   the    Filipino    Pierre  N.  Beringer '. . .  191 

The  Ghost  of  Fan-Tai Amy  M.  Parish 195 

'Neath  the  Cherry  Blossoms  of  Yeddo.  .Roy    Farrell    Greene 196 

The  Fortunes  of  the  Midas .  John   Delaney    197 

The  Coming  Conflict   Dr.  Hugo  Erichsen  204 

The  Will Parma  Gentry  206 

Housekeeping  in  Mexico Cora  Chaffee  Babcock   207 

In   Season    Sadie  Bowman  Metcalfe   210 

Percy,  the  Ranch  Foreman John  Dicks  Howe 211 

Nightingale  Nights    May  Byron 215 

The  Masque  Sublime   Mary  H.  Coates 216 

The    Northwest   Mounted   Police..  L.  R.  Freeman    217 

The  Mushalinda  Legend M.  D.  Kellogg   222 

Tule   Farming    W.   A.   Tenney 227 

The  Correspondent  at  Hampstead.  .  Denison  Haley  Clift   234 

World's  Thought   239 

Wireless    (Marconi   System) Pierre  N.   Beringer    242 

The  Making  of  a  Fortune Sydney  Pell  Makinson   255 

Books 258 


February  37,  1904. 


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The  art  of  cocktail  mixing  is  to  so  blend 
the  ingredients  that  no  one  is  evident,  but 
the  delicate  flavor  of  each  is  apparent. 
Is  this  the  sort  of  cocktail  the  man  ghes 
700  who  does  it  by  guesswork?  There's 
never  a  mistake  in  a  CLUB  COCKTAIL. 
It  smells  good,  tastes  good,  is  good— 
always.  Just  strain  through  cracked  ice. 
Seven  kinds— Manhattan,  Martini,  Ver- 
mouth, 'Whiskey,  Holland  Gin,  Tom  Gin 
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TO  THIS  END  THE  BATH 
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HAND 
SAPOLIO 

All  Grocers  and  Druggists 

Jerrold — As  I  was  saying,  I  had 
$50  on  Topnotch  at  100  to  1.  The 
race  was  six  furlongs  and  Top- 
notch  won.  Harold — What  was 
the  time?  Jerrold — Why — er — I 
heard  the  clock  strike  2  just  as  I 
woke   up. 

Have  you  got  accustomed  to 
writing  it  1904? 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Young  Author  (who  thinks  him- 
self famous) — I  believe  I  could  1 
joy  my  vacation  better  if  I  could 
go  incognito.  Friend — Good  ideal 
Travel  under  your  nom  de  plume. 

Nowadays   we   are    told     "Hold 
out  your  chest"  and  not  "Throw 
back  your  shoulders."    The  shoul- 
ders  will   take  car,    oi   themseh 
if  the  chest  is  held  well  up. 

"Did  Slickun's  house  catch  fire 
from  a  defective  flue?"  "No;  an  ef- 
fective one.  He  had  it  insured  for 
twice    its    real    value." 

The  servant  handed  Mr.  High- 
more  a  letter.  It  was  from  Har- 
old, the  oldest  son,  who  was  in 
college.  "Anything  new  in  it?" 
"Yes,"  said  the  father  of  the  fam- 
ily in  an  agitated  whisper,  as  he 
glanced  hastily  over  the  letter. 
"He  doesn't  ask  for  any  money. ' 

"Johnny  is  a  very  imaginative 
child,"  said  the  fond  mother.  "But 
Willie  is  more  practical.  When 
Willie  decides  that  he  wants  any- 
thing he  sets  out  to  get  it."  "I  have 
noticed  that  difference,"  answered 
the  unfeeling  bachelor,  "Johnny 
sings  'I  Want  to  Be  an  Angel," 
but  Willie  smokes  cigarettes  and 
skates  on  thin   ice." 

Little  Elmer — Papa,  what  is  ex- 
ecutive ability?  Professor  Broad- 
head — The  faculty  of  earning  your 
bread  by  the  sweat  of  other  peo- 
ple's brows,  my  son. 

"What  was  the  matter  with  you, 
Brown?"  "Oh,  I  ate  some  duck 
for  dinner  the  other  evening  and 
had  an  attack  of  indigestion." 
'Well,  what  did  you  take  it  for?" 
"Some  quack  medicine,  of  course." 

"Ah,  Robbins,  how  are  you?  I 
saw  you  at  our  performance  the 
other  night.  How  did  you  like  my 
assumption  of  Hamlet?  Robbins — 
Capital,  my  dear  fellow.  Greatest 
piece  of  assumption  I  ever  saw 
in  my  life. 

Mrs.  Fondmar — When  you  see 
the  children's  stockings  hanging 
up,  doesn't  it,  make  you  wish  you 
had  some  little  fairies  of  your  own  ? 
Oldbach— Fairies,  eh?  Well,  I 
think  I'd  prefer  mermaids. 


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COAST    LINE 

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7.00- 
700. 

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8.00' 
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9  00 
9.30' 


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Kosa,  Martinez.  Sun  Huinon 6-20 

Mies,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Lit  t  Drop. 
Stockroii  7  20 

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Willows.     tFruto.      lied      UIulT, 

Portland,  Taeotna,   Scuttle 7.50 

Davis.  Woodland.  Knlnhta  Landing, 

Marysvllle.  Orovllla 7.50 

Port  Cosia,  Martinez.  Antlocb, 
Byron.  Tracy.  Sloektou,  New- 
man. Los  Banos,  Mendota. 
Armona.  Hnnrord  Vlsalla, 
Porterviiie 4,^0 

PortCoBla,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Latb- 
rop, ModcHto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen  Junction,  Han  f  o  rd, 
Vlsalla,  Bakerslleld  4  50 

NIIcb,  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton, (tMlltou),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Ptacervllte  Marysvllle.  CUIco, 
Red  Bluff 4.2O 

Oakdale,  Chinese.  Jamestown,  80- 
norn.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.20 

Atlantic  Espreas— Ogden  and  East.   11.20 

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Valiejo 1220 

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Ben  Ida,  winters.  Sacramento, 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
stations 10-50  \ 

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Tracy,  Lathrop,  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 

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Rock  I  In,  Auburn,  Col  fax, 
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ramento, Marysvllle,  Redding, 
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Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day  only  i 11. 60* 


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10-20* 


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Felton,    Bouluer     Creek,    SanU 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5.55 >* 

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New  Almaden.Los  GatOB, Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

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J  16i-  Newark,  8anJoae,  LoBGatos  and  I     »8.55  * 

way  Btatlona }  110  55  a 

#930p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
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Irom  OAKLAND,  Foot  of  Broadway  —  t*J:W)    t3:fN 

1SM>.'.     w-.w  a.m.       12  00    2  00    4-00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    <Hroa«l  Gauge). 

%3T  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets.) 

6-10*    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  30p 

700*    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations .         5  36p 

8  00*  New  Alraaden  (Tucb.,  Frld.,  only),  410p 
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Gllroy  (connection  for  Hollta- 
ter),  Pajaro.  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  SallnaB.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Robles,  Santa  Mar- 
garita, San  LuIb  Obispo,  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
lor  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara.San  Buena- 
ventura, SaugUB.  Los  Angeles...  10-45" 
9.t0<  8a  1  JoBe.  Tres  Plnos,  Capitols, 
ban  taCruz, Pacific  Grove.SallnaB, 
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Plnos.  at  Caatrovllle  for  Salinas.  12-15e 
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Lob  Angeles.  Demlng.  El  Paso, 
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February  27.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


J5he    Japs     at     Annapolis 

A  feature  oi  the  brilliant  successes]  both  strategic 
and  combative,  of  the  Japanese  fleets  in  the  pr< 

war  in  the  Orient,  which  is  of  special  interest  to 
Americans,  is  the  fact  that  many  of  the  Japanese 
naval  officers  received  their  early  training  at  the 
United  States  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis.  In 
fact,  the  early  instructors  at  Japan's  own  naval 
ol  were  imbued  with  the  ideas  of  the  American 
and  British  naval  officers,  whose  influence  has  been 
felt  throughout  the  empire's  naval  development,  and 
has  been  particularly  well  manifested  during  the  cur- 
rent campaign  in  Eastern  waters. 

When  the  present  era  of  civilization  in  Japan  was 
commenced,  after  the  ending  of  the  Shogunate  and 
the  establishment  of  the  imperial  government,  the 
shrewd  Japanese  leaders  at  once  began  to  send  their 
young  men  abroad  over  the  whole  face  of  the  earth 
in  search  of  the  educations  called  for  by  the  desire 
to  place  Japan  in  the  ranks  of  enlightened  world 
powers.  Youths  destined  for  the  army  were  sent 
for  the  greater  part,  to  German)'  and  France.  Those 
for  the  navy  were  sent  to  England  and  the  United 
States. 

As  an  act  of  courtesy  to  the  Emperor  of  Japan, 
Congress,  by  an  Act  approved  July  27,  1868,  opened 
up  the  facilities  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academy  to  prop- 
erly credentialled  subjects  of  the  Mikado.  Under  the 
law,  young  men  designated  by  the  Japanese  Govern- 
ment, were  permitted  to  enter  the  school  upon  the 
same  footing  as  American  lads,  with  whom  they 
were  associated  on  equal  terms,  save  that  they  re- 
ceived no  pay,  as  do  the  American  midshipmen. 

Fourteen  Japanese  students  in  all  have  been  edu- 
cated at  Annapolis,  five  of  whom  graduated;  the 
others  remaining  varying  lengths  of  time  at  the 
school.  The  first  appointees  were  Zum  Zow  Mat- 
smulla  and  Ise  Sataro,  who  entered  on  December  8, 
1869.  Matsmulla  graduated  in  June,  1873,  but  Sa- 
taro did  not  specially  distinguish  himself,  and  was 
withdrawn  a  few  months  after  entering. 

After  Sataro  got  home,  he  was  succeeded  by  Ko- 
ruko  Katz,  who  entered  in  June,  18.71,  and  graduated 
in  June,  1877,  taking  six  years  to  complete  the  four 
years'  course ;  another  Japanese,  Giro  Kunitomo, 
who  entered  in  October,  1872,  graduating  in  the  same 
class  with  him.  Neither  of  these  stood  high  in  his 
class,  nor,  indeed,  did  Matsmulla,  but  they  all  got 
through,  receiving  satisfactory  marks. 

After  these  there  followed  four  others,  none  of 
whom  graduated,  in  spite  of  some  leniency  and  spec- 
ial consideration  shown  them  on  account  of  the  dif- 
ficulties under  which  they  labored.  They  were  Ta- 
hahiko  Azuma,  entering  in  May,  1872 ;  Kisero  Ma- 
chida,  in  October,  1873 ;  Kautaro  Arima  and  Hei- 
demaro  Nambo,  in  June,  1874.  Machida  remained 
three  years  at  the  academy,  Arima  two  years,  and  the 
other  two  a  little  over  a  year  each. 

There  was  an  interregnum  of  a  year,  after  Arima 
left,  without  a  Japanese  student  at  Annapolis,  but 
in  September,  1877,  three  notable  appointments  were 
made  in  the  persons  of  Tasuker  Serata,  better  known 
to  the  American  midshipmen  as  "Tim";  Yenoske 
Inouye,  now  a  rear-admiral,  and  brother  of  the  fam- 
ous Count  Inouye,  the  statesman  and  diplomat;  and 
Sotokichi  Uriu,  who  was  none  other  than  the  Ad- 
miral Uriu  who  has  been  making  himself  so  famous 
recently  in  the  Russo-Japanese  war,  having  com- 
manded the  squadron  which  destroyed  the  Russian 
warships  at  Chemulpo.  Inouye  was  withdrawn  in 
August,  1880,  a  year  before  graduation.  Serata  and 
Uriu  graduated  with   high  honors,  Serata  standing 


14  in  a  clas>  i>i  72  members,  and  Uriu  standing  2fi  in 
tlu-  same  class.    Serata.  in  fact,  was  regarded 
particularly  brilliant  scholar,  as  well  as  highly  prac- 
tical   in    the    application    of   his    theoretical    training. 
It  has  been  reported  that  he  died  not  long  ago. 

In  1878,  Sadanori  Youchi  was  appointed  t"  An- 
napolis, but  he  left  in  April,  1881,  more  than  a  year 
before  hi>  class  graduated. 

Several  years  elapsed  after  the  graduation  of  Se- 
rata and  Uriu  before  another  Japanese  midshipman 
was  sent  to  the  United  States  Naval  Academy.  Ka- 
gakazue  Nire  was  appointed  in  May,  1887.  and  left 
at  the  end  of  lour  years,  but  did  not  graduate.  He 
was  followed  by  Tagasaki  Motohiko,  wdio  entered 
in  May,  1891,  and  was  withdrawn  in  March,  1895. 
Motohiko  was  the  last  of  the  Mikado's  subjects  to  be 
educated  at  Annapolis. 

As  a  general  thing,  the  Annapolis-bred  Japanese 
now  hold  much  higher  rank  than  their  contempor- 
aries in  the  American  navy.  Those  of  early  date 
are  all  either  admirals  or  captains,  while  the  senior 
of  the  Americans  who  studied  with  them  is  Com- 
mander Reginald  F.  Nicholson,  U.  S.  N.,  who  was  a 
classmate  of  Matsmulla  and  Sataro,  although  Com- 
mander S.  C.  Lemly,  of  the  same  class,  temporarily 
holds  the  rank  of  captain  while  acting  as  Judge-Ad- 
vocate-General of  the  U.  S.  Navy. 

Katz  and  Kunitomo  were  classmates  of  Com- 
manders C.  M.  Winslow,  J.  M.  Helm,  Charles  Laird, 
and  contemporaries  of  C.  F.  Pond,  J.  C.  Gilmore.  T. 
D.  Griffin,  the  lamented  P.  V.  Lansdale,  and  others 
well  known  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

It  is  the  general  concensus  of  opinion  among  these 
and  other  American  officers  who  were  in  constant 
contact  with  them,  that  the  Japanese  midshipmen 
at  Annapolis  exhibited  extremely  high  intelligence 
and  adaptability,  and  that  they  deserve  great  praise 
for  the  way  in  which  they  studied  and  learned,  in 
view  of  the  drawback  of  a  strange  language  and  con- 
ditions and  surroundings  wholly  unlike  those  of 
their  native  land  of  that  period. 

It  is  not  thought  probable  that  Japan  will  send 
any  more  of  her  midshipmen  abroad  to  be  educated, 
as  she  now  has  a  fine,  well-equipped  naval  academy 
of  her  own,  with  a  full  corps  of  competent  instruc- 
tors. 


^ESTIMATES  AND 
.MAS  FURNISHED 

J.JoZER&SON 

1762-764 MISSION  STREET* 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1904. 


SLEEP. 

By  Eastman  Elwin  in  Pearson's 
From  out  the  blue  of  space  I  lean  to  thee. 

Child   of  mortality. 
With  fingers  dipped  in  poppies'  blood,  I  touch 

Eyes    that    have    wept    o'ermuch — 
Thine  eyes,  that  shall  for  one  brief  space  forget 

Griefs    that    they    oft    have    met. 

For  one  brief  space  despair,  the  pains  of  Life. 

Sorrow  and  all  ills  rife 
Shall  be  forgot;   while  Love  and  Fame  and  Power 

Thine  shall   be,  one  short  hour. 
Drink  now  thy  fill  of  Joy,  of  Gladness,  Mirth. 

Waking   comes,  Child1  of  Earth. 


THE  OPAL. 

Anon. 
A  dew  drop  came  with  a  spark  of  flame 

He  had  caught  from  the  sun's  last  ray, 
To  a  violet's  breast,  where  he  lay  at  rest 

Till  the  hours  brought  back  the  day. 

The  rose  looked  down  with  a  blush  and  a  frown. 

But  she  smiled  all  at  once  to  view 
Her  own  bright  form,  with  its  coloring  warm, 

Reflected  back  by  the  dew. 

Then  the  stranger  took  a  stolen  look 

At  the  sky  so  soft  and  blue; 

And  a  leaflet  green,  with  its  silver  sheen, 
Was  seen  by  the  idler,  too. 

A  cold  north  wind,  as  he  tnus  reclined, 

Of  a  sudden  raged   around; 
And  a  maiden  fair,  who  was  walking  there 

Next  morning  an  opal  found! 

"I    LONGED    FOR    LOVE." 
By  Florence  Earle  Ooates  in  The  Outlook 

I  longed  for  love,  and  eager  to  discover 

Its  hiding  place.  I  wandered  far  and  wide; 

And  as.  forloru.  I  sought  the  lone  world  over. 
Unrecognized,  love  journeyed  at  my  side. 

I  craved   for  peace,  and   priceless  years  entended 
In  unrewarded  search  from  shore  to  shore; 

But.  home  returned,  the  weary  seeking  ended, 

Peace  welcomed  me  where  dwelt  my  peace  of  yore. 


HEART'S    INN. 

Br  Virginia  Woodward  Cloud  in  Smart.  Ret. 
"Oho!"  quoth  Love,  "  'tis  the  Inn  of  the  Heart, 
I'll  hie  me  thither  and  claim  my  part, 
For  many  a  guest  will  there  have  place 
Who  knows  Love's  name,  but  never  his  face!" 
So  to  the  Inn  of  the  Heart  Love  came. 
And  warmed  him  well  by  that  hearth's  flame; 
Guests  who  had  fed  them  and  paid  no  fee 
Stole   from   the   presence   of   such   as   he. 

Pain  and  Longing  and  gray  Despair, 

Slipped    they    back    to   the   shadowy   air; 

Though  the  Inn  was  full  at  setting  of  sun 

Love,  of  guests,  was  the  only  one, 

For  he  peopled  with  dreams  of  radiant  joy 

And  paid  Life's  coin  without  alloy; 

At  the  Inn  of  the  Heart,  'neath  its  purple  vine, 

Love  fared  for  a  night  off  roseate  wine. 

A  minstrel  sang;   Love  turned  his  face, 

For  the  Inn  of  the  Heart  is  a  quiet  place; 

A  vendor  called  his  wares  in  the  street, 

And  the  door  swung  back  for  Love's  flying  feet; 

The  door  stood  wide,   but  he  fled  with  day; 

Then   silently  back  the  same  old  way, 

Came  Longing,  Despair  and  the  older  Pain, 

To  fill  the  Inn  of  the  Heart  again — 


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The  Oriental  war  is  indeed  hell — on  the  telegraph 
editors. 


The  humble  appendicitis  microbe  continues  to  en- 
joy himself  in  Society's  midst. 

A  lady  of  McKeesport,  Pa.,  is  cutting  a  new  set  of 
teeth  at  73,  when  she  ought  to  be  cutting  her  shroud. 

Japan   appears   to   have   adopted    General    Grant's 
motto:  "Get  there  first  with  the  greatest  number  of 


M.  Hanotaux  is  no  fool.  He  declares  that  the 
United  States  intend  to  determine  the  course  of 
events  in  the  Orient.    Well,  who  has  more  at  stake? 


Mrs.  Roosevelt  is  collecting  china.  It  is  now  up  to 
some  German  newspaper  to  point  out  the  sinister 
significance  of  the  fact. 

Hannibal,  the  lion  which  devoured  a  horse  in  a 
freight  car,  has  all  the  pre-requisites  of  success.  He 
knows  what  he  likes  and  takes  it  on  sight. 

The  railroad  to  Mecca  will  probably  increase  the 
number  of  pilgrims.  Will  it  also  increase  the  amount 
of  smallpox  which  appears  to  be  inseparable  from 
the  pilgrimage? 

The  American  Consul  for  Dalny  in  Manchuria  is 
here,  waiting  his  orders  to  proceed.  What  a  delight- 
ful welcome  he  will  have,  and  how  he  will  enjoy  his 
stay  in  Dalny  when  he  gets  there. 

We  Californians  are  a  forbearing  lot.  The  Portu- 
guese who  refused  to  lend  the  straw  to  repair  the 
levee,  the  break  in  which  caused  the  flood,  is  still 
alive. 


An  English  physician  notes  that  there  is  not  much 
difference  between  a  monkey  and  a  baby  a  few  hours 
after  birth.  We  may  add  that  the  likeness  often 
persists  to  maturity,  and  cite  Harry  Lehr  as  proof. 

"Marriage  for  love,"  rules  a  New  York  Judge,  "is 
a  condition  favored  by  the  poets,  but  not  as  yet 
adopted  in  our  jurisprudence."  That  is  to  say :  Cupid 
is  still  in  partnership  with  cupidity. 

Kuropatkin  is  like  the  policeman  in  the  "Pirates 
of  Penzance" — he  is  in  no  hurry  to  go  to  the  front. 
It  is  always  next  week  with  him.  Well,  the  religious 
preparations  are  enough  to  frighten  any  one. 


Captain  Duke,  newly  appointed  police  captain,  sig- 
nalized his  promotion  by  arresting  a  twelve-year-old 
boj  against  whom  there  was  nothing  to  be  found. 
Query:  Is  Duke  a  new  Inn  mi  or  a  silly  ass? 

The  Senate  has  decided  that  Uncle  Sam  does  not 
owe  ex-Queen  Liliuokalani  anything  for  the  monar- 
chy it  took  away  from  her.  It  wasn't  much  of  a 
monarchy,  and,  anyway,  if  we  hadn't  taken  it  some- 
body else  would  have. 


Paris  has  a  fine,  exhilarating  atmosphere.  Still 
every  possible  disease  flourishes  there.  At  present 
they  are  suffering  from  an  apparently  new  form  of 
jaundice;  at  all  events,  it  is  called  "the  yellow  ter- 
ror." 


The  Russian  Commander-in-Chief  gave  a  banquet 
on  the  night  of  the  Japanese  attack.  When  he  heard 
the  firing  he  explained  that  it  was  on  board  his  own 
ships.  What  in  the  name  of  all  that  is  holy  did  he 
think  his  ships  were  firing  for  at  that  hour? 

The  Duke  of  Connaught  is  to  be  the  new  Inspector 
General  of  the  British  Army.  There  should  be  lots 
to  look  after.  By  the  lowering  of  the  physical  stand- 
ard of  recruits,  it  is  growing  smaller  all  the  time, 
however. 


The  President  has  presented  to  a  museum  in  Thu- 
ringia  a  complete  outfit  of  an  American  soldier  as 
worn  in  the  Boxer  campaign.  It  looks  very  much  as 
if  some  reflection  on  the  uniform  was  intended.  It 
is  the  Rough  Rider's  way  of  evening  up. 

Physical  degeneration  is  perplexing  the  people  of 
Great  Britain.  It  is  agreed  that  insanity  is  of  a 
much  more  virulent  type  and  tends  to  become  incur- 
able to  an  extent  far  beyond  what  it  did  twenty-five 
years  ago.  Infant  mortality  has  increased  to  the 
ratio  of  166  per  1000  births.    Rule  Britannia ! 

The  County  of  Alameda  is  sufficiently  advanced  to 
take  her  place  as  a  leading  modern  community.  She 
is  unable  to  pay  her  debts  this  year.  The  posses- 
sion of  debts  and  Colonel  Irish  is  surely  distinction 
enough. 

Jamieson's  attainment  of  the  Premiership  of  the 
Cape  is  a  bitter  pill  to  poor  old  Kruger.  Never  say 
die.  Nothing  looked  more  hopeless  than  the  case 
of  the  raiding  Doctor  seven  years  ago,  and  look  at 
him  now.  And  poor  Kruger,  seven  years  ago,  lay 
awake  at  nights  imagining  himself  ruler  of  a  Dutch 
South  Africa. 


We  are  acting  the  policeman  with  a  vengeance  at 
San  Domingo.  We  send  a  naval,  captain  to  observe 
operations,  and  this  officer  forthwith  orders  the  Presi- 
dent of  an  independent  nation  not  to  close  his  own 
ports  against  revolutionists  who  are  attempting  to 
overthrow  his  Government.  Such  are  the  effects  of 
a  strenuous  policy. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


A  DUTY  FOR  THE  SCHOOL  BOARDS. 

That  Board  of  School  Directors  which  will  wipe 
out  the  pestilent  system  of  "vertical  handwriting" 
will  earn  the  thanks  of  a  community  which  does  not 
often  have  reason  to  toss  bouquets  to  the  educators 
of  its  youth.  Theoretically,  this  plan  was  excellent: 
it  contemplated  the  banishing  of  the  "scrawl"  that 
had  come  from  no  system  at  all,  and  promised  in  its 
stead  a  manuscript  that  was  to  be  rapid  of  execution 
and  as  clear  to  read  as  the  printed  word.  Practically, 
it  has  ruined  the  writing  of  at  least  one  generation. 
Now  and  then  we  see  an  example  of  "vertical  writ- 
ing" that  would  convince  us  of  the  systems'  merit,  if 
we  did  not  know  that  it  was  done  with  great  pains 
for  show  purposes.  Any  class  in  any  of  our  public 
schools  produces  daily  abundant  testimony  that  the 
"vertical  system"  is  a  failure,  that  it  has  resulted  in 
something  less  legible  than  the  "scrawl,"  and  with 
no  character  or  individuality  at  all. 

The  prime  object  of  writing  is  that  it  shall  furnish 
a  transparent  medium  for  the  expression  of  thought 
that  cannot  be  otherwise  communicated,  and  shall 
provide  a  clear  record  of  thought  or  transaction  need- 
ing permanent  preservation.  But  a  vastly  important 
secondary  purpose  is  that  the  writing  shall  be  so 
far  expressive  of  the  writer's  individuality  as  to  put 
forward  a  readv  means  for  the  identification  of  him- 
self and  of  his  written  record  of  thought  or  deed. 
Undeniably,  such  a  means  of  identification  is  essen- 
tial to  the  world's  business.  Without  it  there  must  be 
recourse  to  thumb  prints  or  photographs,  each  re- 
quiring verification  beyond  itself,  or  to  a  system  of 
differentiating  and  identifying  yet  to  be  devised.  Any 
observer  of  the  writing  of  school  children  under 
the  "vertical  system"  will  testify  that  it  is  unfailingly 
alike  in  its  characterless  illegibility.  "Verticalism" 
has  succeeded  in  producing  only  an  ugly  sameness. 
A  few  more  years  of  it  and  the  people  upon  whom  it 
is  inflicted  will  have  no  difficulty  in  signing  the 
names  of  one  another  beyond  the  distinguishing  of 
any  expert  or  of  themselves. 

From  the  scholastic  viewpoint,  "vertical  handwrit- 
ing" is  an  abortion  ;  from  the  commercial  view-point 
it  is  an  abomination  ;  from  the  legal  viewpoint  it  is  a 
menace  to  an  all-important  factor  in  the  transactions 
indispensable  to  organized  society. 

All  of  which  the  News  Letter  respectfully  submits 
to  the  Board  of  Education. 


UNJUST    POSTAL    REGULATIONS. 

E.  C.  Madden  is  the  name  of  the  third  Assistant 
Postmaster-General,  an  autocrat  who,  by  a  strange 
freak  of  fortune,  is  allowed  to  run  the  mails  of  the 
United  States  as  suits  his  sweet  will,  excluding  from 
their  use  legitimate  business  enterprises  simply  be- 
cause they  do  not  please  him  or  his  ideas.  The  con- 
tinued demand  of  the  people  for  a  one-cent  letter 
postal  rate  became  so  strong  that  Congress  was 
forced  to  take  some  cognizance  of  it,  and  as  there  is 
an  annual  deficiency  in  the  postal  revenues  at  pres- 
ent. Loud,  who  at  the  time  was  Chairman  of  the  Post 
Office  Committee  in  the  House,  conceived  the  bril- 
liant idea  of  making  the  papers  and  magazines  of  the 
country  pay  for  the  shortage,  instead  of  forcing  the 
railroads  to  reduce  their  charges  for  carrying  the 
mails.  These  charges  are  notoriously  enormous. 
They  are  based  upon  the  amount  of  mail  that  is  sent 
over  a  given  route  for  two  or  three  months,  every 
four  years.  When  the  time  comes  to  do  this  weigh- 
ing of  mail,  the  roads  load  down  the  mails  with  pub- 
lic documents  and  matter  of  all  kind,  every  extra 
pound  being  paid  for,  be  it  remembered,  for  the  en- 


suing four  years,  as  it  raises  the  average  for  that 
time,  ft  is  this  scandalous  system  that  creates  the 
deficit,  and  that  keeps  the  people  from  enjoying  a 
one-cent  rate  on  letters  and  better  postal  facilities.1 
In  pursuance  of  his  plan  to  distract  attention  from 
the  real  cause  of  the  deficit,  Loud  persuaded  Congress 
to  allow  the  Post  Office  Department  to  exclude  from 
the  benefit  of  second-class  mail  rates  any  publica- 
tion they  might  choose,  it  in  their  opinion  it  was  pub- 
lished more  as  an  advertising  medium  than  as  a  regu- 
lar newspaper  or  magazine,  besides  all  regular  pub- 
lications were  denied  the  right  to  send  sample  copies 
of  their  publication  through  the  mails  at  the  second- 
class  rates,  and  a  number  of  vexatious  and  annoying 
regulations  were  authorized  so  that  publishers,  in- 
stead of  the  railroads  might  suffer  from  the  indigna- 
tion of  the  public  at  being  deprived  of  their  low- 
postage  and  better  facilities.  Clothed  with  these 
powers  the  third  Assistant  Postmaster  General  under- 
takes to  exclude  from  the  mails  any  publication  he 
sees  fit,  passing  upon  it  as  a  censor  of  morals,  religion 
and  politics,  as  well  as  business  methods.  Under  this 
scheme,  he  forced  Wilshire  to  move  his  magazine 
to  Canada,  because  he  declared  that  Wilshire  said 
too  much  about  himself  in  his  publication,  which  was 
self-advertisement,  but  really  because  the  magazine 
is  a  socialistic  publication,  which  does  not  agree 
with  Mr.  Madden's  tastes.  He  excluded  "The  Ap- 
peal of  Reason"  from  the  mails  for  the  same  rea- 
son, and  now  he  has  just  declined  to  allow  John  Bris- 
ben  Walker's  new  Twentieth  Century  Home  to  go 
through  the  mails  as  second-class  rates,  for  some 
reason  that  he  will  not  even  deign  to  explain.  The 
absurdity  of  these  regulations  is  that  by  publishing 
in  Canada  they  can  all  get  reduced  rates,  over  the 
United  States,  and  will  go  through  the  same  mails, 
under  the  same  conditions  as  those  from  which  they 
are  excluded,  if  published  in  this  country.  Is  it  not 
time  that  the  publishers  of  the  country  should  unite 
against  a  continuation  of  this  outrage?  It  is  re- 
markable that  they  have  stood  it  so  long.  What  right 
has  the  Government  to  interfere  with  any  legitimate 
business?  What  becomes  of  the  freedom  of  the  press 
if  one  man  is  made  absolutely  press  censor  of  the 
country?  It  is  now  proposed  to  exclude  from  the 
mails  all  publications  that  contain  medical  adver- 
tisements. With  this  added  power  in  his  hands,  Mad- 
den will  be  able  to  strike  at  the  circulation  of  any 
paper  in  the  country.  While  he  has  offered  no  ex- 
planation of  his  action  in  the  Twentieth  Century 
Home,  there  is  no  question  but  that  Walker  is  being 
punished  because  in  his  other  publication,  the  Cos- 
mopolitan, he  has  ventured  to  criticise  the  Post  Of- 
fice Department  for  its  mismanagement  and  corrup- 
tion. Probably  he  hit  Madden  a  blow  in  those  arti- 
cles, or  is  it  another  case  of  graft?  Congress  might 
do  well  to  inquire  into  this  matter,  and  probably  we 
shall  have  another  scandal  uncovered. 


THE  MAN  WHO   SPITS. 

At  many  an  occasion,  the  News  Letter  has  had 
much  to  say  about  the  officials  of  San  Francisco, 
who  never  do  anything,  but  everybody.  The  average 
city  official  is  noted  for  his  unobservance  of  the 
statutes  rather  than  for  any  efforts  on  his  part  to  en- 
force them.  There  is  a  statute  that,  for  reasons  of 
health  and  decency,  provides  for  the  punishment  of 
men  and  women  who  may  expectorate  in  places 
and  in  such  a  manner  that  the  sputa  becomes  a 
menace  to  the  health  of  the  people.  The  vulgarians 
now  at  the  head  of  our  City  Government,  by  the 
grace  of  God,  and  the  chance  of  politics,  know  no 
better  than  the  kine  of  the  field,  and  it  is  not  to  be 


March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


:ted  th.it  such  an  important  law  should  be  en 
Forced  by  this  scum  unless  some  one  points  oul  the 
infraction.  The  expectorator  is  a  terrible  infliction, 
ami  hero  in  San  Francisco  he  is  insistently  predomi- 
nant. His  slimy  trail  is  everywhere.  He  can  in 
traced  along  the  sidewalks,  in  the  halls  of  amusement 
and  in  street  and  steam  cars.    IK-  is  numberless,  and 

he  spits  himself  into  the  notice  of  the  decent  and  the 
refined  at  every  turn,  and  unchecked  goes  on  his 
merry,  dirty  way.  The  administration  of  tile  city. 
graduated  from  the  ranks  of  the  canaille,  does  no 
that  it  is  necessary  to  the  public  health  to  enforce 
the  ordinance  or  because  of  a  fear  that  a  majority 
of  its  supporters  may  he  jailed  in  consequence,  it 
does  not  see  tit  to  enforce  the  law.  The  expectorator 
should  be  jailed,  and  we  hope  lie  will  he.  We  also 
hope  that  we  have  made  it  plain  to  the  administration 
of  city  affairs,  that  eats  with  its  knife  and  combs 
its  beard  and  hair  with  its  fork,  that  the  enforcement 
of  the  law  is  a  necessity,  and  will  preserve  the  lives 
of  the  unwashed  as  well  as  the  cleanly. 


A  VALUABLE  JUDGE. 

Not  very  long  ago  a  Judge  of  conspicuous  talent 
and  unquestioned  position,  would  have  considered  it 
beneath  his  dignity  to  trouble  his  mind  about  the 
morals  of  young  boys.  The  offenders  against  the 
law  would  have  been  brought  before  him  and  he 
would  have  duly  sentenced  them  according  to  law 
without  the  slightest  compunction  or  further  thought. 

It  is  a  testimony,  therefore,  to  the  growth  of  the 
idea  of  social  service  that  a  man  of  the  power  of 
Judge  Lindsey  should  have  elected  to  make  the 
salvation  of  the  youthful  delinquent  the  main  pur- 
pose of  his  life.  The  ability  to  successfully  deal  with 
boys,  to  make  friends  with  them  and  to  win  their 
entire  confidence,  is  one  of  the  very  rarest  of  gifts. 
How  many  of  us  can  remember  a  teacher  who  was 
endowed  with  that  uncommon  quality?  Such  a  one 
remains  in  our  memory,  and  the  feeling  of  close  com- 
radeship engendered  by  association  with  him  never 
really  forsakes  us. 

To  possess  this  power  of  making  friends  with  boys, 
and  to  use  it  as  a  means  for  reclamation  of  the  boy, 
is  perhaps  the  finest  thing  which  a  man  can  do. 
.  Judge  Lindsey,  therefore,  has  not  only  lost  no  dig- 
nity in  taking  up  the  work  which  he  has  elected  to 
follow,  but  is,  on  the  contrary,  proving  himself  a 
social  factor  of  uncommon  usefulness.  It  is  pleas- 
ant to  note  also  that  Judge  Murasky  has  become 
deeply  interested  in  the  same  phase  of  work,  and  is 
lending  it  all  the  influence  of  his  markedly  kindly  and 
serious  personality. 

A  NEW  IDEA. 

They  have  a  new  club  in  Oakland  with  a  peculiar, 
but  in  all  probability  a  very  useful  object.  It  is 
called  the  Home  Club,  and  owes  its  inception  to  Mrs. 
F.  M.  Smith,  who  has  recently  provided  it  with  new 
headquarters.  The  purpose  of  the  club  is  stated  to 
be  the  "betterment  of  homes." 

What  is  exactly  meant  by  the  phrase  would  be  per- 
haps a  little  hard  to  define,  but  it  is  to  be  presumed 
that  all  phases  of  home  life  will  be  closely  studied 
by  the  members,  and  that  some  conclusions  will  be 
reached  of  practical  value  to  the  insignificant  people 
who  have  not  the  honor  to  belong  to  the  club. 

But  it  is  a  strange  commentary  upon  existing  con- 
ditions when  the  home  has  to  be  the  object  of  or- 
ganized solicitude.  If  anything  should  be  spontan- 
eous, it  is  domestic  life,  that  grouping  of  father, 
mother  and  children,  which  depends  primarily  upon 
affection,  and  cannot  exist  without"  it:    Where  mutual 


love  rules  there  is  the  home.  There  can  he  no  sub- 
stitute for  that  mutual  affection.  In  face  of  ii  all 
the  attacks  made  upon  the  home  by  brilliant  homeless 
women,  who  write  out  of  the  bitterness  of  their  souls, 
fail. 

But  such  a  club  may.  and.  it  is  to  he  hoped,  will  he 
able    to    distribute    information    with    resped    to    the 

beautifying  ami  adorning  of  modern  dwellings.  We 
are  a  prosperous  people,  and  tlie  children  even  of  our 
artisans  are  sufficiently  well  off  to  indulge  a  com- 
paratively inexpensive  taste  for  beauty.     If  they  ran 

be  educated  to  appreciate  the  simple  and  the  refined, 
a  great  impetus  will  have  been  given  in  the  direction 
of  healthy  happiness,  and  even  of  morality. 

THE  CRITIC  AND  THE  ACTOR. 

Fortunately  it  is  Xat  Goodwin  this  time  who  has 
raised  anew  the  question  of  how  far  one  may  go  in 
criticising  the  stage  and  stage-folk  without  risk 
of  personal  resentment — fortunately,  because  Air. 
Goodwin  is  a  person  of  the  distinction  which  should 
be  brought  to  the  adjudication  of  a  matter  like  this. 
He  is  still  very  much  alive,  with  the  promise  of  many 
more  years  of  active  usefulness,  and  already  he  has 
had  cigars,  neckties,  perfumery  and  other  things 
named  after  him,  which  is  much  more  significant 
of  contemporaneous  popularity  than  to  have  a  page 
all  to  one's  self  in  "Who's  Who?"  Moreover,  it  is 
not  to  be  gainsaid  that  he  is  a  good  actor,  an  actor 
of  the  first  rank.  Men  have  said  of  him,  sadly  shak- 
ing their  heads :  "Nat  Goodwin  is  a  bad  actor,"  but 
it  has  been  said  in  the  slang  sense,  and  with  refer- 
ence to  his  conduct  in  other  places  than  on  the  stage. 

Fortunately,  also,  the  issue  this  time  involves  none 
of  the  treasured  liberties  of  the  press.  It  appears 
that  on  a  recent  evening  in  St.  Louis,  when  Mr. 
Goodwin,  after  the  play,  was  doing  what  the  news- 
papers politely  and  discreetly  call  "supping  with  a 
few  friends,"  a  man  named  McKane  projected  him- 
self into  Mr.  Goodwin's  charmed  circle,  and  insisted 
upon  turning  the  conversation  to  Mr.  Goodwin's 
art,  and  upon  doing  all  the  talking  himself.  In  the 
course  of  his  remarks,  this  McKane  crowned  the 
height  of  his  offending  by  stating  it  as  his  firm  belief 
that  Mr.  Goodwin,  on  the  stage,  filled  accurately  the 
title  of  his  current  pieces — "A  Gilded  Fool."  Mr. 
Goodwin,  equal  to  a  controversial  emergency,  for 
which  the  language  supplies  no  words.  Seizing  the 
argument  that  lay  nearest  to  his  hand — it  was  in  St. 
Louis,  remember,  and  after  the  show,  so  it  could  not 
by  any  chance  have  been  aught  else  than  a  large  and 
heavy  stein — he  applied  it  to  the  person  of  his  too 
keen  critic  with  such  force  and  precision  as  to  con- 
vert a  flow  of  language  into  a  flow  of  blood.-  While 
the  critic  continued  to  be  silent  concerning  the  stage 
and  everything  else,  Mr.  Goodwin  departed  in  a  dig- 
nified manner  and  continued  "supping  with  a  few 
friends"  in  a  place  which  the  police  were  temporarily 
unable  to  locate. 

Herein,  then,  is  found  vindication  on  the  part  of 
the  exuberant  McKane  of  the  right  of  free  speech, 
particularly  as  it  pertains  to  public  things  and  per- 
sons, and  on  Mr.  Goodwin's  part  of  the  right  of  each 
of  us,  doing  well  or  ill  his  business  in  life,  to  shut 
his  eyes  and  ears  to  unkindly  criticism,  and  to  re- 
sent, even  with  a  stein,  any  attempt  to  force  it  upon 
his  notice.  McKane  had  his  say;  Goodwin  had  his 
swat — and  there  you  are. 

By  the  forthright  reply  of  Mr.  Goodwin  to  the 
uncompromising  dictum  of  a  critic,  who  was  more 
candid  tharr  courteous,  the  process  of  adjusting  and 
harmonizing  the  relations  of  those  who  live  by  criti- 
cising those  who  play,  goes  happily  forward. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


OUR  INCOMPETENT  LAWYERS. 

There  are  too  many  lawyers  in  San  Francisco,  and 
far  too  many  poor  ones.  In  saying  poor,  we  do  not 
refer  alone  to  their  financial  standing,  but  to  the 
lack  of  professional  knowledge  and  ordinary  care 
which  is  far  too  common  a  mark  of  our  present-day 
practitioners.  In  a  vast  majority  of  cases  one  does 
not  even  get  the  necessary  attention  which  is  requi- 
site to  secure  legal  rights,  and  under  such  circum- 
stances the  practice  of  the  profession  by  large  num- 
bers of  those  who  are  authorized  to  plead  cases  and 
prepare  legal  documents  is  nothing  short  of  an  ab- 
solute fraud  upon  the  public. 

Recently  the  writer  of  this  had  occasion  to  examine 
the  record  of  title  to  a  piece  of  property.  One  law- 
yer had  carelessly  omitted  to  copy  the  description 
correctly,  and  the  entire  title  lay  under  a  cloud  in 
consequence.  Subsequent  to  the  first  wrong  descrip- 
tion, he  had  had  occasion  to  file  various  other  papers, 
all  of  which  contained  the  description  of  the  premises 
in  question  and  in  every  one  of  which  the  same  de- 
scription was  wrongly  copied.  This  is  bad  enough 
in  all  conscience,  and  might  easily  have  led  to  confu- 
sion and  actual  loss,  but  the  worst  is  not  yet  told. 
The  search  was  made  by  a  well-known  firm  of 
searchers,  and  even  these  failed  to  note  the  discrep- 
ancy in  the  descriptions,  and,  but  for  the  purchaser's 
own  carefulness,  he  might  easily  have  expended  his 
money  for  only  a  portion  of  the  land  which  he  fan- 
cied he  was  purchasing.  In  this  case  the  fraud  is 
sufficiently  obvious.  Certain  professional  gentlemen 
who  had  taken  an  oath  to  discharge  the  duties  of 
their  profession  faithfully  had  failed  in  their  obliga- 
tions, and  the  results  might  have  been  serious  for 
the  interests  of  the  person  who  had  paid  for  good 
service. 

This  is  not  an  unusual  instance.  Not  very  long 
ago  an  important  case  in  equity  was  tried  by  two 
leading  firms  of  solicitors  and  counsellors  in  this 
city,  and  when  the  case,  in  the  course  of  which  volu- 
minous briefs  had  been  filed,  was  submitted  to  the 
court  for  decision,  the  latter,  being  more  careful, 
found  a  glaring  discrepancy  in  the  description  of  the 
property  involved  which  had  escaped  the  supposedly 
hawk-like   eyes   of   the   lawyers   on   both   sides. 

Now,  this  sort  of  thing  is  an  absurdity,  and  if  such 
carelessness  is  characteristic  of  the  work  of  the 
local  bar,  it  would  be  just  about  as  safe  to  take  our 
own  cases  into  court  and  leave  the  Judge  to  settle 
the  matter  simply  on  equitable  grounds.  As  Ruskin 
says  somewhere  with  more  truth  than  is  to  be  found 
in  a  great  deal  that  he  wrote,  if  a  lawyer  is  not  acute 
he  is  nothing.  To  which  we  shall  take  the  liberty  of 
adding  that  if  he  does  not  conscientiously  and  labor- 
iously examine  his  work,  he  is  worse  than  nothing — 
he  is  a  fraud,  a  nuisance  and  a  source  of  loss. 

What  is  the  reason  of  this  professional  laxity  at 
our  local  bar?  First  and  foremost,  we  have  a  great 
many  men  who  are  not  entitled  either  intellectually 
or  morally  to  practice  a  profession  which  requires 
much  self-restraint  and  loftiness  of  purpose.  The 
entrance  examinations  are  too  easy,  the  bars  are  let 
down  too  far,  and  the  crowd  of  those  who  have 
neither  character  nor  position  who  are  thus  enabled 
to  crawl  into  the  forum  reduce  the  potentiality  of  the 
profession  for  good  and  actually  infect  it  with  evil. 

In  this  matter,  it  is  true  that  the  Chief  Justice  of 
California  is  supposed  to  hold  a  contrary  opinion, 
and  that  he  favors  the  abolition  of  all  examinations, 
having  the  idea  that  thus  the  profession  will  find  its 
level  and  the  incompetents  be  weeded  out.  But  in 
the  meantime  the  innocent  suffer,  the  ordinary  lay- 
man who  fancies  that  the  possession  of  a  license  to 


practice  will  act  as  a  testimonial  of  the  abilities  of 
the  person  possessing  it,  is  deceived  and  suffers  det- 
riment. 

The  worst  of  the  present  state  of  the  profession 
is  that  some  of  those  who  are  thus  careless  and  unre- 
liable actually  succeed  and  make  money.  Their  mis- 
takes are  only  obvious  to  their  legal  brethren,  who,  as 
fellow  practitioners,  cannot  express  themselves,  and 
a  harvest  of  litigation  and  probable  loss  is  reaped 
by  the  trusting  clients  who  have  committed  their 
interests  to  their  care. 

We  have  a  Bar  Association  composed  of  gentlemen 
above  suspicion,  many  of  whom  are  extremely  jeal- 
ous for  the  good  name  of  the  profession  which  they 
ornament,  but  what  steps  do  they  take  to  raise  the 
standard  of  legal  knowledge,  and  what  is  even  more 
important,  to  raise  the  standard  of  legal  morality? 
When  a  flagrant  case  of  misconduct  or  negligence 
has  arisen,  it  ought  to  be  possible  to  call  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Bar  Association  to  the  matter  in  such  a 
way  that  the  delinquent  lawyer  might  be  categori- 
cally informed  of  the  opinion  in  which  he  was  held 
by  his  brother  practitioners.  This  course  of  action 
would  in  the  course  of  time  have  a  profound  influence 
upon  legal  ethics,  for  the  conspicuous  ignoring  of  the 
unprofessional  would  be  much  more  deadly  in  its 
effects  than  any  amount  of  individual  disbarrments, 
followed,  as  they  usually  are,  by  a  restoration  to  full 
privileges  after  a  short  lapse  of  time. 

A  better  method  of  admission,  coupled  with  a 
stricter  investigation  of  those  already  admitted,  is 
a  necessary  preliminary  to  any  real  improvement  in 
the  condition  of  things,  and  to  the  elimination  of  that 
incompetency  v/hich  is  the  curse  of  the  profession. 

Humor  is  not  dead.  In  spite  of  Lent,  the  Fates  are 
pleased  to  be  facetious.  James  A.  Johnston,  the 
treasurer  of  the  San  Francisco  Labor  Council,  was 
held  up  by  a  highwayman.  A  trades  union  official 
held  at  the  point  of  the  pistol  by  a  gentleman  of  the 
road  is  a  gratifying  and  pleasing  spectacle,  and  one, 
moreover,  conducive  to  general  good  feeling  and  in- 
nocent merriment.  When  members  of  the  same 
profession  thus  get  the  drop  on  each  other,  the  rest 
of  the  world  may  be  pardoned  for  expressing  a  little 
too  exuberant  joy. 

A  hired  newspaper  poet  who  escaped  the  Balti- 
more fire,  returns  to  sing  a  song  about  his  journal, 
beginning: 

''One  and  thirty  and  an  hundred  were  the  years  that 
I  had  stood"  >- 

Unhappy  Baltimore! 


fctCHAS  KLILUS  &  COM 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

There  is  a  reason  why  our  clothes  are  so  decidedly  different  from 
others.  It  is  the  experience,  merit  ana  exclusiveness  that,  our 
fabrics,  patterns  and  fashions  contain.  The  sculptor's  chisel  could 
not  give  the  effect  in  the  appearance  of  our  spring  and  summer 
models.    (This  is  the  Home  for  Correct  Dressers.) 


KEAGyxD^STISJ£E'ir 


March  5.  1904. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Life 


Commonplaces     of 

By  Alfred  Dezendorf. 

Some  folks  keeps  talkin'  'bout  "commonplace  tin;;-..'' 

Dey  nabs  notnin'  good  to'  t"  say. 
Dey  libs  on  'citement,  and  mus'  "hah  a  change!" 
F'um  de  humdrum  wuhk  ob  de  day. 

Dey  sho'  fo'gits  dat  dc  commonplace  tings, 
Am  'mongst  does  we  lubs  de  bes'; 

Oc   diff'nnce    'twix'   common    and    commonplace, 
Am  fur  as  de  eas'  f'um  de  wes'. 

IV  stars  dat  shine,  an'  eb'ry  wind  dat  blows, 

An'  de  ole  sky  what  swing  so  blue  ; 
Dey  all  b'longs  'mongst  de  commonplace  tings. 

But  neber  gits  common;  dat's  true! 

De  ole  fren'  dat  clasp  you'  ban'  as  he  pass  ; 

De  HI'  gal  who  smile  "How-de-do?" 
Some  folks  'scribes  clem  as  moughty  commonplace  : 

I  don'  call    em  common — does  you? 

De  kiss  in  de  mornin'  an'  pra'r  at  night, 

Dat  yo'  lubbed  ones  hab  fo'  you ; 
You  'specs  'em  bofe  an'  calls  'em  commonplace — 

But  dey  neber  grows  common — sho'. 

So,  honey,  I  'specs  dat  de  folks  what  wears, 

Dat  'temptius  look  on  dere  face  ; 
Wouldn'  feel  right  in  de  worl'  aftah  all 

Ef  dey  wan't  in   a  common  place. 

A  "MESHUGGENE"  FISH   STORY. 

A  "fly"  commercial  traveler  from  New  York  was 
the  immediate  instrument  for  starting  a  new  by-word 
among  devotees  of  whist  in  local  Jewish  circles.  He 
was  allowed  to  make  the  fourth  at  a  game  at  one 
of  the  summer  resorts  last  season.  The  three  other 
players  were  veterans  whose  play  had  been  perfected 
by  constant  practice  at  their  clubs  and  homes.  They 
gave  their  attention  to  the  game  as  they  would  to 
the  large  details  of  their  business  interests.  The 
drummer  was  boastful  and  flippant.  This  was  en- 
dured in  silence.  But  when  after  leading  the  seven 
of  trumps  which  was  taken  by  his  partner,  J.  Green- 
baum,  Mr.  Greenbaum  found  when  he  led  back  the 
suit  that  the  seven  was  the  young  man's  only  trump 
card.  Greenbaum  threw  up  both  hands  and  ejacu- 
lated in  solemn  tones :  "The  fish  walked  round  the 
block."  There  was  no  further  reproach,  though  the 
other  players,  Kaufman  Wertheimer  and  A.  Levin, 
looked  at  him  big-eyed.  It  was  whist,  and  no  ques- 
tions were  asked  till  the  hand  was  through.  Then, 
under  pressure,  Greenbaum  explained : 

"The  teacher  of  a  Yiddish  school  in  the  East  Side 
of  New  York  was  telling  the  children  about  verbs. 
Each  pupil  was  to  make  a.  sentence  containing  the 
word  'walk.'  When  it  got  to  Izzy  Rosenstein,  he 
found  that  most  of  the  animals  he  knew  anything 
about  had  already  been  named,  so  he  said :  'The  fish 
walked  around  the  block.'  The  teacher  remonstrated 
that  this  was  impossible,  since  the  fish  had  no  legs. 
Izzy  wanted  his  good  mark,  and'  he  insisted :  'But, 
yiss,  deacher.  You  don't  know  vat  queer  things  a 
'meshuggene'  fish  will  do.'  " 

Each  of  the  other  players  grinned,  and  the  drum- 
mer still  wonders  why  they  didn't  care  about  playing 
whist  with  him  any  more  during  their  vacation. 
"Meshuggene"  is  the  Hebrew  word  for  "crazy." 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  lor  your  children  while  teething. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


X5he    Minister    of    Foreign    Affairs 


It  is  just  now  beginning  to  dawn  upon  tine  Anglo- 
Saxon  race  more  particularly  that  there  is  an  issue 
growing  out  of  the  Russo-Japanese  war  which  tran- 
scends in  importance  to  civilization  and  the  personal 
liberty  of  humankind  mere  territorial  expansion  or 
the  glory  of  achieved  victory  upon  the  battlefield. 
This  issue  is  an  ethical-economic  question,  and  it 
concerns  most  of  Europe  and  all  of  America.  It  is 
thus:  Suppose  Japan  is  left  to  work  out  her  own 
national  salvation,  and  that  she  is  finally  driven  to 
the  wall.  Would  it  not  mean  that  all  of  Eastern 
Asia  woidd  ultimately  have  to  yield  to  Russian  ab- 
sorption and  Russian  laws  and  Russian  customs? 
Would  not  the  form  of  Government  be  ultra  auto- 
cratic and  the  civilization  be  even  lower  than  is 
maintained  in  the  present  Russian  empire?  Would 
the  spirit  of  constitutional  Government,  to  say  noth- 
ing of  democracy  and  the  rights  of  man,  be  permitte  1 
to  find  expression  in  public  sentiment?  Is  it  not  easy 
enough  to  foresee  that  the  St.  Petersburg  autocrat, 
who  is  also,  or  rather  claims  to  be,  the  infallible  head 
of  the  Christian  Church,  on  earth,  would  dominate 
and  practically  govern  an  additional  population  of 
quite  450.000,000  Asiatics  and  fly  the  flag  of  the  l'.ear 
over  4,000,000  additional  square  miles  of  territory — 
about  the  area  of  the  United  States,  including  Alaska  ? 
And  would  not  the  traditional  Romanoff  hatred  of 
intellectual  and  moral  forces  that  work  for  the  bet- 
terment of  man's  condition  of  existence  be  the  meas- 
ure of  Russia's  standard  of  civilization  in  Eastern 
Asia?  It  is  this  possibility  that  is  just  now  engag- 
ing the  attention  of  the  world's  strongest  and  ablest 
thinkers,  and  it  is  this  possibility  that  is  everywhere 
outside  of  Russia  and  royalty  in  Germany  that  is 
arousing  human  sympathy  with  Japan.  Tt  is  the 
fear  of  the  consummation  of  Russia's  bold  scheme  to 
increase  her  territorial  possessions  by  one  third,  ami 
oblige  nearly  one-third  of  the  world's  population  to 
surrender  all  hopes  and  aspirations  for  personal  lib- 
erty and  a  higher  civilization,  and  bow  the  head  in 
abject  submission  to  the  will  and  wish  of  a  mentally 
and  morally  diseased  ruler,  who  is  always  a  law 
unto  himself,  without  restraint  and  without  responsi- 
bility to  any  one.  Japan  has  already  demonstrated 
her  worthiness  to  have  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  all 
needed  moral  and  physical  forces  in  her  great  under- 
taking of  leading  Eastern  Asia  out  into  broader  and 
more  fertile  fields  of  intellectual  force,  moral  worth, 
commercial  integrity,  industrial  activity  and  encour- 
agement to  individual  effort  for  greater  personal  free- 
dom and  collective  progress.  There  is  a  mighty  ethi- 
cal issue  in  the  Far  East,  and  the  god  of  advancing 
civilization  demands  that  the  Russian  Bear  be  caged 
within  the  confines  of  his  own  liberty-hating  country. 
*  *  * 

The  past  week  has  been  full  of 

Japan's  Military      events   in    Korea  and   Manchu- 

Genius.  ria.      The    calm    but    merciless 

precision  of  Japan's  tactics, 
and  the  persistent  energy  of  their  unfoldment  from 
day  to  day,  have  revealed  a  standard  of  knowledge 
of  the  science  of  war  that  surprises  everybody.  And 
the  surprise  is  so  great  to  the  hitherto  blustering 
Russian  Generals  and  Admirals  that  they  seem  to 
have  lost  their  heads.  Port  Arthur  is  practically 
invested,  and  the  General  in  command  admits  that 
its  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  Japanese  is  merely  a 
question  of  a  very  short  time.     Only  two  of  the  Rus- 


sian squadron  that  was  at  Port  Arthur  are  seaworthy. 
Japan's  superb  marksmanship  has  destroyed  the 
others,  and  not  only  is  Port  Arthur  practically  lost 
to  Russia,  but  Vladivostock  is  cut  off  from  communi- 
cation with  Russian  headquarters.  This  gives  Japan 
the  complete  mastery  ot  the  entire  water  front  of 
Manchuria  and  Korea,  which  not  only  enables  her 
to  sail  her  troop  ships  without  convoys,  but  gives 
her  such  complete  mastery  of  the  situation  as  to 
naval  operations  that  it  would  be  impossible  for  Rus- 
sia to  make  even  a  weak  naval  demonstration;  be- 
sides, the  Baltic  fleet  has  been  ordered  to  return  to 
its  old  quarters,  and  the  Black  Sea  fleet  has  con- 
cluded to  remain  where  it  is.  Thus  is  Japan  with- 
out annoying  opposition  in  the  waters  of  Eastern 
Asia.  From  now  on  the  theatre  of  action  will  be, 
therefore,  on  Korean  and  Manchurian  soil,  and  it 
will  be  real  war  on  lines  of  consummate  strategy.  But 
it  is  not  likely  that  Russia  will  invite  a  trial  of 
strength  just  now.  It  will  require  several  weeks  to 
prepare  the  incoming  reinforcements  for  field  duty,  so 
great  are  the  hardships  engendered  by  the  long  and 
tedious  journey  through  Siberia.  This  much  St. 
Petersburg  admits.  Then,  again,  the  landing  of  Jap- 
anese troops  a  few  miles  from  Vladivostock  is  a 
movement  to  cut  the  Russian  army  in  two,  but  the 
greater  danger  to  the  Russian  forces  is  in  the  prob- 
able purpose  of  the  Japanese  to  destroy  the  railway 
system  of  Manchuria  at  strategic  points.  It  must  be 
remembered  that  Russia  has  about  1.800  miles  of 
railway  in  Manchuria  to  defend  against  Japanese 
il\  ing  columns  of  regulars  ami  Chinese  organized 
freebooters,  who  are  in  sympathy  with  Japan.  On 
the  other  hand,  in  making  the  move  to  divide  the 
Russian  forces,  Japan  divides  her  own  army  of  occu- 
pation, and  defeat  to  the  Vladivostock  inland  expedi- 
tion would  most  likely  mean  its  utter  destruction. 
The  Japanese  general  staff  has  just  now  reached  the 
field  of  operations,  which  would  seem  to  indicate  that 
all  is  ready  for  a  forward  movement  in  force  into 
.Manchuria  to  strike  right  and  left  before  the  Russian 
plan  of  concentration  is  consummated.  Thus  far 
every  point  has  been  won  by  Japan,  but  no  great 
battle  has  yet  been  fought. 

Two     highly     important 
Two  Important  Events,    events   have     transpired 

the  past  week,  and  either 
one  of  them  is  enough  to  start  an  international  fire. 
Korea  has  defiantly  annulled  her  proclamation  of  neu- 
trality, and  has  not  only  entered  into  an  offensive 
and  defensive  alliance  with  Japan,  but  has  actually 
ordered  her  war  establishment  to  report  to  the  com- 
manding general  of  the  Japanese  army  for  orders. 
This  act  of  Korea  is  the  equivalent  of  a  declaration 
of  war  against  Russia,  and  apparently  without  any 
cause  other  than  Japan's  adroit  diplomacy.  The 
other  event  is  the  exposure  of  China's  insincerity  to- 
ward Russia.  It  seems  to  be  clear  enough  now  that 
China  has  no  idea  of  continuing  neutral  when  she 
issued  her  neutrality  proclamation.  Well  drilled  and 
thoroughly  equipped  Chinese  soldiers  an-  concentrat- 
ing at  strategic  points  near  the  Manchurian  border, 
nor  does  even  Russia  believe  the  Peking  Government 
when  it  denies  that  these  troops  are  going  forward 
as  an  "army  of  observation";  still  the  Chinese  au- 
thorities are  playing  the  game  of  hypocrisy  so  adroit- 
ly that  tin-  other  powers  can  find  no  excuse  to  inter- 
fere.    But  neither  Korea's  alliance  with  Japan  nor 


March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


-.    There  spicion  in  Berlin  an 

g  that  Great  Britain  anil  the  United  States 

arc  in  confidence;  and  that  Peking  is  acting 

the  secret  advice  of  London  and  Washington. 

fish   proposition,  that   i-  exactly  what   the 

Pacific  Coast  desires  the  United  States  to  do;  i.  <.-.. 

make   this   nation    solid    with    China   and   Japan,   for 

Eastern  Asia  is  the  Pacific  Coast's  greatest  and  rich- 

field  of  commercial  and  industrial  expansion. 

Obituary 

George  P.  Morrow,  son  of  the  late  George   Mor 
row.  pioneer  haj   and  grain  merchant,  of  San  Fran- 
cisco,    died     at      his 
home  in  <  lakland  last 

Monday.  Mr.  Mor- 
row was  a  prominent 
grain  hroker  of  San 
Francisco,  and  was 
known  in  political  and 
club  circles.  The  de- 
ceased was  a  native 
of  San  Francisco,  and 
aged  46.  Although 
Mr.  Morrow  was  horn 
in  San  Francisco  and 
carried  on  his  business 
in  this  city,  he  has 
lived  nearly  all  his  life 
in  Oakland.  He  stud- 
ied in  the  public 
schools  of  Oakland, 
and  is  a  gradaute  of  the  University  of  California. 
He  leaves  a  wife  and  two  children,  George  W.  Mor- 
row, aged  21,  and  Rachel  Morrow,  aged  18. 

William  E.  Dargie,  Jr.,  is 
W.  E.  Dargie,  Jr.      dead,  and  there  are  hundreds 

that  grieve  because  of  his 
untimely  end.  He  was  one  of  those  rare  personalities 
beloved  of  all  men.  His  was  a  cheerful  disposition 
and  a  helping,  sunny  and  kindly  nature.  He  was 
the  inheritor  of  some  of  the  best  blood  of  California, 
but  his  individuality  raised  him  far  above  the  mere 
circumstance  of  birth,  and  there  are  many  who  will 
mourn  his  taking  away  as  a  personal  loss.  Mr.  Dar- 
gie was  but  21  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  attached  to  the  California  Commission  at 
the  Paris  Exposition,  and  won  the  greatest  praise 
from'  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  The 
writer  of  these  lines  knew  him  personally  since  child- 
hood, and  remembers  him  for  his  gentleness  and  for 
his  promise  of  a  brilliant  manhood. 


MORROW 


Crowds  Come,  Rain  or  no  Rain. — This  is  the  sec- 
ond month  of  PATTOSIEN'S  GREAT  RETIRING 
SALE.  The  crowds  of  buyers  continue  to  come 
daily  in  spite  of  the  heavy  rain.  This  week  two  car- 
loads of  new  furniture  and  carpets  arrived.  They 
were  ordered  for  the  spring  trade,  but  they  will  be 
sold  out  during  this  RETIRING  SALE  at  same  low 
prices.  PATTOSIEN'S,  corner  16th  and  Mission 
streets. 


One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Beeulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tome 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipmtz  &  Co.  N.  H.  Cor,  butter 
and  Grant  Ave. 

The  latest  style  in  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 

L.  &  M.  Alexander  A  Co.  are    located  as  before.  110  Montgomery 
street,  and  rent  and  sell  typewriters. 


ELEVATOR  INSPECTION. 

Another   terrible   calamity    was    recorded    in    the 

daily  press  of  last  week.  \n  elevator  Started,  with- 
out apparent  reason,  and  in  the  endeavor  to  save 
her  mother,  who  had  been  crushed  into  a  shapeless 
mass,  a  beautiful  young  girl  was  killed.  This  is  the 
third  accident  in  one  week  recorded  by  the  news- 
papers. The  third  case  is  that  of  an  old  pioneer  who 
was  crushed  to  death  liv  an  unreliable  machine. 
This   is  probably   another  case  of  lack   of   inspection. 

Samuel  Baden  has  been  sacrificed  to  the  monumental 

Stupidity  of  our  city  authorities. 

When  will  the  wise  men  who  sit  in  government 
over  the  people  in  the  city's  legislative  halls  get 
down    to   business    and    do    something   besides   doing 

everybody?     Isn't   it   about   time  action   was  taken? 

Does  our  highly  intellectual  Mayor  wish  to  wait 
until  such  time  as  a  dozen  or  more  cases  air  mi  rec- 
ord before  he  appoints  an  inspector  of  elevators?  Is 
there  any  good  reason  why  the  Supervisors  do  not 
take  this  matter  in  hand  in  company  with  our  delec- 
table chief  executive?  Are  we  not  entitled  to  this 
protection,  and  is  it  no!  the  plain  duty  of  Mayor 
Schmitz  to  take  the  initiative? 

If,  as  has  been  stated,  the  real  Mayor  is  Mr.  Abe 
Ruef,  why  does  he  not  instruct  his  puppet  in  his  du- 
ties. Ruef  has  never  as  yet  been  accused  of  suggest- 
ing neglect  of  duty  to  the  fiddle-headed  Mayor.  Ruef 
is  credited  by  his  associates,  with  extraordinary  com- 
mon sense.  Why  not  suggest  to  the  Mayor  that  he 
take  this  matter  in  hand  and  name  some  good  man 
as  elevator  inspector  before  some  terrible  accident 
occurs  in  one  of  our  office  buildings,  and  ten  or  a 
dozen  lives  are  lost? 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

What  is  more  beautiful  or  ap- 
propriate than  MAHOGANY, 
in  COLONIAL  DESIGNS? 

We  carry  a  complete  line  of 
Parlor,  Dining  Room,  Cham- 
ber and  Living  Room  Furni- 
ture. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    ®    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkish  Baths. 


Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Importers  of  staple  and  fancy  dry  goods.  Manufacturers  of 
furnishing  goods.  Patentees  and  sole  manufacturers  of 
"THE  NEVEK-BIP"  OVERALL.    The  best  in  the  world. 

Gloves,  suspenders,  laces,  ribbons,  dress  goods,  velvets, 
silk,  flannels,  oil  cloths,  cottons,  linens,  etc.  Blankets, 
calicoes,  umbrellas,  cutlery,  shawls,  notions,  smokers' 
articles,     stationery,    underwear,    hosiery,    white    goods. 

Cor.  Sansome  and  Bush  Sts.,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  s,  1904. 


This  is  not  about  a  girl,  although  the 
Violett.      title  would  seem  to  imply  as  much.     It 

is  the  story  of  a  dreamy,  musical  sort  of 
boy  whose  father  had  been  hanged  for  poisoning  a 
half-witted  niece  for  her  money.  Not  a  very  engag- 
ing theme  to  hang  a  story  on,  is  it?  The  tale  is 
sufficiently  lugubrious,  it  could  not  well  be  otherwise, 
but  it  is  more  than  usually  well-written.  It  is  only 
fair  to  say  so  much.  The  range  of  characters  is  great, 
embracing  as  it  does  fisherfolk,  a  distinguished  musi- 
cian, and  a  group  of  third-rate  theatrical  people.  No 
description  of  the  story  is  necessary.  The  book  is 
primarily  a  psychological  study,  but  its  usefulness 
as  such  "is  impaired  by  the  peculiarity  and  unusual 
character  of  the  material. 

The  writer  is  the  Baroness  von  Hutten.  She  is  an 
American  woman,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  who 
married  Baron  von  Hutten,  of  Bavaria,  at  Florence, 
in  1897.  She  and  her  husband  live  most  of  the  time 
at  the  ancestral  seat,  Steinbach,  in  the  Valley  of  the 
Mairi,  Bavaria. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  New  York. 

It's  a  far  cry  from  Balboa,  "silent  upon  a  peak  of 
Darien,"  to  Lewis  and  Clarke  upon  a  "beautiful 
sandy  beach  through  which  runs  a  small  river  from 
the  hills,"  but  Mr.  Thwaites  has  condensed  the  his- 
tory of  "The  Expansion  of  a  Republic"  into  a  very 
entertaining  book  of  250  pages.  Although  most  of 
the  incidents  are  well  known,  this  is  the  first  time 
that  these  records  have  been  treated  in  a  connected 
form.  The  book  is  interesting  from  beginning  to 
ending,  and  the  illustration  and  maps  are  excellent. 

"Rocky  Mountain  Explorations,"  by  Reuben  Gold 
Thwaites.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York.  $1.25 
net. 


Realizing  that  it  is  not  well  for  man  to  live  alone, 
"Doctor  Syntax"  makes  his  third  tour  in  search  for 
a  wife.  Up  many  a  winding  stair,  and  ofttimes  down 
again  in  a  greater  hurry  than  when  ascending;  over 
perilous  roads  and  into'  laughable  plights ;  the  sport 
in  a  greater  hurry  than  when  ascending;  over  peri- 
ous  roads  and  into  laughable  plights;  the  sport 
of  frolicsome  matrons,  and  the  victim  of  his  friends 
the  good  man  keeps  ever  the  even  tenor  of  his  course 
until  at  last  he  meets  the  fair  lady  who  graciously 
says  "Yes,"  and  they  are  wed  and  live  happily  ever 
after.  Here  is  the  Doctor's  receipt  for  a  happy  wed- 
ded life : 

"Treat  your  wife  always  as  a  bride, 
And  let  your  honeymoon  survive, 
Till  one  or  other  cease  to  live." 
"The  Third  Tour  of  Doctor  Syntax."     A  Poem, 
with  twenty-five  illustrations  by  Thomas  Rowland- 
son.    A  new  edition.    D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 
i-5°.  

"The  Story  of  the  Lopez  Family"  is  a  series  of 
family  letters  written  for  private  perusal  only,  but, 
unintentionally,  they  give  an  otherwise  unobtainable 
picture  of  Filipino  life.  Edited  and  with  an  introduc- 
tion by  Canning  Eyat.  James  K.  West  Co.,  Boston. 
Price,  $1.00. 


George  Barry  &  Sons,  of  Philadelphia,  are  issuing 
"The  History  of  North  America,"  by  Professor  Guy 
Carleton  Lee  and  a  corps  of  assistants.     This  is  the 


most  comprehensive  survey  of  North  America  ever 
published,  commencing  when  the  past  was  a  form- 
less land,  an  unfitted  waste  for  the  habitation  of  man, 
continuing  through  the  times  when  it  was  only 
a  habitation  for  Indians,  while  great  nations  swarmed 
in  the  lower  latitudes  of  the  continent,  and  hundreds 
of  tribal  organizations  peopled  the  region  north  of 
the  Rio  Grande.  Thenceforth  the  evolution  of  Amer- 
ican history  is  traced,  chapter  by  chapter,  volume 
by  volume,  each  of  the  latter  being  compiled  by  a 
specialist  in  the  particular  subject  or  period  with 
which  it  deals,  until  from  the  imperishable  records 
of  prehistoric  man,  dug  from  the  scarped  cliff  or 
quarried  stone,  we  land  at  last  amid  the  events  of  the 
present  day.  Hence  the  claim,  which  we  are  not  dis- 
posed to  dispute,  that  the  work  under  consideration 
is  the  only  general  history  of  North  America  in  exis- 
tence. 


Henry  Harland's  agreeable  little  romance,  "My 
Friend  Prospero,"  which  has  been  running  as  a  serial 
in  McClure's  Magazine,  is  now  published  in  book 
form  by  McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.,  and  goes  to  com- 
plete the  trio  of  comedies  in  masquerade,  the  other 
two  of  which  are  "The  Cardinal's  Snuff  Box"  and 
"The  Lady  Paramount."  This  is  a  slighter  story  than 
either  of  those,  but  it  is  of  the  same  sort  and  in  its 
smaller  way  almost  as  pretty.  But  has  not  Mr.  Har- 
land  almost  exhausted  the  possibilities  of  the  ingen- 
ious formula  which  serves  with  slight  variations  for 
all  these  stories?  But  though  replicas  of  a  good 
story  are  good,  a  new  story  is  better,  and  having  now 
set  before  his  readers  all  the  possible  combinations 
of  the  given  formula,  it  may  be  trusted  that  Mr.  Har- 
land  will  resolutely  go  to  work  to  break  new  ground. 

"My  Friend  Prospero."     McClure,  Phillips  &  Co. 

There's   only  one  right  way  to  clean  a  carpet,  and 

that's  the  way  employed  by  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Cleaning 
Co.,  353  Tehama  street.  By  their  improved  machinery  they 
clean  a  carpet  thorcighly  and  quickly  without  injuring  the 
fabric.  You  have  no  fuss,  bother  or  anxiety.  Simply  have 
the  Spauldings  call  for  your  carpet,  and  in  a  short  time 
it  will  be  returned  looking  like  new. 


Dentist,   806    Market. 
teeth   extracting. 


Dr.  Decker, 

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March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Political 


While  the  meeting  of  the  State  representativi  9 
the  Iroquois  Clubs  of  California  in  this  city  last  week 
tlid  not  accomplish  much  so  far  a-  defining  the  future 

policy  and  position  of  the  Democratic   Part}    in  this 
commonwealth  is  concerned,  it  had  a  decided  damp- 
ening effect  on  the  prospects  of  the  Honorable  Wil- 
liam Randolph  Hearst  for  the  Presidency.    While  it 
is  true  that  there  was  a  small  picture  of  the  editor 
displayed  in  the  hall,  and  that  the  delegates  express*  d 
their  pleasure   that   Congress   had    concluded    to   let 
his  henchman   Livernash  continue  to  occupy  a  scat 
in  the  House  of  Representatives,  yet  it  failed  entirely 
to  indorse  the  candidacy  of  the  Sausalito  Don  Juan, 
although  strenuous  efforts  were  made  to  secure  an 
enthusiastic   approval   of   his   candidacy,   and    it    re- 
fused   to   endorse    the    Kansas    City    platform    upon 
which  it  is  understood  Hearst  proposes  to  stand  witli 
Bryan's  help.    Nay,  more,  at  the  banquet,  J.  Y.  Cole- 
man, toast-master,  set  the  pace  in  favor  of  an  un in- 
structed delegation  to  St.  Louis,  and  if  that  policy 
should  be  carried  out,  the  Hearst  boom  would  go  a- 
begging,  for  an  endorsement  by  his  native  State  is 
absolutely  necessary  to  the  self-appointed  candidate. 
*  *  * 
While   the    Iroquois   showed   themselves   indiffer- 
ent to  the  interests  of  the  New  York  Congressman, 
even  though  his  friends  did  everything  they  could 
to  get  him  the  endorsement  of  the  club  which  he  so 
much  coveted,  the  leading  Democrats  outside  of  the 
city,  and  some  in  the  city,  are  showing  themselves 
decidedly  hostile.     Editor  Leake  of  Woodland,  for 
instance,  publishes  articles  in  his  paper  denouncing 
Hearst,  which  would  be  distinctly  libelous  if  it  were 
possible  to  say  anything  about  Hearst  which  is  libel- 
ous.    But  his  record  is  so  debasing  that  it  is  impos- 
sible to  say  anything  of  him  worse  than  the  truth, 
and  therefore  all  danger  of  libel  is  removed.     It  is 
a  notable  fact  that  while  Franklin  K.  Lane  has  said 
nothing,  publicly,  at  least,  against  Hearst,  yet  never- 
theless every  paper  which  supported  him  energeti- 
cally and  loyally,  is  violently  opposed  to  Hearst,  and 
if  he  were  named  it  would  only  be  necessary  to  re- 
publish what  they  are  now  saying  to  show  how  unfit 
he  would  be  to  hold  the  position  of  dog-catcher,  not 
to  speak  of  the  place  he  aspires  to.     It  is  evident, 
therefore  that  Lane  is  anti-rHearst,  and  as  Lane  is 
never  anything  until  he  has  asked  McNab  what  he 
should  be,  it  is  equally  evident  that  McNab  is  anti- 
Hearst  also.     Now,  while  McNab  does  not  amount 
to  much  as  a  help  to  a  man  to  get  a  position,  he  has 
a  good  deal  of  negative  strength,  and  can  be  a  heavy 
load  on  a  man  who  wants  to  reach  a  political  goal 
which  the  Scotchman  does  not  want  him  to  reach. 
Just  as  Tammany  cannot  elect  one  of  its  members, 
Governor  of  New  York,  even  though  it  were  the  fa- 
mous John  Kelly,  its  sachem  of  other  days,  himself, 
and  yet  it  could  keep  a  lot  of  other  fellows  out  of  the 
office — especially  the  nomination — so  McNab's  oppo- 
sition will  do  much  to  weaken  Hearst's  candidacy  in 
this  State,  and  McNab  is  undoubtedly  out  against  the 
editor,  although  as  yet  he  is  working  against  him  on 
the  quiet.     The  conservative  element  in  the  party  is 
anti-Hearst  also,  and  Editor  Leak  add  Editor  Green 
and  Editor  Henry,  of  Woodland,  Colusa  and  Liver- 
more,  are  going  to  help  elect  anti-Hearst  delegates. 
The  Los  Angeles  Democrats  are  weakening,  also,  it 
is  rumored,  and  Snyder  now  favors  an  uninstructed 

delegation. 

*  *  * 

The  news  from  the  East  is  no  more  cheering  for 
the    Hearstites    than    the    prospects    here    at    home. 


Murphy  of  New  York  has  definitely  decided  that 
Tammany  will  not  support  Hearst,  and  as  a  result 
the  batteries  of  his  New  Y>rk  organ  is  busv  violently 
attacking  the  Mayor  of  that  city.  Murphy's  figure- 
head, and  even  Murphy  himself.  The  methods  em- 
ployed by  Hearst  to  attack  Mcl'lellan  and  Murphy 
was  su  characteristic  that  1  shall  repeat  it:    The  gas 

in    New   Y>rk   is  apparently  as  | r  as  it  is  in   San 

Francisco,  and  Hearst  called  upon  bis  reader- 
send  complaints  to  the  Mayor.  Immediately  His 
Honor  was  deluged  with  several  thousand  com- 
plaints. The  Journal  urged  him  to  act,  and  insinua- 
ted that  if  the  consumers  did  not  get  better  gas  it 
would  be  the  fault  of  the  Mayor.  The  Mayor  ac- 
cordingly wrote  a  personal  letter  to  each  one  of  those 
who  bad  filled  out  a  Journal  complaint  coupon  and 
asked  for  specific  details,  with  the  result  that  he 
discovered  that  a  large  number  of  the  complaints 
were  purely  fictitious.  Thereupon  Tammany  an- 
nounced that  it  will  not  allow  Hearst  to  buy  his  way 
back  into  the  next  Congress,  and  that  he  must  stay 
at  home  or  get  a  constituency  to  elect  him  over  whom 
the  Wigwam  has  no  control.  Hearst  then  attacked 
the  nomination  of  Burke  Cochran  for  Congress,  but 
as  the  Republicans  put  up  no  opposition  ticket,  he 
was  practically  elected  without  any  opposition  at 
all,  and  Hearst  got  another  black  eye.  Hearst  was 
invited  by  the  Legislature  of  Mississippi  to  make  it 
an  address,  but  as  he  could  not  very  well  stand  up 
before  that  body  and  have  Arthur  McEwen,  who  it  is 
said  writes  his  letters  for  him,  to  stand  by  and  prompt 
him,  he  was  forced  to  decline  the  invitation.  In  Chi- 
cago Andy  Lawrence  got  into  a  row  with  Mayor  Har- 
rison, and  as  a  result  all  the  Harrison  influence  is 
anti-Hearst.  Senator  Jones  is  trying  to  save  Arkan- 
sas for  him,  but  as  Jones  could  not  save  himself  from 
being  ousted  from  the  Senatorship,  his  influence  in 
Arkansas  is  not  great  enough,  it  is  said,  to  control  the 
next  delegation  from  there  to  St.  Louis.  In  fact,  it 
looks  now  as  though  Hearst  will  not  have  a  fifth  of 
the  delegates  to  the  National  Convention,  including 
California,  and  if  he  loses  this  State,  the  territories 
are  about  all  he  can  count  upon,  and  he  is  none  too 
sure  of  them. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Bard  may  be  considered  as  out  of  the 
Senatorial  contest.  He  announces  that  he  will  make 
no  effort  to  be  re-elected,  and  that  if  he  goes  back 
to  Washington  for  a  second  term,  he  will  only  do  so 
at  the  spontaneous  demand  of  his  party  and  the 
people.  There  is  not  the  slightest  chance  of  there 
being  any  such  spontaneous  demand,  and  therefore 
the  Senator  may  be  considered  out  of  the  running. 
The  State  is  therefore  free  to  select  a  candidate  who 
will  be  of  some  importance  in  the  National  Capitol, 
and  who  will  not  give  receptions  with  cheese  sand- 
wiches as  the  only  refreshment.  Even  in  the  old 
days  of  Jeffersonian  and  Jacksonian  simplicity,  the 
diet  was  heavier  than  that,  for  at  his  inauguration 
Jackson  had  tubs  of  punch,  if  history  speaks  truly, 
for  the  refreshing  of  his  horde  of  visitors;  and  Jef- 
ferson was  a  very  liberal  provider.  Coming  after 
men  like  the  elder  Hearst  and  Stanford,  the  parsi- 
mony of  the  Ventura  statesman  makes  a  very  painful 
impression  on  the  people  of  Washington,  who  are 
unfortunate  enough  to  be  invited  to  his  "receptions" 
and  the  result  is  seen  in  the  very  meagre  results 
which  he  has  achieved  for  this  State.  No  man  can 
do  successful  politics  in  Washington  on  a  Lenten 
diet.  He  must  entertain,  and  if  he  does  not  care  to 
he  had  better  stay  at  home,  especially  if  he  has  no 
personal  brilliancy  to  make  up  for  his  poverty  of 
menu.  — Junius. 


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March  5,  1904. 


"The  Russian  does  not  like  us." 

So  Mr.  Hearst   is  wailing, 
As  he  paints  his  dismal  pictures 

Of  our  Russian  commerce  failing. 

Suppose  the  Jap   victorious. 

But    Mr.    Hearst    won't    have    it: 
For  the  man  that  makes  his  policy 
Is  .Mr.  Michael  Davitt. 

The  Pacific  Coast  merchant  is  annoyed  because  I 
do  not  approve  of  the  agitation  against  the  l'arcels- 
Post.  Then  he  says:  "Do  you  know  that  this  Parcels- 
Post  movement  is  backed  by  a  few  large  Eastern 
mail-order  houses,  which,  if  the  bill  is  passed,  will 
cover  the  country  with  their  catalogues,  not  only  of 
groceries,  but  of  every  other  commodity  which  is 
sold  to  the  consumer  throughout  the  land?"  This 
is  exactly  the  position  which  we  have  maintained — 
the  agitation  against  the  measure  is  selfishly  made 
by  the  retail  dealers,  and  is  intended  to  prevent  ac- 
cess to  the  people  of  goods  at  reasonable  prices.  1  ien- 
tlemen  of  the  retail  trade,  it  will  not  do.  The  Parcels- 
Post  is  part  of  the  development  of  things ;  it  is  to 
benefit  the  mass  of  the  people,  and  it  will  of  neces- 
sity become  a  fact  accomplished.  It  is  simply  waste 
of  time  to  contend  against  it.  As  things  are  develop- 
ing now  the  small  trader  will  have  just  about  as  much 
chance  as  a  hand-loom  weaver  against  the  latest  tex- 
tile machinery.  And  to  ask  what  I  am  going  to  do 
about  it  is  altogether  beside  the  mark.  1  am  nut  an 
infirmary  for  institutions  which  have  outlived  their 
usefulness. 

The  new  method  of  highway  robbery  as  conducted 
by  ladies  is  just  as  effective,  and  as  might  lie  ex- 
pected from  the  sex,  much  more  artistic  than  the 
common  and  ordinary  male  variety.  Their  formula  is 
about  as  follows,  if  we  take  the  Clarke  case  as  a 
criterion.  First  catch  your  man  and  keep  him  in 
captivity  a  day  or  two.  plying  him  well  with  liquor 
in  the  meantime.  Then  make  him  marry  you.  In 
the  course  of  time  he  will  awake  from  his  coniai  -< 
state  and  demand  of  the  law  a  release  from  the  bonds 
of  matrimony.  They  you  come  in  with  your  tine 
work.  You  demand  a  divorce  on  the  grounds  of  de- 
sertion, which  you  know  you  cannot  get  for  want 
of  the  lapse  of  the  statutory  period,  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars  a  month  alimony,  rive  hundred  d  1- 
lars  for  costs,  and  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars 
for  lawyers'  fees.  It  is  all  very  wonderful,  particu- 
larly the  lawyers'  fees.  The  vivid  imagination  of 
those  attorneys  would  appear  to  show  that  they  have 
missed  their  vocation.  What  company  promoters 
they  would  have  made? 

The  Davitt  family  appear  to  be  doing  fairly  well 
at  present.  Mrs.  Uavitt  is  in  Oakland  looking  after 
money  matters,  and  her  illustrious  husband,  Mr. 
Michael  Davitt.  is  selling  the  products  of  his  pen 
regularly  to  Mr.  Hearst.  No  one  complains  of  what 
Michael  Davitt  says.  A  man  who  has  suffered  as 
much  for  a  cause  as  he  has  is  entitled  to  sav  almost 
anything.  But  when  Mr.  Hearst  endeavors  to  per- 
suade us  that  the  biased  and  burning  opinions  of 
this  man  are  of  actual  value  in  determining  political 
issues,  Mr.  Hearst  is  laughing  at  us.  Incidentally, 
however,  he  is  getting  the  nickels  of  all  the  ex-mem- 
bers of  the  Clan-na-(  rael. 


Professor  Hilgard  of  the  State  University  is  one 
of  the  greatest  agricultural  chemists  alive.  We  have 
a  Secretary  of  Agriculture  who  has  just  about  as 
much  practical  knowledge  of  matters  agricultural  as 
Sir  Joseph  Porter,  K.  C.  B„  had  of  naval  strategy. 
The  politician  has  made  a  side  attack  upon  the 
scholar,  and  the  latter  has  countered  with  a  replv  so 
beautifully  worded  and  so  deliciouslv  ironical  that  it 
deserves  to  be  placed  on  record.  He  says  that  Sec- 
retary Wilson  "does  not  pretend  to  be  a  scientific 
expert,  and  we  must  assume  that  his  ideas  on  scien- 
tific work  are  mostly  the  result  of  his  environment." 
The  satire  in  that  "environment"  is  so  deliciouslv 
subtle  and  refined  that  it  is  to  be  feared  a  mere  poli- 
tician will  never  appreciate  it. 

The  war  is  responsible  for  the  resurrection  of  an 
old  type  which  I  fancied  was  extinct.  It  used  long 
ago  to  be  called  the  "almshouse"  politician.  You 
may  sit  in  your  restaurant  and  observe  the  man  with 
_the  big  chin  and  noisy  manners  giving  his  fellow 
dry-goods  clerks  lessons  in  the  art  of  naval  strategy 
by  means  of  the  bread  and  a  couple  of  dinner  forks. 
Watch  him  crane  his  neck  to  note  if  he  is  attracting 
attention,  and  hear  him  bellow  his  loudest  when  some 
one  turns  an  eye  in  his  direction.  "An  ignorant, 
noisy  fool."  you  mutter  in  disgust.  My  dear  sir,  he 
is  the  stuff  of  which  popular  leaders  are  made.  You 
will  find  him  president  of  his  lodge  and  a  leading  man 
wherever  he  happens  to  be.  He  is  ignorant.  Nay. 
wise  one,  he  can  talk  folly  with  more  wisdom  than 
a  philosopher  can  talk  sense. 

The  zeal  for  social  functions  across  the  bay  is  noth- 
ing short  of  intense.  Lately  a  number  of  youths  all 
but  broke  a  house  down  because  they  were  not  in- 
vited to  a  christening.  They  interrupted  the  service 
with  cat-calls,  and  paid  their  compliments  to  the 
principal  in  the  religious  rite  by  heaving  stones 
through  the  windows.  So  does  the  appetite  for  pleas- 
ure become  nourished  by  what  it  feeds  upon.  A 
charivari  at  a  wedding  was  formerly  enough  of  an 
opportunity  for  the  rustic  to  satisfy  his  yearnings  for 
delight,  hut  now  his  developed  appetite  also  demands 
a  christening.  It  also  demands  at  least  three  months. 
for  the  protection  of  the  public. 

What  thorough-going  people  our  women  are.  Let 
them  take  up  any  line  of  active  work,  be  it  bicycling. 
gOlf  or  politics,  and  the  efforts  of  poor  man  are  but 
as  the  movements  of  a  feeble  infant  compared  with 
strenuousness  of  the  woman  who  has  convinced  her- 
self that  she  has  something  to  do.  But  when  women 
take  up  club  politics,  the  flames  of  their  enthusiasm 
mount  to  such  heights  of  personal  abuse  that  poor 
man  is  obliged  to  blush  for  them.  A  little  more 
maviter  in  modo,  ladies  of  the  Papyrus  Club,  if  you 
please. 

Albert  B.  Mahoney,  ex-County  Clerk  and  several 
other  things  with  which  the  laws  of  his  State  are 
more  immediately  interested,  expresses  his  opinion 
that  though  he  may  be  indicted,  he  will  never  be  con- 
victed. Unfortunately,  there  is  too  much  reason  to 
suppose  that  Mr.  Mahoney  is  a  good  deal  of  a  pro- 
phet. There  is  a  great  gulf  fixed  between  indictment 
and  conviction  :  in  fact,  it  looks  at  the  present  time 
as  if  he  will  not  be  even  properly  indicted. 

The  most  pathetic  incident  of  the  war  so  far  is 

that  recorded  at  the  sailing  of  the  "China."  The  Rus- 
sian beef  was  discharged  from  the  hold  of  the  ves- 
sel, as  being  contraband  of  war,  and  the  Japanese 
clambered  on  the  barrels  to  cheer  their  departing 
fellows.  When  the  comissariat  is  thus  defiled,  it 
can  hardly  be  expected  that  the  Slav  will  have  much 
stomach   for  fighting. 


March  5.  1904. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Dear  Bessie:  Have  you  got  a  work-box?    Ti 
the  question  one  hear-  many  girls  ask  each  other 
nowadays,  for  "sewing  hois"  have  become  the  fash 
ionable  pastime  of  the  hour  since  Ash  Wednesday 

came  upon  us.  They  arc  pleasant  little  affairs;  what 
the  Bostonese  call  "a  dish  of  tea,"  and  dainty  cake, 
and  lots  of  lively  chat  while  the  fingers  My  fashioning 
garments  for  the  poor  I     Fanny  Gram  was  the  first 

to  have  011c.  which  she  gave  last  week  ;  it  was  a  drear- 
ily wet  day,  which  perhaps  was  one  reason  win  we 
enjoyed  our  gossip  and  tea  so  much,  and  1  got  no 
end  of  hints  about  pretty  neckwear  which  some  of 
the  girls  were  making.  Then  we  discussed  the  last 
new  play  and  players,  and  the  last  society  engage- 
ment. (  )f  these  several  have  been  made  known  this 
week.  Possibly  the  most  interesting  is  that  of  I'.es-ie 
Center  and  J.  X.  Stane :  it  has  been  awaited  for 
months,  as  it  was  almost  a  foregone  conclusion  when 
they  sailed  away  together  last  September.  Bessie  is 
an  awfully  nice  girl,  and  has  the  good  wishes  of  all 
who  know  her.  The  other  happy  couples  are  Flor- 
ence Bailey  and  Fred  Mohr  of  New  York,  whom  she 
met  when  East  lately,  with  Easter  week  as  the  prob- 
able time  for  the  wedding,  and  Genevieve  Hunts- 
man and  H.  S.  Willair,  and  there  will  soon  be  others 
— you  mind  what  I  say. 

With  the  exception  of  Mrs.  Harry  Mendall's  din- 
ner, feasting  has  been  confined  to  luncheons,  and  of 
them  there  have  been  a  number.  Laura  Farnsworth 
had  a  luncheon  and  matinee  party  at  the  California 
last  Sunday,  and  in  the  Palm  Garden  of  the  Palace 
the  same  afternoon  Nettie  Schmieden  Howard  had 
a  dainty  little  luncheon  party  of  half  a  dozen ;  Amy 
Gunn  gave  a  luncheon  on  Thursday — a  quiet  little 
party  of  six  of  her  best  friends  ;  and  over  at  San 
Rafael  Mrs.  Oscar  Sewell  was  given  a  luncheon  at 
the  Fosters — a  party  of  a  dozen  or  more. 

There  has  been  one  or  two  dinners  at  the  Palace, 
but  with  the  exception  of  the  one  given  by  Mrs.  Tim 
Hopkins  in  her  own  rooms  there,  which  were  lavish- 
ly decorated  for  the  occasion,  they  have  been  com- 
paratively small  affairs. 

Between  bowling  and  cards  we  are  not  likely  to 
find  time  hanging  very  heavily.  The  alleys  at  the  new 
club  are  all  engaged  days  ahead,  but  the  evenings  are 
the  jolliest  time  for  a  game ;  still,  cards  are  the  staple 
form  of  amusement  for  whiling  away  the  leaden  hours 
of  Lent.  Which  is  the  favorite  game  ?  I  think  I  hear 
you  ask.  Ah,  that  is  something  time  alone  will  show. 
Mrs.  Austin  Tubbs  was  the  first  Lenten  bridge  party 
giver,  though  perhaps  I  should  say  she  divided  the 
honors  with  Mrs.  Miller,  who  supplemented  her 
pretty  little  luncheon  last  week  with  the  fascinating 
game.  Mrs.  Robert  Hooker  had  a  large  bridge  party 
of  thirty-six  last  Tuesday,  and  Mrs.  Charles  Foster 
and  Mrs.  Van  Bergan  were  joint  card  hostesses  on 
Thursday.  I  hear  there  is  nothing  but  five  hundred 
played  over  in  Oakland,  which  has  superseded  their 
stand-by,  whist,  much  to  the  surprise  of  even  the 
votaries  of  that  game  themselves. 

I  understand  that  efforts  are  to  be  made  to  have 
the  coming  opening  night  reception  of  the  spring  ex- 
hibition at  the  Hopkins  Art  Institute  up  on  Nob 
Hill,  which  is  named  for  the  24th  of  this  month, 
more  nearly  resemble,  in  a  society  point  of  view,  some 
of  their  old-time  functions  than  has  been  the  case 
for  several  years  past.  I  do  hope  they  will  succeed 
in   infusing   a   little   life   into   it,   for   anything   more 


drearily  dreadful  than  the  last  1  cannot  well  picture 
to  myself.  Then  there  is  a  good  deal  of  talk  about 
the  garden  part)  which  the  lady  managers  are  to 
give  for  the  benefit  of  tlie  St.  Ignatius  Training 
School  for  girls.  You  know  that  in  this  vicinity  gar- 
den parties  have  always  been  a  hazardous  experi- 
ment, the  givers  of  them  never  seeming  to  strike  the 

right  kind  of  weather;  but  how  delightful  they  are 

when  everything  unites  for  their  success!  So  we  are 
all  hoping  and  looking  forward  to  the  ijth  of  April, 
when  it  will  come  off  in  the  Phelan  grounds  at  the 
Mission — but  1  will  tell  you  more  about  it  later  on. 
But  what  do  you  think?  We  are  going  to  have 
Captain  Frank  Winn  here  en  permanence,  as  General 
MacArthur  has  appointed  Him  aide  on  his  staff.  He 
arrived  last  week  and  expected  to  sail  for  the  Phil- 
ippines with  his  regiment  on  Tuesday,  and  Mrs. 
Boardman,  who  was  so  ill  during  her  visit  at  Del 
Monte,  hurried  home  so  as  to  see  and  bid  adieu  to 
her  son-in-law ;  you  can  fancy  how  pleased  she  is  that 
lie  is  going  to  stay.  I  hear  that  Sam  and  Bernie  have 
been  having  a  fine  time  in  Honolulu,  but  wish  it 
would  not  rain  so  much.  I  went  yesterday  to  see 
Mrs.  Tom  Pearce — she  was  Minnie  Burton,  you 
know — in  the  pretty  apartment  she  and  Captain 
Pearce  have  on  Washington  street.  She  is  looking 
exceedingly  well,  and  her  two  children  are  perfect 
pictures. 

California  is  attracting  a  lot  of  Eastern  people 
just  now,  glad  to  get  away  from  the  frozen  East. 
The  George  Goulds  have  been  down  at  Coronado  for 
some  time,  while  I  couldn't  begin  to  tell  you  of  all 
those  at  Santa  Barbara ;  among  them  are  the  Sloans. 
Here  in  San  Francisco  we  have  the  wife  and  daugh- 
ters of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  Mrs.  Leslie 
M.  Shaw  and  the  Misses  Erma  and  Enid  Shaw,  who 
are  being  numerously  entertained.  The  D.  O.  Mills 
party,  which  includes  the  old  gentleman  himself,  the 
Whitelaw  Reids,  Miss  Jean  Reid  and  her  friend, 
Miss  Harriman,  have  also  arrived  and  are  at  Milbrae. 
Mrs.  Andy  McCreary  is  also  here,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Richard  Harding  Davis  were  here  last  week,  but 
sailed  on  the  China  for  the  Orient.  We  are  soon  to 
have  visits  from  some  of  the  former  belles  of  San 
Francisco;  Helen  Stubbs,  who  is  now  in  Arizona  with 
her  mother,  is  one  of  them,  and  Carrie  Merry  is  an- 
other who  will  be  here  in  April  to  visit  Grace  Mar- 
tin. Don't  you  recall  how  popular  the  pretty  Merry 
girls  were,  and  what  a  leading  place  they  took  in 
the  affairs,  of  St.  Luke's  Church?' 

They  say  the  Jack  Breckenridges  and  Mrs.  Murphy 
are  soon  coming  back  home,  but  do  not  know  if  it 


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March  5,  1904. 


be  so ;  the  more  the  better,  for  quite  a  number  are 
talking  of  flitting  Eastward  ere  long.  Mrs.  Will 
Tevis  is  one,  and  she  expects  to  go  abroad  for  sev- 
eral months,  and  so,  too  will  Genevieve  King,  who 
will  accompany  Miss  Herrick  across  the  Atlantic, 
who  has  been  visiting  the  Kings  this  winter,  and  who 
has  already  gone  East,  Genevieve  following  her  next 
week.  Mayor  and  Mrs.  Darling  have  also  gone,  and 
intend  to  make  Florence  their  home  for  the  next  two 
years,  possibly  longer.  The  liorels  are  going  to 
spend  the  rest  of  the  Lenten  fast  down  at  their  home 
in  San  Mateo,  but  are  coming  back  to  town  for  the 
Easter  gaieties,  which  I  believe  are  to  be  quite  nu- 
merous. The  girls  are  so  fond  of  an  out-of-door  life 
and  never  take  kindly  to  being  cooped  up  in  town. 

The  Burns  McDonalds  only  waited  for  Hilda's  wed- 
ding, and  are  going  to  live  in  Denver ;  she  has  the 
same  bright,  happy  personality  which  so  belonged 
to  her  as  Bessie  Younger.  Hilda  Baxter  and  Ralph 
Hart  are  to  be  married  to-day.  Kate  Selfridge  has 
gone  East  for  a  two-months'  passear.  She  left  Mon- 
day. The  Arthur  Chesebroughs  started  on  their 
Eastern  trip  last  Saturday;  Mrs.  Sam  Knight  and 
Harry  Holbrook  have  been  making  a  visit  to  Los 
Angeles. 

The  McCutcheons  and  Sadie  Collier  are  looked 
for  about  the  end  of  the  month.  Sadie  is  now  visit- 
ing friends  in  Washington,  and  we  are  to  have  Miss 
Jennie  Flood  back  again  in  a  couple  of  weeks  from 
New  York,  where  she  has  been  having  a  fine  time. 
She  will  return  with  her  brother  Jim  and  Major 
Rathbone,  who  have  just  gone  East  together. 

—Elsie. 


At   Home. 


Monday. — Mrs.  Daniel  Drysdale,  St.  Dunstan  ;  Mrs. 
W.  S.  Patten,  Miss  Patten,  Hotel  Cumberland; 
Mrs.  Guy  L.  Edie,  Hotel  Baltimore;  Mrs.  F.  H. 
Holmes,  Colonial;  Mrs.  ^Yalter  Hobart,  Hotel 
Granada ;  Mrs.  Dennis  Searle,  Hotel  Nordhoff ; 
Miss  Ida  Gibbons,  Miss  Margery  Gibbons,  Miss 
Florence  Gibbons,  920  Polk  street ;  Mrs.  Alexan- 
der Garceau,  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Tuesday. — Mrs.  James  Carolan,  Miss  Emily  Carolan, 
1714  California  street;  Mrs.  George  Boardman, 
1750  Franklin  street;  Miss  Celia  Tobin,  Taylor 
and  California;  Mrs.  W.  R.  Smedburg,  Miss 
Cora  Smedburg,  161 1  Larkin  street;  Mrs.  Mon- 
roe Salisbury,  1st  and  3d,  21 12  Steiner  street; 
Mrs.  Alexander  Keyes,  2619  Devisadero  street; 
Mrs.  Pelham  W.  Ames,  Miss  Bessie  Ames,  1312 
Taylor  street;  Mrs.  T.  D.  Boardman,  3022  Clay 
street;  Mrs.  Fife,  Miss  Beatrice  Fife,  1201  Cali- 
fornia street.  . 

Wednesday. — Miss  Alice  Hager,  Miss  Ethel  Hager, 
1 81 5  Gough  street. 

Thursday. — Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding,  Miss  Susan  Blan- 
ding,  1900  Franklin  street;  Mrs.  Arthur  Mac- 
Arthur,  Fort  Mason ;  Mrs.  Chesebrough,  the 
Misses  Chesebrough,  3508  Clay  street ;  Mrs. 
Horace  Davis,  1800  Broadway ;  Mrs.  Mayo  New- 
hall,  Miss  Margaret  Newhall,  1206  Post  street; 
Mrs.  C.  A.  Coolidge,  2800  Van  Ness  avenue ;  the 
Mises  Buckley,  2614  Pacific  avenue. 

Friday. — Mrs.  Ellinwood,  Miss  Charlotte  Ellinwood, 
Pacific  and  Devisadero;  Mrs.  Henry  Crocker, 
2301  Laguna;  Mrs.  H.  Hill,  2101  Laguna,  3d  and 
4th;  Mrs.  Geo.  Shreve,  2517  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs. 
Mrs.  George  Shreve,  2517  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs. 
John  F.  Merrill,  Washington  and  Van  Ness; 
Mrs.  James  Otis,  2522  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs.  John 
F.  Swift,  Mrs.  Maria  Norris,  824  Valencia;  Mrs. 
George  Gibbs,  2622  Jackson  street ;  Mrs.  Augus- 
tus Taylor,  2266  Franklin  street;  Mrs.  William 


II.  Taylor,  Jr.,  2606  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs.  E.  W. 
McKinstry,  Miss  Laura  McKinstry,  2912  Pacific 
avenue;  Mrs.  Mountford  S.  Wilson,  2618  Bu- 
chanan ;  Mrs.  Nicholas  Kittle,  Steiner  and  Pa- 
cific avenue;  Mrs.  Voorhies,  Miss  Voorhies,  21 11 
California  street;  Mrs.  Sam  Buckbee,  2501  Pa- 
cific avenue;  Mrs.  Maurice  Casey,  Miss  Gertrude 
Dutton,  2606  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs.  W.  L.  Dutton, 
2507  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs.  Frank  Sullivan.  Miss 
Sullivan,  Van  Ness  and  Washington;  Mrs.  J. 
P.  Langhorne,  2419  Pacific  avenue;  Mrs.  James 
Follis,  2604  Jackson  street. 

WEDDINGS. 

February  17 — In  New  York  City:  Miss  Clara  Ayres 
Johnson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Roswell 
Henry  Johnson  and  Lee  Lash,  formerly  of  San 
Francisco. 

February  26. — Miss  Emma  McMillan  and  David 
Erskine  Allison. 

February  29. — In  Los  Angeles:  At  the  residence  of 
the  bride's  sister,  Mrs.  John  Johnson,  Miss  Mabel 
Landers  and  John  Mason  Ross,  of  Prescott,  Ari- 
zona. 

March  1. — In  Honolulu:  Miss  Edith  Clay,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  M.  Clay  of  Alameda,  and 
Charles  Franklin   Eckart,  son  of  Mr.  and   Mrs. 
W.   R.   Eckart  of  San   Francisco. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

March  15. — Miss  Ada  Horr  of  Alameda  and  William 
Cooper. 

April  6. — Miss  Frances  Harris  and  Ernest  Stent,  at 
4  o'clock  p.  m. 

April  6. — Miss  Ethel  Kent  and  Lieutenant  Allen,  U. 
S.  A.,  son  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Allen,  16th  In- 
fantry.    Grace  Church,  8  p.  m. 


THE  CALIFORNIA 
POLO  AND  PONY 
RACING  ASSOCIATION 


WILL    HOLD    A 

Two  Days  Race  Meeting 

AT 

TANFORAN 

ON 

SAT.   and  MON.   MARCH  12th  and  14th 

Special  Transportation  Service  will  be  Arranged 
Six  or  Nine  Races  Daily.  Full  programme  of 
the  Races  and 

POLO  CHAMPIONSHIP  GAMES 

in  our  next  week's  issue 


March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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March  5— Mrs.  Hilda  McDonald   Baxter  and  Ralph 

Hart. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Center  announce  the  eng 

merit  of  their  daughter,  Elizabeth,  t.>  J.  X.  Stane 

of  Gottcnluirg.  Sweden. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Janus  I>.  Bailey  announce  the  eiiL 

ment  of  their  daughter,  Florence,  to  Frederick 

Mohr  of  New  York. 
Mrs.   George   Huntsman   announces  the  engagement 

of  her  daughter.  Genevieve,  in  II.  S.  Williar  of 

Sausalito. 

DINNERS. 
February    29    (Monday). — Mrs.    Timothy    Hopkins, 

Palace   Hotel. 
February  29   (Monday). — Mrs.      Joseph     Chancdor, 

Palace  Hotel. 
February  29  (Monday). — Mrs.  Peter  Martin,  Palace 

Hotel. 

LUNCHEONS. 
February  26  (Saturday). — Mrs.  George  H.  Howard. 

Palm  Garden,  Palace. 
February  29  (Monday). — Mrs.  AYalter  Magee,  Palace 

Hotel. 
March   2    (Wednesday). — Miss   Kohl,   Palace   Hotel. 

BIRTHS. 

February  23. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Augustus  Taylor,  a 
son.     Mrs.  Taylor  was  Miss  Helen  Hopkins. 

February  26. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Orville  Baldwin,  a 
son.     Mrs.  Baldwin  was  Miss  Anna  Deuprey. 

February  27. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emil  Held,  at  Mt. 
Zion  Hospital,  a  son. 


"The  All  Star  Company,"  a  party  of  young  people 
interested  in  amateur  theatricals,  gave  a  clever  little 
one-act  farce  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  George  A. 
Hastings,  on  Pacific  Heights,  last  Saturday  evening, 
followed  by  a  leap  year  dance.  Those  in  the  farce 
were :  Miss  Anna  Livingston,  Miss  Aida  Hastings, 
Miss  Zita  Hastings,  Mis  Esther  Lambert,  Harry  W. 
Seawell,  Frank  Erlin,  and  Charles  D.  Holman.  The 
most  amusing  character  was  that  of  "Mary  Ann," 
which  was  well  played  by  Miss  Zita  Hastings.  Those 
present  were :  Judge  James  M.  Seawell  and  wife, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  C.  Jordan  of  Boston,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
R.  Derby,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Dodge,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
E.  H.  Rix,  Mrs  E.  H.  Palmer  of  New  York,  Miss 
Polly  Tongue  of  Portland,  Or.,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Hastings, 
Mrs.  C.  F.  Holman,  Miss  Florence  Holman,  Miss 
H.  Hastings,  Miss  Marie  Ver  Mehr,  Miss  Flazel 
Hobson,  Miss  Ruth  Higby,  Miss  Cornelia  Curtis, 
Miss  Levy,  Francis  Boland,  Newton  Kelsey,  Joseph 
Hill,  William  Knowles,  Alan  Diamond,  Arthur  S. 
Holman,  Stuart  Ver  Mehr,  Wallace  Hastings,  Ver- 
non Alvord,  Jack  Fletcher  and  William  Douglas. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  past  week :  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  H.  L.  Dungan,  Mr.  E.  Held,  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Brolaski,  Mrs.  Harry  Brolaski,  Miss  Belle  Brolaski, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  T.  Wheatly  and  sons. 

The  mandolin  and  guitar  studio  of  Miss  Rose 
Brandon,  formerly  at  478  Eddy  street,  is  now  located 
at  1098  Pine  street. 


FOR  LENTEN  TEAS  we  have  an  endless 
variety  of  small  cakes,  at  10  to  60  cents 
a  pound.  P  WESTERFELD]  &]  CO., 
1085  Market  St.,  S.  F.      Tel.  South  713. 


The  pony  races  ;it  Del  Monte  wire  30  successful 
that  the  second  meet  is  to  be  held  at  Tanforan  on 
Saturday.  March  12th,  and  Monday,  March  14th. 
There  will  be  six  races  each  day  for  cups  and  purses. 
At  the  present  writing  it  was  the  intention  of  the 
California  Pony  and  Polo  Racing  Association,  under 
whose  auspices  the  meet  will  be  I  eld.  to  make  the 
week  of  March  14th  a  gala  racing  and  polo  week. 
Polo  championship  games  will  then  be  held,  and  al- 
though the  programme  has  not  been  definitely  set- 
tled, it  is  expected  that  the  races  and  polo  will  be 
held  on  alternate  days  during  the  week.  The  crack 
English  and  California!!  polo  players  will  meet,  and 
some  exciting  games  are  expected.  In  the  races,  ad- 
ditional gentlemen,  in  addition  to  those  who  were 
at  Del  Monte,  will  ride,  and  some  splendid  finishes 
are  looked  forward  to.  The  chances  are  that  the 
race  entries  will  be  even  better  than  at  Del  Monte. 
Entries  to  all  events  close  Wednesday,  March  9th. 
By  courtesy  of  the  New  California  Jockey  Club  the 
above  races  will  be  held  at  Tanforan.  There  arc 
no  entry  fees,  and  the  events  are  open  to  all  ponies 
three  years  old  and  over  and  not  exceeding  14.I1.  2in. 
in  Height.  Ponies  must  be  ridden  by  qualified  gen- 
tlemen riders.  The  rules  of  racing  as  adopted  by  the 
California  Polo  and  Pony  Racing  Association  gov- 
ern all  races.  The  Association  reserves  the  right  to 
reject  any  entry.  For  stabling  accommodations, 
track  facilities  and  further  information,  apply  to 
Robert  Leighton,  Racing  Secretary,  C.  P.  &  P.  R. 
A.,  room  21,  421  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  01  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 

A  SKin  of  Beauty  is  a  Joy  Forever. 

kR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 
OR  MAGICAL  BEAVTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freck- 
les, Moth  Patches,  Rash  and 
Skin  Diseases,  and  every  blem- 
ish on  beauty,  and  defies  detec- 
tion. It  has  stood  the  test  of 
66  years  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladies  will 
use  them,  I  recommend  'Gour- 
aud's  Cream'  as  the  least  harm- 
ful of  all  the  skin  preparations." 
For  sale  by  all  druggists  and 
fancy-goods  dealers  in  the 
United  States,  Canadas  and  Eu- 
rope. 

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37  Great  Jones  St.,  New  York. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


March  5,  1904. 


We  may  not  dance,  we  cannot  sing 

The  dreary  hours  away, 
The  ennui  grips  you  like  anything 

This   rainy,   rainy   day. 

But   there's   the   blessed   telephone 
To  soothe  the  tiresome  hurting. 

Lent  keeps  us  from  the  dance,  I  own, 
But  can't   prevent   us   flirting. 

*  *  * 

Torn  Fitch  of  Arizona,  he  of  the  "silver  tongue," 
is  adding  to  the  gaiety  of  nations  by  publishing  occa- 
sional reminiscences.  That  is  enough  to  prove  that 
the  erstwhile  spellbinder  is  getting  old.  Years  ago, 
Fitch  was  one  of  the  leading  men  at  the  Arizona 
bar.  That  was  in  the  days  when  it  required  nerve  I" 
live  in  Arizona  at  all,  and  to  succeed  at  the  bar  a 
lawyer  had  to  have  some  knowledge  of  the  books, 
but  a  much  greater  knowledge  of  human  nature  and 
of  the  carrying  capacity  of  a  forty-five.  Fitch's  cli- 
ents included  a  number  of  gentlemen  who  felt  that 
the  world  owed  them  a  living.  Therefore,  they  picked 
up  any  good  thing  that  happened  along  the  highway, 
always  provided  the  "good  thing"  did  not  get  the 
drop  on  them  first.  He  succeeded  in  releasing  from 
the  clutches  of  the  law  so  many  rising  Claude  Duvals 
that  the  Amalgamated  Association  of  Road  Agents 
elected  him  an  honorary  member.  And  it  was  no 
empty  honor,  as  Fitch  proved  to  a  visitor  from  the 
East.  This  gentleman  was  about  to  start  out  on  the 
Tucson  stage,  when  he  asked  Fitch  whether  any  of 
his  clients  would  be  met  on  the  road. 

"Well;  the  boys  are  getting  busy,"  Fitch  responded. 
"If  they  get  too  busy  it  will  make  me  busy  getting 
them  out  of  jail.  But  they  won't  touch  a  friend  of 
mine.  Here.  I'll  fix  it  for  you."  and  Fitch  took  out 
one  of.  his  cards,  and  wrote  on  the  back: 

"To  all  Road  Agents:  Please  pass  the  bearer,  who 
is  a  friend  of  mine. 

TOM   FITCH." 

The  stage  was  stood-up,  the  passengers  were  lined 
along  the  road,  and  one  of  the  enterprising  gentle- 
men was  about  to  separate  hitch's  friend  from  his 
wealth,  when  the  traveler,  as  a  last  chance,  said: 
"Say,  you  hold  on.  I'm  a  friend  of  Tom  Fitch,  You 
just  pull  out  that  card  in  my  upper  left  hand  vest 
pocket  and  read  it.     It's  a  pass  from   Fitch." 

The  road  agent  pulled  out  the  "pass,"  read  it.  and 
then  taking  a  pencil  from  the  traveler,  scrawled 
across  the  card:  •"(  ).  K.  Arizona  Dick." 

"You're  all  right,"  he  said  to  Fitch's  friend.  "Tom 
Fitch's  name  goes  with  me.  I  don't  touch  you. 
That  pass  goes  all  right.  Now.  you  take  it  back, 
and  if  any  of  the  rest  of  the  bunch  should  stand  you 
up  further  down  the  line,  you  just  flash  the  paper, 
and  show   Fitch's  name  and  mine." 

And  the  man  from  the  East  continued  his  way  won- 
dering. 

*  *  * 

Bailey  .Millard  has  been  "doing"  the  Sacramento 
flood  for  one  of  the  local  papers.  The  scene  of  watery 
desolation  has  impressed  him,  and  he  has  used  real 
"literary"   language    to   tell    what    he   saw. 

"Under  the  uncertain  moon."  he  writes,  "which 
hangs  a  luminous  rag  among  the  threatening  clouds 
that  lower  over  Sacramento,  lies  a  great  inland  sea 
of  muddy  water  that  gleams  white  ami  tragic  over 
thousands  and  thousands  of  fair  and  fertile  acres 
which  will  bear  no  crops  this  year." 

"Now,   I   consider  that  description   what   .Mr.   Mil- 


ard  might  call  an  epic.  Of  course,  it  is  rather  un- 
gallant  to  call  fair  Luna  a  rag.  but  then,  remember, 
Millard  says  she  is  no  ordinary  rag.  but  a  "luminous 
rag."  A  rag  that  is  red  in  the  face,  as  it  were.  Per- 
haps he  meant  she  was  a  danger  signal  to  warn  all 
good  men  away  from  Sacramento.  To  make  sure, 
about  this  particular  moon,  he  hangs  her  among  the 
clouds.  Most  moons  rise  above  the  clouds,  but  those 
Sacramento  clouds  are  something  fierce.  They  get 
right  in  among  things;  same  way  with  the  moon. 
Raggy  Luna,  being  red  in  the  face,  got  down  among 
the  clouds.  Of  course,  her  object  was  to  see  the 
white  gleam  of  the  muddy  water.  That  white  gleam- 
ing mud  must  be  a  new  brand  that  the  river  has 
torn  up  from  its  bottom.  The  rag  aforesaid,  it  will 
be  noticed,  also  threw  a  tragic  gleam  over  the  flood. 
.Vow,  J  like  a  "tragic  gleam."  It  means  so  much. 
Millard  says  it  so  nicely,  too.  Put  he  is  particularly 
felicitous  in  the  concluding  paragraphs  of  his  story  : 

"The  wrecked  river  looks  malignantly  at  the  town, 
and  says:  'It's  you   I  want.     You.  you!' 

"Put  the  town  looks  on  the  river  bravely,  and  says: 
'Not  yet,  not  yet !'  " 

Bully  for  the  town.  "And  the  villain  still  pursued 
her!"  Millard,  who  is  a  hard  work  literary  critic 
and  poetaster,  should  set  forth  his  views  of  the  Sac- 
ramento flood  in  hexameters,  under  the  heading: 
"Posh  and  Pathos:  or.  The  Luminous  Rag  of  the 
Sacramento." 

*  *  * 

So  the  expected  row  in  the  Papyrus  Club  has  at 
last  developed.  None  of  the  husbands  of  the  ladies 
of  the  club  are  much  surprised.  They  forecast  it 
long  ago.  Jealousy  seems  bound  to  creep  in,  and 
disturb  things  in  woman's  clubs,  and  the  Pamrus  is 
suffering  from  an  overdose  of  the  lady  with  the  green 
eves.  (  )|  course,  men's  clubs  frequently  suffer  from 
the  same  complaint,  but  then,  clubmen,  you  know. 
are  not  trying  to  revolutionize  social  conditions.  They 
are  only  mortal,  and  therefore  apt  to  err.  The  Papy- 
rus ladies  are  the  real  thing  in  culture.  Some  of  the 
stories  told  at  their  gatherings  came  down  from  the 
days  of  old  Rameses.  but  then,  the  girls  don't  care. 
They  are  hearing  them  for  the  first  time,  and  that 
is  enough  for  them.  Even  in  Egypt  the  ladies  had 
rows  about  the  election  of  officers  of  their  clubs,  so 
the  Papyrians  may  be  consoled  in  the  knowledge  of 
the  fact  that  when  they  fell  into  dispute  over  the  re- 
election of  Mrs.  Kinne  they  were  following  an  ancient 
custom.  That  any  dispute  should  center  around  Mrs. 
Kinne  is  a  cause  of  great  regret,  for  she  is  one  of  the 
women  who  honor  clubdom.  Xo  man  can  get  at  the 
bottom  of  a  woman's  row,  but'  as  far  as  I  am  able 
to  make  out.  the  trouble  arose  from  the  over-zealous- 
ness  of  one  of  the  club  boomers.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
it  will  be  satisfactorily  settled.  At  the  next  meeting 
of  the  club,  it  is  said,  a  leading  member  will  deliver 
a  Shakespearean  selection,  in  which  will  occur  the 
lines:  "(Iff  with  his  head!  So  much  for  Bucking- 
ham." 

*  *  * 

Jimmy  Coffroth,  secretary  of  the  Superior  Judges, 


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manager  >>!  prize  fights,  and  promoter  "f  sporting 
events  in  general,  was  not  always  ;is  he  now  ap 

— a  very  devil  of  a  fellow.  Shortly  after  Jimmy  had 
been  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Superior  Judges,  he 
was  loitering  in  Judge  Coffey's  court  during  thi 

of  a  case  in  which  there  was  considerable  salacii  u> 

testimony.     The  court  observed  the  youthful  James. 

"Bailiff,"  saiil  the  Judge,  beckoning  the  Sheri 

man.  "just  ask  that   young  man  to  withdraw.     The 

matters  under  consideration  lure  are  not  for  the 
ears  of  children." 

"Jimmy,"  said  the  bailiff,  "it's  your  move."  And 
Jimmy  moved. 

*  *  * 

The  Looker  ( >n  is  in  receipt  of  a  programme  which 
translates  the  Strauss-Tausig  Valse  Caprice,  "Man 
lebt  nur  Einmal,"  as  "Man  lives  hut  once."  The 
sender  of  the  programme  inquires:  "How  about 
woman?"  He  also  suggests  that  as  the  first  part 
of  the  entertainment  was  a  play  which  served  as  a 
"curtain  raiser."  the  second  or  musical  part  might 
fittingly  have  been  termed  a  "hair  raiser"  or  "cur- 
tain dropper." 

*  *  * 

There  is  an  alarming  increase  in  the  disease  called 
"Perrywalker  Vulgarious."  The  individual  afflicted 
is  chiefly  noted  by  a  receding  chin  or  a  pointed  beard 
a  la  Albert  Edward.  The  disease  very  rarely  attacks 
the  female,  but  seems  to  confine  its  ravages  to  the 
commuting  male.  The  most  virulent  type  appropri- 
ates the  forward  decks  of  ferry  boats  and  then  takes 
violent  exercise  walking  about  in  a  nervous  and 
jerky  manner  to  the  discomfort  of  all  passengers. 
Subjects  that  have  been  under  the  examination  of 
noted  alienists  are  pronounced  only  slightly  deficient 
in  intellectual  development.  The  disease  seems  to  be 
more  alarming  in  the  morning.  It  develops  in  the 
adolescent,  and  keeps  right  on  until  the  patient 
reaches  about  forty,  when  he  generally  develops 
enough  sense  to  stop  the  idiotic  practice.  There  are 
more  victims  of  "Ferrywalker  Vulgarious"  in  Oak- 
land than  Alameda,  and  but  a  very  few  cases  in  San 
Francisco.  This  has  not  yet  been  explained  by  sci- 
entists, but  is  a  feature  that  invites  deep  research. 

*  #  # 

There  is  a  heated  discussion  going  on  among  the 
literati  of  San  Francisco  regarding  the  mission  of 
Wagner's  great  production.  With  each  critic  or  ad- 
mirer a  new  "motif"  is  sprung.  Some  attribute  a 
purpose  to  the  play  or  opera  that  is  Budd'histical. 
Others  make  all  kinds  of  claims  for  the  Christian's 
Christ.  Musicians  discover  new  features  that  Wag- 
ner perhaps  never  dreamed  of. 

Others  content  themselves  with  sighing  and  sigh- 
ing, and  hinting  at  what  Wagner  intended  to  hint 
through  the  character  of  Kundry.  In  this  connection 
the  News  Letter  may  be  pardoned  for  re-printing  a 
letter  written  by  Wagner  from  Siena,  dated  Sept.  28, 
1880,  which  knocks  the  Buddhists  into  a  cocked  hat: 

"I  have  been  asking  myself  seriously  how  1  can 
rescue  this  last  and  most  holy  work  of  mine  from  the 
fate  of  a  vulgar  operatic  career.  A  decision  is  ren- 
dered imperative  by  the  fact  that  I  am  unable  longer 
to  conceal  the  real  subject  of  my  'Parsifal.'  How  can 
and  dare  there  be  produced  in  theatres  like  ours,  and 
together  with  a  mixed  opera  repertory,  a  story 
(Handlung)  in  which  the  most  exalted  mysteries  of 
the  Christian  religion  are  depicted  in  the  open  scene? 
I  could  well  understand  that  the  Church  might  ob- 
ject to  the  performances  of  these  sacred  mysteries 


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Never  before  were  tine  Furniture,  Carpets  and 
1  >r.iperies  going  at  such  low  prices,  as  they  are  now 
selling  for  at  the 

RETIRING  SALE  OF  PATTOSIEN  COMPANY 

Any  one  now  buying  can  fit  out  two  houses  with 
the  same  amount  of  money  that  it  takes  to  fit  out  one 
house  at  the  [)o\vn  Town  Stores,  and  prices  will  be 
still  higher  after  this  Establishment  closes. 

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C.  F.  HUMPHREY  announces  that  he  has 
removed  his  Law  Offices  to  Rooms  211  to 
216  inclusive,  10th  Floor,  CROCKER  BUILD- 
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on  boards  where  yesterday  and  to-morrow  Frivolity 
holds  sway,  and  before  a  public  which  is  attracted 
only  by  that  same  Frivolity.  Because  of  this  feeling 
I  entitle  my  'Parsifal'  a  'consecrational  festival  play.' 
Therefore  I  must  seek  a  stage  to  which  I  can  conse- 
crate the  play,  and  that  stage  is  nowhere  else  than  in 
Bayreuth.  *  *  *  Never  shall  'Parsifal'  be  produced 
on  any  other  stage,  and  it  is  my  one  and  only  desire 
to  find  means  whereby  I  can  encompass  that  end." 

The  spirit  of  commercialism  has  given  us  the  op- 
portunity to  enjoy  Wagner's  masterpiece  even 
though  the  great  musician  strove  strenuously  to  keep 
it  from  us.  It  is^  a  question  whether  good  Christians 
may  waive  the  claim  of  the  "Widow  of  Bayreuth" 
and  attend  the  theatres  giving  the  "Parsifal."  It  is 
a  question  whether  Wagner  really  had  the  right  to 
deny  the  world  his  masterpiece — whether  any  great 
author,  inventor  or  composer  has  such  a  right. 

The  mince  pies  furnished  by  Swain's  Bakery  on  Sut- 
ter street  are  real  treats.  You  can  wander  the  world 
through  and  find  none  to  match  this  place  tor  wholesome 
food  and  good  attendance.  The  San  Francisco  best  people 
know  this,  and  are  its  constant  patrons. 

"R.  B.  HAYDEN' 


HAND    MADE    SOTJE    MASH 

WHISKEY 


THE  FINEST  WHISKY  MADE 

IN    KENTUCKY 
THE  HOME    OF    BOURBONS 

DI8TILLKD  BT 

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CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast.  San  Francisco,  Cal, 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

COLUMBIA— Denman  Thompson.    Good. 
QRAND-The  Hills  ot  California— Good. 
ORPHEUM— Nirvana  and  specialty  vaudeville— Good. 
LYRIC  HALL— Harold  Bauer,  a  wonderful  pianist. 
FISCHER'S-Roly  Poly  to  big  houses. 

TIVOLI— Stupendously  magnificent  in  chorus  and  mounting— Gypsy 
Baron. 
ALCAZAR— A  clean,  conscientious,  finished  performance  of  Miss  Hobbs. 
CENTRAL— The  audience  makes  a  "break  for  liberty"  after  the  play. 
CHUTES— A  very  good  show. 


Jerome  K.  Jerome  could  not  wish  for  a  clearer-cut 

or  cleaner  performance  of  his  sane,  healthy  and  highly 
enjoyable  comedy,  "Miss  Hobbs,"  than  that  given 
by  the  Alcazar  stock  company. 

Mr.  Durkin  was  in  fettle  as  "Kingsearl  Major," 
and  gave  an  admirable  rendition  of  the  author's  lines. 
Miss  Block  as  Miss  Hobbs  was  at  her  best,  and 
earned  the  envy  of  many  a  woman  in  the  audience 
when  she  appeared  in  a  magnificent  creation  of  the 
modiste  in  the  last  act. 

Mr.  Harry  Hilliard,  as  "Kingsearl  Minor,"  was 
forceful,  and  best  of  all,  earnest.  He  appeared  to  bet- 
ter advantage  in  this  play  than  in  any  role  he  has 
recently  attempted.  There  is  much  to  be  said  in  favor 
of  the  other  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  this  company, 
and  it  is  all  complimentary.  The  play  is  a  good  one; 
it  has  a  purpose;  it  does  more  than  amuse;  it  teaches 
a  healthy  lesson  each  night  to  more  than  one  man 
or  woman  in  the  audience. 

*  *  * 

"Roly  Poly"  continues  to  fill  Fischer's  nightly.  It 
is  a  hodge-podge  of  nonsense,  admirably  suited  to 
amuse  without  burdening  the  mind  to  any  appreci- 
able extent.  The  new  songs  are  all  good,  and  Miss 
Russell's  "Ramona"  creates  a  tremendous  enthusi- 
asm, and  Kolb  and  Dill,  with  Allan  Curtis,  assisted 
by  a  camel,  do  a  turn  with  the  song  "We  Come  all 
the  Way  from  Heidelberg,"  that  catches  the  house 
every  time  for  many  encores.  The  little  coon  who 
floats  in  the  air  in  a  watermelon  chariot  and  finally 
descends  to  the  stage  to  be  cuddled  by  Miss  Lynch, 
captivates  the  women  and  children.     A  good  show. 

*  *  * 

"The  Hills  of  California"  might  have  been  located 
on  any  old  hills,  but  still  the  play  is  a  fairly  good 
one.  Frank  Bacon  and  the  rooster  divide  the  honors. 
They  are  great  in  their  respective  parts.  The  play 
has  been  called  an  imitation  of  the  "Old  Homestead," 
and,  indeed,  it  has  many  points  of  resemblance.  The 
Amos  Hill  of  Bacon  is  a  very  acceptable  piece  of 
work.  The  rest  of  the  company  is  all  that  is  claimed. 
The  production  is  such  a  vast  improvement  over  the 
barn-stormers  that  have  recently,  with  but  few  excep- 
tions, held  the  boards  at  the  Grand  that  the  princi- 
pals and  company  shine  like  stars  of  the  first  mag- 
nitude. 

"The  Hills  of  California,"  formerly  "The  Estate 
of  Hannibal  Flowe,"  is  given  in  a  way  that  any  one 
not  disposed  to  be  hypercritical,  would  enjoy. 

*  *  * 

Small  audiences  at  the  Central  Theatre  are  greet- 
ing "A  Break  for  Liberty,"  and  that's  exactly 
what  I  did — broke  for  liberty — as  soon  as  possible. 
The  audience  has  not  the  same  excuse.  They  take 
in  these  things  month  after  month  with  enthusiasm, 
and  then  suddenly  comes  a  change  of  heart  and  the 
audience  becomes  critical.  There  is  hope  for  South 
of  Market  when  it  begins  to  discriminate. 


Strauss,  from  his  seat  in  the  heavenly  choir,  must 
have  squirmed  to  hear  "The  Gypsy  Baron"  done  by 
the  Tivoli  people.  Ferris  Hartman  as  Kalman 
Zsupan,  makes  the  worst  of  his  part.  As  good  as  he 
was  in  "When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home,"  a ! 
bad  is  he  in  the  "Gypsy  Baron."  On  the  other  hand 
the  choruses  are  excellent,  and  the  scenic  arrange- 
ments arc  stupendously  magnificent.  I  have  seen 
many  an  excellent  company  do  the  "Baron,"  and 
must  say  that  I  have  never  witnessed  better  stage 
work  or  mechanical  effects.  The  Count  Carnero  of 
Cunningham  is  not  particularly  good.  Count  Ho- 
monay,  by  Teddy  Webb,  is  worse  than  Hartman  as 
the  dealer  in  pigs.  He  utterly  spoils  the  song  of  the 
Recruiting  Wine,  which  should  be  a  feature  of  this 
opera.  Russo  was  in  good  voice  all  week.  The  di- 
minutive gentleman  has  trained  so  long  in  grand 
opera  that  there  is  little  hope  that  he  will  ever  be- 
come an  actor.  He  deserves  a  great  deal  of  credit 
for  his  attempts  at  English,  and  while  the  audience 
suffers,  it  is  silent  suffering,  and  in  a  good  cause. 
He  is  too  small  as  a  foil  for  Carb  Roma,  and  the 
robust  lady  must  have  felt  odd  while  singing  love 
songs  over  Russo's  black  wig.  Johann  Strauss 
wrote  "The  Gypsy  Baron"  as  a  romantic  opera.  He 
gave  the  pig  raiser  a  singing  part;  he  gave  us  others 
in  singing  parts,  and  he  never  intended  that  the 
opera  should  degenerate  into  cheap  buffoonery,  with 
interpolation  of  modern  jokes.    "Verbum  sat  sapienti." 

*  *  * 

Nirvana  and  her  statue  horse  Loki  are  drawing 
crowded  houses  to  the  Orpheum.  It  speaks  well  for 
San  Francisco  that  such  crowds  turn  out  nightly  and 
display  such  enthusiasm  simply  out  of  a  love  for  the 
beautiful.  The  specialties  on  the  Orpheum  bill  are 
all  good  and  meet  with  much  applause. 

*  *  * 

Denman  Thompson  goes  on  with  his  very  good 
work  at  the  Columbia,  and  the  show  has  been  com- 
plimented  bv  appreciative   houses. 

*  *  * 

"Sag  Harbor"  is  being  murdered  at  the  California 
with  the  customary  dullness. 

*  *  * 

Harold  Bauer,  who  is  the  greatest  pianist  of  the 
world,  is  at  Lyric  Hall  this  afternoon,  and  will  at- 
tract an  enthusiastic  and  large  audience. 

*  *  * " 

The  Grand  Opera  House  will  close  for  two  weeks, 

at  the  end  of  which  time  Mrs.  Fiske  will  appear. 

*  *  * 

I  find  that  my  comment  has  excited  the  connois- 
seurs, and  the  opticians  report  extensive  sales  in 
high-power  binocular  instruments.  There  may  be 
method  in  Miss  Russell's  madness;  it  may  be  she 
wears  such  loose-fitting  gowns  to  excite  the  male 
man  into  rhapsodical  curiosity  as  to  the  possibilities 
of  an  unclothed  divinity. 

Rice  and  Elmer,  renowned  as  the  most  amusing 
and  skillful  triple  horizontal  bar  performers  before 
the  public,  will  make  their  first  appearance  at  the 
Chutes  this  coming  week  in  "A  Rube's  First  Visit 
to  Chinatown."  The  Bennington  Duo,  clever  Tyro- 
lean warblers,  will  also  be  new,  presenting  their  very 
funny  skit,  "The  Other  Fellow."  James  Hennessy, 
the  monologue  man,  will  vary  his  stories;  Coleman 
and  Mexis  will  continue  their  wonderful  exhibition 


March  s.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

of  sharp  shooting,  and  Kelly  an. I  Vi.>lcttc.  the  "fash 


'7 


ion  plate  singing  duo,"  will  appear  for  the  fourth  and 
last   week   of  an  :  engagement   in  a 

change  of  nd  costumes.     Mabel  Lamson,  the 

popular  illustrated  song  singer,  and  the  animato- 
iwing  the  latest  novelties  in  moving  pic- 
tures, will  complete  the  bill.  The  amateurs  will  ap- 
pear in  all' kin.ls  of  specialties  on  Thursday  night. 
The  zoo  is  constantly  in  receipt  of  rare  animals 
from  all  parts  of  the  world,  and  new  8 
are  to  be  found  all  over  tin-  grounds. 

*  *  * 

"Mr.  Pickwick"  will  follow  the  Gypsy  ['..iron  al  the 
Tivoli.    The  music  is  by  Manuel  Klein  and  the  ly- 
rics by   Grant  Stewart.     The  words  are   by   Charles 
Klein.     Several  new   faces  are  to  In-   seen  in   "Tick 
wick." 

*  *  * 

The  Barrows-Lancaster  Company  opens  a  limited 
engagement  at  the  Orpheum  the  week  coming,  and 
in  the  line  of  musical  specialties  the  management 
offers  the  Swedish  Ladies'  Quartette.  Gillo's  Ar- 
testo  is  bound  to  excite  the  enthusiasm  of  the  au- 
dience as  well  as  its  most  intense  curiosity.  This 
is  an  importation  from  Paris,  and  is  in  the  shape 
of  an  automaton  boy.  He  draws  and  at  the  request 
of  any  one  in  the  audience  will  turn  out  what  is 
advertised  as  a  portrait  of  the  petitoiner.  We  are 
told  that  Homer  Davenport  is  coming  to  San  Fran- 
cisco again  as  a  public  lecturer,  and  that  he  is  a 
close  second  to  Artesto.  This  does  not  speak  well 
for  the  dummy,  but  is  volumes  of  praise  for  Daven- 
port. 

*  *  * 

"Parsifal"  will  open  at  the  Alcazar,  under  the 
eye  of  the  dramatizer,  Mr.  Fitzgerald  Murphy,  on 
March  14th,  as  originally  arranged.  The  orchestra 
has  been  doubled  at  the  Alcazar  for  the  performance 
of   "Parsifal." 

J.  C.  Williamson,  the  theatrical  magnate  of  Aus- 
tralia, before  sailing  for  home  on  Thursday,  purchased 
from  Frederick  Belasco  the  sole  Australian  rights 
to  Fitzgerald  Murphy's  dramatization  of  Wagner's 
music  play,  "Parsifal,"  to  be  presented  at  the  Alca- 
zar, March  14th. 

*  *  * 

"The  White  Horse  Tavern"  is  next  on  the  pro- 
gramme at  the  Alcazar.  This  is  a  unique  play,  be- 
cause three  love  stories  are  unwound  at  the  same 
time.  It  occurs  in  the  Tyrolean  Alps,  and  it  will 
give  us  another  chance  to  watch  these  favorite  stock 
people  in  characters  not  heretofore  tried  by  them. 

*  *  * 

The  last  performance  of  "The  Old  Homestead" 
will  be  given  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  on  Sunday 
night.  Denman  Thompson  will  on  that  occasion  ap- 
pear for  what  will  probably  be  the  last  time  in  this 
city  as  Joshua  Whitcomb. 

*  *  * 

Among  the  stars  to  appear  at  the  Columbia  Thea- 
tre in  the  near  future  are  Anna  Held  in  her  stupen- 
dous production  of  "Mlam'selle  Napoleon";  Mary 
Mannering  in  her  latest  success,  "Lady  Harriett's 
Honeymoon";  and   Richard   Mansfield. 

"Rip  Van  Winkle"  will  be  the  bill  at  the  Central 
the  coming  week,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  will  meet 
with  good  houses. 

*  *  * 

Plans  are  being  drawn  by  leading  theatrical  archi- 
tects for  the  complete  remodeling  of  Fischer's  Thea- 
tre.   As  soon  as  they  are  ready,  the  house  will  close 
for  a  short  time. 


Grar>d  Opera  House 

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Hi.-    .l.'lliihtfully   droll 

FRANK  BACON 

Ami  his  0*1 mptny  in  th Hnedj  drama 

THE    HILLS  OF  CALIFORNIA 

Regular  matlnoe  B&turday- 

1  renins,  no,  ho,  too  and  no;  Matinees,  lw,  9M  nn.i  too 
0 Ing    UBS.  iiskk. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

impleto  ohange-    Hew  play.    Hewoompaoy. 
1  ir-i  time  Monday  night,  Moron  7th 

THE     ROUNDERS 

Anew  vaudeville   in   throe   ureal    a. -Is.    The   remarkable    New 
>orK  t .asmo  success.     A  l.rilhanl  ly  witty  musical  comedy  iiiuk- 
ainoently  staid  ami  our  "all  star"  east  Including 
John  Peachey;Ben  T.  Dillon;  Helen  Kussell;  Nellie  Lynch  and 
in  *t  appearance  of 

RICHARD    P.    OABROLL    and    JOHN    P.    KENNEDY 
The  two  best  comedians  In  America. 
Matinees  Sal  nrday  and  Sunday-    250  and  5oe. 

Columbia  Theatre.  «•*■*■>■.«»«*<». 

»w*      w;^ui,iu.  Lt-BBecB  and  Managers. 

Beginning  Monday  March  7th. 
Every  night  including  Sunday— Matinee  Saturday. 
John  0.  Fisher's  $50,000  production  of  the  latest  musical  comedy    ' 

THE   SILVER  SLIPPER 

By  the  authors  of  "Floradora." 

The  sensational  "Champagne  Dance." 

Company  of  125. 


OrpheurT). 


Barrows-Lancaster   Company, 
Poettinger's  Swedish  Ladies" 


._.......„    Quintette;  Ferguson  and  Mack. 

Gillojs  Artestp;  Lowe-Hughes  Duo;  Carlin  and  Otto:  Anderson 


CeQtral  Theatre. 


Sftn  Francisco's  Greatest  Muelc  Hall, 
O'Farrcll  St..  between  Stockton  and  Powell  atresia, 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.     March  6. 

fl   BIG   NEW   SHOW 

ineludingJVKss  Clara  Thropp 

S4*uv  o   ii.1  uuoou  .   itun  i--.n.uf,i!c.i    j_r  u.l_>  ,    Li.ll  11U    ,11111     \JtJlAJ  ,     J\l?  "**" ''~ 

and  Briggs ;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  last  week  of 

NIRVANA 

and  her  statue  horse,  "LOKI." 

Prices,  loc,  25c  and  50c. 

Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Belasco  &  Maybe,  Proprietors 
Market  St.  near  Eighth— Tel.  South  633 

Week  of  Monday.  March  7th.  Matinees,  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  charming  American  drama 

RIP  VAN  WINKLE 

The  everlasting  favorite  of  old  and  young. 

March  14— St.  Patrick's  week  special,  SHAMUS  O'BRIEN. 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c    Matinees  10, 15,  250. 

A  1  r>  ex  "7-  ck  v   T'J-i  cxn  \-  vz=»  Belasco  &  Maxeb,  Proprietors 

MlCdZdr     1  neULre    e.  D.  Price,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees    Saturday    and    Sunday. 

One  week  commencing  Monday  March  7 

Sydney  Rosenfeld's  comedy  adaptation 

THE  WHITE  HORSE  TAVERN 

Evenings  25  to  75c  Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees  25  to  50c 
Thursday.  March  17— First  time  here  of  "Wagner's  Mystic 
Festival  Drama 

PARSIFAL 

Magnificent  Effects.    Enlarged  Orchestra. 

Sale  begins  next  Monday— Special  Prices.    Closed  for  scenic 

rehearsals  Mar.  14, 15. 16. 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  Comer ^^streets 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Beginning  Monday,  March  7. 
Second  week  and  stupendous  success  of 

THE    GYPSY     BflRON 

A  romantic  opera  in  three  acts  by  JOHANN  STRAUSS 

First  appearance,  in  English,  of  SIG.  DOMENICO  RUSSO.  the 

favorite  tenor.    Next— MR.  PICKWICK. 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c-    Box  Seats,  $1. 

fjfterthe  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen   to    the   matchless   string   band   and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zinkand   Is   society's  gathering  place  after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital.  Surplus  and  Undivided    JJ|  3^00,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President:  F.  L.  Llpman,  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King,  Assistant  Cashier:  Jno.   E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New   York;   Salt  Lake,   Utah;   Portland,   Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President;  W.  C.  B.  DeFREMERY.  ROBERT 
WATT.  Vice-Presidents:  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH.  Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond.  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery.  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Bart.i,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H. 
Beaver,   William  A.   Magee,   Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.   to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits.    December   31.    1903    $33, 232  90S 

Guarantee    Capital.    Paid-up    1.000  00O 

Reserve   and  Contingent   Funds    899,516 

Mutual  Savings  BanK  <>*  s»n  Francisco 

710  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee   Capital    JI.OOO.OOO 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   500  000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President;  C.   B.  HOBSON.   Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan.  S.  G.  Murphy.  John  A.  hooper. 
James  Moffltt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,   James  M.   McDonald.   Charles  Holbrook. 

Interest  paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Weils,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German   Savings  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  52«  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    $!2  423  7M  m 

Capital   Actually   Paid-up   in   Cash    l.'ooo.'ooo.oo 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1903  3C.ow.401. 18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt.  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ.  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  In  1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301    California    Street.    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital     J15.000.000.00 

Paid-in    Capital     8.000.000.00 

Profit    and    Reserve    Fund 450.000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,   President;  William   Corbln,    Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporatior; 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus   $7  894  400 

Capital  and   Surplus  Authorized .10,000,000  00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer.  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard.  Treasurer:  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee.  General  Manager;  William  H.  Maclntyre. 
Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel 

BRANCHES— London.  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila, 
Hong  Kong.   Yokohama,   Shanghai,   Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta.  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon. 
Colombo,  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow.  Tientsin,  Tansui,  Anping. 
Bakan.  Mojl,  Saigon.  Kobe.  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,   and  all   parts   of   Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH-32-34   Sansome    Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposit  Isued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE   INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK.  Manager.  P.  Q    EASTWICIC,  JR.,  Ast.  Mgr 


To  FernaLvld  Travers,   Tourist. 

The  editor  of  the  News  Letter  has  received  the  fol- 
lowing communication.  It  is  printed  with  all  due 
apologies  to  Fernauld  Travers. 

San  Francisco,  February  29,  1904. 

Editor  News  Letter:  1  don't  want  to  swell  the  ap- 
preciation Fernauld  Travers  already  has  of  his  own 
importance  by  unnecessary  attention  to  iris  amusing 
"views  of  San  Francisco."  now  running  like  the  bab- 
bling brook  through  your  columns,  but  I  do  want  to 
locate  a  measely  little  under-bred  "remittance  man" 
of  his  name,  who  owes  me  a  few  pounds  loaned  him 
under  peculiar  circumstances.  It  happened  a  few 
years  ago  when  my  own  absence  from  the  family  fire- 
side in  England  was  advisable,  and  the  governor  had 
forgotten  to  send  me  the  usual  twenty  pounds.  Trav- 
ers and  I  had  been  swelling  around  Coronado  like  the 
ordinary  "English  gentleman  tourist."  with  our 
"men."  and  gall.  I  include  myself  in  these  partner- 
ship adjectives,  for  1  have  now  cut  it  all,  and  am  liv- 
ing as  a  gentleman,  without  the  conceited  English 
prefix  or  affected  nonsense  of  a  "man,"  and  within 
my  income.  We  bad  been  rivals  for  the  fortune  of 
a  chic  little  Boston  girl,  with  stockings  of  fashionable 
black  rather  than  Puritan  blue,  to  whom  we  seemed 
about  equally  inoffensive.  Travers  was  much  the 
same  sort  of  an  ass  your  Travers  is,  and  blew  his  re- 
mittance rather  more  effectively  than  I  and  went 
broke  first.  Finally  I  tumbled  to  myself.  I  like  your 
American  slang  ;  that's  a  more  soothing  way  of  admit- 
ting my  idiocy  than  to  say  I  had  been  splurging  as 
a  man  of  parts,  money  and  ancestors,  ^'e  were  both 
younger  sons  of  "governors,"  struggling  in  trade 
and  society,  who  had  been  kicked  out  on  a  remittance 
to  be  jolly  well  rid  of  us.  So  I  drew  out  of  the  fortune 
hunt  and  went  to  work — as  your  Travers  may  when 
you  cjuit  paying  him  for  his  cad  rot,  unless  seeing 
his  name  in  print  makes  an  "author"  of  him  and  he 
returns  to  dangle  himself  before  the  book-crazy  Eng- 
lish public.  I  disappeared  for  a  month,  came  back 
up  to  San  Diego  with  a  disguising  stubble  on  my  face, 
and  went  to  slinging  hash  as  a  night  waiter  in  a 
stingaree  restaurant  where  I  hoped  no  one  would 
recognize  me.  1  had  been  on  the  all-night  watch 
about  a  week,  when  a  swell  chap  with  his  top  coat 
collar  turned  up.  dropped  in  one  morning  about 
seven  o'clock  and  sided  along  up  into  a  darK  corner 
and  sat  down  at  a  table  with  his  face  turned  from  the 
light.  I  went  up  to  wait  upon  him.  He  scarcely 
looked  up  as  he  ordered  "coffee  and  doughnuts."  and 
I  didn't  recognize  him,  nor  did  he  seem  to  know  me. 
I  brought  his  chicory  and  sinkers,  spread  out  a  paper 
napkin  before  him.  He  looked  up  grateful  for  atten- 
tion in  such  a  dive,  tucked  the  napkin  into  his  collar 
as  "Roger"  had  taught  him  to  do,  and  as  he  raised 
his  chin  recognized  me.  "For  God's  sake,  Carling, 
have  you  come  to  this!"  said  he.  "Yes,  Travers.  but 
I  don't  eat  here."  I  replied.  Well,  the  thing  seemed 
to  stun  him.  He  cried  like  a  baby.  Of  course  I 
pitied  the  poor  chap,  and  more  when  I  noticed  the 
bruise  under  his  eye  and  the  blood  stains  on  his  shirt. 
As  I  had  been  on  the  all-night  shift,  and  was  off  at 
seven  o'clock.  I  brushed  up.  dallied  a  little,  and  went 
outside  to  wait  for  Travers.  I  had  loitered  on  up  the 
block,  thinking  of  the  fellow,  when  he  came  out  and 
was  at  once  attacked  by  Roger,  who  proceeded  to 
kick  him  up  the  street  toward  me.  1  knocked  the  fel- 
low down  and  caught  Travers  as  he  fell  into  my  arms. 
I  almost  had  to  carry  Travers  up  to  my  room,  where 
I  put  him  into  a  clean  shirt,  a  suit  of  tweeds,  and  took 
him  off  to  a  good  breakfast  with  me.  Travers  told 
me  a  pitiful  tale  of  hard  luck — remittaifces  had  been 


March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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cut  off:  had  just  about  wan  the  pirl ;  hotel  wanted 
their  bhtwsted  hill  paid;  Roger  was  oast)  wanted 
hi>  wage;  had  licked  him  the  n i vrli t  before  when  lu- 
came  home.  Travers  had  wandered  around  1 
nado  all  night,  afraid  to  face  Roger  again,  and 
ashamed  to  face  the  night  barkeeper  with  hi>  unpaid 
peg  score,  and  hail  taken  the  early  boat  to  San  Diego, 
hoping  to.  eat,  clean  and  brace  up,  and  make  a  raise 
before  Roger  could  lick  him  again.  Well.  1  knew 
what  it  was  to  he  broke,  so  1  staked  him  to  the  five 
pound  note  my  sister  had  just  sent  me  as  a  birthday 
present,  and  I  have  never  seen  or  heard  of  Tracers 
since.  1  came  here  on  the  last  China  steamer,  read 
Travers  "views  on  San  Francisco,"  and  have  written 
him  twice  in  your  care — hut  he  does  nit  answer.  I  If 
course,  it  may  not  be  my  Travers.  but  his  caddish  re- 
sentment of  the  "dining  in  Fleet  street"  slips' 
and  arrogance  over  knowing  the  difference  between 
"dining  and  eating"  led  me  to  feel  sure  that  your 
correspondent  has  my  live  pounds,  suit  of  tweeds  and 
shirt.  My  Travers  used  to  rail  at  the  fates  which  had 
not  endowed  "English  gentlemen"  with  eternal  vigor 
and  feudal  tailors  to  escape  the  beastly  nuisance  of 
having  to  eat  to  exist,  and  owe  for  clothes.  The  fel- 
1'  >w  is  welcome  to  my  old  tweeds  and  the  money 
if  he  needs  it,  but  I'd  like  to  show  San  Franciscans 
how  he  would  look  to  them  after  I  polish  the  toe  of 
my  boot  upon  the  seat  of  his  (or  my)  trovvsers  a  bit. 
Very  truly. 
REGINALD  CARLING,  Tourist. 


PEDICULTURAL   PATRIOTISM. 

Mrs.  Bradley-Martin  signifies  her  adherence  to 
the  United  States  by  an  abiding  reliance  in  our 
shoes.  An  Eastern  paper  tells  us  that  she  placed  an 
order  this  spring  for  forty-nine  pairs  of  American 
shoes.  What  a  comfort  it  is  to  us  to  know  that 
Mrs.  Bradley-Martin  has  remained  patriotic  in  her 
feet  if  not  in  her  head!  Bless  her  tootsies!  And 
let  us  hope  they  will  lead  her  erring  head  back  to 
Americanism. 


There  is  a  story  going  the  rounds  that  not  long 
ago  Joseph  Jefferson  took  part  in  a  benefit  in  aid  of 
a  New  York  hospital.  He  opened  the  entertainment 
with  a  short  talk,  other  noted  players  crowding  at 
the  wings  to  hear  his  remarks.  Just  then  two  highly- 
rouged  girls  of  the  song  and  dance  persuasion  came 
down  the  winding  staircase  from  their  dressing  room. 
One  of  them  came  to  the  wings,  listened  a  moment 
and  then  went  back  to  her  companion.  The  latter 
said:  "Who's  on  now?"  "Some  old  guy  doin'  a 
monologue,"  was  the  reply,  "and,  say,  he's  doin' 
fierce.  Been  on  ten  minutes  and  ain't  had  a  laugh 
yet." 

Tesla  Briquettes,  tne  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  ?4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  -jtn  and!  Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 

Allen's  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Authorized  Capital,  $3,000,000.    Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve.ETA 

Authorized   Capital    !?'SMX 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve   51,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  tor  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  ana 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Prank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


BANKING. 


The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast   corner  of  Sansome  and   Pine  8t«.,   8an   Franclsce. 
K.  Wilson,  president;  wm.  PIERCB  Johnson,  vice- 
I'reeMeM;   LBW18  I.  cowon.L.  Cashier;   !•'.   w.   WOLFE,  a>- 
stslant  Cast) 

S  irplus    and    Undivided    Profits,    (200.000 
PIIiKiTOHS- Wllllnm    J.    Dulton.    C.      S.      Benedict,      William 
Johnson.    II.    E.    Huntington.    George    A.    Nowhall.    Oeorgo 
\     Pop*.  James  K.  Wilson,  L.  I.  Cowglll.   W.  H.  Talbot. 

AOENTS—  New    York— Hanover    National    Hank.    Chemical    Na- 
t'onal    Hank.     Boston— National    Shnwmut    Hank.     Philadelphia— 
I  A   Co.     Chicago—Continental   Nntlonnl   Bank.     St.   Louis- 
Mechanics'     Bank.       Kansas    City— First     National     Bank. 
i  nndon— Brown,    Shipley    A    Co.      Paris— Morgan,    Ilnrjes    &    Co. 
—  National    Bank  of  Commerce.     Johannesburg— Robinson 
south   African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

The  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated   the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up   Capital.   $8,700,000  Reserve    Fund,   J3.000.000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  JsO.OOO.OOO 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President. 
I'..    E.   Walker.  General   Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW    YORK    OFFICE— 16    Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH       COLUMBIA— Atlln,       Cranbrook, 
Fernle.    Greenwood,    Kamloops.    Ladysmllh,    Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New   Westminster.   Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Also    80    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,   N.  W.   Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS    IN    LONDON— The   Bank   of  England,    the   Bank  of 
Scotland.  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
S«N    FRANCISCO    OFFICE- 


Callfornia  Street. 


A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


London.  Paris  and  American  Bank 


Limited 


N.   W.    COR.   SANSOME  AND   SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    52,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund.  $1,100,000 
Head  Offlce-^10  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
hazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Polssoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  *.*.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;   R.    ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  f^nglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— IS  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid  up  $1,600,010 

Subscribed 3,009,000       Reserve    Fund     700.000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  tor  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery   St.,   Milts  Building 
INTEREST  PAID   ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S     L     Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Bc.lo.wln,    F.    Monteegle,   Warren    D. 
Clark.  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. 

4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L  Association 

Pays  4  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFORNIA    STEEET,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital $8,000,000 

Paid  in  Capital 1,000,000 

Guarantee  Capital 200,000 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent- 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A.  A.  Watkins,  Vice-President  w.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop,  Vice-President  Bank  of  California. . . .  Vice-President 

S.  Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen,  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &  L.  Association, 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  Mtn&  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd,  Banker,  Portland,  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab,  Attorney-at-law Attorney 

Walter  K.  Smith Cashier 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


3^~7F*W5 


SS2NI 


Insurance 


The  News  Letter  is  close  in  touch  with  all  sources 
of  information,  and  as  yet  has  failed  to  hear  of  any 
failure  of  any  really  prominent  fire  insurance  com- 
pany as  the  result  of  the  Baltimore  fire.  The  News 
Letter  openly  and  avowedly  told  its  readers  that 
there  would  not  be  any  failures  in  the  ranks  of  the 
great  American  fire  insurance  companies  as  the  re- 
sult of  the  Baltimore  blaze.  Now  comes  the  Roches- 
ter fire,  and  still  the  daily  press,  to  the  contrary  not- 
withstanding, the  American  fire  companies  are  meet- 
ing their  losses,  and  are  still  doing  business  at  the 
same  old  stand  in  the  same  old  way. 

*  *  * 

The  American  Surety  Company,  Mr.  H.  D.  Lyman, 
President,  issues  the  following  circular:  "The  Amer- 
ican Surety  Company,  in  its  long  career,  has,  as 
surety,  had  to  meet  the  losses  of  other  corporations, 
sometimes  in  very  large  amounts,  and  has  done  so 
with  equanimity.  With  equal  equanimity,  but  with 
no  pleasure,  it  now  announces  to  you  that  Wallace 
H.  Ham,  treasurer  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  treasurer 
of  St.  Luke's  Home  for  Convalescents,  and  mana- 
ger of  the  American  Surety  Company  at  Boston, 
Mass.,  is  a  defaulter  in  about  the  net  sum  of  $190,- 
000,  divided  between  the  Home  and  the  Surety  Com- 
pany in  such  amounts  as  only  a  joint  examination 
may  hereafter  determine.  On  ascertaining  the  facts 
to-day  in  full,  the  executive  committee  of  the  Ameri- 
can Surety  Company  ordered  the  arrest  of  the  culprit, 
and  appropriated  out  of  its  surplus  and  undivided 
profit  account  of  $2,084,000  sufficient  to  defray  its 
proportion  of  the  shortage.  The  above  is  all  that 
can  be  said  at  this  time.  We  have  put  the  loss  be- 
hind us  and  jailed  the  culprit." 

The  jailing  of  the  culprit  is  a  part  of  the  American 
Surety  Company's  business.  It  has  relentlessly  pur- 
sued defaulters  under  its  bonds  as  far  as  Chili,  and 
brought  the  pursued  back  to  the  United  States  for 
a  long  term  sentence  in  the  penitentiary. 

*  *  * 

To  its  charter  privileges  it  adds  that  of  a  detec- 
tive agency,  and  it  usually  gets  the  defaulter  at  its 
own  expense  and  by  means  known  only  to  the  cor- 
poration. Mr.  Wallace  H.  Ham,  who  was  the  New 
England  States'  agent  for  the  company,  at  Boston, 
Mass.,  pleaded  guilty  to  stealing  from  a  bonding 
company. 

*  *  * 

The  facts  of  the  matter  are  that  the  bonding  com- 
pany was  so  careless  in  the  management  of  its  own 
affairs  that  it  afforded  the  opportunity  to  its  trusted 
agent  to  get  away  with  about  a  quarter  of  a  million. 

The  question  then  comes  up,  who  shall  bond  the 
bonders? 

*  *  # 

It  is  a  well  known  fact  that  in  life  insurance  the 
policyholder  is  subjected  to  a  quiet  inspection,  and  it 
is  equally  well  known  that  the  man  bonded  In  a 
surety  company  is  constantly  under  supervision  The 
cashier,  bookkeeper  or  confidential  clerk  bonded  by 
a  bonding  company  may  rest  assured  that  he  cannot 
play  the  races  or  speculate  in  stocks  without  the 
bonding  company  knowing  and  warning  his  princi- 
pal. 


This  careful  look-out,  as  well  as  the  vindictiveness 
of  the  companies  in  getting  their  man,  is  a  deterrent 
of  crime. 

The  man  who  is  bonded  by  a  surety  company  must 
be  square  and  live  square,  or  else  face  the  endless 
train  of  detective  ability  which,  if  he  merits  it,  will 
land  him  in  the  penitentiary. 

Mr.  Ham  of  Boston  did  not  care  to  peculate  from 
the  ordinary  man.  He  flew  at  and  captured  larger 
game. 

He  was  a  trusted  employee  of  the  American  Surety 
Company,  and  he  swindled  it  out  of  about  a  quarter 
of  a  million  dollars. 

This  amount  does  not  affect  the  company,  but  it 
raises  the  question  of  the  company's  business  acu- 
men. 

No  well  managed  company  will  allow  any  agent 
to  handle  its  securities  to  this  amount  and  juggle 
them  between  two  institutions.  Mr.  Ham  seems  to 
hive  been  playing  a  sort  of  heads  you  win  and  tails 
I  lose  game,  and  the  American  Surety  Company 
seems  to  be  It. 

It,  in  its  circular,  confesses  that  it  has  put  the  loss 
behind  it,  but  what  can  be  said  of  the  company 
which,  contrary  to  all  the  espionage  methods  of  its 
class,  is  so  lax  as  to  permit  its  agent  to  not  alone 
handle,  but  hypothecate  its  two  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars  worth  of  securities? 
*  *   » 

An  Eastern  exchange  says  of  his  downfall:  "An 
accident,  trivial  in  itself,  but  fatal  to  his  schemes, 
brought  Wallace  H.  Ham,  New  England  agent  for 
the  American  Surety  Company  of  Xew  York,  treas- 
urer of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  and  trustee  and 
treasurer  of  charitable  institutions,  from  a  high  po- 
sition in  society  to  a  prison  cell.  An  unexpected 
call  by  the  American  Surety  Company  for  its  se- 
curitie"s  led  to  his  undoing,  for  he  bad  hypothecated 
them  with  the  St.  Luke's  Home  for  Convalescents  to 
cover  a  shortage  there.  Facing  an  exposure,  he  con- 
fessed. He  also  confessed  to  embezzling  from  $40,- 
000  to  $60,000  of  the  Home's  funds.  An  investigation 
showed  that  the  church  with  which  he  had  been  con- 
nected also  had  suffered.  For  fifteen  years,  accord- 
ing to  his  confession,  Ham  had  led  a  dual  life.  Prom- 
inent in  church  work,  and  looked  upon  as  an  unusu- 
ally successful  business  man,  no  suspicion  of  his 
probity  ever  had  been  entertained.  In  the  "bucket- 
shops"  of  Boston  he  poured  from  $226,000  to  $286,000 
of  trust  funds.  Of  this  amount  the  American  Surety 
Company  loses  approximately  $225,000;  St.  Luke's 
Home,  from  $40,000  to  $60,000 ;  and  St.  Paul's  Church 
Si, 500.  In  addition  to  these  amounts,  Ham  lost  his 
wife's  entire  estate,  amounting  to  about  $47,000. 

"Twenty  years  ago  he  became  prominent  in  St. 
raid's  Church,  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  fashion- 
able in  the  city,  and  soon  was  elected  treasurer.  About 
the  same  time  he  took  an  interest  in  St.  Luke's  Home, 
conducted  by  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  made 
treasurer  of  that.  According  to  his  own  statement 
he  began  fifteen  years  ago  to  speculate  in  a  small 
way.  He  took  securities  from  the  funds  of  which 
he  was  treasurer,  borrowed  on  them  at  banks  and  did 
all  his  dealings  in  the  stock  market  on  a  cash  basis, 
though  nearly  always  on  margins. 

"About  four  years  ago  he  found  that  he  had  accu- 
mulated a  considerable  private  fortune.  Then  the 
huge  bull  campaign  came  on.  He  entered  the  market 
but  he  was  on  the  wrong  side  so  long  that  he  lost  liis 
own  money." 

This  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than  the  same  old 


March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


of  the  trusted  employee  and  the  "busted"  em- 
ployer. 

"Ham  said  he  had  DO  special  line  of  speculati 
lie  bought  and  sold  all  kinds  of  stock,  good  and  bad, 
and  says  the  general  condition  of  the  market  within 
the  past  two  years  was  his  undoing.  Ten  years  ago 
Ham  married  a  widow  with  sonic  money.  Lately  lie 
had  induced  her  to  give  him  this,  and  it  is  gone  now 
with   the  rest. 

"Ham  had  made  an  appointment  tor  last  Thursday 
for  an  examination  of  the  securities  of  the  St.  Luke's 
Home.  It  was  his  habit  on  these  occasions  to  sub- 
stitute securities  of  the  American  Surety  Company 
for  the  missing  ones,  and  he  had  done  so  for  the  ex- 
amination 01'  Thursday.  But,  without  warning,  an 
auditor  of  the  Surety  Company  dropped  into  the 
office  that  day  and  asked  to  see  the  securities  on  band. 
Ham,  unable  to  gain  time  to  secure  enough  of  the 
St.  Luke*s  securities  to  cover  the  company's  short- 
age, saw  nothing  to  do  but  confess.  Ham  is  48  years 
old.     His  salary  was  $7,500  a  year." 

The  story  of  this  Ham  is  told,  and  it  may  unfor- 
tunately fall  to  the  lot  of  the  News  Letter  to  write 
the  same  history  of  other  men,  and  the  defalcations 
have  happened  in  San  Francisco. 
*  *  * 

James  D.  Bailey,  Pacific  Coast  General  Agent  of 
the  old  Insurance  Company  of  North  America, 
sketches  the  history  of  the  century  old  corporation 
in  part  as  follows:  On  January  i,  1871,  the  assets 
of  this  company  were  $3,116,236.01,  and  the  net  sur- 
plus $745,117.68.  In  that  year  the  company  suffered 
a  loss  in  the  Chicago  fire  of  $750,000,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing year,  1872,  a  loss  in  the  great  Boston  fire  of 
$1,000,000.  On  January  1,  1904,  the  assets  of  the  com- 
pany were  $11,290,773.87,  and  the  surplus  and  contin- 
gent fund,  $2,452,410.42.  The  losses  of  the  company 
in  the  Baltimore  fire  will  probably  not  exceed  $500.- 
000.  After  providing  for  this  amount,  the  surplus,  as 
to  policyholders,  including  capital,  is  about  $5,000,- 
000.  In  over  one  hundred  years  of  honorable  busi- 
ness experience,  this  company  has  paid  in  losses  to 
its  policyholders  over  $115,000,000. 

Professor  Albert  Van  der  Naillen  will  give  a  lec- 
ture at  the  rooms  of  the  Board  of  Trade  on  March 
4th,  on  the  subject  of  wireless  telegraphy.  A  great 
deal  of  interest  is  being  manifested  in  the  subject, 
and  the  noted  electrician  will  be  sure  of  an  attentive 
and  intellectual  audience. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.  " 

Savage  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco.  California,  Loca 
tlon  of  works — Virginia  City ,  Storey  County,  Nevada, 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  6th  day  of  February,  1904,  an  assessment.  (No.  112)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  paya- 
ble immediately  In  United  states  cold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  rooms  21-22,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomer  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
11th  DAY  OF  MARCH  1904, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  pa}  - 
ment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  FiUDAY,  the  1st  day  of  April, 
1904  at  1  o'clock  P.  M..  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of 
Dlreetors, 

JOHN  yf.  TWIGGS,  Secretary. 

m   cc—  Rooms  21-22  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  stree  «  San  Fran- 
™soo,  Cal 

Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Capital t3.000.ooo.         Gross  Cash  Assets $18,040,793. 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Repre- 
sentatives before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
may  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
tan Manager.  . 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


INSURANCE 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $i,ooo,ooo.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  1711. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    JS.OOO.OOO 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by  Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital   Paid-up.  {3,446,100.  Assets,   J24.662.043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  J8,93o,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  J134.O00.0O0 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,  601   Montgomery    Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1850. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .    2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.  SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Stree  1  . 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  aecurlty. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  "Wanted. 
Marion  Building  no  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 


British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital    

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


J67.00O.O0O 

816  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT,    GERMANY 

Capital $€,250,000  Assets  J10.9S4.24G 

VOSS,    CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific   Coast  Department:  204-208   Sansome  St.,   San  Francisco. 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 
of  Hamburg,  Germany. 

N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


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The  continued  wet  spell  has  somewhat  restricted 
the  pleasure  of  automobiling  on  the  local  roads.  In 
the  meantime  the  enthusiasts  have  been  planning 
for  liie  coming  season. 

It  has  been  suggested  that  the  Automobile  Club 
of  California  give  a  run  starting  as  far  north  as  there 
are  any  owners,  and  continue  on  down  through  the 
State  to  San  Diego.  The  event  could  be  conducted 
the  same  as  the  Del  Monte  run  last  year. 

There  is  a  need  for  just  such  a  run,  for  it  will  do 
more  to  advance  the  interests  of  good  roads  than 
anything  else  that  can  be  thought  of  at  the  present 
time.  It  will  bring  the  owners  in  closer  touch  with 
one  another,  and  make  it  possible  to  work  out  good 
laws  and  good  roads  in  a  more  satisfactory  way.  Cor- 
respondence can  do  a  good  deal,  but  nothing  cements 
interest  in  sports  and  pastimes  so  thoroughly  as  the 
actual  personal  intercourse  of  ideas  of  the  enthusi- 
asts. Such  a  run,  which  could  take  in  the  Yosemile 
and  other  many  points  of  interest  in  the  State  would 
make  an  ideal  vacation. 

It  would  be  more  so  if  there  were  several  machines 
in   the  squadron. 

*  *  * 

If  the  Automobile  Club  of  California  expects  to 
give  a  meet  in  Mav.  it  is  about  time  that  the  officers 
were  taking  some  steps  to  prepare  for  the  event.  Up 
in  Tuesday  no  word  had  been  received  of  a  meeting 
being  called.  Sixty  days  is  a  very  short  time  to  get 
up  a  meet.  That  is.  if  the  racing  talent  is  to  be 
brought  from  the  East.  Barney  Oldfield  alone  will 
not  be  attraction  enough.  There  will  have  to  be 
several  Barneys  to  draw  the  crowd  to  the  track. 
There  was  not  enough  publicity  given  to  the  last 
event.  It  should  be  so  handled  that  the  public  will 
know  a  week  before  the  races  just  who  will  take 
part. 

*  *  * 

Xow  that  the  Park  Commissioners  have  extended 
the  privileges  in  the  Park,  it  is  the  duty  of  every  au- 
tomobilist  to  strictly  observe  the  law,  and  see  that 
others  are  complying  with  the  regulations.  They 
should  report  the  number  to  the  officers  of  the  club 
of  all  those  who  transgress. 

Every  owner  must  feel  that  it  is  his  special  duty 
to  put  a  stop  to  any  infringement  of  the  ordinance. 

*  *  * 

The  automobilists  of  Los  Angeles  are  making  great 
progress  with  their  special  roads,  and  it  would  not 
be  surprising  if  thev  were  opened   by   mid-summer. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Co.  last  week  delivered 
to  Mr.  Garland  of  San  Diego  a  new  1904  Winton 
Touring  Car. 

*  *  * 

We  want  uniform  "auto"  laws  in  the  State. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley  takes  pleasure  in  inform- 
ing the  public  that  his  machine  shop  at  18  Fell  street 
is    thoroughly   equipped    to   execute   repairs   of  every 

description. 

*  *  * 

We   must   have  an  open  park   to  the  automobiles. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 

Dr.  J.  Coplin   Stinson,  member  ■>(  the    Boai 
Health,  purchased  from  the   Mobile  Carria( 
Pierce  Arrow  touring  car.  which  he  1-  t"  use  in  ln- 
practice.     The   Doctor  haa  owned  a  popular  pi 
automobile,  but  he  found  it  •  I i •  I  not  possess  suffi 
speed  for  hi>  w.irk. 

»  ♦  « 

We  must  have  better  roads. 

»  *  * 

Three   mure   curved   dash    runabouts   were    shipped 

to  Mr.  George  H.  1 'sen.  the   Pioneer  agent  at  5an 

Jose. 

*  *  * 

We  want  California  to  be  the  winter  racing  ground 
of  the  world.  There  is  no  other  place  SO  well  suited 
to  the  game. 

*  *  * 

I.  A.  Marsh,  president  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Co., 

and  Mrs.  Marsh,  have  returned  from  their  trip  to 
Del  Monte.  The  conditions  of  the  road  were  exceed- 
ingly bad.  (  )n  the  return  over  the  San  Juan  grade 
the  mini  was  to  the  axle  for  a  distance  of  fourteen 
miles.  There  were  five  people  in  the  Arrow,  making 
a  very  heavy  load  under  the  conditions.  The  little 
car  went  through  without  a  mishap  or  assistance. 

*  *  * 

We  want  San  Francisco  automobilists  to  keep 
their  eye  on  Los  Angeles,  or  they  will  be  distanced 
in  the  race  for  popularity. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  De  La  Montanya.  and  party  of 
friends,  after  an  afternoon's  run  in  their  French  tour- 
ing car,  dined  at  the  Jefferson  Square  Club,  after 
which  they  spent  the  evening  bowling. 

*  *  * 

We  want  a  great  highway  from  Oregon  line  to 
San  Diego. 

*  *  * 

The  Reverend  Cyrus  Townsend  Brady  and  Mrs. 
Brady  were  the  guests  of  Frank  E.  Hartigan,  mana- 
ger of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Co.,  for  an  automobile 
ride  about  the  city.  The  French  Arrow  was  placed 
at  their  disposal  and  the  trip  was  made  through  the 
Park,  Cliff  and  about  the  Presidio. 

*  *  * 

We   want   a   race   meet  that   will  give   us  all   the 

world's  records. 

*  *  * 

R.  E.  Olds,  of  the  Oldsmobile  fame,  is  visiting 
California.  He  has  been  spending  some  time  in  San 
Diego,  and  Mr.  Brinegar,  president  of  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  Company,  is  in  receipt  of  a  letter  stating 
that  Mr.  Olds  will  visit  San  Francisco  in  about  ten 
days. 

*  *  * 

We  want  to  hear  of  the  pleasant  runs  made  by  our 
readers.     Send  us  a  description  of  your  outings. 

*  *  * 

Arthur  W.  Robinson,  English  manager  of  the  Lo- 
comobile Company,  returned  recently  on  the  "Cel- 
tic." He  was  accompanied  by  Mr.  Irving  J.  Norse, 
of  the  London  office. 

*  *  * 

We  want  to  see  a  red-letter  year  in  the  sport  on  the 
Coast.     Everybody  with  their  shoulder  to  the  wheel. 

Mr.  W.  J.  Cornell,  the  well-known  cashier  of  the 
Pioneer  Automobile  Company,  who  has  been  with  the 
company  since  its  incipiency,  has  just  received  a  very 
flattering  offer  from  an  Eastern  manufacturing  con- 
cern. Mr.  Cornell,  while  not  a  Native  Son,  is 
much  taken  with  California  life. 

*  *  * 

We  want  the  ferries  to  carry  autos  at  all  times. 


23 


TheOldsmobile 


Tin-  flrst  successful  automobile 
runabout  was  made  In  our  factory 
in  1887-  Building  on  this  founda- 
tion, the  experience  of  each  suc- 
ceeding year  has  brought  the  Olds- 
mobileto  ahigher  standard  of  ex- 
cellence.until  to-day  itstands  alone 
as  the  world's  standard  runabout. 

Ask  our  nearest  selling  agent,  or 
write  direct  for  full  inlormation 
ami  booklet  to  Dept.  10 

OLDS  MOTOR  WORKS 

DETKOIT.    MICH.     U-    .-.    A. 

Member  of  the  Association  of  Li- 
censed Automobile  Manufacturers 
LOCAL  AGENTS-PloneerAutoCo.,901 

Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Oldsmobile  Company,  243  West  6tb  St. 

Los  Angeles,  Calif. 


1904  WINTON  TOURING  CAR 


WINTON  first  to  cross  American  Continent, 
first  in  races  and  first  in  choice  of  buyers. 
Eighteen  new  1904  models  already  received 
and  delivered.  Another  car-load  to  arrive 
this  week.  Sample  for  show  and  trial  at  our 
new  Garage.  Call  early  and  secure  good 
deliveries.  Also  agents  for  Oldsmobiles, 
Stevens-Duryeas,  Locomobiles,  steam  and 
gasoline,  and  Baker  Electric. 

PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 

420-22  South  Hill  St. 
Los  Angeles 


901  Golden  Gate  Ave. 
San  Francisco 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


The  Scott-Blakeslee  Winton  renting  agency  arc  ar- 
ranging for  several  additional  Winton  touring  cars, 
in  order  to  take  care  of  their  increase  of  business. 
5  cveral  large  parties  were  given  by  different  promi- 
nent people  during  the  past  week.  This  company 
uses  the  Winton  touring  cars  exclusively. 

*  *  * 

Douglas  S.  and  Arthur  Watson  have  purchased 
their  third  St.  Louis  car.  Mr.  Douglas  Watson 
claims  to  be  the  first  to  get  over  San  Juan  Hill  a 
week  ago. 

George    Hackermen    has    purchased    a    St.    Louis 

car. 

*  *  * 

A  visitor  from  the  East,  who  has  just  returned 
from  the  Oldsmobile  factory  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  states 
that  the  Olds  Motor  Works  have  taken  twice  as 
many  orders  this  year  to  date  as  they  did  last  season. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  is  in  receipt 
of  a  copy  of  a  letter  written  by  Mr.  A.  A.  Moore,  Jr., 
to  Mr.  Riker,  vice-president  of  the  Locomobile  Com- 
pany of  America,  at  Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  in 
which  he  describes  the  most  perfect  run  from  San 
Francisco  to  Los  Angeles : 

"I  have  just  returned  from  a  trip  from  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Los  Angeles  in  my  four-cylinder  Locomobile. 

"The  distance  was  487  miles,  230  of  which  was 
over  mountains.  I  took  the  Coast  Road.  From  the 
time  I  left  San  Francisco  until  I  arrived  at  Los  An- 
geles, the  engine  never  stopped  of  its  own  accord. 
In  fact,  it  ran  as  perfectly  as  my  watch.  Not  even  a 
spark  plug  was  removed,  or  a  monkey  wrench  ap- 
plied. Nothing  about  the  vehicle  was  broken  or 
sprung,  and  when  the  machine  arrived  in  Los  An- 
geles it  was  in  as  good  condition  as  when  it  left,  with 
the  one  exception  that  on  a  long  mountain  grade,  a 
section  of  a  wooden  brake  shoe  was  burned  up  to 
the  extent  that  not  even  the  charred  ashes  remained. 
This  did  not  interfere,  however,  with  the  working 
of  the  brake.     Nobody  seems  to  believe  that  the  car 


HECORD-from  Del  Monte  to  Oakland-FIVE  HOCRS 
AND  THIRTY-EIGHT  MINDTES. 

The  only  successful  tour  of  the  Yosemlte  made  by  THE 
CADILLAC. 

^t^CADILLAC  - 

Price.  $850  With  Tonneau.  $950  With  Delivery  Top.  $950 
THE  SIMPLEST.  MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco 


PROMPT    SERVICE 

Gtatturg  fclrrtrtr  (ttnmpanij 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  tor  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.       Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and   Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BVSH  352 


—     WILL     BE     HERE     SHORTLY     — 
THE    NEW    1904— Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  '04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST.  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  are  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR.   CO. 

49    CITY    HALL    AV£.  SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  P',M  ^oV™*^'  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommodating 
four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  fl  horse- power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French  type. 

3.  It  is  especially  designed  tor  physicians'  use  saving  two  hours 
per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact    In  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline  and 
beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5     It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg,  hoo 
miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


$2,650.00 
800.00 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F 


LIKE     BEING     AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First  Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours, 
prices.  Best  of 
Liquors. 


Reasonabl 
Wines    an  d 


MILO  J.  OILLETT,  Prop. 
BAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Cap  6UC 


18  Fell  Street. 


ELECTRIC. 
GASOLINE 

CARS 

A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley 

(Near  Market)     Tel.  South  394 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Western  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 


March  5,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


35 


made  the  trip  absolutely  without  any  tinkering,  and. 
in  order  to  convince  them.  I  have  to  tell  the  things 
that  I  did  not  do  to  the  car. 

"We  cross  n  mountain  ranges,  and  as  nearly 

ns  I  could  ascertain,  about  one  car  in  ten  that  has 
started  on  the  trip  made  it. 

"We  went  by  what  is  known  a-  the  Coast  Route, 
and  from  King's  City  to  Los  Angeles  the  same  is 
practically  all  mountains.  The  mechanism  of  the  car 
gave  us  no  mure  trouble  than  would  a  locomotive 
give    to    US    in    a    Pullman    in    which    we    were    1 

hauled." 

*  *  * 

We  want  every  one  to  remember  the  automobile  is 
not  a  toy  of  the  day.  but  the  greatest   invention   of 

the  modern  time.     The  conveyance  of  the  future. 

*  *  *" 

1904  Cadillacs  were  delivered  last  week  to  Mr.  J. 
Schneer,  Sacramento.  Cal.:  Dr.  C.  H.  Bolsen,  Sacra- 
mento. Cal.;  Letcher  Automobile  Co.,  San  Jose.  Cal., 
two;  H.  H.  Owens,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Mr.  H.  H.  Owens.  Miss  Owens  and  party  were 
seen  last  Sunday  in  their  new  Cadillac  driving  in  the 
Presidio  and  Park. 


THE  JAP. 
Being  a  reminiscence  of  the  advance  on   Peking, 
by   Corporal   Rufus   Green,  9th   Infantry,   U.   S.   A., 
the  same  being  set  down  by  Herbert  David  Walter. 


Of  all  the  different  soldiers  that  I  met  across  the  sea, 
There's  a  fighting  man,  who  does     his     country 
proud. 
Who's  always  Johnny-on-the-Spot,  wherever  he  may 
be, 
Though  he's  so  small  you'd  miss  him  in  a  crowd. 
The  Englishman  he  swaggers,  but  he's  nervy  and  he's 
clean. 
The  Frenchman  simply  isn't  worth  a  rap. 
The    Russian's    mighty   dirty,    and   the    German's   a 
machine ; 
But  the  keenest  man  in  China  was  the  Jap. 

Yes,  you  bet  your  life  the  Jap, 
On  a  hike,  or  in  a  scrap, 

He's  the  guy  what  is  an  honor  to  the  trade. 
He'll  put  up  a  rattlin'  fight 
After    marchin'    day    and    night ; 

For  he's  the  finest  soldier  that  is  made. 

The  Russian  keeps  on  marchin'  like  a  lot  of  driven 
swine, 

But  he  couldn't  use  his  block  to  save  his  neck. 
The  German  needs  ten  officers  to  bring  him  into  line, 

But  kill  'em  off,  and  he  becomes  a  wreck. 
Our  boys  can  do  some  fighting,  and  they  shoot  the 
best  of  all, 

Though  to  beat  the  others  shooting  is  a  snap. 
But  in  each  and  every  mix-up  that  I  can  now  r»call, 

The  man  that  did  the  business  was  the  Jap. 

Said  their  General :  "The  enemy  is  tired — so  are  we ; 

But  the  enemy  is  scared,  and  we  are  not. 
And  since  to  get  the  Boxers  we  came  across  the  sea, 

We're  going'  to  make  the  pace  extremely  hot." 
So  they  marched  the  Allied  Armies  most  completely 
off  their  feet; 

And  they  chased  the  Boxers  all  around  the  map. 
But  it  wasn't  only  hiking,  for  the  man  that  had  them 
beat 

In  discipline  and  neatness  was  the  Jap.  __ 


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Interest  paid  on  deposits, 
subject  to  check,  at  the  rate 
of  two  per  cent  per  annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and  six-tenths  per  cent,  per 
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Trusts  executed.  We  are 
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Safe  Deposit  boxes  rented  at 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


It  would  be  unjust  as  well  as  un- 

A  Riotous         true   to   refer   to   California   as   a 

Foreign  Mob.      lawless   State,   and   yet   the    way 

things  have  been  going  for  so.ne 
time  past,  and  not  due  to  any  overt  act  upon  the  part 
of  our  own  citizens,  serves  to  cast  a  reflection  of  dis- 
order within  her  gates,  which  is  not  pleasing,  to  say 
the  least,  for  law  abiding  citizens  to  contemplate-. 
Twice  within  the  past  six  months  the  owners  of 
prominent  mines  in  California  have  had  to  appeal  to 
the  strong  arm  of  the  Federal  Government  for  pro- 
tection of  life  and  property.  In  the  last  instance  a 
band  of  newly  imported  foreigners,  who,  from  all  that 
can  be  learned,  are  scarcely  able  to  speak  the  Ameri- 
can language,  have  literally  taken  up  arms  in  a  peace- 
ful commonwealth,  which  they  have  invaded  with 
the  avowed  intention  of  obtaining  a  livelihood,  and 
threatened  their  employers.  The  strike  at  the  Royal 
Mine  of  Calaveras  County  was  bad  enough  in  its 
way.  while  that  at  the  Rawhide  Mine  of  Tuolumne 
County,  owing  to  the  conduct  of  the  strikers,  can 
only  be  denounced  as  an  outrage.  It  is  one  thing 
where  a  body  of  intelligent  American  citizens  knock 
off  work  to  settle  some  difference  of  opinion  with  an 
employer.  With  them  there  is  no  danger  of  violence 
to  person  or  property,  and  an  amicable  settlement 
can  always  be  expected.  It  is  different,  however, 
with  the  beetle-browed  type  of  low-class  foreign  ele- 
ment, who  in  their  native  haunts  are  but  a  grade  re- 
moved above  the  Asiatic  coolie.  The  strange  part 
of  the  affair  in  the  case  of  the  Rawhide  disturbance 
is  that  the  authorities  do  not  make  an  effort  to  sup- 
press the  mob  without  having  to  drag  the  Federal 
Government  into  the  affair.  There  should  he  power 
enough  upon  the  side  of  the  law-abiding  element  1  f 
the  county  itself  to  see  that  the  reputation  of  Califor- 
nia does  not  suffer  at  the  hands  of  aliens  who,  by  their 
very  action  of  to-day  have  proved  themselves  an  un- 
desirable class  to  be  granted  the  privileges  of  Ameri- 
can citizenship.  The  whole  fact  of  the  matter  is  that 
the  Government  has  had  its  attention  so  closely  con- 
centrated on  the  western  portals  of  the  country  in  an 
effort  to  check  the  ingress  of  an  alien  horde  from  the 
(  Irient  that  it  has  overlooked  the  Eastern  en- 
trance to  the  country,  with  the  result  that  an  element 
has  been  permitted  to  creep  in  from  Europe,  which 
had  been  better  kept  out.  There  is  some  satisfaction 
in  knowing,  however,  that  now  that  the  power  of 
the  Federal  Government  has  been  invoked,  it  will 
go  hard  with  those  who  oppose  it.  and  that  order  will 
be  maintained  at  any  cost.  (  >bjectionable  arrivals 
from  the  Orient  are  transported  without  much  trou- 
ble under  the  category  of  "undesirables,"  and  the 
same  law  should  be  invoked  to  move  some  of  the 
Rawhide  alien  rioters  back  where  they  came  from  in 
short  order.  A  few  examples  of  the  kind  might  teach 
this  class  of  foreigners  the  lesson  that  the  first  thing 
they  must  do  when  they  enter  this  country  is  to  learn 
how  to  behave  themselves. 

The      absorption     of     the 
Another  Noltable         United    Gas    and    Electric 
Industrial  Combine.      Company  by  the  California 
Gas  and  Electric  Corpora- 
tion has  furnished  the  "street"  with  another  opportu- 
nity to  discuss  the  ability  of  our  local  financiers.  We 
have  had  the  very  remarkable  elucidation  of  the  prob- 
lem how  to  figure  up  millions  on  paper  and  come  out 
short  on  the  cash  end  of  the  horn  in  the  United  Rail- 


roads, where  the  New  York  promoter  got  the  best 
of  the  bargain,  and  then  followed  that  remarkable 
exhibition  of  financiering,  the  S.  F.  Gas  and  Electric 
combine,  so  top-heavy  even  from  the  start  that  it 
could  not  stand  on  its  own  legs  for  a  moment  without 
being  propped.  Xow  comes  the  California  lias  ar.d 
Electric  combination,  with  a  bonded  indebtedness  oi 
over  $23,000,000.  (  )f  course  this  company  makes  a 
large  amount  of  money,  but  it  will  take  a  mint  to 
meet  the  charges  on  the  indebtedness.  It  will  be 
interesting  to  follow  the  fate  of  all  these  heavily 
capitalized  combines  in  face  of  a  proposition  always 
likely  to  he  encountered  in  the  form  of  opposition 
companies.  The  investing  public  will  very  naturally 
•be  cautious  in  dealing  in  a  class  of  security  where 
the  industrial  values  are  shaded  by  the  speculative 
results  of  market  manipulation  of  bond  issues  which 
are   not   so   easiK    worked   off  here   as  elsewhere. 

(  hie      would      think      that 

Banks  Spring  up  in      there    were    banks    enough 

all  Directions.  already    of     all      classes   to 

handle  the  business  of  the 
State.  It  would  appear  not.  however,  from  the  man- 
ner in  which  licenses  are  being  issued  by  the  Califor- 
nia Bank  Commission,  no  less  than  8  new  concerns 
Dank  Commission,  no  less  than  eight  new  concerns 
being  granted  in  one  day  during  the  past  week. 
There  is  no  denying  the  fact  that  the  millions  in 
gold  coin  are  piling  up  here  all  the  time,  but  not  so 
fast  that  the  old-established  institutions  are  not  in 
a  condition  to  handle  it.  Naturally  the  old  and  well 
known  banks  will  continue  to  obtain  the  patronage 
of  the  public,  and  for  this  reason  it  is  difficult  to 
understand  where  and  from  whom  these  new  banks 
expect  to  draw  for  support.  Most  of  these  incorpor- 
ations were  incubated  during  the  temporary  suspen- 
sion of  the  pow-ers  ot  the  Hank  Commission.  The 
number  of  the  creations  taking  place  in  such  a  short 
period  of  time  makes  one  wonder  how  main  would 
spring  up,  mushroom-like,  had  the  powers  of  the 
State  Board  been  abolished  instead  of  a  mere  sus- 
pension. It  looks  very  much  as  if  every  second  man 
of  ordinary  means  in  California  desires  to  figure  as 
a  banker. 

Business  is  bidding  up  to  the 
Pine-St.  Market,  average  on  Pine  street  just 
now.  with  prices  ruling  firm. 
Xo  effort  is  apparent  to  boom  prices,  ami  as  for 
manipulation,  every  indication  of  it  has  disappeared 
for  weeks.  And  yet  the  market  shows  no  disposition 
10  fall  off,  and  there  is  a  steady  demand  for  every 
share  offered.  The  prospects  in  the  north-end  mines 
continue  to  improve,  and  if  the  true  condition  at 
certain  points  in  this  quarter  of  the  lode  were  fully 
appreciated  by  the  public,  prices  would  he  materially 
higher  for  many  of  this  special  line  of  shares  than 
they  are  to-day.  However,  the  realization  of  the 
truth  of  the  matter  will  come  along  in  time,  and  then 
some  changes  for  the  better  may  he  expected. 

Business   on    the    Stock    and    Bond 
Local  Stocks     Exchange    during    the    past    week 
and  Bonds.       has    developed    few    new     features, 
with  a  dull  demand  and  prices  weak 
as  a  rule.     A  bid.  the  first  on  record,  for  California 
Gas  and  Electric — 5s  at  93  and  95  asked.     It  is  gen- 
erally believed  that  Spring   Valley   can   legitimately 
secure  a  much  better  rate  by  an  appeal  to  the  courts, 
where  the  true  value  of  its  property  can  he  exploited. 


March  5.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


It  is  too  much  tn  expect  an  ability   in  this  particular. 
line  of  intricate  appraisement  from  the  average  ]"■ 
litical  swashbuckler,  whom  (ate  has  provided  with 

il  in  the  San  Francisco  Board  "f  Supervisors, 
a>  one  "i  the  bandy  men  of  a  fiddling-boss.     This 

■  lent,  on  the  other  band,  by  the  way  the  Board 
was  jollied  into  allowing  the  San  Francisco  Gas  and 
Electric  Company  go  cents  per  cubic  feet  for  gas, 
with  no  provision  in  the  way  of  penalty  for  poor  qual- 
ity and  had  service.  Aboul  60  cents  per  IOO0  would 
have  been  the  correct  figure,  according  to  the  evi- 
dence presented  this  august  body,  which  seemed 
content  to  bow  before  the  haughty  individuals  who, 
for  the  moment,  evidentl)  imagine  they  "wu  all  the 
uras  consumers  in  the  town.     Before  many  months 

have  elapsed  a  new  company  will  have  entered  the 
local  field,  a  prediction  which  some  doubting  Thomas 
with  a  friendly  leaning  toward  the  present  s;as  bar- 
ons can  make  a  note  of  for  future  reference.  1 1 
would  be  an  interesting  matter  to  hear  the  subject 
of  the  values  of  this  concern  threshed  out  in  open 
court.  They  would  simmer  down  materially  from 
$25,000,000  if  some  of  the  air  was  let  out.  With  all 
the  dullness  in  the  local  industrials,  there  are  indi- 
cations of  livelier  times  and  higher  prices  in  the 
sugar  stocks. 

According  to  the  report  of 
Mining  in  Siberia.     R.  T.  Greener,  the  American 

Commercial  Agent  at  Vladi- 
vostock,  Siberia,  the  Russian  regulation  preventing 
foreigners  from  exploiting  gold  mines  within  sixty 
miles  of  the  coast,  or  even  in  participating  in  the 
gold-mining  industry  in  the  maritime  province,  in- 
stead of  being  relaxed,  as  was  hoped  for  by  some  of 
the  foreign  miners  who  had  already  paid  a  good 
price  for  work  done  before  the  law  has  again  been 
confirmed.  Russian  Jews  can  only  engage  in  such 
mining  where  they  have  the  right  to  live  outside  of 
Jewish  settlements.  A  very '  rich  quarry  of  litho- 
graphic stone  is  situated  in  the  vicinity  of  the  city 
of  Kootais.  Notwithstanding  the  profit  that  its  ex- 
ploitation would  yield,  no  one  seems  to  care  to  un- 
dertake the  business.  This  report  was  filed  some 
weeks  before  the  war  broke  out,  and  now  of  course, 
under  the  changed  conditions,  the  industry  has  been 
practically  stopped,  and  no  work  of  any  magnitude 
will  likely  be  undertaken  until  peace  reigns  again. 


The  Financial  Red  Book  of  America  is 'a  directory 
of  the  leading  financiers,  industrial  magnates,  re- 
tired men  of  fortune,  women  of  independent  means, 
managers  and  executors  of  large  unsettled  estates, 
and  others  who  fill  stations  of  financial  responsibil- 
ity, and  is  a  work  wholly  unique  in  its  special  field. 
The  volume  which  has  just  been  issued  is  a  compila- 
tion of  the  names  of  those  individuals  and  large  es- 
tates throughout  the  United  States  that  are  believed 
to  be  worth  $300,000  and  more.  Although  in  the 
main  filled  with  hard  and  dry  facts,  the  pages  of 
the  volume  reveal  something  more  than  the  merely 
material  statement  of  America's  wonderful  prosper- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


2f/>e    Story    of    Yan    Loo    Tat 


BY     P.     N.     BEWNGER 


The  Official  Directory  of  the  Far  East  speaks  of 
the  savages  of  Formosa  in  the  following  manner: 
"There  are  two  classes  of  savages  in  Formosa,  name- 
ly, the  savages  of  the  plains  and  the  mountaineers. 
'Phe  hill  tribes  coerce  the  men  of  the  plains  to  assist 
them  in  carrying  on  war  against  the  Japanese,  the 
latter  being  reluctant  to  break  the  friendly  relations 
that  exist.  Among  these  savages  there  are  tribes 
whose  young  men  are  not  allowed  to  marry  until 
they  have  brought  into  camp  the  head  of  one  China- 
man at  least.  *  *  *  The  Formosan  bent  on  winning 
his  spurs  as  a  valiant  warrior  lies  in  wait  for  some 
passing  Chinaman,  or  perchance  a  party  composed 
of  three  or  four  Chinese  tradesmen,  upon  whom  he 
springs  from  ambush  before  they  suspect  danger.  A 
short  scuffle,  if  any,  ensues,  and  the  headless  trunk 
of  an  inoffensive  Chinaman  lies  on  the  ground,  while 
the  savage,  bounding  over  hill  and  dale,  makes  off  to 
his  camp  with  the  coveted  trophy  in  his  hand.  Upon 
arrival,  the  warrior  goes  straight  to  his  chief  and 
lays  before  him  the  ghastly  evidence  of  his  prowess. 
A  war  dance  is  soon  in  full  swing,  amidst  which  the 
hero  of  the  hour  is  introduced  to  his  bride,  and  be- 
fore many  hours  he  is  allowed  to  take  her  to  his  bark 
hut." 

*  *  * 

When  I  came  to  the  cane  cot  Maclean  feebly  held 
out  a  hand  and  gradually  drifted  into  the  chief  story 
of  his  life. 

He  spoke  in  French.  "My  friend,"  he  said,  "you 
are  not  alone  in  wanting  to  know  of  me.  I  hope  it 
mav  do  you  some  good.  It  has  never  been  of  benefit 
to  me,  this  knowledge  of  myself. 

"I  was  born  in  Formosa,  near  the  village  of  Tam- 
sui,  during  the  time  Liu-Ming-Chu'an  was  Governor 
of  Formosa.  Liu-Ming-Chu'an  was  a  man  of  extra- 
ordinary ability,  and  he  did  more  in  his  day  to  bring 
the  people  of  Formosa  to  civilized  ways  than  any 
other  influence  before  or  since. 

"Through  his  influence  my  father,  who  was  a  pro- 
vincial chief,  was  induced  to  place  me  with  Dr.  Mac- 
kay,  a  Protestant  missionary,  who  gave  me  the  ru- 
diments of  an  education.  When  Mr.  Maclean,  the 
English  contractor,  built  the  Tamsui  Railway,  I  went 
in  his  employ  along  the  line  in  charge  of  the  track- 
laying  force.  Mr.  .Maclean  became  interested  in  me 
to  such  an  extent  that  he  sent  me  to  Hongkong, 
where  I  entered  one  of  the  Christian  institutions  to 
perfect  my  education.  I  soon  became  dissatisfied, 
and  communicating  my  dislike  to  Mr.  Maclean,  he 
placed  me  with  a  private  tutor,  who  gave  me  instruc- 
tion in  the  French  language. 

"It  was  after  I  returned  to  Tamsui  that  Mr.  Mac- 
lean gave  me  permission  to  take  his  name.  At  the 
same  time  he  placed  me  in  charge  of  the  telegraph 
system  which  he  was  placing  through  the  lowland 
provinces  and  as  far  into  the  interior  as  the  savage 
tribes  would  permit. 

"Our  family  is  of  Malayan  origin  and  extremely 
clannish.  We  have  always  despised  the  Chinaman 
or  those  affiliated  with  him.  My  father  was  a  Bud- 
dhist in  his  belief,  and  my  education  under  different 
sects  of  the  Christian  religion  had  not  given  me 
great  confidence  in  the  white  man's  teachings.  Up 
in  the  mountains,  on  the  northern  road,  I  was  sent 
to  string  along  wires  and  establish  telegraph  stations. 
I  have  always  suspected  that  Maclean's  kindness  to 


me  sprang  originally  from  a  desire  to  conciliate  the 
tribal  chiefs  along  this  line  of  road,  as  they  nearly  all 
were  related  in  some  manner  to  my  family. 

"Cpon  returning  from  the  end  of  the  line,  I  de- 
cided to  take  a  trip  into  the  interior  and  visit  the  camp 
of  an  old  chief,  an  uncle  of  mine,  a  brother  of  my 
mother.  I  had  keen  expectations  of  a  warm  welcome, 
but  in  this  I  was  disappointed.  The  old  man  was  de- 
voting the  remaining  years  of  his  life  to  weird  relig- 
ious rites,  part  Buddhistical,  part  savage.  He  was 
quite  an  expert  in  the  taming  of  vipers,  and  his  per- 
formances with  fire  and  magic  made  my  blood  creep. 

"I  should  have  quitted  the  camp,  never  to  return, 
had  I  not  caught  sight  of  his  daughter.  It  did  not 
take  more  than  a  minute  to  convince  me  that  I  should 
never  be  happy  until  she  became  my  bride.  As  my 
people  rarely  consult  the  women  in  this  matter,  I 
immediately  made  my  proposal  to  the  father.  The 
old  man  was  indignant.  He  delivered  himself  of  a 
long  speech  against  the  outside  world  in  general 
and  the  Japanese  in  particular. 

"His  venom  was  directed  against  my  clothing,  the 
manner  of  dressing  my  hair  and  my  unnecessary  ac- 
complishments. He  criticised  my  father,  and  finally 
wound  up  by  denying  me  the  girl's  hand  unless  I  be- 
came one  of  his  tribe  and  dropped  entirely  the  ways 
of  civilization. 

"I  loved  the  girl — Geta  was  her  name — with  a  wild 
passion  that  may  not  be  described.  For  many  days 
I  brooded  upon  the  condition,  and  then  I  came  to 
the  conclusion  that  once  she  was  my  wife  I  could  flee 
to  Tamsui  and  defy  the  old  man. 

"The  next  day  I  put  aside  the  clothing  of  the  white 
man  and  the  ways  of  the  civilized.  I  donned  the 
tribal  headband  and  assumed  a  position  of  authority 
as  the  chief's  nephew. 

"Having  complacently  demeaned  myself  to  suit  his 
pleasure  I  now  demanded  the  girl  of  my  uncle.  We 
were  sitting  before  a  fire  from  which  at  will  he 
brought,  by  passing  his  hands  over  it  red,  green  or 
yellow  flames. 

"He  turned  his  hideous,  parchment-like  face  to- 
ward me,  and  said: 

'  'You  masquerade  well,  my  nephew,  but  there  is 
one  condition  you  must  fulfill.  Remember  that  you 
must  bring  in  a  head,  the  head  of  a  Chinaman,  ere 
you  can  claim  my  daughter." 

"Filled  with  horror  at  his  demand,  I  made  a  mute 
appeal  to  his  daughter. 

"  'I  am  my  father's  daughter,'  she  said,  looking  de- 
fiantly at  me,  'and  you  are  a  Japanese  coward.  Con- 
form to  our  tribal  customs,  become  a  true  man.  and 
I  will  be  yours.    You  had  better  go  at  once.     Go !' 

"After  I  had  left  that  old  devil  at  his  mysterious 
fire  and  wandered  into  the  moonlight,  I  broke  into 
a  run   down   the   mountain   path   toward  civilization. 


"BAB'^" 


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212.214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


March  5.  1904. 


Before  making  the  first  turn  in  the  road  I  looked  back 
toward  the  great  cleft  in  the  rock.    There  v. 
light  in  the  sky.  and  in  relief  stood  a  Mack  figure.  It 
.  and  as  she  >au  me  stop  she  flung  up  her 

anus.     I  thought  I  heard  her  laugh  anil  the  one  word: 

ml  r 

"."seating  myself  by  the  side  of  the  road.  I  pondere  1 
on  the  situation.  It  seemed  to  me  as  if  a  weight  of 
blackness,  which  never  again  has  lifted,  had  de- 
scended upon  me.  I  thought  of  my  opportunities. 
I  thought  of  my  ambitions  and  of  Maclean  and  the 
good  missionary.  Dr.  Mackay.  I  also  reasoned  that 
lift  ween  civilization  and  savagery  it  was  but  a  ques- 
tion of  clothing,  customs  ami  surroundings.  I  bad 
seen  the  white  man  in  China  do  things  that  would 
have  shamed  a  tribesman.  I  had  seen  the  white  man 
with  the  Bible  in  one  hand  and  the  sword  in  the 
other. 

"That  night  lizards  croaked  incessantly,  and  it  was 
always   the   same   thing — "Geta,   Geta.   Geta  !' 

"I  wore  a  sword  something  like  the  Tagalo  bolas, 
and  I  tried  its  edge  upon  my  thumb.  After  all.  what 
was  one  coolie  the  less? 

''A  feeling  of  numbness  came  over  me  and  I  think 
I  dozed  away. 

"When  I  was  again  conscious  it  was  not  yet  morn- 
ing and  the  night  lizards  still  croaked.  I  was  unut- 
terably tired.  Presently  I  heard  some  one  coming 
up  the  path.  Instinctively  I  grasped  my  sword.  It 
was  a  man.  Just  as  he  passed  the  spot  where  I  stood 
I  let  him  have  the  sword.  With  all  my  strength  I 
struck  the  blow.  His  head  rolled  down  the  road  and 
the  body  blocked  the  path.  I  must  have  been  de- 
mented, for  I  picked  up  the  body  and  tossed  it  in 
the  bushes,  muttering,  'Somebody  might  fall  over 
you  and  get  hurt !'  I  remember  that  I  was  much  sur- 
prised to  find  the  thing  still  warm  when  I  grasped  it 
by  the  hair.  It  was  then  I  discovered  the  man  was 
no  Chinaman.     What  matter? 

"It  was  with  a  feeling  of  joy  that  I  stood  again  in 
the  cleft  of  the  hill.  The  old  man  was  still  at  his 
mummeries,  but  before  I  could  speak  he  raised  his 
head  and  said : 

"  'I  knew  you  would  come  back !' 

"Geta  was  lying  beside  him  fast  asleep,  and  at  the 
sound  of  his  voice  she  raised  her  head  and  looked 
toward  me. 

"With  a  swing  of  the  arm  I  flung  the  head  between 
them.  The  thing  bounded  upon  the  bark  shelter, 
and  after  remaining  a  moment  as  if  suspended,  it 
tumbled  into  the  fire. 

"Geta  gave  a  wild  cry  and  fell  to  the  ground,  her 
hands  presed  tightly  to  her  eyes.  Then  rising,  after 
one  more  look,  she  sprang  into  the  jungle,  from  which 
rang  back  her  shrieks. 

"The  old  man,  too,  hobbled  away  into  the  under- 
brush as  fast  as  his  aged  legs  could  carry  him. 

"Jumping  down,  I  made  my  way  to  the  fire.  Then 
for  the  first  time  in  the  light  I  got  a  good  look  at  the 
face. 

"It  was  the  head  of  Geta's  brother." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 


49 


When  you  get  your  (all  clothing  made,  also  make 

arrangements  to  have  It  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spauldlng's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  if  well  cared  for.  They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 

Few  come  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  visit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     Ifs  tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort 

To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St.  Turkish  Bath. 


Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Co. 

I.oeallon  of  principal  plae.  ol  hualneaa,  Han  Kranol.ee.  California.  !.■•- 
cation  ol  woiki.    Moraf  OoajBt*.  Nevada 

Notloe  la  herabr  given  that  at  a  meeting  ol  Ihe  Hoard  nl  Directors.  held 
on  lite  «ll,  day  ol  Krl.r  u.ry  1SK4.  an  aa»ea>ment  (No.  77!  ol  llllrrn  [J6] 
•enta  per  share  was  levied  upon  tlie  capital  stock  ol  the  ooiporatlon.  pi>  - 
»M*  Immediately  In  I'r  Hc.l  Hlales  sold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
ol  ihe  company,  room  79.  Nevada  Blook,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  Ban 
Franolsco.  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  teeessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
Mil.    DAY    OF  MARCH.  1"  I 
will    be    delinquent    and    advertised     for    sate    at    public   auotton;   and 
unlaaa    payment    Is    inado  before,    will    be    sold    on     I  iiceday,    the     Mh 
•lay   ef    April,  1901,   to   pay  the  delinquent  asaeeament,  together  with  the 
coat  of  advertising  and  expenses  ol  sale. 

117  order  of  the  Board  ol  Directors. 

CHAS.  B   KLI.IOT.  recrelery 

Ofnee-Room  79.  Xovada  Block.  80?  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  Pan  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  worka— Virginia  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directms 
held  on  the  12th  d.yof  February,  1904, an  assessment  (No.  84)  ol  ten 
llo)  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  Ihe  capital  stock  of  the  corporate  n 
pay  able  immediately,  in  United  .States  gold  ooln,  to  the  secretary,  at  ihe 
olTioe  of  the  Company.  Room  33,  Nevada  Blook  No.  309  Monlgomeey  bt,. 
San  Francisco.  Oil 
Any  stook  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE    18th  DAY  OF  MARCH,  1904, 
will   be     delinquent,    and  advertised  for  sale  at  publlo  auotlon  land  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on    Friday,    the  8th   day  of    April 
1904,    to    pay   the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.   JAFFE,,  Secretary. 

Location  of  Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Blook,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Franolsco'  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Occidental    Consolidated    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works,  Silver  Mtar  Minim;  District,  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  6th  day  of  February,  1904.  an  assessment  \No.  44)of  live  (•■>)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately In  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  57,  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE    10th    DAY    OF    MARCH,    1904, 
will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  31st  day  of  March 
1904,    to     pay     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the    costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

ALFRED   K.  BURBROW,  Seoretary. 
Office— Room  57.  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Potosi  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  10th  day  <  f  February,  11*04,  an  assessment  (No.  69)  of  ten  (10)  cent* 
per  share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
Immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  Room  79  Nevada  Block, 809  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran' 
cit-co.  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE     161h    DAY    OF    MARCH,   1904 
will  be  delinquent,  and  adve<  Used  for  sale  at  publlo    auction   and    unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  Thursday,  the  7th  day  of  April 
1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  B.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79.  Nevada  Block  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 
Oal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  18£ 

Amount  per  share , 10 cents 

Levied..... February  10. 1904 

Delinquent  In  office .- . March   15  1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock April    4,  1904 

E.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  14,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 


We  are  indebted  to  Congressman  Livernash  for 
the  "Memorial  Address  on  the  Life  and  Character 
of  William  McKinley,  President  of  the  United 
States/',  by  John  Hay.  .  Delivered  under  date  of 
February  29.  1904. 


3° 


ENNENB  ?Semd 
3TPILET 


I^P 


Kis^SiBP 


Gel    Mtnnm'l    (ihc  original). 


I  CHAPPED  HANDS.  CHAFINC, 
^ukJ  oO  affliction;  of  tbe  skin.  "A  link 
higher  In  price,  perhaps,  than  worthless 
substitutes,  but  j  reason  for  it."  De- 
lightful after  shaving.  Sold  everywhere,  or 
nulled  on  receipt  of  25c. 
GERHARD   MENNEN   CO.,   Newark.  N.  J. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
HUSTLE   AND    GRIN. 

Smile,  and  the  world  smiles  with 
you, 

"Knock"  and  you  go  alone  ; 

For  the  cheerful  grin 

Will  let  you  in 
Where  the  kicker  is  never  known. 
Growl,  and  the  way  looks  dreary, 

Laugh,  and  the  path  is  hright, 

For  a  welcome  smile 

Brings  sunshine,  while 
A   frown    shuts  out    the   light. 


"It  seems,"  said  the  leader  of 
the  rescuing  party,  "that  the  ban- 
dits hound  and  gagged  you  in  the 
regular  comic  opera  style."  "Oh, 
no,  they  didn't,"  replied  the  vic- 
tim. "The  gags  they  used  were 
entirely  new." 

Mrs.  Goodun — Now.  after  that 
nice,  hot  coffee,  perhaps  you'll  be 
able  to  split  some  kindling.  Woo- 
dent  Thinkofit — Sorry,  mum,  but 
I  forgot  to  tell  you  I'm  a  coffee 
fiend,  and  yer  well-meant  kindness 
has  broke  my  nerves  all  up  so's  I 
must  have  perfect  rest. 

"What  are  you  doing  with  your 
hands  in  my  pockets?"  demanded 
the  man  who  had  been  gazing  in 
the  shop  window.  "Why,  sir," 
whined  the  crook,  "der  ain't  no 
pockets  in  these  trousers,  an'  me 
hands  are  cold." 


Don't  Forget 

THAT    YOU    HAVE  YOUR   CHOICE 
OF 

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Over  the  Lines  of  the 

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Will  Take  You  by  Way  of 
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Sigh,  and  you  attain  nothing, 

Work,  and   the  prize   is   won  ; 

■  For  the   nervy   man 

With    backbone    can 
By  nothing  be  outdone.. 
Hustle  and  fortune  awaits  you, 

Shirk,  and  defeat  is  sure. 

For  there's  no  chance 

Of  deliverance 
For  the  chap  who  can't  endure. 

Sing,  and  tiie  world's  harmonious, 

Grumble,  and  things  go  wrong, 

And  all  the  time 

You  are  out  of  rhyme 
With  the  busy,  bustling  throng; 
Kick,  and  there's  trouble  brewing, 

Whistle,  and  life  is  gay, 

And  the  world's  in  tune 

Like  a  day  in  June, 
And  the  clouds  all  melt  away. 
— Tengwell   Talk. 


From  an  excellent  article  in  the 

well-known  insurance  journal, 
"Business,"  of  London,  England, 
we  take  these  stimulating  para- 
graphs: 

Don't  tackle  a  man  in  a  faint- 
hearted way.  as  if  you  were 
ashamed    of    your    business. 

Enthusiasm  is  catching.  Be  en- 
thusiastic in  your  work  and  you 
will  enthuse  those  who  work  with 
you. 

The  practical  definition  given 
by  energetic  minds  to  the  word 
"difficulty"  is — a  thing  to  over- 
come. 

"Men  who  have  risen  in  the 
world  are  not  those  who  have  been 
helped  along,  but  those  who  help- 
ed themselves  by  putting  their 
own  shoulder  to  the  wheel. 
Whether  you  work  for  fame,  for 
love,  for  money,  or  anything  else, 
work  with  your  own  hands,  heart, 
and  brain. 

The  world  has  no  sympathy 
with,  or  respect  for,  disappointed 
people.  "Laugh,  and  the  world 
laughs  with  you ;  weep,  and  you 
weep  alone." 

He  who  every  morning  plans  his 
day's  work,  and  follows  out  that 
plan,  weaves  a  thread  which  will 
guide  him  through  the  business 
labyrinths  of  life. 

Do  not  look  for  trouble  or  dis- 
couragement in  your  work.  Bring 


March  5,  1904. 

LAMP-FITS. 

How  do  you  know  what 
:himney  fits  your  lamp? 

Your  grocer  tells  you. 

How  does  he  know  ? 

He  don't. 

Do  you  then  ? 

That's  about  how  lamps 
are  fitted  with  chimneys  by 
people  who  don't  use  my 
Index;  and  they  complain 
of  bad  chimneys  !  Lamp- 
Fits  indeed  !  Do  you  want 
the   Index  ?     Free. 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 

sunshine  into  your  business.  I  et 
its  rays  light  the  busines  of  others. 
It  is  an  unfortunate  truth  that 
"some  folks  are  so  fond  of  trouble 
that  they  can't  enjoy  honey  for 
thinking  of  what  might  have  hap- 
pened if  the  bee  stung  'em." 


Perdita — It  doesn't  matter  if 
this  is  the  third  installment  of  the 
story.  The  synopsis  is  printed, 
telling  how  the  first  chapters  went, 
so  you  can  start  reading  it  from 
here.  Penelope — Yes;  but  how 
stupid  of  them  not  to  have  the 
synopsis  tell  how  it  ends. 

Don't  contest  a  will  if  it  is  a 
woman's. 


HAND 

SAPOLIO 

It  ensures  an  enjoyable,  invigor- 
ating bath ;  makes  every  pz?? 
respond,  removes  dead  skin, 

ENEROIZES    THE    WHOLE    BODY 

starts  the  circulation,  and  leaves  a 
glow  equal  to  a  Turkish  bath. 

ALL    GROCERS     AND    DRUGGIST.-* 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING     12    HOURS 

Rate  only  $G7.60  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  eal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  P.  BOOTH.  Gen.  Aet..  1).  P.  R.  R.  Co 

No-  1.  Montgomery  St-     San  Francisco.  Cal 


March  5.  1904. 


SOZODONT 

APMFECT  LIQUID  OENT1FRICE  FOB  Tl  t 

TEETH  —  BREATH 

Ml 
EACH 

SOZODONT 

TOOTH  POWDER 

SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thioves) 

Calvert,  Jr.— What  is  your  un- 
cle doing  now?  Baity  Moore — 
Sitting  on  juries.  Calvert.  Jr. — 
What?  I  thought  lie  was  judge 
in  one  of  the  higher  courts.  Baity 
Moore — He  is. 

It  has  now  developed  tliat  one 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  (Mich.)  alder- 
men sold  his  vote  for  $80.  How 
can  bribery  ever  be  made  respec- 
table when  it  is  put  upon  such  a 
cheap  basis? 

Mrs.  De  Flat — Have  you  any- 
thing new  in  folding  beds?  Dealer 
— <  )nly  this,  ma'am,  and  it  really 
is  quite  a  success.  (  )n  arising  in 
the  morning  you  touch  a  spring 
and  it  turns  into  a  v/ashstand  and 
bathtub.  After  your  bath  you  touch 
another  spring,  and  it  becomes  a. 
dressing  case,  with  a  French  p!ate 
mirror.  If  you  breakfast  in  your 
room,  a  slight  pressure  will  trans- 
form it  into  an  extension  table. 
After  breakfast,  you  press  these 
three  buttons  at  once,  and  you 
have  an  upright  piano.  That  is  all 
it  will  do,  except  that  when  you 
die  it  can  be  changed  into  a  rose- 
wood coffin. 

"Didn't  I  hear  your  wife  refer 
to  you  as  the  human  mince  pie?" 
said  the  curious  person.  "Yes," 
answered  Sirius  Barker.  "Is  that 
a  compliment?"  "Not  exactly.  She 
means  that  I  never  agree  with  any- 
body." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

He    was    .1    philosopher    and    a 
talker.    She  «.i~  .1  woman  o( 
lion.     Diey  Mood  together  on  1  li<- 
hridge  and  watched  .1  mg  that  was 

hauling    a    1"'  up 

the  river. 

is  there,  in\  dear."  said  he. 
"Such  is  life.  The  tug  is  like  the 
man,  working  and  toiling',  while 
the  barges,  like  the  women,  are — " 
His  wife  gave  him  no  time  to  fin- 
ish the  sentence.  "I  know."  she 
said.  "The  tug  does  all  the  blow- 
ing and  the  barge>  bear  all  the  bur- 
den." 

Once  there  wa>  a  rich  man — a 
very  rich  man — who  wanted  to  do 
do  something  very  handsome 
for  a  struggling  institution  of 
learning. 

He  called  the  directors  together 
and  said  to  them  : 

"Gentleman,  I  propose  giving 
your  institution  $5,000,000." 

"But,"  they  said,  after  they  had 
recovered  from  their  surprise,  "it 
will  be  impossible  for  us  to  raise 
the  $10,000,000  that  will  be  needed 
in  order  to  secure  your  munificent 
gift." 

"You  will  not  need  to  raise  any 
$10,000,000,"  he  replied ;  "the  do- 
nation will  be  unconditional." 

"Then  the  money  will  be  invest- 
ed in  bonds  or  real  estate,  we  pre- 
sume, and  we  shall  be  allowed  to 
use  the  income  in  erecting  new 
buildings  and  paying  running  ex- 
penses?" 

"Not  at  all,"  responded  the  rich 
man.  "The  gift  vvil  be  in  cash,  to 
be  used  in  any  way  you  please,  and 
when  it  is  all  gone  there  will  be 
another  $5,000,000  at  your  dispo- 
sal, gentlemen,  if  you  have  spent 
the  first  sum  wisely." 

The  directors  consulted  to- 
gether in  whispers  and  then  quiet- 
ly sent  for  an  officer. 

The  man  evidently  was  insane. 


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March  5,  1904. 


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a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
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Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

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cluding   Berth    and    Meals 

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430P 


6.00i' 
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user \^1  Trains  leave  anil  are 

routes       f  .  I       due  to  arrive  at 
A*/     SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Ci    Y/  (Main  Line,  Ferry  Dei»ot 

*  ^^  Foot  ot  Market  Street  , 

—  FtiOM   FkhRUaHY    17.   1H04.     —      AHItlVK 

Viicavlllu.  Win  tern,  Kuiitttey 7  5QV 

Benlcla,  Sutsun.  Elinlraaud  Sacra- 
ihltuu 7.20'' 

Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  Bantu 
Uosa,  Martinez,  Sun  Kainon 620 

Nllea,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Latbrop. 
Stock:on 7  20 

ShftBta  Express —  (Via  Davis,, 
Williams  (for  Bartlett  Springs). 
Willows.  tFruto.  lied  Hlult. 
Portland,  Taeoma,   Seattle 7.50 

Davla. Woodland.  K  nights  Lauding. 
Marysvllle.  Orovllle 7.50 

Port  Costa.  Martinez.  Antloch, 
Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man,   Loa     Unnos.     M  o  n  d  o  t  a, 

-  Armona,  Hanford.  Vlsnlla, 
Portervllle 4.   0 

PortCosln,  Martinez,  Tracy.  Lath- 
rop.  M  uii es to,  M e rci'd .  Frusu o. 
Goaben     Junction,     II  an  f  o  rd, 

Vlsalla.  Bakjjrsfleld  4-50' 

Nllea,  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton, (tMllton),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placeniiie.     Marysvllle,    Cbtco, 

Red  BlafT 4. 20 

Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 

norn.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.20" 

Atlantic  BspresB— Ogdun  and  East.    11. JO 
Richmond,     Martinez      and      Way 

Stations 6-50 

The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaba,  Chicago 6-20  • 

Vallejo 12.20' 

IrOS  Angeles  Passenger —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez.  Byron.  Tracy, 
Latbrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  Gosben  Junc- 
tion. Hanford,  Lemoorc,  Vlsalla. 

Bakcrsfleld,  Los  Angeles 7.20 

Hayward,  NIIeB  and  Way  Stations.     3.2Qr> 

Sacramento  River  Steamers 11 1.0 Jr 

Benlcla,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,     Orovllle    and    way 

stations 10-50* 

Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-50p 
Port      Costa,     Martinez,      Byron, 
Tracy,      Latbrop.      Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and    Way    Sta- 
llone beyond  Port  CoBta 1220k 

Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl...    10-20 a 
Martinez. Sim  Ramon,  Vallejo, Napa, 

"Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa 9  20  > 

Nllea,  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl 4.20p 

Hayward.   Nlles,   Irvlngton,  San)     18.50a 

Jose.  Llvermore }  tn  50* 

The  Owl  Limited— Newman.  L<>3 
Ban"-.  Menduta.  Fresno,  Tulare, 
Bnkereli  --Id.  Los  Angeles. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  iu  Los  Angelen,  for  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R.  I.  &  P 850* 

PortCoata.  Tracy.  Stockton 12-20p 

Hayward.  XI lea  and  San  Jose 7.20* 

Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose S.jOa 

Eastern  Express— Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaba,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa.  Benlcla,  Sul- 
snn,  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rock  1  In,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee.  Boca,  Keno,  Wads- 
worth,  winnemucca 5.20p 

Vallejo,  dally,  except  Sunday...,  I      -  __„ 

Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '•o«p 

Klehmuud.  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  nnd  Way  Stallone 11.20* 

Oregon  &  California  ExpresB— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle.    Redding, 
Portland.  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8.50* 
Hayward,  Nllea  and  San  Jose  (Sud- 
day  only  1 11-50* 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 


(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

8.16*  Newark,  Centervllle.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boalaer    Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 555'' 

12.16P  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Joae, 
New  Almaden.LoB  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  6anta  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    t-0  55* 

4  IBp  Newark,  8aa  Jose,  LosQatos  and!     t8-B5  * 

way  stations I  J10  55  * 

G9.30P  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
Ing  from  Los  Oatoa  Sunday  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

hromSAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  ot  Market  St.  (Slip*. 

— T7:15     9:00     11:00a.m.      1-00     300     51&P.M 

trom  OAKLAND,  Foot  or  Broadway  —  t6:ou    J8:IH 

1S:05     10:00  *..M.       12-00    2  00     400  P.M. 

COAST    LINE     (Hroml  Uaiige). 

HjT  ri'blrd  and  Townsend  StreetB.) 

6-10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  30p 

7  00*    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 5-36p 

8.00a  New  Almaden  (Tnes.,  Frld.,  only),     4-10p 

8  00*  The  Coaater— Stops  only  San  Jose, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hollls- 
ter),  Pajaro.  Castroville  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Robles.  Santa  Mar- 
garita, San  Lnls  Ublspo,  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara.San  Buena- 
ventura, SaugUB.  Los  Angeles...  10-45" 
9. CO'  6a  i  Joae.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
SautaCruz.PaclucGrove.SaMnas, 
San  LuIb  Obispo  and    Principal 

Way  Btatlona 4.1  On 

10.30*  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations, 1-20p 

H-30*  Santa  Clara,    San  JoBe.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations 7.30  p 

1-30p  Sbd  Jose  and  Way  SUttona 8  36' 

3 .00p  Del  Monte  ExpresB— Sonta  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  Holllster,  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Costrovllle  forSallnaB.  12-15> 

3-30P  Tres  Plnos  Way  PaaBenger 1045* 

430p  San  JoBe  and  Way  Stations 18  00* 

'5  00'  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatos,  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) t9  1)0* 

t  IQi  fcan JoseandPrlnclpalWayStatlons  {9.40* 
6. 00p  SunBet  Limited.— Redwood,  San 
Jose.  Gllroy.SallnaB, Paso  Robles, 
San  Luis  OblBpo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles,  Demlng.  El  Paso. 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
and    at    Castroville   for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 710' 

t6  Hp  £auMateo,BercBford,Belmont.San 
Carlos.     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto r6.4B* 

6  30p  Snn  Jose  and  Way  Stations 636* 

8  00p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10.16a 

11  30i-  South  San  Francisco,  M  (librae.  Bar- 
lingame.  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
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Menlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 9.45' 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


How     5an     Francisco     LooKs    to     Me 


lv     F*rr\nvild     Tr»v-rv    Tovjrlnl 


No.  10 


Really,  don't  you  know.  1  am  quite  disgusted  »t 

the  actions  of  the  mass*  n  here  in  your  city. 

I  think  it  is  quite  abominable.  They  are  an  unedu- 
cated, ruthless  mob  governed  and  swayed  by  senti 

ment,  don't  you  know.  Me  and  Roger  walked  oul 
the  other  morning  after  a  very  early  breakfast  at 
12:30.  and  I  went  over  to  the  paper  offices  t"  see 
what  the  crowd  was  looking  at.  1  found  the  ordin- 
ary news  being  painted  on  a  long  sheet  by  a  painter 
man  and  a  whole  lot  of  cheering  being  done  by  the 
beggars  who  were  looking  at  the  painter  man.  1  M 
course,  we  must  allow  these  people  to  enjoy  them- 
selves, and  1  stood  it  as  long  as  1  could,  then  beck- 
oned Roger  and  walked  away.  The  beggars  who  were 
looking  at  the  sheet  were  not  the  class  of  chaps  \\1t> 
make  soldiers;  they  are  the  other  lot  who  make 
loafers.  They  would  be  suppressed  if  your  Bobbies 
knew  their  business.  1  can't  really  possibly  refrain 
from  criticising  what  I  call  the  bumptiousness  of 
Americanism.  It  is  different,  I  take  it,  entirely  from 
English  Jingoism.  I  am  an  American  born,  but 
thank  heaven,  I  am  English  bred,  and  I  object  to 
my  own  countrymen  making  the  mistake  of  thinking 
that  yelling  and  flagbearing  is  patriotism.  I  am 
speaking  simply  of  those  whose  manners  should  be 
better  (the  masses  follow  the  classes'  example), 
and  you  should  show  them  as  I  do  by  actions  that  pa- 
triotism is  one  thing  and  that  the  Bermingham  ar- 
ticle is  but,  as  your  ex-president  once  phrased  it,  "of- 
fensive partisanship."  I  am  truly  sure  that  we,  the 
Americans,  are  next  to  the  British  the  best  fighters 
on  earth,  and  this  in  my  opinion  is  history,  but  you 
must  not  by  any  means,  don't  you  know,  mistake 
shouting  for  valour  and  the  stimulus  of  drink  for 
bravery.  I  can't  permit  it.  The  American  women  are 
better  bred,  intuitively,  than  the  American  men. 
On  the  continent  I  have  met  American  men.  I  have 
met  them  in  Berlin,  in  Munich,  in  Dresden,  in  Paris, 
and  in  London.  I  have  also  had  the  ill-fortune  to 
meet  them  in  my  travels  in  the  Orient. 

I  have  met  some  few  of  them,  abroad,  but  very 
few,  that  I  would  be  pleased  to  meet  again.  Those 
who  were  welcome  at  private  homes  and  at  the  clubs 
were  hopelessly  in  the  minority.  In  France  or  Ger- 
many, if  I  hear  an  American  smashing  the  language 
of  the  country  into  flinders,  I  feel  like  taking  the 
trouble  to  go  to  the  Consulate  and  find  out  who  he 
is  before  I  tell  him  that  I  can  speak  English.  This 
saves  me  endorsing  a  draft,  don't  you  see.  I  have 
pulled  out  a  lot  of  you  abroad  at  my  personal  ex- 
pense, sorrow  and  trouble  when  I  really  thought  the 
chap  deserved  it,  and  I  have  left  it  to  the  Consul  a 
whole  lot  of  times  to  get  rid  of  the  American  whose 
only  claim  on  him  was  a  passport.  The  American 
race  is  all  that  it  should  be,  but  it  is  "gauche"  and  the 
name  of  being  an  American  on  the  Continent  is 
synonymous  with  what  I  am  sure  I  know  to  be  at 
least  double  charges.  This  is  owing  to  the  pork- 
packing  and  grocery  fellows  who  go  from  America 
and  view  the  National  Gallery  and  the  Louvre  in 
ten  minutes.  The  sort  of  personally  conducted  chaps 
who  debauch  the  objects  by  hiring  a  private  guide 
who  tells  them  all  he  knows,  and  more,  within  the 
ten  minutes  limit.  The  habit  now  of  the  continental 
waiter  when  he  sees  three  or  four  Americans  get 
. abound  a  table  is  to  beckon  with  one  hand  for  a  new 
bottle  of  whiskey,  while  with  the  other  hand  signals 


for  the  "guaxdc  civil."  The  ordinary  American 
abroad,  as  I  have  seen  him.  i*  the  (lag  waving,  yelling, 
fullsome  fool  thai  1  saw  in  from  of  the  paper  offices. 
1  really  think  1  may  go  further  and  say  that  the 
American   abroad   is  obtrusive   and  offensive  both   to 

his  own  countrymen  and  others.  He  is  so  beastly 
careless  Of  bis  money  that  the  name  American  has 
become  a  by-word  among  the  blooming  waiters.  He 
is  so  blasted  ostentatious  that  the  well-bred  man 
-buns    him,    and    the    ill-bred    parvenu    follows    him. 

American  patriotism  is  a  real  thing,  but  patriotism 
abroad  does  not  mean  a  box  party  in  Brussells,  where 
the  commercialism  of  the  actors  leads  to  a  compli- 
ment to  the  American  nation,  and  the  ill-bred  inde- 
cency of  the  box  party  leads  to  an  interruption  of  the 
performance.     Still  this  has  happened.     I  saw  it. 

1  am  a  stickler  for  good  form,  and  I  am  almost  as 
jealous  of  the  name  I  bear  as  I  am  of  my  reputation 
for  doing  the  proper  thing,  but  had  I  found  my  ken- 
nel man  yelling  as  I  found  the  men  in  front  of  the 
paper  office  the  other  day,  I  should  have  heeled  him. 
You  folks  have  lots  to  learn,  and  blame  me  one  of 
the  lots  is  that  hollering  is  not  fighting  and  enthusi- 
asm is  not  patriotism.  When  we  went  to  the  front 
in  the  Boer  war  we  did  it  quietly,  don't  you  know, 
and  when  we  go  to  the  front  in  the  present  trouble 
between  Japan  and  Russia,  it  will  be  done  in  the 
same  way,  and  the  men  who  will  do  the  fighting, 
British  and  American,  will  not  do  any  yelling,  and 
to  lead  a  company  of  Americans  against  Russia 
would  just  suit  the  mood  of 

TRAVERS. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  5,  1904. 


TWO    LULLABIES. 

By  Marian  Warner  Wildman  in  Everybody's 

What  shall  thy  lullaby  be,  dear? 
Croonings  of  belted  brown  bees; 
Whispers  of  wind  in  the  trees; 
Oriole's  rune  in  the  hot  midnoon; 
Meadow-lark's   melody,    lyrical,    clear; 
Cooing  of  pigeons  and  lowing  of  cows; 
Shrilling  of  katydids  in  the  green  boughs; 
Ripple  of  brooklet  and1  plash  of  the  rain 
Drowsily,   dreamily   tapping  thy  pane — 
Voice  of  the  forest,  the  hills,  and  the  sea, 
These — all  these — shall  thy  lullaby  be! 

What  shall  thy  lullaby  be,  dear? 
Merciless  passing  of  feet 
Down  in  the  wearisome  street; 
Discord  of  cries  from  the  alleys  that  rise; 
Voices  of  barter  and  anger  and  fear; 
Rumble  of  wagons  along  the  rough  stones; 
Jesting  and   quarreling,  laughter  and   groans; 
Drink-gendered   ravings   and   curses  of  songs- 
Shrieking  of  trolleys  and  clanging  of  gongs — 
Sleep,  if  thou  canst,  in  this  grim  nursery! 
These — all  these — shall   thy  lullaby  be! 


SUNRISE    ON    THE    ALETSCH    GLACIER,    FACING    THE 
WEISSHORN. 

By  Hueti  Ma<_*n;ighten  in  Tiie  Saturday  Review 

Unwitnessed,  at  the  birth  of  every  sun, 

Here,  in  the  mountain  solitudes  sublime, 

Eternal   power  reveals  itself   through   time. 

And  morn  by  morn  the  mighty  works  are  done. 

And  here  to-morrow  on   the  lonely  way 

There  may  be  signs  and  wonders,  and  the  same 

Transfiguration  turn  no  heart  to  flame; 

Ah!    well  for  me  that  I  was  here  today. 

1  stood  above  the  range  of  earthly  care 

And    rested    in    the    sancluary    lone, 

Breathing  the  grace  of  sacramental  air 

From   snowy   courts  around   the  great  white  throne, 

And   in  the  silent  sunrise  unaware 

I  passed  into  the  Presence,  and  have  known. 


FOREST  TO  THE  CITY. 

By  Harold  Child  in  Outing 

Over   desolate,   unfilled   farms. 

The  forest  saplings  creep; 
Until  at  last  their  sturdy  arms 

Above   the  roof-tree   sweep. 
Across   the  bowed   and   crumbling  roof, 

The  clinging  scions  greet. 
In   gloomy,   solemn,   mute   reproof, 

The   city's  teeming  street. 


THE    RAPE    OF    THE    WILDERNESS. 

By  Harold  Child  in  Outing 
With  each  stroke  of  biting  blade, 

On  cypress,   oak  and   pine; 
The  pendulum  of  Destiny, 

Knells  death  to  art  sublime. 


The  epicure   knows   that   an  oyster  should   be  eaten 

as  near  the  oyster  bed  as  possible,  and  that  the  least  pos- 
sible time  should  ensue  between  the  time  the  oyster  is 
"tonged"  to  the  minute  of  consumption.  Moraghan's  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  Market  Is  world-famed  as  the  place 
best  to  secure  the  succulent  bivalve.  The  "chef"  is  pre- 
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Reports  from  the  Orient  indicate  that  Japan  is  still 
actively  engaged  in  the  bottling  industry. 

Another  outfit  has  found  the  wreck  of  the  steamer 
Rio  Janeiro  just  in  time  for  the  Spring  run  of  gud- 
geons. 

"Strong  arm"  thugs  continue  to  find  here  and  there 
citizens  with  money  left  in  their  pockets  after  bein.^ 
held  up  by  the  gas  company. 

"Bridge  whist,"  is  has  been  discovered,  is  a  sover- 
eign remedy  for  hysteria — also  for  that  feeling  of  full- 
ness in  the  region  of  the  pocket-book. 

Congress  has  given  up  trying  to  find  out  "How  old 
is  Ann?'  and  is  busy  ciphering  out  how  many  wives 
Senator  Smoot  has. 


The  saloonmen  of  Reading,  Pa.,  have  yielded  to  a 
powerful  local  prejudice  against  strong  drink  by 
agreeing  to  put  no  more  preserved  cherries  in  their 
cocktails. 


The  latest  musical  composition  of  the  Czar  of  Rus- 
sia is  called  "A  Song  of  Peace."  Permit  the  sug- 
gestions that  it  be  dedicated  to  the  Hague  tribunal 
and  be  played  by  an  orchestra  of  Catling  guns. 

Some  person  who  plumes  himself  on  his  smartness 
has  put  forward  a  certificate  system  to  take  the  place 
of  postage  stamps.  Pretty  soon  there  will  be  noth- 
ing left  for  the  average  citizen  to  lick. 

A  Windy  City  preacher  who  is  said  to  be  both  elo- 
quent and  popular,  predicts  that  before  long  Chicago 
will  be  the  crime  center  of  the  world.  He  forgets  that 
Bretherill  County,  Kentucky,  is  still  on  the  map. 

President  Smith  of  the  Mormon  Church  admits  the 
possession  of  five  wives  and  forty-three  children, 
from  which  we  may  judge  that  Utah's  "infant  indus- 
try" needs  no  tariff  to  foster  it. 

Certain  unscrupulous  individuals  in  New  York 
State  have  upset  the  brewery  almanac  by  putting 
bock  beer  on  the  market  three  weeks  ahead  of  the 
season. 


A  Chicago  bank  has  prohibited  marriage  for  those 
of  its  employees  who  draw  less  than  $1,000  a  year  in 
salary,  and  now  they  are  spelling  it  "matter-o'- 
money"  along  the  lake  shore. 


"Polygamy  was  her  undoing,"  is  the  plaintive  cry 
of  one  woman.  It  maj  be  so.  but  polyandry  i-  a  more 
frequent  cause. 

Viceroy  Alexieff  has  earned,  even  if  lie  has  not  yet 
received,  the  Order  of  the  Twin  Eagles,  lor  profi- 
ciency "ii  the  rapid-tire  typewriter. 

A  local  women's  club  devoted  to  the  cultivation  of 

the  sense  of  humor,  is  going  to  paces  because  too 
many  of  its  members  want  to  be  President  at  the 
same  time. 


The  President  publicly  thanks  Postmaster-General 
Payne  I'm"  catching  and  convicting  four  of  the  minor 
rogues  in  his  department.  Apparently,  Mr.  Roose- 
velt's goddess  of  reform  is  not  star-eyed  but  cross- 
eyed. 

The  President  of  the  New  York  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs,  a  married  lady,  named  Dow,  has 
announced  that  it  is  unsanitary  to  kiss,  the  human  lips 
being  "full  of  germs."  We  suspect  that  Mr.  Dow 
has  contracted  the  clove  habit. 


The  "longest  leased  wire  in  the  world"  is  no  longer 
that  over  which  Hearst  describes  the  popular  clamor 
for  himself  as  President,  but  that  by  means  of  which 
Alexieff  tells  Czar  Nicholas  about  the  rudeness  of 
the  Japanese. 

Shafroth  of  Colorado  ousted  himself  from  a  seat  in 
Congress,  and  now  he  gallantly  declares  that  it  was 
not  the  women  of  his  district,  but  a  bunch  of  wicked 
males  who  hocussed  the  voting  in  his  favor.  Shaf- 
roth is  not  quite  too  good  to  live. 

An  austere  Board  of  Education  has  interdicted 
dancing  among  the  high  school  girls  of  Little  Falls, 
N.  Y.,  because  some  of  them  kicked  too  high.  Upon 
reflection  we  must  admit  that  elevation  is  better  for 
the  mind  than  for  the  toes. 


Caliente,  Nev.,  rejoicing  in  the  fact  that  it  is  the 
temporary  terminus  of  Senator  Clark's  Salt  Lake 
railroad,  lays  claims  to  distinction  as  the  worst  town 
on  earth.  People  who  have  been  there  recall  the 
quality  of  its  meals  and  say  "Amen !" 

The  Russian  cavalry  is  in  need  of  grass.  Such  is 
the  sage  information  detailed  to  us.  Horses  are  not 
usually  in  want  of  grass.  Tin  cans  or  old  shoes 
serve  their  purpose  admirably.  The  Russian  ships  are 
in  need  of  steam  would  be  equally  true.  It  would 
not  apply,  however,  to  the  Examiner  staff. 


There  is  no  end  to  the  accomplishments  of  the 
Roosevelt  family.  Mrs.  Roosevelt  now  appears  as  a 
nurse,  while  the  manifold  accomplishments  of  her 
distinguished  husband  are  too  well-known  to  need 
further  cataloging.  When  the  children  grow  up  the 
family  can  enter  upon  a  career  of  general  supervision 
of  social  and  political  matters. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


SLOW  JUSTICE. 
It  is  a  shameful  fact  to  record,  but  it  is  true,  that 
San  Francisco  has  had  more  than  one  hundred  homi- 
cides since  any  one  has  been  hanged  for  a  murder 
done  in  this  city  and  county- — a  condition  of  affairs 
that  speaks  ill  for  our  past  and  augurs  ill  for  our 
future.  The  fault  is  not  hard  to  find ;  it  is  no  great 
task  to  lay  the  blame  where  it  belongs.  Upon  the 
bench  of  the  inferior  courts  are,  for  a  great  part,  men 
notoriously  amenable  to  the  secret  sinister  influence 
of  the  gang  which  exists  by  cheating  justice  of  her 
due;  at  the  tables  of  the  prosecutors  are  men  of  no 
ability  or  of  especial  skill  in  the  deliberate  bungling 
of  pleadings  in  the  interests  of  malefactors  with 
money  or  "pull ;"  at  the  desks  where  records  are  kept 
and  where  the  summoning  of  jurors  is  conducted 
are  still  other  rogues  well  trained  in  the  art  of  mak- 
ing trial  by  jury  a  farce.  Beyond  all  this  array  of 
cunning  crookedness  is  a  system  of  appeals,  of  stays 
and  of  delays  on  technicalities  that  makes  the  impos- 
ing and  execution  of  the  law's  ultimate  penalty  the 
rare  exceptions.  The  red-handed  murderer,  con- 
victed in  spite  of  "fixed"  juries,  complaisant  judges 
and  carefully  careless  prosecutors,  is  yet  in  no  pres- 
ent peril  of  the  rope.  There  is  left  for  him  all  the 
labyrinth  of  the  Supreme  Court  with  its  myriad  pos- 
sibilities of  escape  from  the  death  penalty  and  its 
certain  assurance  of  delays  in  year-long  installments. 
The  course  of  statute-making  and  code-revising  holds 
out  no  promise  of  a  surer  and  speedier  execution  of 
judgment  in  capital  cases.  Indeed,  the  trend  of 
legislation  appears  to  be  more  and  more  toward  the 
relegation  of  those  laws  which  provide  the  death 
penalty  to  the  dead-letter  section  of  the  statute 
books.  Session  by  session  the  Legislature  goes  on 
putting  new  stumbling  blocks  in  the  road  to  the  gal- 
lows, and  a  Supreme  Court  whose  specialty  is  re- 
versing its  own  decisions,  goes  on  making  it  more  and 
more  difficult  to  draw  the  noose  and  spring  the  trap. 
The  endless  delay  which  our  laws  and  our  courts 
afford  to  the  least  influential  murderer  operates  to 
deprive  capital  punishment  of  the  essential  element 
of  its  effect.  The  hanging  of  a  murderer  two  or 
three  years  after  his  crime  is  of  little  value  as  a 
deterrent.  Capital  punishment  so  long  deferred  be- 
comes merely  the  enforcement  of  the  "lex  talionis," 
the  exaction  of  a  life  for  a  life,  and  that  is  precisely 
what  our  theory  of  the  death  penalty  does  not  contem- 
plate. Practically,  as  well  as  theoretically,  the  gal- 
lows should  be  not  a  means  for  the  permanent  re- 
moval from  society  of  a  man  proved  to  be  a  men- 
ace of  the  lives  of  his  fellows,  but  a  place  for  the 
exhibition  of  a  powerful  deterring  influence,  a  grim 
warning  to  the  shedder  of  human  blood,  a  publication 
of  notice  that  there  is  no  room  in  our  civilization  for 
men  who  lay  violent  hands  upon  their  kind.  But,  in 
fact,  so  long  a  time  elapses  between  crime  and  punish- 
ment in  those  rare  instances  where  Justice  claims 
and  is  awarded  its  own  that  the  public  is  not  able  to 
recall  with  definiteness  for  what  cause  the  hangman 
performs  his  function.  We  doubt  seriously  whether 
it  would  not  be  better  to  quit  hanging  than  to  hang 
so  long  after  the  deed.  Some  things  we  may  well 
learn  from  the  English,  and  among  them  is  how 
to  deal  with  murderers,  robbers,  burglars,  footpads, 
and  the  like,  so  as  to  put  a  check  upon  the  more 
serious  crimes  against  the  person.  The  noose  must 
be  swifter  and  more  certain.  The  prisons  for  felons 
must  be  less  pleasant  places  of  abode.  California's 
record  of  unpunished  crime  is  too  red  to  be  of  value 
as  an  advertisement  of  the  State. 


FAKE  BUSINESS  METHODS. 
A  great  boom  is  noticed  in  business  of  an  illegiti- 
mate kind,  with  the  furniture  trade  of  San  Francisco 
as  the  present  field  of  operation.  Honest  enterprise 
we  always  hasten  to  commend,  and  keen  competi- 
tion among  merchants  we  regard  as  a  sign  of  commer- 
cial health,  as  long  as  it  does  not  lead  to  misrepresen- 
tation and  "faking."  But  there  is  so  much  palpable 
fake  about  the  methods  of  certain  of  the  furniture 
houses  that  have  lately  sprung  into  prominence  here 
that  we  are  bound  to  call  it  to  public  attention.  The 
worst  offender  calls  itself  the  "Grand  Rapids  Furni- 
ture Company,"  and  does  business  on  Market  street. 
Its  modus  operandi  is  that  of  a  curbstone  faker  or 
a  fly-by-night  bogus  jewelry  concern.  With  columns 
and  pages  of  newspaper  advertising  that  must  cost 
it  thousands  of  dollars  a  week,  it  is  pushing  the  sale 
of  furniture,  the  cheapest,  flimsiest  and  shoddiest 
ever  put  on  the  market- 
Its  latest  trap  for  the  unwary  is  an  offer  to  give 
away  among  its  dupes  a  house  and  lot  "guaranteed" 
to  cost  the  concern  $5,500.  Any  business  man  knows 
it  is  not  likely  to  do  so ;  that  the  house  and  lot,  if  it 
exists,  probably  cost  no  such  sum,  and,  further, 
that  when  it  comes  to  the  award,  it  is  possible  for 
the  "Grand  Rapids  Furniture  Company"  to  take  good 
care  to  arrange  that  detail  so  that  the  prize  will  fall 
where  it  desires,  and  that  would  be  either  into  the 
hands  of  somebody  closely  related  to  its  management 
or  somebody  to  whom  it  owes  money. 

A  campaign  of  this  kind  is  highly  detrimental  to 
the  city  and  to  its  legitimate  business  interests,  filling 
the  homes  of  poor  people  with  trash  that  will  be  fit 
only  for  kindling  wood  in  a  year  or  two,  and  driving 
honest  dealers  and  honest  goods  out  of  the  market. 

There  are  others  than  the  "Grand  Rapids"  people 
in  the  furniture-faking  business,  but  it  is  the  most 
conspicuous  just  now  by  reason  of  its  loudness  and 
boldness.  Its  house  lottery  scheme  is  the  limit  of 
illegitimate  business  methods,  perilously  near  the  line 
of  downright  fraud. 

A  PAST  MASTER  OF  HYPOCRISY. 

In  his  favorite  role  of  "the  friend  of  organized 
labor,"  Hearst's  hypocrisy  is  at  its  rankest.  God,  or 
whoever  it  was  that  made  this  apology  for  a  man, 
built  him  with  a  double  face  and  a  forked  tongue  and 
a  mind  incapable  of  straightforwardness.  He  might, 
possibly,  be  honest  if  he  tried,  but  if  that  be  so  then 
he  has  never  tried.  The  pinnacle  of  his  turpitude  is 
scaled  when,  for  his  own  vulgar  ambition's  sake  he 
sets  himself  up  as  the  best  friend  and  advocate  of 
the  labor  unionists.  The  men  who  work  for  him  in 
organized  trades  are  the  best  witnesses  of  his 
knavery  in  this  respect,  but  their  testimony  would 
cost  them  their  jobs,  wherefore  they  are  naturally 
silent.  But  the  case  against  him  can  be  made  out 
otherwise. 

Here  is  an  example  of  Hearst's  "friendship"  for 
union  labor :  A  few  weeks  ago  he  was  brought  face 
to  face  with  an  ultimatum  from  the  union  of  photo- 
engravers,  the  climax  and  culmination  of  months 
spent  by  this  organization  in  trying  to  make  him  live 
up  to  his  agreement  with  it  as  to  the  use  of  the  plates 
or  matrices  sent  to  his  San  Francisco  paper  from 
his  New  York  paper.  The  contention  of  the  engrav- 
ers, pressed  home  to  Hearst  here  and  in  Los  Angeles, 
was  that  he  could  not  fairly  make  zinc  plates  of  il- 
lustrations in  one  of  his  establishments  and  repro- 
duce them   in  his  six  other  papers  without  paying 


March  12,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


for  them  as  if  they  were  etched  anew  for  each  paper. 
He  had  long  before  recognized  this     principli 

dealing  with  the  printers'  union  concerning  "plate 
matter,"  furnished  by  advertisers,  and  had  ah 
mitted  it  in  his  negotiations  with  the  etchers. 
at  last,  seeing  that  to  live  up  t.i  his  engagements 
would  cost  him  many  thousands  of  dollars  everj 
year,  he  coolly  repudiated  the  etchers.  He  would 
not  have  dared  to  defy  his  printers,  pressmen  or 
stereotypers,  whose  organizations  are  closely  allied. 
but  he  knew  that  the  etchers'  union  was  not  affiliated 
with  the  other  unionized  newspaper  workers,  and  he 
could  see  no  danger  in  flouting  them,  feeling  certain 
that  they  were  too  weak  to  injure  him.  As  to  possi- 
ble publicity,  he  relied,  as  he  had  often  done  before, 
on  his  secret  understanding  with  the  mis-leaders  of 
labor  here  and  elsewhere,  to  "break"  any  complaint 
the  engravers  might  make,  and  keep  it  from  going  be- 
fore any  of  the  central  councils. 

Thus  secured  by  his  own  strength  and  the  union's 
weakness,  Hearst  virtually  told  the  etchers  to  "strike 
and  be  d d."  They  struck.  A  "scab"  crew  pre- 
pared the  illustrations  in  the  Examiner  office  that 
night  and  for  several  nights.  Whether  the  matter 
has  been  adjusted  we  cannot  say,  but  it  is  safe  to 
assert  that  the  union  did  not  get  what  it  asked. 

Here  is  another  case :  A  year  or  so  ago  an  effort 
was  made  to  unionize  the  newspaper  reporters  of 
San  Francisco.  It  was  an  ill-advised  attempt  to  ac- 
complish the  impossible,  and  the  union  died  in  early- 
infancy.  Other  newspapers  were  wise  enough  to 
foresee  this  outcome  and  did  not  concern  themselves 
about  the  movement.  Hearst  hunted  down  the  men 
in  the  Examiner  office  who  had  been  active  in  advan- 
cing the  ill-starred  union  and  discharged  them  all — 
not  for  the  effort  to  unionize,  but  on  this  or  that  thin 
pretext. 

It  is  knowledge  of  these  matters  and  of  many  more 
like  them  that  makes  the  rank  and  file  of  organized 
labor  weary  when  they  read  such  pronunciamentos 
as  Hearst  published  in  Sunday's  Examiner,  describ- 
ing his  own  part  in  forwarding  the  cause  of  the  work- 
ingmen  with  all  the  power  of  his  purse  and  his 
papers.  The  truth  is  that  Hearst  has  long  been  ex- 
ploiting organized  labor  for  his  own  selfish  end — 
the  end  of  electing  himself  to  the  Presidency  of  the 
United  States.  Organized  labor  will  do  well  if  it 
pray  to  be  delivered  from  such  "friendship,"  prefer- 
ring the  enmity  of  its  avowed  foes  to  the  double- 
dealing,   self-seeking  hypocrite  Hearst. 


THE  SUPREME  COURT  OF  HAWAII. 

Judge  Henry  E.  Highton,  formerly  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, is  being  spoken  of  as  a  candidate  for  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  territory  of  Hawaii.  It  was 
thought  at  the  time  of  Judge  Highton's  departure 
from  San  Francisco  that  it  would  not  be  a  long  time 
before  the  qualities  that  have  made  him  so  fayorably 
known  as  a  jurist  would  bring  him  in  the  public  eye 
in  Honolulu. 

Mr.  Highton's  change  of  residence  was  caused  by 
the  fact  that  his  wife  was  for  a  number  of  years  an 
invalid,  and  her  physicians  counseled  a  change  of 
climate.  It  will  be  pleasing  to  her  friends  to  know 
that  her  health  has  been  completely  restored,  and 
that  owing  to  this  fact  she  is  endeared  to  the  Ha- 
waiian climate  and  people.  Judge  Highton's  name 
is  closely  interwoven  in  the  history  of  California,  lie 
is  a  life  member  of  the  Society  of  California  Pio- 
neers, and  has  frequently  been  a  vice-president  of 
that  institution.    He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  i860 


in  California.  Judge  Highton  in  his  4.'  year-'  career 
in  law  in  California  has  handled  nearly"  4,000  cases, 
and  these  were  nearly  all  in  admiralt'v.  real  estate 
and  commercial  law.  His  remarkable  success  is 
shown  in  the  settlement  and  trying  of  about  2.S0O 
He  has  had  three  or  four  hundn  in  his 

office  for  years.  He  has  tried  15  or  10  murder  cases 
of  exceptional  character,  such  as  the  Kalloch  case, 
the  Harlan,  Gilmore  and  Taylor  cases,  and  the  Pear- 
son case  of  (tab.  Merely' representative  of  great 
may  be  mentioned  the  Hopkins  Estate  case 
(estate  $33,000,000),  Cox  vs.  McLaughlin,  Cole  vs. 
Bacon,  Confiscation  cases,  Passenger  cases,  Public 
School  cases.  Blythe  case. 

Mr.  Highton  has  earned  the  unique  distinction, 
among  public  men,  of  never  having  traveled  on  a 
pass,  nor  has  he  ever  accepted  a  complimentary 
ticket  to  a  place  of  entertainment.  We  doubt  if 
there  be  any  man  of  like  standing,  exposed  to  the 
same  blandishments  and  temptations,  who  can  make 
the  same  claim.  Judge  Highton  will  probably  be 
nominated  to  fill  the  place  now  occupied  by  Judge 
Galbraith,  a  Democrat,  who  was  appointed  by  Prei- 
dent  McKinley,  and  whose  term  expires  on  June 
5th  of  this  year.  It  is  seldom  the  News  Letter  has 
the  pleasure  of  endorsing  the  candidacy  for  public 
office  of  so  worthy  a  gentleman. 

POSTAL  NECESSITIES  OF  A  METROPOLIS. 

Some  time  ago  the  News  Letter  urged  that  the 
officials  in  Washington  increase  the  force  of  carriers 
at  the  San  Francisco  office.  There  are  indications 
that  this  suggestion  is  to  bear  fruit.  Thirty-one  new 
carriers  are  to  be  appointed.  The  force  of  mail  car- 
riers is  one  of  the  best  in  the  country,  and  indeed 
it  may  be  said  that  the  entire  clerical  help  at  this 
point  is  one  of  the  best  that  has  been  obtained  by  the 
public  service  anywhere.  It  transpires  that  the  im- 
mense growth  of  the  city  has  not  been  taken  into  con- 
sideration by  the  Government  at  Washington,  and 
that  every  branch  of  work  in  the  local  office  is 
crowded  with  work  and  an  increase  in  help  is  wanted 
throughout.  Competent  statisticians  say  that  the 
population  of  San  Francisco  is  425,000.  "In  1901," 
says  the  Postmaster,  "there  were  delivered  daily 
145,000  pieces  of  first-class  mail,  mostly  letters,  In 
1903  the  average  ran  up  to  199,000  pieces.  The  vol- 
ume of  mail  to  be  delivered  has  increased  30  per  cent 
during  the  past  three  years. 

CARBON  MONOXIDE  AGAIN. 

Again,  the  deadly  nature  of  the  gas  furnished  by 
the  local  monopoly  has  been  given  a  tragic  signifi- 
cance. Mrs.  Julia  Crawford  was  killed  on  March 
4th  by  the  gas  escaping  from  a  small  tube  connecting 
a  cook  stove  with  the  fixtures.  She  is  only  one  among 
a  thousand  victims,  and  as  she  was  alone  in  the  world 
there  will  be  no  fuss  made  over  her  untimely  taking 
off. 


Colored  men  in  Springfield  do  not  mean  to  be 
lynched  without  some  sort  of  compensation,  and 
property  owners  are  afraid  of  fire.  That  is  the  worst 
of  lynching — it  provokes  the  feeling  that  if  one  is  to 
be  lynched,  the  operation  should  be  made  worth 
while. 


What  on  earth  do  the  Russians  want  to  trouble 
about  neutral  ports  for.  They  will  soon  have  no  navy 
to  put  into  any  port,  neutral  or  otherwise. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


OUR  FRAUDULENT  CHARITIES. 

There  can  be  nothing  more  absolutely  contempt- 
ible than  battening  upon  the  miseries  of  others.  Mak- 
ing capital  out  of  the  afflictions  of  the  miserable  has 
always  been  accounted  one  of  the  deadly  sins,  and 
rack-renting  landlords  and  sweaters  have  always 
come  in  for  a  particularly  bitter  dose  of  invective 
and  insult  at  the  hands  of  moral  reformers.  But  what 
are  we  to  say  of  those  who  make  money  under  the 
name  of  charity  itself,  and  to  the  sin  of  oppression 
of  the  poor  add  the,  at  least,  equally  vile  one  of 
hypocrisy? 

We  are  by  no  means  free  from  such  people  in  this 
little  city  of  ours,  where  as  a  rule  we  are  clear  of 
dire  poverty  and  the  slum  misery  of  the  great  centers 
is  mercifully  so  far  spared  us.  Still  even  in  our  com- 
paratively happy  condition  there  are  those  to  be  found 
who  find  the  misery  of  a  city  like  this  sufficient  to 
provide  them  with  a  means  of  subsistence,  at  least, 
and  an  opportunity  for  systematically  and  unceasing- 
ly victimizing  the  public.  Some  of  these  institutions 
are  small  and  of  little  account ;  others  are  more  am- 
bitious, and  collect  comparatively  large  sums  of 
money. 

Following  the  Salvation  Army,  concerning  whose 
administration  of  the  funds  submitted  to  its  care,  but 
little  criticism  can,  on  the  whole,  be  made,  arose  a 
whole  batch  of  minor  societies,  among  which  one 
calling  itself  "The  Army  of  Heaven"  was  for  a  long 
time  conspicuous.  This  band,  taking  for  its  motto 
the  statement  of  our  Lord  with  regard  to  the  prox- 
imity of  a  celestial  kingdom,  employed  the  interval 
in  soliciting  alms  from  the  well-to-do,  ostensibly  for 
the  purpose  of  assisting  the  afflicted.  These  funds, 
however,  for  the  most  part  were  applied  to  purposes 
of  organization,  otherwise  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
officials. 

Other  societies  which  are  not  so  conspicuously  self- 
seeking  as  this  are  still  liable  to  suspicion,  owing  to 
the  defective  system  of  book-keeping  which  they  use, 
and  which  if  not  actually  fraudulent  at  all  events 
gives  rise  to  suspicions  in  the  minds  of  the  discreet 
which  ought  not  to  be  raised  by  any  charitable  or 
so-called  charitable  institution.  An  accurate  and 
complete  account  of  the  moneys  received  and  the 
ways  in  which  they  have  been  expended  is  an  abso- 
lute necessity,  and  the  Endorsement  Committee  of 
the  Associated  Charities  was  instituted  for  the  pur- 
pose of  assuring  the  public  in  this  matter.  Unless  this 
committee  will  guarantee  the  society  it  is  very  well 
worth  the  while  of  the  charitable  to  satisfy  themselves 
at  least  before  they  adventure  any  benevolence 
which  involves  pecuniary  outlay. 

There  are  actually  societies  which  contribute  more 
harm  than  good  to  the  community,  and  which  yet 
appeal  to  the  public  for  funds,  of  the  distribution  of 
which  no  actual  account  is  rendered.  What  shall  be 
said  of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Vice?  Here 
is  an  institution  with  a  sufficiently  imposing  title 
which  might  be  expected  to  do  police  work  of  such  a 
nature  that  those  who  are  subjected  to  the  tempta- 
tions and  snares  of  which  a  city  is  always  full  might 
find  some  assistance.  It  must  also  be  noticed  that 
the  opportunities  possessed  by  such  a  society  for 
illegitimate  and  immoral  purposes  is  almost  unlim- 
ited. Such  a  society  should  be  actually  above  sus- 
picion, and  its  accounts  should  be  open  to  the  closest 
possible  investigation.  What  do  we  find,  however? 
It  is  in  the  hands  of  a  man  who  is  so  little  to  be 
trusted  that  the  Police  Department  have  found  it 
necessary  to  take  from  him  the  star  with  which  he 
was  formerly  entrusted  upon  the  grounds  that  he  is 


not    worthy    to   carry    it,   a   man,    moreover,   against 
whom  proceedings  have  several  times  been  taken. 

A  long  and  not  altogether  useless  article  might  be 
made  on  the  minor  and  hole-in-the-corner  institutions 
which  prey  on  the  indigent  and  rob  the  miserable  and 
the  charitable  alike,  but  it  would  serve  no  particu- 
larly useful  purpose.  The  public  should  be  on  its 
guard  against  such  unworthy  frauds,  and  by  cutting 
off  the  money  supply  would  soon  render  their  exis- 
tence impossible. 


THE  PULEX  CALIFORNIENSIS. 

Some  Eastern  tenderfoot,  temporarily  resident  in 
Riverside,  writes  to  Leslie's  Weekly  and  complains 
of  that  innocent  little  creature,  the  flea.  In  the  first 
place  the  complainant  in  the  case  is  a  1 — gentleman. 
He  has  a  habit  of  neglecting  speaking  acquaintance 
with  the  truth.  Fleas  are  in  no  wise  as  plentiful  as 
he  depicts,  and  they  certainly  are  not  so  vicious.  If 
this  exotic  from  the  snow-clad  hills  of  the  East  pre- 
fers blizzards,  floods,  torrid  heat,  frozen  thermome- 
ters and  all  the  allied  disagreeables  of  his  native 
State  to  fleas,  why  does  he  not  return  to  that  delight- 
ful land?  For  his  benefit  and  the  benefit  of  others, 
let  it  be  known  to  the  uninitiated  that  the  California 
flea  is  an  institution  originally  inaugurated  for  the 
benefit  of  mankind.  The  Pulex  Irritans  is  nature's 
cure  for  lassitude  in  lazy  latitudes.  He  thrives  best 
on  red  plush  chairs  and  sofas,  and  is  responsible 
for  the  strenuous  life  led  by  some  Californians  south 
of  the  Tehachapi.  Notable  cases  are  Harrison  Gray 
Otis  and  Charles  Lummis.  It  is  said  that  these  two 
gentlemen  are  so  afflicted  by  this  vermin  that  their 
frantic  endeavors  to  fasten  their  troubles  on  other 
people  are  many  times  taken  for  manifestations  of 
mental  power.  A  close  microscopic  examination  of 
the  subjects  has  been  made  by  experts  and  the  trou- 
ble has  been  pronounced  fleas.  From  these  radiating 
centers  of  activity  in  the  Angel  City,  colony  after 
colony  of  insects  have  strayed.  The  Lummis  variety 
has  invaded  Arizona,  and  is  chiefly  prevalent  among 
the  Indians  where  their  progenitor,  Lummis,  has 
had  a  rubbing  acquaintance.  The  Otis  variety  is 
found  chiefly  in  Los  Angeles,  and  it  has  never  wan- 
dered far  from  its  native  heath,  although  it  is  on 
record  that  it  once  caused  the  Harrison  Gray  variety 
to  jump  the  Rubicon. 

Do  not  confound  the  Pulex  Irritans  with  the  Com- 
mon Louse.  The  latter  is  a  more  dignified  and  re- 
spectable member  of  the  insect  race. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  winilow'g  Soothing 

Syrup"  tor  your  children  while  teething. 


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There  is  a  reason  why  our  clothes  are  so  decidedly  different  from 
others.  It  is  the  experience,  merit  ano  exdusiveness  that,  our 
fabrics,  patterns  and  fashions  contain.  The  sculptor's  chisel  could 
not  give  the  effect  in  the  appearance  of  our  spring  and  summer 
models.    (This  is  the  Home  for  Correct  Dressers.) 


March  It,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


University   Gossip 


Bv    tt-i*    V  ',a*rtir«i<l,in  i» 


The  Faculty  "Chapparal,"  tlic  combined  produc- 
tion of  President  David  Starr  Ionian  and  Professors 
Kellogg,  Allien.  Smith.  Newcomer,  Clark,  \ngell. 
Elliot  ami  Snodgrass,  has  appeared  at  last,  three 
weeks  behind  time,  but  thoroughly  up-to-date  in  other 
particulars.  This  is  the  first  instance  in  the  history 
of  the  University  that  the  faculty  has  been  permitted 
to  lay  its  profane  hands  on  the  Stanford  comic  bi- 
weekly, except  in  the  guise  of  censor;  and  it  has 
proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  present  evacuant 
that  it  is  impossible  to  get  out  a  comic  paper  without 
knocking.  Even  the  faculty  knocks!  It  fairly  ham- 
mers in  a  few  cases,  taking  for  its  legitimate  mark 
the  defenseless  head  of  the  student  ;  but  it  has  padded 
the  hammer  or  the  cranium  of  its  victim,  and  does 
not  strike  hard.  Still,  it  seizes  its  golden  opportunity 
to  show  up  rhythmically  and  otherwise  the  chronic 
grafter,  the  men  who  wear  sweaters  to  class,  the  girl 
who  works  her  prof.,  the  inveterate  college  tattle- 
tale,  the  man  who  woos  in  public,  and  the  flunked- 
out  boaster.  The  art  w-ork  is  decidedly  "en  carica- 
ture." Professor  Snodgrass  has  missed  his  calling. 
and  should  apply  for  a  job  on  Puck.  A  bit  of  deco- 
rative work  is  supplied  by  Mary  Wellman,  a  profes- 
sional artist.  A  good  deal  of  verse,  fully  up  to  the 
standard  set  by  the  undergraduate  (  !)  is  in  evidence, 
and  even  the  much  scorned  pun  is  pressed  into  ser- 
vice. 

The  first  editorial,  presumably  by  Dr.  Jordan,  is  in 
the  nature  of  a  lament,  which  ends:  "Better  take  a 
straight  tip  from  the  old  fellows  who  remember  pretty 
keenly  what  they  let  slip  at  twenty,  and  get  both 
hands  into  the  present  grab-bag."  The  last  pays  a 
tribute  of  fellowship  to  the  undergraduate  editor,  Ike 
Russell,  on  the  plea  that  "the.  touch  of  nature  covers 
a  multitude  of  sins."  The  edition  is  thoroughly  col- 
lege in  flavor;  the  majority  of  the  jokes  and  hits  are 
local,  but  as  such  are  bristling  with  brilliancy.  Now 
that  it  is  over,  the  undergraduate  dares  breathe 
freely,  and  is  thanking  his  happy  stars  that  it  is  no 
worse  than  it  is.  Dr.  Jordan,  meanwhile,  is  on  the 
broad  grin,  feeling  that  he  has  proved  himself  a  boy 

again. 

*  *  * 

The  festive  automobilist,  who  daily  grows  legion, 
is  registering  a  kick  against  Stanford,  in  that  he  is 
not  allowed  to  propel  his  gasoline  engine  along  any 
of  the  University  roads.  Politely  worded  signs 
placed  at  the  main  gateways  inform  him  of  Mrs.  Stan- 
ford's request  that  automobiles  keep  off  the  campus. 
This  means  that  the  modern  tourist  must  dismount 
from  his  chariot  at  the  outer  gate  and  trust  himself 
and  his  party  to  the  mercy  of  horseflesh  and  'busmen, 
if  he  would  see  the  sights  inside ;  and  he  complains 
that  it  causes  him  extreme  annoyance  and  inconven- 
ience— hence  the  kick. 

*  *  * 

The  Stanford  English  Club,  that  gained  distinction 
last  year  by  its  excellent  presentation  of  "The  Knight 
of  the  Burning  Pestle,"  is  on  the  point  of  publishing 
a  small  volume  containing  "Traditions  of  the  Uni- 
versity." The  traditions  are  in  the  form  of  papers 
written  by  professors  and  old  graduates  concerning 
former  "doings,"  and  the  manner  in  which  the  uni- 
versity has  been  built  up  in  its  fourteen  years  of  exis- 
tence. 

*  *  * 

The  absent-minded  beggar,  famed  in  his  own  class, 


has  been  outdone  by  a  Berkeley  professor.  The  lat- 
iftcr  preparing  an  experiment  in  one  of  the 
laboratories,  in  which  dangerous  chemicals  were 
employed,  with  a  time  limit  to  their  fusion,  forgot 
all  about  it,  and  escorted  his  wife  to  a  theatre  in  town. 
Some  mention  by  one  of  the  actors  of  "combustible 
materials"  made  him  suddenly  remember  the  things 
he  had  placed  under  glass,  lie  hurriedly  left  the  show 
and  took  the  next  Terry  for  Berkeley.  He  arrived 
at  the  laboratory  about  ten-thirty,  only  to  find  that 
a  student  working  there  had  prevented  the  combus- 
tion. 

"I  was  at  the  theatre  when  I  thought  of  it,"  ex- 
plained the  professor,  mopping  his  brow. 

"Were  you  alone?"  asked  the  student,  innocently. 

"By  Jove,  no!  I  was  with  my  wife,  and  I've  left 
her  over  there  I" 

Fortunately,  the  woman  in  the  case  was  possessed 
of  common  horse  sense,  and  made  her  way  home  un- 
protected. 

*  *  * 

One  of  Stanford's  faculty  jokes  that  may  bear  repe- 
tition, is  supposed  to  be  culled  from  an  examination 
paper : 

Question — What  is  the  office  of  the  gastric  fluid  ? 

Answer — The  stomach. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


3>>e     Minister    of    Foreig'n    Affairs 


Events  in  the  Far  East  the 
A  Few  Solid  Facts,  past  week  have  not  been 
at  all  dwarfed  in  import- 
ance by  events  in  our  own  hemisphere,  but  the  latter 
should  interest  more  for  the  moment.  As  predicted 
by  the  News  Letter  when  American  warships  were 
ordered  to  San  Domingo  to  ostensibly  prevent  the 
revolutionists  from  destroying  the  property  and  en- 
dangering the  lives  of  foreign  residents  on  that  part 
of  the  island,  but  in  reality  to  find  an  excuse  to  gather 
the  little  republic  into  our  family  of  colonies  and  de- 
pendencies, the  work  of  assimilation  has  reached  the 
point  of  determination  to  do  it.  Word  as  near  offi- 
cial as  need  be  comes  from  Washington  that  the  ad- 
ministration has  decided  that  the  only  way  to  insure 
peace  and  protection  to  the  white  man's  interests  in 
San  Domingo  is  for  President  Roosevelt  to  assume 
a  protectorate  right  and  hereafter  have  the  concerns 
of  that  country  supervised  by  this  Government,  and 
that  such  a  step  will  be  taken  in  the  very  near  future. 
The  two  republics  of  Hayti  and  San  Domingo  are 
divided  by  an  imaginary  line,  and  the  former  is  as 
prone  to  indulge  in  political  revolutions  as  the  latter. 
Consequently,  sooner  or  later,  the  protectorate  would 
have  to  be  extended  over  Hayti,  too,  and  in  any  event 
a  protectorate  would  simply  be  the  first  step  towards 
annexation,  which  would  soon  be  consummated. 
When  these  two  republics  are  rounded  up  we  shall 
have  an  addition  to  our  negro  population  of  about 
1,500,000.  This,  together  with  our  home  negro  popu- 
lation and  our  colonial  human  acquirements,  will  give 
the  United  States  fully  25,000,000  of  people  who  are 
not  even  remotely  connected  with  the  white  race, 
and  whose  habits,  customs  and  ideals  are  antago- 
nistic to  the  white  man's  progressive  spirit  and  labor 
for  a  higher  and  a  still  higher  civilization.  And 
these  blacks  and  browns  and  yellows  in  our  national 
life  constitute  a  problem  whose  solution  will  have 
to  be  faced  sooner  or  later.  In  this  connection  it 
may  be  intimated  at  least  that  the  proposed  San 
Domingo  protectorate,  the  disruption  of  the  Colom- 
bian republic  by  the  secession  of  Panama  under  the 
secret  direction  of  the  Washington  Government,  the 
"identical  note"  to  the  powers  that  the  Russo-Japan- 
ese war  must  be  confined  to  the  territory  of  Korea 
and  Manchuria,  and  that  in  no  event  must  either  of 
the  belligerants  trespass  upon  Chinese  territory,  and 
the  American-Chinese  treaty  of  commerce  by  which 
this  nation  could  establish  consulates  in  Manchuria, 
Russia  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding,  were  all  the 
product  of  the  brains  of  the  British  cabinet,  but  exe- 
cuted by  our  State  Department.  Also  did  three  of 
England's  ablest  statesmen  find  it  "convenient"  to  be 
in  Paris  during  the  framing  of  the  Spanish-American 
peace  treaty,  and  it  was  they  who  furnished  the  "af- 
terthought" of  the  Washington  Government  to  de- 
mand the  cession  of  the  Philippines,  and,  too,  it  was 
the  British  Premier,  George  Canning,  who  framed 
and  put  into  about  twenty-five  words  the  now  famous 
Munroe  Doctrine,  and  sent  it  to  President  Munroe 
with  a  diplomatic  suggestion  that  such  declaration 
would  be  a  good  thing  for  the  United  States  to  make. 
President  Munroe  and  his  cabinet  quickly  saw  the 
point,  and  in  his  next  message  to  Congress,  which 
was  in  December  1823,  the  "Munroe  Doctrine"  was 
declared  to  be  a  principle  of  this  nation,  but  we  have 
lost  sight  of  the  other  part  of  the  declaration,  which 
was  that  while  not  permitting  foreign  nations  to  get 


a  foothold  in  any  of  the  American  Latin  States,,  the 
United  States  would  not  interfere  with  the  affairs  of 
Europe.  The  United  States  are  up  to  their  eyes  in 
the  affairs  of  Europe  and  Asia,  and  are  playing  the 
biggest  horn  in  the  "concert  of  nations."  All  this 
is  no  reflection  upon  the  statesmanship  of  the  Wash- 
ington Government,  but  it  shows  that  our  rulers  are 
open  to  British  suggestions. 

Apparently     the     Japanese    have 

Events  in  made  but  little  progress  the  past 

Eastern  Asia.       week,  but  it  is  possible  that  they 

have  made  a  great  deal.  The  navy 
is  bobbing  around  between  Port  Arthur  and  Vladi- 
yostock  and  striking  severe  blows,  but  neither  of 
those  strongholds  have  been  forced  to  capitulate, 
though  it  is  apparent  that  both  will  fall  sooner  or 
later.  The  Russian  fleet  at  Port  Arthur  is  reduced 
to  three  ships,  and  only  one  of  them  is  a  first  class 
vessel.  The  Vladivostock  squadron  is  not  more  than 
four  or  five  ships,  and  they  of  the.  cruiser  standard  ; 
besides,  three  of  them  are  at  sea,  with  three  Japanese 
battleships,  three  cruisers  and  four  torpedo  boats 
in  possession  of  their  route  of  return  to  the  Vladi- 
vostock harbor.  But  the  strategy  of  the  Japanese  is 
so  mysterious  and  secretly  kept  that  military  experts 
are  merely  guessing,  and  thus  far  the  unexpected  has 
happened.  Never  before  in  modern  times  was  there 
a  war  that  furnished  newspaper  correspondents  so 
little  real  news.  The  Russians  are  quite  willing  to 
have  all  kinds  of  misleading  and  untruthful  items 
of  current  happenings  sent  out,  but  the  Japanese  do 
.  not  even  do  that  much.  The  entire  Japanese  people 
seem  to  have  resolved  themselves  into  one  great  fam- 
ily, with  each  member  pledged  to  guard  and  keep 
everything  concerning  the  progress  of  the  war  as 
a  sacred  family  secret.  However,  events  show  that 
the  Russian  tactics  are  to  avoid  a  land  engagement 
until  their  numerical  force  is  two  or  three  i.imes 
greater  than  Japan's,  but  this  the  Japanese  understand 
very  well,  and  they  are  rushing  toward  the  Yalu 
River  to  strike  before  the  enemy  is  fully  concentrated, 
but  their  march  has  been  impeded  by  severe  snow 
storms.  Faith  in  Japan's  ability  to  cross  the  Yalu  and 
strike  a  crushing  blow  is  growing  stronger  in  military 
circles  everywhere,  but  the  fact  remains  that  Russia 
can  send  two  soldiers  to  Manchuria  to  Japan's  one 
and  still  have  a  sufficient  reserve  force  at  home  for 
local  demands.  And  it  is  this  fact  that  causes  Japan's 
sympathizers  to  hope  that  she  may  strike  so  fast 
and  so  hard  at  the  start  that  subsequent  reinforce- 
ments to  the  Russian  army  will  not  more  than  make 
good  the  losses.  And  it  is  this  same  fact  that  is 
drawing  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain  closer 
to  the  firing  line  to  be  ready  if  Japan  fails  to  strike 
crushing  blows  from  the  Yalu  on  to  the  enemy's 
strongholds  in   the  interior. 


DR.  W.  A.  BRYANT  has  moved  his  office 
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March  13,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Obituary 

Dr.  Herman  H.  Behr.  a  scicnti- 
pute,  on  last  Tuesday  passed  peacefully  away. 

Dr.  Behr1!  death 
and  the  world  in  general.  He  was  born  in  Germany 
eighty-five  years  ago,  and  had  lived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco for  manv  years.  Hr.  Behr  occupied  the  position 
of  Curator  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  at  the  time 
of  his  death.  The  old  gentleman  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Bohemian  Club,  and  he  was  universal!} 
teemed. 

Peter  W.  Watson,  a  prominent  wool  merchant  of 
this  city,  died  Sunday  afternoon  after  a  brief  illness. 
Mr.  Watson  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  but  had  re- 
sided in  this  country  since  his  youth.  San  Francisco 
had  been  his  home  for  a  number  of  years,  and  it 
was  here  that  he  got  his  start  in  an  important  busi- 
ness career.  He  amassed  quite  a  fortune  during  his 
life-time.  Mr.  Watson  is  survived  by  a  wife  and  two 
brothers,  Benjamin  and  James  Watson.  lie  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Masons  and  other  secret 
societies. 

James  P.  Cogswell,  in  many  ways  a  remarkable 
character,  a  pioneer  of  '49,  one  of  the  earliest  manu- 


facturers of  San  Francisco,  died  on  March  7th.  He 
•he  founder  of  the  hardware  business  which 
'■ears  the  name  of  He  I. a  Montanya,  and  he 
founded  the  Standard  Soap  Company.  Mr.  Cogs- 
well at  the  time  of  his  death  was  eighty-seven  years 
of  a^e.  He  haves  a  widow  and  one  step-son.  This 
ion  is  Mr.  II.  \Y.  Mortimer,  a  well-known  insurance 
man  of  San  Francis 

Charles  Willey,  brother  of  <  >.  F.  W'illey,  the  well- 
known  San  Franciscan,  died  this  week  in  Sacramento. 
Mr.  W'illey  was  an  estimable  citizen,  and  for  twenty 
years  held  a  position  in  the  United  States  Surveyor- 
<  ieneral's  office.  He  was  sixty-five  years  of  age  at 
the  time  of  his  death.  His  passing  away  is  deeply 
mourned  by  his  associates. 


Sunday  School  Teacher — Why  did  Adam  and  Eve 
clothe  themselves  after  the  fall?  Bright  Scholar — 
'Cause  winter  comes  after  the  fall. — Puck. 


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March  12,  1904. 


Mrs.  Edward  Cotes  has  written 
The  Imperialist,  another  novel  bearing  the 
above  title.  She  is  better  known 
under  her  maiden  name  of  Sara  Jeannette  Duncan, 
and  her  "Am'erican  Girl  in  London"  is  probably  the 
most  widely-read  of  her  works.  Mrs.  Cotes  possesses 
a  lively  style  and  unusually  good  powers  of  writing 
an  interesting  story,  but  she  has  also  what  very  few 
women  have  hitherto  shown  that  the}'  have,  the  abil- 
ity to  comprehend  political  questions  and  to  place 
political  strife  before  the  reader  in  an  agreeable  and 
informing  manner.  This  book  shows  her  at  her  best 
in  these  matters.  The  political  questions  raised  by 
Chamberlain,  the  whole  important  question  of  the 
formation  of  a  great  empire  out  of  the  disjecta  mem- 
bra of  the  British  possessions  is  the  theme  of  the 
work,  which  is  a  new  contribution  to  the  question 
in  that  it  discusses  it  from  the  colonial  point  of  view. 
The  hero  is  a  young  Canadian  lawyer  and  politician 
who  is  appointed  on  a  commission  to  visit  England, 
and  while  there  he  comes  under  the  influence  of 
Chamberlain.  He  becomes  a  convert  to  the  ideas 
of  that  masterful  and  imaginative  statesman,  and  re- 
turns to  Canada  to  forward  the  propaganda  on  behalf 
of  imperial  unity.  He  becomes  a  political  candidate 
and  is  defeated  in  his  attempt  to  gain  office  by  reason 
of  his  imperialism,  which  alarms  the  timid  profes- 
sional politicians;  incidentally,  also,  he  loses  his 
sweetheart. 

The  value  of  the  book  consists  in  a  study  of  the 
various  conflicting  emotions  with  which  the  Canad- 
ians view  the  imperial  idea.  It  is  pointed  out  that  the 
interests  of  the  Dominion  are  naturally  first  and 
foremost  in  the  minds  of  its  people,  and  that  the  gen- 
eral tendency,  sentiment  apart,  is  to  support  such 
policy  as  will  be  locally  beneficial.  Hence  they  see- 
saw between  the  idea  of  closer  commercial  union  with 
the  United  States  and  a  close  connection  with  the 
Mother  Country,  which  would  determine  their  eco- 
nomic future,  for  a  considerable  length  of  time,  at  all 
events. 

As  a  novel  there  is  not  much  to  be  said  for  the 
work.  In  fact,  the  only  love  story  revolves  around 
two  of  the  subordinate  characters,  and  partakes 
rather  of  the  decorously  conventional  than  of  the 
exciting.  Venus  saunters  through  the  pages  in  long 
skirts.  The  intention  of  the  writer  is  unmistakably 
serious.  She  has  evidently  studied  the  matter  at  first 
hand  and  has  acquainted  herself  thoroughly  with 
colonial  opinions.  The  political  speeches  are  weak- 
places.  They  are  too  set,  but  it  is  no  easy  matter 
to  write  a  modern  political  speech  so  that  it  looks 
well  in  print. 

Of  course,  the  question  always  arises  whether,  af- 
ter all,  such  questions  are  best  discussed  through  the 
medium  of  fiction,  whether  it  is  not  overloading  the 
muse  of  romance  a  little  to  make  her  carry  a  serious 
political  theme.  If  the  subject  be  considered  a  legiti- 
mate one  for  a  novel,  the  author  deserves  every  praise 
for  her  idea  and  her  method. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

The   Appletons   publish   three   new 

Biographies,  biographies,  which  have  reached  us 
simultaneously.  The  first  of  these, 
chronologically,  is  that  of  William  Penn,  as  the 
founder  of  Two  Commonwealths.  The  author  is 
Augustus  C.  Buell,  who  is  known  as  writer  of  the 
lives  of  Sir  William  Johnson  and  Paul  Jones.  It  is 
an  interesting  book,  possessing  no  particular  graces 


of  style,  but  free  to  a  much  larger  extent  than  is  usual 
in  such  works  from  the  intrusion  of  the  writer's  per- 
sonality. The  main  incidents  in  the  life  of  the  fa- 
mous Quaker  are  given  with  much  care  as  to  neces- 
sary facts,  but  very  little  heed  with  regard  to  im- 
portant detail.  This  is  the  chief  value  of  this  book — 
one  is  able  to  extract  the  gist  of  the  matter  easily  and 
readily,  and  we  are  not  compelled  to  wade  through 
the  mass  of  inconsequential  facts  with  which  so  many 
historical  writers  love  to  fill  their  pages.  The  result 
of  the  reading  of  this  book  by  the  present  writer  has 
been  a  complete  change  of  view  with  respect  to  the 
peaceableness  and  impeccabilitv  of  the  Quaker. 

"James  Oglethorpe"  is  a  biography  in  the  Historic 
Eives'  series  of  the  founder  of  the  State  of  Georgia. 
The  book  is  dedicated  to  the  "Children  of  Georgia," 
and  has  been  written  with  the  idea  of  familiarizing 
the  youth  of  the  State  with  the  life  and  career  of  its 
Founder.  It  should  serve  that  purpose  very  well. 
Harriet  C.  Cooper  is  the  writer. 

"The  Man  Roosevelt."  To  most  of  us  who  are 
somewhat  tired  of  the  constant  exploitation  of  the 
President's  personality  by  the  writers  of  books,  this 
last  addition  to  the  procession  appears  somewhat  un- 
necessarily. There  is  at  the  present  time  a  small 
group  of  writers  who  use  their  personal  acquaintance 
with  the  President  as  a  means  of  obtaining  a  liveli- 
hood. The  result  is  neither  dignifying  to  the  Presi- 
dent nor  edifying  to  the  public.  This  book,  however, 
is  somewhat  of  an  exception.  The  preface  is  straight- 
forward and  manly,  and  has  a  little  touch  of  regret 
in  it  for  having  undertaken  the  task  which  compels 
forgiveness.  On  the  whole,  the  account  is  fair  and 
inspiring,  with  no  more  adulation  than  is  to  be  natu- 
rally expected  under  the  circumstances. 

This  is  the  reprint  of  a  poem  by 
The  Grave.  Robert  Blair  and  is  illustrated  by 
reprints  of  the  etchings  of  Schiaor- 
vetti,  of  William  Blake's  pictures.  The  edition  re- 
printed is  that  published  by  R.  H.  Cromek  in  1808.  It 
is  a  pretty  little  copy,  well-printed  and  well-pro- 
duced. It  should  be  found  interesting  to  those  who 
care  for  these  reprints. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New  York. 


"The  Man  Who  Pleases  and  the  Woman  who 
Charms,"  is  one  of  those  little  books  which  contain 
maxims  for  making  one's  self  agreeable,  as  part  of  the 
gentle  art  of  "getting  on."  It  is  free  from  nearly  all 
the  objectionable  features  of  most  of  its  class.  The 
utility  of  such  works  always  appears  to  be  a  little 
doubtful,  but  if  they  have  to  be  done,  and  the  demand 
would  seem  to  show  their  necessity,  this  could  not 
be  done  better  than  in  this  particular  instance.  The 
chapter  on  "Good  Manners"  may  be  particularly 
recommended   to   students   of  the   State   University. 

Hinds  &  Noble,  New  York. 


"SAB'J"' 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


T5he    James    H.    Bibcock    Catering    Co. 


212-214  California  St. 


409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


March  ta,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Polo    Pony    Racing   at  Tanforan 

The  California  Polo  and  Tony  Racing  ition 

will  give  a  two  days'  pony  racing  meeting  at  Tanforan 
to-day.  March  12th,  and  Monday,  March  141I1.  This 
will  he  the  association's  initial  meeting  before  a  city 
audience.  The  first  meeting  of  the  association,  r<- 
cently  held  at  Del  Monte,  was  a  great  success,  and 
emboldened  by  the  success  there  attained,  in  place 
of  a  one  day's  meeting  as  originally  scheduled,  the 
directors  decided  upon  holding  two  days,  and  also 
to  largely  increase  the  number  of  cups  and  amount 
of  purses  to  be  there  competed  for.  The  racing  re- 
quirements are  most  amply  provided  for,  and  with 
the  adequate  transportation  service  arranged  for 
their  patrons,  a  large  and  fashionable  attendance  will 
grace  the  meeting  with  their  presence  on  both  days. 
Amongst  the  popular  favorites  who  will  carry  silk- 
are  the  well-known  trio,  "Silver  Dick,"  "Becky"  and 
"Fusillade."  the  latter  may  hardly  prove  to  be  in 
his  best  racing  form,  having  recently  been  retarded 
in  his  training  through  having  bruised  his  foot.  Mr. 
Carolan  is  too  good  a  sportsman  to  disappoint  the 
public,  and  his  handsome  son  of  St.  Leger  will  doubt- 
less be  seen  carrying  the  popular  blue  and  white 
in  all  the  long-distance  events. 

"Silver  Dick"  has  a  speed  reputation  extending 
over  three  States,  and  with  a  trio  of  victories  to  his 
credit  at  Del  Monte,  he  will  no  doubt  carry  a  large 
amount  of  the  public's  money  in  each  of  his  efforts. 
Rumor  says  that  his  owner,  Walter  Hobart,  will 
again  be  in  the  saddle,  his  late  pilot,  Mr.  Lawrence 
McCreery,  being  unfortunately  debarred  through  in- 
disposition from  again  accepting  the  mount.  With 
"Becky,"  Mr.  Rudolph  Spreckels  hopes  to  lower  all 
previous  existing  quarter  mile  pony  records,  and  with 
his  favorite  recently  showed  marked  improvement 
in  her  training  trial,  the  cerise  and  fleur  de  lis  will  cer- 
tainly be  in  front  on  more  than  one  occasion.  Anions 
the  other  ponies  who  have  won  their  way  into  public 
favor  may  be  mentioned  Mr.  W.  E.  Pedley's  "Car- 
lotta,  Mr.  McCreery's  "Lucy  gutters,"  Mr.  Spreck- 
els' "Maud  H,"  Mr.  Cardan's  "Florodora."  A  numer- 
ous list  of  debutantes  will  also  carrv  suk  at  the  meet- 
ing for  the  first  time. 

Mr.  Thomas  A.  Driscoll,  whose  recent  accident  still 
debars  him  from  active  participation  in  racing  and 
polo,  will  fill  the  position  of  Clerk  of  the  Course,  and 
woe-betide  any  jockey  who  occasions  any  delay ; 
Charles  D.  Jeffries  of  Spokane  will  act  as  starter,  and 
he  is  willing  to  pledge  his  reputation  that  should 
"Miss  Miller"  face  the  .ag,  he  will  get  her  away  with- 
out trouble  or  delay.  Mr.  D.  W.  Randall  will  act  as 
Official  Time  Keeper,  and  the  Stewards  of  the  meet- 
ing are  the  same  o-entlemen  who  so  ably  officiated  in 
like  capacity  at  Del  Monte,  viz:  Messrs.  Charles 
Raoul  Duval,  F.  J.  Mackey,  and  Charles  Butters. 
Rouert  Leighton  will  be  Clerk  of  the  Scales  and  Han- 
dicapper.  Special  trains  will  leave  the  Southern 
Pacific  Depot,  Third  and  Townsend  streets,  to-day 
and  Monday  at  1 :30  p.  m.,  returning  immediately  af- 
ter the  last  race.  Special  electric  cars  will  leave 
Fifth  and  Market  streets  every  fifteen  minutes,  after 
11:30  a.  m.,  in  addition  to  the  regular  service.  To- 
morrow the  polo  game  for  the  championship  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  will  be  played  at  Burlingame.  The 
handicap  tournament  will  be  continued  on  Tuesday, 
after  which  the  visiting  team  ot  English  poloists  will 
probably  turn  their  faces  homeward. 

1  ■  '■ 

.      The  latest  style  in  shirts  may  be   found  at  John  W.   Carmany's 
itt^l^i  Cnronicle  Building. 


Many  a  man  is  looking  for  Marquette 
Whiskey  and  don't  know  it.  If  you 
are  looking  for  quality  you  are  one  of 
them.  It  is  the  costliest  whiskey 
distilled,  yet  it  costs  you  no  more  than 
cheap  brands. 


GROMMES  a  ULLRICH,   Distillers 
CHICAGO 


SPOHN-PATRICK  COMPANY.  Distributors 
400  Battery  St.  San  Francisco 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

It  is  often  desirable  to  have 
FURNITURE  made  from 
SPECIAL  DESIGNS. 
We  have  manufactured  fur- 
niture in  OUR  OWN  FAC- 
TORY for  many  years,  and 
are  prepared  to  execute  the 
simplest  as  well  as  the  most 
elaborate  work. 
Designs  and  estimates  fur- 
nished. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    a    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Importers  of  staple  and  fancy  dry  goods.  Manufacturers  of 
furnishing  goods.  Patentees  and  sole  manufacturers  of 
"THE  NEVER-RIP"  OVERALL.    The  best  in  the  world. 

Gloves,  suspenders,  laces,  ribbons,  dress  goods,  velvets, 
silk,  flannels,  oil  cloths,  cottons,  linens,  etc.  Blankets, 
calicoes,  umbrellas,  cutlery,  shawls,  notions,  smokers* 
articles,    stationery,    underwear,    hosiery,    white    goods. 

Cor.  Sansome  and  Bush  Sts.,  S.  F. 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


Jeffries  said  to  Munro: 

"Work  may  go  to  hell, 
Let  us  go  to  'Frisco, 

Where  the  gudgeons  dwell. 
Hire  a  hall   and  fake  a  fight, 
Raise  a  crowd  to  see  the  sight, 
Make  five  and  twenty  thou,  all  right, 

Hear  the  suckers  yell!" 

So  they  went  to  'Frisco, 
Worked  it  very  well, 

Jeffries  fought  with  Munro, 
Fought,  you  bet,  like  hell. 

Hired  the  hall  and  faked  the  fight, 

Filled  the  gudgeons  with  delight, 

-Made  just  thirty  thou,  all  right. 
And  'Frisco  liked  the  sell. 
When  is  one  insane?  The  answer  would  seem  to 
be  when  the  accused  party  does  not  please  his  heirs 
at  law.  Take  Dr.  Jacob  Dugan's  case.  He  left  forty 
thousand  dollars.  Xow,  according  to  the  ordinary 
estimate  of  sanity,  he  could  not  have  done  anything 
more  sane  than  that.  He  lived  in  filth  to  accumulate 
it.  This  also  is  quite  in  accordance  with  the  popular 
idea  of  things  as  they  should  be.  One  may  touch 
any  amount  of  filth,  always  provided  that  good  money 
results.  But  what  is  good  in  the  copy  books  is  not 
good  in  the  Probate  Court,  and  a  herd  of  angry 
nephews  and  nieces  is  besieging  the  ear  of  Judge  Cof- 
fey with  indignant  protests  of  the  successful  man's 
insanity.  Wisdom  is  justified  of  her  nephews  and 
nieces,  also,  and  the  only  way  to  avoid  being  called 
a  "mad  miser"  is  to  spend  your  money  while  you  are 
alive,  when  they  will  call  vou  a  "dissipated  old  scoun- 
drel." 

The  popular  myth  of  the  moral  influence  of  women 
receives  a  blow  in  the  case  of  Dr.  J.  Milton  Bowers. 
Here  is  a  man  who,  according  to  all  the  opinions  of 
those  who  know,  deserved  hanging;  who,  by  his  own 
admission,  put  an  end  to  two  wives,  and  only  escaped 
death  by  hanging  for  the  murder  of  a  third  by  a 
miscarriage  of  justice.  Such  a  person,  however, 
found  no  difficulty  in  getting  a  fourth  woman  to 
marry  him,  and  it  is  reported  that  his  effects  give 
ample  evidence  of  his  popularity  with  women.  Bowers 
was  admittedly  courteous  and  gallant  in  his  manners. 
These  qualities  count  more  in  women's  estimation 
than  all  the  virtues  which  they  are  supposed  to  in- 
spire. Men  like  Bowers  will  receive  every  favor  and 
consideration,  while  the  honest  and  the  hardworking 
will  be  ignored  and  despised.  To  win  the  favor  of 
women  there  is  one  infallible  receipt — dress  well  and 
lie  glibly. 

The  gift  of  an  American  flag  to  hang  in  the  audi- 
torium of  an  Oakland  Presbyterian  Church  is  an- 
other instance  of  the  deplorable  tendency  to  secular- 
ize religion.  If  one  goes  to  Church  to  see  the  same 
sights  and  hear  the  same  things  as  are  common  to 
the  outer  world,  what  is  the  use  of  going,  and  what 
is  the  function  of  the  church? 

Berkeley  is  to  be  made  an  architectural  wonder  of 
the  zig-zag,  esthetic  tan-colored  variety.  Between  the 
collegian  and  the  club  woman  it  will  be  a  beautiful 
place.  But  thank  the  Lord,  we  don't  all  have  to  live 
there. 


They  are  so  slow  in  their  movements  in  Fruitvale 
that  the  police  cannot  even  keep  the  police  station 
from  being  converted  into  something  other  than 
a  place  for  the  detention  of  the  suspected  and  ar- 
rested. So  many  years  have  gone  by  since  the  place 
was  needed  that  a  speculative  real  estate  man  has 
converted  the  jail  into  a  cottage,  built  rooms  on,  run 
a  fence  round  it,  and  created  a  garden.  The  tardy 
guardian  of  the  peace  only  awoke  to  the  fact  that  he 
had  no  place  in  which  to  house  his  prisoners  when 
he  actually  needed  it.  It  reads  like  a  pretty  romance 
of  the  South  of  France,  only  the  French  story  would 
not  say  anything  about  the  installments  which  the 
present  tenants  have  paid  to  the  real  estate  man. 

To  endeavor  to  escape  from  the  Broadway  Jail  is 
not  only  a  natural — it  is  a  really  meritorious — act. 
No  prisoner  concerning  whose  redemption  there  was 
the  slightest  hope,  would  ever  consent  to  stay  in 
Broadway  Jail  and  await  his  trial.  The  odor  of  the 
place  is  sufficient  in  itself  to  turn  an  innocent  suspect 
into  a  dangerous  criminal.  It  contains  all  the  worst 
features  of  a  medieval  dungeon,  including  the  ugli- 
ness of  the  jailers.  It  is  known  all  the  world  over 
as  a  filthy  and  barbarous  place,  and  it  is  the  butt  of 
penologists  of  two  hemispheres.  It  should  be  taken 
for  granted  that  an  attempt  at  escape  from  the  Broad- 
way Jail  is  one  of  the  most  unfailing  signs  of  the  pos- 
sibility of  redemption  of  the  prisoner,  and  any  skill- 
ful attorney  should  use  it  in  favor  of  his  client  on 
trial. 

The  much-heralded  "labor-day"  at  the  State  Uni- 
versity has  been  and  gone.  It  proved  exactly  two 
things  which  I  fancied  that  it  would  prove — the  in- 
ability of  the  students  to  do  one  day's  really  serious 
work.  The  advertised  labor  proved  to  be  for  the 
most  part  a  mere  advertisement.  Rough  house  and 
all  sorts  of  skylarking  continually  interrupted  the 
proceeding;  no  self-restraint  was  shown,  the  beha- 
vior was  so  bad  at  lunch  time  that  some  of  the  girls 
were  almost  hustled.  It  is  true  that  the  co-eds. 
considered  a  fifteen-cent  lunch  ample,  but  they  need 
not  have  been  crowded  on  that  account,  and  the 
amount  of  work  performed  by  twelve  hundred  sup- 
posedly industrious  young  men  does  not  reflect  much 
credit  on  their  physical  prowess. 

That  money  has  no  odor  we  know  has  long  been  a 
favorite  motto  with  the  City  Hall  Crowd,  but  why 
on  earth  the  followers  of  his  Elegance  the  Mayor 
should  object  to  the  flowers  at  the  corner  of  Kearny 
and  Geary  streets  does  not  appear.  Then  one  begins 
to  discover  that  the  retail  florists  have  money,  and 
that  their  money,  too,  carries  no  incriminating  odor. 
Money  from  the  brothel,  the  saloon  and  the  flower- 
store  flows  into  the  public  treasury  (presumably), 
and  mingle  their  several  odors  in  the  pactolian 
streams  which  sweep  in  one  broad,  rich  river  into  the 
pockets  of  our  city  officials. 

The  Sultan  demands  pay  for  Russia's  ships  to  go 
through  the  Dardanelles.  Good  old  Sultan!  It  is  so 
long  since  he  had  a  chance  to  make  anything  out  of 
anything  that  it  is  good  to  see  him  take  hold  and  get 
a  chance.  The  present  conditions  in  the  Balkans, 
however,  do  not  give  him  promise  of  keeping  it  long. 

The  Sacramento  hod-carriers  are  striking  for  a 
daily  wage  of  four  dollars.  This  is  a  proof  not  only 
of  the  prosperity  of  the  State,  but  of  the  asininity 
of  the  unions. 

There  is  a  shortage  in  cash  in  the  City  Treasury  at 
San  Jose.  San  Franciscans  will  remember  the  same 
thing  occurring  in  this  city,  and  how  the  Mayor 
hefted  it. 


March  13.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


Dear  Bessie:  Have  you  ever  been  .it  a  Kitchen 
Shower?  I  <li<l  not  know  exactly  what  it  meant  till 
I  went  to  the  one  given  the  other  day  by  Kate  Sel 
fridge  for  Ethel  Kent,  who  is  to  be  married  early 
in  April.  May.  who  went  with  me.  advised  me  to 
bring  a  bundle  of  bright  new  skewers,  for  what 
earthly  purpose  I  could  not  think  until  1  found  each 
and  every  guest  came  laden  with  some  article  for 
kitchen  use.  by  which  the  heart  of  the  fair  bride 
elect  was  made  glad.  But  suppose  she  boards,  and 
doesn't  keep  house?  Well,  they  can  all  be  packed 
away  for  future  use,  and  may  come  in  handy  some- 
time. 

1  have  not  been  doing  much  of  any  importance, 
anil  yet  seem  to  be  always  going  somewhere,  and 
cards  do  run  away  with  one's  time  to  a  wonder- 
ful degree.  Mabel  Toy  had  a  little  telephone  tea 
of  a  dozen  or  so  last  Saturday  ;  Gertrude  Dutton  gave 
a  very  pretty  purple  and  yellow — violets  and  jon- 
quils— dinner  the  other  night ;  all  young  people. 
and  Helen  Bowie  had  a  charming  luncheon  for  the 
bride-elect,  Frances  Harris.  Card  clubs  are  almost 
as  plentiful  as  flies  in  summer,  and  I  could  not  be- 
gin to  tell  you  who  all  belong  to  them.  Small  ones 
are  the  most  popular  and  one  of  the  latest  to  form 
one  is  Maye  Colburne,  who  has  chosen  seven- 
handed  euchre  for  her  club,  which  met  at  her  house 
last  week,  and  at  Mrs.  Henry  Dutton's  on  Tuesday 
of  this  week.  Myra  Xickerson  and  Charlotte  Ellin- 
wrood  have  had  bridge  wdiist  parties;  Sallie  Winslow 
has  got  up  a  club  of  eight  to  play  bridge ;  Mrs.  Athern 
Folger  had  a  bridge  party  on  Friday  night,  and  Mrs. 
George  Knight  gives  a  large  500  party  next  Satur- 
day. For  to-day  a  lot  of  parties  have  been  made  up 
for  the  pony  races  at  Tanforan — the  one  to  which 
I  am  "attached"  is  an  automobile  affair  with  lunch, 
etc.,  so  I  am  in  for  a  fine  time. 

Burlingame  carried  off  the  Mi  Careme  honors  this 
year,  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan  and  Mrs.  Andy  McCreary 
joining  forces  in  giving  a  masked  dance  at  the  club 
house,  so  under  these  circumstances  I  think  Grace 
and  Lily  Spreckels  were  wise  in  deciding  not  to  have 
one.  It  was  a  jolly  lark,  one  of  the  pleasant  features 
being  the  trip  down  from  town  by  the  electric  cars. 
Quite  a  number  remained  for  the  polo  which  was 
played  there  yesterday,  and  there  will  be  more  of  it 
again  to-morrow.  There  is  always  some  fun  going 
on  at  Burlingame;  Frank  Carolan  gave  a  breakfast 
at  Crossways  last  Saturday,  which  was  followed  by 
a  run  with  the  hounds  across  the  hills,'  in  which 
a  lot  of  ladies  took  part. 

Hilda  Baxter's  marriage  to  Ralph  Hart,  which 
came  off  last  Saturday,  was  a  very  quiet  one,  the 
ceremony  taking  place  in  the  McDonald's  rooms  at 
the  St.  Dunstan  at  noon  with  only  relatives  and  a 
few  friends  in  attendance.  I  hear  Hilda  looked 
pretty  as  a  picture  in  her  gown  of  pale  blue  cloth  and 
big  hat  to  correspond.  They  are  spending  their 
honeymoon  down  South.  Weddings  have  not  been 
very  numerous  of  late,  but  they  seldom  are  during 
Lent,  and  there  will  be  several  directly  after  Easter. 
The  whisper  is  that  Florence  Bailey  is  to  be  married 
on  Easter  Monday,  and  her  New  York  fiance  is  to 
arrive  the  week  before ;  anyhow,  on  Wednesday  in 
Easter  week  there  will  be  two  weddings  in  the  swim. 
Frances  Harris's  will  be  a  home  wedding  at  her 
aunt,  Mrs.  Ries's,  at  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
and  Ethel  Kent's  comes  off  in  the  evening  at  Grace 


Church.  Ethel  has  selected  yellow  as  the  color  for 
her  wedding;  her  sister.  Mrs.  Graham,  is  to  be  ma- 
tron of  honor,  her  other  sister,  Kathleen,  maid  of 
honor,  and  with  Mattie  Milton,  Florence  Cole,  Louise 
Hall,  and  N'olic  dc  Golia  will  make  a  pretty  group 
of  attendants.  Captain  Helms,  who  is  in  the  19t.l1 
Infantry,  will  be  best  man.  There  will  be  a  small  re- 
ception afterward,  and  they  will  go  to  Vancouver 
lor  their  honeymoon.  I  almost  forgot  to  mention 
that  the  groom  will  be  Lieutenant  Gilbert  Allen  of 
the  army. 

May  Burdge  and  Bernard  Miller  are  to  be  married 
at  Arbor  Villa  next  month,  and  Mrs.  Smith,  who  al- 
ways entertains  in  such  a  brilliant  style,  is  going 
to  give  her  the  grandest  kind  of  a  wedding,  so  you 
may  be  sure  it  will  be  something  fine.  Winnie  Burdge 
is  to  be  maid  of  honor,  Marion  Smith,  Florence 
Nightengale,  Evelyn  Ellis,  Grace  Sperry,  Mary 
Baker,  Marion  Goodfellow,  Carrie  Oliver  and  May 
Coogan  bridesmaids. 

\\  hile  on  the  subject  of  Oakland,  let  me  tell  you  of 
a  novel  entertainment  Marie  was  at  the  other  day — 
a  domino  luncheon,  given  there  by  Mrs.  John  Adams, 
at  which  the  Baroness  Von  Horst  and  Kate  Voorhies 
Henry  were  the  guests  of  honor.  They  all  wore  red 
dominos  and  masks,  which  latter  must,  I  think  have 
been  rather  uncomfortable  things  to  wear  when 
eating  and  drinking  was  in  order,  but  anything  for 
novelty,  and  I  have  not  heard  any  one  complain. 

Pearl  Sabin  leaves  for  Washington  City  next  week, 
where  she  is  to  be  bridesmaid  at  the  wedding  of 
Kathro  Burton  and  Lieutenant  George  Lee,  which 
is  to  take  place  on  Easter  Monday  at  the  home  of 
the  Burtons  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Nation's  capital, 
where  General  Burton  is  stationed  as  Inspector-Gen- 
eral of  the  Army.  It  is  to  be  a  yellow  wedding, 
Lieutenant  Lee  being  in  the  cavalry — those  are  his 
regimental  colors,  and  Leila  Burton,  who  was  mar- 
ried to  Lieutenant  Wells  last  year,  is  to  be  the  ma- 
tron of  honor.  Apropos  of  button  weddings,  we  shall 
have  another  one  here  before  the  year  is  out — and 
more  than  one,  or  I  am  no  prophet — as  the  engage- 
ment of  Anna  Sperry  and  Lieutenant  Clarence  Car- 
rigan  has  been  announced  this  week.  Mabel  coaxed 
me  out  to  the  new  riding  school  the  other  day,  and 
I  was  not  sorry  when  I  got  there  that  I  had  gone. 
You  never  saw  anything  like  the  enthusiasm  of  the 
girls  who  are  drilling  for  the  benefit  they  are  to 
have  for  the  Doctor's  Daughters ;  they  are  fairly 
bubbling  over  with  it,  and  it  promises  to  be  one  of 
the  good  things  of  the  year.  Among  other  things 
not  heretofore  set  down  will  be  the  act  of  the  San 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


Mateo  Hont;  Club  in  the  art  of  high  jumping,  and 
as  they' are^allto  wear  "pink,"  it  will  be  one  of  the 
features  of  the  show.  The  girls  were  all  busily  dis- 
cussing Bessie  Center's  wedding,  which  took  place 
in  London  last  Tuesday,  when  it  was  thought  June 
was  the  month  chosen  for  the  interesting  event;  I 
hear  they  are  going  to  live  here  in  San  Francisco. 

I  think  the  Palm  Garden  at  the  Palace  has  been 
finished  since  you  were  here ;  anyhow,  while  at  first 
it  was  only  used  for  after  the  theatre  supper  parties, 
folks  now  give  luncheons,  teas  and  dinners  there, 
and  you  have  no  idea  what  a  stunning  place  it  is  for 
them,  too.  One  of  the  jolliest  of  these  parties  was 
the  dinner  given  there  by  Mr.  Story  last  week,  at 
which  a  lot  of  the  recent  heroes  of  the  polo  tourna- 
ment at  Del  Monte  were  guests — Captain  Haig,  Cy- 
ril, Dick  and  Joe  Tobin  and  Mr.  Ezra,  the  Rauel  Du- 
vals  and  others,  fourteen  in  all. 

Mrs.  Will  Tevis,  who  is  seldom  away  from  her 
favorite  home  at  Bakersfield,  had  a  house  party  of  a 
few  friends  down  there  last  week,  lasting  over  Sun- 
day ;  Millie  Ashe  Sewell  was  one  of  them,  and  she 
has  now  gone  Eastward,  after  what  she  said  was  one 
of  the  most  delightful  visits  she  has  ever  paid  to  her 
old  home,  San  Francisco. 

One  would  hardly  think  that  the  oceans  of  rain 
we  have  had  of  late  would  tempt  one  to  the  coun- 
try. But  several  have  already  departed  for  the  sum- 
mer when  the  spring  is  not  yet  in  full  sway,  and 
among  them  are  the  Hopkins  girls — Mrs.  Will  and 
Mrs.  Gus  Taylor — who  have  taken  up  their  abode 
at  Menlo  Park  thus  early  in  the  year.  I  am  curious 
to  see  the  new  villa  of  which  so  many  glowing  ac- 
counts are  floating  around.  The  Sydney  Van  Wyckes 
have  gone  over  to  Berkeley  to  live — they  spent  the 
winter  at  the  Bella  Vista,  and  the  Roy  McDonalds 
have  chosen  Oakland  for  their  home.  Genevieve 
King  bids  us  adieu  to-day,  going  to  Boston,  where 
she  will  meet  the  Herricks,  with  whom  she  is  going 
to  Europe ;  and  the  Douglas  Sloan  Watsons  will  fol- 
low almost  the  same  programme  when  they  leave 
next  month. 

Ad.  Mizner  and  Jack  Baird  are  back  again  safe  and 
sound,  but  having  had  some  "experiences"  during 
their  automobile  trip  South,  and  say  it  is  the  only  way 
to  travel  with  pleasure.  We  are  to  see  Ethel  Shorbe 
and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Murtagh,  about  the  first  week  in 
April ;  they  are  coming  from  Manila  by  the  transport 
then  due.  — Elsie. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 
Mrs.   James   Sperry   announces   the   engagement   of 

her  daughter  Anna  to  Lieutenant  Clarence  Car- 

rigan,  U.  S.  A. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Leibes  announce  the  engagemnet 

of  their   daughter,   Linda,   to   Dr.   E.   Delemere 

Linderman  of  New  York. 

WEDDINGS. 
February  12 — At  St.  Stephen's  Church,  Manila.  Miss 

Elsie  Ducat,  daughter  of  Major  and  Mrs.  Arthur 

E.  Ducat,  7th  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  to  Lieutenant 

John  Symington,  nth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.    8  p.  m. 
March  2 — At  Trinity  Church,  San  Francisco.     Miss 

Anita  Goodwin  of  Victoria,  B.  C,  to  Walter  H. 

Crowell.     11  a.  m. 
March  3 — Miss  Mabel  Son,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
"  Albert  Son,  to  Jacob  S.  Goldsmith,  of  Baltimore. 

2185  Pacific  Avenue.    9  p.  m. 
March  8 — In  London,  England,  Miss  Elizabeth  Cen- 
ter, daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Center, 

to  Ture  A.  Steen. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
March   15 — Miss  Ada  Horr  of  Alameda  to  William 

Cooper. 


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March  17 — Miss  Florence  Mayer,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
L.  Mayer,  to  J.  A.  Sheldon. 

April  4 — At  "The  Highlands,"  Washington  City, 
Miss  Kathro  Burton,  daughter  of  Inspector-Gen- 
eral George  H.  Burton,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Bur- 
ton, to  Lieutenant  George  Lee,  U.  S.  A.    9  p.  m. 

April  4 — Miss  Eleanor  Eckart,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  R.  Eckart,  to  Edward  Hume,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Hume,  of  Piedmont. 

April  6 — Miss  Frances  Harris  to  Ernest  Stent.  4  p.  m. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Miss    Ethel    Kent    to   Lieutenant    ••ilt>ort   Allen, 
c  Church,  8  p.  m. 

DINNERS. 
March  3  (Thursday) — Mis-  Gertrude  Dutton, 

Pacific  Avenue. 
March  4  (Friday)  —  Mr.  Story,  in   Palm  Garden  of 

Palace   Hotel. 
March  5  (Saturday) — At  Bohemian  Club,  in  honor 

of  Mr.  Donald  DeV.  Graham. 
March  6  (Sunday)  —  Mrs.  Fred  McNear,  21  99  1  'alifor- 

nia  street. 
March  7  (Monday) — Mrs.  Joseph  Chansclor,  in  honor 

of  Mrs.    Mcintosh,   of   Chicago,    Palace    Hotel; 

Mrs.  McAneny.  Palace  Hotel. 

LUNCHEONS. 

March  4  (Friday) — Mrs.  Henry  C.  Breeden  .  2714 
Broadway:  Mrs.  II.  Blanchard  Chase,  in  honor 
of  Mrs.  Andrew  B.  McCrearv. 

March  8  (Tuesday)— Mrs.  Walter  Martin.  Palm  Car- 
den,  Palace. 

March  10  (Thursday) — Miss  Helen  Bowie  in  honor 
of  Miss   Frances  Harris.   i<)c<)  Jackson  street. 

March  12  (Saturday) — Mrs.  Alexander  Bergevin, 
Palm  Garden,  Palace  Hotel. 

RECEPTION. 

April  7 — Mrs.  J.  Wilson  Sheils,  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam Lvnham  Sheils. 

TEAS. 

March  2  (Wednesday) — In  Oakland,  Mrs.  Harry 
Knowles  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Roy  McDonald. 

March  9  (Wednesday) — In  Oakland,  Airs.  E.  H. 
Kittredge. 

March  12  (Saturday) — Mrs.  Arthur  Wallace. 

AT  HOME. 

Monday— Mrs.  Sedgewick  Pratt,  Miss  Mattie  Pratt, 
The  Sequoia.  I 

Thursday — Mrs.  Oliver  Dibble,  1st  and  3d.  loi2.Pine  1 
street. 

Friday — Mrs.  Joseph  Masten,  2d  and  3d  in  April, 
3954  Washington  street. 


Lieutenant  Commander  A.  F.  Fechteler  has  been 
assigned  to  an  important  position  in  the  office  of  the 
Secretary  of  the  Navy  for  his  next  two  years  of  duty, 
and  left  last  Saturday  for  Washington.  Mrs.  Fech- 
teler (a  daughter  of  Judge  W.  W.  Morrow,  of  this 
city)  accompanied  him,  and  their  four  children.  They 
will  reside  at  Chevy  Chase. 

Dr.  Arnold  Genthe  is  in  the  northern  part  of  Mex- 
ico, and  will  return  by  ti.e  25th  of  March. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  this  week:  Mrs.  Charles 
Culver,  Mrs.  Grace  Taggart  and  family,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Dunham  and  daughter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E. 
Lynch,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lorenzo  Sasso,  Mr.  C.  F.  Grow, 
Mr.  Emil  Held,  Mr.  H.  A.  Hunsaker,  Mrs.  C.  F. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


He  told  her  her  voice  was  as  sweet  as  a  bird, 
\\  hen  it  sings  'mid  the  flowers  of  May, 

It  never  struck  her  that  the  thing  was  absurd 
When  he  said  he  could  listen  all  day. 

So  she  married  him  later  and  learned  with  much  pain 
That  he  grumbled  whenever  she  spoke, 

And  told  her,  not  once,  but  again  and  again 
That  her  singing  was  worse  than  a  joke. 

But  she  bottled  the  insult,  and  took  it  to  court, 
Where  the  Judge  listened,  silent  and  grim. 

And  the  upshot  of  all  that  he  uttered  in  sport 
Was  the  fact  that  the  joke  was  on  him. 

*  *  * 

They  were  discussing  the  proposed  new  Federal 
Court  the  other  night  at  the  Press  Club,  and  some  one 
mentioned  Judge   De  Haven   in  connection  with   it. 

"The  mention  of  De  Haven  reminds  me  of  a  good 
story  at  his  expense,"  said  an  old  timer.  "Years  ago, 
before  the  Judge  had  attained  the  ermine,  and  when 
he  was  doing  his  best  in  the  House  of  Representatives 
to  impress  upon  the  statesmen  of  the  East  the  great- 
ness of  California,  an  enterprising  burglar  was  ply- 
ing his  trade  in  De  Haven's  neck  of  the  woods.  The 
silver  question  was  then  the  main  issue  before  the 
people,  and  the  Judge  was  doing  his  best  by  the  pub- 
lication of  addresses  in  the  Congressional  Record  to 
show  the  people  what  he  thought  about  it.  I  don't 
recall  the  extent  of  his  position  on  the  question,  and 
anyway  that  is  not  material  to  this  story.  While  the 
Judge  was  at  Washington,  fighting  for  the  greater 
glory  of  his  country,  his  residence  up  north  was 
entered  by  this  enterprising  burglar,  who  was  snoop- 
ing around,  and  who  had  no  more  regard  for  the  per- 
sonal propertv  of  Congressmen  than  he  had  for  the 
belongings  of  other  people.  It  is  sad,  but  true,  that 
the  burglar  aforesaid,  in  the  happier  days  of  his 
innocent  youth,  had  been  a  police  reporter.  Evil 
associates,  doubtless,  had  corrupted  his  morals.  He 
had  seen  policemen  grow  rich,  and  he  concluded  he 
would  try  the  get-rich-quick  plan  himself.  So  he 
entered  De  Haven's  house  ready  for  plunder.  When 
the  Congressman  returned  home  he  found  his  larder 
emptied:  everything  eatable  had  been  eaten;  every- 
thing drinkable  had  evaporated.  In  his  library,  on 
top  of  a  pile  of  manuscript  speeches  on  silver,  the 
Judge  found  a  note  from  the  burglar: 

"I  have  read  your  speeches  on  silver  witli  much 
interest."  the  ex-reporter  wrote,  "likewise  I  have 
with  much  patience  corrected  what  appear  to  be 
rhetorical  errors.  For  this  I  make  no  charge.  It  pains 
me,  however,  to  find  that  a  man  so  prominent  as 
yourself  in  the  affairs  of  the  nation  does  not  practice 
what  lie  preaches.  Here,  at  length,  you  have  set 
forth  the  great  advantage  of  silver  to  the  world  as  a 
circulating  medium,  but  the  nearest  approach  to  the 
white  metal  I  can  find  in  your  whole  shebang  after  a 
most  careful  search,  are  a  couple  of  old  plated  spoons. 
Mr.  Congressman,  to  a  man  of  my  profession  this  is 
most  disappointing.  Hereafter,  I  am  for  a  gold  stan- 
dard.    No  plated  spoons  for  WILLIE." 

*  *  * 

And  now  comes  a  prophet  out  of  Chicago — Helen 
Bradford  Thompson — and  she  proves  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  herself  and  her  friends  that  women — Chicago 
women,  at  least — have  better  memories  than  men. 
She  has  set  it  all  forth  in  a  book  upon  "The  Mental 
Traits  of  Sex,"  a  psychological  dissertation  in  which 
is  learnedly  discussed  everything  concerning  the  ego 


and  the  alter  ego  in  a  manner  which  only  one  who 
has  dived  deep  into  the  obstruseness  of  the  science 
could  attempt.  Miss  or  Madam  Thompson's  method 
of  proving  the  correctness  of  her  thesis  is  interesting. 
She  exhibited  to  an  equal  number  of  men  and  women 
students  in  the  L'niversity  of  Chicago  a  choice  col- 
lection of  nonsense  syllables,  with  instructions  to 
memorize  them.  Here  are  some  of  the  memory  agi- 
tators :  zef,  sig,  nam,  kig.  These  were  flashed  before 
the  students  upon  a  board,  one  at  a  time.  Then  they 
had  to  go  away,  clinch  them  in  their  craniums,  and 
return  and  enunciate  them.  The  women  were  better 
at  it  than  the  men,  it  seems;  therefore,  it  follows  that 
women  have  better  memories  than  men — for  nonsense 
— or,  as  Author  Thompson  puts  it,  "Memory  in  its 
purest  form  is  better  among  women  than  among 
men.     "O.  E.  D." 

We  always  had  a  low-down  idea  that  women  could 
retain  a  lot  of  nonsense  longer  than  men,  and  now 
that  the  Chicagoese  has  proved  it,  we  can  safely  say 
"I  told  you  so."  If  it  were  not  for  this  purity  in  the 
female  memory,  society  chit-chat  would  be  at  a  very 
low  ebb  indeed.  The  dear  girls  can  rattle  off  their 
eeny,  meeny,  miny,  moes  for  hours  at  an  afternoon 
tea,  and  then  come  bright  and  smiling  at  another  pink- 
sociable  the  next  afternoon,  and  recite  with  remark- 
able correctness  everything  they  heard  about  every- 
body else  upon  the  day  previous.  There  is  where 
the  nonsense  syllable  theory  is  practically  demon- 
strated. Also  it  shows  that  women  are  so  constituted 
mentally  that  they  simply  can't  help  retaining  what- 
ever is  flashed  before  them.     It  is  not  their  fault  at 

all,   you   know,  because   thev   are   built   that  way. 
*  *  i 

My  attention  has  been  directed  to  a  practice  preva- 
lent in  the  Police  Department  for  years,  and  which 
is  not  only  indefensible  from  a  legal  standpoint,  but 
seems  to  be  nothing  more  than  an  attempt  upon  the 
part  of  the  police  to  secure  for  pawnbrokers,  "fences," 
and  other  dealers  in  stolen  goods,  immunity  from 
financial  loss.  It  comes  so  close  to  a  partnership  in 
the  proceeds  of  crime  that  to  say  it  is  dangerous  to 
the  welfare  of  the  community  is  putting  it  lightly.  To 
illustrate.  Your  house  is  robbed,  and  you  report  at 
police  headquarters  that  the  robbers  have  stolen  a 
gold  watch,  for  instance,  and  a  quantity  of  plate. 
You  describe  the  articles  so  that  they  may  be  easily 
identified.  Then  you  await  developments.  In  the 
course  of  a  week  or  two,  a  detective  calls  at  your 
place  of  business  and  tells  you  he  has  "turned  up" 
the  stolen  goods,  lie  has  found  them  in  a  pawn- 
broker's shop. 

"Where  is  the  place?"  you  ask.  "Why  didn't  you 
get  them?  I  wouldn't  lose  those  things  for  a  good 
deal  more  than  their  price  in  money.  I  value  them 
for  their  associations." 

"Well,  we  will  get  them  back,  all  right."  the  detec- 
tive says.  "but.  you  see,  this  pawnbroker  gave  the 
thieves  $50  for  them.  Now.  lie  thought  they  owned 
the  things;  he  acted  innocently  in  the  matter,  and,  of 
course,  he  does  not  want  to  lose  his  money.  I  have 
had  a  talk  with  him,  and  he  says  if  he  gets  his  money 


FURNISHED  HOUSE  TO  LET 

Magnificent  marine  view-  Nine  rooms;  Billiard  Room,  Bath 
and  modern  conveniences-  One  block  from  Hyde-at.  cars.  Rent 
reasonable.      Apply  to  Miss  Hamilton,  1513  Washington  street- 


March  la,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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back  he  will  give  up  thi  >d  aid  n-  to  gel  the 

robbf 

"What!"  you  say  in  astonishment;  "first  I  am  rub 

bed  ;  I  go  to  the  police,  ami  now  the  police  come  here 
ami  want  me  to  pay  $50  for  getting  back  my  own 
•     Well,  if  that  isn't  an  outi 

"Well,  you  -  -n't  much  to  you,"  say-  tin 

detective,  "but  the  pawnbroker  is  a  poor  man.  Hi 
Could  make  lots  of  trouble.  He  paid  out  the  money, 
and  he  thinks  he  should  get  it  back.*' 

Then  the  argument  continues,  and  the  chances  are 
ten  to  one  that  the  householder  gives  the  detective 
the  amount  demanded.  The  next  day  his  watch  and 
silverware  are  returned,  and  the  incident  is  closed. 
<  )f  course,  the  robbers  arc  never  apprehended — im- 
possibly, they  drift  over  into  Sheriff  Taylor's 
bailiwick    in    Marin    County. 

This  system  of  blackmail,  levied  by  policemen  up- 
on owners  of  stolen  property,  is  practiced  daily  in 
this  city.  The  police  know  it  is  improper,  immoral 
and  illegal.  They  know  the  owner  has  the  absolute 
right  to  his  property  wherever  found,  even  if  upon 
the  shelves  of  a  protected  "fence,''  and  that  he  should 
be  enabled  to  recover  it  without  paying  toll.  A 
search-warrant  would  obtain  it  in  half  an  hour  with- 
out a  cent  of  expense  ;  also,  it  forecloses  the  possi- 
bility of  a  "draw-down"  by  the  detective,  who  usually 
divides  with  the  pawnbroker.  If  the  latter  pays  the 
thieves  $5  for  the  goods  the  detective  adds  $20  to  the 
amount  when  the  owner  is  called  upon  to  contribute. 
One  case  recently  came  to  my  attention  where  a  boy, 
whose  bicycle  was  stolen,  had  to  give  a  policeman  $5 
before  he  could  get  his  wheel  back.  It  was  learned 
afterwards  that  it  had  been  sold  to  a  pawnbroker  for 
one  dollar.  The  "fence"  and  the  policeman  made 
$2  each  out  of  the  transaction — provided  the  guardian 
of  the  law  divided  equally  with  his  companion  in 
crime.  The  police  deny  participation  in  the  China- 
town gambling  fund;  they  deny  protecting  bunco 
men,  and  they  deny  aiding  the  lottery  dealers;  but 
they  admit  and  they  try  to  defend  this  scheme  of 
blackmail  for  the  protection  of  pawnbrokers.  They 
say  they  need  the  assistance  of  the  pawnbrokers  in 
their  business ;  therefore,  they  protect  the  receivers 
of  stolen  property.  The  pawnbroker's  is  a  nefarious 
business  at  best ;  the  law  looks  on  it  with  suspicion, 
and  opens  all  the  pawnbrokers'  books  at  all  times  to 
the  police.  If  they  lose  money  by  dealing  with  thieves 
that  is  only  one  of  the  risks  of  their  business:  Prop- 
erty owners  should  not  be  required  to  reimburse 
them.  Above  all,  the  police  have  no  excuse  for  black- 
mailing the  owners  so  that  the  pawnbrokers  will  not 
suffer.  This  matter  is  well  worthy  the  attention  of 
the  Grand  Jury.  If  they  will  take  it  up,  abundant 
proof  of  the  illegal  practice  I  have  referred  to  may  be 

easily  obtained. 

*  *  * 

Did  you  ever  notice  that  after  the  holdup,  the  vic- 
tim always  says,  according  to  the  veracious  daily 
press,  that  "the  robbers  overlooked  $352  in  Brown's 
inside  coat  pocket,"  or  that  "in  the  excitement  the 
tall,  masked  man  failed  to  see  a  $1,000  roll  of  green- 
backs in  the  lower  drawer,"  or  that  "the  men  must 
have  been  novices,  as  they  did  not  thoroughly  search 
the  cash  register;  if  they  had  they  would  have  dis- 
covered $855  in  gold,  two  diamond  rings  and  a  lot- 
tery ticket?"  Are  the  daily  papers  chicling  the  high- 
waymen for  their  slip-shod  methods  of  doing  business 
or  is.  it  their  purpose  to  point  out  to  enterprising 
young  men  the  great  possibilities  of  an  ancient  pro- 
fession? 

*  *  * 

Dr.  J.  Milton  Bowers  is  dead.    With  him  is  buried 


Pears' 

People  have  no  idea  how 
crude  and  cruel  soap  can  be. 

It  takes  off  dirt.  So  far, 
BO  good;  but  what  else  does 
it  do. 

It  cuts  the  skin  and  frets 
the  under-skin;  makes  red- 
ness and  roughness  and 
leads  to  worse.  Not  soap, 
but  the  alkali  in  it. 

Pears'  Soap  has  no  free,  al- 
kali in  it.  It  neither  reddens 
nor  roughens  the  skin.  It  re- 
sponds to  water  instantly;  wash- 
esand  rinses  off  in  a  twinkling,  is 
as  gentle  as  strong;  and  the 
after-effect  is  every  way  good. 

Established  over  100  years. 


the  secret  of  the  most  mysterious  murder  case  known 
in  the  police  annals  of  San  Francisco.  There  may  be 
men  among  the  veteran  detectives  who  have  untold 
information  regarding  the  deaths  of  Mrs.  Bowers  and 
her  brother,  the  mysterious  Benhayon,  but  if  so,  they 
have  never  given  it  to  the  public.  If  any  man  alive 
to-day  knows  who  was  responsible  for  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Bowers,  it  is  Bob  Hogan,  the  detective ;  and 
if  any  man  knows  more  than  another  of  the  circum- 
stances leading  to  the  alleged  suicide  of  Benhayon 
it  is  also  Hogan.  In  the  opinion  of  men  who  worked 
on  these  murder  mysteries  with  him  sixteen  years 
ago,  Hogan  is  the  ablest  detective  the  local  police 
force  has  had  in  two  generations — bar  none.  It  was 
over  the  Bowers  case  that  Captain  Lees  and  Hogan 
had  their  famous  disagreement.  Hogan  was  detailed 
on  the  case,  and  brought  in  enough  evidence  to  se- 
cure the  conviction  of  the. physician  of  murder  in  the 
first  degree.  It  was  shown  that  his  wife  had  died 
from  sulphur  poisoning;  that  he  had  insurance  cer- 
tificates on  her  life ;  that  a  former  wife  of  Bowers  had 
also  died  under  mysterious  circumstances.  Hogan's 
chain  of  circumstantial  evidence  was  so  complete  that 
Bowers  was  condemned  to  the  gallows.  But  he 
boasted  that  he  would  never  hang,  and  he  made  his 
boast  good.  During  his  long  confinement  in  the 
Broadway  Jail  he  was  most  constantly  attended  by 
an  old  German  woman,  who  brought  him  his  food 
daily  in  a  basket.  She  was  another  mysterious  fig- 
ure in  this  mysterious  case.  If  my  recollection  serves 
correctly,  she  has  also  passed  away. 

Bowers  to  the  end  insisted  upon  his  innocence 
of  his  wife's  murder.  Captain  Lees  said  he  thought 
Bowers  innocent.  He  resented  the  activity  of  Hogan 
in  the  case.  The  result  was  that  Hogan  was  relieved 
from  active  detective  duty,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
District  Attorney's  office,  where  he  has  been  ever 
since.  If  he  ever  writes  his  reminiscences  they  will 
rival  in  interest  the  adventures  of  Sherlock  Holmes. 


Pine   stationery,    steel   and   copperplate   engraving.     Cooper 

&  Co.,  716  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Dr.  Decker, 

Dentiet,  806  Market.     Specialty  "Colton  Qaa"  for  patnleii 
teeth  extracting. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ORPHEUM— A  very  good  show. 

FISCHER'S— The  Bounders— Forget  it. 

COLUMBIA— A  piece  of  punctuated  stupidity. 

CALIFORNIA— A  good  play,  beyond  the  conception  of  the  actors. 

CENTRAL— Bip  Van  Winkle— a  fair  performance. 

CHUTES— A  good  show. 

ALCAZAR— The  White  Horse  Tavern— A  good  piece  of  work. 

TIVOLI— The  Gypsy  Baron.    A  fine  musical  production. 


The  Silver  Slipper  girls  are  said  to  have  come  to  earth  in  an  airship. 
This  airship  made  a  particularly  slow  journey,  as  most  of  the  "girls" 
are  old  ladies. 


I  have  been  written  a  letter  from  Oakland,  by  a 
well-known  commuter,  that  is  amusing,  and  which 
gives  the  average  resident  a  better  idea  of  the 
chronic  somnolence  of  the  interesting  town  across 
the  bay.  It  seems  that  my  friend  the  Commuter  un- 
dertook the  escort  of  two  ladies  to  the  Orpheus  con- 
cert at  the  McDonough.  He  claims  the  concert  wa* 
well  worth  hearing.  But  that's  another  story.  Our 
concern  is  with  what  happened  in  the  lobby.  The 
commuter  waited  in  the  foyer  whilst  the  ladies 
stepped  into  the  dressing  room.  Suddenly  the  door- 
keeper projects  himself  into  the  commuter's  presence. 
"Where  are  your  tickets?"  he  yelled.  "I  showed  him 
the  stubs,  three  in  number,  which  he  had  just  handed 
me,"  continues  my  informant.  "Where  are  the  other 
parts?"  he  yells  again.  "I  politely  informed  him  he 
had  just  torn  them  off."  "No  one  has  come  into  this 
house  for  the  last  fifteen  minutes."  he  said.  I  felt  like 
rubbing  my  eyes  to  see  whether  I  was  in  dreamland. 
"Why  I  gave  you  three  tickets  myself  not  fifteen 
minutes  ago ;  they  were  for  me  and  for  two  ladies, 
now  in  the  dressing  room,  and  you  gave  me  these 
stubs.  You  tore  them  off  and  gave  them  to  me."' 
"No  one  has  come  in  here  in  the  last  fifteen  minutes,'' 
he  repeated. 

It  seems  that  one  of  the  ushers  had  seen  the  whole 
transaction ;  he  had  observed  the  sleepwalker  return- 
ing the  ticket  stubs  to  the  commuter,  so  he  came 
over  and  led  the  poor  doorkeeper  away — to  have  an- 
other dream. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  question  whether  the  theatre-goers  of  San 
Francisco  are  tired  of  the  mismanagement  of  the  an- 
tiquated California  Theatre  or  whether  they  are  not 
in  touch  with  Dan'l  Sully;  anyway  the  house  is  empty 
nightly.  "The  Chief  Justice,"  with  Dan'l  Sully,  the 
unnatural  actor  in  this  case,  in  the  titular  role,  is  one 
of  the  Fitz  Murphy's  conceptions.  He  is  in  this  part 
an  automaton  and  not  a  man.  It  sparkles  with  epi- 
grams, and  scintillates  with  Murphyisms.  It  is  strong. 
full  of  action,  the  weakest  part  of  the  play  being  the 
thread-bare  cheque  nonsense  in  the  last  act.  This  is 
painful.  Mr.  Sully  cannot  grasp  the  opportunities 
in  this  play.  Murphy's  wit  is  too  fine.  Sully  is  a 
comedy  actor  of  the  half-knockabout  kind,  and  pathos 
in  his  handling  is  worse  than  bathos.  In  other  hands 
and  in  other  houses,  with  a  little  backing  and  filling, 
"The  Chief  Justice"  might  become  a  great  play.  It  has 
in  it  the  germs  of  popularity,  but  the  playhouse  and 
the  player  dampened  the  success  of  the  initial  per- 
formance. Mr.  Sully  is  at  best  but  a  poor  comedy  ac- 
tor, and  his  failure  to  conceive  the  possibilities  of  the 
part  of  Chief  Justice,  together  with  the  unpopularity 
of  the  theatre,  makes  it  certain  that  the  "Standing 
Room  Only"  sign  will  not  be  dusted  off  for  hanging 
out  this  week. 


The  only  bit  of  real  artistic  work  done  in  "The 
Chief  Justice"  is  that  of  Butler  Collins  by  William 
F.  Kobman.  His  work  is  artistic.  The  rest  of  the 
cast  are  twin  brothers  to  fence  posts. 

*  *  * 

Homer  Davenport  has  tried  this  week  to  convince 
the  people  that  he  can  draw  cartoons.  There  never 
was  a  worse  humbug  than  this  man's  alleged  ability 
in  the  line  of  caricature.  He  has  never  been  able 
to  draw  anything  that  resembled  anything  or  any- 
body. His  drawings  all  look  like  a  Kansas  haystack 
in  a  cyclone.  He  is  under  the  management  of  the 
Pond  Lyceum  Bureau,  which  reflects  on  the  intelli- 
gence of  the  Bureau.  Davenport  is  a  pretty  good 
story-teller,  but  considered  as  a  cartoonist,  he  is 
— well — simply  awful.  Hearst  managed  to  make 
himself  believe  that  Davenport  could  draw,  and  then 
some  of  the  public  took  to  the  idea,  and  finally  Dav- 
enport became  convinced.  When  it  became  necessary 
to  retrench  and  cut  down  enormous  expenses,  some- 
body suggested  to  the  young  man  with  the  yellow 
brain  that  Davenport  was  a  luxury,  and  he  was 
lopped  off.  Davenport  has  been  successful,  but  it  is 
a  long  story  of  luck  too  long  to  tell  here. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Block  takes  the  part  of  the  Inn  Keeper  in 
"The  White  Horse  Tavern"  at  the  Alcazar,  and  she 
does  not  appear  as  advantageously  as  in  other  roles. 
She  redeems  herself  in  her  dancing,  in  which  she  is 
very  graceful.  The  Giesecke  of  Osbourne  is  good. 
The  Frederick  Siedler  of  Mr.  Durkin  is  well  done. 
Harry  Hilliard  and  Miss  Starr  gave  us  a  splendid 
piece  of  juvenile  work.  Mr.  Hilliard  has  apparently 
entirely  overcome  the  levity  that  has  been  so  preva- 
lent in  his  tone.  He  has  the  ability  of  modulation, 
and  it  is  a  pity  he  should  ever  forget.  Miss  Starr 
as  the  lisping  damsel  is  simply  perfect.  But  by  far 
the  most  finished  piece  of  make-up  and  acting  was  the 
work  of  Mr.  John  B.  Maher  as  Walter  Hintzelmann, 
the  ideal  tutor  and  traveler.  There  was  not  a  heart 
in  that  audience  that  did  not  go  out  to  the  good  old 
man.  He  gave  us  the  gentle  old  scholar  to  perfec- 
tion. 

*  *  * 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Fischer's  stage  will  soon  see 
the  last  of  "The  Rounders."  There  is  nothing  in  the 
skit,  and  the  sooner  it  is  forgotten  the  better.  It  is 
one  of  the  stunts  that  I  have  seen  and  never  want 
to  see  again.  It  would  not  be  fair  to  the  company 
to  criticise  them  in  this  adaptation  from  the  French. 
The  lyrics  are  only  fair,  and  the  words  are  wearisome. 
Miss  Russell  makes  the  most  of  her  part,  and  Miss 
Lynch  is  entitled  to  praise  in  hers.  Miss  Russel!  is 
very  attractive  as  a  coryphee,  and  those  that  waited 
to  see  her  in  the  almost  altogether  were  not  disap- 
pointed. The  new  male  faces  in  the  cast  are  allowed 
by  the  playwright  to  give  only  an  approximation  of 
their  abilities.  I  would  suggest  that  adaptations  from 
the  French  be  tabooed  unless  a  better  selection  be 

made. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  marked  improvement  in  the  giving  of 
"The  Gypsy  Baron."  The  music  at  the  Tivoli  is  de- 
lightful, and  the  attendance  is  good. 

Half  of  the  theatres  in  New  York  are  closed,  and 
the  other  half  are  playing  to  poor  houses  and  poorer 
prices.  That  is  exactly  what  is  going  to  happen 
in   San    Francisco.     "The   Silver  Slipper"   is   an   in- 


March  la,  1904. 


c.    The  music  is  not  music,  and  only  relic 
Hull  by  going  with  :i  tip  an 

-ix  'Wiiii-  Girls"  an  athletic  \.miiis'  fen 
at  a  distance  arc  quite  agreeable  t"  the 
nearer  inspection  they  are  r 

There  is  the  usual  knock-about  business  that  ■•htain- 
in  recent  vaudeville,  and  Mr.  Samuel  O  llins  trie- 
hard  to  be  funny.  The  music  betrays  the  hand  of  the 
authors  of  "Florodora"  only  at  infrequent  intervals. 
The  "Champagne  Dance"  has  a  -wing  to  it.  and  in 
fact  the  whole  opera  has  a  swing.  This  is  due  to  tin- 
quick  time  rather  than  because  of  any  inherent  musi- 
cal quality.  The  local  theatrical  managers  need  some 
one  to  vise  their  [days:  some  one  who  has  Had  more 
than  a  commercial  acquaintance  with  the  English 
language.  There  is  no  reason  why  the  men  in  the 
"Silver  Slipper"  should  have  been  recruited  from 
among  the  professional  pall-bearers  of  Xew  York,  but 
from  the  appearance  of  these  gentlemen  I  should  have 
no  hesitancy  in  saying  that  such  was  the  case. 

*  *  * 

The  Minetti  Chamber  Music  Quartette  which,  dur- 
ing the  last  eight  years  has  given  continuous  series 
of  chamber  music  concerts,  will  again  come  before 
the  public  this  year  in  a  number  of  the  most  inter- 
esting and  artistic  programmes  heard  here  during 
its  existence.  The  programmes  will  contain  several 
novelties  of  great  importance,  and  will  be  executed 
in  that  finished  style  which  always  characterized  the 
recitals  of  this  popular  quartette.  The  concerts  will 
take  place  at  Lvric  Hall  on  Friday  afternoon,  March 
25th. 

*  *  * 

The  coming  week  is  the  last  week  of  "The  Gypsy 
Baron."  "Mr.  Pickwick"  will  be  put  on  Monday, 
March  21st. 

.  Many  good  things  are  promised  for  the  future  at 
the  Columbia.  Mary  Mannering  in  "Harriet's  Honey- 
moon," Anna  Held  in  "Mademoiselle  Napoleon," 
John  Drew,  and  later  on  Maude  Adams  and  the  real 
Roger  Brothers.    It  looks  like  a  season  of  good  shows. 

The  Alameda  Lustspiel  Ensemble  will  give  a  Ger- 
man performance  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  on  Sun- 
day night,  April  3d.  The  farcical  comedy,  "Das 
Opferlamin"   (The  Scapegoat)   will  be  staged. 

At  the  Central  Theatre  the  popular  drama,  "Rip 
Van  Winkle,"  which  closes  a  highly  prosperous 
week  to-morrow  night,  will  be  followed  on  Monday 
evening  by   the   favorite     Irish     drama,     "Shamus 

O'Brien." 

*  *  * 

Deonzo  and  Schenck,  trick  barrel  jumpers  of  re- 
nown, will  be  new  at  the  Chutes  this  coming  week, 
as  will  also  Lyne  and  Leonard,  the  "Dancing  Na- 
bobs." Vera.  Randall,  a  juvenile  singer  and  dancer, 
promises  a  novel  specialty,  and  the  Robinsons,  a 
colored  song  and  dance  team,  come  with  a  great  rep- 
utation for  fun-making  powers.  The  Bennington 
Duo,  Tyrolean  warblers,  will  vary  their  act.  and  Ma- 
bel Lamson,  the  popular  contralto,  will  be  heard  in 
new  illustrated  songs.  The  amateurs  will  appear  on 
(Continued  to  Page  21.) 

flfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'8 

Listen   to   the   matchless   string  band   and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zlnkand   Is   society's   gathering   place  after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Graod  Opera  hjouse 


17 


WVok    r>*ginning    t<>-inorn>w  dellffMfulIf    -lr"ll 

cornelian 

FRANK.  BACON 

Ami  his  own  <v>?npnny  In  t tio  oooittSy  ■' 

THE    HILLS  OF  CALIFORNIA 

Regular  mallnoe  SaMmlftr- 

■  .in.i  no;  Hutnees,  Its,  Ml  .. 
Oomlnc-MBa  kiskf.. 


Fischer's    Theatre 

Hiive  vmi  hoard  the  rerdlotl   Our  new  Innovation, 

A  complete  ami  emphatic  success  so  pru-lninioil  by  press  anil 
pul'li.- 

THE     ROUNDERS 
The  trroat  v- u  ■»  ori  <  i&slno  mustcal  •■<  imedy,  superior  to  ail  pas* 

Sroduotlona     Tremendous  hit  of  kichaki*  F.  CARROLL  and 
OHH  l'  KENNEDY.    Gorgeously  staged.    Hansomely  gowned 
Reserved  soots,  nights,  ace.  wo  and  78©, 
Katinees  Saturday  anil  Sunday •    250  am 
Children  at  Matinees,  lot-  and  Mc. 


Columbia  Tbeatre. 


Gottluo,  Marx  &  Co, 

LesKe*  »nd  MflOAgera. 
To-night.  Sunday  night  and  all  next  week-     Slatiue  )  Saturday. 
John  0.  Fisher's  stupendous  musical  comedy  production 

THE   SILVER   SLIPPER 

r.v  i  he  authors  of  "Floradora". 

With  Samuel  Collins. 

The  sensational  "Champagne  Dance." 

Monday,  March  2lstMary  Mannering  in  "Harriet's  Honeymoon" 


Omhpi  ltT\       San  Francisco's  Greatest  Muelc  Hall. 
V-/I  fJI  IcUl  1^.     o'Farrcll  St..  between   Stockton  mid  Povroll  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.     March  13. 

ENCHANTING     VAUDEVILDE 

Emmett  Corrigan  Company:  The  Nichols  Sisters;  Loney 
Haskell;  Poettinger's  Swedish  Ladies  Quintette;  Ferguson  and 
Mack;GUlo's  Artesto;  Lowe-Hughes  Duo;  Orpheum  Motion 
Pictures  and  the 

BARROWS-LANCflSTER     CO. 

Including  Miss  Clara  Thropp,  in  "A  Chip  of. 'the  Old  Block." 

Prices,  loc.  25c  and  50c- 

Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

C* r>r\\- vr*\    TKantva  Bblasco  &  Mayer.  Proprietors 

^eiJCrai      I  neatre.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  533 

Week  of  Monday,  March  14.      Matinees,  Saturday  and  Sunday 
,  The  greatest  of  Irish  dramas  t 

SHAMUS     O'BRIEN 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  60c.    Matinees  10. 15,  250- 
Week  of  March  21-KING    OP    DETECTIVES. 

Ai-,„__„   Thanl-vQ  Bblasco  &  Matee,  Proprietors 

AlCaZar     ineaCre    E.  D.  Pbioe,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees   Saturday    and    Sunday. 

One  week  commencing  Monday  March  14 

First  dramatic  representation  of  Wagner's  mystical  music  play 

based  upon  legends  of  the  Holy  Grail 

.    PARSIFAL 

As  adapted  by  Fitzgerald  Murphy.    The  Wagner  music,   ar- 
ranged by  Manuel  Klein  for  enlarged  orchestra  of  twenty. 
No  one  seated  after  8  p.  m. 
Parsifal  prices— Evenings  25c  to  $1.    Matinees  26c  to  76c. 


Tivoli  Opera  House. 


Ly 


Corner  Eddy  and 

Mason  Streets 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Beginning  Monday,  March  7. 
lhird  and  last  week  of  the  unqualified  success 

THE    GYPSY     BflRON 

A  romantic  opera  in  three  acts  by  JOHANN  STE  AUSS 

First  appearance,  in  English,  of  SIG.  DOMENI0O  EUSSO.  the 

favorite  tenor.    March  21,  ME.  PICKWICK. 

TJsual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c.    Box  Seats,  Jl. 

vi  r    Hall    H»  EDDY  ST. 
I  lb    11  an    above  Mason 

THE   MINETTI   STRING  QUflRTET 

8th  season  in  San  Francisco  and  Miss  Frances  Eock.  Pianist  will 
give  Three  Chamber  Music  Concerts. 

First  concert  Friday  afternoon.  Mar.  24,  at  3  o'clock.  Second  con- 
cert Friday  Afternoon.  April  8th  at  3  o'clock.  Third  concert 
Friday  afternoon,  April  22d  at  3  o'clock. 

Subscription  for  the  three  concerts,  including  a  reserved  seat 
$2.50.    Single  ticket  $1.    Admission  60c. 

Tickets  on  sale  at  Sherman  &  Clay's  Music  Store  two  days  before 
the  concert. 


i8 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


BANKING. 


How  San  Francisco 


Looks    to    M< 


By    Fernauld  Travels.  Tourist 


No    II 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital.  Surplus  ana  Undivided    }$|  3^00,000 

^Vi^?'c^^&*L\tin2iiS£^^*  B'  ^C    Illegitimate 

^rte^fe^lhro^hVut8?^  ^orti.  ^nV^fSS&nT'bu--  You  know,  don't  you,  that  I  am  really  glad  that  I 

ness  transacted.  am  an  American  horn,  but  I  thank  God  I  was  bred  in 

Britain.     Whilst   I   am   proud   of  the   land  of   "me"' 

San   FranciSCO   SaVinqS   Union  birth,  I  am  equally  glad  that  wealth  and  good  taste 

„„  „  ,,,      ,    „            ,tt  wL  a.    a      ^        ,„„„  on  the  part  of  my  forebears  compelled  me  to  get  my 

532  California  St..  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco.  .r    '     "        V                                     f                             b            J 

b.  b.  pond.  President:  w.  c.  b.  DePREMBRY.  Robert  education    abroad.     One   of    the    few     things     that 

^^TSSSSS?oStatOV" ""  WHITE'    CaSl"er;    R'   M'  Americans  have  yet  to  learn  and  which  they  should 

GeDoVrIet0crS-BEoarBdnfar^a7obCBaBrt.1De?reS,.e,S:   SIRS.  ^'"h!  *?    ^    f™'1,   is    tlle,  ,breedin?    °f    tllat    unspeakable 
Beaver.    William  A.    Magee.   Robert  Watt.  thing  Winch   1  am  told  IS  111  this  country  called  a      re- 
Receives  deposits  and  loans  on   real   estate  security.     Country  ;tf                         •■       j    u_„„  in„„pj     „„    T    -~;a   laar  WPPi, 
remittances  mav  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  mittance   man.         1    Have   loaned,   as    1    said  last  week, 

0.1,re.llanie.J1,aroes;  ravab,e  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon-  a  ■  few    pounds   or   dollars    to   American    gentlemen, 

slbllity  of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  ,             TF;                             ,                        ,     ,      ,            .  °        ,              ' 

ceipt  of  the  money.    The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  whom  1  have  met  when  stranded  abroad,  and  most 

company    the   first   deposit.      No   charge   Is   made   for   pass-book  r    ■.     ,  „       , ,„    „„:j    v K        T    u-,.,~    k„„«    K/,i.m,,rQ^ 

or  entrance  fee.  of   it   has   been   paid   back.     1    nave    been   borrowed 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8.  .-.ff  a  fPW  times  here  in  San  Francisco  bv  the  "remit- 

Deposits.    December   31.    1903    $33,232,908  OTI   a  IeW      „      ,S,    CV5       ,.    ,         7  r<»lClSCO   U)    llie      ieimi 

Guarantee   capital.   Paid-up    l.ooo.ooo  tance  man.       1  he  English  education  may  be  the  best, 

Reserve   and   Contingent   Funds   «*.SU  faut    rea,h,    the    Amencan    business    education    makes 

Mutual   SaViOClS    Bank   of  s«,  Fr.™.™  the   smartest   business   men      The   American    won't 

J  lend  the  remittance  man  a  farthing — he  knows  he  d 

r.    ,.n,°  Market  st-  opposite  Third.              .1/w,„™  lose  it.     The  chap  at  the  club  apologized  the  other 

Gua.ra.nt66    Cnplta.1 %\  ,  WO.fX'''  •     i         -                       •       •                                        1     ±.    i       i      j    a. 

Paid-up  capital  and  Surplus  500.000  night   tor  introducing  me  to  a  what   looked  to  me 

JAMES   D.    PHELAN.    President:    S.    G.    MURPHT.    Vlce-Presi-  rA„ll,,   rlPr„,lf   rl,on        Hp   said-   "Hp   is  a    crnnd    fellow 

dent;  georgb  a.  STORY,  cashier:  john  a.  hooper,  vice-  really  decent  ciiap.     Me  said,     tie  IS  a  good  ienow, 

pSTs'd«"t:^ic.BTH0BS^'^A,ssistSnJ.  c,a.shler-     ,  ..  but  don't  loan  him  anything;  he  is  a  remittance  man. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphv.  John  A.  riooper.  .    r      .      ,            .               t                 i                                    c             i_ 

James   Moffltt.    Frank   J.    Sullivan.    Robert   McEiroy,   Rudolph  1  find  that   these  chaps  who  get  money  trom  home 

Spreckels.  James  M.   McDonald.   Charles   Holbrook.  j            p-itlpil  hti  Hip  narnp  n!  rpmittanrp  tnpn  are  the 

interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  on  approved  securities.  ana  are  called  Dy  tlic  name  or  remittance  men  are  me 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  worst  bounders  VOU  folks  have  to  contend  with.  Thev 

exchange  on  city  banks.  ,                  ,    ,              J             ,     -                                         .            .       ,.  - 

beg   and   borrow,   and   for  one   or   two   days  in   the 

_  month  they  plunge,  and  what  they  do  in  the  meantime 

The  German    SaVinqS  «  Loan   Society  between    remittances    only   a   non-committal    Provi- 

no.  528  California  street,  san  francisco.  dence  knows.     I  suppose  there  are  some  chaps  who 

Guaranteed   Capital   and   Surplus    *2.423.7ri.gi  take  care  of  their  "Governors,"  send  and  use  it  care- 

^^^^^^^..^..^.-^^^-■^Z^  fully  i"  other  places  than  bars  and  gambling  rooms. 

board  of  directors— President.  John  Lloyd;  First  vice-  These   chaps   are   hard   to   find.      1  liev   are   all  bad. 

President.  Daniel  Meyer:  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann:       tu  ~      *i     :      _■  r  ,       u_„ u„,-    *■  ^    iU~    K«1~*   ^nA    i 

ign.  steinhardt.  Emu  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  ohiandt,  I.  N.  wai-  1  hey   wear  their  riding  breeches  to  the  links  and  a 

ten^J-  I'-J^^Em..   »„=i=,o„»  n„„>,,„   wnii.™  «.„  sack  tweed  coat  to  dinner;  they  do  the  "outre"  thing 

Cashier.   A.    H.   R.   Schmidt;   Assistant  Cashier.   William   Herr-  .  .      J    .              .             . 

mann;    Secretary.    George   Tourny;    Assistant    Secretary,    A.    H.  all    the    time.       I  hey    are    shipped    Out    here    by    SOllle 

Muller;  General  Attorney.  W.  S.  Goodfellow.  Q,d   {a(.her  whQ   drcanls   lhat   the   son   who   is   shipped 

can't  possibly,  don't  you  know,  do  any  worse  over 

_                             _         ,.          „    .  liere  than  he  did  at  home  in  England,  and  the  news 

Uontinental  Building  G>  LoaQ  Association  of  his  drunken  debauches  won't  ever  reach  the  Eng- 

Estabiished  in  18R9.                                         of  California.  Hsh  villaee  anv  way,  and  so  the  weak-kneed  and  ant- 

301    California    Street.    San    Francisco,    Cal.  ,        ■        .    °  .             ri          i                 .    n        i„   „       j    {„„-, 

Subscribed   capital    ji5.ooo.ooo.oo  brained  scion  of  an  already  mentally  decayed  lam- 

^o^^n^RlserVe'Fund''.:::.'.':::::.':'::.'::::::::::::::::  lSK  "y.  i«»^  ™  California,  assured  of  a  monthly  cheque 

interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum  from  the  Governor  and  a  little  extra  now  and  again 

on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  ,                         r             .,                                ^. 

Dr.    Washington   Dodge,    President;  William   Corbln,    Secretary  thrown    111    irom    the    mater    or    the    sister. 

and  General  Manager.  Tt  ta\.es  but  a  little  while,   I  think,  for  these  in- 
decent, expelled  and  rusticated  fellows  to  get  a  dark- 

International  Banking  Corporation  ship  in  some  shop,  and  then  I  am  told  they  tell  of  their 

J         °             r                   J  families,  and  who  and  what  thev  are  not,  and  usually 

capita,  and  Su-X \  WA^. ^ .  ^ "  .^ vmm  they  work  some  poor  devil  of  an  Episcopalian  min- 

Capital  and  Surplus  Authorized  10,000.000.06  ister  to  introduce  them  to  some  nice  people,  and  then, 

OFFICERS— William  L.   Moyer.  President:  Charles  D.  Palmer.  „.|,„     tu„    -u.„    lc,ou    t,-.,,,,,    ...Itl,    hie    .lphts    nnnairl 

Assistant    to    President:    William    B.    Wightman,    Assistant    to  why,    the    Chap    leaves    town    with    Ills    deDts    unpaid, 

r/^!deT^J?,hnT?»ub^aJd' JreiSsurer:  Jawfn,  H-  5ogtI8' ,s!cre"  and   all   the   money   he   could   borrow,  and   even  his 

tary:    John    B.    Lee.    General    Manager;    William    H.    Maclntyre.  ...         ,        ,          ,  -        .      ,                 .                     ,        . 

Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green.  Counsel.  linen    in    the    hands    ot    the   wasllman.    who    IS   a    poor 

BRANCHES— London.   San  Francisco,   City  of  Mexico.  Manila,  /-■  •    „  ,,„.,      „_  ,    „<■,„,    „_„,,,;„„    0    ^t,it,l-,l«    Ko^rrl    onrl 

Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  shanghai,  Singapore.  Chinaman,   and   alter   growing  a   stubble   beard   and 

AGENCIES— Bombay,    Calcutta,    Madras,     Penang,     Rangoon.  o-nino-   around    rodp-inp-   with    dirtv   shirts   and   clothes 

Colombo.    Amoy,    Canton.    Hankow.    Tientsin,    Tansul.    Anplng.  SoulS    around   codging    wun    uuiy  suiiu 

Bakan,  Mo]l,   Saigon.   Kobe,  Bangkok,   Batavla,   Samarang,   Sou-  he    goes    back,    and    beggar   me    it    he    does    not    go   to 

rabay  SANndFRANciscof  BRANCH-32-34  Sansome  street.  another    section    of    the    same    county,    sometimes, 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.     Accounts  of  corpora-  a,,,!    rhcut    ao-ain        T    renllv    think    that    1    mav    moral- 

tlons.  firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  an"    c  leat    aS,aln;      l    really    ullllK    nidi    i    ind\     ""J"11 

on  approved  securities.     Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  ize.       1    USUalK'    lei     Roger    do    that    tor      me,     but      t 

and   sold.     Travelers'   and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted,  i  •             *     r             r        r\       TT  >*.      *u„      ntl,flr      Ai** 

available  In  any  part  of  the  world.     Interest  bearing  certificates  gave      him      a      tew       1.      U.       U.  S      tile      Otner      da), 

of  deposit   isued   for   fixed   periods.     Interest  allowed   to   banks  ,,,l,,Vli     T     1-mrl    rnllprtpd     from    the    remitters     and 

on  current  daily  balances.    Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping  whicli     I     had    collected    irom    inc    reniiuer.s,    aim    i 

accounts    with    us,    and    drawing    direct    on    our    branches    and  think  he  burned   them.      1  am   sure  he  did   not  collect 

^cSrreTpondbncbTnvited.  them,  and  so  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  these  fellows 

f.  e.  bkck.  Manager.             p.  a   EASTWicK,  jr.,  Ast  Mgr  are  really  undesirable.     They  can  t  stay  home,  don  t 


March  12,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'9 


you  know,  and  the; 

do   a'  :hlc    thing!)    111    tlvir    strait* 

froin  drinking;  they  become  hostlers.  '<r  wi 
or  touts  or  billiard  markers,  but  they  ti  1 1  >  1  their  I 
and  the  level  is  usually,  I  assure  you,  measured  1>\  thi 
depth  of  the  gutter.  Had  they  been  decent,  the) 
might  still,  don't  you  know,  be  in  England,  In- 
ordinary remittance  man  can't  stay  at  home,  and  1" 
gad.  he  can't  stay  here.  He  bellows  and  whines  anil 
works  his  friends  of  the  Union  Jack,  and  di( 
dipsomania  as  a  rule.  It's  too  bad.  These  scumni) 
chaps  should  be  kept  away:  let  them  kill  themselves 
off  at  home,  and  not  he  sent  lure  to  bring  discredit 
on  their  families.  One  virtue  the  ordinary  remit- 
tance man  has.  as  I  have  found  it.  he  has  pride  en 
and  a  sort  of  courage  which  makes  him  keep  his 
family  name  to  himself.  He  may  -ink  low  down. 
don't  you  know,  even  as  low  as  being  a  waiter  in  a 
beer  place,  but  he  keeps  his  name  to  himself.  A 
gentleman  of  my  class  is  always  a  gentleman,  and 
as  long  as  he  continues  to  be  such,  other  gentlemen 
will  be  his  friends  and  bankers.  I  think  that  the 
fellow  who  has  any  standing  at  all  in  society  can 
keep  it,  but  only  for  the  time,  don't  you  know,  that 
he  deserves  it.  We  of  the  classes  are  compelled  to 
stand  together,  and  it  takes  something  disgraceful 
or  dishonorable  to  drive  one  of  our  people  out  of 
our  set.  No  man,  unless  he  has  brought  it  on  him- 
self by  being  a  bad  lot,  and  by  his  actions,  has  Io>t 
the  confidence  of  his  friends,  ever  needs  to  "sling 
hash,"  as  you  call  it  here.  He  can  go  into  the  wine 
business  or  coal,  or  other  things.  The  gentleman 
who  is  one,  and  has  proven  it  so,  can't  possibly. 
don't  you  know,  become  a  wood-chopper  or  a  tram- 
way driver.  We  can  find  him  something  else  to  do 
if  he  is  worth  it.  If  he  is  a  bounder  and  a  bad  one. 
he  can  live  his  life  out  in  the  manner  that  his  weak 
nature  suggests.  The  remittance  man  is  a  blasted 
bore;  he  is  universally  a  scoundrel,  he  imposes  upon 
his  people  at  home  as  well  as  his  friends 
here,  if  he  makes  any,  and  in  the  end  goes  unshaved 
and  unshriven  to  a  poor  house  graveyard  to  the 
everlasting  relief  of  those  who  had  the  misfortune 
to  know  him.  I  think  he  is  the  Fagan  of  society,  with 
the  brutality  of  a  Sykes.  Blame  me,  he  cheats, 
thieves,  robs  and  spends  under  an  alias.  It  is  only 
the  cur  and  coward,  the  whelps  of  the  remittance 
man  with  the  yellow  streak  that  whines  when  licked 
and  beggar-like  shows  his  bruises  and  tells  his  name 
and  disgraces  the  mother  who  bore  him  and  the 
father  who  sent  htm  way  off  across  the  pond  for 
charity  or  the  borrow  of  a  dollar.  I  think  it  is  really 
too  bad  that  you  can  let  these  remittance  fellows  do 
these  things.  Can't  you  arrest  them  and  put  them  in 
quod.  I  suggest  this.  The  right  English  chaps  over 
here  don't  care — that  is  their  way,  but  really  it  is 
positively  brutal  to  have  a  fellow,  for  instance,  who 
says  he  left  the  old  country  and  disgraced  him- 
self and  "was  a  hash-slinger"  in  some  sort  of  a  low 
restaurant  in  some  little  place,  and  who  worked  his 
sister  for  a  remittance,  and  then  used  the  money  in 
a  bad  manner.  It  is  positively  wrong  to  permit  a 
bounding  codger  who  will  do  a  nasty  thing  like  this 
to  disgrace  the  name  of  a  fairly  decent  English  house. 
I  want  a  stop  to  this  kind  of  thing.  Names,  don't  you 
know,   are   names,  and   I   can   and   will   individually 

protect  that  of  ,.*.,,- 

FERNAULD  TRAVERS. 

N.  B.— I  am  devilishly  sorry  for  that  poor  devil 
of  a  Carling,  who  wrote  to  your  paper.  Hash-slinger 
in  a  stingaree  eating  place  in  the  night  time  and 
tourist.  Gad!  can't  vou  help  a  fellow  able  as  he 
must  be  to  a  position  of  clown  in  a  cheap  circus  or 


.1-.  what  was  it  your  American  author  called  it — a 
chambermaid  in  a  livery  mows  Tourist  and  hash- 
sling  devil      he  must   have  suffered. 

Testa  Briquettes,  tne  popular  domestic  hMl,  arc  only 

$7.60  per  ton;  half  ton  14;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
Tesla  Coal  Company,     Hn  and  Channel.    'Phone  South  96. 


Allen's   Press  Clipping  Bureau   has  removed   to  the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,    San    Francisco,    Cat. 

baTk  I  N  G  ■ 

The  San  Francisco  National  BdQk 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  Sts.,   San   Francises. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President:  WM,  PIERCE  JOHNSON.  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWGILL.  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant  Cashier. 

Capital,    J500.000.      Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits,    $200,000 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,  Vioe-Prest  Willamette  ruin 
,\  Paper  Co.  Wm.  J.  TMitton,  Presfdnnt  Firemnns  Fund  Ins.  Co.  H.  E. 
Huntington.  First  Vlce-Pred  B-P.B  It  Geo.  A.  Popeof  Pone  «V  Tal- 
bot. Lumber  Dealers.  C-  s.  Benedict,  Capitalist  George  Almpr  New- 
hall.  H-  M.  Nftwhal!  a  Co.  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist.  James  K.  Wilson, 
President.    EL  l*.  Morton. 

AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics"  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— ctrown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,  Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up  Capital.  $8,700,000  Reserve  Fund,   $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  $80,000,000 
HOW.    GEORGE   A.    COX,   President. 
B.   E.  Walker,  General  Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE-60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW   YORK   OFFICE— 16   Exchange   Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlln,      Cranbrook, 
Fernle.    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmlth,    Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New  Westminster,   Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN  YUKON  TERRITORY— Dawson   and  'White  Horse. 
IN  UNITEu  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Also    80    other   branches,    covering     the     principal     points     In 
Manitoba.  N.  W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN    LONDON— The  Bank  of  England,   the   Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,    Ltd.  ,  „     , 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
S»N     FRANCISCO    0FFICE- 

S25  California  Street.  ' 

A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


London.  Paris  and  American  BankLluliltd 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND   SUTTER  STS 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paia,-„UP    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund.   $1,100,000 
Head  Offlce-^10  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS-New  York-Agency  of  the  London.  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can  Bank,    Limited.    No.    10   Wall   street.    N.   Y.;    Paris-Messrs 
,„„/  Freres    &.   Cie,    17   Boulevard    Poissoniere.     Draw    direct 
ol ?  th" >  principal  cities  of  the  world.    Commercial  and  Travelers' 

"lio"  GREENEBAUM.    Manager;    ~.    S.    GREEN,    Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.   ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 


The  fqnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE-18  Austin  Friars,  London.  E.  C. 
SThe  Bank-transacts  a  general  banking  business    «"»  draftf, 
money,  buys^and  ^ns^hange ^and  bulllon.^^   Managefa 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery   St..    Mills  <ulldlng 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. | 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized   Capital P'SSS'ffl 

Paid-up   Capital   and  Reserve   $l,M»,ouu 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  In 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice 
President;  O.  A,  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
INSURANCE 


March  12,  1904. 


FIRE,   MARINE  AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  1719. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF   PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    $J,0O»,000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,    A.    D.   1720. 
Capital   Paid-up.   $3,446,100.  Asset*.  $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 
FRANK   W.   DICKSON,    Manager,  501   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established    1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.    SMITH,    Manager  Pacific   Department. 
COLIN  M.   BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative    Life   Insurance   Company 

Assets,   $1,500,000.     Insurance   in   force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company-    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign    Marine    Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital     

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


$67,0M,0«O 

316  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT,    GERMANY 

Capital   $2,250,000  Assets  $10,984,246 

VOSS.    CONRAD  &  CO..  General   Managers. 
Pacific   Coast   Department:   204-208   Sansome   St.,   San   Francisco 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,   Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


-iS^SflMl 


Insurance 


The  Sun  Insurance  Office  of  Londun,  founded  in 
1 710,  and  which  is  the  oldest  purely  fire  insurance 
company  in  the  world,  came  to  the  front  in  their 
own  old-fashioned  way  in  the  recent  Baltimore  fire 
in  the  following  manner:  "Our  directors  in  London 
have  decided  that  the  money  required  to  discharge 
the  company's  obligations  at  Baltimore  shall  be  sup- 
plied by  the  head  office,  and  they  have  authorized 
the  New  York  office  to  draw  upon  them  at  sight 
for  the  requisite  amount.  This  action  on  their  part 
will  leave  the  United  States  branch  in  the  same 
financial  condition  as  it  was  shown  to  be  by  the 
statement  of  its  affairs  December  31,  1903,  rendered 
to  insurance  departments,  which  is  as  follows: 
Assets. 

Real  estate  in  New  York  City,  including  company's 
office  building,  $261,000:  Loans  on  real  estate  in 
\Tew  York  City,  $57,000;  United  States  Government 
bonds,  $379,800;  Railroad  and  other  bonds,  guaran- 
teed, preferred  and  other  railroad  stocks  and  other 
securities,  $1,633,257;  Cash  in  banks.  $279,649;  Cash 
in  agents'  hands  and  in  course  of  collection,  $274,550; 
Other  admitted  items,  $26,626;  Total,  $2,911,882. 
Liabilities. 

Reserve  for  unearned  premiums,  $1,728,952;  Re- 
serve for  losses  in  process  of  adjustment,  $210,696; 
Reserve  for  other  liabilities,  $12,106;  Surplus  over  all 
liabilities,    $960,128;    Total,   $2,911,822. 

C.  A.  Henry  &  Company,  General  Agents  of  the 
old  Sun,  did  not  rush  into  press  as  soon  as  the  fire 
had  occurred.  It  preferred  to  trust  to  the  public  and 
rested  safe  in  its  own  strength  and  its  well-known 
popularity.  The  British  companies  cabled  their 
losses,  and  the  Sun  was  among  the  first,  but  it  saved 
its  press  notices  until  after  the  smoke  of  the  fire  had 

cleared   away. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Dixwell  Hewitt.  Assistant  General  Agent  of 
the  old   Hertford,   sailed   for  Honolulu   on   the   last 

steamer. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Joseph  H.  Lenehan,  of  the  Phenix  of  Brooklyn, 
was  a  cabin  passenger  on  the  Sierra.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife  and  Miss  Lenehan,  and  goes  to 
Honolulu  to  look  over  the  field.  Only  the  fact  that 
the  Sierra  sailed  at  2  a.  m.  depleted  the  crowd  that 
went  down  to  the  pier  to  see  him  off. 

*  *  * 

The  Globe-Democrat  states  that  the  plans  of  the 
management  of  the  World's  Fair  contemplate  that 
invitations  be  sent  out  to  the  managers  and  principal 
officers  of  all  the  leading  fire  insurance  companies 
doing  business  in  the  United  States  to  be  the  guests 
in  St.  Louis  on  March  22d  of  the  World's  Fair  man- 
agement. The  object  of  the  meeting  is  to  give  insur- 
ance representatives  an  opportunity  to  inspect  the 
facilities  on  the  World's  Fair  grounds  for  fighting 
fire  and  to  learn  the  character  of  the  risks.  Fears 
have  been  expressed  that  the  World's  Fair  might  not 
be  able  to  secure  the  necessary  insurance  on  the 
Fair  exhibits. 

The  commitee  appointed  from  the  St.  Louis  fire 
prevention  bureau  to  arrange  a  programme  of  en- 
tertainment for  the  visiting  insurance  men  consists 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ram,  chairman;  !•'.  I  >.  Hirechberg 
Markham.  The  programme  at  the  World's 
Fafa  grounds  pectacular.    The  firemen  will 

of  speed  ami  efficiency  will 
be  made. 


Pleasure's     Wand. 

(Continued  from  Page  17.) 
Thursday  night    The  stantly  in  receipt  of 

new  and  valuable  animals  from  all  climes. 

*  *  * 

Rehearsals  at  the  Tivoli  are  going  on  for  "Mr. 
Pickwick,''  which  promises  to  be  a  notable  produc- 
tion.     In   this   musical   comedy,    Dora  de   Fillippe,   a 

soprano  iron)  l'aris.  will  make  her  first  appearance 
in  this  city,  as  will  also  George  Chapman,  an  emi- 
nent young  baritone,  who  created  Mr.  Winkle  in  the 
original  production.  The  clever  young  comedian. 
Forrest  Seabury,  has  been  especially  engaged  to  play 
foe,  the  fat  boy. 

*  *  * 

Among  the  early  productions  at  Fischer's  Theatre 
will  be  "Chow  Chow,"  that  is  now  known  as  "The 
Runaways  in  the  East,"  and  "Kismet,"  both  success- 
ful and  beautiful  musical  novelties. 

*  *  * 

Among  the  many  attractions  at  the  Orpheum  the 
coming  week  is  Emmett  Corrigan,  the  distinguished 
young  actor  wdio  starred  most  successfully  in  this 
city  last  season,  and  has  been  induced  to  give  up  the 
legitimate,  and  will  appear,  with  competent  support, 
at  the  Orpheum  this  coming  week.  The  medium 
for  his  introduction  to  vaudeville  is  a  one-act  playlet 
entitled  "Jockey  Jones,  or  The  Day  of  the  Handicap," 
and  the  Eastern  press  and  public  are  most  enthusi- 
astic in  praise  of  both  the  star  and  his  sketch. 

*  *  * 

"Parsifal"  is  a  pictorial  sermon.  Its  three  most 
impressive  incidents  are  the  ceremonial  of  the  supper  i 
in  the  temple ;  the  temptation  of  Parsifal  in  the  gar- 
den of  roses,  transformed  by  magic  to  a  blasted  waste 
and  the  Good  Friday  scene  where  the  repentant  Kim- 
dry  bathes  the  feet  of  Parsifal,  and  both  are  baptized- 
To  preserve  the  atmosphere  of  this  solemn  festival 
play  the  management  of  the  Alcazar  announces  tha.t 
no  one  will  be  seated  after  the  fanfare  of  trumpets 
in  the  foyer  at  8  p.  m.,  until  the  close  of  the  over- 
ture— played  in  utter  darkness — and  the  first  act. 
It  has  been  suggested  that  all  applause  be  withheld 

until  after  the  first  act. 

*  *  * 

It  is  disagreeable  to  have  some  one  raise  both 
arms  and  an  immense  picture  hat  between  you  and 
the  stage  and  obstruct  your  view  in  a  frantic  endea- 
vor to  reach  the  exit  first.  One  would  think  the 
house  was  on  fire.  This  is  about  the  only  place 
where  a  woman  does  not  stop  to  ask :  "Is  my  hat  on 
straight?"  It's  all  one  to  her  if  it's  straight,  crooked 
or  back  foremost,  but  she  must  discommode  every 
one  else  to  make  that  exit.  Once  out  on  the  street, 
she  will  straighten  out  her  cloak  and  hat,  make 
the  customary  inquiry  and  then  loiter  around  won- 
dering at  what  particular  restaurant  she  and  her 
blanc-bec  escort   are   going     to  .  visit. 

A.  rub  at  th«  Post  St.   Hammam  will  do  you  good. 


J  p.  LACAZE  &co. 

French    Laundry    Work   Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 

TEL.    EAST    615  829    SUTTER    ST 


No  Dust 
While  Dancing' 

Bowdtcafa  PulrcrlMd  FT.or  Wni  sinks  Int"  the 
•  !  i — men  ii  pan  r,r  tni.  i.cnutifuiiv  Dollshwl 
dancing  surface  it  nmk>'s  im  dim*,  does  nol  rub  Into 
lumps  ..r  sii.  k  t"  ihr  shoes.  Just  sprinkle  on  and  the 
dancers  well  do  the  real  1> 
clothes  .if  the  Snaat   fabric. 

Ue  by   Mack  «    Co.,    Langley  .«-  Michaels  and 
Redlngl  . „.   Kirk.  Geary  *  Co 

Sacramento,  and  K.  w.  Braun  A  Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax 


NO  END  TO  THE  BIG  CROWD 

The  big  Furniture  and  Carpet  SALE  seems 
to  have  a  strong  hold  on  the  Public.  It  is  as- 
tonishing to  see  the  great  crowds  gathering  daily  at 

PATTOSIEN'S  Cor.  16th  &  Mission  Sts. 

500  Rolls  of  Carpets  arrived  which  could  not 
be  canceled,  and  will  be  sold  at  40  per  cent 
less  than  regular  prices. 


Church — Who  was  the  author  of  "The  Mistakes 
of  Moses?"  Gotham — His  typewriter,  I  suppose. — 
Yonkers  Statesman. 


Very  Oldest  Procurable 

King  IDillian.  TU 

Scotcb  mbisKy 


PACIFIC   SLOPE    DISTRIBUTERS 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Chollar  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California.    Loca" 
Lion  of  works,  Storey  County ,  Nevada* 

Notice  Is  hereby  (riven  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Director?,  held 
on  the  8th  day  of  March,  1904,  an  assessment  vNo.  65)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  *hare  was  It-vied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  tbe  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately In  United  States  cold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE   12th   DAY   OF    APRIL,    1904, 
will  be   delinquent , and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auction;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  .sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  3d  day    of  May 
1904,    to     pa>     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the    coats   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904,. 


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DEMONSTRATIONS  BY  APPOINTMENT  WITH 

The  National  Automobile  Co. 

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LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


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Bt    Thk    Actocevmc 

Several  accidents  with  horses  in  the  East  the  last 
week  has  been  food  for  thought  concerning  the  au- 
tomobile. 

( )ne  especially  serious  affair  was  the  case  of  a  run- 
away, in  which  the  occupants  of  the  vehicle  were 
women.  It  was  a  case  of  a  horse  being  frightened 
on  a  down-grade,  and  the  strength  of  the  women 
not  being  equal  to  the  task. 

This  incident  cannot  be  too  fully  appreciated.  A 
married  man  that  can  keep  a  horse  and  carriage  can 
afford  to  keep  an  automobile.  A  horse  that  can 
travel  generally  takes  a  man  to  handle  it,  and  if  the 
head  of  the  house  finds  it  impossible  to  go  out,  the 
women  of  the  family,  although  with  plenty  of  lei- 
sure time,  must  forego  the  pleasure  of  riding,  and 
wait  the  leisure  of  her  lord  and  master. 

Now  take  up  the  situation  in  California,  where  we 
have  a  perpetual  summer.  Think  what  it  means  to 
the  better  half  to  always  be  able  to  go  out  into  the 
invigorating  air  of  this  ideal  climate.  Such  condi- 
tions tend  to  lengthen  life  and  bring  happiness. 

To  allow  a  woman  to  handle  the  average  horse  is 
dangerous,  but  with  the  automobile  it  is  not  so.  The 
modern  car  has  reached  the  stage  of  perfection  that 
the  strength  of  a  mere  child  is  sufficient  to  manipu- 
late it.  Simplicity  is  also  one  of  the  main  features 
of  a  down-to-date  machine.  Taking  all  these  things 
into  consideration,  then  think  with  what  safety  those 
dear  to  us  may  be  trusted  to  go  over  the  highways 
and  by-ways  of  the  State. 

It  takes  but  coolness  and  thought  to  run  an  automo- 
bile, and  experience  teaches  us  that  women  have 
the  requisites.  It  is  impossible  to  tell  of  the  far- 
reaching  benefits  it  is  to  mankind.  But  one  thing  is 
appreciated  by  every  owner  ot  the  modern  chariot. 
It  has  done  more  to  brighten  home  life  than  the  pur- 
chase of  any  other  known  pleasure.  One  can  recog- 
nize this  by  spending  an  afternoon  at  any  of  the 
garages.  Watch  the  women  who  run  automobiles 
and  even  those  who  ride  with  them.  The  woman 
who  runs  an  automobile  has  always  a  smile  on  her 
face,  the  eye  is  bright,  the  complexion  healthy,  and 
there  is  an  air  of  self-confidence  that  it  truly  charm- 
ing. They  never  look  dull  or  tired  out.  There  is 
not  that  listlessness  so  commonly  seen  in  the  average 
woman  of  to-day.  They  are  a  new  creation  that 
has  come  with  the  new  conveyance.  So  let  every 
woman  that  has  the  chance  run  an  automobile. 

The  Southern  automobilists  are  considering  an- 
other "auto"  road.  Last  Wednesday  the  members 
of  the  Southern  Club  made  a  trip  over  the  Pacific 
electric  line,  eastward  of  Eastlake  Park,  with  the 
Supervisors  to  inspect  a  piece  of  road  that  will  fur- 
nish the  missing  link  in  the  highway  to  Covina.  H. 
E.  Huntington  has  offered  to  donate  the  land. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  C.  B.  Smith,  of  Seattle,  Washington,  is  the 
purchaser  of  a  new  1904  Winton  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Automobile  Company  have  sold  to 
Mr.  C.  R.  Winslow,  of  Seattle,  Washington,  a 
Franklin  four-cylinder,  air-cooled  runabout. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  John  Breuner's  new  1904  Winton  touring  car 


March  12,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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will  arrive  shortly.    This  cat  is  being  espcciall)  built 
at  the  factor)   and  i-  doe  to  arrive  here  on  Ihi 
inst. 

*  •  • 

The  National  Automobile  Company  delivered  to 
Mr.  Paul  Osting  a  two-cylinder  Knox  touring  car. 
fitted  with  canopy  top. 

*  •  • 

Mr.  Franklin  gave  an  automobile  party  to  sixteen 
of  his  friends  on  Sunday  night.  The  machines  used 
on  this  occasion  were  four  Winton  touring  cars, 
which   Mr.  Franklin  hired  from  the  Scott- Blakeslee 

loneer  Renting   .  ompanv. 

*  '«  * 

The   National   Automobile   Company   delivered   a 

Knox  runabout  to  Mr.  C.  O.  Bockx,  of  Mountain 
View,  in  which  he  left  San  Francisco  for  his  home 
on  Monday  last. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  expects  daily  the 
arrival  of  a  carload  of  two-cylinder  Arrows.  One  of 
the  Arrows  will  be  especially  handsome,  being  built 
to  order  for  Mr.  H.  C.  Tilden.    The  car  is  painted  red 

with  the  special  slanting  hood  and  canopv  top. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Automobile  Company  delivered  two 
Knox  touring  cars  during  the  past  week,  one  to  Mr. 
A.  J.  Samuels  and  the  other  to  Mr.  X.  E.  Xeary  of 
the  New  York  Suit  and  Cloak  House. 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  novelties  showing  the  progress  of  auto- 
mobiling  will  be  the  railroad  inspection  car  built  by 
the  Olds  Motor  Works,  a  sample  of  which  is  due  to 
arrive  here  about  the  1st  of  April.  This  machine  is 
being  adopted  by  a  great  many  Eastern  and  Southern 
railroads.  They  have  a  seating  capacity  of  four  per- 
sons. The  regular  Oldsmobile  runabout  engine  is 
used  in  the  car,  and  railroad  people  in  the  West 
will  be  greatly  interested  in  the  arrival  of  the  sam- 
ple. ' 

*  *  * 

During  the  week  past,  the  National  Automobile 
Company,  owing  to  a  disagreement  of  two  of  its 
principal  stockholders,  asked  for  and  obtained  an 
assignee  in  the  person  of  Mr.  A.  C.  Kains,  of  the 
Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce.  He  has  taken  over  the 
management  of  the  business,  and  will  carry  it  along 

the  same  as  before. 

*  *  * 

In  a  recent  letter  received  from  the  Olds  Motor 
Works,  they  state  that  their  factory  force  has  been 
doubled,  and  that  they  are  working  day  and  night. 
The  company  will  turn  out  forty  machines  daily 
this  season,  and  they  have  already  sold  their  out- 
put for  the  next  six  months.  Orders  are  piling 
up  with  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  for  early 
delivery  of  the  new-style  machines.  The  Pioneer 
people  will  send  a  man  to  the  factory  this  week 
to  be  on  hand  there  and  assist  in  shipping  the 
machines  direct  to  San  Francisco.  It  is  possible 
that  the   first   few   carloads   will   come    through   by 

express. 

*  *  * 

The  George  N.  Pierce  Company  report  sales 
through  its  Fresno  branch  of  twenty-one  Stanhopes 
from  July  to  January,  and  eighteen  Stanhopes  since 
that  time.  On  account  of  the  heavy  dust  during 
the  greater  portion  of  the  year,  the  Stanhope  has 
proved  to  be  the  most  serviceable  car  built  in  that 

community. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  adopted  the 
New   York   schedule    of   garage    charges,    which    is 


able  t"  ihe  owner,     I  bis  is  something,  "i  course, 
m  which  all  owners  take  a  deep  interest  The  1 

•rage  arc  $30  a  month  tor  large  touring  cars, 
■r  lighter  touring  cars,  such  as  the  Auto  ear. 
S15  fur  Cadillacs  and  Ramblers,  and  $13  lor  Run- 
abouts. Tills  service  includes  cleaning,  lubricat- 
ing oil.  acetylene,  coal  "il  for  side  lamps,  together 
with  delivery.  This  arrangement  is  meeting  the 
hearty  approval  of  owners,  an  I  while  the  Mobile 
people  are  only  "settling,"  their  great  bouse  is  pretty 
well  filled  already,  as  many  as  four  cars  coming 
in   each  day   for   storage. 


RECORD-from  Del  Monte  to  Oakland-FIVE  HO0RS 
AND  THIRTY-EIGHT  MINUTES. 

The  only  successful  tour  of  the  Yosemite  made  by  THE 
CADILLAC. 

**>->CADILLAC  - 

Price.  $850  With  Tonneau,  $950  With  Delivery  Top.  $950 
THE  SIMPLEST.  MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco 


1904  WINTON  TOURING  CAR 


WINTON  first  to  cross  American  Continent, 
first  in  races  and  first  in  choice  of  buyers. 
Eighteen  new  1904  models  already  received 
and  delivered.  Another  car-load  to  arrive 
this  week.  Sample  for  show  and  trial  at  our 
new  Garage.  Call  early  and  secure  good 
deliveries.  Also  agents  for  Oldsmobiles, 
Stevens-Duryeas,  Locomobiles,  steam  and 
gasoline,  and  Baker  Electric. 

PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 

420-22  South  Hill  St. 
Los  Angeles 


901  Golden  Gate  Ave. 
San  Francisco 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


The  most  popular  place  in  San  Francisco  at  the 
present  time  is  the  Jefferson  Square  Cluh,  which 
is  located  on  the  second  floor  of  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company's  new  building.  The  attendance 
at  this  club  far  exceeds  the  expectation  of  its  mem- 
bers, and  already  steps  are  being  taken  to  put  in 
more  bowling  alleys  to  accommodate  the  members 
of  the  club.  The  manager  of  the  club  has  sub- 
scribed for  all  the  Eastern  and  local  magazines,  and 
the  reading  room  of  the  club  is  one  of  its  best  fea- 
tures. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  J.  Wells  and  his  brother,  of  Buffalo,  New 
York,  who  have  just  run  their  Winton  touring  car 
overland  from  Los  Angeles  to  San  Francisco,  will 
spend  the  month  of  March  in  this  city,  and  are  mak- 
ing their  headquarters  with  the  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company.  Mr.  Wells  recently  wrote  a  letter  from 
Los  Angeles  to  the  Winton  agency  in  Buffalo,  where 
he  purchased  his  machine,  reading  as  follows,  viz.: 
"There  has  not  been  an  hour  since  we  arrived  in  Cali- 
fornia that  we  have  not  thanked  you  for  ever  sug- 
gesting that  we  change  our  order  and  ship  a  Winton 
touring  car  here.  Our  run  each  day  since  it  came  is 
forty  to  sixty  miles.  We  are  having  the  time  of  our 
lives.  The  Winton  you  sold  us  runs  up  and  down 
the  hills  like  a  bird,  and  we  are  glad  you  ever  sug- 
gested a  twenty-horsepower  machine  for  us.  Some 
of  the  hills  are  immense.  It  is  all  the  same  to  us. 
Imagine  country  roads  like  our  parkways  in  Buffalo 
and  no  speed  limit  in  the  country  ;  warm,  sunny  days ; 
miles  of  road  with  villas  and  beautiful  residences; 
the  dust  laid  by  oil  on  the  roads ;  thermometer  from 
68  to  72  degrees  through  the  day,  and  40  to  45  at 
night,  and  you  can  then  see  why  we  are  enjoying 
our  car.  I  cannot  begin  to  tell  you  how  fine  it  is  to 
tour  in  this  garden  of  the  Pacific  Coast ;  the  only  way 
is  to  come  here  and  try  it  yourself.  We  have  been  to 
Pasadena  and  through  the  wine  cellars ;  also  to  Santa 
Monica,  one  of  the  finest  sea-bathing  resorts  in  the 
world.  I  will  be  back  in  April.  I  intend  to  come 
here  to  spend  my  winters  in  the  future,  and  I  want 
to  arrange  to  have  a  1904  Winton  this  coming  sea- 
son." 

*  *  * 

The  Locomobile  Company  has  issued  a  new  cata- 
logue of  gasoline  cars  for  1904.  The  matter  between 
the  covers  has  been  prepared  carefully,  and  the  il- 
lustrations are  of  a  kind  which  will  help  a  prospective 
customer  in  getting  an  idea  of  the  details  of  construc- 
tion. 

*  *  * 

The  Pacific  Motor  Company  report  an  unusual 
demand  for  St.  Louis  cars,  the  1904  tonneau  being 
the  most  favored.  The  Packard  four-cylinder  car 
leads  in  the  company's  sales  for  the  high-priced  ve- 
hicles. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Harry  H.  Hewlett,  of  Stockton,  spent  last  Sun- 
day in  San  Francisco  trying  out  his  new  1904  Winton 
touring  car,  which  arrived  here  last  Saturday.  Mr. 
Hewlett,  in  a  recent  conversation  with  a  well-known 
San  Francisco  gentleman,  said:  "I  have  owned  a 
Winton  touring  car  for  two  years,  and  the  fact  of  my 
purchasing  a  1904  car  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  say 
regarding  my  opinion  of  the  Winton.  Will  also  say 
further  that  I  do  not  believe  there  is  another  machine 
built  that  will  do  the  work  of  my  old  Winton.  A 
great  many  people  have  the  idea  that  hill-climbing  is 
a  test  for  an  automobile.  I  find  that  the  real  test 
is  in  San  Joaquin  Valley  sand,  and  I  have  never  found 
a  place  where  I  could  not  go  with  my  car. 


—     WILL     BE     HERE     SHORTLY     — 

THE    NEW    1904 — Four    Cylinder 

PACKARD 

The  '04  JONES  CORBIN  and  ST,  LOUIS 
TONNEAU  are  here. 


PACIFIC    MOTOR    CAR  CO. 

49    CITY    HALL    AVC.  SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  p"oe  ^ISV^^  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommodating 
four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French  type. 

3.  It  is  especially  designed  for  physicians'  use  saving  two  hours 
per  day. 

i.  It  is  compact  in  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline  'and 
beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5-  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg,  800 
miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


12,650.00 
800.00 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F 


18  Fell  Street. 


ELECTRIC. 
GASOLINE 

CARS 

A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley 

(Near  Market)  Tel.  South  394 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
San  Jose. 

Letcher  Automobile  Co.— 288  S  Market  street.  Phone  John  1661. 
Automobiles  stored  and  repaired.  Expert  workmanship.  Gaso- 
line and  oil  at  all  hours.  Santa  Clara  County  agents  for  the 
Western  Automobile  Company  and  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany. 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  deceased.  Notice  is  hereby  given 
by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  HYNES.  Public  Administrator  of  the  City 
and  County  of  Snn  Francisuo  and  Administrator  of  the  Estate  of 
CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  deceased,  to  the  creditors  of,  and  all  persons 
having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  the 
necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months  after  the  first  publication  of 
this  notice,  to  the  said  Administrator  at  Room  No.  6(58  Parrott  Building, 
825  to  H55  Market  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal..  the  same  being  his  place 
for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES. 

Administrator  of  the   estate  of   CHARLES   BLOXHAM,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY,  attornes  for  admistration.  Rooms  667-668- 
669.  Parrott  Buildfng.  San  Francisco.  California. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  March  12,  1904. 

SAMUEL   M.    SHORTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law,  i 

Crocker  Building,  San  Francisco.  ** 


March  12,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Tli'  it  activity  at  the  bi| 

iv  men  arc  constantly  being 
added  to  the  force  which  will  s<»>n  rev 
complement,  viz.,  between  six  and  seven  hundred 
men.  All  departments  arc  working  overtime,  and  the 
prospects  arc  for  better  deliveries  thi-~  -pring  than 
ever  before.  Many  new  and  improved  machines 
have  been  added  this  spring,  and  some  of  the  depart- 
ments have  undergone  not  a  little  alteration.  I'm 
instance,  facilities  in  the  blacksmith  shop  and  drop 
forge  shop  have  been  greatly  increased:  also  several 
new  hardening  ovens  have  been  added.  Sonic  new 
grinding  machines  have  recently  been  received,  these 
Ding  needed  for  fine  work  in  finishing  hardened 
shafts  used  in  the  construction  of  Locomobile  gaso- 
lene   tourinp   cars. 

The  following  list  of  names,  recent  purchasers  of' 
Locomobile  gasolene  touring  cars,  has  been  handed 
to  this  department.  None  of  these  orders  was  taken 
at  any  of  the  recent  automobile  shows:  A.  I.  McDuf- 
fie,  Chicago,  111.;  H.  A.  Beale,  Jr.,  Parkesburg,  West 
Virginia;  C.  P.  Joy.  St.  Paul,  Minn.:  George  X.  Me- 
Neely,  Philadelphia.  Pa.;  Dwight  M.  Billings,  Am- 
herst. Mass.;  J.  R.  Johnson,  Philadelphia,  l'a. :  A. 
L.  Chamberlain,  New  Haven.  Conn.:  \Y.  1".  Saddler. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.;  E.  R.  Cole.  New  York.  X.  Y. ;  1. 
P.  Baiter,  New  York,  X.  Y. ;  Raymond  K.  Allbright. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  William  Carroll,  Greenwich,  Conn.; 
F.  P.  Phillips,  Chicago,  111.;  C.  W.  Lee,  New  York. 
N.  Y.;  George  Woodland,  Chicago,  111.;  A.  S.  Parks, 
Wichita,  Kansas. 

*  *  * 

We  want  a  State  organization  that  will  be  able  to 
control  the  Legislators  at  Sacramento  in  behalf  of 
good  roads. 


GOOD  SUGGESTION  FOR  SOME  AMERICAN 
MAGAZINE. 
A  curious  periodical  is  being  issued  in  Belgium. 
where  a  Brussels'  paper  publishes  a  letter  from  a 
Spiritualistic  society  in  Villers-la-Ville,  giving  par- 
ticulars of  a  monthly  journal  which  it  has  just  estab- 
lished, and  announcing  that  it  has  been  found  feasible 
to  make  arrangements  with  various  great  dead  writ- 
ers, including  Victor  Hugo  and  Emile  Zola,  to  con- 
tribute to  its  columns.  These  eminent  contributors 
are  not  likely  to  require  any  very  large  sums  for 
their  articles,  and  so  the  price  is  fixed  at  two  francs 
per  year. 


Stranger — But  how  did  the  feud  start?  Which 
family  was  the  aggressor?  Native — It's  hard  to  tell 
which  was  the  aggressor,  mister;  As  near  as  we  can 
make  out,  each  pulled  the  trigger  at  exactly  the  same 
instant,  sah. — Judge. 

"John,"  said  the  editor's  wife,  "what  would  you 
do  if  you  discovered  a  burglar  in  the  house."  "Well," 
replied  the  editor,  "it  would  all  depend  on  how  much 
money  he  had  on  him." — Atlanta  Constitution. 

When   you   get   your   fall   clothing   made,   also   make 

arrangements  to  have  It  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  if  well  cared  for.  They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


Few  come  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  \isit 

to  Zlnkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     Ifs  tae  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort. 


Ruinart 
Cham- 
pagne 

Established     1729 

The  President's  Wine 

"Dry,  Fruity — 
JNo    Headache 


V&rney    W.   G&sklll. 

Special  Agent 


HJlbert   Mercantile  Co. 

Sole  Agents 


H.   BETTE 

Builder  of  Ladies'  Garments 

424  SUTTER  STREET  Bet.  Stockton  and  Powell 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St.  Turkish  Bath. 


California    Safe 

Deposit  and 

Trust  Co. 

Corner 
California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San    Francisco,   Cal. 


Capital  and  Surplus 
Total  Assets 


$1,401,160.93 

6,943,782.82 


Interest  paid  on  deposits, 
subject  to  check,  at  the 
rate  of  two  per  cent  per 
annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and  six-tenths  per  cent 
per  annum, 

Trusts  executed.  We  are 
authorized  to  act  as  the 
guardian  of  estates  and  the 
executor  of  wills. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented 
at  $5  per  annum  and  up- 
wards. 

Get  a  box  at  once  and  guard 
against  loss  by  Fire  or 
Burglars. 

J.   Dalzell  Brown, 

Mexnager 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


The  statement  of  ac- 
Anglo-Cal.  Bank,  Ltd.  counts  ^resented  share- 
holders at  the  thirty-first 
ordinary  annual  meeting  of  the  Anglo-Cal.  Bank, 
.Limited,  held  in  London  on  Tuesday,  the  1st  inst., 
shows  that  after  making  a  full  provision  for  bad  and 
doubtful  debts,  and  allowing  for  all  charges  at  San 
Francisco  and  London,  there  remains  £39,186  7s.  od. 
as  the  net  profit  for  the  year.  Adding  to  this  £11,181 
19s.  8d.  brought  forward  from  last  year,  the  sum  of 
£50,368  6s.  8d.  is  now  available  for  appropriation. 
From  this  amount  the  directors  have  applied  £10,000 
in  writing  down  the  bank's  holding  in  consols  to  85, 
and  all  other  investments  to  below  the  market  value. 
An  interim  dividend  of  six  shillings  per  share  was 
paid  in  September  last,  and  the  directors  now  pro- 
pose to  pay  a  further  dividend  of  six  shillings  per 
share,  together  with  a  bonus  of  four  shillings  per 
share,  making  the  total  distribution  eight  per  cent 
for  the  year  1903,  free  of  income  tax;  to  place  £5,000 
to  reserve  fund,  making  it  £160,000;  and  to  carry- 
forward £11,392  6s.  8d.  The  resignation  of  Mr.  E. 
H.  Lushington,  owing  to  advanced  age,  after  having 
been  a  director  of  the  bank  since  1814,  was  received 
with  much  regret.  The  Rt.  Hon.  Charles  T.  Richie, 
M.  P.,  has  been  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy  thus 
caused. 

It  does  not    make     pleasant 
Anarchy  in  reading,    the    reports    which 

Tuolumne  County,  come  along  by  wire  from 
Tuolumne  County,  where  an 
alien  host  have  inaugurated  a  reign  of  terror  in  and 
around  Jamestown,  and  are  apparently  running  things 
to  suit  themselves  in  the  most  high-handed  manner. 
Among  other  things,  a  despatch  just  received  says 
they  have  so  frightened  the  men  of  the  press  in 
Jamestown  that  all  news  of  the  strikers'  actions  is 
suppressed.  This  is  certainly  a  nice  condition  of  af- 
fairs in  an  American  community.  Even  an  injunction 
from  a  United  States  court  is  scoffed  at  by  these  for- 
eign rioters.  It  will  be  hoped  that  the  Rawhide  strike 
will  fail  and  that  like  all  other  outbreaks  of  a  similar 
nature  which  have  taken  place  recently  the  rioters 
will  make  nothing  by  their  lawless  methods.  They 
had  to  call  the  strike  off  at  the  Royal  Cons,  mine  at 
Hodson,  and  none  ot  the  strikers  there  have  been 
taken  back.  It  is  the  same  story  at  the  Mountain 
Copper  mine  of  Shasta  County,  the  Yellow  Aster 
mine  of  Kern  County,  and  the  Union  mine  of  El  Do- 
rado County.  Every  now  and  then  a  union  scores 
a  trick  by  buncoing  some  weak-kneed  management, 
but  their  successes  even  then  have  been  few  and  far 
between.  Some  day  the  LTnited  States  troops  may  be 
called  upon  to  end  a  riotous  demonstration  like 
that  now  going  on  at  the  Rawhide  mine,  and  after 
that  peace-abiding  citizens  of  the  State  will  not  be 
annoyed  with  such  disgraceful  exhibitions  for  a  long 
time  to  come. 

George  W.  Rumble  is 
Where  the  Law  Stings,      still    smiling     at      the 

Government  prosecu- 
tors outside  the  bars  they  are  trying  to  place  him 
behind,  and  a  number  of  prominent  citizens,  includ- 
ing Chief  of  Police  Wittman,  are  now  making  affi- 
davits in  proof  of  statements  that  the  wily  operator's 
reputation  for  honesty  and  integrity  is  away  below 
par.  And  still  the  farce  goes  on,  and  the  courts 
are   kept   in    action   to   support   one   set   of   lawyers 


pitted  against  the  other,  making  hay  while  the  sun 
shines,  both  sides  interested  in  prolonging  the  agony 
while  the  fees  last.  There  is  one  good  feature  about 
this,  a  term  of  imprisonment  would  not  be  as  severe 
a  form  of  punishment  for  one  of  these  fake  manipula- 
tors as  to  touch  his  pocket.  That  is  the  vulnerable 
spot  in  the  make-up  of  individuals  of  this  class  who 
are  generally  a  miserable  set,  small  and  mean  in  their 
dealings  and  of  a  miserly  disposition.  Every  dollar 
wrenched  from  them  to  keep  them  out  of  jail  means 
agony,  and  perhaps  the  best  justice  they  can  get  in 
this  world  and  that  well-fitted  for  their  crime  is  the 
prolongation  of  court  proceedings,  which  are  costly 
in  the  extreme. 

The  Senate  has  passed  Teller's  bill  amending  the 
mining  laws  as  regards  the  location  of  claims.  It  is 
provided  that  the  description  of  a  vein  or  lode  claims 
upon  surveyed  lands  shall  be  designated  with  refer- 
ence to  the  lines  of  the  public  survey,  but  need  not 
conform  therewith.  Where  patents  have  been  issued 
for  claims  upon  unsurveyed  lands,  however,  the  Sur- 
veyor General,  in  extending  the  public  survey,  shall 
adjust  their  survey  to  the  boundaries  of  claims,  so 
as  not  to  interfere  with  or  change  the  true  location 
of  claims,  as  they  are  officially  established  by  ground 
monuments.  Upon  a  patent  grant  is  based  the  high- 
est constituted  authority  as  to  the  limits  on  the  claim 
and  not  the  public  survey.  The  bill  is  intended  to 
prevent  the  shifting  of  mining  claims  by  surveys. 

Business  during  the  week  was 

Pine-St.  Market,  rather  quiet  in  the  market  for 
Comstock  shares,  but  prices 
have  remained  steady.  This  condition  of  affairs 
will  probably  continue  until  the  programme  outlined 
for  the  furtherance  of  development  work  along  the 
lode  is  still  further  advanced.  That  is  to  say,  it  will 
be  a  matter  of  fluctuation  on  a  more  limited  range 
than  can  naturally  be  expected  after  the  lower  levels 
are  opened  up  and  the  search  for  ore  begins  in  ear- 
nest. Some  interesting  work  is  outlined  for  the 
Sutro  Tunnel  improvements  in  view  of  an  arrange- 
ment just  concluded  which  will  bring  this  big  utility 
more  to  the  front  than  it  ever  has  been  before  as  an 
aid  to  mines  in  active  operation  along  its  entire 
length.  The  Ward  shaft  will  also  be  utilized  in  con- 
nection with  the  new  system  of  work,  and  a  pumping 
plant  will  likely  be  installed  there  to  drain  the  south 
end  mines.  The  2150  level  of  Con.-Cal.-Virginia  will 
be  a  point  of  interest  at  the  north  end  as  soon  as 
work  begins  there,  as  it  is  firmly  believed  that  the 
downward  extension  of  the  ore  vein  now  producing  so 
well  in  the  Ophir,  will  be  found  there.  If  it  is  there 
will  be  some  music  on  the  street. 

During  the  past  week  business 

Local  Securities,  on  the  local  stock  and  bond  ex- 
change has  been  light,  in  bonds, 
with  a  little  better  demand  for  shares.  Prices  show  a 
little  improvement  in  some  cases,  and  San  Francisco 
Gas  and  Electric  got  an  upward  turn  or  two  of  the 
manipulator's  screw.  This  followed  a  tie-up  in  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  which  is  not  the  interesting  part 
of  the  developments  which  constitute  the  aftermath 
of  this  great  coup  of  the  half  century  in  the  finan- 
cial history  of  the  city.  Sugar  shares  continue  to 
gain  strength  and  prices  for  the  week  show  a  general 
advance.  The  Alaska  Packers  stock  also  shows  a 
small  gain  which  is  satisfactory.    The  Giant  Powder 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


Company,  which  still  ranks  as  an  independent  com- 
pany, paid  its  regular  monthly  dividend  of  50  cents 
hare  on  the  10th  in*t..  and  on  the  same  date  the 
California  Wine  Association  paid  60  cents  per  share. 
1  >n  the  9th  inst.  the  Western  Pacific  Land  Com- 
pany paid  a  dividend  of  $-'.50  per  share. 

It  has  been  charged  that  the  busi- 
San  Francisco  ness  men  of  this  city  were  not 
and  Mining.  inclined  to  encourage  mining. 
This  is  a  serious  charge  if  true 
We  have  just  received  the  prospectus  of  the  Little 
P.ully  Hill  Mining  and  Smelting  Company,  owners 
of  the  Little  Bully  Hill  group  of  mines  in  Shasta 
County.  Under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  R.  C.  Wilson 
a  200  foot  shaft  is  being  sunk  on  the  property,  and 
Mr.  Wilson  promises  to  ship  ore  in  six  months.  The 
property  is  most  favorably  situated,  as  it  joins  Cap- 
tain De  La  Mar's  ten  million  dollar  mine  and  smelter. 
San  Francisco  business  men.  the  Redding  Investment 
Company.  Starr  King  Building,  purchased  the  prop- 
ertv  and  formed  the  company  to  develop  it.  It  was 
decided  to  sell  40,000  shares  of  treasury  stock  to  de- 
fray expense  of  development.  Among  the  first  pur- 
chasers were:  C.  E.  Anderson.  H.  L.  Paddock,  Dr. 
Bvron  W.  Haines,  R.  T.  Harding,  W.  B.  Ames. 
M.  H.  Rude,  W.  F.  Ryder  and  M.  Aronsohn.  all  busi- 
ness and  professional'  men  of  this  city.  We  under- 
stand that  onlv  5,000  shares  remain  unsold.  Verily 
this  does  not  look  as  if  our  business  men  are  indiffer- 
ent to  the  mining  interests  of  the  State  if  shown  that 
the  investment  is  safe  and  profitable. 

The  La  Zacualpa  Rubber  Plantation  Company  lias 
announced  that  no  more  shares  will  be  sold  after 
May  1,  1904.  The  success  which  the  company  has 
made  is  gratifying  to  the  public,  as  well  as  its  stock- 
holders. It  is  not  often  that  enterprises  of  such 
magnitude  are  enabled  to  withhold  its  stock  for  its 
own  benefit.  Those  who  have  purchased  stock  or 
who  may  become  stockholders  are  to  be  congratu- 
lated.   

Henry  Staab,  formerly  with  Joseph  Litchfield, 
merchant  tailors,  is  now  associated  with  Mantle  & 
Son,  haberdashers.  Mantle  &  Son  will  move  from 
10  Stockton  street  to  18  Stockton  street,  the  firm 
name  to  be  known  as  Mantle  &  Staab.  Haberdash- 
ery requires  taste  on  the  part  of  the  dealer  as  well  as 
the  wearer,  and  the  experience  of  these  gentlemen 
makes   them   judges   of   correct   dress. 

1500  Rolls  of  Carpets  Arrived  in  San  Francisco.— 
Last  week  1500  rolls  of  latest  patterns  of  Carpets  ar- 
rived at  PATTOSIEN'S.  cor.  16th  &  Mission 
streets.  This  Carpet  Order  could  not  be  cancelled, 
therefore  will  be  sold  out  at  a  saving  of  from  10  cents 
to  40  cents  per  yard. 

The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  ^responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  Quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 

There's  only  one  right  way  to^clean  a  carpet  and 

that's  the  way  employed  by  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Cleaning 
Co.,  353  Tehama  street.  By  their  improved  machinery  they 
clean  a  carpet  thoro-ighly  and  quickly  without  injuring .the 
fabric.  You  have  no  fuss,  bother  or  anxiety.  Simply  have 
the  Spauldings  call  for  your  carpet,  and  in  a  short  time 
it  will  be  returned  looking  like  new. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


Political 


There  is  a  decided  move  in  local  Democratic  quar- 
ters towards  ex-President  Grover  Cleveland.  No 
one  dares  to  announce  it  on  the  surface,  and  even 
in  the  inner  circles  of  the  Iroquois  Club  it  is  a 
thing  not  to  be  too  loudly  mentioned,  for  the  rea- 
son that  on  the  surface  the  delegation  from  this 
State  must  pretend  for  the  moment  to  favor  Hearst, 
so  at  least  the  wise  ones  think.  But  while  they 
pretend  to  favor  Hearst  the3'  are  really  coming  to 
favor  Cleveland.  There  is  no  question  that  the 
death  of  Hanna  has  immeasurably  strengthened  the 
ex-President's  chances  for  a  fourth  nomination. 
Whether  the  story  told  that  Hanna  promised  John 
Pierpont  Morgan  that  he  would  not  withdraw  from 
the  Republican  candidacy  is  true  or  not,  it  is  of 
course  impossible  to  say,  but  there  is  no  question 
but  that  the  financial  interests  of  the  country  fa- 
vor some  other  man  than  Roosevelt  on  the  ground 
that  he  is  "unsafe."  Not  unsafe  as  the  public  takes 
it,  because  of  any  toreign  complications  he  may 
get  the  country  mixed  up  with,  but  because  he  has 
already  done  much  to  unsettle  business  interests,  and 
is  not  the  conservative  and  quiet  man  whom  the 
financial  interests  of  the  country  want  to  see  at  the 
helm  of  affairs.  If  Cleveland  is  nominated,  un- 
doubtedly the  Democrats  will  have  all  the  money 
they  can  possibly  use  for  campaign  purposes,  and 
equally  certain  there  will  be  no  great  amount  in 
the  pot  if  the  Republicans  nominate  Roosevelt.  Only 
on  one  condition,  a  leading  local  financier  tells  me, 
would  Eastern  business  interests  contribute  to  the 
Republican  funds,  and  that  is  in  the  eventuality  that 
Hearst  should  be  nominated.  The  business  inter- 
ests of  the  country  would  then  feel  that  it  was  an- 
other case  of  1896,  and  that  all  other  considera- 
tions must  be  thrown  aside  to  save  the  welfare  of 
the  country.  While  Cleveland's  letter  in  the  Sat- 
urday Post  does  not  seem  to  have  evoked  much 
enthusiasm,  his  letter,  which  was  read  in  the  House 
of  Representatives  last  week,  in  which  he  denied 
having  ever  invited  a  colored  man  to  dinner,  has 
been  received  by  the  local  Democracy  with  enthu- 
siasm, and  one  prominent  Iroquois  brave  told  me 
that  he  considered  it  the  greatest  political  docu- 
ment that  had  appeared  in   five  years. 

*  *  * 

Pardee  has  once  more  shown  his  dislike  of  Gage, 
and  the  latter's  friends,  by  turning  down  Grove  L. 
Johnson,  of  Sacramento,  who  lias  been  superseded 
on  the  State  P>oard  of  Agriculture  by  George  W. 
Kingsley,  the  genial  proprietor  of  the  Lick  House. 
Johnson  represented  Gage  and  his  administration 
in  the  Assembly  two  years  as  completely  as  Podge 
does  Roosevelt  in  the  Senate,  and  Gage  in  many 
ways  showed  his  admiration  and  confidence  in  his 
Sacramento  friend.  It  probablv  means  that  the  ad- 
ministration will  not  allow  Johnson  to  get  the  Sec- 
retaryship of  the  State  Agricultural  Society,  and 
that  it  will  do  what  it  can  tp  prevent  his  nomina- 
tion for  the  Assembly  this  fall.  Should  Johnson 
be  left  out  of  the  next  Assembly,  one  of  the  most 
picturesque  and  important  figures  in  many  recent 
sessions  will  be  missing. 

*  *  * 

Guy  Barham,  Bank  Commissioner,  announces 
that  he  does  not  care  to  continue  in  his  office,  as 
it  interferes  with  his  full  enjoyment  of  domestic 
bliss,  and  when  his  term  expires  he  will  not  seek 
re-appointment.  Cal.  Ewing,  of  erstwhile  baseball 
fame,  is  to  have  his  place,  and  a  new  Secretary  of 
the   Bank   Commission    is    to   be   appointed,   though 


just  which  Oaklander  is  slated  for  the  place  I  have 
not  heard.  Barham  was  forced  upon  Pardee,  and 
is  also  one  of  the  Gage  appointments  whom  he 
will  shed  no  tears  over.  When  the  old  Bank  Com- 
mission was  abolished  to  get  rid  of  Colonel  Dan 
Kevane,  the  friends  of  Barham  and  Wright  would 
not  agree  to  vote  for  the  bill  unless  it  was  distinctly 
understood  that  everybody  except  Kevane  would 
be  re-appointed  on  the  new  Commission.  As  the 
Governor  was  very  anxious  to  stick  a  knife  in  his 
predecessor,  he  rightly  concluded  that  to  turn  down 
Kevane  would  be  particularly  offensive  to  Gage,  he 
agreed  to  the  terms.  Wright  died,  however,  before 
he  could  be  re-appointed,  and  Barham  was  the  only 
one  that  Pardee  was  forced  to  appoint.  Now  he 
gets  rid  of  Guy,  gives  Oakland  another  job,  and 
strengthens  his  fences  in  Alameda,  where  he  evi- 
dently thinks  them  very  weak. 

*  *  * 

"  Cal.  Ewing  is  not  the  only  Oaklander  slated  for 
a  good  place.  Senator  Perkins,  who  is  as  faithful 
to  Alameda  County  as  Governor  Pardee,  announces 
that  he  will  support  Collector  of  the  Port  Stratton 
for  the  new  Federal  Judgeship  which  Congress  is 
expected  to  create  this  spring. 

*  *  * 

It  is  understood  that  when  Stratton  gets  the  Judge- 
ship, W.  B.  Hamilton,  who  managed  Perkins's  first 
campaign,  and  who  has  grown  stout  on  the  profits 
of  his  labor  on  that  occasion,  will  be  appointed 
Collector  unless  George  Hatton  wants  the  place, 
in  which  case  he  is  to  get  in.  But  George  hopes 
to  have  another  Senator  under  his  control  by  that 
time,  and  if  he  does  he  will  no  doubt  want  some- 
thing more  elaborate  than  Collector — Ambassador 
to  England,  perhaps. 

*  *  * 

Speaking  of  Senators  reminds  me  that  while  Sena- 
tor Rowell  of  Fresno  has  come  out  in  his  son's 
paper  for  a  re-election  of  Bard,  he  only  does  it  to 
save  his  face.  Having  discovered  Bard,  and  elected 
him,  Rowell,  Flint  and  Bulla  naturally  think  they 
must  pretend  to  advocate  his  re-election.  The  facts 
are  that  Flint  wants  the  Senatorship  himself  if  he 
can  get  it.  Bulla  was  a  candidate  at  the  time  Bard 
was  elected,  and  Rowell  would  like  to  be  now,  but 
he  has  been  advised  that  there  is  no  chance  for 
himself,  and  has  been  urged  to  stand  for  Flint.  The 
result  of  the  elections  in  Los  Angeles  (the  pri- 
maries) will  decide  if  Flint  shall  be  a  candidate. 
If  Bulla  and  his  friends  win  out,  Flint  will  be 
a  candidate ;  otherwise  he  will  not  be.  If  he  de- 
cides to  be  a  candidate,  he  will  try  to  go  as  dele- 
gate  at  large  to  the   National   Convention. 

— Junius. 


RAMSAY" 

ISLAY 
SCOTCH  WHISKY 


UNEXCELLED  FOB  BODY    AND 
FLAVOE 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


March  12. 


1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


LOST   LOVE. 
By  Ph'N«b*>  I.r,l.»  in  Oosmopoltt&D 
It   I  had  known  how  long  the  way 

Through   all   the  weary  years 
Without  tlie   sunshine  of  your  smile, 

Without  your  balm  of  tears: 
If  I  had  guessed  how  deep  the  need 

My  thirsty  soul  would  know 
To  taste  the  watersprings  of  love, 

I   hail  not   let  you  go. 

Across  life's  arid,  dusty  waste. 

A  desert  of  regret. 
Bright  with  unconquerable  joy 

Your  hlue  eyes  beckon   yet ; 
Again  with  careless  grace  you   fleet, 

To  fade  behind  the  hill  : 
The   echo  of  your  laugh   rings   clear — 

That  laugh  so  long  since  still. 

The    clamor   of   the    roaring   world 

Fills  up  my  struggling  days, 
But  deep  within  my  inmost  heart 

This  gracious   vision   stays, 
And  with  the  loneliness  of  night 

In  solitude  I  weep 
That   early   love   so   lightly   lost, 

The  dream  I  did  not  keep. 

THE  YOUNG  MOTHER. 

By  Lizette  Woodworth  Beese  in  Smart  Set 

The   Host   lifts   high   the    candle-light — 
Out  in  the  dark  she  waits  before — 

"Now  who  is  this  at  mid  of  night, 
Comes  faring  to  my  door?" 

With  rushes  is  the  chamber  set; 

The  house  is  sweet  without,   within  ; 
For  it  may  be  she  will  forget 

The   place   where   she   hath    been. 

But  lonely,  lonely  in  the  room, 

With  strange  eyes  looks  she  all  about; 

She  sees  the  broken  boughs  in  bloom, 
The  red  wine  poured  out. 

They  crowd  around  her  where  she  stands, 
The  children  and  the  elders  there ; 

They  put  the  cup  within  her  hands ; 
They  break  the  loaf  so  fair. 

Oh,  what  to  her  that  they  are  kind! 

Oh,  let  the  tears  come  like  a  tide! 
She  cannot  keep  from  out  her  mind 

The  son  for  whom  she  died ! 

I  KNOW  NOT  HOW  TO  FIND  THE  SPRING. 

By  Florence  Earle  Coates  in  Sc-rit  ner't.  Jlumzine 
I  know  not  how  to  find  the  Spring, 

Though  violets  are  here, 
And  in  the  boughs  high  over  me 

The  birds  are  fluting  clear; 
The  magic  and  the  melody, 

The  rapture — all  are  fled, 
And  could  they  wake,  they  would, but  break 

My  heart,  now  you  are  dead. 


ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 
Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Looalion  ot  principal  pIh.o  of  business,  San  Franolsov,  California,  Lo- 
cation of  wo,  ks,    Storey  Counl>  ,  Nevada. 

Notloe  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  8th  day  of  February  1904.  an  astes'tnent  (No  11)  of  fifteen  (15) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  ooi  poration,  paj  - 
able  immediately  in  Ui  ited  Slaies  gold  coin  to  tie  Secretary,  at  the  ofHoe 
of  the  company,  room  79.  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Frauolsoo,  California, 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
14th   DAY    OF  MARCH.  1904 
will    be    delinquent    and    advertised     for    sale    at    public   auction;   and 
unless    payment   is    made  before,    will    be    sold    on    Tuesday,    the     5th 
day  of    April,  1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
cost  of  advertising  and  expenses  ot  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  ot  Directors. 

CHAS.  E   ELLIOT,   recretary 

Office— Boom  79,  Nevada  Block.  309  Montgomery  Btreet,  San  Franolsco 
California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Looatlon  of  principal  place  of  business,  -an  Franotsco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works-  Virginia  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  12th  day  of  February,  1904,an  assessment  (No.  84)  of  ten 
(10)  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stork  of  the  corporation 
pay  able  immediately,  in  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  .Secretary,  at  lite 
office  of  the  Company,  Boom  33,  Nevada  Block  No.  309  Montgomeey  bt,, 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Any  stook  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE    18th  DAY  OF  MARCH,  1904, 
will   be     delinquent,   and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auction;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on    Friday,    the  8th  day  of    April 
1904,    to   pay  the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE,,  Secretary. 

Location  of  Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Blook,  809  Montgomery  Btreet,  San 
Franolsco'  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Potosi  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business,  San  Francisco,  California-  Lo- 
cation of  works,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  lOih  day  -  f  February,  it.04,  an  assessment  (No.  69}  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share,  was  le*  ied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  trie  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  arold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office  of 
the  <  ompany.  Room  79  Nevada  Block,  809  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco  California 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  iemain  unpaid  on 
THE     16lh    DAY     OF    MAR(  H,   1S04 
will  be  delinquent,  and  adve  Used  for  sale  at  publio    auction    and    unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  Thursday,   the  7th  day  of  April 
1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Boom  79.  Nevada  Block  309  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  13^ 

Amount  per  share lOcent'B 

Levied  = February  10.  1904 

Delinquent  In  office March   15  1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock April     4,  1904 

E.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  14,  Nevada  Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California. 


30 

SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thlavea) 

Doctor — Your  husband  needs  a 
rest.  He  must  go  to  Europe  for 
six  months.  Mrs.  Nagget — Oh,  I 
shall  be  delighted  to  go  there. 
Doctor — Good  idea !  You  may  go 
for  six  months  when  he  gets  back. 
That  will  give  him  a  whole  year's 
rest. 

A  doctor  was  summoned  to  at- 
tend the  miller's  little  boy.  He 
wrote  out  a  prescription,  which 
was  promptly  made  up  and  admin- 
istered in  due  form.  The  next  day 
he  called  again  to  see  his  patient, 
and  found  the  whole  family  in 
tears.  "Alas!"  said  the  mother,  "I 
shouldn't  have  thought  that  my 
poor  child  would  have  died  of  the 
measles."  "What!"  exclaimed  the 
doctor.  "He  had  the  measles,  and 
you  never  told  me?" 

Mr.  Goodley — How's  your 
father,  Freddie.  Freddie — Oh, 
having  his  usual  luck.  Just  as  he 
was  coming  out  of  the  fever  the 
doctor  says  he's  getting  convales- 
cent. 

The  woman  was  doing  her  shop- 
ping. The  counter-jumper  hand- 
ed her  a  package  and  she  slowly 
turned  away.  "Do  I  need  anything 
else?"  she  absent-mindedly  asked. 
"You  have  just  bought  some 
lawn,"  ventured  the  clerk.  "Don't 
you  think  you  will  need  some 
hose?" 

Mrs.  Newliwed — Now,  Bridget, 
I  want  you  to  get  right  down  to 
work.  If  you  can  reach  my  stan- 
dard of  cooking  everything  will  be 
all  right.  New  Servant  (ambigu- 
ously)— Yes,  ma'am,  Oi'll  try  to 
get  down  to  it,  ma'am. 

Mistress — Didn't  the  ladies  who 
called  leave  cards?  Maid — They 
wanted  to,  ma'am,  but  1  told  'em 
yez  had  plenty  of  your  own  and 
better  ones,  too. 

"What  are  you  plunging  back 
in  the  water  for,  Pat?  You  just 
swam  ashore."  "Sure,  Oi  had  to 
save  meself  first ;  now  I'm  goin' 
back  to  fetch  Moike." 

Major  Lacey,  of  Iowa,  and  Sen- 
ator Alger,  of  Michigan,  are  very 
much  alike  in  appearance,  and  are 
often  mistaken  for  each  other.  So 
striking  is  the  resemblance  that 
Speaker  Reed  made  it  the  subject 
for  one  of  his  witticisms.  It  was 
at  the  time  that  Alger's  conduct  as 
Secretary  of  War  was  being  inves- 
tigated that  Reed,  stepping  up  to 
the  member  from  Iowa,  and  put- 
ting his  arm  over  his  shoulder, 
said:  "Lacey,  you  look  so  much 
like  Secretary  Alger  that  I  always 
think,  when  I  see  you,  that  you 
ought  to  get  whitewashed." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

"His  environment  inclines  him 
to  reticence."  "You  think  so?" 
"I  am  positive.  He  lives  with  his 
wife   and   her   mother." 

Professor  Phelps,  who  disliked 
mathematics,  was  once  walking 
with  Professor  Newton,  who  be- 
gan discussing  a  problem  so  deep 
that  his  companion  could  not  fol- 
low it.  He  fell  into  a  brown  study 
from  which  he  was  aroused  by 
Newton's  emphatic  assertion, 
"and  that,  you  see,  gives  us  x!" 
"Does  it?"  asked  Mr.  Phelps,  po- 
litely. "Why,  doesn't  it?"  ex- 
claimed the  professor,  excitedly, 
alarmed  at  the  possibility  of  a  flaw 
in  his  calculations.  Quickly  his 
mind  ran  back  and  detected  a  mis- 
take. "You  are  right,  Mr.  Phelps. 
You  are  right!"  shouted  the  pro- 
fessor; "it  doesn't  give  us  x;  it 
gives  us  y."  And  from  that  time 
Professor  Phelps  was  looked  upon 
as  a  mathematical  prodigy,  the 
first  man  who  ever  tripped  New- 
ton. 

James  Shea,  a  popular  young 
lawyer  of  Washington,  D.  C,  who 
recently  had  as  a  client  a  negro 
who  was  accused  of  stealing 
chickens.  Things  were  going  in 
the  darkey's  favor,  until  he  was 
placed  on  the  stand.  "Are  you  the 
defendant  in  this  case?"  asked  the 
judge.  "No,  sir,"  replied  the  negro 
with  an  amazed  look  on  his  face, 
and  pointing  to  his  counsel;  "I'se 
the  gen-leman  that  stole  the 
chickens;  there's  the  defendant." 

One  of  Benjamin  Franklin  Ste- 
vens's relatives,  Uncle  Sol,  had  the 
habit  of  extemporary  prayer,  in 
which,  however,  he  was  more  per- 
sistent than  fluent.  When  his  in- 
spiration became  too  great  for 
words  he  would  tide  over  the  diffi- 
culty with  such  interjections  as : 
"Understand,  O  Lord?  Lender- 
stand?  Take  my  idee,  d'  ye?  Take 
my  idee?" 

Tramp — I'd  like  to  borry  a 
medical  almanac,  mum.  House- 
keeper— What  for?  Tramp — I 
wants  ter  see  wot  th'  doctors  rec- 
ommend fer  an  empty  feelin'  in  th' 
stummick. 

Visitor — How  did  you  ever  get 
into  the  habit  of  eating  glass? 
Museum  Attraction — Oh,  it's  all 
because  once  when  I  was  run 
down  my  doctor  told  me  I  must 
eat  more  solid  food. 

Make  the  best  of  the  troubles 
you  have  and  don't  hunt  for  more. 

Get  up  with  the  lark,  but  don't 
disturb  other  people  with  your 
larking. 

It  has  been  said  that  all  the 
world  loves  a  lover,  but  the  proof 
is  missing. 


March  12,  1904. 


ORDER  SOME 

"Club  Cocktails" 

SENT  HOME  TODAY. 

You  will  then  have  on 
your  own  sideboard  a 
better  cocktail  than  can 
be  served  over  any  bar  in 
the  world.  A  cocktail  is 
a  blend  of  different  liq- 
uors, and  all  blends  im- 
prove with  age. 

The  "Club  Cocktails" 
are  made  of  the  best  of 
liquors  ;  made  by  actual 
weight  and  measure- 
ment. No  guesswork 
about  them. 

Ask  your  husband  at 
dinner  which  he  prefers 
— a  Manhattan,  Martini, 
Whiskey,  Holland  Gin, 
Tom  Gin,  Vermouth  or 
York. 

For  Sale  by  nil  F»rn*y  Orocers 
and  )i.-;Lii-im  generally,  or 
write  to 

G.  F.  Heublein  &  Bro,, 

29  Broadway,  H.V. 
and  Hartford,  Conn. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS 

SPOHN-PATRICK    COMPANY 

San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles. 
Denver.  Salt  Lake  City.    Seattle. 


A  hint  for  interior  decoration — 
a   pousse   cafe. 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms.  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr.  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rhematism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  San 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Co. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Rate  only  $67.50  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  care,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  v.  ill  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  F.  BOOTH,  Gen.  AgU,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co- 

No- 1-  Montgomery  St-    San  Francisco.  Cal 


March  la,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


3» 


"I  wonder,"  said  the  plump 
young  woman,  preparing  to  ven- 
ture out  upon  the  frozen  surface 
of  the  park  lagoon,  "if  the 

"You  needn't  be  the  least 
bit  afraid  as  to  that,"  Mr.  Makin- 
brakes  hastened  to  assure  her.  "I 
am  certain  it  will  hold  you.  When 
1  was  here  yesterday  I  saw  the 
boys  chasing  a  runaway  steer  all 
over  it.  The  animal  must  have 
weighed  1800  pounds.  Of  course," 
he  added,  nervously,  "I  don't  mean 
that  you — that  the  steer,  mightn't 
have  broken  through  if  it  had  been 
on  skates,  but  still — well,  anyhow, 
there  can't  be  any  harm  in  trying, 
because  I  see  other  girls  out  there 
that  are  even  more— er — do  the 
skates  fit  you  all  right,  Miss  Big- 
low?" 

"We'll  have  to  make  an  effort 
to  get  the  Sultan  to  pay  for  his 
new  battleship  this  month,"  said 
the  treasurer  of  the  shipbuilding 
company.  "What's  the  hurry?" 
inquired  the  President.  "Well, 
Easter's  coming  and  we  want  to 
get  our  money  before  the  milliner's 
bill  is  presented." 

"I  see  you're  wearing  my  old 
engagement  ring?"  "Yes;  isn't  it 
perfectly  lovely  to  be  engaged  to 
Jack?"  "Yes,  indeed.  He's  so  de- 
liciously  serious  about  it,  isn't 
he?" 

Mrs.  Muggins — Does  your  hus- 
band ever  forget  to  mail  the  letters 
you  give  him?  Mrs.  Buggihs — 
No;  I  always  see  to  it  that  he  puts 
them  in  his  cigar  case. 

"Great  activity  in  Idunno  min- 
ing stock  to-day."  You  don't  say 
so !"  "Ye-ah.  Bill  Sykes  took 
torty  thousand  shares  and  eight 
dollars  cash  for  that  horse  he  was 
asking  twenty  dollars  for  yester- 
day." "Well,  he  made  eight  dol- 
lars on  the  deal,  anyhow." 

The  wise  artist  paints  a  wo- 
man's portrait  not  as  she  looks, 
but  as   she   imagines  she   looks. 

Love  is  both  blind,  deaf  and 
dumb.  That's  why  a  young  couple 
in  love  can  neither  see  nor  hear 
the  clock. 

HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Delicate  enough  for  the  softest 
skin,  and  yet  efficacious  in  removing 
any  stain.  Keeps  the  skin  in  perfect 
condition.  In  the  bath  gives  all  the 
desirable  after-effects  of  a  Turkish 
bath.  It  should  be  on  every  wash- 
stand. 

ALL  QROCBRS  AND  DRUQQI8TS 


"I  didn't  know  until  to-day," 
said  young  Mr-  Torkins,  "thai 
t  barley  was  taking  an  interest  in 
palmistry.  "Indeed?"  responded 
the  caller.  "Yes.  \n<l  he  has  put 
his  heart  into  it.  just  as  he  docs  in 
nything  he  undertakes.  He 
was  as  indignant  as  he  could  be 
because  he  mei  a  man  last  night 
who  had  a  better  hand  than  his. 

During  the  siege  of  Mafcking 
one  of  the  officers  organized  a  con- 
cert or  "sing-song,"  to  keep  up  the 
spirits  of  the  men.  He  discovered, 
according  to  the  story  as  it  is  told 
in  "V.  C,"  that  the  men  had  cause 
enough  for  low  spirits.  Hearing 
of  a  sergeant  in  the  Highlanders 
who  was  a  good  performer,  he 
asked  the  man  to  contribute  to 
the  concert.  "I  am  sorry,  sir,  but 
I  cannot."  "Why?"  asked  the  offi- 
cer; "you  play  some  instrument, 
don't  you?"  "I  did,  sir."  "What 
was  it?"  "The  bones,  sir;  but  I've 
eaten  'em." 

At  Bismarck,  X.  D.,  the  temper- 
ature dropped  fifty  degrees  in  one 
night.  Bismarck  must  be  the  Chi- 
cago of  the  Northwest. 

A  man  is  in  luck  if  he  doesn't 
get  turned  down  while  waiting 
for  something  to  turn  up. 

Civilization  is  making  such 
rapid  strides  that  some  day  we 
will  hear  of  a  missionary  getting 
cooked  in  a  chafing  dish. 

The  lady  whose  birthday  was 
being  celebrated  when  the  Japs 
arrived  at  Port  Arthur  has  not 
contributed  to  the  magazines,  and 
neither  does  she  announce  her  in- 
tention of  going  upon  the  stage. 
Some  people  waste  their  oppor- 
tunities just  terribly. 

"Your  husband  says  that  he  has 
been  working  like  a  dog,"  said  the 
next  door  neighbor.  "Does  he?" 
rejoined  the  woman  with  the  dingy 
gown  and  the  tired  look.  "The  only 
canines  I  ever  got  acquainted  with 
put  in  their  time  barking  at  noth- 
ing, racing  around  without  any  es- 
pecial object  in  view  and  sleeping 
about  two-thirds  of  the  time  in  a 
nice  warm  corner  close  to  the 
stove.  It's  a  rather  unfortunate 
comparison." 

Somewhere  under  the  snowdrifts 
a  fine  crop  of  winter  wheat  must 
be  tucked  away. 

Perhaps  Mrs.  Maybrick  is  in  hid- 
ing for  the  purpose  of  warding  off 
marriage  proposals. 

When  a  few  million  bales  of  cot- 
ton fall  on  a  financial  house  some- 
thing is  likely  to  break. 

Having  ordered  so  much  canned 
beef,  Japan  may  feel  that  it  must 
fight  in  order  to  gets  its  money 
back. 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Double  Daily  Service  to  AH  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a   ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  Fortickets.  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

025  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


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THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


32 

SSI 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


Have  you 
a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where else,  for  whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo  have,  call  at 
this  office  and  let  us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with  us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 


F.  W.  Thompson, 
Gen*l  Western  Age, 
623  Market  Street, 
San  Francisco. 


Why  Don't  You 

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THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

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j-artrrjent  Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
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without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestibnled.  LeaveB  San 
Francisco  at  tvoo  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Care  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestibule*  Leaves  Kan 
Fran e j seo  at  9J00  a. m  -Standard  and  Tourist 
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Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

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Vallejo „ 1220 

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Jose.  LIvennore |  m  go* 

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Hay  ward.  Nliee  and  Ban  Jose 7  20* 

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Oregon  &  California  Express — Sac- 
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Hayward.  NUes  and  San  Jose  (Baft- 
day  only 11  50* 


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way  stations f  J10  65* 

O9-30P  Hanters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stallone.    Retarn- 
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OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

front  bAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  ot  Market  St.  (Blip*. 

-r.:15    lf:00    11:Wja.m.     1.00    3  00    5-16  p.m 

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COAST    LINE    (Broad  Gangej. 

f3r~  (Third  and  Townaend  Streets.) 

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7  00*   Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations .  536p 

8  00*   New  Almaden  (Tnea.,  Frld.,  only),  4-1  Op 
8  00*  The  Coaster — Stops  only  San  Jose, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi: in- 
ter). Pajaro.  Castrovllle  (con- 
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and  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Boblea.  Santa  Mar- 
garita, San  Lois  Obispo,  principal 
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tfafnee  Santa  Barbara.  San  Kuena* 
ventnra.  Saagus.  Lob  Angeles...  10-46* 
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baotaCroz. Pacific  Grove. Sallnss, 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


Gibbs'     Transformation 


In  the  alleys  and  by-ways  of  the  big  office  build- 
1  little  boy  romped  and  played.  A  pretty  pic- 
ture be  made,  With  li i>  bright  little  lace  and  bare  feet, 
as  he  bobbed  here  and  there  and  scampered  about 
with  all  the  freedom  of  the  woods  or  beach.  He  had 
known  no  other  playground  than  these  marts  of  trade 
and  he  hummed  contentedly  as  he  drew  bis  tin  horse 
along  or  bounced  his  ball  on  the  steps  of  the  Stock 
Exchange. 

Jeason  Gibbs  was  a  stern  old  capitalist.  He  had 
journeyed  to  the  city  with  the  object  of  inspecting 
certain  enterprises  with  which  he  was  connected, 
and  had  taken  an  office  in  the  busy  quarter  where  the 
boy  was  wont  to  play.  He  was  a  man  who  noticed 
things,  and  the  sight  of  a  small  boy  romping  in  a 
spot  assigned  to  commerce  disturbed  his  sense  of  fit- 
ness. Who  was  the  boy?  Why  was  this  allowed? 
Those  questioned  did  not  know.  They  guessed  he 
was  all  right,  lived  in  the  neighborhood,  no  doubt. 
He  always  palyed  around  and  never  bothered  any 
one.     Queer  place  for  him  to  play?     Maybe. 

At  length  the  old  financier  grew  accustomed  to 
the  sight ;  in  fact,  so  much  so  that  he  felt  annoyed  one 
morning  because  the  lad  was  absent  from  the  place. 
Xext  day  he  watched  for  him  and  emitted  an  approv- 
ing grunt.    The  "kid"  was  romping  in  the  usual  way. 

After  that  he  looked  for  him  each  day.  Sometimes 
the  boy  would  be  tardy  in  arriving,  and  the  old  man, 
punctual  himself,  would  look  displeased.  Once  or 
twice  the  child  was  absent  a  whole  day ;  then  the  old 
fellow  grew  nervous  as  a  woman.  He  had  never 
cared  for  children,  but  this  boy,  so  well-behaved  and 
clean,  happy  and  self-possessed,  playing  his  own 
games  and  going  his  own  way  amid  these  busy  men, 
filled  him  with  an  interest  he  could  not  explain.  At 
fifty-five  a  grim  old  bachelor,  close-fisted  and  aggres- 
sive, Gibbs  paused  in  his  financial  dreams  to  follow 
a  boy — a  bright-faced  boy  with  bare  feet — who  be- 
witched him.  More  than  once  he  pulled  himself  to- 
gether. Humph !  he  would  not  believe  that  he,  Gibbs, 
had  grown  sentimental. 

Still  the  old  man  rather  enjoyed  the  sensation  of 
taking  an  interest  in  some  one.  He  longed  to  ap- 
proach the  youngster — to  have  a  chat  with  him.  But 
he  was  bashful — this  veteran  of  finance  who  in  all 
his  life  had  never  spoken  to  a  child — and  long  he 
pondered  as  to  the  best  method  of  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  the  lad.  He,  Gibbs,  was  such  an  un- 
couth object  in  appearance.  He  wore  a  shaggy  beard, 
was  slovenly  in  his  attire,  had  a  sour  expression  and 
was  abrupt  of  manner.  Altogether  he  admitted  that 
his  individuality  was  scarcely  calculated  to  impress 
a  child,  but  was.  cheered  by  the  reflection  that  tops, 
and  balls,  and  candy  were  influential  articles  in  win- 
ning favor  with  a  boy.  It  would  be  advisable,  no 
doubt,  to  go  a  little  slow  in  the  beginning.  He  would 
first  present  him  with  an  apple  or  an  orange.  "Sonny, 
here's  an  apple,"  he  would  say.  Then  he  started  out- 
right; the  word  "Sonny"  frightened  him;  he  had 
never  said  it  to  a  child,  and  in  his  mouth  it  sounded 
out  of  place.  The  next  moment  he  felt  ashamed  of 
his  timidity.  Yet  here  another  feature  rose  to 
worry  him.  What  would  men  say,  other  men,  when 
they  saw  him,  "Surly  Gibbs,"  (that  was  his  sobri- 
quet) fraternizing  with  a  "kid?"  Great  Scott!  His 
ears  tingled  at  the  thought.  However,  he  practiced 
saying  "Sonny,  have  an  apple?"  to  such  good  effect 


that  he  greeted  a  dignified  acquaintance  on  a  cer- 
tain clay  with.  "Sonny,  have  an  apple,"  while  he  ten- 
dered a  cigar. 

A  day  arrived  when  he  decided  he  would  break 
the  ice.  It  was  Saturday  and  the  offices  closed  early. 
He  purchased  some  chocolate-  from  a  druggist,  and 
going  into  an  alley  laid  in  wait.  Comparatively  few 
people  were  about,  and  Jeason "s  heart  beat  wildly 
when  he  noticed  the  boy  coming  his  way.  The  child 
had  for  plaything  a  big,  red  rooster  on  wheels.  By 
means  of  a  cord  he  drew  his  wooden  bird  along. 

The  man  concealed  himself  behind  a  post.  The  boy 
came  on. 

The  man  grew  nervous.  What  should  he  say?  The 
boy  was  passing.     His  chance  would  be  lost. 

"C-o-c-k-a-doo-dle-doo !"   came    in    agitated   tones. 

The  boy  started,  dropped  his  cord  and  looked  in- 
quiringly at  the  rooster.  Then  he  raised  his  eyes  and 
spied  the  man  behind  the  post — a  shamefaced  man. 
The  lad  regarded  him  with  wonder,  then  a  merry 
laugh  escaped  him.    "O  rooster-man!"  he  cried. 

Old  Gibbs  emerged  from  his  concealment  and 
glanced  stealthily  about. 

"You're  a  funny  man,"   laughed  the  boy. 

"Do  that  again." 

Gibbs  drew  himself  up.  George !  He  was  in  for 
it.  A  broker's  clerk  stepped  by,  a  negro  porter 
crossed  the  alley. 

"Go  on,  let  me  see  how  you  do  it,"  persisted  the 
boy.  And  the  solemn  old  man  crowed  again,  dis- 
creetly and  softly,  while  a  calm  joy  pervaded  his  be- 
ing. But  he  kept  his  wits  about  him.  He  noticed 
three  men  coming  down  the  street  who  would  laugh 
if  they  saw  him.  "Good  afternoon,"  said  he,  stiffly, 
to  the  boy ;  then  beat  a  hasty  retreat. 

Well,  he  had  done  it.     Good  Lord,  what  an  ass  he 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  12,  1904. 


had  been.     Still  he  did  not  regret  it.     What  a  fine 
little  chap !     He  had  forgotten  the  chocolates,  which,., 
later  he  found  stuck  to  his  pocket. 

Next  day  he  went  to  his  office  in  some  trepidation, 
fearing  the  lad  might  request  in  public  a  repetition  of 
the  performance,  and  was  relieved  when  the  boy 
merely  flashed  back  a  smile  in  response  to  his  half- 
hearted greeting.  He  cornered  Gibbs,  however,  later 
in  the  day  and  made  him  crow  behind  a  pillar. 

They  soon  understood  each  other.  The  boy  came 
to  regard  the  old  man  as  his  friend  and  divined  that 
he  objected  to  talk  in  public.  They  met  in  by-ways 
and  corners,  exchanging  the  fewest  of  words,  and 
the  old  man  crowed  (ever  so  softly)  and  passed  over 
candies  and  tops,  then  sneaked  away,  ashamed  but 
delighted. 

Important  business  called  him  out  of  town  for  sev- 
eral days.  He  thought  of  the  boy  while  away,  and 
on  his  return  looked  eagerly  for  him,  but  the  lad  was 
nowhere  to  be  seen.  One  day  passed,  then  another. 
Gibbs  grew  uneasy ;  he  would  make  inquiry,  find  out 
where  he  lived.  The  boy  had  told  him,  but  Gibbs 
could  not  recall  the  address.  He  was  even  ignor- 
ant of  his  name  beyond  that  it  was  "Johnnie." 

His  agent  called.  "I  just  came  to  learn  your  in- 
structions, sir,  regarding  those  delinquent  tenants 
up  at  the  North  End — you  will  remember  the  other 
day " 

"Delinquent  tenants !"  Old  Gibbs  was  himself 
again.  "Drat  them !  Out  with  them,  I  say !  I  am 
tired  of  being  imposeu  on'.' 

"Yes,  sir,"  the  agent  simpered,  "but  these  are  good 
people,  Mr.  Gibbs,  good,  honest  people,  sir,  and  with 
your  permission  I  was  going  to  say — now  there's  that 
Mrs.  Sparrow,  for  example.  A  better  lady  never 
lived,  and  she's  seen  better  days.  Well,  sir,  her  lit- 
tle boy  took  sick,  poor  little  chap! — you  may  have 
seen  him  playing  around.  It  was  sad  for  the  poor 
woman — took  away  her  rent  money — and,  well — 
now,  little  Johnnie " 

Gibbs  rose  from  his  seat.  His  face  had  whitened, 
and  he  trembled. 

A  woman  tapped  at  the  door.  She  was  dressed  in 
black.  Although  evidently  poor,  her  air  bespoke  re- 
finement. Her  face  wore  a  troubled  look.  She  in- 
quired for  Mr.  Gibbs  and  bowed  to  the  agent  as  she 
entered. 

"I  caine  "to  tell  you,  sir,"  she  said,  looking  Gibbs 
searchingly  in  the  face,  "that  the  rent  will  be  paid. 
I  only  just  learned  your  name — you  seev  I  have  been 
accustomed  to  deal  with  Mr.  Douglas,"  with  a  glance 
toward  the  agent. 

There  was  a  boy's  step  on  the  floor.  The  woman 
turned.    "Son,  I  told  you  to  wait." 

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!"  shrieked  the  boy  in  delight, 
as  he  ran  to  the  man.  He  looked  a  trifle  pale,  but 
beyond  that  displayed  no  sign  of  sickness. 

Old  Gibbs  sent  forth  a  crow  that  resounded  through 
the  building.  The  agent  jumped  and  the  boy's 
mother  nearly  fainted,  while  the  grasping  landlord, 
the  hardened  money-king,  hugged  the  little  lad  and 
took  him  on  his  knee. — Herbert  R.  Rayner,  in  The 
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General  Leonard  Wood  appears  to  be  as  hard  to 
promote  as  a  wild  cat  mining  scheme. 

Polygamy  was  not  dead  in  Utah,  as  we  supposed, 
but  was  merely  keeping  quiet. 

Science  has  given  us  the  crowless  rooster,  but 
what  we  really  want  is  the  henless  egg. 

A  professor  at  the  University  of  California  has 
found  out  that  the  Sierras  are  three  million  years 
old.    Come,  professor,  how  old  is  Ann  ? 

A  wise  man  has  said  that  "we  are  what  we  eat." 
That  explains  some  oi  the  funny  things  about  peo- 
ple who  live  in  boarding  houses. 

Speaker  Cannon's  boom  appears  to  have  been 
achieved  with  a  blank  cartridge  purchased  by  Con- 
gressman Hearst. 

Dowie  cables  home  to  Zion  City  from  Australia 
that  "God  has  blessed"  his  meetings,  but  that  the 
wicked  Antipodeans  keep  on  mobbing  him. 

Some  enemy  of  the  nation's  peace  has  suggested  a 
women's  "hall  of  fame"  for  the  St.  Louis  Fair.  For 
punishment  let  him  be  the  judge. 

Aftergut  is  not  a  technical  term  of  the  sausage  in- 
dustry, but  the  name  of  a  local  butcher,  not  unfamil- 
iar with  the  police  courts.    

Curfew  rings  in  Ithaca,  New  York,  at  8  p.  m.,  tor 
grown  folks,  as  well  as  children,  leaving  the  streets 
free  at  night  for  the  footpads  and  the  police. 

Cyanide  of  Cacodyl  is  the  deadliest  poison  in  the 
world,  so  subtle  that  one  sniff  of  the  cork  means 
business  for  the  undertaker. 


"Buffalo  Bill"  wants  a  divorce— for  Napoleonic 
reasons,  his  wife  says.  His  purse  being  as  long  as 
his  hair,  the  litigation  should  be  fierce. 

A  quintette  of  boys  was  the  surprise  sprung  on  a 
Pennsylvania  workingman  by  his  wife,  to  whom  he 
had  never  been  guilty  of  unkindness. 

It  is  not  hard  to  understand  why  a  blind  Freshman 
leads  his  class  at  Harvard,  when  one  reflects  that  nec- 
essarily he  wastes  no  time  trying  to  find  out  if  the 
girls  of  Cambridge  are  as  sweet  as  they  look. 


A  woman  pickpocket  at  Los  Angeles  took  the 
purse  of  a  lady  tourist  who  was  kneeling  in  prayer 
at  the  altar  of  a  popular  church.  <  Iccasionaljy  some- 
thing  besides   cleanliness   gets    next    to   godliness. 

According  to  a  Democratic  paper  in  \Yw  York, 
"Missouri,  next  to  Pennsylvania,  is  the  must  corrupt 
State  in  the  union."  This  ought  to  make  the  Tam- 
many tiger  smile. 

A  London  society  for  the  suppression  of  profanity 
has  compiled  a  book  of  substitutes  for  swear  words. 
The  book  is  all  right,  only  it  contains  nothing  that 
a  man  could  drive  a  mule  team  with. 


Horrified  by  the  revelations  in  the  Smoot  case, 
Boston  investigated  her  six  Mormon  elders.  She 
announces  with  calm  joy  that  they  have  only  one 
wife  apiece. 

Yellow  journalism  married  the  Emperor  of  Korea 
to  a  mythical  American  female  called  Emily  Brown, 
and  now  our  minister  at  Seoul  is  busy  trying  to  check 
the    trans-Pacific    invasion    of    spinsters. 

"Mr.  Biggen  is  milking  his  cows  by  machinery," 
says  a  Redlands  paper,  "the  process  occupying  be- 
tween ten  and  fifteen  minutes,  according  to  the  mood 
of  the  cow."  Who  would  blame  a  cow  for  moods 
under  such  conditions? 


Two  Italian  exiles  fought  a  duel  with  swords  in 
France.  It  lasted  three  hours  and  a  half,  ending 
when  one  of  them  sustained  a  severe  blister  on  the 
hand.  Then  the  bloodthirsty  Latins  kissed  and  made 
up- 

Yi  Yong  Ik  is  the  name  of  Korea's  chief  trouble- 
maker. Pflug  is  a  Russian  Major-General,  and  Wos 
y  Gil  has  been  making  history  in  San  Domingo.  We 
apologize  for  having  made  merry  long  ago  over  the 
name  of  that  Southern  statesman,  Hoke  Smith. 

John  F.  Donahue  has  been  re-elected  an  alderman 
at  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  after  thirty  years  of  public  of- 
fice, enjoyed  on  the  strength  of  the  fact  that  when 
he  was  a  Judge,  long  ago,  he  made  it  a  rule  to  take 
off  his  coat  and  thrash  every  wife-beater  before  sen- 
tencing him.  Who  says  women  have  no  influence  in 
politics? 

Abe  Ruef  is  credited  with  a  strong  arm  play  in  the 
case  of  Supervisor  Lunstedt.  It  is  said  the  Boss  had 
a  figurative  elbow  under  the  worthy  Supervisor's 
chin  and  that  Lunstedt  saw  his  finish.  So  the  weak- 
ling changed  his  vote.  A  woman  story,  a  sword  of 
Damocles,  and  the  Boss  holding  the  scissors  ready 
to  cut  the  string  and  project  upon  the  public  atten- 
tion a  prurient  exposure.  No  wonder  Lunstedt's  ex- 
tremities became  frigid.  Sitting  desolately  among 
the  ruins  of  his  character  he  saw  himself  pilloried. 
No  wonder. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  ig,  1904. 


A   WEAK   JUDICIAL    SYSTEM. 

Municipal  reform  that  leaves  the  judiciary  un- 
touched and  uncleansed,  is  reform  without  improve- 
ment— and  that  is  the  only  kind  of  reform  San  Fran- 
cisco has  had.  Practically  nothing  has  been  done  in 
twenty  years  to  drive  the  boodlers  and  grafters  out 
of  the  police  courts;  nothing  has  been  done  to  purify 
or  elevate  the  bench  in  this  department  of  our  judi- 
cial system ;  nothing  has  been  done  to  relieve  it  of 
the  taint  of  politics  in  its  worst  form.  The  net  re- 
sult is  that  to-day  we  have  in  our  Hall  of  Justice — 
Heaven  save  the  mark ! — a  coterie  of  self-seekers, 
wearing  the  honorable  title  of  Police  Judge,  clothed 
with  high  authority  over  the  persons  and  property 
of  our  people — men  for  the  most  part  of  neither  learn- 
ing nor  honor,  of  low  personal  and  lower  political 
associations.  These  ministers  of  the  law  dispense 
justice  as  if  it  were  their  personal  property.  From 
the  moment  of  election  their  chief  business  is  to  cam- 
paign steadily  for  renomination  and  re-election.  It  is 
notorious  that  in  the  police  courts  of  San  Francisco 
the  man  with  a  "pull"  has  a  hundred-to-one  chance 
against  the  man  who  is  supported  by  merely  the  law 
and  the  facts ;  it  is  notorious  that  to  get  a  warrant 
against  a  friend  or  a  henchman  of  a  political  leader, 
or  a  labor  leader,  is  almost  impossible,  unless  the  . 
offense  be  murder,  and  that  to  try  to  get  a  conviction 
for  any  offense  is  plain  foolishness.  Yearly,  with 
more  laws  and  more  people  and  more  policemen  the 
number  of  arrests  is  growing,  and  yearly  the  fines 
imposed  and  collected  show  a  relative  decrease  in 
number  and  amount.  Ordinance  after  ordinance  is 
enacted  to  increase  the  standard  of  public  decency 
and  to  perfect  the  safeguards  that  organized  society 
guarantees  to  its  members — ordinance  after  ordi- 
nance becomes  a  law  and  then  speedily  a  dead  letter. 
A  police  system  which  is  none  too  good  and  yet  in- 
finitely better  than  the  police  courts,  whose  process 
it  executes,  complains  that  it  cannot  keep  on  end- 
lessly arresting  law-breakers  only  to  have  them 
released  without  punishment  by  judges  who  adminis- 
ter not  the  law  as  they  find  it  but  the  law  as  they 
like  it  or  like  it  not.  And  that  there  is  merit  in  this 
contention  no  one  will  deny. 

The  defense  of  the  police  judges,  aside  from  de- 
nials, which  are  of  no  value,  is  that  their  terms  are 
too  short  and  their  salaries  too  small — that  they 
are  compelled  by  the  pressure  of  personal  necessity 
to  "look  out  for  themselves."  This  is  their  excuse 
for  the  fact  that  they,  or  most  of  them,  hold  court 
only  two  or  three  hours  a  day,  four  or  five  days  a 
week.  Presumably  they  would  make  the  same  plea 
if  it  were  alleged — and  it  is  the  cold  truth — that  more 
than  half  the 'time  which  belongs  to  the  public  is 
spent  by  some  of  them  at  the  racetrack,  in  saloons 
and  in  associating  intimately  with  men  and  women 
of  the  classes  on  which  they  are  called  to  pass  judg- 
ment. It  would  be  their  excuse  if  they  were  brought 
to  Dook  for  running  their  courts  not  to  uphold  the 
law,  but  to  insure  renomination  for  themselves  and 
to  win  votes.  As  defense,  plea  or  excuse,  it  is  about 
as  valid  as  it  would  be  for  a  thieving  cashier  to  say 
that  he  stole  because  he  was  underpaid.  Some  move- 
ment is  now  afloat,  presented  by  the  Grand  Jury  and 
backed  by  individuals  and  organizations  genuinely 
interested  in  civic  betterment,  to  take  the  police 
courts  out  of  direct  participation  in  politics  by  mak- 
ing positions  on  that  bench  appointive  and  not  elec-. 
tive.  Though  we  are  experiencing  just  now  some 
of  the  unpleasant  effects  of  power  highly  centralized 
in  the  hands  of  the  Mayor,  it  is  to  be  considered  that 


we  could  hardly  have  a  worse  chief  executive  than 
Schmitz,  and  that  even  Schmitz  would  hesitate  to 
stand  for  the  weak  justices  who  make  a  mockery  of 
police  court  justice.  It  would  be  hard  to  devise  a 
system  less  satisfactory  than  that  which  now  ob- 
tains. 


UNIONISM   AS   SHE   IS   PRACTICED. 

We  have  recently  had  two  very  graphic  illustra- 
tions of  what  unionism  means  in  this  town  under  its 
present  management  and  what  it  would  mean  if  Dic- 
tator Cornelius  could  have  his  way  and  all  employers 
were  done  away  with  and  business  was  managed  by 
Trade  Councils.  Two  respectable  citizens  have  been 
assaulted  by  the  employees  while  peaceably  riding 
on  the  street  cars,  and  after  being  villified,  called  liars 
and  otherwise  abused  verbally,  the  one,  an  assist- 
ant professor  at  the  State  University,  had  his  jaw 
broken,  and  the  other,  the  City  Coroner,  was  knocked 
oft"  the  car  by  the  brute  who  officiated  as  motorman. 
If  this  thing  continues,  the  patrons  of  the  street  car 
company  will  soon  have  to  form  a  union  to  protect 
themselves  from  brutal  assaults  on  the  part  of  the 
employees.  Before  Mr.  Cornelius  began  to  work  his 
graft  by  which  he  has  secured  a  percentage  of  the 
wages  of  his  dupes  for  keeping  them  embroiled  with 
their  employers  and  manipulating  them  for  the  po- 
litical purposes  of  his  master,  Hearst  and  his  lieuten- 
ant Livernash,  the  employees  on  the  street  cars  of 
San  Francisco  were  polite  and  gentlemanly,  and  the 
impolite  man,  motorman  or  conductor,  was  the  ex- 
ception ;  now  the  exception  is  all  the  other  way,  and 
is  confined,  as  a  rule,  to  the  old  employees,  who 
have  not  become  so  thoroughly  inoculated  with  the 
anarchial  virus  which  Cornelius  distills  and  injects 
in  them  as  those  who  have  always  been  under  his 
control.  No  doubt  Cornelius  approves  of  these 
assaults,  and  if  the  company  removes  the  men,  this 
dictator  will  call  a  strike  until  they  are  reinstated ; 
no  doubt  he  will  bring  all  the  political  pressure  he 
can  to  prevent  their  being  punished,  and  will  at  the 
same  time  insist  that  union  men  are  the  most  orderly, 
law-abiding  citizens  in  the  community,  and  that 
non-union  men  and  the  Government  should  be  turned 
over  to  them  to  handle  as  they  see  fit.  It  is  time, 
however,  that  a  halt  should  be  called  on  these  satel- 
lites of  the  Welsh  anarchist,  and  if  they  are  not  se- 
verely punished,  it  will  not  be  long  before  women 
and  children  will  suffer  the  same  conduct.  Send  a 
few  of  them  across  the  bay  for  their  brutality,  and  it 
will  soon  stop. 

ICH  UND  GOTT! 

The  relations  between  Mayor  Schmitz  and  the 
Supervisors  are  such  as  fully  to  verify  the  prediction 
made  by  the  News  Letter  a  few  weeks  after  the  new 
administration  came  into  office.  Less  than  three 
months  have  elapsed  and  already  he  is  exhibiting  the 
high-handed  indifference  to  what  the  public  needs 
and  what  it  demands  that  was  to  have  been  expected 
and  was  clearly  foreshadowed.  The  Schmitz  of 
last  year  talked  loud  and  long  about  "good  govern- 
men"  and  the  progress  of  the  city  with  the  helm  in 
Union  Labor  hands.  The  Schmitz  of  this  year  is 
the  real  Schmitz,  flouting  the  public,  hectoring  and 
threatening  those  Supervisors  whom  he  cannot  club 
into  line.  The  Schmitz  whom  we  see  now  with  the 
mask  off  controls  all  the  commissions,  and  so  has  a 
basis  for  his  arrogance.  All  that  stands  between  him 
and  absolute  authority  over  the  city  is  a  decent  ma- 
jority, which  refuses  to  be  cajoled  or  brow-beaten 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


into  swallowing  a  programme  of  plunder.    The  town 
is  wide  open  for  everybody  who  will  stand  in  with 
the  Schmitz  party  which  makes  and  breaks  po 
men  as  it  pleases  and  mm*  overnight  saloonkei 
who  will  ii"t  turn  their  bars  into  agencies  for  the 
shady  business  of  the  administration.     Unfortunately 
there  are  two  saloonkeepers  in  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors, and  by  the  vote  of  one  of  these,  confessedly 
controlled  through  fear  of  a  revoked  license,  Schmitz 
has  just  votes  enough  in  the  Board  to  keep  his  \ 
from  heing  overridden. 

Of  the  controversy  over  the  quarry  and  rock 
crusher  in  the  Fairmount  district,  which  has  brought 
the  Mayor  and  the  majority  to  open  warfare,  it  1 
necessary  to  speak  at  this  time ;  our  concern  is  with 
the  threat  of  the  Mayor  made  during  this  contention 
that  Supervisors  who  "insult"  him  by  opposing  his 
will  and  questioning  his  motives  must  "bear  the 
consequences."  What  consequences,  pray?  Does 
his  Dishonor,  the  Mayor,  mean  personal  violence? 
Does  he  mean  that  his  opponents  in  the  Board  are 
to  be  villified  by  the  means  of  publicity  which  he 
commands?  He  cannot  dismiss  them  from  office, 
nor  is  there  any  law  under  which  he  can  punish  them 
for  doing  their  duty.  What,  then,  are  the  "conse- 
quences?" 

The  scene  on  Monday  last  in  the  chambers  of  the 
Supervisors  when  Supervisor  Brandenstein,  himself 
a  man  independent  of  the  Mayor,  politically  and  com- 
mercially unafraid  of  his  threat,  whether  he  meant 
recourse  to  the  law,  to  vilification  or  to  thugism, 
replied,  in  the  name  of  the  people,  to  the  bully  and 
blusterer  in  the  chair,  was  most  significant.  We 
are  a  patient  people  and  long-suffering.  We  have 
borne  much  from  Schmitz,  and,  like  enough,  we 
shall  bear  much  more,  but  Mr.  Brandenstein's  warn- 
ing was  not  idle  talk.  There  is  a  limit  beyond  which 
Schmitz  must  not  go.  It  was  well  that  this  limit 
should  be  pointed  out  by  a  man  of  imluence  and  po- 
sition, speaking  with  calmness  and  deliberation.  He 
did  not  put  the  facts  too  strongly.  Under  a  regime 
of  Schmitzism,  with  the  bridle  off,  the  conditions  are 
rapidly  reaching  a  point  where  the  most  apathetic 
community  cannot  fail  to  take  notice  of  them  and 
so  free  itself  from  the  burden  imposed  by  its  own 
folly.  Once  the  tide  of  public  opinion  sets  the  other 
way  and  Schmitz  will  find  that  his  house  has  jerry- 
built  foundations.  The  people  may  put  a  man  up, 
but  they  also  may  pull  him  down. 

THE  IMPOSSIBLE  HEARST. 

"The  unspeakable  candidate"  is  what  many  East- 
ern newspapers,  Democratic  and  Republican,  unite 
in  calling  Hearst.  In  one  way  and  another  these 
journals  are  performing  a  service  for  the  nation,  as 
necessary  and  as  unpleasant  as  the  function  of  the 
night  carts  in  communities  without  sewer  systems. 
Among  them  they  are  letting  the  daylight  into  a  cam- 
paign for  the  Presidency  that  would  be  unique  if 
it  were  not  so  disgustingly  indecent  and  into  a  char- 
acter and  personality  which  pass  the  limit  of  public 
and  private  unworth.  We  doubt  if  Hearst  will  get 
within  gunshot  of  the  nomination  at  St.  Louis.  We 
are  certain  that  if  he  should  be  nominated  he  will  be 
defeated  at  the  polls,  and  further,  that  he  will  have 
been  so  clearly  held  up  to  public  view  for  all  that  he 
is  which  a  man  ought  not  to  be,  and  for  all  that  he 
is  not  which  a  man  ought  to  be,  as  to  make  any  one 
ashamed  of  having  taken  him  seriously  as  a  Presi- 
dential possibility.  • 

In  San  Francisco  Hearst  has  opened  headquarters 
where  the  Tarpey  family  descants  upon  his  virtues 


and  makes  promise  and  payment  to  the  doubters. 
The  first  manifesto  i-  a  circular  letter,  signed  by  the 
chief  of  the  Tarpeys,  begging  support  for  Hearst 
as  "the  first  native  of  (  aliiornia  ever  seriously  con- 
sidered for  the  Presidency,"  telling  what  he  has  done 
with  "press,  pen  and  purse"  for  the  Democracy  and 
urging  as  an  "all-patent  reason"  for  his  nomination 
the  "fact  that  he  will  receive  a  larger  popular  vote 
than  would  all  the  others  spoken  of  for  the  office, 
were  the  strength  of  ;i!l  of  them  aggregated."  Now 
this  may  seem  absurd  and  even  nauseous,  but  it  is 
mild  and  modest  compared  with  what  Hearst  hires 
people  to  say  about  him  elsewhere,  and  what  he  will 
doubtless  say  of  himself  here  when  his  praise-fac- 
tory  is  in  good  running  order.  At  the  East  he  has 
reveled  in  printed  glorification  of  himself  as  a  young 
man  of  vast  personal  achievement,  a  better  writer 
than  any  in  his  hire,  a  brilliant  speaker,  a  wise 
statesman,  a  powerful  debater,  a  man  rejoicing  in  the 
strength  won  in  an  athletic  youth  and  a  temperate 
manhood.  For  the  facts  about  Hearst  in  Congress 
we  may  go  to  the  official  journal  of  that  body,  which 
shows  that  thus  far  he  has  occupied  his  seat  three 
times  and  spoken  from  it  once.  For  information 
as  to  the  exercises  which  he  favored  in  his  "athletic 
youth"  there  is  yet  to  be  published  a  veracious  ac- 
count of  his  life  and  associations  in  his  Sausalito 
cottage,  and  for  the  pursuits  of  his  "temperate  man- 
hood" we  await  a  detailed  chronicling  of  his  associa- 
tion with  the  "Sassafras  sisters"  and  others  of  their 
stripe  in  New  York. 

Doubtless  the  Eastern  press  which  has  dubbed 
Hearst  "the  unspeakable  candidate"  will  have  con- 
siderable to  say  about  him  between  now  and  the 
assembling  of  the  St.  Louis  convention,  and  we  shall 
not  be  surprised  if  some  of  the  accounts  of  him  are 
strikingly  illustrated  by  Davenport,  the  cartoonist 
whom  Hearst  once  delighted  to  honor,  but  now  pur- 
sues with  furious  malignity.  Hearst  for  years  was 
so  bold  and  so  contemptuous  of  public  opinion  in 
defying  the  laws  and  rules  of  honest,  decent  living 
that  the  record  of  his  misdoings  is  not  obscure.  Those 
who  believe  that  his  nomination  would  be  a  calamity 
to  the  Democratic  party  and  his  election  a  disgrace 
and  dishonor  to  the  nation  should  have  no  difficulty 
in  finding  evidence  of  his  utter  unfitness. 

OHIO  AND  LOUISIANA. 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  an  Ohio  community  is 
making  a  partly  successful  attempt  at  incinerating  of 
a  large  colored  population,  it  is  an  interesting  story 
that  comes  from  New  Orleans  of  the  appearance  in 
Judge  King's  court  of  Samuel  Hooper,  an  aged 
negro,  to  conduct  his  own  case.  It  related  to  his 
home.  A  city  board  wanting  the  property  for  public 
purposes  had  offered  him  $315  for  it.  He  contended 
that  it  was  worth  at  least  $700.  The  board  entered 
a  suit  to  expropriate  the  property.  Hooper  con- 
ducted his  own  case,  examined  witnesses,  and  made 
an  argument  in  his  own  behalf.  The  board  was 
represented  by  able  counsel.  Hooper  was  offered 
assistance  gratis  by  members  of  the  bar,  but  he  de- 
clined it  politely,  saying  that  the  white  folks  who 
composed  the  jury  would  do  "nuthin'  'ceptin'  what's 
squar'  "  by  him.  His  confidence  was  justified,  for 
he  won  the  case.  A  New  Orleans  newspaper  thinks 
there  is  something  strikingly  beautiful  about  this  old 
black  man's  confidence  in  the  justice  of  his  white 
neighbors,  and  regards  the  incident  as  proof  that  the 
deserving  negro  at  the  South  can  always  get  abso- 
lute and  impartial  justice  at  the  hands  of  his  white 
neighbors. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  ig,  1904. 


SPECIAL    PRIVILEGES    FOR    CHINATOWN. 

Why  should  Chinamen  be  allowed  to  violate  the 
ordinances  of  the  city  with  impunity  and  the  taxpay- 
eis  of  the  city  and  State  be  forced  to  spend  money 
and  risk  their  lives  and  health  because  it  pleases  the 
Celestials  to  be  dirty  and  unsanitary?  The  ordi- 
nances of  San  Francisco  provide  that  every  prop- 
erty-holder shall  keep  his  property  clean  and  healthy; 
they  provide  for  sanitary  plumbing,  for  the  removal 
of  filth  of  all  kinds  and  for  the  closing  up  of  cesspools 
and  unhealthy  places.  In  Chinatown  the  most  filthy 
and  unhealthy  conditions  are  allowed  to  exist  in 
plain  view  of  every  passer-by,  and  when  any  clean- 
ing is  done  it  is  not  the  owners  who  do  it  but  the 
State.  We  know,  of  course,  that  the  cleaning  is  done 
under  the  specious  pretense  that  it  is  to  prevent 
bubonic  plague,  but  with  equal  justice  the  premises 
of  white  people  could  be  cleaned  by  the  State  on  the 
theory  that  the  cleansing  was  to  prevent  typhoid 
fever  or  some  other  similar  disease.  This  State, 
under  several  recent  administrations  has  spent  nearly 
half  a  million  dollars  cleaning  private  property  in 
this  city,  and  the  city  has  spent  thousands  of  dol- 
lars more,  yet  to-day  the  whole  neighborhood  smells 
like  an  operating  room,  and  is  filthy  and  disgust- 
ing on  every  corner.  Daily  it  is  sprinkled  with  lime, 
and  daily  it  is  cleaned  by  white  labor  at  enormous 
expense,  only  to  return  to  its  former  filthy  condi- 
tion as  soon  as  the  cleaners  pass  by.  The  Chinese 
make  no  effort  to  keep  their  quarters  clean,  and  the 
owners  of  the  property  never  trouble  themselves 
about  the  matter,  because  why  should  they?  The 
State  is  paying  for  the  cleaning,  and  they  are  draw- 
ing down  immense  rents  for  the  property  which  no 
white   man  would   live   in. 

Only  a  few  days  ago  the  Health  Board  ordered 
a  cheap  lodging  house  to  be  cleaned,  threw  all 
the  furniture  out  of  the  windows  and  destroyed  it, 
and  ordered  the  building  torn  down.  No  doubt  it 
did  wisely,  but  why  not  apply  the  same  rule  to 
the  cleaning  of  Chinatown?  Did  the  taxpayers  of 
the  State  pay  for  the  cleaning  out  of  the  lodging- 
house?  Do  they  pay  when  any  white  man  is 
found  allowing  filth  to  accumulate  on  his  premises? 
No.  The  offender  is  arrested,  hauled  into  court 
and  fined.  But  the  Chinese  are  never  arrested, 
and  the  wealthy  owners  of  Chinatown  are  never 
asked  to  contribute  anything  to  keeping  their  prop- 
erty in  proper  condition. 

Evidently  there  is  some  mysterious  reason  for 
this  condition  of  things.  Is  there  a  "graft"  some- 
where? Are  the  Health  Board  afraid  to  bring  the 
Chinatown  owners  to  time  as  they  do  those  who 
rent  to  white  tenants?  White  tenants  are,  as  a 
rule,  poor ;  the  Chinese  tenants  are  rich  though 
filthy,  and  it  is  well  known  that  the  Chinese  are 
forever  trying,  and  unfortunately  very  often  suc- 
ceeding, in  bribing  police,  courts,  etc.,  in  their  ef- 
forts to  evade  the  law.  The  owners  of  the  prop- 
erty should  be  made  to  clean  and  keep  clean  their 
property,  and  they  would  soon  force  their  tenants 
to  keep  clean  if  they  had  to  pay  the  bills  for  the 
cleaning.  This  crying  disgrace  and  shame  and  dan- 
ger to  San  Francisco  will  never  disappear  as  long  as 
the  present  system  of  State  and  municipal  cleaning 
prevails.  It  makes  too  many  jobs;  it  is  too  easy 
on  the  parties  interested,  but  it  is  a  severe  load 
on  the  taxpayers  which  they  should  not  and  will 
not  stand.  The  Board  of  Supervisors  should  refuse 
to  spend  any  more  money  cleaning  Chinatown.  The 
Mayor,   if   he    is   as   honest   and   economical   as    he 


claims  to  be,  should  veto  any  appropriations  for 
the  cleaning  of  Chinatown,  especially  as  it  is  whis- 
pered that  he  dare  not  act  because  his  friends  and 
associates  are  interested  in  Chinatown  property.  The 
State  Board  of  Health  and  the  Governor  should 
insist  on  the  Chinese  keeping  clean  as  they  do  upon 
cleanliness  with  the  whites.  Under  Governor  Gage 
the  Chinese  fund  was  largely  expended  In  keeping 
up  an  army  of  incompetents  and  hangers-on.  Does 
that  graft  still  continue?  If  not,  why  does  Gov- 
ernor Pardee  continue  this  wastefulness?  The  peo- 
ple will  demand  of  the  next  Legislature  to  inves- 
tigate this  scandal  if  it  is  not  stopped  sooner,  and 
meantime  the  News  Letter  respectfully  calls  the 
attention  of  the  present  Grand  Jury  to  the  matter 
and  urges  that  it  investigate  what  has  now  grown 
to  be  a  public  scandal,  and  an  endless  robbery  of 
the  taxpayers  for  the  benefit  of  a  few  property 
owners. 


"THESE  BE  YOUR  GODS." 
The  university  contingent  is  even  more  snobbish 
than  the  ecclesiastical.  While  King  Peter  of  Servia 
could  find  a  Metropolitan  to  pray  for  him  on  the  day- 
after  the  assassination  of  his  predecessor,  the 
university,  in  the  person  of  its  present  President, 
would  pray  for  or  kow-tow  to  any  one  who  had 
money  to  spend.  The  institution  of  which  he  is  the 
controlling  head  has  been  obliged  to  do  without  his 
fostering  care  while  he  has  made  a  trip  to  the  East. 
He  has  now  returned,  and  the  accounting  which  he 
gives  of  his  time  is  about  as  follows :  He  has  dined 
(or  was  it  slept?)  with  the  President.  Congressman 
Metcalf  is  very  popular,  and  the  California  delega- 
tion is  to  stand  unitedly.  But  these  matters,  which 
an  ordinary  reporter  could  relate  more  effectively 
and  even  in  better  English,  become  very  secondary 
to  the  prime  news,  the  bonne  bouche  of  the  intellec- 
tual repast  served  by  the  Mogul.  He  says:  "I  had 
the  pleasure  of  greeting  Mrs.  Hearst  as  she  stepped 
again  on  American  soil.  She  intends  to  return  to 
Berkeley  about  the  latter  end  of  April.  She  said  that 
she  has  enjoyed  her  journey  abroad  immensely, 
particularly  through  India,"  and  so  on  for  yards  of 
weary  twaddle.  Now,  Mrs.  Hearst  is  an  exceedingly 
benevolent  and  charitable  lady,  who  would  resent 
any  such  ostentatious  and  disgusting  flattery  with 
revulsion.  What  has  she  done  that  this  dancing  der- 
vish, this  fulsome  back-bending  slave  should  fill  the 
air  with  his  flattering  ululations?  We  have  not  yet 
arrived  at  the  point  when  our  university  is  simply  to 
serve  as  a  means  of  advertising  those  of  whom  the 
President  fancies  that  he  can  make  use. 


UCHAS.  KLILLS  &  CO  JJ 

&£XCL  USIVT& 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

There  is  a  reason  why  our  clothes  are  so  decidedly  different  from 
others.  It  is  the  experience,  merit  am  exclusiveness  that,  our 
fabrics,  patterns  and  fashions  contain.  The  sculptor's  chisel  could 
not  give  the  effect  in  the  appearance  of  our  spring  and  summer 
models.    (This  is  the  Home  for  Correct  Dressers.) 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


How     vSan     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


Bv     F»rr\tk\ild     Trivprs.    TovirIM 


You  San  Franciscans  arc  most  assuredly  tmpi 
ins  by  Following  my  ideas.  I  am  glad  of  it,  foT  you 
need  it.  and  I  assure  you  that  yon  need  hot  be  in 
the  least  affrighted  at  the  thought  that  you  have 
not  lots  of  room  left  yet  in  which  to  exercise  your 
selves  in  this  direction.  The  idea  put  into  effect  at 
a  first  night  in  a  certain  theatre  here  this  week  meets 
my  approval — not  allowing  people  to  enter  after  the 
curtain  had  risen  on  the  first  act.  This  is  really  a 
step  in  the  right  direction.  Why,  let  me  ask  you, 
would  it  not  conduce  to  the  comfort  of  the  artistic 
theatre-goer  to  have  this  same  rule  enforced  at  other 
theatres.  A  chap  who  goes  to  see  a  play  and  not  t.> 
be  seen,  gets  into  his  chair  before  the  overture.  This 
class  of  theatre-goers  are  usually  critical  and  know 
a  good  play  when  they  see  it.  It  is,  don't  you  know, 
manifestly  unfair  to  them  to  allow  the  society  cult 
to  tread  on  their  toes  and  break  the  thread  of  the 
play.  1  think  you  will  agree  with  me.  You  can't 
all  take  a  box  or  a  loge,  but  this  is  the  one  way  1 
use  to  escape  the  unpoliteness  of  the  late-comer-. 
The  first  thought  of  a  well-bred  gentleman  or  gentle- 
woman is  to  avoid  giving  annoyance  to  others.  None 
of  us  who  are  truly  of  the  set  would  do  so  willingly, 
and  those  who  so  demean  themselves  should  be 
kept  in  the  foyer  until  the  end  of  the  act,  and  they 
can  exhibit  themselves  during  the  intermission.  It 
is  usually  the  over-dressed  and  muchly-jeweled 
classes  who  are  so  careless  and  annoying.  I  fancy 
that  it  would  take  a  manager  of  courage  to  enforce 
this  rule,  but  if  enforced,  the  so-called  society  peo- 
ple would  fall  into  the  habit  quite  as  easily  as  the 
well  bred.  I  saw  quite  a  few  nice  frocks  at  that  first 
night  and  quite  a  few  impossible  ones.  I  saw  hats 
in  boxes,  a  few  dress  suits,  a  few  more  dinner  coats 
and  a  lot  of  badly-kneed  trousers  over  muddy  boots. 
Really  the  dress  trouser  of  the  San  Francisco  man  is 
to  my  taste  as  bad  as  the  over-dressing  of  the 
woman.  I  saw  a  lot  of  men  who  considered  them- 
selves correctly  dressed,  but  who  wore  black  satin 
ties  tied  in  what  I  was  told  was  a  bat's-wing  bow. 
Now  a  black  tie  at  a  dress  affair  is  bad  enough,  but 
it  must  be  hand-tied  by  one's  man,  and  flat  and 
square,  but  a  bow  thing  suggesting  a  haberdasher's 
ready-made  affair  is  simply  suggestive  of  a  suit 
hired  for  the  night  or  of  a  tailor's  clerk  out  on  a  lark, 
I  beg  of  you,  if  you  hire  your  suits  for  the  night,  as 
I  learn  you  do,  get  a  white  tie  and  tie  it  yourself. 
Also,  don't,  as  you  care  for  appearances,  perch  your- 
self upon  one  of  those  funny  places  you  have  here  in 
San  Francisco  and  have  your  shoes  polished  on  your 
way  home.  Gentlemen  make  their  toilets  in  privacy, 
and  while  gentlemen  don't  polish  their  own  shoes, 
it  is  still  a  part  of  the  toilet.  If  you  have  not  a  man 
to  shave  you,  you  use  a  barber  shop  and  go  in  there 
and  get  fixed  up.  You  would  not  by  an  means  tie 
your  necktie  or  pull  on  your  gloves  in  the  street, 
would  you?  Then,  why  get  your  shoes  varnished 
in  the  same  public  place.  It  is  thoughtless  and  ill- 
bred.  You  are  doing  better,  but  I  beg  of  you  keep 
on.  I  was  surprised  at  a  concert  affair  the  other 
night  to  see  two  really  decent-looking  and  properly 
dressed  men  get  up  and  leave  two  ladies  alone  and 
walk  down  the  isle,  and  was  told  they  had  gone  to 
get  a  drink. 

The  lady  and  gentleman  with  whom  I. was,  knew 
them,  but  not  socially.'  .1  should  think  they  would 


never  be  known  socially.  Men  who  will  do  this  kind 
of  thing  are  vulgar;  the  ladies  should  have  left  them 
then  and  there.  I  have  my  opinion  of  any  well-bred 
woman  who  will  tolerate  such  usage  from  an  e- 
and  I  really  think  that  the  gentlewomen  can  com- 
mence a  useful  movement  by  refusing  to  accompany- 
any  chap  who  does  this  thing.  It  is  obtrusive,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  acquired  odor  of  the  person.  It 
is  ungallant  to  those  who  have  accompanied  you  and 
it  is  caddy  and  snobbish.  It  is  the  act  of  the  fellow 
with  the  hired  or  borrowed  suit  and  muddy  shoes. 
I  find  the  Americans  the  most  gallant  and  chivalrous 
chaps  to  the  gentlewomen,  and  these  ill-bred  actions, 
I  think,  can  in  a  little  part  be  blamed  on  the  forebear- 
ance  of  the  gentler  sex.  They  are  really  too  kind. 
They  give  the  chaps  here  too  many  liberties,  and 
they  suffer  for  it.  It  is  in  their  hands  to  exact  in 
public  the  attention  which  they  deserve  from  the 
men  in  both  behavior  and  in  dress.  I  think  some- 
times they  don't  exact  enough,  but  if  they  will  fol- 
low my  hints  they  will  do  so  from  now  on.  They 
will  have  proper  acting  escorts  then,  and  will  please 

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March  ig,  1904. 


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j  PLEASURE'S  WANDPfJV      J 


•  ob«  00  wind  but  Pl«»ur«'».-ToM  Moon* 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ORPHEUM— A  very  good  show. 

FISCHER'S— The  Rounders— An  improvement  over  last  week 
COLUMBIA— The  Silver  Slipper— Only  a  fair  show- 
CENTRAL— Shamus  O'Brien— a  good  performance, 
cmrres— a  good  show. 

ALCAZAR— Parsifal— A  dramatic  triumph. 

TTVOLI— The  Gypsy  Baron.  A  fine  musical  and  scenic  production. 


"Parsifal,"  the  Murphy  adaptation,  may  be  classi- 
fied as  a  dramatic  and  musical  triumph.  It  strikes 
eacli  onlooker  in  a  different  key.  Many  come  to  the 
Alcazar  performance  to  scoff  and  "be  amused."  They 
remain  to  praise.  The  Fitzgerald  performance  is  a 
dramatic  success.  Much  of  the  original  music  is 
retained,  and  the  orchestra,  augmented  to  thirty- 
two  pieces,  gives  the  Wagnerian  score  very  accept- 
ably. 

The  prelude  is  a  solemn,  exalted  introductory.  The 
Grail,  Faith  and  the  Holy  Supper  are  the  themes, 
and  these  continue  throughout  the  play.  Monsalvat. 
its  forest,  and,  in  its  depths,  unseen  to  the  audience, 
the  Castle  of  the  Grail.  The  Grail,  a  cup  from  which 
the  Savior  drank  at  the  Last  Supper,  given  "Titurcl" 
after  his  conquest  of  Klingsor,  the  Magician  and 
Symbol  of  Evil.  Then  Amfortas.  tortured  by  the 
ever-bleeding  wound,  awaiting  the  arrival  of  the 
"guileless  fool."  The  killing  of  the  swan  and  the 
entrance  of  the  fool  himself,  the  unawakened  and 
untaught. 

Kundry,  lying  lethargic,  awakens  to  tell  Parsifal 
of  the  death  of  his  mother.  He  springs  at  her  to 
kill  her.  Gurnemanz  prevents,  and  believing  that 
Parsifal  is  the  fool  of  the  prediction,  he  of  "enlight- 
ened pity,"  urges  him  to  follow  to  the  Castle  of  the 
Grail.  The  dismissal  of  the  fool  by  Gurnemanz — 
Klingsor  in  his  castle  calls  upon  the  "Rose  of  Hades" 
1  Kundry),  and  she  appears  only  to  combat  his  com- 
mands. A  struggle  for  supremacy  between  right 
and  wrong.  A  sombre  scene,  terminated  b.y  the 
clash  of  swords.  Parsifal,  invisible  to  the  audience, 
slays   the   guards   of   Klingsor. 

A  transformation,  a  burst  of  beauty,  a  resplendent 
scene  seldom  equaled  on  any  stage ;  the  flower 
maidens  are  bewailing  the  death  of  their  lovers,  slain 
by  Parsifal. 

They  see  the  fool  and  try  to  entrap  him  :  they  sing, 
they  dance,  and  they  use  all  the  wiles  the  are  pos- 
sessed of  in  their  attempts  to  win  him  as  their  lover. 
He  is  obstinate  and  repulses  them. 

Enter  a  woman,  Kundry  (Miss  Block)  a  vision  re- 
cumbent, a  sentient,  sensuous  and  sinister  sorcerer. 
Beautiful  she  is,  more  beautiful  than  the  flower 
maidens  who  have  whirled  and  pleaded  in  amatory 
dance  to  the  obdurate  Parsifal  (Mr.  Durkin).  Kun- 
dry draws  him  to  her  by  her  revealed  charms,  and 
here  Miss  Block  is  the  absolute  embodiment  of  the 
character ;  there  is  lewdness  and  love  and  pity  and 
passion  intermingled,  and  then  despair  and  hate. 
She  is  partially  successful,  for  he  is  beguiled  by  the 
snakelike  twist  of  her  sensuous  limbs  and  body.  She 
speaks  of  his  mother,  tells  him  of  his  mother's  death, 
gaining  his  confidence,  and  then  she  essays  to  win 
him  to  herself.  The  hot  effluvia  of  passion  floats 
about  him,  and  she  seals  her  lips  to  his  with  a  fiery 
kiss. 

It  is  a  duel.  The  youth  conquers  the  awakened 
cravings  of  the  flesh.  But  he  loves;  the  iron  is  in 
the  soul.    He  likens  his  own  to  the  wound  of  Amfor- 


tas. He  has  found  knowledge,  and  with  it  comes 
pain.  The  fool  is  a  fool  no  longer.  Kundry  is  re- 
pulsed. She  launches  her  curse.  He  is  to  wander 
in  search  of  the  Grail  and  he  is  never  to  find  it.  Kling- 
sor (Mr.  Hilliard)  appears  upon  the  battlements 
and  flings  the  spear  at  Parsifal,  who  seizes  it  and 
makes  the  sign  of  the  cross — an  immediate  destruc- 
tion follows,  and  a  desolation  marks  the  spot  where 
formerly  beauty  held  sway.     A  wonderful  scene. 

Good  Friday  and  the  last  scene  but  one.  Kundry 
makes  her  last  change  and  appears  as  the  repentant 
Magdalene.  Parsifal  enters,  footsore  and  dejected. 
Gurnemanz  (Mr.  Osbourne)  recognizes  him,  and  the 
holy  spear,  and  knows  that  it  is  lie — at  last — who  is 
to -heal  Amfortas.  The  scene  at  the  spring  and  the 
Magdalene  washing  the  feet  of  Parsifal,  is  one  that 
may  be  construed  in  many  ways.  To  some  it  is  a 
beautiful  and  touching  scene,  and  to  others  it  seems 
a  sacrilege.  To  the  News  Letter  man  it  seemed  full 
of  religious  fervor. 

Miss  Block's  Kundry  is  a  wonderful  creation.  She 
is  the  embodiment  of  the  Eternal  Feminine.  She  is 
the  picture  of  pulsing  passion.  She  finally  becomes 
the  ideal  of  resigned  humility. 

Mr.  Durkin  in  the  last  two  scenes  strikes  the 
Christ-like  and  reverential  key  to  perfection,  and 
plays  well  an  awe-inspiring  and  difficult  part.  The 
scene  in  Klingsor's  garden  was  bewilderingly  beau- 
tiful, and  while  Miss  Block  was  its  crowning  glory, 
Miss  Gordon,  Miss  Starr  and  the  others,  succeeded 
in  arousing  the  audience  to  a  lambent  admiration. 

In  the  last  act,  Parsifal,  with  the  tip  of  the  holy 
spear,  which  now  glows  blood  red,  touches  Am- 
fortas' wound,  immediately  healing  it.  He  holds 
the  Grail  aloft,  and  from  above  the  white  dove  hov- 
ers.   The  last  scene  is  a  solemn  and  reverential  one. 

The  Alcazar  deserves  the  praise  of  San  Francisco 
for  its  daring,  and  that  young  Irishman,  Fitzgerald 
Murphy,  has  sent  his  name  a  long  way  toward  last- 
ing fame  by  the  dramatization  of  Wagner's  immortal 
play. 

The  soprano  voice  (Harold  Forman)  is  a  delight 
to  the  immense  audiences.  It  rings  clear  and  sweet 
through  the  house,  and  the  anthem  follows  it  in  soft- 
est melody. 

"Parsifal"  should  be  seen  by  all  San  Francisco. 
*  *  * 

The  Orpheum  has  been  presenting  a  programme  of 
unusual  interest  to  the  theatre-goer.  Beginning  with 
Gillo's  Artesto  and  winding  up  wtih  the  eccentrici- 
ties of  Fergusson  and  Mack,  the  show'  is  an  excep- 
tionally good  one.  In  the  Lowe  and  Hughes  duo, 
the  xylophone  playing  is  a  marvel,  and  the  best  we 
have  ever  seen.  The  Barrows-Lancaster  Company 
presents  "A  Chip  of  the  Old  Block"  in  a  highly  en- 
joyable manner.  Miss  Thropp  is  a  chic  little  maiden 
and  a  very  good  actress.  James  Barrows,  who  is  the 
uncle  of  her  husband  in  the  play,  is  a  fine  actor,  and 
his  portrayal  of  Mathew  Carnehan  is  without  a 
flaw.  The  Swedish  Ladies'  Quartette  captures  the 
house,  and  the  vocal  numbers  by  these  artists  are 
fine.  Emmett  Corrigan.  whose  last  visit  here  was 
one  continual  enjoyment  to  those  who  had  the  sense 
to  recognize  his  wonderful  ability,  gives  a  playlet 
in  one  act,  with  the  assistance  of  a  good  company. 
"Jockey  Jones,  or  The  Day  of  the  Handicap,"  will 
dwell  long  in  the  memory  of  the  onlooker.  It  will  be 
a  long  time  before  the  Orpheum  surpasses  this  bill. 


March  19,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

At    Fischer's,  "The  Rounders"  is  somewhat   im- 

ed   over      the    first      week's    production,   but    no 
amount  of  pruning  will  ever  raal 
lamentably    bad    one.      Samuel    Collins   and    th( 
ladies   who   are   employed    in   the   chorus   arc    enter- 
taining at  the  Columbia.    At  the  Tivoli,  the  "Gypsy 
Baron"   continues   to   delight    fair-sized    audiences. 
These  are  all  hold-over  bills,  and  I  have  treated 
at  length  in   former  issues  of  the   News   Letter. 


IB,  Marx  A  Co, 

Lmm  and  Manacera. 


Columbia  Theatre.  °orr 

Matinee  Saturday,,  0 iilr 

Two  week*  hew  inning  Kandkr,  Miinh  21st 

MflRY     MflNNERING 

management   Frank  McKcel 

In  a  modern  comedy  bj  I.e..  Ditrichstein.  entitled 

HARRIET'S    HONEYMOON 

Direct  from  It*  run  .it  the  Oarrlek  Theatre.  New  York  City 


A  capital  programme  has  been  prepared  at  the 
Chutes  for  the  coming  week,  beaded  by  Gillo's  \r 
teste,  the  latest  European  novelty.  An  automaton, 
dressed  as  an  artist,  is  placed  in  front  of  an  easel, 
and  at  request  draws  a  picture  of  any  cclebriiv  in 
two  minutes,  and  in  three  minutes  makes  a  portrait 
of.any  one  taken  from  the  audience.  Memphis  Ken- 
nedy, a  most  amusing  black-face  musical  comedian, 
will  be  new,  and  the  Fenz  Brothers,  renowned  Tyro- 
lean warblers,  will  make  their  first  appearance  here. 
Deonzo  and  Schenck  will  continue  their  trick  barrel 
jumping  and  gymnastic  act;  Lyne  and  Leonard,  the 
"Dancing  Nabobs,"  will  vary  their  specialty,  and 
Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular  contralto,  will  be  heard 
in  new  illustrated  songs.  The  animatoscope  will 
show  a  complete  change  of  moving  pictures,  and 
many  novelties  are  promised  for  Thursday,  amateur 
night.  New  attractions  are  being  installed  at  the 
Chutes  from  time  to  time,  and  the  zoo  is  constantly 
in  receipt  of  rare  and  curious  animals  from  all  over 
the  world. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Central,  "Shamus  O'Brien"  is  being  given 
to  delighted  audiences.  Herschel  Mayal  takes  the 
part  of  Shamus,  and  he  does  his  part  well.  The 
specialties  by  the  Champion  Gaelic  Dancers  are 
good. 

*  *  * 

"Parsifal"  is  to  be  continued  indefinitely.  The  play 
has  caught  on,  and  may  truly  be  said  to  be  the  fash- 
ion. There  is  a  display  nightly  of  splendid  gowns. 
Monday  night  was  a  premier  that  rivaled  anything 
ever  seen  here  in  grand  opera. 

*  *  * 

The  immediate  future  at  the  Grand  Opera  House 
.  is  the  coming  next  week  of  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske. 
Mrs.  Fiske  has  not  appeared  in  San  Francisco  for 
many  seasons,  and  her  advent  will  be  a  welcome 
change  from  the  commonplace  and  the  threadbare 
performances  seen  at  the  Grand  for  some  time.  Here 
at  last  is  something  we   can   bet  on. 

*  *  * 

Wednesday  evening,  the  members  of  Islam  Tem- 
ple, Ancient  Arabic  Order  of  the  Nobles  of  the  Mys- 
tic Shrine,  and  their  ladies  will  take  possession  of  the 
Tivoli   and   enjoy   "Mr.   Pickwick." 
(Continued  to  Page  17.) 

flfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen   to    the   matchless   string   band   and   enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The  Cafe   Ztnkand   Is   society's   gathering   place  after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

The  sunshine  of  prosperity  is  always  with  us 

THE     ROUNDERS 

The  greatest  musical  success  we  have  ever  had 

So  pronounced  by  press  and  public 

Acted  perfectly.    Costumed  magnificently.    Staged  beautifully 

And  the  only  All  Star  Cast  in  the  city 

Beserved  seats,  nights,  25c.  50c  and  75c. 

Matinees'Saturday  and  Sunday.    25c  and  50c. . 

Children  at  Matinees,  10c  and  25c. 

Next  Play-KISMET. 


OrDheUfh       8*n  rrlnc,,,co'»t;reatei.[  Mu»)c  Halt. 

K  -1"    OFarrcll  St..  between  Stockton  and  Powell  iirnu. 

Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.    March  20. 

THE  BEST  FROM  TWO  CONTINENTS 

mimi-VrT  nr!  V  r  r  rrP,'.'rl;:!,,ru,';'IS|'[lnish  n""""s  "»'•  ronto- 
!^i*V  i,h  i! '''''' •' ..1'-!J,lil;'li"-i"h.'iTant...mim  fsketch.-The 
Mt  ,  „  1  nJ?£%  Jalhg'."aPf«IA?lu»  OUfford:  Ar  oil na 
lioattin.iand  <  lara  Stevens;  Nichols  Sisters:  Louey  Haskell- 
O1pheu.11  Motion  Pictures  and  last  week  of  the  Haskell. 

EMMETT  CORRIGAN  CO. 

Prices,  loc.  26c  and  50c. 
Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Centra]  Theatre    ^TH^?  &  Msf™-  Proprietors 

j  v-..  ■"»viuo.  Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  633 
Week  of  Monday.  March  21.  Matinees.  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  tremendous  spetacular  success 


THE    KING 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  soc. 


OF    DETECTIVES 

Matinees  10, 15.  260. 


Alcazar  Theatre  E,  JS^i&fifc*^^ 

Evenings  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 

Until  further  notice.    The  great  artistic  achievement  Wagner's 

marvelous  miracle  play  %UB1  a 

PARSIFAL 

The  music  by  an  orchestra  of  twenty. 

"The  fervent  devotional  spirit  has  imbued  the  players  and  af- 

^Chronfcle       en°eS'    holding    them    ia    absorbed    interest" 


No  one  seated  after  8  p.  m. 
Parsifal  prices— Evenings  25c  to  $1. 


Matinees  25c  to  75c. 


Tivoli  Opera  House.  Corner EdMLonndstreets 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Last  performance  of 

THE    GYPSY    BflRON 

Sanirr'infi^oaoiay'Mar0h21,at8O'Clock-   Krst  Paction  in 

MR.     PICKWICK 

A  musical  comedy  in  2  acte  based  on  Charles  Dickens'  master- 
piece.Mustc  by  Manuel  Klein.  Words  by  flharles  Klein  Lyrics 
MOrant  Stewart.  .  Initial  appearance  in  this  city  of  DObI  dl 
FILLIPPE,  the  eminent  lync  soprano.  UB 
Usual  popular  prices— 25c.  500,  75c.    Box  Seats,  $1. 


I  \fr\r  Hall  iweddyst. 

I_yri^    nclll    above  Mason 

THE   MINETTI   STRING  QUARTET 

^ve^Srcle'ch^DeTf  S  Sfs*™11068  K°°k-  Pianist  wUI 
First  concert  Friday  afternoon.  Mar.  25,  at  3.15  o'clock. 

the  concertSale  "*  Sherman  &  CIay's  Musio  store  two  days  before 


Century    Hail    mi  Sutter  Street 

MRS.   M.    E.   BLANCHARD 

Announces 

A   SONG   RECITAL 

Tuesday  evening.  March  22nd.  Tickets  one  dollar  Seats  on 
sale  at  Sherman.  Clay  &  Co's  store;  Sutter  and  Kearny  streets 
or  of  Mrs.  Blanchard.  1320  Green  street. 


GraQd  Opera  House 

Only   Matinee  Saturday.     Week   beginning  Monday  evening 
next.  March  21, 

MRS.     FISKE 

In  Paul  Heyse's  drama 

MARY    OF     MAGDALA 

No  performances  Sunday  nights. 

Prices:    $2.  $1.50,  $1,  75c,  60c. 

Monday,  March  28,  MBS.  FISKE  in  HEDDA  GABLEE 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


Californians  in  particular  and  the  public  in  general 
are  at  the  present  time  more  or  less  interested  in 
Japanese  Literature.  Japanese  are  far  different  from 
Western  ideals,  and  this  fact  is  to  be  borne  in  mind 
by  those  who  are  studying  the  future  of  the  Far 
East.  There  are  a  great  number  of  historical  books 
on  Japan  and  China  now  on  the  market,  and  for  the 
benefit  of  book  readers  the  following  list,  although 
incomplete,  will  prove  useful : 

"Japan  in  Transition,"  by  S.  Ransome.  (1899. 
Harper.)  A  comparative  study  of  its  progress  since 
the  war  with  China ;  a  sound,  useful  book. 

"Advance,  Japan,"  by  J.  Morris.  (1895.  Allen.) 
General  history  and  present  condition,  social  and 
military. 

"The  New  Far  East,"  by  Arthur  Diosy.  (1900. 
Cassell.)  Useful  for  the  understanding  of  political 
conditions. 

"A  History  of  Japan,"  by  Sir  F.  O.  Adams.  (1874. 
King.     2  vols.) 

"The  Real  Japan,"  by  Henry  Norman.  (  1893. 
Fisher  Unwin.) 

"The  Story  of  Japan,"  by  David  Murray.  (Fisher 
Unwin.) 

"Japan,"  by  Dr.  David  Murray.  (1894.  Story  of 
Nations  Series.  Fisher  Unwin.)  Only  the  later 
chapters  are  "topical." 

"Japan,  our  New  Ally,"  by  A.  Stead.  (1902. 
Fisher  Unwin.) 

"Japan  and  China :  Their  History,  Arts.  Science, 
Manners,  Customs,  Laws,  Religions  and  Literature," 
by  Captain  F.  Brinkley.  (1903-4.  To  be  completed 
in  12  volumes.    T.  C.  &  E.  C.  Jack.) 

"Feudal  and  Modern  Japan,"  by  Arthur  May 
Knapp.     (1898.     2  vols.     Duckworth.) 

"A  Maker  of  the  New  Japan  :  The  Life  of  Joseph 
Hardy  Neesima,  Founder  of  Doshisha  University, 
Japan,"  by  Rev.  J.  D.  Davis,  D.  D.,  Professor  in  Do- 
shisha.    (Revell.) 

"A  Maker  of  the  New  Orient — Samuel  Rollins 
Brown,"  by  W.  E.  Griffis.     (Revell.) 

"What  Will  Japan  Do?"  by  J.  Morris.  (1898. 
Lawrence  and  Bullen.) 

"Japan  and  the  Pacific,"  by  M.  Inagaki.  (1890. 
Fisher  Unwin.) 

"Things  Japanese."  by  Basil  Hall  Chamberlain. 
(1902.  Murray.)  May  be  counted  as  an  "essential 
book." 

"Japanese  Homes  and  their  Surroundings,"  by  E. 
S.  Morse.  (1888.  Sampson  Low.)  A  fascinating 
book. 

"Japanese  (iirls  and  Women,"  by  Alice  Mabel 
Bacon.     (Gay  and  Bird.) 

"Glimpses  of  Unfamiliar  Japan."  by  Lafcadio 
Hearn.     (1902.     Gay  and  Bird.) 

"Kokoro:  Japanese  Inner  Life,"  by  Lafcadio 
Hearn.     (  1902.     Gay  and   Bird.) 

"Out  of  the  East :  Studies  in  New  Japan,"  by  Laf- 
cadio Hearn.     1  1902.     Kegan  Paul.) 

"Kotto :  Being  Japanese  Curios,"  by  Lafcadio 
Hearn.     (1902.     Macmillan.) 

No  one  can  understand  Japan  and  the  Japanese 
who  has  not' read  Lafcadio  Hearn. 

"Queer  Things  About  Japan,"  by  Douglas  Sladen. 
(Second  edition,  1904.  Treherne.)  A  picturesque  ac- 
count of  Japanese  life  and  manners. 

"The  Soul  of  the  Far  East,  by  Percival  Lowell. 
(Houghton,  Mifflin,  and  Gay  and  Bird.) 


"Unbeaten  Tracks  in  Japan,"  by  Mrs.  Bishop. 
(1900.  Newness,  2  vols.)  A  brilliant  book;  a  peep 
into  the  "interior." 

"The  Heart  of  Japan,"  by  C.  L.  Brownell.  (1902. 
Methuen.)     A  clever  view  of  Japanese  daily  life. 

"The  Evolution  of  the  Japanese,  Social  and  Psy- 
chic," by  Sidney  L.  Gulick,  M.  A.     (Revell). 

"Japanese  Physical  Training,"  by  H.  Irving  Han- 
cock. (1904.  Putnam.)  Shows  how  the  system  of 
exercise,  diet,  and  general  mode  of  living  has  maue 
the  Japanese  one  of  the  healthiest,  strongest  and  hap- 
piest races. 

"The  Ideals  of  the  East,"  by  Okakura.  (1903. 
Murray.) 

"An  Artist's  Letters  from  Japan,"  by  J.  La  Farge. 
(1897.  Fisher  Unwin.)  Admirably  written  ;  pictures 
seen  with  the  eye  of  an  artist. 

"Japan  and  its  Art."  by  M.  [I.  Huish.  (1888.  Fine 
Art  Society.)     An  excellent  book  in  every  way. 

"From  Far  Formosa  :  The  Island,  its  People  and 
Missions,"  by  George  Leslie  Mackay,  D.  D.  (New 
and  cheaper  edition.     Oliphant,  Anderson.) 

"The  Gist  of  Japan  :  The  Islands  and  their  Peo- 
ple," by  the  Rev.  R.  B.  Peery.     (Revell.) 

"Japonica,"  by  Sir  Edwin  Arnold.     (1891.  Osgood.) 
"Seas  and  Lands,"  by  Sir  Edwin  Arnold.     (1894. 
Longmans.) 

"Japan  as  we  Saw  It,"  by  M.  Bickersteth.  (1893. 
Sampson  Low.) 

"Around  the  World  Through  Japan,"  by  Walter 
Del  Mar.     (1903.     Black.) 

"Gleanings  from  Japan,"  by  W.  G.  Dickson.  (1889. 
Blackwood.) 

"On  the  Coasts  of  Capay  and  Cipango,  Forty  Years 
Ago,"  by  William  Blakeney,  R.  N.  (1902.  Elliot 
Stock.) 

A  record  of  surveying  service ;  most  useful  for  the 
understanding  of  the  naval  situation.  Good  charts 
and  maps. 

"Lotus  Time  in  Japan,"  by  H.  Finck.  (1895. 
Lawrence  and  Bullen.) 

"A  Handbook  of  Modern  Japan,"  by  Ernest  W. 
Clement.     (1903.     McClurg.) 

"Handbook  for  Travelers  in  Japan,"  by  Basil  H. 
Chamberlain  and  W.  Mason.     (1903.     Murray.) 

"A  Diplomatist's  Wife  in  Japan,"  by  Mrs.  Fraser. 
(1900.  Hutchinson.  2  vols.)  Very  good  and  in- 
formative. 

"First  American  Envoy  in  Japan,"  by  T.  Harris. 
(1895.)  The  beginning  of  the  New  Japan. 

"Eight  Years'  Work  and  Travel  in  Japan,"  by  E. 
G.  Holtham.     (1883.     Kegan   Paul.) 

"Half-Hours  in  Japan,"  by  Rev.  H.  Moore.  (1900. 
Fisher  Unwin.) 

"Rambles  Through  Japan,"  by  A.  Tracy.  (1892. 
Sampson  Low.) 

"Rambles  in  Japan,"  by  Canon  Tristram.  (1895. 
Religious  Tract  Society.) 

"On  Short  Leave  to  Japan,"  by  F.  E.  Younghus- 
band.     (1894.     Samson  Low.) 

"Three  Rolling  Stones  in  Japan,"  by  G.  Watson. 
(1903.     Arnold.) 

"Japan  and  Her  People,"  by  Anna  Hartshorne. 
(1904.     Kegan  Paul.) 

"Among  the  Gentle  Japs,"  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Thomas. 
(1892.     Sampson  Low.) 

"Yerbeck  of  Japan,"  by  W.  E.  Griffis.  (1900.  Re- 
vell.) 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A     Modern      Hotel. 

On  next  Monday  evening  tlic  magnificent  new 
Hotel  St.  Francis  \wl!  open 

I  Ins  will  be  one  of  the  great  events  ol  th<  ■.  ■  ir,  and 
Manager  l'ollok  will  offer  to  the  world  the  finest 
modern  hotel  in  America. 

I*he  logia  is  flanked  with  massive  granite  pill 

and  between  these  one  enters  the  lounging  r n  from 

the  street.  The  golden  ceiling  thirty  feet  above  is 
upheld  by  twelve  monolithic  columns,  and  the  walls 
are  treated  in  panel  effects  of  red.  This  is 
tition  of  the  beautiful  tones  in  the  carpet  and  the 
tape-tries.  The  ceiling  is  ornamented  with  coffers 
and  rosettes,  and  it  is  a  reminder  of  the  glory  of 
Roman  architecture.  The  office  is  to  the  right,  as 
you  enter,  and  to  the  left  is  the  marble  fireplace,  and 
over  this  is  placed  a  fine  painting  of  Mount  Tamal- 
pais.  by  Keith. 

From  the  Promenade  Corridor  the  restaurant  is 
reached,  and  this  immense  room,  capable  of  caring 
for  some  six  hundred  and  fifty  people  at  one  time,  is 
a  dream  of  splendor.  The  "tints  are  of  grey-gold. 
The  carving  and  ornamentation  carry  the  same  tone 
sentiment,  and  the  whole  is  relieved  by  the  glitter 
and  reflection  of  thousands  of  reflecting  prisms  of 
crystal  from  the  elaborate  electroliers.  These  are 
reflected  a  thousand  fold  by  the  mirror  panels  of  the 
room  in  its  entire  length.  There  are  seven  electroliers 
and  they  hang  from  the  paneled  ceiling  that  is  sup- 
ported by  the  fluted  Tuscan  columns.  The  Utah 
stone  fire-place,  with  its  grey  tone,  blends  beautifully 
with  the  general  tone  of  the  whole  room.  The  car- 
pets are  of  a  rich,  warm  red,  and  the  hangings  to  the 
windows  are  of  the  same  tone. 

From  the  side  of  the  lounging  room  is  the  cafe. 
It  is  flooded  with  light,  and  there  is  a  beautiful  view 
from  here  of  the  Dewey  Monument  and  Union 
Square,  with  its  shrubbery  and  flowers.  The  walls 
are  a  succession  of  panels  of  English  oak,  the  ceiling 
is  broken  by  gilded  ornamental  beams  with  the  in- 
tervening paneling  of  red.  The  columns  supporting 
this  ceiling  are  Ionic  and  are  surmounted  with  gilded 
caps.  Soft  green  carpets  cover  the  floor  and  the 
window  drapery  is  of  green  velours. 

The  library  contains  four  thousand  volumes,  and 
the  cases  for  these  are  of  San  Domingo  mahogany. 
The  panelled  ceiling  is  embellished  in  turquoise  and 
gold.  The  walls  are  covered  with  sole  leather.  The 
rug  covering  the  oak  floor  is  of  a  pale  deep  green. 

The  ladies'  parlor  is  a  useful  adjunct  to  the  St. 
Francis.  The  wood-work  is  cream  colored,  and  the 
furniture  is  gilded.  The  walls  are  covered  with 
pumpkin-colored  tapestry,  the  rug,  the  coverings  of 
the  furniture  and  the  draperies  of  this  room  are  of  • 
soft  green,  about  the  color  of  maiden-hair  fern. 

To  one  side,  nearest  Post  street,  is  the  ladies'  en- 
trance leading  to  the  reception  room,  paneled  to  the 
ceiling  with  dark  English  oak.  From  this  reception 
room  one  may  reach  any  of  the  elevators  of  the  hotel 
without  entering  any  of  the   entertaining  rooms. 

The  450  bed-rooms  of  the  St.  Francis  hotel  possess 
a  unique  advantage  over  most  rooms  in  other  houses. 
There  is  not  a  room  in  this  house  that  has  not  an 
outside  frontage.  The  view  from  any  of  them  is 
magnificent,  and  they  are  all  easily  accessible  from 
the  elevators.  The  service  is  quick  and  efficient,  ow- 
ing to  the  short  distance  each  bell  boy  has  to  travel. 
Each  room  is  sumptuously  furnished,  and  there  is 
a  bath  to  every  suite  or  connecting  room. 

Besides  the  handsome  restaurant  and  cafe  is 
the  "Grill."  Here  the  artist  and  the  designer  have 
given  us  an  impression  of  the  Tyrol.    This  is  one  of 


the  most  artistic  halls  in  the  hotel,  and  everywhere 

may  be     seen     the    trophies  of  the  el  r  the 

huge    fireplace   hangs   the   head  of   a   huge    Alaskan 

The   electroliers   are   fashioned    from   the 

h<>rn>  of  deer   from   the   far  Northland.     The   Wi 
work  is  light   English  oak,  and  the  wall.-  and  ceding 
are  in  brown  cinnamon.      The  bar,  with  its  resplend- 
ent array  of  glass,  takes  up  one  end  of  this  room. 

The  barber  shop  of  the  St.  Francis  has  every  mod- 
ern improvement,  the  latest  massage  machines,  vi- 
bratory   machines,    compressed    air    appliances,    etc. 

The  ladies'  manicuring  and  hair-dressing  parlors 
will  contain  the  very  latest   ideas. 

The  official  staff  of  the  hotel  is  a  guarantee  of  its 
efficiency.  Mr.  Allan  Pollok.  formerly  with  the  Pal- 
ace, is  manager.  Mr.  John  McDermott,  genial  John 
of  the  Palace,  will  be  at  the  desk.  Mr.  William  Mc- 
Murray,  formerly  (for  i(>  years)  in  the  Passenger 
Department  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  will 
be  in  charge  of  one  of  the  most  important  adjuncts  to 
this  modern  hotel,  the  Information  Bureau.  Mr.  Mc- 
Murray  is  peculiarly  fitted  for  this  position,  and  the 
traveler  who  goes  to  him  for  any  information  will  be 
given   it  politely,  and,  above  all,  correctly. 

Mrs.  Helen  Laughton,  formerly  of  the  Hotel  Tou- 
raine,  Boston,  will  be  in  charge  of  the  book  depart- 
ment. Mrs.  A.  L.  Boyle,  also  of  the  Touraine,  will 
hold  the  responsible  position  of  housekeeper.  In 
charge  of  all  culinary  arrangements  will  be  Mr.  Vic- 
tor Hirtzler  of  the  Waldorf-Astoria  and  Sherry's. 
Gaston  Renon,  formerly  of  Ritz,  Paris,  will  be  in 
charge  of  the  pastry  cooking.  Prosper  Reiter,  who 
needs  no  introduction  to  the  San  Francisco  public, 
officiates  as  maitre  d'hotel.  Mr.  Reiter,  it  will  be 
remembered,  was  formerly  with  the  Holland  House. 

One  feature  of  the  St.  Francis  is  the  fact  that  the 
pictures  which  are  hung  in  every  room  have  all  been 
selected  with  absolute  good  taste,  are  all  Californian 
in  character,  and  are  a  standing  advertisement,  with- 
out that  appearance,  of  the  various  advantages  of 
our  beautiful  State. 

It  is  not  amiss  to  give  a  few  figures :  The  kitchen 
range  is  forty  feet  long  and  has  ten  fires.  There  are 
ten  feet  of  charcoal  burners  for  broilers.  There  are 
individual  broilers  for  individual  orders.  There  are 
brick  roasting  ovens  to  roast  large  joints  or  to  roast 
50  turkeys  at  once.  The  broilers  have  cold  storage 
tables  in  front  to  keep  meat  and  game  until  wanted 
by  the  broiler  chef.  There  are  4000  lbs-  of  copper  ket- 
tles and  pans.  The  dough  mixer  is  of  three  barrel 
capacity.  There  are  three  Otis  vertical  cylinder 
high-speed  passenger  elevators.  Two  Otis  vertical 
cylinder  light  speed  service  elevators ;  four  Otis  di- 
rect lift  dumb  waiters ;  three  Otis  direct  lift  Otis 
service  elevators,  for  waiters  from  restaurant  and 
cafe  to  kitchen.  There  are  11,469  16-candle  power 
lights  in  the  house.  Total,  arc  and  incandescent, 
12,720.  There  is  nearly  one  hundred  miles  of  copper 
wire  in  the  building. 

The  air  for  ventilation  is  obtained  at  a  point  near 
the  roof,  and  a  system  of  thermostats  keeps  the  tem- 
perature, winter  arid  summer  at  69  to  70  degrees.  The 
foul  air  is  taken  near  the  floor  line  and  is  discharged 
through  a  large  shaft  above  the  roof.  All  the  toilets 
are  operated  by  a  separate  mechanical  system,  and 
the  kitchen  has  a  mechanical  ventilating  system  of 
its  own. 

The  entire  cost  of  the  St.  Francis  Hotel  and  its  fur- 
nishing was  two  and  one-halt  millions  of  dollars. 

"Everybody  is  buying  it."  "Of  course.  Do  we  not 
advertise  it  as  not  appealing  to  the  multitude?" — 
Puck. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


EI 


Hc«-Tl>?Cri«r*'     •Wh«Ithede»i)krt  th.,11* 
On^tlut  will  Mar  the  devil,  tilt,  with  T'ju  " 


T7TOWN  CRIER 


(The  United  States  Consul-General  in  Berlin  com- 
plains that  Californian  fruit  is  dishonestly  packed  — 
Daily  Paper.) 

Our  Western  fruit's  beyond  compare, 

We  grow  the  orange  golden, 
The  downy  peach  and  the  Bartlett  pear 

The  nectarine  and  the  grape  fruit  rare, 
We   pack  and  send  them   everywhere 

To  the   lands   that   bards   call   "olden." 

But  a  foolish  folk  are  our  growers  brave 
When  they  go  to  do  their  trading, 

An  honest  deal  is  the  deal  of  a  slave, 

So  the  best  big  fruit  for  the  top  they  save. 

And  the  trade  they  seek  they  lay  in  the  grave 
With  a  fraudulent  bill  of  lading. 

"Jane  Doe"  warrants  have  been  held  illegal  by 
Judge  Murasky.  The  decision  is  good  both  in  law 
and  common  sense.  It  does  not  matter  how  poor 
and  how  degraded  the  women  against  whom  these 
warrants  were  issued,  they  still  have  legal  rights, 
and  in  this  case  they  have  actually  benefited  the 
community  by  the  settlement  of  this  question.  The 
low  condition  of  legal  practice  in  this  city  receives 
no  more  complete  proof  than  the  attempt  to  draw 
warrants  issued  with  fictitious  names  and  without 
such  description  as  would  sufficiently  identify  the 
persons  against  whom  they  were  to  be  issued.  The 
merest  smooth-faced  tyro  at  the  law  school  should 
know  better;  the  men  that  suggested  the  warrants 
knew  better.  They  contemplated  an  attack  upon  the 
rights  of  the  citizens,  and  thought  that  the  poverty 
of  their  victims  would  render  their  case  victorious. 
They  ran  into  the  wrong  Judge,  however.  The  fact 
that  there  is  always  a  man  ready  to  do  the  right 
thing  actually  tends  to  give  one  confidence  in  that 
queer  thing  called  Democracy. 

Lots  of  jute  bags  on  hand  and  seventy  thousand 
dollars  short  which  will  have  to  be  advanced  by  the 
State  to  keep  the  institution  running,  is  the  latest 
news  from  San  Qiuentin.  As  for  the  shortness  of 
the  funds,  that  is  natural  enough — at  San  Quentin. 
I  must  confess  a  doubt,  however,  with  regard  to  the 
number  of  grain  bags  in  stock.  Who  has  counted 
them?  If  the  unsupported  word  of  the  managing 
body  is  taken,  I  suggest  that  it  is  insufficient,  and 
that  a  committee  of  convicts  be  appointed  to  make 
the  count.  I  also  suggest  that  in  accordance  with 
prison  discipline  as  conducted  in  this  State,  said 
committee  be  composed  of  particularly  hard  cases, 
convicted  of  beating  feeble  men  and  old  women.  The 
work  being  light  should,  in  accordance  with  the 
teachings  of  modern  penology,  be  especially  suitable 
to  them. 

An  Oakland  attorney  has  put  in  a  claim  for  seven 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  for  services  against 
Lindblom  and  bis  wife.  He  has  married  a  lady  doc- 
tor, who  claims  five  thousand  dollars  against  the 
same  people  for  medical  attendance.  It  looks  as  if 
they  were  forming  a  sort  of  professional  syndicate 
to  pillage  Lindblom.  They  are  a  thrifty  lot  in  Oak- 
land, and  have  looked  on  the  millionaire  tailor  as  a 
fine,  juicy  article  for  home  consumption  only.  Tt 
would  be  interesting  to  see  a  list  of  names  of  the 
reputable  gentlemen  who  sneer  at  and  denounce 
Lindblom  and  file  their  little  extortionate  claims 
against  him  at  the  same  time. 


The  cowboy  who  was  arrested  the  other  day  for 
insulting  a  woman  on  the  public  street  is  a  curious 
example  of  the  point  of  view  from  which  the  gen- 
ial rustic  likes  to  regard  the  city.  He  thinks  it  an 
abode  of  vice,  a  roaring,  ripping,  festive  place  where 
morals  exist  not  and  a  wild-eyed  populace  goes 
eternally  on  the  festive  tear.  He  comes  with  a  pocket 
full  of  money,  this  innocent  rustic,  and  haunts  places 
from  which  the  discreet  would  shrink.  So  far, 
everything  seems  to  favor  the  illusions  with  which 
he  began.  When,  however,  he  attempts  to  extend 
the  scope  of  his  operations,  as  in  the  present  case, 
he  discovers  his  mistake  and  finds  out  that  there 
is  probably  about  as  much  of  heaven  in  the  city  as 
there  is  of  hell  in  the  country. 

Mrs.  Botkin  is  to  have  a  trial  after  all.  At  least 
there  is  every  appearance  that  a  trial  will  take  place. 
But  in  San  Francisco  it  is  so  easy  to  have  a  trial  that 
is  not  a  trial.  The  gentle  art  of  working  juries,  what 
the  coarse-minded  call  packing  juries,  to  fit  the  case 
and  secure  an  acquittal,  is  by  no  means  unknown. 
I  hope  that  no  such  arts  will-  have  an  opportunity 
of  displaying  themselves  in  this  case.  What  is 
wanted  is  a  good  jury,  an  honest  jury,  a  jury  that 
cannot  be  swayed  by  the  mere  appearance  of  a 
handsome  woman,  but  will  convict  without  hesita- 
tion if  it  believes  that  conviction  should  result  from 
the  evidence.  Should  such  a  jury  be  found,  I  fancy — 
nay,  but  this  is  no  time  to  fancy — the  case  is  on  trial 
and  justice  clamors. 

The  Hearst  papers  have  a  most  disingenuous  way 
of  reporting  the  fact  that  certain  delegates  are 
pledged  to  the  support  of  their  proprietor.  The 
political  complexion  of  the  States  from  which  the 
Democratic  delegates  are  so  pledged,  is  hidden  from 
the  reader,  and  it  is  doubtless  hoped  that  the  fact 
that  these  States  are  so  far  Republican  will  escape 
notice.  The  unscrupulous  way  in  which  these  pre- 
liminary matters  are  reported  is  something  new  in 
American  politics.  The  evil,  which  a  vast  mass  of 
wealth  and  property  devoted  to  a  political  campaign 
of  a  base  and  ignoble  kind  can  produce,  will  be  an- 
other lesson  to  be  learned  by  this  too  careless  elec- 
torate. If  Mr.  Hearst  tries  to  emulate  Cleon,  he 
had   better   consider   Cleon's   fate. 

"Industrial  peace,  arbitration  and  conciliation"  are 
as  Fluellyn  would  have  said,  "brave  'orts."  It  re- 
mains to  be  seen  whether  they  are  anything  more. 
We  have  heard  so  many  such  before,  and  concilia- 
tion, from  the  local  boards  formed  to  deal  with  labor 
disputes  up  to  the  great  fiasco  at  The  Hague,  does 
not  appear  to  meet  the  success  which  the  seductive- 
ness of  the  name  would  lead  us  to  expect.  But  how- 
ever small  the  actual  results  may  be,  it  is  pleasant 
to  contemplate  the  pleasure  which  the  floods  of  ora- 
tory will  give  the  orators. 

There  is  another  free  speech  agitation  on  foot, 
and  Market  street  is  a  howling  cacophony,  where 
the  lost  h's  of  the  pert  Cockney  and  the  shattering 
gutturals  of  the  newly  imported  German  mingle  in 
diabolical  discord  with  the  tongue  of  soft,  mushy 
Cork.  "Free  speech?"  There  is  nothing  so  free. 
It  is  on  tap  all  the  time.  It  is  cheaper  than  the  steam 
beer  which  moistens  the  roaring  gullet  of  the  ora- 
tor. Cientlemen,  asses,  however,  experience  shows 
that  while  you  use  your  voices,  none  need  dread  your 
heels. 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


|eW W^W  SOCIETY  .&$* 


Dear  Bessie:  Hurrah  for  the  bachelors!    They  are 
:  'inp  to  allow  the  girls  to  do  all  the  entertain- 
ing, for  the  news  has  gone  forth  that  preparat 
are  on  foot  for  a  dance  to  be  given  at  the  Palace  dur- 
ing   Faster   week,    I    believe,   which    is    to   be    some- 
thing worth  going  to,  and  of  course  every  one  is  on 
the   tiptoe  of  anxiety   as   to   whether   their   name   is 
on   the   invitation   list.     Don't   you   remember   what 
a  lovely  dance  the  bachelors  gave  last  year?      That 
is  the  chief  item  of  news  just  now:  another  0 
that   Ruth    McNutt's  engagement   to   Fitzhugh 
which    has   been    talked   of   more   or   loss   ever 
she  came  back  from  her  visit  to   Mamie  in    1 
has   at   last   been   formally   announced,   possibl)    be- 
cause his  regiment,   the   nth   Cavalry,   will   soon    be 
coming  home   from   the   Philippines,   where   it    is   at 
present,  and  then  we  shall  have  another  button  wed- 
ding.    In  the  meantime  Ruth  is  off  on  a  visit  to  her 
future  relatives,  the  Lees. 

I  hear  that  Eleanor  Eckart,  whose  marriage  to 
Ed.  Hume  comes  off  next  month,  has  selected  Ma- 
bel Donaldson  and  Georgie  Spieker  for  her  brides- 
maids, and  Mrs.  Ben  Thomas  as  matron  of  honor. 

Cards  are  still  the  staple  form  of  entertainment, 
either  preceded  or  followed  by  luncheon  or  dainty  re- 
freshments. Mrs.  Horace  Davis's  bridge  and  lunch- 
eon party  was  one  of  those  given  last  Saturday  ;  Mrs. 
Will  Sherwood  had  a  bridge  party  last  week,  and  the 
army  card  club  met  on  Tuesday  at  Mrs.  Woodruff's. 
But  cards  are  not  the  only  dissipation  ;  Mrs.  Coolidge 
has  been  doing  a  good  deal  of  entertaining  of  late  in 
the  way  of  dinners  and  luncheons  at  her  pretty  home 
on  Van  Ness  avenue ;  she  is  a  charming  hostess  and 
has  such  a  knack  for  setting  a  pretty  table  it  is  a 
delight  to  look  upon  and  to  sit  to  it. 

May  Colburn  had  a  luncheon  in  the  Palm  Garden 
on  Wednesday  for  Mrs.  Peter ;  we  had  the  postponed 
pony  races  at  Tanforan  on  Thursday,  and  it  has  been 
quite  the  thing  to  go  to  the  Darrach  recitals  at 
Steinway  Hall ;  he  has  illumed  Shakespeare  in  a  way 
that  even  the  dullest  could  not  fail  to  understand  that 
immortal  bard.  Then  Henrietta  Moffat,  who  is  go- 
ing abroad  with  the  Bull  girls,  leaving  next  week, 
has  been  variously  entertained,  been  given  several 
luncheons,  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Sharp,  and  Mrs.  Me- 
dau  gave  her  teas. 

Lilly  tells  me  they  are  having  good  times  at  the 
Presidio.  There  was  a  jolly  hop  given  by  the  offi- 
cers of  the  Twenty-eighth  on  Friday  evening,  fol- 
lowed by  the  big  euchre  party  of  the  Tenth  Infantry 
in  their  mess  hall  on  Saturday  evening;  I  understand 
it  will  soon  be  considered  the  correct  caper  to  go 
out  there  to  have  a  look  at  the  Philippine  scouts, 
who  will  be  here  some  little  time  before  they  con- 
tinue their  journey  to  the  St.  Louis  Exposition, 
whither  they  are  bound.  Major  Frank  Carrington— 
you  remember  Frank  at  Angel  Island,  surely— has 
them  under  his  command,  and  the  different  tribes 
of  natives  of  the  Philippines  .which  the  Scouts  repre- 
sent are  great  objects  of  curiosity. 

"Showers"  are  a  fad  just  now,  and  Ethel  Kent 
has  been  the  chief  recipient  of  them  of  late  :  that  is, 
mixed  in  with  other  things.  Last  Wednesday  at 
Florence  Cole's  she  was  treated  to  a  linen  shower; 
on  Saturday  last  Jane  Wilshire  had  a  card  party  111 
her  honor,  and  afterwards  she  was  showered  with 
handkerchiefs,  and  yesterday  Noelle  de  Golia,  who 
is  to  be  one  of  her  bridesmaids,  gave  her  a  luncheon, 


followed  by  another  linen  shower,  and  then  they  all 
played  "9 

Mrs.  Rusa  Wilson  is  the  happiest  woman  I  know, 
I"  have  her  sister,  Mrs.  Dutton.  back  here  again. 
Mr*.  Dutton  has  taken  a  lovely  apartment  on  Pine 
street,  and  with  her  is  her  daughter.  Mrs.  I. eland, 
who  you  must  surely  remember  whin  she  was  Louise 
I  Hilton,  before  she  married  and  wrnt  ■<((  to  the  Phil- 
ippines. I  forgot  to  tell  you  last  week  that  Louise 
Holladav.  now  Mrs.  Mcsscr,  is  here  on  a  visit  to  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Sam  Holladav,  and  will  probably  In- 
here all  summer.  Southard  Hoffman  is  home  again 
from  Honolulu  for  "keeps,"  and  as  if  that  were  not 
joy  enough  to  have  him  here,  Northrop  Cowles  is 
said  to  be  looking  so  longingly  in  this  direction  that 
we  shall  soon  see  him  in  this  little  hamlet.  There-  i- 
great  rejoicing  at  Burlingame  at  getting  Airs.  Henry 
Scott  back  again  sooner  than  was  hoped,  for  she  is 
so  energetic  and  does  so  love  to  have  a  "good  time," 
the  prospects  for  them  at  that  exclusive  settlement 
this  summer  were  never  brighter.  But  the  gain  of 
one  is  to  be  the  loss  of  another,  as  the  Walter  Mar- 
tins having  got  the  European  bee  in  their  bonnets, 
will  soon  be  off  there  again,  so  they  will  be  among 
the  missing  at  San  Mateo  this  year.  And  how  glad 
•Laura  McKinstry's  friends  are  to  have  her  back  safe 
and  sound  I  need  not  say;  she  has  been  fairly  overrun 
with  visitors  since  the  home-coming,  and  says  she 
is  glad  to  be  home  once  more. 

The  Fechtellers  have  gone  to  Washington,  where 
he  has  been  ordered  for  duty,  which  means  two  years 
of  life  in  the  nation's  capital. 

There  will  soon  be  quite  a  scattering  among  the 
girls.  Maylita  Pease  has  gone  already — left  last 
Monday  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pease  for  Portland,  then 
East,  with  the  St.  Louis  Exposition  as  a  wind-up  to 
their  travels.  The  three  Bull  girls  and  Henrietta 
Moffat  leave  for  Europe  next  week,  and  Hazel  King 
is  going,  too — but  not  till  June,  when  she  joins 
Genevieve  and  the  Herricks  in  Boston,  and  then  away 
across  the  Atlantic.  Helen  Chesebrough  has  been 
down  at  Burlingame,  and  had  a  real  good  time;  and 
just  here,  before  I  forget  it,  Frances  Moore's  en- 
gagement to  Tom  Breeze  has  just  been  made  known. 

The  gossip  is  that  Ethel  Tomlinson  is  coming  out 
here  this  summer  for  another  visit ;  she  may  possibly 
come  with  Leontine  Blakeman,  who  has  been  having 
a  perfectly  lovely  time  with  her  in  New  York  this 
winter;  and  Mrs.  Greer  Harrison  and  Ethel  are  also 
to  be  with  us  again  ere  long.  The  Flood  party,  which 
includes  Miss  Jenny,  John  Twiggs  and  Major  Rath- 
bone,  returned  on  Tuesday  from  their  trip  East.  The 
Von  Horsts  leave  about  the  first  of  April  for  Europe ; 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  ig,  1904. 


the  Baron  has  done  so  much  to  make  things  lovely 
during  the  past  year  many  will  be  sorry  to  say  adieu 
to  him.  Polly  Macfarlane  got  back  to  her  island 
home  safe  and  sound,  but  says  the  trip  across  the 
Pacific   was   most  stormy    and   disagreeable. 

—Elsie. 


AT  HOME. 

Monday. — Mrs.  Ralph  Hart,  Empire  Hotel;  .Mrs. 
Gordon  Hall,  Hotel  Cecil;  Mrs.  S.  E.  Dutton, 
Mrs.  Louis  Leland,  Pine  street;  Mrs.  Henry- 
George,  Hotel  Cumberland. 

Thursday. — Mrs.  O.  C.  Baldwin,  4th  in  April,  2415 
Buchanan  street;  Mrs.  Oliver  Dibble,  1st  and  3d. 
1012  Pine  street. 

Friday. — Mrs.  Joseph   Masten,  2d   and  3d   in   April, 
3954  Washington  street. 
TEAS. 

March  6  (Sunday). — Miss  Emily  Wilson. 

March  9  (Wednesday). — Mrs.   Frank  Griffen. 

March  10  (Thursday). — Mrs.  John  E.  Medau,  2853 
Broderick  street,  in  honor  of  Miss  Henrietta 
Moffat. 

March  14  (Monday). — Mrs.  Arthur  Sharp,  Vallejo 
street,  in  honor  of  Miss  Henrietta  Moffat. 

March  17  (Thursday). — Mrs.  Alexander  Warner, 
in  honor  of  Mrs.  Frank  Wakefield  and  Mrs. 
Frank  Baldwin. 

DINNERS. 

March  9  (Wednesday). — Mr.  Joseph  Tobin,  Jr.,  i'n 
Palm  Garden,  Palace. 

March  13  (Sunday). — Mrs.  C.  A.  Coolidge,  2800  Van 
Ness  avenue.  In  honor  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed- 
wards. 

LUNCHEONS. 

March  9  (Wednesday). — Mrs.  C.  A.  Coolidge,  2800 
Van  Ness  avenue.  In  honor  of  Mrs.  W.  T.  Reed  ; 
Mrs.  Worthington  Ames. 

March  10  (Thursday  1. — Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker,  Uni- 
versity Club.  In  honor  of  Mrs.  and  the  Misses 
Heme  of  New   York;   Miss  Amy  Gunn. 

March  11  (Friday). — Mrs.  McAneney,  Palace  Hotel. 

March  12  (Saturday) — Mrs.  Greenbaum,  Palm  Gar- 
den, Palace  Hotel ;  the  Misses  Alice  and  Ruth 
Knowles,  Oakland.  In  honor  of  Miss  May 
Burdge ;  Mrs.  Horace  Davis,  1800  Broadway ; 
Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins,  Palace  Hotel ;  Mrs.  I. 
Lowenberg,  Palm   Garden,   Palace  Hotel. 

March   16  (Wednesday). — Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Pal- 
ace Hotel.     In  honor  of  Mrs.   Peter  Martin. 

March  24  (Thursday.) — Mrs.  Clarence  Martin  Mann, 
3414  Washington  street. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Doctor  and  Mrs.  W.  F.  McNutt  announce  the  en- 
gagement of  their  daughter  Ruth  to  Lieutenant 
Fitzhugh  Lee,  nth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A. 

Mrs.    C.    M.    Dixon    announces    the    engagement    of 

her    daughter    Rebecca    to    Mr.    Chambers. 
The   engagement   is   announced   of     Miss     Beatrice 
Hooper  to  John  Blanchard. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Austin  Moore  announce  the  engage- 
ment of  their  daughter  Frances  to  Thomas 
Breeze,  son  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Breeze. 

WEDDINGS. 

April  4. — At  "The  Highlands,"  Washington  City, 
Miss  Kathro  Burton,  daughter  of  Inspector- 
General  George  H.  Burton,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs. 
Burton,  to  Lieutenant  George  Lee,  U.  S.  A.  9 
p.   m. 

April  4. — Miss  Eleanor  Eckart.  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  R.  Eckart.  to  Edward  Hume,  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Hume  of  Piedmont. 

April   6. — Miss   Frances   Harris   to   Ernest   Stent,  4 


p.   m. ;   Miss  Ethel  Kent  to  Lieutenant  Gilbert 
Allen,  U.  S.  A.,  Grace  Church,  8  p.  m. 
May  11. — Miss  Ella  Goodall,  to  Doctor  Charles  Minor 
Cooper,  at  the  residence  of  the  Goodalls  on  Jack- 
son street,   in   Oakland. 

BIRTHS. 
March  4. — At  Louisville,  Kentucky,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Claude  Block,  a  daughter.    Mrs.  Block  was  Miss 
Augusta    Kent    of    Oakland. 
March  13. — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frances  Grace,  a  son. 
Mrs.  Grace  was  Miss  Theodosia  Cook. 
Miss  Libbie  Aronson,  accompanied  by  her  grand- 
mother,  Mrs.   R.   Rosenthal,   leaves   Sunday,   March 
20th,  for  a  six  weeks'  pleasure  trip  through  Southern 
California. 


On  Sunday  evening,  March  20th,  Dubois'  oratorio, 
"The  Seven  Last  Words  of  Christ,  will  be  sung  at 
St.  Dominic's  church.  The  oratorio  will  be  preceded 
by  Litany  and  Sermon  at  7 130,  with  the  Benediction 
of  the  Most  Holy  Sacrament.  Music  at  Benediction  : 
"O  Saultario,"  Stewart,  solo  by  Miss  Ella  V.  Mc- 
Closkey.  "Tantum  Ergo,"  W'idor,  solo  by  Mr.  J.  J. 
Rosborough.  Mr.  Harry  Gillig  will  sing  for  the  Of- 
fertory, "Agnus  Dei."  Soloists  in  the  oratorio  are 
Mrs.  B.  Apple,  soprano;  Miss  E.  V.  McCloskey,  con- 
tralto; T.  G.  Elliott,  tenor;  Mr.  C.  B.  Stone,  bass. 
Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  organist  and  director  of  the  choir. 

Alfred  S.  Gump  left  on  Monday  last,  14th  inst.,  for 
the  East  and  Europe,  and  will  sail  on  "Kaiser  Wil- 
helm"  on  the  29th  inst.  Mr.  Gump  will  be  away  for 
four  months. 

Dr.  M.  Herzstein  left  on  the  same  train  and  will 
go  on  the  same  steamer. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending 
March  15,  1904:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  B.  Anderson,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  E.  C.  Wayne,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Pratt,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Curran,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Seaver,  Miss  S. 
H.  Seaver,  Miss  M.  Seaver,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Cake, 
Mrs.  J.  J.  Burleigh,  .Miss  E.  Burleigh,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 


"BAB'J"' 


Epicurian     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


15he   James    H.    Bibcock    Catering    Co. 

212-214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


H.   BETTE 

Builder  of  Ladies'  Garments 

424  SUTTER   STREET  Bet.  Stockton  and  Powell 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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W.  R    Davw,  Reverend  J    P    Bo  Ifish,  Nff    .,•• 

-.   Mr.  A.   W.   Men 
iarrliner,    Mrs.    1.   M.   Potter.   Mr 
Craven,    Mr.    P.    ("raven.    Mr!  and    Mr-     I' 
rett.  Mr.  T.  S.  O'Brien,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Durand, 

H.  Durand.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  M.  Earn* 
Mrs.  H.  I.  Delanev,  Mr-.  I.  I..  Shoemaker,  Miss 
Mary  Shoemaker,  Mrs.  \.  Smith,  Mi—  A,  K.  Wicker, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  I..  I',.  Ram-doll.  Mr.  and  Mrs  (II 
Parker.  Miss  Marv  Parker.  Mr.  and  Mr-  P..  F.  I 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  H.  Si-kler.  Mr.  and  Mr-.  ('.  IX  Reiff. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  I-;.  H.  Mtinger.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  K.  For- 
tumi.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  (',.  G.  St. me.  Mr.  I).  t'.  McNaugh- 
ton,  Mis-  McNaughton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R,  i ;.  Sullivan, 
Miss  S.  A.  Sullivan.  Miss  F.  1".  Sullivan.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Smith.  Jr..  Mr.  II.  W.  Benn,  Miss  C.  I •'. 
I'.enn.  Miss  S.  G.  Ashworth,  Miss  M.  1..  Kcffcr.  Mrs. 
M.  L.  Miles.  Miss  I..  Bedenhorn,  Mrs.  I  1.  F.  Way. 
Mrs.  \V.  C.  Mooney,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Clough,  Mis-  I  . 
Clough,  Mr.  I.  r.tirns.  Mrs.  S.  P.  McAfee.  Mrs.  ( i. 
A.  Field.  Miss  II.  P.  Field.  Miss  E.  M.  Brainard, 
Miss  O.  A.  Welch.  Mrs.  A.  F.  Cutter.  Mr.  W.  M. 
Nash,  Mr.  T.  Vashida. 

Mrs.  H.  P..  Tresselt,  whose  husband  is  Lieutenant 
Tresselt  of  the  Navy,  entertained  her  many  friends 
on  Tuesday  at  an  afternoon  tea  at  her  well-appointed 
Last  Oakland  residence. 

Brigadier-General  and  Mrs.  Burton  have  issued 
invitations  for  the  wedding  reception  of  their  daugh- 
ter, Kathro  Larrabee,  and  Lieutenant  George  Mason 
Lee.  4th  U.  S.  Cavalry,  the  reception  to  take  place 
Monday  evening,  April  4th,  at  9:30,  at  the  High- 
lands, Washington,  D.  C. 

Many  will  remember  the  enjoyable  concerts  given 
by  Mrs.  M.  E.  Blanchard  last  year.  She  is  to  give' a 
song  recital  at  Century  Hall  on  March  22d,  and  all 
who  attend  may  be  sure  of  a  treat. 

E.  O.  McCORMICK— 

Gentleman — might    well   be    added. 

San  Francisco  is  to  lose  him,  and  San  Francisco's 
loss  is  the  gain  of  Chicago.  Mr.  McCormick  has 
endeared  himself  to  this  community  by  his  genial  and 
affable  deportment,  and  to  his  associates  by  his  keen 
sense  of  justice  and  his  deep  knowledge  of  the  ethics 
of   railroading. 

When   you  get  your  fall  clothing  made,  also  make 

arrangements  to  have  It  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  If  well  cared  for.  TLey  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


There's   only   one  right  way  to   clean   a  carpet,  and 

that's  the  way  employed  by  the  Spaulding  Carpet  Cleaning 
Co.,  363  Tehama  street.  By  their  improved  machinery  they 
clean  a  carpet  thoroughly  and  quickly  without  injuring  the 
fabric.  You  have  no  fuss,  bother  or  anxiety.  Simply  have 
the  Spauldings  call  for  your  carpet,  and  in  a  short  time 
it  will  be  returned  looking  like  new. 


One  of  the  safest  and  besr  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N-  E.  Cor,  Butter 
and  Grant  Ave. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy best  of  all  tonics  and  restoratives. 

Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not  a  dye-  At  drug- 
gists and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substitute.  Star  Remedy  Co.  1338 
Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  81. 


FOR  LENTEN  TEAS  we  have  an  endless 
variety  of  small  cakes,  at  40  to  60  cents 
a  pound.  P.  WESTERFELD  &  CO., 
1036  Market  St.,  S.  F.    Tel.  South  713. 


A  SMn  of  6>Autr  li  a  Joy  Forever. 

kit    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 
OR  MAGICAL  BEAVTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan.   Plmpl 

Hotli    Patches,    Rash    sad 
Hkln   Diseases,  and  ever)   blem- 

1*1;  1  ■  trs-- 

.   ami  la  1*0   harm!' 
tamo  ft  t,,  be  mirr  tt  is  properly 
tunterfell  "f 

similar   nam,-      I>r     I.     A 

Mid    to   11    l;i>ly   of   the   haul    ton 

(a  patient):  "A*  you  laoi,-*  win 
uee  thorn.  I  recommend  'Gour- 
aud'a  <"roam'  an  tho  loa»t  harm- 
ful of  all  tiio  skin  preparations." 
Tor  walo  by  nil  ,lruKfflflts  and 
fancy-goods  dealers  in  tho 
United  States,  Canadaa  and  i-'u- 
rop,. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop. 
.17  Groat  Jonos  St.,  New  York. 


ANNIE  L.  STONE 


begs  to  announce  her  return  from  Paris  and  is 
now  prepared  to  show  the  very  latest  styles  in 
Millinery  and  high-class  Parisian  Novelties,  including: 

LINGERIE. 

CORSETS. 

NECKWEAR, 

PERFUMES. 

etc,  etc. 


1  1  8  Geary  Street 


1st  OF  MAY 

The  "wind-up"  of  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
Sales  in  Furniture  and  Carpets,  will  be  on  the  1  s 
of  May  at  the  great  Retiring  Sale  at 

PATTOSIEN'S,  Cor.  16th  &  Mission  Sts. 

It  is  hardly  believeable  that  the  Sale  could  have 
such  success  for  six  long  weeks,  yet  it  is  so.  The 
reason  for  it  is  the  bargains  are  genuine  and  the 
Public  knows  it.  After  the  Store  closes,  prices 
will  double. 


WRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISHES 

Removed  by  New  Process  (Guaran- 
teed.) Face  Massage,  Manicuring 
and  Scalp  Massage 

AT    YOUR    HOME, 

by  appointment 
MME.    H.    EASTWOOD 

1307  Larkin  St.,  S.  P.  Tel.  Larkln  2646. 


p„K«S  MURINE  EYE  REMEDY 

Eye  troubles   cured 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON 


The  clouds  drive  thick,  the  lowering  sky 
Frowns  gray  and  cold  and  dismal, 

And  people  sneeze  and  hurry  by 
With  gloom,  intense,  abysmal. 

While  I,  I  feel  a  weight  of  woe, 

A  weight  beyond  the  speaking, 
I  hate  myself  where'er  I  go — 

My  overshoes  are  leaking. 

*  *  * 

The  congregated  Colonels  of  the  National  Guard 
think  the  Governor  is  about  to  deprive  Major-Gen- 
eral Dickinson  of  his  peacock  feathers.  The  rumor 
has  spread  abroad  that  the  General's  glory  has 
aroused  envy  in  the  breasts  of  not  a  few  statesmen, 
who  wish  to  increase  their  greatness  by  appearing 
in  uniform.  Dickinson  has  been  a  Guardsman  for 
many  years.  It  must  be  a  quarter  century  ago  when 
he  was  an  ambitious  young  fellow  in  the  old  City 
Guard.  He  was  successively  Lieutenant,  Captain. 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  Colonel,  Brigadier-General,  ami 
now  Major-General.  Incidentally  he  has  been  Mayer 
of  Sausalito  and  State  Senator,  and  his  eagle  eye  has 
been  fixed  this  long  time  on  the  Governor's  chair. 
Time  was  when  Dickinson  wielded  some  political 
influence,  but  the  wise  ones  say  he  has  run  his 
course.  To  be  relieved  of  the  command  of  the 
National  Guard  should  be  the  least  of  his  troubles, 
for  the  only  satisfaction  any  man  ever  got  out  of  that 
position  was  the  pleasure  of  spending  his  own  money, 
and  the  praise  of  the  fellows  that  drank  his  good 
liquor. 

The  State  troops  exist  mostly  on  paper,  and  in  the 
imaginations  of  enthusiasts,  and  a  Major-General 
is  about  as  much  use  to  them  as  Otis  was  in  the 
Spanish  war. 

*  *  * 

I  happened  to  drive  past  the  music  stand  at  the 
Park  last  Sunday  just  as  the  band  started  the  over- 
ture— "The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  Upon  the  pro- 
gramme was  printed  a  request  that  the  audience 
arise  and  remain  standing  during  the  rendition  of 
what  has  come  to  be  considered  the  national  anthem. 
I  confess  I  was  curious  to  note  the  spirit  in  which 
the  request  would  be  taken  by  the  people  on  the 
benches.  There  were  probably  two  thousand  peo- 
ple scattered  in  front  of  the  music  stand,  the  threat- 
ening weather  having  had  an  effect  upon  the  attend- 
ance, and  I  wagered  the  cigars  that  not  ten  per  cent 
of  them  would  arise  in  honor  of  the  spangled  ban- 
ner. Nor  am  I  less  patriotic  than  most  men,  nor  do 
I  think  that  San  Franciscans  are  devoid  of  patriot- 
ism. I  have  noticed,  however,  that  in  the  mass  they 
seem  to  shrink  from  doing  anything  they  deem  un- 
conventional. New  ideas  impress  the  crowd  but 
slowly.  I  had  seen  hundreds  of  men  and  women 
in  this  city  gaze  with  much  curiosity  and  consider- 
able amusement  upon  a  visitor  who  had  risen  in  a 
public  place  while  the  band  played  "The  Star  Span- 
gled Banner."  Upon  a  public  occasion  I  had  heard 
remarks  upon  the  probable  insanity  of  one  who,  upon 
the  streets,  uncovered  while  a  concert  band  played 
the  hymn  in  a  square  So  I  figured  I  would  win  the 
cigars.  Imagine  my  surprise  when  at  the  opening 
bars  of  the  anthem,  not  only  ten  per  cent,  nor  fifty 
per  cent,  but  practically  every  man,  woman  and  child 
of  the  two  thousand  seated  in  the  immediate  vicinity 
of  the  music  stand  arose,  and  remained  standing 
until  the  music  ceased.     It  was  an  impressive  sight, 


and  one  that  gives  the  idea  that  San  Francisco  is 
developing.  The  people  are  no  longer  ashamed  to 
to  do  the  things  that  count,  from  a  sentimental  stand- 
point. Presently  we  shall  see  men  pause  on  the 
curbstone  of  Van  Ness  avenue  and  uncover,  the 
while  a  passing  hearse  slowly  conveys  to  the  Pre- 
sidio a  casket  enwrapped  in  the  stars  and  stripes. 
When  such  a  sight  is  possible,  we  shall  know  we 
have  reached  man's  estate. 

*  *  * 

It  was  in  the  Bohemian  Club  dining  room.  Four 
of  them  were  at  table,  when  a  discussion  arose  re- 
garding the  ability  and  integrity  of  the  local  police 
force. 

"They  are  no  good,"  said  one  commentator.  "They 
couldn't  catch  anything  except  a  cold,  and  then  not 
frequently  enough  to  do  the  city  any  good."  He  was 
a  physician,  and  spoke  with  feeling. 

"Oh,  I  don't  know,"  said  another;  "they  are  not 
so  worse."  He  was  in  a  position  to  know,  officially, 
whereof  he  spoke. 

"Betcher  hundred  dollars,"  said  the  physician, 
"that  I  can  prove  absolutely  that  half  the  men  are 
crooks,  and  are  standing  in  with  crooks." 

The  official  withdrew.  He  did  not  like  the  trend 
the  talk  had  taken.  Also,  the  physician  was  pugna- 
cious. The  latter  crowed  over  the  declination  of 
h.s  bet,  and  asserted  loudly  that  he  could' prove  that 
not  only  half,  but  all,  the  police  were  crooked. 

"I  would  just  like  some  of  that  hundred  dollars," 
said  a  quiet  fellow  at  the  end  of  the  table — a  coal 
merchant.  "Or  you  can  make  it  a  thousand,  if  you 
wish.  I  bet  you  a  thousand  dollars  you  don't  know 
what  you  are  talking  about,  and  that  you  can't  prove 
any  statement  you  have  made." 

That  is  how  the  trouble  commenced.  The  physi- 
cian glowered  and  sputtered  and  roared ;  he  wanted 
to  know  why  the  thousand  dollar  man  was  chipping 
in,  anyhow ;  he  did  not  think  it  gentlemanly  to  in- 
terrupt a  member  of  a  club  in  the  exercise  of  the 
great  American  privilege  of  denouncing  public  offi- 
cials; he  considered  himself  insulted. 

"Had  no  intention  of  insulting  you,  I  am  sure," 
said  the  other.  "I  just  wanted  to  call  you  down.  Of 
course,  if  I  have  said  anything  to  offend,  I  apolo- 
gize. At  the  same  time,  if  you  will  step  over  into 
the  Hammam,  or  some  other  quiet  place,  I  shall  take 
great  pleasure  in   smashing  your  face." 

Then  the  others  stopped  it — which  is  to  be  regret- 
ted— for  if  it  had  continued  it  is  possible  the  ques- 
tion whether  or  not  the  police  are  corrupt  might  have 
been  submitted  to  the   "wager  of  battle." 

*  *  * 

Fate  made  an  awful  bull  of  it  when  it  tried  to  con- 
ceal the  President  of  the  Mormor  Church  by  calling 
him  Smith.  He  has  overcome  the  handicap  with 
which  he  started  in  life,  and  has  raised  forty-two 
saplings  in  the  vineyard  of  the  Lord,  from  each  of 
which  floats  the  banner  of  his  name.  Incidentally, 
it  has  been  "revealed"  that  this  latter-day  Joseph  has, 
just  at  present,  five  wives  and  about  a  thousand  de- 


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March  19.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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l.mts.  all  bearing  the  grand  old  name  of  Smith, 
which  reminds  me  of  this  Bl 

A  traveler  in  Utah,  where  the  Smith  clan  flour- 
ishes like  weeds  m  a  garden  patch,  had  won 
where  they  all  came  from.  Strolling  around 
Lake,  his  attention  .was  attracted  by  a  very  impos 
ing  sign  on  the  front  of  a  very  imposing  building. 
Upon  the  sign  was  this  inscription  :  "Smith  Manufac- 
turing Company."  The  visitor  heaved  a  sigh  of 
relief. 

"At   last,"   said   he,   "I   shall   find   out." 

He  entered  the  place  and  asked  for  Mr.  Smith. 

"Which  one?"  a  clerk  responded;  "Smith  senior. 
or  one  of  the  young  men:" 

"Oh.  I  want  to  see  the  old  man,"  said  the  searcher 
after  truth. 

He  was  conducted  into  the  private  office.  A  ven- 
erable man  sat  at  a  desk.  Long  gray  whiskers  dan- 
gled from  his  chin. 

"I  am  Mr.  Smith."  he  said.  "1  am  the  president 
and  managing  director  of  the  Smith  Manufacturing 
Company." 

"Let  me  press  your  hand,  sir,"  said  the  traveler. 
"I  would  not  have  missed  meeting  you  for  verv 
much.  I  have  traveled  over  the  world,  and  every- 
where have  I  met  your  sons.  In  fact,  sir,  the  woods 
are  full  of  them.  I  wondered  where  they  all  came 
from,  but  now  I  know.  The  Smith  Manufacturing 
Company  is  engaged  in  a  great  and  noble  work.  Keep 
it  up,  sir,  keep  it  up !  Posterity  will  bless  you  for  hav- 
ing conferred  a  boon  upon  humanity.  There  can  be 
no  fear  of  race  suicide  so  long  as  you  continue  in  this 
magnificent  enterprise.  And  to  think  that  so  much 
is  due  to  the  efforts  of  one  man !  Ah,  it  is  too  much. 
My  emotions  overcome  me !"  And  the  stranger  wept. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Botkin's  second  trial  is  under  way.  Bets  are 
offered  that  it  will  result  in  an  acquittal  or  a  dis- 
agreement. It  may  be  remembered  that  Judge  Cook 
stated  two  years  ago,  when  Mrs.  Botkin  was  in  jail, 
that  he  had  seen  her  upon  a  street  car.  Subsequently 
it  was  considered  an  instance  of  mistaken  identity. 
Judge  Cook,  remember,  tried  her  the  first  time,  and 
was  very  familiar  with  her  appearance.  Yet,  he 
mistook  another  woman  for  her  in  a  street  car.  The 
question  of  identity  is  of  primary  importance  in 
Mrs.  Botkin's  case.  Judge  Cook  presides  at  this  sec- 
ond trial.  Who  is  paying  for  Mrs.  Botkin's  defense? 
Surely,  Knight  and  McGowan  are  not  working  just 
for  love  of  their  profession. 

*  *  # 

C.  E.  Grunsky,  the  new  Isthmian  Canal  Commis- 
sioner, is  a  brother-in-law  of  Frank  Powers,  the  at- 
torney. Mrs.  Grunsky,  who  is  Powers'  sister,  was 
a  school  teacher,  and  it  is  said  she  keeps  up  her 
studies  for  pure  love  of  higher  culture.  Heller, 
Powers'  law  partner,  is  a  relative  by  marriage  of 
President  Hellman  of  the  Nevada  Bank.  Grunsky 
was  not  without  very  influential  backing  in  his  fight 

for  his  new  place. 

*  *  * 

LOST. — One  Congressman.  Answers  to  the  name 
of  Little  Willie  Winn.  May  be  recognized  by  the 
cloud  of  hot  air  that  hangs  about  him  like  a  halo. 
Was  last  seen  in  company  with  one  Livernash,  said 
to  be  a  dangerous  person.  If  found,  please  inform 
undersigned.  No  questions  asked.  It  is  desired  to 
return  him  to.  the  bosom  of  his  family. —  (Signed) 
Electors  of  the  Fifth  Congressional  District. 

*  *     V 

"Officially  pronounced  untrue."  That  is  what  To- 
kio  or  St.  Petersburg  says  the  day  after  the  veracious 
daily   papers   have   stormed    Port   Arthur,   captured 


Vladi  bridged  Lake  Baikal,  hamstrung  the 

Mikado  and   blown   up  'he   <'zar.     Well,   those   high 
priced    war   correspondents    muSI    make   a    showing. 
you  know.    And  then,  you  sec.  tin-  assertions  and  de 

nials.  the  declarations  and   rebuttals,   the  alligations 
and  the  disclaimers,  all  add  to  the  gayety  of  nations. 

*  »  » 

I  see  that  Ned  Hamilton  has  joined  the  Ella  Whee- 
ler Wilcox  and  Professor  Hregory  column.  Poor  old 
Ned  I 

*  *  » 

A  bunch  of  policemen  were  rounded  up  at  the 
Oakland  race  track  and  each  of  them  was  fined  half 
a  month's  pay  last  Monday  night  for  being  caught 
out  of  bounds  without  permission.  The  "low  down" 
is  that  they  had  tipped  their  captains  to  "sure  things" 
that  didn't  come  off.  Served  'cm  right,  say  I.  Never 
tip  the  Captain,  boys,  unless  you  can  make  good,  for 

he  is  bound  to  get  you  in  the  long  run. 

*  *  * 

When  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake,  after  his  painful 
experience  among  the  unbelievers  in  Washington, 
President  Smith  gave  a  reception  to  his  five  wives 
and  forty-two  children.  I  suppose  at  times  the  old 
man  must  fervently  wish  that  he  had  been  born 
twins. 


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Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


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Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight 
guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing 
qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


A    Club    Symposium 

The  San  Francisco  Riding  Club  will  give  a  Horse 
Show  for  the  benefit  of  the  Doctor's  Daughters  on 
Friday  evening,  March  25th,  at  8  o'clock,  and  a  mati- 
nee for  children  on  Saturday  afternoon,  at  1  -.30  at 
the  Riders'  Club  Building,  corner  Seventh  avenue 
and  C  street.  The  members  of  the  Riding  Club  have 
been  busily  practicing  for  some  time,  and  the  pro- 
gramme for  evening  and  matinee  promises  to  be  most 
attractive ;  some  interesting  features  of  the  evening 
will  be  tandem  and  random  riding  by  members  of 
the  Club,  obstacle  and  high  jumping  by  the  members 
of  the  San  Mateo  County  Hunt  Club.  The  mounted 
Park  police,  through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Howell, 
will  give  an  exhibition  of  their  skill.  The  Doctor's 
Daughters  promise  the  children  a  happy  time  at  the 
matinee  on  Saturday. 

A  fine  pedigreed  dog  will  be  disposed  of;  the  dog 
is  the  gift  of  Mr.  Alexander  Hamilton  ;  there  will 
also  a  pony  and  cart  which  takes  the  place  of  the 
usual  doll  house.  The  little  outfit  is  in  the  hands 
of  Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker  and  Mrs.  Fred  Tallant,  and 
tickets  for  it  will  soon  be  on  sale  at  Sherman  & 
Clay's. 

Miss  Jennie  Blair  has  change  of  the  boxes  and  re- 
ports them  all  sold.  The  Doctor's  Daughters  regret 
that  there  are  no  more  boxes,  as  constant  applica- 
tion is  being  made  for  them,  but  they  advise  the 
purchase  of  seats,  the  view  being  equally  good  from 
all  parts  of  the  building.  Many  box  parties  are  be- 
ing formed,  and  a  very  jolly,  pleasant  evening  is  an- 
ticipated. The  box  holders  are  Mrs.  Antoine  Borel, 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels,  Mr.  J.  C.  Wilson,  Miss  Dillon, 
Mrs.  Horace  Pillsbury,  J.  B.  Phelan,  Mrs.  William 
Henrickson,  Jr.,  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones,  Mrs.  W.  J.  Som- 
ers,  Mrs.  Henrietta  Zeile,  Dr.  Eugene  Zeile,  Mrs.  A. 
W.  Wilson,  Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker, 
Mr.  Henry  T.  Scott,  Mrs.  W.  G.  Irwin,  Mrs.  Ed.  W. 
Runyon,  Mrs.  Henrv  Crocker,  Mrs.  Charles  Belshaw, 
Mrs.  F.  J.  Sullivan,  Dr.  Herzstein,  Mrs.  W.  P.  Ful- 
ler, Mrs.  Joseph  Tobin,  Mrs.  George  McAneny,  Mrs. 
M.  H.  de  Young,  Mrs.  Frank  Griffin,  Mrs.  Eugene 
Lent,  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin.  Mrs.  J.  D.  Grant,  Mrs. 
A.  L.  Tubbs,  Mr.  Edward  Coleman,  Mr.  John 
Hooper,  Mrs.  Mary  Smythe,  Mrs.  Hanford,  Mrs.  R. 
W.  Grubb. 

Tickets  may  be  had  at  Sherman  &  Clay's,  for 
the  Horse  Show ;  at  the  San  Francisco  Riding  Club, 
corner  7th  and  C  streets,  or  from  any  of  the  mem- 
bers. 

*  *  * 

From  now  mi  until  the  annual  election  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club,  which  will  be  held  the  first  Tuesday  in 
May,  there  will  be  lively  campaigning,  not  for  the 
under  offices,  but  the  executive  position.  Friends 
of  Mrs.  Aylett  R.  Cotton,  one  of  the  candidates  for 
the  presidency,  are  indignant  at  the  charge  that  she 
represents  the  faction  which  became  an  entity  at  the 
time  of  the  "color  line"  controversy,  and  which  had 
as  its  leader  Mrs.  Lovell  White,  the  founder  of  the 
club  and  the  first  president.  It  is  true  that  Mrs. 
Cotton  served  under  Airs.  White,  but  when  Mrs. 
White  retired  from  California  Club  activities,  Mrs. 
Cotton  went  right  on  doing  exactly  as  she  had  be- 
fore. If  there  were  a  difference  she  was  more  ac- 
tive than  ever  in  her  efforts  for  the  welfare  of  the 
club.  In  the  face  of  that,  Mrs.  Cotton's  friends  do 
not  mince  words  when  the  word  "faction"  is  men- 
tioned. The  contest  between  Mrs.  Cotton  and  her 
opponent,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Orr  should  be  most  amicable; 
both  ladies  are  capable  and  deserving  of  honor  at 
the  hands  of  the  club,  and  when  the  last  ballot  is 


counted,  it  will  mean  only  that  one  has  more  active 

friends  than  the  other. 

*  *  * 

Club  women  have  something  to  talk  about  just 
now  because  of  the  defection  of  prominent  San  Fran- 
cisco clubs  from  the  California  State  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs.  Two  months  ago  Sorosis  sent  in  its 
resignation,  and  the  ink  is  not  yet  dry  on  that  of  the 
Forum  Club.  On  the  heels  of  this  comes  the  unoffi- 
cial statement  that  the  Philomath  is  about  to  retire. 
In  all  cases  the  reason  given  is  that  the  clubs  in  ques- 
tion are  essentially  social  organizations,  and  that 
they  have  nothing  in  common  with  the  State  Federa- 
tion. The  moving  spirits  in  the  larger  organization 
hold  that  the  Federation  is  all-inclusive,  and  that 
there  is  no  reason  why  the  most  exclusive  social 
club  should  remain  without  the  fold.  This  being  the 
case,  the  wise  ones  are  looking  about  for  other  rea- 
sons. It  cannot  be  that  there  are  any  disgruntled 
club  women  in  the  north,  because  the  office  of  Presi- 
dent of  the  Federation  has  been  swinging  back  and 
forth  between  the  North  and  South  with  the  regu- 
larity of  a  faithful  old  pendulum.  So  the  trouble 
does  not  lie  there. 

The  Federation  was  born  in  the  South  through 
the  energy  of  a  woman  of  that  district,  notably  Mrs. 
Robert  J.  Burdette,  and  quite  properly  in  the  first 
place  the  offices  went  to  that  part  of  the  State. 
Since  that  time  the  North  has  had  its  share.  One 
truth  is  that  women  of  the  southern  part  of  the  State 
are  more  "clubable"  than  their  sisters  in  this  dis- 
trict. The  majority  of  them  are  more  recently  from 
the  conservative  East,  where  clubs  are  as  much  a 
part  of  a  woman's  life  as  her  church.  With  the 
exception  of  the  Woman's  Parliament  of  Southern 
California,  which  remained  in  the  Federation  but  a 
few  months  and  withdrew  because  it  wanted  free 
swing,  the  women  of  the  South  are  devoted  to  the 
Federation.  Up  this  way  they  are  not  concerning 
themselves  much  about  it. 

Women  wise  in  club  lore  say  that  the  trouble  is 
not  with  the  Federation,  but  with  the  personnel  of 
the  present  administration.  The  Federation  crown 
must   pinch   and   press   in   several   spots. 


For  Breakfast 
For  Breakfast 
For  Breakfast 


DR.  W.  A.  BRYANT  has  moved  his  office 
from  820  Sutter  Street  to  THE  EMERSON 
Building,  751  Sutter  Street.  Phone  Private 
Exchange  751.    Office  Hours,  9:30-12    1:30-4 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Pleasure's    Warvd 

(Continued    from    Page   7.) 
The  Central  Theatre  will  present  on  Mond 
ing  the  melodrama  by  Theodore  Kremer,  "The  King 
"'    D  The  play   will     be     magnificently 

mounted,  with  new  ami  beautiful  scenery,  and  many 
original  and  startling  scenic  effei 
«  *  » 

Rosario  Guerrero,  the  famous  Spanish  dancer  and 
pantomimist,  who  has  been  the  idol  of  Paris  for  the 
past  five  years,  will  make  her  first  appearance  in  this 
city  at  the  1  >rpheum  this  coming  week.  She  will 
he  assisted  by  the  prominent  French  actor,  Philippe 
Dufaure,  and  will  present  a  pantomimic  sketch 
founded  on  a  Spanish  legend,  entitled  "The  Rose  ami 
the  Dagger." 

*  *  * 

"Mr.  Pickwick."  a  musical  comedy  in  two  acts. 
founded  on  Charles  Dickens'  most  amusing  work. 
will  he  produced  for  the  first  time  in  this  city  at  the 
Tivoli  Opera  House  next  Monday  evening.  The 
music  is  by  the  well  known  composer,  Manuel  Klein, 
the  words  by  Charles  Klein,  and  the  lyrics  by  Grant 
Stewart.  All  of  the  characters  made  famous  in  the 
story  will  be  seen  in  the  flesh. 

*  *  * 

The  San  Francisco  Art  Association  will  hold  its 
annual  spring  exhibition  at  the  Mark  Hopkins'  In- 
stitute of  Art,  beginning  Friday,  March  25th  and 
ending  Thursday,  April  21,  1904.  The  exhibition 
will  be  open  daily  from  nine  till  five  o'clock,  and  also 
on  the  evenings  of  Thursday,  March  31st,  April  7th, 
April  14th,  and  April  21st,  when  a  musical  pro- 
gramme will  be  rendered. 

»  *  » 

The  Minetti  Quartette  will  give  the  first  concert 
of  its  eighth  season  of  chamber  music  recitals  at 
Lyric  Hall  Friday  afternoon,  March  25th.  The  pro- 
gramme arranged  for  that  occasion  will  be  as  fol- 
lows: String  Quartette  in  D  minor  op.  75  (Bazzini)  ; 
Lento,  from  Quartette  in  F  major  op.  96  (Dvorak)  ; 
"Sehr  lustig,  moeglich  rasch,"  from  Quartette  in  D 
minor  op.  Jj  (Raff)  ;  Piano  Quartette  in  B  flat,  op. 

41    (Saint-Saens). 

*  *  * 

The  production  of  the  musical  comedy,  "His  Royal 
Nibs,"  by  W.  H.  Clifford  and  Shatter  Howard/will 
take  place  in  April  on  Thursday  the  21st  and  Friday 
the  22d  in  the  evenings,  at  the  Alhambra  Theatre. 
The  rehearsals  for  this  production  are  progressing 
most  favorably,  both  as  to  chorus  work  and- that  of 
the  principals.  This  entertainment  is  to  be  given 
for  the  benefit  of  the  California  Women's  Hospital, 

The  P.  &  B.  Paint  Company  is  reaping  a  reward 
these  rainy  days  in  the  shape  of  compliments. 
Users  of  the  various  brands  of  roofing,  the  Malthoid, 
the  P.  &  B.  Ready  Roofing,  the  P.  &  B.  Buildng 
Paper  and  the  P.  &  B.  Building  Paint,  have  causes 
to  congratulate  themselves  as  well  because  of  the 
lasting  quality  and  the  imperviousness  of  these  var- 
ious materials.  The  company  will. send  you  an  in- 
teresting calatogue  for  the  asking — a  booklet  of  each 
of  the  above — if  you  will  only  ask  for  it. 

— — The  mince  pies  furnished  by  Swain's  Bakery  on  Sut- 
ter street  axe  real  treats.  You  can  wander  the  world 
through  and  find  none  to  match  this  place  for  wholesome 
food  and  good  attendance.  The  San  Francisco  best  people 
know  this,  and  are  its  constant  patrons. 


FOUR  FLUSHING  IN  THE  GARDEN  CITY. 

San  Jose  i>  ■  continually  teething  mass  of  politics 

and   fr. .in  the  swirling  lionally  an 

""< ;  iry.    The  story  of  T.  J.  McGeogheghan 

i~  one  in  point.     He  was  onlj  old  when 

■  the  office  of  Treasurer  of  San  Jose  a  year 

He  promptly  filed  bonds  in  the  sum  of  $100,000 

and  he  handled  and  had  in  his  possession  at  all  times 
during  his  official  life  the  sum  of  $75,000  to  $100,000. 
It  transpire-  that  it  cost  him  the  sum  of  $1,300  to 
secure  the  treasuryship,  and  this  office  only  pays 
$I,SOO  a  year.  The  treasurer  was  not  allowed  a 
deputy,  but  as  he  was  frequently  absent,  he  hired 
a  deputy,  to  whom  he  paid  a  salary.  For  weeks  at 
a  time  this  deputy  was  alone  in  the  office,  and  there 
was  no  bar  to  his  purloining  any  amount  of  money 
he  may  have  had  use  for.  and  unless  Mr.  McGeoghe- 
ghan was  caught  in  the  act  of  actuallv  falsifying  the 
records  or  stealing  the  coin,  it  is  an  impossibility 
to  fasten  the  crime  upon  him.  It  is  a  matter  of  in- 
terest to  note  and  remember  that  the  Treasurer  was 
the  only  man  elected  on  the  Boss  ticket. 

J.  D.  Worswick  was  elected  Mayor  on  the  ticket 
of  the  Hayes  faction.  San  Jose  is  at  the  present 
divided  into  four  political  factions,  and  as  we  said 
at  the  beginning  of  this  article,  is  a  continually  seeth- 
ing mass  of  politics.  It  was  to  be  expected  that  if 
the  Mayor  was  attending  strictly  to  the  duties  of  his 
office  he  would  have  watched  argus-eyed  the  actions 
of  the  opposing  faction,  and  especially  the  actions  of 
the  only  representative  of  the  Boss  elected  to  office. 

There  is  an  effort  being  made  in  San  Jose  to  make 
good  what  is  politely  called  a  "deficiency."  The 
amount  stolen  was  between  seven  and  eight  thousand 
dollars,  and  the  attempt  to  cover  the  "deficiency" 
is  being  made  with  a  view  to  prevent  prosecution 
of  a  criminal  nature.  It  is  kind  of  his  friends  to  at- 
tempt to  save  the  Treasurer  from  the  Penitentiary. 
It  is  the  duty  of  the  Mayor  or  some  Supervisor  to 
see  to  it,  however,  that  (no  matter  how  strong  the 
pull  or  how  prominent  the  connections)  that  the 
criminals  are  punished.  There  is  altogether  too  much 
of  this  white-washing  of  those  who  infract  the 
moral  law  in  public  office,  and  it  is  high  time  that 
the  real  criminals  be  ferreted  out  and  brought  to 
book.  To  let  this  pass  as  a  "deficiency"  or  as  ai 
mere  peculation  is  to  put  a  premium  on  crime.  Let 
no  guilty  man  escape. 

POLO  PONY  RACES. 
The  Pony  Races  at  Tanforan  have  been  postponed 
because  of  the  rain,  and  as  a  consequence  the  last 
races  are  scheduled  for  this  Saturday  afternoon.  A 
big  attendance  is  predicted,  and  society  will  be  out  in 
full  force.  The  rules  of  racing  as  adopted  by  the 
California  Polo  and  Pony  Racing  Association  gov- 
ern. The  ponies  will  be  ridden  by  qualified  gentle- 
men riders.  A  great  deal  of  interest  centers  in  these 
races,  and  there  is  sure  to  be  a  vast  turnout  of  the 
admirers  of  the  various  racing  colors.  The  fact  that 
the  rain  prevented  the  races  in  the  beginning  of  the 
week  will  ensure  a  larger  audience  than  under  or- 
dinary circumstances.  Pony  racing  and  the  fascin- 
ating game  of  polo  is  an  exciting  sport,  and  is  fast 
becoming  immensely  popular  in  California.  It  is  a 
pleasure  to  watch  a  race  that  is  being  run  abso- 
lutely on  the  square. 

Do  Your  Eyes  Itch  and  Burn? 

Murine  Eye  Bemedy  is  an  Eye  Tonic.    Cures  Sore  Eyes.    Rests  Tired 
Eyes. 


The  latest  style  in  shirts  may  be  Jound   at  John  W.   Carmany'a 
Chronicle  BuWding. 


A.  rub  at  the  Post  St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  March  ig,  1904. 

BANKING.  &%e  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 


W..         _                  a      S~*           F*         1  Developments    in   the    Far 

CHS,    FargO  &  CO.,    Bank  NeW  developments.      East  th^past   week^have 

SAN   FRANCISCO  book.    Four  new  factors  have  appeared,  and  together 

or    separately,    what    their    influence    upon    coming 

capital,  surpiu.  and  undivided  }SI3,500,000  events  is  likely  to  be  is  decidedly  uncertain.     The 

Homer  s.  King,  president;  p.  l.  Lipman.  cashier;  Frank  b.  first  of  them  is  the  announcement  that  the  Czar  has 

Kins,  Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.   E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier.  r\a„;A„A    *-~    ~~    +~    *U<.    r...-..^ 1    „,-.-. ,~    *.u~ ~_»t 

BRANCHES-New  York;  Salt  Lake,  Utah;  Portland,  or.  decided  to  go  to  the  front  and  assume  the  general 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.    General  Banking  busi-  direction  of  his  cause.     If  he  were  in  any  sense  a 

ness  transacted.  .,.,..                              .                              /     , 

soldier  by  education  or  experience  it  would  become 

him  to  place  himself  at  the  head  of  his  army,  but  he 

San   FranciSCO   SaVinqS   Union  is  not  even  so  much  as  a  carpet  knight.     It  is  doubt- 

532  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco.  ful  if  he  could  direct  a  batallion  in  field  maneuvres 

E.     B.     POND,     President;     W.     C.     B.     DeFREMERY,     ROBERT  ,,,:rn    nnthino-   m/irp    l-irwHlo    tn    rnnfmnt    liim    f-tian    iron 

WATT.    Vice-Presidents:    LOVELL    WHITE,     Cashier;     R.    M.  W1U1  notlinig  more  Hostile  to  conlront  mm  tlian  gen- 

welch.  Assistant  cashier.  tie  winds  and  singing  birds.    Then  why  does  he  go? 

Directors— E.   B.   Pond.  W.  C.  B.  DeFremerv,   Henry  F.   Allen,  ....       ,     ,.    .  .               b.    &     ,          .     .      ,  .             J                    ,        ,, 

George   C.    Boardman.   Jacob   Bart.i.    C.    O.    G.    Miller,    Fred   H.  1  1\C  belief  IS  growing  that  It  IS  his  purpose  to  dwell 

^^vJ'SL'pSit^.lfd^nfS^'r^Stat.  security,    country  with  his  soldiers  in  his  capacity  of  "White  Father, 

remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.   Fargo  &  Co..   or  by  checks  vicar  of  the  Lord  Christ  and  head  of  His  church  UO- 

of   reliable   parties,    payable   In   San    Francisco,    but   the   respon-  .,,„,,                    ,  ,                   ,  .                                  * 

slbility  ot  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  Oil   the   earth.          1  hat   would   mean   his  purpose   to  be 

celpt  ot  the  money.     The  signature  or  the  depositor  should  ac-  r„  ;nritp   anrl    ontrmco  liic  frnrmc   in   a    liitrVi   rlocrroo  nf 

company    the   first   deposit.     No   charge   is   made    for   pass-book  to  lnclte   ana   enthuse   Ills   troops   to  a   lllgll   degree  Ot 

orr.ffl!,ti'a5ce  feev.            .    -              „  .    ^             .  religious  frenzy,  when  every  one  of  them  would  im- 

Offlce  Hours:  9  a.  m.   to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  8.  •         ,  •           lr                   •    i    ■      i                            ^,        ,          ,         , 

Deposits,  December  3i.  1903  $33,232,908  agine  liimselt  a  special   instrument  in   the  hands  ot 

RgfL?ginff-aMr::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::  '-SftSS  Providence  to  crush  paganism  as'  represented  by 

■ —  Japan  and  China.     That  is  to  say,  make  the  war  a 

Mutual   SaVirjQS    Bank   of  San  Francisco  religious  struggle  to  stamp   out   heathenism,  but   it 

_.  „    ,      „  so  happens  that  practically  the  entire  Christian  world 

710  Market  St..  Opposite  Third  *    ■  i         r    t>         •      •      •                      .i             -.i     ., 

Guarantee  capital   "...                              ti  ooo ooo  outside  of  Kussia  is  in  sympathy  with  the  pagans. 

Fameusp  %*&E&Jfflg^"z"i£-wi^;:&&S£.  If  il  is  the  role  of  "Wllite  Father" t0  make  il  a  re- 

dent;  george  a.  story.  Cashier;  john  a.  hooper,  vice-  ligious  war  that  the  young  autocrat  proposes  to  as- 

Presldent;   C.    B.    HOBSON.    Assistant  Cashier.  °           ,             ■,,            ,          J       ■    ?  ,        r                  ,  •    ,     ,   • 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphy.  John  A.  hooper.  SUlTie,    lie   Will    make   a    mistake    from    which    lllS   COUn- 

James    Moffitt,    Frank    J.    Sullivan.    Robert    McElroy,    Rudolph  trv  wmilrl   npvrr  rernvpr       RelicrinMS  wirt  arc  rhino's 

Spreckels,   James  M.   McDonald.   Charles   Holbrook.  lrv  WOU1Q  never  recov  er.  ^IvUlgloUS   wars  art    tilings 

Interest   paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities.  of  the  everlasting  past.      The   second   "straw"  of  the 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,   Fargo  &  Co.,  or  ,                 •      ,•                            ,.    ,       ,        ,,   •      .,       ,•.., 

exchange  on  city  banks.  past  week  may  indicate  a  great  deal.     It  is  the  little 
— stream   of   British   military   officers — experts   in   the 

The  German   Savinqs  6  Loan  Society  sever,al  b.ra"ches  of  th„e  service— that  is  quietly  and 

j        «,         vw  "    _^,_«,.     ^^^i^ojr  noiselessly  flowing  into  Japan.      The   London   Gov- 

no.  52«  California  street,  san  francisco.  emment  declines  to  offer  an  explanation,  but  some 

8£KTt3E?tu3.?,,&£nu£  £"&£  :::::::::::::::::::::::.^WSat8  of  Asia's  friends  see  in  it  a  Pian  to  immediately 

Deposits,  Dec.  si,  1903  3o.o49.49M8  supply   China  with   a  very  capable   general   staff  of 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President,  John   Lloyd;    First  Vice-  trainer!    Fno-lish    snlrliers   in    the   event   of   the    Ppkinsr 

President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann-  trained    i,ngiisn   soldiers   ill    tne   event  01    tne   reKing 

Ign.  steinhardt.  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  ohlandt,  I.  N.  wai-  Government  becoming  involved  ill  the  Russo-Japan- 

ter  and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen.  ,..               to                   .          -^    «  ,           r-               ■ 

Caahier.  a.  h.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  cashier,  wniiam  Herr-  ese   war,  which   now  seems   inevitable,      har-seeing 

Su?^:  SGeeCnlrirAt?oer°nregy:  w.T^ooTJ&T  Secretary'   A-  "•  is  John  Bull's  diplomatic  statesmanship  strong  point, 

and  not  often  is  he  found  far  away  when  needed  for 
quick  work.     The  third  surprise  of  the  week  is  the 

'Continental  Building  &  Loan  A9Soc.,.„n  changf.  ™  Rus.sia's  Pla"  °*  campaign,    instead  of 

j                                          f,            """-'  Association  immediate  clashes,  the  newly  adopted  strategy  pro- 

E.tabi,shedMiin jm^  ^^    ^   M(OF  California.  vides    {or    the    avoidallce    of   anything   like   a   great 

f=MS7n'ben0„(r,a,,Iiltal   *15'055'252-(W  battle,  and  retreat  if  need  be  upon  the  inland  cen- 

Pald-in    Capital     3.000,000.00  '.              ,.                .                           t.r             ...                  . 

Prom  and   Reserve   Fund    460.000.00  ters  of  supplies  and  concentration  until  enough  re- 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum  ;„(,„-,,„.„(,   Qr<.   in   hanrl   In  mat-p  thp  force  in    Man 

on  term  and  6  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  lniorcenieius  are  111  llalld  10  make  ine  iorce  in   ivian- 

andrQenerainMana  D?dse'  Presldent:  wl"lanl  Corbin,  Secretary  churia    aggregate    fully    5oo,ooo   strong,      and      then 

rush   down   upon   the  Japanese  and  crush   them  by 

sheer  numerical  force.     It  is  a  good  paper  plan,  and 

International  Banking  Corporation  [t  wiH  work  very  weU  if  JaPan  is  willins  t0  wait  for 

„,„„...  such  a  blow,  but  all  the  chances  are  that  the  little 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK.  ,,                             ■,,            ,      r                 .           i     i    r      t   »u 

Capital  and  surplus  »7  894  400  yellow  men  will  rush  forward  and  defeat  the  enemy 

c^Rlt^J,a,n^„s,ir.?lu'  Authorized  '.■.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.ib'.ooi'i.ouo.uo  in  detail  before  he  is  concentrated.     That  was  Na- 

OFFICiiRS— William  L.   Mover,   President:  Charles  D.   Palmer.  ,                             r    ,    •         .i  •                    i  .u      T                             „ 

Assistant   to   President:   wmiam   b.    wightman,   Assistant    to  poleon  s  way  ot  doing  things,  and  the  Japanese  seem 

President;   John   Hubbard.   Treasurer;   James   H.    Rogers.    Secre-  rn  L-now  all  ahnnt  ihe  irreat  Torsiran's  ranid   method 

tary;   John    B.    Lee.    General    Manager;    William    H.    Maclntyre,  to  Know  a"  aDOUt  tne  great  uorsican  s  rapiu   meinod 

A^l?t?S%SS}?T$l  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green.  Counsel.  in  fearless  dashes.     The   fourth   revelation   the  past 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,   City  of  Mexico,   Manila,  ,                 .,       ,          ,        .•             ,                        ,              i  -u-^- 

Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  shanghai,  Singapore.  week  was  the  bombastic  and  spectacular  exhibition 

AGENCIES— Bombay.    Calcutta.    Madras,      Penang,      Rangoon,  ("pnpral    Knrnnatt-in    marlp    nf    himsplf    nnnn    lpavinc 

Colombo,    Amoy,    Canton,    Hankow,    Tientsin,    Tansui.    Anplng!  tjeneral    Miropatklll    made    OI    nitnseil    upon    leaving 

Bakan.  Moji,  Saigon,  Kobe.  Bangkok,  Batavia,  Samarang,  aou-  for  the  Far  East  to  assume  supreme  command  of  the 

rabaya,   and   all   parts   of   Europe.  -r.         .           r                    ,T.,,                 T-               .,  •          ,             , 

san  francisco  branch-32-34  sansome  street.  Russian    forces.     Hitherto,    Kurnpatkin     has     been 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.     Accounts  of  corpora-  lnnt-p/-l    nr»nn    ac    a    fipl.l    rnmnnnflpr    nf    rnncirlprahlp 

ttons,  firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  looked    upon    as    a    Held    commander    Ot    COIlSlderaDle 

on  approved  securities.    Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  ability,  but  he  now  stands  before  the  military  world 

and  sold.     Travelers    and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted,  ,          ,                 ,r    ■•            ,*..     ,         u-          i      ,          .r'       i.      j 

available  In  any  part  of  the  world.     Interest  bearing  certificates  not   only    a   self-discredited    soldier,    hut    a    blow-hard 

of   deposit   Isued    for   fixed    periods.     Interest    allowed    to    banks  _nj  i-.__  ,,f  ,,,;nrl       Witli  a   flnnrisli  nf  hntli  lianrlc  that 

on  current  dally  balances.    Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping  ana  naS  ot  Wind.      VVltll  a  nourisll  Ot  Dotll   Hands  tnat 

accounts    with    us,    and    drawing    direct    on    our    branches    and  shook    and    tangled    yards    of    gold       trappings      that 

agents  throughout  the  world.  .             ,    i  •      .       i        i        u     i       »i            i      •    •                 ,.-,.    j 

correspondence  invited.  adorned  his  body,  he   bade  the  admiring  multitude 

v.  m.  bbck,  Manager.             p.  a.  BASTWiCK.  jr.,  Ast.  Mgr  that  had  gathered  at  the  railway  station  to  see  him 


March  19.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTKR 


countrymen  and  all  the 

I  that  upon  his  arrival  at  the  ft 
promptly  commence  walking  .nor  the  .1. 

and  that   .ift.r  hit 
Korea  to  the  Russian  Empire  he  should  crw 
Japan  and  force  the  brown  nation  to  get  upon  its 
!  okio  and  surrender  its  horse,  loot  and  dra 
nment  and  all  into  his  mighty  hands. 
Military  men  are  not  at  all  backward  in  expn 
their  contempt   for  the  braggart,  nor  in  predj 

speedy  retirement  bi  incompetency.    The 

great  General  is  not  a  peacock  sort  of  man.  nor  does 
lie  fight  battles  with  hi>  tongue,  especially  when  he 
is  several  thousand  miles  from  the  theatre  of  action. 
Port  Arthur  is  Japan's  first  great 
Japan's  Puzzle     prize,   though   she   may    not  take 
Game.  formal  possession  for  a  little  time. 

The  next  great  prize  will  have  I" 
he  taken  in  a  wholly  land  game,  hut  when  or  where 
the  effort  is  to  be  made,  soldiers  of  large  experience 
are  too  cleverly  enveloped  in  the  mist  of  Japan's  puz- 
zling strategy  t"  venture  even   a  guess.     But  certain 

it  i>.  Japan's  land  establishment  is  being  moved  and 
handled  exactly  contrary  to  Russia's  expectations. 
and  this  has  disconcerted  the  Hears  Generals  so 
much  that  they  are  not  at  all  disposed  to  venture 
anything  until  they  have  two  or  three  times  the 
Japanese  force  well  in  hand.  Evidently  there  are 
pretty  broad  threads  of  demoralization  running 
through  Russian  navy  and  army  circles,  which  only 
large  reinforcements  can  prevent  spreading.  It  is 
clear,  too,  that  the  Russian  army  supply  departments 
failed  utterly  to  get  themselves  into  any  sort  of  a 
state  of  preparedness  for  even  so  much  as  a  two 
months'  supply  ahead.  The  consequence  is  the  en- 
tire army  is  already  on  short  meat  rations,  and  bread- 
stuffs  are  running  low.  But  all  this,  is  not  likely  to 
seriously  cripple  the  army,  though  short  rations  are 
patriotism's  sworn  enemy  when  the  latter  has  to 
make  forced  marches  and  fight  battles.  From  a  care- 
ful and  unbiased  analysis  of  the  situation,  the  con- 
clusion must  be  that  Japan  has  already  won  a  moral 
victory  that  has  never  been  equaled  by  any  nation. 
She  has  gained  the  sympathy,  good  will  and  admira- 
tion of  the  civilized  world  outside  of  Russia-  by 
maintaining  a  standard  of  manliness,  truthfulness, 
patriotism  and  modesty  that  is  far  above  what  would 
be  expected  in  even  the  Anglo-Saxon.  There  has 
been  no  boasting,  no  threats,  no  coarse  vilification  of 
the  enemy,  no  attempt  to  conduct  the  war  upon 
lines  other  than  would  be  indorsed  by  the  world's 
loftiest  war  ethics.  Not  an  act  or  purpose  has  yet 
been  revealed  that  is  to  the  nation's  discredit.  On 
the  other  hand,  from  the  jump  the  nation  has  not 
for  a  moment  lost  sight  of  the  fact  that  war  is  war; 
that  war  means  bloodshed,  and  that  the  ways  of  the 
dress-parade  are  not  the  ways  of  the  battle-field. 
Whether  right  or  wrong,  there  has  been  an  uncon- 
cealed directness  of  purpose  and  a  forcefulness  of 
national  and  individual  action  on  the  part  of  the 
Japanese  that  stamps  them  as  being  a  people  of  a 
high  sense  of  honor  and  of  a  quality  of  bravery  and 
love  of  country  that  advancing  civilization  may  well 
be  proud  of.  And  to  think  that  a  third  of  a  century 
ago  these  people  were  under  the  feudal  system  of 
Government,  while  to-day  they  enjoy  a  constitutional 
system  of  rule  and  a  public  school  system  that  finds 
no  equal  in  all  Asia!  Still,  the  question  to  not  a 
few,  is  what  influence  would  the  450,000,000  adher- 
ents of  Buddhism,  Confucianism,  Taoism  and  Shin- 
toism  in  China  and  Japan  exert  in  Christian  lands 
should  Russia  be  driven  out  of  Eastern  Asia  and 
these  "pagans"  fix  their  countries  firmly  as  mighty 


»9 


men'  ,d  what  n 

them  equal   I  th  t'hris- 

■i-l  hrislian  beliefs,  rcli. 
wood  and  stone?"  However, 
ititutions  of  learning,  personal  liberty 
and  civilization  believes  in  the  Rights  of  Man  with- 
out reference  t"  his  religious  faith;  therefore  let  the 
Christian  heathen  rage  and  let  the  pagan  heathen 

have   a   chance. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau   has   removed   to   the 

rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet'a,  at  230  California 
-trenl.    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

BANKING . 


The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansotne  and   Pine  Sts.,   San    Franclsce. 

JAR  K.  WILSON.  President;  WM.  riERi'E  Ji  iHNSON.  Vlce- 
I'rosldent;  LEWIS  1.  COVVGILL,  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE.  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital.    $500,000.      Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits,    $200,000 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,  Vlce-Preet  Willamette  Pulp 
A  Paper  Oo.  tt  m.  .1.  Dutton.  President  Fin'mnnn  Fund  Ins.  Co.  H.  E 
Huntington.  First  Vice-  Prest  S.P.R  R.  Geo.  A.  Pope  of  Pope  ft  Tal- 
bot Lumber  I lers.    C  B.  Benedict  President  Bastings  Clothing. Oo. 

QeorBe  Aimer  Newhgll.  B   K.  Newhnll  4  Co     \v  H.  Talhnt.  Capitalist. 
H.  D.  Morton Proal   W.  T.  Garrett* Co.    James  K.  Wilson, President 

AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— urown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated   the   Bank  of  British   Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up  Capital,  $8,700,000  Reserve  Fund,  $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  $hO,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President. 
B.  E.   Walker,   General  Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW    YORK   OFFICE— 16   Exchange   Place. 
BRANCHES      IN       BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlln,      Cranbrook. 
Fernle.    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmlln,    Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New   Westminster,    Vancouver  and   Victoria. 
JN   YUKON   TERRITORY— Dawson   and   White   Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska.) 
Also    80    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     In 
Manitoba,   N.   W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS  IN    LONDON— The   Bank  of  England,   the   Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
SAN    FRANCISCO    0FFICE- 

325  California  Street. 

A.    KAINS,    Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  Bank.  Lluliled 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office — 40  Threadneedle  St..  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street.  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Polssoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  u.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. __ 

The  flnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid  up  $1,500,010 

Subscribed 3,000,000       Reserve    Fund     ....     700,000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LIL1ENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,    Mills  aulldlng 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSi-d.     LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 

S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Btlttwln,    F.    Monteagle,   Warren    D. 

Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease.  

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized   Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up   capital   and  Reserve   $1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  In 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers;  Frank  J.  Symmes.  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  ig,  1904. 


mXX^SMM  FINANCIAL 


Business  in  the  Comstock 
Pine-St.  Market,     market   lias  been    fairly     good 

during  the  week,  owing  to  the 
frequent  fluctuations  in  the  North-end  mines,  which 
have  enabled  smart  operators  to  make  considerable 
money.  Some  very  interesting  work  is  now  going 
on  in  the  middle  group,  in  addition  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Ophir  ore  body,  the  extention  of  which 
will  likely  be  found  in  some  of  the  neighboring  mines. 
The  Ward  shaft  is  being  cleared  out  and  repaired. 
When  this  work  is  finished  a  connection  will  be  made 
with  the  Sutro  tunnel,  and  a  pumping  plant  will  be 
installed  in  the  Ward  shaft  to  be  used  for  the  drain- 
age of  the  South-end  mines.  Everything  along  the 
lode  is  now  put  in  the  best  condition  for  a  prolonged 
course  of  operations,  and  the  plans  arranged  in  de- 
tail will  cover  all  important  points  along  the  lode, 
where  there  is  any  promise  of  ore  being  found.  The 
indications  are  that  this  will  be  an  unusually  active 
year  in  the  Comstock  mining  market,  and  people 
will  have  a  chance  to  make  money  the  like  of  which 
they  have  not  had  for  a  long  time  past. 

A   noteworthy   incident   took   place 
Eastern  Men     during  the  week,  in  the  way  of  a 
Take  Hold.      change  in   the  personnel  of  the  di- 
rectory  of  the   Savage,   one   of  the 
more  important  mines  on  the  Comstock  lode.    George 
R.  Wells,  the  old-time  president  of  the  corporation, 
and   C.  H.   Fish,  vice-president  of  the  company   for 
years,  resigned,  their  places  being  filled  respectively 
by  Franklin  Leonard,  Jr.,  of  New  York,  and  Charles 
Hirschfeld  of  this  city.     Mr.  Leonard  is  said  to  rep- 
resent a  big  Eastern  syndicate,  owning  a  large  block 
of  the  stock.    It  has  been  known  for  some  time  past 
that   large   quantities   of   this  stock   have   been   pur- 
chased and  sent  East  of  late.     There  were  no  other 
changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  directory. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
shareholders  of  the  London, 
Paris  and  American  Bank, 
held  in  London  on  March 
10th,  the  directors  submitted  balance  sheet  and  state- 
ment of  accounts  for  the  vear  ended  December  31, 
1903.  The  gross  profits  for  the  year,  after  making 
provision  for  all  bad  and  doubtful  debts,  amounted 
to  £65,96865.  9d. ;  expenses  of  management  amount- 
ed to  £36,522  7s.  od.,  leaving  a  profit  of  £20445  "9s- 
9d.,  against  £40,603  ds.  2d.  for  the  previous  year. 
The  net  profit  of  £29,445  19s.  9d. ;  together  with 
£9,144  16s.  id.  balance  that  had  been  brought 
forward  December  13,  1902,  made  £38,590  15s. 
iod.  available  for  distribution  for  the  year.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1903,  an  interim  dividend  of  4  per  cent  ab- 
sorbed £16,000,  and  a  second  dividend  of  4  per  cent. 
or  £16,000,  was  declared  at  the  meeting,  making 
8  per  cent  for  the  year,  the  two  dividends  accounting 
for  £32,000,  leaving  £6,590  15s.  iod.  to  be  carried 
forward  to  new  account. 


A  Good  Financial 
Showing. 


Business  in  the  local  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
was  rather  light  during  the  past  week.  There  was  a 
little  better  movement  in  bonds,  but  the  demnad  for 
stocks  continues  dull.  Under  the  "prop"  process  S. 
F.  Gas  and  Electric  shares  were  pegged  higher. 
There  is  no  outside  demand  for  this  stock.  There 
is  every  prospect  that  before  the  end  of  the  year 
a  new  and  rival  company  will  have  entered  the  field. 


Paid  in  Capital. 
Guarantee  Capital 


4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L.  Association 

Pays  4  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFORNIA    STREET,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 
^i'H^Capital $8,000,000 

1.000,000 

200.000 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A  A.  Watkins.  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop.  Vice-President  Bank  of  California.... Vice-President 

S.  Prentiss  Smith.  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  4  L.  Association. 

„    •*     _  rortl'»nd Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman.  Mgr.  J2tna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker,  Portland.  Oregon Director 

Gavin  MeNab.  Attorney-at-law "  Attomev 

Walter  K.Smith ..V.V.V.'.'.'.  Cashier 


California    Safe 

Deposit  and 

Trust  Co. 

Corner 

California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San    Francisco.    Cal. 


Capital  and  Surplus 
Total  Assets 


SI .401, 160.93 
6,943,782.82 


Interest  paid  on  deposits, 
subject  to  check,  at  the 
rate  of  two  per  cent  per 
annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and  six-tenths  per  cent 
per  annum. 

Trusts  executed.  We  are 
authorized  to  act  as  the 
guardian  of  estates  and  the 
executor  of  wills. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented 
at  $5  per  annum  and  up- 
wards. 

Get  a  box  at  once  and  guard 
against  loss  by  Fire  or 
Burglars. 

J.   Dalzell  Brown, 

Mtv.nag«r 


5    MONEY    5 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO    NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  check  or  money  order  for  as  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  $;oo.  Price  par 
for  $5.00  certificates.    The  price  may  advance  any  day. 

The  stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  $5  00  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  $22  on  the  Loudon  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance  of 
340  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Tne  Marconi  system  Is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.  Edison. 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 
Company. 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CROSSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. ;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


The    Hibernians'     Lament 
•  1I1.  Paddj  dear,  and  did  you  hear 

The  news  tl  g   round  ? 

The  Mayor  forbida  Hibernians 

I  o  danci   1  in  anj   ground. 

Patrick's  Hay  we  cannot  keep, 

lli>   pipers  can't   Uv   seen, 
And  the  onlj  comfort  tliat  we  gel 

Is  wearing  <>i  the  green. 

For  we  went  to  Schmitz,  the  spalpeen, 

And  he  wouldn't  take  our  hand. 
But  lie  knocked  our  plans  all  endwise 

And   he   boycotted   <  >ur   hand. 
We're  the  most  distressed  Hibernians 

That    ever   yet    were    seen. 
For  there's  nothing  left  but   whiskey 

And    the    wearing   of   the   green. 

And  was  it  last  November 

That  he  said  he  was  our  friend, 

And   promised   lots  of  offices 
And    graft    without    an    end? 

We  were  the  most  important  folk 
That    ever    yet    were    seen. 

Now   we  cannot  pipe  our  music 
For  the  wearing  of  the  green. 

Because   the   union    Dutchmen 

Cannot  play  an  Irish  jig, 
Because    our    music    is    our    own, 

Because  the  Mayor's  a  pig, 
A  band  of  pickets  round  our  hall 

St.   Patrick's  Day  has  seen, 
And   tears   mix  with   our   whiskey 

At  the  wearing  of  the  green. 


A  SOUTHERN  PACIFIC  IMPROVEMENT. 

The  Southern  Pacific  Company  has  just  completed 
an  improvement  in  the  line  between  Santa  Barbara 
and  Los  Angeles.  The  new  line  runs  through  the 
mountains  and  saves  the  time  consumed  in  the 
run  from  Santa  Barbara  to  Los  Angeles  by  three- 
quarters  of  an  hour.  While  this  time  saving  is  not 
to  be  taken  advantage  of  immediately  (the  time  table 
not  taking  it  into  account),  it  may  be  taken  advantage 
of  later,  as  the  necessity  arises,  to  make  quicker  time. 
The  tunnel  through  the  mountains  is  longer  than  the 
San  Fernando  Tunnel,  being  nearly  7,000  feet  long. 
There  are  now  two  trains  daily  between  Los  Angeles 
and  Santa  Barbara,  and  these  will  be  run  as  usual, 
via  Saugus,  but  through  trains  will  run  via  the  new 
cut-oflf. 


The  Mother's  Friend, 

when  nature's  supply  fails,  is  Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk.  It  is  a  cow's  milk  adapted  to  infants,  accord- 
ing to  the  highest  scientific  methods.  An  infant  fed  on 
Eagle  Brand  will  show  a  steady  gain  in  weight. 


The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


Few  come  to  San  Francisco  without  paying  a  ^isit 

to  Zinkand's,  which  has  done  so  much  to  establish  our 
city's  reputation  as  the  best  restaurant  town  in  the  United 
States.     Ifs  tne  favorite  after-the-theatre  resort. 


Obituary 

Mrs.  George  W.  Caswell  mourns  her  lather.  Wil 
ham  '.     I  .  and  with  his  passing  much 

01  the  history  of  Cali- 
fornia loses  a  living 
r  <■  p  r  esentative.      Mr. 

Badger  came  to  (  ali- 
fornia  in  1850,  and  in 
1858  he  started  the  first 
Sunday  school  from 
which  the  Advent 
Church  sprang.  He 
was  instrumental  in  the 
firm  establishment  of 
the  Public  School  Sys- 
tem in  San  Francisco. 
He  was  president  of  the 
Industrial  School  De- 
partment from  1867  to 
1868,  and  was  elected 
president  of  the  Bunker 
Hill  Association  in 
1 861,  a  position  which 
he  held  until  his  death. 
It  was  largely  his  zeal  that  made  the  annual  Bunker 
Hill  day  celebration  a  success.  Mr.  Badger  was  pre- 
sented with  a  life  membership  in  the  Mercantile 
Library  in  recognition  of  the  work  he  had  done  in 
aiding  to  extinguish  its  debt,  and  was  a  director  of 
the  library  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  the 
second  president  to  be  elected  to  that  office  in  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Exempt  Firemen  and  the  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution. In  his  Masonic  affiliations  Mr.  Badger  was 
a  member  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  a  member  of  Cali- 
fornia Commandery  and  of  Mount  Moriah  Lodge 
of  Masons,  and  in  1887  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  Veterans'  Association. 

His  wife  died  some  years  ago,  and  he  leaves  three 
daughters,  Mrs.  George  W.  Caswell,  Mrs.  Henry  S. 
Foote,  Jr.,  and  Mrs.  Edward  L.  Burlingame,  of  New 
York. 

William  G.  Badger  was  born  on  October  2,  1821, 
at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  his  forebears  bore  arms 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 


A  rub  at  the  Post  St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good. 


Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkish  Baths. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  131 

Amount  per  share 10 cento 

Levied February  10.  19U4 

Delinquent  In  office March  15  ly(H 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock April     4,1904 

B.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office — Room  14,  Nevada  Bloek.  809  Montgomery  street.  San  Fraiiclsco 
California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No-  44 

Amount  per  share 6  cent*. 

Levied March  7.  19i  4 

Delinquent  in  office April  11,  Win 

Day  of  sale  o£  delinquent  stock May  2,  1904 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Koom  79,  Nevada  Block,   No.  309  Montgomery  street,   San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  34 

Amount  per  share 3  cents 

Levied March  «.  1904 

Delinouent  in  office April  13. 19U4 

Day  ol  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  3.  1904 

J.  STADTFELD.  Jr..  Secretary. 
Office— Boom  66,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  igo/j. 


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AOTOCRANK 


San  Francisco  should  have  a  woman's  automobile 
club.  It  is  strange  that  we  have  not  heard  of  such 
a  club  ever  being  formed.  Experience  has  taught  us 
that  if  a  woman  really  wants  anything  she  always 
gets  it.  That's  what  we  are  on  earth  for.  Now  we 
might  turn  this  to  good  account.  Let  us  have  a 
woman's  automobile  club.  After  a  few  meetings  the 
women  will  take  up  the  proposition  of  good  roads, 
.  for  they  see  the  present  condition.  With  them  work- 
ing together,  it  will  be  like  a  tidal  wave.  They  will 
hold  up  the  merchant,  press,  public  officials,  and 
everybody  until  they  have  achieved  the  object  they 
start  out  to  accomplish.  There  may  be  a  few  fights 
in  the  club,  but  that  will  only  happen  when  they  are 
through  and  are  dividing  the  glory. 

If  we  want  good  roads  in  California,  and  want 
them  quickly,  let  us  have  the  woman's  club,  and  we 
will  all  give  up  easily. 

The  only  thing  of  importance  that  has  happened 
during  the  past  week  was  the  discussion  of  "the 
King's  Highway."  It  looks  as  if  something  mitjlit 
be  done.  At  the  present  time  they  are  all  handling 
that  cheap  commodity — talk.  It  will  never  build 
the  road.  Good,  honest  action  with  a  liberal  expen- 
diture of  money  will  be  the  only  thing  that  will  ac- 
complish anything  like  good  results. 

T11  the  report  of  the  bureau  of  statistics  which 
has  lately  come  to  band,  it  is  seen  that  during  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June,  1903,  $1,207,065  worth  of  au- 
tomobiles have  been  shipped  out  of  the  country. 
Europe  received  $853,437  worth  ;  North  America, 
$180,487;  South  America,  $24,557;  Asia,  $38,113; 
Oceania,  $51,163,  and  Africa,  $59,308. 

The  shipment  to  England  and  the  United  Kingdom 
amounted  to  $670,81 1.  All  these  figures  tend  to  show 
the  importance  of  the  industry. 

From  the  East  comes  the  report  that  up  to  June, 
1903,  for  a  period  of  six  months,  1771  persons  were 
killed  and  22,972  injured  by  locomotives;  134  persons 
a  day. 

There  are  41,225  locomotives,  an  average  of  one 
person   killed   or  injured  per  locomotive  each  year. 

What  would  happen  if  automobiles  caused  the 
same   death   rate? 

They  do  not  and  never  will.  It  is  this  new  con- 
veyance that  is  going  to  solve  the  problem  of  trav- 
eling in  safety,  but  at  the  same  time  with  a  greater 
speed.     But  we  must  have  good  roads  first. 

*  *  * 

There  is  great  need  for  a  club  station  for  the  Au- 
tomobile Club  of  California  at  the  Ocean.  At  the 
present  time  the  members  of  the  club  have  to  use 
the  public  places,  which  are  not  always  congenial. 
\n  owner  does  not  always  want  to  eat  before  a  lot 
of  sight-seers,  and  a  pretty  club  station  that  would 
be  solely  for  the  club  members  would  be  a  welcome 

innovation. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  C.  Smith,  of  Tacoma.  Washington,  just 
purchased  a  new  1904  Winton  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  J.  P.  O'Brien  ran  up  from  San  Jose  Saturday 
to  take  a  party  of  friends  out  in  his  Knox  touring 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»3 


Mr.  A.  A.  Hibbard,  of  Reno,  Nevada,  purch 

an   '  • 
patty. 

*  *   * 

The    Mobile   ("art  mpany    haj 

■  I  <>i'  a-cylinder  Arrows,  which  were  unloaded 
this   week,  ami   sonic  of  them  delivered   to   thl 
tomers,  who  were  awaiting  their  arrival. 

*  »  * 

During  the   past   week.   Mr.   II.   II.   Dana   has 
ceived  his  2-cylinder  Pope-Toledo  touring  car  with 

King  of  Belgium  hod  v. 

*  •  • 

Mr.  D.  H.  McEwen  purchased  a  now  1904  Winton 
touring  car  from  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company, 
Both  Mr.  McEwen  and  his  daughter  arc  receiving 

instructions  in  driving  the  machine. 

*  *  * 

The  automobile  has  rendered  services  in  many 
capacities,  beyond  the  dreams  of  the  most  sanguine 
automobilist,  but  it  was  for  San  Francisco  to  furnish 
the  first  automobile  band-wagon.  The  Mobile  Car- 
riage Company  hired  six  automobiles  to  a  business 
house  on  Market  street  to  announce  their  opening. 
One  of  their  large  traps  was  used  as  a  band  wagon. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Ganes  of  New  York  (the  owner  of  a  four-cylin- 
der Locomobile),  reached  San  Francisco  Thursday 
from  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  ( ianes  and  party  of  friends 
are  spending  a  few  months  touring  in  California. 
They  left  on  Friday  last  for  Monterey,  wdiere  a  few 
days  will  be  spent  touring  that  section  of  the  State, 
at  the  expiration  of  which  time  they  will  return  to 
San   Francisco  and  remain  here  several  weeks. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Paul  Oesting  has  become  one  of  the  most  en- 
thusiastic automobilists  in  the  city,  and  was  out 
every  day  last  week  in  his  new  2-cylinder  Knox 
touring  car.  He  is  an  apt  and  promising  pupil  in 
the  art  of  handling  the  big  machine,  and  gives  prom- 
ise of  becoming  an  expert  chauffeur. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  C.  B.  Hale  of  Santa  Barbara  is  the  purchaser 
of  a  new  1904  Winton  touring  car.  Mr.  Hale,  it  will 
be  remembered,  purchased  a  1903  Winton  touring 
car  in  September  of  last  year,  and  after  touring  in  it 
for  two  months  in  the  northern  part  of  the  State, 
ran  the  car  through  to  Santa  Barbara,  and  was  so 
well  pleased  with  the  machine  that  he  placed  his  or- 
der for  a  new  1904  machine  at  the  beginning  of  this 
season. 

Mr.  G.  Stewart,  for  nine  years  superintendent  of 
the  manufacturing  department  of  the  George  N. 
Pierce  Company  of  Buffalo,  has  come  to  San  Fran- 
cisco and  entered  the  mechanical  department  of  the 
Mobile  Carriage  Company.  Mr.  Stewart  built  the 
first  automobile  which  the  George  N.  Pierce  people 

turned  out. 

*  *  * 

"I  am  not  a  betting  man,"  said  President  E.  P. 
Brinegftr  of  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company,  "but 
if  any  of  our  competitors  wish  to  make  small  bets  of 
hats,  suits  of  clothes,  cigars,  etc.,  on  the  score  that 
they  know  what  the  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Com- 
pany will  do  in  the  way  of  abandoning  the  horizon- 
tal motor,  let  them  make  their  proposition."  He 
then  showed  a  letter  from  Mr.  Charles  B.  Shanks, 
which  read  as  follows,  viz.:  "The  report  is  again 
being  industriously  circulated  that  the  Winton  Com- 
pany has  decided  to  abandon  the  horizontal  motor, 
and  will  shortly  bring  out  a  model  equipped  with 
upright  motors.     This  report  is  false,  absolutely  and 


without  qualification.      The  Winton   Motor  Carriage 
Company  docs  not  contemplate  abandoning  the  hon 

il  motor  and  adopting  the  upright,  now   or  .11 

any  future  time." 

•  •  « 

Mr.  B,   I).   Merchant  WU  OUl  all  day  Sunday  with 

.1  party  of  friends  for  an  airing  in  hi'-  ^-cylinder  Pope 

Toledo. 

*  •  * 

1904  Cadillacs  have  been  delivered  to  Dr.  W.  T. 
Rathburn,  of  Colusa,  and  Mr.  Fctcr  de  Soisset. 


THE   CADILLAC 

BXOUBD— from  Del  Monte  to  Oakland— FIVE   HOOKS   AND 

THIKTY-EIoHT  MINI    I 

The  only  Buoceasfal   tour  of  th.>   foaemlta (made   tiy  THE 

( '.\  I 'ILL  AC. 


Price.  $8S0      With  Tonneau.  $950      Delivery  Cadillacs,  $950 

THE  SIMPLEST,  MOSTlCAPABLElAUTO!!MADE 

CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  (201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


PIONEER 

AUTOMOBILE 
COMPANY 


Agents  for   the    following   standard  machines.    Most 
complete  line  on  the  Coast. 

Oldsmobile    Standard    Runabout $675.00 

Oldsmobile  French  Type  Touring  Run- 
about         800.00 

Baker  Electric  Runabout  850.00 

Oldsmobile    Light     Tonneau      Touring 
Car  1000.00 

Stevens-Duryea 1400.00 

Locomobile  2-Cylinder  Touring  Car....  2150.00 

Winton  Touring  Car   2650.00 

Locomobile  4-Cylinder  Touring  Car.  .  .  . 

$4000.00  and  upward. 

PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  COMPANY 

Los  Angeles  Branch 
420-22  South  Hill  St. 


San  Francisco  Branch 
901  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


The  Commercial  Motor  Car  and  Boat  Company 
have  opened  up  a  large,  commodious  and  well-equip- 
ped shop,  at  126  Fremont  street,  this  city,  expressly 
for  the  repairing  and  storing  of  automobiles.  Ex- 
pert workmen,  experienced  in  the  care  and  handling 
of  all  types  of  machines,  are  employed,  and  down 
town    merchants   will   find   the   new  establishment  a 

convenience  as  well  as  a  necessity. 
*  *  * 

A  mile  in  thirty-six  seconds  is  the  present  ambi- 
tion of  H.  S.  Harkness,  whose  racing  car  failed  to 
make  the  American  team  for  the  international  race- 
last  year.  For  such  a  mile  Mr.  Harkness  will  have 
constructed  a  special  machine  for  the  purpose.  This 
racer  will  have  no  extra  parts,  the  differential  even 
being  cut  out  of  the  running  gear,  and  every  spring 
being  removed.  The  body  will  be  of  special  design, 
and  the  car  will  be  extra  long.  He  has  the  builder 
ready  for  the  work  now,  and  this  builder  guarantees 
to  design  for  him  a  thirty-six  second  machine  or 
receive  no  pay  for  the  work.  The  cup  racer  Mr. 
Harkness  now  has  in  Brooklyn,  where  it  will  remain 
until  April,  when  he  will  take  it  south  for  time  trials. 

"My  present  racer  has  practically  never  been  run,'' 
said  Mr.  Harkness.  "It  was  taken  out  once  for  a 
fast  go,  and  the  immense  horsepower — it  is  120 
horsepower,  you  know — when  brought  into  play  with 
the  light  parts,  caused  a  break  of  the  crank  case.  It 
was  required  that  we  reach  2,204  pounds,  and  to  do 
so  safety  was  sacrificed  to  speed.  On  Ormond  beach 
I  can  have  five  miles  to  start  the  machine  gradually, 
and  it  is  so  fast  that  I  firmly  believe  it  possible  to 
lower  the  record  of  Vanderbilt  with  my  car.  Yes, 
I  shall  probably  drive  this  car  myself,  and  I  hope  to 
give  it  a  great  record  mark  before  retiring  it  to  the 
stable. 

"I  do  not  wish  to  say  that  I  shall  compete  in  the 
Vanderbilt  300-mile  cup  race,  still  I  may  do  so,  re- 
building the  car  for  such  a  race,  provided  weight 
does  not  make  a  difference  in  such  a  race." 


18  Fell  Street. 


ELECTRIC. 
GASOLINE 

CARS 

A.  E.  Brooks  Ridley 

(Near  Market)  Tel.  South  394 


PROMPT    SEKVICE 

(Erntury  Elrrtrir  (Enmpanti 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  tor  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Vnder  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BVSH  352 


J  p  LACAZE  &  Co. 

French     La.urvdry    Work    Guaranteed 
The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 

TEL.    EAST    615  829    SUTTER    ST 


BAY 

STATE 

CAFE 

N.  M.  ADLER, 
Prop. 


Foreign  A  domestic  Beers  constantly  on  draught 

After-Theater  Parlies  Served  with  the  Daintiest  Specialties 

Concert  every  evening  directed  by 

THEO.   I.   8ENSTER 

Direct  entrance  to  Ladies'  Grill  on  Stockton  St. 

29-35-37  StocKton  St. 

Tel.  Main  6057 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  Prloe  sftsoV^"*'  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  stanhope,  with  Viutoriatop  and  aceommodatine 
four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French  type. 

3.  It  is  especially  de.sig ne<l  f«  >r  physicians'  use  saving  two  hours 
per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact   in  eoustriH-tion,  symmetrical  in  outline  and 
beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5.  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg,  sou 
miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


$2,650.00 

800.00 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

loch  tfodel 

Best     Automobile     at 
any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong— Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SUNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


World's  Fair 

ST.     LOUIS 

Thousands  will  go  to  St.  Louis  from  this 
Coast,  and  complete  arrangements  are  being 
made  by  the  Southern  Pacific  for  carrying 
them.  If  you  are  planning  to  go,  ask  any 
questions  about  Rates,  Time  or  Trains  by 
mail  or  in  person  of  nearest  agent,  or  at 

Information  Bureau 

613  Market  St.,  San  Francisco 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»5 


Rev.  Cyrus  Townsend  Brady  and  Mrs.  Brady  in  a  Pierce    Arrow   Touring    Car    (Mobile    Carriage   Co.) 


The  National  Automobile  Company  received  dur- 
ing the  past  week  a  2-cylinder  Pope-Toledo,  which 
they  believe  to  be  the  handiest  2-cylinder  car  ever 
received  in  San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

The  Winton  Bullet  No.  2,  the  only  racing  machine 
in  the  world  having  eight  horizontal  cylinders,  will 
not  be  seen  in  many  races  until  after  the  Gordon 
Bennett  cup  trials.  The  Bullet  already  holds  the 
world's  straightaway  record  in  competition,  and  all 
the  worlu  s  track  records  in  competition  and  against 

time  from  I  to  15  miles. 

*  *  * 

A  carload  of  1904  Cadillacs  left  Detroit  on  March 

12th  for  San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

The  demand  for  St.  Louis  cars  has  been  so  great 
that  the  representative  of  the  Pacific  Motor  Car 
Company  left  last  Saturday  for  the  East,  where  he 
will  visit  the   factory   and   hurry   shipments  to  the 

Coast. 

*  *  * 

The  Pacific  Motor  Car  Company  predicts  that 
with  the  automobile  dealers  it  will  not  be  a  question 
of  booking  orders,  but  of  the  factory  facilities  to  meet 

the  demand. 

*  *  * 

William  Koenig  was  out  in  Golden  Gate  Park  last 
Sunday  with  his  1904  Cadillac. 

Dr.  Decker, 
Dentist,  806  Market.     Specialty  "Colton  Gas"  for  painless 
teeth  extracting. 


Ruinart 
Cham- 
pagne 

Established     1729 


The  President's  Wine 

"Dry,  Fruity — 
JVo   Headache 


Vfyrney     W.    Gftsklll, 

Special  Agent 


Hllbert  Mercantile  Co, 

Sole  Agents 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  ig,  1904. 


hagrtev**..  .^INSURANCE  tiP 


Mr.  William  B.  Joyce,  President  of  the  National 
Surety  Company  of  New  York,  is  in  the  city  on  mat- 
ters connected  with  the  company  with  which  he  is 
the  Chief  Executive.  Mr.  Joyce  is  well  known  in 
the  East  as  a  leader  among  the  most  skillful  liability 
underwriters.  Mr.  Dean  was  the  president  of  the 
National  Surety  Company  up  to  January  of  this  year, 
when,  at  the  request  of  the  company's  board  of  di- 
rectors, he  resigned  and  Mr.  Joyce  was  elected  to 
succeed  to  the  position.  It  is  generally  conceded 
that  this  move  will  increase  the  present  popularity 
of  the  company  among  the  agents.  Mr.  James  Bor- 
land, who  was  for  some  time  General  Agent  of  the 
company  on  this  Coast,  resigned  recently,  and  Frank 
L.  Gilbert,  who  was  the  Assistant  Manager  here, 
has  been  promoted  to  fill  the  position  of  manager.  A 
better  selection  could  not  have  been  made  by  Mr. 
Joyce.  Gilbert,  by  those  who  know  him,  is  called 
"Pop,"  and  he  is  universally  beloved  and  respected 
by  those  who  do  business  with  and  get  business  for 
him.  He  may  be  numbered  and  counted  among  the 
best-known  and  most  popular  surety  insurance  men 
on  the  Coast.  One  of  Mr.  Joyce's  first  actions  after 
assuming  the  presidential  chair,  and  one  which  at 
once  showed  him  a  shrewd  manager,  was  to  request 
the  Insurance  Manager  of  the  State  of  New  York 
to  examine  the  affairs  and  condition  of  the  National. 
The  examination  resulted  in  a  complete  surprise  to 
the  management  of  the  company,  proving  the  condi- 
tion of  its  affairs  to  be  in  far  better  shape  than  it 
claimed,  showing  a  surplus,  as  regards  the  policy- 
holders, of  $704,000,  which,  besides  its  reserve  fund 
of  $200,000  and  other  resources,  gives  the  company 
a  surplus  of  over  $1,300,000.  All  the  directors  of  the 
company,  and  they  embrace  the  strongest  list  of 
names  to  be  found  in  the  directory  of  any  insurance 
company  in  America,  have  the  interest  of  the  Na- 
tional Surety  Company  solely  at  heart,  and  as  a 
consequence  its  prospects  were  never  brighter  in  its 
existence,  except  possibly  the  first  six  months  of  its 
organization.  The  company  is  now  better  equipped 
and  better  managed  and  more  popular. 

It  has  a  thoroughly  equipped  plant,  an  enthusi- 
astic corps  of  loyal  employees,  and  a  vigorous  man- 
agement. These  combined  means  that  the  National 
Surety  will  grow  faster  and  stronger  than  hereto- 
fore. 

The  report  of  the  Chief  Examiner  of  the  insurance 
department  of  the  State  of  New  York  shows  the  to- 
tal admitted  assets  to  be  $1,627,901 ;  the  liabilities 
$723,431.  The  reserve  fund,  voluntarily  set  aside 
by  the  company  to  meet  any  contingencies,  is  $200,- 
000;  surplus,  as  regards  policyholders,  $704,000; 
other  securities  and  re-insurance  will  add  $50,000 
more  to  this  sum.  The  cash  capital  of  the  company 
is  $500,000,  and  the  total  admitted  assets  of  $1,627,- 
901  is  securely  invested  in  nothing  but  gilt-edged 
securities,  over  a  million  of  which  is  bonds  of  the 
United  States  and  the  State  of  New  York. 


The  Railroad 
Merger  Decision. 

bearing  on  the  case 
his  consideration  of 
propositions  as  to  th 
"That  although  th 
anti-trust  act  has  no 


Justice  Harlan's  decision  in 
the  merger  case  has  set  the 
insurance  men  to  thinking.  Af- 
ter discussing  the  authorities 
Justice  Harlan  deducted  from 
these  precedents  the  following 

e  case  in  question  : 

e  act  of  Congress  known  as  the 
reference  to  the  mere  manufac- 


ture and  production  of  articles  or  commodities  with- 
in the  limits  of  the  several  States,  it  embraces  and 
declares  to  be  illegal  every  contract,  combination 
or  conspiracy,  in  whatever  form  or  whatever  nature 
and  whoever  may  be  the  parties  to  it,  which  directly 
or  necessarily  operates  in  restraint  of  trade  or  com- 
merce among  the  several  States  or  with  foreign  na- 
tions. 

"That  the  act  is  not  limited  to  restraints  of  inter- 
state and  international  trade  or  commerce  that  are 
unreasonable  in  their  nature,  but  is  directed  against 
all  direct  restraints,  reasonable  or  unreasonable, 
imposed  by  any  combination,  conspiracy  or  monop- 
oly upon  such  trade  or  commerce. 

"That  combinations  even  among  private  manufac- 
turers or  dealers  whereby  interstate  or  international 
commerce  is  restrained  are  equally  embraced  by  the 
act. 

"That  Congress  has  the  power  to  establish  rules 
by  which  interstate  or  international  commerce  shall 
be  governed,  and  by  the  anti-trust  act  has  pre- 
scribed the  rule  of  free  competition  among  those 
engaged  in  such  commerce. 

"That  every  combination  or  conspiracy  which 
would  extinguish  competition  between  otherwise 
competing  railroads  engaged  in  interstate  trade  or 
commerce,  and  which  would  in  that  way  restrain 
such  trade  or  commerce,  is  made  illegal  by  the  act. 

"That  the  natural  effect  of  competition  is  to  in- 
crease commerce,  and  an  agreement,  the  direct  effect 
of  which  is  to  prevent  this  play  of  competition,  re- 
strains, instead  of  promotes,  trade  and  commerce. 

"That  to  vitiate  a  combination,  such  as  the  act  of 
Congress  condemns,  it  need  not  be  shown  that  such 
combination  in  fact,  results,  or  will  result,  in  a 
total  suppression  of  trade,  or  in  a  complete  monopoly, 
but  it  is  only  essential  to  show  that  by  its  neces- 
sary operation  it  tends  to  restrain  interstate  or  inter- 
national trade  or  commerce,  or  tends  to  create  a  mo- 
nopoly in  such  trade  or  commerce,  and  to  deprive 
the  public  of  the  advantages  that  flow  from  free 
competition. 

"That   of  the   constitutional   guarantee   of   liberty 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

It  is  often  desirable  to  have 
FURNITURE  made  from 
SPECIAL  DESIGNS. 
We  have  manufactured  fur- 
niture in  OUR  OWN  FAC- 
TORY for  many  years,  and 
are  prepared  to  execute  the 
simplest  as  well  as  the  most 
elaborate  work. 
Designs  and  estimates  fur- 
nished. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    a    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  NarKet  Sts. 


March  19,  1904. 

of  contract   does   not    prevent    >  from   pre- 

scribing the  rule  of  free  competition  for  tho* 

framed  in  interstate  ami  international  commerce. 

•ice  Marian  further  said  it  was  the  intention 
of  legislation  of  this  character  to  prescribe  a  rule 
for  interstate  and  international  commerce  which 
should  prevent  vexation  by  combination,  conspiracies 
or  monopolies  which  restrain  commerce  by  destroy- 
ing or  restricting  competition.  Justice  Harlan  in  his 
opinion  did  not  confine  himself  (as  Seen  by  the 
above)  to  the  strict  consideration  of  the  case  at  bar. 
Following  his  line  of  reasoning  to  a  logical  conclu- 
sion is  what  has  set  the  insurance  men  to  thinking. 
Anti-compact  laws  have  been  passed  in  many  States 
and  a  deal  of  annoyance  has  been  suffered  and  a 
great  deal  of  money  spent  by  insurance  companies 
to  protect  themselves.  In  some  few  cases  they  have 
gone  into  court  and  secured  relief;  in  others  they 
Dave  abandoned  the  States  whose  laws  were  obnox- 
ious, but  with  this  decision  standing  as  the  opinion 
of  one  of  the  last  courts  of  resort,  it  looks  as  if  the 
companies  would  be  compelled  to  seek  self-protec- 
tion in  some  other  manner  than  by  rating  bureaus, 
compacts  or  local  bonds.  The  liability  companies 
conference,  the  Plate  Glass  combine,  the  Burglary 
insurance  pool  are  all  in  danger  of  the  first  attack. 
It  was  ruled  in  a  Kansas  court  that  insurance  com- 
merce and  the  insurance  companies  are  now  sub- 
ject to  more  bedevilment  at  the  hands  of  the  irre- 
sponsible class  of  mendacious  camp  followers  of 
corporations  than  heretofore.  It  begins  to  look  now 
as  if  the  only  safe  refuge  is  the  Department  of  Com- 
merce,  which    means   national    supervision. 

*  *  * 

This  week  the  Board  of  Fire  Commissioners 
tested  at  the  corporation  yard  a  new  automatic  sprin- 
kler for  theatre  stages.  A  good  water  curtain  is 
about  the  best  thing,  and  if  combined  with  a  thor- 
oughly installed  system  of  reliable  sprinklers  would 
render  loss  of  life  at  a  theatre  disaster  caused  by  a 

fire  on  the  stage  impossible. 

*  *  * 

The  New  Amsterdam  Casualty  Company  shows 
in  its  annual  statement  a  steady  and  solid  growth. 
Its  assets  increase  year  by  year,  and  its  surplus  to 
policyholders  show  the  same  steady  ratio  of  gain. 
The  reserves  maintained  by  the  New  Amsterdam 
display  the  care  and  prudence  with  which  this  com- 
pany provides  for  future  contingencies.  These  re- 
serves are  much  larger  than  is  required  by  the  law 
of  the  State  of  New  York ;  the  added  amounts  being 
placed  among  the  liabilities  in  the  statement.  The 
company's  invested  assets  are  admirably  placed  in 
the  very  highest  class  of  securities  and  its  business 
methods  invite  the  admiration  of  the  most  discerning 
critics.  The  fund  which  the  company  holds  for 
the  protection  of  its  policy  contracts  are  as  follows : 
Cash  capital,  $314,400 ;  reserves,  $322,737.73 ;  net  sur- 
plus, $75,358.64;  making  a  total  of  $712,469.37. 

Mr.  F.  B.  Lloyd  is  the  General  Agent  for  the  Coast, 
and  by  persistent  effort  and  tireless  energy  has  placed 
the  New  Amsterdam  in  the  proud  position  it  now 
holds  with  the  leading  insurers  of  this  section. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


27 


Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Capital ,3.000.000.  °rgGro8sCa68h  Assets tWHO.793.99 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.    Conference  ™*  °ur  BePre; 

sentatives  before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 

may  be  to  your  advantage. 
H.  L.  ROPF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoll 

tan  Manager.  _ 

210  Sansome  fit.,  San  Francisco 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  1711. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     tS.OOC.OOO 

Surplus    to    Pollcy-Holders    6.022.016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  8.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,    A.    D.   1720. 
Capital   Paid-up    J3.446.100.  Assets,   J24.662.043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  J8.93u.431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  J134.000.000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   501   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders .  .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital $6,700,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  316  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFTJKT,    GERMANY 

Capital  J2.250.000  Assets  ....{10.8S4.246 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General   Managers. 
Pacific   Coast  Department:   204-20S   Sansome  .St.,   San  Francisco. 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


Political 


The  Republicans  of  California  have  practically 
begun  the  Presidential  campaign  of  1904.  Their 
State  Central  Committee  has  met  and  decided  upon 
the  State  Convention  to  elect  delegates  at  large  for 
May  18,  1904,  and  has  unanimously  indorsed  Roose- 
velt for  the  Presidential  nomination.  To  the  readers 
of  this  column  there  is  nothing  but  confirmatory 
news  in  all  that  of  what  has  been  predicted  in  this  de- 
partment of  the  News  Letter  for  months.  The  ap- 
pearance of  Ruef  as  a  delegate  or  member  of  the 
Central  Committee  holding  the  proxy  of  Supervisor 
Rea  was  also  in  confirmation  of  the  statement  that 
I  have  several  times  made,  that  everything  is  har- 
monious in  the  Republican  ranks,  and  that  all  fac- 
tions in  the  late  Mayoralty  contest  will  stand  together 
when  it  comes  to  electing  a  President.  Just  what 
that  means  in  strengthening  the  ticket,  those  who 
have  studied  the  figures  of  the  recent  elections  in 
this  city  will  have  but  little  trouble  in  guessing.  It 
ought  to  give  Roosevelt  a  good  majority  in  this  city. 
even  if  some  stronger  man  than  Hearst  is  nominated. 
*  *  « 

Speaking  of  Hearst  reminds  me  that  he  evidently 
is  feeling  the  strenuousness  of  his  campaign  in  that 
most  sensitive  of  all  nerves,  his  pocket  nerve.  The 
Examiner  is  cutting  down  expenses  in  wonderful 
shape.  Eight  members  of  the  city  editor's  force  alone 
have  been  discharged  lately,  and  wages  of  copy 
readers,  etc.,  have  been  reduced.  The  Examiner  now 
has  a  smaller  force  by  far  doing  its  local  work  than 
any  of  the  big  dailies,  which  probably  accounts  for 
the  fact  that  it  is  able  to  give  so  much  more  space 
to  republishing  old  stories  about  Hearst's  enemies. 
The  New  York  Evening  Post  evidently  touched  a 
tender  spot  when  in  an  editorial  denouncing  the  in- 
famy of  the  possible  nomination  of  Hearst,  it  called 
attention  to  the  Congressional  Record,  and  the  date 
on  which  it  contained  Grove  L.  Johnson's  speech  in 
Congress  showing  up  the  editor's  private  record, 
which  Judge  Maguire  defended,  and  thereby  secured 
the  support  of  Hearst  for  his  candidacv  for  Governor 
and  his  subsequent  defeat,  for  it  is  well  to  remember 
that  the  Examiner  has  not  supported  a  successful 
candidate  for  an  office  since  the  time  when  the  mind 
of  man  runneth  not  to  the  contrary.  It  is  well  to  rec- 
ollect that  fact,  because  some  timid  people  with  poor 
memories  are  likely  to  fancy  that  his  newspapers 
can  carry  Hearst  into  the  White  House.  If  they  do. 
they  will  have  done  more  for  their  owner  by  far,  not- 
withstanding his  unsavory  record,  than  they  were 
able  to  do  for  any  one  else.  In  this  State  the  Ex- 
aminer fought  Stephen  M.  White  for  the  Senate, 
and  he  was  elected  with  ease.  It  did  not  want  Budd 
for  Governor  and  he  was  nominated  and  elected.  It 
wanted  Bryan,  and  he  was  the  worse  beaten  man 
who  ever  ran  for  the  Presidency  (the  Journal,  by  the 
way,  helping  him  in  New  York.)  It  nominated  Ma- 
guire for  Governor,  and  although  he  had  been  re- 
peatedly elected  to  Congress  from  this  city,  and  was 
considered  a  very  able  man,  he  was  the  worse  beaten 
man  who  ever  ran  for  Governor,  although  very  few 
people  north  of  the  Tehachapi  had  ever  heard  of  his 
opponent  before  he  was  nominated.  It  supported 
Bryan  again,  and  McKinley  carried  San  Francisco. 
It  fought  Lane  for  Governor  and  he  carried  San 
Francisco  by  ten  thousand  votes,  and  was  nearly 
elected.  It  supported  Lane  for  Mayor,  and  he  did 
not  carry  a  precinct  in  the  city.  Its  record  of  failures 
nearly  equals  that  of  the  Los  Angeles  Times,  which 
always  supports  on  principle  the  candidate  who  is 


sure  to  be  defeated,  and  if  there  is  any  doubt  on  the 
subject,  nominates  a  weak  one  of  its  own  and  sup- 
ports him.  "But  did  he  not  carry  his  Congressional 
district  by  a  big  majority?"  some  one  will  ask.  "Yes. 
He  secured  a  certain  Democratic  district  from  Tam- 
many, one  that  never  went  Republican  by  any 
chance,  and  by  spending  enormous  sums  of  monev 
and  importing  ex-vice-President  Stevenson  from  Il- 
linois and  ex-Governor  Budd  from  California,  he 
managed  to  get  a  large  vote,  but  no  larger  than  Tim- 
othy D.  Sullivan  got  in  another  Tammany  district 
with  none  of  the  extraordinary  expenditures  and  as- 
sistants. Let  it  never  be  forgotten  that  politically  in 
his  papers  and  personally,  William  Randolph  Hearst 
has  always  been  a  failure. 

*  *  * 

If  the  Democrats  should  conclude  to  follow  the 
example  of  the  Republicans  and  allow  each  district 
to  elect  its  own  delegates  to  St.  Louis,  the  State 
Convention  only  electing  the  delegates  at  large,  Mr. 
Hearst  will  not  have  a  solid  delegation  by  any  means 
from  California.  He  will  undoubtedly  get  the  votes 
of  this  city,  both  at  St.  Louis  and  Sacramento,  which 
latter  may  give  him  the  delegates  at  large,  as  the 
city  will  be  much  stronger  in  the  Democratic  con- 
vention based  on  the  Gubernatorial  vote  than  it  will 
be  in  the  Republican  ;  but  that  fact  will  not  overcome 
the  country  opposition,  and  several  of  the  Congres- 
sional district  delegates  would  be  anti-Hearst  if  their 
districts   elected   them. 

*  *  * 

The  Second  Congressional  District  is  still  looking 
for  a  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomination,  anil 
the  latest  name  to  be  suggested  is  that  of  George  \. 
Stutevant,  at  present  Deputy  Attorney  General,  who 
is  one  of  the  best-known  citizens  of  Mendocino 
County,  which  he  represented  in  the  Legislature  in 
the  29th  session,  and  of  which  he  was  afterwards 
the  District  Attorney.  Though  the  county  is  Demo- 
cratic, Stutevant  has  always  carried  it.  when  he  ran 
for  anything,  and  his  friends  say  he  can  be  elected 
now.  Bell  only  beat  Coombs  335  votes,  and  of  that 
majority  172  came  from  Mendocino  County,  and  182 
from  Sacramento,  where  Stutevant  is  also  well 
known  and  has  many  friends.  Stutevant  is  reluc- 
tant to  leave  his  present  place,  but  if  he  were  nomi- 
nated, no  doubt  he  would  accept  the  nomination,  and 
those  who  know  him  best  think  he  would  give  Bell  a 
warm  fight. 

Speaking  of  the  Second  Congressional  District  nat- 
urally suggests  the  name  of  Duncan  McKinley,  who 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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■ecu   mentioned  for  the   Republican   Domin 
.ind  who  has  just  been  appointed  fir-- 
I'nit  rict  Attorney.     This  promotion, 

which  is  the  result  of  the  recent  death  of  K.  I.  Ban- 
ning, has  been  followed  by  the  promotion  of  Benja- 
min Mckinley  to  the  place  Duncan  formerly 
pied,  and  the  appointment  of  Charles  M.  Pickert  t" 
the  place  of  Benjamin.  For  this  last  appointment 
Senator  I'.ard  is  said  to  he  more  or  less  responsible, 
and  thereby  lias  gotten  himself  into  a  row  with 
Congressman  MacLachlin,  who  claims  that  Bard 
promised  to  support  Luther  Brown  of  Los  Angeles, 
who  for  years  has  been  MacLachlin's  manager, 
politically,  and  who  has  been  trying  to  break  into 
some  appointment  ever  since  he  passed  the  bar  a 
few  years  ago.  Luther  wanted  to  be  a  deputy  in  the 
office  of  Attorney-General  Webb,  but  that  official 
could  not  see  where  he  could  place  him.  When  Man- 
ning died  he  at  once  through  MacLachlin  applied 
for  the  new  place  thus  created  in  the  United  States 
District  Attorney's  office  in  this  city.  Me  is  now  out 
for  Bard  with  a  knife,  and  if  necessary  to  defeat  him 
for  the  Senate  may  announce  himself  as  a  candidate 
for  the  Senate  in  opposition  to  the  Ventura  states- 
man. Bard,  by  the  way,  has  written  to  his  friends 
at  home  authorizing  them  to  get  up  a  Bard  club, 
but  not  subscribing  to  its  funds  apparently.  The 
Bardites  have  accordingly  met  and  nominated  H.  S. 
Snow  as  their  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomina- 
tion for  the  Assembly,  in-  opposition  to  Major  Drif- 
fle.  Those  who  know  the  two  men  think  the  Major 
has  a  cinch  to  win  out.  One  thing  is  certain,  if  either 
Driffle  or  Snow  is  elected,  Ventura  is  likely  to  have 
a  member  who  can  at  least  introduce  one  bill  and 
move  to  adjourn,  which  is  more  than  can  be  said  of 
her  past  Senator  and  Assemblyman. 

*  *  * 

Metcalf  wants  to  go  to  the  National  Convention 
if  he  can  get  there  without  any  hard  fight  for  the 
position  of  delegate  at  large.  His  candidacy  means 
that  George  C.  Pardee  will  not  go,  because  while 
Alameda  usually  gets  the  earth,  it  is  hardly  likely 
she  will  be  able  to  get  half  the  delegates  at  large 
when  there  are  so  many  aspirants  for  the  honor  from 
the  rest  of  the  State.  Charley  Spear  is  to  manage 
the  fight  of  the  Governor  for  the  place,  and  presum- 
ably brother-in-law  Rooney  will  do  all  he  can  to  help 
out,  too. 

*  *  * 

Both  ex-Senator  Bulla  and  ex-Judge  McKinley  of 
Los  Angeles  were  in  the  city  last  week  attending  the 
meeting  of  the  State  Republican  committee.  They 
are  the  two  rivals  for  the  position  of  delegate  at  large 
to  the  National  Convention  from  the  South,  and  both 
think  they  will  win  out.  The  contest  is  going  to  be 
the  most  interesting  of  any  in  the  State  in  connection 
with  the  election  of  delegates  to  the  State  Conven- 
tion, as  it  means  much  in  its  effect  on  the  Senatorial 
Candidacy  of  Senator  Bard.  If  Bulla  goes  down, 
ditto  Bard. 


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factory  for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  ?4;  quarter  ton  ?2.  Use 
Briquettes  for  cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at 
least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co., 
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If  you  want  to  eat  the  best,  drink  the  best,  and  be 

among  the  best  people,  go  to  Techau  Tavern,  which  is  sec- 
ond to  no  restaurant  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  the  favorite 
after-the-theatre  resort,  and  deserves  Its  fine  reputation. 


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ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Chollar  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California.  Looa 
tlon  of  works,  Storey  County,  Nevada- 
Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  8ih  day  of  March,  1904,  an  assessment  vNo.  65)  of  tea  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  Im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE    12th    DAY    OF    APRLL,    1904, 
will  be    delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  Is  made  beforej  will  be  .sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  3d  day    of  May 
1904,    to     pay     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the   costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

CHAS.  E,  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  CHARLES  BLOXHAM.  deceased.  Notice  is  hereby  given 
by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  HYNES,  Public  Administrator  of  the  City 
and  County  of  San  Francisco  and  Administrator  of  the  Estate  of 
CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  deceased,  to  the  creditors  of.  and  all  persons 
having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  the 
necessary  vouchers,  within  four  monthB  after  the  first  publication  of 
this  notice,  to  the  said  Administrator  at  Room  No-  668  Parrott  Building, 
825  to  855  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  the  same  being  his  place 
for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES, 

Administrator  of  the  estate  of  CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY.  attornes  for  admistration,  Rooms  567-668- 
509,  Parrott  Building,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  March  12, 1904- 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


What's  the  use 
e  sperimentins 
wben  bv  looking 
on  the  label'  for  this 
signature  you  can  be 
sure  of  the  best  shade 
roller  ever  made. 

the:  hartshorn 

Wood  Culler*.    Tin  Rollers. 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    ThUves) 

Miss  Helpful — So,  you  know  all 
about  "first  aid  to  the  injured.'' 
he)'?  What  would  you  do  if  a  man 
were  shot  out  in  lront  of  this  ho- 
tel? Sagebrush  Ben — Ride  like 
the  wind  arter  the  coyote  wot  done 
the  shutin'.  mum !  I  reckon  I 
knows ! 

A  bright  little  boy  in  West  Phil- 
adelphia, who  had  visited  a  school 
attended  by  an  elder  brother,  came 
home  in  great  excitement  to  in- 
form his  mother  that  he  had 
learned  lots  of  things.  "What  is 
one,  dear?"  asked  the  fond  mother. 
"I  learned  in  the  'ritlimetic  class 
that  the  square  of  the  base  of  the 
perpendicular  of  a  hight-handed 
triangle  is  equal  to  the  sum  of  the 
hippopotamus." 

And  here  is  the  other:  "Pa!" 
"Well?"  "Is  a  vessel  a  boat?" 
"Yes."  "Pa."  "What  is  it?" 
"What  kind  of  a  boat  is  a  blood 
vessel  ?"  "It  is  a  life-boat,  my  son  ; 
now  run  away  and  play." 

"Some  of  my  family  have  been 
very  long-lived,"  said  the  woman 
in  the  cerise  panne  hat.  "My 
father  died  at  forty,  but  one  of  my 
grandfathers  lived  to  be  ninety- 
eight."  "Which  grandfather  was 
that?"  asked  the  white  beaver. 
"Oh,"  said  the  lady  in  cerise,  "that 
was  my  grandfather  by  my  first 
husband." 

Fat  Man  |  timidly  )— Little  boy, 
is  the  ice  safe  to-day?.  Boy — Yes, 
sir — if  you  skate  fast  enough. — 
Life. 

Wes  Ruddles  spent  last  Sunday 
in  this  burg,  sparking  around  with 
several  of  our  fairest.  We  know 
of  three  separate  and  distinct  per- 
sonages that  he  called  on,  and  if 
this  thing  keeps  up  some  of  our 
boys  will  be  out  in  the  cold  com- 
pletely. There  is  something  about 
\\  es   that  seems  hard  to  resist. 


rpiLET 

gWDER 


CHAPPED   HANDS,  CHAF1NC, 

ud  d  iSnkca  erf  the  ifan.  "Ahak 
*&*r  In  prkc  pcrfupj.  than  ivortHas 
*irt*o*«.  Ut  t  ruson  fori."     Dc-  ' 

_  M  tba  Javirt.  SoU  racket,  „ 
auSd   co   recoct  of  2Sc 

OEPMARD    W^SNEN    CO„    New*.  N.  X 


In  the  old  days  a  man  fought 
for  his  home  and  hearth  ;  now  he 
fights  for  his  home  and  radiators. 
—Life. 

The  Valet — I  can't  seem  to  keep 
that  crease  in  your  trousers,  sir. 
Hddletosi — Well,  you  know, 
James,  she's  a  pretty  heavy  girl. — 
Life. 

Cobwigger — Did  the  women's 
clubs  have  a  harmonious  conven- 
tion? Merritt — No.  The  only 
time  they  got  together  was  when 
they  were  having  their  pictures 
taken. 

Maisie — Did  you  convince  her 
that  she  was  wrong.  Daisy — No ; 
but  I  made  her  admit  it. 

My    daughter  'asked    the    count 

To  be  her  valentine. 
He  first  asked  the  amount 

Of  money  that  was  mine. 

And  then  he  whispered  yes, 
So  now  I'm  feeling  blue. 

It's  up  to  me,  I  guess, 
To  pay  the  postage  due. 

The  outlook  is  gloomy  for  the 
American  boy.  With  a  Brooklyn 
school  teacher's  pronouncement  in 
favor  of  spanking  with  a  rubber 
hose  comes  the  news  that  all  the 
shingle  mills  in  Wisconsin  are 
starting  up  again. 

"I  have  carefully  studied  the 
matter,  and  it  seems  to  me  that 
we  are  fitted  for  each  other."  She 
gazed  up  at  him  with  her  large 
dark  eyes.  "Explain  yourself," 
she  said.  "Simply  this,"  he  replied, 
"looking  at  the  matter  as  we  should 
in  the  strictly  scientific  sense  of 
the  word.  You  are  light,  and  I 
am  dark.  You  are  short  and  I  am 
tall.  You  are  sprightly,  vivacious. 
I  am  somewhat  sober  and  phleg- 
matic. In  fact,  we  are  opposites, 
and  opposites  should  marry.  "Yes." 
she  said,  "opposites  except  in  one 
respect,  but  that  is  enough.  I 
cannot  marry  you."  "In  what  re- 
spect do  you  mean?"  he  asked,  al- 
most fiercely.  She  smiled.  "You 
are  like  me  in  this,"  she  said.  "I 
never  could  earn  my  own  living." 
—Life. 

Citizen  Train  used  to  tell  of  a 
little  Union  Square  girl  to  whom 
he  once  gave  a  rich  cake.  She  ate 
it  and  asked  for  another.  "I'd  like 
to  give  you  another,"  said  the  old 
man,  "but  it  would  make  you 
sick."  "Give  it  to  me  anyway," 
said  the  little  girl.  "At  the  dis- 
pensary I  can  get  medicine  for 
nothing." 

"I  advise  you  to  take  this  poem 
to  a  chiropodist,"  said  the  editor 
in  a  kindly  tone.  "Because  why?" 
queried  he  of  the  uncut  hair.  "Its 
feet  need  attention,"  replied  the 
editor. 


SOZODONT 

Tooth  Powder 

"Good for  Bad  Teeth 
Sot  Bad  for  Good  Teeth" 


Gives  the  Teeth  a  Pearly  Lustra 

BIG  BOX      nt'o?        25c 


Poor  Peebles  (about  to  be  oper- 
ated on  for  appendicitis) — Doctor, 
before  you  begin  I  wish  you  would 
send  and  have  our  pastor,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Harps,  come  over.  Dr.  Cutter 
— -Certainly,  if  you  wish  it,  but — 

ah! Poor  Peebles — I'd  like  to 

be  opened  with  prayer. — Life. 

Scribbles — I  sent  a  poem  to  a 
daily  paper  last  week,  but  for  some 
reason  it  has  failed  to  appear.  Criti- 
cus — Did  you  inclose  a  stamp? 
Scribbles — No.  Criticus — Well, 

that  accounts  for  it.  Had  you 
done  so  it  would  no  doubt  have 
appeared  in  your  mail  the  next 
morning. 

"I  supposed  the  prisoner  refused 
to  talk — referred  you  to  his  lawyer, 
eh  ?"  "Oh,  no ;  the  prisoner  is  a 
woman." 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms.  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr-  Tom  ThrelfaU  ui»on  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  t<- the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  Ban 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  ThrelfaU  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING     12    HOURS 

Rate  only  $67.50  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  F.  BOOTH,  Gen.  Agl.,  U.  P.  R-  R.  Co- 

Ko- 1-  Montgomery  St.    San  Francisco,  Cal 


March  19,  1904. 


Good    lamp-chimn 


cys 


one  make 


m 


all. 


y  name  on    em 

Macbeth. 


How  to  take  care  of  lamps.  incluHiiy;  tt  3 
geiimi;  ui  rightdbape  chimneys,  is  i:i  my 
Index ;  sent  free. 

Macbeth.  Pilisburgh. 


"I  suppose  Lizzie  ( (letimer  is 
glad  it  is  leap  year."  said  the  soft- 
spoken  Heloise.  "I  don't  suppose 
it  makes  much  difference  to  her," 
replied  the  mellow-voiced  Irene. 
"She  has  been  jumping  at  every 
chance  she  saw  for  fifteen  years." 

"You  hold  my  future  happiness," 
he  told  the  girl.  "Why  don't  you 
hold  it  yourself?"  she  asked  coyly. 
And  she  wasn't  so  heavy  that  he 
couldn't  do  it  easily. 

Mrs.  Mitfit — Charles,  do  you 
think  I  am  gowned  well  enough 
for  the  reception?  Mr.  Mitfit — 
Yes;  how  am  I  coated  and  panted? 

"You  used  to  have  a  pretty  good 
opinion  of  yourself."  "Not  since 
I  accidentally  overheard  some  of 
my  dearest  friends  talking  me 
over." 

Molly — When  you  spoke  to  papa 
did  you  tell  him  you'd  got  $250  in 
the  bank.  George — Yes,  darling. 
Molly — And  what  did  he  say? 
George — He  borrowed  it. 

Miss  Kulcher — Of  course,  Mr. 
Freschmarin,  you  are  quite  famil- 
iar with  Greek.  Mr.  Freschmann 
— Oh,  yes,  indeed.  I  know  Greek 
the  minute  I  see  it.  The  letters  are 
so  funny-looking,  you  know. 


HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Pincers  roughened  by  needlework 

catch  every  stain  and  look  hopelessly 
dirty.  Hand  Sapollo  removes  not  only 
the  dirt,  but  also  the  loosened,  injured 
cuticle,  and  restores  the  fingers  to 
their  natural  beauty. 

ALL    GROCERS    AND    DRUGGISTS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Mrs.    Buggins  —I    don't    feel    at 
all  comfortable  in  these  new  ahot 
Mr.  Buggins-  VVhat'i  the  matt 
don't  they  hurt  '-. 

Tramp — Please,  mum,  1  don't 
want  nothing  but  the  privilege  of 
sittin'  here  ami  listcnin  to  Madam 
I'atti,  th'  great  prima  donna,  sing. 
Mr.-.  Youngwife  Goodness  me! 
She  isn't  here  Tramp — Pardon, 
mum,  but  1  hear  her  now.  Mrs. 
youngwife— Why,  that's  my  baby 
crying.  But  don't  go.  Dinner  will 
be  ready  soon. 

Jaggles — The  liking  for  terrapin 
is  said  to  be  an  acquired  taste. 
Waggles — That's  another  of  the 
wise  provisions  of  nature.  Ter- 
rapin now  cost  $100  a  dozen. 

"Whew!  but  it  seems  good  to 
get  near  a  radiator!"  exclaimed  a 
man  the  other  day  as  he  walked 
into  the  office  of  a  friend.  "Warm 
enough  now?"  inquired  his  friends 
a  few  moments  later.  "Yes,  all 
right  now,  but  I  was  about  frozen 
when  I  came  in  her,"  said  he,  still 
spreading  his  hands  above  the 
gilded  pipes.  "That's  funny,"  said 
the  other;  "there  isn't  a  bit  of  heat 
in  that  radiator.  We've  been  us- 
ing the  furnace  this  year." 

Capt.  Charles  L.  Potter,  the 
bnited  States  engineer  in  Duluth, 
was  sitting  at  his  desk  busy  with 
some  figures  a  day  or  two  ago 
when  he  heard  a  hollow,  sepulch- 
ral voice  in  the  room.  He  glanced 
around  through  curiosity,  and,  ob- 
serving that  the  doors  were  closed 
and  he  was  entirely  alone,  he  be- 
came doubly  interested.  Again  he 
heard  the  voice.  It  sounded  like 
that  of  some  invisible  being  trying 
to  attract  attention.  The  voice 
seemed  to  come  from  behind  his 
desk,  and  at  others  seemed  almost 
at  his  elbow.  The  captain  located 
the  general  direction  from  which 
the  voice  was  coming,  and  kept 
crowding  his  left  ear  that  way.  He 
listened  intently,  and  the  hollow, 
distant,  tomblike  voice  was  heard 
to  say :  "Please  hang  up  your  re- 
ceiver." Then  the  mystery  was 
cleared  up.  Captain  Potter  smiled 
and  hung  up  the  receiver  of  the 
desk  telephone  which  he  had  acci- 
dentally left  off  the  hook,  and  pro- 
ceeded with  his  labors. 

"When  I  say  good-bye  to  you 
this  evening,"  said  Mr.  Slowman, 
"do  you  think  it  would  be  proper 
for  me  to  place  one  reverent  kiss 
upon  your  fair  hand?"  "Well,"  she 
replied,  coquettishly,  "I  would  con- 
sider it  decidedly  out  of  place." 
At  present  the  fad  is  old  pewter; 
Milady  thinks  nothing  is  cewter; 

So  if  "her"  you'd  delight 

With  a  bauble  that's  right, 
Buy  pewter;  it's  certain  to  sewter. 


3i 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Double  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,    KANSAS    CITY 
a  ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
tii  roueh  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

625  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


TWOMEY    ft    MIHOLOVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


Have  you 
a  friend 

in    Chicago   or    Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where   else,    for   whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo     have,  call  at 
this    office    and    let   us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with   us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 

liRock  Island 
f  System 

Gen'l  Western  Agt., 
623  Market  Street, 

^»       -yr       >^= 

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Why  Don't  You 

^Travel  by  Sea? 


Special  vacation   and  Short 
?SH$^  Tourist  Excursion  Trips 

Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Berth  and  Meal 
Los  Angeles  San  Diego  Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Taeoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 
And    to  those   desiring   longer  trips   to 
Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc., obtain  folder 
SAN  PRANCISO  TICKET  OFFICES 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel! 
10  Market  St- ,  and  Broadway  Wharves- 

C.  D.  DUNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street ,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co.,  20  Sutter  st..  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences-    Telephone  Exchange  312- 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago- 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  tbe  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Rys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  lu.oo  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking  cars 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary. Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change- 
Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  600  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago- 
Dining  Cars.  Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 
Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbaled.  Leaves  8an 
Francisco  at  9.00  a-m. Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays,    Thursdays    and    Fridays- 
Best  of  everything 
R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 
«1 7  Market  SI.      ( Palace  Hotel )      San  Francisco 


7.00/ 
7.00 

7  30. 

7  30. 

P  Od 

a.oo- 

8  30- 


F30. 

6.30 

8.30 

9  00 
9-30/ 


10.00; 

1000 


12.00» 
rt.OOr 
3.30P 


3.30r 

3  30i 


3.30p 
400p 


400r 
4.30F 


6.001- 

16  30r 
600p 
8.  OOP 


6.OO1 
7-OOr 
7.00P 


N?t"r_.l^l  Trains  leave  and  are 

due  to  arrive  at 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Ferry  Depot, 
Foot  of  Market  blrcei  , 

—    From  Fei  BCaKY  17,  l'.iQ4.    —     ahhiyk 

VHCftvIMr.  VV I titers,  ttuinsey 7  50>' 

Bcnlcla,  Sulsun.  film  Ira  and  Sacra- 

m^QLu 7.2f> 

Vallejo.    Nana,     CallBtoga.    Santa 

];■>-».  Martinez,  Sun  Utimon 6  20 

N'lleH,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  L&throp. 

Stock:on  ..  7  20 

Shuata  KspresB—  (Via  Davis). 
William*  (for  Bartlett  Spring*), 
Willows      rFruto.      lied      Bluff. 

Portland,  Tacoina,  Senttle 7.50 

Davis.  Wood  land.  Knights  Landing. 

Marysvllle.  Orovllle 7-50 

Port  Cusla,  Martinez,  Antloch, 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stockton,  New- 
man, Los  Bnnos,  M  e  ndota, 
Armomi.      Haoford       Visa). a, 

Portervllle 4.   0 

PortCosin,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Laib 
rop,  ModeBto,  Merced.  FreBDO, 
Goshen     Junction,     llanford. 

VIsalls.  Bakersfleld  4.50- 

Nllee.  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock 
ton,  (tMlltou),  lone,  Siicrnmcnto, 
Placervllle     Marysvllle.    Chlco, 

Red  Bluff 4.2O 

Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jameatown,  80- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angela 420> 

Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  Enst.    11.20 
Richtm'tKl.     Martlnt-z     and      Way 

Stations 650'* 

Tbe    Overland    Limited  —  Ugdeit 

Denver.  Oinaha,  Chicago 6.20 

Vallejo 12.20- 

Los  Angeles  PriBsenger  —  Port 
Coata.  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy, 
La  thro  p.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Itaymond.  Fresno,  GoBlien  Junc- 
tion. Hanford,  Lemoore,  VlBalla, 

Bakersfteld.  Los  Angeles 7-20 

Hayward,  Nllee  and  "Way  Station*       S.2QP 

Sacramento  River  Steamers tll.OJi- 

Ben  Ida,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,     Orovllle    and    way 

BtatlODB 10-50* 

Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-60? 
Port      Costa,      Martinez.      Byron, 
Tracy,      Lathrop,      Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and    Way    Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 12-20f 

Martinez.  Tracy,  8tockton.  Lodl...    10.20a 
M  artlnez,  San  Uttnion.VulleJo,  Napa. 

Callfltoga,  San tn  Uusa 9-20* 

Nlles,  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl 4.20p 

Hayward.  Nlles,  Irvlngton,  San  J     '8.5CU 

Jose.  Llvermore (  tu  50 A 

The  Owl  Limited— Newman,  Los 
Banos.  M'-ndoia.  Fresno,  Tulare, 
Bakersilcid,  Los  Angeles. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  tu  Los  Angclef,  for  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R.  I    &P 8-50* 

PortCosta.  Tracy,  Stockton 12.20p 

Hayward.  Nllee  and  San  Joso 7.20a 

Flay  ward,  Nlles  and  San  Jobs 9.j0a 

Eastern  Express — Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul- 
Bun,  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca 6-20" 

Vallejo.  daily,  except  Sunday....  I      ,  _. 

Vallejo,  Sunday  only f     '  °°p 

lllchmond,  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11.20a 

Oregon  St  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,    Redding, 
Portland-,  Paget  Sound  and  East.     8.60a 
Hayward,  Nlles  and  Sao  Jose  (Snn- 
day  only) .     11-60* 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 


(Foot  or  Market  Street.) 

8-15*  Newark,  Ceniervllle,  San  Jose, 
Feltoo,    Boulaer     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6.6Bp 

12-1&P  Newark,  Centerrllle,  San  Jose, 
New  A  inmden.Los  Gatos,  Felton. 
Bouidt-r  Creak,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    flOSB* 

4  16>  Newark,  San  Jose,  LosQatos  and  I     t8-65  a 

way  Btatlons 1  t10  BBa 

09.30*  Hnnters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
Ing  from  Los  Gatos  Sunony  only.    17  26p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

Irom  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  of  Market  St.  (SJlp<> 

-h-.:15    tt:00    11:00a.m.     1.00    300    616p.m. 

rrom  OAKLAND,  Foot  of  Broadway—  f«:U0    p3:Oi 

18:05     10:00  a.m.       12-00    2.00    400  p.m. 

COAST    LINE     (Broad  l.ange). 

ty"  (Third  and    Townaend  Streets.) 

610a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  30p 

7  00a    San  Jose  and  Way  StatlonB .         5  36p 

B  00a  New  Almaden  (Tuea.,  Frld.,  only),  4.10p 
BOO*  Tbe  Coaster— Stops  only  San  Jose, 
Cllroy  (connection  for  Holils- 
ter),  Pajaro,  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas,  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Robles.  Santa  Mar- 
garita, San  Lnla  Obispo,  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connectloQ 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara.Snn  Buena- 
ventura, 8augQB.  Los  Angeles...  10-451' 
9,t(J'  6a  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capjtola, 
BautaCruz.Paclflc  Grove,  Salinas, 
8an  Lnls  Obispo  and   Principal 

Way  Stations 4-10p 

10.30*   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1.20p 

11-30a  Santa  Clara,    San  Jobc  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations  ...   7.30f 

l-30i-   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  36* 

5  00p  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 

San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  NarrowGauge Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  HniUster,  Tres 
PlnoB,  at  CaBtrovtlle  for  Salinas.   12-15>- 

3-30p  Tres  PlnoB  Way  Passenger 10  45a 

4  30p  San  Jobo  and  Way  Stations 18.00a 

15  00 '  San  Jose,  (vtn  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatos,  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) l9l)Q.i 

L  JO)  ban  JoBe  and  Principal  Way  Stations  49.40* 
6-OOp  Sunset  Limited  — Redwood.  San 
Jose,  Gllroy,  Salinas,  PasoRobles, 
Ban  LuIb  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  AngeleB.  Demlng.  El  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
and  at  Castrovllle  for  Pacific 
Grove  and  Way  Stations 7-10  < 

6  U)    babMateo,BereBford,Belmont.San 

Carios,     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks, 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto tS.dSA 

6  30p  San  Jobc  and  Way  Stations 6  36* 

B.OOp  Palo  Alto  and  Way  StatlonB 10.16a 

1 1  30-'  South  Ssn  Francisco,  M Illbrne,  Bur- 
II  n  game.  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
San-Carlos.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 9.45'' 

11  3Qp  Maytleld,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
vale,  Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

San  Jose l9-45r 

A  for  Morning  P  for  Afternoon 

1  Sunday  excepted  t  Sunday  only 

a  Saturday  only, 
i  Stops  at  all  stntlonn  on  Sunday. 
i^~Only  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
,  re  b :  10  a. M. ,  7:00a. m.,  11:30  a.m. ,3:30  p.m. .6:30  P.M.  aud 

6:00  F.M. 

The     UN10>      IK  ANSI- Kit     (OMI'A.M 
ul  call  for  and  cbe,  k  baggage  from  botels  and  real 
ences.     Telephone,  iixchange  88.     Inqul  re  of  Tick" 
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Suits 


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Dressy  Suits  $20     S 
Pants  $4.50  ^ 

My  $25.00  Suits  are  the£ 
best  in  America.  jj 
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O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND,  ORE. 

And  Short  Eail  Line  from  Portland  to  all  Points 
East.    Through  Tk-kels  to  all  Points  all  Kail  or 

Steamship  and  Eail  at  Lowest  Kates. 

Steamer  Tiekets  include  Berth  and  Meals. 

SS  OREGON  Sails  March  18.  28.  April  7. 
17.  27.    May  7.  17.  27. 

SS  GEO.  W.  ELDER  Sails  March  13.  23. 
April  2. 12.  22.    May  2. 12.  22. 

S.  F.  BOOTH,  General  Agent 

No.  1  Montgomery  St.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

The  Mikado  makes  it  perfectly 
clear  that  the  war  will  be  a  tragedy 
and  not  a  comic  opera. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  WanSted„. 

Sohmer  Piano  Agency 

308-312  Post  S1.,Sao  Francisco 


March  19,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


Ivan    the     Terrible 


Richard  Mansfield  is  said  v>  have  struck  a  . 
mine  in  his  new  play  of  "Ivan  the  I  •  rril>U- .'"  and  .is 
this  is  to  he  produced  in  San  Francisco  the  coming 
in,  I  may  be  pardoned  ii  I  give  just  enough  "i 
the  plot  to  make  it  interesting  to  the  readers  of  the 
News   Letter: 

The  tragedy  of  "Ivan  tlu-  Terrible,"  the  tir^t  of  a 
trilogy  written  about  1865  by  Count  Alexis  Tolstoi, 
deals  with  the  death  of  Ivan  Vassilyevich,  surnamed 
"The  Terrible,"  and  the  rise  to  power  of  Boris  God- 
unoff. 

The  interest  of  the  tragedy  may  be  said  to  be 
fairly  divided  between  the  Tzar  Ivan  and  Boris 
Godunofl.  In  order  to  comprehend  the  remarkable 
character  of  Ivan,  it  must  be  remembered  that  in 
his  boyhood  he  was  neglected,  maltreated  and  even 
insulted  by  the  Shuiskis,  who  directed  and  con- 
trolled the  oligarchs. 

Men  to  whom  Ivan  showed  attachment  were  im- 
prisoned or  put  to  death,  and  he  lived,  as  it  were, 
alone  in  the  palace,  neglected  and  harassed.  The 
plan  was  to  stunt  his  intellectual  growth  to  such  a 
degree  that  he  would  be  incapable  of  rule. 

Meanwhile  the  boy,  impressionable  and  passion- 
ate, had  great  natural  gifts ;  he  read  all  the  books 
that  were  accessible :  The  Bible,  "Sacred  History," 
"Fathers  of  the  Church,"  "Russian  Chronicles,"  and 
"The  History  of  the  Roman  Empire,  Eastern  and 
Western."     Ivan  was  self-educated. 

The  Shuiskis,  who  hesitated  at  nothing  in  seizing 
power  and  holding  it,  began  by  poisoning  Ivan's 
mother.  Having  gained  possession  of  the  boy,  they 
did  everything  to  deform  him  morally.  Ivan  him- 
self has  left  a  vivid  picture  of  what  he  endured  in 
childhood. 

The  evil  spirit  of  the  Shuiskis  roused  terrible  ha- 
tred in  Ivan,  and  he  later  paid  his  enemies  in  kind 
and  with  overflowing  measure.  Ivan,  who  had 
sought  everywhere  in  books  for  reasons  to  strengthen 
his  position,  resolved  with  all  the  vividness  of  his 
boyish  enthusiasm  to  become  in  Moscow  what  David 
and  Solomon  had  been  in  Jerusalem ;  what  Augustus 
had  been  in  Rome,  and  the  first  Christian  Emperor  in 
Constantinople. 

He  finally  revolted  and  destroyed  the  power  of 
the  Glinskis  and  the  Shuiskis,  and  founded  the  Op- 
richniks,  a  body  of  men  organized  by  Ivan  for  his 
own  special  service.  Hereafter  Ivan  ruled  with  an 
iron  hand.    Ivan  died  in  1584. 

Concerning  the  events  dealt  with  in  the  tragedy  of 
Ivan's  death,  and  the  appearance  of  Ivan  at  that 
time,  the  following  may  be  of  interest: 

"Ivan,  in  gloomy  despair,  summoned  a  council, 
declared  that  he  wished  to  enter  a  monastery,  and 
ordered  them  to  proceed  to  the  choice  of  another 
Tzar.  Yielding,  however,  to  the  repeated  prayers 
of  the  Boyars,  he  consented  to  remain  upon  the 
throne. 

"Losing  his  possessions  one  after  another,  threat- 
ened on  every  side  by  enemies,  Ivan  was  cruelly 
stricken;  his  tortured  feelings  were  reflected  in  his 
manner  and  in  his  exterior.  He  had  become  careless 
in  dress,  his  lofty  stature  was  bent,  his  eyes  had 
grown  dim,  his  lower  jaw  dropped  as  in  advanced  age 
and  only  in  the  presence  of  others  did  he  constrain 
himself,  stand  proudly  erect,  and  look  with  suspicion 
on  those  around  him  to  find  if  any  man  noted  the 


ilcclii  pints.     In  those  moments  he  was  still 

terrible  than  in  the  days  of  his  grandeur.  Never 

before  had  Moscow  been  under  such  pressure  of 
indency   and   fear." 

Tin-  historian  states  elsewhere  thai  "Ivan's  face 
had  grown  greatly  old,  the  furrows  had  sunken 
deeper,  on  his  head  there  remained  but  little  hair, 
his  beard  had  fallen  out  altogether.'  " 

Boris  Fyodorvich  (Godunoff)  at  this  period  bad 
risen  with  rapidity.  He  was  the  brother-in-law  of  the 
Tzarevitch,  whom  his  sister  Irina  had  married.  It 
i-*  recounted  that  Ivan,  wishing  to  show  how  near 
1  rodunoff  and  his  daughter-in-law  were  to  his  heart, 
raised  three  lingers,  and  counting  them  with  the  other 
hand,  said:  "This  is  Fyodor  (his  son),  this  is  Irina, 
this  is  Boris,  and  as  it  would  be  equally  painful  to 
my  hand  whichever  of  three  fingers  were  cut  off,  so 
would  it  be  grievous  to  my  heart  to  lose  any  one  of 
these  beloved." 

Godunoff  is  described  as  "modest,  cordial  to  every- 
one, temperate  in  speech,  and  his  bearing  grave  and 
dignified.  He  was,  however,  utterly  false,  unscrupu- 
lous and  overwhelmingly  ambitious." 

The  Tzarevitch  Fyodor,  or  Feodor,  at' this  time 
had  been  married  two  years,  but  he  was  a  weakling, 
and  looked  more  like  a  woman  than  a  man.  His 
expression  was  puerile.  In  stature  he  was  small ; 
his  constitution  feeble;  his  face  pale.  He  smiled  con- 
tinually, and  looked  timid  and  frightened.  Ivan  re- 
marked of  him :  "Fyodor  should  have  been  born  a 
sacristian,  not  a  Tzarevitch." 

The  play  is  given  in  five  acts,  and  the  scenery  is 
said  to  be  magnificent  and  sumptuous  to  a  degree. 
The  Imperial  Regalia  was  designed  by  Tiffany.  San 
Francisco  may  prepare   for  a  great  feast. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  19,  1904. 


THE   ASPEN   TREE. 
By  Tbeodoaia  *i;irrison 

The  little  aspen  tree  stands  high 
Upon  the  hill  that  guards  the  lane: 

Her  leaves  are  green  as  emeralds. 
Her  prattle  is  like  dancing  rain  ; 

She  gossips   to   the   wind,   the   sky. 

And  we  are  comrades,  she  and  I. 

I  climb  the  hill  at  evenfall; 

She  stands  so  high  she  may  look 
And  whisper  me  if  you  have  turned 

The  winding  highway  from  the  town, 
And  in  the  wind's  arm  bend  to  see 
And  murmur  that  you  haste  to  me. 

And  with  her  hundred  voices  tell 

Each  step  you  take  to  reach  my  side, 

And  laugh  in  merry  mockery, 

Pretend  to  scold  and  weep  and  chide, 

And  stand  a  moment  mute  in  grief 

Then  laugh  with  every  rustling  leaf. 

And  when  at  last  you  take  my  hand- 
And   call   my  name  in   mimicry. 

She  chatters  it  a  dozen  times. 

And  then,  in  gay  and  elfish  glee. 

Attunes  her  happy  leaves  to   this — 

The  lisping  cadence  of  a  kiss. 


GENIUS. 


By  Florence  Wilkinson  in  STcOlare's 

What  seesl  lh<>u  on  yonder  desert   plain. 

Large,  vague  and  void? 
I  see  a  city  full  of  Bickering  streets; 
1  hear  the  hum  of  myriad  engine-beats. 

What  seest  thou? 
I  see  a  desert  plain. 

Large,   vague   and    void. 

A  hat   seest   thou   in   yonder   human 

J'.'de,  frail   and   small" 
]    see  a  sou!  by  tragedy   worn  thin  ; 
I    read  a  page  of   poetry   and  O'f  sin. 

What  seest  thou? 
1    see  a  human   face, 

Pale,  frail  and   small. 

What  seest  thou  tit  yonder  dim  cross-roads 

le    that   shuttered   inn? 
Untraveled     Possibility, 
The  inn  of  splendid   Mystery, 

Wkalt  seest  thou? 
I   see  the   dim   cross-road- 

Beside  a   shuttered   inn. 


COMPENSATION. 

By  Clarence  H.  turner  in  New  Entrl;in<l  Bhtgnsune 

The  dewdrop  on  the  wilding  bloom. 

Afar  from  earthly  pomp  withdrawn. 
Feels  not  the  lonesome  desert's  gloom, 

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California  is  taking  hers  with  plenty  of  water  in  it. 
thank  vou. 


Local  socialists  clamor  for  "free  speech,"  hut  what 
they  really  need  is  .free  soap. 

Hurrah  for  Schmitz!  Hurrah  for  the  closed  shop 
and  the  open  treasury! 

"Uncle  Joe"  Cannon's  Presidential  hooni  was  not 
loud  nor  was  it  repeated.  Somebody  has  spiked  that 
gun. 

The  country  is  afflicted  with  a  breaking-out  of 
Hearst  newspapers  that  much  resembles  hives.  Bos- 
ton has  just  begun  to  scratch. 

The  busy  "hold-up"  continues  to  get  around  to  the 
corner  grocery  stores  ahead  of  the  collection  agent 
from  police  headquarters. 

Sully,  king  of  the  cotton  "bulls,"  has  thrown  up 
his  tail  and  run.  Apparently  the  boll  weevil  wasn't 
as  busy  or  as  numerous  as  he  supposed. 

Scientists  are  getting  ticks  on  the  cattle  in  Napa 
County,  but  it  is  as  difficult  as  ever  for  Mr.  Average 
Citizen  to  get  meat  on  tick  in  San  Francisco. 

"Walking  in  the  dew,"  says  the  song,  "makes  the 
milkmaid  fair,"  but  it's  industry  at  the  pump  that 
makes  the  San  Francisco  milkman  rich. 

Because  some  of  the  co-eds.  in  his  class  giggled. 
Professor  Gayley  bubbled  over  with  wrath.  Now  it 
is  wicked  for  girls  to  giggle  at  professors,  but  did 
you  ever  see  and  hear  Gayley? 

A  man  who  writes  appealingly  to  the  Supervisors, 
hegging  a  chance  at  street  sweeping  for  $2  a  day  says 
he  is  a  "college  graduate."  Probably  his  degree  is 
Bachelor  of  Hard   Luck  and  Master  of  Unsuccess. 

"Tom  the  Spanker,"  they  call  a  Fruitvale  constable, 
who  has  his  own  way  of  punishing  orchard  pilferers 
—women  as  well  as  men.  It  would  be  more  polite 
to  designate  him  a  professor  of  applied  palmistry. 

Mme.  Flammarion  manifests  a  unique  uxoriousness 
by  cutting  her  distinguished  husband's  hair  and  stuf- 
fing pillows  with  it.  Whatever  humor  there  be  in 
this  bit  of  information  will  hardly  appeal  to  the  bald- 
headed  or  the  married  man. 


Pink  whiskers  and  a  pale  intellect  make  the  perfect 
Christian  Scientist. 


A  scratch  of  a  pencil  cost  a  man  his  arm.  Oh, 
pooh  !  The  same  cause  has  cost  many  a  man  counsel 
Ices  and  years  of  alimony. 

Some  English  writer-fellow  has  broken  into  print 
with  a  learned  dissertation  on  "How  Japan  Names 
Warships."  We  had  understood  that  it  was  done  by 
blowing  up  the  alphabet  with  dynamite  and  fitting 
the  fragments  into  a  mosaic. 

That  was  a  bold  Democrat  who  spoke  right  out  in 
meeting,  saying  that  Hearst's  biography  would  be 
classified  as  "obscene  literature."  What  Hearst  will 
say  about  the  bold  Democrat  will  be  worse  than  ob- 
scene. 


The  attention  of  the  life  insurance  companies  is 
respectfully  drawn  to  the  women — many  of  them 
married — who  are  crowding  the  courtroom  at  the 
Botkin  trial  and  learning  how  to  get  rid  of  superflu- 
ous spouses. 


"The  Cap  and  Bells"  is  the  latest  local  club  of 
women.  It  will  be  some  time,  evidently,  before  the 
gentle  sex  gets  to  organizing  itself  under  such  titles 
as  "The  Broom  and  Frying-pan,"  or  "The  Crib  and 
Nursing  Bottle." 

Nevada  society  has  reverted  to  the  conditions  of 
the  Bonanza  days,  and  turned  out  in  force  at  the 
opening  of  a  swell  gambling  hall.  How  the  skele- 
tons are  rattling  in  some  closets,  long  locked  and 
barred ! 


This  new  Californian  divorce  law,  according  to 
which  a  couple  are  divorced  and  not  divorced  both  at 
the  same  time,  is  having  a  complicated  effect.  An 
Oakland  Judge  has  decided  that  since  the  divorce  is 
not  final,  the  wife  is  legally  barred  from  testifying 
against  her  husband  without  his  consent.  The  law 
as  it  stands  is  a  simple  piece  of  impertinence,  a  dis- 
tinct attempt  on  the  part  of  the  Legislature  to  deal 
with  matters  which  do  not  concern  it,  and  in  spite 
of  the  Supreme  Court  a  distinct  violation  and  in- 
fringement of  the  rights  of  the  individual. 


Diebler,  the  public  hangman  of  Paris,  has  brought 
a  suit  for  libel  against  the  editor  of  a  paper  which, 
in  the  course  of  an  article  attacking  capital  punish- 
ment in  general,  made  some  severe  strictures  on  the 
complainant.  With  a  characteristic  hunch  of  his 
shoulders  and  a  sardonic  smile,  Mr.  Diebler  says : 
"Ma  fai !  one  must  live,  you  know.  I  am  an  unre- 
lenting foe  of  capital  punishment,  but  the  editor 
should  have  made  the  nice  distinction  between  the 
function  and  the  functionary."  It  is  said  Mr.  Dieb- 
ler displays  great  taste  in  his  business  and  he  is 
naturally  proud  of  his  proficiency. 


2  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  March  26,  1904. 

A    Pumpkin-Colored    Presidential    Impossibility 

An  open  letter  to  Mr.  M.  F.  Tarpey,  B.  D.  Murphy.  W.  H.  Alford,  Ben  F.  Geis,  A.  Caminetti,  Frank 
Freeman,  James  Van  Dyke,  James  H.  Budd,  James   G.  Maguire  and  M.  F.  Cochrane : 

The  Examiner  of  Sunday,  March  :20th.  makes  the  statement  in  scarehead  that  you  endorse  the  can- 
didacy for  President  of  William  Randolph  Hearst.  Glancing  over  the  list  of  names  as  given  above  we 
discover  that  there  are  some  of  you  men  of  family  and  reputation.  You  are  not  all  of  you  lost  to  the  sense 
of  shame ;  you  are  not  all  of  you  attorneys  hired  by  the  year  to  advocate  certain  ideas.  You  are  not  all  of 
you  so  lost  to  society  that  you  have  forgotten  the  name  of  mother  or  the  influence  of  home.  You  are 
not  all  of  you  devoid  of  honor.  Some  of  you  may  still  have  a  lingering  conception  of  honesty.  Some  of 
you  may  still  believe  that  a  man  whom  you  would  not  introduce  to  your  sister  or  your  mother  is  not  fit 
to  be  a  candidate.  Nay,  that  man  is  not  even  fit  to  be  mentioned  as  a  candidate.  Such  of  you  as  may  have 
been  tricked  and  not  bought  to  betray  the  Democratic  Party  may  yet  hesitate  in  disgracing  the  party 
and  making  a  laughing  stock  of  your  State.  Surely  in  your  sober  moments,  when  the  glamour  of  gold 
is  removed  from  your  eyes  your  conscience  speaks.  To  such  of  you  the  following  is  addressed,  in  the 
hope  that  that  last  little  glimmer  of  honesty  may  be  fanned  into  a  blaze  and  that  some  honest  soul  will 
arise  in  Convention  and  prevent  the  awful  stigma,  consequent  on  the  nomination  of  a  social  pariah,  from 
settling  on  the  nation  and  the  party. 

Republication  from  News  Letter  of  May  2,  1903 : 

"W.  R.  Hearst,  the  'Emperor  Norton'  of  pumpkin  colored  journalism,  has  taken  unto  himself  a  wife, 
wherefor  a  yellow  rash  breaks  out  all  over  the  first  page  of  the  Examiner,  disclosing  among  other  things 
a  large  portrait  and  carefully  deodorized  biography  of  the  man  that  owns  the  newspaper.  •  Une  of  the  basic 
principles  of  the  Hearst  idiotorial  policy  is  that  all  tidings  in  which  the  name  of  W.  R.  Hearst  can  be 
made  conspicuous  shall  be  broken  to  the  public  with  a  brass  band.  The  Hearst  policy  reckons  with  names 
rather  than  events  as  news.  For  example :  President  Roosevelt,  Pope  Leo,  King  Edward — any  of  these 
is  a  news  name.  But  in  his  own  publications,  W.  R.  Hearst  is  a  name  and  one-half.  When  anything  of 
a  nature  fit  for  publication  happens  to  Hearst,  his  editors,  knowing  where  their  prosperity  lies,  get  out 
Hearst  editions.  Some  idea  of  the  importance  attached  by  Hearst  to  his  wedding  may  be  had  through 
reading  last  Wednesday's  Examiner,  in  which  the  account  of  the  marriage  in  New  York  crowded  the  ac- 
count of  a  local  prize-fight  into  the  inside  pages.  The  only  rivals  that  Hearst  has  in  his  own  columns  are 
prize-fights,  and  when  a  prize-fight  is  made  to  play  a  muted  second  fiddle  in  a  Hearst  paper,  there  is,  in- 
deed, as  the  Congressman  from  the  redlight  district  of  Gotham  would  say,  'something  doing.' 

"In  order  to  see  what  is  'doing'  in  the  case  of  Hearst,  one  never  needs  a  field-glass.  This  much  that 
has  been  said  of  many  an  honest,  honorable  gentleman  may  be  said  of  Hearst:  His  life  has  been  an  open 
book.  This  much  of  Hearst,  but  no  more.  For  the  pages  of  his  book  are  foul.  That  they  have  long 
been  open,  stinking  under  the  nostrils  of  the  people,  is  due  not  to  Hearst's  contempt  for  concealment,  but 
to  his  petted  aversion  to  the  simplest  decencies  of  civilization.  His  life  is  as  spotted  as  the  leopard — or 
the  leper.  And  all  the  world  has  seen  the  spots.  Where  other  men  of  fleshly  viciousness  have  made  some 
outward  pretense  at  abiding  by  the  common  canons  of  decency,  or  have  at  least  buried  their  heads 
ostrich  fashion,  Hearst  has  walked  in  the  open,  neck  perpendicular,  with  the  Scarlet  Woman  strutting 
by  his  side.  No  place  has  been  so  public,  no  community  so  modest,  as  to  cause  him  to  draw  a  veil  over 
the  painted  features  of  his  harlots. 

"Born,  as  he  was,  to  a  fortune  as  great  as  his  lust,  bawds  have  fattened  on  Hearst  as  vultures  fatten 
on  plague  spots.  Woman'  has  meant  'meat'  to  W.  R.  Hearst,  and  his  journeys  through  the  world  are 
marked  by  the  slaughter  houses  he  has  left  behind  him.  One  of  these  stands  to-day  in  the  beautiful 
suburb  of  Sausalito,  a  monument  to  the  strumpet  that  received  a  fortune,  cash  down,  for  removing  her 
soiled  person  from  the  State  of  California.  But  all  the  money  that  all  the  humiliated  relations  of  W.  R. 
Hearst  could  ever  pay  would  not  make  a  clean  man  of  him.  To  the  core  he  is  rotten.  And  the  young 
woman  that  has  had  the  misfortune  to  become  his  wife  has  my  deepest  sympathy. 

"She — doubtless  unwittingly — is  being  used  in  the  biggest  scheme  of  self-advertisement  that  ever 
was  sprung  by  the  Dr.  Munyon  of  Newspaper  Row.  Hearst  is  just  now  employing  every  quack  method 
known  to  dirty  journalism  and  corrupt  politics  with  the  idea  of  making  himself  the  Democratic  candi- 
date for  the  highest  office  in  the  gift  ot  the  people.  And  since  all  these  United  States  of  ours  are  not  a 
single  Hearst  Tenderloin,  the  one  thing  on  earth  that  can  save  him  from  overwhelming  defeat  at  the  polls 
is  to  miss  the  nomination.  Hearst  will  be  saved  all  right — but  like  many  another  fatted  egoist  he  will  take 
the  pound  of  cure  in  preference  to  the  ounce  of  prevention.  And,  like  murderous  cronies  of  his  that  were 
aided  by  his  San  Francisco  newspaper  in  escaping  prison  stripes;  cronies  that  hid  behind  a  woman's 
skirts  in  dodging  the  wrath  of  a  people — like  them,  W.  R.  Hearst  seeks  the  shelter  of  a  petticoat.  He 
has  married  with  the  pitifully  obvious  intention  of  becoming  politically  respectablized  through  his  wife. 

"  'Bachelors  are  not  in  demand  at  the  White  House,  especially  a  bachelor  of  taint,'  said  Hearst's 
political  leg-lengtheners ;  'so,  Willie,  you'd  better  get  a  wife.'  And  Willie  got  a  wife — not  a  very  difficult 
thing  for  a  man  of  millions  to  do.  And  perhaps  somewhere  in  the  world  there  are  mothers  who,  in  behalf 
of  their  daughters,  envy  the  bride  of  this  young  millionaire.  But  these  mothers  do  not  live  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, nor  in  any  other  place  where  the  bridegroom  is  known  to  the  bone. 

"I  cannot  congratulate  Mrs.  William  Randolph  Hearst.  I  cannot  even  hope  that  the  libertine  whose 
name  she  bears  will  be  less  dishonorable  as  a  husband  than  he  has  been  as  a  journalist.  Hearst's  yellow 
streak  is  not  confined  to  his  journalism.  He  is  taking  this  young  girl  abroad,  perhaps  to  the  very  spots 
where  in  other  years  he  lingered  with  his  mistresses.     W.  R.  Hearst  is  not  a  tactful  man." 


March  26.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


INCONSISTENT  POLICE  REGULATIONS 

The  Board  of  Public  Works,  captained  by  tin- 
Mayor's  brother,  is  busy  persecuting  the  tlower  ped- 
dlers at  Market  and  Kearny  streets.  Its  policemen 
watch  with  keen  eyes  the  men  and  boys  who  carry 
bloom-laden  baskets  up  and  down.  If  one  of  them 
halts  for  a  moment  inside  the  "dead  line"  of  the  curb 
OX  rests  his  basket  on  the  sidewalk  while  he  rubs  In- 
aching  arms,  off  he  goes  in  the  patrol  wagon.  Mean- 
while the  Mayor  has  in  his  hands  the  ordinance,  de- 
manded by  the  whole  community  and  passed  by  one 
vote  short  of  unanimity,  creating  a  free  flower  market 
at  this  point  and  elsewhere.  Meanwhile  and  all  the 
while  the  sidewalks  of  the  wholesale  district  are 
piled  high  and  wide  with  boxes,  barrels  and  bales — 
so  wide  that  a  fat  man  must  go  to  the  cobbles  for  el- 
bow room.  All  day  and  all  night  these  goods  lie  on 
the  sidewalks,  and  the  Works  Board's  policemen 
and  the  Mayor's  policemen  watcli  with  keen  eyes — 
not  to  catch  a  merchant  obstructing  the  footway,  but 
to  keep  thieves  from  removing  the  obstructions.  And 
this  is  the  equal  justice  of  the  law  as  the  Schmitz 
family  sees  it! 

Two  poverty-cursed  Italian  flower  peddlers,  ar- 
rested for  momentary  infraction  of  the  Schmitz  fam- 
ily's law  as  it  runs  in  the  latitude  of  Market  and 
Kearny  streets,  asked  a  jury  trial.  A  police  court 
which  belongs  to  the  Mayor — or  to  the  highest  bid- 
der when  the  Mayor  is  not  using  it — said  that  the 
jury  was  stuffed  with  members  of  a  trade  association 
closely  allied  with  the  Retail  Florists'  Association, 
and  steered  the  case  to  a  speedy  conviction.  On  that 
same  day  the  sidewalks  in  front  of  the  stores  kept 
by  members  of  the  Florists'  Association  were  bor- 
dered on  both  sides  by  potted  plants  that  stood  there 
for  hours.  On  that  same  day,  as  the  day  before,  and 
as  to-day,  the  sidewalks  of  Sansome,  Battery,  Front 
and  a  score  of  other  busy  down-town  streets  were 
in  many  places  all  but  impassable  by  reason  of  goods 
stored  there  to  save  warehousing  and  re-handling. 
In  fifty  places  we  know  of  sidewalks  in  the  whole- 
sale district  are  blocked  by  piles  of  chain,  rusting  an- 
chors, old  engines  and  pumps,  and  giant  blocks  of 
coal  and  salt,  that  have  stood  there  for  years.  There 
is  no  police  court  record  for  a  year  or  more  of  an 
attempt  to  enforce  the  sidewalk  law  against  these 
offenders.  Not  so  long  ago— and  this  is  a  case  still 
closer  in  point— a  saloon-keeper  at  Market  and  Geary 
streets  piled  his  sidewalk  high  with  empty  whisky 
barrels,  and  before  he  could  procure  his  own  arrest 
and  complete  his  scheme  of  self-advertisement,  he 
was  forced  to  bribe  a  policeman  to  escort  him  to  the 
City  Prison.  . 

The  discrimination  asrainst  the  flower  vendors,  with 
its  flouting  of  a  remarkably  unanimous  body  of  pub- 
lic sentiment,  is  just  Schmitzism,  that's  all. 

MASSIE-SPEAR. 
Governor  Pardee's  pet,  "Charley"  Spear,  keeps  on 
getting  himself  and  his  master  ill-spoken  of.  the 
latest  unsavory  mention  of  Spear  comes  in  connection 
with  a  most  cowardly  assault  upon  J.  A.  Massie,  an 
Oaklander  who  publishes  a  semi-occasional  paper 
which  he  calls  the  "Arrow,"  and  devotes  largely  to 
the  exploitation  of  Spear's  public  and  private  record. 
He  has  printed  in  this  sheet  a  variety  of  unpleasant 
charges  against  Spear.  Among  them  was  the  accu- 
sation that  the  lusty  Harbor  Commissioner  at  one 
time  used  his  aged  father  for  a  punching  bag  On 
Spear's  behalf  the  answer  was :  First,  that  he  did  not 
beat  his  father,  and  second,  that  he  beat  his  father 


i'T  improper  conduct,  including  persistent  crapu- 
lence. I'.rsidcs  parent  punching,  editor  Massie  taxed 
Spear  with  a  long  list  of  personal  and  political  short- 
comings. Speaking  with  frankness  about  his  preda- 
tory manipulation  of  the  news-stand  privilege  in 
the  interest  of  himself  and  an  equally  needy  brother- 
in-law. 

The  editor  of  the  Arrow  has  declared  in  print  that 
soon  after  he  began  this  torrid  campaign,  Spear  first 
tried  to  buy  him  off,  and  failing,  threatened  him  with 
legal  proceedings  and  with  personal  violence.  Last 
week,  while  Massie  was  waiting  for  a  car  near  his 
Oakland  home,  a  bunch  of  thugs  took  him  unawares 
and  were  hammering  him  into  a  pulp  when  passersby 
ran  to  his  rescue  and  the  thumpers  tied.  One  of  them, 
it  is  said,  left  behind  an  umbrella  with  the  letter  "S" 
on  the  handle.  Editor  Massie  says  he  did  not  rec- 
ognize any  of  his  assailants.  Now  there  are  not  suffi- 
cient proofs  to  connect  Spear  personally  with  this 
outrage.  True,  we  have  the  alleged  threat  of  the 
Harbor  Commissioner  atyl  the  initial  on  the  umbrella- 
handle,  and  the  three-to-one  feature  of  the  assault 
which  squares  with  Editor  Massie's  sizing-up  of  his 
parent-punching  foe's  courage.  But  these  are  mere 
circumstances.  Massie  must  have  better  evidence 
than  has  been  exposed  before  he  can  arrest  Spear, 
take  him  into  a  police  court  and  seek  to  punish  him 
for  an  act  unquestionably  murderous  in  its  intent. 
There  is  no  disguising  the  fact  that  the  purpose  of 
the  three  thugs  was  to  break  the  keen  point  of  the 
Arrow,  and  put  its  publisher  out  of  the  business  of 
digging  up  the  records  of  public  officials  and  others. 
Quite  possibly  Massie  has  learned  enough  about  the 
police  court  pull  of  men  like  Spear — supposing  that 
it  was  Spear  who  engineered  the  assault — to  make 
him  appreciate  the  uselessness  of  looking  for  justice 
and  protection  from  that  quarter.  1  nat  he  has  rea- 
son to  fear  a  repetition  of  the  outrage  is  shown  by 
his  course  in  providing  himself  with  a  weapon  and 
a  husky  bodyguard.  He  will  do  well  to  walk  in  the 
middle  of  the  street  o'  nights,  revolver  in  hand,  climb 
his  door-step  backward,  to  refrain  from  sitting  be- 
tween a  window  and  a  light,  and  to  let  his  household 
cat  sample  the  morning's  milk  first.  These  and  other 
like  precautions  conduce  to  longevity  in  editors  ad- 
dicted to  writing  the  truth. 

It  does  not  matter  who  actually  assaulted  Massie. 
What  does  matter  is  that  this  crime  if  completed 
would  have  inured  to  the  benefit  and  to  the  vast  re- 
lief of  Spear.  Since  this  attempt,  people  who  had 
heretofore  given  little  heed  to  Massie's  charges, 
have  been  looking  up  Spear's  record  for  themselves 
and  are  beginning  to  understand  why  he  does  not 
criminally  prosecute  Massie  and  .why  an  attempt 
should  have  been  made  to  silence  the  editor  with 
bludgeon  and  slung-shot. 

Spear  has  done  infinite  harm  to  Governor  Pardee's 
administration,  and  as  yet  there  has  been  no  sign 
that  Pardee  disapproves  of  his  pet's  attitude  toward 
the  game  of  "graft"  as  it  is  played  on  the  water- 
front. 

The  latest  appreciation  of  the  Spear  character  is 
the  immense  sign  in  blue  and  white  that  disgraces 
the  front  of  the  ferry  building  facing  the  bay.  Does 
the  State  receive  pay  for  this  disfigurement?  We 
shall  have  more  to  say  about  this  infliction  on  good 
taste  next  week. 

Spear  has  soiled  the  political  garments  of  Pardee, 
and  has  put  dirt  on  his  hands.  Let  the  Governor 
look  to  it,  or  the  stain  may  turn  to  crimson. 


4  SAN  FRANCISCO 

BEAUTIFYING  OF  A  CITY. 

A  note  of  hopefulness  is  sounded  by  a  club  of  Ber- 
keley citizens  who  purpose,  among  other  things  to 
keep  unsightly  buildings  out  of  the  district  to  which 
their  activities  are  devoted,  and  in  which  their  homes 
and  their  interests  lie.  They  are  fortunate  in  having 
a  distinct  natural  beauty  of  foothill  slopes,  of  trees 
native  to  the  soil,  and  of  view  to  inspire  the  efforts 
of  their  architects  and  builders.  What  the  club  may 
do  to  keep  the  charm  of  its  section  unspoiled  by  the 
apostles  of  ugliness  in  architecture  must  be  done 
quietly  and  privately,  there  being  no  law  to  prevent 
a  man  from  parading  his  bad  taste  when  he  builds. 
It  must  operate  by  a  most  delicate  use  of  moral  sua- 
sion, proceeding  along  educative  lines  to  reform  and 
to  elevate.  That  it  has  at  least  made  a  sound  begin- 
ning is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  the  opening  of  its 
campaign  for  artistic  houses  and  picturesque  streets 
is  the  opening  of  a  library  for  the  dissemination  . 
among  home  builders  of  ideas  and  information  touch- 
ing house-designing,  gardening  and  the  like.  We 
commend  this  movement  right  heartily  and  trust  that 
it  may  not  fail  of  early  and  satisfying  results. 

Here  in  San  Francisco  there  is  great  need  of  some 
such  movement.  We  have  an  organization  of  ener- 
getic women,  the  Outdoor  Art  League,  whose  ob- 
ject it  is  to  do  what  it  can  toward  the  beautifying  of 
a  city  most  picturesque  in  its  site,  but  hideously  ugly 
in  the  laying  out  of  its  streets  and  in  the  building  of 
most  of  its  houses.  The  Berkeley  Club's  work  is 
wholly  constructive  and  restrictive,  inasmuch  as  most 
of  its  homes  are  yet  to  be  built ;  over  here  in  San 
Francisco  the  mischief  has  been  done — was  done 
years  ago  when  such  architects  as  we  had  appear  to 
have  been  men  of  no  taste  at  all,  utterly  without  ideals 
or  conceptions  of  grace  and  beauty.  One  might 
think  that  the  designers  of  a  quarter  century  ago 
who  filled  the  fair  valleys  and  terraced  the  noble  hill- 
sides of  San  Francisco,  with  rows  on  rows  of  ugly 
dwellings  reproduced  their  plans  by  stencil.  The  re- 
sult as  we  see  it  to-day,  is  a  maddening  monotony  of 
design  and  construction,  as  if  the  families  of  that  day 
demanded  of  their  architects  houses  exactly  like  those 
of  their  neighbors.  In  that  and  the  preceding  period 
it  seems  to  have  the  fundamental  idea  in  laying  out 
streets  to  make  them  straight — nothing  else  mattered. 
And  the  result  of  that  is  a  town  like  a  checkerboard, 
except  for  the  redeeming  diagonal  of  Market  street. 
The  Outdoor  Art  League  will  not  expect  to  execute 
any  such  large  order  as  to  re-make  the  city  map, 
blotting  out  painful  rectangularity  and  replacing  it 
with  pleasing  curves,  but  it  promises  much  in  the 
way  of  softening  harsh  outlines.  No  club,  no  asso- 
ciation of  architects  leagued  together  for  the  com- 
bining of  the  aesthetic  with  the  utilitarian  could  hope 
to  induce  owners  to  tear  down  revenue-yielding  prop- 
erties merely  because  they  are  ugly,  but  good  can 
be  done  by  harmony  of  purpose  and  unity  of  action, 
just  as  it  is  being  done  spasmodically  and  sporadically 
by  individual  owners  and  designers.  A  few  of  those 
who  build  houses  to  sell  or  to  rent  have  found  that  an 
artistic  home  does  not  cost  appreciably  more  than 
an  ugly  one,  and  that  it  sells  better  and  rents  better. 
Thanks  to  this,  we  are  beginning  to  have  in  the  out- 
lying districts  modest  homes  with  pleasing  and  dis- 
tinctive exteriors  and  interioirs  arranged  for  effect 
as  well  as  for  comfort. 

Let  us  hope  that  there  will  be  some  vigorous  move- 
ment here  along  the  lines  marked  out  by  the  Ber- 
keley beautifiers. 


NEWS  LETTER.  March  26,  1904. 

VERTICAL  HANDWRITING. 

The  News  Letter's  argument  against  vertical  hand- 
writing has  aroused  the  attention  of  businessmen  of 
San  Francisco,  and  it  is  for  them  to  urge  the  School 
Board  to  discard  the  present  system  of  vertical  pen- 
manship. As  an  illustration  of  the  dangers  of  vertical 
writing  the  News  Letter  has  but  to  recite  one  of 
many  more  or  less  similar  incidents  of  recent  trans- 
piring :  Not  many  evenings  ago  the  "copy"  in  the 
vertical  handwriting  of  a  class  of  boys  in  the  night 
High  School  was  handed  in  to  the  teacher  for  inspec- 
tion. At  the  bottom  of  the  page  of  one  of  the  speci- 
mens was  written,  "turn  this  over  and  see."  Natu- 
rally the  teacher  did  as  bidden,  but  only  to  find  a  sen- 
tence that  was  neither  elegant  nor  decent.  The  mat- 
ter was  referred  to  the  Superintendent,  and  he  quick- 
ly devised  a  plan  to  detect  the  evil-doer.  A  teacher 
was  detailed,  after  a  day  or  two,  to  dictate  sentences 
to  the  same  class,  and  to  so  adroitly  employ  the 
words  "turn,"  "this,"  "over,"  "and,"  "see,"  in  differ- 
ent places  in  the  construction  of  the  several  sentences 
that  the  offender  would  not  have  the  slightest  suspi- 
cion of  what  was  being  done.  The  several  copies 
were  then  handed  to  the  teacher,  which  is  customary, 
and  at  once  the  specimens  were  submitted  to  the 
teachers  in  groups  to  compare  the  offending  words 
with  the  same  words  in  the  "adroitly"  dictated  sen- 
tences. There  was  no  doubt  about  the  detection  of 
the  guilty  boy,  it  was  supposed,  but  to  the  humilia- 
tion of  the  whole  corps  of  teachers,  they  found  they 
had  taught  the  "vertical  system"  too  well,  for  so 
uniform  was  the  handwriting  on  all  the  specimens, 
and  so  completely  had  "verticalism"  covered  up  the 
individualism  and  characteristics  of  the  several  pu- 
pils that  the  argus  eyes  and  insulted  dignity  of  some 
twenty-five  teachers  failed  utterly  to  so  much  as  find 
a  trace  that  would  even  lead  to  a  suspicion  as  to  who 
was  the  guilty  boy.  Certainly  an  educational  system 
that  encourages  the  unfoldment  of  the  worst  nature 
of  boys  by  forcing  them  to  use  tools  of  treachery  and 
low  cunning  is  not  a  very  moral  system. 

But  verticalism  is  doomed.  Parents  who  have 
more  than  one  child  of  school  age  are  confronted 
with  the  painful  fact  that  they  cannot  distinguish 
between  their  children's  handwriting  because  their 
character,  individuality  and  force  of  mentality  are 
sacrificed  to  the  mathematical  precision  of  rigid  per- 
pendicular lines,  which  show  no  development  of  mind 
nor  give  any  exhibition  of  their  children's  advance- 
ment in  the  art  of  expressing  character  in  letters 
and  written  words.  The  vertical  system  to  the  pupil 
is  as  the  theodolite  is  to  the  surveyor.  Both  mark 
accurate  lines,  but  the  lines  do  not  indicate  who 
made  them. 


KCHAS  KLILUS  &  CO  JJ 

&£XCL  L/S/VE,A> 
HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

There  is  a  reason  why  our  clothes  are  so  decidedly  different  from 
others.  It  is  the  experience,  merit  ant  exclusiveness  that,  our 
fabrics,  patterns  and  fashions  contain.  The  sculptor's  chisel  could 
not  give  the  effect  in  the  appearance  of  our  spring  and  summer 
models.    (This  is  the  Home  for  Correct  Dressers.) 


KCEAEUrW*  S'HWE.IE.'ir 


March  36.   1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


CW  Whitt  Will  Sla*<l  T*rt,Ai*r 


On  one  page  the  Examiner  r.>n?ts  the  Police  De- 
partment because  policemen  arc  not  to  be  found  on 
every  block  where  a  crime  is  committed.  <  m  another 
page  it  roasts  the  Chief  of  Police  for  asking  the  Super- 
visors to  give  him  more  men.  If  the  force  is  in- 
creased the  Examiner  will  say  it  caused  it  by  its  yel- 
low tales  of  crime;  if  it  is  not  increased,  the  Kxami- 
ner  will  boast  it  prevented  the  increase  by  proving 
there  are   enough   policemen.     Hearst   always  plays 

both  ends  against  the  middle. 

*  •  » 

The  Police  Judges  should  be  pardoned  for  all  their 
sins,  if  they  only  soak  it  to  those  dog-catchers  who 
stole  the  coach-dog  of  an  army  officer.  The  dog- 
catcher  is  probably  a  necessary  evil.  but.  on  general 
principles  we  are  against  him. 

*  *  * 

Judge  Kerrigan  now  has  a  magnificent  opportunity 
to  make  himself  popular.    All  he  has  to  do  is  to  throw 

the  search-light  on  the  Perrvs  and  the  Nagles. 

*  *  * 

An  oyster  digger  has  sued  the  Oyster  Diggers' 
Union  for  damages.  They  caused  his  discharge  be- 
cause he  dug  up  too  many  oysters,  thereby  making 
the  other  fellows  look  like  small  fry.  Any  intelligent 
jury  will  give  the  plaintiff  damages  in  this  case.  What 
does  all  this  cry  of  prosperity  amount  to,  if  we  are 
to  be  deprived  of  our  daily  oyster? 

*  *  * 

Gavin  McNab  appears  as  a  director  in  a  million- 
dollar  investment  company.  Abe  Ruef  is  rich ; 
Chris  Buckley  is  a  retired  capitalist ;  Sam  Rainey 
left  a  fortune.     Politics  pays. 

*  *  * 

Radium  has  gone  up  in  price  a  couple  of  million 
dollars  a  pound.    This  proves  again  that  the  poor  man 

has  ho  show.    Hearst  should  sue  the  radium  trust. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Frank  Blaisdell  will  deliver  a  free  Lane  lecture 
on  "The  Relations  of  Insects  to  Man."  We  always 
thought  the  California  flea  was  some  kind  of  a  poor 
relation,  because  of  his  insistence  on  free  lunches. 
This  lecture  will  probably  prove  the  theory. 

*  *  * 

Scientists  say  the  fatal  sleeping  sickness,  now 
prevalent  in  Africa,  is  caused  by  a  fly.  The  owners 
of  the  shanties  on  lower  Market  street  must  have 
been  bitten  by  this  bird. 

*  *  * 

Supervisor  Lunstedt  says  Ruef  forced  him  to  vote 
to  sustain  the  Mayor's  veto  by  threats  against  the 
Supervisor's  saloon  license.  Bent  and  Alpers,  also 
saloon'  men,  voted  with  the  Mayor.  Why  shouldn't 
they?  That's  what  they  are  there  for.  Why  elect 
saloon  keepers  as  Supervisors,  if  you  intend  to  com- 
plain of  their  actions? 

*  *  * 

Judge  Coffey  refuses  to  permit  the  lawyers  to  di- 
vide the  dollars  of  Mrs.  Moxey  among  themselves. 
He  found  her  incompetent,  after  trial,  and  now  that 
she  wants  to  give  away  her  wealth  to  the  attorneys 
the  Judge  is  sure  she  needs  a  guardian.  The  lawyers 
should  take  the  case  into  Judge  Troutt's  court.  He 
is  so  easy. 


ionblc-jointcd  wife  up  for  thirty  days 

by  a  Police  Judge  last  week  for  having  beaten  her 
poor,  little.  Inoffensive  husband.  We  feared  it  would 
come  to  this.  Tin-  emancipation  of  women  is  not 
without  its  danger  to  the  lord  of  the  universe. 

•  •    • 

Hoot,  hoot, 
Smoot,  Smoot, 

Scoot,  scoot, 
You  get  the  boot, 

Toot,  toot. 

•  *   * 

The  papers  report  that  a  labor  leader  is  down  with 
appendicitis.     The  accumulation  of  wealth  is  not  un- 
attended with  some  physical  discomforts. 
"«  *  * 

The  Sweet  Pea  girl  has  been  awarded  $500  counsel 
fees  and  $100  a  month  alimony,  all  to  be  paid  by  the 
gay  Mr.  Clark,  who  married  her  in  the  midst  of  a 
"hold  over."     Sweet  peas  are  expensive  this  season. 

Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$6.00  per  ton.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanli- 
ness and  heat  producing  qualities,  Briquettes  are  superior 
to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th  and 
Channel.     'Phone  South  95. 


As   long   as   Techau   Tavern   exists,   people   have   no 

need   to   wonder  where  they  will   go  after  the  theatre.   It 
is  the  society  resort. 


^Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


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FINANCIAL 


We  are  in  receipt  of  a  report 
The  Jumper  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Losing  Ground.  Jumper  Gold  Syndicate  held 
recently  in  Glasgow.  The 
chairman'':  statement  was  not  quite  so  cheerful  as 
those  in  years  gone,  the  returns  for  the  year  being 
insufficient  to  warrant  the  payment  of  the  customary 
dividend,  which  will  disappoint  a  great  many 
shareholders  of  small  means.  The  reason  assigned 
for  the  decreased  income  during  the  past  twelve 
months  is  the  heavy  expenditure  of  money  required 
to  re-timber  caved  ground,  and  to  meet  other  exigen- 
cies liable  to  occur  at  any  moment  in  the  mining  in- 
dustry. An  attempt  was  made  by  some  one  present 
to  shoulder  the  responsibility  of  the  decreased  rev- 
enue upon  the  new  superintendent,  but  this  could 
only  emanate  from  an  anxious  shareholder  who  never 
saw  a  mine  in  his  life.  There  are  few  better  mining 
men  on  the  Coast  than  the  superintendent  now  in 
charge  of  the  Jumper  mine,  and  the  shareholders 
can  depend  upon  it  that  while  he  retains  the  posi- 
tion he  will  be  serving  their  interests  faithfully  and 
not  his  own.  With  a  lower  grade  of  ore  and  a  heavy 
expenditure  in  the  way  of  repairs  and  improvements, 
too  much  ought  not  to  be  expected  in  the  way  of 
clear  profits.  The  Jumper  people  have  had  too  good 
a  proposition  from  the  first.  A  continuous  run  of 
dividends  on  a  comparatively  small  investment  has 
unfitted  them  for  the  worry  and  expense  encountered 
in  the  ordinary  course  of  mining.  During  the  meet- 
ing the  subject  of  the  £20,000  recovered  in  the  set- 
tlement with  the  former  manager  came  up.  A  share- 
holder wanted  to  know  in  whose  name  it  stood,  and 
was  practically  told  it  was  none  of  his  business,  and 
furthermore  that  it  could  not  be  aporopriated  as  sur- 
plus funds  of  the  company  for  dividends,  legal  advice 
having  been  obtained  upon  that  point.  It  was  devel- 
oped, however,  that  it  cost  the  company  no  less  than 
£1937  5s.  3d.  to  effect  this  settlement,  and  the  sec- 
retary, named  Parker,  took  quite  an  injured  tone 
when  explaining  the  hard  trip  he  had  to  California 
and  back  upon  an  allowance  of  $26  a  day  in  round 
numbers,  his  salary  running  on  all  the  same  for 
the  two  months  he  was  away  from  his  desk  in  Glas- 
gow. The  election  at  the  close  of  the  meeting  re- 
sulted in  the  return  of  the  old   Board. 

There  is  a  good  deal  of  work 
Thieves  Now  Rule     going  on  just  now  in  the  dif- 
the  Roost.  ferent  mining  camps  through- 

out the  State  by  individuals 
who,  as  a  rule,  are  possessed  of  small  means,  and  it 
is  pleasant  to  be  able  to  say  that  in  the  majority  of  in- 
stances, with  much  success.  This  is  the  way  to  de- 
velop the  mineral  resources  of  the  State,  by  opening 
up  a  prospect  to  a  point  where  the  enterprising  owner 
is  in  a  position  to  go  to  his  friends,  possibly  no  bet- 
ter off  financially  than  himself,  and  get  them  to  come 
in  and  assist  in  taking  out  enough  money  in  a  small 
way  to  make  the  necessary  showing  which  will  ap- 
peal to  the  man  of  capital  as  an  opportunity  for  in- 
vestment worthy  of  investigation.  The  day  for  the 
promotion  of  old-time  shells  with  a  capitalization  of 
millions  is  gone  by.  People  are  not  to  be  lured  into 
wild-cat  propositions,  which  enrich  the  promoter, 
on  statements  regarding  to  prospects  which  would 
prove  to  be  comparatively  worthless  upon  examina- 
tion by  some  practical  man  who  knows  his  business. 
The  swindlers  who  have  been  reaping  a  golden  har- 


vest of  late  by  spreading  broadcast  the  most  infamous 
lies  in  regard  to  mining  values  have  practically  killed 
the  goose  that  laid  the  golden  egg.  They  have  raked 
every  financial  community  within  the  borders  of  the 
United  States  as  with  a  fine  comb,  and  corraled 
enough  gold  to  keep  them  in  easy  circumstances  for 
many  a  year  to  come.  Not  a  dollar  of  this  money 
will  ever  be  recovered  by  process  of  law,  the  courts 
in  nearly  every  case  favoring  the  swindler.  This 
is  the  reason  that  persons  of  this  class  have  managed 
to  keep  out  of  jail.  Quite  a  number  of  them  have 
been  rounded  up  of  late,  but  that  is  all  it  has 
amounted  to  so  far.  In  every  case  the  wily  individ- 
uals have  managed  to  escape  at  some  convenient 
juncture  when  the  bars  were  let  down.  This  will 
continue  until  the  legitimate  mining  interests  com- 
bine together  with  the  officials  of  mining  associa- 
tions and  mining  bureaus  to  effect  a  radical  change 
in  the  way  the  law  is  now  administered  in  dealing 
with  swindlers  of  the  kind,  all  working  in  a  united 
effort  to  see  justice  done  and  the  industry  cleared  of 
a  class  of  petty  larcenists  who  have  already  brought 
it  to  the  point  of  ruin. 

The  Plumas  Gold  Min- 
A  Queer  Transaction,  ing  Company,  Limited, 
a  5,000,000  share  con- 
cern financed  in  New  York,  is  now  an  object  of  inter- 
est to  certain  creditors  in  this  city,  many  of  whom 
helped  to  fit  out  the  proposition  with  plant  valued  at 
$40,000.  All  of  this  plant  and  the  mine  with  its  mil- 
lions of  capital  in  shares,  has,  it  is  said,  passed  out 
of  the  ownership  of  the  shareholders.  Eastern  peo- 
ple being  the  chief  sufferers  as  usual,  upon  the  fore- 
closure of  a  contractor's  lien  for  something  like 
$6,000.  Between  the  creditors  in  this  city  and  those 
in  Plumas  County,  there  is  likely  to  be  quite  a  mix- 
up  in  the  segregation  of  the  several  interests,  and 
it  is  just  probable  there  will  be  a  strong  effort  made 
to  throw  the  mining  company  into  involuntary  bank- 
ruptcy. It  certainly  does  seem  rather  a  strange  prop- 
osition on  its  face  that  any  company  should  surren- 
der a  property  equipped  like  this  one  is  without  an 
attempt  to  protect  themselves  and  for  a  bagatelle 
at  that. 

The  Pine-St.  market  contin- 

Improvements  on       lies  quiet,  with  prices  strong 

the  Comstock.  at  the  North-end  where  Ophir 

is  still  opening  out  upon  a 
vein  of  high-grade  ore.  The  drainage  operations  at 
this  end  will  soon  be  under  way  again,  when  it  will 
be  possible  to  start  the  work  of  explorations  in  the 
deep  levels  which  have  been  under  water  for  so  many 
years  past.  About  the  same  time  all  will  be  ieady 
at  the  Ward  shaft  to  make  the  connections  with  the 
Sutro  Tunnel  system  of  drifts,  preparatory  to  the 
installation  of  a  pumping  plant  at  that  point  to  handle 
the  water  in  the  South-end  mines.  Part  of  the  new- 
plan  of  work  on  the  Comstock  will  be  the  introduc- 
tion of  an  electric  trolley  system  in  the  Sutro  Tun- 
nel, for  the  purpose  of  handling  the  ores  of  Savage 
and  other  mines.  These  will  be  run  out  of  the  tun- 
nel to  a  reduction  plant  about  to  be  erected  in  the 
near  future. 


The  State  Treasury  is  richer  by  $10,000  this  week 
by  the  filing  of  articles  of  incorporation  of  the  great 
Pacific  Steel  Corporation,  about  to  start  up  at  San 
Diego,  with  its  capital  of  $100,000,000.    The  officers 


March  26,  1904. 


just  elected  at  a  recent  meeting  of  its  directors  arc 
headed  by  General  Han 

nt.      The  others  arc  111  point  of  order: 
1      W.   French  of  Cleveland.  (  Ihio,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  direct,  t-;  ;  A.  A.  Pudman,  Cleveland,  I 
vice-president;  V.  A.  Dchnel,  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
retary ;    George    W.    Fishburn,   San    1  -neral 

counsel;  Willard  Fuller.  Cleveland.  1  >hio,  general 
manager.  The  Union  Trust  Company  of  Pittsburg, 
as  fiscal  agent,  will  attend  to  the  financing  of  the 
steel    plant. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

4  1-2  Par  Cm  Inl.r..(  Paid. 


The  proceedings  of  the  twelfth  annual  convention 
of  the  California  Miners'  Association  have  just  been 
published  in  pamphlet  form,  and  embodied  in  this 
report  are  a  number  of  papers  read  before  the  con- 
vention by  some  of  the  leading  men  connected  with 
the  various  branches  of  the  mining  industry.  Among 
the  leading  papers  which  will  be  found  in  extenso 
are  "The  Cyaniding  of  Gold  Bearing  Sulphurets,"  by 
Prof.  S.  B.  Christy;  "The  Storage  of  Waste  Waters 
for  Mining  Purposes."  by  Mark  B.  Kerr:  "The  Use 
of  Fuel  Oil  in  Chlorination" ;  "The  Development  of 
Abandoned  Mines,"  John  B.  Tregloan,  and  "Economy 
in  Compressed  Air  Mining,"  by  Edward  A.  Rix. 


The  market  for  local  stocks  and  bonds  has  been 
quiet  during  the  past  week,  and  the  volume  of  sales 
has  been  small.  In  the  matter  of  prices,  bonds  were 
firmly  held  for  all  the  better  class.  In  share's,  Spring 
Valley  was  steady.  The  S.  F.  Gas  and  Electric  has 
been  a  shade  firmer,  which  serves  to  stimulate  short 
selling,  which  seems  to  be  going  on  now  on  quite 
an  extensive  scale.  For  the  man  with  money  who 
can  stand  a  few  turns  of  the  screw  on  the  up-grade 
without  weakening  or  going  under,  shorting  this 
stock  is  the  proper  thing.  It  is  only  a  matter  of  time 
until  prices  in  this  column  get  on  the  toboggan. 
Sugars  hold  firm,  with  a  strong  undertone  in  Alaska 
Packers. 


Never  a  week  passes  without  the  announcement 
of  a  license  having  been  granted  to  some  new  bank- 
ing institution,  the  most  of  which  are  noticeable 
more  particularly  by  the  small  amount  of  cash  which 
figures  in  their  make-up.  This  unsatisfactory  condi- 
tion of  affairs  is  due  entirely  to  the  opportunity  of- 
fered by  the  abrogation  of  the  Banking  Commis- 
sion which  was  deemed  necessary  in  order  to  remove 
an  erring  official.  If  trouble  does  not  follow  the  out- 
crop of  these  mushroom  concerns  it  will  be  an  ever- 
lasting wonder. 


The  new  mining  camp  of  Gold  Field,  Nevada,  has 
hardly  made  its  bow  to  the  public  before  the  law 
courts  of  the  State  are  brought  to  take  cognizance 
of  its  existence  by  a  suit  brought  to  oust  one  set  of 
mine  locators  by  establishing  the  rights  of  other  loca- 
tors who  now  hold  the  ground  with  rifles.  This  looks 
like  business.  Nothing  like  a  little  gun  play  and  a 
few  law  suits  to  boom  either  a  mine  or  a  camp. 

If  You  Want 

a  perfect  cream,  preserved  without  sugar,  order  Borden's 
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream.  It  has  a  delightful, 
natural  flavor  and  Is  superior  to  the  richest  raw  cream  you 
can  buy,  with  the  added  assurance  of  being  sterilized.  Pre- 
pared by  Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


When  you  get  your  fall  clothing  made,  also  make 

arrangements  to  have  It  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's    Cleaning    and    Dyeing    Works,    127    Stockton  . 
street.    It  is  economy  to  do  it.    A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  If  well  cared  for.     They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


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Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  JEtna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  8.  F. 

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The  stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  ssoo  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  *22  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance  of 
340  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Tne  Marconi  svstem  is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.  Edison 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


Some  time  ago  a  correspond- 

Truth  or  Fiction.  ent  of  the  News  Letter,  sign- 
ing himself  "Bec-de-Fer," 
in  an  article  entitled  "Witless  Willie,"  gave  a  mere 
"apercu"  of  a  couple  of  volumes  issued  from  the 
press  of  "Fischer's  Foreign  Letters,  Inc.,"  under  the 
title  of  "Private  Lives  of  William  II  and  his  Consort 
and  Secret  History  of  the  Court  of  Berlin." 

"Bee  de  Fer,"  it  seems  did  but  touch  on  the  con- 
tents lightly.  He  barely  skimmed  the  surface.  These 
volumes  are  a  scathing  rebuke  of  the  sovereign  now 
ruling  over  Germany,  and  these  memoirs,  ostensibly 
written  by  a  woman,  the  Countess  of  Eppinghoven. 
make  no  claim  to  revelations  in  the  realm  of  higher 
politics ;  they  give  a  side-light  more  or  less  strong  on 
subjects  closely  akin  to  higher  statecraft. 

The  mild  and  tearful  frau  of  the  Reise-Kaiser  is 
very  aptly  described,  and  the  various  characteristics 
that  make  her  more  fit  to  be  the  housewife  of  a 
"bauer"  than  an  Emperor  are  clearly  set  forth.  The 
Empress  emerges  from  the  hands  of  the  Countess 
scathless  as  regards  her  fine  womanliness.  She  is 
shown  up  as  a  simple  German  woman,  who  is  at  all 
times  supremely  unhappy. 

So  much  for  the  consort.  But  what  can  we  say  of 
the  Emperor.  His  character  in  every  shade  is  laid 
before  us.  We  have  our  doubts  as  to  the  identity  of 
the  author.  We  do  not  believe  that  any  woman 
wrote  these  memoirs,  and  if  it  was  a  woman,  she 
certainly  missed  her  vocation.  The  style  is  more 
that  of  a  man.  A  man  that  is  conversant  with  his 
subject,  and  if  we  may  hazard  a  guess,  we  will  say 
that  Mr.  Fischer  wrote  the  memoirs  of  the  fair  Coun- 
tess from  a  transcript  of  the  notes  of  some  clever 
"kammerdiener." 

Bereft  of  the  artificial  atmosphere  that  has  been 
built  "around  the  All  Highest"  by  such  writers  as 
Poultney  Bigelow  (we  have  no  reason  to  believe  thai 
the  Contezza  is  lying),  we  must  admit  that  the  Em- 
peror, as  a  mere  member  of  the  human  family,  is  a 
poor  specimen  of  a  man.  He  has,  according  to  this 
chronicler,  the  usual  flashes  of  genius  that  go  with 
congenital  insanity,  and  he  has  the  uncurbed  brutal- 
ity inherited  from  the  great  Frederic  and  his  imme- 
diate ancestry.  The  same  characteristics  that 
prompted  the  aforesaid  great  man  to  hang  the  pic- 
ture of  his  mistress  in  an  outhouse,  after  having 
deified  her  on  his  palace  walls,  holds  in  William  II. 
At  least,  so  says  the  Countess.  The  books  make 
good  reading  for  those  of  us  who  believe  in  a  more 
liberal  form  of  Government,  and  who  are  not  apolo- 
gists for  the  gentleman  who  would  calmly  appropri- 
ate to  the  use  of  his  wife's  family  the  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  belonging  to  widows'  and  orphans' 
fund  in  his  temporary  keeping,  and  who  when  he  is 
made  to  disgorge  this,  by  the  newspapers,  plunges 
his  hand  into  the  Guelph  fund  and  attempts  to  make 
this  over  to  his  and  his  family's  use.  The  Countess 
leaves  us  a  man  unanointed,  unprincipled,  small  in 
mind,  a  fraud,  a  libertine  and  a  man  capable  of  un- 
limited cruelty. 

A  man  who  has  achieved  his  reputation  as  a  musi- 
cian by  appropriating  the  fame  rightly  due  to  Count 
Moltke ;  a  man  who  has  achieved  a  reputation  as  an 
artist  by  paying  some  poor  dramatist  or  dauber  to 
do  the  work  he  may  then  claim  as  his.  A  man  who 
employs  a  press  agent  to  tell  his  people,  and  the 
world  in  general,  what  manner  of  Wunder  Koenig 
he  is,  while  he  sits  in  the  guard-room  of  a  barracks 
and~e~ncourages"\veird  tales  of  lust  from  young  offi- 


cers, and  who  in  turn  takes  pride  in  telling  a  stronger 
and  a  dirtier  story  to  overtop  the  last  effort.  Madam 
Von  Eppinghoven,  whoever  she  may  be,  has  given 
us  a  rude  expose,  if  it  is  true,  and  if  it  is  not  true,  she 
has  proven  herself  a  clever  writer  of  historical  fiction. 
Fischer's  Foreign  Letters,  Inc.  New  York.  Two 
volumes. 

This  is  a  half-crown  book  issued  by 
The  Tariff       Simpkin,  Marshall   &  Co.,  of  Lon- 
Dictionary.      don,  and  is  a  handbook  to  the  fiscal 
question  as  discussed  in  Great  Brit- 
ain at  the  present  time.     It  appears  to  be  a  carefully 
prepared  and  useful  little  work  for  speakers,  editors 
and  others  who  are  obliged  to  consider  political  sub- 
jects. 

■  "Cap'n  Eri"  is  by  Joseph  C.  Lincoln,  whose  short 
stories  in  various  magazines,  relating  to  the  New 
England  Coast,  have  made  his  name  familiar  to  read- 
ers of  current  magazine  literature.  The  worthy 
Cap'n  is  one  of  those  modern  Americans  of  the  David 
Harum  variety  whose  sole  object  appears  to  be  a 
continual  attempt  to  maintain  a  standard  of  humor. 
In  this  particular  case  the  Cap'n  is  sufficiently  amus- 
ing and  there  is  plenty  of  incident,  besides  a  love 
story  sufficient  to  make  the  book  entirely  interesting. 
The  illustrations,  which  are  better  than  the  ordinary, 
are  done  by  Charlotte  Weber. 

Published  by  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.     New  York. 

Did  you  ever  hear  of  Quelparte?  I  never  did,  but 
then,  my  geography  was  always  limited.  In  the  pre- 
face of  the  "Queen  of  Quelparte"  we  are  informed 
that  it  is  a  province  of  Korea,  in  the  Yellow  Sea,  but 
after  taking  in  this  fact,  we  do  not  feel  much  the 
wiser.  At  the  most,  this  story  (having  the  Chinese- 
Tapanese  war  as  a  foundation),  is  a  mixture  of  Cos- 
sacks, "Quelpartians,"  Russians,  Japanese  and  Chi- 
nese, with  a  great  deal  of  wild  adventure,  hair- 
breadth 'scapes,  Russian  intrigue,  and  Chinese 
queues,  but  coming  as  it  does  in  the  midst  of  the 
Russo-Japanese  affair,  it  is  bound  to  prove  of  interest 
to  those  who  glory  in  tales  of  "war  and  the  rumors 
of  war." 

Queen  of  Quelparte.  Little,  Brown  &  Co..  price, 
$1.50. 

"The   House  of     the    Seven 
The  House  of  the     Gables."  brought  out  as  one 
Seven  Gables.  of  the  "New  Pocket  Edition 

Library,"  by  John  Lane,  is 
"an  old  friend  in  a  new  dress."  It  is  too  well  known 
to  bear  a  lengthy  criticism,  but  after  a  surfeit  of  the 
surface-skimming  novels  of  these  latter  days,  it 
doubly  impresses  its  earnestness  and  imaginativeness 
upon  us.  The  writer  evidently  felt  the  same  subtle 
influence  of  atmosphere  that  characterizes  Longfel- 
low's poem  of  "Haunted  Houses" : 

"Impalpable  impressions  on  the  air. 

A  sense  of  something  moving  to  and  fro." 

And  the  lines: 

"We  have  no  title  deeds  to  house  or  lands — 

Owners  and  occupants  of  earlier  dates, 
From  graves  forgotten  stretch  their  dusty  hands, 

And  hold  in  mortmain  still  their  old  estates." 
certainly  coincide  with  Hawthorne's  idea  thac  old 
Matthew  Maule  haunted  the  site  of  his  former  home, 
and  made  the  unlawful  ownership  of  the  "House  of 
the  Seven  Gables"  a  dreaded  burden,  rather  than  an 
advantage. 

"The  House  of  Seven  Gables,"  John   Lane.  1  rice. 
50  cents. 


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March  36.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

OBITUARY. 
Adam  Grant,  one  of  the  ol 
1!  merchants  of  the  Pacific  1 

<m  la-.t   Monday  at  his 
home  111  this  city.   [1 12 
Bush  street.  Mr.  1 
\v.i-  .1  warm  and  • 

listent  friend  of  the 
News  Letter,  and  hi> 
demise  was  looked  up- 

"11  in  this  office  n^ 
much  of  a  persona] 
blow.     Mr.  Grant  was 

an   enterprising  citizen 

and  his  death  is  a  dis- 
tinct loss  to  the  entire 

business      community. 

He  was  horn  in  Suther- 

landshire,  Scotland,    in 

1828.        Adam      Grant 

came  to  San  Francisco 
at  the  time  of  the  rush  in  1849,  a"d  he  immediately 
assumed  a  place  as  a  factor  in  the  community.  As 
an  instance  of  his  rapid  rise,  the  story  is  told  that 
in  his  first  employment  his  salary  was'  fixed  at  fifty 
dollars  a  month,  and  that  his  employers,  realizing 
his  great  capacity  for  work,  increased  it  to  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars  the  second  month.  The  life 
story  of  Adam  Grant  was  one  of  success  brought 
about  by  adherence  to  honest  principles  and  by  hard 
and  unremitting  labor.  Mr.  Grant  died  leaving  sev- 
eral millions  of  dollars  to  his  wife  and  one  son  who 
survive  him.  It  may  be  said  of  him  in  all  truth  and 
earnestness — "A  good  man  gone." 

Mr.  William  R.  Grace,  one  of  the  foremost  of 
America's  business  men,  died  on  last  Sunday  in  New 
York.  The  immediate  cause  of  his  death  was  a  re- 
lapse in  pneumonia.  Mr.  Grace  was  the  head  of  the 
mercantile  firm  of  San  Francisco  known  as  William 
R.  Grace  &  Co.  Mr.  Grace  was  a  well-known  politi- 
cian as  well  as  a  business  man,  and  he  had  at  one 
time  led  the  Independent  Democrats  in  New  York 
and  become  Mayor.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr. 
Grace  was  the  President  of  several  large  banking  in- 
stitutions, and  the  head  of  the  most  important  im- 
porting house  in  America. 

William  J.  McMullin,  Assistant  General  Passenger 
Agent  of  the  California  and  Northwestern  Railway, 
is  dead.  He  died  of  heart  failure.  He  was  only  forty- 
three  at  his  demise,  and  he  had  acquired  a  wide  re- 
pute as  a  capable  traffic  man. 


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It  is  the  costliest  and 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


JTOWN  CRIER    J8L>r-^T7a 


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Heerifc*  Crlex*'    "Whit  the  derll  *rt  th-ni*' 
'Ofttthet  will  pt»i  the  devil,  air.  «nb  rou." 


What  have  they  done  to   the   Russ, 

And  what  have  they  done  to  the  Jap?  ^ 

Who  is  the  worse  off  for  all  of  the  fuss, 
And  how  does  it  matter  a  rap? 
For  the  crash  of  the  guns  that  resound  o'er  the  deep 
Are  but  lullaby  murmurs  that  send  us  to  sleep, 
And  the  town  of  Port  Arthur  escapes  pretty  cheap— 
In  fact  there  is  not  a  mishap. 

Why  do  the  infidels  rage 

And  the  people  imagine  vain  things? 
And  what  is  the  use  of  the  newspaper  page 
And  all  of  the  nonsense  it  brings? 
For  there  isn't  a  single  report  that  is  fair; 
The  Retvitzan  was  sunk,  now  she's  under  repair 
If  that's  the  right  way  to  pronounce  her,  but  there- 
Poor   Mercury's  dropped  both   his  wings. 

For  once  the  schemes  of  attorneys  to  defeat  Justice 
have  been  foiled.  Griffiths  of  Los  Angeles  will  be 
obliged  to  serve  his  two  years  for  assaulting  his  wife 
with  a  deadly  weapon.  The  sentence  is  light,  far  too 
light,  in  fact,  and  yet  there  were  to  be  found  attor- 
neys of  some  position  and  at  least  reputable,  who 
prepared  affidavits  by  means  of  which  they  expected 
to  secure  his  release.  Could  there  be  a  more  disgust- 
ingly eloquent  commentary  upon  the  State  of  the 
California  bar?  Will  Griffiths,  therefore,  serve  his 
time?  I  trow  not.  He  has  money,  and  petition  after 
petition  will  go  up,  backed  by  affidavits  and  doubtless 
by  the  certificates  of  physicians,  supposedly  reputa- 
ble, but  in  reality  ready  to  sell  their  medical  opin- 
ions. In  the  meantime  this  brutal  assailant  of  a 
woman  is  to  be  pampered  up  with  every  luxury  and 
to  receive  treatment  altogether  superior  to  that  of  his 
fellow  prisoners.  One  may  smile  at  this  hypocrisy, 
but  it  must  not  be  forgotten  it  has  to  be  paid  for. 

The  inherent  gentleness  of  the  feminine  disposi- 
tion was  shown  lately  in  the  case  of  a  woman  who, 
having  a  sick  husband,  took  the  opportunity  of  ex- 
ercising her  muscles  on  his  bedridden  body.  So  well 
and  so  strongly  did  she  ply  her  athletic  tasks  that 
she  reduced  him  to  a  state  of  collapse.  When  he  was 
in  this  state  she  left  him  alone  until  he  recovered 
a  little,  whereupon  she  renewed  her  calisthenics.  The 
Judge  sent  her  up  for  three  months.  The  familiar 
lines  should  be  altered  to  meet  the  occasion  some- 
what as  follows: 

"Oh,  woman,  in  our  hours  of  ease, 
Uncertain,  coy  and  hard  to  please; 
But  when  misfortune  lays  us  low, 
A  demon  for  a  body  blow." 

An  Indian  tea  was  given  at  a  private  house  this 
week,  in  which  the  participants  dressed  in  Indian  cos- 
tume and  were  surrounded  by  Indian  furniture  and 
ornament.  Society  must  be  very  hard  up  for  amuse- 
ment. As  a  substitute  for  a  monkey  dinner  it  may 
be  argued  that  the  Indian  tea  has  its  advantages,  but 
as  a  means  of  entertainment  it  would  appear  to  be 
of  about  the  same  grade  as  grinning  through  a  horse- 
collar.  To  imitate  savage  customs  is  a  curious  way 
of  inculcating  refinement.  The  decadent  French 
aristocracy  used  to  pretend  to  be  peasants,  but  such 
charming  peasants  were  they  that  their  manners  ac- 
tually shone  all  the  brighter  for  their  rustic  dress. 
It  is  to  be  feared  that  the  manners  of  our  fashionables 
are  inferior  to  those  of  Lo  Ben. 


The  editor  of  the  "Arrow,"  Oakland,  has  received 
i  thrashing  for  publishing  disagreeable  things  about 
Harbor  Commissioner  Charles  L.  Spear.  The  friends 
of  this  gentleman  are  acting  in  a  time-honored  lash- 
ion,  but  how  about  its  effectiveness?  Now  that  the 
editor  has  been  satisfactorily  beaten,  it  will  be  worthy 
of  notice  that  the  points  at  issue  are  whether  Spear 
is  a  hoodlum  ;  if  he  has  been  twice  arrested  for  beat- 
ing his  father,  and  whether  he  is  not  an  all  round  dis- 
honest crook.  I  cannot  see  that  a  single  one  of  these 
questions  has  been  disposed  of  by  beating  the  editor, 
and  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  docket  containing  his  con- 
viction for  battery  glares  in  unshaken  security  in 
spite  of  the  beating  of  John  A.  Massie.  I  am  sorry 
for  Spear — his  friends  are  such  a  reflection  on  him. 

The  criminals  are  escaping  and  the  police  and  the 
judges  dispute  as  to  which  of  the  departments  the 
blame  belongs.  The  police  claim  that  they  make  the 
arrests;  the  judges  complain  that  they  do  not  have 
the  proper  testimony  presented.  I  fancy  the  judges 
have  the  best  of  the  argument.  Jt  is  easy  for  the 
police  to  make  a  show  of  arresting  their  criminal 
friends  and  put  in  such  a  poor  case  that  they  must  be 
acquitted.  The  judges  on  the  other  hand  must  con- 
vict if  the  proper  evidence  is  forthcoming.  At  all 
events,  the  criminals  are  escaping,  and  the  friends  of 
the  Mayor  are  no  poorer  for  the  fact. 

"Microbes  in  the  milk"  was  the  complaint  only 
a  short  time  ago.  Now  the  Health  Office  is  ;bout 
to  make  an  inquiry  with  regard  to  fraudulently  de- 
fective measures  in  which  the  milk  is  retailed.  If  the 
microbe  question  is  still  unsettled,  the  shortness  of 
measure  may  be  actually  good  for  us.  At  any  rate, 
the  whole  milk  business  is  a  nice  commentary  on  the 
morals  of  the  dairy  people.  Who  would  ever  have  im- 
agined that  association  with  the  gentle  cow  should  be 
so  corrupting,  and  who  was  the  bold  man  that  whis- 
pered that  cows  had  nothing  to  do  with  it? 

A  week  or  two  ago  I  referred  to  the  claim  of  the 
"sweet-pea  girl"  as  being  most  ludicrous,  and  would 
not  have  imagined  in  spite  of  my  knowledge  of  legal 
methods  in  this  State  that  she  would  be  able  to  secure 
any  money.  She  has  been  granted  alimony  amount- 
ing to  one  hundred  dollars  a  month,  and  her  attor- 
neys are  to  be  allowed  their  fees.  This  opens  up  an 
unending  vista  of  graft  to  unscrupulous  women.  All 
they  have  to  do  is  to  take  advantage  of  a  man's  con- 
dition and  make  him  marry.  A  keen  lawyer  and  a 
sympathetic  Judge  will  do  the  rest. 

Four  children  abandoned  by  their  parents  in  this 
city  in  one  week  testify  to  to  the  rapidly  growing  un- 
popularity of  the  rising  generation.  Their  actual 
advent  is  hemmed  in  with  so  many  obstacles  nowa- 
days that  but  few  survive  their  first  trying  experi- 
ences— what  Mrs.  Wilcox  would  call  the  "prenatal 
influences."  Those  who  do  see  the  light,  however,  so 
frighten  their  parents  that  the  latter  abandon  them! 
Truly,  a  gift  of  the  Lord. 

The  aged  capitalist  is  a  target  for  the  aggressive 
female.  There  are  several  ways  of  getting  at  him. 
The  massage  artist  has  an  opportunity  of  which  she 
occasionally  is  able  to  take  advantage.  Thus  in  the 
Knauer  case,  which  was  settled  by  agreement  last 
week,  the  massage  widow  is  allowed  thirty  thousand 
dollars.  From  a  small  room  and  your  ad.  in  the  Bul- 
letin to  thirty  thousand  would  be  a  good  jump  for 
most  people. 


March  26,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


icre^jssw*  s  o  c  1  e  t~ 


Dear  Bessie:  Don't  you  think  we  arc  going  to  end 
the  season  brilliantly?    Two  dan. 

and  the  promise  of  one  over  in  Sausalito.  To  be 
sure,  one  of  them  is  to  DC  given  by  the  younger  set 
girls  not  yet  out,  and  beaux  to  correspond,  but  it  will 
be  a  fine  affair  all  the  same.  Easter  week  is  tilling 
up;  on  Monday  there  are  to  be  the  two  wedding] ,  .it- 
ternoon  and  evening:  Tuesday  night  the  members 
of  Grace  Church  give  a  reception  at  Century  Hall  in 
honor  of  their  new  rector,  Mr.  Evans;  Wednesday 
night  is  named  for  the  Bachelor  ball  at  the  Palace; 
and  on  Friday  the  youngsters  have  their  dance.  So 
you  see,  the  Easter  season  promises  to  be  a  gay  one 
even  though  it  may  be  short. 

Ollie  Palmer  had  a  luncheon  on  Wednesday  for 
Jessie  Hobart  Leonard,  who  is  down  here  from  Ne- 
vada on  a  visit  to  Mrs.  Brownell ;  there  were  two 
"openings"  on  Thursday — the  annual  exhibition  of 
the  State  Floral  Society  in  the  Ferry  Building,  and 
that  of  the  Art  Institute — but  I  shall  have  to  tell  you 
about  them  next  week.  Laura  and  Edna  Hamilton 
give  Frances  Harris  a  luncheon  to-day.  Mrs.  Sam 
Buckbee  had  a  bridge  party  on  Tuesday  night,  and 
Kate  Voorhies  Henry  another;  at  Mabel  Toy's  card 
party  in  honor  of  Frances  Harris  and  her  futur,  we 
played  seven-handed  euchre  and  had  the  jolliest  kind 
of  a  time.  Don't  you  remember  what  a  wide  swathe 
that  Italian  Prince,  Lot.  is  of  Savoy,  cut  at  Burlin- 
game  when  he  was  here  some  years  ago?  You  can 
therefore  be  sure  there  is  great  glee  manifested  at 
the  news  that  he  is  on  his  way  here  in  command  of 
a  frigate ;  so  then  look  out  for  good  times  on  board ; 
he  does  so  love  to  entertain — at  least  he  did. 

May  Burdge  has  joined  the  ranks  of  Easter  brides, 
as  she  and  Bernard  Miller  are  to  be  united  in  wedlock 
on  Easter  Monday  night.  As  I  told  you  before,  Mrs. 
Smith  is  making  the  most  elaborate  preparations  for 
the  event;  the  ceremony  is  to  be  performed  at  Arbor 
Villa,  with  only  a  few  friends  to  witness  it,  but  a 
grand  reception  will  follow,  which  is  to  be  something 
quite  gorgeous.  Pink  and  white  are  to  be  the  colors, 
both  in  the  decorations  and  the  costumes  worn  by  the 
bridal  party.  Winifred  Burdge,  as  maid  of  honor,  is 
to  wear  a  gown  of  pale  pink,  and  the  attendant 
maids — eight  in  number — are  to  be  gowned  in  white 
and  carry  bridesmaid's  roses.  Charley  Gooding  is 
to  be  Bernard's  best  man,  and  there  will  be  eight 
groomsmen — or  ushers,  call  them  by  either  name. 
Edna  Barry  is,  I  hear,  to  be  an  April  bride,  her  wed- 
ding with  Philip  Clay  being  named  for  then. 

Florence  Callaghan's  wedding  is  to  be  a  very  quiet 
home  one,  as  her  mother's  health  is  so  uncertain.  It 
will  take  place  about  the  middle  of  the  month.  The 
marriage  of  Edith  Findley  and  George  Gardiner  will 
not  come  off  for  some  time  yet.  I  have  heard  Septem- 
ber or  October  named  as  the  probable  time,  and  it 
will  be  at  Mrs.  Findley's  home  over  in  Sausahto.  Did 
I  tell  you  that  Bee  Hooper  is  engaged  to  John  Blan- 
chard?  And  they  say  the  wedding  is  to  take  place 
very  soon. 

The  last  was  quite  a  week  of  surprises  in  the  en- 
gagement line.  First  came  that  of  Ruth  McNutt  and 
Lieutenant  Lee,  followed  by  Eleanor  Warners  to 
Stuart  Rawlings,  which  was  formally  made  known 
at  the  pretty  tea  Mrs.  Warner  gave  last  Thursday 
for  the  recent  bride,  Mrs.  Frank  Wakefield,  and  Mrs 
Frank  Baldwin;  and  then  a  third  was  Bees.  And 
now  comes  what  is  not  exactly  a  surprise,  but  a  story 
that  Kate  Dillon  is  to  announce  her  engagement  to 


Lieutenant  Winship  almost  any  day.  so  the  prettiest 
cups  in  town  arc  being  looked  up  to  be  despatched 
the  moment  it  is  "out." 

usual,  we  are  having  a  lot  of  charity  entertain- 
ments before  the  close  of  the  season.  The  Indian 
tea  at  Mrs.  George  Law  Smith's  last  week  was  a 
financial  success,  and  has  been  supplemented  by  yet 
another  "performance"  on  Thursday  of  this  week. 
The  Doctor's  Daughters  will  have  no  cause  to  com- 
plain of  the  result  of  their  exchequer  from  their  horse 
show  yesterday  and  circus  to-day;  and  next  of  large 
affairs  will  come  the  musical  comedy  of  "His  Royal 
Nibs,"  the  joint  production  of  Shatter  Howard  and 
W.  H.  Clifford,  which  will  be  given  at  the  Alhambra 
Theatre  for  the  benefit  of  the  California  Women's 
Hospital,  on  the  21st  and  22d  of  April.  All  the  cast 
are  to  be  amateurs,  and  great  things  are  promised 
and  expected.  And  we  have  also  the  dog  show  to 
look  forward  to,  which  opens  at  the  Pavilion  on  the 
13th  of  April. 

Was  it  not  a  heart-break  that  the  two  days  for  the 
pony  races  at  Tanforan  should  have  been  so  vile — 
there  is  no  other  word  for  it?  The  rain  spoiled  a  lot 
of  pleasant  parties  that  were  arranged  for  them,  ana 
instead  of  automobiles  and  other  vehicles  being  util- 
ized, those  who  had  courage  enough  to  brave  ine  ele- 
ments went  in  the  prosaic  cars — steam  and  electric. 
Jean  Reid  was  among  those  on  Thursday,  and  had 
with  her  her  friend  Kate  Barney,  who  is  becoming 
almost  as  much  liked  as  charming  Jean  ;  Mrs.  Frank 
Carolan  had  Miss  Kirk  in  her  party — another  visitor 
who  is  quite  a  favorite.  We  have  all  been  condoling 
with  Nellie  Spreckels  on  the  loss  of  her  beautiful 
home  in  Sonoma  County;  you  have  no  idea  what  a 
delightful  place  it  was  for  house  parties,  and  quite 
a  number  had  been  arranged  to  be  given  there  as 
soon  as  the  spring  was  fairly  here.  She  had  a  lovely 
little  luncheon  last  week  for  Mrs.  Romualdo  Pacheco. 
Another  of  last  week's  pleasant  affairs  was  the  pretty 
informal  tea  which  Mrs.  Taylor  gave  as  an  adieu  to 
Pearl  Sabin,  who  left  on  Monday  to  officiate  as 
Kathro  Burton's  bridesmaid  in  Washington  City. 

The  Clokes  are  among  those  who  will  be  among 
the  missing  ere  long,  as  Captain  Cloke  has  been  or- 
dered to  Fort  Totten,  New  York,  so  we  must  make 
the  most  of  them  while  they  remain  at  Fort  Baker. 
The  Burgesses  are  in  their  new  quarters  at  the  Pre- 
sidio— generally  known  as  No.  9  of  officers'  row — 
where  they  hope  to  remain  some  time ;  their  late  lo- 
cale was  such  a  hard  one  to  get  to.  Mrs.  Burgess 
has  always  been  noted  for  her  hospitality,  and  once 
they  are  well  settled,  which  will  be  about  Easter, 
intends  to  open  her  doors  to  her  friends  from*  the 


CHREVE  &  COMPANY  an- 
^  nounce  their  usual  Easter  Dis- 
play Monday,  March  the  Twenty- 
eighth,  until  April  the  Second 

POST  and  MARKET  STREETS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


city,  who  are  delighted  to  have  her  back  again  with 
the  prospect  of  a  residence  of  several  years.     - 

People  are  not  only  planning  where  they  are  to 
spend  the  spring  and  summer,  but  some  have  already 
actually  left  town ;  others  are  busily  packing  up  their 
belongings  for  an  early  flit,  and  Easter  week  will  see 
a  number  of  our  winter  residents  safely  ensconced 
in  their  own  country  homes.  The  Ross  Valleyites 
are  usually  among  the  earliest  to  get  away,  and  of 
those  who  are  going  next  week  are  the  Kittles, 
Harry  Aliens,  Ed.  Schmiedells,  Clinton  Joneses  and 
Harry  Bothins,  and  not  long  behind  them  will  be 
the  Eels,  and  the  Ed.  McNears.  The  Arthur  Pages 
have  decided  to  give  Belvedere  the  cool  shake  this 
year,  and  go  to  San  Rafael ;  the  Ed.  Eyres  have  al- 
ready gone  to  Menlo  Park,  as  well  as  the  Taylors, 
and  the  Weirs  are  about  to  follow  in  their  footsteps. 
The  George  Shreves  go  to  San  Mateo  next  week, 
and  the  Martin  connection,  including  the  Downey 
Harveys,  when  they  arrive  in  May,  will  be  found 
down  in  that  vicinity  later  on.  The  Walter  Magees 
go  south  to  their  ranch.  The  H.  B.  Chases  do  not 
return  to  Stagg's  Leap  until  May,  and  the  Wake- 
field Bakers  go  to  the  McCloud  River  early  in  June 
for  most  of  the  season  ;  the  Oscar  Beatties  are  going 
to  spend  the  summer  at  the  Hooper  ranch  at  Wood 
side;  Mrs.  Hearst,  who  is  in  New  York,  will  pass 
the  summer  at  her  Pleasanton  hacienda;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harry  Bates  are  building  a  bungalow  at  Belve- 
dere, where  they  will  spend  the  summer,  and  the  Sam 
Knights  are  to  build  a  villa  at  Burlingame  in  the 
immediate  future.  Among  prospective  losses  are  the 
Kruttschnitts,  who  are  about  to  remove  to  Chicago; 
Mrs.  Kruttschnitt  entertains  delightfully,  and  will 
therefore  be  greatly  missed.  But  the  McClurgs  are 
to  be  back  from  San  Diego,  where  they  have  been  all 
winter,  and  what  a  warm  welcome  home  they  will 
receive ;  every  one  will  be  glad  to  see  them  again ; 
Fred  Home  is  on  the  Adams,  you  know,  which  is 
expected  here  soon,  hence  their  return.  The  War- 
ners go  back  to  Mill  Valley  in  June,  where,  I  believe, 
Eleanor's  wedding  is  to  come  off  some  time  during 
the  summer.  —Elsie. 


AT  HOME. 

Monday — Mrs.  William  Hopkins,  St.  Francis  Hotel ; 
Mrs.  Logan,  The  San  Marco;  Mrs.  John  Van 
Arsdale,  The  San  Marco ;  Mrs.  J.  W.  Lake,  The 
San  Marco. 

Thursday — Mrs.  Philetus  Evarts,  1st  and  2d,  the  Em- 
pire;  Mrs.  O.  C.  Baldwin,  4th  in  April,  2415  Bu- 
chanan street;  Mrs.  Oliver  Dibble,  1st  and  3d 
in  April;  1012  Pine  street. 

Friday — Mrs.  Joseph  Masten,  2d  and  3d  in  April, 
3954  Washington  street;  Mrs.  John  Heath,  Oak- 
land, April  21st  and  28th. 

RECEPTIONS. 

April  5th   (Tuesday) — At  Century  Hall  in  honor  of 
Reverend  Mr.  Evans,  9  p.  m. 
BALLS. 

April  6th  (Wednesday) — Bachelors'  Ball,  at  the  Pal- 
ace Hotel. 

April   8th    (Friday) — Junior  Assembly. 
CARDS. 

April  5th  (Tuesday  evening) — Miss  Isabelle  Kendall, 
in  Oakland,  in  honor  of  Miss  Francis  Van  Ran- 
sellaer  and  Miss  Edna  Barry. 

April    14th    (Thursday) — Mrs.   Lester   Herrick,  The 
Empire,  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Greenfield. 
ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Ethel  Low,  daughter  of  Judge  Charles  A.  Low 
and  Mrs.  Low,  to  Lieutenant  James  Hamilton, 
13th  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  son  of  Major  W.  H. 


Hamilton,  U.  S.  A. 

.-Miss  Anna  Wooster,  daughter  .of  Mrs.  A.  H.  Small, 
to  Frank  Glass,  son  of  Admiral  Glass,  U.  S.  N. 

Miss  Eleanor  Warner,  daughter  of  Doctor  and  Mrs. 
Alexander  Warner,  to  Stuart  Lamar  Rawlings. 

Miss  Rose  Ellen  Hecht,  daughter  of  Colonel  and  Mrs. 
M.  H.  Hecht,  to  Simon  Walter  Frank,  of  Balti- 
more, Md. 

WEDDINGS. 

March  26th  (Saturday) — Miss  Ethel  Greene,  daugh- 
ter of  Judge  F.  W.  Greene,  to  Lathrop  Jewell, 
at  Mr.  Carlton  Greene's,  on  Union  street,  9  p.  m. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

April  4  (Monday) — Miss  May  Burdge,  to  Bernard 
Miller,  Arbor  Villa,  Oakland,  9  p.  m. ;  at  The 
Highlands,  Washington  City,  Miss  Kathro  Bur- 
ton, daughter  of  Inspector-General  George  H. 
Burton,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Burton,  to  Lieutenant 
George  Lee,  U.  S.  A.,  son  of  General  Fitzhugh 
Lee,  9  p.  m. ;  Miss  Eleanor  Eckart,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  R.  Eckart,  to  Edward 
Hume,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Hume  of 
Piedmont. 

April  6th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Frances  Harris  to  Er- 
nest Stent,  at  the  residence  of  Msr.  Chris  Reis, 
aunt  of  the  bride,  4  p.  m. ;  Miss  Ethel  Kent  to 
Lieutenant  Gilbert  Allen,  U.  S.  A.,  Grace  Church, 
8:30  p.  m. 

May  nth  (Wednesday) — Miss  Ella  Goodall  to  Doc- 
tor Charles  Minor  Cooper,  at  the  residence  of  the 
Goodalls  in  Oakland. 

DINNER. 

March  29th  (Tuesday) — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  T. 
Scott,  Palm  Garden,  Palace. 

April  8  (Friday) — Mrs.  Timothv  Hopkins,  Palace 
Hotel. 

CARDS. 

April  5   (Tuesday) — Mrs.  William  P.  Morgan,  221 1 
Clay  street. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colin  M.  Boyd  will  go  to  Casa  Boyd, 

their   country   home   in    Alameda   County,   early    in 

April,   to   remain    through   the   spring   and   summer 

months. 


P.  WESTERFELD  a  CO. 
BaKers  and  Confectioners 
1035  MarKet  Street 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Mrs.  Elliott  B.  Chase 


VI    HOME 
THURSDAYS 


716  K  STREET 
SACRAMENTO.  CAX. 


Messrs.  P.  Westerfeld 
&  Co..   1035  Market 
St.,  San  Francisco 
Gentlemen:  Please 

send  me  on  Abril  $th 
ncirttone  ij~lo.  Wed- 
ding Coke,  neatly 
decorated,  to  cost 
about  $10.  Stiip  !>Y 
express. 

Truly  jvurs, 
Mrs.  Elliott  B.   Chase 


March  36.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

The  following  is  a   list  of  those  who  enter! 
dinner  partio  at  the  Hotel 
evening 


13 


Mrs.  Chas.  I.  Deer;: 
Mr.  Pend!<  4 

Mr.   1.  I!.  Kccfe  4 

Mrs.  Ash 

Mr.  ('.  S,  Wheeler 

Mr.  S.  N.  Rcucker         1  _• 
Mr.  H.  Keil  10 

Mrs.  I.irhcnstcin 

Mrs.  Beh.iniann 

Mr.  Cooper     and     Mr. 

Stevenson  11 

Mr.  W'm.  Thomas        14 
Mr.  Pernham  4 

Mr.  H.  T.  S  ro 

Mr.  Mahoney  o, 

Mrs.  Goldstein  u 

Messrs.  Lilienthal  and 

Walters  8 

Mr.  Drosmeyer  4 

Mr.  Meissner  4 

Mr.  McNab  6 

Mr.  Allan  Pollok  6 

Mr.  R.  T.  Davis  5 

Mr.   Irving-    and    Mr. 

Scott  8 

Mr.  W.  Gosling  6 

Mrs.  Fries. 

Mrs.  Gerstle  12 

Mr.  W.  F.  Fontana       18 
Mr.  W.  H.  Wills  4 

Mr.  John  Condon  5 

Mrs.     Lachman     and 

Mrs.  Brown  6 

Mr.  Long  3 

Mr.  Fuller  5 

Mr.  Feigel  4 

Mr.  Bissinger  4 

Mr.  Clement  Tobin        4 
Mr.  Howell  4 

Mrs.  N;ppert  and  Mrs. 
Hanrner  12 

Mr.  F:  W.  Dohrmann,  10        Mrs.  Bourn  10 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Herrscher  entertained  a  party 
of  eight  at  an  elaborate  dinner  at  the  St.  Francisl 
Hotel  opening,  and  later  attended  the  performance 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  Their  guests  were :  Mr. 
and'Mrs.  I.  H.  Lichtenstein,  Mr.  P.  Samuel,  Miss  L. 
Hesser,  Miss  E.  C.  Herrscher,  Mr.  M.  Samuel.  ■ 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael :  Mrs.  Rodgers,  Mr.  J.  W. 
Dickerson,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Carpenter,  Miss  E.  R.  Car- 
penter, Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  M.  Rawson,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Den- 
nett, Miss  C.  Dennett,  Mr.  J.  P.  Bassett,  Mrs.  W. 
Oseriberg,  Miss  A.  Osenberg,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  F.  Ab- 
bott, Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  R.  Stowell,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G. 
E.  Foster,  Mr.  G.  W.  Hippie,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Evans, 
Mrs.  R.  Shopleigh,  Miss  A.  Merrill,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W. 
Stein,  Jr.,  Mrs.  C.  Buckman,  Miss  M.  Buckman,  Mr. 
C.  Detre,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  Watson,  Mr.  E.  Webster, 
Mrs.  C.  Lentz,  Mr.  C.  Lentz,  Jr.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R. 
Patterson,  Mrs.  H.  F.  Wallace,  Miss  M.  E.  Wallace, 
Mr.  W.  B.  Ames,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  P.  Crowenhaven, 
Miss  K.  Crowenhaven,  Miss  K.  D.  Crowenhaven, 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  Adams,  Miss  L.  A.  Mansfield,  Miss  E. 
Paddleford;  Mrs.  I.  M.  Potter,  Miss  Gardiner,  Mrs. 
W."  M.  Fleming,  Miss-  J.  E.  Fleming,  Miss  M.  E. 
Gibbs,  Mrs.  A.  V.  Shannon,  Mr.  Ludwig  Demeter. 


Ex-Mavor  Phclan 

Mr.  Lone 

\ 

Mr.  Lent 

4 

Zol.  Trumbo 

Mr.  Walter  Martin 

O 

Messrs.    Hilbert     ant 

Tockers 

IO 

Messrs.  Hills  Bros 

4 

Mr.  Gaskill 

Mr.  Tohn  Condon 

ft 

Mr.  Wm.  Wolff 

4 

Mr.  W.  B.  Faville 

\ 

Mr.  F..  Weil 

in 

Mr.  A.  H.  Revell 

<:> 

Bishop  Hamilton 

4 

Mr.  D.  E.  Kohn 

Q. 

Mr.  Marschutz 

4 

Mrs.  Mulcahv 

4 

Mr.    Leventritt 

2 

Mr.  G.  W.  Kline 

4 

Mr.  Barker 

5 

Friedlander 

6 

Messrs.  Napthalv  and 

Talbot 

4 

Mrs.  Dickson  and  Mrs 

Mr.  Hopkins 

S 

Mr.  W.  H.  Mills 

4 

Mr.  Morrison 

6 

Mr.  T.  S.  Gassett 

8 

Mr.  Harrv  Gray 

2 

Mr.  Lyman 

Mr.   W.    T-    Franklin 

6 

■4 

Mrs.  Peter  Martin 

8 

Mrs.  Chas.  D.  Pierce 

4 

Mrs.  Green 

11 

Mayor  Schmitz 

6 

Mr.  J.  T.  Shayne 

3 

Mr.   R.    T.   Bentley 

b 

Mr.  A.  W.  Wilson 

4 

Press 

4 

Mr.  W.  Bliss 

9 

.The  floral  wealth  of  California  at  this  time  of  the 
year"  is"  magnificently  displayed  at  Podesta  &  Bal- 
docchi's  floral,  warerooms,  242  Sutter  street.  Easter 
lilies  are  beautiful,  and  the  roses  are  bewildering. 

Kneumatics  relieved  at  the  Post  St  Hammara 


Society  was  ont  in  full  force  at  the  openinp  of  the 

'  I. in.    I  .  Sweeney, 
at  m  Po!  nd  if  we  were  permitted  we  i-iiijiit 

men-  the   iumr<  of  the   most    smartly 

n  in  San  Francisco  as  visitors.  Great 
delight  was  manifested  by  these  visitors  iii  viewing 
the  pattern  hats  and  exclusive  styles  This  estab- 
lishment  bids  fair  1..  become  One  of  the  most  fash- 
ionable in  San  Francisco,  and  judging  by  the  attend- 
ance and  the  exclamations  of  pleasure  of  the  ladies 
■  t,  Miss  Sweenev  must  have  an  intuitive  idea  of 
what  goes  to  please  the  well-dressed  woman. 

Tho  star  Hair  Rem.  rastorfttlveB, 

line  luilr.  i'un  s  .lamlrulT   restores  color.     \<>ta'lv<*      Ac  .IruK- 

?[.t  noiMll'Hlitute      Star  Remedy  Co.      1338 
■oik  street     Tel  Butter  si. 


One  of  the  safest  and  boat  remedies  for  biliousness  or  billons  head- 
ache, te  LetpnitzLtv.T  Regulator.    Ir  lean  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
lijreetlve  organs.    Foraale  by  Leipnitz  A  Co.  N.  E.  Cor,  Butter 

ami  Gram  Ave. 


The  Sansome  Street  Ooffee  House.  MB 

cater  to  tin-  business  men  of  tin,-  vlcdi 
market  affords,  at  reasonable  ratps. 

StiiiHome  Street,  is  opened  to 
it y .   with  the   best  01   nil   the 

1 

_ 

ANNIE 

L.  STONE 

begs 

to  announce  her  returr 

1  from   Paris   and   is 

now 

prepared 

to  show  the 

very  latest    styles    in 

Millinery  and  hi 

gh-class  Parisian  Novelties,  including: 

LINGERIE, 

CORSETS, 

NECKWEAR, 

PERFUMES, 

etc,  etc. 

llfi 

Geary 

Street 

TEL.  BLACK  3344 


MRS.    FOLSOM 

IMPORTED  MILLINERY 


BONNETS  A 
SPECIALTY 


121  POST  ST.,  Room  C 


WRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISHES  \ 

Removed  by  New  Process  (Guaran- 
teed.) Face  Massage,  Manicuring 
and  Scalp  Massage 

AT    YOUR    HOME, 

by  appointment 

MME.    H.    EASTWOOD 

1307  Larkln  St.,  S.  P.  Tel.  Larkih  2646. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  T904. 


boJWLJPTHE   LOOKER-ON  |Q^WL_J| 


(San  Francisco  women  have  formed  a  new  club 
called  "Cap  and  Bells,"  for  fun  and  folly. — Daily 
Paper:) 

"When  lovely  woman  stoops  to  folly," 

(And  everybody  knows  the  rest,) 
jhe  throws  aside  all  melancholy — 

She  does  her  little  very  best. 
For  man  is  but  a  creature  doltish 

Who  slowly  yields  to  pleasure's  sway, 
While  woman  is  by  nature  coltish — 

The  sort  of  dog  that  has  her  day. 

Her  daring  dash,  audacious,  winning, 

Half-hid  by  prudence,  moves  our  smile, 
She  thralls  us  with  her  covert  sinning, 

Enchants  us  with  her  pretty  guile. 
i>ut  what  will  happen  when  she  places 

No  further  trust  in  cunning  spells, 
But  throws  aside  her  airs  and  graces 

To  wear  the  public  cap  and  bells? 

—Roland  Whittle. 

*  *  * 

To  one  acquainted  with  the  procedure  of  the  police 
in  the  Police  Courts,  the  agitation  raised  by  the 
Grand  Jury  over  what  appears  to  be  a  lack  of  energy 
on  the  part  of  the  Police  Judges  in  administering  the 
law,  looks  suspiciously  like  what  Carter  Harrison 
calls  "four-flushing."  Nor  would  I  attempt  to  defend 
the  Police  Judges  against  some  of  the  charges  made 
against  them.  I  think,  for  instance,  that  they  are 
guilty  of  neglect  of  duty  in  that  they  do  not  give 
sufficient  time  to  their  official  business.  In  this  re- 
spect, Conlan  and  Mogan  are  the  greatest  offenders. 
They  may  be  seen  too  often  in  and  about  Tom  Fer- 
guson's to  warrant  the  belief  that  they  are  giving 
the  people  $4,000  worth  of  their  time  every  year.  In 
brief,  Conlon  and  Mogan  are  lazy — and  that  is  pit- 
ting their  dereliction  very  light.  The  Grand  Jury, 
however,  is  on  the  wrong  track  when  it  holds  the 
Judges  responsible  for  the  decreased  income  from 
fines  levied  upon  offenders  against  the  lottery  laws. 

*  *  * 

For  many  years  the  lottery  business  has  been  li- 
censed in  this  city.  The  statute  books  do  not  provide 
for  a  license,  but  it  has  been  the  custom  in  the  police 
courts  to  levy  nominal  fines  in  lottery  cases.  These 
fines  are  promptly  paid,  and  the  result  amounts  to 
licensing  lotteries.  Ail  this  has  been  done  not  only 
with  the  knowledge,  but  upon  the  recommendation  of 
the  police  department.  The  police  have  never  yet 
brought  into  court  sufficient  legal  evidence  to  con- 
vict a  Chinese  lottery  player,  or  the  keeper  of  a  Chi- 
nese lottery  game.  The  Judges,  the  prosecuting  at- 
torneys and  the  police  themselves  all  admit  this  fact. 
Whenever  a  Chinese,  convicted  in  a  lottery  case,  has 
appealed  to  the  Superior  Court,  the  finding  of  the 
Police  Judge  has  been  set  aside  for  lack  of  evidence, 
and  the  man  has  been  liberated.  Six  or  seven  years 
ago,  the  Judges,  at  the  instigation  of  the  Grand  Jury. 
levied  fines  of  from  $100  to  $250  in  lottery  cases.  In 
every  instance,  upon  appeal,  these  convictions  were 
set  aside.  The  fault,  therefore,  is  not  with  the 
Judges.  It  is  with  the  Police  Department.  Again,  it 
is  more  than  passing  strange  that  the  police  never 
arrest  the  white  lottery  dealers,  against  whom  le- 
gal evidence  can  be  secured.  All  their  efforts  are 
concentrated  on  Chinatown.  Some  years  since,  the 
Chief  of  Police  and  the  Chinese  gamblers  had  an  un- 
derstanding that  the  gamblers  would  submit  to  pay- 


ing into  the  courts  in  the  shape  of  fines  a  certain 
amount  each  month.  That  agreement  was  kept  for 
a  long  time.  If,  toward  the  end  of  any  month,  it 
appeared  that  the  amount  had  not  been  paid  in,  the 
Chinatown  squad  organized  a  raid,  and  anested 
enough  lottery  players  to  bring  up  the  amount  to  the 
right  figure,  the  men  being  fined  $5  each.  In  these 
instances,  it  is  known  that  certain  boss  gamblers 
hired  coolies  to  submit  to  arrest,  and  then  paid  their 
fines.  If  the  Grand  Jurors  really  want  to  find  out 
something  about  the  lottery  business  in  the  police 
courts,  they  should  institute  a  secret  inquiry.  It 
would  develop  much  of  interest. 

*  *  * 

The  usual  wrangle  about  the  proper  administra- 
tion of  the  School  Department  is  now  on.  Arrayed 
on  one  side  are  the  Superintendent  and  the  princi- 
pals ;  on  the  other  are  the  School  Directors.  The 
Superintendent  and  his  supporters  argue  that,  as  they 
are  school  men ;  that  as  the  proper  instruction  of 
youth  is  their  specialty;  that  as  pedagogy  is  their 
profession,  to  them  should  be  left  the  direction  of  the 
scholastic  part  of  the  business  of  conducting  the 
schools,  and  that  the  School  Directors  should  give 
their  exclusive  attention  to  the  economical  expendi- 
ture of  the  vast  sum  appropriated  annually  for  the 
department.  The  Directors,  on  the  other  hand,  in- 
sist that  as  they  are  responsible,  they  should  per- 
sonally c  ;nduct  every  branch  of  the  business,  from 
deciding  whether  the  children  shall  write  according 
to  this  system  or  that,  to  determining  how  much 
paint  shall  go  on  a  school  fence.  To  one  who  con- 
siders the  subject  only  from  the  standpoint  of  the 
bet.erment  of  the  department,  it  would  seem  that  the 
Superintendent  and  the  principals  have  the  strong 
end  of  the  argument.  Pedagogics  is  a  science.  Some 
thinkers  say  it  is  an  art.  But  whether  science  or  art. 
or  both,  certain  it  is  that  its  principals  can  be  best 
applied,  and  its  methods  made  productive  of  the  best 
results,  only  by  those  who,  by  long  study  and  appli- 
cation, have  become  qualified  to  practice  it.  Only 
one  of  the  School  Directors  is  a  teacher,  and  his 
greatest  claim  to  distinction  is  his  success  in  ad- 
vancing his  own  interests.  The  others  are  business 
men,  who  may  be  competent  to  handle  the  finances  of 
the  department,  but  who  are  certainly  not  quanned 
by  experience,  education  or  inclination  to  formulate 
curricula  or  to  suggest  any  improvements  along 
scholastic  lines.  Of  course,  the  argument  will  be  de- 
cided finally  in  favor  of  the  Directors.  They  will 
have  their  own  way,  for  along  that  way  lies  patron- 
age and  big  contracts  occasioned  by  changes  in  text 
books. 

*  *  * 

The  Duke  of  the  Abruzzi  is  coming  back  to  Bur- 
lingame.  He  is  reported  bound  for  this  port  in  com- 
mand of  an  Italian  man-of-war.  The  Duke  is  one 
of  the  most  likable  of  the  various  heavy  swells  who 
have  caused  flutters  in  local  society  circles  from  time 
to  time.  When  he  was  here  several  years  ago,  he 
followed  the  anise-seed  bag  over  the     fences     and 


FURNISHED  HOUSE  TO-LET 

Magnificent  marine  view-  Nine  rooms;  Billiard  Boom.  Bath 
and  modern  conveniences.  One  block  from  Hyde-st.  cars.  Rent 
reasonable.      Apply  to  Miss  Hamilton.  1513  Washington  street. 


March  26.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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ditches  down  at  Burlingame  with  as  much  en 
merit  as  an  ordinary  mortal — whereat  the  clubmen 
somewhat  marveled.  They  had  a  limited  acquaint- 
ance with  the  nobility,  to  be  sun  I  Talbot 
Clifton,  of  pleasant  memory,  was  much  at  the  club 
in  those  days,  and  George  Hall  had  ju-t  bi 
rated  with  the  Order  of  the  Medjidie  by  Hi*  SulUnic 
master,  and  was  considered  the  real  tiling.  But  a  real 
live  Duke  was  hip  panic,  and  the  clubmen  mad 
most  of  him.  The  Tohin  hoys  le<l  the  hunt  with  the 
Abruzzi,  and  after  the  run  luncheon  was  enjoyed  on 
the  club  veranda.  Some  cold  chicken  had  found  its 
way  into  the  Italian's  department  of  the  interior. 
when  a  lone  and  weary  looking  mounted  figure  was 
seen  coming  up  the  drive  from  the  Gelds.  Tt  was 
Harry  Simpkins.  He  and  his  noble  steed  had  been 
lost  in  the  shuffle  upon  the  hillsides.  The  Duke 
speaks  French  fluently,  and  by  this  time,  doubtless, 
can  turn  out  a  fair  brand  of  English.  Since  his  fox- 
hunt at  Burlingame  he  has  been  within  sighting  shot 
of  the  North  Pole,  has  gone  around  the  world,  has 
written  a  book,  and  is  now  in  command  of  a  warship. 
This  scion  of  the  ancient  House  of  Savoy  believes  in 
the  strenuous  life. 

*  *  * 

One  Hugh  Spillane  was  taken  to  the  Central  Emer- 
gency Hospital  a  few  evenings  ago,  suffering  from  a 
fractured  skull.  The  intelligent  young  medicos  ap- 
pointed by  the  Board  of  Health  to  attend  to  the  un- 
fortunates who  drift  into  them  at  the  hospital,  locked 
at  Spillane,  and  promptly  decided  that  he  was  suffer- 
ing from  pneumonia.  Theyr  wrapped  him  up  in  blan- 
kets, and  let  it  go  at  that.  Spillane  promptly  died. 
Then  it  was  discovered  that  his  skull  was  fractured. 
Now  the  Board  of  Health's  doctors  are  trying  to  ex- 
plain. No  explanation  they  can  make  can  satisfy 
the  public.  Since  Schmitz  took  charge  of  the  Board 
of  Health,  its  record  has  been  one  of  failure.  One 
of  its  appointees  had  no  license  to  practice  medicine, 
and  was  forced  to  resign  under  threat  of  arrest  and 
prosecution  if  he  attempted  to  practice ;  another  ap- 
pointee was  a  dentist,  and  he  was  also  forced  out ; 
a  third  appointee  received  a  sailor  whose  intestines 
were  protruding  through  a  knife  wound  in  the  ab-- 
domen,  and  sent  him  in  a  wagon  to  the  County  Hos- 
pital, four  miles  away.  The  man  died  in  the  wagon. 
Now  comes  the  Spillane  case.  The  Board,  however, 
has  done  much  to  retrieve  itself.  It  has  made  Dr. 
Ragan  Health  Officer.  Dr.  Lawlor  has  been  given 
some  other  job,  and  McQuaide,  the  ex-prize  fighter. 
has  been  made  assistant  Superintendent  of  the 
County  Hospital.    You  know,  we  should  be  consoled. 

It  might  have  been  worse. 

*  *  * 

I  am  glad  to  know  that  something  is  about  to  de- 
velop from  the  movement  to  erect  a  statue  in  honor 
of  riall  McAllister.  He  was  certainly  a  great  lawyer, 
and  the  city  should  honor  him.  It  seems  strange  that 
only  $3,600  has  been  raised  for  the  statue.  That  may 
be  enough,  but  the  amount  indicates  that  the  lawyers 
are  not  liberal  givers.  The  statue  will  be  erected  on 
the  McAllister  street  side  of  the  City  Hall.  A  splen- 
did site  would  be  in  the  grass  plat  at  the  eastern  side 
of  the  Hall  of  Records.  Incidentally,  whom  does 
Colonel  Kowalsky  represent  in  connection  with  the 
monument?  He  accompanied  Judges  Morrow  and 
Hunt  in  the  visit  to  the  Park  Commissioners  to  ask 
for  a  site.  Is  Kowalsky  the  successor  of  McAllister 
at  the  local  bar?  Has  the  accumulation  of  wealth,  . 
by  whatever  means,  purged  the  Kowalsky  of  any 
delinquencies  that  might  be  charged  against  him? 
Or,  by  aiding  to  raise  monuments  to  others,  does  he  — 
wish  to'suggest  one  to  himself,  entitled:  "Kowalsky, 


Pears' 

W'c  perspire  a  pint  a 
day  without  knowing  it ; 
ought  to ;  if  not,  there's 
trouble  ahead.  The  ob- 
structed skin  becomes 
sallow  or  breaks  out  in 
pimples.  The  trouble  goes 
deeper,  but  this  is  trouble 
enough. 

If  you  use  Pears'  Soap, 
no  matter  how  often,  the 
skin  is  clear  and  soft  and 
open  and  clear. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


the  Great  Heir  Restorer?" 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Hachet-Souplet,  a  French  savant,  contends 
that  the  high  speed  of  the  automobile  tends  to  Ireak 
down  the  moral  sense  of  the  'bilist,  just  as  would  the 
excessive  use  of  opium  or  alcohol.  He  asserts  that 
many  chauffeurs  are  reckless,  not  really  because  they 
enjoy  danger,  but  because  the  high  speed  at  which 
they  send  their  machines  results  in  a  condition  of 
actual  intoxication,  in  which  they  lose  all  self-control. 
Under  these  conditions,  he  says,  even  the  normal  in- 
stinct of  self-preservation  seems  to  disappear,  and  all 
the  worst  side  of  a  man's  nature  forces  its  way 
through  the  cuticle  of  conventionality  and  comes  to 
the  top.  That  explains,  says  this  very  satisfactory 
Frenchman,  why  it  is  that  a  speeding  chauffeur,  in- 
terrupted by  the  hand  of  the  law,  is  very  apt  to  be 
pugnacious,  spiteful  and  even  violent.  He  is  simply 
suffering  from  an  automobile  jag.  Dr.  Hachet-Sou- 
plet's  ideas  are  interesting,  if  not  convincing. 

*  *  * 

It  was  after  "taps"  at  a  National  Guard  encamp- 
ment. The  soldier  boys,  restive  under  restraint,  were 
sending  out  catcalls  from  every  tent.  The  Captain  of 
G  Company  whose  ancestors  had  fought  at  Fontenay, 
determined  to  subdue  the  row.  He  rushed  to  1  tent 
from  which  escaped  the  loudest  volume  of  sound,  and 
angrily  shaking  the  flap,  cried :  "Here,  here,  this  won't 
do  at  all,  at  all.  How  many  of  you  divils  are  in 
there?" 

"Three  of  us,  Captain." 

"Well,  thin,  half  of  you  come  out  of  that  at  once." 


"'BA'B'S" 


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&/>e  James  H.   BaJscock  Centering  Co. 

212.214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


Nt  obM  do  wind  but  Plei*ur«V— Tom  Moon* 


•j  PLEASURE'S  WANDP 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

GRAND — Mrs.  Fiske— Mary  of  Magdala— Scenery  line :  acting,  mediocre. 

COLUMBIA— Miss  Mannering — Harriet's  Honeymoon — A  splendid,  en- 
joyable show. 

ORPHEUM— La  Belle  Guerrero;  Enimett  Corrigan  Co  .  a  fine  entertain- 
ment. 

TIV0L1— Mr.  Pickwick—  Funny  and  playing  to  good  houses. 

FISCHER'S-The  Rounders— Fair  show. 

ALCAZAR-The  last  week-Parsifal-Go. 

CHUTES— A  good  performance  and  new  attractions. 

CENTRAL— King  of  Detectives-Blood  anil  thunder :  drawing  bigcrowds- 

RIDERS  CLUB-Horse  Show  Matinee— This  afternoon. 

FERRY  BUILDING— Spring  flower  show. 


Minnie  Maddern  Fiske  is  a  wonderful  woman. 
She  is  more  than  that — she  is  marvelous.  Her  Mary 
of  Magdala  at  the  Grand  is  fascinating-  in  its  inten- 
sity and  compelling  in  its  interest.  Mrs.  Fiske  is 
the  reason  of  this.  She  has  a  subtle  magnetism  that 
holds  her  hearers  with  breathless  interest.  It  is 
the  suppressed  emotions  that  tell  on  her  audiences. 
Her  mouth  twitches  at  times,  and  she  becomes  ner- 
vous, reminding  one  of  her  wonderful  portrayal  of 
Becky  Sharp.  The  story  is  told  throughout  in  the 
shades  that  Mrs.  Fiske  loves.  She  is  artistic  and  in- 
tellectual, and  this  exemplified  in  the  purple  of  the 
bejeweled  wanton  to  the  white  of  the  passionless 
woman.  As  in  "Parsifal,"  the  audience  sits  spell- 
bound and  does  not  applaud. 

Speaking  of  "Parsifal,"  it  is  regrettable  that  the 
orchestra  at  the  Grand,  under  the  baton  of  Mrs: 
Fiske's  own  impresario.  Mr.  Byrne,  should  have  at- 
tempted a  pretentious  musical  programme.  Schubert, 
Rubenstein,  Gounod,  Wagner,  Simonetti,  Handel  and 
Mendelssohn  were  successively  murdered  by  the  in- 
competents. The  best  mishandling  of  all  was  the 
march  from  "Athalie."  This  was  hauled  around  and 
mauled  into  a  flatness  that  bore  no  comparison  to 
the  score  of  the  composer. 

The  Aulus  Flavius  of  Frank  Gillmore  was  very 
good.  The  rest  of  the  men  were  only  fair  in  theilr 
respective  parts,  while  the  women,  except  Mrs.  Fiske, 
had  little  more  to  do  except  stand  around. 

It  would  be  unfair  to  pass  this  play  by  without  a 
mention  of  the  wonderful  scenery  carried  by  Mrs. 
Fiske.  The  room  in  the  house  of  Mary  of  Magdala, 
the  scene  in  the  house  of  Flavius,  are  magnificent 
creations  by  the  scenic  painter  and  the  scene  of  a 
street  in  Jerusalem,  the  storm  on  the  day  of  the 
Crucifixion,  at  the  foot  of  the  mountain,  are  magni- 
ficent pictures  that  overtop  the  actor  and  that  will 
remain  in  memory  long  after  the  play  and  the  players 
have  been  forgotten. 

Mrs.  Fiske's  enunciation  in  the  first  act  is  excru- 
ciatingly bad,  more  like  the  catarrhal  gabble  of  a 
guinea  fowl.  It  is  one  of  the  kind  of  voices  one  hears 
in  society's  drawing  rooms,  an  affected  semi-French 
accent,  a  gloo-gloo  agglomeration ;  the  words  come 
too  fast,  and  the  r's  are  rolled  too  much,  but  after 
the  first  act  you  become  accustomed  to  the  idiosyn- 
cracy,  and  you  seem  to  hear  better.  Judas  (Mr.  Ho- 
bart  Bosworth)  is  afflicted  by  the  same  voice  diffi- 
culty. Mr.  Bosworth  made  the  worst  of  a  good  part 
throughout  the  play.  There's  nothing  like  consis- 
tency. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Columbia.  Mary  Mannering  and  Arthur 
Byron  are  the  life  of  the  show.  Miss  Mannering  is 
perfect,  and  in  "Harriet's  Honeymoon"  she  has  a 
chance  to  show  her  immense  versatility.  She  runs 
the  gamut  of  human  emotions  from  gay  to  sad  and 
from  pleasure  to  anger  very  well  indeed.     She  is  the 


jealous  wife  to  perfection,  and  the  loving,  cooing  bet- 
ter-half to  the  dot.  There  is  a  lot  of  quaint  humor 
in  the  play.  In  the  German  watering  place  in  which 
the  plot  of  the  play  is  laid,  there  is  splendid  scope 
for  ludicrous  situations,  and  the  company  make  the 
most  of  Ditrichstein's  comedy.  "Harriet's  Honey- 
moon" is  a  show  well  worth  seeing. 

The  woodland  scene  in  the  third  act  of  "Harriet's 
Honeymoon"  is  one  of  the  most  artistic  ever  pre- 
sented on  any  stage. 

*  *  * 

The  Alcazar  is  still  giving  us  a  splendid  production 
of  "Parsifal,"  and  I  am  disappointed  at  the  short  run 
of  the  play.  The  management  announces  next  week 
as  the  last.  The  orchestra  is  doing  fine  work,  and 
the  musical  end  of  the  programme  has  been  much 
improved    since   the   premierre. 

*  *  * 

Narcissus-like  the  performers  at  Fischer's  in  "The 
Rounders"  have  fallen  in  love  with  the  play — their 
shadow.  I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  announce  the  coming 
of  something  good,  at  least  I  am  told  it  is  good.  I 
have  been  fooled  so  often  by  the  local  theatrical  man- 
agers that  I  am  wary.  "Kismet"  looks  good  to  me, 
and  I  sincerely  hope  it  will  turn  out  as  predicted  by 
those  that  are  interested  in  its  production. 
~~  *  *  * 

Manuel  Klein  is  making  a  great  name.  He  has 
given  us  some  of  the  best  lyrical  music  we  have  had 
in  days.  "Mr.  Pickwick"  is  funny  ;  it  is  tuneful  and 
holds  the  interest  of  the  audience  well.  Many  of  the 
solos,  duets,  trios  and  quartettes  and  choruses  are 
being  encored  ad  lib.  The  Tivoli  always  has  good 
stage  setting,  and  it  has  not  fallen  away  from  the 
record   in   "Mr.   Pickwick." 

Dora  de  Fillipe  sings  well  and  is  rather  pretty. 
This  is  certainly  an  improvement,  and  we  should 
congratulate  ourselves  on  this  one  point.  She  makes 
a  splendid  Arabella.  Bessie  Tannehill  does  the  part 
of  Mrs.  Bardell  very  acceptably,  and  Aimee  Leices- 
ter, as  Rachel  Wardle,  is  the  ugliest  good-looking 
woman  I  have  ever  seen.  The  men  in  the  cast  are 
all  good.     The  house  should  be  full  at  the  matinee 

this  afternoon. 

*  *  * 

The  concert  by  the  pupils  of  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart  at 
Steinway  Hall  on  last  Thursday  afternoon,  March 
17th,  was  a  grand  success  in  point  of  numbers  at- 
tending and  in  artistic  excellence.  The  clever  parti- 
cipants were  Mrs.  Zilpha  Ruggles-Tenkins.  Mrs.  Wal- 
lace Wheaton  Briggs,  Miss  Leola  C.  Stone,  Mrs. 
Blanche  King  Arnold,  Mrs.  A.  Silverman,  Miss  Ca- 
mille  Frank.  Miss  Ella  V.  McCloskey,  Miss  Juliet 
Greninger,  Miss  Florence.  Darby,  Mrs.  L.  Snider- 
Tohnson,  and  Miss  Viola  H.  Samter.  The  programme 
contained  15  numbers,  and  it  held  its  audience  to  the 
very  last. 

*  *  v 

The  Central  is  enjoying  its  old-time  prosperity 
again.  "The  King  of  Detectives"  is  a  play  suiting 
the  tastes  of  its  patrons,  and  the  audience  manifests 
its  displeasure  or  approbation  in  vociferous  style. 
The  villain  is   hissed   and  virtue  finds  its  meed  of 

praise.  The  Central  is  playing  to  good  houses. 

*  *  * 

The  date  of  the  auction  sale  for  seats  at  the  per- 
formance of  "His  Royal  Nibs"  will  be  announced 
next  week.  This  is  the  vaudeville  to  be  given  for 
the  benefit  of  the  California  Woman's  Hospital. 


March  26.   1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

•t.  "The     Bnkeman     an.l 
rc.itcd  such  .1  n  ..11  thc.il 

trance  in  this  cit)  ,  ,||  return 

•rpheum   next    week.'  The    Five    Mov 
Coaklcy  and  McBride,  Wesson,  Walter-  .in. I  \V 
James  H.  Cullen.  La  Belle  Guerrero,  assisted  t>v  Phil- 
ippe, will  appear  in  the  bill. 


Colurrbia  Theatre.  """■«""«*>.. 

•  v.  M,.r-h  »     rWvmd  nn<l  lut  >■ 
Lasl  «n  nmhi-   nmllnor.  s.iur.lny 

MflRY     MflNNERING 


*  *  • 

Following  "Kismet."  the  musical  comedy  to  fol- 
low "The  Rounders"  at  Fischer's   Theatre,  the  h 
will  close  for  two  weeks  to  complete  the  iinpi 
ments  contemplated. 

There  will  be  a  m&in  entrance  nt  Fischer's  Thea- 
tre when  the  improvements  are  finished,  forty  feel 
wide.  Two  stairways  will  run  direct  from  the  bal- 
cony to  the  street,  and  the  entire  auditorium  will  be 
enlarged. 

*  *  * 

The  plot  of  the  new  skit.  "Kismet."  at  Fischer's  is 
quite  a  novel  one,  and  the  possibility  for  gorgeous 
costuming  is  unlimited.  There  are  specialties  galore 
and  a  number  of  new  acts  for  the  favorites. 

*  *  * 

The  Central  Theatre's  bill  for  the  week  beginning 
next  Monday  night  will  be  the  uproariously  funny 
farce-comedy.  "The  Hustler,''  which  has  made  the 
biggest  kind  of  a  hit  in  all  the  large  cities  of  the  East. 

*  *  * 

The  Military  Band  of  the  University  Cadets  will 
repeat  the  enjoyable  "Half-Hour  of  Music"  at  the 
Greek  Amphitheatre,  Berkeley,  to-morrow  after- 
noon. 

*  *  * 

Some  weeks  ago,  Mr.  Richard  Mansfield  fell  and 
sprained  the  tendons  of  his  leg.  He  has  been  playing 
"Ivan  the  Terrible"  with  one  leg  in  plaster  cast.  This 
was  removed  on  last  Wednesday,  and  it  is  said  that 
the  leg,  which  for  a  long  time  was  thought  broken, 

is  as  good  as  ever. 

*  *  * 

The  next  Columbia  Theatre  attraction  will  be 
Anna  Held  and  an  immense  company  in  the  gorgeous 
production,  "Mam'selle  Napoleon."  The  star  will  be 
surrounded  by  many  of  the  clever  people  who  were 
with  her  last  year  in  "The  Little  Duchess."  The  cho- 
rus is  said  to  be  the  handsomest  in  the  world,  and 
Miss  Held's  "A  La  Mode"  girls  are  said  to  be  a  great 
feature  of  the  production.  Anna  Held's  engagement 
opens  on  Monday,  April  4th. 

*  *  * 

The  Tivoli  announces  the  "Beggar  Student"  in 
preparation.  There  are  some  great  chances  for  fine 
work  in  this  opera  by  the  company  now.  playing  at 
the  Tivoli.  I  want  to  protest  against  interpolations; 
give  us  the  opera  as  the  composer  intended  it  to  be 
given,  and  do  not  expect  us  to  enthuse  over  any 
South  of  Market  slang  in  a  standard  comic  opera. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Fiske,  whose  production  of  "Mary  of  Mag- 
dala"  is  playing  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  will,  in 
accordance  with  her  plans  as  already  announced, 
present  William  Winter's  adaptation  of  Paul  Heyse's 
Biblical  drama  only  during  this,  the  first  week  of  her 
engagement.  The  bill  will  be  changed  for  each  of  the 
four  weeks  of  her  stay.  Next  week,  beginning  on 
Monday  evening,  Mrs.  Fiske  will  present  Henrik  Ib- 
sen's masterly  play,  "Hedda  Gabler,"  one  of  the  most 
powerful  and  thrilling  dramas  known  to  the  stage. 

*  *  * 

Easter  and  the  Alcazar  announces  a  series  of 
lighter  plays.  Colliers  "On  the  Quiet"  is  announced 
for 'the  .immediate,  future.  . 


Management  Frmik  M«KmI 

•lias  IB*  BHXteni  o..n,e,|y  b>  I.00  Dllrlchsteln.  entitled 

HARRIET'S   HONEYMOON 
Bandar  April  •— Ocrrnra  p* rinrm  Opfutamm." 

Monday  April  I      UINA  HELD  Id  "aUm'MUi   ' 


f)r  vi  -»!  1  rr\      p"n  Fi»MIHWtOivti»H  HoM  ILn 

(-*■  1BUMJ1    iifittrti  Si    l.i..-,,   Mooktan   h:.a   powoll  unu 
Wwk  commencing  Bandar  M;itlr Marsha?. 

5-BIG     NEW     PCTS--5 

The  Five  MowatsiManu  and  Kaartt:  Cookie)  ud  feToBrida: 

neeson.  Waltoreand  Wesson: James  II  Cullen:TniTnry's  bog's: 
BlUr CUnord ; Bonttlno and  Stereos  and  the  sensation  of  the 
daeadOi 

LA    BELLE    GUERRERO 

Prices,  loe.  250  and  50c. 

Matinees  eTery  Wednesday.  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Central    Thpntr*3      „  Delasco  A  Mateb.  Proprietors 
^igi,)V.iui      MICULIB.    Market8t.nearEtghth-TeI.8outhB33 

Week  of  Monday.  March  2».      Matinees,  Saturday  and  Sunday 

The  rollicking  farce-comedy 

THE     HUSTLER 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c.    Matinees  10. 15.  05o. 
April  4th— "Round  the  World  in  Eighty  Days." 

Alra7ar    Thf^nrrf*    „      Bexasco  A  Mayer,  Proprietors 
/-\lUdZ.cir     ineatre    e.  D.  Price.  Gen'I.  Mgr.    Tel.Alcazar 

Evenings  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 
Commencing  Monday  March  28— Positively  last  week  of  Wag- 
ner's marvelous  miracle  play 

PARSIFAL 

The  music  by  an  orchestra  oE  twenty. 

rarsifal  prices— Evenings  25c  to  ji.    Matinees  25c  to  76c. 

"Marvelously  impressive."— Post. 

"All  San  Francisco  should  see  it."— News  Letter. 

Easter  Monday— Wm.  Collier's  great  success  ON  THE  QUIET. 

And  resumption  of  regular  prices. 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  Corner ^L^streets 

Matinees  every  Saturday.    Beginning    Monday,     March    28. 
Second  week  and  tremendous  success  of 

MR.     PICKWICK 

A  musical  comedy  in  2  acts  based  on  Charles  Dickens*  master- 
piece.MusiO  by  Manuel  Klein.    Words  by  Charles  Klein.    Lyrics 
by  Grant  Stewart.    Initial  appearance  in  thie  city  of  DORA   de 
FILLIPPE,  the  eminent  lyric  soprano. 
Usual  popular  prices— 25c.  eoc.  76c    Box  Seats,  $1- 
Next-THE  BEGGAR  STUDENT. 

Graod  Opera  House 

Only   Matinee .  Saturday.    Week  beginning  Monday  evening 
next.  March  28. 

MRS.     FISKE 

In  Henrik  Ibsen's  drama 

HEDDfl    GABLER 

No  performances  Sunday  night. 
Prices:    $2,  $1.60,  $1,  75c.  50e. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Our  new  musical  productions.    An  innovation  indeed- 
Instantaneous  success  of  play,  company,  specialties.    Something 
entirly  new. 

Next  Monday,  March  28,   at  8.15  Carroll  and  Kerker's  funny 
Turkish  lyric  comedy 

KISMET 

With  a  laugh  for  every  minute.    Again  magnificent  scenery  and 

costumes.    20  actual  novelties  20.    Seats  now  on  sale. 

Reserved  seats,  nights,  25c,  50o  and  76o. 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.    25c  and  60c 

Children  at  Matinees,  10c  and  26c 

Firat  appearance  of  Lizzie  Derious  Daly. 


rafter   the  Theater 


Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'8 
Listen   to   the  matchless   string   band   and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe  Zlnkand   Is   society's  gathering   place  after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


BANKING.  Sfce  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

=  It  would  seem     that     Russia's 

Wll         P                  a      f^>            ry        1  News  Centers  in     military  and  naval  commanders 

CHS,    rafgO   (X  V-X).,    OailK  the  War  Zone.       in  the  Far  East  deem  it  essen- 

^AISJ   FR  ANiriSrO  t'a'  t0  tne'r  reP"tation  to  bur- 

oAlN   r  KAlN^lo^vJ  jen   tne   deSpatches   with   accomplished   or   contem- 

capitai.  Surplus  and  undivided   1  <t  1 3  finn  QOO  plated  exploits  in  which  they  personally  are  the  issue 

_   ,„       „     ,JPr.otlt^'  t    J.       '     ^'  u,       t*  „  ■.  t.  and  the  all-important  factors  in  making  material  for 

Homer  S.   King,   President;   F.   L.   Llpman,   Cashier;   Frank  B.  ...           .             t        i  •                      <        r                    r  .1 

King.  Assistant  Cashier:   Jno.   E.   Miles.   Assistant  Cashier.  the  historian.      In  this  particular  feature  Of  the  itrUg- 

KSsKe,LS»tS?hewoS  gle  the  Northmen  differ  widely  from  their  antago- 
ness  transacted.  njst.    By  common  consent,  as  well  as  being  actuated 
by  modesty,  the  Japanese  give  out  no  news  concern- 
San   FranciSCO   SaVinqS   Union  '"g  the  personnel  of  their  staff  of  commanders,  nor 
„„„  _•         ,    „            „,  -.'_.          _  do  thev  do  any  boasting.     In  this  connection  it  may 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco.  ,           ,    ■>           ,      <     ,                6           ,                  ,  .,_      r                  ,    J 

e.  b.  pond.   President;  w.   c.  b.  DeFREMERT,  robert  be  observed  that  as  yet  only  one  bit  01   news  has 

wF7?'HVA^!n,dcaSShier-OVELL  WHITE'     Cashler:    *"   M'  come  from  Japanese  sources,  and  that  came  in  the 

G?oVTe%r^BEoarBdn^dJaVobCBaBrt.>DeFre5,.e,S:  SfRS.  Fre^H!  nature  of  Admiral  Togo's  official  report  of  the  Port 

Beaver,  wniiam  a.  Magee.  Robert  watt.  Arthur  affair,  but  not  until  a  month  alter  the  battle. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on   real   estate  security.     Country  t\,-.,  -  =  c11m/,  tu~t  the.  r-i^ilivpH  wnrlrl  ic  not  altno-ptlipr 

remittances  mav  be  sent   by  Wells.   Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  checks  i  "ley  assume  that  tne  Civilized  world  IS  not  aitOgetner 

°Lrf.Uabie.,Karo,es;  Pa>^b'e  ln  San  Francisco,  but  the  resnon-  composed  of  credulous  fools,  and  do  not  try  to  bol- 

sibilitv  of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  r^^             ^                                   »       _                             J 

ceipt  of  the  money.    The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  ster  up  their  cause  nor  try  to  mislead  by  sending  out 

company    the    first   deposit.     No   charge   Is   made    for   pass-book       ..      •  ^az~'~l'> "f-« „    1.1.    «..«.Kn..;t.r"   mn**..4~nn 

or  entrance  fee.  semi-omcial     or     from  a  high  authority     manutac- 

Office  Hours:  9  a.   m.   to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8.  ttirprl    npws 

Deposits.    Decemher   31.    1903    J33.232.908  Ll"cu    news. 

Guarantee   capital,   paid-up   l.ooo.ooo  Events  the  past  week  seem  to 

Reserve   and   Cont.ngent   Fungs    899.616  Japan>s   Strategy      throw       a       little       light       upon 

Mutual   SaViDQS    Bank   of  s*n  F»noisoo  and  DiPlomacy-      Japan's  strategy,  and  it  may  be 

a  positive   departure  from   the 

Guarantee  capitaT  .^f .^?!. ^h". .°?.*!?f "f.  J^fff;. .         .   ji  ooo  000  original  plan  of  operation.     It  seems  to  include  the 

Paid-up  capital  and  Surplus  .'".'.'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'..!""!   '60o!ooo  occupation  of  Port  Arthur  in  any  event,  and  the  con- 

JAMES    D.    PHELAN.    President;    S.    G.    MURPHY.    Vlce-Presl-  /-„•     „  „r  c_i  j   „,,„,,_,,,_,._   tn   V „!._        Thot  ic    tn  Vi,-,1H 

dent;  george  a.  story,  cashier;  john  a.  hooper,  vice-  fining  of  held  movements  to  Korea,     that  is,  to  hold 

p'r!f!d|.V-t-rrSit£;i0HOBSrVNT;l,A,ss'st=n^  S&ahle£'     r  v.    »    ^.  all  of  Korea  with  the  army's  point  on  the  Yalu,  but 

DIRECTORS — James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphv.  John  A.  riooper.  .                  .               ,       1       t»         ■                    1 

James   Moffltt.   Frank  j.   Sullivan.    Robert   McEiroy,   Rudolph  not  cross  that  river  and  attack  the  Kussians  in  iheir 

Spreckels,   James   M.   McDonald,   Charles   Holbrook.  r      .-r     , .„:aI«_„        •L'*„„„    :„    „...-„l..     1  ,    ,;,,     1    t~   k*» 

interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  on  approved  securities.  fortified  positions.     Korea  is  surely  destined  to  be- 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  wells.  Fargo  &  Co..  or  COme   a   part  of  the    Tapanese   Empire.     Its   square 

exchange  on  city  banks.  ..              F                         ,            ,             e   r                     1              1 

mileage  is  greater  than  that  of  Japan  and  nearly  as 

_,        „                                             ,  ,               _  great  as  that  of  California.     But  that  would  not  be 

Tne  Oerman    SaVinqS  &  Loan   Society  giving  up  a  slice  or  all  of  Manchuria  forever.     The 

no.  62«  California  street,  saw  Francisco.  tactics  of  Japan's  diplomacy  seems  to  be  just  now  to 

Guaranteed   capital   and   Surplus    j?2.423.7M.<n  take    and    hold    Port    Arthur,    retain    possession    of 

Capital   Actually   Paid-up   In   Cash    1.000.000.00       T.  ,  ,,  ..,  • _"    _     „_.„      „^„„„,,t,.,to,l 

Deposits.  Dec.  st.  1903  .:. 30,049,491.18  Korea,  and  then  with  an  immense  army  concentrated 

board  of  directors— President,  John  Lloyd;  First  vice-  on  the  Manchurian  border  she  could  say  with  grace 

President.  Daniel   Meyer:  Second  Vice-President,   H.  Horstmann;  j  L.       ,  r  1    _■  *~u*  "Tu,.  r>..,.~: ^4-«l« 

ign.  steinhardt.  Emit  Rohte,  H.  b.  Russ.  n.  ohiandt,  i.  n.  wai-  and  the  force  of  logic  to  China :     1  he  Kussians  stole 

tecaashier.'  a/ aaR.BS&t:  Assistant  Cashier,  wiiiiam  Herr-  Manchuria  from  you  and  are  in  possession  of  it.  Now 

mann;    Secretary.    George   Tourny;    Assistant    Secretary,    A.    H.  just    throw    an    armv    into    Manchuria,    and    we    Wll! 

Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow.  J ,        .    ,                         ..■•'        ,     t  _•_       *         j  »       nru«««    ,..u« 

stand   by   you  with   a   helping  hand.        ihose  who 

know  something  of  the  hatred  the  Chinese  have  for 

n       ,.           ,     .  B     ..  ,.          „   1  Russia  will  not  be  slow  to  see  how  such  an  "offer" 

continental  tSUUCUng  CS  Loan  Association  from  japan  would  inflame  the  Chinese  population  far 

Established  m  1889                                         of  California,  beyond  the  control  of  the  Peking  Government ;  be- 

301    California    Street.    San    Francisco,    Cal.  .  i                  „                                .„        .  °  .               ,, 

Subscribed   capital ji6.ooo,ooo.oo  sides,  an  effort  to  rescue  Manchuria  would  necessi- 

?;om%nCdaPReierVe--Fund'\\'.\\\\\\-.\\\-:::::::::::::::::::   3'S:K  tate  a  formal  declaration  of  war  against  Russia  by 

interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum  China 

on  term  and  6  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  ~ ,             ..            e  f~,         .      .       .-    ,  , 

Dr.    Washington    Dodge.    President;   William   Corbln.    Secretary  I  he  policy  Of   KusSia   in   held   Op- 

and  General  Manager.  How  Matters      erations  is  a  waiting  game,  just 
are  Going.         as  the   News   Letter  said  at  the 

International  Banking  Corporation  upon  centers  of  „$?&£*£  pSSSS 

„    ..  ■      JQ    no.  1  wall  ST.,  new  york.  centration,   and   avoiding   a   general    engagement    is 

Capital  and  Surplus   J7.894.400       _,         .,,'•  .  v  j         It.      -..., f  r„„_ 

capitai  and  Surplus  Authorized  lo.ooo.ooo.oi)  Russia  s  tactics,  and  because  and  only  because  ot  tear 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer,   president;  Charles  D.  Palmer.  ,._   -,„„„„„  thp   Tnnnnptsp  nnon  anvtbino-  like  an  eaual 

Asslsjant    to    President;    William    B.    Wlghtman.    Assistant    to  t0  engage  the  Japanese  upon  anyuimg  iihe  an  ct|u<ii 

President;   John    Hubbard.   Treasurer;   James   H.    Rogers,   Secre-  numerical     footing;     besides,     such     Strategy     obliges 

tary;   John    B.    Lee.    General    Manager;    William    H.    Maclntyre.         ,  .       °    .  ,  ,  ,-       j    „„+ «„   „_ 

Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel.  the  opposing  force  to  attack  under  disadvantages  as 

H?nRgAKo;HgE^oLkrhi^                                  Mexlc0'  Manlla'  well  as  keeping  open  a  long  line  of  communication 

agencies— Bombay.   Calcutta.   Madras,     Penang,    Rangoon,  with  the  base  of  operations.    Therefore,  Russia  s  tac- 

Colombo.    Amoy,    Canton.    Hankow,    Tientsin,    Tansui,    Anplng.  .                                   ,     r  . 

Bakan,  Mojl,   Saigon.   Kobe.  Bangkok,  Batavla,   Samarang,   Sou-  tlCS   IS  an  Open    DOOK. 

rabaya.   and  all   parts  of  Europe.  (~>n    fUp   enrfare   the   relations 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH-32-34   Sansome    Street.  Un    lne    SUnace    ine    reiduuns 

a  general  banking  business  transacted.    Accounts  of  corpora-  France  is  Restless,     between  England  and  r  ranee 

tlons.  firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  l, ,       {r'e.nA\yr     Ktif 

on  approved  securities.     Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  are    reasonaulv    inenaiy,    Dili 

and   sold.     Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted.  \:+t\e    J..„„   J„,„n    tViprp    i<;   nnlv   friction       Recent 

available  ln  any  part  of  the  world.    Interest  bearing  certificates  a   little    deeper   down    tnere    IS   only    incuon.      n.ci.cui 

of   deposit   Isued   for   fixed   periods.     Interest   allowed   to    banks  utterances    of    leading    French     socialists,    however, 

on  current  dally  balances.     Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping  u<-i.».j<»"v.,".j     ~                     »                                               ■                -I_„. 

accounts  with   us,   and   drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and  are  likely  to  cause  the  Government  to  go  very  slow 

aBcoRRETpoNDENCEWi0NrviTED.  in  picking  a  quarrel  with  England  to  please  Russia^ 

f.  e.  beck.  Managar.            p.  a  BASTWicK,  jr.,  Aat.  M*r  The  socialistic  following  in   France   is  numerically 


March  26.   1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


rig,  and  to  a  man  they  hate  Russian  MtOCl 
the  Czar  is  making  much  i>i  one  oi  tl 
leans  princes  l>y  app  tinting  him  t.>  an  important 

maml  in  the  Manchurian  army,  and  French 

-ins:  the  incident  to  show  that  Ri  ime  is 

to  make  this  young  [)rince  Emperor  of  Prance  in  re- 
turn lor  French  aid  and  comfort  just  now.  It  i-»  this 
more  than  anything  else  that  has  turned  the  "com- 
mon people"  of  France  against  Russia,  and  under 
such  a  condition  of  public  sentiment  it  is  not  likel) 
that  the  French  Government  will  attempt  to  crowd 
England.  However,  all  the  French  coast  defenses 
are  being  put  on  a  war  footing,  and  Frenchmen  in 
foreign  lands  who  are  subject  to  military  duty  have 
been  notified  to  join  their  regiments  forthwith. 

The  United  States  is  in  the 
Troubles  of  the  Far  Eastern  complications  a 
United  States.  little  deeper  than  a  while  ago, 
but  Japan's  aaroit  diplomacy 
to  involve  China  to  the  extent  of  lending  a  helping 
hand  to  rescue  her  own  territory — Manchuria— from 
Russia's  grasp,  if  successful,  is  pretty  sure  to  relieve 
this  country  and  England  from  actual  participation  : 
still  they  will  have  to  keep  in  hearing  of  the  artil- 
lery. But  what  is  bothering  the  United  States  very 
much  just  now  is  a  clear  title  to  the  Panama  Canal 
franchise.  It  looks  very  much  as  if  the  Washington 
Government  had  been  "worked."  All  along  certain 
cliques  in  France  have  insisted  that  the  Panama  Ca- 
nal Company,  nor  yet  France  herself,  could  give  a 
clear  deed  to  the  property;  besides,  the  Republic 
of  Colombia  is  in  with  a  bill  of  exceptions  on  1lie 
ground  that  the  withdrawal  of  Panama  from  the 
federation  did  not  convey  to  her  Colombia's  interests 
in  the  venture.  The  French  courts  are  wrestling  with 
the  title,  and  President  Roosevelt  has  despatched  a 
special  commission  to  Paris  to  investigate.  Fortu- 
nately, no  part  of  the  purchase  price  and  bonus — 
aggregating  $50,000,000 — has  been  paid  to  the  canal 
ring.  It  looks  very  much  as  though  in  his  break- 
neck haste  to  favor  the  canal  syndicate,  President 
Roosevelt  came  very  near  paying  $50,000,000  of  the 
people's  money  for  a  brick  that  had  none  of  the  ear- 
marks of  gilt,  much  less  of  gold.  Already  the  "deal" 
has  cost  the  nation  over  $1,000,000,  not  counting  the 
expense  of  occupying  Panama  with  marines  for  sev- 
eral months  to  keep  the  "Republic"  from  slipping 
back  into  the  Colombian  Federation.  It  is  believed 
that  the  hitch  in  the  transfer  of  the  Panama  fran- 
chise will  not  delay  the  policy  of  the  President  in 
San  Domingo.  The  plan  was  to  first  close  up  the 
Panama  deal  and  then  take  San  Domingo  as  a  neces- 
sity to  complete  the  Atlantic  and  Gulf  defense  ap- 
proaches to  the  Canal,  but  it  is  pretty  well  settled 
that  the  little  Negro  Republic  will  be  "beneficently 
assimilated"  without  waiting  for  a  clear  title  to  the 
canal. 

Brazil      and      a      half-dozen 
In  South  America,     other  of  the  Latin  Republics 

have  joined  in  an  offensive 
and  defensive  combination  against  the  United  States 
because  of  a  suspicion  born  of  this  nation's  treatment 
of  Colombia  that  the  Government's  colonial  policy 
and  "manifest  destiny"  fad  means  the  acquisition  of 
more  or  less  of  the  Latin  States.  The  combination 
is  simply  a  prudential  step  so  as  to  insure  pledged 
co-operation  in  the  event  the  United  States  under- 
takes to  extend  their  real  estate  holdings  in  South 
America.  Although  this  agreement  between  the 
Latin  Republics  mentions  only  the  United  States, 
France  and  Germany  are  likewise  under  suspicion. 
On  the  whole  the  outlook  for  peace  and  good  will 
among  the  nations  for  any  length  of  time  is  not  very 


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encouraging.      Not    in   a   century   has   there   been   as 
much  restlessness  and  uncertainty,  and  never  bi 
did   a   war   between   two   nation-   engender   as   much 
sympathy  and  hatred  as  the   RusSO-Japanese  war  i- 
developing,  and  seemingly  the  people  of  every  land 

are  bitter  partisans  of  the  "tie  or  the  Other,  and  what 

I  more  disturbing  is  the  unfortunate  fact  that 
war  is  becoming  the  favorite  theme  of  Conversations, 

-.  dramas  and  religion. 

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rooms,  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
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President:  LEWIS  I.  COWGILL.  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE.  As- 
sistant  Cashier. 

Capital.    $500,000.      Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits.    $200,000 

DIBBOTOBA—  William  Pierce  Johnson.  Viee-Prest.  Willamette  Pulp 
ft  Paper  <  <\  W  m.  J.  Pulton.  Prescient  Firemans  Fund  Ins.  Co.  H.  E 
Huntington.  First  Vice-Prest  S.  P.  R  R.  Oeo.  A.  Pope  of  Pope  ft  Tal- 
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Also    80    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     In 
Manitoba.   N.   W.   Territories,   and  Eastern   Canada. 
BANKERS   IN    LONDON— The   Bank   of  England,    the    Bank   of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.    Ltd. 

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Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevnrd  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  issued. 

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ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

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Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00       Paid  up   11,500,010 

Subscribed 3,000,000       Reserve    Fund     700.000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys   and  sells  exchange  and   bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222   Montgomery   St..    Mills   Building 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSi^d.     LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord.  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 

S.    L.    Abbott.    Jr.,    O.    D.    Beldwin,    F.    Monteagle,    Warren    D. 

Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    K.  H.  Pease.  __ 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    J3.000.000 

Paid-up  capital   and  Reserve   $1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A,  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


"YE  OLDE  ENGLISH  INN." 
For  years  there  has  been  a  demand  for  some  eat- 
ing place  for  ladies  and  gentlemen  in  the  down-town 
district.  Gentlemen  of  Bohemian  taste  who  prefer 
their  Bohemianism  without  the  usual  attendant  dirt 
have  been  forced  to  walk  many  blocks  to  Market 
street  in  order  to  enjoy  a  meal  without  the  usual 
smoke  and  filthy  floors.  "Bab,"  who  has  made  such 
a  success  of  the  Epicurean  Inn  on  Larkin  street  and 
Golden  Gate  avenue,  conceived  the  idea  of  a  clean 
and  at  the  same  time  original  restaurant.  The  result 
is  "Ye  Olde  English  Inn,"  on  California  street,  at 
No.  212,  below  Battery  street. 

This  inn  will  in  time  become  one  of  the  great  show 
places  of  San  Francisco.  Everything  in  the  way  of 
comfort  and  convenience  has  been  provided.  There 
is  plenty  of  room.  Above  all,  there  is  cleanliness. 
The  decorations  deserve  especial  mention  on  ac- 
count of  their  originality.  The  ceiling  is  finished  in 
a  paneling  of  old  English  oak,  and  immediately  be- 
low this  we  have  a  wide  frieze,  a  submarine  effect. 
Sunken  ships  are  shown,  in  which  disport  themselves 
the  denizens  of  the  deep.  Here  is  a  mermaid  with 
a  babe  mermaid  in  her  arms.  Here  is  a  diver  prob- 
ably looking  for  that  mermaid.  His  way  is  blocked 
by  a  sword  fish.  These  and  various  other  scenes  de- 
picting what  might  happen  in  the  bottom  of  the  sea 
have  given  scope  for  some  clever  artist's  brush.  The 
fauna  and  flora  of  the  ocean's  depths  have  been  shown 
in  a  way  that  cannot  fail  to  be  attractive.  The  whole 
is  seen  through  the  mesh  of  a  sun-browned  fish-net. 
Pendant  from  this  net  are  real  star  fish  and  all  the 
shells  of  the  Pacific  and  other  seas. 

Below  the  submarine  frieze,  in  lighter  tones,  is 
the  frieze  of  all  nations.  This  represents  the  vari- 
ous nationalities  in  the  act  of  partaking  of  their  daily 
meal.  We  have  the  American,  the  Parisian,  the  Rus- 
sian, the  Jap,  and  a  host  of  other  peoples,  under  the 
genial  influence  of  Bab's  excellent  cuisine,  in  amity. 
Immediately  under  this  frieze  is  a  plate  shelf, 
which  is  burdened  with  every  pattern  of  stein  that 
was  ever  made  by  man. 

Under  the  plate  shelf  is  the  "Pickwickian  Strip." 
This  is  a  succession  of  mottoes  that  should  appeal  to 
all  good  fellows.  One  of  them  is  the  celebrated:  "He 
that  loves  not  woman,  wine  or  song,"  etc.,  and  we 
have  others  which  state  that  "Who  neither  loves, 
nor  drinks,  nor  sings,  his  life  to  no  fruition  brings." 
"Eat,  drink  and  be  merry,"  etc. 

There  is  a  fine  bar  on  one  side  of  the  large  room, 
and  back  of  this  is  a  magnificent  leaded  glass  wine 
shelf.  On  this  shelf  may  be  seen  the  finest  vintages 
of  California  and  a  representation  of  the  wines  of  the 
Old  World  as  well.  Opposite  the  bar  is  a  fine  old 
brick  fire-place  that  will  add  not  a  little  to  the  cheer 
of  the  place  with  its  fires. 

Midway  toward  the  rear  of  the  room  is  the  most 
original  of  all  the  original  features  of  this  wonderful 
eating  place.  Here  are  a  number  of  booths.  These 
are  most  comfortably  arranged  with  benches  instead 
of  chairs.  The  walls  and  benches  are  upholstered  in 
heavy  leather  and  one  sinks  into  their  softness  invit- 
ing to  pleasant  dalliance. 

Each  booth  bears  the  name  of  a  city.  Thus  we  have 
New  Orleans,  Boston,  New  York,  Pittsburg,  Louis- 
ville, Saint  Paul  and  other  names  displayed.  Here 
birthday  and  other  parties  may  be  given.  A  broker 
or  business  man  wishing  to  give  a  luncheon  to  some 
visitor  from  the  East  or  to  some  city  friend,  and  wish- 
ing especially  to  honor  his  guest,  invites  him  to  the 
booth  that  bears  the  name  of  the  guest's  birthplace. 
This  idea,  as  far  as  we  know,  is  unique  with  "Ye  Olde 
English  Inn." 


The  kitchen  is  a  roomy,  spacious  affair,  and  the  ar- 
ray of  copper  pans  and  kettles  over  the  grill  give  a 
most  inviting  effect  to  the  rear  of  the  room. 

Over  the  grill  is  a  large  shaft,  open  to  the  outside 
air.  This  will  serve  to  carry  away  all  the  smoke  and 
smell  that  is  usually  so  offensive  in  down-town  res- 
taurants. The  floor  is  heavily  carpeted,  and  this  is 
in  itself  a  feature  the  man  of  business  will  certainly 
appreciate. 

The  restaurant  will  be  run  on  the  popular  price 
principle,  and  as  Mr.  Babcock  has  overlooked  noth- 
ing that  will  tend  to  good-fellowship,  comfort  and 
good  cheer  we  feel  justified  in  saying  that  "Ye  Olde 
English  Inn"  will  immediately  jump  into  popular 
favor. 


15he     Battle    of    Charter    Hill 


They  told  us  the  brave  days  were  ended, 
The  rush  was  a  thing  of  the  past; 

That  the  lamb  and  the  pigeon  were  blended 
In  a  new  college  breed  that  would  last ; 

That  the  angel  of  peace  had  descended, 

And  the  might  of  the  heroes  was  grassed. 

And  wc  all  gave  our  word  to  the  tyrant, 
The  word  that  we  meant  not  to  keep — 

So  when  night  fell  each  plucky  aspirant 
For  battle,   refrained   from   his   sleep ; 

And  we  all  drank  grim  death  to  the  tyrant 
In  whiskey,  draughts  potent  and  deep. 

And  when  one  from  the  college  clock  sounded 
We  faced  the  grim  heights  of  the  hill, 

Where  the  hosts  of  the  freshmen  were  rounded. 
In  ominous   darkness   and  still. 

While  we  felt  that  our  fears  were  well-founded 
And  reckoned  to  swallow  the  pill. 

As  we  mounted  the  steep  in  the  dull  light, 
And  our  heart-beats  kept  time  to  our  tread ; 

We  came  suddenly  into  the  full  light 

Of  a  search-lantern  stationed  o'erhead. 

And  the  foe  galloped  down  as  a  bull  might 
And  fiercely  he  whacked  at  our  head. 

We  recked  not  the  why  or  the  wherefore, 
But   suddenly  leaped   in   the   gloom 

Strange  forms,  that  we  knew  not,  and  therefore 
We  saw  o'er  us  hanging  our  doom, 

And  little  was  left  us  to  dare  for; 

For  our  finish  was  plain  as  the  tomb. 

And  the  tyrant  he  caught  a  round  dozen, 
And  handcuffed  us  there  in  the  night, 

In  spite  of  our  kicking  and  fussing 

We  were  held  in  that  horrible  plight, 

And  the  rest  of  us  ran  away  cussing 
And  dropping  our  things  in  our  flight. 

And  this  is  the  terrible  story 

They  will  whisper  in  ages  to  come, 

Of  the  battle-field  awful  and  gory 
And  the  beat  of  the  militant  drum. 

They  will  tell  of  the  triumph  of  Cory 
And  the  sophomores  beaten  and  glum. 

So  the  battle  of  Charter  Hill  ended, 

For  they  called  in  the  Oakland  police; 
And  the  spirit  of  dullness  descended 

Which  our  foes  call  the  spirit  of  peace, 
But  our  poor  little  gang  is  suspended 

And  our  days  at  the  college  must  cease. 

Roland  Whittle  — 
March  23,  1904. 


March   26.   1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


SPRING   ART   EXHIBITION. 

Not  since  the  opcninp  of  die  Mary  Frames  Searles 
Memorial  Gallery  at  the  Mark  Hopkins'  Institute  01 
Art  has  there  been  so  keen  an  interest  in  an  exhibi- 
tion as  that  which  opened  last  Thursday  evening 
with  a  promenade  concert,  and  this  because  the  gal- 
lery has  been  refurbished  witli  an  effort  t.i  correct 
the  mistakes  in  construction.  Something  more 
than  a  month  ago  the  gallery  was  closed  tor  repairs  ; 
it  comes  out  of  this  time  of  seclusion  with  the  entire 
room  in  a  different  color  and  the  hanging  space 
brought  down  to  about  the  height  of  a  home  ceiling 
with  a  moulding  from  which  the  heavy  pictures  are 
hung  by  wire.  The  lower  part  of  the  wall  is  a  soft 
terra  cotta  burlap,  and  the  upper  part  and  the  ceiling 
a  light  tint  of  the  same  hue.  The  hanging  spa 
divided  by  pilasters  of  green,  the  same  color  as  other 
woodwork  in  the  room.  The  light  overhead  has  been 
tempered  by  canvas  that  is  suspended  in  midair, 
an  arrangement  that  is  temporary  and  an  experiment. 

All  these  things  gave  the  hanging  committee  a 
chance  to  distinguish  itself,  which  it  has  not  done. 
In  the  first  place,  the  committee  has  been  too  lenient. 
Fully  one-third  of  the  pictures  should  have  been 
rejected.  This  would  have  raised  the  standard  of  the 
exhibition  to  what  it  should  be,  and  then  there  would 
have  been  space  in  the  gallery  to  properly  hang  good 
canvases.  As  it  is,  some  notable  pictures — and  there 
are  many  of  them  in  the  collection — are  disastrously 
grouped  with  small  and  inferior  ones.  For  instance, 
a  portrait  done  by  Mrs.  Lucia  Mathews,  unquestion- 
ably one  of  the  best  things  in  the  exhibition,  was  en- 
titled to  a  proper  setting.  It  is  "on  the  line,"  but 
crowded  about  with  inferior  work.  Another  instance 
is  the  grouping  of  three  large  canvases  at  the  end 
of  the  gallery,  all  good  things,  but  one  practically 
killing  the  other.  The  best  in  the  trio  is  a  French 
landscape  done  by  Charles  Rollo  Peters,  quite  out 
of  the  vein  in  which  he  is  accustomed  to  work.  He 
has  sent  to  the  exhibition  some  moonlights  and  day- 
lights as  well,  and  altogether  his  pictures  add  dis- 
tinction to  the  collection. 

William  Keith,  always  honored  and  ever  faithful 
to  the  Art  Association,  has  sent  two  canvases  which 
honestly  represent  him.  One  is  a  landscape  of  the 
woods,  and  another  of  the  wind-swept,  storm-racked 
high  mountains.  Cadenasso  has  done  himself  credit 
in  three  pictures,  and  C.  Chapel  Judson  has  one  pic- 
ture which  shows  that  he  can  get  out  of  the  rut  in 
which  he  has  been  painting  for  a  long  time.  A  pic- 
ture which  will  certainly  attract  attention  is  from 
Southern  California.  It  is  a  large  landscape  done 
by  the  mute  artist  Granville  Redmond.  Wachtel's 
pictures,  on  the  whole,  are  not  so  good  as  on  former 
occasions.  Willis  E.  Davis's  contributions  to  the 
exhibition  are  uneven,  a  few  good,  the  others  indiffer- 
ent. John  M.  Gamble  has  a  creditable  California  land- 
scape. The  ■  sculptors  make  an  excellent  showing. 
Among  the  exhibitors  are  Robert  I.  Aitken,  Earl 
Cummings  and  Arthur  Putnam.  Among  the  best 
miniatures  are  those  done  by  Lillie  V.  O'Ryan,  al- 
though others  are  well  up  to  the  best  mark.  The  ex- 
hibition will  be  open  the  usual  time,  Sundays  in- 
cluded. 


A  neat  little  coffee  and  lunch  house  hai  been  opened  at  210  Sansome 
street  by  Mr.  J.  Iversen.  The  establishment  is  artistically  finished  in 
natural  oak.  and  well  appointed  in  every  way-.  The  cuisine  wil  be  ex- 
cellent and  prepared  by  experienced  chefs,  with  obliging  and  attentive 
waiters. 

— -Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


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WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

Discarding  the  old  furniture  because 
it  is  worn  is  not  always  necessary. 
It  is  sometimes  possible  to  make  the 
old  pieces  quite  as  good  as  new. 

We  REFINISH,  REMODEL  and 
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DR.  W.  A.  BRYANT  has  moved  his  office 
from  820  Sutter  Street  to  THE  EMERSON 
Building,  751  Sutter  Street.  Phone  Private 
Exchange  751.   Office  Hours,  9:30-12    1:30-4 


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March  26,  1904. 


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BT     THZ     ArTOCRASK 

It  has  been  decided  by  the  officers  of  the  Automo- 
bile Club  of  California  to  hold  a  meet  this  year  at 
Del  Monte.  The  affair  last  year  proved  to  be  such 
a  success  that  those  in  charge  this  year  feel  perfectly 
safe  in  making  it  an  annual  event. 

The  date  has  not  been  fixed,  but  it  will  take  place 
either  during  the  middle  of  May  or  the  middle  of 
June.  It  will  not  be  definitely  settled  until  the  return 
of  R.  P.  Schwerin  to  the  city.  The  meet  will  be  fol- 
lowed by  a  race  meet  in  the  city. 

The  start  for  the  Del  Monte  event  will  be  made  on 
a  Thursday.  The  first  day's  run  will  be  to  San 
Jose.  The  following  day  they  will  proceed  to  the 
destination.  There  will  be  racing  on  Saturday,  a 
special  run  on  Sunday  and  likely  another  day's  racing 
on  Mondav. 

*  •  • 

If  the  weather  will  permit  of  it,  the  first  run  of  the 
season  will  be  held  by  the  club  to-day  to  San  Jose. 
The  San  Francisco  members  will  leave  on  the  3  p. 
m.  boat,  going  by  the  other  side  of  the  bay. 

*  *  * 

According  to  President  Flemming,  of  the  com- 
mittee of  arrangements  for  El  Comino  Real  State 
Convention,  the  greatest  automobile  run  ever  held  in 
the  West  is  being  planned  for  April  18th,  to  be  the 
feature  of  the  convention.  It  is  to  be  a  run  from  Los 
Angeles  to  Santa  Barbara  over  the  road  which  in 
part  will  be  followed  by  the   King's  Highway. 

The  run  will  be  made  under  the  Southern  Califor- 
nia Automobile  Club  or  directly  under  El  Camino 
Real  auspices.  The  plans  will  include  the  meeting 
of  the  Los  Angeles  delegation  at  the  county  boun- 
daries by  the  automobilists  of  Santa  Barbara,  and  the 
many  owners  who  will  be  sojourning  here  during 
April.  The  run  in  the  main  will  end  just  outside  the 
city,  and  a  triumphant  entry  en  masse  will  be  ;i  fea- 
ture. 

»  *  * 

The  members  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern 
California  are  now  contemplating  another  automobile 
meet  here,  to  be  held  in  May  at  Ascot  Park.  Pre- 
liminary arrangements  are  already  under  way.  It 
is  said  that  Barney  Oldfield  will  be  here  to  make  a 
new  world's  record  for  Los  Angeles.  Among  the 
prizes  will  be  the  cup  offered  last  fall  by  H.  E.  Hunt- 
ington, which  is  valued  at  Siooo.  It  was  won  by 
H.  D.  Ryus,  his  record  being  five  miles  in  six  minutes 
and  six  seconds.  The  track  at  Ascot,  it  is  said,  is 
much  more  advantageous  for  automobile  racing  than 
was  the  track  at  Agricultural  Park.  The  turns  are 
said  to  be  of  sufficient  width  so  that  they  can  be  made 
with   safety   while   the   machines   are   running   at   a 

high  rate  of  speed. 

*  *  * 

Work  will  be  begun  in  a  few  days  on  the  new 
model  road  and  speedway  planned  by  the  Automobile 
Club  of  Southern  California,  that  is  to  run  between 
Los  Angeles  and  Playa  del  Rev.  Last  week  the  last 
right-of-way  signature  was  secured,  and  now  the  en- 
tire road  is  assured  from  the  city  limits  to  the  ocean. 
This  road  is  to  connect  with  West  Washington  at 
the  city  limits,  and  will  be  built  in  a  substantial  and 
thorough  manner. 


March  26.   1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


The  Mobile  I  unpaitv  has  taken  an  order 

Mr.  Livingston  Jenks  for  a  four-cylinder  Pierce- 

Arrow  touring  car  to  be  delivered  at  the  earliest  date. 

*  •  • 

Miss  McKwen,  daughter  01  Mr.  1  >.  II.  McFwen, 
who  was  recently  presented  with  a  new  11)04  Winton 
touring  car  by  her  father,  is  fast  becoming  an  expert 
driver  of  her  car. 

*  •   • 

Mr.   H.   C.  Tilden  has  received   his  two-cylinder 

Pierce  Arrow  touring  car,  canopy  top.     Mr.  Tilden 
fatly  pleased  with  his  purchase,  and  he  antici- 
-   much   pleasure   in   touring  during  the   coming 
summer. 

*  *  « 

A  carload  of  Stevens-Duryea  automobiles  is  due 
to  arrive  at  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company's  par- 
age this  week.  The  car  contains  a  machine  fo-  Mr. 
\V.  H.  Taylor,  of  Oakland,  one  for  Mr.  Eloise  Mer- 
riman  of  Oakland,  and  one  for  Mr.  Charles  Morse  of 

this  city. 

••■  •*  * 

The  automobile  busses  of  the  St.  Francis  Hotel 
which  are  being  furnished  by  the  Mobile  Carriage 
Co.,  are  now  in  operation,  meeting  all  the  trains  and 
steamboats.  San  Francisco  can  boast  of  the  only 
automobile   hotel    busses   in    service    in   the   United 

States. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  E.  Olds,  of  the  Olds  Motor  Works,  at  De- 
troit, Michigan,  spent  several  days  last  week  in  San 
Francisco  en  route  home.  Mr.  Olds  was  on  the  Coast 
purely  for  pleasure,  having  spent  the  last  ten  or 
twelve  weeks  in  Southern  California.  He  is  very 
much  pleased  with  the  outlook  of  the  automobile 
business  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  believes  that  Cali- 
fornia will  use  as  many,  or  more,  automobiles  than 
any  other  State  in  the  Union,  the  population  consid- 
ered. Mr.  Olds  spent  the  most  of  his  time  viewing 
the  city  in  an  Oldsmobile  and  at  the  Jefferson  Square 
Club.  He  says  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company's 
new  garage  is  positively  the  largest  and  best-equip- 
ped automobile  place  in  the  world,  and  he  believes 
that  the  automobile  dealers  throughout  the  East 
would   do   well   to   imitate  the   energetic   California 

dealers. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  W.  J.  Hole  has  just  purchased  from  the  Mo- 
bile Carriage  Co.,  through  their  Los  Angeles  branch, 
a  two-cylinder  Arrow  car.  Mr.  Hole  is  right-of-way 
agent  for  H.  E.  Huntington's  system  of  electric  roads 
in  Los  Angeles.  He  has  purchased  the  car  not  only 
for  pleasure,  but  for  making  trips  along  his  lines. 
This  is  the  first  two-cylinder  French  type  car  wdiich 
has  been  introduced  in  Southern  California.  On  the 
good  roads  of  the  South  the  Arrow  has  made  a  great 

record. 

*  *  * 

In  a  recent  letter  received  by  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company  from  the  Olds  Motor  Works  at  De- 
troit, Michigan,  they  have  the  assurance  that  the  first 
carload  of  Oldsmobiles  will  be  shipped  about  March 
25th.  In  the  meantime,  orders  for  these  machines 
are  piling  up  on  the  books  of  the  Pioneer  people,  and 
this  good  news  is  very  welcome.  From  the  reputa- 
tion the  Olds  Motor  Works  has  gained  during  the 
past  three  years  in  the  selling  of  their  small  curved 
dash  runabout,  great  things  are  expected  of  the  new 
models,  and  from  information  received  from  automo- 
bllists  who  have  been  East  to  the  Chicago  and  New 
York  automobile  shows,  the  surprise  will  be  a  big 
one.  The  Oldsmobile  Company  have  adopted  the  pol- 
icy of  rating  their  machines  low,  as  is  the  practice 


THE  CADILLAC 

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THIKT1    1  [OH  t  MINI 

ThK.inll    »u.-.-.'-.«ful    tOOT   of   Iho    Yosemlto    miuli-    by    Till. 
1  AMI  I   M 


1'rlee.  $850      With  Tonneao.  $950     Delivery  OadlUaos,  $950 

THE  SIMPLEST.  MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

CUYLER  LIF,  Agenl.  2(11  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  J.  PREELING 


F.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  Marllet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Flench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Wo'k  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO- 


Mr.  A.  B-  Hammond  and  family  in  their  "U4  'Winton 

Winton  still  miles  ahead  of  all  other  makes  of 
American  or  French  cars,  selling  at  $2,650,  or 
half  as  much  again.  9th  carload  of  '04's  since 
January  15th  just  received.  All  sold.  Continue 
to  take  orders  for  future  delivery.  Call  early 
and  secure  a  Winton  before  the  rush  of  buyers 
come  with  the  opening  of  our  riding  season. 


Also  agents  for  the  following  machines: 
OLDSMOBILES.  LOCOMOBILES 

STEVENS-DUKYEA.  BAKER  ELEOTEIO 


Los  Angeles  Branch 
420-22  South  Hill  St. 


San  Francisco  Branch 
901  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


with  French  automobile  manufacturers.  For  instance, 
the  Olds  Motor  Works  rate  their  new  tonneau  car 
at  eight  horsepower.  A  letter  was  received,  however, 
from  an  Eastern  enthusiast,  who  has  already  received 
one  of  these  machines,  and  who  writes  as  follows, 
viz:  "From  the  demonstration  of  tonneau,  it  ha-. 
shown  an  excess  power,  and  figuring  by  the  liberal 
rules  of  makers  of  other  machines,  my  carriage  could 
well  be  rated  at  anywhere  from  ten  to  twelve  horse- 
power." 

It  is  claimed  that  almost  $150,000  worth  of  vehi- 
cles have  been  sold  during  the  automobile  show  by 
Banker  Brothers  of  New  York,  Philadelphia  and 
Pittsburg.  It  seems  to  strengthen  their  claim  of  be- 
ing the  largest  automobile  dealers  in  America.  The 
orders  taken  are  all  for  Pierce  Arrows  and  Stanhope-; 
and   Peerless   machines. 

The  Pierce  Stanhope  and  Arrow  touring  cars  which 
Banker   Brothers   are  selling  all   over  other   makes. 
both  foreign  and  American,  are  represented  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  by  the  Mobile  Carriage  Co. 
*  *  * 

A  1904  Cadillac  tonneau  car  was  delivered  this 
week  to  Paul  K.  Buckley,  of  Alameda,  who  has  had 
a  little  sport  between  rain  drops. 

HIS  ROYAL  NIBS. 

Shafter  Howard  has  at  last  attained  his  ambition 
to  appear  as  a  playwright,  a  maker  of  operas,  a 
sketcher  of  musical  skits,  and  his  genius  in  that  line 
has  been  utilized  in  a  collaboration  with  W.  H.  Clif- 
ford. Their  joint  production  is  called  "His  Royal 
Nibs."  All  society  is  interested,  and  there  is  sure 
to  be  a  grand  turn  out.  The  list  of  patronesses  com- 
prise the  names  of  all  that  compose  "Who's  Who" 
in  San  Francisco.  The  San  Francisco  production  is 
scheduled  for  Thursday  and  Friday,  April  21st  and 
April  22d. 

The  performance  in  Oakland  will  be  given  at  the 
Macdonough,  on  the  evening  of  April  29th.  The  San 
Francisco  performance  will  be  at  the  Alhambra  Thea- 
tre. We  append  a  list  of  patronesses  for  this  occa- 
sion: 

Mrs.  William  Irwin,  Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels,  Mrs. 
Henry  T.  Scott,  Mrs.  E.  W.  McKinstry,  Mrs.  L.  L. 
Baker,  Mrs.  H.  G.  Kittle,  Mrs.  William  Hinkley  Tay- 
lor, Mrs.  Carter  Pomeroy,  Mrs.  James  R.  Tucker, 
Mrs.  Marriner  Campbell,  Mrs.  Egbert  Stone,  Mrs. 
William  S.  Tevis,  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin,  Mrs.  Horace 
Blanchard  Chase,  Mrs.  Emma  Shafter  Howard,  Mrs. 
William  Babcock,  Mrs.  E.  D.  Beylard,  Mrs.  Joseph 
S.  Tobin,  Mrs.  George  Pinckard,  Mrs.  Eugene  Lent, 
Baroness  Von  Meyerinck,  Mrs.  Max  Sloss. 


Cupid's  Pranks. 

They  must  reach  realization  before  the  first  of  May.  It  is  rumored 
that  many  weddings  will  be  celebrated  between  nuw  and  the  first  of 
May.  The  authority  for  this  statement  is  Mr.  Paitoaien,  coiner  10th 
and  Mission  streets,  who  states  that  ever  so  many  young  folks  hu\e 
been  and  are  daily  buying  Furniture.  Caipets  and  Draperies,  and 
leave  them  at  the  store    until  thenrstof  May  when  the  store  closes. 

Evidently  the  young  folks  take  advantage  of  the  low  prices.  They 
seem  to  know  that  prices  will  double  after  the  flrst  of  May.  when  the 
Pattosien  Store  will  be  no  more. 


A  neat  little  Coffee  and  Lunch  House  has  been  opened  at  216  Sansome 
street  by  Mr.  J.  lversen.  1  he  establishment  is  aitistioalls  flniMii  u  in 
natural  oak  and  well  appointed  in  every  way.  The  cuisine  will  be  ex- 
cellent and  prepared  by  experienced  chefs  with  obliging  and  attentive 
waiters. 


The  latest  style  in  shirts  may  be   found   at  John   W.    Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


Murine    Eye    Remedy. 


A  home  cure  for  Eye  troubles.    Never  fails.    Ustd  for  infant  and 
adult-    Doesn't  smart. 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  Pr,co  $f.43s5o0w^h,hT0ouI,,  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoriatop  and  accommodating 
Tour  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  k  horse-p/nver  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French  type- 

3.  It  ia  especially  designed  for  physicians' use  6aving  two  hours 
per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact  in  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline  and 
beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5     It  was  in  the  Enduranee  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg,  800 
miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


$2,650.00 
800.00 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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TWO  SONGS. 

II)  MuM  Bvta 

I — Sunrise. 
Thrilling  of  dappled  dawn-clouds,  far  and  far: 
Thrilling  of  birds  awake  in  fern  and  heather  : 
I  hit  in  the  west,  a  fading  moon  and  star 
Slip  from  the  world  together. 

Quiver  of  gold  across  the  hill-crest  blue. 

Shiver  of  white  where  whispering  aspens  sway 
Out  in  the  grass,  a  diamond  world  of  clew 

Flashes  and  fades  away. 

Shade  of  the  night  sinks  down  behind  the  west  : 

Hush  of  the  night  is  dr.  .wind  in  songs  above  : 
O  my  heart's  sunrise,  hope  is  sweeter  than  rest  : 
Better  than  peace  is  love! 
II — Sunset. 
A   wide   sky   and   a   silver  star; 
A  mountain  summit  white: 
A  bird's  wing,  black  against  the  far 
Infinitudes  of  light. 

Breaking  waves  on  a  pebbled  beach  ; 

Long,  shadowy  leagues  of  foam  : 
A  lessening  sail  gone  out  to  reach 

The  Holy  Lands  of  home. 

Long  was  the  weary  glare  of  day ; 

Wide   was    the    world-waste   sea ; 
O  my  heart's  rest,   I   turn  away — 

Home  to  the  dark  and  thee! 


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ROSEMARY   AND   RUE. 

By  Rosalie  Arthur 
Within  the  leaves  of  Memory's  book 

I  see,  through  blur  of  tears, 
Your  gage — a  little  withered  spray, 

Brown  with  the  stain  of  years, 
Yet  subtly  sweet  as  breath  of  spring. 

When  love  to  youth  appears. 

O  friend,  if  time  and  place  must  hold 

A  bar  between  us  two, 
If  you  may  never  see  my  face, 

Nor  I  touch  hand  of  you, 
Beside  your  sprig  of  rosemary 

I  lay  my  sprig  of  rue. 

THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  WILDERNESS  PASSETH 

By  Harold  Child  in  Outing 

With  the  sad  sweet  song  of  the  whispering  wild 

The  sawmill   mingles  its  rote, 
As  with  gleaming  blade  in  primeval  shade 

The  woodmen  feed  its  throat: 
When  one  by  one  the  giant  trees 

Are  bit  by  its  blasting  breath 
The  piercing  shriek  mid  the  ripping  teeth 

•Is  the  Wood-God's  dirge  of  death. 

THE  GLACIER  OF  REGRET. 

By  Arthur  Stringer  in  Everybody's  Magazine 
The  eternal  peaks  of  icy  Wisdom  scarred 
By  Youth's  hot  sun  where  Law  its  bastion  rears, 
The  endless  siege,  the  eternal  heights  debarred, 
And  all — the  slow  source  of  Earth's  endless  tears ! 


World's  Fair 

ST.     LOUIS 

Thousands  will  go  to  St.  Louis  from  this 
Coast,  and  complete  arrangements  are  being 
made  by  the  Southern  Pacific  for  carrying 
them.  If  you  are  planning  to  go,  ask  any 
questions  about  Rates,  Time  or  Trains  by 
mail  or  in  person  of  nearest  agent,  or  at 

Information  Bureau 

613  MarKet  St.,  San  Francisco 


H.   BETTE 

Builder  of  Ladies'  Garments 

424  SUTTER  STREET  Bet.  Stockton  and  Powell 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


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San  Francisco  has  recently  had  within  its  gates 
quite   a   number   of   the   more   prominent   insurance 

men. 

*  *  * 

President  Joyce  of  the  National  Surety  Company 
of  New  York  left  for  the  East  after  a  week's  stay 

here. 

*  *  * 

L.  H.  Lenehan,  of  the  Phoenix  of  Brooklyn,  sailed 
from  here  for  the  Islands  last  month,  and  he  is  ex- 
pected to  return   next  week. 

*  *  * 

General  Agent  Irving,  of  the  Phoenix  of  London, 

is  in  the  city. 

*  *  * 

George  Kline,  Western  Manager  of  the  Continen- 
tal, came  in  on  a  belated  train  on  Monday. 

*  *  * 

City  Engineer  Grunsky  and  Consulting  Engineer 
Stut  met  with  a  set-back  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the 
Fire  Commissioners.  They  were  employed  tu  de- 
vise a  plan  by  which  the  city  could  secure  a  supply 
of  ocean  water  to  be  made  use  of  by  the  Fire  Depart- 
ment and  for  street  sprinkling  and  sewer  flushing. 
They  made  their  report,  and  the  Commissioners 
promptly  rejected,  it,  as  not  being  a  report  in  line 
with  the  object  desired.  The  officials  want  a  reser- 
voir placed  on  Twin  Peaks  able  to  contain  about 
10,000,000  gallons  of  salt  water,  which  would  be  am- 
ple to  meet  all  requirements  of  the  Fire  Department 
in  case  of  a  conflagration  without  having  to  depend 
on  the  supply  furnished  by  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Company. 

The  $500  appropriated  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors 
to  meet  the  expenses  of  the  preliminary  work  evi- 
dentlv  will  not  go  to  these  gentlemen  since  the 
Board  refused  to  accept  the  report.  It  would  be  in- 
teresting to  know  just  what  position  the  Fire  Under- 
writers take  on  the  question  of  salt  water.  It  is  a 
safe  assumption,  however,  that  all  thev  desire  is 
water,  salt  or  fresh,  so  long  as  there  is  plenty  of  it. 

*  *  * 

The  Chief  of  the  New  York  Fire  Department  has 
expressed  an  opinion  that  Civil  Service  is  not  to  his 
liking  when  applied  to  the  New  York  Fire  Depart- 
ment. He  is  a  believer  evidently  in  brawn  rather 
than  brains.  He  wants  men  used  to  physical  labor, 
well  muscled  and  strong.  He  is  quoted  as  saying: 
"While  it  is  a  very  easy  matter  for  clerks,  bookkeep- 
ers, etc.  (who  do  not  make  the  best  firemen  because 
they  lack  the  physical  Qualities  to  successfully  cope 
with  the  hardships,  endurance,  etc.,  incidental  to  a 
fireman's  life),  to  pass  the  examinations,  it  bars  out 
a  class  of  persons  peculiarly  well  equipped  for  just 
the  kind  of  work  that  a  fireman  is  called  upon  to 
do,  and  whose  services  would  prove  of  great  value." 
There  is  an  idea  in  this  worthy  of  consideration,  com- 
ing as  it  does  from  the  Chief  of  one  of  the  best  and 
largest   fire  departments   in   the  world. 

*  *  * 

The  Baltimore  losses  are  going  to  figure  out,  it  is 
said,  under  $30,000,000.  This  is  bad  enough,  but  it 
might  be  worse.     February's  losses  alone  footed  up 

over  $90,000,000. 

*  *  * 

The  Mutual  Life  of  New  York  has  just  loaned  to 
the  owners  of  the  building  at  the  corner  of  Fifth 
avenue  and  Twenty-first  street,  New  York.  $900,000 
for  three  years  at  4J/2  per  cent  per  annum  interest. 


President  McCall,  of  the  New  York  Life,  pays  a 
feeling  tribute  to  the  late  Charles  C.  Whitney,  who 
was  Secretary  of  the  Company.  Mr.  Whitney  died 
suddenly  on  his  way  from  the  office  of  the  company 
to  his  residence.  He  was  in  his  seventy-second  year. 
Mr.  McCall  says  in  part:  "Outside  of  his  business, 
he  was  devoted  to  his  family  and  to  the  pursuits  of  a 
cultured  life.  He  was  a  diligent  reader  of  the  best 
literature,  a  lover  and  patron  of  art,  a  friend  who  did 
not  easily  give  his  confidence,  but  who,  once  having 
given  it,  was  as  steadfast  as  his  own  integrity.  He 
impressed  me  as  a  man  who  always  did  his  best,  who 
considered  no  effort  too  great  to  get  at  the  truth, 
and  who  had  full  and  absolute  confidence  in  a  con- 
clusion reached  upon  a  full  showing  of  the  facts.  The 
death  of  a  faithful  man,  while  it  always  brings  a 
sense  of  personal  loss  and  sorrow  to  his  friends,  has 
yet  this  stimulating  and  wholesome  effect,  it  causes 
every  true  man  who  knew  the  dead  to  gird  up  his 
loins  anew,  to  take  a  firmer  grip  upon  duty,  and  to 
labor  more  diligently,  with  full  confidence  that  life 

is  worth  living  well." 

*  *  * 

The  Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Los 
Angeles  expects  to  hold  an  Agents'  Convention  in 
that  city  commencing  April  4th.  Leading  agents  of 
the  company  from  all  over  the  United  States  are  ex- 
pected to  be  present. 

*  *  * 

Chicago  fakers  have  evolved  a  novel  sort  of  insur- 


A  Beautiful 
Dancing  Surface 

Is  obtained  on  the  floor  of  any  hall  or  ball  room  by  use 
of  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax.  It  will  not  ball 
up  on  the  shoes  nor  lump  on  the  floor;  makes  neither 
dirt  nor  dust,  but  forms  a  perfect  dancing  surface. 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  of  the  finest  fabric. 
For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co.,  Langley  &  Michaels  and 
Redlngton  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk,  Oeary  &  Co., 
Sacramento,   and  F.  W .   Braun  &  Co.,   Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax 


BEST'S  ART  SCHOOL 

Lessons  in  Painting,  Drawing,  Sketching  and  Illus- 
trating.   Life  classes,  $3.00  per  month. 

927    MARKET    STREET 


Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart 


Teacher    of   Vocal    Music 


Pianoforte.  Organ.  Harmony  and  Composition 
Special  course  for  singers  desiring  church  appointments 


Studio,  1105  Bush  St 


HISS    ROSE    BRANDON 

1098   PINE    STREET 

MANDOLIN  AND    GUITAR   STUDIO 

(Finest  Italian  Music  Direct  from  Italy  taught 


lEALD'S 


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Illustrated  Catalogue  Free. 


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anre  scheme  for  the  formation  of  a  new  company  in 
that  city.  There  a  t.>  tic  a  capital  of  $200,000.  and 
every  stockholder  will  be  entitled  to  such  an  amount 
of  insurance  as  his  contribution  to  the  capital 
will  pay  for.  Twenty  per  cent  of  the  amount  oi 
miums  paid  in  the  year  by  each  stockholder  will  be 
piven  as  an  annual  dividend  beyond  any  other  divi- 
dend earned  on  the  stock.  It  reminds  one  of  tin- 
Occident    Insurance    Company     of      California,   and 

probablv  it  will  meet  a  like  fate. 

*  »  » 

It  is  a  mighty  poor  college  or  educational  institu- 
tion nowadays  that  can't  arrange  to  give  the  students 
two  or  three  courses  of  lectures  on  Life  Insurance. 
Some  of  the  life  companies  maintain  and  pay  a  lec- 
turer; then  the  Insurance  Commissioners  are  all  ex- 
perts, and  they  like  to  lecture,  and  it  would  not  be 
hard  work  to  gather  a  few  officers  of  different  life 
companies,  who  also  have  the  platform  fever.  It  t he 
epidemic  keeps  up.  it  will  be  a  case  of  every  man  his 
own  agent,  and  who  gets  the  rebate. 

*  *  * 

There  is  quite  an  exodus  of  insurance  offices  from 
California  street  to  the  California  Canneries  building, 
Pine  and  Battery.  The  North  America,  the  Milwau- 
kee Mechanics,  the  Phoenix  of  London,  and  another 
company,  are  to  move  to  the  new  building. 

*  *  * 

The  Northwestern  National  Life,  it  is  said,  has 
agreed  to  build  an  auditorium  for  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
the  consideration   being  that  the   citizens  will  take 

$2,000,000  of  insurance. 

*  *  * 

Judge  Eugene  Cary,  manager  of  the  Western  De- 
partment of  the  German-American,  died  suddenly  this 
week  in  St.  Louis.  He  had  lived  seventy  years  of 
life  in  a  manner  which  stamped  him  as  a  man  of 
sterling  integrity  and  endeared  him  to  the  many 
friends  he  made. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


a7 


This  is  the  8th  Week  of  Pattosien's  Great  Retiring 
Sale. — It  seems  the  large  crowds  of  buyers  will  not 
stop  going  to  PATTOSIEN'S  RETIRING  SALE 
since  the  great  sale  opened  six  weeks  ago.  A  double 
force  of  salesmen  were  engaged,  and  all  are  yet  in 
the  store.  The  place  continues  to  be  crowded  with 
buyers  of  Fine  Furniture,  Carpets,  Draperies,  etc. 
Corner  16th  and  Mission  streets. 

The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 

~~- Visitors  to  San  Francisco  never  cease  to  wonder  at 

the  perfection  of  Zinkand's,  where  appointments,  service, 
cooking,  music  and  also  visitors,  are  the  very  best.  It  has 
no  equal. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 

factory  for  $6.00  per  ton.  Use  Briquettes  for  cooking  and 
heating,  and  you  will  savfr  at  least  one-third  on  your  fuel 
bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention.  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 


Cash  Capital.  200,000.00. 


Cash  Assets,  $821,471.10 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Offioe.  328  Montgomery  St.    San  Francisco 

Employers  Liability.    Teams.    General  Liability.     Workmen's    Co/ 

leotive.    Vessels.    Elevator. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President.    Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.    William.  M- 

PiOT8?n"vice-PreE ^Franklin  A.  Zane.  Sec'y.     Frank  P.   Deering. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  Gen.  Agt.  for  California,  Hay  ward  Bldg. 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAWS    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital.  $1,000,000.  Atsets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.   D.  ITU 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF   PHILADELPHIA.    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    SS.OOO.OM 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6.022.016 

JAMES  D.  BAILET.  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  a  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by  Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1T20. 
Capital   Paid-up.   t3.44S.100.  Assets.  124,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  S8,»3u,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  1134,000.000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601   Montgomery    Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1S50. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders. .    2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,  Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.   BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street, 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life  Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital     

Balfour,  Guthrie  &.  Co.,  Agents. 


-' $6,700,000 

Sit  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.    GERMANY 

Capital  $2,260,000  Assets  $10,»S4,246 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  204-208  Sansome  St,   San  Francisco 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


How     £an    Francisco    Looks    to    Me 


By    Ferr\B.uld    Travers.   Tourist 


Egad,  I  owe  San  Francisco  and  San  Franciscans 
a  debt  that  I  can  never  pay  in  like  kind,  and  beggar 
me,  I  am  willing,  indeed  I  am,  to  go  to  the  court  of 
Gentlemanly  Courtesy  and  plead  ray  inability  to  repay 
my  host  of  the  other  evening  and  escape  my  social 
indebtedness  in  this  one  case  on  the  plea  of  lack  of 
opportunity,  and  be  declared  bankrupt  in  my  inabil- 
ity to  entertain  him  at  the  opening  of  another  hotel. 
I  doubted  at  first  whether  I  cared  to  accept  the  invi- 
tation or  not.  Roger  said  there  is  nothing  much  do- 
ing at  the  theatres,  and  so  I  dressed,  had  Roger  call 
my  auto  car,  and  went  to  the  initial  dinner  in  the  St. 
Francis  Hotel.  Gad,  I'm  glad  I  went.  You  know 
I  am  a  chronic  sort  of  first  nighter  at  the  theatres. 
I  am  not  above  losing  a  pony  or  two  at  the  races  if 
I  find  a  nag  which  suits  my  fancy,  but  I  never  was  a 
guest  at  a  hotel  opening  before,  but  you  know-,  don't 
you,  I  am  willing  to  go  again  to  the  same  sort  of  a 
function.  The  dear  good  old  club  chap  that  took 
me  in  tow  seemed  to  know  the  management.  I  think 
he  has  some  money  in  it,  and  I  think  we  saw  all  of 
the  place  that  was  worth  seeing.  I  went  down  some- 
where in  the  bowels  of  the  earth  to  see  the  kitchen 
place.  I  fancied  that  my  clothes  and  white  gloves 
would  be  soiled,  but  there  was  neither  smelly  things 
nor  grease,  and  I  was  as  immaculate  when  I  got  out 
to  the  ground  floor  as  I  was  when  I  went  in.  Rather 
strange,  don't  you  think.  Dinner  on  for  a  whole  lot 
of  people  and  nothing  but  clean  white  tiling  and  no 
smoky  smell.  My  host  took  us  up  in  the  lift  to  the 
top  story,  and  ushered  us  into  a  corner  room,  and  I 
thought  that  I  could  almost  see  New  York.  The  bay, 
don't  you  know,  from  those  windows  seemed  so 
close  I  fancied  I  could  knuckle  a  marble  into  it.  and 
the  little  park  affair  in  front  of  the  hotel  has  a 
Frenchy  sort  of  look  which  you  can't  see  from  the 
level  ground.  One  of  the  ladies  in  the  party,  a  right 
well-gowned  one,  too,  said  it  looked  like  a  scarf-pin 
in  the  tie  of  the  St.  Francis.  1  thought  that  was 
rather  clever.  I  am  disappointed  in  the  one  thing 
that  nowhere  now  do  I  know  an  equal  to  this  inn. 
It  is  a  sort  of  combination  of  a  fellow's  club,  home 
and  hotel.  It  is  not  gorgeous.  It  is  the  quiet  sort 
of  well-appointed  place  that  takes  hold  of  you  when 
the  porter  opens  the  door,  and  it  makes  you  feel 
that  you  are  for  the  time  in  a  good  place  where  you 
can  be  comfortable.  The  colorings  are  restful :  there 
is  not  a  single  note  of  the  bizarre  or  nouveau  riche 
in  the  whole  place.  I  felt  the  East  and  West  people 
had  met  at  last ;  that  here  I  had  found  a  place  exclu- 
sive enough  and  not  garish,  to  satisfy  even  my  criti- 
cal taste.  It  has  the  repose  and  luxury  of  a  good  old 
English  home  with  the  freedom  of  the  society  of  the 
West.  I  am  infatuated  with  it.  By  Jove,  I  have  wan- 
dered a  ballv  lot  in  my  enthusiasm  over  the  even- 
ing. We  went  into  the  principal  dining  room,  don't 
you  know,  for  dinner.  It  was  a  stunner.  I  have  seen 
a  lot  of  dining  rooms  in  my  travels,  both  public  and 
private,  but  nothing  equal  in  effect  to  this  one.  The 
other  persons  there  were  a-plenty,  and  really  the 
San  Francisco  men  were  for  once  in  my  knowledge 
all  proper  in  dress.  The  one  poor  chap  who  had 
tweeds  on  attracted  more  attention  than  he  wanted. 
I  am  not  going  to  write  anything  about  the  beauties 
of  the  room.  If  the  hotel  will  accept  you,  you  can 
go  and  see  it  for  your  own  self,  but  I  trust  that  the 
management  will  make  a  rule,  and  sort  of  enforce  it, 


don't  you  know,  and  not  allow  people  to  dine  in  that 
beautiful  room  except  they  are  in  full  dress.  This 
makes  it  swagger  and  exclusive.  If  a  fellow  looks 
anything  at  all,  he  looks  it  in  his  dinner  clothes,  and 
the  beggar  that  can't  or  won't  dress  for  ladies  had 
better  dine  alone.  I  saw  for  the  first  time  in  my 
stay  in  San  Francisco  an  approach  to  Continental  cus- 
toms. Some  ladies  were  in  decollete  costume.  They 
were  rather  worth  admiring,  as  your  well  and  cor- 
rectly frocked  San  Francisco  gentlewoman  always 
is.  You  have  the  best-dressed  women  and  worst- 
dressed  men  on  earth  here,  don't  you  know. 

.1  felt  that  there  was  that  relaxation  of  formality 
which  only  comes  from  the  knowledge  that  those 
who  surround  you  are  well-bred  and  socially  are  on 
a  par  with  oneself.  My  host  knew  how  to  do  things, 
and  we  three  gentleman,  thanks  to  the  grace  of  the 
three  ladies,  were  requested  to  order  "a  deux." 

And  when  the  wine  card  was  passed  to  me  I  had  a 
revelation.  I  found  a  few  old  friends  of  mine,  quarts 
of  whose  family  I  had  helped  down  before — a  Chateau 
Margeaux  Bordeau,  served  just  at  the  right  tempera- 
ture, and  then  I  gloated  over  the  "Widow"  Cliquot 
(yellow  label),  iced  to  a  degree,  and  I  swear,  by  gad, 
I  never  sipped  a  better  bottle  anywhere. 

The  things  we  had  to  eat  were  perfect,  but  eating 
is  not  pleasant  to  discuss  at  any  time.  The  napery 
was  beyond  any  cavil,  and  the  glass  on  the  table  was 
perfect.  You  know  I  admire  correct  service ;  I  hate 
to  dine  out  without  Roger,  but  the  waiter  person 
who  served  me  did  it  like — like — well,  like  Roger 
would.  I  could  not  find  any  fault.  He  must  have 
been  trained  abroad  ;  he  was  the  sort  of  alert,  silent, 
watchful,  unobtrusive  waiter  that  makes  a  dinner 
a  success  and  makes  money  for  his  master.  With 
the  music,  the  flowers,  the  effect  of  the  room,  its 
lights  and  the  beauteous  women  and  their  frocks.  1 
could  have  fancied  myself  in  Berlin  or  Paris.  It  was 
only  the  excellence  of  everything  that  made  me  rec- 
ollect a  fellow  can't  get  the  sort  of  thing  I  enjoyed 
at  the  St.  Francis  anywhere  on  the  continent ;  if  he 
can,  he  is  a  better  finder  than  I  am.  The  European 
hotels  are  all  bad,  and  not  to  be  compared  to  those 
in  the  States.  From  Sheppard's  in  Cairo  to  Claridge 
in  London,  from  the  Claridge  to  the  Waldorf  in  New 
York  is  a  far  cry,  and  I  have  tried  them  many  times, 
but  my  patron  saint  in  the  hotel  way  hereafter  is  St. 


"WOLF" 


BRAND 


BLOOD,  WOLFE  &  CO'S. 

RENOWNED 

"GUINNESS'S    STOUT" 

Oldest  ^nd  best  known  brand  of  Porter  on  the  Coast. 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO 
Sole  Agents.  314  Sacramento  St,  San  Francisco. 


March  26,   1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


39 


Francis.     The  man  that  caught  that  name  ior  an  Inn 
11  Francisco  is,  1>\  u-~      I  really  think. 

now,  you  have  something  ■  -tit  here  thai  would  make 
life  pleasant  all  the  year  round,  ami  maybe  I  will 
make  up  my  mind  t"  stay  with  yon.  It's  imi  ever) 
day.  you  know,  that  a  chap  can  domicile  himself  in  .1 
place  where  he  can  £et  ju.st  what  he  wants  when  he 
wants  it.  under  one  r.*>(  tree,  with  a  library  plan 
ami  music  and  pictures  and  flowers  and  a  place  where 
he  can  entertain  his  friends  s.ui-  reproche.  If  they 
will  take  Roger  I  rather  think  I  shall  figure  with  the 
Urbane  management.  There  was  One  feature  <>i  the 
evening  I  did  not  like;  that  is,  the  American  manner 
of  staring.  It  is  very  offensive.  The  crowd, 
was  a  little  too  much  of  a  crush.  1  suppose  the  hotel 
could  not  help  that,  being  the  first  night,  hut  I'll 
wager  that  they  know  their  business,  and  it  won't 
Come  again.  Also,  they  need  a  hobbie  or  tWO  in 
front  to  make  the  common  people  move  on.  (  (ne 
does  not  like  to  be  guyed  by  a  costermonger  when  he 
leaves  bis  auto.  It  shows  to  me,  however,  how  care- 
ful we  of  the  classes  should  be,  because  we  set  an  ex- 
ample to  the  masses,  and  the  beggars,  imitate  us  as 
closely  as  they  can  ;  still  they  must  be  kept  in  their 
place.  Maybe  in  this  country  you  won't  agree  with 
me,  but  that  is  the  opinion  of  — Travers. 

WHERE  FLOCKS  THE  SMART  SET. 

Mrs.  Cook's  handsome  millinery  parlors  in 
the  Phelan  building  were  decorated  with  apple  blos- 
soms on  the  occasion  of  the  opening  for  this  spring. 
The  dainty  decorations  and  the  exquisite  Paris  im- 
portations called  for  much  admiring  comment. 
Among  those  present  were  several  members  of  the 
exclusive  set.  Mrs.  Cook  has  always  been  the  recip- 
ient of  the  patronage  of  those  who  know,  and  the 
Spring  Opening  at  her  establishment  was  like  a  pre- 
mierre  at  the  opera. 

The   carpet   becomes   very   dirty   in   winter,   but  this 

can  easily  be  remedied  by  sending  it  to  Spaulding's  Carpet 
Cleaning  Works,  353  Tehama  street.  There  the  carpet  is 
cleansed  from  every  particle  of  dirt  without  any  injury 
to  the  fabric,  and  is  returned  looking  as  iresh  and  new  as 
when   first  put  down. 

Dr.  Decker, 
Dentist.  806   Market.    Specialty   "Colton   Gas"   for   painless 
teeth  extracting. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Amassment No.  13J 

Amo.mt  per  share ••••■•• llfViJ 

Levied  February  10.  1904 

Delinquent  In  office Mar=h   «  "J" 

Day  o.  Bale  o«  delinquent  stoek KL.PARkik^retary904 

Office— Room  14,  Nevada  Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  FranclBco 
California.  _^_ 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment.... iS.n'nts 

Lemvieudnt  per      ■' ::.:::::v:.v.:::v.Mardh7,T9oS 

Delinquents  office ^l1^  JSSJ 

Day  of  sale  o(  delinquent  stock Mays.  1904 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 
Offlce-Eoom  79,  Nevada  Block,   No.  309  Montgomery  street,   San 
Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.      • 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment.... i^onta 

IS'  Per  share .••••••■■•  ••■•■•■••;  -tf— g  ™™ 

Delinquent  inomee.V.  "\\"""  "."... ■ April  13. 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  3.  1904 

J.  STADTPELD.  Jr..  Secretary. 
Office— Room  66.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Prancisco.Cal. 


CLICQUOT 


CHAlVfRAOINB 

The  Banquet  Brand 


SEC 

Yellow  Label 


BRUT 

Gold  Label 


A.  VIGNIER  CO.,   Distributors 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 


Chollar  Mining  Company. 


Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California.  Looa 
lion  of  works,  Storey  I'mn  t  v,  Nevada- 
Notice  la  hereby  (riven  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Director*,  held 
on  the  8ih  day  of  March,  lau4.  an  assessment  (No.  65J  of  tea  (10)  cenia 
per  -hare  wan  levied  m. on  the  capital  atook  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Seoretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block.  No.  3t>9  Montgomery  street,  Han 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE    12th    DAY    OF    APK1L.    1904, 
will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  la  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  3d  day    of  May 
1904,    to     pav      the     delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the    costs    of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 
Office— Room   79.  Nevada   Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  CHABLES  BLOXHAM,  deceased.  Notice  is  hereby  given 
by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  HYNES,  Public  Administrator  of  the  City 
and  County  of.  San  Francisco  and  Administrator  of  the  Estate  of 
CHABLES  BLOXHAM.  deceased,  to  the  creditors  of,  and  all  persons 
having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  the 
necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months  after  the  first  publication  of 
this  notice,  to  the  said  Administrator  at  Boom  No-  668  Parrolt  Building, 
826  to  865  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  the  same  being  his  place 
for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES. 

Administrator  of  the  estate  of  CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY,  attorneys  for  admistration,  Booms  667-668- 
669,  Parrott  Building,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  March  12, 1904- 


Very  Oldest  Procurable 

King  Olilliam  TU 

Scotch  (UbisKy 


PACIFIC  SLOPE    DISTRIBUTERS 


3° 


A  FAR-SEEING  MAN. 


When  he  reached  home  he  drew 
a  roll  of  bills  from  his  pocket  and 
tossed  it  over  to  his  wife. 

"Better  go  shopping,"  he  said. 
"Get  some  of  those  things  that  we 
thought  we  couldn't  afford." 

"Where  did  you  get  the 
money?"  she  asked. 

"I  drew  it  from  the  savings 
banks,"  he  replied.  "There's  no  use 
trying  to  save  anything  now." 

"Why  not?"  she  inquired. 

"I've  joined  the  union,"  he  ex- 
plained. 

"Joined   the    union?"   she    cried. 

"Yes;  had  to  do  it,  so  we  don't 
want  to  get  the  worst  of  it." 

"Why?"    she    persisted. 

"Oh,  I'll  be  on  strikes  of  one 
kinu  or  another  most  of  the  time 
now,"  he  said,  "and  when  I'm  not 
striking  I'll  be  paying  strike  bene- 
fits. The  money  is  bound  to  go, 
and  I  want  to  be  in  a  position  to 
get  as  much  out  of  the  union  as 
any  one.  If  I  have  money  in  the 
bank  there  will  be  no  strike  bene- 
fits  for  me   when   I'm   ordered   to 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


quit  work.  'You  don't  need  it,' 
they'll  say,  'for  you've  got  monev. 
We  can  only  afford  to  make  pay- 
ments to  those  who  haven't  any.' 
You  see,  there's  a  penalty  put  on 
thrift  and  a  premium  on  shift- 
lessness.  The  man  who  saves  has 
to  pay  himself  for  time  lost  at  the 
order  of  the  union,  and  the  man 
who  doesn't  save  gets  the  help.  In 
a  year  from  now  our  money  will 
be  gone  anyhow,  so  we  might  as 
well  spend  it  while  we  can  get 
some  personal  advantage  out  of 
it,  and  then  come  in  on  even  terms 
with  the  others  for  the  strike  bene- 
fits. It's  the  fellow  who  hasn't 
anything  and  never  expects  to 
have  anything  who  gets  the  advan- 
tage. Take  the  money,  Maggie, 
before  it  gets  beyond  our  reach, 
you  helped  save  it,  and  the  union 
will  only  help  us  spend  it  if  you 
don't   do   it   first." — Chicago   Post. 


March  26,  1904. 


"I  hear  you  are  dissatisfied  with 
your  doctor's  bill."  "Yes.  I  don't 
think  he's  entitled  to  $250  for  that 
operation."  "Why  not?"  "Because 
if  he  was  he'd  claim   more." 


15  CENTS  PER  COPY. 


$1.50  PER  YEAR. 


Overland  Monthly 

AN  ILLUSTRATED  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  WEST 

APRIL,  1904 

CONTENTS: 

Up    Mount   Popocatepetl G.   F.  Paul    261 

The  Dairy  Industry  of  California.  .  Ellsworth  C.  Smith   268 

A  California  Easter Austin  Lewis  378 

Yita  San   John  Myers  O'Hara 379 

The   Greatest  of  These    George  llardie  Squire  280 

A    Latin- American   Alliance    Adriana  Spadoni  283 

Inspiration    B.   F.   Bonnell    : . .  . .  287 

Easter Rev.  A.  J.  Baden  Jenner   .288 

The  Great  California  Diamond  Mines.  .Allen  D.i  Wilson 291 

To  an  Inland  Cypress Priscilla   Brewster    296 

The  Curious  Ceremony  of  Cha-No-Yu.  .C.  E.  Lorrimer 297 

Fleur   de    Lis Mary  F.  McMullen 302 

The  Chinese  Festival  of  All  Soul's  Day.  .Chas.  E.  Lorimer   303 

Despair   Eleanore  F.  Lewys   310 

The   Toad    Beneath   the    Harrow.  .  L.  R.  Freeman 311 

A  Blessing  in  Disguise   Charlotte  Kelting   317 

A  Ballad  F.  M.  Allen   322 

Manila  To-day    324 

The  Storm Illustration  by  Beringer 326 

The  Storm   Grace  C.  Roberts   \  .  327 

Winter  in  the  Santa  Cruz  Mountains.  .Clotilde  Grunsky  Fiske.  .      .  .328 
Memorial  Windows  of  San  Francisco.  .Helen    Ellsworth    Wright.  .332 

Abraham  Lincoln's  Knowledge  of  Shakespeare 

Robert  N.  Reeves  336 

The  Making  of  a  Window H.  E.  Wright 337 

Book   Reviews    The    Editor    340 


Qm\>  (sxktv/ 


The  art  of  cocktail  mixing  is  to  so  blend 
the  ingredients  that  no  one  is  evident,  but 
the  delicate  flavor  of  each  is  apparent. 
Is  this  the  sort  of  cocktail  the  man  gives 
you  who  does  it  by  guesswork?  There's 
aever  a  mistake  in  a  CLUB  COCKTAIL. 
It  smells  good,  (ajtej  good,  fc  good— 
always.  Just  strain  through  cracked  ice. 
Seven  kinds— Manhattan,  Martini,  Ver- 
mouth, 'Whiskey,  Holland  Gin,  Tom  Gin 
and  York. 

G.  P.  HEUBLETN  &  BRO,  ScUPnfrUtm 

29  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn.  London 

pacific  coast  agents 

8P0HN-PATRICK    COMPANY 

San  Francisco.  Los  Angeles. 
Denver,  Salt  Lake  City.    Seattle. 


Politeness  is  as  natural  to  deli- 
cate natures  as  perfume  is  to  flow- 
ers. 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms-  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr.  Turn  Threlfnll  upon  one  of  his  visi's  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  Inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  hr»w 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  Han 
Fr.incisco,  who  have  been  on  crutehee  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING     12    HOURS 

Rate  only  *G7.60  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  P.  BOOTH.  Gen.  Atf.,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 

No- 1-  Montgomery  St.    Dan  Francisco,  Cal 


March  36,   1904. 
WOS  Y  GIL  TO  YI  YONK  IK. 

I  reach  a  friendly  hand  to  thee. 
My  brother  in  aaversii 
Yi  Y.>nk  Ik. 
>,  have  seen  the  lamp  of  Came 
Snuffed  out.  jr.  flame 

Filled    the    wick. ' 

I.  too,  have  seen  coj  glory  flit 
Just  when  my  name  bad  made  a 

hit. 
Anil  people  tried  pronouncing  it, 

Yi  Yonk  Ik. 
The   splendor    that    I    made    mine 

own, 
Xow   rests     beneath     a     chiseled 
stone — 

"Jacet    hie." 

Your   name,    with    rhythmic   clink 

and  clank. 
Was     one     before     which     others 

shrank — 
Mine  with  softness  rose  and  sank, 

Yi  Yonk  Ik. 
My  name  was  like  a  serenade, 
Until  some  jealous  lout  or  jade 
Threw  a  brick. 

My  name  was  like  a  gentle  sigh — 
A  song  beneath  the  Southern  sky, 
But  still,  we're  brothers,  you  and 

Yi  Yonk  Ik. 
Although  your  name  when  spoken 

makes 
A      sound      like      Westinghouse's 
brake 

Clutching  quick. 
But  do   not   mourn.   Rejoice   with 

me, 
For  future  ages  still  shall  see 
Our  names  a-romp  through  history 

Yi  Yonk  Ik. 
Yes,  Yi  Yonk  Ik  and  Wos  y  Gil 
Shall  through   the  coming  epochs 
peal. 

We  can't  kick. 
— W.     D.     Netbit     in     Chicago 
Tribune. 


"I  suppose  there  is  such  a  thing 
as  kleptomania."  "Yes,"  answered 
the  physician.  "A  man  steals  be- 
cause he  can't  help  it."  "That 
is  the  theory.  But  in  the  majority 
of  cases  he  does  so  because  the 
other  fellow  can't  help  it." 

HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

It  makes  the  toilet  something  to  be  en- 
joyed. It  removes  all  stains  and  rough  ness , 
prevents  prickly  heat  and  chafing,  and 
leaves  the  skin  white,  soft,  healthy.  In  the 
bath  it  brings  a  glow  and  exhilaration  which 
no  common  soap  can  equal,  imparting  the 
vigor  and  life  sensation  of  a  mild  Turkish 
bath.    All  Grocers  and  Druggists. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    fr>m     Thl«va»> 

A  young  woman  who  recently 
became  a  teacher  in  a  kii 
ten  entered  a  trolly  car  in  Brook 
lyn  yesterdaj  and  bowed  pleasant- 
ly to  a  man  who  sat  across  the 
aisle.  He  raised  his  hat  in  return, 
but  it  was  evident  that  he  did  not 
tjnize  the  young  woman.  "I  lb, 
excuse  me,"  slu-  remarked  in  tones 
which  could  be  heard  by  every  one 
in  the  car.  "I  mistook  you  for 
some  one  else.  I  thought  you 
were  the  father  of  two  of  my  chil- 
dren." She  left  the  car  at  the  next 
corner. 

Mrs.  R.  J.  Burdette,  the  humor- 
ist's wife  is  a  great  traveler.  She 
has  in  her  California  home  a  col- 
lection of  beautiful  bells  from  every 
quarter  of  the  world,  and  she  has 
in  her  memory  a  collection  of  odd 
incidents  and  sayings  gathered  in 
as  many  and  diverse  places  as  the 
bells  were.  Mrs.  Burdette  says 
that  while  touring  in  the  Scottish 
Highlands  one  summer  she  was 
taken  to  a  cave  in  which  Macbeth 
was  said  to  have  been  born.  She 
examined  the  cave  attentively.  She 
listened  attentively  to  the  eloquent 
speech  of  her  guide.  At  the  end 
she  said  to  the  man:  "Come,  now, 
tell  me  truly ;  is  this  really  the 
place  where  Macbeth  was  born?" 
The  guide  smiled  awkwardly.  He 
shifted  about  a  little.  "Well,"  he 
said,  "it  is  one  of  the  places." 

Professor  E.  G.  Dexter,  of  the 
University  of  Illinois,  whose  inter- 
esting investigations  have  proved 
football  to  be  a  harmless  game,  is 
popular  on  account  of  his  genial- 
ity. After  a  certain  football  vic- 
tory Professor  Dexter  entertained 
one  night  a  group  of  students  at 
his  residence.  A  magnificent 
sword  hung  over  the  fireplace  of 
the  library,  and  during  a  space  of 
silence,  Professor  Dexter  took 
down  this  sword  and  brandished 
it  impressively.  "Never  will  I 
forget,"  he  exclaimed,  "the  day  I 
drew  this  blade  for  the  first  t'me." 
"Where  did  you  draw  it,  sir?" 
a  Frenchman  asked  respectfully. 
At  a  raffle,"  said  Professor  Dex- 
ter. 

"Abraham  Benedict  tells  of  a 
school  teacher  in  Rochester  who 
had  a  great  deal  of  difficulty  with 
a  few  mischievous  boys.  One  day 
when  one  of  them  had  given  her  a 
great  deal  of  annoyance,  she  said 
to  him  :  "I  wish  I  could  be  your 
mother  for  just  about  one  week.  I 
would  rid  you  of  your  naughty  dis- 
position." "Very  well,  I  will  speak 
to  father  about  it,"  promptly  re- 
sponded the  lad. 


3i 


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York  City.  Limited  trains 
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Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Doable  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

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a  ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  eara  and  Ob- 
sprvation  Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Electric 
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throueh  Colorado.  Fortickets,  berth  reser- 
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32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  26,  1904. 


Have  you 
a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where else,  for  whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo  have,  call  at 
this  office  and  let  us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with  us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 


F.  W.  Thompson, 
Gen*l  Western  Age., 
623  Market  Street, 
San  Francisco. 


Why  Don't  You 

^ Travel  by  Sea? 


Special  vacation    and  Short 

Tourist  Excursion  Trips 
Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Intludint  Berth  and  Meal 
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Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 
And    to  those   desiring    longer   trirs   to 
Alaska  and  Mexico, 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc., obtain  tolder 
SAN  FRANC1S0  TICKET  OFFICES 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St- .  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

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10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co..  ai'Sutter  st„  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences-    Telephone  Exchange  312. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Unloo  Poclllc  and  Chlcaco 
and  Northwestern  kys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  lu.on  a.  ni.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  In  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout-  Buffetsmokingcars 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars,  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  coo  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a.  m.Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 
W  Market  St      ( Palace  Hotel )      San  Francisco 


I  mm  LJ'KH-.1 9 1  Tralnileanaudare 

\fn  PwD  H,  6rl  ASTjV  I  aha  I 

R°UTf?       /  .J        due  to  arrive  at 

V^V^-pg^XW     SAN    FRANCISCO. 

S^  O    I    Ty  (Main  Line,  Ferry  Depot, 

->*    ■  -i^         Foot  of  Market  Siruei  , 

HaVH      —     Fbom   FgritljARY    17.   11*04.     —      ARRIVE 

7.00a   VhcbvIIIc.  Winter*.  Kumoey 7  50"* 

7.00a  Bunlcta,  Sulaun,  Elmiraand  Sacra- 
mento           7.20> 

7.30a   Vallejo.    Napa,     CaltBtoga,    Santa 

Kosa,  Martinez.  Sua  Ramon 6  20 

7  30a   Nil**,  Llvcrmore,  Tracy,  Lathrop. 

Stockron 7  20 

f.OOA  Shasta  Rxpreas—  (Via  Davis), 
William*  (for  Bartlett  Springs), 
Willows  tfruto.  lied  Bluff, 
Portland,  Taeoma,  Seattle 7.50 

8.00a   Davis.  Woodland,  Knlgbts  Landing, 

Marysville,  Orovllle 7.50 

8.30a  Port  Osia.  Martinez.  Antloch, 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stockton,  New- 
man Los  Banos,  M  e  n  d  o  t  a, 
Armona,  Hanford  Vlsalla, 
Portervllle 4     o 

"30a  PortCoBtu,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop. Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno. 
Gosheu  Junction,  H  an  f  o  rd, 
VIhhIIb    Kakersfleld 4  "0  ■ 

8-30*  Nlles.  San  Jose.  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton, (tMllton).  lone,  Sac  ram  en  to, 
Placervllle  Maryevllle,  Chlco, 
Red  BlulT 4.20 

8.30a  Oakdale,  Chinese,  Jamestown.  So- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.20>' 

9  00*    Atlantic  Bxpress— Ogden  and  Bast.    11.20  1 

8.30a  Rlchnn>n-I,     Martinez     and     Way 

Stations 6  50>- 

1000*   The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6  °Q- 

I 0.00a  Vallejo 1 2. 20' 

10.00a  Lob  AnpHes  Passenger —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  8tockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion. Hanford,  Lemoore,  Vlsalla, 

Bakerefleld.  Los  Angeles 7-20  ■ 

1200m  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Station).       *  ?Qi- 
U-00p  Sacramenlo  River  Steamers fll.Odi' 

3  30)    Bentcla,      Winters,      Sacramento, 

'Woodland,     Knights       Landing, 
Maryevllle,    Orovllle    and    way 

etatlone 10.50a 

3-30p  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7.5Qp 
330p  Port      Costa,     Martinez,      Byron, 
Tracy,      Lathrop,      Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and    Way    Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 1220f 

3-30p   Martinez,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodl...    10  20* 

4  U0p  Martinez, Sau  Ramon,  ValleJo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  Santu  Rosa 9. 20a 

4  00p  Ntlee.  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl 4.20p 

4.30p  Hayward.  Nllee,  Irvlngton,  San)    18.50a 

Joee.  Llvermore 1  11 1  50* 

6-00p  The  Owl    Limited— Newm-n,  Los 

Banos.  Mi'iidoia.  Fresno,  Tulare, 

BakerBlleld.  Loe  Angeles. 

Golden     State     Limited    Sleeper, 

Oakland  to  Los  Angeles,  for  cbi- 

cago,  via  C  R,  I    &  P 8.50* 

6.00p  Port  Costa.  Tracy,  Stockton 12  20p 

t6.30p  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.20a 

6.00p   Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 9o0* 

6.00p  Eastern  Express— Ogden.  Denver. 
Omaba,  St.  Louie,  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul- 
eun,  Elmlra,  Davie,  Sacramento, 
Rocklin,    Auburn,    Colfax, 

Trucker,     Boca,     HiMiO.    Wtids- 

worth,  winnemacca 5  20'* 

6.00p   Vallejo  dally,  except  Sunday... .  (      ,  _rt 

7-00r  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      f-oO' 

7.00p  Mchmond.  san  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11 .20* 

P.OBr  Oregon  &.  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Maryevllle,     Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sonnd  and  East.     8-60* 
91  Op  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sao- 
day  only) 11.504 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 


(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

8.1  6a  Newark,  Oentervllle.  San  Jose, 
Felton.    Boalaer    Creek,    Sanu 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6.651* 

t2.16p  Newark,  Centerrllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gatos, Felton, 
Bonlder  Crnek,  Santa  Crux  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    tlO-55* 

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33 


5*/>e     Political     Situation 


The  success  .1  the  Hearst  forces  in  carrying  Rhode 
Island  has  materially  changed  their  programme.  They 
now  claim  that  the  editor  will  have  California.  Wash 
ington,  Oregon,  Nevada,  Utah,  Montana,  Colorado. 
the  two  Dakotas,  Iowa,  Nebraska,  Kansas,  and  Mi-- 
sonri.  with  the  two  Carolinas,  Georgia,  Kentucky 
and  Arkansas,  besides  several  of  the  territories. 
While  that  does  not  give  him  two-thirds  of  the  vot- 
ing strength  of  the  St.  Louis  Convention,  it  is  a  ma- 
jority, for  all  that  Judge  Parker  will  get  are  New 
York.  Pennsylvania,  New  Jersey,  Maryland,  some  of 
the  Southern  States,  and  such  of  the  N'ew  England 
States  as  Hearst  does  not  bag.  Since  before  the  Civil 
War  it  has  been  the  rule  at  every  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention  to  pass  a  resolution  that  it  shall  re- 
quire two-thirds  to  nominate,  but  that  is  not  a  rule 
that  the  Convention  cannot  of  itself  abrogate,  because 
it  is  the  supreme  power  in  the  party,  and  moreover 
it  is  not  even  a  rule  that  exists  unless  the  Conven- 
tion shall  specifically  so  provide  by  adopting  it.  If, 
then,  Hearst  should  name  a  committee  on  order  of 
business  that  would  make  no  report  on  the  matter, 
or  which  would  report  in  favor  of  a  majority  nomi- 
nation, it  would  prevail  if  Hearst  has  a  majority  of 
the  delegates,  and  he  could  in  that  way  secure  his 
nomination  without  the  necessity  of  getting  a  two- 
third  vote  of  the  delegates.  That  is  the  plan,  now  an- 
nounced at  Hearst  headquarters,  proposed  to  put  in 
force  if  Hearst  finds  when  the  Convention  meets 
that  he  has  the  requisite  number  of  votes  to  nominate 
him  on  a  majority  rule. 

It  can  also  be  announced  that  he  will  be  nominated 
by  Bryan,  and  that  he  has  promised  to  put  that 
statesman  in  his  cabinet  if  he  is  elected.  It  is  now 
conceded  all  over  the  East  that  the  nominee  will  be 
either  Parker  or  Hearst,  and  if  Hearst  is  not  nomi- 
nated he  will  secure  an  independent  nomination  from 
a  convention  of  labor  union  delegates  and  radical 
Democrats.  In  that  movement  he  will  have  Bryan's 
support.  This  latter  part  of  the  programme  is  not 
talked  openly,  but  on  the  contrary  it  is  said  that 
Hearst  will  support  the  nominee  at  St.  Louis,  who- 
ever he  may  be.  That  is  said  so  as  to  give  the  con- 
servatives no  excuse  for  bolting  if  Hearst  is  nomi- 
nated, but  nevertheless  they  are  already  talking  of  do- 
ing just  that  thing,  and  another  Palmer  and  Bucket- 
campaign  is  not  unlikely. 

The  question  is  naturally  asked,  what  the  local 
Labor  Union  party  will  do  if  Hearst  jumps  the  Demo- 
cratic nomination,  and  appeals  to  the  Unionists  to 
help  nominate  him  as  their  candidate?  That  a  very 
strong  contingency  would  stand  with  him  is  certain, 
but  where  would  the  Mayor,  who  now  professes  to 
be  a  Republican,  or  Ruef,  who  attended  the  last  meet- 
ing of  the  Republican  Central  Committee  get  off? 
Would  they  go  back  on  their  Union  party  or  their 
Republican  affiliations?  If  after  the  Democrats 
nominated  Hearst  the  Union  Labor  party  should  en- 
dorse him,  where  would  His  Honor  and  his  friends 
find  themselves?  How  could  the  Mayor  refuse  to 
support  Hearst  after  the  trip  he  made  East  to  help 
elect  him  to  Congress,  especially  if  Hearst  were  en- 
dorsed by  the  labor  union  element?  Those  are  all 
questions  that  are  being  asked  in  Union  Labor  cir- 
cles, because  a  movement  is  already  on  foot  to  en- 
dorse Hearst's  candidacy,  and  there  can  be  no  ques- 


tion  but  that  if  ho  is  nominated,  every  union  in  the 
country  will  be  asked  to  Stand  by  him.  Cornelius 
and  the  faction-,  which  I.ivernash  owns  are  only 
waiting  for  the  signal  to  call  a  meeting  of  labor 
unionists  for  tin-  purpose  of  endorsing  the  so-called 

editor. 

But  while  the  politicians  arc  calculating  on  the 
labor  vote,  so-called,  it  would  be  well  for  them  nol  t>> 
overlook  the  fact  that  an  organization  has  recently 
sprung  into  existence,  the  Citizens'  Alliance,  which 
proposes  to  oppose  men  like  Hearst,  who  are  endeav- 
oring to  raise  class  issues  and  to  appeal  to  the  pre- 
judices and  ignorance  of  those  they  can  influence 
with  their  sophistries.  The  Alliance  claims  to  have 
an  immense  membership  all  over  the  country,  and 
while  its  real  strength  is  probably  much  less  than  it 
claims,  just  as  the  union  labor  vote  never  equals 
a  union  labor  parade,  yet  undoubtedly  there  are 
thousands  who  would  vote  with  it  on  the  issue  of  an 
open  shop,  and  the  turning  over  of  the  Government 
to  men  like  Hearst  and  Livernash,  and  Richard  Cor- 
nelius, and  the  McCarthys,  and  others  who  might 
be  named.  It  is  well,  for  instance,  to  remember 
that  the  farming  community  still  believes  in  virtue 
and  respectability,  and  has  not  forgotten  how  they 
suffered  right  here  in  this  town  when  the  teamsters 
would  not  allow  their  produce  to  be  moved,  but 
forced  them  to  let  it  lie  rotting  on  the  wharves  and 
at  the  depots.  The  farmers  are  the  conservative  ele- 
ment of  the  country,  and  they,  with  the  laborers  who 
want  to  be  free,  and  the  professional  men,  and  the 
thousands  who  do  not  propose  to  turn  this  Govern- 
ment into  a  socialistic  commune,  will  all  get  behind 
a  banner  that  the  Citizens'  Alliance  may  raise.     It 


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March  26,  .1904. 


is  well  not  to  forget  that  there  are  15,000,000  voters 
in  the  United  States,  and  that  only  2,000,000  belong 
to  unions. 

*  *  * 

It  has  been  settled  that  Metcalf  will  not  stand  in 
the  way  of  the  Governor's  ambition  to  go  to  St.  Louis 
as  delegate-at-large  from  this  State,  and  unless  there 
is  a  change  in  the  present  programme  he  will  be  ac- 
corded that  honor.  When  Bulla  was  here  attending 
the  meeting  of  the  State  Central  Committee  he 
seemed  very  confident  that  he  could  defeat  Judge  Mc- 
kinley for  delegate-at-large  from  that  part  of  the 
State.  It  is  said  that  the  fact  that  the  Judge  is  the 
attorney  for  Griffiths,  the  man  who  attempted  to  kill 
his  wife  at  Santa  Monica,  is  going  to  hurt  him  politi- 
ica'IIy.  There  is  a  great  deal  of  feeling  in  Los  An- 
geles against  Griffiths,  and  the  effort  of  his  attor- 
neys to  get  him  out  of  jail,  and  to  save  him  from  the 
penitentiary  is  not  looked  upon  with  favor.  Of  course 
it  may  very  correctly  lie  said  that  the  Judge  is 
doing  only  his  duty  in  defending  his  client,  yet  popu- 
lar prejudice  is  a  curious  thing,  and  there  is  no  ques- 
tion but  that  the  unpopularity  of  his  client  is  being 
worked  for  all  it  is  worth  against  him. 

*  *   * 

The  Democratic  Slate  Central  Committee  has  met, 
fought,  been  captured  by  Hearst  and  adjourned.  It 
was  a  wonderful  gathering  when  one  reflects  that  it  is 
the  local  representative  of  what  was  once  a  great 
political  party.  Perhaps  the  most  remarkable  fea- 
ture of  the  whole  show  was  the  character  of  the  men 
wdio  have  sold  themselves  out  to  the  Hearst.  An  ex- 
Governor,  two  Congressmen,  were  the  most  conspicu- 
ous, though  there  were  others.  It  might  be  well  to 
keep  an  eye  on  them  in  the  future,  for  men  who  would 
so  far  debase  their  country  and  themselves  as  to 
take  Hearst's  money,  and  certainly  no  other  excuse 
can  be  offered  by  a  Californian  for  endorsing  his  can- 
didacy, are  not  worthy  of  public  confidence.  Barry 
and  editor  Leake  of  the  Woodland  Democrat  tried 
to  prevent  the  indorsement  of  Hearst's  aspirations, 
but  after  ex-Congressman  Maguire  had  eaten  his  dish 
of  crow  with  a  relish  that  did  him  credit,  the  resolu- 
tions went  through  with  a  whoop.  Leake  even  inti- 
mated that  he  would  support  Hearst  if  he  is  nomi- 
nated, and  Green  of  the  Colusa  Sun,  and  Freeman, 
the  Glenn  County  editor,  who  thought  he  was  run- 
ning for  Congress  against  Metcalf  some  months  ago, 
are  all  riding  on  the  band  wagon  and  cheering  on  the 
procession. 

*  *  * 

But  all  is  not  yet  serene.  The  State  Convention 
is  to  meet  at  Santa  Cruz  on  May  16th,  and  as  all 
the  delegates  are  to  be  elected  at  that  gathering — 
district  delegates  as  well  as  delegates  at  large — it 
would  seem  to  be  a  foregone  conclusion  that  Hearst 
will  get  the  solid  vote  of  this  State  at  St.  Louis, 
and  probably  he  will ;  but  meantime  the  country  peo- 
ple who  profess  to  be  Democrats  in  this  State  are  to 
be  heard  from,  as  they  will  be  in  November  from  all 
over  the  country,  if  he  is  nominated,  and  they  are 
unanimously  opposed  to  him.  While  they  will  hard- 
ly defeat  the  leaders  who  have  seen  Hearst's  money, 
they  can  make  a  lot  of  noise  at  the  convention,  and 
undoubtedly  they  will  avail  themselves  to  the  full 
of  their  opportunities  in  that  line. 

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It  is  curious  that  beer  will  put  out  a  fire  but  won't 
tcol  "hot  coppers." 

General  Ma  is  the  name  of  a  Chinese  military  com- 
mander, ami  not  another  term  for  the  matron  of  an 
orphan  asylum. 


Oakland  policemen,  says  their  chief,  must  learn 
to  shoot  straight.  Nobody  gets  a  star  across  the  bay 
who  does  not  know  how  to  vote  and  shout  straight. 

Hearst's  hired  orators  declaim  about  his  having 
been  "reared  in  the  lap  of  luxury.''  Has  this  any  ref- 
erence to  the  silver  bath  tub  in  his  Sausalito  cottage? 

All  right-minded  citizens  are  pained  by  the  news 
that  prize-fighter  Britt  broke  his  arm  and  not  his 
neck  in  a  recent  battle. 


Pugilist  Corbett  says  Referee  Graney  is  a  robber ; 
Referee  Graney,  being  too  fat  to  fight  or  call  names 
and  run,  retorts  that  Pugilist  Corbett  is  a  "thorough 
sport."    This  is  the  age  of  the  soft  answer. 

Editor  Hayes  of  San  Jose  is  beginning  to  have 
"divine  revelations."  We  wait  eagerly  for  him  to 
make  public  some  supernatural  communication  touch- 
ing the  United  States  Senatorship. 

The  Mayor  will  not  stand  for  "special  privileges" 
to  flower  peddlers,  but  when  it  comes  to  the  rock- 
crusher,  silent,  sanitary  and  ornamental — ah !  that's 
different. 

As  an  interesting  bit  of  war  news  we  note  that  an 
expedition  of  California  lady-bugs  is  on  its  way  to 
rescue  the  stately  maples  of  Evanston,  111.,  from  an 
invading  fungus. 

At  ten  years  the  son  of  a  Harvard  professor  will 
be  ready  to  enter  that  institution  of  learning — a  scrap 
of  information  which  is  neither  interesting  nor  amus- 
ing,  but  rather   pathetic. 

A  United  States  Senator  has  been  convicted  of 
selling  his  influence,  the  goods  being  marketed  as 
"legal  services."  Well,  what  of  it?  Does  any  one 
imagine  that  Washington  is  a  health  resort? 

Careful  people  should  refrain  from  gathering  in 
groups,  where  they  may  be  observed,  lest  Hearst 
hear  about  it  and  publish  them  as  holding  mass  meet- 
ings in  his  favor. 


A  young  man  of  Baltimore  rejoices  in  ribs  made  "f 
rubber  by  his  doctor.  How  different  everything 
would  be  now  if  there  had  been  that  kind  of  surgerj 
in   Eden  before  Adam's  loneliness  was  relieved! 


Chicago  children  arc  to  "play  politics"  as  a  part 
of  their  public  school  education.  Excellent!  Soon 
we  shall  hear  that  they  being  taught  faro,  mixing 
cocktails  and  robbing  trains. 

Crooked  backs  among  athletes  are  found  to  be 
common.  If  there's  anything  about  the  athletes  of 
pugilism  that  is  not  crooked  it  has  not  yet  been  men- 
tioned. 


Lieutenant-General  Miles  lifts  his  ear  from  the 
ground  long  enough  to  write  for  publication  a  few 
beautiful  thoughts  about  the  need  of  the  hour  for  a 
pure  and  patriotic  democracy. 

There  may  be  some  doubt  whether  or  not  one  of 
the  participants  in  the  latest  prize-fight  was  robbed. 
We  hope  he  was ;  generally  it's  the  fool  public's 
pocket  that  is  picked  in  these  affairs. 

That  irrepressible  President  lectured  a  bunch  of 
Ogallala  Sioux  visiting  the  White  House  on  the 
evils  of  gambling,  and  to  the  credit  of  the  red  men 
it  is  recorded  that  they  did  not  laugh  until  they  were 
out  of  doors. 


Mayor  Schmitz's  doctors  at  the  Emergency  Hos- 
pitals may  not  be  able  to  tell  a  fractured  skull  from  a 
case  of  pneumonia,  but  their  touch  is  so  delicate  that 
they  can  say  off-hand  how  much  money  a  patient  has 
and  in  which  pocket  he  carries  it. 

Dowie,  having  insulted  King  Edward  in  Australia 
cables  that  he  has  been  so  chased  by  mobs  that  he 
is  coming  home.  If  eggs  were  not  still  high-priced, 
it  might  be  pleasant  to  arrange  a  little  reception  at 
the  wharf. 


"Nail  pictures"  of  their  sweethearts  are  the  latest 
fad  of  fashionable  young  Parisians.  Every  now  and 
then  our  own  divorce  records  reveal  some  luckless 
benedict  with  a  wife  skilled  in  a  kind  of  decoration 
that  might  be  called  by  the  same  name. 

Admiring  St.  Petersburg  reads  on  the  bulletin 
boards  Admiral  Makaroff's  thrilling  accounts  of  what 
he  did  not  do  to  the  Japanese  fleet,  and  then  shouts 
"Molodtz !"  This  is  not  so  profane  as  it  sounds, 
meaning,  we  are  told,  "He's  a  dandy!" 

Colonel  William  J.  Bryan  swelled  out  his  chest  the 
other  day  before  a  Connecticut  audience,  and  in  the 
exordium  of  one  of  his  hand-made  lectures  remarked  : 
"It  requires  a  brave  man  to  stand  up  against  error, 
to  stand  up  against  error  in  his  own  political  party, 
and  to  maintain  a  righteous  principle."  Puzzle :  Find 
the  "brave  man." 


GRAFT  IN  THE   BOARD   OF   HEALTH. 

For  months  past  the  administration  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  has  heen  spotted  by  instances  of  graft 
and    evidences   of   gross    incompetency.      The    main 
offenders  have  been  the  doctors  appointed  to  care  for 
those  unfortunates  who  by  reason  of  accident  or  other 
untoward  circumstance,  have  been  forced  to  submit 
to  the  mercenary  desires  or  the  negligent  care  of  the 
city's  physicians.     We  have  had  occasion  heretofore 
to  criticise  the  management  of  the  emergency  hos- 
pitals.   It  has  been  marked  by  incompetence  so  gross 
that  it  closely  approaches  to  a  disregard  for  human 
life.     In  one  case,  a  sailor,  stabbed  in  the  abdomen, 
was  sent  by  one  of  the  hospital's  young  men  on  a 
wild  ride  in  an  ambulance  to  the  City  and  County 
Hospital.     On  the  way  he  died  from  loss  of  blood. 
More  recently,  a  man  suffering  from  a  fractured  skull 
was    considered    a    pneumonia    case.     The    fracture 
of  the  skull  was  not  discovered  until  the  autopsy. 
The  other  day,  Dr.  Pawlicki,  of  the  hospital,  charged 
an  emergency  patient  a  fee  of  $2.50  for  services  ren- 
dered in  the  hospital,  the  physician  acting  at  the  time 
in  his  official  capacity,  for  which  he  receives  from  the 
city  a  salary  of  $100  a  month.    This  petty  graft  was 
so  "raw"  that  when  the  patient  exposed  it,  Dr.  Paw- 
licki was  forced  to  return  him  the  money.     But  now 
comes  Dr.  George  F.  Brackett,  the  Chief  of  all  the 
physicians  employed  in  the  emergency  hospitals,  and 
calmly  puts  in  a  bill  for  $500  against  the  estate  of 
an  old  man  who  was  originally  under  the  doctor's 
care    at    the   hospital,    and    who    died    subsequently 
while  Dr.   Brackett  was  attending  him.     It  is  said 
that  when  this  patient  arrived  at  the  hospital,  the  at- 
tending physicians  found  on  him  a  bank  book  show- 
ing deposits  amounting  to  $1,800.    The  next  day  they 
removed  him   to  a     private     hospital,     where     Dr. 
Brackett  attended  him.     In  two  days  more  the  man 
was  dead.     Now  Brackett,  with  an  assurance  that  is 
astonishing,  puts  in  his  claim  for  $500.     Of  course, 
the  dead  man's  relatives  decline  to  pay  the  demand. 

In  his  defense,  Brackett  says  the  old  man  insisted 
upon  being  removed  to  a  private  hospital.  But  that 
defense  is  an  evasion  of  the  main  question  at  issue, 
which  is:  Why  should  the  physicians  of  the  Board 
of  Health  be  permitted  to  use  their  official  position 
simply  as  a  means  of  advertising  and  increasing  their 
private  practice?  Why  should  they  be  permitted  to 
practically  force  the  emergency  patients  to  subse- 
quently pay  them  fees?  These  men  receive  salaries 
of  $100  a  month.  Dr.  Brackett  is  paid  $150  a  month 
by  the  city.  That  is  ample  recompense  for  the  time 
they  give  to  their  duties.  Their  practice  of  using 
the  emergency  hospital  as  an  ante-room  to  their 
private  offices  is  grafting.  The  practice  is  vicious 
and  dishonorable.  We  do  not  apprehend  that  any 
of  these  physicians  would  be  guilty  of  malicious  mal- 
practice, nor  do  we  think  they  would  lend  them- 
selves in  their  private  capacities  to  dishonest  acts. 
It  seems,  therefore,  all  the  more  remarkable  that  as 
soon  as  they  enter  the  city's  employ  they  eagerly 
resort  to  measures  which  are  not  only  unprofessional, 
but  bear  a  very  unpleasant  resemblance  to  extor- 
tion. It  was  found  necessary  some  years  ago  to 
bar  out  Police  Court  pettifoggers  and  their  cappers 
from  the  city  prison.  Even  the  criminal  is  protected 
from  human  vultures.  The  Board  of  Health  should 
see  to  it  that  it  should  not  become  necessary  to  pass 
ordinances  for  the  physical  and  financial  protection 
of  patients  of  the  emergency  hospitals. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  April  2,  1904. 

AN  HONEST  DECISION. 


At  least  one  judge  sits  on  the  Superior  Bench  of 
San  Francisco  of  the  kind  men  may  be  proud  to  vote 
for — James  M.  Seawell,  whose  term  will  expire  next 
year.  This  upright  and  unreachable  minister  of  jus- 
tice has  again  proved  his  fitness  for  the  bench  by  a 
prompt  judgment  given  this  week  against  the  Harbor 
Commissioners  in  the  malodorous  case  which  in- 
volves the  news  stand  privilege  at  the  ferry.  Instead 
of  waiting  for  weeks  or  months,  as  is  the  practice  of 
the  Superior  Court,  Judge  Seawell  took  only  a  few 
days  after  the  final  submission  of  the  case  to  hand 
down  his  decision  permanently  enjoining  the  Harbor 
Board  from  ousting  the  holders  of  the  privilege, 
Foster  and  Orear.  Of  course  the  Board,  headed  by 
the  unscrupulous  Spear,  the  petty  politician  with  the 
ravenous  relatives,  will  seek  by  appeal  or  otherwise 
to  get  behind  this  expression  of  the  law  and  of  jus- 
tice. Meanwhile  Spear's  brother-in-law,  one  Rooney, 
will  doubtless  be  given  a  place  at  the  waterfront 
trough.  We  shall  be  surprised,  also,  if  the  Commis- 
sioners do  not  now  accept  the  maximum  bid  of  Fos- 
ter and_  Orear,  who  offered  $1,500  a  month  for  the 
concession  as  against  the  Spear-Rooney  bid  of  $1,200, 
but  were  refused  consideration  on  the  ground  that 
the  tender  was  never  legally  made,  was  not  in  good 
faith,  and  was  too  late,  anyway,  the  prize  having  al- 
ready disappeared  into  the  Spear-Rooney  pocket. 

The  ground  of  Judge  Seawell's  decision  was  that 
while  the  Harbor  Commissioners  had,  under  the  law, 
discretion  as  to  the  letting  of  this  privilege,  it  must 
be  a  sound  discretion,  and  not,  as  had  been  fully 
proved,  a  bald,  bold  attempt  to  discriminate  against 
a  bona  fide  bidder  in  favor  of  a  relative  of  one  of 
the  Commissioners.  So  Spear  and  his  fellow  com- 
missioners stand  convicted  of  a  scandalous  piece 
of  "graft."  They  were  "caught  with  the  goods  on 
them" — most  of  them  on  Spear.  They  ought  to  be, 
if  they  are  not,  politically  damned,  and  the  indict- 
ment on  which  they  have  been  found  guilty  as  to  all 
counts  runs  not  only  against  them,  but  against  the 
administration  which  put  Spear  into  office  and  per- 
mitted the  others — Mackenzie  and  Kirkpatrick — to 
stay  there.  It  is  the  most  convincing  argument  of 
unworth  and  unfitness  ever  leveled  at  a  State  ad- 
ministration. Until  this  scandal  broke,  the  personal 
and  political  standing  of  Governor  Pardee  was  high. 
He  had  been  scored  by  some  as  perverse,  as  unwise 
or  unfortunate  in  his  choice  of  men,  but  it  had  not 
been  charged  that  there  was  anything  the  matter 
with  his  public  morals  or  motives.  Now  it  is  differ- 
ent. His  silence,  amounting  to  consent,  makes  equal- 
ly culpable  with  the  predacious  trio  which  runs  the 
waterfront.  He  will  hear  of  this  news  stand  scandal 
when  he  asks  again  for  public  preferment — and  so, 
we  trust,  will  Judge  Seawell. 

PRIZE-FIGHTS   AND   CRIME. 

How  many  of  the  thousands  who  attended  the 
Britt-Corbett  prize-fight  last  week,  and  of  the  other 
thousands  who  read  of  the  fight  in  the  press,  paused 
to  consider  that  San  Francisco  is  the  only  city  in  the 
world  to-day  where  such  a  contest  is  possible  under 
the  law?  How  many  of  the  prominent  citizens  who 
sat  at  the  ring  side,  and  were  afterwards  proud  to  be 
quoted  in  the  daily  papers  as  experts  at  the  game, 
paused  -to  consider  whether  or  not,  by  giving  their 
countenance  to  the  affair,  they  were  aiding  and 
abetting  in  the  maintenance  of  an  element  than  which 
none  is  more  dangerous  to  the  good  name  of  a  com- 
munity? One  who  studies  conditions  in  this  city  need 
not  exercise  much  thought  to  draw  the  analogy  be- 


April  3,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


twccn  the  prosperity  ol  the  prize  ring  and  the  prev.i 
lence  of  crime.     Even   now,   the 

he  Grand  Jury  some  of  the  r- 
the    !■  lent  crimes,   which, 

for  more  tlian  ■  terror  in  the  hearts 

of  the  citizens.  I'.ut  he  bears  all  too  lightly  on  the 
recognition  publicly  given  to  prize-tights  and  prize- 
fighters. The  pri.  .1  forcing  ground  of  all 
that  is  brutal  and  vicious  in  the  criminal  class  I" 
with,  there  nc\er  yet  was  .1  prize-lighter  in 
whom  the  brute  part  of  his  nature  was  not  predomi- 
nant They  are  differentiated  only  by  the  compara- 
tive amount  of  gray  matter  they  carry  m  tin  ir  skulls, 
but  in  all  alike  the  animal  element  is  the  controlling 
influence.  Now.  tor  every  Jimmy  l'.ritl  who  may  be 
a  quicker  or  a  stronger  brute  than  his  opponent,  and 
thereby  force  himself  to  the  top  of  his  particular 
dung-hill,  there  are  untold  scores  of  young  men  who 
fail  in  their  purpose  to  become  champions  of  their 
respective  classes.  These  arc  the  fellows  who  are 
forced  on  in  the  "preliminaries"  to  whet  the  appetite 
of  the  multitude  for  the  bigger  bruisers  of  the  night. 
What  becomes  of  these  "failures?"  Ask  the  police. 
From  their  ranks  the  great  class  of  vicious  criminals 
is  recruited.  Having  appeared  in  the  lime-light,  they 
have  a  distaste  for  honest  toil.  Having  failed  as 
prize-fighters,  they  resort  to  the  road,  with  murder 
in  their  heart  and  bludgeons  in  their  hands,  taking 
loot  and  lives  without  discrimination.  For  every 
prize-fighter  who  has  not  committed  a  violent  crime, 
fifty  may  be  found  whose  pictures  are  in  the  rogues' 
gallery.  Even  the  successful  ones  give  their  after- 
lives to  the  saloon  business,  pool  rooms  and  the 
propagation  of  evil.  The  trouble  with  this  com- 
munity is  that  the  so-called  "good"  citizen  thinks 
but  too  little,  if  he  thinks  at  all,  upon  the  effect  of 
those  things  to  which   he  gives  countenance. 

VICTORY  FOR  THE  FLOWER  SELLERS. 

Lacking  the  courage  to  veto  the  flower  market  or- 
dinance, so  unanimously  and  peremptorily  demanded 
by  the  people,  or  afraid,  perhaps,  of  splitting  up  his 
"solid  five"  in  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  Mayor 
Schmitz  sullenly  allowed  the  bill  to  become  a  law 
without  his  signature.  His  position  was,  he  ex- 
plained, that  the  measure  was  not  in  conformity 
with  the  charter,  being  a  grant  of  special  privileges, 
and  so  would  ultimately  be  knocked  out  by  the 
courts.  The  Mayor,  or  the  person  behind  the  screen 
who  pulls  the  string  and  makes  the  mannikin  skip 
and  posture,  is  grievously  in  error  about  the  "spec- 
ial privilege"  objection.  The  ordinance  represents 
the  intelligence  and  experience  of  the  Merchants' 
Association — which  practically  built  the  charter — 
and  the  legal  wisdom  of  that  body's  attorney.  If 
such  a  combination  cannot  draw  a  measure  that  will 
not  conflict  with  the  charter,  no  other  combination 
can.  But  it  does  not  take  a  lawyer  to  find  how 
foolish  the  Mayor's  objection  is;  any  layman  ought 
to  be  able  to  differentiate  between  the  "special  priv- 
ileges" barred  by  the  charter  and  the  "bogie  man" 
of  the  Mayor's  imagining.  This  ordinance  permits 
anybody  to  sell  flowers  under  certain  restrictions  in 
certain  public  places,  provided  the  owners  of  abutting 
property  give  consent.  If  there  be  any  "special  priv- 
ileges" in  this,  then  all  the  other  ordinances  limiting 
certain  operations  or  establishments  to  certain  dis- 
tricts are  unconstitutional — the  fire-limit  building  or- 
dinance, the  cow  ordinance,  the  pole  and  wire  ordi- 
nances and  all  the  laws  akin  to  these. 

But  Schmitz  is  only  "straddling"  again.  He  dared 
not  veto  the  flower  market  measure  for  fear  of  offend- 


ing too  far  all  the  respectable  elements  of  the  com- 
munity, including  the  powerful  Merchants' 

which  fathered  and  forwarded  the  ordinance, 
and,  on  the  other  hand,  he  dared  nut  sign  it  because 
of  his  relations  or  the  relations  of  somebody  else  with 
the  Association  of  Retail  Florists.  It  is  more  than 
a  suspicion,  and  almost  a  certainty,  that  this  latter 
body,  anxious  as  it  may  have  been  to  drive  the  ped- 
dlers out  of  business,  was  cunningly  used  in  this  mat- 
ter for  the  wreaking  of  a  petty  spite  on  a  private 
citizen  who  championed  the  cause  of  the  basket  men, 
not  for  his  own  gain  or  advantage,  but  for  the  city's 
good.  As  often  happens  in  the  attempting  of  such 
meanness,  the  result  was  disastrous  to  the  spite- 
wreaking  agency.  Instead  of  a  few  violet-venders 
on  a  single  corner,  the  Retail  Florists  find  them- 
selves confronted  by  the  competition  of  growers  and 
others  who  will  sell  their  wares  freely  on  a  dozen 
corners  and  be  cheerfully  patronized  by  a  public 
which  understands  the  flower  business  better  than 
it  did.    So  much  for  a  mean-minded  Mayor. 

TO   BEAUTIFY   SAN  FRANCISCO. 

It  does  not  matter  who  started  the  Association 
for  the  Improvement  and  Adornment  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, or  who  gave  it  such  a  handicap  of  a  name.  This 
body  was  the  first  to  see  a  re-opening  of  the  city's 
chance  to  acquire  that  noble  garden  by  the  sea  known 
as  Sutro's  Heights  and  to  begin  the  task  of  arousing 
public  sentiment  for  that  praiseworthy  purpose.  The 
citizen  who  does  not  approve  of  this  step  is  guilty 
of  short-sightedness,  silurianism,  mossbackism  and 
all  the  other  forms  of  incivism  that  belong  to  the 
ante-charter  period  of  San  Francisco's  development. 
The  News  Letter  does  not  hesitate  to  range  itself 
on  the  side  of  the  A.  F.  T.  I.  A.  A.  O.  S.  F.,  and  to 
second  warmly  its  efforts  to  add  Sutro  Heights  to 
the  city's  pleasure  grounds  and  show  places. 

The  situation  is  this :  After  fighting  the  trust 
sought  to  be  established  under  Adolph  Sutro's  curi- 
ous will,  and  after  knocking  it  out  in  court,  the  heirs 
have  changed  their  minds.  They  admit  irregularity 
in  the  legal  proceedings  and  are  willing  to  sell  the 
Heights  property  to  the  city  on  the  terms  dictated 
by  Sutro  himself — at  20  per  cent  less  than  any  other 
bidder,  the  proceeds  to  go  to  certain  charitable  be- 
quests. We  shall  never  again  be  offered  such  a  bar- 
gain, for  the  excellent  reason  that  there  is  not  on  the 
peninsula  anything  that  approaches  Sutro  Heights 
in  desirability  as  a  place  to  be  owned  and  used  by 
the  public.  The  late  Mr.  Sutro  was  a  peculiar  man 
in  some  respects  that  may  well  be  forgotten.  He 
was  a  remarkable  man  in  respects  that  ought  to  be 
remembered.  One  of  these  latter  was  a  prevision 
beyond  all  of  his  contemporaries  as  to  the  future  of 
the  city,  its  needs  and  its  possibilities.  It  was  this 
prevision  that  made  him  acquire  and  lay  out  the 
gardens  at  the  heights  and  build  the  world-famed 
baths  below  the  Cliff  House,  planning  in  them  a  pub- 
lic playground  unique,  vast  and  superb. 

Now  it  lies  in  San  Francisco's  hands  to  make 
Sutro's  dream  come  speedily  and  splendidly  true. 
It  was  a  dream  plenteously  worth  realization  at  much 
more  than  the  contemplated  cost.  That  is  why  the 
News  Letter  heartily  endorses  the  organization  with 
the   nine-jointed   title. 

"Dancing  is  akin  to  holiness,"  says  Dr.  G.  S.  Hall, 
of  Worcester,  Mass.  Professor  Griggs  will  kindly 
step  down  off  his  pedestal  and  let  Dr.  Hall  take  his 
place  as  the  American  woman's  "ideal  man." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


THE  INSOLENCE  OF  SERVANTS. 

If  there  is  one  vice  more  prevalent  than  another 
i  1  San  Francisco  it  is  the  vile  manners  of  such  a  large 
proportion  of  those  who  are  brought  into  contact 
with  the  public  and  from  whom  a  certain  amount  of 
at  least  ordinary  courtesy  is  due.  Every  one  com- 
plains of  it.  The  stranger  within  our  gates  is  re- 
pelled by  it.  He  comes  here  quite  prepared  to  be 
treated  on  terms  of  democratic  equality.  He  finds 
instead  a  coarse  boorishness  which  hurts  his  feelings 
and  arouses  his  anger.  He  feels  insulted,  as  a  matter 
of  fact,  he  is  insulted,  and  the  insult  is  as  a  general 
rule   intentional  and   malicious. 

It  is  no  argument  to  say  that  the  stranger  behaves 
superciliously ;  this  is  very  seldom  the  case,  for  the 
tradition  of  American  equality  has  become  so  uni- 
versal in  Europe  that  every  educated  European  ap- 
proaches our  shores  in  a  spirit  of  trepidation,  almost, 
lest  he  should  appear  to  be  over-ostentatious  in  his 
insistence  upon   a   right   to   live. 

The  Eastern  American  recoils  in  disgust  and  dis- 
may from  the  manner  of  our  railroad  officials,  the 
petty  little  jacks  in  office  of  our  steamboats  and 
wharves,  the  flippant  and  imbecile  wit  of  our  car- 
conductors,  and  the  lofty,  supercilious  dignity  of  the 
placid  policeman. 

But  the  list  does  not  stop  here.  Go  into  the  Police 
Court,  and  you  will  find  the  same  insolent,  supercil- 
ious manner  at  the  hands  of  the  assistant  clerk,  into 
the  Superior  Court,  and  the  small  official  will  snub 
you  for  asking  a  simple  question,  and  all  but  down 
you  with  a  stare  when  you  seek  knowledge  of  some 
of  the  matters  upon  which  he  is  paid  to  inform  you. 
When  you  enter  the  Supreme  Court  precincts,  the 
vestiges  of  the  same  manner  are  there,  as  of  the  soil, 
but  rarified  and  developed  by  maturity.  The  digni- 
fied quiet  of  the  haunts  of  the  distinguished  old  gen- 
tlemen who  write  such  unnecessarily  long,  ponder- 
ous opinions,  and  fill  up  such  numbers  of  compara- 
tively useless  books,  has  its  effect  upon  the  mind 
and  manner  of  even  the  Californian  servitor,  and  a 
colorable  imitation  of  good  manners  prevails.  But 
in  the  United  States  offices  alone,  and  only  in  those 
connected  with  the  judiciary  department,  do  good 
manners  and  quiet  courtesy  have  sway,  so  that  it 
is  not  altogether  humiliating  and  shameful  to  do 
business  there.  How  is  it  that  the  officials  of  the  judi- 
ciary department,  even  in  some  instances  of  the  Mar- 
shal's office,  be  meek-mannered  and  kindly-disposed, 
at  all  events  superficially,  while  those  of  the  Customs 
House  be  unmannerly  and  uncouth?  Some  one 
to  whom  the  subject  was  mentioned  remarked 
parenthetically  and  inconsequentially :  "Colonel 
Irish."  But  the  influence  of  the  gallant  Colonel 
surely  does  not  extend  to  the  Customs  House ;  on  the 
contrary,  the  presiding  genius  of  the  Customs  House 
presents  a  very  marked  contrast  to  that  of  the  dis- 
tinguished naval  officer  in  the  matter  of  geniality. 

This  raises  the  question  as  to  the  differences  in 
degree  of  courtesy  and  attention.  For  instance,  why 
should  a  steward  at  a  hotel  be  courteous,  bland  and 
accommodating,  and  the  purser  on  a  ship  grow  more 
and  more  discourteous  in  proportion  to  his  proximity 
to  this  port?  These  are  hard  riddles,  almost  insolu- 
ble, in  fact;  they  do  not  appear  to  rest  on  any  reason- 
able basis.  I  once  knew  a  man  who  collected  for  the 
gas  company,  then  he  became  a  car  conductor.  As 
a  collector  he  was  the  blandest,  most  winning,  I 
was  going  to  say  most  captivating,  of  individuals, 
so  that  it  was  a  real  sorrow  to  have  to  explain  to  him 
that  you  really  had  not  the  change,  but  as  a  car  con- 
ductor, he  developed  a  fiendish  temper  and  a  demon- 
iac passion  for  hurrying  old  ladies  on  and  off. 


The  only  explanation,  and  this  is  no  explanation, 
consists  in  the  fact  that  some  occupations  as  con- 
ducted in  this  city,  but  not  elsewhere,  mind  you,  not 
elsewhere,  have  an  unavoidable  and  incurable  ten- 
dency to  produce  a  condition  of  manners  which  can 
only  be  fairly  described  as  vile,  and  which  have  no 
counterpart  in  any  other  city  in  the  world. 

FERRY  FREAKS. 

In  some  previous  carma,  a  number  of  the  com- 
muters must  have  been  bears,  lions,  tigers  or  other 
beasts.  They  must  have  suffered  long  and  serious 
incarceration.  They  did  not  forget  the  habit  ac- 
quired in  cages  while  in  transition,  and  it  sticks  to 
them  still.  These  poor  creatures,  not  yet  freed  from 
this  hereditary  taint,  still  affect  walking  to  and  fro 
every  time  they  are  forcibly  detained  where  there  is 
a  restraining  railing.  The  water  on  all  sides  pre- 
vents their  escape,  and  the  illusion  is  complete.  For 
the  time  being  they  return  to  their  previous  condi- 
tion of  servitude,  and  when  in  that  condition  are 
more  or  less  dangerous.  Their  spite  against  human- 
ity is  vented  on  people  who  prefer  to  sit  and  watch 
the  landscape  and  the  bay.  They  trample  on  feet 
and  obstruct  the  view  with  no  more  compunction 
than  would  any  other  animal.  They  are  noisome 
and  conscienceless,  but  not  at  all  responsible. 

ST.  LOUIS  EXPOSITION. 

The  St.  Louis  Exposition  promises  to  be  the  great- 
est the  world  ever  produced.  The  extent  of  its  area 
is  1240  acres,  almost  four  times  larger  than  the  Paris 
Exposition,  and  twice  as  large  as  the  World's  Fair 
at  Chicago.  The  buildings  cover  128  acres.  This  is 
about  fifty  per  cent  more  than  the  space  occupied 
for  the  same  purpose  at  Chicago,  while  the  cost  to- 
talizes the  stupendous  amount  of  fifty  million  dollars, 
compared  with  twenty-eight  million  for  the  latter 
Exposition.  It  will  be  opened  on  the  30th  of  April, 
but  from  present  indications,  will  not  be  completed 
before  the  latter  part  of  June.  Several  contracts 
have  been  let  for  work,  allowing  until  June  30th  for 
completion. 

The  Exposition  management  hold  the  signed  prom- 
ises of  most  old-established  hotel  managers,  agreeing 
not  to  change  rates  during  the  Exposition.  They 
are  also  making  every  effort  to  locate  rooming  ac- 
commodations. Several  large  hotels  of  temporary 
structure  have  been  erected  near  the  Fair  site,  also 
one  very  large  one  within  the  grounds.  Notwith- 
standing these  facts,  rents  are  very  high,  and  in  sev- 
eral instances  have  been  raised  one  hundred  per  cent. 
Desirable  rooms  are  scarce.  General  admission  to 
the  Fair  grounds  will  be  fifty  cents. 


fcJCHAS  KLILUS  &  COM 

&£XCL  US/VT& 
HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

There  is  a  reason  why  our  clothes  are  so  decidedly  different  from 
others.  It  is  the  experience,  merit  ana  exdusiveness  that,  our 
fabrics,  patterns  and  fashions  contain.  The  sculptor's  chisel  could 
not  give  the  effect  in  the  appearance  of  our  spring  and  summer 
models.    (This  is  the  Home  for  Correct  Dressers.) 


xis-1" 


April  3,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


How     tSan     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


Bv     F»fTM^\jW     Tr 


To\irl»l 


In   one   of   my   communications   t"   your   valuable 
paper   I   saw   tit   to  compliment   the   American 
makers     I  am  really  pleased  to  note  that  my  ht'ltr 
ment  is  confirmed  in  this  particular  by  one  ■ 

most  prominent  ladies  in  the  Smartest  SC(  of  \nu-ri 
can  society,  who  is  now  in  England.  She  sent  back 
to  this  country  to  order  her  footwear.  1  really  feel, 
don't  you  know,  that  Mrs.  Bradley  Martin  compli- 
ments me  by  apreeinp  with  my  opinion.  1  don't 
really  know  if  I  had  anything  to  do  with  the  lady- 
actions  in  this  matter,  but  I  expressed  myself  SO 
Strongly  in  favor  of  the  American  boot-man  that 
maybe  I  had. 

You  know  that  the  custom  pertains  on  the  Conti- 
nent of  regarding  the  negro  as  a  sort  of  white  man 
— a  social  equal,  as  it  were.  I  never  could  go  this 
myself,  and  I  never  saw  it  in  America,  hut  the  indi- 
cations that  it  is  coming  is  apparent.  A  black  man 
has  had  his  feet  under  the  mahogany  of  the  Ameri- 
can President,  and  the  other  night  at  the  theatre  T 
saw  from  my  box  a  big  negro,  coally  black,  accom- 
panied by  a  negTess  of  just  as  obscure  a  color,  calmly 
walk  down  the  aisle  and  seat  themselves  among 
some  rather  stylishly-dressed  people  who  had  white 
skin.  These  persons  were,  strange  as  it  may  seem, 
dressed  in  good  taste.  The  negro  man  wore  a  dress 
suit  and  the  female  was  in  evening  toilet.  They 
were  dressed  for  a  box  and  should  have  had  one.  1 
really  wonder  if  they  tried  to  buy  one  and  were  re- 
fused. If  they  could  not  buy  a  box,  why  should  they 
have  a  seat.  It  is,  I  think,  as  I  said,  that  the  negro 
is  forcing  himself  into  a  place  where  he  can  buy 
anything  he  has  the  cash  to  pay  for.  You  have  had 
over  here  your  prejudices  against  persons  of  color, 
but  after  the  theatre  episode,  I  think,  don't  you  know. 
that  the  money  of  the  negro  is  going  to  send  your 
prejudices  to  pot.  At  least  I  am  sure  in  my  opinion 
that  the  "colored"  dollar  at  some  of  the  box-offices 
of  some  of  your  theatres  here  is  as  good  as  the  other 
kind.  I  really  don  t  know  what  I  would  do  if  I  found 
the  usher  chap  seating  a  negro  and  negress  next  to 
my  seat.  I  think,  by  gad,  I  should  get  out,  don't  you 
know,  and  that  demned  quick.  I  take  a  box  or  loge 
anyway,  so  I  do  not  worry  much.  I  beg  your  pardon, 
but  I  think  the  personages  who  sell  the  tickets  at  the 
office  might  look  after  it  so  that  the  negroes  are  not 
seated  next  to  people  of  pretensions.  It  is  to  be  con- 
demned very  severely. 

Yes,  I  had  to  go  to  the  Horse  Show  to  ensure  its 
success,  don't  you  know.  Really  a  sort  of  creditable 
affair,  given  for  charity  by  a  society  called  the  Doc- 
tor's Daughters.  I  really  don't  know  who  the  Doc- 
tors were,  but,  by  gad,  the  Daughters  do  the  Doctors 
credit.  Yes,  a  wholly  bally  lot  of  credit.  The  boxes 
were  bewildering  in  the  gay-colored  frocks,  and  the 
beauty  of  the  gentlewomen  wearing  them,  and  the 
men  were  so-so,  but  the  chaps  who  wore  the  "horsey" 
jewelry  were  utterly  in  bad  taste  at  a  society  func- 
tion. This  was  a  social  affair  and  not  a  stock  show 
at  the  capital  of  some  'shire,  and  some  few  of  the 
guests  got  a  bad  idea  of  dressing  appropriately.  In 
England,  we  don't  roach  or  bang  our  horses  any 
more.  It  really  spoils  the  effect  of  the  animal  to  the 
eye,  anyway.  It  suggests  the  Dartmoor  or  Penton- 
ville  hair-cut  on  the  man.  They  do  one  thing  over 
there,  however;  they  shine  the  hoofs  of  the  animals 
and  they  make  a  team  keep  step  when  driving.     I 


ed  the  show.  I  really  did.  and  think  it  was  quite 
creditable  to  the  Daughters  in  question.  The  ct 
ing  at  the  entrances  and  the  pushing  showed  plainly 
<■.  clout  you  know,  that  there  is  -till  a  lot  of  mis- 
sionary work  tn  In-  done  before  you  .'ire  as  perfect 
here  in  the  little  things  of  s_;. .. ». I  breeding  ;i-  is 

Yours  respectfully,  WKKS. 

Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

16.00  per  ten.    Full  weight  guaranteed.    In  economy,  cleanll 
and  heat  producing  qualities.  Briquettes  are  superior 
to  coal.     Sold  only   by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th  and 
Channel.     'Phone  South  95. 


As   long   as   Techau   Tavern   exists,   people   have   no 

need   to  wonder  where  they  will  go  after  the  theatre.  It 
is  the  society  resort. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 


ART 

EUREKA 

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—  PKRFECT  IX 

Design 

Construction 
Operation 

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Prop. 


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Concert  every  evening  directed  by 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


Vo  oUr  bo  wtnd  but  PleMure'*—  Tom  Moors 


j  PLEASURE'S  WANDfft 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ALCAZAR— A  gorgeously  mounted  dramatization  of  Parsifal— Go. 
COLUMBIA— Harriet's  Honeymoon— This  will  stand  seeing  twice— Mary 
Mannering. 
ORPHEUM— A  fine  entertainment.    Vaudeville. 
TIVOLI— Mr.  Pickwick— musical. 

FISCHER'S— Kismet— a  remarkable  and  a  finely  constructed  skit. 
GRAND— Mrs.  Fiske— only  fair. 


The  Ibsen  play,  "Hedda  Gahler,"  was  given  at  the 
Grand  all  this  week  by  Mrs.  Fiske.  It  may  have  been 
a  very  enjoyable  play  to  some  who  like  that  sort  of 
thing,  and  who  sat  near  enough  to  hear  what  was 
going  on.  It  would  seem  the  part  of  wisdom  to 
remedy  the  defects  that  mar  the  Fiske  productions. 
I  am  not  alone  in  my  criticism  of  the  atrocious  pro- 
nunciation of  the  star  and  her  support.  I  am  in  re- 
ceipt of  a  number  of  Eastern  newspapers  that  give 
Mrs.  Fiske  credit  for  speech  that  might  as  well  be 
Sanskrit  or  ancient  Hebraic  as  far  as  her  audience 
knows.  The  words  come  too  fast  for  intelligible  ut- 
terence,  and  then  they  are  shot  at  the  audience  with 
Gattling-gun  speed. 

The  rest  of  the  company  have  caught  the  infection 
from  the  star,  and  with  the  exception  of  an  occa- 
sional moment  of  absolute  silence  in  the  house,  it 
was  impossible  to  follow  the  thread  of  the  play.  It 
is  said  that  Mrs.  Fiske  is  suffering  from  nerves.  The 
best  training  for  the  nerves  is  a  slow  and  clear 
enunciation.  Mrs.  Fiske  should  put  herself  through 
a  course  of  stunts  and  limit  herself  to  less  than  two 
hundred  words  per  volley. 

Mrs.  Fiske  is  a  wonderful  actress,  and  it  is  a  pity 
that  such  a  splendid  scene  as  that  of  the  burning 
of  the  manuscript  should  have  been  marred  by  limi- 
tations of  voice.  Mrs.  Fiske's  Hedda  is  a  fine  piece 
of  work,  and  the  actress  shows  her  great  ability  in 
the  last  scene,  just  before  she  shoots  herself.  She  is 
the  personification  of  malicious  jealousy  and  love 
and  hatred.  The  company  is  quite  as  good  as  the 
star,  but  if  you  want  to  enjoy  Mrs.  Fiske,  get  a  seat 
right  under  the  stage,  where  you  may  be  able  to 
dissect   society  Volapuk   at  your  leisure. 

*  *  * 

The  collaboration  of  Richard  F.  Carroll  and  Gus- 
tav  Kerker,  which  resulted  in  "Kismet,"  now  being 
produced  at  Fischer's  Theatre,  may  easily  take  rank 
with  a  pretentious  comic  opera.  The  choruses  are 
fine;  there  is  a  thread  to  the  play;  the  specialties  are 
all  good,  and  the  songs  are  full  of  music  of  a  much 
higher  order  than  any  one  would  expect.  "Kismet" 
is  the  most  deserving  thing  in  book  and  music  that 
has  been  served  to  the  public  at  this  house  since  it 
opened  its  doors.  It  would  be  manifestly  unfair  to 
mention  any  one  of  the  principals  and  omit  another. 
They  are  all  deserving  of  the  highest  praise.  There 
is  not  a  jarring  line  in  the  whole  performance,  and 
I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  say  so,  because  I  have  been 
finding  fault  with  the  productions  at  this  house  for 
these  many  moons.  There  is  a  feature  that  must  take 
the  women  and  children,  and  that  is  the  song  by  Hai- 
deez  (Mr.  Carroll),  and  the  little  children  of  the 
Harem.  There  is  a  clever  litte  tot  in  this  bunch  that 
brings  encore  after  encore.     "Kismet"  should  crowd 

Fischer's  nightly. 

*  *  * 

The  show  at  the  Orpheum  is  a  distinct  improve- 
ment ori  the  foregoing  week.  The  swinging  club  work 
of   the   Mowat   boys   is   a   most   clever   stunt.     The 


Hotel  Repose  act  of  the  Warren,  Walter  and  Wesson 
team  is  a  comical  affair,  and  will  cause  you  to  lay 
on  fat.  There  are  several  other  very  clever  features, 
and  the  holdovers  are  the  best  of  the  former  week's 
performers,  among  them  "La  Belle  Guerrerro." 

*  *  * 

The  curtain  at  the  Grand,  the  advertising  curtain, 
is  enough  to  give  one  indigestion.  It  is  an  outrage 
on  the  public  to  have  to  face  such  an  atrocity,  such 
a  fierce  piece  of  the  worst  of  the  fence  painter's  art, 
between  the  acts.  Is  it  not  about  time  all  such  catch- 
penny devices  were  relegated  to  the  junk  heap,  where 
they  belong?  If  the  commercial  spirit  prompts  the 
adoption  of  this  means  of  raising  the  financial  wind, 
why  not  employ  a  painter  (who  knows  his  business), 
to'  tell  us  that  there  is  balm  in  pink  pellets  and 
soothing  influence  in  straight  front  corsets.  The  pic- 
torial curtain  is  bad  enough,  old  enough,  moldy 
enough,  but  we  can  stand  it  because  we  know  the 
management  needs  the  money,  but  the  advertising 
curtain  is  an  infliction,  an  injury,  and  an  unnecessary 
insult. 

*  *  * 

The  Alcazar  folk  are  going  back  to  the  routine  of 
a  new  play  every  week,  and  we  may  expect  some  fun 
in  the  farcical  comedy  "On  the  Quiet."  The  Alcazar 
stock  is  especially  well-fitted  for  the  humorous,  and 
Augustus  Thomas  has  given  the  company  a  great 
chance  for  fun-making  that  is  not  going  to  be  lost 
sight  of  by  the  players.  A  young  collegian  makes 
sure  of  his  bride  by  marrying  her  before  he  leaves 
for  college,  and  Mr.  Durkin  is  cast  for  the  part.  Miss 
Block,  as  the  heroine  of  the  affair,  has  scope  for  her 
best  comic  expression.  It  is  said  that  the  manage- 
ment has  provided  a  yacht  scene  that  will  please 
everybodv. 

*  *  * 

Richard  Mansfield  has  asked  for  accommodation 
for  dressing  rooms  for  106  people,  and  he  says  that 
he  will  bring  an  enormous  amount  of  special  scenery 

for  the  production  of  "Ivan  the  Terrible." 

*  *  * 

To-night  is  the  final  performance  of  the  present 
engagement  of  Marv  Mannering  at  the  Columbia. 
Sunday  we  have  the  Alameda  Lustspiel  in  "Das  Op- 
ferlamm,"  and  on  Monday  "Mam'selle  Napoleon," 
with  Anna  Held  as  the  star,  and  a  bevy  of  beautiful 
women  as  her  assistants.  "Mam'selle  Napoleon"  will 
be  a  Waterloo  for  the  Johnnies.  They  will  capitu- 
late at  the  first  change  of  costume  of  the  sprightly 
little  French  woman,  and  by  the  time  she  has  made 
her  six  changes  it  will  be  a  complete  rout. 
A  Sttin  of  Beauty  is  a  Joy  Forever. 

:R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 


D1 


OR  MAGICAL  BEAUTIFIER. 


Removes  Tan.  Pimples,  Freck- 
les, Moth  Patches,  Rash  and 
Skin  Diseases,  and  every  blem- 
ish on  beauty,  and  defies  detec- 
tion. It  has  stood  the  test  of 
56  years  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladies  will 
use  them,  I  recommend  "Gour- 
aud's  Cream'  as  the  least  harm- 
ful of  all  the  skin  preparations." 
For  sale  by  all  druggists  and 
fancy-goods  dealers  in  the 
United  States,  Canadas  and  Eu- 
rope. 

PERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop. 
37  Great  Jones  St.,  New  York. 


April  i.  1904. 

Henry    Miller's   new    play,   has 

made  a  bie  hit  in  Gotham. 

*  •  • 

-nRnRcnient  with  the  "Babes  in 
Toyland"  closed  at  Brooklyn  on  the  twenty-sixth  of 
this  month. 

S      V      « 

Fischer's  Theatre  will  close  for  two  weeks  follow 
inp  the  last  performance  of  "Kismet"  on  Saturday 
night.  April  10th.  Two  grand  stairways  will  lead 
directly  to  the  main  street,  the  seating  capacity  will 
be  increased  about  three  hundred  scats,  and  many 
improvements  added  to  make  the  house  most  attrac- 
tive. The  main  entrance  will  be  forty  feet  in  width. 
Four  well  known  playwrights  are  at  work  upon  new 
burlesques  for  Fischer's  Theatre,  based  upon  strictly 
original  lines  and  ideas. 

*  *  * 

On  Monday  evening.  Mrs.  Fiske  will  present  for 
the  first  time'  here  Sardou's  sparkling  comedy,  "Di- 
vorcons,"  preceded  by  Mrs.  Oscar  Beringer's  charm- 
ing one-act  play,  "A  Bit  of  Old  Chelsea." 

*  *     V 

At  the  Central  Theatre  next  Monday  evening  the 
great  scenic  and  spectacular  drama,  "Around  the 
World  in  80  Days,"  will  be  produced,  after  weeks  of 
preparation,  in  a  manner  that  will  cap  the  climax  for 
splendor  and  elaborateness. 

*  *  * 

The  third  concert  of  the  twenty-seventh  season 
of  the  Loring  Club  is  announced  for  Native  Sons' 
Hall  on  the  evening  of  Easter  Monday,  April  4th. 

*  *  * 

Hawley  and  Vass,  who  present  an  original  sketch 
entitled  "After  the  Wedding,"  will  make  their  first 
appearance  at  the  Chutes  this  coming  week.  Agnes 
Miles,  the  original  "Annie  Moore  Girl,"  and  Dutch 
Walton,  the  musical  comedian,  will  also  be  new. 
The  Sheck  Brothers  will  continue  their  hand-bal- 
ancing act ;  Clark's  Comedy  Dog  Circus  will  remain 
in  evidence  and  Mabel  Lamson,  the  popular  con- 
tralto, will  be  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs.  The 
animatoscope  will  show  new  and  amusing  moving 
pictures,  and  the  amateurs  will  appear  on  Thursday 

night. 

•  *  *  * 

Kolb  and  Dill,  Barney  Bernard,  Winfield  Blake, 
Maude  Amber,  Hope  and  Emerson,  and  the  entire 
company,  which  shortly  go  to  Australia,  will  play  a 
farewell  season  of  two  weeks  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  beginning  Sunday  matinee,  April  17th.  Their 
opening  bill  will  be  "Hoity-Toity,"  one  of  _  their 
greatest  successes.  Popular  prices  will  prevail. 
»    *  » 

Blind  Tom,  not  seen  here  for  ten  years,  will  be  at 
the  Orpheum  next  week.  Blind  Tom  is  a  genius, 
and  his  memory  is  increasing  in  sharpness  with 
added  years.  For  over  forty  years  he  has  been  the 
wonder  of  musicians  the  world  over.  His  ear  is  so 
keen  and  his  memory  so  retentive  that  it  is, only 
necessary  that  he  hears  a  piece  of  music  once  and  he 
will  then  play  it  in  its  entirety.  The  Welsons,  aerial 
artists,  and  Omar,  the  human  top,  and  many  other 
specialties,  make  up  a  good  bill  for  the  coming  week. 

*  *  * 

"The  Princess  of  Bong"  will  be  given  by  the  Mo- 
hican Club  on  April  9th  at  Steinway  Hall. 

*  *  * 

The  rehearsals  of  the  new  Choral  Club  will  begin 
next  week.  The  special  work  to  be  taken  up  for  this 
spring  is  "Paradise  Lost,"  a  new  composition  by  Du- 
bois, the  famous  Frenchman. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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LA    BELLE    GUERRERO 

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PHoas,  loo,  -''"■  and  mo. 
Matinees  ever*  Wedaeadar,  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Cr>r\tm\    Thontro  BltiAaoo A  Hi  ton 

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Week  ol  Monday,  April*.     Uatl 9,  "Saturday  and  Sunday 

Hammoth  -1 taoular  production  of  the  great  Julea  Verne  drama 

AROUND   THE    WORLD    IN    80    DAYS 

Prices-Evenings  10  to  6oe.    Matinees  10. 15.  360. 

J|.,7Qr    TKq^i-  ►-<=  Bblabco  k  Mayer.  Proprietors 

Micazai      ineuirc    E.  D.  Pbice.  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  Matinees  Saturday  ami  Sunday.  One  week  commencing 
Easier  Monday  April  4.  first  Alcazar  presentation  of  the  merry 
comedy  by  Augustus  Thomas 

ON     THE     QUIET 

As  originally  played  by  William  Collier. 

"San  Francisco  is  proud  of  its  artistic  little  band  of  players"— 

Town  Talk. 

Evenings  25  to  Tr.c.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  25  to  50c. 

Monday  April  11— Bronson  Howards's  great  play  ARISTOCRACY 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  Ooraer EdMLaonndstreets 

Matinees   every   Saturday.    Beginning  Monday,  April  i. 
Third  week  and  tremendous  success  of 

MR.     PICKWICK 

A  musical  comedy  in  2  acts  based  on  Charles  Dickens'  master- 

piece.Music  by  Manuel  Klein.    Words  by  Charles  Klein.    Lyrics 

by  Grant  Stewart.    Initial  appearance  in  this  city  of  DORA  de 

FILLIPPE,  the  eminent  lyric  soprano. 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c    Box  Seats,  $1- 

April  11th,  a  revival  of 

THE  BEGGAR  STUDENT 
Graod  Opera  House 

Monday,  Tuesday,  Wednesday  and  Thursday 

MRS.     FISKE 

in  Sardou's  comedy 

D1VORCONS 

Preceded  by 

f.    BIT   OF   OLD  CHELSEA 

Friday.  Saturday  matinee  and  night,  Ibsen's 

(\    DOLL'S   HOUSE 

.Preceded  by  "A    BIT    OF    OLD    CHELSEA." 
Prices:    $2,  $1.50,  SI,  75c,  60c. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Second  week  "of 

KISMET 

The  tremendously  successful  Turkish  Lyric  comedy. 
Funny,  brilliant,  beautiiul.    A  hit,  a  positive  hit- 
Our  "all  star"  east  including,  Richard  F.  Carroll,  John  P.  Ken- 
nedy, John  Peachy,  Ben  T.  Dillon ,  Helen  Russell,  Nellie  Lynch, 
Lizzie  Derious  Daly- 
Reserved  seats,  nights,  25c.  60c  and  76c. 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday-    25c  and  50c- 
Children  at  Matinees.  10c  and  25C- 

Columbia  Theatre.  G™  ^*L\^^r,. 

Two  weeks  beginning  next  Monday.  April  4th. 
Farewell  engagement,  F.  Ziegfeld,  Jr.  presents 

ANNA     HELD 

in  her  greatest  musical  comedy  success 

MfaM'SELLE     NAPOLEON 

Adapted  by  Joseph  W.  Herbert.  Music  by  Gustav  Luders.  com- 
poser "Prince  of  Pilsen"— "King  Dodo"  etc.  100  people  includ- 
ing the  handsomest  and  best  dressed  chorus  ever  seen  on  any 
stage.    Matinee  Saturdays  only 


flfter    the  Theater 


Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKMND'S 

Listen   to    the   matchless   string   band   and   enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe    Zinkand    Is    society's   gathering    place   after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


J?  LIBRARY  TABLE 


A  notable  feature  of  the  present  publishing  season 
is  the  sudden  increased  demand  for  books  on  sub- 
jects connected  with  the  Pacific  Ocean  and  the  coun- 
tries now  at  war.  Practically  all  books  on  Japan 
and  Russia  and  the  Pacific  Ocean  published  in  re- 
cent years  have  sprung  into  renewed  popularity.  The 
call  for  Mr.  Colquhoun's  "The  Mastery  of  the 
Pacific"  exhausted  the  edition  on  hand  and  necessi- 
tated a  new  one ;  the  same  is  true  of  Mr.  Wirt  Ger- 
rare's  "Greater  Russia."  Mrs.  Fraser's  "Letters 
from  Japan"  is  to  appear  in  a  welcome  new  edition 
in  one  volume.  The  last  named  work  is  widely 
known  and  liked  as  a  charming  and  intimate  picture 
of  Japanese  life  by  a  talented  woman  who  lived  long 
in  the  island  empire.  The  new  edition  will  be  pub- 
lished at  a  much  lower  price  than  the  two-volume 
edition,  which  has  had  an  extensive  sale,  and  will 
contain  all  of  the  large  number  of  beautiful  illus- 
trations which  were  in  the  original  edition.  Another 
volume  published  by  The  Macmillan  Company  which 
has  been  revived  by  recent  events  in  the  East  is 
Mr.  Lafcadio  Hearn's  "Kotto."  This  includes  a 
translation  of  a  very  remarkable  diary  kept  by  a 
Japanese  woman  of  the  lower  classes  during  several 
years,  which  gives  a  uniquely  intimate  picture  of  the 
inner  life  and  thoughts  of  Japanese  women.  Other 
volumes  of  special  interest  just  now  include:  "Japan: 
A  Record  in  Color,"  by  Mortimer  and  Dorothy  Men- 
pes;  Mr.  Francis  H.  Skrine's  "The  Expansion  of 
Russia,"  which  is  a  historical  study  of  Russian 
growth  since  181 5,  especially  in  Manchuria;  Mr. 
Walter  Del  Mar's  bright  and  entertaining  book  of 
travel,  "Around  the  World  Through  Japan";  and 
Mr.  Wirt  Gerrare's  "The  Story  of  Moscow." 

It  has  often  been   remarked 

Prophecy  of  West     that   poets     are     prophets — 

and  East.  though    doubtless    true     that 

though  "all  prophets  are 
poets,  not  all  poets  aTe  prophets,"  says  the  Benicia 
New  Era.  Looking  over  some  copies  of  the 
Overland  Monthly  of  a  year  back  two  p  ->ems  arrested 
our  attention.  One  entitled  "Builders  of  California" 
(A  Prophecy)  by  Morrison  Pixley,  runs  thus: 

"Builders  by   the   Western   Sea 
Where   the   golden   rivers  run. 

Scarcely  has  your  work  begun. 

Greater  still  your  task  shall  be! 

Here  at  end  of  all  the  world 

Lies  the  goal  of  Empire's  course; 

Here,  centripetal  the  force 

Round  which  nations  shall  be  whirled." 

The  other  entitled  "The  Voice  of  the  West,"  by 
John  G.  Neihardt,  represents  the  West  wooing  the 
East,  and  closes  with  this  stanza: 

About  whose  sea-kissed  feet  the  races  kneel ; 
The  years  are  ripening  for  our  marriage  feast. 

Our  weal  shall  be  the  hungry  nations'  weal ; 
Behold  the  spectre  of  the  dark  Past  reel 

And  vanish  in  our  path!  The  night  is  done! 
I  feel  the  sunrise  in  my  blood !    I  feel 

The  strength  for  brilliant  battles!  Ho!  we  run 
Hands  clasped  against  the  World:  thus  moves  the 

sun. 
"And  O  my  destined  Bride,  thou  queenly  East, 

These  prophesies  were  written  years  ago,  and  the 


events  now  going  on  in  the  Far  East  betoken  their 
fulfillment.  The  West,  as  represented  by  the  Pacific 
Coast  of  the  United  States,  is  to  be  married  to  the 
East,  as  represented  by  the  opposite  coast  of  the 
Pacific  Ocean.  The  greatest  pageant  the  world  has 
ever  seen  will  be  the  commercial  and  civil  union  of 
these  great  coasts,  which  this  20th  century  will  wit- 
ness. Like  other  great  wedding  feasts  it  will  not  be 
a  selfish  affair.  The  "open  door"  doctrine  already 
proclaimed  by  this  great  country  is  an  invitation  of 
all  nations  to  come  and  feast  with  us  at  the  wedding 
of  the  West  and  the  East. 

This  is  a  story  of  romance 
The  Viking's  Skull,  and  love  by  John  R.  Car- 
ling.  Although  the  book 
is  not  well  put  together,  it  has  an  ingeniously  con- 
structed plot,  which  tells  how  Idris  Marville,  true 
Earl  of  Ormsby,  recovered  a  treasure  hidden  by  one 
of  his  progenitors — a  Viking  of  the  Ninth  Century — 
and  how  he  cleared  the  memory  of  his  father,  who 
had  been  wrongfully  convicted  of  murder.  There 
are  three  scenes  of  more  or  less  interest  and  strength 
— the  tragedy  of  the  prologue ;  the  opening  of  the 
tomb  containing  the  treasure;  and  a  dramatic  per- 
formance at  Favenhall,  the  home  of  the  noble  house 
of  Ormsby,  where  Lorelie,  the  heroine,  denounces 
the  spurious  Earl.  These  and  many  other  scenes  and 
incidents  make  the  story  exceptionally  strong,  dra- 
matic, vivid  and  interest  compelling.  It  is  a  worthy 
successor  to  the  author's  remarkable  and  successful 
novel,  "The  Shadow  of  the  Czar." 

Little,   Brown    &   Co.,    Publishers,   Boston,   Mass. 
Price,  $1.50. 

"The    Rainbow    Chasers    is    one 
The  Rainbow      of  many  novels  of  its  kind.  The 
Chasers.  author,  John  H.  Whitson,  selects 

Western  Kansas  for  coloring, 
and  a  stereotyped  Western  girl  for  heroine.  With 
Dick  Brewster,  alias  Jackson  Blake,  cowboy,  land 
speculator,  and  lover  for  its  hero,  Mr.  Whitson's  new 
novel  has  many  of  the  attractions  of  Mr.  Wister's 
hero,  "The  Virginian."  The  male  characters  are  vig- 
orous men,  with  red  blood  in  their  veins;  and  the 
heroine,  Elinor  Spencer,  is  high-spirited,  but  lov- 
able. There  are  many  engrossing  chapters  in  the 
book,  notably  the  one  which  deals  with  the  fight 
which  the  two  comrades,  Jackson  Blake  and  Jim 
Prethro,  wage  with  Stone  Face  and  his  gang  of  des- 
peradoes, and  that  which  pictures  the  terrors  of  a 
Western  blizzard. 

Little,    Brown    &   Co.,   Publishers,    Boston,   Mass. 
Price,  $1.50. 


Dr.  Decker, 

Dentist.   806   Market.    Specialty   "Coiton   Gas"   lor   painless 
teeth  extracting. 


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April  2,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

Caster   Fashions 
By  Lady  Algy. 

Ho!     This   way    for  the   ray-fair!     Special    Easter 

•  ►tTir 

■  since  the  days  of  our  grandmothers  have  these 

offerings  been   so  -birred  and  tucked  and  puffed.  If 
adjective   is  to  l>e   -elected    for   the   season's 

style-,   "fussy"   is  the   word.      When   you   see  a  gown 

elaborated  according  to  the  mode  and  it  escapi 

mussy  fussiness  of  the  usual  costume,  you  may  bank 

on  it  an  artiste  has  created  the  gown.     Such  a  dress 

was  worn  by  Mrs.  McMullin  the  other  night.     When 

she  was  Molly  Thomas,  Mrs.  McMullin  was  always 

distinguished   by  a   tailored  band-box  precision   that 

she  now  discards  save  tor  street  wear.    Her  evening 

clothes  have  a  fluffy  femininity  about  them  that  is 

immensely  becoming.     The  particular  gown  that  hit 

me  between  the  eyes  was  a  pink  and  blue  affair  that 

hinted  of  the  yesteryears,  yet  showed  all  the  modern 

improvements.     The  material  was  a  blue  net  show- 
ered  with   pink  roses  that   might  have  fallen  on   it 
over  the  garden  wall."    The  gown  was  a  quaint  con- 
ceit in  French  puffings  of  the  sort  that  grandmother 

always  used  for  her  best  black  silk  gown.    But  perish 

the  thought  that  these  puffings  were  fashioned  after 

granny's  pattern.     Modernity  has  contrived  a  way 

of  running  the  puffs  on  cords  that  prevents  the  fig- 
ure from  looking  roly-poly. 

Mrs.  McMullin  wears  a  hat  in  the  same  color  effect 

as  the  gown,  which  is  one  of  the  season's  royal  com- 
mands.   Your  hat  need  not  show  the  exact  shade  of 

the  gown — it  may  even  contrast  with  it — but  the  ef- 
fect must  be  a  color  symphony  without  discords.  This 
means  a  plump  supply  of  hats,  for  each  and  every 
chapeau  is  especially  designed  for  some  particular 
gown  and  shrieks  its  unfitness  when  pressed  into 
service  with  a  robe  for  which  it  was  not  built.  The 
new-style  hats  have  a  union  of  their  own  which 
obliges  the  owner  to  give  them  shorter  hours,  and 
the  milliners  reap  more  pay  in  consequence. 

While  on  the  subject  of  hats,  the  so-called  "baby 
hats"  are  picturesquely  fashionable.  The  hats  come 
in  mull  and  swiss,  with  wash  ribbon  trimming,  and 
are  then  labeled  "lingerie  hats."  When  they  are 
fashioned  of  lace  and  flowers  or  ribbon,  they  are  con- 
stituted for  town  wear,  and  are  the  essence  of  girlish 
simplicity.  Frances  Murphy  introduced  the  first 
baby  hat  that  was  worn  here,  and  the  scoffers  cried ; 
"Whose  little  girl  are  you?"  but  now  almost  every 
maiden  and  young  matron  numbers  at  least  one  baby 
hat  among  her  spring  outfit.  Mary  Mannering  wears 
a  very  fetching  baby  hat  in  the  first  act  of  "Harriet's 
Honeymoon." 

Mrs.  Fred  McNear  has  a  plaid  silk  gown  that  is 
very  striking  and  may  be  taken  as  a  conspicuous 
example  of  the  vari-colored  gowns  that  will  hold 
the  center  of  the  stage  all  spring  and  summer.  Veil- 
ings, nets,  etamines — indeed,  all  the  light-weight1, 
materials — now  come  shot  with  color  as  welj  as  in 
plain  shades.  The  silk  used  for  Mrs.  McNear's 
gown  is  in  red  and  green  plaid  faintly  barred  with 
yellow. 

The  newest  models  show  short  jackets  that  are  a 
compromise  between  the  bolero  and  eton.  They 
have  the  boleroesque  effect  in  front,  where  the  jacket 
is  usually  met  by  a  high  girdle.  Mrs.  Will  Taylor 
has  a  very  chic  suit  in  this  jauntily  smart  style.  Lace 
waists  still  retain  their  popularity  and  frequently 
show  a  touch  of  color  to  match  the  gown  with  which 
they  are  worn. 
Alice  Hager  has  a  grey  and  white  check  silk  that 


i-  silvery  as  moonlight.  The  skirt  is  made  the  round 
length,  which  is  clear  to  the  anti-microbe  fiends.  It 
is  always  a  difficult  problem  to  secure  long  lines 
in  a  short  skirt,  but  clever  dressmakers  have  an  1111- 
cxplainablc  way  of  suggesting  length  where  there 
isn't  any.  Miss  Hager's  gown  achieves  this  point, 
and  many  other  desirable  ones  besides. 

Lingerie  sleeves  are  very  much  the  thing,  and 
many  sleeves  show  ruffle  after  ruffle  of  lace.  When 
the  greatest  width  of  the  sleeve  comes  near  the  elbow, 
a-  is  now  the  mode,  this  exaggerated  fullness  falls 
on  a  line  with  the  hips  when  the  arms  are  held  at 
the  sides,  and  frequently  obscure  the  waist  linei  The 
stout  woman  must  therefore  take  a  tack  in  the  chif- 
fon sails  on  her  sleeves  if  she  wishes  to  retain  the 
lines  of  her  figure.  , 

Apropos  of  plumpness,  fancy  Mrs.  Joe  Tobin,  she 
of  the  former  svelte  sinuousness,  having  to  make 
such  fine  discriminations.  Mrs.  Tobin  has  some  gor- 
geous new  clothes,  and  he  who  runs  may  read  how 
the  modiste  has  contrived  to  make  Mrs.  Tobin  look 
as  slender  as  possible.  Mrs.  Joe  revels  in  the  accu- 
mulation of  flesh  which  she  put  on  by  going  to  bed 
for  three  months  and  "building  up."  She  is  no  longer 
the  sylph  esque  creature  of  former  years — in  fact, 
she  is  almost  as  big  as  Ethyl  Hager,  which  is  saying 
the  last  word  on  the  subject  of  stoutness. 

Visitors  to  San  Francisco  never  cease  to  wonder  at 

the  perfection  of  Zinkand's,  where  appointments,  service, 
cooking,  music  and  also  visitors,  are  the  very  best.  It  has 
no  equal. 


None  a.  s  good 
at  a  lower  price; 
none  better  a.t 
any  price. 


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Hunter 
Whiskey 


HILBERT  MERCANTILE  CO., 

213-215   Market   St.,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Telephone   Exchange  313. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


c«r>he  Crier'"    "Whet  the  d*yil  ert  th... 
Oflcltut  will  PlaMhe  devil,  dlr.  *uh  fOu." 


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(Rev.  George  C.  Adams,  D.  D.,  says  "the  Saints 
have    gone   to    live    in    Oakland.") 
Poor  city  clergy!     Left  with  sinners  here 

While  Oakland  has  monopoly  of  saints! 
Still,  all  these  Oakland  saints  are  rather  queer — 

Not  altogether  what  one's  fancy  paints. 
Such  little  scandals  in  the  church  you  hear 
How  Mr.  £.  goes  on  with  Mrs.  S., 
And  nasty  little  bickerings,  I  fear, 
That  Oakland  saints  are  only  more  or  less. 

The  Board  of  Health  is  waking  up  to  find  that  we 
are  being  poisoned.  Surely  this  might  have  been 
easily  discovered  Defore.  Many  scores  of  coffins  have 
been  buried  lately,  to  the  benefit  of  the  coffin  trust, 
which  might  still  be  above  ground  had  the  highly  or- 
namental Board  of  Health  performed  its  elementary 
duties.  Wonderful  to  relate,  it  now  discovers  that 
jams,  jellies,  pickles  and  other  things  of  that  sort 
are  positively  unfit  for  food,  and  that  when  one  pur- 
chases a  little  something  in  the  delicatessen  line 
they  are  really  buying  a  cemetery  plot  or  a  doctor's 
bill.  One  of  the  officers  of  the  Board  of  Health  says 
"we  are  preparing  a  campaign  against  bad  vinegars 
that  will  startle  San  Francisco."  The  fact  that  a 
campaign  is  to  be  started  in  earnest  is  startling 
enough,  but  the  fact  of  the  bad  vinegar  would  seem 
to  be  a  very  dull  commonplace  to  those  of  us  who  are 
not  members  of  the  Board  of  Health. 

It  is  not  wonderful  that  the  students  of  the  Univer- 
sity have  no  respect  for  the  University  authorities 
because  the  authorities  do  not  keep  their  word  and 
may  always  be  trusted  to  back  down  on  a  matter  of 
discipline.  Take  the  last  rush,  for  example.  It  was 
given  out  that  any  student  caught  participating  in 
the  rush  would  be  expelled.  Several  were  caught  in 
the  very  act,  and  now  the  culprits  are  not  to  be  ex- 
pelled, but  are  to  be  put  on  probation.  How  can 
students  be  expected  to  pay  any  attention  to  an  au- 
thority which  stultifies  itself  like  that?  If  Professor 
Cory  and  those  who  stood  behind  him  are  afraid  to 
expel  those  who  disobey  their  orders  and  injunctions, 
why  on  earth  do  they  threaten  ?  Such  contemptible 
cowardice  will  soon  put  the  University  on  too  low 
a  plane  even  to  be  criticised. 

Highly-trained  animals  are,  as  a  general  rule, 
highly  nervous.  The  same  rule  appears  to  apply  to 
prize-fighters.  Our  pugilistic  heroes  are  just  as  sen- 
sitive as  young  maidens  or  even  more  so.  It  will  be 
noted,  however,  that  all  their  sensitiveness  lies  about 
one  region,  that  particular  part  which  in  the  language 
of  the  ring  is  denominated  the  purse.  Let  but  the 
purse  be  threatened,  either  by  a  decision  or  in  any 
other  way,  and  the  ululations  of  the  man  of  muscle 
fill  the  atmosphere.  A  frightened  child  is  brave  com- 
pared with  a  pugilist  who  dreads  the  loss  of  the  purse. 
That  is  the  meaning  of  the  fuss  about  the  decision 
in  the  Britt-Corbett  fight.  One  had  better  be  a 
nursery  governess  than  a  referee. 

Thanks  to  ex-Mayor  Phelan,  the  Bohemian  Club 
is  the  possessor  of  an  original,  manuscript  of  one  of 
Sir  Edwin  Arnold's  minor  poems.  We  shall  all  be 
proud.  Henceforth  the  Bohemian  Club  will  be  a 
genuine  shrine  of  the  literary.  But  it  is  pretty  to 
observe  how  grateful  our  champions  of  the  muses 
are  for  such  exceedingly  small  mercies.  A  minor 
poem  of  a  minor  bard  has  raised  enthusiasm  higher 
than  we  should  have  considered  possible  even  to  a 
Bohemian. 


It  is  a  question  whether  Judge  Lawlor  had  the 
power  under  the  law  to  allow  the  two  young  men, 
charged  with  assault  with  intent  to  commit  murder 
to  go  on  future  good  behavior.  There  is  a  punish- 
ment provided  in  such  cases,  and  some  of  it  should 
unquestionably  be  bestowed  upon  those  who  come 
within  the  clutches  of  the  law.  A  certain  amount  of 
consideration  in  the  case  of  juvenile  offenders  is  com- 
mendable, and  the  new  Juvenile  Court  deserves  ap- 
probation. This  does  not  mean,  however,  that  young 
hoodlums  who  are  old  enough  to  know  better  should 
escape  punishment  for  their  murderous  acts.  Len- 
iency which  is  simply  leniency  is  not  justice,  Judge 
Lawlor. 

•The  methods  of  George  Knight  in  the  trial  of  the 
Botkin  case  do  not  reflect  much  credit  upon  the  local 
bar.  Of  course,  a  lawyer  has  to  try  his  case  in  order 
to  win  it,  and  in  a  murder  case  there  is  much  latitude 
allowed.  This  is  proper.  But  there  are  certain  limits 
which  a  gentleman  cannot  transgress,  and  there  is 
no  reason  why  a  man  should  not  be  a  gentleman  even 
in  the  trial  of  a  murder  case.  What  is  the  use  of 
a  trained  bar  if  the  members  have  no  better  manners 
or  self-control  than  a  grievance  committee  of  the 
Brewery  Workmen's  Union  ?  Besides,  is  it  really 
good  pleading  to  make  a  public  display  of  the  des- 
perate condition  of  your  case? 

There  are  crooked  people  cursed 

In  each  way  that  you  can  mention, 
And  they're  every  one  for  Hearst, 

And  will  back  him  in  Convention. 
For  the  yellow  man  has  taken 

Everything  that  he  has  laid  for, 
If  you  may  believe  his  papers, 

And  they  know  what  they  have  paid  for. 
The  Mayor  has  been  beaten  in  his  contest  with  the 
street  flower-sellers.  All  the  corruption  fund  and  all 
the  graft  at  the  City  Hall  has  failed  to  defeat  a  few 
poor  men  who  had  the  popular  sympathy  behind 
them.  If  the  public  could  be  trained  to  act  regularly 
as  they  act  spasmodically,  things  would  be  differ- 
ent, and  the  Mayor,  at  all  events,  would  not  be  in 
possession  of  those  powers  for  mischief  which  his 
position  gives  him.  Meanwhile  his  Honor  sulks 
and  is  a  bad  loser.  However,  he  will  in  all  probabil- 
ity have  much  more  practice  in  losing,  and  it  is  to 
be  hoped  he  will  learn  how  to  do  it  with  better 
grace. 

We  have  a  pretty  set  of  officials.  In  spite  of  all 
the  money  expended  on  the  public  schools,  they  are 
now  discovered,  many  of  them,  to  be  so  unsanitary 
as  not  to  be  fit  for  occupation.  There  is  one  other 
thing  to  remember,  that  however  unsanitary  they 
may  be  as  regards  the  plumbing,  their  moral  condi- 
tion is  not  a  whit  better. 

The  state  into  which  local  charities  had  managed 
to  get  themselves  is  apparent  from  a  resolution  of 
the  Charities  Endorsement  Committee  of  Oakland 
to  the  effect  that  no  collector  for  a  charity  shall  re- 
ceive a  commission  of  more  than  fifteen  per  cent. 
Charity-collecting  has  been  good  graft,  one  of  the 
recognized  methods  of  getting  something  for  noth- 
ing, and  it  is  well  that  some  sort  of  a  limit  should  be 
placed  upon  the  rapacity  of  collectors. 

The  privacy  which  has  attended  the  movements 
of  the  President  of  Michigan  University  would  lead 
us  to  believe  that  for  once,  at  least,  we  have  enter- 
tained an  Angell  unawares. 


April  - ,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


11 


1S0CIETY 


Dear  Bessie:  Wedding  bells  are  to  ring  out  right 
joyously  from  now  on,  and  all  the  coming  brides  have 
enjoyed  the  I.entcn  season  as  giving  them  time  [or 
the  necessary  preparations.  And  what  a  lot  of  them 
are  close  at  hand!  Here  is  a  nice  list  of  brides  in 
the  near  future:  Mae  Burdge,  Frances  Harris,  Ethel 
Kent.  Florence  Callaghan,  Edna  Barry.  Hattie  Cur- 
rier, Kate  Selfridge,  Ella  Goodall,  Bee  Hooper,  Gene- 
vieve Huntsman,  Ethyl  Findley,  Olive  Hamilton, 
Ethel  Low,  Anna  YVooster,  Eleanor  Warner,  Rose 
Hecht.  Grace,  Martin,  Ruth  McNutt.  and  a  lot  of 
others  talked  of.  "They  say"  that  Belle  Harmcs  will 
be  one  of  the  next  to  say  "I  am  engaged,"  but  rumors 
in  the  matrimonial  line  are  not  always  to  be  de- 
pended upon. 

Another  story  afloat  is  that  Mabel  Mason  is  going 
to  bestow  herself  upon  that  rather  good-looking 
apostle  of  ritualism,  the  Reverend  Wilson,  who  has 
his  habitat  over  in  Sausalito  while  in  charge  of 
Christ  Church.  You  know  the  Masons  live  in  Sau- 
salito, and  the  young  people  were  much  together  be- 
fore his  departure  East,  and  I  understand  there  is  a 
belief  that  he  will  remain  there,  so  if  the  story  be  true 
it  will  be  another  California  maiden  lost  to  her 
native  State. 

All  the  girls  are  just  longing  to  get  a  peep  at  the 
wonderful  lace  dress  Frances  Harris  is  to  wear  at  her 
wedding,  but  as  the  ceremony  is  to  take  place  at  her 
aunt's  (Mrs.  Chris.  Reis)  only  a  limited  few  will  be 
gratified.  Frances  has  selected  Fanny  Arques  from 
San  Jose  to  be  her  sole  attendant,  and  Mr.  Stent  will 
have  Ferd  Reis  for  his  best  man. 

Ethel  Kent's  wedding  will  be  a  very  pretty  one,  as 
button  weddings  usually  are.  In  the  first  place, 
Lieutenant  Allen  is  to  bring  a  whole  raft  of  his 
brother  officers  with  him  from  the  North  to  officiate ; 
Captain  Helms  from  Vancouver  will  be  best  man, 
and  Captain  Enochs,  Captain  Bradford  and  Lieuten- 
ant Wetherell  will  act  as  ushers,  with  Lieutenant 
Shinkle  from  the  Presidio,  who  will  all  appear  in 
the  glory  oi  full  dress  uniform.  The  bridesmaids, 
Florence  Cole,  Louise  Hall,  Jane  Willshire  and  Mat- 
tie  Milton,  will  all  be  gowned  in  blue,  while  Kathleen 
Kent  as  maid  of  honor  and  Mrs.  Malcolm  Graham  as 
matron  of  honor  will  wear  white.  The  wedding  of 
Eleanor  Eckart  and  Charles  Hume  will  be  a  home 
ceremonial,  with  Mrs.  Ben  Thomas,  Jr.,  as  matron 
of  honor,  and  Mabel  Donaldson  and  Georgie  Spieker 
the  bridesmaids. 

I  cannot  begin  to  tell  you  of  all  the  pretty  sights 
at  the  Horse  Show  last  week,  which  was  a  most  per- 
fect success  in  spite  of  the  weather;  but  I  think  the 
prettiest  sight  was  the  crowd  of  beautiful  children 
at  the  circus  on  Saturday,  and  how  they  did  enjoy 
it  all !  Almost  everybody  was  there  on  Friday  night 
in  their  best  bibs  and  tuckers,  those  in  boxes  being 
especially  fine.  Edna  Taylor,  Georgie  McNear,  Vir- 
ginia Jolliffe  and  Ethel  Dean  wore  blue,  which,  with 
white,  seemed  to  be  the  favorite  colors  for  gowns ; 
Jennie  Blair  was  in  black  jet,  and  she  was  very  happy 
over  the  success  of  the  affair.  Helen  Taylor  and 
Mrs.  Peter  Martin  were  among  those  who  wore  pink, 
but  only  fancy — what  do  you  think  is  the  last  dread 
rumor?  That  it  is  all  nonsense  about  the  Peter  Mar- 
tins staying  here — "not  much  ;  they  are  going  back  to 
dear  Newport,  probably  this  month,"  and  then  to 
let  us  down  easy  the  prospect  is  held  out  of  their 
coming  back  again  next  winter. 


As  1  told  you  last  week,  Easter  week  is  filling  up 
rapidly.  The  officers  of  the  loth  Infantry  give  a 
hop  at  the  Presidio  on  Monday  evening,  for  one 
thing;  then  there  are  all  the  weddings,  two  dances, 
and  a  fancy  dress  party  at  Mrs.  Albert  Scott's  on 
\\  ednesday  night,  where  there  will  be  singing  and 
recitations  and  instrumental  music;  Grace  Jones  and 
Cherry  Bender  are  to  be  the  monologists  of  the  oc- 
casion. Mrs.  Morgan  has  been  the  first  to  announce 
a  large  card  party  which  comes  off  on  Tuesday,  and 
there  are  to  be  several  others ;  and  I  must  not  forget 
the  reception  at  Century  Hall  on  Tuesday  night 
which  the  Grace  Church  people  are  to  give  for  their 
new  rector,  at  which  all  the  pretty  girls  of  the  parish 
will  assist. 

In  the  way  of  recent  luncheons,  Gertrude  Van 
Wycke  had  a  dainty  little  one  on  Friday  of  last  week 
for  Frances  Harris,  and  the  same  day  Mrs.  Horace 
Hill  gave  one — quite  a  large  affair — for  Mrs.  Postley, 
who  went  East  on  Tuesday  last.  Grace  tells  me  Mae 
Burdge's  pink  luncheon  for  her  bridesmaids  was  a 
regular  "dear,"  and  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  was  a  lunch- 
eon hostess  last  Tuesday.  Laura  Farnsworth  and 
Mattie  Whittier  Weir  both  have  card  parties  to-day. 

You  never  heard  any  one  so  enthusiastic  as  is 
Charlotte  Ellinwood  over  the  delights  of  her  recent 
visit  South.  I  do  believe  she  is  not  a  bit  glad  to  be 
home  again.  She  gives  a  card  party  next  Wednes- 
day for  the  benefit  of  the  Nursery  Guild,  but  you  have 
to  be  regularly  invited  before  you  can  purchase  an 
admission  ticket,  so  it  will  be  confined  to  those  who 
know  each  other,  and  no  outsiders  are  to  be  let  in. 
Leontine  Blakeman  is  also  home;  she  arrived  last 
Friday  from  New  York,  where  she  had  a  perfectly 
sumptuous   time   all  winter  with    Ethel   Tomlinson. 

Lucy  Gwin  Coleman  will  be  a  San  Mateo  girl  this 
summer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coleman  have  taken  a  cot- 
tage in  that  attractive  suburb  for  the  summer  months, 
and  just  think  of  what  a  gathering  of  swells  there  will 
be  thereabouts— all  the  Parrotts  to  head  the  list, 
which  includes  the  De  Guigne  girls  and  the  Dono- 
hoes;  the  Haynes,  Howards,  Beylards,  Hobarts,  ana 
the  Burlingame  set,  etc.  The  B'orels  leave  town 
next  week. 

There  is  general  satisfaction  felt  at  Menlo  Park 
that  the  Feltons  will  be  back  there  this  summer,  and 
Katie — Mrs.  Elkins,  you  know — is  to  arrive  from  the 
East  about  the  middle  of  April.  Louise  Lamon- 
tagne — now  Mrs.  C.  E.  Maud — and  Mr.  Maud  are 
coming  to  California  to  live  at  Rutherford  while  the 
Darlings  are  abroad,  which  is  likely  to  be  for  a  cou- 
ple of  years,  at  least  so  I  hear. 

The  Earle  Brownells  have  gone  to  their  new  house 


CHREVE  &  COMPANY  an- 
^  nounce  their  usual  Easter  Dis- 
play Monday,  March  the  Twenty- 
eighth,  until  April  the  Second 

POST  and  MARKET  STREETS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


on  Gough  street,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leonard — 
Jessie  Hobart  as  was — from  Nevada,  are  visiting 
4:hem,  and  where  they  had  a  charming  little  dinner 
last  week.  Ouita  Collier,  now  Mrs.  Roy  McDonald, 
has  gone  over  to  Oakland  to  live,  and  Bernice  gave 
her  a  pretty  little  tea  there  last  Thursday;  Gertrude 
and  Laura  Bates  have  already  departed  to  Belvedere, 
where  the  family  are  to  spend  the  summer ;  Tom 
Driscoll  is  down  at  Santa  Barbara,  where  he  and  his 
mother  have  taken  a  cottage  for  the  month  of  April 
to  recuperate  after  his  mishaps  in  the  polo  tourna- 
ment. The  Fred  Moodys  have  come  to  town  to  live; 
they  got  tired  of  Burlingame  and  sold  their  house 
there  and  have  taken  up  their  residence  on  Pacific 
avenue.  I  hear  Bertha  Dolbeer  has  named  the  16th 
of  April  for  her  departure  Eastward,  expecting  to 
sail  for  Europe  from  New  York  the  first  week  in 
May ;  and  also  that  Sallie  Winslow  is  about  to  be- 
come a  European  pilgrim,  and  will  probably  be  away 
the  greater  part  of  the  summer;  and  we  are  to  lose 
Jennie  Blair  again,  but  not  quite  yet;  Mrs.  Blair  is 
going  abroad  in  April  for  her  health,  and  Jennie  will 
follow  her  later.  And  yet  others  who  talk  of  spend- 
ing the  summer  in  European  travel  are  the  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  and  Mr.  Jim  Phelan  is  going  abroad  again 
for  several  months ;  Baron  and  Baroness  Von  Horst, 
who  have  departed  for  England,  gave  a  Tivoli  party 
and  supper  at  the  St.  Francis  on  Monday  evening  as 
a  good-bye  frolic. 

The  delayed  travelers,  including  Georgie  Spieker 
and  Doctor  Genthe,  who  were  to  have  been  here  last 
week  in  time  for  the  Horse  Show,  did  not  arrive  till 
Monday  last,  so  they  missed  a  good  time  here. 

—Elsie. 
CHARITY  ENTERTAINMENTS. 
April  9  (Saturday) — Garden  party  for  the  benefit  of 
St.  Ignatius  Training  School  for  Girls.  Grounds 
of  the  Phelan  residence  on  17th  street. 
April  11   (Monday  evening) — Entertainment  for  the 
benefit   of  the   Church   of  the   Good   Samaritan 
Mission.     Lyric  Hall. 
April   21    and   22    (Thursday   and   Friday) — Musical 
comedy  of  "His  Royal  Nibs,"  for  the  benefit  of 
the  California     Woman's     Hospital,     Alhambra 
Theatre. 

AT  HOME. 
Monday — Mrs.  George  Oulton,  St.  Francis ;  Mrs.  Ed. 

Polhemus  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Spaulding,  Empire. 
Thursday — Mrs.  Philetus  Evarts,  istand  2d,  Empire; 
Mrs.  (Oliver  I  libble.  1st  and  3d  in  April,  1012  Pine 
street;  Mrs.  O.  C.  Baldwin,  4th  in  April,  2415 
Buchanan  street. 
Friday — Mrs.  Joseph  Masten,  2d  and  3d  in  April, 
3954  Washington  street. 

RECEPTIONS. 
April  5  (Tuesday) — At  Century  Hall,  in  honor  of  the 

Reverend  Mr.  Evans  of  Grace  Church,  9  p.  m. 
April   6    (Wednesday) — Fancy    dress    reception    for 
Polyglot  Club  at  Mrs.  Albert  Scott's,  305   Bu- 
chanan street. 

BALLS. 
April  6   (Wednesday) — Bachelors'   Ball  at  the   Pal- 
ace Hotel. 
April  8  (Friday) — Junior  Assembly  at  the  Palace. 
April  2  (Saturday) — Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins,  Palace 
Hotel. 

TEA. 

April  4  (Monday) — Mrs.  F.  W.  Croudace,  from  3  to 

6  p.  m.     1831  Vallejo  street. 

DINNERS. 

April   8    (Friday) — Mrs.   Timothy    Hopkins,    Palace 

Hotel. 


CARDS. 

April  2  (Saturday) — Mrs.  William  Weir,  bridge, 
Jackson  and  Laguna  streets;  Miss  Laura  Farns- 
worth,  Five  Hundred. 

April  5  (Tuesday) — Mrs.  William  Morgan,  2211 
Clay  street. 

April  9  (Saturday) — Miss  Elsie  Everson,  in  honor  of 
Miss  Mabel  Donaldson  and  Miss  Edna  Barry, 
Five  Hundred,  Oakland. 

April  14  (Thursday) — Mrs.  Lester  Herrick,  for  Mrs. 
Edward  Greenfield,  The  Empire. 
BIRTHS. 

March  22 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paxton  Wright,  a  daugh- 
ter. 

Recently  at  Fort  McPherson,  Georgia,  to  Lieutenant 
and  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Stone,  a  son  (Charles  Ber- 
tody,  3d).    Mrs.  Stone  was  Miss  Katherine  Bone- 
steel,  granddaughter  of  the  late   General  O.  D. 
•  Green,  U.  S.  A. 

Recently  in  Boston,  Mass.,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Johnson,  a  son.  Mrs.  Johnson  was  Miss  Edith 
Newlands,  granddaughter  of  the  late  Senator 
Sharon. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Doyle,  daughter  of'  Mrs.  Henry 
Doyle,  to  Lieutenant  William  Montrose  Parker, 
nth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  son  of  Major  Parker,  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

WEDDINGS. 

March  27  (Sunday) — Miss  Anna  Wooster,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  A.  H.  Small,  to  Frank  Glass,  son  of  Ad- 
miral Glass,  U.  S.  N.,  Redwood  City. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

April  4  (Monday) — Miss  Mae  Burdge  to  Bernard 
Miller,  Arbor  Villa.  Oakland,  9  p.  m. ;  Miss 
Eleanor  Eckart  to  Edward  Hume. 

April  6  (Wednesdav) — Miss  Frances  Harris  to  Er- 
nest Stent,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  aunt, 
Mrs.  Chris  Reis,  on  California  street,  4  p.  m. 

April  6  (Wednesday) — Miss  Ethel  Kent,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel  Martin  Kent,  to  Lieu- 
tenant Gilbert  Allen,  Grace  Church,  8:30  p.  m. 


P.  WESTERFELD  a  CO. 
Bakers  and  Confectioners 
1035  Market  Street 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Mrs.  Elliott  B.  Chase 


AT  HOME 
THURSDAYS 


715  K  STREET 
SACBAMENTO.  CAL. 


P.  Westerfeld 
&Co.,  1035  Market 
St.,  San  Francisco 

Gentlemen:  Please 
send  me  on  April  $th 
next, one  14-lb.  Wed- 
ding Cake,  neatly 
decorated,  to  cost 
about  $10.  Ship  by 
express. 

Truly  yours, 
Mrs.  Elliott  B.  Chase 


April  2,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


Inesday) — Misa  Florence  Callaghui  to 
J.  V.  do  Lavi 
May  11  (Wedi  Mis<  Ella  Goodall  u>  I)oct..r 

Charles  Minor  Cooper. 

lain  II.  I..  Roosevelt,  of  the  U.  S.  Marine 
Corps,  has  just  been  ordered  home  from  the  Philip- 
pines, where  he  has  served  for  the  past  two  year*. 
His  next  tour  of  duty  will  he  in  Washington,  IX  C. 
Mrs  •  will  he  remembered  as  Miss  Eleanor 

Morrow,  a  daughter  of  Judge  \Y.  \V.  Morrow.  They 
will  arrive  on  the  transport  "Sheridan"  about  the 
middle  of  April. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending  March 
29,  1904:  Mr.  H.  A.  Hunsaker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  R.  K. 
Nuttall.  Mrs.  A.  P..  Games,  Miss  Dagmar  Games.  Mr 
and  Mrs.  S.  Hirschfelder,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mendell 
Welckcr.  Mr.  Clarence  Woodman,  Mr.  R.  H.  Parmc- 
lee.  Mr.  Harold  S.  Gay,  Mr.  T.  T.  Hanrahan,  Mrs. 
W.  E.  Davis. 


THE  ITCHING  PALM. 

(A  despatch  from  New  York  to  San  Francisco 
says:  "The  itching  palm  is  epidemic  on  the  upper 
West  Side.  It  afflicts  messenger  boys,  policemen, 
bar-tenders,  professional  men,  society  women,  school- 
children, servants,  persons  in  all  walks  of  life.  The 
name  of  what  causes  it  is  acarus  scabiei.") 

We  have  had  it,  we  have  seen  it, 

And  it  isn't  in  New  York; 
We  know  the  little  creature — 

We  can  trace  its  little  work. 
They  can  give  it  all  the  Latin  names 

They  have  a  mind  to  give, 
But  an  itching  palm's  an  itching  palm, 

You'd  better  just  believe. 

To  look  inside  his  Honor's  palm, 

I    managed   to   contrive, 
And  his  Honor  had  the  acarus 

As  sure  as  I'm  alive. 
The  clergy  said  they  had  it  not — 

I    merely   answered   "Fudge!" 
And  I  found  it  without  looking 

On  the  white  hands  of  a  judge. 

For  the  policeman,  and  the  postman, 

And  the  labor  leader,  too, 
They  had  it  in  most  dreadful  form — , 

It's  awful,  but  it's  true. 
•And  professional  philanthropists 

Could  hardly  keep  them  calm, 
When  I  showed  beyond  all  question 
That  they  had  an  itching  palm. 

DR.  MAKRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON  | 


My  Lenten  fast  is  nearly  done, 

The  social  jinks  I  want  are  near, 
I  do  not  haste  to  hail  the  fun, 

I  have  small  joy  and  lots  of  fear. 
It  is  not  that  my  conscience  aches, 

Or  that  my  record  is  not  pat, 
The  fear  that  tortures  me  and  wakes, 

Is  rain  upon  my  Easter  hat. 

*  *  * 

I  ventured  the  suggestion  a  couple  of  weeks  ago 
that  the  Botkin  trial  would  end  in  a  verdict  of  not 
guilty  or  a  disagreement.  And  that  suggestion  was 
not  based  upon  the  thought  that  the  prosecution  is 
not  making  a  good  case.  It  arose,  rather,  from  the 
idea  that  for  some  reason,  unknown  to  deponent,  in- 
fluences are  at  work  to  obtain  an  acquittal  in  this 
case,  without  much  regard  to  the  means  whereby  the 
end  may  be  effected.  I  recalled  the  fact  that,  when 
Mrs.  Botkin  was  in  prison,  three  years  ago,  after 
her  first  trial,  Judge  Cook  stated  that  he  had  seen 
in  a  street  car  a  woman  who,  in  appearance,  was  her 
counterpart.  He  permitted  himself  to  be  interviewed 
on  the  occurrence,  and  in  the  interview  commented 
on  the  remarkable  resemblance  between  Mrs.  Botkin 
and  the  woman  in  the  car.  The  Sheriff  showed,  af- 
terwards, that  Mrs.  Botkin  had  not  left  the  jail,  and 
could  not  have  been  the  woman  the  Judge  saw  in  the 
car.    It  was  a  case  of  mistaken  identity. 

*  *  * 

On  Monday  last  the  Examiner  published  a  sensa- 
tional story  to  the  effect  that  Mrs.  Botkin's  double 
had  been  seen  again.  It  was  stated  that  a  woman, 
heavily  veiled,  and  accompanied  by  an  escort,  had 
attended  services  at  Grace  Church  on  Palm  Sunday. 
Some  one  noticed  that  in  general  appearance  she 
greatly  resembled  Mrs.  Botkin.  After  the  services 
she  hurried  away.  The  purpose  of  this  "exclusive 
story,"  (no  other  paper  published  it),  was  evidently 
to  establish  a  public  belief  that  Mrs.  Botkin  has  a 
"double,"  for  whose  crime  the  life  of  Dunning's  mis- 
tress is  in  jeopardy.  The  Examiner's  Sherlock 
Holmes  did  not  explain  how  he  or  his  informant 
saw  the  features  of  the  woman  who  was  heavily 
veiled,  nor  did  he  admit  that  after  service  it  was 
raining  heavily,  so  that  it  was  natural  under  the 
circumstances  that  the  woman  should  hurry  away ; 
nor  did  he  explain  why  the  members  of  Grace  Church 
should  raise  their  eyes  from  their  books  and  suddenly 
discover  that  a  heavily  veiled  woman  looked  like 
Mrs.  Botkin.  Surely,  the  people  of  Grace  Church 
are  not  among  those  that  disgrace  themselves  by 
crowding  into  Cook's  court  room  to  listen  to  the  nasty 
details  of  this  trial.  The  Examiner's  story  is  a  fake 
on  its  face.  Yet  it  may  serve  what  appears  to  be  its 
purpose — rendering  aid  to  the  Botkin  attorneys  in 
their  apparent  attempt  to  manufacture  an  alibi,  or 
to  raise  in  the  minds  of  the  jurors  a  reasonable  doubt 
as  to  the  identity  of  the  woman  who  bought  the 
candy.     "Mistaken  identity"  is  the  keystone  of  the 

defense. 

*  *  * 

A  good  story  is  told  on  Robert  Ferral,  now  As- 
sistant District  Attorney.  Years  ago,  when  the  Irish 
Land  League  was  flourishing  like  a  green  bay  tree, 
Bob  Ferral.  as  he  is  familiarly  known  among  old- 
timers,  used  to  raise  the  rafters  in  Irish-American 
Hall  the  while  he  reviewed  the  many  iniquities  of 
the  British  Government,  as  practiced  upon  the  Irish 
people.  No  man  has  shouted  longer  or  louder  for 
the  freedom  of  Ireland  than  has  Bob  Ferral.    In  those 


days,  so  excited  did  he  get  that  the  veins  stood  out 
like  whipcords  on  his  neck  and  forehead,  and  his 
friends  often  feared  that  before  he  had  damned  Eng- 
land to  his  full  satisfaction  he  would  explode  in  an 
apoplectic  fit.  Upon  one  occasion  he  was  assuring 
his  hearers  that  he  would  stay  with  the  fight  until 
the  sound  of  the  last  trump. 

"Gentlemen,"  he  yelled,  "let  us  all  enlist  in  this 
holy  cause.  Ireland  shall  yet  be  free.  To  this  cause 
I  here  devote  my  every  energy,  my  every  endeavor. 
My  voice  shall  be  ever  heard  raised  in  the  cause  of 
liberty.  And  if  I  should  fail  you — let  the  day  never 
come — but,  if  I  should  fail,  then,  gentlemen,  may  this 
right  arm" — and  he  extended  it  dramatically — "may 
this  right  arm — may  this  right  arm  cleave  to  the  roof 
of  my  mouth." 

■'  *  * 

Dissension  has  thrust  its  head  through  the  portals 
of  the  Mechanics'  Institute ;  discontent  is  rampant 
among  the  members;  disgust  has  filled  the  breasts 
of  many  of  them,  and  dismay  is  commencing  to  as- 
sail the  directors,  who  fear  that  existing  conditions 
may  result  in  what  may  approach  closely  to  a  public 
scandal.  Since  the  first  of  the  year  many  old  mem- 
bers, dissatisfied  with  the  management  of  the  library, 
have  resigned,  and  there  are  numerous  rumors  of 
other  resignations  yet  to  come.  The  trouble  seems 
to  be  around  the  desk  of  the  librarian.  Many  tales  are 
told  of  favoritism  in  the  distribution  of  books,  and 
of  unfair  treatment.  It  is  not  my  purpose  to  enter 
into  the  merits  or  demerits  of  these  accusations,  for 
that  would  require  an  examination  of  witnesses  and 
a  somewhat  extended  investigation.  The  fact  re- 
mains that  a  spirit  of  discontent  is  abroad  among  the 
readers  of  the  books.  It  is  said  that  the  librarian  has 
been  in  the  habit  of  reserving  new  books  until  they 
have  been  read  by  a  favored  few.  Women  predomi- 
nate among  these  few.  Originally  the  circle  of  the 
elect  was  comparatively  small,  but  now,  it  is  alleged, 
it  has  grown  until  it  includes  a  couple  of  score  of 
favorites.  Until  these  people  have  read  the  new 
books,  it  is  said  no  one  outside  the  clique  is  permitted 
to  have  access  to  them.  Cases  are  cited  wherein 
members  of  the  library  not  in  the  ring  have  applied 
for  books  and  been  informed  that  they  were  out, 
whereas  the  books  were  not  only  in,  but  within  half 
an  hour  were  issued  to  favorites,  who  then  showed 
the  books  and  boasted  of  their  pull  with  the  librarian. 
Many  of  the  members  complain  bitterly.  The  con- 
dition of  affairs  may  be  exaggerated,  but  it  is  cer- 
tainly worthy  of  investigation  by  the  directors. 
*  *  * 
Like  politics,  the  practice  of  the  law  "makes 
strange  bedfellows."  Here  are  Garrett  McEnerney 
and  Charley  Wheeler  side  by  side  in  the  defense  of 
Hyde  and  Dimond  in  the  timber  land  cases  in  the 
Federal  Court.  Not  so  long  ago  they  had  a  very  spir- 
ited encounter  in  the  Superior  Court,  during  the  trial 
of  a  case  in  which  they  appeared  upon  opposite  sides. 
McEnerney  resented  Wheeler's  familiarity  upon  this 
occasion,   and   indignantly   refused   an   invitation   to 


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April  3,  1904. 

dine  with  hia  fellow-Regent  upon  tlic  Oakland  boat. 
For  some  time  tuoMquent,  each  man  held  his  head 
high  when  \hc  other  passed  by.  Now,  perforce, 
they  have  to  sit  down,  check  by  jowl,  and  exchange 
views  as  to  the  best  methods  to  pursue  to  keep  their 
clients  out  of  jail. 

*  •  * 

The  timber  land  cases  have  brought  Francis  J. 
Heney  into  prominence  again.  Me  appears  as  spec- 
ial counsel  for  the  Government.  Heney  is  a  coming 
man  at  the  local  bar.  In  fact,  I  believe  Heney  "has 
came."  He  was  counsel  for  the  Government  in  the 
prosecution  of  the  Nome  cases,  which  created  much 
scandal,  and  resulted  in  the  discomfiture  of  a  Federal 
Judge  who  took  Alaska  for  his  exclusive  bailiwick. 
Heney  was  formerly  Attorney-General  of  Arizona. 
He  is  a  Democrat,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  One  Hundred,  which,  some  six  years  ago, 
tried  to  harmonize  things  in  the  local  Democracy. 
Heney  found  no  harmony  could  be  maintained  un- 
less it  bore  McNab's  personal  stamp.  So  he  resigned 
from  the  committee,  quit  local  politics,  and  like  a  sen- 
sible man  devoted  himself  to  his  profession. 

Henry  Ach  was  examining  a  witness  in  the  Dis- 
trict Court.  He  was  trying  to  show  that  the  wit- 
ness had  broken  the  law  and  injured  his  client  by 
manufacturing  a  patented  face  powder,  which  be- 
longed exclusively  to  Ach's  end  of  the  case.  The 
witness  testified  that  he  and  another  druggist  had 
mixed  together  some  chalk  and  violet  powder,  and 
had  sold  it  for  the  patented  article.  Then  he  began 
laughing. 

"Well,  what  are  you  laughing  about?"  Ach  yelled. 

"Oh,  only  this,"  said  the  witness.  "While  we  were 
mixing  the  powder  a  couple  of  hairs  fell  into  it  sorat 
way,  and  we  had  an  argument  as  to  whether  we 
would  sell  the  stuff  for  a  face  powder  or  pour  in  a 
little  water,  make  it  a  paste,  and  issue  it  as  a  hair- 
restorer.  We  flipped  a  coin — heads  for  powder,  tails 
for  hair-restorer.    It  came  heads,  and  so  we  sent  the 

stuff  forth  to  the  world  as  a  face  powder." 

*  *  * 

The  assembled  drawers  of  salary  in  the  Department 
of  Health,  who  have  been  placed  at  the  public  crib 
by  Ruef,  or  kept  there  by  him,  have  presented  Abra- 
ham with  a  beautifully  engrossed  set  of  resolutions, 
setting  forth'  at  great  length  the  gratitude  they  feel 
for  his  devotion  to  the  public  service,  as  exemplified 
by  protecting  their  jobs.  Ruef  is  a  humorist.  I  have 
said  that  before,  but  this  episode  proves  it  beyond 
all  doubt.  He  gets  lots  of  fun  out  of  his  little  mani- 
kins. 

*  *  * 

Ottinger's  $1,000  bond  is  reported  missing  from 
the  County  Clerk's  office.  Not,  of  course,  that  it  is 
in  point,  or  has  anything  to  do  with  the  disappearance 
of   that   bond — but   how   many    Crimmins    men    are 

employed  by  the  County  Clerk? 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Pawlicki,  one  of  the  Board  of  Health's  sur- 
geons in  the  Emergency  Hospital,  exacted  a  fee 
of  $2.50  from  a  patient  at  the  Hospital.  The  man 
complained ;  the  matter  became  public,  and  Pawlicki 
had  to  return  the  money.  The  circumstances  con- 
nected with  this  incident  surprise  me ;  first,  that  the 
patient  was  forced  to  give  up  only  $2.50;  second,  thai, 
he  ever  got  the  money  back.  Pawlicki  need  not  des- 
pair.   There  will  be  other  chances. 

*  *  * 

That  band  of  tongue-wagging  patriots  known  as 
the  Iroquoisquaws  have,  by  resolution,  opposed  the 
proposed  ordinance  regulating  the  holding  of  open- 
air  meetings  on  the  public  streets.    If  any  one  had 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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a  doubt  about  the  virtue  oi  this  ordinance,  the  resolu- 
tions should  remove  it.  The  Iroquoisquaws  and  all 
their  long-haired  kin  enn  be  suppressed  only  by  rig- 
orous measures. 

•  »  * 

One  of  the  most  enthusiastic  of  the  Berkeley  stu- 
dents captured  in  the  attempt  to  make  the  rush  at 
Charter  Hill  is  a  voting  Filipino,  the  son  of  Agui- 
naldo's  former  Secretarv  of  State.  No  other  proof 
is  needed  that  the  Filipino  can  be  thoroughly  civil- 
ized if  captured  when  young, 

*  *  * 

When  Adjutant-General  Corbin,  Major-General, 
U.  S.  A.,  during  his  tour  of  the  Philippines  made  a 
visit  of  state  upon  the  Sultan  of  Sulu  ;  flags  flew  from 
the  Sultan's  harem  :  his  favorite  wives  were  bedecked 
in  their  finest  raiment;  the  royal  standard  of  Sulu 
and  the  Stars  and  Stripes  floated  from  adjoining 
poles,  and  carronades  belched  forth  equal  honors  to 
the  Sultan  and  the  General.  Now,  why  don't  Smith, 
Smoot  &  Co.  move  down  to  Sulu?  It's  part  of  the 
United  States,  you  know,  just  as  Utah  is,  and  Smoot 
might  become  Senator  from  Sulu  without  objection 
being  raised. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


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Mr.  Aubury,  State  Mineralo- 
Miner  for  Once  gist,  leaves  in  a  few  days  for 
is  Recognized.  the  East  to  supervise  the  instal- 
lation of  the  California  mineral 
exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair  in  St.  Louis.  It  is  said 
that  the  miners  have  stood  in  well,  and  it  is  pleasant 
to  be  assured  of  the  fact.  If  the  statement  is  true, 
then  the  mining  men  of  California  must  have  recov- 
ered from  the  feeling  of  distrust  and  wrath  engen- 
dered by  the  way  they  were  treated  in  Paris  the  last 
time  they  were  persuaded  to  make  themselves  agree- 
able by  drawing  upon  their  treasure  in  the  way  of 
rare  specimens,  running  the  risk  of  losing  something 
the  value  of  which  could  not  be  replaced  by  money. 
California  ought  to  have  a  good  display  of  minerals 
at  the  Fair.  The  State  is  rich  enough  to  make  one, 
and  doubtless  there  will  be  all  the  money  required 
at  command  were  it  not  that  the  ordinary  politician 
who  controls  all  outlays  of  the  kind,  has  a  faculty  of 
overlooking  the  mining  industry  upon  all  occasions 
to  the  pecuniary  advantage  of  the  fruit  grower  or 
butter  maker.  Mining  made  California,  and  goes 
a  long  way  to-day,  even  if  its  light  is  hidden  to  a  large 
extent  under  a  bushel,  to  keep  up  the  reputation  of 
the  State,  but  this  is  apt  to  be  forgotten  by  the  new 
people  who  have  arrived  here  of  late  years  in  Pull- 
mans. 

There  will  be  oceans  of  water 
Good  Water  Goes    in  the  mining  district  this  year 
to  Waste.  for  industrial  purposes,  and  the 

torrent  that  has  drowned  out 
the  garden  patches  along  the  banks  of  the  swollen 
Sacramento  could  well  be  utilized  in  tearing  down 
the  great  gravel  deposits  which  perforce  lie  idle  ow- 
ing to  the  malicious  interference  of  the  valley  men, 
who  have  never  yet  lost  an  opportunity  to  knife  the 
neighbor  from  the  hills  good  and  hard.  What  mil- 
lions of  gold  would  be  available  for  disposition  were 
these  great  mines  at  work  again  !  The  much  con- 
demned slickens  could  be  flumed  down  the  valleys 
to  build  substantial  levies  and  raise  the  elevation  to 
a  degree  which  would  ensure  them  from  ever  again 
being  drowned  out  by  a  winter's  rainfall.  It  is  said 
that  fruit  trees  flourish  in  this  slickens-made  soil,  and 
it  certainly  would  end  the  malaria  which  poisons  the 
air  in  so  many  naturally  fine  locations,  when  through 
means  of  this  material  the  damp  conditions  could  be 
removed.  The  people  of  the  valley  have  been  led 
away  by  the  ever-present  mischief  makers  who  man- 
age to  eke  a  livelihood  by  constantly  fomenting  strife. 
They  have  followed  false  gods,  and  now  in  their  trou- 
ble, which  excites  the  sympathy  of  all  Californians, 
and  from  none  more  so,  if  the  truth  were  known, 
than  the  despised  men  of  flume  and  giant,  they  may 
look  to  the  hills,  from  which  alone  can  come  their 
aid. 

A  New  York  paper  of  that 
Money  in  a  Name,  class  which  devotes  its  col- 
umns to  the  aid  of  promotion 
schemes  now  carries  in  bold  type  a  statement  that 
Tonopah  is  "the  richest  gold  field  in  the  world,  ac- 
credited to  John  Hays  Hammond,  the  well-known 
mining  engineer."  While  quite  ready  to  believe  in 
the  great  value  of  Tonopah  as  a  mining  camp,  we 
do  not  for  one  moment  credit  that  Mr.  Hammond 
ever  made  such  a  statement,  even  if  he  held  that  opin- 
ion of  the  camp.  He  has  never  been  in  the  habit  of 
gushing  over  the  prospects  of  mines  or  a  mining 
camp,  and   it  seems  unreasonable  to  think  that  he 


is  beginning  at  this  time  in  his  career  to  take  the 
dear  public  into  his  confidence.  The  only  reason 
to  ascribe  for  his  name  being  used  in  this  connec- 
tion is  that  he  is  not  likely  to  see  the  paper  which 
is  taking  the  very  questionable  liberty  of  keeping  it 
standing  in  the  advertisement  which  it  bolsters  up. 
The  gross  earnings  of  the  Nortli 

An  Expensive  Shore  R.  R,  for  February,  1904, 
Investment.  show  a  decrease  of  $2,962.14,  a 
a  large  net  decrease  as  com- 
pared witli  the  previous  year.  The  road  showed  a 
deficit  for  the  month  of  $30,643.46  after  paying  all 
expenses  and  fixed  charges.  For  the  two  months  to 
February  29th,  the  deficit  amounted  to  $54,842.11,  or 
$32,623.64  more  than  last  year.  This  is  not  surpris- 
ing with  the  constant  outlay  for  repairs  and  improve- 
ments. 

Business     on      the      Comstock 

Pine-St.  Market.  Market  has  held  up  remarkably 
ably  well  during  the  past  week, 
taking  the  elementary  disturbances  which  have  been 
going  on  at  both  ends  of  the  line  into  due  considera- 
tion. Prices  have  shown  a  disposition  to  harden, 
under  a  verv  moderate  demand,  which  in  turn  de- 
veloped the  fact  that  the  goods  are  not  quite  as  plen- 
tiful as  might  be  supposed.  From  all  appearances, 
if  the  occasion  arose  to  fill  anything  like  a  decent  or- 
der for  one  of  the  leading  stocks,  it  would  either  have 
to  be  limited  to  a  certain  figure,  with  the  chance  of 
not  procuring  a  share,  or  the  market  rate  at  a  sharp 
advance  would  have  to  be  met.  Work-  at  all  points 
along  the  lode  is  progressing  in  a  most  satisfactory 
manner,  and  before  long  things  will  be  so  changed 
in  and  around  the  mines  in  operation  that  the  old 
boys  who  have  crossed  the  divide  would  not  recog- 
nize the  place  could  they  break  out  for  a  while  from 
"under  hatches."  These  improvements  are  bound 
to  be  reflected  in  the  local  market  before  long. 

A  lady  who  invested  $1,300  in  stock  of  the  Gray 
Gander  and  Columbia  Oil  Companies  has  just  re- 
covered a  judgment  for  $1855  and  interest  against 
another  lady  who  certainly  was  not  the  "Gray  Goose" 
in  the  transaction.  A  judgment  is  one  thing  and 
coin  is  another,  and  a  peculiarity  of  these  promoters, 
who  make  a  practice  of  wheedling  coin  out  of  that 
enterprising  portion  of  the  public  which  takes  finan- 
cial bait  as  a  trout  does  a  fly,  is  that  they  do  not  pan 
out  well  when  one  wants  to  get  money  out  of  them 
by  stress  of  law,  or  any  other  leverage,  for  that 
matter. 


The    Oldest     and     Best 
Known  Brand 

DISTILLED  BY 

J.  J.  MEDER  &    ZOON 

SCHIEDAM 

HOLLAND 


Imported  Into  the  TJ.  8.  since  1819 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


April  2.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'7 


Small  share  transactions,  steady  prices  and  I  light 
demand  .v  the  conditions  of  affaii 

the  lo  .|  Exchange  just  now.    The 

brok'  aurally  hopeful  and  money  is  plenti- 

fill.     All  that  is  required  is  something  t>>  work  up 
public  interest  in  the  flame. 


The  gross  earnings  of  the  California  and  North- 
rn  Railway  Company  for  February,  IQ04. 
amounted  to  $74,972,  as  compared  with  $74.34'  for 
February,  loo.},  an  increase  of  $631.  There  was  a 
deficit  after  charges  last  month  of  $37,054.  The  gross 
earnings  for  the  eight  months  ended  February  jo. 
1004,  were  $931,263,  as  compared  with  $877,065  for 
the  same  period  last  year,  an  increase  of  $54,198.  The 
net  earnings  for  the  eight  months  ended  February 
2C).  1904,  were  $2IO,628,  a  decrease  of  $48,134,  as  com- 
pared with  the  corresponding  period  ending  Febru- 
ary 29.  1903.  The  surplus  at  the  end  of  the  past 
eight  months  was  $29,962,  as  compared  with  $77,362 
a  year  ago.  a  decrease  of  $47,400. 

SAUSALITO  RESIDENCE  LOTS. 
Mr.  Henry  Stern,  of  David  Stern  &  Sons,  the  real 
estate  broker  and  auctioneer,  will  offer  the  public 
an  unusual  chance  to  procure  cheaply  some  fine  resi- 
dence lots  in  the  beautiful  suburb  of  Sausalito.  He 
will  sell  on  the  ground  at  2:15  p.  m.  22  choice  resi- 
dence lots  facing  on  Buckley  avenue,  Excelsior  ave- 
nue, Read  Lane,  and  El  Monte  Lane.  The  sale  will 
occur  on  the  arrival  of  the  1  45  p.  m.  boat  from  San 
Francisco.  These  lots  are  so  well  placed  and  in  such 
a  favorable  locality  that  there  is  sure  to  be  some  lively 
bidding  at  the  sale.  There  is  a  fine  view  of  the  bay 
of  San  Francisco  and  the  surrounding  country.  There 
are  no  fogs  and  the  climate  is  milder  than  either  Ala- 
meda or  Oakland,  and  it  is  not  nearly  as  warm  in 
summer  as  it  is  further  inland.  It  is  the  ideal  subur- 
ban residence  location,  conveniently  near  San  Fran- 
cisco. For  particulars  and  catalogues  apply  to 
Henry  Stern,  at  his  office,  No.  11  Montgomery 
street. 


A  Choral  Club  has  been  organized  by  James  Ham- 
ilton Howe,  Mus.  B.,  our  most  prominent  oratorio 
conductor,  upon  an  up-to-date  basis  and  upon  an 
entirely  new  plan.  A  good  enrollment  of  active  mem- 
bers has  already  been  made,  and  the  outlook  for  as- 
sociate members  is  encouraging.  Singers  desiring 
to  join,  or  persons  desiring  membership  as  associates, 
may  apply  personally  or  by  letter  to  any  of  the 
Monitors,  or  to  the  Secretary,  Miss  Maud  S.  Gish, 
208  Mutual  Savings  Bank  Building,  708  Market 
street. 


When  you  get  your  fall  clothing  made,   also  make 

arrangements  to  have  it  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  is  economy  to  do  it.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  If  well  cared  for.  They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 


The  mince  pies  furnished  by  Swain's  Bakery  on  Sut- 
ter street  are  real  treats.  You  can  wander  the  world 
through  and  find  none  to  match  this  place  for  wholesome 
food  and  good  attendance.  The  San  Francisco  best  people 
know  this,  and  are  its  constant  patrons. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau  has   removed   to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,   San  Francisco. 


The  Sansome  Street  Coffee  House  21c  Sansome  street,  is  opened  to 
eater  to  the  business  men  of  this  vicinity,  with  the  best  of  all  the 
market  affords,  at  reasonable  rates. 


4  1-2  P.r  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L.  Association 

rays  <   I-:   DM  oral    interest  on  ordinary  SaVtDSB  lOOOUntB,  Interest" 

unded  semi-annually, and  ■•  percent  on  term  .-. mntsof  »u»  or 

more.  Interest  payable  Beml-annnallr- 

Mr.    CALIFORNIA    STREET,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

'"'d  Capital Moonn*. 

FaldlnOanttal  w.oocooo 

(uiarantee  Capital 1.000.0011 

aon.ono 

Restate  loans  made  on  Improved  pr irty-Prlnoipal  and  interest 

payable  In  monthly  installment.-  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICEIiS    AND    DIBECTOH8 
\  A.  Watklns,  Vice-President  w.  W.  Montague  A-  Co.  President 

(  hariesB.  Bishop.  Vice-President  Bank  of  California....  Vice-President 

s.  1  rentiss  Smith.  Capitalist Treasurer 

t  larence  Grange  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &  L.  Association. 

n„„  n  u  Z%r       « ^ Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman.  Mgr.  Mtoa  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 


Sayings  Union 


Director 


Chas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker.  Portland.  Oregon Director 

(iavin  MeNab.  Attorney-at-law a  ti„ 

Walter  K.Smith nT,67 

Cashier 


3    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO    NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  check  or  money  order  for  as  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  $100.  Price  par 
for  *5.oo  certificates.    The  price  may  advance  any  day  ^ 

Thestoekof  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  $5.00  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  $22  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance  of 
340  per  cent.    The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 

greater. 

,  T^nSja:aroo1i  S?l^em  is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.  Edison 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited. 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CR0SSLEY   BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


"Out  o£  the  Beaten  [Path,"  Tom  Dillon's  modern  style  hats.    Opp. 
Palace. 


California    Safe 

Capital  and  Surplus     -     $1, 401,160.93 
Total  Assets                       6,943,782.82 

Deposit  and 
Trust  Co. 

Interest    paid     on     deposits, 
subject   to   check,     at     the  ■ 
rate   of   two   per    cent   per 
annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and    six-tenths     per     cent 
per  annum. 

* 

Trusts    executed.      We      are 
authorized    to    act    as    the 
guardian  of  estates  and  the 
executor  of  wills. 

Corner 
California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San    Francisco,   Cal. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented 
at  $5  per  annum  and  up- 
wards. 

Get  a  box  at  once  and  guard 
against  loss  by  Fire  or 
Burglars. 

J„   Dalzell  Brown. 

Manager 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


h  mm^~~  ^INSURANCE 


The  Contemporary  Review  publishes  an  article  by 
Mr.  T.  P.  Whittaker,  Member  of  Parliament,  which 
is  a  sort  of  body  blow  to  abstainers  and  refutes  the 
hypothesis  that  total  abstinence  is  conducive  to  lon- 
gevity. It  has  been  boasted  for  years  by  temperance 
people  that  the  good  drinkers  died  early.  Mr.  Whit- 
taker. by  his  analysis  of  the  facts  and  figures,  proves 
beyond  a  question  of  a  doubt  the  contrary.  To  quote 
from  a  published  article : 

"Mr.  Whittaker  attacks  the  problem  empirically, 
and  draws  the  data  of  what  he  claims  is  a  demon- 
stration from  the  experience  of  an  English  insurance 
company  to  whose  actuarial  records  he  has  had  ac- 
cess. This  company  was  founded  in  1840,  and  at  first 
issued  policies  and  continued  them  in  force  only  to 
those  who  were  and  remained  total  abstainers.  A 
few  years  later  non-abstainers  of  a  selected  class  were 
admitted.  On  the  books  of  the  company  the  two 
classes  have  been  kept  separate,  and  it  is  possible 
to  compare  their  respective  death  rates — the  two 
classes  being  about  the  same  in  number,  recruited 
to  the  company  under  the  same  rules  of  examination 
and  the  same  in  all  qualities  except  that  the  members 
of  one  were  total  abstainers  and  the  members  of  the 
other  were  occasional  or  moderate  users. 

"Tables  prepared  by  the  actuary  of  the  company, 
as  quoted  by  Mr.  Whittaker,  show  31,776  life  non- 
abstainers'  policies  aggregating  466,943  years  of  ex- 
posure with  deaths  to  a  number  of  8,947,  against  29,- 
094  whole  life  abstainers'  policies,  aggregating  398,- 
010  years  of  exposure  and  5,124  deaths.  The  death 
rate  among  the  non-abstainers  has  thus  been  36  per 
cent  higher  than  among  the  abstainers.  Another 
table  shows  that  the  company's  experience  with  its 
abstaining  class  indicates  that  of  100,000  living  at  the 
age  of  thirty,  55,382  would  survive  to  the  age  of 
seventy,  while  among  the  non-abstaining  class  ex- 
perience shows  the  number  of  survivors  at  the  age 
of  seventy  would  be  only  44.424.  As  to  the  point 
which  will  be  obviously  raised  in  rebuttal — that  the 
non-abstainers  were  not  in  general  respects  as  good 
risks  as  the  abstainers — Mr.  Whittaker  asserts  that 
it  is  without  validity:  that,  if  anything,  greater  care 
was  exercised  in  excluding  bad  risks  from  the  non- 
abstaining  class  than  from  the  other;  that  in  no  case 
did  the  company  write  policies  on  men  who  drank  to 
excess." 

The  other  side  of  the  question  the  moderate  drink- 
ing element  seem  to  have  overlooked  this  later  apos- 
tle of  St.  Paul  and  a  little  for  your  stomach's  sake, 
but  the  American  life  insurance  companies'  tables 
and  experience  would,  beyond  question,  if  they  were 
examined,  reveal  the  fact  that  Mr.  Whittaker's  deduc- 
tions apply  to  the  United  States  as  well  as  to  Great 
Britain. 

To  take  the  negative  of  this,  it  is  fair  to  suppose 
that  the  life  companies  of  the  United  States,  if  they 
found  the  abstainers  were  more  profitable  risks, 
would  seek  to  insure  them  by  granting  a  more  favor- 
able policy  or  a  lower  rate.  This  is  not  done.  The 
moderate  user  of  alcoholic  stimulants  is  accepted  by 
the  most  careful  and  conservative  life  insurance  com- 
pany at  the  same  rate  and  on  the  same  plan  as  the 
non-user,  and  the  man  who  dispenses  liquor  from 
behind  a  bar  can  get  a  policy  of  life  insurance  in  these 
days  at  so  small  an  advance  of  cost  that  it  is  not 
worth  consideration.  The  total  abstinence  theory  in 
life  insurance  falls. 

*  *  * 

Life  insurance  companies  are  careful  in  the  method 


of  their  selection  of  subjects,  and  while  they  discard 
the  heavy  habitual  drinker,  they  take  the  moderate 
one  and  are  glad  to  get  him,  and  up  to  the  present 
there  is  not  known  any  reputable  old  line  or  legal  re- 
serve life  insurance  company  which  has  offered  any 
special  rate  to  the  applicant  because  he  was  eligible 

to  become  a  Good  Templar. 

*  *  * 

The  News  Letter,  amongst  its  various  exchanges, 
has  one  called  the  Insurance  Press,  which  in  a  recent 
edition  heads  its  editorial  columns  with  the  follow- 
ing paragraph :  "A  friend  of  The  Insurance  Press 
sends  us.  as  a  souvenir  of  the  Rochester  conflagra- 
tion, a  copy  of  The  Insurance  Press  of  February  3d, 
taken  from  an  insurance  office  in  the  Granite  build- 
ing, where  so  he  says,  'all  combustible  matter  was 
destroyed.'  This  reminds  us  that  we  frequently 
speak  of  The  Insurance  Press  as  T.  I.  P.,  which,  it 
now  appears,  means  The  Imperishable  Paper."  Now,'' 
my  merrie  masters,  I  have  found  that  The  Insurance 
Press  could  not  burn  :  I  have  tried  to  light  fires  with 
it  and  it  would  not  ignite,  and  so  it  must  be  imperish- 
able. To  me  it  seems  as  if  The  Insurance  Press  was 
designed  solely  to  burn  others  and  not  be  burned  it- 
self. Our  local  insurance  papers  are  of  this  class 
and  character,  and  like  The  Insurance  Press  they 
are  so  poor  in  point  of  paper  and  contents  that  fire 
won't  char  them,  and  as  for  water  they  take  it  all 
the  time.  The  T.  I.  P.  might  just  as  well  stand  for 
The  Impotent  Parasite  as  for  what  The  Press  imag- 
ines the  letters  to  signify. 

*  *  * 

C.  A.  Henry  &  Company,  General  Agents  of  the 
Sun  of  London,  have  appointed  Mr.  John  N.  Waters 
special  agent  for  Califdrnia,  Nevada  and  Arizona, 
vice  Mr.  T.  H.  Williams,  resigned.  Mr.  Waters  has 
been  for  many  years  associated  with  the  Dornin 
Agency.  He  is  one  of  the  most  popular  specials  and 
a  business-getter. 

*  *  * 

The  Maryland  Casualty  Company  has  declared  a 
quarterly  dividend  of  two  and  a  half  per  cent. 

*  *  * 

The  District  of  Columbia  has  suspended  the  li- 
cense of  the  Security  of  Baltimore. 

*  *  * 

The    Netherlands    Fire    Insurance    Company    has 

ceased  writing  policies  on  the  Coast. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  valued  policy  bill  in  suspense  before 
the  Iowa  Legislature.  A  gentleman  named  West 
made  some  sensible  remarks  before  the  Insurance 
Committee,  in  which  he  said:  "Insurance  is  an  indem- 
nity. If  an  officer  is  bonded  for  $100,000  and  absconds 
with  $40,000,  the  authorities  seek  to  recover  $40,000 
from  the  company  bonding  the  officer.  That  is  what 
the  company  has  sold  the  authorities,  an  indemnity 
up  to  the  face  of  the  policy,  and  has  not  sold  the 
guarantee  to  pay  the  whole  $100,000  if  the  officer  em- 
bezzles half  of  it.  So  with  insurance.  The  company 
guarantees  the  owner  of  property  against  loss  up  to 
the  face  of  his  policy.  Now  honest  people  do  not  want 
to  burn  their  property  and  will  not.  The  valued 
policy  law  is  of  no  value  to  them,  because  they  do 
not  misrepresent  to  the  company  in  the  first  place 
to  get  more  insurance  than  their  property  is  worth; 
the  dishonest  man.  therefore,  gains  the  benefit  of  the 
law  at  the  cost  of  the  honest  insured."  These  re- 
marks are  worth  remembering,  and  whether  the  ut- 
terer  may  be  an  insurance  man  or  not,  he  has  the 


April  a.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»9 


hump  of  common  sense  remarkably  well  developed 

The  Paul  N.  Nippcrt  Company  is  the  latest  agency 

ration.     It  has  absorbed  the  Powning  Company. 

and  will  have  the  apency  of  the   Aetna   Indemnity 

Company,  in  addition  to  the  British-America  and  the 

citv  exclusive  agenev  of  the  Delaware. 

*  •  « 

Here  is  a  story  credited  in  the  Review  to  Mauager 
Shallcross  of  the  Royal.  It  is  the  story  of  a  claim 
for  loss  fileil  with  his  company:  "The  claimant  (a 
woman,  of  course)  had  her  household  poods  insured 
against  fire,  and  claimed  $5  for  the  loss  of  a  set  ol 
false  teeth  and  Sj.50  for  the  loss  of  a  canary-bird. 
When  called  upon  for  details,  she  explained  that  the 
house  across  tile  street  caught  fire,  and  she  rushed 
to  the  window  and  leaned  out  to  watch  the  proceed- 
ings. Her  teeth  fell  out  and  were  broken  ;  and  while 
she  was  at  the  window  the  cat  caught  the  canarv  and 
ate  it.  Asked  as  to  how  she  classified  the  teeth  and 
the  bird  in  order  to  justify  her  claim  under  the  policy 
she  said  that  the  teeth  were  "dining  room  furniture," 
and  that  the  bird  was  a  "musical  instrument." 


INSURANCE 


"HIS  ROYAL  NIBS"  IN  OAKLAND. 

The  Oakland  performance  of  "His  Royal  Nibs" 
will  be  given  on  April  29th.  The  Macdonough  Thea- 
tre has  been  secured  for  the  occasion.  It  is  to  be  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  the  Oak- 
land Social  Settlement.    The  patronesses  are: 

Mrs.  F.  M.  Smith,  Mrs.  W.  S.  Goodfellow,  Mrs. 
A.  L.  White,  Mrs.  A.  A.  Moore,  Mrs.  Harry  Melvin, 
Mrs.  Henry  Wetherbee,  Mrs.  Minor  Goodall,  Mrs. 
R.  Brown,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Folger,  Mrs.  Isaac  L.  Requa, 
Mrs.  T.  L.  Barker,  Mrs.  E.  M.  Walsh,  Mrs.  George 
De  Golia,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Wright,  Mrs.  George  W.  Mc- 
Near,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Stone,  Mrs.  C.  Hooper,  Mrs.  A. 
Samuel,  Mrs.  Philip  Teller,  Mrs.  Benjamin  Ide 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  Bernard  Moses,  Mrs.  Clinton  Day, 
Mrs.  Allen  Freeman,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Percy,  Mrs.  A.  J. 
Ralston,  Mrs.  Boojne,  Mrs.  Charles  Butters,  Mrs. 
Kate  Bulkley.  Miss  Jessie  Campbell,  Mrs.  Harrv 
East  Miller,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Williams,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Weell- 
man,  Mrs.  Harry  F.  Gordon,  Mrs.  Spencer  Brown, 
Mrs.  George  C.  Edwards,  Mrs.  de  Fremery,  Mrs.  E. 
G.  Matthews,  Miss  A.  E.  Miner,  Miss  Katharine 
Radford,  Miss  Matilda  Brown,  Mrs.  S.  T.  Alexander, 
Mrs.  R.  H.  Chamberlain,  Mrs.  Louis  Tasheira,  Mrs. 
C.  H.  Gorrill,  Mrs.  Sarah  Cheek,  Mrs.  Edward  Page, 
Mrs.  Charles  dishing,  Miss  Mary  Alexander,  Miss 
Playter,  Miss  Wellman,  Miss  Ellen  Chabot,  Miss 
Carolyn  Oliver,  Miss  Lilly  Mailer,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Van 
Sicklen. 


A.  rub-  at  the  Post  St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good. 

Cash  Capital,  200.000.00.  Cash  Assets.  J321.471.li> 

PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office.  328  Montgomery  St.    San  Francisco 

Employers  Liability.    Teams.    General  Liability.     Workmen's    Col- 
lective.   Vessels.    Elevator. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President.  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  Willism  M. 
Pierson.  Vice-Pres.  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Sec'y.  Frank  P.  Deering. 
Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  Gen.  Agt.  for  California.  Hayward  Bldg. 

Tire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital M.ooo.ooo.         Gross  Cash  Assets J18,040.793.99 

Liberal  oontraots,  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Repre- 
sentatives before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
nay  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropolis 
>  m  Mancj^sr. 

aio  Sansome  fit.,  San  Francisco 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  1713. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    I3.00t.009 

Surplus    to    Pollcy-Holders    6,022.016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.    D.   1720. 
Capital   Paid-up.  13,416,100.  Assets,  324,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  SS,93u,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  3134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON.    Manager,  601   Montgomery    Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local  Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders. .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 


Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building, 

San  Francisco. 


The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 


DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 
Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital    , 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


- 36,700,000 

316  California  St.,  8.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.   GERMANY 

Capital  32,260,000  Assets  310.9S4.240 

VOSS,    CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  204-208   Sansome  St.,   San  Francisco 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


Ufte  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 

Admiral  Makaroff,  the  new 
Changes  in  Russo-  commander  of  the  Port  Ar- 
Japanese  Tactics.  thur  squadron,  refuses  to  be 
bottled  up  in  the  harbor,  and 
has  the  daring  to  go  out  in  the  open  and  offer  battle 
to  Admiral  Togo,  although  his  fleet  is  outclassed  in 
guns  and  craft.  The  Japanese  Admiral,  in  declining 
a  test  of  strength  just  now,  however,  should  not  be 
charged  with  hesitating  on  account  of  fear  of  defeat, 
for  it  may  be  that  he  is  maneuvering  his  squadron 
to  cover  troop  transports  carrying  the  remainder  of 
the  first  mobilization  to  Korean  ports.  But,  anyway, 
the  new  commander  of  the  Russian  fleet  is  enthusing 
his  countrymen  in,  as  well  as  out  of  the  war  estab- 
lishment, with  confidence  in  the  final  overthrow  of 
the  enemy  by  his  bold  and  daring,  yet  cautious,  effort 
to  engage  the  Japanese  ships.  And  one  good  result 
to  his  cause  that  is  already  distinctly  observable  is 
a  degree  of  confidence  in  the  Port  Arthur  garrison 
that  did  not  before  exist. 

The  massing  of  troops  in  North  Korea  is  a  change 
in  the  Russian's  strategy,  but  that  may  be  more  of 
a  feint  than  a  reality  to  keep  the  home  country  in  a 
state  of  enthusiastic  expectancy  until  something  else 
is  thought  of  to  satisfy  public  sentiment  while  wait- 
ing for  Japan  to  cross  the  Yalu  and  assume  the  of- 
fensive. Meanwhile  Japan  has  not  been  idle.  The 
landing  of  more  than  100,000  men  on  a  foreign  shore 
at  various  points,  and  the  subsequent  massing  of 
them  at  admitted  strong  strategical  points  without 
losing  a  man  or  a  transport  at  the  hands  of  the  enemy 
is  conceded  to  be  a  most  masterful  exhibition  of  mili- 
tary skill.  But  that  is  not  all.  This  great  army  is 
as  well  equipped  with  modern  implements  of  war  and 
officered  by  as  capable  and  as  fearless  men  as  are 
the  best  military  establishments  of  Europe,  and  what 
is  still  more  to  the  point  is  that  this  horde  of  brown 
men  are  at  this  moment  moving  toward  the  Yalu. 
The  secrecy  surrounding  Japan's  plans,  and  the 
deliberate  and  almost  mathematic  precision  of  the 
forward  movement  ever  since  the  first  transports 
sailed  away  to  Korean  shores  makes  it  clear  that 
there  is  a  confident  and  determined  national  and  in- 
dividual moral  and  patriotic  force  behind  it  all  that 
will  be  hard  to  overcome.  But  the  first  real  trial 
of  generalship  and  strength  is  near  at  hand.  After 
that  event  there  will  be  less  occasion  to  mystify 
movements.  That  the  fighting  will  be  terrific  there 
is  no  doubt,  for  both  sides,  from  highest  officer  to 
the  humblest  private,  are  more  or  less  fanatical  in 
patriotism.  The  Japanese  reasons:  "I  must  die 
sometime,  and  it  is  glorious  to  have  death  come 
while  fighting  for  the  integrity  of  home  and  country.'' 
Besides,  there  is  a  broad  and  deep-rooted  streak  of 
fatalism  running  through  the  two  religious  systems 
of  Japan.  The  inspiration  of  the  Russian  is  that  it 
is  his  religious  duty  to  give  his  life  in  defense  of  the 
''White  Father" — the  Czar — and  meanwhile  to  kill 
as  many  "heathens"  and  "pagans"  as  ever  he  can. 
From  such  soldiers  fierce  and  destructive  encounters 
may  be  counted  upon  with  certainty. 

It  is  an  off-day  when  the  Peking 

China's  Game      Government  does  not  give  a  vol- 

of  Deceit.         unteer  pledge  that  China  will  be 

true  to  her  attitude  of  neutrality, 

but  between  pledges,  preparations     go     forward  to 

strike  Russia  hard  and  fast  when  the  right  moment 

comes.     There  is  no  reason  to  doubt  that  there  is  a 

perfect    understanding    between    Japan    and    China. 

That   fact   is   further  confirmed   everv   time     Russia 

charges  China  with  playing  false.     Though  a  great 

victory  by  Japan's   land   forces   would   postpone   an 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


!$I3, 500,000 


Capital,  Surplus  and  Undivided 
Profits, 

Homer  S.   King,   President;   F.   L.   Llpman,   Cashier;   Prank  B. 
King,  Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.   E.   Miles,  Assistant  Cashier. 
BRANCHES— New   York;    Salt  Lake,    Utah;   Portland,   Or. 
Correspondents  throughout  the  world.     General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President;  W.  C.  B.  DeFREMERT,  ROBERT 
WATT,  Vice-Presidents;  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH,  Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery,  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Bartn,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H. 
Beaver.   William   A.   Magee,   Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.   m.  to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits,    December    31.    1903    $33,232,908 

Guarantee    Capital.    Paid-up     1,000,000 

Reserve   and   Contingent    Funds    899,516 

Mutual  Savioas  Bank  of  s*n  F«noisoo 

710  Market  St.,  Opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    $1,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   500,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A,  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President;   C.    B.   HOBSON,   Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphy,  John  A.  Hooper, 
James  Moffitt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,   James  M.    McDonald,   Charles  Holbrook. 

Interest   paid   on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 


The  Germao   Savings  <S>  Loan  Society 

NO.   52«  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAif  FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    $2,423,751.6') 

Capital   Actually  Paid-up   In   Cash    1.000.000.00 

Deposits,   Dee.  31,  1903  36,049,491.18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer:  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmann: 
Ign.  Stelnhardt,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt:  Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herr- 
mann: Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;  General  Attorney.  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  in   1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301    California    Street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital    $15,000,000.00 

Paid-in    Capital     3.000,000.00 

Profit    and    Reserve    Fund    450,000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  6  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,    President;  William   Corbln,   Secretary 
and  General  Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporation 

NO.  1  WALL  ST.,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus   $7,894,400 

Capital   and   Surplus  Authorized   10,000,000.08 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer,  President:  Charles  D.  Palmer, 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  William  H.  Maclntyre, 
Assistant  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Counsel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila. 
Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,   Shanghai,   Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras.  Penang,  Rangoon. 
Colombo.  Amoy,  Canton.  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansui,  Anplng, 
Bakan.  Moll,  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavia,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,   and  all   parts   of  Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 82-34   Sansome    Street. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
»nd  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposit  Isued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents  throughout  the  world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK,  Manner.  P.  Q.  BA8TWICK,  JR.,  Ast.  Mer 


April  2,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


actu.i  ncnt  by  China,  and  .1  serious 

mcnt,  it  is  as  certain  as 
anything  could  be  that   the   Peking  authorities 
determined  that   Russia  shall  not  always  I 
churia   as   a    Russian   province.     And   it    is   the   con 
•  1  enmity  of  China  and  her  haste  to  put  her  army 
upon  a  war  footing,  notwithstanding  her  protests  !■■ 
the  contrary,  that   is  bothering   Russia.     She  kn.n\s 
what  to  expect  of  Japan,  now  that  their  armies  are  in 
the  field,  but  Chinas  double-dealing  is  :i  caus 
apprehension  all  the  time. 

Litigation     in     France     t<> 
Our  Own  Troubles.      prevent   the  transfer  of  tin 

Panama  Canal  franchise 
to  the  United  States  was  not  enough  to  tan- 
gle the  deal  in  a  cobweb  of  cloudy  complica- 
tions. An  application  has  been  filed  in  the  Supreme 
Court  at  Washington  for  an  order  restraining  the 
rnment  from  further  proceedings  in  the  matter. 
It  is  claimed  that  the  whole  affair  has  been  en- 
gineered on  lines  that  are  unlawful  and  unconstitu- 
tional, hut  whether  the  petition  is  founded  on  fact 
or  a  mere  scheme  to  hang  the  business  up  in  the 
Supreme  Court  for  an  indefinite  number  of  months 
matters  not,  for  the  fact  remains  that  the  more  the 
public  understands  the  true  inwardness  of  the  trans- 
action the  more  pronounced  becomes  public  senti- 
ment against  the  project,  or  rather  against  the  dis- 
reputable and  high-handed  methods  that  were  em- 
ployed by  the  canal  ring  through  the  aiding  and 
abetting  of  the  Washington  Government.  It  may  be 
true,  as  is  hinted,  that  the  Republic  of  Colombia  is 
behind  the  move  to  hang  the  project  up  in  the  Su- 
preme Court,  but  that  only  shows  how  deeply 
wronged  that  Republic  feels  over  our  treacherous 
treatment  of  her. 

The  Aboriginese  Protection 
A  Serious  Charge.  Society  of  London  has  sent 
out  to  all  the  civilized  world 
a  circular  letter  in  which  the  grave  charge  is  made 
that  King  Leopold  of  Belgium,  as  protector,  and  the 
several  signatory  powers  to  the  agreement  to  not 
only  put  down  the  African  slave  trade  in  the  Congo 
Free  State,  but  destroy  it,  have  been  so  remiss  in 
their  duties  that  the  business  of  stealing  and  selling 
human  beings. is  going  on  with  little  or  no  interfer- 
ence. In  view  of  this,  an  appeal  is  made  to  all  peoples 
to  use  their  influence  to  right  the  great  wrong.  On 
the  other  hand,  King  Leopold  claims  that  he  has 
caused  an  investigation  to  be  made,  and  that  the 
tales  of  woe  have  little  or  no  foundation  in  fact, 
but  he  has  ordered  a  still  more  careful  investigation. 
The  United  States  are  morally  one  of  the  signatory 
powers,  but  the  Government  at  Washington  is  in  a 
very  awkward  position  to  act.  This  country  not  only 
permits  human  slavery  in  its  Asiatic  possessions,  but 
makes  no  very  determined  effort  to  either  abolish 
the  system  or  put  a  stop  to  slave  trading,  and  it 
would  not  look  well  for  us  to  make  much  of  a  fuss 
over  slave  trading  in  Africa,  when  we  permit  it  in 
the  Philippines.  The  Aboriginese  Protection  Sdciety 
is  and  has  been  doing  a  noble  work  for  many  years, 
and  the  United  States  should  be  in  a  position  to  give 
it  our  strongest  moral  help,  but  we  have  a  beam  of 
that  kind  in  our  own  eye. 


11 


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The  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

•^'',h",(''  "J™"  of  San'ome  and  Pine  8ts„  Ban   Franclsc. 
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With   which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British   Columbia 
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Paid-up  Capital,   $S.700,000  Reserve  Fund,  $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,  over  $h0, 000,000 
D  d  -nr...  HSN-  GEORGE  A.  COX,  President. 
B.  E.   Walker,   General  Manager.     Alex.   Laird,  Asst.   Gen.   Max. 

LONDON  OFFICE-60  Lombard  St.,  E.  fa. 
dc,«*t™t£ew  tork  OFFICE-16  Exchange  Place. 
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New   Westminster,   Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
!K   YUKON   TERRITORT-Dawson   and   White   Horse. 
IN„,UNI„IE^  STATES-Portland,  Seattle  anu  Skagway  (Alaska.) 

Also    80    other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     In 
Manitoba,   N.   W.   Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN    LONDON— The  Bank  of  England,   the   Bank   of 

Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 

Bank,    Ltd. 

AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
SAN    FRANCISCO    0FF1CE- 


325  California  Street. 


A.    KAINS,    Manager. 


London,  Paris  and  American  Bank  Llullte(, 

N.   W.    COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  Tork— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  *..  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  flnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000.00      Paid  up  $1,600,OM 

Subscribed 3,009,000       Reserve    Fund     700,000 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loam 
money,   buys  and  sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.  STEINHART,  P.  N.  LIL.IENTHAL,  Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,    Mills  Building1 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSi^d.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  Adam  Grant, 
S.    L.    Abbott,    Jr.,    O.    D.    Bc.ld.wln,    F.    Monteagle,   Warren   D. 
Clark,  E.  J.  McCutcheon    R.  H.  Pease. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized   Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital   and  Reserve   $1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  acounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


A  neat  little  coffee  and  lunch  house  has  been  opened  at  2ic.  Sansome 
street,  by  Mr.  J.  Iversen.  The  establishment  is  artistically  finished  in 
natural  oak.  and  well  appointed  in  every  way.  The  cuisine  will  be  ex- 
cellent and  prepared  by  experienced  chefs,  with  obliging  and  attentive 
waiters. 


DR.  W.  A.  BRYANT  has  moved  his  office 
from  820  Sutter  Street  to  THE  EMERSON 
Building,  751  Sutter  Street.  Phone  Private 
Exchange  751.    Office  Hours,  9:30-12    1:30-4 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


*•       MODEL  K.    16  HORSE  POWER.    2  CYLINDERS       v> 

^     •  rf»«    QiT/\  Sample  Machines 

rilCC    «pl,<J*/U<        on  Exhibition. 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.  Uil  c?A!!e%thTREET 


WHAT  YOU    HAVE    BEEN    PROMISED. 
SILENT   AUTOMOBILE 


DEMONSTRATIONS  BY  APPOINTMENT  WITH 

The  National  Automobile  Co. 

134-148    GOLDEN    GATE    AVE. 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  OILLETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN     BETJNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Cap  566 


Bt    The    Autochank 

The  average  automobile  club  run  is  most  uninter- 
esting to  say  the  least.  It  is  a  case  of  joining  a  pro- 
cession, taking  the  dust,  in  many  cases,  of  the  ma- 
chines ahead,  with  the  occasional  dash  of  some  one 
who  crowds  by  in  an  uncomfortable  way. 

What  the  auto  owner  really  wants  is  club  officials 
that  will  think  out  something  new  for  each  outing. 
A  thing  that  would  be  a  diversion  would  be  an  auto- 
mobile paper  chase  around  the  bay  or  down  the 
road,  and  then  back  to  some  unknown  point.  It 
could  be  so  managed  that  the  course  could  be  laid 
down  towards  San  Jose,  passing  through  Burlingame 
to  San  Mateo  and  other  places.  There  could  be 
several  checks  and  blind  trails,  and  at  some  unknown 
points  officials  could  be  located  who  could  register 
all  those  who  properly  went  over  the  course,  the 
first  to  arrive  at  a  special  place  to  be  the  winner  of 
the  trophy.  Paper  could  be  used  as  in  the  case  of 
the  regular  chases  over  the  hills.  This  would  not 
only  attract  a  great  many  owners,  but  would  be  in- 
THF      teresting  to  many  who  would  follow  to  see  the  fun. 

The  American  Darracq  Automobile  Company,  the 
American  representatives  of  the  famous  French  Dar- 
racq, will  soon  have  a  representative  on  this  coast. 
Darracq  cars  during  1903  captured  58  prizes — 32  in 

Europe  and  26  in  America. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Fisk,  who  is  stopping  at  the  St.  Francis,  is 
using  the  automobiles  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Com- 
pany provided  for  that  hotel,  for  her  trips  about  the 
city,   Park  and   Presidio. 

*  *  * 

The  Locomobile  Company  in  New  York  has  re- 
ceived many  inquiries  recently  from  people,  asking 
if  the  works  are  open  to  visitors,  and  take  this  oppor- 
tunity of  announcing  publicly   in   an   informal   way 

that  such  is  the  case. 

*  *  * 

During  the  past  week  Orient  Buckboards  were  sold 
to  Mr.  R.  D.  Shelton,  Santa  Rosa;  Mr.  J.  L.  Ames, 
Sebastopol,  and  Mr.  J.  S.  Butler  of  Salinas. 

*  *  * 

Webb  Jay,  who  became  famous  as  the  winner  of 
the  New  York-Pittsburg  endurance  run  in  a  White 
touring  car,  has  made  a  match  with  Barney  Oldfield 
for  a  race  at  Denver,  May  30th.  Oldfield  will  drive 
his  Winton  Bullet  No.  2,  and  Jay  will  drive  a  White. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  now  installed 
a  new  automobile  passenger  office  in  the  lobby  of  the 
Occidental  Hotel,  where  it  will  provide  its  excellent 
cars  for  the  service  of  the  public. 

This  aggressive  company  has  automobile  passen- 
ger offices  in  the  court  of  the  Palace,  lobby  of  the 
St.  Francis,  lobby  ot  the  Occidental,  and  has  also 
traffic  relations  with  the  leading  cafes,  as  well  as 
with  all  the  leading  family  hotels  in  the  city.  When 
you  wish  an  automobile  at  any  hostelry  you  can 
obtain  it  by  asking  the  office  "to  call  Mobile  Carriage 

Co." 

*  *  * 

A  carload  of  the  new  model  Oldsmobiles  is  due  to 
arrive  at  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company's  garage 


April  2,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*3 


t  the  71I1  or  8tli  of  April.  The  Pioneer  pi 

arc  booked  far  into  tb<  ior  these  machines, 

ami  orders  arc  DOW  coming  in  faster  than  ever. 

*  •   • 

The  Sunset  Automobile  Company  reports  the  ar- 
rival of  a  carload  of  1904  Orient  Motor  lmckboards. 
These  popular  machines  show  many  improvements 
over  the  last  year  model,  the  principal  ones  being  a 
two  speed  gear,  wider  seat,  with  spring  back,  higher 
bed  and  full  elliptic  springs,  making  it  very  easy 
riding.  Mr.  Wheelock,  the  sales  manager  for  (he 
company,  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  one- 
half  this  carload  was  sold  in  advance  of  its  arrival, 
and  he  predicts  a  lively  year  for  the  Buckboards. 

We  only  request  that  visitors  advise  us  in  advance 
of  their  coming,  so  that  we  can  make  arrangements 
to  take  care  of  them  properly,  and  avoid  mutual  in- 
convenience. 

*  *  » 

The  White  Sewing  Machine  Company  reports,  up 
to  the  25th  of  March,  twenty-one  sales  of  White  tour- 
ing cars  for  the  month.  They  are  receiving  machines 
at  the  rate  of  two  carloads  per  week,  and  are  still 
unable  to  make  deliveries  as  fast  as  the  orders  are 

filled. 

*  *  * 

The  American  Darracq  Automobile  Company  is 
about  to  place  an  agency  in  this  city.  The  Darxacq 
car  is  reliable,  durable,  comfortable  and  luxurious, 
easy  to  operate,  speedy,  silent,  noiseless,  strong,  hill 
climber,  and  built  for  long  roads.  It  holds  the  five- 
mile  world's  record,  4-01  2-5 ;  six  out  of  eight  world's 
records  in  Europe.  Over  one  hundred  awards  last 
year. 

The  following  letters  are  printed  in  justice  to  the 
American  Darracq  Automobile  Company,  a  reputable 
concern  of  New  York  City: 

"Russelsheim,  a  Main,  don  4.  March.  1904. 

"American  Darracq  Automobile  Co.,  New  York, 
N.  Y. — Gentlemen :  I  am  in  possession  of  your  favor 
of  the  16th  ult.,  and  beg  to  reply  that  I  have  no  con- 
nection at  all  with  the  man  "de  Feher"  about  whom 
ycu  inquire.  The  fellow,  who  seems  to  be  a  swindler 
or  commercial  adventurer,  has  written  several  letters 
to  me  to  the  purpose  of  entering  into  business  with 
mv  firm,  but  I  have  answered  him  plainly  that  I  will 
have  nothing  to  do  with  him.  The  last  letter  of  the 
man,  dated  February  15th,  I  replied  to,  as  shown  by 
the  enclosed  copy.  Besides,  I  have  never  made  any 
offers  of  Darracq  wagons  to  America,  a  statement 
you  may  safely  trust  in.  I  authorize  you  to  publish 
the  above  communication  everywhere,  and  hope  the 
dark  negro-existence  of  de  Feher  will  not  bother  you 
nor  me  any  more.  In  the  expectation  of  having 
served  you  after  your  desire,  I  remain,  gentlemen, 
Yours  truly,        (Signed)     ADAM  OPEL. 

"Russelsheim,  a  M.  den  4.  Mar.  1904. 
"Mr.  S.  De  Feher,  Belmont  Auto  Station,  1517-9 
Belmont  avenue,  Philadelphia,  Pa. — Your  letter  of 
the  15th  ult.  has  been  received.  After  what  I  wrote 
to  you  previously,  I  did  not  think  to  have  any  more 
news  from  you.  By  the  present,  I  repeat  to  you 
plainly  that  I  do  not  care  to  enter  into  business  with 
you,  and  I  request  you  to  bestow  your  favors  on  some 
other  auto  firm.  The  Deutsche-Automil-Industrie 
Herring  and  Reinhard  have  told  me  your  communi- 
cation about  having  paid  5,000  marks  on  my  account 
in  advance  for  business  to  do  was  not  true.  I  forbid 
you  strictly  to  boast  with  your  being  in  business  with 
me,  as  this  is  an  absolute  untruth. 

Yours,  (Signed)     ADAM  OPEL. 


THE  CADILLAC 


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Itl  CORD    from   Del  Mont,-  lo  Onklnnd 
THIRTi  -BIOHT  HINTJT1  § 

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CADH  1 


Price.  $8S0      With  Tonneau,  $950    IDeliverylCadillacs.  59S0 

THE  SIMPLEST.  MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  J.  FREELING 


F.  I.    CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 


1185  MarHet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Flench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO- 


Mr.  A.  B.  Hammond  and  family  in  their  '04  Winton 

Winton  still  miles  ahead  of  all  other  makes  of 
American  or  French  cars,  selling  at  $2,(350,  or 
half  as  much  again.  9th  carload  of  '04's  since 
January  15th  just  received.  All  sold.  Continue 
to  take  orders  for  future  delivery.  Call  early 
and  secure  a  Winton  before  the  rush  of  buyers 
come  with  the  opening  of  our  riding  season. 


Also  agents  for  the  following  machines: 
OLDSMOBILES,  LOCOMOBILES 

STEVENS-DURYEA,  BAKEE  ELECTRIC 


Los  Angeles  Branch 
420-22  South  Hill  St. 


San  Francisco  Branch 
901  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEg. 


April  2,  1904. 


A  Midwinter  Scene  in  Golden  Gate  Park.    A  line  of  White  Automobiles. 


Elwood  Haynes,  of  the  Haynes-Apperson  Com- 
pany, estimates  that  a  man  going  ten  miles  an  hour 
in  an  automobile  strikes  with  a  force  equivalent  to 
falling  three  and  one-half  feet ;  twenty  miles  an  hour 
thirteen  and  one-half  feet;  thirty  miles  an  hour 
thirty  feet,  and  when  traveling  at  sixty  miles  an  hour 
the  automobile  strikes  with  a  force  equivalent  to  a 
sheer  fall  of  120  feet. 

*  *  * 

Would  it  be  consistent  for  a  horse  doctor  to  use 
an  automobile  in  his  practice? 

*  *  * 

The  strongest  possible  racing  board  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  Harlan  W.  Whipple,  president  of  tne 
American  Automobile  Association.  A.  R.  Pardington, 
the  popular  chairman  of  last  year,  was  again  chosen 
to  fill  that  important  position.  William  K.  Vander- 
bilt,  the  most  eminent  of  American  sportsmen,  was 
selected  as  a  member,  and  others  chosen  were  Os- 
borne W.  Bright,  S.  iu.  Butler,  secretary  of  the  A.  C. 
A.;  William  Wallace  of  Boston,  standing  in  his  com- 
munity as  solidly  in  popularity  as  Mr.  Vanderbilt  in 
New  York;  George  L.  Weiss  of  Cleveland,  and  F. 
C.  Donald  of  Cleveland,  a  sporting  man  of  wide  re- 
pute, cyclist,  automobilist  and  autoboat  enthusiast. 

*  *  * 

Twenty-two  thousand  miles  in  a  12-horsepower 
car  is  a  phenomenal  touring  record  accomplished  in 
France  by  Geoffrey  G.  Gilling,  a  record  performance 
of  its  kind.  Mr.  Gilling  carried  four  people  with 
him,  touring  France,  Switzerland,  Italy,  Austria  and 
Germany.  He  started  from  Paris,  going  through 
Lyons,  Monte  Carlo,  Geneva,  Turin,  making  a  cir- 
cuit of  the  Italian  lakes,  and  then  on  again  through 
Riva,  Innsbruck,  Munich,  Carlsbad,  Muremburg, 
Stuttgart,  Nancy,  Bar-le-duc,  Chartres,  Alencon,  Di- 
nard,  Dieppe  and  finally  concluding  his  tour  by  driv- 
ing from  Carlsbad  to  Dinard,  a  distance  of  1,400 
miles  in  five  days. 

*  *  * 

Governor  Yates,  of  Illinois,  in  writing  on  the  topic 
of  road  improvement,  says  he  is  not  aware  that  the 
movement  has  taken  definite  form  in  his  State.  Nor 
will  it  ever  take  form,  Governor,  unless  somebody 
wakes  up. 

*  *  * 

Now  that  the  Europeans  have  been  convinced  that 
Willie  K.  really  did  make  that  mile  in  139,  they  are 
beginning    to    remember    lots    of    unofficially    timed 

practice  spins  they  have  made  in   136,   :yj  and  :38. 

*  *  * 

By  April  1  there  will  be  just  half  as  many  Ameri- 
can automobile  papers  in  the  country  as  there  are 
American  manufacturers  in  the  Association  of 
Licensed    Automobile    Manufacturers.      When    the 

Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust, 

Cause  Eye  Strain,  Granulation  and  Redness.  Marine  Eye  Remedy  re- 
stores, cures  Eye  diseases,  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those  wearing  glasses, 
doesn't  smart.    A  favorite  toilet  requisite. 


A.  L.  A.  M.  has  put  a  quietus  on  all  outsiders,  its 
members  can  then  pair  off  into  teams  with  a  paper 
apiece. 


PIERCE  STANHOPE 


Price    $1,350    Without    Top 
$1,450  With  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommodating 
four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  fl  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French  type. 
8-    It  is  especially  designed  for  physicians'  use  saving  two  hours 

per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact  in  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline  and 
beautiful  in  general  finish. 

6.  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg,  800 
miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  Preach 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


$2,650.00 
800.00 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F 


cWntfl^s: 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

1W4  Model 

Best    Automobile 
any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding--Reliable--Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SUNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


PUOIIPT    SEKVICE 

(Eraturg  iElrrtrir  (Enmpany 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shnp  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and   Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BUSH  3S2 


April  2,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


as 


and   Mrs.    D.    H     McEwen,  and 

phinc  ami  n  made  a  trip 

lay  in  their  new  1904  Win  ton 

tonrii  recently  purchased   from   the    Pioneer 

Antoi  impany. 

*  «  » 

The  following  is  a  list  of  purchasers  of  Locomobile 
tie  tourin  K.  Martin.  Jr..  Chicago,  III.: 

N'.  \V.  Bishop,  Bridgeport,  Conn.;  Walter  B.  Smith. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Frederick-  Wallace.  Fitchburg, 
;  J.  J.  Mandery,  Rochester.  X.  Y. :  W.  K.  Wiley, 
Chicago,  111.;  Anna  P.  Lowe.  Fitchburg,  Mass.;  W. 
Worth  Bean.  St.  Joseph.  Mich.:  W.  R.  Condict, 
Fvanston.  III.;  Richard  T.  Robinson,  Racine.  Wis  ; 
S.  T.  Murdoch.  Lafayette.  [nd.J  Michael  Ehret,  Phil- 
adelphia,  Pa.:  John  C.  Spring.  Boston,  Mass.:  I 
Henry  Linncan,  Xew  York,  N.  Y. :  G.  A.  Trow - 
bridge,  Leetes  Island,  Conn.;  Arthur  L.  Peck,  Provi- 
dence. R.  I.;  W.  C.  Weston,  Newark,  X.  J.;  George 
II.  Davis.  Kansas  City,  Mo.:  A.  L.  Chamberlain,  New 
Haven.  Conn.;  Joy  Morton.  Chicago,  111.;  George 
H.  Pettee.  Providence.  R.  L:  Charles  Crompton, 
Worcester.  Mass.:  Franklin  Farrcll,  Jr..  Ansonia, 
Conn.:  J.  F.  Dorr,  Worcester,  Mass. :  P".  W.  Whitte- 
more,  Boston,  Mass.;  Frederick  Taber.  New  Bedford. 
Mass.;  C.  M.  Talbot.  Boston.  Mass. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company,  through  its  Los 
Angeles  branch,  has  just  sold  to  Mr.  George  Austin 
of  New  York  and  Los  Angeles  a  four-cylinder  Great 
Arrow.  He  will  use  this  car  in  New  York  for  a  time, 
then  take  it  with  him  to  the  St.  Louis  Exposition. 
and  then  back  again  to  Los  Angeles  and  Santa  Bar- 
bara. 

*  *  * 

W.  S.  Arnold.  W.  F.  Brong  and  Mr.  Bert  Dingley 
have  formed  a  combination  and  purchased  four  White 
touring  cars,  which  the}'  have  put  in  the  rent  service, 
with  headquarters  at  the  White  garage  at  Frank- 
lin and  Market  streets. 

*  *  * 

A  letter  has  been  received  by  the  Pioneer  Automo- 
bile Company  from  Mr.  Jesse  Poundstone  of  Colusa 
County,  which  reads  as  follows :  "Owing  to  a  break- 
in  the  river,  I  have  not  been  home  for  two  weeks. 
Expect  to  have  break  close  this  week.  Have  been 
using  Stevens-Duryea  all  through  the  high  water  of 
the  river,  and  it  has  given  good  satisfaction."  This 
news  will  be  welcomed  by  people  living  along  the 
Sacramento  River,  as  there  has  been  a  doubt  in  the 
minds  of  a  great  many  as  to  whether  or  not  automo- 
biles were  suitable  for  using  on  the  levees,  soft  dirt 

and  through  mud. 

*  *  * 

Fred  W.  Gregory,  of  Fresno,  who  is  the  largest 
dealer  in  automobiles  in  the  State  of  California,  out- 
side of  San  Francisco,  who  has  a  record  sale  of  sixty 
cars  in  sixty  days,  has  sold  out  his  automobile  busi- 
ness to  G.  S.  and  E.  B.  Waterman.  They  have  the 
best-equipped  garage  between  San  Francisco  and  Los 
Angeles,   and   have   the   agency   for  the  White,   the 

Oldsmobile  and  the  Pierce. 

*  *  * 

The  people  at  the  big  Locomobile  garage  in  New 
York  have  advised  the  local  agents  that  business  is 
picking  up  very  rapidly  with  the  advent  of  better 
weather.  The  big  six-story  building  at  Broadway 
and  76th  street  is  open  days,  nights,  Sundays  and 
holidays,  and  the  first  floor  has  been  remodeled, 
giving  the  entire  space,  75x80  feet,  over  to  the  stor- 
age of  touring  cars.  One  hundred  and  thirty  machines 
are  being  taken  care  of  in  the  building  at  present. 


WARNING! 

The  fallowing  Manufacturers  and   Importers 
are    licensed    under  the  pioneer  patent  on 

Gasolene  Automobiles 


Number  549,160,  granted  to  George 
B.  Selden,  dated  November  5th, 1895 

MANUFACTURERS: 


Electric  Vechicle  Co. 
Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 
Packard  Motor  Car  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 
Knox  Automobile  Co. 
The  Haynes-Apperson  Co. 
The  Autocar  Co. 
The  George  N.  Pierce  Co. 
Apperson  Bros.  Automobile  Co. 
Locomobile  Co.  of  America 
The  Peerless  Motor  Car  Co. 
Standard  Motor  Construction 

Co. 
Waltham  Manufacturing  Co. 
J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 

H.  H.  Frankl 


Pope  Motor  Car  Co. 
Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
The  Commercial   Motor  Co. 
Berg  Automobile  Co. 
Cadillac  Automobile  Co. 
Northern  Mfg.  Co. 
Pope-Robinson  Co. 
The  Kirk  Mfg.  Co. 
Elmore  Mfg.  Co. 
E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
Buffalo  Gasolene  Motor  Co. 
The  F.  B.  Stearns  Co. 
Pope  Manufacturing  Co. 
Sandusky  Automobile  Co. 
Crest  Manufacturing  Co. 
in  Mfg.  Co. 


IMPORTERS: 


Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
Central  Automobile  Co. 
Alexander  Fisher 
Hollander  &  Tangeman 


Standard  Automobile  Co. 

E.  B.  Gallaher 
Auto  Import  Co. 

F.  A.  LaRoche  Co. 


Sidney  B.  Bowman  Automobile  Co. 

Both  the  basic  Selden  patent  and  all  other  patents  owned 
by  members  of  this  Association  will  be  enforced  against  in- 
fringers. Manufacturers,  Importers,  Dealers  and  Agents,  also 
Users  of  unlicensed  machines  are  liable. 


Association  of  Licensed  Automobile  Mfrs. 

No.  7  East  42d  Street,  New  York 


For  Breakfast 
For  Breakfast 


For  Breakfast 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


CREATED  BY  FORCE  OF  CIRCUMSTANCE— 
THE  CITIZENS'  ALLIANCE. 

The  individual  will  suffer  long  and  silently  the  ag- 
gressions of  his  neighbors  or  the  inflictions  of  associa- 
tions. The  public  will  suffer  longer  than  the  individ- 
ual, but  once  its  anger  is  aroused  it  will  take  drastic 
measures.  An  angered  population  will  establish  in- 
stitutions to  protect  its  interests,  and  in  a  free  coun- 
try woe  betide  the  individual  or  the  association  that 
has  aroused  the  anger  of  a  community. 

As  a  natural  consequence  of  the  Labor  Union  we 
now  have  a  new  association  known  as  the  Citizens' 
Alliance,  brought  about  by  the  tyrannical  actions  of 
the  foreign  leaders  of  the  Labor  Union.  It  is  the 
natural  outgrowth  of  conditions.  It  has  arisen  to 
serve  the  purpose  of  a  protector  of  the  community  in 
general  and  the  free  laborer  in   particular. 

It  is  the  embodiment  of  the  immortal  principle 
laid  down  by  Cardinal   Gibbons  when  he  said: 

"The  right  of  a  non-union  laborer  to  make  his  own 
contract  freely  and  perform  it  without  hindrance,  is 
so  essential  to  civil  liberty  that  it  must  be  defended 
by  the  whole  power  of  this  Government." 

This  great  voice,  in  stating  the  rights  of  man  and 
the  essentials  of  civil  liberty,  has  uttered  the  platform 
of  the  Citizens'  Alliance.  It  welcomes  immigration, 
but  denies  to  the  immigrant  the  right  to  outlaw  our 
native  youth.  It  makes  no  objection  to  labor  unions, 
but  demands  that  the  equal  right  of  all  men  to  labor 
be  respected,  and  that  the  laws  which  protect  it  be 
enforced  impartially.  It  will  not  tolerate  restrictions 
on  the  employer  to  prevent  his  employment  of  union 
labor,  but  his  right  to  employ  non-union  labor  is  of 
equal  dignity  and  must  not  be  restrained. 

The  birth  of  the  Citizens'  Alliance  means  the  free- 
dom from  industrial  slavery.  It  means  that  the 
young  American  is  to  have  a  chance  to  learn  a  trade, 
and  that  no  organization  may  say  to  the  youth  of  this 
country:  "You  are  barred  from  an  apprenticeship  in 
any  shop.  There  are  too  many  of  you.  We  (the 
Labor  Unions)  mean  to  reserve  the  places  in  the 
shops  for  the  foreign-born.  They  came  over  here 
with  a  trade  already  acquired,  and  the  American- 
born  boy  will  have  to  stand  aside  while  we  feed  the 
foreigner;  for  in  him  anil  in  liis  anarchism  is  our 
strength.  In  his  turbulence,  his  hatred  of  all  Gov- 
ernment restraint,  we  find  a  friend  on  whom  we  can 
depend   in   any  emergency,   for   murder  or  votes." 

It  is  astonishing  that  the  American  laborer  has  not 
had  the  sense  to  see  the  trend  of  Unionism.  It  is 
astonishing  that  the  American  mechanic  does  not 
cast  off  the  yoke  of  its  foreign  element,  which  con- 
trols in  Labor  councils.  Unionism  finds  its  perfec- 
tion in  China.  Here  everything  from  the  vegetable 
picker  to  the  china-painter  is  unionized,  and  the 
immediate  effect  of  this  thorough  unionizing  has  been 
the  utter  obliteration  of  the  national  feeling  and  the 
effacement  of  individuality.  The  only  class  that  does 
not  suffer  from  the  evil  effects  of  the  principles  of 
Unionism  is  the  scholastic  class.  From  among  these 
are   gathered   the   diplomatists   and    the    legislators. 

It  behooves  every  business  man  in  this  community 
to  go  to  the  offices  of  the  Citizens'  Alliance  in  the 
Crossley  Block  and  place  his  name  on  the  register 
as  an  application  for  membership.  It  must  be  under- 
stood that  the  Alliance  does  in  no  way  intend  to  act 
as  a  persecutor  of  labor  or  of  those  that  believe  in 
the  principles  of  Unionism.  It  does,  however,  act 
as  a  protector  to  the  public  and  will  cause  the  agita- 
tor to  hesitate.  It  means  the  end  of  strikes  and  the 
firm  establishment  of  the  principle  of  compulsory  ar- 
bitration. 


ENNEN'S  ?KEMD 
OWDER 


I  PRICKLY  HEAT  HR 

I  CHAFING,  and      ''M 

SUNBURN,  "t^S^™ 

Removes  ill  odor  of  perspiration.     D«- 

llgbtful    »Iier    Shaving.      Sold    everywhere,   or 

receipt  ol  25c.    Cer  Menncn't  (ihe  orljlnil),     Srniple  Free. 

GERHARD  .MENNEN  COM  PAN  Y.  Novl 


OBITUARY. 

There  is  no  citizen  in  San  Francisco  who  is  better 
known  than  Mr.  F.  W.  Dohrmann,  and  the  sympa- 
thy of  the  entire  community  will  go  to  him  in  his 
affliction  in  the  loss  of  his  son,  Dr.  W.  F.  Dohrmann, 
who  died  on  Saturday  night  at  Santa  Barbara.  Mr. 
Dohrmann  was  the  victim  of  acute  pneumonia.  Dr. 
Dohrmann  was  a  most  lovable  man,  and  his  friends 
were  legion.  He  had  been  on  a  visit  to  Santa  Bar- 
bara in  company  with  his  wife  when  he  contracted 
the  fatal  disease.  His  short  stay  in  the  Southern 
city  had  made  him  a  vast  number  of  friends,  and  there 
is  a  general  gloom  in  Santa  Barbara. 

O.  V.  Walker,  former  caller  and  chairman  of  the 
San  Francisco  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange  Board, 
passed  away  last  Saturday  at  his  residence,  2500 
Broadway,  this  city.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Exchange,  and  was  an  estimable  and  well-liked 
citizen.  He  was  sixty-one  years  old  at  his  demise. 
He  was  a  native  of  the  State  of  Maine,  and  during 
his  life  in  San  Francisco  he  was  always  a  prominent 
figure  in  business  and  social  circles. 

In  the  death  of  Professor  A.  B.  Arnold,  the  world 
has  lost  a  great  scholar.  Professor  Arnold  ranked 
with  the  highest  of  the  translators  of  the  ancient  He- 
braic classics  and  the  Arabic  Epistles.  Dr.  Arnold 
was  a  native  of  Eppinghausen,  Bavaria.  He  was  a 
thorough  American  in  all  his  tendencies,  however, 
as  he  came  to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen years.  After  a  successful  career  at  Jefferson 
and  other  Eastern  colleges,  Dr.  Arnold  came  to  San 
Francisco  in  1898.  He  was  eighty-five  years  of  age 
at  the  time  of  passing  away.  His  book  on  nervous 
diseases  has  run  through  many  editions,  and  is  gen- 
erally used  in  the  United  States  as  a  text-book.  He 
was  twice  president  of  the  Maryland  Medical  and 
Chirurgical  Society.  He  was  the  author  of  a  met- 
rical translation  of  Lessing's  "Nathan  der  Weise," 
and  a  frequent  contributor  to  leading  medical  and  lit- 
erary periodicals.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
engaged  on  a  translation  into  English  of  the  Hebraic- 
\ramaiac  writings.  He  leaves  three  sons  and  one 
daughter.  Mrs.  M.  H.  Hecht,  Jr.,  Dr.  J.  Dennis  Ar- 
nold and  Harry  Arnold  of  San  Francisco,  and  Wil- 
liam E.  Arnold  of  New  York. 


Oysters  in  all  their  delicious  variety,  fresh  from 
the  sea.  sea-food  of  all  kinds,  and  viands  to  tempt 
the  gourmet  as  well  as  the  gourmand,  at  Mora- 
ghan's,   California   Market. 


Beautify   Your   Home. 


"A  room  hung  with  pictures  is  a  room  hung  with  thoughts  "  So  in 
making  a  gift  'tis  well  to  remember  this  ami  present  your  friends  a 
lasting  thought.  Beautiful  framed  pictures  are  now  heing  shown  by 
Sanborn.  Vail  A  Co..  la  Market  St. 


High  grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to  measure.    Tom  IMllon  A  Co.. 
opp.  Palace. 


April  7,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

JAPANESE   TEA    GARDEN. 

The  Japanese  Tea  Garden  and  its  quaint  tea  house- 
is  the  thinp  of  beauty  it  was  once,  no  longer.  It  will 

tie  an  eyesore.  It  takes  ■  Jap  to  keep  the  pecul- 
iar characteristics  in  plant  life  point:,  but  it  is  also 
true  that  it  takes  some  one  who  understands  him 
to  keep  the  Jap's  peculiar  characteristics  going.  Some 
one  who  understands  the  Jap  must  see  that  he  does 
his  duty. 

People  arc  hcpinnitiR  to  wonder  why  the  place 
ragged  and  unkempt.  A  recent  visit  to  the 
once  pretty  and  attractive  spot  caused  a  pang  of  re- 
gret at  the  only  too  apparent  neglect  which  is  fast 
deteriorating  this  most  heauiful  feature  of  Golden 
Gate  Park.  The  universal  comment  of  Eastern  vis- 
itors is  that  "the  garden  is  not  nearly  so  pretty 
as  it  was  some  years  ago  when  I  visited  it!''  One  of 
the  most  palpable  pieces  of  neglect  is  the  dirty,  rag- 
ged condition  of  the  paper  covering  of  the  "shoji" 
Cdoors. 1  An  outlay  of  a  few  cents  would  remedy  this 
defect.  If  Mr.  Hagiwari  could  be  prevailed  upon  to 
spend  a  little  of  his  precious  time,  which  he  now 
utilizes  in  his  own  garden,  just  outside  the  Park,  in 
opposition  to  the  Park  Garden,  upon  such  little  at- 
tentions to  the  Tea  Garden  the  decay  and  neglect 
would  not  be  so  apparent. 

All  the  pretty  dwarf  and  quaint  potted  plants  have 
been  removed,  and  the  storks  likewise  have  flown. 
The  fence  is  broken  and  in  sad  need  of  repairs.  Rot- 
ten stumps  are  not  replaced  by  others  or  by  stones, 
as  thev  should  be.  The  rear  of  the  house  is  most  un- 
sightly as  well  as  unsanitary.  Piles  of  useless  bam- 
boo and  filth  offend  the  nose  and  the  eye.  Tea  is 
served,  not  by  a  neat  Japanese  maid,  but  by  an  un- 
tidy, coatless.  dirty  boy. 

The  fact  of  the  matter  is  the  gentleman  in  charge 
is  developing  into  a  Pierrepont  Morgan,  and  be  is 
telling  his  friends  that  it  hurts  him  to  work  in  Gol- 
den Gate  Park,  while  he  shows  no  disposition  to 
shrink  when  it  comes  to  laboring  in  his  own  tea  gar- 
den just  outside. 

Surely  the  Park  Commissioners  see  a  necessity 
for  a  change  when  the  general  public  needs  no 
guide  to  point  out  the  bad  management.  This  Jap- 
anese is  simply  using  some  very  strong  pull  to  keep 
his  position  in  the  Park,  and  at  the  same  time  ad- 
vertise his  own  garden  just  outside  the  limits  of  the 
people's  playground. 

Pattosien's,  Corner  Sixteenth  and  Mission  Streets. 

Just  now  are  selling  best  all-wool  Smyrna  Rugs  in 
"their  various  sizes  at  prices  below  wholesale  prices. 
Don't  miss  it. 

Why    Modify    Milk 

for  Infant  feeding  in  the  uncertain  ways  of  the  novice  when 
you  can  have  always  with  you  a  supply  of  Borden's  Eagle 
Brand  Condensed  Milk,  a  perfect  cow's  milk  from  herds 
of  native  breeds,  the  perfection  of  infant  food?  Use  it 
for  tea  and  coffee. 


37 


for  me 

TEETH 

""BREATH 


la  this  package  yon  get  both  liquid  and 
powder.    This  Is  the  Large  Slie. 


BLITHEDALE 

MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco.  California. 
Location  of  works.  Gold  Hill.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the  24th  day  of  March.  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  90)  of  ten  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office 
of  the  Company.  Room  35.  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets.  San  Francisco.  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
27th  day  of  April.  1904.  will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at 
public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  18th  day  of  May,  1904.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  the  oosts  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C.  L.  MeCOY.  Secretary. 

Office— Boom  35,  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Mont- 
gomery streets,  San  Francisco,  California. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  18^ 

Amount  per  share 10 cent's 

Levied , February  10.  1904 

Delinquent  In  office March  151904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock April    4.1904 

E.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office — Room  14,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.       • 
Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  44 

Amount  per  share '..  5centB 

Levied March  7. 1904 

Delinquent  in  office April  11, 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock Maya,  1904 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Boom  79,  Nevada  Block.   No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  34 

Amount  per  share : 3  cents 

Levied March  8.1904 

Delinquent  in  office April  13. 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  3.  1904 

J.  STADTFELD.  Jr.,  Secretary. 
Office— Boom  56.  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Franeisco.Cal. 


Easy  to  Write. 

If  you  have  the  right  fountain  pen.  It  is  just  as  important  that  your 
pen  fits  your  hand  as  it  is  that  your  shoe  fits  your  foot.  Come  and  be 
fitted  with  a  "Marshall"  or  an  "Ideal"  fountain  pen.  $1.00  $2.50  to  S6.00. 
Sanborn.  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  St. 


JP   LACAZE  &co. 

French    Leamdry    Work   Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 

TEL.    EAST    615  829    SUTTER    ST 


Engagement  Cups. 

Have  just  unpacked  a  beautiful  and  varied' assortment  of  superb  cups 
for  engagement  gifts.  «.«_„„         „ 

S.  &  G.  Gump  Co. 

113  Geary  St. 


Trachoma  is  Granulated  Eyelids. 

Murine  Eye  Bemedy  cures  this  and  other  Eye  troubles,  makes  Weak 
Eyes  Strong. 


Mary  Patton,  Supt-  Phone  East  585 

T5he  MARY  PATTON  HOSPITAL 

Formerly  the  A.  Miles  Taylor  Sanatorium 
A  Perfectly  Equipped  Hospital 


1106  POST  STREET 
San  Francisco 


Bates  Range  From 
SIS  to  $100  per  Week 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


T5f>e  University  Farce 


At  last  we  have  the  truth,  even  from  the  univer- 
sity. A  professor,  who  is  a  man,  who  has  had  the 
courage,  even  for  a  few  moments,  to  really  express 
himself,  and  to  do  it  in  terse  language,  which  reads 
as  if  it  were  meant,  is  so  unusual  a  phenomenon  that 
we  must  pause  for  a  moment  to  raise  our  hats  to 
Professor  Charles  Mills  Gayley,  head  of  the  English 
Department.  He  is  one  of  the  wonders  of  his  age. 
He  has  cast  aside  all  the  stupid  chivalrous  traditions 
from  King  Arthur  down,  and  actually  dared  to  do 
a  bigger  thing  than  dragon-killing,  to  tell  the  woman, 
nay,  several  women,  and  those  women  university 
students,  the  truth  about  themselves:  Said  Profes- 
sor Gayley,  as  reported  by  the  shuddering  co-eds., 
who  repeated  his  utterances :  "If  God  Almighty  or 
the  Angel  Gabriel  had  written  this  poem,  it  would 
not  interest  you.  You  are  a  lot  of  giggling  girls. 
Half  of  you  should  be  made  to  pay  for  your  educa- 
tion.    Class  dismissed." 

The  truth  of  all  of  this  is  absolutely  beyond  ques- 
tion. The  girls  have  no  interest  in  this  subject  be- 
cause they  have  not  the  requisite  amount  of  brains. 
In  the  present  case,  there  can  be  no  question  where 
the  blame  lies.  Professor  Gayley  is  a  man  of  inter- 
national reputation,  for  whose  work  leading  pub- 
lishers compete,  and  who  is  one  of  the  most  delight- 
ful readers  and  engaging  speakers  to  be  found  any- 
where. Yet  his  class  could  not  pay  attention.  The 
reason  is  clear:  they  have  not  the  intellectual  force 
which  enables  them  to  keep  their  attention  ;  they  are 
undeveloped  children,  not  fitted  for  a  university  train- 
ing. 

"You  are  a  lot  of  giggling  girls."  said  the  Profes- 
sor, and  so  saying  he  told  the  truth  about  the  man- 
ners, not  only  of  the  class  to  which  he  spoke,  but 
of  the  vast  mass  of  the  university  students.  Unre- 
strained vulgarity  and  defectiveness  of  training  show 
themselves  in  the  giggling,  and  worse,  of  the  girls 
and  the  noisy  hoodlum  behavior  of  the  boys.  It  is 
to  be  questioned  if  two  thousand  young  people  of 
respectable  appearance  could  anywhere  be  got  to- 
gether whose  behavior  is  on  the  whole  so  unsatisfac- 
tory and  whose  manners  so  deplorable.  They  have 
not  the  slightest  notion  of  their  responsibility,  and 
they  have  reached  the  very  depths  of  vulgarity  when 
a  class  of  nearly  one  hundred  young  women  can  sit 
back  and  giggle  during  recitation  period  in  the  face 
of  a  man  whose  reputation  for  scholarship  is  world- 
wide, and  who  has  occupied  a  responsible  position 
in  their  own  university  for  close  upon  a  score  of 
years. 

"Half  of  you  should  be  made  to  pay  for  your  edu- 
cation," said  Professor  Gayley,  and  his  remark  was 
exceedingly  conservative.  Not  half  of  these  boys 
and  girls  are  fitted  to  be  university  students.  They 
do  not  possess  the  intellectual  qualities  which  lepay 
the  State  for  educating  them.  There  is  plenty  of  good 
manual  work  to  be  done,  which  would  employ  both 
boys  and  girls  to  the  great  advantage  of  the  State 
and  their  own  individual  happiness.  They  are 
wasted  where  they  are.  and  they  are  wasting  the 
money  of  the  State.  The  girls  grow  up  to  despise 
domestic  duties,  to  shirk  the  bearing  of  children  and 
the  natural  life,  to  shrink  from  matrimony,  even,  as 
imposing  personal  duties  and  responsibilities.  They 
grow  up  into  nervous  old  maids,  disturbing  the  com- 
munity with  continual  petty  agitation,  and  endeavor- 
ing to  satisfy  their  hungry  souls  with  the  pursuit  of 
that   will-o'-the-wisp  which   they   call   culture. 

Free  education  !    Yes,  free  as  air  to  those  who  can 


profit  by  it  and  who  have  the  intellectual  capacity 
and  stability  of  disposition  to  enable  them  to  climb 
the  rocky  path  of  scholarship  and  intellectual  attain- 
ment. But  why  should  the  State  pay  for  the  higher 
education  (save  the  mark!)  of  those  who  have  no  in- 
tellect to  grasp  its  significance,  and  who  repay  the 
munificence  of  the  State  by  laughing  in  the  face  of 
its  professors. 

The   carpet  becomes   very  dirty  In  winter,  but  this 

can  easily  be  remedied  by  sending  it  to  Spauldlng's  Carpet 
Cleaning  Works,  353  Tehama  street.  There  the  carpet  is 
cleansed  from  every  particle  of  dirt  without  any  injury 
to  the  fabric,  and  is  returned  looking  as  rresh  and  new  as 
when   first  put  down. 


Tne  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at 

Moraghan's  Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible 
for  the  crowd  that  goes  there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become 
a  regular  business  men's  exchange.  The  quality  of  the 
chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  at- 
tended to  by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


Ruinart 
Cham- 
pagne 

Established     1729 

The  President's  Wine 

"Dry,  Fruity — 
JVo    Headache 


Ve-rnev     W.    Gasklll. 

Special  Agent 


Hllbert   Mercantile  Co, 

Sole  Agents 


World's  Fair 

ST.     LOUIS 

Thousands  will  go  to  St.  Louis  from  this 
Coast,  and  complete  arrangements  are  being 
made  by  the  Southern  Pacific  for  carrying 
them.  If  you  are  planning  to  go,  ask  any 
questions  about  Rates,  Time  or  Trains  by 
mail  or  in  person  of  nearest  agent,  or  at 

Information  Bureau 

613  MarKet  St.,  San  Francisco 


April  2.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


GOOD  MORNING. 

morning,  my  little  boy  blue. 
The  flush  of  the  dawn   s  in  the  sky, 
The  grass  of  the  meadow  is  wet  with  the  dew 
And  the  robin  is  singing  on  high. 

The  sun  of  ambition  not  yet 

Has  come  with  its  pitiless   rays. 
To  bring  you  the  panting,  the  pain,  and  the  sweat 

(  >t  the  noontide  of  passion  ablaze. 

No  sign  of  the  cloud-rack  appears, 

Ni  1  hint  of  the  wild  afternoon, 
Its  lightning  of  loss  and  its  tempest  of  tears 
And  the  darkness  that  falleth  too  soon. 

Then  follows  the  bow  of  that  peace 

Which  paints  the  departing  of  light, 
When    pleasures   and   labors   and   sorrows    must 
cease 

In  the  infinite  calm  of  the  night. 

Good  morning,  then,  little  boy  blue. 

The  flush  of  the  dawn  's  in  the  sky, 
The  grass  of  the  meadow  is  wet  with  the  dew 

And  the  robin  is  singing  on  high. 

GOD'S  HOUR. 

By  Julia  C.  R.  Dorr  in  Scrihner's 

O  restless  soul,  canst  thou  not  wait  God's  hour? 
"Let  there  be  light!"  He  said,  and  lo!  the  day 
Gilded  the  mountain-tops,  and  far  away 
The  dimpled  valleys  thrilled  beneath  its  power, 
Claiming  the  glorious  sunlight  as  their  dower. 
A  myth,  a  fable,  that  the  wise  gainsay — 
•   An  idle  tale  for  children  at  their  play. 

Yet  fable  is  fair  truth's  consummate  flower ! 

Earth  waited  long  till  Day,  unheralded, 

Unsung,  unprophesied,  in   splendor  swept 
A  radiant  presence  through  the  Orient  gates 

Not  unto  us  shall  the  last  word  be  said ; 
Yet  one  sure  secret  have  the  ages  kept — 
Light  breaks  at  last  on  every  soul  that  waits!. 

By  ROBERT  LOVEMAN. 

In  The  Critic 

Byron,  Shelley,  Keats,  and  Poe, 
Wrath  and  rapture,  wit  and  woe; 
Dreamers,  debauchees,  divine, 
Frantic  with  a  frenzy  fine, 
Hearts  of  fire,  souls  of  snow, 
Byron,  Shelley,  Keats,  and  Poe. 

Byron,  Shelley,  Keats,  and  Poe, 

O  sweet  pain  the  poets  know! 

Doomed,  and  damned,  and  crowned,  and  caught 

To  bliss  upon  the  wings  of  thought; 

Brain  and  vein,  and  pulse  aglow, 

Byron,  Shelley,  Keats,  and  Poe. 

Byron,  Shelley,  Keats,  and  Poe, 
Kingdoms  crumble,  empires  go, 
Truth  the  jewel,  wrought  in  rhyme, 
Sparkles  on  the  brow  of  Time; 
Gods,  upon  them  peace  bestow, 
Byron,  Shelley,  Keats  and  Poe. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Chollar  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California.  Looa 
tion  of  works,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  8ih  day  of  March,  1904.  an  assessment  \No.  65)  of  tern  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately In  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Seoretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  C'al. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
TKE   12th    DAY    OF    APRIL.    1904, 
will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless 
payment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  3d  day    of  May 
1904,    to     pay     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the   costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

CHA8.  B.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 
Office— Boom  79.  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  CHAKLES  BLOXHAM.  deceased.  Notice  is  hereby  given 
by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  HYNES,  Public  Administrator  of  the  City 
and  County  of  San  Francisco  and  Administrator  of  the  Estate  of 
CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  deceased,  to  the  creditors  of,  and  all  persons 
having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  the 
necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months  after  the  first  publication  of 
this  notice,  to  the  said  Administrator  at  Boom  No.  668  Parrott  Building, 
825  to  855  Market  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  the  same  being  his  place 
for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES, 

Administrator  of  the  estate  of  CHARLES   BLOXHAM,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY.  attorneys  for  admistration,  Rooms  667-668- 
669,  Parrott  Building,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  March  12, 1904. 


Very  Oldest  Procurable 

King  William  TU 

Scotch  ttlbisky 

PACIFIC  SLOPE    DISTRIBUTERS 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


Club     Notes 


There  is  a  funny  chapter  still  untold  about  the 
recent  fracas  in  the  Papyrus  Club,  the  one  that  re- 
sulted in  the  formation  of  the  new  club,  "Cap  and 
Bells."  All  the  investigations  which  sought  to  ex- 
plain why  the  tempest  tossed  so  terribly  in  the 
Papyrus  tea-pot  accentuated  the  first  report,  that 
with  true  American  spirit  the  members  were  opposed 
to  a  third  term,  even  for  so  popular  an  executive  as 
Mrs.  C.  Mason  Kinne.  All  this  may  be  true,  but 
a  few  of  the  most  active  opponents  had  a  further 
cause  for  grievance.  This  is  the  "low-down"  story 
that  is  going  the  rounds : 

Some  time  ago,  there  was  talk  of  Decoration  Day, 
and  one  of  the  members  who  is  a  loyal  Southerner, 
a  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy,  con- 
tended that  a  point  should  be  made  of  decorating 
the  graves  of  Confederate  soldiers  as  well  as  those 
who  fought  under  the  Stars  and  Stripes.  At  this  sug- 
gestion, Mrs.  Kinne  is  reported  as  objecting  and  say- 
ing, among  other  things,  that  did  not  partake  of  the 
"Blue  and   Gray"   sentiment: 

"A  Southerner  is  a  traitor,  dead  or  alive." 

The  spunky  Southern  woman  remembered  this 
when  the  time  came  for  the  nomination  of  candidates, 
and  although  she  did  not  succeed  in  defeating  Mrs. 
Kinne,  she  managed  to  make  the  fur  fly. 


The  Press  Club  is  making  elaborate  preparations 
for  an  art  exhibition,  which  will  be  held  in  its  room 
on  Ellis  street  from  April  16th  to  April  23d,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Children's  Hospital.  All  the  prominent 
artists  have  promised  to  exhibit,  and  it  is  expected 
that  the  affair  will  be  an  artistic,  financial  and  social 
success.  It  will  be  a  "sketch"  exhibition,  insomuch 
as  there  is  a  size  limit  to  be  placed  on  the  pictures 
shown,  and  it  is  also  understood  that  some  limit  will 
be  placed  on  price.  The  exhibition  is  to  open  with 
a  jinks  for  members  of  the  club  and  exhibitors.  Dur- 
ing the  week  the  club  will  be  opened  to  the  public 
except  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Saturday  after- 
noons and  Monday  and  Wednesday  evenings,  when 
admission  will  be  by  card.  On  Wednesday  afternoon 
there  will  be  a  ladies'  reception  and  tea,  and  on  each 
of  the  special  days  entertainment  and  refreshments 
will  be  provided.  The  committee  in  charge  of  the 
exhibition  follows:  Howard  E.  Morton,  chairman;  A. 
Dixon,  L.  Maynard  Dixon,  H.  C.  Best  and  Dr. 
Philip  Mills  Jones. 


A  FINE  EASTER  SERVICE  PROGRAMME. 

The  Easter  Sunday  services  at  St.  Dominic's 
Church  include  the  following:  High  Mass  at  11  a. 
m.  Vidi  Aquam,  Stewart ;  Kyrie,  Gloria  in  Excelsis, 
Credo,  Sanctus  and  Agnus  Dei  from  Rosseau's  Mass 
in  D  minor.  Benedictus  from  Gounod's  Messe  So- 
lennelle.  For  the  sequence,  "Victimae  Paschali 
Laudes,"  Stewart.  Ortertory,  "O  Salutaris,"  Ros- 
seau.  The  mass  will  be  sung  by  the  regular  choir  of 
the  church.  Soloists,  Mrs.  B.  Apple,  soprano ;  Miss 
Ella  V.  McCloskey,  contralto ;  Messrs.  A.  Mesmer 
and  T.  G.  Elliott,  tenors;  Messrs.  J.  J.  Rosborough 
and  C.  B.  Stone,  bassos.  Violin,  Mr.  John  Mar- 
quardt;  violoncello,  Mr.  A.  Gutterson ;  harp,  Mrs. 
John  Marquardt.  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  organist  and  di- 
rector of  the  choir. 


A  WIDE  OPEN  PHONOGRAPH  POLICY. 

Quite  in  line  with  the  policy  of  a  wide  open  town, 
the  city  authorities  are  winking  at  the  establishment 
of  such  places  as  the  "Auditorium,"  a  new  "penny- 
in-the-slot"  institution,  for  the  exhibition  of  phono- 
graphs and  kinetoscope  pictures.  This  institution  is 
located  at  769  Market  street.  The  idea  of  a  phono- 
graph parlor  is  copied  from  a  respectable  place  of 
amusement,  the  "Edison   Phonograph  Company." 

The  new  institution  has  copied  the  idea  of  "popu- 
lar price"  as  well  as  several  other  features  from  the 
older  company,  but  in  order  to  make  the  place  more 
attractive,  they  are  exhibiting  nude  pictures  on  the 
pretense  that  they  are  high  "art,"  and  the  place  is 
crowded  by  men  and  boys,  their  minds  are  corrupted, 
and  it  is  high  time  this  place  was  suppressed.  Once 
before  similar  institutions  were  in  vogue,  but  in  a 
more  retired  section  of  the  city,  and  it  was  weeks 
before  the  police  could  eradicate  the  evil.  Little 
girls  and  boys  were  given  an  opportunity  and  a  li- 
cense to  feast  their  young  minds  on  pruriant  pictures. 

Among  the  recent  notable  renovations  in  buildings 
in  San  Francisco  is  that  of  the  Boyd  Estate  property 
at  the  northwest  corner  of  Pine  and  Battery  streets, 
which  was  formerly  a  large,  shell-like  affair,  but  is 
now  a  modern,  up-to-date  office  building.  This  evo- 
lution was  effected  by  Mr.  S.  H.  Kent,  who  is  the 
President  of  the  Builders'  Exchange,  and  one  of  the 
best-known  contractors  and  builders  in  the  West. 
The  furnishing  of  the  place  is  in  keeping  with  the 
other  buildings  of  greater  San  Francisco,  and 
through  the  competency  and  thoroughness  of  Mr. 
Kent  is  a  credit  to  the  owners  as  well  as  the  tenants, 
which  have  already  filled  all  offices  and  stores.  Mr. 
Kent  is  himself  satisfied  that  his  former  reputation 
will  not  suffer  by  an  inspection  of  his  work. 


Trunks  and  Valises. 

Every  thing  that  is  new.  good  and  moderate  priced  in  trunks  and 
vaiises.  dress  suit  cases  and  traveling  sets,  now  in  stock.  Lettered  in 
go/d  free  of  charge.    Sanborn.  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  St. 


VACATION  1904 

IS  NOW  READY  FOR  DISTRIBUTION 

"Vacation"  is  issued  annually  by  the 

California   Northwestern 
Railway 

TUB  PICTURESQUE  ROUTE  OP  CALIFORNIA 

and  is  the  standard  publication  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
for  information  regarding 

MINERAL  SPRING  RESORTS,  COUNTRY 
HOMES  AND  FARMS,  WHERE  SUMMER 
BOARDERS  ARE  TAKEN,  AND  SELECT 
CAMPING  SPOTS. 

This  year's  edition  "Vacation  1904"  contains  over 
150  pages,  beautifully  illustrated,  and  is  complete 
in  its  detailed  information  as  to  location,  accommo- 
dations, attractions,  terms,  etc. 

To  be  had  in  response  to  a  mail  request,  or  at  Ticket  Offices, 
650  Market  Street  (Chronkle  Building),  and  Tiburon  Ferry, 
foot  of  Market  Street;  General  Office,  Mutual  Life  Building, 
corner  of  Sansome  and  California  Streets,  San  Francisco. 


//.  C.  WHITING, 

Gen.  Manager 


R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Pass,  AgU 


April  2,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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It  takes  a  good 
dealer  to  sell  right 
lamp-chimneys 
when  wrong  ones 
pay  so  much  better. 
Macbeth. 


Tne  Index  tcllsyou.  in  ten  minute?,  all  you 
need  to  know  far  comfort  with  lamps  and 
the  saving  of  chimney-money ;  sent  free; 
do  yua  «  ml  it? 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms-  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr.  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  bis  rheumatism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  San 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Rate  only  $67.60  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  P.  BOOTH,  Gen.  Aet„  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 

No- 1.  Montgomery  St.    San  Francisco,  Cal 


"  CLE.ANLINE.SS  " 

Is  the  watchword  for  health  and  vigor,  com- 
fort and  beauty.  Mankind  is  learning  not 
only  the  necessity  but  the  luxury  of  clean- 
liness. SAPOLIO,  which  has  wrought 
such  changes  in  the  home,  announces  her 
litter  triumph — 

HAND 
SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

A  special  soap  which  energizes  the  whole 
body,  starts  the  circulation  and  leaves  an 
exhilarating  glow.   A 11  grocers  and  druggists 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolrn     from     Thl.vp..) 

Poor  Feebles  (about  to  be  oper 
ated    on    for   appendicitis)-  ; 

tor.   before  you   begin    I    wisl 
would  send  and  have  our  pastor, 
the   Rev.   M.    Harps,  come     over, 
utter — Certainly,  if  you  wish 

it,  luit — ah! — — ■  Poor  Feebles — 
I'd  like  to  be  opened  with  prayer. 
—Life. 

"No  wonder  a  fellow  gels  dis- 
couraged occasionally,"  said  the 
struggling  Family  man,  "it's  hard 
getting  up  in  this  world."  "Per- 
haps," replied  the  man  who  had 
once  seen  better  days,  "but  the 
coming  down  is  harder." 

Sal — So  poor  old  Stoker  Bill's 
given  up  stoking.  Jack — Well,  I 
don't  know;  lie's  dead;  but,  from 
what  1  knew  of  him,  I  shouldn't 
like  to  sav  that  he'd  given  up  stok- 
ing. 

Theatrical  Manager — I  don't 
know  what  I  am  going  to  do ;  I 
can't  find  a  press  agent  for  you. 
Star — How  about  my  husband  He 
isn't  working.  Manager — Well,  I 
would  prefer  one  who  doesn't  know 
you  so  well. 

"One  of  the  component  parts  of 
sugar,"  said  the  professor,  "is  an 
essential  in  the  composition  of  the 
human  body.  What  is  it?"  "I 
know,"  shouted  the  grocer's  boy. 
"Sand." 

"Was  it  the  gentleman  with  the 
mustache  who  served  you?"  in- 
quired the  polite  shop-walker  of 
the  complaining  peeress.  "No,"  re- 
plied the  sarcastic  lady,  "it  was 
the  nobleman  with  the  bald  head." 

Teacher — Wilfred,  to  what  are 
the  teeth  fastened?  Wilfred — To 
the  gums.  Teacher — And  how 
many  gums  have  we?  Winfred — 
Three — pepsin,  wintergreen,  and 
ulood  orange. 

He — I  suppose  you  hold  that  a 
man  should  never  deceive  his  wife  ? 
She — Oh,  no,  I  wouldn't  go  as  far 
as  that.  How  would  it  be  possible 
for  the  average  man  to  get  a  wife 
if  he  didn't  deceive  her? 

Bunting — Have  you  heard  how 
they  put  out  the  fire  at  the  Stock 
Exchange  the  other  day?  Larkin 
— No;  how  did  they  put  it  out? 
Bunting — Threw  a  few  pailfuls  of 
United  States  Steel  stock  on  it. 


i*^£ 


HARTSHORN 

Shade  Roller. 

Look  on  the  label  for  the 

siff  nature.  Get  the  i  roproved 

Wood  Rollers      Tin  Boilers 


BRIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  HarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


TWIHEY    *    MIHOtOVICH 


Double  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a   ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
th  rough  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

625  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  ua 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


Have  you 
a  friend 

in  Chicago  or  Boston 
or  Kansas  City  or  any- 
where else,  for  whom 
you  want  to  buy  a  ticket 
to  this  city? 

If  yo  have,  call  at 
this  office  and  let  us 
arrange  matters  for  you. 

You  deposit  with  us 
enough  money  to  cover 
transportation,  as  also  in- 
cidental expenses  of  the 
journey;  we  do  the  rest. 


F.  W.  Thompson, 
Gen'l  Western  Agt., 
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San  Francisco. 


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April  i.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


Ufye     Political     Situation 


A  new  force  has  been  interjected  into  the  campaign 
against  Hearst,  or.  rather,  it  would  be  more  correct 
to  say  that  a  new  element  is  about  to  join  the  op- 
ion.  The  women  of  the  country  are  being 
aroused  by  the  danger  of  his  nomination  and  the  dis- 
grace it  would  be  to  the  nation,  and  just  as  they  have 
opposed  the  seating  of  Roberts,  the  Mormon  Con- 
gressman from  Utah,  just  as  they  fought  seducer 
Breckenridge  of  Kentucky,  just  as  they  are  now 
fighting  Senator  Smoot  and  polygamy  in  Utah(  and 
although  they  have  no  votes  they  have  won  all  those 
contests)  so  they  propose  to  take  up  the  contest  for 
home  and  purity  in  the  White  House  and  battle 
against  the  nomination  of  the  Sausalito  debaucher. 
The  Hearst  men  sneer  at  the  women,  and  allude  sar- 
castically to  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  etc.,  but  if  they  were 
wiser  in  their  generation  they  would  know  that  if 
the  women  fight  Hearst  he  will  lose  thousands  of 
votes,  and  that  his  chances  will  be  much  slimmer 
than  they  are  already.  As  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents 
of  a  California  woman's  club  said  to  me  the  other 
day,  when  speaking  of  what  the  women  proposed  to 
do:  "Why  should  not  the  women  take  up  this  fight? 
Are  they  not  interested  in  the  purity  of  the  home,  in 
the  decency  of  the  occupant  of  the  White  House? 
How  would  it  be  possible  to  point  to  the  Presidency 
with  pride,  to  encourage  our  sons  in  the  ambition  that 
every  American  boy  is  supposed  to  have,  to  become 
President,  if  the  Presidency  is  to  be  bought  by  men 
whom  no  decent  woman  would  allow  to  enter  her 
house?  If  you  men  have  not  more  respect  for  the 
Presidency  than  to  even  talk  of  putting  such  a  man 
in  control  of  the  Government,  it  is  time     that    we 

women  should  act,  and  we  will." 
*  *  * 

Figures  are  dry,  I  know,  but  I  have  been  asked 
so  often  the  last  few  days  if  Hearst  would  not  be 
easily  elected  if  he  were  nominated,  on  the  suppo- 
sition that  the  Union  Labor  vote  would  be  solidly 
for  him,  that  I  shall  venture  to  do  a  little  figuring  on 
the  next  Presidential  vote.  According  to  the  last 
census  there  were  21,329,818  persons  in  th'e  United 
States  entitled  to  vote,  and  of  course  there  are  several 
million  more  now,  but  not  to  exceed  two-thirds  of 
those  who  are  entitled  to  vote  do  so.  At  the  last  elec- 
tion the  entire  popular  vote  was  I3,9S9»6S3.  and  this 
year  it  will  not  reach  15,000,000.  The  entire  Labor 
Unionists  number  2,100,000,  so  it  is  clear  they  are  in 
an  immense  minority.  When  we  consider  the  popu- 
lation from  the  standpoint  of  occupations,  we  find 
that  out  of  the  23,956,115  male  inhabitants  of  this 
country,  over  ten  years  of  age,  engaged  in  work  of 
some  kind,  the  farmers  number  9,458,194,  the  profes- 
sional men  833,584;  the  domestics  3,592,581;  those 
engaged  in  trade  and  commerce,  4,274,659)  and  those 
in  mechanics  and  manufacturing  (the  two  branches 
in  which  unionism  is  almost  exclusively  found), 
5,797,097.  It  is  evident,  then,  that  even  in  those 
branches  where  unionism  is  the  strongest,  it  does  not 
represent  fifty  per  cent  of  the  voters,  and  yet  it  is 
that  vote  which  must  elect  Hearst  if  he  is  to  be 
elected.  But  it  is  certain  that  he  will  by  no  means 
get  the  united  Union  Labor  vote.  The  vast  majority 
of  the  members  of  the  unions  are  men  of  family,  men 
with  an  interest  in  the  community,  men  who  own 
their  homes  and  have  money  in  the  bank,  and  none 


of  that  class  will  support  a  man  whose  personal  char- 
acter is  like  that  of  Hearst,  and  whose  election  would 
bring  on  the  country  the  worse  panic  it  has  ever 
known.  Hearst's  influence — or,  rather,  his  lack  of  in- 
fluence— in  this  State  even,  where  he  has  been  carry- 
ing on  his  anarchial  propaganda  the  longest,  and 
where  unionism  is  strong,  has  been  strikingly  illus- 
trated by  the  fact  that  not  one  of  his  candidates 
has  won  a  place  of  any  importance  since  the  mind 
of  man  runneth  not  to  the  contrary.  Lane's  experi- 
ence is  fresh  enough  to  be  easily  recalled.  With 
Hearst  in  opposition,  he  gets  ten  thousand  majority 
for  Governor  in  this  town ;  with  Hearst  supporting 
him  for  Mayor,  he  carries  only  the  Alms  House  pre- 
cinct. Why  should  any  one  suppose  that  Hearst  can 
do  for  himself  what  he  has  never  been  able  to  do 
for  any  one  else? 

#  *  * 

Assemblyman  Dunlap  of  Stockton  is  a  candidate 
for  the  State  Senate  from  that  county,  to  succeed 
Senator  Meunter.  Dunlap  has  been  three  times  in 
the  Lower  House,  is  now  expert  of  the  Board  of  Ex- 
aminers, and  has  a  Gubernatorial  bee  in  his  bonnet. 
W.  T.  Leeke,  of  Ontario,  San  Bernardino  County, 
and  Colonel  J.  L.  Paul,  of  North  Ontario,  are  both 
candidates  for  the  unexpired  term  of  Senator  Hub- 
bell,  who  died  since  the  last  session  of  the  Legisla- 
ture. Leeke  is  President  of  the  San  Antonio  Water 
Company,  and  Paul  was  chairman  of  the  Republican 
County    Central    Committee     of     San      Bernardino 

County. 

*  *  * 

D.  F.  Hunt  and  E.  D.  Roberts  are  to  be  the  two 
delegates   to    Chicago  from   the   Eighth   District,  if 


34 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


Smith  of  Bakersfield  does  not  come  out  for  the  place. 
Smith,  however,  will  probably  be  a  candidate  for  the 
reason  that  he  wants  to  go  to  Congress,  and  the  times 
seem  to  be  propitious  to  his  candidacy.  He  was  a 
candidate  two  years  ago,  and  after  a  long  dead-lock 
was  defeated  by  Daniels,  of  Riverside,  under  the  man- 
agement of  Hays,  cashier  of  the  Orange  Growers' 
Bank,  now  charged  with  embezzlement.  While  Hays 
says  that  Daniels  knew  nothing  of  his  shortage,  New- 
berry, a  former  Director  of  the  bank,  who  lives  in 
Los  Angeles,  has  given  out  a  very  damaging  inter- 
view which  places  Daniels  in  a  bad  light  in  the  mat- 
ter, and  it  is  a  fact  that  all  the  shortage  occurred 
while  the  Daniels'  campaign  was  in  progress,  and 
the  fight  was  strenuous.  Of  course,  that  fact  may  be 
only  a  coincidence;  but  in  politics  a  man's  oppo- 
nents are  prone  to  take  advantage  of  such  coinci- 
dents, and  it  is  evident  that  Daniels  cannot  even  get 
the  support  of  his  own  county  for  a  renomination  ; 
that,  of  course,  there  was  the  field  open  to  other  can- 
didates and  of  those,  Smith,  who  has  twice  been 
State  Senator,  is  the  most  promising,  although  Sena- 
tor Ward  of  San  Diego  also  wants  to  go  to  Washing- 
ton, and  there  are  others,  including  Assemblyman 
Barnes,  Victor  E.  Shaw,  and  D.  C.  Collier.  Jr.,  be- 
sides former  Congressman  Bowers,  who  is  now  Col- 
lector of  the  Port  of  San  Diego,  but  who  would  gladly 
give  up  that  place  if  his  fellow-citizens  will  send  him 
East  to  represent  them  in  the  halls  of  Congress. 
General  Frank  C.  Prescott  is  also  mentioned  as  a 
candidate  from  San  Bernardino  County,  and  Senator 
Greenwall,  who  distinguished  himself  by  never  open- 
ing his  mouth  nor  introducing  a  bill  when  he  was 
State  Senator  from  Santa  Barbara  and  Ventura, 
thinks  he  wants  to  do  the  silent  act  on  the  other 
side  of  the  continent  on  a  larger  political  stage,  and 
Judge  Ballard  of  Orange  would  be  willing  to  spend  a 
couple  of  winters  East,  and  editor  McPhee  of  the 
Santa  Ana  Blade  is  willing  to  add  M.  C.  to  his  name. 
In  the  Fifth  District  the  only  two  names  mentioned 
for  Congress  are  Frank  McGowan,  who  was  once  a 
Senator  from  Humboldt,  and  Dr.  A.  E.  Osborne. 

*  *  * 

A  Republican  Club  has  been  organized  in  San 
Jose  to  gather  under  one  wing  all  the  various  factions 
of  the  past,  and  to  unite  them  for  one  ticket.  It  will 
not  interfere,  I  am  told,  with  municipal  matters.  The 
city  elections  in  Santa  Clara  County  this  spring  are 
to  be  conducted  with  the  aid  of  voting  machines,  so 
as  to  prepare  the  people  to  use  them  at  the  general 

elections  in  the  fall. 

*  *  * 

W.  S.  Lyons,  a  brother-in-law  of  the  Hayes 
brothers,  is  a  candidate  for  Senatorship  to  succeed 
Oneal,  and  will  probably  get  the  nomination.  He  is 
a  pleasant  gentleman,  who,  however,  has  his  spurs 
to  win  in  politics.  Black  will  be  renominated  again 
for  Assemblvman  from  the  Palo  Alto  District. 

*  *  * 

Up  in  Napa  County  they  are  very  bitter  against 
Congressman  Livernash  for  his  recent  attack  011 
Congressman  Bell  for  endeavoring  to  have  one  of 
the  new  naval  vessels  built  at  Vallejo.  Livernash 
suggests  that  Bell  was  a  cheap  politician  who  was 
trying  to  stand  in  with  the  labor  element.  Coming 
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The  name  of  David  B.  Hill  lias  for  years  been 
enough  to  set  most  of  his  Fellow  Democrats  to  howl- 
ing  with  rage,  but  now  that  Hearst  has  selected  him 
for  a  target  of  abuse.  Hill  is  almost  popular. 

Bryan's  inevitable  "hoodoo"  steps  in  again  just  as 
he  is  dipping  his  bands  into  a  dead  friend's  coin,  and 
tells  him  tbat  if  he  wants  money  be  must  either  con- 
nect with  the  Hearst  barrel  or  go  to  work. 


The  fattest  woman  in  the  world  has  laid  her  420 
pounds  t<>  final  rest,  but  there  are  plenty  of  capable 
understudies  to  take  up  her  important  role. 

Hearst  bites  a  piece  out  of  the  Coal  Trust  and 
then  loses  his  temper  because  Roosevelt  gives  no 
sign  of  anguish. 

The  difference  between  an  argument  of  the  lawyers 
in  the  Botkin  case  and  a  prize-fight  is  that  the  legal 
jawsmiths  talk  without  gloves  on. 

Whatever  else  Japan  may  fail  to  accomplish  in  her 
war  with  Russia,  she  has  already  earned  the  world's 
thanks  by  putting  the  kibosh  on  yellow  journalism. 

The  prune  blossoms  only  once  a  year,  but  sys- 
tematic irrigation  produces  a  brandy  blossom  that 
lasts  a  lifetime. 

Kaiser  Wilhelm  may  be  the  joke  of  Europe,  but  he 
has  proved  his  courage  anew  by  locking  up  that  one 
of  his  aunts  who  wrote  a  book  about  him. 

Filipinos  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair  are  growing  fat  on 
dog  meat.  If  it  would  not  be  cruelty  to  four-footed 
animals,  we  should  like  to  see  the  process  reversed. 

"Young  Corbett,"  a  pugilist,  keeps  on  yelling  that 
he  was  robbed.  What  pains  the  decent  public  is  the 
knowledge  that  he  was  alive  when  it  happened. 

Dowie's  "Zion  City"  wants  a  male  printer  who 
does  not  smoke,  chew,  drink  or  swear— in  fine,  a 
printer  with  wings  and  a  halo. 

The  mountain  in  Maine  reported  as  having  van- 
ished is  probably  identical  with  the  one  that  was  a 
"hole  in  the  ground"  when  the  original  settler  ar- 
rived. 

A  "champion  newsboy"  from  New  York  found  the 
woolly  side  of  the  West  in  Sacramento,  where  foot- 
pads took  his  money  and  railroad  ticket  while  he  held 
his  hands  as  high  as  he  could  put  them. 


A  British  officer  with  the  tender  name  of  Young- 
husband  is  busy  shooting  the  inhabitants  of  Thibet 
into  a  condition  of  closer  fellowship  with  tha  Chris- 
tian nations  of  the  earth. 


Scarcity  of  ammunition  prevents  firing  of  Russian 
cannon  at  Port  Arthur,  but  while  the  supply  of  vodki 
holds  out,  the  beseiged  may  go  on  firing  their  imagi- 
nations and  telling  the  Czar  of  their  heroism. 


Pierrepont  Morgan  may  be  acting  wisely  in  going 
to  live  abroad,  where  his  friends  who  were  "let  in" 
on  Steel  Common  and  Ship  Trust  stock  cannot  fol- 
low him   until  the  Transatlantic  walking  is  better. 

The  clubwomen  of  New  York  are  far  enough  along 
in  planning  a  magnificent  clubhouse  to  be  squabbling 
over  the  propriety  of  a  room  where  they  may  sign 
checks  for  and   consume   cocktails   and  highballs. 

Secretary  of  the  Navy  Moody  has  passed  up  to 
Congress  the  question  of  whether  or  not  "Hail  Co- 
lumbia" is  a  national  air.  It  used  to  be,  but  that 
was  before  we  had  that  classic  composition,  "Be- 
delia." 


An  English  astronomer  finds  that  the  canals  on 

Mars  are  irrigating  ditches.  Knowing  that  they  are 
sixty  miles  wide,  it  is  easy  to  figure  out  that  the 
Martians  who  dug  them  are  very  big  men — even  big- 
ger than  William  R.  Hearst  thinks  he  is. 

f  To-day  justice  is  done  to  the  memory  of  a  gay 
young  man  of  Toledo,  whose  death  had  been  charged 
to  cigarettes  and  dancing,  the  Coroner  announcing 
that  he  was  poisoned  by  the  polish  on  his  shoes.  Bet- 
ter to  perish  of  vanity  than  feeble-mindedness. 


Eight  giddy  young  couples  of  Jersey  City  wound 
up  a  Sunday  night  frolic  with  mock  marriages  for 
all  hands.  Next  day  they  learned  that  the  weddings 
were  legal  and  binding.  It  generally  takes  longer 
than  one  day  for  the  joke  of  matrimony  to  evaporate. 


The  limit  of  husbandly  unkindness  is  reached  in 
a  recent  divorce  suit  wherein  a  grieving  wife  charges 
her  spouse  with  pulling  her  nose,  calling  her  crazy, 
and  endeavoring  to  throw  her  down-stairs.  This 
may  not  have  amounted  to  cruelty,  but  unquestion- 
ably it  was  discourteous. 

While  Livernash  bombards  him  with  stinkpots, 
President  Roosevelt,  recalling  how  not  long  ago  this 
same  Congressman  was  shooting  up  his  fellow  citi- 
zens, masquerading  as  a  negro  wench  and  proving 
his  own  insanity,  can  afford  to  grin  and  ejaculate 
"Dee-lighted !" 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


THE  CARMEN'S  THREATENED  STRIKE. 

If  the  signs  of  these  times  portend  war  between 
the  United  Railroads  and  the  Carmen's  Union — and 
we  hope  they  do  not — it  is  pretty  certain  that  public 
sympathy  will  not  be  with  the  men  in  case  of  a  strike 
nor  even  in  the  event  of  a  lock-out  forced  upon  the 
employing  interest.  The  company  has  gone  to  large 
expense  in  preparing  for  a  protracted  struggle  with 
its  employees,  and  has  done  so,  publicly,  upon  speci- 
fic information  of  what  the  carmen  have  been  plan- 
ning. The  clause  in  the  latest  demand  which  was 
most  significant  of  trouble  was  that  calling  for  a  fur- 
ther increase  of  wages,  but  the  one  which  sought  to 
commit  the  company  unequivocally  to  the  "closed" 
shop  policy,  graciously  allowing  it  sixty  days  in 
which  to  get  rid  of  all  its  men  not  unionized  by  that 
time.  When  this  demand  was  made  the  leaders  of 
the  carmen  knew  for  a  certainty  that  the  answer 
would  be  a  flat  refusal.  Obviously,  then,  the  raising 
of  this  point  anew  was  a  deliberate  attempt  to  pro- 
voke hostilities.  Close  on  the  heels  of  this  menacing 
demand  came  an  ultimatum  to  the  employers  giving 
them  a  half-day  to  agree  to  "break  in"  no  more  new 
men  beyond  those  actually  needed  on  pain  of  a  refusal 
to  educate  any  more  "students"  whether  needed  or 
not.  Behind  this  truculent  manifesto  was  the  state- 
ment that  the  carmen  had  positive  proof  of  the  com- 
pany's bad  faith  in  hiring  here  and  elsewhere  men 
not  in  sympathy  with  the  principles  of  unionism,  in 
"strike-breakers"  in  other  cities  and  preparing  its 
barns  for  a  state  of  siege.  To  cap  these  iniquitous 
acts  was  alleged  the  General  Manager's  frank  state- 
ment that  he  had  been  "preparing  for  possible  trou- 
ble." Now,  as  against  a  corporation  grinding  the 
faces  of  its  employees,  cutting  their  wages  to  the 
point  of  subsistence,  harrying  them  with  schedules 
exacting  a  maximum  of  work  for  a  minimum  of  pay, 
the  public  would  be  from  first  to  last  on  the  side 
of  the  men.  But  the  United  Railroads  has  shown  a 
spirit  of  calmness  and  justice  in  dealing  with  its 
employees,  has  been  patient  with  their  hot-headed 
leaders,  has  kept  the  pledges  and  observed  the  con- 
ditions imposed  under  arbitration,  has  had  nothing 
to  say  when  the  chiefs  of  the  union  threatened  and 
blustered,  and  all  the  time  has  striven  to  provide 
for  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  its  many  thou- 
sands of  patrons.  So  far  as  the  present  management 
has  been  concerned,  all  the  trouble-making  has  been 
done  from  the  side  of  the  employees.  They  wanted 
arbitration  and  they  got  it.  Because  it  yielded  them 
less  than  they  demanded,  they  cursed  the  arbitrators 
and  swore  that  they  would  settle  no  more  disputes 
in  that  peaceful  way.  Now,  apparently,  they  are 
about  to  carry  out  the  threat,  and  it  is  a  sinister  one. 
This  time  they  will  not  have  with  them  the  great 
body  of  public  opinion  which  won  the  strike  pro- 
voked by  the  tactlessness  and  brutality  of  a  company 
manager  who  is  gone  but  not  regretted.  This  time 
the  burden  of  proof  will  lie  upon  them. 

It  is  true  of  the  Carmen's  Union,  as  of  most  other 
bodies  of  its  kind,  that  it  is  dominated  by  its  radical 
members,  honest  men  all,  we  dare  say,  but  utterly 
mistaken  in  their  creed,  "the  union,  right  or  wrong." 
There  are  hoodlums  at  the  grips  and  controllers,  and 
on  the  rear  platforms,  but  take  them  as  a  rule, 
the  great  majority  of  our  carmen  are  civil-spoken  to 
those  who  speak  to  them  fair,  are  industrious,  faith- 
ful and  honest.  There  are  in  this  union  men  of  bad 
principle  and  of  no  principle  at  all,  but  the  great 
majority  of  carmen  is  made  up  of  careful,  conserva- 
tive, peace-loving   citizens.     Unhappily,   the   radical 


minority  controls  the  conservative  majority,  and  it 
is  this  minority  which  has  pushed  the  unions  forward 
in  a  movement  which  may  turn  quickly  into  a  grave 
industrial  struggle.  If  trouble  shall  come,  good  citi- 
zens will  applaud  the  company's  firmness  even  as 
they  have  approved  its  fairness. 


DOCTORS  IN  THE  SCHOOLS. 

The  Board  of  Health  now  proposes  to  send  a  lot  of 
doctors  into  the  public  schools  to  look  after  the 
physical  welfare  of  the  pupils.  Theoretically,  this 
proposition  is  good  enough  in  its  way.  Children 
should  be  taught  how  to  sit  at  their  desks,  how  to 
hold  their  books,  how  to  stand  and  how  to  walk 
properly,  and  many  other  things;  teachers  should 
know  how  to  arrange  the  light  effects  in  the  school 
rooms  so  that  the  pupils'  eyes  should  not  suffer; 
tbey  should  devise  schemes  whereby  all  the  hats 
would  not  be  piled  together  by  monitors,  and  then 
distributed,  thereby  propagating  scalp  and  skin  dis- 
eases; greater  care  should  be  taken  to  prevent  the 
spread  of  infectious  diseases,  and  so  on  ad  infinitum. 
But  judging  from  the  kind  of  work  done  in  the  hos- 
pitals, the  much-vaunted  volunteer  corps  of  physi- 
cians appointed  to  visit  the  schools  will  soon  find 
ways  to  the  pockets  of  the  parents  of  the  children — 
and  this  is  said  with  due  regard  to  the  fact  that,  ac- 
cording to  their  lights,  they  may  all  be  honest  men. 
The  trouble  of  the  whole  thing  is  that  some  men  do 
not  seem  to  know  when  they  are  stepping  from  the 
straight  and  narrow  path.  Volunteer  services  by 
professional  men,  extending  throughout  the  year,  as 
is  proposed  in  this  instance,  will  never  amount  to 
much  in  this  town.  A  few  capable  doctors  may  be 
willing,  as  an  experiment,  to  give  something  of  their 
time  to  the  city,  but  it  will  be  found  at  the  end  that 
the  most  exacting  of  the  visitors  to  the  schools  are 
physicians  of  but  small  practice,  who  see  in  this 
opportunity  a  chance  to  widen  their  acquaintance, 
experiment  to  their  hearts'  desire,  and  incidentally 
to  increase  their  incomes. 


THE  POSTAL  FRAUDS. 

Upon  the  floor  of  the  United  States  Senate,  a 
member  of  that  "greatest  deliberative  assembly  upon 
earth,"  has  stated  during  the  debate  on  the  Postoffice 
bill  that  "wherever  graft  was  looked  for,  there  graft 
was  found ;  wherever  crime  was  looked  for,  there 
crime  was  found;  wherever  swindling  and  corruption 
were  looked  for,  there  swindling  and  corruption  were 
found."  His  references  were  to  the  exposures  of 
corruption  in  many  administrative  departments  of 
the  Government  for  many  years  past,  but  particularly 
since  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish  war.  The  accusing 
Senator  is  a  Democrat,  and  one  who  will  play  a  part 
in  the  coming  Presidential  campaign ;  it  might  be 
presumed,  therefore,  that  his  charges  were  greatly  ex- 
aggerated for  partisan  purposes ;  that  he  was  indulg- 
ing his  imagination  in  mere  figures  of  speech.  Un- 
fortunately for  the  peace  of  mind  of  those  Utopian 
dreamers  who  will  not  open  their  eyes  to  existing 
conditions,  and  who  delude  themselves  with  the  fond 
belief  that  in  this  Republic  those  in  high  places  are 
not,  like  so  many  Orientals,  filled  with  mercenary 
desires,  the  assertions  of  wide-spread  corruption  in 
Government  offices  are  absolutely  true.  Whether 
the  Republicans  or  the  Democrats  are  responsible  is 
beside  the  question.  Democratic  Missouri  is  to-day 
as  fully  honeycombed  with  corruption  as  is  any  de- 
partment   at   Washington,   officered    by   Republican 


April  9.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


>rruption  is  not  a  matter  of  politics  ; 
-ather,  one  of  opportunity.     When  war  was 
clarcil  against  Spain,  the  opportunity  was  presented, 
Then  came  the  tales  of  fraud  in   1  iovernment  con 

tracts.  Ami  they  wire  true.  England  had  the  same 
trouble  in  the  Boer  war,  and  Russia  is  now  suffering 
from  a  like  cause.  Corruption,  therefore,  is  not  a 
matter  of  geography  either,  for  there  arc  just  as  many 
men  in  this  country  eager  t'nr  a  dishonest  dollar  a> 
may  be  found  in  Europe.  The  million  dollar  frauds 
in  building  contracts  in  the  Carolinas,  which  caused 
the  imprisonment  of  a  Captain  of  Engineers;  the 
land  timber  frauds,  now  under  hearing  in  the  Federal 
courts ;  the  frauds  in  the  U.  S.  Senate,  which  re- 
cently resulted  in  the  conviction  of  U.  S.  Senator 
Burton  on  a  penal  charge;  the  great  and  far-reachint; 
postal  frauds — all  these  and  many  others  which  have 
not  gained  the  notoriety  of  national  scandals,  give 
proof  to  the  charge  that  wherever  "graft  was  looked 
for,  graft  was  found." 

In  the  postal  cases  Bristow's  report  resulted  in 
thirteen  indictments.  Only  two  of  these  cases  have 
been  tried.  Powerful  political  influences  have  suc- 
ceeded in  keeping  the  other  accused  men  out  of  court. 
Of  their  guilt  there  is  no  doubt,  even  in  Washington. 
Why,  then,  should  they  be  protected?  Because  Bar- 
stow  went  too  far.  He  exposed  scores  of  Congress- 
men who  had  used  their  positions  to  fraudulently 
aid  their  political  proteges.  These  Congressmen  have 
combined  to  smother  Bristow  and  his  report,  and  as 
to  the  accused  office-holders  caught  in  their  guilt 
the  combination  at  Washintgon  says  to  the  public : 
"Forget  it."  Now,  if  civic  reform  associations  want 
something  to  "resolve"  upon,  here  is  a  case  at  hand. 
But  if  the  civic  reformers  want  to  accomplish  any- 
thing, let  them  first  examine  their  back-bones  before 
taking  up  the  battle. 


VERTICAL  HANDWRITING. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  San  Francisco's  Board  of 
Education  will  take  notice  of  the  prompt  action  of 
Sacramento's  School  Trustees  in  throwing  out  the 
"Vertical  Writing"  abomination  and  putting  in  a 
standard  which  insures  character,  individuality  and 
rapidity  of  production.  The  gentlemen  who  direct 
our  own  common  schools  have  secured  from  business 
men  and  others  viti'ly  interested  an  abundance  of 
testimony  as  to  the  unworth  of  the  "vertical"  system 
and  should  be  at  no  loss  to  know  what  to  do  with  this 
unfortunate  error  in  education.  They  and  their  pre- 
decessors have  utterly  ruined  the  writing  of  some 
thousands  of  the  younger  generation.  This  harm  is 
beyond  undoing,  but  the  School  Board  can  and  ought 
to  wipe  out  the  cause  at  once.  Every  day  of  delay 
adds  to  the  injury. 

The  "vertical"  method  is  as  foolish  in  theory  as 
it  has  proved  pernicious  tn  p'actice.  For  the  du- 
bious benefit  of  uniformity  and  legibility— a  benefit 
so  rarely  achieved  as  to  make  the  system  a  flat 
failure — it  contemplated  the  sacrifice  of  all  the  other 
elements  of  use  and  value  that  pertain  to  the  written 
expression  of  human  thought.  It  would  have  been 
quite  as  desirable  and  almost  as  practicable,  to  at- 
tempt a  course  of  physical  culture  designed  to  make 
all  school  children  alike  in  size  and  appearance,  or 
a  course  of  elocution  that  would  make  one  voice  in- 
distinguishable from  another.  As  we  are  informed, 
the  inventor  of  this  "vertical"  system  was  an  esti- 
mable enough  lady,  who  devised  it  chiefly  because 
she  needed  the  money.  It  chanced  that  she  had  a 
certain  influence  with  a  body  of  men  who  could  not 


have  been  fitted  for  their  responsibilities.  They 
were  ready  to  oblige  the  lady  with  the  fool-thi 
in  order  to  let  her  make  a  little  easy  money.  They 
had  not  the  intelligence  to  sec  the  falsity  and  futility 
of  the  scheme,  nor  the  capacity  to  estimate  its  in- 
curable bad  effects,  so  it  went  through  a-whooping. 
We  are  not  surprised  to  hear  that  the  business 
community  has  jumped  at  the  chance  offered  it  by 
the  School  Directors  fur  a  free  expression  of  opinion 
concerning  the  "vertical"  system.  Nor  to  learn 
that  this  opinion  is  strongly  against  this  acme  of 
foolish  faddism.  It  is  a  fact  not  to  be  denied  that 
the  average  Englishman  writes  a  far  better  "fist" 
than  the  average  American  educated  as  to  penman- 
ship on  the  old  model,  and  it  is  also  a  fact  that  the 
average  victim  of  "verticalism"  writes  unspeakably 
worse  than  the  average  American.  The  English 
schoolmasters  have  clung  tightly  to  the  accepted 
standards  of  writing,  and  have  drilled  their  charges 
with  severe  thoroughness,  producing  a  script  so  typi- 
cal that  one  accustomed  to  reading  handwriting  mat- 
ter knows  at  a  glance  when  he  encounters  the  out- 
put of  an  Englishman.  We  will  be  doing  well  if  we 
return  to  the  fashion  of  our  fathers  in  writing  and 
strive  to  live  up  to  it.  "Verticalism"  means  merely 
the  substitution  for  writing  of  a  set  of  sprawling 
turkey  tracks. 

SENATOR  BURTON'S   CONVICTION. 

The  conviction  in  the  U.  S.  District  Court  at  St. 
Louis  of  U.  S.  Senator  Burton,  of  Kansas,  on  a 
charge  of  having  illegally  used  his  high  official  posi- 
tion to  advance  the  interests  of  the  Rialto  Grain  and 
Securities  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  is  a  sign  of  the 
times.  It  means  that  the  efforts  of  "that  man  Folk," 
the  fearless  Circuit  Attorney,  of  St.  Louis,  have  not 
been  in  vain.  It  means  that  the  people  have  awak- 
ened to  the  necessity  of  compelling  those  in  high 
places  to  respect  the  laws  of  the  land.  It  means  that 
the  efforts  that  for  five  years  past  have  been  made 
by  many  honest  men  in  various  great  cities  of  the 
country  to  effect  municipal  reformation  in  municipal 
Government  are  certain  of  beneficial  results.  We 
know  nothing  of  the  merits  of  the  Burton  case,  but 
the  fact  of  his  conviction  in  a  Federal  Court  gives 
us  probable  cause  to  believe  not  only  that  he  was 
guilty  as  charged,  but  that  the  evidences  of  his  guilt 
were  made  so  apparent  that  not  even  all  the  corrupt 
political  influences  of  Missouri  and  of  Kansas — 
States  where  political  corruption  is  practiced  as  a 
business — were  sufficient  to  save  him.  It  is  a  la- 
mentable commentary  on  the  condition  of  morality 
in  this  country  for  a  public  journal  to  find  cause  for 
congratulation  on  the  possibility  of  the  conviction 
of  a  man  of  great  political  influence  upon  a  criminal 
charge.  When  one  considers  the  personnel  of  most 
of  the  political  leaders  in  the  great  municipalities 
of  the  United  States,  and  further  considers  the  rea- 
sons that  usually  animate  many  of  them  in  selecting 
candidates  for  the  U.  S.  Senate,  the  wonder  is  not  so 
great  that  occasionally  a  Senator  falls  from  grace. 
Observation  of  the  ways  of  his  political  sponsors, 
and  of  their  apparent  immunity  from  punishment, 
may  well  cause  a  weak  and  grasping  man,  as  Burton 
must  be,  to  forget  the  dignity  of  his  high  office,  and, 
in  search  of  ill-gotten  wealth,  reach  out  like  a  ward 
politician  for  everything  in  sight.  But  that,  upon 
detection,  he  should  be  arraigned,  tried  and  convicted 
like  any  common  malefactor — that  is  indeed  a  sign 
that  the  people  have  sickened  of  the  iniquitous  prac- 
tices of  their  office-holders,  and  intend  to  punish 
them. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


THE  LAZY  JUDGE  AND  THE  ROTTEN  JURY. 

Now  perhaps  our  Judges  will  wake  to  some  reali- 
zation of  their  duties,  and  try  and  get  a  decent  jury 
to  pass  on  issues  of  fact.  The  neglect  of  duty  brings 
trouble  even  on  a  Judge,  and  the  disgraceful  exhibi- 
tion in  the  Botkin  case  should  send  a  wholesome 
shock  of  alarm  down  the  vertebrae  of  our  negligent 
or  political  holders  of  the  scales  of  justice. 

Who  are  the  most  competent  members  of  the  com- 
munity to  serve  as  jurors  in  cases  which  involve  life 
and  death,  and  the  maintenance  of  law  and  order  in 
the  community?  According  to  present  practice,  they 
are  loafers  and  men  with  no  fixed  occupation  who 
enjoy  the  title  "professional"  jurymen  for  lack  of 
having  any  other  profession.  Venders  of  lottery 
tickets,  hangers-on  of  saloons,  worn-out  political 
hacks  who  have  outlived  their  usefulness  for  even 
the  coarsest  and  dirtiest  work  of  municipal  politics, 
constitute  the  personnel  of  the  jury,  and  pose  before 
the  community  as  vessels  of  probity  and  integrity. 
From  such  dirty  vessels  only  muddy  water  can  be 
drawn,  and  the  waters  of  justice  are  filthy  enough  in 
all  conscience  in  this  town. 

The  fault  rests  with  the  Judges.  They  have  the 
selection  of  panels,  and  they  should  take  care  that 
no  names  find  their  way  into  the  jury  box  whose  pos- 
sessors are  not  men  of  the  strictest  integrity  and  the 
most  undoubted  honesty.  This  is  talking  mere  com- 
monplace, so  commonplace,  in  fact,  that  it  is  known 
to  every  child,  but  ignored  by  our  Judges,  who  go 
the  scriptural  injunction  one  better  and  are  simpler 
than  little  children.  And  when  the  jury  is  selected 
and  the  trial  begun,  it  would  seem  that  a  close  super- 
vising eye  should  be  kept  upon  the  actions  of  those 
upon  whose  decision  so  much  depends.  But  no.  They 
are  allowed  free  scope  to  roam  about  the  city,  to  meet 
and  consort  with  whom  they  will,  to  follow  their  in- 
clinations, which  may,  and  in  fact  do,  lead  them  to 
saloons  and  other  places,  where  life  is  freer  and  evil 
tendencies  do  more  abound.  To  continue  a  case  for 
three  days  and  let  your  jury  roam  untrammelled  is 
a  peculiarly  satisfactory  way  of  ditching  justice,  and 
justice  does  manage  to  get  ditched.  When  shall  we 
have  a  judiciary  all  the  members  of  which  will  take 
ordinary  precautions  in  the  selection  of  a  jury  and 
ordinary  care  in  watching  it  after  it  is  selected?  It 
seems  little  enough  to  expect,  but  Heaven  knows  it 
may  be  too  much. 


CHINESE    EXCLUSION. 

From  Washington  is  foreshadowed  an  effort  to- 
ward letting  down  the  bars  of  Chinese  exclusion  when 
Congress  assembles  again  this  winter.  It  takes  no 
long-range  prophet  to  foretell  it  that  California  will 
present  no  unbroken  front  of  opposition  to  such  a 
movement.  Rather  will  large  and  patent  influences 
throughout  the  State  be  found  exerting  themselves 
openly  for  a  relaxation  of  the  restrictions  on  immi- 
gration from  the  Orient. 

The  Chinese  exclusion  movement  was  born  on  the 
sandlots  from  the  loins  of  Kearneyism,  but  the  work- 
ingman  of  that  day  was  not  the  workingman  of  to- 
day. He  asked  only  a  chance  to  sell  his  labor  for  what 
it  was  worth.  There  was  no  union  club  in  his  hand. 
When  he  raised  the  crv  of  the  "yellow  peril"  it  was 
taken  up  by  the  State,  by  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  by  the 
nation.  The  opposition  to  exclusion  came  from  those 
States  where  the  gospel  abolition  had  its  earliest 
preaching.  It  was  not  a  commercial  or  industrial 
consideration  that  moved  the  New  England  States 
to  resist  the  barring  of  the  Golden  Gate,  but  a  senti- 


ment belonging  to  the  broader  platform  of  the 
brotherhood  of  all  mankind,  white,  black  and  yellow. 
How  little  the  opposition  availed  is  evidenced  by 
the  law  as  it  stands. 

Things  are  different  now.  The  manufacturers  of 
California,  the  producers,  the  employers  of  labor  of 
all  kinds  have  seen  a  steady  advance  in  wages  and  a 
steady  reduction  not  only  in  hours  but  in  the  produc- 
tive capacity  of  the  individual  workingman,  for  these 
be  the  fruits  of  unionism.  They  have  seen  the  exclu- 
sion of  the  Chinese  followed  by  unequivocal  attempts 
to  exclude  all  kinds  of  labor.  Less  than  a  year  ago, 
when  in  response  to  the  cry  for  help  from  the  fields 
and  groves  and  orchards  of  California,  an  effort  was 
made  to  encourage  the  immigration  and  settlement 
here  of  working  people  from  the  East,  the  central 
labor  bodies  denounced  it  as  a  blow  at  unionism. 
They  back-fired  this  movement  for  a  greater  Califor- 
nia with  false  tales  of  hunger  in  this  land  of  plenty, 
'swearing  that  there  was  no  work  for  thousands  of 
those  already  here,  when,  in  fact,  ranchers  were 
watching  their  crops  rot  for  lack  of  hands  to  harvest 
them. 

Every  acre  of  new  land  brought  under  cultivation 
intensifies  the  labor  problem  in  California.  It  is  a 
problem  that  will  be  solved  by  a  reasonable  lower- 
ing of  the  Chinese  exclusion  bars.  When  the  ques- 
tion goes  before  Congress  again,  there  will  be  a  loud 
outcry  from  the  labor  unions  through  those  news- 
papers that  dare  not  tell  the  truth  about  industrial 
conditions,  but  the  gentlemen  who  represent  this 
State  at  Washington  will  not  be  left  in  doubt  of  the 
fact  that  there  is  a  great  and  insistent  demand  here 
for  labor,  white,  black  or  yellow,  that  will  do  Califor- 
nia's work  for  a  living  wage  and  will  not  devote  its 
time  to  scheming  how  to  throttle  enterprise  and 
frighten  capital  back  to  its  hiding  places — a  demand 
for  labor  not  bidden  by  a  crew  of  walking  delegates. 


HIS  ROYAL  NIBS. 
It  has  been  decided  to  have  an  auction  of  the  box 
and  orchestra  seats  on  the  night  of  April  14th.  Mr. 
William  Greer  Harrison  is  to  be  auctioneer,  and  the 
genial  gentleman  and  his  assistants  will  be  sure  to 
realize  handsome  prices  for  the  seats.  The  proceeds 
are  to  go  to  the  California  Woman's  Hospital.  After 
April  14th  the  seats  will  be  on  sale  at  the  Sherman 
&  Clay  and  Kohler  &  Chase  music  stores. 

Leaving  us  in  bitterness  and  disgust,  Patti  says  we 
have  changed — and  not  for  the  better.  That  is  ex- 
actly what  we  thought  of  Patti's  voice,  only  most  of 
us  were  too  polite  to  say  so. 


KCHAS.  KE1LUS  &  COJJ 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

There  is  a  reason  why  our  clothes  are  so  decidedly  different  from 
others.  It  is  the  experience,  merit  and  exclusiveness  that,  our 
fabrics,  patterns  and  fashions  contain.  The  sculptor's  chisel  could 
not  give  the  effect  in  the  appearance  of  our  spring  and  summer 
models.    (This  is  the  Home  for  Correct  Dressers.) 


11 


TT/tur/oX^BJo  c/a, 


April  9.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


How     San     Francisco     Looks    to     Me 


Bv     F#md\jld     Tr«v«»r».    Toxjrlat 


Are  you  ever  compelled  to  ride  <>n  a  tram'  If  so, 
ad,  I  pity  you.  It  i>  '>n  a  tram,  you  know,  that 
»an  Francisco  male  pig  ri-e>  to  the  fullest  heigl  t 
They  squat  hidden  behind  a  paper,  which  I  doubt 
from  their  manners  if  they  can  read,  and  allow  tired 
women  to  bang  on  to  the  leather  straps,  and  also. 
you  know,  they  throw  their  big,  muddy  feet  across 
the  tram,  and  sit  and  grunt  like  all  the  rest  of  the 
porcine  creation.  I  have  been  made  truly  glad  to 
11  more  than  one  occasion,  a  tired,  illy-clad  labor- 
ing man  take  his  lunch-box  in  his  band  and  give  his 
scat  to  a  female,  while  the  other  man  whose  clothes 
indicated  a  little  better  breeding,  sat  still.  You  know 
our  discomfort  should  not  count  among  gentlemen 
when  there  is  one  of  the  sweeter  sex  in  question.  Gen- 
tlemen and  men  of  San  Francisco,  place  aux  dames, 
if  you  remember  your  mothers  or  sisters,  or  if  you 
expect  to  marry.  If  I  were  a  woman,  I  would  watch 
my  fiance  in  the  tram  cars  before  I  married  him. 
Egad  I  would. 

I  have  expressed  my  severe  disapproval  to  your 
good  people  here  on  several  occasions  on  the  question 
of  your  behavior  at  the  table,  and  you  now  know 
how  I  regard  your  actions  when  riding  in  a  tram.  I 
mean  in  this  case  your  physical  actions.  They  only 
offend  a  fellow's  feet  or  those  of  a  tired  female,  but 
your  constant  mastication  of  something  which  you 
(I  have  to  use  the  vulgar  word)  chew,  is  a  dese- 
cration of  the  commonest  kind  of  decency.  I  note 
in  the  trams  that  a  really  nice-appearing  girl  will 
exhume  a  sweetie  from  a  sticky  box  and  commence 
to  masticate  it,  and  I  have  seen  men  even  keep  on 
using  their  jaws  on  something  that  they  held  between 
their  teeth.  It  is  vile.  Hostler  chaps  in  England 
*'chew"  tobacco,  but  how  any  one,  even  if  he  does 
have  to  work  for  a  living,  can  masticate  in  public  is 
beyond  comprehension.  I  am  told  you  call  it  the 
gum-chewing  habit.  It  is  awfully  bad  form.  It  goes 
on  in  the  theatre,  in  the  home,  and  I  saw  it  even  at 
the  Easter  morning  service  in  one  of  your  swell 
churches.  It  is  unpardonably  ill-bred,  and  should  be 
stopped.  It  may  be  possible  downstairs  amongst 
the  servant  people,  and  of  course,  if  you  want  to  be 
understood  as  being  that  sort  of  person,  why,  keep 
on  using  your  gum  and  gums.  Another  peculiarity 
you  have  over  here  is  the  use  in  public  of  that  most 
unspeakable  thing,  a  toothpick.  I  have  seen  chaps 
that  are  fairly  good  fellows  leave  the  club  and  walk 
down  stairs  and  out  on  the  street  with  one  of  these 
implements  of  torture  in  active  use.  I  have  been 
pained  to  see  at  a  proper  function  a  dainty  lady 
hide  her  pretty  face  behind  a  napkin  while  she  used 
a  toothpick  on  her  ivories,  and  by  masking  her  action 
called  more  particular  attention  to  her  breach  of 
good  manners. 

I  never  saw  in  all  my  experience  anywhere  on' the 
globe,  and  I  have  traveled  a  bit,  don't  you  know, 
toothpicks  served  as  a  part  of  the  menu,  except  here 
in  America.  The  man  that  will  use  this  toilet  article 
at  table  should  dine  alone,  and  be  served  with  a 
toothbrush  as  well  as  fork,  knife  and  spoon.  I  really 
hate  to  criticise  your  gentlewomen  here ;  they  are  so 
fresh,  so  healthful  and  so  well  gowned.  They  are 
almost  English  girls  in  their  love  of  fresh  air  and  golf 
and  yachting.  They  are  athletic,  and  at  the  same 
time  feminine  to  a  degree,  but  they  lack  the  repose  of 
the  really.    I  don't  hardly  know  how  to  say  delicately 


what  I  want  to,  but  it  is  poor  form  to  stand  with 
the  hands  on  the  hips,  and  look  like  a  wash-woman, 
and  it  is  worse  to  sit  with  one  ankle  across  the  knee. 
1  am  sun-  I  shan't  note  these  things  again  in  my  set. 
i't  the  gentlewomen  have  been  kind  to  me  and 
thanked  me  for  pointing  out  to  them  the  little  things 
'hat  were  not  really  proper.  There  may  be  a  few 
other  minor  things,  but  I  am  sure,  don't  you  know. 
I  really  feel  the  ideas  I  give  will  be  taken  in  the 
spirit  I  give  them.  The  distinction  between  the  cor- 
rect person  of  either  sex  is  in  the  manners  and  bear- 
ing of  the  individual.  The  stenographer  clerk  or 
the  shipping  clerk  man  may  have  good  clothes,  but 
they  wear  out.  It  is  well-bred  manners  that  last, 
and  that  makes  one's  presence  acceptable  to  those 
who  are  correct  in  deportment.  Your  servants  here 
are  not  servants;  they  are  your  masters,  and  I  have 
had  to  call  Roger  to  heel.  The  chap  who  said  in 
your  valuable  paper  recently :  "The  only  explanation, 
and  this  is  no  explanation,  consists  in  the  fact  that 
some  occupations  as  conducted  in  this  city,  but  not 
elsewhere,  mind  you,  not  elsewhere,  have  an  un- 
avoidable and  incurable  tendency  to  produce  a  con- 
dition of  manners  which  can  only  be  fairly  described 
as  vile,  and  which  have  no  counterpart  in  any  other 
city  in  the  world."  Must  have  been  referring  to  your 
servants.  Let  me  assure  you  that  the  well-bred  mis- 
tress of  the  house  has  only  well-trained  servants, 
and  the  well-bred  gentleman  a  correct  man,  but  if 
the  mistress  and  the  master  don't  know  how  things 
should  be  done,  the  servants  are  a  lot  of  unpardon- 
able and  disgusting  bunglers.  Like  master  like  man, 
you  know.  Let's  be  correct ;  it  adds  so  much  to  the 
pleasurie    of   living. 

TRAVERS. 


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A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ORPHEUM— Vaudeville.    An  enjoyable  performance. 

COLUMBIA— Anna  Held— Mam'selle  Napoleon— A  production  that  would 
be  hard  to  beat. 

GRAND—  Mrs.  Fiske— "Divorcons."  and  a  curtain  raiser.    Fair  show. 

ALCAZAR-"!  In  the  Quiet."  very  funny. 

CENTRAL— "Around  the  World  in  Eighty  Days."  a  good  performance. 

FISCHER'S— "Kismet"— Best  musical  performance  this  house  has  seen 

TTVOLI-Mr.  Pickwick. 

CHUTES— Clark's  Comedy  Dog  Circus.    Good  show. 

ALHAMBRA— Madame  Schumann-Heink-The  world's  greatest  contralto 

MECHANICS'  PAVILION— Norris  and  Rowe  Cirrus.    Very  fine. 


"Divorcons"  was  the  most  successful  play  so  far 
of  the  Fiske  productions  at  the  Grand  Opera  House. 
The  little  lady  still  suffered  from  limitations  in  enun- 
ciation, and  there  were  many  remarks,  as  people  left 
the  theatre,  such  as:  "Wasn't  it  a  pity — I  didn't 
hear  a  thing!"  and  so  on.  Well,  we'll  forgive  her. 
She  is  ill.  It  is  a  most  fortunate  thing  that  the 
select  audiences  at  the  Grand  have  a  very  compre- 
hensive knowledge  of  Sardou  and  Ibsen,  or  the  howl 
would  have  been  longer  and  louder.  "A  Bit  of  Old 
Chelsea,"  a  very  well  written  curtain  raiser,  met 
with  the  approbation  of  the  public  and  served  as  a 
fine   prelude   to  the   Sardou   masterpiece. 

*  *  * 

The  best  piece  of  spectacular  work  that  we  have 
seen  this  season  is  on  at  the  Columbia,  and  Anna 
Held  has  scored  a  triumph.  The  little  actress  has 
improved  in  all  directions.  She  displays  an  amount 
of  dramatic  ability  that  few  would  have  dreamt  she 
possessed.  Her  characterization  of  Mademoiselle 
Marz  is  a  splendid  piece  of  work,  and  her  singing 
has  improved  to  such  an  extent  since  her  last  visit  to 
San  Francisco  that  there  is  absolutely  no  compari- 
son. Her  duet  with  Frank  Rushworth  (Noel  Gilot) 
was  a  most  pleasing  and  effective  bit  of  vocaliza- 
tion. By  the  way,  Rushworth  is  a  mighty  good- 
looking  fellow  with  a  most  sympathetic  voice. 
"Mam'selle  Napoleon"  is  a  costume  show,  a  musical 
extravaganza,  a  triumph  in  scene  painting,  the  acme 
of  light  effects,  and  singularly  enough,  and  contrary 
to  the  daily  newspaper  critic,  it  hath  a  plot.  The 
characters  are  historical,  and  many  of  them  are  pre- 
sented merely  as  gorgeous  fashion  plates.  There 
is  with  this  company  the  best  Napoleon  that  I  have 
ever  seen.  Arthur  Lawrence's  character  sketch  is 
a  wonderful  creation.  He  has  given  this  careful 
study.  He  has  all  the  little  shades  of  the  great  Em- 
peror's nature  at  his  fingers'  ends.  The  scene  at  the 
kiosk  in  the  grounds  of  the  Chateau  of  Compiegne 
is  a  more  than  usually  good  piece  of  work  for  the 
trio  (Gilot,  Mademoiselle  Marz  and  the  Emperor), 
and  raises  Lawrence  and  Anna  Held  to  the  rank  of 
stars.  The  first  part  of  this  scene  is  devoted  to  a 
weird  dance  of  Satyr  and  Wood  Nymphs.  This  is  a 
wonderful  dance,  and.  the  mechanical  effects  are 
splendidly  handled.  The  sign  for  the  week  should 
be  "standing  room  only." 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alcazar,  the  very  capable  company  lias 
easily  dropped  down  from  the  heights  of  religious- 
hysteria  in  "Parsifal"  to  the  rollicking  fun  of  "On 
the  Quiet."  Mr.  Durkm  gives  us  an  appreciation 
of  the  character  of  Young  Ridgeway  that  is  quite 
as  good  as  the  original  of  Willie  Collier.  There  is 
not  much  chance  for  any  one  to  shine  exceptionally 
in  this  play,  and  it  would  be  an  injustice  to  mention 
any  of  the  participants  except   Mr.  Butler  and  this 


because,  we  have  seen  so  little  of  him  lately,  it  is 
a  deserved  tribute.  His  McGeechy  is  splendid.  It 
is  to  laugh  and  to  laugh  long  and  heartily. 

*  *  * 

Next  week  is  the  last  of  the  Fiske  engagement  at 
the  Grand.  She  will  give  us  a  continuation  of  the 
pretty  little  story  of  the  London  flower  girl,  "A  Bit 
of  Old  Chelsea,"  by  Mrs.  Oscar  Beringer,  and  this 
curtain  raiser  will  be  followed  by  the  Ibsen  "A  Doll's 
House."  Mrs.  Fiske  is  said  to  have  achieved  her 
best  work  in  the  Ibsen  play,  and  there  is  sure  to 
be  an  increased  attendance. 

*  *  * 

Minnie  Maddern  Fiske,  I  am  told,  will  probably 
temporarily  retire  from  the  stage  after  the  end  of  the 
engagement  at  the  Grand.  She  is  suffering  severely 
from  nervous  prostration.  She  is  under  the  con- 
stant care  of  a  nurse,  and  what  with  massage  treat- 
ments and  quiet  is  enabled  to  fill  her  dates,  but  this 
is  only  setting  off  the  time  for  relinquishing  her  life 
on  the  stage.  The  nurse  sits  at  her  bedside  and  reads 
her  the  lightest  sort  of  child's  literature.  The  room 
is  darkened  somewhat,  and  the  absolute  quiet  is  dis- 
turbed only  by  the  sweet  and  droning  voice  of  the 
attendant.  People  who  have  been  angered  by  her 
atrocious  enunciation  will  more  easily  forgive  Mrs. 
Fiske,  knowing  the  terrible  conditions  under  which 
she  has  kept  her  engagements  with  the  public.  It  is 
now  in  order  for  the  special  writer  for  the  jaundiced 
dailies  to  give  this  item  a  whole  page,  with  pictures 
of  the  nurse,  Mrs.  Fiske,  the  doctor  and  the  medicine 

bottles. 

*  *  * 

La  Belle  Guerrerro  and  Blind  Tom  still  hold  the 
boards  at  the  Orpheum.  In  addition  there  is  a  fine 
vaudeville   company,   and   the     house     is     crowded 

nightly. 

*  »  * 

The  Central  is  giving  a  splendid  performance  of 
that    standard    melodrama,    "Around    the    World    in 
Eightv   Days."     Here,  too,   the  appreciation   of  the 
public  is  shown  in   crowded   houses. 
•;  *  * 

At  Fischer's,  "Kismet"  is  holding  large  audiences 
through  the  medium  of  Kerker's  splendid  music  and 
the  delightful  lyrics  of  Mr.  Richard  Carrol. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Tivoli,  there  is  another  holdover,  "Mr.  Pick- 
wick." 

*  *  * 

Capital    entertainment   has   been   provided    at   the 

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ill  of  the  acts  announced 
beinp  of    a    hj|  of    merit.      Dan    and    I 

Kelly,  w:  !  fashioned   Irish   sketch. 

ndin/j  in  fun.  appear  here  for  tin-  first  time,  as 
will  also  Leando  and  i  medy  acrobats.  The 

Robinsons,   colored   singers  and   dancers,   will   liven 
things    up,    and    Agnes    Miles,    the    original    "Annie 

'I-  Girl,"  will  change  her  songs  and  stories. 
Hawlev  and  Vass.  the  clever  talkers,  will  vary  their 
specialty;  Mabel  Lamson.  the  popular  contralto,  will 
be  heard  in  new  illustrated  songs,  and  the  animato- 

.  showing  new  and  amusing  moving  pictures. 
will  conclude  the  programme.  The  amateurs  will 
appear,  as  usual,  on  Thursday  night.  Novel  features 
are  constantly  being  added  on  the  grounds  at  the 
Chutes,  the  latest  a  miniature  electric  railroad,  run- 
ning around  the  lake,  proving  a  great  attraction  for 
both  voung  and  old. 

*  *  * 

Madame  Schumann-Heink  has  been  the  delight  of 
all  music  lovers  at  the  Alhambra,  and  the  matinee 
this  afternoon  should  be  the  signal  for  a  turn  out 
of  all  those  who  love  good  singing.  Madame  Schu- 
mann-Heinle has  given  herself  assurance  of  a  rous- 
ing reception  on  her  return  to  this  city,  and  I  hope 
that  it  will  be  soon. 

*  *  * 

Following  Anna  Held,  the  Columbia  Theatre  at- 
traction will  be  the  celebrated  farceurs,  the  Four  Co- 
hans, surrounded  by  a  company  of  sixty  people,  in 
George  M.  Cohan's  "Running  for  Office."  The 
stars  are  well  known  here,  and  bring  a  splendid 
chorus. 

*  *  * 

The  very  efficient  company  at  the  Alcazar  will 
give  us  a  new  bill  for  the  coming  week  in  the  shape 
of  "Aristocracy."  Mr.  Durkin  and  Miss  Block  have 
the  roles  created  by  Wilton  Lackaye  and  Viola  Al- 
len, and  the  full  acting  resources  of  the  excellent  com- 
pany will  be  employed.  To  follow,  April  18th,  will 
come  the  first  stock  representation  in  any  theatre  of 
"The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson,"  the  vivacious  comedy 
written  by  Clyde  Fitch  for  Amelia  Bingham. 

*  *  * 

With  the  coming  week,  a  new  bill  at  the  Orpheum, 
Sam,  Kittie,  Clara  and  Paul  Morton,  the  fun-makers, 
are  on  the  bill.  Edmund  Day,  playwright  and  au- 
thor, will  appear,  with  the  support  of  a  competent 
company,  in  "Shipmates."  Special  scenery  is  car- 
ried, and  it  is  said  to  be  a  great  comedy  success. 
There  is  a  lot  of  new  vaudeville  and  a  lot  of  new 
faces.  Blind  Tom,  with  a  lot  of  new  selections,  holds 
over. 


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The  Four  MortoDs;  Edmund  Day  and  Company;  Ellis-Nowlan 
Trio;  Flo  Adler,  Four  Weleons;  Omar  &  Hargina;  James  H.  Cul- 
len ;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  last  week  of 

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Week  of  Monday.  April  u.     Matinees.  Saturday  and  Sunday 
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Prices— Evenings  10  to  60o.    Matinees  10. 16.  250. 
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MflM'SELLE    NAPOLEON 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  g,  1904. 


Paul  Elder  &  Company,  San  Francisco,  have  pub- 
lished "Fairy  Tales  Up  to  Now,"  by  Wallace  Irwin. 

Like  the  "Love  Sonnets  of  a  Hoodlum,"  "Fain- 
Tales  up  to  Now"  is  issued  in  a  25-cent  edition.  The 
scareline  typography  of  the  "yellow"  newspapers 
and  up-to-date  journals  have  been  borrowed  from 
and  adapted  into  a  novel,  but  very  correct  piece  of 
bookmaking.  The  Matrix  Edition  is  a  bold  depart- 
ure, each  copy  being  bound  in  genuine  matrix  boards 
that  have  first  served  their  purpose  in  the  issue  of  a 
great  daily.  Obviously  no  two  copies  are  alike,  and 
the  edition  presents  many  very  amusing  combina- 
tions. 

The  introductory  verse  of  the  volume  is  unique, 
and  will  give  the  book-reader  an  idea  of  the  contents 
of  the  book: 

Of  yore  the  foolish  Fairy  made 

His  fame  in  childish  story; 
But  now  he  wisely  plies  his  trade 

And  never  thinks  of  glory. 

The  Ogre  at  his  modern  meal 

Boasts  loud  of  stocks  and  margin, 

Breakfasts  on  Standard  Oil  and  Steel 
And  keeps  right  on  enlargin'. 

The  Woodland  Babes  your  childhood  met 

May  still  enjoy  their  capers ; 
But  when  they're  lost  they  only  get 

A  write-up  in  the  papers. 

Where  is  the  Wizard  dark  of  fate. 

Whose  word  brought  sloth  and  ruin  ? 

Behold  the  Walking  Delegate 

Who  murmurs,  "Nothin'  doin'!" 

And  if  the  stage  attracts  our  fays, 
None  will  forbid,  that's  certain. 

But  hush !  the  play  is  on — so  raise 
The  advertising  curtain. 

The  "Expansion  of  the  Repub- 
Rocky  Mountain     lie   Series"   receives  a   valuable 
Exploration.  addition   in  this  work  by  Reu- 

ben G.  Thwaites.  This  author, 
whose  works  on  Daniel  Boone  and  Father  Marquette 
have  earned  for  him  a  wide  reputation,  writes  this 
book  with  especial  reference  to  the  expedition  of 
Lewis  and  Clarke.  In  this  year,  when  especial  inter- 
est is  being  shown  in  the  Louisiana  Purchase,  this 
book  should  possess  particular  interest.  The  his- 
tory is  simply  told,  with  no  effort  at  literary  style. 
There  is  a  short  chapter  on  the  Conquest  of  Califor- 
nia which  is  interesting  reading,  as  the  story  is  simply 
and  vividly  told,  and  is  free  from  the  prolixity  and 
superabundance  of  detail  into  which  this  subject  has 
usuallv  been   encumbered. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

This  is  rather  a  clever  skit  on  the 
Medical  Union     excesses  of  labor  unions,  by  Wil- 
Number  Six.       Ham  Harvey  King.     Tt  is  a  satin 
of  things  as  they  would  be  if  car- 
ried by  modern  trades  unionism  to  their  fullest  ex- 
tent.    The   medical   profession   has  formed   a  union. 
Union  doctors  work  only  six  hours  a  day,  and  the 
various  ailments  are  catalogued  and  divided  off,  one 
man  being  only  permitted  to  prescribe  for  a  certain 


ailment.  Patients  are  obliged  to  take  such  doctors 
as  union  headquarters  prescribe.  No  doctors  are  al- 
lowed to  work  more  than  the  prescribed  number 
of  hours.  Union  undertakers  and  clergymen  refuse 
their  services  to  those  who  die  in  the  hands  of  a 
non-union  doctor.  A  tragedy  ends  the  story.  Because 
Doctor  Schneider  lets  a  patient  die  rather  than  tran- 
scend a  union  rule  there  is  a  popular  uprising  against 
the  Medical  Union.  The  physicians  go  on  a 
strike,  but  the  people  hold  out,  and  finally  the  union, 
in  order  to  bring  the  public  to  its  senses,  causes  an 
outbreak  of  the  bubonic  plague,  which  devastates  the 
country.  Then  the  people  humbly  sue  for  relief,  and 
the  strike  is  declared  off  after  millions  of  men, 
women  and  children  have  died,  and  towns  and  cities 
have  been  wiped  out.  "Of  course,"  the  story  says 
ill  conclusion,  "there  was  nothing  left  for  the  doc- 
tors, but  the  principles  of  the  union  were  maintained." 
The  Monograph  Press.     New  York. 

This,  the  last  volume  in  the 
The  Mo6\em  Bank,  series  entitled  "Appleton's 
Business  Series,"  is  from  the 
pen  of  Amos  K.  Fiske,  Associate  Editor  of  the  Jour- 
nal of  Commerce  and  Commercial  Bulletin.  It  con- 
tains a  description  of  the  functions  and  methods  of 
modern  banking,  together  with  a  history  of  banking 
institutions.  It  is  a  clear  and  concise  description  of 
the  matters  with  which  it  undertakes  to  deal,  and 
should  prove  of  great  service  to  students  of  commer- 
cial methods.  The  various  European  banking  insti- 
tutions are  touched  upon  as  explanatory  of  the  vari- 
ous American  systems.  There  are  numerous  tables 
and  forms  illustrating  various  steps  in  banking  opera- 
tions, and  the  method  of  clearing  house  is  put  more 
plainly  than  is  usually  the  case. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

Why  the  Baroness  Von  Hutten  should  have  writ- 
ten "Araby"  is  a  problem  not  easy  to  solve  on  terms 
satisfactory  or  complimentary  to  the  lady.  She  has 
shown  a  power  of  doing  strong  work  with  some 
meaning  in  a  recent  piece  of  fiction  which  she  called 
"Violette,"  and  now  she  satisfies  herself  by  writing 
a  short  novelette  which  possesses  no  qualities  to  rec- 
ommend it  except  the  skill  in  construction  which 
marks  her  as  a  master  in  her  craft.  The  book  is  poor, 
tawdry,  unsatisfactory,  flashy  and  untrue.  The  con- 
struction of  this  riff-raff  material  is  unusually  clever 
and  the  best  possible  use  is  made  of  bad  matter. 
"Araby"  is  not  deserving  of  this  much  notice  from 
a  literary  standpoint,  but  as  an  example  of  ability 
gone  astray,  it  may  serve  to  point  a  moral. 

The  Smart  Set   Publishing  Co.,   New  York. 


Dr.  Decker, 

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teeth  extracting. 


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April  9.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

A  Few    Puffs  at  the   University 


The  recent  report  aticnt  the  University  of  Call 

nia  co-eds.  and  the  cigarette  habit  has  stirred  up  .1 
pretty    howdy-do   in    Berkeley's    classic    halls.      The 

girls  indignantly  deny  that  La  cigarette  was  among 
present  at  the  "kindergarten"  show  given  the 
oth.-r  day  by  the  Sophomores  to  the  Senior  girls. 
Some  dreamer  mounted  a  night-mare  and  carried  a 
thrilling  account  of  the  "doings"  to  a  weekly  paper 
which  announced  that  the  floor  of  Hearst  Hall  was 
literally  covered  with  cigarette  stubs  after  the  enter- 
tainment. The  girls  are  on  the  trail  of  the  reckless 
man  who  gave  out  this  false  story,  and  when  the) 
hunt  him  down,  the  chances  are  he  will  have  to  take 
to  the  tall  timber  for  breathing  room. 

Now,  for  the  truths  about  co-eds.  and  cigarettes. 
Every  girl  in  college  is  ready  to  "cross  her  heart 
and  hope  to  die"  that  there  wasn't  so  much  as  a  sin- 
gle puff  taken  at  the  kindergarten  entertainment. 
The  affair  was  a  novel  imitation  of  a  kindergarten, 
about  thirty  Sophomores  doing  the  stunts  of  the 
Froebclettes.  while  the  rest  of  the  girls  split  the 
ceiling  with  peals  of  laughter  over  the  antics  of  the 
kindergarten  "kids."  Mere  man  was  not  allowed 
within  half  a  mile  of  the  place,  for  some  of  the  girls 
were  "just  too  cute"  in  knickerbockers,  and  they 
looked  so  much  the  real  thing  that  a  cigarette  wasn't 
necessary  to  complete  the  boyish  effect. 

But  ssh  !  whist!  while  I  tell  you  something!  The 
other  day,  the  Senior  girls  called  a  meeting  to  arrange 
for  the  jinks  wdiich  is  held  in  the  girls'  gymnasium 
during  commencement  week.  The  affair  is  in  the  na- 
ture of  a  parting  jolly-up,  and  usually  takes  a  prankish 
turn,  the  girls  indulging  in  all  sorts  of  ludicrous  cos- 
tumes. Everything  was  running  on  ball-bearings  at 
the  meeting  until  a  young  lady  arose  and  suggested 
that  it  be  plainly  understood  beforehand  that  no 
smoking  would  be  allowed  at  the  jinks! 

This  smacks  very  much  like  a  confession  ;  not  from 
the  young  lady  who  made  the  motion,  but  that  such 
a  rule  was  necessary  hints  strongly  of  some  one  hav- 
ing indulged  in  the  weed  somewhere.  The  truth  of 
the  matter  is  that  at  the  jinks  given  by  the  girls  sev- 
eral months  ago  to  raise  money  for  a  boat,  a  few 
co-eds.  were  so  carried  away  by  the  spirit  of  the  af- 
fair that  the  cigarettes  lit  in  jest  were  smoked  in 
earnest.  Several  girls  who  came  dressed  as  boys 
were  provided  with  the  weed  as  an  accessory  to  their 
costume,  and  in  a  moment  of  bravado  they  indulged 
in  the  pernicious  pastime.  One  prominent  girl,  who 
is  a  member  of  a  sorority  whose  motto  was  supposed 
to  be  "Dignity,"  blew  smoke  wreathes  with  a  dex- 
terity that  told  of  long  chumming  with  the  cigarette. 
No  one  appeared  very  shocked  that  night  over  the 
cigarette  stunts,  but  the  next  day  in  sober  after- 
thought, the  majority  of  co-eds.  regretted  that  they 
had  countenanced  such  a  thing.  The  girls  kept  close 
counsel  with  themselves,  and  decided  that  the  affair 
must  be  hushed,  and  only  the  frailest  rumors  of  it 
ever  stalked  the  campus.  Nothing  of  the  soft  was 
indulged  in  at  the  "kindergarten"  affair,  and  now 
that  the  Seniors  have  gone  on  record  against  the 
cigarette  appearing  at  their  "Gym  Jinks,"  the  smoke 
of  the  co-eds.'  battle  with  the  cigarette  may  be  said 
to  have  cleared  away. 

That  a  sprinkling  of  girls  out  of  such  a  large  num- 
ber as  the  University  of  California  enrolls  have  pre- 
dilections for  things  not  down  in  the  college  cur- 
riculum, should  not  be  a  matter  of  great  surprise, 
after  all.  Given  several  hundred  girls  anywhere  un- 
der the  shining  sun,  in  college  or  out,  and  it  won't 
take  radium  to  discover  that  they  are  not  all  clear 


water  diamonds.  But  the  co-eds.  have  never  yet  blot- 
ted the  escutcheon  of  the  University  of  California. 
No  broad-minded  person  can  condemn  them  alto- 
gether on  account  of  that  smoking  episode.  It  must 
be  a  matter  of  regret  that  cigarette  smoking  was  in- 
dulged in.  if  only  hi  a  few  girls,  at  the  boat-club 
jinks,  for  that  serves  as  a  peg  to  hang  all  sorts  of 
charges  on.  And  it  puts  all  the  girls  in  a  hazy  light, 
while  only  those  who  "smoked  up"  deserve  censure. 
If  those  same  girls  chouse  to  smoke  cigarettes  in  pri- 
vate, it's  up  to  their  families,  but  when  they  indulge 
at  a  college  function,  it's  an  insult  to  the  alma  mater 
which  the  girls  agree  must  not  be  repeated. 

The  matter  of  smoking  for  women  has  been 
threshed  out  a  number  of  times,  but  it  is  still  debat- 
able. There  may  be  pros  and  cons  on  the  subject  of 
mature  women  indulging  for  one  reason  or  another, 
but  on  the  question  of  college  girls  cigaretting  there 
can  be  but  one  opinion — "don't."  Dr.  Jordan  took  a 
stand  on  the  subject  several  years  ago  when  it  leaked 
out  that  the  habit  had  taken  up  quarters  at  Roble 
Hall.  He  rooted  it  out  vigorously,  and  it  has  never 
dared  to  come  out  of  cover  since  that  time.  Stolen 
puffs  may  not  be  sweetest,  but  at  least  they  do  not 
bring  odium  undeservedly   upon  the   entire   college. 

Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only 

$6.00  per  ton.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanli- 
ness and  heat  producing  qualities,  Briquettes  are  superior 
to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th  and 
Channel.    'Phone  South  95. 


As  long  as  Techau  Tavern  exists,  people  have  no 

need  to  wonder  where  they  will  go  after  the  theatre.  It 
is  the  society  resoTt. 


Test  by  Taste 

and  you'll  take 

Hunter  Whiskey 


Baltimore  Rye 

w       BOTTLED  BY 

wm.Lanahan&SON. 
baltimore. 


HJXBERT  MERCANTILE  CO.. 

213-215    Market    St.,    San    Francisco,    Cat. 

Telephone   Exchange  313. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


JgCWjfa  Critr*'    "WHM  the  deril  art  «►» 
Oisethat  will  Mar  the  davit  air.  nib  rou  •• 


./TOWN  CRIER"! 


A  resident  of  Richmond, 

Stared  out  into  the  night. 
His  wife  had  left  the  linen  out, 

All   in  the  pale  moonlight, 
And  as  the  brave  of  Baker's  Beach 

Was  wondering  what  to  do, 
He  saw  a  sight  that  settled  him, 

And  pretty  quickly,  too. 

For  a  policeman  came  into  the  yard, 
And  gathered  up  the  clothes ; 

He  stole  the  socks  and  petticoats, 

,And  queerer  things  than  those. 

The  man  had  his  suspicions, 

But  of  course  he  couldn't  breathe  'em, 

So   he   shivers  in  his   breeches, 

For  he's  nothing  underneath  'em. 

I  do  not  suppose  that  there  has  ever  been  a  more 
unblushing  example  of  corruption  than  that  shown 
in  the  Kryzyanowski  matter..  The  estate,  which  was 
valued  at  some  eleven  thousand  dollars,  got  into  the 
hands  of  as  unscrupulous  and  malodorous  a  crowd 
of  shysters  as  any  that  hangs  about  the  edges  of 
court.  Perry  and  the  Nagles  practically  divided  the 
entire  estate  between  themselves.  Who  is  to  blame 
for  these  buzzards?  Surely  not  the  creatures  them- 
selves, for  they  merely  act  according  to  their  kind, 
and  no  other  conduct  should  be  expected  of  them. 
The  real  culprits  are  the  Supreme  Court,  which 
makes  admission  to  the  practice  so  easy;  the  Judges 
who  do  not  watch  the  actions  of  the  men  whom  they 
must  feel  to  be  corrupt,  and  first  and  chiefly  the 
Bar  Association,  which  does  not  know  enough  to 
protect  the  honor  of  the  profession  it  pretends  to 
watch  over. 

"The  habits  of  Boyen  are  exemplar}-,  as  he  neither 
drinks,  smokes  nor  gambles."  So  says  the  daily  pa- 
per of  a  young  man  in  San  Rafael,  who  is  accused  of 
systematically  robbing  his  employer.  How  is  this? 
According  to  all  the  tenets  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  the 
addresses  of  the  successful,  this  young  man  should 
now  be  sitting  in  the  seats  of  the  successful  and  point- 
ing the  way  to  a  doubting  world  by  which  it  might 
hope  to  reach  a  corresponding  eminence.  If  one 
neither  drinks,  smokes  or  gambles,  he  is  in  the  eye 
of  the  professional  moralist  irreproachable  and 
should  climb  the  heights  of  fame.  Occasionally, 
however,  it  appears  beyond  dispute  that  these  three 
gentlemen  who  are  so  puritanical  in  their  tastes  are 
merely  weak  in  their  character,  and  that  their  non- 
indulgence  in  manly  vices  is  only  an  evidence  of  their 
effeminate  disposition. 

What  with  the  Santa  Clara  Blossom  Show  and  the 
various  other  festivals  of  a  flowery  nature  in  which 
our  people  are  beginning  to  indulge  it  looks  ver\ 
much  as  if  we  shall  have  in  a  short  time  quite  a  repu- 
tation among  the  peoples  for  innocent  merriment. 
More  or  less  innocent  merriment  would  perhaps  be 
nearer  the  mark.  These  carnivals  and  other  similar 
things  are  perhaps  on  the  whole  a  little  too  artificial 
to  be  altogether  admirable,  and  the  esthetic  sense- 
is  by  no  means  always  gratified  by  the  artistic  efforts 
of  the  participants,  but  it  is  a  poor  soul  which  can 
never  find  anything  to  praise,  and  if  these  open-air 
festivals  do  nothing  else  they  increase  the  receipts 
of  the  transportation  companies  and  encourage  flir- 
tation. 


If  Tobin,  the  Burlingame  coachman,  was  trained 
in  England,  as  he  must  have  been,  for  no  self-respect- 
ing Burlingameite  would  have  any  other,  he  should 
be  impressed  with  the  valor  of  old  Kentucky.  To  run 
against  a  Kentucky  girl  who  compelled  him  to  marry 
her,  true  it  was  only  by  contract,  and  enforced  her 
wishes  with  the  explanation  that  she  had  buried  one 
man  in  Kentucky  and  fixed  another  in  Arizona,  is 
an  experience  enjoyed  by  few  British  coachmen.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  it  is  not  on  record  that  Tobin  enjoyed 
it.  But  the  crowning  achievement  of  the  Kentuck'ian 
consisted  in  bunkoing  Tobin  out  of  a  thousand  dol- 
lars, and  then  making  a  bargain  with  her  successor 
in  his  affections  to  Jake  all  the  rest  he  had.  And 
there  are  some  who  say  that  the  Southerners  have  no 
enterprise. 

The  hard-hearted  municipality  of  Alameda  has 
imposed  a  tax  of  ten  dollars  a  quarter  upon  clairvoy- 
ants and  seers.  This  is  an  unwarrantable  interference 
with  the  freedom  of  the  individual.  Such  people  are 
frauds,  you  say,  but  that  is  no  reason  for  imposing  a 
tax  upon  them.  If  we  begin  taxing  quacks  and  hum- 
bugs where  are  we  to  stop?  Should  a  tax  on  hum- 
bugs go  on.  the  streets,  nay  the  very  roofs  will  be 
crowded  with  physicians,  attorneys,  clergymen  and 
professional  philanthropists  scrambling  out  of  the 
way  of  the  tax  collector.  It  is  for  the  gaiety  of  na- 
tions that  humbugs  should  be  allowed  to  exist,  other- 
wise what  opportunities  should  we  have  of  ridicul- 
ing human  gullibility,  and  there  is  nothing  quite  so 
delightfully  entertaining  as  the  fact  that  some  one 
else  has  been  made  a  fool  of. 

It  is  to  be  doubted  if  any  society,  for  its  numbers, 
has  anything  like  the  fun  which  the  French  Mutual 
Benefit  Society  appears  to  get  out  of  life.  Every  year 
their  little  quarrels  fill  columns  of  the  papers,  and 
such  high-sounding  names  as  Bearnais  and  Camac- 
Marquis  become  objects  of  interest  to  the  ignoble 
vulgar.  The  duel  is  dead,  but  witty  repartee  and  keen 
invective  still  belong  peculiarly  to  the  Gallic  race, 
and  whatever  may  be  the  sanitary  value  of  tin- 
French  Hospital,  there  can  be  no  doubt  about  the 
gaietv  promoted  by  the  struggles  for  the  control  of 
it. 

Here  is  a  question  for  citizens  and  Police  Commis- 
sioners :  Is  it  better  to  have  a  good  clean-up,  show 
all  the  rascality,  take  the  necessary  punishment  and 
have  as  a  result  a  solid,  decent  force,  or  to  palter 
and  be  afraid,  trying  to  make  terms  with  the  munici- 
pal conscience  as  easily  as  possible?  On  the  answer 
to  this  question  depends  the  future  good  government 
of   this   city. 

So  the  tax  against  automobiles  is  to  be  enforced, 
and  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  thousand  dollars 
added  to  the  city  treasury.  Henceforward  let  no  one 
say  that  the  rich  are  not  public  benefactors.  Think 
of  the  poor  City  Hall  official  and  the  odd  sums  which 
this  windfall  will  enable  him  to  spend  in  the  French 
restaurants. 

Oakland  is  suffering  from  an  overplus  of  garbage. 
The  scavengers  who  are  being  proceeded  against  for 
not  incinerating  it  claim  that  the  crematory  is  not 
large  enough  to  grapple  with  the  quantities  of  waste 
material.  I  have  inside  information  that  a  large 
quantity  of  the  su_plus  rubbish  consists  of  manu- 
scripts of  Lenten  sermons. 


April  9.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


1SOCIETY 


SftM    • 


Dear  Bessie:  Well,  the  long  agony  of  anticipation 

■t  ami  done  with,  ami  the  engagement  ol  Susie 
Blanding  and  Knox  Maddox  has  at  last  been  for- 
mally announced.    Everybody  know  it  was  to  come 

r  or  later,  but  it  is  a  satisfaction  to  have  it  ex 
cathedra,  so  to  speak,  isn't  it?  Then  another  en 
lent  just  announced  is  that  of  Margaret  Simp 
BOO  to  the  Reverend  William  Cuthbert  of  Japan  ;  she 
met  her  futur  last  year  while  visiting  her  sister  Agnes 
Partridge  in  Kobe,  and  after  her  marriage  in  the 
autumn  is  going  there  to  live. 

What  a  week  this  Easter  has  been  I  Nearly  all 
the  good  gained  by  society  folk  in  the  six  weeks' 
comparative  quiet  of  Lent  will  soon  he  exhausted  if 
there  are  many  more  like  the  one  just  past,  for  it  has 
been  crammed  full  of  doings  in  the  swim  of  one  kind 
or  another.  There  have  been  weddings,  dances,  re- 
ceptions, and  dinners,  to  say  nothing  of  circus  par- 
theatre  parties  for  Anna  Held,  concert  parties 
for  Schumann-Heink,  card  parties  and  luncheons. 
It  is  a  pity  they  all  come  so  close  together,  for  it  is 
hard  to  make  a  choice  when  one  wants  to  do  every- 
thing and  finds  it  a  physical  impossibility.  For  in- 
stance, on  Monday  night  there  was  the  hop  of  the 
10th  Infantry  officers  at  the  Presidio;  Anna  Held's 
first  night;  the  Loring  Club's  concert;  Mae  Burdge's 
wedding  in  Oakland  ;  and  Eleanor  Eckart's  in-town  ; 
and  on  Wednesday  the  Bachelors'  dance  at  the  Pal- 
ace and  Ethel  Kent's  wedding;  besides  Frances  Har- 
ris' in  the  afternoon. 

There  were  three  home  weddings  this  week,  one 
of  them  a  rather  qt'iet  affair.  That  of  Eleanor  Eckart 
and  Ed.  Hume  came  off  on  Monday  night  at  the 
Eckart  home  on  Clay  street,  which  was  all  dressed 
with  spring  blossoms  and  filled  with  guests  to  see 
the  ceremony  performed  by  Dr.  Clampett. 

On  Tuesday  evening  the  quiet  wedding  was  that 
of  Miss  Katherine  Hamlet  and  William  Boole,  at 
the  home  of  the  groom's  sister,  Mrs.  Wellington,  on 
Baker  street,  the  Reverend  Kirk  Guthrie  officiating. 
Then  on  Wednesday  afternoon  came  the  most  elabo- 
rate of  these  home  cermonies,  which  was  at  Mrs. 
Chris.  Reis's,  on  California 'street,  where  Dr.  Clam- 
pett united  Frances  Harris  and  Ernest  Stent  in  mar- 
riage. Frances  looked  very  handsome  in  that  won- 
derful lace  gown  which  has  provoked  so  much  curi- 
osity and  chatter  among  her  girl  friends ;  Fanny  Ar- 
ques  was  her  only  attendant.  Ethel  Kent's  wedding 
on  Wednesday,  evening  was,  as  I  told  you  it  would 
be,  a  very  pretty  one. 

Grace  Church,  which  lends  itself  so  well  to  make 
a  pretty  setting  for  an  evening  wedding,  never  looked 
more  attractive  than  with  its  brilliant  lights  and 
lovely  blossoms,  and  the  bridal  party  was  "hard  to 
beat."  You  see,  all  the  men  were  in  full  dress  uni- 
form, and  the  gowns  of  the  bridesmaids  were  dainty 
and  effective,  though  I  think-  pale  blue  looks  better 
in  the  day-time  than  at  night,  and  that  was  the  color 
of  the  gowns  worn  by  Florence  Cole,  Mattie  Milton, 
Jane  Wiltshire  and  Louise  Hall,  and  Kathleen  Kent, 
who  was  maid  of  honor,  wore  white.  I  hear  that 
Mae  Burdge's  wedding,  which  took  place  at  Arbor 
Villa,  on  Monday  night,  was  the  most  elaborate  that 
Oakland  has  ever  seen,  and  that  the  prettiest  sight 
was  when  the  bridal  party  came  down  the  stairs  into 
the  large  hall,  where  the  bridal  ceremony  was  per- 
formed.    I  was  so  sorry  not  to  have  been  there.  All 


the  details  for  Edna  Harry's  wedding  have  been  Com- 
pleted, and   it   will  he  a   very   pretty  one.    I    am   -lire. 

The  ceremony  is  to  take  place  on  Saturday  afternoon, 

April   30th,   at   St.   John's   Church   in   Oakland,   amid 
a  profuse  setting  of  pink  blossoms  .-111(1  green  foliage; 

Jane  Barry  Will  he  her  sister's  maid  of  honor,  Marian 
Ifellow,  Lottie  Barry,  Madeline  Clay  and  May 
in  the  bridesmaids,  who  will  all  wear  pink 
gowns.  I  have  not  yet  heard  who  is  to  be  Philip 
Clay's  best  man.  All  the  guests  are  invited  to  the 
church,  as  the  house  reception  is  to  he  quite  a  small 
one.     They  are  coming  to  live  in  San  Francisco. 

The  card  parties  this  week  have  all  been  large 
ones.  Those  at  Charlotte  Ellinwood's  on  Wednes- 
day and  at  Native  Sons'  Hall  on  Thursday  night, 
were  both  charitable  affairs;  those  that  Were  other- 
wise were  Mrs.  Morgan's  on  Tuesday  of  sixty  guests, 
and  Mrs.  Tim  Hopkins's  yesterday,  where  bridge 
was  played.  Another  big  bridge  party  to  come  off 
next  week  is  the  one  Mrs.  Mayo  Newhall  is  to  give 
on  Tuesday,  and  it  is  to  be  on  a  very  elaborate  scale, 
I  believe. 

Among  other  affairs  this  week  were  Mrs.  George 
Wheaton's  tea  in  Oakland  on  Wednesday  afternoon, 
and  in  the  evening  Mrs.  Scott's  fancy  dress  reception 
for  the  Polyglot  Club;  Mrs.  McAneny  gave  a  lunch- 
eon at  the  Palace  on  Monday.  She  will  spend  some 
time  at  Del  Monte.  The  Shiels  had  a  tea  on  Thurs- 
day at  their  home  on  Page  street,  and  Elsie  Sperry 
was  one  of  the  assistants;  to-night  the  dance  that 
I  told  you  was  to  come  off  in  Sausailto  will  be 
given  by  the  Lantern  Club.  You  never  saw  such  en- 
thusiastic workers  as  there  have  been  for  the  garden 
party  in  the  Phelan  grounds  to-day,  and  now  it  re- 
mains to  be  seen  what  the  clerk  of  the  weather  will 
give  as  his  contribution.  Mrs.  Bowie-Detrick,  who 
has  charge  of  the  grab-bag,  has  a  collection  of  pretty 
trifles — and  some  big  ones,  too — and  among  them 
a  lot  of  daintily  dressed,  wee  dollies;  pretty  little 
Mrs.  Covode  has  the  candy  booth  under  her  charge ; 
Ada  Sullivan  looks  after  the  needs  of  the  inner  man; 
Mrs.  Walter  Dean  is  chief  boss  of  the  tea  table, 
and  Helen  de  Young  dispenses  ice-cream.  How  hard 
every  one  connected  with  the  affair  is  working  to 
make  '.'A  Dream  of  Fair  Women"  a  success!  It.  is 
to  be  given  at  Lyric  Hall  next  Monday  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  Good  Samaritan  Mission. 

Well,  I  suppose  we  ought  to  be  happy  at  the  of- 
ficial announcement  that  the  Martin  colony  will  be 
such  a  large  one  at  San  Mateo  this  spring,  for  the 
Peter  Martins  are  to  be  here  until  June  at  least,  they 
having   taken   the    Kruttschnitt    cottage   there,    and 


Diamonds 

and 

Pearls 

Wedding  Presents 
Wedding  Stationery 

Shreve    ®.    Co. 

Post  and 

Market  Streets 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


12 

the  Walter  Martins  have  re-considered  their  intended 
trip  abroad,  and  will  occupy  the  Jo.  Tobin  villa  at 
Burlingame.  The  Downey  Harveys  are  to  have  a 
local  habitation  near  by.  The  visit  of  the  Whitelaw 
Re'ds  to  California  this  year  has  been  earlier  and 
briefer  than  usual,  and  every  one  is  sorry  not  to  have 
seen  more  of  the  charming  Jean ;  but  you  know  they 
always  stop  down  at  Millbrae.  The  Menlo  Park  folks 
are  glad  to  hear  the  Flood  place  will  be  inhabited 
this  summer,  as  Mrs.  James  Flood  will,  'tis  -aid, 
move  down  there  very  soon,  and  with  the  assistance 
of  Miss  Jennie,  do  a  lot  of  entertaining. 

The  Da  Guignes  have  named  June  for  their  trip 
abroad,  and  will  spend  the  summer  in  Florence 
chiefly ;  meanwhile  they  will  be  at  San  Mateo,  where 
all  the  Parrotts  will  be  found  the  first  of  May.  The 
Tom  Magees  are  to  spend  the  summer  at  Burlin- 
game or  San  Mateo — it  is  pretty  much  the  same 
thing — if  they  can  get  a  place  to  suit  them ;  the 
George  Shreves  left  last  week  for  their  cottage  in 
that  lovely  suburb.  There  are  to  be  a  lot  of  people 
at  Del  Monte  ere  long.  The  Louis  Parrotts,  includ- 
ing Marie  Louise  and  Mrs.  Low  and  Flora,  have 
gone  already  for  the  entire  summer,  as  usual ;  the 
Joe  Tobins  go  to  Calistoga.  Jennie  Blair  is  not 
going  away  after  all,  but  will  stay  in  California  this 
summer;  Mrs.  Blair  is  going  to  Paris  to  join  friends 
there.  We  are  to  have  Eleanor  Morrow  Roosevelt 
here  next  week,  as  she  and  Captain  Roosevelt  are 
coming  home  on  the  Sheridan  en  route  to  Wash- 
ington. They  are  to  be  here  some  little  time,  I  be- 
lieve, and  you  may  be  sure  will  receive  an  ovation 
from   their   friends.  — Elsie. 


April  9,  1904. 


AT  HOME. 

Monday — Mrs.  William  Thomas,  Miss  Gertrudu 
Thomas,  St.  Francis ;  Mrs.  Albert  Gerberding, 
San  Carlos. 

Thursday- — Mrs.  Oliver  Dibble,  3d  in  April,  1012 
Pine  street;  Mrs.  O.  C.  Baldwin,  4th  in  April, 
2415  Buchanan  street. 

Friday — Mrs.  Thomas  W.  Huntington,  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Terry,  2d  and  3d  in  April,  2629  Pacific  avenue  ; 
Mrs.  Joseph  Masten,  3d  in  April,  3954  Washing- 
ton ;  Mrs.  Harold  Copeland  de  Wolf,  3d  and  4th 
in  April,  609  Sacramento  street. 
BIRTHS. 

March  30 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Newhall,  a  son. 
Mrs.  Newhall  was  Miss  Caroline  Taylor. 
CHARITABLE. 

April  9  (Saturday) — Garden  party  for  the  benefit  of 
St.  Ignatius  Training  School  for  Girls. |  Grounds 
of  the  Phelan  residence  on  Valencia  and  17th 
streets. 

April  11  (Monday  evening) — Entertainment  at  Lyric 
Hall  for  the  benefit  of  the  Good  Samaritan  Mis- 
sion. 

April  13th  to  April  23d — Art  Exhibition  by  the  Press 
Club  for  the  benefit  of  the  Children's  Hospital, 
Club  Rooms  on   Ellis  street. 

April  21st  and  22d  (Thursday  and  Friday) — Enter- 
tainment for  the  benefit  of  California  Woman's 
Hospital.  Musical  comedy  of  "His  Royal  Nibs," 
Alhambra  Theatre. 

CARDS. 

April  12  (Tuesday) — Mrs.  Mayo  Newhall.  bridge, 
Post  and  Van  Nest  avenue. 

April  14  (Thursday) — Mrs.  Lester  Herrick,  for  Mrs. 
Ed.    Greenfield,    Empire. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Bright  Wallace,  of  Oakland,  to  Lieutenant  Gil- 
bert A.  McElroy,  13th  Infantry,  U.  S.  A. 


Miss  Ethel  Miles,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  E. 

Miles,  to  Brander  Townsend  Brady,  son  of  Cyrus 

Townsend    Brady. 
Miss  Margaret  Simpson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and   Mrs. 

John  Simpson,  to  Reverend  William  James  Cuth- 

bert  of  Japan. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

April  14th  (Thursday) — Miss  Mary  Elizabeth 
Wayte,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Wayte, 
to  Charles  Abbott  Whitemore,  St.  Luke's 
Church,  8  p.  in. 

April  1 8th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Florence  Alice 
Boone,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philipp  Boone, 
to  Ralph  La  Rose  Phelps,  2029  Durante  avenue, 
Berkeley,  8  p.  m. 

April  30th  (Saturday) — Miss  Edna  Barry  to  Philip 
Clay,  St.  John's  Church,  Oakland,  4  p.  m. 

May  nth  (Wednesday) — Miss  Ella  Goodall  to  Doc- 
tor Charles  Minor  Cooper. 


Seldom  has  there  been  a  more  delightful  tea  than 
the  one  given  last  Saturday  by  Miss  Helene  Heise 
at  the  residence  of  her  mother,  Mrs.  R.  D.  Fry.  The 
bevy  of  pretty  girls,  with  their  charming  hostess, 
made  a  picture  long  to  be  remembered.  Among  those 
present  were  the  Misses  Vivienne  Gedge,  Cornelia 
Curry,  Caro  Nichols,  Emma  Kenyon,  Anna  Kenyon, 
Callie  Guff,  Ida  Hasson,  Barbara  Small,  Constance 
Jeffries,  Lillian  Hodghead,  Lucy  Garrard,  Valeria 
Gerrard,  Ada  Adair,  Jean  Adair,  Mabel  Miller  and 
Miss  Hinds. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending  April 
S,  1904:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins,  Mr.  B.  M. 
Gunn,  Mr.  Richard  C.  Harrison,  Mr.  F.  Gilmore. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  P.  Kendall,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Gohde,  Miss 
A.  Thode,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Loneridge,  Miss  H.  Loneridge, 
Miss  M.  Haywood,  Miss  E.  Haywood,  Mr.  J.  H.  de 
Graff,  Mrs.  C.  Weston,  Mrs.  E.  Mathewson,  Mrs. 
V.  O.  McAllen.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Kingsbury,  Mr.  R. 
McLillie,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  M.  Taggart,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  Beckwell,  Mrs.  E.  Scherline,  Mr.  and  -Mrs. 
Henry  Levy,  Mrs.   Lizzie  Cook. 

The  California  Promotion  Committee  will  give  a 
dinner  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco.  This 
dinner  will  be  a  State  function,  celebrating  the  united 
effort  in  promotion  work.  Owing  to  extensive  pre- 
parations, acceptances  arerequested  by  April  15th. 

The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


L>  o  Km. 
Drisiol    Lo, 

The  San  Francisco  establish- 
ment ot  these  widely  known 

JEWELERS  ®.  SILVERSMITHS 

will    ho   opened   on    Saturday  April  I61K. 

Tliev  cordially  invite  the  public  to  view  their 
productions  which  rival  any  similar  display 
ever  exhibited  in  this  city. 

104-1 IO  Geary  Street 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


April  9,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


SCHOOL  CHILDREN'S  EXHIBIT. 
Specimens  of  the  work  of  San  Francis- 
childrcn  in  the  departments  of  drawing  and  v 
carving  have  been  forwarded  to  St.  Louis  for  exhibi- 
tion in  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exhibition,  and  no 
doubt  they  will  command  favorable  attention.  The 
mens  were  not  selected  with  the  view  of  exag 
gcrating  the  proficiency  of  the  young  artists,  nor  to 
show  a  standard  of  work  higher  than  is  maintained 
all  the  time.  The  methods  employed  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Education  in  Manual  Training  are  simply 
such  as  are  best  calculated  to  encourage  and  facili- 
tate the  development  of  the  artistic  on  lines  of  use- 
fulness and  personal  advantage  in  the  avenues  of 
employment :  the  idea  being  to  equip  each  pupil,  as 
far  as  may  be.  with  a  thorough  practical  knowledge 
of  the  rules  of  carving  and  drawing  by  actual  exper- 
ience. The  exhibit  now  on  its  way  to  St.  Louis  will, 
therefore,  be  a  just  presentation  of  the  product  of 
those  of  San  Francisco's  school  children  who  are 
in  training  in  that  department  of  the  Public  School 
System.  When  the  several  specimens  are  properly 
displayed  in  the  building  to  which  they  are  assigned, 
there  is  not  a  doubt  that  they  will  not  only  compare 
most  favorably  with  similar  exhibits  from  other 
sections  of  the  country,  but  will  show  merit  and  tal- 
ent of  wdiich  San  Francisco  may  well  be  proud.  Many 
of  the  specimens,  both  of  wood  carving  and  drawing, 
indicate  originality  of  design  and  painstaking  in  exe- 
cution that  bespeak  a  career  of  remunerative  useful- 
ness in  the  field  of  art,  culture  and  demonstration 
for  their  designers'  skillful  hands. 


Our  women  are  still  progressing  in  vigor  and  pic- 
turesqueness  of  language.  One  of  them  the  other 
day  called  her  husband  a  "dog-faced  man"  and  threat- 
ened to  brain  him  with  the  frying  pan.  Two  insti- 
tutions combine  to  add  to  the  effectiveness  of  the 
militant  female,  one  being  the  woman's  club,  which, 
by  its  literary  research,  adds  to  the  strength  and 
copiousness  of  the  vocabulary ;  the  other,  physical 
culture,  which  improves  the  muscle,  and  renders 
them  better  able  to  contend  against  the  office-stale 
complement  of  the  dominant  sex.  Let  us  keep  up 
our  courage.  We  shall  soon  produce  a  female  who 
will  combine  in  her  own  person  the  physical  vulgar- 
ity of  the  Spartan  woman  with  the  linguistic  ability 
of  a  Billingsgate  fish-wife. 

Coupon  No.  605  won  the  Pony  and  Trap  raffled 
by  the  "Doctor's  Daughters,"  and  has  not  yet  been 
called  for.  The  party  holding  this  coupon  is  re- 
quested to  present  it  to  Mrs.  Fred  W.  Tallant,  south- 
west corner  Buchanan  and  Washington  streets,  and 
receive  the  pony  and  trap,  otherwise  it  will  be  neces- 
sary to  have  a  second  drawing  to  dispose  of  the 
outfit. 


Red  Eyes  and  Eyelids. 

Granulated  Eyelids  and  other  Eye   troubles  cured  by  Murine   Eye 
Be  medy ;  doesn't  smart. 


Engagement  Cups. 

Have  just  unpacked  a  beautiful  and  varied  assortment  of  superb  cups 
t  >r  engagement  sifts.  S.  A  G.  Gump  Co.    11a  Geary  St. 


See  our  3  months  ahead  ideas  in  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


The  latest  style  In  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


P.    WESTERFELD    3   CO.,   BaKers   and   Confectioners 

10JS  MMfkl  T  STREET 


CROWN  CAK[ 


Trade  jTlarH 


twittered 


A  DELICIOUS 

BREAKFAST  CAKE 


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Price.  25c,  50c,  and  75c 

Crown   Cake,  with   Chocolate  Iclnjr,   Garnished   with   Almond   Slices 

Price.  50c,  75c  and  $1.00 


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ANNOUNCEMENT 

€[[  Decorations  for  weddings,  dinners,  luncheons, 
receptions  and  stores.  f[  Flower  gifts  attractively 
arranged.  Bridal  bouquets  artistically  specialized. 
<]|  Original  designs  in  favors,  name  cards,  menus, 
almond  dishes  and  candle  shades.  ^  Out  of  town 
societies,  clubs  and  private  parties  requiring  decora- 
tions and  supplies  for  society  functions  are  invited 
to  correspond,  when  suggestions,  estimates  and 
samples  will  be  most  cheerfully  submitted. 


=^V 


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121  Post  Street 


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Tel.  John  1911 


San  Francisco 


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ness and  Importers  of  English  Saddlery,  will  now  be 
found  at  110-112  MARKET  STREET,  where  you  will 
find  the  finest  and  largest  stock  of  everything  for  the 
horse,  show-ring  and  stock-farm.  Telephone  Bush  651- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


IP  THE  LQOKER-ONgl 


We  have  paid  our  little  due  to  Miss  Convention. 

And  we've  found  it  just  as  much  as  we  could  wish. 
Now  our  pleasures  shall  receive  our  glad  attention 
That  we  put  our  little  offering  in  the  dish. 
For  a  dollar  to  the  poor 

And  a  passport  to  the  revel, 
Means   a   conscience   that's  secure, 
When  we  traffic  with  the  Devil. 

The  forced  abstention  sent  us  all  revolting. 

But  there  comes  a  limit  even  to  our  pain, 
And  society,  the  wanton,  is  assaulting 
The  battlements  of  folly  once  again. 
Put  a  dollar  in  the  plate — 

Then  you  feel  you've  done  your  duty, 
And  accelerate  your  gait 

To  the  shrines  of  wine  and  beautv. 

—Roland  Whittle. 

It  is  charged  that  three  policemen,  tired  of  inac- 
tivity on   their  beats,   have  resorted   to  burglarv   in 
an  endeavor  to  create  excitement.    I  am  not  prepared 
to  believe  that  the  policemen  committed  the  crimes 
charged  against  them  :  not  because  I  consider  them 
guiltless  of  such  desires,  but  rather  because  the  paper 
that  makes  the  charge  has  for  years  made  the  police 
department  the  object  of  many  unwarranted  attacks. 
While  it  may  be  true  that  policemen  are  guilty  of 
many  offenses,  it  does  not  seem  probable  that  the 
three  accused  men  risked  San  Ouentin  for  the  paltry 
amount  stolen  from  the  saloon  on  their  beat.    There 
is    proof,    however,    that    they    were    certainly    very 
negligent   of   their   duty,    and    for   this    reason    they 
should  be  severely  punished.     I  made  some  reference 
recently  to  the  practice  in  the     Police     Courts     of 
licensing  Chinese  gamblers  by  levying  nominal  fines. 
That  is  one  instance  of  mal-administration  of  police 
affairs.     It  is  also  notorious  that  "bunco"  men   are 
numerous  in  the  city  because  policemen  will  not  ar- 
rest them  without  specific  orders  from  headquarters. 
That  is  another  instance  of  mal-administration.    One 
of  the  officers,  now  accused  of  robbing  the  saloon, 
arrested  several  notorious  confidence  operators  sev- 
eral years  ago,  but  was  required  to  release  them.  In- 
order  from  the  "upper  office."     If  lie  is  now  trying 
to  reap  a  harvest  on  his  beat,  much  of  the  fault  would 
seem  to  be  with  those  directors  of  police  affairs,  who 
seem  to  be  eternally  winking  with  one  eye,  the  while 
they  are  very  vigilant  with  the  other. 
*  *  * 
Being  filled  with  modesty.  I  will  not  lay  claim  to 
powers  of  divination  in  relation  to  the  Botkin  case, 
but  I  may  say  that  readers  of  this  column  are,  of 
course,  not  surprised  with  the  scandalous  develop- 
ments in  the  course  of  that  notorious  trial.    I  pointed 
out  that  it  was  apparent  that  nothing  would  be  left 
undone  to  save  the  defendant  from  the  gallows  or  life 
imprisonment.     It  is  not  necessary  to  repeat  my  sug- 
gestions regarding  the  very  remarkable  story  of  Mrs. 
Botkin's    "double."    discovered      first      by    the    trial 
Judge,    and  -quite   recently   elaborated    upon    by   the 
Examiner.     Listen  to  what  Mrs.  Botkin  herself  sai  1 
during  her  direct  examination  the  other  day: 

Knight — Were  you  in  a  street  car  on  Sunday. 
April  22,   1900? 

Mrs.  Botkin — No,  sir. 

The  date  mentioned  is  the  day  on  which  Judge 
Cook  says  he  saw  in  a  street  car  a  woman  who.  he 
says,  he  thought  was  Mrs.  Botkin.     During  her  ex- 


amination Mrs.  Botkin  also  denied  that  she  had 
been  at  other  places,  and  added  to  her  denial,  "it 
must  have  been  my  double."  So  the  "double"  has 
entered  into  the  case.  Now.  prepare  for  a  real,  sure- 
enough  double,  manufactured  for  this  occasion  only. 
Then,  for  the  argument  on  mistaken  identity.  After 
that,  in  the  event  of  a  conviction,  an  appeal,  reversal 
and  new  trial  based  on  the  prejudice  aroused  in  the 
minds  of  the  jurors  by  the  incident  of  the  alleged 
bribery,  and  the  motion  to  dismiss  the  jury.  Then 
would  come  a  new  trial  with  its  attendant'  expense 
ami  the  difficulty  of  again  getting  the  witnesses  from 
Delaware.  Mrs.  Botkin  is  fighting  for  her  life,  and 
no  card  in  the  deck  will  be  left  unturned  to  her  dis- 
advantage. Meanwhile,  who  is  paying  her  expenses? 
She  is  not  a  woman  of  wealth  ;  her  former  husband 
is  not  a  millionaire,  and  for  years  he  has  not  over- 
burdened her  with  coin.  Yet  she  appears  in  jewels 
and  fine  raiment,  and  it  is  charged  that  some  one 
offered  a  juror  a  bribe  for  his  vote  in  her  favor. 
Strange,  isn't  it? 

*  *  * 

The  editorial  in  last  week's   Xews   Letter  on  the 
graft  in  the  Board  of  Health  has  not  been  without  its 
effect.     The  Board  of  Health  has  adopted  rules  for 
the   guidance   of  the   physicians   in   the    Emergency 
Hospitals.    These  rules  prohibit  the  physicians  from 
charging  fees  against  the  persons  of  those  emergency 
patients  who  may  escape  with  their  lives,  or  putting 
in  bills  against  the  estates  of  those  who  may  die,  as 
more  than  a  few  have  while  in  charge  of  the  "acci- 
dent doctors."     To     a  layman,  it  seems  more  than 
passing  strange  that  it  should  be  necessary  to  adopt 
rules  for  the  guidance  of  a  job  lot  of  physicians  along 
the  path  of  honesty,     ft  is  certainly  cause  for  not  a 
little  wonderment  that  professional  men  have   such 
insufficient  personal   sense  of  the   eternal   fitness  of 
things — such    disregard    for    the    proprieties   of    the 
occasion  in  which  they  may  find  themselves — that  it 
has  become   necessary   to   fetter  them   by  rules  de- 
vised  for  the  sole  purpose  of  keeping  them  honest. 
No  man  was  ever  made  honest  by  reason  of  a  rule 
or  a  law.     If  his  brand  of  honor  is  of  the  kind  that 
requires  penal  attachments  to  keep  it  in  place,  it  is 
beneath  consideration.     It  is  strange  that  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Board  of  Health  do  not  see  that  point. 
Why,  take  this  latest  case  in  which  Chief  Surgeon 
Brackett    is    implicated.     He   attended      a     butcher 
named  Buttgenbach,  who  was  taken  to  the  hospital 
after  being  shot  bv  unknown  assassins.     Of  course 
the  butcher  died,  but  now  along  comes  Brackett  with 
a  bill  of  $250  for  medical  services  rendered  the  but- 
cher, who  came  to  him  as  an  emergency  patient.  The 
doctor  says  he  will  not  push  the  claim,  because  he 
is  now  aware  that  its  presentation  was  contrary  to 
the  rules  of  the  Board  of  Health.     Is  that  an  admis- 
sion that  the  claim  was  not  a  just  one.  to  begin  with? 
If  it  were  proper,  how  can  a  rule  make  it  improper? 
Let   me   see.     Brackett   gets   $150   a   month   salary; 
last  month,  in  addition,  he  presented  bills  amounting 
to  $750  to  patients  whom  he  met  in  his  capacity  as 


FURNISHED  HOUSE  TO-LET 

Magnificent  marine  view.  Nine  rooms:  Billiard  Boom. Bath 
and  modern  conveniences.  One  block  from  Hyde-et.  cars.  Bent 
reasonable.      Apply  to  Miss  Hamilton.  1613  Washington  street. 


April  g,  1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»5 


emergency  surgeon.    That  makes  a  total  of  $900  for 
the  month — if  he  gets  it  all.    Can  you  heat  him? 

*  *  • 

Mrs.  P.  A.  Finigan  is  reported  as  earning  fame  and 
dollars  in  London  as  a  demonstrator  of  all  that  may 

raoefnl  in  the  female  form  divine.  She  should 
succeed  easily  along  that  lino,  for  she  was  known 
here  for  years  not  only  as  one  of  the  most  beautiful 
anil  graceful  women  in  society,  hut  also  as  one  of 
the  most  charming.  She  has  resumed  her  maiden 
name — Bovsen — and  judging  from  the  reports  in  the 
English  papers,  has  gained  a  large  clientele  among 
the  women  of  the  British  metropolis.  The  general 
idea  is  to  teach  English  girls  to  be  as  graceful  as 
Parisiennes  or  Americans.  There  is  no  gainsaying 
the  fact  that  while  there  may  not  he  found  on  earth 
a  more  charming  companion  than  a  highly  cultured 
Englishwoman,  the  fact  remains  that  as  a  class  they 
do  not  seem  to  possess  so  much  innate  grace  as  their 
more  fortunate  sisters  of  the  two  Republics.  Mrs. 
Finigan,  or  Bovsen.  has  therefore  discovered  a  mis- 
sion. If  she  wins  out,  the  Colonel  may  no  longer 
he  troubled  by  reported  endeavors  to  conceal  hoarded 
wealth  so  that  his  wife  may  not  reach  for  it  for  pur- 

S    of   alimony. 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  very  last  names  on  the  list,  if  you  wrote 
down  the  names  of  domesticated  public  men,  would 
be  Ferris  Hartman.  Now,  wouldn't  it?  When  you 
see  him  gyrating  around  the  Tivoli  stage,  it  is  hard 
to  imagine  him  closely  hugging  the  gas  grate  and  lull- 
ing the  baby  to  sleep  by  singing:  "He  Never  Cares 
to  Wander  from  His  Own  Fireside."  But  Hartman 
is  It  with  a  big  I.  What  do  you  think  he  was  doing 
last  Sunday?  Why,  pushing  a  baby  carriage  around 
the  music  stand  at  the  Park  before  the  eyes  of  ad- 
miring thousands.  The  curtains  of  the  carriage  were 
closely  drawn,  but  it  is  Said  that  within,  calmly 
sleeping,  was  Hartman's  latest  production.  Next 
Monday  night,  pictures  of  the  baby  will  be  distributed 
at  the  door  of  the  Tivoli,  and  on  each  will  be  this  au- 
tographic inscription :  "With  the  compliments  of 
the  author. — Ferris  Hartman."  By  the  way,  has  any 
one  ever  noticed  how  much  Hartman's  every-day  face 
looks  like  General  de  Young's?  This  with  regrets 
and  apologies  to  both  of  them. 

*  *  * 

The  Merchants'  Association  thinks  Assessor 
Dodge  has  been  making  too  much  money.  It  wants 
to  know  by  what  authority  of  law  he  drew  about 
$3,000  extra  last  year,  when  the  amendment  doubling 
his  salary  did  not  become  operative  until  January 
last.  Dodge  says  he  drew  the  increased  amount  be- 
cause the  people  voted  it,  the  Legislature  ratified  it, 
he  needs  it,  he  thinks  he  is  entitled  to  it,  and  it  is 
the  money  of  the  people,  anyhow.  Yet  the  Mer- 
chants' Association  is  not  satisfied.  It  may  be  that 
the  statements  of  the  directors  of  the  Association 
will  bear  revision  before  the  assessment  roll  is,  made 
up. 

*  *  \ 

The  investigation  made  by  Judge  Kerrigan  into  the 
spoliation  of  the  Kryzyanowski  estate  shows  the  need 
of  a  vigcrous  and  watchful  Bar  Association  in  this 
city.  There  are  too  many  Nagles  and  Perrys  and 
Solomons  pirating  at  the  local  bar.  Out  of  an  allow- 
ance of  $10,000,  the  lawyers  got  away  with  $8,oco, 
and  now  they  not  only  decline  to  tell  where  their 
woman  client  is,  but  they  "do  not  remember"  whether 
she  got  a  cent  of  the  ten  thousand.  One  of  the  Nagles 
thought  the  remaining  $2,000  went  for  "expenses." 


Pears9 

Which  would  you  rath- 
er have,  if  you  could  have 
your  choice,  transparent 
skin  or  perfect  features  ? 

All  the  world  would 
choose  one  way;  and  you 
can  have  it  measurably. 

If  you  use  Pears'  Soap 
and  live  wholesomely 
otherwise,  you  will  have 
the  best  complexion  Na- 
ture has  for  you. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


The  Bar  Association  has  been  but  a  name  for  lo, 
these  many  years.  It  should  do  something  to  purge 
the  bar  or  quit  business. 

*  *  * 

Jack  London's  forte  is  certainly  not  correspondence 
from  the  field  of  battle.  In  a  long  story  he  states 
this  very  important  discovery:  "Ever  since  war  be- 
gan and  man  domesticated  the  fowl,  chickens  and 
eggs  have  been  considered  lawful  loot,  and  so  long  as 
man  shall  be  irrational  enough  to  fight  wars,  that 
long  will  the  stomach  and  the  ethics  of  the  soldier 
remain  unchanged."  And  Hearst  pays  $1,000  a  month 
— or  is  it  a  week — for  that  sort  of  stuff.  Another 
evidence  of  the  fact  that  he  is  not  fit  to  be  Presi- 
dent. 

*  *  * 

George  Whittell  has  been  at  it  again.  If  old  Nick 
Luning  ever  thought  his  hard-earned  dollars  would 
be  burned  along  the  roads  of  Alameda  County,  at 
the  rate  of  forty  miles  an  hour — but  why  pursue  a 
painful  subject.  George  has  caused  his  father  more 
trouble  than  all  his  money.  If  the  unfortunate  young 
women  from  Natoma  street  ever  get  out  of  the  hos- 
pital, the  only  romantic  thing  young  Whittle  can  do, 
of  course,  is  to  marry  her.  This  automobile  business 
is  just  as  dangerous  for  the  heart,  it  is  said,  as  it  is 
occasionally  for  the  limbs. 

Richard  McVey,  the  Delaware  detective,  now  en- 
joying the  hospitality  of  San  Francisco,  is  a  "bad 
actor."  When  he  left  here,  after  the  first  Botkin 
trial,  he  forgot  to  settle  a  choice  collection  of  bills. 
Among  them  was  one  due  to  Patrick  Sullivan.  The 
latter  stood  up  McVey  the  other  day  and  demanded 
his  coin.  There  was  a  glitter  in  the,  Sullivan  eye, 
and  harsh  was  the  Sullivan  tones.  McVey  immedi- 
ately drew  an  order  for  the  money,  and  the  creditor 
went  his  way  rejoicing.  It  is  not  well  to  owe  money 
to  large,  rude  men  bearing  the  honored  and  ancient 
name  of  Sullivan. 


Fine    stationery,    steel    and    copperplate    engraving. 

Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


h;-msmmm  financial  k  #i 


Report  No.  53  of  the  Peer- 
Peerless  Oil  Wells.  less  Oil  Company,  says  in 
regard  to  betterments  on 
the  Kern  River  ground  since  last  report  on  Januarv 
1,  T904.  that  wells  Nos.  31,  32  and  33  have  been  com- 
pleted, but  No.  32  is  being  re-drilled  because  of  the 
upper  casing.  A  pump  house  is  being  constructed 
over  our  pipe  line  pump.  The  production  during  the 
three  months  ended  March  31  aggregated  479,160 
barrels;  the  deliveries  during  the  same  time  aggre- 
gated 582,217.  Seven  million  two  hundred  thousand 
barrels  are  yet  to  be  delivered  on  contract  with  Pa- 
cific Coast  Oil  Company.  There  is  nothing  to  show 
that  any  difficulty  will  be  experienced  in  producing 
this  amount  of  oil  during  the  time  limit  of  the  con- 
tract. The  production  of  well  No.  1  on  the  Coalinga 
property  of  the  company  has  increased  steadily,  until 
on  March  29  it  was  266  barrels  per  day.  The  gravity 
of  this  oil  is  21  degrees  Beaume,  and  it  finds  a  readv 
sale  at  20  cents  per  barrel.  As  soon  as  oil  was  struck. 
two  1200  barrel  tanks  were  put  up,  and  the  Pacific 
Coast  Oil  Company  has  extended  a  line  to  these 
tanks.  Our  regular  deliveries  began  March  5th.  The 
pump  plant  station  has  been  completed.  A  strike 
of  Oil  is  expected  at  any  time  in  well  No.  2  at  the 
Fulton.  The  experienced  oil  men  who  have  exam- 
ined this  property  concur  in  the  opinion  that  its  value 
is  at  least  as  great  as  that  of  our  property  at  Kern 
River  wells.  Well  No.  5  has  been  finished,  but  the 
flow  of  sand,  gas  and  oil  from  No.  2  has  prevented  its 
completion.  The  gas  pressure  has,  however,  relaxed 
in  all  our  six  wells,  and  some  of  them  are  now  being 
pumped  " 

Not   much   publicity   has   been 

The  Coming  Gas     given  to  the  unsigned  circular 

Election.  which    shareholders    of   the    S. 

F.  Gas  and  Electric  Company 
received  with  their  dividend  checks  recently.  This 
inspired  document  warns  shareholders  that  a  proxy 
given  to  any  one  outside  of  those  endorsed  by  ten 
members  of  the  present  Board  of  Directors  will  aug- 
ment a  faction  of  discord  in  the  directory  and  can 
only  result  in  hampering  the  management  and  in- 
terfering with  its  efficiency.  Following  is  this  bid 
for  support,  an  appeal  to  pockets  already,  in  the  ma- 
jority of  cases,  badly  depleted  by  a  shrinkage  in 
•alues:  "Before  the  present  management  assumed 
control,  stock  was  sold  under  $35  per  share.  Before 
the  date  of  Mr.  C.  O.  G.  Miller's  first  circular  letter 
it  v.-as  over  $70  per  share.  After  the  date  of  Mr.  C. 
O.  G.  Miller's  first  circular  letter  it  was  under  $55 
per  share.  Shareholders  supporting  the  regular 
ticket  will  assist  the  management  in  upbuilding  the 
property  and  increasing  the  value  of  their  holdings." 

There  is  one  thing  to  be  said  about  the  Miller  cir- 
cular — it  was  unsigned:  this  anonymous  screed  is 
fathered  by  nobody,  possibly  because  nobody  hail 
the  colossal  gall  to' put  his  name  to  it.  In  the  first 
place,  it  admits  that  a  faction  of  discord  does  exist 
in  the  directory  by  the  fear  expressed  that  it  may  be 
augmented.  Again  the  insinuation  that  the  break- 
in  the  stock  has  been  qiiite  a  recent  affair  and  due 
entirely  to  the  action  of  Mr.  Miller,  who,  by  the  way, 
comes  in  for  a  nice  little  stab  in  the  back  from  some 
unknown  hand,  overlooking  the  fact  that  the  move- 
ment up  to  $70  mentioned  was  simply  due  to  manipu- 
lation, and  that  the  real  break  in  the  stock,  and  the 


one  that  caused  the  most  serious  injury,  took  place 
long  before  the  company  changed  its  complexion, 
with  practically  no  change  in  the  main  management. 
Who  was  in  control  at  that  period,  pray,  when  the 
scheme  for  the  present  combination  was  being 
hatched  out.  If  this  circular,  anonymous,  by  the 
way,  exercises  any  effect  upon  the  shareholders  who 
received  it,  there  is  only  one  way  it  can  sway  the 
mind  of  an  old-time  shareholder,  and  that  is  to  desire 
and  work  for  a  clean  sweep  of  the  present  board 
outside  of  the  existing  faction  of  discord. 


The  only  safety  for  the  shareholders  of  this  com- 
pany lies  in  discord  and  plenty  of  it.  The  resignation 
of  Manager  Lawless  points  to  him  as  a  man  who 
recognized  the  difficulties  of  a  situation  where  a  man's 
best  efforts  and  good  will  were  handicapped  in  every 
direction  to  his  own  disadvantage  and  disgust.  The 
consumers  of  the  doubly  execrated  product  of  this 
unpopular  concern  will  be  quite  ready  now  to  re- 
lieve Mr.  Lawless  of  the  responsibility  for  the  treat- 
ment of  which  so  many  complaints  have  been  made 
of  late  to  pose  him  in  the  position  of  martyr.  It  is 
a  relief  also  to  be  informed  that  Mr.  Miller  is  about 
to  enter  the  board,  but  only  in  a  measure.  Tt  would 
have  served  the  public  better  had  he  stuck  to  the 
good  fight  he  was  making,  and  went  in  as  President 
and  in  control  of  the  corporation.  However,  it  is 
useless  to  expect  everything  in  this  quarter  of  the 
globe.  It  remains  to  be  seen  how  the  cat  will  jump 
at  the  approaching  election.  There  is  one  thing  that 
shareholders  should  remember,  that  a  continuance 
of  the  present  powers  in  control  will  be  a  piece  of 
insanity  upon  their  part  which  they  will  regret  in 
the  future. 

Business  continues  good  in  the 
Pine-St.  Market,     local      market     for      Comstock 

shares.  Prices  have  shown 
considerable  strength  throughout,  with  fluctuation, 
active  enough  to  permit  traders  making  handsome 
profit  provided  they  chose  to  take  them.  Some  radi- 
cal changes  are  likely  to  take  place  in  Comstock  af- 
fairs before  long,  in  conformity  with  the  plans  al- 
ready outlined  by  the  management  of  the  mines.  All 
is  working,  however,  to  improve  the  situation,  and 
furnish  strong  and  material  backing  to  the  market. 
This  should  result  in  much  higher  prices,  which 
means  money-making  for  all  who  have  the  nerve  to 
get  into  the  market  and  hold  on.  People  who  bought 
Ophir  months  ago  at  and  below  $1  per  share,  had  no 
cause  to  regret  their  venture,  and  there  are  stocks 
in  the  list  now,  and  some  of  them  very  low-priced 
at  that,  which  are  to  do  just  as  Ophir  has  done,  be- 
fore long. 

There  is  no  vital  reason  why  local 
Local  Stocks  stocks  should  be  so  quiet  as  they 
and  Bonds,      are  just  now.     Money  is  plentiful  in 

town,  and  there  are  good  opportuni- 
ties offering  for  investment  on  the  Roard  outside  of 
Gas  and  Electric,  which  gave  the  old-time  investors 
such  a  disagreeable  bump.  There  are  any  number 
of  other  stocks  which  are  available  for  the  investment 
of  idle  funds  to  good  advantage.  Considerable  more 
trading  has  been  done  in  the  bond  market  of  late, 
but  the  movement  is  small,  even  then,  compared 
with  what  it  ought  to  be.  The  Pacific  Lighting  Co. 
paid   its   regular  monthly  dividend  of  35  cents  per 


April  9,  1904. 

share  on  April  5th,  and  on  the  same  date  the  Onomea 
npanv  paid  a  dividend  of  jo  cents  per  share. 

A  sale  of  the  old  Sierra  Buttea  nunc,  near  Sicrr.i 
has  been  sold,  it  is  said,  through  Richard  Phe 
Ian  to  San  Jose  panics.    A  consideration  i--  named, 

but  the  fig  en  are  not  official,  and  cannot  he 

relied  upon. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


The  Mining  Reporter  of  Denver  states  it  has  n  .1 
■  >r  believing  that  the  directors  of  Stratton's  In- 
dependence  mine,  at   Cripple   Creek,  Colorado,  are 
Icring  the  closing  of  the  property.  The  assigned 

ins  for  this  are  that  developments  in  the  lower 
-  are  unsatisfactory,  although  it  is  believed  that 

there  arc  bodies  of  pay  ore   in   some  of  the   upper 

levels. 


James  K.  Wilson,  president  of  the  San  Francisco 

National  Hank,  who  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Council  at  the  Convention  of  the  American 
Rankers'  Association,  held  lure  last  year,  is  about 
to  leave  shortly  for  New  York  to  attend  the  meeting 
of  the  Council  to  meet  in  that  city  on  April  27th  and 
28th. 


4  1-2  P*r  Cent  Inter**!  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L  Association 

r«r»  *  1-3  l^r  >-<>!it  Interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
initially,  nml  ♦*,  i»oreent  on  term  necountsof  $100  or 
atonal  payable  Beml-annoaUr. 

MB    CALIFORNIA    BTBEET,    BAD    1I1ANCI8CO. 

HwdOapttal $8,000,000 

Paid  liiCapital 1.000000 

Guarantee  Capital "..'.m.000 

Real  estate  loana  mad Improved  property— Principal  and  interest 

lie  in  monthly  installment*  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIHEOTORK 

A  A  Walking,  Vloe-Preeldenl  W.  w.  Montague  A.  Co President 

CliurlesB. Bishop.  Vice-President  Bank  ot California.... Vice-President 

8.  Prentiss  Smith.  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grnnce.  Gen.  Mur.  Equitable  S.  A  L.  Association. 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman.  Mgr.  ^Etna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  8.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

elms.  E.  Ladd.  Bnnker. Portland.  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab.  Attorney-at-law Attorney 

Walter  K.  Smith Cashier 


The  Mining  Journal  of  London,  of  March  5,  1004, 
contains  a  supplement  in  which  is  printed  a  tabular 
arrangement  of  the  distinguished  characteristics  and 
localities  of  precious  stones,  compiled  by  Mr.  Leo- 
pold Claremont.  of  London,  the  eminent  authority 
on  precious  stones.  Thirty-six  varieties  of  gems  are 
listed,  among  them  being  several  gem  stones  found 
in  California. 

OBITUARY. 
Dr.  Louis  A.  Kengla  is  dead,  and  was  buried  on 

March  28th.  He  was,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  editor 
of  the  Pacific  Medical  Tournal.  Dr.  Kengla  was  a 
splendid  man,  and  an  ornament  to  his  profession, 
and  his  taking-off  is  bemoaned  by  many.  He  had  a 
large  charity  list,  and  there  are  many  poor  families 
in  this  city,  and,  indeed,  in  Oakland  and  Alameda, 
that  will  now  have  to  look  elsewhere  for  a  physician, 
and  much  suffering  will  ensue,  as  many  of  these  are 
not  able  to  pay  for  medical  services  and  much  suffer- 
ing is  sure  to  follow.  The  community  could  well 
have  spared  many  another  man. 

Coupon  No.  605  won  the  Pony  and  Trap  raffled 
bv  the  "Doctor's  Daughters,"  and  has  not  yet_  been 
called  for.  The  party  holding  this  coupon  is  re- 
quested to  present  it  to  Mrs.  Fred  W.  Tallant,  south- 
west corner  Buchanan  and  Washington  streets,  and 
receive  the  pony  and  trap,  otherwise  it  will  be  neces- 
sary to  have  a  second  drawing  to  dispose  of  the 
outfit. 

Teeia  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 

factory  for  $6  00  per  ton.  Use  Briquettes  for  cooking- and 
heating  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your  fue 
uilf  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  -will 
receive  prompt  attention.  ■ 

and  Grant  Ave. 

waiters. 

High  grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to  measure.     Tom  Dillon  & 
Co.,  opp.  Palace. 


3    MONEY    3 


Part  of  Marconi  Certificates.  Let  Your 
Money  Work  for  You.  Marconi  Certifi- 
cates Will  Net  You  From  100  to  1000  Per 
Cent  Better  Results  Than  Any  Labor  of 
Yours  Can  Produce. 

ACT    NOW— DO    NOT     DELAY 

Send  your  check  or  money  order  for  aa  many  blocks  of  20  as  you 
wish  to  the  undersigned.  No  subscription  for  less  than  $100.  Price  par 
for  $5.00  certificates.    The  price  may  advance  any  day. 

The  stock  of  the  British  Marconi  Company  was  put  at  J5.00  and 
and  is  now  selling  at  $22  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange,  an  advance  of 
340  per  cent.  The  possibilities  of  the  American  Company  are  much 
greater. 

Tne  Marconi  system  Is  indorsed  by  such  men  as  Andrew  Carnegie 
and  Thomas  A.  Edison,  and  by  the  press  of  the  entire  world.  Edison. 
Marconi  and  Pupin  are  the  Consulting  Engineers  of  the  American 
Company. 

Prospectus  upon  application  and  your  correspondence  solicited- 

F.  P.  WARD  &  Co.,  Bankers 

CROSSLEY    BUILDING,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Century  Building,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Farmers'  Bank 
Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa. ;  Land  Title  Building,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. ;  Union  Trust  Building,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio ;  Royal  Insurance  Building,  Chicago,  111. 

Correspondents — Munroe  &  Munroe,  N.  Y. 


California    Safe 

Deposit  and 

Trust  Co. 

Corner 
California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San    Francisco,  Cat. 


Capital  and  Surplus 
Total  Assets 


$1,401,160.93 
6,943,782.82 


Interest  paid  on  deposits, 
subject  to  check,  at  the 
rate  of  two  per  cent  per 
annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and  six-tenths  per  cent 
per  annum. 

Trusts  executed.  "We  are 
authorized  to  act  as  the 
guardian  of  estates  and  the 
executor  of  wills. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented 
at  $5  per  annum  and  up- 
wards. 

Get  a  box  at  once  and  guard 
against  loss  by  Fire  or 
Burglars. 

J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Ma.na.ger 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital.   Surplus  and   Undivided  >  <£  1  q  cnn  nnn 

Homer  S.  King.  President ;  F.  L.  Lipman,  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King.    Assistant    Cashier:   J  no.    E.    Miles.    Assistant    Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New   lork;   Bait    Lake.    Utah;   Portland,   I  »r. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness  transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savinas  Union 

532  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President;  \V.  C.  E.  DeFREMERY,  ROBERT 
WATT.  Vice-Presidents;  i.uveu.  WHITE.  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH,    Assistant   Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond.  \v.  C.  P..  DeFremery,  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Barth,  C.  O.  G.  .Miller,  Fred  H. 
Heaver.   William   A.   Magee,   Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
<>r  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.   to  ::  p.   m.    Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  *. 

Deposits.  December  31.  1903   $33,232,908 

Guarantee  Capital,  Paid-up  1.000. 00> 

Reserve  and   Contingent    Funds    899.516 

Mutual  Savinas  Bank  of  s»r  F>»r.ci9oo 

710  Market  street,  opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    $1, ,000 

Paid-up   Capital   and   Surplus 500.000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent: GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President;   C.   B.    HOBSOX.   Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphy,  John  A.  Hooper. 
James  Moffitt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  MeElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,   James   M.    McDonald.    Charles    Holbrook. 

Interest    paid    on    deposits.      Loans    on    approved    securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 


The  German   Savinas  ti>  Loan  Soc'etv 

NO.  526  CALIFORNIA   STREET,   SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed    Capital    and    Surplus    (2,423,751.60 

Capital  Actually   Paid-up   in   Cash    I.Ooo.ikki.oo 

Deposits.    December    31,    1903 36.049. 191. 18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— .  resident,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,   H.    Horstmann; 

lgn.   Steinhardt.   Enii]    Rohte,    II.   B.    Iin«,    X.    Ohlandt,    I.    X.    Wal- 
ter  and   J.    W,    Van    llergen. 

Cashier.  A.  II.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary.  A.  ... 
.\iidi.r;  General   Attorney,    w.  s.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  in   1889.  OJ     CALIFORNIA. 

301    California   St..   San   Francisco,   Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital     J15.000.000.00 

Paid-in    Capital    3,000,000.00 

Profit  and    Reserve    Fund    450,000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  al  the  ran  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  5  per  ci  nl    irdinary  deposits. 

Dr.  Washington  Dodge.  President;  William  Corbin,  Secretary 
and    General    Manager. 


International   Banking  Corporation 

NO.    I     WALL    STREET.    XEW    YORK. 

Capital  and   Surplus   37,894,400 

Capital   and   Surplus   Authorized   10,000,00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer, 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wightman,  Assistant  to 
President;  ,].,],,,  I !  itM.i  nl.  Treasurer;  James  II.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee.  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green.  Coun- 
sel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco.  Cilv  of  Mexico,  Manila. 
Hong  Kong.  Yokohama,  Shanghai,  Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay.  Calcutta.  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon, 
Colombo,  Amoy.  Canton.  Hankow,  Tientsin.  Tansui.  Anplng. 
Bakan.  Moji,  Saigon,  ECobe,  Bangkok,  Batavia,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,   and  all  parts  of  Europe. 

SAX    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34    Sansome    St. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted. 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
ot  deposits  issued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us.  and  drawing  direct  on  our  brandies  and 
agents    throughout    the    world. 

I  '<  IRRESPONDENCE     INVITED. 
F.    E.    BECK.   Manager.  ;     EASTWICK,   JR..   Asst.   Mgr, 


5/>e  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

A   battle   between   the    British 

Great  Britain  in      army  of  observation  in  Thibet 

Thibet.  and  the  troop  of  the  Llama  was 

not  expected,  but  the  unex- 
pected has  happened.  Of  course,  the  Thibetans  were 
routed  with  considerable  loss  to  themselves  and  little 
loss  to  the  British  column.  The  British  were  attacked 
most  treacherously,  which  was  a  mistake  on  the  part 
of  the  natives,  as  they  are  likely  to  discover  later  on, 
for  whatever  Great  Britain's  original  purpose  was 
in  sending  a  small  column  into  Thibet,  it  may  now  be 
assumed  that  British  garrisons  will  hereafter  be  per- 
manent fixtures  in  that  land  of  Shamanism.  But  al- 
ready the  diplomatists  and  military  experts  of  Eu- 
rope are  at  it,  trying  to  fathom  the  bearing  and  in- 
fluence on  international  politics  the  event  is  likely 
to  have.  Had  the  column  of  observation  entered 
Thibet  before  Russia  and  Japan  crossed  swords, 
there  is  no  doubt  that  the  London  Government  would 
have  been  met  at  the  boundary  line  by  Russian 
threats  and  Chinese  protests.  For  many  years  the 
Russian  Government  has  coveted  Thibet,  and  was 
waiting  for  some  sort  of  an  excuse  to  throw  an  army 
of  occupation  into  the  Llama's  territory,  but  the 
Czar  has  been  too  busy  for  a  dozen  years  in  his  ven- 
ture in  Manchuria  to  court  a  war  with  England  by 
seizing  Thibet.  However,  only  a  month  or  so  ago 
the  threat  came  from  St.  Petersburg  that  if  England 
attempted  to  so  much  as  send  a  corps  of  observation 
into  Thibet,  a  column  of  Russians  would  invade  the 
territory  and  march  on  to  England's  possessions  in 
India,  but  it  turned  out  to  be  a  diplomatic  bluff.  It 
did,  though,  awaken  Great  Britain  to  the  fact  that 
with  Thibet  under  Russian  control,  and  with  the 
Himalayas  as  a  base  of  hostile  activities,  India  would 
be  placed  at  a  dangerous  disadvantage,  and  conse- 
quently the  British  column  was  sent  ahead  not  only 
to  observe,  but  now  to  occupy.  It  was  understood 
that  before  the  British  corps  entered  Thibet  that  the 
consort  of  the  Emperor  of  China,  whose  suzerainty 
over  Thibet  was  recognized  by  all  nations,  had  been 
obtained,  and  presumably  in  exchange  for  valuable 
support  in  the  event  of  Russian  success  over  Japan 
and  an  attempt  at  the  invasion  of  China.  And  what 
is  bothering  diplomatists  now  is  the  reason  of  Rus- 
sia's seeming  acquiescence  in  British  occupation  of 
Thibet — the  kind  of  occupation  that  always  means 
a  permanent  stay  with  Great  Britain.  It  is  given  out 
from  St.  Petersburg,  but  no  doubt  greatly  exagger- 
ated, that  an  entente  has  been  agreed  upon  between 
England  and  Russia  which  provides  for  Russia's  right 
to  hold  as  much  of  Manchuria  as  she  may  want,  and 
great  Britain's  right  to  dominate  in  Thibet,  with 
more  or  less  of  a  cold  shoulder  turned  toward  Japan. 
Anyway,  a  change  in  the  general  programme,  as  be- 
tween Russia  and  England,  seems  to  have  been  made, 
but  what  it  all  means,  even  diplomatists  are  puzzled 
over. 

The  report  of  a  probable 
England  and  Russia,     entente      between      Great 

Britain  and  Russia  is  un- 
doubtedly a  St.  Petersburg  "campaign  lie."  Russia 
has  been  for  a  century,  is  now  and  ever  will  be  Great 
Britain's  political  and  commercial  enemy.  They 
arc  rivals  in  Asia  for  commercial  and  political 
supremacy.  For  a  century  Russia  has  been  grunting 
over  England's  hold  upon  India,  and  the  grunting 
has  been  more  pronounced  since  the  London  Govern- 
ment secured  a  larger  slice  of  China's  territory  and 
harbors,     Naturally  Great  Britain  would  not  be  con- 


April  9,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


tent   to  have   restrictions  placed  upon   her  ambition 
to  acquire  still  greater  advantages  in  Eastern  Asia 
Russia  wants  exactly  what  Great  Britain  propos 
have   nor  is  it  possible  to  agree  upon  a  division  ol 
anything.     Hence  there  is  not  room     for    both  as 
ominating    influence,    ami    the    reason    why    the 
mercial  world  stands  for  Great  Britain  as  against 
sia  is  that  England's  policy  is  open  doors  to  the 
commerce  oi  the  world,  herself  being-  willing  to  take 
her  chances  in  the  whirl  of  competition,  while  Rus- 
sian domination  would  mean  commercial  advantages 
for  Russia  and  disadvantages  for  other  nations.  That 
is   the  real   secret   of  the     pro-British     sentiment  in 
America  s  official   and   unofficial   going  and  coming 
and    now   that  Japan   has   adopted    England's   trade 
policy,   it   is  easy  to  see  why  the  two   Anglo-Saxon 
nations   should   give   their   moral   support  to  Japan 
and  why  an  entente  between  London  and  St.  Peters- 
burg would   be  an   unnatural  alliance.     In   fact,  the 
point   has  been   reached  in  the  concerns  of  Eastern 
Asia  where  the  one  question  is,  shall  Russia  by  arbi- 
trary obstructions  monopolize  the  commerce  and  in- 
dustries of  500.000.000  people,  or  shall  all  the  world 
be  placed  upon  a  common  footing,  letting  competi- 
tion do  the  rest'    The  Anglo-Saxon  and  the  Japan- 
ese are  for  open  doors  and  commercial  rivalry. 

Word    comes    from      Chili      that 
Sensational  in      Japan  has  secured  a  treaty  from 
the  Extreme.       that  nation  which   provides  that 
in  the  future  Japan  will  stand  as 
a  sort  of  heavy-weight  friend  of  Chile  in  any  inter- 
national  complications,   even   to   the   extent  of  sub- 
stantia] aid  should  war  ensue.     In  return  for  all  this. 
Chile  is   to  cause   Ecuador  to  cede  the   Gallapagos 
Archipelago  to  Japan  for  a  naval  station.     The  Ar- 
chipelago is  mortgaged  to  Chile  for  all  it  is  worth, 
which    makes    Chile's   voice   a    thing   of   convincing 
power  with  Ecuador;  besides,  the  compact  includes 
the  safeguarding  of  all  the  South  American  States 
in  the  event  of  foreign  complications.     To  the  public 
it  is  called  a  "commercial  treaty,"  but  in  any  event 
it  is  a  severe  slap  right  in  the  Kaiser's  face,  for  Ger- 
many has  been  intriguing  for  years  to  secure  the  Ar- 
chipelago, and  would  have  succeeded  long  ago,  but 
for  the  fact  that  the  United  States  would  not  per- 
mit the  transfer.     The  Archipelago,  if  well  fortified, 
w-ould  about  command  the  Pacific  approaches  to  the 
Panama  Canal,  but  the  Washington  Government  is 
too  closely  tied  up  in  treaties  with  Japan  to  enter  a 
protest   against   Japanese    ownership    of   the    Archi- 
pelago, even  if  it  does  command  the  Panama  Canal's 
Pacific  end.     Japan  is  not  forgetting  the  diplomatic 
end  of  her  national  life  because  of  war  with  Russia. 
In  this  connection  it  may  be  said  that  every  day  St. 
Petersburg  is  more  convinced  that  China  is  playing 
false,  and  that  before  the  war  is  over  Chinese  and 
Japanese  soldiers  will  join  hands  and  make  Russian 
defeat  a  common  cause. 

The  Emperor  of  Germany  continues 
The  Kaiser's     to  miss  no  opportunity  to   let  the 
Predicament,     world  know   that   "me   and   Provi- 
dence  and    Germany   are    standing 
right  at  the  side  of  Russia."     And   for  some  days 
his  "by  the   grace   of   God"  imperial  greatness  has 
been    running   after   the   "yellow   and   brown   peril" 
ignis  fatuus,  and  crying  in  a  loud  voice  that  "Rus- 
sian defeat  would  mean  the  yellow  and  the  brown 
men's  civilization  for  Europe."     Of  course  he  is  not 
taken  seriously  in  any  quarter  of  the  globe,  but  his 
"notion"  is  turning  his  friendship  for  the  Czar  into 
a  sort  of  holy  zeal  for  Russian  success  and  the  com- 
plete putting  under  the  foot  of  Christianity  the  entire 


race  of  browns  and  yellows,  and  there  is  no  telling 
what  day  he  may  override  all  opposition  of  his  min- 
-  and  openly  espouse  the  cause  of  his  Friend,  the 
Czar.    Oi  course,  such  an  act  would  at  once  invi 
Europe  and  America  in  the  Russo- Japanese  muddle. 

1  ranee   is   rapidly   losing  her  pro-Russian   sentiment. 

I  he  suspicion  i-  gaining  ground  that  Germany  is 
slowly  but  surelj  supplanting  France  in  tin-  affec- 
tions -I    Russia,  and   that   should  an  emergens    arise 

in  which  Russia'-  friendship  would  come  handy,  the 
Pans  Government  would  have  onlj  the  cold  shoulder 
ol    the   Czar,   while   the    Kaiser   would   have   his   ear. 


BANKING, 


The  Sr 


>rn  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and    Pine  sts..   San   Francisco. 

JAB.  K.   WILSON,    President;   \\M.    PIERCE  JOHNSON    Vlce- 

SsUilitCCashi  COWXJILL,  Cashier.;   P.   w.   WOLFE,  As- 

Capltal,    (600,000.     Surplus    ami    Undivided    Profits,    smb.ikkj 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,  Vice-Prest.  Willamette 
iulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton.  President  Firemans  Fund 
ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  HuntiiiKlnn,  Kirn  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R  • 
Geo.  A  Pope,  of  Pope  *  Talbot.  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall.  H.  M 
Newhall  £  Co.;   w.   II.   Talbot,  Capitalist;   H.  D.   Morton,  Presi- 

,X,}\™T.-  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K.   Wilson.  President. 

AGEMS-New  York— Hanover  National  Bank.  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
I  he  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— Brown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 
Denver—  National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South   African   Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

The  Canadian)  Bank  of  Commerce 

With   which  is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British   Columbia 
HEAD    OFFiCE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate    Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX.    President 
B.    E.   Wa...er.    General    Manager.     Alex.    Laird.    Asst.    Gen.    Mgr 
LONDON  OFFICE— 60  Lombard  St..  E.  C. 
fc-^W   YORK    OFFICE-16   Exchange   Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBJ  A-Atlin,        Cranbrook. 
Fernie.    Greenwood,    j^amloops.    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New    Westminster,    Vancouver    and    Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska). 
Also    80    other    branches,    covering      the      principal      points      in 
Manitoba.   N.  W.   Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS    IN   LONDON—  1  he   Bank   of   England,    the   Bank   of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd..  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,    Ltd. 
AGENTS   IN   CHICAGO— The   First   National   Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San  Francisco  Office— 

325  California  Street. 

A.   KAINS,    Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  Bank  Uulitei 

N.   W.    COR.   SANSOME   AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000.  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office— 40  T  hreadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS — New  York — Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris — Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers- 
credits   Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;   R.   ALTSCHUL,    Cashier. 

The  flnorio-Calirornian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars.  London,  E.  C. 

Capital    Authorized $6,000,000  Paid    Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed    $3,000,000       Reserve    Fund    $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,    buys    and   sells    exchange   and    bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    L1LIENTHAL,    Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST   PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  S.  L.  Abbott. 

Jr.,   O.   D.   Baldwin,  F.   Monteagle.  Warren  D.   Clark,  E.   J.  Mc- 

Cutcheon,   R.   H.   Pease. 

Central  Trust  Company   of  California 

42    Montgomery    St.,    San    Francisco. 

Authorized     Capital     $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve   1.725.000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully   selected. 

Officers;  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill.  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


The  American  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
of  Iowa,  is  safely  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver.  Its 
business  amounts  to  about  $3,500,000,  and  it  has  7,500 
policyholders.  It  began  business  in  1897.  It  is  dol- 
lars to  doughnuts  that  the  receiver  will  get  the  Utile 
there  is  to  grab,  and  the  innocent,  poor  fool  of  a  pol- 
icyholder, who  was  beguiled  into  paying  for  a  chea;j 
insurance,  has  to  settle  with   a  receiver. 

*  *  * 

The  insurance  companies  interested  in  the  Bass 
loss  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  have  entered  suit  in  the 
Federal  Court  at  Indianapolis  against  the  Fort 
Wayne  Gas  Company  to  recover  the  amount  paid  by 
them  to  Mrs.  Bass,  who  is  the  insured  whose  resi- 
dence was  destroyed  by  fire  in  February,  1902,  with 
a  los:  a  insurance  companies  of  $63,000  on  building 
and  $47,000  on  household  and  personal  goods.  The 
house  was  heated  by  gas  and  was  set  afire  by  an  over- 
heated furnace,  which  is  said  to  have  been  caused  by 
an  unusually  high  gas  pressure,  the  gas  pumping 
station  at  Fort  Wayne  having  been  out  of  order  on 
that  night.  The  case  is  peculiar,  inasmuch  as  the 
companies  involved  are  evidently  using  their  subro- 
gation rights.  Here  in  San  Francisco,  the  insurance 
companies  might  possibly  sue  for  damages  on  account 
of  failure  to  provide  the  pressure,  but  they  would 
not  dare  to  enter  our  courts  and  plead  that  the  pres- 
sure was  too  strong  or  excessive. 

The  Milwaukee  Diocesan  Council  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  recommends  that  a  church  insurance  com- 
pany be  inaugurated.  In  the  meantime  it  requests 
that  present  policies  of  insurance  on  the  property 
within  its  demesne  be  renewed.  It  seems  that  the 
Council  has  recognized  the  fact  that  Lent  is  over  and 
has  gone  in  to  enjoy  itself.  When  it  is  remembered 
that  the  Capitol  of  Wisconsin,  the  abode  of  the  1111- 
Godly  and  irreverent,  burned  last  month  without 
practically  any  insurance,  it  is  amazing  to  see  and 
note  the  trust  that  the  Episcopalian  Council  reposes 
in  the  Lord.  Trust  in  Providence  is  a  great  factor, 
but  after  a  fire  the  body  that  payed  for  its  insurance 
and  trusted  to  a  good  company  to  reimburse  it  for 
burned  property,  is  usually  more  smiling  than  the 
fellows  who  pray,  but  don't  pay. 

*  *  * 

The  fact  that  insurance  companies  can  be  made 
to  pay  is  exemplified  in  the  recently  decided  case  of 
McMahon  vs.  the  United  States  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. To  quote  from  an  exchange:  "The  United 
States  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  at  New  Orleans  ren- 
dered a  decision  giving  a  verdict  of  $10,000  against 
the  United  States  Life,  in  favor  of  the  widow  of  Ru- 
dolph McMahon.  McMahon  was  in  Mexico  when 
one  of  his  premiums  became  due,  and  had  written  the 
company,  asking  if  it  had  any  accredited  agents  in 
that  country.  The  company  replied  that  it  had  not, 
and  asked  that  the  premium  be  remitted  direct  to  the 
home  office,  specifying  that  a  check  or  draft  would  be 
sufficient.  McMahon  bought,  for  gold,  a  draft  on 
the  Leon  Rasst  Bank  of  New  York  and  sent  it  to  the 
company,  which  acknowledged  it  by  returning  a  re- 
ceipt for  the  premium.  Within  a  few  days  the  Rasst 
Bank  failed,  and  shortly  after  Mr.  McMahon  died. 
The  widow  made  a  demand  for  the  insurance,  but 
was  refused  on  the  ground  that  the  premium  had  not 
been  paid,  id  a  tender  of  the  premium  in  cash 
was  refuse^  The  Texas  Circuit  Court  rendered  a 
verdict  in  *-i\or  of  the  insurance  company,  on  trial, 
but    the    Court    of   Appeals    overrules   this    decision 


on  the  ground  that  the  insured  had  paid  the  premium 
in  good  faith,  and  that  when  the  company  accepted 
the  draft  and  sent  a  receipt  the  consequent  loss,  by 
failure  of  the  bank  upon  which  the  draft  was  drawn, 
should  not  fall  upon  the  insured." 

The  evidence  of  good  faith  was  shown  which  is 
all  that  is  or  should  be  needed  in  an  equity  case.  The 
company  involved  is  not  reckoned  amongst  those 
of  the  recommendable  kind,  and  its  actions  in  trying 
to  defeat  the  McMahon  claim  is  in  keeping  with  the 
usual  methods  of  those  companies  which  are  counted 
amongst  the  smaller  ones. 

On  the  other  hand,  there  are  life  insurance  com- 
panies operating  under  the  non-forfeitable  law  which 
continually  incur  a  large  expense  in  trying  to  make 
a  settlement  of  claims  with  the  beneficiaries  of  de- 
ceased policyholders  who  in  innumerable  cases  has 
not  any  knowledge  whatsoever  that  there  is  anything 
to  be  collected  or  due  from  the  insurance  company. 
Here  in  California,  one  company  paid  a  detective 
agency  to  locate  the  descendants  of  a  policyholder 
who  had  not  paid  the  company  his  premium  for 
years,  and  when  the  legatees  were  finally  located, 
they  objected  to  paying  one-half  the  expense  of  their 
exhumation,  but  the  life  insurance  company  was 
honest,  and  voluntarily  paid  the  amount  due  the 
heirs  of  a  policyholder  who  failed  to  pay  his  prem- 
ium. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  James  H.  Borland  left  for  the  East  on  Wednes- 
day to  visit  the  home  office  of  the  U.  S.  Fidelity  and 
Guarantee  Company  at  Baltimore.  He  expects  to  be 
absent  for  about  two  weeks,  and  the  trip  is  taken 
at  the  request  of  the  company's  president,  who  is  a 

warm   personal  friend  of  Mr.   Borland. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Butler,  the  general  agent  of  the  Phoenix,  an- 
nounces that  he  has  appointed   Mr.  R.   Gallegos  an 

assistant   manager. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Washington  Irving,  of  the  Phoenix  of  London, 
who  has  been  on  the  Coast  the  guest  of  Manager 
Butler,  has  returned  to  New  York. 

*  *  *  ' 

The  officers  of  the  Crocker-Wheeler  Company, 
manufacturers  of  electric  generators  and  motors,  of 
Ampere,  N.  J.,  whose  branch  office  in  this  city  is  at 
Fremont  and  Howard  streets,  are  working  up  a  plan 
of  life  insurance  for  the  men  in  their  employ.  The 
company  will  assume  the  entire  expense  of  the  in- 
surance and  make  the  families  of  the  insured  the  sole 
beneficiaries.  As  Crocker-Wheeler  Company  em- 
ploys in  its  works  at  Ampere  from  500  to  700  machin- 
ists alone,  the  item  of  insurance  will  involve  a  very 
considerable  annual  outlay,  the  only  return  from 
which  will  be  the  good-will  of  the  employees. 

When  you  get  your  fall   clothing  made,  also  make 

arrangements  to  have  It  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  at 
Spauldlng's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  It  Is  economy  to  do  It.  A  suit  will  last  twice  as 
long  It  well  cared  tor.  They  also  clean  gloves,  necktleB, 
curtains,  laces,  draperies  and  all  such  articles. 

Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau   has   removed   to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreefs,  at  230  California 
street.   San  Francisco. 

Visitors  to  San   Francisco  never  cease  to  wonder  at 

the  perfection  of  Zinkand's,  where  appointments,  service, 
cooking,  music  and  also  visitors,  are  the  very  best.  It  has 
no  equal. 


April  9.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NKWS  LETTER. 

Ghe     Ammonia     Tank  INSURANCE 


ai 


A  Story  of  April  2,  1904. 
They  do  nol  -  by. 

The)    were    the    best   of    friem 
Ami  in  the  wherefore  and  the  why, 

A  tn  .    blends: 

For  she  asked  him  if  the   Poodle   1  >.>g  he   knew. 

And  he  acted  in  a  manner  very  queer, 
And  when   --lie  still  persisted, 
And   he   fretted   and   insisted. 

She  answered  him:  "I  saw  you  there,  my  dear." 

"Von  were  coming  down  a  fire-escape,  my  pet, 
You  had   little  on  of  value  t>>  lie  seen, 

And   the  hreezes  that  were  blowing 

Made    a    very    curious    showing. 

Ami  ymir  countenance  resembled  Paris  green: 

There  were  lots  of  other  people  just  the  same  : 

They  were  coming  down  the  fire-escape  in  slmals. 
.They  were  in  a  pretty  fix — 
It  was  only  half-past  six. 

And  they'd  little  but  their  bodies  and  their  souls." 

He  took  his  hat  and  went  away, 

His  soul  was  full  of  care. 
He  does  not   know,   even   to-day. 

Just  how  she  saw-  him  there. 

TO  THE  WELL-DRESSED  MAN. 
Mr.  C.  H.  Rehnstrom,  formerly  Sanders  &  John- 
son, and  Mr.  E.  W.  Hagbom,  late  cutter  for  j.  W. 
Bell  Sons  &  Co.,  of  New  York  City,  have  formed 
an  association  in  the  tailoring  business.  This  is 
surely  a  boon  to  the  man  who  believes  in  the  omnipo- 
tence of  neat  dressing.  The  gentlemen  are  well 
known,  and  to  wear  clothes  made  in  the  new  estab- 
lishment will  be  to  wear  a  cachet  of  good  taste.  The 
new  firm  is  located  in  the  Phelan  Building,  and 
they  are  just  now  offering  for  inspection  some  exqui- 
site spring  and  summer  patterns  in  carefully  selected 
suitings. 

VACATION. 
The  California  and  Northwestern  Railway  has  just 
issued  a  new  edition  of  the  annual  booklet  called 
"Vacation."  For  years  hundreds  of  people  have 
availed  themselves  of  the  information  found  within 
the  pages  of  this  little  volume.  The  information  is 
for  those  who  intend  to  go  into  the  country  for  their 
vacation,  and  all  the  information  is  reliable  and  to 
the  point.  The  book  gives  a  complete  list  of  the 
mineral  spring  resorts,  country  homes  and  farms, 
where  summer  boarders  are  taken,  and  the  select 
camping  spots.  The  illustrations  in  the  "Vacation 
1904"  are  good,  and  the  publication  is  a  credit  to 
the  railroad  and  its  passenger  department. 

Wedding  Gifts. 

Just  received  a  new  and  beautiful  assortment,  of  bronzes,  miniatures, 
artistic  furniture,  lamps  and  electroliers,  chinn.  Bohemian  and  cut 
glass,  clocks  and  artistically  framed  pictures.  Particularly  suitable  for 
wedding  presents. P.  &  G.  Gump  Co.    113  Geary  St- 

Cash  Capital,  $200,000.00  Cash   Assets,   $321,471.19 

PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators.  _ 

Edmund  P.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson.  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.   Deering,   Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  Gen.  Agt.  for  California,  Haywards 
Building. 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND    INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  1711 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OP   PHILADELPHIA.    PENN. 

l'ald-up    Capital     $J,00»,000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6,022.016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  8.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by  Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  $3,446,100.  Assets.  $24,662,043.36 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK  W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets 5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders .  .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.    SMITH,    Manager  Pacific  Department 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 


Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 


of  California. 


DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life  Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital    

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


$6,700,000 

816  California  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    BBFUET.    GEKMANY 

Capital  $2,260,000  Assets  $10,9S4  216 

VOSS,    CONRAD  &   CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific   Coast  Department:   204-208  Sansome  St,   San  Francisco 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S-  F. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


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WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced  BARGAIN 
prices  very  desirable 


AUTO-CARS 


ALSO 


RAMBLERS, 

NORTHERNS, 
FRANKLINS, 

OLDSMOBILES 

WITH 

LANTERNS,  RUGS,  CAPS  ®  SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

National  Auto  &  Mfg.  Co. 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVE. 


Have  you  seen  the     , 

Buckboard? 


Best     Automobile     at 
any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding— Reliable— Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SUNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


HT     The     AUT'il'kAKK 

The  automobile  outlook  locally  is  most  promising. 
The  race  committee  is  hard  at  work  formulating 
plans  for  a  most  successful  race  meet  to  be  held 
some  time  during  next  month.  The  experience  of 
last  year  has  taught  the  officials  many  things  which 
an  occasion  like  last  year  could  only  bring  forth. 

This  event,  with  the  annual  run  to  Del  Monte, 
will  be  the  features  of  the  spring  season.  Also  there 
will  undoubtedly  be  a  paper  chase  by  automobiles, 
as  suggested  by  the  News   Letter. 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  club  officials,  in  speaking  of  the  paper 
chase  said  "that  is  what  we  want — something  that 
will  bring  the  owners  together  in  an  event  that  will 
be  out  of  the  ordinary.  Then,  again,  it  may  be  made 
to  serve  as  an  endurance  test,  inasmuch  as  the  course 
could  be  so  laid  out  that  it  would  try  both  the  ability 
of  the  handler  and  the  machine.  With  a  Runs  Com- 
mittee located  at  unknown  points  it  would  ensure 
perfect  fairness.  There  are  roads  near  at  hand  which 
would  give  all  the  tests  needed." 

It  has  been  also  suggested  that  a  captain  of  the 
gallery  be  appointed,  whose  duty  it  would  be  to  lead 
those  who  wish  to  follow  and  see  the  fun  and  finish, 
along  the  route  to  the  finishing  point  in  time  to  see 
the  winners  come  in. 

This  event  should  be  called  the  week  after  the 
race  meet,  when  there  will  be  a  number  of  visiting 
automobilists  in  the  city.  One  also  could  be  held 
during  the   Del   Monte  meet. 

Another  thing  advocated  by  the  News  Letter  that 
has  caused  some  discussion  is  the  Woman's  Automo- 
bile Club.  It  will  be  one  of  the  greatest  helps  to 
the  local  club  in  its  work  towards  good  roads.  Some 
of  the  enthusiasts  who  have  discussed  the  proposi- 
tion have  said  "that  there  are  not  enough  women 
handling  automobiles  to  form  such  an  organization." 
This  is  wrong,  as  can  easily  be  proven  by  the  records 
at  the  headquarters  of  the  Park  Commissioners.  If 
the  list  of  permits  to  the  South  drive  is  looked  over 
it  will  be  found  that  a  club  could  be  formed  that 
would  make  a  very  strong  adjunct  to  the  local  State 
body.  What  should  be  done  is  for  the  officials  of 
the  Automobile  Club  of  California  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee to  organize  a  woman's  annex.  This  would 
give  the  necessary  support  that  such  a  club  would 
need  at  the  start.  The  women  could  elect  their  own 
officers,  and  in  all  respects  practically  be  a  separate 
body  from  the  parent  club.  The  presiding  officials 
of  the  "auto"  club  might  be  a  director  of  the  woman's 
club,  and  the  President  of  the  latter  body  a  director 
of  the  State  body,  and  this  way  both  would  be  held 
together  by  bonds  that  would   make  them   stronger 

in  every  respect. 

*  *  » 

A  meeting  (if  the  Automobile  Club  will  shortly  be 
held,    when    the    season's   programme   will    be    made 

out. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  L.  G.  Rowell  has  just  purchased  another  new 
n)04  Winton  touring  car. 


Mr. 


George  H.  Lent  of  San  Francisco  went  down 


April  9.  1904. 

■ti    Friday  of  last    week   in   his   \\  hil< 
louring  car.  ami  rv<  'ting  trip. 

Mr.  John  Breuner'a  new  Winton  touring  car  was 

delivered  t>>  him  Sunday  morning,  and  Sunday  after 

riving  through  Golden  Gate  Park 

MIC. 

*     *     * 

Ed.  McKinney  .if  Yrcka.  Cal.,  who  purchase. 1  a 
White  Stanhope  some  months  ago  for  use  in  Siskiyou 
County,  has  found  it  just  the  thing  for  that  mountain- 

cti.m.  ami  has  purchased  three  more  Stanhopes 
for  use  in  the  same  county. 
»  '*  * 

The  Sunset  Automobile  Company  reports  sales 
of  the  Buckboard  to  the  following  people  during  the 

past  week:  J.  S.  Meyers.  Salinas:  S.  M.  Rice.  Dixon; 
p.  P.  McCray.  San  Francisco;  J.  A.  I. ami).  Coquille, 
t're.:    II.    Muzzy.    Rio    Vista :    and    I'..    R.    Stewart. 

Denverton,   Cal. 

*  *  * 

The  Scott  &  Blalceslee  Company,  of  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  Renting  Agency,  have  just  added  two 
Winton  touring  cars  to  their  list,  making  seven  in 
all.  These  people  are  doing  a  good  business,  as  will 
be  noted  by  the  number  of  cars  they  have  recently 
purchased. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  F.  K.  Ainsworth  has  sold  his  White  Stanhope 
and  purchased  a  White  touring  car.  The  machine  is 
painted  White  and  it  makes  a  striking  showing.  Dr. 
Ainsworth  is  frequently  seen  in  it,  and  is  enjoying  the 
new  car  immensely. 

*  *  * 

Last  week.  Mr.  Meyers,  of  Salinas,  purchased  one 
of  the  new  1904  Buckboards,  and  together  with  a 
friend,  started  in  the  rain  to  drive  it  to  Salinas  by 
way  of  San  Juan  Hill.  The  next  day. the  Sunset 
Automobile  Company  received  the  following  message 
on  a  postal  card : 

Salinas.  Mar.  29,  1904. — Sunset  Automobile  Co., 
San  Francisco.  Gentlemen :  Made  San  Juan  Hill  in 
a  blinding  rain  storm  without  any  aid. 

MEYERS  &  BUTLER. 

Those  who  drove  expensive  touring  cars  on  the 
recent  run  to  Del  Monte,  over  the  San  Juan  Hill, 
will  appreciate  what  this  performance  of  the   Buck- 

board   means. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  W.  T.  Robertson,  of  Alameda,  is  enjoying 
the  splendid  spring  weather  in  his  Winton  tour- 
ing car.  On  Thursday,  March  31st,  he  took  a 
party  of  friends  from  Oakland  to  San  Jose,  by  way 
of  Niles,,  making  the  trip  in  one  hour  and  forty-five 
minutes.  The  return  trip,  over  the  regular  route, 
was  made  in  the  record  time  of  one  hour  and  thirty- 
five  minutes.  Mr.  Robertson  reports  the  roads  dry, 
but  rather  rough  in  some  places. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  C.  O.  Widholm  is  the  latest  to  engage  in  the 
renting  business  in  San  Francisco,  with  a  White 
touring  car.  This  quiet,  easy  riding  car  is  becoming 
very  popular  in  this  business.  White  cars  are  now 
being  run  in  rent  service  by  C.  6.  Widholm,  Ed. 
Calif,  Bert  Dingley,  W.  F.  Brong,  W.  S.  Arnold, 
George  Corey  and  others.  The  White  Sewing  Ma- 
chine Company  is  also  renting  out  a  limited  number 
of  its  demonstration  machines. 

*  *  * 

Another  of  the  late  converts  to  the  gasoline  auto- 
mobile is  Dr.  Cunningham  of  Oakland,  who  has  re- 
cently  purchased    a   Stevens-Duryea   machine    from 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


*3 

■     Automobile  Company.     The  doctor  is 
I   with   hi-  Stevens-Duryea,  and   says 
lus  out-of-the-city  calls  or  night   work  ate  now 
Mire. 


THE  CADILLAC 

UBD    rrom   Del  Monte  to  Oakland    I'm.   BOOBS    UJD 
1  HIBTY-EIOHT  M1M   1 

The  only  saoceastal  tour  of  the   Zoaemlte  made  bj  'nil' 
1  \  1 .1 1  1  \. 


t'L-iee.  $8S0       With  Tonneau.  $950      Delivery  Cadillacs,  $950 

THE  BIMTLEKT.  MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


T.  P.  JARVIS 


W.  J.  FREEL1NG 


F.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONF.rjESSIE  3336 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  Pr,~?ll4o0w1l?ff¥S.t  T'p 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  is  especially  designed  for  physieans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact  in   construction,   symmetrical  in   outline 
and  beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5.  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run, -New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
S00  miles,  and  won  high  rank, 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French           -          •  $2,650.00 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F. 


24  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

On  Friday  of  last  week  a  White  touring  car  gave 


April  9,  1904. 


a  series  of  interesting  hill-climbing  demonstrations 
in  Oakland.  The  steepest  hills  in  East  Oakland  am! 
Linda  Vista  were  climbed  as  if  the  machine  were 
merely  working  on  the  level.  The  steep  Fish  Ranch 
grade  was  then  ascended  at  a  speed  of  twenty  miles 
an  hour. 

*  *  * 

The  White  Sewing  Machine  Company  reports  a 
flattering  number  of  recent  sales.  Touring  cars  have 
been  sold  to  Mrs.  Russell  Cool,  San  Francisco;  Mrs. 
Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  San  Francisco ;  George  S. 
Schafer,  San  Francisco;  C.  S.  Watterman,  Fresno, 
Cal. ;  E.  B.  Watterman,  Fresno,  Cal. ;  F.  A.  Wiggins, 
Salem,  Oregon;  R.  S.  Moore,  San  Francisco;  F.  W. 
Wolfsen,  Merced,  Cal.;  Dr.  F.  K.  Ainsworth,  San 
Francisco;  Mr.  Schute,  Portland,  Oregon;  A.  F. 
Poole,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  C.  E.  Runyon,  Portland, 

(  iregon ;  A.  E.  Todd,  Victoria,  B.  C. 

*  *  * 

The  new  Packard  four-cylinder  car  will  arrive  in 
the  city  on  Mondav  evening  bv  express. 

*  *  * 

The  Pacific  Motor  Car  Co.  have  sold  a  St.  Louis 
car  to  Arthur  Sutton. 

*  *  * 

The  Association  of  Licensed  Automobile  Manufac- 
turers claim  that  they  are  pioneers  in  this  industry 
and  have  commercialized  the  gasoline  vehicle  by 
many  years  of  development  and  at  great  cost.  They 
are  the  owners  of  upwards  of  four  hundred  United 
States  patents,  covering  many  of  the  most  important 
improvements  and  details  of  manufacture.  Both  the 
basic  Selden  patent  and  all  other  patents  owned  as 
aforesaid  will  be  enforced  against  all  infringers. 

*  *  * 

The  American  Darracq  Motor  Car  Company  is 
looking  for  a  live  person  as  a  representative  on  the 
Pacific  Coast.  Their  high  grade  French  imported 
vehicles  are  famous  throughout  the  world,  and  it  will 
be  but  a  short  while  before  they  will  be  on  our  high- 
ways. 

*  *  * 

Last  December  the  Mobile  Carriage  Company  sold 
p.  Northern  runabout  to  James  Waters  of  Watson- 
ville.  Mr.  Christenson,  the  company's  representative 
at  that  point,  ran  the  car  from  Watsonville  to  San 
Francisco  on  Saturday,  the  cyclometer  showing  a 
distance  of  156  miles.  The  average  rate  of  speed  was 
24  miles  an  hour. 


Eyes  Irritated  by  Wind 


Mineral  la>len  poisonous  dust,  and  strong  sunlight,  need  care.  Murine 
Eye  llemedy  soothts  Eye  pain  ami  cures  Inflammation,  Redness. 
Itchine.JGranulated  and  W-aU  Eyes.  Murine  is  an  Eye  Tonic:  an  aid 
to  those  wearing  glass  s. 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The   "MfJNA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  QILLETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN      BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Cap  SC6 


The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  just  been  ad- 
vised that  another  carload  of  Pierce  Arrow  touring 
cars  has  left  Buffalo  some  days  since,  and  will  reach 
the  city  in  a  short  time.  The  sales  on  these  cars 
exceed  the  company's  ability  to  furnish  them. 


DARRACQ  MOTOR  CARS 


HOLDS  MORE 
RECORDS  THAN 
ANY  OTHER 
MAKE 


FAMOUS  THROUGHOUT  THE  WORLD 

12.  15.  20,  24.  28,  30,  35  H.  P.  any  style  body  desired 


Phaelon  Tulip  4  Cylinders  1904  model  In  15-2.0  or  30-35  horse  power 

Darraci  Cars  are  the  best  value  in  the  market.     Popularity  is  at- 
tested by  sales  and  records. 

A.    DARRACQ    a    CIE.,    FRANCE. 

652-064  HUDSON  ST.  NEW  VORK  147  WEST  38lh  ST. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


Regular  Standard  Oldsmoblle  Ruoaboul 

Better  and  stronger  than  ever.     6  H.  P. 
instead  of  4  1-2  as  formerly. 

All  parts,  etc.,  100  per  cent  more  accessa- 
ble  and  heavier  and  stronger  in  every  detail 

The   best    $675  worth  of  automobile  value 
procurable. 


Also  agents  for  the  following  machines: 
WINTONS.  8TEVENS-DURYEA. 

LOCOMOBILES.  BAKER  ELECTRIC 

(steam  gasolene) 


ADDRESS 

901  Golden  Gate  Aye.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


April  9.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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NABOTHS    VINEYARD. 

My  neighbor  hath  ;i  little  1 1  c  1  <  1 . 

Small  -t"tv  of  wine  its  presses  yield, 

And  truly  but  a  slender  board 

Its  harvest  brings  tor  barn  or  board. 

Vet  though   a  hundred   fields  arc  mine. 

Fertile  with  olive,  corn  and  vine; 

Though   Autumn  pilas  my  garners  high. 

Still  for  that  little  held  I  sigh, 

For  ah !  methinks  no  otherwhere 

Is  any  held  so  good  and  fair. 

Small  though   it  be,  'tis  better  far 

Than  all  my  fruitful  vineyards  arc. 

Amid  whose  plenty  sad  I  pine — 

"Ah,  would  that  little  field  were  mine!" 

large   kn^w  ledge  void  of  peace  and  rest. 
And  wealth  with  pining  care  possest — 
These  by  my  fertile  lands  are  meant. 
That  little  field  is  called  Content. 


THE  CROWNING  TOUCH. 

By  Eugene C.  Dolson  in  N,  \v  England  Magazine 

In  girlhood's   unconsidered  ways, 
She  walked  from  care  apart ; 

I   guessed   not,   in   those   bygone   days, 
The  sweetness  of  her  heart. 

But  while  to-night,  in  woman  wise, 
She  bends  her  child  above, 

I  read  in  those  deep,  soulful  eyes, 
Her  depth  of  mother  love. 


THE  MIDDLE  GROUND. 

By  Katharine  "Warren  in  Century 

They  stood  and  sang  of  grief  that  comes 
In    all   men's   hearts  to   dwell — 

The  young,  that  knew  not  what  it  meant, 
The  old,  that  knew  too  well. 

And  I,  that  am  not  young  nor  old, 

Sat  still  when  they  had  sung, 
And  shrank  from  growing  old,  and  yet 

Would  not  again  be  young. 

RESIGNATION. 

By  Carrie  Blake  Morgan  in  Lippiiieott's 

The  sad-faced  sister  of  Content  is  she. 
When  thou  hast  courted  sweet  Content  in  vain, 

Hast  turned  thy  back  to  Joy,  thy  face  to  Pain, 
Pale  Resignation  will  join  hands  with  thee. 


A  HERO. 

By  Clarence  H.  Urner  in  New  England  Magazine 

I  see  a  picture  on  the  canvas  of  the  Past — 

A  lad  with  wondering  eyes,  but  not  afraid  of  Life ; 

I  see  an  image  by  the  faithful  Present  cast — 

A  youth  elate  and  strong,  equipped  for  any  strife : 

The  Future  shows  a  man  o'erspent,  at  Life  dismayed, 

Who  looks  on  Death  with  calm,  clear  vision  unafraid. 


w»r  .0  nWIMI 
RUINARTi 
Good  «,or— i  Mood— 

or  bnng  dft. 
Or   lew  you  tho-ld  Nr 


Ruinart 
Cham- 
pagne 

Established      1729 

The  President's  Wine 

"Dry,  Fruity — 
^Vo    Headache 


Vs.rr.ey     W.    Gtvsklll. 

Special  Agent 


Hllbert  Mercantile  Co. 

Sole  Agents 


Red  Eyes  and  Eye- 
lids, Granulated 
Eyelids  and  other 
Eye  troubles    cured 


MURINE  EVE  REMEDY 


VACATION  1904 

IS  NOW  READY  FOR  DISTRIBUTION 

"Vacation"  is  issued  annually  by  the 

California   Northwestern 
Railway 

TUB  PICTURESQUE  ROUTE  OP  CALIFORNIA 

and  is  the  standard  publication  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
for  information  regarding 

MINERAL  SPRING  RESORTS,  COUNTRY 
HOMES  AND  FARMS,  WHERE  SUMMER 
BOARDERS  ARE  TAKEN,  AND  SELECT 
CAMPING  SPOTS. 

This  year's  edition  "Vacation  1904"  contains  over 
150  pages,  beautifully  illustrated,  and  is  complete 
in  its  detailed  information  as  to  location,  accommo- 
dations, attractions,  terms,  etc. 

To  be  had  in  response  to  a  mail  request,  or  at  Ticket  Offices, 
650  Market  Street  (Chronicle  Building),  and   Tiburon  Ferry 
foot  of  Market  Street;  General  Office,  Mutual  Life  Building, 
corner  of  Sansome  and  California  Streets,  San  Francisco. 


//.  C.  WHITING, 

Gen.  Manager 


R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Pleasure's    "Wand. 


(Continued   from   Page   7.) 

At  the  Central,  the  bill  will  be  changed  to  "la  the 
Hands  of  the  Enemy."  It  is  the  story  of  the  adven- 
tures of  an  American  mining  engineer  in  the  wilds 
of  Bolivia.  It  is  full  of  exciting  situations  and  it 
Ought  to  satisfy  the  patronage  of  the  Market-street 
shrine  of  the  excruciating  melodrama. 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  Theatre  will  go  back  to  their  regular  bur- 
lesques shortly.  When  the  theatre  closes,  it  will  be 
only  for  a  fortnight,  during  which  time  many  import- 
ant improvements  will  be  made,  including  two  wide 
stairways  leading  direct  from  the  balcony  to  the 
street,  the  auditorium  will  be  enlarged,  and  the  en- 
tire theatre  made  safe,  comfortable  and  most  attrac- 
tive. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  note  that  that  genial  gentleman. 
Mr.  S.  L.  Ackerman,  is  soon  to  give  his  undivided  at- 
tention to  the  business  of  managing  the  Grand  Opera 
House.  He  has  but  just  recovered  from  a  very  se- 
vere illness,  and  he  is  now  being  besieged  by  his 
many  friends  with  their  congratulations.  Mr.  Ack- 
erman promises  us  a  great  season,  with  such  attrac- 
tions as  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter,  Blanche  Bates  and  other 
foremost  American  stars. 

»   *  * 

The  Tivoli  clientele  is  all  agog  over  the  forthcom- 
ing production  of  "The  Beggar  Student,"  which  is  to 
be  made  at  the  Opera  House  Monday  evening,  the 
nth  inst.  It  has  been  some  years  since  Milloecker's 
masterpiece  has  been  seen  in  San  Francisco,  and 
the  Tivoli  company  will  be  ideally  cast  in  this,  one  of 
the  most  fluent  of  the  light  operas. 

*  *  * 

The  coming  production  of  "His  Royal  Nibs,"  a 
musical  comedy  written  by  W.  H.  Clifford  and  Sh af- 
ter Howard,  are  set  for  the  evenings  of  April  21st 
Greer  Harrison  and  Mr.  James  D.  Phelan  are  to  act 
as  auctioneers.  There  will  be  a  vaudeville  entertain- 
ment, including  singing  and  monologues  by  Arthur 
Bodley  Watson.  This  will,  of  course,  be  a  free  en- 
tertainment open  to  the  public. 

The  regular  sale  of  seats  begins  on  the  morning 
of  the  15th  at  Sherman  &  Clay's,  Kohler  &  Chase's, 
and  Benj.  Curtaz  &  Son's  music  stores. 

The  Perfection 
of  a  pure,  rich,  unsweetened  condensed  milk  Is  Borden's 
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream.  It  Is  always  available 
for  every  use  to  which  raw  milk  or  cream  Is  devoted  and 
is  far  superior  to  the  average  quality  of  either.  Prepared 
by  Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


"Be  it  ever  so  humble  there  is  no  place  like  home."  and  the  home 
can  be  furnished  with  pretty  and  artistically  framed  pictures  at  a  very 
moderate  price  by  calling  on  Sanborn.  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  St. 


REMOVAL 

The  office 

of    the    Pacific 

Coast 

Department 

of  the  Scottish  Union 

&  National 

Ins.     Co., 

has 

been 

moved  from 

439  California 

St.,  to 

206  Pine 

Street. 

April  9,  1904. 

and  22d,  at  the  Alhambra  Theatre.  The  boxes  and 
some  of  the  seats  will  be  auctioned  off  on  the  even- 
ing  of  the  14th  at  the  Alhambra  at  8:30.  Mr.  William 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

The  question  arises,  what  shall  be 
used  for  DRAPERIES  and  FUR- 
NITURE COVERINGS. 

We  carry  a  full  line  of  IM- 
PORTED and  DOMESTIC  FAB- 
RICS in  all  the  latest  designs  and 
colorings,  suitable  for  wall  cover- 
ings,  draperies   and   upholstery. 

Designs  and  estimates  submit- 
ted. 


CHAS.    M.     PLUM    ®    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


H.H'L'S  Montgomery-street  Coffee  House  has  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  its  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast.  lunch  and  coffee 
rooms  in  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  Quicker  service. 


DR.  W.  A.  BRYANT  has  moved  his  office 
from  820  Sutter  Street  to  THE  EMERSON 
Building,  751  Sutter  Street.  Phone  Private 
Exchange  751.    Office  Hours,  9:30-12    1:30-4 


April  9,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

IDEAL  RESIDENCE  PROPERTY. 
A  sale  which  has  attracted  ■  trreat  deal  of  attention 
in   real   estate   circles   i-  r  at   Sausalito   this 

Saturday  afternoon.  Mr.  Henry  Stern,  of  the  firm  of 
David  Stern  &  Son*,  will  offer  at  auction  the  prop- 
erty facing  Buckley  and  Excelsior  aves.,  Rondo  and 
El  Monte  Lane,  formerly  known  as  Hotel  Geneva. 
I  his  comprises  twenty-two  choice  residence  lots. 
These  lots  command  a  beautiful  view  of  the  bay, 
and  they  are  in  a  sheltered  and  warm  locality.  As  an 
opportunity  to  secure  suburban  residence  sites,  this 
cannot  be  excelled.  The  sale  is  by  auction,  and  this 
ensures  securing  an  ideal  lot  at  your  own  figures. 
There  are  no  fogs  to  be  dreaded,  and  the  climate  is 
milder  than  either  Alameda  or  Berkeley.  The  sale 
will  bo  held  on  the  arrival  of  the  1  45  p.  m.  boat  from 
San  Francisco.  For  particulars  and  catalogs,  applv 
to  Henry  Stern,  of  David  Stern  &  Sons,  at  his  office. 
No.  1 1   Montgomery  street. 

SUMMER  OUTINGS. 
"Summer  Outings"  for  1004  is  out.  It  gives  illus- 
trated descriptions  of  cottage  and  camp  sites,  resort 
hotels,  farm  boarding  houses,  hunting,  fishing  and 
camping  trips.  Issued  free  on  application  at  ticket 
office  and  information  bureau,  No.  626  Market  street, 
San  Francisco,  or  mailed  free  on  receipt  of  2  cents 
postage. 


Arthur  M.  Best's  picture,  "Law  and  Peace,"  has 
been  on  exhibition  at  Steinway  Hall,  and  is  the  sub- 
ject of  much  complimentary  comment.  The  Rever- 
end Doctor  Rader  and  Rabbi  Voorsanger  have  spoken 
on  the  lessons  that  might  be  derived  from  this  pic- 
ture, and  have  thus  added  to  the  popular  interest. 

Playing  Cards.  Game  Counters.  Poker  Chips,  Dominos,  Chess.  Check- 
ers. "Pit."  "Flinch."  All  new  games  and  the  rules  for  playing  them. 
Sanborn.  Vail  &  Co..  741  Market  St. 


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Marquette  Whiskey 


Marquette  Whiskey  beais  the  name  of  a  great  and 
good  man  and  is  good  enough  to  deserve  it.  It  is 
the  finest  and  costliestVhiskey  distilled 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  1 2 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded, yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  charming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.     T.    BROOKS.     Prop. 


BLITHEDALE 

MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


Utah  Alfalfa  Seed 

Write  for  Sample  &.«d  Quotations 

Catalog  of  Seeds,  Fruit  and  Ornamental  Trees,  Etc. 
Free  on  Application 

TRUMBULL  &  BEEBE.  Seedmen  4  Nurserymen 

419-421  Sansome  Street.  San  Francisco.  Cal 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California. 
Location  of  works,  Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the  24th  day  of  March.  1904.  an  assessment  (No.  90)  of  ten  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  m  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office 
of  the  Company.  Boom  35,  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  California.  

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
27th  day  of  April,  1904,  will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at 
Dubheauetion ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  18th  day  of  May,  1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

nm       r>        „  «..  j  „        „,-.„    „   .,,.    0.  L.  MoCOY,  Secretary. 
Office— Boom  35,  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Mont- 
gomery streets,  San  Francisco,  California. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  08EN  &  CO.,  is-15-17  W.  St.  John  St..  San  Jose.  Complete 
repair  shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  station,  etc. 
Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile.  Oldsmobile  etc. 

F.  L.  CEANDALL.  Automobile  Supplies,  Repairing  etc.,  124  University 
Ave..  Palo  Alto,  Cal. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment j^q,  4. 

Amount  per  share scents 

Levied...........      ...'.'.  March  7,1904 

Delinquent  m  office April  11  1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock. May  2.'  1904 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 
Office— Boom  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No  34 

Amount  per  share I,..'.'.'.'.' 3  cents 

Levied............. March  8. 1904 

Delinquent  m  office April  13, 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  3,  1904 

J.  STADTFELD,  Jr..  Secretary. 
Office— Room  56,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Franclsco.Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  9,  1904. 


lohe  Citizens'  Alliance  and  Labor  Unions 


By  "Herbert    George 


Written    for    tKe    News    Letter 


We  may  have  serious  labor  difficulties  to  contend 
with  between  now  and  the  middle  of  May,  but  pres- 
ent indications  do  not  favor  such  a  conclusion.  The 
fact  is,  San  Francisco  Labor  Unions  have  about  all 
the  weight  they  can  stagger  under,  meeting  assess- 
ments levied  by  the  "walking  bosses"  to  augment 
the  "strike  benefit"  fund.  With  the  constant  drain 
on  the  labor  treasuries  to  meet  the  call  for  help 
from  Los  Angeles,  Sacramento,  Stockton,  Oakland, 
Palo  Alto  and  Fort  Bragg  (with  a  dozen  or  more 
bonfires  in  sight),  Messrs.  McCarthy  and  Cornelius 
will  enjoy  rare  luck  if  they  are  able  to  keep  their 
slaves  in  line  while  they  pick  their  pockets.  The 
truth  is,  the  rank  and  file  of  decent  Unionism  already 
show  unmistakable  signs  of  weariness,  and  it  is  not 
unreasonable  to  suppose  that  the  leaders  are  begin- 
ning to  realize  they  have  been  putting  up  too  stiff 
a  game  even  for  the  case-hardened  unionist,  who  is 
willing  to  give  up  all  his  earnings,  but  draws  the  line 
on  going  without  food  or  clothing  in  order  to  meet 
the  assessments  made  "to  keep  de  b'ys  a-goin,  while 
dey  fights  against  de  open  shop."  There  may  be  some 
trouble  with  the  Cornelius  gang  of  socialists  during 
the  month  of  May,  but  it  won't  last  long.  Decent 
Unionism  is  growing  very  weary  of  standing  all  the 
blame  for  the  bad  breaks  of  so-called  socialists,  who 
are  really  anarchists.  Even  educated,  enlightened 
socialists  are  showing  unmistakable  signs  of  disgust. 
If  the  street-car  strike  materializes,  the  more  con- 
servative element  of  Unionism  is  likely  to  let  Cor- 
nelius paddle  his  own  canoe  if  all  signs  do  not  fail. 
There  is  no  denying  that  skilled  trades  are  tired  of 
carrying  unskilled  hoodlums  who  get  up  teamsters' 
strikes,  waiters'  strikes  and  ash-haulers'  strikes,  and 
strikes  of  that  class  galore.  Had  it  not  been  for  the 
arbitrary  methods  of  the  ignorant  leaders  of  that 
class  of  unions,  a  six-dollar  man  would  not  be  work- 
ing for  $4  per  day,  nor  a  $2  man  be  on  the  pay-roll 
for  $4  per  day.  In  the  good  old  days  when  unions 
considered  themselves  subject  to  the  natural  laws 
of  supply  and  demand,  and  honest,  well-meaning 
union  men  worked  in  "open  shops"  side  by  side  with 
non-union  men,  giving  a  fair  day's  work  for  a  fair 
day's  pay,  the  constitution  of  the  Labor  Union  was 
not  regarded  as  an  instrument  superior  to  the  con- 
stitution of  the  United  States.  In  those  days  Union 
men  enjoyed  the  sympathy  and  support  of  "public 
sentiment,"  and  public  sentiment  backed  them  up 
"to  a  finish,"  when  greedy  employees  sought  to  force 
unfair  conditions  upon  those  wdio  earn  their  bread 
by  the  sweat  of  their  brows.  All  this  is  changed 
now.  Public  sentiment  no  longer  supports  the  man 
with  a  union  card,  whose  union  condones  the  acts  of 
violence  practiced  against  non-union  men  who  wish 
to  work.  Public  sentiment  no  longer  supports  unions 
that  deny  our  boys  the  chance  to  learn  a  trade,  nor 
does  it  take  kindly  to  the  theory  of  the  "closed  shop." 
The  public  knows  the  closed  shop  is  a  violation  of 
the  rights  of  American  citizenship  as  guaranteed  by 
the  Federal  Government  in  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States.  The  public  does  not  believe  that  the 
open  shop  is  a  question  that  can  be  arbitrated  any 
more  than  can  the  questions  of  race,  color,  creed, 
political  or  fraternal  affiliations  of  mankind  under 
the  Stars  and  Stripes.  The  open  shop  is  the  corner 
stone  of  American  liberty,  and  if  the  question  is 
ever  brought  to  an  issue,  it  will  be  "Free  labor  or  a 


free  fight,"  in  which  eighty  per  cent  of  our  people 
(comprising  merchants,  doctors,  dentists,  lawyers, 
clerks,  farmers,  manufacturers,  etc.),  who  can  neither 
join  the  trust  of  capital  or  the  trust  of  Union  Labor, 
will  take  the  side  of  law  and  order  and  good  Govern- 
ment. Suppose  a  foreign  foe  were  to  appear  at  the 
entrance  of  Golden  Gate  to  destroy  our  city,  how 
many  union  men  could  be  found  in  our  State  militia 
or  in  our  regular  army  or  navy  ready  to  defend  our 
city.  Go  ask  Cornelius  or  McCarthy.  Unions  that 
forbid  their  members  joining  the  State  soldiery  can 
not  expect  much  comfort  from  public  sentiment.  The 
claim  is  made  that  the  militia  is  used  to  shoot  down 
strikers.  Why  should  strikers  assume  unlawful  at- 
titudes, ignore  the  courts  and  seek  to  take  the  law 
in  their  own  hands.  Surely  some  one  is  making  a 
serious  mistake,  or  else  a  show  of  military  force 
would  not  be  necessary  to  overcome  unlawful  force. 
It  should  be  plain  to  any  one  in  San  Francisco  why 
the  police  authorities  do  not  keep  the  peace  in  labor 
strikes,  and  it  ought  not  take  a  wizard  to  guess  why 
the  Hall  of  Justice  defends  the  Union  law-breakers. 
Tt  is  this  sort  of  thing  that  has  brought  into  existence 
that  mighty  organized  force  that  is  now  sweeping 
the  country  from  one  end  of  it  to  the  other,  known 
as  the  Citizens'  Alliance.  There  is  no  effect  without 
a  cause.  Union  radicalism  has  at  last  brought  a 
mighty  resisting  force  that  cannot  be  downed.  It 
is  an  American  movement,  started  in  America  by 
an  American  who  believes  in  American  institutions, 
and  it  stands  for  the  rights  of  American  citizens  who 
can  speak  the  English  language,  and  who  vote,  fight 
and  pay  taxes  to  maintain  law  and  order.  If  the  radi- 
cal element  of  San  Francisco  Unionism  desires  to  test 
its  power  on  the  Coast,  it  is  up  to  Cornelius  to  roll 
his  hoop.  His  kind  may  own  the  municipality  and 
possibly  Pardee,  as  they  claim,  but  one  thing  is 
certain — they  don't  quite  control  the  Government 
at  Washington,  that  still  lives,  thank  God,  and  stands 
for  all  the  people  and  not  for  any  particular  church, 
creed,  political  belief,  nor  for  any  Labor  Union,  but 
for  all.  There  may  be  a  strike  in  San  Francisco,  but 
that  feature  of  it  that  means  broken  arms,  intimi- 
dation and  violence  will  not  be  tolerated  any  longer 
than  it  will  require  to  get  at  the  peace  authorities  that 
will  maintain  law  and  order.  The  last  issue  of  the 
local  labor  paper  gave  the  unions  some  very  good  ad- 
vice when  it  said  "No  union  is  any  stronger  than  the 
public  sentiment  that  sustains  it."  Public  sentiment 
in  San  Francisco  does  not  countenance  violence,  as 
the  phenomenal  growth  of  the  Citizens'  Alliance 
fully  attests.  Labor  and  capital  must  work  to- 
gether in  harmony  or  go  to  destruction  individually. 
Wise  men  will  counsel  moderation  and  justice. 
The  hot-heads  should  be  relegated  to  the  rear. 
Unions  have  the  right  to  organize  and  maintain 
their  unions;  so  have  those  who  belong  to  Citizens' 
Alliances.  The  Federal  Government  guarantees  this 
privilege,  but  neither  the  Alliance  nor  the  Unions 
have  any  right  to  say  that  none  but  Alliance  members 
or  Union  men  shall  be  denied  the  God-given  right 
to  earn  a  living.  San  Francisco  is  unionized  very 
thoroughly,  but  it  does  not  compare  with  the  thor- 
oughness of  the  unionization  that  once  existed  in 
Denver  when  everybody  wore  union  labels,  ate  union 
labels  in  their  bread,  and  displayed  union  signs  in 
the  shop  windows.     People  who  live  in  Denver  to- 


April  9,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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day  grant  unions  the  right  to  bettor  their  conditions, 
:tig  and  sanitary,  shorter  hours  and  secure  bet 
tcr  pay   if  they  cat  without   lawless 

ncc,  but  nobody  in  that  city  now  wears  the  in 
verted  boycott,  better  known  as  the  union  label,  nor 
do  the  bus  rado's  metropolis  permit 

union  signs  to  be  displayed  in  windows — and  all  this 
in  one  short  year.  Surely,  California  lias  nothing  to 
fear.  Its  Unions  have  not  three  dozen  cold-blot 
murders  and  assassinations  to  their  credit  as  the 
unions  of  <  (dorado  have.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the 
Union  men  '>f  California  are  good  citizens  who  mean 
to  do  right.  The  leaders  of  California  unions  need 
a  little  trimming  up,  and  the  chances  are  the  unions 
will  do  the  work  without  calling  upon  the  Citizens' 
Alliance  for  aid.  The  Citizens'  Alliance  is  not  in  the 
business  of  "busting  up"  unions,  as  tricky  leaders 
claim,  nor  does  it  seek  to  pose  as  anything  but  a 
liberty-loving,  peace-advocating  institution  that  sus- 
tains the  constructive  side  of  life  and  frowns  upon  the 
distinctive  side.  The  members  of  the  Federated  em- 
ployers and  alliances  now  number  fully  as  many  as 
the  Unions.  They  are  as  well  organized  and  can  raise 
as  much  money.  Why  not  recognize  this  fact  and  get 
together  like  men  and  think  out  the  problems  that 
visit  commercialism  instead  of  trying  to  shoot  it  out 
or  hate  it  out.  We  are  all  God's  children  and  all  off 
the  same  piece  of  cloth.  None  of  us  can  escape  the 
results  of  lob-sided  justice  or  false  economics,  nor 
can  we  stand  in  the  way  of  progress.  The  law  of 
growth  and  evolution  cannot  be  interrupted  by  the 
pin-heads  of  this  world,  who  fancy  they  know  it  all 
and  seek  to  make  the  people  accept  conditions  they 
are  not  prepared  to  accept  simply  because  they  do 
not  understand  them.  Reforms  come  when  they  are 
needed,  and  they  usually  move  on  schedule  time. 
Most  of  us  love  to  reform  a  neighbor  and  forget  to 
reform  ourselves.  The  greatest  reformation  is  that 
reformation  that  begins  under  one's  own  hat.  There 
are  religious  people  who  have  yet  to  learn  what 
righteousness  is;  there  are  intellectual  people  who 
have  yet  to  learn  what  enlightenment  is,  and  there 
are  Alliance  and  Labor  leaders  who  are  good  hot- 
air  artists,  who  have  yet  to  learn  what  leadership 
means.  Let  the  people  lay  aside  false  leaders  and 
cling  to  that  side  which  means  peace,  protection, 
and  happiness.  Let  us  be  tolerant  and  try  to  remem- 
ber that  the  world  is  made  up  of  all  sorts  and  con- 
ditions of  people,  and  that  each  and  every  one  is 
trying  to  live  up  to  his  or  her  highest  conception  of 
truth  and  succeeds  fairly  well  in  wabbling  in  the 
right  direction.  Enlightenment  is  a  plant  of  slow 
growth.  Let  us  not  lose  faith  in  mankind.  Usually 
the  world  is  nearer  right  than  we  individually  are. 
Let  us  be  patient,  but  remember  that  eternal  vigi- 
lance is  the  price  of  liberty.  Come!  Let  us  reason 
together. 

Lucullus  would  have  licked  his  lips  with  pleasure 
after  a  meal  at  Moraghan's  Oyster  House  in  •  the 
California  Market.  And  Lucullus  was  a  Judge  of 
good  cheer.  He  knew  the  oyster,  and  at  Moraghan's 
he  would  have  said:  "Thou  art  mine  oyster,"  and 
never  more  would  have  roamed. 

The   carpet  becomes   very  dirty  In   winter,  but  this 

can  easily  be  remedied  by  sending  it  to  Spaulding's  Carpet 
Cleaning  Works,  353  Tehama  street.  There  the  carpet  is 
cleansed  from  every  particle  of  dirt  without  any  injury 
to  the  fabric,  and  is  returned  looking  as  iresh  and  new  as 
when  first  put  down. 

"Out  of  the  Beaten  Path,"   Tom  Dillon's  modern  style  hats. 
Opposite  Palace. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Chollar  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California.  Looa 
Lion  of  works,  Storey  Com  t.v,  Nevada- 

Notice  Is  hereby  {riven  that  at  a  meeting:  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  8th  day  of  March,  19U4,  an  assessment  \No.  65)  of  tea  (10)  cents 
per  slmre  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  eold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
< Company,  room  79.  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  Pan 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE    12th    DAY    OF    APRIL,    1904, 
will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;   and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   TUESDAY,  the  3d  day     of  May 
1904,    to    pav     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the    costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  SeeittBiy. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Calif  ornle 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  CHARLES  BLOXHAM.  deceased.  Notice  is  hereby  given 
by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  HYNES.  Public  Administrator  of  the  City 
and  County  or  Wan  Francisco  and  Administrator  of  the  Estate  of 
CHARLES  BLOXHAM,  deceased,  to  the  creditors  of.  and  all  persons 
having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  the 
necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months  after  the  first  publication  of 
this  notice,  to  the  said  Administrator  at  Room  No-  668  Parrott  Building, 
825  to  855  Market  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  the  same  being  his  place 
for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco.  State  of  California- 

M-  J.  HYNES. 

Administrator  of  the  estate  of  CHARLES  BLOXHAM.  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY,  attorneys  for  admistration.  Rooms  567-568- 
669,  Parrott  Building,  San  Francisco.  California. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  March  12, 1904. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  g,  1904. 


"LITTLE  MOTHERS." 

The  "Little  Mothers,"  bright  little  girls  from  the 
homes  south  of  Market  street,  are  having  another 
day  in  the  country,  this  time  at  Mt.  Tamalpais.  Sixty 
of  the  bright  little  laces  shining  out  from  undeT 
sixty  snow-white  caps,  were  at  the  ferry  depot  this 
morning  for  the  early  boat.  They  will  spend  the 
day  romping  over  the  green  grass  and  come  home 
at  night  happy  and  content  as  were  ever  a  lot  oi 
youngsters. 

Since  this  training  school  was  opened  at  942  Har- 
rison street,  four  years  ago,  the  good  women  who 
have  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  work  have  man- 
aged to  take  the  little  ones  several  times  on  these 
outings,  where  they  might  enjoy  the  bright  sunshine 
and  pure  air,  away  from  the  dingy  surroundings  111 
the  narrow  streets  in  which  they  live. 

Each  summer  they  have  been  taken  to  their  coun- 
try home,  the  homestead  of  the  late  Judge  Pringla 
near  San  Ramon.  This  vear  the  outing  will  be  on  the 
Russian  River  country.  It  is  in  this  section  wher  • 
Mrs.  Sheppard  and  her  associates  are  now  nego- 
tiating for  the  purchase  of  a  tract  of  land  for  a  per- 
manent summer  home  for  the  children. 

When  this  good  work  was  undertaken  the  object 
was  to  admit  the  little  girls  who  were  spending  their 
days  in  drudgery,  most  of  them  in  unsanitary  home 
Sundingsfand  their  evenings  in  the  -ugh  amuse- 
ments of  the  streets.  They  were  gathered  into  the 
training  school  and  taught  housework,  cooking  sew- 
ing and  laundry  work.  The  school  is  fitted  up  as  a 
model  for  the  moderate  purse,  and  so  to  these  LittL 
Mothers"  is  a  practical  object  lesson  in  itself.  Manj 
of  the  girls  have  found  employment  in  homes  of  the 
city  as  result  of  this  school,  and  have  proven  most 
competent  In  short,  the  school  is  making  mode 
voX  women  of  girls  who  will  make  good  wives  and 

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THAT  WARIVITCH. 
The  Russian,  way  out   Eastivitch, 

He  wears  a   sealskin  capski, 
His  pants  arc  lined  with  woolivitch 

His  Micks  arc   pure  burlapski. 

But  lie's  a  foxy  guyivitch, 
An   all-round   diplomatski. 

He  winks  the  other  eycivitch, 
Aiul   talketh  through  his  hatski. 

He  wauls  to  be  the  starivitch — 
The  chorus  and  stage-handski. 

He  wants  to  run  the  showivitch, 
And   also   lead   the  bandski. 

The  Japanese  is  smallivitch, 
But  doesn't  give  a  damnski, 

He  knows  he  lias  the  goodsivitch, 
And  that  he  is  no  hamski. 

.He  sticks  out  his  chestivitch  ; 

He's  always  standing  patski. 

There's   trouble   in   the   airivitch 

When  he  gets  at  the  batski. 

The  Russian  ought  to  knowivitch 
It's  never   safe   or  wiseski 

To  judge  of  anythinggivitch 
Just  merely  by  its  sizeski. 

But  he  will  learn  this  soonivitch  ; 

The  Jap  will  teach  him  wellski. 
His  Irish  now  is  upivitch, — 

He'll  give  the  Russian  hellski! 

— Josei'll  Vun  lfuulte  in  "Lire" 


The  Reverend  Dr.  Fourthly  was 
reading  the  morning  lesson :  "Doth 
not  even  nature  itself  teach  you," 
he  said,  "that  if  a  man  have  long 
hair  it  is  a  shame  unto  him?" 
Whereupon  Cactus  Bill,  who  hap- 
pened to  be  in  town  that  day  and 
had  gone  to  church  for  the  first 
time  in  twenty-five  years,  fingered 
his  revolver  ominously  but  thought 
better  of  it,  and  avenged  himself 
by  withholding  the  $5  gold  piece 
he  had  intended  to  drop  into  the 
basket  when  it  came  around. 


Kitty — Constance  has  been 
painted  by  Mr.  Gamborge.  She  is 
delighted  with  it.  Maude — I  see, 
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trait. 

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type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  Market  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


"Why  are  you  crying,  dear?" 
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Sleepers. 

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SAN    FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Ferry  Depot. 
Foot  of  Market  Street  i 


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7.00a 

7.00a 

7.30a 
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8.00  a 

8.00a 
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1000a 
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Vrtcavllle.  Winters.  Kumeey 7. 50'' 

Ben  Ida,  SuIbud,  Elmlra  and  Sacra- 
mento        7-20r 

Vallejo.    Napa,     Callstoga,    Santa 

Kobb,  Martinez,  Sun  Itumon 6-20 

Nlles,  Ltvermore,  Tracy,  Latbrop. 

Stockton 7  20 

Shasta  ExpreBB  —  (Via  Davis), 
William*  (for  Bartlett  Springs). 
Willows.     tFruto.      Ked     Bluff, 

Portland,  Tacoina.  Seattle 7.50 

Davis. Woodland.  Knights  Landing. 

MaryBvllle.  Orovllle 7-50 

Port  Costa.  Martinez,  Antloch. 
Byron.  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man, Lob  Bauos.  Mendota, 
Armona,     Hanford,      Ylaalla, 

Portervllle 4,?0 

PortCoBtn,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Latb- 
rop, Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno. 
Goshen     Junction,     Hanford, 

Vtsalla.  Bakerafleld  4  50 

Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton, (tMllton),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervlile.     MaryBvllle,    Chlco, 

Red  Bluff 4.20 

Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  8o- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4  20 

Atlantic  ExpreBB— Ogdcn  and  East.   11.20 
Richmond,     Martinez     and     Way 

Stations 6  60 

The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6  23 

Vallejo 12  20 

Los  AngeleB  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Latbrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Hanford,  Lemoore,  Vlsalla. 

BakerBfleld,  Lob  Angeles 7:0 

Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     X.?Q  ■ 

Sacramento  River  Steamers fH.OJ' 

Benlcla,  Winter*.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,     Orovllle    and    way 

stations 10-^0* 

Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-5U'1 
Port      Costa,     Martinez,      Byron, 
Tracy,      Latbrop,      Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno   and    Way    Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 12  20. 

Martinez.  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodl...    10. 2J  » 
Martinez, San  lUmou.ViilleJo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  Bantu  KoBa ...      9  20  • 

Nlles,  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl 420p 

Hayward.  Nlles,  Irvlngtoo,  San  J     18.50a 

Jose.  Llvermore 1  (11  50* 

The  Owl  Limited— Newm«n  Lu* 
BanoB.  Mendota.  Fresno,  Tulare, 
Bakersneld.  Lob  Angeles. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  lo  Los  Angele*,  for  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R.  I    &P 8.50* 

PortCOBta.  Tracy,  Stockton 12-20e 

Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jobs 7  20  • 

Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 9  ;,Q  * 

Eastern  ExpreBB— Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Itenfcla,  Sui- 
Bun,  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckce,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnnemocca 6.20 

Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday....  I      ,  crin 

Vallejo.  Sunday  only f      '°Up 

Richmond.  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11.20a 

Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,    Redding, 
Portland,  Pnget  Sound  and  East,     8.60a 
Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Bun- 
dayonlyl 11-60* 


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COAST     LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 


(Foot  of  Marxet  Street.) 

8-1  Ba  Newark,  Center  vine.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulaer     Creek,    Santo 

Cruz  and  Way  Buttons 5-65>' 

12.16*-  Newark,  CentervlUe,  San  Jose, 
New  Almadeo.Los  Gutoe, Felton. 
Boolder  Creek,  Santa  Cru*  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    1 1 0-55* 

4.16P  Newark,  BanJose,  LosGatos  and)     tB-55  * 

way  stations 1110  55* 

•9-30p  Honters  Train,  Satorday  only,  San 
Joae  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
Ing  from  Lou  Gatoa  Sunrlny  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

I-  rom  SAN  FRAN  CISCO,  Foot  of  Market  St.  (Slip «. 

-t?:16    9:00    11:00  a.m.     1.00    3  00    616  p.m 

from  OAKLAND,  Foot  of  Broadway  —  t6:W>    fcj:l>i 

t8:05    10:00  a.m.       1200    2-00    4-00  i'.m. 

COAST    LINE     < Broad  Uniige). 

fW  (Third  and  Townaend  Streets.) 

610a    Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6-30> 

7  00a    Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 536p 

6  00a   New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld.,  only),     4. 1 0' 

8  00*  The  CoaBter—  Stops  only  Sac  Jose, 

Qllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis- 
ter). Pajaro,  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas,  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Robles,  Santa  Mar 
garl  ta.  San  Lais  OblBpo,  principal 
stations  thence  Burf  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
tbence  Santa  Barbara, Snn  Uuena- 
ventura,  Saugas.  Los  AogeleB...  10-45" 
8.(0*  Ben  Jose.  Tree  Plnos,  Capltola, 
San  taCrui.PaclQcOrove,  Salinas. 
Ban  Lnls  Obispo  and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4.10* 

I0-30a  Ban  Jose  and  Way  Station! 1.20> 

11. 30 a  Banta  Clara,   San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  StatlonB 7.30 r 

1.30F  San  Jose  and  Way  Statlona 8  36  * 

5  OOP  Del  Monte  ExprenB— Santa  Clara, 

Ban  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connectB  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  Holllster,  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.   12-15' 

3-30p  Tree  Plnos  Way  Passenger 10  45* 

4  30p  Ban  Jobc  and  Way  Stations 1800a 

t&00'  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatoa,  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) t9-00* 

L  £0i-  SanJoseandPrlnclpalWayBtatlonB  J9  40* 
&-G0P  Sunset  Limited.—  Redwocd,  San 
Jose,  Gllroy, Salinas, Paso  Robles, 
Ban  I. Hi!-  ohlapo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Lob  AtigcU-s,  Deinlng.  El  PaBO, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nectB at  Pajaro  for  Banta  Cms 
and    at    Castrovlllft   for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7-10  • 

r|)  1t>  bau  Mateo, Beresford. Belmont. San 
Carlos.  Redwood.  Fair  Oaks. 
MenloPark.  Palo  Alto +8.46.* 

6  30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  36* 

8  00p  Palo  Alio  and  Way  Stations 10.16a 

11  30p  South  San  Francisco,  M  (librae,  Bur- 
llngame.  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
San  Carlos.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto .9.45- 

11-30P  MayOeld,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
vale, Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

Sao  Jose 19.4&1- 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon. 

'Sunday  excepted  t  Sunday  only 

a  Saturday  only, 
f  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
i*~Only  trains  etoiplng  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
t re b :10  a.m., 7:00a. m.,  11:80a.m.. 8:80p.M.,  6:30 r.M.  and 

8:00  ml 

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O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND,  ORE. 

And  Short  Kail  Line  from  Portland  toallPoints 
East.    Through  Tickets  to  all  Points  all  Kail  or 

Steamship  and  Kail  at  Lowest  Kates. 

Steamer  Tickets  inelude  lierth  and  Meals. 

SS  OREGON  Sails  Mar.  28.  April  7.  17.  J7.  Hay 
7    17   27 

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No.  1  Montgomery  St.  San  Francis. -o.  Cat. 

"Major  Rhye  takes  a  little  can- 
ter every  morning  after  breakfast." 
"Yes,  and  a  little  decanter  every 
evening   after    dinner." 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  ^"ST&ira 

Sohmer  Piano  Agency 
308-312  Post  SL.San  Francisco 


April  9,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


X5hQ     Political     Situation 


An  event  in   no  wis*  connected   with   politics   is 

likely  to  have  a  very  decided  effect  on  the  political 
situation  in  Santa  Clara  County  and  incidentally  on 
that  of  the  State,  since  the  persons  whom  it  most 
effects  have  heen  mentioned  for  both  the  positions  of 
rnor  and  Senator.  Every  one  who  knows  any- 
thing of  politics  in  California  has  heard  of  the  Hayes 
Brothers  and  of  their  successful  fight  with  Johnnie 
Mackenzie,  the  erstwhile  boss  of  Santa  Clara  County. 
The  Hayes  are  very  wealthy,  their  income  being  a 
thousand  dollars  a  day,  it  is  said,  and  they  have  a 
wealthy  mother,  a  charming  and  intellectual  old  lady, 
who  devotes  most  of  her  time  to  religious  topics. 
She  is  the  founder  of  a  denomination  of  her  own,  and 
preaches  every  Sunday  to  a  congregation,  which  if 
it  is  small,  is  select.  She  formerly  had  a  church  of 
her  own,  in  which  she  held  her  services,  but  the  edi- 
fice recently  burned  down,  and  now  she  uses  the 
Unitarian  Church  for  her  Sunday  gatherings.  Last 
Sunday  she  undertook  to  explain  how  she  had  per- 
sonally reached  a  high  altitude  of  holiness  and  com- 
munion with  the  Deity,  and  then  she  proceeded  to  ex- 
plain that  her  son,  E.  A.  Hayes,  commonly  known  as 
"Black  Hayes,"  who  sat  near  her  on  the  platform, 
had  also  reached  a  great  height  religiously ;  that  he 
held  special  intercourse  with  the  Almighty,  and 
was,  in  fact,  a  prophet  and  leader  appointed  to  uphold 
her  doctrines  when  she  is  gone,  and  to  reach  a  height 
of  holiness  and  understanding  of  the  Divine  Will  ac- 
corded to  few  mortals.  Tuesday  this  sermon  was 
reported  in  one  of  the  papers,  and  though  denied  in 
part  by  the  son,  was  confirmed  by  the  mother  in 
an  interview  in  the  same  paper  Wednesday.  The  re- 
sult in  San  Jose  has  been  marvelous.  Owing  to  the 
defalcation  of  the  City  Treasurer,  the  only  Macken- 
zie man  elected  last  year  at  the  city  election,  the 
"push,"  alias  the  Mackenzieites  have  been  practically 
wiped  out,  and  Justice  Lorrigan  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  who  has  long  been  the  brains  of  the  "push," 
while  Mackenzie  was  its  ostensible  leader,  tried  to 
get  Vic  Scheller,  the  lawyer,  to  run  as  a  candidate  for 
Mayor  this  spring  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  promis- 
ing him  the  support  of  the  "push,"  which  was  not 
strong  enough  to  put  up  a  candidate  of  its  own.  I 
mention  this  as  showing  how  demoralized  and  dis- 
couraged the  push  was,  when  the  report  of  the  super- 
natural powers  of  Black  Hayes  was  first  revealed  to 
an  awe-stricken  public.  Now,  all  is  changed.  On 
every  corner  in  San  Jose  you  can  hear  the  citizens 
declare  that  they  do  not  want  any  supernatural  leader 
in  mundane  politics,  and  Jim  Rea  is  even  irreverent 
enough  to  say  that  he  "wants  no  spooks  in  his."  The 
irreverent  are  busy  ridiculing  the  pretensions  of 
Hayes,  and  when  a  man  becomes  a  subject  of  ridicule, 
it  is  almost  impossible  for  him,  even  with  a'  big 
bank  account,  to  have  much  influence  in  the  com- 
munity. Mayor  Worswick  will  be  renominated  by 
the  Hayes  faction,  and  will  probably  be  elected,  but 
he  will  lose  hundreds  of  votes  because  of  the  revela- 
tions, and  it  will  take  all  of  Black's  supernatural 
powers  to  pull  him  through.  By  the  way,  I  am  told, 
though  not  being  there  I  do  not  know  if  it  be  true, 
that  Madame  Hayes  declared  that  the  defeat  of  Mac- 
kenzie by  her  son  was  the  direct  result  of  a  reve- 
lation which  she  received  and  which  she  explained  to 
them. 


It  is  said  that  the  publication  is  due  to  Mackenzie, 
or  some  of  his  followers,  and  Justice  Lorigan's  name 
is  mentioned  in  that  connection  also.  He  lives  at 
San  Jose,  goes  up  and  down  from  the  city  daily,  and 
is  shrewd  enough  to  sec  what  use  could  be  made  of 
the  revelation  politically.  Color  is  lent  to  the  state- 
ment by  the  fact  that  while  the  discourse  was  deliv- 
ered to  s.ome  three  hundred  persons  Sunday,  it  did 
not  appear  in  print  before  Tuesday,  and  meantime 
the  Justice  had  had  time  enough  to  come  to  town 
and  consult  with  friends  here.  It  is  well  to  remember 
that  he  is  a  candidate  for  election  this  fall,  and  that 
the  Hayes  faction  would  not  favor  him.  If  he  could 
weaken  them,  as  this  move  undoubtedly  has  done, 
the  result  would  be  greatly  to  his  advantage.  I  may 
add  that  E.  A.  Shumate,  formerly  principal  of  the 
Night  School,  but  who  was  removed  by  the  Hayes' 
influence  from  the  place,  is  to  be  the  opponent  of 

Mavor  Worswick   in   the  city  campaign. 

*  *  * 

I  was  talking  to  John  C.  Lynch  in  the  Palace  Grill 
the  other  day,  and  he  tells  me  that  the  Republicans 
have  settled  all  their  difficulties,  and  that  Abe  Ruef 
is  to  manage  the  Presidential  campaign.  The  an- 
nouncement means  that  the  campaign  will  be  run 
shrewdly  and  that  every  vote  possible  will  be  se- 
cured for  Roosevelt.  There  are,  of  course,  some  Re- 
publicans that  would  prefer  another  leader,  but  as 
Lynch  says :  "We  want  the  best  General  we  can  get, 
and  there  is  no  question  who  he  is." 

*  *  * 

The  Hearst  boom  is  not  what  it  was,  and  there  is 
a  decided  hedging  on  the  part  of  a  number  of  dis- 
tinguished gentlemen  who  not  long  ago  were  shouting 


34 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  2,  1904. 


with  loud  voices  for  the  hero  of  Sausalito.  The  trou- 
ble is  this:  It  looks  now  as  though  the  conservative 
element  in  the  party  has  been  aroused,  and  that  the 
Democrats  of  the  South  will  stand  behind  New  York 
in  its  support  of  Parker.  If  that  should  prove  cor- 
rect, the  supporters  of  Hearst  at  St.  Louis  will  be 
persona  non  grata  with  a  vengeance  if  Parker  is 
nominated  and  elected,  and  Phelan  and  Coleman  and 
the  fellows  that  are  anti-Hearst  to-day  will  control 
the  distribution  of  patronage,  and  will  be  the  local 
representatives  of  the  White  House.  It  is  a  very  dif- 
ficult position  for  the  Democrats  who  want  to  ride 
on  the  band  wagon,  a  position  that  is  none  the  less 
embarrassing  that  to-day  their  allegiance  to  Hearst 
is  openly  attributed  on  the  streets  and  around  the 
hotels  to  his  check  book,  and  not  to  his  popularity. 
It  is  a  stigma  that  will  stick  to  them  in  the  future, 
and  which  will  undoubtedly  keep  several  of  them 
out  of  office  when  the  Democrats  have  any  to  give. 

*  *  * 

It  is  noticeable  that  a  number  of  the  Democratic 
editors  of  the  State  are  coming  to  San  Francisco, 
calling  at  Democratic  (alias  Hearst)  headquarters 
and  going  home  filled  with  the  assurance  that  Hearst 
is  going  to  be  elected  as  well  as  nominated.  Mark 
Plaisted,  of  the  Fresno  Democrat,  has  just  made  the 
pilgrimage  to  the  local  political  Mecca  and  returned 
home  after  giving  out  an  interview  in  which  he  lauds 
Hearst  to  the  skies.  Those  who  know  Mark  best 
will  be  least  likely  to  believe  that  his  enthusiasm 
is  entirelv  disinterested,  and  that  bis  visit 
will  result  in  substantial  dividends  to  the  emi- 
nent gentlemen  who  are  stockholders  in  his  paper. 
He  will  no  doubt  at  once  buy  another  Mergenthaler 
and  name  it  •'William  Randolph  Hearst."  a  fact 
that  contains  a  hint  which  the  country  editors  and 
newspaper  proprietors  of  the  State  should  not  neg- 
lect. 

*  *  * 

I  notice  that  Colusa  Green,  the  Democrat  of  Demo- 
crats.  who  was  once  State  Treasurer  of  this  common- 
wealth, thanks  to  Governor  Budd,  and  who  has  been 
reported  as  willing  to  support  Hearst  if  he  is  nomi- 
nated regardless  of  his  dislike  of  the  man's  record,  is 
getting  in  line  witli  Leake  and  L'arry,  and  in  his  latest 
issue  of  the  Colusa  Sun,  hints  very  broadly  that 
if  Hearst  is  nominated  he  will  not  support  him.  It  is 
of  course,  quite  an  effort  for  Will  Great  to  take  such 
a  position,  but  he  loves  the  Democratic  Party  too 
well  to  be  willing  to  help  bury  it.  which  is  what  the 
nomination   of   Hearst  would   mean. 

*  *  * 

I  understand  a  Parker  club  will  shortly  be  inaugu- 
rated here,  and  that  it  will  include  a  number  of  very 
prominent  Democrats  among  its  members.  Those 
who  have  the  movement  on  foot  are  only  waiting  un- 
til they  are  certain  that  New  York  will  endorse  Par- 
ker, and  then  they  will  at  once  call  a  meeting  ami 
come  out  boldly  for  him.  Meantime  there  will  be 
anti-Hearst  tickets  at  the  Democratic  primaries  111 
every  ward  and  precinct  in  the  city  on  May  4th.  and 
if  New  York  endorses  Parker,  the  antis  will  mean 

pro-Parker. 

*  *  * 

Hamilton  A.  Bauer.  Senator  from  the  22.1  District 
and  son  of  Emile  Bauer  of  the  San  Francisco  News 
Companv.  is  out  for  Congressman  for  the  4th  Con- 
gressional District,  and  hopes  to  get  the  Republican 
nomination,  believing  he  can  defeat  Livernash. 

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Gone  like  the  foam  of  yestreen's  beer, 
<>r  like  the  eggs  in  last  year's  nest; 

Gone    the    Willie    Ilearstlet   boom. 
Damned  to  eternal  rest. 


An  organization  of  employes  is  a  union  ;  an  organi- 
zation of  employers  is  a  conspiracy. 

"A  new  note  with  every  baby"  is  the  claim  of  a 
famous  contralto  who  is  addicted  to  maternity.  Usu- 
ally it  is  the  doctor  who  gets  the  note. 

When  Mrs.  Botkin  cries  over  her  conviction,  the 
tender-hearted  should  reflect  that  tears  are  no  anti- 
dote for  arsenic. 


Buffalo's  "exclusive  clubmen"  who  witnessed  a 
bloody  battle  of  bull-dogs  would  be  clubbed  men  now 
if  Buffalo  had  the  right  kind  of  a  police  force. 

The  latest  air-ship  inventor  in  San  Francisco  is 
busy  regretting  that  there  is  only  one  "sucker"  born 
every  minute. 

The  reason  the  gallery  does  not  care  for  the  Ibsen 
drama  is  that  it  will  not  pay  money  to  see  at  a  thea- 
tre what  it  can't  help  seeing  at  home. 

Let  it  be  hoped  that  the  bit  of  pigskin  grafted  on  a 
colored  lady's  countenance  was  tanned  first,  and  that 
the  lady  was  saddle-colored. 

It  is  beginning  to  dawn  on  William  Randolph 
Hearst  that  there  are  other  things  in  politics  besides 
a  home-made  reputation  as  a  trust-buster. 

The  scratch  of  a  cat  killed  a  man  in  Tacoma — 
a  fact  which  should  promote  peace  among  some  of 
our   warring   club    ladies. 

In  New  York  the  theatrical  value  of  a  human  life 
in  money  is  $5,000.  The  figure  decreases  steadily  as 
you  come  West. 

General  Kurapatkin  is  accused  of  winning  all  his 
victories  under  the  influence  of  morphine.  Appar- 
ently the  Japanese  have  succeeded  in  shutting  off 
the  Russian  "dope"  supply. 

Oakland  doctors  are  so  skilled  in  the  healing  art 
that  they  recently  amputated  a  man's  stomach,  but 
none  of  them  has  discovered  a  cure  for  Alameda 
County's  epidemic  itch  for  office. 


The  red  cross  is  to  be  put  on  Oakland  street  cars, 
but  the  double  cross  will  continue  to  be  favored  in 
( Oakland  politics. 

A  Russian  lady  with  a  name  like  an  after-dinner 
drink  lias  been  enrolled  in  a  Cossack  regiment.  This 
looks  like  an  appeal  to  Japanese  chivalry  and  senti- 
ment. 


The  press  gravely  records  the  arrest  of  the  Bishop 
of  Mush  for  "disseminating  malevolent  reports," 
but  does  not  tell  us  what  brand  of  breakfast  fooid 
it   was   that   he   maligned. 

If  it  was  warm  in  San  Francisco  at  the  last  week- 
end, what  will  it  be  at  Santa  Cruz  when  the  Demo- 
cratic delegates  begin  to  say  what  some  of  them 
think  about  Hearst? 


A  Los  Angeles  man  foolishly  tries  to  boost  himself 
into  notoriety  by  confessing  that  he  has  been  en- 
gaged to  thirty  women,  when  we  have  among  us 
freak  sinners  who  have  married  more  than  that. 


A  hundred-dollar  diamond  in  each  champagne 
glass  was  the  distinguishing  feature  of  an  Atlantic 
City  dinner.  The  function  must  have  been  given 
by  one  of  those  who  held  the  buckets  while  the  water 
was  being  squeezed  out  of  Wall  street. 

Another  brilliant  discovery  at  Washington  is  that 
lime  and  sulphate  of  copper  kills  insects  and  disease 
germs  in  water.  No  volunteer  has  come  forward  as 
yet  and  offered  to  taste  the  water  after  such  treat- 
ment. 


The  police  say  the  police  judges  are  responsible 
for  the  unpunished  crime  of  San  Francisco,  and  the 
judges  return  the  compliment.  One  finds  it  not  at 
all  difficult  to  agree  with  both  sides  to  this  contro- 
versy. 

That  English  preacher  of  prominence  who  denies 
the  inspiration  of  the  Scriptures,  calling  the  Bible 
a  "manual  of  morality,"  is  being  roasted  in  the  news- 
papers instead  of  at  the  stake,  wherefrom  we  deduce 
the  progress  of  civilization. 

Congressman  Livernash  weeps  bitterly  because  an- 
other Democrat,  a  Georgian,  said  to  him  that  he 
assumed  a  good  dgal  in  assuming  that  he  was  a  gen- 
tleman. It  hasn't  taken  the  House  long  to  get  Liv- 
ernash's  measure. 


The  poissant  Emperor  William's  seismological 
observatory  can  detect  a  disturbance  of  its  instru- . 
ments  caused  by  a  shock  central  4,000  miles  away. 
It  ought  to  have  no  difficulty  in  recording  the  tremors 
that  shake  the  empire  when  his  Majesty  makes  his 
ministers  quake  in  their  shoes. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


THE  FORCE  OF  ARMS. 

Thoughtful  Americans  are  watching  with  anxiety 
the  morbid  conditions  that  disturb  the  internal  econ- 
omy of  the  State  of  Colorado.  Here  the  limited 
military  authority  of  the  commonwealth  is  coming 
into  direct  and  painful  conflict  with  the  legal  author- 
ity resident  in  the  courts.  The  issue  is  the  labor 
question,  not  in  any  economic  phase,  but  in  a  cruder 
and  more  difficult  'aspect,  involving  open  resistance 
to  and  defiance  of  constituted  authority.  For  years 
Colorado  has  been  a  hot-bed  of  the  most  virulent 
form  of  unionism,  because  of  its  vast  mining  inter- 
ests, bringing  within  its  border  a  class  of  men  easily 
led  into  the  error  of  violent  opposition  to  the  law  and 
its  ministers.  For  years,  it  has  had  a  National 
Guard  not  to  be  desp'ised  as  a  factor  in  the  working 
out  of  the  problem  of  peace  for  all  and  oppression 
to  none.  As  nearly  as  can  be  ascertained  an  unfortu- 
nate incident  is  that  the  acting  commander  of  the 
State's  troops  is  a  man  of  ardent  bravery  and  com- 
plete fidelity,  but  ineffably  pompous  and  pig-headed, 
talkative  where  he  should  be  silent,  threatening 
where  he  should  be  tactful  and  firm.  The  State 
courts,  or  some  of  them,  have  swung  into  line  with 
the  leaders  of  labor,  and  only  the  extreme  of  patience 
and  good  sense  on  the  part  of  an  executive  whose  lot 
no  one  envies,  can  stave  off  a  most  regrettable  con- 
flict. The  prospect  of  federal  intervention  is  by  no 
means  remote. 

Right  or  wrong,  the  labor  leaders,  whose  wisdom, 
if  not  their  patriotism,  is  to  be  doubted,  will  best 
serve  their  cause  by  yielding  to  the  military  pressure 
by  counseling  their  followers  to  such  a  course  as  will 
leave  no  room  or  excuse  for  activity  on  the  part  of  the 
militia,  and  by  trusting  to  time  and  to  a  fair-minded 
people  for  adequate  justice  and  redress. 

Here,  where  there  is  the  daily  menace  of  a  situa- 
tion not  unlike  that  which  is  troubling  Colorado — 
we  mean  the  threatened  car  strike,  with  its  probabil- 
ity of  an  ultimate  appeal  to  State  or  to  nation  for 
an  armed  adjustment — the  labor  leaders  ought  to 
consider  well  what  is  happening  in  our  sister  State 
and  move  with  caution  lest  they  precipitate  a  strug- 
gle full  of  the  possibilities  of  evil  for  San  Francisco 
and  California. 

AFTER  THE  SCHOOL  TEACHERS. 

The  Board  of  Health  is  making  war  upon  the  mi- 
crobes of  Chinatown  :  it  has  given  notice  to  the  germs 
of  the  telephone ;  the  milk  men  have  also  been 
warned;  the  school  children  are  to  be  subjected  to 
daily  inspection,  and  now,  with  the  assistance  of  the 
Board  of  Education,  the  city's  doctors  propose  to 
find  out  whether  there  are  any  school  teachers  whose 
sight  has  become  weakened  during  the  course  of 
years,  or  whose  hearing  has  been  dulled  by  the 
monotonous  droning  of  hundreds  of  pupils.  Such 
teachers  will  be  marked  for  sacrifice.  The  Health 
Board  is  certainly  undertaking  a  most  extensive  cam- 
paign, which,  prima  facie,  appears  to  find  its  causes 
in  a  most  enthusiastic  desire  to  improve  those  con- 
ditions over  which  the  Board  may  have  jurisdiction. 
No  one  has  any  fault  to  find  with  any  of  the  proposi- 
tions, considered  solely  upon  its  merits;  but  it  is  to 
be  regretted  that  the  Board  of  Health  does  not  pos- 
sess the  entire  confidence  of  the  people.  The  expos- 
ures of  the  practices  in  the  emergency  hospitals  are 
of  too  recent  occurrence  to  be  yet  forgotten.  The 
proposition  to  submit  school  teachers  to  medical  ex- 
aminations by  the  "volunteer"  doctors,  smacks  some- 
what of  a  scheme  to  find  a  way  to  get  rid  of  instruc- 


tors who  have  lost  their  pull.  The  public  schools 
are  part  of  the  State  system,  and  the  Board  of  Health, 
which  is  a  purely  municipal  affair,  has  no  business 
with  them.  Nor  can  the  consent  of  the  Board  of 
Education  to  the  entrance  of  the  doctors  into  the 
schools  give  the  latter  any  authority  therein.  The 
physicians  are  in  the  schools  only  by  sufferance,  and 
any  recommendations  they  may  make  upon  teachers 
can  in  no  legal  sense  be  received  as  official. 

There  may  be  teachers  who  have  become  superan- 
nuated; there  may  be  others  who,  through  sickness, 
have  lost  temporarily  the  energy  needed  for  suc- 
cess in  instruction  ;  there  are  doubtless  many  who, 
at  times,  are  on  the  verge  of  nervous  collapse.  But  it 
is  not  the  business  of  the  Board  of  Health  to  pass 
upon  them.  That  matter  lies  absolutely  and  alone 
in  the  province  of  the  Board  of  Education.  The 
State  school  law  provides  the  only  manner  in  which 
teachers  may  be  dismissed.  If  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion could  fall  back  upon  a  long  report,  signed  by 
several  of  the  assistants  of  the  Board  of  Health, 
showing  why,  in  the  opinion  of  the  latter,  a  certain 
teacher  should  be  dismissed,  the  School  Directors 
might  find  it  easier  to  make  vacancies  than  at  pres- 
ent. Just  as  a  coincidence,  positions  as  school  teach- 
ers are  much  in  demand,  and  numerous  vacancies 
would  be  hailed  with  joy  by  certain  people.  The 
public  school  teachers  are  the  most  deserving,  the 
hardest  worked,  and  in  many  ways  the  least  appre- 
ciated by  the  city's  employees.  They  enjoy  the 
public  confidence,  which  can  hardly  be  said  of  those 
who  may  undertake  to  condemn  them.  Heretofore, 
they  have  had  sufficient  political  influence  to  ward 
off  attacks.  It  behooves  them  now  to  get  at  the  bot- 
tom of  this  sudden  interest  taken  in  their  physical 
well-being.  If  the  purpose  is  an  honest  one,  not 
much  harm  can  come  of  it,  but  it  is  much  to  be  feared 
that  this  sudden  streak  of  paternalism  is  fraught  with 
danger  to  those  who  have  no  friends  at  court. 

PORTFOLIO  OF  THE  U.  S.  NAVY. 

Secretary  Moody  is  to  be  commended  for  his 
forthright  opposition  to  a  Congressional  suggestion 
of  a  general  staff  for  the  navy  like  that  which  "ad- 
vises" the  Secretary  of  War  with  regard  to  the  army. 
It  has  been  common  knowledge  ever  since  the  open- 
ing of  the  Spanish-American  war,  and  it  may  have 
been  known  long  before,  that  to  the  experts  the 
navy  is  better  organized,  more  efficiently  directed 
and  far  more  effectively  disciplined  than  the  army. 
In  a  measure  this  may  be  due  to  the  obvious  wide 
differences  between  the  machine  that  fights  on  land, 
a  thousand-legged  thing  crawling  on  its  belly,  and 
the  fighting  machine  of  the  sea. 

Ten  thousand  tons  of  steel 

Sky-shooting  through   the   brine. 

From  Appomatox  to  Santiago  the  army  of  the 
United  States  was  a  fiction.  The  rapidity  with  which 
it  was  converted  into  a  ponderable  and  forceful  fact 
was  a  thing  for  other  nations  to  wonder  at  and  for 
this  nation  to  be  proud  of.  In  most  of  that  same 
thirty  years  the  navy  had  been  developing  steadily, 
in  personnel  and  equipment,  to  a  state  of  instant 
readiness  and  ample  preparedness.  The  very  Con- 
gressmen who  had  lifted  their  voices  against  a  "great 
standing  army"  had  won  re-election  upon  their  elo- 
quent pleas  for  a  "great  standing  navy."  We  would 
brook  no  idle  legions  marking  time  through  the  dec- 
ades of  peace,  but  we  were  comforted  by  every  four 
million  dollar  battleship  that  slid  off  the  ways.    The 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


difference  of  national  sentiment  as  to  army  and   as 

and.   in   a   degree,   still    is — a   curious 

anomaly.      Fortunately,   a   comparatively   trilling  af- 

:'  arms  has  changed  public  opinion  and  we  bear 

than  we  diil.  in  and  out  of  Congress,  about  tin- 
evil  of  a  hip  army  in  time  of  peace.  Matters  are 
now  nearly  equalized  between  the  two  great  branches 
of  the  military  arm. 

But  there  still  remains  a  condition  of  things  at  the 
center  of  the  army's  administration   which   keeps  it 

v  the  right  limit  of  efficiency — a  condition 
chargeable  largely  to  political  and  other  kindred  in- 
fluences operating  to  breed  favoritism  and  a  host  of 
smaller  allied  evils.  The  navy  has  been  almost  en- 
tirely protected  from  this  condition.  Its  scandals. 
aside  from  occasional  jobbery  in  the  building  of 
ships,  have  been  few  and  promptly  and  severely 
dealt  with.  Its  effectiveness  and  its  capacity  for 
taking  care  of  itself  and  of  the  enemies  of  our  peace, 
are  unquestionable. 

To  place  extensive  powers,  even  of  an  advisory 
character,  in  the  hands  of  a  general  naval  staff,  would 
be  to  expose  the  navy  to  the  ills  that  afflict  the  army 
and  to  invite  them.  Secretary  Moody  is  right  when 
he  says  that  no  board  should  be  created  which  would 
usurp  the  powers  attaching  to  the  portfolio  of  that 
department. 


UNCULTIVATED  MANKIND. 

Curiously  enough,  in  all  the  progress  of  mankind 
the  one  thing  the  making  of  which  science  has  not 
touched  and  improved  is  mankind  itself.  This  pass- 
ing reflection  is  inspired  by  the  recurrence  of  an  event 
which  is  held  by  some  to  be  of  importance  and  conse- 
quence— the  annual  dog  show.  In  it  will  be  exhib- 
ited the  results  of  scientific  study  and  experiment  ap- 
plied to  the  great  and  mysterious  re-productive 
forces  of  Nature,  the  fruit  of  selection  and  training 
carefully  carried  on  through  some  centuries  of  intel- 
ligent effort.  We  shall  see  how  marvelously  man  has 
wrought  out  the  betterment  of  his  friend,  the  dog, 
eliminating,  combining,  marking  and  making  use  of 
the  laws  of  heredity  until  that  family  of  the  beasts 
with  which  man  is  in  closest  touch  has  risen  toward 
four-footed  perfection  with  truly  astonishing  rapid- 
ity. The  snarling,  wolfish  creature  of  the  caves  and 
fens  has  been  trained  and  bred  into  a  rare  degree 
of  usefulness  and  of  intelligent  comradeship  and  dif- 
ferentiated into  widely  varying  types  of  beauty.  Ar- 
tificially man  has  done  for  the  dog  in  a  comparatively 
few  years  what  Nature  unaided  could  have  accom- 
plished only  in  ages  if  at  all. 

But  there  has  never  been — and  probably  never  will 
be — a  man  show.  We  shall  continue  to  cultivate  our 
pets,  shaping  their  bodies  and  their  intelligences  to 
our  own  views  of  what  constitutes  dog  perfection. 
We  shall  go  on  learning  how  to  hurry  the  silent  in- 
fluences of  creation  and  to  direct  their  operation  for 
our  pleasure  and  our  profit,  but  never  for  our  own 
advancement.  Save  for  the  ameliorating  and,  up- 
lifting that  comes  from  a  church  or  a  college  here  and 
a  gymnasium  there,  sporadic  centers  of  man-culture, 
chance-founded  and  chance-sought,  we  are  as  we 
were  a  thousand  years  ago.  Carlo,  Don  and  Fido  on 
the  show  bench  are  as  unlike  and  as  superior  to 
their  ancestors  of  a  score  of  generations  ago  as  we 
are  unlike  and  superior  to  them.  Their  breeding  for 
a  hundred  years  has  been  a  matter  of  vast  thought 
and  of  experiment:  ours  has  bsen  a  matter  of  happen- 
.  chance,  of  environment,  of  impulse,  a  purely  natural 
selection.     The  dog  of  the  bench  show  is  strikingly 


illustrative  of  what  discrimination  in  breeding  may 

do;  his  master  illustrates  how  slowly   Nature  un- 
assisted  moves  to  her  own  molding  and  shaping. 

It  will  not  do  any  particular  good,  but  neither  will 
it  be  productive  of  evil  if,  when  you  go  to  the  'log 
show,  you  think  what  a  different  kind  of  being  you 
might  have  been  had  your  ancestors,  in  the  "dark 
backward  and  abysm  of  Time."  turned  their  attention 
to  tin-  breeding  of  men   instead  of  dog-. 


HEAVEN  OR  THE  PENITENTIARY. 

In  the  land  of  the  Mormons  there  is  a  weeping  and 
wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth.  The  General  Confer- 
ence of  the  Mormon  Church  has  formally  declared 
that  all  true  believers  who  may  now  take  plural 
wives  will  be  excommunicated,  and  from  them  will 
be  withdrawn  the  mighty  influence  of  the  church. 
Whereat  there  is  much  travail  in  Zion.  Surely  it  is 
a  most  unpleasant  predicament  into  which  the  mod- 
ern Saints  have  been  forced.  If  they  would  gain 
that  paradise  of  which  the  original  faith  had  the  vis- 
ion, it  is  apparent,  it  is  their  bounden  duty  to  take 
unto  themselves  numerous  wives,  so  that  their  seed 
may  not  perish  from  the  earth  ;  but  should  they  do 
so,  Uncle  Sam  will  fall  upon  them  with  all  the 
fierceness  of  the  devastating  Assyrian,  scatter  their 
folds  to  the  four  winds,  and  place  them  in  jail.  Mean- 
while, the  elders  of  the  church  will  look  on  calmly, 
refuse  to  interfere  and  lighten  the  affliction  of  the 
sufferers  with  the  comforting  assurance  that  they  are 
martyrs  in  a  holy  cause.  President  Smith  has  de- 
clared his  belief  that  polygamy  is  a  divine  institu- 
tion, given  into  the  keeping  of  his  ancestor  by  the 
power  of  revelation.  Upon  his  return  to  Salt  Lake 
from  Washington,  he  gloried  among  the  faithful  in 
the  fact  that  to  him  had  been  given  the  opportunity 
of  asserting  the  divinity  of  the  church  and  its  insti- 
tutions in  the  face  of  the  scoffing  queries  of  the  hard- 
headed  investigators.  But  Mr.  Smith  is  a  man  of 
much  worldly  wisdom.  His  visit  to  the  capital  con- 
vinced him  that  the  laws  of  the  United  States  must 
be  obeyed  in  Utah,  divine  revelations  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding.  So  the  head  of  the  church  has  given 
out  the  word,  and  the  expansive  hearts  of  his  follow- 
ers are  saddened  accordingly.  The  Congressional 
Committee  has  issued  subpoenas  for  many  prominent 
polygamists,  and  it  would  seem  that  at  last  fear  of 
the  law  has  found  its  way  into  the  Mormon  strong- 
hold. It  may  be  the  beginning  of  the  end.  With 
polygamy  forbidden  and  punished;  Mormonism  is  on 
the  wane.  Polygamy  was  its  foundation  stone.  With 
that  removed,  the  structure  will  soon  totter  to  its 
fall. 


It  is  a  pretty  commentary  on  the  management  of 
the  Emergency  Hospital  when  the  injured  would 
rather  take  chances  than  undergo  treatment  at  the 
hands  of  the  surgeon  in  charge.  Three  such  cases 
occurred  during  this  week,  and  in  each  case  the  in- 
jured person,  battered  as  he  was,  had  sense  enough 
left  to  beg  to  be  excused  from  the  attendance  of  the 
city  sawbones. 

During  February  and  March  of  this  year,  the  U. 
S.  Mint  in  this  city  coined  $54,409,500,  the  largest 
sum  ever  coined  by  any  mint  in  the  world  in  the 
same  length  of  time.  None  of  it  got  away,  either, 
although  Solomon,  Perry  and  the  Nagles  were  in 
town  all  the  time.  Dear,  dear,  what  chances  even 
the  best  of  us  miss  sometimes! 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


LIVERNASH  IS  REBUKED. 
That  E.  J.  Livernash,  who  represents  Mr.  Hearst, 
and  presumably  the  people  of  the  Fourth  Congres- 
sional District  of  this  State  in  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, should  have  taken  advantage  of  a  favor- 
able opportunity  to  insult  another  member  of  Con- 
gress, will  surprise  no  one  acquainted  with  the  Liver- 
nash methods.  That  he  quickly  withdrew  into  his 
shell  when  the  other  Representative  assured  him  that 
he  assumed  a  great  deal  if  he  assumed  that  he  ( Liv- 
ernash) was  a  gentleman,  will  also  be  taken  as  a  mat- 
ter of  course,  for  the  ability  to  withdraw  under  fire 
is  one  of  the  leading  characteristics  of  the  member 
from  the  Fourth  District.  When  he  attacked  Bart- 
lett,  of  Georgia,  Livernash  woke  up  the  wrong  man 
Those  men  from  the  South  have  a  way  of  hurling 
back  an  insult,  and  following  it  quickly  with  an  offer 
of  personal  violence  that  may  well  put  fear  into  the 
heart  of  a  man  of  wind  and  words.  Livernash,  it  may 
be  admitted,  possesses  considerable  ability,  but  he 
lacks  a  saving  grace  of  humor,  but  for  which  he  would 
see  himself  as  others  see  him — a  somewhat  ridicu- 
lous figure,  beating  with  his  tongue  upon  the  drum 
of  his  vocabulary,  to  the  end  that  "me  and  Hearst" 
may  be  great  in  the  land.  Hardly  had  he  become 
firm  in  his  seat  when  he  tried  to  introduce  a  resolu- 
tion charging  the  President  with  all  sorts  of  high 
crimes  and  misdemeanors.  Upon  that  occasion,  Air. 
Speaker  sat  him  down  so  hard  that  chips  of  brass 
fell  from  the  Livernash  cheek.  But  as  soon  as  he 
regained  his  assurance,  he  was  again  knocking  at  the 
door  of  notoriety,  a  practice  he  has  indulged  for 
years,  occasionally  to  the  physical  discomfiture  of 
those  who  may  have  been  in  the  way  of  his  missiles. 
His  arrogance  and  irascibility  have  done  more  to  gain 
opponents  for  Hearst  in  his  own  party  than  any 
other  elements  in  Willie's  Falstaffian  campaign  for 
the  Presidency.  For  this  reason,  mayhap,  the  elec- 
tion of  Livernash  may  be  considered,  philosophically, 
as  a  blessing  in  disguise. 

SAN  FRANCISCO'S  SAM  PARKS. 

It  seems  passing  strange  that  the  Carmen's  Union, 
which  contains  so  many  bright  and  intelligent  men, 
should  not  see  that  they  are  being  made  cats'-paws  of 
by  Richard  Cornelius.  If  he  can  carry  his  scheme 
of  allowing  only  members  of  the  union  to  work  on 
the  United  Railroads  he  will  have  every  one  of  them 
at  his  mercy.  If  they  undertake  to  criticise  him  they 
may  expect  the  fate  which  befell  Dingwell  and  his 
friends  who  committed  "lese  majeste."  and  had  to 
go  to  the  courts  to  obtain  reinstatement  under  the 
great  Cornelius.  Any  man  who  does  not  pay  his 
dues  promptly,  any  man  who  is  not  completely 
pleased  with  all  that  Cornelius  does,  who  does  not 
vield  his  manhood  and  independence  to  this  labor 
Czar,  who  does  not  contribute  out  of  his  hard-earned 
money  to  keep  the  agitator  in  champagne  and  cigars, 
will  be  deprived  of  an  opportunity  to  earn  a  living'. 

That  Cornelius  is  no  true  friend  of  union  labor  was 


shown  when  he  stood  by  Livernash,  who  openly  de- 
fied the  Clerks'  and  Barbers'  Unions.  Does  that  not 
show  to  any  thinking  man  that  he  is  in  the  labor  un- 
ion business  for  what  there  is  in  it  for  himself,  and 
not  for  the  men  who  are  allowing  themselves  to  be 
his  dupes?  If  he  really  believed  in  the  principles  he 
pretends  to  advocate  he  would  have  stood  by  the 
Clerks  and  Barbers,  but  no ;  he  knew  on  which  side 
his  bread  was  buttered,  and  he  stood  by  the  man 
who  openly  insulted  those  unions,  ignoring  their  boy- 
cotts and  insulted  their  committees.  Why  was  Ding- 
well  expelled  at  a  secret  meeting  from  the  Carmen's 
LTnion?  Was  it  not  because  he  denounced  Cornelius 
for  selling  out  the  union  to  the  Examiner  and  its 
clique?  But  let  any  of  the  men  who  are  supporting 
Cornelius  in  ease  and  luxury  go  to  their  headquar- 
ters in  the  Emma  Spreckels  Building  and  see  the 
style  and  airs  the  fellow  puts  on.  The  visitors  wait 
in  an  uncarpeted  room  on  benches,  while  his  hench- 
man comes  out,  and  in  an  insulting  voice  wants  to 
know:  "What's  ye  bisniss?"  If  Cornelius  conde- 
scends to  see  you,  you  get  into  an  inner  room  fur- 
nished more  luxuriously  than  any  banker's  office  in 
San  Francisco,  and  there  you  see  the  great  man.  Who 
pays  for  all  of  this?  Either  the  Carmen  or  some  one 
else,  and  if  some  one  else  it  is  because  Cornelius  is 
using  the  Carmen  to  hold  up  some  one.  That  this 
whole  business  is  a  case  of  graft  is  evident.  Why  do 
not  the  Carmen  see  what  is  so  clear  before  their  eyes, 
and  at  least  put  at  the  head  of  their  union  a  man 
who  is  devoted  to  unionism  entirely,  and  who  is  not 
the  well-known  hireling  of  a  political  debaucher? 
How  can  they  expect  the  Clerks  and  Barbers  to  sym- 
pathize with  them  when  they  Tiave  shown  through 
their  leader  their  contempt  of  their  fellow  unionists? 
Meantime,  Cornelius  might  profitably  read  the 
biography  of  that  other  traitor  to  labor,  Sam  Parks, 
formerly  of  New  York,  but  now  of  Sing  Sing. 

Once  upon  a  time,  W.  F.  Whittier  went  fishing. 
He  caught  a  lot  of  rheumatism.  Some  one  told  him 
the  best  cure  for  rheumatism  was  massage.  He  was 
properly  massaged.  The  massage  artist  has  been  on 
his  trail  ever  since.  She  even  camps  upon  his  door- 
step ;  she  will  not  be  denied.  All  she  wants  is  about 
$25,000.  All  of  which  shows  that  it  is  a  dangerous 
thing — to  go  fishing. 

In  Pennsylvania,  the  other  day,  an  air  tank  ex- 
ploded, killing  one  man  and  injuring  six  others. 
Politicians  will  please  take  notice. 


UCHAS.  KE.ILUS  &  COM 

&£XCL  US/VjCA, 
HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who  likes 
to  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to  bother  with 
Tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  into  our  shop, 
get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a  log.  We  have  that 
"Immediate  Service  System." 


April  16,  1904.                                       SAN 

FRANCISC 

How  San  Francisco 

Looks 

to     Me 

No    16 

Bv    T»fr\*u\d  Tr«v»n.  Tourist 

I  really  trust,  my  dear  News  Letter,  that  you  will 
pardon  me  when  I  tell  you  this  is  about  the  Inst,  it' 
not  the  very  last,  letter  1  shall  semi  you.  1  am  in  a 
bally  lot  of  trouble — of  course  not  any  financial  diffi- 
culty, and  I  think  1  shall  return  at  once.  You  know. 
the  chap  at  the  club  who  said  he  could  get  me  the 
house  place  to  live  in  tells  111c  that  the  chap  thai 
owns  it  is  in  stocks  or  something  of  that  kind,  a 
broker  sort  of  fellow,  and  he  lias  been  caught  short 
on  the  market,  and  so  is  sort  of  on  his  uppers,  don't 
you  know,  and  can't  take  a  run  over  to  Europe,  for 
he  is  short  of  the  quid.  I  am  disappointed  in  not  set- 
tint;  the  house  and  being  able  to  show  you  over  here 
how  to  entertain  correctly. 

Another  thing  in  distaste  muchly  is  the  fact  that 
r,  my  man.  is  bullying  me  for  an  advance  of 
wages.  The  beggar  can't  figure  out  the  difference 
between  dollars  and  pounds  sterling.  Dollars  seem 
big  to  him.  You  know  I  would  like  to  keep  him.  but 
a  dear,  sweet  old  chum  at  one  of  your  clubs  has  seen 
how  correct  a  gentleman's  man  be  is.  and  I  am  really 
afraid  he  has  thieved  Roger  from  me.  I  told  Roger, 
however,  that  if  he  stayed  here  he  ought  to  get  lots 
of  money  from  the  other  fellow,  so  I  may  keep  him 
yet,  but  without  a  living  place  of  my  own  and  with- 
out Roger  to  attend  me  the  life  out  here  would  be 
unlivable.  I  am  truly  glad  to  have  come,  and  I  may 
return,  but  if  I  do  it  will  be  to  remain.  I  like  your 
climate.  I  like  your  gentlewomen,  but  really  the 
chaps  are  impossible. 

You  will,  I  am  sure,  let  me  state  that  I  think  I 
have  been  of  inestimable  and  incalculable  benefit  to 
your  people  since  I  have  been  among  them.  You 
will  concede  this,  I  am  sure.  I  know  I  have  noticed 
an  improvement  in  manners  since  I  commenced  to 
show  you  how  San  Francisco  looked  to  me. 

I  really  think  I  should  be  more  appreciated  than 
I  am,  if  that  is  possible.  In  the  meantime,  I  am  in- 
structing Roger  to  pack  the  trunks,  and  if  I  can  get 
the  accommodations  I  want  on  the  railway,  I  am 
liable  to  trust  myself  to  the  negro  porter  between 
here  and  New  York.  After  the  coaching  I  have  given 
Roger  I  shall  smile  while  I  am  on  the  railway  to 
think  of  how  Rbger  will  abuse  the  American  chap 
who  hired  him  away  from  me.  I  have  arranged  mat- 
ters so  that  Roger  can  reach  me  by  cable  when  he 
gets  tired  of  the  new  master,  and  I'll  wager  a  pony 
Roger  catches  me  in  New  York  before  I  sail  for  Liv- 
erpool. If  I  have  the  time,  don't  you  know,  before  I 
leave,  I  will  write  again.  I  must,  of  course,  pay  my 
P.  P.  C.'s  and  a  few  other  calls  of  a  different  social 
nature,  which  will  be  hard  to  me,  but  really  and  truly, 
don't  you  know,  I  never' encouraged  a  young  lady  in 
my  life,  for  of  all  things  there  was  never  anything  of 
the  marrying  man  about  — Travers. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


E 


•  eWr  no  wind  but  FttuufVt-Tou  MooiE. 


^PLEASURE'S  WANDPf .  >     J 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ORPHEUM— Extraordinarily  good.    You  should  see  the  Mortons. 
COLUMBIA— Anna  Held— Mam'selle  Napoleon— Superbly  staged  musical, 
comedy. 
GRAND— Mrs.  Fiske— Good.    In  combination  bill. 
ALCAZAR— "Aristocracy."-  An  amusiDg  and  well  balanced  production 
CENTRAL— "In  the  Hands  ot  the  Enemy."-Fizz,  boom,  bang. 
FISCHER'S— "Kismet"— Musical  and  sparkling  comedy— Go. 
TTVOLI-'Tbe  Beggar  Student."— Good. 
CHUTES— An  all  around  good  show. 
MECHANICS'  PAVILION-Pog  Show. 

TIVOLI— Sehumann-Heink  farewell— Sunday  afternoon. 
CALIFORNIA-McFadden's  Flats-Very  Flat. 


Bronson  Howard  is  credited  with  a  finesse  in  writ- 
ing', with  a  keen  appreciation  of  all  that  goes  with 
cutting  sarcasm,  with  a  deep  knowledge  of  the  things 
mechanical  necessary  to  a  good  stage  production, 
but  I  will  bet  four  dollars  and  ten  cents  that  he  never 
intended  the  misfit  clothes  of  the  Marquis  of  Norman- 
dale,  neither  did  he  intend  that  character  to  descend 
to  the  level  of  melodrama  of  the  Folsom  street  va- 
riety. Mr.  Gattan,  who  did  the  part  in  a  "hand  me 
down"  Prince  Albert,  was  sadly  handicapped  by  the 
length  of  his  trousers.  Mr.  Gattan  has  a  good  voice, 
and  we  believe  that  is  all.  Probably  in  some  other 
play  he  may  be  able  to  develop  something  else. 

Miss  Crosby  did  her  Virginia  Stockton  with  a  most 
remarkable  lack  of  all  feeling,  and  the  Sheridan  Stock- 
ton of  that  hitherto  splendid  actor.  Mr.  Hilliard,  was 
colorless  and  unamusing. 

"Aristocracy"  is  a  strange  medley  of  remarkably 
poor  dialogue  in  the  first,  second  and  fourth  acts, 
and  a  splendid,  well-sustained  piece  of  playwriting 
in  the  third.  The  situation  when  Diana,  the  wife  of 
the  seventeen  times  millionaire  Californian,  is  hyp- 
notized by  the  villain.  Prince  Emit  Von  Haldenwald 
of  Vienna,  is  very  strong  in  many  ways.  Miss  Block- 
made  a  splendid  Diana,  and  once  again  showed  that 
as  an  emotional  actress  she  has  but  very  few  equals 
on   the  American   stage. 

Mr.  Durkin's  Jefferson  Stockton  was  good,  without 
being  remarkable,  while  the  Haldenwald  of  Mr.  Con- 
ness  was  really  out  of  the  ordinary.  Mr.  Mason's 
Caryston-Leigli  was  easy  and  natural,  and  it  occurs 
to  me  that  one  fool  Englishman  in  one  play  is  amply 
sufficient  for  all  needs.  Once  again  that  clever  young 
man,  Mr.  John  B.  Maher,  has  shown  his  extreme  ver- 
satility. His  Due  de  Volante  enjoys  distinction  be- 
cause it  is  not  overdone — simply  a  clever,  natural 
piece  of  work.  We  must  not  forget  Miss  Starr  and 
her  infectious  laughter.  She  was  charming,  as  usual. 
*  *  * 

Mrs.  Fiske  has  just  found  out  that  in  past  perform- 
ances nine-tenths  of  her  audience  has  not  heard  her. 
Some  one,  a  reader  of  the  News  Letter  most  probably, 
has  given  her  this  valuable  tip,  and  I  see  that  the 
Dailv  Booster  says  the  newly  acquired  "articulation 
is  perfect."  It  is  better  than  it  has  been  at  any  time 
during  this  engagement.  The  performance  of  "A 
Doll's  House"  was  a  generally  good  one,  and  with  the 
improved  enunciation  of  the  star  left  little  to  be  de- 
sired. Max  Figman  deserves  special  mention  as  the 
best  example  I  have  seen  in  many  moons  of  doleful 
and  inane  potato  mouthing. 

The  four  Mortons  at  the  Orpheum  are  the  best 
fun-makers  I  have  seen  in  a  very  long  time.  Samuel 
would  make  a  horse  laugh,  and  Kittie  is  very 
clever.  The  children,  Clara  and  Paul,  are  very 
bright  and  the  team  work  of  the  four  is  excellent.  It 
is  in  the  trio,  however,  that  they  bring  down  the 


house.  This  is  Irish  wit  without  vulgarity.  The 
young  man's  cockney-dude  song  is  a  very  good  one, 
and  he  and  his  sister  are  able  descendants  of  nimble- 
footed  parents.  This  is  taking  it  for  granted,  of 
course,  that  the  programme  tells  no  lies,  and  they  are 
related.  Flo  Adler  is  the  only  poor  bit  of  work  on 
the  programme.  She  has  a  very  good  stage  presence, 
and  presuming  on  this,  she  murders  "Navajo"  and 
other  songs  nightly  without  compunction  to  the  ac- 
companiment of  a  pale  young  man  with  a  morphine 
cast  of  countenance.     He  sings  from  the  audience. 

*  *  * 

"McFadden's  Flats"  is  given  at  the  California. 
That's  what  it  is — flats  and   no  harmony. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  sensational  escape  from  prison  and  a 
battle  for  life  at  the  Central  in  "In  the  Hands  of  the 
Enemy."  The  audience  is  an  enthusiastic  one,  as 
usual.  The  Chief  of  Police  of  Carthagena,  as  por- 
trayed by  Mr.  Harry  Shumer  is  given  a  make-up 
that  is  a  replica  in  caricature  of  the  Mayor  of  San 
Francisco.  In  order  to  make  the  resemblance  more 
striking  and  life-like,  the  author  has  made  the  Chief 
of  Police  accept  a  bribe  of  $100,000. 

*  *  * 

"Kismet"  is  still  holding  the  boards  at  Fischer's. 
Lovers  of  good  music  and  clean  comedy  have  been 
more  than  pleased  with  this  bright  opera.  It  was  an 
ambitious  thing  to  put  on  at  such  a  small  house,  and 
it  is  pleasing  to  think  that  the  management  has  not 
lost  any  money  on  the  enterprise. 

*  *  * 

Schumann-Heink,  after  a  very  successful  season 
at  the  Alhambra,  finishes  up  with  a  concert  at  the 
Tivoli.  She  will  give  an  entirely  new  programme, 
and  there  is  a  feast  in  store  for  music-lovers. 

*  *  * 

"The  White  Squadron"  will  be  the  bill  at  the  Cen- 
tral for  the  coming  week.  It  deals  with  the  com- 
bined forces  of  the  world  at  sea,  assembled  at  Rio 
Janeiro,  and  there  to  deliver  an  ultimatum  to  the 
Brazilian  Government,  because  of  various  outrages 
committed  by  the  war-like  people  of  the  interior. 
The  Congress  of  Navies  will  give  an  opportunity 
for   color. 

*  *  * 

Richard  Mansfield  is  heading  this  way,  and  will 
be  at  the  Columbia  some  time  next  month.  Now 
look  out  for  all  kinds  of  yellow  stunts  by  the  jaun- 
diced papers.  Mansfield  is  proper  prey  for  the  hys- 
terical dailies,  and  they  never  fail  either  in  raptur- 
ous admiration  or  in  vitriolic  invective.  Mansfield 
is  unfortunately  independent,  and  this  results  in 
fawning  praise  or  effluvial  criticism,  according  to  the 
dictates  of  the  "business  department." 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  will  not  close  until  after  "Chow-Chow." 
There  are  to  be  one  hundred  more  seats  on  the 
ground  floor  when  the  architects  get  through  with 
the  remodeling.  "Chow-Chow"  is  described  by  the 
press  agent  as  "real  pure  fun."  Unfortunately,  he 
makes  a  comparison  that  is  odious.  He  says  it  re 
sembles  Weber  &  Field's.  Now,  that  is  not  real  pure 
fun.  It's  fun,  but  it  is  not  pure.  However,  the 
Fischer  productions  have  never  smacked  of  the  vul- 
garity of  Weberfield,  so  we  may  hope  the  press 
agent  aforesaid  is  wrong  in  his  forecast.  "Kismet" 
was  such  a  good  show  that  the  old  patronage  of  the 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


-<>  flocked  again,  ami  ii  how" 

is    anywhere    near    the    standard,    we    may    l'">k    for 

- 

*  *    * 

Th<-  hans  will  hold  the  boards  i'<>r  two 

attraction  at  the  Columbia.  Thej 

will   appear  in   George    M.   Cohan's  "Running  f<>r 

•  Mfice,    a  laughable  farce. 

*  »  « 

Maude  Adams  is  starring  under  a  large  guarantee 
iottlob,  Marx  &  Company,  who  arc  directing  a 
trip  in  conjunction  with  Charles  Frohman. 

*  *  * 

Henry  Miller  and  Margaret  Antrim  open  at  the 
Hudson  on   Monday  night  in  a  revival  of  "Camille." 

*  »  » 

Sunday  night  will  see  the  last  of  the  phenomenally 
successful  engagement  of  Anna  Held  as  "Matn'selle 

N'apoleon." 

*  *  * 

Milloecker's  "Beggar  Student"  is  on  for  a  long  run 
at  the  Tivoli.  Want  of  space  prevents  the  extended 
notice  the  elaborate  mounting  demands.  I  shall 
handle  the  subject  in  the  Xews  Letter  of  next  week. 

*  *  * 

The  old  Fischer  favorites,  from  Kolb  and  Dill 
to  Hope  and  Emerson,  will  follow  Mrs.  Fiske  at 
the  Grand.    There  is  sure  to  be  a  crowded  house  at 

every  performance. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Fiske  will  appear  in  the  curtain  raiser,  this 
afternoon  and  to-night,  "A  Bit  of  Old  Chelsea,"  pre- 
ceding Act  2  of  "Hedda  Gabler,"  Act  2  of  "Divor- 
cons,"  Act  1  of  "A  Doll's  House,"  and  Act  4  of  "Tess 
of  the  D'Urbervilles."  The  admirers  of  the  little 
lady  will  fill  the  house,  as  this  is  a  feast  they  will 
not  again  enjov  in  a  long  time. 

*  *  * 

The  chorus  in  the  "Beggar  Student"  at  the  Tivoli 
is  creating  great  enthusiasm.  Dora  de  Fillipe's 
"Bronislava"  is  like  a  bounding  rubber  ball  covered 
with  spangles. 

(Continued  to  Page  26.) 
Wedding  Gifts. 

Just  received  a  new  and  beautiful  assortment  of  bronzes,  miniatures. 
artistic  furniture,  lamps  and  electroliers,  ohina,  Bohemian  and  cut 
class,  clocks  and  artistically  framed  pictures.  Particularly  suitable  for 
wedding  presents.  B.  &  G.  Gump  Co.    118  Geary  St. 


Alcazar  Theatre  & D^C^ftn'f. TEtf ^H& mSax 

..  wlnr  MMln^osSntiinlny  niul  Smut 
week  ■•'>mmenotn(r  Monday  April  in, 
stool  produoU ifOlrde  Pltoh'i  brilliant  satirlcalcomedy 

THE  FRISKY  MRS.  JOHNSON 

\-  origin:,!  ly  pl;.\."l  \>v  Amnlin    Ithltrham. 

"San  Kmnrfaco  la  prnii.l  uf  it*  artist  It*  littlo  band  of  players"— 
Town  Talk 

I  v.i;  Saturday  and  Sunday  25  to  We. 

Monday  April  l'.— First  time  in  San  Francisco 

THE  NEW  CLOWN 


"Be  it  ever  so  humble  there  is  no  place  like  home,"  and  the  home 
can  be  furnished  with  pretty  and  artistically  framed  pictures  at  a  very 
moderate  price  by  calling  on  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  St. 


Murine  Eye  Remedy 

Cures  Sore  Eyes-    Makes  weak  Eyes  strong.    Murine  doesn't  smart,  it 
soothes  Eye  pain. 


flfter    the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKMND'S 

Listen    to    the   matchless    string    band    and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zinkand   is   society's    gathering   place    after 
the  theatre  is  over. 

filhambra  Theatre  Eddy Toasts.    ' 

Thursday.  April  21,  and  Friday.  April  22,  8:30  p.  m. 

Gorgeous  and  spectacular  production  of  SHAFTER  HOWARD 

and  W.  H.  CLIFFORD'S  musical  comedy  in  two  acts 

HIS  ROYAL  NIBS 

Grand  chorus  of  70  people.    New  costumes,  splendid  scenery. 
Orchestra  20  pieces.    For  the  benefit  of  the 

CALIFORNIA  WOMANS'  HOSPITAL 

Seats  on  sale  at  Sherman  and  Clay's.  Kohler  and  Chase's  and 
Ben j.  J.  Curtaz  andiSon. 


Tivoli  Opera  House.  0ornerEd&E,d8t™rt. 

Only  Matinees  Saturday.    Beginning  next  Monday,  night,  se- 
OOSd  week  of  Milloecker's  delightful  comic   opera 

THE    BEGGAR   STUDENT 

A  brilliant  triumph.    Magnificent  cast.    Perfect  ensemble. 
Next  production— 

A     RUNAWAY     GIRL 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c.  60e.  750.    Box  Seats.  $1- 

GraQd  Opera  House 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday,  for  two  weeks  only 

Eol  b  and  Dill ;  Barney  Bernard ;  "Winfleld  Blake ;  Maude  Amber ; 

Mnrty  O'Neil ;  Hope  and  Emerson. 

Strong  supporting  company  and  beautiful  girl  chorus  of  50. 

Week  beginning  tomorrow,  Sunday  matinee 

HOITY-TOITY 

Week  Sunday  April  24,  Second  and  last.  FIDDLE-DEE-DEE. 
WHIRL- I-GIG  and  BIG  LITTLE  PRINCESS 
Popular  Prices:    15c.  25c.  50c,  75c. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT.    Return  to  pure  fun  Monday 
night  April  18.    The  right  thing,  the  right  time,  the  right  place. 

CHOW    CHOW 

An  uproariously  funny  burlesque.    A  whole  season's  run  in  the 

East.    Presented  with  our  "all  star"  cast  and  new  comedians. 

Augmented  beautiful  chorus  of  thirty.    Entire  new  scenery 

costumes  and  stage  effects. 

Reserved  seats,  nights,  26c.  50c  and  75c. 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.    25c  and  50e. 

Children  at  Matinees,  10c  and  25o. 


Gottloh,  Marx  &  Co, 

Lessees  and  Manager.. 


Columbia  Theatre. 

2  weeks  beginning  Monday  April  18.  nightly,  including  Sunday. 
Matinee  Saturday.    Mr.  Fred  Niblo  announces 

THE   FOUR  COHfJNS 

and  their  company  of  seventy-two  people  in 

RUNNING   FOR  OFFICE 

By  George  M.  Cohan.     Conceded  to  be  the  greatest  musical 
comedy  success  of  the  season.  "' 


Ornhpl  irTv      San  rr0I10'IKI>'=  Greatest MubIc  Hall. 
^•1  \J\  lOUHJ.    o'Farrcll  St.,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  April  17. 

VAUDEVILLE  SPELLBINDERS 

Wilfred  Clark  and  Company;  Ethel  Levey  (Mrs.  George  M' 
8??aIM>  T?nJ  ^Ison'aJi  Heloise:  Mile.  Amoros.  assisted  by 
Mile.  Charlotte;  Edmund  Day  and  Company ;  Ellis  Now] an  Trin ■ 
FtoAdler;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  tremendous success 

THE    FOUR    MORTONS 

Prices,  loc,  25c  and  50c. 

Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Centra]  Theatre.  »TBF1£?fio*MA™&Pr2Prietors 

v^i./v.iv^i     ""ouwo.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  63: 
Week  of  Monday,  April  18.     Matinees.  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  greatest  of  all  American  naval  dramas, 

THE   WHITE   SQUADRON 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  60c.    Matinees  10, 16,  25c. 


Majestic  Theatre.  Markets0ppeLarkin. 

April  18.    Two  weeks 

ISABEL    IRVING 

IN 

THE    CRISIS 

Prices  $1.60.  $i.oo.  60c.   Box  SeatsSa.oo. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


-flSH!*'  c'if'"    "Wb«t  <he  derll  »r»  llwa!1 
On«lh.t  olll  Her  the  devil,  sir.  Wn  b  «oi ." 


./TOWN  CRIER    AI^t-*.^ 


The  policeman's  voice  was  soft, 

And  the  policeman's  speech  was  low, 
"Five  dollars — hand  them  out  to  me 

And  I  will  let  you  go !" 
The  prisoner  heaved  a  sigh — 

He  ceased  from  being  pale ; 
He  handed  out  five  dollars — 

And  he  didn't  go  to  jail. 

The  judge's   voice   was   soft, 

The  judge's  speech  was  low, 
He  said :  "Tell  me  the  pull  you  have 

And   I   will   let   you  go." 
He  handed  up  his  card  ; 

The  judge  bowed  and  grew  pale. 
The  prisoner  said  he'd  pardon  him — 

And  he  didn't  go  to  jail. 

Government  officials  are  obliged  occasionally  to 
play  strange  roles.  Thus,  it  takes  more  than  an  or- 
dinary amount  of  imagination  to  fancy  Collector 
Stratton  as  Poundmaster,  and  Alexander  Crow,  who 
rejoices  in  the  magnificent  and  polysyllabic  title  of 
Horticultural  Commissioner  as  the  presiding  genius 
of  what,  in  order  to  keep  up  with  his  title,  we  must 
call  a  lethal  chamber  for  stray  quadrupeds.  All  the 
force  of  the  entire  department  was  directed  with 
energy  and  weight  against  a  King  Charles  spaniel, 
belonging  to  the  daughter  of  Colonel  Mears,  an  offi- 
cer of  the  United  States  Army  who  gave  his  life  in 
the  service  of  his  country.  Much  machinery  was  set 
in  motion  to  compass  the  death  of  the  little  dog  of 
the  daughter  of  the  dead  officer,  and  in  view  of  the 
postal  frauds,  it  is  pleasant  to  know  that  the  greatest 
energy  and  promptitude  was  shown,  and  that  no  one 
has  so  far  even  been  accused  of  taking  bribes  in  con- 
nection with  it.  Special  mention  must  be  made  of 
the  Honorable  Fred  Stratton,  Collector  of  the  Port, 
who  carried  on  the  correspondence  with  the  Wash- 
ington officials,  of  Inspector  Gallagher,  who  inter- 
cepted the  terrier  and  to  whose  keenness  of  vision  the 
successful  termination  of  the  affair  is  largely  due, 
and  to  Alexander  Crow,  Horticultural  Commissioner, 
who  administered  chloroform  to  what  the  newspapers 
sentimentally  term  "the  pet." 

The  feminine  footpad  now  graces  the  scene,  and 
an  additional  terror  is  added  to  the  life  suburban. 
The  newspaper  accounts  of  the  gallantry  of  Berkeley 
women  in  standing  off  footpads  has  naturally  given 
rise  to  the  deduction  that  if  a  woman  can  be  a  match 
for  a  footpad,  a  little  footpadding  might  be  an  ac- 
ceptable occupation  for  the  more  desperate.  At  any 
rate,  she  has  taken  it  up,  and  has  shown  a  commend- 
able good  sense  in  beginning  by  holding  up  her  fel- 
low-woman. These  female  highway  women  had  bet- 
ter devote  their  attention  exclusively  to  their  own 
sex,  for  the  mere  wearer  of  trousers  is  so  held  up  by 
the  fair  sex  all  the  time  that  it  is  doubtful  whether  a 
female  footpad  would  be  able  to  get  anything.  In 
some  cases  she  would  not  even  get  the  trousers,  as 
they  are  frequently  worn  by  the  dominant  partner 
in  the  firm  matrimonial. 

The  Town  Crier  can  cry  praise  as  well  as  blame 
where  an  opportunity  for  praise  really  exists.  Such 
is  afforded  by  the  open  air  concerts  in  the  new  amphi- 
theatre at  Berkeley.  The  idea  is  in  every  way  to  be 
commended.  It  is  a  good  way  of  utilizing  a  beautiful 
place,  and  provides  first-class  entertainment  for  au- 
diences of  close  on  five  thousand.  I  wonder  what 
the  Puritan  element  thinks  about  the  idea. 


There  is  a  fine  flavor  of  romance  in  the  story  from 
Fresno  to  the  effect  that  two  young  men  of  the  an- 
cient and  honorable  borough  of  Sanger,  having  failed 
in  their  wooing,  literally  proceeded  to  take  it  out 
of  the  proverbial  hides  of  the  ladies  who  denied  them 
the  favor  which  they  craved.  To  this  end,  having 
masked  themselves,  they  proceeded  to  whip  the  girls, 
who  were  on  their  way  home  from  an  entertainment. 
The  young  ladies,  in  a  true  modern  spirit,  retaliated 
by  a  charge  of  battery,  and  a  prosaic  modern  judge 
will  follow  matters  up.  The  method  of  the  Sanger 
swains  suffers  from  the  defect  of  either  being  too 
drastic  or  not  drastic  enough.  The  aboriginal  men 
who  followed  it  in  prehistoric  times  took  two  precau- 
tions which  these  young  men  omitted.  In  the  first 
place  they  never  gave  the  lady  an  opportunity  to  re- 
fuse them,  for  they  stunned  her  with  a  club,  striking 
her  from  behind,  and  in  the  second  place  they  always 
took  care  that  the  lady  came  into  their  possession,  a 
fundamental  condition  in  such  cases,  which  these  ig- 
norant young  men  appear  to  have  overlooked. 

What  fun  the  University  is,  to  be  sure.  A  week 
ago  Professor  Gayley  spoke  his  mind  to  the  women 
students  in  their  giggling  propensities;  this  week- 
Professor  Moses  has  been  telling  them  his  opinion 
upon  their  manners  and  their  lack  of  respect  for  the 
commandment  against  stealing,  and  now  the  whole 
town,  or  at  least  that  part  of  it  which  earns  a  meager 
and  laborious  living  by  providing  students  with  board 
and  lodging  is  to  be  subjected  to  a  strict  investiga- 
tion, and  soup,  pies  and  the  like  to  be  analyzed  and 
overhauled.  I  suppose  it  is  all  right;  the  students 
are  not  sufficiently  bad  to  poison,  and  death  by  ty- 
phoid is  a  luxury  which  it  is  just  as  well  to  confine 
within  as  narrow  limits  as  possible,  but  taking  every- 
thing into  consideration,  it  is  still  a  matter  of  mystery 
why  in  the  names  of  the  muses  so  many  of  them  are 
students.  The  vast  majority  do  not  seem  worth  sav- 
ing in  that  capacity. 

Now  we  shall  have  some  Eastern  and  probably 
European  comments  on  the  curious  qualities  of  the 
California  literary  man.  In  the  short  course  of  three 
months  we  have  produced  two  prodigies  with  the 
same  name,  each  being  a  wonder  in  his  class.  George 
Sterling,  the  poet,  who  wrote  "The  Testimony  of 
the  Suns,"  gained  fame  and  recognition  at  a  stroke; 
George  Sterling,  the  robber,  called  for  the  resources 
of  the  Police  and  Fire  Departments  combined  before 
he  was  compelled  to  reasonable  submission  to  his 
fate.  The  Eastern  and  English  papers  are  very 
sure  to  mix  the  two  names,  and  it  is  going  to  be  a 
little  hard  on  the  poet.  But  think  of  the  comments 
and  headings :  "Literary  Lawlessness  in  California," 
and  the  like. 

Life  is  full  of  apparent  contradiction,  and  the 
cross-purposes  of  the  power  which  preside  over 
things  mundane  are  so  involved  and  so  absolutely 
without  rational  basis  that  it  is  the  merest  folly  to 
trouble  about  them.  Here  last  week  an  honest  work- 
ing man 'was  caught  in  a  noose  in  a  rope  and  dangled 
for  some  time  above  the  pavement.  At  the  same 
time  there  was  another  person  in  this  city  whose 
presence  in  a  noose  in  a  rope  would  have  been  an 
unmixed  blessing,  and  yet  twelve  men,  and  the  ex- 
istence of  undeniable  facts,  and  a  cost  of  eighty  thou- 
sand dollars  to  the  State  combined,  were  unable  to 
put  that  head  in  that  noose. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16.  1904. 

According     to     Law 

There  is  a  certain  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the  imme- 
diate neighborhood  of  San  Francisco— we  will  cnl! 
him  for  convenience   Hon.    lames  Wesley   Hawkins, 

who  was  not  very  well  versed  in  the  criminal  law  of 
Mate  when  he  took  office,  as  can  readily  he  seen 
by  the  following,  which  occurred  the  first  day  he  as- 
sumed his  new  position.  This  was.  however,  not  the 
first  official  position  which  has  been  thrust  upon  him 
For  two  years  previous  he  had  been  president  of  tin- 
town  club,  and  was  considered  an  expert  on  parlia- 
mentary rules.  So  much  so  that  many  persons  hold- 
imilar  positions  in  nearby  villages  came  to  this 
"Solon"  to  ask  his  opinion  on  important  matters  in- 
volved in  the  more  disputed  points  of  parliamentary 
law. 

On  the  day  he  assumed  office  the  first  case  on  the 
docket  was  that  of  a  man  named  "Wilson,  alias  Pet- 
ers." who  had  been  caught  red-handed  in  the  act  of 
breaking  into  the  town  bank. 

When  the  defendent,  Wilson,  was  brought  into 
court,  he  was  accompanied  by  a  lawyer  from  Fresno, 
whom  he  had  retained.  The  Hon.  James  Wesley 
Hawkins  called  the  court  to  order.  The  charge  of 
burglary  was  read  to  the  prisoner.  When  it  was  con- 
cluded the  attorney  from   Fresno  arose  to  his  feet. 

"Your  honor!"  he  said,  "I  move  the  defendent  be 
discharged  on  the  ground  that  the  complaint  does  not 
state  an  offense  against  the  State." 

The  Hon.  James  Wesley  Hawkins  cleared  his 
throat,  and  in  a  sonorous  voice  asked :  "Do  I  hear  a 
second  to  this  motion?" 

At  this  point  the  attorney  from  Fresno  nudged  the 
defendant  in  the  ribs.  "I  second  the  motion,"  said 
Wilson.- 

"All  in  favor,"  continued  his  Honor,  "will  make 
known  by  saying  'aye.'  " 

"Aye,"  said  the  defendant  and  his  attorney  in  uni- 
son. 

"No,"  screamed  the  prosecuting  attorney  who  was 
sitting  by  himself  in  one  corner  of  the  room  up  to 
this  time,  but  now  he  arose  to  his  feet  with  the 
words:   "This  proceeding  is  preposterous." 

"The  ayes  have  it,"  shouted  Hon.  James  Wesley 
Hawkins,  "and  I  order  the  defendant  discharged." 

When  the  Army  Suffered. 

Some  of  the  officers  of  the  Marine  Service  at  the 
Presidio  have  decided  that  hunger  is  not  the  best 
sauce.  The  cook,  C.  Nelson,  at  the  Marine  Hospital, 
went  crazy  recently,  and  as  a  result  dinner  had  to 
be  postponed.  Here  the  story  ends.  It  doesn't  con- 
tinue by  saying  who  cooked  the  supper  and  how 
many  doctors  were  subsequently  placed  on  the  sick 
list.  So  far  only  one  man  seems  to  know  who  cooked 
it  and  he  won't  tell. 

Guilty  of  Murder. 

At  the  Polytechnic  High  School  in  this  city  the 
students  are  a  cosmopolitan  lot.  There  are  represen- 
tatives of  almost  every  nationality  included  on  the 
roll  book.  Several  months  ago  a  Chinese  boy  named 
Jaw  Bing  came  to  school.  His  teacher  in  drawing 
was  a  Miss  Murdock.  On  the  first  day  she  attempted 
to  explain  some  of  the  minor  points  of  art  to  him, 
but  to  her  dismay  he  couldn't  understand  a  word  of 
English.  She  then  asked  another  Chinese  named 
Lee  Toy  to  act  as  interpreter.  After  considerable 
confusion  Lee  informed  the  teacher  that  as  Jaw  came 
from  an  inland  province  he  could  not  effect  a  means 
of   communication.     For   several   months   Jaw   has 


been  coming  to  school  regularly,  but  day  in  and  day 
"ut,  he  still  carried  the  same  blank  expression.  Not 
long  ago  Mi>>  Murdock  perceived  what  a  trial  it  was 
i"  law  to  sit  and  understand  absolutely  nothing, 
walked  over  to  him  and  said  in  tender  tones:  "It  must 
ery  hard  for  you  to  come  to  school  lure.  Jaw. 
where  you  can't  understand  a  thing."  In  a  moment 
jaw's  face  lighted  up,  his  almond  irkled,  and 

with  all  the  feeling  of  the  American   school-boy  he 
■-■lid  ■  "Sure!" 


There  Is  only  one  Ziiikand,  and  It  has  become  famous 

everywhere  as  one  of  the  beat  high-class  restaurants  in 
existence.  Lights,  music,  the  best  viands  and  sparkling 
wines  arc  its  characteristics. 


COLT'S 
ACETYLENE 
GAS 
GENERATOR 

FOR    SALE 

Safest  and  best  in  the  world.  Gas  is  only  gen- 
erated as  actually  required  for  consumption.  100 
burner  capacity  for  5  hours,  or  50  burners  for  10 
hours.     Apparatus  new.     Never  been  used. 

Address  J.  W.,  this  office,  320  Sansome   St., 
San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


#  LIBRARY  TABLE 


In  a  series  of  some  ten  essays, 
Tolstoy  and  His     Mr.  Aylmer  Maude  gives  an  ac- 
Problems.  count  of  the  life,  character  and 

work  of  Tolstoy.  Mr.  Maude 
is  particularly  well  equipped  for  the  task  which  he 
has  undertaken.  He  says:  "Being  the  only  English- 
man who  in  recent  years  had  had  the  advantage  of 
intimate  personal  intercourse,  continued  over  a  per- 
iod of  some  years,  with  Tolstoy,  I  hardly  need  an  ex- 
cuse for  trying  to  share  with  others  some  of  the  re- 
sults he  helped  me  to  reach."  The  various  essays 
have  several  of  them  received  the  distinct  and  em- 
phatic approval  of  the  Russian  recluse  himself.  This 
is  valuable,  as  giving  an  authoritative  expression  of 
Tolstoy's  views,  which,  owing  to  defective  transla- 
tions, and  one  thing  and  another,  have  by  no  means 
been  yet  clearly  understood  by  readers  in  England. 
Mr.  Maude  is  evidently  a  great  admirer  of  his  hero, 
but  whether  the  reader,  when  he  has  finished  the 
book,  will  share  the  admiration  is  another  matter.  If 
there  is  much  that  is  fine  and  strong,  there  is  much 
that  is  narrow  and  repugnant  to  reason  and  clean 
thinking.  Whether  the  Russian  hermit  ever  really 
achieves  permanent  fame  is  still,  strange  and  wild 
as  the  statement  may  appear  to  his  followers,  doubt- 
ful, but  there  is  no  doubt  about  his. abnormality  and 
little  about  his  unwholesomeness.  But  this  has  little 
to  do  with  Mr.  Maude,  whose  work  has  been  very 
satisfactorily  carried  out.  Students  of  the  Master 
will  find  this  little  book  indispensable. 
Funk  &  Wagnalls,  New  York. 

In  this  book  we  have  a  valuable 

Indians  of  the     little  history  of  the  customs,  tra- 

Yosemite.  ditions  and  legends  of  the  Indians 

of  the  Yosemite  Valley.  The 
writer  is  Galen  Clarke,  pioneer  of  the  Yosemite  and 
the  discoverer  of  the  Mariposa  Big  Tree  Grove.  He 
is  ninety  years  of  age,  and  has  only  now  been  per- 
suaoeri  to  write  the  story,  which  he  knows  so  well 
and  which  is  possessed  of  interest  not  only  to  the 
people  of  California  but  to  those  who  are  interested 
in  the  American  aborigines.  The  book  is  well  and 
simply  written  and  deserves  every  commendation. 
Chris.  Jorgensen  has  done  the  illustrations,  and  nu- 
merous photographs  in  half-tone  give  accurate  views 
of  the  inhabitants  and  the  locality.  Mr.  Clark  was 
largely  instrumental  in  bringing  Yosemite  Valley 
under  State  control,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first 
State  Commission  to  manage  the  Valley  in  1864. 

Published  by  Galen  Clark,  Yosemite  Valley,  Cali- 
fornia. 

"Young  America  in  the  Hands  of  His  Friends," 
a  political  drama,  so-called,  by  Arthur  W.  Sanborn, 
published  by  James  H.  West  Company,  Boston.  If 
the  author  had  put  himself  "in  the  hands  of  his 
friends,  it  is  at  least  doubtful  if  he  would  ever  have 
published  the  little  work,  for  small  as  it  is,  its  size  is 
the  only  thing  which  can  be  found  to  praise  about  it. 
Young  America  becomes  enamored  of  Miss  Empire, 
who  has  come  from  Europe  and  who  is  something 
more  than  the  proverbial  handful  to  the  young  hus- 
band. It  will  be  seen  that  the  book  deals  with  the 
somewhat  well  worn  subject  of  Imperialism,  and 
contains  no  really  new  or  valuable  ideas  on  the  sub- 
ject. The  pseudo-dramatic  form  is  of  no  value  to  the 
elucidation  of  the  subject. 


"Russia  at  the  Bar  of  the  American  People"  is  a 
book  written  by  Isidore  Singer,  Ph.  ±J.,  Projector  and 
Managing  Editor  of  the  Jewish  Encyclopedia.  It 
contains  expressions  of  the  opinions  of  public  men, 
such  as  leading  politicians,  ecclesiastical  dignitaries, 
university  presidents.  It  also  reprints  the  Kishinef 
Petition,  including  the  addresses  of  President  Roose- 
velt and  Secretary  Hay.  The  book  is  valuable  as 
giving  an  account  of  one  of  the  most  dreadful  and 
barbarous  events  in  recent  years.  The  material  is 
well  arranged,  and  upon  all  grounds  can  be  entirely 
recommended  to  all  who  wish  for  information  upon 
this  question.   (Funk  &  Wagnalls,  New  York.) 

"Essays  and  Letters  of  Leo  Tolstoy,"  is  by  Ayl- 
mer Maude,  to  whose  work  on  the  Russian  novelist 
and  moralist  we  called  attention  recently,  has  trans- 
lated a  number  of  essays  and  letters  by  Count  Tolstoy 
and  printed  them  in  a  small  book  issued  by  Funk  & 
Wagnalls.  There  is  no  necessity  to  do  more  than  call 
a  passing  attention  to  this  work,  for  the  opinions  and 
ideas  of  the  Russian  writer  are  by  this  time  very 
widely  known  and  there  is  nothing  here  to  cause  me 
to  change  any  opinions  already  formed  with  regard 
to  them.  The  translator  has  produced  a  good,  easy 
English  version,  and  the  author  is  highly  pleased 
with  the  correctness  of  the  revision. 

Funk  &  Wagnalls,  New  York. 

"The  Trouble  Woman,"  by  Clara  Morris,  is  a  very 
short  and  pathetic  story  of  an  old  woman  who  had 
suffered  much.  It  is  a  very  clever  analysis  of  what 
constitutes  real  trouble  as  seen  by  one  who  has  suf- 
fered it.  Clara  Morris  is  a  very  striking  instance  of 
the  development  of  literary  talent  at  an  advanced 
age.  Her  work  is  strong  and  is  sure  to  be  popular, 
for  she  seizes  instinctively  upon  those  points  which 
appeal   directly  to  the  greatest  majority. 

"Running  the  River"  is  a  story  of  the  Mississippi 
at  the  time  of  its  greatest  prosperity,  when  it  was 
crowded  with  craft.  It  is  full  of  dash  and  adventure, 
and  makes  excellent  reading,  particularly  for  young 
people,  boys  and  girls  alike.  George  Cary  Eggleston 
is  too  well-known  a  writer  of  this  class  of  work  to 
require  any  advertisement,  and  it  is  sufficient  to  say 
that  in  the  present  volume  he  is  well  abreast  of  his 
best  achievements. 

A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  New  York. 


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feUJWSH  SOCIETY 


Dear  Bessie:  (its  and  dogs  have  been  the  engross- 
ing topic  this  week,  the  annual  Bench  Show  going 
the  Pavilion  opening  on  Wednesday,  and  what 
a  variety  of  doings  that  same  Pavilion  wilncsscth. 
week  it  was  devoted  to  the  circus;  on  Monday 
night  the  Scouts  save  a  drill,  and  drew  a  hig  crowd. 
and  then  came  the  Bench  Show.  We  have  had  rather 
a  reaction  this  week  from  the  crowded  gaiety  of  the 
last,  not  that  it  has  been  by  any  means  dull,  but  there 
has  been  less  doing,  and  there  has  been  a  lull  also  in 
the  matrimonial  line,  the  number  of  new  engage- 
ments out  making  amends  for  the  lack  of  ceremon- 
ials. Florence  Callaghan  was  the  chief  bride  of  the 
week,  her  marriage  to  Vincent  de  Laveaga  taking 
place  at  her  home  on  Washington  street  at  eight 
o'clock  on  Wednesday  evening.  Mrs.  Callaghan's 
health  is  so  poor,  a  large  affair  was  deemed  unwise, 
so  only  a  limited  number  was  invited  to  see  the  cere- 
mony  performed  by  Archbishop  Riordan ;  Mabel 
Hogg  was  sole  bridesmaid,  Ed.  de  Laveaga  his 
brother's  best  man.  The  decorations  were  all  in  pink, 
and  were,  I  hear,  extremely  pretty.  The  Pettigrews 
had  a  very  pleasant  tea  on  Friday  of  last  week,  given 
for  the  purpose  of  announcing  Helen's  engagement 
to  William  Lemmon.  June  is  to  be  the  wedding 
month  of  several  happy  couples — at  least,  such  is 
the  general  belief — I  mean  of  Genevieve  Hunts- 
man and  H.  S.  Williar;  Susie  Blanding  and  Knox 
Maddox;  Florence  Bailey  and  Fred  Mohr;  Clara 
Sawyer  and  Ed.  Bishop.  I  hear  that  the  Sperry- 
Carrigan  nuptials  are  to  come  off  in  September,  and 
that  Jean  Nokes  Murphy  will  come  here  from  Fort 
Russell  in  time  to  return  the  compliment  to  Anna, 
who  was  her  only  bridesmaid,  by  officiating  as  her 
matron  of  honor  on  the  happy  occasion.  Jean  is  to 
be  here  a  couple  of  months  on  a  visit  to  her  grand- 
mother, Mrs.  Rodgers. 

We  are  having  a  good  deal  of  music  just  now. 
First,  there  was  the  Schumann-Heink  concerts, 
which  were  delightful;  then  Professor  Adelstein  gave 
one  of  his  charming  mandolin  concerts  at  Steinway 
Hall  last  week,  which  was  excellent;  Mrs.  Worthy 
Ames  and  Gertrude  Wheeler  are  to  be  the  soloists 
at  the  Twentieth  Century  Club  concert  to-day,  with 
sixty  voices  in  an  oratorio.  I  am  looking  forward  to 
Carrie  Little's  song  recital,  which  she  gives  next 
Tuesday  afternoon,  and  in  the  evening  we  are  to  have 
a  dance  at  Century  Hall,  something  like  the  Gaiety 
Club  dances,  a  young  ladies'  affair,  with  Leap  Year 
features;  to-night  the  Valentine  Holt's  have  one  in 
the  same  hall.  Another  thing  we  are  looking  for- 
ward to  is  the  dance  to  be  given  on  board  the  U. 
S.  S.  Marion  on  the  30th.  Now,  if  there  is  one  thing 
more  delightful  than  another,  it  is  a  naval  ball,  given 
on  tolerably  smooth  water  and  not  too  much  wind  for 
the  transit  to  the  ship.  How  one  gets  home  is'  an- 
other consideration. 

Don't  you  remember  my  telling  you  of  the  jolly 
little  Sunday  teas  Ethel  Bent  and  Mrs.  Lansing  gave 
over  at  Fernside  last  year?  Ethel  is  no  longer  here, 
but  Mrs.  Lansing,  who  is  a  host  in  herself,  remains, 
and  she  intends  to  repeat  the  teas  this  year,  giving 
the  first  last  Sunday.  So,  you  see,  country  hospi- 
rality  is  commencing.  Mrs.  Roe  had  a  luncheon  pare/ 
over  at  Ross  Valley  on  Thursday;  yesterday  M.'S. 
Frank  Findley  gave  a  tea  in  Sausalito  for  some  of 
the  brides  of  the  near  future — Edith  Findley,  Anna 
Sperry  and  Ollie  Hamilton. 


The  hot  weather  last  Saturday  lured  many  away 
from  town  to  enjoy  life  in,  and  get  a  breath  of,  coun- 
try air,  and  so  parties  were  made  up  to  spend  it  in 
divers  directions.  The  P.urlingameites  had  a  crowd 
down  their  way;  Mrs.  Martin  took  a  party  over  to 
have  luncheon  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  and  Helen  de 
Young  had  what  she  called  a  picnic  at  Meadow- 
lands,  their  country  home  near  San  Rafael. 

Last  Friday  was  quite  a  card  day;  Mrs.  Tim  Hop- 
kins had  forty  to  play  bridge  at  the  Palace,  and 
Sara  Drum's  bridge  and  500  party  was  one  of  the 
largest  of  the  month  ;  both  games  had  their  votaries, 
and  some  very  pretty  prizes  were  won.  Julia  Buck- 
bee  was  one  of  the  guests,  her  first  appearance  since 
her  late  illness,  from  which  she  seemed  to  have  quite 
recovered.  Mrs.  Sam  Pond  had  a  very  pleasant 
euchre  party  yesterday  afternoon.  Apropos  of  cards 
— for  I  always  couple  Mrs.  Middleton  with  pleasant 
afternoon  card  parties — much  to  our  regret,  she  and 
Dr.  Middleton  are  really  and  truly  going  to  leave  us, 
going  East  next  week,  and  then  possibly  to  Europe ; 
as  they  have  set  no  date  for  their  return,  I  greatly 
fear  it  will  be  a  long  time  in  the  future,  if  ever,  and 
we  can  ill  afford  to  lose  them. 

For  next  Satutday  there  is  the  Horse  Show  at 
Burlingame,  to  which  you  can  be  mighty  sure  all 
who  can  are  going;  it  is  to  be  at  the  Frank  Carolan 
place,  the  Crossways. 

I  understand  that  Mamie  McNutt  Potter  is  one 
of  the  happiest  of  the  happy,  that  Ashton  has  at  last 
decided  to  give  up  army  life,  and  sent  in  his  resigna- 
tion, something  she  has  been  eager  for  almost  ever 
since  her  marriage.  Possibly  the  next  one  to  do  so 
will  be  Martin  Crimmins ;  "constant  dropping,  etc," 
you  know,  and  Lottie  is  by  no  means  infatuated  with 
life  in  barracks,  and  would  prefer  it  somewhere  else — 
at  least,  such  is  the  general  belief.  The  Boardmans — 
Bernie  and  Sam — are  going  to  keep  house  in  the 
parental  Drown  abode  on  Jackson  street,  while  the 
elders  are  at  Paso  Robles,  which  seems  to  be  almost 
as  attractive  to  "the  quality"  as  is  Del  Monte  just 
now;  Newell  goes  with  them,  as  it  is  on  the  cards 
that  they  all  go  East  for  a  passaer  before  they  return 
to  San  Francisco.  Mrs.  Stubbs  and  Helen  arrived 
from  Arizona  last  week  in  time  to  welcome  the  latest 
addition  to  the  family,  the  infant  son  of  Mary  and 
Doctor  Morton  Gibbons — the  first  grandson,  I  be- 
lieve. 

Daisy  Parrott  Whitney  and  Parker  have  been 
down  from  Rocklin  and  are  staying  at  the  St.  Fran- 
cis ;  I  have  met  her  almost  every  day  of  late,  "re- 
plenishing my  wardrobe,"  as  she  expresses  her  in- 
terest in  dry  goods,  and  at  one  or  two  cozy  little 


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April  16,  1904. 


afternoon  teas,  where  she  has  been  the  center  of 
interest;  she  is  looking  well  and  blooming.  Carrie 
Merry  has  arrived  from  the  East  on  her  visit  to  Grace 
Martin,  and  says  she  is  so' glad  To  be  here  again,  but 
would  hardly  know  San  Francisco  with  all  its  new 
tall  buildings.  Louis.  Bruguiere  was  one  of  the  ar- 
rivals of  last  week,  but  does  not  intend  to  stay  long. 
Howard  Veeder  is  back,  too,  after  a  long  visit  East, 
and  Arthur  Cheesebrough  came  back  from  Korea 
last  week — a  trio  of  long-lost  beaux. 

Lilly  and  Stella  McCalla  were  down  from  Mare 
Island  last  week — came  for  the  bachelors'  ball; 
Natalie  Coffin  is  going  East  for  the  summer  months; 
the  rest  of  them  are  at  their  Ross  Valley  home,  and 
Edith  Simpson  will  spend  the  spring  months  in  New 
York.  The  Dan  Murphys  and  Mrs.  Frank  are  off  for 
a  trip  abroad,  and  will  probably  do  Europe  very 
thoroughly  during  their  absence,  which  is  not  lim- 
ited to  any  period,  so  will  likely  be  a  long  one. 

Mrs.  McClung  and  Gladys  did  not  come  up  after 
all,  and  are  still  at  San  Diego,  but  Alma  is  here  with 
her  husband,  Lieutenant  Home,  and  has  been  up 
visiting  her  grandmother,  Mrs.  Beverly  Cole,  at 
her  home  in  Napa  Valley;  Mrs.  Voorhies  is  antici- 
pating a  visit  from  Miss  Wright,  en  route  from  New 
York  to  Manila,  where  she  goes  to  join  General 
Luke  Wright;  Ursula  Stone,  who  has  been  away 
since  last  summer,  has  come  home,  and  intends  to 
stay,  she  says,  but  there  are  whispers  to  the  con- 
trary. The  George  Moores  are  forsaking  Blithedale 
this  year  in  favor  of  foreign  parts — they  go  abroad, 
and  will  be  absent  all  summer;  the  Gallatins  left  for 
Europe  last  Friday,  first  making  a  stop  in  the  East, 
and  are  to  be  away  indefinitely.  Leta  is  going  to 
study  music  in  Paris;  the  Downey  Harveys  have 
taken  the  Poniatowski  house  at  Burlingame  for  the 
season — they  are  expected  home  next  month.  The 
Albert  Dibblees  are  at  their  Ross  Valley  cottage, 
where  they  will  pass  the  entire  summer;  the  Ed. 
Schmiedells  and  the  Eells  have  also  gone  over  to 
their  homes  in  the  valley.  Del  Monte  is  claiming  a 
lot  of  the  smart  set  at  present ;  there  are  the  George 
Popes,  the  George  Lents,  Emily  Carolan,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Brander  Miller — May  Burdge,  you  know — Mrs. 
Houghton  and  Minnie,  and  oh,  heaps  more.  Bertha 
Dolbeer  will  soon  be  among  the  missing;  she  and 
Miss  Warner  are  going  abroad  for  an  indefinite  time; 
Mattie  Milton  is  going  to  China  ;  some  of  the  O'Con- 
nor girls  are  to  spend  the  summer  touring  Europe ; 
the  Allan  Wallaces  have  been  spending  April  in 
Cuba.  Mrs.  Chamberlaine,  wife  of  the  Inspector 
General  in  the  Philippines,  came  back  on  the  trans- 
port Sheridan  from  Manila,  where  she  has  been  the 
past  few  months — the  climate  did  not  suit  the  baby, 
I  believe.  She  is  a  charming  woman,  and  every  one 
is  glad  to  see  her  again.  — Elsie. 

The  sixth  anniversary  of  the  "call  to  arms"  of  the 
First  Regiment  Infantry,  N.  G.  C,  will  be  celebrated 
by  the  officers  Wednesday  evening,  April  27th,  at 
headquarters,  21  Page  street.  Dancing  will  com- 
mence at  9  o'clock. 

Mr.  Charles  Keilus,  of  The  Hub,  left  last  Tuesday 
for  the  East,  to  be  gone  five  or  six  weeks  on  a  business 
trip  selecting  his  fabrics  and  models  for  this  fall  sea- 
son. 

The  usual  monthly  programme  of  sacred  music 
will  be  given  at  St.  Dominic's  Church  on  Sunday 
evening,  April  17th.  There  will  be  litany  with  ser- 
mon at  7:30,  followed  by  the  Benediction  of  the  Most 
Holy  Sacrament. 

Music  at  Benediction — O  Salutaris,  Rosseau ;  Tan- 
tum  Ergo,  Widor.    Soloists — Miss  Ella  V.  McClos- 


key  and  J.  J.  Rosborough.  Jubilate  Deo,  Stewart. 
Organ  solo — Fantasia  on  Themes  from  Wagner,  Mo- 
tett.  "Victimae  paschali,"  Stewart.  Solo — "Hear  Ye, 
Israel,"  Mrs.  B.  Apple.  Motett,  "Bone  Pastor,"  Vi- 
vet.  Solo — "Ave  Maria,"  Bizet,  Miss  Camille  Frank. 
Solo — "Panis  Angelicus,"  Caesar  Franck,  Mr.  T.  G. 
Elliott.  Solo— "Where  Have  They  Laid  Him?"  Sul- 
livan, Mrs.  Jenkins.  Organ  Postlude — "March  in 
D,"  Best.  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  organist  and  director 
of  the  choir. 

An  entertainment  was  given  at  Lyric  Hall  last 
Monday  evening  for  the  benefit  of  the  Cathedral 
of  the  Good  Samaritan.  The  following-  patrons  are 
entitled  to  the  credit  of  making  it  a  success:  Mrs.  S. 
L.  Abbott,  Jr„  Mrs.  Henry  F.  Allen.  Mrs.  Harry  Bab- 
cock,  Mrs.  Richard  Bayne,  Mrs.  E.  S.  Breyfogle, 
Mrs.  Phillip  Caduc,  Mrs.  Horace  B.  Chase,  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam B.  Collier,  Mrs.  Joseph  Coryell,  Miss  E.  B.  Gar- 
ber,  Mrs.  R.  D.  Girvin,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Harrison,  Mrs.  W. 
I.  -Kip,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Kettle,  Mrs.  B.  G.  Lathrop,  Mrs. 
Milton  S.  Latham,  Mrs.  P.  McG.  McBran,  Mrs.  Geo. 
A.  Pope.  Mrs.  Lawrence  Poole,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Tay- 
lor, Mr.  William  Alvord,  Mr.  H.  F.  Allen,  Mr.  Harry 
Babcock,  Mr.  Edgar  Mills,  Mr.  James  Phelan. 

The  Glee  and  Mandolin  Clubs  of  the  University 
of  California  will  give  a  concert  at  Steinway  Hall  on 
Tuesday  evening,  April  26th,  with  the  object  of  rais- 
ing funds  for  the  trip  which  the  clubs  have  arranged 
to  visit  the  World's  Fair  at  St.  Louis.  The  programme 
will  include  many  numbers  specially  prepared  for  the 
World's  Fair  concerts,  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  H. 
J.  Stewart. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending  April 
12,  1904:  Miss  Hazel  Blackwell,  Mr.  P.  F.  Dunne, 
Mr.  C.  W.  Durbrow,  Mr.  H.  L.  Cook,  Mrs.  Willis 
E.  Davis,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Raas,  Mrs.  F.  Schweitzer,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  James  M.  Anderson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  W. 
Mc'Kim,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Reeves,  Miss  F.  M.  How- 
ard, Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  C.  Jones,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Fontaine, 
Miss  M.  V.  Fontaine,  Mr.  J.  B.  Fontaine,  Jr.,  Mrs. 
C.  A.  Tower,  Miss  G.  C.  Tower,  Miss  A.  M.  Tower, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  W.  Welmenberg,  Mrs.  F.  Freeborn, 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  G.  C.  Freeborn,  Miss  M.  McGinnis, 
Mrs.  C.  Meyers,  Mr.  E.  Titus,  Jr.,  Mrs.  W.  B.  Rob- 
erts, Mr.  Browning,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Youngs,  Miss  Powell, 
Mr.  W.  V.  Youngs,  Miss  A.  Holmes,  Miss  Wood- 
ward, Mrs.  M.  A.  Freeman,  Miss  E.  Freeman,  Mr. 
S.  P.  B.  Snell,  Mrs.  F.  G.  Yengling,  Mrs.  D.  W. 
Bland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Billings,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
T.  W.  Ripley,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Hawkes,  Mr.  and 


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irtcr.  Mr.  ami  Mrs   J.  F.  Wellington,  Mr< 
!r.  and  Mrs.  F.  T.  Roberts.  Mas- 
I  T.  Roberts,  Mr.  II.  c.  Banecker,  Mil 
Thayer.   Mr.   an. I    Mrs.    I..    I.   Qunn,   Mrs.  C.   Davis, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  J.  Husband,  Jr..  Mi<s  I..  I..  Backus, 
F.  J.  Fielding,  Mrs.  I.  II.  Hoover.  Mr.  and  Mr- 
A.  \\  Mr.  an. I  Mrs.  A.  S.  Skinner.  Mr.  ami 

Mrs.  I.  C  Flint,  Mrs.  M.  < \  Bryant,  Mr.  Henry  C. 
Taft,  Mr  .Charles  T.  Walker.  Mr.  C  S.  Henry. 
AT  HOME. 

Thursday — Mrs.  Oliver  Dibble,   A|>ril   21,   IOI2   Tin, 

street:  Mrs.  0.  C.  Baldwin.  April  28th,  2415  Bu- 
chanan street. 
Friday — Mrs.  Will  Sherwood.  Pacific  avenue  and 
Baker  street;  Mrs.  T.  W.  Huntington  and  Mrs. 
W.  I.  Terry.  April  21,  2629  Pacific;  Mrs.  Joseph 
Masten,  April  21,  3954  Washington  street;  Airs. 
Harold  Copelaml  de  Wolf.  April  21st  and  28th. 
609  Sacramento  street:  Mrs.  Albert  W.  Scott. 
May  6th  and   13th,  305  Buchanan  street. 

BIRTHS. 

April  7th — To  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Morton  R.  Gibbons. 

a  son.     Mrs.  Gibbons  was  Miss  Mary  Stubbs. 
Recently  in  Denver,  Colorado — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grey 

Leavitt,    a   daughter.      Mrs.    Leavitt   was    Miss 

Julia  Reed  of  San  Francisco. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Susie  Blanding.  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gor- 
don  Blanding,  to  Mr.   Knox  Maddox. 

Miss  Helen  Pettigrew,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  S.  Pettigrew,  to  Mr.  William  Lemmon. 

Miss  Georgie  Butler,  daughter  of  A.  B.  Butler,  to 
Captain  John  W.  Joyes,  U.  S.  A. 

Miss  Eleanor  Robinson,  daughter  of  Mrs.  James  Rob- 
inson, to  Mr.  Martin  Kay,  of  London,  England. 

Miss  Winifred  Macintosh,  daughter  of  Doctor  James 
Macintosh,  to  Robert  Menzies,  son  of  the  late 
Thomas  Menzies  of  San  Rafael. 

Miss  Clara  Sawyer,  to  Edward  F.  Bishop,  son  of 
Thomas  B.  Bishop. 

Miss  Hilda  Rosener,  daughter  of  Mrs.  S.  Rosener, 
to  Sydney  B.  Vincent. 

TEA. 

April  20  (Wednesday) — Mrs.  R.  A.  Wellman,  Miss 
Wellman  and  Mrs.  F.  G.  Beardsley,  East  14th 
street,  Fruitvale,  3  to  5  o'clock. 

April  21  (Thursday) — Miss  Noelle  de  Golia,  Oak- 
land. 

WEDDINGS. 

April  14th  (Thursday) — Miss  Edith  Wadsworth, 
daughter  of  Doctor  and  Mrs.  C.  C.  Wadsworth, 
to  Clifford  H.  Logan,  1104  Van  Ness  avenue, 
8:30  p.  m. ;  Miss  Clara  Kilbourne,  daughter  of 
Colonel  Kilbourne,  U.  S.  A.  and  Mrs.  Kilbourne, 
to  Captain  Thomas  L.  Leeds,  59th  Scinde  Rifles, 
Indian  army.    St.  John  the  Divine  crypt,  N.  Y. 

April  12  (Tuesday) — Miss  Ethel  Miles,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  E.  Miles,  to  Brander  Townsend 
Brady.    San  Marco,  9  p.  m. 

__  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

April  16th  (Saturday) — Miss  Serena  Fisher,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  Fisher  of  Baltimore,  to  Henry  Cecil 
Jenkins.     Bella  Vista,  12  m. 

April  18th  (Monday) — Miss  Florence  Alice  Boone, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philip  Boone,  to  Ralph 
La  Rose  Phelps.  2029  Durant  avenue,  Berkeley, 
9  p.  m. 

April  19th  (Tuesday) — Miss  Elvira  Hobbs,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  J.  K.  C.  Hobbs,  to  Earl  Newman 
Percy,  9  p.  m. 


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April  30th   (Saturday)— Miss  Edna  Barry  t.>  Philip 
(lurch,  Oakland.  4  p.  in. 

May  nth  (Wednesday)— Miss  Ella  Goodall  t" 
tor  Charles   M.   Cooper. 

CHARITABLE. 

April  11. tli  to  23d-  \rl  exhibition  by  the  1'rc^s  Club 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Childrens'  Hospital.  Club 
rooms  on  Ellis  street. 

April  2 1  st  and  22d — Musical  comedy  of  "His  Royal 
N'ilis."  for  llic  benefit  of  California  Woman's 
Hospital,  Alhambra  Theatre. 

April  23d  (Saturday)— Horse  Show  at  Burlingame 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Bishop  Armitage  Orphan- 
age. 

BALL. 

April  27th — First  Regiment.  N.  G.  C.  at  headquar- 
ters, 21   Page  street. 

April  30th  (Saturday) — On  board  the  U.  S.  S.  Mar- 
ion. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  dTuggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


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56  years  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladies  will 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


PTHE  LOOKER-ON 


Roses,  roses  everywhere, 

And  weddings  each  day  of  the  week, 
Then  why  is  your  brow  so  full  of  care 

And  why  so  pale  your  cheek? 
What  is  the  sorrow  that  haunts  you,  dear? 

Why  are  you  gloomy  and  sad? 
Is  it  champagne  that  makes  you  queer 

Or  the  lobster  Newberg  you've  had? 

"It  isn't  the  lobster  that  pales  my  cheek, 

It  isn't  that  life's  too  gay. 
But  the  weddings  that  happen  each  day  of  the 

Are  eating  ray  heart   away.  [week, 

My  bills  pile  up  for  silverware, 

My  milliner's  after  me, 
But  my  heart  is  sore  and  full  of  care 

For  nobodv  marries  me. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Botkin  has  been  convicted  again  ;  the  jawing 
lawyers  have  given  rest  to  their  tongues:  the  con- 
temptible Dunning  has  hidden  himself  in  the  shadow 
of  his  sins ;  the  "fair  defendant's"  prayer  book  has 
been  put  back  on  the  shelf ;  the  women  without  self- 
respect,  who  crowded  the  court-room,  are  wander- 
ing around  Butchertown  or  slumming  upon  the 
"dumps,"  eager  yet  to  satisfy  their  insatiable  long- 
ing for  filth,  and  the  daily  papers  are  seeking  new 
sensations.  For  all  of  which,  "Dei  gratias."  The 
conduct  of  the  Botkin  trial,  to  my  mind,  was  more 
than  reprehensible.  I  do  not  hold  Judge  Cook  to 
blame,  for  in  permitting  the  crowding  of  the  court 
room  and  in  allowing  the  lawyers  to  conduct  them- 
selves like  so  many  fish-wives,  he  only  followed 
local  precedents.  He  is  no  worse  in  this  respect 
than  the  other  judges,  but  that  does  not  excuse  the 
complacency  which  permits  a  murder  trial  to  be 
conducted  with  all  the  low  corned)'  properties  of  a 
wretched  opera  bouffe.  Knight  will  be  the  greatest 
loser  by  the  trial.  By  his  own  statement,  he  gets 
no  fee;  he  lost  his  case  and  he  dropped  several 
notches  in  the  estimation  of  many  who  had  consid- 
ered him  a  good  lawyer.  It  used  to  be  said  that 
when  a  lawyer  has  a  poor  case  his  only  recourse  is 
to  abuse  the  other  side.  Knight's  greatest  efforts 
were  directed  to  the  abuse  of  the  other  side.  The 
gaping  crowd  was  much  disappointed  at  the  non-ap- 
pearance of  the  mysterious  "double"  of  Mrs.  Botkin. 
Well,  some  things  are  too  dangerous  to  attempt,  even 
in  a  murder  trial. 

*  *  * 

The  bathos  written  in  the  daily  press  about  Mrs. 
Botkin  was  sickening.  One  paper  had  her  reading 
from  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer:  another  had  her 
calling  for  her  mother;  a  third  described  her  cell, 
which  she  had  beautified  with  "her  own  fair  hands." 
When  one  considers  the  terrible  horrors  of  the  crime 
she  committed,  and  remembers  that  she  yet  encum- 
bers the  earth,  and  may  again  subject  this  city  to 
great  expense  for  a  third  trial,  the  endeavors  to 
arouse  sympathy  for  her  are  disgusting.  As  Judge 
Ferral  said,  she  is  a  woman  without  a  conscience, 
lost  all  sense  of  morality,  a  pervert  to  whom  re- 
morse is  impossible.  If  it  should  be  necessary,  un- 
fortunately, to  try  her  again,  it  is  hoped  the'  trial 
Judge  will  restrict  the  attendance,  and  above  all,  bar 
out  all  women.  A  trial  of  this  importance  should  be 
conducted  with  dignity,  a  feature  that  cannot  be 
maintained  in  the  face  of  a  court-room  so  crowded 
that  movement  within  it  is  next  to  impossible. 


The  Board  of  Health  has  discovered  in  the  mouth- 
pieces of  the  telephones  in  the  ferrv  building  germs 
of  streptococci  and  staphylococci ;  in  the  telephones 
in  the  Western  Addition,  the  fierce  microbe  sapro- 
phytes has  been  found  lurking  in  the  mouthpieces 
awaiting  a  chance  to  jump  down  the  throat  of  the 
unsuspecting  gossip ;  in  the  office  of  the  Harbor  Com- 
mission traces  of  the  notorious  charleyspearacuss 
have  been  removed  for  bacteriological  examination. 
For  all  these  reasons,  the  Health  Officer,  backed  up 
by  the  serried  ranks  of  the  "volunteer"  physicians, 
insists  that  the  mouthpieces  of  public  telephones 
shall  be  covered  with  carbolized  paper,  or  some  other 
preventive  that  will  catch  the  unwary  microbe  in  its 
flight  and  render  it  inocuous.  There  must  be  many 
thousands  of  public  'phones  in  the  city.  A  patent 
carbolized  anti-germ  wafer  to  cover  the  mouthpiece 
of  a  telephone  costs  from  twenty  to  thirty-five  cents. 
They  would  average  in  price  about  $250  a  thousand. 
If  the  Health  Officer  put  upon  them  the  stamp  of  his 
official  approval,  of  course  that  would  make  them 
more  valuable.  The  accommodating  Health  Officer 
could  assist  the  public  by  selling-  the  wafers  at  his 
private  office.  They  would  all  be  warranted  not  to 
bear  the  slightest  suspicion  of  inoculation  with  the 
germ  of  prafticoccius. 

*  *  * 

The  builders  of  high-class  hotels  and  apartment 
houses  should  take  warning  from  the  fate  of  the  San 
Marco,  which  has  gone  under,  after  a  career  of  only 
three  months.  It  is  a  magnificent  building,  and 
the  house  was  conducted  in  first-class  style,  but  the 
opposition  was  too  fierce.  Builders  have  gone  mad 
on  private  hotels  and  apartment  houses.  The  town 
is  over-crowded  with  them,  and  some  one  must  bear 
the  burden  of  the  over-production.  C.  A.  Plottner, 
of  the  San  Marco,  paid  $1,300  a  month  rent,  and  in- 
vested some  $25,000  in  furnishings.  Now  the  fur- 
niture man  has  sued  him  for  the  price,  and  the 
Musto  estate  has  taken  back  the  house. 
«  *  * 

Bailey  Millard  has  broken  loose  again  in  some 
"fine  writing."  Millard  occasionally  rests  from  his 
labors  in  the  line  of  the  higher  literary  criticism, 
and  tries  his  hand  at  writing  a  news  story.  He  did 
the  Sacramento  flood  to  the  Queen's  taste,  and  now 
he  has  told  an  admiring  public  just  how  a  little  tailor 
down  in  Kearny  street  put  bullet  holes  in  the  body  of 
his  sweetheart.  Millard  describes  the  victim  of  the 
tailor's  gun  as  "a  fresh,  bright-eyed,  resilient  young 
woman,  arising  on  a  soft  April  day,  as  rare  as 
Lowell's  famous  dav  in  June."  Such  a  fair  creature, 
he  says,  "with  the  thoughts  borne  of  a  peaceful  morn- 
ing, can  share  nothing  of  the  Prospice  idea."  Now. 
in  the  name  of  Noah  Webster,  what  is  a  "resilient" 
young  woman?  Is  she  some  peculiar  product  of 
North  Beach,  who  possesses  true  metallic  qualities? 
Did  she  wear  a  "pull-back,"  and  therefore  have  the 
true  spring-back  resilience  properties?  What  did 
the  copy-reader  think  when  he  passed  Millard's  copv? 
Did  he  fear  toying  with  the  vocabulary  of  a  self-made 


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critic?    If  Mr.  Millard  will  only  stay  with  the  hi 

[  shall  overlook  all  the  liberties  he  may 
take  with  the  English  language,  for  ordinary  men 
presume  to  enter  the  higher  heavens  of  the 
craft ;  but  when  he  gets  down  to  describing  a  North 
Beach  seamstress.  I  decline  to  give  his  literary  im- 
agination   full    swing.      We    must    have    our    seam- 

-scs  true  to  life. 

*  •  * 

The  Commonwealth  Club  will  give  a  dinner  at  the 
l'alace  in  honor  of  Alfred  W.  Cooky.  United  States 
Civil  Service  Commissioner,  and  Elliot  H.  Goodwin, 
secretary  of  the  National  Civil  Service  Reform 
League.'  'if  New  York.  Mr.  Cooley  is  inspecting 
the  various   Federal   Civil   Service  departments. 

*  *  * 

The  Cosmos  Club  had  a  very  enjoyable  anniversary 
evening  during  the  week.  Though  not  so  big  as 
some  of  its  more  pretentious  neighbors,  the  Cosmos 
is  one  of  the  "chummiest"  clubs  in  town. 

*  *  * 

The  Press  Club  is  gaining  fame  from  its  entertain- 
ments. It  always  manages  to  gather  together  numer- 
ous interesting  people,  each  of  whom  can  and  does 
contribute  some  part  to  the  evening's  pleasure.  Its 
next  affair  will  be  the  art  exhibit. 

*  *  * 

The  Monticello  Club  banquet  in  honor  of  the  much 
lamented  Thomas  Jefferson  was  socially  successful. 
but  politically  inocuous.  The  heavy-weights  of  the 
Monticello  are  but  light-weights  in  their  party,  and 
what  they  do,  or  say,  or  think,  seems  to  make  but 
little  difference  in  the  progress  of  the  nation. 

*  *  * 

The  Dutch  are  slaughtering  the  Achinese  in  north- 
ern Sumatra;  the  French  are  pumping  lead  into  the 
tribes  of  the  Soudan;  the  Germans  are  decimating 
the  aborigines  in  Southern  Africa;  the  Belgians  are 
cutting  off  heads  and  hands  along  the  Congo;  the 
British  are  using  machine  guns  upon  the  people 
of  Thibet,  and  we  are  plugging  the  mountain  tribes 
of  the  Philippines  with  bullets  and  reform.  Gentle- 
men, it  is  certain  that  the  progress  of  modern  civ- 
ilization cannot  be  stayed. 

*  *  * 

Mike  Tarpey,  the  last  of  the  "Old  Bills,"  is  direct- 
ing the  course  of  the  Hearst  boomlet  throughout 
the  State.  Have  you  noticed  the  storm  of  enthusi- 
astic silence  with  which  the  press  and  the  people 
have  received  his  efforts?  Tarpey  is  a  genial  fel- 
low, and  he  dearly  loves  a  practical  joke.  He  is  now 
perpetrating  one  of  the  biggest  in  the  State's  politi- 
cal history.  It  is  the  best  thing  since  the  days  when 
the  ancient  Romans  attached  the  political  hoodoo 
to  M.  F.!s  family  name  by  painting  it  on  that  rock 
on  the  Capitoline  Hill  from  which  the  "has  beens" 
were  hurled  to  destruction.  It  was  always  a  ques- 
tion among  the  Alameda  students  of  nomenclature 
whether  Hearst's  manager  took  his  name  from  the 
Tarpeian  rock,  or  whether  some  seer  of  old  Rome, 
peering  into  the  future,  and  seeing  M.  F.  struggling 
with  his  present  fight,  named  the  rock  after  Tarpey. 
The  latter  will  give  a  piece  of  the  rock  to  any  one 
guessing  the  conundrum. 

*  *  * 

General  Miles,  when  asked  if  he  were  a  candidate 
for  the  Presidency,  said  he  was  in  the  hands  of  his 
friends.  Seems  to  me,  I  have  heard  that  remark  be- 
fore. It  has  a  familiar  ring.  Strange  that  some  men 
do  not  gain  wisdom  with  age. 

*  *  * 

The   Philippine   scouts   covered   themselves   with 


"R.  B.  HAYDEN" 

IIAM>    MADE   80UR    JIASH 

WHISKEY 


THE  FINEST  WHISKY  MADE 

IN    KENTUCKY 
THE  HOME    OF    BOURBONS 

DISTILLED   BY 

GREENBRIER  DISTILLERY  CO. 

Nelson,  Co.,  Ky. 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


glory  last  Monday  night  at  the  Pavilion,  where  they 
gave  a  battalion  drill  to  the  end  that  more  money 
might  be  raised  for  the  monument  to  Father  McKin- 
non,  the  "good  padre."  There  are  four  tribes  repre- 
sented in  the  battalion  of  scouts,  and  so  far  as  pos- 
sible, all  the  men  of  the  same  tribe  are  put  in  the 
same  company.  In  camp,  each  tribe  also  has  its  own 
street.  The  little  brown  men  will  make  a  hit  at  St. 
Louis.  They  will  be  under  command  of  Major 
Carrington,  who,  it  seems,  will  accompany  them, 
instead  of  returning  to  the  Islands. 
*  *  * 

When  the  present  Board  of  Health  started  in  busi- 
ness it  was  proudly  proclaimed  that  the  expenses  of 
the  Department  would  be  greatly  reduced.  Now  it 
has  filed  its  first  budget.  For  the  Emergency  Hos- 
pitals it  wants  $10,000  more  than  was  allowed  last 
year.  Well,  its  hospital  doctors  are  expensive  men ; 
they  come  high.  The  Board  wants  also  an  increase 
of  over  $80,000  for  running  the  County  Hospital,  an 
increase  of  $7,100  for  the  Alms  House,  $2,800  for  the 
Small-Pox  Hospital,  and  over  $500  for  the  Leper 
Hospital.  It  needs  only  about  $100,000  more  than 
the  former  Board  to  conduct  its  business.  It  should 
be  given  what  it  asks — of  course,  of  course. 

Fine    stationery,    steel    and    copperplate    engraving. 

Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


See  our  3  months  ahead  Ideas  in  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

Due  consideration  should  be  given 
the  treatment  of  the  windows. 
We  carry  a  full  line  of  ARABIAN, 
BATTENBERG,  BRUSSELS, 

IRISH      POINT,      CLUNY      and 
SWISS  CURTAINS,  also  BONNE 
FBMMESi       LACE       STORES, 
GRAND    DAMES,    LACE    PAN- 
ELS, SASH  CURTAINS,  etc. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    a    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


FINANCIAL 


Are  we  never  to  hear  the  last  of 
An  Oleaginous  the  "craze"  for  oil  investment, 
Mix-up.  where  cheap  stock  in  cheap  land 

were  peddled  out  by  cheap  peo- 
ple to  the  get-rich-quick  class,  who  are  always  pitch- 
ing into  some  ditch  dug  especially  for  their  injury, 
head  first  and  eyes  open,  and  then  howling  a  deafen- 
ing howl  for  sympathy  in  their  troubles,  which  they 
never  get?  Scarcely  a  day  passes  without  an  after- 
math of  the  boom  ( ?)  in  oil.  How  many  of  those 
cheap,  so  much  a  yard  in  fancy  paper  certificates  are 
in  existence  now?  Only  the  big  concerns  are  alive 
now,  those  which  were  used  as  a  bait  by  the  "John- 
nies-on-the-Spot,"  who  make  their  hay  when  the  sun 
shines,  and  who  will  aways  be  found  next  the  band- 
wagon when  the  hungry-eyed  dollar  chaser  starts 
a  rush  for  some  good  thing  cooked  up  and  manipu- 
lated for  his  particular  benefit.  Even  these  are  free 
from  their  troubles,  and  only  within  the  past  week 
a  row  has  broken  out  between  a  heavier  class  of  op- 
erators. H.  H.  Blood,  the  well  known  oil  operator, 
is  the  defendant  in  a  suit  brought  by  a  number  of 
wealthy  people  who  think  that  he  made  too  much 
money  out  of  a  deal  in  oil  lands,  which  took  place 
some  3'ears  ago.  While  the  defendants  likely  got 
all  that  the  traffic  would  bear,  it  is  just  possible  that 
he  in  turn  thinks  there  might,  in  all  fairness  to  him- 
self, have  been  a  few  cents  more  profit.  Opinions 
differ  upon  a  proposition  of  the  kind.  However, 
in  this,  all  the  parties  concerned  are  able  to  hold 
their  own  and  indulge  in  litigation,  if  so  desired,  to 
their  hearts'  content.  It  is  the  conception  of  the 
promoter's  fertile  brain  that  works  havoc  in  quarters 
either  too  proud  to  confess  their  mistake  or  too 
poor  to  seek  relief  in  the  courts.  And  then,  what 
comes  of  it,  nine  times  out  of  ten?  Take,  for  ex- 
ample, the  suit  brought  by  H.  F.  Bulwer  against  the 
Yukon  Crude,  the  American  Fuel,  Rex  Crude  and 
the  Union  Con.  Crude,  in  which  he  charged.  This 
suit  was  brought  by  the  plaintiff  in  1002.  and  after 
a  year's  experience  of  the  law's  delay,  Bulwer  de- 
parts this  life,  and  now,  in  the  year  of  grace  1904,  the 
proceedings  that  were  always  "in  futuro"  have  been 
dismissed,  the  principal  witness  having  removed  his 
residence  beyond  the  reach  of  any  earthly  subpoena. 

There  is. a  disposition     upon     the 

A  Sensible       part   of    mining   men    all    over   the 

Mining  Law.     country  to  convene  for  the  purpose 

of  taking  action  to  simplify  the 
American  mining  law  down  to  a  point  where  lawyers 
will  not  be  in  a  position  to  make  ducks  and  drakes 
out  of  the  statutes  for  the  purpose  of  conforming  to 
the  rulings  of  a  Supreme  Court  handed  down  one  'lay, 
to  be  reversed  the  next.  The  simplicity  of  the  Mexi- 
can mining  law  would  recommend  it  for  special  con- 
sideration to  take  the  place  of  the  complicated  code 
of  our  own.  The  apex  of  a  lode,  on  which  so  many 
decisions  have  been  rendered  in  the  American  law 
courts,  cuts  no  figure  there.  Whatever  ore  is  found 
within  the  lines  of  a  mining  property  belongs  in 
Mexico  to  the  man  who  owns  the  ground,  and  no  one 
can  gopher  it  on  the  plea  that  it  could  he  followed  to 
the  surface  in  the  territory  covered  by  his  location. 
There  is  no  jumping,  ?nd  no  questions  can  be  raised 
as  to  ownership  once  the  land  is  set  aside  to  any  one 
and  the  taxes,  which  amount  to  a  few  dollars  every 
year.  Mexico  may  not  be  so  far  ahead  of  us  in  many 
ways,  but  in  the  matter  of  mining  law  we  can  well 
afford  to  follow  her  lead.    The  proposition  to  change 


and  remodel  our  system  upon  similar  lines,  and 
then  there  will  be  less  chance  for  the  miner  to  es- 
cape hazard  of  law  and  the  outside  blackmailer. 

Business  has  been  rather  quiet 
Pine-St.  Market,  during  the  week  on  the  Pine- 
street  Exchange,  but  this  has 
been  due  entirely  to  the  manipulation  of  certain  lines 
of  stock  by  the  representative  of  a  new  capitalistic 
force  now  in  the  field  for  control  of  some  of  the 
leading  Comstock  mines.  Whether  they  will  succeed 
or  not  in  attaining  their  end,  it  is  difficult  to  say, 
but  in  so  far  as  the  present  operators  are  con- 
cerned, there  is  no  opposition  of  any  kind,  as  all  the 
interests  are  being  arranged  upon  an  amicable  basis. 
The  injection  of  new  life  into  the  business  is  some- 
thing that  will  be  hailed  with  satisfaction  on  all  sides. 
In  the  future  management  of  the  mines  the  Sutro 
Tunnel  will  be  an  important  factor,  saving  the  hoist- 
ing of  ores  above  the  tunnel  level.  An  electric  trolley 
system  is  to  be  installed  in  the  tunnel  and  connec- 
tions will  be  made  with  all  the  mines. 

Representative.  Van     Duser     of 
A  Chance  for      Nevada  hits  the  nail  on  the  head 
Revelations,      in  the  interests  of  legitimate  min- 
ing by   the   resolution   which   he 
introduced  in  the  House.    This  document,  if  adopted, 
will  place  the  Secretary  of  Commerce  and  Labor  in 
a  position  to  investigate  the  dishonest  and  fraudulent 
mining  companies  conducting  their  operations  and 
sale  of  stock  by  advertising  and  circularizing  through 
the  use  of  the  United  States  mails,  whereby  thou- 
sands of  investors  have  been  defrauded  through  mis- 


G.    H.    UMBSEN    &   COMPANY 

20  MONTGOMERY  STREET 

ANNOUNCEMENT! 

ANNOUNCEMENT! 

ANNOUNCEMENT! 

GRAND    AUCTION    SALE 

San  Mateo  Heights 

San  Mateo  Heights 

San  Mateo  Heights 


On  SATURDAY,  APRIL  30.  1904,  at  1:30  o'clock  P.  M., 
we  will  sell  on  the  premises  150  beautiful'  large  lots.  This 
will  be  the  red  letter  sale  of  San  Mateo  property.  The  lots 
are  all  large  most  of  them  being  50x150,  Citv  water;  sewer 
connections.  Electric  cars  run  through  the  center  of  San 
Mateo  Heights.  Special  trains  will  leave  3rd  and  Townseno 
Sts.,  Depot  on  day  of  sale  at  11  A.  M.    Tickets  50c  round  trip 


G.    H.    UMBSEN    &    COMPANY 

20  MONTGOMERY  STREET 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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representations  in  circulars  anil  printed  matter.  The 
resolution  goes  on  to  say  that  this  printed  matter 
Cgeratcd  and  fal-r  statements,  and  tin- 
tary  will  investigate  the  organization  capitali- 
zation  profits,  sources  from  which  dividends  are  paid. 
the  conduct,  management,  promotion  of  stock  sales, 
and  methods  of  mining  companies  and  mining 
porations  in  nencral.  who  conduct  their  sale  of  stock- 
by  means  of  advertising  and  circularizing  through 
the  use  of  the  United  States  mails.  He  will,  in  turn. 
make  a  report  of  the  findings  to  the  House.  Just 
imagine  what  a  revelation  there  would  be  if  this 
resolution  was  carried  into  effect.  It  would  develop 
a  condition  of  affairs  which  would  astound  people. 


Dr.  C.  T.  Deane,  secretary  of  the  California  Pe- 
troleum Miners'  Association,  has  compiled  a  state- 
ment of  the  production  of  crude  oil  in  California  for 
1903.  The  total  number  of  producing  wells  in  the 
thirteen  oil-hearing  districts  in  the  State  is  place! 
at  2914.  These  yielded  last  year  23.602,000  barrels. 
15.750.000  of  which  came  out  of  the  Kern  River  dis- 
trict alone.  The  estimate  is  conservative  and  there- 
fore safe.  The  extraordinary  growth  of  the  indus- 
try is  revealed  in  the  fact  that  the  output  last  year  ex- 
ceeded that  of  1902  by  nearly  10,000,000  barrels.  It 
is  fully  expected  that  the  yield  this  year  will  reach 
at  least  30,000,000  barrels,  as  the  demand  for  refin- 
ing, for  fuel  and  export,  is  steadily  increasing. 


The  California  Fruit  Canners  Association  have 
just  closed  a  very  prosperous  year.  The  financial 
statement  submitted  for  the  year  ended  February 
27th  states  that  $208,195  had  been  paid  in  dividends, 
and  that  an  increase  had  been  in  the  surplus  and  re- 
serve funds  of  $225,134.  In  contributing  to  general 
results,  the  adoption  of  improved  methods  of  distrib- 
uting the  products  of  the  association  was  an  import- 
ant factor.  The  sales  for  the  year  were  $1,000,000  in 
excess  of  the  previous  year.  The  officers  elected 
were:  President,  William  Fries;  first  vice-president 
and  treasurer,  S.  L.  Goldstein  ;  second  vice-president, 
Henry  F.  Allen  ;  third  vice-president,  Francis  Cutting 
(in  place  of  W.  L.  Thomas)  ;  secretary,  Charles  B. 
Carr;  general  manager,  R.  I.  Bentley;  general  super- 
intendent, Mark  J.  Fontana ;  assistant  general  super- 
intendent, T.  B.  Dawson;  manager  of  the  sales  de- 
partment, C.  H.  Bentley ;  assistant  secretary,  George 
McLean;  auditor,  C.  F.  Jackson;  and  attorneys, 
Thomas,  Gerstle  &  Frick.  As  additional  directors, 
there  were  chosen  F.  Tillmann,  Jr.,  Percy  T.  Mor- 
gan, W.  L.  Gerstle,  and  W.  C.  B.  de  Fremery. 

The  local  market  for  securities  has  been  steady 
during  the  week,  and  prices  show  few  changes,  with 
the  exception  of  little  bolstering  aid  lent  Gas  and 
Electric.  The  market  must  be  considered  quiet  for 
this  time  of  the  year. 

The  Old  Camper 

has  tor  forty-five  years  had  one  article  in  nis  supply — 
Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk.  It  gives  to  soldiers, 
sailors,  hunters,  campers,  and  miners  a  daily  comfort, 
"like  the  old  home."    Delicious  in  coffee,  tea  and  chocolate. 


You  can  never  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  it.  Go  to  Spaulding's 
Carpet  Cleaning  Company,  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


Since  the  recent  impetus  to  building  on  Montgom- 
ery I  the  completion  of  several  fine  build- 
ings for  offices  with  a  good  class  of  tenants,  good 
restaurants  and  lunch  rooms  are  in  demand.  To  meet 
this  emergency.  W.  W.  Moore,  who  for  years  has 
been  a  caterer  to  the  better  class  in  San  Fran 
has  opened  a  lunch  and  coffee  house  at  426  Montgom- 
ery street  which  will  vie  in  excellence  of  cuisine  with 
any  other  similar  establishment  in  this  city.  The 
rooms  arc  handsomely  decorated  in  natural  wood, 
while  plate  glass  mirrors  in  continuous  panel  sur- 
round the  wall.  A  private  dining  room  for  ladies  is 
one  of  the  features,  and  as  the  kitchen  is  separate,  the 
fumes  will  not  offend  the  most  fastidious.  W.  W. 
Moore  &  Co.  are  sure  to  get  the  preferred  customers 
in  this  vicinity. 


4  1-2  Par  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L.  Association 

Pays  i  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFORNIA    STREET.    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital 

Paid  in  Capital 

Guarantee  Capital 


$8,000,000 

1.000,000 

200.000 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property-Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A.  A.  Watkins.  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop.  Vice-President  Bank  of  California. . .  .Vice-President 

S.  Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &  L.  Association, 

„       „  _  Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  .Etna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  P. 

Savings  Union '         Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker.  Portland,  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab,  Attorney-at-law Attn™«» 

Walter  K.  Smith V.V.V.V.V.'.V.  cXer 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Office  of  the  Sierra  Railway  Company  of  California,  Room  229  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  April  1,  1904.  Coupon  No-  14.  due  April 
12, 1904,  from  first  mortgage  6  percent,  bonds  of  Sierra  Railway  Com- 
pany of  California  will  be  paid  at  the  fiscal  agency  of  this  company, 
the  Crocker- Woolworth  National  Bank  on  after  that  date. 

S.  D.  FRESHMAN,  Treasurer. 


SOUTHERN  MUTUAL     INVESTMENT    COMPANY 

OF  LEXINGTON,  KY. 

Owing  to  the  incrense  of  business  has  removed  to  the  CROSSELY 

BUILDING,, SUITE  434 


CKas.  W. 
J,  Amiss, 


Johnson,  Manager  Pacific  Department. 
Special  Agent. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 


California    Safe 

Deposit  and 

Trust  Co. 

Corner 
California  &  Montgomery 

Streets 
San    Francisco,   Cal. 


Capital  and  Surplus 
Total  Assets 


$1,401,160.93 
6,943,782.82 


Interest  paid  on  deposits, 
subject  to  check,  at  the 
rate  of  two  per  cent  per 
annum. 

Interest  paid  on  savings  de- 
posits at  the  rate  of  three 
and  six-tenths  per  cent 
per  annum. 

Trusts  executed.  "We  are 
authorized  to  act  as  the 
guardian  of  estates  and  the 
executor  of  wills. 

Safe-deposit  boxes  rented 
at  $5  per  annum  and  up- 
wards. 

Get  a  box  at  once  and  guard 
against  loss  by  Fire  or 
Burglars. 

J.  Dalzell  Brown. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital,   Surplus^  Undivided  |$|  3  jQQQgg 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  P.  L.  Lipman.  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King,   Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.   E.  Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New  York;  Salt  Lake,   Utah;  Portland.  Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 

San  Francisco  Savinqs  Union 

532  California  St..  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND,  President;  W.  C.  B.  DeFREMERY.  ROBERT 
WATT,  Vice-Presidents:  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH.   Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremerv.  Henry  F.  Allen. 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Earth.  C.  O.  G.  Miller.  Fred  H. 
Beaver,  William  A.  Magee.  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  S. 

Deposits.  December  31,  1903  $33,232,908 

Guarantee  Capital,  Paid-up   l.OOn.oon 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds   899.516 

Mutual  Sa vinos  Bank  of  sar  F«nci9oo 

710  Market  street,  opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    $1,000, Or* 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   500,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY.  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President:    C.    B.    HOBSON.    Assistant    Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphv.  John  A.  Hooper. 
James  Moffltt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  James  M.   McDonald.   Charles  Holbrook. 

Interest  paid  on    deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German   Savinas  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  526  CALIFORNIA  STREET.   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed   Capital   and   Surplus    $2,423,751.60 

Capital  Actually  Paid-up  in  Cash  1.000.000.00 

Deposits.   December  31,  1903 36.049.491.18 

BOAF.D  OF  DIRECTORS— ^  resident.  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presidenl,  II.  Ilorstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt,  Emll  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.   W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier,   A.  H.   R.   Schmidt;   Assistant  Cashier.   William  Herr- 
mann;   Secretary,    George    Tourny;    Assistant    Secretary,    A. 
Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Associate 

Established  In  1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301  California  St..   San  Francisco,   Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital    $15,000,000.00 

Paid-in    Capital    3,000,000.00 

Profit  and  Reserve  Fund   450.000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on   term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge.    President;  William   Corbln.    Secretary 
and    General   Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporation 

NO.   1   WALL  STREET,   NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus   $7,894,400 

Capital    and    Surplus   Authorized    10,000.000.00 

OFFICERS— 'William  L.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary: John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun- 
sel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico.  Manila. 
Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  Shanghai,  Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras,  Penang.  Rangoon. 
Colombo.  Amoy,  Canton.  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansui.  Anplng. 
Bakan,  Mojl,  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34    Sansome    St. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions. Arms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposits  Issued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us.  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents    throughout    the    world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK,  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWICK,  JR.,  Asst.  Mgr. 


C/>e  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 

French   public  sentiment     is     as 
The  Variable       variable  as  March  winds,  except 
Frenchman.        that  always  it  is  for  France  as  a 
whole.      A    few    weeks    ago    the 
Socialists  raised  a  hue  and  cry  against  any  sort  of 
Franco-Russo  alliance  to  help     the     Asiatics,     and 
the  masses  took  up  the  theme  and  made  much  over 
it.     But  the  socialists  and  the  masses  are  now  just^ 
as  vehement  in  their  denunciation  of  the  "yellow  and 
brown  people,*'  and  an  object  lesson  in  the  weather- 
vane  character  of  the  French  will  be  of  interest  to 
very  many  religious  cultists  of  San  Francisco.    A  pri- 
vate letter  has  just  reached  this  city  telling  of  the 
treatment  the  Reverend  M.  Dharmapola  received  in 
Paris  a  fortnight  ago.     It  will  be  remembered  that 
Dharmapola  represented  Buddhism  at  the  Parliament 
of  Religions  in  Chicago  in  1893,  and  that  he  became 
a  sort  of  center  of  attraction  in  religious  cult  circles 
all  over  this  country  and  Europe,  and  especially  in 
San   Francisco  were  his   scholarly   attainments   and 
high  character  known  and  appreciated.     In  fact,  he 
has  been  a  great  favorite  here  among  liberal  religion- 
ists, and  was  made  a  member  of  one  of  the  Theosophi- 
cal  societies,  besides  being  a  most  welcome  guest  in 
many  homes.     En  route  to  his  home  in  Ceylon,  Mr. 
Dharmapola  decided  to  stop  in   Paris  and  visit  old 
friends,   who   had    on    former   occasions    given    him 
hearty  welcome,  even  the  general  public  treating  him 
kindly,  though  perhaps  because  of  his  grotesque  robes 
and  Asiatic  cast  of  features.     Upon  reaching  Paris 
on  this  trip  he  found  a  radical  change  in  public  senti- 
ment.    He  reached   his   particular  friends — a   count 
and   countess — late   in   the   evening,   but  his   arrival 
was  made  known  by  the  "cabby,"  and  a  few  minutes 
later  the  count  and  his  illustrious  guest  were  startled 
by  stones  flying  through  the  mansion's  windows,  ac- 
companied by  loud  yells  of  the  mob,  "Down  with  the 
yellow  peril,"  "Down  with  the  Asiatics,"  "Get  out  of 
France,  you   yellow-robed  pagan."     The  count  was 
quick  to  take  in  the  situation,  and  by  rushing  Mr. 
Dharmapola   to   a   hotel,   and   to   a   train   bound   for 
Italy   early   the   next   morning,   he  saved   his   house 
from  being  wrecked  and  possibly  himself  from  bodily 
harm  at  the  hands  of  the  mob,  to  say  nothing  what 
might  have   been   the   fate  of  the   yellow   Buddhist 
priest.    There  has  been  an  effort  by  the  count  and  his 
San  Francisco  friends  to  keep  the  incident  concealed 
from  the  public,  but  the  News  Letter  deems  it  proper 
to  give  it  publicity  because  it  reflects  the  uncertainty 
of  French  sentiment.    A  year  ago  Paris  religious  cult- 
ists so  lionized   Dharmapola  that  his  yellow   robes 
commanded  something  akin  to  adoration,  and  now 
he  is  practically  run   out  of  France  for  no  offense 
other  than  having  been  born  in  Asia. 

There  is  no  little  diplomatic  and 
For  a  United  political  cunning  in  the  effort  of 
White  Race.  St.  Petersburg  to  play  upon  the 
prejudice  of  the  white  race  against 
Asiatics  and  Africans,  so  as  to  resolve  the  Russo- 
Japanese  war  into  a  united  white  race  struggle 
against  yellow,  brown  and  black  race  aggressive- 
ness. But  the  scheme  will  fail  so  far  as  the  Anglo- 
Saxons  are  concerned.  Events  the  last  century  in 
the  world  of  commerce,  industry,  invention  and 
politics  show  clearly  that  while  the  white  race  is 
endowed  with  those  moral  and  intellectual  qualities 
which  make  for  a  higher  and  a  still  higher  civiliza- 
tion, the  Anglo-Saxon  leads  in  every  channel  and 
avenue  of  human  progress.  Moreover,  it  is  the  mis- 
sion of  the  Anglo-Saxon  to  raise  the  races  of  Asia 
and  Africa  to  higher  levels  of  individual  liberty  and 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


national  administration,  and  while  accomplishing  thai 
the  other  branches  of  the  white  race  will 

rily  advance,  hut  as  recipients  rather  than  as  t\\- 
trihutors  of  the  accruing  political,  social  and  intel- 
lectual hh  \nd.  again,  the  Anglo-Saxon  could 
not  he  inveigled  into  a  race  war  on  lines  of  prejudice 

UperstitlOn,    lor    it    would    he    repugnant    to    his 

and  good  will  towards  mankind;  be- 

!  of  civilization  and  human  right*- 
has  committed  too  many  black  and  brown  and  yellow 
peoples  to  the  tender  care  and  uplifting  influence  of 
the  Anglo-Saxon  to  permit  him  to  treat  for  either 
their  destruction  or  humiliation.  The  Slav  is  likely 
to  be  hoist  by  his  own  petard. 

China's  fast  and  loose  deal- 
Adroit  Old  China,      ing    with    Russia    has    about 

reached  the  point  that  the 
Peking  Government  has  evidently  heen  playing  for. 
which  is  to  force  Russia  to  declare  war  against  tin 
entire  Chinese  Empire.  In  this  play  of  perfidy  diplo- 
matists have  not  been  fooled  by  the  Chinese,  vet  so 
adroit  has  the  play  been  that  China  could  not  be 
charged  with  actual  unfriendliness  to  the  Russian 
Government,  and  if  the  Czar  declares  war  it  will  ap- 
pear to  the  unthinking  world  as  a  wanton  attack  upon 
the  Celestial  Empire  to  obtain  more  territory.  That 
is  what  Chinese  diplomatists  have  been  scheming  to 
accomplish.  They  want  the  neutrality  treaty  broken. 
but  want  Russia  to  force  the  breaking,  and  this  the 
Czar  knows  as  well  as  the  Dowager  Empress  knows 
it.  On  the  other  hand,  actual  hostilities  with  China 
would  be  preferable  to  the  Judas-like  policy  of  Pe- 
king; hence  a  formal  declaration  of  war  is  likely  to 
be  made  any  day,  and  then  will  come  fresh  complica- 
tions because  of  the  "spheres  of  influence"  which 
nearly  all  the  nations  of  Europe  possess  in  Chinese 
territory.  However,  Russia  would  have  little  to 
lose  if  she  would  guarantee  the  permanency  of  the 
spheres  in  any  event,  and  might  gain  the  active  sup- 
port of  France  and  Germany,  and  certainly  would  if 
the  Anglo-Saxons  rush  in  to  preserve  China's  politi- 
cal identity  and  national  life,  neither  of  which  could 
they  allow  to  be  destroyed.  For  the  moment  the 
play  between  Russia  and  China  is  to  inveigle  the 
other  into  committing  an  open  overt  act  of  war,  and 
Japan's  diplomacy  is  China's  coach. 

Although  fighting  is  going 
Not  Ready  to  Fight,     on  almost  every  day  on  or 

near  the  Yalu,  no  engage- 
ment that  is  worthy  to  be  called  a  battle  has  been 
fought.  The  Russians  are  employing  the  tactics  the 
News  Letter  said  they  would  at  the  beginning  of 
hostilities — i.  e.,  contest  the  Japanese  advance,  but 
avoid  a  decisive  battle  until  the  enemy  had  been 
drawn  far  inland  and  away  from  bis  base  of  supplies. 
Such  strategy  would  not  regard  the  Yalu  river  as  of 
sufficient  value  to  hold  at  the  expense  of  even  a  small 
defeat.  As  time  goes  on  the  field  plans  of  both  sides 
are  being  at  least  partially  revealed.  Russia's  plan  is 
to  mass  an  enormous  force  and  oblige  the  Japanese 
to  attack  under  the  disadvantages  of  maintaining  a 
long  line  of  communication  with  their  base,  and  in 
case  of  defeat  be  thrown  on  the  defensive  for  the 
balance  of  the  war.  Opposing  this,  the  Japanese  seem 
to  be  handling  their  four  armies  to  first  strike  in  de- 
tail and  then  concentrate  for  a  crushing  blow.  Those 
familiar  with  the  McClellan-Lee  campaign  that  cul- 
minated on  Malvern  hill,  will  not  fail  to  see  that 
both  the  Russians  and  Japanese  have  studied  the 
strategy  of  those  great  war  captains  to  some  purpose. 


■9 


NEWS  LETTER. 

SUMMER  COTTAGE  SITES. 
Lots  for  sale.  $20  and  upward  ip  Tyrone, 

Monte  Rio  Park.  Mesa  Grande,  Sheridans,  Camp 
Meeker  or  Cazadero,  in  the  Redwoods  or  hi!! 
of  the  picturesque  Russian  River  and  tributary 
Streams.  Ideal  summer  climate.  Agents  on  grounds. 
Round-trip  every  Sunday.  $2  1..  $2.50.  Friday  to 
Monday,  $2.50  to  $3.  Excursion  good  until  October 
3ISt,  $3  to  $375.  Cottages  for  rent  and  sale.  Free 
camp  sites.  Full  information  at  North  Shore  Office, 
<'-•'•  Market  street.  San  Francisco.  Send  for  free  copy 
of  "Sunny  Summer  Homes."  or  "Summer  Outings." 


BANKING. 


The  latest  style  In  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


The  Son  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Snnsnme  and   Pine  Sts..   San   Francisco 

JAS    K.    WILSON,    President:   WM.    FIERCE  JOHNSON    Vice- 
President:   i.ewis  I.   C0WGILL,   Cashier;    B\    W.    Wolfe    As- 
sistant Cashier.  ' 
Capital.    $500,000.      Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits.    MB6000 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson.  Vlce-Prest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.:  Wm.  J.  Dutton.  President  FIremans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.:  H.  E.  Huntington.  First  Vice-President  S.  P  R  R- 
Geo  A  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbnt.  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.:  George  Aimer  Newhall  H  M 
Newhall  &  Co.:  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist:  H.  D.  Morton  Presi- 
dent W.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.     James  K.  Wilson.  President. 

AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank.  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank 
London— Brown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,  Limited. 

The  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  is  amalgamated   the  Bank  of  British   Columbia 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate    Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President 
B.   E.  Wa.^er.   General   Manager.     Alex.  Laird,   Asst.  Gen.   Mgr. 
LONDON  OFFICE— «0  Lombard  St.,  E.  C. 
N^W    YORK    OFFICE— 16   Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlin.        Cranbrook, 
Fernle.    Greenwood.    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New    Westminster.    Vancouver    and    Victoria. 
IN   YUKON   TERRITORY— Dawson   and  White  Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland.  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska). 
Also    80   other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,  N.  W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS  IN  LONDON— The   Bank  of  England,   the   Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.  Ltd. 
AGENTS   IN  CHICAGO— The   First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San  Francisco  Office— 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  Bank  Uuutea 

N.   W.    COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    $2,500,000.  Paid-up    Capital,    $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank.  Limited.  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. :  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Polssoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits   Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.   ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  flnplo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital    Authorized $6,000,000  Paid    Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed   $3,000,000      Reserve  Fund    $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys   and   sells    exchange   and   bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    LILIENTHAL,    Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST   PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS   MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  S.  L.  Abbott, 

Jr.,  O.   D.   Baldwin,  F.   Monteagle,  Warren  D.   Clark,  E.   J.  Mc- 

Cutcheon,  R.  H.  Pease.  

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42   Montgomery   St.,    San   Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital     $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve  1,725.000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


fcl  INSURANCE 


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The  entire  United  States  business  of  the  Thuringia 
of  Erfurt,  Germany,  has  been  re-insured  by  the  Fire- 
mans  Fund  of  San  Francisco.  The  negotiations  were 
carried  on  in  New  York  between  President  Dutton, 
of  the  Firemans  Fund,  and  an  executive  officer  from 
the  home  office  of  the  Thuringia.  Voss,  Conrad  & 
Company  were  the  managers  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Conrad  controlling  the  Western  States  and 
Mr.  Voss  handling  the  other  side  of  the  Continent 
from  New  York.  The  company  had  a  large  agency 
plant,  and  were  well  established.  The  Thuringia 
entered  the  United  States  in  1896,  and  have  depos- 
its in  New  York,  Massachusetts  and  Oregon.  The 
business  done  in  premiums  for  1902  and  1903  amount- 
ed to  about  a  million  dollars  per  annum.  An  exami- 
nation of  the  figures  of  the  company,  as  shown  by  the 
statement  made  to  the  Insurance  Commissioner, 
shows  that  while  the  company's  income  was  increas- 
ing year  by  vear  in  the  United  States,  the  outgo  out- 
grew the  income.  Its  loss  ratio  to  premium  for  1903 
was  nearlv  57  per  cent,  and  its  expense  to  premiums 
was  almost  45  per  cent,  thus  showing  that  the  com- 
pany was  not  making  any  money  on  the  transacting 
of  a  business  amounting  to  one  million  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  in  the  last  year.  Various  reasons 
are  advanced  by  underwriters  for  this  condition  of 
affairs,  cut  rates,  excessive  expenses  of  management 
and  enormous  commissions.  Whatever  the  reason 
or  reasons  may  be,  the  home  office  got  tired.  laid 
down  and  quit,  and  the  business  went  to  the  Fire- 
mans  Fund,  and  under  the  management  of  that  com- 
panv  it  is  safe  to  say  the  business  will  be  cleaned  up 
and  put  at  once  on  a  profit-paying  basis.  It  is  un- 
derstood that  the  Thuringia  ceases  writing  on  the 
18th  instant  at  noon.  The  company  has  in  the  United 
States,  in  the  hands  of  its  United  States  trustees,  as- 
sets of  $1,273,489.  Its  initial  agents  in  this  country 
were  Voss.  Conrad  &  Co.,  and  the  company  has  never 
seen  fit  to  make  any  change.  During  its  brief  stay 
there  has  from  time  to  time  been  heard  a  lot  of  ru- 
mors regarding  the  strength  of  the  company,  but  so 
far  as  known,  it  has  met  every  obligation  fairly,  and 
the  home  office  of  the  corporation  lias,  it  is  said,  on 
more  than  one  occasion  come  to  the  rescue  of  the 
United  States  branch  by  sending  remittances.  Mr. 
Conrad  and  Mr.  Hall  are  both  too  valuable  men  to 
be  long  out  of  the  management  of  a  fire  company, 
if  they  wish  to  continue  in  the  business.  The  agency 
of  Voss,  Conrad  still  retain  the  United  States  agency 
of  the  Frankfort,  another  German  company,  which 
confines  its  business  to  accident,  liability  and  marine 
insurance. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  C.  Olds.  State  Central  Agent  of  the  Phenix 
of  Brooklyn  has  accompanied  General  Agent  Lene- 
han  on  his  wav  East  as  far  as  Denver. 

*  *  * 

The  Superintendent  of  the  Insurance  Department 
of  the  State  of  New  York,  in  his  recently  published 
annual  report  to  the  Legislature,  takes  occasion  to 
skin  a  few  Lloyds.  He  intimates  these  pirates  are 
sailing  around  on  the  ocean  of  fire  insurance  and 
robbing  and  plundering,  and  that  although  he  ha? 
tried  to  prevent  this  kind  of  privateering,  he  is  un- 
able to  stop  it.  because  he  is  not  clotherl  with  sufficient 
authority  and  the  laws  of  the  State  do  not  meet  the 
exigencies  of  the  situation.  He  pleads  his  cause  in 
this  manner:  "The  department  ought  to  have  author- 
ity to  restrain  these  associations  from  transacting  in- 


surance business,  for  failure  to  file  reports,  and  for 
false  or  fraudulent  statements  therein,  and  the  pro- 
visions of  section  577  of  the  Penal  Code  applying  to 
corporations  ought  to  be  extended  to  apply  to  these 
associations  as  well." 

The  conflagration  in  Baltimore  is  cited  as  an  object 
lesson  to  induce  the  insurance  companies  to  continue 
their  policy  of  accumulating  large  reserve  funds,  a 
feature  studiously  avoided  by  Mutuals  and  Lloyds. 

"The  large  part  of  the  loss,  variously  estimated 
from  $40,000,000  to  $60,000,000,"  he  says,  "will  ulti- 
mately fall  upon  insurance  companies,  and  the  pru- 
dent and  conservative  policy  followed  in  past  years 
has  resulted  in  accumulation  of  reserves  so  large  that 
the  companies,  with  scarcely  an  exception,  will  be 
able  to  pay  their  losses  promptly  and  without  em- 
barrassment. 

"From  general  information  it  would  appear  that 
the  citv  of  Baltimore  was  as  free  from  danger  of  con- 
flagration as  any  of  our  large  American  cities:  that 
it  occurred  where  the  construction  was  substantial, 
the  Fire  Department  efficient,  and  the  water  suppos- 
edly adequate,  justifies  the  fear  that  a  similar  catas- 
trophe may  happen  elsewhere  at  any  time.  Such  be- 
ing the  case,  it  is  advisable  that  fire  insurance  com- 
panies should  continue  to  pursue  the  same  policy  in 
regard  to  the  accumulation  of  large  reserves  to  meet 
like  disasters  when  they  occur." 

Mr.  Hendricks  then  requests  that  authority  be 
given  him  to  revoke  the  license  of  any  company  of 
another  State  whose  capital  shall  become  impaired, 
and  then  asks  that  assessment  insurance  companies 
be  barred  from  organizing  or  being  admitted  to  trans- 
act business  in  the  State  of  New  York.  Vive  Hen- 
dricks. 

*  *  * 

The  Spring  Valley  Water  Works  Company  object 
to  putting  in  the  three  hundred  and  odd  additional 
fire  hydrants  asked  for  by  the  Board  of  Fire 
commissioners  upon  the  request  of  Chief  Sullivan, 
claiming  that  it  would  cost  a  quarter  of  a  million  dol- 
lars to  complv  with  the  request  of  the  Fire  Commis- 
sioners. In  the  meantime,  the  Board  of  Fire  Under- 
writers, the  Fire  Insurance  Companies,  and  the  Fire 
Department  are  wondering  how  thev  are  going  to 
come  out.  The  Fire  Department  can't  fight  fires  with- 
out water,  and  the  Insurance  Companies,  realizing 
this  fact,  are  liable  to  give  a  gentle  boost  to  the  rates 
of  insurance  in  the  unprotected  or  inadequately  pro- 
tected districts.  The  fire  limits  are  to  be  extended, 
and  a  bill  has  been  passed  to  print  bv  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  limiting  the  erection  of  frame  buildings 
in  the  prescribed  limits  to  three  stories  in  height. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Rolla  V.  Watt,  an  ex-member  of  the  Board  of 
Fire  Commissioners,  says  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Company  should  be  paid  a  lump  sum  for  fire  protec- 
tion, and  the  question  of  hydrants  settled  in  this  way. 
Others  of  the  underwriters  see  the  safety  of  the  city 
from  the  conflagration  hazard  only  in  the  installation 
of  an  auxiliary  salt  water  plant  for  fire  protection. 


Oae  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It,  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  4  Co.  N.  E.  Cor.  Butter 
and  Grant  Ave.  ■—   ■ 

We  are  sole  agents  for  Fountain  Pens  that  will  suit  your  hand,  do 
not  leak,  and  will  write  without  coaxing-  Price.  »l  to  $r..  Sanborn,  \  ail 
*  Co..  741  Market  St. 


Ladles— For  a  good  complexion  try  the  Post  8t    Hammam. 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


«i 


A  PRESS  CENSOR  WANTED. 

"Ill  fares  the  land  to  hastening  ills  a  prey,  where 
wealth   accumulates   and   men   <l<  1  ■  Bang  the 

The  purport  of  this  article  has  nothing  t"  do 
with  the  accumulation  of  wealth.  It  has  to 
tally  with  the  decay  of  man.  The  question  of  decay 
naturally  brings  to  mind  a  certain  class  of  the  daily 
"Hastening  ills"  aptly  applies  to  Sunday  lit- 
erature and  Sunday  and  daily  newspaper  advertising. 
Open  the  pages  of  last  Sunday's  1  > a i  1  \-  Excreta  pub- 
lished in  San  Francisco,  and  what  is  the  nature  of 
its  advertising?  Here  you  have  an  astounding  array 
of  quack  and  patent  medicine  advertising,  mechanical 
appliances  ami  nostrums  that  will  cure  from  tuhercu- 
to  cold  in  the  head.  The  "hastening  ills"  that 
beset  us  are  the  ills  of  the  thousands  who  are  made 
ill  from  the  ill-advised  use  of  quack  remedies.  In  full 
confidence  in  his  favorite  Sunday  magazine  (?)  the 
victim  buys  a  remedy  that  takes  every  hair  from  his 
head,  pours  salicylic  acid  into  his  stomach  to  its  eter- 
nal destruction,  introduces  his  wife  to  a  poor  brand 
of  whiskey  under  the  name  of  a  remedy  for  the 
nerves ;  women  are  given  cancers  by  the  use  of  a 
vacuum  developer ;  men  have  been  known  to  bleed  to 
death  because  of  the  use  of  a  developer  (shamelessly 
advertised  by  the  daily  press),  and  yet  the  community 
goes  unmurmuringly  on,  apparently  oblivious  of  this 
debauching  influence. 

A  press  censorship  is  wanted,  and  it  is  wanted  as 
soon  as  possible.  Laws  should  be  passed  that  would 
provide  for  a  State  Board  to  examine  into  the  merits 
of  the  appliances  and  the  nostrums  offered  to  the 
public.  This  power  should  have  the  right  to  veto 
the  insertion  of  advertising  and  prevent  the  sale  of 
such  articles  inside  of  the  State.  It  should  be  the 
province  of  such  a  board  to  look  into  the  nature  of 
the  advertising  offered,  because  of  the  effect  on  the 
minds  of  the  young.  The  chief  offender  in  this  line 
publishes  in  the  same  issue  cartoons  that  we  are 
sorry  to  say  have  become  very  popular  with  the  youth 
of  the  country.  After  reading  these  cartoons  it  is  but 
•  a  glance  to  another  page  to  read  of  the  vilest  diseases 
known  to  mankind.  These  advertisements  are  some- 
times adorned  with  color,  and  not  satisfied  with  this, 
the  shameless  proprietors  (one  of  whom  is  a  candidate 
for  the  Presidency)  publish  pictures  of  an  appara- 
tus for  the  use  of  men  that  it  is  best  we  leave  unde- 
scribed.  We  are  surprised  that  this  shameless  indi- 
vidual did  not  add  a  personal  endorsement  of  this 
appliance. 


INSURANCE 


Dr.  Decker, 

DentiBt,   806   Market.    Specialty   "Colton   Gas"   for   painless 
teeth  extracting. 


Cash  Capital,   {200,000.00 


Cash    Assets,    $321,471.19 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.  Deering,   Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  Gen.  Agt.  for  California,  Haywards 
Building. 

Fire,  Llgntning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853  . 

Capital 13,000,000-         Gross  Cash  Assets.     va,ma,nM.w 

Liberal  contracts,  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Uepre- 
'entatives  before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
nay  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoli- 
an Manojrdr. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Aisets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  17IX 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    J3.00l.000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders     6,022,010 

TAKES    1 '.  BAILEY.  General  Agent.    202  Pine  St..  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.    1720. 
Capital   Paid-up.   $3,446,100.  Assets,  $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,830,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 
FRANK  W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life   Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and   Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 

Capital    $6,700,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents.  816  California  St.,  S.  F. 

The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.   GERMANY 

Capital  $2,250,000  Assets  $10,984,246 

VOSS,    CONRAD   &  CO.,  General   Managers. 
Pacific   Coast  Department:  204-208   Sansome   St.,   San   Francisco. 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


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WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced  BARGAIN 
prices  very  desirable 


AUTO-CARS 


ALSO 


RAMBLERS, 

NORTHERNS, 
FRANKLINS, 

OLDSMOBILES 

WITH 

LANTERNS,   RUGS,   CAPS  S  SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

National  Auto  &  Mfg.  Co. 

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Best     Automobile     at 
any  price 

$475 


Strong—Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SUNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
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BT     THI     ACTOCRA5X 

It  has  been  suggested  that  instead  of  trying  to  re- 
store the  great  "King's  Highway"  that  the  local  auto- 
mobilists  could  profitably  turn  their  energies  to 
better  profit  nearer  home. 

San  Francisco  has  not  an  over-abundance  of  good 
and  interesting  roads  within  the  city  and  county 
limits.  Why  not  try  and  have  the  great  highway 
south  extended  along  the  Coast  to  Half-Moon  Bay? 
What  other  drive  could  be  proposed  that  would 
bear  comparison  with  it?  The  famous  drive  at  Del 
Monte   would   be   changed. 

San  Francisco  and  San  Mateo  Counties  could  eas- 
ily build  such  a  road  at  a  comparatively  small  cost, 
as  there  are  no  bad  grades  to  be  encountered. 

Such  a  drive  would  soon  make  San  Francisco  fa- 
mous  amongst   the   tourists. 

*  *  * 

The  Pacific  Motor  Car  Company  report  that  the 
four-cylinder  "Volture  Legers"  new  Packard  car  ar- 
rived last  Mondav. 

*  *  * 

The  Western  Automobile  Company  report  the  fol- 
lowing sales  of  Cadillacs :  Two  to  J.  Scherere  of  Sac- 
ramento, two  to  Letcher  of  San  Jose,  one  to  J.  B. 
Robinson  of  Chico,  and  one  to  ex-Commodore  Dr. 

Thomas  L.  Hill. 

*  *  * 

Almost  a  mile  per  minute  has  been  clipped  from 
the  world's  track  record  for  automobiles  since  Alex- 
ander Winton  established  the  mark  at  1 :47  '"  I8o/- 
and  since  that  time  the  record  has  been  almost  con- 
tinuously to  the  credit  of  the  Winton  car.  Mr.  Win- 
ton  raced  his  own  cars  until  he  had  approached  the 
minute  mark,  when  he  gave  into  the  hands  of  Bar- 
nev  Oldfield  the  task  of  reducing  the  figure  still  fur- 
ther. Oldfield  hit  the  minute  mark  at  Columbus  last 
August  with  the  little  Bullet,  and  before  the  season 
had  ended  he  had  succeeded  in  getting  below  55  sec- 
onds. The  following  list  shows  the  record  speed  de- 
veloped by  Winton  cars  from  the  introduction  of  au- 
tomobile racing  to  the  present  time:  Made  by  Mr. 
Winton— 1:47,  Cleveland,  May  30,  1897;  1:33  2-5. 
Chicago,  September  18,  1900;  1:12  2-5,  Detroit,  Oc- 
tober 10,  1901 ;  1  :oo,  Detroit,  October  23,  1901 ;  1  :o6 
4-5,  Detroit,  October  24,  1901 ;  1  :o2'4,  Cleveland,  Sep- 
tember 16.  1902.  Made  by  Barney  Oldfield — 1  :oo. 
Columbus,  August  28.  1963;  :59,  Cleveland,  Sep- 
tember 4.  1903:  :57  -.  New  York.  October  3.  1903: 
:v<  4-;.  Xew  York.  October,  3.  1903:  =56,  New  York, 
October  3.  1903:  155  1-5.  Los  Angeles,  Nov.  20,  1903; 
155,  Los  Angeles,  November  20,  1903;  :54  4"5>  Los 
Angeles.  Nov.  22.  1903. 

*  *  * 

A  carload  of  St.  Louis  cars  have  been  shipped  to 
the  Pacific  Motor  Car  Co.  They  will  arrive  in  a  week 
and  are  14  horsepower  vehicles  of  a  new  type. 


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George  T-  Grinnell  made  a  tour  to  San  Jose, 
Gatos  and"  vicinity   last   Sunday  in  his  Cadillac 
covered   140  miles  on  four  gallons  of  gasoline, 
went  from  Los  Gatos  to  Niles  in  one  hour. 
*  *  * 

Mr.   Douglas   McBryde   of  this   city   purchased   a 


April  16,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Rambler  touring  car,  also  Mr.  F.  II.  Brown,  Dr.  1 

M.  Baumeister,  II  and  C.  II.  Goddard. 

*  •  * 

Mr.  William  Brong  lias  lately  purchased  the  hand 
-  from  ex-Governor  James  Budd. 

The  machine  is  now  being  re-fitted  lor  renting  pur- 
poses, by  Andrews.  Keenan  &  Blasauf,  81  City  Hall 
avenue. 

»  *  * 

No  longer  will  the  enthusiastic  automobi lists  of 
San    Fran  about    in   nondescript,   picce-nieal 

lines  alter  Slay  1st.  The  real  toggery  from  Eu- 
rope, and  the  fine  domestic  makes  as  well,  in  all  its 
variety,  the  first  complete  assortments  of  automobile 
clothing  for  men  and  women  brought  to  the  Coast. 
will,  on  the  first  of  the  month,  be  on  sale  in  a  brand 
new  department  of  the  Emporium,  to  he  devoted  ex- 
clusively to  this  class  of  goods. 

*  *  * 

Among  those  who  took  the  run  to  San  Jose  Sat- 
urday and  Sunday  were  the  following,  all  of  whom 
ran  White  touring-  cars:  Mr.  George  H.  Lent.  Mr.  A 
M.  Shields.  Mr.  Fred  W.  Gregory.'  Mr.  W.  M.  Gardi- 
ner. Mr.  Leon  Roos.  Mrs.  Russell  Cool,  Mr.  A.  W. 
Wilson.  Mr.  C.  H.  Wiggin,  Mr.  John  H.  Spring.  Mr. 
John  D.  Spreckels,  Mr.  S.  G.  Buckbee,  Mr.  L.  P. 
Lowe,  Mr.  J.  M.  O'Brien. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  Merriman,  of  Alameda,  purchased  a 
Stevens-Duryea  automobile  from  the  Pioneer  Auto- 
mobile Company,  and,  after  one  or  two  lessons,  on 
Sunday,  April  10th,  took  a  party  of  friends  for  a  trip 
to  San  Jose  in  his  machine.  He  returned  late  in  the 
evening,  thoroughly  satisfied  with  his  purchase.  Al- 
though having  never  run  an  automobile  before,  Mr. 
Merriman  handled  the  machine  very  skillfully,  mak- 
ing the  run  of  over  one  hundred  miles  with  no  diffi- 
culty whatsoever. 

*  *  * 

On  the  run  to  San  Jose,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W. 
Luce  were  guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  M.  Shields. 
They  made  the  trip  in  Mr.  Shield's  White  touring 
car. 

*  *  * 

A  party  of  Oakland  people,  owners  of  Stevens-Dur- 
yea machines,  toured  around  the  bay  on  Sunday.  The 
party  consisted  of  Mr.  George  H.  Strong,  Dr.  Cun- 
ningham,  Dr.    Chamberlain,   Mr.    F.   A.    Lathe,   and 

their  friends. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  John  H.  Spring  has  purchased  his  second 
White  touring  car  and  run  it  to  San  Jose  Saturday, 
over  to  Los  Gatos  and  Congress  Springs  and  back 
Sunday  afternoon.  The  machine  had  a  canopy  top, 
and  Mr.  Spring  saye  it  is  a  great  goer. 

*  *  * 

The  big  Locomobile  gasolene  touring  cars  are  be- 
ing produced  at  good  speed,  and  Superintendent 
Russell,  of  the  factory,  promises  eighteen  cars  a  week 

at  an  early  date. 

*  *  * 

A  carload  shipment  of  four-cylinder  Packards  is 
on  its  way  to  San  Francisco  for  the  Pacific  Motor 
Car  Company. 

*  *  * 

Messrs.  Hansen  &  Kahler  of  Oakland  purchased  a 
Rambler  touring  car  from  the  Rambler  Automobile 
Agency  last  week. 

Douglas  and  Arthur  Watson  toured  Los  Gatos 
and  vicinity  last  Saturday,  over  Sunday,  in  their  St. 
Louis  cars. 


Up  to  the  present   time   it   has  not  been   reported 
that  any  one  has  secured  the  Oarracq  agency,      This 
is  surprising,  when  it  is  considered  the  splendid  r<pu- 
>n  of  the  car. 


THE  CADILLAC 


1  Monte  1..  Oakland 
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Price.  $8S0       With  Touneau.  $950     IDelivery. Cadillacs.  $950 

THE  SIMPLEST.  MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

ClIYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  J.  FREELING 


F.  L    CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONErJESSIE  3336 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  p"~  jftSoV^^S.*  T0D 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact  in  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
and  beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5.  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  Preach           •           •  $2,650.00 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F. 


24 


Douglas  Watson  reports  he  was  the  first  to  reach 
the  Hotel  Vendome  at  San  Jose  last  Saturday. 

Among  the  owners  of  St.  Louis  cars  who  took  in 
the  run  to  San  Jose  were  Otto  Turn  Suden,   F.  D. 

Clark,  Albert   Sutton  and   Howard   H.    Gregory. 

*  *  * 

The  Rambler  Automobile  Agency  received  two 
carloads  last  week,  which  were  all  disposed  of  before 
they  arrived. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  H.  B.  Larzelere  will  have  as  guest  next  Sun- 
day on  a  tour  to  San  Jose  in  the  new  four-cylinder 
Packard,  Mr.  James  Spears,  H:  M.  Holbrook,  A.  B. 
Costigan  and  Samuel  G.  Buckbee. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Fred  A-  Jacobs  took  a  party  of  friends  down  to 
San  Jose  and  Los  Gatos  on  Sunday  in  a  Rambler 
touring  car;  they  visited  many  side  towns  going  and 
coming,  and  were  afforded  a  most  delightful  trip. 

*  *  * 

The  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Company  has  just 
issued  a  booklet  giving  a  short,  concise  description 
of  the  "making  of  Winton  Motor  Carriages,  and  the 
reason  why."  Every  one  interested  in  automobiles 
should  secure  a  copy. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  W.  Wilson's  White  car  met  with  a  provok- 
ing accident  just  as  it  got  into  San  Jose.  A  milk- 
wagon  turned  suddenly  in  front  of  it,  and  in  order 
to  avoid  it,  Mr.  Wilson  went  over  the  curb,  severely 
jarring  the  car  and  breaking  all  but  the  main  leaf  of 
the  right-hand  front  spring.  The  broken  spring  was 
the  only  damage  done,  and  a  bumper  was  extempor- 
ized out  of  an  old  inner  tube. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  S.  C.  Hammond  and  party  rode  through  the 
Park  and  Presidio  in  Mr.  Hammond's  new  Winton 
touring  car. 

*  *  * 

The  White  Sewing  Machine  Company  took  the 
girls  of  the  Anna  Held  Company  out  for  a  run 
through  Golden  Gate  Park  last  Monday  morning, 
and  a  series  of  photographs  were  taken. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  Ritchie  of  Bakersfield  was  in  the  city 
Monday,  and  purchased  a  Rambler  touring  car,  and 
drove  the  same  overland  to  his  home. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  April  16,  1904. 

Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust 


1'ltO.MPT    SERVICE 

(Sntturg  iElrrtrtr  (Eninpang 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and   Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BUSH  352 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,    CAL. 

NEW  AUTOMOBILE  GARAGE 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


Cause  Eye  Strain,  Granulation  and  Redness.  Murine  Eye  Remedy 
restores,  cures  Eye  diseases  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those  wearing  glass- 
es: doesn't  smart.    A  favorite  toilet  reuuisite. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


^WINTON is  RING, 
Long  live  the^ 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  k  CO..  13-M-17  W.  St.  John  St..  San  Jose.  Complete 
repair  shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  station,  etc. 
Agents  for  Winton.  Locomobile.  Oldsmobile  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

F.  L.  CRANDALL.  Automobile  Supplies.  Repairiug  etc.,  124  University 
Ave..  Palo  Alto.  Cal. 


ANDREWS,  KEENAN  &  BLASAUF 

EXPERT  REPAIRS,  AMERICAN  a  FRENCH  AUTOMOBILES 

81  CITY  HALL  AVE. 

Tel.  South  1039  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  flILLETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Capp  600 


April  16,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


«5 


In  Memoriam 

Lett'er  R.   I.  P. 
As  1  wandered  onward  airalessl) 

By  the  ocean's  sandy  brow, 
I  chanced  t.>  meet  an  old  man — 

A  fisherman,  I  tr.>w. 

He  motioned,  and  I  sat  me  down 
By  the  noisy,  restless  sea, 

And  the  tale  which  I  now  unfold 
I-  as  'twas  told  to  me. 

"When  I  was  but  a  gentle  youth, 
I   remember  well  the  day 

That  Willie  Hearst,  a  prodigal, 
For  President  did  bray. 

The  old  man  rose  as  thus  lie  spoke. 

I   turned   and   went   my   way, 
While  I  mused  on  the  old  proverb: 

"Every  dog  will   have  his  day." 


SHAKESPEARE    IN     NEW     SOUTH    WALES. 

"Hamlet"  had  its  first  presentation  in  Xew  South 
Wales  the  other  day.  and  this  is  what  the  critic  of 
a  local  paper  thought  of  the  play  and  its  author: 

"There  is  too  much  chinning  in  the  piece.  The 
author  is  behind  the  times,  and  appears  to  forget  that 
what  we  want  nowadays  is  hair-raising  situations  and 
detectives.  In  the  hands  of  a  skillful  playwright  a 
detective  would  have  been  put  on  the  track  of  Ham- 
let's uncle,  and  the  old  man  would  have  been  hunted 
down  in  a  manner  that  would  have  excited  the  au- 
dience out  of  their  number  elevens.  The  morals  of 
the  piece  are  not  good.  The  scene  where  Hamlet 
cheeks  his  mother  is  a  very  bad  example  to  the  rising 
generation,  and  it  is  not  improved  when  the  dreary 
old  ghost  comes  in  and  blows  him  up.  Our  advice 
to  the  author  is  a  little  more  action,  a  little  more  fine 
sentiment,  and  a  fair  share  of  variety  business  in  his 
next  piece.  In  the  specialty  arts  of  the  play-scene  he 
has  entirely  missed  his  opportunities." 

SUMMER  SESSION  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF 
CALIFORNIA. 
The  doors  of  the  University  of  California  will  open 
for  the  annual  summer  session  on  June  27th,  and  will 
close  on  August  6th.  There  are  some  names  among 
the  faculty  that  are  famous  in  letters,  specialists 
from  London,  Amsterdam,  Cambridge,  Stockholm 
and  other  learned  centers.  Science  and  historical 
instruction  and  the  classics  will  receive  the  attention 
of  such  savants  as  Lord  William  Ramsey,  Professor 
Jaques  Loeb,  Hugo  de  Vries,  Svante  August  Arrhe- 
nius,  Bernhard  Moses,  Archibald  Cary  Coolidge,  H. 
Morse  Stephens,  Frederick  J.  Turner,  W.  A.  Merrill, 
Hammond  Lamont,  Charles  H.  Grandgent,  Francis 
B.  Gummere,  Fonger  de  Hahn,  Albin  Putzker,  M.  J. 
Spinallo,  C.  W.  Wells,  L.  J.  Demeter,  and  James 
Ward.  The  greatest  colleges  of  the  world  are  repre- 
sented. 


High  grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to.  measure.    Tom  Dillon  & 
Co.,    opp.    Palace. 


BLITHEDALE 


MILL    VALLEY 


OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


VACATION  1904 

IS  NOW  HEADY  FOR  DISTRIBUTION 

"Vacation"  is  issued  annually  by  the 

California   Northwestern 
Railway 

THE  PICTURESQUE  ROUTE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

and  is  the  standard  publication  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
for  information  regarding 

MINERAL  SPRING  RESORTS,  COUNTRY 
HOMES  AND  FARMS,  WHERE  SUMMER 
BOARDERS  ARE  TAKEN,  AND  SELECT 
CAMPING  SPOTS. 

This  year's  edition  "Vacation  1904"  containsover 
ISO  pages,  beautifully  illustrated,  and  is  complete 
in  its  detailed  information  as  to  location,  accommo- 
dations, attractions,  terms,  etc.,  with  terms  from 
#7.00  per  week  up. 

To  be  had  at  Ticket  Offices  650  Market  Street  (Chronicle 
Building),  and  Tiburon  Ferry  foot  of  Market  Street;  General 
Office,  Mutual  Life  Building,  corner  of  Sansome  and 
California  Streets,  San  Francisco. 

Applications  by  mail  will  receive  immediate  response 

//.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 


Gen.  Manager 


Gen.  Pass.  Agt 


Par  at  so  Springs 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VEND0ME 

SAN    JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  1 2 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  charming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 
Prof.  Geo.  D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS,    Prop. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  1 6,  1904. 


Pleasure's     Wand. 


(Continued  from  Page  7.) 
Wilfred  Clarke,  the  well  known  actor,  who  last 
appeared  in  San  Francisco  in  a  starring  engagement, 
has  returned  to  vaudeville,  and  will  re-appear  at  the 
Orpheum  for  a  limited  engagement  this  coming 
week.  He  is  supported  by  a  strong  company,  which 
includes  such  capable  people  as  Archie  Gillies,  Miss 
Lucille  Spinney  and  Miss  Theo  Carew,  and  will  pre- 
sent for  his  opening  week  his  adaptation  from  the 
French,  entitled  "No  More  Trouble."  It  is  described 
as  a  playlette  of  unique  conception,  laughable  and 
possessing  a  condensed  and  coherent  plot. 

*  *  * 

The  programme  at  the  Chutes  for  this  coming  week 
will  be  almost  entirely  new,  and  the  offering  is  one 
of  the  best  made  by  this  popular  place  of  amusement. 
Alberta  C.  Hadley  and  Helen  Archer,  direct  from  the 
East,  will  present  a  high-class  comedy  sketch,  en- 
titled "The  New  French  Maid,"  and  the  three  Mal- 
verns,  society  acrobats,  will  give  a  daring  and  grace- 
ful act.  Storey  and  Van,  accomplished  musicians 
who  play  upon  a  variety  of  instruments,  will  make 
their  initial  appearance  here,  and  little  Ruth  Roland, 
the  greatest  child  favorite  who  ever  appeared  in  this 
city,  will  re-appear  after  a  long  absence.  Mabel 
Lamson,  the  sweet  singer  of  illustrated  songs,  the 
Robinsons,  clever  colored  singers  and  dancers,  and 
the  animatoscope,  showing  the  latest  novelties  in 
moving  pictures,  will  complete  a  bill  that  will  chal- 
lenge comparison  with  those  offered  bv  many  higher 
priced  places  of  amusement.  The  amateurs  will 
appear  on  Thursday  night.  Esmeralda  and  her 
lately  born  monkey  are  objects  of  unceasing  interest. 

*  *  * 

"The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson"  will  be  the  bill  at  the 
Alcazar  for  the  coming  week.  I  see  that  some  of 
those  who  know,  or  pretend  to  know,  say  this  play  is 
an  adaptation  from  the  French.  Poor  Clyde  Fitch  ! 
He  has  been  responsible  for  a  good  many  things,  but 
plagiarism  is  the  last  straw.  Thus  do  the  mighty 
fall.  The  play  is  an  unusually  interesting  one,  and 
the  Alcazar  company  should  bring  out  everything 
there  is  in  it.  Mr.  Edward  Price,  the  general  manager 
of  the  Alcazar  and  Central  Theatres,  and  Mr.  Belasco. 
have  left  for  an  extended  Eastern  trir>.  They  will  se- 
cure additional  attractions  for  the  O'Farrell  and  Mar- 
ket street  houses. 

*  *  * 

The  new  fire-proof  theatre,  the  Majestic,  will  open 
the  coming  week  with  Tsabel  Irving,  in  Winston 
Churchill's  play,  "The  Crisis."  The  direction  is  by 
Tames  K.  Hackett.  Tickets  have  been  placed  at 
$1.50.  $1.00  and  50  cents,  and  box  seats.  $2.  Tt  is 
claimed  that  the  system  of  exits  is  the  best  in  the 
city.  San  Francisco  has  needed  a  first  class  thea're 
in  the  vicinity  of  Tenth  and  Market  for  a  long  time, 
and  the  large  population  in  the  Mission  district  niw 
has  a  chance  to  show  its  appreciation  of  the  new  en- 
terprise. The  theatre  is  as  easily  reached  fmm  all 
parts  of  the  city  as  it  is  from  the  south,  and  will  m°pt 
with  a  quick  patronage,  providing  the  quality  of  per- 
formance  is   in   keening  with   the   price. 

Although  this  will  be  Miss  Irvine's  first  local  ap- 
pearance as  a  star,  she  is  too  well  known  and  too 
well  liked  by  play-goers  here  to  need  many  words 
of  praise.  As  leading  woman  for  John  Drew,  in 
which  capacity  she  was  last  seen  in  this  city,  Miss 
Irving  won  for  herself  the  name  of  the  cleverest  of 
American  comediennes.     She  created  that  inimitable 


fibber  in  "The  Liars,"  with  brilliant  success,  while 
her  earlier  performance  of  Lady  Susan  in  "The  Case 
of  Rebellious  Susan"  is  a  classic  of  comedy.  Before 
her  experience  with  Mr.  Drew,  Miss  Irving  appeared 
in  conjunction  with  her  present  manager,  Mr.  James 
K.  Hackett,  in  the  first  great  performance  of '  "The 
Prisoner  of  Zenda."  Hers  was  the  original  Princess 
Flavia,  and  all  her  successors  followed  closely  in  the 
lines  laid  down  by  Miss  Irving.  Those  who  saw 
these  performances  have  never  forgotten  them,  Fla- 
via in  particular  being  the  very  embodiment  of  sweet 
womanly  loveliness  and  charm. 

Since  those  days  Miss  Irving  has  made  tremendous 
strides  professionally.  Her  impersonation  of  Vir- 
ginia Carvel,  the  warm-hearted  but  hot-headed  young 
Southern  belle,  has  won  the  name  of  being  one  of 
the  most  delightful  stage  characters  of  the  present 
day.  In  its  way  it  is  fully  as  loveable  a  character 
as  the  Flavia  of  "The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,"  but  with 
more  light  and  shade,  and  a  great  deal  more  of  that 
dainty,  merry  comedy  of  which  Miss  Irving  is  the 
acknowledged  mistress.  As  the  young  Southern 
girl,  she  runs  the  whole  gamut  of  human  feeling;  a 
merry,  impetuous  coquette  in  the  first  act,  she'  de- 
velops into  a  sweet,  womanlv  young  girl,  with  a 
keen  realization  of  all  that  life  means,  a  gentleness 
and  tenderness  engendered  wholly  bv  love,  and  a 
wholesomeness  that  marks  the  very  best  type  of 
American  womanhood.  No  one  can  see  this  careful 
character  study  without  a  keener  appreciation  and  a 
closer  and  better  knowledge  of  what  womanhood 
really  means.  Mr.  James  Hackett.  Miss  Irving's 
manager,  has  provided  his  star  with  an  excellent 
company,  while  the  scenic  investiture  is  said  to  be 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  seen  on  the  stage  in  a  long 
time.  Miss  Irving's  engagement  is  for  two  weeks 
only,  with  matinees  only  on  Saturday. 

*  *  * 

"His  Royal  Nibs"  is  to  be  produced  at  the  Alham- 
bra  Theatre  next  Thursday  and  Friday  evenings  for 
the  benefit  of  the  California  Women's'Hospital.  The 
play  is  by  Shafter  Howard,  who  has  given  evidence 
in  several  of  his  published  musical  compositions  of 
ability  in  the  line  of  song-writing.  Several  of  the 
musical  numbers  are  being  rendered  bv  the  orchestra 
at  the  Hotel  St.  Francis,  Zinkand's  and  the  Louvre 
with  pronounced  success,  and  are  being  repeated 
every  evening  at  the  request  of  the  guests  of  all 
three  places.  "His  Royal  Nibs"  will  be  presented 
by  a  cast  and  chorus  of  over  seventy  people. 

*  *  * 

Don't  think,  my  dear  masters,  that  mine  is  the  case 
of  a  liver  in  good  working  order.     I  have  said  right 


BEKINS    PacKins.  Moving  and  Storing  of  Household  Goods 


FHIPPING  AT  CUT  RATES  TO  AND   FROM    ALL    POINTS 

IN  OVR  OWN  PRIVATE  CARS 

Main  Office  II  MONTGOMERY  ST.,  San  Francisco 

PHONE    MAIN    1840 
Oakland  Oflk-e:    1016  Broadway      Los  Angeles  Office:  2«  S.  Broadway 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


alone  that  if  the  management  of  the  local  theatro- 
ild  only  give  n«  money's  worth  I  would  !n  turn 
jrivc  unstinted  praise.  The  week  has  hren  a  hanner 
one  for  good  performances,  and  it  is  hoped  that  this 
will  continue.  The  San  Francisco  public  is  not  at  all 
hard  to  please,  and  the  critic  is  not  trying  at  all  time* 
to  find  fault.  It  is  a  fact  that,  because  of  business 
11s  the  daily  press  will  praise  and  puff  unreser- 
vedly. Think,  for  a  moment,  what  the  cry  would  he 
if  a  patron  of  a  daily  newspaper  asked  the  editor  to 
praise  a  patent  medicine  editorially,  to  say  that  a 
fake  appliance  was  the  boon  of  mankind,  that  a  new 
brand  of  catsup  was  beyond  compare,  and  that  Rugg- 
lass  shoes  were  the  best  ever  made.  All  this  regard- 
less of  the  quality  of  the  goods  advertised,  and  yet 
this  and  more  is  what  the  theatrical  manager  asks 
of  a  daily  newspaper  and  it  is  what  he  gets.  He  re- 
ceives columns  of  free  publicity.  What  for?  Be- 
cause he's  a  good  fellow,  because  be  sends  business. 
because  the  critic  is  made  much  of  by  a  chorus  girl. 
because  he  ADVERTISES.  The  only  protection  the 
San  Francisco  public  has  is  the  News  Letter.  The 
News  Letter  is  read  and  it  is  believed.  Why?  Be- 
cause the  News  Letter  tells  the  truth. 
*  *  * 

Klaw  &  Erlanger  have  mounted  "Rogers  Brothers 
in  London."  soon  to  show  at  the  Columbia  on  an  elab- 
orate scale,  and  there  should  be  no  room  for  com- 
plaint by  the  San  Francisco  theatre-goer. 

EXCURSION   TO    URIAH. 

The  California  Northwestern  Railway,  the  Pictur- 
esque Route  of  California,  will  run  one  of  its  popular 
excursions  to  Ukiah,  Sunday,  April  24th.  The  fare 
will  be  only  $2  for  the  round  trip.  Leave  Tiburon 
Ferry,  foot  of  Market  St.,  at  8:30  a.  m.,  and  on  the 
return  leave  Ukiah  at  5.00  p.  m.  As  is  well  known, 
the  company  looks  carefully  after  the  comfort  of  its 
patrons  on  these  Excursions,  and  no  tickets  are  sold 
beyond  the  number  of  seats  provided,  thus  insuring 
a  seat  for  everybody.  Tickets  will  be  on  sale  Mon- 
day, April  18th,  at  650  Market  street,  Chronicle 
Building. 

San  Mateo  is  to  see  another  large  sale  of  real  es- 
tate— one  hundred  and  fifty  large  lots  will  be  sold. 
A  special  train  will  leave  Third  and  Townsend  streets 
on  Saturday,  April  30th,  at  11  a.  m.  Tickets  for  the 
round-trip,  fifty  cents.  The  sale  will  be  made  by 
G.  HI  Umbsen  &  Co. 

Engagement  Cups. 

Have  just  unpacked  a  beautiful  and  varied  assortment  of  superb  cups 
lor  engagement  gifts.  S.  &  G.  Gump  Co.    113  Geary  St. 


Celebr&ted  "KNOX"  Hats— Eugene  Zorn.  746  Market  street,  sole 
agent ;  spring  styles  now  open ;  derbys.  soft  hats,  gent's  and  ladies' 
straws. 

The   Techau   Tavern   is   the   place   to  go   after  the 

theatre.  It  tops  oft  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
Is  reasonable. 


Allen's  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


Mme.    GEORGETTE    GODON 

LADIE'S  HAT  IMPORTER 


REMODELING 


Suite  520-521 

STARR  KING  BUILDING 

121  Geary  St. 


Perfect  Fitting 
French  Modes 
n.nd  Adaptations 


NEWS  LETTER.  a? 

THE  COST  OF  LIVING. 

There  is  a  general  cry  among  the  people  of  San 
FrancifiCO  because  of  the  increased  oust  of  living. 
Food   is  Continually   rising  in  price,  rents  arc  being 

raised  .-ill  ovct  the  city,  and  while  tin-  general  cosl 
of  living  is  less  than  in  most  of  the  cities  cist  of  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  it  must  be  admitted  thai   it  i-  Qui 

of  all  proportion  to  the  earning  capacity  of  the  indi- 
vidual. It  is  worthy  of  note  in  this  connection  to 
remember  that  the  increase  is  greater  in  all  centers 
where  the  labor  union  is  paramount  in  its  influence. 
In  San  Francisco,  an  unholy  combination  ex- 
ists among  the  planing  mills  created  by  the  union 
of  capital  and  labor  to  exploit  the  general  public. 
Prices  of  building  materials  have  b'>en  raised  to  such 
a  pitch  that  it  is  a  millionaire  or  a  fool  who  indulges 
in  the  luxury  of  buildinar.  The  union  policv  has  en- 
couraged a  cessation  in  building.  It  has  encouraged 
the  trusts  to  employ  a  scheme  of  perfect  organization 
and  higher  prices,  and  the  laborer  who  received  $3 
a  day  four  years  ago.  and  who  was  not  tied  down  to 
dues  and  union  meetings  and  dictation,  now  finds 
it  difficult  to  save  carfare  where  before  he  had  the 
opportunity  to  save  much  money.  To-dav  he  receives 
four  to  five  dollars  a  day,  and  has  the  satisfaction  of 
receiving  it  to  pay  it  out  aeain  as  quickly  as  nossible. 
The  union  is  responsible  for  high  wages,  high  rents, 
high  meat,  high  groceries,  and  in  fact,  an  unnatural 
and  unbearable  condition  of  affairs  in  general. 

We  append  an  excerpt  from  an  editorial  in  the 
New  York  Evening  Post  on  this  subject: 

"The  true  explanation  for  this  unfortunate  rent  in- 
crease, therefore,  must  be  found  in  the  causes  under- 
lying the  cessation  of  tenement  building.  This 
is  accounted  for  in  several  ways.  In  the  last  year 
the  mortgage  loan  market  has  been  unfavorable, 
though  building  operations  in  tenements  have  not 
been  hampered  as.  much  from  this  cause  as  the  larger 
and  more  hazardous  class  of  undertakings.  The. high 
price  of  building  materials  has  also  stood  in  the  way. 
Probably  the  greatest  deterrent,  however,  is  the  de- 
moralized state  of  the  building  trades.  The  extor- 
tions of  the  unions  and  the  contractors,  the  combina- 
tions which  have  been  made  against  investors  in 
buildings,  the  high  wages,  and  the  incessant  strikes, 
have  paralyzed  what,  without  these  untoward  in- 
fluences, would  now  be  a  most  flourishing  industry. 
The  increase  in  wages  is  especially  significant.  Thus 
in  1897  the  prevailing  rate  for  bricklayers  was  $4. 
They  now  receive  anywhere  from  $5  to  $5.50.  Plas- 
terers then  got  $4 ;  they  now  get  $5.  Carpenters  six 
years  ago  were  eager  for  employment  at  $3.50  a  day; 
the  rate  at  present  is  $4.50.  And  so  all  along  the 
line." 

The  mass  of  the  people  have  not  been  benefited 
in  any  way.  The  professional  man,  the  writer,  the 
dentist,  the  doctor,  the  school  teacher,  the  advertis- 
ing agent,  the  clerk,  in  fact  the  great  majority  of 
the  people,  among  which  may  be  counted  the  farmer, 
receive  no  more  for  their  product  than  ten  years  ago, 
and  in  many  cases  wages  have  been  reduced  to  enable 
the  employer  to  pay  the  extortionate  demands  of  the 
man  with  the  labor  union  club.  There's  a  good  time 
coming,  however,  and  unionism  is  going  to  get  its 
just  deserts.  It  will  receive  its  worst  defeat  at  the 
hands  of  those  of  its  members  intelligent  enough  to 
realize  that  if  four  dollars  is  divided  between  Casey 
and  Schmitz,  McCarthy  and  Ruef,  there  will  be  little 
left  for  Maggie  and  the  children,  and  that  three  dol- 
lars and  a  half  for  Maggie  was  better  wages  than 
four  dollars  for  the  gang. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


Ghe  Piliering'   Sorority   Girls 


"Some  people  say  that  a  co-ed.  won't  steal.  But  I 
caught  one  in  my  corn  field."  is  the  favorite  refrain 
on  the  Berkeley  campus  just  now.  "Holv  Moses !" 
is  the  exclamation  whenever  Professor  Bernard 
Moses  swings  into  sight.  And  the  Pie-Biters,  for- 
mally known  as  Pi  Beta  Phi,  are  wearing  their  best 
Sunday-go-to-meeting  expression  and  consider  them- 
selves martyrs  to  the  cause  of  Professor  Moses'  un- 
holy wrath.  His  case  against  them  has  been  duly 
and  daily  aired,  but  the  scene  when  Professor  Moses 
actually  saw  his  apple  and  peach  blossoms  decorat- 
ing the  walls  of  the  Pie-Biters  house  remains  to  be 
told. 

Enter  Professor  Moses,  his  spic-and-span  appear- 
ance somewhat  impaired  by  rather  dusty  shoes  which 
he  has  surreptitiously  wiped  on  the  porch  with  his 
pocket  handkerchief.  To  two  gurgling  young  ladies 
who  came  up  just  then  he  remarked,  "I  have  been 
tramping  through  my  orchard."  The  three  are 
greeted  in  the  hall  by  members  of  the  reception  com- 
mittee and  the  young  ladies  exclaim  :  "My,  how  beau- 
tiful the  house  looks  with  all  those  blossoms,  doesn't 
it.  Professor  Moses?"  The  ex-Philippine  Commis- 
sioner gazed  at  the  decorations  with  open-mouthed 
admiration — at  least  that  was  the  way  the  sorority 
girls  translated  his  expression.  The  Professor  then 
walked  around  the  rooms  sniffing  at  the  bloom  and 
closely  examining  it.  Finally  he  strode  over  to  a 
table  where  two  girls,  who  are  members  of  his  class 
in  political  science,  were  serving  tea.  "So  charmed 
to  have  you  here,"  began  one  of  them,  but  Professor 
Moses  put  the  stop-cock  on  the  polite  etceteras  by 
asking  in  a  melodramatic  whisper,  "Where  did  you 
get  those  blossoms?"  And  then  the  trouble  began  to 
brew,  which — all  the  doctors  could  not  subdue,  gin- 
ger and  paregoric,  too !  much  less  sorority  tea.  Pro- 
fessor Moses  acted  like  a  gentleman  and  a  scholar 
at  the  tea — he  waited  until  bis  lecture  hour  next 
morning  before  fie  publicly  denounced  the  act  that 
has  ruined  this  year's  crop  in  his  orchard. 

The  sorority  girls  claim  that  they  had  permission 
from  a  real  estate  agent,  supposed  to  be  in  authority, 
to  pluck  the  blossoms,  and  their  statement  is  gener- 
ally believed  around  college.  That  they  did  not  know 
the  orchard  belonged  to  "that  mean  old  Moses"  is 
substantiated  by  the  fact  that  he  was  bidden  to  the 
be-blossomed  tea.  Professor  Moses'  next  book  will 
probably  be  called  "The  Pilferings  of  Perdita,"  and 
will  deal  with  co-education.  And  the  next  time  a  so- 
rority gives  a  "blooming  old"  tea  it  is  safe  to  say 
the  bloom  will  not  come  via  the  Moses  orchard. 

This  affair  has  raised  the  ghost  of  the  article  Eliza- 
beth Knight  Tompkins  wrote  last  year  in  an  Eastern 
periodical  anent  the  University  of  California  in  gen- 
eral and  the  sorority  girl  in  particular.  Miss  Tomp- 
kins scored  their  social  attempts  as  cheap  imitations 
of  the  real  thing,  and  suggested  that  the  time  spent 
in  scouring  the  hills  for  green  and  borrowing  the 
neighbors'  cushions  and  dishes  might  be  better  em- 
ployed over  books.  The  truth  of  the  matter  is  that 
the  sorority  girls  do  have  to  rustle  around  rather 
lively  to  keep  up  their  social  status,  for  many  of  the 
members  are  girls  whose  allowances  barely  permit 
them  to  get  along  at  college  without  any  margin  for 
the  inevitable  assessments  of  a  sorority  house.  Even 
the  few  girls  of  wealthy  families  who  are  sent  to  a 


co-educational  institution  like  Berkeley  are  cut  down 
to  much  smaller  allowances  than  their  brothers  en- 
joy, on  the  theory  that  girls  do  not  sow  wild  oats, 
and  therefore  do  not  need  so  much  money  in  their 
halcyon  days.  So  the  sorority  girls  are  on  the  whole 
"a  poor  lot"  in  the  literal  meaning  of  the  phrase. 
They  have  to  resort  to  many  makeshifts  to  have  their 
"frat.  house"  put  on  a  bold  front  as  the  average  im- 
pecunious housekeeper  with  social  aspirations. 

Professor  Moses  did  not  empty  his  locker  of  am- 
munition on  the  Pi  Beta  Phi  girls.  He  gave  the  co- 
eds, who  disturb  university  meetings  a  hot  shot,  too. 
These  university  meetings  are  held  once  a  month, 
and  the  students  are  addressed  by  prominent  men. 
At  the  last  meeting,  the  famous  Dr.  Myer  was  the 
chief  speaker,  and  Professor  Moses  scored  the  girls 
because  a  troop  of  co-eds.  noisily  left  the  hall  in  the 
midst  of  Dr.  Myer's  lecture.  The  girls  claim  that 
the  University  meeting  is  supposed  to  last  from 
eleven  o'clock  until  twelve,  and  when  speakers  drag 
along  into  the  noon  hour  they  have  to  break  away  in 
order  to  get  a  bite  of  luncheon  before  their  one 
o'clock  recitations.  But  Professor  Moses  pointedly 
remarks  that  the  men  remain  seated  no  matter  how 
long  the  meeting  lasts. 

Dr.  Myer  is  a  very  learned  savant,  but  his  enuncia- 
tion is  so  bad  and  his  talk  was  so  long  and  erudite 
that  it  must  be  confessed  the  students  gave  a  sigh  of 
relief  when  he  finished,  and  ex-Mayor  James  Phelan, 
who  was  present,  arose  to  hand  out  a  few  remarks. 
Mr.  Phelan  was  not  prepared  to  talk,  but  President 
'Wheeler  insisted,  and  the  obliging  Jimmy  could 
not  refuse. 

"I  hesitated  about  talking  to  you  in  this  off-hand 
manner,  but  I  have  sat  on  the  platform  the  last  hour 
and  have  observed  that  you  are  a  very  indulgent  audi- 
ence!" was  the  gist  of  Jimmy's  first  rounded  period. 
The  hall  rocked  with  mirth,  only  Jimmy  himself  and 
Dr.  Myer  not  seeing  just  where  the  joke  came  in. 

— — Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 
factory  for  $6.00  per  ton.  Use  Briquettes  for  cooking  and 
seating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your  fuel 
bill.  'Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive   prompt  attention. 


•Out   of  the  Beaten   Path,"   Tom  Dillon's  modern  style  hats. 
Opposite  Palace. 


"2)A2'^" 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 
323     LARKIN    STREET 


&/>e  James   H.    Bibcock   Cantering   Co. 


212.214  California  St. 


409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


EDISON  PHONOGRAPH  AGENCY 

PETEB  BACIGAXUPI 

933    MARKET    STREET.  SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL 

WILL    REMOVE    SHORTLY    TO 

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April  16,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


THE  WANDER-WOMAN. 

B]    Ak'P  M   1  •  •    111    'I  h>-    l:<  ;  .It  r 

The  town  and  woods  I   span 
From  height  to  height  securely. 
Ami  it   I  love  no  man. 
I    love   no   woman,   surely! 

give  me  day  and  the  sun  thereof, 
And  night  with  never  a  goal, 
And  never  a  love  that's  worth  the  love. 
Bat  the  love  of  a  child's  young  soul! 

Rains  from  the  heaven's  wide  arch 

Troop  down   the   dawn  to  smother. 

The   long-lost    waters   march 

Bade  to  the  sea.  their  mother. 

The  byre  shall  roof  till  dawn  he  red. 

Then  on  from  sun  to  sun. 

They  are  more  than  the  price  of  a  crust  and 

bed. 
The  smiles  of  my  little  one. 

The  tide  the  hour  shall  beat, 
The  turbulent  reminder. 
Kind    are   the   folk   we   meet. 
The  birds   and  beasts  are  kinder. 
Then  up  the  road  and  o'er  the  wild. 
And  through  the  darkest  door. 
With   ever  and   ever  a  little  child. 
That  skips  and  trips  before. 


ERE  COMES  THE  NIGHT. 

By  Nannie  Byrd  Turner  in  Smart  Pet 

Ah,  pain  that  a  rose  should  die, 
That  a  lily's  grace  should  fail ; 

That  dark  should  dim  a  sunset  sky, 
And  a  rainbow's  glory  pale — 

And  lovers  say  good-bye ! 

Alas,  that  Youth  is  fleet — 
Swifter  than  Age  is  swift — 

That  dearest  hopes  have  winged  feet, 
And  Love's  a  transient  gift, 

As  shadowy  as  sweet. 

So  kiss  we  while  we  may, 
While   lips   are   still   afire. 

For  all  too  surely  creeps  a  day 
When  fades  the  dear  desire 

To  ashes  cold  and  gray.     . 

Too   surely  comes  the   night 

When  the  star  of  Love  shall  set,_ 

And  the  bitter  snow  of  Time  lie  white, 
And  the  soul  would  best  forget 

The    old,   beloved    delight. 


A  VANISHED  STAR. 

By  Eugene  0.  Dobson  in  New  England  Magazine 
Last  night  I  saw,  in  light  elysian. 

A  fair  star  gleam  across  the' sky, 
To  dawn  a  moment  on  my  vision, 

Then  into  darkness  fade  and  die. 

And  now  at  morn,  with  weary  eyes  on 

Yon  white  sail,  lessening  down  the  bay, 

I  see  beyond  my  life  horizon 

Love's  one  star  vanishing  away 


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Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California. 
Location  of  works.  Gold  Hill.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the  24th  day  of  March.  1004.  an  assessment  (No.  90)  of  ten  cents 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office 
of  the  Company.  Room  35,  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets.  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
27th  day  of  April,  1904.  will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at 
public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  18th  day  of  May,  1904.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C.  L.  McCOY.  Secretary. 
Office— Eoom  35,  third  floor,  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Mont- 
gomery streets,  San  Francisco,  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  44 

Amount  per  share . scents 

Levied March  7. 1904 

Delinquent  in  office : April  11, 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  2. 1904 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Eoom  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery .  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal- 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment '. '..'.'..'..'.'..'. .'.'..*. I .'.'..*..'.'..'.:.. No.  34 

Amount  per  share 3  cents 

Levied '.."..'..". March  8. 1904 

Delinquent  in  office —  April  13, 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock ' '..'..'.:  May  3,  1904 

J.  STADTEELD,  Jr...Secretary.      . 
Office— Room  56,  No.  309  Montgomery-  street.  San  Franclsco.Cal. 


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HJUL'S  Montgomery -street  Coffee  House  Jias  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  its  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast,  lunch"  and  coffee 
rooms  in  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  quicker  service. 


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MURINE  EVE  REMEDY 


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Is  quickly  settled  with  a 

MARTSMORN 


OUTWITS  UNION  LABOR. 

Through  M.  L.  Moustier  from 
France,  the  French  representation 
at  the  World's  Fair  has  outwitted 
the  St.  Louis  Machinists'  Union. 
The  French  were  on  a  state  border- 
ing on  despair  over  the  problem  of 
how  to  set  up  their  big  engines  in 
Machinery  Hall.  The  protest  of 
the  labor  union  against  their  em- 
ploying French  workmen  who  were 
not  members  of  the  union,  caused 
the  trouble. 

M.  Moustier  is  a  master  me- 
chanic from  the  Delauney-Belle- 
ville  works.  He  arrived  last  week 
to  oversee  the  installation  of  the 
engines  his  company  will  exhibit. 
The   labor   union  protest  was  one 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

of  the  first  difficulties  he  met.  The 
next  day  after  a  solution  of  the 
trouble  occurred  to  him  the  walk- 
ing delegate  came  around  to  re- 
assert that  no  work  could  be  done 
except  by  union  men.  Previously 
M.  Moustier  had  indignantly  re- 
fused to  comply  with  labor's  de- 
mands. Now  he  surprised  the  dele- 
gate by  graciously  acceding,  one 
of  his  colleagues  doing  the  talking. 
"Certainment,"  the  interpreter 
said,  "we  haf  deecided  to  let  you 
do  ze  work.  Here  are  ze  plans. 
All  you  haf  to  do  ees  to  follow  ze 
plans.  M.  Moustier,  you  know, 
speaks  no  Englaise." 

The  delegate  looked  at  the  roll 
of  blue  prints.  Everything  but 
the  white  lines  was  in  French. 
"These  won't  do,"  he  said,  "the 
foreman  here  can't  read  a  word 
of  this.  Get  the  specifications  put 
into  United  States." 

"I  am  sorry,  very  sorry,  but  ze 
man  who  made  ze  plans  is  in 
France.     No  one  could  do  it  with- 


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MAY,  1904 

CONTENTS: 

Sagebrush   and   Sand    J-  Mayne  Baltimore  343 

Where   Heroes   Sleep    Henrietta  S.  Breck 348 

The    Becthel    Mansion   Murder Frank  Walker  Winch   356 

Reincarnation    C.  F.  Montgomery  355 

Early  California  Journalism   David  E.  Gordon   3°4 

The  Evolution  of  a  Window    ....Helen  Ellsworth  Wright   366 

Dawn M.  Elizabeth  Burns-Howell   ...  3^9 

Jack  London   Henry  Meade  Bland  370 

Love    M.  Blair  Coan    37^ 

Modern  Russia   Rockwell  Hunt,  Ph.  D 379 

The  Hermit  of  the  Desert Beatrice   Partridge   Wilmans. .  .385 

Feathered    Californians    Virginia    Garland    386 

In  the  Limelight— E.  O.  McCormick,  Rear  Admiral  Uriu,  George  T. 

Jtfichlojlson,   Japanese   National   Hymn    39° 

Sea  Life   Capt.  C.  M.  Scammon  392 

The  Japanese Illustrations    394 

The  King  of  the  Flower  Painters.  . Louis    N.    Richards 395 

Of  the  Great  American  Novel Charlton    Lawrence    Edholm.  .  .402 

The  Freight  of  Number  7   John  Roberts 403 

Dawn F.  J.  Foster 405 

The  Tin  Box  Sara   Andrews    4°6 

A  California  Eve  Lucia    E.    Loring 410. 

The  Thing  he  Feared  Grace  MacGowan  Cooke    4X5 

Maid   and  Woman    E.  R.  Wynne  420 

A  Point  of  Great  Historic  Interest.  .James   Mayne   Baltimore    421 

The  Bell  Buoy   Foster   Gilroy    423 

Book  Lore   Pierre  N.  Beringer  and  Staff 426 

Editorial    Pierre  N.  Beringer   428 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms-  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr-  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Coeopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  Sao 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


out  hees  assistance.  Eeet  ees  very 
intricate.  I  could  not  myself.  Eet 
take  a  month  to  send  zem  back. 
Ze  fair  be  half  over  before  we  get 
done.  Eet  ees  an  impossible  ob- 
stacle." 

The  delegate  believed  it.  He 
stared  at  M.  Moustier  and  then  at 

the  plans.     "Well,  I'll  be  .  I 

can't  ask  you  to  work  my  men 
when  they  can't  do  the  work.  Put 
vour  men  to  work  and  let  her 
slide." 

And  that  is  why  the  French  ar- 
tisans who  came  with  M.  Moustier 
are  at  work  after  three  days  of 
idleness,  when  all  around  them  are 
only  union  men  setting  up  foreign 
exhibits. — Globe-Democrat. 


A  popular  British  weekly  has 
just  discovered  the  existence  of  a 
novelist  named  James  Fenimore 
Cooper,  and  writes  of  his  "Path- 
finder" as  the  work  of  a  promising 
author.  A  London  daily  is  better 
informed,  and  ironically  observes 
that  Mr.  Cooper  is  "now  well  over 
his  hundredth  year,"  and  is  en- 
gaged on  another  book  which,  as 
at  present  arranged,  will  be  entitled 
"The  Last  of  the  Mohicans."  Am- 
ericans, however,  need  not  be  in 
haste  to  jeer.  It  is  not  very  long 
since  a  school  superintendent  in  a 
thriving  town  of  the  Middle  West 
wrote  to  a  historian  named  Hume 
to  ask  him  to  make  some  changes 
in  his  history  of  England  which 
would  fit  in  for  class  room  use. 
Later  he  expressed  some  surprise 
tnat  his  politely  worded  request 
had  elicited  no  reply. 


He — Oh,  I  wouldn't  take  you 
to  that  show,  my  dear,  the  dia- 
logue is  too  spicy.  She — That 
would  be  a  pleasant  change  for 
me.  Usually  when  I  go  to  the 
theatre  with  you  the  only  thing 
spicy  about  it  is  your  breath  after 
you've  been  out  between  the  acts. 


April  16.  1904. 


I  am  proud 
of  my  lamp- 
chimneys.  I 
put  my  name 
on  them. 

Macbeth. 


lt'iw  to  Uke  care  of  lamp?,  including  the 

getting   of   ri^ht-^hape  chimnevs.    is  in  my 
Index ;  sent  free. 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 


Doable  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a   ST.    LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  ears  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL  TICKET  OFFICE 

626  Market  Street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Bate  only  $67.60  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  F.  BOOTH,  Gen.  Ait.,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 
No.  1.  Montgomery  St.    Can  Francisco.  Cal 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
THE   NORSK    NIGHTINGALE. 
Yoj  fully,  yoyfttlh . 
Yoyfully  onvard, 
In  <lis  har  walle\  of  death 
Rode  tin-  sa\  hiiiulrecl ! 
It  ban  a  cinch.  Ay  tenk. 
Some  geezer  blundered, 
"Hustle!     Yn    Light    Brigadel 
Vump !"  Maeater  <  ilson  said; 
Hon  in  the  wallc)  of  death 
Go  the  sax  hundred  ! 

Cannon   on   right   of  dcm. 
Cannon  on   left  of  dem, 
Cannon  on  top  of  dem, 
Wolleyed  ami  t'undered; 
Smashed  vith  dis  shot  an, I  shal, 
Dey  am  do  wery  val ; 
Most  of  dcm  ketching  hal — 
Nearly  sax  hundred! 

^  es.  all  dcm  sabres  bare 
FJktsh  puny  guile  in  air; 
Each  taller  feel  bis  hair 
Standing — no   vonder! 
Yudasl     It  ant  ban  yob 
For  any  coward   slob, 
Fighting  dis   Russian   mob — 
Ay  tenk  Ay  vudn't  stand 
Veneral's   blunder. 

Cannon  on  right  of  dem. 
Cannon  on  top  of  clem, 
Cannon   behind   dem,   tu. 
Wolleyed  and  t'undered. 
Finally  say  Captain  Grenk, 
"Ve  got  enuff,  Ay  tenk ! 
Let's  go  and  getting  drenk." 
'Bout  tventy-sax  com  back 
Out  of  sax  hundred ! 

Ven  skol  deir  glory  fade? 

It  ban  gude  charge  dey  made — 

Every  von  vondered. 

Every  von  feeling  blue — 

'Cause  dey  ban  brave  old  crew, 

Yolly  gude  fallers,  too, 

Dis  har  sax  hundred ! 

— Milwaukee    Sentinel. 


TWOMEY    *    MIHOLtlVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  H17 


Levy's  brother  died  in  Chicago 
the  other  day.  The  undertaker 
telegraphed  to  Levy:  "What  shall 
I  do  with  the  body?  I  can  embalm 
it  for  $50  or  freeze  it  for  $30."  And 
Levy  telegraphed  back:  "Freeze 
it  from  the  knees  up  for  $20;  he 
had  his  feet  frozen  last  winter." 

ATHLETES 

TO  KEEP  IN  GOOD  TRIM 
MUST  LOOK  WELL  TO  THE 
CONDITION  OF  THE  SKIN. 
TO  THIS  END  THE  BATH 
SHOULD    BE   TAKEN   WITH 

HAND 
SAPOLIO 

All  Grocers  and  Druggists 


it 

Nominate 
your  choice- 
Presidents 

are  being  made.  "Light- 
weight" 2  ounces;  me- 
dium and  heavy.  50c 
all  stores  or  by  mail  for 
choice  patterns. 


Presidmt    Suspenders    are    guaranteed — absolute 
satisfaction,    a    new    pair   or   your   money   back. 

THE  C.  A.  EDGARTON  MFG  CO. 
Box  318  Shirley,  Mass. 

Contributor — Would  you  take 
it  kindly  if  I  were  to  ask  you  on 
what  grounds  you  refused  my  lat- 
est poem.  Editor — Yes,  if  you'll 
take  kindly  to  my  true  statement 
of  the  case.  Contributor  (after 
slight    hesitation) — Good-day,    sir. 


THERE'S    ONLY    ONE 


YOSEMITE  VALLEY 


AND    IT 


Opened  April  1st 

If  you  are  planning  to  go  there 
or  to  Lake  Tahoe,  Kings  River 
Canon,  Monterey,  Santa  Cruz, 
or  any  other  place,  get  Maps  and 
Folders  now  and  find  out 

How  and  When  to 
Go 

CALL  AT,  OR  ADDRESS 

INFORMATION  BUREAU 

613  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 

Southern  Pacific 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  16,  1904. 


<m6^ 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  Martlet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


De  Style — He  said  his  wife's 
Easter  bonnet  was  a  dream.  Gun- 
busta — He  did?  De  Style — Yes; 
but  when  he  got  the  bill  it  opened 
his  eyes. — Judge. 


Why  Don't  You 

travel  by  Sea? 

Special  vacation  and  Short 

Tourist  Excursion  Trips 
Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Berth  and  Men' 
Los  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Tacoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 
And    to  those  desiring   longer  trips   to 
Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc., obtain  folder 
SAN  FRANCISO  TICKET  OFFICES 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St. ,  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

C.  D.  DVNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co..  90  Sutter  st..  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences-    Telephone  Exchange  312. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  Kiver  and  Chicago. 

THREE   TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific.  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Rys. 

Overlajid  Limited.  Vestibuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  mini  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking  cats 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
Bartment  Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
are.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestibuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  coo  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Keclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestibuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.oo  a.m. Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays- 
Best  of  everything 
R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Bys. 
417  Market  St.      (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


Trains  leave  and  ar 

due  to  arrive  at 
SAN    FKANCISCd 

Fbom  April  10.  rVOJ 

Ferry  Depot 

(Foot  of  Market  Street 


MAIN_LINE^ 


7.00  a 

7.03* 

7.30  a 
7  30a 
P.OOa 

8.00a 

8.30* 


9  00* 
9.30a 


10.00a 

10  00' 


12.00m 
'LOOP 
330r 


3.30P 
3  30i- 


3.30P 

3  30i- 
A  00p 

4  00p 
430r 


e.ooi- 

1630p 
6-OOp 
6.00 1' 


6.0Q'- 

7  0^' 
7.00p 


Vtfcavllle,  Winters.  UuniHey 

Benlcla,  Suisun.  Elmlrnand  Sacra- 
mento     

Vallejo.  Napa,  Callatoga,  Santa 
Itosa,  Martinez,  San  Kainon 

Nllea,  Ltvermore,  Tracy,  Lathrop. 
Stock:on  

Shasta  Express—  (Via  DavlB). 
William*  (tor  Dartlett  SprlnRt), 
Wlllowa  t-Fruto.  Ueil  Bluff. 
Portland,   Tacoina,   Seattle 

DavlS.Wood)and.  Knights  Lauding. 
Marysvllle,  Orovllic 

Port  Cost  a.  Martinez.  Anttocn, 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stockton.  New- 
man. Lob  linniK,  Meodotft. 
Arni'inii.  Hnnhird  YUaHa, 
Portervlllc 

port  Cnaio.  Lathiu|i.  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno,  t.osuen  Junc- 
tion, Hnnford,  Vlsallu.  Bakcrs- 
fleld 

Nlles.  San  .Jose,  Llvi-rmore.  Stock- 
ton. (+MUtt»u),  k>ni\  Sacramento, 
Placervllle  Uatysvllle,  Chico, 
Bed  BIUiT 

Oakdnle.  Chinese,  .lamestown.  So- 
noni,  Tixdiimue  and  Angels 

Atlantic  Kx press— Oftden  snd  Bait. 

Richmond.  Martinez  and  Way 
Stations 

The  Overland  Limited  —  Ogden. 
Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 

Vntlcjo 

Loa  Anu*'-us  Paeaenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Lathrop.      Stuckion,    Merced, 

Raymond,  Fresno,  Gosnen  Junc- 
tion, llnnford,  Lenioore.  Vistula, 
Dakenflcld,  Los  Angeles 

Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations. 

Sitrrnmenlo  River  Steamers 

Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllte,  Orovlllc  and  way 
stations 

Ilavward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.. 

I'ort  Costa,  Martinez.  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Modesto, 
Merced,  Be  rend  a.  FrOBQO  and 
Way  Sin  Huns  lieyond  Port  Costa 

Yoeemlte  Valley.  Moil.    Wed.,  Frl. 

Mnrlliirz.  Tracy.  Stockton,  LodI, .. 

Man  Inez,  San  I  tainon.  Vallejo,  Napa. 
1  iaiutoga,  San  1 11  Rosa 

Nlles.  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodl 

luyward.  Nlles.  Irvlngtou,  San  J 
Jose.  Llvermore ) 

The  Owl  Limited— Newin.n.  Lo- 
DanuB,  Meudoia.  Fresno.  Tulare. 
Ilnkerslleld.  Los  Angeles. 

Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper. 
Oakland  to  Los  Angele",  for  Chi- 
cago, vlaC.  B.  I.  &  P.  (last  trip 
April  19) 

Port  Costa.  Tracy,  Stockton 

II  ay  ward.  N  lien  ami  San  .lose 

May  ward,  Nlles  and  San  .lose 

Baatern  Express— Ogden.  Denver, 
uimiliD,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
But.  i'ort  Costa.  Benlcla,  Sul- 
sun.  F.hnira,  Davis,  B&crainento, 
Koeklln,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee.  Boca,  Keuo.  Wads- 
worib,  Winiieinucea 

Vallojo,  dally,  except  Sunday..,    ( 

Vallejo,  Sunday  only. . ,. f 

Lvluhinond,  dan  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 
Martinez  ami  Way  stations  

Oregon  &  California  KipresB— Sac- 
rnmento,  Marysvllle,  Bedding, 
Portliuid.  |*nget  Sound  and  EiiBt. 

U  ay  ward.  Nlles  aud  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) 


AltKlV 

~~ 750 
7.20i 
620 
7  20 

7.50 
7.60 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 

(Foot  of  Market  Street  ) 

7  4*>a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion!  Sunday  only)     8-1  Op 
1L*    Newark,    Centervllle.    San     Jose, 
Feltoo,    Boulder     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6.65f 

.  lb)  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    MOSS. 

e  lEr    Newark.  San  JoBe,  LosUatOB  and  I     t855  v 
way  stations )  110  55  a 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

10U1  fa  AN  1'  KAN  CI  MO.  Foot  ol  Market  St.  (Slip*- 

-11:15    9:00     ;;.euA.M.      i  00    300    6.16  imi 

rom  OAKLAND.   Foot  of  Broadway  —  t«:U0    «:')" 

'8:0,>     H):QUa.H.        12  00     2  00     4.00  P.M. 


COAST    LINE    (Uroail  iia«ge). 

Z'iT  i  llilrd  and  Townnend  Streets.) 


G  icu 

7  on* 

7.15a 

8  00a 
L  LGa 


4.20 
11.20 


620 
1220 


7  20 
320 

111. Jj. 


10-50 » 
7  50. 


12-20i 
9-^0 » 
10_0  * 

9  20> 
4.20)- 

IB.50* 
111. j0* 


920* 
12.20V 
7.20* 
9  .0* 


it  ;oa 

ll     ill* 


1-JOi 
3  Lb> 


3-30P 

4  30  e 

t6  00 


S530i- 
5  4S> 


6  30p 

800p 

11.30** 


sun  joae  and  Way  Stations. 

Sail  .lose  and  Way  Stations 

Uottl  r.'\  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 

New  Almiden  (Tues.,  Prill.,  only). 

Tli  *i  in  t.-r— Stops  only  Sar  Joie, 
Cllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis- 
teri.  Pnjaro.  Cautroville  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
nndl'alilr  Grove),  SullnaH.  San 
Ardo.  Paso  RouTe*  SitnU  Mar 
gnrlia  S  in  Luis  ()IilB|i  •  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (ciomeetlon 
for  Lompoe),  prluel  pal  Ntntlona 
thence  Sa n l a  Barbani,8i<  n  Buena- 
ventura, Barbank.  Loa  Angeles  . 

San  Jose.  Tres  Plnoa,  Cajdlola, 
San  taCruji. Pin  I  JleC  i nve, Salinas. 
San  LuIb  Ohlnpo  and  Principal 
Way  Stations 

tan  Jose  mid  Way  Stations 

Sania  Clura.  bnn-  Jose.  Los  Uatos 
and  Way  8t'i  lions  

-•-jiii  Jut. i-  and  \\ u\  Stations 

Del  Monte  Kxpreni— Santa  Clara. 
San  Jose.  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 

Pacific  Qrore  Cconuccts  at  Bauta 

Clara,  except  Sunday,  tor  Santa 
Cruz,  Boulder  i  reek  and  Narrow 
Gauge  Points)  at  GilruV  for  Hol- 
llstur,  Trea   Pino*,  at    Piijnm  for 

Santa  Cruz,   at   Castmvflle   for 

Salinas  

Tres  Plaos  Way  Paasenger 

-  an  jose  and  way  Btai  Ions 

Santa  Clara,  mid  Jose.  J.<>-  Uatos, 
and  principal  Way  Stations  (ex- 
cept Sunday) 

bunjosea&d  Principal  Way  Stations 

bOllSt'l       Llinlteit.—  Bedwo    d.    San 

JoBe,Gllroy.Satlnus,Pano  Kohlea, 

San  I. in?  ublsbo,  SanUt  Barbara, 

Los  Angeles,  Demlng.  Kl  Paso. 
New  Orlenna.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro   fur   Santa   Cruz 

and   at  CastroTliie  for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 

fcai.  M  a  too.  Hereto  ford.  Belmont.  San 

Carlos.     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks. 

Men lo  Park.   Palo  Alto 

Sun  Jose  ami  Way  Stations 

Palo  ah id  Way  Stations 

SoUtb  sun  Francisco,  Mllllmie.  Bur 

llugame.  Baa  Mateo,  Belmont, 
San  Carlos.  Iiedwoud.  Fair  (inks. 

Memo  Park   and   Palo  Alto 

Maytleld,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
vole,  Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 
San  Jose 


8  3lli 
5.40p 


10.30P 

4-10f 


4.10i 
1.20p 

7?0e 

8  36> 


12  1V 
10  4S* 

te.ooA 


*900* 
(3.40a 


'6-43a 

6  36a 
10.15* 


9.45e 
19.45i- 


P  for  Afternoon 

t  Sunday  only 


A  for  Morning. 
:bUDt,tt*'  excepted 
5  20  a  Saturday  ouly. 

7  50p       5  Stops  ai  all  stations  on  Sunday. 

it~~  i  inly  trains  slojipnik:  at  Valencia  St.  Bouthnouud 
.«  on     "rei.:lUA.M..  7:00a.m..  7:*.5  a.m.,  11:30a.m.,  3:J10p.m., 

H -20a  6:30  p.m.  and  8:0(1  p.  m. 

The     UNION      Tit  ANSI-Kit     COM  PAN  1 

8  50a    h  "'  L"n  ''"'  "n,i  CDet k  h"i-'i-,;i^'  from  hotels  and  rest 

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best  in  America.      je 

1  J"  Per  Cent  Saved  by  get-g 
Z  0  ting  your  suit  made  byS 


JOE  POHEIM 

THE  TAILOR 


O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND,  ORE. 

And  Short  Kail  Line  from  Portland  to  ail  Points 

East.    Through  Tickets  to  all  Points  all  Rail  or 
Steamship  and  Kail  at  Lowest  Hates- 
Steamer  Tickets  include  Berth  and  Meals. 
SS  OREGON  Sails  Mar.  28.  April  7,  V,  27.  May 

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Benevolent  Man  (a  bit  puzzled) 
— And  arc  you  both  boys?  Tommy 
I  in  trousers) — No,  sir.  Johnny's 
going  to  be  one  nex  week. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  WarrSft6edar. 
Sohmer   Piano  Agency 

308-312  Post  St.,San  Francisco 


April  16.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


Cf/?e     Political     Situation 


Although  the  Hearst  papers  may  endeavor  to  keep 
up  the  impression  for  a  little  while  longer  that  their 
-till  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency,  it  must 
be  evident  to  even  the  readers  of  those  delectable 
journals  that  he  has  lost  all  hope  of  winning  the 
nomination,  or  even  of  preventing  the  nomination 
of  any  candidate  who  is  persona  non  grata  to  him  and 
his  clique.  His  papers  are  busy  letting  him  down 
easily,  and  his  friends  are  as  busily  occupied  in  seek- 
ing cover  and  announcing  that  they  never  were  for 
him.  I  have  no  doubt  that  since  the  returns  have 
commenced  to  come  in  from  the  "cow  counties," 
Cammenetti  wishes  he  had  not  introduced  the  reso- 
lution endorsing  Hearst  at  the  last  meeting  of  the 
State  Central  Committee,  and  that  Budd  and  Maguire 
wish  they  had  never  heard  of  the  editor.  Of  course 
Maguire  was  dead  politically  anyhow,  and  you  can- 
not kill  a  corpse,  and  Budd  has  not  the  power  and 
influence  in  the  councils  of  his  party  that  he  once 
had ;  indeed.  Lane  is  the  only  man  who  seems  to 
have  gathered  any  strength  out  of  the  Hearst  fiasco, 
since  the  counties  that  have  repudiated  Hearst  have 
done  so.  in  most  cases  specifically,  because  of  the 
position  of  the  Examiner  in  the  Lane  fight  for  Gov- 
ernor. As  Lane  ate  no  crow,  but  announced  distinct- 
ly that  he  was  not  for  Hearst,  he  stands  well  with  the 
country  delegates  and  representatives  of  his  party, 
and  has  something  to  hope  at  its  hands  in  the  future, 
but  the  Hearstites  have  tarred  themselves  with  a 
brush  that  it  will  take  much  party  loyalty  and  hard 
work  to  rid  themselves  of.  For  years  to  come  the 
finger  of  scorn  will  be  pointed  at  them,  and  the  ques- 
tion: "What  did  Hearst  pay  you?"  will  be  the  ques- 
tion asked  of  them  whenever  they  come  up  for  office. 
*  *  * 

What  would  have  happened  in  the  whole  country 
•if  by  any  accident  Hearst  had  been  nominated  and 
elected  President  is  shown  by  the  experience  that 
San  Francisco  is  having  with  her  street  car  employees 
and  their  threatening  strike.  While  those  who  only 
see  what  is  written  on  the  dead  walls  of  the  city  in 
poster  type  may  have  fancied  that  the  strike  was 
purely  a  labor  trouble,  having  no  connection  with 
politics,  those  who  know  anything  of  the  political 
conditions  that  prevail  in  this  locality  will  have  no 
difficulty  in  discovering  that  the  "nigger  in  the  wood 
pile"  is  Hearst.  In  the  first  place  Richard  Cornelius 
is  well  known  as  the  henchman  of  Livernash,  and 
it  was  because  Dingwell,  the  Secretary  of  the  Car- 
men's Union,  declined  to  have  the  union  made  an  ad- 
junct of  the  Hearst  campaign  that  he  and  those  who 
thought  with  him  were  summarily  expelled  from  the 
union  by  order  of  Boss  Cornelius.  Those  men  will 
tell  you  that  Cornelius  never  makes  a  move  until  he 
has  gone  to  the  Examiner  office  and  asked  for  orders 
over  the  "longest  leased  wire  in  the  world."  They 
will  tell  you  that  Cornelius  opposed  Schmitz,  the 
Labor  Union  candidate  for  Mayor  last  fall,  because 
he  got  orders  from  Livernash  to  do  so,  and  they 
will  call  your  attention  to  the  fact  that  if  the  trou- 
ble with  the  car  company  had  been  allowed  to  wait 
adjustment  until  the  time  when  the  agreement  be- 
tween the  men  and  their  employers  expires,  it  would 
be  only  a  day  or  two  before  the  primaries  which 
Hearst  is  so  anxious  to  carry.  They  would  call 
your  attention  to  the  further  fact  that  although  Liv- 


ernash pretends  to  represent  union  labor,  and  Cor- 
nelius is  never  tired  of  harping  on  the  rights  of  labor 
and  the  outrages  of  capital,  and  although  he  publicly 
denounces  those  workmen  who  are  not  union  men 
aa  traitors  to  the  cause  of  labor,  yet  he  supported 
Livernash  when  he  refused  to  recognize  the  Clerks' 
Union  in  its  boycott  of  a  haberdashery  in  this  town, 
and  the  Barbers'  Union  when  it  boycotted  an  anti- 
union shop,  and  even  when  the  Clerks  and  the  Bar- 
bers sent  committees  to  Livernash  to  call  his  atten- 
tion to  his  inconsistency  in  those  matters,  and  he  in- 
sulted them  in  his  rooms  at  the  Grand,  Cornelius 
said  Livernash  was  alright,  and  still  continued  to 
hold  him  up  as  the  friend  of  labor  and  to  take  orders 
from  him.  They  will  call  your  attention  to  the  fact 
that  the  Teamsters'  Union  proposes  to  join  the  Car- 
men in  a  strike,  the  President  of  the  latter  union  be- 
ing the  infamous  Michael  Casey,  of  malodorous  fame, 
who  is  also  an  attache  of  the  Hearst  gang,  and  who, 
like  Cornelius,  takes  orders,  if  nothing  more,  from 
Hearst.  Both  Cornelius  and  Casey  are  announced 
as  among  the  representatives  of  labor  unionism  who 
are  to  go  to  St.  Louis  on  Hearst's  special  train,  wear-> 
ing  his  collar  and  drinking  his  champagne,  while  the 
Carmen  and  the  Teamsters  stay  at  home  and  put  up 
money  to  keep  their  bosses  in  luxury  and  idleness. 
It  is  clear  from  all  those  facts  that  politics  is  at  the 
bottom  of  the  Carmen's  demands.  Possibly  the  men 
themselves  do  not  know  it,  but  let  them  do  a  little 
.reflecting  and  figuring  for  themselves,  and  they  will 
see  that  they  are  being  used  as  dupes  by  their  so- 
called  leaders. 

There  will  be  no  special  train  to  St.  Louis,  how- 
ever, and  no  need  of  the  services  of  either  Casey  or 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  i6,  1904. 


Cornelius  at  the  World's  Fair  metropolis,  so  much 
that  they  have  been  anticipating  will  be  lost  to  them. 
Indeed,  it  is  a  question  whether  Hearst  will  be  so  en- 
thusiastic in  the  cause  of  labor  as  he  has  been,  now 
that  he  finds  that  it  cannot  give  him  the  prize  he  cov- 
eted. There  are  already  rumors  that  the  arrangement 
by  which  he  was  to  pay  a  large  number  of  men  in  the 
several  towns  where  his  paper  is  published,  for  imag- 
inary work  on  his  colored  Sunday  supplement,  will 
be  abrogated,  and  that  he  will  pay  only  for  work 
performed,  unions  or  no  unions. 

*  *  * 

The  country  and  State  having  rid  itself  of  the 
Hearst,  should  not  stop  in  its  good  work  until  the 
entire  gang  is  retired  to  private  life.  Livernash,  who 
only  lacks  the  money  to  be  even  worse  than  Hearst, 
should  be  turned  down  by  the  Democracy  and  a  de- 
cent citizen  put  up  in  his  place  next  fall  as  the  party's 
candidate  for  Congress.  If  the  Democracy  has  any  . 
hopes  of  ever  returning  to  power  in  this  State,  not 
to  speak  of  the  country  at  large,  it  must  rid  itself  of 
the  men  who  are  revenue  Democrats  only,  and  who 
are  willing  to  pander  to  everv  vice,  indorse  every  an- 
archial  idea,  and  lend  their  support  to  every  enemy 
of  morality,  decency  and  patriotism,  in  a  vain  effort 
to  be  the  political  bosses  of  the  commonwealth.  The 
Democratic  Party  is  a  pretty  big  institution,  but  it 
is  not  large  enough  to  contain  a  Hearst  and  a  Cleve- 
land both  within  its  folds. 

*  *  * 

The  Republicans  of  the  First  Congressional  Dis- 
trict have  agreed  to  send  ex-Senator  Vorheis  of 
Amador  and  Major  Bull  of  Eureka  to  Chicago. 

*  *  * 

In  the  Second  District,  Senator  Devlin  of  Sacra- 
mento, and  some  one  from  Napa,  not  yet  determined 
upon,  though  it  may  be  Duncan  McKinley  of  Santa 
Rosa,  who  wants  to  go  to  Congress  instead,  as  that 
would  give  him  a  position  to  become  more  prominent 
than  if  he  stayed  at  home.  In  the  Third,  Postmaster 
Lucksinger  of  Vallejo  is  certain  to  be  one,  and  Contra 
Costa  may  name  the  other  as  Governor  Pardee  is  to 
go  as  delegate  at  large  from  Alameda  County,  and 
that  County  will  not  be  allowed  everything.  None 
of  the  other  districts  are  yet  certain  whom  they  will 
send,  though  all  have  a  number  of  candidates. 

*  *  * 

Los  Angeles  has  developed  a  new  Senatorial  can- 
didate in  the  person  of  James  Lankersheim.  whose 
campaign  is  being  managed  by  John  W.  Mitchell, 
which  to  those  who  know  Mitchell  will  be  a  suffi- 
cient indication  of  what  Lankersheim  principally  re- 
lies upjon  to  win  the  prize.  In  the  South  the  candi- 
dacy is  looked  upon  as  a  joke,  although  General  Otis 
has  added  to  the  gaiety  of  nations  by  indorsing  it. 
That,  of  course,  settles  any  possibility  of  the  new 
candidates  getting  a  vote  in  the  Legislature. 

— Junius. 

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necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  damage  may 
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THE    BEGGAR    AND     PROFLIGATE 

A  Fable  of  the  Man,  the  Dog  and  the  Barrel. 

Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a  Man,  and  this  Man  possessed  the  Society  Eye  and  the  inherited  Bar- 
rel. He  had  also  a  Dog.  This  Dog  was  an  Extraordinary  Dog.  Not  because  of  Pedigree,  but  because 
of  Achievement.  He  succeeded  in  having  Himself  incarcerated  in  an  Asylum  for  the  Insane  and  after- 
ward he  was  elected  to  the  Office  of  Congressman.  He  was  a  good  Dog  to  his  Master,  and  became 
known   as   a  Retriever. 

There  was  this  difference  between  the  Dog  and  His  Master.  At  times  the  Dog  acted  according  to  an 
innate  instinct  of  righteousness.  The  Profligate  Man  we  are  writing  about  became  known  far  and  wide 
as  the  Apostle  of  Discord.  The  Dog  was  simply  the  tool.  Through  the  Dog  the  Master  in  Profligacy 
became  connected  with  Labor,  and  through  this  acquaintanceship  he  fomented  discord,  hoping  thereby 
to  pose  as  the  Apostle  of  the  Poor.  But  the  Common  people  know  him  best  at  Home.  The  Profligate 
is  now  parading  about  the  Country  with  the  Dog  and  a  Tin  Cup  begging  the  nomination  from  the  Demo- 
cratic Party.  Under  his  Arm  he  Carries  the  Barrel,  and  from  this  Barrel  pours  a  Yellow  Stream.  This 
stream  goes  to  the  Walking  Delegate  and  the  Professional  Agitator,  and  the  Labor  Element  sees  it  not. 
Do  the  Working  People  take  any  Stock  in  the  Man,  the  Dog  and  the  Barrel?     Oh,  no,  they  are  ON! 


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LETTER  should  be  sent  to  this  office  not  later  than  ;i  a.  m- 
Thursday  previous  to  day  of  Issue. 


Congressman  Hearst's  boom  for  the  Presidency  is 
;o  noiseless  that  nobody  but  himself  can  hear  it. 


Admiral  Togo  is  suspected  of  "salting-'  mines  at 
Port  Arthur  with  explosives. 

Hill  looked  it  right  straight  in  the  eye,  and  then 
the  Tammany  tiger  purred  and  went  to  sleep. 

Every  now  and  then  Russia  lifts  her  head  from  the 
mat  long  enough  to  catch  the  referee's  eve  and  yell 
"foul." 


It  may  be  true  that  a  gallant  Kentucky  editor 
would  not  take  Hearst's  coin,  but  we  will  wager  that 
he  bit  it  first. 

"If  you  have  no  baby,  adopt  one,"  shrieks  a  lady 
reformer  in  New  York.  In  other  words,  if  you  have 
no  trouble,  borrow  some. 


A  gentleman  called  Gayley  tried  to  live  up  to  his 
name  and  succeeded  in  being  such  a  jolly  good  fellow 
.  that  his  wife  is  getting  a  divorce. 

A  hundred  dollars  a  pound  for  a  bulldog  sounds 
like  a  high  price,  but  it  must  be  remembered  that 
there  was  a  good  deal  of  bark  thrown  in. 

Congress  is  asked  to  establish  an  American  "Cross 
of  Honor."  Make  it  of  oak,  seven  feet  by  five,  and 
tie  it  firmly  to  Representative  Livernash. 

One  of  the  funny  things  about  a  dog-show  is  that 
the  exhibits  do  the  barking  and  the  exhibitors  attend 
to  the  fighting. 

Public  ovations  to  a  Chinese  prince  remind  us  that 
Kearneyism  and  the  sandlots  were  ancient  history 
a  long  time  ago. 

Hearst's  hired  men  are  busy  trying  to  find  one  of 
their  numbers  who  will  admit  that  it  was  he  who 
first  mentioned  their  employer  for  the  Presidency. 

An  article  in  a  San  Francisco  newspaper  attempts 
to  illustrate  the  stowing  of  a  cargo,  but  gives  no  pic- 
ture of  Captain  Barnes  or  Colonel  Kowalsky  at  lunch- 
eon. 


The  club  ladies  who  are  called  upon  to  defend  an 
expelled  member's  suit  for  damages,  have  learned  that 
"knocking"  is  not  scientific  when  you  are  caught 
with  the  hammer  on  your  person. 


If  Emperor  William's  voice  must  be  amputated,  it 
must  be  comforting  to  reflect  that  already  he  has 
talked  as  much  as  one  man  ought  to. 

A  Government  inquiry  about  the  "loco  weed" 
seems  absurd  when  everybody  knows  that  it  is  the 
favorite  vegetable  of  the  yellow  journalist. 

Russia  has  put  the  ban  on  wireless  telegraphy  for 
war  correspondents,  and  has  her  eye  on  the  smoke- 
less powder  proposition  as  a  doubtful  point  in  mili- 
larv  ethics. 


That  Oakland  husband  who  whipped  his  chickens 
when  he  was  angered  at  his  wife,  is  in  a  way  to  find 
out  that  there  is  no  vicarious  plan  for  paying  ali- 
mony. 

Berkeley  has  put  a  premium  on  that  form  of  inebri- 
ation technically  known  as  the  "silent  soak."  Noisy 
drunkenness  in  the  college  town  now  costs  the  of- 
fender anywhere  from  $1  to  $100. 

We  might  feel  sorry  for  Texas,  which  is  washed 
away  by  floods  in  winter  and  devoured  by  grass-hop- 
pers in  summer,  if  we  were  not  so  busy  rubbing  the 
places  where  the  labor  agitator  bites. 

Now,  if  the  Carmen  will  strike,  and  the  Hackmen 
will  stay  out,  the  average  citizen  who  does  not  own 
an  automobile  can  read  his  title  clear  to  all-night  en- 
joyment of  the  bock  beer  season. 

It  is  possible  that  suspicion  concerning  the  rob- 
bery of  a  saloon  safe  had  much  to  do  with  the  "break- 
ing" of  three  policemen,  but  it  is  only  fair  to  add 
that  there  are  pockets  in  the  clothes  of  some  of  their 
superiors. 

An  expert  alienist  thinks  that  Hetty  Green  shows 
evidence  of  insanity  when  she  lugs  around  $2,000,000 
in  bills  in  a  hand-bag.  It  is  noteworthy,  however, 
that  the  old  lady  is  not  crazy  enough  to  let  any  kind 
person  hold  the  satchel  for  her. 

That  McGlade,  who  is  best  known  as  "Pete  the 
Penman,"  served  his  sentence  at  San  Quentin  with 
no  complaint  until  he  learned  that  the  town  was 
"wide  open"  again,  and  then  he  began  to  pine  for  a 
"wide  open"  prison. 

It's  too  bad  about  Judge  Parker's  shattered  boom. 
Discovery  that  he  puts  on  evening  dress  for  dinner 
every  day  queered  him  with  the  rank  and  file,  and 
learning  that  he  drinks  water  and  not  much  else 
settles  it  for  him  with  the  Solid  South.  ' 


If  the  supply  of  mines  lasts  long  enough  in  the  har- 
bor of  Port  Arthur,  it  will  be  necessary  for  the  Japs 
to  reduce  their  fighting  strength  on  the  sea.  The 
Russian  land  forces  are  now  carrying  large  signs 
inscribed  with  the  words:  "Don't  fire  till  you  know 
who  we  are." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


BETTING    ON   THE    RACES. 

At  Monday's  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors 
an  ordinance  was  passed  prohibiting  the  laying'  of 
wagers  on  horse  races  except  on  the  race  track.  The 
proponents  of  this  measure  urged  it  as  the  most  prac- 
tical law  for  the  restriction  of  gambling  on  horse 
races.  They  pointed  out  that  by  restricting  the  area 
in  which  wagers  may  he  laid,  the  opportunity  for 
gambling  was  likewise  restricted,  and  therefore  that 
young  men  who  cannot  go  to  the  race  track,  having 
no  opportunity  to  lay  wagers  down-town,  will  >t"p 
gambling  on  the  races.  So  weak  and  ridiculous  is 
this  argument  that  those  who  made  it  must  have  had 
their  tongues  in  their  cheeks  when  they  did  so.  The 
only  result  of  the  ordinance  passed  last  Monday  is 
to  give  the  race  track  gang  a  monopoly  of  the  gam- 
bling, under  protection  of  the  law.  None  of  the  Su- 
pervisors imagine  for  a  moment  that  their  prohibi- 
tion of  the  down-town  pool  rooms  will  have  any  ef- 
fect whatever  upon  the  laying  of  wagers.  The  police 
will  arrest  a  few  pool-sellers  who  are  not  in  the  ring, 
and  the  others  will  continue  to  contribute  for  "pro- 
tection." ft  is  more  than  strange  that  a  man  like 
Supervisor  Brandenstein  should  lend  himself  to  a 
measure  surrounded  by  such  iniquitous  influences. 
There  is  some  satisfaction  in  the  knowledge  that  at 
least  one  member  of  the  Board — Supervisor  Comte — 
has  not  only  convictions^ on  the  subject  of  race  track 
gambling,  but  also  has  the  courage  to  express  them 
in  the  face  of  a  bitter  opposition  and  threats  of  politi- 
cal enmity  by  the  combined  forces  of  the  race  track 
gang.  Mr.  Comte  submitted  an  amendment  pro- 
hibiting gambling  on  horse  races  at  any  place  in 
the  county,  the  race  track  included.  He  said  he  did 
not  pose  as  a  moralist,  but  that  as  a  good  citizen 
whose  attention  had  been  directed  to  the  numerous 
embezzlements  and  other  crimes,  and  to  the  increas- 
ing number  of  suicides,  all  directly  traceable  to  the 
race  track,  he  wished  to  perform  his  duty  in  en- 
deavoring to  do  something  effectual  toward  suppress- 
ing an  evil  which  has  caused  wide-spread  demorali- 
zation throughout  the  community.  Comte's  amend- 
ment received  only  four  votes. 

Brandenstein  and  Braunhart,  in  urging  the  pas- 
sage of  the  race-track  bill,  argued  that  it  would  be 
useless  for  San  Francisco  to  prohibit  gambling  on 
the  local  race  track,  unless  it  were  also  prohibited 
at  Tanforan  and  Emeryville.  This  is  a  vicious  argu- 
ment. They  might  as  well  say  it  would  be  useless 
for  San  Francisco  to  prohibit  pocket-picking  or  open 
prostitution,  unless  other  cities  or  towns  had  simi- 
lar laws.  It  is  surely  our  duty  to  keep  our  own  house 
clean,  notwithstanding  the  habits  of  our  neighbors. 
They  must  know,  moreover,  that  the  race  track  bill 
is  class  legislation  of  the  worst  kind,  with  no  excuse 
for  its  passage  except  the  fact  that  the  people  behind 
it  are  popularly  supposed  to  control  about  2,000 
votes  in  the  red  light  district.  It  is  worthy  of  notice 
that  at  the  same  meeting  at  which  the  bill  was  passed 
the  Supervisors  directed  the  City  Attorney  to  bring 
suit  against  the  Commissioners  of  Public  Works 
and  their  bondsmen,  wdio  are  responsible  for  the  theft 
by  bookkeeper  White,  of  the  Board  of  Works,  of 
over  $10,000,  most  of  which  White  lost  at  the  race 
track.  Widber,  the  city's  former  treasurer,  also 
dropped  at  the  track  a  small  fortune  stolen  from  the 
coffers  at  the  City  Hall ;  McKeown  stole  over  $50,- 
000  from  the  funds  of  the  State  University,  and  lost 
it  all  at  the  race  track;  Peter  McGlade,  now  in  San 
Quentin,  was  another  public  employee  who  forged 
pay  warrants  to  raise  money  to  play  the  races;  Jus- 


tice's clerk  Williams  got  into  trouble,  though  he  was 
not  a  defaulter,  by  going  to  the  race  track ;  and  end- 
less is  the  list  of  young  men,  employed  down  town, 
who  have  lost  their  employers'  money  and  their  own 
good  names  at  the  race  track.  Yet  Mr.  Brandenstein 
says  the  Supervisors  are  not  the  keepers  of  the  public 
conscience;  in  other  words,  that  it  is  not  their  duty 
to  make  laws  the  object  of  which  is  to  prevent  crime. 
Upon  what  theory,  then,  did  he  support  the  race 
track  bill?  Was  it  not  to  close  the  pool  rooms,  be- 
cause they  are  a  public  evil?  If  they  be  evil,  because 
they  are  the  outcroppings  of  the  race  track,  why  not 
close  down  the  fountain  from  which  springs  all  the 
many  streams  of  vice — the  race  track  itself? 


JUSTICE. 

The  News  Letter  believes  in  Fair  Play,  with  capi- 
tal letters,  and  when  the  Mayor  of  San  Francisco 
comes  out  with  a  manly  statement,  such  as  he  made 
in  regard  to  the  impending  strike  of  the  Carmen's 
"Lnion,  we  believe  that  he  should  be  given  full 
credit.  The  responsibility  of  office  has  taught  him 
that  he  is  the  Mayor  of  the  whole  city,  and  not  of 
any  particular  class  of  its  citizens  to  the  detriment 
of  all  the  rest. 

He  asks  the  men  to  ponder  before  they  take  any 
step  that  will  mean  the  serious  crippling  of  the  busi- 
ness interests  of  the  city.  He  asks  the  men  to  listen 
to  the  promptings  of  their  minds  rather  than  the  dic- 
tation of  their  leaders,  who  lose  nothing  by  the  strike 
but  who  gain  much  in  fomenting  discord  and  dis- 
satisfaction. 

The  Mayor  asks  the  men  to  take  a  secret  ballot  to 
obtain  the  untrammeled  opinion  of  the  workers.  This 
is  wise  advice,  as  it  will  establish  beyond  a  doubt 
whether  it  is  the  sense  of  a  majority  of  the  carmen 
that  there  shall  be  agitation  and  unsettledness  even- 
six  months. 


CENTRAL   EMERGENCY    HOSPITAL. 


City  hospitals  are  rarely  what  they  ought  to  be, 
but  that  San  Francisco  institution  grandiosely  called 
the  "Central  Emergency  Hospital,"  goes  awav  he- 
low  the  limit  of  what  such  a  plan  ought  to  be.  Be- 
fore this,  the  Receiving  Hospital — that  is  its  popular 
name — has  been  afflicted  with  incompetency  and  dis- 
honesty and  rapacity,  but  it  remained  for  Mayor 
Schmitz  to  fill  it  with  wolves  in  silk  hats  and  whis- 
kers. Worst  of  all  the  crew  is  one  Brackett,  a  per- 
son of  shambling  intellect,  a  straggling  beard,  and 
fingers  that  crook  for  clutching  like  a  vulture's  talons. 
He  has  been  in  office  only  a  few  weeks,  and  has  been 
unpleasantly  in  the  public  eye  most  of  that  time. 
From  the  frequency  with  which  men  suffering  from 
fractured  skulls  have  been  treated  under  his  adminis- 
tration for  such  ailments  as  pneumonia  or  cholera 
morbus,  it  might  be  inferred  that  Mayor  Schmitz 
looked  for  his  medical  staff  among  the  livery  stables, 
hut  the  inference  would  be  incorrect.  If  Brackett  be 
guilty  as  charged  by  the  recent  verdict  of  a  Coroner's 
jury,  then,  plainly,  he  got  an  important  part  of  his 
education  in  a  pawnbroker's  shop  or  the  office  of  a 
cent  per  cent  loan  shark.  This  jury  found  from  the 
testimony  given  before  it  that  Brackett  frightened 
a  poor  woman  into  refusing  to  have  her  desperately 
injured  husband  go  to  a  public  hospital  for  treatment : 
that  he  began  to  reach  out  for  her  few  dollars  while 
her  husband  lay  helpless  in  the  Receiving  Hospital, 
and  that  after  the  victim's  death,  following  an  opera- 
tion by  the  talon-fingered  Brackett,  the  dead  man's 
employer  was  hounded  and  harassed  by  Brackett 
for  still  more  money.     All  this  upon  the  sworn  evi- 


April  23,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


putable  than  any  Brack 
rcputabli  man  and 

widowed  by   Brackctt's  knife. 

Ili'  nil  of  physician-  not  much  worse  than 

I'.rackctt,  but  happily  they  do  not  often  get  into  places 

where    they    can    "operate"    upon    nun    ami    women 
stricken  by  casualty  and  where  they  can  graft  under 
the  protection  and  with  the  aid  of  official  position. 
They  are  the  physicians  who  will  swear  to  anything 
for  a  lew  dollars,  ami  tor  not  very  many  dollars  will 
perform   any   surgical   service,   including   those   ex 
■  y  inhibited  by  statute.     But  they  are  less  dan- 
IS  than   I'.rackctt.     Any  man.  any  man's  mother 
ster  or  daughter  may  he  laid  low  by  accident  and 
flung  into  the  eager  hands  of  I'.rackctt  and  his  under- 
lings.   Seemingly  it  would  he  better  for  any  one  to 
•  it  to  jail  than  to  the  Receiving  Hospital,  for  we 
have  not  yet  heard  of  prisoners  in  any  city  jail  being 
Cinched  out  of  their  money.     Moreover,  it  is  always 
possible  that  a  patient  in  the  Receiving  Hospital  may 
be  operated  upon  by  I'.rackctt  or  one  of  his  associates 
before  be  can  be  rescued  from  their  mercies. 

As  a  diagnostician  "f  the  condition  of  wallets  and 
bankbooks,  the  Receiving:  Hospital  doctor  of  the 
Bracket!  school  is  at  bis  best.  He  may  overlook  a 
fractured  skull  or  a  row  of  broken  ribs,  and  men 
may  die  under  bis  knife  and  bone-saw,  but  he  makes 
no  mistake  about  the  patient's  money.  Nobody  has 
accused  him  yet  of  "grafting  for  a  case."  as  it  is 
called  in  this  hospital,  when  the  victim  had  empty 
pockets  ami  no  relatives  or  friends. 


THE  EFFORT  TO  FREE  McGLADE. 

Public  attention  is  earnestly  invited  to  the  case 
of  I'eter  McGlade,  confessed  and  convicted  forger. 
McGlade  is  wearing  stripes  at  San  Quentin,  but  is 
letting  his  hair  grow  in  the  hope  of  a  parole  which 
will  let  him  loose  upon  society  before  his  insufficient 
sentence  has  been  served.  After  five  trials,  in  which 
the  gang  of  "case  fixers"  and  jury  bribers  to  which 
McGlade  belonged  did  its  dirtiest  work  to  save  him, 
he  was  convicted  upon  a  portion  of  the  long  list  of 
felonies  charged  against  him,  and  sent  to  San  Quen- 
tin for  an  eight  year  term.  On  Monday  he  will  go 
into  court — the  same  court  that  convicted  him — and 
try  to  rid  his  record  of  the  remaining  indictments 
that  stand  between  him  and  the  operation  in  his  be- 
half. 

McGlade  is  an  expert  bookkeeper.  He  filled  the 
books  and  accounts  of  the  city  Street  Department 
with  forgeries  which  lined  his  pockets  and  the  pock- 
ets of  his  confederates  with  the  city's  coin.  Detected, 
he  ran  away,  was  caught  in  another  State,  was 
brought  back,  confessed  his  guilt,  went  free  on  bail, 
"jumped"  his  bonds,  and  was  caught  again.  It  might 
have  been  thought  that  conviction  would  be  easy. 
The  proof  of  this  rascal's  guilt  was  plain,  even  if  be 
had  not  run  away,  even  if  lie  had  not  confessed.  But 
convicting  him  was  another  and  intensely  difficult 
proposition.  Daily  during  his  trials  the  courtroom 
and  the  adjacent  corridors  were  filled  with  the  most 
dangerous  foes  of  organized  society — professional 
perjurers,  past  masters  in  the  corruption  of  jurors, 
the  stranglers  and  hatchetmen  of  the  "push."  Even 
the  minor  officers  of  the  court  were  leagued  in  ini- 
quity with  the  defense.  The  bailiff  of  the  court, 
Deputy  Sheriff  Dasher,  did  valiant  service  for  Mc- 
Glade in  driving  people  of  the  prisoner's  own  kidney 
to  sit  on  the  jury  and  in  permitting  and  encouraging 
such  conduct  on  the  part  of  the  jurors  as  would  lead 


mis-trial.     Dasher  has  since  been  convicted  of 

.1   felony   in   "substituting"  Chinese  prisoners  left   in 

his  charge.   And    Dasher  was  not    the  only   man   who 

liberties  with   his  official  oath  in  order  to  help 

McGlade.      hour    trials    went    wrong,    thanks    to    the 

criminal    "push."   and   then   a  conviction    which    was 

1  much  a  triumph  as  an  accident. 

It  may  be  asked:  Why  all  this  interest  of  the  jur\- 

fixers  and  their  kind  in   a  criminal  of  a  very  ordinary 

kind:      It    is   not    loyalty,   we    may    be   sure,   nor   anv 

other    manifestation    of    the    fabled     "honor    among 

thieves."  Nor  can  it  be  that  McGlade  compels  sym- 
pathy and  assistance  through  Ids  personal  qualities. 

A  vile  fellow,  he  was  in  his  hey-day  of  forgery  and 
prosperity,  associating-  by  choic;  with  the  hags  and 
harpies  of  the  tenderloin,  preferring  black  skins  to 
white.  To  these  he  was  "handsome  Pete  McGlade." 
To  the  vicious  crowd  which  helped  him  before  and 
is  behind  him  now  he  was  "Pete  the  penman."  That 
probably  is  the  secret  of  his  influence — his  skill  in 
writing  other  men's  signatures.  A  man  of  such  a 
talent,  criminal  in  his  tendencies,  is  too  valuable 
to  the  "push"  to  be  left  in  prison.  That  is  why  this 
effort  to  free  him  is  being  made,  and  that  is  precise- 
ly why  the  court  in  which  he  is  to  appear — the  court 
of  Superior  Judge  Carroll  Cook — needs  watching. 

THE  PROMOTION  COMMITTEE'S  WORK. 

The  California  Promotion  Committee  announces 
that  on  the  30th  inst.  it  will  hold  a  public  banquet  for 
the  avowed  purpose  of  bringing  together  represen- 
tative men  from  all  parts  of  the  State  to  boom  Cali- 
fornia. The  recent  tour  of  the  committee  has 
aroused  good  feeling  throughout  the  great  valleys 
and  the  rapidly  growing  Southland,  and  a  public  sen- 
timent has  been  created  to  the  effect  that  it  is  about 
time  Californians  got  together  and  did  something 
for  California.  It  is  about  time  that  all  the  people, 
from  Siskiyou  to  San  Diego,  and  from  the  Sierras  to 
the  sea,  should  be  thoroughly  educated  in  the  idea 
that  anything  that  will  help  the  State  at  large  will 
certainly  benefit  every  individual  portion  of  it;  any- 
thing that  will  increase  our  foreign  commerce,  or 
our  inland  trade,  will  put  dollars  into  the  pockets 
of  every  man,  let  his  business  be  what  it  may ;  any- 
thing that  will  induce  immigration  will  double  val- 
ues by  the  course  of  natural  development.  But  these 
things  can  be  done  only  by  united  effort.  Too  long 
have  the  merchants  of  San  Francisco  given  but  small 
heed  to  the  wants  of  their  brothers  in  other  places ; 
too  long  has  the  interior  been  arrayed  against  this 
municipality  and  glared  at  it  with  eyes  of  envy;  too 
long  has  the  South  lived  within  itself  behind  the 
shoulder  of  Tehachapi ;  too  long  has  the  North  strug- 
gled alone  for  the  fruits  of  the  birth-right  given  it  by 
nature.  The  California  Promotion  Committee  comes 
at  an  opportune  time  with  the  hand  of  brotherhood 
extended,  and  with  words  of  fair  promise  for  Califor- 
nia's future  greatness.  Leading  men — men  of  actual 
personal  influence — should  attend  that  banquet  from 
all  sections  of  the  State.  If  they  find  it  impossible 
to  come,  they  should  send  a  message  assuring  the 
co-operation  of  their  section  in  this  endeavor  to  de- 
velop the  State — in  accordance  with  a  definite  plan. 
Between  now  and  November  next,  over  100,000  peo- 
ple, representative  in  greater  or  less  degree,  will  visit 
this  State  from  the  East,  to  attend  national  conven- 
tions in  this  city.  They  should  be  sent  back  to  their 
homes  as  advertising  agents  for  California.  This  is 
the  time  for  action.  Let  the  watchword  be — co-op- 
eration and  advertising. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


"THE   RUIN   OF   SOCIETY." 

Gertrude  Atherton  thinks  that  society  is  a  magnifi- 
cent ruin  from  a  moral  standpoint.  She  may  not  be 
alone  in  this  belief,  but  she  says  it  right  out  in  pub- 
lic; wherefore  her  remarks  are  worthy  of  attention. 
Modern  society,  she  says,  has  reached  the  same  depth 
of  degradation  in  which  wallowed  the  belles  and  dan- 
dies in  the  days  when  George  IV  was  king.  She 
admits  that  the  women  of  to-day  are  not  absolutely 
worse  than  those  of  yester-year,  but  she  insists  they 
are  no  better.  And  as  for  the  men !  Mrs.  Atherton 
classes  them  as  "superior  sort  of  grooms,"  who  know 
no  higher  law  than  the  satisfaction  of  all  their  de- 
sires. She  refers,  of  course,  to  the  men  of  the 
"smart  set,"  the  real  insiders,  who  have  their  names 
blown  in  the  bottle.  The  pace  they  set  has  shocked 
even  Mrs.  Atherton.  The  main  cause  for  the  slump 
in  morality,  she  finds,  is,  first,  the  all-controlling  in- 
fluence of  the  smart  set;  second,  the  demand  for 
dress,  the  insane  desire  for  display,  the  insatiable 
yearning  to  exhibit  more  peacock  feathers  than  our 
neighbors.  Mrs.  Atherton  really  doesn't  know  what 
we  can  do  about  it,  but  she  very  much  fears  the  re- 
sult will  be  something  akin  to  the  Reign  of  Terror. 
Now,  here  is  a  subject  for  the  women's  clubs.  There 
are  many  able  and  honest  women  in  the  local  clubs 
who  should  be  willing  to  break  a  lance  in  defense  of 
their  sex  and  their  class.  Are  the  society  women  of 
the  day  degenerates?  Are  the  men  social  lepers? 
Do  society  girls  resort  to  any  means  so  that  they 
may  have  new  gowns?  Are  we  getting  worse  from 
a  moral  standpoint?  Have  we  any  standard  of  mor- 
ality—practically, not  theoretically?  Can  we  learn 
anything  new  from  a  close  study  of  the  times  and 
manners  of  the  days  of  the  last  of  the  Georges?  In 
brief,  what  justification  exists  for  the  charges  of  Mrs. 
Atherton?  The  News  Letter  will  be  pleased  to  pub- 
lish any  answer  to  Mrs.  Atherton  that  any  local  club- 
woman may  submit. 

A  LAMENT  TO  GENERAL  MacARTHUR. 

That  part  of  San  Francisco  which  is  tributary  tc 
the  Presidio  should  be  rid  of  the  drunken  and  the  dis- 
charged soldier.  The  commanding  officer  at  the  big 
garrison  has  every  intention  to  keep  his  men  within 
bounds.  We  are  told  that  patrols  attempt  to  round 
up  refractory  characters,  and  that  the  civil  authori- 
ties are  trving  their  best  to  co-operate  with  the  mili- 
tary. The"  discharged  soldier  is  the  greatest  offender. 
He  finds  an  able  assistant  in  disgraceful  conduct  from 
the  vampire  civilian  of  the  Barbary  Coast.  These 
people  are  a  stench  in  the  nostrils  of  the  citizen  who 
patronizes   the  Ferries  and   Presidio  Railroad. 

Two  suggestions  have  been  made  that  would  un- 
doubtedly mitigate  this  evil.  Large  numbers  of  the 
soldiers  might'be  transferred  to  Angel  Island,  and 
they  would  be  exempt  from  the  temptations  of  the 
city.  They  would  enjoy  better  climate  and  the  pub- 
lic would  be  generally  benefited  by  their  removal. 
Another  scheme  contemplates  the  re-establishment 
of  the  "canteen"  and  the  insistence  by  superior  offi- 
cers of  cleanliness  in  the  matter  of  clothes.  Most 
of  our  soldiers  appear  drunk  or  sober  in  the  streets 
of  San  Francisco  with  clothes  that  are  little  better 
than  those  of  a  tramp. 

Let  no  one  for  a  moment  suppose  that  the  News 
Letter  means  a  slur  on  the  privates  of  the  United 
States  army.  The  army  is  a  good  one  and  the  vast 
majority  of  soldiers  are  deserving  young  men  who 
have    enlisted   through    patriotism,    and      at     times 


through  poverty.  The  army  is  a  necessity.  There 
is  no  reason  why  it  should  be  a  dirty  necessity. 

Neatness  and  cleanliness  will  lead  to  sobriety  and 
good  behavior.  Who  ever  saw  a  drunken  marine? 
The  deck  officer  on  a  ship  of  war  inspects  each  man 
as  he  leaves  the  ship  and  as  he  returns,  and  the  re- 
sult is  that  the  U.  S.  Marine  Corps  is  an  honor  to 
the  Nation. 

There  is  no  valid  reason  why  an  American  soldier 
should  behave  more  boisterously  in  San  Francisco 
than  in  Manila;  there  is  no  reason  why  a  soldier 
should  be  dirtier  in  San  Francisco  than  in  Peking  or 
Nagasaki,  and  yet  these  are  facts.  Do  the  command- 
ing officers  think  it  wise  to  let  the  men  become  hood- 
lums once  they  are  in  our  city?  We  think  not.  We 
ask  that  General  MacArthur  enforce  rules  of  clean- 
liness. If  we  cannot  have  the  canteen  to  keep  them 
sober,  let  us  try  to  do  so  through  the  agency  of 
white  shirts,  white  collars  and  cuffs,  belts,  polished 
buttons  and  clean  clothes. 

On  the  other  hand  the  civil  authorities  under  our 
present  inefficient  Mayor  should  put  a  stop  to  a  policy 
that  puts  a  premium  on  crime.  They  should  hale  to 
the  bastile  the  male  and  female  vampire  who  lives 
on  the  uniformed  representative  of  Uncle  Sam.  There 
is  much  to  be  hoped  for  in  this  direction  from  the 
military  authorities.  All  they  need  is  a  suggestion, 
but  when  it  comes  to  the  civil  authorities  we  must 
confess  that  there  is  very  little  to  be  hoped  for.  The 
present  administration  is  bound  by  marriage  in  in- 
dissoluble ties  to  a  wide  open  policy  of  criminal  in- 
dulgence. 

THE  ENDORSEMENT  BY  THE  PEOPLE. 

T 

It  is  no  little  gratification  to  the  News  Letter  to 
feel  that  it  has  in  many  directions  curtailed  the 
shameless  effrontery  of  criminal  office-holders.  From 
the  waterfront  to  the  City  Hall  there  is  a  long  line 
of  offenders  who  are  now  compelled  to  do  their  work 
in  the  dark.  The  continual  campaigning  of  the  News 
Letter  has  not  stamped  out  vice,  but  it  has  lessened 
the  exploitation  of  the  public  in  public.  We  are 
proud  because  of  the  enemies  we  are  making.  The 
circulation  of  the  News  Letter  is  increasing  so  rap- 
idly that  it  is  difficult  to  keep  up  with  it  in  the  way 
of  printing  press  and  paper.  This  is  the  only  en- 
dorsement we  care  for.  Our  enemies  read  the  paper, 
the  public  reads  the  paper,  enjoys  the  discomfiture 
of  the  grafters,  and  the  ultimate  result  is  interesting 
to  the  advertiser.  He  it  is  that  reaps  the  final 
benefit. 


fcJCHAS  KLILUS  &  CO  JJ 

&EXCL  US/VE& 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who  likes 
to  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to  bother  with 
Tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  into  our  shop, 
get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a  log.  We  have  that 
"Immediate  Service  System." 


IKEAEy^STTIMLIE'ir 


April  33,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The     "Jewish    F.ncyclope- 

Jewish  Encyclopedia,     dia"    is    a    descriptive    rcc- 

Volume  VI.  ord     of     history,     religion. 

literature,  and  customs  of 

the   Jewish    people,   from    the   earliest   times   to   the 
lit  day,  and  is  prepared  by  more  than  four  bun 
ilred    scholars    and    specialists.      It    is    published    in 
twelve  volumes,  and  embellished  with  upward  of  two 
thousand  illustrations. 

A  subject  of  curious  interest  in  volume  VI,  pages 
157-158,  is  "Hair."  an  article  contributed  by  Dr.  lm- 
manucl  Benzinger.  Here  the  writer  describes  the 
fashion  of  wearing  the  hair  by  nun  and  women,  also 
the  religious  customs  followed.  The  rabbinical  sec- 
tion of  this  subject,  written  under  the  direction  of 
I>r.  Solomon  Schechter,  President  of  the  Faculty  of 
the  Jewish  Theological  Seminary  in  America,  is  sup- 
plied b\  Dr.  I.  Broyde,  who  tells  us  that  in  rabbinical 
times  "a  man  who  curled  his  hair  was  regarded  as  a 
vain  person.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  Joseph  was  still 
termed  '  na'ar,"  or  lad,  because  he  w-as  childish 
enough  to  curl  his  hair.  Elijah  had  naturally  curly 
hair;  his  enemies,  however,  mocked  him,  declaring 
that  he  curled  it  .  .  .  While  Samson  was  filled  by 
the  Holy  Spirit,  his  hair,"  we  are  told,  made  a  noise 
like  bells,  and  the  sound  was  heard  from  Zorah  to 
Eshtaol.  One  authority  states  that  a  person  who 
does  not  wash  his  hands  after  shaving  his  hair  suf- 
fers from  spells  of  anxiety  for  three  days.  A  brief 
note  on  the  superstitions  that  relate  to  the  hair  is 
added  by  Joseph  Jacobs,  B.  A.,  the  eminent  folklorist. 
author  of  '"English  Fairy  Tales"  and  other  contribu- 
tions to  Jewish  lore,  who  points  out  among  other 
things  that  to  have  a  hairy  body  is  a  sign  of  Tuck ; 
and  to  throw  away  hair  cut  from  the  head  will  cause 
a  headache. 

The  topic,  "Hand"  (pp.  211-212)  is  from  the  pen  of 
Dr.  M.  Grunwald,  who  in  treating  this  subject  covers 
the  origin  of  tattooing,  the  customs  of  the  laying  on 
of  hands,  and  of  using  the  hand  in  taking  oath,  and 
of  kissing  of  hands.  He  tells  also  that  according  to 
the  Haggadah  the  hands  of  Adam  were  covered  with 
a  horn  up  to  the  time  of  his  fall.  Dr.  Fishberg  also 
contributes  interesting  data  upon  "Idiocy"  (p.  556) 
and  "Insanity"  (p.  603).  The  statistics  which  ac- 
company these  articles  will  prove  of  especial  inter- 
est to  students  of  anthropology.  On  the  subject  of 
"Insanity,"  Dr.  Fishberg  shows  that  the  proportion 
of  Jewish  insane  in  nearly  all  the  places  from  which 
statistics  have  been  obtained  is  often  more  than 
double  that  of  the  non-Jewish  population. 

Funk  &  Wagnalls  Co.,  Publishers,  New  York. 

The  ambition  of  a  selfish  wife 

The  Horse-Leech's  as  extravagant  as  she  is  beau- 
Daughters,  tiful,  the  ruin  of  a  generous, 
typically  American  husband 
(a  member  of  the  Stock  Exchange)  and  his  ultimate 
happiness  through  the  love  of  another  woman,  give 
the  central  motive  of  the  plot  of  Mrs.  Jackson's  new 
novel.  It  is  further  explained  by  the  origin  of  the 
title,  which  is  taken  from  the  familiar  verse  in  Pro- 
verbs :  "The  horse-leech  hath  two  daughters,  crying, 
'Give,  give.' "  The  book  shows  the  reckless  extrava- 
gance of  well-to-do  Americans.  It  is  set  to  the  stir- 
ring pace  of  present-day  New  York,  and  reflects  the 
mood  of  buoyancy  and  power  which  belongs  to  the 
great  metropolis  and  its  brilliant  society.  To  one 
who  thinks  life  is  a  comedy,  as  well  as  to  one  to' 


whom  it  is  a  tragedy,  this  novel  will  have  an  attrac- 
tion as  extraordinary  as  it  is  unusual.  The  story  is 
told  with  a  skill  thai  leaves  in  the  mind  a  vivid  pic- 
ture and  a  sense  as  of  having  just  watched  the  actual 
play  of  character,  so  real  is  it.  Through  all  the  ap- 
parently hopeless  tangle,  the  author  keeps  in  hand 
the  thread  of  the  happy  ending. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Publishers,  Boston  and 
New  York.     Price,  $1.50. 

"The  Yeoman,"  published  by  John  Lane,  is  a  novel 
consisting  of  thirty  chapters,  and  written  something 
on  the  line  of  the  dime  novel.    Price,  $1.50. 

"The  Life  of  an  Actor,"  by  Pierce  Eagan,  contains 
twenty-seven  colored  illustrations  and  several  de- 
signs in  wood.  It  is  a  new  edition,  founded  on  that 
published  by  C.  S.  Arnold  in  1825.  The  illustrations 
are  rather  crude,  and  are  certainly  not  superior  to 
anything  printed  in  1825.  The  text  is  well  written, 
and  will  be  appreciated  by  book  readers  as  well  as 
the  theatrical  profession.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  Pub- 
lishers.    Price,  $1.50. 

Edward  N.  Townsend  is  to  the  front  again  with 
new  "Chimmie  Fadden"  stories.  Mr.  Townsend  has 
a  large  following,  and  those  who  enjoy  his  writings 
will  be  as  well  pleased  with  his  latest  book,  "Sure," 
as  with  "Chimmie  Fadden"  and  other  books  of  a 
similar   character. 

Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  Publishers,  New  York. 

"To  Windward"  is  by  Henry  C.  Rowland,  the  au- 
thor of  "Sea  Scamps."  It  is  partly  a  sea  story,  and 
partly  the  account  of  a  man's  struggles  in  New  York. 
It  is  full  of  incident,  strong  and  invigorating,  and 
shows  quite  a  distinct  development  in  style  over  the 
preceding  works  of  the  same  author. 

A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  New  York. 

"Parsifal,  the  Story  and  Analysis  of  Wagner's 
Great  Opera,"  by  H.  R.  Haweis,  is  an  appreciative 
and  well-written  account  of  the  opera.  It  is  season- 
ably re-printed  at  this  time  when  this  particular 
opera  is  receiving  much  public  attention.  The  au- 
thor was  eminently  fitted  to  do  the  work,  and  his 
readers  will  no  doubt  be  entirely  satisfied.  This 
small  work  is  published  by  Funk,  Wagnalls  &  Co., 
New  York. 


The  latest  style  In  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


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BREAKFAST  AT 


HAVE  YOU  DINED  OR 
LUNCHED  AT 


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Fare,  service,  wines  and  table  appointments,  surpass  anything  pre- 
viously attempted  in  this  City.  English  Ale  on  draught;  and  the  finest 
line  of  liquors  and  cigars,  at  the  RED  LION  bar. 

The  RED  LION  GRILL  for  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  in  the  S.  F. 
Stock  Exchange  Building,  accessible  from  Pine  Street,  just  below 
Montgomery,  also  from  Bush  and  Montgomery  Streets  through  the 
Mills  Building. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


FINANCIAL 


Some  weeks  ago,  when  the  sub- 
The  Chinese  and     ject  of  the  importation  of  Chi- 
the  Rand.  nese  into  South  Africa  for  min- 

ing purposes  was  rife,  the 
News  Letter  remarked  that  the  question  was  one 
which  the  Africanders  would  settle  eventually  to 
their  own  satisfaction,  and  more  rapidly  than  by 
law.  The  Chinese  as  a  body  have  not  commenced 
to  come  in,  and  yet  a  feeling  of  uneasiness  prevails 
in  the  community,  and  a  determination  has  already 
been  announced  to  keep  them  when  they  arrive  in  a 
compound  or  enclosure.  That  this  is  not  a  very  satis- 
factory proposition  is  evinced  by  a  story  told  of  an 
experience  the  late  Boer  Government  had  with  a 
"Chink"  at  the  time  they  were  prohibiting  the  entry 
of  undesirables  into  the  Transvaal,  when  all  the 
trains  arriving  over  the  border  were  examined  and 
any  objectionable  characters  were  turned  back.  On 
one  occasion  a  Chinaman  arrived  in  a  passenger  train. 
He  was  removed  from  the  train  and  taken  to  the 
border,  and  he  came  back  into  Charlestown.  That 
evening  the  Chinaman  secreted  himself  in  a  goods 
truck,  under  a  tarpaulin,  and  essayed  to  get  through 
in  this  manner.  He  was  again  discovered  and 
kicked  from  the  station  to  the  little  stream  which 
divided  the  two  countries,  and  he  again  drifted  back 
into  Charlestown.  Next  morning  John  started  on 
foot  to  walk  up  to  the  promised  land.  Two  days 
later  two  Boer  policemen  arrived,  leading  him  be- 
tween them  with  a  rope.  When  they  arrived  at  the 
border  the  policemen  dismounted  and  literally  wiped 
up  the  dust  with  the  yellow  man.  Then  they  released 
the  rope,  and  he  again  came  into  the  colony.  That 
evening  John  went  to  a  store  ;  he  purchased  some  red 
ochre,  some  blacking  and  a  blanket.  He  borrowed  a 
bucket  of  water  from  the  storekeeper  and  went  into 
the  back  yard.  When  he  returned  he  was  the  most 
unsightly  Kaffir  the  world  has  ever  seen.  Then  he 
started  again  on  his  weary  way.  He  got  through  all 
right ;  at  any  rate  he  did  not  come  back.  It  would  be 
a  pretty  difficult  trick  to  keep  individuals  of  this 
type  in  a  corral  or  compound. 

Ex-State  Senator  Jere  Lynch  of 
Jere  Lynch  on  this  city  is  out  in  print  again. 
the  Klondike.  Since  his  memoirs  of  an  Egyp- 
tian trip,  he  has  rested  in  quiet 
until  again  the  silence  is  broken  and  the  Sphynx 
speaks,  this  time  upon  the  frozen  North  and  the  ice- 
clad  domains  of  the  Klondike.  The  tale  is  told  from 
the  standpoint  of  a  "cheechaka,"  one  of  the  motley 
gang  of  adventurers  who  "rushed"  the  new  diggings 
in  the  spring.  It  was  a  case  of  tinker,  tailor,  soldier 
and  thief  with  a  sprinkling  of  the  capitalistic  leaven 
in  this  omnium  gatherum,  which  hailed  from  every- 
where and  nowhere.  Not  having  been  honored  with 
a  copy  of  "Three  Years  in  the  Klondike,"  it  is  impos- 
sible to  descant  upon  its  merits,  but  from  what  we 
hear  from  across  the  water,  the  volume  has  interested 
people  who  have  read  it  there.  It  is  said  to  have  a 
wide  range,  dealing  with  all  the  details  of  a  live  min- 
ing camp  in  the  true  spirit  of  Bohemianism,  which  of 
course  will  be  tolerated  and  rather  admired  by  Great 
Britain  from  the  pen  of  a  foreigner,  while  it  would 
mean  failure  and  rebuke  for  any  author,  a  resident 
of  that  part  of  the  world.  It  is  remarked,  however, 
that  in  so  far  as  throwing  light  upon  the  question  of 
staking  claims  and  working  pay  dill  and  the  subject 
of  mining,  the  information  afforded  is  meagre.  While 
comment  also  is  made  that  the  Mr.  Lynch  had  left 


his  readers  in  the  dark  as  to  the  success  of  his  own 
venture,  it  is  implied  by  his  critics  that  he  was  num- 
bered among  the  lucky  ones  who  accumulated  a  pile 
of  the  "stuff."     Quien  Sabe! 

That  the  big  monied  men  of 
Capital  Moving  the  East  have  their  eye  on  the 
on  Tonopah.  the  mines  of  Tonopah,  is  evi- 
dent from  the  movement  in 
that  direction  of  capitalists  or  their  experts  which 
has  been  going  on  of  late.  Charles  M.  Schwab,  well 
known  in  connection  with  the  great  steel  trust,  has 
just  returned  from  a  personal  examination  of  the 
camp,  and  the  interests  he  has  already  attained  there 
are  about  to  he  increased,  from  all  that  can  be 
learned.  This  shows  what  merit  will  do  in  the  way 
of  pulling  a  mining  district  to  the  front,  and  also  that 
there  is  just  as  much  money  ready  in  America  to  back 
up  American  mines  as  there  is  abroad  for  South  Af- 
rica or  Westralia.  The  Guggenheim  corporation  is 
DOW  the  owner  of  the  biggest  property  in  the  camp, 
and  with  Schwab  and  a  few  more  like  him  in  point 
of  wealth,  this  section  of  Nevada  will  have  as  strong 
a  backing  as  any  other  camp  in  the  Silver  State  had, 
even  during  the  palmiest  days  of  Silver  mining.  It 
is  too  bad  that  San  Francisco  got  left  on  the  Tono- 
pah disposition,  but  an  investment  there  would  have 
necessitated  somebody  putting  their  hands  in  their 
own  pockets,  and  that  means  something  in  this  burg. 
The  big  Board  of  Brokers  also  had  its  chance  to 
control  the  share  selling  end  of  the  proposition,  but 
it  had  no  more  use  for  the  shares  than  the  local  capi- 
talists had  for  the  mines.  Fortunately  for  Nevada, 
this,  however,  will  not  affect  Tonopah  or  its  people, 
who  pride  themselves  now  of  being  independent  of 
San  Francisco. 

The   feature  of  the   trading  on 
Local  Securities      the   local   Stock   and   Bond    F.x- 
are  Weak.  change  during  the  week  was  an 

advance  in  the  stock  of  the  San 
Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  Co.  It  was  just  slow  and 
jerky  enough  to  bring  into  evidence  each  turn  of  the 
jack-screw  which  worked  the  oracle.  It  'did  not 
take  the  up  grade  with  flying  leaps,  which  might  have 
been  expected  from  the  news  of  the  new  blood  about 
to  be  interjected  into  the  management  of  the  com- 
pany. At  the  rate  it  is  now  going,  it  will  be  some 
time  before  the  price  reaches  a  point  anywhere  be- 
tween $80  and  par,  which  represents  the  point  where 
not  a  few  of  the  present  holders  got  in.  This  slow 
movement  does  not  show  much  buying  upon  the  part 
of  holders  of  high-priced  shares,  desirous  of  averag- 
ing up  so  as  to  cut  the  figure  of  original  purchase 
down  to  a  level  where  a  chance  can  be  hoped  for  of 
getting  out  of  an  investment  which  has  caused  a  lot 
of  people  much  worriment  of  mind.     Outside  of  this 


A  Beautiful 
Dancing  Surface 

ts  obtained  on  the  floor  of  any  hall  or  ball  room  by  use 
of  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax.  It  will  not  ball 
up  on  the  shoes  nor  lump  on  the  floor;  makes  neither 
dirt  nor  dust,  but  forms  a  perfect  dancing  surface. 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  of  Ihe  finest  fabric. 
For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co..  Langley  &  Michaels  and 
Redington  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk,  Geary  &  Co., 
Sacramento,   and   F.   W .   Braun  &  Co.,   Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax 


A  Big  Cut  Needed 
in  Salaries. 


April  »3.  1904. 

-.  the  trar  <i  which  have  been  regiilarh 

marked  with  the  significant  mark  of  time  sales.  busi- 

not  been  as  brisk  as  it  might  be,  although 

in  all  lines,  both  bonds  and  shan  as  a  rule, 

have  idy. 

It  is  now  morally  certain 
that  C.  O.  <  '<.  Miller,  who  is 
an  experienced  gas  man.  will 
have  actual  charge  of  thi 
manufacturing  department  of  the  S.  I".  Gas  and  Elec 
trie  Company,  although  not  assuming  altogether  or 
wearing  the  mantle  of  "Manager."  He  will  likely. 
however,  be  empowered  to  put  in  his  own  engineers, 
among  whom  will  likely  be  his  chief,  employed  when 
he  was  at  the  head  of  the  Pacific  Gas  Improvement 
ipany.  This  is  one  step  in  the  right  direction. 
the  next  is  to  cut  down  the  expense  "i  running  the  in- 
stitution, reducing  all  the  high-priced  lists  down  to 
a  figure  in  accord  with  the  requirements  of  an  in- 
come which  is  already  strained  to  meet  weighty 
obligations  of  an  imperative  nature.  Some  money 
put  into  improvement  and  renovation  of  a  very  anti- 
quated service  plant  would  be  utilized  to  much  better 
advantage  than  by  the  payment  of  fancy  salaries 
when  first-class  men  in  all  departments  from  the  head 
of  the  institution  down  can  be  obtained  at  a  very 
much  lower  rate. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


The  Comstock  Market  has  been  quiet  of  late, 
prices  ruling  firm  at  the  north-end.  where  the  princi- 
pal work  on  the  lode  is  now  being  done.  The  pre- 
paratory  work  at  other  points  has  not  yet  been  suffi- 
ciently  advanced  to  allow  of  operations  upon  the 
newly  arranged  plan  which  involves  the  utilization 
of  the  Sutro  tunnel  more  than  ever  before  in  its  his- 
torv. 


OBITUARY. 

Despondent  because  of  continued  ill-health  and 
brooding  over  the  law's  delay  in  settling  a  long- 
standing libel  suit  against  a  San  Francisco  paper, 
with  which  he  had  been  in  litigation  for  nearly  a 
score  of  years,  Judge  J.  W.  Turner,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  attorneys  in  Northern  California,  com- 
mitted suicide  in  Humboldt  Bay  April  15th,  about  5 
o'clock,  just  as  day  was  breaking.  The  body  of  Judge 
Turner  was  found  by  some  fishermen  about  a  mile 
from  the  spot  where  the  fatal  leap  had  been  taken. 
The  Judge  had  been  troubled  with  neuralgia  for  a 
number  of  months.  Lately  this  was  accompanied  by 
insomnia,  superinduced  by  constant  worry  over  the 
libel  suit.  After  sixteen  years'  battling  the  courts 
recently  awarded  him  $15,000. 

Judge  Turner  was  a  prominent  Mason,  and  leaves 
a  family  of  five  children,  three  daughters  and  two 
sons,  at  San  Jose.  His  oldest  son  is  a  student  in 
the  law  department  at  Stanford  University. 

If  Your  Physician 
prescribes  a  milk  diet,  for  its  easy  digestibility,  it  will  be 
well  to  use  Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream  'to 
get  a  rich,  deliciously  flavored  milk  food,  perfectly  steril- 
ized, according  to  latest  sanitary  methods.  For  general 
household  uses.    Prepared  by  Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


Dust   soon   disfigures   your   summer   clothes.     It   is 

necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  damage  may 
be  repaired  and  an  expensive  suit  saved.  Appearances 
are  everything,  and  Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing 
Works,  127  Stockton  street  will  help  you  to  keep  them  up. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  curtains  and  such  articles. 
Goods  called  for  and  delivered  promptly. 


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He  sat  in  gloomy  silence 

While  his  family  glowered  around, 
The  woe  that  he  was  feeling 

Was  obviously  profound. 
He  was  gripping  at  the  table, 

And  his  trembling  under  lip 
Was  as  soulful  as  a  waiter's 

Who  has   had   too  small   a   tip. 

It  was  not  that  his  first-born 

Had  been  buried  yesterday, 
It  was  not  that  his  fortune 

Had   chased   itself  away. 
It  was  harder,  sorer  trouble 

That  produced  the  sigh  and  frown — 
His  daughters  were  insisting 

On  a  summer  out  of  town. 

The  municipal  work  bug  is  afflicting  the  brains  of 
our  local  women  to  an  inordinate  extent,  and  unless 
a  halt  is  called,  we  shall  have  several  alarming  cases 
of  wheels  revolving  far  too  free  in  charming  little 
heads.  It  is  reported  that  the  babies  of  some  of  our 
most  delightful  society  women  ask  for  models  of 
municipal  cars  at  six  months,  and  before  they  are 
two  years  old  display  a  wonderfully  precocious 
knowledge  of  the  analysis  of  milk.  In  some  cases, 
it  is  whispered  that  the  feminine  zeal  for  pure  food 
has  actually  led  to  sterilization.  This  new  feminine 
departure  is  being  watched  with  great  anxiety  by 
medical  experts,  who  have  not  yet  located  the  mi- 
crobe, but  in  some  cases,  where  the  family  treasury 
has  been  sufficient  to  warrant  it,  have  entered  upon 
a  system  of  treatment,  of  which  the  leading  ingred- 
ient appears  to  be  more  babies.  It  is  observed  that 
the  municipal  interest  of  a  woman  with  five  babies  is 
much  less  than  one-fifth  of  her  who  possesses  only 
one.  On  the  other  hand,  from  a  series  of  close  obser- 
vation, it  has  been  determined  that  of  unmarried 
young  women,  those  at  whose  home  a  young  man  is 
observed  to  call,  have  very  little  interest  in  munici- 
pal affairs. 

The  dictum  of  the  scientists  to  the  effect  that  evo- 
lution consists  in  the  development  of  specialization 
does  not  apply  to  the  local  police  department.  One  of 
them  added  to  his  usual  equipment  a  sledge-hammer. 
a  punch  and  a  chisel,  all  these  as  assistants  in  the 
guarding  of  a  shop.  He  is  unfortunately  accused  of 
burglary.  This  cannot  be  the  case,  for  the  purity  of 
our  police  Department  is  so  well  and  generally  known 
that  none  of  our  very  finest  can  be  even  remotely  con- 
nected with  such  an  offense.  The  tools  are  simply 
evidence  of  a  desire  on  the  part  of  the  policeman  to 
pursue  manual  training,  and  may  be  considered  as 
a  distinct  compliment  to  the  Board  of  Education, 
which  has  made  such  entertaining  part  of  the  regular 
school  instruction. 

We  are  to  have  a  musical  comedy  in  praise  of  the 
devil.  This  is  San  Francisco  with  a  vengeance.  The 
French  go  seriously  into  the  worship  of  his  Satanic 
Majesty  and  invent  a  thing  called  Diabolism  about 
which  learned  writer^  hold  forth.  They  have  made 
a  ritual  and  lots  of  other  stuff  in  connection  with  the 
matter.  We  write  a  comic  opera,  put  on  a  crowd  of 
society  people  to  play  it,  and  enjoy  our  diabolism  in 
our  own  way. 


One  of  the  curiosities  of  the  University  town  is  the 
close  affinity  between  its  women  and  robbers,  high- 
waymen or  burglars.  Surely  a  professor  might  be 
spared  to  examine  the  question.  Three  months  ago 
the  phenomenon  became  apparent  in  series  of  high- 
way robberies  perpetrated  on  women ;  then  the 
women  took  to  highway  robbery  on  their  own  ac- 
count ;  now  a  woman  is  credited  with  the  discovery 
of  a  burglar,  and  the  tale  is  still  untold.  What  doe's 
it  mean?  Is  it  merely  a  manifestation  of  the  love  of 
notoriety  which  takes  possession  of  womenkind  in 
this  salubrious  climate  or  is  it  a  result  of  the  moral 
influence  of  the  University  student,  which  affects  the 
most  sensitive  and  sympathetic  part  of  the  com- 
munity. I  ask  these  questions  in  all  seriousness,  for 
•  the  University  cannot  afford  to  be  laughed  at  any 
more  at  present. 

What  devilment  is  the  Hearst  contingent  up  to 
now?  On  page  28  of  the  Examiner  for  last  Sunday 
we  read  a  paragraph  heading  as  follows :  "Several 
Ways  of  Looking  at  the  President. — He  is  Identified 
as  Assailant  of  a  Four-Year-Old  Girl,  and  Citizens 
Give  Him  a  Beating  Before  he  Can  Leave  Town." 
Of  course,  as  an  item  of  news,  it  is  about  on  a  par 
with  the  usual  yellow  press  standards  of  veracity, 
as  an  example  of  cleanliness  it  will  bear  comparison 
fairly  well  with  the  short  editorials,  and  its  usual 
run  of  cartoons,  and  a  sample  of  political  amenities 
it  does  not  come  far  behind  its  recognized  method  of 
warfare.  The  delightful  part  of  it  is  its  daring,  its 
unblushing  audacity.  The  news  editor,  I  understand, 
is  to  have  a  raise  in  salary  to  mark  the  appreciation 
of  his  employers. 

Father  Yorke  is  keeping  up  his  reputation.  The 
Oakland  people  allow  freely  that  he  gives  "the  most 
original  entertainments  on  this  side  of  the  bay.''  He 
did  just  the  same  thing  in  San  Francisco.  Anything 
"more  original,"  or  more — never  mind,  let  by  gones 
be  by  gones — than  Father  Yorke  used  to  give  would 
be  so  original  as  to  be  inhuman.  I  note;  however, 
that  he  is  leaving  labor  questions  alone  and  is  taking 
to  negro  minstrelsy.  Not  only  are  the  good  people 
of  Oakland  to  be  congratulated  on  the  change,  but 
the  reverend  father  will  doubtless  find  it  a  more 
agreeable  occupation.  In  either  role,  whether  of 
agitator  or  entertainer,  he  seems  fated  to  provoke 
laughter. 

The  Pacific  Coast  Women's  Press  Association,  the 
fame  of  which  will  live  for  a  considerable  time,  in 
the  satire  of  Ambrose  Bierce  is  up  against  a  stiff 
proposition.  Suit  has  been  brought  against  its  mem- 
bers by  an  expelled  member.  She  claims  to  have  been 
expelled  from  the  association  without  trial,  owing  to 
the  jealousy  of  her  fellow  members.  The  fun  of  the 
thing  is  that  the  lady  in  question  estimates  the  loss 
of  social  advantages  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Women's 
Press  Association  at  one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
Mrs.  Foster,  the  lady  in  question,  must  have  either 
a  glowing  imagination  or  a  pretty  wit;  but  what 
about  the  lawyer  who  commenced  such  an  action? 

The  University  is  carrying  out  experiments  look- 
ing to  the  formation  of  a  silk  industry  in  this  State. 
Should  success  follow  their  efforts,  the  University 
authorities  should  be  allowed  to  turn  out  a  pretty  fine 
variety  of  the  fabric,  for,  goodness  knows,  the  Presi- 
dent is  smooth  enough. 


April  33,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A  SWINDLING   DEVICE. 

The  World's  Fair  is  bringing  "in  tin 

and    questionable 
that  follow  in  the  wake  of  all  great  sh 
The  I  ir  notice  i>  a  company  that 

souvenir  coin  "f  admission." 
Mr.  Morris  B.  Gregg  and  Walter  B.  Steven-,  respec 
lively   Director  of  Concessions  atnl  Director  of   Ex 
ploitation    of   the    Louisiana    Purchase      Exposition 
Company,  have  issued  a  letter  which  is  counter-'. 

Ir.  D.  R.  Francis,  the  President  In  order  to 
minimize  the  loss  to  Californians  as  far  as  it  is  in 
our  power,  we  reproduce  the  warning  letter  below: 

St.  Louis,  U.  S.  A..  February  27,  1004. 

Numerous  inquiries  have  recently  been  received 
by  this  Company  from  newspapers,  publishers  and 
others,  making  inquiry  about  the  "Louisiana  Pur- 
chase Souvenir  Coin  Company,"  many  of  them  ask- 
ing whether  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  Com- 
pany is  officially  connected  with  such  "Louisiana 
Purchase  Souvenir  Coin  Company."  or  has  author- 
ized the  operations  of  that  company. 

In  reply  to  these  inquiries,  this  company  deems  it 
proper  to  say  that  it  has  no  connection  officially  or 
otherwise  with  the  "Louisiana  Purchase  Souvenir 
Coin  Company,"  and  has  given  no  authority  or  sanc- 
tion of  any  kind  to  the  operations  of  that  company. 
The  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  Company  has 
not  authorized  any-  individual,  firm  or  corporation 
10  (-sue  any  "Souvenir  Coin  of  Admission,"  nor  any 
ticket,  certificate,  or  other  symbol  or  device  purport- 
ing to  be  exchangeable  for  admission  to  the  Fair 
1  ".rounds,  and  will  in  no  way  be  responsible  for  same. 
Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  Company. 

Every  mail  brings  a  number  of  letters  addressed 
to  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Souvenir  Coin  Company. 
The  Exposition  has  a  Souvenir  Coin  Department, 
but  has  no  connections  with  the  company  named  or 
any  similar  company.  The  only  souvenir  coin  recog- 
nized by  the  Exposition  Company  is  the  United 
States  Government  gold  dollar,  which  is  sold  as 
a  souvenir,  but  which  has  no  relation  to  the  admission 
of  the  visitors  to  the  Exposition. 

"What  is  meant  by  the  best?"  asked  the  latest  ar- 
rival from  Mars,  as  he  stepped  from  his  airship.  "If 
you  mean  the  best  to  eat,  the  best  on  earth,  and  you 
want  oysters  straight  from  their  beds,  succulent  and 
fresh,  go  to  Moraghan's,  at  the  California  Market." 
An  hour  after,  the  Martian  was  enjoying  a  fine 
cigar,  and  he  remarked  that  there  were  "no  better 
oysters  on  the  planet,"  and  the  crowd  endorsed  this 
evidence  of  good  taste  in  the  traveler  from  afar. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and 
factory  for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2. 
Use  Briquettes  for  cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will 
save  at  least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill.  'Phone 
Tesla  Coal  Company,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 

You  can  never  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  it.  Go  to  Spaulding's 
Carpet  Cleaning  Company,  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


THE   BARD   AND   THE  YELLOW   PERIL. 
Bard    of    the    Sierras 

Has   a   grievance   to   relate; 

His  language  teems  with  terrors 
1  if  a   sort   1   dare  not    state. 
But  the  upshot  and  the  zest  of  it — 
Not  to  bother  with  the  resl  of  it — 

He  has  lost,  and   gone  in  quest   of  it — 
His   pay,   which   comes   too   late. 

Three   thousand  silver  dollars 

Mr.   Hearst  proposed  to  pay, 
If   he'd   wear  the  yellow   collars, 
And    report    the    yellow    fray; 
If  he'd  brave  the  Chinese  dragon, 
With  his  whiskers  and  his  flagon, 
And  write  calmly,  with  no  jag  on, 
What  might  happen  every  day. 

Ami  the  Hard  of  the  Sierras 

Sallied  out  to  do  the  work. 
He  braved  the  ocean's  terrors 

And  he  showed  no  coward  quirk. 
He  feared  no  foe  terrestrial, 
He  faced  the  mad  Celestial, 
He   endured   their   habits   bestial — 
Then  Mr.  Hearst  did  shirk. 

So  the  dreadful  yellow  peril 

Threatens    Mr.   Joaquin    Miller, 
And  the  bother  and  the  worry  '11 
Be  a  very  lasting  filler. 
He  has  surely  had  satiety 
Of  the  crude   gamboge  variety; 
He's  done  with  their  society, 

But  I   doubt  he'll  get  the  siller. 

—Roland  Whittle. 


Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison-Oak  and  all  Skin  Diseases     Sold  by  all  druggists. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post  St.  Turkish  Bath. 


BE 


HM 
RISTOL  CO. 


Have    the    honor    to    present 
their    magnificent     display   of 

DIAMONDS,    PEARLS,    PRECIOUS 

STONES,  JEWELRY  AND 

SILVERWARE 

for  pnblic  inspection  on  their 
opening  day  :  :  : 

SATURDAY,     APRIL      23rd 
104-110    GEARY    STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


There  is  only  one  Zinkand,  and  it  has  become  famous 

everywhere  as  one  of  the  best  high-class  restaurants  in 
existence.  Lights,  music,  the  best  viands  and  sparkling 
wines  are  its  characteristics. 


LADIES! 


Wrinkles  and   all  Facial  Blemishes  re- 
moved by 
PR.OF.    S.    DE    LOVTSKY 

Latest  Parisian  Method 

Superfluous  hair  removed  permanently 

by  electrolysis.    Also  moles,  warts,  etc. 

Scalp  treatment  and  manicuring.    Call  or 

write  1SG7  Post  btreet,  San  Francisco. 


in  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

A  Chat  WilK  a.  Mormon  Lady 


April  23,  1904. 


"Show  me  a  Mormon  is  the  inevitable  request  of 
one  class  of  tourists — tourists  are  divided  into  two 
classes :  the  Cook-ed  and  the  un-Cooked.  The  raw 
product  expects  a  Mormon  to  sprout  some  distin- 
guishing mark,  like  hoofs  or  horns.  These  people 
are  grievously  disappointed  when  thev  realize  that 
the  Latter  Day  Saints  are  cut  after  the  same  pattern 
as  their  Protestant  or  Catholic  brothers.  If  the  tour- 
ist has  the  open  sesame,  and  is  bid  to  a  social  func- 
tion, he  is  sure  to  elbow  with  Mormons,  for  the  bars 
have  long  since  been  let  down  in  Salt  Lake,  so  that 
the  wealthy  Mormon  and  Gentile  may  take  his  pleas- 
ure in  the  same  pasture.  It  must  be  confessed  that 
only  the  younger  generation  of  Mormons  grasp  this 
privilege,  and  it  is  unquestionably  true  that  the 
younger  generation  rarely  enters  into  polygamy.  So 
there  is  no  chance  to  study  plural  wives  at  first  hand 
in  the  smart  set. 

While  in  Salt  Lake  recently.  I  met  a  number  of 
people  at  a  tea  whose  names  are  as  well  known  here 
as  in  Zion.  The  Salisbury,  the  Kirkpatrick,  the 
Trumbo  families  were  all  represented.  The  affair 
was  given  by  a  leader  in  the  Gentile  set.  but  at  least 
two  dozen  Mormon  ladies  were  present.  They  were 
pointed  out  to  me,  and  I  managed  to  get  one  of  them 
for  a  little  chat  a  dieux  in  a  cozy  corner.  This  lady  is 
a  descendent  of  Brigham  Young,  a  graduate  of  an 
Eastern  college,  and  is  married  to  a  physician  who 
took  his  degree  at  Ann  Arbor.  She  has  a  fascinating 
manner  and  a  modern  mental  range  that  can  take 
high  C  in  literature  and  G  in  art.  She  touched  on 
subjects  ranging  from  submarine  boats  to  Satsuma 
ware,  from  Shakespeare  to  sewing  classes.  After- 
wards I  heard  her  lecture  to  the  girls  at  the  Zidn 
University.  "I  am  the  daughter  of  a  man  who  had 
five  wives."  she  said,  "and  I  know  that  the  home  life 
of  my  mother  and  my  father's  other  wives  was  as 
beautiful  as  possible  under  monogamy.  I  wish  I 
were  a  good  enough  woman  to  let  my  husband  take 
another  wife!" 

The  next  time  I  met  her — it  was  at  a  dinner  given 
at  the  University  Club — I  braved  a  question  on  this 
delicate  subject  which  Mormons  rarely  talk  about 
to  outsiders.  "My  husband  does  not  believe  in  po- 
lygamy,"' she  answered.  "He  would  not  take  another 
wife  if  I  begged  him  on  my  knees,  and  I  have  not  yet 
reached  that  state  of  spiritual  nobility,  nor  have  I 
attained  that  divine  spirit  of  renunciation  necessary 
for  polygamous  relations.  How  charming  the  deco- 
rations are  to-night !" 

Which  shows  that,  given  a  certain  religious  slant, 
no  amount  of  mental  message  can  bring  the  religious 
bent  to  the  worm.  This  college-bred  Mormon  took 
her  creed  literally  while  many  other  Mormon  women 
of  her  set,  who  had  not  had  half  the  advantages  in 
studv  and  travel  she  had  enjoyed  probably  accepted 
the  spirit  of  Mormonism,  but  laughed  at  the  letter. 

The  Mormons  are  very  proud  of  those  who  achieve 
distinction  in  the  fine  arts.  They  are  delighted  over 
the  success  Clawson.  the  portrait  painter,  has  en- 
joyed in  San  Francisco.  I  was  asked  about  him  on 
all  sides,  and  was  surprised  at  the  detailed  knowledge 
everybody  seemed  to  have  of  his  work.  "Was  his 
picture  of  that  Miss  Haydenfelt  really  a  Bohemian 
Club  star  success?"  "Did  the  portrait  of  the  Tevis 
child  achieve  as  much  distinction?"  were  the  sort  of 
questions  asked  by  people  outside  his  own  family. 
The  Clawson  family  take  up  not  a  little  of  the  cen- 
sus man's  time,  their  projenitors  all  having  had 
plural    w:ives.     This   generation,    however,    has    not 


taken  the  polygamy  cue  from  their  forefathers.  It 
was  a  half-sister  of  Clawson  who  was  the  first  wife 
of  Governor  Wells  of  Utah,  but  it  was  not  until  after 
her  death  that  the  Governor  took  a  second  wife. 

The  threat  of  disfranchisement  which  has  tripped 
on  the  heels  of  the  Reed  Smoot  affair  as  caused  a 
merry  tongue-wagging  in  the  land  of  Much  Married 
Saints  and  Some  Sinners.  Judge  Powers,  of  Salt 
Lake,  who  is  something  of  a  jokesmith,  created  a 
ha !  ha !  by  declaring  that  the  Gentile  half  of  Utah 
would  at  once  turn  Mormon.  "We  won't  be  able 
to  get  a  man  to  serve  on  the  juries  in  event  of  Mor- 
mon disfranchisement,"  predicted  the  Judge.  "Every 
man  who  wants  to  get  out  of  jury  service  will  swear 
he  is  a  Mormon!  The  average  American  would 
swear  he  was  the  shade  of  Joseph  Smith  himself  to 
escape  jury  duty." 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  WInslow's  Soothing 

Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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IWW&WSOCIETY 


Dear  Bessie:  There  i-  always  something  odd  crop 
ping  up  hen-,  and  the  latest  i>  the  Chinese  Prince 
uh<>  came  in  on  the  Gaelic  last  Sunday  en  route  to 
He  was  the  tir-t  royal  personage  we  have 
had  from  tlu-  Flowery  Kingdom,  so  Chinatown  has 
been  a  si^rli t  to  see — swept  and  garnished  to  do  him 
honor,  the  decorations  chiefly  yellow,  and  the  tri 
umphal  arches  made  that  dingy  quarter  quite  radiant, 
and  it  has  really  been  one  of  the  sensations  of  the 
week. 

Were  it  not  for  cards.  1  tear  sonic  of  the  matrons 
of  the   swim   would   find   these   long  afternoon   hours 

hanging  rather  heavily  on  their  hands  while  waiting 
for  the  time  to  come  for  them  to  pack  up  ami  be 
off  out  of  town,  and  scarcely  a  day  passes  that  one 
or  two  games  are  not  played — sometimes  more. 
Seven-handed  euchre  does  not  seem  to  have  had  its 
day  in  spite  of  the  popularity  of  bridge  and  500;  it 
was  played  at  Mrs.  Pond's  card  party  last  Friday, 
which  was  voted  one  of  the  best  of  the  season.  Leon- 
tine  carried  off  one  of  the  pretty  prizes  and  Kelcy 
Patterson  another.  .Mrs.  Frank  Wilson  had  a  big 
card  party  on  Monday- — a  sort  of  house-warming  for 
her  new  home,  and  Mrs.  Shotwell  had  a  little  smaller 
500  one  in  her  rooms  at  the  St.  Dunstan  the  same 
afternoon.  Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller  gave  a  luncheon, 
followed  by  six-handed  euchre  on  Thursday,  and 
there  are  no  less  than  three  card  parties  on  hand  for 
to-day.  Mrs.  George  Gibbs,  wdio  has  gone  down 
South  with  the  Kanes,  closed  her  season  in  town 
with  two  very  pleasant  affairs  last  week ;  a  bridge 
party  on  Tuesday,  a  game  to  which  she  is  "perfectly 
devoted,"  and  a  tea  on  Thursday,  both  given  as 
adieus  for  Mrs.  Kane  and  Stella,  who  have  been  with 
her  most  of  the  winter. 

While  there  is  not  so  much  doing  in  town  just 
now,  there  are  quite  a  number  of  little  affairs  being 
given  across  the  bay,  both  in  Oakland  and  Sausa- 
lito,  as  well  as  at  San  Rafael.  Laura  Prather  gave 
one  of  her  charming  little  studio  teas  last  week,  and 
Mabel  Mason  had  one  for  Rebecca  Dixon,  who  is  to 
marry  Arthur  Chambers  ere  long.  I  had  a  lovely  time 
at  the  Findley  tea  in  Sausalito  last  Saturday — charm- 
ing weather  which  brought  out  many  pretty  spring 
costumes,  and  how  glad  every  one  was  to  see  Carrie 
Merry  again.  We  had  a  hop  at  the  Presidio  the  night 
before,  but  it  was  a  garrison  affair,  and  not  one  of 
those  the  10th  intended  giving,  but  was  pleasant  all 
the  same. 

It  has  been  rather  slack  this  week  in  the  amuse- 
ment line ;  there  are  always  theatre  parties  both  large 
and  small,  and  I  suppose  I  can  class  "His  Royal 
Nibs"  as  the  chief  event  of  the  week,  both  on  Thurs- 
day and  last  night,  at  the  Alhambra.  Mr.  Greer  Har- 
rison auctioned  off  the  boxes  and  best  seats  last 
week,  and  nearly  every  one  was  on  hand  to  give.it 
a  good  send-off,  with  the  usual  adjuncts  of  dinners 
before  and  suppers  after.  I  expect  there  will  be  a 
crowd  in  the  Sorosis  Club  rooms  this  afternoon, 
when  the  Chrysanthemums  hold  their  bazar  and  fete 
for  their  free  bed  at  the  Childrens'  Hospital.  You 
know,  most  all  the  girls  belong  to  them  in  one  way 
or  another,  and  have  worked  hard  to  make  the  affair 
to-day  a  success.  There  will  be  booths  for  fancy 
work,  candy,  tea,  ices,  a  fish  pond,  and  a  musical 
programme  which  Laura  Taylor  has  arranged — the 
hours  are  from  4  till  6,  and  I  can't  begin  to  tell  you 
all  who  have  promised  to  be  there.     Then  there  is 


tlu-  Horse  Show  at  Burlingame  to-day,  too.  but  it 
will  draw  another  kind  of  a  crowd,  though  some  1 
know    hope   to  do   them   both. 

The  St.  Francis  is  now  the  great  place  for  theatre 
dinner  and  suppers — yes.  and  for  luncheons  and  teas, 
also;  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Mrs.  Bergovine,  Mrs. 
Ed,  I'.aker  and  Mrs.  Tim  Hopkins  had  luncheons 
there  last  week,  and  Mrs.  Joe  Tobin  a  dinner:  Mrs. 
Jack  Wilson  gave  her  luncheon  last  Tuesday — 
which  was  for  a  lot  of  girls — in  the  Palace  Palm 
1  rarden.  They  were  all  talking  of  the  Mohican's 
coming  back  so  unexpectedly,  and  the  hope  of  some 
more  of  the  jolly  little  parties  on  board  which  are 
to  memory  so  dear  in  the  recent  past.  Admiral 
Glass  is  looked  for  in  the  near  future  from  his  cruise, 
and  in  anticipation  of  his  coming,  Mrs.  Glass  has 
returned  from  Coronado,  where  she  has  been  for 
several  weeks,  and  is  at  the  St.  Francis.  The  St. 
Louis  Exposition  is  going  to  attract  a  lot  of  our 
people  by  and  bye,  and  all  who  go  East  are  to  take 
it  in  either  going  or  coming.  Jennie  Blair  and  her 
brother,  and  Anita  Bertheau  and  her  brother,  are 
among  those  who  will  soon  be  off  there.  The  Jack 
Wilsons  have  gone  to  do  the  Grand  Canyon  of  the 
Colorado,  and  will  be  away  till  early  in  May.  The 
Herman  Shainwalds  are  home  again — arrived  on 
Monday — so  we  are  hoping  ere  long  to  have  a  peep 
at  all  the  pretty  things  in  the  way  of  table  ornaments 
which  she  is  said  to  have  picked  up  during  her  trav- 
els. 

Hattie  Currier  is  to  be  married  a  little  sooner  than 
was  intended,  and  the  wedding  is  named  for  next 
Thursday  at  her  home  on  Pacific  avenue,  with  only 
the  family  and  most  intimate  friends  present.  Do- 
lores Wilkins  is  to  be  maid  of  honor,  Jane  Barry  of 
Oakland  and  Mary  Nichols  of  Chico  bridesmaids ; 
Charles  Gardiner  is  to  be  Walter  Hale's  best  man. 
They  go  East  for  their  honeymoon.  Kate  has  been 
telling  me  of  the  pretty  wedding  •  Miss  Elizabeth 
Doyle  and  Lieutenant  Parker,  U.  S.  A.,  had  last 
Monday.  It  took  place  in  St.  Matthews'  Church, 
San  Mateo,  at  half-past  ten  in  the  morning;  she  said 
the  bride  looked  lovely  in  white  silk,  point  lace,  and 
long  tulle  veil ;  and  her  sister  looked  equally  well  in 
a  pink  and  white  costume  and  large  white  hat.  The 
men  attendants  were  all  in  the  service,  of  course — : 
Lieutenant  Hickox,  who  was  the  best  man,  and 
Lieutenant  Potter  and  Lieutenant  Farrell,  who  offi- 
ciated as  ushers. 

Don't  you  remember  my  hinting  to  you  several 
weeks  ago  of  Marjory  Gibbons'  engagement  to  Lieu- 
tenant Shinkle?  To  be  sure,  I  gave  no  names,  as 
they  did  not  wish  it  to  be  known     so     soon,  but  I 


Diamonds 

and 
P    e    a.    r    1    s 

Wedding  Stationery 
Wedding  Presents 

Shreve  &  Co. 
Post  and 
M&rket    Sts. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


thought  you  could  make  out  who  I  meant.  The  en- 
gagement is  now,  while  not  formally  announced,  so 
well  known  I  need  not  hesitate  in  mentioning  it.  but 
I  believe  the  wedding  will  not  take  place  just  yet 
awhile;  the  death  last  week  of  Marjorie's  grand- 
mother, Mrs.  Raymond,  may  influence  all  arrange- 
ments in  a  degree.  He  is  much  liked  in  the  service, 
and  quite  popular,  and  she — as  you  know — is  a  dear. 
There  are  two  other  engagements  talked  about — 
those  of  Marjorie's  cousin,  Elsie  Dorr,  and  Hazel 
King,  and  'tis  said  it  will  be  only  a  question  of  a 
short  time  before  they  are  formally  announced.  Alice 
Rutherford  will  not  be  so  long  behind  her  sister 
Emma  in  becoming  a  matron  as  some  people  seem 
to  think,  as  news  of  her  engagement  to  John  Erving 
of  New  York  has  been  received  here  this  week,  so 
Mrs.  Crocker  will  be  happy  at  having  both  her  daugh- 
ters married  and  settled  so  near  at  hand. 

The  nth  Cavalry  has  come  and  gone,  leaving  for 
its  new  quarters  during  the  week.  We  were  glad  to 
have  Jakey  Haines  here  for  a  bit — it  seemed  like  old 
times  to  see  him  round  again — for  he  was  here  a  few 
days  before  his  regiment  arrived  on  hand  to  welcome 
its  home-coming  from  the  Philippines. 

The  Garceaus,  who  have  spent  the  winter  at  the 
Richelieu,  have  selected  the  Hotel  Rafael  for  their 
summer  locale;  Mrs.  Garceau  is  rapidly  winning  the 
distinction  of  being  one  of  the  best  bridge  players 
in  society,  and  if,  as  I  hear,  bridge  is  to  be  the  game 
most  played  at  the  Rafael  this  summer,  she  will  ue 
most  happily  situated.  The  W.  G.  Irwins  go  iiast 
next  Monday,  and  will  be  away  all  summer ;  Helen 
goes  with  them.  Bessie  Ames,  who  has  been  with 
her  sister  in  Boston  the  past  month,  is,  it  seems,  go- 
ing to  Europe  before  she  returns  home  ;  some  ap- 
pear to  think  it  is  on  trousseau  thought  intent,  as 
there  have  been  whispers  that  way  for  awhile  past; 
she  sails  the  last  of  May.  Helen  writes  me  that 
Azalia  Keyes  is  just  a  mite  tired  of  Europe,  and 
coming  back  to  spend  the  summer  on  Long  Island 
with  her  cousin  Eleanor,  who  expects  her  almost 
immediately;  Kate  Salisbury  Keyes  is  down  at  Paso 
Robles  with  the  mater.  The  O'Connor  girls  are 
going  to  Paris  with  the  Robert  Boyles,  who  left 
yesterday;  Mrs.  Jimmy  Keeney  and  her  daughter 
have  gone  on  a  trip  East. 

The  Dennis  Searles  go  to  Menlo  Park  for  the  sum- 
mer ;  the  Athearn  Folgers  have  already  left  town 
for  their  country  home  at  San  Mateo;  Charlotte  Rus- 
sell is  to  spend  part  of  the  season  with  the  De  Sa- 
blas  at  San  Mateo,  wdiere  they  have  taken  the  old 
Howard  place  now  owned  by  the  Martins;  the  Jack 
Wilsons  are  going  to  spend  the  month  of  May  and 
June  in  the  Yosemite  Valley  and  the  vicinity,  and 
may  possibly  be  away  even  longer ;  the  young  Sam 
Wilsons  are  going  to  a  cottage  in  Mill  Valley  for  the 
summer ;  the  Fred  Fenwicks  have  joined  the  Ross 
Yalleyites  this  season,  and  will  be  among  the  cot- 
tagers  there.  — Elsie. 


AT  HOME. 

Monday — Mr>.  Van  Orsdale,  The  Cumberland;  Mrs. 
Henry  Glass,  St.  Francis. 

Thursday— Mrs.  O.  C.  Baldwin,  April  28th.  2415 
Buchanan  street;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Abbott 
Whitemore,  nee  Wayte,  May  12th,  4  to  6  and 
8  to   II   p.  m..  2529  Van  Xess  avenue. 

Friday — Mrs.  Harold  Copeland  dc  Wolf,  April  28th. 
609  Sacramento  street;   Mrs.  Arthur  W.   Scott, 
Mav  6th   and   13th,  305   Buchanan   street. 
ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Alice  Rutherford,  daughter  of  Mrs.  George 
Crocker,  to  John  Langdon  Irving,  of  New  York. 


Miss  Marjorie  Gibbons,  daughter  of  Doctor  Henry 
Gibbons,  to  Lieutenant  Edward  Shinkle,  U.  S.  A. 

.Miss  Alice  Hauxhurst,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robert  Hauxhurst,  Alameda,  to  Mr.  Ronald 
Clark  Kennedy,   Hilo,  Hawaii. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

April  28  (Thursday) — Miss  Harriet  Nataline  Currier, 
daughter  of  Colonel  J.  C.  Currier,  to  Walter 
Scott  Hale,  2922  Pacific  avenue,  12  o'clock  noon. 

April  30  (Saturday) — Miss  Edna  Barry  to  Philip 
Clay,  St.  John's  Church;  Miss  Geraldine  Scu- 
pham  to  George  Steel  Lackie,  Oakland,  9  p.  m. 

May  n  (Wednesday) — Miss  Ella  Goodall  to  Doctor 
Charles  M.   Cooper. 

CHARITABLE. 

April  23  (Saturday) — Art  Exhibition  by  the  Press 
Club  for  the  benefit  of  the  Children's  Hospital, 
Club  Rooms  on   Ellis  street. 

April  27,  (Saturday) — Horse  Show  at  Burlingame, 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Bishop  Armitage  Orphan- 
age ;  Fete  for  the  benefit  of  Chrysanthemum  bed 
at  the  Children's  Hospital,  Sorosis  Club  Rooms, 
1620  California  street,  2  to  6  p.  m. 

May  7  (Saturday) — Vaudeville  Show  and  Garden 
Fete  at  Arbor  Villa,  Oakland.  In  aid  of  Four- 
teen Charities. 

BALL. 

April  30  (Saturday) — On  board  the  U.  S.  S.  Marion. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael,  San  Rafael :  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
M.  Van  Vliet,  Miss  Green,  Miss  Boas,  Mr.  H.  P. 
Sonntag,  Mr.  W.  L.  Meussdorffer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A. 
Raas.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  C.  Pague,  Mrs.  W.  R. 
Smedberg.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  W.  Gunther,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  F.  H.  Beaver  and  family,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis 
Gay,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Haight  and  family.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  James  A.  Vose,  Mrs.  Martha  L.  Ure,  Miss  Flor- 
ence Ure,  Mrs.  Henry  Gundelfinger,  Miss  Smedberg, 
Dr.  C.  G.  Levison. 

Orlof  N.  Orlow  has  announced  the  fourth  evening 
of  music  to  be  given  at  United  Crafts  and  Arts  Build- 
ing, corner  of  Central  avenue  and  Washington 
streets,  Thursday,  April  21,  1904,  at  8  o'clock.  The 
programme  will  be  rendered  by  Miss  Ellen  Constance 
Walker,  contralto ;  Miss  Blanche  Tomie,  soprano ; 
Miss  Mary  Broeck  Pasmore,  violinist;  Miss  Susanne 
Nicholine  Pasmore,  pianist;  Miss  Dorothy  Bickford 
Pasmore,  cellist ;  Mr.  H.  B.  Pasmore,  Mrs.  Charles 
Warfield,  accompanists. 

Much  interest  is  felt  in  the  concert  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  California  Glee  and  Mandolin  Clubs  at  Stein- 
way  Hall  on  April  26th.  The  re-organized  Glee 
Club  has  been  doing  splendid  work  since  Dr.  H.  J. 
Stewart  assumed  the  leadership,  and  the  programme 
for  this  concert  is  full  of  good  things. 

Nelson's  Amycose 

Infallible  Remedy  for  Catarrh.  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations  of  the 
Skin. 


"Be  it  ever  so  humble  there  is  no  place  like  home."  and  the  home 
can  be  furnished  with  pretty  and  artistically  framed  pictures  at  a  very 
moderate  price  by  calling  on  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co..  741  Market  St. 


"SAB' S" 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


Ghe   Ja.mes   H     Ba.bcock    Cantering    Co. 

212-214  California  St.  409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


April  »3.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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THE  RED  LION  INN. 
The  busy  man  of  affairs  will  now  find  a  fine  restau- 
rant at  moderate  prices  right  in  the  In-art  of  the  lmsi- 
rict.    The  Roil  Lion  Inn,  situated  in  the  San 
Fran  :k  Exchange  Building,  i>  easily  a< 

ihlc  from  Pine  street,  and  from  Busn  or  Montgomery, 
through  the  Mills  Building.  Ladies  and  gentlemen 
who  desire  a  certain  amount  of  neatness  and  artistic 

with  their  meals  will  find  tins  at  the 
"Red  Lion."  There  is  a  spacious  dining  hall  capable 
ating  several  hundred  people  at  one  time,  and 
the  prevailing  tone  of  the  place  is  one  of  subdued 
richness.  The  woodwork  is  in  old  oak,  and  the  walls 
arc  in  a  dark  mellow  red.  The  gas  fixtures  and  the 
hat  racks,  in  fact  all  the  metal  work  is  of  special  pat- 
tern and  finished  in  bronze  green.  The  table  service 
is  very  fine  and  the  grill  and  kitchen  appliances  are 
designed  on  the  latest  sanitary  patterns.  There  is 
a  nicely  appointed  bar  run  in  conjunction  with 
the  restaurant.     Try  the  "Red  Lion"  to-dav. 


VACATION  DAYS  AT  HOTEL  DEL  MONTE. 
Society  and  all  people  interested  in  healthful  re- 
creation are  planning  to  go  to  Del  Monte  earlier  than 
usual  this  season.  1  he  spring  days  there  are  delight- 
ful, with  wild  flowers  covering  the  hillsides,  the  golf- 
links  a  wonderful  carpet  of  green,  and  the  surf  just 
right  for  swimming.  A  number  of  families  have  al- 
ready engaged  quarters  for  the  season,  and  others 
will  arrange  doubtless  before  the  first  of  May.  Next 
month  there  will  be  an  automobile  tournament,  and 
during  the  summer,  as  usual,  the  hotel  will  be  the 
center  for  all  sorts  of  out-of-door  sports.  Under  the 
new  management,  this  favorite  resort  promises  to 
become  more  popular  than  ever. 


There  is  no  property  within  easy  reach  of  the  cen- 
ter of  the  city  of  San  Francisco  that  will  increase 
as  rapidly  in  value  as  the  section  immediately  ad7 
joining  Golden  Gate  Park.  This  is  the  ideal  spot 
for  the  home-seeker,  and  whenever  a  sale  is  an- 
nounced that  gives  one  the  opportunity  to  obtain 
this  much  sought  after  property  at  your  own  terms, 
the  attendance  is  immense.  Baldwin  &  Howell  will 
sell  at  auction  sixty-three  home  building  lots  on  Par- 
nassus Heights  on  Thursday,  April  28th,  at  12 
o'clock,  and  there  is  sure  to  be  a  great  crush  at  the 
sale.  There  is  a  branch  office  at  H  and  7th  Avenue, 
and  an  agent  on  the  ground  who  will  show  you  maps 
and  take  you  about  the  property.  The  auction  will 
take  place  at  the  down-town  office,  25  Post  street. 

Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are 
only  $7.50  per  ton ;  half-ton  $4 ;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full 
weight  guaranteed.  In  economy,  cleanliness  and  heat 
producing  qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to  coal. 
Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  20th  and 
Channel.     'Phone  South  95. 

The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora; 

tives.  Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  dTuggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

good  luncheon.  There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  and  refreshment  afcer 
the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
ice-cream  and  pastry — always  the  best,  and  their  prompt- 
ness can  be  depended  upon. 


The   Techau   Tavern   is   the   place   to  go   after  the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
is  reasonable. 


P.    WESTERFELD    V    CO.,   BaKers   and   Confectioners 

RBMOTHTM  IMS  MARkET  STREET 


CROWN  CAK[ 


Trade  /TljrK 


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A  DELICIOUS 

BREAKFAST  CAKE 


Price.  25c,  50c.  and  75c 

Crown    Cake,   with   Chocolate  Icing,   Garnished  with   Almond   Slices 

Price.  50c.  75c  and  Sl.00 


WRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISHES 

Removed   by    New   Process   (Guaran- 
j     teed.)      Face      Massage,     Manicuring 
:       J     and   Scalp  Massage 

AT    YOUR     HOME, 

by  appointment 
MME.    H.    EASTWOOD 

1307  Larkln  St..  S.  F.  Tel.  Larktn  2646. 


Telephone  John  1911 

DECORATIONS 

MENU  and  TALLY  CARDS 

BRIDAL  BOUQUETS 

Miss  Charlotte  F.  Williams 

Room  18 

121  Post  Street  Sen  Francisco 


Mme. 

GEORGETTE 

GODON 

LADIES'  HAT  IMPORTER 

REMODELING 

Suite  520-621 

STARE  KING  BUILDING 
121  Geary  St. 

Perfect  Fitting 
French  Nodes 
e.nd  Adaptations 

Mary  Pattern,  Supt.  #  Phone  Ea&t  686 

T5he  MARY  PATTON  HOSPITAL 

Formerl>  the  A-  Miles  Taylor  Sanatorium 
A  Perfectly  Equipped  Hospital 


1106  POST  STREET 
San  Francisco 


Bates  Range  From 
$15  to  $100  per  Week 


C  H.  Rehnstrom,  (formerly  Sanders  &  Johnson) 
E.  W.  Hagbom,  (formerly  with  James  W.  Bell  &  Co., of  New  York) 

REHNSTROM  $  HAGBOM 

TAILORS 

PHELflN  BUILDING  ROOMS  1,  2,  3 

Phone  Main  6387.    San  Francisco. 


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.ARCHITECT 
131  POST  STREET  SAN  FRANCISCO 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON  JR. 


Only  a  few  weeks  ago  I  referred  to  the  illegal  prac- 
tice existant  in  the  Police  Department  for  years  of 
requiring  owners  of  stolen  property,  which  has  been 
sold  to  pawnbrokers  by  thieves,  to  repay  the  for- 
mer the  amount  they  claimed  to  have  paid  for  the 
goods,  before  the  owners  could  recover.  Now  comes 
Colonel  Pierce,  of  Oakland,  with  a  complaint  that 
the  police  are  trying  to  blackmail  him  in  the  very 
manner  1  described.  Pierce's  home  was  robbed.  Af- 
ter considerable  search,  he  discovered  that  the  police 
had  recovered  his  jewels  from  the  pawnbrokers  to 
whom  they  had  been  sold.  He  applied  to  the  Chief 
of  Police  for  his  property,  and  was  informed  that 
he  would  have  to  settle  with  the  pawnbroker  before 
he  could  get  back  his  gems.  Pierce  refused  to  lie 
blackmailed,  and  sued  out  a  search-warrant.  Then 
the  whole  thing  was  tied  up  in  the  Police  Courts  in 
the  mysterious  manner  so  usual  in  those  temples 
of  justice.  Whether  Pierce  has  yet  recovered  his 
property,  I  am  not  aware.  His  experience,  however, 
coming  right  on  the  heels  of  the  exposure  of  the 
methods  of  the  police,  gives  added  strength  to  the 
News  Letter's  assertion  of  an  urgent  need  of  an  in- 
vestigation into  the  many  violations  of  the  law  prac- 
ticed by  the  police  under  the  assumption  of  author- 
ity. The  relations  between  the  police  and  the  pawn- 
brokers are  illegal,  and  productive  of  crime.  The 
police  are  acting  as  protectors  of  the  receivers  of 
stolen  goods.  This  assertion  is  amply  proved  by  the 
facts  in  the  Pierce  case.  If  the  Crand  Jury  wants  to 
keep  itself  busy,  let  it  inquire  into  this  affair  and 
others  of  like  nature. 

*  *  * 

Xews  conies  from  the  East  that  Al.  Hayman,  late 
of  the  old  Baldwin  Theatre,  has  retired  from  the 
theatrical  business  with  a  great  fortune,  and  is  now 
touring  Europe  in  his  $14,000  automobile.  Hayman 
always  was  lucky.  Even  years  ago,  when  he  was  run- 
ning the  Baldwin,  and  before  he  had  made  his  later 
strong  Eastern  connections,  he  made  money,  as  did 
no  other  local  theatrical  manager.  But  sometimes 
he  lost  it,  too,  which  reminds  me  of  this  story: 

A  friend,  meeting  Hayman  shortly  after  the  close 
of  the  theatrical  year,  thought  the  impresario  looked 
rather  glum. 

'What's  the  trouble?"  he  asked.  "Isn't  business 
good?" 

"Oh,  fair,  fair,"  said  Hayman;  "but  it  might  be 
better." 

"Why,  I  thought  you  were  doing  a  magnificent 
business,"  said  his  friend.  "The  street  has  it  that 
you  made  a  clear  profit  of  at  least  $100,000  last  year." 

"What?"  said  Hayman,  in  tones  of  angry  expostu- 
lation ;  "make  $100,000!  Why,  the  fact  is,  I  lost 
$25,000  last   year." 

"I  would  never  believe  it,"  said  the  friend.  "That 
is  astonishing.     How  did  it  happen?" 

"Why.  sec  here."  said  Hayman  ;  "year  before  last 
I  cleared  $100,000.  That  was  good  business.  But 
last  year  everything  went  wrong,  and  I  came  out 
with  a  profit  of  only  $75,000,  a  clear  loss  of  $25,000 
on  the  business  of  the  previous  year.  So,  you  see, 
I  am  a  loser  to  the  extent  of  $25,000.  But  I  will  try 
to  make  it  up." 

And  the  friend  went  away  slowly,  thinking  sadly 
on  the  losses  of  Hayman. 

*  *  * 

The    Supervisors    are    quarreling   over   the    distri- 


bution of  the  permits  to  the  prize-fighting  clubs.  The 
latest  phase  of  the  question  includes  the  so-called 
"amateur"  clubs.  Most  of  these  clubs  are  fakes,  im- 
pure and  by  no  means  simple,  and  the  sole  object 
of  their  promoters  is  to  make  money.  The  amateur 
clubs  are  not  required  to  pay  the  same  license  as  the 
regular  organizations,  consequently  the  amateurs  are 
eager  to  get  as  many  permits  as  possible.  Of  course, 
they  do  not  comply  with  the  law,  for  they  pay  their 
performers  for  going  into  the  ring,  and  in  other  re- 
spects they  follow  the  methods  of  the  bigger  clubs, 
each  doing  its  utmost  to  get  the  most  dollars  from 
the  pockets  of  the  public.  The  financial  interest  of 
all  the  prize-fighting  clubs  has  grown  so  great  that 
certain  Supervisors  now  devote  more  time  to  the 
affairs  of  the  plug-uglies  than  to  any  other  business 
•before  the  Board.  These  Supervisors,  of  course,  are 
"patrons  of  sport,"  and  their  activity  in  obtaining 
permits  for  their  favorite  clubs  is  not  actuated  by  any 
consideration  of  the  success  of  the  financial  invest- 
ments of  their  friends.  Of  course  not.  In  striving 
to  strengthen  the  prize-fighting  trust,  the  Supervisors 
are  animated  only  by  a  desire  for  the  public  good. 
They  are  anxious  to  show  their  constituents  in  what 
high  regard  they  hold  the  welfare  of  the  public. 
*  *  * 

Lieutenant-Colonel  William  L.  Pitcher,  Twenty- 
Eighth  Infantry,  being  left  in  temporary  command 
of  his  regiment  at  the  Presidio,  thought  he  would 
make  a  tour  of  inspection,  just  to  see  whether  it 
would  be  necessary  to  use  his  new  broom.  When  he 
returned  to  his  quarters,  the  Colonel  was  hot  and 
muddy  and  angry.  His  eagle  eye  had  discovered 
three  old  oyster  cans  and  various  scraps  of  paper 
in  the  company  streets,  and  he  had  found  slouchy- 
looking  soldiers  with  unbuttoned  uniforms  sprawl- 
ing in  the  cantonments.  The  Colonel  immediately 
wrote  an  order  which  caused  his  subalterns  to  gasp. 
They  have  not  yet  recovered.  He  directed  them  to 
get  busv  cleaning  house,  and  ordered  further  that 
until  they  had  made  everything  clean  and  orderly, 
not  a  man-jack  of  them  should  leave  the  precincts  of 
the  Presidio.  Then  came  petitions,  protests  and  ap- 
peals, supplications,  prayers  and  entreaties — all  piled 
in  and  poured  over 'Pitcher  until  he  was  nearly  bur- 
ied in  the  missives.  He  stood  the  storm  for  three 
days  and  then  surrendered.  Another  attempt  to  make 


RAMSAY" 

ISLAY 
SCOTCH  WHISKY 

IN  BULK 


UNEXCELLED  FOR  BODY   AND 
FLAVOR 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 


Agents  Pacific  Coast. 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 


April  33.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ha.  I 
failr  Lieutenants,   however,   will    be    • 

martialrd.  because  they  went   down   town   from  the 
between  the  time  when  Colonel  Pitcher  I" 
nsidcr  the  re\  r,  ami  the 

it i. >n.  The  occasion  demand- 
ed a  sacrifice  serious  man.  engaged  with 
My  affairs,  this  terrible  tempest  .«\er  the  diflCOV- 
.-.  oyster  can  -ffins  very  much  like 
"playing  house."  Army  officers  should  keep  their 
petty  little  squabbles  to  themselves  it  they  would 
retain  public  respect. 

*  «  « 

"Uncle  George"    Bromley   celebrated   his  eighty- 
nth   birthday   last   week,  and   for  the  eight    hun- 
dreil  ami  eighty-seventh  time  he  recited  "When  the 

ime  Tinkling  Home."  He  may  not  be  as 
young  as  he  used  to  be.  but  his  spirit  is  as  gay  as 
ever.  Years  ago.  a  stranger  in  this  strange  land,  he 
was  one  of  the  party  that  sat  around  the  board  in 
honor  of  another  birthday  of  Uncle  George.  Now  this 
stranger  had  heard  that  on  these  festal  occasions  the 
wassail  bowl  sometimes  flowed  over.  So  he  decided 
to  be  modest  and  to  turn  down  his  glass  early  in  the 
game.  Likewise,  he  had  promised  his  wife  to  re- 
turn to  the  hotel  early.  During  the  dinner  the 
stranger  decided  that  the  best  thing  he  could  do 
would  be  to  tie  up  to  the  venerable  guest  of  honor, 
for  "surely,"  he  said  unto  himself,  "that  nice,  old 
gentleman  will  leave  this  crowd  of  roystering  young 
blades  at  an  early  hour,  and  I  can  escape  with  him." 
So  the  stranger  lingered,  lingered,  lingered,  and  Un- 
cle George  and  the  cows  made  several  trips  up  and 
down  the  "dingle,  dingle,  dingle,"  but  the  venerable 
guest  of  the  evening  continued  to  keep  in  good  spir- 
its. Presently  the  rays  of  the  morning  sun  came 
peeping  into  the  red  room  to  see  what  was  doing. 
Old  Sol  saw  old  LTncle  George,  and  quickly  moved 
along.  About  6  a.  m.  the  stranger,  true  to  his  original 
scheme,  wandered  forth  with  Bromley.  They  came 
to  anchor  at  Lotta's  Fountain,  and  watched  the  cars 
file  by.     The  hotel  was  in  sight  across  the  street. 

"Xow  for  it,"  said  the  stranger.  "It  is  sad  to 
leave  him  alone  and  unprotected  in  the  midst  of  the 
city's  streets,  but  I  must  away.  Mr.  Bromley, 
I  have  had  a  most  delightful  time,  for  which  I  am 
your  debtor.     But  now  I  must  away." 

"What,   not   going?"   Uncle   George   asked. 

"Yes,  I  must,"  said  the  stranger,  thinking  of  the 
lonely  wife. 

"Well,  what  are  you  going  to  do  the  rest  of  the 
evening?"  asked  Uncle  George. 

And  then  the  stranger  fell  upon  his  neck  and  wept. 

*  *  * 

William  Wright,  a  gentleman  of  color,  entered  a 
jewelry  store,  and  when  he  thought  the  clerk  was 
not  looking,  swallowed  a  locket  worth  $60.  Willie 
is  about  due  for  an  operation  for  appendicitis. 

*  *  * 

Eight  undergraduates  have  been  examined  at  Ber- 
keley to  determine  their  qualifications  for  admission 
to  Oxford  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the 
Cecil  Rhodes  scholarships.  It  is  reported  that  every 
one  of  them  failed  in  the  preliminary  tests  in  Latin 
and  Greek.  The  questions  were  sent  out  from  Eng- 
land, and  they  bowled  over  our  young  men  in  short 
order.  Schoolmen  are  aware  that  the  English  schools 
give  far  more  attention  to  the  classics  than  we  do, 
but  that  is  but  small  excuse  in  seeking  for  an  expla- 
nation of  the  failure  of  the  representatives  of  Ber- 
keley. These  undergraduates  have  been  instructed 
in  Latin  and  Greek,  and  if  their  instruction  had  been 


»5 


Pears' 

It  is  a  wonderful  soap 
that  takes  hold  quick  and 
does  no  harm. 

No  harm  !  It  leaves  the 
skin  soft  like  a  baby's  ;  no 
alkali  in  it,  nothing  but 
soap.  The  harm  is  done  by 
alkali.  Still  more  harm  is 
done  by  not  washing.  So, 
bad  soap  is  better  than 
none. 

What  is  bad  soap?  Im- 
perfectly made ;  the  fat 
and  alkali  not  well  bal- 
anced or  not  combined. 

What  is  good  soap  ? 
Pears'. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


thorough,  it  would  seem  that  they  should  have  ac- 
quired enough  knowledge  to  have  passed  the  en- 
trance examinations  to  Oxford  in  these  branches. 
The  tests,  the  Professors  report,  were  no  more  severe 
than  the  usual  tests  for  matriculation  at  the  great 
English  university. 

Business  men  will  see  little,  if  any,  cause  for  com- 
plaint in  the  inability  of  the  Berkeley  students  to 
overthrow  the  problems  of  the  dead  languages,  for 
they  will  submit  the  old  argument  that  a  knowledge 
of  Virgil  and  Horace  or  Homer  will  be  of  but  small 
assistance  in  accumulating  dollars  in  the  marts  of 
trade.  There  are  a  few  people,  however,  who  are 
yet  foolish  enough  to  think  that  the  piling  up  of  coin 
is  not  the  main  object  of  man's  existence.  To  these, 
the  failure  of  the  representatives  of  the  State  Uni- 
versity will  be  cause  for  regret.  It  might  be  well  for 
the  Regents  to  look  into  this  matter,  for  the  collapse 
of  Berkeley  in  the  competition  certainly  indicates 
weakness  somewhere  in  its  structure. 

*  *  * 

Under  the  cornerstone  of  the  new  Carnegie  Library 
at  Berkeley  was  placed  no  box  filled  with  coins,  news- 
papers and  official  documents.  The  town  officers 
did  not  rise  to  the  occasion.  But  the  contractor  did. 
He  pasted  his  business  card  to  the  bottom  of  the 
corner  stone.  There  is  at  least  one  contractor  who 
bids  fair  to  live  in  history. 

*  *  * 

Eleven  pupils  of  the  Fairmount  School  broke  into 
the  school  building  last  Sunday  and  cut  up  the  strap 
used  by  the  principal  to  enforce  discipline.  They  also 
broke  some  furniture  and  stole  some  chalk.  These 
lads  are  evidently  preparing  for  a  course  at  Ber- 
keley. 

:■   *   * 

Thomas  H.  Russell,  the  original  Little  Lord  Faun- 
tleroy,  was  married  the  other  day.  Gentlemen,  we 
are  getting  old. 

Fine   stationery,    steel    and    copperplate    engraving. 

Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 

See  our  3  months  ahead  Ideas  in  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 


i6 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


e  OUT  00  vud  but  PleMUreV— Tom  Moore 


j  PLEASURE'S  WAND 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

MAJESTIC— "The  Crisis"— Isabelle  Irving— A  most  enjoyable,  artistic. 
smooth  performance. 

ORPHEUM— A  very  fine  vaudeville  show. 

COLUMBIA— The  Four  Cohans— "Running  for  Office''— A  re.lned  enjoy- 
able comedy. 

GRAND—  Kolb  and  Dill  anil  other  favorites— Crowded  houses 

ALCAZAR— A  splendid  performance  by  a  well  selected  company— "The 
Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson." 

CENTRAL— "The  White  Squadron."    Enjoyable  spectacular  melodrama. 

TIVOLI— "The  Beggar  Student."— Beggars  description. 


Miss  Irving,  at  the  new  Majestic  Theatre,  is  a 
great  success,  but  she  is  no  greater  than  her  companv 
of  the  play.  "The  Crisis,"  dramatized  by  the  gifted 
author,  Winston  Churchill,  is  one  of  the  best  I  have 
seen  in  many  moons.  Here  is  a  company  worth  see- 
ing, a  play  worth  sitting  down  to  and  enjoying.  It 
is  a  natural,  sweet  and  most  interesting  piece  of  stage 
work.  There  is  none  of  the  Ibsen  morality.  It  is  a 
wholesome  bit  of  Americanism.  There  are  no  prob- 
lems that  smell  to  heaven.  It  is  a  play  that  leaves  a 
delightful  memory.  The  management  should  come 
in  for  first  praise.  I  have  rarely  seen  such  pains- 
taking care  in  the  setting  of  a  play.  You  can  easily 
imagine  yourself  away  back  in  St.  Louis  in  the  stren- 
uous days  of  the  war,  and  you  remain  in  St.  Louis 
until  after  you  wake  to  find  yourself  in  San  Fran- 
cisco's streets  again. 

The  piano,  the  tables,  the  chairs  are  old  vintage. 
The  costumes  are  a  study  from  the  fashion  plates 
of  the  times  depicted  in  the  play.  The  scenery  is 
good,  the  acting  is  splendid,  the  seats  are  comfort- 
able, and  the  theatre,  when  finished,  will  be  one  of  the 
finest  in  the  United  States. 

Miss  Irving  as  Virginia  Carvel  is  a  sweetly  win- 
some conception.  The  rest  of  the  company  is  very 
well  balanced  with  the  honors  going  to  Mr.  North 
as  the  Bostonian  and  to  Mr.  Thomas  A.  Hall's  Col- 
onel Carvel,  who  never  forgets  his  part  and  lives  it 
to  the  letter  to  the  infinite  enjoyment  of  his  audience. 
The  noble  and  refined  character  of  the  grand  old 
Southron  is  depicted  in  a  manner  that  must  please 
the  author. 

If  you  want  an  evening  of  quiet,  keen  enjoyment 
that  will  appeal  to  your  better  nature  and  to  your 
intellectuality,    go    to    the    Majestic    and    see    "The 

Crisis." 

*  *  * 

At  the  Grand  this  week  the  principals  are  a  howl- 
ing success.  The  merry  press  agent  is  at  work 
making  capital  for  the  Antipodean  tour.  There  is 
a  nice  story  of  a  ten  thousand  dollar  guarantee  or 
forfeit  to  be  given  by  Winfield  Blake  that  he  will  not 
wed  on  the  Australian  tour.  It  now  remains  for  some 
one  to  fake  up  a  story  that  Amber  will  not  flirt  with 
the  Kangaroos,  that  Kolb  will  let  the  Ponies  along, 
and  that  Bernard  will  stop  joking  about  his  father- 
in-law.  The  chorus  at  the  Grand  has  the  Chutes 
amateur  night  "skinned  to  death."  It  is  the  fiercest 
thing  that  ever  came  over  the  pike  in  the  way  of 
ensemble   work. 

*  *  * 

Fun  fast  and  furious  is  the  keynote  of  "Running 
for  Office,"  the  new  musical  frivolity  presented  for 
the  first  time  at  the  Columbia.  No  better  setting 
for  the  varied  talents  of  the  Four  Cohans  could  have 
been  devised.  George  M.  Cohan  is  versatile,  indeed. 
Not  only  has  he  written  the  book  and  the  music,  but 
dancing,  singing,  joking  or  gesticulating  he  is  almost 


constantly  before  the  footlights  during  all  of  the 
three  acts  of  the  play.  Were  it  not  that  he  is  so  ably 
surrounded  by  his  father,  his  mother,  his  charming, 
sprightly  sister,  and  the  well  chosen  people  who  fill 
so  adequately  their  respective  roles,  he  could  easily 
constitute  the  whole  show.'  He  is  a  host  in  himself. 
The  Cohan  family  form  a  quartette  of  rare  excellence, 
for  nothing  could  be  more  effective  than  their  ensem- 
ble playing.  Josephine  Cohan  shows  herself  a  sweet- 
ly natural  actress,  and  a  gracefully  vivacious  dancer. 
"If  I  were  Mr.  Morgan,"  "Sweet  Popularity,"  and 
other  songs  and  choruses  were — with  "I'll  Be  There 
in  the  Public  Square  — sung  effectively  by  Delia 
Nivens — the  musical  features  of  the  play.  But  it 
is  the  noise,  the  nonsense,  the  fun-engendering  situa- 
tions, the  jollity,  the  hilarity,  the  costumes — all  form- 
ing an  irresistible,  mirth-provoking  medley — which 
leave  their  impress  upon  eye  and  ear  long  after  the 
curtain  is  rung  down.  It  is  a  fun-show  which  fun- 
lovers — may  their  tribe  increase — cannot  afford  to 
miss. 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  has  a  good  show  this  week  in  "Chow- 
Chow."  General  Hardtack  is  a  fine  piece  of  work 
by  Frank  Kelly.  Roy  Alton  gives  some  splendid 
acting  as  Beef  II,  a  poor  king  who  afterwards  be- 
comes a  good  cook.  Helen  Russell  has  not  much  to 
do,  but  what  she  does  in  "Chow-Chow"  is  well  done. 
The  rest  of  the  characters  are  all  well  portrayed,  and 
the  piece  is  generally  good  without  being  extraordi- 
nary.   The  music  seems  verv  thin  in  spots. 

*  *  * 

The  Tivoli  boards  are  held  by  the  "Beggar  Stu- 
dent" this  week.  It  is  to  be  presumed  the  players 
are  doing  their  best  with  Milloecker's  opera.  This 
is  a  case  of  where  the  best  is  like  the  worst.  Hart- 
man's  Ollendorf  was  a  very  poor  production,  and  the 
rest  of  the  male  cast  is  a  bad  second.  Caro  Roma 
sang  well  in  the  character  of  Laura,  but  her  stage 
presence  is  becoming  daily  more  markedly  bad.  The 
crowning  incompetency  of  the  whole  thing  is  the 
singing  and  acting  of  Dora  de  Fillipe.  Some  one  told 
this  lady,  many  years  ago  when  she  was  young,  that 
she  could  sing  and  act,  and  she  believed  her  inform- 
ant. The  result  is  to  be  seen  every  night  at  the  Tiv- 
oli. 

*  *  * 

There's  a  good  show  at  the  Orpheum  this  week. 
The  Mortons  are  still  with  us.  The  Ellis-Nowlan 
trio  and  several  other  first-class  artists  help  to  make 

a  most  enjovable  performance  pass  smoothlv. 

*  *  * 

"The  White  Squadron"  at  the  Central  is  drawing 
quite  a  crowd.  Scenically  considered,  this  is  a  great 
success,  and  the  rapid  play  and  sparkling  effects 
please  the  people  who  attend. 


WiYI.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V  V   o 

Scotch_Whisky 

Importers-MACONDRAY  &  CO. 


April  33,  1904. 
\\  '  Pitch  wrote  '  I  'hi 

'take.     It  drama  with  a 

1  ami  merriment  thrown  in.  5 

critics  1  Mr.  Fitch 

■1   adaptation   from   the    French.     These  critics 
on  the  play.    It  is  Fitch's  own,  without 
mbt. 
The    Alcazar   company    is   an    aggregation   of   the 
versatile   artists   in   the    United  Tin- 

shown  at  n<>  time  to  better  advantage  than  in 
sky  Mr>.  Johnson." 
Miss  Block  and  Mi-s  Starr  shared  the  honors  in 
their  respective  parts,  and  Miss  Block's  acting,  in 
the  parting  scene  between  herself  and  brother  Jim 
(Mr.  Durkin),  was  a  sample  of  some  of  the  very 
high  order  of  emotional  work  this  lady  always  has 
at  her  command.  She  suffered  from  a  frightful  cold. 
which,  was  scarcely  perceived  by  the  audience,  and 
through  the  whole  week  she  held  herself  right  down 
to  her  fine  acting.  Mr.  Conness  was  at  his  best,  and 
it  is  a  relief  to  know  that  he  can  play  the  good  man 
as  well  as  he  can  the  villain.  There  was  but  one  rift 
within  the  lute,  and  that  was  the  Dindeatt  of  <  ls- 
bourne.  There  is  a  soupcon  that  Osbourne's  French 
pronunciation  was  acquired  at  a  young  ladies'  semi- 
nary. He  pronounces  French  words  with  the  fluency 
and  correctness  of  a  Pomeranian  peasant. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alhambra.  "His  Royal  Nibs"  scored  a  great 
social  success  on  Thursday  evening  and  last  night. 
I  will  reserve  a  critique  of  this  very  interesting  little 
operetta  for  next  week,  limiting  myself  to  the  state- 
ment that  Shatter  Howard,  considered  musically,  is 
cut  out  for  larger  and  better  things  than  a  light  com- 
edy  harmony. 

*  *  * 

The  recent  hot  spell  is  responsible  for  the  discov- 
ery that  the  new  Tivoli  Opera  House  is  one  of  the 
coolest  spots  in  the  city.  Its  ventilation  is  simply 
perfect. 

*  *  * 

The  Mansfield  productions  in  San  Francisco  call 
for  eleven  railroad  cars  to  carry  the  scenic  embellish- 
ments. Mr.  Mansfield  is  super-sensitive  as  to  minor 
detail,  and  it  is  said  that  he  has  developed  his  pen- 
chant to  excess  in  the  production  of  the  batch  of 
plays  we  are  soon  to  have  at  the  Columbia. 

*  *  * 

It  has  been  arranged  to  give  Maud  Adams  a  big 
reception  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  the  arrival  of  her 
special.  Some  Eastern  wag  says  that  this  is  due 
to  the  fact  that  Maud  has  always  been  considered  in 
the  class  of  "safe  women"  to  trust  one's  husband 
with.  Trust  a  Mormon  as  a  keen  judge  of  woman's 
nature. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  C.  Tyler  will  leave  for  Europe  about 
the  middle  of  May,  and  will  probably  remain  away 
until  October.  He  will  rest  in  Italy  and  be  in  Lon- 
don in  time  to  see  Miss  Eleanor  Robson  present 
"Merely  Mary  Ann"  at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre 
early  in  August.  To  Mr.  Tyler  may  be  credited  all 
the  great  successes  of  Liebler  &  Company. 
(Continued  to  Page  20.) 

fflfter   the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZIINKAND'S 
Listen    to    the   matchless   string   band    and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zlnkand   is   society's   gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Inyi  matinee 


GraQd  Opera  Mouse 

marl;  Win  11, M  m.ikn;  Mnuilo  Amber: 

Monday,  Tneeday  and  Wedneedty 

mm  11    i>ii    hi  I'.  Thurwlny,   Frldnj    an. I    Saturday 
W  1111:1.  (-OIO  .in.l  UIG  LITTLE 

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MELBOURNE    McDOWELL 

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Fischer's    Theatre 

Thr  new  burlesque  a  tremendous  hit 
iiiouslr  funny  from  first  to  Inst. 
ptlonal  cast  end  ononis. 


CHOW     CHOW 


Better  than  any  of  tin.  Weber  A  Field's  i.ieces. 
Itoseivpd  seats,  nichts,  2.'.c.  IOC  and  76c. 
Hattneea  Saturday  and  Sunday.    25c  and  60c- 
Children  at  Matinees,  ine  and  25c. 


Columbia  Theatre.  aeTm,"tSL',^tVMWm 

Tonight.  Sunday  night  and  all  next  week. 
Matinee  Saturday.    Mr.  Fred  Niblo  announces 

THE   FOUR   COHANS 

and  their  big  company  in  Geo.M.Cohan's  musical  comedy  success 

RUNNING    FOR   OFFICE 

M«  -nday  May  2— First  appearance  here  of 

THE   ROGERS    BROTHERS 

Seats  Wednesday. 

OrPlhf^l  1 1T\       San  rrandlsco's  Greatest  Muetc  Hall. 
V-/I  M'  ltSUl  Ij.     O'Farrcll  St..  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
"Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  April  24. 

IDEflL   VAUDEVILLE 

Lew  Sully ;  La  Petite  Adelaide ;  Mitchell  and  Love  "Wilfred  Clark 
and  Company,  Presenting  "In  the  Biograph";  Ethel  Levey 
(Mrs.  George  M.  Cohan;)  Tony  Wilson,  and  Heloise;  Mile. 
Amoros.  assisted  by  Mile.  Charlotte;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures 
and  last  week  of 

THE    FOUR    MORTONS 

Prices,  loc,  26c  and  60c- 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

(~*r>r\i-m\    Thofitro         Belasco  &,  Mayer.  Proprietors 
OeiJLrUI     l  neuire.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  633 

Week  of  Monday,  April  25.     Matinees,  Saturday  and  Sunday 
Joseph  Arthur's  sensational  masterpiece, 

THE  STILL  0Lf]RM 
DR.  JEKYLL  arjd  MR.  HYDE 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c.    Matinees  10, 16.  26c. 


May  2- 


Majestic  Theatre.  Market^eLrkin. 

April  26.    One  more  week 

ISABEL    IRVING 

IN 

THE    CRISIS 

Prices  $1.60,  $1.00,  50c.    Bos  Seats  $2.00. 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  aaa*I,*&E£Btne* 

Only  Matinees  Saturday.    Beginning  next  Monday,  night. 
Revival  for  one  week  only,  by  general  desire 

WHEN  JOHNNY  COMES  MARCHING  HOME 

A  military  and  spectacular  comic  opera  by  Stanislaus  Stange 
and  Julian  Edwards. 
Next  production— 

A    RUNAWAY    GIRL 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  60c,  76c-    Box  Seats,  $1. 

A 1  r»  sa  "7  sa  r    Th  cxr%  I-  vex  Belasco  &  Mates,  Proprietors 

M.l^ctZ.dr     llieutre    E.  D.  Peicb,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

One  week  commencing  Monday  April  25, 

400th  consecutive  week  of  the  Alcazar  Stock  Company. 

Souvenir  Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

The  London  and  New  York  comedy  success 

THE  NEW  CLOWN 

First  time  in  San  Francisco 

Specialties  and  dances  arranged  by  Bothwell  Browne. 
Evenings  26  to  75c.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  25  to  60c. 
Monday  May  2— Arthur  W.  Pinero's  drama.  The  Profligate. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital,  Surplus^nd  Undivided  }$|3500,000 

Homer  S.  Kingf  President;  F.  L.  Lipman,  Cashier;'  Frank  B. 
King,   Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.  E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New  York;  Salt  Lake,  Utah;  Portland,  Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco. 

B.  B.  POND.  President;  W.  C.  B.  DePRBMERT.  ROBERT 
WATT.  Vice-Presidents;  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH.   Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond.  W.  C.  B.  DeFreraery.  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman,  Jacob  Barth,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H. 
Beaver,  William  A.  Magee,  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits,  December  31,  1903  W3.232.908 

Guarantee  Capital,  Paid-up   l.OOn.oon 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds  899.516 

Mutual  Savinqs  Bank  of  s*n  F«noiso. 

710  Market  street,  opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    $1,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   ' 600.000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHT.  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY.  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice- 
President;    C.    B.   HOBSON.   Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphy.  John  A.  Hooper. 
James  Mofntt.  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  James  M.  McDonald.   Charles  Holbrook. 

Interest  paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 

The  German  Savinas  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  526  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed  Capital   and   Surplus    J2.423.751. 60 

Capital  Actually  Paid-up  In  Cash  1.000.000.00 

Deposits,    December   31,   1903 36.049.491.18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— x  resident,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President.  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Stelnhardt,  Emll  Rohte.  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  --. 
Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  in  1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital     $15,000,000.00 

Paid-in   Capital    3,000,000.00 

Profit  and  Reserve  Fund  450.000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on   term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington  Dodge,   President;  William   Corbln,    Secretary 
and    General   Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporatiorj 

NO.  1  WALL  STREET,    NEW  YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus  J7.894.4O0 

Capital  and   Surplus  Authorized   10,000.000.00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wightman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard.  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers.  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun- 
sel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila, 
Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  Shanghai,  Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon. 
Colombo,  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansul,  Anplng, 
Bakan,  Mojl,  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34    Sansome    St. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposits  issued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents    throughout    the   world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED. 
F.  E.  BECK,  Manager.  P.  G.  EASTWILK.  JR.,  Asst.  Mgr. 


&/>e  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

Russian  diplomatists  have  always 
The  Science  been  considered  astute  politicians 
of  Lying.  and  masters  of  the  art  of  statecraft, 
and  for  a  half  a  century  the  war  es- 
tablishment of  the  Empire  has  stood  at  the  front  of 
the  European  nations  for  ability  of  management. 
But  for  all  that,  neither  Russia's  diplomatists  nor 
her  war  ministers  have  failed  to  see  that  the  multi- 
plied facilities  for  the  transmission  and  distribution 
of  current  events  have  enlightened  the  world  so  much 
that  all  attempts  to  play  upon  the  credulity  of  the 
public  and  mislead  by  deliberate  falsehood  resolve 
themselves  into  boomerangs.  In  the  face  of  scores 
of  able  and  critical  newspaper  correspondents,  and 
their  graphic  descriptions  of  current  events,  which 
are  promptly  flashed  over  the  wires  to  every  com- 
mercial center  in  the  world,  St.  Petersburg  Govern- 
ment officials  occupying  the  highest  places  in  the 
State  persist  in  falsifying  every  report  of  conflicts 
in  the  war  zone.  To  such  an  extent  has  this  practice 
been  carried  that  even  the  truth  is  discredited  when 
coming  through  Russian  channels.  Immediately 
after  every  clash  on  land  or  sea,  an  overwhelming 
defeat  of  the  Japanese  and  a  great  victory  for  the 
Russian  is  claimed  and  announced.'  Already  more 
Japanese  warships  and  boats  have  been  sunk,  accord- 
ing to  Russian  reports,  than  Japan  ever  possessed, 
and  several  land  engagements  have  been  fought  in 
which  the  ground  was  covered  with  dead  and  wound- 
ed Japanese,  and  all  the  wonderful  events  happening 
without  the  correspondents  or  even  the  Japanese  sol- 
diers knowing  anything  at  all  about  the  happenings. 
Such  deliberate  lying  is  not  only  belittling  to  the 
St.  Petersburg  Government,  but  it  is  sure  to  disgrace 
it  in  the  estimation  of  decent  people  the  world  over. 
If  it  be  true,  as  is  intimated,  that  the  public  mind  in 
the  Czar's  empire  is  in  such  a  state  of  unrest  and  dis- 
satisfaction that  the  people  have  to  be  bolstered  up 
with  greatly  exaggerated  reports  of  Slav  victories, 
to  prevent  a  revolution,  the  moral  sense  and  patriot- 
ism of  Russians  are  at  a  very  much  lower  ebb  than 
was  supposed.  A  wise  Government  would  know 
that  sooner  or  later  the  people  would  get  all  the  facts 
and  know  how  unjustly  they  had  been  deceived, 
which  would  be  likely  to  incite  them  to  acts  of  vio- 
lence that  might  end  in  the  overthrow  of  the  empire. 
But  likely  the  fault  lies  mostly  with  the  officials  on 
the  ground,  who  purposely  falsify  the  situation  to 
deceive  St.  Petersburg.  Certain  it  is,  no  field  com- 
manders ever  tooK  more  pains  to  have  "favorable 
mention"  or  "puffs"  'of  themselves  in  the  world's 
newspapers  than  the  Russian  Generals  at  the  front. 
At  the  beginning  of  hostilities  the  News  Letter 
pointed  out  how  lying  reports  and  self-puffed  generals 
was  likely  to  become  a  weakening  process  which 
would  pretty  well  demoralize  the  Russian  soldiers 
in  the  field  and  the  Czar's  subjects  at  home.  Thus 
far  the  campaign  of  the  Russians  has  been  one  of 
boastings    and    altogether    amateurish. 

Instead   of   countermarching   out 
In  Thibet  for      of  Thibet  for  good  and  all  as  or- 
Good  and  All.     dered  by  the  Llama,  Great  Britain 
is  re-inforcing  the  Thibetian  army 
of  observation  from  India,  the  viceroy  undertaking 
to  garrison  Thibet  from  details  from  his  own  contin- 
gent.    And  since  only  mild  protests  from  the  other 
powers  have  been   lodged  against   England's  inten- 
tions north  of  the  Himalayas,  it  may  be  accepted  as 
a  practically  consummated  fact  that  for  all  time  to 
come  British  influence  will  be  behind  the  Thibetian 
Government.     In  this  connection  it  may  be  of  inter- 


April  33.  1904. 

•hat    tlir 

«ml   thai   the  counti 

thai  in 

ipcrior  to  Canada,  and  thai 
ihr  country  offers  rare  adi  1  white  home 

\iii|    since   the   present   population   is  only 
ahi»  • '.  mostly  worthless  religious  fanatics, 

immigrants  will  find  j » U- n t \-  of  r.»mi  for  farming  and 
raising  on  a  large  scale.  No  doubt  the  London 
■  rnment  will  see  to  tt  that  a  satisfying  tide  of  im- 
migration i~  headed  that  way.  There  is  some  -nr 
at  the  Kaiser's  acquiescence  in  <  ire.-it  Britain's 
policy  t"  add  more  than  800,000  square  miles  of  \si 
adc  territor)  to  her  tndian  possessions,  but  it  is 
nol  believed  that  Germany  has  any  promise  of  Brit- 
ish moral  or  am  other  kinil  of  support  should  she 
attempt  ti>  enlarge  her  own  territory  in  the  Far  East. 
It  -rents  to  be  a  ease  of  "can't  help  it"  with  the  Ber- 
lin Government;  besides,  the  reorganization  of  the 
British  army  by  doing  away  with  the  army  corps  and 
putting  the  entire  military  force  upon  the  divisional 
plan  of  organization,  may  be  engaging  so  much  of 
the  Kaiser's  attention  that  the  Thilielian  affair  has 
escaped  his  notice,  for  the  new  hasis  of  England's 
army  organization  means  that  there  has  been  an 
awakening  in  military  circles  to  the  necessity  of  com- 
plete preparedness  on  all  possible  lines  of  the  science 
of  war  for  any  eventuality. 

( )ur   own     outlying     posses- 
Our  Own  Affairs.      sions    are    in    a    fairly    good 

state  of  peace,  but  not  so 
much  can  be  said  of  their  commercial  or  moral  pros- 
perity. All  of  them,  however,  are  clamoring  for 
so  much  of  a  modification  of  the  Chinese  Exclusion 
Act  as  will  permit  them  to  relv  upon  China  for  plan- 
tation labor  under  contract.  Labor  union  organizers 
have  reached  most  of  the  island  territories,  and  plant- 
ers as  well  as  merchants  are  fully  aware  of  the  fact 
that  it  will  be  merely  a  question  of  time  until  they 
will  be  face  to  face  with  organized  labor  and  all  that 
it  implies.  Hence  it  is  that  they  are  anxious  to  take 
time  by  the  forelock  and  be  prepared  to  meet  the  tyr- 
anny of  organized  field  labor  by  a  sufficient  force  of 
Asiatics  who  will  contract  their  service  for  a  speci- 
fied number  of  years,  thus  making  it  impossible  for 
organized  labor  to  take  advantage  of  the  pressing 
needs  of  matured  crops  and  advance  wages  beyond 
the  ability  of  the  products  to  pay.  Tn  our  Porto 
Rico  Island  the  crop-devastating  hurricane  continues 
to  make  farming  an  uncertain  business,  but  barring 
that  the  island  gives  promise  of  large  and  profitable 
crops  of  all  kinds  of  ground  products.  A  good  many 
Americans  are  already  there,  and  driving  ahead  in 
agricultural  ventures,  and  it  is  they  who  are  demand- 
ing of  Congress  a  modification  of  the  Exclusion  Act. 
Hawaii  is  gradually  increasing  in  population,  indi- 
vidual wealth  and  civilization,  but  it  is  a  good  place 
to  keep  away  from  unless  one  has  capital  to  invest, 
or  to  risk,  rather.  The  Philippines  are  still  in  a  state 
of  unrest  because  the  natives  are  not  over  anxious 
to  be  "beneficently  assimilated,"  but  Americans' and 
the  better  class  of  Filipinos  are  gradually  placing  the 
agricultural  and  mining  industries  upon  a  reasonably 
strong  basis,  and  on  tne  whole,  the  outlook  is  fairly 
promising,  but  the  entire  products  of  the  Archipelago 
would  fall  very  far  short  of  paying  the  expense  of 
the  maintenance  of  the  military  establishment  that 
is  required  to  keep  the  "old  flag"  flung  to  the  breeze. 
There  is  hope  in  Washington,  however,  that  the  time 
will  come  when  the  wisdom  of  buying  the  Archi- 
pelago will  appear  in  a  more  convincing  way  than  it 
yet  has,  although  Spain's  books  show  that  400  years 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


10 


trial  by  the  Madrid  Government  failed  to  show  any- 
thing but  an  annual  deficit  for  tin-  islands,  <  >ur  Pan- 
ama Canal  venture  is  still  a  perplexing  problem.  A 
clear  title  to  the  franchise  and  right  of  way  is  by  no 
means  assured,  which,  together  with  the  enormous 
steals  already  provided  for  and  the  great  annual 
of  military  and  naval  protection  that  will  be 
absolutely  necessary  in  the  event  of  the  canal  being 
constructed,  arc  cooling  the  sometime  canal  enthu- 
siasm of  our  people.  Still,  the  syndicate  is  powerful 
in  political  influence,  and  the  project  will  be  a  fact 
sometime. 

BANKING. 


The  Son  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome   and   Pine  Sts..   San   Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON.  President:  WM.  PIERi'E  JOHNSON.  Vice- 
President;  i.ewis  I.  COWQILL,  Cashier;  F.  \v.  Wolfe,  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital.    $500,000.      Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits.    (WS.OOD 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson.  Vlce-Frest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton.  President  Flremans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.:  H.  E.  Huntington.  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R.; 
Geo.  A  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot.  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict. 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Nevvhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist:  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K.  Wilson.  President. 

AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank.  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— Brown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,  Limited. 

The  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British   Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    J8.700.000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate    Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President 
B.  E.  Wa.Aer.   General   Manager.     Alex.  Laird,   Asst.   Gen.   Mgr. 
LONDON  OFFICE— 60  Lombard  St.,  E.  C. 
N_W  YORK   OFFICE— 16  Exchange  Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlln.        Cranbrook. 
Fernie.    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmlth,    Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New    Westminster.    Vancouver    and    Victoria. 
IN  YUKON  TERRITORY— Dawson  and  White  Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland.  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaskal. 
Also   80   other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,  N.  W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN   LONDON— 'the   Bank  of  England,   the   Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank.   Ltd. 
AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 

San  Francisco  Office— 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  Bank  Uulite( 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed    Capital.   $2,500,000.  Paid-up    Capital,   $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office — 10  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agencv  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM.  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.   ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  flnelo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital   Authorized $6,000,000         Paid   Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed   $3,000,000      Reserve  Fund   $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys   and  sells   exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    LILIENTHAL,    Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  S.  L.  Abbott. 

Jr.,  O.  D.  Baldwin,  F.  Monteagle,  Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J.  Mc- 

Cutcheon,  R.  H.  Pease. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42   Montgomery    St.,    San   Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital'-". :.."..  $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and:  Reserve 1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President:  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


Pleasure's    Wand. 


(Continued  from  Page   17.) 

Flo  Adler,  the  mezzo-soprano  who  toured  with 
Remenyi,  the  great  violinist,  for  two  seasons,  and 
who  has  also  sung  with  many  noted  opera  companies 
in  the  East,  will  make  her  first  appearance  at  the 
Chutes  the  coming  week.  Bowers  and  Curtiss,  pre- 
senting their  farcette,  "Where  is  John,"  and  Huston, 
the  comedy  juggler,  will  also  be  new.  Alberta  C. 
Hadley  and  Helen  Archer  will  introduce  specialties 
in  their  comedy  sketch,  "The  New  French  Maid" ; 
little  Ruth  Roland,  the  talented  child,  will  change 
her  songs  and  dances,  the  three  Malverns  will  con- 
tinue their  graceful  and  daring  acrobatic  exhibition, 
and  the  animatoscope,  showing  the  latest  novelties 
in  moving  pictures,  will  conclude  a  varied  and  attrac- 
tive programme.  The  amateurs  will  appear  on  Thurs- 
day night,  and  an  electric  May  pole  dance  will  be 
given  Saturday,  Sunday  and  Monday,  April  30th  and 
May  1st  and  2d.  Many  rare  animals  have  recently 
been  added  to  the  zoo. 

*  *  * 

Melbourne  McDowell,  who  is  said  to  be  a  changed 
man  and  a  much  improved  actor,  will  open  on  May 
1st  at  the  Grand  with  a  support  headed  by  Constance 
Crawley,  of  Ben  Greet  fame.  This  clever  woman 
will  be  remembered  by  theatre  goers  as  one  of  the 
"Everyman"  Company.  McDowell  will  give  us  a 
batch  of  Sardou  plays. 

*  *  * 

The  "Still  Alarm"  should  fill  the  Central  all  of  next 
week.  It  is  a  melodrama  that  has  always  drawn 
crowded  houses,  and  while  there  are  manv  of  the 
hypercritical  and  the  blase  who  would  not  enjoy  the 
"Still  Alarm,"  there  are  thousands  of  others  who 
will  gladly  hie  themselves  to  the  home  of  melodrama 
and  come  away  thrilled  and  satisfied.  The  Central 
is  the  Mecca  of  the  seekers  of  strenuous  actioned 
denouements. 

*  *  * 

The  Tivoli  will  give  us  a  week's  seas  m  of  "When 
Johnnie  Comes  Marching  Home."  It  is  more  than 
probable  that  there  will  be  a  large  attendance.  This 
opera,  if  it  may  be  so  called,,  was  immensely  popular 
in  its  former  long  run  with  the  patrons  of  the  beauti- 
ful Eddy  street  house. 

*  *  * 

__  "The  Runaway  Girl"  will  succeed  "When  Johnnie 
Comes  Marching  Home"  at  the  Tivoli. 

*  *  * 

"Chow-Chow"  will  have  but  a  brief  run  at  the 
house  of  Fischer,  as  the  intention  is  to  close  soon  for 
improvements. 

*  *  * 

Caroline  Hull  is  to  succeed  Miss  Russell  at  Fis- 
cher's. 

*  *  * 

Next  week  the  Roger  Brother's  advance  sale  of 
seats  will  open  at  the  Columbia.  The  date  has  been 
changed  from  Thursday  to  Wednesday.  This  com- 
pany travels  by  special  train,  and  it  is  a  very  large 


Do  You  Wear  Glasses? 

Properly  fitting  Glasses   and   Murine   Eyo  Remedy  promotes  Eye 
Comfort.    Murine  makes  weak  eyes  strong.    Soothes,  doesn't  smart. 


— — Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only  S7.50  per 
ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  32.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In  economy, 
cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes  are  superior  to 
coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company.  10th  and  Channel.  Phone 
South  95. 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

Due  consideration  should  be  given 
the  treatment  of  the  windows. 
We  carry  a  full  line  of  ARABIAN, 
BATTENBERG,  BRUSSELS, 

IRISH      POINT,      CLUNY      and 
SWISS  CURTAINS,  also  BONNE 
FEMMES,       LACE       STORES, 
GRAND    DAMES,    LACE    PAN- 
ELS, SASH  CURTAINS,  etc. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    a    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


FRAGRANT    WEST    VIRGINIA    SMOKE 

T5he     "RED     RIBBON"     STOGIE 

Hand  made— select  stock.    Equal  to  a  so  cigar.    Favorite  of  doc- 
tors, lawyers,  bankers. 

$1.45  Per  Box  of  $100.  20c  Extra  by  Mall. 

Sample  wooden  box  of  25  sent  prepaid  on    receipt  of  50c.  check, 
draft,  money  order-    Stamps  not  accepted. 

Joseph  L.  Duffy  &  Bro..  501  W.  Washington  St.,  Grafton,  W.  Virginia. 


NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  or  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased.  Dept.  ■&*&&  No.  8.  Notice  is  here- 
by given  by  the  undersigned.  M.  J.  Hynes.  Public  Administrator  of  the 
Citv  and  County  of  San  Franciselsco.  and  Administrator  of  the  Estate 
of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased,  to  the  creditors  of,  and  all  persons  having 
claims  against,  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  necessary 
vouchers,  within  four  months  after  the  first  publication  of  this  notice, 
to  the  said  Administrator,  at  room  668,  Parrott  Building.  Nos.  825  to  855 
Market  street,  the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transaction  of  the  busi- 
ness of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco.  State 
of  California- 

M.  J-  HYNES 
Administrator  or  the  estate  of  TAUL  BROCK,  Deceased- 
CULL  IN  AN  and  HICKEY.  attorneys  for  administrator.  Rooms  5<V7-fiCH- 
6«9.  Parrott  building.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  April  23,  1904. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Office  of  the  Sierra  Railway  Company  of  California.  Room  229  Crocker 
Huililing.  San  Francisco.  Cal..  April  l.  1904.  Coupon  No-  14.  due  April 
21, 1904.  from  first  mortgage  6  per  cent,  bonds  of  Sierra  Railway  Com- 
pany of  California  will  be  paid  at  ttie  fiscal  agency  of  this  company, 
the  Crocker-Wool  worth  National  Bank  on  after  that  date. 

S.  D.  FRESHMAN,  Treasurer. 


BEST'S  ART  SCHOOL 

Lessons  in  Painting,  Drawing,  Sketching  and  Illus- 
trating.    Life  classes,  $3.00  per  month. 

927    MARKET    STREET 


Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart 


Teacher   of   Vocal    Music 


Pianoforte,  Organ.  Harmony  and  Composition 
Special  course  for  singers  desiring  church  appointments 


Studio,  1105  Bush  St. 


MISS    ROSE    BRANDON 

1098    PINE    STREET 

MANDOLIN  AND    GUITAR    STUDIO 

[Finest  Italian  Music  Direct  from  Italy  taught 


HEUD3* 


usiness  College 

24    POST    STREET 

Illustrated  Catalogue  Free. 


April  2$.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


illy,  fun-maker  inairc,     I 

dubtx  lugh  Trust,"     It  >- 

■ 

*  *  • 

bell  hops  have  been  li 
on  the  fat  of  the  land  since  Anna  Held  came  t<>  town 
Held  regards  the  hell  boy  institution  ^  one  "i 
the   American   Republic.     Her  Si 
tary  extended  an  invitation   for  two  nights  to  the 
for  the  front  row  of  the  orchestra,     li  is  n 
.  that  the  hotel  Mercuries  appreciated  the 
compliment.    Anna  gave  a  dinner  on  last  Saturday 
to  her  entire  company  at  the  Saint  Francis. 

*  •  • 

The  four  hundredth  consecutive  week  of  the  Alca- 
zar stock  company  will  begin  Monday,  April  25th, 
with  "Tin-  N\-\v  Gown"  as  the  attraction. 

*  *  » 

Irene  Palmer,  under  the  direction  of  Hugo  Mans- 
feklt.  pave  a  highly  enjoyable  piano  recital  at  Stein- 
way  Mall  on  Thursday.    This  child  gives  wonderful 

promise,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  an  undoubted 
genius  will  not  be  spoiled  by  the  necessary  over- 
work to  develop  her  into  a  professional  child  prodigy. 

*  *  * 

The  Kolb-Dill-Blake-Bernard  Combination  are 
playing  to  large  houses  at  the  Grand.  "Fiddle-Dee- 
Dee"  will  hold  the  boards  until  Wednesday  night  ; 
then  conies  a  change  to  a  double  bill,  "Whirl-i-Gig" 
and  the  "Big  Little  Princess." 

*  *  * 

Frederick  A.  Gower,  brother  of  the  Duke  of  Ta- 
coma.  X'ordica's  first  husband,  escaped  the  bonds  of 
matrimony  by  the  balloon  route,  and  was  not  heard 
from  again  until  last  week,  when  he  is  said  to  have 
turned  up  in  Paris.  Mr.  Doehm.  the  diva's  present 
husband,  whose  name  is  strangely  like  a  swear  sword, 
with  a  Belgian  twist,  is  seeking  a  divorce,  and  the 
suggestion  is  made  in  one  of  the  daily  papers  that 
he  will  use  the  re-appearance  of  number  one  to  in- 
fluence the  court.  This  is  an  "unfair  shop,"  and 
there  should  be  a  statute  of  limitation  as  regards 
gents  of  a  roving  disposition  who  take  aerial  flights. 
It  is  decidedly  uncomfortable  for  women  of  a  domes- 
tic tendency,  doehmed  if  it  isn't ! 

HOW  OLD  IS  ANN? 
If  it  has  taken  the  laboring  element  about  8  years 
to  find  out  that  three  dollars  and  a  half  and  an  "open 
shop"  is  more  than  four  and  a  half  under  the  union, 
Schmitz,  Ruef  and  Casey,  how  long  will  it  take  him 
to  get  back  to  a  condition  where  he  can  save  a  little 
money  for  his  wife,  his  children,  and  his  old  age? 

Wedding  Gifts. 

Just  received  a  new  and  beautiful  assortment  of  bronzes,  miniatures, 
artistic  furniture,  lamps  and  electroliers,  china.  Bohemian  and  cut 
glass,  clocks  and  artistically  framed  pictures.  Particularly  suitable  for 
wedding  presents.  S.  &  G.  Gump  Co.    113  Geary  St. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory  for 

$7.50  per  ton  ;  half  ton  U:  quarter  ton  S3.  Use  Briquettes  for  cooking 
and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your  fuel  bill. 
Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co..  South  95.  and  your  order  will  receive  prompt 
attention. 


We  are  sole  agents  for  Fountain  Pens'that  will  suit  your  hand,  dp 
not  leak,  and  will  write  without  coaxing.  Price.  $1  to  $5.  Sanborn.  Vail 
&  Co..  741  Market  St. 


"Out  of  the  Beaten  Path,"  Tom  Dillon's  modern  style  hats. 
Opposite  Palace. 

Dr.  Decker, 

dentist,  806  Market.   Specialty  "Colton  Gas"  for  painless 
teeth  extracting. 


At  Auction 

Thursday,  April  28, 1904, 

AT  12  O'CLOCK  NOON,  AT  OUR  OFFICE 
AND  SALESROOM,  25  POST  STREET. 

PAY  US  10  PER  CENT  DOWN 
BALANCE  10  PER  CENT 

EVERY  6  MONTHS  UNTIL  YOUR  LOT  IS 
PAID  FOR. 

£0  exceptionally  well  located  HOME 
UO  BUILDING  LOTS  on  Parnassus  Heights 
—fronting  GOLDEN  GATE  PARK— THE 
CHILDREN'S  PARADISE— the  biggest  and 
happiest  playground  in  'Frisco.  These  lots 
front  on  Hugo  and  I  streets,  2d,  3d  and  4th  aves., 
are  all  level,  on  official  line  and  grade ;  streets 
bituminized  and  sewered,  granite  curbs  and  ce- 
ment sidewalks ;  all  ready  to  build  on  at  once. 
MAKE  YOUR  SELECTION  before  the  day  of 
sale.  We  have  a  branch  office  on  the  property 
at  the  corner  of  H  street  and  7th  avenue.  Our 
agent  is  there  to  show  you  the  lots.  Office  open 
every  day,  including  Sundays.  Catalogues  at 
office. 

Baldwin  $  Howell/ 

25    POST    STREET 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Justice  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  prlnolpal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California,  Lo- 
cation of  wo' lea,    Gold  Hill,  Storey  Counts-,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  eiven  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  19th  day  of  March  1904,  an  xirtHMuent  (No  80)  of  ten  (10) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately  In  Ui  lied  Slates  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  room  70,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Moutaroiuery  street,  San 
Fraiiolsoo,  California, 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
22nd   DAY    OF  APRIL,  1904 
will    be    delinquent    and    advertised    for    sale    at    public   auction;   and 
unless    payment   Is   made  before,    will  be  sold  on  Wednesday,  the  11th 
day  of    May,  1901,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
cost  of  advertising  and  expanses  of  sale. 

B  7  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

B.  E    KELLY,   Secretary 

Office— Room  To,  Nevada  Blook,  509  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  prlnolpal  place  of  business,  Han  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works -Virginia  City,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  16th  day  of  April,  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  104)  of  10c 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  oapltal  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  Immediately,  in  United  States  gold  ooin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  (he 
office  of  the  Company,  Room  69,  Nevada  Blook  No.  809  Montgomeey  St„ 
Han  Francisco,  Oil- 
Any  stock  upon  which  thii  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE    19th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1904, 
will   be     delinquent,   and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auction;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   Tuesday,  the  7th  day  of   June 
1904,    to    pay  the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

J.  B.  SHAW,  Secretary. 

Looation  of  Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco*  Oal. 


SAMUEL   M. 


SHORTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law, 
Crocker  Building 


San  Francisco. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


(?SS^S!CS 


<*-       MODEL  K.    16  HORSE  POWER.    2  CYLINDERS        *• 

Price  $1,350. 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency 


Sample  Machines 
on  Exhibition. 


1331      MARKET      STREET 
Corner  10th- 


WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced  BARGAIN 
prices  very  desirable 


AUTO-CARS 


ALSO 


RAMBLERS, 

NORTHERNS, 
FRANKLINS, 

0LDSM0BILES 

WITH 

LANTERNS,  RUGS,   CAPS  ®  SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

National  Auto  &  Mfg.  Co. 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVE. 


Have  you  seen  the 


Buckboard?  ••. 


lOOOIodel 

Best    Automobile     at 
any  price 


$475 


Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong— Easy  Riding—Reliable— Guaranteed 

On  exhibit at-SVNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
IBM  MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


Bt   The   Autocrank 


Now  comes  the  news  that  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California  will  give  a  race  meet  and  show  next 
month. 

This  will  be  a  very  important  event,  as  it  will  have 
a  great  bearing  on  the  future  of  the  pastime  and  sport 
in  California,  especially  in  and  about  San  Francisco. 
There  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  aulomobilists  of  the 
Southern  part  of  the  State  will  make  a  success  of 
their  part  of  the  automobile  races.  Hut  last  year 
showed  the  local  men  that  they  will  have  to  look 
to  their  laurels.  They  tried  Harney  Oldfield  out  last 
year  for  a  record,  money  spent,  nothing  doing!  The 
South  raised  the  price  and  Oldfield  made  the  world 
track  record  for  Los  Angeles.  So  it  is  up  to  the 
officials  of  the  local  automobile  club  to  retrieve  the 
name  of  San  Francisco  from  its  worthy  competitors 
of  the  lower  part  of  the  State. 

*  *  * 

Considerable  comment  has  been  caused  by  the  sug- 
gestion of  the  continuation  of  the  great  high  wax- 
south  to  Half  Moon  Bay.  It  is  one  of  the  things  that 
the  Supervisors  of  this  and  San  Mateo  County  should 
give  considerable  consideration.  What  could  be 
suggested  in  the  way  of  a  road  that  would  be  its 
equal. 

*  »  * 

American  Darracq  Automobile  Company  is  con- 
sidering several  applications  for  the  agency  of  this 
machine,  but  have  not  as  yet  decided  upon  who  to  be- 
stow the  privilege  of  representing  the  famous  ma- 
chine. 

The  Darraccj,  with  King  of  Belgium  tonneau,  is 
one  of  the  handsomest  and  most  satisfactory  ma- 
chines ever  built. 

*  *  * 

The  Locomobile  Company  of  America  has  just 
been  advised  of  some  excellent  work  done  by  a  four- 
cylinder  touring  car  owned  by  M.  E.  Gaines  of  New 
York.  The  car  was  shipped  to  the  Pacific  Coast, 
and  a  tour  made  in  Lower  California,  covering  2,600 
miles.  During  this  entire  distance,  absolutely  no  at- 
tention was  given  to  the  machinery,  except  to  sub- 
stitute a  few  clean  spark  plugs,  and  at  no  time  on 
the  tour  did  the  engine  stop  once  of  its  own  accord. 

*  *  * 

Tile  Mobile  Carriage  Company  reports  the  sale  of 
a  Pierce  Arrow  touring  car  to  Mr.  Jafet  Lindeberg. 
Mr.  Lindeberg  was  one  of  the  first  discoverers  of  the 
great  gold  fields  in  the  vicinity  of  Nome,  and  since 
his  return  to  business  he  has  taken  an  active  interest 
in  automobiling. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  G.  A.  Boyer  of  the  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany has  just  returned  from  the  South,  and  reports 
the  following  sales  of  four-cylinder  I'ope-Toledo 
mile-a-minute  cars:  George  M.  Pullman,  Tracy 
Drake,  Michael  Cudahy,  E.  W.  Davies.  Mr.  Aler- 
ton,  M.  A.  Gunst,  George  P.  Fuller,  E.  E.  Peabody. 

L.  P.  Lowe,  Marshall  P.  Harris,  and  fames  L.  Flood. 

*  *  * 

The  great  garage  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Com- 
pany is  nearly  filled  with  machines,  the  company 
having  made  provision  in  order  to  give  the  owners 
first-class  service.    The  company  permits  no  novices 


April  »3,  1904. 

nr  apprentices  in  thi    shop;  il  will  not  allow  am 

1  cars  they  are  i«"t  familiar  with,  which  is 
factory  on  the  whole  to  their  patron-. 

*  •  • 

Permission  to  hold  the  English  elimination  trial- 
for  the  international  cup  automobile  race  on  the  Ish 
of  Man  has  been  granted  to  the  Automobile  Club  of 
Great  Britain,  and  the  fifty  mile  course  will  he  cov- 
ered six  tunes  by  the  aspirants  tor  the  honor  of  rc|> 
ting  Great  Britain  in  the  trying  speed  test  over 
the  German  course. 

*  *  « 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  just  sold  a 
Stanhope,  through  its  Los  Angeles  branch,  to  Mr.  A. 
P.  Fleming,  secretary  of  tin-  Los  Angeles  Automobile 
Club.  Mr.  Fleming  is  touring  Southern  California, 
making  trips  as  far  north  as  Santa  Barbara.  He  re- 
ports   satisfactory  results,  and   is  delighted  with  his 

new   purchase. 

*  *  * 

A  Pierce  Stanhope  lias  also  been  sold  through  the 
San  Francisco  house  to  Mr.  Jeffries  of  Fresno.  He 
is  in  the  fruit  shipping  business,  which  requires  him 
to  make  daily  trips  through  the  country,  calling  on 
farmers  who  have  goods  to  sell.  There  are  in 
Fresno  now  about  forty  Stanhopes. 
'*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  furnished  the  auto- 
mobiles for  the  Prince  Pu  Lun,  the  nephew  of  the 
Emperor  of  China,  and  his  routine  of  servants.  By 
special  permit,  the  automobiles  were  run  on  the  Mail 
Dock,  from  where  the  visiting  party  was  escorted 
through  Chinatown,  the  trip  ending  at  the  Chinese 

Consulate. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heber  C.  Tilden  have  spent  several 
days  touring  in  their  Pierce  Arrow,  in  the  vicinity 
of  Byron  Springs.  The  trip  from  Oakland,  a  dis- 
tance of  75  miles  to  the  Springs,  was  made  in  a  little 
less  than  three  hours. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  just  received 
another  carload  of  two-cylinder  Arrows.  These  are 
finished  in  royal  blue,  and  provided  with  Mercedes 
hoods  and  Whitlock  radiators.  Orders  for  these  cars 
are  increasing,  and  this  shipment  will  soon  be  sold. 

*  *  * 

The  Bullet  No.  2  is  unquestionably  America's 
greatest  and  most  successful  racing  car.  It  won  26 
track  races  last  season,  broke  every  world's  track 
record  from  1  to  15  miles,  won  the  world's  mile 
straightaway  championship  in  competition  from  Wm. 
K.  Vanderbilt,  Jr.,  and  lowered  the  world's  one  mile 
■  straightaway  record,  also  in  competition,  to  43  sec- 
onds. 

*  *  * 

During  the  past  week  Buckboards  were  sold  to 
the  following:  Mr.  J.  Craig,  Woodland;  Mr.  J.  S. 
Miller,  Dayton,  Oregon ;  Mr.  F.  E.  Baker,  San  Ma- 
teo, a  one-time  yachtsman ;  and  Mr.  E.  C.  Schnabel, 

San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

A.  C.  Aiken,  the  attorney,  has  just  purchased  a 
White  touring  car.  Mr.  Aiken  will  be  remembered 
as  having  been  one  of  the  first  to  take  an  automobile 

into  the  Yosemite. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  E.  E.  Kelly,  President  of  the  State  Medical 
Association,  has  purchased  from  the  Mobile  Car- 
riage Company  a  Pierce  Stanhope.  Dr.  Kelly  has 
a  large  practice  which  calls  for  the  use  of  several 
horses.     After  carefully  computing  the  expenses  of 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


«3 


.111  automobile  such  as  the  Pierce  Stanhope,  anil  the 
time  saved,  he  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that  he 
could  not   afford   to  he  without  an  automobile. 


THE  CADILLAC 

l;ivnl;|i    (,,,,,    1 1..|  M.„,t..  1.1   Oaklaml-FIVK    IIODHH    AND 

nunr-i  ri'.ii  r  mim  i 

Thonnlr   saoomsfnl   lour  of  the   Yosemite   made   l>y   Till: 

(AMI  I    \< 


Price.  $850      With  Tonneau.  $950      Delivery  Cadillacs.  $950 

THE  SIMPLEST    MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

ClIYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  J.  FREELING 


P.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  HarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


PIERCE  STANHOPE  Prl~  .ftsoVW.S,*  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  Is  compact  in  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline 
and  beautiful  In  general  finish. 

B.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Hun,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French           -           -  52.650.00 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F 


24 


A  telegram  was  received  by  the  Pioneer  Automo- 
bile Company,  from  its  Los  Angeles  Branch,  to  the 
effect  that  a  carload  of  the  curved  dash  Oldsmobile 
runabouts  had  arrived  there;  consequently  there  is 
great  rejoicing  at  the  home  office.  A  carload  of  these 
runabouts  is  due  to  arrive  in  San  Francisco  Tuesday 
or  Wednesday.  The  1904  machines  have  several  new 
improvements  and  an  increase  of  two  horse-power. 

Mr.  E.  J.  McCutcheon  made  the  trip  from  San 
Francisco  to  San  Jose  and  return  last  Sunday  in  the 
White  touring  car,  taking  the  road  on  the  Alameda 
County  side,  and  going  over  on  the  nine  o'clock 
boat.  The  trip  was  taken  in  easy  stages,  and  yet  the 
party  made  the  four  o'clock  boat  on  the  return. 
*  *  * 

Alexander  Winton  has  again  demonstrated  his 
loyalty  to  American  motoring  interests  by  an- 
nouncing his  willingness  to  enter  the  Winton  Bullet 
No.  2  in  the  Gordon-Bennet  cup  race.  When  Mr. 
Winton  was  told  that  the  Automobile  Club  of  Amer- 
ica had  decided  to  re-open  the  Gordon-Bennett  en- 
tries, because  the  American  team  remained  incom- 
plete, he  immediately  expressed  his  willingness  to 
supply  the  deficiency,  notwithstanding  his  earlier 
determination  not  to  have  Winton  racing  cars  com- 
pete abroad  this  year.  If  the  A.  C.  A.  accepts  Mr. 
Winton's  entry,  the  Bullet  will  be  manned  by  Harry 
Owesney,  who  has  succeeded  Barney  Oldfield  as 
Mr.  Winton's  racing  representative. 

During  the  past  week  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Co. 
have  received  orders  from  their  country  agents  for 
Oldsmobiles  as  follows: 

Stockton  Automobile  Co.,  Stockton,  Cal.,  three 
curved  dash  Runabouts  and  two  tonneaus. 

Hanford  Agricultural  Works,  Hanford,  Cal.,  one 
curved  dash  Runabout. 

P.  J.  Steiger,  Petaluma,  Cal.,  two  curved  dash  Run- 
abouts. 

F.  S.  Jacks,  Napa,  Cal.,  one  curved  dash  Runabout 
and  one  tonneau. 

George  H.  Osen,  San  Jose,  Cal.,  four  curved  dash 
runabouts. 

Three    Stevens-Duryeas   were    shipped   this    week 
into   Oregon,   and   orders   have   been   received    from 
Washington  for  two  1904  Winton  touring  cars,  which 
will  go  forward  the  latter  part  of  litis  week. 
*  *   * 

Dr.  C.  B.  Brown,  01  Portland,  recently  shipped  his 
White  touring  car  from  that  city  to  San  Francisco, 
and  has  been  touring  in  California.  After  a  few  pre- 
liminary lessons  in  the  operation  of  his  car,  he  went 
out  unassisted,  and  ran  from  San  Francisco  to  Los 
Angeles,  touring  the  country  in  the  vicinity  of  Los 
Angeles 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  April  23,  1904. 

Eyes  Irritated  by  Wind 


Mineral  la> leu  poisonous  dust,  and  strong  sunlight,  need  eare.  Murine 
Eye  Itemed)'  soothes  Eye  pain  and  cures  Inflammation,  ltedness 
rtcnfng.  Granulated  and  Weak  Eyes.  Murine  is  an  Eye  Tonic;  an  aid 
to  those  wearing  glasses. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WINTON /s  KING, 
Long Jive the, 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  Sao  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  &  CO..  18-15-17  w.  St.  John  St..  San  Jose.  Complete 
repair  shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  station,  etc. 
Agents  for  Winton.  Locomobile.  Oldsmobile  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

F.  L.  CRANDALL.  Automobile  Supplies.  Repairing  etc..  124  University 
Ave..  Palo  Alto.  Cal. 


ANDREWS,  KEENAjj  &  BIASAUF 

EXPERT  REPAIRS,  AMERICAN  a  FRENCH  AUTOMOBILES 

81  CITY  HALL  AVE. 
Tel.  South  1039  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE.    CAL 

NEW  AUTOMOBILE  GARAGE 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


LIKE    BEINO    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MM  ii  J.  GILLETT,  Prop. 

2U10      SAN     BRTJNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Capp  boo 


April  »3.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

P.  Brinenr,  of  the  Pioneer  Ant- 
ing  announcer 
npany  has  purchased  from  Mr.  1 
valuation   of  the  rial 

which  their  n.  tuated.    They  hare  also 

if  the  1  ildsmobile  <  'ompan\ 
uthem  California,  which  embraces  Los  Angeles 
ami  all  surrounding  territory.    The  business  in  South- 
alifornia  will  be  in  charge  of  Mr.  John  F.  Mc 
Lain  and  Mr.  Leon  Shettlcr.     Mr.  Shettlcr  has  pur 
cha>e. I  a  substantial  interest  in  the  Pioneer  Automo- 
bile  Company.      Under   this   new   arrangement,   the 
any  will  have  the  Pacific  (oast  agency  for  the 
Winton   touring  car.  <  Ildsmobile,   Locomobile,  Ste- 
1  hiryea.    the    I  Kichard-Brasier    French 

cars,  and  the  Vehicle  Equipment  Company's  Elec- 
tric Trucks,  etc. 

*  *  » 

The  international  cup  race  is  for  a  challenge  tro- 
phy offered  by  James  Gordon  Bennett  for  an  automo- 
bile race  over  a  distance  of  about  300  miles.  Three 
cars  from  each  country  are  allowed  to  start,  but  the 
cars  must  be  manufactured  and  every  part  of  them 
made  in  the  country  that  they  represent.  The  coun- 
try winning  the  trophy  keeps  it  until  the  following 
year,  and  has  the  privilege  of  having  the  next  race 
on  its  own  grounds.  Last  year  it  was  won  by  Je- 
natzy  of  Germany,  and  the  year  before  by  Edge  of 
England. 

*  *  * 

America's  trials  will  take  place  at  Ormond,  Florida, 
and  the  tremendous  strides  in  manufacturing  auto- 
mobiles here  warrants  the  belief  that  his  country  will 
secure  high  honors  in  the  contest  abroad,  albeit  we 
don't  bring  back  the  cup.  The  French  trials  will  be 
held  over  the  Ardennes  Circuit  during  May. 

*  *  * 

The  l8x36-inch  panorama  photograph  of  the  Anna 
Held  Company  in  White  Touring  Cars  has  just  been 
completed,  and  is  one  of  the  finest  automobile  photo- 
graphs we  have  ever  seen. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


•S 


DARRACQ  MOTOR  CARS 


Mill  lis  xnu 

Buoens  than 
<m  niniB 
un 


FAMOUS  THROUGHOUT  THE  WORLD 

I  J.   IS.   >•.  M.  W.  »>.   X.   II    P    nut    atvlx   l.->.l>    dWUWl 


Phoclon  Tulip  4  Cylinder*  I91H  model  In  15-20  or  30-35  horse  powr 

Darraeq  Cars  are  the  best  value  in  the  market.     Popularity  is  at- 
tested by  sales  and  records. 

AMERICAN  DARRACQ  AUTOMOBILE  CO.  F.  jfEBKLS* 

N<"i]f  A  merifan  Agents 

A.    DARRACQ    a    HE.,    FRANCE. 

652-164  HUDSON  ST.  NEW  YORK  147  WEST  38th  ST. 

Licensed  importers  under  Selden  patent  649,160 

Agencies:  CHICAGO.  PHILADELPHIA.  BOSTON,  DETROIT 

Agency  for  Pacific  Coast  open  to  Reliable  Party 


The  sales  so  far  this  season  have  been  a  great  deal 
in  excess  of  those  of  last  year.  Although  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  Company  has  not  shown  sample  of  the 
Oldsmobile  as  yet,  they  have  forty-eight  orders  with 
deposits  for  machines.  In  the  sale  of  Winton  tour- 
ing cars,  the  company  have  sold  seventeen  cars  more 
this  season  than  they  did  at  the  same  date  for  1903. 
The  general  outlook  for  the  company  this  season  is 
very  bright. 


The  following  Manufacturers  and  Importers  are  licensed 
under  the  pioneer  patent  Number  549,160,  granted  to 
George  B.  Selden,  dated  November  5th,  1895  on 


CAUTION 

GASOLENE    AUTOMOBILES 

In  view  of  their  license  agreement  they  and  their  agents  will  not  sell,  keep  on  hand  or  in  any  manner  dispose  of  or  deal  in 
directly  or  indirectly  any  unlicensed  new  or  second-hand  gasolene  vehicles,  infringing  said  Selden  patent. 


Electric  Vechicle  Co. 
Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 
Packard  Motor  Car  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 
Knox  Automobile  Co. 
The  Haynes-Apperson  Co. 
The  Autocar  Co. 
The  George  N.  Pierce  Co. 
Apperson  Bros.  Automobile  Co. 
Locomobile  Co.  of  America 


Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
Central  Automobile  Co. 
Alexander  Fisher 


MANUFACTURERS: 

The  Peerless  Motor  Car  Co. 
Standard  Motor  Construction  Co. 
Waltham  Manufacturing  Co. 
J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 
Pope  Motor  Car  Co. 
Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
The  Commercial   Motor  Co. 
Berg  Automobile  Co. 
Cadillac  Autdmobile  Co. 
Northern  Mfg.  Co. 

IMPORTERS: 

Hollander  &  Tangeman 
Standard  Automobile  Co. 
E.  B.  Gillaher 


Pope-Robinson  Co. 
The  Kirk  Mfg.  Co. 
Elmore  Mfg.  Co. 
E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
Buffalo  Gasolene  Motor  Co. 
The  F.  B.  Stearns  Co. 
Pope  Manufacturing  Co. 
Sandusky  Automobile  Co. 
Crest  Manufacturing  Co. 
H.  H.  Franklin  Mfg.  Co, 


Auto  Import  Co. 

F.  A.  LaRoche  Co. 

Sidney  B.  Bowman  Automobile  Co. 


Both  the  basic  Selden  patent  and  more  than  400  other  patents  owned  by  members  of  this  Association  will  be  enforced  agains* 
infringers.    Manufacturers,  Importers,  Dealers  and  Agents,  also  Users  of  unlicensed  machines  are  liable. 

ASSOCIATION    OF    LICENSED    AUTOMOBILE    MANUFACTURERS 

No.    7    EAST    42d    STREET,    NEW    YORK 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


h  £g?ima~«.-.ibl  NSURANCE 


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The  insurance  world,  at  least  that  part  of  it  which 
is  engaged  in  life  insurance,  knows  of  Mr.  Gage  E. 
Tarbell.  the  author  of  monthly  letters  to  the"  agents 
of  one  of  the  companies  among  those  known  as  the 
"three  giants.''  He.  not  content  with  writing  on  in- 
surance matters,  has  climbed  over  the  prosaic  fence 
which  is  supposed  to  confine  the  domain  of  cold- 
blooded life  insurance  business,  and  has  run  riot  in 
the  orchard  of  poetry  and  drama.  He  has  lugged 
dear  old  "Parsifal"  into  the  insurance  business.  Here 
is  what  he  writes  during  one  of  his  recent  monthly 
attacks :  "The  American  public  have  heard  much  of 
Richard  Wagner's  great  music-drama.  "Parsifal," 
recently.  Even  those  who  have  given  it  the  most 
superficial  study  are  impressed  with  the  fact  that  it 
was  a  tremendous  undertaking,  but  few  probably  . 
know  that  it  was  only  by  indefatigable  industry  that 
Wagner  scored  the  work  in  three  years,  notating  with 
his  own  pen  about  one  million  three  hundred  thou- 
sand characters.  Think  of  it  1  Think  of  the  labor 
involved  in  any  great  task  that  comes  to  your  own 
mind,  and  then  ask  yourself  if  there  is  any  reason 
why  you  should  be  an  exception  to  the  universal 
law."  Shades  of  Wagner,  "think  of  it."  "think  of  it" 
— think  of  any  man  desiring  to  point  a  moral  and 
adorn  a  tale  of  life  insurance  by  citing  the  career  of 
that  guileless  fool   (parsifal). 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Stanley  Forbes,  the  General  Agent  of  the  Mu- 
tual Life,  is  on  a  brief  trip  to  Southern  California. 

*  *  * 

Echoes  caused  by  the  Conservative  Life  Insurance 
Company's  field  day  convention  have  reached  as  far 
as  San  Francisco.  It  lasted  for  almost  a  week,  was 
largely  attended  by  the  leading  managers  and  agents 
of  the  company,  and  so  far  as  heard  from,  it  was  a 
brilliant  success.  The  company  is  advertising  Cali- 
fornia and  itself  by  these  annual  gatherings.  It  gave 
a  trip  to  the  Catalina  Islands,  and  the  glass-bottomed 
boats  were  used  by  the  guests  as  well  as  other  glass 
bottoms  not  boat  shaped.  The  leading  citizens  of 
Los  Angeles  met  the  visiting  guests,  and  the  banquet 
given  by  the  company  as  a  finale  to  the  convention 
is  reported  as  having  been  among  the  most  prominent 
social  affairs  ever  known  in  Los  Angeles.  A  round 
dozen  of  the  San  Francisco  leading  agents  of  the  com- 
pany, headed  by  Mr.  Fred  Bennion,  were  present. 
and  the  northern  part  of  the  State  held  its  own  in 
oratorv  and  courtesv  with  that  of  the  Southland. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Flitcraft.  editor  of  the  Insurance  Courant  "i 
Chicago,  passed  through  San  Francisco  to  attend  the 
Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company's  convention 
at  Los  Angeles,  and  Mr.  C.  D.  Drew  of  the  Denver 
Insurance  Report  was  also  a  passing  visitor  pil- 
grimaging to  the  same  Mecca. 

*  *  * 

It  is  understood  that  a  solid  fire  insurance  com- 
pany, hailing  from  some  place  near  Chicago,  contem- 
plates securing  the  services  of  Mr.  Hall,  who  was 
so  prominently  connected  with  the  Thuringia.  An- 
other rumor  is  that  the  re-insuring  company  has 
recognized  the  value  of  his  services,  and  made  over- 
tures to  retain  him  in  its  employ. 

*  *  * 

It  is  said  that  Mr.  J.  G.  Conrad  will  decline  the  of- 
fers made  to  him  by  other  fire  offices  to  take  a  com- 
pany to  replace  the  Thuringia  and  that  he  contem- 


plates retiring  from  the  active  representation  of  any 
fire  insurance  company  whatsoever.  This  will  be 
a  loss  to  the  fire  underwriters,  as  Mr.  Conrad's  coun- 
sels and  diplomatic  ability  have  helped  t<>  smooth 
over  mure  than  one  rough  place,  and  this  within  the 
memory  of  those  who  are  nearest  to  the  workings 
of  the  inner  circle  of  the  leading  managers. 

The  new  fire  insurance  centre.  Pine  and  Battery, 
begins  to  take  on  an  air  of  business  which  leads  to 
the  supposition  that,  after  all,  the  business  follows 
the  company,  and  that  more  than  a  good  office  loca- 
tion is  needed  to  get  a  good  business. 

*  *  * 

The  Austrian  Phenix  is  to  move  into  the  new- 
Board  of  Trade  building  as  soon  as  it  is  completed. 

*  *  * 

It  is  understood  that  Mr.  Stovel  and  Mr.  Hates 
went  East  to  secure  the  agency  of  the  Russia,  and  it 
i>  further  rumored  that  they  stand  a  chance  to  get 
it.  The  Russia  deposited  with  the  Insurance  Depart- 
ment of  New  York  and  with  its  American  trustees. 
United  States  and  Xew  York  citv  bonds  of  the  par 
value  of  $500,000.  ami  the  market  value  of  £504,000. 
and  complied  with  all  other  necessary  requirements 
and  was  duly  licensed.  The  company  is  one  of  the 
leading  insurance  corporations  of  the  Russian  Em- 
pire. Mr.  Carl  F.  Sturhah.n  is  its  United  States  man- 
ager. The  United  States  trustees  of  the  Rossia  are 
Mr.  Hugo  Schumann,  president  of  the  Germania 
Mr.  Hubert  Cillis.  vice-president  Germania 
Fire,  and  Mr.  Isaac  Seligman.  the  well-known  banker. 


All  Want  the  Best 

in  everything.    In  whiskey 
you  get  it  in 

Hunter 

Baltimore 


Rye 


HtLBERT   MERCANTILE  CO.. 
Market    St..    San    Francisco.    Cat. 
Telephone   Exchange   313. 


April  33.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


I  In  .111  ii 
tinguishcr 
I  under  various  fancj  11 
it  ion  a  dr>    mixturi 
tin  tube.    Thi  generally 

.m.l  liicarlional  nir-. 

commercial    f  ich   a    tiri 

ior.  niakintr  a  liberal  allowance  for  thi 
tube  ami  the  brilliantly  colored  wrapper  with 
the  picture  on  it.  probably    costs  the  manufacturer 
it  fifteen  cents:  it  is  sold  ior  two  dollars,  although 
111  work  bard  you  can   beat   the  agent   down  to 
ty  dollars  a  dozen.     The  mixture  1-.  of  course, 
fairly  effective  for  extinguishing  a  tire  if  thrown  di- 
rectly on  the  burning  material,  and  at  a  reasonable 
price   such   extinguishers   an  things   to   have 

around."  The  News  Letter,  however,  holds  to  the 
idea  that  a  hose  attached  to  a  faucet  and  properly 
used,  is  better  than  any  extinguisher  as  a  sort  of  a  1 
interim  lire  killer  pending  the  arrival  of  die  fire  de- 
partment. 

*  *    ■:. 

If  yon  ask  ten  persons  where  their  nearest  tire 
alarm  box  is  located  and  where  to  rind  the  key  to  Open 
it.  maybe  you  would  he  surprised  to  find  that  not  one 
of  the  ten  people  to  whom  this  query  was  propounded 
by  the  News  Letter  man  knew  anything  about  it. 
and  the  whole  ten  of  them  were  in  the  fire  insurance 
business,  and  eight  of  the  ten  said  call  the  policeman. 

Baltimore  fire — Yes.  Baltimore  did  have  one.  but 
it.  like  the   Rochester   tire,   is   forgotten. 

*  *  * 

Considering  that  San  Francisco  is  now  discussing 
the  advisability  of  furnishing  an  auxiliary  salt  water 
system  for  fire  protection,  it  leads  to  the  conclusion 
that  there   is   nothing  new   under  the   sun. 


Engagement  Cups. 

Have  just  unpacked  a  beautiful  and  varied  assortment  of  superb  cups 
for  engagement  gifts.  8.  &  G.  Gump  Co.    113  Geary  St, 

Playing  Cards,  Game  Counters,  Poker  Chips,  Dominos.  Chess.  Cheek- 

trs.  "Pit."  "Flinch."    All  new  games  and  the  rules  for  playing  them. 
anborn.  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  St. 


A  neat  little  coffee  and  lunch  house  has  been  opened  at  21c  Sansome 
street,  by  Mr.  J.  Iversen.  The  establishment  is  artistically  finished  in 
natural  oak.  and  well  appointed  in  every  way.  The  cuisine  will  be  ex- 
cellent and  prepared  by  experienced  chefs,  with  obliging  and  attentive 
waiters. 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hats— Eugene  Korn,  74G  Market  street,  sole 
agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  derbys.  soft  hats,  gent's  and  ladies' 
straws. 


One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious  head- 
ache, is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  alterative  and  tonic 
to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  &  Co.  N.  E.  Cor.  Sutter 
and  Grant  Ave. 


High  grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to  measure. 
Co.,  opp.   Palace. 


Tom  Dillon  & 


SOUTHERN  MUTUAL     INVESTMENT    COMPANY 

OF  LEXINGTON,  KY. 

Owing   to  the   increase  of   business  has  removed  to   the  CROSSLEY , 

BUILDING,  SUITE  434 

Chas.  W.  Johnson,  Manager  Pacific  Department. 
J.  Amiss,  Special  Agent. 


tash  Capital,  $200,000.00 


Cash    Assets,    $321,471.19 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  32S  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Bore)  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.  Deering,   Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  Gen.  Agt.  for  California,  Haywards 
Building. 


INSURANCE 


FIRE.   MARINE  AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital.  $1,000,000.  Assets.  $5,500,000 


Pounded  A.  D.  17U. 

INSURANCE  CO.  OF  NORTH  AMERICA 

OP    PHILADELPHIA.    PENN. 

Paid-up    Cnpl  tat     $1.00t  OM 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    .........."".  i.on.nt 

•'AMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent    201  Pine Bt.. 8. 7. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up    $3,440,100.  Assets,   $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,00t,0O0 

Pacific  Coast  Branch : 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF   HARTFORD.      Established   1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH.   Manager  Paclflo  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  btreet. 


Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Paclflo  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy. 

Issued  Exclusively  by  the 

Conservative   Life  Insurance  Company 

Assets,  $1,500,000.     Insurance  in  force,  $21,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  llo  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign  Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool. 


Capital    

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Agents. 


$6,700,000 

816  California  St.,  a.  P. 


The  Thuringia  Insurance  Company 

OF    ERFURT.    GERMANY 

Capital $2,250,000  Assets  $10,«84,24l 

VOSS,   CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 
Pacific  Coast  Department;  204-208   Sansome  St.,   San  Francisco. 


North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


It  is  the  opinion  of  many  of  the  leading  financial 
and  business  men  that  the  present  strained  relations 
between  capital  and  labor  are  a  menace  to  the  con- 
tinued prosperity  of  the  country.  A  very  clever  and 
interesting  treatise  dealing  with  both  sides,  is  printed 
in  the  Bankers'  Magazine,  by  Charles  N.  Chadwick. 
This  able  writer  says: 

"The  terms  capital  and  labor  must  be  understood 
to  mean  combinations  of  capital  and  combinations  of 
labor  in  their  restraint  of  trade.  In  other  words, 
they  relate  to  the  industrial  situation  of  the  country; 
and  the  question  must  be  viewed  as  a  whole,  not  from 
the  standpoint  of  capital  alone,  nor  from  the  stand- 
point of  labor,  but  from  the  standpoint  of  the  body- 
politic. 

"Capital  and  labor  as  such,  are  instruments  in  the 
development  of  the  industrial  resources  of  the  coun- 
try; good  and  proper  instruments  and  capable  of 
doing  good  work,  if  handled  understanding^,  wisely 
and  well,  but  destructive  instruments  when  used  by 
an  ignorant,  careless  and  indifferent  hand." 

"The  tendency  to  consolidation  and  centralization 
of  power  is  marked  and  rapid.  From  the  trust,  or 
combination  of  individual  firms,  through  various 
stages  of  consolidation,  pooling  and  lease,  we  now 
have  what  is  known  as  the  holding  corporation,  or- 
ganized to  acquire  and  hold  stock.  It  does  not  deal 
in  stocks,  it  holds  them,  and  is  an  effective  method 
of  controlling  several  corporations.  It  can  perpetu- 
ate control  of  corporations  through  the  minimum 
expenditure  of  capital  for  maximum  control.  In 
other  words,  it  controls  the  company  which  controls 
the  corporation,  and  the  flower  of  this  plant  is  the 
controlling  director,  as  destructive  a  force  to  the  in- 
dustrial world  as  the  walking  delegate  of  the  trades 
union. 

"The  particular  evil  flowing  from  this  rapid,  eva- 
sive and  changeable  form  of  combination  of  capital 
from  corporations  through  trusts  into  holding  cor- 
porations is  the  tendency  to  the  destruction  of  free 
institutions,  and  is  repugnant  to  the  instincts  of  a 
free  people,  and  contrary  to  the  whole  scope  and 
spirit  of  the  Federal  Constitution.  It  is  doubtful  if 
free  Government  can  exist  in  a  country  where  such 
enormous  amounts  of  money  are  allowed  to  be  accu- 
mulated, to  be  held  and  to  be  used  by  the  few  against 
the  interests  of  the  many.  It  is  destructive  to  the 
fundamental  rights  of  the  individual  and  to  that  -free 
competition  which  is  the  life  of  business. 

"The  power  of  the  State  to  make,  ordain  and  estab- 
lish all  manner  of  wholesome  and  reasonable  laws, 
statutes  and  ordinances,  is  adequate,  and  wild-cat 
corporating,  like  wild-cat  banking  during  the  early 
history  of  our  country,  can  be  domesticated  under 
Federal  supervision  and  control.  Quasi-public  cor- 
porations can  be  made  to  be  rid  of  the  water  in  their 
stock -and  to  put  on  a  sound  financial  footing,  and  the 
public  thereby  be  protected,  not  only  in  the  invest- 
ment of  stock,  but  also  be  benefited  by  the  proper 
operation  of  public  franchises. 

"The  shortsightedness  flowing  from  the  greed  and 
avarice  of  capitalistic  monopolies  has,  on  the  other 
hand,  encouraged  labor  organizations  of  various  kinds 
throughout  the  country  to  come  into  existence  and 
adopt  various  methods  of  organization,  some  respon- 
sible and  some  irresponsible,  in  the  attempt  to  create 


another  great  monopoly  to  secure  the  control  of  that 
monopoly  which  has  already  been  brought  into  ex- 
istence through  and  by  means  of  capital. 

"Combinations  of  capital  have  sought  to  secure 
their  ends  through  finesse,  evasion  of  the  law  and  in- 
tellectual acumen,  while  combinations  of  labor,  on 
the  other  hand,  are  seeking  to  secure  their  ends 
through  physical  violence  and  the  application  of 
brute  force. 

Unionism   claims   the   right  to 
Methods  of  the      dictate  to  the  employer  regard- 
Labor  Unions.       ing   the    matter    of   employees. 
It   declares   that  non-unionism 
shall  have  no  place  in  the  field  of  labor.     It  asserts 
that  the  non-unionist  secures  the  benefits  of  all  that 
is  accomplished  by  organization,  but  pays  nothing 
and  contributes  nothing  for  the  welfare  of  the  union. 
Therefore  the  non-union  man  should  be  deprived  of 
the  right  to  earn  his  living. 

"The  Anthracite  Coal  Strike  Commission  declared 
that  no  person  should  be  refused  employment  or  be 
in  any  way  discriminated  against  on  account  of  mem- 
bership or  non-membership  in  any  labor  organization. 

"Under  date  of  September  30,  1903,  the  executive 
council  of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor,  Samuel 
Gompers,  President,  in  an  address  to  the  Organized 
Labor  Union  of  America,  states :  'That  the  right  of 
the  non-unionist  to  work  when,  where  and  how  he 
pleases,  carries  with  it  the  logical  right  of  the  union- 
ist to  work  or  refuse  to  work  when,  where,  for  what 
he  pleases  and  when  he  pleases.'  Will  this  claim  of 
the  Anthracite  Commission  and  the  admission  of  the 
American  Federation  of  Labor  stand  against  the  or- 
der of  the  walking  delegate? 

"If  the  labor  union  is  to  solve  within  itself  the 
problem  of  labor,  it  must  take  into  consideration  two 
facts :  First,  that  it  has  become  a  destructive  force 
in  the  industrial  world;  and,  second,  that  it  might 
be  a  constructive  force. 

"Intended  through  organization  to  secure  amelio- 
ration in  the  conditions  of  the  laboring  class  by 
means  of  higher  wages  and  better  hours,  it  has  de- 
generated, except  in  some  notable  instances,  into  a 
great  machine  governed  by  a  bureaucracy  dominated 
and  controlled  by  the  walking  delegate. 

"As  a  unit,  it  has  found  that  it  can  control  legisla- 
tion, and,  conscious  of  its  power,  it  crushes  obstacles 
with  brute  force.  Unreasoning  and  unreasonable,  it 
requires  an  immediate  acquiescence  to  its  demands. 
Incapable  of  sanity  of  judgment,  it  cannot  view  the 
problem  as  a  whole,  but  sees  in  part  and  demands  all. 

"The  socialism  of  Germany,  the  anarchism  of  Rus- 
sia, now  being  interpreted  by  the  Southern  European 
mind  that  does  not  understand  the  institutions  of  our 
country,  is  slowly  but  surely  dominating  the  labor 
situation. 

"No  longer  the  Puritan  and  Cavalier  who  founded 
this  country  and  established  its  institutions  upon 
settled  convictions,  are  in  control ;  no  longer  the 
sober  common  sense  of  the  American  character,  at 
the  front  so  long,  is  dominating.  The  new  element 
that  has  come  to  us  during  the  last  twenty  years 
seeks  to  substitute  a  socialistic  labor  organization 
for  our  civil  government.  Strikes,  direct  or  sym- 
pathetic, boycotts,  unfair  lists,  picketings,  bullying 
and  blackmail  are  tools  of  force ;  while  inferior,  care- 
less and  indifferent  work  are  the  results  of  a  standard 


April  33.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


he  labor  ><i  tin  slave,  and  nol 
the  capacity  of  the  free  man.     Greed  ami  IVlrii 
the  grasping  monopolist  arc  elements  <>i  destruction; 
while  a  scared  and  weakened  conscience  i-  ;i  fruitful 
cause  of  decay  in  business  integrity. 

"These  causes,  added  to  an  inordinate  desire  tor 
wealth  and  power,  now  hold  the  American  character 
in  solution.  Is  it  not,  then,  high  time  with  the  pass 
f  the  walking  delegate,  to  leave  to  him  all  things 
that  work  for  destruction,  and  to  turn  the  power  of 
the  labor  union  toward  the  construction  of  the  in- 
dustrial life  of  our  great  commonwealth?  The  think- 
ing minds  of  the  labor  union,  the  men  of  courage  and 
conviction,  must  come  to  the  front  and  take  upon 
themselves  the  burden  of  responsibility." 


"In  the  matter  of  education,  the  labor  union  should 
draw  into  its  ranks  the  youth  of  the  country.  It 
should  throw  down  the  barriers  and  open  the  doors 
to  all  who  desire  to  learn  trades  and  become  artisans. 
It  should  devote  its  surplus  funds  to  the  establish- 
ment of  training  schools  for  these  young  men  and 
women.  It  should  insist  upon  it  that  boards  of  educa- 
tion should  establish  technical  schools,  so  that  the 
young  women  may  be  trained  into  a  knowledge  of 
the  theory  and  practice  of  the  trade  that  they  have 
elected  to  pursue.  Xo  longer  the  guilds  of  the  Mid- 
dle Ages,  with  the  apprentice,  the  journeyman  and 
the  master,  can  solve  the  problem  of  hand  work. 
Machinery  has  changed  the  industrial  condition  of 
the  country.  The  man  who  enters  the  shop  to-day 
becomes  attached  to  it  and  is  part  of  the  machine, 
learning  to  do  one  thing  well,  but  with  no  opportunity 
for  learning  the  business  as  a  whole.  Therefore, 
he  must  obtain  a  knowledge  of  nis  trade  before- 
hand in  a  school  established  for  that  purpose,  and 
the  certificate  or  diploma  granted  by  such  school 
should  be  sufficient  to  guarantee  to  him  the  right  to 
practice  his  trade  without  fear  of  molestation.  The 
diploma  of  the  lawyer  or  of  the  doctor,  with  the 
license  to  practice  his  profession,  is  sufficient  to  in- 
sure to  him  the  undisturbed  practice  of  his  profession, 
and  no  combination  of  professional  unions  of  lawyers 
or  doctors  would  be  for  a  moment  tolerated  which 
insists  that  unless  he  joins  this  or  that  particular  or- 
ganization he  cannot  practice  his  profession.  This 
same  liberty  should  hold  good  for  the  carpenter,  the 
engineer  or  the  artisan,  whatever  his  trade. 

"And  particularly  the  labor  union  should  take  into 
consideration  in  its  educational  work  the  necessity 
for  practical  training  schools  in  the  technique  of 
trades  or  arts.  To-day,  in  almost  all  trades,  speciali- 
zation begins  at  once,  and  the  result  is  a  one-sided 
man  incompetent  except  in  that  one  thing  in  which 
he  has  been  taught.  Piece  or  section  work  makes 
this  unavoidable,  and  unless  he  has  mastered  the 
theory  and  practice  of  his  trade  before  entering  the 
shop,  he  never  will.  Hence  the  necessity  for  the  all- 
round  training  of  the  artisan  school.  Will  the  labor 
union  eliminate  the  walking  delegate  and  turn  its  at- 
tention from  the  destruction  of  the  industrial  re-' 
sources  of  the  country  to  their  upbuilding  and  recon- 
struction? 


There  must  be  a  constitutional  solution  of  the  in- 
dustrial problem.  The  fact  that  labor  unions  are  not 
incorporated  does  not  necessarily  prevent  a  jury  from 
holding  them  responsible  for  injuries  to  a  third  party 
when  the  injuries  complained  of  are  the  result  of  the 
act  for  which  the  union  is  responsible,  for  the  law 
will  assume  that  where  responsibility  exists  compen- 
sation be  made,  as  stated  in  a  recent  decision  of  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court  of  Indiana." 


CLICQUOT 

CHAMPAONE 

The  Banquet  Brand 


SEC 
Yellow  Label 


BRUT 
Gold  Label 


A.  VIGNIER   CO.,   Distributors 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California. 
Location  of  works.  Gold  Hill.  Nevada- 
Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the  24th  day  of  March,  lfloi,  an  assessment  (No.  90)  of  ten  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  office 
of  the  Company.  Room  35,  third  floor,  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets.  San  Francisco.  California. 

Any  stock,  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
27th  day  of  April,  1904,  will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at 
public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNEbDAY.  the  18th  day  of  May,  1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors- 

C  L.  McCOY,  Secretary.  2  M 
Office— Room 35.  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  ^corner  Bush  and  Mont- 
gomery streets,  San  Francisco.  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  14 

Amount  per  share scents 

Levied March  7. 1904 

Delinquent  in  office April  11, 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  2, 1904 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,.  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San 
Francisco.  Cal- 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  34 

Amount  per  share 8  cents 

Levied March  8, 1904 

Delinquent  in  office April  13, 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  3,  1904 

J.  STADTFELD.  Jr..  Secretary. 
Office— Room  56,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, Oal. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


HJUL'S  Montgomery-street  Coffee  House  has  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  its  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast,  lunch  and  coffee 
rooms  in  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  quicker  service. 


J- p-  LACAZE  &co. 

French    Leamdry    Work   Guaranteed 

The  BEST  in  San  Francisco 

TEL.    EAST    615  829    SVTTER    ST 


Red  Eyes  and  Eye- 
lids, Granulated 
Eyelids  and  other 
Eye  troubles   cured 


MURINE  EVE  REMEDY 


30  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

15he     Bench     Show 

All  sorts  of  breeds  and  all  sorts  of  sizes 
Ribbons  for  winners,  caresses  and  prizes. 
Gentlemen  dogs  and  some  that  are  caddish, 
Some  pretty  mannered  and  some  rather  baddish, 
All  of  them  doing  the  best  that  they  know. 
All  of  them  trying  to  win  at  the  show. 

All  of  them  doggies  of  breeding  and  training, 
Some   win   the    prizes,   the   others   disdaining, 
May  those  that  lose  still  have  owners  to  love  them 
And  offset  the  haughty  ones  reckoned  above  them. 
All  of  them  gentlemen,  winners  or  no. 
There  is  not  a  mongrel  allowed  in  the  show. 

I  wonder,  of  those  wdio  stroll  by  the  benches. 

The  top-hatted  men  and  the  gaily-clad  wenches, 

If  all  of  them  have  the  same  marks  of  good- 
breeding 

As  the  puppies  who  let  them  go  by  without  heed- 
ing- 

Tan  we   say  of  society  people  who  go 

There  is  not  a  mongrel  allowed  in  the  show? 


April  23,  7904. 


Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkt-,h  Bathv 


•'Sp 


CAMPING 


SUMMERY 
DAYS 

turn  one's  thoughts  to  the 
country  and  senside.  Provide 
ynur  outing  want. shy  ordm-ing  a 
packed  box  ofour  famously  pure 
provisions— boxes  made  in  dif- 
ferent sizes— containing  KOOda 
for  one  or  five  days.  Freight 
prepaid  to  your  nearest  station. 
Write  or  call  fir  price  list. 

SMITH  S  CASH  STORE,  Inc. 

25-27  Market  St.,  S.  F. 
Phone  Exchange  30" 


VACATION  1904 

IS  NOW  READY  FOR  DISTRIBUTION 

"Vacation"  is  issued  annually  by  the 

California  Northwestern 
Railway 

THE  PICTURESQUE  ROUTE  OP  CALIFORNIA 

and  is  the  standard  publication  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
for  information  regarding 

MINERAL  SPRING  RESORTS,  COUNTRY 
HOMES  AND  FARMS,  WHERE  SUMMER 
BOARDERS  ARE  TAKEN,  AND  SELECT 
CAMPING  SPOTS. 

This  year's  edition  "Vacation  1904"  contains  over 
ISO  pages,  beautifully  illustrated,  and  is  complete 
in  its  detailed  information  as  to  location,  accommo- 
dations, attractions,  terms,  etc.,  with  terms  from 
$7.00  per  week  up. 

To  be  had  at  Ticket  Offices  650  Market  Street  (Chronicle 
Building),  and  Tiburon  Ferry  foot  of  Market  Street;  General 
Office,  Mutual  Life  Building,  corner  of  Sansome  and 
California  Streets,  San  Francisco. 

Applications  by  mail  will  receive  immediate  response 

//.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 


Gen.  Manager 


Gen.  Pass.  AgL 


Hotel   Ben   Lomond 

Santa  Cruz  Mountains— No  Staging. 

Table  first i-lass.      Electric  lights,    boating   swimming,   fishing, 
hunting,  tennis,  croquet. 

See  booklet  S- P.  Company,  613  Market  Street    or  B.  Dickinson, 
Ben  Lomond.  Cal. 


PARK   HOUSE  and 

BEN  LOMOND.  CAL. 
New  management.       An  ideal  resort 
drives,  fishing  and  hunting. 
Two  hours  ride  to  Big  Basin.    Modern 

COTTAGES 

unsurpassed   climate       ' 

irices. 

J.  D.  CELLA.  Prop. 

Paraiso    SPr*n£s 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


BLITHBDALE 

MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VEND0ME 

SAN    JOSE,    CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.     T.    BROOKS.     Prop. 


April  23,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


3i 


ORDER    SOME 
II 


Club  Cocktails" 


SENT  HOME  TODAY. 


Yao  Mill  then  ruvo  on 

of  dificreal  liq- 

- 

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n..   "Club  Cocktails" 

ir  made  erf  U. 

in, t-ic  by  actual 

Wright  and  m 

m  t- 11 1 .     No   guesswork 

about  then. 

Ask  your  hu 

dinner  which  he  prefers 

—.1  Manhattan,  Martini, 

Whiskey,   Holland  Gin, 

Tom  Gin,  Vermouth  <>r 

York. 

Put  Rule  bj  all  Fai 
and    i><-»i«ts   gcuenUlj,  n 
write  bo 

6.  F.  Heublein  &  Bro., 

29  Broadway,  N.  Y. 
and  Hartford,  Conn. 

PACinC  COAST  AGENTS 

SPOHN-PATR1CK    COMPANY 

San  Francisco.  Los  Angeles. 
Denver,  Salt  Lake  City.    Seattle. 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Rate  only  $07.60  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  P.  BOOTH,  Den.  Aft.,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 

No.  1.  Montgomery  St-    Dan  Franoisco.  Cal 


TWOMEY    4    MIH0L0VICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


HAND 
SAPOLIO 

It  ensures  an  enjoyable,  invigor- 
ating bath ;  makes  every  per" 
respond,  removes  dead  skin, 

ENERGIZES   THE   WHOLE    BODY 

starts  the  circulation,  and  leaves  a 
glow  equal  to  a  Turkish  bath. 

ALL    GKOCEH.9    AND    DR.UGGIST3 


SUNBEAMS 

The  Outlook     I  \ru   York  tells 
irj    of  t  \\  •  •    church     woi 
from  a  small  town  who  came  t" 
New    Yorl  slum  hunt,  and 

were  more  than  satisfied.  <  me  of 
them  was  asked  by  a  friend  on  her 
return  where  she  and  her  husband 
had  been.  "In  the  slums  of  New 
York  for  a  da>  and  a  night,"  she 
answered,  enthusiastically.  "My 
dear,  it  was  hell  upon  earth.  We 
had  a  splendid  time  I" 

Kate — Charley  and  Bessie  are 
very  i',md  111"  each  other.  Bertha — 
Rather  say  they  are  both  verj  fond 
of  Charley.  It  is  a  case  of  two 
souls  with  bul  a  single  thought, 
you  kni  iw. 

There  was  no  doubt  of  it:  Mr. 
Hunter  had  losl  the  "field."  He 
had  searched  for  his  companion 
fox  hunters  long,  but  vainly,  and 
now  he  was  reduced  to  asking  the 
aid  of  a  chubby  little  lad  of  three 
whom  he  met  in  a  lane.  "Hallo. 
Johmiy!  Which  way  did  the 
nounds  go?"  he  queried.  Johnny 
sucked  a  finger  and  dropped  his 
gaze.  "Come."  coaxed  Mr.  Hunter, 
"don't  be  afraid  ;  here's  a  penny  for 
you.  Now,  tell  me,  what  way  did 
the  hounds  go?"  The  youngster 
took  the  coin  and  then  fell  upon  all 
fours  and  bow-wowed.  "Dat  way,'' 
he  said  shyly. 

Scene — A  musical  instrument 
shop.  Master  (who  is  going  out 
to  branch  shop,  to  boy) — Now, 
my  boy,  if  a  customer  comes  and 
wants  to  look  at  a  piano,  flute, 
banjo  or  mandolin,  you  know  what 
to  show  him  ?  Boy — Yes,  sir. 
Master — And  if  a  customer  should 
want  to  see  a  lyre —  Boy  (inter- 
rupting)— I'll  send  at  once  for  you, 
sir. 

"Do  you  smoke  cigarettes?" 
asked  the  business  man.  "I  don't 
use  tobacco  in  any  form,"  replied 
the  applicant  for  a  job.  "I  didn't 
say  anything  about  tobacco,"  ex- 
claimed the  business  man,  testily. 

Lady — What !  you've  just  come 
out  of  prison?  I  wonder  you  are 
not  ashame  to  own  it.  Ne'er-Do- 
Well — I  don't  own  it,  lady — wish 
I  did.     I  was  only  a  lodger.     • 


ENNETVS  fSESBS 
XPILET 


IPRICKLYHEAT.J 

f  CHAFING,  and     2 

SUNBURN,  -WL-ffi 

Removes  all  odor  of  perspiration.     De- 
^,^^^_  "  llgbtfu'l  after  Shaving.     Sold  everywhere,  or 

frnallea^n"  receipt  of  25c,    Gel  Mermen's  (the  original).     Sample  Free. 

GERHARD  MENNEN  COMPANY.N«wark.N.J. 


S0Z0D0NT 

TOOTH  POWDER 

MTho  Only  J>pntifrlr«>  of  Int.  rniulontl 
RfpnlAtlnn  "SA RA  UEKSUARDT 
Standard  52  Years 

S0Z0D0NT 

She— I  understand  that  Mr. 
Tymkins  has  taken  up  the  law. 
He — That's  a  good  job,  for  I  heard 
his  wife  laying  it  down  for  him 
the  last  time   I  passed  the  house. 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms-  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr.  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  San 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


THE  GREATEST 

Mountain    Tour 

OF  THE  WORLD 
is  through  wonderful 

Kings  River  Canon 


OVER  THE  HIGH  SIERRA  TO 

LAKE    TAHOE 

AND  VICE  VERSA 

Parlies  will  be  made  up  at 
intervals  for  this 

GREATEST  OF  OUTINGS 

First  Party  Leaves 

San  Francisco  June  22.     Personally 

Conducted.     Everything  Supplied  During  Trip. 

For  Membership   in  These  Parties 

Apply  at  Once  to 

A.  S.  Mann,  TicKet  Agent 

613  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 

Southern  Pacific 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  23,  1904. 


BRIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarHet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Mother — I  wonder  how  you  got 
that  sore  throat — watching  that 
nasty  football,  I  expect.  Son — No, 
indeed,  it  wasn't,  mumsy;  it  was 
washing  my  neck  this  morning. 


Why  Don't  You 

%  Travel  by  Sea? 


Special  vacation   and  Short 

Tourist  Excursion  Trips 

Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Berth  and  Mea1 

Loa  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eurek  a  Seattle  Tacom  a 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 

And   to  those  desiring    longer  trips  to 

Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc, obtain  folder 
SAN  PRANC1S0  TICKET  OFFICES 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St- ,  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

C.  D.  DUN  ANN.  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co..  20  Sutter  St..  will 
call  for  and  cheek  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences-    Telephone  Exchange  312. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Rys, 

Overland  Limited.  Vesllbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  uum  a-  m.  Tin-  nmst 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout-  Buffet  .smokingcars 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
Sartment  Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
are.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vesllbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a-m. Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 
*17  Market  St.      (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


Trains  leave  and  are 

due  to  arrive  at 
SAN    FKANCISCO. 

From  April  10.  1904 

Ferry  Depot 

(Foot  of  Market  Street 


MAIN    LIN  E^ 


7.00*    V'lenvill.-.  Winter*.  Kunisey 7.50 

7.00a  li'Mii-  in.  Sulsun.  Elinlra  and  Sacra- 
mento         7-20i" 

7.30a   Vallejo.     Napa.     C'allstoga,     Santa 

Kosa,   Martinez,  Sun  liainon 6.20 

7.30a   NIleB,  Lfvermore,  Tracy,  Lathrop. 

Stockton  ..  7  20 

E.OOa  Shasta  Express—  (Via  DavlB). 
Williams  (tor  Bartlett  Springs). 
Willows.  tFruto.  Red  Bluff. 
Portland,  Tacoma,  Seattle 7-50 

8. 00a    Davis.  Woodland.  Knights  Landing. 

Maryevllle.  Orovllle 7-50 

8.30a  Port  Coeta,  Martinez.  Antloco, 
Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man. Lob  Banoa.  Mendota, 
Armonii,  Hanford.  Visalla, 
Portervlilc 4.20 

P.30a  Port  Costa.  Lain r up,  Modesto. 
Merced.  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Hanford,  Visalla.  Bakera- 
fleld 4.50  ■ 

8.30a  Nilea,  San  .lose,  Llvcrmore,  Stock- 
ton, (t  Mil  ton);  loot.'.  Sacramento, 
Placerville.  Maryevllle,  Cutco, 
Red  Bluff 4-20 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  8o- 

nora,  Tuuliimne  and  Angels 4  20 

9  00a    Atlantic  Kxpress—Ogdunund  Rasr..    11.20 

9.30a   Richmond,     Martinez     and      Way 

Stations 650' 

10.00a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogdeii. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6.20 

10.00a  Vallejo 1220' 

10.00a  Los  AnjteleB  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa.  Martinez,  Byrun.  Tracy. 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion. Hanford,  Lemoore,  Visalla, 

Bakersflcld.  Los  Angeles 7. 20 

12.00m  Hnyward.  NIIcb  and  Way  Stations.     3.20"' 
•LOOP  Sacramento  River  Steamers 1 11.00' 

5  30r  Benlcia,  winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marvsvllle.  Orovllle  and  way 
Btatloos 1050* 

3.30P  Haywaril.Nlleeand  Way  Stations..      7  50r 

3-30>  Port  Costa.  Martinez.  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Modesto. 
Merced,  Bcrenda,  Fresno  and 
Way  Stations  huyond  Pure  CoBta  12-20r 

3-30P  Tosemlte  Vallev.  Mori.    Wed.,  Frl.      9.20a 

3  30p  Mnrtluez. Tracy,  Stfckton.  Lodl...    10.20* 
4. OOP   Mart  Inez.  Sun  ltum<>n,  Vallejo,  Napa. 

CRllltORR,  Saiiln  Kosa 9. 20a 

4  00p  Nlics,  Tracy.  Stockton,  Lodl 4-2Qp 

4.30p   Wayward.    Nllns.    Irvlngton,  San)     18.50a 

Jobc  Llvermore (  111.50a 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Newmin.  Los 
Bnn.-s.  Mriidota.  Fresno.  Tulare. 
BakersQeld,  Loa  Angeles. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  Angele".  for  Cbl* 
cago,  via  C.  R.  I    &  P.  (last  trip 

Aprill9l 9-20* 

B.OOp  Port  Costa.  Tracy,  Stockton. 12-20"* 

1530p  Hayward.  Mies  and  San  Jose 7.20*. 

6.00p  Hayward,  Nllesnnd  San  Jose 9  j0* 

6-00p  Eastern.  Exprt'SB— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis,  Chicago  And 
East.  Port  Coata,  BenlclA.  Sul- 
sun.  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckec.   Boca,    Keno,  Wads- 

worth.  Wlnneinucca 5  20 

B.OOp  Vallejo,  dally,  except  Sunday I      7  cn_ 

700p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  0UF 

7.00p   Lkbinond,  San  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  anil  Way  Stations  11-20* 

E-C6>  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,     Redding, 
Portlam!,  Paget  Sound  and  East.     8  50  * 
0.1  Op  Bay  ward,  Nilee  and  San  Jobc  (Sun- 
day  only) 11.50 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

7.45a  SantaCrnz  ExeureloniSunday  only)      8-IOp 
t-16*  Newark,    Centervllle.    San     Jose, 
Felton,    Bouioer     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5.55p 

12-IBp  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek.  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    ftO  55* 

4-16P  Newark,  San  Jose,  LosGatos  and  J     '8  55 

.1  no-- 


way  stations 


55  a 


1C  45" 


7;30e 
836a 


—  "J    nmwuun.  ...      ......      ........    I    *  I  VI    UO  « 

OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

i  rom  SAN  t  RAN  CISCO,  Foot  uf  Market  St.  (Sllp*i 

—  tt:15    9:00    11:00a.m.     1.00    3  00    6.16  p.h 

i  rom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway —t6:00    1S:I>J 

18:03     1U:Q0a.m.        1200     200     400  P.M. 

COAST    LINE    (llroml  fJauge). 

K3f  (Third  and  Townseud   Streets.) 

6  10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 630p 

•7  00a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 640p 

7.15a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 10.30p 

8. 00a   N'iv  Ahnaden  (Tuea.,  Frld.,  only),     4MQp 

6  00a  The  Coaster— Stops  only  San  Jose, 
Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis* 
ter).  Pajaro.  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pai-Mlc  Grove),  Salinas.  San 
Ardo.  Paso  Rohlet*  Santa  Mar- 
garita. San  LulBOltlspo.  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  prlnclpiil  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara. Sun  Buena- 
ventura. Burbank.  Los  Angeles  . 

9.C0a  San  Jose.  Tres  IMnos,  Capllola, 
SautaCruz.Paclflctirove.SalinaB, 
San  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 
Way  Stations 4-10f 

10-JOa  San  Joae  and  Way  Stations 1.20p 

11  u0*  Santa  Clara,  Sfln  Joae,  Los  Gatos 
and  Way  StiiiloiiR  

1  30p   San  Jose  and  W'ny  Stations 

3  ItOP  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 

Ban  Joae,  Del  Monie,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara,  except  Sunday,  for  Santa 
Cruz.  Boulder  Creek  and  Narrow 
GftugePoluts)  lit  Gllroy  for  Hoi- 
lister.  Tres  Plnos.  at  Pajaro  for 
Santa  Cruz,    at    Cuslrovllle    for 

Salinas  1215e 

3-30P  Tres  Plnos  Way  Passenger 10  45a 

4  30p  fan  Jose  nnd  Way  Stations +8. 00a 

16  00'    Santa  Clara,  Sun  Jose,  Los  (JRtoe, 

ami  principal  Way  Stations  (ex- 
cept Sunday) t9.00A 

{5  30p    San  JOBC  and  Principal  Way  Stations    {9,40* 

6  46''  Sunset  Limited.—  Redwo  d.  San 
Jose, Gllroy, Salinas, Paso  Roblea, 
San  Luis  Obispo.  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles.  Demlng.  El  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crux 
Bnd  at  Castrovllle  for  Pacific 
Grove  and  W«y  Stations 71 0i 

IB  16p  San  Mateo.Beresford.Belinont.San 
Carlos.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 
MenloPnrk.  Palo  Alto 16.46a 

6  30p  San  Jose  and  Wav  Stations 6  36a 

800p  Palo  Alto  aud  Way  Stallone 10.16a 

11  30p  South  San  Francisco,  M  (librae.  Bur 
ilngame.  Snn  Mateo,  Belmont, 
San  Carlos.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 9.45  f 

"11  30p  Mayileld,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
vale. Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 
San  Jose. 1945f 


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33 


Cf/>e     Political     Situation 


Both  sides  in  the  Democratic  camp  continue  t.> 
how  many  delegates  the)  will  control 
ni7.  but  really  nothing  will  be  known  un- 
til the  primaries  in  the  cities  on  Maj  3d  have  been 
held.  The  State  outside  of  the  cities  i^  overwhelm- 
ingly against  Hearst  ;  but  he  will  certainly  carry  a 
rity  of  the  delegation  in  this  city,  and  Mayor 
Snyder,  having  publicly  joined  his  camp,  is  doing 
all  he  can  for  him  in  that  locality.  I'nless  Hearst 
wins  '>ut.  Snyder  does  not  go  to  St.  Louis,  and  if  he 
is  defeated  tor  candidate  at  large  there  is  no  hope  of 
his  looming  up  as  a  Gubernatorial  possibility  two 
•  hence.  The  rest  of  the  "push."  who  rather 
-hly.  as  they  now  admit,  came  out  for  Hearst 
at  the  State  Committee  meeting,  are  in  the  same 
fix.  and  they  recognize  that  it  is  Hearst  or  oblivion 
for  them.  Either  Governor  Budd  or  Maguire  will 
preside  at  Santa  Cruz  if  Hearst  wins  the  majority 
of  the  delegates,  and  Cammenctti  is  to  be  chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Platform.  Ed.  Leake  expects 
that  honor  if  his  side  is  successful,  and  Barry  hopes 
to  be  in  the  Convention,  too,  though  he  cannot  get 
in  there  on  a  proxy,  and  Tarpey  is  going  to  do  all 
he  can  to  defeat  him  as  a  delegate  at  the  polls.  Barry 
will  undoubtedly  have  the  fight  of  his  life  at  the  pri- 
maries. 

*  *  * 

George  Hatton  tells  me  that  the  Oxnard  boom  is 
looking  most  encouraging.  There  is  absolutely  noth- 
ing in  the  rumor  that  the  Southern  Pacific  and  other 
influences  are  opposed  to  his  man,  and  think  of 
switching  to  Bard.  "They  would  not  have  Bard  un- 
der any  circumstances,"  Hatton  says,  and  he  ought 
to  know.  He  does  not  think  there  is  any  danger  of 
Judge  McKinley  coming  out  as  a  candidate,  and  he. 
is  not  afraid  of  General  de  Young.  As  for  General 
1  Itis,  his  opposition,  Hatton  feels  assures  Oxnard's 
election.  Oxnard  is  expected  home  very  shortly,  and 
then  he  will  issue  a  pronunciamento  and  open  head- 
quarters and  begin  his  campaign  in  earnest. 

I  hear  via  the  Examiner  office  that  Livernash  will 
not  be  a  candidate  again  for  Congress.  If  Hearst  is 
nominated  and  elected,  he  will  have  a  far  more  ex- 
alted place,  and  if  the  Chief  goes  down  to  defeat,  the 
smaller  fry  will  devote  themselves  to  journalism  and 
stirring  up  discontent.  Of  course,  there  is  another 
side  in  this  latter  part  of  the  programme,  and  that 
is  the  ability  of  Hearst  to  keep  his  papers  going  after 
the  Presidential  contest  is  over.  He  is  spending 
money  like  water,  and  one  Washington  correspond- 
ent  estimates  that  he  has  already  spent  $2,000,000, 
although  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  is  an  exaggera- 
tion. He  is,  however,  making  most  elaborate  pre- 
parations for  his  delegations  and  hangers  on  at  St. 
Louis.  He  tried  to  rent  the  whole  Planters'  Hotel 
for  the  time  of  the  convention,  but  could  only  get 
three  floors,  and  has  rented  two  more  floors  and  a 
half  at  another  hotel  at  a  cost  for  both  hostelries  of 
$3,500  a  day.  He  is  to  bring  a  very  large  clique  with 
him  from  all  parts  of  the  country,  and  any  one  of 
position  or  influence  and  weight  in  Democratic  or 
Labor  Circles  can  get  to  St.  Louis  free  of  cost  if  he 
will  agree  to  work  and  shout  for  Hearst.  Special 
trains  are  to  take  delegates  and  shouters  to  St.  Louis, 
and  their  bills  are  paid  while  there.     It  is  estimated 


that    Hearst's    expenses    at    St.    louts   will    be    over 
■lay,  and  that  with  the  other  expenses  he  is 

paying,  that   convention  week   will  cost   him   hall  a 

million.      While  it   is  understood   that    he  is  receiving 
some  family  assistance,  his  exp<  11   ■  enormous 

thai  a  collapse  is  predicted  by  those  who  are  in  ,1  po- 
sition to  know  what  his  resources  are;  and  a  gigantic 
financial  failure  may  follow  the  political  catastrophe, 
It  will  be  necessary,  if  these  rumors  are  true,  that 
lie  and  his  followers  devote  themselves  more  to 
business  and  less  to  politics,  and  that  is  the  explana- 
tion of  Livernash's  retirement.  But  if  he  wins  out. 
then  everybody  will  be  taken  care  of,  which  leads  to 
the  inquiry:  "How  can  any  man  expect  to  recoup 
himself  for  the  expenditure  of  $3,000,000  out  of  the 
Presidency  and  do  it  legitimately?"  Evidently  this 
country  would  be  a  second  Russia  with  Hearst  in  the 
White  House  and  Livernash,  Long  Green  Lawrence 
and  Carvalho  handling  the  financial  end.  Carvalho, 
by  the  way.  is  the  head  of  the  new  corporation  which 
has  possession  of  the  Hearst  papers.  He  is  a  Portu- 
guese who  practically  owns  Hearst  and  who  controls 
him  in  ever)-  particular  except  that  so  far  he  has  not 
succeeded,  notwithstanding  his  utmost  efforts  in 
making  him  break  with  Lawrence.  The  name  of  the 
corporation  is  the  Star  Publishing  Company,  and  it 
is  nominally  the  owner  of  the  Hearst  New  York- 
papers.  All  those  particulars  are  of  interest  as  show- 
ing how  Mr.  Hearst  does  politics  and  the  class  of 
men  who  surround  and  control  him,  and  who  would 
rule  him  if  he  were  elected. 
*  *  * 

I  may  mention  incidentally  that  the  news  from  the 
East  received  by  the  anti-Hearst  Democracy  does  not 
point  to  Judge  Parker  as  strongly  as  it  did  last  week. 
Undoubtedly  the  indorsement  which  he  received  at 


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April  23,  1904. 


the  hands  of  Grover  Cleveland  has  hurt  him  in  the 

South,  and  if  there  was  any  one  else  who  had  a 
chance  to  carry  New  York.  Parker  would  not  get  the 
Southern  vote.  Those  who  fancied  that  Cleveland 
would  have  been  elected  if  he  were  nominated  must 
be  convinced  now  that  they  were  mistaken.  The 
hatred  of  the  only  Democrat  who  has  sat  in  the 
White  House  since  Buchanan  is  so  intense  in  the 
South  that  it  would  probably  bolt  and  nominate 
some  one  else  if  he  were  to  get  the  nomination  at  St. 
Louis.  While  Cleveland  would  carry  New  York  pos- 
sibly with  the  help  of  the  Democrats  and  Wall  street, 
he  would  lose  Southern  votes  if  any  other  Democrat 
were  put  up  against  him.  Hearst  could  beat  the  ex- 
President  in  the  South  beyond  doubt. 

It  is  this  uncertainty  that  makes  Lane,  and  those 
opposed  to  Hearst,  prefer  an  uninstructed  delega- 
tion to  St.  Louis.  They  argue  that  California  should 
be  free  to  avail  herself  of  the  opportunities  that  will 
arise  when  the  delegation  reaches  the  convention, 
and  that  to  tie  the  hands  of  the  delegates  is  suicidal. 
Leake  is  now  spoken  of  as  one  of  the  delegates  at 
large  on  the  anti-ticket,  and  he  favors  no  instructions. 
If  Hearst  is  defeated  at  Santa  Cruz,  Lane  will  be  once 
more  the  biggest  man  in  the  Democratic  party  of 
California,  though  he  will  not  be  a  candidate  for  vice- 
President,  as  the  Brooklyn  Eagle  avers,  for  the  sim- 
ple reason  that,  being  a  Canadian,  he  cannot  be. 
*  *  * 

Charlev  Shortridge  is  announcing  everywhere,  in 
a  voice  that  can  be  heard  far  and  near,  that  he  ex- 
pects to  get  the  Republican  nomination  for  Congress 
in  the  Fifth  District,  and  that  he  will  conduct  another 
cyclone  campaign,  with  traveling  choruses,  perambu- 
lating pianos  and  other  side-show  attractions;  I  learn 
from  other  San  Jose  sources  that  there  is  not  the 
slightest  chance  of  his  being  allowed  to  exhibit  him- 
self in  the  character  of  a  Congressional  candidate  this 
year,  and  that  Santa  Clara  has  about  all  of  his  ser- 
vices as  a  representative  anywhere  that  it  desires, 
now  that  he  is  a  State  Senator.  There  are  the  two 
sides  of  the  story  and  you  can  choose  which  is  the 
most  likely  to  prove  correct. 

The  Second  District  has  not  yet  gotten  into  shape 
so  that  it- can  be  definitely  settled  who  will  get  the 
Republican  nomination;  Bell  of  course  gets  the 
Democratic.  The  chances  of  the  Republicans  win- 
ning are  much  better  than  they  were,  as  Bell  made  a 
bad  break  in  the  interests  of  the  saloon  vote  in  Napa 
County.  For  years  there  has  been  trouble  at  the 
Soldiers'  Home'  at  Yountviiie,  with  the  old  soldiers 
who  would  go  to  the  neighboring  saloons  and  get 
full,  and  were  abused  and  badly  treated.  The  death 
rate  rose  alarmingly,  and  the  management  of  the 
Home  put  in  a  canteen  to  suppress  the  disorder,  and 
furnish  good  liquor  at  reasonable  rates,  and  under 
proper  restrictions  on  the  grounds.  That  change 
has  entirely  broken  up  the  local  saloon  business,  and 
the  saloon  keepers  appealed  to  Bell,  who  put  a  pro- 
viso in  the  bill  appropriating  money  for  the  Home 
that  it  should  receive  nothing  from  the  Federal  Gov- 
ernment if  it  kept  up  the  canteen.  The  Grand  Army 
has  taken  up  the  matter,  and  recently  at  its  Los  An- 
geles meeting  denounced  the  Bell  amendment  and 
lias  appealed  to  the  Senate  to  defeat  it. 

The  Veterans  are  going  to  do  all  they  can  to  defeat 
Bell,  whom  they  say  cares  more  for  the  saloon  vote 
than  for  the  health  and  lives  of  the  old  soldiers,  and 
a  verv  strong  movement  against  liell  is  already  on 
foot,  and  will  make  it  very  difficult  to  re-elect  him. 

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"Carmen"  remains  a  popular  opera,  but  "will  the 
carmen  strike?"  is  the  popular  inquiry. 

If  Schwab  had  not  so  much  money  he  would  prob- 
ably be  called  a  Schrub. 


The  good  people  of  the  Mission  have  discovered 
that  what  wc  need  is  not  more  policemen  but  more 
honest  policemen — in  brief,  more  Wittmen. 

An  epidemic  of  crime  which  imprisonment  does  not 
cure  is  reported  from  Great  Britain.  It  may  be.  co- 
incident with  a  shortage  in  the  English  hemp  supply. 

The  Louisiana  doctor  who  says  he  can  cure  leprosy 
may  be  able  to  find  out  what  causes  the  mouldy  spots 
on    Congressman    Livernash's    intellect. 

President  Harriman  has  gone  to  view  the  cut-off, 
while  his  unornamental  Sierra  snow-sheds  continue 
to  cut  the  view  off. 


A  preacher  who  wrote  bad  sermons  has  found  that 
there  is  more  money  and  excitement  in  writing  bad 
checks. 


Iowa  jokers,  pretending  to  burn  an  honest  old  ne- 
gro at  the  stake,  frightened  him  to  death.  We  Ameri- 
cans are  indeed  a  merry  race. 

Bleaching  the  black  man  and  brother  is  a  matter 
of  scientific  interest,  but  it  politically  robs  the  South 
of  its  only  issue. 

Since  prize-fighter  Jim  Jeffries  has  won  a  bride,  we 
have  revised  our  theory  that  the  gorilla  type  of  hu- 
manity was  not  popular. 

Bourke  Cockran  has  called  a  fellow  member  of 
Congress  "what  cannot  be  said  in  the  House."  That 
is  what  everybody  calls  Congressman  Hearst. 

Crude  petroleum  kills  a  new  pest  on  fruit  trees 
known  as  "thrip,"  and  besides  gives  the  fruit  that 
lovely  coal  oil  flavor. 

While  we  are  busy  with  municipal  improvements, 
we  should  not  forget  that  Sutro's  forest  lacks  only  a 
few  gas  jets  to  make  it  a  perfectly  appointed  suicides' 
retreat. 


Pierpont  Morgan  has  gone  to  Europe  to  find  out 
what  is  the  matter  with  him.  He  might  have  known 
that  the  tired  feeling  which  afflicts  most  of  his  pet 
stocks  was  catching. 


India  ink  and  tattoo  needles  may  change  the  color 
of  the  human  eye.  but  not  so  quickly  and  cheaply  as 
the  old  process  <>f  doing  it  by  hand — right  or  left. 

John  D.  Rockefeller  is  on  record  as  saying  that  he 
likes  to  see  young  men  from  the  country.  So  do  the 
"green  goods"  men. 


It  is  rather  late  for  any  Presidential  aspirant  to 
to  begin  competition  with  Roosevelt  as  an  exponent 
of  the  full  cradle  theory  in  politics. 

William  Jennings  Bryan,  having  had  his  nose 
wiped  with  Hearst's  handkerchief,  is  able  to  smell 
a  plot  to  betray  the  Democracy  to  the  corporations 
at  St.  Louis. 


Two  suits  just  filed,  alleging  conspiracy  and  asking 
big  damages,  strengthen  the  suspicion  that  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  Women's  Press  Association  is  not  affili- 
ated with  the  International  Peace  Society. 

The  tin-and-scantling  vault  of  a  New  York  get- 
rich-quick  concern  would  be  a  fine  place  to  deposit 
what  the  public  wins  by  backing  "good  things"  at 
the  race  track. 


Prize-fight  promoters  may  take  a  vacation  until 
after  the  warmest  event  of  the  season  is  over.  We 
refer  to  the  Democratic  Convention  at  Santa  Cruz 
in    May. 

Mr.  Yell,  the  new  warden  of  Folsom  prison,  may 
have  a  noisy  name,  but  when  it  comes  to  putting  the 
fear  of  God  into  a  felon's  heart  his  methods  are  both 
silent  and  effective. 


A  yellow  correspondent  mourns  because  he  has 
been  "turned  back  from  the  front,"  whence  he  was 
cabling  graphic  accounts  of  how  he  learned  to  ride 
a  Korean  horse. 


A  high-caste  Brahmin  has  become  a  student  of  the 
University  of  California.  In  order  to  do  this  he  had 
to  forego  all  the  advantages  which  his  exalted  posi- 
tion gave  him.  He  became  an  outcast.  These  Hin- 
dus are  knowing  people,  and  worldly-wise  withal. 
Our  Brahmin  had  no  intention  of  being  superior  to 
the  people  with  whom  he  was  to  associate,  and  before 
coming  into  the  company  of  his  fellow-students,  he 
took  care  to  divest  himself  of  the  outward  marks  of 
a  gentleman. 

The  Carmen's  Union  has  held  a  secret  ballot  to 
determine  whether  we  are  to  walk  or  ride  for  an  in- 
definite number  of  weeks,  pending  a  dispute  with  the 
employing  company.  The  decision  affecting  the  com- 
fort, in  a  good  many  cases,  the  life  and  death  of  the 
citizens,  is  determined  by  a  private  association  of 
men,  who  have  no  responsibility  to  the  public.  The 
public  is  to  suffer  a  wrong  which  it  is  powerless  to 
avert,  and  which  it  is  useless  for  it  to  resent.  Could 
absurdity  go  farther  than  this? 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


CHARITY  AS    AN  AID    AND    ABETTOR    OF 
CRIME. 

A  noble  institution  is  the  Fabiola  Hospital  in  Oak- 
land. It  is  excellently  conducted  by  a  group  of 
women  about  whose  goodness  there  has  never  been 
and  never  can  be  any  question.  And  yet  every 
year  this  institution  is  the  beneficiary  of  "Fabiola 
Day"  at  the  Emeryville  race-track.  Every  year 
these  good,  God-fearing  women  are  the  patronesses 
of  "Fabiola  Day."  If  they  do  not  know  that  the 
money  which  comes  from  this  annual  benefit  to  their 
hospital  is  blood-money,  the  wages  of  sin  and 
shame,  then  they  do  not  read  the  newspapers :  the}' 
must  shut  their  eyes  and  stop  their  ears  to  what  is 
going  on  about  them  ;  their  ignorance  is  not  to  be 
excused.  But  if  thev  do  know  what  devil's  mint 
mark  is  on  the  coin  they  take  from  the  California 
Jockey  Club,  and  knowing,  square  it  with  their  con- 
sciences by  complacent  sophistries,  then  theirs  is  an 
easy  religion  and  theirs  are  comfortable  consciences. 
^Ye  believe  that  they  do  know  a  part  of  the  truth, 
and  that  they  hold  to  the  theory  that  money  has 
no  morals — "no  dirt  sticks  to  a  dollar"  is  the  vulgar 
way  of  putting  it — but  we  cannot  think  that  they 
understand  fully  the  real  nature  of  the  bargain.  In 
cold  truth,  when  this  ring  of  race-track  gamblers 
hands  over  a  day's  net  earnings  to  the  Fabiola  Hos- 
pital, it  is  paying  for  protection — paying  these  good 
ladies,  their  husbands  and  all  their  associates  and 
friends  to  keep  silent  when  outraged  public  decency 
complains  of  the   iniquities  of  race-track  gambling. 

Fabiola  Hospital  is  mentioned  here  not  because  it 
is  the  only  institution  thus  dragged  in  the  bloody 
ooze  of  the  racetrack,  but  because  it  is  the  most 
conspicuous.  Every  other  charitable  concern  that 
accepts  the  money  of  the  California  Jockey  Club 
is  equally  censorable,  equally  a  participant  in  this 
carnival  of  debauchery.  All  these  institutions  arc 
managed  by  the  women  whose  lives  are  given  to 
caring  for  the  sick  and  succoring  the  needy,  women 
so  blameless  in  deed  and  thought  that  the  spectacle 
of  their  alliance  with  the  monstrous  evil  of  turf  gam- 
bling is  one  to  sicken  the  souls  of  thoughtful  men. 
To-morrow,  doubtless,  many  of  the  good  women 
who  control  and  conduct  the  Fabiola  Hospital  and 
the  kindred  establishments  which  accept  race-track 
benefits,  will  sit  in  their  pews  at  Church.  While 
they  search  their  hearts,  let  them  think  how  their 
names  have  been  blazoned  as  "patronesses"  of  this  or 
that  "day"  at  Ingleside  or  Emeryville;  let  them 
think  what  they  have  given  or  tacitly  promised  to 
give  in  exchange  for  the  turf-ring's  bright  pieces  of 
gold ;  let  them  think  how  the  gamblers  got  the  gold, 
how  it  was  stolen  from  the  cash-drawers  of  trusting 
employers,  filched  from  the  hard-saved  hoards  of 
wives  and  mothers,  squandered  in  gambling  where 
it  should  have  bought  clothes  for  naked  little  bodies, 
shoes  for  naked  little  feet,  food  for  hungry  little 
mouths.  Let  these  good  women  think,  as  they  pray 
for  the  erring  and  the  unfortunate,  of  the  men  with 
shaven  heads  and  striped  garb  in  San  Quentin  and 
in  Folsom.  Let  them  think  of  the  young  man  at 
San  Jose  whom  race-track  gambling  converted  from 
a  good  citizen,  husband  and  father  into  an  outlaw, 
shot  down  by  the  police  for  his  desperate  crime ; 
for  it  is  not  impossible  or  improbable  that  some  of 
his  last  dollars  are  among  the  $3,500  netted  at  the 
last  "Fabiola  Day"  at  Emeryville. 


THE  POWER  BEHIND  THE  THRONE. 

Refusal  by  the  Superior  Court  to  let  the  Police 
Commission  act  as  a  collection  agency,  calls  to  pub- 
lic attention  again  a  semi-judicial  body  which  os- 
tensibly regulates  municipal  matters  of  minor  im- 
portance, but  really  is  the  point  of  application  of  cor- 
rupt pressure  upon  the  largest  sources  of  "graft." 
Controlled  absolutely  by  an  administration  which 
overlooks  no  possible  penny  of  tribute  money,  the 
Police  Commission  is  a  most  important  factor  in 
the  game  which  Mayor  Schmitz  and  his  associates 
are  playing.  Its  actions  with  regard  to  the  granting 
and  revocation  of  liquor  licenses  are  theoretically 
reviewable  in  the  courts,  but  practically  its  power's 
in  this  direction  are  autocratic.  The  dive-keeper  or 
saloon  keeper  who  would  go  to  law  over  a  license  re- 
fused or  revoked  would  thereby  stamp  himself  a 
fool.  He  might  enforce  his  rights,  but  they  would 
do  him  no  good.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  nobody  has 
been  found  foolish  or  stubborn  enough  to  "kick 
against  the  pricks"  when  the  Police  Commission  has 
issued  its  fiat. 

And  vice  does  not  flourish  in  brothel  or  gaming 
den,  or  saloon  or  "restaurant,"  or  anywhere,  without 
the  adjunct  and  stimulus  of  whiskey  and  beer.  The 
primrose  path  is  poor  walking  without  irrigation. 
So,  holding  the  license  power,  the  Police  Commis- 
sion constantly  has  Vice  up  against  the  wall,  and 
Vice  either  pays  or  quits.  It  is  whispered  con- 
stantly, and  it  is  often  audibly  charged,  that  the  Com- 
mission gets  a  direct  "rake-off"  for  every  red  light 
that  twinkles  in  the  tenderloin,  but  the  indirect 
tribute  is  the  preferred  method.  Thus  we  see  Police 
Commissioners  who  were  laborers  a  little  while  ago. 
men  of  no  means  and  no  credit,  breaking  into  pros- 
perous business — insurance,  for  •  example — such  as 
other  men  win  only  after  years  of  effort  and  expen- 
diture. It  would  be  a  stupid  "red-light"  proprietor 
who  would  not  hasten  to  insure  and  over-insure  with 
a  Police  Commissioner  just  launched  in  business. 

To  complete  the  "squeeze,"  it  is  necessary  to  have 
policemen  both  discreet  and  honest — discreet  in 
knowing  when  to  be  blind  and  when  to  see,  honest 
in  being  able  to  collect  and  pay  in  the  tribute  with- 
out losing  any  of  the  "change."  It  would  be  possible 
to  secure  such  discretion  and  honesty  by  giving  the 
patrolman  his  little  percentage,  but  it  would  be 
expensive,  so  there  is  another  method  for  that.  Re- 
cently three  down-town  policemen  were  charged 
with  negligence  in  being  off  their  "beats."  Thev 
were  promptly  dismissed.  The  next  week  two  resi- 
dence patrolmen  were  caught  similarly  offending. 
They  were  fined  in  small  amounts.  Obviously  this 
is  a  cheap  and  effective  method  of  securing  a  discre- 
tion and  an  honesty  up  to  the  Police  Commission's 
requirements. 

And  this  is  only  a  lifting  of  the  lid.  The  pot  bub- 
bles merrily,  and  soon  the  lid  will  be  off  altogether, 
and  we  shall  have  the  "widest  open"  city  in  the 
United  States,  so  prosperous,  withal,  that  Police 
Commissioners  will  be  owners  of  rows  of  flats  and  fat 
bank  accounts.  The  weather  signs  indicate  the  ap- 
proach of  a  severe  storm  of  scandal  which  will  soon 
be  central  over  the  Hall  of  Justice. 

THE  STRIKE  AND  THE  LAW. 
At  this  writing,  the  street  carmen  of  this  city  are 
on  the  verge  of  a  strike.  They  have  rejected  the 
proposals  of  the  United  Railroads,  and  have  asked 
for  a  conference,  but  the  outlook  for  peace  is  very 
gloomy.  The  General  Manager  of  the  road  says  the 
corporation    has    nothing   more    to    offer;    the    men 


April  30.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


say  they  have  not  receive. 1  proper  consideration;  the 
ire  that   when  this  issue  of  the   News 
Letter  is  published,  the  men  will  be  on  Strike,  trans 

•ion  will  be  greatly  impeded,  if  not  stopped 
temporarily,  the  entire  city  will  be  inconvenienced, 
and  stories  of  lawlessness  will  find  their  way  into 
the  daily  press.  This  article  is  not  concerned  with 
the  rights  and  wrongs  of  the  controversy  between 
the  railroad  company  and  its  men:  both  sides  have 

nted  to  the  public  long  and  aide  arguments, 
and  the  people  have  made  up  their  minds  on  the  mat- 
ter. Incidentally,  it  is  public  opinion  that  the  nun 
are  in  the  wrong;  that  they  have  asked  too  much; 
that  they  are  inconsiderate  of  the  rights  of  the  com- 
pany; that  they  are  arrogant  in  their  treatment  of 
the  public,  and  that  their  strike  (if  they  strike)  will 
fail  because  it  does  not  appeal  to  the  people.  But 
the  News  Letter  is  concerned  far  less  with  the  suc- 

of  either  contestant  in  this  controversy  than 
with  the  maintenance  of  law  and  order  during  the 
conflict.  The  recollection.-  of  tin-  teamsters'  strike- 
are  vet  too  strong  in  the  public  mind  to  view  without 
alarm  the  arising  of  conditions  which,  it  seems  cer- 
tain, will  lead  to  many  crimes  of  violence.  In  say- 
ing this,  the  law-abiding  course  of  the  carmen  dur- 
ing their  strike  two  years  ago  is  not  forgotten.  But 
at  that  time  their  grievance  appealed  to  the  people ; 
they  had  public  sympathy,  and  they  went  about  the 
business  of  gaining  redress  in  what  was  apparently  a 
fair-minded  spirit.  But  now  their  leaders,  flushed 
with  the  success  of  yesteryear,  have  lost  their  wis- 
dom ;  they  have  led  the  men  into  a  morass  in  which 
their  struggles  will  only  make  more  certain  their  own 
destruction.  As  the  case  becomes  daily  more  hope- 
less for  the  men,  some  of  them  will  attack  the  non- 
union men  and  the  property  of  the  company.  To 
prevent  destruction  of  property  and  danger  to  life, 
all  the  forces  of  the  city  Government  will  be  needed. 
That  brings  us  to  this  question :  If  necessity  should 
require  the  protection  of  the  property  and  of  the  lives 
of  the  employees  of  the  United  Railroads,  what 
would  the  Police  Commissioners  do?  Would  they 
extend  the  protection  of  the  Police  Department  to  all 
citizens,  irrespective  of  political  affiliations  or  class 
distinctions?  In  brief,  do  the  Police  Commissioners 
stand  ready  to  uphold  the  law? 

We  would  not  be  alarmists,  nor  do  we  wish  to  in- 
timate that  the  carmen  will  resort  to  violence,  but 
observation  has  shown  that  the  Carmen's  Union  is 
controlled  by  a  few  daring  spirits,  who  may  have 
among  their  more  intimate  supporters  more  than  one 
man  who  believes  in  resorting  to  war  measures  dur- 
ing a  strike.  These  men  should  remember  that  this 
is  a  law-abiding  community,  and  that  the  day  of 
the  thug  has  passed  in  San  Francisco.  The  people 
expect  the  street  cars  to  run  for  their  accommodation 
whether  the  union  men  strike  or  not;  that  the  cars 
will  run,  and  that  the  public  will  ride  on  them  goes 
without  saying.  It  is  also  certain  that  if  the  city 
officials  find  themselves  embarrassed  between'  their 
love  and  their  duty,  when  it  comes  to  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  law,  a  way  will  be  speedily  found  to  re- 
lieve them  of  the  terrors  of  the  situation  by  calling 
upon  the  State  or  the  Government  for  aid  and  pro- 
tection. It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Police  Commis- 
sioners will  not  be  untrue  to  their  oaths  of  office. 

MENDOCINO  IS   LIVERNASHED. 

The  people  of  Mendocino  County  have  been  Liv- 

ernashed.     Because  of  the  envy   and   malice  which 

fills  what  he  may  consider  his  soul,  Hearst's  personal 

representative,  by  the  lifting  of  his   raucous  voice, 


prevented  the  consideration  in  Congress  of  the 
bill  introduced  by   Representative   Hell,  opening  to 

homestead  settlers  a  tract  of  63,000  acres  carved  out 
of  the  Round  Valley  Indian  reservation.  This  bill 
is  fraught  with  importance  to  California.  It  is  ac- 
ceptable to  the  Indians,  to  the  settlers,  to  the  people 
of  Mendocino,  who  see  in  it  a  means  whereby  their 
county  may  gain  immediately  a  large  increase  of  de- 
sirable immigrants,  and  to  everybody  concerned  in 
its  passage.  So  well  had  Representative  Bell  pre- 
sented its  merits  to  the  House  Committee  on  Public 
Lands  that  it  had  reported  unanimously  in  favor 
of  the  hill.  To  facilitate  action  upon  it,  Bell  had 
obtained  the  permission  of  Speaker  Cannon  to  call 
up  the  bill  out  of  order.  Now,  to  consider  a  bill 
out  of  order  requires  unanimous  consent.  Bell  had 
the  support  of  the  Speaker  of  the  Committee,  and 
of  the  members  of  the  House,  with  whom  he  has 
gained  a  large  measure  of  popularity  because  of  his 
earnestness,  modesty  and  common  sense.  He  did 
not  doubt  that  unanimous  consent  would  be  granted, 
and  that,  in  consequence,  he  would  be  able  to  secure 
the  passage  of  the  bill  before  adjournment.  When 
Bell  called  up  the  bill,  for  a  moment  no  protest  was 
made.  Livernash  was  waiting  for  some  one  else  to 
object ;  but  no  objection  came,  and  the  Speaker  was 
about  to  announce  that  unanimous  consent  had  been 
given,  when  the  voice  of  Livernash  was  raised  in 
objection.  Under  the  rules,  that  one  objection,  ani- 
mated by  envy,  jealousy  and  malice,  and  uttered 
with  an  intended  disregard  for  the  welfare  of  the 
people  of  this  State,  prevented  consideration  of  the 
bill. 

The  question  naturally  arises :  Why  did  Liver- 
nash object  to  the  consideration  of  this  beneficial 
measure?  He,  like  Shylock,  can  give  "no  plain  rea- 
son," except  "a  certain  loathing  and  a  lodged  hate," 
he  bears  Bell,  that  he  "carries  thus  a  losing  suit 
against  him."  Livernash  hates  Bell  because  the  lat- 
ter possesses  those  characteristics  which  commend 
him  to  his  fellow  men,  and  the  absence  of  which  in 
Livernash  sets  Hearst's  man  alone  and  apart.  Liver- 
nash proudly  hoped  to  be  the  leading  light  from 
California,  but  Bell  so  easily  outshone  him  that 
the  Fourth  District  misrepresentative  went  wild 
with  envy.  He  announced  that  he  would  not  vote 
for  any  bill  introduced  by  Bell.  The  latter  submitted 
a  bill  for  the  building  of  a  collier  at  Mare  Island. 
Livernash  promptly  opposed  it,  but  the  bill  was 
passed,  and  the  collier  will  be  built,  notwithstanding 
the  opposition  of  the  "eccentric"  self-styled  friend 
and  champion  of  labor. 

The  actions  of  Livernash  in  Congress  are  at  least 
consistent  with  his  course  in  this  city  before  his 
election.  While  posing  as  the  friend  of  the  union 
men,  he  was  caught  by  the  union  pickets  making 
purchases  in  boycotted  stores.  It  then  took  all  the 
influence  he  could  gather  to  save  him  from  the  con- 
demnation of  the  unions. 

But  Mr.  Hearst's  assistant  recently  gave  forth 
one  evidence  of  good  sense.  He  said  he  would  not 
be  a  candidate  for  re-election.  Of  that  there  is  no 
doubt.  Even  the  subservient  part  of  the  Democracy 
or  the  frequently  fooled  labor  men  will  draw  the  line 
at  his  renomination.  If  he  should,  by  some  hocus- 
pocus  get  a  nomination,  the  people  of  the  Fourth 
District  will  attend  to  his  case.  As  an  exhibit  of 
the  wonderful  freaks  of  nature  produced  in  Cali- 
fornia, he   easily  takes  the  prize. 

Scratch  a  Russian  and  you  find  a  Tartar.  Scratch 
a  Japanese  and  you  get  your  nose  punched. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


IF  HEARST  SHOULD  BOLT. 

It  must  be  very  evident  to. those  who  indulge  them- 
selves in  the  delectable  occupation  of  reading  .Mr. 
Hearst's  local  paper  that  that  great  man  is  prepar- 
ing to  bolt  the  Democratic  convention  at  St.  Louis 
ii  he  does  not  receive  the  nomination  for  the  Presi- 
dency at  its  hands.  There  would,  of  course,  be  noth- 
ing strange  in  the  distinguished  plagerist  taking  such 
a  course;  indeed,  it  would  be  more  remarkable  if  he 
did  not  attack  the  nominee  and  platform  of  the  party 
he  pretends  to  belong  to.  Fidelity  to  party  or  obed- 
ience to  the  decision  of  a  party  majority,  whether 
expressed  in  convention  or  elsewhere,  has  never  been 
characteristic  of  his  methods.  It  is  a  policy  of  rule 
or  ruin  with  him,  always  and  usually  it  has  been  a 
policy  of  ruin. 

But  the  distinguished  citizens  who  are  clamoring 
so  loudly  for  his  endorsement  at  the  hands  of  the 
California  Democracy  should  not  lose  sight  of  the 
fact  that  in  asking  that  Hearst  be  given  the  delega- 
tion from  this  State  to  St.  Louis,  they  are  asking  their 
party  to  put  a  premium  on  party  treason,  and  are 
placing  a  party  in  this  State  in  a  position  where  it 
may  be  formally  taken  out  of  the  party  entirely.  If 
the  delegates  to  St.  Louis  are  pledged  to  Hearst,  will 
they  walk  out  when  he  gives  the  signal?  And  if  so, 
in  what  shape  will  they  leave  the  Democracy  of  Cali- 
fornia, who  still  believe  in  fidelity  to  a  party  organi- 
zation? If  the  Democrats  nominate  their  national 
leader  without  any  votes  from  California,  will  not 
that  cause  a  split  in  the  party  in  this  State  which 
can  never  be  healed? 

A  delegation  to  St.  Louis  pledged  to  Hearst  will 
mean  that  the  Democrats  of  California  are  for  him 
first,  last  and  all  the  time,  and  that  if  Hearst  is  not 
nominated  and  he  leaves  the  convention,  California 
Democracy  has  repudiated  the  party  and  left  it.  No 
other  construction  could  be  placed,  nor  will  be 
placed,  on  the  attitude  of  the  Democrats  of  this  Com- 
monwealth if  they  sent  Hearst  men  to  St.  Louis 
and  the  delegation  walks  out  of  the  Convention.  The 
men  who  go  to  St.  Louis  are  supposed  to  represent 
the  entire,  or  at  least  the  majority  of  the  Democrats 
of  the  State,  and  if  they  take  part  in  the  Convention, 
which  Hearst  evidently  proposes  to  hold  to  organize 
a  new  party  with  himself  at  its  head,  will  it  not  mean 
that  the  majority  of  the  Democrats  of  California 
have  joined  the  new  party? 

But  more  than  this?  If  the  Hearst  men  get  control 
of  the  Convention  at  Santa  Cruz  they  get  control  of 
the  party  machinery,  which  means  that  they  will 
have  it  in  their  power  to  so  manipulate  things  that 
they  will  nominate  the  Presidential  electors.  The 
anti-Hearst  faction  will  then  be  forced  to  put  up  a 
ticket  by  petition,  if  they  can  get  the  necessary  num- 
ber of  signatures,  and  they  cannot  put  the  names  .hi 
the  official  ballot  as  the  "Democratic  Ticket,"  because 
under  the  primary  election  law,  the  Hearst  ticket 
will  be  able  to  claim  that  name  and  place.  That 
would  mean  an  immense  loss  of  votes  to  the 
antis.  It  would  practically  wipe  them  off  the  politi- 
cal slate  in  this  State,  and  they  would  be  at  the 
mercy  of  the  Hearst  wing  for  years  to  come. 

THE   CORRUPTION    OF    UNION    OFFICIALS. 

It  is  no  secret  that  man)'  of  the  labor  bosses  are 
corrupt,  that  they  sell  out  and  defraud  not  only  the 
firms,  with  whom  they  are  supposed  to  have  agree- 
ments, but  the  very  men  whom  they  are  supposed  to 
represent.  The  following  story  of  the  happenings 
in  one  particular  union  recently  will  illustrate  this 


fact :  Local  19  of  the  Painters'  sent  delegates  to  the 
Building  Trades  Council.  The  delegates  of  this  union 
were  opposed  to  the  boss  of  the  Building  Trades 
Council,  .McCarthy,  an  individual  who  had  been  fre- 
quently  compared  with  the  notorious  Sam  Parkes  of 
New  York.  The  delegates  of  the  union  in  question 
made  themselves  obnoxious  to  McCarthy  by  insist- 
ing upon  the  books  being  experted,  proper  account 
being  rendered  of  money,  investigation  into  the  ac- 
tions of  the  officials,  and  of  McCarthy  in  particular. 
This  sort  of  thing  did  not  suit  the  boss.  Investiga- 
tion is  not  in  his  line,  and  he  took  steps  to  destroy 
the  opposition. 

His  creatures  formed  a  clique  in  the  union,  and  on 
the  evening  preceding  the  election  of  officers  on  De- 
cember 28,  1903,  issued  a  defamatory  letter,  then 
proceeded  to  stuff  the  ballot-box,  and  in  spite  of  the 
protest  of  the  decent  element,  elected  three  officers. 
.This  action  met  with  such  opposition  that  on  Janu- 
ary 4th,  1904,  a  meeting  was  called  to  protest  against 
the  action  of  the  McCarthy  element,  and  a  special 
meeting  was  arranged  for  January  nth.  At  this 
meeting  two  squads  of  police  were  introduced  by  the 
McCarthy  faction,  but  the  police,  seeing  who  were 
the  real  aggressors,  and  that  they  were  being  used 
for  factional  purposes,  withdrew,  and  the  faction  of 
the  boss  was  beaten  by  majorities  running  from 
one  hundred  to  two  hundred. 

Subsequently  a  general  mass  meeting  of  all  the 
painters'  unions  in  the  city  was  called  and  attended 
by  over  a  thousand  men,  and  this  meeting  decided  by 
a  unanimous  vote  NOT  to  accept  the  McCarthy  fac- 
tion. 

Now,  one  would  imagine  that  the  ordinary  boss 
would  have  been  content  to  have  accepted  conditions, 
but  he  had  arranged  beforehand  with  the  General 
Executive  Board  at  Lafayette,  Ind.,  that  the  dele- 
gates of  the  faction  opposed  to  him  should  not  be 
seated  in  the  Building  Trades  Council,  and  a  letter 
from  his  creatures  in  this  city  bearing  date  January 
16,  1904,  says:  "Should  the  neutral  faction  sway  to 
their  side  on  the  18th,  they  will  elect  the  delegates 
to  the  D.  C.  of  P.  and  the  B.  T.  C.  We  are  safe  in 
the  B.  T.  C,  for  that  body  will  not  seat  those  dele- 
gates." 

Of  all  the  perils  to  the  well-being  of  the  State, 
there  is  none  greater,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  there  is 
none  so  great,  as  the  labor-boss,  for  he  combines  all 
the  vices  of  the  mere  boodler,  with  the  more  danger- 
ous and  destructive  powers  of  the  politicians  who  use 
their   strength   for  unholy   purposes. 


KCHAS.  KLILUS  &  CO  J 

&£XCLUS/VE.t 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who  likes 
to  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to  bother  with 
Tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  into  our  shop, 
get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a  log.  We  have  that 
"Immediate  Service  System." 


April  30,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IC  Ml?m  P  LIBRARY  TABLE  C IMJ  WQ^M 


A    '  a      very      few 

Trash  and  the  probably     tiot 

Publishers.        than   ten,   the   name  of  a   1. 

firm  nf  publishers,  printed  <>n  the 
title  ; 

in  tin-  literary  world.     It  might  Ik-  a 

not;  it  might   make  money   for 

.m<l  tin-  author,  or  it  might  go  into  tin 

limbo  of  forgotten  works,  where  it  would  have  plenty 

impany.    But  whether  it  was  destined  to  play  a 

1-  role,  or  to  sink  into  obscurity,  the  name 

of  the  publishers  was  a  guarantee  that  the  book  was 

at  all  events  grammatically  written,  that   it   obeyed 

certain  degree  the  canons  of  literary  art,  that  it 

was  not  crude,  amateurish  or  absolutely   wortl 

and  without   skill. 

This  has  all  been  changed  now.  The  publishers, 
even  the  best  of  them,  even  those  whose  names 
have  become  famous  through  the  distingui 
writers  they  have  introduced,  and  the  standard  of 
literary  achievement  which  they  have  maintained, 
have  joined  the  mad  rush  of  the  more  adventurous, 
and  produce  books,  as  one  presses  cheeses,  so  many 
per  day.  There  is  this  difference,  however.  The 
cheesemaker  must  keep  a  standard  or  lose  his  trade; 
the  publisher,  on  the  other  hand,  debauches  the  pub- 
lic taste,  and  actually  thrives  by  doing  so. 

This  melancholy  condition  is  partly  the  result  of 
the  machine  for  type-setting,  wdiich  has  made  the 
mechanical  side  so  much  easier.  A  machine  wdiich 
is  not  employed  is  eating  its  head  off,  and  the  lino- 
types must  be  kept  going,  turning  out  the  fodder  for 
tlie  asses  called  the  public.  Who  knows  wdiat  book 
may  catch  on?  Who  can  say  whether  that  which 
appears  to  be  the  trashiest  may  not  find  the  largest 
sale,  and  a  large  sale  means  many  dollars,  and  pub- 
lishers are  very  human.  Again,  there  is  an  increasing 
tendency  on  the  part  of  publishing  firms  from  whom 
better  things  might  reasonably  be  expected,  to  pub- 
lish at  the  expense  of  the  author.  When  once  this  is 
done,  all  standards  are  thrown  ruthlessly  to  one  side, 
and  the  reader,  the  only  protection  which  the  public 
has  against  the  attempts  of  the  ignorant,  is  victim- 
ized. The  result  of  this  deterioration  in  the  stand- 
ards of  publishing  firms  is  that  the  name  of  the  pub- 
lisher now  means  simply  nothing  as  a  guarantee  of 
the  excellence  of  the  work,  and  the  critic's  desk  is 
littered  with  a  pile  of  trash,  bearing  the  names  of 
publishing  firms  whose  reputation  was  formerly  sim- 
ply beyond  question. 

There  is  a  translation  of  the 

Life  in  a  Garrison     title  of  the  work,  "Aus  einer 
Town.  kleinen    Garnison,"   by  Lieu- 

tenant Bilse  of  the  German 
Imperial  Army,  which  book  resulted  in  six  months' 
imprisonment  for  the  intrepid  young  author,  his,  dis- 
missal from  the  service,  and  no  end  of  scandal,  pun- 
ishment and  trouble  for  the  people  whose  names  fig- 
ure in  the  work.  Lieutenant  Bilse  is  only  twenty- 
five  years  of  age.  He  joined  the  army  with  an  en- 
thusiastic desire  to  make  the  career  of  a  soldier  his 
life  work,  and  gave  every  promise  of  being  a  useful 
and  able  officer.  He  was  sent  to  a  garrison  town, 
Forbach,  on  the  French  frontier,  and  there  he  discov- 
ered the  material  out  of  which  he  has  formed  his 
book,  and  which  so  disgusted  him  with  military  life 
that  even  before  the  authorities  visited  their  dis- 
pleasure upon  him  he  had  sent  in  his  resignation  and 
decided  to  have   done  with   soldiering.     The   book, 


which  i-.  in   fictional   form,  is  nol   so  remarkable  for 
the  li-  for  the  facts  upon  which  the  storj    is 

built.     .\^  a  Story,  it  is  not  by  any  means  an  artistic 
llthough    for   a    first    novel   b\    SO   young  a 
man  it  contains  not  a  few  evidences  of  literary  ability. 
The  act    is    the    utter   brutalization    of    the 

1  lerman  army  in  the  frontier  pi ists  under  present 
ditions.  The  military  life  throws  the  officers  back 
upon  their  own  resources,  and  unless  they  are  un- 
usually intellectual  men,  all  sorts  of  intrigue  and  vice 
-oon  prevail,  and  drunkenness  ami  adultery  bei 
every-day  happenings  at  the  post.  The  non-commis- 
sioned officers,  on  their  part,  tyrannize  over  the  men, 
resort  to  all  sorts  of  low  speculation  and  dishonesty, 
and  by  the  driving  of  honest  privates  from  their 
ranks  by  unjust  punishment,  swell  the  army  of  the 
social  democrats,  which  a  disgusted  people  opposes, 
to  the  army  of  the  Kaiser.  It  is  a  strong  indictment 
of  the  conditions  in  the  Kaiser's  army,  and  in  spite 
of  his  six  months'  imprisonment,  Lieutenant  Bilse 
should  feel  very  pleased  with  the  work  which  he 
has  accomplished. 

|ohn    Lane.    Publisher.      The    Bodly    Head,    New 
York. 

John  Oliver  Hobbes,  known  in  pri- 

The  Vineyard,  vate  life  as  Mrs.  Craigie,  if  it  is 
not  an  impertinence  to  allude  to 
the  fact,  has  at  last  written  a  novel.  Her  former 
works  were  remarkable  more  for  their  skill  in  the 
handling  of  the  conversation  of  the  cultured,  and  for 
that  elusiveness  of  treatment  of  which  Mr.  Henry 
James  is  past-master,  too  much  past,  in  fact,  for  he 
occasionally  passes  the  understanding  of  the  intelli- 
gent and  careful  reader.  John  Oliver  Hobbes  was 
always  readable,  now  she  is  more  than  that — she  is 
actually  fascinating;  one  could  always  be  sure  of  en- 
tertainment at  her  hands,  but  she  gives  us  in  this 
book  more  than  entertainment,  and  succeeds  in  the 
task  which  the  really  serious  novelist  always  under- 
takes, of  making  her  readers  do  some  independent 
thinking  and  form  personal  judgments.  The  theme 
is  a  somewhat  bold  one.  Given  a  handsome  and 
eligible  young  man,  attractive  and  personally  charm- 
ing, who  has  been  a  soldier,  moreover,  and  won  the 
most  coveted  of  all  distinctions,  the  Victoria  Cross. 
Such  a  young  man  fails  and  proves  himself  a  pol- 
troon, and  all  for  lack  of  moral  force  and  consistency. 
It  is  a  true  story  and  a  virile  one,  though  not  without 
its  faults  for  the  same  tendency  to  over-elaboration 
and  psychological  analysis  which  was  the  distinguish- 
ing mark  of  her  former  work,  still  hangs  about  it. 
If  prophecies  go  for  anything,  her  next  novel  should 
be  a  landmark  in  modern  fiction. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 


HAVE  YOU  HAD 
BREAKFAST  AT 


Uhe   lied  Lion? 


HAVE  YOU  DINED  OR 
LUNCHED  AT 


U/ye  *Red  Lion? 

Fare,  service,  wines  and  table  appointments,  surpass  anything  pre- 
viously attempted  in  this  City.  English  Ale  on  draught;  and  the  finest 
line  of  liquors  and  cigars,  at  the  RED  LION  bar. 

The  RED  LION  GRILL  for  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  in  the  S.  F. 
Stock  Exchange  Building,  accessible  from  Pine  Street,  just  below 
Montgomery,  also  from  Bush  and  Montgomery  Streets  through  the 
Mills  Building. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


I 


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FINANCIAL 


April  30,  1904. 


If  any  one  outside  of  some  mar- 
Ore  Selling  at  ket  manipulator  can  assign  any 
a  Discount.  intelligent  reason  why  Opliir 
should  sell  for  $5  with  fluctua- 
tions in  advance  of  a  few  cents,  with  the  mine  look- 
ing better  than  ever  before  in  its  history,  now  is  the 
time  for  him  to  arise  and  speak.  It  is  satisfactory 
to  realize,  however,  that  ore  is  bound  to  tell  in  the 
long  run,  and  that  no  one  ever  gets  something  of 
value  for  nothing.  At  latest  accounts  the  ore  in 
the  2,000  level  in  the  N.  E.  drift  is  improving  all  the 
time,  the  grade  being  even  higher  in  that  extracted 
in  opening  up  the  drift  than  that  found  above  in  the 
ground  now  being  stoped  on  the  1850  level.  The 
2.OO0-  foot  level  drift  is  now  extended  to  within  125 
feet  of  the  Mexican  lines,  the  1850  level  being  with- 
in 300  feet.  Work  is  now  about  to  begin  in  the 
Northeast  drift  from  2500  level  of  Con.-Cal.-Virginia 
to  tap  the  ore  found  above  on  the  2150.  From  the 
way  things  look  now  it  should  not  be  long  until 
the  fact  is  determined  whether  or  not  the  same  bod} 
of  ore  now  running  through  Ophir  goes  into  Mexi- 
can. From  all  appearances  it  should  be  safe  enough 
to  say  that  it  does,  but  it  is  safer  to  await  develop- 
ments. It  does  seem  strange,  however,  upon  com- 
parison of  mining  and  market  conditions,  to  find  that 
values  intrinsic  and  speculative  are  not  appreciated 
by  people,  the  modern  representatives  of  a  class  that 
in  the  golden  days  gone  by  would  have  gambled  on 
the  drop  of  the  hat,  and  would  have  simply  gone 
wild  over  present  appearances  in  Ophir.  It  must  be 
remembered  that  the  same  people  not  so  long  ago 
let  the  mines  of  Tonopah  slip  through  their  fingers, 
so  that  one  need  not  be  surprised  at  anything  they 
may  do  after  that. 

Chief   Miller     of     the     opposing 
Peace  Reigns      clans   in    the   San    Francisco    Gas 
at  Last.  and  Electric  Company,  have  won 

out,  and,  backed  by  two  of  his 
partisans,  Mr.  Miller  will  have  a  representation  in 
the  Board  of  Directors.  It  will  not  be  a  very  heavy 
one,  to  be  sure,  but  at  the  same  time  it  is  large 
enough  to  carry  a  good  many  reforms  in  behalf  of 
shareholders.  There  should  be  no  difficulty  in  cut- 
ting down  the  salary  of  the  president  and  other  offi- 
cials. Five  hundred  dollars  per  month  is  enough 
for  the  President  of  this  or  any  other  corporation 
where  lie  is  virtually  a  figure-head.  The  only  man 
worth  paying  in  a  concern  of  this  kind  is  he  who  can 
either  devise  plans  to  make  money  for  the  company. 
or  he  who  can  inaugurate  a  plan  of  economy  which 
is  calculated  to  make  money  by  saving  it.  AH  these 
propositions,  including  the  manufacture  of  something 
else  than  the  fitful  yellow  glare  now  on  exhibition 
under  the  misnomer  of  gas,  on  dark  nights  in  this 
city,  and  the  extension  of  some  civility  to  consumers, 
can  be  evolved  through  the  benign  influence  of  Mr. 
Miller  and  his  associates,  if  they  are  so  disposed. 

From   all  over  the  Western 

A  Mine  Inspector      country    comes    the    demand 

Wanted.  for    an    Inspector   of    Mines, 

for   an    official    who    can    be 

called  upon  by  shareholders  for  reliable  information 

upon  properties  which  may  be  owned  by  them  for  the 

moment.     The  promoters  of  worthy  mines  will  not 

fear  the  actions  of  an  official  of  this  character,  as  thev 

will  only  be  too  desirous  of  having  a  report  upon 

whatever  mine  they  may  be  handling,  and  upon  him 

will  rest  the  responsibility  for  mistakes  or  exaggera- 


tions. Nearly  all  the  mining  regions  of  the  West 
have  suffered  severely  of  late  from  the  actions  of 
thieving  manipulators  of  mining  stock.  It  has  grown 
so  bad  now  that  it  is  almost  impossible  to  raise 
money  upon  the  very  best  class  of  investment.  Once 
bitten,  twice  shy,  seems  to  be  the  motto  of  investors, 
and  the  only  salvation  now  is  to  have  an  official  of 
this  class  appointed  to  supervise  things  generally 
and  put  a  stop  to,  or  a  check,  at  least,  upon  the  ras- 
cality which  has  been  going  on  without  any  inter- 
ference for  a  long  time  past. 

While  there  has  been  quite  a 
Local  Stocks  movement  in  bonds  on  the  local 
and  Bonds.  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange  dur- 
ing the  past  week,  the  demand 
has  not  been  what  it  should  be  at  this  season  of  the 
year.  Sales  of  stock  have  been  light  and  in  remark- 
ably small  lots.  The  strength  seems  to  have  kind 
of  given  out  in  Gas  and  Electric,  the  campaign  move- 
ment having  evidently  ended.  The  funny  way  the 
stock  has  acted  for  some  days  past  has  been  quite 
suggestive,  the  small  short  interest  which  was  put 
out  after  each  advance  looking  very  much  like 
"hedging"  in  an  effort  to  play  even  financially  by 
some  one  who  seized  the  opportunity  to  sell  some 
stock  by  lifting  it,  at  the  same  time  covering  any 
possibility  for  eventual  loss  in  speculative  investment 
of  coin  by  a  small  short  interest.  The  California 
Gas  and  Electric  Company  did  pretty  well  last 
month,  according  to  its  latest  financial  statement, 
the  net  earnings  over  all  expenses  and  charges,  in- 
cluding sinking  fund,  being  reported  at  $27,912.60. 
There  is  room  for  improvement  in  the  business  on 
this  board,  and  there  is  no  reason  why  times  should 
not  be  better  with  the  commission  brokers,  as  money 
never  was  more  plentiful  in  San  Francisco  than  it 
is  at  present. 

People    interested    in    financial 
Campaign  Issues     propositions  are  naturally   dis- 
and  Financial        cussing   the    possible    action    of 
Conditions.  markets  of  the  country  in  view 

of  the  approaching  election. 
While  it  is  true  that  in  many  of  the  former  presiden- 
tial vears  a  reference  to  statistics  will  show  that 
the  average  quotations  of  all  the  leading  stocks  de- 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

Due  consideration   should  be  given 
the  treatment  of  the  windows. 
We  carry  a  full  line  of  ARABIAN, 
BATTENBERG,  BRUSSELS, 

IRISH      POINT,      CLUNY      and 
SWISS  CURTAINS,  also  BONNE 
FEMMES,       LACE       STORES, 
GRAND    DAMES,    LACE    PAN- 
ELS, SASH   CURTAINS,  etc. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    a    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  Market  Sts. 


April  30,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


clinol  as  the  result  of  openii  that 

declined  in    18SS  and    l«>m  with 
lal  conditions  in   189a  and   1896,  and  thai 
lential  year  since  it 

led  the  imports,  nothing 
vi  any  indication  of  trouble  this  - 
No  doubt  concerning  the  result  of  the  forthcoming 
election  is  apparent,  and  everything  points  to  stead) 
prices  and  normal  conditions  generally. 

President  E.  P.  Ripley  of  the  Santa  Fc  and  E.  II. 
Harriman  as  president  of  the  Southern  Pacific,  have 

i  statements  of  the  earnings  of  their  roads  for 
the  first  eight  months  of  the  present  fiscal  year.  The 
Santa  Fe  earned  gross  $46,566459;  increase  over  tin- 
same  period  of  the  year  before.  $4,665,228;  net  earn- 

$18,363,078;  increase  over  the  same  period  of 
the  year  before,  $1,679413,  The  Southern  Pacific 
had  gross  earnings  of  $63,703,229;  increase  over 
the  same  time  in  1903,  $4,799,239;  net  earnings.  $20,- 
077,795;  increase  over  the  same  period  in   '903,  $2,- 

--.  The  Union  Pacific,  including  Oregon  Short 
Line  and  1  Iregon  Railway  and  Navigation  Company 
had  $37,1)23.071  of  gross  earnings;  increase  over  tin- 
same  months  last  year.  $4400,095;  net  earnings,  $17,- 
502.461  ;  increase,  $2,093,262. 

AS  OTHERS  SEE  US. 
The  San  Francisco  News  Letter  in  its  issue  of  to- 
day pops  it  to  W.  R.  Hearst,  the  Democratic  aspir- 
ant for  Presidential  honors,  in  a  manner  that  would 
indicate  that  the  aspirant  is  better  suited  as  a  can- 
didate for  Town  Bull  than  a  candidate  for  the  office 
highest  in  the  gift  of  the  American  people. — Angels 
Echo. 


4  1-2  Par  Cant  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Savings  B.  &  L  Association 

Puts  4  1-3  per  cent  Interest  on  nnlinnry  flnvinirs  accounts.  Interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  un-l  I  pen  Mill  "ti  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
nterct  PBTtbiG  MHnl-ennnelly. 

Sl«    <  WIloKMV    BTBKBT,    SAN    FKANCI8C0. 
PabaorOwd  Capital m,ooo,ooo 

Paid  tn  Capital 1,000.000 

Guarantee.  Capital 900,000 

Real  estate  !.>;nis  made  <>ti  Unproved  property— Principal  and  interest 
parable  in  monthly  installment*  similar  to  rent. 

OFFIOHBS    AND    DIBKCT0R8 

\  A  WatUns,  vi President  w.  W.  Montague 4  Co President 

CharlaeB.  Blahop,  Vtae-Prealdenl  Bank  of  California Vice-President 

atlas  Smith.  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grantee,  Gen.  MgT<  Equitable  B.  A-  L,  Association, 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.    Ki  as  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  8.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

Ohas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker, Portland.  Oregon Director 

ciavin  McNah.  Attorney-at-law Attorney 


Now  that  Davenport,  the  cartoonist,  is  no  longer 
in  the  employ  of  the  yellow  journalist,  his  pencil  is 
playing  hob  with  the  Hearst  personality.  If  one  look 
at  the  current  issue  of  the  San  Francisco  News  Letter 
this  week  doesn't  make  Willie  weep — or  swear — it 
will  be  because  he  is  no  longer  a  baby  or  because 
he  fails  to  find  language  sufficiently  lurid  to  express 
himself.     But  it  serves  him   right.— Napa  Register. 


"Ad  Sense"  for  April  should  interest  every  adver- 
tiser in  the  land.  It  is  by  far  the  best  publication  of 
its  kind  in  the  United  States,  and  when  we  say  this 
it  means  in  the  world.  There  are  numbers  of  color 
plates  that  show  the  most  modern  development  of 
color  photography  and  printing,  and  the  contents  of 
the  book  are  readable,  and  the  best  samples  of  the 
ad  writers'  art  that  have  come  to  our  notice  in  a  very 
long  time.  "Ad  Sense"  is  published  by  the  Ad  Sense 
Company,  Chicago. 

All  Seamen 

know  the  comforts  of  having  on  hand  a  supply  of  Borden's 
Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk.  It  can  be  used  so  agreeably 
for  coJking,  in  coffee,  tea  and  chocolate.  Lay  in  a  supply 
for  all  kinds  of  expeditions.     Avoid  unknown  brands. 

You  can  never  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  It.  Go  to  Spauldlng's 
Carpet  Cleaning  Company,  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zinkaud's,  which  is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  aiter-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
the  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  inspiring  music, 
and  is  patronized  by  the  smart  set. 


Paraiso    SPrl'n£s 


MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Conrts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VEND0ME 

SAN    JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS,    Prop. 


BLITHEDALE 

MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


A  rub  at  the  Post-St.  Hammam  will  do  you  good. 


SAMUEL   M.    SH0RTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law, 

Crocker  Building   San  Francisco. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


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Ontttut  will  plar  the  devil,  tfir.  wnb  roil." 


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/TOWN  CRER 


He   thought   that   work    would   bring   him    fame 

That  toil  would  give  him  money ; 
He   worked,   and   found   things   just   the   same — 

His  creditors  were  funny. 

He   persevered,  and  worked   again, 

His  debts  were  past  concealing; 
He  threw  off  work,  and  toil  and  pain, 

And  took  to  clever  stealing. 

Mark  the  result:  He  paid  his  way, 

His  foes  were  filled  with   fury ; 
Indictments   never   came   to   stay — 

He  always  bought  the  jury. 

And  when  his  earthly  course  was  run, 

And  daisies  o'er  him  waving, 
The  preacher  spoke  of  him  as  one 

Who  throve  by  honest  saving. 

The  Board  of  Public  Works  has  been  busy,  very 
busy.  Some  of  the  members,  it  is  alleged,  maliciously 
have  been  busy  buying  property,  and  the  whole 
Board  has  devoted  itself  with  an  energy  which  Boards 
seldom  show  to  the  piling  up  of  expenses.  Mr.  Mi- 
chael Casey  appears  to  be  what  in  the  language  of 
the  street  is  technically  called  "a  bird."  We  need 
never  despair  of  Irish-American  enterprise.  Take 
Mr.  Casey's  case.  Only  a  short  time  ago  he  was 
driving  a  team,  not  a  very  dignified  team  either,  and 
three  dollars  a  day  steady  would  have  represented  the 
sum  total  of  his  mundane  aspirations.  To-day  he 
plays  with  the  thousands  of  dollars  of  the  rate-payers 
like  a  Monte  Carlo  croupier,  and  like  the  croupier 
he  represents  an  institution  which  always  wins. 
There  may  be  depression  in  the  streets,  but  there 
is  not  even  a  hint  of  depression  about  the  fortunes 
of  Michael  Casey.  The  sewer  system  may  be  imper- 
fect, but  Michael  the  Merciless  is  always  sure  of  his 
own  system.  He  has  paraphrased  and  adapted  Wol- 
sey  and  made  his  motto,  "If  I  had  but  served  the  city 
as  industriously  as  I  have  served  myself  I  should  not 
see  anything  ahead  for  my  old  age." 

Theodore  Lowe,  of  the  "Raven,"  has  had  two  more 
charges  of  felony  embezzlement  placed  against  him. 
It  is  only  a  short  time  ago  that  he  was  charged  with 
the  same  offense  and  acquitted.  He  may  possibly 
be  acquitted  on  these  charges  also,  but  I  submit  that 
for  a  young  man  who  is  unjustly  accused,  the  accusa- 
tions succeed  each  other  at  too  short  intervals,  and 
he  is  putting  too  great  a  strain  upon  the  indulgence 
of  his  friends.  A  maleficent  fortune  appears  to  pur- 
sue unremittingly  certain  men.  In  spite  of  their  pro- 
tests of  innocence,  a  censorious  and  uncharitable 
world  will  persist  in  imagining  them  to  be  guilty, 
and  it  must  be  confessed  that  the  ungenerous  world 
has  a  peculiar  faculty  of  making  good  in  the  long  run. 
Therefore.  Mr.  Lowe  had  better  make  up  his  mind 
that  it  is  not  well  that  the  run  should  be  too  long, 
and  the  best  way  in  which  he  can  do  that,  as  well  as 
the  most  comfortable  for  all  concerned,  is  that  he 
should  try  the  effect  of  a  change  of  climate. 

In  days  to  come,  it  will  be  written  down  that  San 
Francisco  was  inhabited  by  a  race  of  men  who  were 
in  all  probability  congenital  idiots,  upon  whose  natu- 
ral idiocy  softening  of  the  brain  had  supervened. 
Then  the  existence  of  the  Examiner  and  the  Carmen's 
Union  will  be  cited  as  irrefutable  proof  of  the  propo- 
sition. 


The  recent  hold-up  of  clubmen  in  San  Jose,  com- 
ing so  soon  after  a  similar  occurrence  in  this  city, 
raises  the  question  of  why  clubmen  should  be  such  an 
easy  mark.  One  man  goes  into  a  room  in  a  club  and 
holds  up  ten  men,  extorting  from  them  about  two 
thousand  dollars.  True,  it  was  about  one  o'clock  in 
the  morning  when  the  hold-up  took  place,  and  the 
solution  naturally  suggested  is  that  the  clubmen 
were  too  torpid  to  resist.  All  married  men  have 
a  grievance  against  these  San  Joseans,  for  heaven 
knows,  it  is  hard  enough  to  get  permission  to  stay 
at  the  club  under  the  best  of  circumstances.  What 
is  the  poor  man  to  reply  when  his  wife  says:  "You 
can't  go  to  the  club,  Joe.  You'll  be  robbed."  He 
won't  dare  to  plead  poker  and  that  being  robbed 
is  no  new  experience. 

Funny  town,  Oakland.  It  is  a  church-going  com- 
munity, and  its  inhabitants  have  a  peculiar  habit 
of  raising  questions  of  casuistry.  The  particular 
point  at  issue  is  as  to  how  far  the  Mayor's  secretary 
is  justified  in  renting  typewriters  to  the  city.  When 
the  facts  are  sifted  out,  it  appears  according  to  the 
secretary's  statement  that  he  only  rented  one  type- 
writer, and  then  he  adds  somewhat  naively  that  this 
was  an  old  one.  The  question,  therefore,  naturally 
arises:  Is  a  secretary  justified  in  entering  the  type- 
writer renting  business  with  the  employing  munici- 
pality, and  if  so,  how  does  the  fact  that  the  typewriter 
is  old  affect  the  moral  proposition.  I  understand  that 
the  matter  is  having  the  serious  attention  of  the  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  and  the  Home  of  Truth.  Father  Yorke 
has  refused  to  preach  on  it,  as  he  is  too  busy  blacking 
his  face  for  another  minstrel  show. 

Dr.  Hobdy,  the  United  States  Marine  Hospital 
Boarding  Surgeon,  is  reported  to  have  knocked  down 
a  British  army  Captain  who  failed  to  report  in  time 
for  inspection  upon  the  America  Maru.  The  agility 
which  our  local  officials  show  in  getting  the  best  of 
globe-trotting  Englishmen  is  one  of  the  most  charm- 
ing features  of  our  local  life,  and  it  is  hard  to  say 
whether  the  physical  prowess  of  our  officials  or  the 
imagination  of  our  reporters  is  the  more  to  be  ap- 
plauded. Any  one  who  believes  this  story  and  has 
seen  Dr.  Hobdy  must  believe  in  the  physical  deteri- 
oration of  the  Briton  or  the  subjugated  captain  is  a 
mere  invalid  on  sick  leave.  Anyway  the  incident  is 
gratifying  as  tending  to  offset  the  wholesale  failure 
of  our  local  competitors  for  the  Rhodes  scholarship. 

The  police  raided  a  lottery  place  in  the  city  this 
week.  This  is  gratifying,  for  it  shows  that  a  certain 
portion  of  the  force  has  for  a  time  abandoned  the 
business  of  robbing  grocery  stores.  It  was  a  small 
lottery  place,  moreover,  which  was  raided,  and, 
there  being  nothing  small  about  the  police  force,  of 
course  they  would  not  allow  it  tc  exist.  The  proprie- 
tor complains  that  the  tickets  which  he  sold  were 
not  those  of  the  particular  lottery  favored  by  the  De- 
partment. Sucli  negligence  on  his  part  was  simply 
inexcusable.  He  should  have  consulted  the  Police 
Captain  as  to  his  favorite  brand  of  lottery  ticket,  and 
taken  a  bunch  up  as  a  sample.  Small  lottery  ticket 
sellers  and  poor  unfortunate  women  cannot  be  too 
careful. 

A  local  photographer  advertises  "bridal  pictures 
taken   successfully."      Now   what    on    earth    can    lie 

mean  ? 


April  30,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IMPORTANT   AUCTION   SALE   OF 

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SATURDAY,  MAY  7th,  1904,  Facing  The  Stanford  University 

Special  Excursion  Train   Leaves   3rd   and   Townsend   Streets,    10:15 
Round  Trip  Tickets  $1.00.     Lunch  on  the  Grounds.      Pret- 


a.  m. 


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C.  M.  WOOSTER  COMPANY  8?N  ^AARSImSTREET 


CRIMINALS    AND    FOOD    PRODUCERS. 

In  1897  the  News  Letter,  in  common  with  other 
reputable  journals  of  the  State  made  a  combined  at- 
tack on  the  adulteration  of  food  products.  As  a 
dhect  result  of  this  crusade  a  label  law  was  enacted. 
This  law  is  to-day  a  dead  letter.  Feeling  secure  in 
their  criminal  practices  and  with  a  desire  to  flaunt 
evasion  of  the  law  in  the  face  of  the  public,  an  "Ex- 
position of  Pure  Food  Products"  is  being  held  in  Me- 
chanics' Pavilion.  The  public  is  lured  by  the  title 
into  a  belief  that  the  foods  exhibited  are  all  pure, 
when,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  exposition  is  simply  one 
of  "Food  Products, '  and  the  question  of  purity  is  not 
considered  by  the  management.  Any  food  product 
can  be  exhibited  if  the  makers  pay  for  the  floor  space. 
So  there  are  pure  foods  and  impure  foods  side  by  side. 
Here  are  a  few  sample  exhibits : 

We  have  spices  adulterated  with  cocoa  shells ; 
honey  with  glucose;  jams,  jellies  and  preserves  with 
starch,  apples  and  coal  tar  coloring  substances ;  bak- 
ing powder  with  alum  and  ammonia  and  terra  alba  ; 
olive  oil  with  cotton-seed  oil ;  vinegar  made  out  of 
shavings;  molasses  (black  strap),  pure  cider  and 
wine  vinegar  out  of  grain  and  burnt  sugar;  pepper 
out  of  the  refuse  shells  from  confectioners ;  coffee 
with  extracts,  chicory  and  artificial  coffee ;  molasses 
with  glucose ;  maple  sugar  with  glucose  and 
molasses ;  all  drugs  are  adulterated.  Tomato  catsup, 
as  made  by  nine-tenths  of  the  manufacturers,  con- 
tain salicylic  acid  and  not  one  iota  of  tomato.  The 
pulp  is  apple  parings  and  the  coloring  matter  is  coal 
tar.  Tomato  catsup  is  the  most  injurious  of  the 
adulterated  foods. 

The  Board  of  Health  should  visit  the  exhibition 
and  remove  a  sample  from  the  different  grocers'  ex- 
hibits, analyze  them,  and  then,  after  giving  the  re- 
sult to  the  public,  the  offenders  should  be  arrested, 
heavily  fined,  and  if  possible  imprisoned.  The  News 
Letter  knows  whereof  it  speaks;  it  has  had  samples 
analyzed  and  the  conditions  to-day  are  far  worse 
than  in  1897,  and  while  the  associated  offenders  and 
criminals  have  their  wares  on  exhibition  the  authori- 
ties should  pounce  on  them  and  make  public  their 
crimes    against    the    community. 


CONTRACT  LABOR  VS.  FREE  LABOR. 

The  far-reaching  influence  of  the  labor  leader  was 
never  better  illustrated  than  in  the  vote  taken  by 
the  carmen.  They  (the  carmen)  voted  to  reject  the 
very  attractive  terms  offered  by  the  company,  and 
they  have  placed  a  new  construction  on  the  term 
known  as  "recognition  of  the  union."  They  now  de- 
mand that  this  be  construed  as  more  than  treatment 
with  their  leaders,  that  it  shall  mean  absolute  star- 
vation to  free  and  untrammeled  labor.  The  free  la- 
borer must  starve  and  none  but  contract  or  organized 
labor  be  hired.  It  is  high  time  this  matter  be  brought 
to  a  head,  a  fight  made,  and  the  contest  be  kept  up  all 
summer,  if  necessary,  to  bring  the  anarchistic  for- 
eign leaders  to  a  full  appreciation  of  their  powerless 
condition.  In  the  meanwhile  let  not  the  public  blame 
the  men — they  are  swayed  by  fear.  The  individual 
in  the  labor  union  is  to-day  governed  by  a  despotism 
that  is  worse  than  that  of  the  Czar  of  all  the  Russias. 


Engagement  Cups. 

Have  just  unpacked  a  beautiful  and  varied  assortment  of  superb 
cups  for  engagement  gifts.    S.  &  G.  Gump  Co.,  113  Geary  street. 


"Out  of   the   Beaten   Path," 
Opposite  Palace. 


Tom   Dillon's  modern  style   hats 


See  our  3  months  ahead  ideas  in  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


BOHM 
RISTOL  CO. 

We  are  displaying  individual 
classic  types  from  onr  own  de- 
signers and  exclusive  importa- 
tions in 

JEWELRY,     SILVERWARE, 

DIAMONDS,   PEARLS,    AND 

PRECIOUS  STONES 

An  inspection  of  our  show  rooms 
and  wares  is  cordially  invited 

104-110    GEARY    STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


io  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

2T/>e  House  of    Crafts  and  Arts 


April  30,  1904. 


Out  on  Central  avenue,  overlooking-  the  blue 
waters  of  the  hay.  and  the  green  hills  which  sur- 
round them,  stands  a  house  dedicated  to  the  use  and 
cultivation  of  the  crafts  and  arts  in  their  various 
forms.  The  inspiration  which  saw  the  rich  promise 
on  this  Pacific  Slope,  the  motives  which  impelled  the 
furtherance  and  encouragement  of  that  promise, 
have  resulted  in  the  establishment  of  an  ideal  work- 
shop, where  skilled  handiwork  and  artistic  ideas  have 
every    opportunity    for   tangible    expression. 

San  Francisco  is  a  city  of  many  phases,  cosmopoli- 
tan yet  provincial;  progressive,  yet  slow  to  appre- 
ciate her  own  inheritance.  She  has  yet  to  waken  to 
the  fact  that  within  her  own  gates  her  gifted  sons 
and  daughters  struggle  for  even  a  meagre  recogni- 
tion and  support,  which  becomes  renown  and  ad- 
vancement, are  they  fortunate  enough  to  be  able 
to  take  their  gifts  elsewhere.  Verily,  the  prophet  is 
not  without  honor  save  in  his  own  city  of  the  Gol- 
den Gate. 

It  has  remained  for  a  stranger  coining  in  our  midst 
to  see  the  material  here  and  provide  a  place  for. its 
development.  Dr.  Orlow,  with  his  artistic  percep- 
tions, his  broad-mindedness,  which  looks  for  the 
greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number,  saw  and  appre- 
ciated the  wealth  of  possibilities  awaiting  recogni- 
tion and  assistance,  and  forthwith  fashioned  a  build- 
ing where  the  crafts  and  arts  should  find  a  home.  In 
the  big  house,  from  whose  every  window  an  in- 
spiration may  be  gained,  are  evidences  of  what  can 
be  done  when  artistic  ideas  are  worked  out  by 
skilled  craftsmanship. 

In  the  workshop  downstairs,  where  the  pungent 
fragrance  of  the  pine  and  redwood  fills  the  air,  busy 
fingers  are  fashioning  the  furniture  for  the  San  Fran- 
cisco house  at  the  St.  Louis  Exposition.  This  unique 
furniture  is  on  display  this  week,  and  should  be  seen 
by  lovers  of  artistic  furniture.  One  floor  of  the 
house  will  be  fitted  entirely  by  furniture  de- 
signed and  made  in  this  shop;  the  second  floor  will 
be  partially  furnished  from  the  same  place.  Mrs. 
Hearst  has  given  an  order  here  for  dining-tables  and 
chairs,  which  in  design  and  finish  suggest  the  dining- 
halls  of  the  horsemen  of  old.  One  room  is  used 
entirely  for  the  making  of  picture  frames,  each  made 
expressly  to  suit  the  demands  of  some  one  canvas, 
because  Dr.  Orlow  declares  that  pictures  have  indi- 
viduality, as  well  as  people. 

The  main  hall,  with  its  charming  side  gallery,  is 
a  fine  and  spacious  apartment,  used  for  a  picture 
gallery,  as  well  as  an  audience  room  for  the  weekly 
receptions.  This,  as  well  as  the  smaller  rooms  ad- 
joining, are  furnished  with  a  simplicity  which  is  re- 
freshing to  the  eye  accustomed  to  the  multitudinous 
carvings  and  elaborations  of  modern  bouses.  The 
tables,  chairs  and  settle  are  severe  in  outline,  but 
harmonious  and  restful  as  well,  and  every  piece  has 
come  from  the  room  below. 

In  the  rooms  on  the  upper  floor  one  finds  a  collec- 
tion of  beautiful  productions.  Embroideries  on 
tures  of  various  kinds,  from  heaviest  satin  to  softest 
gauze;  graceful  shapes  in  porcelain  show  the  skill 
of  the  china-painter.  In  a  small  room  is  a  mass 
of  glittering  bead-work,  so  perfect  in  its  way  one 
wonders  what  Indian  tribe  lias  yielded  up  its  treas- 
ure. Beautifully  illuminated  scrolls  and  parchments 
next  claim  the  attention,  and  nearby  are  evidences 
of  the  bookbinder's  art. 

To  every  question  ot  "Where"  and  "How,"  Dr.  Or- 
low makes  the  same  reply;  "All  made  here." 


The  house  is  indeed  an  ideal  workshop.  Where  the 
actual  work  may  be  done,  or  having  wares  for  sale, 
the  worker  may  bring  them  here,  and  place  on  ex- 
hibition. 

It  is  open  to  all,  the  requisites  for  admission  be- 
ing  skilled  workmanship,  an  ability  to  do  the  chosen 
work  in  a  perfect  manner,  and  originality  of  design. 
The  entire  scheme  is  practical  and  conducted  on  a 
thoroughly  business-like  plan.  The  order  and  sys- 
tem which  must  exist  to  properly  conduct  sucli  an 
undertaking  is  evidenced  in  every  direction.  It  is 
an  undertaking  which  calls  for  every  encouragement 
and  appreciation  from  the  community  fortunate 
enough  to  have  such  a  place  in  its  midst. 

It  is  the  beginning  of  greater  things,  the  nucleus 
of  an  art  center  which  opens  to  limitless  possibilities. 
To  the  man  who  has  conceived  the  idea  and  put  it  in- 
to  practical  working  is  due  a  hearty  co-operation  in 
his  endeavors  to  carry  011  his  ideas,  which  reach 
farther  than  one  can  imagine,  and  an  assurance  of 
g 1    will    in    their    development    and    execution. 

Tesla    Briquettes,    Hie    popular  domestic    fuel,    are   only   $7,50 

per  ton;  half  ton  J4:  <i"arter  ton  $2.    Full  weight  guaranteed.  In 
economy,    cleanliness    and    heat    producing    qualities    Briquettes 

arc  superior  to  coal.     Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company.  1111  h 
and  Channel.     Phone  South   95. 


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taste  the  umpire. 


It  is  particularly  recom- 
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April  30.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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1SOCIETY 


Dear  Bessie:   Royal   Princes  are  becoming  quite 

a  (Imp  <>n  the  market.     First  came  liis  Royal  High 
from  China,  and  this  week  we  have  had  Prince 
Savoy,  who  returned  to  us  again  after  an 
■  several  years,  when  he  was  unite  a  noted 
in  the  halls  of  the  wealthy  an.l  at   Buriingame, 
then  in  its  infancy,  and  has  expressed  himself  a-, 
pleased  to  be  here  again.     His  shi|>.  the  Liguria, 
remain  here  while  the   Prince  pays  a  Hying  visit   to 
hut    from   all    I    hear   there   is  to  lie   some- 
thing done  on  hoard  of  her  as  well  as  at  several  places 
ashore   directly    he    returns.      But,    my   dear.    Prince 
-  is  not  tile  only  notable  guest  the  city  has  had 
of  late.    Think  of  the  richest  bachelor  in  the  United 
States   having   been    within    our   gates   this   week   in 
Robert   Walton    Goelet,   who   arrived   with   the   Har- 
riman   party   last   week   in   time   for  the  horse   show 
at    Buriingame,   and    perhaps   he   wasn't   feted   there 
and  in   town  during  his  brief  stay!      Mr.   Harriman 
himself  had  a  dinner  in  the   1'alm  Garden  on  Satur- 
day night  for  the  members  of  his  party  and  several 
of  our  San   Francisco  notables. 

Again  there  is  a  lull  in  weddings,  but  think  of  all 
there  are  to  come  off  in  June.  The  only  one  of  mo- 
ment this  week  in  town  was  that  of  Hattie  Currier 
and  Walter  Hale  last  Thursday  at  noon.  It  was  a 
comparatively  quiet  affair;  I  mean  there  was  no 
large  reception,  the  ceremony  taking  place  at  the 
Curriers  on  Pacific  Avenue,  with  only  just  a  few 
outside  the  relatives  to  witness  it.  The  flowers  were 
lovely  and  such  lots  of  them ;  Dolores  Wilkins  was 
maid  of  honor,  Mary  Nichols  and  Jane  Barry  the 
bridesmaids.  There  was  another  wedding  on 
Thursday  at  the  Unitarian  Church  over  in  Oakland, 
where  Miss  Minnie  Wilson  and  William  Olney  were 
the  high  contracting  parties;  it  was  quite  a  swell 
affair,  I  believe. 

It  seems  as  if  all  the  excitement  of  the  week  was 
crowded  into  Thursday,  for  beside  these  two  wed- 
dings there  was  the  launching  of  the  new  man-of- 
war,  the  California. 

The  expected  has  happened,  at  least  to  all  those 
who  were  at  Del  Monte  during  the  recent  polo  tour- 
nament, in  the  formally  announced  engagement  of 
Miss  Cora  Kirk,  who  has  been  on  a  visit  to  Hattie 
Pullman  Carolan  at  Buriingame,  to  Paul  Clagstone, 
who  represented  Southern  California  among  the 
polo  players.  I  intended  going  down  to  the  Buriin- 
game horse  show  last  Saturday,  but  at  the  last  mo- 
ment had  to  give  it  up ;  Helen  tells  me  they  had  a 
splendid  time  and  that  she  didn't  know  which  at- 
tracted most  attention,  Cora  and  her  fiance,  young 
Goelet,  who  was  there  with  the  Martins,  or  Birdie 
Fair  Vanderbilt,  who  is  here  on  business  connected 
with  the  settling  up  of  the  Fair  estate.  I  hear  that 
Tessie  Oelrichs  will  be  here  next  week,  but  if  she 
does,  her  stay  will  be  of  the  briefest  possible. 

Gay  doings  in  town  are  commencing  to  be  rather 
few  and  far  between.  Mrs.  Henry  Dodge  gave  one 
of  her  pleasant  luncheons  last  Saturday,  inviting 
ten  g-uests  to  meet  her  niece,  Mrs.  Hodgson,  who 
is  here  on  a  visit  from  the  East.  Emily  Wilson  had 
a  little  tea  on  Monday  afternoon — just  a  few  girls; 
on  Tuesday  the  Spinners  gave  a  tea  in  honor  of  Miss 
O'Ryan,  at  her  studio  on  Pine  street,  and  you  know 
how  con  amore  they  always  enter  into  anything  they 
undertake.     Grace  Buckley  has  got  the  bridge  fever, 


and  had  a  pleasant  little  set  of  her  friends  to  play 
it  last  week;  Ethel  Cooper  had  a  bridge  party  on 
\\  ednesday  of  this  week,  and  Emma  Breedon  lias 
had  two  bridge  parties  within  the  last  ten  days. 
I  wanted  very  much  to  go  over  to  Edna  Barry  and 
Philip  Clay's  wedding,  which  comes  off  at  St.  John's 
Church  in  Oakland  this  afternoon,  hut,  you  sec,  the 
hour  is  four  o'clock,  so  that  I  should  never  have 
time  to  do  it,  as  I  promised  to  go  over  to  Ross  Val- 
ley for  the  dance  which  the  Lagunitas  Club  is  to  give 
at  its  club-house  to-night,  and  I  expect  it  will  be 
lots  of  fun. 

You  never  saw  any  one  more  pleased  to  be  what 
she  calls  "home"  again  than  Mrs.  Roosevelt,  who 
has  been  over  at  San  Rafael  with  Judge  and  Mrs. 
Morrow  almost  ever  since  her  arrival  from  the  Phil- 
ippines. 

Mrs.  Southworth  gave  her  a  very  pretty  tea  the 
other  da}',  at  which  she  shared  the  honors  with  Char- 
lotte Moulder  and  Winnie  Mackintosh,  and  how 
every  one  did  talk  over  old  times  when  Eleanor  was 
one  of  the  most  popular  girls  in  the  swim.  The 
Roosevelts  leave  very  soon  for  Washington  City, 
where  Captain  Roosevelt  is  to  be  stationed  for  the 
next  two  years.  It  is  too  bad  when  we  have 
pleasant  people  that  we  cannot  keep  them,  but  that 
is  the  penalty  of  army  life — one  never  knows 
how  soon  one  is  to  lose  them.  Another  case  in  point 
is  the  Overtons,  who  are  the  most  recent  to  be 
ordered  away,  and  they  are  going  to  Fort  McKinley 
almost  at  once.  Mrs.  Overton's  sister,  Kathie  Kline, 
as  her  friends  call  her,  who  has  been  here  all  winter, 
has  already  gone,  much  to  the  regret  of  those  who 
met  her  during  her  visit.  In  the  other  branch  of  the 
service,  Lieutenant  Home  has  been  ordered  off  to 
Samoa,  so  Alma  will  remain  here  with  her  mother 
for  awhile,  at  least,  as  Mrs.  McClung  and  Gladys 
have  returned  from  San  Diego,  where  they  have  been 
all  winter,  and  as  soon  as  Home  sails,  the  whole 
party  will  go  up  to  Napa  to  stay  with  Mrs.  Cole, 
who  has  such  a  pretty  home  in  that  lovely  vale. 

I  hear  that  the  Jim  Floods  will  soon  be  off  to  the 
big  house  at  Menlo  Park,' to  stay  there  all  summer, 
and  it  is  surmised  that  they  do  not  intend  to  keep 
closed  doors.  Sausalito  is  full  of  glee  over  the  ac- 
quisition of  the  J.  D.  Spreckels,  who  are  having 
their  recently  purchased  abode  done  up  in  fine  style 
against  their  taking  possession  next  month.  The 
locale  is  a  lovely  one,  and  it  is  said  the  girls  will  do 
no  end  of  entertaining  this  summer. 

Helen  and  Constance  de  Young  got  off  last  week 
for  New  York,  where  they  will  make  some  little  stay, 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


"shoppin',  you  know,"  as  Alice  says.  I  understand 
there  are  to  be  gay  doings  at  Meadowlands  when 
they  return. 

The  O'Connor  girls  have  departed  with  Mrs. 
Blair,  and  Mrs.  Stubbs  and  Helen  have  gone  to  their 
Chicago  home  after  a  pleasant  visit  here.  Kate  Dil- 
lon talks  of  going  to  the  St.  Louis  fair,  and  of  then 
prolonging  her  journeyings  across  the  big  pond,  and 
spending  the  summer  in  Europe,  but  promises  to  be 
back  again  for  the  winter  season.  The  rumor  is  that 
Kate  Voorhies  Henry  is  also  going  abroad,  though 
she  may  stay  here  all  summer.  Louise  Harrington 
that  was,  Mrs.  Leahy  that  is,  who  came  down  from 
Vallejo  last  week,  will  remain  with  her  mother  till 
the  return  of  the  Tacoma  from  its  trip  north,  and 
then  it  will  be  time  ennugh  to  make  plans  for  the 
future. 

The  Walter  Deans  have  gone  to  San  Rafael  for 
the  summer.  I  have  not  heard  what  Alice  and  Ethel 
Hager  intend  to  do — have  not  yet  decided,  I  believe; 
the  Eells  are  also  at  their  home  in  Marin,  and  Mrs. 
Smedburg  and  Cora  have  been  spending  some  time 
at  the  Hotel  Rafael.  The  Loughboroughs  are  com- 
ing home,  I  hear — have  had  all  they  want  of  Euro- 
pean travel  for  the  present ;  Mrs.  Stanford  will  ue 
here  from  her  trip  to  Australia  and  China  next  week, 
but  is  going  off  again  to  Europe  in  a  few  weeks.  The 
Blandings  are  going  to  spend  the  summer  at  Belve- 
dere, but  may  go  to  Tahoe  later  in  the  season  for  a 
short  time.  Margaret  Newhall  is  down  visiting  her 
uncle  Walter  in  Los  Angeles,  and  having  an  exceed- 
ingly good  time  from  all  accounts;  Edith  Chese- 
brough  has  been  up  at  the  Navy  Yard  on  a  visit  to 
Mrs.  Miller;  Jessie  Dorr  and  Georgie  Lacey  have 
both  returned   from   their  visits   to   Honolulu. 

But  wdiat  did  I  tell  you?  The  idea  of  the  Burlin- 
game  set  fancying  Mrs.  Peter  Martin  would  content 
herself  there  all  summer!  They — she  and  Peter — 
will  be  here  a  couple  of  months  longer,  that  is  all. 
for  early  in  July,  at  the  latest,  off  they  go  to  the  be- 
loved Newport,  where  they  have 
taken  a  cottage  for  the  season.  G  is- 
sip  has  it  that  Mrs.  Eleanor  is  goin  \ 
with  them,  as  she  enjoyed  her  for- 
mer visit  so  much,  and  ju>t  then  it 
is  so  woefully  dull  hereabouts.  So 
we  shall  see  when  the  time  comes. 
—Elsie. 


April  30,  1904. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Cora   Kirk,  of  Chicago,  to  Paul  Clagstone,  of 

Riverside. 
Miss  May  Nickerson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam  H.   Nickerson,  to  Lieutenant  Nathaniel    E, 

Bower,   Engineer  Corps,  U.  S.  A. 
Miss  Eleanor  Moseley,  daughter  of  Colonel  Edward 

B.   Moseley,   U.   S.  A.,  to  Arthur  T.   Harris,  of 

Brookline,  Mass. 
Mrs.   Jane   Webb,   nee  Jennings,   widow   of   Doctor 

Webb,  U.  S.  A.,  to  Julius  Hackmana. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
April   30    (Saturday) — Miss   Geraldine   Scupham,   to 

I  ieorge  Steele  Lackie,  Oakland,  9  p.  m. 
April   30    (Saturday) — Miss    Edna    Barry   to    Philip 

Clay.     St.  John's  Church,  Oakland,  4  p.  m. 
May  11  (Wednesday) — Miss  Ella  Goodall  to  Doctor 

Charles  M.   Cooper. 

CHARITABLE. 
May    7    (Saturday) — Vaudeville    Show    and    Garde-i 

Fete  at  Arbor  Villa,  Oakland.  In  aid  of  fourteen 

charities. 

*  *  * 

Arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  week  were: 
Mrs.  Edward  May,  Miss  Alice  B.  May,  Mr.  F.  W. 
Tallant.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Dudley  Dean",  Mr.   Dudley 

B.  Gunn,  Mrs.  I.  Franklin,  Mr'  T.  C.  Friedlander, 
Mr.  W.  L.  Meussdorffer,  Miss  Williams,  Mr.  F.  \. 
Woodward,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Jones,  Mrs.  P.  C.  Deuroche, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  W.  Ferney,  Miss  C.  L.  Hartshorn, 
Miss  L.  Kueen.  Miss  Mary  B.  Sicklcy,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 

C.  H.  Lee  and  family. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Del  Monte  include:  J.  Lichten- 
stein,  S.  Alfred  Archler,  Paul  von  Neindnrff,  Miss 
Alice  West,  Mrs.  Nelson  Morris,  Mrs.  Hoffheimer, 
Miss  A.  Schultz,  Miss  Hester  Hill,  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Gorman,  maid  and  child,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  D.  Mead. 
Miss  J.  M.  Lane,  J.  Hoyt  Smith,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  H. 
C.  Palmer,  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Cooper,  Miss  Cooper. 
Miss  Garrett,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Thomson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T. 


THE     REQUISITE    AT    SMART     FUNCTIONS 


AT  HOME. 

Thursday — Mr.  and  Airs.  Charles 
Abbott  Whitemore.  nee  Wayte, 
May  12th,  4  to  6  and  8  to  1  1 
p.  m.,  2529  Van  Ness  avenue. 

Friday — Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Scott,  May 
6th  and  13th,  305  Buchanan  St. 

BIRTHS. 

April  22 — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene 
Murphy,  a  daughter.  Mrs.  Mur- 
phy was  Miss  Frances  Hopkins. 
TEA. 

May  4  (Wednesday)  —  Miss  Mary 
Barker,  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Ber- 
nard Miller,  nee  May  Burdge, 
Oakland. 

BREAKFAST. 

May  2  (Monday) — By  the  Sorosis 
Club  at  St.  Francis   Hotel. 

May  14  (Saturday) — By  the  Cen- 
tury Club,  at  their  clubrooms 
on  Sutter  street. 


GIANT   STRIDES! 

All  Records  Broken 

tShe    DISTINCTLY    HIGH    QUALITY 

— or  — 

MOET  <&  CHANDON 

"White    ySftal"  Champagne 

Never    Varies 

WHY??? 

Messrs.  Moet  ck  Chandon  own  more  vinevards 
than  all  the  leading  Champagne  houses  combined 
and  have  over  I  I  miles  of  cellars,  the  most  ex 
tensive  in  the  world. 

Their  sales  dunng  the  Year   1903  were 
4.013,684 

Bolllcs.  a  figure  never  belore  reached  by  any  Champagne  house 
This  Creat  House  offers  its  choices!  product  in 

"WHITE,  SEAL" 

THE  CHAMPAGNE  OF  THE  DAY 

[William  Wolff  &  Co.  pacific  coast  agents  San  Francisco  Cal 

T"E     REQUISITE     AT    SMART     FUNCTIONS 


April  30.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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llry.  Mr.  J.   A.   Hall.  Mrs     I 
M     [taltantinc  ami   family.   Mis-   Downs,   Mrs, 
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The  finish  to  a  beautiful  gown  is  .1  cunningly  and 

fashionably  made  hat,  and  nowhere  in  San  Francisc  1 

can  this  desired  result   be  better  obtained   than  al 

ene) .   121    Post   -trod.     The 

woman  who  desires  to  be 

will  select  an  establishmenl  such  as  Miss  Sweeney's 
because  of  the  special  study  made  there  of  the  de- 
mands of  each  ease.  The  "baby"  hat,  with  its 
travagant  sweep  of  lace,  the  Gainsborough  in  all  its 
rity,  and  the  prevailing  colors  of  green,  white 
and  red.  are  artistically  arranged  to  suit  the  taste 
of  the   most   fastidious  of  women. 


THE  DAILY  AMUSEMENT  OF  A  PRESIDEN- 
TIAL   CANDIDATE. 

Arthur  Brisbane  is  writing  Utters  to  the  Hon.  (?) 
Willie  Hearst  and  signing  them  "A  Broken  llearted 
Mother."  In  the  Hearst  newspaper  offices  this  is 
called  "human  interest  business."  and  in  other  news- 
paper offices  it  is  called  "damned  lies."  The  other 
newspaper  offices  are  right.  It  is  good  stuff  to  fool 
the  public  with,  however,  and  there  is  many  a  lowly 
home  in  which  hitter  tears  will  be  shed  over  the  mag- 
nificent fabrications  of  the  cunning  Brisbane.  It  is 
said  Mr.  Hearst  occasionally  sheds  a  tear  himself. 
On  one  occasion  he  is  said  to  have  remarked  to  Bris- 
bane: "Arthur,  you  are  (sob)  the  most  (sob)  touch- 
ing (sob)  liar  (sob)  I  have  (sob)  ever  (sob)  hired," 
and  then  he  slid  down  to  the  middle  of  his  back  in 
the  Morris  chair,  elevated  one  knee  in  the  air,  and, 
touching  a  button,  asked  if  there  were  any  new 
chorus  girls  at  Weber  &  Fields  who  could  he  induced 
to  spend  the  evening  in   his  company. 

Nelson's  Amycose 

Infallible  Remerlv   for  Catarrh.   Sore  Throat   and   Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


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Checkers.  "Pit,"  "Flinch."  All  new  games  and  the  rules  for 
playing  them.     Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  street. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
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'ill:  'As  you  lu.li 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON 


He  had  just  come  back  from  Paris 

And  he  talked  of  all  he'd  seen — 
Of  the  galleries  he  had  visited, 

And  the  dinners  in  between. 
Till  a  friend  asked  him  discreetly, 

With  a  most  mysterious  air, 
"Do  you  like  the  things  in  Paris? 

Do  you  like  the  pommes-de-terre? 

H;  smiled  the  smile  that's  knowing, 

And   he   winked   the   other  eye. 
He  seemed  to  be  as  wicked 

As  a  man  can  be,  and  try. 
"No!"   he  answered,  with   regretful   tone: 

"Those  things  I  did  not  see. 
I  had  no  pommes-de-terre  at  all — 

My  wife  was  there  with  me." 

*  *  * 

Mayor  Schmitz  now  has  another  name  "bracketed" 
with  those  of  Mershon  and  Parry.  The  latest  can- 
didate for  ill-repute,  whose  graft  in  the  Emergency 
Hospital  was  exposed  in  the  XTews  Letter  weeks 
ago,  has  had  all  the  benefit  of  an  investigation  by  a 
friendly  investigator ;  he  has  been  able  to  secure 
denials  from  those,  who,  from  all  accounts,  accused 
him  until  his  head  was  in  danger,  but  all  the  pails 
of  whitewash  in  the  City  Hall  could  not  save  Dr. 
Brackett.  The  Mayor  found  that  he  was  "too  indis- 
creet." Of  course,  he  took  money  in  connection  with 
an  Emergency  Hospital  case,  but  it  seems  his  offense 
was  not  so  much  the  fact  of  taking  the  money  as  the 
indiscretion  in  using  his  official  position  to  extract 
it.  That  distinction  gives  much  food  for  thought. 
Brackett  may  now  retire  into  that  obscurity  from 
which  he  was  dragged  by  the  Mayor's  favor,  and  in 
the  course  of  human  events,  if  he  takes  his  lesson 
to  heart,  he  may  rehabilitate  himself  in  the  good 
opinion  of  those  who  knew  him  as  an  honest  man 
before  he  sought  a  political  position.  Why  any 
professional  man  should  accept  a  minor  job  in  the 
City  Hall  is  one  of  the  mysteries  of  human  nature. 
If  he  is  a  competent  physician  or  surgeon  he  can  onlv 
injure  himself  by  becoming  known  as  a  politician  ; 
if  he  is  not  competent,  his  reasons  for  taking  the 
place  are  apparent.  The  conclusion  is  that  most  of 
the  City  Hall  doctors  are  either  foolish  or  incom- 
petent.   And  that  is  not  very  far  from  the  facts. 

*  *  * 

Mayor  Schmitz  has  suffered  more  than  most 
Mayors  from  his  appointees.  Mershon  was  a  bad 
one;  brackett  may  not  be  corrupt  in  the  worst  sense, 
but  he  is  of  too  small  a  calibre  to  be  a  success ;  Parrv 
has  been  a  thorn  in  the  Mayor's  side  ever  since  that 
colt  incident,  and  if  his  resignation  as  Fire  Com- 
missioner were  presented  to-morrow,  it  would  be 
tidings  of  great  joy  in  the  Mayor's  office.  Schmitz 
has  done  much  to  clip  Parry's  wings,  for  which  some 
measure  of  approval  is  due  to  the  Mayor.  Parrv 
has  been  deposed  as  chairman  of  the  Department  of 
Electricity,  and  he  has  been  side-tracked  to  one  of 
the  minor  committees  of  the  Fire  Commission.  For 
some  time  past,  he  has  kept  comparatively  quiet, 
for  the  idea  has  evidently  forced  itself  in  upon  him 
that  his  resignation  will  be  demanded  in  a  prompt 
and  summary  manner  as  soon  as  he  makes  his  next 
break. 

*  *  * 

Captain  Harts,  U.  S.  A.,  a  soldier  by  profession 
and  a  smuggler  by  preference,  is  indignant.     He  has 


raised  his  voice  with  words  of  rudeness,  and  his 
temperature  has  increased  greatly  in  the  vicinity  of 
his  collar.  The  Captain  has  much  reason  for  his 
indignation.  He  arrived  the  other  day  from  the 
Orient,  and  that  minion  of  the  Government,  Chaun- 
cey  St.  John,  had  the  temerity  to  search  the  Captain's 
trunks,  and  to  seize  a  choice  collection  of  dutiable 
goods  therein  discovered,  neatly  tucked  away  in 
places  where  the  Captain,  honest  man,  thought  no 
one  would  ever  find  them.  Now,  Uncle  Sam.  abetted 
by  this  same  officious  Mr.  St.  John,  demands  a  fine 
of  over  $1,000  from  the  Captain  ;  your  uncle  has  also 
seized  the  Captain's  goods.  Now,  if  that  is  not 
enough  to  raise  the  ire  of  a  professional  soldier,  what 
is?  What!  risk  your  life  for  your  country,  and  then 
not  be  permitted  to  take  in  without  duty  a  few  hun- 
dred dollars  worth  of  trumpery,  and  all  because  some 
old  curmudgeon  from  nowhere  made  a  law  to  that 
effect !     Well,  Republics  ever  were  ungrateful. 

*  *  * 

And  now  the  School  Principals  are  making  laws 
to  suit  themselves.  Principal  Bush,  of  the  Polytech- 
nic High  School,  suspended  six  boys  last  Tuesday 
because  they  refused  to  pay  a  fine  of  $20  levied  by 
him  against  them,  because,  in  a  hurry  to  enter  the 
school,  they  kicked  the  front  gate  and  dislodged  a 
few  inches  of  paint.  Of  course,  the  boys  should  be 
punished ;  first,  for  being  late  for  school,  which  is 
against  the  rules;  secondly,  for  kicking  the  gate, 
which  was  very  rude.  They  must  not  expect  to 
kick  and  smash  things  until  they  go  to  Berkeley. 
But  when  was  Mr.  Bush,  or  any  other  principal,  em- 
powered to  lev}'  a  fine  against  any  pupil?  Whence 
docs  Mr.  Bush  obtain  this  judicial  authority?  The 
thing  is  farcical.  Even  if  he  had  the  power  to  levy 
a  fine,  the  amount  he  demanded  was  excessive. 
School  principals  should  attend  to  their  own  particu- 
lar business,  and  leave  the  punishment  of  misde- 
meanors to  the  Police  Courts. 

*  *  * 

Senator  Perkins  has  secured  an  appropriation  of 
$15,000  for  the  adornment  of  the  Presidio.  This 
money  will  be  available  immediately.  The  Senator 
also  has  in  hand  a  bill  appropriating  $35,000  more 
for  Presidio  improvements,  making  a  total  of  $50,000 
to  be  used  during  the  next  two  years.  With  this 
money  much  will  be  done  to  make  greatly  needed  im- 
provements at  the  big  military  post.     It  has  always 


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April  30,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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inc  that  the  people  of  this  city  do  not  make 
f   the    Presidio.      It    1-   the   !.ir^<  <t    military 

mtry,  an. I  it  hn<i  alw 
;th  both  officers  and  nun.  past, 

»ince  the  Spanish  war.  thousands  of  troops  have 
\  cry      incoming      Iran 
brings  homo   warriors   from   the    Philippines;  every 
p  ship  carries  away  detachments.  The 
men  arc  always  kept   in   good   shape  by   drills — not 
.  tiresome  drills-  by  battle  exercises,  sham  en- 
ments,  with  rattle  of  small  arms,  boom  of  can 
Don,  and  call  of  bugle.     Those  are  held  frequently, 
and  aro  as  entertaining  to  the  onlooker  as  they  are 
instructive  to  the  men.     Then  the  cavalry  exercises 
aro  something  to  put  the  best   circus  stunts  in   the 
shade.       In    addition,    there    are    athletic    field    days, 
when   all   the   strong  soldier   boys   show    what    Ihey 
can  do  by  power  of  lungs  and   arms  and   legs.     The 
Presidio  should   he  cultivated   bv   the   people. 

*  *  * 

The  Abruzzi  and  his  warship  have  arrived,  where- 
fore some  tremors  of  excitement  have  agitated  the 
Italian  colony.  The  most  notable  incident  connected 
with  the  Prince's  arrival  was  the  accidental  loss  of 
Consul  Serro  in  the  midst  of  the  plan  of  congratula- 
tions. The  Consul  thought  the  Prince  would  come 
in  his  boat  to  the  Vallcjo  street  dock,  and  there,  se- 
rene in  his  official  dignity,  the  Consul  awaited  him. 
But  Luigi  pulled  in  at  the  Clay  street  dock,  and  then 
had  to  elbow  his.way  through  the  crowds  of  the  curi- 
ous until  he  found  the  Consul.  But  the  Prince  is  a 
good  fellow,  and  he  doubtless  cared  far  less  for  the 
misunderstanding  than  did  Se'rra.  The  Consul  is  an 
unhappy  man,  for  his  position  here  is  not  conducive 
to  his  peace  of  mind.  Some  years  ago  some  of  the 
Italians  said  he  was  unsociable;  that  he  did  not  ex- 
tend to  them  that  hospitality  which  they  thought 
they  had  a  right  to  expect  from  their  country's  repre- 
sentative. Serra  replied  that  he  could  not  be  ex- 
pected to  entertain  the  entire  Italian  colony.  Not 
long  ago  he  made  a  trip  to  Europe.  During  his  ab- 
sence it  was  said  he  would  be  transferred  to  some 
European  city,  but  he  came  back  to  San  Francisco. 
His  ambition,  it  is  said,  is  to  get  a  mission  upon  the 
Continent. 

*  *  * 

A  younger  brother  of  Eddie  Hanlon,  the  prize- 
fighter, the  "Pride  of  Telegraph  Hill,"  has  been  sen- 
tenced to  six  years'  imprisonment  at  San  Quentin, 
after  conviction  on  a  charge  of  burglary.  After  his 
arrest,  Hanlon  was  released  upon  $500  cash  bail  de- 
posited by  the  prize-fighter.  The  burglar  jumped 
his  bail  and  fled  to  the  East.  He  was  captured  in 
Colorado,  brought  back,  pleaded  guilty,  and  now  he 
is  a  convict.  Can  any  minister,  or  any  Supervisor, 
find  in  the  conviction  of  Eddie  Hanlon's  brother  a 
text  for  a  sermon  upon  the  evil  effects  of  the  prize- 
ring?  Is  this  case  alone  not  sufficient  to  prove  the 
arguments  made  hy  this  journal  that  the  prize-ring, 
like  the  race  track,  leads  young  men  into  crime?  I 
do  not  wish  to  moralize,  but  who  is  the  greater 
offender  against  society — the  unfortunate  youth  now 
in  San  Quentin,  who  fell  into  evil  ways  because  of  the 
opportunities  presented  in  the  prevalence  of  prize- 
fights in  this  city,  or  the  Supervisors  who  make  these 
opportunities  possible?  True,  Supervisor  Branden- 
stein  says  the  Supervisors  are  not  the  keepers  of  the 
public  conscience.  But,  has  a  Supervisor  any  con- 
science of  his  own? 

*  *  s= 

Mrs.  Marion  B.  Foster  sued  the  members  of  the 
Women's  Press  Association  last  week,  and  now 
conies  Mrs.  Mate  H.  Cartwright  with  another  suit 


^t  the  same  defendants.  Mr-,  <  artwright's 
complaint  relates  a  long  tale  of  woe.  She  wanted 
to  In-  elected  something  in  the  club,  and  the  moan 
things  wouldn't  elect  her.  She  was  pained,  shocked. 
aggrieved,  sore,  indignant,  and.  briefly,  "all  broke 
up'  by  her  defeat.  She  knows  the  unkind  women 
who  write  things  just  defeated  her  out  of  pure  spite. 
and  now  she  wants  to  get  even.  So  she  lias  sued 
them  and  their  combined  unhappy  husbands  for 
$100,000    damages.       Xow.    wouldn't    that    keep    you 

waiting!    One  hundred  thousand  simoleons!    News- 
paper   writers — and    women    newspaper    writers    at 
that-  sued   lor  one  hundred  thousand!     Win.  ladies. 
a  dream. 

Mine.  Perrier,  one  of  the  most  charming  ladies  of 
the  French  colony,  while  visiting  at  a  friend's  house 
two  weeks  ago.  dropped  dead.  She  was  buried  from 
the  French  church.  The  funeral  was  attended  hy 
many  representatives  of  all  that  is  considered  the 
most  select  in  local  society-,  for  Mrrfe.  Perrier  was  sin- 
cerely mourned.  She  was  past  the  prime  of  life,  and 
for  many  years  had  been  a  widow.  Her  married  life 
had  been  very  happy,  and  frequently  did  she  speak 
to  her  intimates  of  her  husband,  whom  she  loved 
sincerely.  Of  late  years,  she  had  made  her  home  at 
a  private  hotel.  There,  two  days  before  her  death, 
she  told  this  story  of  a  dream. 

It  was  at  luncheon  on  a  Sunday.  She  sat  with  two 
lady  friends.  She  said  that  during  the  night  she  had 
dreamed  a  dream  which  had  made  upon  her  a  deep 
impression. 

"I  dreamed,"  she  said,  "that  I  was  walking  slowly 
along  the  banks  of  a  beautiful  stream.  I  was  alone. 
Now  and  again  I  stopped  to  pluck  a  flower,  for  they 
were  plentiful  and  beautiful.  I  mused  upon  the  won- 
ders of  the  glorious  sky,  the  sparkling  waters,  the 
delightful  flowers,  and  within  me  there  was  a  sense 
of  rest.  But,  withal,  I  was  not  happy,  for  I  was 
alone.  Suddenly,  I  heard  a  voice  calling  my  name. 
At  first,  it  was  faint,  as  though  far  away.  As  I  lis- 
tened, it  grew  stronger ;  it  seemed  to  come  nearer. 
Yet  I  saw  no-  one. 

'"Who  calls?'  I  cried. 

"Again  came  the  voice,  but  now  louder  than  before. 
And  then,  opposite  me,  upon  the  other  bank  of  the 
stream,  I  saw — whom  do  you  think?  My  husband! 
It  was  he — just  as  he  had  been  twenty  years  ago. 
He  looked  at  me.     His  eyes  were  filled  with  love. 

"  'Come !'  he  said,  T  want  you !' 

"Then  I  awoke.  It  was  but  a  dream  ;  I  am  no  be- 
liever in  dreams,  but  this  has  impressed  me  strange- 

ly-" 

Mme.  Perrier  told  of  her  dream  on  a  Sunday.  Upon 
the  following  Tuesday  she  dropped  dead. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


Ne  obey  no  w»od  but  FleMUre'i-— Ton  Moopc 


j  PLEASURE'S  WAND 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

MAJESTIC— Isabelle  Irving— A  masterly  production. 
COLUMBIA— The  Four  Cohans— Amusing  comedy. 
GRAND— Fiddle-Dee-Pee  and  Big  Little  Princess— Highly  enjoyable 
musical  farces. 
ALCAZAR— The  New  Clown— An  entertaining  innovation  in  comedy. 
ORPHEUM— Lew  Sully  and  a  half  dozen  others  that  are  good  fun  makers 
CENTRAL— The  Still  Alarm— Realistic  melodrama. 
TIVOLI— When. Tohnny  Comes  Marching  Home— Fine  production. 
ALHAMBRA— Sembrieh — Matinee  this  afternoon. 
MECHANICS  PAVILION-Food  Show-Pure  and  Impure. 


The  absence  of  Mr.  Durkin  from  the  Alcazar  stage 
was  a  feature  that  called  for  regret  from  many  of 
the  regular  attendants  at  the  popular  O'Farrell  street 
house.  It  was  manifestly  impossible  to  place  that 
gentleman  in  the  "New  Clown,"  and  the  piece  went 
very  smoothly  ^-ithout  him.  Miss  Starr,  Mr.  (  )s- 
bourne,  Mr.  Maher,  are  deserving  of  special  mention, 
and  the  play,  generally  speaking,  was  well  carried 
by  the  company.  San  Franciscans  are  terribly  par- 
tisan, and  there  were  many  who  felt  keenly  Miss 
Block's  assumption  of  a  minor  role.  Miss  Starr, 
however,  was  easily  the  star  in  the  "New  Clown." 
She  is  pretty  and  artistic  and  never  once  forgot  her 
quaint  patois.  Osbourne  was  a  very  good  John  Ba- 
ker, and  the  Lord  Cyril  Garston  of  Mr.  Maher  was 
a  finished  piece  of  work,  as  is  all  of  the  work  of  this 
conscientious  young  man. 

*  *  * 

The  Orpheum  has  a  splendid  show  on  this  week, 
and  Sully  is  one  of  the  king  fun  makers  of  the  world. 
The  four  Mortons  are  still  with  us,  and  there  is  no 
end  of  other  attractions  that  keep  one's  wits  g<  1- 
ing  from  the  rise  to  the  fall  of  the  curtain.  A  goo  1 
show  to  drive  away  the  blues. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Charles  W.  Strine  has  been  made  assistani 
manager  of  the  Tivoli.  I  wisli  to  congratulate  .Mr. 
Leahy  on  the  acquisition,  for  I  believe  it  means 
additional  and  successful  efforts  to  popularize  the 
big  Eddy  street  house. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Columbia  we  have  the  hold-overs,  the  four 
Cohans,  fun-makers,  and  they  are  pleasing  fair-size  1 
houses. 

*  *  * 

Kolb  and  Dill,  Winfield  Blake.  Amber  and  Banuy 
Bernard  are  doing  very  well  at  the  Grand.  To-mor- 
row night  will  see  the  last  of  these  artists  on  an 
American  stage  for  many  months,  and  the  house  i- 
sure  to  be  packed  by  their  admirers. 

"The  New  Clown"  is  something  entirely  new  in 
the  line  of  plays,  and  it  is  drawing  very  well  at  the 
Alcazar. 

*  *  * 

Sembrieh  called  out  the  usual  quota  of  admirers 
at  the  Alhambra,  and  the  advance  sale  for  the  mati- 
nee this  afternoon  is  a  good  one.  The  prices  are 
rather  too  high  to  ensure  good  houses,  and  the 
theatre  is  out  of  the  way. 

*  *  * 

The  Central  is  doing  a  good  business  with  "The 
Still  Alarm,"  and  Eugenia  Thais  Lawton  is  winning 
fresh  laurels.  Herschell  Mayall  is  again  a  great  her.) 
and  there  is  joy  south  of  the  slot. 

*  *  * 

The  Chutes  has  a  good  bill  all  the  week,  and  there 
have  been  additions  to  the  Zoo,  and  other  attractions. 


The  Pure  Food  Show,  which,  by  the  way,  is  a 
show  of  foods  of  all  kinds,  pure  and  impure,  is  on 
at  tile  .Mechanics'  Pavilion. 

*  *  * 

Tbe  Majestic  continues  the  admirable  bill.  "The 
Crisis."  until  to-night,  with  a  matinee  this  after- 
noon. The  play  has  drawn  a  little  larger  crowd  each 
night  t < ■  the  unfinished  theatre.  Miss  Irving  is  a 
capable  and  sweet  little  woman,  with  a  splendid  sup- 
port. 

The  Majestic  has  taken  a  straight  leap  into  the 
good  graces  of  the  culture  and  refinement  of  the 
city,  and  it  is  a  pity  that  the  house  is  not  in  a  better 
condition  to  entertain  its  patrons.  When  finished, 
tbe  Majestic  will  be  a  thing  of  beauty  and  a  joy  for- 
ever. 

*  *  * 

"When  Johnnie  Comes  Marching  Home"  draws 
the  usual  old-time  crowd  at  the  Tivoli,  and  there  is 
rejoicing  at  the  box  office.  There  is  but  one  ele- 
ment that  needs  supression,  and  that  is  Dora  de  Fil- 
lipe.     She  is  simplv  impossible  in  anv  role. 

*  *  * 

For  the  last  night  before  closure,  there  is  all  prob- 
ability of  a  large  house  at  Fischer's.  The  chorus  is 
good,  and  Roy  Alton  is  a  host  in 'himself. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alhambra,  last  week,  Shafter  Howard  and 
Harry  Clifford  gave  evidence  of  great  ability  in  the 
operetta  of  "His  Royal  Nibs."  The  music  and  the 
lyrics  are  good,  and  had  the  piece  been  put  on  as 
was  originally  intended  by  the  Fisher  Company,  with 
Bernard.  Dill,  Kolb  and  Amber  as  the  principal  por- 
trayers  of  the  hero  and  other  characters  that  go  to 
make  the  play,  it  would  have  taken  like  wild-fire. 
The  amateurs  who  presented  it  at  the  Alhambra  did 
the  best  they  could,  but  that  best  was  not  anything 
at  all  wonderful. 

*  *  * 

"Dr.  Jekyl  and  Mr.  Hyde"  is  to  be  the  bill  at  the 
Central   for  the  coming  week,  and   there  is  sure  to 

be  a  great  attendance. 

*  *  * 

Pinero's  powerful  drama.  "The  Profligate,"  is  to 
be  put  on  at  the  Alcazar  for  next  week,  and  the  full 
strength  of  this  remarkably  good  stock  company  will 
be  employed.  There  is  a  thread  of  romance  running 
through  the  entire  play,  two  love  stories  and  a  prob- 
lem, not  an  Ibsen  problem,  however,  and  the  gloom 
is  lifted.  It  is  a  four-act  play,  which  will  allow  much 
swing  in   the  matter  of  scenic  adornment. 

*  *  * 

The  repertoire  for  Richard  Mansfield,  beginning 
May  16th,  is  as  follows:  Monday,  May  16th.  be  will 
be  seen  as  the  Tzar  Ivan,  in  the  production  of  Count 
Alexis  Tolstoi's  Russian  tragedy,  "Ivan  the  Terri- 
ble": Tuesday,  May  17th,  first  time  here  of  Wilhelm 
Meyer-Foster's  play  of  German  student  life,  "Old 
Heidelberg,"  Mr.  Mansfield  as  the  Prince  Karl  Hein- 
rich  ;  Wednesday.  May  18th,  a  revival  and  onlv  time 
of  "A  Parisian  Romance,"  Mr.  Mansfield  as  the 
Baron  Chevrial ;  Thursday,  May  19th.  a  revival  of 
"Beau  Brummel."  Mr.  Mansfield  as  Beau  Brummel : 
Friday.  May  20th,  "Old  Heidelberg"  :  Saturday  mat- 
inee, May  2r,  only  matinee  of  "Beau  Brummel": 
Saturday  night,  "Ivan  the  Terrible."  The  second 
week  Mr.  Mansfield  will  appear  in  the  following 
plays:  Monday,  May  23d,  "  Heidelberg";  Tuesday, 
May  24th,  tbe  last  time  of  "Ivan  the  Terrible":  Wed- 


April  30.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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last    time   of   "Beau    Rnmiinel" ; 
I    Heidelberg";    Friday, 
"illy  lime  of  '  I  >r.  Ickvll  and  Mr.  Hyde," 
Mr    m  .•..,..:  .  „«   Or    Kkyll  and  Mr.  Hyde;  Satur- 
day  matinee.   May   38th,  "< »1«  1   Heidelberg";  Satur- 
well)  night,  in  a  scene  each  "f  five  plays  of 
lit-  repertoire. 

»  *  » 

Some  time  lasi  year,  one  of  the  San  Francisco 
theatre-  gave  11-  what  purported  l"  be  a  Rogers' 
Brothers  show.    This  was  essentially  disappointing. 

The  performance  was  only  mediocre.  We  are  now 
to  he  given  the  real  thing,  with  •  Ins  and  Max  Rogers 
in  the  cast.  They  open  at  the  Columbia  next  Monday 
night.  They  are  tinder  the  direction  of  Klaw  &  Er- 
langer,  which  is  in  itself  a  guarantee  of  flawless  pro- 
duction. Lottie  I 'art  and  many  others  of  the  best 
will  interpret  musical  specialties  and  features.  There 
are  sixty-six  pretty  jrirls  in  the  chorus. 

*  *  * 

The  Sardou  season  will  open  at  the  Grand  on  Mon- 
day night  with  "La  Tosca."  Melbourne  MacDowell 
will  appear  as  the  Baron  Scarpia.  This  is  conceded 
his  greatest  impersonation.  He  will  be  supported 
by  Miss  Ethel  Fuller,  who  is  said  to  be  exceptionally 
fine  in  emotional  roles.  The  scenery  has  been  de- 
signed especially,  and  is  said  to  be  wonderful.  For 
the  second  week,  Mr.  MacDowell  will  give  us  Sar- 
dou's  "Cleopatra,"  and  it  is  expected  that  this  will 
be  a  gorgeous  treat.  Mr.  MacDowell  will  appear  as 
Marc  Anton v  and  Miss  Fuller  as  Cleopatra. 

*  *  * 

Hal.  Davis,  Inez  Macaulay  and  a  strong  support- 
ing company  will  present  at  the  Orpheum  this  com- 
ing week,  "An  Episode  in  One  Act,"  by  Edmund 
Day,  entitled  "Pals."  Briefly  told,  the  story  is  one 
of  unfaltering  love.  A  young  man  and  his  wife  are 
visited  by  an  old  college  pal  of  the  former,  who  has 
been  an  unsuccessful  suitor  for  the  hand  of  the  lat- 
ter. The  young  husband  is  called  away  and  returns 
to  discover  his  wife  hysterically  fleeing  up  a  flight 
of  stairs  to  escape  the  proposals  of  love  from  the 
friend,  and  what  ensues  in  the  way  of  action  is  sen- 
sationally  stormv. 

*  *  * 

This  coming  week,  which  marks  the  third  success- 
ful year  of  the  Chutes  in  its  present  location,  will 
find  a  capital  list  of  attractions  at  the  popular  pleas- 
ure resort.  To-day,  to-morrow  and  Monday,  a  May 
Day  Festival,  a  feature  of  which  will  be  an  electric 
May  Pole  Dance,  will  be  held.  Queen,  Stowe  and 
Diamond,  comedy  acrobats  and  dancers,  promise 
a  lively  act;  Ted  McKenna  will  introduce  bis  $5,000 
performing  dog  for  the  first  time  here,  and  Bowers 
and  Curtis  will  present  their  original  farcette,  entitled 
"Where  is  John?"  Mildred  Manning,  a  sweet  singer 
of  illustrated  songs,  will  make  her  initial  appearance 
at  the  Chutes. 

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flfter    the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKANrvR 

Listen    to    the   matchless    string    band    and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe    Zlnkand   Is   society's    gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


Fischer's    Theatre 

The  new  burlesque  a  tremendous  hit. 
Uproariously  funny  from  first  to  last. 
Exceptional  cast  and  chorus. 

CHOW    CHOW 

Better  than  any  of  the  Weber  &  Field's  pieces. 
Reserved  seats,  nights,  25c,  60o  and  76c. 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday-    25c  and  5oc 
Children  at  Matinees.  10c  and  25c. 


Columbia  Tbeatre. 


OoTTi-oii.  Marx  *  Co, 

LCMMi  mi'i  Manatrr*. 
Bkfl   tx'trlmiiiik'   ri.-xl    Monday. 
HfMASJl  .  K  law  ,V  ErlarJKor  present 

MAX  and  GUS  ROGERS 
in  John  .1   HoNallj's  latest  musical  farce, 

THE  ROGERS  BROTHERS  IN  LONDON 
UOentortaii  si 


Orohpurn    san  rr"nc,,ico'"<!rr,,fr'',t  Mu«to  nan 


Farrcll  Si.,   between   Stockton   and   Powell  itmti. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  May  l. 

fl  BIG  NEW  SHOW 

Davts,  Maoauley  and  Company  :  M.  P.  Pumond's  Trio  of  Parisian 
Minstrels:  Sisters  Gasoh;  Hal  Merritt:  Brandow  and  Wiley: 
Wilfred  Clarke  and  Company,  presenting  "No  More  Trouble;" 
La  Petite  Adelaide ;  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  last  week  of 

LEW    SULLY 

Prices,  10c.  25c  and  50c. 

Matinees  every  Wednesday.  Thure-day,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


Central  Theatre. 


Belasco  it  Mates.  Proprietors 
Market  St.  near  Eighth— Tel.  South  633 


Week  of  Monday,  May  2.     Matinees.  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  celebrated  drama 

DR.  JEKYLL  ar;d  MR.  HYDE 

Mayo— 

THREE     GUARDSMEN 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c-    Matinees  10, 16,  26c. 

Majestic  Theatre.  Market ^TWkin. 

April  25.    One  more  week 

ISABEL     IRVING 

IN 

THE    CRISIS 

Prices  $1.60.  $1.00.  50e.    Box  Seats  $2.00. 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  Corner EdMLaonndstreets 

Only  Matinees  Saturday.    Beginning  next  Monday,  May  2, 
Positively  the  last  of  Stange  and  Edwards'   famous  American 
comic  opera 

WHEN  JOHNNY  COMES  MARCHING  HOME 

Monday  May  9th,  the  famous  musical  comedy 

A     RUNAWAY     GIRL 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  60c.  75c.    Box  Seats,  $1. 

Alra7flr    Tl-»  anr  vc*  Belasco  &  Matee,  Proprietors 

MlCcliCd,r     ineatre    E.  D.  Pbioe,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

One  week,  commencing  Monday,  May  2. 

First  time  at  the  Alcazar.  Arthur  W.  Pinero's  powerful  drama, 


THE    PROFLIGATE 


"The  Alcazar  Company  is  an  aggregation  of  the  most  versatile 
artistes  in  the  United  States."— News  Letter. 
Evenings  25  to  75c.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  25  to  60c. 
Monday.  May  9th  the  sparkling  comedy.  "The  Two  Schools." 

Stein  Way    Hall       223  Sutter  Street 

DR.  H-  J-  STEWART 

Begs  to  announce  a 

CONCERT 

On  Thursday  evening.  May  12 

On  this  occasion  a  number  of  Dr.  Stewart's  recently  published 

compositions  will  be  rendered. 

Admission  one  dollar. 

Grarjd  Opera  House 

Beginning  next  Monday  night 
The  celebrated  actor 

MELBOURNE  McDOWELL 

In  a  series  of  Sardou  revivals. 
Week  beginning  Monday  night 

Lfl     TOSCA 

The  Baron  Scarpia,  Mr.  McDowell. 

Next  production.  CLEOPATRA.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday 

Prices :    15c.  25c.  50c.  75c . 


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BANKING. 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital,   Surplus^and  Undivided  |$  |  3500,000 

Homer  S.  King,  President;  F.  L.  Lipman.  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King,  Assistant  Cashier;  Jno.   E.   Miles,   Assistant  Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New  York;  Salt  Lake.   Utah;   Portland.  Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St..  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND,  President;  W.  C.  B.  DeFREMERT.  ROBERT 
WATT,  Vice-Presidents;  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH,   Assistant  Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremerv,  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman,  Jacob  Barth.  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H. 
Beaver,  William  A.  Magee,  Robert  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may.  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon- 
sibility of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass-book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits.  December  31,  1903  $33,232,908 

Guarantee  Capital.  Paid-up   l.ono.noi 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds   899.516 

Mutual    SaVlrjQS     Bank    of    San    Francisco 

710  Market  street,  opposite  Third. 

Guarantee    Capital    $1,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Surplus   600.000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY.  Vice-Presi- 
dent: GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER.  Vice- 
President;    C.    B.    HOBSON,    Assistant   Cashier. 

DIRECTORS— James  D.  Phelan.  S.  G.  Murphy,  John  A.  Hooper. 
James  Moffitt.  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,  James  M.  McDonald.  Charles  Holbrook. 

Interest  paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Welis,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city  banks. 


The  German   Savinqs  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  626  CALIFORNIA  STREET,   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guaranteed   Capital   and   Surplus    $2,423,751.60 

Capital  Actually  Paid-up  in  Cash  1,000.000.00 

Deposits,    December  31,   1903 36.049,491.18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— x  resident,  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmann; 
Ign.  Steinhardt,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  I.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.   W.  Van  Bergen. 

Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier.  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary,  George  Tourny:  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;  General  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 


Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established  In  1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301  California  St.,   San  Francisco,   Cal. 

Subscribed    Capital    $15,000,000.00 

Paid-in    Capital    3,000.000.(10 

Profit  and  Reserve  Fund   460.000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on  term  and  6  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,   President;   William   Corbin,    Secretary 
and   General   Manager. 


International  Banking  Corporatioo 

NO.  1  WALL  STREET,   NEW   YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus   $7,894,400 

Capital   and   Surplus  Authorized   10,000.00ii.no 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer. 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wlghtman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers,  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun- 
sel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila. 
Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  Shanghai,  Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta,  Madras,  Penang,  Rangoon, 
Colombo,  Amoy.  Canton.  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansul,  Anplng, 
Bakan,  Mojl,  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang,  Sou- 
rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    BRANCH— 32-34    Sansome    St. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  arid  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted, 
available  In  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certificates 
of  deposits  Issued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  dally  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us.  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents    throughout    the   world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  April  30,  1904. 
U/je  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 


Perhaps  the  most  interesting  de- 
Interesting         velopments    in   the    Far    Eastern 
Developments,     question  the  past  week  are  only 

indirectly  related  to  the  war,  but 
diplomatically  and  politically  they  may  be  consid- 
ered almost  sensational.  It  seems  that  Russia  is  al- 
ready preparing  for  the  settlement  of  her  differences 
with  Japan  through  neutral  powers,  two  of  which 
are  supposed  to  be  quite  friendly  to  Japan.  But  this 
diplomatic  strategy  does  not  mean  that  peace  will 
be  sought  before  a  few  great  battles  have  been 
fought.  It  is  simply  laying  the  foundation  of  a 
basis  upon  which  Russia  may  build  hopes  and  expec- 
tations that  when  she  can  honorably  invite  a  con- 
ference with  certain  nations  for  the  purpose  of  inter- 
vening between  herself  and  Japan  with  proposals 
'to  not  only  stop  the  war.  but  to  do  so  with  reference 
to  such  an  adjustment  of  differences  as  will  insure 
peace  for  many  years,  and  the  surprising,  if  not 
amazing  thing  about  it  all  is  that  (jcrmany  is  ig- 
nored almost  insultingly,  and  the  United  States, 
Great  Britain  and  France  made  Russia's  confidants 
and  attorneys.  Of  course,  the  Kaiser  is  furious  lie- 
hind  his  mask  of  indifference,  and  the  three  nations 
that  Russia  is  relying  upon,  as  well  as  Russia  her- 
self, would  give  a  good  deal  to  know  what  the  Ger- 
man war  lord  is  likely  to  do  in  the  premises.  It  is 
conceded,  however,  that  the  Kaiser  has  so  angered 
the  Asiatics  by  calling  them  the  "yellow  peril"  that 
as  one  of  the  arbitrators  his  very  identification  with 
the  purpose  in  hand  would  be  a  serious  stumbling 
block;  hence  his  name  had  to  be  scratched  off  the 
list  of  Russia's  "friends  in  need."  This  diplomatic 
strategy  is  being  handled  by  the  anti-jingo  party  in 
Russia,  and  the  Czar  himself  is  said  to  be  the  prime 
mover  of  it.  The  people  generally,  as  well  as  court 
circles,  of  Russia  realize  that  the  jingo  statesmen 
and  war  establishment  officials  conspired  to  force 
Japan  to  declare  war,  and  that  had  the  Czar  not 
been  fooled  by  falsehood  as  to  the  real  situation. 
Japan's  demands  would  have  had  favorable  consid- 
eration and  war  averted.  Then,  again,  the  unpre- 
paredness  of  Russia  for  war  has  disgusted  the  Czar 
and  his  honest  friends.  On  paper  the  nation  was 
amply  prepared  for  war,  but  when  war  actually  came 
it  was  found  that  although  appropriations  for  the 
war  establishment  had  been  ample  for  years,  there- 
was  very  little  to  show  for  the  vast  expenditures. 
It  was  the  same  kind  of  treachery  and  rascality  that 
gave  Louis  Napoleon  one  of  the  finest  and  best- 
equipped  armies  of  Europe,  with  vast  stores  of  mu- 
nitions of  war  all  ready  for  use,  on  paper,  which  was 
revealed  in  humility  and  shame  when  the  Emperor 
threw  down  the  gauntlet  to  Germany.  It  was  very 
different  in  Japan.  For  several  years  large  appropri- 
ations were  made  to  better  the  war  service  of  the  Em- 
pire, and  every  dollar  was  honestly  expended.  There 
were  no  "paper"  items,  and  when  the  movement 
against  Russia  was  undertaken,  the  army  and  navy 
moved  forward  like  a  mighty  machine  witli  every  cog 
in  every  wheel  a  perfect  cog.  This  was  almost  as 
great  a  surprise  to  the  Czar  as  was  the  treachery  and 
rascality  of  his  jingo  confidential  advisors.  But  an 
"honorable  peace"  must  come  after  a  few  great  baj 
ties,  for  Russian  pride  demands  "blood  letting"  first 
and  diplomatic  strategy  afterwards.  But  meanwhile 
the  jingoes  will  not  be  idle.  The'  Czar's  Eas'em 
Asia  venture  is  no  longer  a  pleasing  theory.  It  is  a 
hard,  cruel  and  perplexing  condition  set  in  cold  real- 
ities. 


April  30.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


Strange    and     mysterious    ru- 

Latin- American  111.  irs  are  coming  from  the 
Combinations.  Latin-American  Stales.  The 
Hague  award  in  the  Venezue- 
lan case  made  it  i|tiitc  clear  to  all  tin-  South  American 
Republics  that  when  European  capital  accepted 
their  pressing  and  Mattering  invitations  to  come  over 
and  invest  millions  of  dollars,  capital  did  not  intend 
that  its  millions  should  he  considered  a  free  dona- 
tion, hut  that  it  should  expect  ample  remuneration 
and  perfect  safety  for  investments  and  interest 
money.  Rut  the  Republics  did  not  so  understand  it, 
and  now  rumor  has  it  that  they  have  formed  an  in- 
ter-Republic league,  or  are  about  to  form  one,  to 
resi-t  as  one  nation  any  and  all  efforts  of  Europe  to 
collect  these  debts  by  seizing  custom-houses,  or  by 
any  other  measures  of  force.  Hundreds  of  millions 
of  dollars  of  foreign  capital  are  invested  in  public 
improvements  in  South  America,  and  nearly  every 
debtor  is  not  only  in  arrears  for  interest,  but  is  mak- 
ing no  provisions  to  pay  the  principal.  This  kind  of 
impudent  indifference  has  been  flung  in  the  face  of 
creditors  so  long  that  they  are  appealing  to  their 
rnments  for  protection.  England,  France,  Ger- 
many and  Italy  have  "intimated  diplomatically"  to 
those  delinquent  Latin-Americans  that  they  propose 
to  go  into  the  collection  business  with  warships 
and  marines  if  their  subjects  are  not  settled  with.  It 
is  to  resist  these  collectors  that  the  League  of  South 
American  Republics  has  been  formed,  or  is  form- 
ing. Hitherto,  they  have  concealed  their  ultimate 
purpose  behind  the  Monroe  Doctrine,  believing,  as 
they  did,  that  the  LTnited  States  would  stand  between 
them  and  any  foreign  power  that  attemped  to  seize 
either  their  customs  or  territory  for  debt,  but  now 
that  the  Washington  Government  interprets  the 
Monroe  Doctrine  to  mean  that  temporary  occupa- 
tion of  territory  or  seizing  customs  to  collect  debts 
is  permissible,  the  Republics  have  concluded  to 
"stand  together"  and  meet  with  armed  resistance 
what  they  are  pleased  to  call  "invasion  by  foreign 
States."  But  nearly  all  the  Latin  States  have  been 
so  injudicious  and  prodigal  with  their  borrowed  mil- 
lions that  seizing  their  customs  is  the  only  remedy 
their  creditors  have,  and  they  may  be  sure  that, 
League  or  no  League,  the  debts  will  be  collected. 

The  United  States  has  again  ex- 
Our  New  panded  their  colonial  possessions. 
Possessions.  A  strip  of  land  across  Panama,  to- 
gether with  a  railway  and  a  canal 
franchise,-  has  been  deeded  and  transferred  to  the 
United  States,  which,  among  other  advantages  con- 
ferred upon  the  powers  that  be  in  Washington,  opens 
up  a  way  for  the  appointment  of  a  brand-new  corps 
of  territorial  officers,  from  Governor  down.  The 
$10,000,000  that  goes  to  Panama  from  the  United 
States  treasury  comes  in  the  nick  of  time.  The  pa- 
triots who  carried  Panama  out  of  the  Republic  of 
Colombia  and  established  a  new  nation  with  them- 
selves holding  down  every  public  office,  started  their 
venture  without  a  nickel,  and  are  very  hungry  for 
a  little  ready  cash.  The  other  first,  but  by  no  means 
the  last  disbursement,  by  the  United  States  Treas- 

-  ury,  $40,000,000  goes  to  the  syndicate  that  secured 
the  stock  of  the  old  Panama  Canal  Company.  When 
the  Canal  is  finished  the  United  States  will  own  and 

.operate  two  "public  utilities,"  a  waterway  and  a 
railway,  which  Golden  Rule  Jones  says  is  the  begin- 
ning of  Government  ownership  of  all  the  transporta- 
tion, telegraph  and  industrial  establishments  in  Uncle 
■Sam's  dominions,  and  labor  unions  will  then  be  the 
Government. 


[■RMHiANT     \V  KST     \  IK<  i  I N  T  A     sMOKK 

■Ghe     "RED     RIBBON"     STOGIE 

Hand  nui-i.-    ■eleotstock.    Banal  toaM  ''i*rni"    Favorite  <»f  doe* 

l<>t>.  lawyers,  bankers. 

$1.45  Per  Box  of  $100.  20c  Extrtv  by  Mall. 

Samplr  wooden  boa  "f  SB  sent  prepaid  on    receipt  of  hoc.  cheek, 
draft,  money  order.   Stamps  nol  accepted^ 

Joseph  L.  Dti(t)  k  Bro..  501  W.  Washington  St..  Grafton.  W.  Virginia. 


BANKING. 


The  Son  Francisco  National  Bank. 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON,  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWGILL,  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital,    $500,000.     Surplus    and    Undivided    Profits.    $ifi5.om 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson.  Vice-Prest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton,  President  Firemans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R.; 
Geo.  A  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict, 
Presidenc  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K.  Wilson,  President. 

AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London — Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris — Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,  Limited. 

The  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve   Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate   Resources,    over  $80,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE   A.    COX,    President 
B.  E.  WALKER.  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird.  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON  OFFICE— 60  Lombard  St.,  E.  C. 
N-.W    YORK    OFFICE— 16   Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlln,        Cranbrook, 
Fernle,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,   Nelson, 
New    Westminster,    Vancouver    and    Victoria. 
IN  YUKON  TERRITORY— Dawson  and  White  Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland.  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska). 
Also   80   other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba.  N.  W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN  LONDON— The   Bank  of  England,   the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,   Ltd. 
AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San  Francisco  Office— 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London.  Pan's  and  American  Banki,,,^ 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS.     

Subscribed   Capital,   $2,500,000.  Paid-up   Capital,   $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank.  Limited.  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers 
credits   Issued 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  flnerlo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000         Paid  Up.... ^iSMS? 

Subscribed    $3,000,000       Reserve  Fund    $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys   and   sells   exchange   and   bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    LILIENTHAL,    Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS   MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  'William  Babcock,  S.  L.  Abbott. 

Jr  ,  O.  D.  Baldwin,  F.  Monteagle,  Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J.  Mc- 

Cutcheon,  R.  H.  Pease. 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery   St.,    San   Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve  1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  In 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.    Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President:  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


SAN  JOSE'S   DEFAULTING  TREASURER. 

The  McGeogheghan  scandal  in  San  Jose  grows 
worse  as  the  time  passes.  The  defaulting  treasurer 
had  formerly  been  ah  army  officer  and  came  to  San 
Jose  with  all  the  glamor  of  shoulder  straps  and  brass 
buttons  attached  to  his  person.  He  was  pushed  to 
the  front  by  the  McKenzie  and  <  >heal  gang  of  cor- 
poration plunderers  and  was  elected  to  an  office,  to 
maintain  which  he  had  to  spend  about  three  thousand 
dollars  a  year,  and  he  received  as  pay  the  paltry  sum 
of  $1500.  The  total  shortage  as  revealed  by  the  city's 
expert  was,  in  round  figures,  $8,/CO.  and  it  was  fur- 
ther claimed  bv  the  city  authorities  that  the  short- 
age occurred  in  the  months  beginning  the  4th  of 
January,  and  continuing  until  the  Stli  of  March,  1904. 

Xow  comes  the  revelation  of  the  expert  hired  by 
the  bonding  companies.  It  is  conclusively  shown 
that  the  stealings  began  systematically  with  the 
second  month  of  the  Treasurer's  incumbency,  and 
continued  at  the  rate  of  about  $8co  a  month,  and  that 
.in  January,  1904,  the  total  peculation  for  that  month 
amotmted  to  $3,000. 

All  this  has  been  shown  by  the  report  of  Expert 
McLaren,  and  the  grand  total  is  made  out  to  be 
$9,800.  The  city  charter  calls  for  an  experting  of 
the  books  of  the  Treasurer  once  every  year.  The 
Mayor  failed  in  his  duty,  and  it  is  suspected  that  the 
experting  was  purposely  delayed  to  give  McGeoghe- 
ghan enough  rope  to  hang  himself.  In  January  the 
Treasurer  made  his  report,  and  Mayor  Worswick 
refused  to  sign  it  because  of  a  knowledge  of  condi- 
tions, and  yet  this  Mayor,  in  the  month  cf  February, 
in  answer  to  a  letter  from  the  American  Bonding 
Company  of  Baltimore  wrote  as  follows:  "...  no 
reason  to  think  there  is  anything  wrofg  with  our 
Treasurer." 

The  deduction  naturally  follows  that  ?s  the  elec- 
tion was  coming  off  in  May,  and  as  the  city  was  am- 
ply protected  against  loss.  Worswick,  <  ineal  and 
thers,  who  were  cognizant  of  the  thefts,  would  let 
them  go  on  and  then  at  some  critical  time  just  before 
the  casting  of  the  ballot,  explode  the  bomb  in  the 
McKenzie  camp  in  the  hope  of  destroying  that  un- 
worthy gentleman's  prestige.  Thus  it  was  that  the 
politicians  gambled  with  the  money  of  both  the 
American  Bonding  Company  and  the  United  States 
Fidelity  and   Trust   Company. 

Pleasure's     Wand. 


(Continued  from  Page   17.) 

"When  Johnnie  Comes  Marching  Home"  will  con- 
tinue as  the  drawing  card  all  of  next  week  at  the 
Tivoli. 

*  *  * 

Augustin  Daly's  great  comedy  success.  "The  Run- 
away Girl."  will  be  put  on  at  the  Tivoli  on  May  9th. 
This  musical  comedv  ran  for  -?oo  nisfhts  m  New 
York. 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  Theatre  will  close  on  Sunday  night  fi  r 
a  short  time  to  allow  the  builders,  carpenters,  paint- 
ers and  an  army  of  other  workmen  to  make  the  nec- 
essary alterations  that  will  transform  this  popular 
house  into  one  of  the  most  commodious  and  safest 
of  modern  theatres.  The  expectation  is  to  open  up 
again  in  May.  The  entrance  will  be  widened  bv  forty 
feet,  and  there  are  to  be  two  new  stairways; "which 
will  empty  the  balconies  directly  on  O'Farrell  street. 


One  hundred  more  seats  will  be  added  in  the  body 
of  the  house.  Upon  re-opening,  all  new  faces  will 
greet  the  audience. 

Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau   has   removed  to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,   San  Francisco. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post-St.  Turkish  Bath. 


VACATION  1904 

IS  NOW  READY  FOR  DISTRIBUTION 

"Vacation"  is  issued  annually  by  the 

California  Northwestern 
Railway 

THE  PICTURESQUE  ROUTE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

and  is  the  standard  publication  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
for  information  regarding 

MINERAL  SPRING  RESORTS,  COUNTRY 
HOMES  AND  FARMS,  WHERE  SUMMER 
BOARDERS  ARE  TAKEN,  AND  SELECT 
CAMPING  SPOTS. 

This  year's  edition  "Vacation  1904"  contains  over 
150  pages,  beautifully  illustrated,  and  is  complete 
in  its  detailed  information  as  to  location,  accommo- 
dations, attractions,  terms,  etc.,  with  terms  from 
£7.00  per  week  up. 

To  be  had  at  Ticket  Offices  650  Market  Street  (Chronicle 
Building),  and  Tiburon  Ferry  foot  of  Market  Street;  General 
Office,  Mutual  Life  Building,  corner  of  Sansome  and 
California  Streets,  San  Francisco. 

Applications  by  mail  will  receive  immediate  response 


W.  C.  WHITING 

Gen.  Manager 


I?.  X.  RYAN 

Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


TELEPHONE    SOUTH    760 

Gilbert  C3L   Stoll 

STORAGE 

FOR  PARTICULAR  PEOPLE 

STORAGE.     PACKING     and     SHIPPING 

OFFICE: 
ROOM    84.    MURPHY    BUILDING.    1236  MARKET  ST. 

WAREHOUSE: 
GOLDEN  GATE  <a  VAN  NESS  AVES.,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased.  Dept.  30335  No.  S.  Notice  Is 
hereby  given  by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  Hynes.  Public  Adminis- 
trator of  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  Adminis- 
trator of  the  Estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased,  to  the  credi- 
tors of,  and  all  persons  having  claims  against  the  said  deceased, 
to  exhibit  them  with  necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months 
after  the  first  publication  of  this  notice,  to  the  said  Administra- 
tor, at  room  56-S  Parrott  Building,  Nos.  S25  to  S55  Market  Btreet, 
the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of 
the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco.  State 
of  California. 

M.   J.    HYNES. 
Administrator  of  the  estate  of  PAUL  BROCK.  Deceased 

cn.i.iXAN  and  HICKEY.  attorneys  for  administrator,  Rooms 
667-668-569    Parrott    building.    San    Francisco,    Cal, 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  April  28,  1904, 


April  30.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


PROMOTION  OF  CALIFORNIA. 
Regarding  the  splendid  work  being  done  by  the 
California  Promotion  Committee  in  advertising  tlii^ 
part  of  California,  it  must  be  noted  tliat  tins  move- 
ment was  the  outgrowth  of  suggestions  made  by 
Iswli.r  Jacobs,  President  of  the  California  Canneries 
Company  at  the  Convention  of  Fruit  Growers  held 
mber,  kk*'.  also  in  an  article  contributed  by 
him  t"  the  San  Francisco  News  Letter  for  the 
Christmas  edition  of  1900.  In  this  article  Mr.  Jacobs 
pointed  out  the  necessity  of  accomplishing  something 
for  advertising  Northern  California.  The  result  was 
that  a  meeting  was  held  shortly  thereafter  in  the 
rooms  oi  the  Manufacturers  and  Producers  Associa- 
tion in  the  Mills  Building  of  a  committee  appointed 
from  the  different  counties  around  the  Day.  At  this 
meeting  Mr.  T.  H.  Goodman  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company,  was  asked  to  be  present,  and  be  delegated 
Mr.  McCormick  to  attend  the  meeting.  Mr.  McCor- 
mick  stated  he  was  about  to  go  East  in  reference  to 
the  establishing  of  rates  from  Eastern  sections  of 
California,  and  would  see  what  could  be  done  to 
put  into  effect  a  colony  rate.  It  is  unnecessary  to 
mention  the  fact  that  this  colony  rate  was  put  into 
effect,  and  has  resulted  in  great  good  to  the  move- 
ment. The  outgrowth  of  this  committee,  of  which 
Mr.  Isidor  Jacobs  was  chairman,  was  the  formation 
of  the  California  Colony  Association,  of  which  Mr. 
H.  D.  Loveland  was  appointed  President.  This  com- 
mittee accomplished  considerable,  and  finally  yielded 
to  the  formation  of  the  California  Promotion  Com- 
mittee, which  now  deserves  the  support  of  every  citi- 
zen that  has  the  good  of  this  part  of  the  State  at 
heart. 

In  the  same  article  written  for  the  News  Letter  in 
1900,  Mr.  Jacobs  outlined  the  necessity  of  the  com- 
mercial organizations  of  this  State  having  a  personal 
representative  at  Washington  to  take  up  on  behalf 
of  our  commercial  interests,  matters  of  importance 
requiring  national  legislation  or  action.  From  this 
suggestion  came  the  appointment  the  year  afterwards 
by  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  William  M.  Bun- 
ker to  locate  permanently  at  Washington  to  repre- 
sent the  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  all  matters  vitally 
effecting  this  city  and  State. 

Tickling  the  palate  of  the  epicure  with  all  the 
viands  and  the  best  vintage  the  market  affords  is 
the  business  of  the  Moraghan  Oyster  House  in  the 
California  Market.  This  restaurant  has  earned  a 
repute  that  is  as  broad  as  the  United  States  and 
as  long  as  a  line  drawn  between  San  Francisco  and 
New  York. 


The  Overworked  Eye. 


the  Faded  Eye.  the  Red  and  Inflamed  Eye.  the  Eye  that  needs 
care,   relieved  by   Murine  Eye  Remedy.     An   Eye  Tonic. 


"Be  it  ever  so  humble  there  is  no  place  like  home."  and  the 
home  can  be  furnished  with  pretty  and  artistically  framed  pic- 
tures at  a  very  moderate  price  by  calling  on  Sanborn,  Vail  & 
Co.,  741  Market  Street. 


One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious 
headache  is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  altera- 
tive and  tonic  to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  & 
Co.,  N.  E.  Cor.  Sutter  and  Grant  avenue. 


Dentist.   SOl 
extracting. 


Dr.  Decker. 

Market.     Specialty   "Colton  Gas"    for   painless   teeth 


High-grade  Shirts  and   Underwear  to  measure.     Tom  Dil'on   & 
Co.,  opp.  Palace. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup" 

for  your  children  while  teething. 

The  latest  style  in  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's 
Chronicle  Building. 


GRAND 
EXCURSION 

AND 
AUCTION 

SALE 

SATURDAY 

MAY  7th,  W04 

TO 
SANTA  CRUZ 


300  Homestead  and  Villa  Lots  300 

TO    BE    SOLD    ON   EASY    TEEMS 

$3.00  HOUND  TRIP  TICKETS  <CQ  QO 

Tv,vv  GOOD    FOR    2    DAYS  *pO,\l\J 

Special  excursion  trains  will  leave  as  follora-  Prom  Third  and 
Townsend  St.  Depot.  San  Francisco.  Saturday  May  7  i%4  at  rao 
a.  m.  From  Fourteenth  and  Webster  Sts.,  Oik  and  at  7  is  a  m 
Irom  Park  St.,  Alameda.  8:20  a.  m.  lfeturnmg  special  trlins'wHi 
leave  Santa  Cn.z.May7th  as  follows:  Via  Brofd  G^uge  and  Pajaro 
at  4:15  p.  m.  Via  Narrow  Gauge  and  Los  Gatos  at4-20p  m  Excur- 
sion tickets  will  also  be  good  returning  on  any  regular  tram 
Broad  or  Narrow  Gauge,  Sunday  May  8th  regular  train 

LUNCH    ON    THE    GROUNDS 

DON'T  MISS  THIS-WE  WANT  YOU  TO  COME  ALONG 
BALDWIN  a  HOWELL,  Auctioneers 

25    POST    STREET 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California     Looa- 
lioool  works,  Virginia  District.  Storey  County,  Nevada.     "Iorma'    Looa 

on  the  2°.!,H8  rt«™?  Bi™"i  th.Ri,al  a  meetin*  «*  'ho  Board  of  Director*,  held 

onthe  2.'ud  day  of    April,   1904.    an    assessment    vNo.  85)  of  ten  (10)  cents 

SfJ Hi  i 7  «'a8'-.yle,d.""<>'>  H">  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable In ,- 

mediately  in  United  Slates  gold  coin,   to  the  Secretary,  .1  the  S3  1. 

ftanoS,  CaT    S3'   KeV"d"     B1°0k'  N°'  31)9    Monkery  Set    ^ 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE   27th   DAY   OF    MAY,    1904, 

will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless 

1904m°to  ti8°fd?.be«ore,  will  be  sold  °-   FRIDAY,  the  17a  day  of  June 

^4r^„ra^de^endsro<fUsT.e.a9eeSSmen''    '<-«">er  with  the    costs   of 

By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

c°™CatfoRrX  33,N6Tada  B1°0k'  No-SO^Mon^ome^freetlanVrkn- 


The  Oakland 
Tribune 

is  delivered  into  more  homes  of  the 
masses  and  classes  of  Oakland  and 
Alameda  County  than  all  other  Oak- 
land, Alameda  and  Berkeley  dailies 
combined.  Reason — it's  the  best 
newspaper. 
W.  E.  DARGIE,  Pres.  T.  T.  DARGIE,  Sec'y 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


W^C9 


"V*       MODEL  K.    16  HORSE  POWER.    2  CYLINDERS       *r> 

n._;__    <t>|    OCA  Sample  Machines 

1T1C6    «pi,ODU.        on  Exhibition. 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.  "il  c^oth8™3* 


WE  ARE  SELLING  at    educed  BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS 

ALSO 

Ramblers,  Northerns,   Frank- 
lins, Oldsmobiles 

WITH 

LANTERNS,     RUGS,     CAPS    &    SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

NATIONAL  AUTO   &   MFG.   COMPANY 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVENUE 


PliOMPT    SERVICE 

(Sfttturu  ELrririr  (Eotnpany 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BVSH  352 


Buckboard? 


Best     Automobile     at 
any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
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I8H  MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


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The  Race  Committee  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California,  composed  of  L.  P.  Lowe,  chairman; 
Samuel  G.  Buckbee  and  Charles  C.  Moore,  have  set- 
tled on  the  dates  for  the  race  meet  and  show. 

Saturday,  May  28th  and  Monday,  May  30th,  are 
the  days  scheduled.  This  will  practically  give  two 
holidays  for  the  event.  It  is  impossible  to  give  any 
races  on  Sunday,  as  the  National  Association,  under 
which  they  are  racing,  does  not  allow  of  Sunday  rac- 
ing. 

*  *  * 

The  show  will  take  place  under  the  grand  stand  at 
Ingleside  in  the  space  now  occupied  by  the  betting 
ring.  The  area  has  been  divided  off  into  forty  sec- 
tions, which  will  be  rented  to  the  different  represen- 
tatives. 

The  show  should  be  a  great  attraction,  as  it  is 
the  first  time  such  an  event  has  been  held  in  San 
Francisco. 

*  *  * 

The  programme  for  the  races  has  not  as  yet  been 
made  out,  but  the  Race  Committee  has  guaranteed 
that  it  will  be  so  completed  that  there  will  be  inter- 
esting finishes  in  ever)-  event.  The  races  will  be 
worked  so  as  to  illuminate  processions.  Besides, 
the  purses  will  be  of  an  amount  that  will  attract  the 
crackerjack  drivers  of  the  East. 

*  *  * 

The  Sunday  intervening  between  the  two  racing 
days  will  undoubtedly  be  used  by  the  club  for  a  run 
about  the  city  on  the  many  drives.  Like  last  year, 
many  automobilists  will  be  on  hand  from  all  over 
the  State,  and  a  "squadron"  run  would  make  a  very 
pleasing  feature  of  the  occasion. 

*  *  * 

It  has  been  suggested  that  the  Park  Commis- 
sioners might  be  prevailed  upon,  on  this  occasion, 
to  throw  open  all  the  drives  of  the  Park  for  the  day. 
There  will  undoubtedly  be  many  visiting  automobil- 
ists, and  to  enforce  the  present  rules  and  regulations 
would  bar  many  visitors  who  would  prove,  by  their 
attendance,  their  ability  to  comply  with  the  rules, 
but  who,  on  account  of  the  limited  time  they  would 
have  in  the  city,  would  be  unable  to  take  an  exami- 
nation to  get  the  right  to  use  the  Park  drives. 

*  *  * 

The  suggestion  made  in  the  News  Letter  some 
weeks  ago  of  having  the  great  highway  south  ex- 
tended down  to  Half  Moon  Bay,  has  met  with  ap- 
proval, but  as  yet  no  attempt  has  been  made  to  in- 
terest the  Supervisors  of  San  Francisco  and  San 
Mateo  Counties.  If  these  officials  do  not  look  with 
favor  on  the  proposition,  it  would  be  in  the  power 
of  the  local  club  to  build  a  speedway  some  three 
miles  long  Over  the  proposed  route. 

Los  Angeles  is  building  such  a  speedway,  and 
San  Francisco  should  not  allow  the  southern  part 
of  the  State  to  hold  the  honors  for  progressiveness, 
although  they  did  capture  the  world's  track  record 
on  a  track  not  the  equal  of  Ingleside. 

*  *  * 

A  general  meeting  should  be  called  by  the  Auto- 
mobile Club  of  California  at  the  time  of  the  racing 
meet.     It  will  be  the  one  occasion  during  the  year 


April  30,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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when  an  enthusiastic  gathering  would  take  place. 
Such  a  meeting  is  important,  for  California  is  short- 
ly to  hold  an  election,  and  the  way  the  county  offi- 
have  been  passing  ordinances  demands  that 
in  that  locality  the  automobilist  must  ignore  party 
lines  and  work  to  elect  nun  who  will  stand  for  good 
roads   and   uniform    rules   and    regulations. 

We  will  come  to  it  sooner  or  later.  It  will  be  but 
the  repetition  of  what  has  happened  in  Xew  York 
State.     So  we  might  as  well  strike  now  as  later. 

*  *  * 

The   motor-cyclists  and   the  representative  wheel- 
men might  he  requested  to  attend.     They  are  inter- 
in   good   roads   and   control   a   vote   that   alone 
would  elect  or  defeat.     The  former  are  experiencing 
almost  the  same  (rouble  as  the  automohilists. 

*  *  * 

James  D.  Phelan  has  purchased  a  high-power 
French  machine,  and  has  it  at  the  Pioneer  Automo- 
bile Company's  garage. 

*  *  * 

The  Darracq  car  is  the  favorite  of  two  continents. 

*  *  * 

L.  T.  Shettler  announces  that  the  Pioneer  Auto 
Co.,  of  San  Francinsco,  with  branch  office  at  420  So. 
Hill  street,  Los  Angeles,  purchased  the  Oldsmobile 
agency  for  Southern  California,  retaining  him  as  their 
sales-manager  for  that  territory.  The  business  will 
be  continued  as  heretofore  at  the  same  old  stand  un- 
til the  1st  of  May,  when  they  will  remove  to  their 
city  branch. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  finds  it  necessary 
to  enlarge  its  garage  space  at  the  expense  of  the 
salesroom.  Machines  have  come  in  for  storage  at 
such  a  rapid  rate  that  it  has  exceeded  the  expecta- 
tions as  weir  as  the  garage  and  locker  space. 

*  *  * 

The  California  Automobile  Company  Outing  Club 
enjoyed  their  initial  run  Sunday,  April  24th.  They 
left  the  garage  at  11  a.  m.,  and  after  a  short  run 
around  the  city,  took  the  Creek  Route  to  Oakland. 
After  visiting  the  places  of  interest  in  and  around 
Oakland  and  Piedmont,  they  proceeded  to  Haywards, 
passing  through  San  Leandro.  Luncheon  was  enjoyed 
at  the  latter  place.  Among  those  who  made  the  run 
were :  Bert  Marron,  Frank  Marron,  John  McCarthy, 
Leo.  Maxon,  Frank  Maxon,  Theo.  Shieve,  Perry 
Minner,  George  Fairweather,  Al.  Robinson,  William 
Newbert,  Charles  Tamany. 

*  *  * 

Seventy-five  per  cent  of  all  motor  cars  imported 
into  the  United  States  are  Darracqs. 

Winton's  entry  is  made  for  the  International  Cup. 
Bullet  II  will  be  in  the  American  eliminating  trials. 
Harry  Owensey  may  drive.  -No  German  trial  event 
will  take  place.  The  Mercedes  and  Opel  Darracq 
only  entrants. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  chance  that  there  will  be  a  Darracq  car 
on  each  of  the  French,  English  and  German  interna- 
tional cup  race  teams,  this  car  being  manufactured 
in'  these  countries.  What  !an  elegant  chance  for 
"team  work."  Ought  to  man  these  cars  with  old  bi- 
cycle  riders. 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  provided  a  number 
of  automobiles  on  Sunday  for  Charles  E.  Schwab. 
The  start  was  made  from  the  Hotel  St.  Francis  about 
11  o'clock.  The  trip  included  the  Cliff  House,  Pre- 
sidio, and  other  points  of  interest. 


I.  A.  Marsh,  president  of  the  Mobile  Carriage  Co., 
and  Mrs.  Marsh  made  a  trip  to  San  Jose  on  Satur- 
day, returning  Sunday. 


THE  CADILLAC 

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CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  J.  FREELING 


P.  I,   CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  HarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

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PIERCE  STANHOPE  p^  ^oVEM  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  S  horse-power  engine  of  the  Be  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physicans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day.  . 

4.  It  is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline'- 
and  beautiful  in  general  finish.      ... 

5.  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French  -  -  $2,650.00 

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Mr.  Charles  Gorndt,  special  representative  from 
the  \Yinton  Motor  Carriage  Company,  who  has  been 
visiting  Winton  branches  and  agents  between  Cleve- 
land and  San  Francisco  during  the  past  ten  weeks, 
returned  to  the  factory  in  Cleveland  last  Sunday. 
-Mr.  borndt's  mission  from  the  factory  was  to  make  a 
general  and  thorough  inspection  of  all  Winton  cars 
in  service,  as  the  Winton  Company's  one  desire  is 
to  give  satisfaction  to  owners  of  their  cars. 

*  *  * 

Probably  the  best  way  to  note  the  rapid  progress 
of  the  automobile  industry  in  San  Francisco  is  to 
take  a  seat  on  a  bench  along  the  South  drive  in 
Golden  Gate  Park  on  a  Sunday  afternoon,  and  note 
the  number  of  machines  which  are  being  driven.  An 
interested  party  counted  seventy-three  cars  passing- 
through  the  Park  last  Sunday.  They  were  as  follows : 
Wintons,  35;  Whites,  13;  Pierces,  3;  Autocars,  10; 
Packards,  4;  Peerless,  1 ;  Toledoes,  7;  total,  73. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  C.  H.  Wall  has  just  purchased  a  White  tour- 
ing car.  The  company  was  unable  to  make  imme- 
diate delivery,  but  Mr.  Wall's  car  will  be  here  within 
a  month. 

Mr.  A.  H.  Piepenberg  was  in  San  Francisco  last 
week  with  a  White  Touring  Car. 

Mr.  Fred  W.  Gregory  of  the  White  Company  has 
just  returned  from  Fresno,  where  he  sold  White 
Touring  Cars  to  S.  N.  Griffiths  and  Waterman  Bros. 

*  *  * 

H.  H.  Owens,  Arthur  Hull  and  C.  M.  Fee  toured 
around  the  bay  Sunday  in  Cadillacs.  H.  Kugler 
took  in  the  Presidio,  while  W.  oenig  went  to  San 
Mateo. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Healey  returned  from  Madera  in  his 
Rambler   car   last   Sunday. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Automobile  Company  delivered  two 
four-cylinder  Toledos  on  Sunday,  which  had  been 
received  on  Saturday.  One  went  to  L.  P.  Lowe, 
chairman  of  the  Race  Committee  of  the  Automobile 
Club  of  California,  and  the  other  to  E.  E.  Peaboily. 

*  *  * 

A  Rambler  car  was  delivered  to  G.  M.  Farnsworth 
on  Saturday.  Later  in  the  day  he  started  for  his 
home,  arriving  Sunday  safely.  He  reports  the  roads 
in  bad  condition. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  was  pressed  into 
service  by  the  various  hotels  to  take  care  of  their 
cab  and  passenger  service  about  the  city  and  to 
the  depots.  The  company  successfully  handled  the 
business  of  the  Palace,  Grand,  Kuss  House  and  ( >cci- 
dental  Hotel,  in  addition  to  the  Hotel  St.  Francis, 
with  which  it  has  its  regular  'bus  line  contract. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  April  30,  1904. 

Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,    CAL 

NEW  AUTOMOBILE  GARAGE 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


Cause  Eye  Strain,  Granulation  and  Redness.  Murine  Eye  Rem- 
edy restores,  cures  Eye  diseases,  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those 
wearing  glasses;  doesn't  smart.     A  favorite   toilet  requisite. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WNTON/sKING; 
Long live the A 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Kill  St. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  &  CO..  13-15-17  W.  St.  John  St..  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.     Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile,  Oldsmobile,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

F.  L.  CRANDALL.  Automobile  Supplies,  Repairing,  etc.,  124 
University   Avenue,    Palo  Alto.   Cal. 


ANDREWS,  KEENAN  &  BIASAUF 

EXPERT  REPAIRS,  AMERICAN  a  FRENCH  AUTOMOBILES 

81  CITY  HALL  AVE. 
Tel.  South  1039  San  Framisco,  Cal. 


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The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
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Tel.  Capp  see 


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THE   PASSIONATE   READER  TO    HIS   POET. 
By  Blolmnl  La  Qnlllenns  In  The  H.wk  Lover 

Doth  it  not  thrill  thee,  Poet, 

Dead  and   dust   though   art. 
Co  feel  how  I  press  thy  singing 

Close  to  my  heart  ? 

Take  it  at  night  to  my  pillow, 

Kiss   it   before   I   sleep  ; 
And  again  when   the  delicate  morning 
Beginneth  to  peep? 

See  how  I  bathe  thy  pages 

Here  in  the  light  of  the  sun; 

Through  thy  leaves,  as  a  wind  among  roses, 
The  breezes  run. 

Feel  how  I  take  thy  poem 

And  bury  within   it  my  face. 
As   I   pressed  it   last  night  in  the  heart  of  a 

Or  deep  in  a  dearer  place.  [flower, 

Think,  as  I  love  thee,  Poet, 

A  thousand  love  beside; 
Dear  women  love  to  press  thee,  too, 

Against  a  sweeter  side. 
Art  thou  not  happy,  Poet? 

I  sometimes  dream  that  I 
For  such  a  fragrant  fame  as  thine 

Would  gladly  sing  and  die. 
Say,  wilt  thou  change  thy  glory 

For  this  same  youth  of  mine? 
And  I  will  give  my  days  i'  the  sun 

For  that  great  song  of  thine. 

MY  GOLDEN  SANDS. 

By  Elsa  Barker  iu  Everybody's  Magazine 

To-day  I  meditate  upon  the  years 

Whose  sands  have  fallen  in  the  glass  of  Time 
Since  I  was  flung  into  this  foreign  clime 

Out  of  Infinitude.     And  it  appears 

That  the  reward  of  agony  and  tears 

Is  always  knowledge  ;  while  the  masqued  mime 
Of  mortal  life  is  modeled  on  sublime 

Experience — to  teach  all  things  but  fears. 

And  though  these  little  grains  of  golden  sand 
Have  drawn  one  thread  of  silver  thro'  my  hair, 
I    would    not    count   them    backward.    And    I 
swear 

That  each  to  come  shall  leave  to  my  demand 

Some   spiritual  treasure  in  my  hand — 

And  take  no  bauble  that  I  would  not  spare ! 

THE  FIRSTBORN. 

By  Margaret  Bartlett  Coble  in  Good  Housekeeping 
Into  the  light  of  the  days  to  be, 
Out  of  the  dusk  of  Eternity, 
In  the  white  hush  of  the  fragrant  morn, 
God  shall  give  thee  my  soul  new-born. 
Thine   be   the  anguish,   mother   mild ! 
The  ecstasy  thine  of  bearing  the  child ! 
Mine  the  still  wonder  of  life  begun, 
The  -brooding  joy  of  being  thy  son ! 
Into  the  shrine  of  thy  motherhood 
God  sends  my  soul  to  be  fashioned  for  good. 
And  in  thy  dream  of  the  man  to  be 
Thou  shalt  fathom  divinity. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


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Application  lias  been  made  in  the  Court  of  Chan- 
cery at  Toronto,  N.  J.,  for  the  appointment  of  a  re- 
ceiver for  the  Supreme  Lodge  of  the  Knights  and  La- 
dies of  the  Golden  Star  to  compel  the  supreme  offi- 
cers to  make  an  accounting.  The  application  is  made 
by  Leonard  F.  Brill  of  Newark. 

A  new  fire  company  with  a  capital  stock  of  $500,000 

is  being  organized  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

*  *  # 

Insurance  Commissioner  Dearth  of  Minnesota  has 
turned  $30,319  into  the  State  Treasury  as  March 
collections  from  insurance  companies.  Of  this 
amount  $26,186  represents  taxes  paid  and  the  remain- 
der is  fees. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  John  Wanamaker,  after  carrying  his  own  in- 
surance risk  on  his  Philadelphia  department  store, 
for  years,  has  concluded  to  protect  himself  against 
the  "conflagration  hazard.  Baltimore,  Rochester  and 
Toronto  has  evidently  waked  him.  The  store  has 
been  rated,  says  an  Eastern  exchange,  at  2  per  cent, 
and  $3,000,000  of  insurance  is  being  placed  on  an 
agreement  that  the  insurance  shall  not  participate 
until  the  loss  exceeds  $1,000,000.  The  store  is  pro- 
tected with  sprinklers  and  stand-pipes,  and  the  em- 
ployes  are   organized   into   an    efficient   fire-fighting 

brigade. 

*  *  * 

Manager  Wilbur  S.  Tupper,  of  the  Conservative 
Life  of  California,  claims  the  world's  record  for 
three  and  a  half  years'  growth.  He  is  advertising  in 
the  East,  says  the  Insurance  Herald,  for  strong  man- 
agerial and  producing  men  for  service  in  the  West- 
ern States.  All  who  wish  to  share  in  the  opportuni- 
ties created  by  this  growth  will  learn  more  by  writ- 
ing to  Los  Angeles.  For  the  period  named  the  com- 
pany's record  stands:  Assets,  over  $1,500,000;  sur- 
plus, over  $317,000;  insurance  in  force,  over  $21,500,- 
000;  or,  to  be  exact,  $21,743,690. 

The  retirement  of  the  Thuringia  has  caused  the 
arrangement  to  be  made  as  explained  in  the  follow- 
ing circular  issued  on  the  20th  inst,  and  signed  by 
Voss,  Conrad  &  Co. 

"In  consequence  of  the  dissolution  of  co-partner- 
ship of  the  firm  of  Voss,  Conrad  &  Co.,  we  beg  to  an- 
nounce the  transfer  of  Voss,  Conrad  &  Co.,  of  San 
Francisco,  Incorporated,  of  the  business  conducted 
at  San  Francisco  and  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Agency 
of  the  Frankfort  Marine,  Accident  and  Plate  Glass 
Insurance  Company  of  Germany.  Being  under  the 
same  personal  management  as  heretofore,  the  Gen- 
eral Agency  will  be  conducted  under  the  same  gen- 
eral directions  and  without  change. 

*  *  * 

The  recent  annual  election  for  directors  of  the 
Home  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  made  some 
changes.  Mr.  John  IT.  Washburn,  connected  with 
the  company  for  many  years,  in  various  positions  of 
responsibility,  and  since  April,  1901,  its  official  head, 
declined  re-election  as  President  and  presented  his 
resignation.  The  office  thus  made  vacant  has  been 
filled  by  the  Board  of  Directors  by  the  advancement 
of  Mr.  Elbridge  G.  Snow  to  the  Presidency.  Air. 
Washburn  will  continue  in  close  touch  with  the 
management  of  the  Company,  having  been  elected 
to  the  position  of  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors.   The  titles  of  Second  and  Third  Vice-President 


have  been  discarded  and  that  Mr.  Emanuel  H.  A. 
Correa  has  been  honored  by  election  to  the  Board  of 
Directors  and  to  the  Vice-Presidency,  and  that  Mr. 
Frederic  C.  Buswell  has  been  re-elected  Vice-Presi- 
dent. 

*  *  * 

The  next  convention  of  the  International  Associa- 
tion of  Accident  Underwriters  will  be  held  at  the 
Hotel  Lafayette,  Portland,  Maine,  on  Tuesday,  Wed- 
nesday and  Thursday,  July  19,  20  and  21,  1904. 

*  *  * 

The  death  of  M.  M.  Rohrer,  for  almost  twenty- 
seven  years  the  chief  deputy  insurance  commissioner 
for  the  State  of  California,  died  on  the  morning  of 
the  24th.  Mr.  Rohrer  made  amongst  the  insurance 
•  men  of  San  Francisco  an  enviable  reputation  for 
probity,  and  his  death  is  deeply  regretted. 

It  is  wondered  who  will  be  appointed  his  successor 
and  it  is  feared  that  the  position  will  be  filled  by 
some  politician  who  knows  only  politics  and  noth- 
ing of  insurance.  If  this  be  done,  the  business  of  in- 
surance will  suffer,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
enormous  interests  of  insurance  as  represented  by 
the  managers  of  the  various  companies  of  all  kinds 
will  take  such  action  as  to  compel  the  appointment 
of  an  efficient  deputy. 

*  *  * 

Captain  A.  W.  Masters,  United  States  manager 
of  the  London  Guarantee,  having  recovered  from  his 
recent  severe  sickness  in  Switzerland,  whither  he 
went  for  treatment,  is  en  route  to  the  United  States. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Altho  M.  Hall,  recently  of  Thuringia,  will 
not  accept  the  general   agencv  of  the  Traders. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Surety  Company  has  created  a  bur- 
glary department.  Mr.  G.  E.  Hart  has  been  selected 
to  fill  the  position   of  manager. 

*  *  * 

William  A.  Hunt,  alias  Hunter,  who  attempted 
to  swindle  the  Fidelity  Mutual  Life  out  of  $15,000, 
on  fraudulent  death  claim  papers,  was  recently  con- 
victed at  Dallas.  Tex.,  and  sentenced  to  five  vears 
in  the  Penitentiary.  It  is  reported  to  have  cost  the 
company  over  $30,000  to  convict  him. 

*  *  * 

The  annual  report  of  Captain  J.  de  C.  Hamilton, 
the  chief  officer  of  the  London  fire  brigade  shows 
that  in  the  year  1903,  3,400  fires  occurred  within  the 

BEKINS   PacKing,  Moving  and  Storing  of  Household  Goods 


SHIPPING  AT  CUT  RATES  TO  AND  FROM  ALL  POINTS 

IN  OUR  OWN  PRIVATE  CARS 

Main  Office  II  MONTGOMERY  ST.,  San  Francisco 

PHONE    MAIN    ls.1,1 
Oakland  Office :    1011;  Broadway       Los  Angeles  Office:  2H  S.  Broadway 


April  30.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

boundaries  "i"  the  County  of  London.  The  lives  of 
us  were  endangered,  and  of  this  number 
86  died  from  the  effects  of  explosions  or  from  in- 
juries, suffocation,  burns  or  shock  to  the  system.  The 
i\r<<  reported  to  the  brigade  during  [903  were  174 
fewer  than  in  the  previous  year.  The  number  of 
tire-  classified  as  serious  has  decreased  from  70  to 
In  too!  the  number  of  fires  returned  as  serious 
was  c><).  The  authorized  strength  of  the  brigade  is 
1.347.  One  hundred  and  nineteen  officers  and  men 
were  struck  off  the  strength  during  the  year.  In  the 
following,  there  is  a  list  of  certain  of  the  appliances 
in  use  by  the  brigade:  7_>  tire  stations,  with  horses: 
5  floating  stations:  1  fire  float;  5  steam  engines  on 
barge- :  77  land  steam  fire  engines :  I  motor  steam 
fire  engine:  too  hose  carts;  45  miles  of  hose:  304 
horses:  <)2~  fire  alarms;  124  telephone  lines  between 
stations:  30  telephone  lines  to  police  stations;  234 
telephone  lines  to  public  and  other  buildings 

*  *  * 

Mr.  B.  G.  Burling,  the  well-known  insurance  man, 
has  gone  into  the  bond  brokerage  business  in  addi- 
tion to  insurance. 

*  *  * 

The  Boole-Sloan  Company-  has  been  incorporated 
to  do  a  general  insurance  business. 

*  *   * 

The  Paul  M.  Nippert  Company  has  filed  articles 
of  incorporation,  and  represent  as  General  Agent 
the  British-American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of 
Xew  York  and  the  Aetna  Indemnity  Company. 

The  Homer  W.  Hedge  Company  has  secured  the 
services  of  Charles  E.  Etheridge,  who  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  Lyman  D.  Morse  Agency  for  23 
years.  Mr.  Etheridge  will  be  treasurer  of  the  new 
agency.  He  has  a  reputation  as  an  able  and  conser- 
vative credit  and  financial  man. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


Wedding  Gifts. 

Just  received  a  new  and  beautiful  assortment  of  bronzes,  minia- 
tures, artistic  furniture,  lamps  and  electroliers,  china,  Bohemian 
and  cut  glass,  clocks  and  artistically  framed  pictures.  Particu- 
larly suitable  for  wedding  presents.  S.  &  G.  Gump  Co.,  113  Geary. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  57.50  per  ton;  half-ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 


A  neat  little  coffee  and  lunch  house  has  been  opened  at  216 
Sansome  street,  by  Mr.  J.  Iversen.  The  establishment  is  artis- 
tically finished  in  natural  oak,  and  well-appointed  in  every  way. 
The  cuisine  will  be  excellent  and  prepared  by  experienced  chefs, 
with   obliging  and   attentive  waiters. 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hats  —Eugene  Korn,  746  Market  St., 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  Derbys,  soft  hats,  gent's  and 
ladies'  straws. 


One  of  the  safest  and  best  remedies  for  biliousness  or  bilious 
headache  is  Leipnitz  Liver  Regulator.  It  is  an  excellent  altera- 
tive and  tonic  to  the  digestive  organs.  For  sale  by  Leipnitz  & 
Co.,  N.  B.  Cor.  Sutter  and  Grant  avenue. 


Cash  Capital,  $200,000.00 


Cash  Assets,   $321,471.19 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  32S  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  "Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.  Deerlng,  Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.   FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Scklessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


INSURANCE 


FIRE,   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  17M. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF   PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

raid-up    Capital    $8,00#,OW 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6,022,116 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent-    202  Pine  St.,  S.  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated  by  Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  $3,446,100.  Assets,  $24,862,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,93u,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK  W.   DICKSON,   Manager,  501  Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and  PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local  Mgrs. 


Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1860. 

Capital $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders . .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 


Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  now 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $  1 ,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $2 1 ,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 


Capital  

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  Agents. 


$6,700,000 

316  California  St.,  S.  F. 


Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1863 
Capital.... $3,000,000.         Gross  Cash  Assets.     $i»,uw, ««.:«> 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Repre- 
sentatives before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
nay  be  to  your  advantage. 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL.  Metropoli- 
'  *n  Manager. 

2io  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


An  officer  of  the  English  Navy,  well  versed  in  the 
sentiments  and  customs  of  the  Japanese  as  a  people, 
says  that  the  Japanese  are  "Excellent  little  chaps" ; 
they  were  always  at  it,  always  anxious  to  learn.  The 
only  thing  about  them  was  that  when  they  thought 
you  weren't  looking  they  would  pick  up  things  you 
had  not  shown  them  and  try  to  find  out  the  secret. 

If  those  Japanese  officers  had  known  it,  they  would 
have  gone  to  the  ends  of  the  earth  to  remove  so  du- 
bious an  impression,  for  in  the  traditions  of  the  Jap- 
anese fighting  class,  honor  is  more  than  life.  "Bush- 
ido,"  their  code  of  honor,  was  the  religion  of  the  Sa- 
murai. Literally  translated,  the  word  "samurai", 
means  military-knight-ways,  the  path  the  fighting 
man  must  tread  in  his  daily  life  as  well  as  in  his  vo- 
cation. 

All  this  came  nominally  to  an  end  with  the  down- 
fall of  the  feudal  system  in  1870.  The  samurai — the 
knightly  class  between  the  nobles  and  the  plebeians 
— ceased  to  exist  as  an  exclusive  caste  after  the  edict 
prohibiting  the  wearing  of  swords.  They  began  to 
intermarry  with  the  plebeians,  and  to  engage  in 
trade.  Bushido  was  no  longer  the  only  rule  of  life, 
providing  for  all  its  shifting  changes.  Chivalry — 
which  is  class  privilege  at  its  best — could  not  live 
in  a  democratic  atmosphere. 

Every  Japanese,  be  he  noble  or  plebeian,  must  now 
serve  his  term  in  the  army.  Nor  are  the  officers  an 
exclusive  caste,  for  promotion  is  open  to  every  man 
who  will  take  the  trouble  to  earn  it.  But  it  happens 
in  the  Japanese  army,  as  it  happens  in  the  English 
and  the  German — while  even-  private  soldier  is  free 
to  become  an  officer,  the  great  bulk  of  the  officers 
do,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  come  from  a  restricted  sec- 
tion. In  England  it  is  in  the  upper  and  upper  middle 
class;  in  Japan  it  is  the  samurai — samurai  still,  what- 
ever the  edicts  and  the  constitutions  may  say. 

In  the  very  fibre  of  their  being  the  traditions  of 
Bushido  remain.  Those  who  are  not  less  than  35  years 
old  were  taught  it  at  their  mother's  knee,  and  many 
of  the  younger  men,  coming  of  the  same  warrior 
stock,  are  imbued  with  the  principles  of  the  code. 

Dr.  Nitobe,  who  has  written  a  wonderful  little  ex- 
position of  Japanese  thought,  "Bushido,  the  Soul  of 
Japan,"  protests  against  the  assertion  that  Japan 
beat  the  Chinese  by  means  of  Murata  guns  and 
Krupp  cannon.  "No!  What  won  the  battles  on  the 
Yalu,  in  Korea,  and  Manchuria,  was  the  ghosts  of 
our  fathers,  guiding  our  hands  and  beating  in  our 
hearts.  They  are  not  dead,  those  ghosts,  the  spirits 
of  our  warlike  ancestors.  Scratch  a  Japanese  of  the 
most  advanced  ideas,  and  he  will  show  a  samurai." 

The  samurai  began  his  training  at  a  very  tender 
age.  Young  children  were  sent  among  utter  stran- 
gers with  messages  to  deliver;  they  were  made  to 
rise  before  the  sun,  and  to  walk  to  their  teachers  with 
bare  feet  in  the  cold  of  winter;  small  boys  were  taken 
to  see  executions,  and  sent  back  alone  to  the  place 
by  night,  to  leave  a  mark  on  the  decapitated  head. 
Sometimes  they  were  made  to  go  without  food,  and 
taught  that  a  samurai  should  not  be  ashamed  to  be 
hungry.  Self-control,  courage,  fortitude,  loyalty 
were  the  cardinal  virtues. 

The  young  samurai  was  taught  fencing,  archery, 
jiujutsu  (clutching  such  part  of  the  enemy's  body 
as  will  make  him  numb  and  incapable  of  resistance), 


horsemanship,  the  use  of  the  spear,  tactics,  caligra- 
phy,  ethics,  literature  and  history. 

"He  was  not  to  think  of  money ;  ignorance  of  the 
value  of  different  coins  was  a  token  of  good  breed- 
ing. He  was  taught  to  forgive  injuries,  but  he  was 
also  taught  to  hold  his  honor  sacred,  and  to  defend 
it  at  all  times  and  at  all  hazards.  To  win  honor  and 
to  avoid  shame  the  samurai  would  go  to  any  lengths. 

Naturally,  the  man  with  a  sword  and  Quixotic  no- 
tions of  honor  was  not  always  as  gentle  as  he  might 
be  with  those  who  assailed  that  honor.  A  citizen 
called  the  attention  of  a  Bushi  to  a  flea  jumping  on 
his  back.  Forthwith  the  Bushi  cut  him  in  two,  and 
afterwards  explained  his  reason  by  a  syllogism : 
"Fleas  are  parasites  which  feed  on  animals:  he  said 
a  flea  was  on  me ;  and  it  is  an  unpardonable  insult  to 
identify  a  noble  warrior  with  a  beast." 

The  sword  was  the  soul  of  the  samurai,  and  the 
swordsmith  worked  as  if  he  were  performing  holy 
rites.  Even  the  learned  doctor  feels  the  spell  of  his 
magic.  "Its  cold  blade,  collecting  on  the  surface  the 
moment  it  is  drawn  the  vapors  of  the  atmosphere ;  its 
immaculate  texture,  flashing  light  of  bluish  hue;  its 
matchless  edge,  upon  which  histories  and  possibili- 
ties hang;  the  curve  of  its  back,  uniting  exquisite 
grace  with  utmost  strength — all  these  thrill  us  with 
mixed  feelings  of  power  and  beautv,  of  awe  and  ter- 
ror." 

Under  certain  conditions  suicide  was  the  plainest 
duty,  and  elaborate  ceremonials  were  laid  down  for 
the  manner  in  which  it  should  be  done.  But  the  glori- 
fication of  the  deed  offered  alluring  temptations. 
"For  causes  entirely  incompatible  with  reason,  or 
for  reasons  entirely  undeserving  of -death,  hot-headed 
youths  rushed  into  it  as  insects  fly  into  fire;  mixed 
and  dubious  motives  drove  more  samurai  to  this  deed 
than  nuns  into  convent  gates.  No  circle  in  the  In- 
ferno will  boast  of  greater  density  of  Japanese  popu- 
lation than  the  seventh,  to  which  Dante  consigns  all 
victims   of  self-destruction." 

The  women  were  also  taught  that  death  is  a  bet- 
ter thing  than  shame.  "When  a  Japanese  Virginia 
saw  her  chastity  menaced,  she  did  not  wait  for  her 
father's  dagger.  Her  own  weapon  lay  always  in  her 
bosom.  It  was  a  disgrace  to  her  not  to  know  the 
proper  way  in  which  to  perpetrate  self-destruction. 
She  must  know  the  exact  spot  to  cut  in  her  throat; 
she  must  know  how  to  tie  her  lower  limbs  together 
with  a  belt,  so  that,  whatever  the  agonies  of  death 
might  be,  her  corpse  be  found  in  utmost  modesty,  and 
with   the  limbs  properly  composed." 

Although  Bushido,  with  its  fortitude  and  its  punc- 
tillio,  its  odd  mixture  of  the  Spartan  and  the  Quix- 
otic, is  no  longer  a  recognized  system,  its  spirit  re- 
mains ;  and  that  may  be  the  reason  why  the  unofficial 
laps  are  so  eager  for  war,  and  so  confident  as  to  its 
result. 


C.  H.  Rehnstrom  (formerly  Sanders  &  Johnson.) 
E   W   Hagbom.  I  formerly  with  JameBW.  Bell  &  Co.of  New  York) 

REHNSTROM  $  HAGBOM 

TAILORS 

PHELflN   BUILDING  ROOMS  I.  2.  3 

Phone  Main  53S7,  San  Francisco. 


April  30,  1904. 


It     is 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 
Bird 


29 


le  the  mighty  River  Platte, 
Beneath  the  waning  Moon, 

I  hoar  a  Roar  Like  Foote  in  \\  rath. 
It  is  the  Lincoln  1 

Nor  every  Soughing  Wind  that  l'.lows 
Through  Whiskers  wild  in  June, 

Can  hush  the  awful  Sounds  that  rintr 
Prom  out  that  Talking  Loon 

Nor  Sweetest  Song  of  Balaam's  Ass, 

Can  jar  that  Tireless  Loon, 
When  late,  at  Night  his  Scream  is  heard 
Across  the  Dark  Lagoon. 

Then  let  Sweet  Lilies  ever  grow 

Beside  the  Crystal  Streams ; 
Xor  ever  think   the   Loon   is   Sick; 

Tie's   seldom    what   He   seems. 

Then  cease.  Ye  troubled  Harps  of  Earth ! 

Be  Still,  On,  Asses!     Bray! 
Though  Silent  every  other  Tongue, 

The  Loon  will  have  his  Say. 

For  Harmony  is  working  now 
Through   every   Wigwam   Chief ; 

And  till  Election  Day  has  come. 
The  Loon  will  not  be  brief. 

And  whether  on  a  Lincoln  Stump, 
Where  beats  the   Sun   at   Noon, 

Or  down  in   Dixie's  cooling  Shade, 
Will  sing  that  Wordy  Loon. 

Forever,   on   Nebraska's   Plain 
The  Weeping  Willows  groan, 

But  wilder  far  is  blown  to  me 
The  Loon's  despairing  Tone. 

Then  blow,  sweet-scented  summer  Winds, 
Blow  hard  from  Lincoln  Town  ; 

Ye  blow  this  Message  drear  to  me, 
"The  Loon  will  not  stay  down." 

They  why  should  Hill  or  Grover  try 

To  Harmonize  that  Bird? 
Its  Melody  is  sweeter  far 
.  When  all  alone  'tis  heard. 

And  so  wherever  Jawbone   sways 

A  People  long  oppressed, 
Those  screams  shall  raise  the  Hope  in  Man, 

That  Bryan  be  suppressed. 

—Will  L.  Rogers. 

One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

good  luncheon.  There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  and  refreshment  after 
the  tolls  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
ice-cream  and  pastry — always  the  hest,  and  their  prompt- 
ness can  be  depended  upon. 

The   Techau   Tavern   is   the   place   to   go   after   the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  ofi  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
Is  reasonable. 


Dust    soon    disfigures    your    summer    clothes.      It    Is 

necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  damage  may 
be  repaired  and  an  expensive  suit  saved.  Appearances 
are  everything,  and  Spauiding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing 
Works,  127  Stockton  street  will  help  you  to  keep  them  up. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  curtains  and  such  articles. 
Goods  called  for  and  delivered  promptly. 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Justice  Mining  Company. 

Looalion  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Franolsoo.  California,  Lo- 
cation of  woi  ks,   Gold  Hill,  Storey  Count j ,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  erl  ven  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  loth  day  of  March  1904,  an  asf-es-ment  (No  80)  of  ten  (10) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  coi  potation,  pay- 
ahle  Immediately  in  Ui  fted  Stales  irold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  room  70.  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Franolsco,  California, 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
22nd   DAY    OF  APK1L,  1901 
will    be    delinquent    and    advertised    for    sale    at   public   auotlon;   and 
unless    payment    is   made  before,    will  be  sold  on  Wednesday,  the  11th 
day  of    May,   1901.   to  pay   the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
cost  of  advertising  and  expepses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E   KELLY.  Secretary 

Office— Room  70,  Nevada  Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  ''an  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works    Virginia  City,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  16th  day  of  April,  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  101)  of  10c 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  immediately,  Id  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company.  Room  69.  Nevada  Block  No.  309  Montgomeey  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Any  stook  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE   19th  DAT  OF  MAY,  1901, 
will  be     delinquent,   and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auotlon;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   Tuesday,  the  7th  day  of   June 
1901,    to    pay  the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

J.  B.  SHAW,  Secretary. 

Location  of  Office — Boom  09,  Nevada  Blook,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco"  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  84 

Amount  per  share 3  cents 

Levied March  8.1904 

Delinquent  in  office April  13. 1904 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock May  3%  1904 

J.  STADTFELD.  Jr..  Secretary. 
Office— Room  56,  No-  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco.Cal. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


HJUL'S  Montgomery-street  Coffee  House  has  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  its  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast,  lunch  and  coffee 
rooms  in  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  quicker  service. 


Red  Eves  and  Eye- 
lids. Granulated 
Eyelids  and  other 
Eye  troubles    cured 


MURINE  EYE  REMEDY 


30 


The     Hartshorn  I 

shade  roller  Is  the  model  of  per- 
fection. Others  may  imii.-ite 
but  none  can  equal  It.  The 
genuine  bears  the  above  signa- 
ture on  thf  labt  I. 

Wood  liollera        Tin  Rollers 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thieves) 

The  husband  sits  in  deep  thought 
— in  his  hand  a  huge  book  of  phil- 
osophy. On  the  floor  near  his  chair 
are  other  books,  in  which  the 
world's  greatest  thinkers  have  set 
forth  their  views  on  the  future  life, 
across  the  room,  at  a  mirror,  the 
wife  is  trying  the  effect  of  a  new 
bonnet  with  her  hair  done  in  dif- 
ferent styles.  "No,"  says  the  hus- 
band at  last ;  "all  these  fellows  are 
wrong  about  the  next  world.'' 
"What  is  it,  Henry?"  asks  the  wife. 
"I  have  just  decided  that  heaven  is 
a  place  where  women  are  always 
buying  spring  bonnets  and  the 
other  place  is  a  spot  where  the 
.  men  are  forever  paying  for  them." 
—Judge. 

Little  George  (rushing  in) — Oh, 

mother His  Mother  (from  the 

telephone) — Hush  !  Take  off  your 
hat.  I'm  at  church,  and  the  minis- 
ter has  just  announced  his  text. — 
Judge. 

Upstairs  "Fifteen  two  and  a  pair 
makes  four,"  said  Subbubs,  who 
was  playing  cribbage  with  Popley ; 
'what  have  you  in  your  crib?" 
"Ah,"  replied  Popley,  absent-mind- 
edly, "just  the  sweetest  'ittle  oot- 
sums  tootsums  girl  in  the  world." 

"It  is  unkind  of  you  to  say  I  may 
not  have  ruffles  and  frills  when 
they  are  in  fashion,"  protests  the 
wife.  The  husband  preserves  a 
grim  silence.  Here  the  wife  grows 
angrier  still  and  gives  him  a  large 
piece  of  her  mind.  "It  would  not 
be  becoming  to  to  you,"  argues  the 
husband,  after  she  had  paused 
for  breath.  "See  how  you  look 
when  even  your  temper  is  ruffled." 
Then  she  basted  him. — Judge. 

HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Delicate  enough  for  the  softest 
skin,  and  yet  efficacious  in  removing 
any  stain.  Keeps  the  skin  in  perfect 
condition.  In  the  bath  gives  all  the 
desirable  after-effects  of  a  Turkish 
bath.  It  should  be  on  every  wash- 
stand. 

ALL  QROCERS  AND  DRUQQISTS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Mrs.  Crawford — This  lovely 
Easter  hat  cost  me  only  sixty-five 
dollars.  Don't  you  think  I  look 
pretty  in  it?  Crawford — I'll  bet 
that  ninety-eight-cent  lamp-shade 
you  bought  the  other  day  would 
be  just  as  becoming  to  you. — 
Judge. 


"Wealthy,  is  he?  Why,  the  last 
time  I  saw  him  he  had  trouble 
keeping  the  wolf  from  the  door." 
"Well,  his  greatest  trouble  now  is 
to  keep  his  poor  relatives  from  the 
porte-cochere." 

Editor  (of  magazine) — What's 
the  delay  about  my  getting  in? 
bt.  Peter — You  paid  on  publication, 
didn't  you?  "Yes."  "Well,  some 
of  your  contributors  are  inside  and 
I've  agreed  to  let  you  wait  until 
all  their  stories  have  appeared." — 
Life. 


April  30,  1904. 


No  good 
grocer  sells  a 
lamp-chim- 
ney without 
Macbeth  on  it 


You  need   to  know  how  to  manage  your 
lamps  to  have  comfort  with  them  at  small  cost. 
Better  read  my  Index ;  I  send  it  free. 

Macbeth,  Pittsburgh. 


15  CENTS  PER  COPY.  $1.50  PER  YEAR. 

Overland  Monthly 

AN  ILLUSTRATED  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  WEST 

MAY,  1904 

CONTENTS: 

Sagebrush   and  Sand    J.  Mayne  Baltimore 343 

Where   Heroes   Sleep    Henrietta  S.  Breck 348 

The    Becthel    Mansion    Murder.  . .  .  Frank  Walker  Winch   356 

Reincarnation    C.  F.  Montgomery  355 

Early  California  Journalism   David  E.  Gordon   364 

The   Evolution  of  a  Window    ....Helen  Ellsworth  Wright   366 

Dawn   M.   Elizabeth  Burns-Howell   .  . .  369 

Jack  London   Henry  Meade  Bland   370 

Love    M.   Blair  Coan    376 

Modern  Russia   Rockwell  Hunt,  Ph.  D 379 

The  Hermit  of  the  Desert Beatrice    Partridge    Wilmans. .  .385 

Feathered    Calif ornians    Virginia    Garland    386 

In  the  Limelight — E.  O.  McCormick,  Rear  Admiral  Uriu,  George  T. 

Nichojlson,    Japanese    National   Hymn    3go 

Sea  Life   Capt.  C.  M.  Scammon  392 

The  Japanese Illustrations    394 

The  King  of  the  Flower  Painters.  .  Louis    N.    Richards 395 

Of  the  Great  American  Novel  ....Charlton    Lawrence    Edholm...402 

The  Freight  of  Number  7   John  Roberts  403 

Dawn  F.  J.  Foster 405 

The  Tin  Box  Sara   Andrews    406 

A  California  Eve   Lucia    E.    Loring. 410 

The  Thing  he  Feared   Grace  MacGowan  Cooke    415 

Maid   and   Woman    E.  R.  Wynne  420 

A  Point  of  Great  Historic  Interest.  .James   Mayne   Baltimore    421 

The  Bell  Buoy   Foster   Gilroy    423 

Book  Lore    Pierre  N.  Beringer  and  Staff. .  .  .426 

Editorial Pierre  N.   Beringer    428 


April  30,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


31 


S0Z0D0NT 

Tooth  Powder 

New  Patent  Top  Can.  Comj»are  quantity  and 
quality  with  others.     Sozodont  Is  economy. 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms-  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr-  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
cured  several  prominent  citizens  of  San 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cat. 


Doable  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a  ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  ears  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  -with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Tans.  Scenic  Eoute 
through  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL  TICKET  OFFICE 

625  Market  Street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE    THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Bate  only  $67.60  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  F.  BOOTH,  Gen.  Act.,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 

No.  1.  Montgomery  St.    Dan  Franoisco,  Cal 


"The  only  trouble  with  your 
magazine,"  remarked  t  ho  pur- 
chaser, "is  that  you  don'l  publish 
enough  fiction.'  "Great  Scott, 
man  I"  replied  the  overworked  edi- 
tor, "you  evident,}  don't  read  our 
advertising  pa — or,  yes,  I've  thoug 
advertising  pa — er,  yes,  I've 
thought  so,  too,  at  times." 

"What  beautiful  rosesl"  ex- 
claims the  young  woman,  bending 
over  the  In ix  which  the  young 
man  has  brought.  "I  am  glad  you 
like  them,"  he  observed.  "The  flor- 
ist says  they  are  the  pick  of  his 
lot."  "Why,  they  are  simply 
charming!  They  look  almost  as 
real  as  the  artificial  ones  Madame 
Trimmitt  put  on  my  new  bonnet." 
—Judge. 

Loafer — Would  you  kindly  gim- 
me a  subscription,  madam,  for  a  so- 
ciety as  I  belong  to?  Lady — What 
is  the  society?  Loafer — It's — er 
— well,  it's  a  public  society.  We 
enters  'ouses,  Madam,  for  the  pur- 
pose o'  puttin'  clown  the  drink. 

The  Groom — Would  you  mind  if 
I  went  into  the  smoking  car,  dear? 
The  Bride — What,  to  smoke?  The 
Groom — Oh,  dear,  no.  I  want  to 
experience  the  agony  of  being 
away  from  you  so  that  the  joy  of 
my  return  will  be  all  the  more  in- 
tensified." 

"Of  course  there  is  considerable 
difference  between  the  hotels  con- 
ducted on  the  European  plan  and 
those  of  the  American  plan."  "Oh, 
yes !  On  the  European  plan  you 
merely  pay  for  what  you  want, 
and — "  "And  on  the  American  plan 
you  pay  for  what  you  don't  get." 

Father  (sternly) — Didn't  I  tell 
you  if  any  of  the  other  boys  said 
anything  to  make  you  angry  you 
should  count  twenty  before  you 
said  anything?  Tommy — Yes,  sir; 
but  I  didn't  need  to  say  anything. 
Before  I'd  counted  twelve  the  other 
boy  yelled  "Enough !" 

"Another  fifty  dollar  hat  this 
spring?"  asks  the.  irate  husband. 
"Why,  you  got  one  last  year  and 
only  wore  it  once."  "What  if  I 
did?"  asks  the  argumentative  wife. 
"You  only  spent  fifty  dollars  once 
last  spring,  didn't  you?" — Judge. 


SUNBURN,  "Vi-US?" 

Removes  oil  odor  of  perspiraiion.     De> 

'  Ughtful  after  Shaving.     Sold  everywhere,  01 

1  recclpi  of  25c.    Get  Meoncn's  (the  original).    Sample  Free. 

GERHARD  MENNEN  COMPANY.  N.v.«k_  N-J. 


Nominate 
your  choice- 
Presidents 

are  being  made.  "Light- 
weight" 2  ounces;  me- 
dium and  heavy.  50c 
all  stores  or  by  mail  for 
choice  patterns. 

Presid  nit  S  nspeuders  are  guaranteed — absolute 
satisfaction,    a    new    pair  or  your  money  back. 

THE  C.  A.  EDGARTON  MFG  CO. 
Box   318   Shirley,  Mass. 


THE  GREATEST 

Mountain    Tour 


OF  THE  WORLD 
is  through  wonderful 


Kings  River  Canon 


OVER  THE  HIGH  SIERRA  TO 

LAKE    TAHOE 

AND  VICE  VERSA 

Parties  will  be  made  up  at 
intervals  for  this 

GREATEST   OF  OUTINGS 

First  Party  Leaves 

San  Francisco  June  22.     Personally 

Conducted.     Everything  Supplied  During  Trip. 

For  Membership   in   These  Parties 

Apply  at  Once  to 

A.  S.  Mann,  TicKet  Agent 

613  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 

Southern  Pacific 


TWOMEY    I    MIHOLbVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1M7 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


The  idea  of  an  actor  quarreling 
with  his  managers  over  a  matter 
of  $80  a  week !  If  it  was  $80  an 
hour,  or  even  a  day — but  a  week ! 
The  press  agent  must  have  been 
asleep. 


Why  Don't  You 

$  Travel  by  Sea? 


Special  vacation   and  Short 

Tourist  Excursion  Trips 
Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Bertb  and  Mea' 
Los  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Tacoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 
And  to  those  desiring   longer  trips   to 
Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  information  recardincsaillnj;  doles  elc.oblain  folder 
SAN  FRANCISO  TICKET  OFFICES 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St. ,  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

C.  D.  DVNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co.,  2<i  Sutter  st..  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences.    Telephone  Exchange  312- 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  tbe  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Rys, 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  lu.oo  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking  ca  is 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars,  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change- 
Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6-00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.  Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 
Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a.m. Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 
(17  Market  St     (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


Trains  leave  and  are 

due  to  arrive  at 

SAN    FItANCISCO 

From  April  10.  1!>W 

Fkbby  Depot 

(Foot  of  Market  Street 


- M AIN    LIN _E_^_ 


■    AHRIVl 


7-OOa    Vacavllie.  Winters,  Runiaey 7. 60 

7.00a  Benlcla,  Sulsun.  Elmiraand  Sacra- 
mento           7.20i' 

7.30a  Vallejo.    Napa,     Callstoga,    Santa 

Rosa,  Martinez,  San  Ramon 620 

7.30a  Nlles,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Lathrop. 

Stockron 7  20 

8.00*  Shasta  ExpreBB  —  (Via  Davie), 
Williams  (for  Bartlett  Springs), 
Willows.  tFruto,  lied  Bluff, 
Portland,  Tacoma,  Seattle 750 

8.00a  Davis.  WoodlHDd.  Knights  Landing. 

MaryBvIlle.  Orovllle 7-G0  ■ 

8-30a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch, 
Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man. Los  Banos,  Mendota, 
Anin.mil,  Han  ford.  Vlaalla, 
PortHrvIlle 4.?0  ■ 

p. 30a  Port  CoBta,  Lathrop.  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Hanford,  Vlsalla,  Bakers- 
field  4  50- 

8.30*  Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton, (tMlltou),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervllle.  Marysvllle.  Cblco, 
Red  Bluff 4.20- 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.20  ■ 

9  00a    Atlnntic  Express—  Ogdcn  and  East.    11.20 

9.30*  Richmond,     Martinez     and      Way 

Stations 6  50 

1000*  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogdeu. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6  20 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.20- 

10-00*  Los  Angeles  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa.  Martfnez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, H  tin  ford,  Lemoore,  Vlaalla. 

Bnkersfletd.  Lob  Angeles 7-20 

12- 00m  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     320'' 
'1-OOp  Siicrmnento  River  StearaerB tl  I.Odi- 

3.30p  Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marys  vllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
Btntlona 10-50* 

5.30P  Hayward, NllesnndWay  Stations..      7  5Qr- 

3  30 r  fort  CoBta,  Martinez.  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Modesto. 
Merced,  Berenda.  Fresno  and 
Way  St»» lions  bcyoud  Port  Coatu  12.20'' 

3.30P  Yoaemlte  Valley.  Mon.    Wed.,  Frl.     9.20* 

3  30i*    Martinez. Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodt...    10.20* 

4  00p   MarMnez.Snn  Ramon, VnlleJo.Napft, 

Calls  toga.  San  hi  Itosa 9-20* 

4  00p  Nlles.  Tracv,  Stockton.  Lodl 420" 

4  30p   Hayward.   Nlles.   lrvlngton,  San  1     '8.50  \ 

Joae.  Llvermore )  II 1, 50 a 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited — Newm<n.  Los 
Banos.  Mendota.  Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakerslleld.  LosAogelCB. 
Golden  State  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  Angele",  lor  Chi- 
cago, via  C.  R.  I.  &  P.  (last  trip 

April  19) 9-20  • 

E.OOr  Port  Costa.  Tracy,  Stockton 12-20' 

1B30P  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7. 20  1 

6-OOp  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  .lose 9-0 

6-OOp  Eastern  Express— Ogdeu.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  LouIb.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  llenlcla.  tiut- 
sun.  Elmtra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rock  1  In,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckce,   Boca,    Reno,  Wada- 

worth,  Wlnuemucca 6  20 

6.00r   Vallejo,  dally,  except  Sunday...    (      7  en,. 

7  0^   Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  DU 

7.00p   l.lchmoud,  San  Pahlo.  Port  Coata, 

Martinez  and  Way  stations  11-20 

E.C6>  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle.     Redding. 
Portlaud,  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8  50  - 
B.IOp  Bay  ward,  Nllea  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 

dayonly) .... 11  50 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

7  45a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion.  Sunday  only)     8.10p 

lb*    Newark,    Centervllle.     San     Joae, 
a  Fellon,    llou  Icier     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 655p 

.  16p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gato&.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Btatious   t10-55» 

4  16p  Newark.  San. loBe,  LoaGatoa  and  j     18.55  \ 
way  atatl'ins )  tl  0  55  a 

OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

.  iouiSAN  FRANCI&UO,  Footut  Market  St.  (Sllpd 

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33 


C/>e     Political     Situation 


As  county  after  county  elects  its  delegates  to  the 

Santa  Cruz  convention,  the  chances  of  Hearst  con- 
trolling the  Democratic  party  in  California  grow 
slimmer.  One  hundred  and  fifteen  delegates  so  far 
have  been  elected,  or  selected,  for  in  many  localities 
the  County  committee  does  the  choosing,  who  are 
either  avowedly  anti-Hearst  or  uninstructed,  which 
in  this  case  means  the  same  thing.  There  will  be 
723  delegates  to  the  convention,  and  Los  Angeles 
and  San  Francisco  will  supply  223  of  those,  so  that 
the  country  delegations  with  those  from  Sacramento 
and  San  Jose  and  San  Diego  number  500,  and  one- 
fourth  of  those  are  already  anti-Hearst.  So  far  as 
delegates  have  been  chosen,  the  Hearst  men  are  out- 
numbered two  to  one.  In  this  city  a  fight  will  be 
made  in  everv  precinct  against  Hearst,  and  while  he 
may  get  a  majority  ot  the  168  delegates,  there  is  but 
little  prospect  that  it  will  be  a  majority  large  enough 
to  overcome  the  adverse  country  vote.  Of  all  the 
county  conventions,  the  one  controlled  by  Editor  Ben 
Maddox  of  Visalia  was  the  most  pronounced  in  its 
opposition  to  the  self-styled  champion  of  the  people. 
It  denounced  Hearst  plainly  and  by  name.  The  Ex- 
aminer will  soon  have  to  enlarge  its  building  to  afford 
accommodations  to  its  rapidly  increasing  black  list 
if  this  tiling  keeps  on  much  longer. 
*  *  * 

Lane's  letter  to  his  former  running  mate  on  the 
State  ticket,  Dockweiler,  will  help  along  the  anti- 
Hearst  sentiment  in  the  State,  for  Lane  has  many 
friends,  and  it  is  the  general  impression  that  he 
would  be  Governor  to-day  were  it  not  for  the  Exami- 
ner. In  fact,  during  the  Lane  campaign  in  1902 
Caminetti,  who  was  managing  the  campaign,  ex- 
pressed that  opinion,  and  although  he  is  now  imitat- 
ing Maguire  and  bowing  down  to  the  Hearst  shrine, 
he  talked  quite  differently  eighteen  months  and  less 
ago. 

It  should  not  be  understood,  however,  that  because 
the  Democrats  of  California  are  not  for  Hearst  they 
are  for  Parker.  The  Parker  boom  is  not  in  much 
better  shape  than  the  Hearst.  Democrats  say  very 
freely  that  they  favor  a  man  with  a  record  of  some 
sort,  and  they  fear  it  will  be  impossible  to  elect  Par- 
ker, especially  with  the  influences  that  are  behind 
him.  The  idea  is  to  go  to  St.  Louis  uninstructed, 
and  when  there  to  try  and  find  who  will  win  out  and 
give  him  the  California  votes.  It  is  understood  that 
Isadore  B.  Dockweiler  will  be  the  anti-Hearst  can- 
didate for  delegate  at  large  from  Southern  California 
as  opposed  to  Mayor  Snyder,  and  that  Lane,  Ed. 
Leake  and  Ben  Maddox  are  the  most  likely  candi- 
dates from  this  end  of  the  line.  Will  Green  and  Con- 
gressman Bell  are  also  mentioned  as  possible  candi- 
dates. 

Ex-Senator  Bulla  practically  admits  his  defeat  as 
candidate  for  delegate-at-large  to  Chicago  from  the 
South,  and  is  now  talking  of  two  Southern  delegates- 
at-large,  but  that  idea  does  not  meet  with  much  en- 
couragement, and  is  not  at  all  likely  to  be  adopted 
by  the  Convention.  There  are  too  many  Northern 
candidates  to  make  such  a  thing  as  two  Southern 
delegates-at-large  possible.  The  defeat  of  Bulla 
means  the  end  of  Bard. 


There  is  going  to  be  a  lively  time  in  the  Third 
Senatorial  District  among  the  Republicans  who  want 
to  go  to  the  Legislature  to  succeed  Senator  Tyrrell. 
In  the  first  place,  the  Senator  would  like  to  go  back 
himself,  and  as  he  has  made  a  good  record,  there 
seems  no  particular  reason  why  his  wish  should  not 
be  gratified,  except  that  John  B.  Irish  of  Sierra 
County  would  like  to  be  called  Senator  for  the  next 
four  years,  and  so  would  Senator  Lardner,  who  has 
been  switched  out  of  the  Fifth  into  the  Third  District, 
also  thinks  that  his  record  justifies  his  return.  Then 
F.  M.  Rutherford  of  Truckee  would  also  like  to  wear 
the  toga,  and  there  are  probably  others  who  have  not 
as  yet  announced  themselves.  Four  candidates,  how- 
ever, ought  to  keep  things  from  being  dull  in  the 
Third  this  summer. 

*  *  * 

In  this  city,  the  list  of  candidates  for  the  Legisla- 
ture increases  daily.  The  Senate,  of  course,  is  prac- 
tically settled  in  some  districts.  Nelson  and  Wolfe 
are  both  candidates  for  re-election,  and  will  both  no 
doubt  be  re-named  by  their  party.  Thomas  H. 
Lindsay  is  likely  to  get  the  chance  to  succeed  the 
late  Senator  Williams  in  the  Twenty-fourth  District. 
For  the  Assembly,  however,  the  crop  of  candidates 
promises  to  be  very  large.  A  number  of  them  have 
already  been  mentioned  in  this  column,  including 
W.  W.  Allen,  Jr.,  E.  D.  Knight,  and  others  who  have 
been  there  before.  John  T.  Graham  is  a  new  candi- 
date in  the  Thirty-third  District,  Frank  Twigg  in 
the  Twenty-eighth,  E.  F.  Hunt,  who,  I  believe,  how- 
ever, wants  a  Labor  Union  nomination,  although  he 
is  a  "promoter,"  I.  P.  Kincaid,  J.  F.  Quigg,  and  W. 
H.  McMartin,  who  was  in  the  last  session. 

*  *  * 

In  Stockton,   or,   rather,   in   San   Joaquin   County, 


34 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  30,  1904. 


they  are  already  having  a  lively  time  over  the  nomi- 
nation for  State  Senator.  Senator  Meunter  wants 
1o  go  back,  and  Assemblyman  Dunlap  wants  to  be 
promoted  to  the  Senatorship.  As  they  are  entirely 
different  types  of  men,  the  contest  will  be  more  than 
ordinarily  "bitter,  and  will  last  up  to  the  last  moment, 
with  no  hope  of  a  compromise.  C.  H.  Farrell  wants 
to  succeed  Dunlap,  and  John  W.  Moore  will  probably 
go  back  from  the  district  he  represented  in  San  Joa- 
quin in  the  last  Legislature.  In  Alameda  County, 
Tohn  J.  Mattos  would  like  to  be  a  State  Senator  from 
the  Fifteenth  District.  Senator  Flint  proposes  to 
be  a  candidae  from  his  district  again,  and  ex-Assem- 
blyman C.  W.  Merrett  of  Santa  Barbara  wants  t.. 
be  the  Senatorial  representative  of  that  section  of 
the  State. 

*  *  # 

The  Democrats  have  not  been  as  much  in  evi- 
dence as  their  Republican  neighbors,  but  there  are 
some  of  them  willing  to  serve  the  State  for  a  con- 
sideration. For  Senators,  Senator  J.  M.  Plunket 
would  like  to  be  returned  from  the  Seventeenth  Dis- 
trict. C.  A.  Sweigert  is  a  candidate  in  the  Twenty- 
first  District,  and  Assemblyman  Copus,  the  only 
brainy  representative  that  Union  Labor  had  in  the 
last  Legislature,  wants  to  go  back  to  Sacramento, 
but  as  Senator  from  the  Nineteenth  District.  He 
would,  of  course,  expect  to  be  a  Democrat  as  well  as 
a  Labor  Union  candidate,  and  I  presume  that  the 
Democracy  would  be  willing  to  endorse  him.  as  they 
did  before.  Joseph  Wannamaker  wants  the  Demo- 
cratic nomination  for  Assemblyman  in  the  Thirty- 
eighth  District,  and  Frank  Malloy  in  the  Forty-third. 

It  is  practically  settled  that  Duncan  McKinlev  i> 
to  be  the  opponent  of  Congressman  Bell  in  the  Sec- 
ond District.  Senator  Devlin  of  Sacramento,  who 
was  mentioned  for  the  place,  has  formally  withdrawn, 
and  Deputy  Attbrnev-General  Stutevant  declines 
to  be  a  candidate,  although  Mendocino  would  be  only 
too  glad  to  give  him  her  vote.  That  leaves  McKin- 
ley  a  clear  field,  and  he  will  undoubtedly  get  the 
nomination.  The  attack  made  by  Bell  on  the  Sol- 
diers' Home  at  Yountville  has  arrayed  all  the  ('.rand 
Army  influence  against  him.  and  McKinlev  says  that 
although  Bell  is  very  popular,  and  has  made  a  good 
Congressman,  he  thinks  he  can  beat  him. 

*  *  * 

In  the  Eighth  District,  however,  things  are  not  such 
plain  sailing.  Daniels  is  going  to  have  a  very  hard 
fight  to  secure  a  re-nomination,  and  besides  ex- 
Senator  Smith  of  Kern  and  Senator  Ward  of  San 
Diego  he  is  likely  to  be  confronted  by  C.  C.  Chapman 
at  home.  The  papers  in  his  District,  even  in  his 
home  town,  are  not  for  Daniels,  and  while  they  do 
not  openly  oppose  him,  they  are  continually  boom- 
ing some  one  else  for  the  place.  There  are  rumors, 
too,  that  Santa  Barbara  is  looking  up  a  candidate, 
so  the  prospect  is  that  there  will  be  as  many  candi- 
dates as  there  are  counties  in  the  district  when  the 
convention  meets.  One  curious  feature  of  the  cam- 
paign for  the  nomination  in  the  Eighth,  however, 
is  the  fact  that  all  the  papers  in  the  Southern  end  of 
the  district  are  urging  the  Republicans  not  to  cross 
the  Tehachapi  to  name  a  candidate,  declaring  that  it 
is  good  politics  to  boom  your  own  community.  Any 
one  north  of  the  Tehachapi  is  persona  non  grata  to 
the  good  provincials  who  live  south  of  that  barricade. 

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Thursday  previous  to  day  of  issue. 

Not   more    than    ten    thousand     American      labor 
unionists  observed  May-day  by  going  on  strike. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  nowadays  the  walking  dele- 
gate rides  in  an   automobile. 

"Three  strikes  and  out"  applies  to  the  labor  agita- 
tor's business  as  well  as  to  baseball. 


The  weather  man  who  would  permit  it  to  rain  dur- 
ing a  street  car  strike  would  renew  our  adherence  to 
the   doctrine  of  total  depravity. 

A  lady  whose  offspring  took  first  prize  in  a  baby 
show  wants  its  father  arrested  for  failure  to  provide. 
So  much  for  heredity. 

A  new  fad  is  finding  out  the  color  of  one's  soul. 
The  world  at  large  prefers  to  see  the  color  of  one's 
money. 

Russia  keeps  on  sending  to  the  front  her  best  ikons 
while  Japan  rushes  forward  little  brown  iconoclasts 
with  long-range  rifles. 

If  Secretary  Knox  is  "an  old  hen  sitting  on  a  door- 
knob," then  Congressman  Hearst  is  one  of  the 
crowless  roosters  we  read  about. 

Co-education  went  well  enough  at  Berkeley  until 
it  turned  to  the  study  of  French,  in  which  it  gotno 
further  than  the  conjugation  of  the  verb  "aimer." 

The  awkwardness  observable  at  college  dances 
makes  it  seem  certain  that  higher  education  begins 
above  the  belt. 


If  the  soul  of  John  Brown  "goes  marching  on" 
around  Harvard  College  it  will  have  to  do  it  under 
the  protection  of  the  faculty. ' 

Boston  bakers  have  struck,  and  the  beans-and- 
brown-bread  industry  is  paralyzed,  but  there  is  still 
the  codfish  to  keep  soul  and  body  together. 

Owing  to  an  accident  to  a  circus  train,  the  good 
people  of  Truckee  were  able  to  "see  the  elephant" 
without  paying  fare  to  the  "redlight"  section  of  San 
Francisco. 

A  mouse,  faithfully  enacting  the  nursery  rhyme, 
ran  up  the  clocks  in  a  Chicago  theatre.  The  clocks, 
however,  were  on  a  lady's  hosiery,  and  the  result 
was  a  panic,  during  which  the  mouse  ran  down  again. 


Biliousness  among  men  is  matched  by  automobil 
iousness  among  horses. 

With  Sunday  picknickers  once  a  week,  and  mos- 
quitoes all  the  time,  the  restfulness  of  suburban  liv- 
ing is  not  what  it  is  cracked  up  to  be. 

If  it  had  happened  in  the  Sunny  South  instead  of 
Oakland,  one  would  say  that  the  police  marksmen 
had  enjoyed  an  exciting  and  successful  "coon  hunt." 

Alameda's  "Jack  the  Thumper,"  who  devotes  him- 
self to  punching  the  small  boys  he  finds  abroad  after 
dark,  may  be  a  wicked  person,  but  he  has  made  the 
curfew  ordinance  useless  in  the  Island  City. 

A  whole  conference  of  colored  preachers  has  done 
its  best  to  pray  Roosevelt  back  into  the  White 
House,  but  nobody  outside  the  Tarpey  family  is  ad- 
dressing the  throne  of  grace  on  Hearst's  behalf. 


Over  in  Illinois,  where  the  unusual  is  always  hap- 
pening in  politics  and  religion,  Oak  Park,  a  Chicago 
suburb,  has  broken  out  suddenly  with  an  epidemic  of 
passionate  piety.  Oregon's  "holy  rollers"  must  have 
come  to  town. 


Lyman  J.  Gage  stoutly  affirms  before  young  Mr. 
Rockefeller's   Bible  class  that  "individual  wealth  is 
not  an  injury  to  society."    After  that  the  class  should 
have    sung    "Shall    We    Gather    Dividends    at    the 
River?" 


A  pretty  Los  Angeles  girl  smiled  so  effectively 
on  a  St.  Louis  photographer  that  he  up  and  mar- 
ried her.  The  moral  of  this  is  that  one  should  not 
only  "look  pleasant,"  when  the  camera  man  so  or- 
ders, but  look  affectionate. 


To  amuse  his  friends,  an  obliging  Easterner  swal- 
lowed keys,  rings,  chains,  knives  and  nails,  which 
the  doctors  are  now  trying  to  get  out  of  him.  It's 
even  money  that  if  they  opened  his  head  they  would 
find  it  filled  with  saw-dust. 


A  Brooklyn  lady  is  bankrupt  because  she  spent  all 
her  money  buying  Easter  bonnets  and  spring  gowns 
for  her  friends,  and  in  paying  the  notes  which  she 
endorsed  for  them.  Now  she  is  figuring  out  the 
difference  between  a  "good  fellow"  and  a  "good 
thing." 

To  set  one's  house  on  fire  by  misadventure,  and 
to  be  thrashed  by  the  landlord  while  trying  to  save 
something  from  the  flames,  helps  to  make  clear  the 
Scriptural  paradox:  "Even  that  which  he  hath  not 
shall  be  taken  away." 

A  Gentile  club-lady  of  Utah  will  not  be  permitted 
to  address  the  National  Federation  of  Women  be- 
cause she  voted  for  Senator  Smoot  while  she  was  in 
the  Legislature.  Even  the  women's  clubs  are  up- 
lifted for  the  national  pastime  of  Mormon-whacking. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


EXIT  CORNELIUS. 

However  it  has  been  accomplished,  San  Francisco 
is  devoutly  thankful  that  she  is  to  be  spared  the  hor- 
rors of  a  street  car  strike  for  a  year  to  come,  if  the 
carmen  keep  faith.  Mayor  Schmitz  appears  to  have 
been  the  messenger  of  peace.  Certainly  no  one  de- 
sired or  needed  peace  more  than  he.  A  strike  would 
have  set  him  down  between  the  devil  and  extremely 
deep  water.  Had  he  been  compelled  to  the  extremity 
of  putting  policemen  on  the  cars  or  of  refusing  to  do, 
he  might  have  begun  figuring  on  going  back  to  his 
fiddling,  for  in  either  case  he  would  have  been  politi- 
cally dead  and  cremated.  Thus  he  had  a  motive 
stronger  than  his  sense  of  duty  to  the  community  or 
any  hope  of  direct  profit  such  as  often  goes  to  the 
one  arranging  such  a  bargain  as  this.  When  he 
pleaded  for  peace  he  was  pleading  for  his  political 
life,  and  in  such  circumstances  any  man  pleads  his 
best. 

It  was  three  days  of  delay  that  turned  the  trick. 
Mayor  Schmitz  did  not  spend  this  time  in  persuad- 
ing the  men  on  the  cars,  but  in  begging  the  United 
Railroads  for  some  concession,  no  matter  how  slight, 
which  he  could  flourish  triumphantly  before  the  mass 
meeting.  The  concession  was  slight  enough,  as  the 
carmen  have  doubtless  found  out  by  this  time — a 
mere  re-phrasing  of  one  clause  of  the  agreement  so 
scornfully  rejected  by  the  employees  only  a  few 
days  before,  adding  nothing  to  the  wages  offered, 
yielding  nothing  of  the  company's  determination  to 
do  its  own  hiring  and  discharging  of  men.  But  it 
sufficed  for  a  showing.  There  was  only  Cornelius  to 
be  convinced.  It  was  he,  ruling  the  union  by  terror, 
who  demanded  a  strike.  It  was  his  hand  that 
clutched  at  the  company's  check-book,  his  lifted  hand 
that  made  the  carmen  crouch  and  cower.  Sometime 
on  Tuesday  last  Schmitz  "convinced"  Cornelius — 
how  one  may  not  say — that  he  wanted  peace,  and  not 
a  strike.  It  is  not  hard  for  a  man  with  money  at  his 
command  and  with  jobs  to  give  a  promise  to  deal  with 
a  man  who  wants  both  or  either.  At  all  events, 
Cornelius,  the  bully-leader  of  the  carmen  crawled 
back  into  his  kennel  and  became  a  good  dog.  The 
rest  was  easy. 

There  may  have  been  some  understanding  between 
Schmitz  and  Cornelius,  but  that  will  not  matter  much 
to  the  public.  Almost  any  evil  would  be  preferable 
to  such  a  conflict  as  a  car  strike  would  have  inevi- 
tably brought  about.  And  besides  a  year's  peace,  it 
is  probable  that  this  transaction  will  produce  still 
greater  good  in  the  elimination  of  Cornelius,  than 
whom  organized  labor  never  had  a  worse  exponent. 
After  his  deal  with  Schmitz,  it  is  not  likely  that  the 
few  who  trusted  him  will  trust  him  any  more,  nor 
that  the  many  who  feared  him  will  any  longer  trem- 
ble at  his  frown.  As  between  Schmitz  and  Cornelius 
we  should   not  select  Cornelius. 


INDISCRIMINATE    CLOSING    OF    SCHOOLS. 

We  are  properly  fond  of  that  California  frater- 
nity, the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  and  prop- 
erly proud  of  the  staunch  warships  built  in  this  har- 
bor, but  the  fact  that  one  of  these  vessels  was  chris- 
tened "California,"  and  that  on  this  account  the  Na- 
tive Sons  had  charge  of  her  launching,  was  no  ex- 
cuse for  a  holiday  in  the  public  schools.  We  are 
prone  to  ridicule  our  Latin-American  neighbors,  who 
make  the  anniversary  of  almost  anything  or  any- 
body an  excuse  for  shutting  up  shop  and  giving  the 
day  to  feasting  and  idleness.  Before  we  laugh  at 
them  again,  let  us  recall  that  we  tried  to  have  the 


launching  day  of  the  California  made  a  legal  holiday 
— fortunately  Governor  Pardee  had  the  good  sense 
to  forbid  us  this  foolishness — and  that  we  succeeded 
in  closing  up  the  schools  for  a  day.  The  absurdity 
of  this  appears  when  it  is  known  that  not  one  in 
a  hundred  of  the  city's  school  children  saw  the 
launching  or  could  have  seen  it  had  they  desired.  It 
was  largely  a  private  function,  visible  by  invitation, 
and  only  in  a  limited  way  open  to  those  who  could 
afford  to  pay  their  way,  as  nine-tenths  of  the  school 
children  could  nut  afford  to  do.  Closing  the  schools 
for  an  affair  not  wholly  public  and  of  only  minor 
public  importance  is  foolish  and  worse  than  foolish  ; 
it  is  an  injustice  to  the  people,  who  pay  taxes  for 
the  education  of  their  children  and  an  injustice  to 
the  children  themselves. 

We  may  very  well  be  not  too  severe  in  adminis- 
tering that  greatest  of  public  trusts,  the  public  school 
system,  and  it  is  far  from  the  News  Letter's  thought 
to  preach  against  patriotism  and  State  pride,  but  we 
do  object  to  tom-foolery  like  that  of  the  California's 
launching.  If  the  affair  had  been  arranged  for  the 
benefit  and  instruction  of  the  children,  if  they  had 
been  the  guests  of  honor  and  the  chief  participants 
in  the  ceremony,  then  this  sermonette  would  have 
no  text,  but  as  it  was,  the  School  Board  merely  told 
the  children  to  run  out  and  play  while  a  few  of  their 
elders  went  out  to  see  a  warship  slide  into  the  water. 
The  members  of  the  Board  simply  allowed  them- 
selves to  forget  their  duty.  They  and  the  young  men 
of  the  Native  Sons  should  have  the  grace  to  be 
ashamed  and  to  promise  themselves  and  the  public 
that  they  will  not  do  it  again. 

LIVERNASH'S  LAST  HOWL. 

One  of  the  memorable  incidents  that  marked  the 
day  of  adjournment  in  the  House  of  Representatives 
was  the  manner  in  which  Congressman  Williams, 
leader  of  the  minority,  took  the  floor  from  Livernash, 
the  misfit  from  this  city,  and  choked  him  off  so  ef- 
fectually that  the  last  howl  of  Hearst's  man  was 
heard  in  the  outer  corridors,  and  not  on  the  floors 
of  Congress.  During  the  absence  of  Livernash,  Bell 
had  called  up  his  Mendocino  land  bill  by  unanimous 
consent,  and  it  was  about  to  be  passed  when  Liver- 
nash entered  the  House  and  asked  time  to  oppose 
the  bill.  This  opposition  was  animated  by  his  envy 
of  Bell's  great  success  at  Washington,  and  was  in 
furtherance  of  the  announced  purpose  to  oppose 
every  measure  Bell  might  introduce.  Williams  gave 
Livernash  the  floor,  but  within  three  minutes  the 
minority  leader  crowded  Hearst's  man  aside,  choked 
him  off,  and  retained  the  floor  himself  until  final  ad- 
journment for  the  very  purpose  of  preventing  Liver- 
nash again  raising  his  voice  in  opposition  to  a  meas- 
ure which  was  not  only  beneficial  to  California,  but 
which  had  also  been  given  the  support  of  a  majority 
of  the  members  of  the  Lower  House.  The  House  ad- 
journed without  passing  the  bill,  and  Livernash 
thereby  gained  his  point.  But  it  was  at  great  cost 
to  himself  and  his  proprietor,  for  his  conduct  proved 
to  the  satisfaction  of  all  the  members  of  the  House 
that  the  estimates  given  of  the  Livernash  character 
by  those  who  knew  him  in  this  State  were  by  no 
means  overdrawn.  Ever  since  he  met  Bell  at  Wash- 
ington, and  learned  of  the  high  respect  in  which 
that  able  young  man  is  held,  the  petty  soul  of  Liver- 
nash has  been  filled  with  envy.  He  has  taken  advan- 
tage of  every  opportunity  to  work  out  his  spite,  and 
it  is  characteristic  of  his  nature  that  he  now  finds 
pleasure  in  the  sensation  of  having  satisfied  his  de- 


May  7.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


sire  for  revenge  that  arose  from  his  own  acknowledg- 
ment of  his  colleague's  superiority.  He  will  return 
to  a  constituency  that  long  since  found  out  the 
enormity  of  the  error  it  committed  in  electing  him, 
and  that  is  accepting  with  true  contrition  ami  resig- 
nation the  burden  it  must  bear  until  his  term  is 
over. 

How  different  will  he  the  home-coming  of  Belli 
The  people  of  the  Second  District  are  thankful  to 
him  for  all  he  did.  and  for  all  he  tried  to  do  for 
them  in  Washington.  The  enmity  of  Hearst  and 
Livernash  has  endeared  Bell  to  his  people.  They 
love  him  for  the  enemies  he  has  made.  The  Demo- 
crats of  his  district  are  with  him  in  his  fight  against 
the  "yellow  fellow"  and  his  hirelings.  While  Bell 
was  attending  to  the  business  for  which  he  was 
sent  to  Washington,  Hearst's  hired  man  was  running 
errands  for  his  master.  On  the  day  that  the  con- 
ference committee  reported  against  the  provision  in 
the  naval  appropriation  bill  providing  for  the  con- 
struction of  colliers  at  Mare  Island,  neither  Hearst 
nor  Livernash  was  present ;  but  Bell  arose  to  the  oc- 
casion and  saved  the  colliers,  despite  the  adverse  re- 
port of  the  committee.  That  was  another  reason  why 
Livernash  opposed  Bell.  The  latter  met  with  too 
large  a  measure  of  legitimate  success.  The  people 
of  the  Fourth  District  have  only  themselves  to  blame 
for  inflicting  Livernash  upon  the  country.  With  the 
lesson  before  them,  a  repetition  of  the  error  is  im- 
possible. 

MURDER  IN  THE  NAME  OF  THE  LAW. 

Oakland,  long  foremost  among  California  cities  in 
education,  religion  and  all  the  refinements  of  civili- 
zation, has  suddenly  and  strangely  relapsed  into  a 
condition  of  savagery.  Last  week  its  uniformed 
policemen  lay  all  one  night  about  a  shanty  in  which 
was  a  demented  negro,  armed,  sullen  and  defiant. 
They  had  him  so  surrounded  that  his  only  hope  of 
escape  was  in  suicide.  Oakland's  Chief  of  Police,  a 
mild-appearing,  spectacled  person  named  St.  Clair 
Hodgkins,  at  the  head  of  a  squad  of  police  demol- 
ished the  house  and  riddled  the  place  with  bullets. 
A  little  later  a  policeman  brought  out  what  was  left 
of  the  negro  from  what  was  left  of  the  shanty.  House 
and  man  had  been  literally  shot  to  pieces. 

The  next  day  a  Coroner's  Jury,  composed  of  God- 
fearing, church-going,  order-loving  Oaklanders, 
found  that  the  police  had  killed  the  negro  "in  the  dis- 
charge of  their  duty,"  and  that  "said  shooting  was 
justifiable  and  commendable  upon  the  part  of  said 
officers." 

All  this  in  the  name  of  law  and  justice,  in  the  en- 
lightened twentieth  century  and  in  the  pious  and 
peaceful  city  of  Oakland! 

The  city  across  the  bay  is  to  be  condoled  with  for 
back-sliding  into  a  degree  of  barbarism  that  would 
have  disgraced  a  frontier  town  of  forty  years  ago; 
for  the  affliction  of  this  Hodgkins,  and  for  such  a 
jury  of  citizens.  All  the  facts  prove  this  to  have  been 
a  murder,  all  the  more  cowardly  and  contemptible 
because  it  was  done  under  the  guise  and  protection 
of  the  law.  The  scene  of  this  official  slaughter  was 
a  street  which  is  never  crowded,  and  is  not  at  any 
time  an  essential  part  of  Oakland's  system  of  thor- 
oughfares. A  dozen  or  more  expert  riflemen  covered 
every  possible  avenue  of  escape.  All  the  adjoining 
houses  had  been  vacated.  No  life  but  the  negro's 
was  in  possible  peril.  A  telephone  message  to  the 
nearest  engine  house  would  have  brought  apparatus 
enough  to  deluge  the  shanty  and  wash  the  negro  out 
like  a  drowned  rat.  If  that  had  been  deemed  inex- 
pedient, the  street  could  have  been  roped  off,  as  is 


done  in  Oakland  whenever  there  is  a  fire.  The  guard 
could  have  been  maintained  in  safe  places  and  at  safe 
distances,  and  in  a  few  hours  at  most  hunger  would 
have  cooled  the  negro's  madness  and  sent  him  out 
to  a  meek  surrender. 

Had  this  "justifiable  and  commendable"  killing 
taken  place  in  Oklahoma  or  Arkansas  or  down  in  the 
"black  belt,"  the  press  of  the  bay  cities  would  have 
damned  its  perpetrators  from  Gehenna  to  breakfast 
as  uniformed  murderers.  But  it  was  done  in  humane, 
civilized  Oakland,  and  so.  to  this  hour  no  editor  has 
criticised  it,  no  citizen's  voice  has  cried  out  "shame!" 
against  the  brutal  bungler  of  a  Hodgkins.  A  man 
who  would  do  such  a  thing  is  not  fit  to  carry  a  loaded 
pistol;  is  not  fit  to  patrol  a  beat,  let  alone  captain  a 
force  of  peace-preservers.  Knocking  mild-eyed  sheep 
on  the  head  with  an  axe  in  the  stockyard  shambles 
at  West  Berkeley  would  be  the  proper  billet  for 
Hodgkins.  As  for  the  good  citizens  who  found  his 
course  both  "justifiable"  and  "commendable,"  let 
them  take  it  to  their  souls — and  we  are  certain  of  this 
as  the  sober  judgment  of  the  decent  men  in  their 
community — that  they  are  well-nigh  as  guilty  as  the 
butcher  they  have  praised.  Oakland  has  need  to  get 
rid  of  Hodgkins,  to  draw  better  citizens  on  her  in- 
quest juries,  to  wash  her  hands  of  the  blood  that  is 
on  them,  and  to  strive  by  faith  and  works  and  repen- 
tance for  a  renewal  of  the  State's  esteem. 


COOK'S  REMARKABLE  WRIT. 

Superior  Judge  Carroll  Cook  seems  to  be  suffering 
from  a  misconception  of  the  respect  which  he  should 
accord  to  his  own  rulings.  Having  issued  an  injunc- 
tion restraining  the  police  from  interfering  with  the 
propagation  of  vice  at  the  notorious  resort  on  up- 
per Dupont  street,  he  now  considers  it  his  duty  as 
an  "honest,  upright  judge"  to  levy  heavy  fines  upon 
policemen  who  have  arrested  the  women  who  have 
flaunted  their  colors  of  scarlet  under  the  protection 
of  the  court's  writ.  Judge  Cook,  when  a  practicing 
attorney,  was  noted  for  the  persistency  with  which 
he  conducted  his  cases,  and  particularly  for  the  tech- 
nicalities upon  which  he  relied  for  success.  He 
seems  to  have  carried  this  regard  for  technicalities 
to  the  bench.  He  overlooks  the  wide  distinction  be- 
tween the  practice  in  criminal  courts  and  courts  of 
equity.  A  technicality  which  would  estop  proceed- 
ings in  the  former  should  be  of  but  little  avail  in  the 
latter.  Courts  of  equity  are,  presumably,  conducted 
on  broader  plans  than  others.  It  is  the  main  busi- 
ness of  an  equity  judge  to  get  at  the  right  of  the 
question  before  him,  and  to  render  rulings  based  on 
equitable  grounds  rather  than  on  technicalities.  In 
the  cases  before  Judge  Cook,  the  question  at  issue 
is  between  the  community  and  these  inmates.  The 
latter  have  succeeded  in  obtaining  an  injunction  pro- 
hibiting the  police  from  arresting  them.  It  is  very 
questionable  whether  such  petitioners  should  be 
heard  at  all  in  a  court  of  equity.  They  come  into 
court  covered  with  the  slime  of  their  corruption, 
and  actually  succeed  in  getting  an  order  under  which 
they  may  ply  their  nefarious  business  without  inter- 
ruption. It  is  a  most  remarkable  condition  of  affairs 
for  which  few  parallels  can  be  found.  It  seems  to 
us  that  Judge  Cook  would  render  better  service  to 
the  community  and  comply  more  strictly  with  the 
spirit  of  equity  practice,  if  he  would  dismiss  the  in- 
junction, and  permit  the  police  to  suppress  the  vile 
den  now  protected  by  his  writ.  It  is  sometimes 
necessary  for  a  court,  upon  more  mature  deliberation, 
to  change  its  rulings.  One  of  these  opportunities 
has  come  to  Judge  Cook. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


FOR  SUBURBAN  RESIDENTS. 

Suburban  residents  find  much  to  interest  them 
in  a  bulletin  on  annual  flowering  plants  just  issued 
by  the  Department  of  Agriculture  at  Washington. 
The  Department  has  taken  up  the  subject  of  the 
adornment  of  small  suburban  houses  on  estates,  and 
the  gardens  on  city  lots.  Every  lover  of  the  beauti- 
ful in  nature  may  obtain  the  advice  of  the  Govern- 
ment scientists,  without  cost,  by  procuring  a  copy 
of  the  bulletin.  The  plans  suggested  for  adornment 
have  all  been  formulated  with  strict  regard  for  econ- 
omy, for  the  main  purpose  of  the  bulletin  is  to  aid 
people  of  moderate  means,  rather  than  to  assist 
the  wealthy,  who  may  hire  landscape  gardeners  of 
their  own.  Every  detail  has  been  worked  out  with 
great  care,  with  the  result  that  it  is  demonstrated 
that  most  satisfactory  effects  can  be  produced  with 
no  greater  expenditure  than  now  attends  the  main- 
tenance of  many  small  gardens  that  are  noted  mostly 
for  their  simplicity.  It  is  the  Government's  inten- 
tion to  encourage  planting  home  areas  according  to 
prepared  plans.  Model  working  plans  have  been 
drawn,  which,  with  proper  modifications  for  soil, 
climate,  topography  and  other  local  conditions,  can 
be  adopted  by  small  owners.  These  plans  make 
provision  for  the  growing  of  small  fruits  and  vege- 
tables, as  part  of  the  scheme  of  embellishment.  Par- 
ticular attention  is  given  to  the  great  variety  of 
species  of  flowering  plants  and  decorative  vines 
and  shrubs  that  may  be  used  for  adornment.  The 
plans  also  present  photographic  prints  of  homes 
adorned  in  accordance  with  the  suggestions  of  the 
experts  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture.  Owners 
with  limited  means,  who  may  not  wish  to  invest  in 
shrubbery,  will  find  the  chapter  on  decorative  an- 
nual grasses  of  much  interest.  Detailed  instructions 
will  assist  in  the  proper  development  of  that  very 
rare  charm  of  a  residence  property — a  perfect  lawn. 
The  bulletin  tells  not  only  what  grasses  are  best  for 
the  various  sections  of  the  country,  but  how  to 
grow  them.  Much  attention  is  also  given  to  the 
artistic  arrangement  of  walks,  drives  and  terraces, 
and  the  location  of  fountains,  flagpoles  and  other 
objects  with  regard  to  the  best  effects.  The  entire 
bulletin  is  replete  with  matters  of  delightful  interest 
to  those  who  enjoy  nature's  beauties.  High  ideals 
have  been  kept  in  view,  the  purpose  of  the  Depart- 
ment's scientists  being  to  cultivate  an  intelligent  ap- 
preciation of  beautiful  homes  among  the  people,  to 
the  end  that  all  the  communities  of  the  country, 
and  the  nation  at  large,  may  be  thereby  benefited. 
Local  residents,  and  owners  of  homes  in  Oakland 
Alameda,  San  Jose,  Berkeley,  San  Rafael,  Sausalito, 
and  other  towns,  would  do  well  to  avail  themselves 
of  this  opportunity  to  obtain  valuable  advice  for 
home  adornment.  The  bulletin  referred  to  is  offi- 
cially known  as  Farmers'  Bulletin  No.  195,  and  is 
entitled  "Annual  Flowering  Plants."  It  may  be  ob- 
tained upon  written  application  to  the  Department 
of  Agriculture  at  Washington,  D.   C. 

THE  PREVALENCE  OF  CANCER. 
A  New  York  surgeon,  with  an  eye  for  figures,  has 
issued  a  very  remarkable  statement  regarding  the 
prevalence  of  cancer  in  the  United  States.  He  says 
that  the  terrible  disease  has  had  a  most  remarkable 
growth  during  the  past  quarter-century,  and  he 
quotes  statistics  to  prove  his  assertions.  He  says 
that  the  highest  mortality  is  along  the  Pacific  Coast, 
where  the  rate  is  51.9  in  100,000,  and  that  among  the 
larger  cities  San  Francisco  leads  in  mortality,  the  fig- 


ures being  as  follows:  San  Francisco,  112  in  100,000; 
Philadelphia,  73.6;  New  York,  64.7;  Chicago,  63.3. 
The  New  York  authority  does  not  state  the  source 
of  his  statistics,  and  they  are  probably  home-made. 
Wherever  he  obtained  them,  their  publication 
throughout  the  country  will  certainly  have  a  ten- 
dency to  injure  the  entire  Pacific  Coast,  and  this 
city  in  particular.  Women  are  supposed  to  be  more 
prone  to  cancer  than  men,  and  the  wives  of  intend- 
ing immigrants  are  certainly  not  going  to  rush  into 
a  land  where,  according  to  the  New  York  physician, 
one  of  the  most  fearful  diseases  known  to  human- 
kind is  more  prevalent  and  more  deadly  than  any- 
where else  in  the  country.  We  do  not  believe  the  fig- 
ures given  are  reliable,  for  if  they  stated  facts,  they 
would  not  be  received  with  the  intense  astonishment 
with  which  local  physicians  have  read  them.  They 
are  somewhat  in  line  with  the  very  remarkable  sta- 
'  tistics  which  have  been  published  from  time  to  time 
regarding  the  prevalence  of  insanity  in  this  State. 
California  sometimes  suffers  in  the  statistical  column 
because  thousands  of  people  afflicted  with  incurable 
maladies,  mental  or  physical,  after  trying  all  the 
cures  known  to  the  East,  are  sent  here  by  their 
friends  in  a  last  endeavor  to  bring  them  back  to 
health.  Naturally,  many  of  them  are  incurable  when 
they  arrive,  and  when  their  cases  go  into  the  statis- 
tical tables,  California  is  thereby  burdened  with  the 
ills  of  strangers,  who  have  nothing  in  common  with 
us,  and  who  should  not  be  charged  against  us.  The 
cancer  canard  should  be  run  down  by  the  local  Board 
of  Health,  and  by  the  State  Board  also,  and  the  cor- 
rect figures  given  to  the  world,  so  that  the  city  and 
the  State  may  not  again  suffer  for  something  that 
does  not  exist. 


What  a  dreadfully  demoralizing  place  the  Philip- 
pines must  be!  An  army  officer  who  contracted  a 
bigamous  marriage  in  San  Francisco  has  been  pro- 
nounced insane,  and  his  disability  is  stated  to  be  due 
to  service  in  the  Philippines.  We  have  heard  that 
climate  of  Manila  made  accountable  for  all  sorts  of 
peculation  and  fraud;  we  have  heard  it  blamed  for 
what  the  strict  would  call  immoralities,  but  never 
yet  have  we  heard  it  accused  of  causing  bigamy  in 
San  Francisco.  A  trip  to  Manila  seems  to  be  a  nec- 
essary preliminary  to  a  full  enjoyment  of  life. 

People  who  get  their  religion  by  telephone  need 
not  expect  in  the  hereafter  to  listen  to  the  angels 
sing  except   by   long-distance  wire. 


UCHAS.  KLILUS  &  CO JJ 

&£XCL  US/VT.% 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who 
likes  to  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to 
bother  with  tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  in- 
to our  shop,  get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a 
log.    We  have  that  "Immediate  Service  System." 


May  7,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


tUdiliSnSflJPUBRARY  tableXHJ 


This  is  one  of  the  best  stories 
How  Tyson  which  it  has  been  my  good  fortune 
Came  Home,  to  read  for  a  long  time.  William 
A.  Rideing,  the  author,  whose  "Cap- 
tared  Cunarder"  showed  (or  the  first  time  what  he 
could  accomplish,  has  followed  up  his  success  and  has 
produced  in  the  novel  with  the  above  title  a  really 
interesting  and  wholesome  tale.  Not  that  it  is  by 
any  means  a  perfect  story ;  some  parts  are,  on  the 
contrary,  quite  hackneyed.  He  has  been  unable  to 
avoid  the  obvious,  and  in  one  instance,  that  in  which 
the  villain  is  discovered  to  have  wronged  the  sister 
of  the  principal  character,  he  has  made  too  evident 
a  bid  for  the  approval  of  the  multitude  who  doubtless 
would  expect  some  such  denouement.  This  might 
pass  unnoticed  with  the  ordinary  novelist  of  com- 
merce, but  Mr.  Rideing  belongs  to  so  superior  a  type 
that  this  incident  causes  a  feeling  of  disappointment 
and  something  of  regret.  It  is  a  little  too  bad,  how- 
ever, to  dwell  long  upon  the  blemishes  in  what  is, 
after  all,  a  fine,  healthy  bit  of  writing.  Poor  Tyson, 
who  dreamt  of  England  in  the  wilderness,  who  ideal- 
ized it  in  his  loneliness,  and  went  home  to  find  what 
it  really  was.  He  came  back  West  and  finished  his 
days,  small  blame  to  him,  and  discovered  that  home 
is,  after  all,  the  place  where  one's  affections  are  most 
closely  bound  up.  Strong  and  interesting  the  book 
undoubtedly  is,  and  every  one  who  reads  it  will  look 
forward  to  more  work  at  the  hands  of  the  same 
writer. 
John  Lane.    The  Bodley  Head,  New  York. 

This  book  is  placed  before  the 
Three  Years  in  public  at  a  seasonable  time  of 
the  Klondike.  year.  Fortune  hunters  are 
about  prepared  for  the  summer 
trip  to  Alaska,  and  will  appreciate  "Three  Years  in 
the  Klondike."  There  are  twenty-three  half-tone 
illustrations,  printed  on  a  fine  quality  of  paper.  There 
is  also  a  map  showing  the  Klondike  district.  The  au- 
thor carries  the  reader  from  San  Francisco  to  Daw- 
son in  a  well-written  description  of  the  varied  scenes 
encountered  on  the  way.  Experiences  with  snow, 
sleigh  journeyings,  stampeding,  fire,  robbery  and 
murder,  and  then  the  fortunes  and  misfortunes  of 
treasure-seekers  all  lend  to  the  interest  of  the  book. 
It  is  not  alone  of  interest  to  seekers  of  fortune  in 
Alaska,  but  is  of  value  to  the  student  who  wishes  to 
be  informed  of  the  manners  and  customs  of  the  na- 
tives. The  author  tells  us  that  all  necessary  vege- 
tables will  grow  near  the  main  stream  of  the  Yukon, 
as  well  as  food  for  horses.  A  man  can  now  take  his 
family  to  near  Dawson,  settle  in  one  of  the  valleys, 
and  sell  all  his  produce  at  good  figures  to  Dawson 
and  other  settlements  that  now  exist.  The  rigors 
of  the  winter  have  been  lessened  by  modern  innova- 
tions, and  people  who  can  winter  in  Montana  and 
Northern  Russia  would  almost  enjoy  existence  on 
the  banks  of  the  Yukon. 

(Edward  Arnold,  Publisher,  London.    For  sale  by 
A.  M.  Robertson,  San  Francisco.     Price,  $2.) 

In  his  new  story  of  London     life, 
Anna,  The.      Mr.  Oppenheim  takes  for  heroines 
Adventuress,     two  sisters,  Anna     and     Annabel, 
who  look  almost  exactly  alike.  An- 
nabel got  herself  talked  about  when  the  sisters  were 
living  in  Paris,  and  then  calmly  married  Sir  John 
Ferringhall,  a  prospective  M.  P.,  although  that  as- 
tute Britisher  thought  he  was  marrying  Anna.    This 
is   followed   by   many   complications.     The   subtle 


study  of  character,  as  shown  in  the  two  sisters,  is 
masterly.  The  subordinate  characters.  Sir  John  Fer- 
ringhall, David  Courtlaw,  and  others,  arc  delineated 
with  almost  as  much  ability.  But  it  is  for  his  power 
of  telling  a  story  that  Mr.  Oppenheim  first  made  a 
name,  and  in  none  of  his  novels  is  this  power  more 
manifest.  From  beginning  to  end  it  goes  on  increas- 
ing in  interest  as  it  progresses,  and  sparkles  with 
brilliant  conversation  and  unusual  situations. 

The  book  contains  sixteen  illustrations,  including 
a  poster  frontispiece  of  "Anna." 

(Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Publishers,  Boston.  Price, 
$1.50.) 

"I"  is  one  of  those  books  in  which,  as  the  adver- 
tisement says,  a  woman  tells  the  truth  about  herself. 
Experience  has  taught  the  reviewer  of  many  books 
that  this  sort  of  book  is  generally  unveracious,  and 
that  as  a  study  of  real  life  it  is  practically  useless. 
This  book  is  no  exception  to  the  rule.  The  writer's 
point  of  view  is  the  only  interesting,  and,  it  must 
be  confessed,  unpleasant,  part  of  the  story.  As  a 
study  in  morbid  self-consciousness  it  is  perhaps, 
within  certain  limits,  a  success.  As  a  contribution 
to  serious  study  of  human  nature,  it  is  an  unmitigated 
and  distinct  failure.  "I"  is  a  neurotic  egotist,  in  which 
the  sex  instinct  is  abnormally  developed,  and  whose 
self-consciousness  is  almost  hideous  in  its  exaggera- 
tion. One  does  not  know  whether  she  is  most  de- 
testable as  a  woman  who  accepts  gifts  from  a  man 
other  than  her  husband,  and  who  shrinks  with  a  sort 
of  unctuous  righteousness  from  the  consequences  of 
her  own  acts,  or  as  a  penitent  whose  overwrought 
self-flagellation  still  bespeaks  the  same  prurient  self- 
consciousness  as  the  yielding  to  her  sensuous  nature. 
There  is  a  diabolism  of  self-denial  just  as  there  is  of 
over-indulgence,  and  the  amiable  lady  who  spreads 
herself  for  our  delectation  over  three  hundred  and 
fifty  pages  of  type  is  all  the  way  through  the  victim 
of  diabolism  in  one  or  other  of  these  forms.  The 
introduction  says  that  the  picture  is  not  one  of  an 
ideal  woman.  If  the  term  ideal  be  used  in  the  sense 
of  unreal,  it  is  just  what  the  picture  is,  and  it  is  to 
the  credit  of  human  nature  that  it  is  so.  One  redeem- 
ing feature  is  that  the  author  has  wisely  chosen  to 
veil  herself  in  anonymity. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

Dust    soon   disfigures   your   summer   clothes.     It   is 

necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  damage  may 
be  repaired  and  an  expensive  suit  saved.  Appearances 
are  everything,  and  Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing 
Works,  127  Stockton  street  will  help  you  to  keep  them  up. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  curtains  and  such  articles. 
Goods  called  for  and  delivered  promptly. 


HAVE  YOU  HAD 
BREAKFAST  AT 


&/>e  *Red  Lion? 


HAVE  YOU  DINED  OR 
LUNCHED  AT 


&/>e  *Red  Lion? 

Fare,  service,  wines  and  table  appointments,  surpass  anything  pre- 
viously attempted  in  this  City.  English  Ale  on  draught;  and  the  finest 
line  of  liquors  and  cigars,  at  the  RED  LION  bar. 

The  RED  LION  GRILL  for  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  in  the  S.  F. 
Slock  Exchange  Building*  accessible  from  Pine  Street,  just  below 
Montgomery,  also  from  Bush  and  Montgomery  Streets  through  the 
Mills  Building. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


M— . 


FINANCIAL 


The     commercial      organiza- 

The  Coming  River     tions  of  the  bay,  and  contig- 

Convention.  uous  to  Sacramento  and  San 

Joaquin  Counties,  have 
called  what  is  known  as  the  River  Convention,  with 
the  intention  of  providing  some  effective  remedy  for 
floods  which  now  and  then  inundate  the  fertile  plains 
of  the  Sacramento  and  San  Joaquin.  Why  in  the 
world  they  should  eternally  allude  to  these  vast 
stretches  of  territory  as  valleys  is  something  not 
easily  divined.  The  convention  is  called  to  meet  on 
May  23d  at  the  Palace  Hotel.  The  project  is  colossal 
in  character,  and  one  which  will  involve,  if  it  is  de- 
termined to  make  the  work  thorough,  an  immense 
amount  of  time  and  labor.  The  $5,000,000  suggested 
as  the  likely  cost  of  cutting  a  new  channel  to  tide 
water  from  a  point  sufficiently  high  to  meet  the  exi- 
gencies of  some  unusually  wet  winter,  ought  for 
safety  sake  to  be  multiplied  by  ten.  Another  thing 
which  has  never  yet  been  considered  in  connection 
with  this  scheme  for  handling  the  overflow  of  water 
from  these  rivers  when  running  bank  high,  nor  has 
it  yet  ever  been  publicly  discussed,  is  the  tidal  move- 
ment which  no  down  current  has  ever  or  will  ever 
be  strong  enough  to  check  when  it  is  on  the  flow. 
This,  with  a  normal  rise  to  the  height  of  six  feet, 
must  always  be  a  factor  to  be  considered  in  any 
proposition  to  carry  off  the  surplus  water  from  the 
channel  cut  in  the  process  of  centuries.  That  the  old 
levee  system  would  answer  the  purpose  better  than 
anything  else  seems  to  be  susceptible  of  proof,  when 
the  years  are  taken  into  account  which  have  passed 
without  the  lamentable  losses  of  the  winter  just 
passed. 


The  new  method  of  dredging  material  for  construc- 
tion work  from  the  river  bottom  puts  it  within  reach 
of  owners  of  this  valuable  land  along  the  river  to 
secure  themselves  against  loss,  and  the  only  wonder 
is  that  they  have  not  to  take  the  precaution  to  pro- 
tect themselves  against  the  possibility  of  any  un- 
usual rise  of  the  river  to  the  danger  point.  The 
hope  is  expressed  in  local  mining  circles  that  the 
mercantile  organizations,  which  are  naturally  only 
too  desirous  of  helping  out  the  farming  element  of 
this  section  of  the  State,  are  not  being  used  by  the 
opponents  of  hydraulic  mining  to  inaugurate  a  new 
war  on  the  miner.  It  is  remarked  that  among  the 
interests  invited  to  attend  _  the  convention,  the 
Miners'  Association  of  California  does  not  appear. 
Some  eight  years  ago,  Lieutenant-Governor  Neff  ap- 
pointed a  committee,  consisting  of  Judge  Niles 
Searles,  Marion  Biggs,  Edward  Coleman,  Charles 
D.  Yale  and  W.  C.  Ralston  to  attend  one  of  these 
river  conventions  at  Sacramento.  They  went  ac- 
cording to  appointment,  but  were  allowed  to  cool 
their  heels  in  the  corridor,  nor  were  they  asked  to 
take  any  part  in  the  proceedings.  If  the  anti-debris 
men  are  to  have  a  hand  in  the  coming  convention,  the 
miners  should  be  represented  as  well  in  a  spirit  of 
fairness,  if  nothing  else. 


Gold  First — Then 
the  Farmer. 


The  gold  lost  to  the  State 
during  the  ten  years  which 
the  injunction  against  hy- 
draulic miners  prevailed  at 
the  instance  of  the  cabbage  growers  on  the  river  flats 
below,  is  estimated  at  between  eighty  and  one  hun- 
dred millions  of  dollars.     Now  that  the  dredgers  are 


at  work  on  the  upper  stretches  of  the  rivers,  the  loss 
is  being  regained  to  some  extent.  Speaking  of  the 
good  results  now  being  obtained  by  recovering  the 
yellow  metal  from  ground  hitherto  deemed  sacred 
to  the  orchardist  ana  agriculturist,  the  Call  of  to- 
day says  editorially :  "Along  the  Feather  and  Yuba 
rivers  the  modern  gold-dredging  machine  has  be- 
come a  great  producer  of  wealth.  The  deposits  of 
the  precious  metal  that  have  been  swept  down  by 
floods  for  thousands  of  years  have  been  discovered. 
Where  orcharded  areas  have  succeeded  the  yearly 
wheat  fields  by  the  river  banks  dredgers  for  gold 
have  come  to  effect  another  transformation.  The 
orchards  have  been  pulled  up  and  destroyed."  It 
seems  impossible  to  convince  the  fanatical  disciples 
of  the  so-called  Anti-Debris  Association  that  it  is 
'always  time  enough  to  grow  grain,  fruit  and  vege- 
tables on  gold-bearing  soil  after  its  valuable  product 
has  been  recovered.  However,  the  right  always  pre- 
vails at  last,  as  the  work  now  going  on  at  Oroville 
and  around  there  proves.  The  orange  growers  there 
were  a  little  too  previous,  that  is  all.  Now  that  the 
golden  store  has  been  taken  from  their  soil,  it  will 
go  to  pay  in  the  future  for  the  golden  fruit  they  will 
now  proceed  to  raise. 


The  price  of  the  S.  F. 
A  Light  which  Gas   and    Electric   Corn- 

Darkens  our  Darkness,     pany  has  not  bolted  out 

of  sight  as  a  great  many 
thought  it  would  upon  the  settlement  of  the  differ- 
ences which  existed  between  the  managerial  cliques, 
nor  is  it  likely  to  in  the  future.  Boosting,  for  the 
sake  of  appearances,  may  work  prices  up  a  few 
points,  but  the  advance  is  only  likely  to  continue 
until  some  outsiders  begin  to  sell,  and  then  look 
out.  There  is  one  thing  dead  certain — the  higher 
the  stock  goes,  the  more  money  there  will  be  for  the 
man  of  means  who  has  the  nerve  to  sell  upon  each 
advance  and  keeps  his  stock  out.  It  is  only  a  matter 
of  a  very  short  time  until  a  new  company  will  be 
heard  from.  There  are  one  or  two  propositions  now 
in  the  air,  but  they  need  not  be  taken  seriously.  The 
old  concern  has  the  means  to  smother  them  all  right 
when  the  encroachment  on  territorial  rights  and  pro- 
fits becomes  threatening.  For  the  benefit,  however, 
of  long-suffering  consumers  of  the  sickly  apology 
for  illuminating  gas  that  they  can  bank  on  relief 
from  a  quarter  backed  with  money  sufficient  to  give 
this  city  gas  works  on  a  scale  of  magnitude  compe- 
tent to  furnish  both  quality  and  quantity,  which  will 
be  required  for  the  rapidly  developing  necessities 
of  this  growing  community.  So  far  nothing  has  been 
made  public  regarding  a  retrenchment  in  the  old 
company's  affairs  in  the  way  of  cutting  down  the 
salaries  of  the  inside  office  people.  Possibly  the 
new  material  introduced  in  the  Board  at  the  last  elec- 
tion will  be  heard  from  in  time,  especially  as  the  posi- 
tion likely  to  be  taken  by  Mr.  Miller  on  this  subject 
was  very  clearly  delivered  before  he  joined  the 
Board. 


The  Comstock  Market,  while  quiet,  is  not  a  tempt- 
ing proposition  for  the  short  element,  which  relig- 
iously keeps  its  distance.  The  outlook  in  the  North- 
end  mines  has  had  wonderful  staying  powers,  the 
bullion  yield  of  Ophir  from  the  ore  discovery  made 
recently  showing  clearly  that  no  one  can  tell  from 
day  to  day  what  is  in  store  for  shareholders  in  one 


May  7.  «9<>4- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


of  these  mines  which  has  proved  the  wonder  of  the 
world. 


The  financial  situation  lure  is  dull,  notwithstand- 
ing the  quantity  of  money  held  by  the  banks,  and  the 
abundant  opportunities  which  could  be  made  here 
for  a  profitable  investment.  Business  with  the 
brokers  dealing  in  industrial  securities  is  unusually 
light  even  for  this  season  of  the  year. 

OBITUARY. 

Judge  Charles  N.  Fox  died  at  his  home  in  (  >ak- 
land  on  Monday.  Judge  Fox  practiced  law  in  San 
Francisco  for  more  than  twenty -five  years,  and  dur- 
ing most  of  this  time  acted  as  general  attorney  for 
the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company.  He  was  made 
the  successor  of  Jackson  Temple  on  the  Supreme 
Bench  by  appointment  from  Governor  Waterman. 
He  was  a  prominent  Odd  Fellow,  and  was  President 
of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Oakland.  Death  came 
to  him  through  a  stroke  of  paralysis. 

Alfrea  Rix  has  gone  to  his  fathers,  and  with  him 
goes  one  of  the  foremost  figures  in  California's  his- 
tory. Rix  was  a  stalwart,  strong,  uncompromising 
character,  one  of  the  builders  and  doers  of  things. 
On  his  Canadian  birthright  was  grafted  the  sound 
common  sense  and  ability  of  a  Vermont  education, 
and  this  was  topped  by  the  experiences  of  a  life 
in  the  earlier  and  more  stirring  days  of  California. 
He  was  remarkable  in  every  one  of  his  undertakings, 
and  in  none  more  so  than  in  the  fight  to  safeguard 
the  Nobel  patents.  Rix's  genius  in  patent  law  pro- 
tected the  inventor  of  dynamite  and  eventually  se- 
cured the  millions  for  the  great  philanthropist. 

The  litigation  over  this  patent  occupied  Judge  Rix 
for  years  in  the  courts  both  of  the  United  States 
and  Europe.  He  was  also  general  counsel  for  the 
Atlantic  Dynamite  and  Giant  Powder  Company,  as 
well  as  for  many  other  corporations.  His  practical 
bent  led  him  to  interest  himself  in  the  problem 
of  cable  railways  in  San  Francisco,  and  the  solution 
of  this  question  was  worked  out  with  his  professional 
aid.  Judge  Rix  was  married  twice,  but  survived  his 
second  wife,  who  was  Miss  Margaret  Tuite,  who 
died  in  1894.  He  leaves  four  sons — Julian  Rix,  the 
mechanical  engineer;  William  Rix,  of  the  legal  firm 
of  Bishop,  Wheeler  &  Hofler,  and  Alfred  Shirley 
Rix  of  San  Jose. 

AN  INJUDICIOUS  MOVE. 
In  view  of  the  fact  that  President  Roosevelt  is 
cracking  the  party  whip  over  the  Senate  in  order  to 
secure  the  confirmation  of  the  appointment  of  Crum 
as  Collector  of.  the  Port  of  Charleston,  South  Caro- 
lina, it  is  in  order  to  suggest  that  the  Republican 
Campaign  Committee  appoint  a  censorship  to  vise 
the  actions  of  the  Executive.  The  News  Letter  sug- 
gests that  Mr.  Crum  be  sent  as  Collector  to  the  Port 
of  Boston  or  New  York.  At  either  of  these  places 
there  would  be  no  objection,  and  Mr.  Crum  would 
finally  land  where  he  is  apparently  wanted.  Why 
force  him  on  a  community  that  has  no  use  for  him, 
and  where,  if  he  is  finally  confirmed,  his  life  will  be 
one  continual  misery.  Mr.  Roosevelt  would  find  his 
appointee  in  his  element  among  the  poor  white  trash 
of  the  Hub.  They  would  undoubtedly  feast  him  and 
fete  him,  and  one  of  the  principal  elements  of  op- 
position to  Mr.  Roosevelt  in  the  Solid  South  would 
be  removed.     This  is  not  a  joke. 

Playing  Cards,  Game  Counters,  Poker  Chips,  Dominos,  Chess, 
Checkers,  "Pit,"  "Flinch."  All  new  games  and  the  rules  for 
playing  them.     Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  741  Market  street. 


The  demand  at  public 
functions  for 

RUINART 
CHAMPAGNE 

is  a  convincing  approval  of  its 
superiority.  Ruinart  was  conspi- 
cuously the  favorite  at  the  recent 
opening  of  the  Hotel  St.  Francis 

HUBERT 
MERCANTILE  CO. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents 


4  1-2  Per  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Sayings  B.  &  L.  Association 

Pays  4  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  6  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFOBNIA    8TBEET,    SAN    FEANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital $8,000  000 

Paid  in  Capital l.ooolooo 

Guarantee  Capital 200I000 

Eeal  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIEECTOES 

A.  A.  Watkins,  Vice-President  W.  W.  Montague  &  Co President 

Charles  E.  Bishop,  Vice-President  Bank  of  California. . .  .Vice-President 

S.  Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist. .."..., Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen.  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &  L.  Association. 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  .Etna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker,  Portland,  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab,  Attorney-at-law Attorney 

The  Oakland 
Tribune 

is  delivered  into  more  homes  of  the 
masses  and  classes  of  Oakland  and 
Alameda  County  than  all  other  Oak- 
land, Alameda  and  Berkeley  dailies 
combined.  Reason — it's  the  best 
newspaper. 
W.  E.  DARGIE,  Pres.  T.  T.  DARGIE,  Sec'y 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


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;H««r>J>«  Cri«r"»  ."What  ihe  derit  »rr  thvu?' 
One,  t  tut  will  pfar  the  devil.  air.  wnfa  rou" 


./TOWN  CRIER 


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The  Methodists  who  have  been  holding  a  conven- 
tion in  this  city  are  eager  for  the  Christianization  of 
Japan.  It  must  be  confessed  that  the  nimble  little 
yellow  men  appear  to  be  holding  their  own  pretty 
well,  and  that  the  image  of  Buddha  seems  to  be  quite 
an  efficient  substitute  for  the  ikons  which  are  blessed 
in  such  numbers  and  sent,  like  patent  medicines,  as 
a  cure  for  all  the  ills  from  which  the  Russian  gener- 
als appear  to  be  suffering.  As  an  addition  to  Japan's 
material  strength  the  missionaries  would  not  appear 
likely  to  be  of  great  weight.  As  far  as  the  moral 
side  is  concerned,  the  report  of  an  American  woman, 
a  missionary  in  Siberia,  should  set  the  matter  at 
rest.  She  says  that  the  great  obstacle  to  the  Chris- 
tianizing of  the  native  Airicans  lies  in  the  low  mor- 
als of  the  visiting  Christians,  and  that  the  moral 
code  of  the  natives  is  much  stricter  than  that  of  the 
white  men  who  visit  them.  The  meddlesome  mis- 
sionary business  does  not  lead  to  much  else  than  the 
debauchery  of  the  native  population,  and  our  worthy 
local  Methodists  could  spend  their  spare  funds  much 
more  effectively  than  in  imposing  on  the  Japanese 
a  religion  which  they  do  not  want. 

"Sir  Harry  Westwood"  Cooper,  the  notorious, 
expects  shortly  to  regain  his  freedom,  and  has,  by 
the  way,  perpetrated  the  greatest  joke  upon  our 
San  Francisco  jail,  a  joke,  moreover,  which  should 
make  us  an  object  of  genial  ridicule  wherever  men 
know  how  to  laugh.  Cooper  has  succeeded  not  only 
in  being  married  in  jail,  without  the  consent  of  the 
authorities,  but  his  wife  is  about  to  present  him 
with  that  pledge  of  affection  for  which  all  good 
wives  sigh,  and  of  which  all  good  husbands  are  so 
inspiringly  proud.  He  is  a  shrewd  man,  this  Cooper, 
and  they  say  that  the  whole  arrangement  only  cost 
Mrs.  Cooper  twenty  dollars.  That  sum  appropriately 
expended  provided  the  happy  couple  with  a  nuptial 
chamber.  She  is  an  enterprising  young  woman,  and 
Cooper's  sixth  wife.  It  is  no  small  thing  to  match 
Henny  the  Eighth  in  the  matter  of  wives,  and  to  bluff 
the  prison  authorities  out  of  a  baby  as  well.  When 
Cooper  gets  out,  and  he  and  his  wife  work  together, 
some  of  us  will  have  to  be  pretty  wide  awake. 

I  have  called  attention  before  to  the  case  of  Ed- 
ward K.  Clarke,  who  was  drugged  into  a  marriage 
with  Rosalind  A.  Bower,  known  as  the  "Sweet-pea 
Girl."  It  is  worth  noting  this  remarkable  fact,  as 
showing  the  present  condition  of  the  San  Francisco 
bar.  Judge  Seawell  promptly  annulled  the  marriage 
and  Clarke's  attorneys  are  now  suing  him  for  nearly 
two  thousand  dollars  as  a  fee.  The  action  of  the 
attorneys  who  took  up  the  woman's,  case  has  already 
been  commented  upon,  and  the  same  comment  prac- 
tically applies  here.  No  one  will  be  safe  until  we 
have  a  strong  bar  association  and  fixed  fees  for  ser- 
vice. Unless  something  is  done,  every  decent  lawyer 
will  have  to  carry  the  stigma  that  goes  with  the  be- 
havior of  the  hyenas  of  the  profession. 

It  is  not  often  that  I  feel  moved  by  the  spirit  to 
praise  the  trial  judiciary,  but  the  action  of  Judge 
Cook  in  punishing  the  police  who  violate  the  injunc- 
tion against  interfering  with  the  women  at  the  so- 
called  Nymphia,  deserves  every  commendation.  We 
are  breeding  a  pretty  crowd  of  hulking  scoundrels 
in  the  force,  and  it  is  well  that  the  Judges  are  begin- 
ning to  recognize  it.  A  fine  of  fifty  dollars  deducted 
from  their  pay,  as  the  Judge  threatens,  should  help 
to  improve  their  manners.  Their  morals  are,  unfortu- 
nately, past  praying  for. 


What  a  palpitating  spirit  is  this  Alfred  J.  Water- 
house.  No  sooner  has  he  revisited  our  shores  than 
his  emotional  nature  shocks  our  nerves  by  its  crude 
spasms  and,  enthusiastic  sentiment  ooz«s  out  of 
him  like  fat  from  a  roasting  goose.  In  a  recent  out- 
burst he  refers  to  Markham's  "Man  With  the  Hoe" 
as  a  tremendous  presentation  of  truth,  whereas  it 
has  been  shown  over  and  over  again  to  be  nothing 
but  a  tremendous  example  of  the  effect  of  clever 
versifying.  It  is  poetry,  if  you  like,  but  to  claim  it 
as  truth  is  mad  folly,  that  only  a  benighted  Hoosier 
poet  could  be  guilty  of  it.  The  verses  which  the  rus- 
tic bard  gives  us  as  a  sample  of  the  music  of  the 
spheres  breathed  through  his  pipe,  are  as  musical 
as  the  whining  of  a  love-lorn  heifer.  To  rank  Joa- 
quin Miller  with  Virgil  and  Dante,  and  then  to 
throw  hints  upon  his  sanity — he  declares  that  he  is 
"unmaddened  by  the  madding  crowd" — should  tickle 
up  the  Bard  of  the  Sierras,  and  if  he  has  not  lost  his 
old  spirit  should  lead  to  the  effective  kicking  of  the 
offending  versifier. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  we  have  not  yet  succeeded 
in  handling  a  function  effectively.  The  launching  of 
the  California  gave  every  opportunity  for  a  good  dis- 
play. The  weather  was  good,  the  crowd  numerous, 
everything  was  propitious  for  a  fine  show,  and 
some  real  enthusiasm.  Instead  we  had  a  dingy  affair 
that  was  simply  fiat.  The  Governor,  with  his  pot- 
bellied staff — it  is  strange  that  the  Governor's  staff 
should  always  be  too  rotund  for  uniforms — and  the 
entire  absence  of  military  discipline  or  a  well-ordered 
programme,  made  a  dreary  farce  of  what  should  have 
been  a  stimulating  spectacle.  A  French  town  of  half 
our  size  would  have  had  more  fun  out  of  opening  a 
new  pickle  factory. 

It  is  pleasant  to  know  that  the  disputes  in  the  San 
Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  Company  are  ended ;  that 
the  President's  salary  has  been  reduced,  and  that 
harmony  prevails.  It  would  be  still  more  satisfac- 
tory, however,  to  know  that  prices  were  to  be  re- 
duced. It  is  said  that  the  directors  at  the  meeting 
sang  a  song,  of  which  the  chorus  is  as  follows : 

The   San   Franciscan  owns  the  world 

When  he  goes  out  o'  nights; 
But   he   is   only   half   a   man 
Because  we  own  his  lights. 

One  of  the  papers  says  that  the  Misses  Boxall 
are  psychological  studies.  That  is  a  mild  way  of 
saying  that  they  are  the  most  pathetic  figures  in  re- 
cent California  history,  and  he  would  be  a  poor  sort 
of  a  man  that  did  not  have  the  greatest  sympathy 
and  the  most  chivalrous  feeling  for  them.  As  for 
their  uncle,  the  man  Lloyd,  it  is  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable and  at  the  same  time  one  of  the  most  dis- 
creditable facts  in  the  history  of  the  State  that  he 
should  not  have  been  lynched.  The  worst  of  the 
lynching  business  is  that  the  wrong  man  seems  al- 
ways, or  nearly  always,  to  be  caught. 

One  of  our  prominent  local  orators  speaking  at  the 
banquet  of  the  Monticello  Club  is  reported  to  have 
said-  "All  wealth  springs  from  the  womb  of  earth, 
as  it  is  wooed  by  labor."  Labor  as  a  lover  is  a  new 
and  interesting  view  of  the  whole  industrial  question. 
The  boycott  thereupon  becomes  an  example  of  pas- 
sive wooing;  the  genial  cry  of  "unfair  house  is  a 
lover's  ditty,  and  the  failure  of  a  boycott  love  s  labor 
lost.     It  is  beautiful. 


May  7,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IMPORTANT   AUCTION   SALE   OF 

300   LARGE  VILLA  LOTS  300 


AT 


PALO   ALTO 


SATURDAY,  MAY  7th,  1904,  Facing  The  Stanford  University 

Special  Excursion  Train  Leaves  3rd  and  Townsend  Streets,  10:15 
a.  m.  Round  Trip  Tickets  $  1 .00.  Lunch  on  the  Grounds.  Pret- 
tiest Residence  District  in  Palo  Alto.     Catalogues  at  office  of 

C.  M.  WOOSTER  COMPANY 


648    MARKET    STREET 
SAN  FRANCISCO. 


A  NEW  PASSENGER,  FREIGHT    AND    PAR- 
CELS SERVICE. 

In  automobile  circles  there  is  a  great  surprise  im- 
pending. The  California  Auto  Express  Company  is 
going  to  spring  it.  This  company  has  been  organ- 
ized to  do  a  general  automobile  business  and  inci- 
dentally will  introduce  the  great  freight  machine, 
the  Fischer  System.  The  vehicles  of  the  Fischer  Sys- 
tem are  operated  under  the  agency  of  hydro-carbon 
and  electricity.  Each  truck  or  delivery  wagon  is  a 
"moving  power 'house,"  generating  its  own  means 
of  propulsion,  and  the  Fischer  has  proven  a  great 
success  in  manv  of  the  large  Eastern  cities.  A  gen- 
eral freight  service  will  be  placed  in  commission, 
and  a  great  saving  in  time  and  expense  effected  for 
the  large  shippers  of  the  city.  In  connection  will  be 
operated  a  passenger  service  from  the  Ferry  Build- 
ing to  several  points  on  Market  and  other  streets, 
on  a  regular  schedule.  The  cars  of  this  service  will 
be  the  style  of  the  "London  General  Omnibus  Com- 
pany, and  are  roomy  and  pleasant  to  ride  in  and  have 
the  added  convenience  of  dropping  passengers  at  the 
curb. 

The  California  Auto  Express  Company  will  oper- 
ate a  stable  system,  not  a  garage,  and  there  are  to  be 
innovations  here,  also.  The  company  will  have  the 
agency  for  four  high-class  machines,  and  they  pro- 
pose to  protect  their  clientage  to  the  farthest  extent. 
Machines  bought  from  them  will  be  under  a  year's 
guarantee  and  stabled  at  a  cost  of  $25  a  month.  A 
first-class  repair  shop  will  be  in  operation,  and  the 
charge  in  this  department  will  be  reasonable. 

The  manager  of  the  company  has  made  trips 
to  the  East  for  the  purpose  of  studying  existing  con- 
ditions in  the  great  mercantile  centers,  and  from 
these  trips  and  with  the  added  experience  of  the  best 
of  the  Eastern  managers,  of  similar  corporations,  a 
comprehensive  system  has  been  evolved.  Everything 
that  has  been  tried  and  found  wanting  has  been  elim- 
inated, and  every  good  feature  has  been  retained. 
Ideas  that  have  never  been  tried  in  other  places, 
but  which  are  applicable  to  San  Francisco,  have  been 
incorporated  in  the  general  plan.  The  features  that 
will  make  the  company  a  great  success  are  the  opera- 
tion of  a  passenger  service ;  secondly,  the  freight  and 


parcels  delivery  service  (which  has  been  a  long-felt 
want)  and  the  selling  of  only  first-class  high-power 
machines.  The  company  will  only  handle  time-tested 
and   quality-proven   automobiles. 

A  new  building  is  to  be  erected  for  the  use  of  the 
California  Auto  Express  Company,  as  the  present 
temporary  quarters  at  20  Golden  Gate  avenue  are 
too  small. 

The  News  Letter  wishes  the  new  venture  its  in- 
evitable success. 


Enormous  'Vosemite  Travel. 
Santa  Fe  travel  to  Yosemite  Valley  is  assuming 
enormous  proportions.  By  the  Santa  Fe  alone  may 
the  famous  California  Big  Trees  be  seen  without 
side  trip  or  extra  expense.  It  is  also  the  short-quick 
way.  Seats  on  the  stage  may  be  reserved  at  641 
Market  street,  Santa  Fe  office. 


Floating  Spots,  Dim  Vision, 

and  weak  eyes,  cured  by  Murine  Bye  Remedies.  A  home  cure 
for  eyes  that  need  care.  No  smarting;  soothes  eye  pain.  An  Eye 
Tonic. 


Br 


HM 
RISTOL   CO 


Varied  and  comprehensive  is 
the  display  of 

DIAMONDS,    PEARLS,    PRECIOUS 

STONES,  JEWELRY,  AND 

SILVERWARE 

now  being  shown  at  their  new 
establishment.  Calls  are  cor- 
dially invited. 

104-110    GEARY    STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


•yo6i  'L  Aej\[ 


Paraiso    SPr*n£s 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 

Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS,     Prop. 


BLITHEDALE 


MILL    VALLEY 


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The  smoke  has  cleared  away,  and  now  we  are  tell- 
ing one  another  how  it  happened.  But  the  disturb- 
ing element  in  the  Car  Men's  Union  has  not  been  re- 
moved. The  ambitious  man  who  essayed  through  the 
tears  of  women  and  the  privations  of  men,  the  finan- 
cial loss  of  capitalists,  and  through  general  disturb- 
ance, to  help  his  own  political  advancement,  is  still 
at  the  helm  in  street  car  union  matters.  The  car  em- 
ployes should  take  a  microscope  and  carefully  exam- 
ine all  the  actions  in  the  past,  present  and  future  of 
this  parasite — Cornelius.  It  may  mean  greater  pros- 
perity and  happier  times  for  the  union  to  perform 
a  capital   operation   and   cut  off  its  own   head. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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HMSBW*  SOCIETY 


Dear  Bessie:  Cards  are  still  the  chief  dissipation 
this  week.  There  have  also  been  some  luncheons, 
the  largest  of  which  was  given  by  Mrs.  George 
Boardman,  a  style  of  entertainment  to  which  she  is 
very  partial;  and  there  has  been  something  doing 
in  clubland  this  week.  The  Sorosis  had  its  annual 
breakfast  at  the  St.  Francis  on  Monday ;  the  Cali- 
fornia held  its  annual  election  on  Tuesday,  and  Mrs. 
W.  P.  Buckingham  read  "A  Winter's  Tale''  for  the 
Channing  Auxiliary  that  afternoon  ;  the  Forum  Club 
listened  to  a  "talk"  from  Miss  Agnes  Murphy  on 
Wednesday,  and  on  Thursday  the  Irving  Club  had 
its  annual  reception  at  Elks'  Hall,  when  Doctor  Stew- 
art delivered  a  lecture  on  modern  songs.  Then  be- 
sides ail  this,  a  new  club — the  Sequoia — due  to  the 
efforts  of  Miss  Edna  Robinson,  was  inaugurated  on 
Wednesday  night ;  and  at  the  Bohemian  Club  on 
Monday  night  Jim  Phelan  gave  a  large  dinner  in 
the  Red  Room  for  the  Willie  Vanderbilts.  Ap- 
ropos of  Mr.  Phelan,  I  wonder  if  autos  are  as  numer- 
ous where  you  are  as  they  are  becoming  in  San 
Francisco?  In  fact,  they  are  no  longer  objects  of 
curiosity,  but  are  regarded  as  quite  the  correct  thing, 
and  not  to  own  one  is  to  acknowledge  that  one  is 
away  in  the  rear.  I  saw  Jim  Phelan  in  one  yester- 
day, and  hear  he  is  almost  as  wrought  up  about 
them  as  was  Willie  Vanderbilt,  and  can  language 
further  go?  He  and  the  Rudolph  Spreckels  leave  for 
a  trip  to  Europe  next  week,  and  it  is  understood 
that  when  he  returns  he  will  be  the  owner  of  the 
latest  and  handsomest  thing  out  in  the  automobile 
line. 

Lulla  Wenzelburger's  tea  last  Saturday  was  for 
Eleanor  Eckart  Hume,  Eleanor  Warner  and  Mabel 
Donaldson — one  bride  and  two  fiancees — and  was  a 
large  affair;  pretty  flowers  and  lovely  spring  cos- 
tumes in  evidence  and  a  pleasant  time  generally. 
On  Wednesday,  I  went  over  to  Oakland  to  Mary 
Barker's  reception,  which  she  gave  for  May  Burdge 
Miller,  and  met  all  Oakland  society.  To-night  there 
are  to  be  two  dances — the  one  at  Century  Hall  will 
be  a  bachelor  affair.  The  other  is  to  be  given  by  Mrs. 
Campbell  and  Francis  Reid  at  their  home  in  Sausa- 
lito;  you  have  no  idea  how  that  place  is  growing,  so 
many  have  gone  over  there  to  live,  and  others  have 
their  summer  cottage  in  that  hilly  locale.  Let  me 
see  who  all  have  had  card  parties.  The  largest  was 
given  by  Mrs.  Somers  last  week  at  the  Sorosis  club 
house,  and  Kate  Dillon  had  a  bridge  party  the  same 
day;  she  is  becoming  quite  an  expert  at  the  game. 
The  Moultons,  Mrs.  Irving  and  Hallie  gave  card 
parties  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  and  the  clubs 
-which  have  been  in  force  all  winter  are  now  holding 
their  last  meetings  for  the  season. 

Birthday  celebrations  among  our  pioneers  have 
been  quite  a  fad  of  late.  Dear  old  John  Perry  held 
his  in  the  form  of  a  reception  to  commemorate  his 
89th  natal  day — is  he  not  a  wonderful  old  man? — 
and  looked  as  bright  and  spry  as  though  he  were  fully 
a  couple  of  decades  younger.  Then  followed  the  sup- 
per party  given  by  Burke  Holladay  to  his  pater,  Sam, 
he  of  the  flowing  locks,  on  attaining  his  81st  year. 
Aunt  Susie  was  telling  me  the  other  day  of  his 
wedding  to  Kate  Ord,  sister  of  General  Ord,  away 
back'  in  the  fifties.  And  next  in  order,  John  H. 
Jewett,  a  patriarch  of  80,  celebrated  his  birthday 
this  week  at  his  Cloverdale  ranch.  Truly  is  there 
something  in  the  air  of  California  to  keep  men  young, 


for  look  at  the  dean  of  them  all,  George  Bromley, 
\\  ho  bail  his  90th  birthday  breakfast  at  the  Bohemian 
Chili  the  other  day. 

I  have  been  hearing  a  good  deal  lately  of  the  de- 
lights of  a  visit  at  Mare  Island  from  a  lot  of  girls 
who  have  been  there  during  the  past  month  or  two, 
and  Edith,  who  came  back  from  there  the  other  day, 
declares  she  had  the  time  of  her  life  during  her  visit. 
The  dwellers  at  the  Yard  are  a  hospitable  lot,  card 
parties,  dinners  and  luncheons  being  exchanged 
among  them  nearly  every  day,  and  the  dances,  some- 
times got  up  on  the  spur  of  the  moment,  are  always 
delightful.  One  of  the  most  charming  affairs  given 
there  in  a  good  while  was  the  dancing  reception  on 
board  the  transport  Solace  last  week  by  Commander 
and  Mrs.  Bull,  who  had  as  their  guests  of  honor 
their  son,  Lieutenant  Bull  of  the  army,  and  his 
bride,  who  were  married  the  other  day  in  Washing- 
ton City,  and  who  sailed  last  Saturday  for  the  Phil- 
ippines. Apropos  of  brides,  let  me  tell  you  of  the 
wedding  of  Edna  Barry  and  Philip  Clay  at  St.  John's 
Church  in  Oakland  last  Saturday  afternoon,  the  Rev. 
E.  F.  Gee  officiating.  Pink  and  white  was  the  color 
scheme  both  in  decorations  and  costumes ;  Edna  wore 
white  satin  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace ;  Jane  Barry, 
her  maid  of  honor,  was  in  white  lace  over  chiffon, 
and  the  bridesmaids  wore  pale  pink  gowns,  big  white 
hats,  and  carried  white  flowers.  Robert  Bein  was 
best  man,  and  acquitted  himself,  I  hear,  to  the  ad- 
miration of  all  beholders. 

Where  people  are  going  and  when,  appears  to  be 
the  chief  topic  of  talk,  and  nearly  every  one  has 
perfected  their  plans  for  the  next  few  months.  Mrs. 
Martin  and  Grace,  and  the  Gaston  Ashes  returned 
to  their  Sausalito  homes  the  early  part  of  the  week; 
the  Frank  Sullivans  and  their  daughters  have  gone 
to  Santa  Cruz,  where  they  usually  spend  the  summer 
at  their  handsome  home  by  the  sea.  San  Rafael 
promises  to  be  in  high  favor  this  summer,  and  every 
day  nearly  one  hears  of  some  fresh  recruit.  Mrs. 
Fred  Tallant  had  not  quite  decided  when  I  saw  her 
the  other  day,  but  I  am  pretty  sure  it  will  be  her 
choice.  There  will  be  so  many  at  Sausalito  this 
summer  that  'tis  said  more  interest  will  be  taken  in 
yachting  and  things  nautical  than  for  some  time  past. 
The  Corinthian  Club  had  its  opening  afternoon  dance 
and  evening  jinks  at  the  pretty  Tiburon  club  house 
last  Saturday ;  the  San  Francisco  Club  had  its  jolli- 
fication at  Sausalito  the  Saturday  before.  Among 
others,  the  Jack  Merrills  will  be  there,  having  taken 
a  house  for  the  season.  Jane  Willshire  has  gone 
East  on  a  visit,  and  will  be  away  most  of  the  sum- 
mer. 


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Mrs.  Rogers  and  Millie  have  also  bid  us  adieu, 
and  they  are  well  on  their  way  to  Europe  by  this 
time;  Hazel,  who  has  been  East,  or  rather  South,  in 
Tennessee,  for  some  time,  will  join  them  in  New 
York  and  go  abroad  with  her  mother  and  sister  for 
what  promises  to  be  an  extended  absence.  I  have 
heard  three  years  spoken  of  as  the  probable  time. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Landers  are  also  gone  from  our 
gaze,  but  have  left  Pearl  behind  them,  she  remain- 
ing with  her  sister,  Mrs.  Fred  Tallant,  during  their 
absence.  Rumors  get  started  in  the  most  wonderful 
way  of  what  people  intend  to  do;  one  is  that  the 
Buckley  girls  are  going  abroad  after  their  visit  to 
the  St.  Louis  exposition ;  and  another  I  told  you  of 
last  week  that  Kate  Voorhies  Henry  was  on  the  eve 
of  departure  for  Europe ;  but  she  is  not  going  abroad 
after  all,  but  will  spend  the  summer  here  and  go 
East  with  her  mother  in  the  autumn.  Mrs.  McCalla 
and  Stella  went  East  last  week,  but  will  be  back 
again   early   in  June. 

Jennie  Blair  is  credited  with  turning  her  thoughts 
towards  Clear  Lake  during  the  early  part  of  the 
season,  taking  in  St.  Louis  later;  Nanny  Rogers  has 
been  over  in  Ross  Valley  staying  with  her  brother 
Henry  and  his  wife,  who  have  taken  up  their  abode 
under  the  shadow  of  Mount  Tamalpais;  Mrs.  Rog- 
ers is  in  seclusion,  owing  to  the  death  of  her  step- 
mother, Mrs.  de  Santa  Marina.  We  shall  soon  have 
an  opportunity  of  judging  of  the  Harney  girls,  over 
whom  their  grandmother,  Mrs.  Cutter,  has  been 
raving,  as  they  sailed  for  home  last  Wednesday, 
and  are  to  be  here  before  the  end  of  the  month.  They 
will  form  part  of  the  Martin  colony  at  San  Mateo 
this  summer,  where  Downey  has  taken  a  house,  and 
the  eldest  girl — Anita — is  to  be  one  of  next  winter's 
buds.  I  hear  Mrs.  Irwin  and  Helen  will  spend  the 
latter  part  of  the  summer  in  Honolulu ;  they  did  not 
go  last  year,  and  will  sail  directly  they  return  from 
their  trip  East.  The  Stents  have  been  heard  from 
at  Coronado  on  their  leisurely  way  East,  seeing 
everything  in  the  rosiest  hue— at  least  Frances  is. 
Mrs.  Davenport  and  Eleanor  hope  to  be  in  their  new 
home  on  Pacific  avenue  in  a  couple  of  months,  and 
then  we  shall  see  all  the  pretty  things  they  brought 
home  from  their  recent  travels. 

Daisy  Whitnev  and  Parker  have  been  down  again 
this  week  from  Rocklin  to  take  in  the  sights  of  the 
city — dry  goods  and  otherwise;  and  in  a  couple  of 
weeks  or  so,  Mrs.  Martin  Crimmins  will  put  in  an 
appearance  from  the  North  on  a  visit  to  Mrs.  Cole, 
and  will,  I  believe,  remain  in  San  Francisco  the 
greater  part  of  the  summer. 

—Elsie. 


The  Ladies'  Stringed  Orchestra,  Miss  Rose  Bran- 
don, director,  rendered  some  beautiful  Italian  melo- 
dies and  Italian  selections  at  the  Centurv  Club  rooms 
on  Saturday  last,  and  later  in  the  day  delighted 
the  participants  at  the  Grunsky  tea. 

The  programme  of  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart's  concert, 
which  takes  place  at  Steinway  Hall  on  Thursdav 
evening,  May  12th.  contains  many  attractive  novel- 
ties. Several  of  Dr.  Stewart's  recentlv  published 
songs  will  be  heard  for  the  first  time  in  public,  and 
amongst  these  mav  be  mentioned  "Contrasts"  and 
"A  Boat  Song"  fMiss  Carrie  B.  Dexter")  ;  "A  Winter 
Love  Song"  (Mrs.  L.  Snider-Tohnson) ;  "A  Little 
Wav"  fMiss  Ella  V.  McCloskev)  ;  "For  Love  of 
Thee"  (Miss  Camille  Frank)  ;  "A  California  Night 
Song."  with  'cello  obligato  (Mrs.  Wallace  Wheaton 
Briggsl  ;  "The  Lords  of  Song"  and  "The  Angelus" 
(Mr.   S.  Homer  Henley).     Mrs.   Blanche   King  Ar- 


nold will  sing  Beethoven's  "Adelieda"  and  "In 
questa  tomba,"  and  Mr.  Paul  Freidhofer  will  contrib- 
ute some  violoncello  solos.  The  concerted  music 
includes  the  celebrated  trio  of  the  Rhine-Maidens, 
from  Wagner's  "Gotterdammerung." 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  this  week:  Mr.  C.  Sonn- 
tag,  Mr.  Robert  McMahon,  Mr.  Leavitt  Baker,  Mr. 
Herbert  Baker,  Mr.  S.  L.  Jones,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  S. 
Grinbaum,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webster  Jones,  Mrs.  Long, 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  S.  W.  Truitt,  Mr.  C.  P.  Pomeroy,  Mrs. 
G.  E.  Whitman  and  daughter,  Mr.  P.  H.  Lombard, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  A.  Younger,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  A. 
Hunsaker,  Mr.  M.  D.  Miller,  Miss  M.  Miller,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  F.  Israel,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Smith,  Mr.  W.  H. 
Morrison,  Mr.  W.  L.  Meussdorffcr.  Mrs.  Pauline 
Franklin,  Mr.  Julius  Van  Vliet,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Soderberg,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  Fitch  and  daughter, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Welcker,  Mr.  F.  L.  Berry,  Mr. 
Harry  P.  Franklin. 

AT  HOME. 

Monday — Mrs.   Jenkins,   nee   Fisher,   Bella   Vista. 

Thursday — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Abbott  White- 
more,  nee  Wayte,  May  12th,  4  to  6  and  8  to  11 
p.  m.,  2529  Van  Ness  avenue.  ' 

Friday — Mrs.  Arthur  Scott,  May  13th,  305  Buchanan 
street. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Margaret  Bartlett,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  Bartlett,  of  Fruitvale,  to  Harold  White 
Wetherall,  of  San  Francisco. 

Miss  Constance  V.  Lawrence,  daughter  of  Mrs.  M. 
V.  Lawrence  to  Robert  Armstrong  Dean,  son  of 
the  late  Peter  Dean. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

May  11  (Wednesday) — Miss  Ella  Goodall  to  Doctor 
Charles  Minor  Cooper. 

BREAKFAST. 

May  14  (Saturday) — By  the  Century  Club  at  their 
clubrooms  on  Sutter  street. 

CHARITABLE. 

May  7  (Saturday) — Vaudeville  Show  and  Garden 
Party  at  Arbor  Villa,  Oakland.  In  aid  of  four- 
teen charities. 


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PURE  FOOD  AND  THE  ENTRANCE  FEE. 

The  Food  Exhibition  at  the  Mechanics'   Pavilion 

his  been  a  farce  ami  a  failure  as  far  as  the  attend- 
ance, and  the  consequent  benefit  to  the  exhibitors,  is 
concerned.  A  charge  of  twenty-five  cents  was  made 
for  a  show  that  any  one  may  see  at  any  well  regu- 
lated grocery  store  free.  A  visit  to  any  one  of  the 
large  general  stores  of  the  city  would  be  more  profit- 
able. The  News  Letter  has  already  shown  that  the 
exhibit  was  not  in  any  way  a  "pure  food  exhibit." 
and  this  element  of  interest  being  removed,  the  in- 
terest in  the  exhibit  waned.  There  is  no  doubt  that 
some  of  the  exhibits  were  pure  food  exhibits,  but  the 
main  portion  of  the  preserves,  catsups,  spices  and  the 
drugs  and  liquors,  the  baking  powders  and  the  sweet 
oil,  were,  as  they  are  in  nearly  all  our  stores,  the 
vilest  adulterations.  The  present  city  administration 
claims  to  have' the  welfare  ot  the  "common  people" 
at  heart,  and  yet,  as  far  as  we  know,  the  efforts  of 
the  News  Letter  have  not  found  an  emulator  on  the 
Board  of  Health.  We  have  cried  aloud  against  the 
imposition  of  adulterated  foods,  and  it  has  been  as  a 
voice  in  the  wilderness.  The  daily  newspapers  have 
had  a  chance  to  do  something  practical ;  nay,  the 
chance  still  exists,  and  yet  we  have  not  heard  the 
slightest  whisper  of  condemnation.  We  have  stood 
alone  and  told  the  truth  about  the  falsified  preserves, 
the  salicylic  acid  catsup,  and  the  nut-husk  spices, 
etc.,  etc.  It  is  possible  that  the  Board  of  Health  has 
no  knowledge  of  the  facts.  If  the  Board  does  not 
care  to  incur  the  expense  of  analysis,  or  if,  through 
laziness,  the  individual  members  have  no  desire  to 
act,  the  News  Letter  will  furnish  the  samples  and 
the  analyses. 

It's  up  to  you,  gentlemen  of  the  Board  of  Health ! 

The  promoter  of  the  enterprise  should  be  made 
to  return  the  individual  grocers  the  money  expended 
on  preparation  of  booths  and  for  the  rental  of  stalls. 
In  some  instances  this  has  amounted  to  a  great  deal, 
and  as  the  crowds  did  not  come  and  the  benefit  did 
not  accrue,  these  exhibitors  have  a  right  in  equity 
to  demand  their  money  back.  It  is  only  simple  jus- 
tice. The  exhibitor  carried  out  his  part  of  the  econ- 
tract  to  the  letter,  while  the  other  party  to  it  did 
not.  It  is  doubtful  if  the  promoter  of  the  scheme  ever 
believed  in  the  ultimate  benefit  to  those  exhibiting. 
It  has  been  an  expensive  lesson,  and  no  one  has 
benefited,  while  the  city  authorities  have  probably 
lost  a  splendid  opportunity  to  pounce  on  the  adul- 
terators of  food  while  they  were  in  a  convenient 
bunch  for  prosecution. 


George  E.  Butler,  well-known  insurance  agent,  has 
moved  to  handsome  new  quarters,  corner  Pine  and 
Battery  streets.  This  is  one  of  the  sunniest  corners 
in  town.  Mr.  Butler  is  agent  for  Phoenix  Assurance 
Company,  Providence-Washington  Insurance  Com- 
pany, and  Pelican  Assurance  Company. 


Wedding  Gifts. 

Just  received  a  new  and  beautiful  assortment  of  bronzes,  minia- 
tures, artistic  furniture,  lamps  and  electroliers,  china,  Bohemian 
and  cut  glass,  clocks  and  artistically  framed  pictures.  Particu- 
larly suitable  for  wedding  presents.  S.  &  G.  Gump  Co.,  113  Geary. 


You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zinkand'a,  which  Is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  atter-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
the  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  inspiring  music, 
and  is  patronized  by  the  smart  set. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


A   Bright  Thought 


Get  your  house  wired  for  this,  that  or  the 
other  useful  electrical  device,  and  note  the  saving 
in  work  and  worry,  the  addition  to  your  com- 
fort. We  estimate  on,  supply  and  install  electric 
light  wiring,  burglar  alarms,  gas  lighters,  fans, 
call  bells  and  annunciators,  house  'phones,  etc. 

Act  on  the  bright  thought  to-day. 


NATIONAL     ELECTRIC    CO. 

455  SUTTER  ST.        Telephone  Bush  639.      SAN  FRANCISCO 


WRINKLES  and  FACIAL  BLEMISHES 

Removed  by  New  Process  (Guaran- 
teed.) Face  Massage,  Manicuring 
and  Scalp  Massage 

AT    YOUR    HOME, 

by  appointment 
MME.    H.    EASTWOOD 

1307  Larkln  St.,  S.  P.  Tel.  Larkin  2646. 


MISS  CAROLINE  HALSTED  LITTLE 

Will  Receive  Pupils  in  Singing 

The  Roosevelt 

546  Sutter  Street,  Room  58,  on  Tuesday  and  Friday 
Oakland,  3621   Broadway,  Monday  and  Thursday 


r 


SPRING      WEDDINGS 

Original,  artistic  designs  in 
FLORAL     DECORATIONS,     MENU     AND    TALLY     CARDS    A    SPECIALTY 

Estimates  cheerfully  furnished 

MISS    CHARLOTTE    F.    WILLIAMS 
121  Post  Street     Boom  18.    Tel-  John  1911     San  Francisco 


) 


LADIES! 


Wrinkles   and   all  Facial  Blemishes   re- 
moved by 
PR.OF.    S.    DE    LOUTSKY 

Latest  Parisian  Method 

Superfluous  hair  removed  permanently 

by  electrolysis-    Also  moles,  warts,  etc. 

Scalp  treatment  and  manicuring.    Call  or 

write  1567  Tostbtreet.  San  Fram-isco. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON 


May  is  the  month  which  poets  sing 
And    vaunt   and    praise,    like   anything; 
When  roses  bloom,  and  lambkins  skip, 
When   picknickers   on    Sunday   trip, 
Strew  dirty  paper  o'er  the  land, 
And  come  back,  bearing  in  their  hand, 
The   flowers  suburbanites   have  grown 
And  hoped  in  vain  to  call  their  own. 

*  *  * 

Since  the  Native  Sons  returned  from  their  con- 
vention at  Vallejo,  tales  have  been  whispered  about 
some  things  that  happened  there — and  why.  The 
friends  of  Louis  Mooser,  sometime  treasurer  of  the 
Democratic  State  Central  Committee,  an  adherent 
of  McNab,  and  until  very  recently  a  political  oppon- 
ent of  Hearst,  are  busy  explaining  how  Mooser  was 
defeated  for  the  office  of  Grand  Trustee.  Various 
reasons  are  given,  but  behind  all  of  them  appears 
one  painful  fact  which,  it  is  admitted,  did  more  to 
defeat  Mooser  than  anything  else.  That  is  his  pres- 
ence on  the  political  war  path  aiding  the  Hearst 
boom.  Mooser  did  not  attend  the  Grand  Parlor,  for  he 
was  somewhere  up  in  Oregon  or  Washington  as- 
sisting Mike  Tarpey  in  capturing  stray  delegates 
from  the  cow  counties.  Now,  though  many  of  the 
Native  Sons  at  Vallejo  are  prominent  in  politics,  it 
is  worthy  of  remark  that  most  of  them  seemed  to 
consider  Mooser's  activity  in  the  Hearst  campaign 
as  something  reprehensible,  and  unworthy  of  a  man 
who  aspired  to  be  a  Grand  Officer  of  the  organization. 
One  main  object  of  the  Native  Sons  is  to  elevate  the 
moral  tone  of  the  community.  Whether  or  not 
Mooser's  attitude  as  a  Hearst  boomer  was  consid- 
ered antagonistic  to  the  principles  of  the  order,  only 
those  who  defeated  the  young  man  at  Vallejo  can 
tell.  For  Mooser  was  defeated  badly;  he  received 
only  sixty  odd  votes  out  of  a  total  of  over  300.  A 
remarkable  sequel  was  that  in  publishing  the  account 
of  the  election  of  the  Grand  Trustees,  the  Exami- 
ner omitted  all  mention  of  Mooser's  name.  The 
names  of  all  the  other  candidates  and  their  votes 
were  published,  but  not  even  a  reference  was  made 
to  the  man  who  doubtlessly  owes  his  defeat  directly 
to  his  activity  in  Washington  and  Oregon  in  behalf 
of  his  unappreciative  master.  Now  that  Mooser  has 
assisted  in  turning  Washington  and  Oregon  away 
from  Hearst,  and  has  shown  his  own  weakness  in 
the  Native  Sons,  Hearst  will  probably  have  no  more 
use  for  him. 

*  *  * 

The  Natives  are  also  whispering  about  the  encoun- 
ter between  the  fearless  Billy  Gett  and  the  Admiral 
at  the  latter's  board,  on  the  occasion  of  the  hospi- 
talities extended  the  Sons  at  Mare  Island.  The  con- 
versation was  general,  and  many  topics  were  dis- 
cussed. It  was  not  until  the  subject  of  "expansion" 
was  tossed  about  that  Billy  Gett  broke  loose. 
He  told  the  Admiral  just  what  he  thought  about  ex- 
pansion and  about  the  position  of  the  Government 
on  that  question,  and  about  other  things.  The  Ad- 
miral was  at  something  of  a  disadvantage,  consider- 
ing the  occasion,  and  the  Honorable  Billiam  easily 
carried  off  the  honors  of  the  day.  "That  Billy  Gett 
is  a  corker,"  the  Natives  say. 

*  *  * 

In  defending  a  mediumistic  client,  who  had  sepa- 
rated a  farmer  from  $500,  in  exchange  for  stock  in 
an  oil  well,  which  exists  in  spirit  land,  Colonel 
Kowalsky  told  a  story  of  being  chased  by  a  bull  over 


in  Marin  County.  Being  more  agile  than  his  compan- 
ion, he  outfooted  the  bull  and  vaulted  the  fence  like 
a  bird.  His  companion  was  gored  and  died  from 
his  wounds.  Twenty  years  later,  said  Kowalsky, 
he  met  on  an  ocean  steamer  a  medium  whom  he  had 
never  seen  before.  This  medium  went  into  a  trance 
as  soon  as  he  saw  the  Colonel.  There  was  nothing 
else  to  do.  Then  he  called  up  Kowalsky's  bull-rid- 
den friend  from  spirit-land,  and  recounted  the  ad- 
venture in  Marin  County.  The  Colonel  told  the  tale 
to  prove  the  efficacy  of  spirits.  Judge  Hunt  listened 
to  the  story,  and  promptly  decided  that  Kowalsky's 
mediumatic  friend  had  buncoed  the  farmer  out  of 
$500,  which  was  an  eminently  just  decision.  Now 
when  Kowalsky  tells  that  bull  story  again  he  will 
please  let  us  know  what  kind  of  bulls  romped  in 
Marin  County  twenty  years  ago  that  one  could  not 
catch  him  in  a  foot-race.  Was  that  bull  of  the  fa- 
mous "bull  con."  breed.''  The  Colonel  should  also 
inform  a  waiting  public  to  what  kind  of  a  bird  he 
referred  when  he  said  he  went  over  the  barbed 
wire  fence  "like  a  bird."  Just  close  your  eyes  for  a 
minute  and  imagine  you  see  the  Kowalsky  vaulting 

a  barbed  wire  fence  "like  a  bird." 

*  *  * 

A  writer  in  an  Eastern  journal  says  that  a  vocabu- 
lary of  only  350  words  is  sufficient  for  all  ordinary 
purposes.  If  Supervisor  Braunhardt  would  only  re- 
member  that! 

*  *  * 

Miss  Emma  S.  Richards,  formerly  of  Los  Angeles, 
who  conducted  her  own  breach  of  promise  suit 
against  J.  J.  Willingham  in  Judge  Graham's  court, 
has  raised  a  new  question  in  legal  technicalities.  Be- 
ing asked  whether  she  had  any  objections  to  the 
jury,  Miss  Richards  beamed  upon  the  jurors,  and  coy- 
ly said :  "They  certainly  look  good  to  me."  Thereupon 
the  defendant's  attorney  roared  dozens  of  objections, 
but  the  jurors  chuckled  and  blushed.  Now,  the 
question  is,  if  the  jurors  certainly  looked  good  to  the 
fair  deceived  woman  who  had  builded  all  her  hopes 
of  happiness  upon  one  man,  why  couldn't  she  say 

so?    The  jurors  did  not  object. 

*  *  * 

The  Health  Officer  and  the  Chief  Inspecting  Phy- 
sician have  been  allowed  $25  a  month  each  by  the 
Board  of  Health  for  "<:ar  fare."  That  is  an  average 
of  over  eighty  cents  a  day  for  every  day  in  the  month, 
or  an   allowance  of  sixteen  daily  trips  on  the  cars 


"WOLF" 


BRAND 


BLOOD,  WOLFE  &  CO'S. 

RENOWNED 

"GUINNESS'S    STOUT" 

Oldest  and  best  known  brand  of  Porter  on  the  Coast, 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO 
Sole  Agents.  314  Sacramento  St.,  San  Francisco. 


May  7,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


for  every  day  in  the  month.  No  one  wants  to  say 
that  this  is  only  another  case  of  petty  graft  in  the 
Board  of  Health,  but  the  allowance  does  seem  some- 
what excessive.  The  United  Railroads  give  trip 
tickets  to  other  departments  at  the  City  Hall,  for 
which  iv  1  charge  is  made.  Doubtless  the  Hoard  of 
Health  could  get  such  tickets  upon  application,  but 
then,  the  two  physicians  would  not  get  the  allow- 
ance. 

*  *  * 

George  D.  Collins  has  rushed  to  the  defense  of 
Judge  Carroll  Cook  in  the  somewhat  notorious  in- 
junction case  whereby  the  police  have  been  estopped 
from  arresting  the  inmates  of  the  vile  resort  on  up- 
per Dupont  street.  Collins  defeated  Cook!  Well, 
that  is  as  it  should  be. 

*  *  * 

The  wardens  of  the  State  prisons  are  on  the  right 
track.  At  Folsom,  the  order  has  gone  forth  that  all 
convicts  must  be  kept  clean-shaven  and  close-crop- 
ped. Their  privileges  have  been  curtailed  in  other 
respects,  and  the  inmates  are  commencing  to  realize 
that  they  are  under  imprisonment,  and  not  at  a  sum- 
mer resort.  At  San  Quentin  the  guards  have  been 
sent  to  the  rifle  ranges,  and  the  men  who  cannot  hit 
the  bull's-eye  have  been  notified  that  unless  they 
can  do  so  in  a  month,  their  services  will  be  no  longer 
required.  Stricter  regulations  have  been  needed  at 
the  penitentiaries  for  a  long  time.  Convicts  are  sent 
to  San  Quentin  and  Folsom  for  punishment,  and  not 
to  grow  fat  and  saucy. 

*  *  * 

Coxey,  who  led  the  famous  Coxey's  army  to  the 
White  House,  is  now  a  capitalist.  The  other  day  he 
borrowed  half  a  million  from  an  Eastern  bank  upon 
the  bonds  of  a  steel  corporation ;  Sam  Parks  is  rest- 
ing from  his  labors,  with  thousands  in  the  bank; 
Cornelius,  the  leader  of  the  local  Carmen's  Union, 
is  said  to  have  $28,000  at  his  command.  Labor  agi- 
tation seems  to  be  a  good  thing  for  some  labor  agi- 
tators. 

The  University  Club  is  in  its  usual  dilemma.  Some 
of  its  members  want  to  branch  out  on  a  high  finan- 
cial scale  and  place  the  club  on  a  better  footing; 
others,  who  may  be  quite  as  willing  to  enjoy  the 
benefits  of  the  suggested  improvements,  look  with 
fear  and  trembling  at  the  schedule  of  costs.  The 
discussion  has  been  prolonged  and  fierce,  and  the 
end  is  not  yet.  Whatever  the  outcome  of  the  build- 
ing project  may  be,  it  is  apparent  that  if  the  club 
would  continue  its  existence,  it  must  acquire  new 
vitality.  Its  field  is  limited,  many  of  its  members 
belong  to  other  organizations,  and  it  cannot  expect 
to  retain  its  hold  upon  them  unless  it  "gets  a  move 
on."  No  club  ever  lived  on  reminiscences  and  aca- 
demic discussions  alone. 

*  *  * 

Victoria,  of  Wales,  rides  astride.     Girls,  get  your 

trousers  ready. 

*  *  * 

The  appointment  of  Dr.  Millar  to  fill  the  place 
recently  vacated  by  Dr.  Brackett  at  the  Emergency 
Hospital  shows  that  Mayor  Schmitz  sometimes  has 
his  own  way  with  appointments,'  notwithstanding 
the  wishes  of  his  political  mentors.  Ruef  favored 
the  apointment  of  Dr.  Stevens  to  the  vacancy.  Stev- 
ens is  a  Primary  Leaguer  and  did  some  service  for 
Ruef  in  the  last  campaign.  But  Schmitz  had  been 
impressed  by  the  abilities  of  Millar,  who  is  a  hold- 
over from  the  Phelan  Board  of  Health,  and  the 
Mayor  decided  that  ability  rather  than  politics  should 


Pears' 

What  is  wanted  of  soap 
for  the  skin  is  to  wash  it 
clean  and  not  hurt  it. 
Pure  soap  does  that.  This 
is  why  we  want  pure  soap; 
and  when  we  say  pure, 
we  mean  without  alkali. 

Pears'  is  pure  ;  no  free 
alkali.  You  can  trust  a 
soap  that  has  no  biting  in 
it    that's   Pears'. 

Established  over  100  years 


determine  the  choice  of  a  head  for  the  emergency 
hospital  service. 

It  seems  to  be  the  unanimous  opinion  of  our  busi- 
ness and  social  leaders  that  The  Red  Lion,  recently 
opened  in  the  S.  F.  Stock  Exchange  Building  on 
Pine  street,  equals,  if  it  does  not  surpass,  the  most 
exclusive  of  the  New  York  grills.  It  cannot  be  de- 
nied that  the  cuisine  and  service  are  unexcelled.  The 
spacious  dining-room  is  luxuriously  and  tastefully 
fitted  up,  and  Red  Lion  banquets,  dinners  and 
lunches  seem  to  be  the  sensation  of  the  hour.  The 
manner  in  which  this  company  has  combined  luxu- 
rious service  and  the  choicest  viands  with  popular 
prices  is  a  revelation  to  our  bankers,  brokers,  law)'ers 
and  merchants.  Both  ladies  and  gentlemen  are  de- 
lighted with  the  enterprise. 

Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all  druggists. 


Tesia  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  $7.60  per  ton;  half-ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesia  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hats  —Eugene  Korn,  746  Market  St., 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  Derbys,  soft  hats,  gent's  and 
ladies'  straws. 


Fine    stationery,    steel    and    copperplate    engTaving.    Cooper 

&  Co.,   746  Market  street,   San  Francisco. 


We  are  sole  agents  for  Fountain  Pens  that  will  suit  your  hand, 
do  not  leak,  and  will  write  without  coaxing.  Price,  $1  to  55. 
Sanborn,   Vail   &  Co.,   741  Market  street. 


"BAB'J"' 


Epicurtan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


"Bhe  James  H.    Bibcock   Catering   Co. 


212.214  California  St. 


409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


»  ob«r  00  w»od  but  Pleasure's — Tou  Moofe 


jPLEASURE'S  WANDP 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ORPHEUM— A  splendid  vaudeville  entertainment 

COLUMBIA— Bogers  Brothers  "In  London"— Extravagantly  mounted 
and  delightful  extravaganza. 

CENTRAL— Hersehell  Mayall— "Dr  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde"— Very  good. 

TIV0L1— When  Johnny  Comes  Marching  Home— Spectacular  Military 
Opera 

CALIFORNIA— "Tom's  Wedding  Gift"— Better  if  the  play  had  not  been 
written 

GRAND— Melbourne  MacPowell— "La  Tosca"— A  clever  conception  of 
the  author's  lines. 

ALCAZAR— "The  Profligate"— An  artistic,  enjoyable.,  and  finished 
performance 

CHUTES — High  class  specialties— New  attractions  in  Zoo 


"The  Land  of  the  Heart's  Desire"  is  a  good  title 
to  conjure  with,  and  the  play  was  as  good  as  the  title. 
There  is  a  subtle  mysticism  running  through  the 
whole  plot,  which  is  a  very  simple  one,  and  the 
witchery  was  catching.  The  audience  drank  it  in 
and  wanted  more. 

Miss  Wycherly  is  a  fine  actress  and  her  powers  in 
pantomine  and  facial  expression  are  great.  "The 
Land  of  the  Heart's  Desire"  was  followed  by  "The 
Hour  Glass,"  and  this  playlet  served  to  show  the 
great  ability  of  Mr.  Charles  Lamb,  of  Isabel  Ir- 
ving's  Company,  and  that  of  the  rest  of  the  actor 
folk  who  so  splendidly  helped  entertain  the  public 
at  the  matinee  at  the  "Alcazar,"  on  Friday  afternoon. 
The  plot  of  "The  Hour  Glass"  is  a  strange  one,  and 
possesses  much  of  the  weirdness  that  William  Butler 
Yeats  has  incorporated  in  "The  Land  of  the  Heart's 
Desire." 

A  Wise  Man  has  convinced  all  the  world,  but  a 
Fool,  that  there  is  no  Heaven,  nor  Purgatory,  nor 
Hell.  There  is  the  Fool,  but  he  hardly  seems  worth 
the  Wise  Man's  sophistries.  Then  God's  angel 
comes  to  the  Wise  Man  and  tells  him  that  he  must 
die  because  no  longer  do  souls  from  his  country 
pass  the  threshold  of  Heaven.  He  has  but  the  time 
of  the  running  of  the  sands  once  through  the  glass 
to  live,  and  then  he  is  damned.  He  begs  for  mercy, 
and  the  angel  finally  gives  him  one  chance.  If  within 
the  hour  of  the  running  of  the  sands  he  can  find  one 
who  believes,  he  will  eventually  go  to  Heaven.  But 
the  Wise  Man  can  find  none;  he  has  convinced  all 
that  there  is  no  future,  no  Heaven,  no  Hell.  He  calls 
his  pupils  to  him,  but  they  think  he  merely  wants  to 
argue  and  laugh  at  him ;  so  does  his  wife.  As  he 
dies,  the  Fool  tells  him  that  he  knows  there  are  an- 
gels, because  he  has  seen  them.  Then  the  angel 
comes  once  more  and  carries  away  the  Wise  Man's 
soul. 

*  *  * 

Melbourne  McDowell  gives  us  a  fine  interpreta- 
tion of  Sardou's  "La  Tosca"  at  the  Grand  this  week. 
His  conception  of  the  character  of  Scarpia  is  a  splen- 
did one,  and  Miss  Ethel  Fuller  should  come  in  for 
a  great  deal  of  praise  for  the  artistic  way  in  which 
she  renders  the  characterization  of  Floria  Tosca. 
She  easily  conquers  a  lack  of  beauty  and  the  limita- 
tions of  a  rough  voice.  While  it  is  in  order  to  men- 
tion that  the  entire  company  does  its  work  well,  I 
cannot  refrain  from  saying  that  "La  Tosca"  strikes 
me  to-day  in  the  same  way  in  which  it  struck  me 
some  fifteen  years  ago. 

I  can  praise  the  playwright  for  his  artistic  group- 
ing of  characters,  his  finished  study  of  history,  his 
knowledge  of  human  nature  and  its  passions,  but  I 
cannot  say  that  the  play  is  conducive  to  anything  but 
unrest  and  disgust.  Scarpia  is  a  finished  scoundrel 
and  a  cruel  libertine.     The  relations  between  Mario 


and  Tosca  are  vile,  and  while  she  seems  glorified 
by  her  great  love  for  the  artist,  she  is  easily  sus- 
pected of  a  very  shady  past.  The  play  leaves  an 
extraordinarily  bad  taste  in  the  mouth,  but  it  thrills 
and  to  the  bottom.  It  is  the  equivalent  of  a  horrid 
nightmare,  that  it  is  so  attractive  that  it  is  willingly 
and  horribly  dreamed  again. 
*  *  * 

"Rogers  Brothers  in  London"  at  the  Columbia  is 
one  blaze  of  color,  and  the  principals  are  clever. 
Max  Rogers  as  "August  Furst"  is  very  funny,  and 
the  "Ferdinand  Falls"  of  Gus  Rogers  is  a  good  sec- 
ond. The  deck  scene  on  the  "Kronprinz  Wilhelm"  is 
a  very  fine  piece  of  stage  setting,  and  it  easily  lends 
itself  to  elaborate  effects.  There  is  practically  no 
plot  to  the  play;  it  is  a  hodge-podge  of  very  amusing 
nonsense  and  clever  dancing.  The  light  effects  are 
good,  but  not  so  well  managed  as  was  the  masterly 
handling  in  "Mam'selle  Napoleon."  Indeed,  from 
a  spectacular  standpoint,  the  whole  show  falls  be- 
hind the  Anna  Held  aggregation.  There  are  too 
many  girls  with  large  noses  in  the  chorus.  The  ma- 
jority of  "beaks"  is  suggestive  of  the  fact  that  there 
has  been  a  successful  invasion  of  the  stage  by  the 
Semitics,  and  that  the  Hebrews  have  captured  the 
Syndicate.  There  are  many  very  pretty  girls  in  the 
chorus,  though,  notwithstanding  their  noses. 

The  Lord  Harry  Hartford  of  Mr.  M.  Melville  Ellis 
is  easily  the  best  piece  of  characterization  in  this 
show.  He  is  simply  inimitable.  There  are  some 
songs  that  will  be  remembered,  and  are  sure  to  be- 
come popular.  These  are  "Queen  of  the  Bungalow," 
"The  American  Beauty,"  and  "By  the  Sycamore 
Tree." 

*  *  * 

Klaw  &  Erlanger  may  always  be  depended  upon 
as  trying  to  furnish  the  public  the  best  the  market 
affords,  but  when  they  secured  William  J.  Cale  as 
an  Irish  comedian  they  got  a  badly  damaged  job-lot. 
There  are  hundreds  of  better  "Irishmen"  turned  out 
of  the  various  "schools  of  acting"  all  over  the  coun- 
try weekly.  They  generally  make  their  debut,  and 
then  go  back  to  the  ribbon  counter  or  the  old  farm. 

*  *  * 

Pinero's  "Profligate"  gave  a  splendid  opportunity 
to  the  Alcazar  Company  again  to  please  very  large 
houses  this  week.  This  theatre  is  constantly  grow- 
ing in  popularity  and  it  is  entirely  due  to  the  liber- 
ality of  the  management  with  press  and  public. 
There  is  no  department  for  the  making  of  enemies 
connected  with  the  Alcazar. 

Mr.  Durkin  was  on  hand  again  after  a  week's  rest, 
and  his  acting  was,  as  usual,  letter-perfect.  He 
took  the  part  of  Dunstan  Renshaw,  the  husband,  and 
appeared  to  great  advantage  in  the  third  act,  where 
there  is  a  very  strong  scene.  Miss  Starr  did  the 
best  work  she  has  given  us  since  coming  to  the  Al- 
cazar, and  Miss  Block  easily  divided  the  honors  with 
her.  Conness  was  good.  Hilliard  and  Maher  are 
cast  in  congenial  roles,  and  the  performance  on  the 
whole  is  a  highly  enjoyable  one.  It  is  a  play  that, 
in  the  hands  of  the  capable  Alcazar  stock,  calls  for 

vociferous  and  enthusiastic  applause. 

*  *  * 

Hersehell  Mayall  is  giving  us  some  real  acting 
in  the  dual  characterization  of  "Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr. 
Hyde"  at  the  Central.  He  has  been  applauded  to 
the  echo  every  night  of  the  week,  and  if  the  enthu- 
siasm  of  previous  audiences  is  a  gauge  of  success, 


May  7.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


he   will   be  greeted   to-night   and   Sunday   with     a 
crowded   house.     There  are  some  new   faces  in   the 
Montgomery,  as  a  comedian,  and 
Mi>>  Olive  Skinner  as  soubrcttc. 

*  •  • 

There  has  been  a  change  in  "When  Johnnie  Conies 
Marching  home,"  and  Arthur  Cunningham  is  taking 
the  part  of  "Johnnie." 

*  *  * 

"Pals,"  at  the  Orphcum  is  a  playlet,  said  to  have 
originally  been  cast  for  Corbett.  i  am  told  that,  in 
the  scrap  that  takes  place  between  the  husband  and 
the  villain,  some  hundred  and  twenty-four  dollars' 
worth  of  "props"  are  carefully  broken  to  bits  nightly. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Callahan's  play  at  the  California  is  entitled 
"Tom's  Wedding  Gift,"  and  it  is  the  most  extraor- 
dinary example  1  have  ever  seen  of  a  miserable  plot 
badly  acted  by  a  poor  company.  I  condole  with  the 
author  on  the  limitations  of  the  plot,  and  with  the 
actors  I  sympathize  because  of  the  play.  What  more 
can  I  say,  unless  it  is  that  the  house  may  be  the 
cause  of  the  hoodoo  on  author,  drama  and  player- 
folk.  Better  combinations  have  suffered  severely 
by  the  same  token. 

*  *  * 

An  old  associate  of  Charley  Reed  and  Billy  Emer- 
son, who  used  to  raise  storms  of  laughter  in  the  old 
Standard  Theatre,  George  H.  Wood,  the  "somewhat 
different"  comedian,"  will  appear  at  the  Orpheum 
next  week. 

*  *  * 

Three  hundred  nights  is  the  record  of  "A  Run- 
away Girl"  at  Daly's  in  New  York.  It  has  a  run 
of  six  hundred  nights  at  the  London  Gaiety.  Such  a 
record  should  fill  the  Tivoli  for  many  a  day.  The 
girl  in  the  play  is  a  ward  of  Lord  Coodle,  and  she 
is  known  as  Winifred  Grey.  She  escapes  from  a  con- 
vent in  Corsica  and  joins  a  band  of  wandering  min- 
strels. There  is  a  love  story,  a  bunch  of  Italian 
Brigands,  and  all  the  other  necessities  that  go  to 
make  a  lyrical  comedy  a  scenic  and  musical  success. 
The  Tivoli  management  will  put  on  a  largely  aug- 
mented chorus  for  "A  Runaway  Girl." 

*  #  * 

There  is  to  be  a  prima  donna  of  great  repute  at 
the  Orpheum  the  coming  week.  Her  name  suggests 
the  crossing  of  the  Yalu  by  the  Japs.  Mme.  Slap- 
offski  is  heralded  by  the  press  agent  as  a  wonder. 
Her  home,  when  she  is  at  home,  is  in  England.  This 
leads  us  to  hope  she  is  a  Pole.  She  is  said  to  be 
thoroughly  at  home  in  sixteen  oratorios,  a  repertoire 
of  forty-two  operas,  and  a  voice  that  is  rich  in  fiori- 
turi  and  the  ornaments  of  vocalization.  The  selec- 
tions will  be  popular  and  classic,  and  there  will  be 
no  room  for  complaint.  The  rest  of  the  bill  is  fine. 

*  *  * 

Maude  Adams  is  heading  this  way.  She  played 
an  enormous  engagement  at  St.  Louis,  the  receipts 

running  up  to  $18,000  in  one  week. 

*  *  * 

"When  Johnnie  Comes  Marching  Home"  is  a  bet- 
ter card  at  the  Tivoli  than  was  any  of  the  old  operas 
put  on  lately.    There  is  an  improved  attendance. 

*  *  * 

What  the  Tivoli  needs  is  a  censor  that  will  pick 
out  women  with  faces  as  well  as  voices.  I  do  believe 
that  it  is  possible  to  find  good  looks,  a  voice  and  a 
capacity  for  acting  combined  in  one  or  more  women. 
I  believe  that  it  would  be  possible  to  secure  as  many 
as  four  or  five  women  who  would  combine  these 
qualities.  "I  may  be  wrong,  I  may  be  wrong." 
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Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  May  a. 

STARS  FROM  TWO  CONTINENTS 

Mme.  Slapoflskl,  England's  greatest  prima  donna  soprano: 
Midglcy  and  Carlisle;  Clara  Bullerini ;  George  M.  Wood:  Bailer- 
I ni's  Dogs:  Sisters  Oasoh:  HalMerrftt;  Brandowand  Wiley,  and 
last  week  of 

DflVIS,  MACAULEY  flND  COMPANY 

Prices,  loo.  36c  and  soc- 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

r.£>ntrnl    ThontKO  Bklabco  A.  Mater,  Proprietors 

^»<£iJLrui      1  neuire.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  538 

Beginning  Monday,  May  9 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  celebrated  romantic  drama 

THE  THREE  MUSKETEERS 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  60c.    Matinees  10,  IB.  25o. 
Next— "Beyond  Pardon" 


Streets 


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Beginning  next  Monday,  night 
The  greatest  of  all  musical  comedies 

A     RUNAWAY    GIRL 

Six  hundred  nights  in  London 
Three  hundred  nights  in  New  York 

Perfect  cast,  picturesque  scenery  and  effects,  beautiful  cos- 
tumes, delightful  ensemble 
Usual  popular  prices— 25c.  60o,  75c-    Box  Seats.  $1. 

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Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday. 

One  week,  commencing  Monday.  May  9, 

The  New  York  and  London  laughing  success 

In  four  acts,  by  Alfred  Capua 

THE  TWO   SCHOOLS 

"The  Alcazar  Company  is  an  aggregation  of  the  most  versatile 
artists  in  the  "United  States."— News  Letter. 
Evenings  25  to  75c.    Matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday  25  to  50c. 
Monday,  May  16th,  Henry  Guy  Carleton's  comedy 

COLIN  ETTE 

As  played  by  Julia  Marlowe 
Stein  Way    Hall       223  Sutter  Street 

DR.  H-  J-  STEWART 

Begs  to  announce  a 

CONCERT 

On  Thursday  evening.  May  12 

On  this  occasion  a  number  of  Dr.  Stewart's  recently  published 

compositions  will  be  rendered. 

Admission  one  dollar. 

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Beginning  next  Monday  night.  May  16th 

MELBOURNE  MacDOWELL 

In  a  magnificent  production  01  Sardou's  dramatic  spectacle 

CLEOPATRA 

Mark  Antony,  Mr.  MacDowell 

Next  production,  "Empress  Theodora" 

Popular  prices:    15c,  26o.  60c.  76c. 


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LeuBees  and  Managers. 


Tonight,  Sunday  night  and  all  next  week 

Klaw  and  Erlanger  present 

MAX  and  GUS  ROGERS 

in  John  J.  McNally's  latest  musical  farce, 

THE  ROGERS  BROTHERS  IN  LONDON 

Last  time  Sunday,  May  16 
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Listen   to   the  matchless   string   band   and   enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe  Zlnkand  Is   society's   gathering  place   after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


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U/ye  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 

It  took  four  days  of  hard  fighting, 
Japanese  Land     though    at   long-distance    mostly, 
Victory.  for  the  Japanese  to  secure  a  pas- 

sage of  the  Yalu  River  and  estab- 
lish the  advance  of  their  army  on  the  west  bank. 
On  the  next  day  (Sunday  last)  General  Kuroki  or- 
dered a  general  attack  on  the  first  line  of  the  Rus- 
sians' entrenched  position  on  the  hills  beyond.  The 
advance  of  the  Japanese  army  is  supposed  to  have 
been  about  15,000  of  all  arms  with  an  unusual  allot- 
ment of  heavy  artillery.  The  Russian  force  is  placed 
at  30,000  men  of  all  arms,  with  a  large  allotment  of 
cavalry.  The  actual  firing  line  was  about  four  miles 
long  and  behind  earthworks  as  to  the  Slav  forces. 
The  odds,  therefore,  in  numbers  and  position  were 
decidedly  against  the  Japanese,  but  no  doubt  a  line 
of  reinforcements  kept  crossing  the  river  and  mov- 
ing to  the  front  after  a  passage  was  secured.  But 
whether  so  or  not,  the  Russians  were  driven  from 
both  of  their  positions  and  sent  in  confusion  across 
the  plateau  to  the  mountains  miles  to  the  west,  but  in 
the  direction  of  their  general  base.  The  charge  of  the 
Japanese  is  said  to  have  been  with  recklessness,  and 
yet  with  the  precision  of  cogs  and  fellows  in  a  great 
wheel.  This  is  the  first  opportunity  •  that  has  been 
given  to  judge  somewhat  of  applied  field  tactics  and 
generalship,  as  well  as  the  marksmanship  of  the 
combatants. 

The  result  shows  that 
Result  of  First  Battle,  the  Japanese  are  mas- 
ters of  their  profession, 
and  that  the  Russians  are  either  ignorant  of  the  sci- 
ence of  war  or  are  easily  "rattled."  Certain  it  is 
that  the  Russian  loss  was  greater  than  the  Japanese, 
notwithstanding  the  latter  had  to  charge  through  the 
open  against  two  to  one,  and  who  were  protected 
by  strong  entrenchments  upon  which  were  mounted 
forty  rapid-fire  and  eight  machine  guns,  together 
with  the  number  of  field  pieces  that  are  usually  as- 
signed to  an  army  of  30,000.  The  fact  is,  the  Russians 
were  out-generaled  in  preparation  for  the  combat, 
and  hoodwinked  in  field  tactics. 

Russia  continues  to  oper- 
Russian  War  News,  ate  its  war  lie  factory 
night  and  day;  besides, 
lies  are  kept  in  stock  for  any  emergency.  The  factory 
report  of  the  Yalu  affair  is  a  sample  of  its  products. 
It  denies  that  there  was  anything  more  serious  than 
heavy  skirmishing.  It  says  that  Russia  had  only 
about  5,000  men  there,  and  that  they  were  on  the 
Yalu  merely  to  harass  and  annoy  the  Japanese  ad- 
vance. But  the  factory  fails  to  explain  why  only 
5,000  men  should  have  forty  rapid-fire  and  eight  ma- 
chine guns,  together  with  heavy  and  light  artillery 
enough  to  equip  an  army  of  30,000,  to  say  nothing 
of  two  lines  of  fortifications  several  miles  long,  with 
trenches  between  and  redoubts  on  the  flanks,  and  the 
whole  business  under  the  personal  command  of  not 
less  than  four  distinguished  generals ;  then,  again, 
the  lie  exposes  its  skeleton  when  it  tries  to  make 
the  world  believe  that  it  took  15,000  Japanese  five 
days  to  cross  the  Yalu  River  and  defeat  5,000  Rus- 
sians, at  a  total  loss  on  both  sides  of  about  1,500  men. 
Evidently  the  Russian  war  office  is  being  grossly 
deceived  by  its  generals  at  the  front,  or  is  itself  a 
willing  tool  of  the  jingo  party;  but  anyway,  con- 
stantly promulgating  stories  that  all  the  world 
knows  are  base  fabrications,  is  doing  Russia  great 
harm  in  the  moral  world,  and  making  friends  for 
Japan  in  all  countries.  The  News  Letter's  measure 
of  General  Kuropatkin,  taken  when  he  took  his  spec- 


May  7.  1904. 

tacular  departure  for  the  Far  East,  is  now  verified 
by  the  gentleman  himself.  The  Japanese  are  win- 
ning the  victories  and  Kuropatkin  is  claiming  them 
for  his  own,  and  all  the  world  knows  it.  Kuropatkin 
is  Russia's  l'alstarl,  barring  avoirdupois  greatness. 
At  least  he  says  the  Yalu  River  affair  is  exactly 
what  his  mysterious  and  intricate  strategy  provided 
for. 

The     Russian     ambassa- 

The  Dowager  Empress    dor   at    Peking,   abetted 
Takes  a  Hand.  by  all   the  generals  and 

admirals  in  the  Far 
East,  is  pressing  the  Czar  harder  than  ever  to  make 
haste  and  declare  war  against  China,  and  to  show 
her  appreciation  of  his  efforts  in  that  direction,  the 
Dowager  Empress  has  ordered  that  the  money  in- 
tended to  be  squandered  in  celebrating  the  anniver- 
sary of  her  advent  into  this  world  be  used  to  equip 
70,000  soldiers,  and  the  celebration  be  omitted.  But 
the  Russian  ambassador  is  justified  in  his  effort  to 
secure  a  declaration  of  war,  for  the  several  little  ar- 
mies the  Dowager  has  near  the  Manchurian  border 
are  a  sharp  thorn  in  the  side  of  the  viceroy  and  the 
generals.  They  do  not  know  what  moment  the  Chi- 
nese will  open  fire,  but  they  do  know  that  they  are 
enemies  of  Russia,  and  they  prefer  actual  hostilities 
to  treachery  clothed  in  the  smiles  of  friendship ; 
besides,  public  sentiment  all  over  China,  especially 
in  the  provinces  bordering  on  Manchuria,  is  becom- 
ing more  hostile  every  day  to  Russia,  and  the  am- 
bassador realizes  that  delay  in  declaring  war  only 
serves  to  aid  China  in  preparing  for  the  inevitable. 
But  the  Czar  is  stubborn.  In  fact,  personally  he 
would  be  willing  to  withdraw  altogether  from  Man- 
churia to  stop  the  war,  but  the  jingo  party  will  not 
let  him.  Such  a  move  would  probably  cost  him  his 
life,  and  he  knows  it. 

The    Thibetan    Government    has 

The  Thibetans  concluded  that  the  British  col- 
Want  War.  umn  of  observation  must  leave 
the  country  forthwith,  and  the 
viceroy  of  British  India,  in  whose  hands  the  "Thib- 
etan question"  has  been  placed,  gives  answer  by  pre- 
parations to  reinforce  the  column  already  there. 
Thibet  has  a  population  of  only  some  7,000,000,  and 
the  Government  has  the  insane  notion  that  3,000  of 
its  male  religious  fanatics  will  be  quite  sufficient  to 
make  Great  Britain  countermarch  out  of  the  coun- 
try. Strangely  enough,  the  women-folk  of  Thibet 
are  the  influence  that  is  enraging  the  people  over  the 
British  occupancy  of  the  land.  A  large  percentage 
of  the  women  are  ultra  religionists,  living  in  monas- 
teries and  practicing  celibacy,  consequently  polyan- 
dry is  permitted  by  the  State  to  those  not  living 
monastic  lives,  and  there  is  great  fear  that  the  system 
of  plurality  of  husbands  will  be  abolished  if  the 
British"  get  a  foothold.  In  that  event  the  men  of 
Thibet  themselves  would  demand  the  abolition  of  the 
monastic  system  for  women,  and  thus  two  well- 
defined  and  religiously-adhered-to  forms  of  social 
life  would  be  uprooted.  Polygamy,  too,  is  permitted, 
but  the  scarcity  of  marriageable  women,  or,  rather, 
women  who  refuse  to  marry  for  their  religion's  sake, 
makes  the  practice  of  plurality  of  wives  not  at  all 
general.  It  is  these  two  questions,  of  domestic  econ- 
omy that  is  at  the  bottom  of  the  opposition  to  Brit- 
ish influence  dominating  in  the  political  and  social 
concerns  of  the  empire,  but  the  moral  sense  of  Chris- 
tian countries,  certainly,  will  agree  that  to  remedy 
these  evils  is  reason  sufficient  to  give  Great  Britain 
a  free  hand  in  Thibet,  to  say  nothing  of  the  800,000 
square  miles  of  good  grain,  grazing  and  mineral  land 
that  would  give  civilized  people  good  homes. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Hand  made— aelect  stock.    Equal  to  a  fie  cljjar.    Favorite  of  doc- 
tor*, lawyers,  hunkers. 

$1.45  P«r  Box  of  $100.  20c  Extra,  by  Mall. 

Sample  wooden  boa  of  38  Bent  prepaid  on    receipt  of.  50C.  check, 
draft,  money  order.    Stiimps  not  accepted. 

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BANKING. 


The  Son  Francisco  National  Book 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pfne  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON.  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWQILL,  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE.  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital,    J500.000.     Surplus   and    Undivided    Profits,    $W5,noo 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson.  Vlce-Prest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton,  President  Flremans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R.; 
Geo.  A  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict, 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K.  Wilson,  President. 

AGENTS— New  York— Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston — National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia — 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago — Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis — 
i  hf  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City — First  National  Bank. 
London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,  Limited. 

The  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFj.CE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate   Resources,   over   $80,000,000 
HON.    GEORGE   A.    COX,   President 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON  OFFICE— (>0  Lombard  St.,  E.  C. 
N_W    YORK    OFFICE— 16    Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA- Atlin,        Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmtth,    Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New    Westminster,    Vancouver    and    Victoria. 
IN   YUKON  TERRITORY— Dawson  and  White  Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska). 
Also   80   other    branches,    covering     the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,  N.  W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN   LONDON— i  he   Bank  of  England,   the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,   Ltd. 
AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 

Sarv  Francisco  Office — 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  American  Bank  UmiKi 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed   Capital,   $2,500,000.  Paid-up   Capital,   $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissontere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits   Issued. 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger;  R.  ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  flnfflo-Californian  Baok,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars.  London,  E.  C. 

Capital   Authorized $6,000,000         Paid  Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed   $3,000,000      Reserve   Fund    $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys   and   sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    L1LIENTHAL,    Managers. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST   PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS   MADE. 

DIRECTORS— William  Alvord.  William  Babcock,  S.  L.  Abbott, 

Jr.,  O.  D.  Baldwin,  F.  Monteagle,  Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J.  Mc- 

Cutcheon,  R.   H.  Pease. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery   St,    San   Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital     $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve  1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
Pleasure's    'Wand. 


May  7,  1904. 


(Continued  from  Page  17.) 

The  Central,  after  scoring  a  great  hit  with  "Dr. 
Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde,"  will  put  on  "The  Three  Mus- 
keteers." Herschell  Mayall  will  essay  the  star  part 
of  D'Artagnan,  the  brave  and  reckless  "sabreur"  who 
carves  his  way  to  fame  and  fortune.  There  is  scope 
for  splendid  acting  in  this  play,  and  I  look  to  see  Mr. 
Mayall  do  some  very  clever  work.  There  is  a  great 
chance  for  scenic  magnificence,  and  it  is  said  the 
management  has  not  neglected  this  important  factor. 

*  *  * 

I  wonder  when  we  will  see  the  last  of  the  mod- 
ern German  comedian?  What  a  relief  it  would  be  to 
see  a  real  funny  German,  one  of  those  flesh  and  blood 
creatures  devoid  of  horseplay.  Our  actors  are  what 
we  make  them.  They  are  simply  a  reflex  of  their  au- 
diences. They  never  inaugurate  ideas.  They  simply 
follow  the  desires  of  the  public.  Any  real  innovation 
is  dreaded  on  the  stage.  The  average  American 
audience  is  superficial  and  unthinking.  Its  thoughts 
touch  the  high  places  only.  If  a  play  is  put  on  that 
demands  heavy  thinks  on  the  part  of  the  public  the 
play  is  immediately  dubbed  a  bore.  By  the  same 
deduction  it  can  easily  be  seen  why  yellow  journal- 
ism has  subsisted  so  long.    It  lives  on  the  unthinking, 

the  unwashed  and  uneducated. 

*  *  * 

The  female  acrobats  at  the  Orpheum  are  a  very  at- 
tractive feature  this  week. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Majestic  that  splendid  little  woman,  Isabel 
Irving,  continues  pleasing  her  audiences  with  her 
fine  company  of  players  and  "The  Crisis."  The  Ma- 
jestic, as  soon  as  it  is  completed,  will  be  one  of  the 
most  popular  houses  in  the  city,  and  everything  an 
experienced  manager  can  do  to  make  the  public 
enjoy  a  performance  will  be  furnished.  Just  now  au- 
dience and  player-folk  labor  under  a  heavy  handi- 
cap. 

*  *  * 

The  first  San  Francisco  production  of  the  French 
comedy,  "The  Two  Schools,"  will  be  made  at  the 
Alcazar  Theatre  next  Monday  evening.  The  play  is 
in  four  acts,  and  is  said  to  abound  in  sparkling  dia- 
logue and  clever  situations.  The  plot  is  a  long  series 
of  complications  due  to  the  flirtations  of  a  susceptible 
young  husband;  his  almost  equally  impressionable 
father-in-law,  and  a  young  woman  of  the  middle 
class.  The  situations  in  which  the  three  are  placed 
are  often   of  a   broadly   farcical   nature. 

*  *  * 

Barr  and  Evans,  character  comedy  creators,  will 
make  their  first  appearance  at  the  Chutes  this  com- 
ing week.  They  offer  an  original  and  amusing  dia- 
logue, some  side-splitting  parodies,  and  a  lot  of  up- 
to-date  eccentricities ;  they  come  highly  praised  by 
the  Eastern  press.  The  three  Millards  will  also  be 
new,  presenting  their  musical  coined)',  "Willie 
Green's  Visit."  Bowers  and  Curtiss  will  continue 
their  amusing  farcette,  "Where  is  John,"  and  many 
other  attractive  features  will  complete  a  capital  bill. 
The  amateurs  will  appear  on  Thursday  night  as 
usual. 

*  *  * 

Richard  Mansfield  secured  architectural  drawings 
of  the  original  rooms  and  palaces  in  which  the  events 
represented  in  "Ivan  the  Terrible"  took  place,  and 
these  were  re-produced  with  fidelity  in  preparing  the 
production  which  is  to  be  seen  at  the  Columbia  on 
May  1 6th.  There  are  five  acts  and  eight  scenes  in 
"Ivan   the   Terrible." 


Melbourne  MacDowell  will  appear  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  Monday  night  and  all  next  week  as 
Marc  Antony  in  Sardou's  "Cleopatra."  Mr.  Mac- 
Dowell's  ability  in  this  role  is  acknowledged  all  over 
the  United  States.  Actors  of  eminence  have  played 
it  in  the  Shakespearean  and  Sardou  versions,  and  it 
will  be  interesting  to  make  comparisons.  He  will 
be  supported  by  Ethel  Fuller  as  Cleopatra,  and  the 
standard  she  has  set  herself  as  La  Tosca  will  natu- 
rally cause  the  public  to  expect  much.  "Cleopatra" 
will  be  succeeded  by  "Empress  Theodora." 
*  *  * 

The  Rogers  Brothers  tried  their  hand  in  journal- 
ism while  they  were  in  New  York  to  play  their  re- 
cent engagement  at  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre. 
They  were  asked  to  conduct  the  funny  supplement 
for  one  of  the  great  Sunday  papers,  and  they  did  it 
with  the  most  conspicuous  success.  Their  original 
jokes  were  considered  as  bright  and  funny  as  those 
which   they  are  so  fond  of  springing  on  the  stage. 


"But  why,"  asked  the  discontented  heir,  "why  are 
you  sure  that  you  can  break  the  will?"  "My  dear 
sir,"  replied  the  lawyer,  smiling  patronizingly,  "I 
drew  it  up." — Cincinnati  Times-Star. 


Engagement  Cups. 
Have  just  unpacked  a  beauUful  and  varied  assortment  of  supeib 
cups  for  engagement  gifts.    S.  &  G.  Gump  Co.,  113  Geary  street. 


"Out  of   the   Beaten   Path."   Tom   Dillon's   modern   style   hats 
Opposite  Palace. 


INDISPENSABLE 
For  the  Dressing-Table 

MURRAY  &  LANMAN'S 
Florida  Water 

More  lasting  and  refreshing  than  Cologne 
Beware  of  Counterfeits! 

Always  look  lor  the  "Trade-Mark"  wllbthenameof 

UNMAN  &  KEMP,  NEW  YORK 


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REMOVAL  NOTICE 


HJUL'S  Montgomery-street  Coffee  House  has  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  Us  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast,  lunch  and  coffee 
rooms  In  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  quicker  service. 


May  7,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THIS  WEEK'S  CARTOON. 
The  subject  of  this  week's  cartooh  is  "The  Fable 
of  the  Lion  and  the  Ass's  Skin."  The  artist  lias  verj 
deftly  depicted  a  curious  situation.  It  is  probably 
new  to  the  realm  of  politics  outside  of  the  monar- 
chies of  Europe  to  have  a  man  pretend  to  the  highest 
office  in  the  gift  of  the  people  whose  utterances  are 
manufactured  for  him  at  so  much  a  line.  This  is  the 
age  of  utilitarianism,  and  if  the  Yellow  Pest  can  buy 
the  brains  of  a  Brisbane,  an  Arthur  McEwen  or  aii 
Ambrose  Bierce,  bottle  them  up  so  effectually  that 
he  may  use  them  "on  tap."  as  it  were,  it  is  an  inno- 
vation that  may  have  beneficent  results  in  politics. 
It  is  not  with  this  we  are  concerned.  We  are  con- 
cerned through  our  high  regard  for  justice  and  the 
proprieties  of  the  occasion.  If  it  is  Brisbane  who 
is  the  man  behind  the  Yellow  Pest,  to  him  belong 
the  honors.  We  demand  justice,  simple  justice,  and 
an  instructed  delegation  for  Brisbane  from  Santa 
Cruz  to  St.  Louis.  If  a  man  made  a  fine  speech 
through  a  megaphone,  one  would  not  think  of  prais- 
ing the  trumpet,  but  the  trumpeter.  Brisbane  is  the 
logical  candidate  of  the  "Insane  and  Unsafe  Democ- 
racy." It  seems  one  branch  of  the  party  bears  the 
badge  of  the  "Sane  and  Conservative  Democracy." 

On  May  1st  the  new  schedule  went  into  effect  on 
the  California  Northwestern  Railway,  and  the  special 
rates  for  the  summer  season  took  effect.  There  are 
an  increased  number  of  trains  and  a  special  fast  ser- 
vice to  Willits  and  Ukiah.  The  extension  to  Sher- 
wood has  been  completed,  and  trains  are  being  regu- 
larly operated.  At  Summit  the  road  reaches  an  ele- 
vation of  2395  feet,  and  in  the  Sherwood  Valley  ex- 
tends for  miles  into  redwood  forests.  Two  trains 
daily  will  run  from  Willits  to  Sherwood,  thus  afford- 
ing an  excellent  opportunity  to  all  who  wish  to  view 
what  is  said  to  be  the  grandest  mountain  scenery 
in  California.  On  Sundays,  last  train  leaves  Glen 
Ellen  at  6:15  p.  m.,  arriving  in  San  Francisco  at 
8.45  p.  m.  The  last  train  from  Guerneville  branch 
leaves  Camp  Vacation  at  5  p.  m.,  and  arrives  in  San 
Francisco  at  8.45  p.  m. 

"Cool  in  the  summer  and  warm  in  the  winter, 
health  preserving  all  the  time,"  is  the  way  it  is  ex- 
pressed by  a  wearer  of  the  Deimel  Linen  Mesh  Un- 
derwear. Dr.  Deimel  made  a  great  discovery,  one 
that  has  preserved  the  health  of  hundreds  and  which 
is  the  most  powerful  agency  for  the  prevention  of 
disease  known  to  modern  times.  It  is  a  self-evident 
fact  that  the  pores  of  the  skin  inhale  and  exhale  much 
after  the  manner  of  pumps.  The  exhalations  from 
the  skin  should  have  no  chance  to  return  to  poison 
the  blood.  With  the  ordinary  wool  underwear  the 
body  is  constantly  re-absorbing  these  vapors,  and 
apart  from  the  fact  that  the  linen  material  is  a  much 
cleaner  and  sanitary  material  to  place  next  the  skin 
than  wool,  there  is  the  added  claim  that  the  mesh  of 
the  Deimel  Underwear  admits  of  a  free  and  unob- 
structed circulation  of  air  to  and  from  the  body.  The 
various  manufactures  of  the  Deimel  Company  can 
be  had  at  their  new  store,  m  Montgomery  street, 
San  Francisco. 


An  astrologer  would  not  have  to  consult  the  stars 
to  find  out  that  Moraghan's  Restaurant  in  the  Cali- 
fornia Market  is  the  best  place  for  a  feast  fit  for 
the  gods.  Everything  that  the  market  affords  is 
close  at  hand  and  fresh,  and  when  you  remember 
that  the  chef  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  land  you 
have  a  combination  that  is  hard  to  beat. 


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PeeLrlirve 
...      .  WAst\in6 


,lllCuuBnlfllpowdel? 

Do  you  thtok  it  would  kave 
been,  so  tvidely  imitated:  if 


r*  Claims 


The  World's  Way 
To  the  World's  Fair 

Through  Standard  aud  Tourist  Sleepers 

ST.  LOUIS  .  $67.50 


CHICAGO  .  .  $72.50 


ROUND  TRIP 


Hay  11,  12,  13; 

June  1,  3,  15,  16,  22,  23. 

If  you  are  thinking  of  making  a  trip  East,    please  nil    out  the   ac- 
companying coupon  and  mail  to  this  office. 

C.  A.  RTJTHEBFORD.  D.  P.  A. 
623  Market  St.,  San  Francisco 

I  expect  to  leave  for 

about 

Please  auote°^nytyriprato- 

Advise  me  what  the  Rock  Island's  through  car  arrange- 
ments are.    Do  I  change  cars'?    If  so,  *where? 

Mail  me  a  copy  of  the  World's  Fair  Literature. 

Name 

Street  and  No : 

City  and  State 

Y|jiM|jfiF        C.    A.     RUTHERFORD, 

iKj\W7j|TBL  District  Passenger  Agent. 

^P^I^HI  623  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 


Stockholders'   Meeting. 


Pursuant  to  an  order  made  by  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Overland 
Monthly  Company,  a  corporation  at  a  meeting  thereof  held  this  day, 
a  meeting  of  the  stock-holders  of  said  corporation  has  been  called  for 
the  purpose  of  increasing  the  capital  stock  of  said  corporation  to  the 
sum  of  Five  Hundred  Thousand  (S500.ooo.oo)  Dollars.  Said  meeting  will 
be  held  on  the  eighth  day  of  July.  1904  at  the  hour  of  3  o'clock,  p.  m.  at 
the  office  of  said  corporation,  to  wit:  Room  number  11  of  the  building 
known  as  320  Sansome  Street,  in  the  city  and  County  of  San  Francisco 
State  of  California. 

C.  WILLEMS 
Secretary  of  the  Overland  Monthly  Company,  a  Corporation 
April  29th,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEV/S  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


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^       MODEL  K.    16  HORSE  POWER.    2  CYLINDERS 

Price  $1,350. 


Sample  Machines 
on  Exhibition. 


Rambler  Automobile  Agency.  ,3J1  cS£5MRBrF 


WE  ARE  SELLING  al    educed  BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS 

ALSO 

Ramblers,  Northerns,   Frank- 
lins, Oldsmobiles 

WITH 

LANTERNS,     RUGS,     CAPS    &    SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

NATIONAL  AITO  &   MFG.   COMPANY 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVENUE 


ANDREWS,  KEEHAN  &  BLASAUF 

EXPERT  REPAIRS,  AMERICAN  a  FRENCH  AUTOMOBILES 

81  CITY  HALL  AVE. 
Tel.  South  1039  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


WHT 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

1904  Model 
Best     Automobile     at 


$475  l  .  ^ ._< _r 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at— SVNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
I8U  MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


Bt   The    Autocrank 


Local  automobilists  at  the  present  time  are  like 
a  lot  of  thoroughbreds  at  the  tape  waiting  for  the 
flag  to  get  away.  All  the  attention  is  centered  in  the 
big  meet  and  show  to  be  given  at  the  end  of  the 
month  on  the  Ingleside  track.  From  the  present  in- 
dications, it  is  going  to  be  the  greatest  event  of  its 
kind  ever  pulled  off  in  California. 

It  will  be  interesting,  inasmuch  as  the  show  fea- 
ture may  bring  out  some  of  the  cars  never  seen  on 
■  the  Coast. 

*  *  * 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  when  the  Race  Committee 
of  the  Automobile  Club  of  California  makes  out  the 
programme  for  the  race  meet  at  the  end  of  the 
month  that  it  will  include  a  run  and  a  meeting  for 
good   roads. 

*  *  * 

Following  are  the  records  made  by  the  Darracq 
cars  in  America: 

Empire  City  Track,  July  25,  1903 — Five  mile  race, 
under  1200  pounds,  Darracq  Second,  L.  O.  Gitchell; 
Darracq  Third,  George  Papillon.  Ten  mile  race,  un- 
der 1S00  pounds,  Darracq  First,  10.25  4~5>  Jules  Sin- 
cholle;  Darracq  Third,  George  Papillon.  Fifteen 
mile  race,  free-for-all,  Darracq  Second,  George  Pa- 
pillon ;  Darracq  Third,  Jules  Sincholle.  Five  mile 
race,  Darracq  Second,  5.13  3-5,  F.  A.  LaRoche. 

Cleveland,  September  5 — Ten  mile  handicap,  Dar- 
racq First,  11.52  2-5,  Jules  Sincholle.  Five  mile  open, 
Darracq  Second,  Jules  Sincholle. 

Detroit,  September  8 — Fifteen  mile  special,  Dar- 
racq First,  16.3.  Five  mile  open,  Darracq  First,  Jules 
Sincholle. 

Detroit,  September  9 — Five  mile  open,  Darracq 
First,  5.24.  Ten  mile  triangular  match  race,  Dar- 
racq First,   10.24,  Jules  Sincholle. 

Syracuse,  September  12 — Ten  mile  race,  Darracq 
First,  10.35  2~5>  Jules  Sincholle.  Darracq  Second, 
F.  A.  LaRoche.  Special  match  race,  2  in  3  heats,  won 
by  Darracq.  One  mile  record  trials,  for  any  car, 
Darracq,  1. 04  3-5,  won  by  F.  A.  LaRoche.  Exhibition 
record,  Darracq,  1  mile,  1.00  2-5. 

Providence,  September  19 — Five  mile  race,  1800 
pounds,  Daracq  First  Heat,  5.30  1-5;  best  mile.  1.04 
4-5.  Five  mile  match  race,  Darracq  First,  5.32  1-5. 
Five  mile  final  heat,  Darracq  Second,  F.  A.  LaRoche. 

Empire  City  Track,  Oct.  3,  1903. — Five  miles, 
1200  pounds,  Darracq  Second,  J.  J.  Lavin. 

Philadelphia,  October  10,  1903. — Five  mile  race, 
Darracq  First,  6.16  2-3,  L.  Nuneman.  Five  mile  han- 
dicap, Darracq  First,  F.  A.  LaRoche. 

Brighton  Beach  Race  Track,  October  31,  1903. — 
Five  mile  race,  1200  pounds.  Darracq  First.  Ten  mile 
race,  1800  pounds,  Darracq  Second.  Five  mile  race, 
gentleman  operator,  Darracq  First,  5.40.  Final 
heat  race,  Darracq  First,  6.03.  Five  mile  race,  open 
to  members  American  Motor  League,  Darracq  First, 
6.03  4-5,  F.  A.  LaRoche.  Fifteen  mile,  free-for-all, 
Darracq  Second,  17.30.  Pursuit  race,  free-for-all. 
Darracq  Second,  L.  Nuneman. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Frank  Pressey  and  party  of  friends  made  a 
trip  to  Vallejo  one  evening  last  week  in  a  Win  ton 
touring  car.     The  officers  of  the  town   of  Vallejo 


May  7,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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were  all  taken  for  short  rides,  and  claimed  that  an 
tomohilinp  was  more  fun  than  traveling  in  the  finest 
Pullman.    In  fact,  Pressey  (who  is  a  splendid  chauf- 
feur)  was  the  hero  of  the  town  during  the  time  of 
iv  there. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  H.  P.  Teichner  made  a  trip  to  San  Jose  and 
hack  last  Sunday  in  his  White  touring  car,  starting 
out  undaunted  in  the  rain.  The  storm  blew  over, 
and   he  reports  a  very  pleasant  run  back. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  C.  Kirkwood  last  week  drove  his  new  11)04 
Winton  touring  car  from  San  Jose  to  San  Francisco, 
and  reports  the  roads  as  being  in  very  good  condi- 
tion— not  much  mud. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Kate  Dillon  had  her  White  touring  car  down 
at  San  Jose  the  closing  days  of  last  week,  and  she 
brought  it  back  to  San  Francisco  last  Sunday  after- 
noon. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  S.  C.  Hammond  is  enjoying  to  the  fullest  ex- 
tent the  pleasures  of  riding  in  his  1904  Winton  tour- 
ing car.  These  moonlight  nights  here  will  see  him 
traveling  around  with  his  four  immense  searchlights, 
turning   the   night   into  day   before  him. 

*  *  * 

Among  sales  made  by  the  White  Sewing  Machine 
Company  last  week  are  cars  to  Major  Russell  of  Los 
Angeles,  H.  D.  Rucker,  and  O.  M.  Greenwald,  both 
of  San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

A  clothing  store  hired  six  rigs  one  day  this  week 
from  Mr.  A.  E.  Brooke-Ridley.  They  were  in  con- 
stant use  all  day. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  C.  H.  Wall,  whose  White  touring  car  has  not 
yet  arrived  from  the  East,  borrowed  one  of  the 
White  Company's  demonstration  machines  last  Sun- 
day, and  after  the  rain  cleared  away  made  an  ex- 
tended trip  through  Alameda  County,  which  he  re- 
ports   very    enjoyable. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  William  Bogen  has  made  several  century  runs 
during  the  past  week  in  his  1904  Winton  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Mary  Craig  (of  Mills  College,  Oakland,  Cal.) 
has  joined  the  ranks  of  chauffeuses,  having  just  pur- 
chased a  Stevens-Duryea  automobile  from  the  Pio- 
neer Automobile  Company.  Her  brother,  Mr.  J.  S. 
Craig,  of  Woodland,  Cal.,  purchased  a  Duryea  early 
last  season,  and  the  machine  gave  him  such  good  sat- 
isfaction that  Miss  Craig  decided  to  purchase  a  car 
exactly  like  that  of  her  brother.  Mr.  Craig  last  week 
purchased  a  1904  Winton  touring  car  from  the  Pio- 
neer Automobile  Company,  and  he  is  now  the  proud 
possessor  of  both  a  Winton  and  a  Stevens-Duryea. 

*  *  * 

The  girls  of  the  Anna  Held  Company  seem  to  be 
expressing  a  decided  preference  for  White  touring 
cars.  While  in  san  Francisco  they  were  taken 
through  the  Park  in  a  dozen  of  these  handsome  ve- 
hicles, and  news  comes  from  Los  Angeles  that  they 
made  an  extended  trip  in  White  touring  cars  while 
at  Los  Angeles  last  Saturday.  Mr.  H.  D.  Ryus,  man- 
ager of  the  White  car  at  that  point,  arranged  the 
party,  and  through  the  courtesy  of  White  users 
there,  was  able  to  supply  sufficient  carriages. to  take 
the  whole  company  out. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  is  in  receipt 
of  a  letter  from  Mr.  Charles  B.  Shanks,  general  sales 
manager  of  the  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Company, 


THE  CADILLAC 

REWRD— from  Del  Monte  to  Onklaml-FIVE  HOURS  AND 
THIBTY-EIOHT  MINUTES. 

The  only  successful  tour  of  the  Yosemite  made  bj  THE 
*  ADILLAC. 

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Price,  $850      With  Tonneau.  $950      Delivery  Cadillacs.  $950 

THE  SIMPLEST    MOST  CAPABLE  AUTO  MADE 

CUYLER  LEE,  Agent,  201  Larkin  St.,  Sao  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  J.  FREELINQ 


P.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Price    $1,350    Without    Top 
$1,450  With  Tod 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact  in  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline 
and  beautiful  in  general  finish. 

5.  It  was  in  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French           •          -  $2,650.00 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.    Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St,  S  F. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE  ~CAL 

NEW  AUTOMOBILE  GARAGE 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


in  which  he  advises  that  Mr.  Barney  Oldfield  has 
bsen  reinstated  and  will  probably  drive  Winton  Bul- 
let No.  2  in  the  Gordon  Bennett  races. 

*  *  * 

On  Wednesday  of  last  week,  Mr.  John  H.  Spring 
ran  his  White  touring  car  over  into  Contra  Costa 
County,  going  by  way  of  the  San  Ramon  Valley,  the 
road  through  which,  by  the  way,  makes  a  very  de- 
lightful run.  When  Mr.  Spring  reached  Mt.  Diablo, 
its  towering  height  tempted  him  to  try  the  hill- 
climbing  qualities  of  his  machine.  He  inquired 
around,  and  found  that  there  was  a  road  up  to  the 
top  of  the  mountain,  and  he  pluckily  tackled  it.  He 
progressed  splendidly  until  he  got  half-way  up,  when 
he  came  to  an  immense  boulder  which  had  just  fallen 
into  the  road  and  blocked  its  progress.  Mr.  Spring 
says  that  he  had  no  doubt  about  the  ability  of  his 
car  to  climb  the  boulder  if  it  had  not  been  for  its 
spherical  shape,  which  meant  that  one  part  of  the 
boulder  would  strike  the  bottom  of  the  car  before 
the  driving  wheels  would  reach  the  boulder. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  is  expecting  an 
Oldsmobile  tonneau  to  arrive  by  express  next  Wed- 
nesday or  Thursday.  This  machine  will  be  immedi- 
ately placed  on  exhibition. 

*  *  * 

The  West  Coast  Motor  Car  Company  of  San  Fran- 
cisco will  move  to  their  new  quarters,  606  Van  Ness 
avenue,  near  Golden  Gate  avenue,  on  or  about  May 
7th  ;  they  were  temporarily  located  at  123  City  Hall 
avenue.  Their  new  store  will  be  nicely  equipped, 
and  is  one  of  the  best  automobile  salesrooms  in  the 
city.  This  firm  represents  the  famous  Autocar  and 
the  well-known  Columbia  automobiles  for  the  entire 
Coast.  Recent  purchasers  of  Autocars  are  Messrs. 
T.  R.  Burnham,  P.  E.  Bowles  and  H.  D.  Nichols  of 
Oakland;  J.  D.  Grant,  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  H.  A. 
Hedger  and  W.  J.  Eva  of  San  Francisco :  Robert 
Coleman,  Perry  Eyre,  and  J.  L.  Flood  of  Burlingame ; 

E.  T.  Stirling  of  San  Jose. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  J.  L.  Flood  recently  purchased  from  the  West 
Coast   Motor  Car   Company  an    electric   automobile 

as  a  present  to  his  wife. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  C.  S.  Middleton  has  been  entertaining  the 
well-known  actress.  Miss  Michelena,  who  is  known 
to  theatre  goers  as  Beatrice  Bronte.  They  have  been 
seen  many  times  during  the  past  week  in  Mrs.  Mid- 
dleton's  Autocar  taking  a  drive  through  the  Park 
or  the  city. 

*  *  * 

The  Cadillac  machine  was  used  this  week  by  Mr. 
H.  H.  Owens  and  party  to  Palo  Alto ;  Mr.  Cuyler 
Lee  and  party  to  San  Jose ;  Mr.  William  Koenig  and 
party  to  Del  Monte  and  return. 

i     *    * 

1904  Cadillacs  were  sold  last  week  to  Mr.  A.  L. 
Hendricks.  Eureka.  Cal.,  Hr.  E.  A.  Hersey,  Cantara, 
Cal.,  Mr.  P.  D.  Tull.  Spokane,  Washington.  Mr.  My- 
ers of  Myers  &  Ward.  San  Francisco,  Mr.  Malcolm 
of  Woodland,  Mr.  Charles  Mifflen  Hammond,  Upper 
Lake,  Cal.,  Mr.  Len  Briggs,  Portland,  Ore.  A  car- 
load of  Cadillac  automobiles  left  Detroit  on  April 
28th. 


Eyes  Irritated  by  Wind 

Mineral  laden  poisonous  dust,  and  strong  sunlight,  need  care. 
Murine  Eye  Remedy  soothes  Eye  pain  and  cures  Inflammation. 
Redness,  Itching.  Granulated  and  Weak  Eyes.  Murine  is  an 
Eye  Tonic:  an  aid  to  those  wearing  glasses. 


DARRACQ  MOTOR  CARS 


HOLDS  MORE 
RECOROS  THAN 
ANY  OTHER 
MAKE 


FAMOUS  THROVGHOVT  THE  WORLD 

12.  16.  20.  24.  28.  30.  35  H.  P.  any  style  body  desired 


Phaeton'TulIp  4  Cylinders'1904  model  in  15.20  or  30-35  horse  power 

Darraeq  Cars  are  the  best  value  in  the  market.     Popularity  is  at- 
tested by  sales  and  records. 

AMERICAN  DARRACQ  AUTOMOBILE  CO.  P.  ^Si^U 

Sole  American  Agents 
A.    DARRACQ    a    CIE.,    FRANCE. 

652-664  HUDSON  ST.  NEW  YORK  147  WEST  38th  ST. 

Licensed  importers  under  Selden  patent  B49.1fia 

Agencies:  CHICAGO.  PHILADELPHIA  BOSTON.  DETROIT 

Agancy  for  Pacific  Coast  open  to  Reliable  Party 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANON A" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MILO  J.  01LLETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Capp  566 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  &  CO..  13-15-17  W.  St.  John  St..  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton.  Locomobile.  Oldsmobile,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

P.  L.  CRANDALL.  Automobile  Supplies,  Repairing,  etc.,  124 
University  Avenue,   Palo  Alto,   Cal. 


See  our  3  months  ahead  ideas  in  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co., 
Palace. 


opp. 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO. 

DOWN  TOWN  GARAGE  AND  REPAIR  SHOP 
EXPERT  MECHANICS  IN  CHARGE 

MANOFACTUBEB8  OF  THE 

COMMERCIAL  TOURINC  CARS,  RUNABOUTS,  DELIVERY  CARS 
AND  HARILL  COACHES 

The  lightest  ami    highest  powered  Marine  Motors  in  California 

128-130    FREMONT    STREET.     S.    F. 


May  7.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


«5 


WOOD-SICK. 

Br  Hnrrii-t  Wh  ttiej  Dorl  in  In  Every  I  i.lys  tfegazil  o 
I'm  weary  for  the  woods;  I  want  to  hear 

The  lusty  rushing  of  the  early  spring. 
Wind-winged,  among  the  sycamores;  the  clear 

Slow  sound  of  reedy  waters  whispering. 

I'm   famishing  for  scents  of  forest  birth — 

Of  reaching  root  and  dawning  mist  of  grass  : 

The  smell  of  wet  green  lichen  and  of  earth — 
Of  haw  and  willow-bud  and  sassafras. 

I  pine  to  see  the  dogwood's  creamy  barge, 
Clear-cut,  against  the  sunset's  orange  stain, 

Or  bent  and  shaken  by  a  sudden  charge 
Of  silver-pointed  bayonets  of  rain. 

My  heart  is  wood-sick — thirsty  for  the  things 
That  only  one  who  loves  the  forest  knows — 

The  gracious  grandeur  of  the  strong  old  kings, 
The  golden  fires  that  cuckoo-buds  disclose. 

My  day-dreams  lead  me  in  the  dappled  ways 
Where  sunlight  spatters  down  in  yellow  spots. 

And  set  me  revelling  in  phantom  sprays 
Of  hyacinths  and  blue  forget-me-nots. 


WAR. 

By  Florence  Earle  Cnates  in  Lippincott's  Magazine 
In  the  beginning  was  I  born, 

With  man  from  out  the  dust ; 
And  presently,  from  Earth  uptorn-, 

Came  Cruelty  and  Lust. 
Alway,  the  vassals  of  my  will, 
They  twain  go  with  me  still. 

Where'er  my  flashing  sword  they  see, 
Where'er  they  scent  my  breath, 

Quickly    they    follow    after    me, 
Bringing  despair   and   death ; 

Yet  still  the  mighty  wear,  with  pride, 

My  liveries,  crimson-dyed. 

Once  long  ago,  in  ages  gone, 

When   man   seemed  as  the  brute, 

I  looked  with  dread  to  wisdom's  dawn, 
And  virtue's  ripening  fruit : 

Now  sages  wreathe  my  brow  with  bays, 

And  poets  chant  my  praise. 

Peace  wore  a  royal  diadem : 

And  once,  in  little   Bethlehem — 
Once  only,  not  again — 
But  I  could  trust  to   men, 

And  crucified  upon  a  tree, 

Peace  is  a  memory! 

MY  PURPOSE. 

By  Julia  Ditto  Young  in  Good  Housekeeping 
'Tis  only,  through  life's  little  span. 
To  give  and  get  what  joy  I  can, 
A  simple  faith   retaining  still 
In  love  of  God  and  man's  good-will. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WNTON/sKINGi 
Long  Jive  the A 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton  Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric.  ■ 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Kill  St. 


EDISON  PHONOGRAPH  AGENCY 

PETER  BACIGALUPI 

933    MARKET    STREET.  SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

WILL    REMOVE    SHORTLY    TO 

786-788    MISSION    STREET 


Mme.    GEORGETTE 

GODON 

LADIES'  HAT  IMPORTER 

REMODELING 

Suite  620-521 

STAEB  KING  BUILDING 
121  Geary  St. 

Perfect  Fitting 
French  Modes 
and  Adaptations 

Mary  Patton,  Supt.  Phone  East  585 

T5he  MARY  PATTON  HOSPITAL 

Formerly   the   A.   Miles   Taylor   Sanatorium. 
A  Perfectly  Equipped  Hospital 


1106  POST  STREET 
San  Francisco 


Rates  Range  From 
$15  to  $100  per  Week 


NOTICE  TO  HORSE  OWNERS 


JEPSON  BROS.  COMPANY,  Inc..  makers  of  fine  har- 
ness and  Importers  of  English  Saddlery,  will  now  be 
found  at  110-112.  MARKET  STREET,  where  you  will 
find  the  finest  and  largest  stock  of  everything  for  the 
horse,  show-ring  and  stock-farm.     Telephone  Bush  651. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


h  fffPte-*--  JI  NSURANCE 

The  projected  salt  water  auxiliary  system  for  fire 
protection  in  this  city  has  met  with  but  little  sup- 
port from  the  managers  of  the  companies. 

The  proposition  is  not  by  any  means  as  modern  as 

it  appears. 

*  *  * 


The  J.  C.  &  C.  B.  of  New  York  re-publishes  the 
following  account  of  a  fire  in  that  city,  which  was 
printed  in  a  New  York  paper  of  November,  1750: 
Nov.  5.  Number  407. 

New  York  Gazette  revived  in  the  Weekly  Post- 
Boy  With  the  freshest  advices  foreign  and  domes- 
tic. 

New  York,  Nov.  5,  1750. 

"Last  Tuesday  Evening,  being  the  Anniversary 
of  his  Majesty's  Birthday;  it  is  supposed  from  some 
Squibs  thrown  by  the  Boys.  A  House  took  Fire 
at  the  Corner  of  Pearl  street  near  the  White  Hall 
Slip,  and  the  Roof  was  in  a  light  Blaze  before  it  was 
observed ;  but  by  good  Providence,  it  being  very  calm 
and  nigh  the  River,  it  was  prevented  from  spreading 
any  farther,  and  extinguished  with  little  more  dam- 
age, that  what  was  done  to  the  House  it  began  in. 

"As  no  doubt  you'll  advise  the  Readers  of  your 
Weekly  Paper  of  the  late  Fire  in  the  South  Ward  of 
this  City;  please  to  add  these  few  Hints  for  our  fu- 
ture Safety.  It  is  well  known  that  the  Fires  in  this 
Town  of  late,  as  that  in  Duke  street,  the  School 
House  and  This,  happened  to  be  situate  within  Reach 
of  the  Rivers;  by  which  Means,  the  Engines  could  be 
supplied  without  great  Difficulty ;  and  thus  to  our 
happy  Deliverance,  as  those  raging  Fires  were  ex- 
tinguished, I  propose  that  a  Drain  or  Brick  Channel 
may  be  carried  up  at  Low  Water  from  under  the 
Long  Bridge,  in  broad  street,  that,  at  three  or  four 
convenient  Places  opposite  to  Thwart  Street  a  large 
pump  or  two  be  filled  in  such  Drain  or  Channel  to 
serve  in  case  of  Fires  in  those  Streets  or  Neighbor- 
hood, that  the  Drain  end  in  a  large  Well  or  Basin, 
near  City  Hall  having  three  or  four  Pumps  to  serve 
in  the  Neighborhood  about  the  public  Building;  and 
perhaps  an  expedient  may  be  found  to  convey  the 
Water  issuing  out  of  this  inexhaustible  Fountain,  by 
some  Means  or  other  Parts  of  the  City  remote  from 
the  Water  Side." 

There  has  been  more  than  a  few  experiments  in 
this  line,  and  infallibly  the  experiments  have  proven 

a  failure. 

*  *  * 

The  salt  water  has  corroded  the  pipes,  and  in  an 
emergency  requiring  extra  pressure  on  the  pipes  and 
mains,  disaster  has  followed. 

*  *  * 

The  city  of  Brighton,  England,  experimented  with 
a  salt  water  system  for  fire  protection,  and  found, 
after  it  had  given  it  a  fair  trial,  that  it  was  not  satis- 
factory. 

»  *  » 

San  Francisco  may  try  this  method,  and  possibly 
it  will  be  a  good  thing,  but  all  precedents  lead  to  the 

idea  that   it  will  not. 

*  *  * 

Salt  water  for  fire  protection  purposes  is  not  su- 
perior to  fresh  water,  the  only  thing  required  or  asked 
by  the  insurance  companies  being  a  plentiful  supply. 

In  the  case  of  the  Ashbury  Heights  fire,  which 
was  a  miniature  conflagration,  there  was  an  abund- 
ance of  water,  but  the  engines,  owing  to  the  height 


of  the  hill,  could  not  get  there  as  promptly  as  might 
have  been  desired. 

The  result  was  and  is  a  warning  to  fire  underwrit- 
ers that  the  same  rates  as  made  for  a  detached  dwell- 
ing is  not  adequate  for  a  frame  range,  and  it  is  a 
well-known  fact  that  at  least  one  of  the  burned 
dwellings  was  written  at  fifty  cents  for  three  years 
and  the  company  which  got  the  loss  deserved  it. 

*  *  * 

The  Wholesale  Grocers  recently  held  a  convention 
in  this  city.  It  discussed  the  several  things  aside 
from  sanding  sugar  which  pertained  to  the  welfare 
of  the  grocery  business,  and  incidentally  the  follow- 
ing is  found  in  the  report  of  the  proceedings:  "Mu- 
tual fire  insurance  is  becoming  a  great  factor  in  the 
insurance  field,  and  of  valuable  assistance  in  associ- 
•ation  work,  and  has  proven  wherever  tried  that  it 
is  a  good  proposition  and  worthy  of  endorsement  and 
support  by  the  retail  merchants  of  this  country.  It 
is  no  experiment,  but  an  assured  fact;  your  interests 
are  better  protected  and  your  premiums  materially 
reduced." 

In  connection  with  this  is  to  be  noted  that  two  of 
the  numbers  on  the  programme  are  an  address  by 
E.  A.  Tyler,  Fargo,  N.  D.— "Why  Members  Should 
Interest  Themselves  in  Mutual  Fire  Insurance,"  and 
another  address  by  C.  H.  Spencer,  Seattle,  Wash. — 
"How  Our  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  Co-op- 
erates with  the  State  Association." 
*■  *  * 

The  Tyler  man  is  unknown  to  fame  up  to  the  pres- 
ent, and  the  Spencer  person  too  well  known  to  need 
comment. 

*  *  * 

Grocers,  as  a  rule,  are  sensible  and  not  inclined  to 
patronize  any  fad  outside  the  premium  trading  stamp 
business.  They  have  been  gulled  cents  by  this 
method  where  they  are  or  will  be  gulled  dollars  by 
the  mutual  co-duperative  insurance  plan. 

*  *  * 

It  is  not  so  easy  to  understand  why  a  grocer  will 
not  permit  an  insurance  man  to  assure  him  that  he 
is  charging  too  much  for  his  groceries,  especially  if 
the  grocer  has  any  sense. 

*  *  * 

The  suggestion  made  by  the  insurance  man  would 
be  met  with  scorn  or  a  club,  for  the  grocery  man  feels 
he  knows  his  own  business  best. 

In  this  light,  it  is  a  poor  rule  that  won't  work  both 
ways,  and  the  grocery  men  want  to  tell  the  insurance 
men  that  they  are  charging  too  much  for  insurance. 
Funny,  is  it  not? 

*  *  » 

The  fire  insurance  men,  as  a  whole,  would,  it  is 
safe  to  say,  just  as  soon  as  not  let  the  grocers  unite 
in  the  proposition  of  loaning  each  other  five  dollars 

apiece. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Haley  Fisk,  vice-president  of  the  Metropoli- 
tan Life,  is  expected  to  arrive  in  San  Francisco  about 

the   15th  inst. 

*  *  * 

The  bankers  are  different,  and  when  insurance  poli- 
cies are  needed  as  collateral  at  the  bank  for  a  sixty 
day  discount,  it  is  an  assured  fact  that  the  Grocers' 
Mutual  policies  will  not  be  accepted,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  the  company  is  founded  on  wind — hot- 
air  assets — and  banks  do  not  care  about  this  kind 
of  policy  as  collateral. 


May  7.  1904. 

Mr.  Stove),  after   his   Girard   banting   trip.   seems 

content  with  the  spoils  of  the   Eastern  visit.     The 

not   a  big  line  writer,  and   its  experience 

heretofore  on  the  Coast  is  not  calculated  to  make  it 

any  more  liberal. 

*  *  * 

The  Girard  is  notoriously  a  non-compact,  and  the 
success  of  its  venture  will  be  watched  with  interest 

by  legitimate  fire  underwriters. 

*  *  * 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  the  Girard,  like  the  Germania, 
will  not  cut  much  of  a  figure  among  the  non-boarders. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Cyrus  King  Drew  has  returned  from  Southern 
California,  where  he  attended  the  New  York  Life 
and  the  Conservative  Life  Convention.  Mr.  Drew  is 
the  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Insurance   Report, 

and  is  accompanied  by  his  wife. 

*  *  * 

Toronto,  Indianapolis  and  some  minor  fires 
serve  to  keep  the  companies  guessing,  and  to  pile  up 

a  loss  ratio  which  is  appalling. 

*  *  * 

The  Canadian  companies  are  reported  to  have  suf- 
fered severely  in  the  Toronto  fire,  but  there  is  no 
danger  of  their  doing  the  Firemans  of  Baltimore  act. 
The  British-America  and  the  Western  Assurance  are 
too  strong. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


V 


WHY   EX-GOVERNOR   BUDD   WENT  TO 

EUROPE. 

Homer  Davenport,  the  cartoonist,  is  rambling  over 
the  State  giving  lectures  or  caricaturing,  and  inci- 
dentally telling  stories  about  his  former  employer, 
Hearst.  He  was  in  Bakersfield  the  other  day,  and 
after  his  lecture  amused  a  party  of  oil  men,  including 
H.  Segur,  President  of  the  Monarch  Oil  Company, 
with  a  lot  of  Hearst  stories,  many  of  which  cannot  be 
repeated  in  print,  at  least.  Here,  however,  is  one  of 
the  mildest:  "When  Hearst  was  running  for  Congress 
in  New  York,"  said  Davenport,  "he  invited  ex-Gov- 
ernor Budd  of  this  State  to  come  on  and  speak  for 
him.  After  the  election  the  party,  including  Hearst 
and  Budd,  went  to  Washington  on  a  special  train, 
taking  some .  "fairies"  with  them.  On  the  trip,  as 
there  were  no  temperance  principles  practiced,  a  row 
took  place  over  the  girls,  which,  however,  was  even- 
tually settled  amicably,  and  Hearst  sent  Budd  to  Eu- 
rope so  as  to  square  things.  That  is  how  and  why 
the  ex-Governor  made  his  recent  European  trip." 

You  can  never  .  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  it.  Go  to  Spaulding's 
Carpst  Cleaning  Company,  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


INSURANCE 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.   D.  17*2. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    W,00»,00« 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6,022,116 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent.    202  Pine  St..  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by  Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  J3.440.100.  Assets,  J24,«62,043.M 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  J8.93u.431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  J134,O00,C0» 

Pacific  Coast  Branch : 

FRANK  W.   DICKSON,   Manager,  501  Montgomery  Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local  Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Establllhed  1850. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5»i72»°36 

Surplus  to  Policyholders. .    2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOTD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Building;, 

San  Francisco. 


The   Techau   Tavern   is   the   place   to  go   after  the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
is  reasonable. 


Allen's  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  now 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $  1 ,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $2 1 ,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company-    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  HO  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 


British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance   Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 


Capital  — 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &,  Co.  Agents. 


$6,700,000 

316  California  St..  S.  F. 


Cash  Capital,  J200.000.00 


Cash  Assets,  J321.471.19 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post-St  Turkish  Bath. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office.  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators.  _.„,,.„ 
Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
t>    T)perins    Counssl 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


T5he    Typewriter     Girl 


By    the    Private    Secretary 


Business  men  are  sitting  up  and  taking  notice  that 
the  "typewriter  girl"  is  really  a  modern  sword  of 
Damocles.  She  is  not  the  merry  jest  that  the  joke- 
smiths  would  have  us  believe.  Witness  the  testimony 
of  Mrs.  Belle  Curtis  in  the  land  fraud  case.  There 
are  dozens  of  stenographers  in  San  Francisco  who 
have  the  secrets  of  their  employers  locked  up  in  their 
breasts,  and  it  is  devoutly  hoped  by  the  men  who 
employ  them  that  they  are  very  tightly  locked  and 
the  key  thrown  away.  Mrs.  Curtis  swung  wide  the 
doors  to  the  chambers  of  her  confidences,  and  that 
fact  is  worrying  men  in  nowise  concerned  in  these 
land  cases. 

Fancy  what  a  topsy-turvy  business  world  this 
would  be  if  other  stenographers  should  take  their 
cue  from  Mrs.  Curtis  and  divulge  the  methods  of 
their  employers  for  one  reason  or  another.  Fortu- 
nately for  the  peace  of  mind  of  doctors,  lawyers, 
merchants,  chiefs,  it  is  almost  without  precedent,  at 
least  in  San  Francisco,  for  a  woman  to  take  the 
stand  against  her  employer.  The  shock  occasioned 
in  this  instance  may  bring  the  business  man  to  his 
senses — of  the  part  the  stenographer  plays  in  the 
scheme  of  things. 

The  highly-successful  stenographer  who  earns 
a  salary  anywhere  from  $100  to  $200  a  month  is  in- 
variably the  repository  of  the  secrets  of  the  firm. 
What  about  the  moth-eaten  adage  that  a  woman 
cannot  keep  a  secret?  Of  a  truth,  the  average 
woman  cannot  keep  her  own  counsels,  much  less 
any  one  else's.  But  the  stenographer  who,  in  terse 
mercantile  argot,  is  a  crackerjack,  cannot  be  pigeon- 
holed among  the  "average  women."  Count  them 
over,  and  you'll  find  in  every  case  that  they  are 
women  who  have  none  of  the  usual  attributes  of  the 
witching  sex.  Their  mental  machinery  works  like 
a  man's,  their  ideas,  opinions,  and  idiosyncracies 
are  all  masculine  gender.  The  fluffy-haired,  gew- 
gawed  little  typewriter  who  rattles  like  a  brass  band 
with  jangling  bracelets  and  chatelaines  does  not  en- 
ter this  discussion.  It  is  the  sort  of  woman  who  can 
make  herself  indispensable  to  a  big  firm  that  is  un- 
der consideration. 

That  sort  of  woman,  as  stated  before,  belongs  to 
the  class  whose  mental  slant  is  more  like  a  man's 
than  a  woman's.  She  seldom  marries,  although  she 
has  more  opportunities  of  meeting  men  than  most 
women.  But  she  is  a  business  woman  through  and 
through,  and  that  type  appeals  to  few  men  from  a 
cardiac  standpoint.  They  admire  her  business  acu- 
men, her  keen  insight  into  character,  her  razor-edged 
judgment — but  they  look  for  other  attributes  in  their 
wives. 

There  are  between  fifty  and  seventy-five  women 
stenographers  in  this  city  who  have  reached  the  top- 
notch  in  their  profession.  Their  resignations  would 
be  taken  in  the  nature  of  a  calamity  by  their  employ- 
ers. Needless  to  say,  they  are  not  fledglings — they 
have  all  said  good-bye  to  the  twenties.  Four  of  these 
experts  take  their  luncheon  together  in  a  down-town 
restaurant — the  lowest  salaried  one  receives  $120  a 
month,  the  highest  $180.  They  are  each  in  the  con- 
fidence of  their  employers,  and  the  slightest  breach 
of  this  confidence  would  shake  the  firm  to  its  founda- 
tions. Two  of  the  members  of  this  luncheon  quar- 
tette are  working  for  rival  firms,  and  though  they 
have   spent  the   noon   hour  together  for  ten   years, 


they  say  that  they  have  never  once  "talked  shop." 
An  outsider  mentioned  the  subject  of  the  Curtis 
testimony  to  them  the  other  day,  and  with  one  ac- 
cord they  denounced  the  stenographer  who  for  any 
cause  pries  open  the  strong  box  of  confidences  en- 
trusted to  her. 

The  high-class,  high-priced  stenographer  is  the 
one  who  knows  that  silence  is  24  carat  golden.  She 
would  as  soon  think  of  turning  her  own  affairs  in- 
side out  for  public  gaze  as  her  employer's.  Employ- 
ers never  appreciated  this  fact  as  much  as  they  uo 
now  that  the  Curtis  incident  has  stirred  up  so  much 
discussion. 

•  It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  business  world  is 
just  waking  up  to  the  fact  that  the  stenographer  is 
a  "mighty  pow'ful  pusson."  To  her  credit  be  it 
said  that  she  very  seldom  takes  advantage  of  her 
position  behind  the  scenes.  There  are  tricks  in  every 
trade,  and  even  men  whose  commercial  honor  is 
above  par  would  not  want  the  methods  of  their  firms 
exposed  on  the  highways.  In  the  nature  of  her  posi- 
tion the  stenographer  must  know  her  employer's 
most  intimate  business  secrets,  and  she  should  know 
how  to  keep  them. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*9 


T5he    Happy     Union     Man 


Oh,  happy  is  the  union  man. 

He   lives   his   life   in   clover, 
He  works  as  little  as  he  can. 

And  his  clothes  are  marked  all  over. 
He  helps  the  others  of  his  class 

As  much  as  he  is  able. 
And    meek    as    any    hobbled    ass. 

He  wears  the  union  label. 

His  coat  can  show  the  union  mark. 

His  hat  and  vest   likewise, 
lli^  very  shirt,  the  diamond  spark, 

That  on  his  bosom  lies. 
Is  stamped  in  fashion  that  displays 

The  brand  of  those  who  rule  him, 
The  brand  of  those  who  guide  his  ways — 

Who  regulate  and  fool  him. 

The  union  boss  smokes  good  cigars 

And  buys  them  with  the  money 
He  takes  to  settle  union  jars — 

He's  fat,  and  smooth,  and  sunny. 
He  sells  his  union  brother  out, 

His  union  brother  likes  it, 
So  greets  his  mandates  with  a  shout, 

And,  when  he  orders,  strikes  it. 

The  union  man  is  bold  and  free, 

That's  what  his  leaders  tell  him  ; 
They  rob  him  of  his  liberty, 

And,  having  caught  him,   sell   him. 
The  union  man  is  ordered  round, 

He's  badgered  and  bulldozed, 
He  does  not  dare  to  make  a  sound — 

The  shop  he  works  in  's  closed. 

Oh,  happy,  happy  union  man, 

Who  has  a  union  ticket, 
They  put  his  shop  beneath  the  ban, 

Then  send  him  forth  to  picket; 
He  pickets  hard,  he  pickets  long, 

He  does  not  shirk  or  quail, 
His  leaders  put  him  in  the  wrong, 

And  the  police  put  him  in  jail. 

He  takes  to  politics  in  force, 

And  so  elects  his  Mayor, 
He  finds  that  things  are  rather  worse. 

His  prospects  far  from  fair; 
For  the  Mayor  he  is  a  canny  man, 

He  sees  he  has  a  plum, 
He  grows  rich  quickly  as  he  can, 

But  the  voter's  "on  the  bum." 

Oh,  happy  is  the  union  man, 

He  is  a  man  of  might, 
The  rest  may  shirk,  the  rest  may  plan — 

The  union  man's  all  right. 
For  though  his  pleasures  may  be  few, 

His  wages  far  from  stable, 
He  has  one  steady  thing  and  true — 

He  has  the  union  label. 

Dr.  Decker. 

Dentist,  806  Market.    Specialty  "Colton  Gas"  for  painless  teeth 
extracting. 

High-grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to  measure.    Tom  Dillon  & 
Co.,  opp.  Palace. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup" 

for  your  children  while  teething. 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  bualneSB,  "an  Francisco,  California.    Loca- 
tion of  worka-Vireinia  City,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notioe  la  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  16th  day  of  April,  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  101)  of  10c 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  oapltal  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  cold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  Ihe 
office  of  the  Company,  Boom  69,  Nevada  Blook  No.  S09  Montgomeey  St,, 
San  Pranalsco,  Cal. 
Any  atook  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE   19th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1904, 
will  be    delinquent,   and  advertised  for  sale  at  publto  auotlon;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   Tuesday,  the  7th  day  of   June 
1904.    to   pay  the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising: and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Di  rectors. 

J.  B-  SHAW,  Seoretary. 

Location  of  Office — Room  69,  Nevada  Blook,  309  Montsromery  street,  San 
Francisco'  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California.    Loca- 
tion of  works,  Virginia  District,  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notioe  la  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  2ind  day  of  April,  1904.  an  assessment  .No.  85)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
T3E   27th   DAY   OF    MAY,    1904, 
will  be  .  delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auotlon;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before)  will  be  sold  on   FRIDAY,  the  17th  day  of  June 
1904,    to     pay     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the   costs   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE,  Seoretary. 
Offhoe— Room  38,  Nevada  Blook,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cUoo,  Oalifornip 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  PAUL.  BROCK,  deceased.  Dept.  30335  No.  8.  Notioe  is 
hereby  given  by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  Hynes,  Public  Adminis- 
trator of  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  Adminis- 
trator of  the  Estate  of  PAUL.  BROCK,  deceased,  to  the  credi- 
tors of,  and  all  persons  having  claims  against  the  said  deceased, 
to  exhibit  them  with  necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months 
after  the  first  publication  of  this  notice,  to  the  said  Administra- 
tor, at  room  568  Parrott  Building,  Nos.  825  to  855  Market  street, 
the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of 
the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State 
of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES, 
Administrator  of  the  estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY,  attorneys  for  administrator,  Rooms 
567-568-569  Parrott  building,   San  Francisco,   Cal. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  April  23,  1904. 


SAMUEL   M. 


Red  Eves  and  Eye- 
lids. Granulated 
Eyelids  and  other 
Eye  troubles    oured 


SHORTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law, 

Crocker  Building   San  Francisco. 

MURINE  EYE  REMEDY 


30 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


THE  CALIFORNIA  CLUB  ELECTION. 

There  are  a  number  of  women  in  the  California 
Club  on  the  verge  of  nervous  prostration,  and  all 
because  they  have  just  passed  through  an  annual 
election.  The  contest  has  been  waged  as  bitterly  as 
if  the  officers  were  fat  with  emoluments  and  perqui- 
sites, instead  of  being  laden  with  responsibilities, 
lightened  with  a  few  honors.  The  election  took 
place  last  Tuesday  afternoon,  the  polls  being  open 
from  2  to  5  o'clock.  It  was  creeping  on  to  midnight, 
however,  before  the  ballots  were  counted.  During 
all  the  evening  hours,  the  cliques  were  grouped  in 
the  different  rooms,  talking  over  the  candidates  and 
all  the  animosities  that  have  marked  the  month  of 
electioneering.  With  all  the  avidity  of  seasoned 
politicians,  they  called  for  bulletins  on  the  count, 
but  when  the  result  was  announced  the  attitude  of 
the  two  factions  was  a  matter  of  credit  to  them.  The 
defeated  candidate  for  President,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Orr, 
one  of  the  most  brilliant  women  in  the  California 
Club,  was  quick  to  offer  congratulations  to  the  suc- 
cessful candidate,  Mrs.  Aylett  R.  Cotton,  and  prom- 
ise loyal  support  for  her  administration. 

The  manner  of  election  in  the  California  Club  is 
quite  different  from  that  in  any  other.  The  plan  has 
been  in  operation  for  the  past  two  years,  and  was 
patterned  after  that  of  the  big  Chicago  Club.  As 
many  nominations  as  the  members  please  are  made 
from  the  floor.  These  names  are  mailed  by  the  nomi- 
nating committee  to  the  members,  who  indicate  their 
choice,  the  candidates  receiving  the  highest  num- 
ber in  this  preliminary  vote  constitute  what  is  called 
the  "first  ticket" ;  the  second  highest  set  of  names 
are  placed  on  the  "second  ticket,"  and  all  the  others 
are  dropped  from  the  race — left  at  the  gate.  The 
two  tickets  are  printed  and  mailed  to  the  members 
who  have  a  chance  to  study  them  over  before  the 
election  time,  a  month  after  the  first  choice  was 
made. 

When  the  ballots  were  counted,  Mrs.  Cotton  was 
found  to  have  received  160  votes,  and  Mrs.  Orr  126. 
The  other  officers  on  the  successful  ticket  were: 
First  Vice-President,  Dr.  Dorothea  Moore ;  Second 
Vice-President,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Scott :  Directors,  Mrs. 
Arthur  W.  Cornwall,  Mrs.  Virginia  Bradley.  Mrs. 
Charles  Warren,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Scoville,  Mrs.  E.  P.  Schell, 
Mrs.  C.  L.  Hovey,  Mrs.  Horace  Coffin  and  Mrs.  H. 
H.  Fassett. 

These  officers  will  be  entrusted  with  important 
work,  because  it  is  this  year  that  the  California 
Club  will  begin  the  building  of  its  new  clubhouse 
on  the  lot  on  Clay  street,  between  Polk  street  and 
Van  Ness  avenue.  Besides  this,  every  department 
of  the  club  has  big  civic,  socialogical  and  educational 
measures  to  be  carried  forward. 

There  is  too  much  of  interest  in  the  machinery 
of  this  club  to  permit  the  disgruntled  members  to 
withdraw  or  to  hold  aloof.  They  will  all  be  at  their 
posts  when  the  club  re-opens  its  work  in  September. 

Nelson's  Amycose 

Infallible  Remedy  for  Catarrh,  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


Tesla  Briquettes,   the  popular  domestic  fuel,   are  only  $7.50 

per  ton;  half  ton  $4:  quarter  ton  52.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal-  Company,  10th 
and  Channel.    Phone  South  95. 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 

Discarding  the  old  furniture  because 
it  is  worn  is  not  always  necessary. 
It  is  sometimes  possible  to  make  the 
old  pieces  quite  as  good  as  new. 
We  REFINISH,  REMODEL  and 
RE-UPHOLSTER  furniture. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    $    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


COLT'S 

ACETYLENE 

GAS 

GENERATOR. 

FOR 

SALE 

Safest  and  best  in  the  world.     Gas  is  only  gen- 
erated as  actually  required  for  consumption,  ioo 
burner  capacity  for  5  hours,  or  50  burners  for  10 
hours.     Apparatus  new.     Never  been  used. 

Address  J.  W.,  this  office,  320  Sansome  St., 

San  Francisco. 

The  latest  stvle  In  shirts  may  be  found  at  John  w.  Carmany's 
rhronlcle  Building. 


"Be  It  ever  so  humble  there  Is  no  place  like  home."  and  the 
home  can  be  furnished  with  pretty  and  artistically  framed  pic- 
tures at  a  very  moderate  price  by  calling  on  Sanborn.  Vail  & 
CO..  741  Market  Street. 


LAKE   TAHOE 

With  crystal  water,  cradled  by  the  mother 
peaks  of  the  High  Sierra,  and  encircled 
by  a  gleaming  chain  of  bimaller  lakes,  Tahoe 
offers  the  most  delightful  place  in  the 
world  for  a  summer  outing.  A  vacation 
that  failed  has  yet  to  be  recorded  against 
Lake  Tahoe.  Get  the  Tahoe  folder  of 
agents,  or  address 

INFORMATION  BUREAU 
6 1 3    Market    Street,     San    Francisco 

SOUTHERN    PACIFIC 


May  7,  1904. 

Lo!  The  Poor  Hindoo. 

The  poor,  benighted   Hindo 

He  docs  the  best  he  kindo; 

He  sticks  to  his  caste 

From  first  to  last. 

And  for  pants  lie  makes  his  skindo. 


Some  days  since  a  prominent  at- 
torney called  upon  another  mem- 
ber of  the  profession  and  asked 
his  opinion  on  a  certain  point  of 
law.  The  lawyer  to  whom  the 
question  was  addressed  drew  him- 
self up  to  his  full  height  and  said  : 
"I  generally  get  paid  for  telling 
what  I  know."  Whereupon  the 
questioner  drew  a  half  dollar  from 
his  pocket,  handed  it  to  the  other 
and  said :  "Tell  me  all  you  know 
and  give  me  the  change." 

He     (reading) — "Of    love    that 

never  found  its  earthly  close " 

She  (interrupting) — Isn't  Tenny- 
son grand !  You  can  always  learn 
something  from  him.  Now  I  un- 
derstand why  Cupid  is  always  rep- 
resented without  any  clothes  on. 
But  please  go  on. 


Doable  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,    KANSAS     CITY 
a  ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  cars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dinine  Cars,  with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Tans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  For  tickets,  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

626  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal- 

(Palace  Hotel) 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE   THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Bate  only  *67.BO  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  F.  BOOTH,  Qen.  Alt,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co- 

No- 1-  Montgomery  St.    Dan  Francisco,  Cal 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    Thlavea) 

A  young  preacher  was  recently 
called  upon  to  officiate  at  a  fun- 
eral in  the  absence  of  the  pastor 
of  the  church.  He  knew  it  was 
customary  for  the  minister  to  an- 
nounce after  the  sermon  that  those 
who  wished  should  step  up  to  view 
the  remains,  but  he  thought  this 
was  too  hackneyed  a  phrase  and 
said  instead :  "The  congregation 
will  now  please  pass  around  the 
bier!" 

A  certain  judge  was  a  splendid 
lawyer,  and  could  talk  a  jury  out 
of  their  senses.  He  was  once 
counsel  for  a  man  who  was  accused 
of  being  a  horse-thief.  He  made 
a  long,  eloquent,  touching  speech. 
The  jury  retired  and  returned  in 
a  few  minutes  with  a  verdict  of 
"Not  guilty."  An  old  pal  stepped 
up  to  the  prisoner  and  said:  "Jim, 
you  are  free ;  and  now,  honor 
bright,  didn't  you  steal  that 
horse?"  To  which  Jim  replied: 
"Well,  Tom,  I've  all  along  thought 
I  stole  that  horse,  but  since  hear- 
ing the  judge's  speech,  I  don't  be- 
lieve I  did." 

A  friend  of  ours  tells  the  follow- 
ing story  of  a  school-ma'am  who 
has  a  dread  of  all  kinds  of  contag- 
ious diseases.  She  sent  a  child 
home  because  her  mother  was  sick. 
The  next  day  the  little  girl  present- 
ed herself  at  school  with  her  fin- 
ger in  her  mouth  and  a  little  hood 
swinging  by  the  string,  and  said : 
"We's  got  a  baby  at  our  house,  but 
mamma  says  I  shall  tell  you  it's 
not  catching." 

An  Irish  undertaker  was  laying 
out  the  deceased  husband  of  a 
weeping  Hibernian  woman.  The 
corpse  wore  a  wig,  and  it  was  very 
difficult  to  induce  it  to  stay  on 
straight.  The  bereaved  widow 
was  called  in  to  assist.  "Go  an' 
git  me  a  pot  of  glue,  Mrs.  McGov- 
ern,"  said  the  undertaker,  "so  that 
I  may  keep  this  wig  where  it  be- 
longs." Mrs.  McGovern  set  out 
after  the  sticking  material,  and  af- 
ter a  time  returned,  saying  with 
a  sigh,  "Here  is  the  glue  for  ye." 
"Mrs.  McGovern,  you  kin  take 
back  the  mucilage,"  said  the  un- 
dertaker, "the  difficulty  is  fixed;  I 
used  a  tack." 

A  Hebrew  was  sitting  on  the 
Islesworth  porch  in  Atlantic  City 
reading  a  paper,  when  another  He- 
brew came  up  and  said:  "Mose, 
don't  look  now,  but  dat  voman  sit- 
ting next  to  you  is  de  ugliest 
voman  I  have  ever  seen."  Mose 
replied:  "Yes,  I  know;  dat's  my 
wife." 


3* 


emm 


liquors  and  properly  aged 
to  perfection.  When  other 
brands  are  offered  it's  for 
the  purpose  of  larger  pro- 
fits—the original  of  any- 
thing is  best. 

G.  F.   HEUBLElN  <a  BRO. 


PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS 

SPOHN-PATRICK    COMPANY 

San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles. 
Denver.  SaltLake  City,    Seattle. 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 

in  all  its  forms.  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr.  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
oured  several  prominent  citizens  of  San 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutches  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Pincers  roughened  by  needlework 

catch  every  stain  and  look  hopelessly 
dirty.  Hand  Sapollo  removes  not  only 
the  dirt,  but  also  the  loosened,  injured 
cuticle,  and  restores  the  fingers  to 
their  natural  beauty. 

ALL     GROCERS    AND    DRUGGISTS 


TWOMEY    i.    MIHOLOVICH 


TEE  YELLOWSTONE 


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22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


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ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  HarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Once  upon  a  time  a  Dog  came 
upon  a  man  eating  what  he  liked, 
regardless.  "His  intelligence  is 
almost  canine!"  exclaimed  the 
Dog,  glowing. — Puck. 


Summer 

Vacations 


by  Sea 


Excellent  Service,  Low  Rites,  Including  Berth  and  Meals 

Los  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Tacoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 

And   to  those  desiring    longer  trips   to 

Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc., obtain  folder 
SAN  FRANCISO  TICKET  OFFICES 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St- ,  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

C.  D.  DUNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co..  ao  Sutter  st„  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences-    Telephone  Exchange  312- 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

The  Only  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  Elver  and  Chicago- 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Sootbern  Paclllc,  Union  Pocltlc  and  Cblcaco 
and  Norlbweslern  kys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vesllbuled.  Lenves 
Ban  Francisco  at  iu.no  a.  m.  The  most 
J^S1  j'SK?  TraLn  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking  ca  is 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary. Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
partment bleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change- 

Eastern  Express.  Veatltaled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and.  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestibules.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a-m.Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers- 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays,    Thursdays    and    Fridays- 
Best  of  everything 
R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Eys. 
«17  Market  St.      ( Palace  Hotel )      San  Francisco 


V/O  ''^>\  ^i\     Trains  leave  and  are 
'0£^--^-r\        due  to  arH**  at 

/  SUNSET  \"**, 

U)booeN»V6HASTA  «t      SAN    FRANCISCO 

y-  -v;    /#./     fbom  April  10,  imm 

^     JS^E_=_3^\  y  Fibbt  Depot 

»>^  Q  t  Y,,/^        (Foot  of  Market  Street 

L^vit   -        MAIN    LINE.        Ei*™™ 

7.00a.    Vacavllle.  Winters,  Ruiueey 7-BOp 

7.00a  Bt-nl'la.  Buleun,  Elm  Ira  and  Sacra- 
mento          7.20i' 

7  30*  Vallejo.    Napa,     Callitoga,    Santa 

Rosa,  Martinez,  San  Ramon 820i- 

7. 30*  Nllei,  Llrermore,  Traoy,  Latbrop. 

Stockron 7  20'' 

8.00*  Shaata  Express  —  (Via  Darli), 
William*  (for  Bartlett  Spring!), 
Willows  tFrnto.  Red  Bluff, 
Portland,  Tacoma,  Seattle 7.50-1 

8.00*  DavlB,  Woodland,  KnlgbU  Landing, 

Maryavllle,  Orovllle 7-60i- 

B30*  Port  CoBta,  Martinez,  Aotloco, 
Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man, Los  BanoB.  Mendota. 
Armona,  Han  ford,  V 1 1  a  1  la, 
Portorvllle 4.20-- 

?  30*  Port  Coatn.  Latbrop,  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno,  Goshen  J  one* 
tlon,  Hunford,  Vieaiia.  Bakers- 
fleld 4.60p 

8. 30*  Nllee,  San  Jobo,  LIvermore,  Stock- 
ton, (tMllton),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervllle.  Maryevllle,  Cblco, 
Red  BlufT 4.20p 

B-30*  Oakdale,  Cbloeee,  Jamestown.  So- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4-20p 

9  00*    AtlantlcExpress— Ogden  and  EaBt.    1 1.20  • 

9-30*   Richmond,    Martinez     and      Way 

Stations 6  50'- 

1000*  Tb«    Overland    Limited —OgdeD. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6  20 1 

10.00*  Vallejo 12.20" 

10.00a  Lob  Angeles  PaBsenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Latbrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Hunford,  Lemoore,  Vlsaila, 

Bakersfleld,  Los  Angeles 7-20" 

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33 


&f>e     Political     Situation 


The  number  of  candidates  still  continues  to  in- 
for  every  thing  in  sight,  from  President  to 
Justice  of  the  Peace.  Mark  Plaisted  wants  to  go 
to  Congress  from  the  Sixth  District,  or  rather  wants 
to  be  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Congress  in  that 
District,  because  there  is  no  earthly  chance  of  either 
Plaisted  or  any  other  Democrat  defeating  Needham. 
I  understand  that  the  Examiner's  support  of  Mark's 
aspirations  was  the  price  he  demanded  for  his  sup- 
port of  Hearst's  candidacy  for  President,  which,  if 
it  be  true,  shows  that  Plaisted  is  not  near  as  shrewd 
as  he  used  to  be,  for  he  never  would  have  been  able 
to  have  made  the  success  he  has  made  of  several 
newspapers  if  he  had  attempted  to  build  them  up  on 
such  unsubstantial  support  as  the  Examiner  can  give. 
Besides,  an  editor  as  a  rule  should  not  run  for  office 
— he  has  too  many  enemies,  and  he  is  simply  spend- 
ing his  money  foolishly  in  campaign  expenses.  Mark 
used  to  be  too  careful  to  make  such  breaks  in  the 
past,  and  it  shows  a  discouraging  condition  of  de- 
crepitude to  see  him  venture  in  the  political  field 
personally  at  this  time  in  his  life. 

*  *  * 

The  fight  between  the  Bard  and  Oxnard  factions 
in  Ventura  Counties  has  encouraged  the  Democrats 
to  hope  that  perhaps  by  putting  up  an  exceptional 
candidate,  they  may  win  the  district,  so  they  have 
selected  J.  Logan  Kennedy  as  their  candidate.  He 
is  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  the  county,  and  from 
all  accounts  should  make  it  very  interesting  for  his 
Republican  competitor,  especially  if  the  Republi- 
cans split.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  point  out  that 
it  would  be  a  very  serious  thing  for  either  of  the 
Ventura  Senatorial  candidates  if  a  Democrat  should 
be  elected  to  the  Legislature  from  that  county. 

Writing  of  the  Senatorship  reminds  me  that  Sena- 
tor Rowell  of  Fresno,  either  stimulated  by  the  exam- 
ple of  his  fellow  editor,  Plaisted's  candidacy  for  Con- 
gress, or  seeing  the  hopelessness  of  the  Bard  cam- 
paign, has  privately  announced,  so  rumor  says,  his 
own  candidacy  for  the  Senate.  Rowell  was  one  of 
the  original  discoverers  of  Bard,  and  he  has  been 
ever  since  seeking  his  reward  at  that  Statesman's 
hands.  He  wanted  to  be  a  member  of  the  Panama 
Canal  Commission ;  before  that  he  wanted  to  be  Min- 
ister to  Japan ;  before  that  he  wanted  something 
else,  and  Bard,  to  his  credit  be  it  said,  worked  like 
a  Trojan  to  get  him  something,  but  the  cheese  sand- 
wich Senator  had  no  influence  at  the  White  House, 
and  his  efforts  at  bringing  down  a  big  price  were, 
of  course,  failures.  Now  Rowell  thinks  that  the  best 
way  to  get  something  is  to  be  in  power  himself,  and 
accordingly  he  turns  his  eyes  longingly  on  the  toga. 
But  he  will  not  be  alone  among  the  Bard  men  in 
that  ambition,  for  Flint  has  been  mentioned,  and 
there  are  others.  The  chief  significance  of  Rowell's 
candidacy  is  that  it  means  that  he  has  concluded 
that  there  is  no  chance  of  Bard  being  re-elected. 

*  *  * 

Miguel  Estudillo,  of  Riverside,  has  announced 
himself  as  a  candidate  against  Frank  Lewis  as  As- 
semblyman from  the  Seventy-Eighth  District.  Es- 
tudillo is  a  very  able  lawyer,  a  member  of  one  of 
the  old  Spanish  families  of  California.  He  an- 
nounces that  he  is  not  pledged  to  any  one  for  Sena- 


tor, and  will  not  be,  a  position  that  the  press  of 
Riverside  warmly  endorses.  J.  R.  Dorsey  of  Bakers- 
field,  who  has  gotten  married  since  the  last  session 
of  the  Legislature,  and  who  was  declared  by  sundry 
susceptible  maidens  to  be  the  handsomest  member 
of  the  Assembly,  wants  to  come  back  again.  Henry 
E.  Carter  of  Los  Angeles,  who  was  Speaker  pro  tem- 
pore in  the  last  session,  wants  to  be  Speaker  next 
year.  J.  N.  Anderson  of  Santa  Ana  wants  to  be 
Senator  from  that  bailiwick,  but  the  Anaheim  Ga- 
zette thinks  that  although  he  is  clean-shaven  to-day, 
his  whiskers  will  be  two  feet  long  before  he  will  be 
elected,  so  Anderson  will  probably  not  be  on  the  roll 
of  the  next  Senate. 

*  *  * 

In  the  Nineteenth  District  in  this  city  there  are 
several  aspirants  for  State  Senatorial  honors :  Sena- 
tor Robert  J.  Welch,  who  is  now  on  the  State  pay- 
rolls at  the  harbor  front,  wants  to  go  back,  and  is 
trying  hard  to  make  a  go  of  it,  but  he  has  competi- 
tors in  the  persons  of  John  Heilman  and  E.  J.  Lynch, 
a  bright  young  lawyer  who  is  at  present  employed 
as  assistant  in  Abe  Ruef's  office.  Across  the  bay  in 
Marin,  Senator  Belshaw  and  E.  B.  Martinelli  are 
both  candidates  for  the  place  that  the  Senator  now 
holds.  Belshaw  is  likely  to  find  his  path  to  victory 
rather  hard  to  travel,  because  of  his  antagonism  to 
labor  unions,  which  are  strong  in  parts  of  Contra 
Costa  County,  which  is  a  part  of  the  same  district. 
Martinelli  is  a  trustee  of  the  insane  asylum  in  Men- 
docino County.  He  was  a  Gage  man,  and  if  the 
"receptive"  candidate  for  the  Senate  should  put  in 
an  appearance  at  Sacramento  next  January,  Marti- 
nelli would  undoubtedly  be  for  him,  while  Belshaw 
belongs  to  the  Bard  faction,  and  would  be  for  Rowell, 
or  Flint,  or  Bulla  if  they  were  candidates. 


34 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  7,  1904. 


A  canvass  was  made  last  week  of  the  Democratic 
National  Committee  men  by  a  Chicago  paper,  and 
they  were  asked  how  their  several  States  would 
stand  at  St.  Louis.  Here  are  the  answers:  Indiana, 
Parker;  Minnesota,  Parker;  New  York,  Parker; 
Georgia,  Parker;  Connecticut,  Parker;  Louisiana, 
Parker;  Texas,  Parker;  Massachusetts,  Hearst; 
North  Dakota,  Hearst;  South  Dakota,  Hearst; 
Kansas,  Hearst;  California,  Hearst;  West  Virginia, 
Gorman;  Wisconsin,  E.  C.  Wall;  Nebraska,  Parker 
or  Hearst;  North  Carolina,  Gorman  or  Parker;  Dela- 
ware, Hearst  or  Gorman.  Since  the  poll  was  made, 
some  of  the  predictions  have  gone  astray,  as,  for 
instance,  Hearst  has  carried  Connecticut,  and  has 
not  carried  Massachusetts.  Illinois  is  not  solid  for 
Parker,  nor  Kansas  for  Hearst,  and  Texas  has  not 
indorsed  Parker,  nor  is  California  pledged  to  Hearst, 
but  the  one  thing  of  interest  in  the  prognostications 
is  that  no  one  has  two-thirds  of  the  convention.  It 
might  have  been  added  that  Missouri  is  for  Cock- 
erell,  and  that  Maryland  will  be  for  Gorman.  Illi- 
nois has  a  favorite  in  Congressman  Williams,  who 
may  at  least  get  a  complimentary  vote  from  that 
State,  and  Rhode  Island  is  for  Hearst,  while  Michi- 
gan is  going  to  give  him  some  votes.  Oregon  is 
non-committal,  though  rather  inclined  to  be  anti- 
Hearst,  and  Pennsylvania  is  also  on  the  fence,  so 
that  it  is  very  evident  that  it  is  still  any  man's  fight 
and  may  result  in  the  selection  of  some  one  who 
has  not  even  been  named.  It  is  particularly  signi- 
ficant that  the  South  has  two  candidates,  and  one, 
Williams,  of  Mississippi,  who  may  be  termed  as 
"receptive,"  and  in  this  connection  I  would  call  at- 
tention to  a  statement  made  by  Congressman  Champ 
Clark  of  Missouri  in  a  recent  magazine  article:  "It 
is  urged  that  because  Missouri  is  reliably  Demo- 
cratic the  nomination  should  go  to  a  doubtful  S.tate, 
when  the  truth  is  that  an  outside  Democratic  candi- 
date can  poll  more  votes  in  New  York  than  any  New 
Yorker,  and  more  in  Indiana  than  any  Hoosicr. " 

*  *  * 

The  Eureka  Standard  announces  that  Major  Bull 
will  be  the  delegate  to  Chicago  from  that  part  of  the 
First  District.  Mayor  Clinch  is  making  it  lively  for 
Senator  Voorhies  in  the  other  part  of  the  district. 
Senator  Devlin  would  like  to  go  from  the  Second  as 
one  of  the  district  delegates,  and  as  George  Stute- 
vant  has  declined  to  be  a  candidate  for  Congress, 
and  has  left  the  field  open  for  Duncan  McKinley, 
imitating  in  that  respect  Senator  Devlin,  who  was 
also  a  candidate  for  the  Congressional  nomination, 
it  has  been  suggested  that  he  be  the  other  district 
delegate.  That  will  give  Sonoma  the  Congressman, 
and  Sacramento  and  Mendocino  the  two  delegates, 
so  three  counties  will  be  remembered  out  of  those 
in  the  Second  District.  If  Mendocino  takes  up 
Stutevant's  candidacy,  he  will  be  a  delegate. 

*  *  * 

By  the  way,  Dr.  Lindley,  the  brother  of  Hervey 
Lindley,  and  the  founder  and  first  superintendent  of 
the  Whittier  State  School,  is  a  candidate  for  the  Re- 
publican nomination  for  Mayor  of  Los  Angeles.  The 
Doctor  has  always  been  active  in  politics,  though 
never  to  the  extent  of  his  two  brothers,  and  if  he 
runs  will  have  the  active  opposition  of  the  Times, 
which  should  elect  him.  Mayor  Snyder  wants  the 
Democratic  nomination  again,  but  his  endorsement 
of  Hearst  has  hurt  him  with  his  party  very  much, 
and  late  arrivals  from  the  South  say  that  the  present 
is  undoubtedly  his  last  term,  and  that  they  do  not 
think  the  South  will  demand  his  nomination  for  Gov- 
ernor two  years  hence. 


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Number  20 


The  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER  Is  printed  and  published 
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Thursday   previous  to  day  of  Issue. 

Japan  goes  on  making  history,  while  Russia  waits. 

A  young  woman  of  Chicago  has  proved  by  nearly 
dying  that  raw  wheat  and  cold  water  will  not  sustain 
life. 


"Jim"  Hill  has  given  $15,000,000  to  build  a  church 
at  St.  Paul.  This  is  the  largest  fire  insurance  policy 
ever  written  on  a  man's  life. 


Cattle  King  Miller  is  going  to  raise  elk  near  Wat- 
sonville.  The  kind  ot  Elk  we  know  best  is  said  by 
some  to  be  raised  on  the  bottle. 


A  distinguished  Russian  General  has  issued  an  or- 
der directing  his  men  to  "keep  cool."  It  was  not  nec- 
essary so  far  as  their  feet  are  concerned. 

A  recent  marriage  at  the  Point  Loma  Home  of 
Theosophy  leads  us  to  think  that  the  institution  has 
a  pink  Cupid  as  well  as  a  "purple  mother." 

"Silent"  Smith,  the  richest  bachelor  in  the  country, 
has  found  his  tongue  long  enough  to  ask  a  lady  to 
share  his   millions  with  him. 


Hearst  is  accused  of  vainly  offering  $250,000  for 
Indiana's  vote  in  the  Democratic  Convention.  Evi- 
dently he  has  more  money  and  the  party  more  honor 
than  had  been  suspected. 

The  Washington  woman  who  arranged  the  wed- 
ding of  her  step-daughter,  aged  sixteen,  to  her 
brother,  aged  forty,  should  be  compelled  to  do  their 
housework  for  life. 


The  last  of  the  Cogswell  fountains  has  been  pulled 
down  and  carted  off  the  streets.  If  the  unlamented 
donor  has  received  his  deserts  he  would  be  glad  to 
get  a  cool  drink  from  any  kind  of  a  fountain. 

The  proposition  to  stamp  the  temperature  on  mail 
leaving  the  city  is  excellent.  Perhaps  the  benighted 
East  will  believe  the  Government  more  readily  than 
it  believes  us. 


A  woman  from  the  country,  we  read  in  the  daily 
press,  was  so  "confused  by  the  big  city's  bustle"  that 
she  was  taken  to  a  hospital.  She  should  have  looked 
at   the  city's  other  side. 

Recent  research  establishes  the  fact  that  the  rea- 
son why  Lot's  wife  looked  back  was  to  see  what  kind 
of  furniture  her  neighbors  were  taking  out  of  their 
houses  in  the  doomed  city. 


Helen  Gould  is  publicly  glad  that  General  Bell  of 
Colorado  did  not  drink  champagne  at  a  St.  Louis 
Fair  function.  Considering  the  weather,  almost  any- 
body would  have  preferred  beer. 

Sam  Parks,  the  walking  delegate  who  excelled  in 
blackmailing,  has  died  in  Sing  Sing  prison,  but  his 
soul  goes  marching  on,  and  levying  tribute  on  the 
building  industry  of  New  York. 

Mrs.  "Bob"  Burdette  writes  that  she  is  not  a  can- 
didate for  the  Presidency  of  the  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs.  Ladies  interested  in  other  aspir- 
ants for  the  place  suspect  Mrs.  Burdette  of  having 
taken  a  leaf  out  of  her  husband's  joke  book. 

A  married  gentleman  named  Kicks  is  trying  to  put 
down  the  home-wrecking  "progressive  euchre"  evil 
among  the  ladies  of  Bayonne,  N.  J.,  and  the  ladies 
have  come  back  at  him  with  a  movement  against  the 
lodge-going  habit  among  their  males. 

A  North  Carolina  Judge  is  frothing  at  the  mouth 
because  he  and  his  court  have  been  boycotted  by  the 
county  bar.  He  charges  the  lawyers  with  contempt 
of  court,  and  they  charge  him  with  contempt  of  the 
law. 


Gallant  Colonel  Pitcher,  of  the  Presidio,  is  formally 
charged  with  having  "deserted  six  young  women  in 
the  shadow  of  the  altar."  Pretty  soon  the  sextette 
will  sing  that  good  old  song,  "The  Pitcher  that  is 
Turned  to  the  Wall." 


One  great  newspaper  editor,  in  his  padded  cell, 
shrieks  "How  old  is  Ann?"  Another  mumbles  "brick- 
and-a-half,  brick-and-a-half,"  and  still  another  is  busy 
trying  to  count  the  dots  in  his  own  brain.  By  these 
signs  we  know  that  the  silly  season  in  journalism  has 
arrived. 


Astronomer  Burckhalter,  of  Chabot  Observatory, 
in  Oakland,  has  been  commissioned  by  the  police  to 
turn  his  telescope  from  the  stars  to  the  branches  in 
the  adjacent  park  and  look  for  some  of  the  terrestrial 
transits  of  Venus  about  which  the  neighbors  com- 
plain. 

Oakland's  school  census  reveals  a  shortage  of  515 
children.  Well,  we  are  not  surprised.  Show  us  a 
community  whose  males  devote  themselves  to  hunt- 
ing offices,  while  its  women  put  in  their  leisure  play- 
ing cards  for  prizes,  and  we  will  show  you  a  com- 
munity of  empty  baby  carriages. 

A  Wisconsin  fisherman  has  discovered  a  queer 
beast  that  has  the  look  and  the  bark  of  a  dog,  long, 
silky  ears,  a  head  like  a  walrus,  six  webbed  feet,  and 
a  fish's  tail.  Undoubtedly  this  is  the  long-sought 
gyascutas,  seen  heretofore  only  by  gentlemen  with 
the  jim-jams. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


CITY   GOVERNMENT   AND   UNIONS. 

Already  San  Francisco  has  the  reputation  of  being 
the  "tightest  union  town"  in  the  country,  and  that 
is  not  the  kind  of  reputation  which  brings  to  a  city 
capital  seeking  investment,  nor  men  seeking  work. 
That  reputation  is  due  primarily  to  our  comparative 
isolation,  our  remoteness  from  other  large  centers 
of  population,  and  of  industrial  activity,  making  it 
possible  to  unionize  here  trades  untouched  by  labor 
leaders  in  other  communities,  and  to  maintain  here 
better  than  elsewhere  the  solidarity  of  unions  and  fed- 
eration of  unions  against  the  undermining  influences 
which  are  more  feared  than  open  attacks.  But  now, 
at  a  time  when  public  feeling  on  the  question  of  labor 
unionism  is  becoming  acute,  San  Francisco's  munici- 
pal administration  has  openly  and  boldly  committed 
itself  to  the  "closed  shop"  policy;  has  announced,  in 
effect,  that  no  non-union  men  need  apply. 

First  came  the  outrageous  conduct  of  J.  George 
Boyne,  a  Fire  Commissioner.  This  Boyne  has  lived 
long  in  San  Francisco.  Up  to  his  recent  bad  break, 
he  enjoyed  a  certain  standing  by  reason  of  his  indus- 
try, sobriety  and  thrift.  He  was,  or  professed  to  be, 
a  Republican.  Of  importance  or  influence  he  had 
nothing.  When  the  moment  came,  he  plunged  into 
Schmitzism.  As  a  "shouter"  he  was  so  loud,  and  as 
a  "worker"  he  was  so  tireless  that  when  a  Fire  Com- 
missionership  fell  vacant,  he  got  his  reward.  A  few 
days  ago,  Boyne,  new-clad  with  a  little  authority, 
revealed  himself  for  the  wolf  he  is.  The  union 
stablemen  struck,  and  Boyne  promptly  ordered  the 
city's  fire  horses  out  of  barns  that  had  declared  for 
the  "open  shop"  principle  and  were  manned  by  free 
labor.  The  poor  beasts  stood  in  a  chill  wind  until 
quarters  could  be  found  for  them,  where  the  feed  and 
the  help  were  not  tainted  with  the  heretical  doctrines 
of  Americanism.  Boyne  is  only  a  small  potato,  and 
not  a  sound  one  at  that.  He  will  be  duly  remem- 
bered if  he  should  ever  seek  an  elective  office  or  an 
appointment  under  a  decent  administration  as  one 
unfit  for  public  trust  or  even  for  citizenship. 

On  the  heels  of  Boyne's  offense  comes  a  much 
more  serious  manifestation  of  the  class  Government 
which  Schmitz  has  so  often  and  so  vehemently  de- 
nounced. His  Board  of  Electricity,  composed  of  the 
Fire  and  Police  Commissions,  sitting  jointly,  has 
officially  decreed  that  it  will  employ  none  but  union 
men  in  good  standing.  This  is  a  plain  declaration 
that  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  the  Con- 
stitution of  California  and  the  Charter  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, are  not  worth  the  paper  on  which  they  were 
written,  and  that  for  them  has  been  substituted  the 
constitution  of  the  labor  union.  It  is  a  denunciation 
of  Americanism,  and  a  glorification  of  unionism.  It 
denies  and  defies  the  fundamental  theory  of  the  Re- 
public that  "All  men  were  created  free  and  equal." 
It  makes  the  union  label  the  city's  seal  and  the  union 
banner  the  city's  flag. 

Legally  there  can  Be  no  question  about  the  invalid- 
ity of  this  action  ;  morally,  there  is  no  question  as  to 
its  flagrant  injustice.  Though  every  other  place  of 
employment  in  San  Francisco  be  barred  to  the  man 
without  a  union  card,  the  City  Hall  must  always  and 
forever  be  an  "open  shop."  Public  employees  are 
paid  with  public  money,  and  public  money  is  taken 
by  taxation  from  union  man  and  non-union  man  alike. 
What,  we  wonder,  would  be  said  if  this  Board  of 
Electricity  should  order  that  no  man  be  given  em- 
ployment unless  he  were  a  member  of  some  Protest- 
ant Church  in  good  standing?  What  would  be  said 
if  it  denied  employment  to  all  save  Roman  Catholics 
in  good  standing?    What  if  it  put  the  ban  on  all  but 


members  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  in  good  standing? 
And  yet,  any  one  of  these  declarations  would  be  as 
lawful,  as  just,  as  reasonable  as  what  this  delectable 
Board  has  done. 

We  do  not  doubt  that  Schmitz  wants  another  term 
as  Mayor  or  in  some  higher  office.  Whether  or  not 
the  proved  charges  of  "graft"  and  other  misfeasance 
shall  count  against  him,  whether  or  not  there  be  truth 
in  the  whispers  of  still  other  and  uglier  misdoings 
by  him  and  his  relatives  and  adherents,  it  is  certain 
that  unless  he  disavows,  fully  and  promptly,  this  most 
shameful  act  of  his  most  shameless  commission,  he 
may  as  well  bare  his  neck  for  the  axe.  This  patient 
and  placid  people  could  easily  tumble  Schmitz  from 
his  high  place  and  ride  him  and  his  Boynes  on  a  rail 
until  they  realized  their  sins.  A  little  more  of  this 
trampling  upon  the  necks  of  free  men  and  something 
of  that  kind  will  be  done. 


THE  ADVICE  OF  GOMPERS. 

In  an  address  recently  delivered  at  Denver,  upon 
the  conditions  existing  in  the  Cripple  Creek  district, 
Samuel  Gompers,  one  of  the  foremost  union  labor 
men  of  the  country,  made  the  following  statements: 

"The  violation  of  the  fundamental  principles  of 
our  country  has  made  Colorado  the  laughing  stock 
of  the  world.  It  appears  to  me  that,  if  the  law  con- 
tinues to  be  overridden,  as  it  has  been  in  the  past, 
the  fight  will  soon  develop  from  a  technical  legal  con- 
flict to  a  physical  one.  Force  and  violence  are  the 
doom  of  union  labor.  Union  labor  cannot  win  by 
force.  It  must  begin  a  campaign  of  education,  and 
business  methods  must  be  used  in  dealing  with  busi- 
ness men.  If  trades  unionism  hopes  to  progress,  it 
cannot  be  done  by  force.  Violence  will  not  bring 
about  the  right  result." 

This  is  as  the  voice  of  a  prophet  crying  in  the 
wilderness.  Will  the  union  men  listen  to  the  voice 
of  this  leader  among  them?  He  is  no  visionary;  he 
has  had  dealings  for  many  years  with  the  business 
men  of  various  sections  of  the  country;  his  official 
position  in  the  ranks  of  labor  has  made  it  necessary 
for  Gompers  to  study  all  the  various  phases  of  the 
great  problem  that  now  confronts  us.  He  knows  the 
temper  of  the  great  American  people,  and  he  knows 
that  they  will  never  permit  the  unions  to  ride  rough- 
shod over  the  rights  given  by  the  law  to  private  citi- 
zens. Nor  is  Gompers  alone  in  his  belief  as  to  the 
insanity  of  violent  means  to  force  a  settlement  of  an 
economic  question.  John  Mitchell,  the  leader  of  the 
miners,  is  also  unalterably  opposed  to  violence.  At 
all  times  since  his  promotion  to  the  Presidency  of 
the  miners'  great  confederation,  he  has  counseled 
his  followers  to  refrain  from  violence,  and  to  seek 
success  through  peaceable  means. 

Gompers  and  Mitchell  are  men  of  sound  sense. 
They  give  good  advice.  They  recognize  the  harm 
done  the  cause  of  union  labor  by  resort  to  violence. 
They  seek  success  for  their  organizations ;  therefore, 
they  counsel  respect  for  the  law.  It  is  not  as  if  this 
advice  came  from  young  captains  in  the  ranks  of  la- 
bor, of  whom  the  men  might  say:  "They  are  afraid." 
Gompers  and  Mitchell  are  veterans  of  many  cam- 
paigns ;  they  have  shown  by  battling  for  what  they 
considered  the  rights  of  the  unions  against  many 
mighty  corporations  that  they  are  not  afraid.  Fear 
has  no  place  in  their  characters ;  but  experience  has 
made  them  wise. 

It  is  more  than  a  coincidence  that  the  advice  of 
Gompers  and  the  remarks  of  President  Eliot,  of  Har- 
vard, upon  industrial  conditions  were  given  to  the 
country  about  the  same  time.     One  would   hardly 


May  14,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


expect  to  find  these  two  men  agreeing  on  the  great 
question,  yet  they  do,  and  upon  the  most  important 
phase  of  it. 

"The  unions  have  been  corrupted  by  selfishness," 
*ays  President  Eliot.  "The  proscription  of  non-union 
men,  the  strike  in  sympathy,  or  support,  and  the 
boycott  arc  weapons  which  angels  and  saints  could 
not  use  without  being  demoralized." 

Gompers  knows  that  the  unions  have  become  de- 
moralized by  the  use  of  these  unholy  weapons,  and 
being  demoralized,  he  knows  they  are  ever  on  the 
verge  of  lawlessness.  Hence  his  sage  advice,  and  his 
prophetic  utterance :  "Union  labor  cannot  win  by 
force." 


ALL  RALLY  TO  THE  MARRIED  MAN. 

"Preference  will  be  &DOWD  clerks  who  are  married,  especially  those 
with  Inrsre  families." 

This  notice,  tacked  up  in  the  post-office  at  Des 
Moines,  Iowa,  comes  with  all  the  force  of  a  procla- 
mation from  the  White  House.  It  is  an  order  of  the 
Government,  and  it  foreshadows,  also,  the  rallying 
cry  of  the  Roosevelt  campaign.  When  McKinley  set 
his  lance  in  rest  "to  ride  the  barriere,"  on  his  shield 
was  a  full  dinner  pail,  argent,  on  a  field  azure;  on 
Roosevelt's  the  device  will  be  a  full  cradle.  "Hurrah 
for  Roosevelt  and  the  full  cradle !"  will  be  the  shout 
as  a  President  by  accident  seeks  to  be  President  by 
elevation. 

And  it  will  not  be  a  bad. call  and  countercry  for 
the  campaign.  What  the  nation  wants  is  more  homes 
and  fewer  boarding  houses,  more  husbands  and  fewer 
bachelors,  more  cradles  and  more  babies  to  put  in 
them — especially  more  babies.  The  President's  pet 
theory  has  made  him  the  target  for  much  cheap  jok- 
ing, and  in  a  mocking  age  like  ours  it  was  only  a 
brave  man  who  would  have  enunciated  it.  But  Roose- 
velt, for  all  his  crudity  and  primitiveness,  has  grasped 
one  of  the  larger  truths  of  history,  has  learned  one 
of  the  greater  lessons  of  civilization.  He  has  per- 
ceived that  the  nation's  safety  lies  in  its  homes  and 
its  hope  in  its  nurseries.  Tables  of  exports  and  im- 
ports and  bank  clearings  and  manufactures  and 
planted  acres  furnish  indices  of  our  material  progress 
and  welfare,  but  by  the  census  and  its  showing  of  pop- 
ulation increased  by  births  we  shall  know  whether 
we  are  to  climb  or  to  slide.  Marriage  is  still  the  thing 
expected  of  every  man  and  woman,  but  maternity  is 
no  longer  fashionable — that  is,  maternity  of  the  kind 
which  boasted  not  until  it  counted  children  by  the 
dozen.  An  English  poet,  who  has  failed  in  popularity 
because  of  a  habit  of  truth  telling,  sang  his  sermon  in 
a  verse  which  ran : 

"Here's  to  our  five-meal,  meat-fed  men, 
To  our  tall,  deep-bosomed  women, 
And  the  children  nine  and  ten, 

(Stand  up!) 
And  the  children  nine  and  ten. 

Now  the  President  has  pretty  much  the  same  idea, 
and  in  the  eminently  practical  and  direct  way  which 
characterizes  him,  he  is  setting  about  it  to  put  a  pre- 
mium on  fecund,  prolific  citizenship.  He  promises 
work  and  wages  to  the  fathers  of  children,  and  in 
truth  they  are  the  kind  of  men  who  both  need  and 
deserve  preferment.  The  man  who  has  a  half-dozen 
little  mouths  to  feed  and  little  bodies  to  clothe,  has 
something  to  work  for,  something  to  keep  him  honest 
and  sober  and  industrious.  When  he  breeds  and  rears 
such  a  family  he  is  doing  his  part  for  the  present  and 
for  the  future.  Economically  he  is  the  best  builder 
of  the  edifice  of  his  country's  greatness,  getting  him 
children  to  do  his  country's  work,  to  consume  its  pro- 


ducts, to  people  its  waste  places  and  to  make  them 
fertile.  In  lands  where  living  is  less  complex  than 
in  our  own,  women  pray  that  the  gods  may  send  them 
sons  to  "fill  the  fighting  tale."  There  the  father  of 
a  dozen  is  honored  as  one  who  has  done  well  his 
part.  Perhaps  the  Roosevelt  doctrine  will  sweep 
away  some  of  the  empty  refinement  that  has  made 
us  forget  the  prime  purpose  of  life,  which  is  to  mul- 
tiply and  increase  on  earth  ;  perhaps  his  campaign 
slogan,  "Hurrah  for  the  full  cradle!"  will  bring  back 
to  us  the  good,  old-fashion  of  plenteous  motherhood 
and  abundant  fatherhood,  and  so  preserve  the  nation 
from  decay  and  the  race  from  dishonor.  At  all  events 
it's  a  fine,  frank  sentiment,  and  we  subscribe  to  it 
cheerfully:  "Hurrah  for  the  full  cradle!" 


THE  CITY  BEAUTIFUL. 

The  Association  for  the  Improvement  and  Adorn- 
ment of  San  Francisco  is  on  the  right  road.  This  city 
is  entering  upon  a  new  era.  For  fifty  years  we  have 
been  giving  exclusive  attention  to  our  material  devel- 
opment, without  regard  to  the  many  opportunities 
for  artistic  adornment  or  patience  for  their  consid- 
eration. But  in  this  fault  we  have  not  been  alone, 
for  the  entire  country  has  been  engaged  in  a  race  for 
wealth  such  as  the  world  never  saw  before.  Now 
has  come  the  turning  point;  our  coffers  are  filled  with 
gold;  our  trade  is  increasing;  our  prosperity  is  un- 
bounded. We  now  have  time  to  look  around  us,  and 
enjoy  the  beauties  of  nature.  Throughout  the  coun- 
try there  is  a  revival  of  interest  in  the  beautifying 
and  improvement  of  large  cities.  In  many  places, 
committees  have  been  appointed  to  formulate  plans 
for  the  adornment  of  their  respective  localities.  Even 
in  Paris — that  city  of  wondrous  beauty — an  official 
body  is  now  devising  schemes  for  further  embellish- 
ment. San  Francisco's  turn  has  come.  In  natural 
advantages  she  is  favored  above  all  other  cities  in 
the  country.  Her  hills  were  intended  by  nature  to 
be  the  resting  places  of  so  many  beautiful  works 
of  art,  from  the  contemplation  of  which  one  might 
turn  to  enjoy  the  magnificent  views  of  the  city  and 
the  bay ;  the  Coast  Range  and  the  towns  nestling  in 
its  foothills ;  the  Golden  Gate  and  the  calm  expanse 
of  the  broad  Pacific.  The  visit  of  D.  H.  Burnham,  of 
Chicago,  will  have  done  much,  if  his  words  of  encour- 
agement but  awaken  within  the  breasts  of  the  people 
a  desire  to  assist  in  any  plan  or  plans  that  may  be 
suggested  for  the  beautification  of  the  metropolis 
of  the  Pacific  Slope. 

First,  something  practical  must  be  suggested. 
Therefore,  we  think  the  proposition  to  appoint  a  gen- 
eral advisory  committee  a  good  idea.  Such  a  com- 
mittee should  be  composed  of  men  of  broad  experi- 
ence, of  advanced  ideas,  and  of  such  standing  in  the 
community  that  their  suggestions  will  receive  re- 
spectful attention.  Again,  while  reaching  out  for 
better  effects,  let  us  not  forget  the  work  we  have  in 
hand.  No  city  with  dirty  streets  can  ever  be  beauti- 
ful. Let  the  Association  force  that  idea  upon  the 
Supervisors  and  the  Board  of  Public  Works.  Nor  can 
a  city  lay  claim  to  either  progress  or  beauty  so  long 
as  many  of  its  main  thoroughfares  are  covered  with 
miserable  shanties.  The  Association  should  take 
into  its  confidence  the  owners  of  the  shanties  on  East 
street  and  lower  Market  street.  First  impressions 
count  for  much.  Terraces  and  fountains ;  statues 
and  flag  poles ;  shrubbery  and  lawns,  are  not  the  only 
ornaments  that  make  for  beauty  in  cities.  They  are 
but  the  trimmings  upon  the  municipal  garment.  What 
we  need  most  are  better  buildings  and  better  streets. 
If  the  Association  can  secure  them  San  Francisco 
will  be  its  debtor. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 
STRIKE  PARALYSIS. 


The  paralyzing  effect  of  continual  and  senseless 
strikes  is  best  illustrated  in  the  shoe  industry  in  Cali- 
fornia. Some  six  years  ago  a  strike  took  place  which 
threw  out  of  work  nearly  4,000  white  shoemakers. 
There  were  at  that  time  numerous  factories  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  the  industry  was  promising  well.  Aside 
from  the  4,000  white  people  employed,  there  were 
about  5,000  Chinese  earning  a  living  in  the  same  in- 
dustry. It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the  best  sole 
leather  in  the  world  is  made  in  California,  and  this, 
coupled  with  the  high  freight  charges  from  the  East, 
enabled  the  shoe  manufacturers  of  California  to  turn 
out  a  better  shoe  than  their  Eastern  competitors. 
The  men  were  paid  larger  wages  than  the  Eastern 
shoemakers,  and  they  were  content.  Along  came 
the  Spirit  of  Unionism  and  with  it  the  Malcontent 
and  the  Walking  Delegate  of  Misfortunate  Com- 
plaint. And  then  the  strike,  with  its  attendant  hor-  , 
rors.  The  only  result  of  this  long  strike  was  the  fact 
that  many  of  the  factories  went  out  of  business,  until 
now  there  remain  about  five  hundred  white  and  fifty 
Chinese  as  operatives  for  five  factories  on  the  Coast. 
This  is  the  blight  of  unionism  with  a  vengeance. 

One  of  these  factories  is  located  in  Petaluma,  and 
the  other  four  in  San  Francisco.  Some  time  ago  a 
man  employed  in  one  of  these  factories  was  dis- 
charged for  drunkenness,  and  as  a  result  a  strike  is 
brewing.  The  unions  want  the  man  re-instated.  Tues- 
day of  this  week,  the  Mogul  of  the  Union,  Chief  Do- 
Nothing  Good  Extraordinary,  arrived  from  Chicago, 
and  he  was  called  upon  to  make  a  decision  as  to 
whether  the  strike  shall  be  arranged  so  as  to  only 
include  the  employers  of  the  discharged  drunkard 
or  whether  it  would  not  be  better  to  throw  out  of 
employment  the  employees  of  the  other  factories  and 
the  other  four  hundred  and  fifty-nine  operatives. 

In  view  of  the  disastrous  results  that  overtook 
the  workingmen  as  a  result  of  the  last  strike,  it  will 
probably  be  another  case  of  back-down  by  the  unions, 
as  the  makers  are  determined,  and  they  find  that  it 
pays  better  to  buy  Eastern-made  shoes  as  middle- 
men, and  then  sell  these  at  a  reasonable  profit.  The 
profit  of  the  California  maker  is  only  a  few  cents 
a  shoe,  and  the  trade  will  not  admit  of  the  least  stop- 
page and  consequent  loss.  There  is  nothing  in  shoe 
making  in  California.  Freights  have  gradually  be- 
come lower,  and  this  and  the  tactics  of  the  Shoemak- 
ers' Union  have  admitted  all  the  prison-made  and 
sweat-shop  shoes  of  the  East. 

There  may  be  some  sound  business  judgment  back 
of  the  union,  in  some  cases,  but  we  have  so  far  failed 
to  detect  it  in  a  single  instance.  In  the  shoe-making 
trade  the  city  has  been  deprived  of  nine  thousand 
artisans  and  their  families,  and  these  same  artisans 
have  undergone  untold  suffering,  their  babes  have 
gone  unshod,  their  wives  have  hungered  and  their 
children  have  been  at  the  point  of  starvation.  Famil- 
ies have  been  deserted  by  husbands  and  fathers  be- 
cause of  lack  of  employment.  They  have  had  to  wan- 
der away  from  the  Pacific  Coast  to  the  overcrowded 
Eastern  centers,  and  have  had  to  encounter  the  oppo- 
sition of  the  scab  and  the  sweat-shop  and  live  in  sur- 
roundings compared  to  which  the  condition  existing 
in  California  previous  to  the  coming  of  the  Walking 
Delegate  of  Misfortune,  was  akin  to  an  undreamed- 
of Heaven.  All  this  for  what?  For  the  purpose  of 
disciplining  some  manufacturers  who  preferred  to 
hold  the  keys  to  their  establishments  in  their  own 
hands  rather  than  give  them  up  to  the  anarchist  and 
the  labor  agitator.  The  great  body  of  men  engaged 
in  the  strike  of  six  years  ago  was  opposed  to  the 
strike,  but  the  counsels  of  the  unwise  prevailed.  The 


May  14,  1904. 

manufacturers  closed  up  their  shops,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  five  factories,  and  now  these  are  to  be 
closed  up  by  agitators  who  have  sprung  up  in  place 
of  the  first  crop  that  inflicted  this  terrible  hardship 
on  their  fellows,  and  this  loss  on  the  State.  There  are 
no  immense  profits  with  which  to  grease  the  walking 
delegate  of  the  Shoemakers'  Union  in  the  shoe  busi- 
ness, and  the  factories  will  undoubtedly  close,  as  a 
result  of  the  new  and  unjustified  attempt  at  coercion, 
and  another  five  hundred  delegates  for  the  soup-house 
are  created. 


MAYOR  SCHMITZ  AND  HIS  FAMILY. 

The  Schmitz  family  and  their  friends  should  con- 
sider themselves  lucky,  if  holding  a  political  position 
and  drawing  a  salary  from  the  city  is  to  be  con- 
sidered good  fortune.  Every  commission  in  con- 
trol of  the  Mayor  is  filled  with  his  creatures  and 
a  good  many  jobs  are  filled  by  his  family.  One 
brother,  Herbert,  is  running  the  Board  of  Public 
Works  in  such  fashion  that  the  city  is  getting  less 
for  more  money  than  the  boldest  boodler  of  a  Street 
Superintendent  handled  in  the  ante-charter  days. 
Another  brother,  Frank,  is  running  the  Almshouse, 
with  his  wife  as  a  salaried  assistant,  and  these  two 
are  not  losing  flesh  on  the  job,  nor  are  the  hapless 
paupers  in  their  care  taking  on  any  weight.  Other 
relatives  by  blood  and  by  marriage  are  scattered 
through  the  municipal  pay  roil  wherever  good  sal- 
aries are  paid  for  little  work.  The  Works  Board 
brother  is  an  important  person  in  the  suspected  alli- 
ance of  the  Mayor  and  the  material  men,  inasmuch 
as  that  commission  will  direct  the  expenditure  of 
every  dollar  raised  by  the  sale  of  the  city  bonds. 
There  is  no  reason  to  place  brother  Herbert  above 
brother  Eugene  when  it  comes  to  appraising  the  un- 
selfishness and  the  purity  of  motion  and  deed  dis- 
played by  the  Schmitz  family. 

Given  such  power,  by  virtue  of  his  creatures  in  the 
commissions  and  his  relatives  in  high  public  office, 
the  Mayor  needs  only  the  whip-hand  over  the  Board 
of  Supervisors  to  serve  his  masters  and  public  graft- 
ers in  their  raid  upon  the  city's  treasury,  and  that  last 
and  crowning  power  he  has  through  five  boot-licking 
Supervisors,  whose  votes  are  ever  ready  to  back  up 
his  veto.  They  may  not  be  able  to  give  the  Mayor 
an  affirmative  majority,  but  they  do  put  it  absolutely 
into  his  hands  to  black  all  legislation  which  displeases 
him.  Of  a  truth,  things  look  well  for  the  Mayor's 
friends. 


If  the  Chinese  must  stay  away,  so  must  the  walk- 
ing delegate. 


KCHAS  KLILUS  &  COM} 

&£XCL  US/KE^> 

HIGH  GRADL  CLOTH1E.RS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who 
likes  to  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to 
bother  with  tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  in- 
to our  shop,  get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a 
log.    We  have  that  "Immediate  Service  System." 


May  14,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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"Dollars  and  Democracy,"  by  Sir 
Dollars  and  Fhilip  Baine  Jones.  Hart.,  is  one  of 
Democracy,  the  best  books  written  by  a  British 
traveler  for  a  long  time.  Its  excel- 
lence consists  in  the  fact  that  the  criticism  is  entirely 
good  natured,  and  has  none  of  that  merely  carping 
quality  which  is  too  apt  to  distinguish  the  attempts 
of  our  trans-Atlantic  cousins  to  interpret  our  national 
customs  and  peculiarities.  The  sentiments  are  those 
of  a  man  of  the  world,  who  is  accustomed  to  meet- 
ing men  and  whose  notions  are  not  bounded  and  lim- 
ited by  the  borders  of  his  native  village.  In  fact,  as 
far  as  good  healthy  cosmopolitanism  goes,  he  could 
give  points  to  many  of  our  somewhat  too  provincial 
New  Yorkers.  The  material  has  been  gathered  in  a 
recent  visit  to  the  United  States,  which  was  of  suffi- 
cient length  to  enable  him  to  form  some  accurate 
conclusions,  on  a  broader  basis  than  that  from  which 
the  ordinary  variety  of  globe-trotter  is  accustomed  to 
generalize.  He  instances  among  the  three  things 
which  he  will  miss  in  England  after  his  visit  to  the 
United  States:  "My  beautiful,  snow-white  tub,  with 
its  silver  fittings  and  its  perennial  supply  of  hot 
water  and  cold,  my  telephone  with  a  friend  at  the 
other  end ;  the  electric  light  that  really  gives  light. 
The  bastard  product  of  science  and  commercial  en- 
terprise known  by  the  same  name  in  London  bears 
little  resemblance  to  its  trans-Atlantic  name-sake. 
His  remarks  on  his  treatment  by  the  yellow  press 
and  scurrilous  journals  are  pointed  enough  and  will 
receive  the  commendation  of  all  people  who  are  in- 
fused with  respect  to  these  journals.  The  illustra- 
tions are  excellent,  and  are  reproductions  of  drawings 
by  the  author. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

Mention  has  already  been  made  in  these  columns 
of  the  series  of  reprints  of  classical  and  notable 
English  books  on  sport  and  out-door  recreation 
which  D.  Appleton  &  Company  are  making.  There 
is  no  need  to  repeat  what  has  been  already  said,  and 
it  is  sufficient  to  call  the  attention  of  the  discrimin- 
ating reader  to  the  series  which  combines  all  the  ex- 
cellencies of  type,  binding  and  illustration.  Two  of 
the  most  recently  published  have  come  to  hand: 
"The  Complete  Angler,"  the  old  favorite  by  Izaak 
Walton  and  Charles  Catton  is  here  found  in  a  form 
which  should  please  the  most  exacting  bibliophile. 
It  is  embellished  with  engravings,  drawings  and  con- 
tains, moreover,  a  number  of  notes  illustrative  of  the 
text  which  cannot  fail  to  be  valuable.  It  is  a  reprint 
of  the  edition  published  by  John  Major,  Fleet  street, 
London,  in  1824.  "Mr.  Sponge's  Sporting  Tour" 
was  a  favorite  with  our  grandfathers.  It  is  by  the 
author  of  the  famous  and  inimitable  "Joeroecks's 
Jaunts."  The  reprint  is  founded  on  the  edition  pub- 
lished by  Bradbury  &  Evans  in  1853.  The  illustra- 
tions are  by  John  Such.  Although  to  a  very  great 
extent  the  humor  of  the  book  has  become  antiquated 
and  it  could  never  again  enjoy  the  wide  popularity 
which  once  it  had,  it  is  one  of  the  curiosities  of  liter- 
ature, and  no  one  who  is  making  a  collection  of 
notable  works  can  do  without  it. 

"The  House  in  the  Woods,"  by  Arthur  Henry,  is 
the  story  of  a  return  to  nature,  the  building  of  a 
mountain  home,  and  the  conquest  of  the  soil.  It  is 
a  nature  book,  with  human  interest,  and  in  addition 
to  the  freshness  and  charm  of  the  country  life  and 


the  wood  lore  pictures  in  these  pages,  the  story 
thrills  with  the  humanity  which  the  author  has 
found  and  depicted  with  true  insight.  He  tells  how 
the  forest  cleared  and  a  house  was  built;  how  a 
home  was  made,  and  the  wild  things  of  the  moun- 
tains yielded  place  to  their  domesticated  brethren. 
He  pictures  the  prowess  of  the  mountaineers,  the 
deeds  of  the  woodsmen,  and  the  influences  which 
made  themselves  felt  in  a  brighter  life  for  the  people 
of  the  woods.  The  beauty  of  nature  in  the  moun- 
tains, the  joy  of  existing  out  of  doors,  and  the  suc- 
cess, not  of  mere  country  living,  but  also  of  country 
fellowship,  are  brilliantly  pictured  in  this  delightful 
story  of  a  new  life  in  a  Catskill  Mountain  home. 

A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  Publishers,  New  York.  Price, 
$1.50. 

"A  Woman's  Will,"  by  Anne  Warner,  is  a  story  of 
an  American  woman's  summer  on  the  Continent.  It 
is  a  good,  readable  novel,  not  very  remarkable  either 
for  literary  power  or  interest  of  plot.  The  dialogue, 
is  bright,  much  better,  in  fact,  than  the  average,  and 
on  the  whole  the  book  is  by  no  means  bad.  It  should 
prove  a  passable  companion  in  the  summer  months. 

Little,  Brown  &  Company. 

"Kindly  Light,"  published  by  Henry  Altemus  Co., 
is  a  small  affair  divided  into  two  parts,  and  of  light 
reading.     Price,  50  cents. 

.  "The  Complete  Pocket  Guide  to  Europe,"  published 
by  William  R.  Jenkins,  New  York,  is  an  annual  pub- 
lication of  useful  information  to  tourists.  The  work 
has  been  revised  from  year  to  year,  and  is  the  equal 
of  any  other  condensed  guide  book. 

"The  Folly  of  Others,"  written  by  Neith  Boyce, 
is  a  well-bound  and  well-printed  book  of  more  than 
usual  interest.  The  engravings  are  excellent.  Pub- 
lished by  Fox,  Duffield  &  Co.,  New  York.  Price,  $1. 

Dust    soon   disfigures   your   summer   clothes.     It   is 

necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  damage  may 
be  repaired  and  an  expensive  suit  saved.  Appearances 
are  everything,  and  Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing 
Works,  127  Stockton  street  will  help  you  to  keep  them  up. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  curtains  and  such  articles. 
Goods  called  for  and  delivered  promptly. 


The   Techau   Tavern   is   the   place   to   go   after  the 

theatre.  It  tops  oft  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
is  reasonable. 


Allen's  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


HAVE  YOU  HAD 
BREAKFAST  AT 


Uhe  'Red  Lion? 


HAVE  YOU  DINED  OR 
LUNCHED  AT 


U/ye  'Red  Lion? 

Fare,  service,  wines  and  table  appointments,  surpass  anything  pre- 
viously attempted  in  this  City.  English  A  le  on  draught;  and  the  finest 
line  of  liquors  and  cigars,  at  the  RED  LION  bar. 

The  RED  LION  GRILL  for  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  in  the  S.  F. 
Stock  Exchange  Building,  accessible  from  Pine  Street,  just  below 
Montgomery,  also  from  Bush  and  Montgomery  Streets  through  the 
Mills  Building. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1004. 


FINANCIAL 


So   the     Montgomery     avenue 

These  Bonds         bonds  are  on  the  carpet  again. 

Should  be  Paid.      A  new  suit  is  proposed  this  time 

to  compel  the  State  to  honor 
its  own  creation  and  pay  the  interest  now  long  over- 
due. The  manner  in  which  this  bond  issue  has  been 
repudiated  by  both  city  and  State  is  a  standing  dis- 
grace to  the  commonwealth  at  large  and  to  San 
Francisco  in  particular.  That  this  city  can  have 
the  nerve  to  go  outside  of  its  own  boundary  line  ask- 
ing financial  backing  for  its  future  bond  issues,  with 
the  record  of  the  Montgomery  avenue  and  Dupont 
street  bonds  before  the  world  shows  what  nerve  can 
do.  The  open  repudiation  of  these  bonds  may  seem 
a  smart  piece  of  business  to  the  class,  gradually  grow- 
ing smaller  as  the  years  go  by,  whose  main  object 
was  to  gain  money,  no  matter  how,  their  immoral 
views  on  the  subject  being  extended  to  the  transac- 
tion of  public  affairs.  The  attempt  to  saddle  the 
Montgomery  avenue  improvement  suggested  for  the 
benefit  of  the  whole  community  upon  a  special  sec- 
tion of  the  city,  was  an  outrage  to  start  in  with,  and 
on  a  par  with  the  legislation,  which  ruled  here  in  the 
olden  time  where  the  owners  of  property  along  the 
line  of  some  street  were  openly  robbed  to  pay  for 
the  public  benefit  of  street  improvement  along  some 
particular  block.  The  Montgomery  avenue  tax  went 
up  before  the  courts,  and  after  years  of  litigation  got 
knocked  out.  The  city  of  course  would  not  meet  the 
indebtedness,  and  it  is  doubtful  whether  the  State 
can  be  made  to  do  so,  law  or  no  law,  unless  willing 
to  meet  the  pseudo  obligation.  The  proper  way  to 
settle  the  proposition  would  be  to  provide  for  a 
tax  levy  upon  all  property  included  within  the  juris- 
diction of  the  Assessor  of  the  city  of  San  Francisco. 
The  money  was  invested  in  good  faith  by  foreigners, 
and  it  is  not  proper  that  a  city  of  the  high  standing 
of  San  Francisco  in  the  commercial  world  should  ig- 
nore the  fact  that  these  investors  have  a  right  to 
look  to  the  municipality  for  the  security  and  re-pay- 
ment of  its  investments.  Both  of  these  bond  issues 
should  be  met  in  the  spirit  of  the  honorable  man  of 
business  who,  recognizing  that  his  good  name  is 
worth  more  than  gold,  meets  his  obligations  at  all 
cost  rather  than  shirk  his  just  debts  by  recourse  to 
the  bankruptcy  count  or  by  pleading  the  Statute  of 
Limitations. 

The    International     Bank    and 
Rehabilitating        Trust    Company     of     America, 
a  Bank.  which   failed  here   last  Decem- 

ber, is  making  an  effort  to  liqui- 
date and  re-organize.  Its  affairs  are  now  in  the 
hands  of  the  California  Bank  Commission,  owing 
$45,000  to  people  here,  with  a  few  creditors  in  Kan- 
sas City  and  the  City  of  Mexico.  Toward  this  end  it 
has  incorporated  the  Pan-American  Securities  Co., 
under  the  laws  of  Arizona,  and  the  Pan-American 
Banking  Co.  of  West  Virginia,  the  latter  to  be  the  ac- 
tive operating  company,  with  stock  of  $200  a  share. 
This  company  is  to  pay  all  the  debts  of  the  old  con- 
cern. Creditors  of  less  than  $500  are  asked  to  accept 
payment  in  dividends  of  10  per  cent.  Those  who 
hold  claims  to  a  larger  amount  than  this  are  asked 
to  accept  half  the  amount  in  Pan-American  Banking 
stock  at  $206  per  share,  and  the  other  half  in  dividends 
of  10  per  cent.  Offers  are  also  made  to  holders  of 
stock  in  the  International  Bank  and  Trust  Company 
to  exchange  it  for  stock  in  the  two  new  companies. 


The  latest  news  from  the  Corn- 
Peace  on  the  stock  is  the  settlement  of  all  liti- 
Comstock.         gation     between     the     Comstock 

Tunnel  Companies,  the  Occiden- 
tal and  other  mines.  This  is  very  satisfactory  from 
a  business  standpoint,  and  a  unity  of  purpose  and  ac- 
tion between  the  mining  and  the  tunnel  people  should 
be  of  vast  benefit  to  all  concerned.  From  now  on 
both  interests  will  work  in  harmony,  and  for  the  first 
time  in  its  history  the  tunnel  will  be  made  of  use  to 
the  mines.  Lighted  with  electricity,  with  motors 
for  moving  the  cars  in  place  of  an  antiquated  mule, 
the  ores  will  now  be  dropped  down  to  and  whisked 
out  of  the  mines,  saving  the  companies  the  enormous 
cost  of  hoisting  1600  feet  to  the  surface  under  the  old 
system  of  work.  The  ore  prospects  in  the  north-end 
•mines  are  still  bright,  and  it  looks  now  as  though  they 
had  another  bonanza  mine  in  Ophir.  Outside  of  the 
fine,  healthy  tone  of  the  mining  situation  the  market 
is  dull,  with  prices  far  below  what  they  ought  to  be 
in  many  cases. 

Some  of  the  advertising  sheets 

Thievery  Brings      run   as   mining  papers  by   and 

Timidity.  in  the  interest  of  promoters,  are 

beginning  to  preach  about  an 
era  of  activity  in  speculation  in  mines.  No  wonder 
there  is  a  timidity,  and  the  only  wonder  is  that  it  is 
not  even  stronger  than  it  is.  After  the  repeated  ex- 
perience in  the  courts  of  the  most  rascally  conduct 
upon  the  part  of  promoters,  and  the  failure  to  secure 
conviction  of  thieves  who  win  out  by  an  impudence 
begotten  of  a  supreme  and  inborn  contempt  of  the 
laws  of  God  and  man.  It  seems  impossible  for  those 
victims  to  secure  justice  in  the  courts  where  the  most 
infamous  lies  are  sustained  as  facts  by  false  testi- 
mony. Things  will  go  on  until  one  of  the  swindled 
in  desperation  takes  the  law  into  his  own  hands  and 
secures  a  clear  settlement  by  force  of  arms.  The  au- 
dacity of  some  of  these  men  is  unparalleled,  and  it 


Private  Lives  of 

Kaiser  William 

AND  HIS  CONSORT 

And  the  Secret  History  of  the  Court  of 
Berlin 

By  HENRY  IF.  FISCHER 

These  volumes  give  a  picture  of  William  II.  of  Germany  as  lie 
really  is— nut  its  sycopnuit  journalists  and  paid  historians  have 
druwu  him.  His  follies  and  foibles,  the  truth  about  his  disease, 
the  sordid  daily  life  of  hi»  court,  etc..  etc.,  are  told  graphically  and 
and  in  detail  Jrom  the  inside. 

"Rarely  before  has  a  contemporary  court  been  so  com- 
pletely exposed  to  the  public  gaze  as  in  Mr.  Fischer's 
book" 

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May  14,  1904. 

is  high  time  they  were  rounded  up  in  a  game  which 
will  stop  for  good  all  outside  investment  of  money 
in  mining  cnterpr; 

The  statement    of     earnings 
United  Railroad       of   the    United    Railroads   for 
Earnings  Increase.     March  last  shows    gross     re- 
ceipts of  $534,044,  an  increase 
7  over  the  same  month  of  the  previous  year. 
For  last  January,  February  and  March,     the     gross 
earnings  aggregated  $1,543,357.  as  against  $1,415,934 
for  the  same  period  in  1903,  an  increase  of  $127,4-23. 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank,  incorporated  in 
January  last,  has  spent  three  months  in  temporary  up- 
stairs quarters,  during  which  time  it  has  accumulated 
$400,000  in  assets.  Now  it  has  opened  to  transact 
a  regular  savings  and  loan  business  at  the  southwest 
corner  of  Montgomery  and  Bush  streets.  The  paid- 
up  capital  of  the  Bank  is  $250,000.  The  officers  and 
directors  of  the  bank  are:  James  O'B.  Gunn,  presi- 
dent ;  George  D.  Gray,  vice-president ;  George  F. 
Lyon,  vice-president;  Frederick  H.  Clark,  cashier; 
W.  F.  Williamson,  attorney  ;  F.  W.  Dohrmann,  Jr., 
F.  M.  Greenwood,  Marshall  Hale,  G.  W.  Kline,  Geo. 
M.  Mitchell,  Charles  C.  Moore,  Henry  T.  Scott. 

The  local  stock  market  furnishes  no  glad  surprises 
of  late  for  the  shareholders.  San  Francisco  Gas  gets 
a  jolt  occasionally  up  and  down  to  justify  the  com- 
mon, everyday  statement  of  activity.  The  maneuvres 
of  this  extraordinary  creation  of  the  promoter  raised 
out  West  are  interesting  to  watch,  and  will  be  more 
so  before  long.  The  water  and  sugar  list  rules  tol- 
erably firm,  under  a  light  demand. 

The  new  Tonopah  road,  which  will,  it  is  said,  be 
completed  about  June  1st,  has  made  a  mortgage  to 
the  Land  Title  and  Trust  Company  of  Philadelphia 
as  trustee  to  secure  an  issue  of  $500,000  six  per  cent 
15  year  gold  bonds,  dated  January,  1904.  These  bonds 
are  guaranteed  by  endorsement  of  the  Tonopah  Min- 
ing Company.  Stock  of  one  call,  $1,000,000,  has  been 
issued,  of  which  $100,000  goes  to  the  original  owners 
of  the  railroad  charter,  the  remaining  $900,000  being 
issued,  but  held  for  the  benefit  of  the  shareholders 
of  the  mining  company.  The  par  value  of  these 
shares  is  $100.  "Issued,  but  held  for  the  benefit  of 
shareholders"  sounds  good.  Perhaps  the  intellectual 
chaps  at  the  head  of  the  concern  do  not  think  the 
shareholders  are  capable  of  managing  this  gift  with 
the  string  tied  to  it.    See  what  it  is  to  be  small  fry. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Murine  as  an  Eye  Tonic 


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Eye,  gives  comfort  to  the  Tired  and  Inflamed  Eye. 


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S.Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

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NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased.  Dept.  30335  No.  8.  Notice  is 
hereby  given  by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  Hynes,  Public  Adminis- 
trator of  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  Adminis- 
trator of  the  Estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased,  to  the  credi- 
tors of,  and  all  persons  having  claims  against  the  said  deceased, 
to  exhibit  them  with  necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months 
after  the  first  publication  of  this  notice,  to  the  said  Administra- 
tor, at  room  56S  Parrott  Building,  Nos.  825  to  855  Market  street 
the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of 
the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State 
of  California. 

M.  J.   HYNES, 
Administrator  of  the  estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKEY,  attorneys  for  administrator,  Rooms 
567-56S-569  Parrott  building,   San   Francisco,   Cal. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  April  23,  1S04. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


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H«ir;!>e  Crier"'      Wh.t  it*  der"  »r<  th.,11?' 
0B«lh»t  will  ptar  the  devil,  air.  viib  rou." 


Wonderful  stories  the  newspapers  tell 
Of  the  deeds  of  the  brave  Japanese ; 

Each  correspondent  is  eager  to  swell 
The  gale  of  the  favoring  breeze. 

The  Jap  is  a  scholar,  the  Russ  is  a  brute, 

The  Jap  is  a  soldier  who  knows  how  to  shoot; 

The  Muscovite  only  is  fit  for  the  boot, 
Or  any  damned  thing  that  you  please. 

There's  something  in  winning,  I'm  sorry  to  say, 
Which  makes  one  kow-tow  to  the  strong, 

And  virtues  the  victor  can  cabbage  alway 
Which  never  to  him  could  belong, 

Which  is  why  we  should  take  with  a  small  grain 
of  salt, 

The  story  that  Russia  alone  is  at  fault, 

And  her  people  a  crowd  of  the  blind  and  the  halt, 
That  the  Japs  cannot  ever  do  wrong. 
It  must  be  admitted  that  architect  Burnham's  ideas 
for  the  beautifying  of  San  Francisco  appear  to  be  very 
sane.  He  has  no  up-in-the-cloud  notions  like  Charles 
Keeler,  and  even  Ernest  Peixotto's  suggestions  with 
regard  to  the  wider  application  of  Italian  styles  of 
building  are  wild  dreams  compared  with  the  sober 
notions  of  the  Chicago  man.  I  suppose  a  short  resi- 
dence in  Chicago  would  curb  any  one's  ideals  of  the 
possibilities  of  the  beautiful.  Still,  there  is  one  sug- 
gestion which  is  impossible  of  being  carried  out,  even 
according  to  Burnham's  scheme.  He  demands 
beauty  in  the  city  by  way  of  the  garden.  That  is 
just  the  method  which  our  people  will  not  take.  It 
involves  too  much  steady  labor  and  patient  care.  Any- 
thing that  will  produce  an  effect,  anything  which 
implies  the  spending  of  money  and  a  certain  amount 
of  ostentation,  we  shail  gladly  undertake,  but  patient 
and  loving  care  of  our  homes,  oh,  Mr.  Burnham,  how 
little  you  know  your  San  Francisco! 

The  "honor  system"  at  the  University,  by  which 
students  are  placed  on  their  honor  not  to  cheat  in 
examinations,  has  been,  according  to  Professor  Soule, 
proven  a  complete  failure.  The  students,  in  other 
words,  promise  that  they  will  not  cheat,  and  then  go 
and  do  it.  The  ecclesiastics  have  a  pretty  argument 
to  back  up  their  contention  with  regard  to  the  im- 
morality of  the  ordinary  secular  education.  The  uni- 
versity cannot  train  students  to  treat  its  own  exami- 
nations fairly.  It  is  charged  that  they  buy  books 
at  the  co-operative  store,  in  which  to  write  their  ans- 
wers, and  prior  to  the  examination  insert  in  these 
books,  formulae  and  other  matter,  which  might  be 
useful.  I  am  unable  to  discover  whether  this  habit 
is  widely  spread  through  the  entire  country,  or 
whether  it  is  only  one  of  our  peculiarly  local  charac- 
teristics. 

A  local  paper  recently  discussed  with  much  type 
and  little  sense  "the  connection  between  the  Gentle- 
man and  the  Horse."  A  gentleman  is  naturally  sup- 
posed to  be  well-connected,  but  observation  of  the 
antics  of  many  in  the  Golden  Gate  Park,  who  are 
experimenting  in  the  English  trot,  would  lead  one 
to  believe  either  that  there  is  no  connection  between 
the  gentleman  and  the  horse,  or,  horrible  thought, 
that  the  temporarily  disconnected  person  is  no  gen- 
tleman, it  being  impossible  to  deny  the  horse.  En- 
quiry at  Emeryville  has  produced  the  information 
that  the  most  usual  connection  between  the  gentle- 
man and  the  horse  is  a  chattel  mortgage,  the  latter 
being,  as  a  rule,  in  the  hands  of  a  flashily-dressed 
person    who    cannot    pronounce    th    properly. 


I  never  yet  said  anything  in  favor  of  Berkeley  that 
I  did  not  have  to  eat  my  words.  A  few  weeks  ago  I 
praised  the  enterprise  which  had  led  to  the  institu- 
tion of  Sunday  concerts  in  the  amphitheatre.  I  fan- 
cied that  it  was  to  be  a  very  delightful  means  of 
entertainment  to  the  people  who  maintain  things 
over  there,  where  students  cheat  and  professors  im- 
agine vain  things.  To  my  surprise,  I  now  discover 
that  a  fee  of  twenty-five  cents  is  to  be  charged  as 
admission  to  the  concerts.  How  that  can  be  done  on 
ground  that  belongs  to  the  whole  body  of  the  people, 
and  how  thousands  of  people  can  be  kept  out  of  their 
own  property  on  Sunday,  passes  my  comprehension. 
There  are  places  where  such  insolence  would  not  be 
endured,  but  we  are  getting  fast  into  the  habit  of  tak- 
ing things  lying  down. 

The  wholesale  grocers  are  to  give  all  their  assist- 
ants a  Saturday  half-holiday.  This  institution,  which 
is  fast  becoming  universal  wherever  the  English  lan- 
guage is  spoken,  should  be  recognized  on  a  wider 
scale  than  it  is  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  good  all 
round.  Three  hours  off  will  not  break  any  one,  and 
the  advantage  far  outweighs  any  small  loss  that  may 
come.  I  prophesy  as  a  result  of  the  change  fewer 
funerals  of  wholesale  grocers;  that  is,  if  the  park  or 
Marin  County  claims  them  on  Saturday,  instead  of 
cigars  and  mineral  water  plus.  A  Saturday  half 
holiday  is  almost  necessary  for  health,  at  the  strain 
we  are  working,  and  it  will  be  a  recognized  institu- 
tion, always  provided  that  some  fool  union  does  not 
get  hold  of  the  idea,  start  boycotting  or  striking,  or 
something  else,  and  wreck  the  notion. 

Only  a  short  time  ago  reference  was  made  to  the 
carelessness  shown  by  judges  and  court  officials  in 
selecting  and  handling  jurie„ .  Now  comes  further 
confirmation  of  our  criticisms.  Mrs.  Minnie  Adam, 
who  was  convicted  of  killing  her  two-year-old  child, 
is  to  have  a  new  trial  because  the  deputy  sheriff  did 
not  keep  the  jury  together  after  the  trial,  but  allowed 
the  members  to  occupy  different  rooms  in  a  hotel.  It 
should  be  easy  enough  to  provide  accommodation 
for  the  jury  in  the  court  building  and  have  their 
meals  sent  in  from  the  outside.  Jury  service  is  neither 
a  picnic  nor  a  theatre  party.  We  should  have  jumped 
a  long  way  ahead  if  our  officials  could  only  under- 
stand that  they  have  duties. 

For  a  highly  moral  city,  Oakland  is  displaying 
some  very  unlovely  characteristics,  moral  obliquities, 
so  to  speak,  on  the  part  of  its  Supervisors.  These 
gentlemen,  who  are,  for  the  most  part,  members  of 
churches,  and  quite  prominent  members,  as  well,  are 
in  the  habit  of  charging  more  for  mileage  than  the 
traffic  will  bear.  Worse,  still,  some  of  them  have  ac- 
tually had  the  audacity  to  charge  for  mileage  on  Sun- 
day. It  must  be  pretty  to  see  a  deacon  Supervisor 
leading  off  the  hymn,  "Who  givest  all"  with  one  eye 
on  the  city  treasury  and  a  fraudulent  bill  for  mile- 
age in  his  pocket. 

The  strenuous  female  still  keeps  up  her  campaign 
across  the  Bay.  That  inexplicable  phenomenon,  the 
connection  between  woman  and  robbery,  has  received 
no  further  lucidation,  but  has  shown  its  continued 
existence.  Another  woman  has  found  another  bur- 
glar and  frightened  him  at  pistol  point  from  her  prem- 
ises. The  Oakland  lasses,  on  the  other  hand,  have 
shown  so  great  a  propensity  for  the  joys  of  Venus 
that  a  hard-hearted  official  has  ordered  couples  out 
of  Lafayette  Park  at  night.    We  grow  every  kind. 


May  14,  1904. 

GOOD  WORK  BY  THE  CITIZENS'  ALLIANCE. 

The  Citizen's  Alliance  is  lending  the  full  strength 
of  its  rapidly   growing  membership  to  the  side  of 

law  and  order  in  the  struggle  that  is  now  on  be- 
tween the  Stable  and  Carriage  <  Iwners'  Association, 
and  the  Stablemen's  Union  and  the  Hack  Drivers' 
ciation,  and  as  far  as  possible  under  existing  con- 
ditions, in  the  administration  of  justice.  The  co- 
administration has  given  its  encouragement  to  the 
strikers,  and  because  of  the  assistance  of  tbe  Police, 
men  have  been  man-handled  and  mauled  into  insen- 
sibility, attacked  in  numbers  and  without  provoca- 
tion. The  Citizens'  Alliance  is  trying  to  protect  the 
lives  and  the  property  of  the  Stable  Owners  by  peace- 
ful and  lawful  means,  and  in  pursuance  of  this  pol- 
icy, has  placed  a  number  of  guards  over  the  property 
of  such  of  the  owners  as  have  not  entirely  closed 
their  stables  and  sent  their  horses  to  pasture.  The 
only  hope  of  the  thugs  who  form  the  union  is  to  ter- 
rorize the  employees  of  the  Stable  Owners  or  the 
Alliance. 

In  the  policy  of  standing  in  with  the  hoodlum 
strikers,  the  police  pounce  upon  the  guards  placed 
bv  the  Alliance  at  any  and  all  opportunities,  search 
them,  and  if  a  weapon  is  found,  the  guard  is  immedi- 
ately arrested  and  the  weapon  confiscated  by  the 
subservient  tool  of  the  canaille.  On  the  other  hand, 
if  the  guard  leaves  one  of  the  stables  weaponless, 
the  Police  ascertain  the  fact  and  disappear  from  the 
scene  in  order  to  give  the  strikers  the  opportunity 
to  revel  in  a  murderous  assault. 

In  the  case  of  Elmer  A.  Hollingsworth,  who  cut 
a  hoodlum  named  Hanlon,  Hollingsworth  was  on  his 
way  to  get  a  doctor.  He  left  his  revolver  at  the  barn, 
and  on  his  return  to  the  stable  was  surrounded  by  a 
mob  of  lawbreakers  who  professed  peace.  Two  of 
these  "fair"  and  honorable  samples  of  the  union  labor 
element  struck  him  from  behind.  The  only  means 
of  defense  Hollingsworth  possessed  against  a  mob 
of  murderous  villains  was  a  small  pen-knife,  which 
he  used  to  advantage  to  carve  his  way  out  of  the 
cowardly  crowd. 

Hollingsworth,  who  would  have  been  killed  had 
he  not  possessed  a  knife,  was  immediately  arrested 
for  assault  to  murder. 

This  strike  can  only  end  with  the  "open  shop" 
triumphant.  The  Alliance  is  assisting  the  poorer 
owners  of  stables  with  feed  and  guards,  and  it  will 
see  to  the  prosecution  of  every  offender  to  the  bitter 
end.  It  put,ttp  the  bail  in  the  case  of  Hollingsworth 
in  the  sum  of;  $1,000,  and  he  is  now  at  his  post  of 
duty. 

All  the  methods  of  the  Alliance  are  peaceful  ones 
and  commend  themselves  to  right-minded  men. 
While  this  regrettable  strike  is  going  on  among  the 
stablemen,  there  is  another  strike  among  the  Har- 
ness-makers. It  has  been  decided  by  the  Leather- 
makers  and  the  Tanneries,  in  order  to  bring  the  de- 
plorable conditions  to  a  close  as  quickly  as  possible, 
to  sell  no  leather  to  firms  manufacturing  harness  and 
stable  equipment  unless  said  firms  are  pledged  to  the 
open  shop  principle.  The  harness  manufacturers 
are  simply  obeying  the  law  of  self-preservation,  and 
are  acting  so  as  to  help  the  stable  owners  and 'to 
protect  themselves  from  the  steadily  increasing  de- 
mands of  the  unions.  These  demands  have  grown 
to  such  an  extent  that  profits  have':been  wiped  out 
completely.  The  Citizens'  Alliance  proposes  to  dnd 
these  intolerable  conditions,  conditions  that  are 
killing  the  industries  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  mem- 
bership is  growing  by  leaps,  and  all  lovers  of  Am'eri- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


canism,  fairness,  equality  before  the  law,  opposition 
to  brute  force,  and  the  individual  right  to  work 
where  and  how  and  for  whom  one  pleases  are  eligi- 
ble to  membership,  and  arc  called  upon  to  come  and 
sign  the  rolls. 


One  of  the  German  Princes  was  taken  to  the  Cali- 
fornia Market  the  other  day  and  introduced  to  the 
Moraghan  cookery.  He  pronounced  it  "parfait"  and 
"prachtfoll,"  and  said  the  oysters  were  the  equal 
of  the  Ostend  variety  and  rather  more  succulent. 


A  VALID  EXCUSE. 

A  well-dressed  young  man  stepped  into  the  Palace 
lobby  the  other  day  and  remarked  to  a  trio  of 
strangers  that  he  could  tell  the  politics  of  any  man 
at  a  glance.  The  challenge  accepted,  he  pointed  his 
finger  at  the  nearest  and  said: 

"You  are  a  follower  of  Bryan." 

"You  are  right,  I  am." 

"You  are  for  Judge  Parker,"  he  said  to  the  next. 

"Good  guesser.    I  am,"  said  the  man. 

"And  you,"  he  said,  addressing  the  last  of  the  trio, 
who  had  remained  silent  throughout  the  conversa- 
tion, "you  favor  Hearst." 

"You're  a  liar,"  said  the  stranger.  "I'm  sick.  That 
is  what  makes  me  look  that  way." 


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sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  Derbys,  soft  hats,  gent's  and 
ladies'  straws. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


75he     Political     Situation 


Although  we  are  only  a  week  from  the  State  Con- 
ventions, there  seems  to  be  the  same  uncertainty  that 
has  prevailed  for  weeks  past  in  the  minds  of  the  Dem- 
ocrats as  to  what  they  will  do.  Their  vote  at  the 
recent  primaries  was  so  small  that  no  one  can  doubt 
their  apathy  and  fear,  even  if  the  names  of  the  dele- 
gates elected  did  not  show  that  the  leaders  of  the 
party  propose  to  lay  low  until  after  the  Convention. 
There  is  a  very  strong  opposition  to  Hearst,  yet  the 
fear  of  him  is  so  great  that  few  dare  come  out  in  the 
open  and  admit  their  true  views,  and  as  a  result  the 
leaders  are  waiting  until  the  St.  Louis  convention 
eliminated  him,  as  they  hope,  from  the  problem.  Then 
they  will  be  able  to  condole  with  him  over  his  defeat 
and  cheer  on  the  nominee.  That  programme  might 
possibly  be  all  right  if  it  were  not  for  another  possible 
contingency.  Suppose  not  getting  the  nomination 
at  St.  Louis  Hearst  should  bolt?  I  have  pointed  out 
that  contingency  before,  and  as  the  time  for  the  Na- 
tional Convention  approaches,  the  likelihood  of  it  be- 
ing carried  out  does  not  diminish.  In  fact,  it  may  be 
set  down  as  conceded  on  all  sides  that  if  Parker,  in- 
stead of  Hearst,  is  nominated  at  St.  Louis,  the  Hearst 
papers  and  the  Hearst  followers  will  not  support  the 
ticket.  That  is  the  view  taken  by  some  of  the  shrewd- 
est observers  in  his  own  party.  Thus  editor  Leake 
of  the  Woodland  Democrat  tells  his  readers,  after 
explaining  the  tactics  followed  by  the  Hearst  leaders 
in  Indiana  and  other  States,  where  he  was  defeated : 
"All  this  foreshadows  the  probability  that  Mr.  Hearst 
and  all  those  he  can  induce  to  follow  him  will  bolt  the 
St.  Louis  Convention  and  attempt  to  organize  a  third 
party,  the  nucleus  of  which  he  hopes  will  be  the  labor 
unions.  It  is  now  perfectly  evident  that  he  will  not 
accept  the  work  of  the  Convention  if  it  nominates 
anybody  but  himself."  The  Eastern  press  seems 
equally  positive  that  a  bolt  is  coining,  and  that  the  re- 
sult will  be  the  placing  of  a  third  ticket  in  the  field 
with  Hearst  as  its  nominee. 

In  the  selection  of  delegates  to  St.  Louis,  Hearst 
desires  only  men  who  will  follow  him,  even  if  they 
are  not  pledged,  and  the  current  rumor  now  is  that 
if  the  opposition  to  instructions  is  very  positive  and 
better  at  Santa  Cruz,  it  will  be  dropped  and  all  ef- 
forts will  be  centered  on  securing  delegates  who  will 
leave  the  hall  when  Bryan  leads  the  way.  It  is  under- 
stood that  M.  L.  Tarpey  and  Frank  H.  Gould  are  to 
be  the  two  delegates  at  large  from  this  part  of  the 
State,  and  that  Mayor  Snyder  is  to  be  the  Southern 
delegate.  Barney  Murphy  is  spoken  of  as  another 
delegate-at-large.  The  antis  want  Dockweiler  from 
the  South  and  Lane  from  the  North,  with  Leake  and 
some  Northern  man,  possibly  Will  Green.  It  is  a 
notable  fact  that  Tarpey  does  not  propose  to  put  an}' 
of  the  old-time  leaders  of  the  party  on  his  ticket. 
Out  of  all  the  delegates  from  this  city,  there  is  not 
one  of  any  great  prominence  in  the  party,  or  of 
any  special  weight  in  its  councils. 
*  *  * 

The  return  of  Congressman  Livernash  and  his 
helper,  Congressman  Wynn,  are  likely  to  call  for  ex- 
planations from  those  gentlemen  which  they  will  find 
it  hard  to  give.  Although  posing  as  the  champions 
of  labor  and  the  friends  of  the  unions,  they  both  did 
all  they  could  to  defeat  Congressman  Bell's  effort 
to  have  a  collier  built  at  Mare  Island,  which  means 
an  expenditure  of  a  million  and  a  half  at  that  point. 


In  fact,  Bell  only  succeeded  in  having  the  Senate 
amendment  on  the  subject  retained  as  Senator  Per- 
kins had  had  it  inserted  in  the  Naval  Bill,  because 
both  of  the  San  Francisco  Congressmen  were  absent 
when  the  matter  came  up.  They  took  out  their  re- 
venge later,  however,  when  Livernash,  by  an  objec- 
tion, knocked  out  the  bill  to  open  up  the  Round  Val- 
ley Reservation  in  Mendocino  to  settlers,  and  Wynn 
repeated  the  performance  in  connection  with  a  meas- 
ure to  transfer  some  land  in  Sierra  County  from  the 
Yosemite  Park  to  the  settlers,  who  for  years  have 
lived  upon  it.  If  any  one  should  ask  why  should  two 
Democratic  Congressmen  oppose  the  third  from  their 
"State  in  that  way,  the  answer  is  that  Bell  refused  to 
indorse  Hearst  for  President,  and  that  Livernash 
and  Wynn,  having  accomplished  absolutely  nothing 
for  their  constituents,  were  jealous  of  the  very  ex- 
cellent record  Bell  had  made. 

*  *  * 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  Livernash  has  declined  to 
run  for  Congress  again  this  fall,  since  it  deprives  the 
people  of  his  district  of  the  pleasure  they  would  have 
in  overwhelmingly  defeating  him,  but  Wynn,  who 
has  not  even  had  an  idea  of  his  own,  and  who  has  lit- 
erally been  the  subservient  tool  of  Livernash,  taking 
his  orders  from  him  and  obeying  his  every  wish,  it  is 
said  will  be  foolish  enough  to  ask  for  a  renomination. 
The  Democracy,  however,  will  hardly  be  insane 
enough  to  give  it  to  him,  and  the  Union  Labor  party 
will  hardly  be  more  complacent.  A  greater  nonentity 
has  never  gone  to  Congress  from  this  State,  and  that 
is  saving  a  good  deal. 

*  *  * 

Writing  of  Congressmen  from  the  Fifth  District 
reminds  me  that  a  new  candidate  for  the  Republican 
nomination  has  showed  up  since  Charlie  Shortridge 
has  moved  to  San  Francisco  in  order  to  secure  the 


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-  in  tins  end  of  the  district.  The  new  aspirant 
whose  principal  claim  to  the  nomina- 
tion is  that  he  lives  in  .San  Jose,  and  came  to  that 
thriving  town  from  the  same  locality  in  Wisconsin 
as  that  from  which  the  Hays  brothers  hail.  The 
Hayses  are  his  backers,  of  course.  Lou  Montgomery 
is  not  likely  to  get  the  nomination  in  the  district,  for 
the  good  and  efficient  reason  that  he  seems  unahle  to 
get  the  requisite  number  of  delegates  to  support  him 
in  the  Congressional  Convention.  The  fact  is.  that 
the  Fifth  District  candidate  is  very  likely  to  be  found 
among  the  dark  horses  at  present,  as  none  of  those 
who  have  been  mentioned  for  the  place  seem  at  all 
likelv  to  secure  the  nomination. 
»  *  * 

Henry  T.  Oxnard  is  back  from  the  East  and  very 
distinctly  announces  his  candidacy  for  the  Senate. 
He  docs  not  seem  to  be  alarmed  by  the  suggestion  of 
General  Otis,  of  typewriter  fame,  that  the  Republi- 
cans shall  repeat  the  folly  they  committed  several 
years  ago,  when  they  sent  one  Walters  to  Congress 
from  Los  Angeles,  by  sending  him  now  to  the  Sen- 
ate ;  or  by  the  efforts  of  John  W.  Mitchell,  formerly  of 
the  Democratic  party,  to  get  up  some  enthusiasm  for 
Jim  Lankersheim  ;  not  yet  by  the  suggestion  of  Dr. 
Rowell  that  he  would  look  well  in  the  toga.  Oxnard 
says  he  is  going  to  do  all  he  can  to  win,  but  that  he 
does  not  propose  to  make  a  money  campaign,  but  will 
ask  for  the  support  of  his  party  on  the  ground  that  he 
can  do  a  good  deal  for  the  State  if  he  is  sent  to  fill 
Bard's  place.  The  Senatorial  campaign  George  Hat- 
ton  says,  will  begin  next  week,  as  soon  as  the  State 
Convention  is  over.  He  will  find  out  how  the  land 
lies  at  the  Convention,  as  he  will  be  able  to  get  a 
number  of  pointers  there,  and  he  will  from  that  time 
on  give  up  his  lucrative  law  practice  to  attend  entirely 
to  manufacturing  a  Senator. 

*  *  * 

Every  one  will  remember  that  Dr.  Rowell,  who  for 
several  years  has  represented  Fresno  County  in  the 
State  Senate,  was  a  very  pronounced  candidate  for  a 
place  on  the  Panama  Canal  Commission.  Recalling 
that  fact,  the  following  paragraph  from  his  Fresno 
paper,  the  Republican,  is  decidedly  humorous.  It  is 
published  in  a  long  editorial  under  the  caption,  "Ro- 
mance or  Graft" :  "The  Panama  Canal  Commission 
has  received  a  wagonload  of  applications  for  positions 
on  the  isthmus,  the  people  who  thus  evinced  a  desire 
to  receive  a  Government  appointment  being  num- 
bered, literally,  according  to  President  Walker,  by 
the  thousands.  The  fact  suggests  the  query  of 
whether  the  underlying  motive  for  this  inordinate  de- 
sire to  enter  the  employment  of  the  commission  in  the 
work  of  digging  the  canal  is  the  prompting  of  fond- 
ness for  new  location  amid  unaccustomed  surround- 
ings with  a  chance  of  adventure ;  or  the  more  sordid 
hope  that  a  position  under  the  new  Government  in  a 
new  enterprise  may  afford  opportunities  for  graft." 
In  view  of  the  Doctor's  own  record  in  the  premises, 
and  his  well-known  bitter  disappointment  and  his 
failure  to  get  the  place  he  so  much  desired,  one  is 
tempted  to  ask  the  genial  Senator  whether  his  mo- 
tives in  asking  Senator  Bard  to  get  him  the  appoint- 
ment were  inspired  by  "Romance  or  Graft?" 

*  *  * 

It  has  been  finally  settled  that  the  delegates  to 
Chicago  from  the  First  District  will  probably  be  Ma- 
jor Bull  of  Eureka  and  ex-Mayor  Clinch  of  Nevada 
County.  Clinch  has  all  the  delegates  from  Nevada, 
Calaveras  and  their  neighbors,  except  Amador,  which 
has  declared  for  Voorheis,  and  Humboldt  is  for  Bull. 


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May  14,  1904. 


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SOCIETY  Jg£#* 


Dear  Bessie:  "The  last  expiring  efforts  for  the  sea- 
son" is  the  way  I  have  heard  the  doings  of  the  week 
spoken  of,  and  when  one  comes  to  think  them  over, 
they  have  been  by  no  means  insignificant  either  in 
number  or  size.  The  week's  gamut  has  included 
dinners,  teas,  luncheons,  some  weddings,  card  parties 
and  dances — not  a  bad  string,  I  think.  The  hops  at 
the  Presidio  are  almost  the  only  dances  now  taking 
place,  and  the  girls  from  town  declare  they  are  per- 
fectly delightful.  Both  the  10th  and  the  28th  Infan- 
try seem  to  vie  with  each  other  in  trying  to  give  the 
pleasantest,  but  it  is  an  even  thing,  most  of  them 
say.  For  my  part,  I  make  no  choice.  The  hop  given 
by  the  loth  last  Friday  evening  was  one  of  the  best 
for  some  time ;  so  many  of  the  girls  are  going  out  of 
town  that  they  took  advantage  of  what  will  almost 
be  their  last  chance,  for  awhile,  and  the  army  itself 
was  well  represented.  Not  a  white  less  pleasant  was 
the  hop  given  by  the  28th  on  Monday  night,  and  last 
night  the  Cavalry  and  Artillery  joined  forces  in  a 
dance,  so  you  see  Terpsichorean  pleasures  are  not  be- 
ing neglected.  Last  week's  gastronomic  affairs  in- 
cluded Mrs.  J.  J.  Valentine's  luncheon  party  of  a 
dozen  in  the  palm  garden  on  Thursday,  Mrs.  Henry 
Dutton's  dinner  of  12  that  evening,  and  Jennie  Flood's 
small  dinner  on  Friday;  and  among  the  card  party 
givers  were  Mrs.  Russ  Wilson,  Grace  Baldwin  and 
Lucie  King,  bridge,  of  course,  being  the  game  played. 

This  week  opened  with  a  bridge  party,  followed 
later  by  a  tea,  which  was  the  entertainment  given  by 
Jennie  Blair  on  Monday  afternoon  for  a  Miss  Char- 
lotte Land,  who  is  here  from  the  East  on  a  visit  to 
Mrs.  George  Lent,  and  was  extremely  pleasant;  Mrs. 
Tom  Bishop  also  had  a  bridge  party  that  afternoon. 
Bridge  was  also  played  at  Mrs.  William  Thomas's 
on  Tuesday  in  her  rooms  at  the  St.  Francis,  and  Mrs. 
Mayo  Newhall  gave  one  of  the  largest  luncheons  of 
the  spring  season.  I  gave  up  the  afternoon  to  the 
tea  which  Mabel  Watkins  gave  for  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Baker,  who  have  recently  joined  the  local  army  cir- 
cles, Captain  Baker  being  in  the  Quartermaster's  De- 
partment. Wednesday  was  also  well  filled,  for  there 
was  the  afternoon  and  evening  wedding  reception  of 
the  Whitemores  at  Mrs.  Waytes  on  Van  Ness  ave- 
nue ;  Doctor  Genthe  had  one  of  his  charming  little 
studio  teas,  and  Belle  Harmes  a  lovely  luncheon  over 
in  Sausalito;  Adele  Martel  had  a  dinner  party  on 
Thursday ;  Mabel  Toy's  luncheon  party  yesterday 
was  for  Eleanor  Hume  and  Eleanor  Warner,  so  you 
see  we  are  by  no  means  to  be  commiserated. 

Then  there  have  been  a  number  of  engagements 
made  known  in  the  past  ten  days.  Among  them  is 
that  of  Miss  Bessie  Mills  and  Charles  Tripler,  but  the 
marriage  is  not  to  take  place  yet  awhile,  and  the 
Sbarboros  gave  a  tea  last  Friday,  when  Romilda's  en- 
gagement to  Guido  Musto  was  formally  announced. 
From  Manila  comes  news  of  Kitty  Glass's  engage- 
ment to  Doctor  Francis  Munson  of  the  navy,  but  the 
recent  death  of  her  grandmother,  Mrs.  James  Thorn- 
ton, may  cause  a  change  of  any  plans  now  made. 
Long  engagements  are  no  longer  the  fashion,  and  I 
think  it  is  a  good  rule.  Certainly  Miss  Cora  Kirk 
and  Paul  Clagstone  have  been  up  to  date,  for  it  is 
only  a  couple  of  weeks  ago  that  society  was  set  in  a 
flutter  by  the  news  of  their  engagement,  and  last 
Saturday  beheld  them  made  man  and  wife. 

Eleanor  Goodall  and  Doctor  Charles  Cooper  were 
married  on  Wednesday  at  the  old  Goodall  place  in 


Oakland ;  the  bridal  party  was  not  a  very  large  one, 
a  matron  of  honor  in  the  person  of  Mrs.  Shene  of 
Portland,  Ore.,  and  little  Helen  Goodall  and  Gazen- 
tine  Greenwood,  who  officiated  as  flower  girls. 

Much  speculation  was  indulged  in  when  it  became 
noised  abroad  that  Harry  Tevis  was  going  East  and 
to  Europe  with  the  Phelan-Spreckels  party,  and  that, 
too,  just  as  he  had  got  his  old  Taylor  street  home  al- 
tered and  fixed  up  to  his  satisfaction.  But  he  didn't 
go — thought  better  of  it  at  the  last  moment,  though 
it  is  said  he  may  take  a  trip  East  ere  long.  Claude 
Terry  Hamilton  has  decided  to  make  the  Cosmos  Club 
his  home  for  the  summer  instead  of  the  Hutch  at 
Sausalito. 

The  new  steamer  Magnolia  took  away  quite  a  num- 
ber last  Saturday,  among  them  the  Eastern  beauty, 
Natalie  Schenck,  and  the  stalwart  Britisher,  Captain 
Glenn  Collins,  who  selected  Monterey  for  their 
rather  romantic  wedding  last  month,  and  who  are  off 
on  a  tour  of  the  world. 

Jeannette  Hooper  is  home  again  from  Santa  Bar- 
bara, quite  recovered  from  her  recent  illness ;  Jean 
Mackenzie  is  here  visiting  her  brother  and  his  wife. 
The  Willie  Vanderbilts  have  gone  back  East,  having 
enjoyed  their  visit  to  San  Francisco;  they  were  a 
good  deal  entertained  at  Burlingame  by  all  the  Mar- 
tins, Jim  Phelan  and  the  Tom  Magees,  who  gave 
them  a  luncheon  at  the  Palace  Palm  Garden  on  Sat- 
urday as  a  sort  of  adieu,  as  they  left  on  Sunday.  I 
hear  that  Sadie  Collier  is  having  a  good  time  in  the 
East.  She  has  no  idea  of  an  immediate  return  to 
San  Francisco;  she  will  go  with  the  Hitchcocks,  with 
whom  she  has  been  visiting  in  Washington  City,  to 
St.  Louis,  and  remain  there  a  couple  of  months.  The 
Spencer  Buckbees  have  already  gone  to  St.  Louis, 
and  then  go  abroad  for  a  tour  of  the  European  con- 
tinent. 

Ruth  McNutt  will  soon  be  back  from  her  visit  to 
the  Fitzhugh  Lees  in  Virginia,  and  then  she  and 
her  mother  will  go  to  Santa  Barbara  for  the  sum- 
mer; the  Mayo  Newhalls  will  succeed  the  Peter  Mar- 
tins in  the  Kruttschnitt  cottage  at  Burlingame,  hav- 
ing taken  it  for  the  rest  of  the  season  when  the  Mar- 
tins depart,  so  you  see  the  loss  of  one  will  be  the  gain 
of  another  at  that  gay  little  settlement.    Mrs.  Tallant 


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May  14,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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and  Elsie  arc  going  to  spend  June  in  the  Yoscmite 
Valley.  The  Weirs — Mattic  Whitticr.  you  know — 
have  gone  with  their  children  to  their  country  home 
at  Men  to  Park  for  the  summer;  tli  c  Pettigrews  go 
fountain  View  for  the  summer:  the  L.  L.  Bak- 
ers have  gone  to  the  Hotel  Rafael  For  the  entire  sea- 
son. I  hear  the  Charley  Josselyns  arc  having  a  lovely 
time  in  Paris,  where  they  have  taken  an  apartment 
and  are  regularly  "keeping  house."  and  that  Gertrude 
and  Marjorie  are  more  in  love  with  their  life  there 
than  ever.  — Elsie. 


Recent  arrivals  at  Motel  Rafael,  San  Rafael:  Mr. 
W.  I-.  Austin.  Mr.  S.  L.  Jones.  Mr.  E,  A.  Davis,  Mr. 
H.  L.  Cook.  Miss  Reta  Saloman.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  E. 
Starr.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Durnphy,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  II.  Follis,  Mr.  G.  W.  Heintz,  Mr.  M.  S.  Latham, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Otis  and  daughter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G. 
A.  Webster.  Mrs.  J.  D.  Tallant,  Miss  Elsie  Tallant, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  A.  Graham,  Mrs.  R.  F.  Bickerton, 
Mr.  Spencer  Bickerton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  S.  Stratton, 
Mr.  J.  O.  Cadman,  Mr.  W.  P.  Johnson,  Dr.  W.  M. 
Carpenter,  Mr.  F.  A.  Schneider,  Mr.  H.  S.  Black,  Miss 
M.  E.  Gibbs,  Mrs.  A.  V.  Shannon,  Mrs.  M.  B.  Rob- 
son,  Miss  H.  Robson. 

Leaving  Boston  by  steamer  on  the  5th  of  May  at 
2  o'clock  p.  m..  were  Mr.  J.  M.  Johnson  and  Miss  Nel- 
lie Johnson  of  San   Francisco. 

Mr.  H.  C.  Callahan  and  the  Misses  Callahan  have 
taken  the  beautiful  Williams  place  at  Mountain  View 
for  the  summer.  Mrs.  Pettigrew,  Miss  Helen  V.  Pet- 
tigrew  and  Mr.  Percy  L.  Pettigrew  will  spend  the 
season  with  them. 


AT  HOME. 

Friday — Mrs.  Joseph   Charles   Myerstein.     Third  in 
every  month.     The  Empire. 
BIRTH. 

May  3d — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  C.  Breeden,  a  son. 
ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Mills,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam H.  Mills,  to  Charles  S.  Tripler,  son  of  Mrs. 
Emily  Tripler. 

Miss  Mary  Washington  Delahanty,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain and  Mrs.  Daniel  Delahanty,  formerly  of  San 
Francisco,  to  Philip  Ferdinand  Kobbe,  Jr.,  of 
Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Romilda  Sbarboro,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Andrea  Sbarboro,  to  Guido  Musto. 

Miss  Katherine  Glass,  daughter  of  Admiral  Henry 
Glass,  U.  S.  N.,  to  Doctor  Francis  M.  Munson, 
U.  S.  N. 

Miss   Catherine   Carlisle,  of  Berkeley,  to   Samuel   I. 
Van  Ornum,  of  Los  Angeles. 
WEDDINGS. 

May      7th   (Saturday) — Miss      Margaret      Bartlett, 

A  SKin  of  Beauty  is  a  Joy  Foreyer. 

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56  years  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladies  will 
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Howard  White  Wethcrall.  Fruitvale  ;  Miss  Cora 
Kirk  of  Chicago,  10  Paul  Clagstone  of  Idaho,  San 
Mateo. 

OBITUARY. 

May  3d — Sarah  Francis  Thornton,  daughter  of  the 
late  Judge  Harry  I.  Thornton,  wife  of  the  late 
Judge  James  D.' Thornton,  and  mother  of  Mrs. 
j.  Crittenden  Watson  and  Crittenden  Thornton. 

May"  6th — Mary  Catherine  Sanger,  mother  of  Mrs. 
George  Pullman  and  grandmother  of  Mrs.  Fran- 
cis Carolan.     Pasadena. 


Mr.  G.  C.  Cormany  has  been  appointed  Passenger 
Agent  of  the  Erie  Railroad  Company,  with  offices 
at  102  North  Fourth  street,  St.  Louis.  Mr.  D.  M. 
Bowman  is  General  Western  Passenger  Agent. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON 


I  have  high  hopes  for  the  Sequoia  Club.  It  should 
be  a  success.  Upon  its  roll  are  many  men  and 
women  of  bright  minds,  of  wide  and  deep  reading, 
of  progressive  ideas,  and  possessing  in  a  high  degree 
that  polish  of  culture  which  makes  for  much  in  such 
an  organization  as  the  Sequoia  hopes  to  become. 
There  is  no  occasion  for  calling  it  a  salon,  and  there- 
by handicapping  the  club  at  the  outset  by  fixing  a 
standard  that  it  may  not  reach.  But  there  is  no  good 
reason  why  it  may  not  reach  any  standard,  be  it 
never  so  high,  if  high  ideals  guided  by  trained  intelli- 
gence be  its  main  purpose.  The  members  should 
be  first  given  an  opportunity  to  try  themselves  out, 
however,  before  the  arrow  flights  begin.  There  are 
many  men  and  women  in  the  club  who  may  be  some- 
what burdened  by  modesty — unusual  failing  in  these 
days  of  garishness — and  who  may  be  reluctant  to 
bring  their  lights  from  under  their  bushels.  They 
should  be  taken  in  hand  by  those  who  have  gained 
experience  in  discussing  their  views  before  critical 
audiences.  And  the  Sequoia  membership  will  be  criti- 
cal— but  not,  I  hope,  too  critical — for  that  way  dan- 
ger lies.  Danger  to  the  peace  of  the  club,  I  mean, 
and  therefore  to  its  success.  It  might  be  a  good  idea 
to  have  semi-monthly  gatherings,  at  which  would  be 
read  papers  on  interesting  topics,  followed  by  gen- 
eral discussions.  The  topics  could  be  chosen  by  a 
standing  committee  appointed  for  the  purpose  some- 
what along  the  lines  followed  by  the  Commonwealth 
Club,  which  has  standing  committees,  or  "sections," 
as  they  are  termed,  upon  the  various  municipal,  State 
and  economic  questions.  But  at  its  meetings,  the 
Sequoia  must  not  permit  too  much  dust  from  the 
library  shelves,  for  this  same  dust,  laden  with  the 
mummified  germs  of  things  long  ago  forgotten,  is 
apt  to  cover  the  lighter  spirits  with  the  dull  grayness 
of  prosiness.  A  little  learning,  remember,  is  a  dan- 
gerous thing,  but  too  much  learning  sits  heavily  up- 
on the  mind,  and  is  frequently  soporific  in  i;s  effects. 

A  judicious  intermixture  of  comedy  with  tragedy, 
of  opera  bouffe  with  opera  grand,  of  a  light  and  spark- 
ling airiness  with  the  heavy  rumblings  of  the  manipu- 
lators of  the  problems  of  civilization,  an  admiration 
for  the  outer  and  an  appeal  to  the  inner  man — -a  feast 
of  reason  and  a  flow  of  soul — and  there  you  are. 

*  *  * 

They  were  from  the  country,  or  they  might  have 
drifted  out  from  the  Alcazar  without  changing  their 
costumes.  They  stood  hand  in  hand  before  the  music 
stand,  and  with  mouths  agap  listened  to  the  band. 
His  eyes  were  centered  on  the  player  of  the  big  trom- 
bone. He  nudged  the  partner  of  his  surprise  and  of 
his  pleasures. 

"Matilda,"  he  gasped,  "just  look  at  that  feller  in 
the  back  row  on  the  right.  Now,  watch  him !  Watch 
him!  By  Gosh,  did  yer  see  him?  Why,  he  jist  nat- 
cherly  jammed  that  long  tin  tube  down  his  throat, 
and  then  pulled  it  out  again.  There,  he's  done  it 
again.  Well,  if  that  don't  jist  natcherly  beat  enny- 
thing  all  holler." 

*  *  * 

A  new  Colonel  dropped  in  at  the  Presidio  last 
week.  Now,  Colonels  are  some  pumpkins.  This  one 
knew  his  rights.  He  knew  that  no  junior  officer 
has  a  right  to  a  better  house  than  he  could  get.  So 
the  Colonel  looked  around  for  "quarters."  He  liked 
the  home  of  a  certain  Major;  so  he  ordered  the 
Major  to  vacate.  Now,  the  Major  will  bounce  some 
Captain  from  his  own  fireside;  the  Captain  will  fire 


a  First  Lieutenant ;  the  First  Lieutenant  will  evict 
a  Second  Lieutenant,  and  the  poor,  suffering  Second 
Lieutenant  will  go  up  to  the  club  and  drown  his  an- 
ger in  a  high-ball.  Yet  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  wants  to 
know  why  army  men  drink !  Between  you  and  me,  a 
great  deal  of  this  soldiering  business  is  more  like 
"playing  house"  than  anything  else. 

*  *  * 

Private  Vermuelen,  Tenth  U.  S.  Infantry,  is  un- 
dergoing confinement  at  hard  labor  at  the  Presidio 
because  he  used  disrespectful  language  to  his  super- 
ior officer,  Captain  James  V.  Heldt.  The  private  was 
on  guard  when  the  Paymaster  came  around  in  April, 
and  Vermuelen  failed  to  connect.  The  Paymaster 
gave  his  money  to  Captain  Heldt,  and  of  course  it 
was  the  Captain's  duty  to  turn  it  over  to  the  soldier. 
But  Heldt  assumed  the  responsibility  of  settling  the 
private's  account  with  the  post  exchange.  When  the 
private  found  this  out  he  indignantly  stated  that  the 
Captain  had  no  right  to  turn  over  his  pay.  The  pri- 
vate's statement  was  correct,  both  in  law  and  in 
equity,  but  because  he  expressed  it,  is  now  a  prisoner 
In  reviewing  the  courtmartial  proceedings,  the  com- 
manding General  upholds  the  soldier's  view  of  the 
case,  and  says  "the  pay  of  a  soldier  received  from  a 
Paymaster  by  a  company  commander  is  solely  for 
the  purpose  of  delivery  to  the  soldier."  The  Captain 
had  no  authority  to  pay  the  soldier's  debts.  It  ap- 
pears that  the  Captain  "heldt"  the  soldier's  money 
too  fast  and  was  false  to  his  trust.    Will  the  Captain 

be  punished? 

*  *  * 

The  last  of  the  Cogswell  fountains  has  been  disman- 
tled and  piled  in  the  junk  heap.  Vandals  have  torn 
down  Dr.  Cogswell's  leaden  representation  of  B. 
Franklin,  and  a  wondering  public  will  see  it  no  more. 
This  is  the  first  step  in  the  movement  for  the  "city 
beautiful." 

*  *  * 

"Windy  Willy"  Wynn  is  back  from  Washing- 
ton. He  is  now  extending  the  glad  hand,  and  telling 
people  that  he  really  was  in  Congress,  and  occupied 
his  seat  in  the  Lower  House  throughout  the  ses- 
sion.   He  is  .such  a  cute  little  joker! 

*  *  * 

The  school  census  is  not  complete!  Of  course  it 
isn't.  What  do  the  School  Directors  expect,  anyhow? 
Do  they  really  suppose  that  the  able-bodied  census 
marshals  and  marshalesses  are  going  to  work  eight 


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hours  a  day  to  finish  their  measly  old  census  as  long 
as  there  is  money  in  the  funds  to  pay  for  their  ser- 
vices? Last  year  the  Census  Marshal  reported  91,000 
children  of  school  ape  in  San  Francisco.  The 
School  Department  received  from  the  State  $<)  for 
each  child  reported.  This  year  only  a  trifle  over 
71,000  have  been  reported.  Well,  we  are  suffering 
from  "race  suicide."  The  School  1  lirectors  should 
know  that,  and  not  blame  the  hard-working  Census 
Marshal  and  his  army  of  assistants.     They  did  good 

work  at  the  primary. 

*  *  * 

Postmasters  have  received  notices  from  Washing- 
ton, stating  that  hereafter  preference  will  he  shown 
clerks  who  are  married,  and  especially  those  with 
large  families.  Another  step  in  the  same  direction 
has  been  taken  by  the  Board  of  Education  of  New 
York  City,  which  has  repealed  the  rule  providing  that 
teachers  who  marry  shall  be  dismissed.  The  local 
Board  of  Education  has  a  similar  rule.  The  Board 
should  follow  the  New  York  precedent,  and  repeal 
the  rule.  Give  the  teachers  a  chance.  Let  them 
marry  if  they  will,  and  give  choice  position  to  those 
with  the  largest  families.  That  deficiency  of  20,-000 
children  in  the  school  census  must  be  made  up  some 

way. 

*  *  * 

Recorder  Godchaux  has  asked  for  an  increase  of 
$2,500  in  the  appropriation  for  his  department  for  the 
next  fiscal  year.  It  should  not  be  allowed.  The  way 
to  save  that  amount  is  to  decrease  the  rate  of  pay 
for  copyists  from  eight  cents  to  five  cents  a  folio. 
Under  the  charter,  they  cannot  make  more  than  $100 
a  month.  If  an  able-bodied  man,  using  a  typewriter, 
cannot  make  $100  a  month,  working  eight  hours  a 
day,  and  being  paid  at  the  rate  of  five  cents  for  every 
hundred  words  he  copies,  he  is  not  fit  for  the  place. 

*  *  * 

The  Board  of  Lady  Managers  of  the  St.  Louis  Fair 
has  my  sympathy.  It  has  decided  to  collect  and  ex- 
hibit the  pictures  of  400  prominent  women  of  the 
United  States.  The  pictures  must  be  of  "bona  fide 
prominent  women,"  and  the  extent  of  the  prominence 
of  the  candidates  for  fame  must  be  passed  on  by  a 
secret  committee.  Now,  ladies,  here  is  your  oppor- 
tunity. Make  your  nominations  at  once  of  candi- 
dates from  this  city.  Certainly,  San  Francisco  will 
be  represented  amone  this  new  400.  Who  are  our 
prominent  women?  "Bona  fide  prominent,"  you 
know,  whatever  that  may  mean.  Does  it  mean 
prominence  in  church  work,  in  clubdom,  in  literature, 
art,  science  or  the  learned  professions?  Does  it  mean 
prominent  merely  by  reason  of  wealth,  good  looks, 
good  clothes,  and  good  social  position?  Does  it 
mean  prominent  by  reason  of  aiding  in  great  educa- 
tional or  economic  movements?  Does  it  mean  promi- 
nent at  this  time  only,  or  must  the  candidate  have 
been  prominent  for  a  certain  period?  Some,  you 
know,  have  prominence  thrust  upon  them.  Now,  here 
is  a  chance  for  the  Sequoia  Club.  Let  it  look  around, 
and  suggest  names  for  consideration.  And  this  nut 
is  for  the  Sequoias  to  crack.  Other  things  being  equal, 
and  the  choice  to  be  from  two,  would  they  choose  a 
handsome  woman  in  preference  to  one  with  small 
claims  to  physical  beauty,  or  otherwise,  and  why? 

Especially,  why? 

*  *  * 

When  Devlin  and  Depue,  both  red-headed,  were 
Prison  Directors,  an  old  Swede  known  as  Charley, 
who  had  been  in  San  Quentin  twenty  years  or  more, 
came  up  for  parole.  While  his  application  was  un- 
der consideration  by  the  Directors,  a  newspaper- 
man asked  Charley  what  he  thought  of  his  chances. 


"Oh,  I  don't  think  they  let  me  out,"  said  Charley. 
"You  see,  I  am  afraid  of  those  two  red-headed  men. 
You  know,  in  my  country  there  is  a  saying:  'Red 
moss  grows  on  cold  trees;  red  moss  grows  on  rotten 
stumps.'  I  am  afraid  that  red  moss  up  there  at  the 
Directors'  office  grows  on  cold  trees." 

Sure  enough,  Devlin  and  Depue  voted  against  the 
old  convict's  application  for  parole,  and  for  all  I 
know  to  the  contrary,  old  Charley  is  yet  in  San  Quen- 
tin figuring  out  what  his  chances  for  parole  might 
have  been  in   the  absence  of  the  red-headed  Direc- 

tors-  i..M 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Bessie  Blitz  Paxton  ever  had  an  eye  for  dra- 
matic effect.  She  enjoyed  her  propensity  to  the  ut- 
most last  week  when  she  encountered  a  burglar  in 
her  house,  and  talked  him  into  not  only  giving  back 
some  of  her  goods,  which  he  had  stowed  away  in  his 
pockets,  but  forced  him,  under  the  tongue  lashing  she 
administered,  into  an  ignominious  retreat.  Mrs.  Pax- 
ton  was  engaged  with  her  toilet  when  the  burglar  en- 
tered her  dressing  room.  She  was  putting  up  her 
back  hair.  He  was  fascinated.  Like  most  men,  he 
knew  nothing  of  the  mysteries  of  the  art  of  putting 
up  the  female  back  hair,  and  he  stood  and  gazed  and 
wondered.  Before  he  could  recover  his  composure, 
Mrs.   Paxton  turned  and  discovered  him. 

"Sir,"  she  exploded,  with  indignant  expostulation. 
He  shivered.  Then  she  knew  she  had  him,  and  she 
unloaded  upon  him  a  dictionary  of  words  expressive 
of  what  she  thought  of  him.  He  side-stepped,  but 
Mrs.  Paxton  followed  up  her  advantage  and  talked 
some  more.  He  quivered  and  capitulated.  She  made 
him  unload  his  collections,  and  promise  to  be  good. 
Then  she  shook  him  by  the  hand,  gave  him  a  few 
yards  of  kindly  advice,  and  sent  him  on  his  way, 
crushed  and  repentant.  And  Mrs.  Paxton  is  by  no 
means  a  woman  from  whom  the  ordinary  man  would 
run  away.  But  then  a  burglar,  you  know,  is  not  an 
ordinary  man.  Besides  she  took  the  fellow  at  a 
disadvantage,  and  would  not  let  him  get  in  a  word 
edgewise.  To  be  up  to  date  these  days,  no  woman 
should  be  afraid  to  talk  when  the  occasion  demands 
continuous   conversation. 

*  *  * 

Another  of  those  unfortunate  Clarke  boys  has  di- 
rected attention  to  the  fact  that,  after  all,  there  is 
something  in  the  world  beside  riches.  Harold  T. 
Clarke,  of  this  city,  has  committed  suicide  in  Paris, 
after  a  turn  at  the  Monte  Carlo  tables.  No  good 
reason  for  his  action  is  known.  It  is  said  he  may 
have  lost  heavily  at  the  tables,  but  it  is  hardly  pos- 
sible that  his  losses  could  have  been  so  great  as  to 
cause  him  serious  embarrassment.  His  family  is 
very  wealthy,  and  his  mother,  who  is  the  widow  of 
Jeremiah  Clarke,  who  left  a  large  fortune,  is  said 
to  be  in  Paris  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Charlotte 
Wright.  Another  son,  Edward  H.  Clarke,  recently 
gained  unenviable  notoriety  by  marrying  the  woman 
who,  during  the  trial  of  Durrant,  was  known  as  the 
Sweet  Pea  girl.  He  contracted  the  marriage  while 
in  a  condition  of  mental  aberration,  and  his  lawyers 
succeeded  in  having  it  annulled.  Since  then,  I  be- 
lieve, the  lawyers  have  sued  Clarke  for  their  fees. 
Herbert  and  Edward  Clarke  both  believed  in  having 
what  is  called  by  some  people  "a  good  time."  Their 
pleasures  have  caused  them  heavy  penalties. 


Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all  druggists. 


Fine   stationery,    steel    and   copperplate    engraving.    Cooper 

&  Co.,  746  Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'a  ober  no  w»nd  but  pleasure**.— Tom  Moofb 


j  PLEASURE'S  WANDP 


May  14,  1904. 

en 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

ORPttEUM— Madam  alapoflski— Don't  let  the  uanie  scare  you— the  show 
is  good. 

COLUMBIA— "Rogers  Brothers  In  London"— Extravaganza.  Funny 
and  highly  enjoyable. 

T1V0L1— A  Kunaway  Girl— Splendid  work  by  the  chorus  and  a  magni- 
ficent scenic  success. 

ALCAZAR— The  Two  Schools— A  very  even  easy  performance  of  a  clever 
fuuuy  play. 

liRANU— Melbourne  MaePowell— Cleopatra— A  clean,  conscientious 
performance. 

CENTRAL— "The  Three  Musketeers"— Good. 

CHUrUS— Barr  and  Evans  and  Flo  Adler.  Esmeralda  has  a  baby  in  the 
Zoo-    Esmeralda  is  a  monkey. 


Clean  fun  is  the  card  at  the  Orpheum  this  week, 
with  an  interregnum  of  delightful  singing  by  the 
prima  donna,  Mme.  Slapoffski,  who  joys  lovers  of 
music  into  the  realms  of  ecstacy.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
she  is  not  the  most  "wonderful  singer  in  the  world," 
but  she  is  a  singer  worth  going  miles  to  hear.  She  is 
easily  head  and  shoulders  ahead  of  the  average  lot 
of  sopranos  coming  our  way.  One  of  our  local  news- 
papers praised  her  to  the  skies,  while  another  has 
said  "her  voice  is  as  hard  as  nails."  The  last  state- 
ment is  a  lie,  pure  and  simple.  Her  voice  is  very 
sweet  and  sympathetic,  and  she  vocalizes  with  a 
surety  that  is  possessed  by  few.  In  "Scenes  that  are 
Brightest,"  she  showed  a  capacity  in  interpretation 
that  would  have  gladdened  the  cockles  of  the  com- 
poser's heart.  Her  voice  reached  the  farthest 
corners  of  the  auditorium  in  sweet  intensity,  and  in 
Tosti's  "  Good-bye"  she  carried  the  house  by  storm. 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  performing  dogs  to  the  "Canary 
of  Coloratura,"  but  every  dog  must  have  his  day, 
and  Ballerini's  dogs  certainly  have  theirs.  They  show 
an  intelligence  under  training  that  is  equal  to  that 
of  the  human.  The  Gasch  Sisters  are  a  great  duo  in 
feminine  grace  and  strength.  This  is  a  case  when 
extreme  athletic  has  not  coarsened  two  very  pretty 
and  clever  girls.  The  only  poor  number  on  the  Or- 
pheum bill  is  the  team  callecTMidgley  and  Carlisle." 
The  sketch  is  entitled  "Taking  a  Tonic,"  and  the  au- 
dience needs  one  to  brace  up  after  listening  to  the 
inane  drivel. 

*  *  * 

"Two  Schools,"  at  the  Alcazar,  is  put  before  the 
public  in  a  most  agreeable  manner.  It  is  the  story 
of  an  epidemic  of  divorces  in  Paris,  and  there  is  an 
element  of  fun  running  throughout  the  play.  The 
Alcazar  management  has  displayed  an  unusual 
finesse  in  stage  arrangement  and  the  ladies  and  gen- 
tlemen taking  part  are  pleasantly  natural.  The  scene 
at  the  "Restaurant  Prunier"  is  a  good  one,  and  the 
reconciliation  of  the  divorced  couple,  Monsieur  and 
Madame  Maubrun  is  accomplished  by  easy  stages, 
and  the  climax  is  funny,  and  withal,  natural. 

Adele  Block  was  charming  in  the  character  of 
Madame  Maubrun,  and  Frances  Starr  was  a  delight- 
ful piquante  and  pretty  Estelle. 

The  "Le  Hantois"  of  Mr.  Luke  Conness  was  a 
finished  performance,  and  it  delighted  the  very  large 
audiences  all  the  week.  The  rigid,  stern  character 
of  the  pompous,  self-centered  counsellor  was  given 
in  a  way  that  left  little  to  be  desired. 

*  *  * 

"A  Runaway  Girl"  is  running  at  the  Tivoli.  Fer- 
ris Hartman  has  a  clever  conception  of  the  part  of 
the  jockey,  "Flipper,"  and  George  Chapman's  "Guy 
Stanley"  is  above  the  average.  The  "Winifred  Gray" 
of  Dora  de  Fillipe  is  a  part  played  with  lamentable 
limitations.     Nettie   Deglow   does   Dorothy   Stanley 


indifferently  well,  while  Aimee  Leicester  is  positively 
good  as  Mrs.  Creel. 

The  ensemble  and  chorus  work,  the  scenic  and 
lighting  arrangements,  are  perfect,  and  must  certain- 
ly make  us  forget  all  the  shortcomings  of  alleged 
stars.  Some  day  the  Old  Ladies'  Home  and  the  Fat 
Woman's  Retreat  will  be  enriched  by  the  arrival  of 
a  few  entertaining  bits  of  ancient  and  adipose  tissue 
from  the  Eddy-street  house,  and  then  we  may  see 
something  new  and  beautiful,  outside  of  the  chorus 
and  scenery.  Ferris  Hartman  will  be  retired  on  a 
pension  that  will  enable  him  to  live  in  a  small  room 
and  keep  a  French  mirror  in  constant  commission  as 
his  best  audience,  no  reflection  on  himself,  but  of 
himself,  where  the  critics  may  not  roast. 

*  *  * 

Gus  and  Max  Rogers  are  still  delighting  large  au- 
diences at  the  Columbia. 

*  *  * 

Melbourne  MacDowell  and  Ethel  Fuller  are  draw- 
ing fair  houses  at  the  Grand. 

*  *  * 

Ernest  Hastings  is  in  town,  and  he  is  silently  suf- 
fering the  martyrdom  of  playing     in     a  hoo-dooed 

house. 

v  *  * 

At  the  Central,  "The  Three  Musketeers"  are  draw- 
ing big  crowds.  The  Dumas  play  is  always  sure  of 
large  audiences,  and  the  players  at  the  Central  are 
not  a  disappointing  lot. 

*  *  * 

Maud  Adams  is  heading  this  way,  and  she  brings 
a  double  company  for  the  production  of  "The  Pretty 
Sister  of  Jose." 

*  *  * 

Francis  McGinn,  a  San  Franciscan,  is  a  member  of 
the  Sieur  Mansfield's  company.  McGinn  is  a  protege 
of  the  distinguished  gentleman  who  portrays  "Ivan 
the  Terrible,"  and  has  enacted  parts  in  support  of  the 
star  that  he  helped  create  with  Mansfield. 

*  *  * 

Mansfield  brings  a  company  of  106  artists  with 
him  ;  his  music  is  written  and  his  scenery  is  designed 
for  him  specially,  and  the  merest  detail  has  been  con- 
scientiously carried  out  as  to  its  historical  signifi- 
cance. 

*  *  * 

"Colinette,"  adapted  from  the  French  by  Henry 
Guy  Carleton  for  Julia  Marlowe,  finds  its  way  to  the 
Alcazar  next  week.  It  is  an  entirely  new  play.  It 
is  clever  in  construction  and  exceedingly  smooth 
in  dialogue.  Colinette  is  a  character  that  some- 
what resembles  "Madame  Sans  Gene,"  and  it  will  tax 
the  great  versatility  of  that  brilliant  voung  woman, 
Adele  Block. 

*  *  * 

R.  E.  Johnston  has  decided  upon  an  innovation  for 
Ysaye's  tour  next  season.  He  will  engage  a  brilliant 
expert  musical  litterateur  to  travel  one  week  in  ad- 
vance of  the  Ysaye  engagements  to  give  an  explana- 
tory reading  on  Ysaye's  programme.  The  reading 
or  lecture  will  take  place  at  11  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing, and  the  admission  to  the  same  will  be  by  invita- 
tion only.  The  lecturer  will  aim  to  explain  how  the 
various  compositions  should  be  played,  and  how  they 
were  played  by  such  masters  as  Vieuxtemps,  Wieni- 
awski,  Wilhelmj,  and  Joachim,  and  also  Ysaye's  in- 
terpretation of  them. 


May  14.  1904. 

The  new  play,  starting  next  Monday  evening,  at 
the  Central,  is  to  be  "Down  by  the  Sea."  The  play 

is  on  the  order  of  "Hearts  of  Oak"  and  "Shore  Acres." 

»  »  * 

Jean  Marcel,  with  his  living  pictures,  will  be  the 
drawing  card  at  the  Orphcnm  for  the  coming  week, 
and  it  is  s-afe  to  say  that  nothing  nearly  as  good  as 
this  has  ever  before  been  seen  in  San  Francisco,  There 
are  to  be  a  lot  of  additional  attractions,  and  this  is 
promised  a  week  that  will  rival  the  attractions  of  the 
"road  show"  week,"  early  in  the  season. 

*  *  * 

Sardou's  "Empress  Theodora"  will  be  given  at  the 
Grand  the  coming  week,  and  it  is  said  Mr.  Mac- 
Dowell's  company  excels  in  this,  the  most  elaborate 
of  all  the  Sardou  plays.  For  the  Sunday  matinee 
of  May  22d,  "Fedora"  will  be  given. 

*  *  * 

A  Pneumatic  Symphony  Orchestra,  built  especi- 
ally for  the  Chutes,  will  be  the  star  feature  of  the 
programme  at  this  popular  resort  this  coming  week. 
This  wonderful  instrument,  which  cost  $15,000,  rep- 
resents an  orchestra  of  one  hundred  and  forty  eight 
musicians,  and  plays  compositions  ranging  from  the 
ultra-classical  to  the  latest  popular  ditty.  The  volume 
of  sound  which  it  emits  is  something  stupendous. 

*  *  * 

Because  the  News  Letter  goes  to  press  earlier  I 
am  forced  to  defer  an  account  of  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart's 
concert  at  Steinway  Hall  on  Thursday  evening  until 

next  week. 

*  *  * 

On  Friday  evening  occurred  the  Commencement 
Exercises  of  the  California  School  of  Design  at  the 
Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art.  I  will  give  an  ex- 
tended review  of  the  exhibition  and  proceedings  in 
next  week's  News  Letter. 

*  *  * 

The  Tivoli  management  announces  that  because 
of  its  popularity,  "A  Runaway  Girl"  will  be  contin- 
ued for  all  of  next  week. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


The  firm  of  Studebaker  Bros.  Co.,  of  California, 
has  kept  pace  with  the  growth  of  the  city,  and  to-day 
the  establishment  at  Tenth  and  Market  contains  a 
display  of  vehicles  of  which  New  York  might  well 
be  proud.  The  variety  extends  from  the  lordly  Vic- 
toria to  the  chic  Trap,  and  when  this  is  said,  it  means 
a  variety  of  five  hundred  styles,  always  on  display. 
It  is  the  Mecca  of  those  that  understand  the  correct 
in  rigs  and  the  durable  in  make.  The  Studebaker 
Bros.  Co.  are  dealers  in  Carriages,  Harness,  Robes, 
Blankets,  and  Whips;  and  in  connection  with  the 
large  exhibition  and  salesroom,  it  operates  a  com- 
plete repair  shop  in  a  separate  building  on  Tenth 
street. 


SPEND  YOUR  VACATION  AT  DEL  MONTE. 
A  great  many  San  Francisco  people  are  planning 
to  spend  the  entire  summer  at  Hotel  del  Monte.  No 
other  resort  in  California  offers  such  a  combination 
of  attractions — sea-bathing,  golf  links,  automobiling, 
bowling,  tennis,  and  all  out-of-door  sports.  Instead 
of  going  from  place  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the 
wise  ones  of  society  are  planning  already  to  put  in 
several  enjoyable  weeks  down  at  Del  Monte. 

You   can   never  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpels.  It  is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  it.  Go  to  Spaulding's 
Carpet  Cleaning  Company,  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


Alfred  McKinnon,  litterateur  and  general  all-round 
good  fellow,  has  accepted  the  position  of  advertising 
manager  for  A.  P.  rlotaling  &  Co.,  of  San  Francisco. 
His  many  friends  throughout  the  country  will  look 
forward  to  some  clever  work  in  the  interests  of  this 
enterprising  firm. 

See  our  3  months  ahead  ideas  In  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 

C*t>r\Yrr\\    Tr-jo/Tt-ro  Belasco  A  Mayer,  Proprietors 

OKijLfUl     1  lieutr«.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  Bouth  58a 

Beginning  Monday,  May  16 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday 

The  beautiful  romantic  maritime  comedy-drama 

DOWN   BY   THE    SE(\ 

May -23.— The  Great  Temptation. 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  60c.    Matinees  10, 15,  25c- 


Streets 


Tivoli  Opera  House.  Corner EdMLonad 

Only  Matinee  Saturdav. 

Beginning  next  Monday,  night 

Second  week  of  the  famous  musical  comedy 

A     RUNAWAY     GIRL 

A  bright,  merry,  enjoyable  entertainment. 

The  theatrical  sensation  of  the  week. 

Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c    Box  Seats,  Si. 

A  \m  ~7^\  r    Thonlro    —     Belasco  &  Mayer,  Proprietors 
rtiuaz-ai      UltJUtrU    e.  D.  Piuce.  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 
Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday. 
One  week,  commencing  Monday.  Atay  16, 
Henry  Guy  (Jarleton's  comedy  of  French  manners 

COLINETTE 

Julia  Marlowe's  Greatest  success 

"Tne  A'cazar  Company  is  an  aggregation  of  the  most  versatile 

artists  in  the  United  States."— JNews  Letter. 

Evenings  25  to  75e.    Matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday  25  to  50c. 

Monday,  May  23,— First  time  at  the  Alcazar 

e   POSSIBLE   CASE 

Sydney  Rosenfeld's  brilliant  comedy 

Grar)d  Opera  House 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.  "Week  beginning  next  Sunday 
matinee 

MELBOURNE  MacDOWELL 

In  a  magnificent  production  o:  Sardou's 

EMPRESS  THEODORA 

Sunday  matinee.  May  22nd,  Sardou's  "Fedora" 
Popular  prices :    15c,  25c,  60c.  75c. 

Columbia  Tbeatre.  amu" &£.* ^Ma^™. 

Fourteen  appearances 
Beginning  Monday,  May  16 

MR.  RICHflRD  MANSFIELD 

Monday,  May  16,  Saturday,  May  21,  Tuesday,  May  24, 

lVflN,     THE     TERRIBLE 

Tuesday,  May,  1J,  Friday  May  20.  Monday  May  23,  Thursday.  May 
26.  matinee  May  28.  OLD  HE1DELBEU  (i.  \\  tdnesilay  May  18,  A 
BABI&IAN  KOMAM.E.  'J  hurt-da  May  19,  matinee  May  21 
Wednesday  May  26,  BEAU  BltUMMEL;  Fiiday  May  27,  DK. 
JEKYLL  and  MK.  D.YDE.  .  aturday  night  May  28  (farewell) 
a  scene  from  each  of  Ave  plays.  Seats  selliLg  tor  all  appearances. 

Omha'  J  tT\       San  FraDClsco'eGrearpstMuelc  Hall. 

ul  H1  l^^HJ.     O'Farrell  St.,  becweea  Stouklua  auu  Powell  streets. 

Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee.  May  15. 

DIVERTING   VAUDEVILLE 

Marcel's  Living  Art  Studies;  Charles  Deland  and  Company; 
Hume,  Boss  and  Lewis ;  Yung  Ju  Kim  and  Chi  Suke  Oke,  Korean 
Magicians ;  Midgley  and  Carlisle ;  Clara  Balleriui ;  George  H. 
Wood;  Ballerini's  Dogs  and  last  week  of 

MME.   SLflPOFFSKI 

Prices,  10c,  26o  and  60c- 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 


flfter    the  Theater 


Go  where   the  crowd  goes— to 

ZlNrtHiND'8 

Listen    to    the  matchless   string   band   and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,   beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zlnkand   is   society's   gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


18                                                          SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  May  14,  1904. 
BANKING. Efce  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  Understood.  to    fathom      the      mysteries    of 

Japan's  plan  for  the  campaign 

capital,  surpi^and  undivided  jj|  3500,000  in  Manchuria,  but  so  closely  has  it  been  kept  secret 

Homer  s.  King,  President;  f.  l.  Lipman,  Cashier;  Frank  b.  that  only  in  a  general  way  has  it  been  known.  The 

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correspondents  throughout  the  world.    General  Banking  busi-  thur  by  landing:  an  army  in  the  rear  on  Liao-tune 

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remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  operation.     /\S  yet,  not  a  COg  nas  Slipped  nor  a  Wheel 

°,tkme."abJe.J',arJles;  Pay»b'e  ln  San  Francisco,  but  the  respon-  wobbled  in  the  mighty  and  complex  machinery  of  the 

sibility  of  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  ,  ,.   .  . {      ,       ,         .  .     .      J 

ceipt  of  the  money.    The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  war  establishment.    And  what  is  more,  it  is  now  un- 

o?me?S?a'nctehefee.rst  deposlt-    N°  charse  ls  made  £or  pa3s-b00k  derstood  what  Japan  meant  when  it  was  announced 

DeposietsHSe™mbCT  3T19033  P'  m'   Saturday  even,ns8'  ^fo^j  at  the  very  outset  that  "the  war  may  last  four  or  five 

Guarantee  Capital,  Paid-up '""!!!""!"!!!""*!1!1!!!"!!1!   lioooiooo  or  six  years,  but  anticipating  such  an  eventuality,  the 

Reserve  and  ConUngent  Funds   899.516  nat;on    ;g   fu]]y    prepared   for   it,    and    long   before   the 

Mutual   SaVinOS    Bank   of  s.n  F„r,o.,co  f,nd  JaPan  wiU  b«  °n  the  defensive."     At  the  time 

no  Market  street,  opposite  Third.  £"»  was  suPPosed  to  mean  that  Japan  expected  to 

Guarantee   Capital   ji.ooo.ooo  be  driven  pretty  close  to  the  wall,  but  that  after  re- 

james  ^P^^f^e^dintra-aMUOTHTr-^ie-P^S!  sisti»g  Russian  pressure  as  long  as  possible,  Great 

dent;   GEORGE  A  •STORY,    Cashier;   JOHN   A   HOOPER,   Vice-  Britain  and  the  United  States  WOuld  Step  in  and  par- 
President;    C.    B.    HOBSON,   Assistant  Cashier.  ,.    .  .,  ...  •  ,  T 

directors— James  d.  Pheian,  s.  g.  Murphy,  John  a.  Hooper.  ticipate  in  the  struggle,  but  it  transpires  that  Japan 

James    Moflltt.    Frank    J.    Sullivan,    Robert    McElroy,    Rudolph  „.»,.,.  nntViin«r  r,f  tVio  MnH     tVir.„rrV,  ,„oe  „„;>.  _,;ii;„„ 

Spreckels,  James  M.   McDonald,  Charles  Holbrook.  meant  nothing  01  the  kind,  though  was  quite  Willing 

Interest  paid  on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities.  that  such  interpretation  should  be  given   to  it. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,   Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  r  T        ,         .   °         ' 

exchange  on  city  banks.  In  the  light  oi  recent  news 

ThTfiprma  n    qavinn^  *  !  nan   Snri^tv  What  Japan  ReaUy       concerning   Japan's     plans 

1  ne  Uerman    SaVinq^  tt  Loan  society  Meant.  that  was  permitted  to  pass 

no.  626  California  street,  san  francisco.  the  news  censor,  it  becomes 

c^Tltn'iT^iZ  fnTisn  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::*r:SS:S  clear  en°ush  what  was  meant  by  "defensive."  japan 

Deposits,  December  3i,  1903 36.049,491.18  now  commands  the  entire  water  front  of  Korea  and 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— j.  resident,  John   Lloyd;  First   Vice-  Manchuria      thus    nrpvpntino-    pvpn    trip    nnccihilitv   nf 

President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.   Horstmann;  luancnuna,    thus    preventing    even    tne    pOSSlDlllty    01 

ign.  steinharat,  Emii  Rohte,  h.  b.  Russ,  n.  ohiandt,  i.  n.  Wai-  the  Russians  receiving;  supplies  or  reinforcements  bv 

ter  and  J.    W.   Van  Bergen.  .  ~,  ?        KK     ...         .-,         .      .        ,  •', 

Cashier,   A.  H.   R.   Schmidt;   Assistant  Cashier,   William   Herr-  any  water  route.       1  his  Will  Oblige   Russia  to  depend 

MXr;SGeener^yAuoerneSye.  w.u2y6o£S"JSiow.'  Secreta^  A-   H  upon  a  single  track  railway  of  uncertain  construction 

to   fetch   supplies  and   reinforcements  a  distance  of 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association  about  3,000  miles.     It  is   admitted  that   Manchuria 

Established  in  im  of  California.  is  unab,leT  t0  furnisrh  f°od,  supplies  to  meet  more  than 

301  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  cai.  a  small  traction  of  the  demand.     All  who  are  famil- 

pa?dTn'b^aPSar'^!. .::::::::::::. .::::::::::::•;•: mzZZZ  iar  with  the  capacity  of  a  new  railway  to  handle  traf- 

Profit  and  Reserve  Fund  ...       v—i-i 45o.ooo.oo  fie   know   very   well   that   it   would   not  have   many 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum  r      .....        ,    r.    /    .  .         ...  fi  .    .  ,  ' 

on  term  and  6  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  lacilities  lett  to  transport  soldiers  alter  supplying  the 

anDdr-GWa?ra'inMaDage°rdse'  Presldent;  W1"iam  c°rblD'  sectary  demand  for  army  supplies  for  300,000  men  3,000  miles 

International  Banking  Corporation  Thibet  has  committed  the  ex- 

no.  1  wall  street,  new  york.  Rashness  of  the      pected    fatal    political    blunder. 

cap!£!  and  lurp'ius  Authorize T^:""'."" ib'Ko™  Thibetans.  A   little   army   of   her   insanely 

OFFlCERS-Wllliam  L    Moyer,  President;  Charles  D.   Palmer,  fanatical       soldiers       attempted 

Assistant    to    President;    William    B.      Wightman,     Assistant    to  ,      .,  •  ,     .  ,         ,       ,    •  .    .,       t,   /..  ,  r.      . 

President;   John   Hubbard,   Treasurer;   James   H.   Rogers,    Secre-  early  this  week  to  not  Only  drive  OUt  the  British,  but 

tary;  John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun-  t0  teach  them  a  ]esson  on  invasjon  they  would  never 

HfnV-KonHgE|^k^ama,  Ihanghal^lfnga^or'e  °*  M"1C0'   Man"a'  f?rgCt-      ^  S°  haPPened.  however,  that  when  the  bat- 

AGENC1ES— Bombay,   Calcutta,'  Madras,     Penang,     Rangoon  tie   was   over   the    British   were   right   there,  and   the 

B^^i^T^^^iM^^^!SiS!!ik.'^S^^l''^S:  nativc  so'diers  who  had  not  been  killed  or  wounded 

rabaya'saANaFR%tCi°scourBTANCH-32-34  Sansome  st    '  T™  ,r»"ni"g,  >n  the  °ther  direction  as  fast  as  ever 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.     Accounts  of  corpora-  their  legs  COUld  carry  them.      1  he  consequence  of  this 

Uons,  Arms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  fnnlisl-inpcc  will  hp  tliat  pitlipr  tl,P  Cn^riinh,  r.{  Kina 

on  approved  securities.     Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  loonsnness  Will  ne  that  either  tne  Suzerainty  Ot  rving 

Jvaiiabit  inTanveln»w  S?dth»°S?,M0la}  'etter,s  °r  ?redlt  granted,  Edward  of  England  will  be  accepted  as  the  solution 

available  m  any  part  of  the  world.     Interest  bearing  certificates  c    ,,        n~,-,     ."  ,,  ./.  .  ...    . 

of  deposits  Issued   for  fixed  periods.     Interest  allowed  to  banks  Ot    the     1  hlbetan    problem,    or    that    country    Will    be 

accounrtsnwitanlyu^  e*en0£  ftSSShUTlSS  P^ced  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  British  viceroy  of 

'correspondence  invited.  India-     II  may  and  doubtless  will  take  a  little  time 

f.  e.  beck.  Manager.  p.  g!  eastwick,  jr.,  Asst.  Mgr.  to  reach  the  desired  end,  but  the  days  of  Llama  rule, 

c;e>riirit\/   ^nvincrc.    Rnnlr  with    a11   the    Dackward    and   unprogressive    theories 

Security   savings    DanK  o{  Government  which  he  entertains,  are  drawing  very 

222  Montgomery   St.,   Mills   Bulldlne  *ji        j.  i  i  ■    -i-      *_•  .%      .     •       ■ 

interest  paid  on  deposits     loans  made  rapidly  to  a  close,  when   a   civilization   that  is   mi- 

jr^Sf^gra1  FmM^n?eriiey'waa?re?aD:0c1krSk  \  W^:  bued  with  the   spirit  of  progress,  education,  com- 

cutcheon,  r.  h.  Pease,  j.  d.  Grant.  '  merce  and  industry  will  be  seen  and  felt  all  over  the 


May  14,  1904. 

land  of  the  ancient  Aryans  and  the  cradle  of  human- 
kind.   Thibet  for  apes  has  been  the  headquarters  of 

Mahatmas,  "Great  Souls."  t lie  "wise  ones  of  earth," 
and  other  religionists  who,  like  the  lily,  toil  not,  nei- 
ther do  they  spin,  but  whose  followers,  even  here  in 
San  Francisco,  believe  that  when  compared  to  Sol.. 
mon  in  the  item  of  clean-cut  wisdom,  that  wise  old 
Hebrew  King  is  not  in  it  at  all.  Anyway,  the  Thibet 
ans  have  inadvertently  rushed  their  country  out  of  the 
dim  past  and  its  stale  and  unprofitable  superstitions 
into  the  arms  of  modern  thought  and  modern  ways 
of  doing  things.  The  next  generation  of  Thibetans 
will  thank  their  forefathers  for  being  rash  enough 
to  turn  their  guns  against  Anglo-Saxon  push,  energy 
and  progress. 

The  Dowager  Empress  of 
The  Yellow  China     continues     to     throw- 

Dowager  Empress,     dust  into  the  eyes  of  the  Czar, 

and  she  also  continues  to 
keep  an  approving  eye  upon  the  haste  her  Generals 
are  making  in  putting  their  soldiers  in  good  shape 
for  active  service,  and  her  usual  hard  and  cruel  facial 
expression  is  yielding  smiles  for  the  successes  of 
Japan  in  thrashing  the  nation  that  stole  one  of  the 
best  divisions  of  her  empire.  It  is  an  off  day  when 
she  does  not  re-assure  Russia  that  her  nation  is  ab- 
solutely neutral  in  the  matter  of  the  Slav-brown  man 
war,  and  it  is  very  much  of  an  off  day  when  she  fails 
to  urge  her  war  minister  to  run  the  gun  factories  and 
powder  mills  on  an  overtime  schedule  of  labor  hours. 
It  is  no  longer  a  question  of:  "Is  the  Dowager  going 
to  breaK  loose,  but  when  is  she  going  to  break  loose?" 

The  Republic     of     Colombia 

Peace  and  and     the     Republic     of     the 

Friendship  Again.      United   States    have     buried 

the  Panama  hatchet  and  dip- 
lomatic relations  have  been  resumed,  but  the  little 
Central  American  nation  does  not  hesitate  to  say 
that  the  reason  there  is  peace  instead  of  war  is  he- 
cause  the  United  States  has  too  many  men,  guns  and 
warships  for  Colombia  to  tackle  with  any  hope  of 
even  one  little  victory.  For  that  reason  our  com- 
merce and  trade  and  cash  for  investments  are  cordi- 
ally invited  to  enter  all  the  ports  and  cities  and  towns 
of  our  sister  republic. 

Every  European     nation     and    the 

Troubles  all      United     States    continue     to    have 

Around.  trouble  with  some  of  their  outlying 

conquests,  but  nothing  like  a  real 
war  is  reported  from  any  quarter.  The  German  set- 
tlements in  South  Africa  are  having  a  perilous  exis- 
tence because  of  the  hostility  of  the  natives,  who  are 
mostly  little  better  than  savages,  but  savages  though 
they  be,  they  seem  to  be  able  to  understand  that  they 
are,  or  claim  they  are,  not  only  being  cheated  right 
along  in  their  trade  interchange  with  the  German 
population,  but  they  are  gradually  being  driven  back 
into  the  forests  and  jungles,  and  getting  nothing  for 
the  land  they  are  forced  to  abandon.  They  will  be 
better  acquainted,  or,  rather,  their  grandchildren  will 
be  better  acquainted,  with  the  modern  way  of  "be- 
neficently assimilating"  as  the  spirit  of  trade  and 
traffic  marches  on.  Our  Filipino  subjects,  under  the 
Christian  methods  of  General  Wood,  are  glad  they 
are  alive,  and  they  are  believing  more  firmly  than 
ever  in  miracles. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


BANKING. 


Nelson's  Amycose 

Infallible  Remedy  for  Catarrh,  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


"Out  of  the  Beaten  Path,"   Tom  Dillon's  modern  style  hats 
Opposite  Palace. 


Mechanics'  Savings  Bank 

Incorporated  January  21, 1904 

Capital  Stock  paid  up $260,000     . 

President,  Jajies  0'B.  Gunn.  Viee-l'i  evident.  Geo.  1).  Gray 

Nice-President.  Geo.  F.  Lvon.  Cashier.  Frederick  H.  Clark. 

DIRECTORS. 

F.  W.  Dohrniann.  Jr.;  George  D.  Gray;  F.  M.  Greenwood:  James  0'B. 
(lunii;  Marshall  Hale;  G.  W.  Kline;  Geo  F.  Lyon :  Oeorte  M.Mitchell; 
Charles  C  Muoie;  Henry  T.  Scott;  \V.  F.  Williamson. 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bat,k  has  opened  its  doors  for  a  general 
Savings  ami  Loan  business  at  the  b.  "VN .  corner  Montgomery  and  Bush 
Streets.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  May  2nd.  1604. 


The  Son  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  WM,  FIERCE  JOHNSON,  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWG1LL,  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital,    $500,000.     Surplus   and   Undivided   Profits,    $166,000 
DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,   Vlce-Prest.   Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;    Wm.  J.  Dutton,  President  Flremans   Fund 
Ins.    Co.;   H.   E.    Hunttnglon,   First    Vlce-Presluent   S.    P.   R.   R.; 
Geo.  A  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict, 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.   M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;    W.  H.   Talbot,  Capilulist;  H.  D.   Morion,  presi- 
dent VV.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K..   Wilson,  President. 

AGENTS— New    York— Hanover   National   Bank,    chemical    Na- 
tional   Bank.     Boston— National   Shawmut   Bank.     Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.     Chicago — continental  National  Bank.     St.   Louis — 
....     .  ..^. ......  fa      i^anK.      Kansas    City — First      National      ttank. 

London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Pans— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Kobinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,  Limned. 


The  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    UiiiCil-TOKUM'O. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $s,  iuu.ouu.  Reserve   Fund,   $3,000,000 

Aggregate   Resources,   over   $&u,uuu,ooo 
HUN.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Lairu,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LUNDUN  OFFICE— w  Lombard  St.,  E.  U. 
N_W     YORK    OFFiCE— 16   Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMiJiA— AUin,        Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,   Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New     Westminster,     Vancouver    and     Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson  and    White  Horse. 
IN    UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skagway  (Alaska). 
Also    80    other    branches,    covering      the     principal     points     In 
Maultuba,  N.    W.  Territories,  and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS  IN   LONDON— ihe  Bank  01  England,   the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  ot  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,    Ltd. 
AGENTS  IN  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 

Sao.  Franclsoo  Office — 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 


London,  Paris  and  (American  BankLllurt(rt 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed   Capital,   ?2.»uu,ouu.  Paid-up   Capital,   $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  fl.luu.uuo 
Head  Office — 10  rhreadneedie  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris — Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Polssoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits    Issued. 

S1G.  GREkNEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,   Cashier. 

The  ^nglo-Califomian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars.  London,  E.  C. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000         Paid    Up $1,600,000 

Subscribed    $3,000,000       Reserve   Fund    *7uu,ww 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  draits, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  tor  collection,  loans 
money,   buys,  and  sells   exchange  and   bullion. 

1GN.    STE1NHART,    P.    N.    LiLlENTHAL,    Managers. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42   Montgomery    St,    San   Francisco. 

Authorized     Capital     $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve  1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee,  check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  In 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully   selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


Women's  Club  Notes 


Much  of  the  best  work  that  is  being  done  in 
women's  organizations  in  this  city  seldom  comes 
within  range  of  the  lime-light.  Notable  among  the 
organizations  that  scarcely  let  their  right  hands 
know  what  their  left  ones  are  doing  is  the  Women's 
Auxiliary  to  the  Library  and  Reading  Room  for  the 
Blind  that  is  comfortably  snuggled  away  in  the  base- 
ment of  the  Branch  Public  Library  at  the  corner  of 
Fourth  and  Clara  street,  the  building  given  to  the 
city  by  ex-Mayor  James  D.  Phelan.  It  is  now  about 
a  year  and  a  half  ago  since  Mrs.  Josephine  de  Greayer, 
assisted  by  a  few  friends,  brought  the  trustees  of  the 
Fre^  Public  Library  around  to  her  way  of  thinking — 
that  there  should  be  a  reading  room  for  the  unfortu- 
nate blind  of  the  city,  particularly  for  the  younger 
men  and  women  who  found  their  lives  so  barren 
when  they  have  to  go  out  into  the  world  after  they 
are  graduated  from  the  State  Institution  for  the  Deaf 
and  Blind  at  Berkeley — the  paradise  for  afflicted  chil- 
dren. Affliction  in  her  own  family  turned  Mrs.  de 
Greayer's  thoughts  in  this  direction,  and  she  never 
rested  until  she  saw  the  fulfillment  of  her  plan.  While 
in  the  East,  she  visited  all  the  libraries  for  the  blind, 
particularly  the  one  in  the  Congressional  Library 
Building  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  when  she  pre- 
sented the  cause  to  the  local  men  in  power,  she  \\  as 
fortified  with  the  best  of  data.  But  all  that  would 
have  meant  nothing  if  the  Woman's  Auxiliary  were 
not  ready  to  take  up  the  responsibility  of  administra- 
tion and  about  all  the  financial  burden.  How  well 
these  women  have  succeeded  is  attested  by  the  fact 
that  the  library  has  been  carried  on  successfully,  and 
how  the  work  is  to  be  enlarged.  At  a  meeting  held 
a  few  days  ago,  the  women  placed  upon  themselves 
the  added  responsibility  of  conducting  a  State  circu- 
lating library.  They  expect  to  start  books  in  the 
point  and  other  systems  used  by  the  blind,  on  their 
way  to  different  parts  of  the  State  immediately  after 
the  lull  of  the  summer.  There  will  have  to  be  some 
increase  in  the  income  of  the  auxiliary  to  carry  on 
this  work,  but  no  one  doubts,  in  the  light  of  past 
accomplishments,  the  success  of  the  proposed  ven- 
ture. Life  is  going  to  be  brighter  for  some  of  the 
helpless  blind  in  remote  parts  of  the  State  when  the 
next  long  winter  days  come. 
*  *  * 

Men,  for  the  most  part,  are  agreeable  about  their 
wives  belonging  to  clubs,  but  just  now  several  of 
them,  mad  as  disturbed  hornets,  are  declaring  vehe- 
mently that  woman's  place  is  at  home.  They  are  the 
husbands  of  the  women  who  constituted  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Women's  Press  As- 
sociation, and  who  had  the  temerity  to  dismiss  Mrs. 
Marion  Beattie  Foster  from  their  ranks,  claiming 
that  she  had  advocated  her  own  election  as  a  member 
of  the  executive  committee  of  the  International 
League  of  Press  Clubs  to  which  she  went  as  delegate, 
and  Mrs.  M.  H.  Cartwright  because  she  wrote  a 
complimentary  letter  about  Mrs.  Foster  to  a  member 
of  the  nominating  committee.  Of  this  action  these 
complacent  husbands  find  themselves  defendants 
with  their  wives,  in  two  suits  filed  respectively  by 
Mrs.  Foster  and  Mrs.  Cartwright,  each  lady  asking 
for  damages  to  the  amount  of  $100,000.  The  execu- 
tive committee  argued,  but  as  it  now  appears  not  sa- 
gaciously, that  if  it  dismissed  Mrs.  Foster  from  the 

.  Association  she  would  no  longer  be  a  member  of  the 
important     international     body.     Forthwith   official 

'documents  were  sent  East  stating  that  Mrs.  Foster 
no   longer  represented  them.     Beyond  acknowledg- 


ment, no  notice  was  taken  of  the  trouble  in  the  far 
West;  the  international  executive  committee  taking 
the  position  that  Mrs.  Foster  was  elected  for  a 
year,  and  would  retain  her  position  on  the  board  re- 
gardless of  the  Pacific  Coast  Association. 

Just  after  her  suit  was  filed  here,  Mrs.  Foster  went 
East  to  attend  the  April  meeting  of  the  committee 
held  in  New  York.  She  was  most  cordially  received  ; 
no  action  was  taken  in  regard  to  the  contention,  the 
question  receiving  only  informal  consideration.  Mrs. 
Foster  was  shown  all  the  correspondence  between 
the  Pacific  Coast  Press  Association  and  the  executive 
committee. 

Mrs.  Foster  was  chosen  one  of  the  delegates  from 
the  international  Press  League  to  the  convention  of 
press  people  at  St.  Louis,  and  is  at  present  in  the  Ex- 
position city  on  that  mission. 


Many  Beverages 
fire  so  vastly  Improved  by  the  added  richness  imparted  by 
the  use  of  Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk.  The 
Eagle  Brand  Is  prepared  from  the  milk  of  herds  of  well- 
fed,  housed,  groomed  cows  of  native  breeds.  Every  can  is 
tested  and  is  therefore  reliable. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post-St.  Turkish  Bath. 


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CAMPING 


Ubt  tl.e  thing  fur  jour 
uiing— oneoi  our  Pro- 
siston  Boxes  contain- 
ng  the  freshest  staples 
itul  most  appetizing 
lelfcacies.  In  all  sizes 
or  from  1  day  to  a  week. 

*o.t.  -Lunches $.50 

io.  2.— Lunches $1.00 

Jo  3.— Table  Utensils  and  3 
days  provisions  for  one 
man $2.60 

io.  4.—  Table  Utensils  and  6 
days  provisions  for  one 
man $4-20 

We  deliver  to  your 
is  are  st  station  and  pay 
i  lie  freight. 

Smiths'  Cash   Store 

INC. 

IS    Market    St..    S.  F. 

Phone  iin— Ex.  660 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco.  California- 
Local  ion  of  works.  Virginia  Mining  District.  Storey  county.  State  of 
Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the 6th  day  of  May.  904,  an  assessment  (No.  133)  of  ten  (in)  (•cuts 
pit  sbare  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  paynble 
immediately  in  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  Company.  Room  u.  Nevada  Block,  No-  309  Montgomery  street 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall   remain  unpaid  on 
THE  8th  DAY  OP  JUNE.  1904. 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  27th  day  of  June. 
1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  costs  of  advert  is- 
intr,  ami  expenses  of  sale. 

By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

E.  L-  PARKER,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  14.  Nevada  Block.  No-  3u'.t,  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco.  California. 


I 


SPRING      WEDDINGS 

Original,  artistic  designs  in 
FLORAL     DECORATIONS,     MENU     AND    TALLY     CARDS     A    SPECIALTY 

Estimates  cheerfully  furnished 

MISS    CHARLOTTE    F.    WILLIAMS 
121  Post  Street      Room  18.    Tel.  John  1911      San  Francisco 


May  14.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE  SUPREME  BENCH  OF  HAWAII. 

The  appointments  by   the   President   of  Supreme 

ami  Circuit  Justices  in  the  territory  of  Hawaii  still 
hang  in  the  balance.  It  seems  that  a  rather  strong 
clement  is  pulling  for  the  appointment  of  natives  or 
olrl  residents,  the  relicts  of  the  Hawaiian  dynasty 
and  their  white  friends.  A  long  time  ago  .1  mistake 
was  made  when  the  President.  Mr.  McKinlcy,  re-ap- 
pointed Dole  to  office,  and  now  the  Strenuous  Roose- 
velt is  inclined  to  err  the  other  way.  This  question 
is  exciting  great  interest  not  only  in  the  land  of  the 
lantana,  but  all  over  the  United  States  among  the 
students  of  our  colonial   policy. 

Governor  Carter  will  leave  the  Islands  on  the  21st 
of  this  month  to  forward  the  interest  of  his  political 
partv  by  personal  suasion  with  the  President. 

This  is  one  of  the  gravest  questions  that  has  ever 
been  faced  by  the  administration,  and  we  sincerely 
hope,  for  the  benefit  of  Hawaii  and  the  American 
residents  thereof,  that  the  President  will  weigh  the 
matter  well  before  making  his  appointments.  Gov- 
ernor George  R.  Carter  has  shown  himself  an  uncom- 
promising and  bitter  enemy  of  the  Dole  administra- 
tion, and  while  we  contend  that  the  second  appoint- 
ment of  Mr.  Dole  was  a  mistake,  we  again  assert  that 
the  President  may  easily  err  in  the  other  direction. 

Governor  Carter  has  lost  no  opportunity  to  criti- 
cise the  Dole  administration,  and  has  given  love  po- 
tions to  the  natives  and  to  the  Home  Rulers  generally. 
He  absolutely  governed  both  branches  of  the  Legis- 
lature, which  recently  adjourned.  It  is  understood 
that  he  is  to  name  all  the  judges.  He  thus  becomes 
the  autocrat  of  the  islands.  He  was  born  in  Hawaii, 
and  has  repeatedly  alluded  to  that  fact  and  announced 
his  co-operation  with  the  natives  and  with  the  old 
residents. 

It  seems  that  Americans  from  the  mainland  have 
no  business  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  unless  they  are 
prepared  to  renounce  the  ideas  in  which  they  have 
been  educated,  to  accept  a  rule  that  has  been  per- 
petuated for  generations,  and  to  submit  to  the  ab- 
solute dominance  of  a  class  that  revels  in  isolation  and 
selfish  accumulation.  There  are  men  there  who  un- 
derstand American  institutions,  but  they  are  either 
barred  out  or  driven  away,  or  they  are  compelled 
virtually  to  sacrifice  their  nationality.  The  local  ad- 
ministration rows  steadily  towards  absolutism,  and 
vociferous  complaints,  which  are  constantly  in  the 
air,  rarely  or  ever  reach  Washington. 

Lawyers  who  have  been  long  in  practice  in  the  ter- 
ritory, and  whose  endorsement  for  the  Supreme 
Bench  by  Governor  Carter  is  expected,  will  supply 
an  unprecedented  illustration  of  litigants  appointing 
their  own  attorneys  to  the  seat  of  final  judgment. 

The  situation  in  Hawaii  is  unique.  Business  is 
dull  in  the  extreme.  Many  Americans  are  leaving, 
and  few  are  replacing  them.  The  Japanese  and  Chi- 
nese form  two-thirds  of  the  population,  and  they  are 
in  the  banks,  the  business  houses,  and  the  retail  stores 
as  well  as  in  mechanical  and  menial  employment. 
"Hard  times"  is  the  general  cry,  and  there  seems  no 
prospect  of  relief  through  Americanization,  unless  the 
Washington  administration  should  determine  to  in- 
vestigate facts  and  act  independently  of  local  influ- 
ences or  special  representatives  and  self-seekers  at 
the  National  Capital. 

■ One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  on  Sutter  street  for  a 

Koort  luncheon.  There  is  nothing  In  town  that  can  compare 
with  this  place  as  a  place  of  rest  anrl  refreshment  after 
the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always  ready  to  deliver 
ice-cream  and  pastry — always  the  best,  and  their  prompt- 
ness can  be  depended  upon. 


S0Z0D0NT 

BETTER  THAN  SOLD 

for  tho  teeth.  It  prevents  decay.  It 
hardens  tho  gums  and  purities  the 
breath  and  mouth. 

SAVES -TEETH 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 


It  is  often  desirable  to  have 
FURNITURE  made  from 
SPECIAL  DESIGNS. 
We  have  manufactured  fur- 
niture in  OUR  OWN  FAC- 
TORY for  many  years,  and 
are  prepared  to  execute  the 
simplest  as  well  as  the  most 
elaborate  work. 
Designs  and  estimates  fur- 
nished. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    ®    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


TELEPHONE    SOUTH    760 

Gilbert  f®.   StoU 

STORAGE 

FOR  PARTICULAR  PEOPLE 

STORAGE,     PACKING     and     SHIPPING 

OFFICE: 
ROOM    84,    MURPHY    BUILDING.    1236  MARKET  ST. 

"WAREHOUSE: 
GOLDtN  GATE  <&  VAN  NESS  AVES.,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


Stockholders'   Meeting. 

Pursuant  to  an  order  made  by  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Overland 
Monthly  Company,  a  corporation  at  a  meeting  thereof  held  this  day, 
a  meeting  of  the  stock-holders  of  said  corporation  has  been  called  for 
the  purpose  of  increasing  the  capital  stock  of  said  corporation  to  the 
sum  of  Five  Hundred  Thousand  (S500.000.00)  Dollars.  Said  meeting  will 
be  held  on  the  eighth  day  of  July,  1904  at  the  hour  of  3  o'clock,  p.  m.  at 
the  office  of  said  corporation,  to  wit:  Boom  number  11  of  the  building 
known  as  320  Sansome  Street,  in  the  city  and  County  of  San  Francisco 
State  of  California. 

C.  WILLEMS 
Secretary  of  the  Overland  Monthly  Company,  a  Corporation 
April  29th.  1904. 


W.  A.  Plummer 

Importer  and  Manufacturer  of 

TENTS.     AWNINGS.     HAMMOCKS 

111    CLAY    STREET,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 
Telephone  Main  549 


SAMUEL    M.    SHORTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law, 

Crocker  Building    San  Francisco. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


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n     •  rfjf    OCA  Sample  Machines 

rriC6    «pl,03U.        on  Exhibition. 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.  ,331  c™™M£TREet 


WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced  BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS 

ALSO 

Ra.tnblers,  Northerns,    Frank- 
lins, Oldsmobiles 

WITH 

LANTERNS,    RUGS,    CAPS    &    SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

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ANDREWS,  KEENAN  &  BLASAUF 

EXPERT  REPAIRS,  AMERICAN  a  FRENCH  AUTOMOBILES 

81  CITY  HALL  AVE. 
Tel.  South  1039  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

1904  Model 

Best     Automobile     at 
any  price 

$475   ■■■IHH 

VTill  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding— Reliable— Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at— SVNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


Bt   Ths   Autocrahk 

The  Race  Committee  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California  is  a  little  slow  in  getting  out  its  pro- 
gramme for  the  meet  which  takes  place  on  June  3d 
and  4th.  The  committee  should  remember  that  the 
public  wants  to  know  all  about  what  is  going  to  hap- 
pen, and  it  cannot  give  too  much  publicity  to  the 
event. 

But,  just  the  same,  almost  all  the  space  is  spoken 
for  in  the  show  section,  and  that  part  of  the  event 
will  undoubtedly  be  a  great  success. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  events  which  has  been 

■programmed  at  the  suggestion  of  the  News   Letter 

will  be  the  contest  between  cars  built  in  California. 

The  Commercial  Motor  Car  and  Boat  Company 
has  a  car  ready,  as  also  has  F.  D.  Spaulding.  There 
will  also  be  California-built  cars  entered  from  Los 
Angeles. 

*  *  * 

To  enable  one  to  quickly  find  an  automobile's  speed 
in  miles  per  hour  from  the  time  per  mile,  the  Ameri- 
can Darracq  Automobile  Company  has  prepared  a 
clever  table  which  is  distributed  gratis.  The  well- 
arranged  card  is  the  work  of  E.  D.  Winans,  the  com- 
pany's advertising  manager,  who  has  copyrighted  it. 
It  consists  of  columns  of  times  and  miles,  and  by  fol- 
lowing right-angle  columns  to  the  intersection,  the 
equivalent  in  miles  per  hour  is  found.  Copies  can 
be  bad  for  the  asking. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  John  Breuner  enjoyed  himself  and  entertained 
a  party  of  friends  on  Sunday  by  riding  through  the 
Park  and  Presidio  in  his  new  1904  Winton  touring 
car. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Horace  Morgan  recently  purchased  a  two- 
cylinder  Arrow.  Mr.  Morgan  made  a  careful  exam- 
ination of  the  automobile  field  and  decided  in  favor 
of  the  Arrow  on  account  of  its  speed,  weight  and  hill- 
climbing  power. 

*  *  * 

Among  the  sales  made  of  White  touring  cars  last 
week  are  cars  to  the  Letcher  Automobile  Co.,  of  San 
Jose;  Winfield  S.  Davis,  of  the  insurance  firm  of  J. 
B.  F.  Davis  &  Son,  San  Francisco ;  A.  W.  Clark,  of 
Fresno. 

*  *  * 

Last  Sunday,  Mr.  Max  Schwabacher  and  party 
went  to  San  Jose  in  a  Winton  touring  car,  and  re- 
turned by  way  of  Burlingame.     They  report  having 

had  a  very  enjoyable  trip. 

*  *  * 

Charles  A.  Madill.  a  St.  Louis  capitalist,  who  is 
spending  a  vacation  in  California,  has  just  purchased 
a  White  car  for  touring  the  State ;  he  is  making  his 
headquarters   at   San   Francisco,   and   expects  to  go 

on  some  long  trips  shortlv. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  L.  G.  Rowell,  of  this  city,  last  week  purchased 
another  1904  Winton  touring  car  from  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  Company,  which  makes  the  third  machine 
of  this  type  purchased  by  Mr.  Rowell  this  season 
from  the  Pioneer  people. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  J.  A.  Marsh,  president  of  the  Mobile  Carriage 
Company,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  a  party  of 


May  14,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


friends,  made  a  trip  to  Woodland  Saturday,  return- 
ing Tuesday.  They  had  a  very  enjoyable  onting, 
without  delay  or  incident. 

*  •  * 

Mr.  E.  W.  Hopkins,  who  has  been  using  his  elec- 
tric tonneau  for  eighteen  months,  drove  it  t<>  Menlo 
from  San  Francisco  last  week  without  a  hitch,  which 
proves  it  to  be  in  splendid  condition. 

*  *  * 

F.  W.  Wiggins,  a  White  dealer  at  Salem,  ( >regon. 
sent  a  carload  to  John  B.  Kelly,  of  Portland.  ( )regon. 
This  makes  two  carloads  now  en  route  to  Mr.  Kelly. 
who  is  doing  a  rushing  business  in  this  popular  car 

at  Portland. 

*  *  * 

The  record  time  between  San  Jose  and  Oakland 
was  made  yesterday  by  Colonel  H.  T.  Lally  in  his 
new  Winton  touring  car.  The  time  made  was  I  :i8. 
Previous  record  was  1  :20,  and  was  also  held  by  a 
Winton  Touring  Car. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  W.  Wilson  in  his  White  touring  car,  and 
Mr.  John  H.  Spring  in  his  White  car,  ran  down  to 
San  Jose  last  Saturday  afternoon  and  toured  around 
San  Jose  Sunday. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  is  very  much 
elated  over  the  fact  that  their  sample  of  the  Olds- 
mobile  light  tonneau  touring  car  was  shipped  from 
the  factory  by  express,  and  is  due  to  arrive  in  San 
Francisco.  They  have  already  secured  a  large  num- 
ber of  orders  for  these  machines,  and  prospective 
buyers  are  anxiously  awaiting  the  arrival  of  the  sam- 
ple machine. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Meade,  proprietor  of  the  Byron  Hot  Springs, 
accompanied  by  his  manager,  Mr.  Warren,  made 
a  trip  in  the  Pierce  Arrow  to  Byron  Hot  Springs  on 
Saturday,  returning  Sunday.  This  trip  was  really  one 
of  inspection,  as  the  hotel  management  desires  to 
establish  an  automobile  route  for  San  Francisco  au- 
tomobilists.  The  distance  is  seventy-five  miles  from 
Oakland  by  way  of  Livermore;  the  roads  are  level, 
the  scenery  interesting,  and  the  hotel  service  at  the 
Springs  is  the  best.     This  new  route  will  provide 

additional  facilities  for  enthusiastic  automobilists. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Gardiner  of  the  White  Sewing  Machine  Com- 
pany was  in  San  Jose  last  Saturday,  and  Los  Gatos 
on  Sunday. 

*  *  * 

The  following  letter  has  been  received  by  the  Lo- 
comobile Company  of  America: 

"Mr.  J.  A.  Kingman,  Locomobile  Company  of 
America,  Bridgeport,  Conn. — In  response  to  your  in- 
quiry as  to  the  mileage  of  my  car  up  to  date,  I  would 
state  that,  after  a  careful  estimate  based  upon  a  record 
I  keep  of  my. daily  runs,  that  my  car  has  made,  since 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE.    CAL 

NEW  AUTOMOBILE  GARAGE 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


the  -!2d  of  January,   1903,   13,950  miles;  that  out  of 
the  434  days,  the  car  has  run  every  single  day  with 


WARNING! 

The  following  Manufacturers  and  Importers 
are  licensed  under  the  pioneer  patent  Num- 
ber 549,160,  granted  to  George  B.  Selden, 
dated  November  5th,  1895  on 

Gasolene  Automobiles 


In  view  of  their  license  agreement  they  and  their  agents  will 
not  sell,  keep  on  hand  or  in  any  manner  dispose  of  or  deal 
in  directly  or  indirectly  any  unlicensed  new  or  second-hand 
gasolene  vehicles,  infringing  said  Selden  patent. 

MANUFCTURERS: 


Electric  Vehicle  Co. 
Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 
Packard  Motor  Car  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 
Knox  Automobile  Co. 
The  Haynes-Apperson  Co. 
The  Autocar  Co. 
The  George  N.  Pierce  Co. 
Apperson  Bros.  Automobile  Co. 
Locomobile  Co.  of  America 
The  Peerless  Motor  Car  Co. 
Standard  Motor  Construction 

Co. 
Waltham  Manufacturing  Co. 
J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 


H.  H.  Franklin  Mfg.  Co, 


Pope  Motor  Car  Co. 
Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
The  Commercial  Motor  Co. 
Berg  Automobile  Co. 
Cadillac  Automobile  Co. 
Northern  Mfg.  Co. 
Pope-Robinson  Co. 
The  Kirk  Mfg.  Co. 
Elmore  Mfg.  Co. 
E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
Buffalo  Gasolene  Motor  Co. 
The  F    B.  Stearns  Co. 
Pope  Manufacturing  Co. 
Sandusky  Automobile  Co. 
Crest  Manufacturing  Co. 


IMPORTERS: 


Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
Central  Automobile  Co. 
Alexander  Fisher 
Hollander  &  Tangeman 


Standard  Automobile  Co. 

E.  B.  Gallaher 
Auto  Import  Co. 

F.  A.  LaRoche  Co. 


Sidney  B.  Bowman  Automobile  Co. 

Both  the  basic  Selden  patent  and  more  than  400  other  patents 
owned  by  members  of  this  Association  will  be  enforced  against 
infringers.  Manufacturers,  Importers,  Dealers  and  Agents, 
also  Users  of  unlicensed  machines  are  liable. 


Association  of  Licensed  Automobile  Mfrs. 

No.  7  East  42d  Street,  New  York 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSBN  &  CO..  13-15-17  W.  St.  John  St..  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile,  Oldsmoblle,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

P.  L.  CRANDALL,  Automobile  Supplies,  Repairing,  etc.,  124 
University  Avenue,   Palo  Alto.   Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


the  exception  of  23  days,  scattered  throughout  the 
oeriod ;  that  on  every  run,  with  the  exception  of  two 
(one  caused  by  a  frozen  radiator,  the  other  by  a  shoe 
exploding  on  a  rear  wheel),  the  car  has  made  the  trip 
for  which  it  set  out,  and  returned  home  under  its 
own   motive  power. 

"Very  truly  yours, 

ROBERT  L.  MORRELL." 

*  *  * 

H.  P.  Teichner  of  the  White  Company  ran  down  to 
San  Jose  last  Friday,  and  spent  Saturday  and  Sunday 
at  that  point. 

Among  recent  Los  Angeles  purchasers  of  White 
touring  cars  are  the  following:  W.  H.  Thayer,  S.  V. 
Riley,  H.  E.  Huntington,  G.  B.  Easton,  Major  Rus- 
sell. 

*  *  * 

A  party  of  enthusiastic  Winton  automobilists  made 
a  trip  to  Haywards  on  Sunday,  where  they  stopped 
for  luncheon,  and  afterwards  drove  through  other 
adjacent  towns.  Among  those  in  the  party  were  .Mr. 
and  Mrs.  W.  F.  Hunt,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Hazlctt, 
Mr.  H.  H.  Burris,  Miss  S.  P.  Little,  Miss  E.  B.  Red- 
man, Mr.  C.  Leatham,  Mr.  C.  B.  Grenfell,  Mr.  C.  C. 
Eib,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Cornell. 

*  *  * 

The  Letcher  Automobile  Company  of  San  Jose  has 
taken  the  agency  for  the  White  touring  car  in  Santa 
Clara  County,  and  this  will  be  the  only  touring  car 
the  company  will  handle.  The  White  Company  is 
very  well  satisfied  with  this  deal,  as  Mr.  Letcher  is 
a  most  aggressive  man,  and  has  a  fine  garage  in  San 
Jose;  Mr.  Letcher  is  satisfied,  as  the  White  Carriage 
has  never  been  handled  successfully  in  San  Jose.  He  ■ 
knows  its  possibilities,  and  knows  there  are  a  great 
many  to  be  sold  there. 

*  *  * 

The  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose,  has  issued  a  map 
of  Santa  Clara  County,  showing  the  roads  of  the 
county  on  which  automobilists  may  travel.  There 
is  a  free  garage  on  the  hotel  grounds.  All  visitors  to 
San  Jose  should  call  at  the  hotel  and  procure  a  o>pv 
of  this  map. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  merry  row  at  Los  Angeles.  The  two 
clubs  in  that  section  cannot  agree.  The  Automobile 
Club  of  Southern  California  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Automobile  Club  are  at  outs.  The  latter  club  is 
said  to  be  a  trade  organization,  and  the  auto-owners, 
who  are  members  of  the  other  club,  think  they  should 
keep  out  of  the  "meet"  business  except  to  take  part 
in   the   races. 

The  outcome  of  the  trouble  so  far  is  that  Frank 
A.  Garbutt,  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  racing  men 
in  the  South,  and  a  member  of  the  Race  Committee 
of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California,  has 
resigned. 

It  is  reported  from  the  South  that  some  of  the 
members  of  the  L.  A.  A.  C.  claim  that  the  A.  C.  S.  C. 
is  trying  to  reap  all  the  revenue  there  is  in  automo- 
biling  in  Southern  California,  while  the  Automobile 
Club  ox  Southern  California  asserts  it  is  making  noth- 
ing  o   t   of   it,   except    the   indirect   benefit   accruing 


Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust. 

Cause  Eye  Strain,  Granulation  and  Redne9s.  Murine  Eye  Rem- 
edy restores,  cures  Eye  diseases,  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those 
wearing  glasses:   doesn't  smart.     A  favorite   toilet  requisite. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  $7.50  per  ton:  half-ton  $4:  quarter  ton  $2.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co..  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive   prompt  attention. 


PIERCE 

STANHOPE 

Price    $1,350    Without    Top 
SI. 450  With  Too 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans*  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  Is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  in  outline 
and  beautiful   In  general  finish. 

5.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Kun,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  Preach           •           •  $2,650.00 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F. 


W.  J.  FREEL1NQ 


P.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Flench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 


A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MB.0  J.  OILLETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Capp  666 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO 

DOWN  TOWN  GARAGE  AND  REPAIR  SHOP 
EXPERT  MECHANICS  IN  CHARGE 

MANUFACTURERS  OF  THE 

COMMERCIAL  TOURING  CARS,  RUNABOUTS,  DELIVERY  CARS 
AND  HOTEL  COACHES 

The  lightest  and    highest  powered  Marine  Motors  in  California 

128-130    FREMONT    STREET.     S.    F. 


PHOJtPT    SERVICE 

(Sputurrt  Elrrtrir  (Sumpang 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and   Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BVSH  352 


May  14,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*5 


from  improving  the  roads  in  this  section.  To  this. 
some  of  the  L.  A.  A.  C.  say  the  improvements  her- 
alded in  the  papers  at  great  length,  notably  on  the 
l>cl  Key  and  Long  Beach  roads,  have  not  material- 
ized. The  larger  organization  says  that  rights  "t 
way  troubles  on  the  Del  Rev  road  have  prevented 
the  starting  of  work  thereon,  and  also  points  to  some 
of  the  country  roads,  which  it  has  been  instrumental 
in  having  repaired. 

The  outcome  of  all  the  trouble  in  the  South  is  that 
the  dealers  have  been  circulating  an  agreement  to 
stay  out  of  any  automobile  race  meeting,  which  the 
Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California  may  en- 
deavor to  pull  off. 

This  looks  like  the  South  cannot  stand  success. 
tor  when  the  different  schemes  were  started  it  gave 
the  sport  a  great  boom. 

Let  the  trouble  in  the  South  be  a  warning  to  the 
local  men  and  everybody  work  hand  in  hand  for 
San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  has  received 
a  letter  from  the  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Company 
giving  an  interview  with  Carney  Oldfield  by  a  repre- 
sentative of  one  of  the  New  York  papers,  which  is  as 
follows,  viz. : 

"I  long  ago  declared  that  it  is  my  ambition  to  com- 
pete in  the  Gordon-Bennett  Cup  race,  which  will  be 
run  in  Germany  during  the  coming  June.  This  is 
the  world's  great  automobile  derby,  and  in  this  big 
international  event  all  the  real  famous  drivers  are 
pitted  against  each  other.  When  Mr.  Winton  de- 
cided not  to  enter  a  car  in  the  cup  race  this  year,  I  was 
keenly  disappointed,  because  I  felt  that  the  Winton 
Bullet  and  I  would  make  a  winning  combination, 
and  since  I  was  under  contract  to  Mr.  Winton,  I 
could  not  hope  to  compete  except  on  a  Winton  car. 
Consequently,  when  I  was  released  from  my  con- 
tract with  Mr.  Winton,  a  few  days  ago,  I  immediately 
set  about  to  look  over  the  Gordon-Bennett  cars  that 
were  being  manufactured  in  this  country,  and  took 
under  advisement  the  various  contracts  which  have 
been  offered  me  by  their  makers.  While  I  was  con- 
sidering several  real  flattering  propositions,  I  learned 
that,  through  a  fortunate  circumstance,  the  Winton 
Bullet  would  after  all  be  entered  as  an  American 
competitor  in  the  international  race  provided  the 
committee  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  America  would 
accept  it.  I  have  spent  a  good  deal  of  time  in  the  sad- 
dle of  the  Winton  Bullet  the  past  summer,  and  thor- 
oughly appreciate  the  possibilities  of  the  car.  Be- 
lieving that  the  Automobile  Club  of  America's  com- 
mittee would  not  disregard  this  proffered  entry  of 
the  Bullet,  I  returned  to  Cleveland,  and  solicited  the 
privilege  of  driving  this  car.  The  result  is  my  re- 
instatement with  the  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Com- 
pany as  driver  of  Bullet  No.  2.  f  am  thoroughly 
happy  as  a  result,  and  expect  to  make  a  great  show- 
ing if  permitted  to  drive  in  the  Gordon-Bennett 
race.  I  expect  to  make  this  good  showing,  not  alone 
because  I  have  confidence  in  my  own  ability,  but  be- 
cause I  appreciate  that  this  Winton  car  is  the  fast- 
est, safest  and  most  perfectly  constructed  racing  car 
on  earth." 


Dr.  Decker. 


Dentist,  806  Market.     Specialty  "Colton  Gas"  for  painless  teeth 
extracting. 


High-grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to  measure.    Tom  Dillon  & 
Co.,  opp.  Palace. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WINTON/sKING 
Long  Jive  the J 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
'are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


LOCOMOTOR  ATAXIA  and  PARALYilS 

POSITIVELY    CURED 

REFERENCES   FURNISHED   TO   THOSE   WHO   ARE 
AFFECTED  AND  WANT  TO  INVESTIGATE. 

BRYN    MAWR    SANITARIUM 

127  NEW    MONTGOMERY    STREET 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


HJUL'S  Montgomery-street  Coffee  House  has  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  its  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast,  lunch  and  coffee 
rooms  in  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  quicker  service. 


Mme.    GEORGETTE 

GODON 

LADIES'  HAT  IMPOETEB 

REMODELING 

Suite  520-521 

STARR  KINO  BUILDING 

121  Geary  St. 

Perfect  Fitting 
French   Nodes 
«.nd  Adaptations 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  "Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup" 

for  your  children  while  teething. 


NOTICE  TO  HORSE  OWNERS 

JEPSON  BROS.  COMPANY,  Inc.,  makers  of  fine  har- 
ness and  Importers  of  English  Saddlery,  will  now  be 
found  at  110-112  MARKET  STREET,  where  you  will 
find  the  finest  and  largest  stock  of  everything  for  the 
horse,  show-ring  and  stock-farm.    Telephone  Bush  651. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


\  ^Rnr 


INSURANCE 


The  Pacific  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters  has  up  to 
the  present  writing  dominated  on  the  Coast.  There 
has  been  many  an  underwriter  that  would  have  been 
pleased  to  buck  the  Board.  A  sort  of  Sancho  Panza 
windmill  affair  on  their  part,  and  the  bravest  heart 
of  the  boldest  broker  quailed  at  the  thought  of  a 
fight. 

There  was  and  is  the  non-intercourse  rule,  and  that 
in  itself  is  enough  to  deter  the  bold  broker. 

Another  Richmond  has,  however,  come  into  the 
field,  and  that  Richmond  is  the  organization  of  two 
firms.  , 

The  conditions  just  now  are  peculiar  and  so  are 
the  firms  in  question;  each  one  boasts  of  a  General 
Agency.  One  of  a  fire  insurance  company  and  the 
other  of  a  plate-glass  company. 

These  two  firms  are  bidding  for  business  and  are 
getting  rates  or  no  rates,  and  the  fact  of  their  exist- 
ence is  more  than  a  menace  to  the  Stillman  peace  of 
the  Pacific  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters. 
*  *  * 

The  P.  M.  Nippert  Company  and  the  Boole-Sloaric 
Company  are  simply  the  coalescence  of  a  lot  of 
brokers,  and  inferentially  it  is  safe  to  say  these 
brokers  carry  their  own  business  in  their  own  pock- 
ets. These  firms  have  the  ability  to  place  their 
business  where  they  please,  and  herein  lies  the  men- 
ace to  the  Stillmanesque  pact  of  peace. 

There  is  at  the  present  time  an  unlimited  carrying 
capacity  amongst  the  non-boarders,  and  the  recent 
acquisition  by  Stovel  ot  the  Girard  simply  serves  to 
make  the  outsiders  stronger. 

The  regulars  view  with  alarm  the  concentration 
of  power,  and  the  brokers  are  now,  alas,  in  a  position 
to  dictate. 

Boole,  Nippert,  Potter,  Wellington,  Sloane  and  one 
or  two  others  outside  are  not  alone  ready,  but  anx- 
ious, to  dictate. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  recent  moves  in  this  line 
or  two  others  outside  are  not  only  ready,  but  anx- 
presage  a  rate  war,  but  the  weather  prophet  says 
there  is  a  "high  low"  in  this  section,  and  it  is  pre- 
dicted that  there  will  be  a  warm  spell. 

The  non-boarders  disclaim  any  idea  of  this  sort ; 
they  don't  want,  and  can't  afford,  a  rate  war,  but 
they  say  in  the  same  breath  that  they  are  ready  for 
it  if  it  comes. 

No  specific  charge  can  be  or  is  brought  against 
Mr.  Stillman,  except  that  he  is  the  tool  of  the  big 
four. 

No  one  knows  who  the  big  four  is,  but  it  is  an  open 
secret  on  the  street  that  the  pact  between  the  non- 
boarders  is  in  effect,  ana  the  result  if  they  take  the 
initiative  is,  as  aforesaid,  a  hot  time. 

These  brokerage  firms,  combinations,  coupled  with 
able  underwriters  like  Turner  of  the  Northwestern. 
Bromwell  of  the  Milwaukee  Mechanics',  Ward  of 
the  German,  to  say  nothing  of  the  Stovels,  Potters 
and  Germania  agencies,  are  factors  in  the  war  or 
in  the  continuance  of  peace. 

Outside  of  those  mentioned,  the  anti-Stillman  fac- 
tion can  count  on  the  support  of  the  Continental  and 
the  Home  of  New  York.  The  Traders  will  fall  in 
line,  and  the  McNear  agency  may  be  trusted  to  follow 
suit. 

If  these  premises  be  correct,  there  is  a  "high  low" 
and  it  is  due  in  this  burgh  now. 

The  fight,  if  it  comes,  will  be  a  fight  to  a  finish, 
and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  all  the  profits  of  coast  under- 


writing will  go  down  the  line  and  carry  with  them 
the  scalps  of  Stillman,  et  al.,  as  well  as  the  position 
of  a  manager  or  two. 

Whilst  California  has  uniformly  shown  a  profit  in 
fire  insurance  circles,  and  at  the  same  time  not  too 
big  a  profit,  it  is  regrettable  that  the  compact  is 
dominated  by  an  incompetent,  and  that  the  regulars 
are  handicapped  by  his  actions,  and  that  the  non- 
boarders  are  alive  to  their  opportunity  and  taking 
advantage  of  it. 

The  rate  war  is  coming,  or  there  is  going  to  be  a 
change  in  the  management  ot  the  P.  I.  U. 

In  the  voice  of  the  people  is  heard  the  murmurs  of 
discontent  and  the  cry  for  a  Du  Val  again,  if  noth- 
ing worse  can  be  found. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Sloane,  of  the  Boole-Sloane  agency,  is  in 
Washington. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Hall  of  the  Thuringia  is  taking  a  vacation. 

*  *  * 

The  citizens  of  St.  Louis,  not  content  with  the  fair, 
are  now  busy  organizing  a  new  fire  insurance  com- 
pany. The  proposed  capital  of  the  company  is  half 
a  million,  and  the  incorporators,  who  are  prominent 
business  and  professional  men  of  St.  Louis,  are  as  fol- 
lows :  R.  N.  LeCron,  James  D.  Morris,  Thomas  C. 
Hennings,  Dwight  D.  Currie,  Paul  P.  Prosser,  Glendy 
B.  Arnold,  B.  C.  Anderson,  F.  A.  Chopin,  William  R. 
J.  Scullin,  Edward  P.  Fitzwilliam,  W.  C.  Connett,  A. 
Staed. 

*  *  * 

The  Iowa  Supreme  Court  recently  decided  that  if 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  C.  Herring  had  not  already  received 
her  policy  from  the  American  Insurance  Company  of 
Newark  at  the  time  her  insured  property  was  burned, 
the  acceptance  and  filing  of  her  application  consti- 
tuted a  contract  between  the  parties,  and  on  which 
the  failure  to  turn  over  the  policy  to  the  plaintiff  had 
no  effect. 


■ Tesla  Briquettes,   the  popular  domestic   fuel,   are  only  $7.60 

per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight  guaranteed,  in 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  lOlh 
and  Channel.    Phone  South  y&. 


Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1853 
Capital $3,000,000.  Gross  Cash  Assets.     $18,W0,7»3.ya 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.  Conference  with  our  Bepre- 
'entatives  before  concluding  short  tinie  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 
nay  be  to  your  advantage- 

H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoll- 
'  in  Manpj;&r. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 


FBAGEANT    WEST    VIBOINIA    SMOKE 

Bhe     "RED     RIBBON"     STOGIE 

Hand  made— select  stock.    Equal  to  a  r>c  cigar.    Favorite  of  doc- 
tors, lawyers,  bankers. 

$1.45  Par  Box  of  $100.  20o  Extra,  by  Mall. 

Sample  wooden  box  of  25  sent  prepaid  on   receipt  of  50c.  check. 
draft,  money  order.    Stamps  not  accepted. 

Joseph  L.  Dully  &  Bro..  501  W.  Wnshlnfton  St.,  Oration,  W.  Virginia. 


May  14.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


37 


NSURANCE 


A  PERFECTED  PIPE-ORGAN. 

In  this  issue  of  the  News  Letter  we  are  permitted 
to  show,  through  the  courtesy  of  Kohler  &  Chase,  a 
picture  of  the  Aeolian  Pipe-Organ  recently  installed 
in  their  warerooms,  corner  Post  and  Kearny  streets. 
This  is  the  first  and  by  all  odds  the  finest  organ  of  its 
kind  in  the  West.  It  is  as  truly  a  work  of  art  as  is 
the  brush  and  color  production  of  the  great  masters. 
This  organ  is,  in  reality,  two  complete  instruments 
combined  into  one  grand  organ,  equally  well  adapted 
for  the  interpretation  of  organ,  orchestral,  concerted, 
or  other  music,  by  a  person  unskilled  in  the  use  of 
the  keyboards,  or  by  the  expert  organist.  It  is  the 
pipe-organ  par  excellence  of  the  present  time — an  ex- 
clusive type  of  instrument  embodying  tonal  and  me- 
chanical features  contained  in  no  other  organ. 

This  type  of  organ  is  designed  primarily  for  salons, 
music-rooms,  foyer  and  reception  halls  of  the  mod- 
ern palace,  the  more  modest  city  residence,  or  the 
country  home,  where  they  have  assumed  such  import- 
ance as  to  make  them  necessities  in  every  household 
in  which  music  in  its  highest  form  of  interpretation 
is  appreciated  and  desired.  In  size  they  range  from 
small  instruments  of  more  or  less  limited  variety  in 
tone-color,  to  large  instruments  of  infinite  variety, 
possessing  wealth  of  organ,  orchestral  and  other  tones 
on  which  can  be  rendered  in  artistic  and  absolutely 
correct  manner  the  most  elaborate  musical  composi- 
tions. These  instruments  can  be  expressively  and 
easily  played  by  any  one  with  the  aid  of  perforated 
music  rolls,  which  carefully  select  and  sound  the 
proper  notes,  thereby  permitting  the  performer  to 
devote  all  his  attention  to  the  tempo,  tone-color,  and 
expression.  They  can  also  be  played  from  the  key- 
boards in  the  usual  manner,  being  provided  with 
every  feature  to  facilitate  the  player's  control  of  the 
instrument. 

It  will  be  well  worth  the  while  of  any  person  to 
visit  the  Aeolian  Department  of  Kohler  &  Chase, 
where  one  may  see  this  organ  and  where  demonstra- 
tions upon  it  are  almost  hourly  made. 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  1713. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OP    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

raid-up    Capital    SJ.000,009 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    i, 022,816 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent.    202  Pine  St..  S.  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,    A.    D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  $3,«C100.  Assets,  124,662,043.36 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  «134,O0O,O0O 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

PRANK  W.   DICKSON,   Manager,  601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN  NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1M0. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,03b 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .     2,441.485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager   Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Bansuuie  htieet. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 


DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  now 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

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Assets,  $  1 ,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $2 1 ,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  no  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance    Co 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 


Capital  

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  Agents. 


$6,700,000 

316  California  St.  S.  F. 


Cash  Capital,  J200.000.00 


Cash  Assets,  $321,471.19 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  P.  Green.  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co..  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.  Deering,  Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.   FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


A    NigHt    ii\    Frisco's     Bohemia 


We  met  them  on  Mission  street,  four  of  them,  and 
they  constituted  as  different  types  of  men  as  could  be 
found  on  the  whole  globe — or  in  San  Francisco.  The 
artist,  short,  dark,  muscular,  with  the  mixture  of  his 
Indian  and  Mexican  blood  showing  in  every  excited 
jerky  gesture,  in  every  gleam  of  his  black  eyes,  every 
hair  of  the  black  masses  that  covered  his  head,  and 
fell  over  his  eyes ;  the  musician,  tall,  lank,  light-haired 
dreamy,  slow  in  movement  and  speech,  living  ap- 
parently in  a  little  world  of  his  own  creation,  (one 
of  the  characteristics  of  La  Boheme's  admirers,  by 
the  way,)  not  given  to  as  much  flow  of  language  as 
the  others,  perhaps  because  he  felt  that  his  fingers 
spoke  more  eloquently  than  his  tongue ;  the  singer, 
medium  height,  self-centered,  voluble,  with  restless 
black  eyes,  hail-fellow-well-met,  taking  a  vivid  in- 
terest in  all  around  him,  as  if  he  had  just  stepped  from 
some  other  planet  onto  this;  and  lastly,  the  blase, 
once-society  man,  a  pretty  little  fellow,  very  blonde, 
with  a  dear  little  moustache,  blue-eyed,  pale  skin, 
lackadaisical,  who  only  needed  the  settings  of  a  well- 
furnished  drawing  room,  a  tea-table  and  several 
women  dawdling  around,  to  enable  one  to  discover 
for  what  purpose  in  life  he  was  made. 

These  were  bohemians — the  real  thing — the  only 
"truly"  bohemians  I  had  ever  met  (and  ever  wish  to 
meet  again.)  I  looked  upon  them  with  great  interest, 
not  unmixed  with  awe,  for  I  had  heard  of  many 
strange  things  that  had  happened  in  the  "Latin  Quar- 
ter." 

When  we  reached  "Carville,"  where  our  host  had 
a  domicile  on  the  sands  (in  the  shape  of  two  cars, 
with  the  platform  between  fixed  up  as  the  entrance 
hall),  I  wondered  how  on  earth  the  musician  (who 
was  six  feet  if  an  inch,  could  ever  get  in.  He  doubled 
up,  however,  somewhat  like  a  jack  knife,  and  swooped 
in  after  the  rest.  Two  women  friends,  who  were  to 
have  made  their  appearance,  failed  to  materialize, 
but  had  left  their  pasteboards  under  the  door,  (shades 
of  Bohemia,  real  calling  cards!)  so  it  was  a  case  of 
four  men  and  two  girls. 

Once  in,  I  sat  down  as  much  as  possible,  for  fear 
my  head  would  come  in  contact  with  the  roof  (1  was 
quite  sure  that  these  cars  in  their  halcyon  days  had 
jogged  along  Geary  street)  and  with  great  hilarity 
and  laughter  we  watched  the  society  man  (evidently 
used  to  chafing  dishes)  get  supper.  I  discovered 
that  the  idea  that  all  bohemians  are  dirty  is  a  great 
mistake.  Far  from  it.  Some  of  them  are  even  particu- 
lar as  to  the  putting  back  of  things  in  their  right 
places,  at  least,  so  our  host  was.  What  if  there  were 
not  enough  forks  to  go  around,  and  the  cups  had  ap- 
parently suffered  from  a  visit  by  Alice's  "Mad  Hat- 
ter?" everything  was  clean,  and  the  little  supper  we 
at  last  sat  down  to,  excellent. 

But  how  we  laughed !  The  ride  out  had  made  me 
frightfully  hungry,  and  finding  that  laughing  and  eat- 
ing at  the  same  time  didn't  go,  in  my  case,  I  gave  up 
to  the  former,  and  suffered  in  consequence. 

In  the  intervals  of  sobriety,  the  foolish  customs  of 
society  were  discussed,  the  hedged-in,  narrow  minded 
people  who  believe  in  conventionality  and  Mrs. 
Grundy,  who  hamper  themselves  with  the  "protec- 
tion" of  forms  and  ceremonies,  and  thereby  confess 
their  own  weaknesses.  "Chaperons  are  an  insult!" 
cried  the  singer,  "Society?  Bah!  Conventionality? 
Bah!  bah!    Mrs.  Grundy?    Bah,  bah,  bah !" 


And  then  the  poor  thread-bare  "Rubaiyat"  was 
hauled  forth,  lauded  to  the  skies,  and  quoted  profuse- 
ly, especially  the  lines: 

"A  book  of  verses  underneath  the  bough, 

A  loaf  of  bread,  a  jug  of  wine,  and  thou 
Singing  beside  me  in  the  wilderness — 

Ah,  wilderness  were  paradise  enow." 

The  wilderness  of  sand  out-side,  the  loaves  of  bread 
scattered  around  the  table,  and  the  jugs  of  "Dago 
Red"  in  evidence,  certainly  coincided  with  the  verse. 
Poor  "Rubaiyat,"  to  what  sordid  interpretations  are 
you  descended ! 

Suddenly  a  wild  exclamation  from  our  host,  who 
had  darted  to  the  little  platform  at  one  end  of  the 
car  (a  sort  of  Juliet's  balcony,  except  that  the  pres- 
ence of  empty  tin  cans  beneath  rather  spoiled  the 
aspect  of  things),  and  stood  looking  over  the  sand 
hills  to  where  the  moon,  placid,  translucent  as  a  lake 
of  light,  rose  up  behind  them  in  its  ever-recurring 
dignity,  that  the  passing  of  centuries  has  never 
marred.  The  boom  of  surf  came  to  our  ears,  the 
sands  (glistening  and  white  under  the  moonlight), 
stretched  before  us,  solitary  and  lonely  as  the  desert 
of  Egypt.  There  were  no  signs  of  habitation,  from 
where  we  stood,  to  sound  a  discord.  It  was  a  picture 
of  loneliness  and  desolation;  the  sea  of  sand,  with  its 
wind-tide,  but  so  still  and  gleaming  now  that  the 
moon  seemed  to  cast  its  reflection  in  it,  the  faded 
blue  of  the  sky,  with  an  amber  veil  thrown  over 
it,  and  the  stillness  that  can  only  be  felt  in  a  vast, 
unbroken  stretch  of  space. 

Our  host  flung  out  both  arms :  "Oh,  the  reechness 
of  it!"  he  at  last  succeeded  in  exclaiming,  while  the 
singer  patted  his  back  as  one  would  a  choking  baby, 
and  the  musician  cried:  "Go  it,  old  fellow." 

"Never  mind  you,  I  have  paint  him  one  day !" 

After  this  outburst  we  dove  into  the  kitchen  again 
and  our  host  came  down  from  his  heights  of  enthu- 
siasm and  devoted  himself  to  the  prosaic  task  of 
washing  the  dishes  while  we  wiped  them. 

"Oh,  yes,"  he  said  presently,  in  answer  to  a  remark 
of  mine,  waving  the  dish-mop  around  the  room,  "I 
have  entertain  quite  a  many  out  here.  Jack  Lonedon 
(he  pronounced  it  with  the  long  "o")  "and  Gelett 
Burgess,  both  very — what  you  say? — chums,  one 
time.  Gelett  very  funny  fellow.  Lonedon  more  quiet, 
yes?" 

I  found  the  long  musician  and  myself  wandering 
ahead  of  the  others  down  to  the  beach,  plodding  over 
loose  sand,  that  fell  into  our  shoes  with  irritating 
regularity,  and  made  walking  rather  difficult.  He 
confided  to  me  that  he  was  writing  a  symphony  which 
would  be  a  "great  thing,"  and  insinuated  modestly 
that  it  would  probably  take  the  town  by  storm. 

"The  commonplace  people  of  the  world,  people  with 
no  ambition  or  talent,  are  the  only  happy  ones,"  he 
said,  musingly.  They  can  live  merely  in  the  present, 
as  a  cat  does,  lapping  a  saucer  of  milk.  We  who  have 
aspirations,  longings  for  higher  things,  isolate  our- 
selves by  these  very  feelings.  Do  you  ever  feel  really 
close  to  any  one?  Aren't  you  often  very  lonely,  even 
in  a  crowd?" 

I  confessed  that  there  were  times  when  I  was,  but 
said  that  I  thought  imagination  could  prove  to  be  a 
great  happiness  to  any  one.  "We  can  create  our  own 
world,  and  therefore  our  pleasures." 

"Yes,"  broke  in  my  companion,  "and  then  the  ab- 


May  14.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


39 


surdity  when  people  till  us  thai  we  have  too  much 
imagination  I    How  could  wc?    There  is  no  limit  t>> 

invention  (most  people  will  admit  that);  then  how 
can  there  be  any  limit  to  imagination,  which  is  the 
beginning?  It  is  an  impossibility  to  imagine  impos- 
sible things.  Our  thoughts  of  to-day  are  the  facts 
of  to-morrow." 

I  gave  a  little  sigh  of  ecstacy.  At  last  I  had  found 
111  v  element !  The  strata  I  had  delved  for,  for  years ! 
These  were  people  to  know  and  talk  to.  Life  with 
them  would  be  vitalized,  not  a  dreary  endurance. 

After  racing  on  the  beach,  walking  rail  fences,  and 
acting  like  college  boys  out  on  a  lark  generally,  we 
caught  the  last  car  for  town,  and  I  thought,  not  being 
of  the  initiated,  for  home.     But  not  so  with  the  rest. 

"Just  a  quiet  little  time  at  Roddy's  studio."  and  so 
we  left  the  cars  at  Montgomery  street,  and  walked 
in  the  direction  of  the  "Latin  Quarter,"  the  men  sing- 
ing songs,  and  we  women  vainly  protesting.  And 
such  songs !  Not  really  naughty,  you  know,  yet  not 
exactly  what  one  would  sing  to  one's  grandmama! 

How  our  footsteps  echoed  along  the  empty  halls 
of  the  deserted  building  when  the  portals  of  Roddy's 
studio  was  reached !  The  men  struck  matches  as 
we  progressed  that  flared  up  and  went  out,  leaving 
it  darker  than  ever.  How  sleepy  I  was  getting!  And 
just  a  little  bored?  "They  are  just  like  the  rest  of 
men,"  I  reflected  as  I  groped  along,  "never  know 
when  they  have  enough !" 

At  last  we  stumbled  into  the  studio,  some  lamps 
were  lighted,  and  I  looked  around.  Was  Roddy  a 
cartoonist?  A  caricaturist?  Were  those  pictures 
painted  in  earnest,  or  just  for  fun?  Did  Roddy  ac- 
tually take  himself  seriously,  or  expect  others  to?  Or 
was  I  too  critical  ?  I  must  be  ;  for  one  of  the  paintings 
was  pointed  out  to  me  as  having  taken  the  gold 
medal  at  the  Parts  Exposition.  "So  true  to  life!" 
Well,  perhaps.  But  there  are  some  things  "true  to 
life"  that  are  very  hideous. 

Presently  the  singer  collared  the  musician  (liter- 
ally) and  threw  him  onto  the  piano  stool.  "Play,"  he 
ordered,  and  his  victim  obeyed.  Even  his  attitude 
struck  me  as  funny.  He  drooped  his  body  over  the 
instrument,  curled  his  long  legs  around  the  legs  of 
his  seat,  and  picked  at  the  keys  like  a  bird  searching 
for  crumbs. 

This  was  only  a  musical  parody,  surely?  Or  had 
my  usually  good  eyes  and  ears  deceived  me  for  the 
evening?  Why,  that  was  an  awful  discord !  But  then, 
there  are  certainly  plenty  of  discords  in  life. 

And  then,  at  last,  the  singer  burst  into  song.  And 
such  singing!  Ye  gods.  It  nearly  raised  the  skylight 
from  the  roof  of  the  studio,  and  rattled  the  glasses 
on  the  table.  It  was  the  sort  of  singing  that  issues 
from  the  dives  off  Pine  street; — blatant,  discordant, 
merely  a  loud  noise,  and  nothing  more.  Did  he  think 
we  were  all  deaf?  His  frenzied  notes  rose  higher 
and  stronger.  And  I  had  heard  that  he  sang  in  all 
the  best  churches. 

Perhaps  the  "Dago  red"  was  responsible  for  all 
this.  Nothing  rang  true.  I  felt  as  if  I  were  in  a  queer 
dream.  How  long  were  we  going  to  stay  here?  Why 
didn't  some  one  make  a  move  to  leave?  I  looked 
around. 

The  artist  was  leaning  back  in  his  chair,  his  eyes 
fixed  on  the  ceiling.  As  I  stared,  the  wine  glass  in  his 
listless  hand  tipped  over,  and  the  wine  dribbled  onto 
some  of  the  sketches  he  had  been  showing  me.  My 
rather  neglected  ex-society  man  was  placidly  mixing 
drinks  at  a  small  table,  with  rather  unsteady  hands. 
Would  I,  just  then,  have  trusted  him  with  a  Sevres 
cup  and  saucer?  I  think  not.  The  room  suddenly 
became  hateful  to  me. 


"Yesterday,  this  day's  madness  did  prepare, 
["o  morrow's  sorrow,  silence,  or  despair. 
Urink,  for  you  know  not  whence  you  came,  nor  why, 
1  'rink,  for  you  know  not  how  you  go,  or  where.'' 

(  >mar  was  very  well  in  theory,  but  someway,  put 
into  practice,  with  no  chaperon  over  there  in  the  cor- 
ner  

But  now  tell  me,  you  of  the  untrammeled  lives ;  you 
despisers  of  laws  and  conventions  that  help  to  sup- 
press the  brute  nature  that  is  in  more  or  less  degree 
in  all  of  us;  you  laughers  at  the  petty  little  forms  and 
ceremonies  of  "society,"  really  now,  aren't  the  grapes 
a  little  sour,  after  all? 

They  left  us  at  my  friend's  hotel  in  the  wee,  sma' 
hours,  after  kissing  our  hands,  and  sweeping  their 
hats  in  low  bows,  in  laughing  mockery  of  the  for- 
malities they   scorned.  E.   F.   L. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  prtnoipal  place  of  business,  aan  Francisco,  California.     Loca- 
tion of  works-Vireinia  City,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notloe  Is  hereby  siren  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
held  on  the  Kith  day  of  April,  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  104)  of  10c 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  oapltal  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  Boom  69,  Nevada  Block  No.  809  Monteomeey  St., 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

THE    19th  DAY  OP  MAY,  1904, 
will  be     delinquent,   and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auotion;  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   Tuesday,  the  7th  day  of  June 
1904,    to   pay  the    delinquent    assessment,    together    with    costs  of  ad- 
vertising: and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

J.  B.  SHAW,  Secretary. 

Location  of  Office — Boom  69,  Nevada  Biook,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Franolsco'  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business.  San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works,  Virginia  District,  Storey  County.  Nevada- 
Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  22ud  day  of  April,  1904,  an  assessment  ,No.  85)  of  tern  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  oapltal  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately In  United  States  told  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  S3,  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
.   THE    27th    DAY    OF    MAY,    1904, 
will  be   delinquent  .and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auotion;  and  unless 
nayment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   FRIDAY,  the  17th  day  of  June 
1904,    to     pay     the    delinquent    assessment,    together  with  the    coats   of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE.  Secretary. 
Office—  Room  88,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
oloon.  California 


Red  Eyes  and  Eye- 
lids, Granulated 
Eyelids  and  other 
Eye  troubles    cured 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


.  May  14,  1904. 


Summer    Resorts 


The  Potter 


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BARBARA  BY  THE  SEA 


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and  $3.50:  with  Be-th,  $3.50  to  $5.00.    Reduced  Rates  by  the  Week. 

Address    POTTER    HOTEL.    SANTA    BARBARA.    CALIFORNIA. 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling' 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,    CAL. 

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1-2  acres  and  while  secluded, yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS.     Prop. 


Paraiso    SPr*ngs 

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The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
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to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


Hotel   Ben   Lomond 

Santa  Cruz  Mountains— No  Staging. 

Table  first  class.      Electric  lights,    boating   swimming,  fishing. 

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MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


May  14.  1904. 


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dear  lamp. 
Macbeth. 


My  Index  tells  what  chimney  fits  your 
lamp.  If  you  use  that  chimney,  you  get 
perhaps  twice  as  much  light,  and  save  a 
dollar  or  two  .1  year  of  chimney-money, 

It  ulls,  l» >ides.  how  to  care  for  lamps  ; 
even  that  i>  imperfectly  known. 

1  m-ijJ  it  free;  am  glad  to. 

Macbeth,  PiUbhureh. 


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No.  l.  Montgomery  St.    Gan  Francisco,  Cal 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

SUNBEAMS 

(8tolen     from     ThlaVOT) 

"How  do  you  like  Parker?" 
"Well,  I  dunno.    What  dam  is  he 

nil  ?" 

Willie—  I 'a,  what  is  a  diplomat? 
Father— A  man  who,  when  he 
can't  have  his  own  wav.  pretends 
that   the  other  way   is  his. 

"Does  your  daughter  play 
I  hopin  ?"  asked  the  artistic  wo- 
man. "Not  that  I  know  of,"  ans- 
wered Mr.  Cumrocks.  "But  she 
has  gotten  to  be  a  prettv  good  hand 
at   golf." 

Young  Author— When  I  write 
far  into  the  night,  I  find  great  diffi- 
culty in  getting  to  sleep.  Friend 
— "V\  hy  don't  you  read  over  what 
you  have  written? 

Alkali  Ike— Is  Bill  really  dead  ? 
Cactus  Cal— Sure;  shot  plumb 
through  the  heart.  Alkali  Ike— I 
am't  surprised,  then;  his  heart  al- 
ways was  weak. 

The  theory  that  boys  are  de- 
scended from  monkeys  has  re- 
ceived an  ugly  setback.  A  Phila- 
delphia gentleman  possesses  a 
monkey  who  washes  himself  with 
soap  and  water. 

Nodd— I  may  be  detained  at  the 
office  to-night.  Mrs.  Nodd— Then 
in  case  I  want  to  call  you  up  over 
the  telephone,  what  is  .the  number 
of  your  club  ? 

Teacher — So  I've  caught  you 
chewing  gum,  have  I?  Sammy— 
No,  mum;  I  wasn't  chewin'.'  I 
was  jest  keepin'  it  there  instead  of 
in  my  pocket.     It's  so  sticky. 

Laura — Why  didn't  you  stay 
engaged  to  Arthur?  Alice— I  ex- 
pected a  radium  ring  at  least;  and 
he  offered  me  a  paltry  old  com- 
mon   diamond. 

The  honest  old  horticulturist 
carefully  placed  the  largest  apples 
in  the  top  row  before  heading  the 
barrel  up.  "There  is  always  more 
room  at  the  top,"  he  said. 

Ted — She  cuts  rather  an  odd 
figure.  Ned— No  wonder!  Her 
gown  cost  nine  dollars  ninety- 
eight,  her  hat  two  dollars  -forty- 
nine,  and  her  shoes  one  dollar 
seventy-four. 

"I  see  that  Mr.  Zefferton  is  still 
running  for  office."  "No,"  ans- 
wered Senator  Sorghum.  "He  as- 
sumes to  be  running,  but  compared 
to  the  others  he's  only  sauntering." 


31 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


<^> 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
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Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarHet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Mr.  Critique — Yes,  indeed,  my 
house  is  simply  full  of  Titians. 
Mrs.  Nouveauriche — Good  gra- 
cious, ain't  there  no  way  of  kill- 
ing 'em? 


Summer 
Vacations 


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Los  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Taeoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 

And   to  those  desiring    longer  trips   to 

Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc., obtain  folder 
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lu  Market  St. ,  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

C.  D.  DVNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co.,  an  Sutter  St.,  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
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THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

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Missouri  River  and  Chicago- 

three:  trains  daily 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  raciflc  and  Chicago 
aad  Northwestern  I  ys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestibuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  iu.00  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Bullet  smoking ca is 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestibuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.    Vestibuled.    Leaves  San 

Francisco  at  9.00  a.m-Standa.d  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays,    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

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Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 
617  Market  St      (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


7.00a 
703* 

7.30a 

730a 

8.00a 

8.00a 

B-30a 


9  00' 
9.30' 


10.00' 
10.00 


12-OOm 
I.OOp 
3.30r 


5.30f 
3  30<- 


3  30i' 

3  30p 

4  00t> 

4  00p 
4.30P 


t.00e 

IS.30P 
6  OOP 

b.00>- 


e.oop 

7  01p 
7.00* 


-.x      Train*  leave  and  are 
i*\         due  to  arrive  at 
~'«fc|    SAN    FItANCISCO. 

t^l       Fhou  April  10,  1904 
Fhbht  Depot 
(Foot  of  Market  Street.  . 

MAIN    LINE,        -ABBivh 

VnCMVllle.  Winter*,  Kumsey 7-BOp 

B'-ali'la,  Bulsun.  El  in  Ira  and  Sacra- 
mento         7.20p 

Vallejo.    Napa,     Cal  Is  toga,    8anU 

Kosa,  Martinez.  Sun  Ramon 8.20'' 

Nlles,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Latbxop. 

Stockton 7-20'1 

Shasta  Express  —  (Via  Davis). 
William*  (for  Bartlett  Springs), 
WlllnwR      tPruto.      Ked      Bluff, 

Portland,  Taeoma,   Seattle 7-50'' 

Davis.  Woodland.  Knlgbts  Landing, 

Marysvllle.  Oroville 7-6GV 

Port  Costa.  Martinez,  Antloch, 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stockton.  New- 
man Los  Uanus.  Mendott, 
Arniona,      Mao  ford        Vlsalla, 

Port»*rvl]le 4.20p 

Port  Costa.  Lath  run.  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno,  liosben  J  auc- 
tion.  Hanfura,    VlBalla.   Dakers- 

fleld  4.50c 

Nlles.  San  .(one.  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton. (t.Mfltuu),  lom\  Sacramento, 
Piacervllle      Marysvllle,    Cblco, 

Red  BlilIT 4.20p 

Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  80- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4-20p 

Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  Bast.   11.20  • 
Richmond.     Martinez     and      Way 

Station* 8-60f 

The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogdeo. 

Denver.  Otnatia,  Chicago 6. 20V 

Vallejo 12.20i- 

Los  Angeles  Passenger  —  Port 
CoBta.  Martinez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Lattirop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  GoBben  Junc- 
tion, tlanford,  Lemoore,  Vlsalla, 

Rakersfleld.  Los   Angeles 720' 

H.iywsrd.  Nllcs  and  Way  Stations.      3 2GV 

SacTHincnto  River  Steamers tl  1.Q0V 

Ben  Ida,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Lauding, 
Marysvllle,     Oroville    and    way 

stntlons 10.50* 

Ray  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7  50V 
I'ort      CoBta,      Martinez.      Uyruo, 
Tracy,      Latbrop,      Modeato. 
Merced,    Bereuda.     Fresno    and 
Way  Stations  beyoud  P. >rt  Costa  12  20e 
YoBemlte  Valley.  Hun.    Wed..  FrI.      9.20a 
Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lo-ll...    1020  a 
Marl  Inez.Saultiinom,  Vallejo,  Napa, 

Callstoga,  Santa  Ilusa 9  20* 

Nlles.  Trmey,  Stockton.  Lodl 4.20p 

llayward.   Nlles.   Irvlngton.  Sun)     18-50 a 

Jose.  Llvermore }  111,50* 

I'be  Owl  Limited— Newm 'O.  Los 
Banos.  M  ■- in j . p i  ii  Fresno.  Tulare, 
llakeratleld.  Los  Angeles. 
Golden  Mate  Limited  Sleeper, 
Oakland  to  Los  Angele",  for  Chi- 
cago. vlaC.  R.  1    &  P.  (last  trip 

April  vj> 9-20- 

Fort  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 12.20"' 

Hnyward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7. 20* 

llayward.  Nlles  aud  San  Jose,  9.j0* 

Eastern  Ex pn-s«— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis,  Chicago  and 
Kast.  Port  Costa,  Itenlcla.  Sul- 
snn.  Elmlra,  Davis,  Saerutnento, 
Roc  k  1  la.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno.  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnuemucca 520 

Vallejo,  dally,  except  Suoday...    {      7  en 

Vallejo,  Suuday  ouly f      '  ou* 

Richmond,  *an   Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11-20* 

Oregon  &.  California  Express— Sac-        * 
ramento,     Marysvllle,     Redding, 
Portlaud,  Puget  Sound  and  EaBt.     8.50a 
Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  J  >se  (Sun- 
day  only  » 1 1  rQ  ■ 


COAST    LINE 

{Narrow  Gauge) 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

7.45  a  Santa  Cruz  Excurslont  Sunday  only)     8-10p 

•  lb*  Newark,    Centervllle,    San     Jose,       0 
m  Felton,    Boalaer    Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6-55p 

.16*-  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  GatOb.FeltoD. 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    tlO  55  * 

*  16p  Newark,  Sao  Jose,  LosUato*  and)     *B.55  * 
way  statlooa )  11066* 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

rom  SAN  FRANCIbuO,  Foot  ol  Market  tit.  (Blip* 

—  11:15     »:O0     11:00*. M.      100    300    515p.m 

rom  OAKLAND.   Foot  of  Uroadway  —  (6:00    Jd:i>i 

18:03    lo:0t)A.M.       12  00    200    4.00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Uroail  Laoge). 

1ST  (Third  ami  Towuseud  Streets.) 


30p 
40p 


30p 
10. 


6  10a    San  Jose  anil  Way  Stations 6 

7  00a    San  JoBe  and  Way  Stations 6 

7.16a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 

Bion  (Sunday  only) 10 

8.00a  New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld..  only),     4. 

8  00*  The  Coaster— StopB  only  Sar   Jose, 

Gilroy  (connection  for  Hollls- 
ter),  Pajaro.  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pad  tie  Grove).  Salinas.  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Roblct>  Santa  Mar- 
garita Sun  Luis  tHilspo.  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
thence  Sun ta  Barbara,  gun  Buena- 
ventura. Borimnk  Los  Angeles  ,  IC  45" 
8.00a  San  Jose.  Tres  Finns.  Capltola, 
Sau  ta  Cruz, Paclfletirove. Salinas. 
San  Luis  oblBpo-and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4-10* 

ICZOa   fraD  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1-20p 

11  o0a  Santa  Clara,    Han  Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  StsMonw  7.,' Or 

1-30p   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  36a 

3  tflp  Del  Monte  Kxpress— Santa  Clara, 

San  Jose,  Del  Monie.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (conuects  at  Santa 
Clara,  except  Sunday,  for  Santa 
Cruz.  Boulder  •  wk  and  Narrow 
Gauge  Points)  at  Gilroy  for  Hol- 
llstcr.  Tres  Finos,  at  Pajaro  for 
Santa  Cruz,    at    Castrovllle    for 

Salinas  12  IV 

3-30P  Tres  Plnos  Way  Passenger 1H  4Sa 

4  30p  wan  Jose  nnd  Way  Stations +8  00> 

tB  00p  Santa  Clara,  >»□  Jose,  Los  tiatos, 

and  principal  Way  Stations  (ex- 
cept Sunday) v <  9  00  ■■ 

46  30p  san  Joseaod  Principal  Waysiallons  9940* 
6-46'  Banael  Limited.— Redwo  d.  San 
Jone,  Gilroy, Salinas,  Paso  Robies, 
ban  Luis  Obispo.  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles.  Demlng.  El  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajnro  for  Santa  Croi 
and    at    Castrovllle    for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 710> 

t8  16*"  baii  Mateo. Beresford.Belmont.8an 
Carlos,     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks. 

MenloPark,  Palo  Alto '6. 48* 

6  30p  ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 636* 

8  OOp  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10.16a 

11.30p  South  ban  Francisco,  Mlllbrae,  Bur 
llngame.  Sun  Mateo,  Belmool, 
Sao  Carlos.  Redwood.  Fair  Oaks, 

Meolo  Park,  and   Palo  Alto 9-45" 

</1130p  Mayfleld.  Mountain  View.  Sonny- 
vale,  Lawrence.  Santa  Clara  and 
8an  JoBe 19-45" 


P  for  Afternoon, 
t  Sunday  only 


A  for  Morning. 

1  Sunday  excepted 

a  Saturday  only. 

{  Slops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
tB^Only  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  Bl. southbound 
aret.:10A.M..  7:00  a.  «..  7:15  a.m.,  11:80a.m.,  8:80p.m.. 

B:30  P.  m.  and  8:00  p.  m. 

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Dressy  Suits  520 

Pants  $4.50  ^ 

My  $25.00  SuiU  are  the^ 

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And  Short  Bail  LiDe  from  Portland  toallPoiDts 
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Steamer  Tickets  include  Berth  and  Meals. 

SS  OREGON  Sails  Mar.  28.  April  7.  n,  21-  May 
7.  17,  27. 

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2.  12.  22.     May  2.  12.  22. 

S.  F.  BOOTH.  General  Agent 
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Singleton — I'm  in  a  box.  My 
wife's  dressmaker  has  sued  me. 
Doubleton — You're  in  a  dress  suit 
case,  vou   mean. 


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pianos  '"sraL, 

Sobmer  Piano  Agency 

.108-312  Post  St. , San  Fraocisco 


May  14,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


Ufye   Summer    Outfit    of  the  Summer   Girl 


Bv    L»dv    Algv 


Let  foolish  maidens  waste  their  tears 

On  satin,  silks  and  laces, 
Oppress  their  hearts  with  useless  fears. 

And  spoil  their  pretty  faces. 
I  know  a  trick  worth  two  of  that. 

While  summer  suns  are  glowing — 
A    muslin   gown,   a   shady  hat, 

Some   tennis   and   some   rowing. 

And  those  that  fret  their  souls  away 
O'er  wrinkles   and  o'er  speckles, 

Could  he  so  jolly  and  so  gay. 
With  half  a  dozen  freckles. 

A  hare  hrown  arm  to  work  an  oar, 
A  wide  straw  hat  above  her, 

A  girl  may  roam  the  wliole  world  o'er, 

And  never  lack  a  lover. 

*  *  * 

The  summer  girl  is  in  her  element  these  days  tying 
Up  the  rag-tags  and  bo-bends  of  her  campaigning  out- 
fit. There  are  always  so  many  folderols  necessary  to 
insure  a  sartorial  summer  success.  Parasols,  stocks, 
belts,  and  the  dozen  accessories  that  count  for  so 
much  in  the  ultimate  fitness  of  things  must  be  attend- 
ed to.  Shoes  are  always  an  important  item,  and  this 
season  will  see  the  buoyant  caravan  of  summer  girls 
particularly  well  shod.  Mrs.  William  K.  Vanderbilt, 
Jr.  had  a  half  dozen  girls  visiting  her  the  other  day, 
and  the  subject  of  summer  footgear  came  up.  "White, 
suede  for  afternoon  and  white  canvas  for  morning 
is  the  Newport  edict,"  said  Mrs.  Willie,  "but  I  for  one 
do  not  intend  to  follow  it."  Marrying  into  the  Van- 
derbilt family  has  not  sand-papered  the  independence 
which  always  characterized  "Birdie"  Fair.  "I  don't 
think  white  shoes  make  the  foot  look  pretty,  especi- 
ally if  one  happens  to  have  a  pedal  attachment  that 
requires  a  fair-sized  boot,"  she  added.  Mrs.  Vander- 
bilt laughingly  refused  to  divulge  the  size  of  hers, 
but  she  brought  out  a  dozen  pairs  of  her  new  sum- 
mer shoes  for  the  girls  to  leak  admiration  over.  There 
were  the  regulation  Oxfords  and  low  shoes  built  on 
the  lines  of  sandals  with  strappings  to  the  ankles ; 
there  were  high  shoes  of  every  cut  that  a  fashionable 
shoe  designer  could  invent.  Each  pair  was  in  some 
shade  of  yellow,  from  the  faintest  champagne  to  the 
deepest  tone  in  a  Beauty  of  Glazenwood  rose.  The 
ubiquitous  tan  color  so  frequently  seen  was  studious- 
ly avoided.  Mrs.  Vanderbilt  has  a  penchant  for  yel- 
low gloves,  which  she  wears  a  great  deal  with  elbow 
sleeve  summer  gowns,  and  she  has  gloves  made 
to  match  each  pair  of  yellow  shoes. 

A  taffeta  shirt  waist  is  one  of  the  ten  command- 
ments of  the  season.  Of  a  truth,  these  gowns  have 
been  elaborated  out  of  all  resemblance  to  the  original 
shirt  waist  simplicity,  save  that  the  skirts  are  still 
cut  round  length,  which  makes  the  street  sweepers 
work  over  hours  nowadays.  Ethel  Hager  has  a  blue 
silk  taffeta  that  reduces  her  fifty  pounds,  so  cunning- 
ly is  it  contrived.  Shirring,  without  which  a  frock 
would  scarcely  appear  modern,  is  used,  but  it  is  ap- 
plied as  only  an  artist  could  design  it.  The  various 
shades  of  blue  are  used  for  this  trimming,  and  the 
skirt  shows  the  sun  plaiting  that  is  so  popular.  One 
of  the  Jolliffe  girls  has  a  blue  silk  gown  that  is  very 
fetching.  Ruffles  are  the  striking  motif  of  this  dress, 
and  they  give  it  a  very  light  and  summery  effect. 
The  ruffles  are  made  of  corn  flower  blue  chiffon  edged 


with  white  Valenciennes.  The  sleeves  are  composed 
of  nifties  to  the  elbow,  and  the  hack  as  well  as  the 
front  of  the  bloused  bodice  show  the  same  attractive 
trimming. 

Florence  Bailey,  who  is  to  be  one  of  the  June 
brides,  is  busy  shopping  these  days.  One  of  her  pret- 
tiest gowns  for  morning  wear  or  train  jaunts,  is  a 
loose  weave  material  in  the  gunmetal  shades.  The 
short  jacket  permits  a  dainty  shirtwaist  to  make  its 
appearance.  Miss  Bailey  has  one  of  the  prettiest 
"baby"  hats  I  have  seen — it  is  a  shell  pink  affair  with 
a  brim  decoration  of  tiny  pink  buds  and  exquisite  rib- 
bon. 

The  most  stunning  summer  inspirations  showed 
themselves  at  the  Kirk  marriage,  celebrated  at  the 
Carolan  place.  The  women  all  wanted  to  put  their 
best  ruffles  forward  to  show  the  Chicago  contingent 
that  we  are  not  behind  the  mode.  One  of  the  most 
effective  gowns  was  worn  by  Celia  Tobin,  who  is  as 
exquisitely  fastidious  in  matters  of  dress  as  Agnes 
Tobin  is  bizarre.  Miss  Celia's  gown  typified  spring 
with  its  winsome  girlishness.  The  dress  was  made 
of  white  net  completely  covered  with  lace  ruffles  that 
graduated  from  the  deep  ruffle  at  the  hem  to  tiny 
ones  that  reached  almost  to  the  waist.  A  high  blue 
satin  girdle  gave  the  only  touch  of  color  to  the  gown. 

The  people  Menlo  Parkwards  are  planning  to 
give  a  great  many  al  fresco  luncheons  this  summer, 
and  the  new  white  linen  gowns  are  the  proper  thing 
for  these  affairs.  Mrs.  McNear  and  Mrs.  Will  Taylor 
have  two  of  the  smartest  linen  gowns  that  will  be 
seen  on  the  green  sward.  I  hear  that  Mrs.  Taylor 
designed  the  embroidery  for  hers,  and  very  exqui- 
sitely the  work  is  accomplished.  These  linen  gowns 
unlike  their  sisters  of  last  year  show  lace  insertions 
as  well  as  hand  embroidery. 

Parasols  are  no  longer  confined  to  the  country. 
Every  fine  day  in  the  city  brings  out  a  lively  com- 
pany of  sunshades,  most  of  them  in  vivid  coloring — 
red  and  green  heading  the  list.  A  great  many  para- 
sols are  made  to  match  the  silk  shirt  waist  suits.  Mrs. 
Gus  Taylor  has  a  pretty  checked  silk  one  to  match 
the  striking  gown  she  is  wearing  so  much  now. 


You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zinkand's,  which  is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  atter-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
the  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  inspiring  music, 
and  is  patronized  by  the  smart  set. 


WM.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V   V   o 

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Importers-MACONDRAY  &  CO. 


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E.  W.  Hagbom.  (formerly  with  James  W.  Bell  &  Co.,of  New  York) 

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TAILORS 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  14,  1904. 


The  Successful  Policeman 


The  officer  sings: 

If  you  want  to  be  successful, 

In    the    San    Francisco    police, 
Why,  the  thing  is  just  as  easy  as  they  make  it. 
There  is  nothing  that's  distressful 

Or  the  least  upset  to  ease, 
It  is  simply,  if  you  see  an  object,  take  it. 
Take  all  you  can  and  hold  it — 

Don't  give  anything  away. 
Steal  a  little  every  moment — 

It  will  mount  up  in  a  day ; 
Steal  and  pocket  all  you  collar, 

But  be  careful  whom  you  fleece, 
For  they   estimate   the  dollar 

In  the  San  Francisco  police. 

If  you  want  to  get  promotion 

In  the  San  Francisco  police, 
Find  a  grocery  store,  and  slyly  supervise  it. 
If  the  grocer  makes  commotion 

And  the  coin  will  not  release, 
Why,  you  take  a  bag  of  tools  and  burglarize  it. 
And  if  you  find  a  woman 

Who  is  wandering  in   the  night, 
Just  you  watch  her  very  closely, 

And  don't  let  her  out  of  sight, 
Take  all  she  has  upon  her, 

Every  single   dollar  piece, 
And  you'll  find  you're  high  in  honor 

With  the  San  Francisco  police. 

GOOD  TIME  FOR  CAMPERS. 
Cottage  Colonies  Well  Pleased. 

Effective  May  17th.  The  North  Shore  will  not  only 
improve  its  suburban  electric  service,  but  it  will 
run  additional  steam  trains  to  Cazadero  and  inter- 
mediate points.  The  new  trains  to  Camp  Taylor, 
Point  Reyes,  etc.,  will  be  particularly  gratifying  to 
the  cottagers  and  campers.  Under  the  new  card  the 
Cazadero  trains  will  leave  at  7:45  a.  m.  and  3.15  p.  m. 
For  Point  Reyes,  Tocaloma,  Camp  Taylor,  Laguni- 
tas,  etc.,  trains  depart  at  7:45  a.  m.,  3.15  p.  m.,  5.15 
p.  m.,  with  additional  trains  on  Sunday  at  9.15  a.  m. 
and  7.15  p.  m.  Summer  residents  can  therefore  leave 
here  at  3.15  or  5.15  p.  m.  daily  (except  Sunday  7.15 
p.  m.)  and  arrive  here  daily  (except  Sunday  11.05 
a.  m.)  at  8.15  a.  m.,  in  time  for  work.  This  schedule 
will  popularize  Lagunitas  and  Paper  Mill  Creeks  for 
campers  and  cottagers. 

The  mesh  of  the  ordinary  linen  is  woven  so  closely 
that  one  of  the  advantages  of  the  material  is  con- 
siderably diminished  if  not  obliterated.  It  was  be- 
cause of  the  necessity  of  free  circulation  that  the 
Linen  Mesh  was  designed  by  Doctor  Deimel.  When 
he  discarded  woolen  garments  next  the  skin  it  was 
because  he  had  made  the  discovery  that  wool  gath- 
ered the  moisture  of  the  body  in  the  filaments  of 
the  material,  finally  condensing  in  tiny  drops.  This, 
when  placed  next  the  body,  would  be  re-absorbed 
by  the  pores.  The  Doctor  had  been  a  sufferer  from 
blood  poisoning  and  was  supposed  incurable.  He 
noticed  that  a  linen  towel  exposed  to  the  same  con- 
ditions as  wool  did  not  offer  any  obstruction  to  the 
exhalations  from  a  spring  where  he  was  bathing. 
It  was  from  this  time  his  cure  began,  and  he  ex- 
perimented with  linen  mesh  until  the  now  perfect 
garment  is  offered  an  appreciative  public.  Dr.  Dei- 
mel has  opened  a  store  in  San  Francisco  at  111  Mont- 
gomery street. 


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"Don't  lynch  the  negro,"  says  Louisiana's  new 
Governor.  They  don't  in  Texas ;  they  merely  make 
a  kerosene  torch  of  him. 


A  Chicago  High  School  principal  has  come  out 
strong  for  phonetic  spelling.  ''We  shud  luv  to  watch 
him  tri  it  awn  the  war  nuz." 


A  "positive  antidote"  for  rattlesnake  bites  is  an- 
nounced. What's  the  matter  with  the  good  old  rem- 
edy that  is  used  for  filling  pocket  i]asks? 

If  any  literary  person  should  write  a  romance  about 
the  present  city  administration  he  might  call  it  "The 
Schmitz  Family  Robbing  Some." 

The  young  woman  who  has  succeeded  in  training 
butterflies  will  confer  a  boon  on  her  sex  if  she  will 
teach  caterpillars  to  be  good. 

If  a  delegate  and  a  half  costs  Hearst  a  dollar  and 
a  half  for  a  minute  and  a  half,  what  will  be  the  price 
of   a    Presidential    nomination? 


Mayor  Schmitz  boasts  that  he  used  to  sell  news- 
papers. This  may  or  may  not  be  true,  but  it  is  cer- 
tain that  he  has  "bought"  at  least  one. 

Russia's  soldiers  are  to  be  provided  with  bullet- 
proof breast  plates.  What  they  need  is  bullet-proof 
bustles. 


High  buildings  cause  small  heads  in  London,  it  is 
said.  Nobody  needs  a  tape  measure  to  learn  the 
cranial  consequences  of  "high   balls." 

That  British  peeress  who  married  her  young  coach- 
man has  committed  the  unpardonable  sin.  If  it  had 
been  her  chauffeur  she  might  in  time  be  forgiven. 

New  York  clergymen  are  speculating  on  why 
more  men  do  not  go  to  church,  but  they  have  not 
yet  thought  to  ask  what  men  do  on  Saturday  night. 

A  distinguished  alienist  gives  it  as  his  sworn  opin- 
ion that  "Elijah"  Dowie  is  afflicted  with  paranoia. 
Late  news  from  Australia  indicates  that  this  is  some- 
thing which  rotten  eggs  won't  cure. 

A  guild  of  good  women  at  the  East  is  trying  to 
find  out  what  is  the  ideal  condition  of  domestic  ser- 
vice. From  the  walking  delegate  of  the  Servant 
Girls'  Union  we  learn  the  help  is  willing  to  grant  the 
lady  of  the  house  one  night  off  a  week,  and  the  use 
of  the  parlor  and  piano  every  other  Friday. 


That  thrifty  statesman  lias  crawled  into  the  empty 
Hearst  barrel  ami  pulled  the  bunghole  after  him. 

Think  of  telling  the  truth  about  Hearst  at  Santa 
Cruz  and  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association 
in  convention  only  five  miles  away? 

"Hysterical  joint"  is  an  ailment  attributed  by  doc- 
tors to  the  imagination,  and  yet  everybody  knows 
that  the  "crazy  bone"  is  a  poignant  reality. 

One  gets  a  pearl  out  of  an  oyster,  or  a  diamond  out 
of  a  lobster,  but  Texas  doctors  have  pried  a  two- 
carat  brilliant  out  of  the  alimentary  apparatus  of  a 
thief. 


Why  should  a  small  boy  about  to  engage  in  crime  ■ 
spend  a  dime  for  a  blood-and-thunder  novel,  as  long 
as  none  of  Mr.  Hearst's  journals  sells  for  more  than 
a  nickel? 


E.  Berry  Wall,  with  285  pairs  of  trousers,  never 
worries  about  his  nether  garments  bagging  at  the 
knees.  There  is  another  and  excellent  reason  why 
he  never  had  and  never  will  have  brain  fever. 


No,  it  was  not  a  powder  mill  explosion  that  caused 
the  loud  noise  from  the  direction  of  Santa  Cruz ;  it 
was  merely  the  Democrats  of  California  breaking 
into  Hearst's  barrel. 


Chicago  has  wrapped  her  head  in  a  wet  towel  and 
is  trying  to  figure  out  by  the  differential  calculus  how 
to  give  her  small  boys  all  the  Fourth  of  July  fire- 
works they  want  without  overworking  the  Coroner 
and  the  hospitals. 

An  Oakland  newspaper  chuckles  over  its  discov- 
ery of  a  San  Francisco  boy  seventeen  years  old  who 
can  neither  read  nor  write.  The  State  is  providing 
free  board  and  lodging  for  an  Oaklander  or  two  who 
wrote  too  well. 


The  letter  "S"  is  a  hoodoo  to  William  Randolph 
Hearst.  Note  the  strange  coincidence :  "Sassafras 
Sisters,  Sausalito,  Scandal,  and  Santa  Cruz.  These 
are  the  "S's"  that  are  public.  The  private  ones  are 
Silence,  Sedition,  Slime  and  Seduction.  Hearst  should 
avoid  the  letter  "S"  and  the  letter  "T,"  because  it  is 
a  close  neighbor.     "T"  stands  for  Tarpey. 

We  sincerely  hope  for  the  good  of  the  burgh  across 
the  bay  that  the  Santa  Fe  celebration  has  forever 
laid  the  "Knockers'  Club."  It  is  an  astonishing  fact 
that  Oakland  is  the  only  city  of  its  size  and  preten- 
sion in  the  United  States  that  does  not  possess  a  large 
public  park  and  people's  playground.  Every  time 
a  public  spirited  body  of  citizens  brings  forward  the 
subject  of  bonds  for  a  public  park,  up  springs  some 
volunteer  who  calls  out  in  stentorian  tones :  "Who'll 
keep  the  bridge  with  me?"  and  in  his  hand  he  has  a 
hundred-pound  hammer. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


RED-HANDED    UNION    METHODS. 

The  kind  of  thuggery  that  proclaims  a  bad  cause 
in  the  hands  of  bad  men  is  revealed  almost  daily  in 
the  strike  of  the  Stablemen's  Union.  This  division 
of  organized  labor  is  not  large  or  important,  but  it  is 
making  such  a  red  record  for  activity  and  lawlessness 
as  to  raise  the  suspicion  that  other  and  more  power- 
ful forces  are  using  it  in  a  desperate  fight  against 
the  "open  shop"  policy.  The  stable-owners  have 
stood  together  manfully  in  their  determination  to 
resist  the  arrogant  demands  that  none  but  unionists 
shall  be  employed.  Fohce  interest  in  the  controversy 
seems  to  extend  only  to  the  arresting  of  non-union 
employees  and  special  watchmen  for  carrying  con- 
cealed weapons  and  to  refusing  concealed  weapon 
permits  to  such  employees  and  to  stable-owners  who 
are  compelled  to  defend  themselves.  (  )n  the  owners' 
side  the  fight  is  a  defensive  one,  being  confined  to 
the  protection  and  feeding  of  their  non-union  hands, 
whom  they  are  forced  to  keep  night  and  day  in  the 
barns.  On  the  strikers'  side  it  is  an  affair  of  coward- 
ly threats  and  still  more  cowaralv  acts  of  violence. 
The  "flying  squadron"  is  maiming  and  bruising,  the 
"wrecking  crew"  is  breaking  heads  and  crippling 
hands,  the  "education  committee"  is  clubbing  and 
strangling.  The  police  are  blind  to  them,  and  police 
court  justice  winks  its  unbandaged  eye  at  them. 

Now  these  are  not  the  tactics  of  a  few  hundred  dis- 
contented dung-shovelers.  This  is  a  little  war  over 
a  big  principle,  and  on  the  union  side  of  it  are  plainly 
seen  at  work  the  same  brutality  and  defiance  of  law 
that  made  of  the  teamsters'  strike  so  ugly  a  chapter 
in  the  history  of  our  industrialism,  the  same  under- 
ground burrowing  of  influence  that  made  the  police 
courts  at  that  time  places  of  punishment  for  strike- 
breakers and  of  vindication  for  strikers  caught  with 
non-union  blood  on  their  hands.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
the  business  men  of  the  city  will  awake  soon  to  this 
return  in  the  stablemen's  strike  of  that  condition 
which  so  aroused  public  sentiment  when  the  team- 
sters were  rioting  by  dav  and  murdering  by  night. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  they  will  get  in  behind  the 
stable  owners  and  help  them  to  do  to  the  Stablemen's 
union  what  the  Employers'  Association  did  to  the 
teamsters. 

One  of  the  gravest  features  of  this  strike  is  the  at- 
titude of  the  police,  the  police  courts  and  the  police 
commission.  Last  week  a  man  carrying  Food  to  non- 
union men  besieged  in  an  open  shop  stable  was  as- 
sailed by  pickets  and  had  three  of  them  arrested.  One 
who  had  a  pistol  was  held  by  Judge  Cabaniss — mark 
this  name — and  the  others  were  released,  the  court 
holding  that  one  of  them,  a  ruffian  called  "Kid" 
Egan,  who  had  thrown  away  a  two-foot  section  of 
lead  pipe  just  before  the  police  laid  hands  on  him, 
was  blameless.  Within  three  days  this  same  "Kid" 
Egan  was  out  with  the  "wrecking  crew"  again,  bend- 
ing back  the  fingers  of  a  non-union  stableman  until 
they  were  dislocated,  and  caving  in  his  head.  A  day 
later  Police  Judge  Fritz  was  fining  a  non-union  stable- 
man $50  for  carrying  a  pistol,  and  on  Tuesdav  night 
the  Police  Commissioners  were  denying  concealed 
weapon  permits  to  stable-owners  because  they  could 
not  prove  that  they  were  actuallv  and  presently  in 
peril  of  their  lives  at  the  hands  of  the  union  pickets. 

If  we  are  to  believe  anything  that  issues  from  the 
blackguardedly  "Mike"  Coffey,  head  of  the  union 
hackmen,  the  Citizens'  Alliance  is  standing  solid  be- 
hind the  stable-owners  in  their  fight  for  the  "open 
shop"  principle.  Coffey,  who  is  the  tool  and  agent 
of  Hearst  and  the  Examiner  when  there  is  need  of 
dirty  work  among  the  unions,  and  is  at  all  times  a 
brutal  bullv  and  a  loud-mouthed  advocate  of  violence, 


uses  Hearst's  paper  to  damn  the  Alliance  for  import- 
ing the  "open  shop"  idea  and  for  standing  in  with 
the  stable-owners.  This  is  a  strong  tribute  to  the 
Citizens'  organization,  and  strong  testimony  to  show 
the  need  for  concerted  action  on  the  part  of  decent 
citizens   who   detest   tyranny   and   thuggery. 

VERTICAL  HANDWRITING  DISCONTINUED. 

It  is  not  often  that  a  fair-minded  journal  can  find 
anything  to  commend  in  a  municipal  administration 
such  as  this — not  so  often  that  an  opportunity  may 
be  neglected.  The  present  Board  of  Education  has 
distinguished  itself  in  an  era  of  mismanagement  by 
doing,  for  once,  the  right  thing  at  the  right  time.  For 
wiping  out  the  abomination  of  "vertical  writing,"  as 
it  did  last  week,  the  School  Board  has  the  thanks 
of  the  community,  and  incidentally  of  the  News  Let- 
ter, which  was  the  first  to  point  out  the  evil  and  to 
urge  that  the  remedy  be  speedily  applied.  For  this 
k  should  and  shall  have  a  measure  of  forgiveness  of 
its  trespasses. 

The  "vertical  writing"  sin  was  one  that  cannot, 
however,  be  soon  torgotten,  since  too  many  of  the 
present  generation  and  of  the  generation  to  follow 
show  and  must  continue  to  show,  its  consequences. 
It  will  be  half  a  dozen  years  at  least  before  the  copy- 
books and  blackboards  of  our  public  schools  begin  to 
give  evidence  of  the  return  to  a  normal  method  of 
writing  instruction,  and  it  will  be  a  good  many  years 
after  that  before  the  last  traces  of  the  false  and  foolish 
"vertical"  system  have  been  displaced. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  and  expected  that  out  of  all  this 
pother  those  in  charge  of  public  instruction  will  have 
learned  a  salutary  lesson,  and  that  another  time  they 
will  hesitate  long  before  they  tamper  with  any  of  the 
fundamentals  of  education.  The  lesson  has  been  an 
expensive  one,  and  the  leaTning  of  it  painful  to  many 
others  than  those  directly  concerned.  One  such  ought 
to  be  enough. 

THE  VICTORIOUS  "  BARREL." 

"Booze  and  Boodle"  is  writ  large  across  the  face 
of  Hearst's  endorsement  by  the  Democratic  party 
of  California.  His  candidate  for  the  chairmanship  of 
the  Santa  Cruz  Convention  was  defeated  on  Mon- 
day by  a  majority  of  22.  On  Tuesday  night  his  sack- 
handlers  and  whip-crackers  jammed  through  by  a 
majority  of  19  a  resolution  providing  for  an  instructed 
delegation — 365  to  346  the  vote  stood.  Meanwhile 
there  had  been  more  than  twenty-four  hours  of  the 
dirtiest  work  ever  done  in  a  California  convention, 
and  before  the  vote  was  taken  Hearst  had  been  de- 
nounced as  false  to  the  principles  and  the  candidates 
of  .his  party,  a  self-seeking  nonentity,  man  without 
political   standing  or  political   morals. 

The  endorsement  is  about  as  valuable  and  as  valid 
as  a  check  stamped  "no  funds."  With  it  goes  a  state- 
ment in  terms  sufficiently  precise  telling  what  it  cost 
and  who  got  the  price.  But  even  on  those  condi- 
tions Hearst  simply  had  to  have  it.  When  his  bar- 
rel-openers found  that  there  was  a  strong  opposition 
to  him  they  begged  and  pleaded,  declaring  on  the 
floor  of  the  convention  that  not  to  instruct  for  Hearst 
would  be  to  rob  him  of  any  chance  for  the  nomina- 
tion. That  argument  cut  no  figure  in  the  preliminary 
struggle  for  the  chairmanship.  From  talk  the  Hearst 
managers  turned  to  more  business-like  methods  of 
conviction,  and  between  the  adjournment  of  Monday 
and  the  vote  which  came  Tuesday  night  there  was  a 
good  deal  doing  in  the  saloons  and  back  rooms  of 
Santa  Cruz.  The  pretty  little  city  by  the  sea  has 
never  seen  so  much  money  afloat  at  one  time  or 
so  much  whiskey  in  active  circulation.     The  sack- 


May  at.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


handlers  did  their  utmost,  but  all  they  could  accom- 
plish for  Hears!  was  the  "pulling  down"  of  21  men — 
tically  all  of  them  from  San  Francisco  and  Los 
Ics.  Even  without  the  plain  evidence  of  bargain 
and  sale,  the  fact  that  the  changes  of  heart  all  oc- 
curred in  the  urban  delegations,  would  of  itself  tell 
the  story  to  men  skilled  in  politics. 

The  flaying-  of  Hearst,  a  process  in  which  he  sus 
taincd  such  a  political  ripping  up  as  has  hcfallen  no 
other  Californian  seeking  a  nomination,  was  merely 
political.  It  did  not  go  into  the  nastiness  of  his  pri- 
vate life,  and  touched  but  lightly  upon  his  poverty 
in  all  that  goes  to  qualify  a  man  for  the  high  office 
of  President,  nor  did  it  deal  with  his  monumental 
vanity,  or  the  indecency  of  his  methods.  The  best 
that  could  he  said  of  and  for  him  by  his  hired  orators 
was  that  he  was  a  young  man  with  much  money — 
inherited  money — and  several  newspapers — good 
Lord  !  What  newspapers! — and  that  he  was  a  Native 
Son. 

It  is  a  soiled  garment  that  California  has  given 
Hearst  to  wear  when  he  goes  to  St.  Louis — a  garment 
spangled  with  dollar-marks  and  stained  with  cheap 
whiskey.  It  is  too  short  by  some  hundred  of  votes 
to  hide  his  inadequate  legs,  and  through  the  rents 
of  it  the  Democrats  ot  the  United  States,  in  conven- 
tion assembled,  will  be  able  to  see  the  leprous  skin 
of  him  and  the  unhealed  wounds  of  the  branding  iron 
that  stamped  him  publicly  a  traitor. 

A  POOR  SHOWING  FOR  DEMOCRACY. 

At  the  present  writing,  nearly  one-half  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  have 
been  chosen.  Of  the  instructed  delegation.  Judge 
Parker  of  New  York  has  a  greater  number  than  the 
other  candidates  combined,  Hearst  being  second 
choice. 

No  greater  mistake  could  be  made  than  is  involved 
in  the  assumption  that  the  instruction  arithmetic  is  a 
reliable  barometer.  The  dividing  line  at  St.  Louis 
will  be  drawn  between  conservatives  and  radicals. 
It  is  being  drawn  clearly  now.  The  conservatives 
chosen  outnumber  the  radicals  by  four  or  five  to 
one,  so  that  nothing  could  be  more  misleading  than 
the  supposition  that  the  record  as  to  instruction  rep- 
resents the  real  proportions.  Ten  States  have  de- 
clared for  sanity,  Kansas  splitting,  so  that  it  will  fall 
between  the  two  stools.  The  figures  for  radical- 
ism are  64;  for  conservatism  288.  They  are  given 
here  as  the  result  01  careful  computation,  subject 
to  some  qualification,  as  such  estimates  must  be  in 
the  nature  of  things.  They  may,  however,  be  ac- 
cepted as  fairly  representing  the  strength  of  the  op- 
posing elements.  In  the  electoral  college  of  this  year 
476  votes  will  be  cast.  To  vindicate  his  claim  upon 
a  certificate  of  election  the  winner  must  receive  239 
votes.  It  is  accepted  as  a  sort  of  axiom  that  in  order 
to  have  a  chance  of  winning  the  Democratic  candi- 
date must  carry  all  of  the  Southern  States.  This 
would  furnish  him  with  167  votes,  sending  him  in 
search  of  72. 

As  to  the  proposition  that  the  electoral  college  vote 
of  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Connecticut  and  Indiana 
are  essential  to  success  there  is  no  dispute.  Also, 
the  South  must  necessarily  furnish  by  far  the  larger 
part  of  the  Democratic  candidate's  electoral  college 
stock  in  trade.  Well,  New  York,  New  Jersey  and 
Connecticut  have  declared  for  conservatism.  Rhode 
Island,  South  Dakota,  New  Mexico.  California,  Ne- 
vada and  Iowa  are  extremely  radical  in  declaring  for 
Hearst.  As  a  territory,  New  Mexico  has  no  voice  in 
the  college.  It  may,  therefore,  be  eliminated  from 
the  reckoning   as   iar  as  the   election  is  concerned. 


Having  but  three  votes,  Nevada  is  insignificant  as  a 
factor.  This  is  almost  equally  true  of  Rhode  Island, 
which  has  but  four  votes  and  which  will  certainly 
go  Republican.  The  other  tun  States.  South  Dakota 
and  Iowa,  will  also  go  Republican.  McKinley  car- 
ried Iowa  by  nearly  a  hundred  thousand  majority  in 
1900,  and  his  victory  in  South  Dakota  was  almost 
as  sweeping,  when  the  total  number  of  votes  cast  is 
taken  into  account.  The  sources  of  the  Hearst 
strength  have,  therefore,  little  to  gain  by  analysis.  It 
comes  from  States  which  the  Democratic  party  can 
have  little  or  no  hope  of  carrying  this  year.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  Parker  movement  is  finding  its  de- 
velopment in  the  States  to  which  the  party  must 
look  and  upon  which  it  must  depend  for  support  at 
the  polls.  This  is,  or  should  be,  sufficient  to  establish 
its  claim  at  St.  Louis.  The  Hearst,  or  radical  move- 
ment, displays  some  vitality  elsewhere  and  not  much 
of  it  at  that.  There  is  a  sense  in  which  it  is  an  in- 
vestment pure  and  simple.  Assuredly  it  represents 
the  expenditure  of  a  large  sum  of  money.  There  is 
on  one  side  what  may  be  called  spontaneous  genera- 
tion. There  is  on  the  other  side  that  which  has  come 
to  be  well  understood,  and  which  is  usually  dismissed 
without  description. 

"SUFFER  LITTLE  CHILDREN." 
The  cruel  opposition  to  the  blind  broom  makers 
of  California  by  the  unions  that  have  boycotted  the 
product  coming  from  the  State  Home  is  by  far  the 
worst  thing  that  has  ever  been  brought  up  against 
that  numerous  villainy  which  parades  under  the  name 
of  unionism.  First  they  deny  their  country's  flag, 
then  they  dive  in  murder,  next  they  rob  the  blind. 
Citizens  of  California,  when  you  are  buying  brooms 
specify  that  they  shall  be  made  by  the  blind.  Their 
product  cannot  possibly  harm  the  broom  makers  of 
California.  There  are  only  seventy  of  these  blind 
workers.  Speaking  to  a  Chinaman,  a  broom-maker, 
he  said :  "I  am  surprised ;  you  call  yourselves  civilized 
— you  call  yourselves  Christians.  In  my  country  we 
are  taught  reverence  for  the  aged  and  helpless,  and 
such  a  thing  as  you  have  done,  in  this  matter  of  the 
blind,  could  not  possibly  occur  in  China.  Apart  from 
the  inhumanity  of  it,  we  are  too  sensible  to  take  such 
a  step.  An  action  like  this  will  bring  a  curse  down 
on  the  unions  and  on  the  community  that  tolerates 
their  action." 


WHEN  THE  BEAD  IS  ON  THE  RYE. 
It  is  reported  as  one  of  the  facts  connected  with 
the  Hearst  convention  that  one  of  the  interior  dele- 
gations sang  "What  Shall  the  Harvest  Be"  all  the 
way  on  the  train  into  Santa  Cruz.  On  the  return  trip 
they  intoned  "I  to  the  Hearst  will  lift  mine  eyes  from 
whence  has  come  mine  aid,"  and  "Yes,  we  have  gath- 
ered by  the  river,"  etc.  From  another  part  of  the 
car  came  a  refrain  that  sounded  something  like  "Jas- 
per seas  and  golden  sands."  One  back  country  editor 
is  said  to  have  mysteriously  telegraphed  funds  tor 
the  lifting  of  a  heavy  mortgage  on  his  home,  and  two 
impecunious  gentlemen  from  San  Francisco  have  al- 
ready paid  up  some  outlawed  debts.  Hearst  is  doing 
golden  penance  for  the  sins  of  a  misguided  and  an  im- 
moral adolescence. 


The  San  Francisco  Chronicle  in  a  recent  issue  has 
an  able  editorial  on  the  "National  Irrigation  Associa- 
tion." It  seems  the  Secretary  of  that  delectable  in- 
stitution has  taken  exception  to  the  editorial  refer- 
ence to  the  association  as  a  "fake"  institution.  The 
Chronicle,  coldly  and  dispassionately,  explains  why 
the  appellation  is  proper  when  applied  to  this  associa- 
tion.    The  explanation  is  thorough  and  convincing. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


PRIZE-FIGHTERS  AS  CRIMINALS. 
Another  candidate  for  the  gallows  has  graduated 
from  the  prize-ring.  The  detectives  of  Wells,  Fargo 
&  Co.  say  his  name  is  George  Gates,  that  he  wafc 
one  of  the  men  that  held  up  the  train  at  Copley, 
Shasta  County,  last  March,  and  killed  O'Neill,  the 
messenger,  and  that,  with  his  brother  and  another 
companion,  he  is  now  hiding  in  the  fastnesses  of 
Shasta,  Modoc  or  Southern  Oregon.  Gates  is  only 
twenty-seven  years  old ;  his  parents  are  highly  re- 
spectable people,  who  have  lived  for  years  in  Ala- 
meda, where  the  young  man  was  well  known.  He 
was  a  student  at  an  engineering  school,  but  devoted 
more  time  to  the  prize-ring  than  to  his  studies.  He 
fought  a  prize-fight  at  the  Reliance  Club  in  Oakland, 
and  was  defeated.  About  two  years  ago  he  left  his 
home,  and  since  then  his  family  has  heard  nothing 
from  him.  The  police  say  that  since  his  defeat  in 
the  prize  ring  young  Gates  has  been  robbing  stages, 
stores,  electric  cars,  saloons  and  railroad  trains. 
That  he  is  a  desperate  man  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
two  deaths  are  laid  at  his  door.  The  train  robbery 
last  March  was  his  second  crime  of  this  sort.  In  No- 
vember, 1902,  it  is  charged,  he,  with  others,  robbed 
a  train  in  Colorado.  On  this  occasion  one  of  the  des- 
peradoes was  killed. 

The  career  of  this  young  man  again  demonstrates 
the  terrible  results  directly  following  the  prevalence 
of  prize-fighting  in  this  city  and  in  Alameda  County. 
Only  three  weeks  ago  we  commented  on  the  convic- 
tion of  prize-fighter  Hanlon's  brother  on  a  charge  of 
burglary.  Now  comes  the  Gates  case.  Gates  had 
a  good  home ;  he  was  sent  to  a  private  school ;  he 
was  given  many  advantages,  but  in  the  glamor  of 
the  prize  ring,  and  among  the  evil-minded  associates 
who  rely  for  a  livelihood  upon  their  abilities  as 
bruisers,  he  soon  acquired  a  distaste  for  honest  toil, 
fell  into  evil  ways,  became  a  highwayman,  and  is 
now  a  fugitive  from  justice,  with  a  price  on  his  head. 
His  present  position  is  an  effect  of  which  the  prize 
ring  was  the  cause.  The  proponents  of  "athletic" 
clubs  profess  to  see  no  connection  between  a  desire 
to  develop  muscle  and  criminal  inclinations.  There 
is  no  such  connection  ;  nor  is  there  any  connection 
between  the  possession  of  a  rifle  and  a  desire  to  com- 
mit murder.  The  iniquity  is  in  the  prize  ring  atmos- 
phere ;  in  the  low  breed  of  men  who  promote  the 
prize-fighting  clubs;  in  the  depraved  moral  standards 
of  the  followers  of  the  game ;  in  the  recognition  given 
them  by  city  officials ;  in  the  promotion  of  the  idea 
that  it  is  not  necessary  to  work,  so  long  as  one 
may  have  sufficient  strength  or  skill  to  batter  an- 
other's face.  In  this  city,  more  than  any  other  in 
the  country,  the  prize  ring  has  been  the  scene  of 
rank  frauds  upon  the  public.  That  fact  is  so  gener- 
ally admitted  that  it  needs  no  argument.  Again,  in 
this  city,  more  than  any  other  in  the  country,  the 
prize  ring  is  a  recruiting  station  for  all  sorts  of  crimi- 
nals. Reference  to  the  police  records  amply  proves 
this  assertion.  The  prize  fighters  and  their  man- 
agers have  more  influence  with  the  Supervisors  than 
any  improvement  club  in  San  Francisco.  The  plain 
truth  is.  that  for  the  sake  of  a  few  votes  in  the  Ten- 
derloin, the  Supervisors  are  fostering  a  nest  of  crimi- 
nals, who,  like  Gates,  will  turn  loose  upon  the  coun- 
try as  soon  as  dissipation  has  defeated  them  in  the 
ring.  Is  it  not  about  time  that  the  people  should 
be  awakened  to  the  evil?  There  are  other  boys,  like 
Gates,  who  are  even  now  entering  upon  a  career  of 
crime,  commencing  at  the  prize  ring.  It  is  certainly 
worth  while  to  try  to  save  them. 


THE  MAN  WHO  SPITS. 

This  is  a  respectful  and  earnest  petition  suggested 
by  women  petitioners  (who  have  written  the  News 
Letter),  to'  His  Honor  the  Mayor.  Mr.  Ruef  and  the 
Board  of  Health,  that  the  ordinance  restricting  ex- 
pectoration in  public  places  be  enforced.  The  warm 
summer  winds  are  on,  and  the  dried  sputa,  with  its 
germs  of  tuberculosis  is  being  blown  hither  and  yon, 
infecting  the  just  and  the  unjust  alike,  and  nothing- 
is  being  done  by  the  Mayor,  Mr.  Ruef  or  the  Board 
of  Health. 

Last  week  a  very  estimable  old  lady  slipped  in  a 
lot  of  expectoration  on  Market  street,  and  is  lving 
ill  with  a  contused  hip  and  a  serious  internal  diffi- 
culty as  a  result.  If  this  case  lasts  much  longer  of 
terminates  fatally,  there  is  promised  a  damage  suit 
against  the  city.  Surely  the  very  refined  and  ultra 
sensitive  souls  we  have  mentioned  can  have  no  ob- 
jection to  enforcing  the  law  regarding  expectoration 
The  enforcement  works  a  hardship  on  no  one.  It  pre- 
vents harm,  conduces  to  good  health  and  introduces 
many  of  the  Mayor's  supporters  to  decency. 

"MOTHER"  JONES. 

Paris  has  had  an  experience  in  Louise  Michel,  the 
petroleuse,"  which  will  take  a  century  to  efface.  The 
United  States  is  a  large  country,  but  Colorado  was 
not  large  enough  to  hold  one  of  the  Michel  stripe  of 
woman.  "Mother  Jones"  has  come  to  San  Francisco. 
This  woman  belongs  to  the  female  agitators  and  mur- 
derers of  the  "Terror."  She  should  be  closely 
watched,  not  by  the  local  police,  but  by  the  National 
Secret  Service.  She  knows  no  country  and  no  flag. 
She  has  no  religion  out  destruction.  She  believes  in 
flames  and  license  run  riot,  and  wherever  she  has  been 
she  has  been  an  influence  for  evil.  Under  a  soft 
voice  she  hides  the  claws  of  a  tiger,  and  under  the 
form  of  a  woman  the  objection  to  all  restraint  and 
law.  California  is  not  large  enough  for  this  woman, 
and  there  are  only  two  places  in  the  State  where  she 
would  be  entirely  welcome — San  Quentin  and  Fol- 
som. 


Oh,  Lord!  This  is  ridiculous!  Another  woman 
across  the  bay  has  caught  another  robber  and  actu- 
ally lectured  the  poor  brute  before  she  let  him  go. 
Married  women  and  maids  are  alike  afflicted  with  the 
thief 'catching  disease.  It  is  so  much  safer,  too,  for 
the  thief  to  let  himself  be  caught  and  run  his  risks 
than  to  take  chances  with  a  woman  flushed  with  tri- 
umph over  his  capture. 


KCHAS.  KLILUS  &  COM 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who 
likes  to  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to 
bother  with  tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  in- 
to our  shop,  get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a 
log.     We  have  that  "Immediate  Service  System." 


K 


May  3i.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


&/>e    Lady     of   the     Chafing     Dish 


Bv     Ladv    Allv 


In  the  good  old  summer  time  the  way  to  .1  man's 
licart  frequently  lies  via  a  dialing  dish  supper.  The 
girl  who  can  concoct  a  tempting  feed  to  trip  on  the 
heels  of  a  ragtime  evening  is  rated  as  a  matrimonial 
piece  de  resistance.  She  may  have  the  cook  prepare 
the  savory  messes  in  the  kitchen  and  merely  heat  it 
in  the  chafing  dish,  bluffing  it  through  as  her  own 
make;  she  may  really  be  a  clever  mixologist — there's 
sure  to  be  a  piping  hot  proposal  before  the  chafing 
dish  cools  many  times. 

However,  the  chafing  dish  is  a  parlor  trick  not  copy- 
righted by  the  marriageable  Miss.  The  bachelor  girl 
has  unraveled  its  mysteries,  for  she  knows  in  its 
steaming  cheer  lies  good  fellowship.  She  realizes 
that  'tis  sport  to  shoot  at  quail  on  toast,  and  the 
bachelor  girl  believes  in  everything  that  is  sports- 
manlike. 

There  are  a  number  of  chafing  dish  experts  among 
our  society  maids  and  matrons.  Mrs.  "Willie"  Vain- 
derbilt  was  high  priestess  at  a  chafing  dish  supper 
while  she  was  here,  and  the  epicures  who  tasted  her 
chicken  terrapin  declared  it  would  have  tickled  the 
palate  of  Lucullus.  Mrs.  Vanderbilt  wrote  out  the 
recipe  for  a  friend,  which  is  printed  here  verbatim : 
"Have  a  tender  chicken  cut  into  small  pieces ;  pour 
over  it  a  cream  sauce  with  two  hard-boiled  eggs  cut 
fine ;  add  a  glass  of  sherry  and  heat  through  thor- 
oughly." Mrs.  Oelrichs  has  always  been  a  wizard  in 
the  culinary  line — she  still  carries  a  scar  on  one  hand 
that  was  gained  in  honorable  service  over  the  range 
when  the  Fair  family  lived  on  Pine  street.  Miss  Tes- 
sie  suddenly  took  it  into  her  head  to  broil  the  chops 
for  luncheon,  and  a  chop  that  was  "awfully  English, 
don't  you  know,"  spluttered  all  over  her  hand.  Mrs. 
Oelrichs  can  "poulette"  oysters  in  a  chafing  dish  in 
a  fashion  to  make  a  chef  sit  up  and  take  notice.  The 
receipt  which  she  uses  has  a  "Don't"  in  capital  let- 
ters. Don't  let  the  oysters  boil.  They  should  be 
heated  just  the  safe  side  of  the  boiling  point  and  then 
add  butter  the  size  of  an  tgg,  into  which  one  table- 
spoon of  flour  has  been  rubbed ;  one  cup  of  rich  cream, 
the  lightly-beaten  yolks  of  two  eggs,  and  seasoning 
to  taste. 

Mrs.  Tompkins,  Ethel  Keeney  who  was,  was  an 
expert  candyologist,  and  could  out-Gruenhagen  Mas- 
key  when  the  spirit  moved  her  and  a  chafing  dish 
was  handy.  She  recently  sent  to  a  friend  here  this 
bonafide  receipt  for  Maillard's  famous  chocolate  cara- 
mels dear  to  every  one  with  a  sweet  tooth.  Boil  for 
about  five  minutes  one  cup  of  molasses  and  two  cups 
of  sugar;  add  one  cup  of  milk,  into  which  has  been 
dissolved  one-half  cup  of  unsweetened  chocolate ;  add 
a  lump  of  butter  the  size  of  a  large  walnut,  and  when 
the  mixture  is  about  the  right  consistency,  flavor 
with  two  teaspoons  of  vanilla  extract.  The  caramels 
can  be  tested  in  water  like  all  other  candy. 

The  summer  that  Ethel  Hager  had  a  bungalow  at 
Monterey,  the  chafing  dish  was  put  through  some 
pretty  paces.  Miss  Hager  knows  the  savory  art 
backwards,  and  between  herself  and  friends  the 
chafing  dish  yielded  up  some  mighty  tempting  mid- 
night suppers.  One  of  the  favorite  dishes  during  that 
summer  was  crab  a  la  creole,  which  is  prepared  in 
the  following  manner:  Have  the  creole  end  of  the 
dish  prepared  in  the  kitchen  beforehand,  as  it  is  not 
conveniently  within  the  limitations  of  the  chafing 
dish.  For  this  sauce,  brown  in  butter  two  fresh  or 
one-half  cup  of  canned  tomatoes,  chives,  a  dash  of 
paprika,  a  sprinkle  of  lemon  juice,  and  a  bit  of  minced 


parsley.  The  minced  crab  is  put  in  the  chafing  dish, 
the  creole  sauce  poured  over  it,  and  when  steaming 
hot  it  is  spread  on  buttered  toast. 

The  Bruguiere  boys  all  know  the  high  signs  and 
pass  words  of  the  chafing  dish  cult.  Eggs  are  their 
favorite  night  feed,  and  they  can  play  the  egg  stunt 
with  all  sorts  of  variations.  Louis  Bruguiere  is 
famous  among  the  Newport  cottagers  for  the  cheese 
omelet  which  he  presides  over.  The  omelet  is  pre- 
pare. 1  by  mixing  two  slices  of  grated  bread  with  half 
a  cup  of  milk  and  four  table-spoons  of  grated  cheese. 
When  the  eggs  are  beaten  to  a  froth  the  whole  mix- 
ture is  poured  into  the  chafing  dish,  tossed  over, 
browned,  and  the  chef  gets  ready  for  the  next,  for  the 
guests  always  cry  "more." 

Coffee  in  the  chafing  dish  is  sometimes  grounds 
for  fractured  friendships.  Under  the  most  favorable 
circumstances  coffee  is  frequently  an  uncertain  ven- 
ture, and  in  a  chafing  dish  it  is  more  apt  to  be  a 
failure.  Mrs.  Sam  Buckbee,  who  has  unraveled  all 
the  kinks  in  coffee  making,  says  the  only  way  to  make 
it  successfully  in  a  chafing  dish  is  to  let  the  wrater 
come  to  a  boil  and  then  pour  it  over  the  grounds, 
which  have  been  put  into  another  receptacle.  The 
beverage  is  then  poured  back  into  the  chafing  dish 
and  allowed  to  boil  again.  Too  many  people  put 
the  coffee  into  the  boiling  water  instead  of  pouring 
the  water  on  the  grounds. 

Miss  Ella  O'Connor,  who  was  on  intimate  terms 
with  the  chafing  dish,  was  particularly  happy  in  the 
preparation  of  curried  lobster.  Brown  one  t'easpoon- 
ful  of  finely  minced  onion,  add  two  teaspoonfuls  of 
curry  powder,  one  pint  weak  soup  stock  and  dash 
of  salt.  Boil  together  for  five  minutes.  Put  in  pint 
of  lobster  and  serve  when  heated. 

Mrs.  Wor'chington  Ames  will  no  doubt  punctuate 
the  summer  evenings  at  her  new  bungalow  with  her 
famous  chafing  dish  suppers.  Here  is  one  of  her 
favorite   receipts : 

Stewed  Soft  Clams. — -Trim  rough  parts  from  one- 
half-dozen  large,  soft  clams.  Put  one  teaspoonful  of 
butter  in  chafing  dish,  and  when  quite  hot,  add  one- 
half  pint  of  boiled  milk,  one  spoonful  of  cracker  dust, 
a  dash  of  salt  and  cayenne  pepper.  Simmer  three 
minutes. 

Miss  Florence  Baily,  who  is  to  be  one  of  this  sum- 
mer's brides,  can  preside  most  gracefully  over  a 
chafing  dish.  Brook  trout  is  one  of  her  infallible  suc- 
cesses. Clean  the  fish  carefully  and  drege  with  flour. 
Put  two  teaspoonfuls  of  butter  in  the  chafing  dish, 
and  when  hot  lay  in  the  trout  and  fry  to  a  nice  brown. 
Serve  as  soon  as  done,  with  sprigs  of  green  or  slices 
of  lemon  as  a  garniture.  No  salt  will  be  required 
when  fried  in  butter. 


HAVE  YOU  HAD 
BREAKFAST  AT 


&/>e  lied  Lion? 


HAVE  YOU  DINED  OR 
LUNCHED  AT 


T5he  *Red  Lion? 

Fare,  service,  wines  and  table  appointments,  surpass  anything  pre- 
viously attempted  in  tins  City.  English  Ale  on  draught;  and  the  finest 
line  of  liquors  and  cigars,  at  the  RED  LION  bar. 

The  RED  LION  GRILL  for  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  in  the  S.  F. 
Stock  Exchange  Building,  accessible  from  Pine  Street,  just  below 
Montgomery,  also  from  Bush  and  Montgomery  Streets  through  the 
Mills  Building. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  2i,  1904. 


The  Horse  and  Carts  may  be  very  astute  politi- 
cians, but  if  they  are,  they  have  shown  no  evidences 
of  it  by  their  management  of  their  present  campaign 
against  the  Honorable  Gavin  McNab.  The  avowed 
object  of  their  campaign  is  to  fight  McNab,  and  there 
is  no  other  reason  for  their  existence.  Why,  then, 
they  allowed  the  astute  Scotchman  to  carry  all  the 
wards;  to  boss  the  whole  State  Convention  ;  to  make 
a  perfect  political  Phoenix  of  himself,  is  past  finding 
out.  If  they  wanted  to  fight  McNab,  they  should 
have  done  it  at  the  primaries,  as  I  have  several  times 
suggested  in  this  correspondence.  I  asked  one  of 
their  leaders,  whose  loua  voice  was  among  the  lead- 
ing features  of  the  last  municipal  convention  in  this  ' 
city,  if  the  O'Brien  boys  were  not  going  to  put  up  a 
special  fight  at  the  Democratic  primaries,  and  he  told 
me  they  were ;  but  it  seems  that  in  their  case  their 
foresight  was  better  than  their  hindsight,  and  as  a 
result,  they  made  no  fight  at  the  primaries  this  month 
but  announced  that  they  would  put  off  their  combat 
until  the  primaries  in  August,  when  a  convention 
to  choose  electors  and  candidates  for  the  Legisla- 
ture are  to  be  named. 

*  *  * 

If  they  had  made  the  fight  two  weeks  ago  they 
would  have  had  the  support  of  Hearst,  his  paper, 
his  influence,  and,  above  all,  his  money,  which  they 
certainly  will  not  have  in  August,  and  their  chances 
of  winning  would  have  amounted  to  a  good  deal,  ami 
at  least  they  would  have  divided  the  San  Francisco 
delegation  instead  of  allowing  McNab  to  cast  it  solid- 
ly for  Gould  for  chairman,  in  the  crucial  fight  of  the 
convention. 

*  *  * 

And  that  leads  me  to  ask  what  kind  of  a  political 
manager  is  Tarpey?  Why  did  he  allow  McNab  to 
get  all  the  works  when  he  could  easily  have  rallied 
his  forces  around  the  nucleus  furnished  by  the  Horse 
and  Carts?  He  says  now  that  McNab,  when  he  was 
East  last  winter,  met  Hearst  and  pledged  himself  to 
stand  by  the  editor  in  his  contest  for  President.  Mc- 
Nab says  he  did  nothing  of  the  kind.  He  says  he 
saw  Hearst  at  the  latter's  suggestion,  and  that  Hearst 
spent  the  time  they  were  together  explaining  that 
the  roasts  which  the  Examiner  gave  the  San  Fran- 
cisco boss  some  years  ago  were  like  the  publication 
of  Father  Yorke's  attack  on  Maguire,  and  the  Exami- 
ner's refusal  to  print  Maguire's  reply  a  mistake  of 
the  bad,  foolish,  unfortunate  men  who  at  the  time 
controlled  Hearst's  San  Francisco  sheet,  but  whom, 
nevertheless,  Hearst  has  never  repudiated  in  public, 
but  on  the  contrary  has  rewarded  for  their  behavior 
to  Maguire  and  McNab  by  electing  them  to  Congress 
or  placing  them  at  the  head  of  his  papers  in  other 
cities.  Evidently  McNab,  the  Scotchman,  is  not  so 
gullible  as  Maguire.  the  Irishman,  or  not  so  good- 
natured  or  forgiving,  for  whatever  the  cause,  McNab 
came  home  laid  low,  allowed  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee to  pass  a  froth  and  worthless  endorsement  of 
Hearst  at  its  meeting  a  month  or  so  ago,  then  quie'ly 
waited  until  the  time  came,  and  then  with  the  skill 
of  an  Italian  banditti,  rather  than  like  a  Scotchman, 
he  struck  his  political  stilleto  between  the  ribs  of 
his  old-time  enemy,  the  latter's  explanation  to  the 
contrary  notwithstanding,  and  deftlv  turned  it  in  the 
wound.  But  what  was  Tarpev  doing  all  the  tim~? 
He  should  have  taken  no  chances ;  and  if  McNab  re- 
fused to  come  out  squarely  for  his  man,  should  have 


endeavored  with  the  alliance  of  the  Horse  and  Carts 
to  have  defeated  him  at  the  primaries.  It  will  do  the 
Horse  and  Carts  and  larpey  very  little  good  to  de- 
feat McNab  in  August,  a  month  after  the  St.  Louis 
convention  has  adjourned,  even  if  they  can  then,  for 
be  it  remembered  that  with  the  added  prestige  of 
his  grand  victory,  it  is  going  to  be  no  easy  task  to 
defeat  him  at  all. 

*  *  * 

The  blunder  of  Tarpey  is  all  the  more  inexcusable 
that  he  ought  to  have  known  where  McNab  stood 
both  by  the  position  occupied  by  his  local  newspaper 
organ,  and  by  the  avowed  hostility  of  Lane  to  Hearst. 
Any  tyro  in  politics  knows  that  Lane  would  never 
have  taken  the  position  he  did  if  McNab  had  not  ap- 
proved of  it;  for  even  if  personally  he  had  intended 
to  oppose  Hearst,  his  obligations  and  connections 
with  McNab  are  such  that  he  would  not  have  come 
out  openly  and  fought  Hearst ;  writing  letters  and 
publishing  interviews  against  him;  if  McNab  had  not 
O.  K.'d  them.  When  all  these  facts  are  considered, 
and  the  supreme  folly  and  shortsightedness  of  Tar- 
pey in  managing  the  campaign  in  this,  the  most  im- 
portant State  in  the  Union  for  Hearst  to  carry,  it  is 
charity  to  say  that  he  is  one  of  the  poorest  politicians 
California  has  ever  produced.  Why,  it  is  asked,  was 
Tarpey  in  Oregon  and  Washington,  States  which  al- 
together have  not  the  delegates  that  California  sends 
to  St.  Louis,  when  the  primaries  were  being  held 
here,  and  when  there  was  so  much  work  to  be  done 
in   the   State? 

*       *       =r 

There  are  other  facts  which  are  being  commented 
upon.  For  instance,  people  are  asking  why  Barney 
Murphy,  if  he  was  really  for  Hearst,  did  not  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  absence  of  the  San  Francisco  delega- 
tion when  the  Convention  was  called  to  order  Mon- 
day, to  put  Jeter  in  the  chair?  As  one  of  the  Jeter 
shouters  said  in  seconding  the  ex-Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor, the  selection  of  a  chairman  was  all  important, 
as  he  could  appoint  the  committees  and  could  have 
named  a  committee  on  platform  which  would  have 
given  Hearst  the  emphatic  indorsement  and  pledge 
of  united  support  which  he  so  much  desired.  Again 
it  is  asked  why  Budd  and  Maguire  were  not  at  Santa 
Cruz?  They  were  supposed  to  be  Hearst's  best 
friends,  and  undoubtedly  have  much  influence,  but 
they  were  most  conspicuous  by  their  absence,  and 
yet  all  the  anti-Hearst  forces  and  leaders  were  on 
hand.  Barry  with  his  Star  sat  right  below  the  plat- 
form ;  Lane  was  there,  too ;  and  Dockweiler  and  Ed. 
Leake  and  Ben  Maddox,  and  in  fact  every  one  who 
was  a  pronounced  anti-Hearst  man;  but  the  editor's 
friends  were  confined  almost  entirely  to  his  paid  ad- 
vocates, and  the  regular  employees  of  his  paper. 

*  *  * 

Lane,  when  he  said  that  the  resolution  offered  by 
the  majority  of  the  committee  on  platform  recom- 
mending Hearst,  but  not  endorsing  him,  had  extended 
the  hand  of  conciliation  to  the  Hearst  faction,  a  hand 
which  they  in  their  folly  had  rejected,  summed  up 
the  whole  situation,  and  Tarpey  would  have  shown 
himself  wise  if  he  had  risen  as  Lane  sat  down  and  had 
then  and  there  accepted  the  majority  resolution.  But 
Tarpey  was  conspicuous  by  nothing  so  much  as  by 
his  poor  generalship.  In  this  connection  I  must 
not  forget  to  call  attention  to  his  display  of  anger 
with  the  Alamedans  who  refused  to  follow  his  dig- 


May  2i,  1904. 

tation  and  voted  for  Gould  for  chairman.  He  in- 
formed them  that  they  must  not  come  near  his  head- 
quarters any  more,  and  could  no  longer  smoke 
Hearst's  cigars  or  drink  his  whiskey.  The  p>a>nn- 
"f  them  gave  him  showed  that  thin  ami  then- 
he  drove  them  permanently  into  the  anti-Hearst 
campaign.  In  striking  contrast  with  the  Tarpey  pol- 
icy on  that  occasion,  .NicNah  smiled  as  blandly  on  the 
■•ix  or  eight  -San  Francisco  delegates  who  flew  his 
coop  as  on  the  160  who  remained  faithful,  lie  prob- 
ably will  cut  their  political  throats  if  they  ever  come 
up  for  office  again,  but  he  will  do  it  quietly  ami  pleas- 
antly. To  sum  it  all  up,  McNab  is  the  boss  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  this  State;  and  I  shall  he  very 
much  surprised  if  the  Horse  and  Carts  accomplish 
much  in  their  efforts  to  down  him  next  August.  If 
I  were  a  Democrat  and  wanted  to  ride  on  the  ban  1 
wagon  in  this  town,  I  would  get  up  close  to  McNab 
and  try  to  get  my  knees  under  his  lap-robe. 

*  *  * 

The  second  municipal  victory  of  the  Hays  brothers 
at  San  Jose,  is  probably  the  end  of  the  Mackenzie  re- 
gime in  that  town,  for  an  organization  like  MacKen- 
zie's  cannot  survive  two  disastrous  campaigns.  (  >f 
course,  there  will  be  opposition  to  the  Hayses  in  the 
future,  and  some  day  they  will  be  defeated. 

*  *  * 

The  success  of  the  Hayses,  of  course,  makes  them 
political  factors  of  importance  in  the  State,  and  it 
is  by  no  means  impossible  that' one  ot  them  may  be 
a  candidate  for  the  Senate  next  winter.  They  can, 
of  course,  dictate  the  Legislative  nominations  from 
Santa  Clara,  and  pledge  them,  except  hold-over  Sena- 
tor Shortridge,  for  themselves.  The  defeat  of  the 
Mackenzieites  also  means  that  Lou  O'Neal  has  no 
chance  to  go  back  to  the  State  Senate  this  year;  and 
that  Louis  Montgomery  might  as  well  retire  from  the 
nomination  for  Congress.  In  fact,  they  are  in  a  posi- 
tion to  play  the  bosses  to  perfection,  and  no  doubt 
they  will.  I  have  been  asked  where  Jim  Rea  gets 
off  in  the  combination.  I  do  not  know,  but  as  he 
has  publicly  declared  that  he  does  not  like  Spooks,  I 
presume  he  will  now  be  given  ample  time  to  attend 
to  his  electric  railroad  and  real  estate  business.  His 
elimination  and  that  of  Mackenzie  from  Santa  Clara 
politics  illustrates  very  strikingly  that  "a  house 
divided  against  itself  shall  fall."  When  Rea  and  Mac- 
kenzie pulled  together  they  were  invincible,  but  they 
quarreled,   and   look   at  the   result. 

*  *  * 

The  Republicans  at  Sacramento  did,  of  course,  what 
everybody  knew  they  would  do ;  and  while  they  had 
plenty  of  oratory,  it  lacked  the  fire  and  enthusiasm 
of  the  Santa  Cruz  variety.  The  delegates  at  large 
would  show  that  Harrison  Gray  Otis  is  not  a  politi- 
cal factor  of  much  importance  in  this  State,  as  he 
was  forced  to  witness  the  triumph  in  Judge  McKin- 
ley  of  a  bitter  enemy.  It  shows,  too,  that  John  D. 
Spreckels  is  admitted  back  in  the  fold  again,  which 
means  that  Burns  is  absolutely  eliminated  from 
State  politics,  and  it  means  that  Abe  Ruef  is  on  top 
in  the  State  on  the  Republican  side,  just  as  Gavin 
McNab  is  on  the  Democratic. 

Summing  up  the  result  of  the  two  conventions,  it 
may  be  truthfully  said  that  the  power  of  the  daily 
press  does  not  amount  to  much  in  California,  and 
that  of  all  the  professions  that  of  editor — of  at  least 
of  newspaper  proprietors — is  least  likely  to  help  a 
man  politically.  The  only  San  Francisco  newspaper 
owner  who  seems  able  to  get  anything  for  himself 
is  the  one  who  confessedly  has  nothing  to  do  with 
the  editorial  management  of  his  paper. 

— Junius. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Oh,  splendid  is  the  graduate, 

He  wears  a  new  claw-hammer, 
And  happy  is  the  graduate, 

Who  hears  the  cheering  clamor; 
He  feels  he  is  an  orator, 

A  statesman,  born  and  great, 
And  his  chest  swells  as  he  mutters : 

"Man  is  master  of  his  fate." 

And  weary  is  the  graduate, 

With  pick  and  shovel  toiling, 
For  halcyon  days  have  wobbled  past 

And  life  is  nought  but  moiling; 
His  back  is  bowed,  his  legs  are  weak, 

His  chest  does  not  inflate, 
He  knows  he  has  a  master, 

And  he  calls  that  master,  "Fate." 

The  whole  question  of  employers'  liability  in  case 
of  accident  to  employee  is  in  a  state  of  confusion.  The 
old  law  which  barred  absolutely  any  recovery  where 
the  accident  was  due  to  negligence  of  a  fellow  em- 
ployee has  been  modified  somewhat  lately,  while  the 
responsibility  of  the  employer  for  safety  of  machinery 
and  appliances  has  been  restricted  somewhat.  A  lo- 
cal case  has  recently  come  up  in  which  the  plaintiff 
claims  that  he  would  not  have  been  injured  had  he 
been  informed  of  the  nature  of  the  machinery,  and 
that  there  was  danger  of  his  clothing  being  caught  in 
a  bolt,  which  in  reality  occurred  and  caused  his  in- 
juries. This  raises  a  very  pretty  question,  and  should 
lead  to  an  important  decision.  In  the  case  of  the  Rio 
the  decision  will  have  a  curious  effect  upon  the  em- 
ployment of  the  Chinese  crews.  It  is  not  conceiv- 
able at  present  that  the  crews  will  be  discharged, 
and  there  will  be  a  pretty  piece  of  work  in  teaching 
the  Mongolians  to  speak  English.  I  should  like  to 
hear  a  Chinese  coolie  delivering  himself  in  English 
learned  from  a  Scotch  mate. 

A  Berkeley  upholsterer  has  just  published  an  as- 
tronomical work  entitled  "How  to  Know  the  Starry 
Heavens ;  An  Invitation  to  the  Study  of  Suns  and 
Worlds."  It  would  be  easy  to  be  satirical  and  to 
make  cheap  jokes  about  telescope  chairs  and  such, 
but  as  a  matter  of  fact  the  thing  does  not  strike  me 
that  way.  I  am  so  surprised  at  a  man  modestly  fol- 
lowing his  occupation  and  yet  pursuing  his  hobby 
without  any  wish  to  make  money  or  position  out  of 
it,  that  I  cannot  avoid  what  may  easily  be  the  imper- 
tinence of  a  few  words  of  commendation.  There  is 
a  sanity  about  the  performance  which  is  a  little  for- 
eign to  us.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  our  upholsterer  as- 
tronomer will  keep  it  up,  but  let  him  remember  that 
the  chief  interest  of  the  story  lies  in  the  fact  that  he 
is  an  upholsterer. 

The  "Cap  and  Bells"  Club  was  founded  after  all. 
I  fancied  that  the  name  might  be  too  much  for  it, 
but  no!  it  lives  and  justifies  its  existence  by  making 
a  fool  of  itself  to  begin  with.  It  is  taking  up  tnte 
study  of  Shakespeare,  the  French  language  and 
psychics.  There  is  a  mixture  for  you.  Poor  Shakes- 
peare will  not  long  stay  in  the  race,  and  I  fear  the 
French  language  will  be  beaten  in  the  first  round  of 
the  linguistic  encounter.  But  psychics!  Ah,  there 
is  something  that  will  last,  something  broad  enough 
and  wide  enough  and  mysterious  enough  to  hold  the 
attention  and  bring  such  delightful,  big-eyed,  long- 
haired, white-handed  things  in  trousers  to  discuss  it. 
Ladies  of  the  Cap  and  Bells,  my  health  to  your  club  ! 
"Long  live  Psychics." 


"Chivalry  in  the  Legal  Profession"  was  one  of  the 
subjects  upon  which  a  graduating  pupil  addressed 
an  admiring  and  perspiring  throng  at  the  recent  com- 
mencement exercises.  It  is  an  inspiring  subject,  and 
should  have  lent  wings  to  poetic  imagination  as 
chivalry  has  always  done.  It  is  due  to  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  more  than  any  one  else,  that  the  mass  of  people 
have  been  so  slow  in  learning  that  the  chivalry  of  the 
Middle  Ages  was  simply  an  agreement  among  the 
aristocracy  to  leave  one  another's  women  alone. 
Other  women  did  not  count.  It  is  merely  chivalrous 
enough  from  the  lawyer's  standpoint  to  leave  one 
another's  clients  alone.  Unfortunately,  however, 
this  code  of  ethics  is  too  high  for  the  local  bar,  and 
runners  are  employed  by  many  firms,  while  backbit- 
ing is  part  of  the  general  stock  in  trade.  If  this  point 
of  view  were  explained  at  length  it  would  make  in- 
teresting reading,  and  profitable  withal. 

The  disappearance  01  young  girls  is  of  too  frequent 
occurrence  in  this  city,  and  some  explanation  should 
be  made  by  the  police  authorities.  A  healthy  young 
woman  is  not  an  easy  subject  to  dispose  of,  and  unless 
she  is  too  willing,  should  be  able  to  make  any  attempt 
at  abduction  very  difficult,  if  not  impossible.  The 
fact  is,  and  there  is  no  use  in  blinking  at  it,  that  many 
of  our  young  girls  are  not  so  unsophisticated  as  we 
fondly  imagine,  and  that  there  is  a  sort  of  (one  would 
say  subterranean,  but  that  the  upper  floors  of  the 
French  restaurants  are  the  usual  route)  connection 
between  many  of  them  and  a  section  of  vicious 
society.  The  pure  girl  is  safe  enough  as  a  rule,  so 
long  as  she  keeps  the  track ;  the  other  sort  isi  too 
wide  awake  to  run  much  risk,  but  the  girl  who  is 
half  and  half,  a  nice  girl  with  occasional  lapses,  is 
deceived  some  time  or  other.  Here  is  the  explanation 
of  some  of  the  erratic  movements  of  our  girls.  Events 
prove  this  solution  applies  in  the  Edith  Williams 
case. 

John  McNaught  must  have  a  sense  of  humor  suffi- 
ciently great  to  allow  him  to  make  fun  of  such  an  au- 
gust body  as  the  Starr  King  Fraternity,-  or  he  must 
have  overlooked  his  hand.  He  states  that  this  is  a 
thinking  age,  distinguished  by  "real,  virile  thinking 
power."  Is  this  so?  It  is  a  sensational  age,  swayed 
more  and  more  by  high  sounding  twaddle.  If  Mr. 
McNaught  really  fancies  that  the  age  is  one  of 
thought,  let  him  publish  the  "Call"  for  one  week  ac- 
cording to  that  idea  and  he  will  find  out.  He  has 
not  found  out  yet  because  he  has  never  tried  it.  The 
"Call"  or  any  other  paper  as  an  organ  for  thinking 
people  would  be  an  innovation  in  local  journalism 
which  it  would  be  hard  to  imagine.  With  the  "Call" 
thoughtful  and  the  Examiner  truthful,  we  should  be 
so  near  the  millennium  that  we  should  not  need  to 
read  papers  at  all. 

The  presentation  of  a  bronze  medal  for  personal 
bravery,  awarded  to  a  police  officer  the  other  day 
calls  attention  to  the  benefit  of  providing  some  mark 
for  such  acts  as  would  receive  a  more  general  recog- 
nition. An  order  of  merit  would  be  a  fine  incentive 
to  personal  endeavor,  and  a  stimulus  to  those  altru- 
istic actions  which  help  to  gild  our  general  sordid- 
ness.  I  suppose,  however,  it  is  too  much  to  hope 
for.  Some  politician  would  get  his  work  in,  and  be- 
fore we  knew  where  we  were  the  medals  would  be 
distributed  wholesale  to  the  Fire  Department  and  the 
Teamsters'  Union.  Democracy  is  doubtless  a  very 
fine  thing,  but  it  play;,  the  very  deuce  with  anything 
like  distinction. 


May  II,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

MARK  TWAIN  ON  LAKE  TAHOE. 

Mark  Twain   said   thai    Lake  Tahoe  would  make 

:ian   mummy   feel   lively.     And    Mark 

knev  he  had  been  there.      Take  advantage 

of  the   yreat   excursion   which   leave?   San    Francisco 

Iturday,  May  28th,  and  spend  a  couple 

of  days  at  Tahoe.     Round   trip     rate,     exclusive  id 

■  50.   Tickets  sold   in   San 
Francisco  and  Oakland,  and   good   to  return   on  or 
■  May  31st.    Ask  at  Southern  Pacific  Office.  613 
Market  street. 


INFORMATION  FREE. 
To  educate  the  population  of  this  city  is  a  large  un- 
dertaking, and  can  onlv  he  done  properly  by  special- 
in  their  different  lines.  A  new  departure  in  our 
educational  system  has  been  started  by  the  San 
Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  Company,  415  Post  street, 
with  the  opening  of  their  Information  Bureau,  where 
full  instructions  for  the  use  of  gas  for  all  purposes 
are  given.  The  demonstration  rooms  are  located  in 
the  basement  in  connection  with  the  gas  stove  de- 
partment, where  all  kinds  of  gas  appliances  may  be 
seen  in  actual  operation.  A  new  stairway  of  solid 
oak  leads  from  the  office  to  this  department,  which 
will  be  thrown  open  to  the  public  early  during  the 
coming  week.  Much  valuable  information  may  be 
obtained  by  paying  a  visit  to  the  new  department. 


G.  H.  Umbsen  &  Co.  will  hold  an  extraordinary 
sale  of  residence,  investment,  improved  and  unim- 
proved property  at  their  salesroom  on  Monday,  May 
23d,  at  12  o'clock  noon.  The  sale  is  by  order  of  the 
Hibernia  Bank,  and  the  terms  are  very  liberal,  onlv 
one-fifth  cash.  This  is  an  unheard-of  opportunity 
for  those  who  are  seeking  investment  for  idle  capital 
or  for  people  who  wish  to  improve  the  earning  ca- 
pacity of  their  money.  The  fact  that  the  property  is 
offered  by  the  Hibernia  Bank  is  a  guarantee  in  itself 
of  the  producing  quality  of  the  real  estate.  Every 
title  has  been  carefully  looked  into,  and  it  is  rare 
indeed  that  such  property  is  offered  to  the  buyer  at 
his  own  figure.     Don't  forget  this  auction. 

Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkish  Baths. 


HE  USED  THE  FAMILY 
SAVINGS 

And  bought  a  lot  oa  beautiful  Bussian  River  Heights—a  eottaee 
in  Sonoma  county  redwoods,  on  the  grandest  sweep  of  the  mi  - 
sian  river.  Three  and  one-half  miles  of  water;  boating,  oathina, 
fishing;  between  Guerneville  and  Camp  Vacation.  California 
Northwestern  Railway.  Round  trip.  $2.50.  Every  Sunday.  8  a.  m., 
Tiburon  Ferry.  San  Francisco-  Five  hourson  groundsireturni.ng 
leave  the  Heights  5  p.  m.  Lots.  S50  up.  See  them.  Inquire 
Real  Estate  Security  Co..  139  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco, 
or  972  Broadway.  Oakland. 


Hotel  Ben   Lomond 


Santa  Ciuz  Mountains— No  Staging. 


Table  first  class. 


Electric  lights,    boating  swimming,  fishing, 
hunting,  tennis,  croquet. 


See  booklet  S.  P.  Company,  613  Market  Street,  or  B.  Dickinson, 
Ben  Lomond.  Cal. 


PARK  HOUSE  and   COTTAGES 

BEN  LOMOND,  CAL. 

New   management-       An  ideal  resort,   unsurpassed   climate 
drives,  fishing  and  hunting. 
Two  hours  ride  to  Big  Basin.    Modern  prices. 

J.  D.  CELLA.  Prop. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


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Spend  Your  Vacation 

A  great  manv  San  Francisco  people  are  planning  to  spend 
the  entire  summer  .it  Hotel  Del  Monte.  No  other  resnrt  In 
Cilifurnia  offers  such  a  combination  of  attractions,  sea-bat hir  g, 
golf,  .mtomobiling,  tennis,  fishing  and  all  out  of  door  sports. 
Instead  of  going  from  place  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the  wise 
one=  of  society  are  planning  already  to  put  in  several  enjoyable 
weeks  down  at  Del  Monte  by  the  Sea.     Add'e^s 

Geo.  P.  Snell,  Manager,  Del  Monte,  California. 

At  Hotel  Del  Monte 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling' 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendcme  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chairning  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS,     Prop. 


Paraiso    SPr*n£s 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


BLUE  LAKES 

Boating,   Bathing  and  Fishing,  Music,  Mineral  Spring. 
Send  for  Pamphlet,  0.  Weisman,  Midlake  Co.,  or  call  on 

A.  K.  Happersberger,  1104  MarKet  St.,  S.  F. 


BLITHEDALE 

MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


Ocean  Villa  Hotel  and  Cottages 

On  the  cliffs  at  the  mouth  of  the  river-  Large,  magnificently 
wooded  grounds,  profusion  of  flowers,  croauet,  billiards,  dancing 
pavilion,  boating  and  bathing.  Bow  boats  free  to  guests.  For 
particulars  address, 

F.    V.    BERKA.,  Santa  Cruz.  Phone  Black  256.    Free  bus. 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


Ruler  of  Kings.  Harper  &  Brothers  has  pub- 
lished "Rulers  of  Kings,"  by- 
Gertrude  Atherton,  the  popular  California  author. 
The  story  is  based  upon  the  power  of  great  wealth 
in  the  hands  of  a  man  who  has  been  brought  up  as 
a  democrat.  The  author  first  shows  the  effect  of  an 
experimental  education  on  a  boy  whose  father  is  the 
richest  man  in  the  world,  and  needless  to  add  an 
American.  The  father's  theory  is  to  bring  the  boy 
up  with  the  idea  that  he  is  almost  penniless,  to  make 
him  earn  his  way  through  college,  to  keep  him  in  ab- 
solute ignorance  of  his  position,  and  when  he  has 
proved  himself  a  man,  to  reveal  to  him  that  he  will 
eventually  inherit  some  $400,000,000.  The  boy's  sis- 
ter, on  the  other  hand,  is  educated  at  the  Austrian 
court,  being  the  constant  companion  and  only  friend 
of  the  Emperor's  daughter.  The  author  is  not  satis- 
fied to  have  written  an  historical  novel  of  the  past; 
she  selects  her  theme  from  the  events  which  are 
making  history,  and  even  goes  beyond  ;  anticipating 
the  power  of  American  wealth,  which  makes  the  rich 
man  a  ruler  of  kings.  She  contrasts  New  World 
wealth  with  Old  World  royalty;  she  touches  upon 
the  agitated  question  of  capital  and  labor;  she  de- 
scribes the  rivalry  between  the  Archduchess  of  Aus- 
tria and  the  Emperor  of  Germany  for  the  favor  of  the 
Hungarian  people.  She  hints  that  her  hero,  repre- 
senting American  wealth,  in  conjunction  with  the 
German  Emperor,  will  become  the  greatest  powers 
of  the  world,  and  finally  marries  the  former  to  the 
Archduchess.  It  is  a  daring  theme,  developed  with 
the  greatest  diplomacy;  original  in  conception,  and 
designed  to  make  the  reader  stop  to  think. 
Harper  &  Bros.,  Publishers.     Price,  $1.50. 

This  comprises     sixteen     sym- 
"The  Panorama     bolic  dreams  vividly  described, 
of  Sleep."  exactly  as  dreamed  by  the  au- 

thor, and  entirely  authentic. 
These  dreams  express  a  very  high  order  of  symbol- 
ogy  through  which  the  mind  is  taught  by  the  soul 
and  enabled  to  see  and  understand  the  mysteries  of 
spiritual  life  as  it  may  be  experienced  here  and  now. 
In  these  days  of  high  pressure  and  strenuousness, 
when  the  reading  public  satiate  themselves  with 
amusing  novels  with  questions  of  human  character, 
or  with  backward  glances  into  the  preceding-  century, 
a  little  book  like  "The  Panorama  of  Sleep"  comes  in- 
to notice  not  only  as  a  novelty,  out  as  an  awakener 
of  soul  and  purpose.  The  dreams  were  all  the  au- 
thor's, and  confident  that  they  were  sent  for  some 
purpose,  have  been  written  out  in  allegorical  form 
and  given  to  the  public. 

The  rapidly-growing  popular  interest  in  Mental 
Healing  will  bring-  "First  Lessons  in  the  New 
Thought"  into  quick  appreciation.  Probably  in  its 
method  it  is  the  simplest,  the  least  technical  treatise 
yet  issued  for  the  setting  forth  of  the  great  truth 
which  it  considers.  The  book  should  be  welcomed 
by  hosts  of  people  who  are  feeling  their  way  into 
New  Thought,  and  who  are  looking  for  a  plain  state- 
ment of  what  it  means  and  of  how  its  benefits  are 
to  be  utilized. 

James  H.  West  Co.,   Publishers,  Boston. 

"Little  Gardens,"  just  published  by  D.  Appleton  & 
Co.,  is  in  plenty  of  time  to  give  much  useful  infor- 
mation on  the  subject  of  seeds,  planting  and  garden- 
ing in  general.  The  book  should  be  a  good  seller  in 
the  country,  and  also  in  suburban  towns,  where  gar- 


den lots  are  small.  The  author,  Charles  K.  Skinner, 
even  encourages  utilizing  every  available  inch  of 
ground  in  the  big  cities;  no  space  being  too  small 
for  a  little  garden. 

A  CURE  FOR  CARBOLIC  POISONING. 

An  antidote  has  been  found  for  carbolic  acid  poi- 
soning, and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  San  Francisco- 
suffers  from  the  curse  of  poisoning  by  carbolic 
acid  and  the  gas  route,  it  is  of  interest  to  the  people 
to  know  that  a  Mr.  Allen,  a  Dublin  veterinary  sur- 
geon, discovered  that  ordinary  turpentine  is  an  anti- 
dote to  carbolic  acid.  On  Saturday,  a  well-known 
chemical  expert  in  Dublin  tested  the  efficacy  of  the 
antidote  on  a  dog.  A  dose  of  carbolic  acid  was  first 
"administered,  and  when  all  the  ordinary  symptoms 
of  carbolic  poisoning  had  been  developed,  oil  of  tur- 
pentine was  applied,  and  the  dog  recovered  within 
a  short  time.  A  curious  thing  about  the  discovery- 
is  that  it  was  due  more  or  less  to  an  accident.  Mr. 
Allen  had  some  horses  in  his  establishment  which 
were  suffering  from  carbolic  poisorring,  and  he  asked 
for  oil  to  be  applied  as  an  antidote.  It  was  only 
when  the  effects  were  found  to  be  so  unexpectedly 
successful  that  it  was  discovered  that  it  was  turpen- 
tine that  had  been  administered.  A  few  days  after 
a  blacksmith  who  was  unconscious  from  the  effects 
of  carbolic  poisoning  was  treated  similarly,  with 
satisfactory  results.  It  now  remains  for  some  gen- 
ius to  discover  a  means  to  curtail  the  mortality 
caused  by  carbon  monoxide  as  made  by  our  benevo- 
lent gas  corporation. 


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Fling  the  books  and  papers  over. 

Summer's  here  again  ; 
Scent  of  roses,  scent  of  clover. 

Clover  after  rain. 
All  the  bees  that  buzz  around  it 
-""Hum  the  soft  refrain : 
"Summer  incense — we  have  found  it — 

Clover  after  rain." 

■\Yinds  the  trail,  rough,  steep  and  glowing 

To  the  frowning  pines ; 
Gleams  the  ghostly  summit,  showing 

Where   the   snow   drift   shines; 
Hard  the  road  and  long  the  tramping, 

Glorious  the  gain, 
In   the  scent  of  clover,   camping — 

Clover  after  rain. 

—Roland  Whittle. 


Dear  Bessie:  The  city  is  commencing  slowly  to 
empty  for  the  first  few  weeks  of  summer  in  the  coun- 
try, which  are,  to  my  way  of  thinking,  the  pleasantest 
in  California  while  there  is  still  something  green  to 
be  seen.  But,  as  you  know,  there  are  always  some 
people  left  in  town,  and  therefore  we  who  are  not 
utterly  stagnant  during  the  dull  season,  generally 
find  something  to  do.  Most  of  the  entertaining  done 
of  late  has  been  for  visiting  strangers,  and  Honolulu 
has  supplied  several  whom  it  has  been  a  great 
pleasure  to  meet.  Bernie  Drown  Boardman  gave 
her  first  tea  since  her  marriage  last  Monday  for  Mrs. 
Dillingham,  who  recently  arrived  from  that  paradise 
of  the  Pacific,  and  with  whom  I  believe  the  Board- 
mans  stayed  during  their  recent  visit  to  Honolulu. 
At  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill's  little  informal  tea,  a  few 
mutual  friends  were  invited  to  meet  Mrs.  Damon  of 
Honolulu,  and  her  daughter  May,  who  are  here  from 
their  island  home  on  a  brief  visit  to  Mrs.  Merrill  en 
route  East.  Sophie  Brownell's  telephone  tea  was 
given  for  Miss  Cook  of  Minneapolis,  and  was  a  jolly 
little  affair,  small  and  informal ;  Eleanor  Davenport's 
recent  luncheon  was  for  Louise  Cooper,  who  is  here 
on  a  visit  from  Santa  Barbara — eight  or  ten  girls, 
all  schoolmates  in  the  past.  At  Mrs.  Henry  Dutton's 
bridge  party  last  Friday  afternoon,  which  was  for 
Louise  Cooper,  there  were  about  a  dozen  players. 

Mrs..  Louis  Monteagle's  luncheon  on  Tuesday  was 
a  welcome  to  Mrs.  Welty,  who  is  here  on  a  visit  to 
her  mother,  and  who  as  Eleanor  Wood  was  associated 
with  Mrs.  Monteagle  in  much  of  the  charitable  work 
done  by  St.  Luke's  church  people ;  Eleanor  Warner 
was  the  motif  for  Mabel  Donaldson's  pretty  luncheon 
on  Wednesday.  By  the  way,  have  you  noticed  what 
a  number  of  charming  women  we  have  whose  first 
names  are  Eleanor?  There  are  Eleanor  Davenport, 
Eleanor  Warner,  Eleanor  Hume,  nee  Eckart,  Eleanrr 
Welty,  nee  Wood,  Eleanor  Roosevelt,  nee  Morrow. 
to  say  nothing  of  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin,  and  how  fond 
they  all  are  of  giving  pleasure  to  their  friends !  Apro- 
pos of  Mrs.  Martin,  it  has  been  rather  a  disappoint- 
ment to  the  swim  that  she  did  not  give  some  kind 
of  an  elaborate  entertainment  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Peter 
during  her  stay;  the  nearest  approach  to  it  was  the 
dinner  she  gave  Mrs.  Peter's  father,  Mr.  Charles 
Oelrichs,  who  was  here  for  a  couple  of  weeks,  but 
has  now  gone  home  to  New  York,  taking  his  son 
Harry  with  him.  The  Columbia  Theatre  has  just 
bristled  with  theatre  parties  this  week  to  see  Mans- 


field. Monday  night  they  were  dotted  all  over  the 
house,  and  each  of  course  had  its  supper  afterwards, 
mostly  at  the  Palace.  We  had  Gertrude  Wheeler's 
concert  in  Century  Hall  on  Tuesday  night ;  Mrs. 
Arthur  Moore  gave  a  bridge  party  on  Monday  after- 
noon— just  a  few  lovers  of  the  game ;  Mrs.  Ryland 
Wallace  had  a  card  party  on  Wednesday. 

The  De  Guigne  girls'  gave  the  first  out-of-town 
gathering  this  summer  in  the  shape  of  a  tennis  party 
nt  Baywood,  their  grandmother,  Mrs.  Parrott's,  home 
in  San  Mateo  last  Saturday  afternoon,  and  from 
all  I  hear  there  will  soon  be  a  lot  more,  or  rather  I 
should  say  garden  parties,  given  there  and  at  Burlin- 
game. 

I  had  a  letter  from  Grace  the  other  day,  who 
chanced  to  be  over  in  Ireland  during  the  recent  royal 
visit  there,  and  came  in  for  a  good  deal  of  the  festivity 
connected  with  it.  Among  other  things,  she  was  at 
the  Punchestown  races,  which  are  among  the  great 
annual  events  in  the  Green  Isle,  and  she  writes  en- 
thusiastically of  the  beauty  of  the  women  and  the 
pretty  gowns  some  of  them  wore.  But  among  them 
all  she  thought  none  shone  more  brightly  than  our 
own  American  girl,  one  of  the  daughters  of  the 
Bonynges,  and  now  the  wife  of  Sir  John  Maxwell, 
who  was  so  exquisitely  gowned  at  the  dinner  which 
preceded  the  ball  given  by  the  Duke  of  Connaught, 
who  is  commander  of  the  forces  in  Ireland,  and  the 
Duchess  gave  in  honor  of  King  Edward  and  Queen 
Alexandra.    At  the  races  the  day  before  Lady  Max- 


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well  wore  a  beautiful  costume  of  pale  gray  embroid- 
ered in  white,  black  and  gray,  and  a  large  black  chip 
hat  with  ostrich  feathers.  She  says  she  also  saw  Lady 
Kesketh — Flora  Sharon,  you  know — at  the  races. 
Flora  is  simply  devoted  to  Ireland. 

Leontine  Blakeman  has  got  the  traveling  bee  in 
her  bonnet,  and  departs  with  her  mother  for  St. 
Louis  next  week,  and  gossip  has  it  that  they  will 
stray  farther  away  from  home ;  so  when  are  we  to 
see  again  the  lovely  biake,  as  she  is  fondly  termed 
by  her  friends? 

San  Rafael  seems  to  be  the  chosen  place  for  the 
swim  this  summer,  i  mean,  of  course,  those  who 
are  not  lucky  enough  to  own  homes  of  their  own  in 
the  San  Mateo-Burlingame  district,  and  already  there 
is  quite  a  formidable  list  of  those  who  will  be  in  that 
pleasant  vale  the  next  few  weeks.  The  Pomeroys 
go  over  on  the  first  of  June,  but  they  have  their  own 
home,  as  well  as  the  Eells,  the  Harry  Aliens,  and  the 
Dibblees.  Mrs.  George  Boardman  has  taken  a  house 
for  the  summer,  as  usual,  and  there  will  be  found, 
among  others,  the  Sam  Buckbees,  Ed.  Schmiedells, 
Seward  McNears,  the  Coffins,  including  Natalie,  Jas. 
Otisses,  etc.  Mamie  Burling  Page  has  also  gone  over 
to  San  Rafael,  but  whether  she  remains  there  all 
summer  depends  on  her  health,  tor  she  has  been  a 
sad  invalid  part  of  the  winter  and  all  of  the  spring. 
Mrs.  Burling  is  with  her. 

We  very  much  miss  the  Henry  Huntinetons,  who 
now  make  Los  Angeles  their  home,  and  the  charm- 
ing parties  both  Mrs.  Huntington  and  the  girls  were 
so  fond  of  giving.  They  are  going  East  this  summer 
and  then  abroad,  and  I  have  heard  Egypt  named  as 
where  they  will  soend  next  winter,  so  I  fear  it  will 
be  a  long  time  till  San  Francisco  sees  them  again. 
We  heard  of  the  Bull  girls  and  Harriet  Moffatt  this 
week ;  thev  are  having  a  delightful  time  in  Italy.  The 
Horace  Hills  have  gone  abroad  ;  they  will  spend  the 
summer  in  Europe  and  take  in  St.  Louis  on  their 
way  home. 

T  hear  Ethel  Sperry  says  she  will  come  back  to 
town  in  the  autumn  as  brown  as  a  berry,  as  she 
intends  to  spend  the  summer  away  up  in  the  Sierras, 
fishing,  bear  hunting  and  living  out-of-doors  gener- 
ally. Alice  Sullivan  goes  in  June  to  Phelan  Park, 
where  the  rest  of  the  familv  are  already  installed  for 
the  season  ;  the  Blanchard  Chases  also  depart  June 
1st  for  Stagg's  Leap;  the  Colliers  have  gone  to  their 
Clear  Lake  cottage  for  the  summer;  the  Louis  Par- 
rotts  are  to  be  at  the  Vendome  for  several  weeks 
after  they  leave  Paso  Robles;  the  Lindsley  Spencers 
will  be  at  San  Mateo  during  Tune ;  Ollie  Palmer  and 
Silas  have  already  taken  up  their  rest  at  Menlo  Park 
for  the  summer;  Mrs.  Richard  Spragne  and  the  girls 
go  to  Santa  Barbara.  I  hear;  Doctor  Morton  Gib- 
bons and  Mary  are  off  for  a  flyer  to  Reno  to  display 
their  recently  acquired  treasure,  Morte,  Tr.,  and  will 
stay  a  week  or  so  with  Mrs.  Sunderland.  The  Russ 
Wilsons  have  decided  to  remain  in  town  all  summer, 
and  just  make  short  visits  in  different  directions; 
Laura  McKinstry  is  to  be  another  stay-at-home;  she 
savs  she  has  had  enough  of  gadding  for  a  time,  and 
will  only  make  brief  "calls"  on  friends  in  the  country. 
Meda  Houghton  is  expected  home  from  the  Philip- 
pines about  the  middle  of  June ;  she  has  been  there 
on  a  visit  to  her  sister.  It  has  seemed  like  old  times 
to  see  the  Lockwoods  at  the  Presidio ;  Colonel  Lock- 
wood  has  been  in  the  Philippines  the  past  two  years, 
and  Mrs.  Lockwood  arrived  from  the  East  last  week 
to  meet  her  husband,  who  came  on  the  Sherman  with 
his  regiment,  the  29th  Infantry,  on  Monday  last.  They 
go  to  Fort  Douglas.  Oakland  is  becoming  quite  de- 
populated of  its  chief  entertainers ;  the  Borax  Smiths 


May  21,  1904. 

have  gone  on  their  annual  jaunt  East,  where  they  will 
remain  all  summer  at  their  home  on  Shelter  Island; 
the  Frank  Havens  gave  them  a  good-bye  dinner  last 
Sunday  at  their  home  at  Piedmont.  The  Chabots 
have  departed  for  the  summer  to  their  charming  villa 
in  Napa  Valley.  Ruth  McNutt  is  home  again  from 
her  visit  East,  and  Margaret  Newhall  from  her  visit 
to  Los  Angeles  and  thereabouts,  and  is  credited 
with  saying  she  had  the  time  of  her  life  while  away. 

—Elsie. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Blanche  Tisdale,  daughter  of  Mr.  W.  De  Witt 

Tisdale,  to  Charles  Peter  Weeks. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
June     1st      (Wednesday) — Miss     Marjorie     Erwin, 

daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  W.  Erwin,  to 

Lieutenant  Gibson  Taylor,  13th  Infantry,  U.  S. 

A.      First    Unitarian    Church,    Berkeley.      Mrs. 

Cora  Stinson,  daughter  of  Mr.  C.  V.  Meyerstein, 

to  Doctor  Harold  A.  Johnson. 
Among  the  passengers  who  sailed  from  Boston 
last  Wednesday  morning  for  Liverpool  were  Dr.  O. 
Mera,  Mrs.  H.  G.  Newhall,  Miss  Alice  Newhall,  Miss 
Lelan  Newhall,  Mr.  Donald  Newhall,  all  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  E.  Law  arc  at  present  trav- 
eling in  Italy  and  Switzerland.  They  will  make  an 
extensive  tour  of  the  Continent  before  returning 
home. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Del  Monte:  Mrs.  C.  E.  Hopkins, 
Santa  Barbara:  Miss  Booth,  San  Francisco;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  T.  D.  Alkire,  Mrs.  Robert  Bell,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Mil- 
ler, Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  E.  Haskell,  Denver;  Dr.  Mary 
H.  Bowen,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Black,  Miss  Helen  Bowen, 
Francis  T.  Jenkin,  G.  W.  Cobb,  Chicago;  Miss  Tacks, 
Monterey;  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson,  R.  F.  McCar- 
ter.  Miss  L.  L.  McCarter.  Philadelphia;  J.  W.  Ar- 
genburgh.  Miss  T.  Mann,  Miss  P.  Wilkison,  New 
York;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  H.  Hotchkiss,  Norwalk, 
Conn.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Nik,  Ouincy;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  L.  Erhardt,  Atchison  ;  Miss  A.  M.  Cook,  Miss  C. 
Mvlinger,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Faull,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  S.  Clayton.  Mrs.  M.  E. 
Earle,  San  Jose;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  D.  York,  Ports- 
mouth. Ohio:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Taylor  and  family, 
Columbus:  William  Batchler.  S.  W.  Bramley.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  L.  R.  Harsha,  Miss  Harsha.  Dr.  D.  A.  New- 
comb,  Dr.  Theo.  Kassel,  Chicago;  Miss  M.  H.  Sey- 
mour, Miss  I.  D.  Sevmour,  Miss  Agnes  Newkirk,  H. 
S.  Green,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  S.  Oliver,  A.  Lewis,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  C.  W.  Harmon  and  son.  New  York;  E.  L. 
Fuller,  Scranton ;  Mrs.  J,  McGrew,  Indiana ;  H.  J.  C. 
Landler,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacobs, 
Geneva,  Ohio. 


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BRAND 

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BOORD'S 

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ORANGE  BITTERS,  etc. 


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May  3i,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  this  week:  Mrs.  L.  L. 
Baker,  Miss  Dorothy  Baker,  Miss  Helen  Baker,  Mr. 
Leon  Bocqueraz,  Mrs.  J.  Wertheirner,  Mi>s  Werthel 
mer,  Mr.  W.  A.  Sexton,  Mrs.  J.  li.  Page,  Mrs.  <  ■.  1  >. 
Graham,  Mrs.  M.  Tobleman,  .\irs.  J.  M.  fhiliips,  Mi-s 
M.  Phillips,  .Mr.  v..  lollis,  Mrs.  Morton,  Mr.  K.  X. 
Bee,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Russell,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  A.  Hirsch- 
man  and  family,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Saks,     Mr.     F. 

B,  Anderson,  .Mrs.   G.   Florsheim,   Mr.   and    Mrs.    II. 

C.  Galloupe,  Mr.  C  W.  Duxbrow,  Mr.  1'.  F,  Dunne. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  D.  Ulney,  Mr.  O.  A.  Newcomer.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  <J.  Li.  Anderson,  Mr.  and  Airs.  I.  j.  Moore, 
Miss  Steinbach,  Mr.  Harold  S.  day,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M. 
\\  elcker. 


Pleasure's     Wand. 


13 

There  is  a  great  demand  for  up-to-date  millinery  for 
the  lawn  functions  at  Del  Monte  and  other  resorts, 
and.  as  a  result,  the  clientage  of  the  patrons  of  good 
taste  in  feminine  headgear  flock  to  Miss  Sweeney's 
Studio  at  i-'i  Post  street,  which  is  crowded  with  the 
elite. 

Vanity,  with  a  woman,  is  consciousness  of  what 
she  has  on;  modesty,  of  what  she  has  off.  Neither 
is  good  form. 

Dust    soon    disfigures    your    summer    clothes.      It    Is 

necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  clamaee  may 
be  repaired  and  an  expensive  suit  saved.  Appearances 
are  everything,  and  Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing 
Works.  127  Stockton  street  will  help  you  fo  keep  them  up. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  curtains  and  such  articles. 
Goods  called  for  and  delivered  promptly. 


(Continued  from  Page  17.) 

E.  H.  Sothern's  coming  engagement  at  the  Colum- 
bia Theatre  will  follow  that  of  Maude  Adams.  The 
great  star  will  be  seen  in  one  of  the  most  magnificent 
productions  ever  offered  in  this  country.  His  pre- 
sentation of  "The  1'roud  Prince"  is  said  to  be  even 
more  elaborate  than  "It  I  Were  King." 

*  *  * 

"The  Silver  Moon"  will  be  the  skit  in  which  Grace 
Larue  and  Mr.  Burke  will  introduce  themselves  to 
the  Orpheum  audiences  next  week.  They  will  be 
accompanied  by  the  "Inky  Boys',"  two  cute  colored 
dance  coons,  who  are  said  to  be  as  clever  as  they  are 
diminutive. 

*  *  * 

"A  ureat  Temptation''  is  the  best  thing  that  Owen 
Davis  ever  wrote,  and  it  will  be  appropriately  staged 
at  the  Central  next  week.  The  week  will  mark  the 
initial  appearance  of  Julia  Blanc,  returning  to  San 
Francisco,  after  a  year's  engagement  at  the  American 
Theatre,  New  York. 

*  *  * 

Seeker,  Wilkes  and  company,  consisting  of  clever, 
cunning  and  comical  coons,  will  make  their  first  vau- 
deville appearance  at  the  Chutes  this  coming  week, 
as  will  also  the  two  Fantas,  acrobatic  comedians,  and 
their  trained  pig,  "Mike.''  The  original  Mozarto,  who 
produces  delightful  music  from  all  kinds  of  instru- 
ments ;  George  and  Laura  Lewis,  will  re-appear  after 
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face  comedians,  will  unload  a  new  lot  of  conversa- 
tion ;  Mildred  Manning,  the  gifted  contralto,  will  be 
heard  in  the  latest  illustrated  songs,  and  the  animato- 
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May  21,  1904. 


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The  election  of  Dr.  Scott,  of  Alameda,  to  the  prin- 
cipalship  of  the  Girls'  High  School  of  this  city  has 
caused  considerable  discussion  in  the  school  deparc- 
ment  and  among  people  who  take  interest  in  school 
affairs.  For  months,  the  School  Directors  caucused 
on  the  selection  of  a  successor  to  Mr.  Brooks.  It 
was  thought  for  a  time_  that  Director  Mark  would  be 
chosen;  then  R.  D.  Faulkner  was  "among  those 
present."  Mrs.  Prag's  name  was  also  mentioned, 
and  there  were  others.  As  the  campaign  for  the 
place  continued,  it  was  rumored  that  the  plum  would 
be  secured  by  an  outsider,  who  was  backed  by  Presi- 
dent Wheeler  of  the  University.  The  result  has 
shown  that  the  rumor  was  well  founded,  for  Air. 
Wheeler  spoke  highly  of  Dr.  Scott.  Now,  without 
question,  Dr.  Scott  is  admirably  fitted  for  the  place; 
but  does  his  election  mean  that,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
School  Directors  there  is  not  a  man  or  woman  among 
the  900  teachers  of  San  Francisco  who  is  fitted  by 
nature,  by  education,  and  by  experience  for  the  prin- 
cipalship  of  the  Girls'  High  School?  Have  the  School 
Directors  given  the  teachers  notice  that  none  of 
them  mav  hope  for  promotion,  let  them  work  never 
so  hard,  and  let  their  abilities  be  what  they  may? 
Why  is  it  that  as  soon  as  a  desirable  place  becomes 
vacant  the  School  Directors  overlook  home  talent 
and  hunt  far  afield  for  what  they  want?  Can  no  good 
come  out  of  Nazareth? 


I  think  the  school  teachers  have  just  cause  for  com- 
plaint in  this  matter.  The  Directors  have  practically 
branded  them  as  a  lot  of  incompetents.  The  Direc- 
tors' excuse  is  that  not  being  school  men  themselves, 
they  took  the  advise  of  President  Wheeler  of  the 
University,  who,  of  course,  is  a  school  man.  Now  I 
think  that  is  just  where  they  made  their  big  mistake. 
Mr.  Wheeler  naturally  looks  to  the  high  schools  as 
feeders  for  the  university,  and  naturally,  again,  he 
prefers  as  principal  of  a  high  school  one  who  agrees 
with  this  idea.  It  may  be  presumed  that  Dr.  Scott 
thinks  the  high  school  course  should  be  nothing  more 
than  a  preparatory  course  for  the  university.  That 
is  a  wrong  idea.  A  very  small  percentage  of  high 
school  pupils  ever  reach  the  university.  Their  par- 
ents can  scarcely  afford  the  high  school  course,  and 
the  University  is  altogether  beyond  their  means.  The 
high  school  course  should  be  complete,  so  far  as  it 
goes,  and  not  be  merely  preparatory  to  something  else 
at  Berkeley.  The  few  who  intend  going  to  the  Uni- 
versity should  arrange  to  receive  special  instruction. 
The  high  school  was  never  intended  for  their  special 
benefit,  but  rather  for  the  benefit  of  those  youths 
who  want  more  education  than  they  can  obtain  in  the 
grammar  grades.  I  think,  therefore,  that  the  School 
Directors  made  a  mistake  in  calling  in  Mr.  Wheeler 
as  counselor.  They  should  be  able  to  conduct  the 
School  Department  without  the  aid  of  the  eminent 
Berkeleyan.  They  should  also  remember  that  the 
people  of  this  city  are  in  favor  of  home  rule,  and  that 
the  charter  provides  that  all  employees  of  the  city  and 
county  must  have  been  residents  of  San  Francisco 
for  one  year  next  preceding  their  appointment.  Dr. 
Scott  is  not  a  resident  of  this  city.  He  is  a  citizen 
of  Alameda.  By  appointing  him  to  the  orincipalship 
of  the  Girls'  High  School,  the  School  Directors  have 
not  only  violated  the  charter,  but.  without  any  appar- 
ent cause,  they  have  cast  reflection  upon  the  entire 
body  of  teachers  in  this  department. 


The  Board  of  Education  has  made  provision  in  its 
estimate  of  expenses  for  the  next  fiscal  year  for  rais- 
ing the  salaries  of  school  teachers  from  $50  to  $60  a 
month,  and  for  reducing  the  term  of  service  at  the 
end  of  which  the  maximum  salary  of  $80  may  be 
obtained  from  eight  to  six  years.  The  friends  of  the 
public  schools  trust  that  the  Finance  Committee  will 
favorably  report  upon  this  recommendation,  and  that 
the  allowance  asked  will  be  made  in  the  budget. 
Among  all  the  employees  of  the  city  the  school  teach- 
ers receive  the  smallest  consideration.  The  salaries 
now  paid  them  were  fixed  years  ago.  The  amount 
allowed  might  have  been  suitable  at  that  time,  for 
the  city  was  not  so  large  as  at  present  by  a  couple 
of  hundred  thousand ;  the  classes  were  smaller ;  rents 
were  lower;  the  cost  of  living  was  less,  and  the  salary 
was  more  commensurate  with  the  necessities  of  the 
teachers.  But  the  city  has  grown  with  tremendous 
strides;  we  are  now  not  far  from  a  half  million  popu- 
lation ;  the  classes  have  doubled  in  size,  having  in- 
creased from  an  average  of  about  thirty-five  up  to 
sixty;  rents  have  gone  up,  and  the  cost  of  living  is 
much  greater  than  when  the  schedule  of  salaries  was 
fixed.  Meanwhile,  the  teachers,  under  the  ever-in- 
greasing  pressure  of  their  public  duties  and  their 
private  needs,  have  had  to  struggle  along  on  the 
same  old  stipend.  Many  of  them  find  it  next  to  im- 
possible to  make  both  ends  meet ;  others  become  ner- 
vous wrecks  under  the  strain.  It  is  time  that  a  gen- 
erous city  should  recognize  their  worth  by  increas- 
ing their  salaries.  Even  $60  a  month  is  but  a  small 
amount  for  a  school  teacher.  Judged  by  the  stand- 
ards of  both  public  and  private  life  it  is  very  low. 
There  is  not  a  petty  clerk  in  the  City  Hall,  be  his 
work  ever  so  simple,  who  does  not  receive  at  least 
$100  a  month.  He  has  no  responsibility ;  he  drops  his 
work  when  he  leaves  the  office ;  no  demands  are  made 
upon  his  nervous  organization  ;  he  requires  no  power 
of  initiative,  of  administration ;  he  is  not  required 
to  give  all  that  is  in  him,  physical  and  intellectual, 
to  his  work.  Yet  his  pay  is  double  that  of  the  teacher. 
Why,  the  men  who  ram  the  paving  stones  in  the 
streets  are  paid  five  collars  a  day  by  the  city.  The 
teachers  are  worthy  of  their  hire.  They  should  send 
a  delegation  to  the  Supervisors  to  aid  their  own  cause. 
Public  sentiment  is  with  them.  The  people  are  in 
favor  of  increasing  their  salaries.  The  Supervisors 
and  the  School  Directors  can  do  nothing  more  com- 
mendable than  raising  the  pay  of  the  class  teachers. 
*  *  * 

If  Ida  Mooney's  tale  be  true,  then  the  Grand  Jury 
has  another  opportunity  of  investigating  the  illegal 
and  high-handed  methods  of  the  police  department. 
This  girl,  who  is  over  eighteen  years  old,  was  taken 
by  a  detective  from  her  place  of  employment  in  a  res- 
taurant last  March,  and  without  being  given  oppor- 
tunity to  obtain  any  advice  or  assistance,  was  haled 
before  the  Chief  of  Police,  or  the  Captain  of  Detec- 
tives at  the  City  Hall.  There  she  was  confronted 
by  a  Mrs.  Cardine  Trotman,  who  had  brought  the 
girl  from  New  Zealand,  and  who  claimed  to  be  her 
guardian. 

"This  girl  has  left  my  home  and  will  not  give  me 
her  earnings,"  said  Mrs.  Trotman.  "I  want  her  sent 
back  to  New  Zealand." 

"Very  good,"  said  the  police  official.  Without  more 
ado,  a  detective  took  charge  of  the  girl,  and  took  her 
forthwith  to  the  steamer  Panama,  which  sailed  that 
day  for  New  Zealand,  with  Ida  Mooney  aboard.  The 


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police  simply  kidnapped  her.  and  without  giving  bot- 
any opportunity  to  communicate  with  her  friends 
they  shipped  her  out  of  the  country.  In  the  days  of 
the  Bastilc  the  police  of  Par  1  of  people  in 

a  similar  summary  manner.  I'.ut  her  friends  heard 
of  the  outrage.  They  cabled  to  Honolulu.  When  the 
steamer  arrived  there,  lawyers  interceded  in  her  be 
half,  and  she  was  released.  The  Federal  authorities 
then  put  her  on  a  sailing  vessel  bound  for  this  port. 
and  she  arrived  here  last  Sunday.  Xow,  the  girl  and 
her  friends  will  find  out  whether  she  can  obtain  dam 
ages  for  her  illegal  deportation.  Her  experience  is 
extraordinary.  Years  ago.  boarding  house  runners 
made  fortunes  "shanghaing"  sailors  on  deep-water 
Is.  but  it  has  remained  for  the  present  manage- 
ment of  the  police  department  to  "shanghai"  young 
girls.  If  the  Police  Commissioners  have  time  to 
look  into  this  outrageous  abuse  of  authority,  they 
may  get  some  more  information  regarding  the  illegal 
practices  of  their  department. 

*  *  * 

A  circus  man  recovered  a  trunkful  of  snakes  from 
a  hated  rival  last  Tuesday.  The  hated  rival  had  been 
making  money  at  the  Hearst  headquarters  at  Santa 
Cruz.  He  said  he  needed  the  snakes  no  longer  be- 
cause Hearst's  men  furnished  bigger,  livelier  and 
more  variegated  reptiles  absolutely  without  cost. 

*  *  * 

John  Alexander  Dowie  was  hooted  and  stoned  in 
Australia,  but  the  cable  says  that  123  of  his  converts, 
all  in  good  circumstances,  are  about  to  sail  for  this 
city,  bound  for  Zion,  where  they  will  invest  their 
funds  in  Dowie's  enterprises.  John  Alexander  is  one 
of  the  wonders  of  the  modern  world.  Mike  Tarpey 
made  the  mistake  of  his  life  when  he  did  not  cable 
Dowie  to  come  back  and  stand  for  chairman  at  Santa 
Cruz,  for  John  Alexander  is  a  worker  of  miracles. 

*  *  * 

Charles  E.  Norris,  believing  he  was  dying  from 
consumption,  started  from  this  city  three  years  ago, 
determined  to  walk  himself  into  health,  or  die  trying. 
Since  then  he  has  walked  12,000  miles  and  has  grown 
fat.  Hearst  intends  hiring  him  to  give  a  lecture  to 
the  Hearst  delegates  at  St.  Louis  on  the  beauties  of 

walking — back  home. 

*  *  * 

A  statistical  gentleman  at  Washington  reports 
there  are  1312  Smiths  in  the  employ  if  Uncle  Sam. 
The  people  of  this   city,  therefore,  have  but  small 

cause  for  complaint. 

*  *  '* 

The  War  Department  states  that  370  soldiers  were 
drowned  while  crossing  streams  in  the  Philippines 
between  1889  and  1902.  That  is  a  very  remarkable 
record.  Not  since  the  Civil  War  have  as  many  sol- 
diers of  the  United  States  been  killed  in  a  battle  as 
the  number  that  have  found  death  in  the  South 
Pacific  because  they  could  not  swim.  It  would  be  an 
excellent  idea  to  add  swimming  to  the  athletic  exer- 
cises in  which  the  men  are  trained  at  the  Presidio. 
The  beach  within  the  reservation  just  west  of  Har- 
bor View  is  admirably  adapted  for  instruction  in 
swimming.  The  waters  of  the  bay  are  never  too 
cold  for  vigorous  men,  and  the  enjoyment  taken  in 
the  sport  would  make  swimming  popular  with  all 
branches  of  the  service.  In  addition,  the  ability  to 
swim  would  make  the  soldiers  much  more  useful  in 
the  Philippines.  The  results  of  proper  instruction 
would  be  of  distinct  advantage  to  the  service. 

*  *  * 

Over  in  Oakland,  five  churches  have  combined  in  a 
revival  meeting.  One  of  their  star  speakers  during 
the  week  was  a  Captain  of  Police.    Just  imagine  a 


Pears' 

To  keep  the  skin  clean 
is  to  wash  the  execrctions 
from  it  off  ;  the  skin  takes 
care  of  itself  inside,  if  not 
blocked  outside. 

To  wash  it  often  and 
clean,  without  doing  any 
sort  of  violence  to  it  re- 
quires a  most  gentle  soap, 
a  soap  with  no  free  alkali 
in  it. 

Pears',  the  soap  that 
clears  but   not   excoriates. 


Sold  all  over  the  world. 


Captain  of  Police  as  a  revivalist!  Many  of  them, 
no  doubt,  could  give  interesting  talks  on  "The  ways 
of  the  crooked,"  but  the  Grand  Jury  would  prove  a 
more  interested  audience  than  a  crowd  of  semi-hys- 
terical penitents  in  a  big  tent. 
*  *  * 

Henry  Miller  is  a  versatile  individual,  and  he 
handed  out  a  bunch  to  the  bumptious  New  York 
critics  and  audiences.  It  is  a  well-known  fact  every- 
where except  in  New  York  that  the  average  Gotham- 
ite,  critic  or  layman,  is  the  most  provincial  of  all 
citizens  of  the  great  American  Republic.  He  is 
self-sufficient,  arrogant  and  possesses  a  finesse  which 
is  poised  on  a  financial  base. 

"We  have  been  encouraged  by  the  unstinted  ap- 
proval of  San  Francisco  and  Chicago  to  make  our 
appearance  in  New  York  in  this  old  play.  Your  ap- 
plause seems  a  vindication  of  our  temerity  in  doing 
so.  I  am  not  a  man  with  a  grievance,  but  merely 
contending  for  the  principle  of  fair  play,  but  while, 
perhaps,  I  am  pulling  the  walls  down  about  my  ears, 
a  few  bricks  more  or  less  from  the  press  do  not  mat- 
ter at  this  moment.  I  still  hope  conditions  here  will 
change,  when  an  actor  may  expect  sympathetic  un- 
derstanding of  his  purpose,  and  a  serious  considera- 
tion for  a  serious  effort." 


Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all  druggists. 


Pine   stationery,    steel    and    copperplate    engraving.    Cooper 

&  Co.,   746  Market  street,   San   Francisco. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  $7.50  per  ton;  half-ton  ?4;  quarter  ton  $'2.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 


SPRING      WEDDINGS 

Original,  artistic  designs  in 
FLORAL     DECOR  ITIONS,     MENU     AND    TALLY     CARDS     A     I 

Estimates  cheerfully  furuishfd 

MISS    CHARLOTTE    F.    WILLIAMS 
121  Post  Straot     Koom  18     Tel.  John  1911 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


*  ober  no  WBnd  but  Plewmre'i — TOM  Moob 


j  PLEASURE'S  WAND-p 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 
ORPrtEUM-Viiu-ieville.    The  world's  very  best  juutler  .        . 
COLUMUIA— Uk-huril  Mansfield  in  ruaKiiineeut  productions. 
TIVOLI— "A  Runaway  Girl"— A  very  good  chorus. 
ALCAZAR— "Colinetce"— Romantiu  comedy  of  ihe  time  ol  Louis  XVIII 
GRAND— Melbourne  MacDowell  in  Viutorieu  Nardou'b  Masterpieces. 
CENTRAL— "Down  i.y  the  Hea."— A  rapid  Bre  uf  meknli amutic  action. 
CHUTES— Mutsudu's  Royal  Jap;imjse  troupe. 


"Old  Heidelberg"  is  a  play  of  tremendous  human 
interest  and  intense  local  color.  Mr.  Mansfield  wins 
in  it  by  the  force  of  his  simplicity  and  naturalness. 
The  exactions  of  "Ivan  the  Terrible"  call  for  an  un- 
due prominence,  leading  the  unthinking  to  adversely 
criticise  Mr.  Mansfield's  ability  as  a  manager.  He 
has  been  accused  of  surrounding  himself  with  men 
and  women  of  mediocre  ability.  "Ivan  the  Terrible" 
stands  alone,  in  the  play  and  through  the  actor,  the 
one  great  central  figure  of  a  weird  drama.  In  "Old 
Heidelberg"  is  demonstrated  the  falsity  of  any  say- 
ing that  Mr.  Mansfield  is  head  and  shoulders  above 
any  one  in  his  company.  Every  part  was  well  taken, 
and  the  "Doctor  Juttner"  of  Mr.  Leslie  Kenyon  might 
have  been  played  by  Mansfield  himself,  so' well  was 
it  done.  Mr.  A.  G.  Andrew's  "Lutz"  was  a  finished 
and  artistic  performance,  and  so  well  did  he  take  his 
part  that,  blase  though  I  be,  I  was  filled  with  a  desire 
at  times  to  kick  him  where  it  would  do  the  most 
good. 

Miss  Conquest  was  a  sweet  and  winsome  "Kathy." 
And  right  here  again,  it  cannot  be  said  that  her  work 
is  mediocre,  nor  can  it  be  said  that,  in  her  particular 
role  she  did  not  come  up  to  the  standard  set  by  the 
star.     Mansfield  was  perfect. 

The  arrival  of  so  great  an  actor  and  so  versatile 
a  gentleman  is  the  signal  for  the  unbottling  of  the 
adjectival  fluid  and  fulsome  panegyric.  "Mansfield, 
greatest  actor  the  world  has  ever  known,"  cannot 
be  truthfully  asserted.  He  is  not  the  greatest  actor. 
He  is  simply  a  clever,  natural  and  self-willed  genius, 
whose  general  tendency  is  in  the  right  direction.  He 
has  as  an  actor  most  of  the  faculties  of  Edwin  Booth. 
As  a  manager  he  has  a  love  for  the  minutae  of  detail 
that  is  a  joy  forever  to  his  public.  As  a  business 
man  he  has  dignity  and  a  proper  appreciation  of  the 
value  of  his  own  personality. 

During  his  stay  he  eliminates  the  horrid  advertising 
programme  ;  he  does  not  allow  the  bust  developer  and 
the  vacuum  cap,  the  elastic  stocking  and  the  remedy 
for  varicose  veins  to  trade  on  the  greatness  and  the 
fame  of  a  Mansfield.  That's  self-respect.  He  might 
have  gone  just  a  little  farther  and  demanded  that 
that  hideosity,  the  advertising  curtain,  refrain  from 
projecting  its  ugliness  on  the  audience  throughout 
the  length  of  his  stay.  The  settings  for  the  Mansfield 
plays  are  superb,  and  this  is  of  immense  assistance  to 
the  actors. 

*  *  * 

Melbourne  MacDowell  and  Ethel  Fuller  have 
scored  a  success  in  Victorien  Sardou's  "The  Empress 
Theodora."  The  "Andreas"  of  Mr.  MacDowell  is 
more  than  well  done ;  it  is  a  perfect  piece  of  acting, 
and  the  heroic  style  adopted  by  the  actor  fits  well  the 
character.  Robert  Elliot's  characterization  of  the 
part  of  "Justinian"  is  a  fine  one,  while  Ethel  Fuller's 
"Theodora"  is  as  good  as  that  of  Fanny  Davenport. 
Miss  Fuller  really  deserves  more  credit  than  the 
immortal  Fanny,  for  she  has  not  the  good  looks  the 
gods  gave  the  Davenport.  She  must  charm  with  her 
ability  alone,  and  she   does  charm.     "Theodora"  is 


an  admirable  play,  well  played,  well  staged  and  well 
worth  seeing.  It  can  be  called  a  great  success  with- 
out stretching  the  truth.  It  should  made  a  record 
run  in  the  matter  of  attendance  at  the  Grand. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Alcazar  there  is  a  new  play  called  "Colin- 
ette."  It  has  been  likened  to  "Madame  Sans  Gene." 
It  bears  but  a  very  slight  resemblance  to  that  cele- 
brated play.  Mr.  Durkin,  Adele  Block  and  Mr. 
Maher,  while  thoroughly  clever,  play  but  a  secondary 
part.  Mr.  Fred  J.  Butler  takes  his  p'lace  as  one  of  the 
greatest  portrayers  of  character  we  have  ever  seen. 
His  "Louis  XVIII"  is  a  wonder,  and  that  act  alone, 
the  fourth,  ought  to  fill  the  house  nightly.  The 
gouty  old  king,  who  succeeds  in  outwitting  every- 
body, including  himself,  is  a  delightful  and  an  artistic 
performance.  Louis  is  before  you,  historically  cor- 
rect, with  every  attention  paid  to  the  most  infinites- 
simal  details,  except  the  warts.  These  were  forgot- 
ten. Apart  from  this,  the  picture  given  us  at  the 
Alcazar  is  an  old  mezzotint  of  the  indulgent  phil- 
osopher who  posed  for  a  brief  period  as  the  king  of 
the  Frenchmen.  Mr.  Butler  has  stamped  himself 
as  one  of  the  greatest  actors  on  the  American  stage. 
The  stage  setting  is  superb. 

*  *  * 

The  music  of  the  "Runaway  Girl"  at  the  Tivoli 
is  good.  The  finale  of  the  first  act  is  an  exceptionally 
beautiful  burst.     The  choruses  are  splendid. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Orpheum,  Yung  Ku  Kim  and  his  side  part- 
ner, Chi  Suke  Oke,  in  legerdermain,  are  the  best  duo 
in  years  on  any  stage,  and  are  alone  worth  the  price 
of  admission.  Hume,  Lewis  and  Ross  are  an  inflic- 
tion. Midgley  and  Carlisle,  in  their  skit,  are  hold- 
overs, and  are  positively  fierce.  They  are,  if  anything, 
worse  than  last  week.  Madame  Slapoffski  delighted 
large  audiences  all  the  week,  and  this  sweet  little 
woman  would  make  a  good  drawing  card  for  weeks 
to  come.  On  the  whole,  a  good  show,  because  you 
must  not  forget  "Marcel"  in  the  living  pictures. 

*  *  » 

Ernest  Hastings  continues  manfully  struggling 
against  the  fearful  odds  of  playing  in  a  theatre  that 
has  lost  all  popularity. 


BS 


HM 
RISTOL   CO. 


call    attention    to    their     ex- 
tensive display  of  ^^^^ 

Wedding  Silver 

Exclusive  df  signs  and  superior 
workmanship  distinguish  iheir 
collection  ot  Jewelry  and  Silver- 
ware. 
104-110    GEARY     STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


May  21,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'7 


The  Maritime  comedy-drama,  "Down  l>y  the  £ 
with  Us  wonderful  scenic  effects,  its  quick  action  ind 
emotional  interest,  is  drawing  large  audiences  at  the 

Central. 

*  •   • 

The  Fischer  house  i>  soon  to  re-open,  and  the  in- 
itial night  is  sure  to  be  a  yala  one.  The  new  com- 
pany is  an  all-star  cast,  and  the  management  has 
spared  no  expense.  Ben  Dillon  and  Roy  Alton  are 
the  only  members  oi  the  old  company  retained.  The 
new  laces  will  include  Vorke  and  Adams,  Hebrew 
and  German  comedians,  Al.  Fields,  than  whom  no 
better;  a  high-priced  head-liner  in  vaudeville,  Edwin 
Clark,  who  was  with  the  "Chinese  Honeymoon"  at 
the  Columbia,  and  who  will  be  remembered  as  an 
exceptionally  good  actor  and  singer;  Caroline  Hull, 
actress  and  author,  rated  as  a  hue  "burlesquer,"  will 
be  leading  lady.  There  will  be  two  new  spectacular 
dancers,  the  Canity  sisters,  and  they  are  expected 
to  carry  everything  by  storm. 
»  »  » 

E.  D.  Price  and  Frederick  Belasco  have  just  re- 
turned from  a  tour  of  the  East,  and  the  Morning  Tele- 
graph of  New  York  says  of  them  that  "they  have  cor- 
nered the  play  market."  They  will  give  San  Francis- 
cans their  first  view  of  all  the  latest  European  and 
American  successes.  For  the  summer  attractions, 
White  Whittlesey  will  begin  an  engagement  on  June 
27th,  and  will  give  us  some  romantic  plays  and 
dramas,  among  which  may  be  numbered  "Hearts- 
ease" and  "The  Second  in  Command."  All  hail  the 
reign  of  the  matinee  idol  and  the  matinee  girl. 

*  *  * 

In  "A  Possible  Case"  next  week  the  capable  com- 
pany will  be  given  an  opportunity  to  excel  many  of 

their  previous  efforts. 

*  *  * 

Arthur  Cunningham  and  Teddy  Webb  are  making 
friends  in  the  "Runaway  Girl"  at  the  Tiyoli.  Cun- 
ningham does  full  justice  to  the  music  with  his  fine 

baritone  voice. 

*  *  * 

Those  who  heard  the  scarcely  audible  guinea  hen 
cacophenations  of  Mrs.  Fiske  must  be  in  the  seventh 
heaven  of  joy  at  the  delightful  enunciation  of  the 
ladies  and  gentlemen  of  the  Mansfield  company. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Mansfield  will  be  seen  on  Monday  evening  in 
"Old  Heidelberg";  Tuesday  in  "Ivan  the  Terrible"; 
Wednesday  in  "Beau  Brummel"  (for  the  last  time)  ; 
Thursday  in  "Old  Heidelberg";  Friday  in  "Dr.  Jekyll 
and  Mr.  Hyde"  (the  only  time)  ;  Saturday  matinee 
in  "Old  Heidelberg,"  for  the  last  time,  and  Saturday 
night  (farewell),  in  "Ivan  the  Terrible." 

Next  week,  Melbourne  MacDowell  will  appear  as 
Louis  Ipanoff  in  Victorien  Sardou's  "Fedora." 

For  the  Sunday  matinee,  Mr.  MacDowell  promises 
us  "Gismonda,"  and  as  a  finish  to  a  highly  successful 
engagement,  financially  and  artistically,  we  will  have 

"A  Captain  of  Navarre." 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  will  be  with  us  once  again,  be- 
ginning June  13th,  in  "Du  Barry."  This  clever 
woman's  performance  should  test  the  seating  capacity 

of  the  Grand. 

*  *  * 

Maude  Adams  will  play  but  twelve  night  and  two 
matinee  performances  during  her  engagement  at  the 
Columbia.  She  returns  to  San  Francisco  with  a  repu- 
tation which  places  her  far  toward  the  head  of  the 
list  of  America's  greatest  actresses. 

(Continued  to  Page  13-) 


Tivoli  Opera  house.  fc?,rBttIr,»w«I 

Only  M  unwM'  Saturday. 

BMlnulOf  iM'\t    AUnulity ,  night 

Til.-  third  week  ol  tin-  niu.su-ul  comedy  6ucc<*8  of  two  lit  mi - 

A     RUNAWAY     GIRL 
Bpteodld  east,  beautiful  ajrl  chorua,  i&agDifit'tiil  Bcenei]   BLd 

nmas,  perfeci  euaeiubla< 
Banal  popular  prtw  aia,  si 

Mi^dz.cir    1  neat  re  e.  i>.  i  i..<  >..  u«-i.  i.  ii*.    i*j  a.,  usur 

Regular  matlueaa'X'liujBda)  hud  buiuidoy 
»nn-  week. comtuuuciUM  Blond uy,  .»<;■)  ft, 
Biauey  Huaeuield'a  urUlliuii  comedy 

e    POSSIBLE   CASE 
First  time  at  the  Alcazar 

"Tua  a  t'iiziir  Oi  mi  ai. >  is  mi  agRipgutton  of  the  mott  veisoiile 
in  111  the  L  tilled  Mute*.'  -  hmt  l  eit**i. 

}&\ Vitiligo 26  Hh.V,     .MjiI  niet-s  ']  liUlbduy  ntiii   JniUirdti>'  2ft  U)  6UC. 

Atuuday,  Aiay  80,— Langdun  iloCormluk'e  colonial  drama 

TOLL  GfilE  INN 
Original  Sao  Francisco  production 


Grar>d  Opera  House 


Week  beginning  next.  Sunday  matinee.  May  2l»ud 

MELBOURNE  MacDOWELL 

In  Sardou's 

FEDOKA 

Sunday  Matinee.  May  20th,  "CISMOXDA" 
Popular  prices:    15c,  26c,  60c.  76c. 


Colunr.bia  Tbeatre. 

Beginning  Monday,  May  23 
Second  and  last  week 


GOTI'LUU,    M.lKX    it    ou 

Li-oBcua  aud  Managere. 


MR.  RICHARD  MANSFIELD 

Monday  and  Thursday  nights  and  Saturday  matinee 

OLD    HEIDELBERG 
Tuesday  and  Saturday  nights,  IVAN  THE  TEItEIBLE;  Wednes- 
day uitjM.HEAU  mOJMME.L;l'riclay  uibIii,  lili.  JLk\LL  AND 
tilt.  BIJjE. 
Monday,  May  30,  MAUDE  ADAMS. 


OrpheutT). 


San  Francisco's  Grparcflt  Music  rial!. 

O'Farrcll  St..  betwuun  Stockton  and  Powell  atresia. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  Matinee,  May  22. 

New  Acts,  Faces,  SeusationH. 

BUKKE.  LAUIE  AND  THEIR  INKY  BOYS ;  The  Colby  Family ; 

Al  Lawrence ;  Belle  Uordou;  Alions;  MABCEL'S  LIVING  AKT 

STUDIES;  Hume.  Boss  ami  Lewis;  Onheum  Motion  lictures 

and  last  week  ul  CHABLEb  DLLAND  AND  COMBANY. 

Prices,  luc,  26c  aud  6uc- 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thurt-day.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Cc>r\t  rn  I    Thprtt  r*=»  Belasco  &  Mayek,  Proprietors 

OfcJI^tlUl      1  IieULie.    Market  St.  near  Eighth— Tel.  South  638 

Beginning  Monday,  May  23 
Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday 
The  powerful  American  drama 

(\  GREAT  TEMPTATION 

May  30- 

A  CELEBRATED  CflSE 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  buc.    Matinees  10, 15,  26c. 

flfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen    to    the   matchless    string    band    and    enjoy    the 
finest   wines,    beers   aud    supper. 

The   Cafe   Zinkand   Is   society  a    gathering    place   after 
the   theatre  Is  over. 


DR.     SYDNEY     NEERGflflRD'S 
TISSUE  .  BUILDER. 

Eemoves  Wrinkles  in  one  month's  application. 
Dormatologi.-al  Institute  fully  euuipped. 
Free  Consultation  at 

242  Tost  St.  Tel.  James  1 


See  our  3  mouths  ahead  ideas  In  hats.  Tom  Dillon 
Palace. 


Co.,   opp. 


i8  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  May  ai,  1904. 

BANKING.  ©7>e  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  

incorporated  January  21,  loo*  Events     the     past     week     have 

Capital  stock  paid  up $250,00  Thibet  in  the      shifted   a   small   part   of  the   Far 

President  ja^esO'ji.Guun.  Vk-e-jjesidem.  Geo  U  Gray  World's  Eye.       Eastern   storm-center   to   Thibet, 

Vice-President,  treo.  F.  Lyon.  Cabliler,   Irederiek  H.  Clink.  J  ,..,..  .  . 

directors  an"       e    indications    are    that    it 

P.  W.Dohrmann.  Jr.:  George D.  Gray ;F.M. Greenwood:  JameBO'B.  T"  gTO^,  '"  imP°rtance  and  influence  to  Europe  and 

Gunu;  Juar»haii  Haie;  u.  u.  Kime;  ceo.  F.Lyun:  tieoiBc  ii.  jiitLiidi ;  Asia.      1  he  significance  of  this  sudden  outbreak  of 

Charles  c  llooie;  Henry  T.  bcott;  \\.  F.  Wiluanibou.  .  -,.„i,i *„,„,.••  *i_  t      r  ,l      tm  m     .  i* 

mL   „    v     ,     '     .      ,     ,  ,  reckless  fanaticism  on  the  part  of  the  Thibetans  lies 

Ihe  Mechanics   bavinns  HaLk  has  iiemd    lis   dcors  for  a   peieial  -      ..u„  f„„i.  *.!,„..   •*   ■  ■      ..•£    j   *i     1.  1.1  ■    -i-       1 

Saungb  and  Loan  bUbinebs  at  the  b.  AN.  coiner  llolilgonieiy  and  But-li  ln    tne   lact   that   it   IS   SO   Unjustified   that   the    Civilized 

streeib,  ban  ijrancibco,  can,  lia>  and.  11.U. world  is  ready  to  acquiesce  if  Great  Britain  now  con- 
San   FranciSCO   SavinqS    Union  eludes  to  establish  and  maintain  the  jurisdiction  of 

the   London    Government   throughout  the   whole  of 

b.  b.  ^:™d?h-t;^  Thibet,  and  give  ample  encouragement  to  European 

w£?T.'u  vi<;er,1',re'".a^.ltsi,  LuVELL    warns,    cashier;   k.    m.  immigration  and  capital.    Thibet  would  then  emerge 

Directors— k.  b.  pond,  w.  c.  b.  DePremery,  Henry  f.  Allen,  trom   mysticism,  traditions  and   legendary  supersti- 

Beav??.  wimamdSaMageeC.olHoBbertnvvaitU'  G'  M"ler'  Fred  H'  tion  into  the  broad  field  of  industrial  life  and  commer- 

Recei'ves   deposits  ana   loans  on   real   estate  security.   Country  cial   activity,  but  a  lot  of  hard   military  campaigning 

remittances  may  be  sent  by    Wells,  Fargo  <&  Co.,  or  by  checks  ,       ..       ~    .  -i  .         ....  ,  .     r  ,       -r^    1    ■  t 

01  reliable  purues,  payable  ln  san  F'rancisco.  but  the  respon-  -by  the  British  will  be  required  before  the  Dalai  Lama, 

slbllity  01  this  Savings  Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  wlinm    Tliihpr-m«    crpnprallv    hplipvp    rr>    rip    trip    incur 

ceipt  of  the  money.    The  signature.,!  the  depositor  should  at-  wnom    iniDeians  generally   neneve  to  De  tne   mcar- 

company  the  urst  deposit,    rvo  charge  is  made  for  pass-book  nation  of  Buddha,  is  convinced  that  modern  civili- 

or  entrance  tee.  .         .  .    ,  .  ,        .      .  , 

omce  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.   Saturday  evenings.  6:30  to  s.  zation  has  rights  that  even  he  is  bound  to  respct, 

"uara"?ee°cap7^  f°r  because  of  his  stupid  superstition  he  has  forced 

Reserve  and  contingent  Funda  8D9.616  a  condition  upon  Great  Britain  from  which  she  can- 

......  a       1  n°t  extricate   herself  other  than  by  making  Thibi-t 

Mutual   iDaVinpss   tianK  of  San  Fra™iaoo  at  least  a  dependency  of  British  India.     But  great 

Guarantee   Capital *" .*".  ES?  °.PP.°.s".e. ™^ w.ooo.ooo  as  the  undertaking  is  in  the  matter  of  acquiring  more 

ESSSL  ^^^^JZ^ir£"orm^m\"viie.^iS'.  tlian  800,000  square  miles  of  new  territory,  the  politi- 

dent;  gkukgu  a.  uiuKV,  cashier;  juh.s  a.  huopek,  vice-  cal  aspect  ot   the  venture  is  likely  to  become  com- 

^^a^TuK^Ja^L-UiPhetaTsau.  m"  John  a  Hooper,  plex  and  far-reaching  for   England.     Enough   is  al- 

James  Mount,   Frank  j.   sumvan,   Hoben   McKiroy,   Kudoiph  ready   known   to   justify   great   Britain    in   believing 

Spreckels,   James   Al.    McDoualu,    Charles  Holbrook,  t.         J  e  rt  •  1        ■     n  i-i  1 

interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  on  approved  securities.  that  agents  of  Russia  are  the  influence  which  moved 

ex^haugTontitytonki.1'1'  P<mal  °rUer'  We"3'  *'ar8U  &  C°''  °r  the   Dalai   Lama   to   undertake   to   drive  out  or   kill 

every    British    soldier    in    Thibet.      Moreover,    it    is 

Tne  German    Savings  6  Loan  Society  known  that  a  large  Russian  force  has  appeared  upon 

no.  626  California  street,  san  francisco.  the  northern  boundary  of  Thibet,  and  that  Russian 

Guaranteed  capital  and  surplus  w,423,75i.60  influence  and  money  are  back  of  a  threatened  influx 

dX^£U«M?SL%&^  'of  Tartars  to  aid  the  Thibetans.     But  destiny  has 

buaku  uf  LiiHECTuHS— ^  resident,  John  Lioyd;  Fust  vice-  led  Great  Britain  into  Thibet,  and  being  "in  for  it," 

^."Shi&nTO  whether  she  likes  it  or  not,  only  the  permanent  occu- 

"catTer1!-  /ah.  s^mfat;  Assistant  Cashier,  w.iiiam  Herr-  Pancy  of  evfy  square  mile  of  the  incarnated  Buddha's 

manu;    Secretary,    George    Tuuruy;    Assistant    Secretary,    A.    11.  country  Will  satisfy  Civilization.      What  IS  Confronting 

Muller;  Genera.  Attorney.   W.  B.  GootUellow. the    g^^    jg    the    Da,a;    Lama>s    unorganized    relig- 

/-»  i  d     -i-j  a  'ous  ,anatics,  as  many  blood-thirsty  Tartars  as  Rus- 

GOQtinental  Building  &  Loan  Association  sia  has  money  to  hire  to  join  with  the  Thibetans,  and 

Established  in  ism.  OF  California  St.   Petersburg's  intrigue  and  secret  aid  in  the  way 

.  .      .k  h   ,j«i  <*uto"»a  st-  s»n  Francisco,  cai.  of  arms  and  munitions  of  war  for  the  Dalai  Lama. 

Subscribed    Capital    $15,000,000.1)0  Y^       ,        .     . 

paid-in  capital  ; »,utw.ouo.no  Hut  all  that  will  only  operate  to  make  England  the 

*in"ere"iapafd3eJnedepUo"^  more  determined  to  accomplish  the  work  of  redemp- 

°l,r"rwat!!mg\oTiJ^ge.uVersU.S  »SS'  Corb.n.  Secretary  tion  of  Thibet  from  the  grasp  of  ignorance  and  seclu- 

and  General  Manager. sion,  which  work  the  god  of  civilization  and  human 

International  Banking  Corporation)  Profess  hf.s  commissioned  her  to  do    Thibet  shall 

J  J         &  r  '  no  longer  live  in  the  dim  and  uncertain  past. 

NO.  1   WALL  STREET,   NEW   YORK. 

capital  and  surplus  *7,894.4oo  The     situation     in     Man- 

^ffVe^u^V^  Affairs  in  Manchuria,    churia  is  unchanged.  That 

Assistant    to    President;    William    B.      nightman,      Assistant    to  Js    {0    say,    Japan    continues 

President;    John    Hubbard,    Treasurer;    James    H.    Rogers,    Secre-  .  ,       ,  J     •    .     ••  u    *.    t-U~ 

tary;  John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun-  tO    drive    the    Russians    toward    the    interior,    DUt    the 

"  BRANCHBS-London,  san  Francisco,  city  of  Mexico,  Manila,  backward  movement  of  the  Slavs  only  concentrates 

Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  shanghai,  Singapore.  them   and  shortens  the  route  to  their  base  of  sup- 

AGENClES— Bombay,    Calcutta,     Maurus,      Penang,      Rangoon,  v-"'  ,         ,  s .        !„    ' 

Colombo,   Amoy,   canton,   Hankow.   Tientsin.   Tansui,   Anping.  plies,  while  doing  exactly  the  reverse  tor  tne   |apan- 

JaCa,  fnu'au'pa?".  Sf^irS^'^'  "'^^  SamaranB'  *""'  ese.     Port  Arthur  is  completely  cut  off,  and  is  no 

san  fhancisco  hkanch-32-34  sansome  St.  lon"-er  a  factor  in  Russia's  movements;  besides,  its 

A  genaral   banking  business   transacted.     Accounts  of  corpora-  '^  'fe^  i       oi       •  r  *.  1 

tlons.  firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  remoteness  from  the   blav  S  Center  Ot   trOOpS  ana  SUp- 

on  approved   securities.     Foreign   and   domestic  exchange    bought  _i;„     m„..„t„i;r„,    ,nrl    rlkrrihurion    never  has   riven 

and   sold.     Travelers'    and   commercial    letters   of   credit    granted.  pllCS,   concentration   ana   dlStriUUtlon   nevei    lids   given 

available  ln  any  part  ol  the  wurld.  Interest  bearing  certlllcates  ;t  „TctLt  imDOrtance,  Strategically  Speaking,  except 
of   deposits   Issued    for   nxed   periods.     Interest   allowed    to    banks  jiwi    uiifV   i  ,  b  j        i  „    tj..„-;„„ 

on  current  dally  balances.     Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping  as    a    Safe    anchorage    tor    the    Ships    01    the    KUSSiall 

age°nt»nUthrWoughoUu8t  ?£  w^id.""5  d'recl  °"  ou*  ^"^  """  squadron.     However,  it  would  be  of  great  value  to 

FCEK^Kr-M,a^rE  '"  ^8:  EASTWicK.  jR.^AssLMg,  Japan  as  a  base  of  supplies  and  a  harbor -for  her  war- 

! ships:  mostly,  though,  because  of  the  railway  to  the 

Security"   Savings    Bank.  present  and  possible  future  position  of  the  Japanese 

222  Montgomery  St.,  Mills  Building.  army  in  the  interior.     Nevertheless,  the  fall  of  Port 

DiRECTSK^wir.fam,^orIdE,vvJifi',a'm-  Hancock  s^Abbott.  Arthur  would  undoubtedly  have   a  very  depressing 

jr.,  o.  d.  Baldwin,  f.  Monteagie,  warren  d.  Clark,  e.  j.  mc-  effect  all  over  Russia,  and  there  is  enough  dissatis- 

Cutcheon,  R,  H.  Peaaa.J.  I).  Grant. 


May  It,  1904-  SAN  FRANCISCO 

faction  already  to  cause  much  anxiety  in  official  cir- 
cles. Already  the  masses  are  protesting  against 
present  and  prospective  heavier  taxes  fur  the  main- 
tenance of  an  army  in  action  more  than  ,vooo  miles 
■it  to  hold  territory  that  is  not  worth  half  the 
price. 

Russian  Generals  report  to  the 
The  Uncertain  Czar  that  the  Chinese  are  prow- 
Chinese,  ing  more  belligerent,  and  that 
their  aggressiveness  borders  close 
upon  an  actual  declaration  of  war.  They  also  point 
out  how  the  Japanese  strategy  seems  to  have  for  its 
aim  the  driving  of  certain  of  the  Russian  divisions 
of  the  army  across  the  horder  into  Chinese  territorv, 
which  would  be  looked  upon  by  China  as  an  inva- 
sion by  an  armed  force,  and  made  the  excuse  for 
promptly  declaring  war.  Such  a  trick  would  not 
impair  China's  position  of  neutrality,  since  the 
"identical  note"  permits  China  to  make  war  upon 
either  Russia  or  Japan  if  the  zone  line  is  crossed.  It 
is  understood  that  China  and  Japan  are  in  collusion 
in  the  strategy  to  force  Russia  to  cross  the  line,  and 
the  fact  that  Chinese  irregulars  have  already  de- 
stroyed small  portions  of  Russia's  railway  line  of 
retreat  is  pretty  good  evidence  that  the  Russian  Gen- 
erals have  abundant  reason  for  being  suspicious  of 
double-dealing  by  the  Peking  Government.  But  be- 
fore the  Russians  could  be  driven  across  the  border, 
they  would  have  to  be  made  to  sustain  a  defeat  so 
severe  that  in  their  weakness  they  could  be  flanked 
and  driven  from  their  natural  line  of  retreat,  when 
it  would  be  either  surrender  or  cross  the  border.  That 
part  of  Japan's  strategy  is  still  undeveloped.  In  fact, 
a  great  battle  has  not  yet  been  fought,  nor  is  there 
likely  to  be  one  until  Russia  is  ready.  The  Slav 
could  fall  back  fully  200  miles  from  his  present  pos- 
tion  in  force  without  sacrificing  any  strategic  points, 
the  sacrificing  of  which  would  not  be  amply  compen- 
sated for  by  the  disadvantage  the  Japanese  would 
labor  under  were  they  to  follow  the  retreating  enemy 
so  great  a  distance  inland. 

The  situation  in  German  South 
In  South  Africa.  Africa  has  become  so  danger- 
ous to  German  interests  that 
the  Kaiser  has  ordered  6,000  additional  troops  to  the 
scene  of  trouble.  But  the  natives  are  resisting  the 
invasion  and  practical  confiscation  of  their  homes 
and  their  lands  by  foreigners  bent  upon  robbing  them, 
and  it  is  just  possible  that  several  lots  of  6,000  sol- 
diers will  have  to  go  before  the  invaders  are  secure 
in  their  possessions.  The  natives  are  fully  alive  to 
the  fact  that  they  are  marked  for  Germany's  kind  of 
assimilation,  and  they  seem  to  have  made  up  their 
minds  to  defend  their  homes  and  lands  to  the  death, 
if  need  be. 

The  insistence  of  the  agrarians 
Trouble  Actual  of  Germany  that  American 
and  Brewing.  food  products  be  denied  a  mar- 
ket in  the  empire  is  a  milder 
but  no  less  selfish  and  avaricious  policy  than  their 
fellow  agrarians  in  South  Africa  are  enforcing  in  that 
country.  The  Sublime  Emperor  of  Turkey  is  com- 
plying with  the  "peaceful  solution"  plan  of  the  powers 
to  his  entire  satisfaction.  His  soldiers  butchered 
900  Albanians  during  the  past  week  as  a  reminder  to 
his  subjects  everywhere  that  death  is  the  penalty  for 
entertaining  aspirations  for  a  better  condition  of  ex- 
istence than  it  pleases  him  to  grant  them.  Our  Chris- 
tian missionaries  should  concentrate  their  energies 
and  pity  upon  that  unspeakable  Turk,  the  Sultan. 
The  rural  districts  can  afford  to  wait  for  their  sal- 
vation until  the  nation's  center  of  iniquity  is  con- 
verted. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


BANKING. 


Wells,Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Capital.   Stu-plus^nd    W»*vW1j$|3i500f000 
Homer  S.    King.   President;    F.   L.   Upman,   Cashier;   Frank   B. 
!?."•.  A*"18"""   Cashier;  Jno.    E.    Miles.   Assistant   Cashier. 
UHAAUiiiiS-Ne*    York;   Salt   Lake,    Utah;   Portland,  Or. 
Correspondents   throughout   the   world.     General   Banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


The  Sen  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  8ta.,  San  Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON.  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWG1LL,  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital,   J600.000.     Surplus   and    Undivided    Profits,    jius.ooo 
DIRECTORS—  William  Pierce  Johnson,   Vice-Prest.   Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;    VVm.  J.  Dutton,   President  Firemans   Fund 
Ins.    Co.;    H.    E.    Huntington,    First    Vlce-Fresluent   S.    P.    K.    K. ; 
Geo.  A  Pope,  of  Pope  ic  lulbol.  Lumber  Deaiers;  c.  S.  Benedict, 
Presiueiu  Hastings  clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  New  hull,   a.  M. 
Newhail  &  Co.;    VV.  H.    Taloot,  CupiUiiisl;  H.  D.   Morion,  presi- 
dent w.  T.  tiarratt  &  Co.    James  K.   v\  nson,  president. 

AOL1VJ.S—  New    lorn— Hanover    National    Bans,    chemical    Na- 
tional   Bank.      Boston— .National    Shawutui    Lank.     Plulaueiphiu— 
Diexel   ot   Co.     Chicago— continental    Aallolial   Bank.     St.   Louis— 
.  .....v.       Kansas     City— First       National       uana. 

London— Brown,  Shipley  &  co.  1  arts— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  Atricau  Banning  Co.,   Limited. 


i  ncj  ^anaaian  Ban*  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAL*    UJ?  r  aCE— Xuuu.\  TO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    Jo.nw.mio.  Heserve   Fund,   JJ.UOO.OOO 

Aggregate    Resources,    over   *>u,uuu,uuu 
HOW.    GEORGE    A.    COX,    President 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Latru,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
London  office— «i  Lombard  St.,  E.  C. 
N-W    YORK    OFFtCE— 18   Exchange   Place. 
BRANCHES      iN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlill,        Cranbrook, 
Ferine,    Greenwood,    tvamloops,    Ladystnlth,    Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New     Westminster,    Vancouver    and    Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson  and    Vt  hue   Horse. 
IN    UNITED  STAiES— Portland,  Seattle  anu  skagway  (Alaska;. 
Also    su    other    branches,    cover  ng      the     principal     points     in 
Manitoba,  i\.    VV.  Territories,  and  .Eastern  Canaua. 
BANKERS   iN    LUiviiuiN-iile   Bank  ol   Euglauu,    the   Bank   of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Lank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  oi  Lonuon  and  Smiths 
Bank,    Ltd. 
AGENTS  in  CHICAGO— The  First  National  Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  ORLEANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 

San  Francisco  Office— 

825  California  Street 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 


London,  Paris  and  American  Bank.LhulM 

N.  W.   COR.  SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed    Capital,    «2,aUU,UiHI.  Paid-up    Capital,    J2.000.000 

Reserve  Fund,  Jl.loo.uuo 
Head  Office — w  Threadneedie  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  lu  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits   issued. 

S1G.    GREaNEBAUM,    Manager;    H.    S.    GREEN,    Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 


The  ^Qglo-Californian  Bank,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Capital   Authorized jmoo.iioo         Paid    Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed   {3,000,000      Reserve  Fund   *7oo,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  dratts,. 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  tor  collection,  loans 
money,    buys   and   sells   exchange   and    bullion. 

1GN.    STE1NHART,    P.    N.    LlLlENTHAL.    Managers. 


Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42   Montgomery    St.,    San   Francisco. 

Authorized     Capital     (3,000.000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve  1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money  In 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully   selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  Horace  L.  Hill,  Vice- 
President;  o.  A.  Hale,  Second  Vice-President;  H.  Brunner, 
Cashier. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  2i,  1904. 


4  1-2  Par  Cent  Interest  Paid. 

Phoenix  Sayings  B.  &  L  Association 

Pays  4  1-2  per  cent  interest  on  ordinary  savings  accounts,  interest 
compounded  semi-annually,  and  &  per  cent  on  term  accounts  of  $100  or 
more,  interest  payable  semi-annually. 

616    CALIFORNIA    STREET,    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Subscribed  Capital $8,000,000 

Paid  in  Capital 1.000,000 

Guarantee  Capital 200,000 

Real  estate  loans  made  on  improved  property— Principal  and  interest 
payable  in  monthly  installments  similar  to  rent. 

OFFICERS    AND    DIRECTORS 

A.  A-  'Watkins,  "Vice-President  W.  "W.  Montague  <fc  Co President 

Charles  R.  Bishop,  Vice-President  Bank  of  California....  Vice-President 

S.  Prentiss  Smith,  Capitalist Treasurer 

Clarence  Grange.  Gen-  Mgr.  Equitable  S.  &,  L.  Association, 

Portland Secretary  and  Managing  Director 

Geo.  C.  Boardman,  Mgr.  JEtna  Ins.  Co.  and  Director  S.  F. 

Savings  Union Director 

Chas.  E.  Ladd.  Banker,  Portland.  Oregon Director 

Gavin  McNab,  Attorney-at-law Attorney 


WANTED 

Reliable  party  with  $10,000  can  make 
$100,000.  Security  gilt  edged.  Ref- 
erences required.  No  middlemen,  no 
commissions. 

Address  E..  N.  G. 
Care  of  S.  F.  News  Letter,  320  Sansome  St. 


Stockholders'   Meeting. 


Pursuant  to  an  order  made  by  the  lloard  of  Directors  of  l  he  Overland 
Monthly  Company,  a  corporation  at  a  meeting  thereof  held  this  day, 
a  meeting  of  the  stock-holders  of  said  corporation  has  been  called  for 
the  purpose  of  increasing  the  capital  stock  ol  said  corporation  to  the 
sum  of  Five  Hundred  Thousand  ($600,00(1.00]  Dollars.  Said  meeting  will 
be  held  on  the  eighth  day  of  July.  1904  at  the  liourof  a  o'clock,  p.  m.  at 
the  office  of  said  corporation,  to  wit:  Koom  number  11  of  the  building 
known  us  8-20  Stinsome  Street,  in  the  city  and  County  of  San  Francisco 
State  of  California. 

C.  WILLEMS 
Secretary  of  the  Overland  Monthly  Company,  a  Corporation 
April  29th,  1904. 


WHEN    FURNISHING    THE    HOME 


It  is  often  desirable  to  have 
FURNITURE  made  from 
SPECIAL  DESIGNS. 
We  have  manufactured  fur- 
niture in  OUR  OWN  FAC- 
TORY for  many  years,  and 
are  prepared  to  execute  the 
simplest  as  well  as  the  most 
elaborate  work. 
Designs  and  estimates  fur- 
nished. 


CHAS.    M.    PLUM    a    CO. 

Cor.  9th  and  MarKet  Sts. 


Gold  Buried  in 
Cabbage  Patches. 


The    lively     condition     of 
Speculative  Trade  at     financial  affairs  in  this  city 
a  Low  Ebb.  is  clearly  demonstrated  by 

the  daily  reports  of  trans- 
actions in  the  local  stock  markets.  A  couple  of  trans- 
actions in  bonds  and  as  many  more  in  shares  has  been 
about  the  average  showing  on  the  Stock  and  Bond 
Exchange  during  a  session  of  the  Board.  And  then 
take  Pine  street.  An  ore  development  was  recently 
made  on  the  Comstock  which  a  few  years  ago  would 
have  sent  prices  kiting  away  up  in  the  hundreds.  To- 
day the  stock  of  the  mine  itself  in  which  the  find 
was  made  is  flat  and  dead  at  a  figure  whereon  the 
dividend  paid  monthly  is  at  the  rate  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty  per  cent  per  annum.  The  other  contin- 
gencies on  paper  swayed  by  the  ebb  and  flow  of  the 
financial  tide  on  the  street  are  stale  and  unprofitable. 
The  spirit  of  speculation  is  dead  in  the  community, 
or,  rather,  it  does  not  reach  much  farther  as  a  rule 
than  a  two-bit  ticket  in  some  lottery  scheme  which 
catches  the  cheap  crowd  around  town,  who  have 
strings  tied  to  their  twenties.  The  men  who  form 
business  combines  here  in  the  hope  of  floating  off  a 
bond  issue  on  the  dearly  beloved  who  bank  so  much 
a  week  in  their  stockings  or  in  the  cellar,  will  live  to 
learn  that  they  have  been  fools  for  their  pains.  The 
gas  combine  and  others  of  recent  report  could  tell  a 
little  story  on  this  point  of  experience  gained,  if  they 
only  would. 

It  is  amusing,  to  say  the  least, 
to  watch  history  repealing  it- 
self as  the  years  roll  by.  Time 
passes,  men  pass,  but  the  world 
wags  cheerily  along  with  the  same  old  routine  of 
human  life,  manners,  customs,  ideas  and  hobbies  as 
in  the  days  of  Solomon,  who  after  tasting  its  woes 
and  pleasures  to  repletion,  worn  out  with  ennui,  com- 
plained in  the  bitterness  of  his  spirit  that  all  was  van- 
ity and  vexation  of  spirit.  Something  like  a  couple 
of  decades  ago  the  writer  of  this  column  was  at  it 
nip  and  tuck  on  the  side  of  the  hydraulic  miner  with 
the  champion  of  the  valley  forces.  The  many  warm 
(?)  friends  of  the  miner  who  appeared  later  on  and 
absorbed  all  the  honors  of  the  situation  when  it 
opened  out  and  a  chance  for  personal  profit  or  self-ag- 
grandizement arose  with  an  organization  which  took 
fully  ten  years  to  hatch  out,  were  then  lying  close 
like  a  dog-fox  with  the  weather-guage  of  a  pack  in 
full  cry.  And  now  the  younger  generation  along  the 
mud  flats  of  the  Sacramento,  yclept  "cabbage 
patches,"  are  up  in  arms  again,  with  all  the  vim  of 
their  predecessors,  bristling  with  defi  and  full  of  argu- 
ment calculated  to  prove  to  their  own  minds  the  ab- 
surdity that  it  is  better  to  grow  potatoes  in  a  tract 
of  auriferous  soil  than  to  extract  the  gold  first  and 
then  grow  potatoes.  Having  mixed  up  in  the  same 
old  discussion  and  the  same  old  arguments  ad  nau- 
seam, some  one  else  can  amuse  themselves  now  ban- 
dying words  on  the  subject.  The  result  achieved  by 
time,  which  has  seen  the  orchardists  of  Oroville,  the 
most  bitter  opponents  of  hydraulic  mining,  wash 
them  down  and  out  to  recover  the  gold  from  the 
earth,  should  in  itself  suffice  as  an  all-convincing  ar- 
gument that  the  miner  comes  first  and  then  the 
farmer.  This  will  be  the  fate  of  all  plantations  and 
agricultural  lands  in  due  course.     Like  Demetrious, 


May  a i.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


the  silver  smith  of  old,  who  on   the  passing  of  the 
manufacture  of  im  ..  Pinna  in  his 

with  the  advent  o,  Christianity,  essayed  in  In- 
half  of  his  own  bank  account  to  incite  the  populace 
ilsins;  the  cry  of  "Great  is  Diana  of  the  Ephe- 
••eoplc  along  the  Sacramento  in  tin- 
same  spirit  a/e  evidently  working-  toward  the  same 
end,  trying  to  stem  a  current  of  progressive  develop- 
ment which  no  earthly  power  can  stay.  Meanwhile 
the  hydraulic  men  are  not  asleep  to  the  possibilities 
of  the  coming  so-called  river  convention,  which  to 
all  appearances  is  a  cunningly  devised  scheme  to  draw 
the  mercantile  classes  of  this  city  into  a  factional 
fight.  It  looks  uncommonly  like  the  work  of  the 
so-called  farming  interests  organized  under  the  title 
of  an  "Anti-Debris  Association."  Foiled  in  their  ef- 
forts to  smother  for  good  the  hydraulic  mining  inter- 
ests of  the  State  which  had  given  California  name 
and  fame  among  nations  before  these  purveyors  of 
green  stuff  had  left  the  corn-cribs  in  Missouri  and 
Iowa  they  now  are  out  for  the  dredginsr  men.  pro- 
posing to  use  the  organized  mercantile  class  of  San 
Francisco  as  a  catspaw  to  null  their  chestnuts  out  of 
the  fire.  Forewarned  is  forearmed,  and  it  will  he 
hoped  that  this  movement  will  be  nipped  in  the  bud. 
It  will  make  things  very  disagreeable  all  round  if  it 
is  not,  and  start  a  right  which  would  not  be  very  de- 
sirable just  at  a  stage  when  the  movement  is  on  foot 
to  boom  the  interests  of  the  State  at  large. 

People    out   West    who 
Philadelphia  Roasting      have  been   following  the 
Tonopah  Mines.  course     of     the     Nor'h 

America  of  Philadelphia, 
are  assigning  reasons  of  their  own  for  the  inveterate 
hostility  shown  by  that  paper  to  the  Tonopah  mines. 
These  properties  can  stand  on  their  own  legs,  and 
defy  the  "knocker"  or  the  buttinskys  of  modern 
journalism,  and  need  no  defenders.  The  field  is  open 
yet.  with  abundant  opportunities  for  money  making, 
so  that  the  hired  men  of  John  Wannamaker  can  st'll 
reach  for  a  slice  of  fortunes  by  taking  a  trio  out  West 
like  Schwab  and  other  millionaires  on  the  look-out 
for  a  good  thing.  Lots  could  be  said  about  Tono- 
pah, but  it  is  not  necessary.  It  is  calculated  from 
all  appearances  to  work  out  its  own  salvation. 

The  Sandyague  Steel  combine,  launched  with  such 
a  flare  of  journalistic  trumpets,  seems  to  be  wearing 
into  the  sere  and  yellow  leaf  at  an  unusually  early 
period  of  its  career.  Somebody  was  persuaded  for 
some  reason  to  endorse  some  notes  which  were 
speedily  discounted  by  some  financiers,  when  the 
endorser  promptly  sued  to  recover  the  said  paper. 
This  provoked  talk,  and  revived  the  old  story  of  the 
Schwab  denial  of  complicity  in  the  bold  financial 
undertaking. 

The  full  report  of  President  Holland,  covering  the 
operations  of  this  system  for  1903  now  at  hand,  makes 
a  considerably  better  showing  than  the  condensed  fig- 
ures telegraphed  at  the  time  of  the  meeting.  The 
amount  written  off  for  1903  on  account  of  renewals 
and  depreciation  is  $247,318.47;  had  this  amount  not 
been  deducted,  the  net  earnings  would  have  amounted 
to  $994,018.52,  against  $850,631  for  1902,  or  $93,387 


The  palatial  interior  of  the  new  Italian-American 
Bank  was  graced  by  the  presence  of  that  Prince  of 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hits  — BuKene  Korn.  7  2«  Market  St.. 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  Derbys,  soft  hats,  gent's  and 
ladles'  straws. 


21 

ll.ilv  and  ..f  good  fellows.  I.uigi  of  Savoy,  and  suite, 
upon  the  occasion  of  the  opening  of  the  doors  of  this 
most  prominent  financial  institution.  His  entree  was 
made  under  the  escort  of  I  >r.  P.  Ue  Vecchi  and  P.  C. 
Rossi,  who  are  directors  of  the  corporation.  Presi- 
dent Sbarboro  was  in  happy  vein,  and  lie  delivered 
a  short  speech  in  his  usual  fluent  style,  calling  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  the  Venetians' were  the  first  to 
establish  banking  in  the  world  and  that  thanks  was 
due  the  Italian  colony  of  San  Francisco  for  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  Italian-Swiss  bank,  an  ornament 
and  a  credit  to  the  metropolis  of  the  Pacific  arid  a 
tribute  to  the  thrift  of  the  Italian  population.  Cashier 
A.  E.  Sbarboro  was  gratified  by  a  deposit  of  $8,000 
from  the  Commissary  of  the  Italian  cruiser  "Ligu- 
ria."  This  was  the  first  transaction  of  a  financial 
nature  in  the  new  quarters. 


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TOJVKJIJV,   Photographer 

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SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

GKOVVO  FLOOR.  STUDIO 


EDISON  PHONOGRAPH  AGENCY 

PETER  BACIGALUPI 

HAS    REMOVED   FROM    933   MARKET   STREET,   TO 

THEIR  NEW  STORE 

784-788    MISSION    STREET,    S.    F. 


TELEPHONE    SOUTH    760 

Gilbert  CGL   St  oil 

STORAGE 

FOR  PARTICULAR  PEOPLE 

STORAGE.     PACKING    and     SHIPPING 

OFFICE: 
ROOM    84.    MVRPHY    BUILDING.    1236  MARKET  ST. 

WAREHOUSE: 
GOLDLN  GATE  <a  VAN  NESS  A  VES.,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


NEWTON    J.    THARP 

ARCHITECT 
131  POST  STREET  SAN  FRANCISCO 

FIRE      EXTINGUISHERS 

CHAS.    P.    FONDA 
138    MARKET    STREET.    SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


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Price  $1,350. 


Bam  pie  Machines 
on  Exhibition. 


Rambler  Automobile  Agency.  ,33'  c?rnRe%thSTREET 


WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced  BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS 

ALSO 

Ramblers,  Northerns,    Frank- 
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WITH 

LANTERNS,     RUGS,    CAPS    &    SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

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Cal. 

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81  CITY  HALL  AVE. 
South  1039                           San  Francisco, 

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Buckboard? 

1904  Model 

Best     Automobile     at 

any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong— Easy  Riding—Reliable— Guaranteed 

On  exhibit at-SUNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
18H  MtRKET  STREET.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


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The  Automobile  Club  of  California  has  postponed 
the  race  meet  and  show  scheduled  for  the  latter  part 
of  the  month.  The  race  committee  found  when  they 
presented  the  programme  to  the  dealers  that  the  lat- 
ter were  unable  to  take  part  either  in  a  show  or  race, 
as  they  did  not  have  a  machine  on  hand. 

Now,  the  event  has  been  carried  over  to  the  lat- 
ter part  of  September  or  the  first  part  of  October. 

This  should  be  a  lesson  to  the  club.  Hereafter  they 
"will  catch  the  rabbit  before  they  cook  it." 

In  the  meantime  the  Race  Committee  has  sent  out 
a  circular  asking  for  an  expression  of  opinion  on  the 
advisability  of  holding  an  endurance  run  to  Los  An- 
geles and  return. 
_  It  is  suggested  that  the  Los  Angeles  Club  hold  a 
similar  event  at  the  same  time,  beginning  with  the 
return  on  the  Northern  men,  so  as  to  make  competi- 
tion for  half  the  way. 

It  is  doubtful  if  the  Southern  men  can  get  up  an 
event  of  any  kind,  for  the  two  clubs  of  that  locality 
are  not  on  friendly  terms. 

*  *  * 

The  annual  Del  Monte  run  and  one  day's  racing 
will  take  place  in  the  latter  part  of  August  without 
"fail,"  states  the  race  committee. 

It  was  decidedly  for  the  best  that  the  meet  and 
show  was  postponed  until  later  in  the  year,  for  then 
some  of  the  best  drivers  may  be  induced  to  come  to 
the  Coast.  Without  them  the  game  would  be  flat. 
It  will  take  all  the  intervening  time  to  work  up  a 
successful  event. 

*  *  * 

A  meeting  of  the  Automobile  Club  is  programmed 
for  the  end  of  the  month,  on  the  return  of  Mr. 
Schwerin  to  the  city. 

It  will  be  one  of  the  most  important  meetings  of  the 
year,  as  matters  of  vital  importance  are  to  be  con- 
sidered. 

*  *  * 

The  following  European  records  are  held  by  the 
Darracq  car:  Out  of  eight  possible  chances  in  1903 
in  our  class,  the  Darracq  cars  captured  six  world's 
records  as  follows: 

Kilometre,  flying  start — Voiturettes,  Darracq 
first,  time  .35 ;  light  cars,  Darracq  first,  time,  29  2-5. 

Mile,  standing  start — Voiturettes,  Darracq  first, 
time,  1. 21  2-5;  light  cars,  Darracq  first,  time,  1.03  2-5. 

Kilometre,  up  hill,  standing  start — Voiturettes, 
Darracq  first,  time,  .50  4-5 ;  light  cars,  Richard  Brai- 
sier  first,  time,  .50  1-5. 

Kilometre,  up  hill,  flying  start — Voiturettes,  Dar- 
racq first,  time,  .40;  light  cars,   Bayard  first,   time, 

.38. 

*  *  * 

John  D.  Spreckels  and  daughter  and  party  of 
friends  took  a  pleasant  run  to  San  Jose  last  Sunday 
in  Mr.  Spreckels  White  touring  car. 

*  *  » 

Mr.  Walter  Hansel,  of  the  Stockton  Automobile 
Company,  and  two  friends,  made  a  run  from  Stock- 
ton to  Oakland  in  Mr.  Hansel's  IQ02  Oldsmobile,  in 
six  hours,  which  included  time  taken  for  breakfast 
and  refreshments  en  route.  Mr.  Hansel  says  they 
left  Stockton  at  five  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  ar- 
rived at  the  Oakland  pier  at  eleven  o'clock.    This  is 


May  at.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


the  record  nin  from  Str^Mon.  and  Mr.  Hansel  be- 
lieves it  will  stand  for  some  time  to  come.     Mr.  Han- 

•'.  hilo  in  San  Francisco,  placed  an  additional  order 
with    the    Pioneer    Automobile    Company    for    eight 

•nohile  runabouts  and  six  tonneaus.    Mr.  1! 
reports  the  automobile  business  in  Stockton  as  being 
very  lively      He  made  an  offer  of  a  premium  of 
each  on  six  of  the  Oldsmobile  tonneaus.  which   was 
refused,  as  the  Pioneer  people  will  not  accept  prem- 
iums on  anv  of  the  machines  handled  by  them. 
•  »  • 

The  automohile  trip  from  Oakland,  through  FTay- 

wards.  Dublin  and  I.ivermore.  bids  fair  to  he  one  of 
the  most  popular  routes  out  of  San  Francisco,  as  it  i- 
only  fifty-three  miles  from  Oakland,  and  a  portion  of 
the  way  amonp  beautiful  homes  and  throucrh  winding 
canyons,  with  no  hills  and  a  pood  road  bed,  and  the 
trip  is  verv  enjovable. 

*  *  * 

Among:  the  many  well-known  San  Francisco  peo- 
ple who  spent  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  the  Spring's 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Moore.  Jr..  and  their  guests 
Mr.  arid  Mrs.  Chesler  Smith.  Mr.  R.  Hamilton,  ac- 
companied by  his  wife  and  Miss  L.  Garrison,  came 
over  in  their  touring  car.  Mr.  Maurice  Casey,  with 
Mrs.  Casey.  Miss  Dillon.  Mrs.  Dillon,  and  Lieutenant 
Emery  Winship,  U.  S.  N.,  arrived  in  a  White  touring 
car  Saturday,  and  Sunday  took  a  ride  out  into  the 
country.  Dr.  Charles  E.  Parent,  Dr.  Charles  W. 
Cross  were  the  guests  of  Mr.  L.  R.  Mead  on  a  trip 
from  San  Francisco  in  one  of  the  Pierce  Arrow  tour- 
ing cars.  Mr.  William  V.  Bryan,  Mr.  A.  J.  Moore 
and  Mr.  A.  C.  Pillsbtiry  came  over  Saturday  in  a 
White,  returning  Sunday  evening. 

Mr.  O.  H.  Greenewald  of  San  Francisco  arrived 
Wednesday  in  his  touring  car,  intending  to  spend 
several  weeks  at  the  Springs. 

The  management  is  rushing  to  completion  a  very- 
commodious  garage  in  which  to  house  the  many  cars 
now  daily  arriving,  and  they  are  also  having  made  a 
very  swell  twelve-seated  car  to  run  to  and  from  the 
trains. 

*  *  * 

Almost  a  minute  has  been  clipped  from  the  world's 
track  record  for  automobiles  since  Alexander  Winton 
established  the  mark  of  1.47  in  1897,  and  since  that 
time  the  record  has  been  almost  continuously  to  the 
credit  of  a  Winton  car.  Mr.  Winton  raced  his  own 
cars  until  he  had  approached  the  minute  mark,  when 
he  gave  to  Barney  Oldfield  the  task  of  reducing 
the  figure  still  further.  Oldfield  hit  the  minute  mark 
last  August  at  Columbus  with  the  little  Bullet,  and 
before  the  season  has  ended,  he  has  succeeded  in  get- 
ting below  55  seconds. 

V  *   * 

Mr.  L.  P.  Lowe,  whose  car  was  recently  so  badly 
damaged  in  a  collision,  has  just  purchased  a  White 
touring  car.  The  purchase  was  made  last  Saturday 
night,  and  Mr;  Lowe  took  advantage  of  the  next  day 
to  make  a  long  run  to  San  Jose.  He  is  highly  pleased 
with  his  touring  car.  His  choice  was  a  machine 
painted  blue,  which  is  out  of  the  ordinary  run  of 
stock  colors.  Mr.  Lowe  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Governors  of  the  California  Automobile  Club,  and  one 
of  the  most  popular  automobilists  in  the  city. 

Mr.  L.  D.  Esty  of  Soquel,  Santa  Cruz  County,  has 
just  purchased  a  White  touring  car.  He  was  out 
for  a  long  run  in  it  through  the  Park  and  Presidio 
Sunday,  and  expects  to  take  it  down  to  Santa  Cruz 
in  a  few  days.  Mr.  Teichner  of  the  White  Company 
will  go  down  with  him,  and  an  interesting  run  and 
some  fast  time  is  a  foregone  conclusion. 


»3 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Prloe    51.350    Without    Top 
$1,450  With  Tod 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 

8.    It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  por  day.  ° 

t.  It  Is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
•nd   beautiful   In   general   finish. 

5.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Kun,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  TOURINu  CAR  French           ■           .  J2.SS0.00 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F. 


W.  J.^FREEUNG 


F.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  Market  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 
Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 
Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines   Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second   Hand    Automobiles    Bought,   Sold   and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


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The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


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AUTOMOBILE  SUNDRIES  AT 
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AND  HOTEL  COACHES 

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128-130    FREMONT    STREET.     S.    F. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 
Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  &  CO.,  13-15-17  W.  St.  John  St.,  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile.  Oldsmobile,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

F.  L.  CRANDALL,  Automobile  Supplies,  Repairing,  etc.,  124 
University  Avenue,   Palo  Alto,   Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


Dr.  Baumeister  made  a  trip  to  his  ranch  last  Sun- 
day  in   his   Rambler. 

R.  R.  Bentley  took  his  Rambler  out  the  first  time 
alone  last  Sunday  through  the  Park  and  Presidio. 

Dr.  W.  R.  T.  Wirthle  was  about  the  city  last  Sun- 
day in  his  Rambler. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Healey  went  to  Glenn  Rock  last  Sunday 
in  his  Rambler. 

R.  G.  White,  of  Hartford,  has  purchased  a  model 
"K"  Rambler  touring  car.  He  took  it  overland  to 
his  home.  Mr.  White  is  the  newly  appointed  agent 
for  the  Ramblers  for  that  district. 

Wiley  B.  Allen  has  purchased  a  model  "K"  Ram- 
bler touring  car. 

Frank  WulfF,  of  Colusa,  has  purchased  a  model 
"L"  canopv  top  Rambler. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  W.  Clark,  of  Reedley,  Fresno  County,  is 
another  purchaser  of  a  White  touring  car.  A 
couple  of  days  after  making  his  purchase  he  started 
out  for  Fresno  with  the  car  and  reoorts  having  had 
a  most  successful  trip  and  made  good  time.  He  is 
highly  pleased  with  his  new  machine. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  Harry  Tevis  and  party  made  a  trip  around  the 

bay  in  the  Doctor's  new  auto-car. 

*  *  * 

Mead  Hamilton  and  Miss  Dodge  made  a  trip  last  • 
Sunday  in  an  auto-car  to  San  Jose  and  return. 

*  *  * 

The  West  Coast  Automobile  Company,  agents  for 
the  auto-car  and  the   Columbia,  will  move  into  its 
new  quarters  to-day  at  006  Van  Ness  avenue. 
»  *  * 

The  automobile  industry  in  San  Jose  is  certainly 
taking  a  great  impetus  this  season.  The  Pioneer 
Autombile  Company  just  received  an  additional  or- 
der from  Mr.  George  H.  Osen,  their  agent  in  San 
Jose,  for  sixteen  Oldsmohiles.  This  makes  a  total 
of  twenty-six  machines  already  purchased  this  sea- 
son by  this  enterprising  agent. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  W.  M.  Gardiner,  of  the  White  Company,  ran 
down  to  San  Jose  last  Saturday,  accompanied  by  Mr. 
Herbert  S.  Smith  of  the  White  Company,  Mrs.  Smith 
and  Mr.  Charles  M.  Wiggin.  Sunday  was  devoted  to 
various  short  runs  around  San  Jose.  Among  those 
who  were  Mr.  Gardiner's  guests  on  these  short  trips 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Cambers,  Miss  Cambers  and 
Mrs.  Bennett,  all  of  San  Jose. 

*  *  * 

A  visit  to  the  shop  of  Andrew  Keenan  and  Blasauf 
during  the  week  found  these  popular  repair  men  .very 
busy.  Two  foreign  cars  of  French  make  were  under- 
going repairs,  one  quite  extensive;  also  a  number  of 
the  best  American  cars  were  undergoing  repairs.  The 
machine  shop  end  of  the  place  acquired  a  fine  Gould 
and  Eberhardt  shaper  and  a  speed  lathe,  and  Mr.  An- 
drews informed  us  that  a  14-inch  engine  lathe  would 
soon  be  in  operation.  They  are  building  a  25-ton 
hydraulic   press,   also,   to   accommodate   their  work. 

*  *  * 

J.  A.  Marsh,  President  of  the  Mobile  Automobile 
Company  has  started  for  a  two-weeks'  camping  trip 
up  in  Mendocino  County  with  his  automobile.  He 
has  taken  off  the  tunneau,  and  will  tow  along  a 
wagon. 


Eyes  Irritated  by  Wind 


Mineral  laden  poisonous  dust,  and  strong  sunlight,  need  care. 
Murine  Eye  Remedy  soothes  Eye  pain  and  cures  Inflammation. 
Redness,  Itching.  Granulated  and  Weak  Eyes.  Murine  is  an 
Eye  Tonic;  an  aid  to  those  wearing  glasses. 


The  Sunset  Automobile  Company  reports  the  fol- 
lowing sales  of  Buckboards  during  the  last  week: 
Mr.  F.  W.  Davenport,  Marysville ;  Mr.  L.  H.  Laphan, 
Newcastle ;  Mr.  L.  D.  Little,  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Davenport  intends  to  use  his  machine  for  a 
weekly  business  trip  of  200  miles  calling  upon  the  re- 
tail grocery  trade. 


If  You  are  Looking 
for  a  perfect  condensed  milk  preserved  without  sugar,  buy 
Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream.  It  Is  not  only 
a  perfect  food  for  infants,  but  its  delicious  flavor  and  rich- 
ness makes  it  superior  to  raw  cream  for  cereals,  coffee,  tea, 
chocolate  and  general  household  cooking.  Prepared  by 
Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zinkand's,  which  Is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  aller-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
the  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  Inspiring  music, 
and   is  patronized  by  the   smart  set 


"Out   of   the  Beaten   Path,"    Tom   Dillon's  modern   style   hats 
Opposite  Palace. 


The    CADILLAC 


MODEL  B.    Prlcf  S950 
Wllb  Tonneau  $1050 


Record     from      Del 

Monte  to    Oakland   5 

hours  and  38   minutes. 

The  only  successful 
<»ur  of  the  Yosemite 
nade  by  Major Fulmer 
<f  Los  Angeles  and  a 

party  of  three. 


CUYLER  LEE,  Agent.    201-20 J  Larkin  Street,  S.  F. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,    CAL 

NEW  AUTOMOBILE  GARAGE 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


THE     AX/TOCA'R 


AUTOCARS,  $1,850 
AUTOCAR  RUNABOUT,  $1,050 
LIGHT  TOURING  COLUMBIA  $1,900 
COLUMBIA  FOUR  CYLINDER  $4,000 

THERE    ABE    NO    AUTOMOBILES    BETTER 

WEST    COAST    MOTOR-CAR    CO 

606  VAN  NESS  AVENUE        -         -        SAN  FRANCISCO 


May  3i,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*S 


iddcd 

renting  department, 

pany. 

.vc  more  than  doubled  their  busi- 

during  the  last  thirty  days,  and  will  use  no  other 

but   the   Wmton   touring   car-       ["his 
re  with  them,  and  persons  wishing  to  hire  ear- 

s  are  sure  that  they  will  receive  g 1  service 

nothing  but  Wintons  in  renting  from  the  Si 
Blakeslce  Co. 

*  *  » 

Among  the  owners  of  Winton  Touring  Cars 
that  were  out  the  first  of  the  week  were: 

Colonel  H.  T.  Lally  made  a  trip  around  the   Bay. 

Mr.  Jack  Wilson  and  party  of  friends  were  seen 
driving  on  Sunday. 

Mr.  Frederick  Warde  and  son  were  out  driving 
through  the  Fark  and  Presidio. 

Mr.  W.  J.  Cornell  and  party  of  friends  visited  San 
Mateo. 

Mr.  R.  J.  Mier  and  party  of  friends  were  seen  out 
in  Mr.  Mier's  new  Winton  touring  car. 

*  »  * 

Mr.  O.  M.  Greenwald  recently  made  a  trip  to 
Byron  Hot  Springs  in  his  White  Touring  Car.  Mr. 
Greenwald  has  only  owned  his  machine  a  couple  of 
weeks,  but  has  already  taken  several  long  trips  in  it. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  F.  A.  Lathe  of  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Com- 
pany, has  been  spending  the  last  two  weeks  in 
Fresno,  getting  the  Fresno  Automobile  Company 
started  with  the  Stevens-Duryea,  for  which 
machine  they  have  just  been  appointed  agents.  Mr. 
Lathe  writes  that  prospects  for  business  in  Fresno 
this  year  are  much  brighter  than  last  season.  There 
were  in  the  neighborhood  of  from  75  to  80  automo- 
biles sold  in  that  territory  last  year. 

*  *  * 

Among  those  who  used  their  White  touring  cars 
around  the  city  last  Sunday  were  Mr.  L.  D  Estv 
Mr.  C.  A.  Madill,  Mr.  A.  W.  Wilson,  Mr.  A.  B.  Ham' 
mond,  Mr.  D.  J.  Hill,  and  Mr.  C.  A.  Hawkins. 

*  *  * 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company  received  by 
express  on  Friday  last  their  sample  Oldsmobile  ton- 
neau.  President  E.  P.  Brinegar  says  that  since  the 
arrival  of  this  machine  both  himself  and  the  entire 
selling  force  have  been  working  until  midnight  show- 
ing the  machine  to  out-of-town  agents  and  custom- 
ers who  have  placed  orders  with  deposits  on  this 
machine.  After  a  thorough  examination  of  the 
machine,  there  is  but  one  opinion.  It  is  this:  "The 
greatest  machine  ever  shown  on-  the  market  for  any- 
wheres near  the  price." 

*  *  * 

Mr.  W.  F.  Hunt  and  family  made  a  trip  through 
the  Park  and  Presidio  on  Sunday  in  Mr.  Hunt's  new 
Oldsbobile  light  tonneau  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

_  The  B.  F.  Goodrich  Company,  makers  of  the  Good- 
rich tires,  has  issued  an  interesting  pamphlet  entitled 
"Lake  Michigan  to  the  Atlantic;  a  Trip  through  the 
Maine  Woods ;  a  Trip  into  the  Yosemite ;  Track  and 
Straightway  Road  Records." 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  C.  Mather,  who  is  visiting  at  the  Palace 
Hotel,  has  arranged  with  the  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company  for  one  of  their  new  Wintons  for  his  use 
while  in  this  city. 

*  *  * 

A  carload  of  Stevens-Duryea  machines  is  expected 
to  arrive  at  the  Pioneer  Automoble  Company's  new 
garage  this  week,  five  of  which  are  already  sold. 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WNTON/sKING, 
Long Jive thej 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


Locomotor  Ataxia  and  Paralysis 

POSITIVELY    CURED 

REFERENCES    FURNISHED   TO   THOSE   WHO   ARE 

AFFECTED  AND  WANT  TO  INVESTIGATE. 

BRYN    MAWR    SANITARIUM 

127  NEW    MONTGOMERY    STREET 
SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


HJUL'S  Montgomery-street  Coffee  House  has  moved 
to  427  Montgomery  street,  directly  opposite  its  former 
location.  The  handsomest  breakfast,  lunch  and  coffee 
rooms  In  the  city,  with  more  room,  more  light  and 
better  and  quicker  service. 


Mme.    GEORGETTE    GODON 

LADIES'  HAT  IMPOETER 


Suite  520-621 

STARK  KING  BUILDING 

121  Geary  St. 


Perfect  Fitting 

French  Modes 

and  Adaptation,  i 


W.  A.  Plummer 

Importer  and  Manufacturer  of 

TENTS.     AWNINGS.     HAMMOCKS 

111    CLAY    STREET.    SAN    FRANCISCO. 
Telephone  Main  549 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  2i,  1904. 


INSURANCE 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,50o,oot 

Pounded  A.  D.  17M. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     13,000.000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    5,022,010 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent    202  Pine  St..  S.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  raid-up.   J3.446.100.  Assets,   $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,93u,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  n34.000.0O0 

Pacific  Coast  Branch : 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON.    Manager,   501   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.   KINGSTON.   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   USO. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .     2,441.485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH.   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD.  Agent  for  San  Francisco.  -211:.  Bansume  Mieet 

Unexcelled  Tor  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 


Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual   Bulldlnr, 

San  Francisco. 


The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life   Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 


DON'T  INSURE— Until  you  have  examined  the  now 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $  1 ,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $2 1 ,000,000 

For  particulars  addres6  the  Company     Agent*  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  110  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign    Marine    Insurance   Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 

Capital  (6,700,000 

Balfour.  Guthrie  ,V  Co.  Agents.  316  California  St..  8.  F. 


Cash   Capital,  $200,000.00 


Cash  Assets,   $321,471.19 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  32S  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability.  Teams.  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels.  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green.  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co..  Treas.  William 
M.  Plerson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary-;  Frank 
P.   Deering,  Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.   FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,   Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St,  S.  F. 


^^/rii4fewa^K 


nsurance 


Atlas  and  Manchester. 

Tliere  is  only  one  item  of  news  on  the  street  which 
is  obtainable  by  the  News  Letter  man,  and  that  one 
item  is  sufficient  to  make  the  California  insurance 
world  pause  and  then  shudder.  It  is  the  well-authen- 
ticated news  that  the  Atlas  and  the  Manchester  are 
to  amalgamate,  buy  out,  or  combine  each  with  or  by 
the  other.  This  will  be  sad  news  to  Conroy,  who  is 
manager  of  the  Manchester,  and  not  be  glad  news  to 
Devlin,  who  is  general  agent  of  the  Atlas.  Neither 
of  these  two  gentlemen  need  worry,  however,  since 
it  is  understood  that  the  amalgamation  will  not  dis- 
turb the  agencies  of  the  two  companies. 

*  *  * 

The  arrangement  contemplated  is  a  sort  of  ami- 
cable truce.  Neither  company  is  to  lose  its  identity, 
and  the  combination  is  to  keep  on  doing  business  as 
a  semi  sort  of  an  Underwriters'  Association.. 

*  *  * 

The   foreign    companies  are   one  by  one  retiring 

from  the  United  States,  or  if  not  retiring,  they  are 
amalgamating,  consolidating  or  re-insuring.  I  he 
Palatine,  The  Thuringia,  The  Netherlands,  The 
Patriotic  and  others  too  numerous  to  mention  "have 

come  and  have  went." 

»  *  * 

The  Lion.  The  London  and  Provincial,  The  Gener- 
ale,  The  Lancashire,  The  North  German  have  each 
played  with  a  corps  de  ballet  a  brief  part  on  the  stage 
of  American  fire  insurance,  and  each  has  made  its 
sudden,  but  not  unexpected,  exit. 

*  »  * 

The  faster  the  alien  companies  leave  us  the  better 
for  the  American  companies,  and  the  better  insurance 
the  American  insurer  will  obtain. 

*  •*  * 

It  is  a  potent  fact,  however,  that  the  American 
companies  could  and  cannot  carry  the  insurance 
offered  them  by  American  insurers;  hence  comes  in 
the  question  as'  to  where  the  protection  of  commerce 
can  be  obtained.  The  standard  British  companies 
of  the  standard  of  the  Commercial  Union,  the  London 
and  Lancashire.  The  Royal  are  stayers,  but  the  Brit- 
ish companies  manufactured  for  export  only  are 
neither  here  nor  there,  as  is  evidenced  by  the  threat- 
ened amalgamation  of  the  two  companies  named. 

*  *  * 

The  Manchester  has  been  afflicted  with  "decease" 
rumor  before  this  time,  and  the  fact  that  according 
to  its  own  figures  it  decreased  its  gross  assets,  as  well 
as  its  NET  surplus,  predisposes  the  proposition  that 
it  is  the  one  to  go  gracefully  out  of  business.  In  Cali- 
fornia or  the  Pacific  Coast  for  1903,  the  Manchester's 
loss  ratio  was  58.4  per  cent,  and  that  of  the  Atlas 
was  60.4  per  cent. 

*  *  * 

The  Atlas  has  shown,  however,  for  some  years  a 
steady  increase  in  its  NET  surplus,  while  the  Man- 
chester has  in  the  last  year  lost. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  it,  1904. 

Jii'lginp  from  the  figures  of  both  companies  it  is 
safe  to  say  that  the  opinion  of  the  New-  I  etter  is  that 

the  Manchester  will  be  amalgamated. 

*  •   • 

The  last  week's  issue  of  the  News  Letter  in  the 
Insurance  Department  has  worried  the  inside  ring 
than  a  little.  It  was  forcible  enough,  and  told 
enough  truth,  to  stir  up  the  animals  caged  in  the  coin- 
wires.  Already  they  arc  gnawing  at  the  bars 
and  are  getting  day  by  day  more  anxious  to  get  out 
and  roam  in  the  wild  pastures  of  cut  rates  and  the 

pleasant   meadows  of  rebates. 

*  *  • 

The  threatened  war  in  or  against  the  compact  has 

developed  to  the  measle  stage. 

*  •  • 

A  brokerage  firm  in  this  city  has  issued  and  mailed 
a  circular  letter  to  its  clients  asking  them  to  bring 
in  their  policies  to  its  (the  brokers')  office,  and  get 
a  pro  rata  cancellation  and  re-write  for  three  years — 
simply  an  evidence  of  the  incompetence  01  the  broker 
or  the  lack  of  management  of  the  manager,  but  solely 
alone  useful  as  Exhibit  1  of  the  fight  prophesied  by 
the  News  Letter. 

*  *  * 

At  the  recent  annual  election  for  trustees  of  the 
New  York  Life  the  following  gentlemen  were  elected 
to  serve  and  fill  the  vacancies  occurring  during  1904. 
Mr.  Clarence  H.  Mackay,  president  of  the  Commercial 
Cable  Company,  was  elected  to  succeed  the  late  W. 
R.  Grace,  ex-Mayor  of  New  York.  The  others  are 
Thomas  A.  Buckner,  Thomas  P.  Fowler,  Henry  C. 
Mortimer,  William  B.  Plunkett,  and  Hiram  R.  Steele. 

*  *  * 

Zenno  M.  Host,  Insurance  Commissioner  of  Wis- 
consin, not  content  with  bucking  the  Equitable,  is 
now  engaged  in  butting  the  Prudential.  It  is  an  evi- 
dence of  the  one-man  power  and  the  strongest  argu- 
ment that  has  yet  been  produced  in  favor  of  the  need 
of  the  national  supervision  of  insurance. 

The  idea  or  the  fact  that  a  political  upstart  like 
Host  can  control  two  companies  like  the  Equitable 
and  Prudential  in  a  kind  of  back-yard  fight  like  he  is 
making,   savors   of   an     Insurance     Commissioners' 

Trust. 

*  *  * 

That  Host  is  weak  in  his  contention  against  the 
companies  named  is  evidenced  by  his  action  in  insti- 
tuting suits  for  libel  against  the  Sentinel,  Wisconsin 
and  Daily  News,  asking  damages  in  the  kindergar- 
ten sum  of  $150,000. 

*  *  * 

The  News  Letter  is  glad  to  aid  and  abet  an  insur- 
ance  commissioner   in   the   lawful   discharge   of   the  _ 
duties  of  his  office,  but  it  condemns  and  contemns  the 
actions  of  Host  against  companies  of  such  probity 
as  the  Equitable  and  the  Prudential. 

*  *  * 

These  and  such  are  beyond  question,  and  the 
province  of  an  insurance  commissioner  in  any  State 
is  to  protect  the  public  against  being  robbed  and 
not  to  rob  the  companies. 

*  *  * 

In  California  the  Insurance  Commissioner  is  quies- 
cent. He  is  apparently  neither.  He  does  not  seek 
the  bubble  reputation  at  the  cannon's  mouth  of  a  sum- 
mons or  injunction. 

He  lets  a  whole  lot  of  fake  semi-insurance  schemes 
run  without  a  license,  and  apparently  robs  not. 

*  *  * 

There  must  be  something  doing.  He  is  refusing 
the  Mutual  Reserve  a  license  to  do  business  in  this 
State,  and  it  is  still  doing  it.     Now,  Mr.  Insurance 


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Commissioner,  the  offices  oi  the  Mutual  Reserve  arc 

in  the  Chronicle  Building — names  on  the  windows 
and  doors.  You  arc  fighting  it  one  way  and  not  an- 
other. Is  it  the  same  case  of  I  l"st.  Insurance  Com- 
missioner of  Wisconsin,  vs.  the  Equitable  and  Pru- 
dential, or  in  the  vernacular:  Is  it  graft? 


Nelson's  Amycose 

TnfAlllhle  Remedy  for  Cntnrrh.  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


Dr.  Decker. 


Dentist.  806  Market.     Specialty   "Colton  Gas"   for  painless  teeth 
extracting. 


High-grade  Shirts  and   Underwear  to  measure.     Tom  Dillon 
Co.,  opp.  Palace. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothing  Syrup" 

for  vour  children  while  teething. 


Get  your  house  wired  for  this,  that  or  the  other  useful  electrical 
device,  and  note  the  saviug  iu  work  and  worry,  the  addition  to 
your  comfort-  We  estimate  on.  supply  and  install  electric  lieht 
wiring,  burglar  alarms,  eas  lighters,  fans,  call  bells  and  annun- 
ciators, house  'phones,  etc. 

Act  on  the  bright  thought  to-day. 

NATIONAL  ELECTRIC  COMPANY 


455  Sutter  St. 


Telephone  Bush  c»s 


San  Francisco 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Yellow  Jacket  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  works.  Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada.  Principal  place  of 
business.  Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, of  this 
Company  neld  on  the  5th  day  of  May,  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  16)  of 
ten  ceuta  per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital 
stock  of  Che  said  Company,  payable  immediately  to  the  secretary,  at 
the  oilice  of  the  Company,  or  to  James  New  lands  Jr.,  Transfer  Secretary, 
Boom,  35  Mills  Building,  third  floor,  dan  Francisco,  Cat, 

Any  stock  upon  whlcn  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
FRIDAY  THE  10th  DAY   OF    JUNE.  1904, 
will  be  deemed    delinquent,    and     will    be    uuly   advertised     for    sale 
at     public      auction;      ana      unless      payment     is      made      before,     will 
be     sold       on       FRIDAY,       the      15th     day      of     July      1904,     at 
four    o'clock    p.    m.     in     front    of    the    office     of    the    Company,     to 
pay       the     delinquent      assessment,      together       with       the       coat        of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale-    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELT.  Secretary. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business,  ban  Francisco,  California-  Lo- 
cation of  works,  btorey  County,  iNevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  (riven  that  at  a  meeting?  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  9th  day  i  May,  1904,  uu  assessment  {Wo.  78)  of  fifteen  cent* 
per  share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
Immediately  In  United  States  gold  com,  to  the  secretary  at  the  office  of 
the  'oinpaiiy,  Koom  79  Nevada  Block,  Syy  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
claoo.  California' 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  lematn  unpaid  on 
TUB     I3lh    DAY     OF    JUNE.   1904 
will  be  delinquent,  and  ad votised  for  sale  at  public    auction    and    unless 
pnvyment  la  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   ihursdwy,   the  7th  day  of    July 
19H4,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  ivFder  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79.  Nevada  Block  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 
0*1. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


Making   Anarchists 


The  great  trusts  and  the  unions  of  the  country  are 
busy  making  anarchists.  They  are  working  over- 
time. They  never  ask  for  time-and-a-half  for  this 
labor,  but  cheerfully  put  in  the  time  and  the  labor 
without  a  murmur.  The  trusts  are  rapidly  making 
arrangements  with  the  various  labor  organizations 
for  the  purpose  01  mulcting  the  balance  01  the  com- 
munity. .Nationally,  the  great  meat  trust  has  given 
us  an  object  lesson  that  is  worth  considering,  the 
price  01  meat  has  oeen  raised  beyond  tiie  war  ngure, 
to  the  consumer.  At  the  same  time,  the  price  paid 
the  producer  of  beet  and  other  hoot  cattle  has  been 
lowered  to  such  an  extent  that  there  is  nothing  in  it. 
the  trust  catches  "  em  comin'  an'  goin'.  The  union 
laborer  in  the  stuck  yards  and  in  the  abattoirs  is  get- 
ting the  highest  wages  he  was  ever  paid,  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  balance  o*  the  community. 

A  plasterer  receives  seven  dollars  a  day  at  a  trade 
that  any  bright  boy  could  learn  in  six  weeks.  For 
Sunday  work  and  overtime  he  receives  as  high  as 
twelve  dollars  a  day.  borne  time  ago  the  News  Let- 
ter made  the  statement  that  nobody  but  an  imbecile 
or  a  millionaire  would  think  ol  engaging  in  building, 
under  tne  circumstances,  and  the  statement  still  holds 
good. 

Locally,  the  conditions  are  disastrous  in  the  ex- 
treme, tn  San  Francisco,  as  in  Oakland,  there  exists 
an  arrangement  between  the  labor  unions  and  the 
boss  builders,  and  it  is  a  successful  one.  It  is  so  ar- 
ranged that  no  one  is  to  be  admitted  to  the  work- 
men s  union  under  any  condition;  there  are  no  ap- 
prentices; the  contractors  protect  the  union  and  tlie 
union  the  contractor.  i\'o  independent  establishment 
is  to  be  tolerated,  and  the  contracts  are  being  kept 
in  the  hands  of  the  few  to  the  detriment  of  the  en- 
tire community.  'I  he  union  man  who  has  offended 
either  the  contractor  or  the  boss  builder  might  as 
well  starve.  A  factitious  value  is  put  upon  labor, 
and  a  consequent  factitious  value  on  the  boss  build- 
ers ability  ensues.  The  real  value  ot  the  labor  is 
about  $3.50  a  day.  Who  pays  the  difference?  Why 
the  builder  first,  and  after  him,  the  tenant  and  house- 
holder. 

The  merchant's  rent  is  increased,  and  the  consumer 
at  large  is  taxed  so  much  per  pound  extra  to  cover  the 
increased  cost.  The  man  who  has  not  received  an 
increased  wage  is  the  sufferer.  It  is  this  class  which 
the  Citizens  Alliance  proposes  to  protect.  And  it 
will  protect  them  if  all  persons  who  are  at  the  mercy 
of  the  labor  union  will  join  hands. 

Similar  conditions  obtain  among  the  electricians. 
Here  also  is  an  agreement  to  rob  the  public.  The 
unionist  and  the  contractor  get  the  persimmons.  Who 
is  it  that  suffers?  Why,  the  great  army  of  people 
that  belong  to  neither  classification.  The  house- 
holder, the  professional  man,  the  clerk,  and  the  great 
majority  that  do  not  belong  to  unions  or  corporations. 
An  electrician  out  of  work  is  out  of  work,  indeed ;  ne 
dare  not  take  a  job,  infinitessimal  though  it  be,  but 
that  he  will  be  blacklisted  with  his  union  and  with 
his  bosses.    The  public  at  large  pays  the  bill. 

In  order  to  stand  in  with  the  leaders  of  the  unions 
the  member  of  such  institutions  as  the  teamster,  the 
driver,  the  plasterer,  the  bricklayer,  the  hod-carrier, 
or  of  any  union  which  demands  more  muscle  than 
brains,  more  brawn  than  skill,  has  to  be  ready  for  all 
things.     He   is  out   01   employment.     He   is   not   a 


thinker.  He  is  readily  at  the  beck  of  suggestion. 
What  is  the  result?  We  have  seen  it  in  San  Fran- 
cisco in  the  last  week.  Men  have  been  killed,  others 
have  been  maimed,  and  some  are  dying  as  a  result 
of  a  blind  obedience  to  the  suggestions,  implied  or 
otherwise,  of  the  leaders.  Joseph  Egan,  low-browed 
and  illiterate,  fractured  a  non-union  workman's  skull, 
in  a  scrap  in  a  vacant  lot  on  Lombard  street.  In  this 
case,  as  in  many  others,  this  murderer  in  intent  is 
not  directly  to  blame.  It  is  only  to  be  regretted  that 
the  secretary  of  the  union  and  his  assistants  may  not 
be  haled  before  one  of  the  higher  courts  and  sen- 
tenced to  be  hanged  by  the  neck  "until  you  are  dead." 
•  The  poor,  ignorant  and  unthinking  brute  who  goes 
about  with  a  piece  of  gas  pipe  to  slay  or  with  brass 
knuckles  to  maim  is  not  to  blame.  It  is  the  leader 
who  should  suffer.  It  is  the  one  who  suggests  mur- 
der that  should  hang. 

*  *  * 

In  one  way  the  victim's  death  may  result  in  a  gen- 
eral benefit  to  the  community.  The  nature  of  the 
crime  will  bring  the  matter  up  in  one  of  the  higher 
courts,  and  thus  take  away  from  the  subservient  and 
criminal  police  justices  the  chance  to  again  become 
accomplices  in  crime. 

*  *  * 

The  Typothetae  nas  been  praised  all  over  the  land 
as  an  organization  of  sensible  men.  Chicago  is  no 
exception.  The  book  binders  are  returning  to  work 
in  hundreds,  as  the  Typothetae  has  refused  to  agree 

to  the  closed  shop. 

*  *  * 

The  Knox  Hat  Works,  after  forty  years  of  ami- 
cable life  with  its  hands,  in  a  moment  of  inadvertence 
encouraged  the  establishment  of  the  union  in  the 
factory.  They  warmed  the  snake.  The  leaders  used 
the  union  and  its  combine  for  purposes  of  blackmail. 
The  factory  is  now  run  on  the  "open  shop"  basis,  and 
has  come  out  with  a  pamphlet  which  thoroughly  ex- 
poses, under  their  own  signatures  and  by  their  own 
letters,  the  levying  of  blackmail  by  the  union  leaders 
formerly  in  their  employ. 

*  *  * 

The  Mayor,  as  President  of  the  Musicians'  Union, 
is  likely  to  have  a  merry  time  of  it  with  the  Druids. 
The  Druids  is  a  strong  institution,  and  in  its  com- 
position is  a  great  number  of  determined  men.  They 
have  brought  suit  against  the  Mayor  and  his  friends, 
the  Musicians'  Union,  for  damages  for  the  spread  of 
false  reports  regarding  the  employment  of  a  non- 
union band  at  El  Campo.  They  ask  for  $500  dam- 
ages.    We  hope  they  get  judgment. 

*  *  * 

The  union  has  boycotted  Uncle  Sam's  bands  and 
the  American  flag  at  Santa  Cruz.     Let  that  be  un- 


WM.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V  V  o 

Scotch_Whisky 

Importers-MACONDRAY  &  CO. 


May  3i.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

>od  and  let  even-  real   American   remember  it 
on  all  occasions. 

*  »  • 

An    unheard-of    example    of    forbearance    and    pa- 
tience in  the  face  of  deep  provocation  is  given  by  1  In- 
Stable  and  Carriage  Owners'  Association.     Not   One 
non-union   man   lias  been  discharged   since  tin-   fighl 
in. 

*  »  * 

The  unions  and  the  corporations,  in  many  in- 
stances, need  a  corrective  influence.  That  influence 
is  supplied  in  the  Citizens'  Alliance.  It  is  the  ex- 
•  I  will  of  the  great  majority.  That  majority  i* 
to-day  tired  of  strikes,  tired  of  trades  unionism  and 
corporate  partnerships,  tired  of  murderers,  tired  of 
crime,  and  tired  of  paying  the  fiddler:  it  cries  aloud 
for  the  abolition  of  all  the  great  trusts,  the  greates' 
of  all  trusts,  the  union;  it  wants  the  Merger  thieves 
of  the  Northern  Securities  Company  punished.  It 
cries  for  the  establishment  of  law  and  order  in  San 
Francisco,  and  the  punishment  of  the  recreant  police 
judges  who  officiate  in  our  courts.  It  wants  to  bring 
about  an  era  in  which  the  middle  man,  the  great  ma- 
jority, who  are  not  unionized,  who  are  awakening 
to  their  strength,  may  demand  and  obtain  justice. 
It  wants  the  meat  trust  brought  to  book.  It  proposes 
to  bring  these  results  through  an  association,  the 
Citizens'  Alliance,  if  need  be,  or  if  that  institution 
should  fail  to  carry  out  its  desires,  through  some 
other  and  stronger  agent.  The  partnerships  between 
the  unions  and  the  corporations  must  be  broken,  la-ge 
mergers  must  be  nrevented,  and  the  power  of  the 
union  must  be  curtailed.  The  corporation  and  the 
union  is  making  anarchists;  let  the  people  stop  it, 

now  and  forever. 

*  *  * 

It  is  said  that  because  the  700  elevator  construc- 
tors, now  on  strike  in  Philadelphia  for  increased 
wages  and  the  right  to  go  on  a  sympathetic  strike, 
have  been  ignored,  the  National  Board  of  the  Eleva- 
tor Construction  Association  is  contemplating  an 
international  strike.  The  elevator  contractors  of 
San  Francisco  are  victims  of  the  same  organization, 
and  find  it  difficult  to  employ  men  when  and  how 
they  desire.  Any  member  of  this  union  is  expelled 
if  he  works  one  minute  after  12  m.  Saturdays,  or 
works  more  than  six  days.  The  employer  is  injured 
to  the  extent  that  all  work  advances  at  the  dictation 
of  the  union,  contracts  notwithstanding. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

slept  in  an  unheated  room.  "Hul- 
dah," she  said,  remembering  the 
good  old  custom  of  her  own  gir'- 
hood.  "it's  going  to  be  pretty  crl 
to-night.  I  think  you  had  bet!  r 
take  a  flatiron  to  bed  with  you." 
"Yes,  ma'am,"  said  Huldah  in 
mild  and  expressionless  assent. 
Mrs.  Rogers  slept  soundly  and 
free  from  care,  secure  in  the  belie; 
that  the  maid  was  comfortable.  In 
the  morning  she  again  visited  the 
kitchen.  "Well,  Huldah."  she 
asked,  "how  did  you  get  along  with 
the  flatiron?"     Huldah  breath'!   a 


May  21,  1904. 
RECENT  MENUS. 


SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen  from  ThUves) 
"Say,"  complained  the  customer, 
"I  want  to  put  in  a  kick.  Remem- 
ber that  ton  of  coal  I  got  here  yes- 
terday?'' "Yes,  sir,"  said  the 
dealer :  "what's  the  matter  with 
it?"  "You  sold  it  to  me  as  your 
best  smokeless.  I  find  it  has  a  lot 
of  broken  stone  in  it."  "Well,  stone 
doesn't  smoke,  does  it?  What  are 
you    kicking   about?" 

"My  dear,"  said  Mrs.  Newlywed. 
her  face  flushed  with  the  excite- 
ment of  her  afternoon  in  the  kit- 
chen, "I  want  you  to  be  perfectly 
frank  with  me  now.  What  would 
you  suggest  to  improve  these 
doughnuts  I  made  to-day?"  "Well, 
replied  Mr.  Newlywed,  lifting  one 
with  a  slight  effort,  "I  think  it 
might  be  better  if  you  made  the 
hole  bigger." 

The  bride  and  bridegroom  sat 
side  by  side.  "Dearest,"  he  said, 
looking  up  into  her  eyes,  for  he 
was  the  smaller,  so  that  he  reallv 
and  truly  looked  up  and  into  her 
eyes.  "Yes."  love."  she  respond- 
ed in  soft,  frightened  mouse  tones, 
"If  I  had  known  that  tunnel  was 
that  long  I  would  have  kissed 
you."  "Didn't  yon  kiss  me?"  she 
asked  with  much  surprise.  "No." 
he  replied.    "Well,  somebody  did." 

When  the  thermometer  dropped 
far  below  zero  last  December, 
good  Mrs.  Rogers  was  much  dis- 
turbed at  the  recollection  that 
Huldah.   the     new     kitchen   maid, 


deep  sigh  of  recollection.  "Veil, 
ma'am,"  she  said,  "I  got  it  mos 
varm   before   morning." 

A  man  once  berated  his  Hebrew 
debtor  for  not  having  included 
hiin  among  his  preferred  creditors. 
"But  I  makes  you  a  speshul  credi- 
tor," was  the  answer.  "A  special 
creditor!  What's  that?"  "Yy. 
a  speshul  creditor,  mine  friend, 
knows  now  that  he  gets  nothings. 
The  preferred,  he  von't  know  that 
for  three  years.  Time  ist  money, 
ain't  it?" 

He  had  studied  by  himself,  and 
came  up  for  examination  to  col- 
lege with  inadequate  preparation. 
He  approached  ancient  history 
with  fear  and  doubt,  for  he  had 
had  little  time  to  stuff  himself 
with  the  history  of  the  Caesars, 
according  to  the  Youth's  Compan- 
ion. The  paper  contained  a  ques- 
tion at  which  the  young  man 
looked  with  dismay.  "What  can 
you  say  about  Caligula?"  He  did 
not  remember  that  Caligula  was 
the  worst  of  a  long  line  of  mad 
and  bad  Roman  Emperors.  But  a 
witless  inspiration  came  to  him, 
of  the  sort  that  often  saves  the 
young  and  the  ignorant.  He 
wrote :  "The  less  said  about  Cali- 
gula, the  better."    He  passed. 

Some  years  since  a  young  St. 
Louisan  was  leaving  his  home  for 
California,  which  was  then  consid- 
ered the  "wild  and  woolly  West." 
The  family  had  all  gathered  to 
say  farewell,  and  not  without  tears. 
The  father  took  the  young  man  by 
the  hand,  and  with  trembling  voice 
said:  "Now,  John,  remember  the 
Sabbath  day,  to  keep  it  holy  :  and 
look  out  for  rattlesnakes  and  be 
careful  that  nobody  steals  your 
watch." 

Eddie — Aren't  you  sorry  that 
you  are  an  only  child  ?  Freddie — 
Oh,  no;  I  don't  mind  it,  but  it's 
tough  on  pa.  Eddie — How  so? 
Freddie — Well,  you  see.  I  am  get- 
ting too  big  for  him  to  have  to 
take  me  to  the  circus,  and  there 
aren't  any  younger  kids  in  the  fam- 
ily for  him  to  fall  back  on. 


On  March  19,  1904,  the  Third  Dis- 
trict Masters'  Association  tendered 
a  banquet  to  R.  W.  James  M.  Edsall, 
D.  D.  G.  M„  at  the  Imperial,  Brook- 
lyn. The  menu  is  a  sumptuous  one 
and  among  other  drinkables  contains 
Moet  &  Chandon  White  Seal  Cham- 
pagne. 

The  banquet  of  the  Friendly  Sons 
of  Ireland  was  held  at  the  Jersey 
City  clubhouse  on  March  17,  1904. 
Moet  &  Chandon  White  Seal  graced 
the    menu. 

Moet  &  Chandon  Brut  Imperial 
Champagne  and  Apollinaris  mineral 
water  were  served  at  the  thirty-sixth 
annual  banquet  of  the  Friendly  Sons 
of  St.  Patrick,  held  at  the  Burnet 
House,  Cincinnati,  on  March  17, 
1904. 

The  sixth  annual  banquet  of  the 
Northwestern  Shoe  and  Leather  As- 
sociation was  held  at  the  Commercial 
'  Club,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  on  February 
17,  1904.  We  note  from  the  menu 
that  the  only  Champagne  served  was 
Mogt  &  Chandon  White  Seal. 

Moet  &  Chandon  White  Seal  was 
the  Champagne  served  at  the  ban- 
quet given  by  the  Journal  Company, 
of  Albany,  to  its  workers.  The  re- 
past was  served  at  the  New  Kenmore 
on  March  26,  1904. 

The  University  Club  of  Brooklyn 
gave  its  first  annual  dinner  at  their 
club  building  on  Saturday,  March 
26,  1904.  Moet  &  Chandon  White 
Seal  was  the  wine  selected  to  grace 
the  occasion. 

At  the  New  Tontine  Hotel,  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  on  March  18,  1904 
the  sixty-eighth  annual  banquet 
the  Yale  Literam  Magazine  was  held, 
upon  which  occasion  only  Moet  & 
Chandon  White  Seal  Champagne  was 
served. — Bonfort's  New  York  Wine 
and  Spirit  Circular. 

Moet& 
Chandon 

Own  more  vineyards  than  all  other 
leading  houses  combined  assuring 
the  continuance  of  the  highest  grade 
of  champagne  iu  WHITE  SEAL. 
This  brand  leads  all  others  in  im- 
portation and  has  the  preference  at 
all  smart  functions. 

WILLIAM  WOLFF  &  Co., 

216    Mission    St. 
Pacific  Coast  Agents. 

"You  don't  feel  any  sympathy 
for  the  colleague  who  was  con- 
victed of  grafting?"  "Not  the 
slightest,"  answered  Senator  Sor- 
ghum ;  "his  lack  of  honesty  was 
equaled  only  by  the  primitive  in- 
sufficiency of  his  methods." 


of 


May  it.  1904. 

At  the  time  of  a  certain  r 

mi    the    weather     was      very 
ind  in  order  ti>  immerse  the 
u  was  it  1  cut 

the  ice.     It  >..  happened  that 
one  of  the  female  converts  on  be- 
iwered  into  the     icy     water. 
!    about,   and   as   the   current 
swift,  in   a   moment  sin-  had 
slipped  out  of  the  preacher's  hands 
anil   £"»<'   down   stream   under  the 
ice.      The    preacher    looked    up    at 
the   bank   with   perfect     calmness, 
anil  said:  "Brethren,     this     sister 
hath  departed — hand  me  down  an- 
other." 

Mrs.  Hatterson — I  wonder  if  it 
has  paid  to  give  our  daughter  such 
'd  education?  Hatterson — 
Paid  I  Why.  of  course.  Don't  you 
Bee  from  her  manner  how  superior 
she  is  to  us? — Life. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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"Ugh!"  exclaimed  ilic  exchange 
ticket,  withdrawing  as  far  at 

sible  into  tlu-  I'linu-r  of  the  pocket, 
"you're  from  a  pawn-shop.  "Sup- 
I  am."  retorted  the  pawn- 
ticket, "I  am  the  pawnshops  one 
redeeming  feature." 

Mrs.  Popley— Mr.  D'Auhcr  re- 
marked to-day  that  our  Robert 
was  like  a  young  Apollo.  Mr.  Pop- 
ley — <  >h,  that's  the  way  witli  those 
artists— they're  always  trying  to 
make  people  think  well  of  those 
old  classical  heroes. 

"She's  a  lovely  girl,  and  so  sim- 
ple in  her  tastes.  1  told  her  that 
I  hadn't  much  of  an  income  yet, 
but  that  T  hoped  1  could  provide 
for  her  every  want."  "And  what 
did  she  say?"  "She  said  that  would 
lie  all  she  could  ask." 

Ethel— So  Bob  and  Edith  are 
engaged?  Can  he  support  her  in 
the  style  to  which  she  has  been 
accustomed?  Jack — Support  her? 
Why,  he  can't  support  himself  any 
longer  in  the  style  to  which  she 
has  been  accustomed  to  seeing  him 
while  courting  her. 

"There  is  one  great  mystery 
about  horse-racing,"  said  young 
Mrs.  Torkins.  "What  it  that?" 
"After  hearing  Charley  explain  ex- 
actly how  a  race  ought  to  come 
out,  I  never  can  understand  how 
anybody  could  be  so  foolish  as  to 
back  the  horse  that  actually  won." 

Professor  (discussing  organic 
and  inorganic  substances) — Now, 
if  I  should  shut  my  eyes — so — 
and  drop  my  head — so — and  re- 
main perfectly  still,  you  would  say 
I  was  a  clod.  But  I  move,  I  leap. 
Then  what  do  you  call  me?  Voice 
from  the  rear — A  clod-hopper. 

He  had  studied  by  himself,  and 
came  up  for  examination  to  college 
with  inadequate  preparation.  He 
approached  ancient  history  with 
fear  and  doubt,  for  he  had  had  lit- 
tle time  to  stuff  himself  with  the 
history  of  the  Caesars,  according 
to  Youth's  Companion.  The  pa- 
per contained  a  question  at  which 
the  young  man  looked  with  dis- 
may: "What  can  you  say  about 
Caligula?"  He  did  not  remember 
that  Caligula  was  the  worst  of  a 
long  line  of  mad  and  bad  Roman 
Emperors.  But  a  witless  inspira- 
tion came  to  him,  of  the  sort  that 
often  saves  the  young  and  the  ig- 
norant. He  wrote :  "The  less  said 
about  Caligula  the  better."  He 
passed. 

Little  Brother — Do'  you  know, 
Mabel,  I  believe  if  I  weren't  here, 
Captain  Spooner  would  kiss  you." 
"Leave  the  rpom  this  minute,  you 
impertinent   little   boy!" 


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lincss.  SaPOLIii,  which  has  wrought 
such  changes  in  the  home,  announces  her 
sister  triumph — 

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A  member  of  the  London  Stock- 
Exchange  was  married  a  short 
time  ago,  and  of  course  the  first 
time  he  appeared  on  'Change  after 
the  honeymoon  he  was  subjected 
to  many  congratulations  and  much 
good-natured  bantering.  One  of 
his  friends,  after  congratulating 
him,  suddenly  reached  over  and 
took  a  long  brown  hair  from  his 
shoulder.  "Looks  bad  in  a  mar- 
ried man,  Ticker,"  he  excalimed, 
holding  it  up  to  the  light.  "Oh, 
that's  all  right,"  replied  Ticker, 
smiling,  "it's  my  wife's."  "No,  no, 
that  won't  do,"  responded  the 
friend.  "Your  wife's  hair  is 
darker  than  that."  This  made 
Ticker  a. trifle  angry,  and  he  ex- 
claimed excitedly :  "I  tell  you  it's 
my  wife's.  I  fancy  I  know  my 
wifes'  hair  when  I  see  it."  "Well, 
you  certainly  ought  to,"  said  the 
friend,  "but  are  you  sure?"  "Sure, 
of  course  I  am.  Why  do  you  ask?" 
"Oh,  I  thought  perhaps  there 
might  be  some  mistake.  You  see, 
I  found  it  on  Brown's  shoulder, 
just  before  I  saw  you." 

"Now,  William,"  said  the  man 
of  business  to  the  office  boy,  "I 
am  going  out  to  get  shaved." 
"Please,  sir,"  said  the  boy,  hesitat- 
ing, "if  any  one  calls  and  wants  to 
know  where  you  are,  will  I  say 
you've  gone  to  the  barber's  or 
down  to  Wall  Street?" 


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mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
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May  21,  1904. 


BRIE 
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"Are  tnere  clubs  lur  women  in 
this  town  ?"  asked  the  suffragist 
from  the  East.  "Certainly  not," 
replied  the  gallant  Westerner. 
''We  can  handle  women  without 
clubs." 


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10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co.,  an  Sutter  St..  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
rpHineneeB.    Telephone  Exchange  :tri 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

Ml9Cr.tta^c5S.l,BtWeenthe 
THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chta-o 
and  Nor.hweMcrn  I  ys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlhulcd.  Lettvis 
Fan  Francisco  at  10.00  a.  m.  The  m  -1 
.••Uu.u,',"nV,s  J,'a'."  '"  tllB  World.  Electiie 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smokingca  1  s 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovers  Li- 
'™ry.  Dming  Cars  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Eipress.  Vestlboled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and.  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.    Vestlbuled.    Leaves  San 

Francisco  at  9.00  a.m.Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers.  "■ 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie.  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Bys. 
•l7nUrketSt.     (Palace  Hotel)     San  Francisco 


.#•  s^^.         Trains  leave  and  »r»-  due 
0^<rT7>^*.  to  arrive  at 

£g|IHz,SAN   FRANCISCO. 

'-.\ — 7=T — I*   I  Fbow  Mat  15.  190-1 

w^^iy  Fsbbt  Depot 

^•^P  *^S  {Foot  of  Market  Street  , 

.*avk   -         MAIN    LINE.        -  a^TTVT 

7-00*   VhcrvIIIu.  Winter*,  Kuuiaey 7  50'' 

7  OJa  Benlcla,  SiiIsuii.  lilinlraand  Sacra- 
mento           7.20i- 

7  30 *   Vallejo.     Napa.     Caltntrnrii,     Santa 

ItOM,   Martinez,  S:in  Ilamon 6-20"- 

730a  Niies.  LIvermore,  Tracy.  Latbrop. 

Stockton 7.20f 

P-00*  Shasta  KxpreBit—  (Via  Davis), 
WlHUim   (for   I.artlett  Sprliih"<). 

Wfiiowi      rFruto,     Itetl     muff, 

Ponlnnil.    Taconm,    Seattle 7-50 

f.OOa    Davis  VS 1 1 mill.  Knlk'hta  Landing. 

MaryavWe,  OroTllte 7-60 

1  30*    Port    i.:i.jF*ta,     Martinez.     Antlocn. 

Byron,  Tracy,   Stockton.    Rev 

man      Los     lt>m»B,     MonUota. 

Ariiiniin.       1 1  it  of  <  ml         V  1  eta  1  la. 

Portfrvllle 4.20 

30*  Port  Oxtfi.  Latbrop,  Modesto, 
Iff  reed.  Fresno,  Uoshen  .lunc- 
11  i.     Han  ford,     Vlsalln.    llakcrs- 

flcld 4  50 

30*  Nlh'K.  Ban  .lone,  LIvermore,  Block 
ton   I  '  Milton).  .utn\  Su<;riun>-iito, 

Pi-.      .  lie     Marysville.    Culoo, 

}'.•■      stuff 4. 20 

f  30*   Oak' In  If   Chinese.  .laim-Hlown.  8o- 

nom   Tnulmnne  and  Anita's    4.20 

9  00*    Atlantic  Kxpr^ait— OKileictnd  Raec,    11.20 
9.30*    RlrtlUH'nd,     Martinez      mid      Way 

6i.nit.nH 6.50' 

i0  00*   Th«-    Overland    Limited  —  ug.len, 

Denver,  uuuiua,  Chicago 6.20 

10.00*  Vallfjn 1220 

10.00*  Los  Anfrelea  PauBcnuer  —  Port 
Costa.  Martluez.  Byron,  Tracy, 
Lut  I  nop  8  t  oe.  k  to  ii.  Merced, 
Raymond,  FrcBiio,  Goshen  June- 
ti« ii.  iiut.rurd,  Lemoore,  vimiiia. 

Bakers  Hold.  Lob  Angeic* 7.20 

1200m  Bay  ward.  N  Ilea  and  Way  Stations.     3.20p 

«1.00p   Sin-r ICIver  St.Miin.-rn HLOOf 

330p  Benlela,  Winters.  Siu-ruiiiento. 
Woodland,  Knlghta  i-amiing, 
Marys  vlllc,     Oru.  llle     mid     way 

stations 10.50  <• 

.'30r  Haywant.  Nlles  and  Way  Stallone..      7  50' 

3  30c   Port      Cosia.      Martinez.      lt>  run, 

Tracy,  Lalurup,  Mod  en  to, 
Merced,  Berenda,  Fresno  and 
Waj  Stations  beyond  Port  Costa  12  20' 

3-301*  Soeemlte  Valley,  via  Berenda  and 

Wawunn 8.60< 

3-30p  Marlines, Tracy, Stockton,  Lodi..,   1020* 

4 .00p   Martlin-z.Siiii  ttafnon,  ValleJo.Napa. 

Callsto^a.  Sun  hi  [tots 9  20' 

4  00p  Niies.  Tracy,  Stock Lodi 4-20'- 

430p    Hay  ward.    Nlles.    Ir.inttton,  San)  )8  50  ■ 

Jose.  LIvermore }  1 1 1 .60* 

6.00c  The  owl  Limited— Newman,  Lot 
Bsnue    M  endow  Fresno,  Tulare. 

Bakererleld.  Lob  Ansel's 8.50  » 

6.00i     Port  Costa,  Tracy.  Stuck  toll 12  20f 

tB.30i*  Haywwrd    Nllet  and  Han  Jose 7.20* 

6.00e    Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 9.b0* 

B.OOi-  Easier  i  Express—  Ogden,  Denver. 
Omaha.  St.  Louis,  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Coats,  Iteiiti'ln,  But 
sun  1,1  in  Ira,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Bocklln,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Trutkee,   Boca,    Ituuo,    Wads- 

worth.  Wlnneinucca 5  20 

6.00f    Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sundny...,  I      ,  Cft„ 

7.00p  Vallcj...  Sunday  only f      '  bgp 

7.00P  Rich nd.  shii  Pablo.  Port  Costa, 

Marti DOI  and  Way  siatlona   1L20* 

7  00r   Oregon  &  California  Express— 8ac- 
raiiientu,     Marysvllle,     Bedding, 
Porilai'd.  Paget  Sound  and  East.     6-50* 
806p  Rem.i  r'asseuBor— Trnokee,  Lake 

Tab   e   7.60a 

910p  Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Son- 
dwyonlvi .      1L50> 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 

(FtmtTif  Marltel  Street.) 

7-45*  Santa  Cruz  Excurtd- nit  Sunday  only)     8-10p 
8.16*    Newark,    Ceniervllle.     San     Joae, 
FelluD.     Boulder     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  ami  Way  Stations 5-65e 

i2.1b>  Newark.  CenttrvUle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatob.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    t)0-S5* 

4.16P  Newark.  San.lose,  LosOatos  and  1     18.55  a 
way  Btmloos )  t10  66  * 


COAST     LINE     <»■■<"...  t.autce). 
tg~  i  third  and    I'liwiisetid  Streets.) 

6  10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations B.30V 

7  00*   Ban  .lose  and  Way  Stations 6  40>* 

7.15a  Monterey  and  Santa  Craz  Excar- 

alon  (Sunday  only), 10.30r 

8.b0*    N''w  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld..  only),      4.10'' 

8  00*  The  Coaster— Stops  only  Sar  .l«a»e, 

Gil  my  (cunuectlun  fur  not  lis- 
ten. Pajaro.  Catiirovllle  (con- 
nection tn  and  from  Monterey 
and  Paclilc  Grove),  Salinas  San 
Ardo,  Faso  Hohlut.  Santa  Mar- 
garita San  Luis  <  iiilsp'i.  principal 
•I  at  [mm  (hence  Snrr  tcunneciit.Q 
for  Lmnpi'C).  prlncliuil  Htntl'>ns 
tbence Santa  llartiara.San  Itin-na- 
ventura,  I'-ur  >ank  Loa  Angeles  .  10.4b'' 
9. CO*  San  Jose.  'Ires  Plnoa.  Cap! tola, 
Sauia(  :ru/.. Pact  He  Grove.Sa  Unas, 
San  Lnla  OblHpo  and    principal 

Way  Stallone 4-10p 

.0.30a  ean  .lose  and  Way  Stations L20p 

'1  30a  Bauta  Clara,    .sati  Jose.  Loa  Gatos     _ 

and  Way  sn„ilons 7.30 1- 

1  30c   6AnJo8e IWnyStattons 8  36 

3  00p  Del  Uontfl   hxpresu— Sania  Clara, 

San  Joee,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara,  except  Sunday,  for  Santa 
Cruz,  Boulder  Creek  and  Narrow 
Gauge  Point:!)  St  Gllroy  for  llol- 
llflter,  Tres  Pinos.  at  Pajnro  for 
Santa  Cruz,    at   Castrovllle    for 

Salinas 12  15c 

3-30P  Trea  Plnos  Wav  Pannenircr 10  45a 

4  30p  i^an  Johc  and  Way  Stations '8  00* 

5  00      Santa  Clara,  san  Jose,  Los  (iatos, 

and  principal  Way  Stallone  (ex- 
cept Sunday) 1-9.00* 

IS  30p   baDjoBeandPrlnclpalWayStatlons    (8.40* 
&4K'     Bonsel     Limited.—  Kedwo-  d.    San 
i    -c,G1Iruy,Sa]|naB,Pano  UobleS, 
San  Lulu  OblHpo,  Santa  Barbara, 

Los  Angeles,  beinlng.  El  Paso, 
New  Orlcnnn.  New  Tork.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crux 
and   at    Castrovllla   for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7  10* 

'6  16p  Bau  Mateo.Beri'hfor  I.Uelmont.San 
Carlos,  Redwnod.  Fair  Oaks. 
MenloPark.  Palo  Alto t6.4B* 

6  30p   BSD  lose  and  Wny  Stations ...      6  36* 

800p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10. 16a 

11  30p  SouthSnnFranclseo.  Millhrae.  Bur- 
lln^ame,  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
San  Carlos.  Redwood.  Fair  Oaka, 

Meulo  PHrk.  and  Palo  Alto 946>' 

11  30p  Maytleld.  Mountain  View.  Sunny- 
vale. Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

San  Jose 19.46i 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon 

Bnnday  excepted  t  Sunday  only 

a  Saturday  only. 
I  Stops  ai  all  eiatlona  on  Sunday. 
^sT"Ouly  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
11* b:  10  a.m..  7:00  a.m.,  7:15  a.m..  11:30a.  M.,  8:80p.m., 

>:80  P.M.  and  8:00  P.M. 

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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


"Ehe  Little     Brown      Caterpillar 


It  was  such  .1  glorious  morning  m  the  great  t 

The  grand  i>|i|  pines,  the  firm,  gnarled  oaks,  the  quiv- 
'  every  little  creeping  plant 
ami  delicate  wtldflower  hastened  t"  pour  their  fra- 
grance on  the  fresh-  col  air.  The  birds  darted  in 
and  out  "ii  errands  of  love  to  their  hidden  nests. 

heart.  The  little  brown 
caterpillar,  curled  up  in  a  round  hall  beneath  a 
branching  fern,  awoke  and  stretched  himself  lazily. 
His  small  hairy  head  felt  so  heavy  and  queer  and  his 
numb!  Never  before  had  he  realized 
that  there  were  SO  many  of  them  to  drag  along. 

"I'm  not  in  the  least  hungry,"  he  muttered  sleep- 
ily. "Maybe  it's  exercise  I  need.  I'll  creep  across 
to  the  big  pine."  So  he  slowly  crawled  out  from  be- 
neath the  fern,  hut  soon  curled  up  again  from  sheer 
weariness.  Xow  the  good  Forest  Fairy,  who  kept 
careful  watch  over  every  little  living  thing  in  the 
great  wood,  was  hovering  near,  and  at  once  darted 
like  a  sunbeam  through  the  shimmering  leaves. 

inc.  my  sleepy  one.  it  is  time  for  thy  lullaby," 
she  whispered  as  she  poised  her  shining  wings  and 
gently  roused  him.  -She  guided  him  carefully  across 
the  sun-flecked  path  to  the  baby  oak,  under  the  shel- 
tering pines.  L'p  the  slender  trunk  she  drew  him  ten- 
derly, far  out  upon  a  swaying  twig,  and  beneath  a 
lender  leaf.  Then  hovering  beside  him.  she  crooned 
her  lullaby,  waving  her  gauzy  wings  in  perfect  uni- 
son:    • 

"Weave,  weave,  in  and  out, 
Up  and  down  and  round  about ; 
Curl,  curl,  in  tiny  ball, 
Weave  around  and  over  all. 
Snug  and  warm,  snug  and  warm, 
Rest  secure   from   wind   and   storm." 

And  even  as  the  Forest  Fairy  began  to  croon,  the 
little  brown  caterpillar  began  to  weave — up  and  down 
'  and  around  about,  until  he  was  soon  snugly  wrapped 
in  a  soft  silken  blanket  which  swung  from  the  pro- 
tecting leaf. 

The  south  wind  swayed  his  cradle  gently  to  and 
fro  and  he  fell  into  a  sweet  sleep. 

Beautiful  sunrises  flushed  the  secret  places  of  the 
dim  old  forest.  Sunsets  a-flame  with  crimson  and 
gold  lighted  their  fires  in  the  heart  of  the  wood. 
Storms  lashed  the  giant  trees  in  fury,  and  torrents 
of  rain  flooded  the  mossy  hollows  and  the  by-paths 
of  the  rabbit  and  the  squirrel.  A  sudden  flash  and 
the  lightning  cleft  the  big  pine,  as  the  thunder 
crashed  through  the  falling  branches.  Still  the  little 
brown  caterpillar  slumbered  peacefully  on.  All  the 
tumult  raging  around  him  seemed  but  a  sweet,  faint 
echo: 

"Snug  and  warm,  snug  and  warm, 
Rest  secure  from  wind  and  storm." 

But  at  last  a  morning  dawned  when  the  Forest 
Fairy  flitted  across  the  wood  to  consult  the  Flower 
Calendar.  "The  hour  has  struck !"  she  murmured 
softly,  and  eagerly  sought  the  baby  oak.  The  little 
brown  caterpillar  was  already  astir  and  restlessly 
stretching  his  cramped  limbs. 

"Gently,  gently,  my  beautiful  one,"  whispered  the 
Forest  Fairy,  as  she  carefully  loosed  the  silken  blan- 
ket. "Do  not  tear  thy  delicate  wings."  Then  the 
little  creature  feebly  shook  himself  free  and  poised 
uncertainly  on  the  swaying  twig.  Slowly  the  long, 
creased  wings  unfolded,  resplendent  in  violet  and 
gold,  and  spread  themselves  to  the  morning  sun. 

Then  the  little  brown  caterpillar,  now  a  lovely  but- 
terfly,   fluttered    exultantly   upward,   and   under  the 


loving  guidance  of  the  Forest  Fairy  sailed  away  on 
his  first  zigzag  journey  across  the  beautiful  old  for- 
est.—  Marion    K.    Pickering  in    Boston    Brown    B 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Best  and  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works,  Virginia  Distriot,  Storey  County,  Nevada- 
Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direotors,  held 
on  the  22nd  day  of  April,  1904.  an  assessment  \No.  85)  of  tea  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  Im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Seoretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  room  S3,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE  27th   DAY   OF   MAY.   1904, 
will  be   delinquent ,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless 
payment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  17th  day  of  June 
1904,   to    pay    the    delinquent   assessment,   together  with  the   eosts  of 
advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

M.  JAFFE.  Secretary. 
Office—  Boom  33.  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Caltfornlp 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California. 

ocation  of  works,  Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  county.  State  of 
Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the  6th  day  of  May,  1904,  an  assessment  (No.  133)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  Company,  Boom  14,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
THE  8th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1904, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  saie  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  27th  day  of  June, 
1904,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  costs  of  advertis- 
ing, and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

E.  L.  PAEKEE,  Secretary. 

Office— Eoom  14,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309,  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco.  California. 

NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased.  Dept.  30336  No.  8.  Notice  Is 
hereby  given  by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  Hynes,  Public  Adminis- 
trator of  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  Adminis- 
trator of  the  Estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  deceased,  to  the  credi- 
tors of,  and  all  persons  having  claims  against  the  said  deceased, 
to  exhibit  them  with  necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months 
after  the  first  publication  of  this  notice,  to  the  said  Administra- 
tor, at  room  568  Parrott  Building,  Nos.  825  to  855  Market  street, 
the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of 
the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  Stats 
of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES, 
Administrator- of  Ure- estate  of  PAUL  BROCK,  Deceased. 

CULLINAN  and  HICKBY,  attorneys  for  administrator,  Rooms 
567-568-569  Parrott  building,    San  Francisco,   Cal. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  April  23.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  21,  1904. 


LOVE'S  QUIET. 

By  Charles  Hanson  Towne  in  The  Reader 

When  all  the  clamor  of  the  world, 

Its   noise    and   wild   alarms 
Has  wrapped  me  pitilessly  round, 
And  in  its  web  my  heart  has  bound, 
I  crave  your  sheltering  arms ! 

When  all   the  brazen   crash  of  swords 

The  silence  rends  apart ; 
When  I  am  steeped  in  toil  and  strife, 
I  crave,  O  great  love  of  my  life, 

The  stillness  of  your  heart! 


IRAM'S  ROSE. 


Smart  Set 

Where  was  Iram,  who  that  one 

Who  has  watched  its  garden  growing? 

Nishapur  or  Babylon 

Held  its  radiant  rose  a-blowing? 

Plucked  he  not  the  Sultan's  flower, 
Amber-eyed   and   red   of   mouth, 

Made  it  his  for  one  ripe  hour. 

Warm   and   spice-winged   from   the   South? 

Haply   caught  all  life,  they   two, 

With  that  rose,  and  tossed  it  madly 

In  the  sun,  where  never  blew, 

Nay,  nor  died,  a  flower  so  gladly! 

Laughed  and  tossed  it  in  their  glass, 

Drank  and  drained  it,  breath  to  breath; 

Ere  the  dial's  shade  had  passed, 

They  had  sought  the  shade  of  death. 

Lived  and  loved  an  hour,  where  blows 

Some  old  garden  by  a  river ; 
Gone   is  Iram — but  its  rose 

Breathes   perfume   in    song   forever. 


THE  RECKONING 

By  Charlotte  Becki-r  in  January  Smart  Bet 

Love  taught  me  all  I  knew  of  bliss ; 
Love  taught  me  all  I  knew  of  pain — 
Lured  me  with  laughter  and  disdain, 

Then  made  me  captive -with  his  kiss. 

He  vowed   no  pleasure   I   should   miss, 
Then  swift  he  wounded  me  again — 

Love  taught  me  all  I  knew  of  bliss ; 
Love  taught  me  all  I  knew  of  pain. 

So  deep  we  sounded  grief's  abyss, 

My  heart  to  beg  release  was  fain  ; 
Ah,  would  my  pleading  had  been  vain, 
For  now  I  but  remember  this: 
Love  taught  me  all  I  knew  of  bliss ; 

LOVE  AND  HATE. 

ByEimna  C-   Dowd   in   Century 

Love,  the  skylark,  soars  and  sings ; 
Hate  has  neither  song  nor  wings. 


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And  now  it's  Japan's  turn  to  throw  away  a  few 
warships. 

"None  but  the  union  brave  deserve  the  fair,"  is  the 
way  the  line  is  read  in  St.  Louis. 

Isitshiyama  is  not  the  name  of  a  Japanese  battle- 
ship, but  of  a  native  African  drink  50  per  cent  more 
potent  than  raw  alcohol. 

A  Michigan  Judge  has  decided  that  a  husband  has 
legally  the  right  to  spank  his  wife.  The  joke  of  this 
is  that  the  Judge  is  a  bachelor. 

President  Roosevelt  does  not  smoke,  but  Carrie 
Nation's  language  did  when  she  lost  a  $50  bet  on  the 
proposition. 

While  search  is  being  made  for  Murphy,  the  miss- 
ing Tammany  leader,  why  not  look  into  the  Hearst 
barrel? 


The  collar-and-elbow  method  of  courtship  has  led 
a  young  man  of  northern  New  York  to  sue  the  young 
lady  in  the  case  for  damages  on  account  of  a  broken 
rib. 

The  attention  of  the  Health  Board  and  of  the 
Society  for  the  Suppression  of  Vice  is  invited  to  the 
case  of  that  foul  old  female,  "Mother"  Jones. 

It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  none  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco delegates  who  flopped  to  Hearst  walked  home 
from  Santa  Cruz. 

If  it  be  true  that  a  trust  has  got  control  of  the 
world's  guano  supply,  then  what  will  Hearst  use  to 
hurl  at  those  who  oppose  him  for  the  Presidency? 

General  Funston  declares  that  he  swam  the  Bag- 
bag,  but  does  not  say  why  he  did  so  instead  of  wad- 
ing it  or  jumping  across  it. 

Rev.  A.  P.  Camphor  was  a  candidate  before  the 
Methodist  Conference  for  missionary  bishop  to 
Africa.  He  was  put  on  the  shelf,  but  happily  there 
was  no  need  for  moth  balls. 

Colonel  Watterson,  habitual  alliterateur  and  con- 
firmed phrase-forger,  pronounces  the  doom  of  the 
"pert  paragraph."  What  a  busy  editor  it  is !  Only  a 
little  while  ago  it  was  smiting  for  their  sins  the  rich 
of  Newport,  and  now  it  is  playing  prophet  and  pro- 
fessor of  journalism  with  no  change  of  costume. 


The  good  people  of  the  Mission  want  the  Super- 
\is.>rs  t"  improve  the  quality  of  the  whiskey  sold  in 
San  Francisco  saloons  without  restricting  the  quan- 
tity. 

One  of  the  funniest  tilings  in  life  is  to  see  an  un- 
appreciated editor  climb  up  on  a  speckled  elephant 
and  offer  himself  a  vote  of  thanks  for  being  so  good 
when  he  might  have  been  so  bad. 

A  ten-year-old  boy  smoked  his  first  cigarette  and 
died.  The  object  lesson  is  spoiled  by  the  post  mortem 
discovery  that  he  swallowed  all  of  it  that  he  didn't 
smoke. 


Police  interference  with  a  kinetoscope  fake,  in 
which  President  Roosevelt  was  to  have  been  shown 
in  the  act  of  being  excessively  polite  to  a  negro,  has 
made  it  necessary  for  Hearst  to  revise  his  intended 
appeal  to  the  Solid  South. 


A  distinguished  journalist,  Melville  E.  Stone,  says 
to  the  club-ladies  at  St.  Louis :  "Newspapers  to-day 
are  edited  for  women,  not  for  men."  Frequently, 
however,  it  is  a  man  with  a  muck-rake  who  does  the 
editing. 

Episcopalian  women  in  Point  Richmond  and  Wesv 
Berkeley  have  agreed  to  pay  fines  for  gossiping.  They 
have  not  decided  what  to  do  with  the  proceeds — 
whether  to  buy  Government  bonds  or  invest  in  gilt- 
edged  realty. 

A  Pennsylvania  preacher  examined  over  a  thou- 
sand applicants  before  he  found  a  wife  who  was  not 
an  "angel  on  the  street  and  a  devil  in  the  kitchen." 
His  name  is  Brownback,  and  it  is  a  safe  wager  that 
some  day  his  picture  will  be  seen  on  a  can. 


A  local  preacher  denounces  the  drama,  begs  his 
hearers  to  shun  the  theatre,  and  calls  Shakespeare  a 
libertine.  Well,  one  might  stay  at  home  instead  of 
going  to  the  play,  and  amuse  one's  self  by  reading 
the  Song  of  Solomon. 

The  yearnings  of  the  average  American  for  distinc- 
tion are  beyond  expression.  Politically  speaking, 
crowns  and  coronets  are  out  of  the  question,  but  so- 
cially there  is  not  a  woman  who  does  not  crave  to 
wear  one  even  if  it  be  only  a  gilt  crown  at  a  For- 
esters' Festival,  for  which  high  honor  ten  maidens 
are  at  present  competing  to  the  detriment  of  the 
pockets  of  their  respective  swains,  and  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  honesty  of  the  ballot.  It  is  just  the  same 
game  as  is  being  played  by  those  in  higher  stations, 
with  this  difference,  that  the  male  appanages  of  the 
socially  ambitious  in  higher  circles  are  lucky  if  they 
escape  with  an  attenuated  pocket-book,  and  their 
honor  unspotted.  The  only  reason  that  women  want 
the  ballot  is  that  it  is  occasionally  dubbed  a  "civic 
crown." 


FINISH  OF  THE  RACE  TRACK  GAMBLING. 

When  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company- 
went  out  of  the  poolroom  business  a  few  days  ago 
the  race-track  gambling  game  was  severely  jarred. 
Some  observers  have  ventured  the  hope  that  the 
whole  fabric  of  this  establishment  of  vice  and  fraud 
would  be  undermined  and  ultimately  destroyed  by 
the  telegraph  company's  action  in  crippling  the  pool- 
rooms, but  this,  we  think,  is  too  much  to  be  expected. 
While  it  may  be  more  laborious  and  tedious  and  ex- 
pensive, the  poolrooms  will  get  some  kind  of  a  wire 
service,  no  telegraph  company  daring  to  refuse  mes- 
sages by  or  for  them.  To  meet  the  increased  expense, 
however,  the  sharks  who  run  the  games  will  cut  down 
the  margin  of  possible  profit  to  their  dupes,  and  with 
the  increased  pressure,  the  poolrooms  will  become" 
less  attractive  as  places  for  throwing  away  money, 
and  many  of  them  will  close  for  lack  of  patronage. 

But  the  encouraging  thing  about  the  Western 
Union's  action  is  that  it  signifies  a  stiffening  of  pub- 
lic sentiment  against  the  whole  infamous  business 
of  race-gambling,  an  awakening  of  the  public  con- 
science to  a  sense  of  duty  toward  the  youth  of  the 
land,  and  toward  those  foolish  peoples  who  learn 
neither  through  age  or  experience.  It  indicates  an 
early  movement  like  that  which  has  almost  driven 
the  prize-fighter  out  of  business.  One  by  one  the 
States  have  put  up  the  bars,  until  San  Francisco  is 
almost  the  only  city  of  size  and  importance  where 
the  plug-uglies  of  the  prize-ring  can  get  tempting 
purses  for  their  "fake"  fights.  Something  of  the  same 
kind  is  happening  with  regard  to  race-track  gambling 
— an  evil  far  more  to  be  dreaded  than  that  of  pugil- 
ism. It  is  well  within  the  province  and  powers  of 
the  State  Legislatures  to  prohibit  gambling  on  horse- 
races, either  on  or  off  the  tracks,  and  enforcement 
of  laws  to  that  end  would  not  be  difficult.  Watch 
the  Legislatures,  and  you  will  see  them  taking  such 
action,  according  as  public  sentiment  in  their  re- 
spective States  is  swift  or  slow  to  shape  itself  on  this 
subject.  The  movement  will  begin  in  those  States 
whose  Legislatures  are  not  controlled  by  delegations 
from  big  cities,  and  it  will  proceed  intermittently 
and  spasmodically,  but  where  race-track  gambling 
has  been  made  a  felony,  there  will  be  an  end  of  horse- 
racing,  a  falling-off  in  the  list  of  suicides,  embezzle- 
ments, divorces  and  illegitimate  births,  a  return  to 
decency  in  public  and  private  living,  a  gain  in  sub- 
stantial progress  and  prosperity.  It  is  a  matter  of 
history  that  no  "wide  open"  town,  once  having  closed 
its  doors  to  vice  and  corruption,  has  ever  gone  "wide 
open"  again. 

San  Francisco  and  California  will  be  among  the 
last  to  scotch  the  race-gambling  evil.  As  other  com- 
munities shut  them  out,  the  "sports"  and  their 
painted  women  will  gravitate  toward  the  Golden  Gate 
where  there  are  three  race-tracks  easy  of  access. 
Doubtless  that  association  for  the  spread  of  vice  and 
crime,  known  as  the  New  California  Jockey  Club, 
will  take  advantage  of  the  tightening-up  elsewhere 
and  reach  out  greedy  hands  for  more  of  the  wages 
of  sin.  But  ultimately  this  concern,  too,  must  go 
to  the  wall,  and  with  it  all  the  others  of  its  kind  that 
flourish  in  California.  Its  owners  and  promoters 
may  delay,  but  they  cannot  stop  the  slow  march  of 
a  people  toward  the  better  things  of  life.  However, 
the  harpies  of  the  race-track  may  regard  it,  they 
cannot  fail  to  see  in  the  summary  action  of  the  West- 
ern Union  the  sign  of  an  early  end  of  race-track  gam- 
bling. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  May  28,  1904. 

.     ITS  HEAD  IS  IN  THE  SAND. 


The  policy  of  the  labor  union  is  in  many  respects 
similar  to  that  of  the  ostrich.  An  instance  in  Chicago 
is  in  point.  The  Federation  of  Labor  has  adopted  a 
resolution  requesting  members  of  unions  affiliating 
with  it  to  refuse  to  allow  their  names  to  appear  in 
the  City  Directory.  All  this  because  the  directory 
publishers  insist  on  the  "open  shop"  principle.  There 
is  a  boycott  on  the  telephone  directory  as  well,  be- 
cause it  is  published  by  the  same  firm.  It  is  hard 
to  understand  the  style  of  revenge  which  places  the 
participant  under  such  limitations,  and  which  does 
not  in  any  great  extent  injure  the  directory  company. 
All  this  might  have  been  avoided  if  the  directory 
publishers  had  made  some  kind  of  monetary  consid- 
eration available  to  the  labor  bosses.  We  might  sug- 
gest a  block  of  stock  in  the  concern,  with  a  guarantee 
of  dividends.  It  is  so  easy  to  obtain  immunity  from 
the  canaille  that  it  is  astonishing  to  note  the  slow 
progress  of  the  diplomacy  first  adopted  in  Califor- 
nia. 

Every  action  of  the  labor  leaders  in  San  Francisco 
and  indeed  in  the  United  States,  is  in  favor  of  class 
discrimination.  It  is  only  a  question  of  time  before 
the  propaganda  now  followed  by  these  worthy  gen- 
tlemen will  create  just  as  much  caste  distinction  as 
exists  among  the  Hindu.  There  will  be  a  Close  Cor- 
poration of  Plasterers  and  an  Immaculate  Order  of 
Lathers,  and  it  will  be  impossible  for  the  common 
mortal  earning  less  than  seven  dollars  a  day  to  keep 
up  his  end  with  this  titled  gentry.  Already  the  plas- 
terer feels  it  demeans  him  to  associate  with  an  Amal- 
gamated Street  Car  Driver,  while  the  Corrugated 
Order  of  Serving  Ladies  have  served  notice  that  they 
will  no  longer  associate  with  the  Female  Feather 
Foundry  Fellowship.  When  these  several  orders 
have  attained  perfection,  it  will  be  in  order  to  create  ■ 
a  new  society  to  be  called  the  Independent  Order  of 
Sane  People,  so  as  to  re-establish  livable  conditions. 

"MOTHER  JONES." 

The  truth  about  "Mother  Jones"  needs  telling,  but 
unfortunately  the  News  Letter  cannot  tell  it  all,  since 
a  detailed  account  of  this  amiable  old  ladv's  career 
would  be  both  unprintable  and  unmailable.  The 
woman  is  here  now,  resting  from  her  labors  against 
law  and  order  in  the  disturbed  mining  districts  of 
Colorado.  Only  one  daily  newspaper  has  noted  her 
presence.  Hearst's  Examiner,  which  has  glorified 
her  in  columns  and  pages  during  strikes  and  riots  in 
other  States,  has  not  said  a  word  about  her  visit 
to  San  Francisco,  and  did  not  mention  the  speech 
she  made  in  the  Alhambra  Theatre.  During  the 
coal  strike  of  a  year  or  so  ago,  this  same  sheet  de- 
picted "Mother  Jones"  as  "a  modern  Maid  of  Or- 
leans," or  "an  angel  of  mercy,"  the  "heroine  of  or- 
ganized labor."  When  she  comes  among  us  it  does 
not  open  its  head  about  her. 

The  reason  for  this  is  obvious ;  if  there  had  been 
any  doubt  about  it,  "Mother  Jones"  dispelled  it  as 
soon  as  she  began  her  talk  at  the  Alhambra.  That 
speech  proclaimed  her  for  what  she  is— vulgar, 
vicious  and  ignorant,  an  apostle  of  cowardly  crime, 
the  associate  by  choice  of  thugs  and  ruffians,  the 
sworn  foe  of  personal  and  civic  decency,  the  woman 
of  all  women  to  incite  striking  union  men  to  crimes 
of  violence.  When  he  was  lauding  her  and  idealizing 
her  and  holding  her  up  as  a  type  of  peerless  Ameri- 
can womanhood,  Hearst  knew  that  she  was  nothing 
of  the  kind,  but  he  knew,  also,  that  she  was  too  far 
away  for  his  lies  to  be  brought  home  to  him.  Now. 
when  she  is  in  the  city,  he  pretends  not  to  know  her, 


May  28.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


hoping  that  nobody  here  will  recall  how  he  canon- 
short  a  time  ago. 
>thcr  Jones'  "   record — the   PinkertOns   have   it 
in  full— is  as  red  as  any  light  that  hla/cs  in  the  "ten- 
derloin."    Mary   Harris   is  her  alias;   she   is  past   <>o 
old  and  is  Irish  horn.     In  the  late  eighties  she 
to  he  known  in  the  tough  quarters  of  the  West- 
ern cities — in  Denver.  Kansas  City,  <  >maha  and  San 
Francisco — as   keener   or     inmate     of     disreputable 
houses.     Drink  and   the   excesses   common     among 
women  of  that  class  put  an  end  to  a  brief  season  of 
prosperity:  she  sank  quickly.     Even  that   long  ago 
her  vulgarity,  vidouaness  ami  cold-blooded  brutality 
were  matters  of  remarK  in  the  slums  which  she  fre- 
quented. 

It  was  when  she  made  a  failure  of  living  the  shame- 
ful life  that  "Mother  Jones"  turned  her  talents  to  the 
fostering  of  anarchy  among  laboring  men.  She  first 
achieved  prominence  as  a  labor  agitator  in  the  rail- 
wav  strike  of  1894.  Ever  since  then  she  has  carried 
the  red  flag  wherever  labor  has  been  leaping  at  capi- 
tal's throat.  Her  gospel  may  be  condensed  into  one 
of  the  fierv  phrases  which  she  used  last  Sunday  night : 

"Take  your  bullet  and  your  bayonet  and  clean 
the  troops  and  officers  off  the  face  of  the  earth."  Her 
creed  has  always  been  that  unions  were  for  fighting 
and  not  for  work.  In  every  labor  difficulty  in  which 
she  has  taken  part  she  has  incited  her  followers  to 
armed  resistance  of  the  law,  to  bufning  and  to  killing. 
No  wonder,  then,  that  the  miners'  central  organiza- 
tion has  kept  her  on  salary  for  the  last  four  years ; 
no  wonder  that  Hearst  booms  her  when  his  propa- 
ganda of  discontent  languishes,  and  no  wonder  he  is 
silent  about  her  when  she  appears  just  as  he  is  reach- 
ing for  the  reward  he  wishes  to  confer  upon  him- 
self. 

"Mother  Jones"  is  even  more  pernicious  than 
Tohann  Most  and  Emma  Goldman.  She  belongs  to 
the  Czolgosz  section  of  anarchism,  but  unlike  the 
assassin  of  McKinley  she  wants  somebody  else  to 
strike  the  blow  and  bear  the  consequences.  We  are 
glad  to  have  seen  her  at  close  range.  The  next  time 
Hearst  tries  to  install  her  among  the  saints  of  his 
calendar  we  shall  know  what  to  do  and  say. 


IMPURE  FOODS. 


The  News  Letter  has  the  satisfaction  of  knowing 
that  its  recent  editorials  on  "Pure  Food"  have  had  a 
wide-spread  effect.  The  departments  at  Washington 
have  been  stirred  to  action,  and  the  Commission  to 
Establish  Standards  for  Pure  Food  is  sitting  in  New 
York  A  strong  lobby,  at  the  head  of  which  the 
names  of  such  men  as  Charles  M.  Ams  of  New  York, 
Walter  Williams  of  Detroit,  R.  M.  Remnitz  of  Bos- 
ton, and  John  T.  Cox  of  New  York,  is  found,  has 
associated  itself  under  the  title  of  "The~  Association 
of  Manufacturers  and  Distributors  of  Food  Pro- 
ducts," and  it  is  working  with  might  and  mam  to 
make  the  people  believe  that  almond  husks  are  splen- 
did spice,  that  salicylic  acid  and  apple  parings  make 
the  very  best  kind  01  catsup,  that  boracic  and  ben- 
zoic acids  are  delightful  table  delicacies. 

Dr  R  G.  Eccles  of  Brooklyn  almost  gave  the 
members  heart  failure  when  he  boldly  announced  that 
preservatives  in  food  were  good  things,  preserving 
health  and  prolonging  life.  He  contended  that  salicy- 
lic acid  was  harmless  and  that  if  the  plain  people  on  y 
knew  how  much  good  it  would  do  them  they  would 

clamor  for  it.  ..„,•*  ,■, 

Prof  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  chief  chemist  to  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture,  who  con- 
ducted the  famous  "poison  squad"  experiments  in 
Washington,  wanted  to  know  if  preservatives  were 


so  good,  wdiy   it   was  possible  to  get   too  much   of 

them. 

Dr.  Eccles  said  the  pasteurization  of  milk  was  now 
Opposed  by  many  physicians  because  it  produced  an 

intestinal  disease  not   hitherto  known. 

(  harles  M.  Ams,  speaking  for  the  manufacturers 
of  preserves  in  New  York,  said  he  did  not  regard  glu- 
cose and  coloring  matter  as  harmful.  Sixty  per  cent 
of  the  "jellies"  made  in  the  United  Slates,  he  said, 
are  imitations — that  is.  that  they  are  not  composed 
of  fruit  and  sugar,  but  of  glucose  and  coloring  mat- 
ter.   Some  jellies,  he  said,  contained  no  fruit  at  all. 

In  discussing  the  standard  for  "compound  jellies," 
such  as  the  mixing  of  apple  and  raspberry,  the  com- 
mittee announced  that  such  articles  should  be  labeled 
to  show  exactly  the  percentage  of  each  fruit  used. 
The  representatives  of  the  manufacturers  said  that 
if  compound  jellies  were  forbidden,  at  least  75  per 
cent  of  the  factories  in  the  United  States  would  have 
to  close. 


FOOD   FOR  THOUGHT. 

In  a  few  weeks  the  Republican  party  of  the  United 
States  will  meet  in  convention  at  Chicago.  There  is 
only  one  thought  in  the  minds  of  its  delegates,  and 
that  thought  is  the  endorsement  of  President  Roose- 
velt. A  vice-President  and  a  platform  will  be  ac- 
cepted at  the  dictation  of  the  President.  The  plat- 
form will  contain  a  clause  calling  for  a  revision  of  the 
tariff,  with  the  protestation  that  no  such  revision 
can  be  entrusted  to  any  other  than  the  party  of  pro- 
tection. This  plank  wLi  furnish  food  for  thought  at 
the   Democratic  Convention   at  St.    Louis. 

It  is  a  challenge  to  those  who  are  clamoring  for 
the  immediate  revision  of  the  tariff,  and  it  throws 
the  gauntlet  down  boldly  eiKragh.  Business  disaster 
did  come  in  1893.  Whatever  politicians  may  think 
about  the  matter,  the  commercial  world  is  convinced 
that  it  came  as  the  result  of  revising  the  tariff.  Nor 
is  there  any  doubt  that  uneasiness  would  be  the  re- 
sult of  the  success  of  any  party  not  only  favoring 
what  is  called  tariff  reform,  but  having  the  power  to 
alter  the  rates.  This  is  not  likely  to  be  invested  with 
much  significance  at  St..  Louis,  where  reformers  of 
the  raving  variety  are  apt  to  congregate.  Most  of 
them  would,  if  they  could,  assail  the  schedules  with 
an  ax. 

There  will  be  no  scarcity  at  St.  Louis  of  visionaries 
who  have  cures  for  everything.  The  business  world 
is  not  looking  for  either  specifics  or  advice  at  the 
hands  of  quacks.  It  may  have  something  to  learn 
about  its  troubles,  but  it  will  not  rely  upon  politicians 
as  sources  of  information.  They  aggravate  rather 
than  palliate.  From  the  evils  of  capitalization  com- 
merce seems  to  be  recovering,  if  slowly,  surely.  The 
process  appears  likely  to  continue.  To  those  who  de- 
sire nothing  more  than  freedom  from  interference, 
satisfactory  assurances  are  likely  to  be  forthcoming 
at  Chicago.  The  tariff  plank  to  be  presented  there 
is  a  protection  proclamation.  It  is  a  promise  that 
well  enough  will  be  let  alone.  It  is  out  of  the  ques- 
tion to  suppose  that  any  such  assurance  will  find  its 
way  into  the  Democratic  platform,  but  it  is  not  too 
much  to  ask  that  the  radicals  be  kept  at  a  respectful 
distance. 


Perhaps  the  most  damnable  feature  of  the  labor 
union  is  its  merciless  and  brutal  tyranny.  It  is  a 
mighty  machine  in  the  hands  of  greed,  avarice  and 
hatred.  Its  walking  delegates  wax  fat  on  the  indus- 
trial misfortunes  of  the  country.  They  are  crows  in 
the  public  cornfield. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


HEARST  AN  ENEMY  OF  THE  FLAG. 

William  Randolph  Hearst  aspires  to  become  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States.  If  his  aspirations  were 
ever  realized  he  would  be  the  Commander-in-Chief 
of  the  Army  and  Navy,  yet  at  Santa  Cruz  last  week 
his  followers  and  his  manager,  Michael  L.  Tarpey. 
in  his  name  publicly  insulted  the  army  of  the  United 
States,  and  openly  proclaimed  that  in  their  opinion 
it  is  a  disgrace  to  wear  the  uniform  of  the  army  of 
this  country.  Here  are  the  facts  in  the  case:  The 
citizens  of  Santa  Cruz  recently  made  a  tour  of  the 
State  booming  their  town,  and  on  that  trip  took  with 
them  the  Thirteenth  Infantry  Band.  They  found 
the  band  all  right,  and  when  it  came  to  engage  the 
music  for  the  Democratic  Convention  at  Santa  Cruz 
they  hired  the  band  for  the  gathering.  The  band 
arrived  at  the  time  agreed  upon  and  proceeded  to 
serenade  the  various  headquarters,  including  those 
in  the  Odd  Fellows'  Temple,  which  were  under  the 
Hearst  banner  and  had  Mr.  Tarpey  for  manager. 
They  played  "See!  The  Conquering  Hero  Comes," 
and  Mr.  Tarpey  appeared  smilingly  to  acknowledge 
their  courtesy,  until  some  one  suggested  to  him  that 
the  Musicians'  Union  would  not  be  friendly  to  Mr. 
Hearst  if  they  allowed  the  military  band  to  play 
before  his  headquarters.  Immediately  Tarpey  sent 
word  to  the  band  to  go  away  and  not  to  appear  near 
the  Hearst  headquarters  again.  More  than  that,  the 
local  reception  committee  was  notified  that  the  band 
must  not  play  in  the  convention  hall,  and  that  an- 
other band  must  be  hired.  The  committee  sent  back 
word  that  as  they  were  hiring  the  band  they  would 
hire  any  one  they  chose,  whereupon  the  Hearst 
crowd  announced  that  they  would  not  attend  the 
convention  if  the  band  was  allowed  to  play  there ; 
consequently,  to  save  all  trouble,  the  band  performed 
on  the  porch  of  the  hotel  and  the  convention  went 
without  music. 

If  this  is  not  disloyalty  to  the  flag  it  is  dangerously 
near  it,  for  there  is  not  a  wide  margin  between  hatred 
of  the  uniform  and  of  the  flag  which  it  follows.  Do 
the  people  want  for  President  a  man  who  thus  pub- 
licly insults  the  army  of  the  United  States?  It  is 
true  that  the  Santa  Cruz  Convention  has  publicly 
endorsed  Hearst  and  his  acts.  It  is  true  that  it  has 
condoned  his  treason  to  his  own  party;  that  it  has 
put  the  seal  of  its  approval  on  his  treatment  of  White, 
of  Lane,  of  Maguire,  of  all  the  other  leaders  and  can- 
didates of  the  Democracy  in  this  State  whom  he 
could  not  control,  but  that  was  a  matter  of  interest 
only  to  Democrats.  If  they  think  Hearst  is  a  bigger 
man  than  Stephen  M.  White,  if  they  think  his  defeat 
of  Lane  was  what  they  wanted ;  if  they  admire  him 
for  denouncing  men  whom  Democratic  conventions 
had  nominated  for  various  offices  time  and  time  again 
they  have  a  right  to  say  so,  and  they  have  said  so, 
and  by  their  chosen  delegates  have  declared  that 
Hearst  is  by  far  the  greatest  man  the  party  has  ever 
produced  in  this  State,  and  that  they  admire  and  ap- 
prove of  party  disloyalty,  and  believe  it  should  be 
rewarded  by  an  election' to  the  Presidency;  but  the 
people  who  are  not  Democrats,  who  are  first  of  all 
Americans,  who  believe  that  even  a  labor  union 
should  have  no  right  to  insult  the  American  uniform 
or  trample  on  the  American  flag  will  neither  admire 
nor  approve  of  the  action  of  Manager  Tarpey  at 
Santa  Cruz  when  he  ordered  the  soldiers  of  the 
United  States  to  cease  serenading  his  chief.  They  will 
see  in  it  an  insult  to  the  flag  that  they  will  be  quick 
to  resent,  and  they  will  not  give  their  votes  to  a  man 
who  treats  with  contempt  the  uniform  of  his  country 
at  the  dictation  of  a  walking  delegate.  Some  of  the 
unions  in  their  teachings  have  come  dangerously  near 


treason,  and  Hearst  seems  willing  to  follow  them 
on  that  dangerous  path.  Perhaps,  though,  he  will 
declare  that  Tarpey  acted  without  authority,  and  like 
his  editors  on  the  Examiner,  is  disobeying  the  orders 
that  come  by  leased  wire. 

PRESERVING  LANDMARKS. 

Although  the  immense  amount  of  detail  work  done 
by  the  Outdoor  Art  League  toward  ultimate  purchase 
of  the  Calaveras  Grove  of  Big  Trees  has  not  resulted 
in  any  visible  advance  of  the  cause,  it  is  not  possible 
to  measure  the  influence  for  good  that  has  been  ex- 
tended over  the  United  States  to  its  farthermost 
limits. 

For  reasons  that  are  not  difficult  of  understand- 
ing, the  issue  did  not  come  before  Congress  in  a  form 
for  final  action.  Despite  the  fact  that  influences 
have  been  at  work  in  the  interest  of  the  owners  of 
•the  grove  to  prevent  action  by  the  national  law-mak- 
ers upon  the  basis  of  $250,000  or  $300,000,  the  cause 
of  the  trees  might  have  had  a  hearing  this  session  if 
the  Speaker  of  the  Senate  had  an  ear  to  "lend"  to 
those  anxious  to  press  the  measure  up  for  considera- 
tion. For  financial  reasons  and  because  he  has  some 
scruples  about  the  establishment  of  precedents,  the 
Speaker  quite  frankly  ignored  the  matter,  except  as 
it  was  originally  presented,  and  sent  to  its  rightful 
committee. 

There  is  a  prospect  of  a  long  campaign  for  the 
trees,  one  that  will  require  all  the  patience  and  tact 
of  the  earnest  women  and  some  men  who  have  given 
of  their  time  and  means  to  arouse  a  sentiment  for 
the  purchase  of  the  Big  Trees  that  cannot  be  ignored. 
Whiteside,  the  owner,  wants  all  the  money  he  can 
get  for  the  wonders  that  came  into  his  possession  ; 
the  Government  is  getting  delightfully  paternal  in 
the  care  of  the  attractions  of  this  country,  the  things 
that  cannot  be  reproduced,  once  destroyed,  but  it  is 
not  willing  to  pay  fancy  prices  for  what  in  the  open 
market  could  be  had  for  an  honest,  rational  price — 
something  expressing  its  real  value;  enthusiasts  let 
their  temperature  run  up  into  fever  degrees  when 
they  think  that  the  trees  are  in  danger,  and  the  owners 
get  up  such  a  scare  just  about  once  in  so  often.  Con- 
servatives figure  calmly  and  show  for  physical  rea- 
sons that  the  trees  are  in  no  immediate  danger.  It 
would  not  pay  the  owner  to  blast  them  to  pieces; 
besides,  they  know  full  well  that  in  good  time  the 
trees  must  be  worth  more  standing  than  broken  up 
into  four-foot  wood  or  in  any  other  length,  for  that 
matter. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  tlie 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


&JCHAS  KLILUS  & COU 
HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who 
likes  ;o  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to 
bother  with  tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  in- 
to our  shop,  get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a 
log.    We  have  that  "Immediate  Service  System." 


DCEAKJMy  STTIRJ&IETr 


May  28.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ICM^n^P  LIBRARY  TAsuLtmim^m 


Maartcn    Maartens    deserves    a    place 

Dorothea,  by  himself,  for  lie  is  almost,  if  not  al- 
Mier.  the  only  writer  of  power 
and  originality  who  conies  forward  to-day  as  an 
Mr  Christian  graces.  There  are  plenty  of 
writers  who  make  religion  a  theme,  plenty  who  ex- 
ploit that  fragile  plant,  exploit  it  in  a  double  sense, 
both  as  literary  material  ami  as  a  means  tor  procur- 
ing the  bread  which  perishes.  The  Sunday  school 
libraries  are  full  of  little  abominations  which  should 
revolt  the  grown-up  imbeciles  who  place  them  there. 
and  as  a  matter  of  fact  do  revolt  the  sturdv  youngsters 
whose  uncorrupted  good  sense  will  not  tolerate  their 
absurdities.  Some  there  are  who  read  them  and 
grow  up  into  the  miserable  little  weeds  which  are  to- 
day the  all  too  common  exemplars  of  the  Christian 
graces.  Maartens  is  not  one  of  these  writers.  He 
knows  his  world,  not  a  little,  too,  of  the  flesh  and  the 
devil,  and  knowing,  he  is  not  ashamed  to  still  state 
his  belief  that  the  old  virtues  are  man's  best  sup- 
port, and  that  the  Galilean  has  not  lost  his  hold  even 
to-day.  He  is  one  of  the  few  really  able  men  who 
can  smell  violets  through  patchouli  powder. 

The  novel,  and  it  is  a  novel  of  nearly  six  hundred 
closely-printed  pages,  is  a  story  of  a  girl  who  was 
pure  in  heart.  In  the  midst  of  all  sorts  of  tempta- 
tion and  lowered  standards,  she  still  kept  unsullied 
not  only  her  actions,  but  her  view  point,  which  is 
all  the  difference.  She  was  educated  in  a  little  Dutch 
village,  and  that  puritanical,  simple  life,  with  its  in- 
significant pleasures,  its  inherent  belief  in  right  and 
wrong,  its  narrow  but  steady  round  of  duties.  Its 
strict  standards  and  its  physical  cleanliness,  was  her 
salvation.  It  is  a  plea  for  an  old-fashioned  education 
for  girls,  but  an  imposisble  plea,  a  belated  plea,  and 
one  that  will  fall  on  deaf  ears.  The  old  standards 
are  gone,  and  young  women  no  longer  respond  to 
their  demands. 

Dorothea  is  brought  up  by  two  maiden  aunts, 
foolish,  sweet  and  good  creatures,  just  the  sort  of 
maiden  aunts  that  all  girls  should  have,  if  they  are 
to  possess  a  healthy  disdain  for  mere  educational  ac- 
complishments and  intellectual  powers.  The  maiden 
aunts  are  innocent  goodness  personified.  They  are 
harmless  as  doves,  and  not  being  apostles,  the  wis- 
dom of  the  undovelike  is  not  necessary  for  them. 

Dorothea's  father  is  an  English  military  adven- 
turer, a  man  of  distinguished  bravery,  but  who  is 
of  the  earth  exceedingly  earthy,  and  has  a  fondness 
for  the  seamy  side  of  life,  so  long  as  it  is  socially 
comme  il  faut.  He  introduces  the  girl  to  Monte 
Carlo.  There  she  had  a  splendid  chance  to  go  wrong, 
but  does  not  take  it;  in  fact,  with  the  perversity  of 
innocence,  she  naturally  picks  up  the  best  people  in 
the  neighborhood  and  marries  a  German  gentleman, 
a  very  fine  specimen. 

It  is  needless  to  speak  of  the  writing,  the  author 
is  too  well  known  for  that.  The  fault  is  that  too 
much  is  undertaken  in  one  book.  There  are  too  many 
wanderings  away  from  the  main  characters,  and  too 
many  unimportant  people  are  introduced,  though  all, 
even  the  secondary  characters,  are  well-drawn  and 
individual. 

Maartens  has  the  prodigality  of  genius.  He 
throws  his  material  recklessly  away  because  he  has 
so  much  of  it.  It  is  a  fine,  healthy,  noble  sort  of  book, 
appealing  to  those  feelings  which  Dickens  and  the 
masters  have  generally  chosen  to  arouse,  but  which 
our  modern  men  have  taught  us  to  sneer  at  and  dis- 


own. In  spite  of  the  super-refined,  and  acknowledg- 
ing the  allurements  of  the  obvious,  there  is  still  51 
thine;  to  Ik-  said  for  Maartens  in  a  generation  to  which 
his  Master  might  have  employed  the  epithet 
"wicked."  and  perhaps  that  other  adjective  which 
reads   so   much   better   in    King  James's   version    than 

in  a  respectable  review  of  a  modern  piece  of  writing. 

The  book  is  well  bound  and  typographically  unim- 
peachable. 

I '.  Appleton  St  Company,  New  York. 

— Austin  Lewis. 

"Impressions  Quarterly,"  published  by  Paul  Elder 
&  Co.,  June  number,  contains  an  article  by  George 
Wharton  James  summarizing  the  early  contributions 
of  Ina  D.  Coolbrith  to  the  "Overland  Monthly."  Her 
"Blossom  Time"  is  reprinted  in  this  article  to  show 
the  cheerfulness  of  the  poet's. nature.    It  is  as  follows: 

"It's  O  my  heart,  my  heart ! 

To  be  out  in   the  sun  and  sing; 
To  sing  and  shout  in  the  fields  about. 

In  the  balm  and  blossoming. 

"Sing  loud,  O  bird  in  the  tree, 

0  bird,  sing  loud  in  the  sky! 

And  honey-bees  blacken  the  clover  beds — 
There  are  none  of  you  glad  as  I. 

The  leaves  laugh  low  in  the  wind, 
Laugh  low  with  the  wind  at  play; 

And  the  odorous  call  of  the  flowers  all 
Entices  my  soul  away. 

"For  Ol  but  the  world  is  fair,  is  fair, 

And  O  but  the  world  is  sweet ; 
I  will  out  in  the  gold  of  the  blossoming  mold 

And   sit   at  the    Master's   feet. 

"And  the  love  that  my  heart  would  speak 

1  will  fold  on  the  lily's  rim, 

That  the  lips  of  the  blossom,  more  pure  and  meek, 
May  offer  it  up  to  Him." 

The  1904  summer  book,  "Restful  Recreation  Re- 
sorts," issued  by  the  passenger  department  of  the 
Oregon  Railroad  and  Navigation  Company,  is  just 
out.  It  tells  all  about  the  summering  places  of  the 
Columbia  River  Valley.  A  copy  of  this  publication 
may  be  obtained  by  sending  two  cents  in  stamps  to 
A.  L.  Craig,  General  Passenger  Agent  of  the  Oregon 
Railroad  and  Navigation  Company,  Portland. 


HAVE  YOU  HAD 
BREAKFAST  AT 


&/>e   *Red  Lion? 


HAVE  YOU  DINED  OR 
LUNCHED  AT 

Sfte   *Red  Lion? 

Fare,  service,  wines  and  table  appointments,  surpass  anything  pre- 
viously attempted  in  this  City.  English  Ale  on  draught;  and  the  finest 
line  of  liquors  and  cigars,  at  the  RED  LION  bar. 

The  RED  LION  GRILL  for  Ladies  &  Gentlemen,  in  the  S.  F. 
Stock  Exchange  Building,  accessible  from  Pine  Street,  just  below 
Montgomery,  also  from  Bush    and    Montgomery    Streets    through  the 

Mills  Building. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


1  .-csssmas^  k  1  n  a  n  c  1  a  l  km^s 


The    recent    convention    has 
Politicians  as  done   one   thing  good,   if   not 

Flood  Regulators,  eventful,  in  carrying  out  the 
deep-laid  plans  of  the  weav- 
ing spiders  responsible  for  its  conception.  It  has 
shown  the  people  of  the  State  the  motive  behind  tne 
scheme,  which  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than  to  get 
somebody  to  take  up  the  burden  of  making  land  valu- 
able for  somebody  else.  There  should  be  no  diffi- 
culty in  keeping  the  channels  of  the  Sacramento  and 
San  Joaquin  in  a  condition  to  handle  the  surplus  water 
if  it  is  wanted  for  the  forty  days  and  forty  nights 
which  we  are  asked  to  believe  was  sufficient  to  float 
the  chips  from  Noan's  shipyard  over  the  snow-crested 
peak  of  Mt.  Everest  in  the  land  of  Ind.  If  the  owners 
of  land  along  these  river  courses  would  resort  to  the 
modern  dredger  as  the  means  of  reclaiming  the  low- 
lands and  raising  their  levees  to  a  height  sufficient 
to  withstand  the  rush  and  sweep  of  winter  torrents, 
which  in  excessive  volume  are  punctuated  by  decades, 
there  would  be  no  necessity  for  appeals  upon  their 
part  for  help  from  the  public.  If  a  man  owns  a  thou- 
sand acres  along  the  Sacramento,  why  in  the  world 
should  he  not  take  care  of  it  himself.  If  he  has  not 
the  money  to  protect  his  crops  from  destruction  by 
an  overflow  of  river  water,  why  does  he  plant  them? 
It  is  not  the  business  of  the  public  if  he  chooses  to 
make  an  idiot  of  himself  by  taking  risks  which  no 
sane  man  would  do.  It  is  not  in  business  partner- 
ship with  him,  and  the  partition  of  profits  are  heard 
of  when  the  season  is  prosperous  and  fortune  smiles. 
A  corporation  composed  of  the  land  owners  them- 
selves, paying  their  own  secretary  and  engineer, 
and  other  expenses  of  the  management,  would  be 
proper,  the  necessary  funds  to  be  provided  for  by  the 
levy  of  an  assessment,  as  some  one  suggested  before 
the  convention.  How  the  old  tuft-hunters  chortled 
with  glee  at  the  suggestion  of  an  opportunity  to 
fasten  themselves  upon  another  fat  proposition,  with 
openings  innumerable  for  political  preferment  and  a 
chance  to  get  their  cloven  feet  into  the  swill  trough. 
Note  how  these  birds  of  prey  gathered  at  the  con- 
vention, interspersed  among  the  citizens,  so  full  of 
zeal  for  the  public  weal  that  they  can  afford  to  spend 
their  time  and  money  to  the  neglect  of  their  private 
affairs.  There  is  a  disagreeable  suspicion  that  a  pro- 
ject to  create  more  trouble  for  the  miner  was  a-foot, 
and  that  the  anti-debris  clique  was  there  to  saddle 
the  blame  of  flood  and  disaster  upon  the  unfortunate 
hydraulic  men.  The  little  game  fell  through,  fortu- 
nately, owing  to  an  opposition  which  started  an  un- 
der-current strong  enough  to  upset  the  plans  of  the 
conspirators,  and  pin  the  convention  down  to  the 
work  it  had  in  hand.  As  a  moral  support  the  gather- 
ing was  quite  a  success,  and  it  is  possible  some  good 
thing  may  yet  result  from  it. 

San    Francisco   is    to   be      con- 
Rumble  Rounded    gratulated     upon     getting     to- 
Up  at  Last.  gether   a   jury   which    for   once 

has  done  the  honest  thing  by 
citizens  and  taxpayers.  We  refer  to  the  body  which 
convinced  George  W.  Rumble,  the  brazen  rascal, 
that  there  are  still  some  men  left  in  San  Francisco  to 
put  their  foot  down  upon  fraudulent  operations  like 
those  engaged  in  by  R'imble,  the  sharper.  But  then, 
this  was  in  a  United  States  court,  where  the  better 
class  of  jurors  sit,  and  where  the  bench  brooks  no 
interference  with  the  rigid  administration  of  Justice. 
In  the   State  courts,  Rumble  might  have  benefited 


from  the  arguments  of  counsel  retained  to  demon- 
strate that  facts  as  plain  as  the  nose  on  one's  face 
were  fallacies.  The  daily  press,  as  usual,  is  now  full 
of  censure  for  the  man  who  managed  to  corral  over 
$200,000  by  a  swindle  which  was  patent  to  every 
business  man  in  the  city.  Not  that  they  also  were 
aware  of  the  real  import  of  the  Rumble  game,  which 
they  evidently  did  not  feel  justified  in  interrupting. 
In  one  case,  where  an  effort  was  made  at  exposing 
the  rascality,  it  died  an  early  death  upon  an  attack 
on  the  probity  of  the  State  Mineralogist,  the  doubt 
cast  upon  the  probity  of  an  upright  official  carrying 
the  weight  desired  by  the  culprit  Rumble,  who  tried 
by  the  slander  to  offset  the  charges  of  theft  laid  at 
his  own  door,  charges  which  are  now  proven.  It 
would  have  been  an  easy  matter  for  either  one  or  the 
other  of  the  big  dailies  to  have  squelched  the  Rumble 
scheme  in  its  initial  stages.  Klines  of  the  value 
claimed  for  the  Amo  and  Old  Glory  are  so  rare  in  any 
part  of  the  world,  and  the  interest  paid  was  so  large, 
that  the  natural  query  would  suggest  itself  as  to 
where  and  how  a  bucket  shop  keeper  could  get  hold 
of  a  bonanza  of  the  kind,  that  suspicion  would  natu- 
rally fall  upon  the  man  and  his  proposition.  The  ex- 
perts of  the  State  Mining  Bureau  would  have  been 
at  the  service  of  a  paper  asking  an  investigation,  and 
their  report  would  have  soon  enlightened  the  invest- 
ing public  upon  the  dangerous  character  of  the 
scheme.  It  seems  strange  that  such  an  individual 
as  Rumble  could  manage  to  shield  himself  against 
the  power  of  the  law  so  long  as  he  has,  and  manage 
even  to  gain  the  ear  of  the  Chief  Executive  of  the 
State  himself.  Now  that  the  rascal  is  in  a  fair  way 
to  reach  San  Quentin,  if  the  magic  of  gold  fails  for 
once  in  the  interest  of  a  thief,  there  may  be  a  chance 
to  unravel  a  mystery  which  has  puzzled  mining 
people  in  the  State  who  have  watched  the  career  of 
this  swindler  for  months  past,  including  the  police 
authorities.  Whitaker  Wright  got  seven  years  penal 
servitude  in  an  English  court  for  a  criminal  offense 
less  in  every  way  than  that  of  which  Rumble  has 
been  convicted,  which  shows  the  inefficacy  of  the 
law  in  this  country  to  deal  with  such  cases.  Wright 
blew  his  brains  out  to  avoid  the  disgrace.  Rumble 
picks  up  a  paltry  $io,ooo,  a  small  fraction  of  the  bank- 
account  now  to  his  credit,  moneys  obtained  from 
credulous  victims,  and  is  free  to  walk  the  streets  and 
leave  the  country  should  any  danger  arise  of  his 
present  conviction  holding  good. 


R.  B.  HAYDEN" 

HAND    MADE    SOUR    MASH 

WHISKEY 


THE  FINEST  WHISKY  MADE 

IN    KENTUCKY 
THE  HOME    OF    BOURBONS 

DT6TILLID  BT 

GREENBRIER  DISTILLERY  CO. 

Nelson,  Co.,  Ky. 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast  San  Francisco,  CaL 


May  28.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Another  Local 
Financial  Coup. 


An  exchange  calls  attention  to 
the    fact    that    the    hobf 
Yigorit  Powder  have  so  far  not 

benefited   by  exchanging   their 
stock  for  that  of  the  E.  I.  du  Ton  de  Nemours 

r  each  share  of  Yigorit,  $3.73  '"  preferred  and 
in  common  stock  in  par  value  of  the  du  l'ont 
■•as  received;  a  holder  of  300  shares  of  Vigorit 
received  8  shares  and  20.02  per  cent  of  one  share  pre- 
ferred stock  and  13  shares  and  99-<>S  per  com  of  one 
share  common.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  fractions 
were  a  source  of  considerable  trouble  ;  if  they  were 
sold,  almost  any  price  had  to  be  taken,  and  if  suffi- 
cient was  purchased  to  make  a  share,  an  extra  price 
had  to  be  paid.  At  the  present  bid  price  of  the  E.  I. 
du  l'ont  de  Nemours  Powder  Company,  $80  bid  for 
preferred  and  $35  for  common,  $1145.46  could  be  ob- 
tained for  the  stock  received,  while  for  300  shares 
of  Yigorit  at  $4.50,  the  bid  price,  $1,350  could  be 
realized,  or  $204.54  more.  The  E.  I.  du  Pont  de  Ne- 
mours Powder  Company  is  not  listed,  and  as  far  as 
can  be  learned,  issues  no  statements  showing  the 
results  of  its  business." 


If  the  mines  had  anything  to  do  with  the  Comstock 
Market,  prices  would  be  higher  and  stocks  would  be 
in  demand.  For  the  time  being,  they  do  not  cut  any 
factor  in  this  direction,  as  the  daily  quotations  show. 


Local  securities  are  dull,  even  for. this  time  of  the 
year,  and  the  wonder  is  how  brokers  dependent  upon 
commissions  for  a  livelihood  manage  to  make  ends 
meet. 


RED  LION   BANQUETS. 

The  handsome  dining-room  and  sumptuous  service 
of  The  Red  Lion  Company  have  been  recognized  as 
offering  such  advantages  for  private  or  public  ban- 
quets that  the  company  has  been  fairly  overrun  with 
requests  for  the  exclusive  use  of  its  restaurant  for 
these  purposes  during  the  evenings.  To  meet  this 
demand  it  has  been  decided,  during  the  months  of 
May,  June  and  July,  to  open  The  Red  Lion  to  the  pub- 
lic for  luncheon  only,  and  to  reserve  same  in  the 
evenings  for  the  exclusive  use  of  private  or  public 
banquets  and  dinners.  The  place  is  already  well  es- 
tablished as  the  most  popular  of  the  first-class  down- 
town grills  for  lunch  parties,  but  it  is  as  a  banqueting 
room  that  it  excels.  Nothing  in  this  city  can  surpass 
for  beauty  and  effect  the  Red  Lion  tables  and  ap- 
pointments when  prepared  for  a  banquet. 

Amongst  the  many  affairs  of  this  kind  for  which 
it  has  recently  been  engaged,  we  note  the  Yale  din- 
ner, which  is  scheduled  for  this  Saturday  evening  at 
The  Red  Lion,  and  of  which  we  hope  to  give  an  ac- 
count in  our  next  issue. 


The  only  and  old  reliable  Swain's  Bakery,  of  213 
Sutter  street,  is  now  doing  business  at  209  Post 
street.  The  new  quarters  are  extremely  pleasing,  and 
will  be  appreciated  by  connoisseurs  of  the  delicacies 
that  only  Swain's  know  how  to  make.  The  water 
ices  and  ice  creams  of  this  first-class  bakery  are  the 
best  to  be  had,  and  are  delivered  to  any  part  of  the 
city.    The  dining  room  is  now  open. 

It  is  now  developing  that  hard  money  is  capable 
of  carrying  infection.  It  has  been  shown  that  diph- 
theria has  developed'  in  a  child  after  an  hour  had 
elapsed  since  handling  infected  money.  It  follows 
that  money  is  really  entitled  to  the  appellation  given 
it  for  centuries.    It  is  filthy  in  more  senses  than  one. 


-AT- 


Public  Auction 

SALESROOM  OF 

SHAINWALD,  BUCKBEE  S  CO. 

Thursday,  June  9th, 


AT  12  O'CLOCK 
NOON 


BUSINESS  PROPERTIES  OF  THE 
JOSE  OUARDIOLA  ESTATE 

Administrator's  Sale 

i — Northeast  corner  California  and  Sansome 
street,  lot  45x90  ft.  Improvements,  three-story 
and  basement  bricl:  building.  Annual  rents  $12,- 
390.    No  leases. 

2 — Nos.  34  to  52  Ellis  street.  Lot  90x137:6  ft. 
Improvements,  modern  4-story  and  basement 
brick  building.  Stores,  lofts  and  offices  above. 
Annual  rents,  $17,800.     No  leases. 

3 — Nos.  117-119  Pine  street.  Lot  50x91:8  ft. 
3-story  and  basement  brick  building;  just 
vacated.  Former  rent  $3,600  per  annum.  Rea- 
sonable amount  spent  in  renovation  will  produce 
largely  increased  rent. 

4 — Nos.  318-320  O'Farrell  street,  near  Mason 
street.  Lot  55x137:6  ft.  Three-story  and  base- 
ment brick  building.  (Palo  Alto  Stable.)  Rent 
$2100  per  annum.  No  lease.  Present  rent  nomi- 
nal.   Can  be  materially  advanced  by  giving  lease. 

5 — Nos.  9-1 1   Bagley  Place,  (off  O'Farrell  St., 

between  Grant  avenue  and  Stockton  streets.)  Lot 

42 :6x6o  feet.     Four-story  and     basement     brick 

building,  rented  as  a  piano  warehouse  at  $1800 

per  annum. 

Note.— The  incomes  on  all  of  the  above  properties  ean  be  largely 
increased  immediately  by  giving  leases. 

6 — The  "Heredia  Tract,"  containing  1522  acres 

of  land  in  Placer  County,  California. 

For  further  particulars  apply  at  the  office  of 

SHAINWALD,  BUCKBEE  a  CO. 

218-220  Montgomery  St.  Mills  Building 


BEHINS  PacHing ,  M  »ving-  and  Storing'  of  Household  Goods 


SHIPPING  AT  CUT  RATES  TO  AND    FROM    ALL    POINTS 
IN  OUR  OWN  PRIVATE  CARS 


Main  Office  11  MONTGOMERY  ST..  San  Francisco 

PHONE    MAIN   1840 

Los  Angeles  Office :  244  S.  Broadway 


Oakland  Office :    1016  Broadway 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


EI 


;Hc«rTh*  Crl«r?"  ,"Wtwl  the  d«r"  »rt  lt».« 
Onottui  will  jteF  the  devil,  tflr.  *iib  rou." 


./TOWN  CRIER 


22 


T2I 


A  doctor  with  a  German  name  has  proposed  that 
the  cows  in  the  dairies  which  supply  our  city  with 
milk  should  be  washed  and  curry-combed.  A  new 
union  will  thereupon  come  into  being,  delighting  in 
the  appellation  of  "Cow-Combers."  The  Hog-pol- 
ishers' Association  has  passed  resolutions  to  the 
effect  that  the  pumice  stone  supplied  by  their  employ- 
ers will  no  longer  be  used  by  the  union,  the  said 
union  requiring  in  future  half  a  union-made  brick, 
stamped  with  the  union  label.  A  strike  has  been  or- 
dered by  a  section  of  the  Hog-polishers'  Union  oper- 
ating in  the  Potrero,  the  bristles  of  some  of  the  ani- 
mals having  been  found  too  obstinate  for  treatment. 
The  bristles  have  been  forwarded  to  the  Biological 
Department  of  the  State  University,  and  it  is  under- 
stood that  an  illustrated  page  will  appear  in  the  Sun- 
day Examiner  on  "The  Force  of  Environment:  or, 
How  the  Bristles  of  an  Alliance  Hog  Refused  to' 
Yield  to  Union  Treatment."  A  member  of  the  Goat- 
riders'  Union  has  been  found  to  undertake  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Cow-combers. 

Discontented  bipeds  that  we  are,  here  is  one  of  our 
number,  an  alleged  man,  too,  mind  you,  who  has 
brought  suit  for  divorce  against  his  wife  on  the 
ground  of  cruelty,  supporting  his  charge  by  the  state- 
ment that  she  refuses  to  talk.  There  are  many, 
many  men  who  would  gladly  marry  were  they  as- 
sured of  the  future  silence  of  their  wives,  and  here 
is  one  who  is  actually  throwing  away  the  good  gifts 
of  Providence  in  this  reckless  fashion.  I  can  imag- 
ine that  the  angels  at  his  wedding  endowed  him  with 
this  sign  of  divine  favor  in  consideration  of  his  vir- 
tuous youth,  and  Cupid  so  bubbled  with  joy  that  he 
had  to  be  taken  off  by  Juno  and  have  his  nose  wiped. 
It  is  true,  also,  he  says,  that  his  wife  removed  all 
the  furniture  from  the  room  which  he  occupied.  But 
why  does  a  man  with  a  silent  wife  need  furniture? 
"Build  me  a  lodge  in  some  vast  wilderness,"  sighs 
the  poet,  and  here  an  ungrateful  wretch  had  all  the 
properties  of  the  lodge,  absence  of  furniture  and  a 
wife,  who  would  not  talk.  Yet  he  is  dissatisfied. 
Now,  who  would  envy  the  Almighty  his  task? 

President  Wheeler  says:  "Effective  living  is 
largely  a  matter  of  will."  This  is  a  comfort.  Hence- 
forward let  the  illuminati  eschew  the  labor  which 
swells  the  muscles  and  provides  more  or  less  of  the 
meat  that  perishes.  Avaunt,  work  and  fruitless  toil. 
Summer  is  here,  and  the  advice  of  the  President 
should  be  taken,  else  why  do  we  pay  him?  Let  us  sit 
under  a  tree  and  smoke  the  cigarette,  just  as  the 
President  does;  let  us  speak  the  speech  that  is  foolish, 
just  as  the  President  does,  but  above  all,  let  us  will 
effectively.  Effectively,  ah,  there's  the  rub.  That 
word,  like  faith,  is  a  regular  concertina — it  will  stand 
any  amount  of  pulling,  though  as  far  as  living  with- 
out work  goes,  a  leg  is  a  much  better  thing  to  pull. 
Who  said  that  the  President  knows  that?  Perish 
the  thought ;  lady  patronesses  have  no  legs.  The 
President  lives  by  his  will,  and  who  can  deny  that  he 
lives   effectively? 

A  night  clerk  in  a  San  Francisco  hotel,  who  com- 
mitted burglary,  is  going  to  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment. This,  by  the  way,  is  not  prophesy;  it  is  merely 
a  pious  wish.  It  serves  the  beggar  right.  Why  on 
earth  any  San  Francisco  night  clerk  should  seek  to 
make  money  by  burglary  when  he  could  do  it  so  much 
more  cheaply  and  effectively  by  blackmail,  is  incom- 
prehensible. 


The  Board  of  Supervisors  is  getting  on.  It  has 
actually  agreed  that  a  certain  sum  of  money  shall  be 
voted  to  put  the  schools  in  repair.  This  is  a  bold 
step  and  reflects  great  credit  upon  the  originality 
and  audacity  of  conception  of  our  city  fathers.  Why 
should  schools  be  put  in  repair  anyhow?  It  might  be 
a  good  thing  to  leave  them  as  they  are,  so  that  the 
children  may  be  continually  reminded  of  the  beauty 
of  a  popular  administration.  Besides,  the  attendance 
upon  the  funerals  of  fellow  scholars  who  have  suc- 
cumbed owing  to  the  activity  of  the  agile  microbe 
which  is  brought  into  being  by  the  defective  plumb- 
ing of  the  schools  tends  to  inculcate  a  constant  re- 
membrance of  the  imminence  of  death.  Subscriptions 
for  flowers  on  these  occasions  also  teaches  unselfish- 
ness. The  ramshackle  schools,  therefore,  serve  a 
moral  purpose,  which,  it  is  to  be  feared,  their  repair 
will  destroy,  in  favor  of  profits  for  contractors.  It 
is  a  sordid  age. 

Charles  H.  Spear,  President  of  the  Harbor  Com- 
mission, is  going  East.  There  is  somewhat  of  a  re- 
lief in  the  very  thought.  But  what  about  those  poor 
Eastern  people  whom  he  is  going  to  make  glad  with 
the  buxom  presence  of  him?  This  is  what  he  says: 
"Correspondence  with  the  Eastern  officials  is  not  en- 
tirely satisfactory.  I  want  to  look  at  the  inner  work- 
ings of  the  bigger  ports  on  the  Atlantic  seaboard." 
So  Mr.  Spear  wants  to  see  the  wheels  go  round. 
There  is  an  ominous  sound  about  this  declaration 
which  would  make  one  think  that  our  enterprising 
President  of  the  Harbor  Commission  fancies  that  he 
has  not  yet  exhausted  the  possibilities  of  local  graft. 
But  what  about  those  poor  confiding  Easterners 
whose  correspondence  is  so  unsatisfactory?  When 
once  Charlie  Spear  gets  into  those  inner  workings 
I  should  like  to  see  them  get  him  out  again.  Before 
he  gets  home  the  Eastern  ports  will  have  lost  most 
of  their  portable  property. 

It  is  a  commentary  upon  us  that  the  Graduate  As- 
sociation of  the  San  Francisco  State  Normal  School 
should  be  obliged  to  raise  a  fund  to  advance  to  young 
women  who  are  unable  to  complete  their  course  for 
lack  of  funds.  The  schools  need  good  teachers,  and 
many  of  the  soundest  and  best  are  prevented  by  pov- 
erty from  completing  their  training.  It  is  proposed 
to  advance  from  three  hundred  to  five  hundred  dollars 
to  needy  young  women  in  order  that  they  may  finish 
their  course.  This  is  all  very  well  as  far  as  it  goes, 
but  the  position  of  a  young  woman  who  starts  upon 
her  work  and  is  obliged  to  repay  a  loan  of  five  hun- 
dred dollars  is  by  no  means  enviable.  It  is  not  en- 
couraging to  think  that  more  money  is  stolen  by  city 
officials  in  San  Francisco  in  the  course  of  a  year  than 
would  pay  the  expenses  of  all  the  students  at  the 
State  Normal  School  five  times  over. 

San  Rafael  is  still  in  the  throes  of  the  mosquito 
pest.  Even  the  scandal  which  floats  on  the  balmy 
night  air  from  the  verandas  of  the  prettiest  and  wick- 
edest little  town  on  the  Coast  are  not  sufficient  to 
kill  out  the  tiresome  little  insects.  The  children  are 
to  be  called  into  requisition  and  are  to  perform  feats 
of  horsemanship  for  the  purpose  of  driving  away 
the  annoyance.  How  should  tots  on  horseback  ac- 
complish'that  which  has  so  far  been  undone?  They 
will  show  their  chubby  legs  for  filthy  lucre,  the  said 
lucre  to  be  expended  upon  the  petroleum  which  pro- 
vides Rockefeller  with  his  Sunday-school  soul. 


May  38,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Samuel   M.  Shortridge 

and    Rabbi  Voorsanger 


Two  of  the  local  litterati  are  at  it  hammer  and 
the  question  of  tlte  "Kichinev  Massacres" 
the  "Russo-Japanese  War.''  and  the  flow  of  gen- 
■  1  eloqjuence  is  apparently  unquenchable. 

Rabbi  r  takes   the   gifted    follower  of 

Blackstone  to  task  for  certain  rhetorical  efforts  in 
behalf  of  the  "Russian  Red  Cross  Society."  It  will 
be  remembered  that  Shortridge  some  time  previously 
officiated  as  an  orator  at  a  meeting  of  certain  citizens 
tb  protest  against  the  persecution  and  incidentally 
the  massacre  of  the  Jews  at  Kishinev.  The  trouble 
seems  to  be  that  the  good  old  Rabbi  is  unable  to  dif- 
ferentiate between  the  Government  of  Russia  and  the 
mob  at  Kishinev. 

If  memory  serves  me  right,  the  speech  made  by 
Shortridge  at  the  "Kishinev"  meeting  was  notable 
for  its  conservatism,  and  we  note  some  of  the  re- 
marks made  by  other  speakers  are  attributed  to 
Shortridge  by  the  Rabbi.  It  is  a  pity  that  partisan- 
ship should  hedge  the  bright  mind  of  any  man, 
and  that  in  the  enthusiasm  of  orator)'  some  are  blind 
to  the  qualities  that  should  endear  them  both  to  the 
community.  Shortridge's  voice  was  lifted  against  the 
acts  of  the  irresponsible  Russian  mob,  but  he  pre- 
faced his  speech  with  a  very  certain  and  unqualified 
warning  against  accepting  the  murderous  assaults 
as  the  acts  of  the  Russian  nation  or  the  Russian  offi- 
cials. It  was  an  appeal  that  should  be  remembered, 
and  especially  so  because  it  was  temperate  in  tenor. 
The  Russian  Government  has  carried  on  a  very  rigid 
investigation  in  the  afrair,  and  as  a  result  the  miscre- 
ants who  attacked  the  defenseless  population  of 
Kishinev  have  been  punished  as  severely  as  the  un- 
usually severe  laws  of  Russia  permit. 

Mr.  Shortridge,  it  seems,  is  an  unwilling  partici- 
pant in  the  controversy,  and  has  been  thrown  on  the 
defensive — in  a  polemical  discussion. 

Regarding  the  stand  taken  by  Mr.  Shortridge  at 
the  meeting  of  the  "Russian  Red  Cross"  Society,  no 
one  can  honestly  attack  the  position  he  has  taken. 
He  is  entitled  to  his  belief,  and  while  it  so  happens 
that  it  does  not  agree  with  ours,  we,  will  grant  him 
the  right  of  expressing  his  opinion  privately  and  pub- 
licly. 

The  stand,  we  take,  which  is  that  taken  by  but  few, 
is  that  it  is  not  good  business  for  us  to  sympathize 
with  the  Russian.  There  is  nothing  in  the  twaddle 
of  a  big  nation  bulldozing  a  smaller  one ;  nothing  in 
the  idiotic  cry  of  the  yellow  peril.  The  contestants 
are  both  Asiatic.  But  our  opinion  is  another  story, 
and  we'  have  no  ambition  to  appear  as  an  intervenor 
in  the  oratorical  pyrotechnics. 

The  trouble  with  Shortridge  is  that  his  heart  is  in 
the  right  place,  and  that  it  is, always  open.  The  door 
may  be  knocked  at  by  Jew  or  Russian,  and  the  gifted 
Sam  knows  no  creed  in  charity.  He  seems  to  oc- 
cupy the  same  position  on  this  question  as  the  late 
James  G.  Blaine.  The  position  is  one  that  is  more 
or  less  sentimental,  and  I  must  confess  that  I  can 
see  nothing  inconsistent  in  the  two  speeches  made 
by  the  San  Francisco  Demosthenes. 

The  following  is  in  part  a  speech  made  by  Blaine 
at  the  time  he  was  Senator  and  was  delivered  to  the 
"First  Maine  Cavalry"  in  Augusta: 

"But  there  was  one  trouble,  I  think.  They  didn't 
know  how  Russia  would  view  it;  and  so  in  one  of 
these  beautiful  towns  on  the  north  side  of  the  lake 
of  Geneva  a  secret  envoy  from  the  Emperor  Napol- 
eon met   GortschaKoff  and  had  an  interview  with 


him,  and  Gortschakoff  told  him  that  if  England  or 
France  laid  the  weight  of  a  hand  upon  the  interests 
of  the  United  States,  Russia  would  actively  inter- 
vene on  the  side  of  the  L'nion  ;  and  just  after  that 
conference  (I  know  I  never  shall  forget  it  to  the 
last  day  I  live)  there  appeared  very  quietly  in  the 
Potomac  River  just  below  Washington,  steaming 
right  along  between  Washington  and  Alexandra, 
five  enormous  Russian  ships  of  war.  Colonel  Ham- 
lin tells  me  there  were  eight  in  all  the  fleet. 

"I  am  only  speaking  of  what  1  saw.  There  were 
five  of  them  there,  and  I  tell  you  we  were  glad  to 
see  them.  They  were  the  most  civil  and  polite  gen- 
tlemen you  ever  saw  in  your  life.  But  it  was  just  a 
banner  hung  on  the  outer  walls — a  little  intimation  to 
Louis  Napoleon  and  Palmerston  that  if  they  at- 
tempted to  intervene  here  they  had  a  very  heavy 
job  on  their  hands. 

"Now  that,  I  say,  without  any  sentimentality  be- 
tween nations — that,  I  say,  entitles  Russia  and  all 
her  citizens  and  subjects,  monarchs  and  officers  to 
the  everlasting  gratitude  of  every  American  as  long 
as  both  nations  survive. 

"I  am  speaking  wholly  to  private  citizens.  I  do 
not  know,  being  a  Senator  of  the  United  States, 
whether  I  should  speak  of  international  matters  with 
very  great  freedom.  Still,  this  is  free  talk,  and  I  am 
not  ashamed  to  say  and  to  repeat  that  in  whatever 
contest  Russia  finds  herself  engaged,  by  whatever 
danger  she  feels  herself  menaced,  the  active  sympa- 
thies of  the  people  and  the  Government  of  the  United 
States  will  go  with  her  to  the  end."  (Great  applause.) 

Murine  Eye  Remedy. 

A  home  cure  for  Eye  troubles.     Never  fails.     Used  for  infant 
and  adult.    Doesn't  smart. 


Dr.  Decker. 


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High-grade  Shirts  and  Underwear  to  measure.    Tom  Dillon  & 
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Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup" 

for  your  children  while  teething. 


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io  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

The     Man     WitH     the    Dough 


May  28,  1904. 


With  Apologies  to  the  author  of  "The  Man  with  the 
Hoe." 

Bowed  by  the  weight  of  infamy  he  leans 

Upon  his  tub,  and  gazes  at  his  gold, 

The  emptiness  of  folly  in  his  face, 

And  on  his  back  the  brand  of  good  men's  hate. 

Who  made  him  dead  to  decency  and  truth — 

A  thing  that  feels  not,  and  can  never  think. 

Stupid  and  dull,  own  brother  to  the  ass? 

Who  gave  his  face  its  vacuous,  leering  grin? 

Whose  was   the  hand   that   shaped   those   trembling 

lips, 
Slobbering  with  weakness,  tremulous  with  vice? 
Whose  breath  blew  out  his  light,  and  made  a  beast? 

Is  this  the  thing  that  dare  aspire  and  hope 

To  place  his  name  where  honest  men  have  writ? 

To  make  decrees  and  work  his  bestial  will — 

To  sell  his  land  to  anarchy  and  strife? 

To  play  the  fool  with  our  great  destiny? 

And  is  this  gold  the  instrument  he  wields? — 

The  filthy  gold  oozing  in  yellow  drops 

The  color  of  the  sheet  that  shouts  his  name, 

The  color  of  the  blood  in  his  own  poisoned  veins. 

The  gold  his  father  gathered  by  his  toil, 

The  gold  his  mother  spends  in  deeds  of  love. 

The  gold  that  in  his  vicious  hand  becomes 

A  tool  of  treason  and  a  villain's  aid. 

What  gulfs  between  him  and  great  Jefferson  ! 
Slave  of  destroying  vices,  what  to  him 
Are  Honor  and  the  calls  of  Chivalry? 
What  the  integrity  which   strong  men   prize. 
The  blush  of  modesty,  the  strength  of  truth? 
The  barrel  that  he  hugs  is  all  his  God, — 
He  knows  no  music  but  the   jingling  coins. 
And  with  such  music  he  has  charmed  the  minds 
Of  fawning  things,  prostrating  their  cheap  souls 
In  mute  obedience  to  his  filthiness. 

O  citizens  and  Masters  of  the  State, 

How  will  your  reason  reckon  with  this  man? 

How  answer  his  brute  question  when  he  seeks 

To  brand  his  infamy  uoon  this  land? 

How  will  it  be  with  all  his  treasure  then. 

When  honest  men  shall  thrust  him  into  Hell 

And  let  him  shrivel  through  the  centuries? 

You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zlnkand's,  which  Is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  atler-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
the  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  Inspiring  music, 
and   Is  patronized  by  the   smart  set. 


Rheumatics  relieved  at  the  Post  St  Hammam. 


PARK  HOUSE  and   COTTAGES 

BEN  LOMOND,  CAL. 

New    management.      An    ideal    resort,    unsurpassed    climate 
drives,   fishing  and  hunting- 

Two   hours   ride   to    Big   Basin.     Modern    prices. 

J.    D.    CELLA.    Prop. 


Hotel   Ben   Lomond 

Santft  Cruz  Mountains— No  Staging. 

Table    first    class.     Electric    lights,    boating,    swimming,    fish- 
ing, hunting,   tennis,  croquet. 

See  booklet  S.   P.  Com;»nny.  61"  Market  street,  or  B.   Dickin- 
son, lieu  Lomond.  California. 


Spend  Your  Vacation 

A  great  many  San  Francisco  people  are  planning  to  spend 
the  entire  summer  at  Hotel  Del  Monte.  No  other  resort  In 
California  offers  such  a  combination  of  attractions,  sea-bathing, 
golf,  automobiling,  tennis,  fishing  and  all  out  of  door  sports. 
Instead  of  going  from  place  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the  wise 
ones  of  society  are  planning  alrea  Jy  to  put  in  several  enjoyable 
weeks  down  at  Del  Monte  by  the  Sea.    Address 

Geo.  P.  Snell,  Manager,  Del  Monte,  California. 

At  Hotel  Del  Monte 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN   JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  charming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.   D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS,    Prop. 


Paraiso    SPr^nSs 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


BLUE  LAKES 


Boating,   Bathing  and  Fishing,  Music,  Mineral  Spring, 

SendforPamplilet.O.Weisman,  Midlake  P.O.,Lake  Co.,  or  call 

on  A.  K.  Happersberger,  1104  Martlet  St.,  S.  F. 


BLITHEDALE 


MILL    VALLEY 


OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


Ocean  Villa  Hotel  and  Cottages 

On  the  cliffs  at  the  mouth  of  the  river.  Large,  magnificently 
wooded  grounds,  profusion  of  dowers,  croquet,  billiards, 
dancing  pavilion,  boating  and  bathing.  Row  boats  free  to 
guests.     For  particulars  address 

F.   V.   BERlvA,   Santa   Cruz.    Phone   Black  25G.    Free  bus. 


May  28,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IfrHW^fciH  S  0  C  1  E  T  Y 


W 


The  rustle  of  the  grasses 

Whisper-   to   tlie   silent    sky; 
So  I  care  not  how  time  pa 

If  it  only  pass  me  !>y. 
I   have  thrown   the  whole  thine;  over 

And  have  yet  the  fullest  gain. 
In  the  freedom  of  a  rover 

And  the  grasses'  hushed  refrain. 

For  a  busy  rabbit's  creeping 

To  his  supper  on  the  hill, 
And  a  hidden  linnet's  cheeping 

To  the  bubbling  of  the  rill. 
So  I  care  not  how  time  passes. 

If  it  only  pass  me  by, 
In  the  rustle  of  the  grasses 

And  the  silence  of  the  skv. 

—Roland  Whittle. 
*  *  * 

Dear  Bessie:  Engagement  announcements,  lunch- 
eons and  card  parties  have  served  to  enliven  us  this 
week,  and  of  each  there  have  been  quite  a  number. 
We  have  been  waiting  and  watching  for  the  news 
of  Gertrude  Dutton's  engagement  to  Josh  Howell, 
which  every  one  knew  was  sure  to  come,  and  now  it 
has  been  formally  announced,  which  means  another 
big  wedding  before  long.  The  announcement  of 
Stella  McCalla's  engagement  to  William  Chapin  of 
Sacramento  was  made  at  a  tea  given  last  Monday  at 
the  Admiral's  home  at  Mare  Island.  All  the  Yard 
was  there,  of  course,  with  several  from  the  city,  and 
it  gives  us  promise  of  a  brilliant  wedding  to  come 
off  there  early  in  August,  for  the  McCallas  always 
give  such  handsome  and  delightful  entertainments. 
One  good  thing  about  it  is  the  certainty  of  keeping 
Stella  in  California,  as  the  other  McCalla  girls,  hav- 
ing married  in  the  service,  we  can  only  be  sure  of 
them  just  as  long  as  they  are  in  sight.  And  only 
think  of  Charlie  Ellinwood  and  Miss  Arnold  getting 
married  unknown  to  any  one ;  just  walked  off  quietly 
to  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  had  the  knot  tied  last 
week,  and  are  now  receiving  the  felicitations  of  their 
friends  at  their  simple  way  of  doing  things.  They 
have  gone,  I  believe,  to  Stanislaus  County,  where 
they  will  enjoy  the  pleasures  of  ranch  life,  for  a  time, 
at  least,  if  not  en  permanence. 

I  forgot  to  tell  vou  last  week  of  the  Bissinger- 
Ehrman  wedding,  which  came  off  at  noon  on  Wed- 
nesday at  the  Bissenger  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue, 
Rabbi  Voorsanger  officiating  in  a  bower  of  pink  haw- 
thorne  and  American  beauty  roses.  The  pretty  little 
bride,  Elizabeth  Bissenger,  who  was  given  away  by 
her  grandfather,  Moses  Greenbaum,  wore  a  lovely 
gown  of  white  satin  trimmed  with  Valenciennes 
lace,  tulle  vail,  and  carried  orange  blossoms.  Her 
sister  Emma,  who  was  her  sole  attendant,  was  in 
white  chiffon  over  green  silk,  and  Alfred  Ehrman 
was  best  man  to  his  brother  Alexis.  It  was  a  family 
gathering  purely,  and  at  the  dejeuner  which  followed 
the  ceremony,  but  later  there  was  a  large  reception. 

The  first  announced  June  wedding  will  be  that 
of  Genevieve  Huntsman  and  Harry  Williar  at  the' 
home  of  Mrs.  Huntsman  on  the  8th  ;  the  cards  came 
out  this  week,  and  I  must  not  forget  to  tell  you  that 
Elsie  Marsh's  engagement  to  Mason  Moran  was  an- 
nounced at  the  tea  Mrs.  Wheeler  gave  for  the 
Spinners'  Club  on  Tuesday.    . 

The  fascination  of  bridge  seems  to  grow  and  grow. 


I  have  heard  it  likened  to  hitting  the  pipe — the  first 
game  or  smoke  indulged  in,  the  devotee  <>r  the  victim 
i<-  lost,  and  there  is  nothing  left  but  to  keep  on.  (  )f 
a  truth,  one  hears  of  little  else  being  played  these 
days.  Both  Nellie  <  Ixnard  and  Gertrude  Van  Wycke 
had  their  bridge  clubs  meet  at  their  houses  last  Thurs- 
day. 

Mrs.  Burke  Hblladay,  who  so  seldom  appears  in 
the  list  of  hostesses,  gave  a  very  pretty  luncheon  last 
Friday  in  compliment  to  her  sister-in-law,  Mrs.  Mes- 
ser,  who  has  been  here  on  a  visit  to  her  mother  from 
her  English  home  for  some  time  past,  the  guests  be- 
ing a  happy  combination  of  old  and  young!  Among 
them  was  a  charming  lady  from  New  York,  a  Mrs. 
Chadwick,  who  is  staying  with  the  Phelans.  Florence 
Bailey  gave  a  luncheon  on  Tuesday — she  will  stay  in 
town  all  summer.  Mabel  Toy's  luncheon  was  one 
of  the  events  of  Wednesday,  and  Mrs.  Toy  had  a 
luncheon  yesterday.  Alice  Sprague  was  a  tea'  hostess 
on  Friday,  and  on  Tuesday  a  lot  of  the  girls  went 
over  to  Sausalito  to  one  given  by  Cornelia  Campbell 
for  Carrie  Merry,  who  is  to  spend  the  whole  of  next 
month  with  Anne  Field;  and  Mrs.  George  Board- 
man,  who  has  gone  to  do  the  St.  Louis  Fair,  gave  a 
farewell  family  dinner,  the  evening  before  she  left, 
for  her  sons,  Sam,  Chauncey  and  Danforth,  and  their 
wives,  and  this  sums  up  most  of  the  recent  gather- 
ings. To-day  the  Gorrills  give  a  tea  in  Oakland 
which  promises  to  be  quite  an  affair,  and  for  next 
Saturday  I  am  looking  forward  to  the  pony  show 
at  San  Rafael,  which  Dick  says  is  to  be  "great  fun." 
It  will  be  held  at  the  Bates  place  near  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael, and  after  the  parade  is  over,  there  will  be  no 
end  of  other  pleasures — tea,  and  so  forth.  Mollie 
came  in  for  a  lot  of  fun  during  her  recent  visit  to 
Mare  Island,  taking  in  many  of  the  parties  given  for 
other  visitors,  who  were  there  at  the  same  time,  and 
particularly  pretty,  she  said,  was  the  card  party  of 
Mrs.  Graham's,  where  they  played  seven-handed 
euchre. 

Blessings  brighten,  etc.,  and  hence  Mrs.  Peter  is 
being  muchly  sought  after  as  her  departure  for  the 
East  draws  nigh.  Mrs.  Sheils'  luncheon  at  the  St. 
Francis  was  expressly  for  her,  and  was  a  pretty  af- 


BS 


HM 
RISTOL  CO. 


Endless  suggestions  for 
tasteful  J»  Jim  Jim  Jim  Jim 

Wedding  Gifts 

are  offered  by  our  incom- 
parable display  of  Silver- 
ware    and     Jewelry. 

104-110    GEARY    STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


fair,  and  I  hear  that  i\irs.  Eleanor  Martin,  who  has 
been  visiting  in  San  Diego  and  Los  Angeles,  will  not 
let  her  daughter-in-law  go  without  an  extra  large 
dinner  as  a  bon  voyage  and  happy  return,  which,  by 
the  bye,  is  said  to  be  an  assured  fact,  before  the  close 
of  the  year. 

The  Fields  have  taken  one  of  the  Tallant  apart- 
ments on  Washington  street,  and  are  very  pleasantly 
located  therein ;  Helen  Wagner  has  been  up  at  San 
Rafael  with  the  J.  J.  Moores  for  a  little  visit,  and 
will  be  with  her  sister  most  of  the  summer  at  her 
Menlo  Park  home.  The  Duttons  are  going  to  Yo- 
semite  next  month,  and  will  have  Maylite  Pease 
with  them,  who  has  just  returned  from  her  visit  East, 
where  she  has  been  for  a  long  time;  the  Gallatins 
and  Lita  were  in  New  York  early  this  week,  having 
done  the  St.  Louis  Exposition  very  thoroughly. 
Louise  Breeze  and  Ethel  Lincoln  have  gone  on  a 
visit  to  the  Bensons  at  Fort  Jefferson,  with  whom 
they  will  take  in  the  wonders  of  the  St.  Louis  show. 
Susie  Bixby  had  Louise  Cooper  of  Santa  Barbara 
with  her  this  week;  she  gave  her  a  lovely  card 
party  the  other  day.  The  Mills-Read  party,  who  are 
early  spring  guests,  have  gone  back  East,  but  soon 
will  come  summer  visitors,  and  always  among  the 
earliest  is  Mrs.  Richardson  Clover,  who  dearly  loves 
her  pretty  home  in  Napa  Valley,  and  will,  as  usual, 
be  here  ere  long  with  her  daughters  to  enjoy  it. 
Louise  Redington  is  home  again  from  her  trip  to  Eu- 
rope, and  we  are  glad  to  have  her  back. 

Georgie  Spieker  leaves  in  about  two  weeks  for  the 
Yellowstone  region,  and  will  be  away  the  whole  of 
June;  Anita  Bertheau  has  gone  East  for  the  sum- 
mer ;  the  Fred  McNears  have  had  their  auto  down  at 
Del  Monte  enjoying  their  spins  most  thoroughly,  I 
hear.  Mrs.  Sonntag  and  Edith  will  soon  be  back 
from  the  East,  and  are  to  spend  the  summer  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael,  and  there,  too,  Everett  Bee  has  de- 
cided to  put  in  the  next  few  weeks. 

—Elsie. 


BIRTHS. 


May  19th — To  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Martin  L.  Crim- 

mins,  nee  Cole,  a  daughter. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 
Miss  Mary  Lucile  Caldwell,  daughter  of  Mrs.  L.  G. 

Caldwell,   to   Captain    Peyton    Craves   Clark,   U. 

S.  A.,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  H.  Clark,  of  Hope 

Hall,  Alabama. 
Miss  Stella  McCalla,  daughter  of  Admiral  and   Mrs. 

Bowman  McCalla.  t"  William  Wallace  Chapin. 

of  Sacramento. 
Miss  Gertrude  Dutton,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W. 

G.  Dutton,  to  Josiah  Howell. 
Miss   Elsie   Marsh,  sister  of  Mrs.   Charles     Stetson 

Wheeler,  to  Mason   Montgomery  Moran. 
Miss  Alice  Newhall,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  G. 

Newhall,  to  Doctor  O'Mera. 
Miss  Mary  Lucille  Caldwell,  daughter  of  Mrs.  L.  G. 

Caldwell,  to  Capt.  Peyton  Graves  Clark,  U.  S.  A. 
Miss  Bertha  McElrath,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 

E.   McElrath,  of  Oakland,  to  Doctor   Benjamin 

Bakewell,  son  of  the  Rev.  Doctor  and  Mrs.  Bake- 
well,  of  Berkeley. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

June  1st  (Wednesday) — Miss  Marjorie  Erwin, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  W.  Erwin,  to 
Lieutenant  Gibson  Taylor,  13th  Infantry  U.  S. 
A.,  First  Ljnitarian  Church,  Berkeley. 

June  8th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Genevieve  Hunts- 
man, daughter  of  Mrs.  George  H.  Huntsman,  to 
Henry  F.  Williar,  824  Sutter  street,  12  m. 


WEDDINGS. 

May  18th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Elizabeth  Arnold, 
daughter  of  the  late  Samuel  Arnold,  of  Berkeley, 
to  Charles  Ellinwood,  Jr.,  son  of  Doctor  and  Mrs. 
Charles  N.  Ellinwood,  Berkeley. 

Next  Sunday  evening  at  the  Golden  Gate  Hall  an 
exceptionally  fine  programme  will  be  rendered  for 
the  testimonial  entertainment  and  ball  to  be  given  to 
Rabbi  Isadorc  Myers :  Lockenbacw  Orchestra,  over- 
ture; xylophone  solo,  M.  Sam  Samuels;  Just  a  few 
remarks,  Abe  Myers ;  specialties,  Will  Stern ;  con- 
tralto solo  (selected),  E.  Scott  Basford ;  violin  solo, 
Bell  Rosenthal;  Russian  arias  by  H.Wiamowski ; 
selections,  Y.  M.  H.  A.  mandolin  club. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending  May 
24,  1904:  Mrs.  P.  C.  Deuroche,  Miss  M.  Yost,  Mr.  L. 
Bocqueras,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  S.  Fay  and  family,  Mr. 
S.  L.  Jones,  Mrs.  J.  Magnin,  Mr.  S.  S.  Rati,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  I.  I.  Wiel,  Mrs.  Helen  Hecht,  Mr.  C.  H.  Merrill, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Ciprico,  Mr.  G.  W.  Coffee,  Mr.  A.  D.  Har- 
rison, Miss  G.  James,  Miss  I.  Ciprico,  Mr.  E.  Halden, 
Mr.  I.  J.  Wiel,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  Kuttner,  Mrs.  C.  L. 
Wickersham,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Eggers  and  family,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  L.  E.  Stanton,  Mr.  Philip  Baker,  Mr.  E.  A. 
Davis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  C.  Stillman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S. 
Schwarts  and  family,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Carron,  Mr. 
J.  C.  Love,  Mr.  J.  S.  Gallagher,  Mr.'C.  H.  Turner, 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Rosenthal  and  daughter,  Mr.  E.  Julian, 
Mr.  P.  Nye,  Mr.  C.  a.  Elston,  Mr.  M.  G.  Jeffres,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Foster  and  family,  Mrs.  Lowe  and 
daughter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  B.  Judson,  Mrs.  O.  A.  Jud- 
son,  Mrs.  R.  C.  McCreary,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Routzahn,  Miss 
D.  Lehman.  Miss  M.  Lehman.  Mr.  E.  M.  Foster. 

A  special  feature  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  will  be  a  con- 
cert by  the  Berkeley  Quartette,  on  Friday,  June  3d. 
The  entertainment  provided  at  this  hostelry  is  al- 
ways of  a  high  order. 

On  the  twenty-fifth,  the  Commencement  exercises 
of  the  Dominican  College  attracted  a  very  large  and 
fashionable  crowd,  at  San  Rafael,  California.  The 
graduating  class  consisted  of  Miss  Daisy  Ursula  Ena, 
Miss  Katherine  M.  Hedges  Hall,  Miss  Angelita 
Louise  Hohwiesner,  and  Miss  Ida  May  Marriott. 

The  following  was  the  programme — Rosamonde 
Overture,  Piano  Octette,  Schubert.  Misses  Agnes 
Maloney,  Ida  Marriott,  Clarice  Ena,  Beatrice  Guit- 
tard.  Mary  Ena,  Norma  Cassinelli,  Anna  Ena,  Irene 
Ciprico.  Hark,  Hark,  My  Soul,  Vocal  Quartette, 
Shelley;  Misses  Ena.  Recitation,  Miss  Kathleen  De 
Young.  Musical  Proibita  (Gastaldon)  Graziani- 
Walter,  Violins,  Mandolins,  Lute,  Harps,  Piano;  ac- 
companist, Miss  Irene  Ciprico.  Alia  Stella  Confi- 
dante, Soprano,  Robaudi  (violin  obligato),  Miss 
Teresa  Oneta ;  accompanist,  Miss  Agnes  Maloney. 
Polonaise  (four  pianos),  Dvorak;  Miss  Beatrice  Wil- 
liams, Frances  Murphy,  Helen  Jones,  Bertha  Savage. 
Elsa   Behlow,   Alma   Krause,   Ruth   Neale,    Caroline 


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May  38.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

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:  accompai  iricc   Ena.     1  »ri 

Catherine    Hall.     Mon 
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Clarice    Ena;  accompanist,   Mi-s 
Mary    Er.a,     Rigoletto    FantaJsie,   Verdi:    Violins— 
na,  Clarice  Ena.  Mary  McGraw,  Fran- 
Murphy,  Marjorie  Bowes,  Mary  Woffling,  Jose- 
phine May;  Mandolins:  Misses  Mary  Ena,  Marguer- 
ite Tourney,    Cornelia    James.     Alice     McDonnell. 
I-iitc :  Mi  Maloney;  Harps:   Misses   Mabel 

Ena,   Charlotte    McClatchy;    (iuitar:    Miss    Viviana 

!  m :   Miss   Anna    Ena;   Pianos:    M 
Ida  Marriott,  Beatrice  Guittard.    Se  fosse  vero,  con- 
tralto. Masclicroni.   Miss  Norma  Cassinelli;  accom- 
panist,  Miss    Iila    Marriott.     Serenade.    Violin 
d'Ambrosio,  Miss  Daisy  Ena.    Valedictory,  Miss  An- 
pelita   Hohweisner. 

cial  mention  is  due  Miss  Kathleen  de  Young 
(recitation).  Miss  Teresa  Oneta  (soprano). 
Miss  Katlicrine  Han  (original  poem — "Now"),  Mis-, 
Norma  Cassinelli  (contralto),  accompanied  by  Miss 
Ida  Marriott,  Miss  Daisy  Ena  (violin  solo.)  The 
valedictory  was  exceptionally  well  rendered  by 
Miss  Angelita  Hohweisner. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Del  Monte:  W.  A.  Tones,  Mrs. 
R.  Oilman  Brown.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Metcalf,  Miss 
Denston.  J.  C.  Varleaux,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Wheel- 
wright, Mrs.  XT.  Jacobus,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  G.  W.  Smith. 
Mrs.  A.  G.  Pratt  and  son,  Mrs.  P.  S.  Hammond,  Mr. 
Simpson.  Miss  Simpson,  Count  P.  S.  Griman,  Edward 
Paluso.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Easton,  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Lamprev  and  family,  C.  B.  Brewster,  O.  W.  Colbv, 
Fritz  Krone,  W.  Schuck,  D.  W.  Staley,  E.  M.  Fani- 
ham.  William  Parsons,  Master  Austin  Tubbs,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  C.  C.  Nichols,  D.  C.  Adams,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  W.  Higgin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  P.  Wolcott.  R.  E. 
Newton,  S.  R.  McLaren  and  Mrs.  McLaren,  Profes- 
sor S.  W.  Young,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  W.  Davis,  G.  G. 
Vogel  and  Mrs.  Vogel,  Anna  L.  LaForge,  G.  W.  La- 
throp,  Jennie  L.  Lathrop,  Bernice  Lathrop,  C.  M.  Od- 
die,  J.  T.  Overbury,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cowperthwait, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H.'Taft,  C.  H.  Taft,  Jr.,  Mrs.  James 
Brooks,  Sadie  J.  Brooks,  Florence  A.  Acker,  V.  H. 
Youngman  and  wife. 

When  a  man  joins  a  labor  union,  generally  speak- 
ing, he  surrenders  his  individuality  and  becomes  a 
mere  cog  in  a  wheel.  Moreover,  he  is  denied  the 
right  to  consult,  much  less  consider,  his  own  best 
interests  in  those  concerns  of  life  which  have  all  to 
do  with  remuneration  for  the  employment  of  his 
skill  and  brain  and  brawn.  He  is  a  slave  to  the 
caprice  of  men  who  live  on  the  fruits  of  knavery. 
The  wonder  is  that  otherwise  strong  and  manly  char- 
acters in  the  world  of  labor  should  be  so  weak  and 
so  lacking  in  self-reliance  in  matters  of  such  vital 
importance  to  them  as  to  fail  in  the  exercise  of  their 
sovereign  right  to  seek  and  accept  employment  on  the 
basis  of  personal  negotiation.  When  a  man  recog- 
nizes an  authority  higher  than  himself  to  fix  his  own 
worth,  he  is  a  vassal  of  that  authority,  and  in  labor 
unionism  that  authority  is  a  merciless  tyrant  for  his 
own  personal  advantage. 

"Out  of  the  Beaten  Fatn,"   Tom  Dillon's  modern  style  hats 
Coposlte  Palace.  


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San  Francisco  has  long  been   famous  for  its  array 
of   bright    yotmg   men    in    the    advertising   line.      The 

l-'.uiil  Held  Company,  General  Advertisers  and  Pub- 
lishers, who  make  .1  specialty  of  designing  and  print- 
ing, stand  at  the  head  of  the  profession.  It  is  m 
sary  as  a  Factor  in  success  in  the  line  of  advertising 
to  understand  the  medium  to  reach  the  public  best 
Tin-  Emil  Held  Company  has  made  this  the  study 
of  years,  and  the  general  satisfaction  expressed  by 
their  patrons  in  the  results  obtained  is  the  best  evi- 
dence of  their  ability.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  deal  with 
them,  as  they  do  not  "bear"  every  publication  that 
is  mentioned,  They  have  the  merits  of  all  the  San 
Francisco  and  Coast  papers  reduced  to  a  science, 
and  an  infallible  one  at  that. 


MEMORIAL  DAY  EXCURSIONS. 
People  who  think  one  day  not  enough  for  a  trip  to 
the  woods  or  the  seashore,  now  have  a  chance  to  get 
in  an  extra  day.  In  view  of  Memorial  Day  coming 
on  Monday,  the  Southern  Pacific  lias  decided  to  grant 
an  extension  of  time  on  its  Saturday  to  Monday  ex- 
cursion tickets.  All  such  tickets  sold  on  Saturday 
and  Sunday  will  be  good  for  return  on  all  trains 
of  Tuesday,  May  31st,  thus  allowing  two  days  out 
of  town,  instead  of  one. 


Nelson's  Amycose 
Infallible  Remedy  for  Catarrh,  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


An  unheard  of  opportunity  for  the  woman  folks  presents  itself  in  the 
sale  of  pattern  hats  at  Mips  Sweeney's  121  Post  Street.  Miss  Sweeney 
is  about  to  depart  for  the  East  and  this  is  the  reason  for  the  special 
sale.  On  her  return  the  studio  of  this  popular  milliner  will  be  re- 
stocked with  new  purchases  and  styles-  The  sale  of  pattern  hats  is  to 
continue  through  the  month  of  June  and  during  the  season. 


The  down  on  the  peach  and  the  dew  on  the  grass  is  the  burden  of  the 
poets  song  but  the  succulent  bivalve  and  the  Rteak  to  your  taste  is  the 
cry  of  the  man  who  knows,  and  he  gets  it  at  Moraghan's  at  the  Cali- 
fornia Market.    Everything  in  seneon. 

A  SKin  of  Beauty  is  a  Joy  Forever. 

DR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 
OR  MAGICAL  BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan.  Pimples,  Freck- 
les, Moth  Patches,  Rash  and 
Skin  Diseases,  and  every  blem- 
ish on  beauty,  and  defies  detec- 
tion. It  has  stood  the  test  of 
56  years  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladles  will 
use  them,  I  recommend  'Gour- 
aud's  Cream'  as  the  least  harm- 
ful of  all  the  skin  preparations." 
For  sale  by  all  druggists  and 
fancy-goods  dealers  In  the 
United  States,  Canadas  and  Eu- 
rope. 

PERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop. 
37  Great  Jones  St.,  New  York. 


LADIES! 


Wrinkles  and  all  Facial  Blemishes  re- 
moved by 
PR.OF.    S.    DE    LOVTSKV 

Latest  Parisian  Method 

Superfluous  hair  removed  permanently 

by  electrolysis.    Also  moles,  warts,  etc. 

Scalp  treatment  and  manicuring.    Call  or 

write  15G7  Post  btreet,  San  Francisco. 


SCIENTIFIC  MASSAGE  FOR  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN 

MARTIN  BRAUN,  MASSEUR 

Graduate  Imperial  University  Hospital,  Vienna,  Austria. 

THE    WENBAN 

Phone  John  7181  Cor.  Sutter  and  Mason  Sts. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


PATRICK  &  CO,,  have  moved  to  their  new 
quarters  111-113  SANSOME  STEEET.  where  a 
compfete  line  of  Rubber  Stamps.  StencilR.  Seals, 
Metal  Checks,  Box  Brands,  etc.,  can  be  found- 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


g  THE  LOOKER-ON  KJZSm 


May  28,  1904. 


That  eminent  statesman,  Supervisor  Oscar  Hook?, 
believes  in  paying  election  bets,  and  in  aiding  during 
his  days  of  eminence,  those  who  assisted  in  thrusting 
prominence  upon  him.  Mr.  Hocks,  who  sells  liquor 
when  not  otherwise  engaged,  has  introduced  in  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  an  ordinance  providing  that 
saloon  keepers  refused  a  liquor  license  by  the  Board 
of  Police  Commissioners  shad  have  the  right  to  ap- 
peal to  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  and  that  if  in  the 
judgment  of  the  latter  body  "the  said  license  should 
be  issued,  they  shall  authorize  the  Tax  Collector  to 
issue  said  license."  Mr.  Hocks  is  acting  in  behalf 
of  the  Associated  Retail  Liquor  Dealers  who  feel 
they  have  had  cause  to  complain  against  the  Police 
Commissioners,  and  some  of  whom  also  object  to 
paying  fees  to  attorneys  to  represent  them  whenever 
it  is  necessary  to  go  to  the  Hall  of  Justice.  So  Hocks 
has  evolved  the  scheme  to  make  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors a  sort  of  appellate  court,  where  the  rejected 
applications  for  liquor  licenses  will  be  reviewed.  The 
plan  is  Napoleonic  in  its  possibilities  for  acquiring 
political  support  from  the  liquor  dealers.  The  Super- 
visors now  devote  considerable  attention  to  the  pro- 
pagation of  prize  fights,  and  it  needs  only  to  make 
them  the  arbiters  of  the  fate  of  saloon  keepers  to  se- 
cure the  support  of  the  red  light  district  forever. 

*  *  * 

Hocks'  proposed  ordinance  has  one  fatal  defect. 
It  is  clearly  in  excess  of  the  powers  of  the  Super- 
visors, because  it  is  amendatory  of  the  charter.  That 
document  grants  the  Supervisors  certain  powers. 
all  of  which,  however,  are  "subject  to  the  provisions, 
limitations  and  restrictions  in  this  charter" contained." 
One  of  these  restrictions  is  the  provision  giving  to 
the  Police  Commissioners  exclusive  authority  to  is- 
sue liquor  licenses.  We  do  not  presume  that  the 
people  are  much  interested  in  the  source  from  which 
the  liquor  licenses  emanate,  but  it  might  be  just  as 
well  to  leave  the  power  where  the  law  places  it — 
with  the  Police  Commissioners — for  it  is  certainly 
easier  to  keep  track  of  four  Commissioners  than  of 
eighteen  Supervisors. 

*  *  * 

The  case  of  George  D.  Collins  has  attracted  con- 
siderable attention,  not  only  because  of  the  charges 
of  unprofessional  conduct  made  against  him,  and  of 
his  counter-charges  against  Judge  Kerrigan,  but  also 
on  account  of  the  attitude  assumed  in  the  matter 
by  the  Bar  Association.  The  grievance  committee 
of  the  association  has  recommended  that  proceedings 
in  disbarrment  be  instituted  against  Collins,  and  this 
will  be  done.  The  trial  before  the  Supreme  Court 
will  prove  of  unusual  interest.  Collins  has  shown 
himself  to  be  a  man  of  many  resources,  and  with 
his  back  against  the  wall,  he  will  make  a  very  des- 
perate fight.  He  may  be  guilty  of  all  that  is  charged 
against  him,  but  that  does  not  convince  an  unpreju- 
diced observer  that  some  members  of  the  Bar  As- 
sociation were  not  animated  somewhat  by  personal 
motives  when  it  voted  to  attack  him  in  the  courts. 
His  main  offending,  it  appears,  was  his  assault  upon 
Judge  Kerrigan.  I  believe  in  this  he  was  guilty  of  a 
grievous  wrong  and  an  outrageous  act,  but  it  was 
all  within  his  legal  rights,  and  made  in  the  manner 
provided  by  the  law :  therefore,  I  think  he  should 
not  be  disbarred  for  thus  offending  the  proprieties. 
Judge  Kerrigan  is  an  upright  Judge,  but  there  are 
others  on  the  bench  to-day  in  this  city  whose  ermine 
is  dyed  deep  with  the  slime  of  corruption.  The  law- 
yers of  the  Bar  Association  know  this  better  than 


most  men.  Why  don't  they  expose  and  attack  the 
crooked  Judges?  Is  it  not  common  talk  that  certain 
lawyers  can  get  anything  they  want  from  certain 
Judges?  That  if  a  case  is  assigned  to  a  certain  court, 
only  certain  fawyers  can  win  a  trial  there  held?  Is 
it  not  known  that  certain  attorneys,  with  the  aid  of 
certain  Judges,  have  managed  by  hook  and  by  crook 
to  keep  law  breakers  out  of  jail,  despite  the  efforts  of 
the  police  authorities  to  enforce  the  law?  Is  the 
Bar  Association  afraid  of  the  Judges?  Is  it  a  com- 
mentary on  the  condition  of  the  bar  in  this  city  that 
not  five  per  cent  of  the  3,000  attorneys  of  San  Fran- 
cisco are  members  of  the  Bar  Association  ?  It  looks 
to  a  disinterested  observer  as  if  the  Bar  Association 
■were  "four  flushing"  in  the  Collins  case.  If  it  is  for 
reform,  there  is  plenty  of  work  for  the  Association  ; 
-but  nothing  is  to  be  gained  by  single  efforts.  What 
about  the  Nagles  and  the  Salomons,  and  the  Joneses, 
and  others  who  have  been  engaged  in  what  laymen 
might  be  tempted  to  call  the  despoilation  of  estates? 
Has  the  Bar  Association  no  eye  for  these  offenders? 
Let  the  grievance  committee  buckle  on  its  armor  and 
go  forth  upon  a  crusade. 

»  *  * 

Over  at  Berkeley  there  is  a  College  of  Commerce, 
in  which  the  students  are  instructed  in  the  fundamen- 
tal principles  of  business  conducted  in  accordance 
with  modern  methods.  Down  at  Palo  Alto  is  an  op- 
position emporium  of  commercial  knowledge,  where 
the  boys  are  given  tips  on  the  easiest  way  of  skin- 
ning the  Berkeley  lads  on  'change,  after  they  have 
done  the  "crossing  the  threshold"  act  and  left  col- 
lege. Quite  in  line  with  the  ideas  of  business  educa- 
tion, the  bankers  held  a  State  convention  last  week, 
at  which  many  interesting  papers  were  read.  Lovell 
White,  for  instance,  told  some  things  about  mort- 
gages, and  said,  incidentally,  that  all  modern  business 
is  based  on  credit.  In  brief,  credit  is  the  life  of  trade. 
Adam  Smith  and  other  economists  used  to  think 
that  competition  was  the  life  of  trade,  but  now  we 
learn  from  universities  and  bankers  that  credit  is 
the  thing.  That,  doubtless,  explains  the  actions  of 
the  Berkeley  and  Stanford  seniors  in  establishing 
a  long  line  of  credit  when  they  set  about  contracting 
bills  for  their  commencement  exercises.  The  trades- 
men, not  having  had  the  benefits  of  university  train- 
ing, believed  in  credit  only  to  a  limited  extent.  Some 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IS 


of  them  were  so  rude  that  they  sued  the   Bet 
boys,  and  the  uncultured   pi  vers  captured 

several  seniors  at  a  picnic  in  the  hills,  and  held  thorn 
intil  they  gathered  a  few  simoleons  from 
their  friends  and  gave  them  to  the  nun  with  the  hills 
as  evidences  of  good  faith.  The  Palo  Alto  seniors 
have  not  been  sued  or  captured  up  to  date,  but  the 
bills  for  the  supper  at  their  commencement  ball  have 
not  been  paid,  and  their  class  plate  of  glittering  b 
planted  in  the  quadrangle,  has  its  glory  dimmed  by  a 
chattel  mortgage.  All  of  which  leads  me  to  the  be- 
lief that  it  might  be  well  for  the  professors  at  the 
of  Commerce  at  the  two  universities  to  de- 
liver a  series  of  lectures  on  "Bills  and  their  Payment." 

*  *  * 

A  new  church,  about  to  be  opened  in  the  Western 
Addition,  advertises  as  one  of  its  many  attractions  a 
flea-proof  carpet  of  cork  which  will  be  spread  over 
the  floor  for  the  greater  comfort  of  the  worshipers. 
The  pastor  of  this  church  should  meet  with  the  suc- 
cess which  his  thoughtfulness  deserves.  In  endeav- 
oring to  provide  for  the  physical  comfort  of  his  con- 
gregation he  displays  a  true  Christian  spirit.  He.  of 
all  the  many  ministers,  has  solved  the  problem  of  why 
men  do  not  go  to  church.  The  California  flea  he 
recognizes  as  an  agent  of  the  devil,  whose  purpose  on 
earth  is  to  disturb  the  minds  of  those  who  are  intent 
upon  devotion,  and  to  cause  them  such  physical  dis- 
comfiture that  they  cannot  raise  themselves  to  that 
state  of  mental  exaltation  so  necessary  for  contem- 
plation of  the  beatitudes.  Other  pastors  should  fol- 
low his  lead. 

*  *  • 

Scientists  now  tell  us  that  germs  of  disease  lodge 
in  our  shoes,  and  are  thus  carried  into  happy  homes, 
where  they  are  turned  loose  to  create  havoc  and  dis- 
may. The  surest  safeguard  is  to  have  the  shoes 
cleaned  with  some  antiseptic  preparation.  Particu- 
lar attention  should  be  given  the  inside  of  the  shoe, 
say  the  men  of  learning.  The  shoes  should  be  thor- 
oughly cleaned  inside  and  out.  The  signs  in  front 
of  barber  shops,  "Shoes  Cleaned  Inside,"  should  no 
longer  create  levity.  If  you  would  be  free  from 
germs,  have  your  shoes  polished  on  the  inside.  It  is 
the  very  latest  fad. 

»  *  * 

The  Park  Commissioners  are  entitled  to  the  thanks 
of  the  community  for  ordering  the  removal  of  the 
peddlers  and  sure-thing  men  from  the  ocean  beach. 
Their  presence  on  the  strand  below  the  Cliff  House 
has  constituted  a  public  nuisance  for  years.  People 
go  to  the  beach  to  indulge  in  ozone  and  to  enjoy  the 
wondrous  beauties  of  the  ocean ;  not  to  run  the  gamut 
of  peanut  butchers,  tamale  vendors  and  hawkers  of 
pink  lemonade ;  nor  to  be  assailed  by  the  sure-thing 
man  with  the  roulette  wheel,  or  the  more  obnoxious 
trickster  with  the  pegs  and  the  iron  rings.  The  wrap- 
ping papers,  tin  cans,  old  bottles,  ripped  socks,  cin- 
ders, broken  boxes  and  barrels  thrown  out  by  these 
peddlers  make  the  beach  look  like  a  garbage  dump. 
The  Park  Commissioners  should  have  the  offal  re- 
moved and  the  sands  scraped  over.  Mounted  police- 
men should  be  required  to  patrol  the  beach  on  Satur- 
days and  Sundays,  and  on  holidays,  to  preserve  the' 
sands  from  desecration  by  the  ungodly. 

*  *  * 

William  Lorraine  has  sued  Miss  du  Clam  for  $2000 
damages,  because  in  a  moment  of  enthusiasm,  in- 
duced by  the  knowledge  that  this  is  a  leap  year,  the 
fair  one  grabbed  him  in  a  loving  embrace,  and  hugged 
Willie  so  tight  that  she  cracked  one  of  his  ribs.  If 
this  thing  keeps  on,  remedial  and  protective  measures 
must  be   enacted  to  protect   our   young  men   from 


athletic   young   women.      Else,   the   new   generation 
will  he  minus  a  few  floating  ribs. 

•  •  • 

In  August,  the  National  Guard  will  camp  with  the 
regulars,  under  the  command  of  Major-General  Me 
Arthur.  Uncle  Sam  will  pay  the  militiamen  the 
same  amount  paid  regulars  during  the  fortnight's  en- 
campment, and  will  feed,  arm  and  instruct  the  sol- 
diers of  the  State.  The  National  Guard  officers  will 
also  receive  the  pay  of  their  rank,  while  in  the  field. 
But,  sail  to  relate,  Uncle  Sam  draws  the  line  at  our 
army  of  epaulette. 1  Generals,  He  will  have  none  of 
them.  He  figures  it  will  cost  him  sonic  $2000  to  sup- 
port Maior-Gencral  Dickinson  and  his  staff,  and  the 
other  Generals  and  their  staffs,  for  the  two  weeks. 
So  the  Generals,  perforce,  must  stay  home.  Like  so 
many  Othellos,  their  occupation  will  be  gone.  The 
old  gentleman  at  Washington  thinks  he  has  about 
all  he  can  stagger  under  with  General  Funston, 
General  Wood,  and  a  few  others  that  were  made  to 
order,  and  he  won't  stand  for  the  warrior  from  Sau- 
salito. 

*  *  * 

The  local  School  Board  has  directed  the  teachers 
to  examine  the  pupils  every  morning  for  traces  of 
disease,  and  to  make  reports  upon  blank  forms  of 
anything  that  looks  irregular.  This  will  be,  here- 
after, the  order  of  exercises  in  the  school  rooms : 

First  Exercise — Open  mouths!  Stick  out  tongues! 

Second  Exercise — Open  mouths !  Lay  tongues — 
flat !     Tintillate — the  tonsils ! 

Third  Exercise — Close  mouths !  Inhale  !  Exhale  ! 
Wiggle— the  ears !  Swallow  slowly,  moving  Adam's 
apple  gracefully  up  and  down  along  an  imaginary 
line  drawn  from  a  point  equi-distant  between  the 
posterior  parts  of  the  jaw  bones  to  a  spot  upon  the 
palpitating  point  of  the  solar  plexus ! 

And  the  school  teachers  get  only  $60  per  for  all 
that!     It's  worth  it. 


The  American  Federation  of  Musicians  has  refused 
to  permit  the  union  musicians  of  San  Francisco  to 
participate  with  army  bands  in  August  next  at  the 
parade  of  the  Knights  Templar.  The  American  Fed- 
eration is  evidently  composed  of  intelligent  men. 
They  know  that  San  Francisco  wants  to  entertain 
the  Knights  Templar  in  a  befitting  manner,  and  that 
poor  music  is  most  distressing;  also,  they  know  that 
the  army  bands  play  good  music.  Therefore,  they 
have  ordered  the  local  musicians  to  keep  away  from 
the  parade.  The  managing  committee  of  the  Tem- 
plars' conclave  should  send  the  Federation  a  vote  of 
thanks. 


Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all  druggists. 


Pine   stationery,    steel    and    copperplate   engraving.    Cooper 

&  Co.,  746  Market  street,   San   Francisco. 

Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hats  —Eugene  Korn,  726  Market  St, 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  lierbys,  soft  hats,  gent's  and 
ladles'  straws. 


See  our  3  months  ahead  Ideas  In  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


j&    FLORAL  DECORATIONS    ^ 

MENU  and   TALLY   CARDS 

MISS    CHARLOTTE    F.    WILLIAMS 
121  Post  Street      Boom  18.    Tel.  John  1911      San  Francisco 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


f^—.—^.*-}  PLEASURE'S  WAND  PC  JV 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

TIVOLI— "A  Runaway  tlirl"— Soeniually  beautiful,  well  staged,  good 
chorus. 

ALCAZAR-"A  Possible  Case,"  funny  situations  in  brilliant  comedy, 
well  put  on. 

QRANO— Melbourne  MacDowell  in  Fedora— A  very  good  performance 
of  the  Sardou  play. 

COLUMBIA— Richard  Mansfield  in  repertoire— nuf  ced. 

ORPBEUM-Crisp  vaudeville.    A  good  show. 

CENTRAL— '*A  Great  Temptation."  an  American  drama. 


Purposely  I  have  refrained  from  an  extended  re- 
view of  "Ivan."  The  play  strikes  me  as  tedious,  and 
I  have  no  desire  to  inflict  my  impression  on  the  pub- 
lic. I  emerged  from  the  theatre  with  a  distinct  feel- 
ing of  a  cold  in  the  head.  This  may  have  been  due 
to  my  seat  in  the  theatre  or  the  "skis"  and  "skoffs" 
of  the  stage.  I  do  not  like  gloom.  On  the  score  of 
scenic  arrangement  the  play  is  a  dream.  While 
the  material  has  the  appearance  of  being  somewhat 
flimsy,  that  is  easily  forgot  in  the  sombre  mag- 
nificence of  the  perfect  Russo-Byzantine  ornamenta- 
tion and  coloring. 

Mr.  Mansfield  has  left  his  impress  on  the  dramatic 
history  of  the  century,  and  to  many  it  is  to  date  sen- 
sations from  the  time  of  seeing  him  in  one  of  his 
great  plays  He  is  a  wonderfully  fine  actor,  and  it 
seems  as  easy  a  task  for  him  to  portrav  youth 
as  old  age,  virility  as  decrepitude.  He  is  a  scholar, 
a  business  man  and  an  artist,  ft  was  the  combina- 
tion of  these  qualities  that  made  the  Grand  Mon- 
archs.  Bonaparte  and  Frederic  the  Great,  the  makers 
of  history  they  were.  Mansfield,  as  they,  would  have 
been  a  success  in  any  line.  Fate  cast  him  among 
the  mummers,  and  as  a  mummer  lie  stands  pre-emi- 
nent. He  is  a  maker  of  history  too — on  the  stage. 
Valete   ac   plaudite. 

*  *  * 

Inadvertently  I  said  that  it  would  be  wise  to  elimi- 
nate the  ad.  curtain  during  the  Mansfield  engage- 
ment. There  is  no  advertising  curtain  at  the  Colum- 
bia. I  am  filled  with  unquenchable  remorse  in  this 
matter,  because  next  to  being  criminal  abbetor  for 
an  ad.  curtain,  I  can  conceive  of  nothing  worse  than 
being  accused  of  owning  such  an  atrocity.  I  was 
fresh  from  a  round  of  all  the  play  houses,  and  the 
cauchemar  was  in  my  thoughts  predominant. 

*  *  * 

"A  Possible  Case"  is  a  laughable  skit  at  the  Alca- 
zar for  this  week.  There  is  a  laughable  situation 
caused  by  the  marriage  of  one  woman  to  three  men, 
and  the  matter  is  finally  adjusted  to  the  satisfaction 
of  all  concerned.  There  is  a  great  deal  of  mirth  in 
the  play,  and  it  is  well  staged.  The  cleverest  work  is 
done  by  Mr.  George  Osbourne  as  Mendoza,  the  vil- 
lainous Mexican.  He  is  simply  immense  in  this  act, 
succeeding  in  subduing  his  voice  and  action  to  that 
of  a  rather  "young"  middle-aged  villain.  His  man- 
nerisms are  well  thought,  and  to  tell  you  the  truth.  I 
did  not  think  he  had  it  in  him.  Adele  Block  is  a  very 
lovely  Violet  Mendoza,  the  woman  of  many  hus- 
bands, and  Frances  Starr  makes  a  most  winsome 
Gladys. 

*  *  * 

Madame  Tojetti  again  demonstrated  her  great 
ability  as  an  impresario  in  an  invitational  affair  at 
the  California  Club  last  week.  She  favored  the  au- 
dience with  an  exhaustive  treatise  on  the  life  and  the 
music  of  Hugo  Wolf.    This  was  followed  by  a  varied 


programme  inclusive  of  the  songs  of  Scheffel,  Kerner, 
Heyse,  Morike,  Eichendoeff,  and  others.  Madame 
Emilia  Tojetti  was  assisted  by  Fred  Maurer,  Jr.  in 
him  she  found  a  very  sympathetic  accompanist,  and 
as  this  was  the  first  production  of  the  music  and 
songs  of  the  gifted  Wolf  in  San  Francisco,  the  Cali- 
fornia Club  is  to  be  congratulated  on  having  the 
services  of  so  clever  a  woman. 

*  *  * 

"The  Runaway  Girl"  is  still  running — at  the  Tivoli. 

*  *  * 

Melbourne  MacDowell  and  Miss  Ethel  Fuller  are 
making  a  big  success  at  the  Grand  in  "Fedora." 

*  *  * 

"A  Great  Temptation"  at  the  Central  should  tempt 
large  audiences,  as  it  is  a  scenic  and  artistic  success. 

*  *  » 

The  Orphcum  has  a  good  bill  this  week.  "Burke, 
Larue  and  their  Inky  Boys"  are  phenomenally  good. 
Marcel's  Living  Art  Studies  are  an  improvement 
on  the  first  week,  and  the  rest  of  the  company  is  an 
excellent  one. 

»  *  * 

Hooray !  Hooray !  Charles  W.  Strine  has  re- 
turned from  the  Eastern  centers,  and  he  is  to  bring 
out  a  new  lot  of  faces  for  the  Tivoli  stage.  For  the 
first  time  in  many  months  we  will  see  a  pretty  face 
and  a  shapely  leg.  Once  this  becomes  known  to  the 
public  at  large  it  will  be  almost  an  impossibility  to 
prevent  a  riot  at  the  box  office.  The  news  is  scarcelv 
believable.  There  are  many  good  things  in  store. 
Among  these  may  be  mentioned  "Robin  Hood,"  "Tor- 
eador," "The  Emerald  Isle,"  "The  Wild  Rose,"  "The 
Chinese  Honeymoon,"  "Dolly  Varden,"  "The  Mes- 
senger Boy,"  "Babette,"  "San  Toy,"  "Three  Little 
Maids,"  "The  Gaiety  Girl,"  "My  Lady  Mollie,"  and 
a  host  of  other  good  things. 

Lillian  Sefton,  Floye  Redledge,  Kate  Condon,  Al- 
fred McGahan  and  Melville  Ellis  are  the  new  names 
that  will  be  seen  on  the  programme. 

*  *  * 

Alfons,  the  European  equilibrist,  will  make  his  first 
appearance  at  the  Chutes  this  coming  week  in  the 
act  that  has  won  him  fame  all  over  the  world,  and 
Bert  Bence  and  Joe  Allen,  presenting  a  highly  amus- 
ing act  entitled  "An  Original  Idea."  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ben  Hunn,  one  of  the  most  renowned  duos  of  col- 
ored comedians  before  the  public,  will  also  be  new. 
The  two  Fantas,  acrobatic  comedy  delineators  of 
child  life,  with  their  trained  pig,  "Mike,"  will  vary 
their  act,  and  George  and  Laura  Lewis,  the  two 
"Rubes,"  Mildred  Manning,  the  popular  contralto, 
in  a  new  illustrated  song,  the  views  for  which  show 
scenes  of  San  Francisco  life,  and  the  animatoscope, 
showing  the  latest  novelties  in  moving  pictures,  will 
complete  a  capital  programme.  The  amateurs  will 
appear  on  Thursday  night.  The  Zoo  is  in  receipt  of 
many  rare  and  interesting  animals,  and  twenty  new 
monkeys  have  just  been  added  to  the  happy  family 
in  the  Darwinian  Temple. 

*  *  * 
Jules  Ferrar,  Dorothy  Kendal  and  Thornton  Cole, 
three  very  clever  farceurs,  will  make  their  first  ap- 
pearance in  this  city  at  the  Orpheum  this  coming 
week.  Gaston  and  Stone,  known  as  "The  Jolly 
Tackies,"  will  also  be  new  here.  Andrew  and  William 
Powers,  the  original  Alphonse  and  Gaston  A-wheel, 
promise  a  laughing  novelty  in  their  trick  bicycle  act. 


May  28.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


1  Rue  and  their  "Ii 
will  introduce  new  specialties  in  "The  Silver  Moon." 
The  new  reproductions  in  has  relief  and  paintings  in 
Marcel's  Living  Art  Studies  will  include  the  Gleajl- 
Virginius,  the  Abduction,  <  ledums.  .\j>> >1  r* > 
(.'harming  the  Shepherds,  the  Sailor's  Return,  and 
For  the  Flag.  The  delightful  Colby  family  of  musi- 
cians will  vary  their  musical  entertainment  :  Al  Law- 
rence will  present  an  entire  change  of  songs,  stories 
anil  imitations,  and  Belle  Gordon,  the  World's  cham- 
pion hag  puncher  of  her  sex.  will  complete  a  varied 
and  interesting  programme.  There  will  he  a  special 
Matinee  on   Monday.  Decoration  Day. 

*  *  * 

Xext  Monday  matinee  (Decoration  Day),  "The 
Toy  Maker"  will  he  revived  for  one  week.  The  im- 
mense success  achieved  by  this  piece  at  the  old  Tiv- 
oli  will  not  be  soon  forgotten.  Over  a  year  has 
elapsed  since  its  last  production,  and  its  revival 
should  be  particularly  welcome,  especially  as  the 
stage  anc  resources  cf  the  new  Tivoli  will  permit  of 
a  more  perfect  presentation  than  it  has  yet  had.  At 
the  Monday  and  Saturdav  matinees  every  child  in 
attendance  will   receive  a  handsome  toy. 

*  *  * 

Melbourne  MacDowell  will  begin  the  fifth  week 
of  his  engagement  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  to- 
morrow matinee,  with  a  perfect  production  of  "Gis- 
monda."  Ethel  Fuller  will  play,  the  role  of  "Gis- 
monda."  There  will  be  a  special  matinee  of  "Gis- 
monda"  next  Monday,  Decoration  Day.  Sunday 
matinee,  June  5th,  Mr.  MacDowell  will  begin  the 
sixth  and  last  week  of  his  successful  engagement 
with  a  splendid  presentation  of  the  romantic  drama, 
"A  Captain  of  Navarre."  The  play  is  entirely  new 
here,  but  it  created  an  immense  sensation  in  the  East. 

Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  commences  an  engagement  at 
this  theatre  Monday,  June  13th,  in  David  Belasco's 
play,  "Du  Barry." 

■    *  *  * 

Next  week  the  Central  Theatre  will  present  "A 
"Celebrated  Case."  This  famous  play  is  one  of  the 
most  perfect  of  standard  dramas  in  unity  of  plot, 
wealth  of  incident,  richness  of  dialogue  and  intense 

power  of  climaxes. 

*  *   * 

The  Loring  Club  will  give  one  of  its  delightful 
soirees  at  Native  Sons'  Hall  on  the  evening  of  Tues- 
day, May  31st.  It  is  the  fourth  concert  of  the  twenty- 
seventh  season.  The  club  has  engaged  for  this  oc- 
casion a  professional  orchestra  of  nearly  forty  pieces, 
assisted  by  the  club's  soloists.  One-half  of  the  pro- 
gramme will  consist  of  one  of  the  most  dramatic 
of  works,  written  for  male  voices.  It  is  called  "The 
Battle  of  the  Huns,"  by  Zollner,  a  foremost  German 
composer.  Mrs.  Wallace  Wheaton  Briggs,  soprano, 
will  make  her  debut  with  the  Loring  Club  in  the  only 
female  part,  that  of  "Gottlinde."  This  requires  a 
soprano  of  great  dramatic  range. 

The  thanks  of  the  whole  community  are  always 
due  to  John  McLaren,  and  it  is  a  pleasure  to  say 
anything  that  is  to  his  credit.  On  the  2d,  a  banquet 
is  to  be  given  in  his  honor,  and  the  best  of  the  com- 
mercial and  professional  world  of  San  Francisco  has 
been  bidden  to  pay  him  respects.  The  banquet  is  in 
the  nature  of  a  farewell  to  Mr.  McLaren  on  his  de- 
parture to  Scotland,  where  he  will  visit  his  old 
mother.  The  Board  of  Park  Commissioners  has 
voted  Mr.  McLaren  one  thousand  dollars  for  his  ex- 
penses on  this  trip.  This  is  a  graceful  and  a  just 
compliment  to  a  painstaking  and  deserving  public 
official. 


A  1  r  -t  -7  a  r    Then  t-  ro  l»n.»»«>  *  Maticr.  rrnrrletors 

MlCilicir     1  neuCre    y„  1>.  I'iuh.  (Jen 'I.  Mur.    1*1.  Ah-uwir 

Hrgtilftr  nintlm't'H  ThurHfluy  and  Nnturday. 

V.\lr  1  matinee  M  -in  iriiil  I > ;  1  y .  3.1  11111I  Wo 

M lay  May  *fc  "H"'  Mi-'  k 

I  :m *;•!. .1.  UoOormtek  ■  pletnrasaua  romantlo  drnma 
TOLL  GATE  INN 

A  UlrriOR  lOTB  story  "f  the  colontjil  ilnys 

BTenliiftsSsiniftc    Matinee* ThuixJns1  nnd  Satuiday.  as  to  wo 
Monday  .Inn.-  >..  Ouiilu'a  dramatic  romance 

UNDER  TWO  FLflGS 

With  the  wonderful  sand  storm  aenantlnn 

In  prtpanl  ii»u— Elaborate  revival  of  "Lover'a  Lane" 


rnnhrnl    Thontro  Belabco  A  Matkb,  Proprietors 

O^rjLrUI      1  neatre.    Market  St  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  633 

Starting  Matinee.  May  30.  (Memorial  Day) 
Magnificent  production  of  the  famoua  historical  drama 

e  CELEBRATED  CASE 

Price?— Evenings  10  to  60c.    Matinees  10. 16,  260. 

Grand  Opera  House 

Week  beginning  tomorrow  (Sunday)  matinee. 
Extra  matinee  Momiay.  {Decoration  Day) 

MELBOURNE  MacDOWELL 

In  a  perfect  production  <:  f  Hardou's 

GISMONDA 

Beginning  Sunday  matinee.  June  5th,  last  week  of  Mr,  Mac- 
Jiowvll.    First  lime  in  this  city  or  the  romantic  diama. 
"A  CAPTAIN  OK  NAVAKKE  "    Matine*  Saturday. 
Monday.  June  13,  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in  DU  BABRY 

Columbia  Tbeatre.  GuTTtu-  J£L* ^Vn.^.. 

Beginning  Monday,  May  30 
Matinee  Saturday  only 
Charles  Frohman  will  present 

MfiUDE  flDflMS 

(Her  first  stellar  aiTea  i  ance  here) 
In  the  role  i.f  Lady  Babbie  in 

THE  LITTLE  MINISTER 

Ornhai  ltT\       San  rranciFco'BGrearrflt  Munlc  Hall. 

\Jl\Jl  lcUl  I),     O'FiirrcIt  St..  between  Sioukiua  and  powftll  streets. 

Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee.  May  29 
Special  matinee  Decoration  Day,  Monday  May  30 

UNPRECEDENTED  ATTRACTIONS 

Ferrar.  Cole  and  Company,  Gaf  ton  and  Stone;  Powers  Brothers; 
The  Colby  family:  Mai  eel's  Living  Art  Studies:  Al  Lawrence; 
Belle  Gordon ;  and  lust  week  of  Burke,  LaEue  and  the  Inky  Boys. 

Prices,  loc,  25c  and  50c 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Grand  Re-opening,  Sunday  night  May  29 

Come  and  see  the  most  beautiful  and  pafest  theatre  in  America 

Entire  new  Burlesque  company  including  Caroline  Hull,  Edna 

Aug,  Garrity  sisters.  Yorke  and  Adams,  Al  Fields,  Edwin  A. 

Clark,  Ben  T.  Dillon,  Boy  Alton 

An  "All  Star"  chorus  of  forty  voices 

First  production  here  of 

"U.    s." 


See  the  20th  Century  "Radium  Girls." 
Same  popular  prices.    Reserved  Seats: 
Saturday  and  Sunday  Matinees,  25c,  60c- 


Nights,  25c,  50e,  76c 
Children  at  Matinees 


loc,  25c    Seats  now  on  sale  at  the  box  office. 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  tonerEdMLaonndstreets 

Beginning  next  Monday  matinee  (Decoration  Day) 
Superb  revival,  one  week  only  of  the  charming  opera 

THE  TOY  MAKER 

Splendid  cast,  scenery,  costumes  and  effects 

Matinee  Saturday 

Every  child  attending  the  matinees  Monday  and  Saturday  will 

be  presented  with  a  toy 

Usual  popular  prices— 26o,  60c,  76c    Box  Seats.  $1. 


flfter  the  Theater 


to 


Go  where  the  crowd  torn 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen   to   the  matchless   string   band   and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  aupper. 

The   Cafe   Zlnkand  Is   society',    gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


i8                                                       SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.                                    May  28,  1904. 

BANKING.  Uf>Q  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  

incorporated  January  21,  1904  The  war  in   Manchuria   is   de- 

S„?5i^^^u»i VtoWSKHKCa^TOS  Penetrating  the      veloping  tactics  that  are  a  radi- 

\  ice-President,  Geo.  F.  Lyon                Cashier,  Frederick  H.  Clark  Interior.                 cal  departure  from  the  old  way. 

_  „„  _  .                     directors.  History  gives  no  account  of  an 

F.  W.  Dohrmann,  Jr.;  George  D.  Gray.  F.  M.  Greenwood,  Jag.  „„.,<.,;«„  :<•„   .J  .„„„          vi     u                      i              u 

ob.  Gunn,  Marshall  Hale,  g.  vv.  Kline,  George  f.  Lyon,  George  army   covering  its  advance  with  heavy  and  cumber- 

M.  Mitchell.  Charles  c.  Moore,  Henry  t.  Scott,  w.  f.  Williamson.  some   fiei,j    artillery,    but   that   is   the   way    General 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  has  opened  its  doors  for  a  gen-  Kuroki    is    movinp-    in    the    dirprtinn    nf    thp    Russian 

eral  Savings  and  Loan  business  at  the  S.  W.  corner  Montgomery  auruK      IS    mo\  ing    in    tne    direction    01    tne    KUSSian 

and  Bush  streets,  San  Francisco,  cal.,  May  2,  1904.  stronghold    at    Mukdon,    and    apparently    with    pro- 
lan   Franricm   Cauimc    Union  nounced  success.     In  previous  wars  the  rule  was  to 

t>an  r-rancisco  havings  union  put  the  artilIery  into  actl0n  as  a  prelude  to  the  first 

B32  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco.  onslaught,  and  after  the  advanced  infantry  and  cav- 

E.    B.    POND,    President;    W.    C.    B.    DetHEMiiRl',    ROBERT  ,         t J* '    .       ,      ,  ..         ,   ,      ...      ,.         ,  . '        .  , 

watt,   vice-presidents;   lovell  white,   cashier;     r.     m.  airy  forces  had  obliged  battle-line  formation,  but  the 

^rtcS'rs-ES'SBnPo^d?hwr-  c  B.  DeFremerv.  Henry  f.  Aiien.  Japanese  have  a  way  of  their  own  invention,  and  thus 

George   C.    Boardman,   Jacob    Barth,   C.   O.   G.    Miller,    Fred    11.  far  it  has  been  a  very  good  way.      By  all  the  rules  of 

Beaver,    William    A.    Magee,    Robert    Watt.  i    r          ■                        .•          Ii        -n          ■               i         i  i            i        .i      ■ 

Receives   deposits   and   loans   on   real   estate   security.     Country  defensive    operation    the    Russians    should    make    their 

remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,   Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  che.ks  dispute  ao-ainst  further  advance  of  the  enemv  at  Aluk- 

of   reliable   parties,   payable   in   San   Francisco,    but    the    responsi-  uisptut.  against  Iliruier  atlVdnce  Ol   tneenem}    at  .UUK 

binty  of  this  savings  Ban*  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  den  a  second  Gettysburg,  but  intimations  come  from 

ceipt  of  the  money.     The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  c.       D    .        .        _    .,     .       rr^          ■  •    ,  .                                       ,,      . 

company  the  tirst  deposit,    .so  charge  is  maae  for  pass  book  St.    Petersburg   that   after   slight   resistance   at   that 

°r0fflceaH0eursf9  a.  m.   to  S  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8.  P°int.    General    Kuropatkin   will   retire    upon    Harbin, 

Dei.osits,  December  si,  1903  $33,2^2.9  6  which  is  located  at  the  junction  ot  the  Port  Arthur 

Guarantee   capital,    Paid-up    I,o0.\u-0        , ,        s   .,  •       r»-u  -i  r.  ^ 

Reserve  and  contingent  Funds  '     S99,5i6  branch  of  the  main  Siberian  railway  whose  eastern 

terminus  is  Vladivostock.     This  makes  the  distance 

Mutual  SaVinqs  BanK  of  San  Fr»r»oisoo  from  Port  Arthur  to  Harbin  about  8oo  miles,  but  a 
710  Market  St.,  opposite  Third.  good  deal  more  than  half  of  the  distance  is  already 
paiad"nptecapuaitaand' surplus' '\\\\\\\"\"\"\\\\\"\\\\\\\\\':^''^JZ  actually  or  strategically  under  Japanese  control.  It 
jAims^  P;tfEU^Jjr.  ^raBident:  s.  p.  murphy  vice-Piesi-  seem  to  be  Kuropatkin's  plan  to  rely  upon  his  Cos- 
dent;   GEORGE  A.    STORY,   Cashier;   JUH.S    A.    HuoPEK,    Vice-  „    .       P,       ,                     ,Tni                i 

President;  c.  b.  hubsoa,  Assistant  cashier.  sacks  to  sufficiently  harass  the  Japanese  Hanks  and 

Directors— James    D.    Phelan,    S.    G.    Murphy,    John    A.    Hooper,  r„,r    (■„    m-it-p    HipJr    innrncv    ti->    T-Tarhin     a    lr.no-  Hrawn 

James   Moffltt,    Frank   j.    Sullivan,    Robert   McElroy,    Rudoiph  rcar  to  make  tlieir  journey  to  riarDin  a  long-arawn 

Spreckeis,  James  m    McDona.u,  charies  Hoibrook.  out  and  a  most  wearisome  tramp,  attended  by  great 

Interest   paid   on   deposits.     Loans   on   approved   securities.  ,            f                ,.        .,                           ,  •                      *        •                t  • 

Deposits  may  be  sent  on  postal  order,   wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  loss    from    skirmishes    and       disease.       Against       this 

exchange  on  city  banks. hinted-at   plan    of   the    Russian   commander     is   the 

The  German    Savings  &>  Loan  Society  strong  point   that  the  Japanese  can  and  would   ad- 
vance along  the  line  of  the  Port  Arthur  and  Harbin 

Guara^e^apl1^Sn^u^^^^..?^I'^S^.TC1.60  railway,  giving  them  ample  transportation  facilities 

^^A^^b^tu^ia.^.^::\::\::::^\:::":^^  for  f«PP««  and  troop  movements;  besides,  they  al- 

board  or'  DiRECTORS-President,  John  Lloyd;  First  vice-  ready   have  a   strong  base  on   the   \alu   river  from 

President    Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President.  H    Horsimami;  which    a    movement,   or  rather   from    which    the    main 

Ign.  Stelnhardt,  Emll  Kohte.  H.  B.  Russ,  .\.  uhiandt,  l.  .s.   wal-  '      ,    ,         .     ,     .                 ,              ,       ,  ■    , 

ter  and  j.  w.  Van  Bergen.  movement  against  Mukden  is  being  made,  and  which 

Cashier.  A.   H.   K.   Schmidt;   Assistant  Cashier.    William   Herr-  m1IQT    nerpssarilv    heroine    thre-itpnino-    to    Vladivos- 

mann;    Secretary,    George     lourny;    Ass.stant    secretary,    A.    jrf.  must     llCLCSSdril)      OCCOine     inrediening    to      \  IdUIVOS- 

Muiier;  General  Attorney,  v\ .  s.  Goouieiiow.  tock  as  the  Japanese  advance  toward   Mukden  and 
Harbin.     Viewed  strategically  at  this  time  the  Jap- 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  a—.-*  |nese  a,re  in  a  v5,ry  ?uch  strfonger  Positi°n  tha,n'the 

J                                        "                   J  '"»"*-""""»  Slavs,   barring   the   danger   from    Cossack    raids   on 

Established  in  1S89                                         of  California.  flanks  and  rear.    Still  a  great  battle  at  Mukden  might 

301  California  St..   San  Francisco,  Cal.  .        ,         ,            .  ,                           -mi                     ,,                 .  ° 

Subscribed    capital    Ji6,ooo,ooo.oo  be  fought  without  materially  changing  the  strategy 

pro«\ndpRtUrveFund::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::'::  '^iSKi  °f  either  as  a  whole,  it  win  be  remembered  that  the 

interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  ot  6  per  cent  per  annum  battle   of  Gettysburg:  was  so  fierce  and   destructive 

on  term  and  o  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  ,            ,                 ,  J.           P     .  .,,     ,           .                  ,     , 

Dr.    Washington   Dodge,   President;   William   Corbin,   Secretary  that    the    total    loss    in    killed   and   wounded    was    COn- 

and  General  Manager. siderably  over  twenty  thousand  men,  and  that  both 

International    Banking   Corporation  armies  were  so  badly  crippled  that  the  one  could  not 

no  l  wall  street   new  York  hinder  the  movement  of  the  other  toward  its  base. 

Capital  and  surplus  '. $7,894,400  The  same  thing  might  be  done  at  Mukden,  but  of 

Capital  and  Surplus  Authorized   io,ooo,ooj.oo  rinirsp   such   a  battle  would   nroloncr  the  war    for  so 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer.  President;  Charles  D.   Paimer.  course    Mien    a    Uditie    wuuiu   pioiuiig    tne    vv.ii,   iui    so 

Assistant    to   President;   William   b.    wightman,   Assistant   to  long  as  the  combatants  can  maintain  bases  of  supplies 

President;   John   Hubbard,   Treasurer;    James  H.    Rogers,    Secre-  r                        r                 ,-             ,t                 „    i,    »        „„    m^   „ 

tary;  John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  G.-een,  Coun-  and    centers    of   operations,    there    would    be    no   OCCa- 

SBRANCHES-London,    San   Francisco,    City   of  Mexico,    Manila,  si°"     t0     Quit— except    diplomatically.       The     changes 

Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,  shanghai,  Singapore.  in  the  situation  the  past  week  are  decidedly  favorable 

AGENCIES— Bombay,     Calcutta,     Madras.     Penang,     Rangoon,  .  e  ,  j .; „    r«-    „^    *-U~ 

Colombo,    Amoy.    Canton.   HanKow.  Tientsin.  Tansui,  Anping,  for  a  war  of  several  years  duration,  so  tar  as  the 

Bakan,   Mojl,  Saigon,  Kobe,   Bangkok,   Batavia,   Samarang,  Sou-  -,f,-n,'pc    arp   ^nnrprnpd 

rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe.  armies  are   cuiicerueu. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH— 32-34  Sansome  St  Tl0      ■.„,-■„   „_   ,,,^   p„rf    A^fl,,,^ 

A  general  banking  business  iransacted.    Accounts  of  corpora-  4  ne  suuaiion  on  me  run  nruiur 

tlons,  lirms  and  Individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  ter.ns  port   Arthur          peninsula     is     very    much     like     it 

on  approved  securities.     I-oreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  ,                            P                 r.   .     ,          J      .             _ 

and  sold.     Travelers'   and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted,  Holding   Out.       was  at   Vicksburg     after      General 

available  in  any  part  of  the  world.     Interest  bearing  certificates  r.,n)    l.j    ...„„i    „ii    tin„    ,,.,,,. 

of  deposits  issued  for  fixed  periods.     Interest  allowed   to   banks  urant    naa    secured    an    tne    water 

on  current  dally  balances     Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping  anj   ianc]   approaches   to   the   Confederate   garrison   of 

accounts    with    us,    and    drawing    direct    on    our    branches    and  i"u   mnu   ^pp*  ^<»v-i>^                 .        .    .              t         •       i    r       j 

agents  throughout  the  world.  over  30,ooo  men — twice  the  land  force  that  is  detend- 

F.^BECKYManag^  '    ^  LpE°\  EASTWicK,  jr.,  Asst.  Mgr.  ing   Port   Arthur.     The   Japanese   army   practically 

— : ~ controls  by  actual  or  strategical   force  all  the  land 

Security  Savings    BanK  approaches  to  Port  Arthur  for  fully,  if  not  more,  than 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building.  Anr.  mjlpo   inland    besides  the   navv  is  master  of  the 

INTEREST    PAID    ON    DEPOSITS.    LOANS    MADE.  4°°    ""ICS    midno,    uesiucs    tile    Udvv    la    MidMci    ui    inc 

directors— William  Aivord,  \\  iiiiam  Babcock.  s.  l.  Abbott,  water  side.       General   Grant  had  no  fear  of  serious 

jr     O    D.  Baldwin,  F.   Monteagle,   Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J.   Mc-  ...  r  *.u       r c i„ *-„«       :«       Kir:«a:D<.:nnS 

ciitcheon,  r.  H.  Pease,  j.  d.  Grant.  opposition   from   the   Confederates     in     Mississippi, 


May  28.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


and  he  was  supreme  on  (he 

i   river      1  Irani   took    Vicksburg   hy    "par- 

I  approaches,''  initios  and  occasional  charges, 

keeping  up  a  steady  mortar  fire  From  the 

idron.    The  Japanese  are  using  substantially 

same  tactics  at  Port  Arthur.     The  fate  of  Vicks- 

blirg  was   scaled   the   hour  it   was   invested;   so   was 

Port    Arthur's    fate   sealed     when      Japanese    troop. 

landed  in  its  rear. 

.  The    London    Government    he- 

British  Thibetan    i iii_r  assure. I  of  the  indorsement 

Policy.  and    support   of   the   subjects   of 

the  kingdom  and  of  the  empire, 

and  the  good  will  of  the  civilized  world  generally, 
de  of  Russia,  in  her  Thibetan  undertaking,  a 
Vigorous  policy  has  been  adopted,  which  contem- 
plates no  halt  or  compromise  until  the  sovereignty 
of  Great  Britain  is  recognized  and  peace  secured 
throughout  Thibet.  It  is  unfortunate  for  the  Thibet- 
ans as  well  as  for  the  civilized  world  that  England's 
supremacy  will  not  be  fully  established  and  peace 
secured  immediately.  It  is  very  certain  that  Russi  1 
is  urging  the  Llama  to  resist  the  English  to  the  last 
and  that  he  has  assurances  of  at  least  financial  a!  1 
for  war  purposes  from  St.  Petersburg.  And  it  is 
equally  certain  that  organized  bands  of  Tartars  are 
entering  Thibet  to  co-operate  with  the  Llama's  army, 
and  that  Russian  money  is  paving  their  bills.  It  is 
not  supposed  that  the  British  will  have  much  diffi- 
culty in  capturing  the  principal  trade  centers  and 
lines  of  communication,  but  under  Russian  influence 
and  by  Tartar  military  aid  the  Llama  will  seek  the 
fastness  of  the  mountain  country,  and  may  from  there 
prosecute  an  irregular  warfare  for  years.  So  long  as 
he  can  do  that,  immigration,  commerce  and  capital 
will  not  be  likely  to  invade  the  country  to  any  great 
extent,  but  of  course  the  fanatics  will  in  time  be 
driven  from  their  mountain  camps  by  willing  assimi- 
lation and  acquiescence,  or  by  being  gathered  to 
their  fathers.  History  records  but  one  notable  ex- 
ception to  the  rule  that  Great  Britain  gets  what  she 
goes  after  in  the  way  of  trade,  traffic  and  territory, 
and  that  one  exception  was  the  American  colonies 
when  they  repudiated  British  sovereignty,  but  in 
speaking  of  that  event,  history  makes  the  point  that 
England  was  dealing  mostly  with  Englishmen,  Irish- 
men and  Scotchmen,  by  birth  or  descent,  and  that 
she  should  have  been  well  enough  acquainted  with 
her  own  children  and  blood  relations  to  avoid  buck- 
ing against  the  inevitable.  Anyway,  map  makers 
may  as  well  prepare  cuts  to  call  it  "British  Thibet." 

The  authorities  of  Pan- 
Panama  Fears  Trouble,  ama  have  received  the 
,  $10,000,000  due  them 
for  the  canal  franchise  and  for  their  treachery  to  their 
Government,  the  Republic  of  the  United  States  of 
Colombia,  but  they  are  in  a  peck  of  trouble  over  it. 
They  fear  that  so  much  ready  money  in  sight  will 
so  stimulate  patriotism  that  several  revolutions  may 
be  started  to  ostensibly  give  the  young  republic  a 
better  government,  but  in  reality  to  get  hold  of  the 
canal  purchase  money.  Still,  they  think  they  see 
safety  in  the  almost  certainty  of  a  deadly  conflict 
between  the  several  patriots  who  are  aspiring  to  chief 
executive  authority — and  the  handling  of  the  cash ; 
and,  too,  they  rely,  as  the  last  resort,  to  keep  them- 
selves nailed  down  to  their  job  upon  United  States 
marines  and  warships,  which  it  is  understood  will  be 
forthcoming,  but  under  the  guise  of  "protecting  our 
canal  zone."  The  treasury  department's  part  in  the 
canal  transaction  is  now  closed,  but  the  war  and 
navy  departments'  part  will  be  a  continuous  perform- 
ance so  long  as  the  United  States  owns  the  property, 


»9 


which  may  11.4  be  a  great  while,  as  the  canal  syndi- 
cate is  now  scheming  lor  Ownership  by  legislation 
which  will  not  contemplate  the  outlay  of  a  dollar 
by  the  syndicate. 


BANKING. 


Wells,Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Capital,   Surplus  and   Undivided 
Fronts 


}$I3,500,000 


Homer  S.   King.   President:   P.   L.   Llpman,    Cashier;    Prank   B. 
,n£\  Assistant    Cashier;    Jno.    E.    Miles.    Assistant    Cashier. 
BRANCHES—  New  York;   Salt  Lake,   Utah;   Portland,   ore. 
I  orrespondents    throughout  the  world.     General   banking   busi- 
ness transacted. 


Tbe  Son  Francisco  National  Bank 

f?^.thea3t  c°rner  of  Sansome  and   Pine  Sts.,   San   Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON,  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWG1LL.  Cashier;  P.  W.  WOLFE.  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

„_  Capital,  $500,000.     Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits,  $165,000. 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,  Vice-Prest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton,  President  Firemans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R.; 
Geo.  A.  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict, 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W.   T.   Garratt  &  Co.     James  K.  Wilson,  President 

AGENTS— New  York:  Hanover  National  Bank.  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver — National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg — Robinson 
South   African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,00.) 

Aggregate   Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.  GEORGE  A.  COX,  President. 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW   YORK   OFFICE— 16   Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH     COLUMBIA— Atlin,       Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New  Westminster,  Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skaguay  (Alaska). 
Also     80     other     Branches,    covering     the    principal    points    m 
Manitoba,   N.   W.    Territories,   and   Eastern   Canada. 
BANKERS   IN   LONDON— The  Bank  of   England,   the   Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,  Ltd. 
AGENTS    IN    CHICAGO— The    First   National    Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  OLREANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
Sar\  Francisco  Office — 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London,  Paris  and  American  bankLIU,ltea 

N.   W.    COR.   SANSOME  AND   SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed  Capital,  $2,500,000.  Paid-up  Capital,  $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000. 
Head  Offlce—40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
crecLi£s  issued 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; K.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  floglo-Calitornian  Bank,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C! 
Capital    Authorized,    $6,000,000  Paid-up,    $1,500,000 

Subscribed,   $3,000,000  Reserve  Fund.   $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,    buys   and   sells   exchange   and   bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    LIL1ENTHAL.    Managers. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve 1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator.  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  Depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  anu 
Savings.     Investments   carefully   selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  O.  A.  Hale.  Vice- 
President;     H.    Brunner,  Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


.^INSURANCE 


The  News  Letter  was  the  first  publication  on  the 
Coast  to  make  known  the  Atlas-Manchester  deal. 

The  News  Letter  has  cabled  to  England  and  is 
momentarily    expecting   a    reply. 

That  the  coalescence  is  a  fact  admits  of  no  doubt ; 
the  chronicling  of  the  passing  of  the  Manchester  is 
but  the  chronicling  of  the  passing  of  the  other  com- 
panies— the  Thuringia,  the   Lancashire,  et  al. 

There  may  be  others  hanging  on  by  their  alien 
eyelids  to  the  American  premium  income,  but  they 
are  getting  fewer  and  less  each  time  they  have  to 
make  a  statement. 

The  amalgamation  of  the  Manchester  by  the  Atlas 
is  but  the  forerunner  of  the  decadence  of  other  Brit- 
ish   companies. 

Englishmen  are  proverbially  close-fisted.  They 
do  not  like  to  lose  money,  and  as  soon  as  the  venture 
fails  to  pay  in  the  United  States,  they  holler  for  the 
cash  down. 

ft  is  a  safe  proposition  to  gamble  on  that  the  Brit- 
ish companies  which  are  losing  money  will  not  be 
among  us  much  longer.  There  are  companies  manu- 
factured in  England  whose  policies  are  beyond  ques- 
tion, who  by  their  probity  and  capital  are  making 
money  in  the  United  States,  and  these  companies  will 
stay  with  us. 

On  the  other  hand  there  are  a  few  companies  also 
manufactured  in .  Great  Britain  which  are  losing 
money.  These  and  such  must  go.  They  are  like  the 
Manchester  and  the  Thuringia  and  the  Lancashire. 
All  of  them  are  good  for  their  contracts,  but  not  good 
enough  to  make  a  profit ;  hence  they  all  quit. 

*  *  * 

An  exchange,  writing  of  the  passing  of  the  Man- 
chester, says :  "The  first  intimation  that  the  officers 
of  the  Manchester  Fire  in  New  York  City  had  that 
a  deal  between  their  company  and  the  Atlas  had  been 
effected  or  was  pending,  was  at  noon  on  Saturday, 
when  Mr.  Sumner  Ballard,  insurance  editor  of  the 
Journal  of  Commerce  and  Commercial  Bulletin,  ap- 
prised them  of  the  fact.  Later  a  cable  was  received 
from  Manchester  saying  that  amalgamation  with  the 
Atlas  had  been  provisionally  agreed  to,  and  instruct- 
ing the  United  States  branch  to  continue  business  as 
hitherto— an  order  easier  given  than  carried  out.  A 
cable  to  the  New  York  office  of  the  Atlas  merely  an- 
nounced that  a  preliminary  arrangement  for  taking 
over  the  Manchester  Fire  had  been  signed. 

*  *  * 

"The  Atlas  Assurance  Company  has  a  subscribed 
capital  of  £1,200,000  in  24,000  shares  of  £50  each 
on  which  £5  was  paid  up,  making  with  £24,000 
since  added  from  profits  £  144,000  paid  up,  or  £6 
per  share.  The  ivlanchester  Assurance  Company's 
subscrmed  capital  is  £2,000,000  in  100,000  shares  of 
£20  each,  on  which  £2  is  paid  up." 

Oin  January  1st,  the  Manchester  reported  total 
assets  in  England  of  $1,734,221,  and  a  surplus  over  all 
liabilities  of  $574,575.  The  company  purchased  the 
American  Fire  of  New  York  a  few  years  ago,  and  af- 
ter continuing  it  for  a  short  time  re-insured  its  busi- 
ness in  the  Hartford   Fire. 

*  *   •.:: 

George  W.  Turner  has  further  endeared  himself 
to  the  respectable  element  of  the  fire  Underwriting 
world  by  resigning  the  general  agency  of  the  North- 
western. 

Mr.  Turner  will  not  be  long  without  a  new  com- 
pany.    His  business  getting  ability  is  too  well  known 


for  him  to  be  idle.     He  placed  the  Northwestern  in 
decent  society,  and  it  found  itself  so  much  out  of  place 

that   Mr.  Turner  threw   it  out  on  the  street. 

*  *  * 

At  a  hotel  fire  in  Delaware  a  dog  ran  barking 
through  the  house,  arousing  all  the  inmates.  All 
safely  reached  the  street,  but  the  dog  was  badly 
burned. 

*  *  * 

A  theatrical  man  in  New  York  claims  to  have  dis- 
covered a  solution  which,  when  applied  to  scenery 
and  costumes,  makes  them  fire-proof.  A  recent  test 
witnessed  by  members  of  the  fire  and  building-  de- 
partments proved  all  that  was  claimed  of  it.  When 
subjected  to  300  degrees  of  heat,  the  material  did  not 
.burn,  but   only  blackened. 

*  *  * 

A  broker  called  up  a  well-known  insurance  com- 
pany on  April  1st.  and  giving  a  fictitious  name,  asked 
if  the  company  would  take  $40,000  on  Plymouth 
Church,  Brooklyn.  The  insurance  company  was  very 
glad  to  get  the  line,  and  did  not  realize  it  was  an 
April   fool   joke  until  trying  to  obtain   re-insurance. 

Labor  unionism  in  the  United  States  has  become 
an  organized  conspiracy  against  the  safety  of  trade, 
commerce  and  industry  and  the  rights  of  non-union- 
ists. If  "Government  by  injunction,"  or  even  more 
forceful  measures,  are  required  to  crush  the  conspir- 
acy let  such  measures  be  adopted  speedily.  There 
should  not  be  room  in  this  country  for  such  an  or- 
ganization of  social  and  industrial  destructionists. 


Only  he  dignifies  labor  and  raises  it  to  his  own 
level  of  respectability  who  does  so  in  the  mightiness 
of  self-reliance.  Labor  unionism  destroys  self-re- 
liance in  the  individual,  reducing  him  to  a  mere  com- 
modity in  the  labor  market,  and  obliging  him  to  ac- 
cent such  prices  for  his  services  as  those  of  his  guild 
who  live  by  their  wits  establish  for  him.  and  those 
who  live  by  their  wits  live  like  princes  by  compari- 
son. 


You  can  never   pet  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  Is  a  business  which  has  to  he  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  It.  Go  to  Spaulding's 
Carpet  Cleaning  Company.  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


(« 


NEW"  SANTA  CRUZ 


GRAND    DEDICATION 

And  Opening  of  the 

EXTENSIVE  BEACH  IMPROVEMENTS 

AT  SANTA  CRUZ 

Saturday  Evening,  June  11 

Magnifloent  fireworks  display  by  California  Fireworks  Company. 
Brilliant  electrical  illumination  of  Pacific  avenue  and  Esplanade, 
Thousands  of  electric  lights  will  outline  the  Bathing  Casino.riunge 
Baths  and  Pleasure  Pier. 

Military  band  concert  and  grand  ball.  Music  by  Third  Artillery 
Band.  U.  S.  A.    SPECIAL  EXCURSIONS  VIA  S.  P.  CO. 

"NEW"  SANTA  CRUZ 


May  28.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


A  WONDERFUL  PAINTING. 
"The  Return  of  the  Crusaders"  :>  the  name  of  a 
which  is  on     exhibition     at 
Gamps,  ami  which  lias  attracted  considerable  ami 

mention.     It  is  a  wonderful  pica 
ami  :  aple  of  the  best  "i  the  modern  s< 

There  is  a  nicety  .it  detail  that,  in  places,  reminds 
inier,  while  the  background  would 
ic  the  strictest  devotee  of  what  may  be  called 
the  "broad"  111  art.  It  is  a  large  canvas,  and  depicts 
the  return  of  General  William  limbriaco,  a  palladian 
ot  the  tirst  crusade.  The  populace  of  Genoa  gives 
.nni  welcome,  limbriaco  was  the  favorite  of  bald- 
win,  lie  of  the  mace,  and  evidently  the  favorite  son 
of  Genoa.  The  crowd  represents  tenderest  infancy 
to  tottering  age,  anu  the  treatment  is  superb.  There 
is  a  crispy  sunlight  in  the  picture  and  a  swing  in 
the  composition  that  is  most  pleasing  to  the  eye. 

It  is  not  stretching  the  truth  to  say  that  "Tlie  Re- 
turn of  the  Crusaders  is  the  best  piece  of  art  work 
that  has  been  exhibited  in  San  Francisco  in  years. 
It  would  not  be  a  wild  flight  of  the  imagination 
to  conjure  the  glitter  of  pageantry  and  the  scent  of 
flowers,  the  sunshine  and  the  animated  faces  of  the 
painting,  so  true  is  every  brush  stroke  to  the  life. 

The  West  has  been  prolific  of  men  and  women  of 
note  in  art,  music  and  literature.  Nellie  Burrell 
Scott  is  the  latest  addition  to  the  painters  who  have 
achieved  celebrity  in  one  particular  line.  She  is  the 
only  woman  painter  in  the  West  who  has  followed 
the  illusive  trout  in  his  lair,  the  bass  and  the  cod, 
and  in  fact  nearly  all  the  fish  of  our  salt  and  fresh 
waters  in  their  haunts,  studying  their  home  life  and 
their  exhibition  moods.  She  has  done  with  her  brush 
what  Thompson  Seton  has  done  with  his  pen  and 
pencil.  She  is  a  strong,  virile  woman,  who  is  not 
afraid  to  labor  to  achieve,  and  who  has  the  satisfac- 
tion of  knowing  that  she  excels  in  her  line.  She 
has  clambered  over  the  rocks  and  along  the  rills  and 
creeks  of  California  until  she  knows  them  in  their 
every  mood.  There  is  an  exhibition  of  her  work 
that  is  well  worth  visiting  at  Schussler's  Gallery  on 
Geary  street.  Lovers  ot  art  and  those  that  are  enam- 
ored of  the  rod  and  line  should  avail  themselves  of 
this  opportunity  to  see  a  rare  collection  of  fish  pic- 
tures. These  are  all  notable,  and  among  them  is  one 
still  life — a  rock-cod — that  has  taken  a  medal. 


INSURANCE 


Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.  will  hold  a  public  auc- 
tion of  the  business  properties  of  the  Jose  Guardiola 
estate  at  their  salesroom,  218-220  Montgomery 
street,  Thursday,  June  9th,  at  12  o'clock  noon.  The 
properties  are  to  be  sold  by  order  of  the  adminis- 
trator, and  comprise  the  three-story  building  at  the 
corner  of  Sansome  and  California  streets,  a  four-story 
building  at  34-52  O'Farrell  street,  the  Palo  Alto 
stable  building  at  318-320  O'Farrell  street,  a  four- 
story  building  at  9-1 1  Bagley  Place,  (off  O'Farrell), 
and  the  "Heredia  Tract,"  of  1522  acres  of  land  in 
Placer  County,  Cal.  The  annual  rental  of  the  city 
property  is  nearly  $36,000.  The  location  of  all  this 
estate  is  the  very  best.  Full  information  may  be  ob- 
tained from  Shainwald,  Buckbee   &  Co. 

Plre,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Organized  1863  natiAmmaa 

Capitol $3,000,000.  Gross  Gash  Assets.     »ib,i»u,h«.s» 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.    Conference  with  our  Hepr"- 

•sntatives  before  concluding  short  time  yearly  or  long  time  contracts 

nay  be  to  your  advantage. 
H.  L.  ROFF,  General  Agent;  GEO.  M.  MITCHELL,  Metropolis 

'  «n  Manejr&r. 

310  Sansome  fit.,  San  Francisco 


FIRE.    MARINE   AND    INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  17»2. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,'  PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     $3,000,000 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    6,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent    202 Pine  St.  S.  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital   raid-up.   $3,446,100.  Assets,   $24,662,043.35 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  $8,930,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,   Manager,  501  Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local  Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF   HARTFORD.     Established  1860. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  for  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES.  i 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office:  - 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSUKE— Until  you  have  examined  tjie  now 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $  1 ,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $2 1 ,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  "Wanted. 
Marion  Building      no  Geary  St. San  Franciso 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance   Co 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool- 
Capital   $6,700,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  AgentB.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

Cash  Capital,  $200,000.00  Cash  Assets,  $321,471.19 

PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,"  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.  Deerlng,  Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building.  

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 

FIRE      EXTINGUISHERS 

CHAS.    P.     FONDA 
138    MARKET    STREET.    SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


MODEL  H.    8  MORSE  POWER. 

Price,  $950 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.   l33c*rARu,th.ST; 


Phone  South  HJ07 


WE  ARE  SELLING  al  reduced  BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS 

ALSOJ 

Ramblers,  Northerns,    Frank- 
lins, Oldsmobiles 

WITH. 

LANTERNS,     RUGS,     CAPS    &    SUNDRIES 

CALL  AND  SEE  THEM  AT 

NATIONAL   AUTO   &    MF  r.   COMPANY 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVENUE 


Have  you  seeD  the 

Buckboard? 

1904  Model 

Best     Automobile      at 
any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding--Reliable--Guaranteed 

On   exhibit  at-SVNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 

18H  MARKET  STREET.  S*N  FRANCISCO 


The    CADILLAC 


MODEL  B.    Price  J9S0 
Willi  Tonneau  $1050 


Record  from  Del 
Monte  to  Oakland  5 
hours  and 38  minutes. 
The  only  successful 
tour  of  the  Yosemite 
made  by  Major  Fulmer 
of  Los  Angeles  and  a 
party  of  three. 


CUYLER  LEE,  Agent.     201-203  Larkin  Street,  S.  F. 


Bt    Thk    Attocimsk 

The  race  committee  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California  is  centering  all  its  energies  on  the  annual 
meet  to  be  held  in  August  at  Del  Monte.  At  the 
present  time  the  committee  is  undecided  as  to  the 
number  of  days  racing  that  will  be  had. 

One  of  the  features  of  the  Del  Monte  meet  will  be 
the  hill  climbing  contest  to  be  held  on  the  Govern- 
ment Reservation. 

The  club  has  not  taken  any  definite  action  in  regard 
to  the  Los  Angeles  endurance  run  that  was  proposed 
some  months  ago.  The  length  of  time  that  such  a 
contest  would  consume  has  made  the  committee  care- 
ful in  their  actions,  inasmuch  as  they  are  not  desir- 
ous of  seeing  it  turn  out  a  failure.  Chairman  Lowe 
will  leave  shortly  for  the  South  to  interview  the 
members  of  the  Los  Angeles  clubs,  and  if  they  will 
take  part  in  such  an  event  the  contest  will  come  up 
again  for  consideration  by  the  local  automobilists. 

Some  of  the  members  have  suggested  that  the 
club  in  the  meantime  hold  a  hill  climbing  contest  on 
19th  avenue,  but  the  committee  cannot  see  where  a 
contest  at  that  place  would  give  anything  like  satis- 

factorv   results. 

*  *  * 

The  club  should  have  some  sort  of  programmed 
events  for  the  months  of  June  and  July.  If  the  club 
does  not  keep  active  it  will  be  impossible  to  hold 
its  membership.  A  club  to  be  successful  must  be 
always  leading  its  members.  If  the  officers  are  not 
active  the  members  cannot  be  expected  to  be  enthu- 
siastic. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  A.  Greene,  of  New  York  City,  broke  the 
road  record  from  New  York  to  Boston  last  week, 
driving  his  own  16  h.  p.  four-cylinder  gasoline  Loco- 
mobile. The  elapsed  time  was  ten  hours  twenty- 
seven  minutes,  and  the  actual  running  time  was  eight 
hours  fifty-seven  minutes,  beating  the  best  previous 
time  by  exactly  one  hour.  The  object  of  this  run  of 
Mr.  Greene's  was  to  show  up  the  reliable  qualities 
of  the  Locomobile  rather  than  to  make  a  sensational 
speed  performance,  but  a  cut  of  one  hour  from  the 
previous  figures  is  certainly  an  impressive  feat. 

*  *  * 

Richard  Mansfield  is  an  enthusiastic  automobilist. 
Since  he  arrived  in  the  city  he  has  been  doing  the 
Park,  Cliff  and  Presidio  in  machines  from  the  Mobile 
Carriage  Company  and  the  Winton  agency. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  J.  Mier  and  party  of  friends  made  a  trip  to 
San  Jose  "on  Sunday  in  Mr.  Mier's  Winton  Touring 

car. 

*  »  » 

The  West  Coast  Automobile  Company  has  moved 
into  their  new  quarters  at  606  Van  Xcss  avenue.  The 
company    is    handling    the    Auto-car    and    Columbia 

vehicles. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  F.  Hunt  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  P. 
Brinegar  made  a  record  trip  around  the  bay  Sunday 
in  the  new  Oldsmobile  tonneau.  The  party  reached 
Mr.  George  H.  Osen's  automobile  store  in  San  Jose 
at  twelve  o'clock.  A  large  number  of  prospective 
purchasers,  and  those  who  had  already  placed  their 
orders  for  Oldsmobile  tonneaus,  were  on  hand  await- 
ing the  arrival  of  the  new  machine,  which  certainly 


May  38.  1904. 


SAN  FKANCTSCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*3 


1  hip  reception.     Mr.  I  it  for  the 

Vtitomobilc  Company   at    San    lose,  ha> 
■    placed  orilcrs  t'>r  twenty-six   (  lldsmobili 
iliflfcrctit  types,  and  five  additional  orders  were  taken 
when  the  machine  was  shown. 

*  •  • 

Advices  have  been  received  from  the  factory  of  the 

fierce  Arrow  that  the  now  lot  of  one  hundred  four- 
cylinder  Arrows  have  been  Started  in  the  factory  to 
supply  the  demands  for  such  cars.  This  order  alone 
represents  $400,000,  which  will  probably  represent 
the  largest  output  of  four-cylinder  cars  thus  far  in 
the  history  of  American  automobiles. 

*  •  « 

Mr.  Ferdinand  Nelson  has  added  a  1904  Winton 
Touring  car,  which  he  purchased  from  the  Pioneer 
people,  to  his  automobile  stable. 

*  *  • 

Mr.  J.  A.  Marsh,  president  of  the  Mobile  Carriage 
Company,  started  over  a  week  ago  for  an  extended 
camping  trip  through  the  North.  He  has  taken  the 
tonneau  off  his  car  and  provided  a  camp  wagon  with 
all  requirements  for  camping  out  and  home  cooking. 

*  *  » 

Mr.  C.  L.  Roy,  the  well  known  lumber  man  of 
Seattle,  Washington,  started  from  Tiaguano,  Mexico, 
on  May  8th,  in  a  Winton  touring  car,  en  route  to 
Seattle,  Washington.  There  are  only  Mr.  Roy  and 
his  chauffeur  in  the  party,  and  they  are  making  the 
trip  by  easy  stages.  Three  days  were  spent  in  Los 
Angeles  and  two  days  in  San  Jose.  Mr.  Roy  arrived 
here,  after  covering  1135  miles.  He  left  on  the  nine 
o'clock  boat  Sunday  morning  via  Sacramento  and 
Portland,  Oregon.  Mr.  Roy  says  that  the  only  way 
to  travel  is  in  an  automobile. 

*  *  * 

The  Mobile  Carriage  Company  has  been  advised 
by  the  George  N.  Pierce  Co.  that  another  carload  of 
two-cylinder  Arrows  will  be  shipped  out  at  an  early 
date.  The  four-cylinder  Arrow  ordered  for  Mr.  Liv- 
ingston Jenks  is  expected  to  arrive  about  the  middle 
of  June.  This  is  certainly  one  of  the  best  cars  that 
has  ever  been  brought  to  the  Coast. 

*  »  * 

Mr.  F.  A.  Bennett,  formerly  agent  for  the  Oldsmo- 
bile  at  Riverside,  California,  has  taken  the  agency 
for  the  lines  handled  by  the  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company,  viz. :  Oldsmobile,  Stevens-Duryea,  Win- 
ton, and  Locomobile,  for  Alameda  and  Contra  Costa 
Counties.  Mr.  Bennett  will  open  a  store  and  garage 
in  Oakland  within  a  very  short  time.  He  is  a  prac- 
tical man,  having  had  three  years'  experience  in  the 
Oldsmobile  factory  at  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  is  a 
thoroughly  up-to-date  automobile  man. 

*  *  * 

The  representatives  of  the  Pope-Toledo  automo- 
bile have  received  several  handsome  and  high-grade 
two  and  four-cylinder  cars  from  the  factory,  and  have 
extended  an  invitation  to  prospective  buyers  to  in- 
spect same.  The  management  will  extend  a  demon- 
stration of  these  cars  to  all  persons  directly  interested 
in  automobiling.  Pope-Toledos  are  of  a  very  high 
order,  and  attract  attention  wherever  seen. 


AUTOMOBILE    REPAIRS 


81    CITY    HALL    AVE. 

De  Dion  Plugs  and  Poroelains— Electric  Wiring  for  Auto  use 
best  made— Batteries,  Tires,  etc. 

ANDREWS, 
Tel.  South  1039 


KEENAN  &  BLASAUF 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Prlco    $1,350    Without    Top 
$1,450  With  Tod 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  lop  and  accommo- 
dating  four  person*. 

S.  It  haa  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  Is  compnet  In  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
and  beautiful   In  general   finish. 

5.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Plttaburg, 


miles,  and  won  high  rank. 
PIERCE  ARROW  T0URIN0  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


S2.6S0.00 
SOO.OO 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gate  Ave.  &  Gough  St., S  F. 


W.  J.'FREELING 


F.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANON A" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.    Reasonable 
prices.      Best   of   Wines   and 

Liquors. 


MILO  J.  0ILLETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Capp  566 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO 

AUTOMOBILE   SUNDRIES  AT 
WHOLESALE    and    RETAIL 

Manufacturers   of  the 

COMMERCIAL  TOURING  CARS,  RUNABOUTS,  DELIVERY  CARS 
AND  HOTEL  COACHES 

The  lightest  and  highest  powered  Marine  Motors  In  California 

128-130    FREMONT    STREET,     S.    F. 


PROMPT    SERVICE 

(Henturg  lElcrtrtr  (Hmttpamj 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.    TEL.  BVSH  352 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


Up  to  date,  4,800  automobile  licenses  have  been  is- 
sued at  Trenton,  N.  J. 

*  *  * 

During  1902,  $862,960  worth  of  automobiles  and 
motor  cycles  were  imported  by  Germany.  Official 
reports  show  that  there  was  a  decided  increase  during 
1903,  the  amount  being  $1,218,000.  Over  two-thirds 
of  the  cars  imported  were  of  French  manufacture. 
»  *  * 

The  official  reports  state  that  during  February,  .538 
motor  cars  were  imported  into  Great  Britain,  their 
value  amounting  to  $890,395.  During  the  same 
length  of  time  parts  to  the  amount  of  $103,180  were 
imported,  making  a  total  of  $993,575,  which  is  nearly 
$288,000  more  than  the  corresponding  period  last 
year.  During  the  same  period  sixty-five  British  cars 
were  exported,  and  together  with  parts  sold  abroad, 
the   exports   amounted   to   $135,336,    an   increase   of 

nearly  $28,000. 

*  *  * 

Although  the  motor  boat  race  from  Paris  to  the 
sea,  otherwise  called  the  Paris-Deauville  race,  takes 
place  in  August,  twenty-eight  racing  boats  have  been 
entered.  Among  them  are  two  Napier  boats,  one  of 
80,  the  other  of  50  horsepower ;  Mercedes  11,  93  horse- 
power, belonging  to  C.  L.  Charley ;  Serpi_.Het,  100 
horse-power,  belonging  to  Gardner-Serpollet ; 
Thornycroft,  60  horse-power,  owned  by  M.  Thorny- 
croft,  and  several   racers  built   by   Clement-Bayard, 

the  Hotchkiss  Co.,  Panhard  and  Renault. 

*  *  * 

The  records  made  and  trophies  awarded  in  compe- 
tition speak  more  eloquently  to  a  buying  public 
than  pages  of  high-colored  advertising,  and  place 
the  Darracq  Cars  in  an  enviable  position  as  to  speed, 
mechanical  strength,  endurance,  reliability,  hill 
climbing  and  touring. 

The  American  Darracq  Automobile  Company 
states  the  popularity  of  Darracq  cars  is  best  attested 
by  the  fact  that  seventy-five  per  cent  of  all  automo- 
biles imported  to  the  United  States  are  Darracqs. 

*  *  * 

Model  making  as  a  pastime  is  the  fondest  recrea- 
tion of  Dr.  Frank  W.  Brandow  of  Pittsfield,  whose 
re-productions  of  noted  ships,  engines,  flying  ma- 
chines and  airships  exhibited  in  New  York  won  him 
unstinted  praise  and  brought  out  offers  from  some 
of  the  largest  houses  in  the  country  for  his  services. 
As  Dr.  Brandow  produces  his  models  for  pleasure, 
and  not  for  profit,  all  offers  of  his  works  were  re- 
fused, and  but  one  of  his  works  has  ever  been  sold. 
His  1902  model  of  an  automobile,  body  of  silver  plate, 
running  gear  of  oxidized  silver,  brass,  copper,  iron 
and  steel  entering  into  the  construction  of  the  work, 
was  exhibited  at  the  New  York  automobile  show, 
and  afterward  by  Tiffany  of  New  York.  Dr.  Bran- 
dow refused  $1000  for  the  model,  stating  that  he 
felt  that  by  the  sale  of  the  model  he  would  be  putting 
his  work  on  a  commercial  basis,  which  he  wished  to 
avoid. 


Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust. 

Cause  Eye  Strain.  Granulation  and  Redness.  Murine  Eye  Rem- 
edy restores,  cures  Eye  diseases,  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those 
wearing  glasses;  doesn't  smart.     A  favorite   toilet  requisite. 


AUTOMOBILE    GOGGLES 

Latest  Styles,    Largest  Assortment,    Lowest  Prices 

HIRSCH     3     KAISER,  Opticians 
7  Kearny  Street  San  Francisco 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WINTON/sKING, 
Long live the A 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton  Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Kill  St. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 


SAN    JOSE,    CAL 


New  Automobile  Garage 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


THE     AVTOCAU 


AUTOCARS,  $1,850 
AUTOCAR  RUNABOUT,  $1,050 
LIGHT  TOURING  COLUMBIA  $1,900 
COLUMBIA  FOUR  CYLINDER  $4,000 

THERE    AHE    NO    AUTOMOBILES    BETTER 


WEST    COAST 

606  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 


MOTOR-CAR    CO. 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


May  28.  1904. 


A  new  automobile  rccor.l  has  been  established 
between  Boston  and  New  York.  <  >n  April  jXtli. 
Harry   Fosdick  decided  to  try  for  the   Boston-New 

JO  in  the  afternoon, 
in  a  1904  Winton  touring  car,  he  made  the  start.  The 
time  was  9  hours  and  57  minutes.  N'o  accidents, 
breakdowns,  delays  or  stops,  except  for  refreshment. 
A  record  ride  in  a  record  car — a  stock  Winton.  Arriv- 
ing and  departing  times  were  registered  at  various 
ping  places  to  assure  authenticity.  Tin-  time 
made  was  nearly  as  fast  as  some  of  the  local  trains 
of  the  New  York.  New  Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad. 
running  between  Boston  and  New  York.  It  is  be- 
lieved that  it  will  not  be  lon<»  before  a  regular  estab- 
lished automobile  service  will  he  placed  all  through 
the  East. 

»  *  * 

The  following  letter  has  been  received  by  the  Lo- 
comobile Company  of  New  York : 

"I  have  run  the  four-cylinder  Locomobile  pur- 
chased from  you  last  November  about  five  thousand 
miles.  About  four  thousand  miles  of  this  was  through 
the  mountains  in  California,  and  in  all  that  distance 
the  engine  never  stoppec  of  its  own  accord,  and  have 
had  no  repairs  excepting  a  few  spark  plugs  and  punc- 
tures. I  do  not  think  any  machine  could  give  better 
satisfaction. 

Yours  truly, 

DAVID  H.  GAINES. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
has  been 


*5 


LITERARY  ENTERPRISE. 

Prince  Vladimir  Vaniatsky,  the  talented  Russian, 
who  is  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  Overland  Month- 
ly and  the  Smart  Set,  is  with  his  regiment  in  Man- 
churia. Previous  to  leaving  for  the  front  he  was  en- 
gaged on  a  secret  mission  for  his  Government,  but 
found  time  to  write  two  articles  for  the  great  West- 
ern magazine.  His  experiences  on  the  field  should 
enable  him  to  write  some  good  war  stories  when  the 
trouble  between  Japan  and  Russia  is  settled. 

Alice  MacGowan  Cooke,  a  frequent  contributor 
to  the  Overland  Monthly,  has  written  a  new  book. 
It  is  called  "Huldah."  It  is  a  Southern  story,  and  is 
attracting  considerable  attention  and  large  sales.  Miss 
Cooke  will  have  a  detective  story  in  the  July  number 
of  the  Overland  Monthly. 

Leigh  Gordon  Giltner,  a  bright  and  beautiful  girl 
from  the  blue  grass  slopes  of  Kentucky,  is  another 
who  is  achieving  fame  as  a  writer  in  the  Overland 
Monthly  and  Collier's  Weekly.  She  is  a  prolific 
writer,  with  an  easy  style,  and  is  winning  over  a  large 
constituency  of  readers. 

The  new  management  of  the  Overland  Monthly  is 
making  money  for  the  owners,  and  for  the  first  time 
in  many  years  it  may  be  said  that  this  magazine  is 
making  friends  and  circulation  fast.  Its  capital  is  to 
be  increased,  prosperous  times  are  ahead,  and  a  keen 
and  capable  management  has  demonstrated  that  the 
spirit  of  patriotism  is  never  appealed  to  in  vain  on 
the  Pacific  Coast. 

New  machinery  is  to  be  added  to  the  already  large 
plant,  and  very  soon  changes  will  be  made  that  will 
leave  no  excuse  for  any  Californian  who  fails  to  sub- 
scribe to  the  best  and  the  first  Western  magazine. 

The   Techau    Tavern    is   the    place    to    go    after   the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
is  reasonable. 


Tesla  Briquettes,   the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only  $7.50 

per  ton;  half  ton  \i\  quarter  ton  {2.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th 
and  Channel.    Phone  South  95. 


CAUTION 

The  following  Manufacturers  and  Importers 
are  licensed  under  the  pioneer  patent  Num- 
ber 549,160,  granted  to  George  B.  Selden, 
dated  November  5th,  1895  on 

Gasolene  Automobiles 


In  view  of  their  license  agreement  they  and  their  agents  will 
n«.t  sell,  keep  on  hand  or  in  any  manner  dispose  of  or  deal 
in  directly  or  indirectly  any  unlicensed  new  or  second-hand 
gasolene  vehicles,  infringing  said  Selden  patent. 

MANUFACTURERS: 


Electric  Vehicle  Co. 
Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 
Packard  Motor  Car  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 
Knox  Automobile  Co. 
The  Haynes-Apperson  Co. 
The  Autocar  Co. 
The  George  N.  Pierce  Co. 
Apperson  Bros.  Automobile  Co. 
Locomobile  Co.  of  America 
The  Peerless  Motor  Car  Co. 
Standard  Motor  Construction 

Co. 
Waltham  Manufacturing  Co. 
J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 


H.  H.  Franklin  Mfg.  Co, 


Pope  Motor  Car  Co. 
Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
The  Commercial  Motor  Co. 
Berg  Automobile  Co. 
Cadillac  Automobile  Co. 
Northern  Mfg.  Co. 
Pope-Robinson  Co. 
The  Kirk  Mfg.  Co. 
Elmore  Mfg.  Co. 
E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
Buffalo  Gasolene  Motor  Co. 
The  F.  B.  Stearns  Co. 
Pope  Manufacturing  Co. 
Sandusky  Automobile  Co. 
Crest  Manufacturing  Co. 


IMPORTERS: 


Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
Central  Automobile  Co. 
Alexander  Fisher 
Hollander  &  Tangeman 


Standard  Automobile  Co. 

E.  B.  Gallaher 
Auto  Import  Co. 

F.  A.  LaRoche  Co. 


Sidney  B.  Bowman  Automobile  Co. 

Both  the  basic  Selden  patent  and  more  than  400  other  patents 
owned  by  members  of  this  Association  will  be  enforced  against 
infringers.  Manufacturers,  Importers,  Dealers  and  Agents, 
also  Users  of  unlicensed  machines  are  liable. 


Association  of  Licensed  Automobile  Mfrs. 

No.  7  East  42d  Street,  New  York 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSBN  &  CO.,  13-15-17  W.  St.  John  St.,  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile,  Oldsmobile,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

P.  L.  CRANDALL,  Automobile  Supplies,  Repairing  etc.,  124 
University  Avenue,  Palo  Alto,   Cal. 


SAMUEL   M. 


SHORTRIDGE 

Attomey-at-Law, 
Crocker  Building 


San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


A     To-Let    Sign     and     Other    Things    at    Berkeley 


The  extravaganza  given  by  the  graduating  class 
of  the  University  ot  California  conspicuously  re- 
frained from  pointed  jibes  at  President  Wheeler.  In 
all  the  medley  of  song  and  jest  there  was  not  one 
prickly  remark  aimed  at  the  "1  rexie.  1  he  extrava- 
ganza was  thoroughly  sterilized  by  the  authors  so 
that  it  would  not  leave  a  bad  taste  in  the  t residential 
mouth,  'ihey  were  evidently  mmdiul  01  the  impres- 
sion created  by  last  years  extravaganza,  which  was 
seasoned  with  peppery  comments  on  the  "1  rexie's 
administration,  president  \V  heeler  swallowed  it, 
though,  the  sharp-sighted  could  see  that  some  oi 
the  jests  went  down  with  a  gulp.  But  Airs.  \V  heeler, 
as  she  flounced  out  of  the  amphitheatre,  remarked 
audibly  to  a  group  of  friends:  "They  went  entirely 
too  iar.  It  is  disgracetul  for  the  students  to  take 
such  liberties  with  the  faculty." 

The   extravaganza   collaborators   of  this  year   did 
not  keep  on  their  kid  gloves  when  it  came  to  stu- 
dents' affairs.    One  of  the  hits  of  the  performance  was 
Beatrice  Snow's  mutation  of  Grace  J-lewellan  Jones 
in    "Phedre."     Before   that   French   play   was   given 
in   the   amphitheatre,   the   managers   cast    their   eye 
about  for  some  college  girl  whose  accent  was  not  too 
table  d'hote  to  interpret  the  noble  French  play.  They 
decided  that  there  was  no  one  with  the  proper  com- 
bination   of   pronunciation   and    histrionic   ability    to 
take  the  part,  so  Miss  Jones  was  registered  at  the 
University  as  a  special  student  and  played  the  lead- 
ing role.     Miss  Jones  read  her  lines  very  well,  but 
she  was   handicapped   by   a  desire   to  do   the   thing 
strictly  a  la  Bernhardt,  whom  she  had  seen  many 
times  in  the  part.    She  carried  a  great  deal  of  excess 
baggage  around  her  feet,  and  she  could  not  manage 
the  trailing  yards  of  skirt  as  does  the  divine  Sara. 
Several  times  the  audience  held  its  breath  with  both 
hands  for  fear  "Bhedre"  was  not  going  to  untangle 
herself.    Miss  Snow  wore  the  same  sort  of  tanglefoot 
skirt,  and  her  violent  pitchings  forward  were  screech- 
ingly  funny.     In  the  love  scene  she  decides  not  to 
poison  herself  because   "zere   is   still   Otto   Schultze 
left,"  which  was  only  understood  by  a  few  people  in 
the  audience.     Mr.  Schultze  beat  the  college  record 
last  year  by  proposing  to  six  girls.     He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  P  Si  U  fraternity,  and  very  much  of  a 
ladies'  man,  with  an  India  rubber  heart  that  a  refusal 
scarcely  dented,  judging  from  the  way  he  popped  the 
question  to  one  girl  with  a  refusal  from  another  still 
ringing  in  his  ears.     It  was  the  custom  of  the  girls 
before  whose  feet  he  laid  his  elastic  heart  to  exchange 
notes  with  each  other,  and  in  at  least  four  cases  out 
of  the  six  each  girl  attested  that  when  she  said  "nay, 
nay,"   a  real,   live,   damp   tear-drop  glistened   in    his 
manly  eye.    Rumor  now  has  it  that  Mr.  Schultze  did 
such  queer  cardiac  stunts  with  a  view  toward  gath- 
ering data  for  an  "experience"  love  story  that  would 
throb  like  the  real  tiling.    Three  of  the  girls  to  whom 
he  had  proposed  in  the  space  of  three  weeks  gradu- 
ated this  year,  but  there  are  several  undergraduates 
left   to   tell    innocent    Freshmen    of   the    "great   and 
only"  Schultze,  who  carried  a  "To-Let"  sign  on  his 
heart  that  could  be  read  across  the  campus. 

Of  course  there  was  a  "cherry"  chorus  in  the  ex- 
travaganza that  gave  a  juicy  version  of  Professor 
Moses'  affair  with  the  "Pie  Biters."  It  seems  that 
when  the  angered  Professor  refused  to  talk  to  the 
sorority  girls  on  the  subject,  they  sent  their  "house 


mother"  around  to  demand  an  interview.  A  house 
mother  is  the  lady  who  presides  over  the  sorority 
house  and  keeps  a  motherly  eye  on  the  girls.  The 
Pie  Phi  "house  mother "  is  a  lady  of  spirit,  so  she  de- 
termined to  beard  Professor  Moses  in  his  den  and 
show  proof  that  her  girls  had  a  real  estate  agent's 
permission  to  pluck  the  blossoms.  Professor  Moses 
was  not  at  home  when  the  lady  called,  but  he  sent 
a  note  to  the  "frat"  house,  saying  he  had  found  her 
card,  and  would  accept  the  apology  offered  by  the 
girls.  As  the  young  ladies  did  not  intend  the  house 
mother's  visit  in  the  nature  of  an  apology,  they  s^-nt 
word  to  that  effect  to  the  wily  Moses,  who  sent  back 
the  maddening  retort  that  he  had  accepted  the  girl's 
apology,  and  would  consider  the  matter  closed!  As 
the  "Pie  Biters"  believe  he  is  the  one  who  owes  an 
apology,  the  situation  is  not  without  humor. 

It  was  interesting  to  note  the  effect  of  Professor 
Moses'  remarks  at  the  alumni  luncheon.  When  the 
learned  gentleman  scoffed  at  the  "Florodora"  tone, 
as  he  styled  it,  which  the  co-eds.  have  given  college, 
the  waitresses  almost  went  on  a  strike.  They  were 
representative  college  girls  who  had  been  chosen  to 
wait  on  the  "old  grads,"  and  very  prettily  they  per- 
formed the  service.  Even  those  who  are  not  enthu- 
siastic about  co-education  thought  Professor  Moses' 
remark  in  very  bad  taste  at  that  time  and  place,  and 
not  a  few  voiced  their  sentiments  sotto  voce  to  the 
piqued  waitresses,  which  put  them  into  good  humor 
at  once.  A  gray-beard  regent  called  one  of  the  young 
ladies  serving  at  the  Moses  table  to  his  side,  and 
whispered :  "Give  Professor  Moses  an  extra  lump 
of  sugar  in  his  coffee — it  may  help  the  ache  in  his 
temper."  The  Florodora  faux  pas  has  convinced 
every  one  that  the  Moses  disposition  needs  sugar- 
coating. 

The  Infant 
ta'Kes  first  to  human  milk;  that  failing,  the  mother  turns 
at  once  to  cow's  milk  as  the  best  substitute.  Borden's 
Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  a  cow's  milk  scientifically 
adaDted  to  the  human  Infant  Stood  first  for  forty  five 
years. 


Wedding  and  Birthday  presents  in  great  variety  at  G"mp'p.ll3  Geary  Bt- 


'^^£t^r>. 


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Something  unique  happened  in  Bohemia  one  even- 

<-ck.     A  company  of  artists,  known  in  the 

and  other  clnhs  as  the  "fuzzy  bunch,"  gave 

dinner  in  one  of  the  commodious  studios 

'ill  II.  Irwin.  Sunday  editor  of  the  Chronicle, 

.1  few  weeks  to  take  a  position  of  im- 

•ice  on  ..no  of  the  New  York  papers. 

All  but  one  invitol  to  the  spread  appeared  on  time. 
Then  lite  wait,  and  then,  when  it  was  known 

that  there  would  he  a  "vacant  chair"  at  the  table, 
the  hosts  had  a  long  consultation  as  to  the  probabil- 
ity of  getting  some  one  to  'fill  in."  finally,  it  was 
]  that  a  committee  should  go  out  on  the  street 
and  find  a  "real  Bohemian" — a  hobo.  The  quest 
resulted  in  the  finding  of  one  Thomas  Moran,  who 
liked  the  idea  of  a  good  dinner  with  good  fellows, 
but  who  hesitated  before  accepting  the  unusual  "bid." 
He  was  not  at  all  sure  that  he  was  not  walking  into 
a  trap. 

"What's  your  game?"  he  asked.  He  was  assured 
that  he  was  quite  safe,  and  that  he  could  count  him- 
self in  the  hands  of  his  friends. 

Quite  ceremoniously,  Moran  was  brought  to  the 
studio  and  treated  with  all  honor,  his  sponsors  pass- 
ing the  word  around  that  there  must  be  no  joshing; 
that  Mr.  Moran  must  be  taken  quite  seriously.  The 
strange  guest  at  the  feast  looked  around  furtively  as 
he  ate  the  tempting  "goodies"  and  "substantial. "  It 
seemed  to  require  more  courage  on  his  part  to  drink 
than  to  eat.  He  looked  most  apprehensively  at  the 
"Dago  red,"  his  face  showing  plainly  that  he  was  not 
altogether  sure  that  the  seductive  viand  was  not 
loaded  with  knock-out  drops.  The  second  glass  of 
wine  went  easier,  and  Thomas  Moran  began  to  mel- 
low. When  stories  were  in  order,  he  added  his  pro 
rata  of  "experience"  stories,  to  the  keen  delight  of 
the  "fuzzy  bunch." 

The  jinks  came  in  due  order.  A  mock  trial  was 
proposed,  but  the  guest  of  honor,  Bill  Irwin,  said 
that  he  would  not  "play"  unless  Moran  would  con- 
sent to  act  as  judge.  By  that  time  the  suspicious 
hobo  had  not  a  suspicion  left,  and  he  agreed  to  play 
the  role.  The  trial  went  on  with  fine  spirit,  and  it 
was  not  long  before  every  one  present  knew  that  there 
was  nothing  about  police  court  procedure  that 
"Judge  Moran"  did  not  know.  Every  one  had  a  right 
to  his  "inferences"  about  the  wisdom  of  Moran  in 
Police  Court  lore. 

At  any  rate  the  evening,  like  all  good  things  in 
life,  came  to  an  end,  but  of  one  thing  the  artists  were 
sure  that  they  would  not  soon  forget  their  experience 
with  Moran.  On  the  other  hand  they  are  equally 
positive  that  Moran  will  not  soon  forget  his  unex- 
pected "square." 

*  *  * 

An  amusing  story  is  going  the  rounds  just  now 
in  theatrical  circles.  One  of  the  four  typewriter  girls 
playing  at  the  Orpheum  was  dreadfully  annoyed  by 
the  abuse  of  a  certain  local  critic.  This  was  the  mes- 
sage she  sent  to  him : 

"Please  say  to  that  man  that  I  think  it  is  very  un- 
kind of  him  to  try  to  take  the  bread  and  butter  out  of 
my  mouth  when  I  have  four  children  and  a  husband, 
who  is  a  dramatic  critic,  to  support. 

Mr.  Martin  Braun,  masseur,  has  taken  office  rooms 
at  the  Wenban,  606  Sutter  street.  The  public  is  cor- 
dially invited  to  inspect  his  method.  Mr.  Braun  is 
a  regular  graduate  of  the  Imperial  University  Hos- 
pital of  Vienna. 


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The  Santa  Cruz  Convention  still  continues  to  be  a 
subject  of  discussion  in  political  circles,  although 
the  aftermath  results  will  probably  not  be  apparent 
until  the  August  primaries  and  the  September  nomi- 
nations. The  Democrats  have  had  rows  before,  and 
if  their  party  continues  to  exist,  they  will  probably 
have  them  again,  but  the  row  which  culminated  with 
the  endorsement  of  Hearst  at  Santa  Cruz  is  different 
from  any  of  those  which  preceded  it.  To  the  Con- 
servative element  in  the  party  it  seems  as  though 
they  have  reached  the  parting  of  the  ways,  and  as  one 
of  the  most  conspicuous  members  of  the  antis  said 
to  me:  "We  might  as  well  fight  it  out  to  an  end  now 
as  later.  There  is  no  chance  of  us  carrying  this  State 
this  year,  and  if  the  Democratic  candidate  comes 
within  ten  votes  of  a  nomination  he  will  win,  because 
he  will  carry  enough  States  to  be  able  to  lose  Califor- 
,  nia.  It  is  impossible  for  us  to  win  with  Hearst  on 
our  back  out  here,  and  we  must  turn  him  down  all 
along  the  line,  and  let  him  flock  by  himself  if  he  will 
not  be  true  to  the  party."  To  this  man,  as  to  many 
of  the  old-timers,  it  seems  as  though  the  party  in  en- 
dorsing Hearst  had  endorsed  party  treason,  disloyalty 
to  its  nominees,  has  slurred  the  memory  of  Stephen 
M.  White,  and  had  repudiated  all  its  best  traditions. 
White's  brother  was  present  at  Santa  Cruz,  and  al- 
though he  was  not  a  delegate,  he  was  offered  a  proxy, 
and  was  strongly  urged  to  go  on  the  stage  and  ad- 
dress the  convention.  He  bears  a  striking  resem- 
blance to  the  late  Senator,  and  it  was  thought  he 
would  have  rallied  all  the  admirers  of  Stephen  around 
him,  and  that  he  would  have  put  himself  in  line  to  be 
nominated  for  Governor  two  years  from  now.  The 
Watsonville  people,  irrespective  of  party,  hoped  Ed. 
White  would  carry  out  that  programme,  but  in  the 
first  place  he  is  a  very  quiet,  retiring  man,  and  in  the 
second  he  felt  a  delicacy  in  trading,  as  it  were,  on 
his  relationship  to  the  Senator.  To  one  of  his  friends 
he  said:  "I  declined  to  be  a  delegate  because  I  did 
not  think  it  would  be  good  taste  for  me  to  go.  If  I 
had  voted  against  the  Hearst  resolutions  it  would 
have  been  called  a  case  of  petty  spite — if  I  had  voted 
for  them,  I  would  have  been  endorsing  all  the  things 
Hearst  said  of  my  brother.  I  preferred,  therefore, 
to  keep  out  entirely." 

So  far  as  I  can  judge  from  talking  to  a  number  of 
prominent  Democrats,  the  programme  is  to  ignore 
the  Tarpey  crowd  entirely  in  making  legislative  nomi- 
nations this  summer,  and  to  let  the  Examiner  support 
them  or  not,  as  it  chooses.  Notwithstanding  the  re- 
cent interviews  of  Hearst  declaring  in  Delphian  lan- 
guage that  he  will  support  the  ticket,  to  be  nominated 
at  St.  Louis,  it  is  the  general  opinion  among  his  op- 
ponents that  he  will  not,  and  I  think  they  rather  hope 
he  will  not,  so  that  once  for  all  they  can  read  him 
out  of  the  party. 

If  the  Republicans  had  striven  to  emphasize  their 
harmony  they  could  not  have  done  it  better  than 
by  the  delegates  at  large  whom  they  nominated  to 
go  to  Chicago,  and  the  alternates  who  are  to  accom- 
pany them.  The  Governor,  of  course,  represents  his 
wing  of  the  party,  just  as  Judge  McKinley  represents 
the  Gage  wing,  and  every  one  knows  how  those  two 
factions  have  loved  each  other  in  the  past.  Then 
there  is  John  D.  Spreckels,  who  was  intensely  anti- 
Gage  and  anti-Burns;  then  there  is  Ruef,  who  ran 
an  independent  candidate  for  Mayor,  and  Spreckels 
and  Knight,  who  supported  the  regular  ticket,  and 
Rule,  of  Los  Angeles,'  who  represents  the  Bulla  anti- 
McKinley  wing  of  the  party  in  the  southern  metropo- 


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29 


\nothcr  interesting  delegate  is  Josepn  Steffens, 

-.icramcnto  banker  an.!  trustee  of  the  State  Li- 
the father  of  Lincoln  SteffenS,  whose 
articles  in  McClure's  on  political  corruption* in  cities 
have  attracted  s>>  much  attention.     Frank  Short,  who 
wants  to  t>e  Governor,  goes  as  a  district  delegate 
from   Fresno,  and  Mose  Gunsl  recalls  the  Colonel 
Pan  Burns  regime  as  a  delegate  from  this  city,  but 
•he  only  one  of  the  old  Burns  crowd  on  the  list. 
If  the  delegates  are  any  indication  of  the  feeling  in 
the  party,  and  they  ought  to  be  a  very  safe  barometer 
by,  the  G.  <  >.  P.  is  spelling  harmony  this  year 
with  a  capital   H. 

I  am  told  that  George  Knight  is  to  make  a  speech 
Seconding    the    nomination    of    Roosevelt,    and    that 

Delmas  was  especially  selected  to  perform  the  same 
office  for  Hearst,  so  California  will  be  well  up  the  line 
in  oratory.  By  the  way.  there  is  some  question  as  to 
whether  Hearst  shall  pose  as  of  New  York  or  of  Cali- 
fornia. It  was  originally  proposed  to  have  him  hail 
from  Xew  York,  but  I  understand  that  some  of  his 
advisors  think  that  a  bad  plan,  as  the  New  York  dele- 
gation is  instructed  for  Parker,  and  Hearst  would  be 
put  in  the  position  of  not  having  a  vote  from  his 
own  State.  Now.  however,  that  he  has  the  California 
delegation  in  his  pocket,  it  is  thought  it  would  be 
wiser  to  have  his  nomination  come  from  this  State, 
and  in  that  case  Delmas  may  be  asked  to  make  the 
nomination  speech  instead  of  the  seconding.  This, 
however,  I  understand,  has  not  yet  been  definitely 
settled. 

Will  Green  of  the  Colusa  Sun,  in  answer  to  a  cor- 
respondent who  asks  if  he  will  support  the  nomina- 
tion of  Hearst,  says  that  if  nominated  he  will  give 
Hearst  "that  full  measure  of  support  that  he  has 
given  the  Democratic  party  of  California."  It  is 
evident  that  the  Sun  will  not  contain  much  political 
news  next  summer  if  Hearst  is  nominated  at  St. 
Louis.  It  is  announced  that  Livernash  has  changed 
his  mind  and  will  be  a  candidate  for  Congress  in  the 
district  he  at  present  occupies.  The  result  of  the 
announcement  has  made  the  nomination  seem  more 
desirable  than  even  on  the  Republican  ticket,  and 
Tom  Reardon,  Jules  Kahn  and  others  are  all  trying 
to  secure  the  prize.  I  may  mention,  however,  that 
I  have  it  from  very  good  Democratic  authority  that 
Livernash  will  have  no  easy  thing  to  secure  the 
re-nomination,  and  that  McNab,  among  others,  will 
see  that  he  stays  at  home,  where  his  nervous  system 
can  recuperate.  Wynn  is  going  to  have  the  fight  of 
his  life  to  get  a  re-nomination,  too,  and  from  pres- 
ent appearances  he,  too,  will  be  allowed  to  save  his 
campaign  expenses. 

Dust    soon   disfigures   your   summer   clothes.     It   Is 

necessary  now  to  find  some  place  where  the  damage  may 
be  repaired  and  an  expensive  suit  saved.  Appearances 
are  everything,  and  Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing 
Works,  127  Stockton  street  will  help  you  to  keep  them  up. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  cravats,  curtains  and  such  articles. 
Goods  called  for  and  delivered  promptly. 


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GOT   INTO   THE   WRONG 
ROOM. 

A  muscular  Irishman  strolled 
into  the  civil  service  examination 
room  in  the  city  hall,  where  candi- 
dates for  the  police  force  are  put 
to  a  physical  test. 

"Strip,"  ordered  Mr.  Angney. 
police  surgeon. 

"What's  that?"  answered  the  un- 
itritiatedT 

"Get  your  clothes  off;  be  quick 
about  it,"  said  the  doctor. 

The  Irishman  disrobed  and  per- 
mitted the  doctor  to  measure  his 
chest  and  legs  and  pound  his  back. 

"Hop  over  this  bar."  ordered  the 
doctor. 

The  man  did  his  best,  landing  on 
his  back. 

"Now  double  your  knees  and 
touch  the  floor  with  your  hands." 
He  sprawled,  face  downward  on 
the  floor.  He  was  indignant,  but 
kept  silent. 

"Jump  under  the  cold  shower," 
ordered  the  doctor. 

"Sure,  that's  funny,"  muttered 
the  applicant. 

"Now,  run  around  the  room  ten 
times  to  test  your  heart  and  wind," 
directed   the   doctor. 

The  candidate  rebelled. 

"I'll  not.     I'll  stay  single." 

The  doctor  looked  surprised. 

"What's  more,"  continued  the 
Irishman,  "I  don't  see  what  all  this 
hissing's  got  to  do  with  a  marriage 
license." 

He  had  strayed  into  the  wrong 
bureau.  Later  he  got  a  license, 
giving  the  name  of  Joseph  Mc- 
Glynn. — Philadelphia  Corespond- 
ent in  Milwaukee.  Wisconsin. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

HIS  HUGE  HEAD. 
"I  reckon,  my  friend,"  began  a 
somewhat  moss-grown,  but  emi- 
nently astute  candidate  for  the  Ar- 
kansas legislature,  addressing  an 
outpouring  of  the  toiling  masses 
Oi  Izzard  County,  "that  everything 
that  was  worth  sayin' — and  con- 
siderable more,  too — about  the 
tariff  and  silver  and  the  inicker- 
tous  trusts,  and  all  such  as  that, 
was  said  before  I  broke  into  the 
political  areny.  so  I'll  just  remark 
that  if  I  am  elected  I'll  be  too  busy 
attendin'  to  my  duties  to  do  more 
than  come  back  here  after  a  spell 
and  make  you-all  a  sort  of  speech 
of  thanks:  but  if  I  ain't  elected  I'll 
have  plenty  of  time  to  make  vou 
two  long  speeches,  and  mebby 
more,  and  kiss  all  the  babies,  and 
otherwise  prepare  the  way  for  be- 
ing elected  the  next  time.  That 
is  all  I've  got  to  say  at  present,  ex- 
cept that  T  am  in  your  hands  from 
this  time  forth,  and  the  keg  is  over 
yonder  in  Plunk  Sagg's  barn  right 
now.  A  word  to  the  wise  is,  or 
ort  to  be,  sufficient."  It  is  almost 
redundant  to  add  that  this  broad- 
minded  patriot  was  at  election  time 
rushed  into  the  office  he  craved, 
with  all  the  whoop  and  eclat  of  a 
cattle  stampede. — Puck. 


May  28,  1904. 


"Well,  that  dear  old  lady  who 
kept  the  boarding  house  around  the 
corner  has  quit.  She  lost  from  the 
start."  "I  knew  she  would  when 
I  discovered  that  she  put  real  meat 
in  her  hash  and  used  fruit  that  ac- 
tually grew  on  trees  and  bushes. 
I  presume  that  honesty  continues 
to  be  the  best  policy,  but  it  calls 
for  surplus  funds  in   these  days." 


Cholly — Oh,  no!  The  widow  is 
not  handsome.  Ferdy — But  is  she 
interesting?  Cholly  —  Deucedly 
so — to  a  chap  as  heavily  in  debt  as 
I  am. 


SOZODONT 

Pretty  Teeth  In  a  Good  Mouth 

are  like  jewels  well  set.  Oar  best  men 
and  %romen  hav«  made  Sozodont  the 
Standard, 

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Gladys— That  Mrs.  Talkmuch  al- 
ways gets  in  the  last  word.  Elsie 
— Except  when  she's  talking  to 
another  woman. 


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AN  ILLUSTRATED  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  WEST 

JUNE,  1904  I 

CONTENTS: 

The  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition.  .By  an  Architect 437 

The   Battle-ship   in   Action J.  Olivier  Curwood 444 

Sutter  8691   Lucy   Baker   Jerome 450 

Old  Tauquitz Helen  Lukens  Jones   455 

The  Plaint  of  the  Passing  Peoples.  .Vincent   Harper    463 

Curious  Houses  of  San  Francisco.  .J.   M.   Scanland   470 

Early  California  Journalism   David  E.  Gordon    476 

Taking  the  Census  in  Alaska Guy  N.  Stockslager   • • -479 

Success  and  the  Schoolmaster   ....  Austin    Lewis 488 

In  the  Valley  of  the  Yukon   Elizabeth   Florence   Gray   49* 

The  Irreverent  Guy Edna  A.   Daniels    50a 

The  Dangers  of  Unionism Guy  Raymond  Halifax 504 

The  American  Silk- Worn  Moth    ..Ellen  Robertson  Miller  51° 

Book  Lore    P.  N.  Beringer  and  staff 51a 

On  Watch    Captain  C.  M.  Scammon  516 

Mediator's  Salvation   Charles  Ellis  Newell  5'7 


May  a8.  1904. 

"N  11  want  tc  know 
how  to  get  my  lamp- 
chimneys. 

(1)  Your  grocer  sells 
them,  if  he  is  hi  to  be 
your  grocer;  may  be 
he  don't. 

(2)  It  you'll  write 
me,  I'll  send  you  my 
Index;  that  tells  every- 
thing. 

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TWOMEY    *    MIH0L0V1CH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel,  Main  mi 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

"COPPERED"  THE  PROPHET. 
This  is  a  story  .1  weather  alma- 
nac prophet,  who  may   be  called 
Thompson,  tells  on  himself.  While 

recently  visiting  a  Jersey  town  he 
went  into  a  store  to  buy  a  cigar. 
lie  made  his  purchase  and  was 
about  to  leave  the  store  when  the 
proprietor  remarked  1 

"It's  a  pity  you  have  no  umbrella 
for  it's  going  to  rain   soon." 

"1  think  you  are  wrong  in  your 
prediction,"  replied  Thompson. 
"It  looks  like  fine  weather  to  me." 

"Well,"  said  the  cigar  store  man, 
"I'll  bet  a  dollar  it  will  rain  before 
noon.'' 

"Very  good.  I'll  call  in  again 
to-day  and  collect,"  said  Thomp- 
son. After  leaving  the  store  he 
had  gone  only  a  few  blocks  when 
he  was  well  drenched  by  a  sudden 
shower.  Thompson  was  struck  by 
the  mart's  prediction,  and  being 
always  intent  on  the  interest  of 
his  almanac  he  went  back  to  the 
store  and  was  received  by  the  pro- 
prietor with  a  broad  grin. 

"You  see,  I  was  right,  after  all." 

"Yes,"  admitted  Thompson. 
"Here's  your  dollar,  and  I'll  give 
you  another  if  you  tell  me  how  you 
knew  of  this   rain." 

"Why,  the  truth  is,  I  have  an  al- 
manac called  Thompson's  Alma- 
nac, and  the  fellow  is  such  a  no- 
torious liar  that  whenever  he  pre- 
dicts a  fine  day  I  always  know  it 
will  be  the  exact  opposite.  I  looked 
at  the  almanac  early  this  morning 
and  prepared  for  rain." — New  York 
Press. 


"If  any  one  says  anything 
wrong  it  is  proper  to  make  him 
take  it  back,  isn't  it?"  she  asked. 
"Why,  yes,"  answered  the  old  gen- 
tleman, without  looking  tip  from 
his  paper.  "And  if  he  does  any- 
thing wrong,  you  should  make  him- 
take  that  back,  too?"  "Why,  of 
course,  you — What's  that?"  sud- 
denly waking  up.  "Well,  Jack 
kissed  me  and  I  made  him  take  it 
back."  "Take  what  back?"  "The 
kiss,  because  it  was  wrong."  "Oh, 
you  did!"  "Yes.  And  I  never 
"knew  such  a  persistent  wrong-doer 
as  he  has  been  since  that  time." 

Mrs.  Madjson — Your  new  maid 
appears  to  be.  rather  refined.  Mrs. 
Parkweste — Yes,  she's  a  little  out 
of  the  common.  She  never  breaks 
anything  but  the  costliest  cut-glass 
and  the  choicest  Dresden. 


31 

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your  choice- 
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Mrs.  Peeks — Well,  I  never 
thought  the  landlady  -would  en- 
courage her  voting  boarders  to 
keep  late  hours.  What  does  she 
mean  by  it.  Mr.  Peeks — Sh !  She 
has  discovered  that  young  men 
who  keep  late  hours  don't  eat  any 
breakfast. 


HAND 
SAPOLIO 

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He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
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years. 

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3» 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


<|jR> 


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Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
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"How  do  you  like  the  way  they 
are  playing  that  symphony?"  "It's 
perfect."  "Then  what  are  you  look- 
ing so  bored  about?"  "I  have  got 
to  go  and  write  a  criticism  of  the 
blamed  thing." 


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partment bleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
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without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  coo  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
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Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

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y^f  H^\        Tralm  leaTe  and  ar*  <lu»- 
-,'0Jr<TTT>^«  >.  t  o  arrl  v«  at 

l^L^^Sz  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

1  "A,    *5=T'"7# *  /  Fbom  Mat  15,  1901 
\^\  J      \   /  yJJ 

w^^iy  Firry  Dxpot 

^•^C  lj^  (Foot  of  Market  Street  / 

,*av»   -         MAIN    LINE.        -a"bTi77 

700*    Vacavilk\  Winters.  Ruirtaey 7  B0p 

7  .03*  Benlcla,  SuIbqu.  Elmlrm  and  Sacra- 
mento          7  20r 

7.30a  Vallejo.    Napa.     Callstoga,    Santa 

Kosa, -Martinez,  Sun  Humon 6.20' 

?  30*   Nlles,  LIvermore,  Tracy,  Lathrop. 

Btockion 7.20'- 

P.OOa  Shasta  Express—  (Via  Davis), 
Williams  (for  Bartlett  Springs), 
Willows.  tFruto.  Ked  Itlaft 
Portland,  Tacoma,   Seattle 7-50 

I   00*    Davis.  Woodland,  Knlgbts  Lauding. 

Maryevllle.  Orovllle 7-60 

f  30a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antlocb, 
Byron.  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man. Los  llanos.  Mendota, 
Armona,  Han  Turd.  Visa)  la, 
Port«rvllle 4.?0 

'  30a  Port  CoBta,  Lathrop.  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion, Han  ford,  Vlsalla.  Bakers- 
fleld 450 

1  30a  Nlles,  San  Jose,  LIvermore.  Stock- 
ton, m  Milton),  lone.  Sacramento, 
Pin.  •  ville.  Marysvllle,  Chlco, 
Bod  muff 420 

i  30*  Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  So- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.20' 

9  00*    Atlantic  Express— Ogdun  and  East.    11.20 

9.30a  Richmond,    Martinez     and      Way 

Stations 6  50 

iOOOa  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago. B.20 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.20' 

10.00a  Los  Angeles  PasBi-nger  —  Port 
CoBta.  Martinez,  Byruu.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced. 
Raymond,  Fresno,  Goeb^n  Junc- 
tion, llanford,  Lemoore,  Vlsalla. 

Bakorefleld,  Lob  Angeles 7-20' 

1200m  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3  20< 
I1.00F  Sacrrtim-n to  River  Stnainrm Ml.OOi- 

3.30P  Benlcla,  Winters.  Sacramento, 
Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
stations 1050* 

f.SQr  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7.B0p 

3  30p  Port      Costa,      Martinez.      Byron, 

Tracy,  Lathrop,  Modesto, 
Merced,  Berenda,  Fresno  and 
Way  St-itlons  beyond  Port  Costa  12  20c 

3-30>  Tout-mite  Valley,  via  Berenda  and 

Wawona 8.60a 

336>   Martinez. Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl...    10  20* 

4  00p  Mart  Inez,  San  Itamon.  Vallejo,  Napa, 

Calltitoga.  Santa  I  town 9  20* 

4  00p   Nlles,  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl 4-20p 

430p  Hayward.   Nlles.   Irvlngton,  Ban  I     16.50* 

Jose.  LIvermore )  I1 1.50* 

E00p  The  Owl  Limited— Newin^o.  Los 
Banus.  Mendota.  Fresno.  Tulare. 

BakersOeid.  Los  Angeles 8-50* 

b.OOf   Fort  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton 12.20V 

f5  30)'   Hay  ward,  Nllea  and  Sun  Jose 720  * 

6.00V   Hayward,  Nlles  and  Sau  Jose 9-50* 

B.00p  Eastern  Express— Ogden.  Denver. 
Omaba,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul- 
buq,  Kimira,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Bockllo.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckce,  Boca,    Keno,  Wads- 

wortb,  Wlnnetnucca 6.20' 

6. OOp   Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday... .  I      ,  --„ 

7  00p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  60P 

7.00p  HIcbmond.  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations.. 11.20a 

7  00p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Muryavllle,    Redding, 
Portlmid,  I'ugei  Sound  and  East.     8-50a 
8.0BP  Reno  l*a*Benger  —  Truckee,   Lake 

Tnh  e 7.60a 

9.1  Op  Bay  ward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Son- 
day  only  i 11.60  l 


COAST    LINE 

(Narrow  Gauge) 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

746a.  SantaCmzExcurslon(SundayonIy>     8-10p 
8  16*   Newark,    Oentervllle.    San     Job©, 
Feltoo.    Bouluer     Creek.    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 555'- 

)2-16p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatoi.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Crua  and 

Principal  Way  Stations   t10  55  . 

4.16p  Newark.  Sau  Jose,  LosGatos  and  j     t8.65  » 
stulona 1  tlO  66a 


COAST    LINE    (Hroad  Gauge). 

%W  (Third  and  TowiiMeud  Streets.) 

6-10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  30r 

7  00a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations ,       5  40 

7.16a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excar- 

slon  (Sunday  only) 1030p 

8.u0a  New  Almaden  (Tuee.,  Frld.,  only),     4.10p 

8  00a  The  Coaster — Stops  only  Sar>  Jose, 

Gllroy  (connection  for  Hollla- 
ter),  Pajaro,  Castrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Paclnc  Grove),  Salinas.  Sao 
Ardo,  Paso  Rubles,  Santa  Mar 
farlia.  San  LuIb  Obispo,  principal 
statloDB  tbence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc).  principal  etatlnas 
thence  Santa  Barbara,  Sun  Buena- 
Tentura,  Burbank.  Los  Angeles  .  10-45' 
9.00a  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capitols, 
San  ta  Cruz,  Pad  QcOrove,  Salinas. 
San  LuIb  Obispo  and    Principal 

Way  Stations  ....'. 4.1 0> 

•  0.30a   San  Joae  and  Way  Stations 1.20P 

il  30a  Santa  Clara,    ban   .luce.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Station*         7.3Qr 

1-30P  San  Jose  and  Way  Stallona 8  36' 

3  00p  Del  Monte  Kxprcss— Santa  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Orove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara,  except  Sunday,  for  Santa 
Cruz.  Boulder  Creek  and  Narrow 
Gauge  Points)  at  Gllroy  for  Hol- 
llster,  Tres  Plnos.  at  Pajaro  for 
Santa  Crua,    at   Castrovllle    for 

Salinas 12-15- 

3-30p  TreB  Plnos  Way  Passenger 10  45a 

430p  Ran  Jose  and  Way  Stations 18.00* 

'5  00'  Santa  Clara.  Ban  Jose,  Loa  Gatos, 
and  principal  Way  Stations  (ex- 
cept 6unday) tS  00* 

(5  30p  San  Jose  and  PrlnclpalWay  Stations  1940* 
646*'  BnnBet  Limited.— Redwo>  d.  San 
Jose,  Gllroy,  Sallnas.PasoKoblea, 
San  Luis  Obispo.  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  AngeleB.  Deinlng.  El  Paso. 
New  Orleans,  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crux 
and    at    Castrovtlla   for    Pacific 

Orove  and  Way  Stations 7  10  - 

'6  16p  EanMateo.Bereafor  I.BelmoocSan 
Carloa,     Redwood.     Fair     Oak  a. 

Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto t8.48* 

6  30p  Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  38a 

800p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10.16a 

11  .30p  South  San  Francisco.  Mlllhrae.  Bnr- 
llngame.  San  Mateo,  Belmont, 
San  Carloa,  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Menlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 9.45> 

11-30P  Mayfield,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
rale,  Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

San  Jose t9-45i 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon 

i  Sunday  excepted  t  Sonday  only 

a  Saturday  only. 
|  Stops  at  all  statlona  on  Sunday. 
idT"Only  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  Boatnbouod 
dreb:10A.M..  7:00  a.m..  7:1S  a.m.,  11:3Ua.M..  8:30p.M., 
6:30  p.m.  and  8:00p.m. 

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33 


Uhe     Band     at     Santa     Cruz 


"Music  hath  charms,"  and   Santa  Cruz 

Finds  martial  music  charming, 
But  some  there  arc  who  cann  >t  choose 

But  find  it  most  alarming. 
They  have  no  car  lor  what  is  sweet, 

for  what  is  grand  ; 
They  fall  and  faint,  if  they  chance  to  meet 
A   good   non-union   hand. 

Thus    the    party    Democratic. 

Or  the  part  of  it  called   Hearst ; 
With   a   craze   that's   quite   fanatic, 

Is  indubitably  cursed. 
Morality  is  thrown  aside 

And   viciousness   is  fanned. 
Esthetic  sense  is  satisfied 
With  a  common  union  band. 

Sousa  may  march,  for  all  they  care; 

Wagner  may  sow  his  discords, 
DeKoven's  music  pierce  the  air. 

They  have  no  joy  in  his  chords. 
They  block  their  ears  against  the  sound — ■ 

'1  hey  wander  round  the  stand, 
And  howl  their  rage  and  fear  profound 
At  a  good  non-union  band. 

For  the  gentleman  called  Tarpey, 
With  his  manner  most  benign, 
Has  the  genius  of  a  harpey 

Who  turned  honest  men  to  swine, 
And  Mr.  Camminetti, 

With  his  ever-gladsome  hand, 
Is  a  trifle  less  than  petty 

Towards,  a  good  non-union  band. 

And  Hearst  may  fret,  and  Hearst  may  fume, 

The  matter's  plainer  growing — 
We  can't  afford  to  push  the  boom 

Of  those  who  make  such  showing. 
A  coward  lot  who  fear  to  say 

And  show  for  what  they  stand — 
A  paltry  crowd  that  sends  away 
A  good  non-union  band. 

Thus  the  party  Democratic 

Plays  a  most  ignoble  game, 
And  its  glad  foes  are  ecstatic 

To  see  it  play  the  same. 
And  we  ask,  no  other  feeling 

Than   the  kindest,  understand, 
Why  the  men  that  wink  at  stealing 
Should   be    outraged   at   a   band. 

—Roland  Whittle. 


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Saturday  to  Monday  next  cannot  do  better  than  to 
investigate  the  attractions  of  the  country  along  the 
North  Shore.  The  Lagunitas,  Paper  Mill,  Tomales 
Bay,  Russian  River  and  tributary  streams  furnish 
many  delightful  nooks  wherein  to  idle  away  the  vaca- 
tion days.  On  Saturday,  May  28th,  trains  via  Sau- 
salito  Ferry  leave  San  Francisco  at  7 145  a.  m.  and  3.15 
p.  m.  for  Cazadero,  with  additional  trains  at  5.15  for 
Pt.  Reyes,  Camp  Taylor,  etc. ;  on  Sunday,  May  29th, 
trains  leave  at  7.45  a.  m.  for  Cazadero  and  9.15  a.  m. 
for  Pt.  Reyes,  etc;  Decoration  Day,  7.45  a.  m.  and  8.15 
p.  m.  for  Cazadero;  9:15  a.  m.  and  7.15  p.  m.  for  Pt. 
Reyes.  The  suburban  trains  run  on  Sunday  schedule 
on  May  30th.  For  list  of  hotels,  camp  grounds,  cot- 
tages and  cabins,  fishing  and  hunting  grounds,  etc., 
inquire  ticket  office,  626  Market  street. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  28,  1904. 


AT  BEDTIME. 

By  Phoebe  LyiJi'  ill   Lipptneotl '« 

The  oak  tree  spreads  his  mighty  boughs 

Above  me  where  I  lie, 
The  sleepy  flowers  kiss  my  cheek, 

The   wandering   wind   goes   by. 

Amid  a  shadowy  mist  of  leaves 

The   shining  stars  are  set ; 
I  wish  that  I  could  pluck  off  one, 

Just  like  a  violet. 

If  I   were  tall  enough  to   reach 

Beyond  the   robin's  nest, 
I'd  steal  a  little  baby  star 

And  wear  it  on  my  breast. 


HEIMWEH. 
By  Helen  T.  Churchill  in  Woman's  Home  Companion 
The  skies  are  blue,  they  say ; 

Alas!   for  me 
The  skies  are   leaden-gray ; 
I  naught  can  see 
Of  azure  tint  or  golden    sunbeam   bright 
O'er    all   the    landscape — dreary,    hopeless    night. 

And  scenes  are  fair.  I'm  told, 

And   hearts  are   gay ; 
The  fairest  1  behold 
As  vain  display ; 
And  loathing,  turn  where  others  laugh  and  sing. 
Sad.  sick  at  heart — a  hopeless,  wounded   tiling. 

One   spot   alone   on   earth 

Is   fair   to   me — 
There    centers   all    the    mirth, 
There  I  would  be. 
There,  only  there,  God's  sunlight  pierces  thro', 
And  all  the  heaven  paints  with  stainless  blue. 

You  praise  this  land  as  fair, 
Its   streams,   its   bow'rs ; 
The  common  weeds   were  there 
As  rarest  flow'rs — 
The  fields  Elysian.     Ah!  why  should  we  roam? 
One  spot  alone  enchants — we  call  it  home! 


ON  A  PORTRAIT  OF  THE  YOUNG  TOLSTOI. 
By  Cecilia  Beaux  in  Century 

Grave  soldier,  molded  in  the  lines  of  youth — 
Young  prophet,  rich  in  all  the  fruits  of  age : 
No  crimson  wine  of  manhood  could  assuage 
The  famine  in  thy  burning  heart  for  Truth. 

Thy  hunger  fed  on  dreams  of  human  ruth  : 
Of   Pity  nurtured   in   a  lion's  cage; 
Of  Princes,  won  to  earn  a  yeoman's  wage. 
And  Honor  guarded  by  a  hand  uncouth. 

Thy  thought  within  thy  beauty  lifts  its  power 
From  eloquence  to  triumph,  in  thy  face; 
In  dual  potency  the  herald  hour 

Of  conquering  wisdom,  garlanded  by  grace: 
Thy  voice  the  thunder  of  a  nation's  cries, 
But  gentle  as  a  little  maid's  replies. 


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found  at  110-112  MARKET  STREET,  where  you  will 
And  the  finest  and  largest  stock  of  everything  for  the 
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June  4,  1904. 


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Building),  and  Tibjron  Ferry  foot  of  Market  Street;  General 
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Number  23. 


SCO  NEWS  LETTER  Is  prints  and  published 
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Russia  continues  to  blame  her  sister  nations  for 
imt  compelling  Japan  to  rest  between  rounds. 

The  Hearst  barrel  begins  to  give  out  that  hollow 
sound  when  it  is  tapped. 

Cut  out  his  money,  and  Hearst  comes  near  to  being 
the  rimless  cipher  of   Presidential   politics. 

The  South  will  be  solid  for  the  man  who  has  found 
an  ant  that  likes  the  cotton-boll  weevil  for  a  quick 
lunch  delicacy. 


Has  somebody  convinced  the  "longest  leased  liar 
in  the  world"  that  Hearst  has  not  yet  been  elected 
to  the  Presidency? 

The  bad  smell  at  the  ferry  depot  is  declared  t'o 
have  absolutely  no  connection  with  the  prosperity  of 
the  Harbor  Commission's  "business  men." 


Gentlemen  with  means  are  being  courteously  in- 
vited by  the  "push"  to  search  themselves  for  Sena- 
torial aspirations. 

An  Atlantic  City  man  has  divorced  his  wife  be- 
cause she  wore  a  bathing  costume  in  which  she  re- 
sembled an  underwear  advertisement  in  a  magazine. 


If  the  Schmitz  family  must  have  a  "public  con- 
venience at  the  corner  of  Geary  and  Market  streets, 
doubtless  San  Francisco  must  submit,  although  this 
seems  to  be  a  queer  taste  in  monuments. 

The  one  San  Francisco  organization  which  dese- 
crated Decoration  Day  was  composed  of  otherwise 
estimable  citizens,  who  may  be  sufficiently  identified 
by  saying  that  they  went  to  their  picnic  bare-legged. 

If  the  Supervisors  grant  the  request  of  the  Labor 
Council  and  help  boycott  "unfair"  firms,  it  would 
seem  quite  proper  to  assign  policemen  for  service 
as  union  "pickets." 

New  England  may  be  the  country  of  abandoned 
farms,  but  .two  of  Pennsylvania's  wealthiest  districts, 
which  haven't  had  a  birth  in  twelve  months,  are  the 
region  of  the  abandoned  cradle. 

As  to  the  petulent  parent  in  Fresno  County  who 
smashed  a  young  lady  school  teacher  over  the  head 
with  a  bottle  of  ink,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  by  thijr. 
time  he  has  been  measured  for  a  suit  of  tar  and 
feathers. 


What  labor  unions  most  need  is  a  closer  union 
with  common  sense  and  the  principle  of  live  and  let 

live. 


Just  to  show  how  intimately  the  automobile  has 
entered  into  American  life,  it  is  recorded  that  a  baby 
was  born  in  a  moving  whizz-car  the  other  day  iii 
Connecticut. 


Senator  Quay's  lamented  decease  is  attributed  to 
a  sauerkraut  orgy.  Unless  we  have  been  misin- 
formed about  the  manufacture  of  this  delicacy,  we 
know  now  what  was  rotten  in  Pennsylvania  politics. 

"The  same  elusive  needle  in  the  hay  stack  *  *  * 
is  again  the  fly  in  the  ointment,"  says  an  editorial  in 
the  Call.  This,  if  true,  is  a  matter  of  interest  not 
only  to  science  but  to  the  steel  industry. 

Firemen  at  Santa  Cruz  were  called  to  put  some 
swallows  out  of  a  school  house,  which  is  more  unique 
than  taking  swallows  to  put  out  the  fire  that  burns 
on  "the  morning  after." 

A  lady  named  Dollarhide  saves  two  men  from 
drowning  in  Northern  California.  Moved  and  sec- 
onded that  she  be  given  a  medal  and  a  more  expen- 
sive name. 


Labor  unionism  is  the  sworn  foe  of  competition, 
hence  a  murderer  of  the  life  of  trade.  It  is  the  might- 
iest trust  in  America,  and  all  the  more  dangerous&be- 
cause  it  is  run  by  irresponsible  wild  asses. 

A  distinguished  cleric  of  Brooklyn  prophesies  that 
in  a  few  years  it  will  be  considered  vulgar  to  be  rich. 
We  should  like  to  have  an  instantaneous  photograph 
of  some  one  refusing  to  accept  a  fat  legacy  on  that 
account. 


A  non-union  watchman  with  an  unfair  pistol  fired 
a  bullet  not  bearing  a  union  label  into  the  person  of 
a  "picket,"  who  was  merely  trying  to  wreck  a  boy- 
cotted livery  stable.  The  Labor  Council  desires  that 
the  watchman  shall  be  boiled  in  oil. 

A  rich  man  of  New  Jersey  wanted  his  house 
painted  white  with  bright  yellow  shutters,  but  the 
painters  struck  rather  than  obey  orders..  It  is  re- 
freshing to  know  that  there  are  some  things  which 
even  a  union  man  won't  do. 


It  is  cabled  from  London  that  a  once  beautiful 
American  woman  lost  her  place  as  favorite  in  the 
smart  set  when  she  cut  off  her  hair,  though  her  for- 
tune remained  as  large  as  ever.  And  we  had  called 
our  British  cousins  mercenary ! 

The  life-term  prisoners  at  San  Quentin  and  Fol- 
som  are  appealing  to  the  public  for  help  in  a  move- 
ment to  set  them  all  at  liberty — a  movement  sure  to 
be  generally  approved,  if  the  liberty  begins  with  a 
neck-tie  social. 


6  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  June  4,  1904. 

A     Fool    and     His     Money 

William  Randolph  Hearst  is  almost  all  that  a  man  ought  not  to  be.  His  mother,  Mrs.  Phoebe  A. 
Hearst,  is  all  that  a  good  woman  can  be — gentle,  refined,  modest,  charitable,  sympathetic,  helpful  to  all 
that  is  worth  helping.  The  mother  builds  up,  the  son  tears  down.  The  mother  aids  men  and  women 
toward  goodness  and  usefulness.  The  son  corrupts  men  and  debauches  women.  These  two  form  a 
painful,  a  pitiful  antithesis,  matching  against  a  wise  and  benignant  influence — an  influence  that  blights 
and  pollutes  and  rots. 

This  wastrel  son  of  a  noble  mother  has  before  now  brought  shame  and  sorrow  upon  her,  but  the 
just  pride  of  race  and  name,  and  that  divine  quality  of  mercy  which  is  the  essence  of  motherhood,  has 
kept  her  from  disavowal  of  him,  has  even  led  her  to  let  him  dip  his  hands  anew  into  her  private  fortune 
for  the  furtherance  of  his  scandalous  and  foolish  pursuit  of  honors  that  will  never  be  awarded  to  him  or 
to  such  as  he  is.  The  mother  has  already  felt  the  drain  and  the  strain.  Her  estate,  large  as  it  may  be, 
will  not  suffice  for  the  purchase  of  the  Presidency,  or  even  of  a  nomination.  Mrs.  Hearst's  money  lias 
been  diverted  from  the  channels  through  which,  under  her  own  control,  it  flowed  to  the  enrichment  and 
betterment  of  mankind.  Instead  of  being  employed  to  make  useful  citizens  out  of  children  otherwise 
foredoomed  to  the  gutter,  the  jail,  the  asylum  and  the  almshouse,  instead  of  going  to  educate  struggling 
young  men  and  women  into  usefulness  and  helpfulness  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  republic,  instead  of  be- 
ing a  powerful,  silent  factor  for  the  right  and  against  the  wrong,  this  great  fortune  has  become,  in  the 
hands  of  the  son,  an  engine  of  evil.  It  has  been  poured  out  all  over  the  land  like  a  contaminating  flood. 
It  has  gone  for  the  purchase  of  men's  souls  and  the  buying  of  their  honor.  The  Hearst  money  lias  jin- 
gled across  the  bars  of  vile  saloons,  paying  for  whiskey  to  make  drunkards  of  sober  men,  who  once 
drunken,  might  be  made  dishonest.  His  own  inheritance  the  son  has  devoted  as  he  pleased  to  the  private 
debauching  of  men  and  women.  Now  it  is  said  he  has  laid  unclean  hands  upon  the  estate  of  his  mother, 
for  the  debauchery  of  cities  and  States,  for  the  purchase  of  a  party  and  the  dishonor  of  a  nation. 

The  early  results  are  not  pleasant  to  record.  Already  Mrs.  Hearst  has  been  driven  to  retrenchment. 
Within  the  last  few  days  she  has  been  forced  abruptly  to  cut  off  her  support  of  the  magnificent  kinder- 
garten at  Washington,  which  she  founded  ten  years  ago,  an  institution  which  bears  her  name  and  has 
stood  all  these  years  a  splendid  monument  to  her  goodness,  living  testimony  of  her  high  endeavors  to 
make  better  the  lives  of  her  less  fortunate  fellows.  That  institution  must  now  close  its  doors.  The 
children  it  was  redeeming  to  humanity  must  go  back  to  the  gutters  of  the  slums. 

Next  comes  a  peremptory  order  to  discontinue  the  most  important  and  effective  of  Mrs.  Hearst's 
benefactions  at  the  University  of  California.  There  will  be  no  more  money  from  her  purse  for  the  char- 
itable enterprises  which  have  made  it  possible  for  poor  young  women  to  go  to  college,  earning  their  way 
up  the  steeps  of  higher  education.  No  more  Hearst  money  for  those  well-contrived  adjuncts  of  the  Uni- 
versity which  kept  their  deserving  beneficiaries  morally  clean  and  physically  sound.  The  Young 
women's  Christian  Association,  the  Women's  Clubs,  the  School  of  Domestic  Industries,  the  College- 
Settlement,  had  flourished  amazingly,  and  had  proved  of  immense  importance  in  forwarding  the  cause 
of  education.  Now  they  must  lapse  and  die.  In  a  word,  the  irrigating  system  under  which  wide  fields 
were  made  to  bourgeon  in  beauty  and  fairness,  has  become  an  open  sewer,  foul,  fetid,  a  stench  under 
the  sun,  a  dank  and  noisome  breeding  place  of  all  vileness  and  corruption. 

It  is  nothing  to  him  that  his  way  is  marked  by  the  festering  carcasses  or  bleaching  bones  of  the  men 
and  women  he  has  ruined.  It  will  not  be  surprising — indeed  it  is  almost  expected — that  soon  Mrs.  Hearst 
will  announce  that  she  is  compelled  to  cease  altogether  her  giving  to  the  University  to  which,  apart  from 
the  too-meagre  appropriations  of  the  State,  she  has  been  the  mainstay  of  support,  to  which  she  is  tacitly 
pledged  to  donate  a  large  part  of  her  fortune.  Meanwhile  it  is  possible  that  the  money  of  the  Hearst  es- 
tate is  to  be  poured  into  the  most  scandalously  corrupt  political  adventure  this  country  has  seen  and  suf- 
fered from. 

As  toward  Mrs.  Hearst,  the  public  can  feel  nothing  but  sympathy  and  good  will.  It  well  under- 
stands how  she  has  been  misled  .into  belief  that  her  son's  campaign  was  to  be  an  honest  one,  and  that  a 
large  section  of  his  countrymen  was  calling  him  to  the  White  House.  It  wonders  whether  she  may 
not  now  begin  to  see  the  truth,  and  whether  her  statement  of  the  reasons  for  withdrawing  her  support 
from  this  fine  group  of  charitable  and  educational  institutions  is  not  a  natural  effort  to  hide  her  sorrow. 
"Certain  of  my  investments."  she  is  reported  as  saying,  "have  turned  out  to  be  unprofitable."  Is  that, 
in  effect,  announcement  that  her  son's  falsity  and  faithlessness  have  been  made  apparent  to  her  when  it 
was  too  late?  The  "investments"  were  certainly  not  mere  business  ventures  of  her  own;  they  were,  un- 
questionably, investment  based  upon  her  faith  in  a  son  who  is  unworthy  of  even  his  mother's  faith.  It 
is.  as  we  hold,  natural  that  Mrs.  Hearst  should  keep  to  herself  the  real  reason  for  putting  an  end  thus 
suddenly  to  her  good  works — natural  and  even  laudable,  inasmuch  as  a  man's  mother  is  commonly  the  last 
to  turn  away  from  when  his  sin  has  found  him  out.  But  none  the  less,  the  true  nature  of  Mrs.  Hearst's 
"unprofitable   investments"   cannot  be   concealed. 

Good  authority  has  it  that  Hearst's  first  year  in  New  York — a  year  devoted  to  the  yellow  kind  of 
iournalism  and  the  scarlet  kind  of  women — made  an  $800,000  hole  in  the  estate  left  by  his  father.  Fol- 
lowing this  came  sharply  a  shut  down  against  the  wastrel.  Equally  dependable  authority  says  that  the 
Presidential  phase  of  Hearst's  foolishness  was  originally  designed  by  the  leeches  that  fatten  on  his  body 
— the  Lawrences,  the  Carvalhos,  the  Brisbanes  and  a' cluster  of  smaller  parisites — to  cover  another 
series  of  raids  upon  the  estate.  Hearst,  however,  took  the  false  for  the  real,  and  without  regard  to  cost 
or  consequence,  began  to  dream  his  silly  dream  of  greatness  which  presently  seemed  to  him  so  much 
a  reality  that  he  went  far  beyond  the  plots  and  plans  of  his  parasites,  mapping  out  and  carrying  out  a 
campaign  of  unexampled  corruption  and  gigantic  expense.  The  outcome  has  been  layer  after  layer 
of  mortgages  plastered  upon  his  properties — they  are  said  to  total  $5,000,000 — and  such  inroads  upon  the 
estate  held  by  his  mother  have  been  made  that  she  can  no  longer  contribute  to  the  charities  and  other 
good  works  which  she  founded  and  had  hoped  ultimately   to   leave   as  permanent   establishments. 


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June  4.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

THE  PASSING  OF  QUAY. 

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it  nli|  man,  pa 
n  the  threshol  rnity,   made  his  political 

ltncnt.  and  disposed  thereby  of  the  future  welfare 
he  great  State  of  Pennsylvania,  which  for  a  quar- 
entury  he  had  ruled,  as  in  the  olden  days  tl 
dal  lords  ruled  their  wide  domains.     I  lis  main  desire 
to  perpetuate  his  name  and  the  dominions  of  his 
family.     Therefore,  he  directed  that   his  son  should 
ed  him  in  the  United  Stales  Senate.     With  his 
dying  hreath  he  made  disposition  of  the  greatest  gift 
within  the  power  of  the  people  of  the  Keystone  State. 
His  vassals  listened  to  his  injunctions,  bowed  their 
heads,  and   promised  to  carry  out   his  will.     They 
turned  hack  the  pages  of  history,  and  were,  in  tact, 
any  liege  men  of  some  over-lord  'if  the  middle 
.  swearing  at  the  bedside  of  their  dying  chieftain 
that   the  glory  of  his  name  should   continue  in  the 
person  of  his  son,  and  that  they,  with  all  the  strength 
of  their  various  loyal  battalions  would  faithfully  per- 
form the  duties  he  laid  upon  them.    It  was  a  strange 
e  to  be  enacted  in  this  clay,  and  in  this  country, 
and  gives   occasion  to  some  thought   upon   the  oft- 
vaunted  liberties  and  prerogatives  of  the  supposedly 
free  citizens  of  this  republic.     It  demonstrated  in  a 
dramatic    manner,   and   far   more   conclusively    than 
a  volume  of  essays  upon  political  conditions,  the  poor 
estate  to  which  we  have  fallen. 

Quay  was  a  machine  politician.  His  personality 
embodied  all  that  the  machine  represents.  His  main, 
his  sole  desire,  was  to  win  success.  With  him,  the 
ends  justified  the  means.  Whatever  may  have  been 
his  personal  character,  it  is  notorious  that  under  his 
management  the  Pennsylvania  machine  honey- 
combed the  State,  and  Philadelphia,  its  chief  city, 
with  corruption.  His  underlings  made  a  study  of 
political  practices  in  New  York  and  elsewhere,  to 
I  lie  end  that  the  Quay  machine  might  have  the  bene- 
fit of  the  most  approved  methods  for  robbing  the 
public.  The  city  and  the  State  obeyed  his  commands, 
the  while  the  people,  writhing  under  such  control, 
sought  to  break  the  bonds  he  had  sealed  upon  them. 
With  such  a  record  he  was  honored  with  high  place, 
and  his  death  is  almost  considered  a  matter  of  na- 
tional importance.  His  shadow  will  hover  over  Penn- 
sylvania for  many  years  to  come.  Will  his  political 
executors  carry  out  his  will,  or,  like  Quay,  will  they 
desert  the  colors  of  the  fallen  leader,  and  seek  the 
chieftainship,  each  man  for  himself?  And  the  people  ! 
Bah !  The  people  will  grunt  and  groan  and  complain, 
as  they  have  done  in  this  city,  but  they  will  refuse 
to  join  political  clubs,  will  refuse  to  vote  at  the  pri- 
maries, will  refuse  to  perform  their  duty  as  citizens, 
and  the  robber  barons  will  continue  their  raids  upon 
■  public  treasury. 

BRAUNHART'S  RESOLUTION. 
In  the  Board  of  Supervisors  a  resolution  has  been 
submitted  by  Supervisor  Braunhart,  directing  the 
Committee  on  Charter  Amendment  to  report  to  the 
Board  an  Amendment  to  the  Charter  providing  a 
means  to  raise  money  for  the  conversion,  construc- 
tion and  equipment  of  the  Geary  street  road.  Braun- 
hart proposes  that  the  amendment  shall  provide  for  a 
special  tax  in  excess  of  the  "dollar  limit"  of  taxation, 
sufficient  to  complete  the  road  in  accordance  with  the 
plans  heretofore  made  by  the  City  Engineer.  This 
proposition,  if  carried  through,  as  proposed  by  Mr. 
Braunhart,  would  establish  a  precedent  which  would 


certainly  far  outweigh  in  its  injurious  effects  upon  the 
my  possible  benefit  the  community  might  de- 
rive by  the  acquisition  of  the  railroad  as  a  public  util- 
ity. It  is  a  direct  attack  upon  the  "dollar  limit." 
which  is  one  of  the  main  safeguards  the  charter  gives 
the  people  against  too  deep  an  incursion  into  the  pub- 
lic treasury  by  the  band  of  patriots  at  lie  City  Hall. 
It  a  special  tax  be  levied  for  the  Geary  street  road, 
why  not  a  special  tax  tor  an  increase  in  the  Fire  I  >e- 
partment,  for  a  street -sweeping  plant,  for  a  water 
system,  lor  a  sewer  system,  and  so  on  ad  infinitum, 
until  we  are  buried  beneath  l'.raunhart's  schem 
taxation? 

The  charter  provides  a  safe  and  suitable  method 
for  the  acquisition  of  public  Utilities  by  the  issuance 
of  bonds  authorized  by  the  direct  vote  of  at  least  two- 
thirds  of  the  voters  voting  thereon  at  a  special  elec- 
tion. Twice  have  the  people  voted  on  the  Geary 
street  road  proposition,  and  twice  have  they  rejected 
it.  The  inference  is  that  the  people  are  not  eager 
to  own  the  road.  But  even  if  the  two-thirds  vote 
in  favor  of  the  scheme  were  now  assured,  no  good 
reason  is  apparent  for  deviating  from  the  charter 
plan.  It  was  the  purpose  of  the  freeholders  to  sepa- 
rate, so  far  as  possible,  all  municipal  elections  from 
State  and  Presidential  elections.  It  was  thought  such 
separation  would  result  in  benefit  to  the  city,  inas- 
much as  it  would  permit  the  people  to  elect  good  offi- 
cials when  their  minds  were  unbiased  by  the  parti- 
sanship that  always  accompanies  a  general  election. 
For  similar  reasons,  it  was  decreed  that  bonds  for 
the  purchase  of  public  utilities  should  be  voted  for 
at  a  special  election  held  for  that  purpose  only.  Now 
Supervisor  Braunhart,  who  has  always  proclaimed 
himself  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  charter,  proposes 
to  amend  that  instrument  in  the  hope  that  at  a  gen- 
eral election  the  people  will  give  the  Geary  street 
road  scheme  a  two-thirds  vote.  In  other  words,  he 
hopes  to  force  on  the  citizens,  by  a  political  trick, 
a  proposition  they  have  twice  rejected  in  the  manner 
provided  by  the  existing  law.  Braunhart  thinks  that 
as  a  city  father  he  should  be  paternal  in  his  care  for 
the  public  welfare.  We  agree  with  Supervisor  Comte 
that  the  existing  provisions  of  law  are  sufficient  to 
permit  the  people  to  demonstrate  their  will.  If  they 
want  the  Geary  street  road  they  will  give  it  a  two- 
thirds  vote  at  a  special  election  called  for  the  pur- 
pose. There  is  no  occasion  for  the  Braunhart 
amendment. 


LABOR  DAY  AT  PRICE  AND  ONE-HALF. 

This  is  the  country  of  many  holidays,  and  the  Labor 
Day  holiday  is  one  of  them.  In  connection  with  the 
labor  holiday,  it  is  important  to  note  that  it  is  a  com- 
pulsory holiday.  There  is  a  fine  attached  for  non- 
participation,  and  the  workingman  who  has  no  desire  . 
to  waste  a  day  in  idle  glorification  is  assessed  for 
non-attendance.  The  employer  who  finds  himself  on 
account  of  pressure  of  business  forced  to  employ- 
labor  on  this  day  of  days  finds  that  he  will  be  charged 
with  time  and  a  half,  and  in  many  instances  with 
double  pay.  If  it  is  necessary,  in  order  to  make  up 
for  the  extra  holiday,  to  run  the  shop  on  the  follow- 
ing Sunday,  or  over  time,  it  is  only  possible  to  do 
so  by  facing  the  same  conditions  that  provide  for  the 
Labor  Day  festivities.  Double  time  and  pay  and  a 
half  is  the  general  rule.  There  may  be  some  sense 
in  curtailing  the  earning  capacity  of  the  working- 
man  and  the  employer  in  this  way,  and  the  proponent 
of  the  extra  and  useless  holiday  enjoys  a  brief  glee 
at  the  expense  of  the  real  workingman  and  his  em- 
ployer, but  we  cannot  see  any  sound  sense  in  the  pro- 
ceeding. 


8 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


TREASON    AGAINST    THE    STATE    MILITIA. 

When  non-identification  with  the  militia  or  naval 
establishment  of  a  State  is  made  the  standard  of 
worth  and  fitness  for  membership  in  a  labor  union, 
the  crime  of  treason  to  the  State  and  nation  has  been 
committed.  But  for  all  that,  certain  labor  unions 
of  California,  and  practically  of  all  the  States,  have 
established  exactly  that  standard  of  eligibility  in  the 
chief  industrial  centers,  and  so  determinedly  is  the 
rule  being  enforced  that  the  act  is  in  fact  a  conspir- 
acy en  mass  against  the  lives  and  property  of  non- 
conforming citizens,  and  an  assault  upon  the  life 
of  the  Government.  It  is  not  armed  treason  coming 
boldly  into  the  open  and  defying  authority,  but  rather 
as  the  assassin  comes  smiling  from  his  hiding,  only 
to  stab. 

The  reason  given  by  labor  union  leaders  for  this 
assault  upon  what  is  the  nation's  armed  defense 
against  hostile  invasion  of  the  country  and  police 
protection  to  the  community,  is  that  when  a  labor 
strike  is  ordered  such  members  of  unions  as  belong 
to  the  militia  are  obliged  to  take  up  arms  against  their 
fellow  unionists  and  shoot  them  down,  if  need  be. 
to  prevent  deadly  assaults  upon  citizens  and  the  de- 
struction of  property.  Here  we  have  a  volunteered 
admission  that  deadly  assaults  upon  citizens  and  the 
destruction  of  property  are  a  probable,  or  at  least 
a  possible,  resort  of  strikers  when  other  agencies  for 
the  overthrow  of  employers  fail  of  their  aim;  and 
the  inference  is  that  such  acts  of  violence  would  be 
justified  by  these  labor  leaders'  code  of  labor  union- 
ism's rights,  and  that  if  the  arm  of  the  militia,  acting 
as  a  police  power,  is  weakened  by  withdrawing  from 
it  its  main  source  of  strength — workingmen — strikers 
would  find  little  or  no  resistance,  no  matter  to  what 
lengths  they  might  elect  to  go. 

There  is  ingenuity  and  cunning  in  this  vicious  and 
treasonable  scheme  to  paralyze  the  arm  of  law  and 
order  that  it  may  be  powerless  to  resist  the  on- 
slaughts of  labor  strikes  upon  the  rights  of  persons 
and  property.  The  line  which  separates  such  labor 
unionism  from  anarchism  is  too  vaguely  marked  to 
be  located;  besides,  the  ultimate  purpose  of  the  one 
differs  in  no  way  from  that  of  the  other,  which  is  the 
abolition  of  all  law  and  all  ethical  codes  and  social 
conventions,  each  one  being  a  law  unto  himself,  his 
passions  blazing  the  path  of  his  going  and  coming. 

But  the  intimation  that  labor  organizations  as  a 
whole  are  giving  this  diabolical  conspiracy  their  sup- 
port is  as  false  and  as  malicious  as  are  the  hearts  of 
the  traitors  who  are  back  of  it  all.  The  fact  is,  only 
one  here  and  there  of  the  army  of  skilled  labor  is 
found  in  this  treasonable  and  murderous  combine. 
Men  who  have  spent  years  in  the  practice  and  study 
of  mechanical  art  and  the  science  of  construction, 
are  neither  political,  ethical  nor  social  destruction- 
ists.  It  is  the  hewers  of  wood  and  the  drawers  of 
water  in  the  great  field  of  production — men  who  do 
not  think,  do  not  reason — whom  these  professional 
labor  agitators  are  leading  by  the  nose  into  rebel- 
lion against  the  peace  and  dignity  and  safety  of  the 
State  and  of  society. 

But  who  are  the  real  traitors  and  conspirator-. ' 
Who  are  they  that  are  playing  upon  and  utilizing  for 
themselves  the  product  of  the  venomous  schemes  of 
these  professional  agitators?  Who  are  they  who  are 
feeding  these  hot-beds  of  treason  and  anarchism  with 
the  fuel  of  hatred  of  law  and  order?  What  is  the 
influence  back  of  this  conspiracy  to  disarm  the  State 
that  crime  and  lawlessness  may  have  no  fear  of  the 
law? 

This  evil  force  and  influence  is  not  confined  to  one 
man,  nor  to  many  scores  of  men,  but  by  mutual  con- 


sent and  for  personal  advantage  it  has  embodied  it- 
self in  a  ready-made  individualized  human  center 
of  boundless  political  ambition  and  egotism  that  is 
in  perfect  accord  with  the  purpose  of  this  aggrega- 
tion of  evil  forces,  and  that  center  of  political  and 
social  and  industrial  evil  is  William  Randolph 
Hearst,  who,  as  an  aspiring  candidate  for  the  Presi- 
dency of  the  United  States,  stands  before  all  the 
people  as  a  tool  of  the  traitors  who  are  conspiring 
to  destroy  the  machinery  of  the  law's  operation.  He, 
William  Randolph  Hearst,  as  a  candidate  for  the 
nomination  for  President,  represents  all  of  such  labor 
unionism  as  are  in  this  treasonable  plan  to  hang  law 
and  order  upon  the  gibbet  of  social,  religious  and  po- 
litical  corruption. 

SMELLS  TO  HEAVEN. 

Harbor  Commissioner  Spear  has  gone  East.  He 
proposes  to  look  over  the  harbor  facilities  of  leading 
.Eastern  cities  and  will  try  to  incorporate  the  result 
of  his  investigations  in  the  management  of  the  city' 
front.  We  can  expect  an  innoculation  of  the  New 
York  variety  of  graft  and  nepotism  on  his  return. 

If  "our  Charley"  was  really  in  earnest  it  would  be 
in  order  to  suggest  to  him  that  he  go  to  Seattle.  He 
would  find  in  the  northern  metropolis  a  better  svs- 
tem  for  the  handling  of  freight  and  people  than  ob- 
tains anywhere  in  the  United  States. 

There  is  only  one  redeeming  element  in  this  East- 
ern junket  of  Commissioner  Spear.  During  his  ab- 
sence some  one  connected  with  the  office  may  become 
imbued  with  sufficient  insane  ambition  to  clean  out 
the  ferry  building  to  such  an  extent  that  it  will  cease 
smelling  like  a  monkey  cage.  It  has  been  said  that 
it  is  impossible  to  prevent  the  various  odors  that 
attack  every  arrival  from  across  the  bay,  but  the 
Commissioners  themselves  prove  the  untruth  of  tin- 
statement.  Just  before  the  arrival  of  President 
Roosevelt,  the  News  Letter  called  attention  to  the 
odor,  and  there  was  a  general  scramble  at  the  ferry. 
For  two  weeks  the  place  did  not  smell.  And  then 
they  forgot.  Perishable  goods,  animals,  dogs  and 
canary  birds,  parrots  and  terrapins  are  housed  under 
the  ferry  sheds.  Halibut  and  other  fish  help  make  a 
symphony  in  smell. 

This  is  the  first  appreciation  the  Eastern  visitor 
and  intending  settler  gets  of  San  Francisco.  Why 
is  this  so?  Because  our  Commissioners  pay  more 
attention  to  securing  jobs  for  their  henchmen  and 
relatives  than  the  business  of  the  State  of  California. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


WBM& 


ECHAS.  KLILUS&COJ 

*£XCLUSIV£.i 

H IGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

What  a  blessing  nowadays  for  the  busy  man  who 
likes  ;o  dress  fairly  well  and  hasn't  much  time  to 
bother  with  tailors  and  try-ons,  etc.  He  can  step  in- 
to our  shop,  get  fitted  just  as  easy  as  rolling  off  a 
log.    We  have  that  "Immediate  Service  System." 


IKEAKJrW*  STI3JE.il/ir 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


KJgBfrClgUlff  LIBRARY  TABLE  Cli^^M 


J"lm    Henry  :    and 

How  to  Know  the    Anna  Botsford  ComstcM 
Butterflies.  the  authors  of  one  of  th< 

delightfully   written  and  en- 

ngly    produced    work    on    butterflies    which    has 

ever  been  published     It   is  divided  into  three  parts. 

neral  Account  of  Butterflies;  The  Classification 

utterflies;  the  Skippers.    The  first  of  these  parts 

gives  an  examination  of  the  relation  of  butterflies 
to  Other  insects,  a  short  but  sufficient  sketch  of  the 
structure  of  butterflies  and  their  clothing,  a  sum- 
mary of  the  various  processes  of  metamorphosis 
which  are  to  be  found  in  butterfly  lite,  and  a  stu.lv  of 
that  life  with  some  very  valuable  hints  to  the  col- 
lector in  regard  to  making  his  captures,  preserving 
his  specimens,  watching  the  development  of  the 
creature  through  its  various  stages  of  metamorpho- 
sis, and  storing  and  labeling  the  specimens  taken. 
The  second  part  deals  with  the  ten  great  classes  of 
butterflies,  gives  an  account  of  their  general  char- 
acteristics, with  the  scientific  as  well  as  the  ordinary 
name,  and  the  text  is  accompanied  by  the  most  beau- 
tifully executed  plates  of  the  various  specimens. 
These  plates  are  simply  excellent,  and  the  writer  of 
this  would,  years  ago,  when  butterfly  hunting  was  a 
new  and  delightful  experience,  have  given  many 
hours  of  labor  for  the  chance  of  possessing  such 
pictures  as  these.  "The  Skippers,"  says  the  writers, 
"are  commonly  classed  with  the  butterflies;  for  this 
reason  they  are  discussed  here,  although  the  writer 
believes  that  they  constitute  a  super-family  distinct 
from  the  butterflies.  The  skippers  are  so-called  on 
account  of  their  peculiar  mode  of  flight."  Then  an 
account  of  this  class  of  insect  is  given.  It  would  be 
difficult  to  praise  this  work  too  highly.  It  meets  a 
want,  and  should  lead  to  the  following  of  a  very 
healthy  and  pleasant  pursuit. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

This  is  one  of  those  novels 
Nature's  Comedian,       which      admittedly     study 

temperament,  and  so 
comes  in  that  class  in  which  Henry  James  and  John 
Oliver  Hobbes  reign.  It  is  a  fairly  good  piece  of 
work,  but  it  must  be  confessed  that  it  does  not  rank 
with  either  of  the  two  masters  already  mentioned. 
The  worst  of  this  kind  of  writing  is  that  it  always 
challenges  comparison.  A  story  which  is  written  for 
the  story,  which  is  frankly  undertaken  to  help  the 
reader  pass  an  hour  or  two  free  from  the  worries  and 
perplexities  of  life,  may  always  be  taken  on  its  merits 
and  gauged  according  to  its  power  to  please,  and  the 
success  with  which  it  accomplishes  its  prime  purpose. 
But  a  novel  which  sets  out  to  describe  a  temperament 
and  to  solve  a  personal  equation,  is  so  entirely  a  piece 
of  work,  so  advertisedly  a  study,  that  the  compari- 
son of  other  work  of  the  same  kind  leaps  spontane- 
ously to  the  mind.  If  one  sets  out  to  write  a  psycho- 
logical essay,  one  must  expect  to  have  the  essay  criti- 
cised and  compared  with  the  work  of  other  psy- 
chologists. Harold  Dunville,  an  actor,  is  one  of 
nature's  comedians,  not  a  tragic  comedian  like  Mere- 
dith's Lasalle,  but  a  poor  sort  of  actor  man  who  was 
able  to  hold  the  center  of  the  theatrical  stage  and 
to  make  money  by  the  playing  of  second-rate  theatri- 
cal pieces.  "His  very  clever  and  convincing  imper- 
sonations always  strike  us  as  being  rather  the  result 
of  a  rare  personal  gift  than  of  study  or  schooling.  It 
is  as  yet  impossible  to  pronounce  him  a  great  actor, 
and  equally  impossible,  of  course,  to  deny  that  he 


has  become  a  successful  one."  So  the  book  opens 
with  a  summary  of  the  principal  character,  and  closes 
in    the   following   words:    "lie   was   in    many    ways    a 

charming,  attractive  sort   of  being.     A  genius  he  cer 

tainly  was  not,  and  a  satisfactory   success  he  never 

coul.l  have  become  in  any  walk  of  life.  I  don't  think 
that  he  had  it  in  him  to  care  to  the  extent  which  is 
really  indispensable  about  anything  or  anybody;  nol 
even   about  himself." 

This  backboneless  sort  of  individual  is  the  charac- 
ter whose  movements,  which  consist  for  the  most 
part  of  a  series  of  more  or  less  uninteresting  flirta- 
tions, and  a  futile  attempt  to  stand  for  a  Parliamen- 
tary election,  are  supposed  to  engage  our  attention. 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  soup  is  rather  thin.  True, 
there  are  two  or  three  persons  living  who  might  have 
made  a  great  piece  of  work  out  of  the  materials,  but 
W.  E.  Norris  is  not  one  of  them. 

Mr.  Norris  is,  generally  speaking,  so  charming  a 
writer,  and  this  reviewer  has  so  much  pleasure  and 
satisfaction  from  his  work  as  a  rule,  that  it  requires 
an  effort  to  state  that  this  novel  is  not  up  to  the  stan- 
dard, and  that  the  purely  psychological  does  not  ap- 
pear to  be  a  satisfactory  field  for  the  display  of  the 
talents  of  a  writer  who  is  as  a  rule  so  successful. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

This     is     the     fourth   edition  of 

The  Poems  of     Henry  Abbey's  poems,  and  is  the 

Henry  Abbey,      complete  tale  of  his  poetic  work 

as  far  as  he  cares  to  preserve  it  to 

the  present  time.     The  author  say's :  "Some  of  them 

should   not   be   here,   perhaps,  but   they   have   been 

copied  and  recited  often,  and  are  beyond  recall." 

It  is  not  a  pleasing  task  to  criticise  poetical  work- 
adversely,  and  in  this  case,  fortunately,  there  is  no 
need  to  do  so.  The  poetry  nowhere  reaches  a  high 
level,  but  the  author  would  not  claim  that  for  it.  It 
has  been  described  as  "melodious,  graceful  and  in- 
herently poetic,"  and  that  is  about  as  near  as  we  can 
get  to  describing  the  general  characteristics  of  the 
verse.  Some  of  the  expressions  are  particularly 
happy,  and  there  is  a  distinct  appreciation,  none  the 
less  true  for  being  simply  expressed,  of  the  beauty 
of  nature.  Mr.  Abbey  is  very  sincere  and  has  a 
particular  faculty  of  seizing  upon  and  expressing 
pathos.  He  has  a  good  group  of  melodious  verse, 
not  in  the  grand  style,  nor  even  marked  by  any  dis- 
tinction, but  on  the  whole  sweet  and  correct,  which 
is  much  more  than  can  be  said  of  most  of  the  verses 
turned  out  by  more  ambitious  hands. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 


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RUBBING-not  wear- 
ing— shorten*  the  life 
of  most  garments.  Wash- 
boards brutally  tear  and  I 
rend.  Caustic  compounds  f 
gnaw  and  ruin. 

Pearline 

PERSUADES 

THE  DIRT  AWAY 
AND  BY  DISSOLV- 
ING CLEANSES  . 


... 

Pearline  is  kind  to  fabrics 


June  4,  1904. 
Land     Fraud    Case 


A  Bright  Thought 


Get  your  house  wired  for  this,  that  or  the  other  useful  electrical 
device,  and  note  the  saving  In  work  and  worry,  the  addition  to 
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wiring,  burglar  alarms,  gas  lighters,  fans,  call  bells  and  annun- 
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Act  on  the  bright  thought  to-day. 

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from  the  East,  and  is  displaying  the  finest 

Assortment  of  Imported   Human  Hair 

and  SHELL  ORNAMENTS  that  has  ever  been 
SHOWN    ON    THE    PACIFIC    COAST 


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It  was  a  surprise  to  everybody  who  listened  to 
the  testimony  in  Judge  Heacock's  court  involving  the 
removal  of  Hyde  and  Dimond  to  Washington  fur 
trial  to  learn  how  little  evidence  there  was  to  prove 
the  crimes  alleged  in  the  indictment.  An  immense 
amount  of  testimony  was  taken,  something  like  4,030 
pages,  but  it  is  related  to  everything  in  the  land 
field  except  the  real  point  at  issue. 

The  indictment  alleged  that  Hyde  and  Benson  had 
conspired  six  years  ago  to  purchase  school  lands  in 
California  and  Oregon  by  fraudulent  means;  that  in 
pursuance  of  the  conspiracy  they  had  used  the  names 
of  fictitious  people,  and  had  induced  living  persons 
to  purchase  lands  for  their  (Hyde's  and  Benson's) 
benefit;  that  in  pursuance  of  this  conspiracy  Hyde 
and  Benson  bad  bribed  forest  supervisors  to  create 
forest  reserves  within  certain  boundaries,  and  clerks 
to  facilitate  the  approval  of  selections  under  the 
forest  reserve  act. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  witnesses  were 
all  called  by  the  Government,  and  came  from  all 
points  of  the  compass,  from  Portland,  Ore.,  on  the 
north;  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  east,  and  Tucson 
on  the  south,  there  was  no  testimony  submitted  thai 
showed  conspiracy,  none  that  showed  the  use  of  fic- 
titious names,  and  as  to  bribery,  the  extent  of  the 
showing  was  that  Benson  had  oaid  some  money  to 
Washington  clerks  to  hasten  action  on  his  selections. 

The  most  damaging  evidence,  and  in  fact  the  only 
evidence  worthy  of  consideration,  came  from  one 
McCusker  of  Portland,  Oregon,  who  testified  that 
Schneider  came  there,  and  induced  about  a  dozen 
of  McCusker's  friends  to  purchase  school  lands,  and 
that  Schneider  paid  for  the  lands  and  took  deeds 
directly  afterwards,  but  it  was  not  shown  that  Hyde 
was  cognizant  of  the  method  of  acquiring  titles,  and 
Hyde  says,  in  fact,  that  the  first  information  that  he 
had  as  to  the  way  in  which  lands  were  purchased 
came  from  the  testimony  in  court.  He  simply  took 
the  titles  as  they  came  to  him. 

We  do  not  see  how  it  is  possible  for  the  Govern- 
ment to  secure  a  conviction  for  any  crime  under  the 
indictments.  The  proceedings  seem  to  be  largely 
political  and  part  of  a  fight  in  the  Interior  Depart- 
ment against  the  present  land  laws.  The  same  ques- 
tions are  involved  and  the  facts  are  substantially 
the  same,  as  those  in  dozens  of  cases  that  have  al- 
ready been  before  the  courts  under  the  timber  and 
stone  act,  and  the  Government  has  uniformly  been 
defeated.  It  is  thoroughly  well  settled  that  a  per- 
son has  a  right  to  sell  his  land  after  entry  in  the  land 
office,  and  even  if  large  tracts  are  purchased  by  one 
person,  the  transaction  is  legal  unless  it  be  shown 
that  there  was  an  express  contract  between  the 
entry  man  and  his  grantee  made  prior  to  entry  in  the 
land  office.  In  Hyde's  case  it  is  admitted  he  became 
the  owner  of  a  large  area  which  had  been  entered 
under  the  school  land  law,  but  it  is  not  shown  that 
the  entries  were  made  under  any  contract  with  him, 
in  the  absence  of  which  there  was  no  crime  com- 
mitted. 

The  way  to  reach  cases  of  this  kind  is  to  repeal  the 
laws  which  make  abuses  possible.  A  citizen  has  a 
perfect  right  to  take  advantage  of  any  Act  of  Con- 
gress, and  it  is  a  question  for  the  judgment  of  Con- 
o-ress  alone  as  to  whether  or  not  the  laws  for  the  sale 
of  public  lands  are  good  or  bad.  It  they  are  bad, 
the  laws  should  be  repealed. 

The  particular  fight  in  Hyde's  case  seems  to  be 
against  the  forest  reserve  lieu  land  act,  as  to  which 
there  is  an  impression  that  whoever  locates  land  in 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


irauaing  111c  v.iovcrn-  ^»»— ->^ 

indcr        w   )/§ 
1c  wit  passed  at  the       ^jrC^^^ 
:tics  th;ii  had  made  .1  rM^i 

ion,  and  were  largely         J  m  Jifyrf. 
\c   present     Govern-  *— ^     \ir^^ 


that  c  manner  defrauding  tl 

ment.     The  fact  is.  that  the 

which  such  selections  were  made 

I  certain  Eastern  societies 

f  (ores!  pres 

rumental    in    formulating   the   pi 

mental   policy   relative   thereto.       The   Act   embt 

an  invitation  by  the  United  States  to  owners  oi  lands 

within  forest  r  surrender  their  holdings  ami 

I  lands  in  lieu  thereof  elsewhere,  and  the  intrin- 

alue  of  the  land  surrendered  had  nothing  to  do 

with  its  value  to  the  Government    The  law  was  not 

1  at  the  instance  of  speculators,  but  if  there  is 

much    speculation    in   connection    therewith,    let 

Congress  repeal  the  law. 

This  case  has  emphasized  the  well-known  fact 
that  United  States  Grand  Juries  exercise  but  little 
discretion  in  finding  indictments  when  urged  by  Dis- 
trict Attorneys.  Thirteen  witnesses  were  called  be- 
fore the  Washington  Grand  Jury  in  the  Hyde-Benson 
case,  and  Hyde  subpoenaed  them  all  in  the  hearing 
here.  None  of  them  knew  or  professed  to  know, 
anything  of  a  conspiracy,  nor  was  there  any  showing 
that  Hyde  and  Benson  had  ever  had  any  partnership 
beyond  the  sale  of  forest  reserve  lieu  land,  each  con- 
tributing his  pro  rata,  and  dividing  the  profits. 

The  proceedings  before  Judge  Heacock  were  not 
in  the  nature  of  a  trial,  but  developed  into  a  general 
investigation  of  land  matters  in  California.  Cir- 
cumstances, trivial  in  their  nature,  and  having  no 
possible  connection  with  land  matters,  were  brought 
out  and  made, to  appear  as  criminal;  for  instance, 
Hyde's  former  clerks  were  called  to  testify  that  they 
had  taken  a  large  number  of  papers  to  notaries  public 
who  had  certified  thereto  without  the  personal  pres- 
ence of  the  signers.  Every  business  man  in  San  Fran- 
cisco knows  that  this  is  a  common  practice  where 
the  signatures  and  signers  are  well  known  to  the 
notaries.  Possibly  it  is  irregular,  but  it  is  done,  never- 
theless. It  was  shown  that  in  1898  and  1899  Hyde 
either  personally  or  as  President  of  some  corporation, 
had  executed  hundreds  of  deeds  and  powers  of  attor- 
ney. He  probably  sent  them  to  his  notary  as  other 
people  do  in  like  cases. 

Anonymous  letters  and  the  unsupported  and  un- 
verified statements  of  blackmailers  seem  to  have  been 
the  principal  evidence  against  Hyde.  Not  one-tenth 
part  of  the  testimony  that  was  received  by  Judge 
Heacock  would  ever  be  admitted  on  a  trial,  and  to 
drag  a  man  to  Washington  to  stand  trial  on  such  evi- 
dence seems  like  persecution  instead  of  honest  prose- 
cution. 


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JOSE  GUARDIOLA  ESTATE 

Administrator's  Sale 

i — Northeast  corner  California  and  Sansome 
street,  lot  45x90  ft.  Improvements,  three-story 
and  basement  brick  building.  Annual  rents  $12,- 
390.    No  leases. 

2 — Nos.  34  to  52  Ellis  street.  Lot  90x137 :6  ft. 
Improvements,  modern  4-story  and  basement 
brick  building.  Stores,  lofts  and  offices  above. 
Annual  rents,  $17,800.     No  leases. 

3 — Nos.  117-119  Pine  street.  Lot  50x91:8  ft. 
3-story  and  basement  brick  building;  just 
vacated.  Former  rent  $3,600  per  annum.  Rea- 
sonable amount  spent  in  renovation  will  produce 
largely  increased  rent. 

4 — Nos.  318-320  O'Farrell  street,  near  Mason 
street.  Lot  55x137 :6  ft.  Three-story  and  base- 
ment brick  building.  (Palo  Alto  Stable.)  Rent 
$2100  per  annum.  No  lease.  Present  rent  nomi- 
nal.   Can  be  materially  advanced  by  giving  lease. 

5 — Nos.  9-1 1  Bagley  Place  (off  O'Farrell  St., 

between  Grant  avenue  and  Stockton  streets.)  Lot 

42 :6x6o  feet.     Four-story  and    basement    brick 

building,  rented  as  a  piano  warehouse  at  $1800 

per  annum. 

Note.— The  incomes  on  all  of  the  above  properties  can  be  largely 
increased  immediately  by  giving  leases. 

6 — The  "Heredia  Tract,"  containing  1522  acres 
of  land  in  Placer  County,  California. 

For  further  particulars  apply  at  the  office  of 

SHAINWALD,  BUCKBEE  ®  CO. 

218-220  Montgomery  St.  Mills  Building 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


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Some  men  would  rob  their  mother's  grave 

And   sell   the   flowers   above   her ; 
The  men  who  snivel,  and  who  rave 

About  the  way  they  love  her. 
They'd  sell  the  church  and  pawn  the  State, 

And  talk  till  death  delayed  them, 
About   the   country  being  great — 

Provided   that  it  paid  them. 
Such  people  sneer  at  weary  men 

Who  seek  the  pleasant  places, 
When    bonny    May    comes    round    again, 

And   summer  shows   her  graces. 
But  those  who  died,  it  they  could  speak, 

Would  very  likely  say 
That  they  are  wise  wdio  pleasure  seek 

On  Decoration  Day. 
It  is  stated  on  good  authority  by  philosophers  that 
highway  robbery,  as  followed  a  couple  of  hundred 
years  ago,  was  productive  of  a  bold  and  daring  de- 
meanor on  the  part  of  the  highwayman,  but  that 
modern  peculation  and  graft  breeds  a  set  of  grovel- 
ing, cowardly  scoundrels.  However  that  may  be, 
there  does  not  seem  to  be  any  doubt  that  trades 
union  officialism  produces  a  pretty  poor  type  of  man. 
(  >ne  Tvietmoe,  editor  of  the  paper  called  "<  Irganize  1 
Labor,"  made  a  cowardly  and  despicable  attack  upon 
a  certain  Danforth.  "Ihe  latter,  who  is  nothing  like 
the  weight  or  size  of  his  slanderer,  punched  him  vig- 
orously in  the  street,  and  Tvietmoe  ran  around  a 
wagon  praying  for  the  assistance  of  the  passers-by. 
The  trades  unionist,  who  is  by  the  bye,  Secretary  of 
the  Building  Trades  Council,  and  toady  for  McCar- 
thy, thereupon  swore  out  a  warrant  for  the  arrest  of 
his  assailant,  and  when  the  time  came  had  not  the 
pluck  to  come  and  testify.  This  is  the  sort  of  mate- 
rial that  pretends  to  dictate  terms  and  control  the 
movements   of  modern   industry. 

Now  and  again  the  law  against  selling  lottery  tick- 
ets is  put  in  force  against  some  poor  unfortunate  or 
other  who  does  not  have  enough  influence  to  escape 
the  clutches  of  the  police.  Thus  a  certain  Jones  has 
been  sentenced  to  a  fine  of  one  hundred  dollars  or 
one  hundred  days'  imprisonment  for  the  sale  of  lot- 
tery tickets  in  Oakland.  The  chances  are  that  every 
blessed  official,  from  the  judge  who  sentenced  him 
to  the  policeman  who  arrested  him,  including  the 
property  clerk  and  the  reporter  who  wrote  the  mat- 
ter up,  had  each  a  lottery  ticket  in  his  inside  pocket. 
The  absurdity  of  the  whole  matter  is  evident,  not  so 
evident  as  the  resulting  contempt  into  which  it 
brings  the  law.  A  parallel  case  is  the  law  against 
carrying  concealed  weapons,  yet  if  you  will  stand  at 
the  rear  of  a  police  court  and  watch  the  men  part 
their  coat-tails  to  sit  down,  you  will  be  driven  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  police  court  is  as  full  of  weapons 
as  an  arsenal. 

So  the  Bohemian  Club  is  to  own  a  permanent 
home,  and  to  write  itself  down  as  one  of  the  insti- 
tions.  It  is  very  gratifying  to  note  the  stability 
which  is  beginning  to  mark  that  club  of  erstwhile 
wanderers.  Respectability  and  successful  commer- 
cialism are  becoming  its  chief  qualities.  Trade,  solid 
trade,  treads  its  corridors,  and  the  sign  of  the  big, 
round  dollar  is  evident  on  all  its  belongings.  So 
powerful  has  money  become  that  a  report  is  current 
that  all  the  poets  in  the  club  are  to  wear  brass  but- 
tons and  powder  their  hair,  while  the  artists  are  to 
dress  in  velveteens  and  serve  champagne  to  the 
wholesale  grocers. 


Some  people  who  themselves  are  never  happy  un- 
less their  nose  is  well  down  in  the  trough,  and'  they 
are  receiving  bonuses  of  all  sorts  indirectly,  are  com- 
plaining of  the  cost  of  the  Associated  Charities.  This 
1  rganization  is  one  of  which  the  city  should  be  most 
proud.  It  commands  the  services  of  eight  devoted 
women  who  receive  on  the  average  a  stipend  of  less 
than  four  hundred  dollars  a  year.  At  its  head  is  a 
university  woman  of  high  attainments,  who  is  a 
sociologist  of  standing,  and  a  trained  specialist. 
It  would  be  difficult  to  describe  the  good  effects 
which  have  resulted  to  this  community  from  their 
efforts  in  the  short  time  during  which  the  institution 
has  existed ;  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and  the 
Juvenile  Court,  among  other  things,  are  due  to  them. 
It  is  the  misfortune  of  a  corrupt  democracy  that 
even  the  most  unselfish  are  liable  to  accusations  of 
graft. 

So  women's  clubs  are  to  be  subjected  to  another 
disadvantage  which  a  hard  hearted  and  mercenary 
bank  defines  as  lack  of  harmony.  The  California 
Club  determined  to  erect  a  new  quarters,  and  being 
face  to  face  with  a  problem  which  talk  would  not 
solve,  set  to  work  to  overcome  the  difficulties.  Plans 
were  made — plans  are  so  easily  made ;  money  was  to 
be  forthcoming — it  is  always  forthcoming;  but  in  this 
particular  case  it  performed  the  hitherto  unhear  1 
of  and  utterly  ridiculous  feat  of  failing  to  forthcome. 
Whereupon  there  occurred  among  the  ladies  various 
minor  differences  of  opinion,  expressed  for  the  most 
part  in  a  major  key,  the  sound  of  which  penetrated 
to  the  ears  of  the  bank  directors,  who  were  to  have 
financed  the  matter.  These  ungallant  gentlemen 
now  refuse  to  proceed,  and  the  California  Club  looks 
likely  to  be  minus  a  home  for  some  time  to  come. 

John  Muir  has  been  on  his  first  trip  abroad,  and 
has  come  back  as  full  of  his  experiences  as  a  sailor 
after  a  first  voyage.  He  must  have  been  a  perfect 
God-send  to  the  newspaper  men,  for  he  was  good  for 
a  column  on  a  slow  day.  It  is  a  little  difficult  to  de- 
tect anything  particularly  new  in  his  remarks,  and 
I  have  a  fancy  that  he  handed  a  volume  or  two  of 
Baedecker  to  the  gentlemen  of  the  press,  and  that 
they  made  their  comments  from  the  material  fur- 
nished. One  thing  of  transcending  interest,  however, 
we  do  learn,  and  that  is  that  eucalyptus  trees  do  not 
grow  to  more  than  three  hundred  feet  in  height.  The 
Scotch  mountaineer  is  sure  of  that,  because  he  has 
climbed  them.  He  also  hunted  kangaroos  with  a 
knoberry  stick,  and  has  decided  that  fifteen  miles 
an  hour  is  his  best  pace  at  present.  It  is  really 
very  easy  to  write  an  interview  with  John  Muir  upon 
the  lines  that  were  followed  in  Saturday's  papers. 

The  Roman  Knights  or  Equites  generally  managed 
to  get  their  share  of  the  plunder,  and  matters  of  tax- 
ation possessed  particular  fascination  for  them.  <  hit 
local  Knights  of  Pythias  would  seem  to  be  after  the 
same  game.  The  city  of  Napa  has  turned  the  Fourth 
of  July  celebration  into  the  hands  of  this  patriotic 
and  humanitarian  order,  who  will  import  many  of 
their  brothers  of  the  craft,  and  so  succeed  in  making 
Napa  more  gloriously  hideous  than  could  have  been 
accomplished  in  the  ordinary  way.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  local  Knights  also  handle  the  local  subscrip- 
tions to  the  fund,  then  the  usual  questions  need  not 
be  asked — we  shall  all  know  where  the  money  has 
gone.  Next  year,  Napa  should  turn  the  celebration 
over  to  the  institution  which  gives  her  her  fame. 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Milk  that    Carries 

DeatK   Dealing   Germs 

Some  time  ago  the  Overland  Monthly  called  pnhlic 
•ion  to  the  question  of  dairying  and  dairy  ii 

n  Francisco  and  adjoining  counties.      This 
uiscly  illustrated,  and  particular  atten- 
called  to  the  dairies  of  Marin  Countv.     It 
be  remembered  that  the  "Sleepy  Hollow  Ranch" 
•1  Anselmo,  Marin  County,  was  cited  as  an  ex- 
ample of  cleanliness,  and  while  no  particular  mention 
:nade  of  the  various  dairies  in  and  around  San 
Francisco,  except  to  say  that  there  were  many  that 
were  ramshackle  affairs,  it  has  since  transpired  that 
loard  of  Health,  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Ra- 
bas  discovered  a  terrible  state  of  affairs 
It  is  a  well  established  fact  that  one  of  the  most 
delicate  and  most  easily  infected  articles  of  food  is 
the  milk  we  drink.     It  therefore  behooves  those  who 
cater  to  our  wants  in  the  line  of  lacteal  fluid  that  every 
Me  precaution  be  taken  against  contamination 
and   pollution. 

The  Board  finds  that  nearly  all  dairies  are  being 
run  without  the  slightest  attempt  being  made  to  pro- 
tect the  consumer  from  the  germs  of  various  diseases 
easily  carried  in  milk.  In  some  cases  it  is  established 
that  cows  are  never  curried,  and  that  they  wallow  in 
mud  and  filth  to  a  depth  of  six  to  eight  inches  the 
year  around.  We  happen  to  know  that  the  report  of 
the  Board  is  mild,  and  that  it  might  have  been  far 
worse.  At  the  same  time,  the  public  should  be 
pleased  to  hear  that  there  is  one  dairy  that  is  not 
under  the  ban. 

While  there  has  been  a  condemnation  of  nearly 
all  the  dairies,  including  those  in  the  County  of  Marin 
that  condemnation  does  not  extend  to  the  "Sleepy 
Hollow  Dairy,"  where  the  milk  is  obtained  from 
choice  Holstein-Friesian  cattle,  and  where  the  barns 
and  stables  are  maintained  in  a  perfect  sanitary  con- 
dition. Indeed,  one  newspaper  of  San  Francisco  has 
made  the  remark  that  there  was  no  more  comparison 
between  the  stables  at  this  ranch  and  others  than 
"between  a  first-class  racing  stable  and  an  ordinary 
country  barn." 

We  cannot  too  strongly  commend  the  work  of  tne 
Health  Department  in  this  particular,  and  at  the 
same  time  we  feel  that  it  is  our  duty  to  point  out  that 
here  are  some  people  who  have  not  lost  their  con- 
sciences because  they  happen  to  be  in  the  milk  busi- 
ness. 

Here  is  the  report  of  the  Inspector  appointed  by 
the  Board  of  Health  on  the  Marin  County  Dairies: 

Report  of  Dr.  Ragan. 

Dr.  Ragan,  in  speaking  of  his  trip  through  the  sec- 
tion above  San  Rafael,  said : 

"Marin  County  has  the  natural  facilities  to  become 
one  of  the  greatest  dairying  sections  in  the  Western 
country  if  those  who  conduct  the  farms  could  be  made 
to  operate  their  places  on  modern  principles.  The 
topography  of  the  county  is  exactly  suited  for  dairy- 
ing. The  country  is  made  up  of  rolling  hills  that 
would  afford  natural  drainage  if  a  little  money  was 
expended  by  the  dairymen  for  drains. 

"The  presence  of  so  much  fine  spring  water  gives 
the  men  conducting  these  ranches  a  chance  to  keep 
their  places  clean  if  they  would  onlv  use  the  water  to 
advantage.  The  pasturage  afforded  the  stock  is  the 
best  I  have  ever  seen,  and  the  absence  of  fogs  and 
winds  makes  the  country  very  healthful  for  cattle 
as  well  as  people.  We  must  educate  the  men,  who 
conduct  these  dairies,  on  hygiene,  and  those  who  will 
not  be  educated  must  give  up  the  business." 


Dr.  Ragan  and  Dr.  Hassler  visited  seven  dairies 
during  the  day.  Probably  the  worst  of  all  the  places 
visited  was  the  Miller  Ranch,  on  the  Petaluma  road. 
At  this  ranch  175  cows  are  milked,  and  the  corrals 
and  buildings  were  in  a  frightfully  filthy  condition. 
It  was  declared  an  example  of  what  a  dairy  should 
not  be.  The  cows  are  milked  in  the  open,  and  the 
corral  where  the  milking  is  done  was  a  mire  of  filth. 
It  has  been  six  weeks  since  the  last  rain  in  this  sec- 
tion of  Marin,  and  an  idea  of  the  drainage  of  the  Mil- 
ler place  can  be  gained  when  water  that  fell  that  long 
ago  is  still  standing  in  the  yards. 

During  the  milking  time  the  cows  are  turned  into 
the  corral  and  stand  or  lie  for  several  hours  at  a  time 
in  the  six  or  eight  inches  of  filth.  When  the  cows  are 
milked,  they  are  as  a  rule  coated  with  the  dirt  of  the 
corral,  but  such  a  thing  as  a  currv  comb  is  not 
thought  of.  The  barns  and  milk  houses  on  this  ranch 
are  as  correspondingly  dirty  as  the  corrals. 

Besides  the  Miller  ranch,  the  dairies  of  M.  T.  Frei- 
tas,  M.  Figondes,  the  Albertes  and  others  were  vis- 
ited. Of  these  three  the  Albertes  place  was  the  most 
objectionable.  The  sheds  and  premises  on  this  place 
were  in  very  bad  shape,  and  the  methods  of  handling 
the  milk  and  the  personal  condition  of  the  milkers 
were  commented  on  very  strongly  by  the  doctors. 

A  Refreshing  Change. 

In  sharp  contrast  to  these  dairies  enumerated  above 
was  the  place  of  former  Supervisor  Richard  Hotaling. 
The  Hotaling  farm  is  the  only  one  that  has  been 
ranked  as  "very  good  in  the  eighty  odd  dairies  thus 
far  inspected.  Mr.  Hotaling's  place  is  known  as  the 
"Sleepy  Hollow  Dairy,"  and  is  ranked  by  the  inspec- 
tors as  the  model  dairy  of  this  section  of  the  country, 
and  will  be  used  as  a  standard  which  the  other  dairies 
must  emulate.  While  the  equipment  of  the  Hotaling 
dairy  cannot  be  expected  to  be  installed  by  the  other 
dairies,  still  the  system  of  cleanliness  and  care  can 
be  enforced.  The  notable  feature  of  the  Sleepy  Hol- 
low Dairy  was  the  extreme  cleanliness  of  the  prem- 
ises, the  animals  and  the  men  who  conduct  the  place. 
The  cows  are  curried  before  each  milking,  the  men 
wear  clean  uniforms,  and  the  cow  barns  are  washed 
out  after  each  milking,  and  a  plentiful  supply  of  lime 
sprinkled  on  the  floors.  The  barns  are  built  high, 
and  large  windows  and  ventilators  permit  the  access 
of  plenty  of  fresh  air  and  sunshine.  The  feed  boxes 
are  cleaned  daily  and  the  cooling  rooms  and  can- 
washing  racks  are  always  kept  in  a  state  of  neatness 
that  surpasses  the  condition  of  many  kitchens. 

Both  Dr.  Ragan  ana  Dr.  Hassler  were  enthusiastic 
after  leaving  the  Hotaling  farm,  and  it-  was  with  a 
sigh  of  regret  that  they  went  from  this  model  of  a 
dairy  to  places  of  filth  and  stench  conducted  by  neigh- 
boring farmers. 

See  our  3  months  ahead  ideas  In  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


Decorations  tor  weddings,  Charlotte  P.  Williams,  Boom  18. 121  Post  St. 


"BAB'J"' 


Epicunan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


T5he  James  H.   Babcock  Catering  Co. 


212-214  California  St. 


409  Golden  Gats  Ave. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


To   Some   of  Oxir    Local    Doctors 

Mary  L.  Harper,  a  cloak  and  suit  saleswoman,  for- 
merly with  the  Golden  Rule  store,  declares  that  she 
might  have  died  last  Tuesday  night  because  of  the  re- 
fusal of  the  surgeon  at  the  Park  Emergency  Hospital 
to  respond  to  her  call  for  immediate  medical  attend- 
ance.— Daily  Paper. 

To  some  of  you  who  bear  the  name 

Made  holy  by  the  Christ  that  healed 
The  poorest;  whose  dire  want  and  shame 

His   blessed   mercy  ne'er   congealed ; 
That  tender  sympathy,  that  love 

Which  claimed  the  meanest  for  His  care, 
Turns  into  loathing  hate ;   above 

Your  back  is  poised  the  lash.     Beware! 
Misnamed  Physician,  who  for  money's  worth 
Will  shirk  the  labor  of  your  calling  grand — 
Will  let  the  infant  strangle  in  its  birth. 

The  mother  die,  nor  raise  a  healing  hand 
For  those  who  have  no  gold  to  pay  your  hire — 

For  those  whom  Poverty  holds  by  the  throat. 
False  to  your  promise,  false,  you  perjured  liar! 

Whose  honor's  value  is  a  paltry  groat. 
I  see  you  with  hat  doffed,  your  white  head  bare, 

When  wealthy  patients  greet  you  in  the  street. 
Bland  accent  and  a  deprecating  air. 

To  those  whose  patronage  is  rich  and  sweet, 
I  see  you  drive  the  tortured  from  your  door 
The  mother  praying  for  her  infant's  sake. 
The  mother  prays  in  vain,  for  she  is  poor, 

And  who  would  work,  unless  there's  gold  to 
make? 
You  can  hush  scandal     where     the     great     are 
smirched, 
No  labor  is  too  great  where  gold's  to  come, 
And  when  the  homes  of  luxury  are  searched 

And  evil  comes  to  light,  lo,  you  are  dumb. 
But  God's  sick  poor,  you  drive  away  with  scorn. 

With  sneering  curses  drive  the  poor  away. 
After  your  revel  comes  the  judgment  morn. 
And  you  were  better  never  born  that  day. 

—Roland  Whittle. 


GRAND    OPENING 

and  Dedication  of  the  Exten- 
sive Beach   Improvements   at 


"NEW"  SANTA  CRUZ 


Saturday  Evening,  June  11 

Grand  fireworks  display  by  California  Fireworks  Company- 
Brilliant  electrical  illumination  of  Pacific  avenue  and  Esplanade 
Neptune  Casino.  Plunge  Baths  and  Pleasure  Pier.  Third  Artillery 
Band.  U.  8.  A.    Concert  and  ball. 

Special  Excursions  via  S.  P.  Ry. 


PARK  HOUSE  and    COTTAGES 

BEN  LOMOND,  CAL. 
New    management.      An    ideal    resort,    unsurpassed    climate 
drives,  fishing  and  hunting. 

Two   hours   ride   to    Big   Basin.     Modern    prices. 

J.    D.    CELLA,    Prop. 


Spend  Your  Vacation 

A  great  many  San  Francisco  people  are  planning  to  spend 
the  entire  summer  at  Hotel  Del  Monte.  No  o'.her  resort  in 
California  offers  such  a  combination  of  attractions,  sea-bathirg, 
golf,  automobiling,  tennis,  fishing  and  all  out  of  door  sports. 
Instead  of  going  from  place  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the  wise 
ones  of  society  are  planning  already  to  put  in  several  enjoyable 
weeks  down  at  Del  Monte  by  the  Sea.    Address 

Geo.  P.  Snell,  Manager,  Del  Monte,  California. 

At  Hotel  Del  Monte 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling' 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet    Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN   JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendame  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS,    Prop. 


paraiso    SPr*n£s 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

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IW&d&V'W  SOCIETY  ,ffi$%ffi& 


Dear   Bessie:   Wedding  bells   are   commencit  . 
chime  again,    There  were  two  weddings  Inst  Wednes- 
day to  usher  in  tlie  month  of  June.     1  >ne 

ion  and  Doctor  Harold  Johnson's,  which  took 
place  at  noon  at  the  Meyerstein  home,  and  1 
very  quiet  affair,  with  only  just  the  family  prcsenl 
at  the  ceremony,  no  attendants,  and  the  bride  and 
groom  have  gone  to  Boston,  which  is  to  he  their  fu- 
ture home.  The  other  was  a  button  wedding  at  Ber- 
keley, when  Marjorie  Erwin  and  Lieutenant  Gilbert 
Taylor  were  joined  in  marriage.  Next  Wednesday 
will  be  the  wedding  day  of  Genevieve  Huntsman  and 
Harry  Williar,  and  the  ceremony  will  be  performed 
at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Huntsman  on  Sutter  street.  There 
:ne  talk  of  Susie  Blanding's  wedding  going  over 
till  September,  owing  to  the  unsatisfactory  state  of 
her  health,  but  I  do  not  know  how  true  it  is ;  one  thing 
is  sure,  that  when  it  does  come  off,  Sophie  Brownell 
will  officiate  as  matron-of-honor  and  be  the  only  one 
in  attendance,  too,  I  believe.  Among  other  Septem- 
ber brides  will  be  Isabel  Hooper,  Kate  Selfridge  and 
Edith  Findley;  at  least,  that  is  the  programme  at 
present,  liable  to  change,  however.  Edith  Shorbe's 
engagement  to  James  Steel  of  Sacramento  is  one  of 
those  announced  the  past  week,  and  the  middle  of 
July  is  named  as  the  date  for  the  wedding,  which 
will  take  place  at  home,  but  I  will  tell  you  more 
about  it  later.  News  comes  of  the  engagement  of 
Mary  Hobbs,  who  was  such  a  favorite  while  her 
father  was  stationed  at  the  Presidio,  to  Lieutenant 
Brice,  who  has  just  been  ordered  East,  so  I  dare- 
say the  wedding  will  take  place  there  very  soon. 
"They  say"  one  of  the  weddings  of  the  winter  will 
be  that  of  Maud  Bourne  and  Frank  King,  whose  en- 
gagement will  be  announced  directly  she  returns 
from  her  trip  abroad.  But  you  know  people  dearly 
love  to  settle  other  people's  affairs,  and  half  the  time 
there  is  but  a  grain  of  truth  in  the  tales  that  get 
afloat. 

The  Harvey  girls  will  soon  be  here,  and  we  are 
quite  on  the  qui  vive  to  have  a  good  look  at  them. 
There  was  a  good  deal  of  a  discussion  indulged  in  at 
Kate's  little  tea  the  other  day,  as  to  whether  they 
would  hyphenate  their  father's  name — Downey — 
with  their  own,  which  appears  to  be  deemed  the  cor- 
rect thing  with  so  many  of  them,  but  the  conclusion 
arrived  at  was  that  Mrs.  Harvey  was  too  sensible  a 
woman  to  attempt  such  a  thing.  They  are  already 
regarded  as  the  buds  of  the  coming  season.  Laura 
McKinstry  is  quite  pleased  at  the  prospect  of  hav- 
ing her  brother  Charles  here  part  of  the  summer;  he 
is  a  Captain  now,  you  know,  and  will  be  here  on  duty 
for  several  weeks  in  August.  We  have  just  heard 
that  Fay  Kilburne  is  to  be  married  again  to  a  Miss 
Maud  Metts  of  Yorkeville,  South  Carolina.  Don't 
you  remember  he  was  in  the  First  Infantry,  and 
stationed  at  Angel  Island  for  a  long  time  before  the 
Cuban  war,  and  what  a  pretty  wedding  it  was  when 
he  and  Lily  Miles  were  married  here  in  '95,  and  how 
sorry  every  one  was  for  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Miles 
when  she  died  three  years  ago. 

May  writes  me  from  Del  Monte  that  the  arrival 
of  the  Spreckels  auto  party  created  quite  a  sensation 
last  Saturday ;  there  were  four  machines,  with,  among 
others,  Grace  and  Lily,  Kate  Dillon,  Julia  and  Sam 
Buckbee.  They  stopped  at  the  Vendome  over-night 
on  the  trip  down  from  town.  And  I  have  had  an- 
other letter  from  Grace,  who  had  still  more  to  tell 


me  of  her  visit  to  Ireland.  Among  other  things  she 
was  present  at  the  departure  of  the  Duke  of  Con- 
naught,  who  is  a  brother  of  King  Edward,  from  Ire 
Kind,  where  he  has  been  Commander  of  the  forces, 
and  saw  Lady  Maxwell — nee  Bonyngc — present  a 
magnificent  bouquet  to  the  Duchess  of  Connaught. 
which  was  "graciously  received,"  in  the  lingo  of 
court  functions.  Lady  Maxwell,  whose  husband  is 
Chief  of  Staff  to  the  Duke,  is  always  noted  for  her 
beautiful  gowns,  and  on  this  occasion  appeared  in  a 
lovely  costume  of  mauve  chiffon  cloth. 

You  never  saw  any  one  more  pleased  than  Clem- 
mie  Kip  Edie  at  not  having  to  go  to  the  Philippines; 
Doctor  Edie's  orders  there  have  been  changed,  and 
he  will  remain  on  duty  in  the  East  for  the  present, 
at  any  rate,  and  she  of  course  joins  him  there.  Helen 
Ashton,  on  the  contrary,  is  quite  elated  at  the  pros- 
pect of  her  coming  visit  to  our  Island  possessions. 
She  was  to  have  made  her  debut  the  coming  winter, 
hut  instead  of  that,  she  will  accompany  her  aunt, 
Nellie  Smedburg  Mclvor  when  she  goes  to  Manila 
in  the  autumn  to  join  Major  Mclvor,  who  has  been 
there  for  some  time.  Cora  Smedburg,  who  has  been 
in  miserable  health  all  winter,  is  going  East  to  spend 
the  summer  and  may  possibly  stay  away  till  next 
spring. 

I  hear  that  the  Paul  Clagstones — Cora  Kirk,  you 
know — are  at  Santa  Barbara,  he  busily  practicing  for 
the  polo  tournament  in  August,  at  Del  Monte,  and 
she  the  picture  of  blooming  happiness;  Joe  and  Cyril 
Tobin  are  equally  hard  at  work  at  Del  Monte,  where 
they  will  stay  indefinitely.  J.  W.  Byrne  is  there,  too, 
but  he  devotes  himself  to  the  pleasures  of  golf.  The 
Jack  Merrills  have  changed  their  minds,  and  instead 
of  Sausalito,  will  spend  the  summer  at  Santa  Bar- 
bara ;  the  Ashton  Potters,  who  are  here  just  now,  are 
being  made  quite  a  fuss  over  by  Mamie's  old  friends; 
they  are  talking  of  making  their  home  at  Santa  Bar- 
bara. They  will  be  there  this  summer,  anyway,  and 
Mrs.  McNutt  and  Ruth,  also.  Kate  Dillon  is  off  again 
to  Europe,  where  she  will  spend  the  summer,  return- 
ing again  about  November,  in  time  for  the  winter 
season,  which  is  a  satisfaction  to  hear.  The  James 
Follises,  Ethel  Tompkins  and  Daisy  Van  Ness,  sailed 


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last  Sunday  for  Tahiti,  for  the  sake  of  the  ocean  trip 
merely,  and  they  will  have  a  pleasant  month  at  sea ; 
t.ie  Willie  Gwins,  who  have  been  East,  returned  last 
week,  and  will  pass  the  time  of  their  daughter's  ab- 
sence at  San  Rafael. 

Mrs.  Joe  Tobin  is  never  so  happv  as  when  she  has 
some  of  her  friends  staying  with  her  at  her  Napa 
Valley  home,  and  generally  keeps  it  pretty  well  filled. 
Alice  Hager  is  with  her  at  present ;  Ethel  is,  I  be- 
lieve, going  South  ;  the  Eugene  Murphys  are  occupy- 
ing the  Dan  Murphy  cottage  at  Burlingame,  adding 
another  couple  to  the  many  delightful  people  who 
are  at  that  exclusive  settlement  this  summer.  I  hear 
that  Ruth  and  Beth  Allen,  who  are  at  their  home  in 
San  Mateo,  intend  to  have  a  series  of  house  parties 
during  the  season;  Mrs.  Hyde  Smith  and  the  girls 
have  selected  San  Mateo  as  their  summer  locale ; 
Elsie  Tallant  goes  with  her  mother  to  Yosemite  for 
the  month  of  June,  and  then  to  San  Rafael  for  the 
rest  of  the  season;  Marie  Voorhies  is  expected  home 
from  the  Orient  in  about  ten  days;  Mary  Eyres  is 
visiting  the  Garnetts  in   Dixon. 

—Elsie. 


BIRTHS. 

Recently  in  Philadelphia,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward 
Moore  Robinson,  a  son.  Mrs.  Robinson  was 
Miss  Eileen  Ivers. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 

Miss  Edith  Shorbe,  daughter  of  the  late  J.  de  B. 
Shorbe  and  Mrs.  Susan  W.  Shorbe,  to  James 
King  Steele,  of  Sacramento. 

Miss  Marie  Adam,  daughter  of  Mrs.  T.  W.  Rivers, 
to  Clarence  E.  Musto. 

Miss  Malvina  Nathan,  daughter  of  the  late  Washing- 
ton Nathan,  of  New  York,  to  Edgar  Peixotto. 

Miss  Mary  Hobbs,  daughter  of  Major  C.  W.  Hobbs, 
U.  S.  A.,  to  Lieutenant  Pressley  K.  Brice,  U.  S. 
A. 

Miss  Florence  Hellman,  daughter  of  I.  W.  Hellman, 
to  Sidney  M.  Ehrman. 

WEDDINGS. 

June  ist  (Wednesday) — Miss  Christine  Luhrs, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Anna  E.  L.  Luhrs,  to  Walter 
Byron  Webster,  1165  Bush  street,  9  p.  m. 

June  4th  (Saturday) — Miss  Neville  Simms  Taylor, 
daughter  of  Rear-Admiral  Taylor,  U.  S.  N..  to 
Lieutenant  Rockwell  Gerhardi,  son  of  the  late 
Admiral  Bancroft  Gerhardi,  U.  S.  N.  All  Saints 
Church,  Chevy  Chase,  Maryland. 

OBITUARY. 

May  27th — Mrs.  Caroline  Loyall  Ashe,  widow  of  Dr. 
R.  Porter  Ashe. 


Miss  Kathryn  Mclver,  formerly  of  San  Francisco 
and  San  Jose,  graduated  with  the  1904  class  from  the 
Detroit  Seminary  on  Thursday,  June  2d. 

There  is  the  singing  of  birds  and  the  scent  of  flow- 
ers on  the  air,  the  charm  of  summer  in  the  woodland 
and  the  exquisite  service  of  an  exceptionally  well- 
managed  hotel  at  San  Rafael.  The  Hotel  Rafael  is 
enjoying  a  large  patronage  from  San  Franciscans, 
and  there  are  many  Eastern  visitors  as  well.  There 
is  no  place  conveniently  near  San  Francisco  that  is 
so  delightful  as  the  Hotel  Rafael,  as  a  place  of  rest 
and  recreation. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  del  Monte:  A.  R.  Pommer,  C.  L. 
Chapin,  H.  Steinway,  Miss  H.  L.  Brown.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  L.  G.  Rowell,  Tohn  Lawson,  Mme.  Waterhouse 
and  son,  H.  G.  Piatt,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Harley, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rittler,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  H.  Boardman, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Hamm,  Dr.  E.  A.  Blake,  Mrs. 


June  4,  1904. 

E.  A.  Blake,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Lund,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cha.ies  L.  Shainwald,  Miss  Grace  Spreckels,  Miss 
Lillie  Spreckels,  Mrs.  Tohn  Spreckels,  Tr.,  Mr  T-  D 
Spreckels,  Jr.,  Mr.  John  D.  Spreckels,  W.  S.  Hobart, 
H.  R.  Simpkins,  W.  McLean,  W.  W.  Stetson,  Walter 
Speyer  and  Mrs.  Speyer,  Miss  Eleanor  Morgan,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Sam  Buckbee,  Miss  Warfield,  R.  A  Croth- 
ers,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  E.  Bowles,  Mrs.  Grant,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Maurice  Getz,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thos.  Bovd,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  G.  F.  Gray,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Doane,  Miss  Blanche 
Doane,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  N.  Percy,  Miss  Ruth  Mit- 
chell, P.  Friedman.  Miss  Friedman,  S.  Klein,  A.  L. 
Stone,  Mrs.  Stone,  Miss  Sara  Havemeyer,  Miss  Have- 
meyer, Mrs.  W.  A.  Havemeyer,  Mrs.  L.  Mayer,  H. 
L.  Mayer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  C.  Kennedv,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
M.  W.  Curry,  Paul  Lircisner,  Mrs.  J.'  Martin  Smith, 
W.  Grage,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Krieg,  Tames  L.  Laid- 
law,  C.  A.  Kennedv,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Babcock,  Mrs.  E. 
V.  Burkle,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Burkle,  Mrs.  W.  H.  T.  Ran- 
dolph, Mrs.  A.  Campbell.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  C.  Tohn- 
stone  and  baby,  E.  C.  Hull.  L.  A.  Schwabacher,  J. 
E.  Bien,  S.  L.  jacohi,  C.  Boardman,  Frank  P..  Ander- 
son, Miss  Stella  Victor,  Harry  Victor,  Frank  G.  La- 
zeler,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Welch,  W,  P.  Rice. 

Frank  A.  Vail  and  wife  welcomed  the  advent  of  a 
little  girl  baby  on  the  19th  of  May.  The  wee  little 
one  will  soon  be  holding  receptions  to  her  parents' 
friends,  who  are  legion,  and  whose  congratulations 
are  due. 

The  Stratford-on-Avon  (England)  Herald  prints 
in  its  latest  list  of  tourists  the  names  of  the  following 
Californians:  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Strohn,  Mrs.  Roys  N. 
Strohn  and  Miss  E.  Strohn.  accompanied  by'  Mrs. 
Edith  Strohn  Copley  of  Illinois. 

Emma  B.  Folsom,  and  George  Grant,  the  prominent 
insurance  man,  were  married  on  the  twenty-seventh 
instant,  and  are  the  recipients  of  the  hearty  congratu- 
lations of  their  manv  friends.  The  happv  couple 
are  to  make  their  residence  at  the  New  Empire. 

John  Morrisey,  the  genial  resident  manager  of  the 
Orpheum,  is  enjoying  a  brief  vacation  at  St.  Louis, 
where  he  went  last  week  to  join  Mrs.  Morrisey. 

From  far  Hawaii  comes  the  echo  of  a  brilliant  re- 
ception and  dance  given  on  the  Pacific  Mail  Steamer 
Mongolia  on  the  occasion  of  the  last  visit  of  that 
steamer  to  the  bay  of  Honolulu.  The  credit  for  the 
idea  of  this  very  successful  social  function  belongs  to 
Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin,  wife  of  the  vice-President  of 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company.  The  big 
steamer  was  brilliant  with  lights  from  stem  to  stern. 
The  masts,  the  main  and  the  hurricane  deck  were  a 
mass  of  bunting  and  color.  Huge  American  and  Ha- 
waiian flags  intertwined  enclosed  the  stern  of  the 
main  deck.  The  Roval  Hawaiian  Band  and  the  band 
from  the  U.  S.  S.  New  York,  stationed  advantage- 
ously, discoursed  sweet  music.  Captain  Rinder  re- 
ceived the  guests  informally  at  the  head  of  the  gang- 
way, and  Mrs.  Schwerin,  from  a  central  point,  re- 
ceived formally  a  little  later  on. 


Trachoma  is  Granulated  Eyelids. 

Murine  Bye  Remedy  cures  this  and  other  Eye  troubles;  makes 
Weak  Eyes  Strong. 


The  latest  and  best  directory  published,  is  the  San  Francisco  Office 
Building  .-md  Business  Directory.  For  sale  at  :t'2o  Snnsome  St..  Price 
$2.50.    Tel.  James  569*;.  or  send  postal. 


Original  designs  in  menu  and   tally  carus.    Charlotte  F.  Williams. 
Boom  18.  121  Post  St. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothing  8yrupM 

for  your  children  while  teething. 


Are  you  tired?  Go  to  the  Post  Street  Turkish  Bathe. 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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THE  MILWAUKEE  MECHANICS'  INSURANCE 
COMPANY. 
The  Milwaukee  Mechanics'   tnsurance  Company, 

n,  i.>  more  than  a  half  century 
•M,  when  it  established 
this  coast,  it  I  inservative  practices  built  up 

a  business  approaching  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars 
in   premium   income.     Its  assets  amount 

■-  lias  successfully  passed  through  the  greal 
conflagration.-  of  Chicago,  Boston,  Rochester  and 
;iore.  The  liabilities  at  Baltimore  exceeded 
$300,000,  and  these  were  promptly  adjusted  an 
promptly  paid  in  cash.  Since  its  organization  it  has 
paid  over  $10,000,000  in  loss  claims. 

Recently,  the  branch  office  of  the  Milwaukee  Me 
chanics'  and  the  German  Underwriters  lias  been 
removed  to  No.  208  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  and 
this  removal  was  made  necessary  by  its  large  increase 
throughout  the  Pacific  Coast, — over  300  agents  re- 
porting to  this  department. 

The  German  Underwriters  is  a  branch  of  the  Mil- 
waukee Mechanics',  and  is  practically  part  and  parcel 
of  the  parent  company,  although  it  maintains  a  sepa- 
rate and  distinct  representation  throughout  this  field. 

The  management  of  the  Milwaukee  Mechanics' 
and  the  German  Underwriters  department  has  been 
entrusted  to  Mr.  L.  L.  Bromwell,  since  1S94,  and  he 
is  ably  assisted  by  Captain  G.  E.  Overton,  Senior 
Special  Agent;  Frank  E.  Walsh,. Special  Agent  for 
the  Southern  end  of  the  field,  located  at  Los  An- 
geles: and  Walter  E.  Bliss,  Special  Agent  for  the 
Northwest,  located  at  Portland,  Oregon. 

The  net  surplus  of  the  company,  over  and  above 
its  capital,  reserves  and  every  liability,  is  six  times 
its  capital  stock,  and,  therefore,  the  company  is  in- 
dependent of  the  fire  department  of  its  business ;  the 
income  from  its  investments  being  sufficient  to  pay 
large  dividends.  There  is  no  safer  policy  issued  by 
any  company  represented  on  the  Pacific  Coast  than 
that  of  the  Milwaukee  Mechanics'  and  German  Un- 
derwriters. 


Miss  Charlotte  F.  Williams  is  making  a  great  repu- 
tation among  the  elect  of  society  by  her  chic  ideas 
in  wedding  favors  and  menu  and  tally  cards.  She 
makes  a  specialty  of  decorations  for  dinners,  etc.,  and 
her  artistic  skill  and  originality  is  making  her  a  rap- 
idly increasing  clientele.  She  is  located  at  121  Post 
street,  and  may  be  called  the  advisor  ordinary  and 
extraordinary  in  social  functions. 

The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  t.onlcs  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


A  pattern  hat  of  exquisite  design  may  he  seemed  at.  Miss  Sweeney's 
studio  at  121  Post  Street  at  the  special  sale,  which  is  to  commence  in 
June  and  continue  through  the  season.  These  special  designs  in  mil- 
linery are  to  be  sold  at  hair  price.  Miss  Sweeney's  early  departure 
for  the  East  is  the  reason  for  the  sale  and  it  is  her  purpose  to  make 
room  for  the  new  stock  which  she  will  purchase  while  she  is  away. 


Albert  Edward  of  England  is  said  tn  he  the  greatest  living  epicure. 
"With  what  pleasure  he  would  sit  at  the  board  of  the  Mnraghan  Oyster 
House  in  the  California  Market-  There  is  a  keen  delight  in  knowing 
that  anyone  may  sit  at  a  meal  the  King  would  enjoy  for  Moraghans  is 
within  the  reach  of  all.  Meals  fit  for  a  King  who  knows  should  be  the 
motto  of  this  model  among  restaurateurs. 


Wedding  and  Birthday  presents  in  great  variety  at  Gump's.113  Geary  St. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON 


Time  was  when  Memorial  Day  was  an  occasion 
for  genuine  demonstrations  of  genuine  patriotism ; 
for  eulogies  of  heroes  dead  and  gone,  and  for  instill- 
ing in  the  youth  of  the  land  a  veneration  for  those 
who  laid  down  their  lives  for  the  greater  glory  of 
the  republic.  In  those  days,  there  were  real  parades, 
with  all  the  pomp  and  circumstance  of  war;  the  peo- 
ple assembled  upon  the  sidewalks,  and  reverently 
uncovered  their  heads  as  grey-haired  veterans  limped 
past  with  tattered  ensigns  and  bullet-torn  battle- 
Mags  ;  thousands  assembled  at  the  cemeteries  and 
covered  the  graves  of  the  fallen  with  California's 
choicest  blossoms ;  shop  keepers  put  up  their  shut- 
ters; churches  held  services,  and  in  many  ways  evi- 
dence was  given  of  the  desire  of  the  people  to  honor 
the  memories  of  our  soldiers  and  sailors.  But  now — 
what  change  has  come  o'er  the  spirit  of  our  dream? 
Has  increased  prosperity  made  us  sordid?  Has  the 
race  for  wealth  so  increased  personal  selfishness  that 
we  no  longer  care  for  those  other  things  that  aid  in 
making  a  nation  great?  Has  political  corruption 
become  so  general  throughout  the  country  that  it  is 
of  no  consequence  to  the  people  whether  what  should 
be  the  high  ideals  are  debased  or  not?  Do  they  con- 
sider the  men  that  have  fought  and  will  fight  their 
battles  merely  so  many  hired  servants  for  whom 
they  should  have  no  concern,  and  upon  whom  they 
may  gaze  disinterestedly,  as  upon  so  many  figures 
in  a  passing  show?  Whatever  the  cause,  certain  it  is 
that  we  of  San  Francisco  have  lost  that  ingenuous- 
ness that  once  distinguished  us  as  a  community ;  our 
crowds  are  no  longer  to  be  told  from  any  crowd  in 
any  large  city;  our  people  now  suppress  any  emo- 
tions they  may  have  as  readily  as  do  any  other  peo- 
ple; our  sense  of  veneration  has  been  blunted;  we 
have  become  mere  passive  spectators,  instead  of  en- 
thusiastic participants  in  ceremonies  that  have  their 
basis  in  patriotism.  "Well,  we  have  grown,"  you 
say.  'We  no  longer  make  up  a  Western  village ;  we 
are  now  one  of  the  leading  municipalities  of  the 
United  States'."  And  is  a  man  to  become  less  manly, 
to  forget  the  teachings  of  his  youth,  because  he  has 
become  rich  and  powerful?  There  be  greater  things 
than  riches. 

Such  was  the  trend  of  my  thoughts  as  I  watched 
the  skeleton  battalions  parade  along  Van  Ness  ave- 
nue last  Monday.  The  crowd  was  as  thin  as  the 
ranks.  In  five  blocks  along  the  avenue  only  one  flag 
flew  from  a  house-top.  Most  of  the  spectators  were 
in  gala  attire  and  paused  only  for  the  troops  to  pass, 
so  that  they  might  continue  their  ways  to  the  ferry, 
whence  to  enjoy  a  picnic.  Colonel  O'Neill's  regi- 
ment made  a  very  poor  showing.  Many  of  its  mem- 
bers may  have  been  in  the  ranks  of  the  veterans,  but 
even  so,  the  regiment  should  have  done  better.  The 
parade  was  brief,  and  after  the  review,  the  troops 
and  the  people  hurried  away.  It  would  seem  almost 
the  better  plan  to  forego  a  parade  on  Memorial  Day 
in  the  future,  unless  more  can  be  made  of  it.  Fortu- 
nately, Memorial  Day  is  a  legal  holiday,  and  there- 
fore must  be  observed  to  some  extent.  It  is  likewise 
fortunate  that  the  "glorious  Fourth"  is  also  a  legal 
holiday.  Were  it  not,  no  one  but  the  occasional  small 
boy  would  be  so  mean  as  to  do  it  reverence.  Truly, 
we  are  a  great  people,  but  we  believe  that  sufficient 
for  the  day  is  the  evil  thereof.     "Let  the  dead  past 

bury  its  dead."     We  are  too  busy. 
*  *  * 

One  Robert  Minter,  who  had  been  using  the  mails 
for  fraudulent  purposes,  thought  he  would  beat  the 
game  by  pleading  guilty,  and  throwing  himself  upon 


the  mercy  of  the  court.  But  District  Judge  De  Haven 
gave  him  a  severe  shock  when  he  announced  that 
when  he  sentenced  to  imprisonment  a  man  who  had 
pleaded  guilty  to  a  crime,  his  mind  was  always  filled 
with  the  calm  satisfaction  that  arises  from  the 
knowledge  of  a  duty  well  performed.  "If  he  knows 
he  is  guilty,  and  admits  it,"  said  the  Judge,  "I  have 
satisfaction  in  giving  him  the  full  penalty  of  the 
law."  Minter  gasped,  withdrew  his  plea,  and  asked 
for  a  jury  trial.  Judge  De  Haven's  method  is  com- 
mended to  other  local  jurists. 

*  *  * 

The  demands  for  improvement  in  the  sweeping  of 
the  streets  are  rapidly  growing  into  a  thunderous  roar 
of  protest  against  existing  conditions.  Lack  of 
sprinkling,  rather  than  imperfect  sweeping,  is  re- 
sponsible for  most  of  the  complaints.  It  is  but  small 
benefit  to  a  shop-keeper  or  a  house-holder  to  have 
the  dirt  and  dust  blown  from  the  piles  in  the  streets 
into  his  front  door.  In  Philadelphia,  where  similar 
complaints  have  been  made,  much  has  been  done  to 
alleviate  conditions  by  requiring  the  street  car  com- 
panies to  run  watering  cars  over  tTieir  lines  so  many 
times  a  day.  Such  a  plan,  if  lollowed  here,  would 
result  in  immediate  relief  in  all  the  retail  districts. 

*  *  * 

Joaquin  Miller  is  prospecting  along  a  new  avenue 
to  fame.  Up  at  "The  Heights"  he  is  developing  a 
new  brand  of  chicken  which  lays  hard-boiled  eggs. 
He  introduced  his  fowl  and  their  fruits  last  Sunday, 
when  he  and  Count  de  Parhacs  fed  a  number  of  pil- 
grims at  the  poet's  place.  The  Count  is  a  painter 
first,  a  soldier  second,  and  incidentally  a  traveler. 
Above  all,  he  claims,  he  is  a  good  cook.  The  pilgrims 
concede  the  last-named  distinction,  which,  I  think, 
far  the  greatest.  There  are  thousands  of  painters, 
soldiers  and  travelers — but  to  cook !  that  is  a  gift  of 
the  gods.  But  this  is  all  in  passing.  The  real  object 
of  this  paragraph  is  Miller's  great  discovery — the 
hard-boiled  hen — no,  the  hard-boiled  egg  of  the  be- 
fore boiled  hen.  This  is  the  way  it  happened.  On 
Miller's  place  is  a  small  geyser — not  siphon,  but  a 
real,  genuine  geyser — of  boiling  water.  Now, 
the  poet's  hens  have  become  hardened  by  scurrying 
over  "The  Heights,"  and  their  integumentaries  have 
become  pachylemous  in  their  toughness.  Excres- 
censes  developed  upon  their  feet,  and  lumps  upon 
their  legs.  To  cure  this  affliction,  the  poet  immersed 
the  chickens'  legs  in  the  hot  geyser  water.  The 
effect  was  wonderful.  The  corns  and  things  disap- 
peared. The  fowl  liked  the  treatment.  Whenever 
they  needed  a  bracer,  they  stood  in  the  overflow  from 
the  boiling  geyser.  As  they  became  accustomed  to 
the  water,  they  remained  longer  in  it.  Now.  they 
sometimes  stand  ten  minutes  in  the  spring.  Pres- 
ently, Miller  noticed  that  his  eggs  were  always  hard- 
boiled.  If  he  cooked  them  only  half  a  minute  they 
came  out  hard,  though  the  ordinary  hen  fruit  will  not 
harden  inside  of  four  minutes.    He  watched  the  hens. 


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iw  them  standing  in  the  gcv 
them  conic  out  and  1;./.     He  picked  up  a  fresh-laid 
ind   opened   it.      h   was   hard-boiled.   With   the 
■n  of  a  little  salt,  half  a  dozen  made  a  meal — 
for  Miller.    The  bard-boiled  eggs  were  served  to  his 
91    Sunday.     The   poet   intends  writing  a 
"Lay  of  the  Hard-Boiled  Egg."    He  also  intends 
warding  a  hunch  of  his  hens  to  St  Louis  as  Califor- 
nia products. 

*  *  * 


Pears' 


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The  School  Directors  have  done  one  good  thine; 
in  raising  the  salaries  of  the  teachers.  Now,  if  they 
will  give  some  attention  to  the  improvement  of  the 
school  buildings,  the  department  and  the  public  will 
have  cause  for  mutual  congratulation.  Many  of  the 
school  buildings  are  in  a  disgraceful  condition  ;  others 
are  so  far  gone  they  should  be  vacated  and  torn  down. 
In  the  outlying  districts,  children  are  forced  to  sit 
in  dirty  sheds,  such  as  might,  upon  compulsion,  be 
found  satisfactory  to  coolies,  but  whose  existence 
as  part  of  the  school  department  is  a  shame  to  the 
city.  The  sanitary  conditions  in  many  schools  are 
in  open  and  notorious  violation  of  the  laws.  The 
Board  of  Health  is  not  doing  its  full  duty  when  it 
permits  such  buildings  to  be  occupied  for  any  public 
purpose,  particularly  when  the  occupants  are  children 
of  tender  age,  and  therefore  susceptible  to  the  various 
diseases  which  have  their  origin  in  germs  bred  under 
just  the  conditions  to  which  the  pupils  are  sub- 
jected daily.  The  Grand  Jury  has  denounced  the 
sanitary  condition  of  the  schools;  the  School  Direc- 
tors have  denounced  it;  the  people  have  denounced 
it,  and  it  is  time  something  radical  was  done  in  the 
way  of  reform. 

"No  reading  does  us  any  good  that  is  not  a  pleas- 
ure to  us,"  says  Richard  Le  Gallienne.  In  com- 
menting upon  this  opinion,  Bailey  Millard  says:  ''We 
have  seen  people  with  grammar  school  educations 
trying  to  get  through  'Paradise  Lost,'  so  that  they 
could  say  they  had  read  it,  and  we  have  seen  what  a 
perfectly  useless  task  it  was.  We  must  not  plod ; 
we  must  not  drudge.  We  must  enjoy  what  we  read, 
and  we  must  read  what  we  enjoy." 

Now,  as  Millard  would  say,  there  is  a  thought  for 
you.  If  you  have  not  had  more  than  a  grammar 
school  education ;  if  you  do  not  possess  a  university 
degree;  if  you  are  not  of  the  elect  to  which,  of  course, 
Millard  must  belong,  you  may  as  well  give  up  right 
now  trying  to  enjoy  any  of  the  great  works  of  any 
of  the  great  poets.  Nor  is  it  worth  your  while  to  try 
to  enjoy  them.  They  are  all  beyond  your  mental 
grasp ;  they  are  deep  below  your  intellectual  hori- 
zon. If  you  are  aware  of  your  educational  limitations 
you  must  quit  without  an  endeavor,  for  if  you  try  to 
develop,  you  may  fall  into  plodding,  and  plodding  is 
drudgery,  says  Mr.  Millard.  That  gentleman  has 
written  in  his  time  much  nonsense  that  has  secured 
publication,  but  this  latest  contribution  to  the 
thought  of  the  day  is  so  apparently  the  veriest  rot 
that  it  is  hardly  worth  discussion.  He  bases  his  views 
upon  an  entirely  wrong  hypothesis,  to  begin  with. 
His  idea  seems  to  be  that  the  hall  mark  of  a  college 
is  needed  before  a  man's  mind  can.  broaden ;  before 
his  soul  can  be  elevated  to  an  appreciation  of  higher 
things;  before  he  can  wander  with  the  poets  among 
the  higher  realms  of  imagination  and  enjoy  the.  fig- 
ures wrought  by  their  fancy,  or  profit  by  the  teach- 
ings of  their  philosophy.  It  is  sad  to  think,  isn't  it, 
that  a  man  like  Abraham  Lincoln,  whose  soul  was  at- 
tuned to  music,  who  possessed  the  attributes  of  a 
great  poet — imagery,  sadness,  force,  philosophy — 
could  not  appreciate  "Paradise  Lost"  because  he  did 


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The  color  you  want  to 
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not  have  even  a  "grammar  school  education."     I  am 
of  a  mind  that  our  friend  Millard  is  "merely  trying 
to  live  the  character  of  an  eminently  literary  person- 
age,  without  any  notable  performance." 
*  *  * 

Roosevelt  has  written  to  George  Knight  and  asked 
him  to  second  the  President's  nomination  at  the 
national  convention.  "My  dear  Knight,"  is  the  style 
of  the  address  from  the  White  House.  Now,  if 
Hearst  should  write  Tarpey  and  call  him  "My  dear 
Tarpey,"  there  would  be  more  truth  than  poetry  in 
the  adjective. 

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June  4,  1904. 


A  TRUSTY  TIP  ON    THINGS    THEATRICAL. 

FISCHER'S-Iie-opening.    Magnificently  staged.  "0.  B"    A  big  success. 

ALCAZAR— "Toll  Gate  Inn."  a  pleasing  romantic  play. 

ORPHEUM— A  very  good  vaudeville  performance. 

COLUMBIA— Maude  Adams,  a  delightful  and  clever  actress— "Little 
Minister." 

CRAND— "Gismonda."  a  triumph  for  Ethel  Fuller— fine  production. 

CENTRAL— "A  Celebrated  Case,"  surprisingly  well  played  and  excel- 
lently staged. 

TIVOLI-"The  Toy  Maker."  a  fair  production. 

CHUTES— An  unusually  good  theatrical  program.  Entertaining 
throughout. 


Fischer's  Theatre  re-opened  amid  a  blaze  of  glory 
and  music  and  red  lights.  The  new  company  is  a 
fine  one,  and  the  new  contralto,  Miss  Hull,  is  a  favor- 
ite already.  The  Garrity  sisters  are  phenomenally 
good  dancers,  and  Miss  Aug,  the  pretty  soubrette,  is- 
pleasing  in  the  extreme.  This  young  woman  is  very 
clever,  and  seems  to  possess  more  than  the  usual 
amount  of  brains  allotted  to  stage  young  people  of 
her  kind.  She  is  sprightly  and  bright,  and  there  is 
a  certain  brilliancy  in  her  lines  that  comes  from  her- 
self, and  not  from  the  author,  for  if  the  truth  be  told, 
Brusie  has  not  dialogued  to  his  usual  ability  in  "U. 
S.,"  especially  so  in  the  first  act.  This  is  easily  reme- 
died, and  by  the  middle  of  the  week  the  play  now  on 
at  the  Fisher  house  will  go  like  the  popping  of  cham- 
pagne corks,  and  will  sparkle  like  unto  the  liquor 
thereof.     "U.  S."  is  in  for  a  long  run. 

*  *  » 

It  must  be  a  rare  comfort  to  the  Fischer  audiences 
to  sit  in  a  house  that  you  know  is  absolutely  safe 
in  case  of  fire.  When  1  say  safe,  I  am  referring,  of 
course,  to  the  matter  of  exits.  The  house  has  been 
crowded  all  the  week,  and  if  attractive  music  and  a 
splendid  chorus,  witn  a  musical  playlet  that  goes 
with  a  zip  and  a  bang,  is  capable  of  drawing  crowds, 
"U.  S."  is  destined  for  a  long  run. 

Unfortunately  the  "Radium  Dance"  was  not  shown 
owing  to  some  break  in  the  operating  machinery.  The 
audience  did  not  miss  it,  however,  as  they  got  their 
money's  worth  as  it  was. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Fuller's  "Gismonda"  is  a  revelation.  She 
has  shown  us  that  she  is  a  most  able  actress  in  the 
various  Sardou  characters  she  has  given  us  during 
the  MacDowell  engagement,  but  it  remained  for  the 
performance  of  "Gismonda"  to  fully  acquaint  us  with 
this  actress's  range.  Perhaps  I  enjoyed  this  play 
more  than  any  other  during  this  engagement,  because 
MacDowell  was  less  in  evidence.  I  will  have  a 
chance  to  note  if  this  may  be  accepted  as  a  fact  when 
I  see  him  in  "A  Captain  of  Navarre." 
v  *  * 

Robert  Elliot's  Zaccario  in  the  MacDowell  rendi- 
tion of  "Gismonda"  at  the  Grand  is  deserving  of  spe- 
cial mention.  This  characterization  of  a  most  vil- 
lainous type  leaves  little  to  be  desired.  Mr.  Elliot 
certainly  reached  the  author's  ideal. 
*  *  * 

At  the  Alcazar  they  are  giving  us  "The  Toll  Gate 
Inn."  I  saw  the  play  after  a  holiday  and  a  heavy  din- 
ner, and  it  seemed  to  me  that  it  was  not  up  to  the 
company,  or  it  may  be  that  the  company  also  had 
heavy  dinners.  I  should  say  that  the  dialogue  is 
only  fair,  and  the  characters  have  no  chance  to  show 
off  to  any  extent.  Mr.  Osbourne  was  not  in  happiest 
vein,  and  as  the  irate  old  father,  the  playwright  gave 
him  little  chance  for  clever  work.  Miss  Block's 
"Hester  Pennington"  was  not  up  to  her  usual  verve. 


Miss  Starr,  as  "Dorothy  Maitland,"  was  good,  and 
made  the  most  of  the  author's  flat  lines.  To  Durkin 
and  Maher  belong  the  credit  of  having  scored  the 
only  possible  artistic  success  in  this  play.  The 
"Poatchee"  of  Mr.  Durkin  was,  as  far  as  he  allowed  it 
to  be,  a  very  fine  bit  of  work,  and  the  old  Tinker, 
Caleb  Culver,  of  Mr.  Maher,  was  a  finely  executed 
bit  of  work. 

*  *  * 

"His  College  Chum"  at  the  Orpheum,  as  done  by 
Ferrar,  Cole  &  Co.,  is  a  very  clever  sketch.  The 
Colby  family  are  musical  entertainers,  and  they  are 
on  a  par  with  the  very  best  talent  that  has  ever  been 
on  the  Orpheum  boards.  Gaston  and  Stone  are  ex- 
cruciatingly funny  in  a  skit  called  "A  Whiff  of  the 
Briny."  There  are  a  number  of  holdovers,  inclusive 
of  Marcel's  studies,  and  Burke  and  La  Rue  and  their 

"Inky  Boys." 

*  *  * 

Maude  Adams  gave  us  a  splendid  opportunity  of 
judging  a  clever  woman  in  a  very  poor  play.  I  could 
never  derive  any  comfort  from  "The  Little  Minis- 
ter," and  disliked  it  exceedingly,  because  I  had  to  read 
it.  I  was  writing  book  reviews  at  the  time.  Maude 
Adams  brought  out  all  there  was  to  the  play,  but 
to  listen  to  it  twice  would  drive  me  to  Scotch  whiskey 
and  an  early  demise.  Maude  Adams  is  winsome  and 
sweet,  and  her  laughter  is  like  the  song  of  a  bird,  and 
I  don't  want  to  describe  the  play,  and  I  will  not.  I 
do  not  like  it — it  bores  me  and  is  decidedly  heavy. 
If  you  say  so,  I'll  go  right  on  and  tell  you  that  Maude 
Adams  is  sweet,  and  a  clever,  capable,  conscientious 
little  woman,  and  that  you  ought  to  see  her  and  hear 
her,  and  that  if  you  do  not,  you  will  have  missed  a 

pleasurable  sensation. 

*  *  * 

"The  Toymaker"  is  drawing  good  houses  at  the 
Tivoli.  The  changes  that  have  been  made,  and  are 
being  made,  seem  to  please  the  public,  as  the  attend- 
ance at  this  house  is  on  the  increase. 

"The  Toymaker'  is  full  of  catchv  little  airs,  and  it 
is  splendidly  cast  as  to  scenery  and  costume. 

*  *  # 

The  Tivoli  will  open  next  week  with  a  military 
comic  opera,  "Sergeant  Kitty."  Miss  Lillian  Sefton 
will  make  her  debut  as  the  prima  donna  soprano.  The 
story  of  "Sergeant  Kitty"  is  a  very  pretty  one.  '1  he 
time  is  1830  and  the  place  the  village  of  Montigny. 
Kitty  La  Tour  has  made  up  her  mind  to  elope  with 
Lieutenant  Lucien  Valliere.  aide-de-camp  of  General 
Du  Bois,  against  the  wishes  of  her  aunt  and  guardian, 
Madame  Angelique.  Kitty  disguises  herself  as  a 
postilion,  and  taking  the  only  available  conveyance, 
drives  to  Montigny.  She  there  marries  the  Lieu- 
tenant, by  proxy.  There  is  another  side  story  brought 
in  by  the  troubles  of  Henri  de  Marillac,  Lieutenant 
in  the  22d  Hussars,  of  which  General  Du  Bois  is 
General.  Henri  has  contracted  a  secret  marriage, 
and  has  introduced  his  wife  as  the  wife  of  his  friend 
Lucien.     And  now  you  go  to  the  show  and  see  the 

sequel  to  this  beginning. 

*  *  * 

The  Central  sprang  a  surprise  on  the  public  this 
week  in  a  well-staged  and  an  exceptionally  well- 
played  performance.  "A  Celebrated  Case"  was  given 
with  an  unusual  regard  for  the  niceties  of  play-acting, 
and  it  is  a  pleasure  to  note  that  the  play  and  the 
players  scored  an  immediate  success.  The  audience, 
as  usual,   demonstrated  its  approval  or  disapproval 


June  4.  1904. 

in  a  frankly  boi-  inner  that  mu  'Hod 

the   t)uni|  -   and 

gentlemen  on  the  stage.    "A 

on  at  the  Central  tl  ir  and  away  better 

than    the    majority    of    show-  by    pretentious 

traveling  organizati 

*  •  « 

is  Fuller  was  suffering  all  week  from  a  terrific 
cold,  and  it  is  hoped  tins  splendid  actress  will  fully 
r  for    "A  Captain  of  Navarre." 
«  *  » 

The  pace  set  by  the  management  of  the  new  Fis- 
cher's will  fill  that  house  night  alter  night  The  new 
company  is  one  that  need  not  l>id  for  popularity. 
Popularity  has  come  to  them  on  the  first  jump. 

*  •  « 

Melbourne  MacDowell  will  jjiw  u>  s  imething  fine 
next  week  in  "A  Captain  of  Navarre.      It  is  entirely 

new  to  this  city,  and  is  Mire  to  draw  well.  The  plot 
provides  for  great  and  constant  action.  There  is  a 
slight  resemblance  to  the  action  in  the  play  of 
"Cyrano."  Melbourne  MacDowell  will  give  us  Rene 
de  Padillan.  and  Miss  Ethel  Fuller  will  take  the  role 
of  the  Duchesse  d  Armenonville.  There  are  some 
fine  climaxes,  and  the  costuming  is  said  to  be  some- 
thing superb. 

*  *  * 

In  "The  Peddler"  at  the  Central  next  week,  Her- 
schel  Mayall  has  the  chance  of  his  life.  The  play  has 
never  before  been  seen  here,  and  if  what  I  hear  is 
true,  it  is  a  well-arranged  and  well-written  play. 
There  is  a  very  pretty  plot  and  the  regular  villain, 
multiplied  by  several,  an  unnatural  son,  a  peddler  who 
becomes  a  baron,  a  blind  girl  who  is  a  marvel  of 
sweetness  and  beauty,  and  a  wise  old  negro. 

*  *  * 

"Under  Two  Flags,"  Ouida's  famous  play,  drama- 
tized, will  be  put  on  at  the  Alcazar  next  week,  and 
there  is  a  great  deal  of  curiosity  to  see  what  Adele 
Block  will  make  of  "Cigarette."  "Under  Two  Flags" 
is  not  as  easy  a  play  as  the  ordinary  run  at  play 
houses  of  this  kind,  as  it  calls  for  twenty-eight  speak- 
ing parts.  Messrs.  Conness,  Hilliard,  Maher  and 
Emery,  and  Misses  Starr,  Howe  and  Allen  are  all 
cast  for  strong  parts.  Durkin  will  take  the  part  of 
Bertie  Cecil,  and  his  portrayal  should  enlist  for  the 
expatriated  Englishman  the  warm  sympathy  of  the 
audience.  The  play  has  been  seen  here  before,  and 
the  novel  has  been  reau  by  the  thousands,  and  the 
Alcazar  will  probably  show  up  the  "standing  room 
only"  sign  before  the  week  is  out. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  fact  that  Fischer's  Theatre  met  with  great 
success  at  the  opening  of  the  newly  improved  house 
on  Sunday  night  last.  The  theatre  is  much  improved, 
comfortable  and  absolutely  safe.  Secondly,  the  com- 
pany as  a  whole  is  exceptionally  good.  The  audience 
gave  a  royal  welcome  to  all  the  players.  During  the 
second  act  there  were  enough  floral  pieces  sent  upon 
the  stage  to  cover  the  roof  of  the  theatre,  and  from 
the  enthusiasm  of  the  huge  audience,  it  would  seem 
that  "U.  S."  is  likely  to  run  for  many  weeks. 

*  *  *  mtt 

Ever  since  it  was  known  that  E.  H.  Sothern  was 
booked  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  there  has  been  daily 
inquiries  at  the  box  office  of  the  theatre.  The  emi- 
nent actor  will  be  seen  on  Monday,  June  13th,  and 
interest  in  the  event  increases.  It  is  announced  that 
no  seats  will  be  put  aside  until  the  opening  of  the 
sale,  so  that  all  may  secure  equal  opportunities  for 
choice  of  locality. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


31 


Grand  Opera  Mouse 

H-'k'ihr.ihi.  net,  -f uno ft 

1  10a  last  kmI  ..f 

MELBOURNE  MacDOWELL 
First  production  In  tola  oltj  ol  the  snccemfal  nitnnnilo  dranm 

A  CAPTAIN    OF  NAVf  RRE 
MatirH'..  Saturday 
EVipulat  prices  is,  .••.  so  and  Ho 
Monday  uiuht  ■him- 13 
Hn  Leslie  Cartel  In     I>1    It.Uiin  " 
Heat  snic  Levins  next  Thursday  at  the  box  office. 


Columbia  Tbeatre.  amn ^::;^MlniB. 

Beginning  Monday,  second  and  last  week 
Matinee  Saturday  only 
Charles  Frohman  will  present 

MflUDE  flDflMS 

-IN- 

THE  LITTLE  MINISTER 

Monday.  June  I3th-E.  H.  Bothern  in  "THE  PE0TJD  PRINCE" 

Omh^l  1  ITt       San  rraoclsco's  Greatest  Mupfcnalt. 
V-XI  \Jl  ICUIIJ.     OTarrell  St..  betweun   Stockton  and  Towell  streets. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  June  5 

6-BIG  NEW    ACTS-6 

Truly  Shattuck;  Avon    Comedy   Leah  Russell:  Brandow   and 

Wiley ;  Burke.  La  Hue  and  the  Inky  Boys;  (iaston   and  Stone; 

Powers    Brothers;    Orpheum    M>  tion    Pictu.es,  showing  the 

Brooklyn  Handicap  ana  Mattel's  Living  Art  Studies. 

Prices,  loc.  25c  and  60c 

Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday.  Saturday  and  Sunday. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Have  you  heard  the  news?     The  one  distinct  hit 

"  u.    s." 

A  burlesque  with  a  plot  and  a  thousand  laughs 

Treiuenduous  success  ol  the  new  company 

Caroline  Hull.  Edna  Aug,  Garrity  Sisteis.  Yorke  and  Adams, 

Al  Fields.  Ldwiu  Clarke,  Ben  Dillon  and  Roy  Alton 

"Star"  choiut  of  fony 

Sparkling  music,  brilliant  marches,  beautiful  dances,  exquisite 

costumes,  topical  songs,  entrancing  music 

Sunday  night— First  lime— Lionel  Lawrence's  great  novelty 

"Eight  Radium  Girls" 

Matinees  baturday  and  Sunday        Same  popular  prices 

Alra7ar    Thont-vo  Belabco  &  Mayer.  Proprietors 

/-W^az.d,r     1  Iit*CJLre    e,  D.  Price.  Gen'i.  Mgr.    Tel.  Alcazar 

Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday. 

Monday.  June  6— One  week 
Magnillceut  scenic  production  of 

UNDER  TWO  FLflGS 

Ouida's  ever  popu'ar  drama  of  romance,  with  the  great  saDd 
storm  scene  ana  the  ride  lor  life 

Evenings  25  to  fioe.    Matiuees  Thursday  and  Saturday,  26  to  50c 
Monday,  June  13,  the  Alcazar's  Laughing,  success 

CHARLEY'S   AUNT 

In  preparation— Elaborate  revival  of  "LOVER'S  LANE" 
Coming— White  Whittlesey 


C*r>r\\-  vr\  1    TKant  v-a  Belasco  &  Mateb,  Proprietors 

K^VlJLrUl      1  neULie.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  533 

Starting  Monday,  June  6 

All  nuxt  week 

Hal  Read's  tremenduous  Eastern  success  • 

THE    PLDDLER 

The  stage  masterpiece  of  Hebrew  character  drawing 
June  13— Mammoth  revival  of  "The  Octoroon." 

Prices— Evenings  10  to  50c    Matinees  10, 15,  25c- 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  0orner  Ed£Lonndstreets 

Only  matinee  Saturday 

Beginning  next  Monday  night,  June  6 

First  production  in  this  city  of  the  military  comie  opera  triumph 

SERGEANT    KITTY 

Book  and  Lyi  ics  by  R.  H.  Burnside 

Music  by  A.  Baldwin  Sloane 

(Composer  ot  "The  Mocking  Bird") 

San  Francisco's  debut  of  the  gifted  young  prima  donna 

MISS  LILLIAN  SEFTON 
Usual  popular  prices— 25c,  hoc,  75c    Box  Seats,  $i- 

flfter   the  Theater 

Go   where  the  crowd   go**— to 
ZINKAND'S 

Listen    to    the    matchless    string:    band    and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The    Cafe   Zlnkand   is   society'^    gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


23           7                                          SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.                                       June  4,  1904. 

BANKING.  5%e  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  

cupiui  stoc  paiIdnTppo.ra?e.a.J.an.ua.ry..21:..u.04: S25C000.00  0        ,     ,     „     R,ussia  ^as  fired  a  civ}\  gu,n 

President,  James  O'B.  Gunn                  Vice-President,  Geo.  D.  Gray  KuSSia   Insults   all       whose    Vibrations    are    felt    all 

Vice-President,  Geo.  F.  Lyon  Cashier,  Frederick  H.  Clark  A««-l«  c^«nM»  « 4.1  :    :v 1  11  j 

directors.  Anglo-baxons.          over  the  civilized  world,  and 

F.  W.  Dohrmann,  Jr.;  George  D.  Gray.  F.  M.  Greenwood,  Jas.  which     may    increase     in     in- 

O'B.  Gunn,  Marshall  Hale.  G.  W.  Kline,  George  F.  Lyon,  George  tensitv   until   the    rnar   nf    Tananpcp    artillprv    hpmmpc 

M.  Mitchell,  Charles  c.  Moore,  Henry  T.  Scott,  w.  F.  Williamson.  tensity  unni  tne  roar  01  Japanese  artillery   Decomes 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  has  opened  its  doors  for  a  gen-  a   merf   echo   of   them.      The    St.    Petersburg   Govern- 

eral  Savings  and  Loan  business  at  the  S.  W.  corner  Montgomery  ment    has    Officially    declared    that    the    United    States 

and   Bush   streets,    San  Francisco,   Cal.,  May  2,   1904.  „„,    r>, .     r>    ••    -J.  .1        j-        .       _j      _i  r 

! ! - .  and   Great  Britain  are  the  direct  and  sole  cause  of 

San   FranciSCO  Savings    Union  the    Russo-Japanese    war;    that    those    two    Anglo- 

„„  „                                 "  Saxon  nations  coveted  Manchuria  and  the  dominating; 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco.  ■    a                 ■       ,~,  .                ,    T,                .,      ,    ,        .    .    .                  5 

e.  b.  pond,  President;  w.  c  b.  DeFREMERY,  Robert  influence  in  China  and  Korea ;  that  by  intrigue  and 

WErchVAls£tanfecaSs;hieJrOV'ELL  wmm   Cashier:    R-     M-  promise  they  inveigled  Japan  into  assuming  the  open 

Directors— e.  b.  Pond,  w.  c.  b.  DeFremery,  Henry  f.  Allen.  responsibility  of  bringing:  on  hostilities,  and  that  ill 

George   C.    Boardman.   Jacob    Barth,    C.    O.    G.    Miller,    Fred    H.  '  .          ,        '       .    T        °    j?          ,                                         . 
Beaver,   William  A.   Magee,   Robert  Watt.  putting   torward   Japan   they   have    sent   OUt    a   boom- 
Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.     Country  pr-mo-  thit   will    pi-pnfnollv  rptm-n    tr»   ttip.n-1    ac   1    l.nc 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,   Fargo  &  Co..   or  by  checks  erang  tliat   Will   eventually   retlllll   to   tliem   as   a    I  OS- 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,   but  the  responsi-  tile    and    dangerous   force.      This   civil   gun    of   Russia 
bility  of  this  Savings  Barnc  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  .     .      ,,       c         °    r            ~-    .    .             .           ..     °.       .,       « 

ceipt  of  the  money.    The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  is  in  the  form  of  an  official  proclamation  by  the  Czar  S 

S?™narnayncehfeefirst  deposit'    No  charse  Is  made  £or  pa3s  book  Minister  of  Public  Instruction,  who  is  also  a  cabinet 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  s.  minister,  in  which   he  ignores  all   diplomatic   infer- 

Deposits,    December   31,    1903   $33,232,908  ,'.                   ,     .    ..      °                 ,    ,     ,j,        .     ,.           ,. 

Guarantee  capital,  Paid-up  l.ooo.ooo  ences,    hints   and    intimates    and   boldly   indicts   the 

Reserve  and  contingent  Funds •     899,510  United  States  and  England  for  the  crimes  of  perfidy, 

lt)l.i<<-.  ,<?  1   c^,, <;-,„,.    ns^^i^                 _  treachery,    falsehood    and    hvpocrisy — quite    enough 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  s-  f,.^  to  .     $  these  natjons  fa  ™      t{y  ieclaritig  wsar 

710   Market   St.,    opposite   Third.  •       .    -r\          •          t>    *.  it.         re      *.      r   .1        •          ij.  •      i-i     1 

Guarantee  capital $1,000,000  against  Russia.     But  the  effect  of  the  insult  is  likely 

Paid-up   Capital   and   Surplus    500,000  rn    ).„    ,n    c        rP:lcU',na-    anJ    lastino-   that    in    time    all 

james  d.  phelan,  president;  s.  g.  murphy.  vice-Presi-  i°   De  so  lar  reacmng  ana   lasting  xnat  m   time   an 

dent;  george  a.  story,  cashier;  john  a.  hooper,  vice-  Russians  will  look  upon  the  Anglo-Saxons  as  a  race 

President;   C.    B.    HOBSON,   Assistant   Cashier.  r              ,      .,     .    ,             '         ,                 ?                  j    ■      •          •       1 

Directors-James  D.  Phelan,  s.  G.  Murphy,  John  A.  Hooper,  of  people  that  knows  only  treachery  and  is  inspired 

James    Moffitt,    Frank    J.    Sullivan,    Robert    McElroy,    Rudolph  uv  hrutal  instincts      This  Minister  of  Public  Instruc- 

Spreckels,    James    M.    MeDonaid,    Charles    Holbrook.  "J    UIULai  instincts.      1  ills  iviniisu.1   ui  ruum  mstiuc 

interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  on  approved  securities.  tion  orders  that  his  proclamation  shall  be  a  sort  of 

Deposits  may  be  sent  on  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  ,   ,        ,     .         11        1        1             .,              ,  .,     ,    r>         ■           ,  -, 

exchange  on  city  banks.  text  book  in  all  schools,  to  the  end  that  Russian  chil- 

z:,        ~Z.                     ~                       ;    ;  dren  shall  be  taught  from  now  on  to  hold  the  people 

Tne  German   Savings  &  Loan  Society  of  the  United  states  and  Great  Britain  in  contempt; 

no.  526  California  street,  san  Francisco.  to  regard  them  as  being  wholly  devoid  of  honor ;  to 

Guarantee    Capital    and    Surplus    $2,423,751.60  think    nf  them    as   outcasts     anrl    tn   avoid    intercourse 

Capital   Actually   Paid-up   in   cash   1.000,000.00  tnmh.  oi  tnem   as  outcasts,   ana  to  dvoia   intercourse 

Deposits,  December  31,  1903  36.o49.49i.i8  with  such  human  degradation.     Of  course  the  pro- 

BOARD    O*'   DIRECTORS— President,    John   Lloyd;    First   Vice-  .|,m,t;„n    hnro    thp    Char's    annrnval         as       all     ^tatp 

President,   Daniel  Meyer;   Second  Vice-President,    H.  Horstmann;  ClamatlOIl     DOre    tile    L.zar  S    approval,       as       ail    State 

ign.  steinhardt,  Emu  Rohte,  h.  b.  Russ,  n.  uhiandt,  i.  n.  wai-  papers  do.     The  civilized  world  is  asking:  "Has  de- 
ter and  J.    W.   Van  Bergen.  %'        .„         .                      ..„„                      jii/" 

Cashier,  a.  H.  r.  Schmidt;  Assistant  cashier,  William  Heir-  feat  of  Russian  arms  in  the  rar  liast  crazed  the  Lzar 

mann;    Secretary,    George    Tourny;    Assistant    Secretary,    A.    H.  j  i.-     r.ff.~\-,\  fnmiW?" 

Muller;   General  Attorney,    W.   S.   Goodfellow.  anQ  nls  omciai  Idmiiy. 

But   there    is    method    in     the 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association  The  Czar's  Dark     Czar's   madness.     Immediately 

„,.„..,    ....                                         ._  „ATT„„„„T.  Schemes.            after  the  defeat  of  the  Russians 

Established  in  18S9.                                                         OF  CALIFORNIA.  .     .,        ,,    ,          .             ..        -r, 

301  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  cai.  at  the   \  alu  river  the   Russian 

Pam-^c^a^^  Government  began  diplomatic  moves  to  educate  pub- 

Proflt  and  Reserve  Fund 450,000.00  Hc  sentiment  in  Europe  to  where  an  open  charge  of 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum  _.    .   .   ,             ,.            .      r                  ,.   .,                1  j     t.             r   1 

on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  British    and    American    complicity    could    be    satelv 

anPdr•GeVnerainfltar:a|e0rdEe^  Pres'dent:  w""am  Corbln'  Se"et^y  made,  and  thus   not  only  create  a  bitter  hatred  of 

.                                .    _        .   .          „                     ;  Anglo-Saxons  and  a  corresponding  degree  of  svm- 

International    BaQking  Corporation  pathy  with  Russia,  but  force  Germany  and  France 

no.  1  wall  street,  new  York.  more   especially  to   adopt   a  still   more  pro-Russian 

clpltal  ant  furpiul  Authorized •"""""-"" V.llV.V^^SigM  P011^'     And  this  diplomatic  treachery  has  now  cul- 

officers— William  l.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  d.  Palmer,  minated  in  the  proclamation  of  the  Russian  Minister 

Assistant    to    President;    William    B.    Wightman,    Assistant    to  r  t-^    1  i-      t      ^        !•  1  •    1-    ■  j         -j 

President;   John   Hubbard,   Treasurer;   James  H    Rogers,    Secre-  of  Public  instruction,  which  IS  pretty  gOOQ   evidence 

tary;  John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun-  tllat  satisfactory  assurances  have  been  received  from 

branches— London,  San  Francisco,  city  of  Mexico,  Manila,  more  than  one  European  nation,  and  France  at  least 

Hong  Kong,  Yokohama,   Shanghai.   Singapore.  ,                                      1  -j      t                  •,.•             t      (».«.:•-   „«<.„,<. 

AGENCIES— Bombay.     Calcutta,     Madras,     Penang,     Rangoon,  does  not  try  to   hide  her  position,      in   tact.   It   seems 

Colombo,     Amoy,     Canton,    Hankow,    Tientsin,    Tansui,    Anping,  „Prir    r-lpar     in    thp   licrbt    nf   rlevelonments    in    the   last 

Bakan,  Moji.   Saigon,  Kobe,   Bangkok,   Batavia,   Samarang,   Sou-  very    clear>    m   tne   nSnl   OI    aeveiopments    in    tne   last 

rabaya,  and  aii  parts  of  Europe.  few  davs,  that  the  Russian   Minister  s  proclamation 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH— 32-34  Sansome  St.  7    ' .    "   .  ,       T    V,     r-                        ,   r-                      :        il      ■ 

A  general  banking  business   transacted.     Accounts  of  corpora-  W'as  submitted  to  both  Trance  and  Germany  tor  their 

tions,  firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  ^nnrmul     hpfnrp   it  -was   nrnmiilo-nterl        Tf   so     France 

on  approved  securities.     Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  approval,   Detore   It  was   promuigateu.      11   SO,   f^dllLe 

and  sold.     Travelers'   and  commercial   letters  of  credit  granted,  and    Germanv    ioill    Russia    in    charging    the    United 

available  in  any  part  of  the  world,     interest  bearing  certificates  „.                    j    t-       1       j     4.                „     ~A\.7  „=.,», ^1    ^„,„^,o 

of  deposits  issued  for  fixed  periods,    interest  allowed  to  banks  States  and   Fngland,   two  avowedly  neutral  powers 

aScoCunrtesntw1anlyu^laann,de9draSw!nigal  dfreS  ^cl?  SSShlS"^!  as  to  the  Russo-Japanese  war,  and  supposedly  on  the 

^corre^p^dence  iNvrTED.  most  friendly  terms  with   all   nations,   with   having 

F.  e.  beck,  Manager,           p.  g.  eastwick,  jr.,  Asst.  Mgr.  committed  the  gravest  of  crimes  known  to  the  mter- 

^            T       ^      ~.             ^       T national  moral  law — that  those  Anglo-Saxon  nations 

Security   oavingS    tsanK  |iave  ^een  \\v\ng  and  acting  a  monstrous  lie  and  play- 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building.  :„„  ^„h1»  urith   pvprv  nafinn   in   the  rnnrert  of  nmv- 

interest  paid  on  deposits,   loans  made  in&  double  with  every  nation  in  tne  concert  01  pow 

directors— William  Aivord,  William  Babcock,  s.  l.  Abbott,  ers   and  all  this  officiallv  proclaimed  to  be  the  truth 

Jr.,  O.  D.  Baldwin,  F.   Monteagle,   Warren  D.   Clark,  E.  J.   Mc-  ,       '  ,       ,-.             c  -r,         • 

Cutcheon,  r.  H.  Pease,  J.  d.  Grant.  by  the  Czar  of  Russia. 


June  4.  1904. 

Verily  the  past     week    was 

More  Trouble  and  nts     an  i 

Dickering.  complications    all    over    the 

world,  and  diplomatists  and 
n  arc  everywhere  in  consultation.  The 
Franco- Vatican  rupture,  and  the  French  threat  to 
abolish  the  Concordant,  is  b)  no  means  a  trifling 
matter.  That  in  any  event  France  will  be  shaken 
to  her  political  and  religious  centers  no  one  has  a 
doubt,  nor  that  in  any  event  the  Vatican  will  be 
r  the  struggle  is  there  any  question.  As  is 
generally  known,  at  the  bottom  of'it  all  is  the  deter- 
mination of  the  French  Government  to  separate 
church- and  State,  and  place  both  on  the  same  foot- 
ing in  religious  matters  as  they  have  in  the  United 
States,  ranee  about  $10,000,000  a  year  to 

provide  for  the  Vatican's  pay-roll  in  France!  This 
the  Government  and  all  non-Catholics,  as  well  as 
very  many  Catholics,  want  to  get  rid  of  on  principle. 
But  what  the  people  of  liberal  thought  in  France  arc 
tired  of  is  the  Vatican's  influence  and  intrigue  in  the 
political  and  war  establishment  concerns  of  the  na- 
tion, and  a  large  portion  of  the  Catholic  element, 
aided  by  the  priesthood  and  all  church  orders,  are 
equally  determined  that  the  Vatican's  power  and  in- 
fluence shall  not  be  broken.  Diplomatic  relations 
have  practically  been  broken  off  between  the  Vatican 
and  the  French  Government,  and  the  Chamber  of 
Deputies  is  standing  by  the  Government  by  a  large 
majority.  Indeed,  the  only  complaint  of  the  majority 
is  that  President  Combes  does  not  smash  the  Concor- 
dant, sever  all  diplomatic  relations  with  the  Vatican 
and  place  France  before  the  world  as  a  Republic 
without  a  State  religion,  as  is  the  Republic  of  the 
I'nited  States. 

During  the  past  week  the  Jap- 

The  Progress  of     anese   came  out  the   victors   in 

the  War.  every  engagement,  as  seems  to 

be  their  custom.  Eighty-six 
guns  and  the  complete  rout  of  the  Russians  were 
among  the  spoils. of  war  that  fell  to  the  Japanese  in 
their  first  movement  in  force  upon  Port  Arthur  by 
land.  It  cost  them  3,500  men  to  do  it,  but  the  price 
was  small  if  value  is  measured  by  advantages  in  posi- 
tions. The  Japanese  land  lines  are  almost  within 
reach  of  Port  Arthur  by  long-range  siege  guns,  and 
the  date  of  the  fall  of  that  stronghold  depends  alto- 
gether upon  whether  the  Japanese  take  it  by  assault 
or  by  siege,  but  the  chances  are  that  it  will  be  taken 
by  assault,  for  at  this  distance  it  seems  to  be  worth 
the  lives  of  a  good  many  thousand  Japanese,  the 
more  so  because  with  its  fall  goes  the  capture  or  de- 
struction of  the  Russian  naval  squadron  now  bot- 
tled up  in  the  harbor.  Then  the  Japanese  navy  would 
be  free  to  combine  against  the  Vladivostock  strong- 
hold and  the  Russian  squadron  at  that  point,  and  af- 
ter finishing  that  job  it  could  sail  away  to  meet  the 
Baltic  squadron  on  its  way  to  Asiatic  waters.  The 
Chinese  Chuncheeses  are  openly  assisting  the  Jap- 
anese in  their  march  upon  Port  Arthur.  The  oppor- 
tunity to  plunder  is  too  great  a  temptation  for  Chun- 
cheeses  to  resist,  but  they  are  willing  to  fight  hard 
and  loyally  for  "what  they  can  pick  up,"  with  a  little 
Japanese  ready  cash  on  the  side.    . 

As   indicated   what  the   new 
Forty-three  towns      policy    of    the    Turks    would 
Destroyed.  result  in  by  the  News  Letter, 

the  soldiers  of  the  Sultan 
burned  forty-three  Armenian  towns  and  villages  the 
past  week,  and  most  of  the  inhabitants  were  massa- 
cred. The  "small  force,"  as  the  beastly  Sultan  puts 
it,  that  was  sent  to  do  the  deadly  work,  consisted  of 
12,000  regulars  and  16,000  Kurds,  the  Kurds  being 


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rather   more   brutal   and   blood-thirsty   than   Chinese 
Boxers.    But  the  "powers"  seem  to  be  well  satisfied 
with    the   Sultan's   way  of  conciliating  his   unha 
t  hristian  subjects. 


BANKING. 


Wells,Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 

Cap.Ul,  Surgu^and  Undivided  ($13500,000 

K^meAr  S, King    President;   P.   L.   Llpman.   Cashier;    Frank   B. 

nE\£™P<P\.Cashier':  Jno-    E-    Mlles'    Asslslant   Cashier. 

BRANCHES— New  York;   Salt  Lake.   Utah;   Portland.   Ore. 

Correspondents   throughout  the  world.     General   banking   busi- 
ness transacted. 


The  Sen  Francisco  National  Bank. 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  Sts..  San   Francisco. 
P™ft   K/   Wy?S°c?\Preslclent;   WM-   PtEF.CE   JOHNSON.    Vlce- 
Sstant  Cash'  COWG1LU   Cashier;  F.   W.    WOLFE,  As- 

TMuSMnl'fio*5?0:1?00-    Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits,  $105,000. 

DIREClORS-vVilliam  Pierce  Johnson,  Vice-Prest,  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Button,  President  FIremans  Fund 
ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  f.  R  R  ■ 
Geo.  A.  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict' 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W-  T.   Garratt  &  Co.     James  K.  Wilson,   President. 

AGENTS— New  York:  Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank. 
London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking   Co.,    Limited. 


Tbe  Canadian  Bank,  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate   Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.   GEORGE  A.   COX,   President. 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird,  Asst.  Gen.  Mer 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW    YORK   OFFICE— 16   Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlln,        Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo.    Nelson, 
New  Westminster,  Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skaguay  (Alaska). 
Also     80     other     Branches,    covering     the   principal    points    in 
Manitoba,   N.   W.   Territories,   and   Eastern   Canada. 
BANKERS   IN   LONDON— The  Bank  of  England,    the   Bank   of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,  Ltd. 
AGENTS    IN   CHICAGO— The   First   National    Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  OLREANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San  Francisco  Office— 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London,  Paris  and  American  Bank  Llim,ei, 

N.  W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND   SUTTER   STS. 
Subscribed  Capital,  $2,500,000.  Paid-up  Capital,  $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000. 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y. ;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  issued. 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; 11.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  flnglo-Californian  Bank,  Limitea 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 
Capital    Authorized,    $6,000,000  Paid-up.    $1,500,000 

Subscribed,  $3,000,000  Reserve  Fund,   $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,    buys   and   sells   exchange   and   bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    LIL1ENTHAL,    Managers. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and   Reserve 1,725.000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator.  Guard'an  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  Depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully   selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Vice- 
President;     H.    Brunner,  Cashier. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


iFINANCIAL 


The  so-called  River  Convent  on 
A  Combine  to       will   result   in   another  political 

Milk  the  Public,  combine,  with  a  President,  Sec- 
retary and  Executive  Commit- 
tee lined  up  as  deserving  competitors  for  anything 
in  the  way  of  pap  tnat  happens  to  fall  from  the  weh- 
spread  banquet  table  of  the  "masters."  Each  and 
every  one  of  the  fraternity  will  be  ready  and  willing 
to  back  any  interference  witn  the  original  plans  of 
their  creator.  Such  a  little  affair  as  shifting  the  bed 
in  which  for  centuries  the  surplus  waters  of  the 
Sierras  have  been  carried  to  the  ocean  does  not 
bother  this  congregated  talent  of  the  great  Western 
Slope,  who  would  tackle  a  proposition  to  drain  the 
Pacific  itself  were  there  subsidies  in  the  offering.  It 
is  years  since  any  opportunity  has  occurred  to  war- 
rant the  formation  of  a  combine,  and  it  may  be  years 
again  before  the  mountain  storms  are  severe 
enough  to  cause  any  loss  to  the  owners  of  the  lands 
which  lie  along  the  banks  of  a  stream  ordinarily 
quiet  and  peaceful  as  a  mill  pond.  In  the  years  of 
calm,  why  should  not  these  farmers,  who  make  large 
profits  upon  the  tillage  of  their  land,  build  up  their 
levies  and  guard  against  the  evil  times  of  storm  and 
flood?  What  rightful  claim  have  they  to  demand 
natural  and  State  subsidies  to  protect  what  they  can 
amply. afford  to  protect  themselves.  A  couple  of 
good  dredging  plants  put  to  work  along  the  Sacra- 
mento would  do  all  that  is  required  in  the  way  of 
providing  for  all  surplus  waters,  and  besides  that, 
quadruple  the  present  valuation  of  lands  which  are 
held  at  high  figures  even  as  it  is  to-day.  But  no, 
they  prefer  to  organize,  and  by  invoking  the  senti- 
mental sympathies  of  influential  citizens,  who  are 
quite  ready  to  give  an  ear  to  every  tale  of  woe,  get 
their  back  to  an  appeal  for  the  taxation  of  the  pub- 
lic to  serve  their  personal  ends  and  enrich  them.  Let 
these  land  owners  work  out  their  own  salvation  ;  they 
are  rich  enough  to  do  so,  and  this  whine  of  doleful 
calamities  in  the  past  and  dismal  possibilities  in  the 
future  is  all  for  effect. 

What  a  send-off  the  Copper 

The  British  Bilked     King  mine  of    Fresno,     and 
Again.  Vercoe,     its     promoter,     got 

when  the  news  first  was  pro- 
mulgated that  the  great  and  good  Gardiner  of  South 
Africa,  Parisian  and  'Frisco  fame,  was  at  its  back 
with  the  northern  iron  "Magnet,"  Sir  Christopher 
Furness  as  the  "angel"  of  the  concern.  The  story  of 
the  Epicurean  who  was  sent  out  here  to  manage  the 
company's  affairs,  ana  who  finally,  when  discharged, 
dreamed  a  dream  which  placed  him  in  the  position  of 
owning,  not  the  mine  alone,  but  a  valuable  smelter, 
worth  something  like  $200,000,  is  ancient  history  here 
now.  Within  the  past  week  this  concern,  which  rep- 
resents an  investment  running  up  into  the  hundreds 
of  thousands,  was  put  up  under  the  hammer  to  satisfy 
the  demands  of  creditors,  and  the  best  offer  which 
the  liberal  souls  of  Middle  California  would  make 
was  $20,000.  Twenty  thousand  dollars  for  a  smelter 
which  cost  a  quarter  of  a  million,  is  almost  brand 
new,  with  everything  modern  in  the  way  of  machin- 
ery, etc.,  not  to  mention  a  mine  thrown  into  the  bar- 
gain— nothing  small  about  that,  when  the  chance 
to  do  the  British  investor  up  brown  is  considered.  It 
reminds  one  of  the  old  story  of  the  fine  60-stamp  mill 
erected  some  years  ago  on  the  old  Josephine  mine 
at  Grub  Gulch  in  Fresno  County,  on  which  the  cost, 
some  $60,000,  had  hardly  been  paid  when  it  was  sold 
back  to  the  builder  for  $5,000.     This  was  another 


choice  investment  of  the  English  in  California  mines. 
However,  the  Copper  King  and  its  appurtenances 
did  not  go  for  a  song  upon  this  occasion,  more  espe- 
cially as  there  is  a  standing  offer  of  $120,000  for  the 
smelter  from  the  Mountain  Copper  Company  of 
Shasta  County.  But  that's  another  story,  as  Kipling 
would  say. 

"One  by  one  the  roses  fade."  An- 
Money  Which  other  of  the  get-rich-quick  con- 
Took  Wing.       cerns   has   passed   away,  .with   its 

promoter  and  manipulator  into 
the  shadows,  and  only  the  mourners  are  left  to  grieve 
and  wonder  at  the  uncertainties  of  human  affairs. 
Another  dream  of  wealth  has  vanished,  and  the  cas- 
tles in  the  air  have  melted  away  like  a  morning  mist 
in  the  summer  solstice.  The  Co-operative  Mercan- 
tile Company,  now  of  the  past,  was  one  of  those  con- 
ceptions of  the  unscrupulous  money  makers  who  win 
the  coin  of  selfish,  hungry-eyed  individuals  itching 
for  rank  among  a  plutocracy  vulgar  as  themselves 
by  making  Peter  pay  Paul.  The  joint  subscription 
of  the  two  combined  dropping  while  changing  hands 
into  the  bag  of  Judas.  Judas  in  this  case,  overlooking 
the  old  maxim  of  paying  Caesar  his  dues,  thereby 
evading  the  rightful  claims  of  both  Peter  and  Paul, 
has  fled  with  the  bag.    Hence  the  tears  do  flow. 


The  Comstock  Market  was  dull  throughout  the 
past  week,  with  prices  inclined  to  shade  off.  No  sell- 
ing took  place  to  depress  the  market,  and  the  lack  of 
speculative  movement  can  only  be  attributed  to  the 
unavoidable  delay  in  completing  some  work  on  the 
Comstock  which  has  to  be  done  in  order  to  carry 
out  the  programme  arranged  by  the  management, 
which  includes  ore  extraction  from  the  middle  mines. 
The  Ophir  mine  is  still  turning  out  a  first-class  grade 
of  ore  and  paying  its  regular  monthly  dividend. 


The  financial  market  in  San  Francisco  can  only  be 
described  as  one  continual  round  of  dullness  and  dis- 
appointment. Since  the  smash-up  in  what  were  for- 
merly considered  standard  stocks,  has  had  a  quieting 
effect  upon  investors,  who  are  not  inclined  to  buy 
"gilt-edged  securities,"  which  are  apt  to  wilt  like  a 
wild-cat  at  short  notice.  People  lost  considerable 
money  here  a  few  months  ago  in  the  local  market  by 
collapses,  and  the  incident  has  not  yet  been  men- 
tally obliterated. 


NATIONAL  BOND   AND    TRUST    COMPANY. 

That  there  is  something  new  under  the  sun  may  be 
gathered  through  perusal  of  the  literature  of  the 
National  Bond  and  Trust  Company,  501-505  Mutual 
Bank  Building,  which  offers  interest-bearing  bonds 
upon  easy  installment  payments.  There  is  here  an 
opportunity  for  absolutely  safe  and  highly  remunera- 
tive investment,  the  plan  of  which  is  modestly,  yet 
convincingly,  set  forth  in  the  company's  prospectus. 
By  an  equitable  arrangement,  the  investor,  whether 
a  wage-earner  or  a  capitalist,  is  assured  of  substan- 
tial gains  under  easy  conditions.  The  directors  and 
officers  are  gentlemen  of  high  standing  in  the  busi- 
ness world. 


No   Substitute, 


not  even  the  best  raw  cream,  equals  Borden's  Peerless 
Branr!  Evaporated  Cream  for  tea,  coffee,  chocolate,  cereals 
and  general  household  cooking.  It  is  the  result  of  forty- 
five  years  experience  in  the  growing,  buying,  handling  and 
preserving  of  milk   by   Borden's   Condensed   Milk   Co. 


June  4,  1904. 


25 


Pleasure's      W'arvd 

(Continued   from   Page   ■!.) 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

BUNKER  HILL  ASSOCIATION. 
On  Friday.  June  17th,  1904,  the  one  hundred  and 


The  second  and  last  week  of  Maude  Adam-'-  en 
ncnt  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  begins  on 
day  night.     The  first  stellar  appearance  here  of  the 
great  actress  has  been  the  occasion  for  a  display  of 

the  immense  enthusiasm  on  the  part  of  the  audiences 
in  attendance  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  during  tin- 
past  week.  Miss  Adams  is  not  incorrectlv  hailed 
as  the  greatest  of  American  actresses.  She  1 
charm  that  fairly  fascinates  one.  and  her  magnetism 
is  given  full  sway  when  she  plavs  the  role  of  Lady 
Babbie. 

*  *  * 

Richard  Walsh  and  Adele  Ligon,  accomplished 
musicians,  who  play  upon  every  conceivable  kind 
of  instrument,  will  make  their  first  appearance  at  the 
Chutes  this  coming  week,  presenting  their  novel 
sketch.  "The  Twentieth  Century  Burglar  and  the 
French  Soubrette."  Jones,  Sylvester  and  Pringle, 
known  as  "The  Imperials  of  Minstrelsy,"  will  be 
heard  in  the  latest  songs,  and  Gus  Kiralfy,  the  Ger- 
man rag-time  juggler,  will  offer  an  amusing  spe- 
cialty. The  Pneumatic  Symphony  Orchestra,  which 
is  a  wonder,  just  installed  in  the  Chutes  cafe,  dis- 
courses delightful  music  every  afternoon  and  even- 
ing. 

*  *  * 

Truly  Shattuck,  the  California  soprano  who  has 
achieved  a  great  success  in  the  East,  in  London  and 
in  the  Winter  Garden,  Berlin's  great  vaudeville 
theatre,  returns  to  the  Orpheum  after  an  absence  of 
nearly  four  years.  She  will  be  heard  in  songs  new 
and  old,  and  will  display  some  stunning  costumes. 
Gaston  and  Stone,  the  '70Uy  Jackies,"  the  Powers 
Brothers,  comedy  bicyclists,  and  the  Orpheum  Mo- 
tion Pictures,  showing  many  new  and  amusing  mov- 
ing pictures,  including  the  Brooklyn  Handicap,  will 
complete  an  excellent  programme. 

THE   COBLENTZ   ASSAULT. 

The  San  Francisco  Examiner  has  always  and  con- 
sistjntly  encouraged  thuggism,  and  it  has  always 
held  that  a  policeman  should  wink  at  crime  if  com- 
mitted in  the  name  of  unionism,  or  what  that  delect- 
able sheet  is  pleased  to  term  "the  common  people." 
While  many  will  undoubtedly  rejoice  at  the  fact  that 
the  Examiner  is  being  given  some  of  its  own  medi- 
cine, yet  all  right-minded  citizens  will  call  loudly  fcr 
punishment,  swift  and  heavy,  for  the  assailant  of  Mr. 
Edmund  Coblentz,  the  Examiner  reporter,  man- 
handled and  mauled,  in  Examiner  style,  by  ex-Police 
Sergeant  Wolf. 

Mr.  Coblentz  was  simply  following  out  his  duty  in 
the  premises,  and  Wolf  made  a  brutal  and  an  tinwar- 
rented  attack  upon  the  inoffensive  reporter.  It  is 
about  time  the  newspapers  of  the  country  applied  the 
thumb-screws  to  the  powers  that  punish,  and  see  to 
it  that  their  reporters  are  fully  protected  in  the  exer- 
cise of  a  legitimate  profession.  The  fact  that  Cob- 
lentz was  employed  by  the  conscienceless  villains  who 
operate  the  anarchist  official  organ  should  not  pre- 
vent heavy  punishment  being  visited  on  the  murder- 
ous thug  who  assaulted  him. 


BEST'S  ART  SCHOOL 

Lessons  in  Painting,  Drawing,  Sketching  and  Illus- 
trating.   Life  classes,  $3.00  per  month. 

927    MARKET    STREET 


*   ■     w  -      ~i •      -3"|i      %  ■■%.     vn\,      1  1  11  1  m  1  1  v   1  1      .Mill 

twenty-ninth  anniversary  of  the  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill 
will   be  celebrated  under  the  auspices  of  the   Bunker 

Hill  Association  an. I  other  societies,  at  Los  Gates, 

l  al..  where  the  societies  will  be  met  at  the  depot  by 
the  Board  of  Trade  and  various  organizations  of  that 
place,  and  where  the  literary  exercises  of  the  day  will 
be  held.  Special  trains  will  leave  San  Francis'co  at 
Third  and  Townsend  streets  at  eight-thirty  (8:-?o) 
o'clock  on  the  excursion,  Friday.  Tune  17th.  " 

In  the  year  1843  ,lu-  Bunker' Hill  monument  in 
Boston  was  completed.  The  late  Mr.  William  G. 
Badger,  the  honored  President  for  over  forty  years 
of  the  Bunker  Hill  Association  of  California,  was 
present  at  the  first  services  in  1825,  then  only  a  bov 
three  years  old.  He  was  also  present  at  the  comple- 
tion of  the  monument,  then  a  young  man  twenty-one 
years  old. 

These  occasions  were  undoubtedly  the  fountain 
and  source  of  the  great  fervor  and  patriotism  which 
inspired  the  former  President  of  the  Bunker  Hill  As- 
sociation to  organize  and  maintain  it  for  so  many 
years  to  commemorate  the  anniversary  all  these  years 
by  this  great  event.  This  year  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,  the  Sons  of  Vermont,  and  the 
Society  of  California  Pioneers  will  join  tvith  the 
Bunker  Hill  Association. 


Always  insist  upon   having 
■    The  Genuine 

MURRAY  & 

LANMAN'S 
Florida   Water 

The  'most  refreshing  and 
delightful  perfume  for  the 
handkerchief,  toilet  and  bath 


JUST  OUT 

The  new  U.  S.  22  Short  SmoKeless  Cart- 
ridges. The  best  yet.  U.  S.  22  Short  (black 
powder.)  The  standard  brand,  always  reliable 
and  popular.     Call  for  the  U.  S. 

UNITED  STATES  CARTRIDGE  CO.,  MaKers 


NOTICE  TO  CREDITORS. 

Estate  of  THOMAS  LANIGAN  deceased.  Dept.  305M  No.  2.  Notice 
is  hereby  given  by  the  undersigned,  M.  J.  Hynes,  Public  Administrator 
of  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  and  Administrator  of  the 
Estate  of  THOMAS  LANIGAN.  deceased.to  the  creditors  of.  and  all 
persons  having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with 
the  necessary  vouchers,  within  four  months  after  the  first  publication  - 
of  this  notice,  to  the  said  Administrator,  at  room  568  Parrott  Building, 
Nos.  825  to  855  Market  street,  the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transac- 
tion of  the  business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  State  of  California. 

M.  J.  HYNES 
Administrator  of  the  Estate  of  THOMAS  LANIGAN,  Deoeased 
O0LLINAN  and  HICKEY,  attorneys  tor  administrator,  rooms  607.  568, 
569,  Parrott  building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Dated  at  San  Francisco,  June  i.  1904. 


HMD'S 


Business  College 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


^^gs&tas1 


MODEL  M.    8  HORSE  POWER. 

Price,  $950 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.   '"{^gfL1 


Phone  South  100" 


THE     Al/TOCAU 


AUTOCARS,  $1,850 
AUTOCAR  RUNABOUT,  $1,050 
LIGHT  TOURING  COLUMBIA  $1,900 
COLUMBIA  FOUR  CYLINDER  $4,000 

THERE  ARE  NO  AUTOMOBILES  BETTER 


WEST    COAST 

606  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 


MOTOR-CAR    CO. 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Ha'/r  you  seen  the 


Buckboard?  • 


1904  Model 
Best    Automobile     at 


snus'. 


$475 


Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SUNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO 


The    CADILLAC 


MODEL  B.     Price  $950 
With  Tonneau  $1050 


Record  from  Del 
Monte  to  Oakland  5 
hours  and  38  minutes. 
The  only  successful 
tour  of  the  Yosemite 
made  by  Major  Fulmer 
of  Los  Angeles  and  a 
party  of  three. 


CUYLER  LEE,  Agent.     201-203  Larkin  Street,  S.  F. 


Bt    The    Actocrahk 

The  Automobile  Club  of  California  has  held  a 
meeting  to  receive  the  resignation  of  F.  A.  Hyde  as 
President  and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors. 
It  was  a  very  busy  meeting,  and  from  the  amount  of 
work  transacted,  the  indications  are  that  the  sport 
locally  will  receive  new  life.  R.  P.  Schwerin  was 
elected  for  the  Presidency,  while  Thomas  Magee,  Jr., 
was  taken  into  the  Board  of  Governors. 

*  *  * 

.  This  move  has  greatly  strengthened  the  working 
force  of  the  club,  and  will  tend  to  a  better  condition 
of  affairs,  as  both  of  the  new  officers  are  noted  for 
their  ability  to  accomplish   what  they  start  out  to 

achieve. 

*  *  * 

At  the  meeting,  the  Race  and  Tours  and  Runs 
Committees  were  abolished,  and  in  their  stead  an  ex- 
ecutive committee  was  created,  which  will  practically 
control  the  workings  of  the  club. 

The  Executive  Committee  is  composed  of  L.  P. 
Lowe,  chairman ;  Samuel  G.  Buckbee  and  Charles 
C.    Moore.     These    same   gentlemen    controlled    the 

racing  for  the  last  year. 

*  *  * 

Another  committee  created  was  one  known  as  the 
Membership  Committee  that  will  pass  on  all  appli- 
cations for  membership.  Secretary  F.  W.  McNear 
and  Thomas  Magee,  Jr.,  compose  the  Committee. 

Still  another  committee  created  was  one  designated 
as  the  Legal  and  Legislation  Committee.  J.  D. 
Spreckels  is  chairman,  while  former  Governor  Budd 
is  his  associate.  Right  here  is  where  the  club  is  tak- 
ing up  the  course  advocated  by  the  News  Letter.  It 
now  proposes  to  go  in  for  an  universal  law  for  auto- 
mobiles throughout  the  State,  and  steps  will  be  at 
once  taken  to  prepare  for  an  active  campaign  at  the 
coming  election.  It  will  be  the  massing  of  every 
one  who  has  good  roads  at  heart,  and  want  to  see  jus- 
tice  given   to   the   automobile,   motor-cycle   and   the 

bicycle. 

*  *  * 

The  Executive  Committee  is  working  on  the  en- 
durance run  to  Los  Angeles.  Chairman  L.  P.  Lowe 
next  week  will  send  one  of  his  autos  over  the  course. 

If  the  local  enthusiasts  show  any  interest  in  the  af- 
fair, it  will  be  pulled  off  the  early  part  of  July. 

The  Los  Angeles  contingent  are  in  for  it  to  a  man, 
and  it  only  remains  for  the  local  end  to  do  its  part. 

The  present  plan  is  to  make  the  run  to  Los  Angeles 
for  points  in  endurance.  Then  to  spend  aday  at  the 
Southern  city,  which  will  include  a  parade.  Then  to 
start  back  in  company  with  the  Los  Angeles  automo- 
bilist  in  a  sort  of  inter-club  competition.  Then  a  par- 
ade on  this  end. 

*  *  * 

With  all  this  before  the  local  following  of  the  sport 
there  should  be  a  splendid  finish  to  the  season's  pro- 
gramme. Following  the  endurance  races  comes  the 
Del  Monte  meet  in  August  and  the  race  meet  at  In- 
gleside  in  September.  These,  with  a  series  of  special 
events,  will  make  a  very  complete  schedule. 
'*  *  * 

F.  J.  Tohnson,  of  San  Rafael,  has  been  attacked 
with  the  automobile  fever,  and  last  week  purchased 
one  of  the  new  model  Cadillacs. 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


lillacs  have   recently   been   delivered 
bury  of  tl  y  of  San  Fram 

Dr.  II.   II.   Foster  oi  Port  Towtuend,   I.  Sahi 

nd   A.    I..   Griffin  of   IV 

*  •   • 

William  Koenig  left  San  Francisco  Saturday,  Maj 
.  run  to  Los  Angeles  ami  back  in  his  Cadil- 
lac    It  is  Mr.  Koenig's  intention  to  make  the  entire 
round  trip  in  his  motor  car. 

»  »  * 

Mr.  Hollenbeck,  of  the  Hollenbeck-Bush   Planing 
■f  Fresno,  lias  just  secured  from  the  Mobili 
riage  Company  a  two-cylinder  Pierce  Arrow  touring 

ear.  Mr.  Hollenbeck  looked  the  cars  over  very  care 
fully  before  making  his  purchase.  He  has  run  the 
car  from  San  Francisco  to  Fresno,  starting  on  I i i  — - 
trip  Mondav  evening. 

*  *  * 

__  Mr.  George  Austin  purchased  from  the  Mobile 
Carriage  Company  a  four-cylinder  great  Arrow,  to  be 
delivered  to  him  at  Buffalo,  as  he  spends  his  time 
in  N'ew  York  and  Los  Angeles.     Under  date  of  May 

10th  he  wrote  the  Los  Angeles  branch  as  follows: 
"I  have  been  all  through  the  Pierce  factory,  from  one 
end  to  the  other,  and  from  what  I  can  observe  and 
learn,  they  are  putting  on  the  market  one  of  the  finest, 
and  I  believe  the  best,  cars  that  can  be  built.  Every- 
thing is  built  like  a  watch,  and  with  the  best  mechan- 
ics that  wages  can  hire ;  they  are  so  particular  that 
every  little  thing,  even  a  nut,  has  got  to  be  ground 
just  so.  The  shaft  is  fitted  and  the  bearings  scraped. 
This  has  got  to  be  within  one-thousandth  part  of 
an  inch,  and  also  turn  free." 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  Baldwin  of  Los  Angeles  has  returned 
from  New  York,  and  tells  the  Mobile  Carriage  Com- 
pany that  he  is  ready  to  place  an  order  for  a  four- 
cylinder  Arrow.  He  looked  over  the  field  carefully, 
and  says  that  the  Pierce  cars  are  absolutely  unequaled 
among  the  American  makes. 

*  *  * 

The  Oldsmobile  famine  in  New  York  was  broken 
last  week  by  the  receipt  of  twelve  runabouts  and 
four  tonneau  touring  cars. 

Thomas  Rose  has  secured  from  the  Brooklyn  Au- 
tomobile Company  the  Philadelphia  agency  for  the 
Haynes-Apperson.  He  will  open  a  spacious  garage 
for  its  sale  and  care  in  North  Broad  street.  Mr.  Rose 
ordered  twenty  cars  for  a  starter. 

*  *  * 

A.  P.  Shumaker  has  established  a  new  agency  for 
the  Packard  machines,  and  has  opened  a  fine  suite 
of  offices  in  the  Park  building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.  He  has 
already  made  a  number  of  good  sales  and  is  doing 
considerable  demonstrating. 

*  *  * 

The  Pope  Manufacturing  Company  has  established 
a  garage  in  connection  with  its  automobile  salesroom 
and  Crescent  bicycle  factory  at  Wells  and  Schiller 
streets,  Chicago.  On  account  of  the  factory  facilities 
at  hand,  a  specialty  will  be  made  of  difficult  repair 
work. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Automobile  and  Manufacturers  Co., 
134  Golden  Gate  avenue,  are  selling  good,  new,  and 
also  slightly  used  autos  at  prices  which  should  be 
ascertained  by  an  early  call,  as  they  are  unequaled 
for  the  value  given  in  this  State. 

Eyes  Irritated  by  Wind 

Mineral  laden  poisonous  dust,  and  strong  sunlight,  need  care. 
Murine  Eye  Remedy  soothes  Eye  pain  and  cures  Inflammation, 
Redness,  Itching,  Granulated  and  Weak  Eyes.  Murine  Is  an 
Bye  Tonic;  an  aid  to  those  wearing  glasses. 


27 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Prloe    SI.3S0    Without    Top 
SI. 450  With  Too 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  persons. 

2.  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  Is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
and  beautiful  In  general  finish. 

6.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg. 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURING  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 


S2.650.0O 
800.00 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gale  Ave.  &  Gough  St.,  S.  F. 


T.  P.  JARVIS 


W.  J.  FREELINQ 


P.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.    Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  0ought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


M1L0  J.  GILLETT,  Prop. 

2910     SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 
Tel.  Capp  566 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO 

AUTOMOBILE   SUNDRIES  AT 
WHOLESALE    and    RETAIL 

Manufacturers   of  the 

COMMERCIAL  TOURING  CARS,  RUNABOUTS,  DELIVERY  CARS 
AND  HOTEL  COACHES 

The  lightest  and  highest  powered  Marine  Motors  in  California 

128-130    FREMONT    STREET,     S.    F. 


AUTOMOBILE    REPAIRS 

81    CITY    HALL    AVE. 

De  Dion  Plugs  and  Porcelains— Electric  Wiring  for  Auto  use 
beat  made— Batteries,  Tires,  etc. 

ANDREWS,  KEENAN  &  BLASAUF 

Tel.  South  1039  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


From  out  of  ashes  the  Cadillac  Automobile  Co., 
of  Detroit,  Mich.,  has  risen  almost  Phoenix-like. 
"\Vork  on  the  buildings  has  been  going  on  with  re- 
markable activity  ana  the  company  is  now  turning 
out  machines  almost  as  fast  as  before  the  fire,  but  a 
little  more  than  five  weeks  ago.  Before  the  plant 
was  destroyed  the  company  was  turning  out  twenty- 
five  completed  machines  each  day.  President  Black- 
said  yesterday  that  they  are  now  turning  out  twenty 
machines  a  day  in  the  part  of  the  plant  which  has 
been  rebuilt  and  in  the  various  factories  which  were 

temporarilv  leased. 

*  *  * 

Paris  authorities  have  decided  to  spend  $300,000 
in  improving  dangerous  road  crossings,  the  intention 
being  to  lessen  the  number  of  automobile  accidents. 
Suppose  a  good  roads  advocate  were  to  advance  such 
a  reason  to  a  collection  of  American  farmers! 

*  *  * 

Boston  is  trying  to  rival  St.  Louis.  It  has  just 
opened  its  park  system  to  automobiles.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  South  Park  commissioners  of  Chicago  have 
an  automobile  for  official  inspection  tours — at  least 
that  was  the  reason  given  for  its  purchase. 

*  *  * 

Surprises  are  coming  fast.  The  results  of  elimin- 
ating trials  for  the  international  cup  race  do  not  en- 
courage a  man  to  bet  much  on  favorites  in  the  big 
event. 


SUNDAY'S    AUTOMOBILE    RUN 

TO 

SAN    JOSE 

means   a    de- 
lightful   trip 

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and  an  appe- 

tite that   <-;tlls 

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for  something 
substantial. 

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A-utomobilists 

L^J-llPs  f?i    ^SJt1**""       1 

;i  re  Invited  to 

visit    the     LA- 

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MOLLE  GRILL. 

Kp^S^^ff^lpBid 

where     every 

viand  is  a  de- 

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lieht.      every 
wine    a    treat 

W&WV*^ 

[01    '■oiinois- 
seurs.    P  Mont- 
mayeiir.     Prop.. 
was  for  years 

Chef    at    Del- 

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monit-o  9-    and 

the  Maison 

Riohe, 
the  Victory  Theatre 

LA 

M0L1.E  GRILL,  36-38  Norlh  First  Street,   San  Jose 

opp 

WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced   BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS  also 

RAMBLERS,    NORTHERNS,     FRANKLINS,     OLDSMOBILES 
with  Lanterns,  Rugs,  Caps  and  Sundries 

Call  and  see  them  at 
NATIONAL    AUTO.    <a     MFG.    COMPANY 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVE.  SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 


AUTOMOBILE    GOGGLES 

Latest  Styles,   Largest  Assortment,   Lowest  Prices 

HIRSCH     3     KAISER,  Opticians 
7   Kearny  Streel  San  Francisco 


SECOND  HAND 

AUTOMOBILES 


F.    R.    LUCHHARDT 
20  GOLDEN    GATE    AVE. 

WITH 
CALIFORNIAEAUTO:  [EXPRESS     CO . 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WINTON/sKING, 
Long  Jive  the j 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton  Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  of  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmohile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

101  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 


SAN    JOSEr  CAL 


New  Automobile   Garage 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and"  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Importers  of  staple  and  fancy  drv  goods.  Manufacturers  of 
furnishing-  goods.  I'.iirn [.'■■-;  and  sole  manufacturers  of. 
"THE  NEVER-RIP"  OVERALL.    The  best  in  the  world. 

Gloves,  suspenders,  laces,  ribbons,  dress  goods,  velvets, 
silk,  flannels,  oil  cloths,  cottons,  linens,  etc.  Blankets. 
calicoes,  umbrella-s.  cutlery,  shawls,  notions,  smokers' 
articles,     stationery,    underwear,     hosiery,    white    goods. 

Cor.  Sansome  and  Bash  Sts.,  S.  F. 


H.  ISAAC  JONES,  M.  D.    Eye,  Ear,  Nose  and  Throat 

Office— Starr  King  Building,  121  Geary  street,  San  Francisco. 
Rooms  303,  304,  305.  Hours,  10  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m.,  2  to  4  p.  m.  Sun- 
day by  appointment.  Telephone,  Private  Exchange,  216.  Resi- 
dence, corner  5tn  avenue  and  16th  St,  Oakland.  Tel.  East  36. 


BUSWELL  COMPANY 

Bookbinder,  Paper- inlet,  Printer  and  Blank 


636  Clay  Street. 


Book  Manufacturer. 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ag 


the  roun  Wil 

anderbilt,  who,  dur  .  in  S.m  I 

!  with  a  Winton  touring  car  l>> 

ott-Blaki  mobile  Livery.    Mr.  V'ander- 

bilt  being  a  quiet  and  unassuming  young  man,  the 
driver  of  the  Winton,  n< «t  knowing  who  lie  was  and 
wishing  to  please,  thought  t<>  do  so  by  giving  him  a 

ride.  The  chauffeur,  therefore.  Speeded  tin- 
machine  up  a  little,  whereupon  he  was  told  by  "Win 
K."  to  drive  slower,  that  there  was  no  need  "i  hurry 

■  .  ami  that  he  was  a  little  afraid.  Again,  'luring 
the  afternoon,  the  chauffeur  thought  to  get  into  Mr. 
Vanderbili  graces  by  giving  him  another  fast 

ride.  He  was  again  told,  by  the  occupant  of  the  ve- 
hicle to  go  easy.  At  the  termination  of  the  ride, 
the  chauffeur  asked  the  gentleman  if  he  was  timid 
about  fast  driving.  The  reply  was:  "Yes,  very  much 
afraid,  as  I  am  not  accustomed  to  riding  in  automo- 
biles." Just  then  the  chauffeur  was  handed  a  carl 
which  read  "William  K.  Vanderbilt."  One  can  im- 
agine the  feelings  of  the  chauffeur  just  at  that  mo- 
ment. 

*  *  * 

Dr.  A.  L.  Rigdon  last  week  purchased  a  Steven s- 
Duryea  automobile  from  the  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company.    Mr.  <  '•.  E.  Scates,  of  Watsonville,  Maine, 

also   purchased    a    Stevens-Duryea    Automobile. 

*  *  * 

Three  Winton  touring  cars  were  sold  last  week  by 
the  Los  Angeles  branch  of  Pioneer  Automobile  Co. 
Mr.  Shore,  of  Reno,  Nevada,  is  now  the  possessor  of 
a  new  1904  Winton  touring  car,  which  he  purchased 
from  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company. 

The  Pioneer  Automobile  Company,  during  the  past 
week  sold  Oldsmobiles  to  the  following  parties,  viz. : 
Con.  T.  H.  Janson,  Mr.  J.  H.  Durst  of  Wheatland, 
Cal. ;  M.  F.  Fountain,  of  Blue  Lake,  Cal. ;  Logan  Cy- 
cle Co.,  of  Hollister,  Cal.;  Phillip  Penick,  of  Chico, 
Cal.;  R.  M.  Beattie,  of  Lakeport,  Cal.;  G.  C.  Schell- 
ing,  of  Santa  Rosa,  Cal.,  and  P.  J.  Steiger,  of  Peta- 

luma,  Cal. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Ferdinand  Nelson  made  a  trip  around  the  bay 
on  Sunday  in  his  new  1904  Winton  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

A  16-horse  power  gasolene  Locomobile  owned  by 
C.  A.  Fulton  Phizenmayer,  broke  the  east-bound  rec- 
ord from  New  York  to  Boston  on  May  22d.  Running 
time,  8  hours  15  minutes;  elapsed  time,  10  hours  24 

minutes. 

*  *  * 

To-day,  May  23d,  R.  A.  Greene  broke  his  own  rec- 
ord between  New  York  and  Boston,  established  on 
May  13th.  Mr.  Greene  arrived  in  New  York  to-day 
from  Boston,  his  actual  running  time  over  the  road 

being  8  hours  50  minutes. 

*  *  * 

Work  has  been  started  on  a  new  garage  for  Cuyler 
Lee,  Pacific  Coast  agent  for  the  Cadillac,  on  Golden 
Gate  avenue,  between  Hyde  and  Larkin  streets.  12 
Model  B  Cadillacs  are  on  their  way  here,  and  should 
reach  San  Francisco  in  about  10  days.  Cuyler  Lee 
has  established  agents  in  all  the  important  towns  in 
California,  Oregon  and  Washington. 

The    Techau    Tavern    is    the    place    to    go    after   the 

theatre.  It  tops  oft  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
Is  reasonable. 


Tesla  Briquettes,   the  popular  domestic   fuel,   are  only  J7.5:) 

per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight  guaranteed,  in 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th 
and  Channel.    Phone  South  95. 


CAUTION 

The  following  Manufacturers  and  Importers 
are  licensed  under  the  pioneer  patent  Num- 
ber 549,160,  granted  to  George  B.  Selden, 
dated  November  5th,  1895  on 

Gasolene  Automobiles 


In  view  of  their  license  agreement  they  and  theiragents  will 
n'.t  sell,  keep  on  hand  or  in  any  manner  dispose  of  or  deal 
in  directly  or  indirectly  any  unlicensed  new  or  second-hand 
gasolene  vehicles,  infringing  said  Selden  patent. 

MANUFACTURERS: 


Electric  Vehicle  Co. 
Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 
Packard  Motor  Car  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 
Knox  Automobile  Co. 
The  Haynes-Apperson  Co. 
The  Autocar  Co. 
The  George  N.  Pierce  Co. 
Appersou  Bros.  AutomobileCo. 
Locomobile  Co.  of  America 
The  Peerless  Motor  Car  Co. 
Standard  Motor  Construction 

Co. 
Waltham  Manufacturing  Co. 
J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 
H.  H.  Frankl 


Pope  Motor  Car  Co. 
Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
The  Commercial  Motor 
Berg  Automobile  Co. 
Cadillac  Automobile  Co. 
Northern  Mfg.  Co. 
Pope-Robinson  Co. 
The  Kirk  Mfg.  Co. 
Elmore  Mfg.  Co. 
E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
Buffalo  Gasolene  Motor 
The  F.  B.  Steirns  Co. 
Pope  Manufacturing  Co. 
Sandusky  Automobile  Co. 
Crest  Manufacturing  Co. 
in  Mfg.  Co, 


Co. 


Co. 


IMPORTERS: 


Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
Central  Automobile  Co. 
Alexander  Fisher 
Hollander  &  Tangeman 


Standard  Automobile  Co. 

E.  B.  Gillaher 
Auto  Import  Co. 

F.  A   LaRoche  Co. 


Sidney  B.  Bowman  Automobile  Co. 

Both  the  bisic  Selden  patent  and  more  than  400  other  patents 
owned  by  members  of  this  Association  will  be  enforced  against 
infringers.  Manufacturers,  Importers,  Dealers  and  Agents, 
also  Users  of  unlicensed  machines  are  liable. 


Association  of  Licensed  Automobile  Mfrs. 

No.  7  East  42d  Street,  New  York 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  &  CO.,  13-15-17  W.  St.  John  St.,  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile,  Oldsmobile,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 


P.    L.     CRANDALL, 
University  Avenue, 


Automobile    Supplies,    Repairing    etc.,    124 
Palo  Alto,  Cal. 


SAMUEL    M.    SHORTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law, 

Crocker  Building  San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IH,  g£mz~*~-.$l  NSUKANCE 


June  4,  1904. 


Mr.  E.  H.  Hart,  General  Agent  of  the  Penn  Mutual 
Life  for  this  State,  has  been  on  a  visit  to  the  agency 
convention  of  his  company  at  Baltimore. 

The  Maryland  Casualty  Company  secured  the  lia- 
bility business  of  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposi- 
tion. The  premium  is  $75,000.  The  liability  of  the 
company  is  confined  strictly  and  solely  to  visitors. 
That  is,  the  damages  for  which  the'  Exposition  Com- 
pany might  or  may  be  mulcted  is  that  which  accrues 
to  visitors  through  the  fault  or  negligence  of  the  ex- 
position authorities.  The  president  of  the  insuring 
company  is  reported  to  have  figured  the  premium  as 
follows : 

"We  took  the  estimate  of  the  Exposition  authori- 
ties upon  the  number  of  people  who  would  attend 
the  exposition.  This  was  30,000,000.  Then  we  took 
the  figures  of  the  actual  number  of  people  who  at- 
tended the  Chicago  Exposition,  the  Buffalo  Exposi- 
tion and  the  Paris  Exposition.  Consideration  was 
then  given  to  the  factors  that  might  deter  people  from 
going  to  St.  Louis  or  that  would  encourage  them  to 
go.  For  example,  the  South  has  plenty  of  money 
from  the  high  price  of  cotton,  and  the  attendance 
from  that  section  will  be  large.  The  Pacific  Coast 
is  somewhat  distracted  by  preparations  for  the  Lewis 
and  Clark  Exposition  to  be  held  there,  and  the  at- 
tendance from  that  quarter  will  be  diminished  by 
this  cause.  The  Eastern  States  have  suffered  a  de- 
pression in  the  security  market  and  a  let  up  in  indus- 
trial activity,  which  will  deter  some  people  from  go- 
ing to  St.  Louis.  The  Middle  West  is  close  to  the 
Exposition  and  is  enthusiastic,  and  there  should  be 
a  large  attendance  from  this  quarter. 

"After  weighing  these  influences,  we  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  there  would  be  20,000,000  people  to 
visit  the  Exposition.  Then  came  the  question  of  ex- 
posure to  accidents.  The  Exposition  avenues  are 
very  wide — much  wider  than  at  Chicago — owing  to 
the  fact  that  the  grounds  embrace  1200  acres  of  land, 
compared  with  about  600  at  Chicago.  The  aisles  in 
the  buildings  are  also  extra  wide.  These  conditions 
reduce  the  hazard.  Then,  again,  we  figure  that  the 
liability  to  accident  is  not  so  great  on  the  Exposition 
grounds  as  it  is  when  people  are  pursuing  their  daily 
vocations.  We  know  from  actual  figures  what  the 
percentage  under  the  latter  condition  is,  and  then  we 
allow  for  the  reduced  hazard  on  the  Exposition 
grounds.  Working  this  out  on  a  10,000  basis,  it  was 
an  easy  task  to  figure  on  20,000,000." 

This  method  of  computation  looks  easy  to  the  non- 
professional, but  to  the  liability  underwriter  it  is 
simply  staggering. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  H.  Tyson,  the  energetic  manager  of 
the  German  American  and  the  Phoenix,  is  en  route 
to  visit  the  home  offices,  and  will  then  proceed  to 
London,  England,  and  take  a  three  months'  tour  of 
the  Continent. 

*  *  * 

The  terms  of  the  Atlas-Manchester  deal,  the- News 
Letter  learns,  are  as  follows :  The  Atlas  has  a  sub- 
scribed capital  of  £1,200,000  in  24,000  shares  of  £50 
each  on  which  £5  was  paid  up.  making  with  £24,000 
since  added  from  profits  £144,000  paid  up,  or  £6 
per  share.  The  Manchester's  subscribed  capital  is 
£2,000,000  in  100,000  shares  of  £20  each,  on  which 
£2  is  paid-up.  By  the  terms  of  the  transfer  one 
Atlas  share  is  given  for  five  Manchester  shares.  The 
Atlas  issues  additional  capital  of   £1,000,000  12  per 


cent  paid  up  which  goes  to  the   Manchester  share- 
holders. 

H.  S.  Mallett,  manager  of  the  Manchester,  will  be- 
come assistant  manager  of  the  fire  branch  of  the  At- 
las, with  Alfred  W.  Yee.  The  vote  of  the  stockhold- 
ers was  taken  June  1st,  and  as  before  stated  in  these 
columns,  the  deal  will  be  consummated. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  S.  M.  Marks,  the  able  secretary  of  the  Pacific 
Mutual  Life,  has  sailed  for  the  Islands  to  make  a 
personal  inspection  of  that  company's  large  business 
in  Honolulu.     He  will  be  absent  about  six  weeks. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  John  R.  Hageman,  Jr.,  son  of  the  President  of 
the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company,  spent  his 
honeymoon  in  San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

Wilbur  I.  Tupper,  the  energetic  Vice-President 
and  General  Manager  of  the  Conservative  Life  In- 
surance Company,  recently  delivered  an  able  lecture 
before  the  students  of  his  alma  mater,  the  Ann  Arbor 
College,  on  the  ethics  of  "Field  Work  in  Life  Insur- 
ance as  a  Profession." 

*  *  * 

The  Phoenix  Mutual  Life  was  the  first  to  conven- 
tionize  in  the  St.  Louis  Fair. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Duncan,  ex  of  the  Thurinp-ia  office,  is  now 
cashier  for  the  Butler  Agency,  and  Mr.  Sinclair,  for- 
merly counter  man  for  the  same  company  is  now  in 
charge  of  the  city  department  of  the  McNear  Agency. 

Manager  Taylor  and  Assistant  Manager  Miller 
of  the  Metropolitan  Life,  accompanied  Vice-Presi- 
dent Haley  Fiske  on  his  journey  East  as  far  as  Seat- 
tle, Washington. 

*  *  * 

The  Stovel  Agency  has  removed  from  its  California 
street  offices  to  more  commodious  quarters  at  122 
Sansome  street. 

The  Rock  of  Gibraltar  Company  is  being  exten- 
sively advertised  in  the  magazines  on  account  of  the 
excellence  of  its  exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair.  The 
articles  seem  to  dwell  exclusively  on  the  value  of  the 
company's  card  system,  and  poor  pictures  of  the 
company's  Senator  President. 


RAMSAY" 

ISLAY 
SCOTCH  WHISKY 


UNEXCELLED  FOR  BODY    AND 
FLAVOR 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 


Agents  Pacific  Coast. 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 


June  4.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Mr  if  tlic  Phenix,  has  returned 

a  bri(  British  Columbia. 

»  •  • 

Vice-Preaidenl  Faymonville  of  the  Firemans  Fund, 
who  recently  went  to  the  Orient  t.>  look  over  the 
field,  has  returned  to  the  city  bronzed  and  brown. 
He  found  the  outl  for  a  \\  1 

Company  of  tlic  standard  of  the  Firemans  Fund  that 
he  established  agencies  in  several  places,  among 
which  were  Shanghai  and  Manila.  He  reports  that 
the  Firemans  Fund  will  do  a  conservative  business 
at  these  points,  the  fire  protection  being  limited,  but 
the  rates  being  adequate,  all  of  which  is  in  keeping 
with  the  steady  and  usual  practice  of  the  Firemans 
Fund. 

*  *  * 

Genial  George  F.  Grant,  of  the  old  Franklyn,  has 
returned  to  the  city,  after  an  arduous  trip  through 
the  Northwest,  during  which  time  he  visited  the  bus- 
iness getting  centers,  and  got  business. 

*  *  - 

Mr.  R.  L.  Stephenson,  the  new  manager  of  the 
Union  Central,  has  just  returned  from  a  flying  visit 
to  his  district  agents.  He  says:  "Only  watch  the 
I'nion  Central — it's  growing." 

*  *  * 

Manager  Tyree  of  the  Continental  Life  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  was  recently  in  the  city. 

*  *  '* 

Moore  Sanborn,  Vice-President  of  the  Security 
Life,  has  returned  to  the  East,  after  a  week  in  San 

Francisco. 

*  *  * 

The  Insurance  Commissioner  of  Wisconsin,  Zeno 
M.  Host,  has  begun  libel  suit  against  some  three  of 
Milwaukee's  dailies.  He  asks  for  $50,000  damages 
from  each  publication.  Here  is  a  tempest  in  some- 
thing smaller  than  the  regulation  tea  pot.  Not  con- 
tent with  suing  the  local  papers,  he  has  gone  to  the 
city  of  New  York  and  sued  some  more  poor  people. 
All  this  is  on  account  of  the  Prudential  coming  to  the 
front  in  a  sort  of  manly  way  (after  it  had  paid  thou- 
sands of  dollars  for  Host's  purported  examination) 
and  refusing  to  pay  any  more.  Looking  through  a 
telescope  from  this  distance,  it  seems  that  the  papers 
sued  need  not  worry,  and  that  the  Prudential  will, 
or  rather  has,  dug  Mr.  Host's  official  grave,  and  will 
inter  him  therein,  and  there  will  be  none  to  mourn 

the  burial. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Host  is  not  yet  through  his  trouble  with  the 
Equitable,  and  has  only  commenced  it  with  the  Pru- 
dential, but  if  he  can  learn,  the  lesson  will  be  taught 
him  that  there  is  a  wide  difference  between  examina- 
tion and  extortion. 

*  *.  * 

The  Anglo-American  of  Toronto,  in  order  to  pay 
its  losses  in  the  Toronto  Fire,  has  levied  an  assess- 
ment of  30  per  cent  on  its  stockholders.  It  is  too  bad 
that  it  had  American  tacked  onto  its  name.  It  is 
only  the  Anglos  that  assess;  the  Americans  all  pay 
up,  or  the  American  companies  are  paid  up. 

*  *  * 

The  Prussian  National,  it  is  reported,  will  follow 
the  action  of  the  Home  of  New  York,  and  open  a 
department  in  old  Mexico.    If  it  can. 

Nelson's  Amycose 

Infallible  Remedy  for  Catarrh,  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


31 


INSURANCE 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 


Founded  A.  D.  17W. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital    tt.Oot.Mt 

Surplus    to    Potlcy-Holders    ............[[.  i.ttl.n* 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Agent.    202  Tine  St..  8.  F. 

Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal   Charter,   A.   D.   1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  J3.«6,100.  Assets,   K4.M2.M3.M 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  W,93u,431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  »1M,00»,0M 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 
FRANK  W.    DICKSON,   Manager,  601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.   KINGSTON,   Local   Mgr». 


Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF  HARTFORD.     Established  1110. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders.  .     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department 
COLIN  M.   BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sunsome  bireet, 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 

The  Pacific  Mutual 
Life  Insurance    Co. 

of  California. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

DON'T  INSUEE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $  1 ,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $2 1 ,000,000 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building 110  Geary  St. San  Franciae 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance  Co 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 
Capita]  $6,700,000 

Balfour,  Guthrie  &,  Co.  Agents.  816  California  St.,  S.  F 


Cash  Capital,  J2O0.00O.OO 


Cash  Assets,   $321,471.19 


"Out  of  the  Beaten  Path,"  Tom  Dillon'B  modern  style  hats 
Opposite  Palace. 

Ladles— For  a  good  complexion  try  the  Post  St    Hammam. 


PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Pierson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.   Deerlng,  Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,   Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 

FIRE      EXTINGUISHERS 

CHAS.    P.     FONDA 
138    MARKET    STREET,    S!A  N    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


Joseppa:   Sweetest  of  Tagalog  Children 


BY     PIERRE    N.  BERIKCER 


I. 

The  first  time  I  saw  Joseppa,  Admiral  Dewey  had 
his  hand  on  her  head  and  was  saying  to  the  flag  lieu- 
tenant, "Brumby,  what  a  pretty  child!" 

The  Admiral  is  neatness  personified,  and  Filipino 
children,  though  pretty,  are  generally  dirty.  I  knew 
this  must  be  a  remarkable  Tagalog  infant.  That  the 
great  hero  should  stop  to  look  at  her,  that  he  should 
touch  her,  was  distinction.  The  Admiral  passed  on, 
and  I  crossed  the  little  street  which  runs  at  right  an- 
gles to  the  still  narrower  lanes,  called  the  Calle  Real 
and  the  Calle  Noveliches. 

In  Kavite,  Joseppa's  father  and  mother  own  a 
small  cigarette  and  tobacco  shop.  Upon  the  shelves 
may  also  be  found  sardines,  pickled  tongues  and 
Holland  butter,  all  in  tins.  At  the  front  of  the  shop 
is  a  large  flat  basket,  containing  an  immense  cocoa- 
leaf,  upon  which  the  native  tobacco  is  spread  out  to 
dry.  In  another  and  smaller  basket  is  the  neatly- 
wrapped  bouilla,  or  betel-nut.  This  is  chewed  by 
the  less  cultured  of  the  natives.  It  is  made  of  cocoa- 
leaf,  betel-nut  and  slacked  lime,  and  is  a  substitute 
for  tobacco.  Its  use  is  extremely  injurious  to  the 
the  teeth.  Since  the  coming  of  the  "Americanos" 
many  of  the  natives  have  discarded  the  bouilla  and 
taken  to  tobacco-chewing,  dropping  from  one  bad 
habit  to  another. 

Joseppa  is  a  little  brown  maid  who  speaks  a  Span- 
ish patois  fluently,  a  splendid  specimen  of  the  cute 
Tagalog  children.  She  was,  at  this  time,  only  nine 
years  of  age  and  exceptionally  small.  I  walked  into 
the  dark  shop,  to  where  she  had  retreated  after  the 
Admiral's  departure.  On  the  counter  in  front"  of  her 
was  a  long  canoe-shaped  vessel  of  teak-wood.  This 
vessel  contained  shells,  tiny  sea-shells,  and  these 
were  in  fifteen  or  twenty  compartments  and  the  game 
was  called  solitario.  The  shells  were  placed  in  un- 
equal numbers  in  the  compartments,  and  in  a  given 
number  of  moves  Joseppa  had  them  in  the  ends  of 
the  canoe,  an  equal  number  in  each. 

Going  to  her,  I  placed  my  hand  upon  her  head, 
just  as  the  Admiral  did. 

She  looked  up  at  me  with  great  trustful  black 
eyes,  and  then  said  very  solemnly:  "Bueno  Ameri- 
cano, hermano  de  los  Filipinos." 

I  was  not  exactly  ready  to  acknowledge  the  rela- 
tionship, but  the  child  insisted  with  tears  that  I  was 
a  brother  to  the  Insurgent.    So  to  please,  I  said  "Si." 

Her  eyes  twinkled  like  diamonds,  and  then  to  my 
surprise  she  said:  "Play  gem,  eh!  Seeng?" 

It  was  a  long  time  before  I  understood  that  these 
words  were,  "Play  game,  eh!  Sing!"  And  when  I 
finally  did  comprehend,  she  was  so  happy  that  she 
could  not  wait  for  her  father  to  bring  the  guitar.  She 
struck  an  attitude  on  the  greasy  old  counter  and  sang 
a  weird,  wailing  song  with  a  refrain  that  told  of  the 
"Spaniard  cooped  up  in  Manila,"  always  ending  with 
"imposible  de  escapar!"  Her  voice  was  high-strung, 
and  when  she  repeated  the  impossibility  of  escape 
it  was  wildly  triumphant. 

We,  the  Expeditionary  Force  of  the  United  States, 
had  only  been  in  Kavite  a  week,  but  this  little  native 
girl,  who  knew  enough  of  business  to  tend  shop  when 
her  father  and  mother  were  out,  had  in  her  leisure 
moments,  which  were  not  many,  learned  something 
of  the  English  language  from  the  soldiers.  The 
pronunciation  of  the  "th"  was  very  difficult  for  Jo- 
seppa.     I    introduced    her    to    Captains    Heath    and 


Whiting,  and  the  best  she  ever  could  do  with  their 
names  was  "Captain  Each"  and  "Medico  Wide-ink." 
Captain  Whiting  was  a  medical  officer,  and  when  I 
expressed  surprise  that  she  should  call  him  "Med- 
ico," she  pointed  to  the  red-cross  brassard  and  said, 
"I  know  I"     This  was  her  favorite  expression. 

The  first  time  I  greeted  the  little  family  with  a 
word  in  Tagalog,  there  was  a  general  shout  of  joy. 
I  came  in  one  day  just  as  Joseppa  was  descending 
from  the  second-story  through  a  hole  in  the  floor 
by  a  bamboo  ladder.  She  turned  quickly  at  hearing 
my  step,  and  was  about  to  say  her  customary  "Good- 
mornink,"  when  I  shouted  out  '  Ma-gan-dang-a- 
'bipo,"  which  is  the  morning  greeting  in  Tagalog. 
She  clapped  her  hands  at  the  risk  of  falling  from  the 
ladder  and  cried  out,  "O!  Periodiste,  I  love  you!  You 
can  speak  Tagalog!  Father — mother — listen!" 
Joseppa,  for  want  of  a  better  name,  had  dubbed  me 
Periodiste  (journalist),  and  even  after  she  knew  my 
name  she  claimed  Periodiste  was  more  distinguished 
than  the  one  my  parents  gave  me. 

Then  it  was  that  Joseppa  and  I  exchanged  lan- 
guages, and  every  day  for  an  hour  I  would  sit  on  the 
rough  bench  outside  the  door,  and  that  nine-year-old 
girl  would  teach  me  Spanish  and  Tagalog,  and  I 
would  teach  her  English.  But  that  is  not  right,  for 
Joseppa  claims  that  there  is  English,  and  there  is 
American,  and  that  one  language  is  not  at  all  like  the 
other.  She  says:  "Zee  English  sailor  talk  fet,  greasy 
kine  talk ;  you  spik  clean  talk  wich  de  leeps ;  ze  Eng- 
lish talk  wich  de  froat !"  Joseppa  was  the  better 
student. 

One  hot  day  I  was  leaning  against  the  wall  at  the 
arsenal  gate,  looking  at  the  motley  crowd  of  natives 
selling  fruit  and  curios  to  the  soldiers,  when  a  little 
hand  crept  over  mine  and  an  appealing  brown  face, 
crowned  with  a  tousled  head  of  jet-black  hair,  was 
turned  toward  me.  It  was  Joseppa.  As  soon  as  she 
knew  she  was  noticed  she  crossed  her  hands  upon 
her  chest  and  said,  "Come  to  zee  ouze!"  This  meant 
that  something  was  wrong  at  the  casa  and  I  was 
wanted.  It's  a  goodish  walk  from  the  arsenal  gate 
to  Joseppa's  house  by  the  south  wall,  and  the  sun  was 
hot.  I  hailed  one  of  the  Karamata,  or  two-wheeled 
carts,  and  motioned  my  little  guide  to  get  in.  Xo, 
she  did  not  care  to  ride;  so  I  was  compelled  to  walk. 
I  teased  her  on  the  way,  but  she  was  not  merry. 
There  was  something  seriously  wrong.  Before  we 
reached  the  shop  we  were  walking  hand  in  hand,  and 
the  officers  and  men  on  the  Calle  del  Arsenal  glanced 
curiously  at  us  as  we  passed.  I  didn't  care  what  they 
might  think.  This  poor  little  Oriental  rag-baby 
reminded  me  of  other  things  than  war — better  things. 
She  reminded  me  of  home,  of  tender  American 
women  and  sweet  little  children  far  away. 

Her  father  was  sitting  on  the  old  wooden  bench, 
and  as  soon  as  I  came  in  he  plunged  into  the  story. 

The  trouble  all  came  of  an  American  revolver. 
Some  foolish  soldier  had  sold  joseppa's  father  a 
pistol.  Joseppa's  father  loaned  it  to  a  friend.  That 
friend  was  Barasso,  and  Tos?ppa's  father's  best 
friend.  Barasso  knew  nothing  of  pistols,  especial!}' 
Colt's  pistols,  and  his  inquisitiveness  led  him  to  ex- 
tracting the  shells.  He  exnerienced  a  difficulty  and 
somehow  the  barrel  turned  toward  him  just  at  the 
moment  a  careless  finger  touched  the  trigger.  Poor 
Barasso  was  shot  in  the  abdomen. 


June  4.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


r  in  the  talc  I 

had  been  called,  and  found  t.i  my 
sent    that    nothing   had    been   done    in    that 

Filipino  doctors  were  all  away  in  the  field, 
and  they  thought  American  medicos  wire  for  Ameri- 
>,"  he  said.    Barasso  li\<. s  in  San  Roque,  .<ntsi.li' 
ild  walls. 
Wide-ink.*'    kind    Doctor   Whiting,    worked    hard 
on  l  tnd  l>y  nightfall  he  told  me,  with  one 

Of  his  good-natured  slaps.  'It's  all  right,  old  man; 
he'll  live,  but  he's  had  a  dose  shavel"  And  then  it 
took  me  an  hour  to  explain  to  dear.  Sympathetic  little 
Joseppa  that  Barasso's  shaving  had  nothing  what- 
ever to  do  with  the  case.    It  was  not  a  time  for  jokes. 

Soon  after  this  Manila  was  taken,  and  I  foun  1 
many  things  to  do  there  that  kept  me  from  Kavite. 
Two  months  passed  away.  It  was  then  I  received 
my  recall,  and  I  decided  to  go  to  Kavite  for  a  fare- 
well visit.  I  had  two  important  people  to  see.  (  )nc 
was  General  Anderson,  a  grim  old  soldier;  the  other 
Joseppa,  the  sweetest   of  Tagalog  children. 

General  Anderson's  farewells  were  soon  over,  and 
then  I  hurried  to  the  old  shop.  On  the  wall  was  the 
same  old  sign,  "Al  Contado,"  which,  translated, 
means  "For  cash  only."  The  greasy  table  was  there 
too,  and  the  father  and  mother  were  sitting  by  the 
little  showcase  full  of  fly-specked  tins.  There  was 
trouble  in  the  house  of  Alcala.  I  soon  knew.  The 
only  child  of  that  house  was  stricken  with  typhoid. 

I  crept  up  the  bamboo  ladder,  and  there,  on  the 
floor,  on  a  straw  mat,  was  Joseppa.  About  the  cor- 
ners of  her  mouth  and  around  her  eyes  she  was  palish 
green,  and  she  was  much  emaciated.  I  knelt  by  that 
poor  shrunken  figure,  and  I  think  I  cried.  Anyway, 
I  know  Joseppa  cried.  Then  she  said  in  fairly  good 
English : 

"My  friend,  I  know  you  come.  I  am  goning  get 
better.  I  got  zee  pisch-book  you  sen'  from  Manila. 
I  got  zee  school-book.  I  got  zee  book  when  I  was 
seek  bad,  and  I  get  better." 

Her  father  explained  that  when  she  seemed  so  ill 
that  the  native  physician  was  almost  in  despair,  a 
soldier  brought  the  little  package  from  Manila,  and 
from   that  moment  Joseppa  began  to  mend. 

Around  her  neck  there  was  a  necklace,  and  right 
in  the  middle,  among  copper  coins  from  Persia, 
China,  Korea  and  India,  was  a  fifty-cent  piece,  white, 
silver,  Americano.     It  was  my  last  gift  to  Joseppa. 

Just  as  I  was  about  to  leave  the  convalescent,  she 
pointed  to  the  Goddess  of  Liberty  and  said  :  "I  know. 
George  Washington." 

*  *  *  *  * 

I  have  settled  down  to  the  regular  humdrum  of 
newspaper  life,  and  from  having  been  an  actor  in 
the  drama  of  the  Orient,  I  am  now  an  onlooker,  part 
of  the  general  audience  far  from  the  lazy  lattitudes. 

Occasionally  an  act  in  the  play  strikes  an  affinitive 
chord  among  those  who  are  straining  mind  and  vis- 
ion toward  the  unborn  East — toward  the  land  that 
came  into  being  so  long  ago,  and  which  has  been 
lying  dormant  for  centuHes — awakened  again  at. 
the  touch  of  Western  civilization.  It  is  a  rude 
awakening. 

Among  the  Tagalogs  the  notion  is  current  that  a 
sleeper  must  be  aroused  by  degrees — the  name  of  the 
loved  one  is  first  called  in  a  whisper,  then  crooned- 
a  little  louder,  the  caller  increasing  the  tone  of  his 
voice  until  the  sleeper  awakens.  It  is  current  in  the 
tribe  that  sudden  and  loud  calls  bring  on  heart  dis- 
ease. 

There  is  a  shot  in  the  jungle,  a  cry  and  then  a 
silence,,  and  it  seems  as  though  Nature  herself  had 
stopped!  and  then  from  the  audience  in  the  West 


comes  the  echo.     A  mother  strains  her  ,  \ .-  and  mind 

no  more,  a  girl  has  lost  hi  r  sweetheart,  a  Father  hi^ 
son  and  a  boy  his  brother.  They  faint  and  fall,  and 
in  the  rush  are  trampled  on,  the'ery  is  lost  and  they 
are  carried  away  to  where  they  may  bind  up  their 
wounds  to  bleed  anew. 

The  shock  came  to  me.  While  the  licet  bombarded 
the  little  town  of  San  Roque,  an  Insurgent  nest,  the 
troops  advanced  over  the  kavite  causeway  and  fired 
bj  volleys  into  the  straw  thatches.  The  Tagalogs 
lied  in  all  directions.  Then  the  village  was  tired — 
the  straw  burned  like  tinder — and  the  soldiers  rested 
on  their  arms  while  the  city  burned.  Suddenly  their 
attention  was  arrested  by  the  figure  of  a  little  girl 
darting  toward  one  of  the  huts.  She  entered  the  door 
just  as  the  roof  crumbled  inward.  Fifty  men  forgot 
discipline  and  rushed  forward.  An  Irish  volunteer 
sergeant  in  the  Heavies,  then  stationed  at  Kavite, 
carried  the  little  form  out  of  the  blackened  embers 
and  laid  it  on  the  grass.  Tightly  to  her  breast  she 
held  a  picture-book  and  in  her  hand  an  American 
coin.  She  smiled  sweetly-  in  Honaine's  face  and 
said : 

"Buenos  Americanos,  hermanos  de  los  Filipinos." 
The  news  reached  me  by  letter,  and  it  seemed  as 
sudden  as  a  cable  message,  and  I  gulped  down  a  hard 
lump. 


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HE  WAS  A  CHRISTIAN  SCIENTIST. 

Dr.  Russell  H.  Cool  had  a  brand-new  experience 
last  week  during  one  of  the  sessions  of  the  State 
Board  of  Dental  Examiners,  of  which  he  is  a  mem- 
ber. A  man  who  has  been  a  practicing  dentist  in 
Oakland,  but  who,  under  the  new  law  had  to  be  prop- 
erly certificated  by  the  Board  or  take  in  his  shingle, 
came  up  for  examination.  He  was  answering  one 
question  after  another  quite  satisfactorily,  when  Dr. 
Cool  asked  him  about  a  specific  medicine  that  would 
have  to  be  used  under  given  condition's.  The  man 
replied  that  he  would  give  no  medicine,  that  he  never 
gave  any. 

"Do  I  understand  you  to  say  that  you  never  give 
medicine?"  queried  Dr.  Cool. 

"Yes;  I  am  a  Christian  Scientist,"  replied  the  ap- 
plicant with  an  air  of  finality,  and  then  he  added: 
"There  is  no  such  thing  as  pain;  consequently  there 
is  no  need  of  a  cure  for  it." 

Dr.  Cool  pressed  the  man  for  an  explanation  of  hi-; 
reason  for  filling  teeth,  because  by  the  rule  that  there 
was  no  pain,  there  should  be  no  decay. 

The  would-be  practitioner  explained  that  he  used 
fillings  as  a  temporary  matter  because  under  Chris- 
tian Science  treatment,  the  growth  of  good  dentine 
forced  the  filling  out.  He  said  that  he  had  many 
cases  in  his  practice  of  this.  In  fact  it  was  quite 
common. 

Dr.  Cool  was  speechless  after  this  statement.  The 
applicant's  case  is  still  under  consideration. 

THE  ITALIAN-AMERICAN  BANK. 

Prince  Luigi  of  Savoy  must  have  had  a  very  pleas- 
ant recollection  of  his  visit  in. San  Francisco,  for,  in 
conversation  with  one  of  the  leading  Italian  citizens 
of  Honolulu,  he  spoke  of  the  broad  democracy  and 
the  delightful  hospitality  that  prevailed  at  the  recep- 
tion on  the  occasion  of  the  opening  of  the  Italian- 
American  Bank  in  this' city. 

Mr.  Andrea  Sbarboro,  so  well  known  as  an  enter- 
prising citizen,  is  the  President  of  the  Italian-Ameri- 
can Bank,  and  it  is  due  to  his  and  his  associates*  ef- 
forts that  the  bank  is  finally  housed  in  the  magnifi- 
cent quarters  at  Montgomery  and  Sacramento 
streets.  The  Italian-American  colony  is  known  fcr 
its  thrift  and  its  enterprise,  and  it  is  to  be  highly 
complimented  in  the  possession  of  such  a  representa- 
tive institution  as  the  Italian-American    Tank. 


NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


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Best  was  accompanied  by  Thomas  Moran,  the  cele- 
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over  that  marvelous  region.  Mr.  Best  discovered 
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with  the  wonderful  colorings.  Mr.  Best  returned 
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The  chap   who   was   taking  his 

first  air-ship  voyage  began  to  turn 
pale.     "How   arc   you   feeling,  old 

man?"  asked  the  aerial  pi|.>t. 
"Rather  queer,"  replied  the  other 
as  he  gazed  at  the  silver  lininp  on 
the  clouds  far  below;  "hut  I  don't 
I  to  he  under  the  weather." 

Jack  the  giant-killer  put  on  his 
cap  of  wisdom,  "Vou  see,"  lie  ex- 
plained, "it  makes  me  know  as 
much  as  the  college  youth  thinks 
he  knows."  Thus  we  can  easily 
see  how  our  hcloved  hero  was  ab- 
solutely invincible. 

"How  do  you  account  for  the 
fact."  asked  the  doctor,  "as  shown 
by  actual  investigation,  that  thirty- 
two  out  of  every  hundred  crimi- 
nals in  the  country  are  left-hand- 
ed?" "That's  easily  accounted 
for,'  said  the  professor;  "the  other 
sixty-eight  are  right-handed." 

Fox — The  Jaoanese  have  a  svs- 
tem  of  physical  training  called  iiu- 
jitsu,  which  it  is  claimed  enahles 
the  weak  to  master  the  strong. 
Knox — Why?  Are  the  strong 
barred  from  learning  it? 

Miss  Scraper  (amateur  violinist) 
— Did  vou  notice  that  old  man  cry- 
insr  while  I  was  plaving  my  so- 
nata? Friend — Yes.  He  said  your 
playing:  reminded  him  of  old  happv 
days.  Miss  Scraoer — What!  he  a 
violinist?  Friend — No;  he  was  a 
piano  tuner. 

A  fish  diet  may  not  strengthen 
the  brain,  but  a  fishing  trio  always 
invigorates   the   imagination. 

"They  are  criticising  you  for  not 
expressing  an  opinion."  "Perhaps," 
answered  the  silent  candidate ; 
but  not  as  much  as  they  would 
criticise  the  opinions  if  I  expressed 

Hogg — Well,  I'm  mighty  glad  I 
ain't  got  no  children.  Kaustick — 
It's  just  as  well.  Hogg — That's 
what!  Kaustick — Yes,  for  in  these 
days  of  free  education  they  would 
not  be  able  to  escape  some  knowl- 
edge of  grammar  and  they'd  be 
forever  correcting  you. 

"I  love  you  lots,  Aunt  Bertha." 
"Do  you,  Dicky?"  "Yes,  aunt  Ber- 
tha; you're  lots  nicer'n  gran'ma; 
she  washes  me  all  th'  time." 

Play-goer — Yes,  I  regret  that  I 
missed  seeing  the  mob  scene  in 
that  last  production.  Tragedian — 
Which  mob  scene  do  you  mean? 
The  one  in  the  play,  the  one  in  the 
audience  or  the  one  when  the  play- 
ers are  trying  to  draw  their  salar- 
ies? 


BYRON  MAUZY 


pianos  ^"sr&irs 

Sotamer  Piano  Agency 

308-312  Post  St.,San  Francisco 


ORDER    SOME 


Club  Cocktails" 


SENT  HOME  TODAY. 

You  will  then  li.ivr  on 
'  your   own    sideboard   .» 

lentil  than  can 
be  served  over  any  Kir  in 
tin-  world.  A  cocktail  is 
■t  blend  <>f  different  li.]- 
M<ir~,  an. I  all  blends  mi- 
ni itli  age. 
Tin-  "Club  Cocktails" 
are  made  of  the  Deal  of 
li<|uors ;  made  by  a<  tual 

weight   and    measure- 
ment.     No    guesswork 

about  tin  in. 

Ask  your  husband  at 
dinner  which  he  prefers 
—  a  Manhattan,  Martini, 
Whiskey,  I  folland  I  -in, 
Tom  Clin,  Vermouth  or 
York. 

For  Hale  by  nil  Fnnry  rirocerB 
iinri  Imilcrs  generally,  or 
write  to 

G.  F.  Heublein  &  Bro„ 

29  Broadway,  H.Y. 
and  Hartford,  Conn. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS 

SPOHN-PATRICK    COMPANY 

San  Francisco.  Los  Angeles. 
Denver,  Salt  Lake  City.    Seattle. 


c  (ockt&n&. 


ATHLETES 

TO  KEEP  IN  GOOD  TRIM 
MUST  LOOK  WELL  TO  THE 
CONDITION  OF  THE  SKIN. 
TO  THIS  END  THE  BATH 
SHOULD    BE   TAKEN   WITH 

HAND 

SAPOLIO 

All  Grocers  and  Druggists 


TWOHEY    k    AHHOLOVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 

22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1U1 


Cocopah 

Rheumatura 

PURELY    VEGETABLE 

NO  MINERAL  DRUGS 

A  speedy  and  positive  cure  for  RHEUMATISM 
in  all  its  forms.  This  remedy  was  given  to 
Mr.  Tom  Threlfall  upon  one  of  his  visits  as 
mining  expert  to  the  country  inhabited  by 
the  Cocopah  Indians  and  he  was  shown  how 
to  compound  the  remedy  from  native  herbs. 
He  was  cured  of  his  rheumatism  and  has 
oured  several  prominent  citizens  of  San 
Francisco,  who  have  been  on  crutchea  for 
years. 

Tom  Threlfall  Company 

330  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


36 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


ERIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Paciflo  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  HarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


"What  makes  Mr.  Jones  screw 
up  his  face  so  dreadfully?"  "Why, 
that's  the  face  that  goes  with  his 
automobile  cap." 


Summer 
Vaca.tions 

Travel    by  Sea 


Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Berth  and  Meals 

Lob  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Tucoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 

And   to  those  desiring    longer  trips   to 

Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  Information  rezardlng sailing  dates  etc., obtain  (older 
SAN  FRANCISu  TICKET  OFFICES 
1  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St- ,  and  Broadway  Wharves- 

C.  D.  DUNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street .  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co..  20  Sutter  st..  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
residences.    Telephone  Exchange  813. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

ThtOnly  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago- 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chlcncu 
and  Nonbw&kru  1  ys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
San  Francisco  at  lu.uo  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout-  Buffet  smoking  cats 
with  barber  and  bath.  Booklovera  Li- 
brary. Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change- 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6-00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Eeclining  Chair  Cars. 

At  la  otic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a.m. Standard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers. 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

■Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays- 
Best  ol  everything 
R.  R.  Rltohls.  C.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Bys. 
♦17  Market  St.     { Palace  Hotel )     San  Francisco 


Train*.  Iarva  and  uri-  dn« 
to  arrive  at 

Zi  SAN    FKANCISCO, 

0/  Fkom  JUNB  I,  1904. 

Furry  Depot 
fFoot  of  Market  Street) 


MAIN     LINE, 


7  00A  Vncavllle.  Win ter».  Itui 
7. 00a  B'Miitia,  Bateau.  Blmlri 


n1  Sncra- 


7  5QP 
7.20P 


COAST    LINE  (Narrow  Gauge) 

(Toot  of  Market  Street.) 

7.46a  SnntaCriuGxcureloniSundayonly)     8.10p 

b  1!  a  Newark.    Oenlervlllc,     San     Jose, 

Ffiion.  BoulderCreek,  iugn,iKin., 

Ba jii.ii  Cruz  and  Way  Stations...      5  55 p 

*9  IGa  Alviirado,  Newark,  Sim  JOBQ,  Lob 
Qatos.01eowood,  Feltoo,  Boulder 
Creett,  Dip  Banln.  Snntn  Cruz...        81  Op 

12.16p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Aim  ad  en.  Los  GtUots.FeltoD, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz   and 

Principal  Way  Stations    10  55a 

4  Up  Newark,  San  Jose,  Lob  Oatoa  and 

way  stations 1855a 

4-15p  Wright,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz,  Saturday  ami  Sunday 
only t'S  55a 


7.30a  Vallejo.  Napa,  CallBtogn,  Banta 
ltona.   Martinez.  San  Itnmon.... 

7  30a  Nllea.  Llvermore,  Tracy.  Luthrop. 

Stock r on  7  20p  - 

8.00a  -hftMft  KxpreBB—  (Via  Dnvln). 
William*  (for  Hartleu  Sprlntr*). 
WIllOWB,      tKrulo.      Iteil      HlulT, 

Portland,  Taooine,  Seattle 7  50p 

8.00a  Davis,  Woodland.  Kniniu-.  Landing 

Mnrysvllle.  Orovllle   7.50P 

8-30a  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Antloch, 
Byron.  Tracy,  Stockton,  New 
man,  Los  flnnoa,  Slendut  a, 
Anuona,  Haufonl  Vlaallo. 
I'ortervllle  .. 4.20P 

8.30A  Port  Costa.  Latbrup.  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno.  Ouaben  Junc- 
tion, Han  ford,  Vfsnlln,  Bakers- 
Held 4.50P 

8-30A  Mies.  San  .lose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton. (tMllton).  lone,  SaiTimieiito. 
Plaeervllle.  Marjnvllle.  Cblco, 
Red  HlufT 4.20P 

8.30a  Oakilate.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Anpels 4  20p 

9-0rA  AtlantlcKxpress— O^ilen-ind  fUst.     11.20a 

9-3CA  Richmond,     Martinez      aud      Way 

Stations B  60P 

1000a  Tim     Overland     Limited  —  Otfilen. 

Denver.  Omnlin,  Chicago 6  20P 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.20P 

10. 00a  Los  Anueles  Passenger  —  Port 
CoBta,  Martinez,  Byroo.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  QosttRD.  June-. 
Hon,  Hnnford,  Lemoorc,  Vlwiiia. 

Dnkerafleld.  Los  AnpeteR 7.20p 

12.00m  Hay  ward.  NlleBand  Wnv  Stations.      3.2CP 
11. OOP  Sacramento  River  Steamers ft  LOOP 

3.30 P  Ben lc la,  W  Inters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knljrhta  Lauding, 
Mary  s  vine,  Orovllle  and  way 
elation* 1050a 

3-30p  Hay  ward,  N  lies  and  Way  Stations..       7  BOP 

3-30P  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Byron, 
Trncy,  Lalbrop,  Modrvto, 
Mined,  Bercnda,  Fresno  nnd 
Way  Stations  beyond  Port  Costa    12  20p 

3-30p  VoK.inlie  Valley,  via  lieninla  and 

Wawona 8-BCa 

330P  Man  Inez.  Tracy.  Sloekion.  Lodl...  10. 20  A 
4  .COP  Martinez, Sun  Utiinon.ValleJo.Napa, 

Ci.ltHtopa,  Santa  Kosa. 9  2Ca 

4  0CP  Nile!).  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl 4-2Cp 

4.31  p  May  ward.  Nlles.  Irvlnglon.  San)  1860a 

Jose.  Llvermore I  111. BO  a 

B-OOp  I  be  Owl    Limited— Newm-n.  Loa 

Bnni-N.  Memlota.  Fresno,  Tulare. 

Bokcrstield,  Lob  Angeles 8-SOa 

B.OOp  Purt  Costa.  Tracy.  Block  ton 12  20p 

16  31  p  May  ward,  NMea  BDd  San  .lose 7  20  a 


OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

rroui  SAN  l-  RAN (Jl SCO,  Fool  ol  Market  St,  (Sllpti 
.,.„         -fi.15    W:»X)    ILUUa.m.     1.00    3  00    6-1Br.ii 
b-*up  From  OAKLAND,   \t'oot  or  Broadway  —  t6:UU     (8:00 
16:03    10:00  a.m.       1200    2.00    4.00  p.m. 


G3rP 

6  4CP 


103CP 

4-1UP 


COAST    LINE    <«ro» iuKe). 

l*T  i  Third  iunl     I'owiiM-inl    Streets.) 
G  1(1  a  s'i"  .lone  ami  Way  Slul  Inns.. ...  . 

'7  00a  San  .lone  and  Way  SlatloiM     ...   . 

7.15a  Monterey  and  Banta  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 

8.U0A  New  Almnden  CTuee.,  Frltl.,  only), 

8  00a  The  Coaster— Stopi  only  Ban  Jose, 
Cllroy  (connection  for  Hoi  lis- 
ter), Pajaro,  Caslrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
uh'l  Pacific  Grove),  Salinas,  San 
Ardo,  Paso  Roblei,  Santa  Mar- 
garita. San  Luis  OblBpo,  pi  luclpal 

Bhulons  tbence  Surf  (connection 

for  Lompoc),  prfncljinl  xtntlons 
thence  Santa  Bar  I  iara.  Sun  Unenn- 
ventura,  Montalvo,  o  n  id.  Bur- 

inihk,  I,.!.-  Angeles 10  46P 

9.00a  sail  Jobb.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
San  taCruz.Pai'lllcO  rove,  Salinas, 
Ban  Lull  OblspO.  aud  Principal 
Wm    Stations 

10  3fA  :-bii  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

11  ilA  Snntn   Clara,    Sim   Jose,  Lob  GaloB 

and  Way  Stalloii*    

1  3tp  tnn  Jose  a  to  i  Way  BUttloni 

13  LLP  Del  Monte  ICx  press— Santa  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  ftl  Bunts 
Clara,  except  Sunday,  lor  Santa 
Cruz.  Boulder  Creek  and  Narrow 
G  nunc  Points) 

3-30P  Pacific  Grove  Way  Passenger,  Bur- 
llngame,  San  Jose  anil  Was  Sta- 
tions, connects  ai  Gllrnv  Mr  Hoi- 
lister,  Tres  Plims.  Bt  Pajnro  for 
Capltola,  Santa  Cruz  at  CastrO' 
vlllr  for  Salinas. 

4.30P  c»"  -l'^e  and  Way  Stations 18. 00 A 

t5  00p  Santa  Clara.  Sun  Jose,  Los  UntOS, 
Wrlgbt  and  principal  Way  Std 
Lions  (excepi  BnndnyJ '3  no  a 

.6  30.    6n  n.!ot.e  and  Prlncl|Kil  Way  Stat  li-ii-      ;y  40a 

6  4Bp  Sunsel     Exp  reas.— Bed  wood.    8«iu 

JoBe.Gllroy. Salinas. Paso  Roblet. 
San  i. ni.-  Obispo,  Banta  Barbara, 

Los  AngeleH,  DelillnB.  Kl  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajnro  for  Banta  Cruz 
and   ut    Castro  villa    for    Pacific 

Grove  ami  Way  Staihma 

6  15p  *»i»  Maleii,  Beretiforil.ltelmoni.Ban 
Carlos,    Millwood.    Fair    Oaks 

McnloPark.   Pain  AJtO 

6  30p  Ban  Jose  and  Way  SLaiions. 


4-10P 
1-20P 

7.j0p 
8  36a 


12  I5p 


10  4SA 


8.00p  Palo  Alio  and  Wnj  Btatlons lu  15a 


._,  Klles  ami  San  .lose  ...  .,  ,,,,,. 

6.0CP  May  ward.  NMes  and  San  .lose 9.50A    n  ^Qp  SuUlbBanFranulsco.  Mfllbroe.  Bu 

6.0(JPFabtern  ExpreiS-Ogden.  Denver.  MM  iinname.  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
omaha.  St.  Loiiia.  Chicago  and  Bsn  Carlos,  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 
East,   via    Port  Costa,   buiuin,  Monlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 

I  lu.lra    Davis.  BacramODtO,   Col-  1V30P  Maylleld.   Mountain    View,  Sunny- 

...'■J    "e»° ■      -1 V  B20P  vale.  Lawremu.  Sauta  Clma  aud 

6.0tP  Vaejo,  da    y,  except  Sunday...    t  Ten™  San    I,.hi> 

7  0'P  Vallejo,  Sunday  only ....f  '      " 


7  10a 


'6  JSa 
G3Sa 


1945p 


7-C<  p  i.lehinond,  ban  Pablo,  Port  Costa. 

Martinez  and  Wuy  Stations 11  20a 

7  I  (        regun  &  California  ExpreBB~8ac- 

i  ii  n i i'n  to,     Mary svl lie,     Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East. 

8  0E.P  i;eno   Passenger— Port  t  ocli,  Sul- 

miii.  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
)        Truckee.  Lake  Tahoe.  and   Wny 

stations  beyond  Bacramenta 

9-IOp  Hay  ward,  Nlles  and  San  Jobc  (Sun- 
dayonly) 


Sun<Ja> 


Morning,  P  for  Afternoon 

excepted                  t  Sunday  oulv 
_     t»y  ouly.                   6  Monday  only. 
{Slope  at  all  BtatloOB  on  Suuday. 
8  50a  »  c    l  ,ui>  trains  stopplug  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
*r.  ..lUA.M..  MX*  a.m..  7:15  a.m..  IllHUA.  M„  3:a0p.M^ 
b:0  e.  m.  and  8:00  r.  m.  


7.60a 
11.50a  ! 


t».'.  I  KA  N»i'  Kl 
.i  ihe.  k  baggage  iron 
•iiMiie,  .exchange  sa 

Uir    '  ii- i.l «  it  ii.  i    uiiK'i 


tO.lli'A.NV 
hotels  and  re»(- 
iqiilretii  1'icKui 


Stylish  5 
Suits 


15 


50 


Dressy  Suits  #20     5 

Pants  $4.50  ^ 

My  $25.00  Suits  are  the§ 

best  in  America.       te 

<J  P  Per  Cent  Saved  by  gft-g 

JL  0  ting  your  suit  made  byk 

JOE  POHEIM      § 

THE  TAUOR  « 

1110-1112  Market  St       § 
201-203  Mont<v  St..  S.F.S 


O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND.  OFE 

And  Short  Bail  Line  from  Portlnnd  toaliroints 
EBSt.    TlirmiRli  Tiukets  1o  nil  Points  oil  Bail  or 
Steamship  ami  Boil  ut  Lowest  Botes. 
Steamer  Tiekets  inehide  Berth  and  Meals- 
SS  OBEGOK  Sails  Mar.  28.  April  7.  17.  27.  May 

''s's^GEO.  W.  ELDEB  SailB  Mareh  23.    Arrll 
2.  12.  22.    May  1. 12.  22-     ,  ,   , 

S.  F.  BOOTH.  General  Aeent 
No.  1  Mooter  mery  St.  Sun  Fruneiseo.  Cnl. 

"Bobby,  here's  your  penny,  and 
you  must  go  right  to  bed !"  "Pa, 
I  want  more  pay  and  longer 
hours." 


June  4,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

What  "Reuben"    of  San 

Francisco  Saw  in  New  York 


37 


New  York  is  a  big  town.  It  is  somewhat  larger 
than    San    Fnu  tlthougfl    von    could    not    tell 

this  by  looking  at  it.  It  is  a  little  taller  than  San 
Francisco,  but  n.>t  s,>  broad  across  the  chest.  They 
have  horse  races  here.  also,  but  some  people  say  the 
epidemic  will  soon  be  stamped  out  San   Francisco, 

as  you  know,  had  this  same  disease  last  winter,  but 
they  let  it  run  its  course,  the  Futurity  Course,  I  think. 
and  it  had  gotten  completely  over  it  when  I  left  there. 

It  is  different  in  Xew  York,  however.  A  new  spe- 
cialist named  Jerome  is  treating  it.  and  some  say  the 
cure  is  worse  than  the  disease.  His  first  assistant 
surgeon,  named  McAdoo,  is  cutting  all  the  telephone 
and  telegraph  wires  which  go  to  make  up  the  racing 
organism.  He  says  he  is  sacrificing  these  wires  to 
keep  others  from  being  bled.  The  disease  has  been 
SO  prevalent  that  he  has  been  able  to  capture  some 
of  the  germs,  and  these  have  been  bottled  up  in  the 
local  cemetery — they  call  it  the  tombs  here. 

There  are  also  a  number  of  racetracks  in  this  vicin- 
ity, but  more  jockeys  than  horses.  There  was  some 
talk  of  putting  two  jockeys  on  each  horse  so  as  to 
give  them  all  a  chance,  but  T  hardly  think  the  plan 
will  materialize,  though  I  believe  it  a  good  one.  You 
would  not  believe  that  a  town  of  this  size  could  hold 
so  many  jockeys,  but  one  trip  to  the  track  will  serve 
to  convince  the  most  skeptical. 

The  moment  you  poke  your  head  through  the  gate 
of  admission,  some  one,  in  a  friendly  sort  of  fashion, 
will  take  you  by  the  arm  and  tell  you  of  a  horse  which 
he  is  to  ride  being  a  "sure  winner."  Indeed,  these 
jockevs  seem  to  be  found  in  relays  from  the  gate  to 
the  paddock,  and  from  the  paddock  to  the  grand- 
stand, and  when  one  drops  your  arm  another  grasps 
it.  The  next  one  will  probably  tell  you  a  tale  of 
how  Easy  Money  "worked."  There  is  a  marked  dif- 
ference between  the  San  Francisco  and  the  New  York 
jockeys.  The  former  is  satisfied  in  taking  all  that  is 
in  sight,  while  the  latter  will  take  all  in  sight  and 
a  whole  lot  you  don't  see.  The  irrigation  plant  may 
be  the  latest  botannical  graft  in  California,  but  the 
jockey  is  the  native  "grafter"  in  New  York. 

— Reuben. 


INDUSTRIAL    SCHOOLS    SHOULD    BE    EN- 
COURAGED. 

The  country's  hope  is  in  the  Industrial  School.  Col- 
onel Auchmutty  has  demonstrated  the  benefit  to  ac- 
crue to  the  community  through  similar  institutions. 
In  his  school  in  New  York,  sixty-seven  trades  are 
taught,  and  the  school  is  heavily  endowed.  We  have 
enough  wealthy  men  in  California  having  the  general 
good  of  the  industrial  community  at  heart  to  estab- 
lish two  such  schools  in  San  Francisco.  The  unions 
are  busily  engaged  putting  restrictive  walls  around 
all  industries,  and  it  is  high  time  the  State  took  a 
hand  to  tear  down  these  restrictions  with  the  help 
of  our  philanthropists.  We  need  several  industrial 
establishments  where  the  instruction  is  to  be  prac- 
tically free.     It  is  the  salvation  of  the  nation. 

You  will     appear  to  be  always  wearing  new  clothing 

if  you  have  your  suits  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  by 
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15hQ     Political     Situation 


The  announcement  is  made  that  the  present  Secre- 
tary of  Commerce  and  Labor,  George  C.  Cortelyou, 
is  to  be  the  chairman  of  the  Republican  National 
Committee,  and  therefore  ex-officio  manager  of  the 
campaign  for  the  President's  partv  this  year.  The 
appointment  is  remarkably  popular,  even  on  the  part 
of  the  opposition,  and  the  Brooklyn  Eagle,  Spring- 
field Republican  and  New  York  "Evening  Prist,  all 
rabid  Democratic  organs,  declare  that  it  mean--  a 
clean,  decent  campaign  free  from  all  financial  scan- 
dals. Cortelyou  certainly  has  had  a  most  remark- 
able career.  Only  a  few  years  ago  he  entered  the 
Civil  Service  as  a  clerk  through  a  civil  service  ex- 
amination, as  a  stenographer.  He  had  no  "push"  or 
"pull,"  and  was  known  simply  as  one  of  a  dozen  ap- 
plicants for  examination  who  passed  extremely  well. 
One  day  an  extra  clerk  was  needed  at  the  Executive 
Mansion,  and  when  the  President,  Cleveland  at  the 
time,  asked  one  of  his  secretaries  to  send  him  a  good 
man,  the  secretary  sent  Cortelyou,  whom  he  had 
found  always  ready  and  willing  to  work.  Cleveland 
found  Cortelyou  a  good  stenographer,  and  attached 
him  permanently  to  the  White  House  force.  McKin- 
ley  found  him  there,  and  was  so  much  pleased  with 
him  that  he  made  him  one  of  the  assistant  Secre- 
taries, and  when  Porter  resigned,  gave  him  the  chief 
place.  Roosevelt  retained  him.  and  made  him  a  Cabi- 
net officer,  and  now  he  is  to  manage  the  campaign, 
and  if  Roosevelt  is  re-elected,  Cortelyou  takes 
Payne's  place  as  Postmaster-General,  one  of  the 
most  important  places  in  the  Cabinet.  The  curious 
thing  about  it  all  is  that  no  one  seems  to  know  what 
Cortelyou's  politics  were.  It  is  a  question  whether 
he  was  a  Republican  when  Cleveland  appointed  him, 
or  whether  he  was  a  Democrat  when  McKinley  re- 
tained him.  It  is  said  he  voted  with  the  Democrats 
before  1896,  but  in  the  particular  of  talking  about 
his  early  political  history,  Cortelyou  seems  to  be  as 
inclined  to  be  silent  as  Parker  about  his. 

*  *  * 

As  chairman  of  the  National  Committee  Cortelvou 
will  have  two  assistant  secretaries,  one  Governor 
Murphy  of  New  Jersev,  who  will  be  in  charge  of  the 
Eastern  quarters  at  New  York,  and  the  other  G.  AY. 
Blythe  of  Iowa,  who  will  be  in  charge  of  the  Western 
headquarters  at  Chicago.  Treasurer  Biiss  will  con- 
tinue to  serve  in  that  capacity,  so  that  the  finances 
will  be  looked  after  as  of  yore.  In  this  connection 
it  is  said  that  while  the  Republicans  will  not  have 
as  much  money  as  the  Democrats,  if  either  Hearst 
or  Parker  is  nominated,  they  have  been  promised 
some  good  subscriptions. 

*  *  * 

Aside  from  the  general  interest  in  the  management 
of  the  campaign,  Californians  have  a  special  interest 
in  the  selection  of  Cortelyou  as  chairman  of  the 
National  Committee,  because  it  leaves  a  vacancy  in 
the  Cabinet  which  is  more  than  likely  to  be  filled 
by  a  man  from  California.  The  President,  in  fact, 
is  understood  to  have  intimated  to  Congressman  Met- 
calf  that  he  would  like  to  see  him  put  his  legs  under 
the  cabinet  table  in  the  place  of  Cortelyou.  Metcalf 
has,  it  is  understood,  expressed  his  willingness  to 
accept  the  appointment,  and  the  question  of  who 
will  succeed  the  popular  Representative  from  the 
Third  District  is  already  a  matter  of  discussion, 
There  are  three  counties  in  the  district.  Alameda, 
Contra  Costa  and  Solano,  although,  of  course,  Ala- 
meda outweighs  the  other  two.  Frank  Devlin,  for- 
merly District  Attorney  of  Solano  County,  is  a  can- 
didate, and  would  no  doubt  poll  a  big  vote,  as  he 


lives  in  Vallejo  and  would  get  the  Mare  Island  vote 
to  a  man.  But  Contra  Costa  has  a  candidate  also 
in  the  person  of  State  Senator  Belshaw,  who  is 
anxious  to  transfer  his  ability  from  State  to  national 
I".litics:  while  Alameda  has  an  excellent  candidate 
in  the  person  of  Frank  A.  Leach,  Superintendent  of 
the  Mint.  Leach  would  seem  to  have  the  advantages 
of  his  two  rivals  combined,  as  he  formerly  published 
a  paper  (the  Chronicle)  at  Vallejo,  and  is  well  known 
there,  and  would  have  the  confidence  of  the  men  in 
the  Government  Navy  Yard.  He  was  also  owner 
and  editor  of  the  Oakland  Enquirer,  so  that  the  peo- 
ple of  both  Alameda  and  Contra  Costa  counties  know 
him  well.  Besides,  there  is  a  decided  objection  to 
Senator  Belshaw,  which  he  is  encountering  even  in 
his  efforts  to  secure  a  re-nomination  to  the  Senate, 
and  that  is  his  opposition  to  the  labor  unions,  which, 
of  course,  makes  him  weak  in  localities  where  they 
are  as  strong  as  they  are  in  Contra  Costa  and  Ala- 
meda Counties.  In  view  of  all  these  facts,  and  the 
further  fact  that  Alameda  County  would  rally  to  his 
support,  undoubtedly  with  enthusiasm.  Leach  would 
seem  to  be  the  most  available  candidate  for  the  place 
which  Metcalf  will  leave  vacant.  The  double  elec- 
tion would  take  place  at  the  same  time  in  November, 
for  the  balance  of  the  present  term,  and  for  the  new 
term,  so  that  if  Metca.t  gets  his  appointment  and  re- 
signs, his  successor  will  not  have  to  wait  over  a  year 
before  he  gets  the  seat  to  Congress  to  which  he  is 

elected. 

*  *  * 

Oregon  elects  her  Congressmen  and  State  officers 
on  June  6th,  which  will  be  the  first  gun  of  the  Presi- 
dential campaign.  It  will  also,  I  understand,  be  the 
last  election  she  will  have  in  June,  as  under  a  new 
law  the  elections  in  future  will  occur  in  November. 
The  June  election  was  arranged  in  the  days  when 
there  were  no  railroads  and  telegraphs,  and  like  the 
absurd  system  of  electing  Congressmen  more  than 
a  year  before  they  take  their  seats,  is  a  relic  of  a  con- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 

that    no  longer  exists.     When   the 

;ii  June  in  <  >regon,  the 
lan-elect  had  to  go  t'>  Washington  b)  waj 
•  >i  Panama,  and  it  took  months  t..  find  out  who  was 
fleeted,  and  half  a  year  more  for  the  successful  can- 
didate to  get  to  Congn 

*  •  • 

isman   Livernasfa  is  coming  home  to 

after  his  political  fences.  The  opposition  that 
fronts  him  is  not  simply  that  of  the  Republicans, 
which,  of  course,  he  must  expect,  but  the  Democrats 
who  are  opposed  to  Hearst's  candidacy  for  the  Presi- 
dency are  equally  opposed  to  Livernash's  candidacy 
t ■  >r  Congress,  and  they  will  fight  one  as  har.l  as  the 
other.  In  this  connection  Ed.  Leake  of  the  Wood- 
land Democrat,  has  an  editorial  discussing  Liver- 
nash,  in  the  course  of  which  he  says:  "For  •nice  in  his 
life  Mr.  Hearst  showed  some  political  sagacity  when 
he  decided  to  keep  Livernash  in  New  York  lest  he 
might  break  into  the  Santa  Cruz  Convention,  His 
appearance  in  that  body  would  have  been  like  flaunt- 
ing a  red  Hag  in  the  face  of  a  mad  bull.  Many  of  the 
delegates  hailing  from  the  Sacramento  Valley,  who 
love  Theodore  Bell  and  who  appreciate  the  great 
work  he  has  done  lor  the  State,  but  who  for  reasons 
that  no  human  being  can  explain  on  a  plausible 
thegry,  were  indifferent  and  inclined  to  give  Mr. 
Hearst  a  passive  support,  would  have  been  inspired 
by  the  presence  of  Livernash  to  such  reprisals  against 
the  whole  Examiner  outfit  as  would  have  insured  Mr. 
Hearst's  defeat."  Another  point  that  is  not  to  be 
overlooked  is  the  question  whether  the  labor  unions 
have  the  courage  of  their  convictions  and  will  stand 
by  their  avowed  principles.  Livernash  openly  ig- 
nored their  wishes  and  desires,  and  did  his  best  to 
defeat  one  of  the  measures  they  profess  to  be  most 
interested  in.  Indeed,  his  quarrel  with  Bell  was  over 
the  efforts  of  the  Congressman  from  the  Second  to 
have  a  naval  vessel  built  at  Mare  Island,  the  thing 
which  the  unions  have  been  clamoring  for,  and  ad- 
vocating for  years.  We  shall  see  whether  they  will 
cheer  and  applaud  the  man  who  did  his  best  to  defeat 
that  plank  in  their  platform.  It  can  be  truthfully 
said,  and  the  Congressional  records  will  show  it, 
that  of  all  the  members  of  Congress  the  only  two 
avowed  members  representing  labor,  Livernash  and 
Wynn,  did  the  least  for  the  cause  of  labor,  just  as 
the  labor  members  from  this  city  at  Sacramento  in 
the  last  Legislature  did  the  least,  and  were  the  weak- 
est friends  of  labor  on  the  floor.  Walsh  of  Alameda 
was  worth  to  unionism  all  the  Murphys,  et  al.,  on 
the  Assembly  floor,  and  Harry  Bunkers,  the  one  union 
labor  Senator,  was  a  screaming  farce  as  an  advocate 
of  any  labor  measure.  So  in  Congress,  Gilette,  Bell 
and  MacLachlan  were  as  much  superior  and  valu- 
able to  labor  as  compared  to  Livernash  and  Bell,  as 
a  twenty-dollar  gold  piece  was  superior  to  a  copper 
cent,  yet  both  Wynn  and  his  master  are  asking  the 
labor  vote  to  send  them  back  to  Washington  to  fight 
the  interests  of  the  farmers  of  Mendocino  County, 
the  mechanics  of  Vallejo  and  the  wage  earners  of  the 
whole  State.  They  should  be  turned  down  so  em- 
phatically and  forcibly  that  for  all  time  to  come  they 

will  stay  politically  dead. 

*  *  * 

The    arrangements   for   the    Republican    delegates 

to  go  to  Chicago  are  now  completed,  and  they  will 

have  a  fine  special  train  paid  for  by  themselves,  a 

fine  reception  room  at  the  Auditorium,  paid  for  by 

themselves,    very    handsome   badges,    designed      by 

Ruef,  but  paid  for  by  themselves,  and  will  take  along 

a  lot  of  California  products  sent  by  Californians  to 

help   entertairj   their   visitors   when   they   reach   the 

Windy  City. 


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The    Democrats   are    to   have   the   most   gorgeous 
train  ever  seen   on   rads.   paid   tor  by    Hearst,   rooms, 

meals  and  badges  paid  for  by  Hearst;  they  will  be 

quartered  at  the  Planter's,  rooms  and  meal>  paid  tor 
by  Hearst:  will  take  a  band  with  them,  paid  for  bj 
Hearst,  and  will  come  home  in  the  same  style — if 
I  [ears I  be  nominated. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  4,  1904. 


MY  SWEETHEART. 

Uy  11    li    H. 

She   is   little    and   petite, 

But  she's  sweet. 
Precious  jewels  oft  are  small, 

After  all. 
"Man  wants  little  here  below," 

And  I  trow, 
"Does  not  want  that  little  long." 

Is't  not  so? 
She  can  make  me  feel,  though 

Very  small. 
She  is  big  enough,  if  short, 

Just   to   court, 
Just  to  hold  in  my  embrace ; 

Just    to    place 
On  her  tiny  lips  a  kiss, 

That  were  bliss. 
She  is  big  enough  for  me, 

For,  you  see, 
She  just  reaches,  with  her  art, 

To  my  heart. 


tall, 


DEFORMED. 

By  A.  L.  Buuner  iu  Century 

All  you  who  nurture  Love  in  the  full  day, 
Proud  of  his  growing  strength,  his  pretty  play, 
What  do  you  know  of  Love  like  those  who  see 
The  birth  of  Love,  with  fear  and  misery? 
Cramped,  checked,  confined,  it  grows  a  crippled 

thing, 
Its  birth  an  agony,  its  strength  a  sting. 
Like  some  poor  mother  whose  more  perfect  son 
Xceds  not  her  love  like  the  deformed  one, 
Defiantly  she  clasps  it  to  her  breast 
And  loves  the  poor,  distorted  thing  the  best. 

ENLIGHTENMENT. 
By  Charlotte  Becker  in  Woman's  Home  Companion 
I  was  so  dull,  the  whole  wide  earth  spread  gray, 
And  all  the  birds  were  quiet,  and  the  Spring 
Was  meaningless,  and  Time  was  overlong — 
Until  a  little  god  paused  on  his  way 
Across  the  world,  to  beg  companioning, 

And  through  the  silence  rang  a  wondrous  song! 

Now  I  am  wise — and  every  barren  place 
Breaks  into  bloom  ;  I  hear  the  birds  rejoice, 
And  Spring  speaks  whispered  words  to  me  apart, 
For  I  have  seen  the  comfort  of  Love's  face, 
And  I  have  known  the  music  of  Love's  voice, 
And  I  have  felt  the  beating  of  Love's  heart! 


WAIT. 

By  John  Vance  Cheney  in  Century 

Night  comes  hither  star  by  star. 
With  dim  growing  comes  the 
So  quiet  may 

Linger,  long  upon  the  way. 


day ; 


Patience !   wait !   the  bliss  will  come, 

As  the  bird  comes,  with  smooth  breast 
To  round  the  nest 

In  the  branches  of  green  rest. 


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A    Disappointed     Pirate    Complains 


Here  is  my  ship,  where  the  crew  forlorn, 

And  they  smell  like  a  coarse-fed  harpey, 
Go  swabbing  the  decks  from  night  till  morn, 

At  the  orders  of  Michael  Tarpey. 
But  for  me,  who  own  the  wretched  thing, 

There's  nothing  to  do  or  say, 
For  Tarpey  yells  with  vim  and  swing 

His  one  commandment:  "Pay!" 

And  so  I  pay — but  it  makes  no  odds 

Whate'er  may  be  my  wishes, 
Whether  I  lift  my  hands  to  the  Gods 

Or  call  upon  the  fishes. 
For  the  leaky  craft  is  settling  fast — 

So  fast  that  naught  can  save  her. 
The  honest  men  are  tied  to  the  mast, 

And  the  pirates  will  scuttle  and  stave  her. 


Just  one  sail  left,  and  that  in  shreds, 

Where  the  wind  goes  screaming  through  it, 
And  the  landsmen  laugh  at  the  dapping  threads.  . 

And  solemnly  say:  "We  knew  it." 
We  have  no  course,  we  have  no  port — 

Our  compass?    Lawrence  stole  it.   . 
While  Tarpey,  who  bragged  we  could  take  a  fort, 

Took  the  bell,  and  we  cannot  toll  it. 

So  I  hire  myself  for  a  pirate  cheap 

Wherever  I  find  the  payment, 
But  my  pirate  crew  are  wise  and  deep, 

And  they  collar  the  food  and  the  raiment. 
While  I,  a  tattered  human  wreck, 

Am  tired  of  the  pirate  boasting, 
And  I'll  finish  my  days  by  swabbing. the  deck 

Of  the  craft  which  is  known  as  coasting. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,  June  n,  1904. 


Number  24. 


Colorado's    Crimson    Crown 

When  the  Maine  was  Mown  up  in  Havana  Harbor  the  horror  of  it  held  a  nation's  heart  still,  and  as 
soon  as  the  full  extent  of  the  calamity  was  realized,  there  arose  a  cry  for  vengeance.  The  Spanish 
nation  was  held  to  be  responsible,  and  a  fearful  vengeance  was  exacted.  It  was  a  case  of  an  eye  for  an 
eye  and  a  tooth  for  a  tooth. 

The  blowing  up  of  the  Maine  happened  in  a  friendly  nation's  harbor.  There  was  some  excuse  for 
the  action  of  the  hot-heads  who  blew  up  this  ship.  There  had  been  talk  of  war,  and  the  Maine  was  con- 
sidered a  menace. 

What  shall  we  say  of  the  events  of  the  past  few  days  in  Colorado?  A  nation's  heart  has  stopped  its 
beat  for  horror.  This  time  the  crime  is  in  our  own  house,  not  in  the  house  of  a  friend.  Foreign  devils, 
whom  we  have  adopted,  have  risen  against  our  laws,  and  banding  themselves  into  an  organization  that 
knows  no  law  save  that  of  rule  or  ruin,  "The  Western  Federation  of  Miners,"  it  has  conspired  to  over- 
throw the  law  of  the  State  of  Colorado,  the  authority  of  the  militia,  and  has  defied  the  people  of  the 
United  States.  It  has  murdered  and  maimed.  It  has  shot  at  the  militia,  and  it  has  conspired  to  over- 
throw the  decision  of  the  courts.  It  has  dynamited  innocent  human  beings  who  were  simply  pursuing 
their  duties  as  citizens,  as  granted  by  the  Constitution. 

Will  the  nation  cry  for  vengeance?  Will  it  wait  until  the  spattered  blood  and  brain  is  dry  on  the 
railroad  platform,  where  those  hapless  victims  lost  their  lives  to  the  insensate  fury  of  organized  labor? 
Shall  it  be  said  that  having  harbored  these  criminal  Fins,  Italians  and  Huns  we  do  not  know  how  to 
punish  ( 

************ 

The  issue  is  sharply  drawn.  The  Supreme  Court  of  Colorado  has  rendered  its  decision  giving  the 
Governor  full  power  to  act,  and  it  is  high  time  that  his  leniency  stop.  He  now  has  no  excuse  for  mild 
action.    He  must  act,  or  failing  to  do  so,  deem  himself  powerless  and  call  for  United  States  troops. 

The  crowning  insult  to  the  intelligence  and  the  patriotism  of  the  people  of  the  United  States  comes 
in  a  resolution  by  the  organization  responsible  for  the  dastardly  outrage  at  Cripple  Creek  that  it  will  in- 
vestigate and  report  on  the  acts  of  its  instructed  agents. 

There  is  a  long  score  piling  up  against  the  labor  agitators  who  lead  these  foreigners.  The  ditching 
of  the  engine  in  '94  at  Sacramento  is  not  forgotten.  The  blowing  up  of  the  "Independence  Mine"  in 
Colorado  is  not  forgotten.  The  outrage  at  the  "Bunker  Hill  Mine"  in  Idaho  is  not  forgotten,  nor  do  we 
forget  the  "Haymarket"  in  Chicago,  or  the  thousand  crimes  of  the  teamsters'  strike  in  San  Francisco. 

These  crimes  were  all  committed  by  the  same  element,  an  element  that  has  changed  its  name!  It  is 
not  now  called  the  "Central  Anarchist  Group."  It  is  called  the  "Western  Federation  of  Miners."  In  '94 
it  was  called  the  "A.  R.  U."  In  San  Francisco  it  has  been  called  the  "Teamsters'  Union."  It  was 
criminal  in  Chicago,  it  was  criminal  in  Sacramento,  it  is  criminal  in  San  Francisco,  and  it  is  criminal  in 
Colorado  to-day.     Its  name  is  of     little  or  no  importance.    That  is  always  a  disguise. 

The  duty  of  the  sane  and  right-minded  citizen  is  plain.  He  owes  allegiance  to  his  country  and  his 
country's  flag  only.  It  is  time  these  foreign  anarchists  be  punished.  It  is  high  time  the  Mitchells,  the 
Demillis,  the  Mother  Joneses  be  gibbeted  as  high  as  Haman.  Suspicion  should  be  a  sufficient  indict- 
ment for  this  scum.  Hang  them  high  and  hang  them  quick!  But  there  must  be  no  recruits  to  replace 
these  murderers  when  they  are  removed.  Our  immigration  laws  must  be  so  amended  that  we  will  re- 
ceive no  new  consignments  of  criminals  to  take  the  place  ot  the  present  day  Debs,  Spies,  Mosts  and  the 
rest  of  the  canaillerie. 

************ 

The  Western  Federation  is  busy  in  our  mountain  mining  districts  establishing  itself  in  California, 
and  the  blight  is  already  felt.  Mines  are  shutting  down  and  mining  interests  are  stagnant.  Wherever 
this  Federation,  with  its  foreign  leader,  Demolli,  who  was  exiled  from  Italy  because  he  was  a  bad  sol- 
dier, and  a  worse  man,  rears  its  head,  crime  is  (rampant. 

************ 

Between  these  criminal  bands  there  is  a  connecting  link.  That  connecting  link  is  the  Hearst  news- 
papers. This  it  is  that  has  fomented  most  of  this  discord,  and  it  is  hired  men  and  their  unbridled  and 
revolutionary  utterances  that  have  unleashed  the  organized  criminals  that  infest  our  fair  land.  This  it 
is  that  is  the  apologist  of  license  and  licentiousness.  This  it  is  that  pollutes  the  minds  of  the  young;  this 
it  is  that  instills  the  disregard  of  the  law  into  the  minds  of  the  ignorant.  This  is  the  means  of  communi- 
cation from  one  murderer  to  the  other.  Hearst  and  his  papers  serve  the  lawless  element  as  sewers 
through  which  they  may  send  their  exhalations  to  a  common  center,  from  there  to  be  redistributed  to 
contaminate   thr    nation. 

It  is  Hearst  who  published  in  his  vile  sheets  the  telegram  that  was  the  incentive  to  the  murder  of 


6  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  June  n,  1904. 

McKinley.    On  February  4th,  1900,  the  Washington  correspondent  of  the  Hearst  villainies  wrote  as  fol- 
lows: 

"The  bullet  that  pierced  Goebel's  chest 
Cannot  be  found  in  all  the  West. 
Good  reason.     It   is  speeding  here 
To  stretch  McKinley  on  his  bier." 

It  was  the  Brisbane  type  of  hired  man  who  wrote  these  fearful  lines,  and  it  was  the  Cripple  Creek 
type  of  fanatic  the  damned  doggerel  fired  to  insanity  and  the  subsequent  killing  of  the  nation's  execu- 
tive. McKinley  was  martyred,  Czolgoz  expiated  his  crime,  but  the  arch-criminal  lives  and  aspires  to 
fill  the  chair  once  occupied  by  his  victim.  The  Democratic  Convention  is  to  meet  at  St.  Louis  in  the  very 
near  future,  and  it  is  important  that  it  refuse  to  recognize  the  representative  of  anarchy  and  revolution, 
lust  and  license,  and  the  News  Letter  respectfully  submits  the  above  to  the  consideration  of  the  conven- 
tion. 


THE  CASE  OF  CAESAR  YOUNG. 

An  enterprising  minister  would  find  in  the  life  and 
death  of  Caesar  Young,  the  bookmaker  and  race  track 
gambler,  much  material  for  a  strong  sermon  on  the 
demoralization  attendant  upon  the  race  track,  and  the 
immoralities  practiced  by  its  votaries.  Young  was 
a  typical  race  track  man.  He  lived  and  had  his  be- 
ing'in  the  atmosphere  that  envelops  the  betting  ring. 
His  sole  purpose  in  life  was  to  obtain  from  the  dupes 
that  follow  the  races,  by  the  most  expedient  methods, 
all  the  money  they  could  earn,  beg,  borrow  or  steal 
to  bet  upon'  the  horses.  His  claim  to  distinction 
among  the  people  of  his  class  was  that  he  was  more 
daring  than  most  of  them,  and  that  he  could  win  or 
lose  a  fortune  without  disturbing  the  regular  tenor 
of  his  way.  He  was  married  to  a  beautiful  woman, 
who  loved'  him  devotedly,  but  he  deserted  her  repeat- 
edly to  consort  with  one  of  the  many  public  charac- 
ters always  to  be  found  at  the  race  track,  like  so 
many  harpies,  ever  awaiting  their  prey.  He  dissi- 
pated heavily  and  frequently,  and  long  ago  he  cast 
aside  all  those  conventionalities  by  the  maintenance 
of  which  respectable  people  learn  to  recognize  a  man 
of  honor.  So  fast  was  the  pace  he  set,  so  regardless 
was  he  of  public  opinion,  that  his  conduct  caused 
surprise  even  among  the  other  gamblers,  who  were 
as  devoid  of  morality  as  he,  but  who  possessed  less 
boldness  in  their  wickedness.  The  manner  of  his 
death  was  a  natural  consequence  of  the  life  he  led. 
■While  in  a  cab  in  New  York,  on  his  way  to  meet  his 
wife,  who  had  planned  to  take  him  to  Europe  in  the 
hope  of  reclaiming  him,  and  who  was  awaiting  him 
at  the  dock,  Young  was  shot  to  death.  Beside  him, 
when  he  died,  was  the  guilty  companion  of  his  im- 
moralities. 

Among  the  gamblers  he  was  considered  a  success- 
ful man.  "The  luck  of  Caesar  Young"  became  a 
proverb.  He  accumulated  a  fortune,  but  what  of  the 
man  himself?  What  of  his  immoral  past?  Can  no 
lesson  be  learned  here?  Does  it  mean  nothing  that 
at  the  time  of  his  greatest  material  success,  at  the 
time  when  he  flaunted  most  boldly  the  laws  of  both 
God  and  man,  at  the  very  moment  when,  beside 
him  sat  the  Jezebel  for  whom  he  had  forgptten  the 
lessons  of  his  youth  and  the  duty  of  his  manhood — 
that  at  such  a  time,  when  he  was  envied  by  scores  of 
other  gamblers,  he  should  be  stricKen  down;  that  he 
should  go  to  a  dishonored  grave? 

Caesar  Young  led  the  life  followed  by  all  men  who 
find  a  livelihood  in  fleecing  the  public  at  the  race 
track.  They  are  a  class  apart  from  the  respectable 
portion  of  the  community.  With  them,  honor  is  a 
bv-word  ;  the  only  honor  the}'  know  is  that  honor 
known  among  thieves.  If  proof  were  needed  of  the 
evil  influences  of  the  race  track,  it  is  given  by  the 


life  and  death  of  Young.  He  was  a  representative 
man  among  his  fellows.  What  he  did  the  others 
copied.  They  were  less  than  he  only  in  the  notoriety 
of  their  misdeeds.  Their  ambition  was  to  emulate 
him  in  all  things.  Such  men  and  the  business  they 
follow  make  for  evil  among  the  people.  To  their 
works  may  be  traced  more  embezzlements,  more 
wrecked  homes,  more  ruined  lives,  more  crimes, 
more  suicides,  than  to  any  other  cause  known  to 
modern  life.  The  people  of  this  city  will  admit  the 
truth  of  this  statement  without  argument.  They 
have  learned  its  truth  at  bitter  cost.  It  remains  for 
them  to  say  whether  they  shall  longer  permit  the 
class  of  which  Young  was  a  representative  to  con- 
tinue the  despoilation  of  the  youth  of  the  community. 

BURDENED  BY  THE  BUILDERS*  UNIONS. 

San  Francisco  is  burdened  with  the  effects  of  causes 
that  were  born  of  the  spirit  of  robbery.  At  first  it 
was  a  cunningly  devised  scheme  to  give  undue  profit 
to  a  few  at  the  expense  of  the  many,  but  the  scheme 
was  not  long  in  evolving  into  a  wicked  conspiracy 
to  commit  robbery  by  wholesale  and  oblige  the  entire 
community  to  stand  and  deliver.  The  Building  Trades 
by  their  Council  conceived  the  plan,  and  certain 
building  contractors  quickly  became  willing  co-part- 
ners. 

The  beginnings  of  the  conspiracy  were  in  the  act 
of  the  Building  Trades  Council  resolving  itself  into 
a  close  corporation  or  trust  to  control  the  building 
trades  supply  market.  And  in  order  to  maintain  its 
assumed  power,  the  Council  resolved  that  the  right 
to  participate  in  the  work  of  erecting  new  and  the  re- 
modeling of  old  buildings  belonged  exclusively  and 
unqualifiedly  to  members  of  building  trades  unions 
under  the  direction  of  the  Building  Trades  Council. 
The  next  step  was  to  restrict  memDership  in  the  sev- 
eral building  trades  unions  to  the  then  existing  roll, 
and  under  no  circumstances  should  the  numerical 
strength  of  any  trades  union  be  increased.  Following 
that  came  an  edict  which  denied  the  right  of  a  fel- 
low building  trades  union  member  from  beyond  the 
corporation  limits  of  the  bay  counties  to  accept  em- 
ployment on  any  building.  The  trust  thus  being  for- 
tified at  all  points  against  competition,  orders  were 
given  that  the  wage  schedule  be  advanced  two  and 
three  times  over;  that  eight  instead  of  ten  hours 
should  be  the  outside  limit  for  a  day's  work,  and  that 
if  circumstances  obliged  more  hours  the  compensa- 
tion should  be  one-third  more. 

The  arguments  that  converted  the  contractors 
were  the  logic  of  brutal  selfishness  and  greed.  One 
of  the  Council's  propositions  was  that  like  the  Build- 
ing Trades  Council  the  Contractors'  Association 
should  be  a  close  corporation,  restricting  its  member- 


June  ii.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ship   to  narrow   limits.      When   all   this   WU   ICCOm 
plishcd  by  the  contractors  the  Council  would  n 
nizc  the  Contractor  ition  as  being  the  only 

employers  of  building  tradesmen  from  whom  mem- 
>f   union.-    could    accept    work;    moreover,    the 
cil  would  not  recognize  the  right  of  a  non 
in  builder  to  make  contracts,  and  has  enforced 
its  authority  by  withholding  labor  from  such  "scab" 
contract' 

The  advance  in  wages  is  simply  a  mathematical 
matter  of  addition,  for  which  the  property  owners 
and  not  the  contractors  would  provide. 

Hut  what  effects  are  accruing  to  the  general  pub- 
lic of  San  Francisco  from  this  labor  union-building 
contractor  trust?  Thousands  know  the  answer  from 
dire  experience.  Rents  have  increased  on  an  average 
of  about  33  1-3  per  cent  in  the  residence  districts,  and 
from  25  per  cent  to  100  per  cent  for  business  houses. 
The  rents  of  dealers  in  family  supplies  being  enor- 
mously advanced,  it  naturally  follows  that  the  prices 
of  their  goods  and  wares  are  made  to  conform  to 
their  increased  rentals.  The  whole  community  must 
meet  this  increase  regardless  of  salary,  and  fully  95 
per  cent  of  wage  earners  receive  only  about  half  the 
wage  of  a  bricklayer. 

Maintenance  of  the  home  in  San  Francisco  has  in- 
creased for  an  average  family  about  $25  a  month, 
with  no  increase  in  income,  except  for  the  members 
of  the  iniquitous  conspiracy.  And  the  News  Letter 
has  discovered  what  seems  to  be  the  only  effective 
remedy,  and  it  is  this :  Let  contractors,  with  the  aid 
of  the  Citizens'  Alliance,  who  are  not  in  the  combine 
bring  outside  building  tradesmen  to  San  Francisco 
and  put  them  to  work  in  open  competition  to  the 
trust,  and  then  let  the  public  see  to  it  that  they  and 
their  workmen  are  protected  to  the  uttermost.  Per- 
haps the  trust  might  offer  resistance.  So  much  the 
better,  for  such  a  move  would  expedite  its  death.  But 
the  question  is,  how  long  are  renters  of  homes  and 
buyers  of  family  supplies  going  to  contribute  $25  a 
month  extra  to  maintain  a  few  trades  unionists  at 
wages  ranging  from  $6  to  $10  a  day,  while  their  own 
income  has  not  increased  a  penny? 

AN  INGRATE  SON. 

Aged  Joseph  Figel  has  enjoyed  for  many  years  the 
high  esteem  of  his  personal  and  business  acquaint- 
ances. Once  more  he  has,  also,  their  sympathy. 
Seven  years  ago  he  undertook  the  difficult  task  of 
clearing  away  the  charges  of  murder,  forgery  and 
embezzlement  which  stood  on  the  books  of  the  City 
Prison  against  his  son,  Theodore  A.  Figel.  He  suc- 
ceeded, but  it  cost  him  all  that  he  had  earned  and 
saved  in  nearly  half  a  century.  It  was  believed  by 
many  that  there  was  every  evidence  that  young  Figel 
was  guilty — that  "playing  the  races"  had  made  him 
first  a  thief,  then  a  forger  and  then  a  murderer. 

By  the  time  the  son  was  free,  it  is  said,  the  father 
then  past  seventy  years  of  age,  was  financially 
ruined.  He  was  forced  to  go  back  into  business  in 
order  to  support  his  family.  When  nobody  else 
would  employ  the  son  over  whom  hung — and  still 
hangs — a  cloud  of  suspicion  which  no  jury's  verdict 
could  dispel,  it  was  the  father  who  made  a  place 
for  him,  and,  retiring  recently  at  nearly  eighty  years 
of  age,  ultimately  gave  him  the  business.  And  now 
the  same  Theodore  Figel  is  accused  of  defrauding 
a  city  bank  of  about  $1,000.  He  is  missing  and  is 
hunted  by  the  police. 

Morally,  this  young  Figel  may  have  been  always  a 
degenerate,  by  nature  an  ingrate  and  without  honor 
or  principle,  but  it  was  the  race  track  that  landed  him 
in  the  felon's  dock;  it  was  the  race  track  that  cost 


him  his  standing  in  the  community  where  the  name 
of   Figel   waa  synonymous  with  probity  and   upright- 

.  it  was  the  race  track  that,  through  him. 
gared  his  poor  old  father;  it  is  the  race  track,  one  may 
be  sure,  that  has  again  brought  him  within  the  reach 
of  the  law.  At  the  same  time,  his  record  is  full  of 
evidence  to  prove  the  rottenness  of  our  criminal 
courts,  in  which  it  is  often  useless  to  invoke  the 
law  against  the  criminal  with  money  or  a  "pull." 
In  Figel's  case,  it  is  believed  by  many  that  it  was 
his  father's  fortune  against  a  clear,  convincing  ca-e 
of  circumstantial  proof,  and  that  the  money  won. 

Brooklyn  clubwomen  lunched  the  other  day  in  a 
new  sewer.  Is  there  anywhere  that  people  won't  go 
for  a  free  meal  ? 


It  is  significant  that  the  Democrats  of  Colorado, 
which  is  now  in  a  condition  amounting  almost  to  civil 
war,  want  Hearst  for  President. 


Locking  up  the  jurors  in  the  Eppinger  case  argues 
no  lack  of  confidence  in  the  jurors,  but  precise  infor- 
mation concerning  the  Eppingers. 

Russell  Sage  says  vacations  are  all  nonsense.  When 
Uncle  Sage  wants  recreation  he  lies  down  in  the  coin 
vault  and  listens  to  the  birdies  on  his  dollars  warble. 


Boston  has  revived  the  "music  cure"  fad,  under 
which  neuralgia  is  treated  with  a  succession  of  minor 
chords  on  the  piano.  What  would  "Bedelia"  be 
good  for? 

Mayor  "Bill"  Smith  of  New  Jersey,  who  had  a 
hack  at  the  Fair  millions,  is  headed  this  way  with 
money  in  all  his  pockets,  after  a  look  at  the  World's 
Fair.    Thanks,  St.  Louis. 

The  explosion  which  killed  a  score  of  non-union 
miners  in  Colorado  sounded  very  much  like  the  first 
shot  in  the  conflict  that  has  been  inevitable  ever  since 
Hearst  became  a  great  editor. 


The  Grand  Jury  which  urged  the  Supervisors  to  get 
into  line  with  the  Mayor,  had  for  its  foreman  a  citi- 
zen whose  chief  distinction  is  that  he  has  figured 
most  un  enviably  in  the  divorce  courts. 

Public  sympathy  goes  out  to  that  Superior  Jud°-e 
who  has  three  seasons  when  he  is  absolutely  unable 
to  hear  or  determine  a  case — before  he  has  taken  his 
vacation,  when  he  is  taking  his  vacation,  and  after 
he  has  taken  his  vacation. 


Prize-fighter  Jeffries  may  really  want  more  time 
to  prepare  for  his  "battle"  with  prize-fighter  Munroe, 
but  one  cannot  help  thinking  that  he  is  looking  for 
some  new  scheme  to  "do"  what  is  known  as  the  "big- 
gest sucker  town  in  America." 

A  New  York  woman  drank  out  of  a  bottle  labeled 
"Elixir  of  Youth,"  and  then  began  to  cut  capers  on 
the  street,  closing  the  performance  bv  fighting  seven 
stalwart  policemen.  It's  a  mystery  what  was  in  the 
bottle,  but  we  should  say  that  it  was  probably  no  tem- 
perance beverage. 

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JURY   BRIBING. 

Jury-bribing  scandals  are  exploding  so  often  in  the 
courts  of  San  Francisco,  and  are  so  seldom  followed 
by  the  punishment  of  anybody  that  they  have  ceased 
to  be  regarded  as  sensations.  They  point  out,  how- 
ever, so  many  defects  in  the  system  and  argue  so  loud 
a  state  of  public  morals,  as  to  raise  anew  grave 
doubts  concerning  the  merits  of  that  Anglo-Saxon 
institution — the  right  of  every  man  accused  to  trial 
by  his  peers.  Lately  we  had  in  the  Botkin  case  a 
flasn-in-the-pan  charge  of  attempted  embracery,  and 
still  more  recently  there  has  come  a  much  more  direct 
charge  of  the  same  kind — this  time  a  specific  accu- 
sation against  a  person  plainly  identified.  To  make 
the  cost  more  aggravated,  the  man  on  whom  black 
suspicion  rests  is  an  officer  of  the  court  whose  justice 
was  sought  to  be  tampered  with.  Moreover,  it  was 
an  affair  of  the  Chinese  quarter — an  affair  of  mur- 
der done  cold-bloodedly  for  hire — and  there  was  and 
is  no  lack  of  money  in  the  case  to  procure  the  com- 
mission of  any  degree  of  crime.  It  is  significant  that 
the  bail  of  the  alleged  briber,  $5,000,  was  put  up 
promptly  in  cash. 

It  is  not  the  News  Letter's  practice  to  prejudge, 
but  in  this  latest  scandal  there  are  many  facts  which 
point  to  the  guilt  of  the  lawyer  who  is  accused.  The 
man  who  makes  the  charge  accompanied  it  with  the 
return  into  court  of  the  money  which,  he  declared, 
was  thrust  into  his  pocket.  The  lawyer  admitted 
meeting  and  talking  to  the  juror  at  the  time  and 
place  mentioned,  and  to  off-set  the  charge  had  only  a 
vague. and  stammering  denial.  Fortunately  for  the 
public,  this  scandal  has  come  in  the  department  of 
the  Superior  Court  presided  over  by  William  P.  Law- 
lor,  than  whom  no  more  upright,  clean-handed, 
clean-minded  man  ever  graced  the  bench.  It  is  likely 
that  he  will  get  to  the  bottom  of  this  damnable  busi- 
ness, and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  make  such 
an  example  of  the  offender,  if  he  be  convicted,  as 
will  drive  the  ring  of  case-fixers  and  jury-bribers 
into  courts  that  do  not  enjoy  the  confidence  and  es- 
teem of  the  people.  There  are  a  few  such  depart- 
ments of  the  Superior  Court,  and  to  these  the  tam- 
perers  with  justice  generally  restrict  their  operations, 
but  in  this  affair  the  money  iii  sight  was  so  plentiful, 
the  life  of  a  Chinese  of  consequence  being  at  stake, 
that  the  crooks  were  tempted  to  take  a  long  chance 
by  going  into  a  court  honestly  and  vigilantly  offi- 
cered. 

There  is  need  of  radical  reform  in  the  method  of 
drawing  jurors,  so  as  to  keep  off  the  panels  men  of 
known  or  suspected  affiliation  with  the  evil  ele- 
ments of  the  community.  There  is  also  need,  if  the 
jury  system  is  to  stand,  of  a  revision  of  the  code  of 
morals  applying  to  the  high  function  of  men  called 
to  pass  upon  the  lives,  liberties  and  estates  of  their 
fellows.  Most  of  all,  there  is  need  at  this  time  of  a 
conviction  of  some  jury  briber,  and  his  speedy  pun- 
ishment, with  a  term  in  prison  as  long  as  the  penal 
code  allows.  The  case  in  Judge  Lawlor's  court 
seems  tc  be  an  excellent  one  for  filling  this  need. 

COLLEGE  MEN  AS  MINISTERS. 
The  churches  are  calling  for  more  college  men  to 
enter  the  pulpit.  At  all  the  conferences  of  various 
evangelical  churches  held  recently  throughout  the 
country,  the  cry  has  gone  up  that  higher  "standards 
must  be  set  and  attained  if  the  ministry  is  to  fulfill 
its  high  mission.  In  this  matter,  trie  directing  influ- 
ences of  the  churches  are  on  the  right  road.  For  too 
long  a  time  the  churches  have  remained  stationarv  ; 
not  in  matters  of  dogma,  or  of  faith,  but  stationary 
in  the  sense  that  they  have  failed  to  recognize  the 


higher  degree  of  education  reached  by  the  people  in 
general,  and  the  consequent  deeper  thought  by  them 
upon  religious  matters.  Men  who  go  to  church  be- 
cause of  their  beliefs,  want  to  be  instructed  in  these 
beliefs  by  ministers  who,  they  feel,  are  competent 
to  give  such  instruction  by  reason  of  their  educa- 
tional training.  The  absence  from  the  pulpit  of  prop- 
erly qualified  ministers  has  had  not  a  little  to  do  with 
the  absence  of  men  from  the  churches.  A  general 
diffusion  of  education  among  the  masses,  followed 
by  a  somewhat  superficial  knowledge  of  matters  re- 
ligious, has  had  a  tendency  to  increase,  rather  than 
lessen,  a  spirit  of  skepticism  so  far  as  spiritual  af- 
fairs are  concerned.  No  man,  probably,  can  com- 
ply with  the  tenets  of  any  denomination,  unless  he 
is  raauv  to  accept  certain  fundamentals  upon  faith. 
In  this  day  and  generation,  but  few  of  the  great 
crowd  are  willing  to  accept  anything  upon  faith. 
Hence  the  urgent  need  in  the  pulpit  of  men  learned 
in  the  laws  of  the  church  and  the  reasons  therefor, 
and  also  deeply  versed  in  human  nature  and  the  con- 
ditions of  every-day  life,  to  the  end  that  they  may 
meet  the  objections  of  the  skeptics  and  argue  with 
them  as  man  and  man.  The  college-bred  minister 
should  possess  the  necessary  qualifications  because 
of  his  training;  but  when  all  is  said,  probably  the 
personality  of  the  minister,  rather  than  his  knowl- 
edge, has  most  to  do  with  his  success  or  failure. 

Give  Statesman  Tarpey  a  leg  to  pull;  Statesman 
Bryan  prefers  a  legacy. 

"Water  is  a  necessity,"  says  an  Oakland  paper. 
True  enough.  Oakland  water  is  a  necessity,  and 
what  it  needs  is  to  be  washed. 


The  Mayor  of  Baltimore  has  killed  himself,  and  the 
Mayor  of  Negaunee,  Mich.,  is  lost  in  the  woods. 
This  is  not  a  hint  to  the  Mayor  of  San  Francisco. 

Two  ;  olicemen  were  fined  $1  each  for  contempt  of 
a  Supen  ,-  Court,  for  which  nobody  has  thirty-cents' 
worth  of  respect. 

It  would  be  well  for  the  Berkeley  scientists  who 
found  a  fossil  egg  on  the  Gila  river  to  look  again  for 
some  trace  of  the  pre-historic  actor  at  whom  it  was 
thrown. 


It  is  our  opinion  that  the  wonderful  cave  just  dis- 
covered in  Nevada  is  the  source  of  Salt  River,  and  we 
earnestly  suggest  it  as  a  splendid  place  for  whatever 
may  be  left  of  William  Randolph  Hearst  when  the 
leg-pullers  are  done  with  him. 


KCHAS.  KLILUS  &  COJJ 

&£XCL  USIVEM> 

ITICMCfUDLCLOTHILRS 

Suggestions  of  money  saving  are  not  the  incentives 
we  offer  to  purchase  clothes  here.  It's  the  creations 
we  show  that  emanate  from  premier  designers,  whose 
talents  with  shears,  needle  and  brain  are  of  the  high- 
est class.  Correct  dressers  say,  "Immediate  Service 
Clothes,"  for  theirs. 


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If  I  were  asked  what  hook  I  would 

Nancy  Stair,     rather   have   not      missed     reading 

among  novels  which  have  appeared 

this    season,    my   answer    would    be   unhesitatingly 

"Nancy  Stair"  is  by  all  odds  the  sweetest  and  most 
attractive  of  all  the  stories  which  have  come  into  m\ 
hands.  Eleanor  Macartney  Lane  is  the  author,  the 
same,  writer  whose  "Mills  of  God"  produced  such  a 
sensation  last  year.  That  book  was  everywhere 
hailed  as  a  most  remarkable  exhibition  of  power  for  a 
first  piece  of  work.  There  is  a  sweet  wholesomeness 
about  this,  her  last  work,  which  is  the  rarest  of  gifts. 
How  seldom  style  and  individuality  arc  manifested 
anions:  our  writers  are  seen  forthwith  when  we  come 
across  a  piece  of  work  like  this,  for  it  stands  out 
among;  the  other  books  like  a  jewel. 

The  chief  character  is  the  orphan  daughter  of  one 
Jock  Stair,  or  the  Lord  of  Stair,  as  he  is  frequently 
called,  a  member  of  the  Scotch  aristocracy.  She  is 
the  product  of  a  marriage  which  was  founded  uppn 
love  and  mutual  affinity,  and  hence  possesses  the  phy- 
sical and  mental  distinction  and  grace  always  asso- 
ciated with  love-children.  She  is  a  poet  of  consider- 
able parts,  and  has  been  educated  by  men  altogether, 
so  that  she  has  a  frank  and  manly  way  of  looking  at 
things,  which,  together  with  a  certain  natural  maiden 
coquetry,  make  her  absolutely  charming.  Her 
love  affairs  are  interesting,  and  her  admiration  for 
the  intellectual  type  of  man  and  the  power  of  leader- 
ship occasionally  make  trouble  for  her.  She  has  been 
educated  in  the  law  by  the  famous  Edinburgh  prose- 
cuting attorney,  Hugh  Pitcairn,  and  can  use  her  for- 
ensic ability  whenever  she  wishes  to  help  a  friend. 
This  same  Hugh  Pitcairn,  says,  by  the  way:  "Ye 
can't  educate  women  as  ye  can  men.  They're  elemen- 
tal creatures,  and  ye  can  no  more  change  their  nature 
than  ye  can  stop  fire  from  burning." 

The  Duke  of  Borthwicke,  one  of  the  characters, 
and,  as  far  as  there  is  one,  the  villain  of  the  piece, 
is  a  finely  drawn  character,  strong  and  resolute, 
clever  and  possessed  of  that  subtle  and  yet  manifest 
contempt  for  less  able  men  which  is  so  typical  of  a 
period  when  intellect  counted  for  more  than  it  does 
now.  But  the  portions  dealing  with  Robert  Burns 
are  perhaps  the  best  in  the  book.  The  writer  is  a 
firm  believer  in  his  genius,  and  is  full  of  admiration 
for  his  wonderful  ability,  in  her  zeal  giving  him  a 
position  in  the  world  of  letters,  which  is  in  all  proba- 
bility much  higher  than  he  deserves,  but  she  recog- 
nizes the  drawback  of  his  Bohemianism.  She  makes 
Nancy,  who  has  been  completely  disillusionized  by 
his  wickedness,  say:  "I've  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  it's  harder  to  be  a  gentleman  than  a  genius.  God 
makes  one,  but  a  man  has  the  handling  of  the  other 
upon  himself — about  as  neat  a  settlement  of  a  much 
vexed  question  as  I  have  ever  read. 
D.  Appleton  6k  Co.,  New  York. 

H.   G.  Richie,  and     the     re- 
Trusts,  Versus  the     viewer   is   free  to   admit   his 
Public  Welfare.        ignorance   of  the   identity  of 
the  gentleman,  has  published 
a  work  of  some  two  hundred  and  fifty  short  pages  to 
show  that  "the  greatest  menace  to  the  public  welfare 
now   confronting   our   people   is   the   formation   and 
operations  of  the  great  industrial  combinations  com- 
monly called  trusts,  whose  purpose  is  the  regulation 
of  production,  wages  and  prices,  and  the  destruction 
of  competition,  to  the  end  of  complete  monopoly  of 
the  business  of  the  country." 


The  writer  is  somewhat  rhetorical  and  unconvin- 
cing as  a  disputant  because  he  fails  to  grasp  the  fun- 
damental facts  which  underlie  the  development  1  I 
trusts,  and  so  attacks  his  enemy  at  every  point  ex- 
cept  where  he  is  really  vulnerable,  A  type  of  his  ar- 
gument is  as  follow>:  "I  deny  that  a  combination, 
however  great  its  capital,  can  manufacture  at  less 
cost  than  the  same  character  of  goods  can  be  pro- 
duced by  the  individual  manufacturer,  if  he  has  suffi- 
cient capital  to  enable  him  to  conduct  it  properly, 
and  the  cost  of  raw  materials,  labor  and  supplies  arc 
alike  to  both."  Which  when  boiled  down  simply 
means  that  the  private  employer  can  compete  with 
the  trust,  if  he  bas  money  enough,  a  conclusion  which 
hardly  needed  proving,  and  when  proved  cannot  be 
said  to  tell  very  much  against  the  new  combinations. 
This  is  typical  of  the  book,  which  is  written  by  one 
who  is  neither  a  good  writer  nor  a  skilled  economist, 
but  who,  with  that  fatuous  self-confidence  which  is 
far  too  common,  imagines  that  anybody  can  talk  sen- 
sibly on  public  affairs.  But  fulminate  as  he  may,  even 
one  so  poorly  constituted  as  is  this  author  to  deal 
with  the  question,  even  he  is  bound  to  admit  that  he 
is  fighting  a  battle  which  the  development  of  condi- 
tions has  made  it  impossible  for  him  to  win.  Thus 
he  says :  "The  great  industrial  combinations  are  now 
so  firmly  planted  and  in  such  overwhelming  number 
with  us  that  legislation  of  a  nature  to  cause  their 
sudden  collapse  would  be  calamitous."  In  other 
words,  the  trusts  have  now  become  a  necessary  and 
unavoidable  part  of  our  system  of  production. 

Published  by  Fenno,  New  York. 

R.  F.  Fenno  &  Co.,  of  New  York,  are  the  publish- 
ers of  "Modern  Arms  and  a  Feudal  Throne,"  by  T. 
Milner  Harrison.  The  plot  of  this  romantic  story- 
is  laid  on  the  South  Pacific  Ocean.  There  is  intrigue, 
treachery,  love  and  other  troubles  enough  in  this 
book  to  satisfy  the  most  sensational  mind. 

"Trusts  vs.  the  Public  Welfare,"  written  by  H.  C. 
Richie  and  published  by  R.  F.  Fenno  &  Co.,  is  merely 
a  record  of  the  transactions  of  a  few  "manufacturing 
combinations."  The  argument  favors  the  controlling 
of  trusts  by  legislation. 

"The  Hayfield  Mower,"  published  at  Boston, 
Mass.,  is  a  volume  of  supposed  selections  from  ■  a 
country  newspaper,  and  is  dedicated  to  people  who 
think  and  say  what  they  think.  There  are  many 
trite  sayings  in  this  book,  and  many  statements  of 
truth.     The  author  very  wisely  conceals  his  name. 


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FINANCIAL   St#<®J! 


The  Government  Reclama- 

More  Frauds  tion    Service   has   issued    a 

Working  the  Public,     warning    against    swindlers 

now  working,  it  is  said,  in 
the  Western  States,  offering  to  settle  home  seekers 
on  irrigable  lands  being  reclaimed  by  the  Govern- 
ment. Their  strong  point  is  the  alleged  possession  of 
inside  information  regarding  the  plans  of  the  engi- 
neers by  a  display  of  copies  of  Government  maps 
and  surveys,  the  swindlers  guaranteeing  for  the  con- 
sideration of  from  $50  to  $200  to  locate  settlers  upon 
choice  lands.  It  is  now  said  that  these  people  do  not 
possess  any  inside  information  and  no  data  which  is 
not  available  to  the  public,  and  the  maps  they  have 
are  mere  township  plats,  rough  or  drafts,  which  can 
be  obtained  at  any  land  office.  The  lands,  being 
operated  under  Government  projects,  are  withdrawn 
from  all  entry  excepting  homestead,  before  any  ac- 
tual work  of  construction  is  ordered,  and  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Interior  is  by  law  required  to  outline  the 
size  and  location  of  each  farm.  Until  plans  are  com- 
piled for  construction  and  a  contract  has  been  let  for 
the  works,  it  is  impossible  to  state,  it  is  said,  with  any 
degree  of  accuracy  what  the  cost  of  the  water  will  be, 
or  what  land  will  be  irrigated.  In  calling  attention 
to  the  matter,  a  Nevada  contemporary,  which  is  par- 
ticularly interested  in  the  matter  just  now,  says : 
"Settlers  who  make  filings,  based  on  information 
from  swindlers,  will  not  only  lose  the  money  they  paid 
out,  but  are  liable  to  find  later  that  the  lands  are  not 
included  in  the  Government  property  system,  and 
thus  will  have  exhausted  their  homestead  entries 
upon  worthless  land.  When  the  proper  time  comes 
for  throwing  open  to  homestead  entry  the  lands  un- 
der these  great  irrigation  projects,  the  Secretary  of 
the  Interior  will  give  due  notice  through  the  public 
press.  Until  such  announcement  is  made,  it  will  not 
be  safe  for  settlers  to  locate  upon  these  lands." 

We  stand  corrected  of  a  mis- 

An  Outburst  of      take  made  last  week  in  quoting 

Liberality.  a  bid  of  $20,000  for  the  Copper 

King  property,  including  the 
mine  in  Fresno  County,  the  smelter  and  machinery 
in  Contra  Costa  and  the  office  furniture  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. This  should  have  been  $15,000,  so  our  error 
was  in  allowing  for  undue  liberality  upon  the  part  of 
the  bidders.  This  offer  not  being  accepted,  another 
bid  was  made  of  the  same  amount,  $15,000,  for  the 
smelter  and  other  property,  omitting  the  mine  in 
Fresno  County.  This  munificent  sum  was  bid  for 
a  smelter  almost  brand-new,  which  cost  over  $200,000. 
This  shows  the  peculiar  ideas  which  some  people  have 
on  the  question  of  values  when  some  one  is  in  a  cor- 
ner and  open  to  a  squeeze.  It  is  pleasant  to  know 
that  these  ideas  in  this  particular  case  did  not  evolve 
into  anything  of  a  practical  shape.  No  wonder  that 
the  gentlemen  who  cater  to  the  "get  rich  quick'' 
operators  get  rich  in  woolly  sections  of  the  woolly 
West.  In  this  connection  a  bid  made  for  the  smelter 
plant  by  the  Copper  Mountain  Company  of  $120,000 
recalls  the  fact  that  there  are  some  important 
changes  going  on  at  that  company's  plant  at  Keswick. 


The  trouble  between  this  county  and  the  county 
over  the  alleged  injury  of  trees  and  green  stuff  gen- 
erally by  poisonous  fumes  from  the  smelter,  has  sug- 
gested the  idea  of  saving  the  bi-products  of  the  ores 
reduced   in  the  smelters.     Investigation   has   shown 


that  a  heavy  loss  has  been  sustained  there  for  years 
past,  in  fact,  ever  since  the  works  started  up.  From 
that  time  until  now,  it  is  estimated  that  at  least  1200 
tons  of  sulphuric  acid,  or  the  equivalent  therefor, 
has  been  passed  up  the  flues.  When  it  is  remembered 
that  the  material  is  worth  about  $20  per  ton,  the 
money  lost  by  the  waste  will  figure  up  something 
enormous.  Now,  however,  the  company  proposes 
to  utilize  these  fumes  and  recover  the  sulphuric  Eicid. 
A  plant  is  being  erected  at  the  works  for  this  purpose, 
where  the  manufacture  of  the  sulphuric  acid  will  be 
carried  out  on  a  large  scale.  The  fine  smelter  at  Bay 
Point,  now  owned  by  the  Copper  King  Company, 
would  be  very  handy  for  the  Mountain  Copper  Com- 
pany, having  a  good  bay  frontage  for  shipping  pur- 
poses. If  it  is  sold  at  all,  this  is  the  company  which 
should  own  these  works,  for  many  reasons  which 
will  be  clear  enough  to  the  local  management. 

The     sum     of     $10,000    bail 

Laws  Befriend  the     money    now    stands   between 

Rich  Thief.  the  penitentiary  and  Rumble, 

confidence  operator,  who  is 
said  to  have  banked  over  $300,000  during  the  four 
years  he  was  allowed  the  privilege  of  robbing  the 
public  by  the  grace  of  those  who,  had  he  troubled 
earlier  in  his  career,  would  have  all  piled  on  top  of 
him.  Here  the  rich  thief  is  many  grades  above  the 
poor  but  honest  man,  or  the  unfortunate  who  steals 
to  feed  a  starving  wife  and  children.  There  are  men 
now  in  San  Quentin,  whose  term  of  years  was  re- 
duced by  some  commiserating  Judge  for  the  theft 
of  a  loaf  of  bread  or  its  equivalent,  while  the  pam- 
pered robber  of  money  amounting  to  hundreds  of 
thousands,  escapes  with  eighteen  months  in  jail — 
all  the  law  provides  for  in  his  case — with  liberty  to 
walk  the  streets  on  a  paltry  bail,  while  lawyers  are 
permitted  to  stave  off  righteous  punishment  of  a 
knave  brazen  enough  to  scout  public  opinion  and  defy 
the  law.  A  condition  of  society  which  can  tolerate 
such  work  as  this  must  be  rotten  indeed. 


The  market  on  Pine  street  is  under  the  weather 
in  normal  condition  at  this  season  of  the  year.  Some 
people  say  they  can  recollect  a  mid-summer  market 
for  Comstock  shares.  The  majority  of  the  street 
habitues  who  never  get  farther  south  than  Pine 
street  since  they  landed  at  the  foot  of  Montgomery 
street,  say  they  don't.  The  mines  are  looking  very 
well,  and  Ophir  stock  pays  dividends,  but  then  this 
does  not  help  things  on  Pine  street. 


The  local  market  is  quiet  just  now,  as  it  has  been 
for  some  time  past. 

See  our  3  months  ahead  Ideas  In  hats.  Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


Decorations  for  weddings.  Charlotte  F.  Williams.  Room  18. 121  Poet  St. 


"BAB'i"' 


Epfcurtan     "Restaurant 
323    LARKIN    STREET 


&/>e   James   H. 

212-214  California  St. 


Babcock    Catering    Co. 

409  Golden  Gats  Ave. 


June  ii.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


CONFESSION    OF    A    CONNOISSEUR. 

The  Livermore  Valley  is  one  "t  the  most  celebrated 
ilit'ornin.     There  is  good  ami  sufficient   r. 
for  this  celebrity.    The  "Mont  Rouge"  wines  are  pro- 
duced in  this  valley.     About  one  mile  from  the  town 
ivermore  is  the  winery  of  Chanche  &  Hon,  and 
it  is  here  that  these  wines  are  made. 

It  is  the  custom  of  makers  of  interior  wines  to  label 
their  product  "high-grade  California!!,"  and  through 
this,  people  have  come  to  believe  that  no  good  wine 
comes  from  our  State.  There  is  a  lamentable  lack 
of  discrimination  shown  by  purchasers  of  wine.  It 
is  always  safest  to  ascertain  if  wine  is  made  to  be 
sold  in  bulk  and  if  it  is,  avoid  the  brand.  The 
"Chauche  &  Bon  Winery"  sell  their  product  in 
glass  only.  Another  safeguard  for  the  consumer  is 
to  demand  a  well-known  brand  of  wine  whenever 
quality  is  desired.  No  one  ever  hears  an  adverse 
criticism  of  the  product  of  the  "Mont  kouge"  vine- 
yard. 

The  house  of  "Chauche  &  Bon"  have  never  at- 
tempted any  sophistication  of  their  wares  nor  have 
they  ever  attempted  by  brag  and  bombastic  utterance 
to  advertise  their  wines.  The  "Mont  Rouge"  brand 
advertises  itself.  It  is  quality  that  tells  and  quality 
only. 

Ever  since  the  establishment  of  the  firm,  Chauche 
&  Bon  have  labored  to  make  their  wines  the  equal  in 
quality  of  the  very  best  European  products.  That 
such  endeavor  has  been  crowned  with  entire  success 
is  proved  by  the  unrivaled  fame  the  Mont  Rouge  vine- 
yard enjoys  at  home  and  abroad.  Every  hotel  and 
cafe  has  the  Mont  Rouge  wines  regularly  quoted  on 
its  wine  list,  and  alJ  the  leading  clubs  use  them.  The 
general  reputation  these  wines  enjoy  among  club 
connoisseurs  everywhere  is  that  the  money  paid  tor 
them  is  well  spent.  The  same  care  is  taken  with 
each  wine — Burgundy,  Chablis,  Medoc,  grand  Vin 
Sec,  Haut  Sauterne  and  regular  Sauternes — and  the 
uniform  excellence  of  these  beverages  is  the  feature 
that  naturally  commends  them  to  the  gourmet. 

Their  Jurancon  is  preferred  to  champagne  by  those 
who  have  sampled  the  merits  of  this  rare  brand.  Jura- 
con  was  said  to  be  the  favorite  wine  of  Henry  of 
Navarre.  Chauche  &  Bon's  Jurancon  is  produced 
from  the  vines  especially  imported  from  the  palace 
of  Henri  IV  of  France.  The  Mont  Rouge  vineyard  is 
situated  in  the  most  productive  part  of  the  Livermore 
Valley,  a  mile  south  of  the  town  of  Livermore.  The 
owners  have  expended  much  capital  in  improving 
their  vineyard,  and  aside  from  its  rich  producing 
qualities  it  is  worthy  of  note  as  one  of  the  most 
beautnul  vineyards  in  California. 


Infants  Thrive 
on  cow's  milk  that  is  not  subject  to  any  change  of  compo- 
sition.    Borden's   Eagle  Brand   Condensed   Milk   Is   always 
the  same  in  all  climates  and  at  all  seasons.    As  a  general 
household  milk  It  is  superior  and  is  always  available. 


— The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at  Moraghan'B 
Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible  for  the  crowd  that  goes 
there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become  a  regular  business  men's  exchange. 
The  quality  of  the  chops,  steake,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be 
surpassed  More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  attended  to 
by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


When  ladies  are  down  town  shopping,  there  is  never  any  question 

as  to  where  they  will  go  for  their  luncheon.  They  turn  naturally  to 
Swain's  Bakery,  209  Post  street.  For  twenty-six  years  it  has  catered  to 
the  most  exclusive  classes  in  San  Francisco.  The  goods  sold  there  can 
always  be  depended  upon.  Ice-cream,  pastry,  etc.,  is  promptly  de- 
livered—and always  of  the  best. 


^—Mothers,  be  »ure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothlnr  Syrup" 
for  your  chUdren  while  teething- 


The  Champagne 
success   of   many 
social  seasons. 

Hilbert  Mercantile  Co. 

Pacific  Com  Arcnu 


V   W.  GasKill 

Special  Azcnt 


Oriental  Rugs  at 

25  per  Cent 

Discount 

CHAS.  M.  PLUM  &  CO. 

NINTH  and  MARKET  STS. 


REMOVAL  NOTICE 


PATRICK  &  CO,,  have  moved  to  their  new 
quarters  111-118  SANSOME  STREET,  where  a 
complete  line  of  Rubber  Stamps,  Stencils.  Seals, 
Metal  Checks,  Box  Brands,  etc-,  can  be  found. 


WM.  WILLIAMS  &  SONS 

(LTD.)  OF  ABERDEEN. 

V   V   o 

Scotch_Whisky 

Importers-MACONDRAY  &  CO. 


To  get  a  clear  head  try  the  Post-St  Turkish  Bath. 


"Bloody  Bridles"  Waite,  one-time  Governor  of 
Colorado,  knew  more  about  his  State  than  we  thought 
he  did. 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


EI 


H«r»t>*  Crl«r*'  ."Whet  th«  d«rf1  »rt  th.jn?' 
"Ob«1Im(  Will  Ptar  thf  davit,  tjlr.  wuhrou-" 


.jTOWN 


The  case  of  David  Selby,  of  Oakland,  who  was 
robbed  of  sixteen  hundred  dollars,  presumably  by 
deck-hands  of  the  steamer  Piedmont,  calls  to  our 
notice  a  certain  laxity  in  the  management  of  masters 
on  board  the  ferry  steamers.  Anybody  who  has  lost 
any  property  on  the  boats  knows  how  difficult  it  is 
to  get  it  returned.  The  company  makes  every  pro- 
vision for  the  return  of  lost  property,  and  provides 
a  courteous  clerk  at  the  Oakland  mole.  But  the  more 
valuable  pieces  of  personal  property,  once  left  on  the 
boat,  are  forever  lost.  I  have  usually  blamed  fellow- 
passengers  for  such  losses,  and  wondered  at  the  lax 
morals  of  well-dressed  people.  This  deck-hand  mat- 
ter, however,  sheds  new  light  on  the  question  of  the 
disappearance  of  valuables.  It  is  fair  to  the  deck- 
hand, however,  to  say  that  he  claims  that  the  money 
found  in  his  possession  belongs  to  some  orphans, 
but  however  it  may  be,  in  his  particular  case  it  makes 
no  difference  to  the  general  proposition  of  the  in- 
iquity of  deck-hands. 

Lindblom,  the  Alaska  millionaire,  is  reported  to 
have  gone  off  to  his  rmllions  in  Alaska,  leaving  his 
laundry  bill  unpaid.  This  Lindblom  is  an  awful  ex- 
ample. A  poor  tailor  who  went  to  Nome  to  drive 
reindeer,  and  there  was  shown  by  a  squaw  the  won- 
derful wealth  of  that  land,  he  entered  into  posses- 
sion of  money,  without  any  personal  effort  on  his 
part,  of  which  even  princes  might  be  envious.  A 
low  and  degraded  creature  by  nature,  the  possession 
of  the  gold  has  only  brought  his  degradation  into 
stronger  relief.  His  vulgarity  and  coarseness  had 
now  a  chance  to  display  themselves.  The  occasional 
debauch  of  beer  became  the  constant  debauch  of 
champagne,  and  he  is  to-day  a  most  ludicrous  exam- 
ple of  either  the  jest  or  the  mistakes  of  Providence. 
Beast  as  he  is,  he  is  only  an  exaggerated  type  of 
many  men  in  this  city  who  are  in  control  of  means 
of  doing  good  which  they  only  use  to  their  own  de- 
struction. 

"Unfair  house"  being  one  of  the  stock  cries  of  our 
militant  trades  unionists,  it  would  be  interesting  to 
discover  the  opinion  of  the  Carmen's  Union  upon 
one  of  their  number  who  furnished  his  wife  with 
twenty-five  cents  a  day  on  which  to  board  the  couple. 
He  was  a  thrifty  soul,  and  had  fifteen  hundred  dol- 
lars in  the  bank.  This  bank  account  was  evidently 
the  reward  of  his  wife's  abstinence,  and  she  has 
gone  to  court  to  get  a  divorce  and  incidentally  to 
restrain  him  from  handling  the  money.  It  would 
be  interesting  to  know  just  how  much  increased 
wages  have  benefited  the  families  of  the  men  who 
have  secured  them.  There  is  more  connection  than 
one  would  suppose  between  the  increase  in  wages 
and  the  increase  in  the  amount  of  stained  glass  used 
in  the  saloons. 

It  is  reported  that  Sir  Edward  Treves,  Bart.,  op- 
erator upon  appendicitis  cases,  and  hailed  as  savior 
of  the  King  of  England,  approves  of  Yosemite  Valley. 
This  is  very  nice  for  the  valley.  Henceforward  the 
waterfalls  will  be  more  abundant,  and  El  Capitan 
will  lift  its  head  more  proudly  for  the  praise.  Yo- 
semite is  more  fortunate  than  the  Atlantic  of  which 
Oscar  Wilde  said  on  one  occasion  that  he  had  no 
great  opinion.  This  snobbishness  of  the  local  press 
whenever  an  unfortunate  traveler  with  a  handle  to 
his  name  comes  along,  is  very  unpleasant,  and  must 
be  in  this  case  annoying  to  the  surgeon  baronet, 
who  is  a  very  good  fellow  and  just  as  remarkable 
for  his  modesty  as  for  his  ability. 


John  J.  Mangan,  who  is  accused  of  highway  rob- 
bery and  is  at  the  same  time  a  candidate  for  a  posi- 
tion on  the  police  force,  should  be  given  the  job  in 
the  police  department.  He  will  find  himself  very 
much  at  home,  for  it  is  said  that  there  are  plenty  like 
him  on  the  force.  A  reputable  citizen  until  he  got 
the  idea  into  his  head  that  he  wanted  to  be  a  police- 
man, he  has  tried  to  make  his  conduct  square  with 
his  ambitions.  He  has  begun  quite  modestly,  but 
shows  spirit  and  the  proper  tendency.  Give  him  a 
little  time,  and  he,  too,  may  be  able  to  burglarize  a 
grocery  store  which  he  was  supposed  to  be  protect- 
ing, and  he  will  become  just  as  impudent  a  black- 
mailer as  the  rest  of  his  confreres.  Whether  he  will 
ever  acquire  the  habit  of  insulting  helpless  females 
can,  of  course,  only  be  shown  by  experience,  but  his 
promotion  on  the  force  depends  upon  it. 

In  the  case  of  prisoner  versus  pawnbroker,  Judge 
Cook  decided  to  believe  the  testimony  of  the  prisoner 
in  preference  to  that  of  the  pawnbroker,  particularly 
as  the  former  had  had  a  good  record  up  to  the  time 
of  his  arrest.  Judge  Cook  has  a  pretty  wit  occasion- 
ally; sometimes,  like  most  wits  to  which  that  adjec- 
tive can  be  applied,  it  takes  strange  turns,  and  cuts 
queer  capers,  but  now  and  again,  as  in  this  instance, 
he  hits  it  off  all  right.  Search  for  the  stolen  property 
was  unsuccessful,  the  pawnbroker  maintaining  that 
he  had  not  bought  it ;  the  detectives,  however,  were 
convinced  that  the  prisoner  spoke  the  truth  when  he 
declared  that  he  find  sold  it  to  the  pawnbroker.  It 
is  to  be  hoped  that  the  decision  will  give  the  local 
pawnbroking  fraternity  a  good  shaking  up.  They 
need  it  badly. 

In  Oakland  they  are  making  arrests  under  the 
new  truant  statute,  which  requires  that  parents  and 
guardians  should  send  their  children  to  school.  This 
is  a  good  law  in  intention,  but  so  far  impossible  in 
the  execution,  for  there  is  not  enough  school  room  to 
accommodate  the  pupils.  In  East  Oakland  alone 
there  are  scores  of  children  who  cannot  be  accommo- 
dated in  the  public  schools,  and  who  are  accordingly 
wasting  their  time  and  learning  bad  habits  in  their 
idleness.  But  it  would  be  just  like  the  sweet  reason- 
ableness of  the  Oaklander  to  enforce  the  law  any- 
way. 

The  inhabitants  of  San  Francisco  who  spend  their 
week-end  holiday  in  roaming  through  the  country, 
are  likely  to  have  their  liberty  much  curtailed.  About 
one  hundred  thousand  acres  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Livermore  will  be  barred  to  the  festive  picknickers, 
and  the  Marin  County  rules  become  more  and  more 
stringent  as  regards  trespassers.  It  must  be  admitted 
that  the  city  people  have  for  the  most  part  only  them- 
selves to  thank,  and  their  own  barbaric  behavior. 
People  that  do  not  know  enough  not  to  build  camp 
fires  everywhere,  and  who  wantonly  destroy  flower? 
and  trees,  must  be  stopped  even  if  the  innocent  suf- 
fer with  them. 

A  Miners'  Union  agent  has  decamped  with  some 
fifteen  hundred  dollars  of  union  funds.  He  was  wise 
in  his  generation.  He  knew  from  his  experience  of 
trades  unionism  that  the  funds  would  in  all  probabil- 
ity be  wasted,  so  he  fancied  that  they  might  be  put 
to  good  use  on  his  account,  anyway.  There  is  this 
to  be  said,  that  if  he  had  not  taken  them,  some  other 
officer,  in  all  probability,  would,  and  that  the  forces 
of  civil  discord  are  fifteen  hundred  out,  which  is  some- 
what of  a  gain. 


Juoe  ii,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  13 

"YOUR  SINS.  MY  LORD  HAVE  COME  HOME"'  .frcmcinbranro  al  the  hands  of  the  people  as  a  ben< 

As  ii  is,  the  benefit  to  be  derived  is  but  a  lim- 
ited one.  consisting  of  a  warning  to  the  d 

who   have    their   money    in    the   keep   of   William    II. 
Crocker. 


It  is  reported  by  the  daily  press  that  representa 

nul  Prince  Poniatowski  have 

r  to  Mr.  Henry  1.  Crocker,  cousin  to  W.  II 

ker.  the  sum  as  a  compromise  in  the 

suit   brouijht   by  Mr.    Henry  J.   Crocker  against   his 

sin  and  titled  brother-in-law  to  recover  the  sum 

P5  he  claimed  he  was  swindled  out  of  by  the^e 

two  worthies. 

The  daily  papers  have  repeatedly  given  a  history 
of  this  very  nnestirvnahlc  transaction,  and  the  story 
as   given   will   hear  re-publicat'Oti  : 

"The  transaction  causing  all  the  trouble  occurred 
in  irjoo.  Hcnrv  J.  Crocker  had  $75,000  of  Pacific 
Coast  Jockey  Club  stock  and  S27.431.J1  of  Western 
Turf  Association  stock,  a  total  of  $10:  431.25.  Wil- 
liam H.  Crocker,  cousin,  had  large  holdings  of  the 
same  stocks,  and  he  told  Henry  J.  he  w;  s  going  to  sell 
it.  through  Prince  Poniatowski,  and  suggested  that 
Henry  J.  do  likewise. 

"The  latter  agreed  to  the  proposition,  and  the 
Prince  informed  him  later  that  he  had  sold  his  shares 
for  $75^6.25  in  cash  and  108  second  mortgage  bonds 
of  W.  H.  Crocker's  Sierra  Railway  Company.  The 
bonds  had  a  cash  value  of  only  $5,400,  so  Henry  J. 
Crocker  only  saw  $12,056.25  in  the  deal  for  himself. 
Later  on  the  complaint  filed  in  the  suit  alleged  that 
the  plaintiff  found  out  that  William  H.  Crocker  was 
able  to  realize  heavily  on  the  stocks.  For  that  reason 
Henrv  J.  Crocker  brought  the  suit  for  $89,475." 

From  the  allegation  of  facts,  it  is  readily  deducted 
that  there  was  a  conspiracy  to  do  up  one  of  the  parties 
in  the  case,  and  Henry  J.  Crocker  was  the  lamb  that 
was  led  to  the  slaughter  on  the  altar  of  his  relative's 
cupidity.  With  cunning  dishonesty,  it  seems  that  a 
scheme  was  deliberately  concocted  to  rob  a  man  who 
had  placed  entire  confidence  in  his  banker  cousin. 
This  banker  is  said  to  have  connived  with  other  par- 
ties to  hide  or  keeo  from  his  client  and  relative  the 
real  figure  at  which  he  parted  with  the  property  en- 
trusted to  his  care,  and  it  wras  not  until  he  was  threat- 
ened with  legal  proceedings  that  he  was  compelled 
to  disgorge  the  ill-gotten  gains.  If  the  statement  is 
true,  as  alleged  in  the  public  press,  W.  H.  Crocker 
should  be  pilloried  as  a  common  thief.  A  confidence 
man,  a  seller  of  gold  bncKS,  is  respectable  in  compari- 
son to  the  banker  who  takes  advantage  of  blood  re- 
lationship to  filch.  With  him  there  is  not  the  excuse 
of  necessity.  He  has  plenty  of  money,  he  is  inde- 
pendent. No,  it  Was  the  lure  of  the  miser,  the  mere 
lust  for  gold,  hoards  and  hoards  of  the  metal,  that 
made  this  man  an  unconvicted  felon. 

And  if  the  act  is  an  indefensible  one  as  regards  his 
relation  to  his  cousin  and  client,  what  can  we  say 
regarding  the  position  this  man  occupies  as  regards 
his  depositors?  If  the  facts  are  true  as  they  are  al- 
leged, the  depositor,  the  client  who  has  no  blood 
relationship  to  offer  as  a  restraining  influence,  has 
little  chance  with  this  wolf  of  finance. 

If  those  that  live  in  palaces,  if  those  that  should  be 
an  example  of  rectitude  and  right  conduct  as  between 
man  and  man,  indulge  themselves  openly  in  thievery 
and  criminality,  what  may  we  expect  of  the  man  of 
little  education,  the  lowly  man  of  the  poor?  It  is 
the  pernicious  example  of  such  men  as  William  H. 
Crocker  that  helps  to  make  criminals,  that  fills  our 
penitentiaries,  make  the  nation's  unrest  and  begets 
the  anarchist. 

Henry  J.  Crocker  made  a  grievous  mistake  when 
he  accepted  the  compromise.  He  should  have  pressed 
the  case  to  the  bitter  end;  he  could  then  have  asked 


Mr.  J.  W.  Irwin  gave  an  illustrated  stereopticon 
lecture  at  the  Alhambra  on  Tuesday  night  last.  This 
lecture  was  given  under  the  auspices  of  the  Camera 
Club,  and  the  attendance  was  very  large  and  enthu- 
siastic. Mr.  Irwin  will  go  to  the  World's  Fair  at  St. 
Louis  and  exhibit  the  pictures  extolling  San  Fran- 
cisco's present  and  future,  with  a  hope  of  aiding  in  the 
advertising  of  this  city  and  its  claims  as  a  residence 
place.     Bon  voyage. 

The  lecture  was  enthusiastically  received,  and  we 
suppose  that  the  performance  at  the  Alhambra  was 
in  a  measure  "trying  it  on  the  dog."  We  respectfully 
suggest  that  the  pictures  of  our  big  buildings,  with 
the  rookeries  in  evidence  for  long  stretches  along- 
side, will  not  prove  of  great  interest  to  Fasterners. 
It  will  be  well  to  remember  also  that  some  people, 
probably  a  large  majority  of  Mr.  Irwin's  St.  Louis 
audiences,  will  not  be  farmers,  and  that  it  would  he 
advisable  to  carefully  cull  out  much  of  the  matter 
shown  at  the  Alhambra  Theatre,  which  should  be 
of  necessity  of  interest  to  a  bucolic  population  only. 


There  has  been  brought  to  our  notice  a  new  Realty 
Company,  and  from  the  investigations  made,  thev 
seem  to  have  a  good,  strong  proposition.  Mr.  M.  J. 
Keller,  the  Market  street  merchant,  is  the  President 
of  the  company.  His  name  alone  warrants  confi- 
dence in  their  abilitv  to  carry  to  a  successful  issue 
their  new  undertaking.  The  name  of  the  company 
is  the  Germania  Realty  and  Loan  Company,  suite 
522  Crossley  Building,  city. 

Red  Eyes  and  Eyelids. 

Granulated   Eyelids  and   other  Bye   troubles   cured   by   Murine 
Eye  Remedy;  doesn't  smart. 


TUXEDO 

Formerly  Arcadia 

Santa   Cruz    Mountains 

Delightfully  located 
half  a  mile  from  and 
run  in  conjunction 
with  Big  Trees.  New 
hotel  newly  furnished 
Extensively  improved 
since,  last  season. 
Electric  lighted.  Hot 
and  cold  water.  Por- 
celain tubs.  Buy  tic- 
kets to  Tuxedo  nar- 
row gauge,  foot  of 
Market  street. 

Bathing,  Fishing,  Hunting,  Tennis,  Etc. 

Address,  Thomas  L.  Bell,  Felton,  P.  U. 


THE  EL  DRISCO  APARTMENTS 

PACIFIC  HEIGHTS 

Unquestionably  the  finest  apartment   house   on 
the  Coast. 

New  and  modern  suites  commanding    a  mag- 
nificent marine  view. 

MRS.     N.     FOSTER,     Lessee 

S.  W.  Cor.  Broderick  and   Pacific  Ave. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


Summer    Resorts 


fi.     SODA    BAy     5 


At  the  Base  of  Unci©  S  *m  Mountain,  4100  ft.  High. 

ON  THE  SHORE  OF   BEAUTIFUL  CLEAR   LAKE 

Leo  D.  Cr&Jg,  Manager. 

THE  GREAT  SODA  SPRING  th«  most  exhilarating  bath  on  earth. 
forciuK  its  ereut  volume  of  Hiichly  Carbonated  Soda  Water  up- 
ward through  the  bottom  of  Clear  Lake,  is  the  greatest  Datural 
wonder  of  the  world.    Table  as  good  as  can  be  found  anywhere- 

Take  Tiburon  Fen  y  at  T:30  a  m.,  arriving  at  Hopland  at  11 :2«  a. 
m.  Thence  by  Clear  Lake  and  Hopland  Stage  Line  direct  to  Soda 
Bay.  Round  trip  fare,  good  for  six  months.  $1000.  Apply  for  in- 
formation and  accommodations  to  Chatfleld  &  Vinzent,  Real  Es- 
tate. 223  Montgomery  St..  S.  F  .  or 

LEE  P.  CRAIG.  Kelseyville  P.  0-.  Lake  County. 


GRAND    OPENING 

and  Dedication  of  the  Exten- 
sive Beach   Improvements   at 


"NEW"  SANTA  CRUZ 


Saturday  Evening,  June  11 

Grand  fireworks  display  by  California  Fireworks  Company. 
Brilliant  electrical  illumination  of  Pacific  avenue  and  Esplanade 
Neptune  Casino.  Plunge  Baths  and  Pleasure  Pier.  Third  Artillery 
Band.  V.  S.  A.    Concert  and  ball. 

Special  Excursions  via  S.  P.  Ry. 


The  GEYSERS 


The  most  famous  health  and  pleasure  re- 
sort in  California.  The  climate  and  scen- 
ery are  unsurpassed  and  the  waters  are 
acknowledged  the  best  on  the  market. 
Natural  mineral,  steam  and  Haminam  bath*.  Swimming  lake  of  tepid 
minpral  water.  Boating,  hunting,  fishing,  dancing,  shuffle-board. 
billiards  and  croquet.  The  hotel  and  cottages  have  been  renovated 
throughout,  and  new  cottages,  and  a  firm  pavilion  built  this  year. 
There  will  be  a  full v  equipped  dairy  and  livery  stable  in  connection 
with  the  hotel.  The  hotel,  cottages,  bath  houses  at  id  grounds  are 
lighted  by  electricity-  The  hotel  will  be  supplied  with  the  best  ihe 
market  affords.  Rates,  tin.  $12.  tu.  H6  per  week.  For  further  particu- 
lars and  booklet,  write  R.  H.  Curry.  Prop.  The  Geyser?.  Sonoma  Co  .Cal 


HIGHLAND  SPRINGS 

The  best  of  mineral  waters,  accommodations  and  service.  Table 
unsurpassed.  Electric  lights,  orchestra,  swimming,  fishing  and 
all  the  popular  sports  and  amusements.  Delightful  excursions 
on  Clear  Lake  and  to  other  resorts.  Terms  reasonable.  For 
booklet,  etc..  address.  CRAIG  &  KERR.  Highland  Springs.  Cal. 


Vichy  Springs 


3   miles  from  Ukiah.    Mendocino    County. 

Natural  electric  waters,  champagne  baths. 

Only  place  in  the  world  of  this  class.  Fish- 
ing, hunting.  Crystal  Springs-  Accommodations;  table  first  class.  J. 
A.  Redemeyer  &  Co..  Props. 


PARK   HOUSE  and    COTTAGES 

BEN  LOMOND.  CAL. 
New    management.      An    ideal    resort,    unsurpassed    climate 
drives,   fishing  and  hunii-^. 
Two  hours  ride   to    Big    Basin.     Modern   prices. 

J.    D.    CELLA,    Prop. 


DUNCAN 

OPEN  May  15.     Two 


SPRINGS 

nilcs  from  Hopland.  Fine 
medicinal  waters.  Hard  finished  hotel.  Excellent 
table.  Rates  $10  to  $12  per  week. 


Spend  Your  Vacation 

A  great  many  San  Francisco  people  are  planning  to  spend 
the  entire  summer  at  Hotel  Del  Monte.  No  other  resort  In 
California  offers  such  a  com  bi  nation  of  attractions,  sea-bathir  g, 
golf,  automobiling,  tennis,  fishing  and  all  out  of  door  sports. 
Instead  of  going  from  p'ace  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the  wise 
ones  of  society  are  planning  alrea  jy  to  put  in  several  enjoyable 
weeks  down  at  Del  Monte  by  the  Sea.    Address 

Geo.  P.  Snell,  Manager,  Del  Monte,  California. 

At  Hotel  Del  Monte 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN   JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS.     Prop. 


Paraiso    Springs 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  \Y.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


BLUE  LAKES 

Boating,  Bathing  and  Fishing,  Music,  Mineral  Spring, 
Send  for  Pamphlet.O.Weisman,  Midlake  P.O.,  Lake  Co.,or  call 

on  A.  K.  Happersberger,  1104  MarKet  St.,  S.  F. 


BLITHEDALE 

MILL    VALLEY 

OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


Ocean  Villa  Hotel  and  Cottages 

On  the  cliffs  at  the  mouth  of  the  river.  Large,  magnificently 
wooded  grounds,  profusion  of  flowers,  croquet,  billiards, 
dancing  pavilion,  boating  and  bathing.  Row  boats  free  to 
guests.     For   particulars   address 

P.   V.   BERKA,   Santa   Cruz,    Phone   Black  256.   Free  bus. 


June  ii.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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OCIETY 


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NOON  IN  THE  WOODS. 

"Hush!"  said  the  pine  on  the  hill, 

And  all  of  them  listened  together — 
Listened  and  nodded  and  g  -till. 

Still  in  the  golden  weather — 
And  the  squirrel  who  fancied  he'd  something  to  do 

And  chattered  awhile  complaining, 
Felt  the  spell  of  the  silence  creep  over  him,  too, 

For  noon  in  the  woods  was  reigning. 

And  the  sunshine  slips  through  the  boughs, 
And  gold  is  the  place  of  its  falling. 
Id  where  the  wild  doves  murmur  and  drowse, 
And  gold  is  the  coo  of  their  calling. 

The  little  bright  eyes  arc  closed  in  sleep, 
And  hushed  is  the  sob  of  complaining, 

For  silence  broods,  as  it  broods  on  the  deep 
When  noon  in  the  woods  is  reigning. 

—Roland  Whittle. 

*  *  * 

Dear  Bessie:  The  wedding  of  Genevieve  Huntsman 
and  Harry  Williar  was  the  chief  event  of  the  week' 
in  town.  The  ceremony,  which  was  performed  by 
the  Reverend  Mr.  Clampett,  took  place  at  noon  0:1 
Wednesday  at  the  Huntsman  house  on  Sutter  street, 
which  was  fragrant  with  roses  and  sweet  peas  com- 
bined with  the  stately  palm,  and  Genevieve  looked 
lovely  in  her  bridal  gown  of  white  chiffon  cloth.  Her 
sister,  Mrs.  Kindlinberger,  in  pure  white,  was  her 
sole  attendant,  and  Dr.  Kindlinberger  officiated  as 
best  man  to  his  future  brother-in-law,  the  company 
being  mostly  the  relatives  of  both  bride  and  groom. 
August  3d  is  the  date  set  for  Stella  McCalla's  mar- 
riage to  William  Chapin,  and  the  wedding  is  to  come 
off  at  the  Navy  Yard,  so  we  shall  have  the  added 
pleasure  of  the  trip  up  and  home  again,  and  the  whole 
affair  promises  to  be  delightful.  Lily  will  be  her  sis- 
ter's maid  of  honor,  and  though  I  believe  it  is  not 
quite  decided,  I  hear  pink  is  to  be  the  color  scheme 
throughout.  It  seems  we  are  not  to  have  the  Mcin- 
tosh Menzies  wedding  in  California,  after  all,  but 
that  it  will  take  place  in  the  Adirondacks,  where  the 
Mclntoshes  are  at  present.  Mr.  Menzies  goes  on  in 
time  for  the  wedding,  which  is  set  for  the  7th  of  July, 
and  will  bring  his  bride  to  San  Rafael,  where  they 
will  spend  the  summer. 

What  a  hospitable  lot  are  the  wearers  of  the  but- 
tons !  By  that  I  mean  both  the  officers  and  the  ladies 
of  their  households,  and  especially  is  it  the  case  at 
the  Presidio.  Were  it  not  for  the  dwellers  there,  I 
do  not  know  what  we  should  do  for  a  dance  these 
days.  There  was  a  delightful  little  hop  given  by  the 
officers  of  the  10th  Infantry  last  Friday  night;  the 
28th  had  one  on  Wednesday  night,  and  last  night 
there  was  another,  at  which  the  Artillery  and  Cavalry 
were  hosts.  General  McArthur  had  a  grand  dress 
parade  of  all  the  troops  in  garrison  on  the  golf  links 
on  Tuesday,  and  perhaps  all  the  girls  left  in  town  aid 
not  put  in  an  appearance,  even  though  it  was  so  early 
in  the  morning!  But,  you  see,  there  is  very  little 
doing  at  present.  Theatre  parties  are  the  staple  form 
of  entertainment  just  now.  Maud  Adams  had  the 
lion's  share  of  them  last  week,  with  quite  a  number 
of  them  on  the  tapis  for  Sothern  and  Mrs.  Leslie  Car- 
ter next  week.  The  Harvey  girls  are  with  us  at  last, 
and  are  quite  equaling  expectations ;  they  have  al- 
ready been  dined  by  Emily  Wilson  and  lunched  by 


Gertrude  Smith,  and  been  over  at  San  Rafael  with 
their  aunt,  the  Baroness  von  Schroeder,  who  has  been 
killing  the  fatted  calf  for  them.  Emily  and  Charlotte 
Wilson  were  over,  too,  on  Saturday  and  Sunday,  as 
well  as  a  lot  of  others.  Bessie  Wilson's  luncheon 
was  a  dainty  affair,  at  which  a  dozen  girls  were  in- 
vited to  meet  Alice  Hcrrin,  who  is  here  on  her  vaca- 
tion, as  she  has,  I  hear,  decided  to  return  Fast  for 
another  term  at  school.  Agnes  Buchanan's  tea  last 
Friday  was  for  a  pretty  bride  from  Baltimore,  Hill  by 
name,  and  she  asked  all  her  friends  to  meet  her;  Ag- 
nes is  going  East  for  the  summer,  and  will  depart 
some  time  next  week. 

Out-of-town  parties  will  soon  increase  and  mul- 
tiply, in  fact  they  are  already  considered  the  correct 
thing,  and  those  who  are  asked  to  them  from  town 
enjoy  them  enthusiastically.  Laura  told  me  of  a 
lovely  little  luncheon  Mrs.  Osgood  Hooker  gave  eight 
or  ten  of  her  friends  at  Burlingame  last  week,  which 
was  followed  by  the  inevitable  bridge,  to  which  all 
her  guests  are  devoted.  And  our  young  bachelors 
are  bestirring  themselves  these  days  and  playing  host 
very  charmingly  at  a  series  of  house  parties.  Frank 
Whittier  is  the  latest  to  join  the  ranks,  which  includes 
Dick  Hotaling  and  Joe  Rosborough,  and  will  have 
several  of  them  at  the  Whittier  place  on  the  McCloud 
River  during  June  and  July.  I  hear  it  is  the  most 
fascinating  place  in  the  world  when  one  gets  there, 
but  the  trip  is  no  trifle.  Every  one  is  looking  forward 
with  more  than  usual  expectancy  to  August  at  Mon- 
terey this  year,  for  besides  the  polo  and  tennis  tour- 
naments, and  the  other  sports  which  are  then  the  at- 
traction of  the  hour/there  is  to  be  a  grand  encamp- 
ment of  the  military,  which  Aunt  Susie  says  will  re- 
call the  days  of  long  ago,  only  this  time  General  Mac- 
Arthur  and  his  whole  staff  will  be  in  camp,  as  well  as 
the  smaller  fry.  Can  you  think  of  anything  mora 
delightful?  The  Burton  Harrisons  will  probably 
be  here  about  that  time,  on  their  summer  visit  to 
California,  and  lots  of  others — Eastern  chiefly — are 
expected  to  prolong  their  trip  West  fr&m  the  St. 
Louis  Fair.  But  who  do  you  think  we  are  soon  likely 
to  gaze  upon  ?  As  you  would  never  guess  in  a  decade 
of  years,  I  will  have  pity  on  your  curiosity  and  say 


Only  the  best  taste  is  displayed  in  our 
comprehensive  collection  of 

Diamonds,    Pearls    and    Silverware 

FOE 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Santos-Dumont,  no  less — he  of  air-ship  fame,  as  well 
as  the  man  who  is  supposed  to  be  making-  Mrs. 
Spreckels'  life  miserable  on  account  of  Lurline,  who 
is  said  to  favor  his  suit. 

Apropos  of  Aunt  Susie,  she  waxed  quite  tender  in 
her  reminiscences  when  hearing  of  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Fred  Zeile,  "dear  little  Sophie  Smith,"  as  she  called 
her,  the  youngest  of  the  Smith  girls  who  were  so 
popular  in  her  young  days,  several  decades  ago. 
"First  went  Quica,  the  sweetest  and  best  beloved  of 
them  all;  then  Nonie  (Mrs.  Santa  Marina),  and  now 
Sophie!" 

Dr.  Arnold  Genthe  will  be  among  the  missing  in 
another  week,  as  he  has  decided  on  a  trip  to  the 
Fatherland,  instead  of  spending  the  summer  in  a 
round  of  visits  among  his  California  friends;  the 
Henry  Duttons  are  not  going  away  so  soon  as  they 
intended,  and  it  will  be  nice  if  we  can  keep  them  over 
next  winter's  gaieties  :  thev  had  a  lovely  time  in  Yo- 
semite.  We  are  looking  for  the  Fred  Kohls  in  the 
near  future,  especially  the  bride,  who  has  the  reputa- 
tion of  being  very  charming  and  beautiful.  The  Mayo 
Newhalls  have  gone  for  the  summer  to  Burlingame, 
where  they  have  taken  the  Kruttschnitt  place,  and 
are.  I  hear,  to  entertain  extensively.  The  Gaston 
Ashes  are  at  their  San  Benito  ranch ;  Bessie  and 
Bernie  Wilson  are  going  to  snend  most  of  the  sum- 
mer between  Del  Monte  and  Tahoe ;  Bernie  Landers 
Tohnston  has  been  up  from  Los  Angeles  on  a  visit 
to  her  mother,  and  is  looking  fine;  Ella  Morgan-  is 
down  at  Del  Monte  with  Flora  Low,  who,  with  her 
mother,  is  as  usual  there  for  the  summer;  the  Lows 
iust  dote  on  Del  Monte.  Jim  Coleman  has  departed 
on  one  of  his  yachting  trips  on  the  Aggie,  going  first 
to  Santa  Cruz,  then  further  south  along  the  Coast, 
and  finallv  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  expecting  to  be 
away  all  summer.  The  Charlev  Baldwins  are  back 
in  California  again — Mrs.  Baldwin  much  improved  in 
health — and  will  remain  here  some  time,  anyhow. 
Thev  are  at  Mountain  View,  and  Toe  Loughborough 
is  home  again,  after  her  wanderings  in  foreien  lands. 
Jennie  had  a  letter  the  other  day  from  Edith  Bull. 
who,  with  Maie  and  Kathleen,  are  enjoving  Italy 
to  their  heart's  content,  and  expect  to  he  there  for 
a  while;  the  other  Bulls — Terome  and  his  wife — are 
here  for  the  summer,  which  thev  will  spend  at  Santa 
Cruz  with  Mrs.  Jarboe. 

Constance  Borrowe  is  ening  to  Pacific  Grove  for 
the  summer;  Gcorgie  Speikcr  leaves  next  week  for 
a  month's  outing  in  the  Yellowstone  Park  region — 
M rs.  Sneiker  goes  too :  Beatrice  Fife  is  bound  for 
Santa  Barbara  to  olav  tennis.  I  understand  we  are 
not  to  have  Mrs.  Clover  with  us  all  summer,  dearlv 
as  she  loves  her  Nana  home,  but  that  she  and  her  two 
drmsrhters  are  sroinsr  to  Tanan  next  month,  where  thev 
will  make  a  stav  of  some  duration,  and  he  here  but 
a  short  time  when  they  return. 

Agnes  Partridsre  apparently  thinks  notbine  of  trin- 
piner  across  the  broad  Pacific,  for  she  is  here  aeain, 
making  her  third  round  vovage  within  a  vear.  She 
and  Bishop  Partridge  arrived  durine  the  week  and 
are  with  the  Simpsons  at  their  home  on  Vallejo  street 
for  a  visit  before  eoing  on  East :  and  "Brother  Torn" 
and  Mrs.  Hemnhill  are  home  a^ain  from  their  trip 
to  Australia,  arriving  last  Monday.  Gertrude  Dut- 
ton  and  Maylita  Pease  have  eone  to  Yosemite  for  a 
month's  camp,  and  Kate  Dillon  eave  them  a  Dink 
dinner  on  Monday  night  as  a  sort  of  adieu  ;  and  I  must 
not  forsret  to  tell  you  that  the  new  Senuoia  Club  had 
its  first  full-dress,  I  suppose  vou  might  call  it,  recep- 
tion at  the  St.  Francis  on  Tuesday  night. 

—Elsie. 


June  ii,  1904. 

BIRTHS. 

May  19th — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  A.  Vail,  a  daugh- 
ter. 
Recently  in  Kofa,  .Arizona,  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 

Stockton  Pope,  a  son. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 
Miss  Mary  Sullivan  to  Oscar  Sutro. 
Miss  Anna  L.  Wells,  daughter  of  Doctor  and  Mrs. 

William  M.  Lawler,  to  Charles  de  St.  Maurice, 

of  Colusa. 

WEDDINGS. 
June  8th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Genevieve  Huntsman, 

daughter  of  Mrs.  George  H.  Huntsman,  to  Henry 

Williar,  834  Sutter  street,  noon. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
July  1 8th   (Monday) — Miss  Edith  Shorbe,  daughter 

of  Mrs.  Susan  Wilson  Shorbe,  to  James  Steele 

of  Sacramento. 
August     3d     (Wednesday) — Miss     Stella     McCalla, 

daughter  of  Admiral  Bowman  McCalla,  U.  S.  N.. 

and  Mrs.  McCalla,  to  William   Chapin.     Navy 

Yard,  Mare  Island. 
Dr.  O.  N.  Orlow  will  lecture  at  upper  Golden  Gate 
Hall  Sunday  evening  at  8  o'clock  on  "Religion  and 
Customs  of  Thibet,"  from  personal  observation.  Dr. 
Orlow  is  familiar  with  the  English  Expedition  route 
of  upper  India,  and  will  give  an  instructive  and  enter- 
taining description  of  that  country. 

Rev.  John  Hemphill  and  his  wife  have  just  returned 
from  Sydney,  Australia.  An  elaborate  reception  was 
tendered  them  at  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church  last 
Wednesday  evening.  They  were  royally  received  in 
Australia,  and  although  strangers  there,  nearly  1,000 
people  bade  the  doctor  and  his  wife  good-bye  at  the 
dock  when  they  sailed  for  America. 

Arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during  week  ending 
Tuesday.  June  7,  1904:  Mrs.  Charles  Ballin,  Joseph 
Heyman,  Miss  R.  Abel,  Miss  R.  Heyman,  Mrs.  E.  A. 
McBryde,  Miss  Gwin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gwin,  Mrs.  E. 
Lyons,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  W.  Tetlev.  Alfred  J.  Rich. 
Jr..  David  Rich,  A.  T.  Rich.  E.  T.  Vogel,  Mr.  Lyons. 
Miss  Edith  W.  Sonntag,  Mrs.  H.  P.  Sonntag,  F.  B. 
Wooten,  Mr.  and  Miss  Richardson,  Mr.  M.  Fleish- 
hacker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  D.  Rosenbaum,  Elsa  Rosen- 
baum,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  C.  Scheeland.  Mrs.  M.  P. 
Tanes,  Mrs.  W.  T-  Somers.  Miss  E.  T.  Wilson,  Miss 
Charlotte  Wilson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  D.  Baldwin.  S.  J. 
Hirshman,  Mrs.  Alexander  Forbes  and  maid,  Sidney 
T.  Sallsburry,  Mrs.  T.  M.  Purrington,  Miss  Purring- 
ton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Davis,  C.  Clerc,  C.  P.  Sanders 


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and  valet,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Roth.  Mr.  and  Mrs 
William  Haas  ami  maid,  James  L.  .r.izicr,  Mr.  II  I  . 
Hawkins.  Miss  Emily  Hawkins,  Mrs.  Graham  Bab- 
cock,  Mi-  Vvnitman,  Mr~    1 

A.  Blasddl,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Hefferman,  W.  n4. 
Budingcr,  A.  Lipman,  Miss  Lena  Hillikcr. 

The  concert  by  the  Berkeley  Quartette  at  Hotel 
Rafael  on   Friday,  June  3d,  was  thoroughly  in 
by  a  large  number  of  guests. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Kugeler  entertained  Miss  Rj 
of  I'alo  Alto  and  Miss  Corrs  of  Golden,  Colorado,  in 
an  automobile  ride  to  Palo  Alto  and  return.  1  )r, 
Kugeler  reports  a  very  delightful  ride,  with  but  little 
excitement  on  the  way.  They  had  a  race  with  an- 
other car,  in  which  Dr.  Kugeler  and  his  party  won. 


BUNKER  HILL  DAY. 

On  Friday  of  next  week,  June  17th,  special  trains 
will  leave  Third  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco, at  8:30  a.  m.  for  Los  Gatos,  where  exercises 
will  be  held  in  honor  of  the  129th  anniversary  of  the 
Battle  of  Bunker  hin. 

'1  he  Board  of  Trade  of  Los  Gatos  and  various  mili- 
tary and  fraternal  organizations  of  that  place  will 
meet  the  excursionists  on  arrival  of  trains,  and  con- 
duct them  to  the  park  where  the  exercises  will  be 
held. 

Mr.  Arthur  Cunninfe.iam,  distinguished  baritone, 
kindly  consented  to  deliver  the  oration.  Mr.  Hart 
has  the  reputation  of  being  a  most  brilliant  and  pol- 
ished speaker. 

Mr.  Arthur  Cunningham,  the  distinguished  bariton, 
has  consented  to  sing  his  favorite  song,  "My  Own 
United  States,"  and  Mr.  Alfred  Wilkie  will  sing 
again  "The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill."  The  "Star  Span- 
gled Banner"  and  "The  Marseillaise"  will  be  sung  by 
other  artists. 

No  pains  will  be  spared  by  the  committee  to  make 
the  day  honored  as  it  should  be.  During  the  after- 
noon games,  races  and  dancing  will  afford  amuse- 
ment for  the  young  and  others.  It  is  owing  to  the 
efforts  of  Bunker  Hill  Association  that  the  17th  of 
June  is  becoming  a  day  of  patriotic  demonstration. 

For  the  convenience  of  the  Oakland  and  Alameda 
contingent,  a  special  train  will  leave  14th  and  Web- 
ster street  at  8:15  a.  in.,  and  Park  street  station  at 
8:45  a.  m.  respectively,  connecting  with  the  Los  Gatos 
train  at  the  mole.  Round-trip  tickets  at  $1  each  may 
be  procured  at  the  depots  on  the  morning  of  the 
excursion,  or  from  the  secretaries  of  the  various 
societies. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  hair-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


- — One  goes  naturally  to  Swain's  20!)  P.tst  street,  for  a  good  lunehpon. 
There  is  nothing  in  town  that  can  compare  with  thisplace  as  a  place 
of  rest  and  refreshment  after  the  toils  of  shopping.  They  are  always 
ready  to  deliver  ice-cream  and  pastry— always  the  best,  and  their 
promptness  can  be  depended  upon. 


The  latest  and  bestdirectory  published,  is  the  Sen  Francisco  Office 
Building  and  Business  Directory.  For  sale  at  320  Sansome  St..  Price 
*1.60.    Tel.  James  66%.  or  send  postal. 


Wedding  and  Birthday  pre-entsin  great  variety  at  Gump'8,113  Geary  St. 


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MARTIN  BRAUN,  MASSEUR 

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THE    WENBAN 

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SALMON    FIbHING    AT    MONTEREY. 


This  is  salmon  fishing  linn-  in  Monterey   Bay,  and 

many  fishermen  who  enjoy  this  exciting  spurt  arc 
at  Hotel  del  Mont.-.  Here  is  a  novel  vacation  <>itcr- 
i ntr  a  peculiar  combination  of  attractions.    Th< 

mon  fisherman  may  have  his  wife  and  family  at  the 
hotel  in  the  enjoyment  of  every  comfort,  while  he 
spends  his  days  in  angling  luxury  on  the  bay.  Already 
many  have  taken  advantage  of  this  chance  for  an 
outing,  and  others  are  planning  the  trip.  Del  Monte 
is  mure  popular  than  ever  this  season  with  golf,  DOW  I 
ing,  tennis,  automobiling,  riding,  driving  and  fishing 
as  the  chief  allurements. 


Mr.  Swanton,  chairman  of  the  energetic  civic  insti- 
tution known  as  the  "New  Santa  Cruz  Committee,' 
announces  that  on  June  nth,  Saturday,  there  is  to 
be  a  dedication  of  the  "Neptune  Casino  and  Santa 
Cruz  cottage  and  lent  City,"  and  the  programme 
includes  a  parade  and  a  general  jollification.  We  can 
easilv  believe  Mr.  Swanton  and  the  members  of  tin' 
committee.  Santa  Cruz  always  docs  things  well. 
Never  was  a  convention  handled  in  better  shape  than 
was  the  Democratic  affair  at  Santa  Cruz  recently. 
Any  one  in  search  of  a  great  time,  with  plenty  of  en- 
joyment, had  better  go  to  Santa  Cruz  during  the 
season  that  will  be  inaugurated  on  June  nth. 

A  SHin  of  Beauty  is  a  Joy  Forever. 

DR.    T.    FELIX    GOUKAUD'S    ORIENTAL    CREAM 
OR  MAGICAL  BEAUTIFIER. 

|2  Removes  Tan,   Pimples.   Freck- 

les, Moth  Patches,  Rash  and 
Skin  Diseases,  and  every  blem- 
ish on  beauty,  and  defies  detec- 
tion. It  has  stood  the  test  of 
Bfi  years  and  is  so  harmless  we 
taste  it  to  be  sure  it  is  properly 
made.  Accept  no  counterfeit  of 
similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut  ton 
(a  patient):  "As  you  ladles  will 
use  them,  I  recommend  'Gour- 
aud's  Cream'  as  the  least  harm- 
ful of  all  the  skin  preparations." 
For  sale  by  .all  druggists  and 
fancy-goods  dealers  in  the 
United  States,  Canadas  and  Eu- 
rope. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


THE   LOOKER-ON 


Have  you  heard  the  latest  story 

Of  the  poor,  perplexed  physician, 
Who  escaped  with   more  than   glory 

From  a  compromised  position? 
The  lady  drank  carbolic, 

The   physician   tooK   his   pump, 
He  cured  the  lady's  colic, 

But  she  had  him  on  the  jump. 

For  she  said  unless  he  married  her 

She  never  would  get  better, 
And  the  silly  doctor  tarried  there 

And  wore  the  golden  fetter. 
But  the  doctor  knows  a  thing  or  two, 

He  learnt  what  legal  pull  meant, 
He  took  the  means  to  bring  her  to, 

And  then  he  got  annullment. 

*  *  * 

When  Mike  Tarpey  and  Jim  Budd  lost  their  tem- 
pers, and  nearly  came  to  blows  in  the  Palace  Grill 
last  week,  the  inner  mysteries  of  the  Hearst  campaign 
came  closer  to  exposure  than  either  gentleman  de- 
sired. From  the  standpoint  of  the  seeker  after  truth, 
it  is  to  be  regretted  that  Tarpey  did  not  land  his 
heavy  right  upon  the  jaw  of  the  politician  from  Stock- 
ton, for  then  Budd,  in  self-defense,  might  have  been 
wrought  to  such  a  pitch  that  in  his  anger  he  would 
have  blurted  out  more  than  a  mere  intimation  of  the 
use  of  a  sack  at  Santa  Cruz.  Bad  blood  between  the 
two  men  has  existed  ever  since  Tarpey  took  charge 
of  the  Hearst  campaign. 

Tarpey's  mistrust  ot  Budd  may  have  had  its  origin 
prior  to  Lane's  campaign  for  Governor,  but  Budd's 
attitude  in  that  fight  did  much  to  confirm  in  Tarpey's 
mind  any  misgivings  he  might  have  had  about  the 
former  Governor.  While  Tarpey  may  not  have  been 
for  Lane,  he  had  his  own  views  of  the  men  who  ac- 
cepted positions  upon  the  Democratic  State  Central 
Committee,  and  then  knifed  the  party's  nominee.  It 
is  a  matter  of  public  knowledge  that  some  of  Budd's 
political  intimates,  placed  upon  the  State  Central 
Committee  by  Barney  Murphy,  were  out  publicly 
against  Lane,  and  yet  had  the  hardihood  to  remain 
upon  the  committee.  Tarpey  considered  this  treach- 
ery, and  did  not  hesitate  to  say  so.  'i'o  his  mind, 
such  conduct  was  unbecoming  a  gentleman.  When 
he  assumed  the  management  of  the  Hearst  campaign, 
he  decided  to  place  no  reliance  upon  those  who  had 
already  shown  themselves  unworthy  of  trust  in  the 
Gubernatorial  campaign.  Budd,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, discovered  urgent  business  in  Texas  and  other 
places,  as  soon  as  Tarpey  took  command.  The  meet- 
ing at  the  Palace  the  other  day  was  one  of  the  first 
public  occasions  when  the  two  men  have  come  to- 
gether since  the  Santa  Cruz  Convention.  Had  it 
not  been  for  the  interference  of  others,  Tarpey  would 
certainly  have  landed  heavily  on  Budd  before  the 
latter  could  run  away.  But  the  end  is  not  yet.  After 
Hearst's  hopes  are  buried  at  St.  Louis,  Budd  will  be- 
gin blustering  again.  He  will  tell  how  much  better 
he  could  have  done  than  Tarpey,  and  if  he  only  talks 
long  enough  and  loud  enough,  the  probabilities  are 
good  for  the  relation  of  the  inner  history  of  the 
Hearst  campaign  on  the  Coast. 

*  *  * 

From  a  little  tin  box  in  a  street  car,  I  took  yester- 
day a  copy  of  a  small  paper  called  "Transit  Tidings," 
issued  by  the  United  Railroads.  Though  it  was  evi- 
dently the  third  issue  of  the  little  paper,  it  was  the 
first  copy  I  had  seen.     It  impressed  me  very  favor- 


ably, for  I  gained  from  it  the  idea  that  the  United 
Railroads,  by  its  publication,  is  endeavoring  to  win 
friends  for  the  road  by  putting  the  people  and  the 
corporation  on  "speaking  terms,"  as  it  were.  The 
"Tidings"  makes  honorable  mention  of  two  cool- 
headed  motor  men  who,  by  acting  promptly,  saved 
the  lives  of  two  children  who  were  knocked  down  ,.y 
cars ;  it  has  letters  from  citizens  giving  suggestions 
for  the  betterment  of  the  car  service,  and  in  other 
ways  it  endeavors  to  awaken  among  the  people  a 
kindlv  interest  in  the  road  and  its  affairs.  It  says  its 
mission  is  one  of  peace,  and  that  it  wishes  to  bring 
about  the  kindliest  relations  between  the  carmen  and 
the  public,  and  to  minimize  friction.  Other  public 
service  corporations  should  find  a  valuable  hint  in  this 
endeavor  of  the  United  Railroads  to  communicate  di- 
rectly with  the  people,  without  the  assistance  of 
walking  delegates  or  other  professional  agitators. 

*  *  * 

I  noticed  this  on  the  7  130  a.  m.  trip  of  a  McAllister 
street  car  Tuesday.  I  also  noticed  that  a  "green" 
gripman  was  being  "broke  in"  on  this  very  same  car. 
Women  and  men  alike  were  holding  on  to  straps 
that  they  might  not  be  thrown  from  the  car.  A  De- 
visadero  street  car,  a  water  wagon  and  several  pedes- 
trians escaped  injury  by  the  timely  intervention  of 
the  instructor  behind  the  student. 

It  occurs  to  me  that  apprentices  should  never  be 
allowed  to  practice  on  a  car  while  running  on  Mar- 
ket street,  much  less  while  the  cars  are  crowded. 
Suburban  lines  should  be  selected  for  this  purpose. 

(Editor  Tidings,  please  notice.) 

*  *  * 

The  Transportation  Club  promises  to  be  one  of 
the  best  good-fellowship  clubs  in  town.  Ever  since 
the  offices  of  the  Eastern  roads  concentrated  in  the 
Palace  Hotel  block,  the  local  railroad  men  have 
yearned  for  a  club  of  their  own.  Now,  they  have 
temporary  quarters  at  the  Palace,  and  there  they 
received  their  friends  last  Saturday.  The  club  expects 
to  move  into  the  present  Pacific-Union  club-house 
about  Christmas  next.  That  occasion  will  be  a  mem- 
orable one  in  local  clubdom,  for  these  railroad  men 
have  a  way  of  their  own  in  entertaining  guests  that 
may  well  be  the  despair  of  others  not  so  well  versed 
in  the  methods  of  making  a  visitor  feel  that  the  world 
and  all  it  contains  is  his  to  command.  There  are  now 
about  200  names  on  the  roll,  and  among  them  are  the 
names  of  the  leading  resident  general  agents  and 
traffic  representatives  of  Eastern  lines,  and  a  large 
number  of  the  general  officers  of  the  local  railroad 
and  steamship  companies. 

*  *  * 

The  withdrawal  of  the  name  of  Warren  Olney,  the 
well-known  lawyer,  who  is  Mayor  of  Oakland,  from 
the  membership  of  the  Pacific-Union,  has  caused  not 
a  little  talk  among  clubmen  and  Alameda  politicians. 
Olney's  sponsors  were  informed  that  if  they  pressed 


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June   ii.  1904. 

nidiilacy  for  membership,  he  would  be  black- 
bailed.    They  therefore  withdrew  bis  name.     It  was 

mly  thing  10  do.  As  Mayor  of  ( lakland,  Mr 
Olney  has  antagonized  some  powerful  interests,  the 

representatives  of  which  have  determined  t<>  prevent 
'.ection  to  the  Post-street  club.    No  matter  what 
may  be  the  rights  or  the  wrongs  of  the  affair  In". 
Olney  and  his  opponent  is  regrettable  thai 

his  friends  should  not  nrst  have  canvassed  the  p 
bilitics  of  his  election  before  posting  his  name.      I  he 
necessity  of  withdrawal  gives  its  club  unnecessary 
iety,  and  extends  and  embitters  the  feud  between 

the  Olneyites  and  the  anti-i  llneyites. 

*  *  * 

With  John  McLaren.  Superintendent  of  Golden 
Park,  will  go  the  good  wishes  of  the  entire 
community  during  his  trip  abroad.  To  him,  mi  re 
than  to  any  other  man,  does  the  city  owe  its  magnifi- 
cent park.  His  genius  has  converted  the  sand-dunes 
into  a  pleasure  ground  than  which  none  in  America 
is  more  beautiful.  He  has  earned  his  vacation,  and 
his  friends  hope  it  will  be  of  great  benefit  not  only 
to  him  directly,  but  to  the  city  indirectly,  by  receiv- 
ing the  benefits  of  the  ideas  he  may  gather  among  the 
great  gardens  of  Europe.  The  1'ark  Commissioners 
appropriated  $1,000  to  pay  the  expenses  of  the  Super- 
intendent's trip.  While  no  one  begrudges  him  the 
money,  one  who  watches  public  affairs  cannot  help 
asking  by  what  authority  such  an  appropriation  was 
made.  Of  course,  it  is  against  the  law,  but  if,  as  it 
seems  to  be  justified  by  public  opinion,  no  one  will 
raise  a  forcible  objection.  Still,  it  is  a  dangerous  pre- 
cedent. Now,  suppose  the  Board  of  Fire  Commis- 
sioners should  give  Mr.  Parry  $1,000  to  assist  him  in 
observing  conditions  in  the  fire  departments  through- 
out the  East ;  or  suppose  the  School  Directors  should 
give  a  principal  $1,000  to  travel  in  Europe;  or  sup- 
pose the  Board  of  Works  should  give  its  President 
$1,000  to  spend  during  a  vacation  abroad — would 
the  citizens  quietly  acquiesce  in  this  appropriation 
of  public  funds?  Yet,  each  supposed  incident  would 
be  just  as  legal  as  the  act  of  the  Park  Commissioners. 

*  *  * 

The  mention  of  Mr.  Parry's  name  reminds  me  that 
some  one  has  been  trying  to  bribe  that  honest  official. 
Mr.  Parry  says  so  himself;  else,  I  would  not  even 
intimate  that  any  person  would  have  the  hardihood 
to  thus  insult  him.  Mr.  Parry  says  that  a  representa- 
tive of  a  firm  which  had  a  contract  to  furnish  supplies 
to  the  Fire  Commissioner  asked  him  what  was  nec- 
essary "to  do  business"  with  the  Commission.  Mr. 
Parry  immediately  repulsed  him.  Unfortunately  he 
does  not  know  the  name  of  the  insolent  fellow,  and 
more  unfortunately,  he  cannot  describe  him,  so  that 
he  may  be  arrested  and  sent  to  jail.  It  is  certainly 
outrageous  that  a  public  official  whose  reputation  is 
so  well  established  as  is  Mr.  Parry's  should  be  sub- 
jected to  the  insult  of  the  intimation  that  he  is  "doing 
business."  This  incident  shows  the  dangers  to  which 
honest  men,  like  Mr.  Parry,  are  subjected  in  public 
office.  His  friends  would  not  be  surprised  if  Mr. 
Parry  should  resign  from  the  Fire  Commission  while 
smarting  under  the  indignity  offered  him. 

*  *  * 

That  fellow,  Reuben  Wolf,  who  was  dismissed 
from  the  Police  Department  because,  as  a  policeman 
expressed  it,  "his  work  was  too  coarse,"  has  some 
commendable  features  in  his  roguish  make-up.  It  is 
said  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  somewhat  commend- 
able practice  of  "skinning"  policemen.  He  presented 
to  them  a  scheme  by  which,  he  assured  them,  they 
could  get  rich  even  quicker  than  they  can  with  their 
every-day  opportunities.    He  milked  them  for  a  few 


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months,    and    then    bis    scheme    exploded.      Bui    the 

duped  policemen  are  not  out  after  him  with  warrants. 

They  understood,  of  course,  that  under  his  scheme 

they  were  to  get  rich  at  the  expense  of  Other  people. 
So  they  have  voiced  no  complaints.  There  is  honor, 
you  know,  among — policemen. 

*  •   * 

Miss  Bessie  Allen  has  gained  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Philosophy  at  the  University  of  Chicago,  by  a 
brilliant  dissertation  on  "The  Psychology  of  the 
Guinea  Pig."  She  has  discovered  that  the  guinea 
pig  is  born  with  its  mental  faculties  well  developed. 
That  explains  why  the  guinea  pig  begins  making 
tracks  for  Porkopolis  as  soon  as  its  legs  get  strong 
enough.  It  knows  it  will  be  stall-fed  there,  and  be- 
come a  personage  of  interest  to  the  elect.  If  Miss 
Allen  will  now  issue  a  treatise  on  "The  Transforma 
tion  of  the  Pork  Chop,"  a  grateful  nation  will  rise 
up  and  confer  upon  her  the  degree  of  beatification. 

*  *  * 

Judge  Lawlor's  action  in  ordering  the  jurors  in  the 
Eppinger  case  into  the  custody  of  the  Sheriff  was  re- 
ceived with  mixed  emotions  by  bench  and  bar;  but 
the  men  most  directlv  affected,  the  jurors,  raised  a 
howl  that' will  be 'heard  these  many  days  wherever 
patriots  assemble  to  discuss  the  progress  of  their 
great  country.  It  is  presumed  that  Judge  Lawlor's 
order  was  predicated  upon  the  reported  experience 
of  at  least  one  of  the  jurors  in  the  Botkin  case,  and 
upon  the  difficulty  generally  experienced  by  the 
Judges  in  requiring  jurors  to  concentrate  their  atten- 
tion exclusively  on  the  questions  at  issue  in  the  trial 
of  a  criminal  charge.  The  Judge  acted  within  his  au- 
thority when  he  ordered  the  jurors  into  practical  im- 
prisonment, but  to  a  disinterested  observer  it  does 
seem  that  he  could  have  given  them  at  least  half  a 
day  within  which  to  arrange  for  the  transaction  of 
their  personal  business  before  making  them  wards  of 
the  Sheriff.  It  is  well  enough  to  enforce  the  law, 
to  the  end  that  jury  trials  shall  be  above  suspicion, 
but  there  is  hardly  any  occasion  for  the  harsh  meas- 
ures resorted  to  so  abruptly  by  Judge  Lawlor. 

*  *  * 

Extract  from  the  S.  F.  Examiner,  July  15,  1904. 

"A  pathetic  incident  happened  this  afternoon 
which  has  cast  a  gloom  over  a  heretofore  happy  office. 
Poor  Willie!  His  mind  has  shone  a  tendency  to  be- 
come unhinged — in  fact,  bug-house — and  the  end 
came  this  afternoon,  as  stated.  A  funny  little  black 
wagon  rumbled  up  to  the  door,  and  to  the  craning 
necks  sticking  out  of  up-stair  windows,  the  poor  chap 
chanted  the  following: 

I  am  a  maniac,  a  maniac  man, 
A  red-hot  maniac,  fresh  from  the  pan, 
And  the  moon,  yes,  the  moon,  I  am  going  to  soon, 
For  I  bought  it,  I  bought  it,  at  yesterday  noon. 
And  the  world  is  sad,  for  the  world  is  mad — 
Too  bad! 
And  a  step  from  the  moon  to  the  earth  far  above, 
Is  as  short,  short,  short  as  an  old  'maid's  love 
Who  is 

Mad! 
Mad!! 
Mad!!! 


Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all  druggists. 


Fine   stationery,    steel    and    copperplate    engraving.    Cooper 

&   Co.,  746  Market  street,   San    Francisco. 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hals  —Eugene  Korn,  7  26  Market  St., 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  Derbys,  soft  bats,  gent's  and 
ladles'  straws. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


©  ober  no  wand  but  Pleasure'*— Tom  Moore .( 
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jPLEASURE'S  WAND 


A   TRUSTY   TIP   ON   THINGS   THEATRICAL. 

UkANU— xueiuourue  AlauUowell— "A  Captain  ul  Navarre"  au  indill'er- 
entiy  welt  acted,  poorly  written  play. 

CbNTRAL,— 'i'lie  Meddler,  1111  enjoyable  drama. 

FIScntK'S— "U.  s."  crowded  houses  and  a  trreat  success,  scenically  and 
muaictaiiy. 

T1VUU— "(Sergeant  Kilty."  a  lair  performance. 

UWatLM— \  audevuie,  one  ul  Uw  best  ul  this  year's  programs- 

ALLA4AK— Aline  pel lolmauce  ol  "Under  I'WO  l'lags-"  Adele  Block 
scui'es  sensational  success. 

CULbMoiA— Claude   Adams,  crowded  houses.  "Little  Minister." 

dibits— An  exceptionally  good  tiiealrical  bill.  i\ew  attractions  in  Zoo 
*   *    * 

Melbourne  MacDowell  may  thank  his  lucky  stars 
that  the  bardou  plays  preceded  the  production  of  '"A 
Captain  ol  Navarre." 

The  play  is  a  wonderful  example  of  how  a  play 
should  not  be  constructed.  It  strikes  one  as  having 
been  cut  to  such  an  extent  that  only  the  shreds  01 
the  original  remain.  MacDowell  does  not  show  up 
to  any  advantage  in  this  play,  and  the  only  artistic 
work  is  by  Miss  Fuller.  Her  Duchesse  D'Armenon- 
ville  is  very  well  done.  Miss  Fuller  was  still  surter- 
ing  from  a  cold,  and  it  was  with  difficulty  that  she 
carried  out  her  part.  The  Hector  de  Savigny  of 
Mr.  Griffiths  was  remarkable  for  the  unintelligible 
mouthing  of  the  words  of  the  author.  This  was  prob- 
ably just  as  well.  Judging  by  what  the  others  had 
to  say,  his  lines  could  not  have  been  of  any  very 
great  importance. 

Mr.  Robert  Elliot's  rendition  of  that  peripatetic 
drunk,  "Annibal  Locust,"  must  have  given  that 
actor  great  joy,  for  it  enabled  him  to  swallow  his 
words  in  a  most  fascinating  manner.  He  has  the 
mumbling  gallop  habit  in  conversation,  and  it  is  with 
a  sigh  of  relief  that  one  turns  to  the  loud  bombast 
of  MacDowell.  The  rest  of  the  company  was  below 
mediocrity  in  "A   Captain  of  Navarre." 

By  a  freak  of  the  stage  management,  the  scenery 
of  the  third  act,  which  is  advertised  as  "The  Grande 
Esplanade  of  the  Louvre,"  is  a  by-street  in  any  old 
town  in  Holland. 

*  *  * 

"Sergeant  Kitty"  at  the  Tivoli  lias  been  drawing 
fair  houses  through  the  week,  and  as  the  opera  is  full 
of  pretty  airs  it  is  likely  to  remain  with  us  some  time. 
Miss  Sefton  made  her  debut  in  San  Francisco  in  this 
opera,  and  it  is  with  regret  that  I  have  to  record  that 
Miss  Sefton  was  in  a  blue  funk  and  not  herself.  1 
ask  that  judgment  be  suspended  on  the  little  lady. 
Why?  Because  it  is  only' fair.  She  appears  among 
a  lot  of  people  who  have  no  reason  to  love  her,  and 
besides,  she  is  better  looking  than  the  old  crew  at 
the  Eddy  street  house.  She  has  beautiful  shoulders, 
and  if  it  develops  that  she  can  really  truly  sing,  how 
thankful  we  will  be  after  the  torture  of  listening  to 
the  thin  and  the  fat  ladies  so  long. 

Ferris  Hartman  is  on  again  as  a  Captain  of  Hus- 
sars. He  looks  more  like  a  Christmas  tree  ornament 
than  anything  else  I  can  call  to  mind.  I  wish  he  would 
lose  his  voice,  and  never,  never  again  find  it.  I  would 
enjoy  Hartman  as  a  mute,  but  cannot  conceive  of 
him  as  anything  else,  and  enjoyable. 

Harking  back  to  Miss  Sefton,  it  occurs  to  me  that 
it  must  be  a  terrible  thing  to  land  among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Tivoli  Company.  Just  think  of  having  to 
face  Hartman  as  a  stage  manager,  and  then  there 
are  the  old  ladies  and  the  fat  women  and  the  very 
thin  ones.  I  can  imagine  their  eyes,  jealous,  envious 
eyes,  following  a  strange  young  thing  about  and  ill- 
wishing  her. 


The  best  show  of  the  week,  and  a  general  surprise 
to  everybody,  is  the  performance  of  "Under  Two 
Flags,"  with  Miss  Adele  Block  and  Durkin  in  the 
principal  roles.  This  play  could  very  easily  have 
stood  three  or  four  weeks'  performance. 

Miss  Adele  Block's  "Cigarette"  is  in  many  respects 
up  to  that  of  Blanche  Bates,  and  in  others  it  surpasses 
that  of  her  rival. 

Mr.  Durkin,  as  Bertie  Cecil,  is  as  usual  very  good, 
although  there  is  a  soupcon  of  too  much  reserve. 
Hilliard's  "Earl  of  Rockingham"  is  a  very  fine  per- 
formance, except  for  an  accentuation  of  manner- 
isms. There  is  a  bit  too  much  of  mustache  tugging 
and  the  peculiar  walk  is  exaggerated  too  much,  as  it 
finally  merges  into  a  caricature  and  not  a  portraiture. 
Miss  Starr's  "Silver  Pheasant"  is  a  very  good  piece 
of  work. 

The  "Cigarette"  of  Miss  Block  is  the  best  work 
this  good-looking  and  gifted  young  woman  has  done 
in  San  Francisco.  Only  once  there  is  a  slight  ten- 
dency to  rant.  Hot  passion  and  seductiveness  is  her 
forte,  and  she  does  it  well.  Durkin  is  a  good  foil, 
but  he  would  have  to  be  as  cold  as  the  proverbial 
"Greenland's,  icy  mountains"  to  withstand  the  pas- 
sionate and  tempestuous  plea  of  this  gray-eyed  and 
raven-haired  woman.  Miss  Block  may  consider  her 
"Cigarette"  one  of  this  season's  theatrical  triumphs. 
Scenically  the  play  is  superbly  put  on,  and  the  sand 
storm  scene  is  an  exceptional  novelty. 

*  *  » 

Speaking  of  stage-management,  all  the  local  thea- 
tres are  in  need  of  a  shake-up.  The  entire  mechani- 
cal force  should  have  attended  the  Anna  Held  and 
the  Mansfield  performances  to  study  the  real  thing. 
They  need  object  lessons. 

*  *  * 

The  Maud  Adams  engagement  continues  at  the 
Columbia  until  Sunday  night.  Artistically  consid- 
ered, this  engagement  may  be  said  to  be  a  great 
success.  lg>\ 

*  *  » 

At  the  Central,  "The  Peddler"  draws  the  usual 
enthusiastic  crowd. 

*  *  * 

Edna  Aug  continues  to  be  the  attraction  at  Fis- 
cher's.   This  little  woman  is  the  drawing  card  at  the 
popular  O'Farrell  street  house. 
»  *  * 

At  the  Chutes,  the  "Alfons,"  equilibrists  extraor- 
dinary, are  a  great  attraction. 

*  *  * 

The  Orpheum  has  a  better  show  this  week  than  it 
has  had  for  weeks  past,  and  the  house  is  crowded 
nightly.  There  are  six  big  new  acts,  and  the  applause 
has  been  generous  the  whole  week.  The  shapely 
Shattuck  has  not  lost  any  of  her  curves  or  popularity, 
and  her  singing  is  greatly  improved  since  the  last 
time  I  saw  her. 

*  *  * 

"Lover's  Lane"  is  to  close  the  regular  stock  season 
at  the  Alcazar,  and  the  clever  company  will  retire 
from  the  scene  of  action  for  a  brief  rest.  We  have 
come  to  look  upon  them  as  friends.  Conscientious 
friends  who  look  to  our  amusement.  Following  the 
retirement  of  the  stock  will  come  the  summer  engage- 
ment of  Mr.  White  Whittlesey.  He  will  open  with 
Augustus  Thomas's  dramatization  of  Richard  Hard- 
ing Davis's  "Soldiers  of  Fortune,"  on  June  27th. 


June  ii.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


bin  Hood"  is  111  preparation  at  the  Hvoli.  There 
will  be  an  exceptionally  strong  cast,  and  will  include 
such  artists  as  km  iron   p.cr- 

thold,  tenor;  Willard  Suns,  comedian;  and  John 
Dunsmuir,  basso.  Ihc  management  announces  that 
it  will  spare  no  pains  to  make  this  a  great  production. 

*  *  * 

The  next  burlesque  at  Fischer's  will  be  "The  Mor- 
mons," by  Judson  Brusie.  The  author  says  it  will 
excel  any  previous  effort  from  his  pen. 

Yorke  and  Adams,  AJ.  Fields  ami  Edwin  Clarke 
have  been  signed  (or  a  year  by  the  Fischer  manage- 
ment. 

*  *  * 

Russell  Brandow  and  Stella  Wiley,  colored  enter- 
tainers, will  make  their  first  appearance  at  the  Chutes 
this  coming  week.  Harry  Green,  a  singer  and  n 
logist  of  repute,  will  also  be  new,  and  Jones,  Sylves- 
ter and  Pringle,  the  "Imperials  of  Minstrelsy,"  will 
change  their  songs.  Richard  Walsh  and  Adele  Ligon 
will  continue  their  musical  eccentricity.  "The  Twenti- 
eth Century  Burglar  and  the  French  Soubrette,"  and 
Alfons,  the  European  equilibrist,  will  appear  for  his 
third  and  last  week.  Mildred  Manning,  the  singer 
of  illustrated  songs,  will  be  heard  in  new  selections, 
and  the  animatoscope  will  change  its  moving  pic- 
tures. 

Agoust,  Weston  &  Company,  comedv  jugglers,  wnl 
appear  at  the  Orpheum  this  coming  week.  Their 
work  is  said  to  be  funny  in  the  extreme,  and  their 
act  abounds  in  sensations.  The  comedian,  Eddie 
Heron,  supported  by  Madge  Douglass  and  Will  L. 
White,  will  make  his  first  vaudeville  appearance  in 
this  city.  His  introduction  will  be  Wilmer  &  Vin- 
cent's one-act  farce,  "A  Friend  of  the  Family."  The 
Romani  Trio,  from  Berlin,  will  present  a  musical 
act. 

*  *  * 

Henry  Miller  will  play  a  very  limited  season  this 
year  at  the  Columbia,  because  he  has  to  be  in  New 
York  as  soon  as  possible  in  order  to  organize  a  great 
company  for  a  stock  season  in  the  metropolis.  Miller 
is  to  head  the  company. 

*  *  * 

"Charlie's  Aunt,"  the  lady  "from  the  land  where 
the  nuts  come  from,"  will  be  put  on  at  the  Alcazar 
next  week.  This  is  the  Alcazar's  greatest  laughing 
success. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  comes  to  the  Grand  for  a  lim- 
ited engagement  commencing  next  Monday  night. 
She  will  present  Belasco's  new  play,  "Du  Barry." 
During  Mrs.  Carter's  engagement  she  will  play  two 
matinee  engagements,  on  Saturdays  and  Wednes- 
days. It  is  important  to  remember  that  during  the 
stay  ot  Mrs.  Carter  the  curtain  will  rise  promptly 
at  eight  o'clock  and  at  two  o'clock  at  the  afternoon 
performances. 

*  *  * 

"The  Proud  Prince,"  in  which  E.  H.  Sothern  will 
be  seen  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  commencing  next 
Monday  night,  has  proved  the  most  successful  play 
of  his  entire  career.  He  brings  en  tour  the  entire 
New  York  production  and  company.  Mr.  Sothern's 
presentation  of  the  play  is  even  more  pretentious  than 
any  he  has  ever  given  to  the  stage.  A  hundred  and 
fifty  people  take  part  in  the  performance. 

*  *  * 

At  the  Central  next  week  we  are  to  have  a  revival 
of  that  fascinating  American  drama,  "The  Octo- 
roon." The  company  at  the  Central  is  peculiarly 
adapted  for  such  a  performance,  and  the  stage  is  an 


ideal  one  for  the  production  of  this  plantation  play. 
We  look  for  crowded  houses  at  the  Central  next 
week. 


Columbia  Theatre.  "" 


3ortbOBi  Marx  A  Co, 

InM  mid  MftDtirert. 
Beginning  next  Honda?  night  June  13, 
Hatlnea  Saturday  only 

E.    H.    SOTHERN 
Management  Daniel  I'nmnian.  In  the  mltaele  play 
THE     PROUD     PRINCE 
Br  Justin  Huntly  McCarthy,  author  ot  "If  I  Were  King." 


(~)v* r-\t-\CM  ]  rr\       S*D  rranct.ro',  (5  rpntrHt  Mu.Ic  Hall. 

V-M  \J\  1CUI1J.     o'Farrcll   St..   bat* Mirekion   and   Toirnll  ilrrcla. 

Week  commencing  Sunday  mntinee.  June  12 

IDEAL  VAUDEVILLE 

Agoust.  West-n  and  Company;  Eddie  Herron  and  Company ; 
Roninni  Trio:  "Mike."  Foster's  Doe;  Tiuly  Shi.Umk;  Avon 
Comedy  Four;  Leah  Bussel;  Orpheuui  Motion  l'lctures  and  last 
week  of  Marcel's  Living  Art  Sludies. 

Regular  matinees  ever;  Wednesday.  Thursday  Saturdays  and 
Sunday.    Prices  10.  25  and  6"c 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Continued  and  uninterrupted  success  of 

"  u.   s." 

The  funnieBt  and  best  burlesque  and 

Tremendous  success  of  our 

"AllStai "  builesque  artists 

Read  the  names— they  excel  everything 

Edna  Aug.  (jiirrity  Sisterd,  Yorke  aud  Adams,  Al  Fields,  Edwin 

Clark,  Ben  DiJUm,  Roy  AJtou 

"G-in  Chorus1' of  rorty.    Fifty  specialties. 

See  the  "Eight  Radium  Girls",  Lionel  Lawrence's  great  novelty 

Nights -25.  50  ami  75e    Saturday  aud  Sunday  matinees,  25  and  5uc 

Children  at  matinees,  ^5  and  50c 


Alcazar  Theatre 


Belasco  &  Mayer,  Proprietors 
E.  D.  Price,  Geu'l.  filler,    lei.  Alcazar 
Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday. 
Monday.  June  13,  nne  week 
Ilia  AUazar's  greatest  laughing  success 

CHARLEY'S   AUNT 

The  funniest  farce  evei  written 

Evenings  2?>  to  75  •.    Matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday  25  to  50c 

Monday,  June  20th,  the  Clyde  Fitch  comedy 

LOVERS'    LflNE 

With  Annie  Mifflin  and  George  Osbourne  in  their  original  roles 
To  follow— Annual  summer  engagement  of  "While  'Whittlesey 


Cor\trn\    Tht&ntrf*         Belasco  &,  Mater.  Proprietors 
V-^iJLrUi      1  neULre.    Market  St  near  Eighth-Tel.  South  631 

Starting  Monday,  June  13 

Mammoth  production  of  the  greatest  of  all  American  Dramas 

THE   OCTOROON 

100— People  in  the  cast— 100 
40— Southern  negro  singers— 40 
Next— The  Lights  o'  Loudon. 
Prices  -Evenings  10  to  50c.    Matinees  10, 16.  ase- 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  °°rner EdUaTndstre8u 

Only  matinee  Saturday 

This  and  next  week,  the  military  comic  opera  triumph 

SERGEANT    KITTY 

In  preparation— the  Bostonians'  greatest  success 

ROBIN  HOOD 

First  time  anywhere  at  popular  prices,  25,  GO  and  75c 

GraQd  Opera  tiouse 

David  Belasco  presents 

MRS.   LESLIE  CARTER 


In  his  new  play 


DU  BARRY 


For  a  limited  engagement,  commencing  next  Monday  night 
Regular  matinee  Saturday,  special  matinee  Wednesday 
Seats  now  on  sale.    Prices  $2, 1.60,  $1,  76  and  50c 

flfter   the  Theater 

Go  wber*  the  crowd  (ou— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen    to    the   matchless    string    band   and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zlnkand   la   society's   gathering   place   after 
the   theatre  la  over. 


aa           f                                          SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.                                    June  n,  1904. 

BANKING.  J3he  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs 

Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  ^he  politicaI  and  diplo. 

capital  stock  paiIanTpP°.ra'e.d.J.an.ua.ry..a:..190^ j250.ooo.oo  Politics  and  Diplomacy     matic  aspects  of  the  Rus- 

^ct^sidJean"e8Ge°oBFGLyno„            ^5E,i£&£!,tL -<£X  in  Russia-                 sian-Japanese    war    have 

directors.  shifted  to  European  Rus- 

f.  w.  Dohrmann,  jr.;  George  d.  Gray.  f.  m.  Greenwood.  Jas.  sia,  and  are  centered  very  close  to  the  throne.     The 

OB.  Gunn.  Marshall  Hale,  G.  W.  Kline,  George  F.  Lyon,  George  __iv      i                ..   •            ,.               .1  •                            j        tu           „ 

m.  Mitchell,  Charles  c.  Moore,  Henry  t.  Scottrw.  f.  Williamson.  political  aspect  is  not  something  new  under  the  sun 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  has  opened  its  doors  for  a  gen-  in  statecraft.     We  have  had  lots  of  it  in  this  country 

eral  Savings  and  Loan  business  at  the  S.  W.  corner  Montgomery  m  tne  Dast      jt  :„  tnp  jntrip-ues  of  iinp-oes  to  discredit 

and  Bush  streets,   San  Francisco,   Cal..  May  2,  1304.  '"  ule  P<*sl.     «  «  tne  intrigues  01  jingoes  to  msereuii 

'  those  in  authority,  and  force  a  general  shaking  up  of 

San   FranciSCO   Savings    Union  the  official  Government.     In  Russia  it  is  unsparing 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.  San  Francisco.  criticism  of  the  conduct  of  the  war  both  in  St.  Peters- 

e.  b.  pond.  President;  w.  c.  b.  DeFREMERY,  Robert  burg  and  at  the  front.     A  feeling  against   General 

WATT.    Vice-Presidents;    LOVELL    WHITE,    Cashier;     R.     M.  v    6.       ,,  .      .         .                    ,      ,           .  °  ,,&     .      ..     .         , 

welch,  Assistant  cashier.  Kuropatkin  has  been  worked  up  in  Russia  that  only 

Directors— E.   B.  Pond,   W.   C   B.   DeFremery,  Henry  F.  Allen.  ,  vjrrnrv  r|,,t  ;<•  hpvnnrl  human  nn<;<;ihilitv  tn  arllirv  > 

George   C    Boardman.   Jacob   Barth.    C.    O.    G.    Miller,    Fred    H.  a  victory  tnat  IS  DeyonQ  numan  poSSiDlllty  to  aciucv. 

Beaver,  William  a.  Magee,  Rob?rt  watt.  would  reinstate  him  in  the  confidence  of  the  people. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.     Country  .       ,  .,  .     .     .,                                    .              .                           .,        r 

remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,   Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  And  this  IS  the  same  man  who,  Only  two  months  ago, 

of  reliable  parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsi-  |.f.    fnr    fi        frnnr    amirl    thp    nlanHits    nf    mnrp    than 

bility  of  this  Savings  Ban*  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  leIt    Ior    tne    iront    amiQ    tne    piauaitS    Ol    more    tlian 

ceipt  of  the  money.    The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  ioo.ooo.ooo  of  the   Czar's  subjects,   and  was  ever>'- 

company    the   first  deposit.     No   charge   is   made   for  pass   book  1           ,      •,     ,         .,                                       ■           r           1                      ■ 

or  entrance  fee.  where  hailed  as  the  greatest  warrior  of  modern  times. 

D^fts^D^em'btr  "£,  Vs  ^.^..^.^..^^.^Alm  He  failed  to  make  good  his  boastings,  and  his  enemies 

Guarantee  capital,  Paid-up i.ogo.090  are  crushing  him  beneath  the  iron  heel  of  other  aspir- 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds  899.516  .                   ,,°          ....                   .                 ..                    .,          .? 

ing  would-be  military  geniuses.     Many  another  Ge.i- 

Mutual   SaVinqS   BanK   of  s™  F«n,oi»o.  eral    even  in  America    has  gone  down  as  a  "never 

710  Market  St.   opposite  Third.  was      or  as  a    'has  been      under  the  fierCe  and  relcilt- 

Guarantee  Capital ti.ooo.ooo  less  fire  of  jealousy,  intrigue  and  criticism  far  in  the 

Paid-up   Capital   and   Surplus    600,01)0  -    .      i     ...     A'          r>    ,.  y               ,.1  •        1                 .  t   n 

james  d.  phelan,  President;  s.  g.  murphy,  vice-Presi-  rear  of  the  battle  line.     But  Kuropatkin  does  not  fall 

dent;  GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-  alonp       Fvprv   General   on   thp   Russian   side   is  ben" 

President;  C.  B.  HOBSoN,  Assistant  Cashier.  aione.     n\  ery   uenerai  on  tne   Russian  siue   is   ue.n„ 

Directors— James  d.  Phelan,  s.  g.  Murphy,  John  a.  Hooper,  torn   in   Russian   political  circles  as   if  by   raveiluus 

James    Moffitt,    Frank    J.    Sullivan,    Robert    McElroy,    Rudolph  ,                 .  ..       .     *,             ,              ,                            J          .     .     , 

Spreckeis.  James  M.  McDona.d,  Charles  Hoibrook.  wolves.     All  of   them   have   been   out-generaled   by 

Interest   paid   on   deposits.     Loans  on   approved   securities.  .   _  ,     j  u      lanr|  „„  ti.  "littlp  hrnwn  nacans  "  and  all 

Deposits  may  be  sent  on  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  sea  ana  Dy  lana  Dy  tne     little  Drown  pagans,     ana  ail 

exchange  on  city  banks. Russia  is  floundering  about  in  its  own  pool  of  humil- 

The  German  Savmqs  &  Loan  Society  ia'ion-    Even  pneral  Stoessei  at  Port  Arthur  from 

J                  "                                          J  whom  so  much  was  expected,  is  now  being  held  up 

no.  626  California  street,  san  Francisco.  as  worse  than  a  failure  because  all  Russia  now  admits 

Guarantee    Capital    and    Surplus    J2.423.751.60  ,           ,               .,_.,,          .,i         t~      t  •      j               1 

Capital  Actually  paid-up  in  cash  l.ooo.ooo.uo  that  the  nations  Gibraltar  in  the  rar  East  is  doome.l 

"SrS^tli^n^'SrZr  to  Pass,  With  all  its  vast  and  expensive  armament 

President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President.  H.  Horstmann;  out    Of    Russian    control.       r  rom    loud    boastings    and 

Ign.  Stelnhardt,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  uhlandt,  I.  N.  Wal-  i.|.-__4.   t„  „„»  „l„   _i,--„  »u„    !.,.-.,.,-„   «.,(•   ^,f    1W.,., 

ter  and  J.  w.  Van  Bergen.  threats  to  not  only  chase  the  Japanese  out  01  Alan- 

cashier.'  a.  h.  r   Schmidt;  Assistant  cashier,  wiiiiam  Herr-  churia  and  Korea  and  invade  Japan  as  locusts  swarm 

mann;    Secretary,    George    Tourny;    Assistant    Secretary,    A.    H.  ,                          :                        ,         ,                     ,                 •,• 

Muiier;  General  Attorney,  w.  s.  Goodteiiow.  and   devour,   and   to   utterly   destroy   their   military 

power,  Russia's  voice  has  weakened   to  a  whisper, 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association  and   in   a  whisper  she  asks:   "Can   Port  Arthur    je 

Established  in  1889.                                         of  California.  saved?"     If  Japan  has  surprised  the  world   by  her 

301  California  St,  San  Francisco,  Cai.  marvelous  military  genius,  Russia  has  no  less  si.r- 

fi^bi¥ap1^,^...::::v.::v.:v.::v.:::::::::::::::::::v.":,^?88M  prised  the  nations  by  a  painful  lack  of  it.  sun,  it  is 

PSereasfpaRdeSonV^  well   known   that   the   Russian    commanders   at   tie 

on  term  and  6  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  front  are  kept  in  tangles  all  the  time  by  the  bureau- 

Dr.   Washington   Dodge,   president;   William   Corbln,   Secretary        .         .    c.      rJ-t„_„K,r,™    ...1,„    U^-.,*,    ^f   t.n    flmo    K<>  ..-. 

and  General  Manager.  crats  at  bt.  Petersburg,  who  have  at  no  time  been 

— :    rr        :             ~ willing  that  any  man   should   return   from   the   Far 

International    Banking   Corporation  East  a  hero  and  the  people's  idol.     And  the  Czar? 

no.  1  wall  street,  new  York.  The  poor  weakling  is  molded  from  day  to  day  into 

capital  and  surplus j7.894.400  the  shape  that  best  suits  his  callers,  but  none  dare 

Capital  and   Surplus  Authorized    10,000,000.00  ,,  ,  .     v  .                ,     ,        ,             .         •    •         1  •      j-      1 

officers— Wiiiiam  l.  Moyer.  President;  Charles  d.  Palmer.  tell  him  the  truth  for  fear  of  gaining  his  displeasure. 

Assistant    to    President;    William    B.    Wlghtman.    Assistant    to  f  u;„    foor   «f   t,:c   i»,ratVi    rn.nps    (mm    a    cinrprp   hplipf 

President;   John   Hubbard,   Treasurer;   James  H.   Rogers,    Secre-  *  nls    tear   ot    his   wrath    comes    irom    a    Sincere    Deiiel 

tary;  John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun-  that  he  is  not  Only  Czar  by  the  grace  of  God,  but  is 

branches— London,  San  Francisco,  city  of  Mexico,  Manila,  the  personal  representative  of  Christ  on  earth.     Still 

^SSil'sI&SffiS^  Siacnu&?'  ST^Penang.    Rangoon.  he  fears  assassination   every  minute  of  his  waking 

Colombo,     Amoy,     Canton,    Hankow,    Tientsin,    Tansul,    Anplng.  hours 

Bakan,  Moji,   Saigon,  Kobe,   Bangkok,   Batavla,   Samarang,  Sou-  „,          ..    ,           ,.                             . 

rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe.  I  he     diplomatic     aspect    of 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH-32-34  Sansome  St  Tntrienipo    r>f    Puecia         ttip    Rneciati    !,„,„,„      war 

A  general  banking  business  iransacted.     Accounts  of  corpora-  intrigues   Ol    KuSSia.       the    KuSSian-J^ipanese     war 

tlons,  firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  as  developed  in  Russia    re- 

on  approved  securities.     Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  _                       ...             r                          .            v  .               .            '    . 

and  sold.     Travelers'   and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted.  fleets    conditions     tar     more    threatening       than       the 

available  in  any  part  of  the  world.    Interest  bearing  certiticates        .„u:_~  ^t   r-o^omle    of   tUa   f.nnt   V.-.r  !,„„,„    r,r,i;ti/-ol 

of  deposits  issued  for  fixed  periods,    interest  allowed  to  banks  crushing  of  Generals  at  the  tront  by  home  political 

on  current  daily  balances. .Special  rates 1  given  to  banks  keeping  intrigue.     Russian   diplomatists   have   for    centuries 

accounts    with    us,    and    drawing    direct    on    our    branches    and  &              .                          \  ...                    .               . 

agents  throughout  the  world.  been  conspicuous  for  ability,  cunning  and  persistence. 

fCeRbIckV  Man'ag'e?  1NVI£f §;  eastwick.  jr..  Asst.  Mgr.  but  never  before  were  they  confronted  by  a  loss  of 

; ~ : ^ r national  prestige.     And  not  only  that,  but  never  be- 

Secunty  oOVingS   DanK  fore  was  there  so  much  discontent  and  outspoken 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building.  ,.,.;,.;,.:,.,„    0f   t|lp    conduct   of   affairs   of   the    nation    bv 

INTEREST    PAID    ON    DEPOSITS.    LOANS    MADE.  criticism    01    tile    umuuu    ui    dlidiis    ui    uic    iiduun    u^ 

directors— wnuam  Aivord,  wiuiam  Babcock,  s.  l.  Abbott,  the  people.    Unfortunately  for  the  Government,  more 

cuicneon;  I^Pea!.. ^Kant^11  D'  C'ark'  E'  J'  Mc'  Russians  can  read  than  ever  before,  and  even  though 


June  II,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


they  Ho  not  pet  the  world's  happenings  until  after  t'c 
ipapcrs  have  been  re-edited  by  the  Government, 
they  arc  able  to  put  this  and  that  together  and  from 
that  they  have  been  grossly  deceived  concern- 
ing the  progress  of  the  war,  which,  together  with 
increasing  taxes  and  loss  of  confidence  in  the  integ- 
li  those  in  authority,  is  giving  birth  to  the  sort 
-eminent  that  usually  culminates  in  a  revolution. 
This  the  Czar  knows  and  feels,  and  he  knows,  too, 
that  exercising  his  autocratic  power  he  could  end  the 
war  by  a  stroke  of  his  pen,  but  autocrat  that  he  is. 
such  a  stroke  of  his  pen  would  mean  his  abdication 
as  the  next  act— or  assassination  bv  some  one  of  his 
own  oi.icial  household.  That  is  the  situation  as  far 
as  the  Czar  is  concerned,  but  the  diplomatist  and 
statesmen  do  not  want  him  to  end  the  war  by  conced- 
ing everything  to  the  Japanese.  They  do  not  want 
the  feeling  abroad  that  Russia  is  really  a  weak  nation 
to  spread,  and  they  do  want  to  give  the  people  some- 
thing that  will  turn  their  restlessness  and  distrust 
into  loyal  and  enthusiastic  support  of  the  Govern- 
ment's policy  at  home  and  abroad.  And  to  accom- 
plish all  that  they  are  resorting  to  all  kinds  of  tricks 
and  schemes  to  involve  the  other  nations  in  their 
war  in  the  Far  East.  They  expect  the  Anglo-Saxon 
nations  to  line  up  with  Japan,  but  France  is  uncer- 
tain. She  blows  hot  and  cold  as  to  aiding  Russia, 
but  is  pronounced  as  against  Japan.  It  is  surmised 
that  within  the  last  fortnight  France  and  England 
have  come  to  an  "understanding."  Germany  can  be 
relied  upon  at  any  moment,  Russia  well  knows,  but 
the  diplomatic  hints  that  the  tripartite  between  Ger- 
many, Italy  and  Austria  has  been  or  soon  will  be  an- 
nulled by  Italy,  weakens  Germany  as  an  ally  of  Rus- 
sia ;  besides  diplomatic  seed  sowers,  presumably  from 
London,  have  some  seeds  of  suspicion  in  St.  Peters- 
burg to  the  effect  that  the  Kaiser  is  playing  for  an  ex- 
cuse to  invade  the  Black  Sea  country  at  Russia's  ul- 
timate expense.  But  for  all  that,  Russia's  only  sal- 
vation at  home  and  in  the  Far  East  is  in  involving  all 
Europe  and  America  in  a  world  wide  war,  and  it  is 
almost  absolutely  necessary  for  Russia's  diplomatists 
to  accomplish  something  tangible  in  that  direction 
before  Port  Arthur  falls,  for  upon  its  fall  the  rotten- 
ness, the  imbecilitv  and  the  official  corruption  in 
Russia's  official  life  will  be  fully  exposed,  and  states- 
men the  world  over  have  doubts  of  the  ability  of  the 
authorities  to  turn  the  current  of  public  opinion  and 
avert  internal  conditions  that  might  be  far  more  dis- 
astrous to  Russia's  national  life  than  the  annihilation 
of  Kuropatkin  and  his  entire  army.  The  strength  of 
Russian  loyalty  and  patriotism  lies  largely  in  hither- 
to unshaken  faith  in  the  Czar's  divine  right  to  rule 
the  people,  and  in  his -infallibility  as  Christ's  repre- 
sentative on  earth,  and  it  will  be  a  sorry  day  for  the 
"White  Father"  when  the  people's  faith  is  destroyed 
by  blunders,  dishonesty  and.  stupidity  in  the  nation's 
"infallible  head."  "A  little  learning  is  a  dangerous 
thing,"  and  that  is  the  intellectual  condition  of  the 
Russian  masses.  All  this  the  Czar's  diplomatists 
know,  and  they  know  that  unless  they  can  involve 
the  nations  in  their  Far  East  troubles  a  constitutional 
monarchy  will  be  forced  upon  the  St.  Petersburg  Gov- 
ernment. Most  likely  it  all  will  culminate  in  the 
latter,  anyway,  for  London '  influences  seem  to  be 
dominating  throughout  the  diplomatic  world,  and 
Russian  autocracy  is  not  in  harmony  with  British 
commercialism  and  open  ports  for  English  merchant- 
men. In  other  words,  Russia's  future  at  home  and 
abroad  will  be,  if  it  has  not  already  been,  determined 
by  British  statesmen,  fully  seconded  by  the  Wash- 
ington Government.  Before  the  year  is  out,  even 
Germany  will  recognize  the  leadership  of  the  Anglo- 


;i  in  humanity's  inarch  toward  higher  levels  of 
civilization  under  tlie  llajj  of  free  schools  and  recip- 
rocal trade  relations  the  world  over. 


BANKING. 


Wells,Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Capital.  Surplus^  Undivided  }SI3,500,000 


Homer  S.   King.   President;   F.   L.   Llpman,   Cashier;   Frank   B. 
5?.g\  iK8?.'?.'.*,"'. Cashler:    Jn0-    E-    Miles.   Assistant   Cashier. 
BRANCHES— New  York;  Salt  Lake,   Utah;   Portland,   Ore. 
Correspondents  throughout  the  world.    General   banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


Toe  San  Francisco  Natiooal  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and  Pine  Sts.,   San   Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON,  Vice- 
President;  LEWIS  I.  COWG1LL,  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

_. Capital,  $500,000.    Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits,  $166,000. 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,  Vice-Prest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton,  President  Firemans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R.- 
Geo. A.  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict. 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhail  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K.  Wilson,  President. 

AGENTS— New  York:  Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  lujnunal  Buuk  Kansas  City— First  Natioual  Bank 
London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

Toe  Caoadiao  Barjk.  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate  Resources,   over  $80,000,000 
HON.  GEORGE  A.  COX,  President. 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 1>0    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW   YORK  OFFICE— 16  Exchange   Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlin,        Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,   Nanalmo,    Nelson, 
New  Westminster,  Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skaguay  (Alaska). 
Also     SO     other     Branches,    covering     the   principal    points    In 
Manitoba,   N.  W.   Territories,   and  Eastern  Canada. 
BANKERS   IN  LONDON— The  Bank  of  England,   the  Bank  of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,  Ltd. 
AGENTS   IN    CHICAGO— The  First  National   Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  OLREANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San  Francisco  Office— 

325  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  (American  Bank.LlullW 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND   SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed  Capital,  $2,500,000.  Paid-up  Capital,  (2,000,01)0 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000. 
Head  Office— 10  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissonlere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

S1G.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; It.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  f^rjglo-Calirornian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 
Capital    Authorized,    $6,000,000  Paid-up,    $1,500,000 

Subscribed,   $3,000,000  Reserve  Fund,  $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,   buys  and   sells  exchange  and  bullion. 

1GN.    STE1NHART,    P.    N.    LIL1ENTHAL,    Managers. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve 1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  Depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.  Investments  carefully  selected. 
Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  O.  A.  Hal*,  Vice- 
President;     H.    Brunner,  Cashier. 


H 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


PRACTICAL  CLUB  WOMEN. 

Well-directed  and  amiable  insistence  on  the  part 
of  the  practical  club  women  of  this,  as  well  as  other 
cities,  is  accomplishing  more  than  the  public  is  cog- 
nizant of,  and  is  accentuating  the  contention  that 
every  Government  has  considerable  "housekeeping" 
to  be  done,  and  that  women  can  do  it  better  than  men. 
One  of  the  best  recent  exemplifications  of  this  condi- 
tion of  affairs  was  recorded  at  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  California  Club,  when  yearly  reports  were  made 
and  passed  over  without  much  crowing  on  the  part 
of  the  members  who  have  brought  important  pro- 
jects to  successful  issues.  To  say  the  co-operation 
of  women  is  needed  in  the  city  or  any  Government 
is  no  reflection  upon  the  men.  They  simply  have 
not  time  to  attend  to  the  incalculable  number  of 
things  that  make  for  the  future  welfare  of  the  city 
and  its  citizens,  the  things  which  busy  people  "put 
off." 

All  of  which  is  apropos  of  the  modest  statement 
made  at  the  recent  annual  meeting  of  the  California 
Club  by  Dr.  Dorothea  Moore,  chairman  of  the  Juven- 
ile Court  Committee,  that  the  finance  committee  of 
the  Board  of  Supervisors  has  set  aside  $5,000  for  the 
maintenance  of  a  Detention  Home. 

About  eight  years  ago,  a  woman,  working  alone, 
a  Mrs.  Laura  Bates,  secured  a  number  of  important 
reforms,  notable  among  which  was  the  segregation 
in  the  Hall  of  Justice  of  the  men  and  women  crimi- 
nals and  the  girl  and  boy  offenders.     Since  that  time 
Dr.   Dorothea   Moore,  with   the  organization  of  the 
California  Club  back  of  her,  set  on  foot  the  move- 
ment that  resulted  in  the  establishment  of  the  Juven- 
ile Court,  which  will  do  more  for  the  saving  of  young 
citizens  than  any  influence  now  abroad  in  the  land. 
The  Juvenile  Court  cannot  do  its  best  work  without 
the  supplementary  Detention  Home,  a  place  where 
the   children  will   be'  kept  pending  trial.     The   law 
which  brought  the  Juvenile  Court  into  life  made  no 
provision  for  the  support  of  the  Juvenile  Court,  be- 
cause the  club  women  were  willing  to  assume  that 
responsibility,  to  leave  the  way  clear  for  the  passage 
of  the  bill,  and   to   keep   the   administration  of  the 
court  out  of  politics.    The  money  used  for  its  support 
is    raised    by   the    California    Club,    the    Associated 
Charities,  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty 
to  Children,  the  Youth's  Directory,  Boys  and  Girls' 
Aid  Society  and  the  Church  Home  for  Boys.    A  pro- 
vision of  the  law,  however,  says  that  the  city  shall 
provide  a  suitable  place  for  the  detention  of  the  de- 
linquent children.     When  the  representatives  of  the 
committee   representing  the   above-named   organiza- 
tions went  to  the  city  officials,  the  basement  of  the 
City    Hall   was   offered    for    a    Detention    Home — a 
place  long  ago  considered  unfit  and  unsanitary  for  a 
prison.     The  men  in  authority  saw  the  force  of  the 
argument  advanced,  and  straightway  made  the  neces- 
sary appropriation.    With  faith  in  getting  the  amount 
of  money  named  for  this  use,  the  committee  made  a 
successful  quest  for  a  house.     It  is  a  short  distance 
from  trie  City  Hall.    Another  department  of  the  club 
is  having  a  bill  drawn  up  that  will  be  presented  at  the 
next  session  of  the  Legislature  asking  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  State  sanitorium  for  early-stage  con- 
sumptives.    These  are  but  a  few  of  the  movements 
which  this  club  is  putting  forward. 

Side  by  side  with  this  is  the  endeavor  of  the  com- 
mittee of  society  women  who  have  an  informal  or- 
ganization for  the  help  of  the  City  and  County  Hos- 
pital. They  secured  an  additional  $5,000  for  stated 
necessities.  All  of  whicli  must  be  rather  interesting 
data  to  the  women  who  contend  that  they  will  never 
accomplish  anything  without  the  ballot. 


The  season  has  opened,  and  the  festive  stage  driver 
gets  in  his  work  on  the  tenderfoot  in  the  mountain 
resorts.  The  Skaggs  Springs  stage,  running  from 
Geyserville  to  Skaggs,  furnishes  an  example  of  the 
reckless  Jehu.  There  is  a  youth  of  tender  years 
handling  the  ribbons  over  the  fiery  steeds  who  con- 
vey pleasure  seekers  to  the  mountain  hostelry.  'J  ms 
boy  is  remarkable  for  the  ease  with  which  he  just 
misses  leaving  the  road,  and  at  times  he  succeeds 
in  giving  the  temporary  guests  in  his  conveyance  an 
excruciating  thrill  as  he  rounds  the  curves  on  the 
edge  of  a  precipice,  while  he  demurely  rolls  a  cigar- 
ette, meanwhile  holding  the  lines  between  his  knees. 
There  is  likely  to  be  a  dull,  sickening  discharge  when 
the  first  load  of  passengers  makes  its  complaint  about 
this  interesting  youth.  He  would  be  worth  hi* 
weight  in  gold  in  a  Wild  West  show,  but  as  driver 
.for  a  summer  resort  stage  he  is  not  a  monumental 
success. 


Eugene  Debs  should  be  immediately  arrested  for 
treason  and  inciting  to  rebellion,  and  his  telegram  to 
the  Western  Federation  of  Labor  should  be  used 
as  evidence  against  him 


For  Outdoor 
Sports 

We  have  the  best 

Sweaters,  Jerseys, 
Leggings,  Caps, 
Hats  a  Shoes 


Tennis,  Baseball  and 
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Our  Bathing  Suits  for  this  season 
excel  in  beauty  and  style  all  pre- 
vious efforts.  You  will  find  here 
the  largest  variety  and  the  BEST 
values  in : 

Women's  Suits  from.  ...$1.50  to  $25.00 

Girl's  Suits  from $1.25  to  $5.00 

Men's  Suits  from 75c  to  $8.00 

Boy's  Suits  from 50c  lo  $3.50 

And  a  Complete  Line  of 

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Bath  Robes,  Water  Wings 

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June  ii.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

T5he     Automobile 


«S 


CAMPING 


Mr.  R.  H,  Pease  is  ■  new  man  among  automobile 

He  took  a  ride  down  to  Hnyw.irds  h^t  Sun- 
in  his  White  Steamer,  which  he  is  already  han- 
dling like  a  veteran.  Amoncr  the  owners  of  White 
tourintr  cars,  who  made  the  trip  to  Monterey  on  the 
run  week  hefore  last,  were  Mr.  John  P.  Spreckels  in 
hi*  White  car  and  Miss  Grace  P.  Sprcckels  in  hers. 
Mr.  John   H.  Sprint:  took  hoth  of  his  White  car<  on 

this  trip. 

*  »  » 

The  following  physicians  are  using-  Pierce  cars 
in  their  practice:  Pr.  Ward.  Pierce  Arrow;  Pr.  Stin- 
BOn,  Pierce  Arrow:  Pr.  Kellev.  Pierce  Stanhope:  Pr. 
Rvkfogel.  Pierce  Stanhope.  The  Pierce  automobiles 
have  proven  themselves  to  he  the  ideal  car  for  phy- 
sicians' work. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  C.  Kirk-wood  of  San  Jose,  accompanied  by 
his  wife,  daughter  and  chauffeur,  drove  the  new  1914 
Winton  touring  car  from  San  Tosc  to  Pacific  Grove 
Saturday  night.  Notwithstanding  the  darkness,  thev 
left  San  Jose  at  eleven  p.  m..  and  arrived  in  Pacific 
Grove  at  four  a.  m.  Mr.  Kirkwood  took  a  run  over 
to  the  Hotel  Pel  Monte  Sunday  morning  and  re- 
mained there  most  of  the  day,  returning-  home  Sun- 
day evening-. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  W.  B.  Glidden  and  family  ran  down  to  San 
Tose  last  Sunday  in  their  White  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  E.  J.  Carpenter  purchased  a  Pierce  Arrow  tour- 
ing car.  and  made  his  initial  trip  to  Los  Angeles  on 

Sunday. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  G.  E.  Scates  of  Waterville.  Maine,  has  been 
visiting  San  Francisco  for  the  past  two  weeks.  While 
in  this  citv.  Mr.  Scates  purchased  a  Stevens-Puryea 
machine  from  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Company,  and 
in  company  with  his  wife,  left  here  last  Saturday 
morning  for  a  trip  across  the  Continent  in  his  new 

Puryea. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Robert  Louis  Stevens  left  for  San  Jose  and 
Santa  Cruz  last  Sunday  in  her  White  touring  car. 
She  expects  to  spend  some  little  time  in  Santa  Cruz 
and  make  numerous  short  runs  from  that  point  in 

her  car. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  W.  F.  Hunt,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and 
daughter,  made  a  trip  to  San  Tose  on  Sunday  last  in 
Mr.  Hunt's  new  Oldsmobile  light  tonneau  touring 
car.  This  machine' is  the  talk  of  the  town,  and  ad- 
mired by  all  who  see  it. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  E.  B.  Stone,  who  has  recently  purchased  a 
White  touring  car.  gave  a  barbecue  at  his  ranch  in 
Alameda  County  last  Sunday.  He  took  a  party  of 
friends  down  in  his  White  car,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Lowe  in 
his  White  Steamer  was  among  those  who  went  along 
to  the  feast.  Mr.  Lowe  also  took  his  gasoline  car, 
which  was  run  by  his  chauffeur.  Mr.  Pingley. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Heber  C.  Tilden  has  just  placed  an  order  for  a 
four-cylinder  Great  Arrow,  which  will  be  delivered 
about  the  1st  of  August. 

Orielnnl  rt^oianoin  menu  ami  tally  carus-    Charlotte  F.  Williams. 
Room  in.  121  Post  St. 


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on  short  1 

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COOL  HEADS 


IN  HOT 
WEATHER. 


A  FINE  LINE  OF  PANAMAS  FROM 
$5.00  TO  $15.00  AT 


Also  a  splendid  selection  of  stylish  STRAWS 
and  outing  HATS  and  CAPS. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Andes  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  pface  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California. 
Location  ©f.yrorks,  Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  county.  State  of 
Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
held  on  the  1st  day  of  June.  1004.  an  assessment  (No.  61)  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  nf  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin., to  the  secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  Company,  Rooms  21-22,  Nevada  Block.  No-  309  Montgomery  street 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  ^remain  unpaid  on 
THE  nth  DAY  OF  JULY.  *904, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale^at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before, wilt  be  sold  on  MONDAY, the  1st  day  of  August, 
1904,  to  ray  the  delinquent  assessment  together  with  costs  of  advertis- 
ing, and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  Order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

JOHN  "W.  TWIGGS.  Secretary. 

Office— Booms  21-22  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery,  street,  San 
Francisco.  California. 


HOTEL  VENDOME 


SAN    JOSE,    CAL 


New  Automobile  Garage 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


AN    ELECTRIC    FAN    MOTOR 

Will    Keep   You    Cool.    Write   For   Prices 
National  Electric  Co. 

455  Sutter  Street.  Telephone  Bush  689  ,'      San  Francisco 


Fancy  vests   at   cost,   see   window.    Tom   Dillon,    Hatter  Opp. 
Palace  Hotel. 


— PKOJIPT    SEEVICE 

(Hfitturg  Elprtrtr  CCompang 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Under  Grand  Hotel.    TEL.  BVSH  352 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


^K^k?c 


MODEL  H.    8  HORSE  POWER. 

Price,  $950 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.   l33c£*Ri"ou!. 


ST 


Phone  South  1U07 


THE     AX/TOCA'R 


AUTOCARS,  $1,850 
AUTOCAR  RUNABOUT,  $1,050 
LIGHT  TOURING  COLUMBIA  $1,900 
COLUMBIA  FOUR  CYLINDER  $4,000 

THERE    AltE    NO    AUTOMOBILES    BETTER 

WEST    COAST    MOTOR-CAR    CO. 

606  VAN  NESS  AVENUE        -         .        SAN  FRANCISCO 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

1904  Model 

Best    Automobile     at 

any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong— Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at— SUNSET    AVTOMOBILE    CO. 
1SI4  MARKET  STREET.  SAN  PRANCISCO 


The    CADILLAC 


MODEL  B.    Price  $950 
Willi  Tonncaii  $1050 


Record  from  Del 
Monte  to  Oakland  6 
hours  and  38  minutes. 
The  only  successful 
tour  of  the  Yosemite 
made  by  Major  Fulmer 
of  Los  Angeles  and  a 
party  of  three. 


CUYLER  LEE,  Agent.     201-203  Larkin  Street,  S.  F. 


I'.t  The  Act'icrakk 
The  Automobile  Club  of  California  is  making 
preparations  for  an  endurance  race  to  Los  Angeles 
and  return  to  take  place  during  the  first  part  of  July. 
This  proposition  seems  like  the  loss  of  good  time 
and  energy  on  the  part  of  the  officers  of  the  local 
club.  Nothing  can  be  gained  from  such  an  event.  It 
is  not  an  affair  that  should  be  taken  up  by  a  club 
with  a  personnel  such  as  that  of  the  Automobile  Club 
of  California.  Endurance  contests  are  strictly  a  busi- 
ness affair,  in  which  the  staying  powers  of  the  autos 
are  tested,  and  therefore  should  be  confined  to  the 
dealers.  From  an  event  such  as  proposed  by  the  club 
where  both  amateurs  and  professionals  may  compete, 
the  inexperience  of  some  of  the  former  may  bring 
results  which  will  be  an  injustice  to  every  one. 

*  *  * 

Endurance  contests,  where  started  in  the  East  by 
some  of  the  dealers  as  a  source  of  advertising,  and 
where  every  machine  is  handled  by  competent  men, 
it  is  a  good  exhibition  for  the  prospective  buyer,  but 
under  the  conditions  of  the  local  kind  every  make  of 
automobile  entered  runs  the  risk  of  receiving  a  bad 
reputation,  which,  although  no  fault  of  the  machine, 

may  take  years  to  live  down. 
»  *  * 

To  the  majority  of  the  members  of  the  club,  an 
endurance  run  has  no  attraction.  In  the  first  place, 
the  distance  is  so  far  that  most  of  the  owners  have 
not  the  time  to  spare  to  make  it.  And  then,  again, 
who  is  there  who  wants  to  undergo  the  strain  of  rac- 
ing such  a  distance. 

*  *  * 

The  officers  of  the  club  should  take  warning  from 
the  "handwriting  on  the  wall,"  that  has  appeared  in 
other  sports.  Yachting  and  bicycling  are  shining 
examples. 

Cut  out  the  racing  except  once  a  year,  and  give  up 
the  time  to  moderate  runs,  where  all  may  partici- 
pate, and  better  results  will  be  accomplished. 

*  *  * 

The  greatest  success  is  only  to  be  had  where  the 
great  number  take  part.  Therefore  if  racing  is  nur- 
tured at  the  expense  of  the  touring  man,  he  will 
cease  to  be  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  club,  and  will 
soon  use  his  time  and  money  for  his  own  personal 
pleasure  in  a  selhsh  way  without  a  thought  of  his 
fellow  automobilists. 

*  *  * 

This  should  be  guarded  against,  for  at  the  present 
time  we  cannot  have  too  much  enthusiasm.  The 
work  before  the  Automobile  Club  of  California  is 
something  gigantic,  if  it  proposes  to  be  the  leading 
spirit  in  the  sport  in  the  State.  It  has  got  to  accom- 
plish just  legislation  and  good  roads. 

These  are  endless  propositions,  and  ones  which 
the  club  has  got  to  handle.  Endurance  tests  will 
not  help  either,  but  short  to  near-by  places,  with  one 
hour's  discussion  at  the  rendezvous  concerning  the 
work  to  be  accomplished,  and  that  which  has  been 
achieved  will  be  of  more  service  than  all  the  fancy 
tests  and  races. 

*  *  * 

Tests  should  be  handled  by  the  trade  and  the  race- 
by  the  professionals.  The  amateur  has  no  place  in 
either. 


June  ii.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»7 


AmonR  the  auto-car  owners  who  were  out  Stmdajr 
were : 

Mr  Middlcton  anil  party  around  the  city. 

Mrs.  P.  E.  B  <  lakland  made  a  century 

Mrs.  Miles  T.  Baird  did  the  Park  anu  Presidio. 

•  •  _ 

The  Orient  Buckboard  owners  who  were  OUt  were: 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  \V.  Midler  of  Oakland  made  a  trip 

■ 
Mr.  Broadbenl  went  to  the  bike  races. 
Dr.  Kellogg  and  wife  made  a  run  V>  Hay  wards. 

•  *   • 

A  very  spectacular  race  was  run  last  Saturday  af- 
ternoon at  ingleside  Track  at  the  meet  of  the  Public 
Schools'  Athletic  League.  There  were  smnc  twelve  or 
fifteen  thousand  spectators  present,  including  the 
Mayor  and  most  of  the  public  officers  of  this  city. 

The  race  was  between  two  Wintons — that  of  Mr 
John  T.  Brenner,  driven  by  Mr.  S.  Hewson.  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chauffeurs'  Association,  and  the  other 
car  was  one  of  Messrs.  Scott  &  Blakeslee's  best  rent- 
ing machines,  and  was  driven  by  Mr.  Max  L.  Rosen- 
feld.  vice-president  of  the  Pioneer  Automobile  Co. 

His  Honor,  the  Mayor,  occupied  a  prominent  seat 
in  Mr.  Breuner's  new  Winton  touring  car,  while  Tom 
Boyle,  of  the  Board  of  Education,  sat  behind  Mr. 
Rosenfeld. 

The  distance  run  was  three  miles.  The  start  was 
a  very  even  one,  but  Mr.  Rosenfeld's  machine  soon 
forged  ahead,  and  led  by  a  quarter  of  a  mile  at  the  end 
of  the  second  lap.  He  then  slowed  down  and  let  the 
Mayor  pass,  catching  up  ana  passing  them  again  on 
the  back  stretch..  On  the  last  turn  into  the  home 
stretch  he  slowed  down  to  let  the  Chief  Executive 
win,  making  it  a  very  pretty  race,  and  Mr.  Breuner's 
machine  (with  the  Mayor  in)  winning  by  a  length  at 
the  tape. 

This  race  was  a  splendid  exhibition  of  the  wonder- 
ful control  a  good  operator  has  over  these  big,  power- 
ful  machines. 

*  *  * 

New  Yorkers  entering  Philadelphia  via  the  Cam- 
den ferry  are  invariably  amused  by  the  rules  of  the 
ferry  company,  which  require  ^hat  the  engine  be 
stopped  outside,  all  lights  be  put  out,  and  that  the 
car  be  pushed  on  and  off  the  ferryboat.  Recently  a 
White  steamer  crossed  the  ferry  supposedly  with  all 
lights  out,  and  when  on  the  Philadelphia  side  quickly 
flew  off  the  ferryboat,  much  to  the  mystification  of 
the  ferrymen,  who  could  not  see  that  the  torch  had 
been  left  burning.  In  the  same  way,  H.  B.  Joy  with 
a  Packard  Model  L  simply  threw  in  his  switch  and 
the  engine  started  without  cranking,  carrying  the 
car  up  the  incline  and  off  the  ferryboat  very  quickly. 

*  *  * 

A  serious  and  growing  criminal  problem  has  arisen 
in  the  New  York  boroughs  of  Manhattan  and  Brook- 
lyn within  the  past  two  or  three  weeks,  in  the  de- 
velopment of  an  automobile  stoning  epidemic,  which 
is  becoming  very  menacing  to  those  machines  and 
their  occupants.  Some  Brooklyn  people  are  so 
wrought  up  over  it  that  they  are  talking  of  "a  psy- 
chological impulse  of  a  very  contagious  and  danger- 
ous character"  and  "class  hatred."  "The  poor  people 
are  angry  and  resentful  at  the  rich  simply  because 
they  are  rich,"  they  say,  "and  think  they  can  throw 
things  at  automobiles  with  impunity." 

Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust. 

Cause  Eye  Strain,  Granulation  and  Redness.  Murine  Bye  Rem- 
edy restores,  cures  Eye  diseases,  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those 
wearing  glasses;  doesn't  smart.    A  favorite  toilet  requisite. 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Prlo*   SI. 350    Without    Top 
$1,450  With  Top 

1.  A  beauUful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating  four  persona. 

1  It  has  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

5.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  physlcans'  use,  saying  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
and  beautiful  In  general  finish. 

6.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 


PIERCE  ARROW  TOURINQ  CAR  French 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT    '  • 


J2.650.00 
800.011 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gale  Ave.  &  Goug h  St.,  S  F. 


W.  J.  PREELINQ 


P.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarHet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO 

AUTOMOBILE  SUNDRIES  AT 
WHOLESALE    and    RETAIL 

Manufacturers   of  the 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


Four  carloads  of  Cadillacs  are  un  the  way  from  De- 
troit, and  twelve  will  arrive  here  this  week. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  A.  Green,  of  New  York,  made  a  new  automo- 
bile record  ride  from  New  York  to  Boston  on  May 
14th,  covering  the  distance  in  10  hours  27  minutes 
elapsed  time,  and  8  hours  57  minutes  actual  riding 

time. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  J.  Mier  and  party  of  friends  took  a  trip 
around  the  bay  on  last  Sunday  in  Mr.  Mier*s  new 

Winton  touring  car. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Winfield   S.   Davis  took   a   run   to   Niles  last 

Sunday  in  his  White  Touring  car. 

*  *  *' 

Mr.  James  W.  Ward,  president  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  just  purchased  a  Pierce  Arrow,  which  he  will 
use  in  his  practice.  He  found  that  the  distances 
which  he  had  to  travel  could  not  be  covered  by 
horses.  With  his  automobile  he  can  cover  this  ter- 
ritory in  a  little  over  one-half  the  time  required  here- 
tofore. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  M.  Shields  was  out  last  Sunday  in  his  White 
car.  Hardlv  a  Sunday  goes  by  that  Mr.  Shields  does 
not  avail  himself  of  the  exhilaration  afforded  by  a 

ride  in  a  White. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Charles  B.  Shanks.  General  Sales  Manager  of 
the  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Comnany  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  spent  several  days  in  San  Francisco  Inst  week. 
Mr.  Shanks  has  been  visiting  his  various  agencies, 
and  on  his  way  East  he  stopped  at  St.  Louis  a  few 
days  to  visit  the  exposition.  Mr.  Shanks  advised 
that  the  interest  taken  in  automobiles  at  the  Exposi- 
tion is  greater  than  that  of  anv  one  other  industry. 
He  said  that  the  American  exhibits  at  the  Fair  show 
very  plainly  the  advance  being  made  in  the  manu- 
facture of  automobiles  in  this  country.  We  are  now 
building-  machines  of  all  classes  equal  to  anv  of  the 
high-priced  French  cars.  This  trip  was  Mr.  Shanks' 
first  visit  to  San  Francisco  since  the  Pioneer  Automo 
bile  Company  moved  into  their  new  place.  He  was 
more  than  delighted  with  the  new  gnrage.  and  with 
the  business  these  agents  are  doing.  Mr.  Shanks  left 
on  Sunday  morning  for  Cleveland,  and  will  make 
stoos  at  Salt  Lake  City.  Denver,  Omaha  and  other 
points  en  route. 

*  *  * 

Robert  Pieper  of  San  Francisco.  E.  B.  Stone  of 
Oakland,  John  W.  Posey  of  Los  Aneeles,  and  John 
Bradbury  of  Los  Angeles  are  among  last  week's  pur- 
chasers of  White  touring  cars. 

*  *  * 

The  following  were  out  in  Cadillacs  last  week: 

Mr.  W.  P.  Hammer  of  San  Francisco  and  a  party 
of  three  went  to  San  Jose  last  Friday  night  and  re- 
turned Saturday. 

Morris  Levy  has  just  returned  to  San  Francisco 
from  a  three  days'  tour  in  the  Santa  Clara  Valley. 
He  reports  a  verv  delightful  trip. 

Mr.  Edson  Bradbury  and  his  grandmother,  Mrs. 
A.  E.  Mav.  went  to  Niles  last  week,  and  report  a  verv 
delightful  trip. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Koenig  made  a  run  around 
the  bay  Sunday. 

Mr.  Frank  S.  Johnson,  of  San  Rafael,  although  only 
an  owner  of  a  machine  for  a  short  time,  has  made 
several  long  runs.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  he  is  the 
most  enthusiastic  and  untiring  driver  on  the  Coast. 
There  is  scarcely  any  one  in  his  locality  who  has  not 
enjoyed  his  hospitality  on  some  of  these  runs. 


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are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  >f  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  t8,  1904.  One  machine 
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livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


AFTERMATH. 
Br  Thaudoste  »; ui 
When  I  am  old  anil  very  tired. 

A   presence  near  the  chimney-place. 
With  folded  hands  and  quiet  face. 
Loving  no  more,  no  more  desired. 

God  grant  one  memory  to  me 

Shall,  ghost-like,  waver  through  the  gloom, 

And  silent  in  a  silent  room 
Come  near  to  bear  me  company. 

And  those  who  pass  perchance  shall  smile 
With  wondering  eyes  upon  me  bent. 
"How  still  she  sits,  in  what  content, 

Who  lingers  yet  a  little  while." 

They  shall  not  guess,  those  over-wise, 
How  through  the  calm  content  of  me 
The  face   of  that  mad   memory 

Leans  close   and  smiles  within  my  eyes, 

Until  I  feel  in  very  truth 

The  girl-heart  thrilling  in  my  breast, 
What  time  upon  my  own  are  pressed 

The  passionate,  warm  lips  of  Youth. 

And  they  shall  pity  who  but  see 

Dead  ashes  where  the  flames  were  bold, 
A  woman  sad  and  very  old 

Who  sits   in  silence   patiently. 

LINES  ON  THE  FUTURE  OF  ENGLISH  SONG. 

By  Margaret  Fuller  in   Cvulucy 

They  first  who  saw  the  day  grow  wan  and  die, 
Guessed  they  at  all  that  night  in  turn  would  go, 
Or  felt   they  aught  but  wonderment  and  woe, 
Our  rude  foreparents,  waiting  in  the  shy, 
Strange  dusk?     What,  then,  when   Song  drops  out 
the  sky, 
Song  and  the  singer  who  the  last  shall  know 
The  greatness  of  the  chosen,  and  the  glow — 
Will  then  the  past  have  slipped  forever  by? 
Shall  spangled  gloom  melt  in  the  rush  of  morn, 
Light  follow  night,  unlessened  for  the  dark, 
One  sun  eclipse  all  stars  and  the  borrowing  moon ; 
And  yet  shall  not  the  hedge-row  hush  and  swoon, 
And  earth  and  heaven  in  ecstasy  be  torn 

While  'twixt  their  hearts  once  more  upsoars  the 
lark? 


THE  PASSION-FLOWER. 

My  love  gave  me  a  passion-flower. 
I  nursed  it  well — so  brief  its  hour ! 
My  eyelids  ache,  my  throat  is  dry: 
He  told  me  not  that  it  would  die. 

My  love  and  I  are  one,  and  yet 
Full  oft  my  cheeks  with  tears  are  wet — 
So  sweet  the  night  is,  and  the  bower! 
My  love  gave  me  a  passion-flower. 

So  sweet!  Hold  fast  my  hands.    Can  God 
Make  all  this  joy  revert  to  sod, 
And  leave  to  me  but  this  for  dower — 
My  love  gave  me  a  passion-flower! 


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Ideal  resorts  already  estab- 
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brawling  trout  streams  to  pitch 
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Climbing  ML  Shasta 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


h  tWm-^~~.$\  NSURANCK 


Robert  H.  Plant,  the  Georgia  banker  who  recently 
killed  himself  after  his  two  banks  had  been  place.! 
in  the  hands  of  receivers,  carried  the  following  lift- 
insurance:  New  York  Life,  $500,000;  Equitable  Life, 
$115,000;  Mutual  Life,  $100,000;  i'enn  .Mutual,  $86,- 
000;  Union  Mutual,  $50,000;  Massachusetts  Mutual, 
$50,000;  Home  Life,  $50,000;  Washington  Life,  $30,- 
000;  Manhattan  Life,  $20,000;  Mutual  Benefit,  $20,- 

000;  total,  $1,015,000. 

*  *  * 

Elwood  Atkinson  says  the  first  lesson  to  be 
learned  from  the  Baltimore  fire  is  that  in  the  brig!  t 
lexicon  of  fire  insurance  there  is  no  such  word  as  "fire 

proof." 

*  *  * 

The  Equitable  Building  at  Baltimore,  which  was 
insured  for  $700,000,  yielded  a  salvage  of  seven  per 

cent. 

*  *  * 

The  Exchange  Fire  of  Chicago  is  a  new  one.  It 
has  a  Virginia  charter,  and  a  reported  capital  of  $100.- 
000. 

*  M.     * 

The  Insurance  Press  has  published  its  annual  cdi 
tion  containing  tabulated  lists  of  life  insurance  pay- 
ments. The  payments  in  the  larger  cities  of  the 
United  States  are  as  follows:  New  York,  $25,386,492; 
Philadelphia,  $9,348,297 ;  Chicago,  $8,630,245  ;  Brook- 
lyn, $7405,896;  Boston,  $6,400,038;  Baltimore, 
$4,003,280;  St.  Louis,  $3,801,402;  Cincinnati,  $3,696,- 
114;  Pittsburg,  $2,731,678;  Buffalo,  $2,123,506;  Cleve- 
land, $2,120,660;  San  Francisco,  $2,054,960;  Detroit, 

$2,006,845. 

*  *  * 

The  basis  rate  in  Western  Union  territory  new 
schedule  for  a  brick  or  stone  building  occupied  as 
an  educational  institution  is  50  cents,  except  that  in 
Ohio  it  is  40  cents,  in  Missouri  60,  and  in  Kentucky 
and  Tennessee  65.  These  basis  rates  are  increase  1 
10  cents  when  the  risk  is  in  a  town  without  fire  pro- 
tection. Deductions  are  provided  for  the  use  of  the 
co-insurance  clause.  For  fireproof  construction  a  de- 
duction of  30  per  cent  is  allowed.  Fifteen  cents  is 
charged  for  dormitory  occupancy,  and  10  cents  for  a 
laboratory. 

*  *  * 

Louisville,  Kentucky,  is  to  have  a  new  life  c(  m- 
pany,  with  a  capital  of  $200,000.  These  Kentuckians 
must  be  gritty  fellows  to  try  to  organize  and  m.inage 
successfully  any  company  emanating  from  that  city. 
It  has  been  a  hoodoo  so  far  to  about  all  the  com- 
panies that  ever  were  born  there,  and,  worse,  the  new 
one  is  to  be  named  the  Commonwealth. 

*  *  * 

Eastern  exchanges  are  publishing  the  rumor 
that  since  the  resignation  of  George  W.  Turner, 
manager  of  the  Northwestern,  the  company  is  likely 
to  abandon  this  field,  citing  as  the  reason  the  recent 
sweeping  destructions  of  its  lines  in  this  section.  This 
is  hardly  to  be  expected,  for  the  company  had,  under 
Mr.  Turner's  management,  too  large  and  profitable 
a  business. 

*  *  * 

The  South  Dakota  Mutual  has  made  an  assessment 
of  80  per  cent  on  its  premium  notes.  This  is  the  way 
to  do  it.  The  Mutual  company  that  goes  easy  on  its 
victims  may  last  a  little  longer,  but  the  promoters 
do  not  "get  rich  quick." 


The  National  Surety  Company  of  New  York  has 
been  licensed  to  do  business  in  Oregon. 

*  *  * 

The  United  States  Fidelity  and  Guaranty  Company 
has  abandoned  the  department  guaranteeing  the  en- 
dorsement of  travelers  who  were  policy  holders  on 
cheques  which  they  cashed  where  they  were  un- 
known. 

*  *  * 

The  National  Board's  recently  elected  officers  are : 
John  H.  Washburn,  president;  George  W.  Burchell, 
vice-president ;  Charles  A.  Shaw,  secretary  ;  and  Mar- 
shall S.  Driggs,  treasurer.  J.  Montgomery  Hare,  A. 
H.  Sawyer,  J.  B.  Branch  and  E.  L.  Ellison  were  ap- 
pointed to  fill  the  vacancies  on  the  executive  com- 
•mittee. 

Chicago  has  appointed  a  municipal  committee  to 
take  charge  of  the  fireworks  display  in  that  city  on 
the  4th  of  July. 

*  *  * 

Manager  E.  H.  Hiles,  from  the  home  office  of  the 
Royal  Exchange,  accompanied  by  United  States 
manager  Dickson,  is  making  a  tour  of  the  large  West- 
ern cities. 

*  *  * 

Santa  Monica  is  to  build  two  new  engine  houses. 

and  Los  Angeles  is  to  build  one. 

*  *  * 

The  Union  of  Buffalo  has  perfected  its  re-organi- 
zation. Its  capital  is  $200,000,  and  its  officers  are : 
Frederick  Perch,  president;  Alexander  Martin,  vice- 
president,  and  C.  Lee  Abell,  secretary. 

*  *  * 

The  Turner  &  Thompson's  four  Lloyds,  operated 
from  Chicago,  are  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver  at  the 
solicitation  of  Mr.  Farmer  himself.  He  alleged  the 
concerns  insolvent,  with  liaDilities  of  some  $60,000  in 
excess  of  assets. 

*  *  * 

The  report  of  the  National  Fire  Protection  Com- 
mittee on  the  Baltimore  fire,  which,  by  common  con- 
sent of  the  companies,  was  referred  to,  has  been  made 
public.  It  is  of  vital  interest  to  insurance  men  and 
to  insurers  after  a  long  and  carefully  prepared  re- 
port. The  principal  findings  and  summings  up  f 
which  are  that  ordinary  well-burned  brick  of  good 


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6    CO. 

Agents  Pacific   Coast 
SAN    FEANCISCO.    CAL. 


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June  if.  1904. 


quality  is  the  • 

I  in  building  construction. 
tie  ol  any  kinil  should  '  ragile  anil 

eptiblc    t<>   damage    wh< 
re  heat.     lr.>in  a  tire  protection  standpoint  it  is 
unsuitable   both    for   wall   and   pier  construction   and 
terior  or  interior  finish. 

All  structural   metal   work   must  be  properly  pn  - 
tccteil  so  as  to  withstand  successfully  the  effo 
re  heat. 

Hollow  terra  cotta  tile,  as  ordinarily  used  ;is  a 
fire  protective  covering  for  columns,  lacks  stability 
and  breaks  when  exposed  M  heat. 

Well-burned  ordinary  brick,  of  good  quality,  prop- 
erly laid  in  cement  mortar,  is  the  best  material  now 
in  use  as  a  tire  protective  covering  for  steel  or  iron 
columns.  This  material  combine-  rigid  construction 
and    the    necessary    fire-resistive    qualities. 

Plaster  blocks  and  plaster  on  metal  laths  are  un- 
satisfactory for  use  as  a  fire-protective  covering  for 
columns  or  other  structural  metal  work. 

Terra  cotta  tile  for  floor  arches  is  defective,  as 
the  lower  web  breaks  oflt  under  severe  heat.  This 
apparently  is  true  of  all  grades  of  tile. 

Floor  surfaces  should  be  of  non-combustible  ma- 
terials. 

Large,  unbroken  floor  areas  assist  the  spread  of 
fire  and  serve  to  augment  its  severity.  Such  build- 
ings should  be  subdivided  by  substantial  brick  fire 
walls. 

All  room  partitions,  as  ordinarily  constructed  of 
hollow  tile,  plaster  blocks,  metal  lath  and  plaster, 
or  similar  materials,  are  readily  destroyed  by  a 
severe  fire. 

Vertical  openings  throughout  buildings,  as  for 
stairs  and  elevators,  rapidly  communicate  fire  to 
all  stories.  All  such  floor  openings  should  be  en- 
closed in  brick  walled  shafts,  crowned  by  a  thin  glass 
skylight.  Uninclosed  vertical  openings  are  largely 
responsible  for  the  large  loss  of  life  and  property  by 
fire.  This  should  be  rectified  in  existing  buildings, 
as  well  as  those  hereafter  constructed,  and  munici- 
pal building  laws  and  insurance  discrimination  should 
be  invoked  to  this  end. 

Good  construction  should  be  enforced  in  all  details. 
Inspection  of  fire-resistive  buildings  in  course  of  con- 
struction should  be  more  frequent  than  for  buildings 
of  ordinary  construction. 

Fire-resistive  buildings  with  inflammable  contents 
and  numerous  wall  openings  are  ineffectual  as  con- 
flagration stops.  Solid  brick  walls  should  be  provided 
wherever  possible,  and  where  openings  are  neces- 
sary they  should  be  as  small  and  infrequent  as  pos- 
sible, and  equipped  with  proper  protection  against 
fire. 

The  contents  of  a  fire-resistive  building,  without 
proper  subdivision  and  with  no  adequate  protection 
against  exposure  fires,  are  scarcely  any  safer  as  re- 
gards destruction  by  fire  than  if  contained  in  a  build- 
ing of  ordinary  construction. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


Labor  Unions   and  Tneir  Follies 


Attempts  at  Violence. 

Every  few  days  there  is  a  report  of  some  man, 
who,  because  of  his  desire  to  be  independent  and  hav- 
ing accepted  a  position  in  an  open-shop  stable,  res- 
taurant, shoe  factory  or  other  place  of  employment, 
has  been  assaulted  by  union  thugs.  A  few  of  these 
cases  have  been  serious,  and  all  evidence  goes  to  show 
that  they  intend  to  punish  these  men  for  their  temer- 
ity and  to  intimidate  other  men  who  might  follow 
their  example.  Their  crimes  are  deliberate,  cold- 
blooded assaults,  whether  they  mean  actually  to  kill 
their  victims  or  only  to  maim  them.  It  is  not  con- 
ceivable that  one  man  should  be  beaten  and  seriously 
injured  on  the  streets  of  a  populous  city  without 
leaving  a  broad  trace  to  the  thugs.  In  any  circum- 
stances it  would  be  the  obvious  duty  of  the  police  to 
follow  it  vigorously  until  every  man  concerned  is 
apprehended.  The  police  should  be  stimulated  to 
extraordinary  activity  as  a  warning  to  other  sympa- 
thizers with  the  strikers,  who  have  shown  a  disposi- 
tion to  commit  similar  outrages. 

Crimes  of  this  character  are  too  often  treated  in 
all  parts  of  this  country  as  lynchings  are  in  most 
parts  of  the  South.  Instead  of  regarding  them  as 
peculiarly  heinous,  they  are  frequently  looked  upon 
as  in  some  degree  venal,  the  passions  which  inspire 
them  being  considered  in  a  way  impersonal  because 
they  are  found  in  mobs  rather  than  individuals.  For 
this  view  there  is,  of  course,  no  sound  excuse,  unless 
palliation  can  be  found  in  the  indulgent  attitude  of 
authorities  that  allows  lawless  characters  to  believe 
that  they  will  not- be  held  to  strict  account. 


The  Labor  Union  of  the  Past  and  the  Employers' 
Union  of  To-day. 

In  the  past  the  struggle  has  been  between  organ- 
ized labor  and  unorganized  employers,  but  the  latter 
have  at  last  taken  a  leaf  out  of  the  book  of  their  op- 
ponents and  have  learned  that  organization  must  be 
fought  by  organization,  and  that  labor  unionism  must 
be  brought  to  terms  bv  employer  unionism.  The  em- 
ployers of  the  country  have  been  slow  to  learn  that 
lesson,  but  they  apparently  have  learned  it  at  last, 
and  now  they  are  putting  it  into  practice.  The  Citi- 
zens' Alliance  is  the  result.  It  is  the  union  of  em- 
ployers, only,  being  less  unreasonable  than  its  oppo- 
nent, it  does  not  demand  that  wage  earners  should 
not  belong  to  unions,  but  only  that  they  should  not 
be  forced  to  belong,  and  that  unions  shall  not  attempt 
to  deprive  employers  of  their  just  rights  and  equi- 
table privileges. 

In  the  past,  unionism  has  had  only  isolated  em- 
ployers to  fight.  Its  boycott  against  a  restaurant,  a 
mill  or  store  in  future,  will  have  to  fight  an  entire 
class  of  business ;  and  it  will  have  to  meet  a  sympa- 
thetic lockout,  as  in  the  past  employers  have  had  to 
meet  sympathetic  strikes.  Employers  propose  in 
future  to  stand  together  and  assist  each  other,  in  the 
same  way  that  labor  has  been  doing.  It  is  a  case  of 
fighting  fire  with  fire. 


Labor  Union  Grafters. 

It  is  said  the  history  of  the  influences  which  pre- 
cipitate the  average  labor  strike  shows  that  not 
more  than  fifteen  per  cent  of  the  total  number  in  in- 
terest are  the  real  evil  force  at  work.    That  is  to  say, 


fifteen  per  cent  want  an  excuse  for  living  in  idleness, 
and  they  are  forever  making  mountains  out  of  mole- 
hills. Their  chief  end  in  life  is  to  poison  the  minds 
of  their  fellow-workmen  against  their  employer. 
Fifty  per  cent  would  prefer  that  matters  remain  un- 
disturbed, but  they  are  misled  by  the  spectacular 
oratory  of  the  fifteen  per  cent,  reinforced  by  the 
walking  delegates,  and  the  remaining  thirty-five  per 
cent  are  conservative,  thinking  and  sober-minded 
men  who  carefully  count  the  cost  of  a  strike,  and 
who  in  their  analysis  of. the  conditions  of  their  em- 
ployment place  the  employer's  rights  and  interests 
.alongside  of  their  own.  It  is  the  thirty-five  per  cent 
that  battles  for  conferences  and  arbitration — any 
honorable  thing  to  avert  a  strike.  But  if  a  strike  is 
ordered  they  acquiesce  because  of  a  foolish  senti- 
mentality which  is  born  of  an  erroneous  conception 
of  what  true  loyalty  of  their  union  is;  nor  is  it  easy 
to  make  them  see  that  they  are  plunged  into  the  mis- 
fortune of  loss  of  time  and  wages  by  not  more  than 
fifteen  per  cent  of  their  number,  and  that  that  small 
minority  represents  the  lazy,  the  indolent  and  the  ir- 
responsible element  of  the  labor  union,  yet  it  rules 
it  with  an  iron  rod.  Will  sensible  unionists  never 
awaken  to  these  facts  and  act  as  manly  men  should 
act? 


The  Walking  Delegate  to  Blame. 

Labor  has  no  one  to  blame  but  its  leaders,  and  its 
blind  permission  to  them  to  do  as  they  please  for  this 
result.  The  vast  majority  of  the  American  people 
believed,  and  yet  believe  not  only  in  the  right  of 
labor  to  organize,  but  that  it  is  a  good  thing,  because 
it  improves  the  condition  of  the  wage  earner  if  not 
carried  to  extremes,  and  the  better  housed  and  clothed 
and  fed  that  the  wage  earner  is,  the  better  for  the 
whole  country,  the  more  prosperous  the  whole  com- 
munity; no  thinking  man  denies  that,  and  so  long  as 
the  demands  of  labor  were  reasonable  they  were  met 
with  by  most  employers,  and  everywhere  had  public 
sympathy  to  back  them.  But  the  trouble  has  been 
that  the  leaders  were  selfish  men,  who  only  had  a 
few  ideas,  the  principal  one  of  which  was  their  own 
aggrandizement,  and  as  a  result,  instead  of  helping 
the  wage-earner  to  improve  himself  mentally  and 
morally  and  intellectually  when  he  had  won  for  him- 
self shorter  working  hours,  and  consequently  more 
time  for  self-improvement,  and  larger  wages,  with 
their  resulting  possible  improvement  in  social  condi- 
tions, the  leaders  have  kept  on  along  the  same  lines, 
urging  higher  wages  and  less  work,  and  stirring  up 
class  hatred  and  personal  animosity  between  em- 
ployer and  employee,  until  to-day  thousands  of  men 
hate  each  other,  who  before  were  the  best  of  friends 
and  the  closest  of  fellow-citizens. 


Treason  to  the  Government. 

Treason  has  been  taught  from  union  platforms ; 
we  have  been  told  that  the  American  workman  is  a 
slave,  whereas  he  is  the  most  prosperous  laborer  on 
the  face  of  the  earth;  his  fellow-workers  from  all 
over  Europe  come  here  to  study  his  prosperity.  Men 
who  were  not  even  citizens  of  the  United  States 
have  urged  young  Americans  to  refrain  from  enter- 
ing the  public  service  of  their  country,  whether  in 
the  militia,  the  army  or  the  navy;  the  youth  of  the 


June  ll,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

ry  has  been  taught  that  private  ownership  ot 

>bery,  and  that  the  extei  Vmeri- 

can  trade  should  he  >l>-  because  it  does  not 

benefit  labor,  a  falsehood  on  its  face,  Americans  have 

denied  the  right  to  learn  a  trade,  but  the  fbr- 

ive  been  welcomed  into  unions  with  open 

arms. 


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It  is  not  always  possible  for  men  to  join  a  union 
even  it  willing.  The  doors  of  the  union  are  barred 
in  many  instances,  and  the  right  to  work  is  denied 
many  a  deserving  man  because  of  the  tyranny  of  the 
walking  delegate. 


The  American  system  of  education,  especially  tech- 
nical schools,  which  are  exciting  the  admiration  of 
the  world,  and  which  Englishmen  and  Frenchmen 
and  Germans  have  come  here  by  the  hundreds  to 
study,  have  been  opposed,  and  American  workmen 
who  desire  to  change  their  residence  have  been  pre- 
vented from  making  a  living  in  their  new  home  be- 
cause their  trade  was  closed  to  them  by  some  hide- 
bound trade  union.  It  is  against  all  this  anti-Ameri- 
canism, it  is  against  this  trampling  of  the  flag  into  the 
gutter  by  those  who  know  nothing  of  its  meaning, 
that  the  opposition  to  unionism  in  our  mids'.  is  aimed. 
Behind  the  opposition  is  the  entire  sentiment  of  the 
community — or  at  least  of  that  part  which  believes 
that  America  should  be  run  on  American  principles. 
There  is  no  opposition  to  organized  labor.  Every 
workman  has  a  right  to  belong  to  a  labor  organization 
just  as  much  as  he  has  a  right  to  be  a  Methodist  or 
a  Catholic,  a  Mason  or  an  Odd  Fellow,  a  Republican 
or  a  Democrat,  but  he  has  no  right  to  force  his  neigh- 
bor to  join  his  church,  his  society  or  his  political  party 
under  pain  of  being  deprived  of  the  means  of  making 
a  living — he  has  no  right  to  say  you  must  join  my 
union  or  starve.     That  is  the  issue. 


A  Trade  Union  Decision. 

The  Appellate  Court  of  Illinois  has  rendered  a 
very  important  decision.  It  seems  that  the  Interna- 
tional Brotherhood  of  Electrical  Workers  and  of  the 
International  Association  of  Mechanics  of  the  Brass 
Workers  Union  and  the  Brass  Molders  Local-  Union 
demanded  that  a  certain  company  should  execute  an 
agreement  that  they  would  employ  none  but  mem- 
bers of  these  organizations ;  that  each  craft  should 
appoint  a  steward  in  the  factory  to  see  that  the  men 
working  in  it  belonged  to  the  organizations ;  that  the 
business  agent  of  the  unions  should  have  the  privi- 
lege of  interviewing  any  workmen  in  the  factory  dur- 
ing business  hours;  that  the  apprentices  should  be- 
long to  the  union,  but  should  not  exceed  one  for 
ten  workmen,  and  that  a  sympathetic  strike  should 
not  be  considered  a  violation  of  the  agreement.  In 
other  words,  to  make  the  shop  a  "closed  shop." 

The  Appellate  Court  held  that  the  agreement  in 
question  was  unlawful;  that  it  struck  at  the  right  of 
contract- and  discrimination  in  favor  of  one  class  of 
men  and  excluded  all  others  and  was  a  violation  of 
the  Constitution  of  Illinois  and  of  the  United  States ; 
that  such  agreement  would,  if  executed,  tend  to  create 
a  monopoly  in  favor  of  the  members  of  the  different 
unions  to  the  exclusion  of  workmen  not  members 
of  such  unions  and  was  in  this  respect  also  unlawful. 
It  was  also  in  violation  of  the  criminal  law  against 
conspiracies.  That  the  action  of  the  unions  in  seek- 
ing to  compel  the  execution  of  the  contract  by  the  said 
company  constituted  duress,  which  made  the  contract 
voidable  if  it  had  been  executed.  That  such  action 
constituted  a  criminal  conspiracy,  and  that  each  con- 
spirator was  responsible  for  the  acts  and  declarations 
of  every  other  conspirator  made  in  furtherance  of  the 
common  purpose. 

This  is  certainly  a  just  decision,  and  we  hope  the 
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34  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

Uf>e    AvitHors*     Haven 


By  Lady  Algy. 

California  poets  and  authors  realize  that  the  native 
muse  has  geographical  preferences  that  cannot  be 
lightly  overlooked.  There  is  no  doubt  that  the  mi;se 
is  kindliest  when  her  lovers  court  her  in  the  little 
nooks  nestling  in  the  elbow  of  Sonoma  Creek  just 
below  Glen  Ellen.  For  it  was  here,  in  the  old  Os- 
bourn  home  sitting  snugly  on  a  wooded  hill,  that 
Robert  Louis  Stevenson  wrote  some  of  his  best  tales; 
here,  too,  Jack  London  wrote  the  book  that  clinched 
his  fame;  and  Stirling,  latest  of  California  poets, 
found  the  inspiration  here  for  his  "Testimony  of  the 
Suns." 

It  is  only  fitting  and  proper  that  so  much  of  the 
best  literary  output  of  California  should  flower  in  this 
spot,  for  'twas  here  that  a  sister  experiment  of  the 
Brooke  farm  was  tried!  Like  Emerson's  dream  of  a 
demesne  for  mental  aristocrats,  the  colony  soon  scat- 
tered, but  their  influence  is  still  keenly  felt.  Mrs. 
Ninetta  Ames,  the  well  known  magazine  writer,  lias 
kept  their  memory  green  on  her  beautiful  place 
known  as  "Wake  Robin  Lodge,"  and  here  every  year 
a  little  coterie  of  writers  and  artists  come  to  shake 
off  the  grime  of  the  city  and  get  close  to  nature  in 
one  of  her  prettiest  moods.  For  the  scenery  about 
the  lodge  is  the  pleasing,  restful  sort  that  does  not 
too  much  distract  the  mind  like  the  stirring  granite 
splendor  of  the  Sierras.  Where  Sonoma  Creek  comes 
mincing  down  like  a  coquettish  maiden  to  keep  its 
tryst  with  impetuous  Graham  Creek,  Mrs.  Ames  has 
built  "Wake  Robin  Lodge."  A  sweep  of  ten  acres 
cuts  it  off  from  the  Sunday  picnicker  who  frequently 
hies  to  Glen  Ellen.  In  this  ten-acre  park  Mrs.  Ames 
has  planted  every  variety  of  California  wild  flower, 
and  in  this  one  spot,  at  least,  the  wild  flora  of  the 
State' is  safe  from  vandalism.  Cultivated  flowers, 
too,  of  every  variety  are  coaxed  into  perfection  of 
bloom  here.  The  roses  at  "Wake  Robin  Lodge"  are 
famous  among  horticulturists.  But  the  wild  beauty 
of  the  place  has  not  been  prettied  over  as  is  so  fre- 
quently the  case.  The  spot  that  is  reserved  for  Jack 
London's  sanctuary  is  a  rustic  bit  down  by  the  brim 
of  Sonoma  Creek.  Under  a  leafy  roof  of  overhang- 
ing boughs  stands  the  table  where  he  writes.  A  wire 
clothes  line  stretched  between  the  trees  over  the 
table  is  used  for  Mr.  London's  literary  washing. 
Jack  London's  methods  are  as  original  as  the  m  n 
himself.  When  he  gets  ready  to  write  a  sti  rv  or  book 
that  has  been  shaping  in  his  mind,  he  sifls  out  rdl 
the  notes  pertinent  to  the  tale,  and  with  wire  clothes 
pins  fastens  them  on  the  line.  To  see  these  rag- 
tags and  bob-ends  of  paper  fluttering  in  the  breeze, 
the  passer-by  would  not  fancy  that  they  contained 
the  data  of  months  of  hard  work.  When  London 
hurried  to  Japan,  he  had  to  part  a  story  he  was  writ- 
ing in  the  middle,  and  he  left  out  a  line  full  of  this 
literary  wash  which  some  one  else  fortunately  took 
in  before  the  rain  had  a  chance  to  blur  the  invalu- 
able notes. 

Two  books  are  at  present  being  published  off  fir 
the  publishers  at  "Wake  Robin  Lodge."  Mrs.  Ames' 
new  book,  "Deseret,"  will  be  published  by  the  Cen- 
tury Company.  It  is  a  story  with  a  flavor  of  Mor- 
monism,  as  the  title  of  the  book  implies.  Mrs.  Ames 
has  lived  many  years  among  the  much-married 
Saints,  so  the  story  ought  to  ring  true,  and  coming 
at  a  moment  when  all  eyes  have  been  trained  toward 
Zion,  the  story  ought  to  find  a  hungry  reading  pub- 
lic. Edward  B.  Payne,  whose  children's  stories  in 
St.   Nicholas   have   earned   him   a   reputation   in   the 


June  ii,  1904. 

field  of  juvenile  literature,  spends  most  of  his  time 
at  Wake  Robin  Lodge,  and  is  at  present  finishing 
his  "Night-cap  Stories,"  which  St.  Nicholas  is  to 
publish. 

"Wake  Robin  Lodge"  should  really  be  spelled 
plural  number.  For  there  are  a  half-dozen  little 
lodges  scattered  over  the  ten  acres,  so  that  guests 
may  come  and  guests  may  go,  but  privacy  is  never 
destroyed.  George  Stirling,  Jack  London,  Harry 
Culmer,  the  artist,  and  the  others  who  seek  their 
inspiration  here,  each  have  their  own  roof  top — it  may 
be  of  canvas,  or  rustic,  where  no  one  else  ventures 
during  working  hours. 

It  is  pleasant  to  dwell  upon  the  fact  that  so  clo=e 
to  San  Francisco's  stir  and  strife  is  a  preserve  where 
the  literary  elect  may  get  so  close  to  the  heart  of  na- 
ture that  you  can  hear  it  beat  in  their  written  pages. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  $7.50  per  ton;  half-ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $3.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attenUon. 


They  All 

Advertise 
Theirs   is    the    best- 
Try  a  bottle  of 

Lemp's 

Extra 

Pale 

And    give    it    a    test 


Johnson-Locke 
Mercantile  Co. 

Distributors 


C.  H.  Kehnstrom  (formerly  Sanders  &  Johnson.) 
E.  W.  Hagbom.  (formerly  with  James  W.  Bell  A.  Co.of  New  York) 

REHNSTROM  $  HAGBOM 

TAILORS 

PHELfIN   BUILDING  ROOMS  1.  2,  3 

Phone  Main  5387,  San  Francisco. 


Hotel  ^Richelieu 

The  leading  and  finest  private 
family  hotel  on  the  Pacific 
Coast 

1012    VAN    NESS    AVENUE 

Bet-  Geary  and  O'Furrell  Sts.  San  Francisco,  t'al 


June  ii.  1904. 


SOZODONT 

TOOTH  POWDER 

For  M  jrean  the  Dentifrice  of 
Quality.     Absolutely  Nun-Add 

la  Wast*.  Mo  Brit 

law  Patant  Top  Can      «»C 


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MINERAL  WATER 


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418  Sacramento  St.,  San  Francisco 


Doable  Daily  Service  to  All  Points 
East  via 

PUEBLO,     KANSAS     CITY 
a   ST.   LOUIS 

Through  Pullman  Sleeping  oars  and  Ob- 
servation Cafe  Dining  Cars,  -with  Electric 
Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  Fortiekets.  berth  reser- 
vations, folders,  etc.,  call  on  or  address 

GENERAL    TICKET    OFFICE 

626  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

(Palace  Hotel) 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


PROVERBS. 

The  destructive  man  is  usually 
so  by  reason  of  his  lack  of  al  1  i.y 
and  character  t"  bi  ative. 

Alio  iating  the  pain  is  no  e: 
for  having  inflicted  the  wound. 

Neatness  of  attire  >-  frequently 
a  mask  concealing  the    li^ir 
the   character. 

Force  of  expression  is  never  in- 
delicate. 

You  must  have  some  instant  an  I 
imperative  demand  in  uriler  to  call 
out  the  hemic  qualities  of  man- 
kind. 

Envy,  and  the  knowledge  of  the 
lack  of  personal  power,  will  usu- 
ally be  found  to  be  ilic  basis  of 
unjust   criticism. 

It  is  safe  to  wager  that  the  of- 
fice that  seeks  the  man  is  without 
patronage. 

It  is  a  wise  man  v"1-o  realizes 
that  all  he  ma}'  co>  :  ti  hend  is  but 
a    fraction   of  the    mith. 

Doubt  and  fear  are  poisonous 
weeds  overrunning  the  garden  of 
the  mind. 

What  is  more  hollow  and  fraud- 
ulent than  the  laugh  of  the  man 
who  pretends  to  enjoy  the  stale 
stories  of  his  patron? 

Intellect,  character  and  enthu- 
siasm are  the  most  valuable  forms 
of  capital. 

The  man  who  is  always  doing 
something  is  an  important  factor 
in  the  world's  progress. 

The  pioneer  in  any  field  of  use- 
ful achievement  is  deserving  the 
homage  of  the  world. 

Education  is  a  more  powerful 
corrective  than  legislation. 

God's  love  is  manifest  in  the  un- 
selfishness of  man. 

— The  Falcon. 


35 


THAT  ST.  LOUIS  TRIP 

TAKE   THE    BUSINESS    LINE 

The  Union  Pacific 

SAVING    12    HOURS 

Bate  only  $67.50  round  trip.  Through 
first  and  second-class  cars,  diners  and  all 
comforts.  Best  road  and  equipment. 
Safest  line.  Drop  a  postal  and  I  will  cal 
and  explain  everything. 


S.  P.  BOOTH,  Oen.  Art.,  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 

No.  1.  Montgomery  St.    Can  Francisoo.  Cal 


Information  Seeker — Flow  do 
the  thoughtful  people  of  your  city 
view  the  yellow  peril?  Prominent 
New  Yorker — We  view  it  with 
alarm  and  disgust,  of  course,  as 
we  always  have  done.  Strictly 
speaking,  however,  it  is  not  yellow. 
It  is  of  a  tawny  color,  with  dark, 
vertical   stripes. 


ENNEN'S 


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O  TALCUM 


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IT  HEAT,  S 

(  CHAFING,  and      EEi 

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Removes  all  odor  of  perspiration;    De- 

licbiful  after  Shaving.     Sold  everywhere,  or 

;cipt  of  25c.    Gel  Menncn's  (the  original).     Sample  Free, 

GERHARD  MENNEN  COMPANY.  N°»«rk.  N.J. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  Warr?otedar. 
Sohtner  Piano  Agency 

308-312  Post  Sf.,San  Francisco 


Guaranteed — Satisfaction.  A  new  pair,  or 
your  money  back.  50c.  and  $1.00  any 
store  or  by  mail  for  choicest  patterns  fTom 

THE  C.A.  EDCARTON  MFC.  CO. 

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First  Artist — We  must  go  to  na- 
ture for  our  subject.  Second  Ar- 
tist— Oh,  that's  easy;  but  where 
in  thunder  are  we  to  go  for  out 
customers? 


"Gee  whiz!  Dumley  is  mad  this 
morning."  "Yes.  His  boy's  teacher 
sent  home  word  yesterday  that 
the  boy's  composition  was  the 
worst  she  had  ever  read."  "Wound- 
ed his  pride  in  his  son,  eh?"  "No; 
in  himself.  Dumley  wrote  it  for 
the  boy." 


l  -y  ~y^_a.*-£&fk&-r-i*^ 


•n-TKKiw^M 


Every  genuine  nnrtthor: 
roller  liaB  tho  autogrni  h  t.^,  a- 
ture  of   Btcwrt    Hiiribhorn    on 
label.    Ami  your  dealer  for  I  he 


IMPROVED  HARTSHORN 
SHADE  ROLLER. 

No  racks  required  to  attach  aharie. 
Wood  Rollers.    Tin  Rollers. 


HAND 

SAPOLIO 

It  ensures  an  enjoyable,  invigor- 
ating bath ;  makes  every  per? 
respond,  removes  dead  skin, 

ENERGIZES   THE    WHOLE   BODY 

starts  the  circulation,  and  leaves  a 
glow  equal  to  a  Turkish  bath. 

ALL    GK.OCEB.S    AND    DRUGGIST* 


TWOMEY    4    MIHOLdVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  i«7 


36 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


<1jfflj)> 


BRIE 
RAILROAD 

The  most  delightful  scenery 
between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
ment for  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

A.    C.    HILTON 

Pacific  Coast  Passenger  Agent 
330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


"Did  you  have  r.  good  time  at 
that  stag  dinner?"  "Oh,  com- 
parative." "Comparative?  Oh,  T 
see.    'Stagger,'  eh?" 


I 


.Summer 

Vacations 

Travel    by  Sea 


Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Berth  and  Meals 

Los  Angeles  Han  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Hontere y 

Eureka  Seattle  Tacoma 

Victoria    Vaucouver    Etc. 

And   to  those  desiring    longer  trips   to 

Alaska  and  Mexico. 

For  Information  regarding  sailing  dates  etc.obtaln  (older 
SAN  PRANCISO  TICKET  OFFICLS 
4  New  Montgomery  St.  (Palace  Hotel) 
10  Market  St. ,  and  Broadway  Wharves. 

C.  D.  DUNANN,  General  Pass.  Agent 

10  Market  Street,  San  Francisco 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Co.,  3"  Sutter  st.,  will 
call  for  and  check  haggage  from  hotels  and 
residences.    Telephone  Exchange  812. 


THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

TbeOnly  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
Missouri  River  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific,  Union  Pacific  and  Chicago 
and  Northwestern  Rys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves 
Ran  Francisco  at  lu.oo  a.  ni.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  in  the  World.  Electric 
lighted  Throughout.  Buffet  smoking  cats 
with  barber  and  bath.  Bookiovers  Li- 
brary, Dining  Cars.  Standard  and  Com- 
partment Sleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
Cars.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago- 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Reclining  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francisco  at  9.00  a.m.StanUard  and  Tourist 
Sleepers- 

Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays,    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

R.  R.  Ritchie,  G.  A.  P.  C. 

Chicago  and  Northwestern  Rys. 
617  Market  St.      (Palace  Hotel)      San  Francisco 


/^%^fi\     T*»»i»«  !«»▼*  unrt  ar*  do* 
ffS /^<yx<z?\v\  to  arrive  at 

[wHgggJa,  SAN    FRANCISCO. 

\^\j!=$/o/  Fbom  Junk  1,  1904. 

>^  q  I  ^/  Fkrby  Dkpot 

I (Foot  of  Market  Street  ) 

l*.t    -         MAIN    LINE.         -  ariutb 

7  00a  VhcuvNIu.  Whiter*.  Rumsey 7  60p 

7.00a  Benlcln,  Sulsuu.  Limlrn  ami  Sacra- 
menu.    .        7.2Q.P 

7.30a  Vallejo.     Nnpft.     CallstOfra,     Santa 

ItOSa,   Martinez.  Bun  Knmon 620P 

7. 30a  Nlles.  Llvermore.  Tracy.  Lalhrop. 

Stock-on 7  20P  . 

8.00a  *hnfta  F.xnress  —  (Via  Davis), 
Wllllmni  (for  ilnrllelt  Sprlnes). 
Willows.  tFrulo,  feed  IMuff. 
PortlHiHl.  Tacoma.   Si-tittle 7-50P 

8.00a  DrvIb.  WonillRrid.  KnlRhts  Landing, 

Marysvllle.  Orovllle 7-60P 

8-30A  Port  Coeta.  Martinez,  Antloch. 
Byron.  Tracy.  Stockton.  New- 
man. Los  Itunns,  M  e  nd  ota, 
Armona.  Hnnr.»rd.  Vlsalta, 
Portervllle 4.20P 

B-30A  Port  C"8ta.  Lnibrup,  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno,  Oosben  Junc- 
tion, Hun  lord,  Vlsalla,  Bakers- 
field 4. BOP 

P3Ca  Nlles.  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton. (tMlltou).  lone.  Sacramento, 
Placerville.  Marysvllle,  Cblco, 
Red  Bluff 4.20P 

8.30a  Oakrtale.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  So- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 420P 

9  0PA  Atlantic  Kxpress— ORtlen  and  Rast.     1120a 

9.30a  Richmond.    Martinez     and      Way 

Stations 6  50p 

1000A  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omuba,  Chicago 6  20 P 

10. 00a  Vallejn 1220P 

IO.OLa  Los  Antreles  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa.  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy. 
Lalhrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  Gosben  Junc- 
tion, llnnford.  Leinoore.  Vhmlfa. 

Bnkerafleld.  Los  Angeles 720p 

1200m  Hay  ward.  NlleB  and  Way  Stallone.       3.20P 
n.OOPSacriiinenio  River  Steamers tll.OOP 

5.3CP  Benlcla.  Winters.  Sacra  men  to. 
Woodland,  Knl^lns  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
atHtlnmt 1050* 

SJtP  liny  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..       7. BOP 

33Cp  port  Coeta,  Martinez.  Uyron, 
Tracy,  Latbrop,  Modesto. 
Merced,  Berenda,  Fresno  and 
Waj  Stations  beyond  Port  Costa    12-20P 

3-3CJP  Yosemlte  Valley,  via  Berenda  and 

Wawona 8  60a 

5-30P  Mnrrlnez. Tracy.  Stockion.  I.odl...     1020a 

4  CCp  Marline?., Snn  Kninon.ValleJo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa 9  20a 

4  0CP  Nlles.  Tracy,  Stockton.  LodI 420p 

4  3tP  llayward,   NIIob,   lrvtnglon,  San  1      1860a 
Jose.  Llvermore }  111.60a 

6-OOp  1  be  Owl  Limited— Newin»n.  Loa 
ltxnos.  Minduin.  Fresno,  I  u  lure. 
Bakersiield.l.os  Angeles 8- 50 a 

6-OOp  Port  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 12-20p 

IB  31  P  Haywnrd.  NlleB  and  San  Jose 7- 20a 

6-OCp  llayward.  Nllesaud  San  Jose 9  i>0A 

6-OlP  Em-urn  Kxpr.'Bi-— Opden.  Denver, 
Omaba,  St.  Louis,  Cblcago  and 
Ensi,  via  Port  CoBta.  Sulttun, 
Klinirn.  DavlB,  Sacramento,  Col- 
fax. Reno B20p 

6. OCp  Vallejo.  daily,  except  Sunday...    I       7  cnQ 

7  01  P  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f       '  DUP 

7 .[I  P  iJchmond,  san  Pablo.  Port  Oust*. 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11-20A 

7  ( t  >  ri'^on  A  California  Express— Sao- 
ramento,  Maryivllle,  Redding, 
Portland,  Pugel  Sound  and  East.      8-60* 

806p  i;i-do  Passenger— Port  Cosli,  Sul- 

sun,  Klmtra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 

j       Truckee,  Lake  Tahoe.  and  Way 

Stntlons  beyond  Sacramento 7.60a 

9-ICp  llayward,  Ntles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
dayonly) 11  60a 


COAST    LINE  (Narrow  Gauge) 

(Toot  of  Market  Street.) 

7.45a  SantaCrnzExcurslon(Sundayonly)       8-10P 
fc  Ua  Newark.    Centervllle,    San     Jose, 
Fellon,  BoulderCreek.BlgBasln. 
Santa  Cruz  and  Way  Stutions...       &  BBp 
19  15a  Alvwrado.  Newark,  San  Jose,  Loa 
Gatoa,Glenw(jod,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Bin  Basin.  Santa  Cruz...         8-10P 
12  Itp  Newark,    Centervllle,    San    Jobo, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gutos.FeltoQ. 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    10  55a 

4  Up  Newark,  San  Jose,  Loa  Gatoi   and 

way  etatlona 18.55a 

4-15p  Wrt^bt,  Felinn.  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz.  Saturday  and  Sunday 
""!v &86BA 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

Hom&AN  I'RANCISCO,  Fooloi  Mmket  St.  (Sllpli 

-tlilfl    V-ah)    11:UUa.m.     100    3.00    6.15  p.m 

l-roiii  OAKLAND.   Foot  or  Hruail wny  —  tti:UU    jd:(W 

lb. P..    lu:0UA.M.       1200    200    4.00  P.M. 

COAST     LINE     (llroari  Uaiiire). 

tar  (Third  uikI  Townsend  StreetB.) 


1Pa  Sun  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

Of  A  Sun  .lone  and  Way  Stations . 

15a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 

LCa  New  Almnden  (Tuea.,  Frtd.,  only). 

00a  The  Coaster—  Stuns  only  San  June. 
Ullroy  (conned  Ion  for  Hoi  Ha- 
ter), Pajaro.  Castrovllle  (con- 
Dectlon  to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacltlc  Grove),  Salinas.  Snn 
Ardo,  Paso  Rolilcit  Shplu  Mar 
[.■nihil  San  Luis  Obispo,  principal 
stailons  tbence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara, S"n  Buena> 
ventura.  MoutBlvo,  o  n  id,  Bur- 
bunk.  Lob  Angeles 

00a  >'>ii  Jose.  Tres  PlnoB,  Capltola, 
bun  ta  Cruz. Pad  fl<-  Grove,  Salinas, 
S»n  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 
Way   Stations 

•3f  A  SiD  Jose  and  Way  Stallone 

it  a  Sum  n  Clara,  San  Joae,  Lua  Gatos 
and  Way  Stations  

31  p  San  J  use  and  Waj  Stations 

LLP  Dd  Monte  Kxptess— Santa  Clara, 
ban  Jose.  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacltlc  Grove  (connects  m  Saata 
(  lara.  except  Sunday,  for  Suuta 
Cruz,  Boulder  .  reek  and  Narrow 
Gauge  Points) ; 

■30P  Pacltlc  Grove  Way  Pnssenner,  Mur- 
Ungaine.  San  Jose  and  Way  Sta- 
tions, connects  at  Gllrov  for  Hoi* 
llBtcr,  TreH  Pltioe.  at  Pnjaro  for 
Capltola.  Santa  Cm  I  at  Castro- 
vllle for  Salinas. 

,30p  -an  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

OOP  Saula  Clara.  sHn  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Wright  and  principal  Way  Sla- 
1  Iuiib  (except  Sunday) 

.30'  an  n  Jose  and  Prluclpal  Way  Slat  foil* 
4B^  bunael  Express.— Redwood.  Sun 
Jose,  Gtlroy, sal luaB. Paso  Robles, 
6au  Luis  Oblsiio,  SuntR  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles,  McinlnK.  El  PasO, 
New  Orleans.  New  Fork.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
snd    at    Ctistrovlilo    for    Pacltlc 

Grovennd  Way  Stallone 

15p  e-ui.  Mateo. Beri'sford.llulmont. San 

Chi  los.     RedW I.     Kalr     Oaks. 

M.nloPark,  Palo  Alto 

30p  Sun  Jose  and  Way  Stutions 

00p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stallone 

■30p  »-."iili  Sun  Francisco.  Ml II brae.  Bur 
-  j s .  .:■..-.  San  Mateo.  Belmont. 
tjan  CarlOB.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Munlo  Park,  and   Palo  Alto 

30p  Maytleld.  Mountain  View,  bunny- 
viib'.  Lawrence,  Santa  Chn-a  And 
ban  JOH 


G3rp 

6  40P 


10.30P 
410P 


4.10P 
1.20P 


7.30p 
8  36a 


A  for  Morning.  P  for  Aftumooa 

Sunday  excepted  t  Sunday  only 

cbatuidu;'  only  b  Monday  only, 

f  blups  ai  all  BintlouB  on  Suuuuy 


1045a 

18.00a 


■9  00a 
1940a 


16.46a 
636a 
1015a 


9.4Bp 

I9.4BP 


. ItlUUI    UU    OUU1J1IV 

Ouly  trains  stuppiu^  at  Valencia  St.  suuibboand 

Ji..  ?:  15  a.  u,.    il:^JA    11  .  a:o0r.M., 


lUA.U.. 

t::i0  P.  M.  an 


11  p.  M. 


I  1.  ,4.  N.HI   til.     COAI  PA  tNV 

die-  k  baggage  irmn  Uotela  utnl  rest 
mi-,  ■    ■  ■  j,-inj"  13.       I  in,  11  t-  of    I'lcittJt 

■  '     1.11.  -If    i.U'l     ullle'       -lllur  niiiiloU. 


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s  Stylish  $ 
Suits 

Dressy  Suits  $20      § 

Pants  £4.50  ^ 

My  $25.00  Suits  are  thej< 

best  in  America.      fe 

*)  C  Per  ^en'  Saved  by  get-g 
Z  0  ting  your  suit  made  byS 

JOE  POHEIM      § 

TBE   TAILOR  k 

,  Samples  Sent  1110-1112  Market  St        5 

201-203  Montg'v  St..  S.  F.S 


O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND.  ORE 

And  Short  Bail  Line  from  Portland  to  all  Points 
East.    Through  Tickets  to  all  Points  all  Bail  or 
Steamship  and  Pail  at  Lowest  Bates- 
Steamer  Tickets  include  Berth  and  Meals- 
SS  OBEGON  Sails  Mar.  28.  April  7.  17.  27-  May 

''SS'2GE0.   TV.  ELBEE  Sails  March  23.    April 

2.  12.  22.     May  2.  12.  22. 

S.  F-  BOOTH.  General  Aeent 
No.  l  MontRrmery  St.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

"They're  nice-looking  horses  of 
yours;  appear  to  be  very  well 
matched."  "They  are.  One's  will- 
ing to  pull  and  the  other's  quite 
willing  to  let   him." 


June  it.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


UNIONISM  ON  THE  WANE  IN  LOS  ANGELES. 
The  Labor  Arbiter  of  Los  Angi  ["he  In- 

form of  tyranny  and  la  com 

milled  111  ihc  name  of  lali.ir  will  no  longer  be  toler 
ty.  The  public  has  declared  it,  au.I  the 
public  i>  the  judge.  The  practice  of  any  one  of  these 
outrages  operates  to  the  detriment  of  labor  and  to  the 
benefit  of  the  »ne  the  outrage  is  attempted  upon.  La- 
bor conditions  in  Los  Angeles  at  the  present  time  are 
unfavorable  t<>  the  union  man.  and  will  continue  to 
he  until  the  unions  rid  themselves  of  the  professional 
boycotter,  the  professional  agitator  and  the  ignorant 
firebrand. 

"During  the  past  year  several  unions  have  gone  out 
of  existence,  and  others  are  on  the  wane  as  the  result 
of  the  operations  of  the  agitators.  Xon-union  men 
are  in  demand  everywhere  for  permanent  positions 
at  high  wages,  and  are  receiving  every  encourage- 
ment." 

This  sounds  well  for  Los  Angeles.  Since  the  first 
of  the  year  the  Citizens'  Alliance  of  San  Francisco 
has  proven  to  not  a  few  unions  the  folly  of  boycotts 
and  strikes.  The  Carmen.  Shoemakers,  Teamsters, 
Stablemen.  Drug  Clerks.  Retail  Clerks,  Waiters  and 
Several  smaller  affairs  have  suffered  and  lost.  To  be 
itted  in  San  Francisco  means  success  for  the 
merchant. 


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TOURS   THROUGH   KINGS   RIVER   CANYON. 

Personally    Conducted    Outing   Parties   Will   Leave 

San  Francisco  June  22d  to  27th. 

A  rare  chance  for  mountain  lovers  and  all  who 
wish  a  grand  vacation,  is  offered  in  the  outing  parties 
which  will  leave  San  Francisco  June  22d  and  27th 
for  tours  through  Kings  River  Canyon,  across  the 
Sierra  to  Lake  Tahoe,  and  vice  versa.  No  women  or 
children  will  be  accommodated,  and  each  party  will 
be  limited  to  thirty  persons.  Special  round  trip  rate 
of  $80  covers  all  expenses,  embracing  a  period  of  two 
weeks  and  nearly  1,000  miles  of  travel  through  one 
of  the  grandest  portions  of  California.  Ask  for  com- 
plete itinerary.  Applications  for  membership  must 
be  filed  before  June  16th  with  A.  S.  Mann,  Southern 
Pacific  Ticket  Office,  613  Market  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


Can  any  one  point  to  a  single  benefit  that  has 
accrued  to  either  labor  or  capital  by  any  act  of  a 
labor  union,  barring  the  Typographical  and  a  half- 
dozen  organizations?  On  the  contrary,  the  wrecks 
that  labor  unions  have  wrought  in  family  and  social 
and  industrial  life  are  seen  in  every-  channel  of  the 
country's  being. 


You  will    appear  to  be  always  wearing  new  clothing 

if  you  have  your  suits  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  by 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  Stockton 
street.  Besides,  it  maKes  the  clothing  last  twice  as  long. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties,  ribbons,  laces,  curtains, 
draperies  and  all  such  articles  quickly  and  thoroughly. 
Try  them  once,  and  you  will  be  satisfied. 


You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zinkand's,  which  Is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  alier-the-tbeatre  resorts.  It  serves 
th«  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  inspiring  music, 
and   is  patronized  by  the   smart  set. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping   Bureau  has   removed   to  the 

rooms  formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only  57.50 

per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight  guaranteed.  In 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th 
and  Channel.    Phone  South  96. 


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MISS  D.  HOMO,  ol  the  WALDORF,    241-243   GEARY  STREET,   has  returned 
from  the  East,  and  is  displaying  the  finest 

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X5he     Political     Situation 


The  delegates  to  the  Democratic  Convention  have 
met  and  assessed  themselves  $150  for  delegates-at- 
large,  and  half  that  amount  for  district  delegates  and 
alternates.  That  does  not  include  their  fare,  and  it 
is  announced  that  the  money  will  be  used  for  ex- 
penses of  the  delegation,  for  food  and  sleeping  accom- 
modations. Just  why  a  delegate-at-large  should  eat 
twice  as  much  or  sleep  twice  as  long  as  a  district 
delegate,  I  confess  my  inability  to  see.  It  is  true 
that  Tarpey  is  a  heavy-weight,  and  that  Carmichael 
has  also  a  rotund  form,  and  even  Delmas  is  fond  of 
good  living,  but  so  are  the  other  delegates  and  big 
people,  in  the  sense  of  avoirdupois,  are  not  neces- 
sarily heavy  eaters.  Why  should  M.  F.  Tarpey  eat 
twice  as  much  as  A.  B.  Tarpey?  Or  why  is  Delmas 
supposed  to  be  so  much  heavier  a  feeder  than  Lou 
Moosier? 

*  *  * 

As  announced  before,  the  Hearst  train  is  to  pick- 
up delegates  from  all  the  States  this  side  of  the 
Missouri,  and  by  the  time  the  party  gets  to  St.  Louis 
it  will  number  several  hundreds  if  the  plans  now  on 
the  tapis  are  carried  out.  It  is  not  going  to  be  the 
special  that  was  originally  proposed.  It  is  g"ing  to 
be  simply  a  train  for  St.  Louis,  and  the  delegates,  I 
am  told,  will  have  to  pay  their  own  expenses,  and 
that  while  the  other  delegations  will  join  the  party 
en  route,  that  is  a  railroad  and  not  a  Hearst  arrange- 
ment. In  other  words,  the  railroad  company  runs  a 
train  from  San  Francisco  to  St.  Louis,  and  any  dele- 
gate who  has  the  price  can  get  on.  regardless' of  his 
enthusiasm  for  Hearst  or  Judge  Parker,  or  any  one 
else.  There  will  be  two  carloads  of  California  edi- 
bles and  drinkables,  in  the  proportion  of  one-half  a 
car  of  the  former  to  one  and  one-half  car  of  the  lat- 
ter, and  the  California  delegation  hope  that  after 
the  Washingtonians  and  the  Webfooters,  and  the 
Coeur  d'Aleners  and  the  Mormons,  and  the  Cowboys 
and  the  Sunflowers,  from  Oregon,  Idaho,  Utah,  Wy- 
oming, Colorado  and  Kansas,"  have  partaken  of  the 
concoctions  that  emanate  from  our  smiling  valleys 
and  beautiful  hills,  they  will  all  be  converted  to  the 
Xative  Son.  whose  badge,  designed  by  artist  Tar- 
pey, each  of  them  is  to  wear. 
»  *  * 

Although  the  admirers  of  Hearst  are  claiming 
that  it  is  the  first  chance  that  Californians  have  ever 
had  to  support  a  Californian,  the  truth  is  that  Califor- 
nia furnished  the  Republican  party  with  its  first 
Presidential  candidate  in  the  person  of  General  John 
C.  Fremont,  who  got  1.341,264  popular  votes  and 
114  electoral  votes.  That  was  in  1856.  Twenty-four 
years  later,  the  delegation  from  this  State  to  the* 
Democratic  National  Convention  proposed  the  name 
of  Justice  Field,  and  he  received  considerable  support 
for  the  nomination.  It  is  true  that  neither  Fremont 
nor  Field  were  Native  Sons,  but.thev  were  as  much 
identified  with  the  State  and  its  history  as  though 
they  had  been.  Fremont  probably  got  as  many  elec- 
toral votes  fifty  years  ago  as  Hearst  will  get  "in  the 
convention   this  year. 

*  *  * 

Everybody  was  immensely  amused  at  the  row  be- 
tween fx-Governor  Budd  and  Manager  Tarpey  in 
the  Palace  Grill  last  week.  Tarpev,  it  appears  'was 
smarting  under  Budd's  very  just  criticism  of  his  mis- 
management of  affairs  at  Santa  Cruz.  I  do  not  know 
what  Budd  has  been  saying  about  Tarpev,  but  he 
could  not  have  said  anything  too  strongly,  for  Tarpey 


is  the  greatest  political  fake  that  even  Hearst  has 
resurrected.  The  entire  press  of  the  State  has  pointed 
out  his  folly  in  throwing  a  practically  unanimous 
endorsement  of  his  employer  for  an  empty  honor, 
which  has  been  proclaimed  from  one  end  of  the  coun- 
try to  the  other  as  the  defeat  it  really  was. 

*  *  * 

Caminetti,  who  was  promised  the  support  of  the 
Examiner  in  his  candidacy  for  Congress  in  the  First 
District,  does  not  find  that  help  as  potent  as  he 
thought  it  would  be.  The  anti-Hearst  faction  are 
busy  hunting  up  a  candidate  to  run  against  him,  just 
as  they  brought  out  the  Madera  judge  to  shut  off 
Mark  Plaisted's  Congressional  aspirations  in  the 
Sixth  District.  There  are  a  number  of  possible  can- 
didates talked  about,  but  the  most  likely  one  is  said 
to  be  from  Humboldt. 

*  *  * 

In  the  Second  District,  Glenn  County  has  en- 
dorsed McKinley,  and  he  is  as  certain  of  the  Republi- 
can nomination  as  Bell  is  of  the  Democratic.  In  the 
Eighth  District,  it  looks  now  as  if  Smith  of  Bakers- 
field  would  win  out,  as  San  Luis  Obispo  and  several 
other  counties  have  endorsed  him,  and  his  only  com- 
petitor of  any  importance  is  Senator  Ward  of  San 
Diego,  who  has  only  his  own  vote  and  Orange 
County  to  count  on. 

*  *  * 

It  is  very  evident  that  unless  some  new  Richmond 
appears  that  Henry  Oxnard  will  have  very  little  more 
trouble  in  reaching  the  Senate  next  winter  than  Per- 
kins had  last  session  of  the  Legislature.  Bard's 
candidacy  really  amounts  to  nothing,  and  the  efforts 
of  John  W.  Mitchell,  a  Democrat,  to  force  Jim  Lan- 
kersheim  of  Los  Angeles  on  the  party,  or  the  still 
more  ridiculous  efforts  of  General  Otis  to  secure  the 
toga  for  that  conspicuous  Congressional  failure. 
Walters,  also  of  Los  Angeles,  are  not  worth  bother- 
ing about.    If  the  Senator  must  come  from  the  South, 


June  ::.  1904. 


rd  to-day  is  the  only  candidate  worth  di^< 
Ji  if  it  were  a  <)"  men  •t«1  not 

localities  it  might  be  different. 

It  is  vcr.  that  the  »-cim< >r  Senator  does  ik >t 

think  that  Bard  has  a  gh  hance,  and  that  he 

is  not  shedding  an)  tears  over  that  fact,  for  he  has 
been  seen  around  with  Obcnard  a  good  deal  lately, 
and  it  is  understood  will  do  all  he  can  t.>  help  that 
gentleman  realize  his  ambitions.  So  far  the  only 
friends  of  Bard  who  have  made  themselves  at  all 
conspicuous  are  Dr.  Rowell,  of  Fresno,  for  whom 
Bard  tried  to  get  half  a  dozen  places  and  fell  down 
each  time;  Cutter,  of  Yuba  County,  who  has  just 
been  deposed  as  Chairman  of  the  Republican  State 
Centrrl  Committee,  and  Bulla  of  Los  Angeles,  who 
got  three  votes  out  of  some  seventy  odd  for  delegate- 
at-large  to  Chicago.  With  those  gentlemen  active 
in  his  interests.  Bard  should  have  no  trouble  in  stay- 
ing at  home  after  he  4th  of  March,  1905. 
*  «  * 

The  choice  of  General  Stone  to  manage  the  cam- 
paign this  year  is  .1  good  one.  He  is  active,  knows 
every  one,  and  undoul  ;edly  will  make  a  success  of 
his  work.  The  Democrats  cannot  tell  who  to  get  to 
manage  their  campaign  until  they  know  who  their 
candidate  will  be,  but  in  any  case  if  they  want  to 
make  any  showing  at  all,  they  should  see  to  it  that 
it  is  not  Tarpey. 

GOOD  WORK. 

The  Evening  Post  is  the  only  daily  newspaper  in 
San  Francisco  that  is  making  an  open  campaign 
against  that  fungoid  growth  on  civilization,  the  labor 
union.  The  course  of  the  Post  is  to  be  commended, 
and  if  the  merchants  of  this  city  are  duly  grateful, 
there  should  be  an  increased  patronage  in  an  adver- 
tising way. 

The  only  reward  the  editor  of  the  Evening  Post 
may  hope  for,  if  he  persists  in  his  manly  and  com- 
mendable course,  is  in  the  knowledge  of  having  done 
the  right  thing  at  a  time  that  is  critical.  He  has,  as 
we  have,  helped  maintain  the  republic  when  it  was 
threatened  by  anarchy.  He  must  let  that  suffice  and 
his  reward  will  come  later,  when  all  understand.  It 
is  only  a  question  of  time  when  the  labor  unions  will 
cease  covert  attacks  on  the  .Government,  opposition 
to  the  flag,  attacks  on  the  militia  and  other  hidden 
acts  of  treason,  and  by  desperation,  be  forced  into 
the  open.  They  will  then  declare  themselves  for  a 
red  flag,  for  petroleuseism,  for  anarchy,  rapine  and 
murder. 

Then  the  people  will  rise  in  their  might,  then 
will  the  public  obtain  revenge  for  the  unholy  alliance 
existing  between  labor  bosses  and  the  various  cor- 
porations, against  the  allied  villainies  that  bleed  the 
people.  Then,  and  not  till  then,  may  disinterested 
efforts  to  better  the  condition  of  mankind,  to  keep 
this  a  nation  of  free  men,  expect  a  reward. 

The  losses  that  have  thus  far  accrued  to  individ- 
uals and  corporations  in  the  United  States  by  labor 
strikes  aggregate  more  than  double  the  sum  of  the 
national  debt,  and  labor  always  carries  the  larger 
share  of  such  burdens. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ii,  1904. 


SOUTHERN   CALIFORNIA  WHIST  TOURNA- 
MENT. 

The  Southern  California  Whist  Association  will 
hold  its  spring  meeting  in  the  parlors  of  The  Potter, 
Santa  Barbara,  June  15th,  16th  and  17th.  The  fol- 
lowing cities  are  represented :  Los  Angeles,  Pasa- 
dena, Riverside,  Pomona,  Monrovia,  San  Bernardino, 
Santa  Paula,  Oxnard,  Ventura  and  Santa  Barbara. 
The  programme  selected  by  the  tournament  commit- 
tee will  be  as  follows  : 

First  Event — Wednesday,  June  15,  at  2  p.  m. :  A 
progressive  pair  match,  open  to  all  whist  players, 
whether  members  of  the  association  or  not.  Partners 
to  be  selected  by  each  contestant  before  the  play  com- 
mences, and  entries  to  be  made  not  later  than  1 :50 
p.  m. 

Second  Event — Wednesday,  June  15,  8  p.  m. :  A 
progressive  pair  match,  open  to  all  whist  players," 
whether  members  of  the  association  or  not.  Partners 
to  be  selected  by  each  contestant  before  the  play 
commences,  and  entries  to  be  made  not  later  than 
7:50  p.  m. 

Third  Event — Thursday,  June  16:  The  entire 
day  will  be  given  up  to  a  contest  for  teams  of  four  for 
the  cup  now  held  by  the  Los  Angeles  Club.  Each 
club  is  limited  to  one  team,  and  there  is  a  certainty 
that  a  dozen  teams  will  take  part. 

Fourth  Event — Friday,  June  17:  A  pair  contest  af- 
ternoon and  evening,  under  the  Howell  system,  for 
the  gold  medal  now  held  by  a  Santa  Barbara  couple. 
There  is  no  limit  to  the  number  of  pairs  that  may  be 
entered  from  each  club  in  the  Association  for  this 
occasion. 

These  four  events  will  be  "mixed,"  i.  e.,  two  ladies, 
two  gentlemen,  or  a  lady  and  gentleman  may  play 
together. 


TAXATION  WITHOUT   BENEFIT. 

It  is  to  be  presumed  that  the  county  of  Alameda 
desires  to  encourage  a  growth  in  its  tax  paying  citi- 
zenship. The  ring  of  tax-eating  politicians  at  the 
head  of  affairs  has  arranged  it  this  year  so  that 
the  citizen  of  Alameda  County  cities  pays  a  larger 
proportion  of  the  city  and  county  and  State  tax  than 
any  citizen  in  other  counties.  The  resident  of  the 
city  of  Alameda,  for  instance,  pays  approximately 
$1.25  per  hundred  dollars  of  personal  propcrtv  valu- 
ation, while  the  State  and  county  tax  is  approximately 
$1.35  on  the  same  valuation.  There  is  absolutely  no 
excuse  for  this  excessive  taxation,  and  unless  it  is 
levied  for  the  purpose  of  discouraging  people  re- 
moving from  San  Francisco  across  the  bay,  it  should 
be  reduced  so  as  to  compare  favorably  with  other 
sections  of  California.  If  the  resident  of  Alameda 
County  enjoyed  the  same  benefits  in  improvements 
that  are  enjoyed  in  San  Francisco,  there  would  be 
no  cause  for  complaint.  As  it  is,  there  are  some  of 
the  very  worst  roads  in  the  State  in  Alameda  County, 
and  the  less  said  about  the  condition  of  the  streets 
of  Oakland  the  better. 


Blatant  demogogism  and  rhetorical  rubbish  are 
the  chief  stone  of  the  corner  of  labor  leaders,  while 
the  edifice  itself  is  composed  mostly  of  hatred  of 
sober,  industrious  and  frugal  living,  and  the  founda- 
tion is  composed  of  the  brazen  cheeks  of  walking 
delegates  cemented  together  by  the  blood  of  criminal 
strikes. 


The    Techau    Tavern    is   the    place    to    go   after    the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
Is  reasonable. 


WANTED 

Reliable  party  with  $10,000  can  make 
$100,000.  Security  gilt  edged.  Ref- 
erences required.  No  middlemen,  no 
commissions. 

Address  E.  N.  G. 
Care  of  S.  F.  News  Letter,  320  Sansome  St. 


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Knocks  made   Knox   a   Senator. 


A  French  court  finds  that  a  woman's  teeth  are 
worth  $200.  If  she  keeps  her-  tongue  behind  them, 
the  figure  might  be  raised  a  little. 

President  Joseph  Smith,  head  of  the  .Mormon 
Church,  pays  a  lovely  tribute  to  all  his  numerous 
mothers-in-law. 


I  will  not  be  surprised  if  organized  labor  objects 
to  the  Liberty  bell  on  the  ground  that  it  bears  no 
union   label. 


There  are  three  parties  to  a  prize-fight — the  two 
robbers  in  the  ring  and  the  public  which  pays  to  have 
its  pockets  picked. 

For  the  edification  of  local  labor  unionists  it  may 
be  stated  that  there  is  no  copyright  on  the  Cripple 
Creek  "bull  pen." 

Evidence  is  piling  up  in  the  divorce  courts  and 
elsewhere  to  prove  that  the  American  army  is  not 
made  of  wood. 


Another  negro  student  has  carried  off  high  honors 
at  Harvard,  which  tends  to  show  that  the  color  line 
does  not  run  as  to  brains. 


Prize-fighter  Tom  .Sharkey  has  married  a  trained 
nurse,  who,  let  us  hope,  will  train  him  to  earn  an 
honest  livelihood. 


None  of  the  newspapers  cares  to  use  the  medical 
or  the  popular  term  in  answering  the  question :  What 
is  the  matter  with  Champion  Jeffries? 

The  Building  Trades.  Council  has  appointed  a 
special  committee  to  find  out  who  put  up  that  "houss 
not  builded  with  hands  in  the  heavens  eternal." 


Union  men  go  right  on  keeping  the  peace  in  such 
fashion  that  life  insurance  companies  don't  care  for 
risks  on  non-union  workers. 


A  Massachusetts  newspaper,  published  for  and  by 
women,  has  vanished  after  a  difficulty  closely  resem- 
bling a  cat  fight. 

The  German  boniface  who  tried  to  collect  from 
Susan  B.  Anthony  for  drinkables  by  the  case,  throws 
new  light  on  the  Teutonic  idea'  of  what  constitutes 
a  joke. 


Hearst    failed    to    get    the    support    of    Kentucky. 
I  Itnr>t  isn't  n  Colonel.     Colonel  Bryan  please  apply. 


The  open  shop  seems  to  be  intimately  associated 
with  the  shut  fist. 


An  Illinois  preacher  recommends  life  imprisonment 
for  offenders  against  the  marriage  vow.  He  forgets 
that  sometimes  the  sinner  marries  the  party  of  the 
third  part. 

The  "silly  season"  of  the  newspapers  has  begun — 
a  fact  evidenced  by  the  publication  of  the  annual 
story  about  the  man  who  is  stricken  deaf  and  dumb 
for  blasphemous   denial   of  God's  power. 

The  crack-brained  Oaklander  who  went  shooting 
mad  for  love  of  ex-Mayor  Snow,  belongs  in  the  same 
ward  with  Congressman  Livernash,  who  entertains 
the  same  kind  of  feeling  for  himself. 


The  Kihiuki  is  a  Japanese  organization  which 
welcomes  strangers  to  the  country.  Our  bellicose 
little  neighbors  are  all  notified  that  no  promotion 
committee  is  genuine  unless  the  name  "Rufus  P.  Jen- 
nings" is  blown  in  the  bottle. 


There  are  32,800  workingmen,  mostly  skilled  labor, 
out  of  employment  in  the  United  States  because  and 
only  because  walking  delegates  have  purposely  dis- 
rupted the  friendly  relations  before  existing  between 
employers  and  employees.  Will  the  brains  and  dig- 
nity of  labor  ever  tun  their  own  business? 

The  labor  unions  of  the  United  States  are  support- 
ing over  6,000  organizers,  business  agents  and  walk- 
ing delegates,  which  means  a  tax  of  not  less  than 
$18,000  a  day  on  the  wages  of  those  who  work.  But 
they  must  like  it,  or  they  would  discharge  the  vam- 
pires. 

Rudolph  Speck,  the  financial  secretary  of  the  Brew- 
ery Drivers'  Union,  is  missing,  and  so  are  $4,000  of 
the  union's  cash.  On  the  face  of  this  bit  of  betrayed 
confidence  and  theft  nothing  very  startling  is  ob- 
servable. Speck  is  a  criminal  and  a  refuge  from  jus- 
tice, but  is  he  not  merely  the  effect  of  a  cause — a  cause 
born  of  an  organized  conspiracy  against  the  power 
that  feeds  labor?  Speck  is  the  fruit  of  the  poison 
weeds  in  labor's  fallow  fields. 


Andrew  Carnegie,  lecturing  lately  to  the  students 
of  Edinburgh  University,  said  that  his  aim  was  to 
find  men  who  were  cleverer  than  himself,  and  use 
them.  The  sentiment  was  received  with  loud  ap- 
plause and  laughter  by  the  students,  Scotch  students 
who  study  on  porridge  and  had  only  ideals  to  support 
them.  The  difference  between  Carnegie  and  Mayor 
Schmitz  is  obvious.  The  latter  is  found  by  a  cleverer 
man  than  himself  and  used  bv  him. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


AGAIN  COLORADO'S   CRIMSON  CROWN. 

Injustice  and  crime  begets  crime  and  injustice. 
Colorado,  in  its  haste  to  overcome  the  evils  of  union- 
ism, has  adopted,  through  the  Mine  Owners'  Associa- 
tion, practices  that  are  just  as  reprehensible  as  those 
of  the  Western  Federation  of  Labor  or  the  Mine 
Workers'  Association.  No  C.  C.  Mitchell,  no  Demolli, 
or  other  leader,  foreign  or  renegade  American,  could 
bethink  himself  of  more  lawless  methods  than  those 
adopted  in  Colorado  to  rid  the  community  of  the 
criminal  element  who  control  the  mining  unions.  The 
Xews  Letter  believes  in  punishment  swift,  sudden  and 
sure  for  the  miscreants  who  blew  up  the  depot  at 
Victor,  but  it  does  not  believe  in  the  wholesale  depor- 
tation of  innocent  and  hard-working  men,  simply 
because  they  belong  to  a  union. 

It  can  easily  be  conceived  that  a  community  will 
become  enraged  at  the  leaders  of  a  union  such  as  the 
Western  Federation,  and  that  it  will  seek  revenge 
for  the  outrages  committed  by  the  unions.  But  it  is 
no  excuse  for  using  the  very  methods  practiced  by 
the  Federation,  in  fighting  the  Federation.  There 
are  a  large  number  of  men  in  California  to-day  who 
were  forced  out  of  the  Coeur  dAlene  region  of  Idaho 
by  the  unions.  From  there  they  went  to  the  Colo- 
rado mines,  only  to  find  that  the  unions  had  marked 
them  tabu,  and  while  the  unions  had  the  upper  hand 
these  men  were  forced  to  leave  Colorado. 

And  now  intelligent  men,  not  the  low  foreign  scum 
that  operates  the  mines,  but  the  owners  themselves, 
associated  with  merchants,  doctors,  lawyers  and  min- 
isters, take  the  same  measures,  take  the  law  in  their 
own  hands,  and  deprive  freemen  of  the  right  to  labor 
and  the  pursuit  of  happiness. 

Xo  blame  can  be  attached  to  the  military  authori- 
ties. They  are  doing  their  duty,  and  they  are  doing 
it  well.  It  is  the  civil  authorities  and  the  civilian  as- 
sociations who  are  overstepping  the  bounds,  and  they 
should  be  called  to  account  by  the  Governor.  Punish 
the  guilty,  but  spare  the  innocent.  There  is  enough 
law  in  the  land  and  on  the  statute  books  to  provide 
punishment  for  any  crime  that  may  be  invented  by 
the  most  cunning  and  clever  labor  leader  in  the  land 
without  having  recourse  to  union  labor  methods.  The 
Republic  cannot  endure  and  such  practices  continue. 

THE  PEN  IS  MIGHTIER  THAN  THE  SWORD— 
BUT— 

The  stream  of  hot  air  wdiich  nocturnally  ascends 
from  the  Southern  end  of  Grant  avenue  was  rudely 
interrupted  shortly  before  midnight  Sunday  by  an 
appeal  to  force  which  nearly  resulted  in  a  general  riot. 

A  young  Cicero,  a  well-known  frequenter  of  this 
wordy  region  of  the  city,  and  a  diligent  vituperator 
in  the  cause  of  Socialism,  found  himself  getting  the 
worst  of  a  verbal  war  with  a  lank  and  somewhat  older 
Demosthenes  with  Labor  Union  affiliations.  The  ar- 
guments were  being  exchanged  in  volleys  until 
Cicero's  ammunition  gave  out,  and  he  thought  to 
substitute  an  epithet.  The  word  he  applied  to  De- 
mosthenes is  unprintable,  and  sounded  like  a  thun- 
derbolt tearing  to  pieces  a  hemlock  tree.  Instantly 
Demosthenes  abandoned  argument  also,  and  swung 
with  his  good  right  fist,  landing  on  the  other's  lower 
jaw  with  terrific  force.  Wounded  in  his  most  vital 
part.  Cicero  fell,  and  was  only  prevented  from  biting 
the  dust  by  the  fact  that  he  had  no  teeth  in  the  back 
of  his  head.  Wild  riot  ensued,  and  for  a  minute  De- 
mosthenes seemed  to  be  fighting  fifty  men  at  once. 
But  he  had  secret  friends  in  the  crowd  who  came  be- 
tween him  and  serious  injury,  and  he  managed  to  slip 


away.  The  angel  of  peace  arrived,  therefore,  before 
any  one  was  seriously  hurt,  and  of  course  long  before 
the  police  arrived  upon  the  scene. 

It  is  the  custom  for  self-appointed  orators  to  col- 
lect little  crowdsand  animadvert  upon  everything  in 
existence  night  after  night  in  this  quarter  of  the  city. 
Free  speech  is  a  sacred  institution,  nut  it  suffers  great 
abuse,  especially  when  insult  and  slander  of  the  most 
personal  nature  is  hurled  recklessly  at  any  one  who 
dares  to  differ  in  opinion  from  one  of  these  leather- 
lunged  philosophers.  Some  night,  in  answer  to  a 
personal  insult,  some  hot-head  will  draw  a  revolver, 
and  Grant  avenue  will  look  more  like  Colorado  than 
it  did  Sunday.  Such  scenes  as  are  enacted  upon  the 
thoroughfare  in  question  between  Market  street  and 
O'Farrell  would  not  be  tolerated  in  any  other  city 
in  the  Union,  and  should  not  be  tolerated  in  San 
Francisco.  Citizens  who  use  the  public  highways  for 
discussion  should  be  compelled  to  confine  themselves 
to  sane  and  decent  language  in  the  interests  of  order. 

A   RAILROAD   STRIKE  ENDED. 

The  Santa  Fe  Railway  strike  is  over,  and  the 
"Strike  Historian"  will  put  it  down  as  the  most  dis- 
mal failure  of  this  age  of  strikes.  AH  the  strikers  are 
hunting  jobs  elsewhere,  their  places  having  been  filled 
by  new  men,  and  as  President  Ripley  laconically  ob- 
serves, "We  have  better  men  now  than  we  had  before 
the  strike";  besides,  the  offerings  of  skilled  mechan- 
ics are  "large  enough  to  stand  a  new  railroad,"  ami 
the  same  is  true  of  all  lines  of  labor.  The  strike  was 
inaugurated  by  walking  delegates  without  any  cause 
other  than  a  feeling  that  they  would  lose  their  jobs 
if  "something  was  not  done."  The  machinists  were 
first  inveigled  into  the  insane  movement,  and  rein- 
forcements being  needed  at  once,  the  boiler-makers 
were  persuaded  to  do  the  "sympathetic  act"  by  throw- 
ing down  their  tools.  Labor  undoubtedly  has  just 
and  honest  grievances  at  times,  and  occasionally  capi- 
tal refuses  to  grant  to  labor  its  just  dues,  but  always 
and  all  the  time  labor  has  a  just,  honest  and  abiding 
grievance  against  that  miserable,  mischief-making 
creation  of  its  own — the  walking  delegate.  He  should 
be  called  "labor's  walking  fire-brand  and  wrecker  of 
labor's  opportunity  for  employment."  He  is  labor's 
worst  enemy.  He  is  labor's  evil  genius.  He  is  labor's 
Benedict  Arnold.  He  is  a  black-mailer.  He  is  a 
snake  in  labor's  hav  field. 


THE  SUCCESS  OF  THE  UNWASHED. 

The  successful  election  of  a  fiddler  in  San  Fran- 
cisco to  the  office  of  Mayor  was  a  great  mistake.  The 
people  see  it  now.  The  election  of  Livernash  to  Con- 
gress was  another  mistake.  The  people  see  it  now. 
What  have  these  two  worthies  done  that  entitles 
them  to  the  thanks  of  the  public  in  general  ?  Noth- 
ing. What  have  they  done  that  entitles  them  to 
the  thanks  of  the  union  element  and  the  lawbreakers 
in  this  community?    Nothing. 

It  is  to  this  element  they  owe  their  election,  an  I 
yet  they  have  not  in  any  way  ameliorated  the  con- 
dition of  the  poor  and  lowly,  the  parasite  and  the  in- 
digent, the  union  laborer  and  the  agitator.  Locally, 
the  only  visible  improvement  is  in  the  Schmitz  fam- 
ily. It  has  acquired  sufficient  polish  to  avoid  the 
attention  of  the  health  officers.  A  few  of  the  local 
labor  bosses  have  learned  to  wash  their  necks,  and 
some  have  stopped  combing  their  hair  with  their 
forks.  There  are  a  few  who  occasionally  bathe.  This 
improvement,  while  commendable,  is,  we  fear,  only 
temporary. 

The  only  visible   effect  of  the  Livernash  success 


June  18.  1904. 


has  been  that  a  large  number  of  the  insane  incarcer- 
ated because  of  homicidal  tendencies  in  the  various 
uns  of  the  State  arc  giving  trouble.  They  hi  - 
lieve  the  people  should  give  them  all  recognition 
and  send  them  to  Congress,  Stunming  up  the  present 
Condition  carefully  and  impartially,  while  we  admit 
that  there  is  something  in  the  contention  to  send  the 
insane  to  Congress,  the  tendency  baa  been  bad  and 
the  influence  on  the  public  noxious.  It  has  encour- 
aged crime,  and,  worse  than  that,  the  success  of  the 
representatives  of  the  uncouth  and  the  unwashed 
has  had  the  effect  of  encouraging  the  Hearst  paper. 
And  as  the  Hearst  is  the  official  organ  of  the  vicious 
element,  we  must  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the 
encouragement  of  crime  is  the  only  net  result  of  the 
election  of  Schmitz  or  Livernash. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

IGNORANT   MISREPRESENTATION. 


"THE   HOUSE   IS   VOUR'N." 

The  Triennial  Conclave  will  bring  to  San  Francisco 
the  greatest  body  of  men  that  ever  have  or  ever  will 
come  to  California.  The  Knights  Templar  of  the 
United  States  are  a  remarkable  aggregation  of  men 
of  brains  and  intelligence.  Nowhere  in  all  the  world 
has  the  spirit  of  knighthood  been  so  thoroughly  fol- 
lowed to  a  logical  conclusion  as  in  the  greatest  of 
all  republics.  The  body  was  originally  founded  in 
a  spirit  of  rivalry  in  noble  deeds,  and  while  to  our 
modern  eyes  many  of  the  expeditions  and  doings 
in  the  jousts  seem  but  the  idle  tales  of  a  jongleur,  it 
has  remained  for  the  modern  Templar  to  place  the 
deeds  of  the  paladins  of  old  on  the  basis  of  practi- 
cal modernism,  and  this  modernism  has  meant  that 
the  order  stands  for  better  citizenship  and  truer  rela- 
tionship between  man  and  man.  The  world  is  bet- 
ter for  the  Knights  Templar. 

San  Francisco  will  do  its  utmost  to  welcome  the 
gentlemen  who  wander  to  California  from  the  rock- 
ribbed  shores  of  Maine  or  the  codfish  banks  of  Massa- 
chusetts. It  will  extend  the  arms  of  welcome  to  the 
Knight  of  the  Carolinas  and  the  Templar  from  Ten- 
nessee, and  from  wherever  he  may  come,  from  the 
farthest  shpres  of  Florida  or  Hawaii's  hula  groves,  he 
may  rest  assured  his  reception  will  be  markedly 
courteous  and  warm. 

The  Knights  are  all  men  of  means  and  manners, 
and  with  the  old  Californian  hospitality  we  stretch 
our  hands  to  the  four  winds  of  heaven  and  bid  ye 
welcome.     "The  house  is  your'n." 

THE  FEUD  BETWEEN  THE  SCHMITZES  AND 
THE  SMITHSES. 

The  directory  says  that  there  are  1320  Smiths  in 
San  Francisco.  It's  a  mighty  good  thing  for  our 
Mayor  that  his  is  the  German  'Schmitz"  branch 
of  the  family,  or  he  would  bankrupt  the  city  by  his 
perfect  system  of  nepotism.  Some  say  that  in  his 
early  youth  he  changed  his  name  from  "Schnitz"  to 
Schmitz.  Schnitz  means  small,  and  unkind  folks 
used  to  say  that  the  name  was  particularly  fitting. 
The  Mayor  has  taken  a  particular  dislike  to  all  that 
bear  the  name  of  Smith,  and  it  is  said  he  has  vowed 
never  to  countenance  the  employment  of  any  man 
by  that  name.  This  is  given  as  the  secret  reason  for 
the  discharge  of  the  dairy  inspector.  The  Smiths 
have  the  strength  of  numbers,  however,  and  it  is 
probable  that  in  the  long  run  they  will  outvote  and 
in  other  ways  outnumber  the  Schmitz  tribe.  There 
is  one  thing  the  Smiths  cannot  do.  No  matter  how 
great  their  numbers,  they  will  never  be  able  to  hold 
as  many  offices  nor  provide  for  as  many  poor  rela- 
tions as  the  Schmitzes. 


Mr.  Ion  Perdicaris,  whose  capture  by  brigands  has 

made  quite  an  international  stir,  has  been  the  victim 

much  ignorant  misrepresentation  at  the  hands 

of  the  press  that  a  few  words  of  correct  inn  are  neC 
He  is  an  American  by  birth,  and  a  man  of 
great  wealth  and  refinement,  He  is  a  friend  of  many 
of  the  most  prominent  intellectual  people  in  the 
European  world  of  letters,  and  is  known  everywhere 
for  his  extreme  generosity  to  Americans  in  distress. 
It  is  the  second  time  that  he  has  been  arrested,  the 
first  time  being  for  his  efforts  to  stamp  out  tin-  notor- 
ious  protege  system  in  Morocco.  He  has  always  de- 
fended the  Mahommedans  against  the  extortions  of 
both  Christians  and  Jews,  and  it  is  verv  strange  to 
find  that  he  is  held  by  a  Mahommedan  chief,  Raisuli. 
who  is  in  revolt  against  the  Sultan  of  Morocco,  and 
has  taken  this  means  of  securing  funds.  With  him 
is  his  stepson,  Mr.  Cromwell  Varley,  a  descendant 
of  Oliver  Cromwell.  Mr.  Perdicaris  is  well  known  as 
a  philanthropist,  and  his  efforts  to  secure  the  release 
of  Moors  who  have  been  imprisoned  by  usurers  act- 
ing under  the  protection  of  the  American  flag,  have 
gained  for  him  a  great  reputation  among  the  peo- 
ple, which  accounts  for  the  kindness  with  which  he 
is  being  treated.  That  Raisuli  does  not  always  show 
such  consideration  is  evident  from  the  hard  usage 
which  Mr.  Walter  Harris,  correspondent  for  the 
Times,  received  at  his  hands  last  year. 


CHORAL  SOCIETIES  TO  SING  AT  THE  PARK. 

The  Park  Commissioners  have  struck  a  good  idea 
in  that  suggestion  to  have  choral  societies  sing  at  the 
Park.  It  is  a  most  commendable  project,  and  there 
is  no  doubt  that  it  will  meet  with  popular  approval 
and  deserved  success.  San  Francisco  has  always 
been  known  for  the  artistic  sensibilities  of  its  cos- 
mopolitan population.  We  have  supported  the  only 
continuous  opera  house  in  the  country  for  twenty 
years;  we  always  turn  out  and  give  the  glad  hand 
and  the  bright  dollar  to  visitors  who  bring  us  good 
things  from  abroad ;  our  Sunday  concerts  in  the  Park 
are  almost  unique,  and  the  people  will  certainly  ap- 
preciate any  endeavor  to  increase  their  opportunities 
to  hear  and  enjov  good  music.  There  are  many 
singing  societies  in  town,  all  of  which,  I  think,  will 
eagerly  participate  in  the  chorals  at  the  Park.  There 
is  no  reason  why,  in  time,  the  interest  in  the  chorals 
should  not  develop  so  much  that  we  may  have  a 
competitive  song-fest  similar  to  those  held  in  Ger- 
many. The  Commissioners  and  Director  Steindorff 
should  receive  every  encouragement  in  the  work 
they  have  undertaken. 


PETTY  THIEVERY. 

More  books  have  been  stolen  from  the  State  Uni- 
versity. Whenever  a  stock-taking  is  made  at  this 
institution,  there  is  always  found  an  unaccountable 
deficiency  for  which  the  students  are  responsible. 
The  connection  between  crime  and  education  is  firm- 
ly established  at  Berkeley.  This  time  the  books  taken 
are  of  a  religious  character,  which  would  seem  to  im- 
ply that  the  fraud  was  pious,  and  that  the  Young 
Men's  and  Young  Women's  Christian  Associations 
might  be  involved.  Further  investigation,  however, 
shows  that  the  books  possessed  a  pecuniary  value 
by  reason  of  their  rarity,  in  addition  to  their  spirit- 
ual worth.  This  would  give  rise  to  the  belief  that 
some  one  who  is  possessed  of  more  intelligence  than 
the  members  of  the  societies  mentioned  had  got  hold 
of  a  good  thing. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
BANISH  THE  PRIZE-FIGHTER 

California  is  about  the  only  place  left  on  the  map 


of  the  United  States  where  the  plug-uglies  of  the 
prize-ring  are  permitted  to  carry  on  their  bunko  game 
without  fear  of  the  law.  It  is  the  Mecca  of  the  sod- 
den brutes  who  pummel — or  pretend  to  pummel — 
each  other  for  hire.  Driven  out  elsewhere  by  enforce- 
ment of  the  vagrancy  law,  they  come  to  California, 
they  and  their  unspeakable  womenkind,  and  prey  up- 
on the  same  foolish  public  which  is  making  a  syndi- 
cate of  crooked  race  gamblers  rich.  These  broken- 
nosed  swaggerers,  working  through  a  coterie  of  fight- 
promoters  who  would  be  honored  if  one  were  to 
write  of  them  as  swindlers,  manage  to  support  them- 
selves and  their  trainers  of  male  and  female  camp- 
followers  by  occasional  thumping  matches  held  in 
the  largest  halls  that  we  have.  These  affairs  draw 
vast  crowds  and  yield  large  sums  of  money.  They 
pay  nothing  for  advertising,  and  yet  are  announced 
and  puffed  and  boomed  by  all  the  newspapers,  as. 
if  they  were  events  of  world-wide  consequence.  The 
most  mealy-mouthed  of  the  newspapers  disfigure 
their  columns  day  after  day  with  gross  illustrations 
showing  the  disgustful  nakedness  of  the  huge,  hairy 
animals  that  are  to  "battle"  in  the  ring.  The  articles 
are  coarse  and  foolish ;  the  pictures  are  sheer  ob- 
scenity. Whatever  influence  for  good  the  news- 
papers put  forth  in  their  editorials  and  their  articles 
dealing  with  the  humanites  and  the  decencies  of  life 
is  offset  and  nullified  by  their  alliance  with  the  de- 
basements of  the  prize-ring.  How  the  newspapers 
justify  their  attitude  toward  this  evil  is  a  mystery. 
And  not  only  do  the  newspapers  sin  by  association 
with  the  bruisers,  but  so,  full  as  heinously,  do  the 
officers  of  our  Government,  city  and  State,  who  not 
only  permit  prize-fights,  under  the  name  of  "boxing 
contests,"  but  abet  them  by  their  presence.  Some 
city  officials  are  actually  in  the  business  of  arrang- 
ing these  nauseous  swindles,  devoting  to  this  end 
time  for  which  the  city  pays  them  to  do  its  work. 

It  would  be  foolish  to  call  upon  the  constituted  au- 
thorities of  the  city  to  stop  any  of  these  prize-fights 
and  equally  foolish  to  demand  of  the  newspapers  that 
they  tell  the  truth  about  the  "fights"  or  the  "fight- 
ers," but  unless  we  are  much  mistaken  it  lies  in  the 
hands  of  any  courageous  and  law-loving  citizen  to 
enforce  the  State  law  against  prize-fights,  or  if  no 
sufficient  law  exists,  to  secure  the  enaction  of  such 
a  statute  as  would  banish  the  plug-uglies.  We  hope' 
that  some  such  citizen  will  soon  attack  this  evil.  He 
may  rely  upon  the  support  of  a  majority  of  the  tax- 
payers, who  regard  the  "fighters"  and  their  adher- 
ents as  little  better  than  the  crooks  and  thugs  who  fill 
our  State  prisons.  He  may  count  upon  the  support 
of  the  News  Letter  in  any  campaign  for  making  the 
Jeffries  and  the  Munros  and  all  their  kidney  go  to 
work  or  to  jail. 

HEARST  AN  INCITER  OF  RIOTS. 

One  would  prefer  to  see  in  the  frequent  attacks 
on  automobilists  in  and  about  New  York  only  a 
sporadic  hoodlumism.  but  the  unpleasant  truth  is  that 
these  are  manifestations  of  class-hatred — the  class- 
hatred  so  carefully  nurtured  and  stimulated  by  Hearst 
and  all  his  yellow  breed.  Personally  Hearst  is — or 
was — a  rich  man;  personally  his  sympathies  are 
where  the  money  is.  It  is  only  for  political  purposes 
that  he  cultivates  the  poor  man  and  teaches  him 
to  hate  and  to  harry  the  man  whose  name  is  on  the 
assessment  role.  Part  of  this  abominable  campaign 
of  incitement  to  mob  fury  includes  the  automobile, 
which  Hearst's  papers  delight  to  call  "the  plaything 
of  the  rich,"  and  to  picture  as  a  gigantic,  swift  car 


June  18,  1904. 

of  Juggernaut,  driven  over  the  bodies  of  the  hapless 
poor.  In  this  false  creed,  one  of  the  prime  articles 
of  faith  is  the  belief  that  to  be  rich  is  to  be  criminal. 
And  the  criminal  rich  man,  as  Hearst  and  Hearst's 
dupes  see  him,  finds  his  highest  pleasure  in  tearing 
up  and  down  streets  in  his  "devil  wagon,"  maiming 
and  killing  the  proletariat. 

The  early  consequences  of  this  propaganda  are  at 
hand.  Daily,  men  and  women  in  automobiles  are 
stoned  and  otherwise  assaulted  by  rowdies  in  New 
York  and  its  environs.  Their  valuable  cars  are 
damaged,  and  they  themselves  are  injured,  seriously 
as  well  as  painfully.  These  attacks  are  not  inspired 
by  any  desire  for  revenge,  nor  are  they  due  to  the 
fact  that  those  attacked  are  infringing  upon  anv 
right  or  privilege  of  those  attacking.  These  assaults 
are  made  wholly  and  solely  because  the  element  in 
the  community  most  easily  misled  into  the  breaking 
of  laws  has  been  taught  to  believe  that  any  one  who 
rides  an  automobile  is  rich,  and  therefore,  in  fact 
or  in  design,  a  murderer  of  the  poor. 

Hearst  knows  that  the  automobile  is  no  more  the 
"plaything  of  the  rich"  than  is  the  more  familiar 
"horse  and  buggy."  He  knows  that  it  has  come  to 
stay  and  to  do  an  increasing  amount  of  the  world's 
work.  He  knows  that  it  is  used  for  business  and  for 
pleasure  by  thousands  of  persons  who  are  very  far 
from  being  rich.  He  knows  how  deadly  is  the  disease 
with  which  he  is  inoculating  the  people,  arraying 
class  against  class  and  urging  them  on  to  warfare. 
The  automobile,  useful  and  bound  to  be  still  more 
useful,  is  simply  a  target  and  a  pretext,  a  means  of 
stirring  up  the  strife  out  of  which  he  hopes  to  snatch 
a  little  power  and  a  little  glory. 

This  same  Hearst  is  supposed  to  be  the  publisher 
of  Motor,  a  journal  issued  for  automobile  manufac- 
turers. Advertisers  of  horseless  vehicles  will  surely 
know  where  not  to  place  their  advertising  after  this 
experience. 

The  Trousseau  Magazine  Supplements  of  the  yel- 
low press  are  also  responsible  for  the  outrageous  be- 
havior of  the  people  attending  the  wedding  of  Mr. 
Robert  Goelet  and  Miss  Elsie  Whelan.  Such  indecent 
conduct  could  not  occur  in  San  Francisco,  for  the 
people  of  this  city  are  not  swayed  hither  and  yon 
by  the  prurient  Hearst  details.  That  a  sweet  and  in- 
nocent young  woman  like  Mrs.  Goelet,  and  a  reserved 
and  kindly  young  gentleman  like  her  husband,  should 
be  subject  to  the  affright  of  a  mob  of  Hearst's  fol- 
lowers, previously  apprised  and  egged  on  bv  the  de- 
tails of  the  wedding-that-was-to-be  bv  his  loath- 
some newspapers  f  is  a  disgrace  to  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania and  the  nation  in  general. 


UCHAS.  KLILUS  fir  COJJ 

&£XCL  US/ 1/£  & 

HIGH  GRADE. CLOTH ILRS 

Suggestions  of  money  saving  are  not  the  incentives 
we  offer  to  purchase  clothes  here.  It's  the  creations 
we  show  that  emanate  from  premier  designers,  whose 
talents  with  shears,  needle  and  brain  are  of  the  high- 
est class.  Correct  dressers  say,  "Immediate  Service 
Clothes,"  for  theirs. 


June  t8,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


kWaSggUlff  LIBRARY  TABLEAU? 


The   Alaska      Packer-  ition 

The  Alaskan  lias  published  a  l>.>ok  from  a 
Boundary.  sideration  of  the  Alaska  Boundary 
question,  preparer]  bv  the  well- 
known  geographer,  George  Davidson.  Though  the 
question  of  the  boundary  has  now  been  settled,  there 
arc  few  people,  who,  having  looked  over  this  volume, 
will  not  endorse  the  statement  of  the  publisher  that 
it  is  "of  inestimable  worth  as  an  historical  and  geo- 
graphical treatise  on  that  subject."  It  follows,  there- 
fore, that  the  decision  to  publish  it  is  a  wise  one,  and 
one  can  only  echo  the  hope  of  the  publishers  that 
"the  public  will  not  fail  to  appreciate  the  labors  of 
the  venerable  author,  whose  comprehensive  and 
scientific  learning  and  indomitable  energv  have  been 
so  faithfully  employed." 

The  conclusions  of  Professor  Davidson  are  that 
"Great  Britain  has  no  claim  whatever  to  the  border 
of  the  country  surrounding  the  archipelago."  He 
sums  up:  "I  have  not  hesitated  to  assert  that  the 
I  nited  States  has  an  impregnable  right  to  the  terri- 
tory and  the  dominion  thereof,  and  that  this  is  a 
question  which  should  never  have  been  submitted 
to  arbitration."  The  author  shows  by  reference  to 
his  labors  in  connection  with  exploring  parties  and 
with  official  work  on  behalf  of  the  United  States 
Government  how  well  equipped  he  is  for  the  task 
which  has  been  undertaken  by  him.  He  says:  "We 
have  been  thus  prolix  to  indicate  that  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Alaska  subject  is  not  new  to  us,  nor  a  mere 
sentiment.  In  forty-five  years  of  continuous  official 
duty  upon  this  Coast,  we  have  examined  all  the  early 
Spanish,  English,  French,  American  and  Russian  au- 
thorities in  order  to  learn  the  extent  and  .locality  of 
their  discoveries,  and  give  the  origin  of  the  name's  of 
capes,  bays,  rivers  and  straits." 

The  style  of  the  book  may  be  highlv  praised.  It 
is  well-bound,  well-printed,  and  'very  convenient  to 
handle.  The  full  text  of  the  treatise  is  set  out,  and 
there  can  be  no  fault  found  with  the  arrangement  of 
the  matter. 

Charles  Keeler,  author  of 
The  Simple  Home.  "San  Francisco  and  There- 
about," a  book  that  has  made 
quite  a  name  for  a  very  graceful  writer,  has  written 
another,  but  less  ambitious  work.  It  is  a  compilation 
of  original  ideas  regarding  the  building  and  the  fur- 
nishing of  a  home  in  good  taste,  and  without  extra- 
ordinary expense.  So  much  is  being  written  on  this 
subject  that  "The  Simple  Home"  cannot  be  said  to 
be  "filling  a  long-felt  want."  The  book  is  entertain- 
ing, however,  and  may  furnish  a  valuable  hint  to 
many  a  home-builder  and  furnisher.  The  preface, 
as  the  keynote  to  the  essays  which  follow,  states  that 
architecture,  being  the  most  utilitarian  of  the  arts, 
is  the  basis  of  other  expressions  of  the  ideal,  and  that 
an  improvement  in  home-making  should  underlie 
reform  in  all  the  arts.  The  chief  value  of  the  little 
book  lies  in  its  practical  suggestions,  in  its  discus- 
sions of  materials,  their  treatment  and  use — clinker 
brick,  shingles  and  plaster  for  exteriors ;  wood  and 
plaster  variously  treated  with  construction  showing, 
for  interiors..  The  texture  and  decoration  of  fabrics 
are  given  attention,  the  making  of  furniture,  the 
framing  of  pictures,  the  general  use  of  ornamentation, 
etc.  The  chapter  on  gardens  will  be  found  helpful 
for  the  suburban  home  with  flat  or  hilly  environment, 
for  the  city  home,  the  roof  garden  or  the  tenement 


house.  The  book  is  furnished  witli  practical  binding 
and  one  that  is  almost  imperishable. 

Paul  Klder  it  Co..  San   Francisco.  75  cents. 

In  "The  Alternate  Sex,"  Charles  Godfrey  1. eland 
gives  students  of  sexual  is  much  food  for  thought. 

He  has  a  definite  theme,  and  his  thoughts  are  coher- 
ent. He  dips  his  hand  into  his  inexhaustible  scrip  of 
genius  and  scatters  star-dust,  but  under  the  central 
attraction  it  arranges  itself  into  something  like  cos- 
mic order.  However  nebulous  each  separate  idea 
may  be,  taken  together  they  form  a  point  of  light 
not  unlike  a  new-born  star.  The  author  claims  that 
men  and  women  are,  in  strict  accordance  with  the 
opinion  of  the  most  recent  physiologists,  radically 
different  as  regards  both  body  and  mind,  although 
social  or  domestic  life  has  given  them  much  in  com- 
mon. 

Funk  6k  Wagnalls,  Publishers,  New  York.  Price 
$1.00. 

In  "Evelyn  Bird,"  the  third  and  last  of  Mr.  Eggle- 
ston's  romances  of  the  Civil  War,  the  story  is  told  of 
a  high-minded  and  courageous  Southerner,  who  joins 
the  army  of  Lee  at  the  time  when  the  Confederacy 
is  making  its  last  desperate  stand.  He  rescues  a  girl 
from  a  burning  house,  in  the  midst  of  an  artillery 
engagement,  at  hazard  of  his  life,  and  afterwards  falls 
in  love  with  her,  but  is  withheld  from  declaring  him- 
self by  a  too  scrupulous  sense  of  duty.  In  the  end, 
however,  his  enemy,  dying,  removes  by  his  confes- 
sion the  stain  from  the  soldier's  honor,  and  inciden- 
tally throws  some  light  on  the  history  of  his  sweet- 
heart— an  absorbing  story  in  itself,  as  afterwards 
set  down  in  the  "book"  which  she  writes  with  her 
own  hand.  The  heroic  fortitude  and  devotion  of  the 
people  of  the  South  in  the  last  stage  of  the  war  are 
strikingly    shown. 

Lothrop  &  Co.,  Publishers,  Boston. 

One  of  the  literary  creations  of  the  year  has  ar- 
rived in  the  shape  of  a  book  written  by  Forrest  Cris- 
sey,  a  well-known  Western  author,  called  "Tattlings 
of  a  Retired  Politician."  The  literary  form,  which 
is  a  series  of  letters  written  by  old  Governor  Bill 
Bradley,  a  retired  politician,  to  his  young  friend  back 
in  the  old  district,  is  merely  a  vehicle  for  carrying 
an  immense  fund  of  political  epigrams  and  wisdom 
and  a  succession  of  snappy  and  pointed  political 
stories. 

Thompson   &  Thomas,   Chicago,   publishers. 


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June  18,  1904. 


THE  LOOKER-ON 


Whatever  may  have  been  the  causes  leading  to  the 

suicide  of  Captain  Wild  last  week,  the  effect  has  been 

to  add   another  burden  to  the   disgrace   that   many 

scandals  have  placed  upon  the  army  and  its  officers. 

There  seems  to  be  no  end  to  the  army  scandals.  The 

Madden  affair  afforded  gossip  over  the  tea-cups  and 

in  the  club-rooms  for  months;  the  Pitcher  business 

caused  almost  as  much  talk;  now  comes  the  suicide 

of  Captain  Wild,  and  the  very  latest  morsel  is  that 

Major  Taggart,  of  the  Sixth  Infantry,  on  duty  in  this 

city  as  Depot  Quartermaster,  has  sued  his  wife  for 

divorce   on   the   ground   of   desertion   and   improper 

conduct.     Incidentally,  several  gay  Lieutenants  have 

been  placed  under  arrest  for  breaking  leave,  and  at 

present  two  are  confined  to  their  quarters  at  Angel 

Island  because,  notwithstanding  the  paternal  advice. 

of  their  Colonel,  they  persisted  in  treading  the  path 

of  dalliance.     And  at  the  bottom  of  each   of  these 

many  and  various  affairs,  as  a  matter  of  course,  is  a 

woman.    The  strange  thing  is  that  the  army  officers 

who   manage  to   force  themselves  and   their  affairs 

into  public  notice  should  throw  away  their  chances 

of  advancement  and  risk  their  entire  careers  for  some 

women  who,  from  all  accounts,  are  really  not  worth 

the  while. 

*  *  * 

Now,  there  was  Captain  Wild,  for  instance.  Some 
of  his  friends  say  he  killed  himself  because  his  love 
was  unrequited.  That  does  seem  a  rather  puerile 
excuse  in  these  days  of  divorce  courts  and  material- 
ism. The  lady  for  whom  he  sighed  had  other  strings 
to  her  bow,  for.  it  is  said,  she  had  had  an  affair  with 
Colonel  Parker  Whitney  West.  Incidentally,  as  a 
sort  of  side  issue,  she  was  also  on  friendly  terms 
with  an  enterprising  adventurer  known  to  the  police 
as  the  King  of  the  Bunco  Men.  His  picture  may  be 
found  in  the  Rogue's  Gallery.  With  so  much  opposi- 
tion, the  story  goes,  Captain  Wild  made  but  little 
progress.  So  he  killed  himself.  If  his  friends'  theory 
be  correct,  and  if  he  was  led  to  take  his  life  because 
the  lady's  smiles  were  not  for  him  alone,  then  one 
can  simply  say  that  the  methods  of  some  men  are 
past  ordinary  understanding.  Here  was  a  man  in 
his  forties ;  a  man  who  knew  life  as  only  such  knowl- 
edge can  come  to  a  soldier  who  has  faced  death  in 
battle  ;  a  man  who  had  wandered  up  and  down  the 
earth  for  a  quarter  century ;  one  who  was  popular 
with  his  fellows,  and  who  apparently  enjoyed  every 
moment  of  existence — snuffing  out  his  life  because 
of  a  bunco  man.     It  seems  hardly  real. 

These  many  scandals  should  convince  the  authori- 
ties at  Washington  that  social  conditions  in  the  army 
need  reformation.  The  officers  should  be  given  more 
to  do  in  the  line  of  serious  work.  No  real  man  wants 
to  be  bothered  with  the  petty  details  of  canteen  and 
commissariat  drudgery,  but  many  would  receive  with 
pleasure  orders  that  would  require  them  to  give  more 
of  their  attention  to  the  important  work  of  their 
profession.  At  present,  a  large  percentage  of  the 
officers  seem  to  think  their  positions  entitle  them 
to  the  full  enjoyment  of  a  somewhat  lazy  existence, 
with  all  the  attendant  circumstances  and  temptations. 
Harder  work  and  stricter  surveillance  by  superiors 
should  effect  some  reformation. 

The  publishers  of  that  much-discussed  peerage 
book  of  America  are  certainly  daring  men.  They  pro- 
pose giving  an  awaiting  world  the  full  genealogical 


history  of  all  the  men  and  women  in  America  who 
are  entitled  to  armorial  bearings.  Neither  wealth 
nor  pulchritude  is  to  have  weight  in  considering  the 
claims  of  the  elect.  The  name  must  be  blown  in  the 
bottle ;  the  blood  must  be  of  the  deepest  cerulean  be- 
fore the  applicant  for  fame  may  have  his  name  en- 
rolled among  the  country's  truly  great.  Only  the 
really  old  families  will  be  recognized.  No  one  who 
did  not  know  his  grandfather  will  be  given  a  chance. 
That  condition  may  bar  many  of  our  local  leaders  of 
society,  but  there  is  satisfaction  in  the  knowledge 
that  there  are  among  us  some  who  came  from  "away 
back."  There  is  Bishop  Nichols,  for  instance  ;  Sena- 
tor Bard,  former  Governor  Markham,  the  Kips,  Tom 
Fitch,  E.  F.  Preston,  the  Barnes,  the  Bidwells  and 
the  Cutters;  William  T.  Dutton  and  John  Ferrie,  Cap- 
tain Overton.  C.  P.  Fenner,  Charles  Archard,  E.  T. 
Ward,  and  H.  O.  Collins,  of  Los  Angeles ;  Ronald 
Thomas  and  Edwin  T.  Ward  of  Santa  Barbara,  and 
others.  It  will  be  a  very  interesting  book.  One  item 
of  interest,  for  instance,  is  that  J.  Pierpont  Morgan 
traces  his  title  deeds  back  to  a  king  of  Wales,  who 
had  a  corner  on  Cornwall  about  900  years  ago.  In- 
cidentally, J.  Morgan  Smith,  nephew  of  the  current 
banker  and  descendant  of  the  Welshman  of  "ye  an- 
cient days,"  is  being  chased  around  New  York  by  a 
big  policeman  who  traces  his  blood  back  to  Conn  of 
the  Hundred  Battles,  who  was  a  power  in  his  days. 
and  who  was  the  man  that  first  split  up  Ireland. 
Which  goes  to  show  that  despite  the  passing  of  time 
and  the  publication  of  books,  the  representatives  of 
the  Celtic  tribes  have  carried  their  animosities  down 
through  the  ages. 

*  *  * 

J.  Morgan  Smith,  by  the  way,  is  better  known  in 
the  local  red-light  district  than  upon  Wall  street. 
He  is  hail-fellow-well-met  with  every  barkeeper  and 
chorus  girl  from  O'Farrell  street  to  the  Orchard.  Fate 
may  have  tried  to  conceal  him  by  calling  him  Smith, 
but  at  an  early  age  he  determined"  to  live  up  to  his 
"I.  Morgan,"  and  that  he  has  done  so,  local  history 
proves.  Smith  "blew  in"  here  about  six  years  ago ; 
he  did  the  line  for  a  time,  and  then  he  shipped  in  a 
whaler.  After  a  voyage  to  the  North,  he  returned 
in  better  physical  condition,  but  he  had  had  enough 
of  deep  sea  craft,  and  he  restricted  his  efforts  there- 
after to  schooners.  He  piloted  many  of  them  over 
the  bar.  The  young  man  must  have  had  a  hidden 
source  of  income,  for  he  did  no  more  hard  work  than 
was  necessary  to  explain  whv  his  uncle  did  not  cor- 
ner the  earth,  yet  he  was  always  there  when  there 
was  "anything  doing."  He  was  close  in  with  the  race 
track  crowd,  and  knew  more  about  the  crookedness 
of  their  crooked  game  than  was  good  for  a  youth 
whose  most  famous  relative  is  a  pillar  of  the  church. 
Mr.  Smith  conferred  his  name  and  the  pleasure  of  his 
constant  society  upon  the  sister  of  Nan  Randolph, 
the  notorious  chorus  girl  now  under  indictment  for 
the  murder  of  Caesar  Young  in  New  York.  If  Smith 
knows  anything  about  that  murder,  the  New  York 


RUSSIAN  RIVER   HEIGHTS 

SUMMER    HOME    AND    CAMP    SITES    FOR    SALE 

On  the  grandest  part  of  the  Russian  River.  Boating,  bathing,  flah- 
ing  and  hunting.  Near  Guerneville  and  Camp  Vacation.  Send  or 
call  for  illustrated  literature. 

REAL    ESTATE    SECURITY    COMPANY 


139  MONTGOMERY  ST.,  S.  P. 


972  BROADWAY,  OAKLAND 


June  >8,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


police  can  pet  his  hear-  by  submitting  him 

10  the  "thinl  J.   Morgan  had  enough  trou- 

ble aboard  that  whaler.     He  i-  a  philosopher,  and 

the  main  rule  of  his  life  i~    look  out  for  Smithy."  N'o 
deep,  dark  dungeon  for   I.   Morgan. 
•  *   * 

In  answer  to  his  wile's  request  for  a  greater  allow- 
lowance,  pending  the  decision  of  the  suit  for  divorce, 
Captain  Madden  says  his  regular  income  is  $180  a 
month  as  a  Captain,  and  he  gets  $30  more  while  act 
ing  as  Adjutant.  He  allows  his  wife  $100  a  month, 
and  he  says  he  needs  the  other  hundred  in  his  busi- 
ness. The  mystery  that  the  ordinary  man  cannot 
solve  is — how  do  army  officers  manage  t"  make  such 
a  showing  on  their  salaries?  Madden,  with  $200  per. 
better  than  dozens  and  dozens  of  young  men  at 
the  Presidio,  married  and  single,  and  yet  every  man 
of  them  goes  around  town  popping  corks,  buying 
autos  by  the  hour,  keeping  up  their  end  in  the  clubs. 
and  otherwise  showing  contempt  for  coin.  Very  few- 
have  anything  but  their  salaries,  and  the  question  is 
— how  do  they  do  it  ? 

*  *  * 

Judge  Kerrigan  has  an  old  head  on  his  young 
shoulders.  One  Henry  W.  Von  Kapff,  an  inspector 
of  the  I'nited  Railroads,  went  before  the  Judge, 
asking  for  a  divorce  from  his  wife  on  the  ground  of 
cruelty.  He  showed  that  during  the  recent  threat- 
ened car  strike  he  told  his  wife  that,  if  the  men 
struck,  he  might  be  ordered  to  take  out  a  car.  The 
partner  of  his  bosom,  who  is  evidently  a  strike  pro- 
moter, fervently  expressed  the  hope  that  if  he  took 
out  a  car  he  would  be  shot. 

"Divorce  granted,"   said   the   court. 

If  Mrs.  Von  Kapff  and  some  more  women  with 
little  sense  and  long  tongues,  were  "cripple-creeked" 
there  would  be  less  dissension  in  families  and  honest 
men  would  not  be  intimidated  at  their  very  fire-sides, 
when  endeavoring  to  act  honestly  by  their  employees. 

*  *  * 

The  next  annual  convention  of  the  International 
Association  of  Chiefs  of  Police  will  be  held  in  this 
city.  The  local  force  will  be  able  to  give  their  visit- 
ors some  pointers  on  new  kinds  of  graft  now  re- 
stricted to  local  fields.  The  visitors  should  profit 
much  by  their  trip  across  the  continent. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Kate  Hodges,  who  conducts  a  resort  for  the 
weary  at  Baden,  felt  real  sorry  for  Allen.  E.  de  Mon- 
tispan  when  that  enterprising  globe-trotter  was  laid 
by  the  heels  and  put  away  safely  in  the  city  prison. 
She  sent  him  dainties,  for  the  prison's  coarse  fare 
would  not  assimilate  with  his  blue  blood.  De  Mon- 
tispan  had  casually  informed  Mrs.  Hodges  that  he 
is  a  French  Count.  She  knows  now  that  he  is 
also  several  other  things,  for  when  the  law  re- 
leased its  hold  on  him,  he  hied  away  to  Mrs. 
Hodge's  resort  for  the  weary,  enjoyed  free  board  for 
several  days,  and  then  disappeared.  The  trusting 
landlady's  jewels  disappeared  at  the  same  time.  Now, 
Mrs.  Hodges  wants  revenge;  also  the  jewels;  like- 
wise de  Montispan.  French  Counts  are  quoted  be- 
low par  just  now  at  Baden. 
*  *  * 

The  captain  of  the  Algoa,  who  ran  his  ship  on  the 
rocks  at  Point  Bonita  last  week,  may  lose  his  license 
for  his  foolhardiness.  If  a  word  in  mitigation  may 
aid  his  case,  let  me  pen  it  here.  When  he  stove  in 
his  forepeak,  and  swamped  .about  $1,000  worth  of 
fire-works,  the  captain  conferred  a  blessing  on  the 
long-suffering  public.  Of  course,  he  did  not  mean 
to  do  so;  he  honestly  meant  to  land  that  bunch  of 
fire-crackers  and  things  at  the  dock,  but  let  him  ue 


Pears' 

"  Beauty  is  but  skin- 
deep"  was  probably  meant 
to  disparage  beauty.  In- 
stead it  tells  how  easy 
that  beauty  is  to  attain. 

'There  is  no  beauty 
like  the  beauty  of  health" 
was  also  meant  to  dis- 
parage. Instead  it  encour- 
ages beauty. 

Pears'  Soap  is  the  means 
of  health  to  the  skin,  and 
so  to  both  these  sorts  of 
beauty. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


given   the    benefit   of   putting   that   consignment    of 
nerve-destroyers  out  of  business.     The  captain  is  a 
true   patriot.      Long   may   he   wave. 
*  *  * 

Again  the  white-winged  dove  of  peace  has  had  its 
wings  clipped  at  the  French  Hospital.  This  time  it 
was  not  a  capital  operation,  and  with  careful  nursing 
the  dove  may  get  back  into  form  again.  But  if  it  is 
nursed  by  the  nurses  whose  methods  of  nursing 
caused  its  present  lameness,  the  aforesaid  dove  may 
turn  into  a  gamey  sea-gull  and  never  more  be  the 
messenger  of  a  harmonious  household.  Those  nurses 
at  the  French  hospital  are  a  lot  of  gay,  young,  inno- 
cent things,  and  that's  where  all  the  trouble  comes 
in.  The  head  nurse  proved  that  one  of  her  subordi- 
nates, during  the  long  and  weary  watches  of  the 
night,  had  introduced  a  bun  into  her  system.  Hor- 
rors !  The  idea  of  nurses  masticating  buns  on  duty ! 
"It  might  be  worse.  Let's  investigate,"  said  the 
keen-eyed  chief.  The  investigation  produced  many 
results  in  the  shape  of  "dead  soldiers,"  laid  away  to 
rest  behind  bureau  drawers  and  other  hiding  places. 
Now,  it  is  not  charged  that  any  particular  nurse  "had 
a  bun,"  though  it  is  said  one  nurse  did  have  a  bun. 
You  can  figure  that  out  for  yourself.  It  is  like  the 
weight  of  Charley  Hill's  brick  and  a  half.  If  one  bun 
and  a  dozen  "dead  soldiers"  cause  a  revolution  in  the 
French  Hospital,  what  will  be  necessary  to  create 
an  agitation  at  the  annual  election  of  the  officers  of 
that  frequently  disturbed  institution? 

Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  Skin  Diseases.  Sold  by  all  druggists. 


■ Fine   stationery,    steel   and   copperplate   engraving. 

Co.,   746  Market  street,   San  Francisco. 


Cooper 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hais  —Eugene  Korn,  726  Market  St., 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  DerDys,  soi^  nats,  gent's  and 
ladies'  straws. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  $7.50  per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  "uarter  ton  $2.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  Soutn  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 


High-grade  shirts  and  underwear  to  measure. 
Co.,  opposite  Palace. 


Tom  Dillon  & 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  1 8,  1904. 


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FINANCIAL 


A  heavy  demand  for  MacNamara 
The  Tonopah      woke  up  the  bears  on  the  Tono- 

Mining  Boom,  pah  exchange  during  the  week. 
The  ball  continues  to  roll  right 
merrily  along,  and  the  end  is  not  yet.  The  great  diffi- 
culty in  handling  a  deal  in  these  stocks  is  the  im- 
mense number  of  shares  in  the  different  corporations. 
They  run  into  the  millions,  and  although  boxed  up, 
act  as  a  menace  at  all  times  to  a  bull  market.  It  is 
to  be  hoped  that  the  report  is  not  true  that  the  men 
just  driven  out.  from  Colorado  are  about  to  enter 
the  Tonopah  district.  That  camp  has  been  quiet 
and  orderly  so  far,  but  a  number  of  labor  agitators 
could  set  it  back  in  a  few  weeks  to  a  point  from 
which  it  would  not  recover  in  years. 

It  is  amusing  to  note  the  ser- 

The  Bogy  Mining  ious  attention  given  to  the  re- 
Combine,  port  that  Eastern  capitalists 
are  going  to  form  a  mining 
trust,  with  the  intention  of  gobbling  all  the  mines 
in  the  country,  including  those  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. It  is  difficult  to  realize  that  any  one  in  his 
senses  would  give  credence  to  such  a  wild  tissue  of 
impossibilities.  There  are  very  few  mines  in  Cali- 
fornia which  are  worth  absorption  by  a  combine. 
There  are  mines  enough,  but  they  require  develop- 
ment up  to  a  point  where  they  will  be  useful  as  an 
adjunct  to  a  large  incorporated  combine,  who  are 
after  heavy  producing  concerns,  but  not  prospects. 
There  is  little  danger  just  now  of  any  concern  of  that 
character  running  away  with  our  mines. 

When   we   say   that   the   stocK 

Comstock  Shares  market  on  Pine  street  has 
at  a  Discount.  gone  to  pieces"  it  does  not 
amount  to  much,  as  things  go 
nowadays.  It  would  not  take  a  very  big  basket  to 
hold  the  pieces  after  they  were  picked  up.  Prices 
have  been  phenomenally  low  for  months  past,  con- 
sidering the  very  favorable  outlook  on  the  Comstock 
itself,  and  the  fact  that  a  body  of  ore  is  now  being 
opened  up  at  the  North-end.  Matters  would  not  be 
so  bad  were  it  not  for  the  manipulations  of  a  band 
of  marauders  who  systematically  short  the  market, 
and  until  it  gets  broken  up,  if  the  power  can  be 
created  capable  of  bursting  the  ring,  nothing  need  be 
expected  in  the  way  of  a  bull  movement  worthy  the 
name.  To-day  the  pressure  is  onlv  lifted  from  the 
market  to  get  it  in  shape  again  for  another  squeeze. 
Milking  the  street  is  about  the  most  profitable  end 
of  the  game  just  now  from  the  fact  that  the  people 
engaged  in  this  are  about  the  last  one  would  suspect 
of  undermining  a  business  which  can  be  turned  to 
such  profit  in  other  directions.  The  mining  proposi- 
tion on  the  lode  is  good,  and  it  would  carry  the  mar- 
ket all  right  if  permitted  to  do  so.  Dividends  have 
already  been  an  unlucky  thing  for  the  market.  The 
minute  one  is  declared  on  a  stock,  that  seals  its  doom, 
insofar  as  its  speculative  feature  is  concerned.  Every 
old-time  dealer  in  Comstock  shares  will  admit  the 
fact  and  be  able  to  corroborate  it.  It  is  another 
strange  phase  of  the  local  speculative  business.  Deal- 
ers would  rather  gamble  on  an  uncertainty  at  any 
time  than  invest  in  a  certainty,  receiving  a  regular 
return  upon  their  money. 


eludes  32  incorporated  commercial  banks  in  San 
Francisco  and  205  outside  of  the  city,  11  savings 
banks  in  San  Francisco  and  JJ  outside,  and  20  private 
banks,  all  in  the  interior.  Most  of  the  new  banks  are 
small  affairs,  as  the  increase  in  resources  since  Janu- 
ary 23d  is  only  $7,050,319.96,  and  in  the  deposits 
$634,179.98.  Thtre  are  now  Jj  savings  banks  in  the 
State,  outside  of  those  in  operation  in  San  Francisco. 
This  is  an  increase  of  18  from  the  previous  report  on 
January  2Sth.  Most  of  these  were  incorporated  a 
year  ago,  but  only  commenced  business  in  the  last 
three  months.  The  resources  of  these  yj  banks  show 
an  increase  of  $3,131,278.61  from  January  23d,  and  the 
deposits  an  increase  of  $972,471.50. 


Dividends  Paid 
and  Payable. 


The  following  banks  have  just 
declared  dividends.  The  Se- 
curity Savings  Bank,  semi-an- 
annual  on  all  deposits  for  six 
months  ending  June  30th,  at  the  rate  of  3.25  per  cent; 
London  and  San  Francisco  Bank,  Limited,  a  dividend 
of  four  per  cent  per  annum  for  the  six  months  ending 
March  31st;  the  Union  Trust  Company,  3  per  cent 
on  ordinary  and  3.3  per  cent  per  annum  on  term  de- 
posits, payable  on  July  1st.  Dividends  paid  during 
the  week  were  as  follows:  Four  Oil,  ic  per  share,  or 
$3,000;  Gas  Consumers'  Association,  10c  per  share, 
or  $5,000 ;  Presidio  Railway,  20c.  per  share,  or  $2,000 ; 
Port  Costa  Water,  30c.  per  share,  or  $1,500;  Truckee 
General  Electric,  10c.  per  share,  or  $5,000. 


According  to  the  official  report  of  the  California 
Stock  and  Oil  Exchange,  13  oil  companies  on  its  list 
paid  $93,500  in  dividends  in  May.  The  Union  and' 
United  Petroleum  did  not  pay  in  May,  but  in  April, 
the  former  at  the  rate  of  70c.  per,  and  the  latter  at 
the  rate  of  $1.15  per  share.  The  companies  pay  only 
quarterly.     The    Union   has   an   acreage    of    173,500 


There  are  now  345  banks  in  California  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Bank  Commissioners.  This  is  33 
more  than  reported  on  January  23d.     The  total  in- 


They  All 

Advertise 
Theirs   is    the    best — 
Try  a  bottle  of 

Lemp's 

Extra 

Pale 

And    give    it    a    test 


Johnson-Locke 
Mercantile  Co. 

Distributors 


June  18.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


:s  districts  in  the  State,  anil  an 

lividend  and 

•  >,  as  commonly  reported.     The  United  Pe- 
troleum owns  a  controlling  interest  in  Union,  and  lias 

ii  U-'^.  so  that  its  dividend  is  $11 
The  Sovereign,  which  paid  its  first  dividend  in  May. 

has  a  share   issue  of  400,000.  and  its  dividend  of   1  '  • 
-hare  is  therefore  $6/300,  and  not  $75,000  as  re- 
ported.    'Hie  total  oil  dividends  from  the  companies 
listed  at  the  exchange  to  May  1st  is  $5.043.2 50 


The  California  das  and  Electric  Corporation  has 
just  paid  its  second  dividend  of  25  cents  per  share, 
"r  $37.500-  Things  have  run  a  little  more  smoothly 
during  the  past  week,  with  this  corporation,  under 
the  more  tactful  administration  of  the  new  men  who 
joined  the  board  recently.  It  is  expected  that  before 
long  Mr.  Miller  will  take  charge  as  president  during 
the  absence  of  the  present  incumbent,  who  is  about 
to  leave  upon  his  travels  again.  A  vigorous  over- 
hauling of  the  mechanical  end  of  the  corporation  is 
next  in  order,  and  that  it  may  come  soon  is  the  prayer 
of  the  unfortunate  shareholders  who  now  live  in  hope 
of  better  times  ahead  in  the  near  future. 


THE  AMUSEMENTS   OF  A   CANDIDATE. 

The  Candidate  sat  in  his  Morris  chair  and  slid 
down  to  the  "get  that  habit  position,"  bringing  all 
his  weight  to  bear  on  his  *collar  button,  and  reaching 
for  a  scratch  pad,  he  began  to  figure.  Suddenly  he 
grew  pale,  and  touching  the  electric  button,  he 
directed  the  menial  to  send  him  the  expert  in  her- 
aldry. 

A  pale  old  man  with  fugitive  whiskers  appeared 
on  the  scene  in  a  few  minutes  and  bowed  low  before 
the  "Yellow  Pest." 

"Didn't  you  figure  it  out  that  my  genealogy  car- 
ried me  back  to  John  Randolph?" 

"Yes,  sir,  I  did." 

"Have  you  looked  up  the  genealogy  of  this  woman 
who  shot  Caesar  Young?" 

"I  have,  O  Mighty  Intellect!" 

"Is  she  not  also  a  direct  lineal  descendant  of  the 
same  great  man?" 

"She  is,  Noble  Intelligence !" 

"Go  from  my  sight!     Begone  1" 

And  then  William  Randolph  the  Oneth  slid  back 
into  his  favorite  attitude  of  sitting  on  his  collar  but- 
ton and  mused :  "There  must  have  been  something 
extraordinarily  vile  in  that  great  man's  blood.  Here's 
Nan  and  I  steeped  in  the  same  peculiar  sins.  She  is. 
a  bad  one  from  the  start,  but  she  has  always  put  up  a 
remarkable  front,  just  like  myself.  *  *  *  Poor  girl, 
blood  will  tell.  I  must  make  a  note  of  it,  and  have 
Brisbane  write  a  touching  editorial  entitled :  TSTo 
Crest  or  Coronet!  Give  us  the  Horny  Hand  of 
Labor  1" 

*It  is  said  that  Willie  prefers  to  sit  on  his  collar 
button  because  that  brings  the  two  centers  of  origin 
of  thought  in  his  make-up  closest  together. 

What  between  the  recent  sensational  ex-Mayor 
Snow-Goldman  affair  and  the  "supposed"  rupture  -be- 
tween the  Olney  and  Dingee  factions  of  the  Pacific 
Union  Club,  we  wonder  if  our  trans-bay  neighbors, 
the  Oaklandites,  will  ever  awaken  to  the  true  state 
of  affairs  in  social  and  political  life. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothing  Syrup" 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


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(Dr.  A.  E.  Salazar  of  Santiago,  Chile,  says :  "Your 
universities  are  marvels.") 
A  Chilean  professor 

Says  our  colleges   are   great — 
Did  he  interview  the  manners  of  the  scholars? 

Does  he  think  the  classes  perfect? 

Does  he  think  co-eds  sedate? 
Or  is  he  only  talking  for  the  dollars? 

There  is  something  here  awry. 

Did  he  wink  the  other  eye? 
Should  we  laugh,  or  feel  it  hot  beneath  our  collars? 

Did  the  Chilean  professor 

Really  mean  to  praise  the  schools? 

He  simply  said  he  thought  them   quite  a   marvel — 
Did  he  mean  in  wit  and  wisdom, 
Or  the  students,  wondrous  fools, — 

A  sort  of  sublimated   Richard   Carvel? 
Or  did  the  bland  Chileno 
Intend  to  be  so  mean-o. 

As  insinuate  our  scholarship  is  larval  ? 

The  San  Francisco  Labor  Council  has  taken  upon 
itself  to  denounce  the  state  of  things  in  Colorado.  As 
a  matter  of  fact,  they  need  denunciation,  but  not  of 
the  sort  which  the  Labor  Council  chooses  to  fling. 
The  Labor  Council  is  for  the  most  part  led  by  a 
gang  of  smooth  rogues,  most  of  whom  have  greatly 
improved  their  chances  in  life  by  the  part  which  they 
have  taken  in  labor  agitation.  It  is  only  a  very  few 
years  since  President  Benham  had  a  very  small  print- 
ing shop  on  Turk  street,  and  one,  moreover,  that  was 
not  regarded  with  any  particular  admiration  by  the 
union.  Now  he  is  President  of  the  Labor  Council, 
has  a  good-sized  printing  establishment,  and  is  grow- 
ing rich  withal.  There  are  three  ways  of  making 
money:  by  working,  by  begging,  or  stealing,  and  the 
union  leader  is  seldom  either  a  worker  or  a  beggar. 

There  can  be  no  question  of  the  validity  of  the  de- 
cision of  Judge  Allen  of  Los  Angeles  that  insanity  is 
not  ground  for  divorce ;  there  can  also  be  no  ques- 
tion of  its  entire  unreasonableness.  The  judge  says: 
"There  is  no  condition  of  life  under  which  the  unfor- 
tunate partner  should  receive  greater  attention  or 
more  loving  care  and  kindness  than  under  the  burden 
of  a  disordered  mind."  It  is  equally  true  that  no  one 
except  a  trained  expert  in  insanity  can  give  that  care 
and  attention,  and,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  insane 
person  has  usually  to  be  removed  from  the  domicile 
of  that  partner.  Law  should  deal  with  the  living; 
it  should  not  concern  itself  with  the  dead,  and  the 
lunatic  is  practically  dead  already.  For  the  funda- 
mental purposes  of  matrimony,  he  is  worse  than  dead 
— he  is  dangerous.  His  practical  death  should  im- 
pose no  disability  on  the  survivor. 

A  few  weeks  ago  a  scathing  denunciation  was 
made  in  this  paper  of  the  physicians  who  neglect  to 
attend  to  cases  where  the  payment  of  a  sufficiently 
large  fee  is  doubtful.  That  there  are  many  of  this 
kind  is  evident  from  even  a  cursory  glance  at  the 
columns  of  the  daily  paper.  Thus,  a  child  died  the 
other  day,  entirely  for  want  of  medical  attendance, 
the  mother  saying:  "We  were  too  poor  to  have  a  doc- 
tor." This  is  a  pretty  commentary  on  the  condition 
of  things  in  a  civilized  community.  A  mother  has  a 
sick  child  and  is  afraid  to  ask  a  doctor  to  attend  to  it 
because  she  has  not  the  money  to  pay  a  fee,  and  she 
knew,  by  bitter  experience,  that  this  fee  would  be 
demanded  before  the  disciple  of  Galen  would  render 
the  services  necessary  to  relieve  the  sufferer. 


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The  Oakland  teachers  declare  that  two  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars  is  the  smallest  sum  upon  which 
a  man  can  live  respectably  and  bring  up  a  family. 
Needless  to  say,  I  should  like  to  see  that  standard 
reached  and  maintained,  for  the  welfare  of  the  State 
depends  to  a  great  extent  upon  the  material  prosper- 
ity of  its  citizens.  But  the  Oakland  teachers  are  in- 
dulging in  vain  dreams  if  they  think  that  they  will 
ever  be  able  to  obtain  a  salary  of  that  size  from  the 
public  funds.  It  is  far  beyond  that  of  any  of  the  other 
professions.  Of  course,  there  are  lawyers  and  doc- 
tors and  some  few  clergymen  who  make  much  more, 
but  they  do  so  either  by  the  possession  of  certain  un- 
usual gifts  of  intellect  which  are  not  called  for,  and 
in  fact  could  not  be  employed  in  the  teaching  profes- 
sion or  by  extraordinary  business  ability,  which  has 
no  place  in  teaching.  It  is  by  no  means  proved  that 
the  amount  of  intelligence  and  skill  which  goes  to 
the  making  of  a  first-class  artisan  is  any  less  than 
that  of  a  trained  teacher. 

The  jury  as  well  as  the  judge  seem  to  be  fatal  ob- 
stacles to  the  proper  carrying  out  of  the  law.  Only 
a  few  days  ago  a  Chinaman  was  convicted  of  killing 
a  fellow  Mongolian  by  shooting  him  in  the  back, 
just  about  as  despicable  a  way  of  getting  rid  of  an 
enemy  as  could  well  be  conceived.  Our  intelligent 
and  highly  sympathetic  jury  found  him  guilty  of 
murder  in  the  second  degree,  and  not  content  with 
this  example  of  fatuous  and  criminal  disregard  of 
their  oath,  coupled  with  the  verdict  a  recommenda- 
tion to  mercy.  It  may  be  said  for  the  judge,  however, 
that  he  refused  to  consider  the  recommendation  and 
imposed  the  maximum  penalty.  What  can  be  done 
in  a  case  like  this?  Between  the  carelessness  of 
judges  and  the  folly  of  juries  it  will  yet  come  about 
that  life  and  property  will  be  of  no  more  value  than 
among  the  dacoits.  The  administration  of  the  law  is 
fast  converting  itself  into  an  absurdity. 

Hurrah!  At  last  we  have  accomplished  something 
which  will  sound  in  the  world.  One  of  our  local 
professors  has  issued  a  bulletin  entitled  "Artificial 
Partheno — Genesis  and  Regular  Segmentation  in  an 
Annelid,"  in  which  is  demonstrated  that  in  the  anne- 
lid, which  is  a  marine  worm  of  the  genus  Ophelia, 
of  the  parthenogenetic  larvae  produced  by  artificial 
treatment  of  the  element  in  which  the  animal  lives 
originates  from  regular  segmentary  eggs.  How  do 
you  like  that?  If  anybody  can  have  any  doubt  hence- 
forward of  the  value  of  modern  education,  just  bran- 
dish that  in  his  face.  It  should  be  obvious  to  the 
meanest  capacity  that  the  words  are  splendid,  but 
why  in  the  name  of  all  that  is  euphonious  is  there  not 
a  union  to  prevent  the  overworking  of  the  President's 
English  ? 

One  week  has  wrought  a  wonderful  change  in  the 
prospects  of  Mountenay  Jephson,  the  former  lieu- 
tenant of  the  late  H.  M.  Stanley.  His  old  chief,  with 
whom  the  lieutenant  had  serious  differences,  has 
passed  away,  and  the  bride  for  whom  Mr.  Jephson 
waited  over  twelve  years  has  at  last  become  his. 
Jephson  possesses  the  virtue  of  steadfastness,  as  no 
one  knew  better  than  the  great  explorer  himself,  for 
his  lieutenant  had  the  courage  when  Stanley's  popu- 
larity was  at  its  height,  to  denounce  his  conduct  un- 
sparingly, and  to  point  out  his  cynical  egotism  with- 
out reserve.  He  met  opposition  in  San  Francisco 
in  the  same  spirit,  and  was  practically  victorious  in 
both  cases.  It  is  good  to  see  bravery  and  steadfast- 
ness win  occasionally. 


June  18,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


X3 


THE  CASE  OF  DR.   DOGGE  AND   HIS  ACCI- 
DENT INSURANCE. 

"The  remarkable  case  of   1  >r.    '  the  way 

the  daily  press  lm ~  captioned  an  article  regarding  tin- 
suit  of  the  San  Jose  doctor  against  the  Fidelity  and 
laity  Company  of  New  York.  Or.  Dogge  was 
injured  on  July  iX.  i,yo2,  at  Menlo  Park,  and  he  brings 
suit  to  recover  $14.; u  :i<  indemnity  for  the  accident. 
His  policy  called  for  $100  a  week,  and  Dogge  claims 
that  he  was  incapacitated  for  74  4-  weeks.  During 
the  illness  of  Dogge  a  sensation  was  caused  by  the 
action  of  Mrs.  Dogge  in  publicly  horsewhipping  Dr. 
Lincoln  Cothran.  a  member  of  the  State  Hoard  of 
Examiners,  whom  she  claimed  was  trying  to  prove 
that  her  husband  was  hoaxing. 

It  is  strongly  suspected  in  many  quarters  that  this 
is  only  another  instance  of  an  accident  insurance 
company  essaying  to  avoid  its  just  responsibility. 
There  are  many  cases  on  record  that  would  go  to 
prove  that  accident  insurance  companies  go  to  greater 
lengths  to  quibble  and  compromise  than  any  other 
style  of  assurance  corporation.  It  is  whispered  that 
the  company  in  question  will  invariably  attempt  a 
compromise  with  the  unfortunate  who  has  suffered 
from  a  broken  leg  or  arm  or  a  contusion  of  any  kind. 
It  will  immediately  send  the  examining  physician 
to  the  bedside  of  the  policy  holder,  and  he  will  com- 
pute the  minimum  and  maximum  .duration  of  inca- 
pacity, and  from  this  computation  a  compromise 
offer  will  be  made,  it  is  said,  and  not  on  the  basis 
of  the  plain  reading  of  the  policy.  You  are  not  in- 
sured against  your  loss  of  time  with  these  companies 
at  twenty  or  twenty-five  dollars  a  week,  but  for  what- 
ever in  your  extremity  and  necessity  you  are  willing 
to  take  on  the  guess  of  an  expert.  As  a  general  rule 
these  sharks  make  by  the  compromise.  It  is  taken 
for  granted  that  they  will  never  offer  to  pay  more 
than  the  original  agreement.  The  only  protection  the 
policy-holder  has  is  the  employment  of  an  absolutely 
reliable  physician  of  his  own,  and  to  categorically  and 
energetically   refuse  to   compromise. 

The  patrons  of  "The  Lichau  Corset  Parlors"  will 
be  glad  to  hear  that  Mme.  A.  Lichau  has  returned  to 
her  home  at  455  Geary  street,  after  a  five  weeks' 
sojourn  in  Chicago,  Washington,  New  York  and  the 
Fair  at  St.  Louis.  The  Madam  went  East  to  make 
arrangements  to  enable  the  firm  to  bring  to  perfec- 
tion the  "Lichau  Sanitas  Corset,"  which  was  designed 
by  Dr.  and  Mrs,  Lichau.  This  corset  has  the  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  first  and  only  one  that  earned  the 
full  approval  of  the  medical  profession.  Madam 
Lichau  brought  home  a  line  of  corsets  and  ladies'  un- 
derwear of  the  highest  grade  and  exclusive  make.   : 

"When  ladies  are  down  town  shopping,  there  is  never  any  question 

as  to  where  they  wilt  go  for  their  luncheon.  They  turn  naturally  to 
Swain's  Bakery,  200  Post'street.  For  twenty-six  years  it  has  catered  to 
the  most  exclusive  classes  in  San  Francisco.  The  goods  sold  there  can 
always  be  depended  upon.  -Ice-cream,  pastry,  etc..  is  promptly  de- 
livered—and always  of  the  best. 


Original  designs  In  menu  and  tally  cards.     Charlotte  P.  Wil- 
liams, room  IS,  121  Post  street. 


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323    LARKIN    STREET 


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212.214  California  St. 


Bibcock  Catering  Co. 

409  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


VAN  AUKEN 
OXYGEN  INSTITUTE 

The  Only  OXYGEN  INSTITUTE  on  the  PACIFIC  COAST 

If  you  are  ill  we  can  POSITIVELY  cure  you  without  Drugs.  Knife, 
Electricity  or  Mind  Cure.  CATARRH,  CONSTIPATION,  NERVOUS  PROS- 
TRATION, Etc..  Permanently  Cured. 

Addresses  at  the  offices  of  San  Francisco  patients  who  will  gladly 
tell  how  they  vere  restored  to  health.  Oxygen  instruments  loan- 
ed to  all  patients  treating  at  a  distance.  Send  symptoms  and 
kindly  inclose  directed  and  stamped  envelope  for  particulars. 
Free  diagnosis  at  office  from  2  to  5  and  7  to  8  p.  m.,  Sundays  ex- 
cepted-   Cut  this  out  and  remember  the  hours.    Tel.  Sutter  34li  "  • 

8|5  VAN  NESS  AVE.       Near  Ellis  St        SAN  FRANCISCO 


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For  Breakfast 
For  Breakfast 


THE  EL  DRISCO  APARTMENTS 

PACIFIC  HEIGHTS 

Unquestionably  the  finest  apartment  house  on 
the  Coast. 

New  and  modern  suites  commanding  a  mag- 
nificent marine  view. 

MRS.     N.     FOSTER.     Lessee 

S.  W.  Cor.  Broderick  and  Pacific  Ave. 


*4 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


Summer    Resorts 


£      SODA    SA^     5 


At  the  Base  of  Uncle  S  *m  Mountain,  4100  ft.  High. 

ON    THE    SHORE    OF     BEAUTIFUL     CLEAR      LAKE 

Leo  D.  CreJg,  Mtk.r\*ger. 

THE  GREAT  SODA  SPRING  th«  most  exhilarating  bath  on  earth. 
forcing  its  ureut  volume  of  Hiichty  Carbonated  Soda  Water  up- 
ward through  thn  bottom  of  Clear  Lake,  is  the  greatest  natural 
wonder  of  the  world.    Table  as  good  as  can  be  found  anywhere- 

Take  Tiburon  Ferry  at  7:30  a  m..  arriving  at  Hopland  at  11 :28  a- 
m.  Thence  by  Clear  Lake  and  Hopland  Stage  Line  direct  to  Soda 
Bay.  Round,  trip  fare,  good  for  six  months.  $1000.  Apply  for  In- 
formation and  accommodations  to  Chatfleld  &  Vinzent,  Real  Es- 
tate. 223  Montgomery  St..  S.  F  .  or 

LEE  D.  CRAIG.  Kelseyville  V.  0..  Lake  County. 


U 


NEW"    SANTA    CRUZ 


Continuous  entertainment  day  and  night. 

JUNE.  JDLY.  AUGUST  and  SEPTEMBER. 

Something  doing  ail  the  time. 

New  mammoth  casino  and  bathing  pavilion;  the  finest  in  the 

West. 
New  tent  city  on  the  beach. 
New  500-foot  pleasure  pier. 
Daily  military  banu  concerts. 
Dances  every  evening. 
Brilliant  electrical  illuminations. 
New  and  novel  water  sports,  boating  and  fishing. 
Safest  and  best  surf  bathing  on  the  Coast:  no  undertow- 
Finest  climate;  grandest  drives;  largest  trees- 
Most  amusements  of  any  resort  on  the  Coast. 
Special  excursion  tickets  at  reduced  rates  from    all  points  by 

S.  P.  Co.  to 


"NEW"    SANTA    CRUZ 


The  GEYSERS 


The  most  famous  health  ana  vleaeure  re- 
sort in  California.  The  climate  and  scen- 
ery ure  unsurpassed  and  the  waters  are 
acknowledged  the  best  on  the  market. 
Natural  mineral,  steam  and  Hammaui  bath*.  Swimming  lake  of  tepid 
mineral  water.  Boating,  hunting,  fishing,  dancing,  shuffle-board, 
billiards  and  croquet.  The  hotel  and  cottages  have  been  renovated 
throughout,  and  new  cottages,  and  a  fine  pavilion  built  this  year. 
Therr  will  be  a  fullv  equipped  dairy  and  livery  stable  in  connection 
with  the  hotel.  The  hotel,  cottages,  bath  houses  and  grounds  are 
lighted  bv  electricitv-  The  hotel  will  be  supplied  with  the  best  the 
market  affords.  Rates,  tio.  *]■},  $m.  fir,  per  week.  For  further  particu- 
lars and  booklet,  write  R-  H.  Curry,  Prop.  The  Geysers.  8onoma  Co.. Cal- 


HIGHLAND  SPRINGS 

The  best  of  mineral  waters,  accommodations  and  service.  Table 
unsurpassed.  Electric  lights,  orchestra,  swimming,  fishing  and 
all  the  popular  sports  and  amusements.  Delightful  excursions 
on  Clear  Lake  and  to  other  resorts.  Terms  reasonable.  For 
booklet,  etc..  address.  CRAIG  &  KERR.  Highland  Springs.  Cal. 


Vichy  Springs' 


'3rmiles  from  Ukiah.    Mendocino    County. 

*  Natural  electric  waters,  champagne  baths. 
Only  place  in  the  world  of  this  class.  Fish- 
ing, hunting.  Crystal  Springs.  Accommodations;  table  first  class.  J. 
A.  Redemeyer  &  Co..  Props. 


PARK   HOUSE  and   COTTAGES 

BEN  LOMOND,  CAL. 

Xew    management.      An    ideal    resort,    unsurpassed    climate 
1  :       >,  fishing  and  hunting. 
Two   hours   ride    to    Big    Basin.     Modern    prices. 

J.    D.    CELLA,    Prop. 


DUNCAN     SPRINGS 

OPEN  May  15.     Two   miles  from   Hopland.     Fine 


medicinal  waters.      Hard    finished 
table.  Rates  ?io  to  $12  per  week. 


hotel.      Excellent 


Spend  Your  Vacation 

A  great  many  San  Francisco  people  are  planning  to  spend 
the  entire  summer  at  Hotel  Del  Monte.  No  other  resort  in 
California  offers  such  a  combination  of  attractions,  sea-bathirg, 
golf,  automobiling,  tennis,  fishing  and  all  out  of  door  sports. 
Instead  of  going  from  place  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the  wise 
ones  of  society  are  planning  already  to  put  in  several  enjoyable 
weeks  down  at  Del  Monte  by  the  Sea.    Address 

Geo.  P.  Snell,  Manager,  Del  Monte,  California. 

At  Hotel  Del  Monte 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling' 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc. 


I  HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN   JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 
Prof.  Geo.  D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

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June  18,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IS 


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Dear  Bessie:  How  time  does  gallop!  Just  think 
of  the  Fourth  of  July  being  SO  close  at  hand  that  par- 
ties for  its  proper  celehration  out  of  town  are  already 
arranged.  Of  course,  Del  Monte  is  to  be  a  favored 
spot,  and  I  hear  that  already  rooms  are  at  a  premium 
for  the  holiday,  while  house  parties  will  fairly  swarm 
all  over  the  State.  I  have  just  been  taking  a  stroll 
along  some  of  the  residence  streets  in  the  Western 
Addition,  and  it  is  enough  to  make  one  feel  dismal 
to  see  all  the  closed  up  doors,  and  windows  with 
drawn  blinds,  betokening  the  out-of-town  state  of 
their  owners.  The  city  is  not  yet,  however,  nor  is  it 
to  be,  the  howling  wilderness  it  has  been  in  other 
years,  for  quite  a  number  have  elected  to  stay  in 
town,  and  only  make  brief  visits  here  and  there  for 
a  few  days  at  a  time.  For  instance,  the  Chris  Reises, 
who  usually  go  to  Menlo  for  the  entire  season  ;  Ber- 
nie  Drown  Boardman,  the  Russ  Wilsons,  the  Girvins 
— and  oh,  lots  of  others  will  be  here  to  put  one's  fin- 
ger on,  if  one  wishes. 

Between  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  and  E.  D.  Sothern  there 
has  been  an  actual  surfeit  of  theatre  parties  this  week. 
Mrs.  Arthur  Holland  gave  a  bridge  party  the  other 
night  for  Mrs.  Felton  from  Santa- Barbara ;  there 
was  a  lovely  hop  at  the  Presidio  last  night,  and  I 
have  had  a  lot  of  invitations  of  late  to  that  lively  lit- 
tle suburb  of  ours — Oakland.  Bessie  Scupham  had 
a  very  pleasant  card  party  last  Saturday  for  Mrs. 
Herbert  Gaskell ;  Marie  Butters  gave  a  delightful 
tally-ho  ride,  with  luncheon,  at  the  Piedmont  club- 
house, but  I  think  the  pleasantest  of  all  was  Ethel 
Moore's  luncheon  party  for  Mrs.  George  Martin,  nee 
Bates,  who  is  here  on  a  visit,  which  was  an  al  fresco 
affair  and  enjoyed  to  the  utmost. 

There  is  to  be  quite  a  batch  of  weddings  next  month 
—the  O'Sullivan-Sutrp,  Anna  Sperry's  and  Florence 
Bailey's  among  them.  Florence  will  have  Grace 
Spreckels  for  her  maid  of  honor,  and  Mabel  Watkin's, 
Lily  Spreckels,  Bessie  and  Bernie  Wilson  as  the 
other  attendant  maids.  Edith  Findley  and  George 
Gardiner  are  to  be  married  August  20th. 

Jean  Nokes  Murphy's  friends  are  all  preparing  to 
give  her  the  jolliest  kind  of  a  time  during  her  coming 
visit  to  San  Francisco.  She  and  Mrs.  Nokes,  who  has 
been  at  Fort  Russell  with  her  daughter  the  past  six 
months,  will  arrive  here  early  in  July,  and  remain 
till  the  middle  of  August,  during  which  time  Jean 
is  to  officiate  as  matron  of  honor  to  Anna  Sperry 
when  her  wedding  comes  off,  returning  the  compli- 
ment to  Anna,  who  was  her  chief  attendant.  I  have 
just  received  cards  for  the  wedding  of  Mary  Maus, 
whom  I  think  you  met  while  her  father  was  chief 
surgeon  of  this  department;  she  is  to  marry  Captain 
Edgar  H.  Fry,  of  the  13th  Infantry,  and  the  cere- 
mony will  be  performed  in  the  post  chapel  at  Fort 
Riley  on  the  29th.  Apropos  of  army  weddings,  there 
will  soon  be  another  bride  at  the  Presidio  when  Cap- 
tain Rumford  of  the  28th,  who  was  married  last  week 
in  New  York,  returns  with  his  wife,  and  the  idea  now 
seems  to  prevail  that  the  regiment  is  likely  to  make 
a  prolonged  stay  there. 

So  Anna  Head's  long  waiting  has  been  rewarded 
at  last,  as  we  have  just  heard  of  her  marriage  to 
Lieutenant  Jephson  last  week  at  Ascot,  in  England, 
and  was  quite  a  swell  affair.  She  is  a  charming 
woman,  and  richly  deserves  all  the  happiness  that  is 
now  likely  to  be  hers.     I  don't  think  I  have  ever 


known  a  year  when  Yosemitc  has  been  in  such  favor 
as  this  one.  Lots  of  people  have  gone  and  are  going, 
and  l<its  more  are  not  content  with  the  usual  week's 
visit,  but  are  spending  a  month  or  more  in  the  val- 
ley. The  W.  J.  Duttons  and  Maylita  Tease  are  there 
now;  Miss  J.  11.  Schrocdcr  and  Eugenie  Hawes,  who 
left  last  week,  will  remain  there  the  rest  of  the  month. 
The  Jack  Wilsons,  who  were  there  for  a  month,  have 
just  returned  to  town. 

The  "Boston"  is  in  port  again,  and  I  believe  it  will 
not  be  so  very  long  till  we  are  called  upon  to  give 
welcome  to  Admiral  Glass  and  his  fleet  on  his  return 
from  the  cruise  south  and  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands; 
so  you  see  there  will  soon  be  lots  of  fun  going  both 
afloat  and  ashore.  The  Jules  Bretts,  who  are  becom- 
ing the  most  inveterate  globe-trotters,  dropped  in  up- 
on us  the  other  day,  but  only  for  a  brief  rest,  as  they 
are  off  again  to  see  the  Mikado  this  time,  and  may 
be  away  for  quite  a  while,  as  Addie  says.  We  are 
to  bid  adieu  to  the  Peter  Martins  to-day  for  an  in- 
definite period,  I  understand,  and  they  have  had  no 
end  of  farewell  attentions  showered  upon  them  be- 
fore leaving,  down  at  Burlingame,  over  at  San  Rafael, 
in  Mill  Valley,  and  in  San  Francisco — the  Baroness 
Von  Schroeder,  Herman  Oelrichs,  the  Downey  Har- 
veys,  the  Walter  Martins  and  the  clan  Howard  in  its 
numerous  branches  at  San  Mateo  being  among  their 
entertainers  of  late.  Aunt  Susie  is  quite  pleased  at 
the  prospect  of  so  soon  seeing  "Nellie  Howard,"  as 
she  calls  her,  as  they  were  great  friends  before 
Chandler  captured  Nellie  and  carried  her  off  to  the 
Flowery  Kingdom.  Mrs.  Howard,  who  has  made 
several  visits  to  San  Francisco  during  the  past  few 
years,  will  be  here  again  this  month,  but  only  makes 
a  brief  stay,  as  she  and  Gladys,  who  is  at  the  uni- 
versity in  Berkeley,  are  going  to  Europe  for  the  sum- 
mer. Louise  Harrington  Leahy  is  still  at  Vallejo, 
but  as  soon  as  the  Tacoma  sails  with  her  hubby  on 
board,  is  coming  down  to  the  city  to  remain  with  her 
mother  while  he  is  away — anyhow  for  several 
months.  Helen  Davis  is  home  from  her  visit  to  the 
Atlantic  Coast,  coming  back  to  act  as  maid  of  honor 
at  Eleanor  Warner's  wedding  next  month ;  Hazel 
King  has  gone  to  Boston  for  a  visit,  and  sails  for  Eu- 
rope the  end  of  the  month  to  join  her  sister ;  Belle 
Harmes  does  not  expect  to  go  East  till  the  early  win- 
ter. Margaret  Wilson  is  going  to  Fort  Meade,  South 
Dakota,  to  spend  the  month  of  August ;  Bessie  Gowan 
left  by  the  Siberia  for  Pekin,  where  her  wedding  to 
Thomas  Haskins  is  to  take  place  in  July ;  Agnes  Bur- 
gin  has  gone  East  for  a  two  months'  visit  to  Gotham. 


TUXEDO 

Formerly  Arcadia 

Santa   Cruz   Mountains 

Delightfully  located 
half  a  miie  from  and 
run  in  conjunction 
with  Big  Trees.  !New 
hotel  newly  furnished 
Extensively  improved 
since  last  season. 
Electric  lighted.  Hot 
and  cold  water.  Por- 
celain tubs.  Buy  tic- 
kets to  Tuxedo,  nar- 
row gauge,  foot  of 
Market  street. 

Bathing,  Fishing,  Hunting,  Tennis,  Etc, 

Address,  Thomas  L.  Bell,  Felton,  P.  O. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


The  J.  L.  Floods  are  at  their  Menlo  Park  mansion 
for  the  summer,  where  Miss  Jennie  spends  a  good 
deal  of  her  time ;  the  Frank  Carolans  have  been  at 
Santa  Barbara  for  some  time;  Edith  Kierstadt  is 
here  visiting  Mrs.  McBean ;  Mrs.  George  Gibbs  has 
gone  for  a  passear  to  Chico.  All  the  Gerstles  are  at 
their  San  Rafael  homes  for  the  summer;  the  Moodys 
and  McMonagles  are  in  Santa  Cruz  this  year;  the 
Herbert  MofFatts  are  to  take  in  Lake  Tahoe  next 
month.  Captain  Fred  Johnson  leaves  for  the  East 
in  August,  and  a  little  bird  whispers  there  will  be 
some  interesting  news  heard  about  that  time,  but  the 
twitterings  of  those  feathered  creatures  are  not  al- 
ways to  be  relied  upon. 

It  is  pleasant  news  to  hear  we  are  to  have  the 
Huntingtons  back  before  the  winter  season  begins, 
instead  of  their  remaining  abroad  for  a  year  or  more, 
as  at  one  time  contemplated.  They  will  be  here 
again  about  October.  We  should  sadly  miss  their 
lovely  parties  were  they  absent.  Marie  Voorhics 
and  Meda  Houghton  both  got  back  from  their  visit 
to  Japan  and  the  Philippines  last  Monday;  they  came 
on   the   army  transport   Logan.  — Elsie. 


BIRTHS. 

June  9th — To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Bishop,  a  daugh- 
ter. 
Recently — To  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Philip  H.  Scott, 
a  son. 

ENGAGEMENTS. 
Miss  Susan  Bixby,  to  Doctor  Ernest  Bryant  of  Los 
Angeles. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 

June  29th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Rose  Helen  Hecht, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  Hecht,  to  Si- 
mon Frank,  of  Baltimore.     Home.     Noon. 

June  30th  (Thursday) — Miss  Florence  Hellman, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  W.  Hellman,  to  Sid- 
ney H.  Ehrman. 

July  18th  (Monday) — Miss  Edith  Shorbe,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Susan  Wilson  Shorbe,  to  James  Steele, 
of  Sacramento. 

August  3d  (Wednesday) — Miss  Stella  McCalla, 
daughter  of  Admiral  Bowman  McCalla,  U.  S.  N.. 
and  Mrs.  McCalla,  to  William  Chapin.  Navy 
Yard,  Mare  Island. 

August  30th  (Saturday) — Miss  Edith  Findley,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  Charlotte  Findley,  to  George  Gardi- 
ner, Sausalito. 

WEDDINGS. 

June  8th  (Wednesday) — Miss  Linda  Helen  Liebes. 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Liebes,  to  Dr. 
E.  D.  Lederman,  of  New  York.  1814  Pacific  Ave., 
6  p.  m. 

June  10th  (Friday) — Miss  Anna  Head,  daughter  of 
the  late  Addison  Head,  to  Lieutenant  Montenay 
Jephson.     Ascot,  England. 

June  nth  (Saturday) — Miss  Ersillia  Sartori,  daugh- 
ter of  I.  Sartori,  of  San  Rafael,  to  Alfred  E. 
Sbarboro,  son  of  Andrea  Sbarboro,  San  Rafael 
Church,  San  Rafael,  8  p.  m. 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael,  San  Rafael:  Madame  E. 
Ratye  and  children,  Ed.  Dubedat,  Euy  Dubedat,  B. 
P.  Anderson,  F.  B.  Anderson,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Anderson. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Hyrhan  and  family,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E. 
Brandenstein,  Mrs.  B.  de  Pike,  Mr.  B.  D.  Pike,  Ed- 
win B.  Pike,  Edna  L.  Pike,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert 
Bruce,  Percival  D.  Kahn,  Eli  Weil,  R.  A.  Crothers, 
C.  Clerc,  Philip  Baker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  G.  Buckbee, 
Milton  A.  Breuner,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  D.  Tillsburry, 
Miss  Ellinwood,  Miss  King,  Dr.  T.  G.  Runsie,  Mrs. 


J.  Frowenfeld,  Mr.  J.  Frowenfeld,  Miss  R.  Frowen- 
feld,  Master  D.  Frowenfeld,  Miss  Anna  Bruns,  E. 
Satlow,  Miss  E.  G.  Moody,  Miss  Sabin,  Dr.  I.  Chau- 
teau,  Mrs.  Augustus  Abbott,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  S.  Bot- 
lin,  Jr.,  Mr.  J.  Huntbury,  Miss  Anthony,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
McVicker  and  maid,'  L.  C.  H.  E.  Zeigler,  M.  D.,  Geo. 
C.  Holberton,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Clifton  Macon,  T.  L. 
Kennedy,  Graham  E.  Babcock,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Rossi,  Miss  M.  W.  Laugher,  Mr.  E.  B.  Crandall,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  H.  Burness  and  children,  Miss  Day. 

A  merry  throng  of  invited  guests  from  St.  Mary's 
Guild,  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  of  this  city,  gathered 
at  Casa  Boyd,  the  orchard  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Colin  M.  Boyd,  Alameda  County,  to  enjoy  the  pleas- 
ures of  a  cherry  feast  and  lawn  party,  on  Wednes- 
day of  last  week.  A  day  brimful  of  happiness  was 
merrily  spent  as  a  result  of  the  visit. 

Mr.  Ed.  Fay  and  his  wife  will  leave  for  Paraiso 
Springs  to-day.  The  game  in  that  locality  have  been 
informed  of  the  move  by  wireless  message,  and  there 
is  a  general  hegira.  Mrs.  Fay  is  the  best  shot  among 
women  in  California,  and  Ned  Fay  is  no  mean  Nim- 
rod  himself.  Paraiso  Springs  is  fast  becoming  a 
most  popular  resort,  and  the  many  improvements 
made  this  year  are  pleasing  the  guests  immensely. 

A  recent  marriage  of  local  interest  was  that  of 
John  H.  Yost  and  Isabelle  Taylor  Carman,  which 
took  place  May  16th,  at  Toledo,  Ohio.  The  newly 
married  couple  will  reside  at  324  Kenilworth  avenue, 
Toledo. 

Salmon  are  already  numerous  in  the  bay,  and  up 
to  date  the  best  catches  have  been  made  by  San 
Francisco  fishermen.  On  Sundav  and  Monday  Mr. 
O.  A.  Hale  caught  forty-six,  and  Tuesday  Mr.  A.  and 
Mr.  S.  Williamson  caught  thirty-eight  in  two  hours. 
Messrs.  Richards,  H.  Doyle  and  H.  Dowden  also  had 
fine  sport. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  C.  Grant,  who  have  apartments  at 
The  Empire,  are  spending  a  month  at  The  Potter. 
Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  J.  R.  Howell  has  returned  to  The  Empire  after 
a  week's  trip  to  Mt.  Shasta.  Mrs.  Dr.  A.  G.  Spald- 
ing has  returned  to  her  apartments  at  The  Empire, 
after  a  brief  trip  to  the  Del  Monte. 

Following  are  recent  arrivals  at  Paraiso  Springs 
from  San  Francisco:  J.  H.  Currier  and  wife.  C.  G. 
Sawers,  Captain  A.  J.  Dunlevy,  Carolyn  Haas,  Rose 
Haas,  Mrs.  Irwin,  Miss  Osborne,  Joseph  Hahn,  Miss 
R.  Bryant,  Miss  Susie  Wells,  Ethel  J.  Dorn,  Mrs.  E. 
G.  Koenig  and  family,  H.  Hyman,  Thos.  D.  Riordan 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Locke,  F.  P.  Human,  John  J.  Clayton,  Mrs.  las.  Mc- 

McMahon,  ilus  McMahon.  Mary  G. 

Dris  Schnutenhaus  and  wife,  Miss  Greninger, 

v  ninl  wife. 

The  Society  of  Human  Endeavor,  of  which  Dr.  0. 
Hinder  and  president,  tendered  him  a 
reception  Wednesday  evening  at  the  Hall  of  the 
United  (.'rafts  and  Arts.  The  occasion  was  to  cele- 
brate the  second  anniversary  of  Dr.  Orlow's  arrival 
in  San  Francisco.  Over  one  hundred  members  were 
in  attendance  and  many  letters  and  telegrams  were 
received  from  absent  friends.  After  a  delightful 
musical  programme,  supper  was  served  in  the  Japan- 
ese room,  which  was  draped  in  pink.  The  rooms  were 
filled  with  beautiful  Mowers,  the  gift  of  appreciative 
friends. 

Mr.  George  T.  Marsh  and  wife  left  for  the  World's 
Fair,  St.  Louis,  on  Wednesday  last,  to  be  gone  about 
a  month.  Mr.  Marsh  is  installing  a  magnificent  ex- 
hibition of  Japanese  wares  in  the  San  Francisco 
Building,  and  desires  to  personally  see  that  it  is  per- 
fect in  every  detail. 

FISH  FOR  TWO. 

Two  young  San  Franciscans,  P.  N.  Lilienthal,  Jr.. 
and  young  Fritz  Kahn,  have  been  having  an  ideal 
outing  in  the  Yosemite.  During  their  stay  they  es- 
sayed to  carry  off  the  palm  in  piscatorial  pursuits, 
but  Lilienthal's  hunger  invariably  interfered  just  as 
he  was  about  to  land  the  largest  rainbow  trout  ever 
caught.  Fritz  Kahn  would  certainly  have  caught 
the  fish  Philip  just  missed  hooking  had  it  not  been 
that  his  habit  of  falling  asleep  always  overtook  him 
at  the  inopportune  moment.  What  with  their  love 
of  tramping,  and  the  two  ailments  mentioned,  they 
managed  to  keep  hotel  keepers  and  mountaineers 
busy  looking  after  their  welfare,  ihey  took  a  long 
trip  down  the  Yosemite  Valley  and  left  famine  in 
their  wake.  The  boys  made  many  friends  in  Grizzly 
land,  and  there  is  a  universal  wish  expressed  that 
they  come  again. 

Mrs.  Fairchild  announces  her  removal  from  the 
Starr-King  Building  to  the  more  commodious  and 
fashionable  quarters  at  121 1  Sutter  street,  near  Polk. 
Mrs.  Fairchild  has  come  to  be  recognized  as  the 
greatest  authority  in  San  Francisco  on  the  corset  and 
waist.  It  will  undoubtedly  be  a  great  pleasure  to 
her  patrons  and  others  to  learn  that  she  has  decided 
to  offer  the  "New  Model  Corset", and  Imported.  Waist 
Patterns  during  June  and  July  at  greatly  reduced 
prices.  This  should  be  an  inducement  to  those  who 
desire  to  follow  the  fads  of  fashion  and  the  correct 
idea  to  call  at  the  new  establishment  at  121 1  Sutter 
street,  near  Polk. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


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The  passing  of  the  Manchester  Fire  Insurance 
Company  was  accomplished  at  a  meeting  of  that 
company's  stockholders  held  in  Liverpool  on  Friday, 
the  3d  instant.  Reports  indicate  that  there  was  con- 
siderable opposition,  but  that  the  directors  held  a 
working  majority,  and  governed  the  deal  through. 
The  revised  terms  of  the  amalgamation  which  was 
carried  at  the  meeting  referred  to  are,  according  to 
a  circular  issued  by  manager  Mallet,  as  follows : 

1.  That  it  is  desirable  to  amalgamate  the  under- 
taking of  this  company  with  that  of  the  Atlas  Assur- 
ance Company,  Limited,  and  that  the  provisional 
agreement  made  with  a  view  thereto  (which  agree- 
ment is  dated  the  thirteenth  day  of  May,  1904,  and 
made  between  the  Manchester  Assurance  Company 
of  the  one  part,  and  the  Atlas  Assurance  Company,' 
Limited,  of  the  other  part)  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
approved  and  adopted. 

2.  That  this  company  be  wound  up  voluntarily, 
and  that-  George  Reynolds  Davies,  of  Manchester. 
and  John  Henry  Dixon,  of  Manchester,  be  and  they 
are  hereby  appointed  liquidators  without  remunera- 
tion. 

3.  That  pursuant  to  Section  161  of  the  Companies' 
Acts,  1862,  they  be  and  are  hereby  authorized  and 
directed  to  carry  the  said  agreement  into  effect  with 
such,  if  any,  modification  as  they  may  think  expedi- 
ent. 

Should  the  above  resolution  be  passed  by  the 
requisite  majority,  they  will  be  submitted  for  con- 
firmation as  special  resolutions  by  a  subsequent  gen- 
eral meeting  which  will  be  convened  for  the  purpose. 

The  general  terms  of  the  provisional  agreement 
above  referred  to  are  as  follows: 

The  Manchester  will  forthwith  transfer  to  the  At- 
las the  whole  of  its  undertaking,  property  and  assets, 
with  the  sole  right  to  use  the  name  of  the  Manches- 
ter in  connection  with  insurance  business.  All  debts 
and  liabilities  of  the  Manchester  will  be  satisfied  and 
discharged  by  the  Atlas,  who  will  discharge  all  ex- 
penses incident  to  the  winding-up  of  the  Manches- 
ter. The  Atlas  will  increase  its  capital  by  the  crea- 
tion of  100,000  new  shares  of  £10  each  with  £1  4s. 
credited  as  paid-up.  for  distribution  amongst  the 
holders  of  the  Manchester  in  proportion  to  the  shares 
held  by  them  respectively,  subject  to  the  statutory 
rights  of  dissentient  shareholders.  The  existing  £50 
shares  of  the  Atlas  will  be  divided  into  £  10  shares 
with  14  4S.  credited  as  paid-up. 

It  is  safe  to  say  the  general  meeting  will  concur 
and  join  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  the  Manchester. 

*  *  * 

The  information  obtainable  fails  to  disclose  any- 
thing of  importance  as  to  the  future  action  in  the 
United  States  of  the  Atlas  in  disposing  of  the  Man- 
chester. 

*  *  * 

At  a  recent  auction  in  Boston,  the  stock  of  the 
Phoenix  of  Hartford  sold  under  the  hammer  at  240' 4 
per   share. 

*  *  * 

The  Pacific  Mutual  Life  has  opened  at  Denver  a 
branch  office  for  the  operation  of  its  intermediate 
department. 

*  *  * 

The  cable  brings  the  news  from  Honolulu  of  the 
death  of  S.  A.  D.  Jones.  It  is  said  that  his  bodv  will 
be  brought  to  San  Francisco  for  burial.  Mr.  Jones 
was  well  known  in  California  at  one  time  as  a  lead- 


ing life  insurance  man,  and  has  been  connected  with 
nearly  all  the  companies  at  one  time  or  another. 

*  *  * 

Colonel  Jasper  E.  Brady,  the  man  who  failed  to 
insure  President  Roosevelt's  life  when  he  was  in 
San  Francisco,  has  left  the  Conservative  Life,  and 
is  now  with  a  Chicago  life  company. 

*  *  * 

Blair  T.  Scott,  of  Portland,  Oregon,  who  has 
made  a  success  as  manager  of  the  Washington  Life 
on  the  North  Pacific  Coast,  has  been  appointed 
superintendent  of  agencies  at  the  home  office  in  New 
York. 

*  *  * 

Oklahoma  and  Indian  Territory  have  been  added 
to  the  Northwestern  department  of  the  Commercial 
Union  and  Palatine,  managed  by  J.  Frank  Edmonds 
at  Denver. 

*  *  * 

The  Phoenix  Mutual  Life,  a  company  which  has 
up  to  now  been  liberal  in  writing  insurance  on  the 
lives  of  saloon  men,  has  decided  that  it  will  not  in 
future  write  this  class  at  all.  It  would  be  interest- 
ing to  obtain  the  company's  experience  on  this  class 
of  risks.  Had  it  been  profitable,  however,  there 
would  have  been  no  reason  for  a  discontinuance. 

*  *  # 

The  late  Judge  Cary,  Western  manager  of  the  Ger- 
man-American, at  Chicago,  left  an  estate  of  about 
half  a  million  dollars. 

*  *  * 

The  field  men,  managers  and  officials  of  the  Insur- 
ance Company  of  North  America  conventionized  at 
Erie  on  the  8th  instant  to  celebrate  the  fortieth  anni- 
versary of  general  agent  J.  F.  Downing's  service  in 
that  capacity. 


An  English  exchange  throws  a  side  light  on  life 
insurance  as  "she  is  done  in  England."  It  says:  "At- 
tention was  called  in  our  news  columns  on  Wednes- 


day to  a  policy  issued  by  the  Norwich  Union,  under 
which  a  matter  of  £2,500  became  payable  by  reason 
of  the  birth  of  a  son  to  the  late  Marquis  of  Done- 
gall  in  his  eighty-first  year.  At  the  time  the  policy 
was  issued  the  marquis  was  seventy,  and  was,  more- 
over, living  apart  from  his  wife,  and  under  the  cir- 
cumstances the  chances  of  his  having  further  issue 
seemed  extremely  remote.  But  the  marchioness  died 
and   the   widower  married   again.     Where   cover   is 


'WOLF' 


BRAND 


BLOOD,  WOLFE  &,  CO'S. 

RENOWNED 

"GUINNESS'S    STOUT" 

0  dest  and  best  known  b'and  of  Porter  on  the  Coast, 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO 
Sole  Agents.  314  Sacramento  St.,  San  Francisco. 


June  18,  1904. 


required  against  an  out-of-the-way  risk,  the  tran- 
11  becomes  a  special  or  private  one.  based  on  the 
-  of  the  particular  case,  rather  than  on  generali- 
ties which  cover  the  needs  of  a  class.  In  the  a 
a  very  old  man,  the  husband  of  an  aged  woman,  the 
risk  which  an  office  takes  when  it  insures  against  fur- 
ther issue  to  the  man  is  trilling,  because  the  death 
of  the  present  wife  and  a  further  marriage  are  condi- 
tions precedent  to  a  further  birth.  Hut  where  it  i> 
desired  to  insure  against  the  contingency  of  a  com- 
paratively young  man  having  further  isi-tie.  the  mat- 
ter is  on  an  altogether  different  basis.  Thus  we  were 
a  week  or  two  ago  asked  to  name  an  office  which 
would  insure  against  a  widower  of  middle  age  marry- 
ing again  and  having  further  issue.  The  man  was  al- 
ready a  widower,  and  therefore  free  to  marry  as  soon 
as  he  liked,  and  his  age  was  not  likely  to  prove  an 
obstacle.  In  such  a  case — assuming  that  there  were 
no  special  hindrances  to  the  re-marriage — the  risk 
would  be  so  heavy  that  we  doubt  whether  terms  satis- 
factory to  both  sides  could  be  come  to,  if,  indeed,  an 
office  possessed  of  wisdom  would  entertain  the  pro- 
posal at  all."  It  would  be  difficult  to  find  an  Ameri- 
can company  to  issue  such  a  "cover.'' 
*  *  * 

Last  Saturday  and  Sunday's  fire  record  in  San 
Francisco  shows  that  among  other  alarms  there  were 
eight  runs  caused  by  sparks  from  chimneys  or  smoke 
stacks.  These  fires  were,  and  like  ones  are,  prevent- 
able, and  carelessness  of  this  kind  on  behalf  of  own- 
ers or  tenants  should  be  punished. 

Of  recent  humanitarian  inventions  none  is  more 
remarkable  than  the  baby  incubator  now  being  ex- 
hibited in  its  most  improved  form  on  the  Pike  at  the 
St.  Louis  World's  Fair.  To  save  a  human  life  and 
to  bring  it  to  usefulness  is  the  work  of  the  baby  in- 
cubator. Premature  infants  placed  in  this  machine 
are  kept  from  all  contact  with  varying  conditions  of 
the  atmosphere  and  temperature,  which  would  ordi- 
narily give  them  short  shrift.  They  are  fed  on  the 
most  improved  food,  which  is  modified  to  suit  each 
individual,  and  are  left  in  the  incubator  until  their 
powers  of  resistance  are  sufficiently  developed  to 
withstand  the  shocks  that  even  the  most  carefully 
raised  baby  must  necessarily  stand. 

The  California  Promotion  Committee  requests 
California  merchants  to  order  10,000  envelopes  ad- 
vertising the  State.  These  envelopes  will  be  sold  by 
the  committee  complete  at  $1  a  thousand,  and  will  be 
brought  direct  from  the  factory  in  carload  lots.  They 
are  a  first-class  quality  of  bond  paper,  with  statistics 
of  California  products  on  the  back.  The  merchant's 
business  card  is  printed  on  the  front  of  the  envelope. 
In  this  way  two  and  a  half  millions  of  these  envelopes 
will  be  circulated  all  over  the  United  States.  As  only 
those  who  go  in  for  the  carloads  can  take  advantage 
of  this  remarkable  offer,  the  Promotion  Committee 
requests  that  business  men  will  immediately  send  in 
their  orders. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


to 


"Pin-Head"  McCarthy  of  the  San  Francisco  Build- 
ing Trades  Council,  has  been  sent  for  to  "whip  the 
contractors  of  Los  Angeles  into  line."  It  is  said  his 
tactics  will  be  to  use  the  Carpenters'  Union  to  open 
the  fight,  and  finally  involve  all  lines  of  building  em- 
ployment. The  time  has  come  when  labor  must 
purify  itself  by  going  into  the  casting  out  of  devil's 
business. 


FIRE.   MARINE   AND    INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Pounded  A.   D.  17W. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     tt.OOKXH 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders    '..  S,022,01« 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY.    General  Aeent.    2TO  Tine  St..  S.  F. 


Royal    Exchange    Assurance    of    London 

Incorporated   by   Royal    Charter,    A.    D.    1720. 
Capital  Paid-up.  J3,446,100.  Assets,  J24.662.043.SI 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  J8.930, 431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK  W.    DICKSON,    Manager,  601   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN  and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local  Mgrs. 


Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   18B. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 


The 

Pacific  Mutual 

Life 

Insurance    Co. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building 

San  Francisco. 

of  California. 

DON'T  INSUKE— Until  you  have  examined  the  nuw 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $1,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $21,CC0,CC0 

For  particulars  address  the  Company.    Agents  Wanted. 
Marion  Building 110  deary  St. San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance   Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 
Capital  t6.70o.ooo 


Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  Agents. 


316  California  St.,  S.  F 


Nelson's  Amycose 

Infallible  remedy  for  Catarrh,  Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 
of  the  Skin. 


Cash  Capital,  1200,000.00  Cash  Assets,  S321.471.1S 

PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen's  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Treas.  William 
M.  Plerson,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.   Deerlng,   Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  General  Agent  for  California,  Hay- 
wards  Building. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,  Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 

FIRE      EXTINGU  IS  HERS 

CHAS.    P.    FONDA 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


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A  TRUSTY    TIP   ON   THINGS   THEATRICAL. 

GRAND— Mrs.  Leslie  Carter,  "Du  Barry."  see  below- 
COLUMBIA— Sothern,  "Proud  Prince,"  a  magnificent  production. 
ORPHEUM— A  splendid  vaudeville  performance. 
ALCAZAR— Stock— "Charley's  Aunt."  laughter  and  fun. 
CENTRAL— Stouk— "The  Octoroon."  au  enjoyable  performance. 
FISCHER'S-St'  vk— "U.  S."    A  great  success.    Fun  and  brilliancy. 
CHUTES— A  tine  BhOW  every  afternoon  and  evening- 


•j  PLEASURE'S  WAND 


Du  Barry,  Leslie  Carter,  Belasco,  this  spells  the 
triumph  of  theatrical  genius.  Wonderful  as  was  the 
Mansheldian  performance  in  this  city,  it  remained 
for  Mrs.  Carter  to  eclipse  every  previous  effort  in  the 
production  of  historical  plays.  Mrs.  Carter  has  not 
youth  or  beauty  to  recommend  her  to  the  public, 
but  she  has  transcendent  art,  and  "Du  Barry"  is  a 
vehicle  with  which  to  transmit  her  gift  incomparable 
to  the  public,  given  to  but  few  actresses.  "Du  Barry" 
is  .Felasco's  life  triumph.  It  is  a  wonderful  tribute 
to  the  man's  ingenuity  and  ability.  It  is  a  stupen- 
dous, magnificent  and  soul-stirring  story  that  is  un- 
wound before  you,  and  if  at  times  the  author  has  de- 
parted from  the  straight  and  narrow  path  of  truthful 
tradition,  it  has  always  been  to  the  betterment  of 
history. 

I  cannot  find  words  to  sufficiently  thank  Mrs.  Car- 
ter for  the  pleasure  of  hearing  her,  and  you  know, 
my  masters,  that  I  am  not  easily  pleased.  In  the 
scene  of  the  "Petit  Lever,"  when  she  has  her  strug- 
gle with  poor  Cosse,  she  reaches  an  impassioned 
height  seldom  equaled  by  any  living  actress,  and 
again  when,  as  the  broken,  disheartened  and  cor- 
nered courtesan,  she  pleads  for  a  few  minutes  of  life 
to  bid  God-speed  to  her  lover  and  her  faithful  servant, 
she  displays  to  the  full  the  craven  and  inconstant 
spirit  that  so  marked  the  risen  daughter  of  the  peo- 
ple when  placed  in  comparison  with  the  patrician. 
The  aristocrat  went  to  his  death  unflinchingly,  while 
the  ennobled  plebeian,  uncomforted  by  ancestry, 
craved  a  boon  at  the  hands  of  the  butchers. 

Around  and  about  this  wonderful  piece  of  kaleido- 
scopic activity,  taken  bodily  out  of  the  tumultuous 
Terror,  we  find  a  suitable  frame.  Every  actor  and 
actress  in  Mrs.  Carter's  company  is  letter  perfect; 
every  piece  of  scenery  is  an  historical  reproduction. 
I  came  away  filled  with  wonder  and  thrilled  with  the 
consciousness  of  having  seen  one  of  the  greatest 
actresses  the  world  has  ever  known  in  one  of  the 
greatest  plays  that  was  ever  written. 

*  *  * 

The  Alcazar  opens  its  doors  to  fun,  fast  and  furi- 
ous all  this  week.  The  capable  stock  is  engaged  on 
"Charley's  Aunt,"  and  the  play  is  carried  out  with 
energy  and  ability.  Mr.  Maher  carries  the  part  of 
the  bogus  aunt  to  perfection.  Mr.  Durkin  and  Mr. 
Hilliard  are  both  good  in  their  parts,  and  the  femin- 
ine part  of  the  cast  is  excellently  portrayed.  Miss 
Starr  interjects  the  only  bit  of  sentimentality  there 
is  in  the  lines,  and  she  does  it  very  well  indeed.  She 
is  a  fine  ingenue.  It  is  to  laugh,  and  to  laugh  up- 
roariously, at  the  Alcazar  this  week,  and  if  you  are 
thin  and  desire  to  grow  fat,  go  and  hear  "Charley's 
Aunt,"  and  if  you  are  fat  and  have  the  blues  devour- 
ing your  soul,  go  and  see  Maher  and  his  make-up. 

*  *  * 

E.  H.  Sothern  has  more  than  duplicated  last  sea- 
son's success  in  "If  I  Were  King,"  with  his  present 
production  of  "The  Proud  Prince."  The  first  week 
of   his   engagement   at   the    Columbia   Theatre    will 


show  a  record-breaking  business,  and  already  the 
advance  sale  for  the  second  and  last  week  is  of  im- 
mense proportion.  Sothern  in  his  great  miracle  play, 
in  the  role  of  Robert  of  Sicily,  is  a  most  command- 
ing figure.  His  performance  is  such  as  only  a  great 
artist  like  himself  could  offer.  His  performance  taxes 
a  great  amount  of  strength,  and  his  transformation, 
while  playing  the  dual  role,  from  Prince  to  court  fool, 
is  stage  art  in  its  highest  order.  "The  Proud  Prince" 
is  superbly  written  by  Justin  Huntly  McCarthy,  and 
Sothern  has  given  it  a  production  ranking  among  the 
very  finest  this  country  has  ever  seen.  The  four  acts 
represent  stage  pictures  of  completeness,  beauty,  in- 
terest and  cleverly  blended  colorings  in  costumal  ef- 
fects. There  are  employed  in  this  production  a  small 
army  of  people,  and  finer  stage  management  has 
never  before  been  exemplified  in  productions  seen 
here.  Mr.  Sothern's  company  is  a  strong  one,  and 
cast  to  the  best  possible  results.  Saturday  night, 
June  25th,  will  see  the  closing  performance  of  Mr. 
Sothern's  engagement. 

*  *  * 

Eugenie  Thais  Lawton  has  made  a  great  hit  as 
"Zoe,"  the  Octoroon,  in  the  play  by  Miss  Brandon  at 
the  Central  Theatre.  Herschell  Mayall  also  has 
scored  a  big  success  as  "Wahnotee, '  and  the  large 
audiences  testify  to  the  fine  acting  and  the  splendid 
mounting  of  the  play  by  generous  applause.  There 
are  somewhere  near  one  hundred  people  in  the  cast, 
and  the  scenery  is  fine. 

*  *  * 

Russell  Brandow  is  "it"  at  the  Chutes.  He  is  a 
great  favorite.  There  is  a  generally  fine  musical  spec- 
ialty programme  by  Richard  Walsh  and  Adele  Ligon. 
Alfons,  who  is  an  old  friend  of  most  vaudeville  pa- 
trons, gives  many  new  features  to  his  equilibrist  act. 
Jones,  Sylvester  and  Pringle  are  good  old-time  min- 
strels, and  their  programme  has  a  scent  of  the  old 
plantation  field.  There  are  a  number  of  new  attrac- 
tions in  the  "Zoo." 

*  *  * 

The  promises  made  by  the  management  of  Fis- 
cher's Theatre  that  "U.  S."  would  be  a  better  enter- 
tainment than  anything  seen  at  that  popular  play- 
house this  season,  proved  to  have  been  made  advis- 


Only  the  best  taste  is  displayed  in  our 
comprehensive  collection  of 

Diamonds,    Pearls    and    Silverware 

FOR 

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BokmBri^iolCo. 

I04-HO  GEARY  STREET 


June  18,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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ably.  There  is  not  a  dull  moment  in  the  show,  and 
the  company  presenting  th<-  piece  1-  worthy  of  the 
play  it -%cl  1.      rheri  uncly  funny  comedy  all 

,-h  the  three  acts,  and  it  keeps  the  audien 
continuous  laughter  during  the  performance.     It  is 
filled  with  clever  specialties,  marches,  dances  and  a 
host  of  novelties,  and  the  excellent  music 
by  all  bright  people  whi  modicum  of  humi  r 

in  their  cold,  old  hearts.  That  Mi>s  Edna  Aug  i-  a 
finished  arti>t  of  the  higher  class  is  amply  proved  by 
the  fact  that  she  has  held  and  impressed  her  audiences 
with  her  splendid  specialties  to  the  tune  of  a  dozen 
recalls  at  each  performance. 

*  *  * 

During  Mrs.  Carters  engagement  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  she  will  play  two  matinees  each  week — 
a  regular  matinee  on  Saturdays  and  a  special  after- 
noon presentation  of  "Du  Barry"  on  Wednesdays. 
The  play  is  of  such  uncommon  length  that  the  man- 
agement finds  it  imperative  to  raise  the  curtain  on  the 
first  act  promptly  at  8  o'clock  in  the  evenings  and  at 
2  o'clock  at  the  matinees. 

*  *  * 

There  are  so  many  new  songs  in  "The  Mormons" 
at  Fischer's  that  the  stage  manager  has  determined 
that  there  shall  be  no  encores  on  this  occasion,  and 
the  final  curtain  must  fall  at  half-past  ten  o'clock. 
Edna  Aug  has  made  such  a  big  hit  that  she  has  come 
to  stay,  and  will  introduce  new  features  with  every 
change  of  play.  Yorke  and  Adams  must  be  seen  to 
be  appreciated  in  their  fun,  and  Edwin  Clark  and  Roy 
Alton  will  contribute  several  new  songs.  Ben  Dillon 
is  always  at  home  in  his  work,  and  will  cut  a  big 
figure  in  "The  Mormons."  The  Garrity  Sisters  have 
been  holding  back  on  some  of  their  new  dances,  which 
they  will  introduce.  Everything  in  the  way  of  scen- 
ery, the  costumes  and  the  stage  settings  will  be  new 
from  beginning  to  end,  and  the  patrons  of  Fischer's 
may  look  for  a  great  production.  One  of  the  princi- 
pal features  is  the  re-appearance  of  Freda  Gallick, 
who  comes  back  from  the  East  with  new  laurels.  Miss 
Gallick  has  been  specially  engaged  to  take  the  prima 
donna  roles  until  the  arrival  of  Miss  Dorothy  Mor- 
ton.   Seats  are  now  on  sale  for  two  weeks  ahead. 

*  »  * 

The  Central  Theatre,  fresh  from  its  success  with 
the  "Octoroon,"  now  in  its  last  nights,  is  to  put  on 
"The  Lights  o'  London."  Charles  R.  Sims,  the  au- 
thor, has  been  called  the  poet  of  the  people,  and  we 
can  think  of  no  more  suitable  drama  to  put  on  the 
Central  stage.  The  Lights  o'  London  should  ensure 
a  very  large  attendance  at  the  popular  upper  Market 
street  house. 

*  *  * 

Dorothy  Morton  has  been  secured  by  the  manage- 
ment of  Fischer's  Theatre  to  open  in  "The  Mor- 
mons," which  goes  on  after  "U.  S."  on  Monday,  June 
27th.  Miss  Morton,  next  to  Lillian  Russell,  is  the 
highest  salaried  artist  in  her  line  in  America. 

*  *  * 

Charles  and  Bessie  Hart,  musical  artists,  will  be 
at  the  Chutes  this  coming  week,  as  will  also  the  Fay 
sisters,  singers  and  dancers.  LaMont's  Australian 
trained  cockatoos,  and  Hattie  White,  a  balladist  and 
song  illustrator,  will  also  appear  at  the  popular  re- 
sort for  the  first  time.  Russell  Brandow  and  Stella 
Wiley,  colored  commedians,  will  vary  their  singing 
and  dancing  specialty,  and  Jones,  Sylvester  and  Prin- 
gle,  "The  Imperials  of  Minstrelsy,"  for  their  third 
and  last  week  will  make  an  entire  change  of  act. 
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Wfnk  .vmimcnMnK  8undny  mnllnee,  June  19 

ANOTHER    BIG     NEW     SHOW 

Helen  iwtrnm.  late  ..( the  Boston  lens;  Hows  end  Boott:The 
ml   Burneit:  Posier  ami  Foster:   Eddie 

Heron  and  Comj r:  Ilomani  Trlo;**Mlke.  '    g;  **en 

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nixl  la*T  week  Ol  Ak"">>*t.  WeetDB  ami  <  "inl'ftliy- 

Regular  mntinres  aver}  Wednesday,  Thursday  Saturdays  and 
Bnndey-    Prices  10.25  ami  wv 


Fischer's    Theatre 

Commencing  with  Mondny  Juno  an.  flrat  time  here. 
The  hilariously  funny  burlesque 

THE     MORMONS 

Brim  full  of  new  songs,  dances,  specialties,  novelties- 
Presented  lij    these    great  artists  Edna  Aug.  Freda  (lalleck. 
Garrity  Bisters,  Yurke  and  Adams,  Al  Fields.  Edwin  Clark,  Ben 
Dillon.  Boy  Alton. 

It  markahlo  chorus    of  forty   voices.    Matinees  Saturday  and 
Sunday.    8ame  popular  priei-s.  

Jl-,„,    Thoni-i-o  Belabco  A  Mayer.  Proprietors 

AlCaZar     lneatre    e.  D.  lmu,  Gen'l.  Mgr.    Tel.Alcozar 

Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday. 

Mondav*.  June  20.  one  week 

The  famous  Clyde  Fitch  comedy 

LOVER'S  LflNE 

Exquisite  scenic  effects— augmented  cast 

Last  week  of  the  Alcazar  stuck  season 

Evenings  25  to  75c.    Matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday  25  to  50o 

Monday  June  27.  annual  summer  engagement 

WHITE  WHITTLE>EY- Presenting  Kicliard  Harding  Davis's 

SOLDIERS  OF   FORTUNE 


("•/ir^l-  m  I    THaz-it-i-Q         Belabco  A  Mayer.  Proprietors 
UeQtral      1  neatre.    Market  St.  near  Eighth-Tel.  8outh  638 

Week  starting  Monday.  June  20 
Massive  revival  of  the  famous  drama 

LIGHTS   O'   LONDON 

June  27th-FOWER  OF  THE  CROSS 

Prices  -Evenings  10  to  60e.    Matiuees  10, 15.  26o. 


Tivoli  Opera  riouse. 


Corner  Eddy  and 

Mason  Streets 


Opening  of  the  new  season.  Sunday  evening,  June  19 

A  superb  production  of  the  American  comic  opera  masterpiece 

ROBIN  HOOD 

Superb  cast  of  artists 

Oaly  matinee  Saturday 

Usual  Tivoli  prices,  25.  50  and  75c.    Seats  now  on  sale. 


Graod  Opera  House 


Tonight— all  next  week-  at  8  o'clock  sharp 
David  Belasco  presents 

MRS.   LESLIE  CARTER 

In  his  new  play 

DU  BARRY 

Begular  matinee  Saturday,  special  matinee  Wednesday,  2  o'clock 
Prices  »2. 1.60.  $1,  76  60c 


GUTTLUB,   MAKX  &  CO, 

Leasees  and  Manager*. 


Columbia  Theatre. 

Beginning  Monday— June  20 

Second  and  last  week 

Last  six  nights— matinee  Saturday 

E.   H.   SOTHERN 

In  the  miracle  play 

THE     PROUD     PRINCE 

By  author  of  "If  I  Were  King." 
Last  time  Saturday  night,  June  25 

flfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen    to   the    matchless    string   band   and    enjoy    the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The    Cafe   Zlnkand   is   society's   gathering   place   after 
the  theatre  is  over. 


aa           '                                           SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.                                     June  18,  1904. 

BANKING.  5%e  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 

Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  ~ 

incorporated  January  21,  1904.  The    importance    of    events    in 

Capital   Stock  paid   up    1250,000.00  Russia's  Internal      trip    Far    Fast    Viae    not    rlimin- 

Presldent,  James  O'B.  Gunn                 Vice-President,  Geo.  D.  Gray  nuosia  s  internal      me    r  ar    nasi    nas    not    aimin 

Vice-President,  Geo.  F.  Lyon               Cashier,  Frederick  H.  Clark  Dangers.               ished   in   any   way   in   the   mind 

t*  „,  ts  ,.             T      „          „  -        „  „  _             ^    ,  of  the  St.   Petersburg  Govern- 

F.  W.  Dohrmann,  Jr.;  George  D.  Gray,  F.  M.  Greenwood,  Jas.  .                           ..                            ■     •       t-                      t» 

OB.  Gunn.  Marshall  Hale,  G.  W.  Kline,  George  F.  Lyon,  George  ment,  but  events  the  past  week  in   Luropean   Russia 

M.  Mitchell,  Charles  C.  Moore,  Henry  T.  Soott,  W.  F.  Williamson.  threaten  to  culminate  in  such   disaster  to  the   empire 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  has  opened  Its  doors  for  a  gen-  .     .    f         ,       mnmonr  thp  pvk  nf  r1ie  wnrlH   in.  fivprl 

eral  Savings  and  Loan  business  at  the  S.  W.  corner  Montgomery  that  10r  tne  moment  tile  eyes  OI  tile  worm  are  nxeu 

and  Bush  streets,  San  Francisco.  Cai„  May  2.  1904. upon  the  Czar  rather  more  than  upon  his  army  in 

San   FranciSCO  Savings    Union  Manchuria      Autocrat   by   inheritance   and    acquies- 

"'*•'  cence  by  the  people  though  he  be,  day  bv  day,  the 

B.  b.  %iw?r^&t™™B!UBS™i8^-itDBER?  Czar  is  bein&  circumvented  and  deprived  of  opportu- 

watt,   Vice-Presidents;   lovell  whitb,   Cashier;    r.    m.  nitv  to  exercise  his  authority  by  the  war  partv.    Un- 

WELCH,   Assistant  Cashier.  ,     J.         .    ,      c       ,  •          ,r         .<•                         i       -   ' 

Directors— e.  b.  pond,  w.  c  b.  DeFremery,  Henry  f.  Allen,  fortunately  for  himself  and  his  country,  lie  is  a  men- 

ieavfr,  %£?TT\i££\*£%- £ktt  G'  M"ler>  Fre"  a  tal  and  physical  weakling.    His  country  needs  a  man 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.     Country  of  iron  and  blood  just  now,  but  he  would  not  be  that 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,   Fargo  &  Co..  or  by  checks  ,                      ,    ,          ,      i        •      i      •       L    r        •*.  •     t_« 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsi-  Were  he  a  mental  and  physical  giant,  tor  it  IS  lllS  lia- 
bility of  this  Savings  Ban*  commences  only  with  the  actual  re-  t-„,P  rri  w-,nr  nparp  anrl  a  hpttpr  condition  of  existence 
ceipt  of  the  money.     The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac-  ture  t0  want  peace  ana  a  Detter  condition  oi  existence 

company  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for  pass  book  f0r  his  people.    The  Czar  of  Russia  possesses  a  kind, 

or  entrance  fee.  ,       .          r      ,                 ....            ...                 ',    ,                  .  ,    .,     , 

Office  Hours;  »  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8.  loving  and  peaceful  disposition,  and  he  would  that 

GSa?an?4eDcaprtatrp3iid^p3  :Z:::\\\\:\\\-Y.:V:\::"::::^f^Z  his  country  might  know  only  the  pursuits  of  peace. 

Reserve  and  conungent  Funds  '     899,616  3ut  njs  hands  are  tied  and  his  mouth  muffled  by  as 

.  •     .        .    c                     a        i  bold  and  as  daring  and  as  corrupt  Government  offi- 

MUtUai   isaVlQgs   tSanK  of  s.a  f».«>i.o.  cials  as  ever  conspired  against  the  administration  of 

Guarantee  Capita1!0  £!l£f..£.  ™E??..^: ji.ooo.ooo  justice  and  human  rights.    The  situation  in  European 

f»'v>"^S  SapiJSrii.?IidwSuJplu?.  •V=-"o--iVrVo£.-iiv ■•;;;■    ^'T  Russia  is  substantially  this:  The  people  are  shudder 

JAMES   D.    PHELAW,   President;    S.    G.    MURPHY,    Vlce-Presl-  .                                           ,      J      ..  .      -    .     r      r     *•.•                .  •    , 

dent;  george  a.  story,  cashier;  john  a.  huopbk,  Vice-  nig  at  present  and  possible  future  conditions  which 

^mricto^^es^^ei^T^M^^jobn  a.  Hooper.  portend  only  war  abroad  and  direful  internal  strifes 

ilSS^J^^J^^cD^l^t^^u^S^y-   Rud0lph  and  bankruptcy  at  home,  and  all  because  the  Govern- 

Interest  paid  on  deposits.     Loans  on  approved  securities.  ment  of  Russia  has  fallen  into  the  hands  of  men  who 

Deposits  may  be  sent  on  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  _     . ,   ■      „   ■ *.l,„«.  «.l,„„  A-.*a  ,-,,^f  valinnuich 

exchange  on  city  banks.  are  so  steeped  in  crime  that  they  dare  not  relinquish 

— — — ~ r~r~  their  hold  on  the  throat  of  the     nation.     But     they 

Tne  Uerman    Savings  &  Loan  Society  should  remember  that  they  are  bidding  for  a  revolu- 

no.  526  California  street,  san  francisco.  tion  that  would  show  them  no  mercy.  Nevertheless, 

Guarantee   Capital    and    Surplus    52,423,751.60  fn     ,-pntiirips  Russia's  rulers  have  so  encouraged  dis- 

Capital   Actually   Paid-up   in   Cash    l.ouo.uoo.oo  lor  centuries  l-uissia  s  rulers  nave  so  eiicuuidgcu  uis 

Deposits,  December  si,  iao3  36.049,491.18  affection   amongst  the   population   that   unrest,   sus- 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President,   John  Lloyd;   First  Vice-  „:-:,,„    „„A    Hislnvaltv   have   herome    the    normal    con- 
President,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmann;  picion   and   disloyalty   nave    Decome   tne   normal   con 
ign.  steinharut.  Emu  Rohte,  h.  b.  Russ,  n.  ohiandt,  i.  n.  wai-  dition  of  the  people,  and  peculation  the  rule  in  places 

ter  and  J.    W.   Van  Bergen.  ....              r      r     »             r 

Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herr-  ot   public   trust, 

mann;    Secretary,    George   Tourny;    Assistant   Secretary,    A.    H.  ,            ,           .               f              ,      .. 

Muller;   General  Attorney,    W.   S.   Goodtellow.  Japans       plans     Ot     conducting 

Japan  Still           the  war  are  not  seriously  being 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association  Pegging  Away.       interfered  with  by     the     Rus- 

Estabiished  in  i»                                         of  California.  0            sians   consequently  a  fresh  seal 

301  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cai.  is   put   upon    Port   Arthur  s   fate   every   day,   and   it 

PamTn^cip&T^L:"""^  would  be  no  surprise  if  word  should  come  at  any  hour 

Profit  and  Reserve  Fund........ ■••••••■• •••     45o.ooo.oo  tjlat  t^e  stronghold  had   surrendered,  but  certainly 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum  >■"<»>■    >•_"»•    °"""6'  "  "            .  '           e  ,            '     ,     .             -,     J 

on  term  and  5  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits.  not  without  a  great  sacrifice  of  human  beings,  ben- 

Dr.    Washington  Dodge,   President;   William   Corbin,   Secretary  .    Ci  i        ~  .u +   j«-„    _»*-....«    *-n   T?,...^;.*    ;f  Up 

and  General  Manager.  eral  Stoessel  would  not  dare  return  to  Russia  it  he 

— — — failed  to  defend  the  place  to  the  last,  for  at  best  the 

International    Banking  Corporation  fall  of  Port  Arthur  will  try  the  war  party's  hold  upon 

no.  l  wall  street,  new  York.  the  Government  to  its  full  strength,  and  possibly  be- 

Capitai  and  Surplus »7,s9i,400  voncj  it.     In  the  field  proper,  General  Kuroki  contin- 

Capltal  and  Surplus  Authorized   10.Ouu.uO0.00  ,r«"u  "•■      *•"  "          «        *;       r          i  iL     ti         •                  j  i_- 

officers— William  l.  Moyer,  President;  Charles  d.  palmer,  ues  to  mystify  and  out-general  the  Russians,  and  his 

Assistant    to    President;    William    B.    Wlghtman,    Assistant    to        „     ..   u   :„i l   „«~««..,.  *-~  kQ   ,.--,,.,-,,,-., 1   Kir  mifliotnofi 

President;   John  Hubbard.   Treasurer;   James  H.   Rogers,    Secre-  march  inland  appears  to   be  governed  by  mathematl- 

tary;  John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green,  Coun-  caJ  precision.     Already  he  has  won  the  title  of  the  Von 

branches— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila,  Moltke  of  Asia,  though  the  great  German  Field  War- 

HAnSEE^I'sIBko0mhbaamy^  3g&?  MafrT^Penang,    Rangoon,  shal  never  in  any  of  his  campaigns  had  as  many  to- 

§^ko»w£^fc.1ffi  pographical  obstructions  to  overcome,   nor  so  long 

rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe.  a   line  of  communication  with   his  base  as   General 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH— 32-34  Sansome  St.  "...  ,    ,  ,  _    t .  _  .    .     „   =,,a,   „;__-    ua 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.    Accounts  of  corpora-  Kuroki  is  and  has  been  confronted  by  ever  since  he 

tions,  firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms  crossed  the  Yalu.      But,  On  the  Other  hand,  not  manv 

on  approved  securities.     Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought  UU3KU  L'11-    *               um,  ^      ■•                                  >                      j 

and  sold.     Travelers'   and  commercial   letters  of  credit  granted,  Generals    have    such    moral    and    sympathetic    support 

available  in  any  part  of  the  world.    Interest  bearing  certificates  x,        T                              _i      „_         •    ;„„  in  +i,«;^  «,.«,,.  o«.l 

of  deposits  issued  for  fixed  periods,    interest  allowed  to  banks  as  the  Japanese  people  are  giving  to  their  army  and 

on  current  daily  balances.    Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping  _,,,„  rnmmanrlers    and  what  is  Still  better    tile  home 

accounts    with    us,    and    drawing    direct    on    our    branches    and  navv  commanders,  and  wnat  is  smi  uettci ,  me  iiuhil 

agents  throughout  the  world.  support  of  the  masses,  as  well  as  in  Governmental 

CORRESPONDENCE    INVITED.  oupp-ui       wi    t..^.    i       o         , 

F.  e.  beck.  Manager,           p.  g.  EASTWICK,  jr.,  Asst.  Mgr.  circles,   grows   in   strength    and    enthusiasm    all    the 

~ ~ ^        :             ^       , ' time.     Practically  all  the  Japanese  Generals  and  Ad- 

SeCUnty  faaVingS    tSanK  mirals  are  Buddhists,  and  they  believe  it  to  be  their 

222  Montgomery  St,  Mills  Building.  „|;_;n„c  -,„A  mnral  Hntv  to  thrash  the  Russians    and 

interest  paid  ON  deposits,  loans  made.  religious  and  moral  duty  to  tnrasn  tne  is-tissuns,  <ihu 

directors— wmiam  Aivord,  wniiam  Babcock,  s.  l.  Abbott,  thus  create  better  conditions  and  more  helpful  en- 

Jr„  O.  D.  Baldwin,  F.  Monteagle,  Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J.  Mc-  .         v-'ctt^   u  .             .                                          „„„,;,.  ,..  „ 

Cutcheon,  R.  H.  Peaa«,  J.  d.  Grant  vironment  for  incoming  (reincarnated)  souls  that  the 


June  i8.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


•3 


•  fold  Path  which  lends  to  Nirvana  may  r. 
I  about  by  illusions  of  the  physical  scrscs   An  I 
it  is  their  religion,  too,  to  entertain  no  harsh  or  un- 
kind   feelings    toward    the    enemy    personally.      But 
they  are  in  no  sense  religious  fanatics. 

The  Emperor  of  Thibet 
Thioet  Declares  War.     has     f(  rmally     declared 

war  against  England, 
and  the  London  Government  has  raised  the  Thib  1  in 
"peaceful  expedition"  credit  of  $203,000  a  month  t  > 
a  "war  fund"  of  $1,500,000  a  month,  which  really 
means  as  many  millions  a  month  as  may  be  required 
to  establish  British  authority  throughout  Thibet  so 
firmly  and  so  permanently  that  its  solidity  will  never 
be  questioned  by  any  nation.  In  this  connection  it 
may  be  observed  that  diplomatic  circles  on  the  Con- 
tinent of  Europe  arc  trying  by  all  the  arts  of  intrigue 
and  evesdropping  to  ascertain  what  England  an  1 
the  United  States  are  likely  to  demand  of  Japan  for 
their  "neutrality"  when  the  day  comes  for  Russia 
and  Japan  to  meet  to  formulate  a  treaty  of  peace. 
But  most  likely  all  that  was  settled,  except  as  to  de- 
tails, before  a  gun  was  fired.  However,  it  is  not  at  all 
likely  that  either  will  want  or  expect  m ■  re  than  de- 
cidedly favorable  commercial  privileges  upon  a  last- 
ing basis.  Still  the  Valu  Valley  is  wide  and  long 
and  wonderfully  fertile,  and  would  make  a  splendid 
and  desirable  field  in  which  to  plant  colonies  from  the 
English-speaking  countries,  to  say  nothing  of  rail- 
way concessions  and  convenient  naval  stations.  Any- 
way, the  statesmen  of  Continental  Europe  will  find 
that  the  Russo-Japanese  peace  treaty  does  not  an- 
tagonize Anglo-Saxon  interests  at  any  point.  By 
way  of  a  digression :  It  has  been  discovered  in  Rus- 
sian financial  circles  that  a  number  of  Russian  capi- 
talists who  declined  to  subscribe  to  the  nation's  re- 
cent loan,  have  loaded  themselves  with  Japan's  new 
bond  issue  because  they  rated  the  Japan  loan  as  the 
better  and  safer  investment.  It  is  reported  that  all 
of  them  are  likely  to  spend  a  season  in  the  Siberian 
mines  for  placing  stability  of  Japanese  investments 
ahead  of  patriotism. 

The  Thibetans  have  suffered  a 

The  Llama  Will     severe  defeat  the     past     week, 

Not  Yield.  but  they  are  as  undaunted  and 

determined  as  ever.  One  rea- 
son for  this  is  the  moral  support  they  are  getting  from 
St.  Petersburg,  and  a  semi-official  report  that  Russia 
is  mobilizing  an  army  corps  on  the  frontier  of  Thibet 
to  be  inarched  against  the  "Anglo-Saxon  invaders." 
The  other  nations,  including  China,  whose  Emperor 
is  the  suzerain  of  Thibet,  seem  to  have  made  up  their 
minds  that  Thibet  is  already  as  good  as  a  British  de- 
pendency, and  will  let  it  stand  that  way.  It  is  pretty 
evident  that  Japan  believes  that  it  is  no  longer  in 
need  of  China's  support,  and  is  discouraging  any 
violation  of  that  nation's  neutrality  proclamation ; 
at  the  same  time  it  is  very  clear  that  Japan's  influence 
is  the  dominating  factor  in  China's  every-day  political 
life.  But  no  student  of  present  national  and  interna- 
tional conditions  and  relations  in  the  Far  East  will 
be  surprised  at  that,  nor  that  the. day  is  coming  when 
Japan  and  China  will  meet  to  divide  certain  loaves 
and  hshes. 


BANKING. 


Dr.  Decker. 

Dentist.  806  Market.  Specialty  "Colton  Gas"  lor  painless  teeth 
extracting. 

The    Techau    Tavern    is   the    place    to   go   after   the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are. of  the  best  quality  and  the  price 
is  reasonable. 


Wells,Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Capital,   Surplus  and   Undivided 
Prof)  (a 


$13,500,000 


Homer  S.  King.  President;  F.  L.  Llpman,  Cashier;  Frank  B. 
King.    Asslstnnl    Cashier;    Jno     B.    Miles.    Assistant    Cashier. 

BlIANCIIKS- New    Vork;    Salt    Lake.    Utah;    Portland.    Ore. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world,  Ucuerul  banking  busi- 
ness transacted. 


The  Son  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sansome  and   Pine  Sts..   San   Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON,  President;  UM.  PiEUcE  JuHKSUN,  Vlca- 
Presldent;  LEWIS  1.  CUH'tiiLi,  Cashier;  J-'.  W.  WOLFE,  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital.  $500,000.     Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits,  $105,000. 

DIRECTORS—  William  Pierce  Johnson,  Vice-Prest.  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutlon.  President  Flremans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  R.  R.; 
Geo.  A.  Pope,  ot  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict. 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot,  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morion,  Presi- 
dent   W.   T.   Garratt   &   Co.     James   K.    Wilson,   President. 

AGENTS—  New  York:  Hanover  National  Bank,  chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.     Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.     St.   Louis— 

l'ho  MeclltinieS'  Ni ul  Biiuk      liiinsa-   city-First  National  JLSank 

London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  ^African  Banking   Co.,    Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital,    SS.TOU.OUO.  Reserve    Fund,    $3,000,000 

Aggregate   Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.  GEORGE  A.  COX,  President. 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— tiu    Lombard    St.,    E.    C. 
NEW    YORK   OFFiCE— ltj   Exchange    Place. 
BRANCHES     IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlin,       Cranbrook, 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New  Westminster,  Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN   UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skaguay  (Alaska). 
Also     80     other     Branches,    covering     the   principal    points    in 
Manitoba,   N.    W.    Territories,   and    Eastern   Canada. 
BANKERS   IN   LONDON— The  Bank   of   England,    the   Bank   of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,  Ltd. 
AGENTS   IN    CHICAGO— The   First   National   Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  OLREANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
Sarv  Franolsco  Office— 

825  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London,  Paris  and  American  Bank.  Llulj,e,, 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND   SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed  Capital,  12,500,000.  Paid-up  Capital,  $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000. 
Head  Office— 40  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paris— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  Issued. 

SiG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; It.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 

The  floglo-Californian  Bank,  Limited 

HEAD  OFFICE— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 
Capital    Authorized,    $0,01)0,000  Paid-up,    $1,500,000 

Subscribed,  $3,000,000  Reserve  Fund,  $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,    buys   and    sells   exchange   and   bullion. 

1GN.    STE1NHART,    P.    N.    L1L1ENTHAL,    Managers. 

Central  Trust  Company  of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and   Reserve 1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  Depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments  carefully   selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Vice- 
President;     H.    Brunner,  Cashier. 


BUSWELL  COMPANY 


580  Clay  Street. 


Bookbinder,  Paper-ruler,  Printer  and  Blank 
Book  Manufacturer. 


24  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

Pleasure's    Wand. 

(Continued  from  Page  21.) 
Commencing  with  Monday,  June  27th,  a  hilari- 
ously funny  burlesque  is  to  follow  "U.  S."  It  is 
called  "The  Mormons,"  and  was  written  expressly 
for  the  present  cast  at  Fischer's.  The  manage- 
ment states  that  it  is  overflowing  with  novelties  and 
new  ideas.  Seats  are  now  on  sale  for  the  first  two 
weeks.  The  famous  burlesque  queen,  Dorothy  Mor- 
ton, will  make  her  first  appearance  on  this  occasion. 


June  18,  1904. 


Genial,  whole-souled  John  Morrisey  will  tell  you 
stories  about  St.  Louis  and  the  Fair  for  the  asking. 
He  and  Mrs.  Morrisey  have  just  returned  from  the 
metropolis  of  the  "show  me's."  They  report  a  brief 
and  enjoyable  trip. 

*  *  * 

There  are  many  who  will  remember  Creatore,  the 
great  band  leader,  and  they  will  be  pleased  to  know 
that  the  exponent  of  the  ecstatic  and  erratic  in  musi- 
cal batonnerie  is  to  be  with  us  again.  He  will  be  here 
during  the  coming  season,  and  his  success  should  be 
as  great  as  it  has  been  in  the  East.  Creatore  is  the 
man  who  thrills.  He  lifts  orchestra  and  audience 
out  of  themselves  into  the  heights  of  musical  elysian. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Joanna  Barilli  is  the  prima  donna  soprano 
with  Creatore.  She  is  a  splendid  creature,  who  is 
possessed  of  a  most  charming  stage  presence.  She 
is  a  member  of  the  famous  Barilli-Patti  family,  and 
has  studied  under  the  best  Italian  masters. 

*  *  * 

Helen  Bertram,  late  of  the  Bostonians,  opens  at 
the  Orpheum  the  coming  week,  making  her  first  vau- 
deville appearance  in  this  city.  Her  voice  is  said  to 
be  better  than  ever,  and  if  this  is  so,  she  should  be 
an  immediate  and  an  immense  success.  Howe  and 
Scott  are  Hebrew  cake-walkers.  This  is  something 
new,  and  it  ought  to  be  a  drawing  card  for  the  great 
vaudeville  house.  Mile.  Agoust  and  Charles  Weston 
continue  with  us,  and  we  are  glad  they  do,  as  they 
are  clever  artists  and  very  popular.  They  have  made 
a  great  hit  in  their  comedy  and  juggling  act.  There 
is  a  new  act  on  the  Orpheum  boards  which  should 
be  of  great  interest  to  all  Californians  and  San  Fran- 
ciscans in  particular.  It  is  the  moving  pictures  taken 
recently  of  the  review  of  the  fire  department. 

*  *  * 

"Lovers'  Lane"  has  been  selected  as  the  play  with 
which  to  finish  the  regular  stock  season  at  the  Alca- 
zar. Considering  that  this  is  the  last  opportunity  to 
see  the  clever  members  of  this  company  in  their  pres- 
ent relation  to  one  another,  and  because  the  ladies 
and  gentlemen  of  the  Alcazar  stock  have  endeared 
themselves  to  the  San  Francisco  public,  "Lovers' 
Lane"  is  sure  to  be  greeted  with  crowded  houses. 
Adele  Belgarde  is  to  re-appear,  and  she  may  be  sure 
of  a  heart-felt  salutation  from  the  public.  She  is  well 
liked.  The  members  are  all  congenially  cast,  and  we 
may  rest  assured  of  a  fine  performance. 

White  Whittlesey  opens  on  the  twenty-seventh  in 
Richard  Harding  Davis's  "Soldiers  of  Fortune."  The 
mere  announcement  should  crowd  the  house. 

*  *  * 

"Robin  Hood,"  on  a  scale  never  before  attempted, 
is  to  be  put  on  at  the  1-voli.  There  are  to  be  a  num- 
ber of  new  people,  and  the  cast  is  said  to  be  an  ex- 
ceptionally fine  one,  and  will  include  Kate  Condon, 
who  bears  a  splendid  reputation  as  contralto.  Edith 
Mason  is  well  known  here,  and  needs  no  words  of 
praise.  Barron  Berthold  is  another  great  favorite 
wherever  he  has  appeared,  and  he  sang  a  long  time 


INDISPENSABLE 
For  the  Dressing-Table 

MURRAY  &  LANMANS 
Florida  Water 

More  lasting  and  refreshing  than  Cologne 


Beware  of  Counterfeits! 

Always  look  for  f  he  "Trade-Mark"  with  Ihenameof 

LANMiN  &  KEMP,  NEW  YORK 


with  the  "Bostonians."  Willard  Sims  appears  as  a 
comedian  and  he  also  brings  with  him  a  great  deal  of 
the  press  and  public  s  commendation.     John   Duns- 

muire  will  officiate  as  the  basso  profundo. 

*  *  * 

My  friend,  George  Tyler,  of  Liebler  &  Co.,  is  back 
in  God's  country  again,  and  he  informs  me  he  has 
closed  a  number  of  engagements  while  abroad  that 
are  sure  to  make  sensations.  He  closed  for  a. 
American  season  with  Madame  Gabrielle  Rejane,  the 
idol  of  Paris.  She  will  bring  her  own  productic ins 
and  her  own  selected  company  of  artists. 

*  *  * 

Liebler  &  Co.  are  now  playing:  Eleanore  Robson 
in  "Merely  Mary  Ann";  Edward  Morgan  in  thj 
"Eternal  City" ;  Signor  Ermete  Novelli  with  an  ex- 
ceptionally fine  company  of  Italian  actors,  who  will 
represent  "La  Morte  Civile,"  "Louis  XI,"  and  a  selec- 
tion of  Shakespearean  plays.  Kyrle  Bellew,  in  "Raf 
ties,"  Ezra  Kendall  in  a  new  play  by  Edward  E.  Kid- 
der, and  a  capable  company  presenting  a  dramatiza- 
tion of  Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch."  It  is  a 
pleasure  to  be  able  to  say  that  many  of  these  attrac 
tions  are  programmed  to  take  in  San  Francisco. 

— The  appetizing  things  that  come  from  the  broiler  at  Moraghan's 
Grill,  in  the  California  Market,  are  responsible  for  the  crowd  that  goes 
there  for  luncheon.  It  has  become  a  regular  business  men's  exchange. 
The  quality  of  the  chops,  steaks,  oysters  and  game  served  cannot  be 
surpassed  More  than  that,  the  wants  of  the  guests  are  attended  to 
by  perfectly  trained  waiters. 


Hotel  "Richelieu 


The  leading  and  finest  private  family  hotel 
on  the  Pacific  Coast. 


1012    VAN    NESS 

Bet.  Geary  and  O'Farrell  Sts. 


AVENUE 

San  Francisco,  Gal. 


Open  Evenings^ 


^Open  all  day 

^Sunday  July3t^ 


mm* 

Every  kind 

of  fireworks  at' 

'factory  prices  for  the^ 

'Glorious  4% 

California  Fireworks  Col 

219  Froivt  St. 


June  18,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»5 


THE  ASSAULT  ON  MESSRS.  SHERMAN  AND 
GEISSLER. 
The  row  at  the  \<->rtli  Slvrc  I'rrrv  depot  On  th 
■1  of  the  enforcement  of  the  new  order  that  all 
ilitans  must  he  aboard  the  boat  at  sharp  sailing 
hour  is  only  the  happening  of  the  expected.     The  man 
I,  who  officiated  as  the  chief  bouncer  of  the  com 
pany,  had  about  the  -tightest  imaginable  i<lea  of  ni~ 
ilnties.     A  bumptious  bumpkin,  possessed  of  more 
brawn  than  brain,  and  on  many  an  occasion  previous 
to  this  one,  had  conclusively,  and.  apparently  to  his 
own  satisfaction,  proven  his  efficiency. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  the  company  has  rid  itself  of  the 
gentleman's  services  permanently,  and  thus  ha-,  in 
a  measure,  taught  him  to  differentiate  between  the 
Sunday  hoodlum  element  and  the  gentle  and  sub- 
missive suburbanite.  The  suburbanite  needs  no  at- 
tention from  such  men  a-  Creed.  A  simple  ringing 
of  a  bell  about  one  minute  before  gate  closing  will 
obviate  all  difficulties,  if  coupled  with  a  respectfully 
worded  announcement  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place. 
The  suburbanite  is  the  backbone  of  the  North  Shore 
road,  and  it  is  not  wise  to  add  another  disheartening 
element  to  those  that  already  confront  the  resident 
in  the  rhubarbian  districts  through  the  continued  in- 
fliction of  the  "bombasto  furioso,"  whose  Creed  is 
the  rough  house  pattern. 


OUR  RAGGED  CARMEN. 

In  conversation  with  an  Eastern  visitor,  it  was  de- 
veloped that  the  United  Railways  is  being  very  gen- 
erally criticised  for  the  slouchy  and  ragged  appear- 
ance of  its  platform  men  and  conductors.  San  Fran- 
ciscans are  so  used  to  seeing  the  carmen  in  the  garb 
of  tramps  and  bearing  the  appearance  of  a  section  of 
Coxey's  army  that  this  condition  arouses  scarcely  any 
local  comment.  The  men  aver  that  they  cannot 
afford  new  uniforms  because  the  cost  is  from  twenty- 
five  to  thirty-five  dollars  for  each  man.  The  com- 
pany states,  it  is  said,  that  it  has  no  desire  to  enforce 
any  rule  regarding  uniforms  because  it  does  not  wish 
to  lend  the  men  a  pretext  on  which  to  hang  another 
strike  agitation.  In  regard  to  the  price  of  the  uni- 
forms of  the  men,  it  occurs  to  us  that  it  is  excessive. 
The  militia  and  the  United  States  army  are  better 
clothed  than  are  the  carmen,  at  about  one-third  the 
price.  The  United  Railways  Company  should  make 
an  arrangement  by  which  a  continued  contract  with 
some  reputable  firm  would  enable  the  men  to  secure 
uniforms  at  cost,  or  very  nearly  cost.  A  good  uniform 
with  leather  re-enforcement  to  the  pockets  should 
not  cost  more  than  $15. 


CAMPING 


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COOL  HEADS  ^ 


HOT 

A  T  HER 


A  FINE  LINE  OF  PANAMAS  FROM 
$5.00  TO  $15.00  AT 


az^^^^t 


Also  a  splendid  selection  of  stylish  STRAWS 
and  outing  HATS  and  CAPS. 


The  August  number  of  the  Overland  Monthly  is 
to  be  devoted,  in  a  great  measure,  to  the  "Triennial 
Encampment  of  the  Knights  Templar"  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. There  will  be  the  usual  amount  of  standard 
fiction,  a  number  of  descriptive  pieces,  and  an  elabo- 
rate article  on  the  great  musical  organization  for 
male  voices,  "The  Loring  Club."  The  Overland 
Monthly  is  fast  becoming  as  popular  as  it  was  in 
the  days  of  gold,  the  days  of  Bret  Harte,  when  it  was, 
as  truly  as  it  is  to-day,  the  only  literary  magazine 
in  the  West.  Since  September,  the  news-stand  sales 
have  trebled,  and  there  have  been  thousands  of  names 
added  to  the  subscription  list.  The  circulation  record 
has  now  passed  the  fifty  thousandth  mark. 

Murine  Eye  Remedy 

Cures  Sore  Eyes.    Makes  weak  Eyes  strong.    Murine  doesn't 
smart;  it  soothes  Eye  pain. 


NOTICE   OF   JUDGMENT. 

Pursuant  to  the  Partition  Act  1876  and  a  Judgment  of  the  High  Court 
of  Justice.  Chaueery  Division,  England,  dated  the  nth  November,  1903, 
made  in  an  action  of  Faulkner  v  Nairn  1908  F.  1235.  and  to  an  order 
in  the  said  action  dated  the  19 th  Mav.  1904,  dispensing  with  the  ser- 
vice of  the  notice  of  the  said  judement  upon  James  Rooke  Glass, 
born  at  Worton  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  England  (a  son  of  James 
Glass  and  Sarah  Mary  Susannah  Glass,  formerly  Gilpin)  and  after- 
wards of  Pourerere  Hawked  Bay  in  the  Colony  of  New  Zealand,  as- 
sistant on  Messrs.  Nairn  Brothers  run.  and  afterwards  farmer,  and  of 
Sydney,  New  South  Wales,  whose  present  address  is  unknown.  The 
said  James  Rooke  Glass,  and  any  persons  claiming  by.  through,  or 
under  him,  the  said  James  Rooke  Glass,  and  all  persons  claiming  to  be 
interested  In  the  Freehold  hereditaments  to  which  this  action  relates, 
who  are  not  parties  to  the  said  action,  or  have  not  been  served  with 
notice  of  the  said  judgment,  are  hereby  required  to  come  in  and  es- 
tablish their  respective  claims  in  respect  thereof,  at  the  Chambers  of 
Mr-  Justice  Farwell.  Royal  Courts  of  Justice.  Strand  London,  on  or 
before  the  29th  day  of  October,  1904.  or  in  default  thereof  they  will,  after 
the  expiration  of  the  time  so  limited,  be  bound  by  the  proceedings 
in  the  said  action  as  if  on  the  day  of  the  date  of  the  said  order  dispens- 
ing with  service  of  notice  of  the  said  judgment  on  the  said  James  Rooke 
Glass,  they  had  been  served  with  notice  of  such  judgment. 

Wednesday  the  2nd  day  of  November.  1904.  at  one  of  the  clock  in  the 
afternoon  at  the  said  Chambers.  Room  No.  700,  has  been  appointed  for 
hearing  and  adjudicating  upon  the  claim  or  claims. 
Dated  this  25th  day  of  May,  1904- 

E.  W.  WALKER.  Master 
Jackson  and  Jackson,  Solicitors-    Devizes,  England- 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 
Savage  Mining  Company. 

Location  ol  prinotua)  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— "Virginia  City ,  Storey  County.  Nevada, 

Notice  la  hereby  (riven  that  at  a  meeting:  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  10th  day  of  June,  1904,  an  assessment,  (No.  118)  of  ten  (10)  eenta 
p«r  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  paya- 
ble Immediately  In  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  rooms  21*22.  Nevada  Block,  No-  809  Montgomery  St. 
San  Francisco,  Ca). 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
15th  DAY  OF  JULY  1904, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  pay 
merit  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  FrtlDAY.  the  5th  day  of  August 
1904  at  1  o'clock  P.  M.,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of 
Directors, 

JOHN  W.  TWIGGS,  Secretary 

Office—Rooms  21-32  Nevada  Block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
olsco,  Cal> 


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26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  i8,  1904. 


MODEL  H.    8  HORSE  POWER. 

Price,  $950 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.   my^SSJx 


Phone  South  1007 


THE     Al/rOCA'R 


AUTOCARS,  $1,850 
AUTOCAR  RUNABOUT,  $1,050 
LIGHT  TOURING  COLUMBIA  $1,900 
COLUMBIA  FOUR  CYLINDER  $4,000 

THERE    ARE    NO    AUTOMOBILES    BETTER 

WEST    COAST     MOTOR-CAR    CO. 

606  VAN  NESS  AVENUE        -  .        SAN  FRANCISCO 


Have  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

1904  Model 

Best     Automobile     at 
any  price 

$475 

Will  climb  any  hill 
'  Strong— Easy  Riding— Reliable—Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SVNSET    AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


The    CADILLAC 


MODEL  B.    Price  $950 
With  Tonneau  $1050 


August  8th  from  Del 
Monte  to  12th  and 
Broadway,  Oakland.  6 
hrs.  5min  October  lath 
the  same  run  was  made 
in  5  hrs.  38  min.  with- 
out stopping  the  car  or 
refilling  with  gasoline 
or  water,  breaking  all 
records.  The  only  suc- 
cessful tour  of  the 
Yosemite  Valley  was 
made  by  a  party  of  i  in 
a  Cadillac. 


CUYLER  LEE,  Agent.     201-203  Larkin  Street,  S.  F. 


By    The    Autocrahk 

The  Automobile  Club  of  Los  Angeles  is  trying  a 
scheme  which  seems  to  be  an  interesting  proposition. 
They  are  holding  matinees  on  the  race  track  of  that 
city. 

From  the  reports  from  the  South,  they  are  run  off 
in  an  informal  way.  There  is  no  set  programme, 
but  when  there  are  enough  vehicles  present  to  make 
a  class,  they  are  sent  around  the  track.  There  is 
no  stripping  of  the  cars,  but  they  are  started  in  the 
condition  they  come  to  the  track.  It  is  on  the  lines 
of  the  old-time  trotting  events,  when  an  owner  drove 
out  to  the  track  and  had  a  brush  with  his  friends  in 
his  road   ride. 

The  contest  does  not  always  go  to  the  swiftest  un- 
der these  circumstances,  but  the  amount  of  pleasure 
to  be  gained  out  of  such  intercourse  cannot  be  meas- 
ured. It  will  bring  about  that  feeling  of  good-fellow- 
ship which  has  been  the  ground  work  yarn  of  the 
speedway. 

Frank  A.  Garbutt,  the  enthusiastic  automobilist 
of  Los  Angeles,  gave  his  new  6o-horsepower  auto- 
mobile, designed  by  himself,  a  test  last  Saturday.  The 
trial  took  place  on  the  Ascot  Park  track,  at  the  mati- 
nee of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Southern  California. 
He  made  the  mile  in  I  :i5  flat,  and  was  pleased  with 
the  result. 

"Under  present  conditions,"  said  he,  after  his 
speedy  trip,  "I  hardly  dare  let  the  machine  out  to  its 
full  capacity.  It  has  a  great  deal  more  in  it  than 
I  have  brought  out  so  far,  of  that  I  am  convinced. 
But  till  I  get  thoroughly  used  to  it  and  can  tell  just 
how  it  will  act  on  the  corners,  I  shall  hold  down  to 

practicallv  the  speed  shown." 

*  *  * 

The  Automobile  Club  will  give  another  matinee 
to-day  at  Ascot  Park  track,  Los  Angeles. 

*  *  * 

By  the  time  the  News  Letter  is  in  the  hands  of 
its  readers,  the  great  Gordon-Bennett  race  will  have 
become  a  matter  of  history.     This  year  there  is  no 

American  representative. 

*  *  * 

Greater  New  York  is  having  a  hard  time  trying  to 
protect  its  automobilists.  The  lawless  element  of 
the  citv  has  taken  to  throwing  stones,  which  in  many 
cases  has  resulted  in  death.  It  is  merely  the  repe- 
tition of  what  has  happened  when  any  radical  inno- 
vation has  been  made  in  transportation.    The  savage 

instinct  is  never  dead. 

*  *  * 

There  are  a  lot  of  professional  and  amateur  drivers 
who  are  responsible  for  this  condition.  They  drive 
over  roads  at  a  pace  that  almost  kills  the  ordinary 
citizen  with  fright.  It  is  very  amusing  to  come  along 
behind  some  unsuspecting  fellowman  and  give  a  toot 
on  the  horn,  which  causes  him  to  do  funny  stunts  for 
a  second.  It  is  not  so  funny  to  the  man.  and  ever 
afterwards  he  does  not  think  kindly  of  the  automo- 
bile. 

*  *  * 

The  best  time  for  a  race  meet  of  the  Automobile 
Club  of  California  is  when  the  Knights  Templar  con- 
clave is  being  held  in  the  city.  The  officers  of  tin-  club 
should  secure  the  track  at  once,  for  there  undoubtedly 
will  be  other  attractions  that  will  want  Ingleside  at 
that  time. 


June  1 8.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


37 


■  imnhile  parties  arc  making  the  Hotel  Vendomc 
■f  their  objective  points  in  tinirx  from  San  Fran- 
in  increasing  nun  nc  of  these  j>.r 

which  arrived  last  week,  was  composed  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  VV.  Starr,  of  <  ira-s  Valley,  and  Mi-^ 

Bourn  of  San  Francisco.  This  party  lias  heen  on  ■ 
several  months'  tour  in  their  White  touring  car.  hav- 
ing already  traveled  a*  far  south  as  San  Di 

*  «  » 

Jim   Budd,  says  the  Stockton   Record,  has  given 

up  his  Su.ooo  French  Mors  auto,  which  took  Cali- 
fornia by  the  ears  some  time  ago,  and  now  has  a 
White. 

»  »  * 

J.  P.  Bauman,  of  Stockton.  California,  is  contem- 
plating purchasing  a  White  steam  automobile  in  the 
near  future. 

»  *  * 

The  following  persons  made  tours  to  different  sec- 
tions of  the  country  on  Sunday  in  Pope-Toledo  tour- 
ing cars,  and  all  report  a  most  enjoyable  trip:  L.  P. 
Lowe.  Colonel  E.  F.  Preston  and  family,  E.  E.  Pea- 
body  and  friends.  M.  A.  Gunst  and  family,  George 
P.   Fuller  and  party.  M.  C.  Harris  and  friends. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Houghton,  the  White  agent  in  Santa  Cruz, 
accompanied  by  L.  D.  Estep  and  three  others,  made 
the  run  to  San  Francisco  last  week  in  a  White  tour- 
ing car.  After  remaining  here  a  day  seeing  the  sights, 
the  party  left  again  for  Santa  Cruz  by  the  auto  route. 

*  *  * 

There  is  no  greater  evidence  of  the  fact  that  the 
high  grade  motor  car  is  the  need  for  California  than 
the  large  number  of  orders  now  on  file  with  the  Pope- 
Toledo  Touring  Car  Company  for  the  four-cylinder 
car.  Mr.  Boyer  reports  that  it  is  difficult  for  the 
factory  to  get  the  cars  out  rapidly  enough  to  supply 
the  demand.  All  owners  of  this  car  are  rejoicing  over 
the  success  of  the  car  in  all  hill-climbing  contests  in 
the  East.  Mr.  Boyer  is  very  much  elated  over  the 
receipt  of  a  telegram  just  received  from  the  Pope 
Motor  Car  Company,  which  reads  as  follows: 

Pope-Toledo  Touring  Car  Company,  134  Golden 
Gate  Avenue,  San  Francisco : 

"Pope-Toledo  won  first,  second,  third,  Minneapolis 
hill-climbing  contest,  touring  car  class,  distance  one 
hundred  sixty-two  feet,  over  half  a  mile,  eleven  per 
cent  grade,  defeating  all  leading  American  makes 
of  cars,  in  fifty-nine  seconds  flat,  also  first  in  stripped 
free-for-all  class,  breaking  all  records  twenty-four 
seconds;  time,  fifty-one  and  four-fifths  seconds. 
Pope-Toledo  won  five  miles  open  touring  car  class, 
carrying  four  passengers,  Indianopolis,  Saturday. 
Also  made  fastest  time  in  five  mile  handicap  open- 
to-all  classes,  winning. 

"Pope  Motor  Car." 

*  *  * 

Alexander  Young,  of  Honolulu,  is  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. He  has  purchased  a  White  touring  car,  and 
will  soon  take  it  to  the  Islands,  where  he  intends  to 
do  quite  a  bit  of  touring. 

*  »  * 

Among  the  White  users  out  last  Sunday  were  L. 
P.  Lowe,  H.  P.  Teichner,  Miss  Katherine  Dillon, 
Miss  Grace  Spreckels  and  George  H.  Lent.  Mr.  Lent 
and  Miss  Spreckels  and  Miss  Dillon  all  drove  their 
steamers  across  the  bay. 

Eyes  Irritated  by  Wind 

Mineral  laden  poisonous  dust,  and  strong  sunlight,  need  care. 
Murine  Eye  Remedy  soothes  Bye  pain  and  cures  Inflammation, 
Redness,  Itching,  Granulated  and  Weak  Eyes.  Murine  Is  an 
Eye  Tonic;  an  aid  to  those  wearing  glasses. 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Prloe    SI. 330    Without    Top 
SI.430  With  Top 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating four  peraona. 

1.  It  has  an  8  hone-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

I.  It  is  especially  designed  for  physlcane'  uie,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  Is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
and   beautiful   In  general   finish. 

6.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  T0URIN0  CAR  I  rrnch 
NORTHERN  RUNABOUT        .... 


12.650.00 
800.00 


MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gate  Ave.  &Goufh  St.,S  F. 


W.  J.  FREELINQ 


P.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 


1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO 

AUTOMOBILE  SUNDRIES  AT 
WHOLESALE    and    RETAIL 

Manufacturers   of  the 

COMMERCIAL  TOURING  CARS,  RUNABOUTS,  DELIVERY  CARS 
AND  HOTEL  COACHES 

The  lightest  and  highest  powered  Marine  Motors  In  California 

128-130    FREMONT    STREET.     S.    F. 


AUTOMOBILE 

REPAIRS 

81    CITY    HALL 

AVE. 

De  Dion  Plugs  and  Porcelains— Electric  Wiring  for  Auto  use 

best  made— Batteries,  Tires,  etc. 

ANDREWS,  KEENAN  & 

BLASAUF 

Tel.  South  1039 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

WE  ARE  SELLING  al  reduced  BARGAIN    prices  very  desirable 

AUTO-CARS  also 

RAMBLERS,    NORTHERNS,     FRANKLINS,     OLDSMOBILES 
with  Lanterns,  Rags,  Caps  and  Sundries 

Gall  and  see  them  at 
NATIONAL    AVTO.    (SL    MFG.    COMPANY 


134  GOLDEN  GATE  ATE. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  OAL. 


SECOND  HAND 

AUTOMOBILES 


F.     R.     LUCHHARDT 
20  GOLDEN    GATE   AVE. 

WITH 
CALIFORNIA    AUTO     EXPRESS     CO 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


Mr.  Lowe  made  the  run  again  to  Haywards,  and 
Mr.  Teichner  went  to  San  Mateo,  San  Jose  and  Palo 
Alto  on  this  side,  of  the  bay,  returning  from  the  Gar- 
den City  without  a  single  stop. 
*  *  * 

Since  Mr.  James  L.  Flood  received  his  royal  blue 
Pope-Toledo  the  fascination  for  automobiling  has 
taken  possession  of  him,  and  he  is  rarely  seen  in  the 
city. 

Among  the  large  number  who  have  been  placing 
their  orders  for  the  Pope-Toledo  touring  cars  is  Mr. 
A.  Schilling,  of  Oakland,  who  has  ordered  a  four- 
cylinder  car. 

»  *  * 

The  Knox  Automobile  Company  seems  to  be  los- 
ing favor  in  this  locality.  This  is  to  be  regretted,  as 
it  is  a  standard  machine.  Something  should  be  done 
to  again  reinstate  this  automobile  in  popular  favor. 
It  is  said  by  some  that  the  personal  unpopularity  of 
the  local  agent  has  had  much  to  do  with  the  present 
state  of  affairs.  If  this  is  a  fact,  the  company,  in  self 
protection,  should  place  the  agency  in  other  hand  3 
than  Leavitt's. 


If  you  are  contem- 
plating the  purchase 
of  an  automobile  we 
wish  to  call  attention 
to  the  fact  thtt  we 
will  be  in  a  position 
to  supply  you  with  a 
machine  which  we 
know  is  superior  to 
any  other  mnchine 
for  sale  for  less  than 
$2000. 
The  price  will   be 

$875  and  $975 

The  type  of  engine  is 
double  opposed  cylinder  4Mx4^.  Every  part  accessible  and  dura- 
ble, and  for  power,  and  weight,  nothing  on  the  market  like  it. 

HEINE    MOTOR    CAR.    CO. 
235-237  Gearv  St.         Opp.  Vnlon  Square        San  Francisco 


HOTEL  VENDOME 


SAN    JOSE,    CAL 


New  Automobile  Garage 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


SUNDAY'S   AUTOMOBILE 

TRIP   TO 

SAN  JOSE 

means  a  delightful  trip  and  an  appetite  that  calls  for  something 

«3      ~      "1  MM           ■»               |l   ■       ibmi  | 

substantial. 

P*.  fl^HvH 

Automobilists 

1      d  IMr^'fr^ '    TJ^)^H^'V^Kr^l  "BJK 

are  invited  to 
visit   the     LA- 

Hf"-=^sSjSSaPw'^ -*f >  ^  Wwli 

MOLLE  GRILL. 

tail'  ifSMUTiKii  JiMmliJm* 

where     every 
viand  is  a  de- 
light,      every 

jSpPr 

■wine    a    treat 
for   connois- 
seurs.   P.  Mont- 
mayeur,    Prop., 
was  for  years 
Cheft  at   Del- 
monico's   and 
the  Mai  son 
Riche. 

UHQLLB    GRILL,  36-38  North  First  Street,  Sail  Jrae,  odd. 

the  Victory  Theatre 

PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


VWINTON/sKING, 
Long live tAeA 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton  Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  .  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2650.  Carload  >f  Wintons  ex- 
pected to  arrive  April  18,  1904.  One  machine 
in  carload  yet  unsold.  Ten  carloads  already  de- 
livered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomo- 
bile, Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


"THE  WORLDS  BEST" 
POPE  TOLEDO  TOURING  CAR  CO. 

MANUFACTURERS 

G.    A.     BUYER,    Manager 


134-148  Golden  Gate  Avenue 

PHONE    SOUTH     1142 


June  18,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Mr.  G.  O.  Heine,  of  the  Heine  Piano  Compan; 
this  city.  ha-,   jus)   returned   from  an  extended  trip 
througfaont  the  Eastern  States,  visiting  all  the  princi- 
pal automobile  factories.    Mr.  Heine  has  secured  the 

r  the  famous  Sinti  ear.  built  l>>  the 
Automobile  Co.  of  Detroit.  He  ha-  also  secured  the 
>•  of  the  "Queen"  automobile,  on  the  Pacific 
»t.  These  cars,  containing,  two  and  four  cylin- 
ders, are  considered  by  Mr.  Heine  to  be  among  the 
highest  power  cars  for  their  sizj  and  price  now  in 
the  market. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Heine  states  that  he  expects  to  open  an  exclu- 
sive automobile  factory  in  Cincinnati,  an.!  will  build 
two  types  of  machines.  The  models  of  these  machines 
arc  being  constructed  by  Victor  Emerson,  who  built 
the  fastest  boat  engine  in  the  world.  The  first  model 
will  be  a  70-horsepowcr  machine  of  the  very  latest 
type,  with  the  new  style  transmission,  which  is  sai  1 
to  be  far  superior  to  anything  invented.  He  expects 
the  first  model  out  by  the  1st  of  September. 

*  *  * 

Sunday  morning,  at  4:30,  Cuyler  Lee  and  Arthur 
Hull  left  Del  Monte  for  12th  and  Broadway,  Oakland, 
in  an  attempt  to  beat  their  previous  record  of  5  hours 
and  38  minutes.  At  Gilroy  they  were  22  minutes 
ahead  of  their  previous  trip.  The  heat  was  something 
terrific,  and  twelve  miles  out  of  Gilroy  one  of  the 
tires  blew  out,  and  it  took  so  much  time  to  make 
this  repair  that  it  was  then  impossible  to  finish  the 
run  within  the  record  time,  so  they  went  along  slowly 
and  arrived  in  Oakland  at  12  o'clock  m.  Had  they 
known  how  hot  it  was  going  to  be,  they  would  not 
have  attempted  the  run  that  day. 

At  last  the  Oldsmobile  Company  have  begun  to 
make  shipments  West.  The  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company  have  five  carloads  of  machines  en  route 
from  Detroit. 

*  *  * 

At  the  automobile  races  which  were  held  at  Ingle- 
side  track  on  Sunday  last,  S.  D.  Hewson,  in  John 
Breuner's  new  1904  Winton  touring  car,  turned  the 
tables  on  Max  L.  Rosenfeld,  in  Scott  &  Blakeslee's 
1904  Winton  touring  car,  by  defeating  him 
in  a  two-mile  race.  Hewson  won  the  poll  after  the 
first  turn,  and  held  his  lead  through  the  two  miles. 
It  was  a  very  pretty  race.  In  the  three  mile  handi- 
cap race  there  were  entered  two  Fords,  one  Rambler 
and  two  Stevens-Duryea  machines,  as  well  as  the 
motor  car  mentioned  above.  The  race  was  won  by 
Calvin  C.  Eib  in  a  Stevens-Duryea  machine,  which 
led  at  the  finish  by  over  a  quarter  of  a  mile.  Viddy, 
in  a  Ford  stripped  for  racing,  came  in  second,  and 
closely  pressed  F.  A.  Lathe  in  a  Stevens-Duryea. 
Next  came  a  Ford  driven  by  Joseph  Holley. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  P  L.  Pettigrew  toured  around  the  bay  in  his 
Winton  touring  car  on  Sunday  last.  Miss  Georgie 
Spieker  drove  her  Winton  car  through  the  Park  and 
Presidio  on  Sunday  last.  Miss  Elsie  McEwen  made 
a  trip  around  the  bav  last  Sunday. 


ao 


You  can  never  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  Is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  It.  Go  to  Spauldlng's 
Carpat  Cleaning  Company.  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


"Out  of  the  Beaten   Path,' 
Opposite   Palace. 


lorn  Dillon's  modern   style   hats. 


WARNING ! 

The  foil  wing  Manufacturers  and  Importers 
are  licensed  under  the  pioneer  patent  Num- 
ber 549,160,  granted  to  George  B.  Selden, 
dated  November  5th,  1895  on 

Gasolene  Automobiles 


In  view  of  their  license  agreement  they  and  their  agents  will 
n>.t  sell,  keep  on  hand  or  in  any  manner  dispose  of  or  deal 
in  directly  or  indirectly  any  unlicensed  new  or  second-hand 
gasolene  vehicles,  infringing  said  Selden  patent. 

MANUFACTURERS: 


Electric  Vehicle  Co. 
Winton  Motor  Carriage  Co. 
Packard  Motor  Car  Co. 
Olds  Motor  Works. 
Knox  Automobile  Co. 
The  Haynes-Apperson  Co. 
The  Autocar  Co. 
The  George  N.  Pierce  Co. 
Appersou  Bros.  Automobile  Co. 
Locomobile  Co.  of  America 
The  Peerless  Motor  Car  Co. 
Standard  Motor  Construction 

Co. 
Waltnam  Manufacturing  Co. 
J.  Stevens  Arms  &  Tool  Co. 


H.  H.  Franklin  Mfg.  Co. 


Pope  Motor  Car  Co. 
Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
The  Commercial  Motor  Co. 
Berg  Automobile  Co. 
Cadillac  Automobile  Co. 
Northern  Mfg.  Co. 
Pope-Robinson  Co. 
The  Kirk  Mfg.  Co. 
Elmore  Mfg.  Co. 
E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
Bjffalo  Gasolene  Motor  Co. 
The  F.  B.  Stearns  Co. 
Pope  Manufacturing  Co. 
Sandusky  Automobile  Co. 
Crest  Manufacturing  Co. 


IMPORTERS: 


Smith  &  Mabley,  Inc. 
Central  Automobile  Co. 
Alexander  Fisher 
Hollander  &   fangeman 


Standard  Automobile  Co. 

E.  B.  Gjllaher 
Auto  Import  Co. 

F.  A   LaRoche  Co. 


Sidney  B.  Bowman  Automobile  Co. 

Both  the  basic  Selden  patent  an  J  more  than  400  other  patents 
owned  by  members  of  this  Association  will  be  enforced  against 
infringers.  Manufacturers,  Importers,  Dealers  and  Agents, 
also  Users  of  unlicensed  machines  are  liable. 


Association  of  Licensed  Automobile  Mfrs. 

No.  7  East  42d  Street,  New  York 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSBN  &  CO.,  13-16-17  W.  St.  John  St.,  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile,  Oldsmobile,  etc. 

Palo  Alto. 

F.    L.    CRANDALL,    Automobile    Supplies, 
University  Avenue,  Palo  Alto,  Cal. 


Repairing    etc.,    124 


SAMUEL    M. 


Ladies— For  a  good  complexion   try  the  Post-St.   Hammam. 


SHORTRIDGE 

Attorney-at-Law, 
Crocker  Buildinp, 


San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 
•Health     Hints" 


June  18,  1904 


(The  San  Francisco  Board  of  Health  intends  to 
publish  a  bulletin  entitled  "Health  Hints  for  the 
Household."' — Daily    Paper.) 

There  will  be  a  little  volume,  I  have  heard — 
A  volume  with  a  title  most  absurd, 
Which,  with  ardor  that's  pathetic, 
On  matters  dietetic. 
And  on  subjects  sanitary  it  has  dared; 

And  the  "it,"  which  is  not  publishing  by  stealth, 

Is  the  famous  San  Francisco  Board  of  Health. 

And  the  San  Francisco  Board  of  Health's  a  "bird." 

It  will  tell  us  how  to  test  for  doubtful  milk, 
It  will  notify  in  language  soft  as  silk 

Of  all  the  nasty  creatures 

Who  conceal  their  horrid  features, 
And  the  different  ways  that  dairymen  can  bilk  ; 

It  will  give  a  disquisition  on  the  cow. 

Her  hair,  her  hoofs,  her  udder,  and  just  how 
To  make  it  quite  a  pleasure 
To  milk  a  gallon  measure — 
There  are  other  things  it  will  not  tell  us  now. 

Thus,  it  will  not  tell  us  how  a  dairy  dank 
Can  grow  wholesome,  and  a  dirty  water  tank 
Supply  the  purest  diet, 
Nor  what  keeps  the  office  quiet; 
And  it  will  not  tell  just  how  the  little  bank 
Account  of  a  health  officer  may  grow, 
For  that  would  not  be  literary,  so 
The  active  Board  of  Health, 
Which  is  virtuous  by  stealth, 
Will  not  even  mention  bribery — oh,  no ! 

It  will  tell  us  how  to  wash  and  how  to  dress, 
And  in  truth  it  would  be  difficult  to  guess 

The  amount  of  good  advice 

We  have  recognized  as  nice, 
Ever  since  we  were  small  babies,  more  or  less. 
It  will  give  a  heap  of  fussy  little  hints 
On  matters  that  the  rest  of  us  would  mince, 

But  brave  as  it  may  be, 

There  are  other  things,  you'll  see, 
That  pucker  up  its  two  lips  like  a  quince. 

Thus  we  shall  not  hear  a  solitary  sentence 
On  the  wickedness  of  officers  who  take 
Small  bribes,  and  never  show  the  least  repentance 
For  their  winking  at  the  plumber's  little  fake. 
The  little  fake  that  sends  the  noxious  gases— 
That  send  to  Heaven  so  many  of  our  folk. 
Does  the  Board  of  Health  imagine  we  are  asses, 
Or  is  the  book  intended  as  a  joke? 

—Roland  Whittle. 


Cereal  Foods 
without  cream  are  not  appetizing,  but  good  raw  cream  is 
not  always  so  easy  to  get.  Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evapo- 
rated Cream  is  superior  to  raw  cream  with  a  delicious  flavor 
and  richness.  Use  it  tor  general  cooking  purposes.  Bor- 
den's Condensed  Milk  Co.,  proprietors. 


You  will    appear  to  be  always  wearing  new  clothing 

If  you  have  your  suits  cleaned  and  pressed  regularly  by 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works.  127  S'ockton 
street.  Besides,  it  maices  the  clothing  last  twice  as  long. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties,  ribbons,  laces,  curtains, 
draperies  and  all  such  articles  quickly  and  thoroughly. 
Try  them  once,  and  you  will  be  satisfied. 


The  latest  and  best  directory  published  is  the  San  Francisco 
Office  Building  and  Business  Directory.  For  sale  at  320  Sansome 
Street.    Price  $5.00.    52.6".  Tel.  James  5696,  or  send  postal. 


BIG   TREES 

A.JWD 

YOSEMITE 


The  greatest  trees  in  all  the  world  are  found  in  the 
Mariposa  grove,  reached  only  by  the  Raymond- 
Wawona  route  lo  the  Valley.  "The  Grizzly  Giant," 
"Wawona,"  "The  Fallen  Monarch"  and  other 
famous  Big  Trees.  The  stage  road  is  shortest  and 
smoothest,  the  Big  Trees  the  mightiest,  and  the  entire 
route  the  most  satisfactory.  Ask  about  it  of  any 
agent,  or  at 

613  MARKET  STREET.  S.  F. 

Southern   Pacific 


LIKE    BEINO    AT    HOME 

The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


WHO  J.  01U.ETT,  Prop. 

2910      SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Capp  r.i-.r; 


June  :8.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


3« 


Uhe     California     Club 


Boys  wl  ng  tlicir  pennies  i<«r  the  purchase 

when  the  "glorious  Fourth"  arrh 
few  weeks  hence,  arc  quite  unconscious  of  tin 
■piracy  that  is  making  to  deprive  diem  of  the  dai 

ous  pleasure  that  is  sure  to  claim  its  quota  of 
and  arms  and  lingers  and  hands  and  eyes  and  ears. 
All  over  the  Union  there  is  a  movement  toward  the 
extermination  of  this  menace  to  the  boys  of  the  land. 
but  in  this  city  the  lead  has  been  taken  by  the  civic 
department  of  the  California  Club,  the  big  organiza- 
tion of  women  who  are  busying  themselves  with  a 
great  variety  of  matters  for  the  betterment  of  condi- 
tions generally,  but  especially  as  they  concern  women 
and  children. 

Fourth  of  July  casualties  have  grown  to  such  an 
alarming  extent  that  the  physicians  of  the  country 
have  gone  to  no  end  of  trouble  to  furnish  statistics 
for  the  use  of  the  propaganda  that  is  now  well  under 
way.  Papers  which  have  been  printed  in  the  Journal 
of  the  American  Medical  Association  have  been  com- 
piled in  pamphlet  form  for  general  distribution.  This 
parr  of  the  work  is  regarded  as  educational.  A  num- 
ber of  the  pamphlets  have  been  sent  to  the  Califor- 
nia Club,  and  they  are  being,  placed  where  they  will 
do  the  most  good.  The  practical  part  of  the  work  for 
the  present  will  be  the  endeavor  upon  the  part  of 
those  who  have  appointed  for  themselves  this  work, 
to  see  that  existing  laws  are  enforced. 

The  committee  of  the  civic  department  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club  entrusted  with  this  matter  has  acquainted 
itself  with  the  laws  of  this  municipality  relative  to 
the  sale  of  toy  pistols  and  blank  cartridges,  and  will 
try  to  have  them  enforced.  As  the  question  was  not 
taken  up  until  recently,  the  committee  expects  to  do 
little  more  than  educational  work  this  year ;  it  expects 
to  arouse  mothers  and  fathers  from  their  apathy,  and 
dealers  to  a  recognition  of  the  ordinances. 

A  large  number  of  tetanus  cases  occur  among 
the  children  of  the  poorly  educated,  so  the  workers 
are  justified  in  establishing  the  educational  propa- 
ganda. The  dangers  of  lockjaw  are  not  generally 
understood.  Statistics  show  that  there  are  fewer 
cases  of  tetanus  in  the  Southern  States,  because  the 
use  of  blank  cartridges  is  not  a  custom  in  that  sec- 
tion. In  the  summing  up  of  the  Fourth  of  July  casual- 
ties, this  State  has  its  unenviable  record,  so  the  Cali- 
fornia Club  has  work  to  do. 


California  may  congratulate  itself  on  the  fact  that 
its  Supreme  Court  is  not  affected  by  the  yellow  press 
and  its  friends,  the  labor  leaders.  William  Buckley, 
unionist  and  murderer,  must  hang.  This  decision 
should  have  a  deterrent  effect  on  the  union  element 
in  San  Francisco,  who  are  now  engaged  in  riot  and 
murderous  assaults  on  the  non-union  help  of  the 
stable  owners.  "Kid  Egan"  may  now  reflect  that  he 
was,  by  a  merciful  Providence,  saved  from  the  rope. 
If  he  escapes  with  the  limit  of  the  law,  by  a  long 
penal  sentence,  he  can  still  thank  his  stars.  It  is  es- 
pecially gratifying  to  read  of  this  decision,  when  one 
thinks  of  the  strong  fight  made  in  favor  of  this  mis- 
erable wretch,  Buckley,  and  that  it  had  no  effect  on 
the  courts. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  J7.60  per  ton;  half-ton  $4;  quarter  ton  12.  Use  Briquettes  for 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 

Fancy  vests  at  cost,  see  window.   Tom  Dillon,   Hatter  Opp. 
Palace  Hotel. 


Mien's 


"Boston  *Brobvn 
"Bread  Flotir 

A  prepared  flour  for  BOSTON  BROWN 
BREAD;  griddle  cakes,  muffins  and  fruit  pud- 
dings.    Ask  your  grocer  for  it. 

ALLEN'S  B.  B.  B.  FLOUR  CO. 

SAJST    JOSE.    CAL. 


MISS  CAROLINE  HALSTED  LITTLE 

Will  Receive  Pupils  in  Singing 

The  Roosevelt 

546  Sutter  Street,  Room  58,  on  Tuesday  and  Friday 
Oakland,  3621   Broadway,  Monday  and  Thursday 


Three 
Bargains 

FOR  SALE 


A  Wing  Piano,  New,  Catalogue  price $500 

Will  be  sold  for $200 

A  Simplex  Piano  Player,  New,  Catalogue 
Price $275 

Will  be  sold  for $160 

A  Brunswick-Balke  Billiard  Table,  Ivory 
Balls,  Cues,  and  Complete  Outfit;  second- 
hand, but  in  good  condition;  cost $500 

Will  be  sold  for $225 


Address    C.    W. 
Roomjl,  320  Sansome  St., S.  F. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  1 8,  1904. 


The  principles  of  labor  unionism  are  ethically 
right  because  they  provide  for  the  evolvement  of 
labor  to  higher  levels  of  personal  well-being  and  in- 
dividual opportunity.  Nor  are  the  principles  of  or- 
ganized labor  something  new.  They  are  co-existent 
with  man's  emergence  from  barbarism.  Ancient 
Babylon,  India,  Greece,  Rome  and  Egypt  had  their 
labor  guilds  or  unions,  and  all  the  way  down  through 
the  Middle  Ages,  to  the  present  time,  every  genera- 
tion had  its  organizations  of  labor,  ostensibly,  as 
these  great  movements  proclaimed,  to  "resist  the  tyr- 
anny of  organized  capital,"  but  in  reality,  for  the 
most  part,  to  enable  a  few  leaders  to  live  and  prosper 
on  the  misfortunes  of  the  rank  and  file  of  their  asso- 
ciations. Nevertheless,  the  principles  of  labor  union- 
ism have  stood,  and  will  forever  stand,  as  the  loom 
upon  which  the  law  of  evolution  weaves  the  fabric 
of  character,  worth  and  selfhood,  but  it  is  not  the 
fault  of  these  principles  if  men  persist  in  feeding  the 
loom  with  warp  and  woof  that  is  discolored  and  rot- 
ten. The  true  principles  of  labor  unionism  are  born 
of  the  eternal  truth  of  the  interdependence  of  em- 
ployer and  employee,  and  that  in  ratio  to  their  mutual 
helpfulness  in  their  joint  endeavor  to  transform  raw 
material  into  finished  product  is  the  warp  and  the 
woof  of  their  fabric  substantial,  accumulative  and 
satisfying.  By  nature,  capital  should  be  labor's  best 
friend,  and  by  the  same  law  labor  should  be  capital's 
best  friend.  The  one  is  worthless  without  the  other, 
and  antagonisms  are  assassins  of  both.  And  yet  in 
all  ages  bitter  and  deadly  antagonisms  have  injected 
themselves  in  between  these,  the  greatest  of  all  fac- 
tors in  human  progress,  but  always  there  is  profit 
accruing  to  a  few  labor  leaders  by  whose  perfidy 
and  treachery  antagonisms  are  purposely  wrought 
out  and  scattered  that  they  may  live  upon  the 
wrecks  they  have  caused.  These  breeders  of  hatreds, 
misunderstandings  and  suspicions  are  venomous, 
blood-sucking  parasites  on  the  body  economic,  body 
politic  and  body  domestic  of  union  laborism,  and 
since  they  have  no  source  other  than  the  misfortunes 
of  their  fellows  from  which  to  accumulate  personal 
and  private  property  gain,  it  is  apparent  that  peace 
and  harmony  between  capital  and  labor  are  exact  h 
what   they    would   not    have   obtained. 

Effects  of  the  Walking  Delegate. 

There  are  several  "brands"  of  these  disturbing  ele- 
ments in  the  industrial  world,  but  the  one  that 
feeds  upon  the  blood  of  labor  and  never  labors  with 
his  own  hands,  is  the  walking  delegate.  He  is  a 
versatile  genius  degradation.  He  is  at  once  a  slimy 
snake,  a  ferocious  tiger,  a  vile  hyena,  a  brutal  tyrant 
and  a  cringing  sycophant,  and  all  the  time  he  is  a 
moral,  social  and  industrial  disease  germ  seeking 
lodgment  in  capital  or  in  labor,  or  in  both,  that  he 
may  cause  mental  sores  only  to  be  cured  by  actual 
or  metaphorical  bludgeons,  stones,  pistols,  fires,  dy- 
namite and  assassinations.  He  fully  realizes  that 
peace  and  good  will  between  employer  and  employee 
would  mean  work  or  starvation  for  himself,  and  all 
the  cunning  and  treachery  of  his  nature  is  ever  set- 
ting employee  against  employer,  and  employer 
against  employee.  He  is  a  walking  delegate  from 
the  destructive  forces  in  industrial  life,  and  his  stock 


in  trade  is  agitation,  strife  and  ill-will  between  labor 
and  capital. 

But  for  the  walking  delegate  and  those  higher  in 
labor  councils  who  make  his  existence  possible,  the 
conservative,  and  therefore  the  honest  and  thought- 
ful element  in  the  field  of  labor,  would  find  no  diffi- 
culty in  applying  the  true  principles  of  unionism, 
which  are,  as  has  been  stated,  recognition  of  the  law 
of  interdependence  and  mutual  support  of  labor  and 
capital,  for  capital  is  always  ready  to  eliminate  hurt- 
ful or  threatening  influences  from  its  channels  of 
employment.  Capital  is  always  suspicious  and  timid, 
whether  it  be  the  millions  of  the  capitalist  or  the 
week's  wage  of  labor.  And  although  the  conserva- 
tive element  in  labor  unions  is  numerically  the 
weaker  side,  it  has  the  integrity  and  moral  sense  of 
the  organization,  and  it  could,  if  it  would  place  all 
the  labor  guilds  upon  such  close  relations  with  capi- 
tal Doth  sides  would  be  anxious  to  even  anticipate 
possible  friction  and  deprive  it  of  its  hurtful  threat- 
enings.  Not  all  labor  organizations  are  controlled 
by  schemers  and  agitators,  and  those  that  are  not 
nearly  always  succeed  in  adjusting  their  differences 
with  capital  upon  an  equitable  basis  without  so  much 
as  jarring  the  machinery  of  their  joint  efforts  for  the 
good  of  both. 

Labor  Union  Trusts. 

When  labor  unions  form  a  trust,  as  the  building 
trades  have,  or  when  they  assume  to  be  superior  to 
law  and  property  and  individual  rights,  as  they  do 
when  they  undertake  to  cripple  the  police  power  of 
the  State,  or  when  they  plunge  into  lawlessness,  as 
they  are  doing  in  Colorado,  and  have  done  many 
times  before  in  other  sections  of  the  country  they  for- 
feit the  good  opinion  and  sympathy  of  the  public, 
no  matter  how  just  and  ethically  right  their  origi- 
nal demand  for  more  reasonable  conditions  of  em- 
ployment might  have  been.  No  labor  strike  has 
ever  succeeded  in  America  that  did  not  have  the 
moral  sense  and  the  sympathy  of  the  public,  and  no 
strike  has  ever  retained  the  public's  good  will  after 
the  strikers  had  defied  the  law  and  denied  the  sover- 
eign right  of  the  citizen  to  individually  enter  the 
labor  market  and  contract  for  his  own  services.  Jus- 
tice, personal  liberty  and  the  right  of  individual  pur- 
suit of  work  and  happiness  are  the  essence  of  the 
genius  of  our  Government,  as  they  are  the  bone,  the 
sinew  and  the  spirit  of  the  principles  of  true  labor 
unionism. 

It  follows',  then,  that  the  reason  why  labor  strikes 
are  not  more  frequently  averted  by  labor  and  capital 
coming  together  and  adjusting  their  differences  upon 
an  equitable  basis  by  first  recognizing  their  interde- 
pendence, is  because  walking  delegates  and  their  co- 
conspirators, who  live  on  the  spoils  of  discontent  and 
agitation,  inflame  the  mind  of  labor  bv  falsehood  and 
hypocrisy,  and  the  mind  of  capital  by  threatening  its 
safety  until  the  blood  runs  hot  in  the  veins  of  both, 
when  hatred  hoists  the  black  flag  of  destruction.  It 
is  safe  to  say  that  there  has  never  been  a  lawless 
labor  strike  in  the  United  States  that  was  not  insti- 
gated and  urged  forward  by  walking  delegates  and 
their  abettors  in  labor  councils — men  who  thrive 
best  when  their  fellows  are  in  distress.     How  long, 


June  18.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


33 


then,  is  the  real  brain,  the  real  manhood,  the  high 
character  and  the  strong  mot 

tivc    element — of   I  ng    !■•    be 

pulled   by   the   nose   into  destructive   condition 

'■  the  vanity  and  line  the  pocket-books  of  walk 
iug  d  11I  their  equally  unsavory  and  disi 

table  ".superior  officers?"  In  the  language  of  slang, 
"It  is  up  to"  honest,  sober,  intelligent  anil  conserva- 
tive labor  to  say    "how  long." 

The  Real  Force. 

Trades  unions  wire  founded  for  a  beneficent  pur- 
and  have  improved  the  condition  of  the  worker. 
This  has  been  accomplished  partly  by  public  opinion, 
which  is  naturally  friendly  to  the  cause  of  labor,  says 
the  Labor  Arbiter  of  Log  Angeles.  While  the  origi- 
nal purpose  of  trades  unions  continues,  the  methods 
now  commonly  pursued  have  brought  about  a  change 
of  mind  in  the  public,  and  caused  employers  every- 
where to  organize  against  the  unions.  The  public 
generally  condemns  labor  unionism  because  of  the 
crimes  and  tyrannies  that  too  frequently  mark  its 
conduct,  and  the  employers  propose  to  resist  its  en- 
croachments, knowing  that  they  have  the  public  sup- 
port. These  two  forces,  public  opinion  and  capital, 
constitute  a  power  which  can  crush  labor  unionism 
at  any  time,  and  this  is  what  will  happen  in  the  near 
future,  unless  there  is  a  radical  change  in  policy,  and 
a  different  class  of  men  is  put  in  command  of  union 
affairs. 

The  evils  of  trades  unionism  arc  to  be  laid  at  the 
door  of  the  "walking  delegate"  or  "business  agent," 
his  official  associates  and  their  immediate  following 
in  the  ranks. 

The  means  the  walking  delegate  uses  to  force  em- 
ployers are  sometimes  criminal,  at  other  times  dia- 
bolical, and  nearly  always  lawless.  Nothing  is  too 
contemptible  for  him  to  stoop  to,  no  sacrifice  too 
great  to  impose  upon  honest  working  people,  while 
the  contest  is  on.  With  few  exceptions,  the  walking 
delegate  is  a  man  without  scruple,  and  if  trades 
unions  would  be  saved,  both  he  and  his  immediate 
following  must  be  banished  from  the  fold. 

Demoili,  the  Agitator. 

The  Overland  Monthly,  in  its  issue  of  last  Febru- 
ary, gives  some  light  on  the  character  and  life  of 
Demoili,  the  foreign  agitator  at  the  head  of  the 
Miners'  Union  in  Utah  and  Colorado,  as  follows : 

"Opposed  to  law  and  order  and  to  any  Govern- 
ment restraint,  opposed  to  all  authority  except  the 
authority  of  the  Miners'  Union,  as  represented  by 
himself,  and  opposed  to  Governor  Wells,  stands  the 
leader  of  the  miners,  Charles  Demoili,  a  foreigner 
banished  from  Europe  in  1895  for  sedition  and  anar- 
chy, he  now  seeks  to  foment  disorder  in  the  United 
States.  Until  his  advent  in  Utah  the  miners  were 
quite  content  with  their  condition.  Governor  Wells 
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34 

HUMAN  NATURE. 
An  illustration  of  the  extraordi- 
nary close-fistedness  of  King  Leo- 
pold was  brought  out  during  the 
recent  legal  proceedings  instituted 
against  him  by  his  daughter, 
Stephanie,  when  it  was  shown  that 
the  small  souvenirs,  in  the  shape 
of  trinkets,  miniatures  and  bric-a- 
brac  bequeathed  by  the  late  Queen 
Henriette  to  her  ladies  and  gen- 
tlemen-in-waiting, and  to  her  at- 
tendants, some  of  whom  had  been 
in  her  service  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century  or  more,  were  not  handed 
over  to  them  until  they  had  paid 
the  regular  succession  duties  on 
them,  which  in  no  case  amounted 
to  omre  than  a  few  dollars.  When 
remonstrated  with  on  the  subject, 
Leopold  explained  that  he  could 
not,  as  king,  encourage  a  disre- 
gard of  the  revenue  laws  by  re- 
lieving the  legatees  from  the  pay- 
ment of  the  tax,  while  it  did  not 
apparently  occur  to  him  that  in 
common  decency  he  should  have 
defraved   the   amount   himself. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


A   STULTIFIED   PROFESSOR. 

It  is  noticed  that  the  "Society 
of  American  Wars"  has  passed  a 
resolution  of  fulsome  commenda- 
tion of  Secretary  of  War  Taft.  be- 
cause of  his  services  as  Civil  Gov- 
ernor of  the    Philippines. 

David  Starr  Tordan,  M.  D.,  I.L. 
D..  X.  Y.  Z.,  L.  M.  N.  OP.  O..  is 
on  the  "Council"  of  the  institution, 
whatever  that  mav  be,  and  we  arc 
wondering  how  lie  can  satisfy  a 
yearning  public  when  it  recollects 
that  he  has  spent  much  of  his  time 
quite  recently  discrediting  the  acts 
of  the  Government  in  the  Philip- 
pines. As  Taft  was  the  executive 
officer  of  the  said  Government, 
said  Taft  is  now  endorsed  bv  the 
very  man  who  did  his  best  to  spoil 
the  good  work  he  now  (Jordan) 
commends.  Our  columns  are 
open. 


A  CANDIDATE  FOR  WALK- 
ING DELEGATE. 

"Did  yez  ever  make  any  money 
backing  horses.   Mulligan?" 

"Sure.  Oi  made  a  hundred  dol- 
lars once?" 

"How   did  youse  do  ut?" 

"Oi  backed  him  down  a  cillar 
awn  thin  sued  th'  mon  for  lavinsr 


the  d 


ure  open ! 


"I  understand,"  said  Mr.  Stav- 
late.  "that  a  Western  genius  i« 
perfecting  an  apparatus  by  means 
of  which  a  person's  face  may  be 
seen  miles  away."  "Well."  replied 
Miss  Patience  Gonne.  "it  certain- 
ly will  be  a  boon  to  see  some  faces 
there,  if  they  can  only  be  kept 
there." 


NO  RELATION  OF  HIS. 

A  thin,  nervous-looking  man 
stepped  up  to  the  pastor  as  the 
latter  came  down  from  the  pulpit. 

"You  have  had  a  good  deal  to 
say  this  morning,"  he  observed, 
"about  a  feller  that  killed  a  man 
named  Abel." 

"Certainly,"  replied  the  pastor. 
"  'The  Sin  of  Cain'  was  the  sub- 
ject  of   my   discourse. 

"I  wish  you'd  do  me  the  favor 
next  Sunday,"  said  the  thin  man, 
in  some  excitement,  "to  tell  the 
folks  that  the  man  you  were  talk- 
ing about  this  morning  ain't  no 
relation  to  the  Kane  that  keeps  a 
livery  stable  down  by  the  mill.  1 
don't  want  none  of  my  friends  to 
think  that  I  had  a  hand  in  that 
killin'.     That's   all.      Good-dav." 


The  Coryphee,  the  Sackholder  and 
the  Statesman. 
James  H.  Budd.  erstwhile  Gov- 
ernor the  State  of  California,  en- 
gaged in  a  bar-room  squabble  with 
one  Michael  Tarpev.  Keener  of 
the  Sack,  mark  you  I  said  Keener, 
is  the  edifying  spectacle  of  the  l->st 


HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Delicate  enough  for  the  softest 
skin,  and  yet  efficacious  in  removing 
any  stain.  Keeps  the  skin  in  perfect 
condition.  In  the  bath  gives  all  the 
desirable  after-effects  of  a  Turkish 
bath.  It  should  be  on  every  wash- 
stand. 

ALL  OROCERS  AND  DRUGdlSTS 

week.  Isn't  it  a  pity,  for  the  good 
of  the  nation,  that  these  two  pa- 
triots were  not  provided  with  Gat- 
ling  guns  and  a  padded  chamber 
and  there  allowed  to  fight  it  out? 
It  is  now  in  order  for  Budd  to 
tell  his  own  story  of  how  he  fell 
out  with  Hearst  and  why  Hearst 
refused  to  pay  the  little  soubrette's 
bill,  and  how  the  compromise 
was  finally  effected  between  these 
statesmen.  The  story  ought  to 
be  told  by  Budd,  because  the  other 
side  is  telling  some  of  the  most 
wonderful  yarns  to  which  any  one 
ever  gave  ear. 


is  CENTS  PER  COPY. 


$1.50  PER  YEAR. 


Overland  Monthly 

AN  ILLUSTRATED  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  WEST 

JULY,   1 904 

CONTENTS: 

The  Heart  of  Morodom   Chaplain   C.  C.   Bateman    5 

When  Truth  Appears   Clarence    Hawkes    10 

The  Legend  of  Kwan-Shai-Yin.  . .  .  L.    Calhoun    Duff    11 

The  Japanese-Russian  War  (Pictorially) .  .  C.   E.  Lorrimer   13 

Night  at  the  Hacienda S.  Homer  Henley  20 

The  Favored  Isles Burton    McKnight    21 

Nature's  Alchemy Arthur    McDonald    Dole    23 

When  the  Dead  Return   Charles  Warren  Stoddard    24 

Lifting  the  Caimanera  Mines Arthur    H.    Dutton    25 

Yale  and  the  Fraser  River  Canyon.  .  Frank  Williamson    33 

Lucy  of  the  Hualapais Alma  Martin  Estabrook   41 

The  World's  Thought   (A  Compilation) .  .Pierre    N.    Beringer    44 

A   Guiltless   Atonement    Helen   Ellsworth  Wright   53 

To   Alfred   Tennyson    Henry  Meade  Bland   57 

A  Shot  in  the  Mist   Henry   Walsworth    Kinney 58 

A  Symphony  in  Scarlet   Eleanore  F.  Lewys   64 

Crypsis    Aloysius    Coll    69 

Odd  Things  Which  Live  in  the  Sea.  .E.   R.   Miller    71 

The  Ghost  of  the  Foxhall  Loyola  L.  Mills,  U.  S.  A 75 

The  Republic   of  Panama    Edwin   Moxey 77 

Devils,  White  and  Yellow  Adriana    Spadoni    80 

The  Story  I  Told  Scroggs Mabel   Haughton   Brown 33 

The  History  of  California  Names  and  Places.  .C.  E.  Bailey 89 

Book  Reviews  Pierre  N.  Beringer  and  staff   .  .  .  (,5 


June  18.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


35 


Results    in    the    Spanish,   Japan- 
ese  anil    Russian    navies    indicate 
clearly  that  what  is  needed 
is  a  convertible  one     that 

will  be  a  first-class  battleship  while 
on  t'>p  of  the  water,  and  when  a 
chance  shell  pierces  its  armor  \\i!l 
sink  gently  beneath  the  water  and 
become  a  first-class  submarine 
boat. 


BETHESDA 


THE  GREAT  AMERICAN 
MINERAL  WATER 


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Lights  and  Electric  Fans,  Scenic  Route 
through  Colorado.  Fortickets.  berth  reser- 
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SUNBEAMS 

(Stolen    from    TM,v#.> 

Didactic  Mamma — Now,  (hen, 
Charlie,  don't  you  admire  my  now 
silk  dress?  Charlie  (with  empha- 
-Yes,  mamma.  I  lidacti 
Mother— And,  Charlie,  all  the  -ilk 
is  provided  for  us  l>\  1  poor  worm 
Charlie — 1><>  you  mean  dad? 

"I  can't  make  you  out  at  all," 
In-  said  angrily;  "von  are  so  fickle 
and  changeable.  You're  jum  a  rid- 
dle to  me."  "Yes?"  replied  bis 
fiance.  "Since  you're  so  stupid, 
perhaps  you'd  better  give  me  up." 

Mabel— I  do  believe  Miss  T'..  nd~ 
is  in  love  with  that  poor  young 
lawyer.  Clara — What  a  shame  I 
And  she  would  make  such  a  good 
wife  for  some  fellow  who  was  mar- 
rying for  money. 

"How  many  children  have  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Flyer?"  "Oh.  they  live  at 
Newport,  you  know." 

"A  woman  can't  keep  a  secret." 
declares  the  mere  man.  "Oh,  I 
don't  know,"  retorts  the  fluttery 
ladyr.  "I've  kept  my  age  a  secret 
since  I  was  twenty-four."  "Yes, 
but  one  of  these  days  you  will  give 
it  away.  In  time  you  will  simply 
have  to  tell  it."  "Well,  I  think  that 
when  a  woman  has  kept  a  secret 
for  twenty  years  she  comes  pretty- 
near  knowing  how  to  keep  it." — 
Judge. 

Patient — What  are  the  things 
I  must  avoid,  doctor?  Physichn 
— Pork,  mackerel,  tea,  coffee,  oat- 
meal,    rye Patient      (with     a 

gasp) — Rye?  Physician — In  the 
form  of  bread.  Patient — All  right, 
doctor.  Go  on. 

Elderly  Adviser — I  am  glad  you 
dislike  slangy  young  men.  M:ss 
Quickstep — You  bet  I  do !  That's 
why  I  had  to  shake  Fatty  Feather- 
top.  I  told  him  I  wasn't  going  to 
stand  for  any  of  his  hash-counter 
dialect  any  longer,  if  I  knew  my- 
self, and  I  reether  guessed  I  did, 
all  right,   all  right. 

Algy — Weally,  I — aw — have  a 
notion  to — aw — blow  me  bwains 
out,  doncher  know.  "Indeed !  Well, 
in  case  you  do,  I'd  advise  you  not 
to  say  anything  about  it  afterward, 
and  nobody  will  ever  suspect  what 
you  have  done." 

Towne-^Why  do  you  call  her 
an  amateur  actress?  She's  on  the 
regular  stage.  Browne — I  mean 
that  she  has  only  been  married 
to  one  man  and  she  lives  with  him 
yet. 

How  often  the  people  applaud 
when  you  do  not  approve. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  W8rrSfyeed8r. 

Sohmer  Piano  Agency 
308-312  Post  St.3ao  Francisco 


crajB 


Are  the  origina.1 
bottled  Cocktails,  made 
of  the  choicest  old 
liquors  and  properly  aged 
to  perfection.  When  other 
brands  are  offered  it's  for 
the  purpose  of  larger  pro- 
fits—  the  original  of  any- 
thing is  best. 


PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS 

SP0HN-PATRICK.    COMPANY 

San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles. 
Denver.  Bait  Lake  City,   Seattle. 


"Can  a  man  patent  a  scientific 
discovery?"  asked  the  commercial 
person.  "It  isn't  usually  done," 
answered  the  scientist.  "But  some 
of  them  ought  to  be  copyrighted 
as  literary  productions." 

Servant's  Visitor — Your  missus 
used  to  work  out  herself,  didn't 
she?  Servant — Yes,  but  it  must 
have  been  a  long  time  ago,  for  she 
never  orders  me  around  much. 

Wedderly — Politics  in  our  ward 
is  certainly  in  an  awful  condition. 
Mrs.  Wedderly — Then  why  don't 
thev  get  one  of  those  ward  heelers 
to  doctor  it? 

First  Microbe — So  he  had  to 
choose  between  love  and  money? 
Second  Microbe — Yes ;  he  couldn't 
decide  whether  to  live  on  a  kiss 
or  a  dollar  bill. 

Tess — It  was  Maud  Singleton, 
wasn't  it,  who  won  the  gold  medal 
for  her  graduation  essay  on 
"Woman's  Right  to  Public  Office" 
last  year?  Jess — Gracious!  Not 
last  year.  It  was  two  years  ago, 
at  least.  Tess — Are  you  sure? 
Jess — Positive,  because  I  saw  her 
baby  cutting  his  teeth  on  that 
medal  the  other  day. 


TWOMEY    t    MIHOLOVICH 


THE  YELLOWSTONE 


22  MONTGOMERY  ST. 

Tel.  Main  1447 


36 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


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BRIE 
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between  Chicago  and  New 
York  City.  Limited  trains 
every  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening,  with  through  equip- 
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Albany  and  Boston.  Highest 
type  of  Pullman  and  dining 
car  service. 

Every  mile  of  the  track  is 
protected  by  the  safety  block- 
signal  system. 

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330  MarKet  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Student — Doctor,  what  do  you 
think  of  problem  novels?  Doctor 
— I  am  recommending  them  instead 
of  the  citv  directory  for  insomnia. 


Summer 

Vacations 

Travel    by  Sea 

Excellent  Service,  Low  Rates,  Including  Berth  and  Meals 

Los  Angeles  San  Diego         Santa  Cruz 

Santa  Barbara  Monterey 

Eureka  Seattle  Taeoma 

Victoria    Vancouver    Etc. 

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The  Pacific  Transfer  Co.,  an  Sutter  at.  will 
call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and 
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THREE 

TIMES  A  DAY  TO 

CHICAGO 

TneOnly  Double  Track  Railway  between  the 
MissouriBiver  and  Chicago. 

THREE  TRAINS  DAILY 

Via  the  Southern  Pacific.  Union  Pacific  and  Chta;:i 
anil  Northwestern  I  ys. 

Overland  Limited.  Vestlbuled.  Letivi  8 
Ran  Francisco  at  10.00  a.  m.  The  most 
Luxurious  Train  In  the  World.  Electrio 
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partment bleeping  Cars  and  Observation 
(are.  Less  than  three  days  to  Chicago 
without  change. 

Eastern  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
Francjsc'o  at  6.00  p.  m.  Through  Standard 
and  Tourist  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
Dining  Cars.    Free  Eeeliuing  Chair  Cars. 

Atlantic  Express.  Vestlbuled.  Leaves  San 
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Personally  Conducted  Excursions 

Wednesdays.    Thursdays    and    Fridays. 

Best  of  everything 

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6tockton 7.20P 

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Williams  (for  Bartlett  SprlORs). 
Willows.  tFruto.  Ked  Bluff. 
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Marysvllle.  Orovllle 7-60P 

6 -30a  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Antloch. 
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8.30a  Nlles.  Ban  Jose.  LIvermore.  Stock- 
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9.00a  Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  Rast.     11.20a 

8.30a  Richmond,     Martinez     and     War 

Stations 6  50p 

10.00a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6.20P 

1000a  Vallejo.. 12.20P 

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tion, Hanford,  Lemoore,  Vlsalla, 

Bskcrsfleld.  Los  Angeles 720p 

1  2.00m  Hay  ward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.       3  20p 
U.OOp  Sacramento  River  Steamers ill. 00p 

3.30P  Benlcla,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
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Way  Stations  beyond  Port  Costa    12-20P 

3.30p  Vosemlte  Valley,  via  Berenda  and 

Wawona 8  60a 

3-30P  Martinez. Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl...     10. 20a 

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Callstoga.  Santa  Rosa 9  20a 

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4.30P  Hayward.  Nlles,  lrvlngton,  San  J      18.60a 
Jose.  LIvermore |  111.60a 

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8-06p  Reno  Passenger— Port  Costa,  Sul- 

snn,  Klmlra.  Davis,  Sacramento, 

,       Trockee,  Lake  Tahoe.  and  Way 

Stations  beyond  Sacramento....      7.60a 
8.1  Op  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) 1160a 


COAST    LINE  (Narrow  Gauge) 
(Toot  of  Market  B treat.) 

7.46a  SaotaCrnzExcurslon(Sundayonly)  8-IOp 
b  It  a  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
Felton.  Boulder  Creek.  Big  Basin, 
Saou  Cruz  aud  Way  Stations...  5  66p 
t916A  Alvsrado.  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los 
Gatos,Glenwood,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Big  Basin,  Santa  Cmz...        6-IOp 

12  Ifcp  Newark,    Centervllle,    Ban    Jose, 

New  Almaden.Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations   10  55a 

a  Up  Newark.  San  Jose,  Los  Qatos  and 

way  stations t8.65a 

4  15p  Wright,  Felton.  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz,  Saturday  and  Sunday 
Q"'y 6865a 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

Hon,  bAN  t  KAN  CI  SCO,  Foot  ut  Market  St.  (SHpO 

-tiilS    «:<J0    11:00a.m.     100    300    6.16p.«. 

t-roin  OAKLANO,   Koot  of  Broadway  —  t6:U0    tS'OQ 

i»:Uj    1u:0ua.m.      12  00    2-00    4-Otjp.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Hroa.l  Uauge). 

fg"  (Third  tun  I    I'owpaend  Streets.) 

6  ITa  San  JOBeand  Way  Stations ..       6  30p 

'7  Of  a  San  .lose  and  Wtiy  Stations 6  40p 

7.16a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 

elon  (Sunday  only) 10  30p 

8 .1*0  a  New  Almaden  (Tm-s..  Frld.,  only),  410P 
8  00a  The  Coaatcr— Stops  only  San  Jose, 
Gllroy  (connection  for  Hollls- 
ter),  Pnjaro.  Caatrovllle  (con- 
nection to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pari;1.'  Grove),  Salinas,  San 
Ardo,  Phbo  Robles.  Santa  Mar- 
garita San  Luis  Obispo,  principal 
stations  thence  Surf  (connection 
for  Lompoc),  principal  stations 
thence  Sant£  Barbara. S«n  Buena- 
ventura, Montalvo.  O   n  rd.  Bur 

bank.  Los  AngeleB 10-4SP 

9.00a  ban  Jobc.  Tres  PlnoB,  Capltola, 
Shu  (aCruj, Pacific  Grove, Salinas, 
Sun  Luis  Obispo  and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4.10p 

IC  3(  A  >an  Jose  and  W»;  Stations 1  20p 

11  c  l  a  Smim  Clara,   San  Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  WayStatlons         7.30p 

1  Hp  ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  36a 

13  lip  Del   Monte    Express— Santa  Clara, 

San  Jose,  Del  Monie.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (cuunecta  at  Santa 
Clara,  except  Sunday,  for  Santa 
Cruz,  Boulder  creek  and  Narrow 

Gauge  Points) 12  I5p 

3-3CP  Pacltlc  Grove  Way  PasBenger,  Bur- 
llngame,  San  Joce  and  Way  Sta* 
tlons,  connects  at  Gllmv  for  Hol- 
llstcr,  Tres  PlnoB.  at  Pajaro  for 
Capltola.  Santa  Cruz  at  Castro- 
ville  for  Salinas.  10  45a 

4.30p  pan  Jose  and  Way  Stations '8. 00a 

'6  OOP  Sauln  Clara.  Sua  Joie,  Los  Gatos, 
W'rlgbt  and  principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) 19.00a 

6  30t  &»r.Joseand  Principal  Way  Stations  (9  40a 
6  46p  Sunset  Express. —  Redwood.  San 
Jose, Gllroy. Sail nas, Paso  Robles, 
San  Luis  Oulsiio,  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles.  Deinlng.  El  Paso, 
New  Orleans,  New  York.  Con- 
nectx  at  I'njaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
and    at    Custrovllie    for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7-10* 

6  1&P  tau  Mnteo,Reresrord.lielutont,8an 
CorloB,     Redwood,     Fair     Oaks 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto <6  JRa 

6  30 p  San  June  and  Way  Slut  ions 6  3  >a 

8-OOp  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations U.15a 

11  30p  S"'li:  ii  SanFranclitco,  Mlllbrae,  Bur 
Uni/ame.  San  Mateo.  Belmont. 
Stin  Carlos.  Redwood.  Fair  Oaks. 

Menlo  Park,  and  Ptilo  Alto 9.45p 

1130P  Maytleld,  Mountain  View,  Sunny 
vale,  Lawrence.  Saula  Clm»  And 

Sau  Jose I3.45p 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon 

bunday  excepted  1  Sunday  only 

a  Saturday  only.  b  Monday  only. 

{Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
.  *   only  tralna  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  souibhoaud 
-rer>:lUA.M..  ":O0a.M.,  7: IS  A.  m.,  I1:3Ua  m..  3:.-j(-  m 

brV>  p.  m.  and  n-.q>  p.m. 

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■  Hi  call  lor  aud  cbe>  k  baggai.'<-  truin  Uutela  and  nul 
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Suits 

Dressy  Suits  $20 

Pants  $4.50  ^ 

My  $25.00  Suits  are  the*? 

best  in  America.      |j 

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JOE  POHEIM      1 

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pi  201-203  Montn'y  St..  S.  F.3 


O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND.  ORE 

And  Short  Bail  Line  from  Portland  to  all  Points 
East.    Through  Tickets  to  all  Points  all  Bail  or 
Steamship  and  Bail  at  Lowest  Bates- 
Steamer  Tickets  Include  Berth  and  Meals. 
SS  OBEGON  Sails  Mar.  28.  Arril  7. 17.  27-  May 

-8S'  GEO.  W.  ELDEB  Sails  March  23.    Arril 

2.  12.  22.     May  2.  12.  22. 

S.  F.  BOOTH.  General  Agent 
No.  l  Montgomery  St.  Son  Francisco.  Cal. 

The  Duke — Is  it  true  that  you 
are  going  to  marry  an  American 
heiress?  The  Count — It  is.  The 
Duke — What's  her  name?  The 
Count — Don't  know  yet. 


June  18,  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


37 


THE  WORLD'S  FAIR. 

In  the  Red  Room,  or  Ladies'  Reception  Hall. 

in  the  southeast  corner  of  the  House  of  Hoo  Hoo, 
ills  and  furniture  arc  all  made  of  r.-.l- 
from  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  lower  part  of  the 
are  of  redwood  panels  4-'  inches  wide.  Above 
the  panels  the  walls  are  decorated  with  hand-painted 
s  from  the  redwood  forests.  In  the  center  of 
the  r'Kim  stands  a  large  table  carved  from  a  red- 
I  tree,  with  ferns,  mushrooms  and  a  typical  Cali- 
fornia hear  adorning  the  trunk.  The  cover  is  a  large 
oval  buhrl.  The  room  was  designed  and  decorated 
by  Mrs.  Abbie  E.  Klebs.  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Lumber- 
men's Association,  assisted  by  Mrs.  S.  V.  Culp,  of 
San  Francisco. 

The  first  cherries  of  the  season  received  in  the 

Palace  of  Horticulture  were  exhibited  in  the  Califor- 
nia section  May  20th.  They  came  by  express  and 
were  in  good  condition.  A  special  exhibit  from  San 
Bernardino  County  of  oranges,  lemons,  pomelos  and 
apples,   was  also  placed   in   this  section   to-day. 

A  plastic  relief  map  of  San  Bernardino  Countv 

has  been  added  to  the  California  exhibit  in  the  Palace 
of  Horticulture.  Small  trees  indicate  where  the  or- 
chards are  planted,  and  in  each  tree  is  an  incandescent 
electric  light  illuminating  the  picture.  The  map  also 
-hows  bow  the  orchards  are  irrigated. 

In  the  manufacture  of  chandeliers  the  Germans 

take  a  front  place  in  the  world,  and  some  of  their  re- 
cent accomplishments  in  this  line  are  shown  in  the 
German'  section  of  the  Palace  of  Liberal  Arts. 

The  grinding  of  photographic   lenses  is  well 

shown  in  the  Palace  of  Liberal  Arts,  where  the  lead- 
ing manufacturer  of  these  goods  has  on  exhibition  a 
machine  which  is  engaged  in  grinding  lenses  for  use 
in  cameras.  With  this  machine  several  lenses  can 
be  ground  at  the  same  time. 

Fifteen  tons  of  garnets  from  Alaska  are  to  be 

brought  to  the  Alaskan  Building  at  the  World's  Fair 
and  to  be  given  away  to  visitors  as  souvenirs  of  the 
Alaskan  exhibit. 

One  of  the  finest  of  the  French  exhibits  in  the 

Palace  of  Liberal  Arts  is  that  of  house  furnishings. 
A  part  of  the  space  has  been  arranged  into  about 
thirty  small  rooms,  each  of  these  rooms  being  en- 
tirely furnished  with  the  finest  carpets,  hangings  and 
furniture  from  the  leading  French  makers.  Much  of 
the  furniture  has  been  copied  from  that  which  has 
been  owned  and  used  by  the  French  monarchs  of  past 
centuries,  and  the  styles  of  all  the  periods  of  French 
history  are  faithfully  reproduced. 

The   California  delegation  of  newspaper  men 

who  are  going  to  St.  Louis  to  attend  the  World's 
Press.  Parliament  next  week,  will  reach  that  city 
Sunday  night.  There  are  ninety  in  the  party,  and 
quarters  have  been  engaged  for  them  at  the  Inside 
Inn  by  E.  D.  Willis,  secretary'of  the  California  Com- 
mission. On  Wednesday  of  next  week  they  will  hold 
the  semi-annual  meeting  of. the  California  Press  As- 
sociation in  the  big  hall  of  the  California  Building. 


You'll  never  regret  a  visit  to  Zlnkand's,  which  Is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  alter-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
iht  most  tempting  dishes;  the  best  liquors,  Inspiring  music, 
siiit]    ig   patronized  by  the   smart  set. 


Allen's-  Press  Clipping  Bureau  has  removed  to  the 

rooms-  formerly  occupied1  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California 
street,  San  Francisco. 


,-s*— Tesla  Briquettes,  the  popular  domestic  fuel,  are  only  $7.50 
pet;,  ton;  half  t«ifv?4;  Quarter  ton  .$2.  "Full  weight  guaranteed,  in 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
a*e  Superior  to  coal:  Sold  only  by  the"  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th 
and  Channel.     Phone  South  96. 


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GOLDEN  GATE  01  VAN  NESS  AVES..  SAN  FRANCISCO 


EDISON  PHONOGRAPH  AGENCY 

PETEB  BACIGALUn 

HAS    REMOVED    FROM    933     MARKET    STREET,    TO 
THEIR  NEW  STORE 

784-788    MISSION    STREET,    S.    F. 


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1490    MARKET    STREET,    K„kSte, 

SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

GROUND  FLOOR.  STUDIO 


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POSITIVELY    CURED 

REFERENCES    FURNISHED  TO   THOSE   WHO   ARE 
AFFECTED  AND  WANT  TO  INVESTIGATE. 

BRYN    MAWR    SANITARIUM 

HAYWAR.DS,  CAL. 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

MISS  D.  HONIO,  of  the  WALDORF,    241-2M   0EARY  STREET,   has  returned 
from  the  East,  and  is  displaying  the  finest 

Assortment  of  Imported   Human  Hair 

and  SHELL  ORNAMENTS  that  has  ever  been 
SHOWN    ON    THE    PACIFIC    COAST 


Mme.    GEORGETTE    GODON 

LADIES'  HAT  IMPOETEE 


REMODELING 


Suite  520-521 

STARR  KING  BUILDING 

121  Geary  St. 


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French  Modes 

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Importer  and  Manufacturer  of 

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ill    CLAY    STREET.    SAN   FRANCISCO. 
Telephone  Main  549 


NEWTON    J.    THARP 

ARCHITECT 
131  POST  STREET  SAN. FRANCISCO 


X5he    Political     Situation 


The  Oakland  Tribune  has  a  correspondent  in  this 
town,  who,  notwithstanding  his  non-de-plume  (The 
Knave)  is  really  a  very  nice  fellow,  who  writes  some 
very  bright  things.  Sometimes,  however,  like  other 
less  talented  scribblers,  he  is  in  a  hurry  to  get  his 
copy  to  the  printer,  and  consequently  writes  in  haste 
what  he  has  to  correct  at  leisure.  In  his  letter  of 
June  4th,  he  discusses  Oxnard's  strength  in  the  next 
State  Senate,  and  makes  some  very  curious  mistakes, 
all  the  more  extraordinary  that  they  appear  in  the 
Tribune,  which,  as  everybody  knows,  has  George 
Hatton,  the  professional  Senatorial  manager,  for  its 
political  guide,  and  therefore  ought  to  be  especially 
well  posted.  "The  Knave"  tells  his  readers,  for  in 
stance,  that  "if  Robert  Corlett  is  sent  back  from 
Xapa  to  the  State  Senate,  he  would  be  likely  to  take 
the  programme  as  easily  as  a  child  takes  candy." 
which  may  or  may  not  be  true,  but  evidently  "The 
Knave"  does  not  know  much  about  the  district,  for 
a  little  further  on  in  his  letter  he  says  that  he  knows 
nothing  of  J.  J.  Lucksinger's  Solano  district,  which 
shows  that  he  is  unaware  of  the  fact  that  Napa  ami 
Solano  Counties  are  in  the  same  district.  The  fact 
that  Frank  Devlin,  formerly  District  Attorney  of 
Solano  County,  is  the  candidate  of  the  Solano  people 
against  Corlett,  and  that  Congressman  Metcalf  is 
said  to  be  backing  Devlin,  possibly  with  an  eye  on 
the  United  States  Senate  to  succeed  Perkins  four 
years  hence.  Again,  we  are  told  that  W.  B.  Lardner 
may  be  sent  back  from  Placer  County,  and  J.  J.  Tvrell 
from  Nevada,  which  is  hardly  possible,  as  both  coun- 
ties are  in  the  same  district,  and  therefore  must  have 
the  same  Senator.  By  the  way,  the  News  Letter 
announced  a  month  and  more  ago  that  the  name 
of  the  probable  Senator  from  that  district,  the  third, 
would  be  F.  M.  Rutherford,  and  not  either  Lardner 
or  Tyrell;  in  fact,  Tyrell  has  publicly  announced  that 
lie  is  not  a  candidate.  Again,  the  Tribune's  corre- 
spondent thinks  that  if  the  Hays  Brothers  name  the 
successor  of  Louis  Oneal  in  Santa  Clara  that  their 
candidate  will  be  opposed  to  Abe  Ruef  and  an  anti- 
programmer,  which  shows  that  "The  Knave"  is  not 
well  posted  on  Santa  Clara  politics,  for  if  he  were. 
he  would  know  that  Ruef  is  one  of  the  most  trusted 
friends  and  advisors  of  the  Hayses,  and  that  there  is 
no  one  whose  advice  on  "rouge  et  noir"  is  more  high- 
ly valued  than  that  of  the  San  Francisco  boss.  It 
may  be  set  down  for  certain  that  their  nominee  will 
he  perfectly  acceptable  to  Ruef.  "The  Knave"  has 
not  heard  who  is  likely  to  be  the  successor  to  the  late 
Senator  Byrnes  of  San  Mateo,  though  the  readers 
of  the  News  Letter  were  told  months  ago  that  Assem- 
blyman Brown,  the  greatest  kicker  in  the  Legisla- 
ture, wanted  the  place  and  would  probablv  get  it. 
We  are  told  by  "The  Knave"  that  Senator  Ralston  has 
no  particular  love  for  Bard,  which  is  true,  since  Bard 
opposed  Ralston's  aspirations  to  succeed  John  P. 
Irish  as  Naval  Officer,  but  although  Ralston' was  as- 
sisted in  his  fight  for  that  office  by  ex-Senator  Felton, 
he  will  not.  as  "The  Knave"  suggests,  endeavor  to 
upset  all  precedent  by  proposing  Felton's  name  as 
the  successor  of  Bard.  Felton  comes  from  the  North 
and  the  next  Senator  will  undoubtedly  come  from 
South  of  the  Tehachapi,  and  Felton  'knows  that 
as  well  as  any  one.  Corney  Pendleton,  we  are  toll, 
also,  used  to  have  offices  'adjoining  those  of  lohn 
W.  Mitchell  in  Los  Angeles,  and  as  Mitchell,  a  rabid 
Southern  Democrat  is  booming  Jim  Lankersheim  for 
the  Senatorship,  Pendleton,  who  is  one  of  the  most 


pronounced  programmers  in  the  State,  is  going  to  go 
back  on  his  whole  record  and  vote  for  Lankersheim 
to  please  Mitchell.  Evidently  "The  Knave"  does  r.ot 
know  Corney  very  well  if  he  fancies  that  Mitchell 
could  have  such  a  tremendous  influence  over  him. 
Corney  might  control  Mitchell  if  there  was  any  ob- 
ject in  it,  but  Mitchell  control  Pendleton !  Never. 
"The  Knave,"  as  I  said,  is  a  good  fellow,  and  if  he 
read  the  News  Letter  more  attentively,  his  political 
news  and  political  tips  would  be  more  reliable. 
*  *  * 

Discussing  the  next  Legislature  it  may  be  of  inter- 
est to  mention  that  Gen.  F.  C.  Prescott  of  Redlands, 
who  made  a  very  good  record  in  the  last  Assembly, 
has  concluded  not  to  be  a  candidate  for  the  Senator- 
ship  to  succeed  the  late  Senator  O.  Z.  Hubbell,  but 
will  be  a  candidate  again  for  the  Lower  House.  If 
he  is  re-elected,  as  he  no  doubt  will  be,  he  will  be 
a  candidate  for  Speaker.  In  the  Fourth  District, 
composed  of  Shasta,  Modoc  and  Lassen  Counties, 
T.  H.  Shanahan,  who  was  a  Democrat  until  he  found 
it  more  advantageous  to  be  a  Populist,  and  who  was 
the  candidate  of  the  latter  party  for  Governor  in  189S, 
wants  to  return  to  the  Assembly  next  winter.  He  is 
now  a  Hearst  Democrat.  The  District  gave  Grole- 
fend,  Democrat.  3,215  votes  in  1902,  to  2,655  for  his 
Republican  opponent,  and  Grotefend  could  probably 
be  elected  again,  but  he  will  not  accept  the  nomina- 
tion. Shanahan  has  an  opponent  in  the  Democratic 
ranks,  J.  A.  Hubbard,  a  contractor  of  Anderson : 
Shanahan  conies  from  Redding.  The  Republicans, 
who  want  the  nomination  are  J.  H.  l'.eecher  and  J.  H. 
Creighton.  They  could  only  hope  to  win  on  a  split 
in  the  Democratic  ranks,  but  that  seems  likely  if 
Shanahan  wins  the  nomination,  as  his  record  hurts 
him  with  the  straight-out  Democrats,  and  his  stand- 
ing in  with  Hearst  does  not  add  to  his  political  popu- 
larity. Hubbard  is  the  man  who  ran  against  Senator 
Coggins   last   election,   and  was  only   beaten   by   18 


June  18,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

He  is  a  straight-out  D. 
change  his  annually. 

In  the  Fifth  Assembly  District,  Seward  is  dead, 
ami    there   arc   two   ca  t.  >r   Ins   place— H. 

■  luff  who  was  Ins  r.  ,,,„)    |. 

Mail,  editor  of  the  Plumas  National-Bulletin.      I 

itricl  gave  Seward  a  majoril 
a  Republican  Assemblyman,  so  it  is  doubtful 
if  the  Democrats  will  make  any  nomination,  especi- 
ally if  Gans,  who  is  personally  popular,  is  nomi- 
nated. In  the  Eleventh  District,  McKenney  is  cer- 
tain to  get  the  nomination  again,  anil  equally  certain 

!>cing  elected.  He  made  a  good  record,  and  as  his 
district  gave  him  518  majority,  notwithstanding  the 
open  opposition  of  the  Administration  of  the  [one 
Reform  School  this  year,  he  Ought  to  do  even  better, 
as  they  are  not  doing  nearly  as  much  politics  at  the 
School  as  they  did  before.  In  the  Fourteenth  I  lis- 
trict.  Dunbar,  who  though  of  the  minority,  made  an 
excellent  record,  and  who  carried  bis  district,  Santa 
Rosa,  by  over  200  majority,  will  be  re-nominated 
easily,  and  there  seems  a  very  fair  prospect  of  his  be- 
ing re-elected,  as  his  personality  counts  for  more 
than  politics  often  in  Assembly  elections,  and  Dunbar 
is  personally  popular. 

*  *  » 
In  the  Twentieth  District  (Solano  County)  W.  S. 

KiHingsworth  of  Yacaville  will  be  nominated  ag&in, 
•  unless  he  undertakes  to  make  the  contest  for  Senati  r 
from  the  Fifth  District.  He  had  a  plurality  of  5'/' 
two  years  ago.  Cut  on  the  other  hand,  King  of  Napa 
had  a  plurality  of  1002,  Republican,  which  would  in- 
dicate that  the  chances  of  KiHingsworth  or  any  other 
Democrat  going  to  the  Senate  from  that  district  is 
slight.  He  will  therefore  be  likely  to  prefer  the  cer- 
tainment  of  a  reelection  to  the  Assembly  to  a  prob- 
able defeat  running  for  the  Senate.  I  forgot  to  men- 
tion in  its  proper  order  that  Dr.  F.  W.  Gates  of  Oro- 
ville  is  likely  to  be  the  Republican  and  Dr.  B.  Cald- 
well the  Democratic  candidates  for  Assemblyman 
in  the  Seventh  District,  Butte  County. 

*  *  * 

McNab  has  thrown  down  the  gauntlet  to  Tarpey 
and  the  Hearstites  in  the  selection  which  he  caused 
Gould  to  make  of  twenty-five  members  at  large  of  the 
Democratic  State  Central  Committee.  Tarpey's  poor 
management  is  again  shown  in  this  matter.  He  al- 
lowed McNab  to  name  the  chairman  and  allowed  the 
chairman  to  name  twenty-five  committeemen  at 
large,  with  the  result  that  McNab  has  the  whole 
works  and  Tarpey  and  his  owner  are  not  in  it  for  a 
moment.  If  there  were  a  possibility  of  Hearst's 
nomination,  it  would  be  a  very  serious  thing  for  him 
to  have  his  campaign  run  by  men  avowedly  hostile 
to  him,  like  ex-Congressman  Geary,  Tim  Spellacy, 
Isadore  Dockweiler  and  John  Ruddock,  but  as  that 
eventuality  is  impossible,  it  of  course  makes  no  dif- 
ference in  the  Presidential  campaign,  but  that  fact 
does  not  lessen  Tarpey's  poor  management.  McNab 
has  now  complete  control  of  the  machine  for  two 
years,  and  the  Horse  and  Carts  will  find  it  very  diffi- 
cult to  make  any  impression  on  his  fortifications  at 
the  August  primaries. 

*  *  * 

Another  evidence  of  Tarpey's  poor  management 
was  the  directing  of  Barney  Murphy  to  call  a  meeting 
of  the  Committee  next  Saturday.  Tarpey  had  fur- 
nished Gould  with  a  list  of  10  names  that  he  wanted 
on  the  special  committee  of  25.  Gould,  who  is  very 
ambitious  himself,  was  inclined  to  stand  in  with  the 
Hearst  outfit  by  placing  some  of  Tarpey's  names  on 
the  list.    He  was  the  more  inclined  to  do  so  because 


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iv  partner,  who  made  I  Hearst   Sp 
Urged  him  to  do  SO,  and  wanted  to  be 
■f  the  twenty  five,  Afford  being  also  anxious  to 

hedge.  When,  however.  GoUld  heard  thai  I  arpc\ 
had  ordered  the  Committee  to  meet  next  Saturday 
under  the  chairmanship  of  Barney  Miirphv.  while  ac- 
cording to  all  precedent  he  (Gould),  as  chairman  of 
the  convention,  could  have  called  the  meeting,  he 
was  very  angry,  and  after  getting  permission  from 
McNab.  at  once  announced  the  twentv-five  name- 
he  was  authorized  to  appoint  at  Santa  Cruz,  leaving 
out  even  one  of  Tarpey's  nominees.  That,  of  course, 
gives  the  chairmanship  of  the  committee  to  McNab 
to  name.  He  would  like  to  have  either  Gould  or  Fitz- 
gerald, but  neither  have  the  time,  and  it  will  probably 
go  to  W.  J.  McCee.  McCabe,  who  has  been  the 
State  Secretary  for  years,  and  who  is  to  the  Califor- 
nia Democracy  what  Jake  Steppcrgcr  is  to  their  op- 
ponents, will  also  have  to  go.  as  he  got  on  the  Hearst 
band  wagon,  and  now  that  there  is  no  band,  he  is 
in  the  same  fix  as  Camminctti,  Alford  and  the  others 
who  thought  Hearst's  purse  had  no  bottom. 
»  *  * 

Tarpey  should  have  known  better  than  to  have  an- 
gered Gould  by  calling  the  committee  Saturday.  Any 
one  who  knows  Gould,  and  Tarpey  knows  him  well, 
knows  that  he  is  supremely  egotistical — his  face 
shows  that,  and  his  manner  confirms  it — and  to  have 
so  openly  affronted  him  as  .the  Hearst  manager  did, 
was  the  worst  of  politics.  Tarpey  is  by  far  the  worst 
that  ever  came  over  the  political  turnpike. 

*  *  * 

By  the  way,  it  may  be  interesting  to  know  how  the 
delegates  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention 
now  stand.  Parker  has  148  votes  from  New  York, 
Indiana,  Connecticut,  Alabama,  Tennessee  and  Geor- 
gia. Hearst  has  101  votes,  and  there  are  220  in- 
structed. Then  Olney  has  Massachusetts  and  Wall 
has  Wisconsin  ;  Gorman  has  Maryland  and  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  although  they  are  nominally  unin- 
structed;  Bryan  has  Nebraska  and  Oklahoma,  and 
Cockrell  has  Missouri.  No  one  has  two-thirds  of  the 
Convention,  and  Hearst  and  Bryan  so  far  have  not 
enough  votes  to  stop  the  nomination  of  any  one  upon 
whom  the  balance  of  the  convention  may  unite.  There 
are,  of  course,  a  number  of  States  yet  to  hear  from, 
and  there  is  no  chance  that  any  one  will  be  nominated 
upon  the  first  ballot. 

*  *  * 

It  is  admitted  by  the  Eastern  press,  except  the 
papers  especially  interested  in  his  nomination,  thai 
the  Parker  boom  is  not  very  much  stronger  than  the 
Hearst,  and  that  while  the  Silent  Judge  has  all  the 
votes  from  New  York,  the  Tammany  delegates  are 
going  to  do  all  they  can  to  defeat  him.  They  will 
urge  that  he  cannot  carry  New  York  against  Roose- 
velt, and  that  the  fact  that  he  is  backed  by  Wall 
street,  and  that  Belmont  has  offered  to  contribute 
$5,000,000,  if  he  is  nominated,  to  the  campaign  fund, 
will  weaken  him  in  the  doubtful  States  of  the  West 
Bryan  will  help  Tammany  in  fighting  Parker,  and  as 
he  will  be  the  Nebraska  member  of  the  Committee 
on  Platform,  he  proposes  to  introduce  a  report  en- 
dorsing the  two  platforms  upon  which  he  ran.  That 
will  give  him  a  chance  to  make  a  speech  attacking 
the  goldbugs,  and  incidentally  Parker.  The  speeches 
in  the  convention  promise  to  be  both  warm  and  per- 
sonal. It  has  not  yet  been  definitely  decided  whether 
Hearst's  name  will  be  put  before  the  convention  or 
not,  but  Delmas  has  his  speech  all  prepared  to  de- 
liver if  it  is  decided  to  nominate  Hearst. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  18,  1904. 


A  SAILOR'S  SONG. 

By  Clintou  Scolluid  in  Criterion 
We  kissed  good-by  in  the  gloaming 
Ere  the  moon   crept  up  the  sky ; 
"When,  love,  will  you  be  homing?" 

She  cried,  with  a  teary  eye ; 
"When  will  you  cease  from  roaming 

The  breast  of  the  barren  sea, 
And  come  to  another  breast  for  rest — 
To  the  longing  heart  o'  me?" 
Then  I  said  to  her,  low  and  slow, — 
"Oh,  it's  ever  the  lad  must  go, 

And  it's  ever  the  lass  must  stay. 
And  that  is  the  tale  of  the  world-old  woe 
Till   the  trump  of  the   judgment  day  !" 

Still  I  hear  her  voice  enthralling, 

And  I  see  her  standing  there, 
With  the  night's  deep  shadows  falling 

On  the  dawn-break  of  her  hair. 
And  ever  her  calling,  calling, 

Floats  over  the  barren  sea, — 
"Come  back  to  my  aching  breast  with  rest 

For  the  longing  heart  o'  me !" 

But  I  cry  to  her,  low  and  slow — 

"Oh,  it's  ever  the  lad  must  go, 

And  it's  ever  the  las-;  must  stay, 

And  that  is  the  tale  of  the  world-old  woe 
Till  the  trump  of  trie  judgment-day!  ' 


WHEN  LOVE  WAS  DEAD. 

By  Nannie  IJyrd  Tumor  in  Sinait  Set 

When  love  was  dead,  quite  dead,  and  past  all  pain. 
Beyond   all   prayers   and    all   reproaches   said, 
I  laid  him  where  no  other  love  had  lain — 
When   Love  was  dead. 

In  a  dark  chamber  of  my  heart,  so  fain 

I  was  to  let  that  heart  be  comforted, 
Remembering  no  longer;  but  in  vain. 

One  night,  I  crept  and  touched  his  brow, 
instead, 
And  suddenly  my  tears  fell  warm,  like  rain: 
I  could  have  sworn   Love   sighed  and  stirred 
again. 
When   Love  was  dead. 


AWAKENING. 


By  Walter  Pritehurd  Eaton   in   Tli  •  Mender 

A   rose   glow   glims   the   western    wall, 
The  sweet  night  faints  to  dawn. 

And  from  the  folds  of  outer  dark 
Another  day  is  born. 

So  I  must  rise  and  greet  the  world 

As  it  were  still  the  same. 
As  if  my   Love  herself  could   rise 

And  answer  to  her  name. 

And  I  must  fret  and  smile  and  toil 

Where  alien  faces  teem  ; 
Ere  night  will  come  again  with  stars 

And   bring   again   my   dream. 


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"The  Prince  of  Liars"  is  a  play  now  running  at  a 

Incal  theatre.     It  does  not  mention  Hearst  by  name 


The  garrison  of  Port  Arthur  is  said  to  be  "in  good 
spirits" — that  is,  not  merely  bottled  up,  but  pickled. 

It  cost  an  Oklahoma  man  $5  and  costs  to  spank  his 
mother-in-law.    Where  is  that  Carnegie  "hero  fund?" 

"Housemaid's  knee"  is  what  ails  prize-fighter  Jef- 
fries.    And  he  is  still  on  his  honeymoon,  the  brute! 

It  is  astonishing  how  Attorney  Ruef's  departure 
has  crippled  Mayor  Schmitz's  spelling. 

A  miner  up  at  Bridgeport  has  found  a  mountain  of 
gold — of  the  kind  they  make  bricks  of  for  the  rural 
trade. 


The  Elk's  tooth  is  a  sign  that  the  man  who  wears 
it  can  take  a  drink  without  biting  a  piece  out  of  the 
glass. 

It  seems  unjust  to  blame  Oakland's  former  Mayor 
for  the  murderous  infatuation  of  his  friend.  How 
could  brother  Snow  help  being  so  cruelly  beautiful? 

The  Reverend  Herbert  Parrish  calls  his  project 
Episcopalian  monastery  a  monkery.  Congressman 
Livernash  is  our  choice  for  star  boarder. 


Chicago  clubwomen  are  teaching  table  manners 
to  the  gamins  of  the  city.  Let  St.  Louis  snicker,  if 
she   dare. 


The  star-eyed  goddess  of  civil  service  reform  is 
out  in  the  tall  timber,  waiting  for  the  Schmitz  family 
to  get   through   running  amuck. 

College  girls  giggle  at  Professor  Gayley  and  col- 
lege dogs  bark  at  him,  and  critics  don't  do  a  thing 
to  what  he  writes. 


A  woman  "bronco  buster"  is  to  be  one  of  the  fea- 
tures of  Livermore's  Fourth  of  July  celebration.  Hus- 
band-busting is  a  much  more  ladylike  occupation. 

No  driver  of  a  man-killing  automobile  has  had 
the  hardihood  as  yet  to  call  his  car  "The  Appendi- 
citis." 


"Stand  pat"  is  the  Western  Republican  slogan. 
Massachusetts  moves  to  amend  it  so  as  to  read,  "En- 
dure Patrick." 


A  horse  named  Highball  ridden  by  a  jockey  named 
Fuller,  wins  the  American  Derby.  Will  the  W.  C. 
T.   I'.  please  take  notice? 

"Russia  has  mobilized  one  per  cent  of  her  fighting 
strength,"  cables  St  Petersburg.  Maybe  the  other 
ninety-nine  per  cent  will  do  more  fighting  and  less 
running   away. 


The  British  warboat  Sparrowbawk  has  struck  a 
rock  and  sunk,  and  the  Bat  has  been  lost  in  a  col- 
lision with  the  Stag.  King  Edward's  menagerie  is 
in  hard  luck. 


If  there's  ten  per  cent  of  truth  in  the  summer  resort 
advertisements  about  hunting  and  fishing,  the  laws 
should  be  revised  so  as  to  protect  the  farmer  from 
the  game  instead  of  the  game  from  the  farmer. 

Japan's  busy  little  soldiers  go  right  on  collecting 
Russian  souvenirs,  giving  the  preference  to  modern 
field  artillery  for  which  the  owners  had  no  further 
Use. 

The  Legislature  of  Colorado  is  respectfully  re- 
quested to  change  the  name  of  the  commander  of 
that  State's  militia  from  Sherman  Bell  to  Liberty 
Bell. 


Owners  of  New  York  houses  won't  let  children  live 
in  them,  and  on  the  other  hand,  it  would  be  cruel, 
as  well  as  unlawful,  to  kill  the  young  of  the  human 
family.     What  can  the  Gotham  parent  do? 

McKowan,  the  thieving  secretary  of  the  State 
University,  was  paid  $3,000  a  year  and  stole  $50,000. 
His  successor,  who  is  to  get  $6,000  a  year,  will  prove 
himself  no  gentleman  if  he  embezzles  a  cent  more 
than  $25,000. 

Language  on  the  other  side  of  the  Pacific  is  a 
queer  thing,  but  we  begin  to  suspect  that  Kuroki  is 
the  active  and  Kuropatkin  the  passive  of  the  verb 
"Kuro,"  meaning,  we  infer,  to  knock  thunder  out  of 
a  thing  or  person. 


Former  Mayor  Van  Wyck  of  New  York  lets  it 
be  known  after  sailing  for  Europe  that  he  made 
$1,200,000  in  Wall  street  "flyers."  That  is  just  as 
good  a  story  as  to  say  that  he  won  it  in  a  lottery, 
inherited  it  from  a  relation  in  New  Zealand  or  found 
it  in  the  pocket  of  an  old  vest. 


The  Christian  Endeavor  Association,  it  is  reported, 
has  endeavored  to  endorse  the  candidacy  for  the 
presidency  of  Hearst.  This  is  a  compliment,  indeed. 
The  ladies  of  the  aforesaid  society  must  be  person- 
ally acquainted  with  the  pseudo  candidate  and  his 
habits. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


BOOSTING   SAN   FRANCISCO. 

The  statement  is  made  by  that  source  and  fountain- 
head  of  optimism,  the  California  Promotion  Com- 
mittee, that  San  Francisco's  population  is  now  close 
to  the  500,000  mark.  The  Promotion  Committee  is 
not  given  to  looking  at  such  things  through  the 
wrong  end  ol  its  opera  glasses,  hut  in  this  case  its 
figures  may  be  accepted,  we  believe,  as  co'rrect,  Or 
nearly  so.  A  few  years  ago,  an  organization  which 
called  itself  the  "Half-Million  Club,"  flourished  for  a 
little  while  and  faded  before  it  had  really  convinced 
anybody  that  San  Francisco  had  a  license  to  hope 
for  such  a  figure  of  population  within  the  time  of 
the  existing  generation.  Other  associations  of  the 
same  kind  have  lived,  worked  and  died,  each  doing 
its  little  part  toward  boosting  San  Francisco  up  the 
scale  of  the  cities.  A  very  worthy  successor  to  these 
organizations  and  one  that  seems  destined  to  stay 
with  us  and  help  us  in  faith  and  in  fact,  is  the  Pro-  ■ 
motion  Committee.  It  may  slightly  hasten,  though 
it  cannot  in  any  wise  alter  the  destiny  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. Nothing  can  bar  the  way  between  this  young- 
est and  most  puissant  of  American  communities  and 
a  greatness  far  greater  than  her  longest-headed  citi- 
zens have  dreamed  of;  not  even  all  the  forces  of 
labor  unionism,  or  Schmitzism,  or  any  other  ism  ' 
will  suffice  to  turn  aside  the  stream  of  prosperity  that 
flows  in  through  the  Golden  Gate. 

Men  who  are  still  young  have  seen  the  city  creep- 
ing, walking,  running  out  over  the  sandhills  and  the 
waste  acres  of  scrub  oak  and  lupine.  So  rapidly  and 
amazingly  has  this  expansion  been  accompanied  that 
the  home-maker  seeking  the  quiet  of  a  nearby  sub- 
urbanism  has  not  been  able  to  keep  ahead  of  the  flat- 
builder,  the  corner  grocery  and  the  asphaltum  pave- 
ment. He  has  gone  to  bed  a  pioneer  among  the 
sand  dunes,  and  has  awakened  to  find  himself  swal- 
lowed up  in  a  sea  of  neighbors. 

Fortunately  this  peninsula  has  upon  it  room  for 
a  good  many  more  of  the  half  millions  which  will  one 
day  cluster  about  this  foremost  of  the  nation's  gate- 
ways. It  is  a  noble  city  now,  but  fancy  what  it  will 
be  when  its  streets  roll  unbroken  from  bay  to  ocean  ! 
Fancy  what  it  will  be  when  the  line  of  its  houses 
sweeps  from  the  Presidio  without  a  gap  to  the  San 
Mateo  line  and  beyond!  Ours  is  a  more  generous 
foundation  for  metropolitan  greatness  than  New  York 
has  had  to  build  upon.  The  peninsula  of  San  Fran- 
cisco measures  in  breadth  most  pleasingly  to  us 
against  the  width  of  the  narrow  island  of  Manhattan. 
It  looks  out,  too,  across  a  mightier  ocean  upon  old 
nations  that  are  being  born  anew,  upon  lands  thick 
with  people  to  be  fed  and  to  be  traded  with,  upon  a 
theatre  whose  stage  is  set  for  another  of  the  dramas 
of  the  Anglo-Saxon  conquest.  Half  a  million  to-day! 
Who  would  have  believed  it  twenty  years  ago?  Who 
will  believe  now  that  twenty  years  hence  it  will  be 
a  million? 


"THE  WOMAN,  SHE  DID  IT." 

The  Examiner,  ghoul,  grave-digger  and  slanderer 
of  the  dead  and  the  living,  takes  especial  pleasure  in 
twisting  the  heart-strings  of  a  woman  because  her 
lover,  in  a  moment  of  insanity,  over  love  or  business 
reverse,  destroyed  his  own  life.  In  a  house  up-town 
a  woman  lies  on  a  bed  of  pain,  racked  by  remorse 
probably,  probably  undone  because  she  really  loved, 
probably  because  she  feels  that  the  man  placed  a  bur- 
den on  her  shoulders  he  was  too  weak  to  bear  him- 
self. But  that's  another  story.  With  the  man's  or 
the  woman's  motives  we  have  no  concern. 

Our  concern  is  with  the  Examiner  and  the  other 


journals  who  have  opened  their  thousand  throats 
and  let  loose  the  saliva  of  slander  from  a  million 
mouths.  They  have  pointed  the  finger  of  scorn  at 
this  woman,  well  knowing  her  defenseless  condition, 
and  they  have  quoted  Kipling's  lines,  "A  rag,  a  bone 
and  a  hank  of  hair" ;  they  have  said  that  she  had 
squeezed  him  dry  of  his  genius,  and  then,  when  her 
horizon  was  enlarged,  she  dropped  him  like  a  use- 
less rag. 

It's  a  good  story!  Pile  on  the  agony!  "The  woman, 
she  did  it!"  Stir  the  hatred  of  woman  to  woman, 
stir  the  lack  of  chivalry  in  man,  stir  the  coward  to 
kick  the  woman  because  she  is  down  ! 

It  was  not  enough  that  an  enormous  pall  descended 
on  this  woman  through  the  crime  of  self-destruction 
committed  by  her  affianced.  It  was  not  enough  that 
the  disgrace  was  piled  upon  her,  fathoms  deep,  by  no 
act  of  hers,  but  the  baying  hounds  of  indecent  journal- 
ism must  at  her  and  tear  her!  Why?  Because  one 
of  the  craft  had  been  hit!  Because  he  chose  to 
die  by  the  act  of  his  own  hand!  Because  in  the 
face  of  the  law  of  God  and  common  sense  he 
killed  himself!  He  selfishly  placed  himself  beyond 
the  pale  of  earthly  suffering,  and  the  indecent  press 
and  the  unchivalrous  public  has  taken  from  poor 
Joan  Hadenfeldt,  her  ambition,  her  womanhood,  her 
beauty,  her  genius,  and  her  very  helplessness,  and 
mauled  it,  maimed  it,  slandered  it,  and  jumbled  it  into 
an  unrecognizable  mass. 

In  an  up-town  room  a  poor,  defenseless  woman  lie- 
on  a  bed  of  pain,  and  from  behind  stone  walls  and 
paper  battlements,  great,  big,  able-bodied  men  shoot 
the  arrows  of  sarcasm  and  slander. 

Charity  and  chivalry  dictate  silence  in  regard  to 
the  woman.  Charity  and  an  obedience  to  the  wishes 
of  the  dead  dictate  silence  as  regards  the  man.  Be 
still,  ye  jackals  of  the  press. 

A    CLEANER   CHINATOWN. 

The  difference  between  a  Secretary  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  who  does  nothing,  and  a  secretary 
who  does  something,  has  been  graphically  illustrate  1 
by  the  last  two  secretaries  of  that  somewhat  ponder- 
ous organization  which  could  be  of  such  inestimable 
benefit  to  the  State,  but  which,  as  a  rule,  confines  its 
efforts  to  drawing  the  secretary's  salary  and  the  trav- 
eling expenses  of  its  members. 

For  several  years  it  was  charged  that  there  was 
bubonic  plague  in  this  town.  There  were  those  who 
said  that  it  did  exist  and  those  who  claimed  that 
it  did  not,  but  one  thing  is  certain,  the  story  that  it 
existed  spread  over  the  country  and  abroad,  and 
did  this  State  and  city  an  enormous  amount  of  harm. 
The  State  Board  of  Health,  instead  of  getting  ener- 
getically to  work  and  cleaning  Chinatown,  which 
needed  cleansing  regardless  of  whether  it  harbored 
the  plague  or  not,  simply  put  a  long  list  of  the  politi- 
cal hangers-on  of  the  Governor  on  the  pay  roll  of 
the  State,  and  busied  itself  in  denouncing  all  those 
who  said  anything  about  the  presence  of  the  disease 
as  fakers,  liars  and  persons  of  evil  intent.  But  the 
denunciations  fell  on  deaf  ears  when  they  reached 
Washington,  and  the  Federal  authorities  continued 
to  publish  bulletins  claiming  that  plague  existed  in 
San  Francisco,  while  the  Secretary  and  members 
of  the  Board  of  Health  amused  themselves  with 
trips  to  medical  conventions,  where  they  were  con- 
spicuous by  their  silence;  or  to  New  York,  to  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  or  wherever  their  sweet  will  and 
the  appropriation  for  the  Board  would  carry  them. 
No  effort  to  clean  Chinatown,  to  comply  with  the  re- 
quirements of  the   Federal   authorities,  to  establish 


June  15.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


sanit;-  hinese   in 

•ik  their  wine  and 
the  appr 
With  a  new  Governor  came  a  change.    The  pcr- 
of  Health,  and  especially  its 
retarj  nd  the  result  has  been 

•  activity  instead  o(  inactivity,  less  travel- 
ed fun,  and  more  wort  -  and 
cellar  in  Chinatown  is  being  dug  out ; 
ire  being  replaced  by  cement,  the  Qu- 
ire being  forced  to  live  above  the  lev  el  of  the 
light   can   reach   their  domiciles;   rats. 
Icrs  and  carriers  of  disease,  arc  being 
terminated  ;    tons   of   disinfectants   are    being   spread 
everywhere;    the    cobbli                    >ver    which    a    cat 
could  not  cross  without  hurting  her  feet,  and  which 
held  the  dirt  and  filth  just  whore  they  were  thrown, 
have   been   replaced   by   asphalt   pavement,  and   in   a 
word,  it  is  possible  even  to  pass  through  Chinatown 
to-day   without   soiling   your   clothes   or   contracting 
disease.      The    Federal    authorities    and    the    Health 
Officers  of  the   National  Board  of  Health  have  pro- 
nounced  the   plague   a   thing  of   the   past;   and   San 
Francisco  a  clean  and  healthy  city.     All  this  is  due 
to  the  Pardee  Hoard  of  Health  and  its  secretary.  Dr. 
Fowler.    The  Xews  Letter  has  frequently  in  the  past 
criticised  the  Governor  for  some  things  he  has  clone, 
and  others   that  he  has  left  undone,'  and  it  will  no 
doubt  have  reason  to  do  so  again  for  both  reasons ; 
but  we  believe  in  giving  credit  where  credit  is  due, 
and  blame  when  and  where  they  are  deserved.     We 
have  urged  the  State  Board  of  Health  repeatedly  to 
do  exactly  what  it  has  now  done,  and  we  therefore 
congratulate  it  on   its  achievement  and  bid  it  keep 
up  the  good  work. 

A    QUESTION   ANSWERED. 

"Is  San  Francisco  a  city  of  fine  arts,  classical  lit- 
erature and  ethical  culture?"  This  question  is  asked 
in  a  private  letter  from  Boston,  and  the  only  sur- 
prising thing  about  the  enquiry  is  that  a  Bostonian 
should  have  a  sufficient  stock  of  credulity  to  suggest 
to  his  mind  the  possibility  of  any  town  in  the 
United  States  other  than  Boston  having  any  knowl- 
edge of  fine  arts,  classical  literature,  or  ethical  cul- 
ture. Very  true,  quite  a  number  of  Bostonians,  or 
who  were  denizens  of  that  city  of  East  winds  years 
ago,  are  contented  dwellers  where  the  setting  sun 
throws  kisses  through  the  Golden  Gate,  as  it  sinks 
away  in  the  crimson  horizon.  None  of  these  respec- 
table people  are  Bostonians  now,  and  hence  they 
have  not  Boston's  theory  of  the  wild  and  barren 
Pacific  Coast. 

But  to  the  question  in  point.  Yes,  San  Francisco 
is  a  liberal  patron  of  the  fine  arts,  is  fond  of  classical 
literature,  which  ethical  culture  is  a  daily  pastime. 
It  is  amusing  as  well  as  amazing  how  ignorant 
some  Eastern  and  foreign  people  are  of  the  "sort  of 
folk"  that  inhabit  California,  especially  San  Fran- 
cisco. .Now,  the  fact  is,  San  Francisco  is  distin- 
guished the  civilized  world  over  as  a  great  money 
center,  a  mighty  center  of  accumulation  and  distri- 
bution of  merchantable  commodities,  a  patron  of  the 
fine  arts,."  so  liberal  that  the  private  collections  are 
the  wonder  of  critics  at  home  and  abroad,  and  a 
student  of  classical  literature,  whose  assiduous  appli- 
cation is  attested  by  the  works  of  every  standard 
author  from  the  ancient  Grecians  to — Joaquin  Miller. 
And  in  the  matter  of  ethical  culture,  why,  that,  like 
the     State     flower — eschscholtzia — by     the     vulgar 


called   thi  cultivate,!   by   everybody. 

Francisco— and  1  alifornia — is  on  the  border- 
land which  separates  all  thai  one  should  reasonably 

■  in  this  world  from  the  realities  of  the  hi 
that  passeth  understanding,  but  the  dividing  line  is 
like   a    fading   rainbow    when    the    colors   merge   the 
into  the  otln-r.  almost  as  one.     'I  here  is  at  least 
one    conspicuous    characteristic    of      San       Fran 

which  always  puzzles   Boston,  and  that  is  that  the 

people  here  do  not  run  to  "specialties."  Fine  art  is 
one  thine;,  classical  literature  is  another  thing.  I 
merce  is  one  thing,  erecting  business  and  residence 
palaces  is  another  thing.  Ethical  culture  is  the  warp 
and  WOof  in  the  pattern  of  everyday  life  which  the 
people  individually  and  collectively  weave  from  a 
consistent  mixture  of  fine  arts,  classical  literature, 
commerce,  palace  building  and  chain-lightning  husi- 
ness  activity.     The  people  out   here  prefer  such  a 

mixture  to  plain  Emersonian  transcendentalism,  or 
lonely  poetic  genius,  or  (  )vcr  Soul  inspiration  or 
the  realities  of  pork  and  beans,  yet  all  these  items 
are  included  in  the  San  Francisco  mixture.  San 
Francisco  is  situated  on  the  Western  confines  of 
America,  as  Boston  is  situated  on  the  Eastern  con- 
fines. The  towns  are  connected  by  many  railways 
and  telegraph  lines  and  postal  routes.  Boston  should 
take  advantage  of  them  to  get  acquainted  with  the 
people  of  the   Golden   Gate   country. 

FOOLS,  FIRE-CRACKERS  AND  THE  FOURTH 

Sunday  afternoon  a  boy  was  marching  down  Fil- 
bert street  with  a  large  fire-cracker  sticking  out  of 
his  pocket.  A  playmate,  thinking  it  would  be  a 
good  joke,  set  fire  to  the  protruding  fuse,  and  it  was 
only  because  an  alert  passer-by,  at  the  risk  of  injury 
to  himself,  grasped  the  smoking  toy  and  flung  it  into 
the  street,  that  the  boy  was  saved  a  terrible  lacera- 
tion. The  cracker  exploded  a  second  later  with 
sufficient  force,  if  properly  confined,  to  have  shat- 
tered a  good-sized  boulder,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
child's  thigh. 

All  the  week,  and  for  more  than  a  week,  fire- 
crackers, toy  pistols  and  their  deadly  ilk,  have  been 
making  certain  streets  of  our  city  pandemonium,  en- 
dangering life,  limb  and  property,  and  making  the 
lot  of  the  sick  and  infirm  miserable  indeed — and  it 
is  not  yet  the  Fourth  of  July.  By  force  of  custom 
we  have  learned  to  bear  with  all  sorts  of  calamity  on 
the  Fourth,  and  out  of  a  misdirected  sense  of  patriot- 
ism to  allow  fools  and  gun-powder  to  work  on  that 
day  their  deadly  silly  sum  of  damage.  But  is  there 
any  reason  why  the  police  should  allow  this  state 
of  things  to  extend  for  a  week  or  two  previous  to  the 
Ever  Glorious?  But  why  not  confine  the  license  of 
Independence  Day  within  its  proper  twenty-four 
hours? 

What  patriotism  gains  by  making  Liberty's  birth- 
day so  hideous  that  only  the  poor,  the  sick  and  the 
deaf  suffer  themselves  to  remain  in  the  city  when  it 
is  celebrated,  is  a  mystery.  The  wise  citizen  takes 
to  the  woods  without  answering  and  leaves  the 
Fourth  and  its  fire-crackers  to  those  who  like  them. 


They  say  that  the  Art  Institute  is  in  a  prosperous 
condition.  That  may  very  well  be,  but  in  the  mean- 
time some  of  us  would  like  to  see  the  art.  There  is 
more  talent  here  than  anywhere  else  in  the  United 
States,  more  artistic  talent,  and  it  is  thrown  away. 
The  youngsters,  who  are  promising,  go  away  because 
there  is  no  field  for  them,  and  falling  victims  to  the 
practice  of  hack-work  in  order  to  make  a  living,  are 
lost  to  the  Coast,  and  generally  speaking,  to  art. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


AN  ILLITERATE  MAYOR. 

Criticism  has  been  passed  upon  Mayor  Schmitz 
because  of  his  illiteracy,  revealed  in  his  recent  mes- 
sage vetoing  portions  of  the  city  budget.  His  English 
and  his  spelling  are,  indeed,  amusing,  if  there  can 
be  anything  funny  about  the  ignorance  of  a  man  in 
high  office,  but  when  it  comes  to  his  arrogant  and 
aggressive  political  depravity,  sticking  out  all  over 
this  same  paper,  there  is  reason  to  be  amazed.  The 
preamble  of  this  frank  and  forethought  document  is 
devoted  to  "knocking"  the  thirteen  members  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  who  are  neglecting  their  pri- 
vate interests  while  they  try  to  keep  Schmitz  and  his 
relatives  from  carrying  away  the  city's  treasury, 
vault,  locks  and  all,  and  to  punching  holes  in  the 
doctrine  of  civil  service.  Schmitz  has  had  much  to 
say — or  his  mentor  has  had  him  say  much — about 
the  merit  system  and  its  oeneficent  effect  upon  muni- 
cipal Government.  Ever  since  he  has  had  power 
to  injure  this  system  he  has  been  punching  holes  in 
it  with  one  hand  and  with  the  other  writing  denials 
of  the  fact  and  the  intent.  Now,  at  last,  he  shows 
himself  as  he  really  is,  sneering  at  it  and  flouting  it 
as  vigorously  as  his  limited  knowledge  of  the  lan- 
guage permits.     Listen  to  him  : 

"  *  *  *  realizing  the  impossibility  of  progressive 
and  advantageous  operation  of  certain  of  the  muni- 
cipal departments,  through  the  employment  of  labor- 
ers and  others  from  the  civil  service  lists,  created  be- 
fore the  incumbency  of  the  present  Mayor  and  com- 
posed of  men  in  large  measure  hostile  and  disloyal 
to  the  present  administration,  in  many  instances  in- 
competent and  wanting  in  energy,  in  other  instances 
unfit  for  the  work  to  be  done,  the  members  who  are 
responsible  for  the  drafting  of  this  budget  have  zeal- 
ously labored  to  fasten  upon  every  department  in- 
volving responsibility  to  the  Mayor  of  the  city,  the 
burden  of  doing  work  with  employees  not  of  their 
(his?)  own  selection,  taken  arbitrarily  from  lists  of 
men,  many  of  whom  are  absolutely  unfit  properly  to 
do  the  work  expected  of  them  *  *  *  " 

If  this  be  anything,  it  is  a  declaration  that  the 
Mayor's  banner  is  the  black  flag  of  the  spoils  system, 
and  lest  there  be  mistake  about  his  meaning,  he  goes 
on:  "If  the  practice  (of  civil  service  reform)  accord- 
ed with  the  theory,  a  beautiful  Governmental  fabric 
would  be  created,  but  when  men  taken  from  the  civil 
service  lists  rejoice  in  their  disloyalty  of  (to?)  the 
administration  of  which  they  are  a  part,  when  they 
write  letters  to  public  officials,  recommending  appli- 
cants for  employment  upon  the  so.e  ground  that  they 
are  political  enemies  of  the  Mayor  of  the  city,  I  think 
it  high  time  to  express  a  disapproval  *  *  *  " 

In  fine,  Mayor  Schmitz  places  above  merit,  above 
experience,  above  everything,  "loyalty  to  the  admin- 
istration." We  commend  these  declarations  to  the 
eminent  citizens  who  framed  the  charter  and  secured 
its  adoption,  who  have  stood  stubbornly  by  the  civil 
service  system,  and  have  helped  twice  to  put  Schmitz 
in  the  Mayor's  office.  They  constitute  the  challenge 
of  a  freebooter,  trumpeting  his  defiance  of  decencv 
in   Government. 


INJUNCTION  AGAINST  A  LABOR  UNION. 

By  a  stroke  of  his  pen,  Judge  Hunt  has  done  more 
than  has  been  done  in  many  years,  by  the  rest  of  the 
judiciary,  to  stop  the  illegal  revolutionary  actions  of 
the  union  element  in  San  Francisco. 

Though  the  present  enjoinder  only  operates  dur- 
ing the  pendency  of  the  action  recently  brought 
against  the  Stablemen's  Union  Local,  No.  8760.  Su- 
pervisor T.  F.  Finn,  E.  Maza,  T.  J.  White  and  John 


Killian  by  E.  G.  Price,  proprietor  of  the  Nevada 
Stables  on  Market  street,  it  is  most  effective  in  bot- 
tling all  efforts  of  the  union  to  interfere  in  the  slight- 
est way  with  the  conduct  of  Price's  business.  The 
hands  of  the  union  are  bound  in  every  direction. 

The  restraining  order  stipulates  that  the  defend- 
ants to  the  action  are  to  appeal  before  the  court  on 
Friday,  July  1st,  to  show  cause  why  the  injunction 
should  not  be  made  permanent.  In  the  meantime, 
the  restraining  order  is  in  effect,  and  remains  in 
effect  until  the  cause  is  decided. 

Indeed,  the  union  leaders  have  had  an  idea  that 
all  the  judiciary  was  tainted  by  the  same  virus  that 
exudes  from  the  innoculation  sores  of  the  police  jus- 
tices. It  was  high  time  this  idea  was  knocked  into 
a  cocked  hat,  and  knocked  it  has  been.  That  black- 
mail scheme  commonly  known  as  "picketing"  has  re- 
ceived a  set-back  from  which  it  will  not  readily  re- 
cover. Judge  Hunt  has  issued  a  writ  that  temporarily 
puts  a  stop  to  picKeting  or  sandwiching  of  any  kind. 

It  was  decided  some  years  ago  that  the  presence 
of  a  red  buggy  with  a  driver  attired  in  a  blood-red  suit 
before  a  citizen's  door,  the  buggy  bearing  the  sign 
"Collector  of  Bad  Debts"  in  white  letters  on  a  red 
blanket  on  the  horse,  was  a  blackmail,  and  this  means 
of  coercion  toward  the  poor  debtor  had  to  be  aban- 
doned by  the  conscienceless  harpies  who  run  collec- 
tion agencies.  Picketing  and  sandwiching  is  on  a  par 
with  the  method  of  collecting  debts  just  described. 

It  is  very  unfortunate  that  there  has  not  been 
enough  backbone  among  those  who  have  suffered  at 
the  hands  of  the  labor  leaders  who  constantly  levy 
blackmail  in  one  shape  or  the  other  to  beat  a  few 
of  the  pickets  into  an  unrecognizable  mass  with  the 
soft  end  of  a  spiked  club.  If  the  injunction  issued 
by  Judge  Hunt  is  not  made  perpetual  at  its  next 
hearing,  the  next  step  should  be  the  organization  of 
a  vigilance  committee  that  will  deal  firmly  with  these 
law  breakers  and  foreign  agitators. 

It  is  everywhere  observable  in  Democratic  circles 
that  exactly  in  ratio  to  the  approach  of  the  St.  Louis 
Convention,  there  is  a  shrinkage  in  the  alleged  Hearst 
boom.  But  that  is  not  surprising.  His  candidacy  was 
never  seriously  considered  by  any  one — not  even  the 
managers.  Many  a  man  has  been  played  for  a  sucker 
and  enjoyed  the  hallucination,  but  only  now  and  then 
has  one  been  found  who  would  consent  to  "go  snip- 
ing," and  be  glad  to  "hold  the  bag."  but  our  little 
man  with  the  big  barrel  is  one  of  that  very  few.  The 
young  man  reminds  one  of  the  party  that  went  down 
from  Jerusalem  to  Jericho,  only  that  he  is  still  where 
the  road-agents  left  him. 


UCHAS.  KLiLUS  &  CO  i§ 

&£XCL  USIVE& 

HIGH  GRADE  CLOTHIERS 

Suggestions  of  money  saving  are  not  the  incentives 
we  offer  to  purchase  clothes  here.  It's  the  creations 
we  show  that  emanate  from  premier  designers,  whose 
talents  with  shears,  needle  and  brain  are  of  the  high- 
est class.  Correct  dressers  say,  "Immediate  Service 
Clothes,"  for  theirs. 


June  35.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The   first    four      volumes 

History  of  North       "The      Hi 

America.  America,"   is     being     is 

undc.-  the  able  and  -li>cri  ni- 
Dating  editorship  of  I  >r.  of  Johns 

ui<i  Columbian  Universities,  and  i*  I 
died  by  the  firm  of  George  Barrie  &  Sons,  01 
Philadelphia.  As  far  as  the  editorship  is  concerned, 
Dr.  Lee's  responsibility  is  a  warranty  that  discri'  11- 
nating  judgment,  able  labor  and  fastidious  exactness 
will  be  assured  throughout  the  work.  In  this  de- 
partment, moreover.  1  >r.  Lee  has  shown  the  nicest 
care  in  the  association  witli  himself  of  a  number  of 
critical  and  advisory  editors,  including  many  of  the 
most  active  workers  in  the  domain  of  historical  lit- 
erature. Added  to  these  are  the  names  of  expert  td- 
visers  on  special  matters,  such  as  colonial,  military 
and  naval  affairs.  The  wide  reach  ot  knowledge  and 
the  judicious  and  critical  treatment  that  should  be 
a  first  condition  in  a  work  of  such  scope  and  import- 
ance as  a  history  of  North  America  on  modern  lines 
and  dealing  with  the  latest  events  of  our  day,  are  se- 
cured in  an  unusual  and  remarkable  degree.  The 
highest  technique  in  printing  and  illustration  is  es- 
sential to  the  worthy  production  of  a  work  like  the 
present,  something  more  than  making  a  book  is  in- 
volved in  the  enterprise.  To  the  priceless  value  of 
the  text  are  added,  therefore,  the  best  results  of  the 
printer's  craft  in  both  the  text  and  the  illustrations. 
We  have  many  able  American  historical  works — 
works  that  are  splendid  monuments  to  their  auchors 
and  are  regarded  as  proud  possessions  by  theit 
owners.  The  worst  that  can  be  said  of  such  is  that 
they  are  only  too  limited  in  number,  as  indeed,  they 
are  too  limited  in  the  scope  of  their  matter;  they 
are  what  they  are  claimed  to  be :  histories  of  a  pe- 
riod more  or  less  brief.  It  is  therefore  a  fact  of  great 
significance — we  might  say,  in  fact,  of  unique  imp  Gl- 
ance— that  the  literature  of  our  country,  which  has 
now  become  a  world  influence,  is  marking  a  new 
period  by  the  publication  of  this  monumental  history, 
which  is  of  more  than  literary  importance,  it  is  of 
national  interest.  The  twenty  volumes  to  be  printed 
will  cover  the  whole  history  of  the  United  States,  and 
the  other  members  of  the  North  American  continent, 
north  and  south,  and  not  merely  the  recorded  history 
of  this  section  as  told  in  the  story  of  the  groping 
voyages  of  the  Norsemen,  in  the  hardly  less  Jim 
searchings  of  the  early  explorers,  and  in  the  accounts 
of  the  successive  stages  of  the  development  of  the 
continent  and  the  phases  of  national  growth,  but  its 
story  as  interpreted  by  modern  science.  To  this  story 
comprehensively  told  in  complete  narrative,  with 
all  the  lights  and  shades  of  the  picture  in  due  propor- 
tion and  in  just  perspective,  is  added  the  latest  fea- 
ture of  American  history;  viz.,  the  insular  possessions 
of  the  United  States,  thus  rounding  out  the  great 
undertaking  and  giving  the  work  its  logical  amplifi- 
cation and  conclusion  and  placing  the  reader  in  pos- 
session of  an  erudite  and  skillfully  wrought  out 
record  of  the  story  of  the  section  and  the  nation. 

Gideon  Wurdy  has  made 

A  Foolish  Dictionary,  a  rather  original  and  in- 
teresting little  book  by 
preparing  a  series  of  humorous  definitions  of  some 
five  hundred  words.  He  says  very  modestly  in  his 
preface  that  he  will  be  satisfied  if  he  should  produce 
one  laugh  from  the  readers  of  the  dictionary.     He 


ded  much  better  than  that,  and  .1  good  deal 

of  wholesome  fun  ran  be  extracted  from  a  glance  at 

it^  pages.  It  is  well  suited  to  this  hot  weather,  for 
it  is  by  tin  means  hard  to  read.  It  is  ii"t  altogether 
Original,  for.  as  the  author,  who  is  ns  honest  as  he  is 
modest,  says;  "Some  Blight   deference  has  been  made 

her  wits,  and  tin-  definitions  include  a  few  quo^ 

tations  from  the  great  minds  of  the  past  and  present." 

A   few  unaccountable  ami  absolutely  unpardonable 

have  been  made.  Thus  we  find  "ante-im- 
perialist for  anti  imperialist,  though  the  definition  of 
this  article  as  a  patriot  whose  conscience  works  over- 
time." goes  far  to  condone  the  offense.  Appendicitis 
is  defined  as  a  modern  pain  costing  about  $200  more 
than  the  old-fashioned  stomach-ache."  Some  of  the 
definitions  are  too  far-fetched  for  endurance,  as  is  to 
he  expected  in  a  work  of  this  sort.  Thus.when  "au- 
tomobile" is  set  out  as  "From  English  ought  to,  and 
Latin  moved,  to  move.  A  vehicle  which  ought  to 
move,  but  frequently  can't."  Perhaps  one  of  the  best 
definitions  is  the  following:  "Family — Originally  a 
wife  and  several  children,  a  matter  of  pride  to  the 
possessor.  Now  obsolete  among  the  careful,  or  con- 
fined to  the  wife,  a  bull-pup  and  a  canary-bird." 

Published  by  the  Robinson,  Luce  Company,  Bos- 
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publication,  in  a  special,  limited  edition,  "Upland 
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in  California.  They  are  permeated,  however,  with  a 
philosophy  which  is  universal ;  their  readings  are 
from  the  broad  page  which  nature  spreads  open  for 
us  everywhere,  that  those  who  will  may  learn  its  mes- 
sage of  beauty  and  of  rejoicing.  The  essayist  says: 
"All  things  of  nature  are  for  man's  use  and  joy; 
but  perhaps  they  serve  their  highest  use  when  he  re- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


U/je     Political     Situation 


The  News  Letter  is  not  given  to  much  self-lauda- 
tion, yet  it  may  not  be  improper  for  me  to  remark 
that  the  first  announcement  of  the  probable  appoint- 
ment of  Congressman  Metcalf  to  a  place  in  the  Cabi- 
net was  made  in  these  columns,  as  the  dates  of  the 
papers  will  show.  The  Western  press,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  News'  Letter,  knew  nothing  of  the 
prospects  before  .Mr.  Metcalf  until  their  correspond- 
ents wired  the  news  from  Washington.  The  fact 
is  that  the  appointment  was  offered  the  Congressman 
before  he  left  Washington  to  come  to  this  Coast,  and 
he  had  accepted  it.  The  only  change  in  the  original 
programme  has  been  the  death  of  Senator  Quay,  fol- 
lowed by  the  selection  of  Attorney-General  Knox 
by  the  powers  that  be  in  Pennsylvania,  as  the  dead  . 
Senator's  successor.  That  left  two  vacancies  in  the 
Cabinet,  and  required  more  re-arranging.  Moody, 
who  is  a  lawyer,  would  much  prefer  Knox's  place 
to  the  one  he  has  at  the  head  of  the  navy,  and  that 
fact  created  the  possibility  that  Metcalf  might  suc- 
ceed Moody  instead  of  Cortelyou.  Of  course,  he 
would  greatly  prefer  the  place,  and  with  the  immense 
interests  this  State  and  Coast  has  in  naval  matters, 
a  Cabinet  officer  from  this  Coast  could  have  no  more 
congenial  place  than  Secretary  of  the  Navy.  It  is 
possible  that  that  arrangement  may  yet  be  made, 
though  at  this  writing  it  does  not  seem  likely,  at 
least  for  the  present.  After  the  election,  if  Roose- 
velt continues  as  President,  as  even  the  Democrats 
say  he  will,  the  entire  Cabinet  will  be  re-arranged. 
Wilson  will  stay  at  the  head  of  Agriculture,  and 
Hays,  if  he  will  consent  to  the  Portfolio  of  Foreign 
Affairs;  but  Hitchcock  will  probably  retire  from 
the  Interior.  Taft  will  remain  where  he  is,  and  will 
probably  be  the  party's  candidate  in  1908;  but  Payne 
goes  out  as  Postmaster  General,  and  Cortelyou  gets 
his  place;  and  in  the  re-arrangement,  Metcalf  may 
find   himself   much   better   placed   than   as   Secretary 

of  Commerce. 

*  *  * 

To  fill  Metcalf's  place  in  Congress,  the  candidates 
are  already  as  plentiful  as  blackberries  along  a 
Southern  road.  There  are,  for  instance,  the  three 
States  Senators  from  Alameda,  Knowland,  Lukens 
and  Leavett,  although  Leavett  is  not  in  it  to  hurt. 
Then  there  are  ex-Mayor  Davis,  who  is  the  pro- 
gramme candidate,  and  Thomas  Rickard,  the  latter 
of  Berkeley ;  and  Frank  Devlin  of  Solano,  and  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor Anderson,  also  of  the  same  county. 
Superintendent  Leach  of  the  Mint  says  he  does  not 
want  the  nomination,  and  Anderson  is  reported  to 
have  made  the  same  statement,  which  is  probably 
true,  as  he  wants  the  place  now  filled  by  the  Hon- 
orable George  C.  Pardee,  and  which  Mr.  Anderson 
is  now  filling  pro  tern.  Lukens  is  backed  by  the 
Pardee  influence,  he  having  always  been  the  Gov- 
ernor's representative  in  the  State  Senate.  Knowland 
is  said  to  have  the  support  of  Metcalf.  Leavett  just 
wants  the  place,  and  apparently  has  no  support  but 
his  own;  and  Rickards  is  making  his  own  fight  on 
the  assumption — a  violent  one.  I  admit,  in  Alameda 
County — that  any  American  citizen  has  a  right  to 
aspire  to  any  place  he  chooses  in  the  gift  of  the 
people,  regardless  of  what  the  "push"  wants. 
*  *  » 

To  understand  the  political  situation  in  Alameda 
it  must  first  be  clearly  understood  that  all  the  male 


population  want  office,  and  secondly  that  they  all 
want  the  place  held  by  Senator  Perkins,  and  he  wants 
to  hold  on  to  that.  Starting  out  with  that  premise, 
we  have  Pardee,  Senatorial  candidate  to  succeed 
Perkins;  Metcalf  ditto;  and  Lukens  and  Knowland 
willing  to  help  them  each  along.  Perkins  himself  is 
naturally  saying  nothing  except  offering  his  con- 
gratulations to  Metcalf,  and  watching  the  fight.  The 
warmer  it  gets  the  better  for  the  distinguished 
statesman,  and  his  principal  occupation  now  is  to 
encourage  all  sides  and  pit  one  against  the  other. 

*  *  * 

It  will  be  noticed  in  all  this  hubbub  the  other  two 
counties  in  the  district,  Contra  Costa  and  Solano,  are 
supposed  to  have  nothing  to  say  only  to  endorse 
what  Alameda  decides  to  do.  Senator  Belshaw  has 
concluded  to  keep  out  of  the  fight  and  to  urge  his 
claims  for  the  Senate,  although  Martinelli  of  San 
Rafael  thinks  he  can  defeat  him  for  the  latter  place, 
and  Senator  Perkins  is  credited  by  George  Hatton 
with  saying  that  Belshaw  should  be  elected  to  stay 

at    home. 

*  *  * 

In  Solano,  as  I  have  said,  Frank  Devlin,  who 
wanted  to  go  to  the  State  Senate  and  was  supposed 
to  have  Metcalf's  backing  for  the  place,  and  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor Anderson,  have  been  mentioned  for 
the  place.  Devlin  was  District  Attorney  of  his 
county,  is  young  and  bright,  and  would  make  in 
many  respects  the  best  Congressman  of  all  those 
mentioned,  but  he  does  not  live  on  the  right  side  of 
the  river.  Anderson  wants  to  be  Governor,  and 
when  he  gets  through  playing  Governor  for  the  next 
six  weeks,  until  Pardee  returns,  he  will  want  the 
place  all  the  more.  But  there  are  others  who  want 
to  be  Governor  besides  Anderson,  on  this  side  of  the 
Tehachapi,  and  beyond  question  there  are  a  dozen 
or  two  of  candidates  south  of  that  barrier.  On  this 
side  of  the  mountains  Charley  Curry,  at  present  Sec- 
retary of  State,  would  like  to  be  Governor,  and  there 
are  lots  of  people  who  would  like  to  see  him  change 
his  offices  at  the  State  Capitol.  Curry  would  have 
lots  of  support  from  this  city,  and  he  would  be  the 
first  Governor  for  years  who  knew  anything  about 
the  public  business  of  the  State  before  he  was  inau- 
gurated. The  result  is  that  he  would  make  a  very 
strong  candidate,  and  Anderson  would  have  a  time 
winning  out  against  him.  But  nevertheless,  Ander- 
son prefers  the  prospect  of  being  Governor  in  the  fu- 
ture to  the  likelihood  of  being  Congressman  to-day. 
He  has  told  several  of  his  friends  that  his  business 
arrangements  would  not  allow  him  to  run  for  Con- 
gress, even  if  he  could  get  the  nomination  without 
any  effort,  and  that  he  thinks  it  would  be  very  diffi- 
cult to  get  the  nomination  away  from  Alameda. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25.  1904. 

It  v  n  from  all  this  that  the 

fit; lit    which    r-  n    Mctca 

number   of   lesser   place- 
involved.     The   whole 

in  the  hattlc,  and  so  many  interests  arc 
I  up  that  it  is  not  easy  to  say  which  will  pre 
vail.  Lukcns  ami  Knowland  arc  both  personally 
clever  fellows,  though  no  great  luminaries,  but  then 
WC  have  not  sent  any  great  luminaries  from  this 
State  to  Congress  for  a  long  time,  and  we  must  not 
seek  to  astonish  •  >nr  Eastern  friends  so  Suddenly. 
Lukcns  is  the  best  lawyer,  has  the  more  money,  and 
while  he  is  too  stout  to  he  active,  would  no  doubl 
do  very  well  with  Metcalf's  help,  and  besides 
can  entertain,  which  even  for  a  Congressman  would 
be  a  good  thing.  Knowland  is  young,  has  a  boyish 
face,  and  would  be  a  better  department  man  in 
Washington  than  Lukcns,  and  after  all.  it  is  the 
department  work  that  counts.  The  fact  is.  honors 
are  easy  between  the  Alameda  candidates,  and  it  will 
not  make  much  difference  to  the  State  at  large  which 
•  me  is  elected,  if  he  must  come  from  that  county, 
and  presumably  there  is  no  help  for  it. 

*  *  * 

If  there  were  any  chance  of  Solano  getting  her 
candidate.  Devlin,  coming  from  Yallejo  and  the 
Navy  Yard  would  be  an  excellent  man  for  the  place. 
He  is  as  good  a  lawyer  as  Lukens.  and  as  young 
as  Knowland,  and  for  the  matter  of  that,  better 
looking  than  either  of  the  Alameda  men.  He  is 
active,  and  both  on  the  floor  and  in  the  departments 
would  be  the  best  man  in  the  race  for  the  place.  But 
in  politics  the  best  man  rarely  wins. 

*  *  * 

As  I  predicted  last  week,  McNab  won  out  with 
ease  at  the  Democratic  State  Committee  meeting 
last  Saturday,  and  he  is  now  in  control  of  the  whole 
works.  He  is  the  boss  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
California.  Tarpey  showed  what  a  poor  manager 
he  is.  He  first  had  Murphy,  who  has  been  as  putty 
in  his  hands,  and  the  Man  With  the  Big  Hat  was 
challenged  at  once  on  his  right  to  call  the  meeting 
and  to  preside  now  that  it  was  called.  Gould,  how- 
ever, knowing  that  McNab  had  the  votes  to  win, 
graciously  allowed  Murphy  to  proceed,  and  then  as 
politely  knocked  him-  out'  of  the  Chairmanship,  and 
poor  Al.-  McCabe  out  of  the  Secretaryship.  I  hope, 
however,  that  he  has  made  a  good  thing  out  of  the 
three  months'  work  he  has  put  in  running  the  Hearst 
headquarters  at  the  Grand,  although  I  see  by  the 
papers  that  a  man  who  had  a  similar  job  in  Wiscon- 
sin has  had  to  sue  the  Presidential  candidate  for  his 
salary,  and  has  garnisheed  the  collections  from  the 
sale  of  his  papers  in  Milwaukee,  so  Al.  must  be  care- 
ful. 

*  *  * 

Both  the  Democrats  and  the  Republicans  are  going 
to  meet  in  Santa  Cruz  in  August,  which  is  a  good 
thing  for  the  town,  but  it  should  try  to  give  them 
a  better  hall  than  it  offered  the  Democrats  in  May. 
Put  a  gallery  all  around  the  room,  paint  it,  and  get 
rid    of    its    terrible   barn-like    appearance. 

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June  25,  1904. 


FINANCIAL 


Again  we  hear  about  an  at- 
The  Ocean  Treasure     tempt  to  recover  the  treas- 
Myths.  ure  believed  to  be  still  ly- 

ing under  the  waters  of  the 
Bay  of  Vigo.  An  Italian  will  try  it  this  time,  and  in 
view  of  the  innumerable  failures  of  his  predecessors, 
the  most  novel  and  modern  contrivances  will  be  em- 
ployed for  exploring  the  bottom  of  the  bay  in  order 
to  locate  the  treasure  and  bring  it  to  the  surface 
when  it  is  found.  The  way  the  treasure  came  to 
be  deposited  in  this  peculiar  spot,  a  treasure  the  value 
of  which  is  estimated  by  each  succeeding  searcher 
at  enormous  figures,  is  as  follows:  On  October  12, 
1702,  a  number  of  Spanish  galleons  laden  with  bars 
of  silver  and  plate  from  the  West  Indies,  arrived  in 
Vigo  Bay,  convoyed  by  a  French  fleet.  Here  they' 
were  attacked  by  the  combined  English  and  Dutch 
fleets,  under  Sir  George  Rooke,  who  captured  several 
of  the  galleons  with  their  valuable  cargoes.  Seeing 
that  defeat  was  inevitable,  the  Spanish  Admiral  scut- 
tled many  of  the  galleons  to  prevent  the  treasure  fall- 
ing into  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  and  it  is  the  cargo 
of  the  sunken  vessels  which  it  is  now  proposed  to  re- 
cover. Many  thousands  of  pounds  have  already  been 
expended  in  this  quest,  and  not  only  at  Vigo,  but  in 
other  parts  of  the  North  Atlantic  where  the  Spanish 
galleons,  laden  with  spoils  of  war  and  the  booty  of 
buccaneers,  who  did  not  hesitate  to  rifle  the  most 
fanes,  where  the  altar  furniture  was  of  the  most 
costly  character.  Baltimore  has  a  galleon  of  its 
own  piled  away  in  some  unknown  quarter,  the  basis 
of  many  a  money  losing  enterprise  up  to  date.  Within 
the  past  five  years,  New  York  was  represented  by 
another  expedition  which  sailed  from  Hellgate  to 
find  one  of  the  lost  galleons  which  arc  as  fertile  in 
romance  for  a  community  on  the  seaboard  as  the 
vanishing  mines,  such  as  the  Pegleg,  Gunshot  and 
a  score  of  others  are  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  West- 
ern   mining    regions. 

"Gold  Bricks  of  Specula- 
Protection  for  Fools  lation"  ought  to  be  the 
and  their  Money.  by-word  of  the  specu- 
lator who  can  be  properly 
classified  as  a  tenderfoot  in  the  business,  one  who  is 
not  posted  on  the  methods  adopted  by  the  Sir  Mul- 
berry Hawkes  of  the  promoting  profession.  It  is 
the  work  of  a  prominent  member  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade,  John  Hill,  Jr.,  by  name.  Mr.  Hill 
has  put  everything  in  black  and  white,  so  that  those 
who  run  can  read,  and  it  is  put  so  clearly  and  dis- 
tinctly that  the  simplest  minded  individual  can  have 
no  excuse  in  the  future  for  allowing  himself  or  her- 
self to  be  robbed.  The  game  is  before  them,  the 
modus  operandi  and  the  way  it  is  bound  to  work  out 
when  the  trap  has  been  closed  on  the  unskilled,  the 
credulous  and  the  unwary.  Forewarned  is  to  be 
forearmed,  they  say,  and  these  chapters  on  gold 
bricks  must  certainly,  when  perused,  put  one  fully 
on  guard.  The  gamut  of  sure-thing  speculation  is 
run  its  entire  length  from  bucket  shop,  the  get-rich- 
quick  and  "investment  swindles,"  "pools,"  "syndi- 
cates," "combinations,"  "mutuals,"  and  "turf  swind- 
ling" of  all  kinds.  A  section  of  the  volume  is  devoted 
to  the  "tools  of  swindlers,"  such  as  "fake,"  "trade 
journals,"  the  "booklet,"  "fake"  mercantile  agencies, 
and  other  references;  "fake"  banks  and  how  refer- 
ences, financial  reports  are  sold,  and  the  "convenient" 
stock  exchange.  Samples  of  touting  letters  are  given 
which  will  remind  dealers  of  many  they  have  received 


themselves,  and  in  some  instances  have  cost  them 
money.  The  difficulty  of  getting  at  these  sneaking 
thieves  is  commented  upon,  and  the  inadequacy  of 
the  punishment  is  provided  for  cases  of  the  kind.  The 
author  is  to  be  commended  upon  his  work,  which 
should  do  much  in  itself  to  protect  people  who  have 
to  be  protected  against  themselves,  as  ready  victims 
of  every  brazen  scandal  they  come  up  against. 

The  disposition  of  the  pub- 
Scramble  for  Stock,  lie  in  this  city  is  clearly 
shown  in  connection  with 
the  recent  upheaval  in  the  Tonopah  shares.  When 
these  mines  were  first  discovered,  the  locaters  came 
down  to  this  city  and  tried  to  interest  local  capital. 
Like  every  one  else  who  ever  tried  to  get  a  San  Fran- 
cisco capitalist  to  back  up  a  legitimate  mining  propo- 
sition, they  soon  left  in  disgust.  Eastern  people 
were  appealed  to  in  turn,  and  promptly  saw  an  op- 
portunity which  they  turned  to  good  advantage. 
Having  secured  the  mines  and  opened  up  their  wealth 
of  ore,  they  came  back  to  San  Francisco  with  shares 
of  stock,  and  met  a  reauy  sale  not  only  for  shares  in 
the  properties  of  repute,  but  for  all  else  which  they 
may  offer,  good,  bad  and  indifferent.  There  are  mil- 
lions of  these  shares,  and  the  gambling  instinct  of 
the  local  investors  can  be  fully  satisfied  by  every  cor- 
poration in  line,  without  the  necessity  of  losing  a 
share  needed  to  insure  control  by  the  original  holders. 
It  will  be  the  same  thing  with  the  boards  of  direc- 
tors. Once  a  director  always  a  director,  for  no  human 
skill  nor  ingenuity  can  ever  succeed  in  acquiring  the 
quorum  necessary  to  effect  a  change  in  the  personnel. 
Lacking  the  nerve  to  take  the  material,  the  dollar 
chasers  of  this  city  are  now  rushing  around  wild- 
eyed  to  grasp  the  immaterial.  The  old  scenes  of  the 
rush  for  wild-cat  oil  shares  are  being  repeated  in  the 
Tonopah,  and  then  for  the  aftermath. 

A  prominent  broker  who  has 
A  Dull  Spell  been  connected  with  the  Stock 
in  Local  Stocks,  and  Bond  Exchange  since  the 
day  of  its  foundation,  told  the 
writer  the  other  day  that  business  was  quieter  with 
the  brokers  now  than  ever  before  in  its  history.  He 
could  assign  no  reason  for  the  peculiar  state  of  af- 
fairs, and  allowance  was  made  for  the  season  of  the 
year,  in  his  remark.  There  is  plenty  of  money  in 
town.  No  one  will  question  that  fact,  and  why  peo- 
ple will  keep  their  hoardings  locked  up  in  the  bank 
at  a  low  rate  of  interest  which  the  bankers  earn,  and 
his  profits  besides,  by  placing  surplus  funds  in  the 
very  channels  which  the  depositor  overlooks,  is  some- 
thing which  these  queer  individuals  can  best  answer 
for  themselves.  It's  all  the  stranger,  too,  the  more 
one  ponders  over  the  proposition.  Still,  from  all  ap- 
pearances the  public  has  given  local  securities  the 
cold  shake  for  months  past,  and  the  banks  have  pretty 
well  filled  up  in  the  lines  they  patronize.  Yet  the 
brokers  who  deal  in  Wall  street  securities  do  not 
complain  of  hard  times.  On  the  contrary,  they  claim 
to  be  coining  money,  all  of  which  would  argue  that 
San  Francisco  investors  have  dropped  local  stocks 
for  those  of  New  York  and  the  East.  It  is  the  old 
story,  possibly  beading  upon  home  goods,  of  a 
prophet  without  honor  in  his  own  country.  There 
is  so  much  talk  nowadays  about  patronizing  home  in- 
dustry that  it  seems  strange  some  of  the  seed  sown 
so  liberally  by  the  apostles  of  this  cult  does  not  bear 
some  fruit. 


June  25.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

The   market    on    I'inc   street 


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Dull  Times  on     been    ttv.rc    dead    than    alive  f  )/m       <.<& 

Pine  Street.  ^^M-r^J*1'        »  -V 

credited  in  certain  quart  M~\  \&]  '  l  /      \  .'■<■' 

rument  being  that  •  f  # J&j/fj/flfjr/i/is 

er  yet  saw  >ck  mark  in  mid-summer.  This  ^"^      \JZs ^-tsw  •v*-*/  «v»^ 


'.i|<iil  argumeni  illy  if  a  ma 

pposed  to  be  predicated  upon  ore  dis 
This  is  tantamount  to  asserting  that  the  discover* 
of  an  ore  bod)    i>  limited  to  certain    •  [  the 

year.     Judging   from   the   way   thil  going   now 

on  tli-  ire  'Iocs  not  count  much  as  a  factoi    n 

the    business.      1  >pliir.    for    instance,   with    the    finest 

t-ct  shown  up  on  the  lode  for  years,  shows  a  lack 
of  backbone  instead  of  holding  firm  ami  buoyant, 
with  prices  looking  upward  instead  of  taking  the  back 
trail  on   the   slightest   excuse.      <  Ircat   hope-   are   ex- 

d  for  a  revival  of  business  in  the  near  future. 
This  can  be  expected  when  the  miners  rule  the  mar- 
ket with  [lower  enough  to  lift  it  out  of  the  hands  of 
a  bear  clique,  which  seems  at  present  to  be  able  to 
offset  effects  even  of  ore  production.  There  is  some 
thing  rotten  in  Denmark  when  such  an  anomalous 
condition  of  affairs  can  prevail. 

The  annual  report  of  the  Department  of  the  In- 
terior of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  for  1903  gives  the 
following  concerning  the  production  of  gold  in  the 
Yukon  territory:  The  gold  production  for  the  year 
ended  June  30,  1903,  amounted  to  $12,113,015.34.  as 
compared  with  $9,566,340.52  in  the  previous  year. 
The  value  of  gold  produced  there  last  year  was 
greater  than  in  any  other  year,  the  next  best  having 
been  in  1899-1900,  when  the  production  amounted  to 
$9,809,464.64. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


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The  vagaries  of  suicides  form  a  dismal  subject  ol 
comment,  but  those  of  our  local  aspirants  for  an- 
other world  show  the  most  pronouncedly  queer 
ways  of  getting  there.  Take  the  case  of  the  San 
Jose  girl,  for  example,  who  has  vainly  tried  to  com- 
mit suicide  three  times  in  three  weeks,  and  sought 
a  church  as  the  place  finally  where  she  could  most 
easily  carry  out  her  purposes.  She  was  frustrated 
again  by  a  frightened  druggist,  who  rushed  into  the 
church  and  took  the  arsenic  which  she  had  procured 
from  him,  out  of  her  coat  sleeve.  One  of  two  things 
is  obvious,  either  the  girl  is  a  pretender  who  does 
not  intend  to  commit  suicide  at  all,  and  should  be 
arrested  for  a  breach  of  the  peace,  since  she  chooses 
to  cause  such  trouble,  or  she  is  insane,  in  which  case 
she  ought  to  be  provided  with  such  accommodation- 
as  is  suitable  for  insane  persons.  It  is  a  disgrace  to 
any  city  to  have  a  person  at  large  who  has  attempted 
suicide  three  times  in  three  weeks. 

The  fact  that  times  have  been  exceptionally  good 
accounts  for  the  infrequency  of  occurrences  like  the 
following:  Alexander  Finn,  a  discharged  soldier, 
made  an  attack  upon  a  certain  Mrs.  Whitney  in 
Oakland  and  stole  her  purse.  Finn  was  found  to  be 
without  money,  with  the  exception  of  two  copper 
cents,  and  was  unquestionably  hungry  at  the  time 
when  he  committed  the  crime.  He  must  be  a  fairly 
steady  man,  for  he  had  evidence  upon  his  person 
tending  to  show  that  he  had  been  a  roundsman  in 
the  federal  Police  at  Manila.  That  the  majority  of 
the  "returned  empties"  from  the  Philippines  have 
been  able  to  find  work  as  soon  after  landing  here 
speaks  volumes  for  the  prosperity  we  have  enjoyed. 
Let  the  backset  in  trade  come,  and  crimes  like  this 
will  be  as  plentiful  as  blackberries,  and  we  shall  see 
some  of  the  fruits  of  imperial  expansion  in  an  unduly 
swollen   list  of  crimes  of  violence. 

The  qualifications  for  the  successful  Rhodes 
scholar  are  manifold.  They  are  literary  and  scholas- 
tic attainments,  success  in  sports,  qualities  of  man- 
hood, in  relation  to  truth,  courage,  devotion  to  duty, 
and  moral  force.  The  scholarship  is  worth  fifteen 
hundred  dollars  a  year,  and  seven  Californians  are 
eligible.  One  cannot  help  smiling  at  the  innocence 
of  the  English  committee  which  drew  up  such  a 
broad  and  elastic  set  of  requirements.  Fancy  treat- 
ing a  California  politician  with  an  appointment  the 
strings  on  which  were  so  loose  as  these  are.  They 
say,  moreover,  that  the  President  of  the  University 
who  has  the  privilege  of  making  the  selection,  could 
give  cards  and  spades  to  most  politicians  round  the 
bay.  There  is  going  to  be  a  pretty  good  chance  for 
"pull"  in  this  matter. 

Let  the  Prohibitionists  read  of  the  efforts  of  the 
convicts  at  San  Quentin  to  obtain  the  drug  which 
is  infinitely  more  harmful  than  liquor,  and  under- 
stand the  impossibility  of  destroying  the  human 
craving  for  stimulants  and  narcotics.  The  sale  of 
opium  goes  on  admittedly,  for  the  authorities  con- 
fess their  helplessness  to  destroy  it  entirely.  In  ad- 
dition, the  convicts  have  managed  to  plant  the 
Mexican  drug  called  "mariguana,"  which  is  even 
more  dangerous  and  deadly  than  opium,  and  to 
smoke  it  after  they  have  harvested  it.  Why  should 
such  things  take  place  at  San  Quentin?  There  is 
no  other  jail  in  the  civilized  world  where  the  con- 
victs have  the  opportunity  of  gratifying  their  evil 
propensities  as  they   have   there. 


Judge  Dunne  has  grown  tired  of  Chinese  cases, 
and  wants  no  more  of  them  brought  to  him,  because 
of  the  amount  of  perjurv  involved  in  them.  This  is 
a  curious  reason  for  not  wishing  to  do  one's  duty.  It 
would  seem  that  the  Judge's  course  should  be  ob- 
vious, and  that  he  should  get  rid  of  perjury  by  pun- 
ishing the  perjurer.  To  throw  down  the  bat  and  de- 
clare you  won't  play  because  the  pitching  is  twisty 
is  not  "good  ball."  But  how  comes  it  that  a  judge 
who  is  accustomed  to  perjury  in  white  cases  should 
only  shy  when  the  Chinese  are  in  question?  Can  the 
fact  that  the  Chinese  have  no  vote,  have  anything  to 
do  with  the  question?  I  should  sincerely  hope  not, 
but  the  matter  has  a  nasty  look,  and  would  seem 
to  involve  either  laziness  or  fear  on  the  part  of  his 
Honor. 

A  local  Japanese  says  rather  significantly  that  his 
countrymen  have  more  reason  to  be  afraid  of  the 
white  peril  than  we  have  ot  the  yellow.  There  is 
something  to  be  said  for  this  argument,  and  it  must 
be  admitted  that  his  wily  countrymen  are  taking 
every  precaution.  They  seem  to' know  us  so  much 
better  than  we  know  ourselves.  We  have  not  had, 
for  instance,  any  contracts  for  the  supplying  of  beef 
to  the  Japanese  forces.  Here  is  another  example 
of  that  marvelous  Japanese  sagacity  concerning 
which  everybody  is  so  eloquent  just  now.  A  photo- 
graph of  General  Shatter,  however,  which  is  widely 
circulated  by  an  American  supply  firm,  is  expected 
to  do  much  toward  turning  the  attention  of  the  Jap- 
anese  to   our  commissariat   department. 

It  is  a  pity  to  see  a  worthy  fiddler  so  degraded 
as  the  Mayor  has  degraded  himself  by  his  recent 
message.  The  thing  is  so  pretentious  as  to  be 
really  ludicrous.  We  do  not  expect  good  English 
from  the  leader  of  orchestras,  but  we  do  expect  an 
intelligible  document  from  the  hands  of  a  City  Ex- 
ecutive who  undertakes  to  turn  out  eight  thousand 
words  of  criticism  and  advice.  There  is  one  good 
thing  about  the  matter.  Nothing  so  reveals  the  per- 
sonality of  a  man  as  his  written  word,  and  judged  by 
this  document,  Mayor  Schmitz  is  a  somewhat  com- 
monplace person,  with  a  very  vulgar  style  of  writ- 
ing, which  only  tends  to  increase  the  natural  vul- 
garity of  his  ideas. 

Judge  Gilbert,  of  the  United  States  Federal  Bench, 
has  wisely  decided  to  go  to  Portland  before  he  hands 
down  a  decision  in  the  Oakland  water  rate  case. 
Whichever  way  he  may  decide,  he  will  be. better  out 
of  reach  for  a  little  while,  as  there  is  nothing  which 
stirs  up  the  pious  Oaklandcr  like  that  water  ques- 
tion. They  are  always  being  sold  out,  to  hear  them 
talk.  Every  decision  so  far  has  been  denounced  not 
only  from  the  editor's  chair  but  even  from  the  pul- 
pit,' and  Tudge  Gilbert  will  be  a  very  exceptional 
person  if "  he  is  able  to  satisfy  them.  Anyway,  he 
has  gone  to  Portland,  and  I  should  recommend  him 
to  lose  the  papers  in  some  of  the  waste  places  of 
Oregon. 

There  is  one  way  by  which  a  wife  can  get  support 
even  more  effectively  than  113  means  of  the  divorce 
court.  Let  her  go  rind  live  with  her  mother.  Mrs. 
Daywalt,  wife  of  a  contract  army  surgeon  at  Manila, 
did  this.  The  doctor  did  not  pay  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  wife,  and  her  mother  did,  until  she  grew  tired. 
when  she  sued  the  doctor  lor  the  money  expended. 
got  judgment  and  attached  some  of  his  land.  Here 
it  is  appropriate  to  score  one  ior  mother-in-law. 


June  35.  1904. 


TWO  UNUSUAL  POEMS. 
Two  poems  00  the  death  ■  I  little  children 
K  the  fcelinps  of  tlir  father,  an.l  thr 
i   childless    friend— have   recently   taken   a 
hold  upon  the  heart*  ,<i  m.inv  men  and  women 
in  all  parts  of  the  Imund 

Vance  Cooke,  appeared  in  "The  Booklovers'  Maga- 
zine."    The   other   is   not   a   new   poem,   but   has  re- 
cently pained  a  wider  audience  by  having  beet 
nalized  as  James  Whitcomb  Riley's  favorite —a 
ment  which  further  endears  the  poet  to  hi-  old  a 
crs. — Current    Literature. 

THE  LITTLE  LONELY  LIFE  OF  HIM. 
Edmund  Vance  Cooke. 
The  little  lonely   life  of  him!     He  dwelt 
Cored  in  our  hearts,  yet  only  partly  felt 
The  love  which  folded  him.     How  could  we  pour 
The  rapturous  lore 

Of  love  with  which  we  bubbled  to  the  brim, 
So  it  mifrht  also  flood  the  heart  of  him? 
Our  syllables  and  their  strange  ways 
Came  in  half-foreign  phrase 

To  little,  unaccustomed  ears,  while  his  wee  words 
Fluttered  like  baby  birds, 
Untaught  of  flight. 
Could  he  know,  quite, 

The  meaning  of  the  cuddling  care?  And  did  we  reach 
Without  the  definite  harmonies  of  speech 
The  surest,  sweetest  tone 
To  chord  his  little  being  with  our  own  ? 

The  little  lonely  death  of  him!    True,  at  the  best 

All  men  must  sup  alone  with  the  last  guest. 

The  sweet  and  sun-lit   living  room 

Is  ever  built  beside  the  quiet  tomb. 

Between  them  is  a  passage,  not  so  wide 

That  ever  two  may  tread  it  side  bv  side. 

Hard,  hard!  yet,  groping  down  the  narrow  hall, 

The  journeying  one  may  hear  our  saddened  call. 

Our  cheering,  sympathizing  cries, 

Or  the  shared  sorrow  of  the  last  good-bys. 

But  he,  the  little,  wee  one,  could  he  know 

Our  hearts  were  cloven  with  the  woe? 

The  love  which  gilds  the  dark  distress, 

The  blossom  in  the  wilderness, 

The  one  sweet  in  the  bitterness, 

The  human  murmur  of  the  moan, 

The  music  in  the  dirge  men  call  a  groan, 

He  could  not  know.    Alone !  alone ! 

And  is  he  lonely  still?    The  dazed  mind  gropes 
Amid  a  labyrinth  of  doubts  and  hopes. 
Life  is  for  living.     Should  the  lamp  be  torched 
To  break  it  ere  the  wick  be  scarcely  scorched? 
Lonely?    Ah,  only  half  I  hope  that  he  is  not, 
Fearing  that  we  who  loved  and  love  him  are  forgot. 
Selfish,  I  own,  but  love's  delicious  wine 
Breathes  ever  forth  the  sweet  bouquet  of  "Mine !" 
Lonely?     How  were  he  else?     Does  not  the  baby 

flower 
Droop  in  its  tender  hour, 

Transplanted  ?    Thrives  it  in  the  stranger-earth 
As  in  the  native  soil  which  gave  it  birth? 
Lonely?    But  in  the  sea  of  loneliness, 
The  great  sea  where  the  tide  of  death's  distress 
Rises  and  ebbs  and  rises  till  the  press 
Floods  our  own  nostrils  with  its  bitterness — 
In  that  sea  is  a  Beacon,  and  its  flame 
Kindles  the  heart  of  man  to-day  the  same 
As  in  the  uncounted  centuries  which  are  fled— 
Faith  of  reunion  with  the  loved  and  dead. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  13 

BEREAVED. 
James  Whitcomb  Riley's  Favorite  Poem. 
Let  mc  come  in  where  you  sit  weeping — aye, 


Let  me.  who  have  not  any  child  to  die, 
Weep  with  you   for  the  little  one  whose  love 
I  have  know;-  nothing  of. 

The  little  arms  that   slowly,  slowly  loo 
Their  pressure  round  your  neck — the  hands  you  used 
To   kiss — such    arms — such    hands   I   never   knew. 
May  I  not  weep  with  you? 

Fain   would   I   be  of  service — say  something 
Between  the  tears,  that  would  be  comfortiug. 
But   oh! — so  sadder  than  yourself  am   I, 
Who  have  no  child  to  die! 


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make  the  Association  what  it  is.  the  largest  co-opera- 
tive bank  in  the  world,  to  meet  the  employees  of  the 
institution  at  a  dinner  at  the  St.  Francis  Hotel  on 
Monday,  the  4th  of  July.  The  day  is  fitting,  and  the 
ceremony  is  heralded  to  the  invited  on  a  beautiful, 
engraved  cardboard.  This  is  ornamented  by  a  steel 
engraving,  and  it  is  one  of  the  most  ornate  of  the  in- 
vitations issued  this  year.  It  is  signed  by  William 
Corbin.  We  bespeak  a  large  attendance,  and  here's 
good  luck  and  continued  prosperity  to  the  efficient 
management  and  the  corporation. 

Do  You  Wear  Glasses? 

Properly  fitting  Glasses  and  Murine  Eye  Remedy  promote  Eye 
Comfort.  Murine  makes  weak  eyes  strong.  Soothes,  doesn't 
smart 


Original  designs  In  menu  and  tally  cards.     Charlotte  F.  Wil- 
liams, room  18,  121  Post  street. 


PFISTER'S 

Pure  Linen  Un- 
derwear 

possesses  all  the  hygie- 
nic qualities  claimed  by 
other  LINEN  UNDERWEAR 
and  is  also  form  fitting, 
dressy  and  comfortable- 
Made  for  both 
MEN  and  WOMEN 


A  Bathing  Suit 

TO  BE  UP-TO-DATE  HAS 

QUALITY,  COMFORT,  STYLE 

The  Pflster  line  possesses  these 
qualifications,  is  the  most  com- 
plete on  the  Coast,  and  is  made 
for  all  classes,  at  all  prices. 

Bathing  Caps, 

Sandals,  Bath  Robes, 

Water  Wings 

GET  YOUR 

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OF  US 


KNITJTINGCO. 

60    GEARY    STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 
Open  Saturdays  untill  10  p.  m. 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  June  30,  1904,  at  the  rate 
of  three  and  one-quarter  {&%)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits,  free 
of  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after  July  1. 1904. 

CYRUS  W.  CAEMANY.  Cashier. 

101  Montgomery  st.,  cor.  Sutter. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


Summer    Resorts 


fi.     SODA    SAy     5 


At  the  Base  of  Vncle  Sam  Mountain,  4100  ft.  High. 

ON  THE  SHORE  OF   BEAUTIFUL   CLEAR   LAKE 

Lee  D.  Crexlg,  Manager. 

THE  GREAT    SODA    SPRING  tho  most  exhilarating   bath  on  earth. 

forcing  its  ereat  volume  of  HiKhly  Carbonated  Soda  Water  up- 
ward through  the  bottom  of  Clear  Lake,  is  the  greatest  natural 
wonder  of  the  world-  Table  as  good  an  can  be  found  anywhere- 
Take  Tiburon  Veny  at  7:30  a  m..  arriving  at  Hopland  at  11:28a- 
m.  Thence  by  Clear  Lake  and  Hopland  Stage  Line  direct  to  Soda 
Bay.  Round  trip  fare.  good  for  six  months.  $10.00.  Apply  for  in- 
formation and  accommodations  to  Chatfleld  &  Vinzent.  Real  Es- 
tate, 228  Montgomery  St..  S.  F  .  or 

LEE  D.  CRAIG.  Kelseyville  P-  0.,  Lake  County. 


"NEW"    SANTA    CRUZ 


Continuous  entertainment  day  and  night. 

JUNE,  JULY.  AUGUST  and  SEPTEMBER. 

Something  doing  ail  the  time- 

New  mammoth  casino  and  bathing  pavilion;  the  finest  in  the 

West. 
New  tent  city  on  the  beach. 
New  500-foot  pleasure  pier. 
Daily  military  baml  concerts. 
Dances  every  evening. 
Brilliant  electrical  illuminations. 
New  and  novel  water  sports,  boating  and  fishing. 
Safest  and  best  surf  bathing  on  the  Coast;  no  undertow- 
Finest  climate ;  grandest  drives ;  largest  trees- 
Most  amusements  of  any  resort  on  the  Coast. 
Special  excursion  tickets  at  reduced  rates  from   all  points  by 

S.  P.  Co.  to 


NEW"     SANTA    CRUZ 


The  GEYSERS 


The  most  famous  health  and  pleasure  re- 
sort in  California.  The  climate  and  scen- 
ery are  unsurpassed  and  the  waters  are 
acknowledged  the  best  on  the  market. 
Natural  mineral,  steam  and  Hammam  baths.  Swimming  lake  of  tepid 
mineral  water.  Boatinn.  hunting,  fishing,  dancing,  shuffle-board, 
billiards  and  croquet.  The  hotel  and  cottages  have  been  renovated 
throughout,  and  new  cottages,  and  a  fine  pavilion  built  this  year. 
There  will  be  a  fuliv  equipped  dairy  and  livery  stable  in  connection 
with  the  hotel.  The  hotel,  cottages,  bath  houses  and  grounds  nre 
lighted  by  electricity.  The  hotel  will  be  supplied  with  the  best  the 
market  affords.  Rates,  810,  $12.  $14.  sic,  per  week.  For  further  particu- 
lars and  booklet,  write  R-  H.  Curry,  Prop.  The  Geysers.  Sonoma  Co., Cal- 


HIGHLAND  SPRINGS 

The  best  of  mineral  waters,  accommodations  and  service.  Table 
unsurpassed.  Electrio  lights,  orchestra,  swimming,  fishing  and 
all  the  popular  sports  and  amusements.  Delightful  excursions 
on  Clear  Lake  and  to  other  resorts.  Terms  reasonable.  For 
booklet,  etc..  address.  CRAIG  &  KERR.  Highland  Springs.  "Cal. 


Vichy  Springs 


3   miles  from  Ukiah.    Mendocino    County- 
Natural  electric  waters,  champagne  baths. 
Only  place  in  the  world  of  this  class.     Fish- 
ing, hunting.    Crystal  Springe-    Accommodations ;  table  first  elass.    J. 
A.  Redemeyer  &  Co.,  Props. 


PARK  HOUSE  and    COTTAGES 

BEN  LOMOND,  CAL. 

New    management.      An    ideal    resort,    unsurpassed    climate 
drives,  fishing  and  hunting. 
Two  hours  ride  to   Big  Basin.     Modern  prices. 

J.    D.    CELLA,     Prop. 


DUNCAN     SPRINGS 

OPEN  May  15.  Two  miles  from  Hopland.  Fine 
medicinal  waters.  Hard  finished  hotel.  Excellent 
table.  Rates  $10  to  $12  per  week. 


Spend  Your  Vacation 

A  great  many  San  Francisco  people  are  planning  to  spend 
the  entire  summer  at  Hotel  Del  Monte.  No  o'.her  resort  In 
California  offers  such  a  combination  of  attractions,  sea-bathirg, 
golf,  automobiling,  tennis,  fishing  and  all  out  of  door  sports. 
Instead  of  going  from  place  to  place  seeking  comforts,  the  wise 
ones  of  society  are  planning  already  to  put  in  several  enjoyable 
weeks  down  at  Del  Monte  by  the  Sea.    Address 

Geo.  P.  Snell,  Manager,  Del  Monte,  California. 

At  Hotel  Del  Monte 


Excellent 

Roads 

Beautiful 

Drives 

Bathing 

Pavilion 
Bowling 

Alleys 

Tennis 

Courts 

Croquet  Etc 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN   JOSE,   CAL. 

Situated  in  Vendome  Park  of  12 
1-2  acres  and  while  secluded.yet 
convenient  to  all  avenues  and 
stations,  a  chaiming  resort  for 
summer.  Automobile  Garage  on 
the  grounds  free  to  guests. 

Prof.  Geo.    D'Ablaing's  Orches- 
tra engaged  for  summer. 

J.    T.    BROOKS.    Prop. 


Paraiso    SPr*n£s 

MONTEREY  CO.,  CAL. 

The  most  popular  sanitary  and  health  resort 
in  California.  Completely  renovated  and  im- 
proved. No  winds  or  fogs,  and  surpassingly 
grand  mountain  and  valley  scenery.  Hot  soda 
and  sulphur  baths,  large  swimming  tank  and  ex- 
cellent table.  Write  for  booklet  and  particulars 
to  F.  W.  SCHROEDER,  Manager. 


BLUE  LAKES 

Boating,   Bathing  and  Fishing,  Music,  Mineral  Spring. 
Send  for  Pamphlet.O.Weisman,  Midlake  P.0.,Lake  Co.,orcall 

on  A.  K.  Happersberg'er,  1104  MarKet  St.,  S.  F. 


BLITHEDALE 


MILL    VALLEY 


OPEN  MAY  FIRST 


Ocean  Villa  Hotel  and  Cottages 

On  the  cliffs  at  the  mouth  of  the  river.  Large,  magnlfU'  nily 
wooded  grounds,  prolusion  of  flowers,  croquet,  billiards, 
dancing  pavilion,  boating  and  bathing.  Row  boats  tree  to 
guests.     For   particulars   address 

P.   V.   BERKA.   Santa   Cruz,    Phone   Black  256.    Free  bus. 


June  25.   1904. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IfeM-AW--"  S  .SOCIETY  &M! 


3 


Dear   Bessie:   T!  :,t    Susie 

tne,  that  but  one  or  two  placi 
had   tin-  attract   the  beau  mondc  ol 

Fnuii  where  they  saw  fit  to  assemble.     Now 

there  are  so  many  of  them,  and  so  widely 

all  over  the  State,  that  none  of  them     arc     unduly 
crowded,  and  no  matter  where  01  me  is  sure 

to  meet  some  of  their  acquaintances.  This  yeai 
everybody  who  intended  spending  the  entii 
out  of  town  put  away  early  this  month,  and  so  it  has 
been  what  Jennie  calls  "deadly  dull"  in  town:  that  is. 
there  has  been  little  of  moment  taking  place,  and 
only  small,  informal  affairs  have  been  attempted. 
As.  for  instance.  Helen  Wagner's  COSy  little  tea  last 
Friday:  the  tea  which  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  gai 
Sunday  as  a  welcome  home  to  Mrs.  Loughborough, 
and  "Jo."  Julia  Buckbee  had  the  card  club  meet  at 
her  house  last  week,  and  another  card  hostess  of  last 
week  was  Miss  Thelan  at  her  home  on  Valencia 
street,  where  she  gave  a  bridge  party  for  Marie  Voor- 
hies  and  Laura  McKinstry.  Then  Francis  Howard 
had  a  luncheon  and  theatre  party  on  Saturday — the 
St.  Francis  and  the  Columbia  the  respective  locales; 
but  the  pleasantest  of  all  was  the  tea  Mrs.  Patten 
Save  at  Alcatraz  for  her  mother,  Mrs.  Anderson, 
the  McDowell  taking  her  guests  there  and  home 
again.  The  artillery  officers  at  the  Presidio  give  a 
hop  next  Tuesday  night. 

But  wdiat  of  the  weddings?  I  think  I  hear  you  ask. 
Yes.  there  were  an  unusual  number  of  them  named 
to  come  off  this  summer,  and  they  have  been  spread 
over  the  three  months  of  June,  July  and  August,  so 
as  to  give  each  of  them  a  share.  Among  the  Julv 
weddings  are  to  be  those  of  Anna  Sperry,  Florence 
Bailey,  Edith  Shorb  and  Miss  O'Sullivan,  while  in 
August  the  happy  couples  will  include  Grace  Martin 
and  William  Home ;  Edith  Findley  and  George 
Gardiner;  Stella  McCalla  and  William  Chapin  ;  Char- 
lotte Russell  and  Clement  Tobin,  Miss  Patten  ami 
Dr.  Eastman,  of  the  army. 

It  is  so  seldom  that  the  Ritualistic  little  church  of 
St.  Mary's  the  Virgin  is  the  locale  of  a  wedding,  T 
must  tell  you  of  a  very  pretty  one  I  attended  there 
last  week.  Miss  Margaret  Bell  Smith  was  the  bride 
and  Edwin  J.  Thomas  of  Alameda  the  groom,  and  the 
Rev.  Mardon  Wilson  the  officiating  clergyman.  The 
church  was  very  effectively  dressed  with  marguerites 
and  sweet  peas,  and  the  wedding  party  consisted  of 
Irene  Thomas  as  maid  of  honor,  with  four  attendant 
bridesmaids  and  four  ushers,  and  after  the  church 
ceremony  there  was  a  reception  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  father,  Mr.  Clarence  Smith,  on  Vallejo  street. 

Fanny  writes  home  from  St.  Louis  that  she  ran 
across  the  Bents  in  one  of  the  exhibition  buildings, 
and  that  Ethel  was  looking  well  and  seemed  quite 
infatuated  with  Captain  Bent's  new  station,  which 
is  somewhere  near  Little  Rock,  where  she  says  the 
people  are  very  hospitably  inclined.  Louise  Breeze 
is  back  again  from  her  visit  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Ben- 
son, who  returned  with  her  and  will  spend  some  time 
in  San  Francisco,  it  being  her  first  visit  here  in  years; 
Ethel  Lincoln  came  back  with  them,  and  all  three 
enjoyed  the  big  show  at  St.  Louis  while  absent.  Ethel 
Keeney  Tomlinson  will  be  here  next  month,  and 
will,  I  hear,  stay  several  weeks  this  time.  Tom 
comes,  too,  so  perhaps  that  is  the  reason  why.    We 


•No  t.»  have  quite  a  prolonged  \i--it  from  the 
I'it/allan  Longs  this  year.  Mrs.  Long  arrived  on 
Wednesday,  the  General  to  follow,  and  they  arc  to 

remain  with  the  Requas  at  Piedmont  until' the  au- 
tumn: and  another  what  you   mighl   call  an   absentee 

is  coming  on  an  official  visit  1  mean  Captain  Syd- 
ney l  Ionian,  who  used  to  be  such  a  favorite  lure  v  ars 

ago.     He  is  a  member  of  the  general  Staff  and  1 
now    on    special   duty. 

You  ought  to  see  how  improved  the  old  Crocker 

grounds  are  -ince  the  unsightly  fence  was  pulled 
down  :  they  will  be  in  tine  order  by  the  lime  the  Will 
(rockers  pet  home,  for  we  are  to  have  them  hack 
From  Europe  before  many  moons,  SO  there  will  soon 
he   one   less   rlosed    Up    house  on    Nob    Hill. 

But  who  do  you  think  got  hack  this  week?  Dear 
old  Mrs.  Selby,  who  has  been  away  for  several  years' 
and  every  one  is  so  glad  to  see  her  once  more.  AprO- 

I  absentees  in  Europe,  I  hear  Lily  Spreckels  is 

going  with  her  mother  to  take  in  the  sights  of  Paris 

and  all  its  delights,  anil  will  then.  T  believe,  do  Rome, 
and  we  are  not  to  see  them  back  for  some  months. 
The  Will  Tevises  have  gone  on  a  passear  to  Europe, 
and  will  be  away  until  the  late  autumn:  Mrs.  Will  is 
going  to  try  wdiat  Carlsbad  will  do  for  her.  The 
\Y.  J.  Irwins  returned  from  their  trip  Fast  just  in  time 
to  sail  for  Honolulu  last  week,  wdicre  they  will  spend 
the  rest  of  the  summer.  You  know  they  have  two 
lovely  homes  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  one  in  Hono- 
lulu and  the  other  on  one  of  the  other  islands,  and  as 
they  usually  do  a  good  deal  of  entertaining  during 
their  visits  their  coming  is  always  quite  an  event  in 
the  sleepy  erstwhile  kingdom. 

The  George  Newhalls  have  gone  to  Burlingame  for 
July  and  August,  and  I  hear  their  newly  done-up 
home  on  Pacific  Avenue  will  be  something  worth 
seeing  by  the  time  it  is  ready  to  receive  them  within 
its  doors;  the  W.  F.  Herrins  are  at  Shasta  Springs, 
but  will  be  back  in  town  by  the  first  of  July;  Delia 
Mills  has  returned  from  her  visit  to  Portland;  the 
H.  C.  Breedons  are  at  Del  Monte  at  present,  going 
later  to  San  Rafael.  The  Sam  Wilsons  are  back 
from  Mill  Valley,  where  they  have  been  since  the 
early  spring;  Bessie  Younger  McDonald  is  camping 
at  Blythedale,  and  will  not  go  East  for  the  present. 
Jessie  Wright  is  visiting  Beth  and  Ruth  Allen  at 
Menlo  Park;  Laura  Prather  has  gone  to  see  the  Fair 
at  St.  Louis.  Ruth  Kirkpatrick  will  spend  luly  at 
Tahoe;  the  Henry  Duttons  and  Sam  Buckbee's  made 
a  week's  end  trip  with  their  autos  to  Byron  Springs 
last   Saturday. 


TUXEDO 

Formerly  Arcadia 
Santa  Cruz  Mountains 

Delightfully  located 
half  a  mile  from  and 
run  in  conjunction 
with  Big  Trees.  New 
hotel  newly  furnished 
Extensively  improved 
since  last  season. 
Electric  lighted.  Hot 
and  cold  water.  Por- 
celain tubs.  Buy  tic- 
kets to  Tuxedo,  nar- 
row gauge,  foot  of 
Market  street- 
Bathing,  Fishing,  Hunting,  Tennis,  Etc. 

Address,  Thomas  L.  Bell,  Felton,  P.  O. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


Mrs.  A.  J.  Moulder  has  been  making  a  change 
from  Pacific  Avenue  to  Clay  and  Gough  streets,  and 
when  she  moves,  the  J.  H.  Covodes  are  to  be  a  part 
nf  her  household,  I  hear. 

There  is  always  some  change  going  on  at  the  Pre- 
sidio, and  the  Tenth  Infantry  is  the  latest  to  make 
a  move.  They  have  wanted  to  go,  I  believe,  almost 
ever  since  they  have  been  here,  but  'tis  said  that  now 
the  orders  have  actually  come  which  sends  them  to 
Fort  Lawton  and  Fort  Wright  in  Washington,  they 
are  sorry  to  leave  San  Francisco.  Part  of  the  regi- 
ment goes  next  week — the  rest  not  until  October, 
when  the  Presidio  is  to  be  enriched  by  the  arrival  of 
the  Fourth  Cavalry,  at  least  a  part  of  it,  as  some  of 
it  goes  to  Monterey.  The  Tenth  has  been  very  hos- 
pitable and  given  many  pleasant  little  parties  while 
at  the  Presidio,  and  we  shall  be  sorry  to  say  adieu. 
The  army  ladies'  card  club  held  their  last  meeting  at 
Mrs.  Girrard's,  who  has  a  charming  home  in  Ala- 
meda ;  the  Greenleafs  still  remain  constant  to  their 
first  love,  Berkeley,  and  have  induced  many  of  their 
service  friends  to  follow   in   their  footsteps. 

The  A.  A.  Moores  of  Oakland  are  off  to  Europe  to- 
morrow, I  believe,  and  are  to  snend  the  summer  au- 
tomobiling  through  the  British  Isles.  Can  you  imag- 
ine anything  more  delightful?  — Elsie. 

AT  HOME. 

Mrs.  Joseph  A.  Sheldon,  3540  Clay  street,  fourth  Fri- 
days. 

BIRTHS. 
June   17th — In    London,   England,   to   Mr.   and    Mrs. 
B.  K.  Denbigh,  a  daughter. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
June  29th    (Wednesday)— Miss  Rose   Helen   Hecht, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  Hecht,  to  Simon 
Frank  of  Baltimore.     Home.     Noon. 
June   30th    (Thursday) — Miss     Florence     Hellman, 
daughter   of   Mr.'  and    Mrs.    I.   W.   Hellman,   to 
Sidney  H.   Ehrman. 
July  18th   (Monday)— Miss  Edith  Shorbe.  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Susan  Wilson  Shorbe,  to  James  Steele, 
of  Sacramento. 
August     3d     (Wednesday)— Miss     Stella     McCalla, 
daughter  of  Admiral    Bowman    McCalla.    U.    S. 
N.,  and  Mrs.  McCalla,  to  William  Chapin,  Navy 
Yard,  Mare  Island. 
August     30th      (Saturday)— Miss      Edith      Findlev. 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Charlotte  Findlev,  to  Geo.  Gar- 
diner.    Sausalito. 
Mr.  A.  M.  Funke,  who  has  apartments  at  the  Em- 
pire, leaves  Wednesday  for  a  trip  to  St.  Louis  Expo- 
sition. 

Mrs.  George  Leibold  is  confined  to  her  apartments 
at  the  Empire  with  a  slight  cold. 

Mr.  E.  H.  Lestock  Gregory,  who  has  charming 
apartments  at  the  Empire,  entertained  a  party  of 
friends  prior  to  an  extended  trip  10  New  York.  ' 

Arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael  for  week  endjmg  Tues- 
day, June  21 :  Mrs.  J.  Frowenfeld,  Mr.  J.  Frowenfeld, 
Miss  R.  Frowenfeld,  Master  D.  Frowenfeld,  Miss 
Anna  Brims,  E.  Satlow,  Miss  E.  G.  Moody,  Miss 
Sabin,  Dr.  De  Chautreau,  Ed.  Dubedat,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hanell,  Mrs.  H.  W.  Morgan,  Mr.  W.  W.  Morgan, 
Mrs.  W.  P.  Morgan.  Miss  Morgan,  Mrs.  S.  H.  SnTith' 
Henrietta  Henley  Smith,  Mr.  Max  S'chwabacher. 
Mrs.  Schwabacher  and  maid,  Mr.  Arthur  Silverberg, 
Mrs.  Silverberg  and  maid,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Davis. 
J.  Edlin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Rosenthal,  Miss  Rosen- 
thal, Alice  Haas,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels,  Jr., 
child  and  nurse,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Simon  Newman,  S. 


Walter  Newman,  Edwin  S.  Newman,  Miss  Camille 
Roos,  Mrs.  Isaac  Hecht  and  maid,  Miss  Helen  Hecht, 
Percival  D.  Kahn,  G.  Rich,  A.  D.  McBryde,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  Landers,  George  McNamee,  Otis  E.  Le- 
land,  Miss  L.  Rickard,  Miss  B.  B.  Sturdevant,  Mrs. 
Cook,  Mrs.  Robson,  Miss  Robson,  Graham  E.  Bab- 
cock,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Burness  and  children,  C.  S.  S. 
Fanney,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Haywood  and  maid, 
Miss  Dorris  Haywood,  Master  Wilson  Haywood, 
Miss  Newman,  Mr.  W.  M.  Harris. 

Mr.  J.  B.  Rusconi  and  family  have  taken  a  cottage 
at  Corte  Madera  for  the  summer.  Mr.  Rusconi  will 
thus  find  time  to  come  and  go  from  his  commercial 
enterprises  in  the  city  without  endangering  their 
prosperity. 

The  Ushers  Club  gave  their  initial  entertainment 
and  dance  at  Scottish  Hall  on  Sunday,  June  19th. 
The  programme  opened  up  with  several  interesting 
vaudeville  numbers.  Mr.  Arthur  Melvin,  coon- 
shouter,  gave  the  "Gondolier,"  and  several  encores. 
G.  G.  McLaughlin  rendered  "Old  Heidelberg,"  with 
a  pleasing  tenor.  Mr.  Jack  McKrie  showed  how 
"A  Hot  Old  Time"  could  be  played  in  six  ways — first 
in  rag-time,  then  in  a  church,  then  in  concert,  then  as 
a  waltz.  Raymond  Cedarbloom,  assisted  by  Katie 
Kelly,  made  a  hit  singing  "Sadie  Malone,"  and  Mr. 
Robert  E.  C.  Masterson  gave  some  clever  imitations 
of  Henry  Miller  in  the  third  act,  Covent  Garden 
scene,  from  "Heartsease ;  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell  in 
"The  Joy  of  Living";  Nance  O'Neill  as  Lady  Mac- 
Beth  ;  Edward  J.  Morgan  as  David  Rossi  in  "The 
Eternal  City" ;  Florence  Roberts  as  Sappho,  and 
Mile.  Anna  Held.  Particular  mention  must  be  made 
of  Mr.  Masterson's  imitations  of  Mrs.  Pat.  Campbell 
and  Henry  Miller;  in  both  he  displayed  much  emotion 
and  dramatic  power,  and  imitated  the  voice  and  ges- 
tures of  each  artist  excellently. 

Major  F.  L.  Payson,  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  has  been 
granted  leave  of  absence  for  one  year,  on  account  of 
ill-health.  He  left  on  Wednesday  with  his  wife  and 
family  for  Paris.  He  has  been  stopping  for  some 
time  at  the  Colonial.  This  hostelry  seems  to  have 
captured  the  army  and  navy.  Among  those  at  pres- 
ent domiciled  there  are:  Admiral  Kempff,  Miss 
Kempff,  Admiral  Merrill  Miller,  Mrs.  Miller,  Miss 
Ann  Miller,  Commander  F.  H.  Holmes,  Mrs.  Holmes, 
Miss  Holmes,  Master  Holmes,  Captain  L.  C.  Logan, 
Mrs.  Logan,  Miss  Elsie  Logan,  Miss  Georgina  L. 
Logan,  General  G.  B.  Dandy,  Captain  J.  F.  Dean, 
Mrs.  Dean,  Major  S.  R.  Kranthoff,  Mrs.  KranthofT. 


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June  35,  1904. 

Mrs.    Charles    Keilus  Mr. 

Henry  M.  Keilus  and  Julien  Keilus  1 
tour  to  the  Southern  part  of  the  State  ami   Mi 
1  weeks. 
Ikroing   arc   the    recent      arrival.-     at      Pal 
Spring-:   Thomu    I  >.    Riordan    anil      wile,      William 
Schroeder,  Mr.  S.  1 ..  Rosenbaum.  Mr-.  William  Mar- 
tin,   Miss   Alice    Martin.   Otto    II.      Greenwald,     Sir 
Henry    Ilyman,   T.    II.    Field,   Agnes      Bode,       \nna 
ue,  Mr.-.  1  Kto  Muser.  I.  H.  Currier,  James  A. 
Mc.Mahon.  Captain  A.  J.  Dunlery,  Rose  Haas,  >  an ■ 
lyn  Haas.  Miss  Osborne,   Mrs.   Irwin.  Joseph   Halm, 
Miss    Rosalind    Bryant,    Mis,    Susie   Wells,    Ethel   J. 
Dorn,  I.  H.  Ganearil.  Mrs.  E.  G.  Koenig  and  children, 
Mrs.  B.  H.  Luckc  and  children. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


People  who  are  contemplating  an  outing  in  tin 
picturesque  part  of  Lake  County  will  he  pleased  to 
iearn  that  Mr.  William  Spiers  has  a  new  lot  of  car- 
riages which  makes  the  equipment  the  most  com- 
fortable in  California.  The  company,  under  the  man- 
agement of  Mr.  Spiers,  is  known  as  the  Spiers' 
Springs  Stage  Company,  and  it  announces  a  reduc- 
tion in  rates,  making  the  rate  from  San  Francisco  to 
Middletown  and  return  $6;  Anderson,  Harbin  and 
Spiers',  $7 ;  Astorg,  Adams',  Hoberg's,  Howard's, 
Glen  Brook,  Seigler's,  Lower  Lake,  Reiser,  Lakeport 
and  return,  $9.  Stages  leave  Calistoga  11:30  a.  m., 
except  Sunday.  Half  hour  at  Calistoga  Hotel  for 
lunch.    Tickets  are  on  sale  at  the  S.  P.  R.  R.  offices. 


Fourth  of  July   Excursions. 

The  Laerunltas.  Paper  Mill.  Tomales  Bay  and  Russian  Elver  offei 
many  delightful  places  to  spend  the  4ih  uf  July.  Tickets  on  sale  July 
1.  2.  :i  or  4,  good  uutil  July  5th  at  following  round  trip  rates.  (Jazudero. 
Big  Trees  orlluncaus  Mills  S3:  Monte  Kio.  Mesa  Grande.  Camp  Meeker 
or  Tyrone  $2.50;  Tomales  or  (Jamp  Pistole&e,  S2;  Ft.  lteyes  or  'localouia 
$1.25:  Camp  Tyrone  $1.15.  ISunday  excursions  rates  and  trains  apply  on 
July  4th-  Extra  train  Saturday.  July  2nd.  to  l't.  Keyes  at  5:15  p.  m. 
Apply  to  ticket  office,  626  Market  Street.  San  Francisco,  foi  copy  of 
"Snort  Scenic  Trips"  or  "Summer  Outings," 


There  are  those  who  scoff  at  gustatory  pleasure  but  they  are  the 
crabbed,  the  pessimistic  and  the  insincere.  It  is  a  rather  remarkable 
fact  that  there  are  but  few  lovers  of  g<  od  lhings  to  eat  in  this  world, 
that  are  not  possessed  of  remarkable  intellects.  The  greatest  nnijils 
the  world  has  ever  known  would  have  expressed  pleasure  in  partaking 
of  a  meal  if  prepared  at  Moraghana  at  the  California  Market.  It  is  the 
Mecca  of  the  epicure. 


Allen's   Press   Clipping  Bureau   has   removed   to   the  rooms 

formerly  occupied  by  Bradstreet's,  at  230  California  street,   San 
Francisco. 


See  our  3  months  ahead  ideas  in  hats.    Tom  Dillon  &  Co.,  opp. 
Palace. 


Fancy  vesta  at  cost,  see  window.   Tom  Dillon,   Hatter  Opp. 
Palace  Hotel. 


Decorations  for  weddings,  Cnarlotte  F.  Williams,  room  18,  121 
Post  street. 


The  Star  Hair  Remedy — best  of  all  tonics  and  restora- 
tives. Stops  falling  hair,  cures  dandruff,  restores  color.  Not 
a  dye.  At  druggists  and  halr-dressers.  Accept  no  substi- 
tute.   Star  Remedy  Co.,  1338  Polk  street.    Tel.  Sutter  31. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


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THE  LOOKER-ON  iU5^ 


In  one  of  the  daily  papers  a  writer  on  sporting 
events  laments  tlie  decrease  of  popular  interest  in 
the  prize-ring  and  its  stall-fed  practitioners.  His 
cry  of  regret  finds  its  proximate  cause  in  the  failure 
of  the  Jeffries- Munroe  fake,  and  at  some  length  he 
points  out  that  prize-fighters  are  falling  in  public 
estimation,  and  that  the  '"noble  art  of  self-defense" 
is  rapidly  losing  caste.  Although  he  does  not  say  so, 
this  commentator  doubtless  believes  that  "you  can- 
not fool  all  of  the  people  all  of  the  time."  The  people 
of  this  city  have  been  fooled  so  often  by  the  prize- 
ring  grafters  that  the  band  of  confidence  operators 
had  about  reached  the  conclusion  that  the  crop  of 
those  innocents  who  are  hern  every  day  was  larger 
here  than  elsewhere,  and  that  "any  old  thing  would 
go"  in  San  Francisco.  The  main  reason  for  the  post- 
ponement of  the  Jeffxies-Munroe  fight,  the  wise  ones 
say,  was  to  affect  a  betting.  With  Jeffries  a  pro- 
hibitive favorite  at  10  to  3,  the  manipulators  saw  but 
little  chance  to  make  money.  Something  had  10  be 
done.  The  champion's  legs,  therefore,  became 
shaky.  Now,  the  miner  from  Butte  says  Jeffries  is 
afraid  of  him.  Before  the  date  in  August  for  which 
the  fight  is  now  set,  the  odds  will  shorten  consider- 
ably, if  the  San  Francisco  betting  public  is  as  foolish 
as  usual.  The  grafters  will  be  thereby  given  another 
opportunity  to  fleece  the  innocent,  and  the  "noble  ari" 
will  be  elevated  accordingly.  Such  manipulations 
have  marked  nearly  all  the  championship  contests 
held  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  people  are  slowly 
awakening  to  the  fact  that  ringing  the  changes  in  this 
manner  are  all  part  of  the  game.  Of  late,  many  of 
the  clubs  have  been  losing  money  because  the  gud- 
geons will  no  longer  bite.  The  betting  on  the  Jeffries- 
Munroe  fight  was  very  light,  because  most  ring  fol- 
lowers figured  that  the  miner  was  hopelessly  out- 
classed. If  that  impression  could  be  changed,  of 
course  the  odds  should  change  with  it.  The  way  to 
work  a  change  in  the  public  mind  was  found  by  a 
postponement  at  the  demand  of  Jeffries.  A  looker- 
on  can  now  lie  back  and  watch  the  playing  of  the 
game. 

*  *  * 

Truly  Shattuck,  who  has  won  fortune  on  the  vau- 
deville stage,  is  again  in  San  Francisco  and  appeared 
at  the  Orpheum.  It  will  be  remembered  that  she 
was  made  famous  in  a  night  by  the  death  of  a  young 
man  to  whom,  it  was  said,  she  was  engaged.  Her 
mother  objected  to  the  young  man,  and  his  death  re- 
sulted. Truly  was  then  a  Tivoli  chorus  girl,  but  she 
bounded  into  vaudeville  while  the  manner  of  the 
death  of  her  admirer  was  yet  the  talk  of  the  town. 
She  has  been  bounding  along  ever  since,  and  now  she 
is  rich,  has  an  established  place  on  the  stage,  and  is 
1  ,1  11  mors  beautiful  than  in  the  old  Tivoli  days.  The 
public  has  an  insatiable  curiosity  for  a  woman  "with 
a  past,"  and  they  are  ever  ready  to  pay  their  big 
American  dollars  to  see  an  actress  who  has  achieve  1 
a  notorious  divorce,  or  for  love  of  whom  some  foolish' 
young  man  has  lost  his  life. 

*  *  * 

A  party  of  prominent  Englishmen,  many  of  whom 
have  been  municipal  officials,  are  coming  to  San  Fran- 
cisco to  make  a  close  study  of  the  operations  of  our 
charter,  the  fame  of  which,  it  seems,  has  gone 
abroad.  They  should  attend  a  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Supervisors,  when  the  flavor  and  the  representa- 
tives of  the  unterrified  Democracy  are  exchanging 
compliments,  and  watch  the  wheels  go  round.     It  is 


not  always  that  visitors  from  abroad  can  enjoy  the 
wondrous  spectacle  of  American  statesmen  publicly 
engaged  in  thought.     The  exhibition  of  the  Braun- 

hart  convolutions  will  alone  repay  them  for  the  trip. 

*  *  * 

The  street  sweepers  have  been  directed  not  to 
disturb  the  mass  of  mud  that  has  accumulated  along 
the  curbstone  in  front  ot  the  Examiner  building.  It 
is  to  be  used  during  the  coming  campaign. 

*  *  * 

Politicians  who  were  there,  say  that  at  the  Ruef 
banquet  Charley  Shortridge  killed  any  chance  he 
might  have  had  for  consideration  as  a  candidate  for 
Congress  from  the  Fifth.  Nobody  knows  what 
Shortridge  was  expected  to  talk  about,  but,  presum- 
ably, it  was  on  something  appropriate  to  the  occa- 
sion. At  the  top  of  his  voice  he  extolled  the  virtues 
of  Matt  Quay,  Dan  Burns,  Bill  Higgins,  Sam  Rainey 
and  a  bunch  of  others,  all  of  whom  have  "passed  out." 

"Now,  if  he  had  only  added  his  own  name,  Short- 
ridge would  have  had  a  complete  list  of  'dead  ones,'  " 
said  a  politician.  But  he  did  say  one  good  thing. 
'When  he  arose,  some  one  shouted,  "Three  cheers  for 
Charley  Shortridge!" 

"That's  a  good  idea,"  said  Charley.  And  the 
waiters  smiled. 

*  *  * 

"The  woman  in  the  case"  has  appeared  in  the  Ep- 
pinger  trial.  She  is  the  wife  of  Juror  Plumbe,  and  she 
manifests  her  devotion  to  her  spouse  by  ardently 
kissing  him  every  morning  when  he  appears  in  court 
after  his  enforced  detention  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 
All  the  bachelors  on  the  jury,  after  witnessing  the 
salutations  of  .Mrs.  Plumbe,  have  decided  to  become 
benedicts.  Judge  Lawlor,  meanwhile,  is  trying  to 
figure  out  a  method  to  lessen  the  demonstrations  of 
domestic  affection,  particularly  as  it  is  reported  that 
Mrs.  Plumbe  has  expressed  the  opinion  that  Eppin- 
ger  is  a  persecuted  man,  and  that  she  knows  what 
she  would  do  if  she  were  on  the  jury  in  her  husband's 
place.  It  may  develop  that  Mrs.  Plumbe  is  a  peach. 
»  *  * 

This  practice  of  osculation  in  our  juries  should  be 
frowned  upon  by  our  judges.  We  cannot  think  of 
anything  more  reprehensible  than  this  innovation. 
Either  give  all  the  jurors  the  right  of  labial  refresh- 
ment inalienably,  or  cut  out  those  kissers  in  particu- 
figure  out  a  method  to  lessen  the  demonstrations  of 
ilege."     It  is  unconstitutional,  material  and  relevant. 

*  *  * 

The  News  Letter  has  frequently  had  occasion  to 
severely  criticise  the  methods  of  the  street  cleaning 
contractors,  and  to  point  out  the  danger  to  health, 
as  well  as  the  great  annoyance  arising  from  the  neg- 
lect of  sprinkling.  Now  comes  a  prominent  New 
York  physician,  Dr.  S.  A.  Knorp,  who  has  made  a 
study  of  street  cleaning  and  its  attendant  ills,  and  in 
most  forceful  language  he  sustains  the  position  taken 
by  us,  and  urges  that  the  law  should  be  absolute  re- 
quiring all  streets  to  be  sprinkled  immediately  prior 


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June  25.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


a.  >rk 
epcr  in  New  York  makes  th 
msumptivc.    Thia  is  due  direct!)  to  the 

inhalation  of  .ill  kinds  of  dust,  and  the 
qticnt  irritation  of  the  pulmonary  -ur: 
which  makes  the  invasion  of  the  germ  of  tubercu- 
The  sweeping  of  street-  in  the  dry 
state,  he  says,  should  be  considered  a  crime  against 
our  fellow-men.  It  is  not  the  air.  but  the  'lust  in  the 
air,  which  makes  Xew  York  a  dangerous  place,  par 
ticularly  in  summer,  to  people  pre-disposed  to  pul- 
monary troubles.  While,  as  a  natural  consequence 
of  their  occupation  the  street  sweepers  are  the  most 
severe  sufferers,  the  citizens  at  large  also  suffer  to 
a  considerable  degree.  We  are  ail  apt  to  breathe  the 
irritating  and  infectious  dust  raised  by  sweeping,  b) 
gusts  of  wind,  by  street  cars,  wagons  and  other  vc 
hides.  If  street  cleaning,  under  present  conditions, 
renders  the  average  employee  consumptive  within  a 
lew  years,  the  sources  of  tuberculous  infection  are 
thereby  increased.  Furthermore,  the  majority  of  the 
street  sweepers  being  of  the  poorer  classes,  they  will 
become  burdens  to  the  community'  as  soon  as  they 
cease  to  be  bread-winners.  Street  cleaners  should 
be  provided  with  respiratory  masks,  particularly  in 
very    dusty    localities. 

All  the  statements  of  Dr.  Knorp  apply  very  for- 
cibly to  conditions  in  this  cily.  Our  streets  are  never 
clean.  The  sprinkling  cart  is  seldom  seen.  It  is  the 
exception,  rather  than  the  rule,  when  streets  in  the 
residence  district  are  sprinkled  before  being  swept. 
In  the  down-town  districts,  because  of  the  bitter  com- 
plaints made  by  merchants,  sprinkling  is  sometimes 
done,  but  in  the  Western  Addition  and  the  Mission, 
where  the  afternoon  winds  drive  the  dust  in  blind- 
ing clouds,  sprinklers  are  never  seen.  The  infectious 
dust  rills  houses  and  stores,  and  covers  the  clothing 
of  people  on  the  streets.  There  is  urgent  need  for 
reformation  in  our  methods  of  cleaning  the  streets. 

*  *  * 

Tom  Riordan  has  refused  to  handle  that  gilded 
brick  bearing  the  inscription  :  "Nominee  for  Congress 
in  the  Fourth  Congressional  District."  He  has  busi- 
ness of  greater  importance  to  the  Republic,  for  he 
has  just  organized  a  savings  and  investment  com- 
pany, with  a  capital  of  $1,000,000.  All  these  politi- 
cians manage  to  move  up  toward  the  million  dollar 
mark.     How  do  they  do  it? 

*  *  * 

The  University  Regents  have  fixed  the  salary  of 
the  office  of  Secretary  of  the  University  at  $6,000  per 
annum,  and  they  are  vainly  seeking  for  a  man  pos- 
sessing the  necessary  qualifications  to  fill  the  position 
acceptably.  In  raising  the  salary  to  the  present  fig- 
ure they  have  shown  wisdom  far  beyond  that  usually 
displayed  in  determining  the  amount  to  be  paid  the 
State  officials.  A  good  man  is  worth  $6,oco  a  year. 
The  University  cannot  afford  to  have  a  substitute 
who  is  willing,  as  McKeown  was,  to  accept  a  much 
smaller  salary,  but  who,  like  McKeown,  may  not  be 
able  to  resist  the  temptation  of  appropriating  some 
of  the  money  that  passes  through  his  hands.  The 
people  of  this  State  frequently  complain  of  the  poor 
material  they  get  for  officers,  but  they  overlook  the 
small  inducement  they  offer  to  take  office.  Most  of 
the  State  officers  get  only  $250  a  month,  $1,000  a 
year  less  than  is  paid  most  of  tne  officers  of  this 
city.  A  State  officer  has  to  bear  the  expense  of  a 
State  campaign,  and  nearly  all  of  them  enter  their 
offices  at  Sacramento  burdened  with  debt.  Their 
salaries  are  barely  sufficient  to  maintain  them  and 
their  families,  and  to  pay  the  personal  expenses  they 


are  I  incur  entertaining  \ 

1  hey   can  save  nothing  from  their  incc 
Is  it  any  wonder,  then,  that  sonic  of  the  weak  ones 
fail  by  th«-  wayside?    The  solution  of  the  problem 
gel   better  men,  but  that  can  be  don,    onl)    by 
raising   salaries. 

■  «   *   * 

The  authorities  at  Washington  are  becoming  really 
paternal  in  their  solicitude  lor  the  rater  and  Ins  fam- 
ily. Local  customs  officers  have  received  orders  to 
arrest  any  eaptian  who  overcrowds  an  excursion 
boat,  hereafter,  ami  to  rovoke  the  license  of  the  boat. 
The)  have  been  directed  to  keep  particular  watch 
on  I'ourth  of  July  excursions,  and  to  keep  tally  on  all 
the  seekers  lor  sensation  who  go  Over  the  gang- 
planks. That  order,  if  enforced,  should  have  some 
effect,  for  it  will  certainly  lessen  tile  danger 
of  loss  of  lite.  The  wonder  is  that  scores  of  lives 
have  not  been  lost  through  accidents  on  excursion 
boats.  They  usually  carry  about  four  times  as 
many  passengers  as  the  law  allows;  their  crews  are 
small,  ignorant  and  inefficient,  and  their  life-boats, 
when  there  are  any,  are  wrecks  held  together  by-  the 
double  lashings  that  fasten  them  to  the  davits.  Under 
this  order,  the  customs  officers  might  inspect  the 
1  lakland  ferry  boats,  broad  guage,  on  the  5:30  and 
6  o'clock  trips  from  this  side,  any  evening.  They 
always  carry  fifteen  to  twenty  times  the  number  of 
people  that,  upon  an  emergency,  could  be  crowded 
into  the  life  boats,  and  the  company  takes  chances 
every  day  that  would  make  a  gambler  tremble. 
*  *  * 

Thousands  of  people  are  going  to  the  Yosemite 
this  year.  Thousands  more  would  go  if  it  were  not 
for  a  deterrent  factor.  That  mass  of  emerald  green 
and  dirty  ochre  that  does  duty  for  a  painting  in  the 
ferry  depot  nave  has  had  the  effect  of  keeping  peo- 
ple at  home.  They  argue  that  if  the  Yosemite  looks 
anything  like  this  picture,  the  farther  away  they  can 
remain  the  better.  This  explains  the  unpopularity 
of  the  "up-stairs"  department  of  the  depot.  If  that 
picture  be  removed,  many  more  will  use  the  nave  as 
a  promenade.  The  Yosemite  painting  was  probably 
pictured  by  a  "child  wonder"  as  an  example  of  what 
may  be  done  in  art  without  any  previous  tuition. 


Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy 

Cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  Skin  Diseases.  Sold  by  all  druggists. 


Fine   stationery,    steel   and   copperplate   engraving.     Cooper 

&  Co.,  746  Market  street,   San  Francisco. 


Celebrated  "KNOX"  Hals  —Eugene  Korn,  726  Market  St., 
sole  agent;  spring  styles  now  open;  DerDys,  soi..  nats,  gent's  and 
ladles'  straws. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


j  PLEASURE'S  WAND  Pff3 


e  obey  00  wuxl  bet  Plewttrt'*-— Tom  Moo»l- 


A   TRUSTY   TIP    ON   THINGS   THEATRICAL. 

GRAND— Mrs.  Leslie  Carter— "Du  liarry"— The  best  show  in  the  city  at 
any  price. 

COLUMBIA— Sothern.  "Proud  Frinee."  An  artistic,  finished  performance 

ORPdEUM-Only  a  fiiir  vaudeville  bill. 

ALCAZAR— StocK— Mirth  and  pathos— "Lovers  Lane''— A  great  triumph 
lor  Frances  Starr. 

TfVOLi— "Robin  Hood."  in  many  respects  the  equal  of  the  Bostonian 
performance. 
CENTRAL— Lights  o*  London  —A  very  fair  production. 
FISCtlER'S— "The  Mormons"— A  highly  enjoyable  comic  operetta. 


At  last  the  Tivoli  is  producing  something  that  is 
up  to  its  old  reputation,  and  in  some  instances  be- 
yond that  fair  repute,  When  I  say  that  the  perform- 
ance of  "Robin  Hood  compares  favorably  with  the  . 
work  of  the  "Bostonians"  in  their  palmiest  days,  you 
can  rest  assured  that  it  is  a  wonuerfully  good  pro- 
duction. Manager  Strine  has  used  the  pruning  knife 
to  good  advantage.  He  now  has  young  women  on 
the  stage  who  sing  well,  act  well,  and  look  well. 

The  stunts  by  the  chorus  are  invariably  better  than 
anything  attempted  by  the  Bostonians.  The  ^\  i  11 
Scarlet  of  John  Dunsmure  is  the  very  best  basso  we 
have  heard  in  many  a  day,  while  Arthur  Cunning- 
ham's "Little  John"  electrifies  the  house.  Kate 
Condon  is  a  singer  from  Singersville.  Her  notes 
are  pure  and  sure,  and  she  has  made  a  splendid  hit. 
Miss  Edith  Mason  as  "Maid  Marion"  wins  the  heart 
of  her  audience  by  her  pretty  stage  presence.  Her 
face  is  a  sweet  and  a  pleasant  one,  and  her  voice 
has  the  right  timbre,  although  she  has  not  yet  caught 
the  range  of  the  house.  William  Schuster's  "Friar 
Tuck"  is  splendidly  rendered,  and  the  "Guy  of  Gis- 
borne"  of  Teddy  Webb  is  like  all  Webb's  work — 
excellent.  Barron  Berthald  will  come  out  all  right 
in  the  weeks  that  are  to  come.  His  voice  rose  once 
or  twice  to  the  requirements  of  the  opera  in  fine 
shape,  but,  as  a  rule,  there  was  a  huskiness  and  a 
way-down-in-the-throat  delivery  that  was  many 
miles  from  what  it  should  have  been.  Dame  Durden, 
in  the  hands  of  Bessie  Tannehill,  was  a  very  good 
piece  of  work.  There  is  not  much  of  the  dame,  ex- 
cept in  avoirdupois,  but  she  can  sing,  and  she  sang 
better  than  she  usually  does. 

Willard  Simms  suffered  by  comparison  with  Bar- 
nab)'.  He  is  a  caricature  of  that  grand  old  man  in 
form  and  feature,  but  alas,  not  in  voice.  He  has  a 
falsetto  squeak  which  jars  discordantly,  and  which 
sounds  unnatural.  If  it  is  an  unnatural  effect  he 
should  cut  it  out.  He  can  dance  very  gracefully,  and 
in  the  drunken  scene  he  made  the  most  acceptable 
sot  I  have  ever  seen.  I  believe  oimms  is  an  acquisi- 
tion, and  that  Barnaby's  shadow  should  not  preju- 
dice us  against  the  newcomer. 

I  could  sit  for  hours  and  listen  to  John  Dunsmure 
or  Cunnnigham  in  their  respective  solos.  Here  and 
in  the  chorus  is  where  the  new  company  shines.  The 
audience  was  prolific  all  the  week  with  its  encores, 
and  some  of  the  old  stand-bys  who  have  been  faithful 
in  and  out  of  season  are  busy  congratulating  one  an- 
other on  the  enterprise  which  has  given  them  some- 
thing to  praise  without  stint  at  the  Tivoli.  I  pre- 
dict packed  houses  for  to-night  and  Sunday,  and 
I  wish  a  long  life  to  Robin  Hood  anu  his  merrie  band 
at  the  Eddy-street  house. 

*  *  * 

Frances  Starr  has  struck  a  keynote,  in  the  hearts 
and  heads  of  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  the  au- 
diences at   the   Alcazar.     And   these   audiences   are 


not  small.  Some  evenings  they  have  tested  the 
capacity  of  the  house.  The  play  which  serves  to  bring 
out  the  talent  of  this  little  actress  and  draw  the 
crowds  is  "Lover's  Lane."  I  have  singled  out  Miss 
Starr  because  she  is  so  phenomenally  the  character 
study  in  this  symposium  of  truthful  pictures.  She 
takes  the  part  of  "Simplicity  Johnson,"  a  member 
of  the  household  of  the  minister  who  is  the  hero  of 
the  play,  the  Reverend  Thomas  Singleton  (Mr.  Dur- 
kin)  and  she  maintains  the  undivided  interest  of  the 
audience  from  the  start  to  the  finish.  There  is  no  line 
or  word  which  calls  for  adverse  criticism.  She  is 
simply  perfect  and  unalloyedly  enjoyable.  Mr.  Ma- 
her  takes  the  part  of  the  bell  ringer  of  the  church, 
and  his  love  passages  with  the  "Melissy"  of  Miss 
Jennie  Wiederman  bring  down  the  house.  He 
doubles  in  this  bill,  and  also  assumes  the  part  of  Skit- 
tles, the  village  bill  poster,  who  gets  the  minister 
into  difficulty  by  posting  up  some  pictures  of  girls 
in  tights  as  an  advertisement  for  a  church  affair.  The 
play  abounds  with  jollity  and  pathos,  and  the  cast  is 
an  exceptionally  long  one.  I  cannot  particularize 
further,  nor  can  I  say  more  than  this :  every  actor 
and  actress  seems  imbued  with  the  sweet  tone  of 
the  play,  and  player  and  people  are  close  to  one  an- 
other in  a  heart-to-heart  study  of  the  best  things  in 
humanity. 

*  *  * 

Fischer's  is  producing  a  delightfully  clean  little 
skit  called  "The  Mormons."  The  book  is  by  Judsen 
Brussie  and  the  lyrics  by  Lee  Johnson.  The  book 
is  generally  acceptable,  and  the  music  is  sparkling 
and  catchy.  The  company  is  doing  good  ensemble 
work,  and  there  are  one  or  two  of  them  that  are  phe- 
nomenally  fine. 

Alton  is  meeting  with  a  hearty  approval  of  the 
Seminole  business,  and  he  and  the  chorus  deserve  all 
the  praise  they  receive.  Mr.  Keane  in  his  song,  "By- 
lo-Baby,  By-lo,"  is  splendid,  and  he  secures  fine  ap- 
preciation from  an  audience  which  is  always  ready 
to  applaud  the  "human  interest"  in  a  song. 

The  "Radium  Girls"  is  a  novel  feature  and  highly 
entertaining,  and  if  there  is  any  one  in  San  Fran- 
cisco who  has  not  seen  this  dance  it  would  be  a 


Watches 

the  finest  American  and 
Swiss  movements;  in  well- 
constructed  cases,  as  plain 
or  elaborate  as  the  indi- 
vidual taste  desires. 

We  have  the  most  skilled 
watch  repairers. 

Donm -Bristol  Co. 

1°4-11°  Geary  Sired 


June  j5.  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO 

good  idea  to  remember  that  it  will  not  remain  111- 
Uctimtcly  at  the  Fischer  house. 

1  here  has  been  considerable  criticism  of  the  book 
ot  Uu-  lost  01  tins  is  adverse,  unj  an 

1  here  arc  certain  things  that  militate  against  the  phe- 
nomenal  success   Of   any   production      at      lisc; 

.11  will  not  attend  a  house  where  unlimited 
smoking  is  permitted,  and  this  accounts  lur  the 
preponderance  oi  the  male  man  to  see  "  1  he  Mor- 
mons, further  than  this,  while  Miss  Aug  is  mie  ot 
the  best  soubretles,  she  does  not,  by  any  manner  01 
means  take  the  place  of  a  Russell  or  an  Amber.  1'nere 
is  still  a  crying  need  lor  one  Lig  central  feature,  man 
or  woman,  at  tins  house,  and  tne  best  playwright  in 
the  world,  with  the  hnest  playlet  ever  written,  can- 
not supply  the  want.  It  would  be  a  most  unthink- 
ing critic  who  would  misjudge  in  this  case,  and  lay 
any  blame  on  the  playwright  because  of  the  character 
01  the  Jrischer  audiences  or  their  lack  in  numbers. 

*  *  * 

The  theatres  of  San  Francisco  are  doing  remark- 
ably well  considering  tne  lact  that  there  are  thou- 
sands ot  people  away  at  present,  it  is  conservatively 
estimateu  that  at  least  twenty  thousand  people  have 
gone  away  to  the  summer  resorts,  and  an  army  of 
no  small  dimension  is  at  present  at  it.  Louis,  ana  yet 
a  good  show  always  draws  a  good  house,  it  simply 
proves  what  I  have  always  said:  "ban  Francisco  is 
the  best  show  town  in  the  country,  but  you  cannot 
advertise  a  poor  show  into  a  large  audience." 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  holds  out  well  under  the  terrific 
strain  of  Belasco's  "Du  Barry."  She  begins  the  third 
and  last  week  of  a  most  successful  engagement  next 
Monday.  If  any  of  the  readers  of  the  l\ews  Letter 
have  not  seen  "Du  Barry,"  they  may  take  the  word 
of  a  critic  whom  they  know  is  not  easily  pleased  and 
go  to  the  Grand  Opera  House  and  witness  a  perform- 
ance of  this  celebrated  play  and  this  gifted  woman. 
There  is  no  need  of  being  afraid  of  witnessing  a  per- 
formance that  has  been  arranged  for  the  purpose  of 
setting  off  the  star  to  the  best  advantage.  The 
ladies  and  gentlemen  with  Mrs.  Carter  are  all  won- 
derfully clever.  It  is  the  best  that  has  come  down 
the  theatrical  pike  in  many  moons,  and  you  can  take 
the  word  of  a  sour  old  critic  for  that  1 

*  *  * 

Miss  Marie  Rawson,  a  blonde  type,  said  to  be  a 
beauty  and  a  clever  actress,  will  take  the  part  of 
"Hope   Langham"    in   principal   support   of   White 

Whittlesey  in  "Soldiers  of  Fortune." 

*  *  * 

Trask  and  Rogers,  who  have  been  starred  with 
the  best  minstrel  organizations  in  the  country,  will 
present  their  original  singing  and  eccentric  dancing 
act  at  the  Chutes  this  coming  week.  Fyne  and 
Dandy,  comedy  acrobats,  will  also  be  new,  and  the 
musical  Harts  will  change  their  refined  specialty. 
Lamont's  Australian  trained  cockatoos,  highly  intel- 
ligent feathered  actors,  will  continue  their  interest- 
ing performance ;  the  dainty  Fay  sisters  will  give 
new  songs  and  dances,  and  Hallie  White,  the  pleas- 
ing soprano,  will  be  heard  in  the  latest  illustrated 
songs. 

*  *  * 

The  company  in  support  of  Mr.  Whittlesey,  at  the 
Alcazar,  for  the  summer  season  will  be  composed 
of  the  following  ladies  and  gentlemen :  Messrs.  Os- 
bourne,  Hilliard,  Conness,  Byers  and  Barnum ; 
Misses  Belgarde  and  Elsmere,  ana  Miss  Rawson  as 
leading  lady. 

(Continued  to  Page  24.) 


NEWS  LETTER. 


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Central  Thearrp    „beusco a m«m. Proprietor! 

n-'^i^i.iui      I  NCUirC.     M.,,  k,.,  m.  ni-Hi- i:iKht|-.-Tel.  Houth  M 
Week  Martin,;  Monday,  June  s: 
First  time  here  ol  the  strong  heart-Interest  drama 

POWER  OF  THE  CROSS 

Prk'es-Evenings  10  to  60c.    Matinees  10.  15.  25c. 


Alcazar    Thpntt-P    .,      Belasco  ,1  Mavek.  Proprietors 
f-vi^o./L.cX[       lIlfcJULre    E.  D.  PiucK.  Oeu'l.  Slitr.    'lel.Ak.-uMr 

Kegular  runtinees  Thursday  and  Saturday. 

Monday.  -Tune  27.  one  week 

Annual  summer  season  of  WHITE  WHITTLESEY 

Begius  with  the  thrilling  romantic  drama 

SOLDIERS  OF   FORTUNE 

By  Richard  Hurtling  Davis.      Dramatized  by  Augustus  Thomas 
Evotiiugs  25  to  75c.    Matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday  '25  to  5(tc 
Monday  July  4.  commencing  with  special  Independence  Day 
matinee  Monday,  White  \\  hntle&ey  in  "One  Miniihei'b  Day-" 

Tivoli  Opera  House.  °°rn6r EdMasaonndstreeu 

Second  week  of  the  great  Tivoli  triumph 

ROBIN  HOOD 

Great  cast,  production,  singing,  beauty  chorus 

Only  matinee  Saturday 

Seatb  always  on  sale 

Usual  Tivoli  prices,  25,  50  and  76c.    Seats  now  on  sale. 

Fischer's    Theatre 

Not  a  vacant  seat.    Not  one  adverse  criticism.    It  is  the   best 
thing  in  town.    It  is  genuinely  funny. 
It  is  so  tuueful  you  can  whistle  it  all. 

THE     MORMONS 

A  hilariously  funny  burlesque.  50  positive  novelties  presented 
by  artists  of  great  renown,  including  Edna  Aug.  Freda  Galleek, 
Garrity  Sisters,  Yorke  and  Adams,  Al  Fields,  Edwin  Clark,  Ben 
Dillon,  Roy  Alton. 

And  a  chorus  that  wins  you.  Last  week  of  Lionel  Lawrence's 
"EightKadium  Girls."  Matinees  Satui day  and  Sunuay.  Same 
popular  prices.    Special  matinee  on  July  4th. 


Drnhpl  1  tTN       San  Franclsco'a  Greatest  Mue!c  Hall. 
\JI  \Jl  ltfUI  1J.     o'Farrell  St.,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  ftreeu. 
Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  June  26 

VflRIEGflTED    VAUDEVILLE 

Valerie  Bergere  and  Company;  Gallagher  and  Barre  t;  John  F. 
Clark;  Foster  and  Foster;  Howe  and  Scott;  rlhe  Zarrow  Trio; 
Gracey  and  Burnett;  San  Francisco  Fire  Department  shown 
in  Orpheum  Motion  Pictures  and  last  week  of 

HELEN  BERTRAM 

Regular  matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Saturdays  and 
Sunday.    Prices  10,  25  and  50c 


Graod  Opera  iiouse 


Matinees  Wednesday  and  Saturday. 
Beginning  Monday  evening  next,  last  week  of 

MRS.   LESLIE  CARTER 

In  David  Belasco's  new  play 

DU  BARRY 

Prices  *2,  1.50,  $1,  75  50c 

Beginning  Sunday  Matinee.  July  3rd.    James  Neill  and  his  own 

Company  in  a  superb,  production  of  "Barbaia  Frietchie." 


flfter  the  Theater 

Go  where  the  crowd  goes— to 

ZINKAND'S 

Listen   to   the    matchless    string  band   and   enjoy   the 
finest  wines,  beers  and  supper. 

The   Cafe   Zinkand   is  society's   gathering  place  after 
the  theatre  Is  over. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


h &m?^~~  ^INSURANCE  pfm-sfW 


The  case  of  Dr.  Dogge  of  San  Jose,  who  is  suing 
the  Fidelity  and  Casualty  Company  for  a  $14.71-' 
claim,  under  one  of  its  policies,  and  which  was  writ- 
ten about  in  a  previous  edition  of  this  publication, 
but  serves  to  show  the  danger  of  investing  in  insur- 
ance which  does  not  insure. 

The  Fidelity  and  Casualty  Company  is  contesting 
the  claim  on  grounds  which  to  it  may,  it  is  conceded, 
seem  just. 

Accident  insurance  companies  of  the  Fidelity  and 
Casualty  stripe,  however,  are  loo  prone  to  resort 
to  the  courts  to  defeat  the  claims  arising  under  their 
contracts  of  insurance.  The  Fidelity  and  Casualty 
Company  has  in  this  respect  achieved  a  record,  and. 
an  examination  of  the  court  dockets  will  convince  the 
most  ardent  defender  of  the  company  that  it  has  ap- 
parently earned  the  title  of  being  a  fighter  of  claims. 
Whether  the  Dogge  case  be  tried  to  a  conclusion  or 
whether  the  company  compromises  it  out  of  court, 
the  fact  remains  that  the  V.  S.  the  Fidelity  and  Cas- 
ualty is  too  easily  found  in  the  court  records,  and  is 
so  familiar  that  the  intending  insurer  in  this  com- 
pany naturally  becomes  dubious. 

The  financial  standing  of  the  corporation  is  unim- 
peachable, but  it  is  not  a  pleasant  prospect  to  a  pol- 
icy-holder to  feel  that  he  has  to  employ  a  collector  to 

secure  a  payment  of  his  claim. 

*  *  * 

The  home  office  of  the  company  is  in  New  York, 
and  it  may  be  that  the  local  management  has  some 
weight  in  its  actions  in  litigating  claims.  There  was 
some  years  ago  scandal  in  regard  to  the  then  local 
manager  of  the  company,  but  his  successor,  .Mr.  Bos- 
worth,  is  so  well  known  for  his  probity  and  ability 
that  the  blame  for  the  dilator)'  tactics  adopted  by  the 
company  in  the  settling  of  its  claims  cannot  be  sad- 
dled on  the  manager  here,  but  must  be  charged  where 

it  belongs,  to  the  home  office. 

*  *  * 

.Mr.  George  W.  Turner,  the  ex-manager  of  tic 
Northwestern,  is  going  on  a  trip  to  the  Fast,  lie  will 
visit  the  St.  Louis  hair,  and  incidentally  will  bring 
back  a  company,  or  maybe  two. 

*  *  * 

It  is  too  bad.  but  the  fact  remains  that  the  National 
Casualty  of  Detroit  has  been  organized  with  a  capi- 
tal stock  of  $200,000,  to  take  over  the  National  Pro- 
tective Society  of  that  city  and  the  American  Casu- 
alty Company  of  Buffalo. 

*  *    :': 

The  Llovds  Insurance  Companies,  managed  by 
that  notorious  firm  of  Farmer  &  Thompson,  of  Chi- 
cago, have  losses  of  nearly  a  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars and  assets — well — not  any. 

*  *  * 

In  anticipation  of  the  glorious  Fourth  of  July,  says 
the  Record,  over  two  hundred  applications  for  per- 
mits to  sell  fireworks  have  been  received  by  the  New 
York  Fire  Department.  The  premises  on  which  it 
is  proposed  to  sell  the  fireworks  will  be  inspected 
by  the  Bureau  of  Combustibles,  which  grants  permits 
only  after  the  regulations  for  safety  have  been  com- 
plied with.  When  everything  is  in  order  the  small 
boy  and  his  larger  brother  will  be  on  hand  to  see 
that  a  sufficient  number  of  killed  and  wounded  are 
provided  in  celebration  of  the  glorious  Fourth.  Chi- 
cago has  realized  the  danger  of  the  physical  fire  haz- 
ard as  well  as  the  danger  of  the  accident  insurance 
risk.  It  has  appointed  a  committee  from  amongst 
the  Board  of  Aldermen,  and  the  small  boy  or  the  big 


one  must  get  a  license  from  the  committee  prior  to 
his  firing  off  a  single  rocket  or  a  nre-cracker  on  the 

coming  Fourth. 

*  *  * 

A  rather  interesting  decision  to  life  insurance  men 
was  that  rendered  recently  by  the  Common  Pleas 
Court  refusing  judgment  in  the  suit  brought  by  the 
executors  of  Robert  Kirkpatrick,  against  the  Metro- 
politan Life ;  he  was  hanged  for  murder.  The 
policy  contained  a  clause  to  the  effect  that  if  Kirk- 
patrick, within  one  year  from  the  issue,  died  by  his 
own  hand  or  act,  the  company  would  not  be  liable. 
On  June  16,  1902,  the  company  was  notified  that 
Kirkpatrick  had  been  convicted,  but  continued  to 
receive  premiums.  On  October  25,  1903,  the  man 
was  executed.  Judge  Ralston,  in  his  opinion,  said  : 
"We  consider  that  upon  grounds  of  public  policy 
the  law  of  Pennsylvania  forbids  a  recovery  upon  a 
policy  where  the  insured  has  been  executed  for  crime 
whether  the  policy  contains  a  clause  upon  the  sub- 
ject  or  not,  and1  even  if  it  stipulates  that  the  com- 
pany  shall  be  liable."  At  the  present  time  this  is 
especially  interesting  to  California  life-men,  since 
practically  the  same  case  is  before  the  courts  of  this 

State. 

*  *  * 

New  York  and  Chicago  are  hereafter  to  take  care 
of  their  firemen.  The  day  or  night  when  a  fireman 
is  to  be  left  to  take  care  of  his  injuries  is  passed;  in 
the  future  he  will  have  "the  first  aid  to  the  injured." 
In  New  York,  for  instance,  two  trucks  are  sent  out 
to  every  fire,  and  one  first  aid  bag  will  go  with  every 
two  trucks.  The  bag  will  be  equipped  as  follows: 
Aseptic  bandages  of  gauze  and  muslin ;  absorbent 
cotton  and  aseptic  gauze  in  nickel-plated  tubes  that 
are  supplied  with  adjustable  openings,  thus  allow- 
ing of  frequent  sterilization;  aseptic  needles  of  dif- 
ferent sizes,  in  packages  that  are  not  to  be  opened  till 
wanted  for  use;  a  tourniquet  for  stopping  hemor- 
rhage; splints  for  broken  bones  or  bad  sprains; 
seven  air-tight  bottles,  one  of  which  contains  bi- 
chloride tablets,  with  which  to  prepare  antiseptic 
solutions;  a  bottle  of  iodoform;  two  bottles  of  oil  for 
burns;  carbolic  acid  for  disinfecting;  a  pair  of  sur- 
geon's -cissors.  By  the  time  that  the  amateur  has 
used  all  this  lot  of  stuff  it  is  safe  to  say  the  fireman 
will  have  risen  in  his  wrath  and  killed  the  kindergar- 
ten nurse  or  will  have  collapsed  himself.  I  he  first 
aid  to  the  injured  is  the  dream  of  a  theorist,  and  not 
the   demonstration    of   practicability. 


The    Oldest     and     Best 
Known  Brand 


DISTn^LED  BT 

J.  J.  MEDER  &    ZOON 

SCHIEDAM 

HOLLAND 


Imported  into  the  U.  8.  since  1819 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Agents  Pacific  Coast.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


June  35.  1904. 


"WHY  WILLIE  WOULDNT  " 

Willie   Green   li     -  ! : 

Park.     The   cla> 

C.1T1'! 

n     Willie's  mamn  him 

■no  the  house.     She  called  him,  !>nt  Willie 

v.  In  ii  shr  threatened  nc 

ry.  I>nt  still  Willie  wouldn't. 

Willie's  mamma  wenl  alter  him,  and  he  stood  still 

until  she  came.     She  put  her  arm  around  him,  but 

Willie  wouldn't  lift.     He  was  stuck  fast  in  his 

-  candy."     To  his  mother,  it  appeared  the  only 
way  to  get  him  out  would  he  to  lift  the  street.     Then 
a  bright  idea  struck  her.     She  unbuttoned 
and  carrier!  him  in  his  stocking  feel   into  the  I 

The  cool  winds  a-  evening  hardened   the 

asphalt.  Chauffeurs  wondered  that  night  why  the 
road  was  s,i  rough,  hut  no  one  knew  save  Willie, 
and  he  trot  a  new  pair  of  slices  for  his  knowlede 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

INSURANCE 


SECURE  A  GREAT  AL  TRESS. 

Mr.  George  Tyler,  theatrical  manager,  gives  a 
very  readable  account  of  his  trip  to  Paris  to  secure 
the  engagement  of  the  great  actress  Rejane  and  the 
Italian  actor  Novelli.  While  Mr.  Tyler  was  in  Lon- 
don, he  made  arrangements  for  the  appearance  of 
the  pifted  American  actress.  Miss  Eleanore  Robson, 
for  September,  at  the  Duke  of  York's  Theatre,  in 
Zangwill's    "Merely    Mary    Ann." 

Incidental  to  the  London  trip,  Mr.  Tyler  purchased 
an  automobile.  lie  makes  some  interesting  remarks 
on  the  subject,  which  will  bear  re-printing: 

"As  regards  the  pleasure  part  of  my  visit,"  said 
Mr.  Tyler,  "one  of  my  purposes  in  coming  to  Paris 
was  to  buy  an  automobile.  I  was  at  once  taken  pos- 
session of  by  all  the  dealers  in  the  city  as  soon  as  ray 
intention  was  known,  and  from  the  first  day  I  ar- 
rived in  Paris  till  now,  I  hadn't  a  moment  to  my- 
self. I  was  simply  tossed  from  one  vehicle  to  an- 
other, spun  around  on  big  automobiles  and  small  au- 
tomobiles like  one  of  the  doomed  shades  of  Dante.  I 
made  only  thirty-two  trips  backward  and  forward  to 
Versailles.  Every  bone  in  my  system  at  last  began 
to  ache,  and  my  judgment  was  all  mixed  up  in  smoke 
and  petrol.  I  decided  yesterday  to  put  an  end  to  my 
martyrdom  by  purchasing  a  fourteen  horse-power  Re- 
nault. It  is  a  perfect  beauty,  but  I  don't  want  to 
see  it  to-day.  I  have  had  enough  of  automobiling 
just  now  and  have  to  lock  myself  up  for  business. 
In  a  few  days  I  shall  start  on  a  tour  to  Italy  in  my 
new  trap.     I  shall  go  to  Milan,  Florence  and  Rome." 

You'll  never  regret  a  rislt  to  Zinkand's,  which  Is  the 

best  of  San  Francisco's  atier-the-theatre  resorts.  It  serves 
th«  most  tempting  dishes,  the  best  liquors,  inspiring  music, 
anil    is   patronized   by   the   smart   set. 


Tesla  Briquettes,   the  popular  domestic   fuel,   are  only  $7.50 

per  ton;  half  ton  $4;  quarter  ton  $2.  Full  weight  guaranteed,  in 
economy,  cleanliness  and  heat  producing  qualities  Briquettes 
are  superior  to  coal.  Sold  only  by  the  Tesla  Coal  Company,  10th 
and  Channel.     Phone  South  9a. 


Rheumatics  relieved  at  the  Post  St.  Hammam. 

Fire,  Lightning  and  Tornado  Insurance. 

The  Home  Insurance  Company,  New  York 

Capital $3,000,000.         Gross  Cu»h  Assets .     $18,040,783.99 

Liberal  contracts.  Favorable  Terms.    Conference  with  our  Pepr»- 

'antatives  before  cnm-ludiug  short  tiuie  yearly  ur  k.ng  time  contlauts 

nay  be  to  your  advantage. 
H.  L.  ROFF,  Genoral  Agent;   GEO.   M.  MITCHELL,  Metropoll 

•  in  Manejjsr. 

210  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco 


FIRE.    MARINE   AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 

FIREMAN'S    FUND 

Insurance  Company  of  San    Francisco,  Cal. 
Capital,  $1,000,000.  Assets,  $5,500,000 

Founded  A.  D.  17W. 

Insurance  Co.  of  North  America 

OF    PHILADELPHIA.    PENN. 

Paid-up    Capital     $$,0Ot.0N 

Surplus    to    Policy-Holders     6.022,11* 

■  D    1IAILEY.    General  Agent     203  Pine  St..  8.  F. 


Royal     Exch< 


Assurance    of    London 


tange 

Incorporated    by   Royal    Charter,    A.    D.    1720. 
Capital    raid-up    $3,440,100.  Assets,   $24,662,043.34 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders,  JS.93u.431.41.  Losses  Paid,  over  $134,000,000 

Pacific  Coast  Branch: 

FRANK   W.    DICKSON,    Manager,   501   Montgomery   Street 
HERMANN   NATHAN   and   PAUL  F.    KINGSTON,   Local   Mgrs. 

Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Company 

OF    HARTFORD.      Established   1850. 

Capital    $1,000,000.00 

Assets    5,172,036 

Surplus  to  Policyholders..     2,441,485 

BENJAMIN  J.   SMITH,   Manager  Pacific  Department. 
COLIN  M.  BOYD,  Agent  for  San  Francisco,  216  Sansome  Street. 

Unexcelled  ror  liberality  and  security. 

LIFE,  ENDOWMENT,  ACCIDENT  AND 
HEALTH  POLICIES. 


The 

Pacific  Mutual 

Life 

Insurance    Co. 

Home  Office: 

Pacific  Mutual  Building, 

San  Francisco. 

of  California. 

DON'T  INSUBE— Until  you  have  examined  the  new 

Combination  Life,  Accident  and  Health  Policy 

Issued  exclusively  by  the 

Conservative  Life  Insurance  Company 
Assets,  $1,500,000     Insurance  in  force,  $21,CC0,CC0 

For  particulars  address  the  Company     AgeLts  Wanted. 
Marion  Building  no  Geary  St.  San  Francisco 

British  and  Foreign   Marine   Insurance   Co. 

(Limited)  of  Liverpool 
Capital  $6,700,000 


Balfour,  Guthrie  &.  Co.  Agents. 


316  California  St..  S.  F. 


Cash  Capital,  $200,000.00  Cash  Assets,  $321,471.1$ 

PACIFIC  COAST  CASUALTY  CO. 

Home  Office,  328  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Employers'  Liability,  Teams,  General  Liability,  Workmen'*  Col- 
lective, Vessels,  Elevators. 

Edmund  F.  Green,  President;  Ant.  Borel  ft  Co.,  Treaa.  William 
M.  Plersou,  Vice-President;  Franklin  A.  Zane,  Secretary;  Frank 
P.  Deerlng,  Counsel. 

MARSHAL  A.  FRANK,  General  Arent  for  California,  Hay- 
warda  Building. 

North    German    Fire    Insurance    Company 

of  Hamburg,   Germany. 
N.  Schlessinger,  City  Ag't,  304  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 

FIRE      EXTINGUISHERS 

CHAS.    P.     FONDA 
138    MARKET     STREET,    SAN    FRANCISCO.    CAL. 


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For  Breakfast 

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>    For  Breakfast 

^t  For  Breakfast 

VAN  AUKEN 
OXYGEN  INSTITUTE 

The  Only  OXTGEN  INSTITUTE  on  the  PACIFIC  COAST 

If  you  are  ill  we  can  POSITIVELY  cure  you  without  Drugs.  Knife, 
Electricity  or  Mind  (Jure.  CATARRH,  CONSTIPATION,  NERVOUS  PROS- 
TRATION, Etc..  Permanently  Cured. 

Addresses  at  the  offices  of  San  Francisco  patients  who  will  gladly 
tell  how  they  cere  restored  to  health.  Oxygen  instruments  loan- 
ed to  all  patients  treating  at  a  distance.  Bend  symptoms  and 
kindly  inclose  directed  and  stanned  envelope  for  particulars. 
Free  diagnosis  at  office  from  2  to  5  and  7  to  »  p.  m.,  Sundays  ex- 
cepted.   Cut  this  out  and  remember  the  hours.    Tet.  Sutter  3411 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER.  June  25,  1904. 

Pleasure's    Wand. 

(Continued  from  Page  21.) 
With  E.  H.  Sothern's  final  performance  of  "The 
Proud  Prince"  this  Saturday  evening  at  the  Columbia 
Theatre,  the  brilliant  season  of  1903-4  at  that  house 
will  come  to  a  close.  Commencing  Monday  night, 
the  theatre  will  be  dark  for  a  period  of  two  weeks, 
preceding  a  long  line  of  star  attractions  to  be  seen 
here  during  the  next  season,  which  will  be  inaugu- 
rated on  Monday  night,  July  nth,  by  Ethel  Barry- 
more,  in  her  greatest  success,  "Cousin  Kate."  The 
announcement  that  Charles  Frohman  is  bringing 
Miss  Barrymore  all  the  way  from  London  to  play 
this  special  engagement  will  be  received  with  every 
mark  of  pleasure  on  the  part  of  the  theatre-goers 
in  San  Francisco.  Miss  Barrymore  has  achieved  a 
great  triumph  in  this  delightful  comedy,  and  has 
been  enormously  successful  with  it  this  season.  All 
theatrical  precedents  were  broken  in  New  York, 
where  in  one  season  she  played  three  separate  .n- 
gagements  to  immense  audiences,  the  house  being 
sold  out  at  every  performance. 


815  VAN  NESS  AVE. 


Near  Ellis  St.       SAN  FRANCISCO 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 
Savage   Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Virginia  City. Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  ot  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  10th  day  of  June.  1904,  an  assessment,  (No,  1  3)  oi  (en  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  paya- 
ble Immediately  In  United  -tales  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  rooms  21  22.  Nevada  Block.  No-  309  Montgomery  St . 
San  Pranolsco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
15th  DAY  OF  JULY  1904. 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  publlo  auction :  and  unless  pa>  - 
ment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  KrtlDAY,  the  &th  day  of  August 
1904  at  1  o'clock  P.  M .,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale  By  order  of  the  Board  of 
DlreotorB. 

JOHN  W.  TWIGOS,  Secretary 

Office— Rooms  21-32  Nevada  Block.  No.  3<>9  Montgomery  street,  San  Fren- 
olsoo,  Cal. 


Golden  West  Clothing  Renovatory 

121    MONTGOMERY    STREET 
Phone    Main    11'7. 

Suits    Cleaned    and    Pressed    51.00 

Monthly     Contracts     1.50 


La  Grande  Laundry 


Laundry— 12th    St.,    between    Folsom    and   Howard   Sts. 
Principal   office— 23   Powell    St.     Branch   office— 11  Taylor   St 
Tel.   Bush  12. 


Bon  Harche  Clothing  Renovatory 

40  Ellis  Street,   Rooms  14-16-16. 

Suits  Cleaned  and  Pressed  Sl.00 

Suits     called     for     and     delivered     free.       SUITS     PRESSED 

WHILE    YOU    SLEEP.      Repairing   .and    Alterations.    OPEN 

ALL  NIGHT.     We  run  four  wagons.     Telephone  Drumm  44. 


Pacific  Towel  Company 


No.  9  Lick  Place. 
Furnishes    6    hand    or    roller    towels,    $1    per    month; 
12  hand  or  roller  towels,  S1.50  per  month.     Tel.  Main 
17S0. 


Valerie  Bergere,  the  piquante,  clever  and  graceful 
comedienne  who  scored  such  a  hit  here  two  years 
ago  in  "Billie's  First  Love,"  will  return  to  the  Or- 
pheum  this  coming  week,  supported  by  a  competent 
company.  "His  Japanese  Wife,"  a  one-act  playlet 
by  Grace  Griswold,  and  a  tremendous  New  York 
success,  will  be  her  new  offering.  Miss  Bergere  is 
a  capable  artist  in  every  respect,  and  she  injects  just 
enough  humor  in  her  work  to  keep  the  plot  intact 
and  at  the  same  time  to  take  the  minds  of  the  audience 
from  the  pathos  which  creeps  up  now  and  then  be- 
tween the  lines.  Gallagher  and  Barrett,  Irish  come- 
dians and  laugh-inducers  of  the  first  water,  will  make 
their  first  appearance  in  San  Francisco. 

*  *  * 

Henry  Miller  is  to  appear  in  Henry  Arthur  Jones's 
new  play.  "Joseph  Entangled."  Charles  Frohman 
secured  the  play  for  Miller  and  will  have  that  star, 
supported  by  a  big  company,  when  it  is  produced 
for  the  first  time  in  America  next  month  at  the 
Columbia  Theatre.  The  piece  is  to  be  one  of  the 
first  offerings  of  the  next  season  in  New  York,  to 
which  place  it  will  be  taken  after  its  premiere  in  this 
city.  , 

*  *  * 

They  have  removed  Ferris  Hartman  from  the  stage 
performances  at  the  Tivoli,  for  which  thanks  are  due. 
Mr.  Hartman  will  now  give  his  undivided  attention 
to  the  stage  management,  and  there  is  no  better  stage 
manager  in  the  country.  I  believe  in  rendering  '"unto 
Caesar,"  etc. 

*  *  * 

The  Central  will  continue  its  popular  series  of  big 
attractions  next  Monday  evening  with  the  sterling 
New  York  success,  "The  Power  of  the  Cross."  All 
through  the  East,  this  heart-interest  drama  has  had 
splendid  runs,  and  the  critics  have  been  high  in  their 
praises  of  its  thrilling  plot  and  powerful  climaxes. 
The  play  is  as  full  of  action  as  an  egg  is  full  of  meat, 
and  the  four  acts  are  alive  with  striking  and  startling 
episodes,  while  the  tragic  and  pathetic  qualities  of 
the  piece  are  relieved  by  comedy  that  is  delightful 
and   fascinating. 

*  *  * 

Knowing  the  previous  popularity  of  White  Whit- 
tlesey at  the  Alcazar,  I  have  had  no  hesitancy  in  say- 
ing that  the  coming  engagement  of  that  bright  young 
man  will  be  a  successful  one.    He  has  been  working 


June  as,  1904. 

very  hard,  and  he  will  astonish  lii«  plentiful  nip] 

Friends  by  his  newer  ability.     II.  r  us 

Richard  Harding  I  Fortune."  Tlii- 

Iramatization  by  the  veteran  playwright,  Augus- 
tas Thomas.  It  is  a  thrilling  story  of  South  Ameri- 
can  adventure,  located  in  the  supposititious  Republic 

llancho.  Magazine  readers  are  familiar  with 
the  plot,  and  as  people  remember  what  they  read  in 
the  magazines  and  forget  what  they  read  in  the  daily 
papers,  it  is  safe  to  guess  that  "Soldiers  of  Fortune 

lUnd  to  have  a  large  following  nightly.  Thou- 
sands have  read  the  story. 

*  *  * 

San  Francisco  people  who  have  seen  Sot  hern  in 
his  inimitable  acting  will  be  astonished  and  no  doubt 
edified  at  the  following  from  the  Los  Angeles  Ex- 
amincr: 

"Mr.  Sothern  is  an  actor  without  subtlety;  he  can- 
not fill  its  requirements.  Mr.  Sothern  has  gifts  of 
person  and  of  voice.  He  has  a  pretty  touch  of  ro- 
mance and  a  most  graceful  mode  of  love-making.  He 
is  unwise  to  sacrifice  these  assets  in  the  attempt  to 
win  what  is  forever  beyond  him.  He  has  not  the 
mental  bent  which  would  enable  him  to  grasp  either 
the  bizarre  or  the  tragic." 

The  Examiner's  critic  is  a  Miss  Skinner,  and  as 
a  critic,  she  certainly  skins  'em  all.  The  actual 
knowledge  she  possesses  as  to  what  constitutes  a 
subtle  actor  would  fill  about  one-half  of  a  page  of 
a  child's  primer  and  not  crowd  it. 

*  *  * 

This  is  the  last  week  of  the  "Eight  Radium  Girls" 
at  Fischer's  Theatre. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»5 


A  Revelation. 


It  there  are  doubting  Thomas'  or  Maidens  fair  or  those  unfair,  who 
fain  would  be  fair,  let  them  use  Dr.  T.  Felix  Gonraud's  Oriental  Cream 
and  prove  the  efficacy  of  what  the  proprietor  has  so  long  tried  to  im- 
press on  the  minds  of  all.  in  nearly  every  partof.'the  World.  As  a  Skin 
Pnri.ter  and  Beautifler  it  ha*  no  equal  or  rival.  If  the  render  would 
prove  the  virtues  of  Oriental  Cream,  use  it  where  a  scratch  or  slight 
cut.  or  where  a  black-head  or  pimple  is  troubling  you.  then  you  see  its 
healing  and  purifying  qualities— if  it  does  its  work  well,  then  read  the 
advertisement  again  for  further  testimony  of  its  virtues,  and  by  using 
Oriental  Cream  renew  both  youth  and  beauty. 


Swain's  Bakery,  on  Post  street,  is  the  headquarters  for  San  Fran- 
cisco's most  exclusive  people.  For  twenty-flve  years  it  has  enjoyed 
this  distinction,  and  all  through  the  high  standard  it  maintains.  It  is 
a  favorite  luncheon  place  for  shoppers. 


Mont    Rouge    Wines 

LIVERMORE  VALLEY.  CAL. 

The  Finest  Wines  Produced 
in  California      ^       ^       ^ 

CHAUCHE   ®   BON,  Props. 

17  First  St.  Phone  Main  1514  San  Francisco 


THE    CLUB     MAN'S     CIGAR 

MADE  IN  18  SIZES 


SIG.    CAHEN 

Distributor     - 
22    Montgomery    St.,  S.  F. 
Tel.  James  6306 


Manufactured  in  TAMPA,  FLA. 


THE  EL  DRISCO  APARTMENTS 

PACIFIC  HEIGHTS 

Unquestionably  the  finest  apartment   house  on 
the  Coast. 

New  and  modern  suites  commanding    a   mag- 
nificent marine  view. 

MRS.     N.     FOSTER,     Leuee 

S.  W.  Cor.  Broderick  and   Pacific   Ave. 


Hotel  "Richelieu 

The  leading  and  finest  private  family  hotel 
on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

1012    VAN    NESS    AVENUE 

Bet.  Geary  and  O'Farrell  Sts.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


New  Hotel  Bellevue 

European  Plaa  Central  Location 

BEACON  ST..  near  Tremont;  BOSTON 

Harvey  $  Woods,  Props. 


RIGGS    HOUSE 

Opp.  TJ.  S.  Treasury,  one  block  from  the  White  House. 

Washington  D.  C.    The  Hotel  "Par  Excellence"  ot  the 

National  Capital. 
First-class  in  all  appointments.     O.  G.  Staples, 
Prop.    American  Plan,  $3  per  day  and  upwards. 


Silver  Dollar  Wine  Booms 

FINS    MCRCANI1JUE    LUNCH 

Served    every    any    from    Li    to    t   o'cIOCK.     finest 
Wines,  Liquors  and   t  tgars. 

SEEEA    <8L    D^VAM.    PioorUtors 
312   Sansome   street,    jjor,    Baitertt,    San   Francisco. 
Telephone.   Black  602. 
Red  Top  Whiskey  now  on  sale. 


For  Those  Who  Appreciate  Comfort  and  Attention 


OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL,  San  Francisco 

American  and  European  Plan.     A  Quiet  Home 
Centrally  Located.    George  Warren  Hooper,  Lessee. 


FOR  THE 


Regular  Army  and  National  Guard 

Encampment  in  August 

KHAKI    Service  Outfits  Complete 

Best  quality  at  lowest  figure 

Al=o  Regulation  Sabres,    Belts   and 

Puttee  Leggings 

Pettibone  Bros.  Mfg.  Co. 

19  New  Montgomery  St,,  San    Francisco 
T.  A.  NERNEY,  Mir-  for  Pile.  Coast 


AN    ELECTRIC    FAN    MOTOR 

Will    Keep   You   Cool.    Write   For   Prices 

Nfxtional  Electric  Co. 
455  Sutter  Street.  Telephone  Bush  639  San  Francisco 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


^^^©C 


MODEL  H.    8  HORSE  POWER. 

Price,  $950 

Rambler  Automobile  Agency.   ,33c"ARwth.ST 

Phone  South  inn? 


THE     AUTOCAD 


AUTOCARS,  $1,850 
AUTOCAR  RUNABOUT,  $1,050 
LIGHT  TOURING  COLUMBIA  $1,900 
COLUMBIA  FOUR  CYLINDER  $4,000 

THERE    ARE    NO    AUTOMOBILES    BETTER 

WEST    COAST     MOTOR-CAR    CO. 

606  VAN  NESS  AVENUE        -         .        SAN  FRANCISCO 


Hav-  you  seen  the 

Buckboard? 

LQ04  Model 

Best     Automobile      at 
any  price 

$475  ^^^^* 

Will  climb  any  hill 
Strong—Easy  Riding— Reliable— Guaranteed 

On  exhibit  at-SUNSET     AUTOMOBILE    CO. 
1814  MARKET  STREET.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


1    llC  VAUlLLAt       With  Tonneaii  $1050 


August  8th  from  Del 
Monte  to  12th  ami 
Broadway.  Oakland.  G 
hrs.  Brain  October  itith 
the  same  run  was  made 
in  B  hrs,  38  min.  with- 
out stopping  the  car  or 
r-iinihc  with  gasoline 
or  water,  breaking  all 
records-  The  only  suc- 
cessful tour  of  the 
fosemite  Valley  was 
made  by  a  party  of  i  In 
a  Cadillac- 


CUYLER  LEE,  Agent.     201-203  Larkin  Street,  S.  F. 


ItT   The    Actocraick 

The  executive  committee  of  the  Automobile  Club 
of  California  has  issued  a  circular  calling  upon  the 
members  to  help  increase  the  membership  of  the 
club. 

This  is  a  call  which  should  be  heeded,  for  there 
is  strength  in  numbers.  The  two  hundred  members 
in  the  club  and  the  automobilists  at  large  do  not  ap- 
preciate the  club  and  what  it  may  do  for  them  if 
the)   will  only  stand  back  of  it  and  lend  it  a  helping 

hand. 

*  *  * 

The  Automobile  Club  is  a  kind  of  insurance  to 
the  automobilist.  The  local  club  is  a  protection 
against  adverse  legislation  and  the  many  other  ob- 
stacles to  be  met  with  at  the  present  "kindergarten" 
stage  of  the  spun  on  the  Coast. 

With  the  proper  kind  of  support  on  the  part  of  the 
automobilists.  the  club  could  become  a  factor  in  the 
making  of  laws  for  the  highways  of  the  State. 

*  *   * 

The  average  automobilist  will  howl  about  how 
unjustly  he  is  treated,  while  on  the  roads,  yet  he 
will  not  take  time  or  give  his  services  to  an  organi- 
zation that  is  trying  to  eradicate  just  the  things  he 
complains  of.  Then,  again,  he  will  more  than  likely 
turn  on  the  club  and  its  officers  and  complain  of 
them.  He  never  stops  to  think  that  the  work  of  the 
rs  is  a  "labor  of  love";  that  they  get  nothing 
for  their  trouble  but  kicks,  and  carry  on  the  club. 
at  the  expense  of  their  own  business. 

*  »   * 

Let  every  one  who  owns  an  automobile  promise 
to  himself  "that  he  will  give  the  club  all  the  support 
he  can  for  one  year  as  an  experiment.  Just  try  it. 
and  see  what  the  result  will  be.  If  this  is  dour,  by 
all,  it  can  be  safely  stated  that  the  results  will  be 
far  beyond  the  hopes  of  the  most  enthusiastic. 

*  *   * 

I  he  annual  race  for  the  Gordon  Bennett  cup  for 
1004  is  now  a  matter  of  history.  The  honors  were 
taken  by  France,  with  the  winner  of  last  year  in  sec- 
ond place.  From  the  spectator-'  point  of  view  it 
was  tame,  as  no  one  was  hurt  or  killed. 

*  *  * 

A  warrant  was  sworn  out  a  few  days  ago  for  the 
arrest  of  Barney  Oldfield,  the  American  champion 
automobile  racer,  on  the  charge  of  running  his 
machine  on  Franklin  avenue,  Cleveland.  (  Ihio,  at 
the  rate  of  thirty-five  miles  an  hour.  This  is  nineteen 
miles  faster  than  permitted  by  law.  Oldfield,  upon 
learning  that  a  warrant  had  been  issued  for  him, 
telephoned  police  headquarters  that  he  would  come 
to  the  central  station  and  give  himself  up. 

Barncv  must  keep  before  the  public. 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  most  successful  automobile  tours  ever 
made  on  the  Coast  was  completed  recently  by  Or. 
C  B  Brown,  of  Portland.  Oregon,  in  the  Saman- 
th'a  "  The  "Samantha"  is  a  beautiful  \\  hite  touring 
car  which  conveyed  five  people  safely  to  fcos  An- 
from  San  Francisco,  and  then  alter  a  two- 
weel  s'  stay  in  the  Southern  metropolis,  brought  its 
passengers  sound  and  safe  again  to  San  Francisco 
It  was  a  remarkable  trip  of  nearly  2.000  miles,  and 
with  no  puncture  and  but  one  small  breakage  on  the 


June  25.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»7 


riic  pi' 

I  t>\  bad  mails      I  >• 
the  trip.  .1  >\  n  chatli 

A  broken  diaphragm  was  the  only  •  iJcd ; 

ir  had  never  to  !>c  touched  bj  nan,  only 

cleaned  and  oiled,  and  the  engine  has  never 
taken  apart  nr  tightened  up  for  adjustment  The 
aiit'>  trip  was  taken  principally  for  Mr-  Brown's 
health,  as  the  doctor  said,  sunshine  was  the  only 
cure.  Mr-.  Brown's  recovery  has  been  marvel 
and  to  use  her  expression,  "Samantha  lias  done  it 
all.  This  alone  has  more  than  paid  it-  for  what 
hardships  we  had  to  endure." 
«  »  * 

II.  I >.  Saville.  examiner  for  Park  licenses,  instead 
of  "dodging  the  baby,"  t.  ok  a  run  in  a  White  touring 
car  across  the  bay  last   Sunday. 

*  *  * 

Among  other  White  owner-  out  touring  last  Sun- 
day were  L.  P.  Lowe,  Robert  Piper.  Return  Roberts 
anil  Fred  W.  Gregory. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Lowe  drove  his  -team  touring  ear  to  Byron 

Springs.  Messrs.  l'iper  and  Roberts  took  their  fam- 
ilies in  their  machines  to  the  Garden  City.  Mr. 
Gregory,  of  the  White  Company,  had  his  wife  and 
E.   C.    Ward   and   wife,  of   Fresno,  out   for     a     spin 

through  the  I'residio  and   Park. 

*  *  * 

J.  O.  Bradney  purchased  a  White  touring  car  last 
week,  and  made  his  first  run  last  Sunday  to  San 
Jose.  He  enjoyed  the  ride  immensely,  and  thinks 
motoring   the    genuine    sport. 

*  *  * 

(  )ne  of  the  most  remarkable  trips  of  the  season 
was  just  made  by  Mr.  John  Hopkins  Spring  of  Fruit- 
vale  in  his  new  White  touring  car  to  Wawona  and 
the  P.ig  Trees  in  Calaveras  County.  Mr.  Spring,  ac- 
companied by  Mrs.  Spring,  their  son,  and  a  chauf- 
feur, left  their  home  on  Thursday,  June  qth,  ran  that 
night  to  Gilroy,  which  is  seventy  miles  from  their 
home.  The  roads  were  excellent,  and  it  was  a  beau- 
tiful moonlight  night  and  the  run  was  greatly  en- 
joyed. The  next  morning  they  left  Gilroy  and  ran 
over  the  Pacheco  Pass  fifty  miles  to  Los  Banos  for 
lunch.  From  Los  Banos  they  traveled  to  Madera, 
a  distance  of  50  miles. 

They  left  Madera  the  next  morning  and  rode  to 
Raymond,  distant  twenty-five  miles.  Grub  Gulch 
was  their  objective  point,  as  Mr.  Spring  was  going 
into   the   mountains  to  examine   mining  property. 

The  next  day  they  took  a  side  trip  of  fifty  miles 
into  the  Sunset  District,  where  the  roads  were  bad 
but  the  scenery  magnificent. 

On  the  following  day  they  made  up  their  minds 
to  visit  the  famous  big  trees  on  the  Road  to  Yo- 
semite  Valley,  and  made  the  run  from  Grub  Gulch 
to  Awanie  in  good  time.  The  day  was  spent  very 
pleasantly,  and  the  return  trip  made  in  the  after- 
noon to  Grub  Gulch.  Mr.  Springs  says  he  would 
not  advise  timid  people  to  undertake  to  spend  the 
night  at  Grub  Gulch.  It  is  the  only  place  for  miles 
where  water  can  be  obtained,  as  there  is  a  magni- 
ficent spring  there,  and  during  the  night  the  bears 
from  the  surrounding  mountains  could  be  heard 
clambering  down  the  sides  of  the  hill  for  water.  Mr. 
Spring  says  that  there  is  great  interest  in  automo- 
biling  in  that  section  of  the  country,  as  there  has 
been  only  a  few  automobiles  which  have  undertaken 
this  arduous  trip   to  the   Big  Trees. 

The  following  morning,  Mr.  Spring  hastily  packed 
his  luggage,  and  the  run  from  Grub  Gulch  to  Madera 


-  — 


PIERCE 
STANHOPE 

Pries   SI. 330    Without    Top 
SI. 450  With  Too 

1.  A  beautiful  Stanhope,  with  Victoria  top  and  accommo- 
dating  four   persona. 

t.  It  haa  an  8  horse-power  engine  of  the  De  Dion  French 
type. 

3.  It  Is  especially  designed  for  phrslcana'  use,  saving  two 
hours  per  day. 

4.  It  Is  compact  In  construction,  symmetrical  In  outline 
and   beautiful   In   general   finish. 

6.  It  was  In  the  Endurance  Run,  New  York  to  Pittsburg, 
800  miles,  and  won  high  rank. 

PIERCE  ARROW  T0URIN0  CAR  Frtnck           ■  S2.650.M 

NORTHERN  RUNABOUT 800.00 

MOBILE  CARRIAGE  CO.     Golden  Gale  Ave.  &  Gouf  h  St.,  S  F. 


W.  J.  FREELIN0 


f.  L.  CHAPMAN 


Central  Automobile  Co. 

1185  MarKet  St.    S.  F. 

The  most  Commodious  Garage  in  the  Center  of  the  City 

Expert  Fiench  and  American  Mechanics. 

Repair  Work  on  Imported  and  American  Machines  Guar- 
anteed.   Charges  Reasonable. 

New  and  Second  Hand  Automobiles  Bought,  Sold  and 
Exchanged. 

PHONE  JESSIE  3336 


COMMERCIAL  MOTOR  CAR  and  BOAT  CO 

AUTOMOBILE  SUNDRIES  AT 
WHOLESALE    and    RETAIL 

Manufacturers   of  the 

COMMERCIAL  TOURING  CARS,  RUNABOUTS,  DELIVERY  CARS 
AND  HOTEL  COACHES 

The  lightest  and  highest  powered  Marine  Motors  In  California 

128-130    FREMONT    STREET.     S.    F. 


AUTOMOBILE 

REPAIRS 

81    CITY    HALL 

AVE. 

De  Dion  Plugs  and  Porcelains— Electric  Wiring  for  Auto  use 

best  made— Batteries,  Tires,  etc. 

ANDREWS,  KEENAN  & 

BIASAUF 

Tel. 

South  1039 

San  Fran*  isco,  Cal. 

WE  ARE  SELLING  at  reduced  BARGAIN   prices  very  desirable 

AUTO- CARS  sslIso 

RAMBLERS,    NORTHERNS,     FRANKLIVS,     OLDSIWOBILES 
with  Lanterns,  Rugs,  Caps  and  Sundries 

Call  and  see  them  at 
NATIONAL    AVTO.    <a    MFC.    COMPANY 

134  GOLDEN  GATE  AVE.  SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 


SECOND  HAND 

AUTOMOBILES 


F.     R.    LUCKHARDT 
20  GOLDEN    GATE  AV£. 

WITH 
CALIFORNIA    AUTO   {EXPRESS     CO 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


was  a  record-breaking  one.  Thev  ran  on  into  Los 
Banos  for  the  night,  and  the  next  day  the  run  home 
was  made  in  good  time. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Horace  A.  Beale,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia,  driving 
his  own  four-cylinder  16-22  h.  p.  gasoline  Locomo- 
bile, won  the  George  T.  Lippincott  cup  on  June  nth. 
This  cup  was  offered  for  the  first  car  that  would 
leave  Philadelphia  and  arrive  at  Atlantic  City.  There 
were  seven  starters,  but  Mr.  Beale  won  the  cup 
with  half  an  hour  handicap  against  him.  He  was  not 
arrested  for  breaking  the  speed  limit,  as  stated  in  the 
newspapers.  The  time  between  Philadelphia  and 
Atlantic  City  was  2  hours  12  minutes. 

*  *  * 

Our  representative,  in  his  visits  to  auto  headquar- 
ters, visited  Andrews.  Keen  an  and  Blasauf,  and  no- 
ticed a  powerful  hydraulic  press  in  operation,  also  a 
traveling  crane,  which  the  firm  has  just  completed. 
The  equipment  for  good  and  rapid  repair  work  in 
this  shop  is  unexcelled;  the  workshop  is  light  and 
neat,  and  they  deserve  to  succeed. 

*  *  * 

Return  Roberts,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Ma- 
dera, accompanied  by  his  wife  and  dauehter  and  Miss 
Smith,  made  a  very  successful  but  difficult  run  over- 
land from  Fresno  to  this  city  recently.  The  overflow 
of  the  San  Joaquin  River  caused  the  party  a  great 
deal  of  trouble,  but  the  White  car  managed  to  get 
through  safely,  and  landed  the  nartv  of  enthusiastic 

motorists  here  none  the  worse  for  the  journev. 

*  *  * 

The  Olds  Motor  Works  of  Detroit  is  just  in  receipt 
of  a  cablegram  from  Milan,  Italv.  stating  that  an 
Oldsmobile  runabout  was  awarded  the  gold  medal 
in  the  touring  contest  at  Milan,  held  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Ttalv.  The  medal 
was  won  in  competition  with  a  10-horse  power  Tisc- 
nach,  a  q-horse-power  Isottafraschini,  and  a  o-hnrse- 
power  Tourinia.  and  a  Renault.  The  course  was  CjOO 
kilometres  in  length,  and.  according  to  the  rules  un- 
der which  the  contest  was  held,  all  adjustments  were 
forbidden  during  the  contest. 


Nelson's  Amycose 


Infallible  remedy  for  Catarrh 
of  the  Skin. 


Sore  Throat  and  Inflammations 


TRIP    TO 


SUNDAY'S   AUTOMOBILE 

SAN  JOSE 

moani  a  delightful  trip  and  an  annetite  that  calls  for  somethtnK 

substantial- 
Automnbilists 
are  Invited  to 
visit  the  IK- 
MOLLE  OR  ILL. 
when1  every 
viand  is  a  d«- 
licht,  everv 
wine    a"  treat 

f  O  r     conpnJB- 

seurs.  P  Monl- 
mnyeur.  Prop.. 
wjis  fnr  years 
Ohef  at  '  Pet- 
monieo's  and 
the  M  a  i  so  n 
Rlche. 

Ll'4)V.?  HILA.  Jill  N>rtfi  Pint  Slr«t,  San  Jose,  opp.  «be  Victory   Theatre 


PltOMPT    SERVICE 

(Eenturu  Elrrtrir  (Enmpang 

Supply  Electric  Batteries  for  Automobiles. 
Best  Repair  Shop  in  Town.      Electrical  Supplies,  Machinery. 

House  Wiring  and  Repairing. 
16-18  SECOND  ST.     Vnder  Grand  Hotel.     TEL.  BVSH  352 


PIONEER  AUTOMOBILE  CO. 


WINTON 


WINTON/sKING, 
Long  live  the A 
King 


The  Winton  makers  are  delivering  ten  Win- 
ton  Cars  every  day.  A  good  many  other  makers 
are  delivering  promises.  You  can't  ride  on  a 
promise.  A  Winton  will  take  you  anywhere. 
Price  complete  with  canopy  top,  full  lamp  equip- 
ment, horn,  etc.,  $2,650.  Carloads  already  deliv- 
ered. Also  agents  for  Oldsmobile,  Locomobile, 
Stevens-Duryea  and  Baker  Electric. 

901  Golden  Gate  Ave.,  San  Francisco 

Los  Angeles  Branch,  420  South  Hill  St. 


«< 


THE   WORLDS  BEST" 


POPE  TOLEDO  TOURING  CAR  CO. 

MANUFACTURERS 

G.    A.     BUYER,    Manager 


134-148  Golden  Gate  Avenue 

PHONE    SOUTH     1142 


June  35.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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itner-tn-la 
■I  Upper  i 

1  iri]> 
-   in  Mr.  Hammond's  now  m  •  adil- 

er  the  in  pper  Lake.  A  Utter  from 

Mr.   I  .it  the  party  had  a  vcr 

lightful  trip,  bttt  the  last  fifty  miles  the  .lust'  was 
nearly  up  to  the  axle,  and  the  grades  ranged  from 
twelve   to   thirty    per   cent.      lor    >ix    straight    miles 

ss  than   eight   per  cent, 
and  from  that  to  twenty-five  per  cent. 

New  Model  1*.  Cadillacs  were  delivered  last  week 
to  F.  11.  Birge,  San  Jose;  A.  1..  Hendricks.  Eureka: 
H.  II.  Myers.  San  Francisco;  11.  II.  Owens,  San 
Francisco;  Charles  Mifflin  Hammond,  l"prH'r  Lake; 
Frank  H.  Johnson,  San  Rafael;  two  to  the  Stockton 
'ii  ;  Letcher  Automobili 
W.  F.  Malcolm.  Woodland,  R.  1).  Merrill. 
Seattle,    Washington.     Twelve    Cadillacs.    Model    Li. 

will  arrive  this  week. 

*  «  » 

Mr  \.  Aldrich.  the  well-known  automobile 

enthusiast,  has  just  returned  from  a  ten  months' 
trip  around  the  world.  His  trip  included  Honolulu, 
Japan,  China,  returning  through  Egypt,  Italy,  Ber- 
lin and  London  to  New  York.  Mr.  Aldrich,  while 
away,  made  the  automobile  industry  a  study,  and  es- 
pecially so  in  the  Urient.  Upon  his  return  to  Amer- 
ica, he  remained  for  some  time  in  New  York  and 
other  Eastern  cities,  and  on  his  way  West  visited  the 
the  Winton  factory.  Mr.  Aldrich  also  visited  the 
Locomobile  factory  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  and  while 
there  received  considerable  personal  attention  from 
Mr.  Riker.  Mr.  Aldrich  has  expressed  himself  as  be- 
ing especially  well-pleased  with  the  shop  methods 
and  modern  machinery  installed  in  their  plant. 

Mr.  H.  H.  Sawyer  of  Napa  came  to  San  Francisco 
last  Saturday  and  purchased  a  new  Oldsmobile  light 
tonneau  touring  car  from  the  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company,  and  in  company  with  Mr.  F.  S.  Jacks 
(also  of  Napa)  Mr.  Sawyer  drove  his  machine  home 

on  Sunday. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  H.  Osen,  of  San  J6se,  in  company  witn 
Mrs.  H.  J.  Edwards,  E.  A.  Hunter  and  A.  N.  John- 
ston, drove  his  new  automobile  light  tonneau  touring 
car  from  San  Jose  to  San  Francisco  and  home  again 

on  Sunday  last. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  A.  E.  Joy,  of  Watsonville,  drove  his  Winton 
car  from  his  home  to  this  city  last  Sunday  and  pro- 
nounces the  Winton  touring  car  to  be  the  only  auto- 
mobile. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  R.  J.  Mier  and  party  of  friends  made  a  trip 
around  the  bay  last  Sunday  in  Mr.  Mier's  new  Win- 
ton touring  car. 

*  *  * 

If  you  are  contemplating  the  purchase  of  an  au- 
tomobile we  wish  to  call  attention  to  the  fact  that 
the  Heine  Motor  Car  Co.  will  be  in  a  position  to  sup- 
ply you  with  a  machine  which  they  claim  is  superior 
to  any  other  machine  for  sale  for  less  than  $2,000. 

The  price  will  be  $875  and  $975.  The  type  of  en- 
gine is  doubly  opposed  cylinder  4^x4^.  Every  part 
accessible  and  durable,  and  for  power  and  weight, 
nothing  on  the  market  like  it. 


Which  of  the  Locomobile  Twins.  Reliability  or  Simplicity, 
Is  more  attractive? 

Reliability  and  Simplicity  are  the  most  im- 
portant qualities  in  any  car.  Beat  exempli- 
fied in  the  Locomobile,  i'ront  vertical  motors 
only.  Prices,  $2100  up.  At  present  writing 
our4-cyl.car  holds  N.  Y. -Boston  Kecord  in 
both  directions. 


Both  records  were  made    by    purchasers 
driving  their  own  cars. 

THE  LOCOMOBILE  CO.  of  America,  Bridgeport,  Coon. 

Branch  Offices:    N.  Y.,  Broadway  and  76th  St. 
Phila..  249  North  Broad  St.:    Chicago,    1861 
Michigan  Ave- :  Bridgeport.    Factory  at  Sea- 
side Park :  Boston,  15  Berkeley  St. 
Member  Association  of  Licensed  Aulomobile  Mfrs. 


IE  you  are  contem- 
plating the  purchase 
of  an  automobile  we 
wish  to  call  attention 
to  the  tact  that  we 
will  be  in  a  position 
to  supply  you  with  a 
machine  which  we 
know  is  superior  to 
any  other  machine 
for  sale  for  less  than 
$2000. 

The  price  will  be 

$875  and  $975 

The  type  of  engine  is 
double  opposed  cylinder  4%-xiX.  Every  part  accessible  and  dura- 
ble, and  tor  power,  and  weight,  nothing  on  the  market  like  it. 

HEINE    MOTOR    CAR.    CO. 

235-237  Geary  St.        Opp.  Union  Square        San  Francisco 


HOTEL  VENDOME 

SAN    JOSE,    CAL 
vvv> 
New  Automobile  Garage 

open  at  all  hours,  and  in  charge  of  competent 
men.  Free  of  charge  to  guests.  All  roads  in 
Santa  Clara  Valley  open  to  automobiles.  Easy 
run  to  San  Jose  in  2  hours  and  a  half. 

J.  T.  BROOKS,  Manager. 


Strong  Sunlight,  Wind  and  Dust. 

Cause  Eye  Strain,  Granulation  and  Redness.  Murine  Eye  Rem- 
edy restores,  cures  Eye  diseases,  soothes  Eye  pain,  aids  those 
wearing  glasses;  doesn't  smart.    A  favorite  toilet  requisite. 


AUTOMOBILE  DIRECTORY. 

Storage,  Repair  and  Supply  Stations. 

San  Jose. 

GEO.  H.  OSEN  &  CO.,  13-16-17  W.  St.  John  St.,  San  Jose.  Com- 
plete Repair  Shop.  Large  stock  of  auto  supplies.  Storage  sta- 
tion, etc.    Agents  for  Winton,  Locomobile,  Oldsmobile,  etc. 


3o  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

COLONEL  WATTERSON  AT  THE  GUNS. 

An  Eastern  publication  speaks  of  W.  R.  Hearst, 
the    assumed    Presidential    candidate,    as    follows: 

Rather  than  lift  the  screen  and  tell  them,  what 
could  not  be  denied,  we  prefer  to  believe — nay,  we 
do  believe — that  the  young  sybarite,  who  is  back  of 
it — the  invisible  millionaire  reckless  of  consequences 
— the  rich  nondescript  aspiring  to  be  I 'resident  of 
the  United  Slates — is  as  insane  as  the  young  gentle- 
man 'who  is  said  to  have  tired  the  Ephesian  dome, 
not  to  mention  the  worn-out  voluptuary,  who  they 
tell  us  fiddled  while  Rome  was  burning.  Surrounded 
by  nothing  but  his  money-bags,  be  imagines  that  all 
tilings  may  he  bought  by  money.  Surrounded  by  his 
bodyguard  of  more  or  less  intellectual  retainers,  he 
fancies  himself  a  god.  Used  to  no  element  except 
money,  bred  to  no  appliances  except  its  lavish  ex- 
penditure, considering  no  force  except  its  pressure, 
he  thinks  to  buy  the  nomination  as  a  bill  of  goods, 
and  tn  compass  an  election  by  the  process  of  turning 

uver  a  bill  of  g 1-  and  getting  a  profit  on  it.  Fancy 

such   a   person   posing  as   a   particular   friend  of  the 
lowly  and  the  pi  u  ir. 


June  25,  1904. 


The  attention  of  National  <  hiard  officers  is  called 
In  the  latest  army  regulation  uniforms  and  equip- 
ments sold  by  the  Pettibone  Bros.  Manufacturing 
Company,  19  New  Montgomery  street,  this  city.  This 
firm  is  represented  by  Captain  T.  A.  Nerney,  former- 
ly of  the  4th  Reg.  Inf.,  X.  G.  C,  and  Naval  Militia, 
Cal.,  now  on  the  retired  list,  having  served  nearly 
twenty  years.  We  are  able  to  state  that  Captain 
Nerney  knows  what  the  regulations  require,  and  is 
in  a  position  to  supply  the  wants  of  the  National 
( iuard  officers  at  the  lowest  figure. 


The  Butte  County  Railroad  has  issued  a  pamphlet 
that  is  descriptive  of  Butte  County.  This  railroad 
reaches  a  mining  and  timber  country  that  is  un- 
equaled  in  the  State  for  the  advantages  it  offers  for 
settlement  and  investment.  We  notice  that  the  com- 
pany, whose  offices  are  at  Chico,  California,  will  send 
one  of  these  pretty  little  brochures  to  any  one  who 
may  apply  for  same  on  receipt  of  five  two-cent 
stamps.     Address  the  Advertising  Department. 


The  Sunset  for  July  (advance  copy)  has  been  re- 
ceived at  this  office.  Mr.  Aitken,  the  editor,  is  to  be 
congratulated  on  his  splendid  selection  of  articles 
for  this  number.  The  cover  is  by  Dixon,  and  is  a 
very  creditable  piece  of  work.  Under  Mr.  Aitken's 
able  management,  this  publication  is  fast  becoming 
very  popular,  and  is  especially  valuable  as  being  a 
comprehensive  guide-book  of  the  industrial  resources 
of  the  Pacific  Coast. 


The  Mother's  Friend, 


BIG   TREES 

AM) 

YOSEMITE 


The  greatest  trees  in  all  the  world  are  found  in  the 
Mariposa  grove,  reached  only  by  the  Raymond- 
Wawona  route  to  the  Valley.  "The  Grizzly  Giant," 
"Wawona,"  "The  Fallen  Monarch"  and  other 
famous  Big  Trees.  The  stage  road  is  shortest  and 
smoothest,  the  Big  Trees  the  mightiest,  and  the  entire 
route  the  most  satisfactory.  Ask  about  it  of  any 
agent,  or  at 

613  MARKET  STREET.  S.  F. 

Southern   Pacific 


LIKE    BEING    AT    HOME 


when  nature's  supply  fails,  is  Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk.  It  is  a  cows  milk  adapted  to  infants,  accord- 
ing to  the  highest  scientific  methods.  An  infant  fed  on 
Eagle  Brand  will  show  a  steady  gain  In  weight. 


You  will     appear  to  be  always  wearing  new  clothing 

if  you  have  your  suits  cleaned  and  preosed  regularly  by 
Spaulding's  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  127  S'ockton 
street.  Besides,  it  maiies  the  clothing  last  twice  as  long. 
They  also  clean  gloves,  neckties,  ribbons,  laces,  curtains, 
draperies  and  all  such  articles  quickly  and  thoroughly. 
Try  them  once,  and  you  will  be  satisfied. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are  sold  direct  from  the  mine  and  factory 

for  $7.50  per  ton;  half-ton  $4;  quarter  ton  %Z.  Use  Briquettes  tor 
cooking  and  heating,  and  you  will  save  at  least  one-third  on  your 
fuel  bill.  Phone  Tesla  Coal  Co.,  South  95,  and  your  order  will 
receive  prompt  attention. 


The  "ANONA" 

A  First-Class  Resort 


Meals  at  all  hours.  Reasonable 
prices.  Best  of  Wines  and 
Liquors. 


MIL0  J.  QILLETT,  Prop. 

2910     SAN     BRUNO     AVENUE 

Tel.  Capp  see 


June  35,  1904.  SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 

International  Congress 

of  Women 


Comparatively  little  is  known  in  this  Western 
part  significance  of  the  Inter- 

national 1  11  that  has    just     con 

chulcd  its  notable  session  in  Berlin,  Germany.  The 
:iizcd  body  back  of  thi>  gathering  was  the  Inter- 
national Council  of  Women,  a  branch  of  which  exists 
in  this  city.  The  local  body  affiliated  with  this  world- 
wide movement  has  been  suffering  the  vicissitudes 
incident  to  every  innovation.  As  i.ir  as  outward  ap- 
pearances go,  it  has  been  making  snail-pace  progress 
tor  the  "council  idea,"  as  the  underlying  principle 
is  called,  involves  a  scheme  somewhat  Utopian  and 
much  more  comprehensive  than  the  club  idea.  In 
the  former  scheme,  all  the  endeavor  is  for  the  benefit 
of  womankind,  and  in  the  latter,  for  the  comfort  and 
happiness  of  the  individual  members  Oi  the  individual 
organizations.  It  is  likely  that  the  local  council  will 
grow  more  rapidly  when  Mrs.  John  F.  Swift  returns 
from  Berlin.  She  is  president  of  the  San  Francisco 
Council  and  also  president  of  the  National  Council 
of  Women,  but  she  has  been  so  busy  with  the  con- 
cerns of  the  larger  bodies,  and  has  had  to  be  away 
from  the  city  so  much  of  the  past  year,  that  the  local 
council  has  been  simply  "waiting." 

The  story  of  the  International  Council  is  a  long 
one,   but  stripped  of  every  detail,  it  is  as  follows : 

Away  back  in  1888,  through  the  masterful  plans 
of  Miss  Susan  B.  Anthony,  the  late  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Cady  Stanton,  Mrs.  May  Wright  Sewall  and  Mrs. 
Rachel  Foster  Avery,  the  first  international  Council 
of  Women  was  held  in  Washington,  D.  C.  It  was  a 
sort  of  celebration  of  what  had  been  accomplished 
by  these  pioneers  in  the  cause  of  women,  and  was  so 
eminently  successful  that  Mrs.  May  Wright  Sewall 
proposed  a  permanent  National  Council  of  Women 
for  the  United  States,  and  logically,  an  International 
Council.  The  scope  of  this  was  so  all-comprehensive, 
the  ideals  so  high,  that  many  entirely  friendly, 
thought  that  the  women  of  the  world  were  not  ready 
for  co-operation  on  such  broad  lines.  Mrs.  Sewall 
was  confident  of  the  outcome,  and  her  outlook  was 
clear.  The  time  was  fitting,  and  the  work  has  been 
growing  since  then,  until  club  miracles  have  hap- 
pened. The  object  was  and  is  to  bring  into  one  large, 
active,  fraternal  body  all  associations  of  women,  no 
matter  their  individual  purposes,  that  all  may  work 
for  the  few  things  that  are  of  concern  and  interest 
to  every  one  of  them. 

It  was  decided  that  the  International  Congress 
should  convene  every  five  years  in  some  part  of  the 
globe.  Every  one  remembers  the  great  Woman's 
Congress  held  in  Chicago.  That  was  the  second  of 
the  quinquennial  conventions,  although  there  were 
many  who  thought  at  that  time  that  the  Congress 
was  a  sort  of  gratuitous  organization.  Mrs.  Sewall 
was  asked  to  become  international  president,  but  she 
declined,  and  urged  the  election  of  Lady  Aberdeen, 
which  followed.  The  third  quinquennial  was  held  in 
London  in  1899.  It  was  there  that  ladies  of  quality 
sat  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  women  not  at  all  of 
their  own  social  standing,  something  never  known 
in  England.  Both  the  titled  women  and  those  of  the 
people  were  delighted  by  the  experience,  and  each 
frankly  admitted  the  benefit  derived  from  this  asso- 
ciation. Each  found  that  she  had  interests  in  com- 
mon with  her  neighbor,  and  with  Kipling,  they  knew 
that  the  "Colonel's  lady  and  Judy  O'Grady  were  sis- 
ters under  their  skin."     At  the  London  gathering, 


Si 

'deen   was   made  honorary   president,  and 
Mr<    Sewall  president 

\s  the  women  of  seventeen  countries  were  inter- 
in   the  recent    Berlin  Convention,  it  is  easy  to 
see  why  the  great  news  agencies  sent  cables  around 
the  world  of  its  proceedin 

The  women  of  the  councils  are  anxious  for  uniform 
divorce  laws,  uniform  laws  on  child  labor,  and  uni- 
form  laws  regarding  property   rights  of  women.     A 
big  undertaking,  but   some   strong  levers  have  been 
d   under   the   load. 


Wedding   and   Birthday   presents   In    great   variety   at   Oump'a. 
113  Geary  street 


BEKINS  PacKing,  Moving  and  Storing  of  Household  Goods 


SHIPPING  AT  CUT  RATES  TO  AND     FROM    AtL   POINTS 
IN  OVR  OWN  PRIVATE  CARS 

Main  Office  11  MONTGOMERY  ST..  San  Francisco 

PHONE    MAIN    1840 
1016  Broadway      Los  Angeles  Office:  244  S.  Broadway 


Oakland  Office: 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
The  Continental  Building  and  Loan  Association 

Has  declared  a  dividend  of  eight  per  cent  per  annum  on  Class  "A" 
and  F"  stock,  six  per  cent  on  te rm  depositx  and  five  per  cent  on  or- 
dinary deposits,  for  the  six  months  ending  June  30.  1904 

WASHINGTON  DODGE.  President. 
.  Wm.  COKUIN,  Sec.  and  Gen'l  Mgr. 

Cor.  California  and  Battery  sts..  San  Francisco. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
Mutual  Savings   Bank   of   San  Francisco. 

For  the  half-year  ending  June  30, 1904.  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3)4)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  de- 
posits, free  of  taxes ;  payable  on  and  after  Friday.  Julv  1. 1904. 


710  Market  St..  San  Francisco. 


GEO.  A.  STOBY,  Cashier. 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  June  30. 1904.  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-auarter  t3'j)  percent  per  annum  on  all  de- 
pot-its. free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1. 1904. 
620  California  St.  GEOEGE  TOUBNY,  Secretary. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
Mechanics'   Savings   Bank. 

For  the  half-year  ending  with  June  30. 1904.  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
clared at  the  rate  nf  three  and  one-quarier  (:i '., )  per  cent  per  annum  on 
all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  alter  Friday.  July  1. 1904 

FBEDERICK  H.  CLABK.  Cashier. 

S.  W.  Corner  Bush  &  Montgomery  Sts. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  the  30th  of  June.  1904.  a  dividend  has 
been  declared  at  the  rate  per  annum  of  three  and  one-half  (3  1-2)  per 
cent  on  term  deposits,  and  three  (3)  per  cent  on  ordinary  deposits,  free 
of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1. 1904. 

„,„       ,    „  „     „  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier. 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company. 

For  the  six  months  ending  June  30.  1904,  dividends  have  been  de- 
clared on  deposits  in  the  Savings  Department  of  this  Company  as  fol- 
lows: On  term  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  6-10  per  cent  per  annum,  and 
on  ordinary  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  per  cent  per  annum,  free  of  taxes, 
and  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1904. 

J.  DALZELL  BEOWN.  Manager. 

Cor.  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


"Golf 


By  Lady  Algy. 

Society  seems  to  have  given  the  double  cross  to 
golf.  The  smart  set  no  longer  blows  over  the  win  i 
swept  green  out  at  the  Presidio.  Of  course,  society, 
plural  number,  masculine  gender,  still  swings  a  ,jol[ 
club,  but  "Nancy  Etticoat"  in  her  short  petticoat,  has 
deserted  it.  'Tis  not  because  summer  has  a  die 
with  My  Lady  to  wander  through  sun-checkered 
glades.  Of  a  truth,  the  girls  gave  golf  the  go-by  all 
winter.  Those  days  that  raised  tne  interrogation  "Is 
Sunday  for  God  or  for  golf?"  have  gone  a-glimrnor- 
ing.  The  week  is  no  longer  too  short  for  the  girls 
to  get  their  fill  of  golf.  Indeed,  most  of  them  have 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  golf's  a  fill  anyhow ! 

The  reason  for  this  is  not  far  to  seek.  The  trouble 
lies  not  with  the  Hoot  Men's  sport  itself,  but  with 
the  ladies.  The  unsportsmanlike  spirit  that  has  char- 
acterized all  their  contests  has  gradually  under- 
mined the  popularity  of  the  game.  Last  winter, 
Alice  Hager  and  Miss  Cheseborough  were  the  only 
members  of  the  "old  guard"  who  went  out  to  the 
Presidio  links.  Mary  Scott  Martin  and  the  other 
Blingumites,  who  were  so  keen  about  golf,  turned  a 
frigid  shoulder  on  the  pastime.  Some  of  the  cynics 
hinted  that  it  was  Mrs.  Peter  Martin's  outspoken 
aversion  toward  golf  that  frosted  the  hearts  of  those 
who  played  the  game  "follow  your  leader"  with  the 
Xewport  matron.  But  this  has  had  no  more  to  do 
with  the  thing,  tra  la,  than  the  flowers  that  bloom 
in  the  spring. 

Even  if  Mrs.  Peter  Martin  had  been  a  keen  golfer, 
it  is  a  question  whether  she  could  have  routed  the 
anti-golf  spirit  that  seems  to  prevail.  The  methods 
of  the  one-time  ardent  competitors  were  unspeak- 
able. Snobocracy  stalked  the  links,  and  a  player 
who  was  not  in  the  Blingum  set  was  snubbed  into 
defeat.  The  vision  of  Mrs.  Henry  Scott  in  her  pink 
hunting  jacket  following  Mrs.  Gilman  Brown  up- 
hill and  down  dale,  "rooting"  all  the  while  for  Caro 
Crocket,  still  haunts  the  putting-green.  When  the 
Oakland  Club  sent  down  its  champion,  then  Miss 
Moffitt,  she  was  treated  in  a  manner  scarcely  sports- 
manlike, but  she  won  out  just  the  same.  Every  other 
"outsider"  was  subjected  to  the  same  "courtesy" 
until  the  contests  became  a  reproach  to  the  Burlin- 
game  Club,  under  whose  auspices  they  were  given. 

But  it  was  the  wheel  within  the  wheel  that  slipped 
a  cog  finally  and  stopped  the  whole  machinery.  Those 
on  the  inside  became  jealous  of  each  other;  there  was 
always  so  much  fret  and  fuss  connected  with  every 
tournament  that  most  of  the  players  decided  that  a 
game  which  strained  friendship  until  you  could  hear 
it  creak,  wasn't  worth  while,  and  the  sport  lan- 
guished. 

The  report  that  the  San  Francisco  golf  club  had 
been  asked  to  pack  its  things  and  go  because  the  mili- 
tary wanted  to  play  in  its  own  back  yard,  is  not  true. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  army  authorities  have  never 
sent  any  "keep  off  ti.e  grass"  signs  to  the  golf  club. 
But  the  members  of  that  organization  have  been 
seriously  thinking  of  building  links  and  a  club-house 
out  near  Ingleside  that  will  make  the  proposed  new 
home  of  the  Oakland  contingent  look  like  a  wayside 
inn.  The  directors  feel  that  this  move  would  put  new 
life  into  the  club.  More  commodious  quarters  could 
be  built  out  there,  and  the  thing  run  on  a  more 
elaborate  scale  than  is  feasible  on  Government  land, 
that  may  be  taken  back  at  any  time.  Of  course,  the 
present  situation  is  very  get-at-able,  but  in  these  au- 


tomobile days,  it  is  figured  that  the  added  distance 
to  Ingleside  would  not  be  considered  a  handicap. 

"Then,  too,  the  ladies  would  come  back  to  us," 
said  one  of  the  powers  that  be  in  the  club.  "The  site 
we  have  in  mind  is  very  protected.  You  know  it  is 
the  wind  that  has  chilled  their  enthusiasm.  It's  hard 
for  the  ladies  to  'butt'  against  the  sort  of  wind  that 
whistles  over  the  Presidio  hills.  Tf  we  can  get  out 
of  the  wind  the  girls  will  golf  as  enthusiastically  ?.s 
ever." 

Well,  perhaps  they  will!  But  they'll  have  to  take 
a  reef  in  their  dispositions  first,  and  learn  something 
about  the  ethics  of  the  sportsman. 

You  can  never  get  any  satisfaction  out  of  cleaning 

your  own  carpets.  It  Is  a  business  which  has  to  be  learned, 
and  amateurs  are  not  a  success  at  It.  Go  to  Spauldlng's 
Carpst  Cleaning  Company.  353  Tehama  street.  The  carpet 
will  come  back  to  you  as  good  as  new.  They  have  a  com- 
plete cleaning  apparatus. 


"Out  of   the   Beaten   Path.' 
Opposite    Palace. 


iom   Dillon's   modern   style   hats. 


Oriental  Rugs  at 

25  per  Cent 

Discount 

CHAS.  M.  PLUM  &  CO. 

NINTH  and  MARKET  STS. 


COOL  HEADS  S^?™* 

A  FINE  LINE  OF  PANAMAS  FROM 

$5.00  TO  $15.00  AT 

V                32#J&QtgUfjJ&!*     _> 

V^^2^2k^^^i 

Also  a  splendid  selection  of  stylish  STRAWS 

and  outing  HATS  and  CAPS. 

TOJVK.IJV,    Photographer 

1490    MARKET    STREET,    ?&,bSlrKU 

SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

GROUND  FLOOR.  STUDIO 


June  25.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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hannon)  of  myriad  » 

ami  fairy  rh\ 
lying  with  th 
And  all  the  pomp  of  mystery  and  riti 
These  things   I   see  .1-  half-awake,  lull-  lr  aming, 
I  hear  the  forest  strearn  flow  through  the  night. 

A  tiny  stream,  and  I  beside  it.  drowsing 

O'er  i!  he  crooning  waters  mat 

1  H<J  ghosts  of  -.irrous.  wraiths  of  pain  arousing, 

And  vain  regrets  for  that  I  did  not  take. 
So  with  the  diapason  of  the  troubles, 

Mingles  the  music  of  the  chanting  bright. 
And  chafing  life  frets  into  foaming  bubbles 

Doomed  to  the  silence  oi  the  pool  at  night. 

—Roland  Whittle. 


COMPENSATION. 


While  an  English  parson  was  making  the  rounds 

of  a  jail,  he  found  an  attentive  listener  in  one  of  the 
worst  of  the  prisoners,  and  with  righteous  zeal  pro- 
ceeded to  make  the  most  of  his  opportunity  to  save 
the  soul  of  the  sinner.  Taking  the  Parable  of  the 
Prodigal  Son,  he  repeated  it  most  impressively.  The 
man  listened  with  his  face  close  to  the  wicket. 

"Say  that  once  again,"  said  the  prisoner,  in  the 
most  pleading  of  tones.  Again  the.  parson  recited  the 
parable,  laying  stress  on  the  new  beauties  that  he 
was  bringing  out.  The  prisoner  was  almost  in  tears 
when  he  asked  for  a  third  repetition  of  the  great  old 
parable.  The  minister  went  laboriously  but  earnestly 
through  it  for  the  third  time,  and  then  turning  to  the 
man  said: 

"My  friend,  will  you  tell  me  exactly  what  part  of 
the  parable  impressed  you  most.  I  have  never  found 
any  one  so  deeply  impressed  as  you  in  that  parable, 
and  it  will  be  a  great  satisfaction  to  know  how  it 
affects  you." 

"Oh,  good  parson,"  replied  the  man  quickly,  it 
was  not  the  parable  at  all.  I  was  enjoying  your 
breath.  I  have  not  had  a  drink  of  whiskey  for  six 
months." 


San  Francisco  now  has  a  "Fruiterie,"  modeled 
upon  the  Paris  and  New  York  places  of  like  design. 
It  has  always  seemed  a  strange  thing  to  tourists  and 
travelers  that  in  a  city  situated,  as  San  Francisco  is, 
in  a  fruit  center,  that  we  have  had  no  high-class  fruit 
establishment. 

The  new  fruiterie  in  Polk  street,  near  Sutter,  is 
not  a  member  of  the  Retail  Fruit  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion, but  obtains  its  supplies  direct  from  the  country. 
The  establishment  is  fitted  up  in  a  most  attractive 
manner,  and  the  company  intends  making  a  specialty 
of  high-class  fruits  of  all  varieties.  A  specialty  is 
made  of  fancy  baskets  of  fruits,  specially  arranged 
for  tourists.  This  is  a  more  substantial  compliment 
to  present  to  visitors  than  the  usual  custom  of  send- 
ing flowers.  The  company  is  incorporated.  George 
L.  Putnam  is  president;  the  directors  are  F.  M.  Hill, 
Pacific  Coast  representative  of  the  Mexican  and 
Orient  Railroad  Company,  and  George  W.  Hallock, 
passenger  agent  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Steamship  Com- 
pany. Sol.  Jacobs,  secretary  of  the  company,  has 
had  years  of  experience  in  the  fruit  business.  It 
is  the  intention  of  the  Fruiterie  to  establish  branches 
throughout  the  city. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

extry  miles  of  territory  for  th' 
other  nations  of  the  world  to  quar- 
rel over."  That  same  man  would 
tell  a  feller  th^t  was  a-goin'  to  be 
hanged  in  ten  minutes  not  to  spend 
his  money  fur  a  chew,  on  th' 
ground  that  it's  th'  thrifty,  savin' 
folks  without  had  habits  that  gits 
along  best. — Judge. 


AN    OLD    SALT'S    OBSERVA- 
TIONS. 

"Ain't  he  calm,  though !"  they 
said  about  the  man.  "Was  he 
hurt  in  th'  accident?"  I  asked. 
"No,"  says  they;  "but  some  of  his 
friends  was."  An'  I  had  to  go 
away  to  laugh. 

I'd  rather  be  jest  me,  Obed  Bur- 
gee, master  of  the  Lyddy,  than 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots.  If  I  don't 
run  mv  ship  to  suit  the  people, 
they  jest  snigger,  say  I'm  a  fool, 
an'  run  along.  But  when  she  did 
not  run  her  kingdom  so's  to  suit 
'em  they  didn't  snigger — not  a  bit. 
They  chopped.  And  it  was  her 
neck  they  chopped.  She  died  of 
it. 

There  was  a  mightv  affection- 
ate married  couple  on  my  ship  one 
v'yage.  "I  tell  you,"  the  husband 
said  to  me.  "that  I  owe  mv  pro- 
fessional success  to  her."  "What's 
your  business?"  I  asked  then. 
"Why,  I'm  a  doctor,"  he  replied. 
"How  was  it  that  she  helped 
you?"  T  asked  then.  "She  started 
up  free  cooking  schools,"  he  ans- 
wered. An'  I'm  still  a-wonderin' 
what  he  meant. 

I  lived  next  door  to  a  philoso- 
pher last  winter.  "Ain't  you  goin' 
to  clean  the  snow  off  vour  side- 
walks'" I  asked  of  him.  "Though! 
T'd  wait  a  while."  he  answered. 
How  long  you  goin'  to  wait?"  I 
asked  him.  "Thought  T'd  wait 
about  two  months,"  said  he.  "But 
that'll  be  spring,  an'  there  won't 
be  no  snow  to  clean  off,"  I  says 
angrily.  "That's  what  T  was  think- 
ing." savs  the  philosopher. 

There's  some  folks  can  find 
things  to  criticise  anywhere  and 
everywhere.  "What."  savs  the'  old 
sailor  when  we  was  discussin'  of 
th'  Panama  Canal,  "would  happen 
if  the  tides  in  the  two  oceans 
should  happen  to  come  different? 
Sav  Atlantic  was  low  an'  Pacific 
high.  Why,  th'  old  Pacific  'd  jest 
rush  through  into  th'  Atlantic. 
Then  s'pose  some  fool  critter  shut 
th'  locks.  Why.  then  New  Jersey 
an'  Great  Britain  they'd  be  drownd 
out  along  with  everything  in  east 
America  an'  west  Europe,  Asia 
and  Africa.  While  east  Asia — 
th'  Chinese  would  have  ten  million 


HARD    TO    UNDERSTAND. 

In  the  Midland  Hotel — and  sev- 
eral others  here,  too,  for  that  mat- 
ter— the  parlor  rooms  are  marked 
by  letters  instead  of  by  numbers. 
This  led  to  a  funny  mix-up  last 
night  in  the  Midland's  elevator  be- 
tween the  rather  deaf  negro  opera- 
tor and  a  testy  traveler,  who  was 
in  a  hurry  to  get  to  bed.  This  man 
had  been  assigned  to  parlor  U,  and 
he  started  in  the  elevator  for  it.  As 
he  entered  he  said: 

"U." 

The  Senegambian.  not  hearing 
well,  looked  at  him  for  further  re- 
marks, but  none  came.  The  eleva- 
tor went  on  up,  and  the  darkey 
turned  to  the  traveler  and  asked: 

"What  flooah.  boss?" 


June  25,  1904. 

HAND 

SAPOLIO 

FOR  TOILET  AND  BATH 

Fingers  roughened  by  needlework 

catch  every  stain  and  look  hopelessly 
dirty.  Hand  Sapolio  removes  not  only 
the  dirt,  but  also  the  loosened,  injured 
cuticle,  and  restores  the  fingers  to 
their  natural  beauty. 

ALL    GROCERS     AND     DRUGGIST? 

"U,"  the  man  answered  again. 

"Yesser,  dat's  me,  but  wah  you 
want  to  go?" 

"U!  U!"  the  man  repeated  tes- 
tily.    "Can't  you  hear?" 

"Yasser,  Ah  done  said  dat  am 
me "  began   the   negro: 

Then  the  man  found  his  senses 
and  said : 

"I  want  to  go  to  parlor  U ;  can't 
you  understand  ?" 

The  negro  took  him  back  five 
floors  and   dumped   him   out. 

"Never  could  understand  some 
folks,"  was  all  he  said. — Kansas 
City  Journal. 


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AN  ILLUSTRATED  MAGAZINE  OF  THE  WEST 

JULY,   1904 

CONTENTS: 

The  Heart  of  Morodom  Chaplain   C.  C.   Bateman    5 

When  Truth  Appears   Clarence    Hawkes    10 

The  Legend  of  Kwan-Shai-Yin L.    Calhoun    Duff    n 

The  Japanese-Russian  War  (Pictorially) .  .  C.   E.  Lorrimer   13 

Night  at  the  Hacienda S.  Homer  Henley  20 

The  Favored  Isles Burton    McKnight    21 

Nature's  Alchemy Arthur    McDonald    Dole    23 

When  the  Dead  Return   Charles  Warren  Stoddard    24 

Lifting  the  Caimanera  Mines Arthur    H.    Dutton    25 

Yale  and  the  Fraser  River  Canyon.  .Frank  Williamson    33 

Lucy  of  the  Hualapais Alma  Martin  Estabrook   41 

The  World's  Thought   (A  Compilation) ..  Pierre    N.    3eringer    44 

A   Guiltless   Atonement    ;.... Helen   Ellsworth  Wright   53 

To   Alfred   Tennyson    Henry  Meade  Bland   57 

A  Shot  in  the  Mist Henry   Walsworth    Kinney 58 

A  Symphony  in  Scarlet   Eleanore  F.   Lewys   64 

Crypsis    Aloysius   Coll    69 

Odd  Things  Which  Live  in  the  Sea.  .E.   R.    Miller    71 

The  Ghost  of  the  Foxhall  Loyola  L.  Mills,  U.  S.  A 75 

The  Republic   of  Panama    Edwin   Moxey 77 

Devils,  White  and  Yellow Adriana    Spadoni    80 

The  Story  I  Told  Scroggs Mabel   Haughton   Brown 83 

The  History  of  California  Names  and  Places.  .C.  E.  Bailey 89 

Book  Reviews   Pierre  N.   Beringer  and  staff   .  .  .&S 


June  25,  1904. 

EXAMINE   YOVR   DENTIFRICE 

Add  and  jrt'-   to*SUmt  tiwmto*  o(  ik« 

l««lh.  abound  In  cheap  dentifrice*  Fine  per- 
fumes do  not  make  fine  dcntlfrlcea.  Your 
teeth  deaerve  tetter  of  you  than  lo  be  offered 
up  a  iacrifice  lo  your  pocketbook. 

SOZODONT 

is  of  proven  value.  Sixty  years  Is  a  pretty 
food  leal.  No  acid,  no  rnt  In  Sozodont. 
The  Liquid  penetrates  the  little  crevices  and 
purifies  (hem:  the  Powder  gives  a  bright 
and  polished  surface. 

3  FORMS  :  LIQUID,  POWDER.  PASTE. 

Journalistic. 

I    print   but   the   truth, 
Aiul   tear  not   the  morrow, 

I.i-t   it  bring  me  of  ruth — 
Then   find,  to  me   sorrow, 

I'm   shy  all 

Denial 
To   fill   with,   to-morrow. — Pucl>. 


Farmer  Clodpcltcr  —  Colonel 
Chinnaway  says  he  is  out  of  poli- 
tics. Farmer  Bentover — Yes,  I 
know  he  says  so.  but  I  notice  he's 
actin'  like  a  feller  that  is  mighty 
afraid  the  nomination  for  Congress 
will  sneak  up  and  bite  him  on  the 
leg. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

SUNBEAMS 

tfliolen    from    Thieve*} 

"Mr.    Richley   had    nothing    but 

ior    \,.iir    work    before    the 

ommittee,"  Mid  the 
friend.  "Yes,"  replied  the  lobby- 
omily,  "nothing  but  praise." 
"We  have  rehearsed  the  wed- 
ding n  times."  "That 
ought  to  iii-ure  a  satisfactory  per- 
formance."    "I   don't   know.     The 

bishop    and    three    of    the    bl 
maids   show    9igns   of  going   stale." 

Gunner — They  say  that  seals  in 
the  stock  exchange  are  more  diffi- 
cult to  obtain  every  year.  Guyer 
—Yes,  soon  it  will  be  as  difficult 
to  obtain  a  scat  in  the  stock 
change  as  it  is  in  a  street  car. 

"We  will  one  day  have  the  laws 
abolish  the  trusts!"  said  the  indig- 
nant citizen.  "That  is  very  incon- 
siderate," answered  the  great  pro- 
moter. "The  trusts  haven't  mack' 
any  threats  about  abolishing  the 
laws." 


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"What  do  you  understand  by  the 
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barbarian,  "are  those  who  have 
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The  hare  easily  caught  up  with 
the  tortoise.  "Well,  old  man,  you 
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sneered.  "No,"  admitted  the  tor- 
toise, "I'm  not.  I  think  I'll  try  for 
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"I  have  just  read  your  last  book 
of  poems,"  said  the  critical  friend. 
"That  is  ungrammatical,"  said 
the  soulful  bard ;  "you  should  have 
said  my  latest  book  of  poems.  ' 
"I  suppose  it  was  wrong.  But  I 
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Spinkster — Johnny,  your  mother 
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Sunday?  Johnny — But  I  say,  pa, 
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Spinkster — Did  you?  Your  mother 
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"I  am  strongly  inclined  to  think 
that  your  husband  has  appendici- 
tis," said  the  physician.  "That's 
just  like  him,"  answered  Mrs. 
Cumrox.  "He  always  waits  till 
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of  style  before  he  decides  to  get 
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"When  I  was  a  boy,"  said  the 
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"I  wanted  to  be  a  soldier,  but  my 
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36 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


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8  30a  Tort    Costa,    Uartlaes,    A.attoob, 

Byron,  Tracy.  Stockton.  New- 
man. Los  Bnnus,  M  0  nil  o  ta, 
Armonn,  Baoford,  Vlaulla, 
TorKTvllle 4.20p 

8  30A  I'-ti   CuKtu,   ,M  u.J  into.   M<- reed, 

Fresno,  Qoabeo   Junction,  Htm- 

ford,  Vlinlla.  Bakers n eld 4.50p 

p  30a  Niirit.  Hmi  .luxe.  LWermore,  Stock- 

ion,  ftMllton).  lone,  SarniniftltO, 
Marysvllle,  Clilco.  ICt-.i  Hliiff  ....      420p 
8. 30a  Qakilaln.  Chine**).  Jami*ntown,  80- 

noni,  Tii"  In  in  nb  and  An  vela 4  20p 

9  00a  A  Mantle  Kxpreaii-OKilen  and  Rant.      B.20p 
930a  kn-imh. .mi,    Uartloei    aud     Way 

Btatlons 6  B0p 

10  00a  rii"    Overland    Limited  —  Off  den, 

Di' nvcr,  Oinuliii,  (JIjIchko 820P 

1000a  Vallejo 12.20P 

10.00a  Lom  Anmlas  Pansen«cr  —  Port 
COBtl,  Martinez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Lntliron.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Buy  1110111I.  Kromio.  (lucli-ii  Juno 
Won,  Mnnf.ird.  Lcmooro,  Viaaila. 

BnkeritneM,  Loi  AnnHin.. 7.20p 

12.00m  Hay  ward.  Niiennn.|  Way  Stations,      3.20p 

LOOP  Bn  cm  men  to  Klver  Steamers tll.OilP 

3-30P  lien li  la,       Winters,       8ncrnmriito, 

W Hand,      WHIOWB,        Knights 

LnttdliiB,      Marysvllle,     Orovllle 

and  way  otntlons 1050a 

3.30P  Haywnr.l   Sites  and  Way  Stations..       7-60P 

3-30p  I'ut't  Costa,  Martini'/..  U>ron, 
Tracy,  Latiirop,  Hod  ea  to, 
Merced  1    Bei  emit,    I  n   no    and 

Way  St.HI.. 119  heyond  Port  Coma     12-20P 

3- 30p  Foaeinlte  Valley,  via  Dereoda  aud 

Waw 1 B.BOa 

3  30p  Marline/,  'li  a. y.  BtocKtOn,  Lodl...     10.20a 

4  OOP  Miirllnr/.Sini  Cini-.n.  V nl lej.i.  Napa, 

Call n tone,  Sa iiu.it 9. 20a 

A  OCp  niicb,  Traoy,  Stuck Lodl 4.20p 

4  3tP  ihtywiiril.    NII.m.    IrvlDgtOD,  SAD  1      1850a 

juie,  Llvermore l  Ml. 60a 

6  OOp  I'bo  Owl   Limited— Newm-n.  Los 

Banua,  Menduin   Krr-in..  I'uhire, 

,  „         Hakeiaiteld.l.oB  AnK«|e».     860a 

c.OOp  p0rt  Uosta.  Trnoy,  Bluclttnn 12  20p 

16  30p  i-laywnrd,  Niius  and  Hnn  Jose 7. 20a 

6-Olp  1 1  ay  ward,  Niiumtnd  Ban  Jose 9  !j0a 

6-Oup  Kiihtern  Kxpreaa— Ue;den,  Oenver, 
O m  11  (111,  St,  LouIh,  ChluBftO  and 
Bast,  \  in  M.i  lues,  Siu.  kton, 
BticramentOi  cuirax,  Reno 12.B0p 

6. OOP  Vail.  Jo  dully.  except  Sunday...    I        7  ,.„_ 

7  0'  p  Vallcjo,  buuday  only f      '  bUP 

7 .0CPl.lt  tun. .ml,  mui   Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinet  ami  Way  siutloim   1120a 

7 -00p  Ben. i  Passenger— Port  t-ostif,  Bal- 

Bun.  Kimiiii,  in.vii-.  Bneratnonto, 
Truckeo,  Luke  Tabu*,  ic.-uo, 
Tonoi.ah.  B narks...,  7  60a 

806p  Oregon  &  Oajfrornla  KxpresB-Sae- 

ra ito,    Mary arl lie,    Bedding, 

Puriland,  I'np'i  smiiim!  ami  Knot.      8.50a 

B.IOp  Hay  ward,  Nlien  and  Ban  Joie(8nn 
day  only] M.iO/i 


Coast  Line 

Narrow  Gauge 

(Foot  of  Market  Street) 


7.45a  Ssnta  Cruz  Kxctirnloni  Sunday  only)       81  Op 
B-16A  Newark.    Oentervllle,     San     Jo  bo, 
Feltoo,  BoulderCreuk,  WnBithln, 
Santa  Cruz  mid  Way  Stations. ..      6  5jp 
18-1BA  Alvarad...   Newark.    San   Jose,  Los 
Oaloa.GIenwuod,  Felt  on,  Boulder ' 
Creek,  H\k  BaHln.  Santa  Cruz...        8  10p 
'2.16p  Newark,     Centervllle,     San     JoBe, 
New  Almnden.  LOS  OatOS.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    IOSSa 

4  16p  Newark.  San  Jose,  Los  Catos 18  55a 

4.1BP  Wright,   BODlder  Creek  and   .Santa 
Cruz,  Saturday  and  Sunday  only.     liQ  55a 

COAST    LINE    <Btoad  t.aime). 
:  r  '  I'lilrd  ami    f.nvn 
B.10a  San  Joae  and  Way  Station  G3"r 

'7  00a  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations B  4Cp 

7.16a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Kicnr- 

hlun  fsnuday  unly) 10.30P 

B-LOa  Kew  AJmaden  CTuea.,  Krld..  only),  4.10p 
8  C0a  The  Coaster— San  Jose,  Salinas. 
Ban  Ardo,  Paso  BoMett,  Santa 
Margarita,  San  Luis  Ublspo, Santa 
Bur  liar  a,  San  Buena\  en  t  nra, 
HontalTO,  Oxunrd,  Uurii&uk,  Loa 

Angeles 10.4SP 

600a  Giiroy,  HolHster.  Castrovlllo.  Del 
M  .ntc.  Pacific  Grove,  Surf.  Lom 

poc 1046p 

9.00a  bun  .lose,  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
Ban  taCruE.PaclOoarove,  Salinas, 
BAn  Luis  <>l>lnpu  and  Principal 
Way  Stations - ...      4.10p 

10  30a  *-an  Juae  and  Way  Stations 1.20P 

11  ILa  Santa   Clara,    San   Jose.  Lob  Gatoa 

and  Way  Statloiiri     7.30:3 

1  30 p  San  Jose  and  way  Btatlons 8  36  > 

13  top  i»ei  Monte  Uzpreaa  -Santa  Clara, 

San  Jofe.  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 

Pacific  GroTe I21bp 

3  30p  Barllngame,  San  Jose,  Gllroy,  noi- 

llster,   rres  Plnos,  Pojaro,  t:n|.l- 

tola,  Santa  Cruz,  Citntruvllle, 
Salinas,  Pad  He.  drove 10  45  a 

4  30p  Pan  .)■.■<■  and  Way  Stations 1800a 

'E i  OOP  Santa  Clara.  Han   Jose,   Lus  UatOS, 

Wright  and  principal  Way  sta- 

tluns  (axcepi  Bandar) tS-OOa 

.6  30 p  ban  Joseand Principal WayStatloni    S9.40a 
6  46p  bunttei    Kx press. — lted wood.   San 

Jose,  Gllroy.  Salinas.  Paso  Bob  lea. 
Ban  l.nin  uitlopu,  Santa  Hnrl.ara, 
Lob  AngdeB,  DemliiE.   LSI   Paso, 

New  Orleans,  New  Fork., 7.10a 

646p  Pajuru.  Capltola,  Santa  Croz.  Cas- 
tro viiin, Dei  Monte.PaclBoQrofa,    io.45p 

f8  16p  c«''  Mateo. Herenford.HfluK.in. San 
Carlos.    Bed  wood,    Fair    Oaks, 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto 16.46a 

6  30p  ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6. 36a 

8-Q0p  l'alo  Alto  .mil  Way  Stations 10.16a 

11 ,30P  South  han  Francisco.  M  llli.rae.  Bnr- 
llUKame.  San  Mateo.  Helmont, 
baa  Carlos,  tied  wood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Meulo  Park.  Hnd  Pnlo  Alto 8.4&P 

"11.30P  Maylleld,   Mouutalu    View,  Suony- 
vale,  Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

San  .lone 19  45p 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Aftoruoon 

iboDday  excepted.  1  Sunday  onlr 

obaturduy  only.  O  Monday  only. 

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TbT     l  ,M  O  ^       IKANM  Kit     C'OMI'ANV 
v  III  call  lor  and  cueck  baggage  from  boiels  and  real 
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Pants  $4.50  ^ 

My  $25.00  Suits  are  the*J 

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1110-1112  Market  St        S 
201-203  MontR'v  St..  S.  F.S 


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O.  R.  &  N.  CO. 

The  Only  Steamship  Line  to 
PORTLAND,   ORE 

And  short  liiiil  Line  from  Portland  toall  Polnte 
East.    Through  Tickets  to  .-ill  Points  all  Kail  or 

Steamship  and  Kail  at  Lowest  Bates. 

Steamer  Tickets  include  Berth  and  Meals. 

ss  OKEGON  Sails  Mar.  28-  April  7. 17.  27.  May 

"88"  GEO.   W.  I'.l.HKli  Sails  Man-It  28.    April 
■1.  vi. '.".'.    May  '.'.  12, ,.,,-, 

S.  P.  BOOTH.  General  Agent 
No.  1  Hontflromery  si.  Ban  Francisco,  Cal. 

Howson  Lott — Here's  a  copy  of 
the  new  time  table.  Suburbs — 
What's  new  about  it?  Howson 
Lott — The  way  it's  folded. — 
Judge. 


BYRON  MAUZY 


PIANOS  Warrg?&dar, 
Sohmer  Piano  Agency 

308-312  Post  SI.,San  Francisco 

The  Ceclllan,  the  Perfect  riano  Player 


June  3$.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


37 


EXPOSITION     NOTr  5 

World's    Fair   Grounds.    June    to.    IQ04. 
The  extent 

I  in  tlir   ! 
era  I 

popular  fl  hown  there  bj 

the  leading  .  rmany.    The  inlaid  va 

rk  linoleum  1-  of  particular  interest.     In 
differ  rk  composition  ar- 

together  a-   t.,  form   a   most   beautiful   pattern,  which 

will  remain  •Itirin lt  the  life  of  the  linoleum.     Some 

_ns  arc  -hown  in  the  exhibit,  and 
practical  uses  of  linoleum  as  a  floor  covering  is  dem- 
onstrated by  it-  use  in  covering  the  entire  tlo,,r  of  the 
German  section  of  this  and  several  other  buildings 
in  the   Exposition   Grounds. 

John  Dewar  &  Sons  have  made  a  novel  ex- 
hibit for  their  distillery  at  Perth,  Scotland,  in  the 
Palace  of  Agriculture.  They  have  reproduced  Scott's 
"House  of  the  Pair  Maid  ot  Perth."  and  the  only 
exhibit  in  the  building  is  a  big,  brawny  Scotch  High- 
lander, who  attracts  a  large  crowd  with  the  lively 
h  air-  he  plays  011  his  bagpipe.  He  is  known 
as  the  Pipe  Major  McDonald,  and  carries  several 
medals  from  the  Sealortli  Highlanders  and  the 
Black  Watch  with  whom  he  did  service. 

Two  hundred  pounds  of  candy  arc  being  made 

everv  ten  minutes  in  the  Palace  of  Agriculture. 
Calvin  S.  Morris,  of  St.  Louis,  has  an  exhibit  of  the 
latest  improved  candy-making  machines,  and  will 
manufacture  fifteen  or  twenty  kinds  of  candy  to  show 
process.  A  booth  made  of  candy  confetti  adds  to  the 
beauty  of  the  exhibit. 

The  perfume  factory  in  the  Palace  of  Liberal 

Arts  is  in  dailv  operation,  and  the  curious  processes 
necessary  to  the  production  of  the  odorous  liquids 
are  very  attractive  to  visitors.  Every  part  of  the 
process  is  carried  on  in  the  display,  which  is  located 
in  the  southeast  corner  of  the  building. 

A  curious  old  bronze  idol  has  just  been  added 

to  the  Chinese  section  of  the  Liberal  Arts  Building. 
It  is  made  from  solid  bronze,  weighs  2,000  pounds, 
and  is  a  relic  of  the  dynasty  of  Ming,  one  of  the 
Chinese  rulers  who  reigned  about  1404  A.  D.  The 
idol  represents  a  figure  having  eleven  heads  arranged 
in  a  pyramid  five  heads  high,  and  42  arms  and  hands, 
half  on  each  side  of  the  body.  The  idol  is  in  a  good 
state  of  preservation,  and  is  a  striking  reminder 
of  the  religion  of  the  period  of  history  in  China  which 
it  represents. 

One  of  the  exhibits  of  the  Department  of  Lib- 
eral Arts  which  is  not  in  the  Liberal  Arts  Building, 
is  that  of  machinery  for  making  concrete  blocks.  The 
company  making  this  exhibit  is  now  operating  one 
of  these  machines,  and  is  daily  turning  out  the  con- 
crete blocks  which  will  be  used  in  erecting  a  building 
for  the  display  of  the  machines.  This  work  is  being 
done  on  the  site  of  the  building  in  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  grounds  near  the  Press  Building.  The 
building,  which  will  be  completed  in  about  a  month, 
will  be  30  feet  square,  with  a  wide  porch,  20  by  30 
feet  along  one  side.  It  will  be  wholly  constructed  of 
hollow  concrete  blocks,  the  product  of  the  machine, 
exhibited,  and  will  serve  both  as  an  office  for  the 
exhibitor  and  a  place  of  rest  for  visitors,  as  well  as 
•an  exhibit  building  for  the  machines.  The  machines, 
•irwhich  are  adjustable,  will  be  shown  in  operation 
during  the  summer,  making  blocks  of  artificial  stone 
•  of  all  sizes,  shapes  and  colors,  some  with  hollow  cen- 
ters and  others  as  solid  as  the  natural  stone  which 
they  are  intended  to  take  the  place  of. 


The    largest    talking    machine    in    the   world    is 

in    the    Palace   of    liberal     \rts. 

Id  duplicate  of  the  talking  machine  -old  to  the 

Shah  of  Persia,  and  i-  constructed  to  operate  with 

I  cylinders  at  the  same  time,  so  that  different 

part-  of  the  same  song  or  other  musical  selection  may 

he  produced  simultaneously,  with  much  greater  vof- 

and   harmony  than  with   the  ordinary  machine. 

San  Luis  (  Ibispo  and  Monterey  Counties  com- 

pleted  their  exhibits  in  the  California  section  in  the 
Palace  of  Agriculture.  I  111  ts  -town  in  the  counties 
are  displayed  in  glass  jars  tastefully  arranged  about 
the  booth.  Potatoes  12  inches  long,  and  sugar  beets 
of   immense   size   are   exhibited    with   samples   of   big 

wheat.  Another  industry  represented  is  that  of 
canning  clams  and  ahaloncs.  Abalon  are  a  deep-sea 
shell-fish,  procured  by  Japanese  divers,  and  arc  ex- 
hibited in  glass  jars  in  the  different  stages  of  prepara- 
tion. 

The  following  entries  to  the  Air  Ship  Compe- 
tition Meet,  to  be  held  at  the  World's  Fair  in  the  early 
part  of  July,  have  been  received  by  Mr.  AVillard  A. 
Smith.  Chief  of  Department  of  Transportation:  Ed- 
ward Hutchinson.  Austin  Station.  Chicago;  Charles 
Stivin.  1443  Third  avenue,  New  York ;  S.  M.  Wil- 
liams, San  Francisco,  Cal ;  Emery  Curtis  and  Geo. 
Davis  of  Gillespie,  New  York.  Santos  Dumont,  with 
his  new  air  ship  No.  7,  will  sail  for  this  country  on 
Tunc  nth.  In  all,  eighty  contestants  have  applied 
for  admission  to  meet.  An  entry  fee  of  $250  is  re- 
quired of  each  contestant.  Those  named  have  paid 
the  required  fee. 

A  panoramic  exhibit  of  a  flouring  mill  in  oper- 
ation is  that  of  the  Pillsbury-Washburn  Flour  Mills 
Co.,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  in  the  Palace  of  Agri- 
culture. In  this  exhibit  is  a  practical  demonstration 
of  the  growing  of  wheat,  the  making  of  flour,  and  the 
baking  of  bread.  Large  photographs  in  panels  about 
the  pure  white  booth  show  the  country  in  which  the 
wheat  is  grown,  -the  multiplicity  of  machinery  used 
in  perfecting  the  ground,  the  harvesting  and  thresh- 
ing of  the  grain.  On  one  side  of  the  booth  is  a 
reproduction  of  the  Pillsbury  Mills,,showing  its  loca- 
tion on  a  hill,  and  the  water  power  that  runs  the 
min.  A  moving  freight  train  loaded  with  the  pro- 
ducts of  the  mill  adds  to  the  scenic  effect  of  the  pic- 
ture. The  flour  passes  through  this  mill  and  is  run 
through  mixers  into  dough  troughs,  moulding 
machines  and  into  electric  ovens,  where  it  is  baked 
and  passed  out  to  the  critical  housewife  to  sam- 
ple. In  connection  with  the  flour  exhibit  is  a  case 
divided  transversely  into  eighty  compartments,  ex- 
hibiting the  various  milling  separations  from  the 
time  the  wheat  leaves  the  field  until  it  becomes  flour. 
The  starch  products  of  the  flour  are  also  washed  to 
show  the  large  proportion  of  gluten  in  the  flour. 

Dr.  Decker. 

Dentist,  806  Market.     Specialty  "Cotton  Gas"   for  painless  teeth 
extracting. 


W.  A.  Plummer 

Importer  and  Manufacturer  of 

TENTS.     AWNINGS.     HAMMOCKS 

111    CLAY    STBEET,    SAN    EKANCISCO. 
Telephone  Main  649 


NEWTON    J.    THARP 

ARCHITECT 
131  POST  STREET  SAN  FRANCISCO 


38  SAN  FRANCISCO 

BANKING. 

Mechanics'  Savings  Bank 

Incorporated  January  21,  1504. 

Capital    Stock   paid    up    J250.000.00 

President,  James  O'B.  Gunn  Vice-President.  Geo.  D.  Gray 

Vice-President,  Geo.  F.  Lyon  Cashier,  Frederick  H.  Clark 

DIRECTORS. 

F.  W.  Dohrmann,  Jr.;  George  D.  Gray.  F.  M.  Greenwood.  Jas. 
O'B.  Gunn,  Marshall  Hale,  G.  W.  Kline,  George  F.  Lyon,  George 
M.  Mitchell,  Charles  C.  Moore,  Henry  T.  S^ott,  W.  F.  Williamson. 

The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  has  opened  Its  doors  for  a  gen- 
eral Savings  and  Loan  business  at  the  S.  W.  corner  Montgomery 
and  Bush  streets,   San  Francisco,   Cal.,  May  2,  1904. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union 

632  California  St.,  cor.  Webb  St.,  San  Francisco. 

E.  B.  POND.  President:  W.  C.  B.  DeFKEMERY,  ROBERT 
WATT,  Vice-Presidents:  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier;  R.  M. 
WELCH,   Assistant   Cashier. 

Directors— E.  B.  Pond,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery,  Henry  F.  Allen, 
George  C.  Boardman.  Jacob  Barth,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Fred  H. 
Beaver,   William   A.   Magee,   Rob?rt  Watt. 

Receives  deposits  and  loans  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks 
of  reliable  parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsi- 
bility of  this  Savings  BanK  commences  only  with  the  actual  re- 
ceipt of  the  money.  The  signature  of  the  depositor  should  ac- 
company the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for  pass  book 
or  entrance  fee. 

Office  Hours:  9  a.  m.   to  3  p.  m.     Saturday  evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

Deposits,    December    31,    1903    $33,232,903 

Guarantee   Capital,    Paid-up    1,000,000 

Reserve  and  Contingent  Funds  '      899,516 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  s*n  Fr»noi»o« 

710  Market  St.,   opposite  Third. 

Guarantee   Capital    $1,000,000 

Paid-up   Capital   and   Surplus    500,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President;  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-Presi- 
dent; GEORGE  A.  STORY,  Cashier;  JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice- 
President;    C.    B.    HOBSON,    Assistant    Cashier. 

Directors — James  D.  Phelan,  S.  G.  Murphy,  John  A.  Hooper, 
James  Moffltt,  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  McElroy,  Rudolph 
Spreckels,    James    M.    McDonald,    Charles    Holbrook. 

interest   paid   on   deposits.     Loans  on   approved   securities. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  on  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or 
exchange  on  city   banks. 

The  German   Savings  &  Loan  Society 

NO.  626  CALIFORNIA  STREET,  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Guarantee    Capital    and    Surplus    $2,423,751.60 

Capita]    Actually    Paid-up    in    Cash    1,000,000.00 

Deposits,    December  31,    1903    36,049,491.18 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— President.  John  Lloyd;  First  Vice- 
president,  Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmann ; 
lgn.  Steinhardt,  Emll  Kohte.  H.  B.  Russ,  N.  Ohlandt,  1.  N.  Wal- 
ter and  J.    W.    Van  Bergen. 

Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herr- 
mann; Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assistant  Secretary,  A.  H. 
Muller;   General  Attorney,   W.    S.   Goodfellow. 

Continental  Building  &  Loan  Association 

Established   In   1889.  OF  CALIFORNIA. 

301  California  St.,   San  Francisco,   Cal. 

Subscribed     Capital     $15,000  000  00 

Paid-in   Capital    3,000,000.00 

Proflt    and    Reserve    Fund 450,000.00 

Interest  paid  on  deposits  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent  per  annum 
on   term  and  5  per  cent  on   ordinary  deposits. 

Dr.  Washington  Dodge,  President;  William  Corbin,  Secretary 
and   General  Manager. 

International  Banking  Corporatior) 

NO.   1  WALL  STREET.   NEW   YORK. 

Capital  and  Surplus  $7,894,400 

Capital  and   Surplus  Authorized    iu'ooo  000  00 

OFFICERS— William  L.  Moyer.  President;  Charles  D.  Palmer 
Assistant  to  President;  William  B.  Wightman,  Assistant  to 
President;  John  Hubbard,  Treasurer;  James  H.  Rogers.  Secre- 
tary; John  B.  Lee,  General  Manager;  Alexander  &  Green.  Coun- 
sel. 

BRANCHES— London,  San  Francisco,  City  of  Mexico,  Manila 
Hong  Kong,   Yokohama,   Shanghai,  Singapore. 

AGENCIES— Bombay,  Calcutta.  Madras.  Penang,  Rangoon 
Colombo.  Amoy,  Canton,  Hankow,  Tientsin,  Tansul,  Anplng 
Bakan,  Moji.  Saigon,  Kobe,  Bangkok,  Batavla,  Samarang.  Sou- 
rabaya,  and  all  parts  of  Europe. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH— 32-34  Sansome  St. 

A  general  banking  business  transacted.  Accounts  of  corpora- 
tions, firms  and  individuals  solicited.  Loans  made  on  liberal  terms 
on  approved  securities.  Foreign  and  domestic  exchange  bought 
and  sold.  Travelers'  and  commercial  letters  of  credit  granted 
available  in  any  part  of  the  world.  Interest  bearing  certlneates 
of  deposits  Issued  for  fixed  periods.  Interest  allowed  to  banks 
on  current  daily  balances.  Special  rates  given  to  banks  keeping 
accounts  with  us,  and  drawing  direct  on  our  branches  and 
agents    throughout    the    world. 

CORRESPONDENCE    IN  /1TED. 
F.  E.  BECK,  Manager,  P.  G.  EASTWICK.  JR.,  Asst.  Mgr. 

Security  Savings  Bank 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST    PAID    ON    DEPOSITS.    LOANS    MADE 
DIRECTORS— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock,  S.  L.  Abbott 
Jr.,  O.  D.  Baldwin,  F.   Monteagle,   Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J    Mc- 
Cutcheon,  R.  H.  Pease,  J.  D.  Grant. 


NEWS  LETTER.  June  25,  1904. 

U/je  Minister  of  Foreign   Affairs 


The  Japanese  armies  are  mak- 

Japanese  Active  Jug  what  seems  to  be  substan- 
and  Cautious.  tial  progress  in  circumventing 
Russia  in  Manchuria,  but  their 
movements  are  conspicuously  slow  and  with  great 
caution.  This  is  not  an  indication  of  exhaustion, 
however,  but  rather  that  they  are  in  the  enemy's 
country  and  getting  further  from  their  own  base  of 
supplies,  which  in  turn  enables  the  Russians  to  con- 
centrate their  scattered  forces. 

Something  happens  about  every  day  that  reveals 
genuine  military  genius  and  staying  qualities.  This 
was  shown  in  the  battle  with  the  Russian  General 
Stakelberg  at  Yafangron  last  week.  The  Russian 
had  carefully  planned  to  turn  the  Japanese  right, 
and  was  massing  bis  forces  to  make  the  attack,  but 
just  as  he  was  good  and  ready  to  make  the  onslaught 
lie  found  the  Japanese  hail  not  only  anticipated  his 
plans,  but  had  completely  outwitted  him  by  attack- 
ing his  own  right  flank  in  great  force,  with  immi- 
nent danger  of  having  his  armv  doubled  up  and 
stampeded.  He  quickly  changed  the  order  to  at- 
tack to  one  for  a  general  retreat,  but  before  he 
could  extricate  his  forces  he  had  to  do  some  hard 
fighting,  which  cost  him  several  thousand  men  and 
a  iot  of  field  guns  and  small  arms,  besides  army  and 
hospital  stores  in  large  quantities.  The  victory  for 
the  Japanese  was  by  no  means  a  decisive  one.  but  it 
adds  proof  to  the  before  established  fact  that  the 
Japanese  Generals  are  quicker  to  see  and  profit  by  the 
mistakes  of  the  enemy  than  the  Russians  are.  In 
fact,  the  Japanese  have  not  once  been  out-Generaled 
or  lost  a  single  battle,  though  of  course  no  great 
engagement  has  yet  taken   place. 

It  is  reported  that  the  crippled  ships  of  the  Tori 
Arthur  squadron  are  not  only  ready  for  service  on 
the  sea,  but  have  been  re-inforced  by  several  of  the 
Yladivostock  squadron  slipping  into  the  harbor  dur- 
ing a  heavy  fog.  This  should  mean  the  risk  of  a  na- 
val engagement  with  the  Japanese  ships,  however 
great  the  seeming  odds  against  the  Russians  might 
be.  To  sum  up  the  events  of  the  past  week,  the 
Japanese  have  made  some  headway  at  every  point. 
but  have  secured  no  pronounced  success,  while  the 
Russians  have  lost  at  every  point,  though  to  no  dan- 
gerous  disadvantage,  and  they  have  gained  much 
bv  having  the  Tort  Arthur  squadron  re-inforced  and 
put  in  readiness  to  risk  the  sea  and  attacks  on  the 
coast  of  Japan. 

The  situation   in   Russia  seems 

Russia's  Internal     to    grow    more    hostile    to    the 
Troubles.  war  party,  and  in  turn  the  war 

party  is  adding  severity  to  the 
already  severe  administration  of  martial  law.  Rut 
for  all  that,  the  public  clamor  for  the  return  to 
power  of  the  deposed  ministers  is  growing,  and  there 
is  a  suspicion  that  the  Czar  and  his  immediate  ad- 
visors are  not  disposed  to  check  the  increasing  cry 
for  a  radical  change  in  the  administration  of  the 
nation's  public  concerns.  The  influence  of  the  Czar 
seems  to  now  lie  almost  wholly  in  the  superstition 
of  the  Greek  Church  following,  who  regard  him  as 
Christ's  vicar  on  earth,  and  that  he  can  make  no  mis- 
take in  matters  which  involve  the  church  and  State 
as  one.  Rut  whether  he  dare  appeal  to  the  people 
on  that  ground  is  complex  as  well  as  a  perplexing 
question  for  him  to  deal  with.  It  is  a  two-edged 
sword,  and  could  easily  be  made  to  cut  both  ways. 
Anyway,  the  war  party  is  in  full  control  of  1 1 1  <. -  Gov- 
ernment machinery,  and  at  this  distance  it  looks  as 
if  it  has  all  to  lose  by  giving  way,  and  the  chance 


June  35.  1904. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


39 


ui  the  baaard  oi  the 

tlic  plnndi  1  ttty,  and  that 

its  j>r  will  be  urged  and  provided  i"f   The 

war  part}  wan:  1  he 

■ice  would  be  d  b)  either, 

but  meanwhile  its  brutal  ami  inhuman  rule  »l  home 
ami  an  expensive  war  in  Asia,  may  bo  inflame  pub- 
lic indignation  that  an  uprising  <>i  the  people  cannot 
I  even  by  the  severity  of  martial  law  and 
the  quick  execution  of  malcontents  wherever  found. 
The  greatest  weakness  the  war  part)  has  as  yet  cn 
hibited,  and  which  is  so  weak  that  it  is  silly,  is  manu- 
factured interviews  with  well-known  Generals,  in 
which  sport  is  made  of  Japanese  strategy  and  the  un- 
scientific handling  ot  their  troops.  To  helittlc  the 
game,  the  science  or  the  strategy  of  the  man  that  is 
kicking  you  about  as  if  you  were  a  football,  does  not 

appeal  i"  an  observer  as  being  common  sense.    Un- 
doubtedly the  Russian  war  party  is  doing  good  scr- 
:or  Japan,  though  not  purposely,  by  inflaming 

public  sentiment  against  the  Russian  powers  that  be. 
and  this  is  clearly  shown  in  the  admission  of  the 
war  party  that  not  many  of  the  reserves  could  be 
trusted  at  the  front.  Russia  has  been  sowing  the  seed 
of  national  poison  weeds  for  centuries,  and  now  she 
thering  anything  but  golden  sheaves  of  internal 
peace  and  loyalty  or  of  honesty  in  official  places  of 
trust. 

The  only  news  of  importance 
The  Llama  Trying  from  Thibet  is  that  the  Brit- 
To  Skip  Out.  ish  have  discovered  it  to  be 
the  purpose  of  the  Grand 
Llama  to  slip  away  to  Xorthern  or  Mongolian  China, 
presumably  to  turn  a  stream  of  cut-throats  from  that 
country  against  the  English.  But  the  scheme  hav- 
ing been  discovered,  and  discovered,  too,  to  be  a  Rus- 
sian device  to  treacherously  cripple  England's  pur- 
pose in  Thibet,  the  chances  are  that  the  Grand  Llama 
will  not  escape,  or,  if  he  does  and  raises  an  army  of 
Mongolians.  Russia,  rather  than  its  royal  puppets 
in  Thibet  will  have  to  pay  the  penalty  and  pay  all 
bills.  Meanwhile  the  British  army  is  gradually  oc- 
cupying the  strategical  points  and  opening  up  chan- 
nels of  commerce  for  trade  and  traffic  to  go  and  come 
in,  and  more  fields  for  commercial  expansion  is  at 
the  bottom  of  King  Edward's  burning  desire  to  civ- 
ilize and  Christianize  the  fanatical  and  immoral 
Thibetans. 

The  Armenians  are  still:  a 
The  Turk  Still  prey  to  Turkish  cruelty  and 
Killing  Christians,  beastliness.  Macedonia,  too, 
continues  to  be  an  open  field 
for  the  butchery  of  Christians.  Scarcely  a  day 
passes  that  does  not  record  the  slaying  of  "Christian 
dogs"  by  Turkish  soldiers  without  any  reason  other 
than  that  they  are  not  Mussulmans.  But  the  bloody 
work  must  have  the  approval  of  the  Christian 
nations,  for  not  so  much  as  a  protest,  except  an  oc- 
casional diplomatic  "please  quit,"  is  filed  with  the 
Sultan  against  his  murderous  crusaders  to  put  to 
death  men  and  women  who  refuse  to  renounce  Chris- 
tianity for  the  Porte's  brand  of  religion.  To  the 
shame  of  most  Christian  missionaries,  they  are  will- 
ing to  overlook  the  atrocities  if  they  can  get  their 
own  price  for  their  destroyed  church  and  personal 
property. 

The    Techau    Tavern    is   the    place    to    go   after   the 

theatre.  It  tops  off  the  evening  splendidly.  The  refresh- 
ments of  all  sorts  are  ofl.the  best  quality  and  the  price 
Is  reasonable. 


BANKING. 


Wells,Fargo  &  Co.,  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Capital.   Surplua  and   Undivided 
Proflta 


$13,500,000 


Homer  8.   King.    President;    F.   L.    Llpman.   Caahlcr;    Frank    P.. 

King.    Assistant    Cashier;    Jno.    E.    Miles.    Assistant    Cashier. 
BRANCH ES-New   York;  Salt  Lake,   Utah;  Portim  1 
correspondents    throughout   the  world.     General    banking   busl- 

neaa  transacted. 


Tbe  San  Francisco  National  Bank 

Southeast  corner  of  Sanaome  and  Pine  Sta..  San   Francisco. 

JAS.  K.  WILSON.  President;  WM.  PIERCE  JOHNSON.  Vlca- 
Presldent;  LEWIS  I.  COWG1LL.  Cashier;  F.  W.  WOLFE.  As- 
sistant Cashier. 

Capital.  $500,000.    Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits.  $165,000. 

DIRECTORS— William  Pierce  Johnson,  VIce-PresL  Willamette 
Pulp  and  Paper  Co.;  Wm.  J.  Dutton.  President  Flremans  Fund 
Ins.  Co.;  H.  E.  Huntington,  First  Vice-President  S.  P.  H.  It 
Geo.  A.  Pope,  of  Pope  &  Talbot,  Lumber  Dealers;  C.  S.  Benedict. 
President  Hastings  Clothing  Co.;  George  Aimer  Newhall,  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.;  W.  H.  Talbot.  Capitalist;  H.  D.  Morton,  Presi- 
dent W.  T.  Garratt  &  Co.    James  K.  Wilson.  President. 

AGENTS— New  York:  Hanover  National  Bank,  Chemical  Na- 
tional Bank.  Boston— National  Shawmut  Bank.  Philadelphia— 
Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— 
The  Mechanics'  National  Batik  liunsa-  ISO- Firs!  National  Bunk 
London— Brown.  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co. 
Denver— National  Bank  of  Commerce.  Johannesburg— Robinson 
South  African  Banking  Co.,   Limited. 

Tbe  Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce 

With  which  Is  amalgamated  the  Bank  of  British  Columbia. 
HEAD    OFFICE— TORONTO. 
Paid-up    Capital.    $8,700,000.  Reserve    Fund,    J3.000.000 

Aggregate   Resources,    over   $80,000,000 
HON.  GEORGE  A.   COX,  President. 
B.  E.  WALKER,  General  Manager.    Alex.  Laird,  Asst.  Gen.  Mgr. 
LONDON    OFFICE— 60    Lombard   St.,    E.    C. 
NEW    YORK   OFFICE— 16   Exchange   Place. 
BRANCHES      IN      BRITISH      COLUMBIA— Atlin,        Cranbrook. 
Fernie,    Greenwood,    Kamloops,    Ladysmith,    Nanaimo,    Nelson, 
New  Westminster,  Vancouver  and  Victoria. 
IN    YUKON    TERRITORY— Dawson    and    White    Horse. 
IN  UNITED  STATES— Portland,  Seattle  and  Skaguay  (Alaska). 
Also     80     other     Branches,    covering     the    principal    points    in 
Manitoba,   N.    W.   Territories,   and   Eastern   Canada. 
BANKERS   IN   LONDON— The   Bank  of  England,   the   Bank   of 
Scotland,  Lloyds  Bank,  Ltd.,  The  Union  of  London  and  Smiths 
Bank,  Ltd. 
AGENTS    IN    CHICAGO— The   First   National    Bank. 
AGENTS  IN  NEW  OLREANS— The  Commercial  National  Bank. 
San  Franolsco  Office— 

326  California  Street. 

A.  KAINS,  Manager. 

London.  Paris  and  f^lmerican  Banl<1WlM 

N.   W.   COR.   SANSOME  AND  SUTTER  STS. 
Subscribed  Capital,  $2,600,000.  Paid-up  Capital,  $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund,  $1,100,000. 
Head  Office— 10  Threadneedle  St.,  London,  E.  C. 
AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Ameri- 
can Bank,  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  street,  N.  Y.;  Paria— Messrs. 
Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct 
on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Commercial  and  Travelers' 
credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM,  Manager;  H.  S.  GREEN,  Sub-Mana- 
ger; R.  ALTSCHUL,  Cashier. 


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for  your  children  wn.ie   teething. 


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HEAD  OFFICE— IS  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 
Capital    Authorized,    $6,000,000  Paid-up,    $1,600,000 

Subscribed,  $3,000,000  Reserve  Fund,   $700,000 

The  bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts, 
makes  telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  avail- 
able throughout  the  world.  Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans 
money,    buys   and   sells   exchange   and   bullion. 

IGN.    STEINHART,    P.    N.    LILIENTHAL,    Managers. 

Central   Trust  Company   of  California 

42  Montgomery  St.,   San  Francisco. 

Authorized    Capital    $3,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve 1,725,000 

Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or 
Trustee.  Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  Depository  for  money  in 
Probate  Court  Proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust  Deposits  and 
Savings.     Investments   carefully   selected. 

Officers:  Frank  J.  Symmes,  President;  O.  A.  Hale,  Vice- 
President;     H.    Brunnar,  Cashier. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  25,  1904. 


A  LONESOME  LITTLE  GIRL. 

By  D.  Z.  Doty  in  Washington  Star 
My  mother  is  the  prettiest  thing- 
She  still  looks  but  a  girl,  folks  say  ; 
I  wish  she  was  a  girl,  for  then 
Together  we  could  play  ! 

I'm   six  years  old — or  will  be  soon — 
And  I'm  all  the  child  she's  got; 

And   sometimes  when   'tis  lonely,  why, 
I  wish  there  was  a  lot. 

For  mother  has  to  work  so  hard. 

A   dancing  nights   and   pouring   tea 
Each  afternoon,  she  has  no  time 

To  romp  and  play  with  me. 

I  wish  some  nights  she'd  stay  at  home. 

And,  when  it's  time  to  go  to  bed, 
She'd  hear  my  prayers  instead  of  nurse, 

Then  when   it's  dark   I'd  have  no  dread. 

If  she'd  just  let  me  hold  her  hand — 
Her  pretty  hand  with  all  its  rings, 

And  I  can  go  right  off  to  sleep 
If  mother  only   sings. 

But  mother  has  no  time,  she  says. 

To  humor  little  girls,  'cos  she 
Gets  tired  out  with  balls  and  things 

That  keeps  her  up  till  three. 

I  hark  each  night  for  mother's  step, 
And  then  I  call  out  loud  and  clear. 

"Hope   you'll   have   a    lovely   time." 
And,    "Good-night,    mother,    dear." 

But  when  she's  gone,  and  down  below 
I  hear  the  carriage  door  slam  to, 

I  feel  so  lonely  I  could  cry, 
And  sometimes,  p'raps,  1  do. 

TEMPE. 
By  ilartiurci  Fuller  iu  Uubtuiy 
My  lover's  eyes  my  mirror  are 

Wherein  I   love  to  look. 
Oh,  who  would  sprite  or  drvad  be 
And  only  have  a  brook! 


REDEEMED. 

By  Alice  Uiur>  iu  Ovuil  UuUseLeepfne 

God  held  a  soul  within  his  hand  one  day, 

A  fair  young  soul,  with  unfilled  eye-   for  sigl  1. 
With  ears  for  sound  attuned,  with  hands  aright 

For  action,  all  alert  to  work  her  way. 

The  lips  unchorused  in  the  earth's  deep  speech 
Like  bow  that  never  shot  an  arrow  out, 
The  virgin  heart,  athirst  to  be  devout, 

To  any  love  which  came  within  her  reach. 

God  put  that  soul  upon  the  world's  highwav — 
The  jostling  crowd  soon  soiled  her  raiment  fair; 

The  pipers,  with  rude  jesting,  bade  her  plav. 
Ine  unloved  ones  of  earth  laughed  at  her  prayer; 

Till  God,  down  reaching,  saw  her  glance  astray 
And  caught  her  back  to  rest  within  his  care.  ' 


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